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A DAILY ENQUIRER-SUN: COLUMBUS, XgURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 22. 1877. Huqttir**. mLVHIJI. «A. i THUK8DAY FEBBUAJRY 38, 1»TT. mom LARGEST CITY AND MOBI THAN TWICE THE T.abomt AGGREGATE CIRCULATIONI Awwtin, tha writing-fluid nun, leavrn kb Min M lah-ubot of $1,000,000. West th* sturdy granger wuta to know in, whether or not bin* gleet will care Goo* uthortty toys that whoever ante oenngee ie healthy. Louisiana elone rale- el 81,000,000 lent jeer, end her retnrae BhhSMT wee very nervosa when the piaoh eeeae end draggled hard to be hon- eet; hot Mia. H. had leaned instructions, and the poor deril wilted. Tire the aiding of the electoral tribu nal people ere becoming more than ever fenvineed that fifteen ia an odd number, M extremely odd number. In New Yolk they oompare gold to the prodigal eon, beeaaae it'a returning to par, hot It more reeemblae Zaooheua, for it’a been olimblng again a little. Bomb reekleae newspaper oorreepondent atatea Mm. Oliver, Simon Oameron’a wid ow, will I eat ere. Thla la probably a mie* dot ament. It la beeaaae deprived of the right to lector# that aha now brlnga suit. A amootAn niolde recently ooourred in D rowan a, Aoatralla. A Greek who had become inaane by reaaon of poverty and aaiafottane poured a quantity of molton lead down hie trod. He died in agonies, and after death a lump of lesd nearly a half pound in weight waa taken from his Tu Pall Mall OneetU says that India ia a collection of countries, aoma rich, aome poor, whioh are barely recovering from centuries of the wont government of the word Oriental type; and that as the people's earing* have as yet been Invented in no snob shape as la employed by civi lised nations taxation Is uncertain. Tu New York Dag Book thinks it ia a aalf-evident propoaition that every “freed' man” in the Booth generates a tramp in ' the North, or in other words, the ruin of Southern labor reooils to the earns extent on the North, or yet again, every aboor- mal or “free” negro reads in a oorrea ponding slavery, degraddlon, trampism of a white man. Oouanm Hamms la watohing the pre- reading* of the Oommlsaion at the oapi- tol. Daring the trial soene the other Bight he . indignantly “declined to an swer." Counsel, of coarse, pressed for a reply, when Raymond angrily demanded “If your honor please, am I peer or am I a vassal T” And It would have warmed old Wells' heart to have heard the ep TUB UOULtTVM. The Georgia Legislature will adjourn to-day unless they should reconsider their action and* oonolude it is bast to draw a fsw more seven dollars front the publio parse. The people will* breathe facer as soon as it is known that the adjournment ia a fact. The present Legislature compares very favorably with previous assemblies. In fad we think there ia more ability in the members than heretofore. But this very improvement ia a sad thing to the State, for these members knowing that they have some talent, pc stem themselves with the idea that on their shoulders testa the “weight of empires. ” We installoe a member from Fulton, who is said to be a man of olsver attainments, in fact, “right smart.'' This member oould have been useful, but be desired to be ornamental, as well. His repeated exhibition of himself killed him out. Buoh has bean the esse with more than one member. Other men, with chametee and ability, entered the Legislators with the feeling that they were to be the leaders. All couldn't oooupy the position. The result was they killed eaoh other out, by crea ting factions. Another great fault in the composition of the Legislature was that ‘ too many man were sent there for the purpose of carrying out a particular eeheme. And, unfortunately, these latter gentlemen were the ablest men in the Legislature, and the mod unscrupulous. As soon as they got a foot-hold they eemmsnoed to represent thdr private interests instead of the interests of their sonatitnaals. Tbs oonsequenee of all Ihsse conflicting in terests was to scatter ths members, whioh resulted in but little harmony In the body. To get them together, trading had to be resorted to, which never falls to result in evil. The most Important measure before the legislature waa the oalling of a State Convention. This measure came near unto death several times on aoooant of trading. But tho good sense of the House finally prevailed and the measure was adopted, although in a bad form. The great cry of retrenchment and reform developed out as be predicted—In turn and feathers. Not one single reform measure has yet been passed. Bode wilh schemas have been ohokad off,others have been sootehed. But nothing baa been done for the good of the people, exoept the passage of the Convention Bill. We might also say “exoept the adjourn ment.” • A great deal of wild and frivolous leg islation has been done that* has oost the State much money and resulted in good. We think our Legislature, on aooount of its great number, ia to aome extent excusable for many of its blunders. It ia too big a oosoern for the business it does. Too many partners for the capital employed. Too many fingers ia the broth. If we are not Juggled out of the Con vention, all this will be remedied, asid our next Legislature will be a pride instead of a reproach. WASHINGTON. Special Dlapateh to the Constitution. WasHmore* Feb. to.—Preparations for Hayes’ ianogorstfon ere being steadily made and little dpubt is entertained that he will be inaugurated peaoeably. Gen. Ben Buttes if in the city, and is daily upon the floor of the House. He baa already crested a sensation by the announcement that he will not co operate with either party tn Congress, bnt will work as “a free lanoe" outside of all organisation; and that he has ten or twelve votes that he oan count on to stand with him. This will give him and hia followers virtual oostrol of the House,sod enable them to decide all party Isaacs. Ben owes very little to the Republican patty, it having defeated him three yearn ago, and forced him to run independent last year. He wilt be a power in the House, and will doubtless rally enough nondescripts about him to give him the deciding voioe if he does not control the organisation. a movxicbmt to xxrxL a sinatob. It is expected daily that resolutions to expel Boartor Kelly, of Oregon, from the Benete will be introduced. These resolu tions will be based on the dispatches that parsed between Pelton and Kelly relative to baying a Republican electoral vote in Oregon for $8,000. The resolution will be intended to make bucoombo for the Badioal party, but will amount to nothing more. Kelly gives place on the 4th ol Marob to Gov. Grover. Tbe Floridians here are very much ex. cited over a declaration made by a leading Florida Republican that Hayee will, upon hie inauguration, overturn the re-oanvaas ef the votes ordered by the Supreme Court, counting Governor Drew out of ofloe and pat Stearns via power onoe If Hayes gives himself up to the con trol of Morton, Chandler A Co., as is ■si nm ft is understood to be the private opin. ion of Dob Cameron that to be Secretary of War implies far more ability than to write each things as Shakespeare did, and furthermore, it is understood to bo his private opinion that there never was suoh a aapable Secretary of War as the present one. In these opinions, too, bo differs from the men of both parties in Nnwspa per row. Gmr. Bctlxb has been in Washington for eight or ten days catching the drift of the political tide. He don't say muoh, but keeps his earn open. It is said by his friends that he will take an independent parities; in tbe next House, and hope# to sally andar hia banner ten or twenty members, whioh would give them the briaaee of power, the next House being ao closely divided politically. T*b funded debt of the city of Phila delphia, as repotted by the commission ers ef the sinking fund, on the first dsy of January, 1877, was $71,868,688. At the time of consolidation, ths uniting of all the eeveral districts of the oounty with the old oity proper, tbe funded debt was hot $16,678,614. There is a very large Boating debt also, and the expanses of the dty have mere than doubled in four yean. It ia a question whether the huge obe lisk given by the Egyptian Government to England will be removed to the Thames embankment or broken np for betiding purposes. The answer should ha prompt if the monument is to be ■•▼•d. Its hierogUphlcs are in only tol. suable preservation, but they ere of tee bast period. A leading shipping firm of Alexandria offer to put it np upon th* Thames embankment for £10,000. The obeli*k in the Place de la Conoorde, at Farts, oost eight times that sum. Tn World, alluding to ohanges in the next Senate, aaye: “Eustie, Garland, Da via, Beok, Lamar and Hill are one end all Of them, men who will bring experi- anoe, ability end n sentiment of honor to a Benete sadly in want of all these at tributes. They will _l>* worthy to stand should** to shoulder wilh Bayard, Thur man and Ksrasn, sad though e moderate numsrioel majority may be against ths Democrats, thay will iaavitably shape the souses of ths upper bouse is tbs future, for they oarry ths weight of character, learning and aloqnanec with them." Fob the first Urns, Bob Ingeraoll has bean able, through partisan service and the gratitude of hia party for hia oharao- ter of wosfc, to obtain tolerably good au- dlancsa for hia brilliant ribaldry. Ho has gtma on a lecturing tour, on the “Liberty of the Man, tho Woman and the Child. Few men ere more gifted with powers of language than this loose brained ribald, who waa made up without the faculty of reverence, or power to perceive the aaered or tho holy tu affaire human or divine. Berne peseegm in hie epooohec doting the lari eenvam were, ao far as mere rhetori cal «®ari la too named, wry fine, hot always amend by passages whioh showed • wawtof bcJt«r la anything. He ia a Mu aapmiar —I mere brilliant edition of Tvm Pstaa, MB hia leashing will not CtavwU hnsMnity. UBAXI’S OB DEBS TO THB.NOSITH cabomi* Tsocn. Perhaps the neatest thing in the shape of an order that has yet graoed the official record of oar “beloved President,” is that just issued to Col. Blsak, 18th Infantry, commanding D. 8. troops at Columbia, to prevent tbe miliila of South Carolina— including tbe Washington Light Infantry, so recently returned from the Bunker Hill and Centennial celebrations, and in whioh they took so prominent n part—from oel. ebrating Washington's birthday. We had indeed hoped that the blockhead would not have further added to the infamy of his administration during the few remaining days he holds sway. Who ia really the insulted and diagraeed party under this order P Ia it he wbaee n)< “we celebrate," the people at Boutlt Caro lina, or the entire Amerioaa people f Has tbe commandant of the troop* in Georgia received orders to prohibit the doting of banks and Stats oHoss to-day t Could anything so puerile and pusillanimous have originated exoept in tbe disordered brain of U. 8. Grant t In pure charity we hope that thia crowning aot of atnpidil ty has bean auperinduoed by a too fre quent application of aome of that crooked" with whioh hi* cellar ta said to be ao well elooked, and with whioh hia boon companions and friends, McDonald, Joyoo A Co. bought thamsdvat out ef the peailhntUry. Ws would suggest to the good people of Soeth Carolina that than ta a way em inently more appropriate than military parades, in whioh they oan obsarva the birth dsyiof tha“Father of hia Country”— a day of “thankagiving," that on ths 4th ofMaroh ths soripturs wilt verily be fulfilled—“The dog will return to his vomit.” jAspna BtAOKuonn, on abolitionist in Louisiana before the war, and always a Union man, now sayas “If Hayae ia 'made' President by the Congressional ‘after-dap,' of oourse Packard will be Governor by the tame tenure; and then what a happy and prosperous and lovable time Loniaiana will have for four more—in faot for nU time to eome, tor she will hardly aver again have the hsart to attempt deliverance from suoh bond age. Bnt really, our candid opinion t if thia is attempted, Paokard and Ms ‘crew* will liok tbs dusk Ws do not be lieve that tha intelligence end wealth of the State will submit to it. If so, than may it be well intoned that Oe ‘oldest and beat’ are not muek jnoru capable of self government than tha interlopers and thieves. Manhood will have been played oat.” quite probable, he will oertaiely take this step. If be does try ft, blood will rua like water in the of flowers. Tha people will never submit to being ruled egain by tbe oarpet-bag usurpers. They will prefer s military Governor, and will tube the proper steps toward getting one. Hnes has given uo bint as to what be will do if inaugurated- His policy must be dseisive one way or the other. He oan. not both serve tbe Oonkliug-Ohtistianoy ring and tbe Morton Chandler crowd. His >ltn will either be to oonoiliste tha South >y ths most pronoanoed edvanoes and try to break the Democrats down with kind ness andhribei or he will hold three or four States by tbe bayonet policy, and ooBtinos tbe proaeriptive policy. He will try Florida, Carolina and Louisiana in the asms measure. If ha sustains one of tbe pratenders he will sustain them all. The general belief is that he will pursue tM conciliatory policy, sad try to satisfy the ooontry with bis miserable usurpation, rsaaoMAi, noils and oobsif. Mr. Wm. Archer Cooke will be n can didate for Senator in Florida, to fill Con' over’s seat. Id the meantime he is Judge of the Southern Florida Oironit. Mr. Abrams, formerly of Atlanta, ia hia proaeouting attorney. Mr. Abrams, office corresponds to Solioitor General in our State. Lieut. Eli Hoyle, from Atlanta, is in charge of ths arsenal at this oity, and stands very high in army oireles. Senator Gordon is very muoh troubled with some sort of inflammation of tbe brain, wbieb gives him a continued head- aebe. He looks quite badly, but is eons releasing. H> W. G. The Mew York ReraWe Washington correspondent, undsr data of tbs 20th, asys: Ths eounting of votes will prooaed to Oregon, and ths donbls returns from that Stats will ba asnt to the Commission. Before that body Judge Hosdley, of Gin- olunsti, will make the principal argument for the Demoo rate, and probably Judge Matthews for the Republicans. It is said that this oase will take up about two days. It is not generally believed that tbe Dem ocrats have much prospect of throwing oat the vote of Watts. Tbe Commission agreed, by eight to seven, in the Florida ease to hear evidence oonoernini aleotora said to be ineligible, nm Judge Bradley ia understood to have held in ths Lonisisnn oase that an elector is ineligible only if bs actually held a fed eral offloe at the time he oast his vote in tha Electoral College, but that if he held a federal offloe when he was voted for and resigned it before bs oast his vote as elec tor Ss ta all right. It thia is tha opinii of eight of the Oommtesion, Watts 1 vote will be oo an tad for tho Republicans. There ta a oaeeof an elector of Wisoona sin who eolually held a Federal offloe when he oaat bis vote as elector, and this will ho brooghtup when tho State isoalled but ao tharo la but a tingle return from Wisoooain this ease will not oomo before ths Commission. tub afrclb net oaopn mb naaivaar to pnosBow* Bar. The following is the artiole from the Capital, whioh provoked the Frerideat'a action: Tha riokening apprshrarion fait by tha people, to whioh w# referred last weak, that the Supreme Court would ba found as rotten as ths otbsr power* of our on* happy Government, baa boon realised. Tbe swift decay that in ths last tan years has made oor self-government aahaaaand a mockery, and in tbs Executive! aad Leg islative branohos, shamed tu before tbs world, has been silently working its way through the Judioiary until bow, in Ito first trial, it offends wltb-ita stanch the nostrils of ell honest oitiatna. Ths appeal made to tb* Judges of tho Supreme Court from tho people, oosoly distressed and perplexed, waa to save them from tbe wtakad toupiratty of mu they had repudiated at tho poll*. They aaw their faithless agents for years rob bing the Treasury of their hard-reread taxes. Theysaw their highest Officiate indtoted for the meanest eriutas. They saw a President ooarae, brutal and ignor ant, and appointing sycophantic pimps to ths highest positions. TTiey aaw him the associate of roughs and the commissioner of thieves. They sew oarpet baggers, sustained by bayonets, manipulating the polls, that ignorance end rascality might lyraonixo over ths South. They saw rings organised in the lobby oontrol their Congress. They saw bug* monopolies created by their government eating out their subatanee. Thay aaw thamarivaa redooed to want, .trad* paralysed, and labor without employ, and tkoy mads a desperate effort to right thdr wrongs through tho ballot. With* subsidised press against them, with an army of hungry offlos-holders that—counting those of ths General Government with those of tho States— made s horde of Treasury-oaten greater than any standing army in Europe; with all the sooumulatad capital in the hands of monopolies arrayed on ths rids of their oppressors, they mads on s' despair ing effort end o*me up from ths polls with a majority of over half a milMon.in their behalf. And of what avail t Through a dishonest Returning Board, mads up of oriminala who have aaoapod ooavlotion and punishment under the protecting arm of a oorrupt Government, enough votes are thrown out to render all their efforts vain, and saddle upon them the old oori option end tho old horde for an other term of years, perhaps forever. From this, appeal waa taken to five Justices of ths Supreme Court.' For that, no mors and no Isos, waa the Com mission crested. It wss believed that by snob a process the question at issue, bring a oharga of oanapiracy against oorrupt men, oould he lifted from rite political arena to a Tribunal of high-toned, im partial Judges, who would deoide In ac cordance with law and Justioc. To the amaxomant and dtegrei of all thoughtful minds these Justices divided aa the parti sans had, on a political line; and three indeoent old men joined With the enemies of the people in fixing corruption upon us, and destroying nil confidence in the very foundation of our political structure —tho ballot. They deoide that fraud doos Dot vitiate, and beyond this that they have nothing to decide, and ao lend the queation to tha people. Ws have not tha patianoc to argue what the people, in. their broad oommon dense, will not consider—the fine-apun legal teohnioaUtio* under whioh thee* aged sooundrels seek to hide their shame. Their real brief is to be found in the ut terance of one of their Commission, James A. Garfield, who said boaatiqgjy, “You’ll have to grin and bear it. We hold tha cards and inland to play tham.” Poor political gamblarl Tha stahre for whioh he plays ar* tha rights of 40,000,000 or people, tha peace and pros perity of the only republio known to bn- inanity. For all that freedom hold* most dear, these hands, stained with plunder, ramble as tbe soldiers of Pilate severed in tension the garment of the Oruoifled Christ. As we said a week slnoe; “This ia not law, it is revolution;” and if the people tamely submit, we may bid a long farewell to Constitutional Government Fraud no longer vitiates. A oorrupt ad ministration has only by its bayonets to hold s State usurpation long anotuh in power for a oorrupt returning board to do its vile task, and the work is dona; If a man thus returned to power can rids in safety from the Executive Mansion to ths Capitol to bs inaugurated, we ure! fitted for the slavery that will follow the inaug- oration, —Sparta aujoys fins shad. —Tha ohioksn-pox ta worrying Elba*- ton. —Mr. 0. M. Powers, of QritBffli.i* dead. * —Griffin wants the vagrancy law aw- forced. —EatMtan has neady as many schools as she has churches. —Americas has reoeived 84,881 bales 6f ootton this ssssi —Mr. A. J. Halsey of Atlanta died ia Augusta on Saturday last. New York Baltette, M it I A masting of tbe bondhridars of con solidated mortgage bonds «Tth* New Or isons, Jaokaou and Great Northern Bril- day at ths ofliss of the Illinois Central Railroad Company. There war* present copied the chair. Mr. Hunt said that ths meeting hadbssn called forth* purpose sf bringing togeth- i of ths consolidated bond* with WELLS & cumis Tan oonspirators think ths wrath Of tbs American people will not last four years. They think that their lawlsaaniae will forgotten in twelve months. Thay must not forget that the triumph of the bayonet in Louisiana oams np in Judg against tham in 1876. They tsokon with out thdr host Every day during ths four year* b* will hold hiaaloiaa offlre, if hold* it at gU, Hay** will bs reminded that if theisms of Florida, np expounded by the Supreme Court of that Btato, hart Mm obeyed, he would But have been PnrtiaBt de/meta. An extraordinary deoiaiou has just been arrived at by the civil tribunal iu Paris. Seven years ago a lady purchased £300 worth of jewelry from a firm in the Palais Royal, the agrooment, made in writing at the time of payment, being that if tbe articles were not approved of they might be exchanged. The purchaser kept and used the jewelry for more than six years, at tha expiration of whioh time she inti mated to the jeweler her desire to ex change it tor other artiole*. Upen his very naturally declining to entertain snoh a proposal, aha commaaoed an aotion for tha purpose of compelling him to do ao; slid though hi* advocate urged that he could not be culled upon to aeeept, at the Ml price originally given for them, arti cles whioh had bean in oonstant wear for several yuan, the judgment of the oourt waa against him, upon the ground that in the agreement “he had failed to define tha period during whioh the exohange might be made.” Gbamt himself used to make presents. He ieeaid to have presented Sitting Bull, the OgallaUa ohief—not he of Unoapapas tame—with a Winchester rifle, to nac as M had occasion, tithe* in hunting or against the white children of the great father. That rifle has ohanged hands. It BOw belongs to a Crow Indian, and ths supposition U that the OgallaUa ohief has bean killed, as h* would never havo part ed with his rifle but with his Ufa. This Sitting BnU was supposed to be a friendly Indian, hot the Montana frontiersmen steed by and allowed him and four other Indians to be killed by the Crows, when they oould have prevented the killing,and afterwards expressed their approbation of the aot, muoh to the horror of Epatern oiviUiaaaeod soldiers. They know the friendly Indians much better than the transient peace-makers, it seems, and allow their revenges to be worked ont ac cording to tM spirit of Indian warfare whenever aa opportanity offer*. Some. ttaus they make oas^ Evm If wu aro not smart we know what to do when ttoublad with a ooogh or oold. “ dootor bOtatorra. Wsteksa 25 oent U to than tot set drag store and buy >of Dr. BaU's Cough Syrup. One Hortens ond one bottle missus We do not beUeve the people ft the United States are of this servile sort. We do not believe that they an prepared without a blow to part with their hard- earned, blood stained pose lesions. No tice is now served on the oitiaen; at Lou isians siid South Carolina that they most oare for themselves. How sow lamp- posts will bear fruit is for tham to say. To tbe people of ths North and West no tice is given that ell the toil to whioh they are subjected that bond-holders and mo nopolists mty fatten seenra, is repaid by no seourity for their rights, and that a shrinkage of values ia now in order. If there is law for frand there is reason for violenoe, and to that we make our last ap peal. Lire Inswrawee •■slats. Like thsir predecessors in |M devour ing of widows’ houses for a pretence, they make long prayers. They, wo say; but of oourse we do net menu all; for there ore honest officers of Ufa jntnreno* oompanies, and even sound companies; but the number of bothiashovo day after day to be leu and ten; aha wmn we think that thou that we brnr.,about are only they which have teaohwf the end of their tether in fraud, perjury and swind ling, the prospeot before us is one of ths most disheartening that oould be pre sented to a reflecting people. For re member, these defaulting, folse-swssring lifu-insoranoe and savings bank officers are picked men, and that their dishonest f iraotioes are from their very nature, de- if liberate, alow of exeoution, and that in faot they hav* gone on for yean. It ia no olutoh of drowning men at flasnelal •trews that we have here; it ia tha regu lar “confidence game” played on an enor mous scale by mm who are regard ed aa tha most taapaetahto that oan be found iu th* whole oouuannity. They are vestryman, and deacons, and elders, and grave and revarmd signors, sud these men have deliberately used and abused tbe oonfidenoo not only of the community in general,brief their friends and acquaintances, to “emvey” in Nym’a phrase, to steal in plain English, money whioh waa brqught within thalr rtaoh ba- cause of their pretended high prineiple and their philanthropie motive*. For,we repeat, it moat constantly ba kept in mind as an aggravation of tbeae wrong*,, that life inaaranoe oompanies and savings banks are essentially and professedly be nevolent institutions. They are, and they openly profess to be, chiefly for tho bene fit of widows and children. The man who takes to himself the money of a life insuranoe company or of a savings bank ia not a mare thief and swindler; ha robs ths widow and tha fatbarisri; ha takas bis pises among thorn who are aooursad of all men; and moreover, in bQ thee* eaasa he is a hypocrite of tha dareart dye.— “jVeAeto, »n TheQalaagibrlfan* died in Franklin oounty oolCf lSt^L**** 1 —The hog oholem prevail* to an alarm ing extant in tM vicinity of Quitman. —Mr. Pleasant Williams, ooa of tM oldest and best oitlxaaa of Botta oounty, died last wsefc. —Mr. Tahnadgs, of Monro* oounty, broke opa of hia togath* other day by leaping from a buggy. —A little eon of Dr. 8. F. Hut, of Au gusta, aooidsntally shot himself in th* hip with a pistol tho other day. —A bud of negro desperadoes from Florida attempted to shoot ud rob Dr. J. F. Y. Higdon, of Lowadao oounty, re cently. —A Thomson woman lays she'd rather have tha nightmare seven straight nights than tell her hnsband the flour barrel ia empty. —Mr. Wm. Rios, familiarly known as “Bough,” will shortly oommsuae tha pub lication of a paper At Rutledge, in Mor gan oounty. —Married, on the 15th last., in Morgan oounty,-Mr. Q. ft Arrington ud Mias Aunia Wslhora. Also, Mr. Jobs Orr and Mias Kata Faere, —Tho Irwtntau Ampul aanonnesa th* deaths of Mrs. Jamas Malania, Mr. David D. Etheridge, Mr. John T. Paraksr ud Mr. Georgs W. Brown. —Ths Monroe Adeertteer chronicles the marriage on Sunday, in Forsyth, of Mr. James 8. Prios ud Miss Hary A. Wil liamson, both mutes. —An out-building on tbs premises of Mr. Boot Pritehett, of Mouroe oounty, which contained all his corn and fodder, was burned by u inoandiary recently. A braoe of f reedmen in Monroe coun ty indulged in a duol with knives tha oth er day. Tbe coroner was in attonduoe, but his professional sorvloes war* not needed. —Owing to a oonaploueus abssnoe of airret.Ump* and pollsaaisp, Maooa bur glars brash through glare windows of stores on tho prinoipal thoroughfares, ud manage to esoape. —Tbs planters in DeKslb oounty gen erally have- enough provisions to oarry them through tha year, and there will ba little buying of the essentials of Ufo in these parts this year. —The LaGruge Reporter says: “If the bdbtail eoonomiata of the Legislature had passed only neeeesary laws ud ad journed, they oould have got through in twelve or flfteu days.” —A negro by the name of Jordu Smith, in Bntts oounty, waa found dead in his bed one morning last week. His death was eauaad by drinking some whis key whioh ooatained poison. —A fire ooourred in the warehouse and waste factory of Mr. 0, W. Simmons, of Augusta, on Monday night. Ths build ings ware oonsunasd, together with thsir oontonta. Tbe fire oririnatod from the explosion of a kerosene lamp. —Thieves are making hsavy raids on Uaoon every night lino* the polio* fore* has bean redooed. A lady wu on tha street Saturday night after midnight look ing for a polloemu to oatoh a thief who had broke into bar house. —Worth oounty stands square on ths financial record. The reoeipte from ail sooroes the p-at year have been $8,175.- 88, and the amount expended $1,916.56, leaving u balanoe in the treasury of $1, 859.29. —The stables of Mr. A. 8. Welohel. at GainesvUle, ware burned last Sun day night. One of bis horses were burned to death, ud two mules badly burned also. Ths firs wu evidently the work of an inasndisry. —Tbe Gainesville Southron is informed that than are .millions of fall-grown grasshoppers in ths ssotion of conn toy around Gainesville, ud advises the far mers to meet together ud bum over ths pises infested by th* pasts. —Wo think ths Led rang* RtporUr doss not sou the dtUy papers with that acre and attention it should, or it would not have haxardad the following asser tion: “There is not s daily paper in the State that has said aught but praise of the Legiajgture." —On last Sunday night Jim Denson, white, ud Bam Boetwiek, oolored, im prisoned for burglwy, broke jail at Jack- son, Butte oounty. Denson mode him self notorious as a revenue detective. It is supposed be has made his way in At- lute to again report for daty. —Muon Telegraph: Ths Committee on Gas were authorised to olose the con tract with the Maoou Gas Light Company, offering to light one hundred sud thirty- three lamps for $6,000, and ss muy addi tional lamp* as the oity might etaot, at the rata of $30 eaoh. (A sensible move. Nov the people will pay thsir taxes promptly.) —A lady ef Madison s fsw evenings slnoe heard soma ona breaking into oo* of her out boosts, whioh enutslusd pota toes, ud oalling and reociving no answer, find s pistol in ths direotioa from which the noise oamo, ud had tha dasired at. feet, for it was toon ascertained that aha had made a good lias shot, striking a ool ored voter in tbe thigh. —Anguato CaneUtuUmaliet: It is said that in one of the oomarittee rooms of the Georgia Legislature, three gas jets were burning. “Retrenchment and re form!” cried Mr. Fry; “bring in a lamp and turn out tha gas; the State out stud thia expense.^ “Reform and re- trenchmant 1" shrieked Mr. Turner; “bring in n candle; this lamp is too ex pensive.” “Hold I" retorted Senator Beese; “just look at the moon; blow out the oan die." Henoe it appears that in th* final analysis retrenchment ud re form simmer down into oho th* bolder* of those railroads, sod view to adopting meas ures which would enable all tM oou-r undated bondholders, if they shoes to parti elpato in tM torsstosure ud tM mrehareof those railway*. H* said that he New Orleans, Jaokson Bad Great Nartharu Railroad bad Mu advertised to b* sold u th* 17th of Marsh, and that Sasaffia'!L"SW. 0 s: count of tho oomlng spring, though tho day had not yot Mu fixed. It was uaauaoad that a representative of tM bondholders in England would ar rive In this ooontry in tho oourse of u- otber wash. The meeting was then ad journed until Monday, February 26. BOOTS AND SHOES. ABB IBU.IBB BOOTS, SHOES THIS YEAR FOB CASH, And, notwithstanding the great ddvtuo* in Leather, oan soil Good Work at Reasonable Prices A CARD! ) all who art renrlag from tha snore tadistrsUoai of youth. Nervous Weakness, Early Decay, Lou of Manhood, So-—I will sand a recipe that will cure you, ffrww wf Charge. This gnat remedy was dlaoovored by a mis sionary in Bomth Amarloa. Bond a self- addwusd envelops to tha Hav. JOSEPH T. INMAN, Otatlaa D, BIN* Korea, Maw York City. htlHodtrin FIVE FUBVITU&B AT AUCTION By C. S. HARRISON, A t ll o’eloak THIS DAY, I will Mil, at my •tors, th* following artlolea of Famitore: One splendid Mahogany Wardrobe, Ona “ '• Book Cau, On* Flu* Marblo Top Card Table, Two Low Bora-Bottom Easy Uhalri, Oa* Oano-Soat Rocker, On* Small Mahogany Table, On* Fin* Bait* Oottago Furniture, And other dulrabl* artlelei. Uolumbre, Qa., February m, 1877.It DENTISTRY. We h$v$ heavy atool of Plantation Boot*,' Brogana and Plow] Shoes. A flill line of Fine Goods In all the popular Btylaa, and are constantly re plenishing our etook with 8UCH GOOD8 A8 THE PEO- PLE WANT. ■ftr All Purchase* oust be oonildar. •d aa for CASH ON CAUL, unla»» by apdolal agraamant. WELLS A CURTIS, « BBOAB hTHEET, #tf (ttgn of Ifa Mtg BmI.) STOVES AND TIN WARE C " * ' ‘ ■ t =3 dr. j.m. mason, p. o. s„ Attention, Everybody! C«1 os Over Bnqnliar-Sun Offlos, COLOMBO*, OA., G UBKS Dlitaasd Oams ud other dtreusi of th* Mouth; NSg&r oana AbsstsMd Tsstb; iawrtsQTNIB Artificial Tssth; dill Tsstb wlth^**H. Oold, or ehsspsr material If dsslred. M V T TO V■ Stoves, Grates, Cutlery, HOLLOW WARE, Willow Ware, Wooden Ware, rpUE people of Oolumbu ud rarroundlng X oounuy who may need ihs rervloss of riBBT-OLABB PAINTNBB SHOULD CALL OH Wilhelm Sc Harrington, Who ore ready at all tlmss to Paint or Papur Your Houata IN THE ’MOST APPROVED STYLE. .<•" Sign and Orasmsntal Pstn tong a Speci alty. Everything don, on th* Ohoap Boat*. TIN Assignees’ Sale. Hou$e-Furni$hing Goods, FROM W. H. ROBARTS & CO., . .. mta.at retonUhlngty low r Si oh, on* ol th* Lsrg.it Stock, of thMe Ooodi evor brought to this markoL tionmmors aad Ooontry •om’a oornor, on Broad street. Oolumbu, Oa, on th* FIRST TUESDAY IN MARCH NEXT, all tho remaining u.et. belonging to thooatst* of John King, bankrupt, oonilitlng of part of city lot No —, on Oglethorpe ttrest, in th* city of Oolumbu, ud known u the alto of .tha Empire Ootton. sood Hullor and Oil itha . Full Hook of Tin Plato, Shoot Iwnud Wire *“■ kept constantly on hud Bopalr Work in oor line don* promptly at reasonable prlooe. W. H. RaBAMTS dfc OO. octa.'TAOQdfcwtf . —Savannah thiovoa attire aacnni bouaw Mid atari there from th* wttaTudgu —Haverly't Now Orleans played in Montgomery last night. —The Circuit Oourt at OwkUlnao. •ion; also tha February term of the Oourt of Gouty Oommtmionera. —Eaaex Callaway, of Dale county, a former slave of the Hot. F, M. Callaway, vac, we are informed, acoidontally drown ed in the Ohoctawhatchac river, on Tues day lari, whilst engaged in repairing a firth trap. —The judgment of tha Oironit Oourt of Geneva oouty, finding Floyd, the mu now lodged in jail at Oxark, guilty of murder, ud sentencing him to tha ptakitoatiarr tor life, baa boon affirmed by th* Supreme Oourt. Thia it frightful pu- tabuwnt,but th* oriaaa of whioh ha stud* oonviotad demand* a tarribia atonement. A Bona two wander, thia now ontlaoo- tie retoadv for Ootarrh, Ootd in th* Hud, Bora* in th# Now ud Throat, Dr. X Mp MoLau's Qatarrh Snuff. It V . . .. viawuani wu* era; two ret. triplicate preatea, with beaten; alto, .halting, pulleys, Ao, known aa the mt- ohln.ry and flxturat of th* Empire Ootton Seed Hnller and Oil Company, and now upon the lot abovfrda*orib*d; alto, ths following article, of aolid ailvar ware, to-wit: 1 tea kettle, 1 veg etable dl«h, 1 gravy dlah. 1 gravy ladle, ltlop bowl, a napkin rings, 1 pair aalt oallars, 1 pair •alt spoons,« table forks, S table spoons, » sgg •poou, 1 knife and fork, sugar spoon; also, on* a re pearl hudl* knives, com.tiling or 1 dostn nnsr, 1 dosen dessert, 1 set carvers; also, on. note on John W. Brooks for SS00, aid saudry notes andaooonnlt oa different partlss. JOHN PRABODY. W. L. SALISBURY, ’-blO dfcwtd * J-King. Itenkrmpt. LEA A PERRINS’ _ cures , . _ -umbsgo. Sold by wholesale and retell dreg gists everywhere. Send for circular to ths manufacturer.. HELPHENSTE1N A BENTLEY, Druggists, ootli dAwly Washington, P. O CARRIAGES, OffLKBRATBD Pronounesdby oonnoistiUHs to be ths Only Gooi Sauoe, ud applicable EVERY VARIETY's 9I8HJ OXTBAOT OF A LETTER from a medical gentleman at Mad- ret to hit brother at Worcester, May 1861. .audit Id my I pinion th* most »*l*Ubt*M well 8* |th* moat whol**om* Bmo* that U and*. Lea ft Perrins’ Signature IB ON EVERY BOTTLE. JOHN lylt-ltawly DUNCAN’S NCW YORK. PROMINENT INCIDENTS HISTUBT OF COLDEBUS, BA, FBOJf ITS FIMST SkTTLEMKMT JN I8XT TO THE WILSOS MAID IE IStt, WITH A CHAPTER OH COLOM. BVS AS IT HOW IS. COMPILED NY JOHN B. MARTIN. PART XX, A Volume or TOO pages, ud ths concluding portion of the work, just Issued from th* proas. Subscribers to the publication will botar- nlshod to-day. Thoso desiring ooplet of either volume, who hav* not suboortbad, eau obtain thorn at th* offle* of^th* ^kbUihor—No. 41 Budolpk street. TH08. GILBERT. ^WAGONS, Agrleultarsel Implensemts, Skc., Mod* and repaired at tha lowoet GASH priore, on Wynn's Hill, aoor th* oity, ky aagModnwiy. W. M. AMOS. DIVIDEND NOTICE- Fuscamv 1,1ITT. a^a» Tho Dlroetors or th* MU8GOOEE ** MANUFAOTUBINQ COMPANY hav* thU day declared a Dividend of FOVH . MB CUNT, upon tho capital stook,J)*yablo on and after the 1st of April. Th* Transfer Books will bo olosod Merab 16th. W. A. SWIFT, fobs-tf Bonrotary. New Garden Seeds. Iflndreth’i Garden Seeds JN Bulk or Papers, at Philadelphia Frioos. O.W.MDHRO, 1 *8« dim Uudw Odd FtHowf HaU. GUANO. PURE PESUVIAN and NOVA SOOTIA LAND PLASTER. For sale by B. 41. LAY. No lcl Bay street, west of Exchange, janai-lm Savannah, Qa. J A A Tabvbb, f Robust Xtreau, Columbus, Os. | Bailor, Oa. TARVER BROTHERS &C0., GENERAL JOSSERS IN Brick, Plastering and Wood Work. *W Repairs don* la our lint at abort notio* and at bottom priao*. mh4-*od A wiy ANHOOD RESTORED. NOTICE To Depoaitort in Saving* Departmant Mer- chxnti' and Mechanic* Bank. HUNTERS’ AND TBAPPEBS’ ILLUS- tL TBATED PBAOTIOAL OUIDE.- Ouaaiug aad rlflo shooUagi maklag tad retag pliifi JESSE BANBY A oa. . . - , until street, Now York. Kg* Owing to tka iaabiltty of this Bank to invest Its Savlagt Deposits in a secure and profitable way, only FIVE FEN CENT. PEE ANNUM Interest will b* paid on deposits received after this data. Ssvsn per osuL will b* paid on pisosnt dopmlto up to April tat aost—after that data, fire-par oreL A. O. BLAOXMAB. fobll tf Oashlar- . MONTH--Agent, wafted avery-
