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DAILY ENQUIRER-SUN: COLUMBUS, XgURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 22.
1877.
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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-
