About Columbus daily enquirer. (Columbus, Ga.) 1874-1877 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 10, 1877)
■nHHnBHanH| 414. i FRIDAY AUGUST 10, 1877. LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION AMD MOKE THAR TWICE THE LARGEST AGGREGATE 0IH0ULATI0N1 A nun private soldier get* 1)1 per nonth-e Captain $14. Tn Mew Orleans Picayune thinks that l4 tf eons of the strikers woald strike the earth with hoes, they might gain bread. Tn whole mnltttadinons Wash home family are now ont of offloe, for the first time within the memory of the oldest In- Hnmnabis snoeeedsd in making terms with her bondholders by which her debt has been reduced from #4,000,000 to $2,« 000,000. Sekatob David Davis is seriously ill at his residenee, Bloomington, III., and it is feared he will not recover. The trouble is oaaoer of the stomaoh. The Courier Journal says the Demo crats carried Kentucky overwhelmingly. The Granger element that controlled the last Legislature now has no showing. Thi New York dun has another mild attack of the impeachment fever. It wants the President impeached for us ing the regnlar army against the strikers. Tns debt of the city of New York, less the sinking fond, is about #120,000,000. The debt of the United States July 1st, leas cash in the Treasury, was #2,060,- 108,224 20. The total debt of all the cities and towns in the United States is less than halt the national debt. A Sabatooa letter says Mr. Lorillerd won several thousand dollars betting against his own horse. A prominent New Yorker lost #4,000 on a single race. A leading book-maker is “some #0,000 ont,” but loas and gain are taken quietly now without publicity or a champagne supper. Tns nomination of Gov. Stone for re- election was not accomplished without quite a contest in the Mississippi Demo cratic Convention. There were ten bal- lotings. The seventh stood: Stone 00, Lowry 08, Humphreys 81, Featherston 10. The lest balloting stood: Stone 180, Lowry 101. Tns experiment of slaughtering oattle by means of dynamite was recently tried at Dudley, Rnglsnd, with marked suooees. Small charges of dynamite were fastened on the foreheads of the animals, and ex ploded by an eleotrio shock. The ani mals, two disabled horses and a donkey, were instantly killed by the explosion, suffering a comparatively painless death. DAILY ENQUIRER-SUN: COLUMBUS, OE QR^ FRIDAY MORNING. AUGUST 10. 1877. HI Col. Papv, General Superintendent of the Jacksonville, Penaaoola and Mobile Railroad, has authorised S. A. Gould, Esq., the Florida correspondent of the Chicago Board of Trade, to state that persona ooming into the State to settle via the Chattahoochee river, will be pass ed over the Jacksonville, Penaaoola and Mobile Railroad free, and that prospec tors ooming over this route oan purchase tickets over this railway at half rates. WBA* OAN THP.V DO A ROOT ITT It really does a Southern Democrat's heart good to read the wall of Blaine and his admiring band in Maine, over the ter rible mistake they mads in giving suf frage to the negro. They do not say so In msny '.words, but it amount, to the same thing. They mourn and lament because t^e colored vole enablea the Confeder ates—the “rebel*," who did very naughty, in Georgia, South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana, to have in the National Government more than double the power of the Union soldiers in any Northern State. Thank you, gentlemen Republicans of Maine 1 We saloto you gladly for that admission, and more because it is true. Allow us to return our warmest congratulations for enabling us by your own act to secure that additional influence in the nation. Why did you not mention all the South ern States and count tho 188 votes we have? Yon gave the ballot to ignorant field hands, hoping to perpetuate the Re publican party in our section. We have utilized those votes to inorease Democratic representation. Iotelligenoe and wealth must ever control ig- norauoe and poverty. The men who own the land now rule it. Thank you again, gentlemen, for your part in furnishing ns the means to increase our power and in fluence, for yon know in the national oouncils they have been exerted in the best interests of the country. It was a terrible mistake on your side when you emancipated the slaves and attempted to make them rulers over their former mas ters. Twelve years of very sad experi ence to us has shown yon your error snd now you are gnashing your teeth because you must aocept the inevitable. A writer has con densed into an apothegm, the former feelings of the North and South: “The North knows that children are not men, but does not see that the negro is A child. The South sees that the negro is a child but will not be persuaded that be oan grow to be a man.” We believe now many can become men but we do not in tend to let them rule ns. As a oonae- qnonce of the restoration of Democratic oontrol peace, order and justice reign in the South. The North and West were oonvulsed by strikes while onr section was quiet and serene as an infant's slum ber. Now, gentlemen of Maine, wbat are you going to do about it ? You can’t dis franchise those you have freed, and we will not. They add to our power. So quit orylng and fretting. Wash the bloody shirt. Blaine can never be President. Don't throw so much spleen into future resolutions.. We did not elect Mr. Hsyes. If ypu do not like the appearance of things, and if you did refuse to reaffirm confidence in Mr. Hayes, what comfort do you derive in abusing the South? Wbat good does it do yon,and what can you do about it ? You have Blaine, be opened yonr convention, and kept yon from en doming Mr. Hayes. Keep Blaine and be happy. No other State wants him. The Maine ltepnblioans are terribly ex ercised beoanse the DemooratB have osp- tnred the tbirty-flve votes they desired to give their friends when they gave the ballot to the black man. The rage and sorrow are pleasant to oontemplale, be oanse they oannot help tbomselves. OUR ORQANIO LAW. ITS SLOW FORMA TION. THE PBEITEEYIAN* gVtSTIOR. Dynamite has been nsed in Australia for ploughing purposes. Holes from one and a half to two metres deep are made in the ground with a orowbar, dynamite pnt in, the charges connected, and ex ploded simultaneously by eleotrioity. The ground is well mellowed to the depth of the charges. This method is of course employed only in very tough places, and is very expensive, but better and oheaper in the end than the old way. II. H. Honors,the father-in-law of Fred Grant and Potter Palmer, will be one of the big bankrupts of the year, his debts exceeding #2,000,000 in amount, #1,800, 000 of the sum being secured. It is not known how muoh the creditors will re ceive, but in the state of the real estate and mining stocks markets their dlvl- deuds are not likely to be large. It is “notated” around Washington eity that Fred broke his engagement with daughter of one of the Cook family when Jay went to pot on the Northern Paoiflo fraud. Tnx railroad managers are waking up Ip the necessity of an advance on rates of all kinds, especially that of freight, and M. E. Ingalls, receiver of the seoond Cincinnati and Lafayette Road, has is sued a oiroular letter to the obief railroad officials of the country, asking that a con sultation be had as to a nniform advance, and giving as a reason that the business publio as well as railroad people see the absolute necessity of the step, and will not only acquieaoe in it but have already been urging the prudenoe of such a step. The letter doses by suggesting Cincinnati as the plaoe of meeting, put leaving that open for future consideration. General Bxumton, oomnaander of the Philadelphia troops at Pittsburg at the time of tho riot, published a statement to the effeot that Major Buffington, the com mander of the United States Arsenal, treated him and-his troops in an outrage- one manner. Major Buffington publishes a card flatly denying Brlutou'a charges, and ealting the attention of the War De. partment to the matter. That's right, let these be an inveatigation. The people have not been able to understand why a regular army offlear in command of a United States arsenal should close his gates against State troops, es he would against declared enemies. Hon. W. M. Evabts baa to support a wife and eleven daughters: Here is one of the hat and boot bills : 44 hats at CIO par hat— 0440 as 4 hata for Mri. Evert., at too per hat... SO 00 t Bat for Mrs. Evert*......TT..*”.™;." ( oo Si pairs boots at 07 par pair «i no X pstn hoots tor MrV Kvaru, it it " «1 * iStaboou for Mra.Kvar£mrJti£. a tt pain of allppert, at pt 7... as oo X pain •Itpeon for Mn Evan., at 8a" to 00 Total for boots and kata o*7» n No wood or the Beeretary wants to prau- Uee law in addition to his duties at the State Department. THE CONTENT EOH OOVIRMOB OP VIRGINIA. Tho Conservative Convention met at Richmond yesterday. From the vote by which a resolution to nominate candidates before the adoption of a platform waa carried, it appeara there are 1,341 dele gates. The oandidaiea placed in nomine' tion are Major J. W. Daniel, Col. T. W, M. Holliday, Gen. Fits Lee, Gen. William Mahone, and Gen. W. B. Talliaferro—all of whom aoqnirod their military titles by active eervioe in the Confederate army. Beaides porsoual preference an important isane has lately been raised. Gen. Mabone stands alone in his suggestions in regard to tbo management of the publio debt. He favors a readjustment and opposes additional taxation, bat his friends dsny that he is a repndiationist. His opponents allege that a readjustment ia impossible, and that an eoonomieal Government and wise taxation will best serve the internets of the Slate. A corres pondent of the Courier Journal gives very clearly the difficulties of the position. After the late revolution and military rule had passed, the State attempted a settlement with her creditors. The ante war debt was #33,000,000. Tbe Leg islature passed a “Funding Bill,” by whioli the bonds were sosled one-third and new bonds issued to which were at tached coupons receivable for all does to tbe Btate. Tbe third of the debt, $11,- 000,000, it was claimed was justly due by the Stale of West Virginia, taken from the old Commonwealth and made a State during the war, and for this portion cer tificates were issued, payable whenever a settlement was made between Virginia aud West Virginia and not before. The Commissioners appointed oould not agree —some from West Virginia contending that they owed no portion of the debt, the internal improvement for whioh it waa created being all onlside Weat Vir ginia, exoept a few mnd turnpikes whioh are now valueless, but whioh they were willing to estimate at #1,000,000. The matter has remained a dead-look aver ainoe. The certificates sell in the market at five and a half oents on the dollar. About #20,000,000 of the debt of Virginia was funded, snd about $8,000,- 000 of accumulated interest, and some of the bonds have not been funded. Of tbe funded debt the oonpoos are re ceivable for taxes, bnt for the payment of the #8,000,000 mentioned no provision whatever baa been made. Tbe main point in tba gubernatorial race is the re adjustment, whether or no, of the entire $28,000,000 of funded and unfunded debt. General Mahone ia the champion of ‘readjustment,’ whioh means a compro mise with the holders of the entire amount of bonds ($28,000,000), tr possible. Tbe other eandidatee are opposed to any read justment. An express ottos has been established at Ohattahooohee, and Mr. John P. Jordan appointed agent. This trill be great oonvenienoe to the ettfaena of tbe western part of the county, and many persons living in Jackson eonnty. PBoroexD salb or TMB mate eoad—Mat ties IN OKNKBAL—STATS AID TOBBIDDEM —COMING ADJOUBNMEBT. Special Oorrespoadanee of the Enquirer-Sun ] Atlanta, Thnraday, August 0, 1877. General Wofford and many others ere engeged in a oruskde ogolnit'uur present penitentiary system which IT likely to osnee some fan, if nothing alee, before it is done. They are going to meke en effort to forbid the leasing of oOtivioU by tbe State to anybody, and to restore tbe old workhouse plan. Their opposition ia baaed mainly on arguments against the leasing system in general, and is embit tered by supposed oases of outrages upon convicts entrusted to the Cere of overseers. There Is little doubt that these stories are exaggerated and that in msny esses tbe most violent means ere necessarily used to insure the safety of the guards. The present system is proving quite lu crative to tbe Btato, whereas the old peni tentiary plan seldom pays expenses. The argument that the objeot of e penitenti ary Os its name indicates, is more to re form than to punish the criminal, has mnoh more of phllainthropy than of com mon sense in it. Tbe general aliases of oonviets sent from onr oonrts to do penenoe for their deviltry ere such de graded specimens of humanity that soy system whioh accomplishes their reforma tion most begin end end with s mirseie. It la not probable that tha Oonvention will diatnrb tha present penitentiary sys tem. IBB STATE BOAD is to be the bone of bitter contention. The Committee are in favor of selling it outright bnt they have set their figures so high that they will wait many a day for a purchaser. They want eight mil lions of dollars forit, and it la natnnl that they should, bnt the Committee doesn't really suppose that any man or corporation who hae that sum would be so foolish as to risk that sum on a Geor gia railroad. Tha State Road is now in snparb oondltion and is doing an enor- mona business. About half of tbe Iraok is laid with steal rail, and it will all be of the same materiel before long. The amount of freight end paaaenger bnsiness done is remarkable. It requires three paaeenger trains a day to carry from this oity the otowde that travel over it. I have no donbt that the leasees are making a bonansa of the road. What if they are ? The 8tate is getting $800,000 e year from It, nod I doubt if it aver paid ao mnoh into tha treasury before. It ia impoasible to aell it for its value, and if tha State takes it under its oontrol it will be as In past days, a political maohine mn and almost wreoked by political man agers, who suppose they know everything abont railroads and indeed ebont all other matters. Tbe majority of the prudent men in tbe Oonvention are ih favor of letting the road alone. It is already leased for twenty years snd a disturbance of that oontrao! would oreats an impression that tbe State had acted in bad faith, Joe Brown Is at work among the delegates and he has yet an inflnenoe which he oan make quite useful to himself or to any cense he may espouse. It is apprehended that Gen. Toombs will attaok the lease as he bee always been violently opposed to it and haa made it one of bis pet hobbies for tbe past five years. DOWN THEY OO. After making the Jndges the creatures of tffh Legislstnre the Convention went to work to redtioe their salaries to the limits of a vary striot economy. The re. dnCtion of the pay of Supreme Court Judges to $3,000 is generally thoughts nowise, and no man who has any concep tion of the labors of a Circuit Jndge will contend that $2,000 ia enough for him It is feared that this aotion is a deroga tion from the dignity of the office, for e sound pnblio policy would dictate that every servant of the State should .be paid such a salary that he may live in a man ner anitabie to the dignity of his station. Tbe idee of economising by ontting down the already small salaries of State offloerB has been passed npon until it has cessed to be ridicnlone and hae beooire disgust ing. The “rednotioniats" bavs made a severe blow at the olerioal expenses of tbe Ex ecutive offioe, reducing them from $10,- 000 a year to $6,000. This waa wiae for there are undoubtedly plenty of olerke in tbe offioe and one or two of them might be easily dispensed with. All the Slate House officers have been pnt npon en al lowance from the treasury,whioh includes their olerk hire. At firot^hay were sim ply given e oertain snm with whioh to pay themselves and their assistants, and the matter of the division of tbe appropria tion wee left entirely In (he hands of tbe of Soars. This baa been ohanged so that a car tain portion la set apart for dark hire, thus preventing any starvation polioy whioh the officers might adopt toward their sub ordinates. There ie any amount of OrriOIAL LOBBXINO GOING ON. It haa been in progress ever einoe the Convention. It sorely^ does not look well in this Time, when lobbying bee been de nounced as a crime, and a law passed against it, to see State officers elbowing members and whispering soothing words into thdr sere; bnt snob ie tha case. Yon oan hardly ever look at a door of the ball or march up and down the passage outside bnt yon meet some offloial who ia a little on the “ragged edge," or some dark grasping at the retreating greatness of hie parting salary. Some of the old fogies in the body are dlagnated with this matter, and it haa been dluded to in no gentle terms. «TAT1 AID haa been efleoioaily crashed and a danse tn tbe new Constitution forbids it forever in any kbape. Jim Brown made e stub born stand in favor of granting eooviet labor to build railroads whan they de- seried it, bnl the Convention oonldn't see it and tbsy decided against ths psr- nidons polioy. Brown and all the Chero kee men wanted eooviet labor to oomplate tbe Marietta and North Georgia Railroad. Tbe Legislature baa already granted it I It ia a wrong principle and there will be generalantltfhotfao that basso firmly settts toot on U. Mr. oia Fontaine of yonr delegation made en able atgudent on this qoeetioh, in which he demonstrated that It ie nsvatr right tor the State to give publio money to private enterprise, tbe speech has been very highly ooaspiimented. ill AWOUlJnfEKT tine die wll! probably Uke plait M Bib nrdsy, the 18th, making the esnHon jest forty days long. The Committee on Find Revision has completed its work end tamed it all over to the OdoVAoUbn. There ie a growing impatience at the pro longed session, and tba earlisat possible adjonrniMot will be made, though It la herd to see bow it is to oome to pets so early as the time seleeted bj general abn- sent. 1 cite -i* The poor Legislature is not yet disposed of. Tbe Convention will have no Nisrpy it. There is talk of making its station biennial, sad this would keep tbe present Legislature from ever meeting again. There are a dozen other things to be done end they limply cannot be oomplated if there ooqUnues to be tbe send amount of tdk and personal issues. While tbe Con vention Is reconsidtring the State's finan ces so admirably, It might wdl economise its own time to mash more advantage. THE BAILBOAD TOOL was in session here yesterday. Fifteen or twenty leading Southern Rnperinten- dents ware present. The seed one bn as secret ae a star chamber, bat there are rumors that a storm is brewing. There is to be great ontting of fall freight rates, snd skilled railroad observers deolare that the pool ia tottering on the brink of dis solution. There are too many oonflioting elements in it to atiak together. If it breaks np there will be a ent throat busi ness among all the great competing lines, bat It seems that the stash is inevitable. Tat, 44EDBDIA M«l. (years old, wee drowned at Brown's mill, n j few miles from Troy, some days ago. —A negro boy fourteen yean old killed I, —Died, ebont 4 o'clock a. m , Saturday another near Cartersvllle. 5 Bight, 6th tact., near Aberfoil In Barbour —The Haroooem, reported trot off 8»r Mr. Jane Wood, in the GBIfc year vaanab, are found to tJadtCn^ A 1 *•* ¥ —A Newton cofiniy ntaa olNfiaa to have .000 watermelons in hie fab*: ' -Mr. W. B. Deny has ree^nsd the Presidency of the Coweta fgf Astoeiw lo ** tion. - 1 —It is ondaratood that Col. Obarlas O. Jones, of Augusta, baa a history of Geor gia in preparation. . —A native of Burke eonnty guloidM a with lendannm on tbe 1st at No. 2, Allan- "... .... — . .. „ ... — tie and Gnlf Bdlroed. *WopleU fleket, Oefeetteg the Demo- —Colonel David M. Brown, '-of Hous ton eonnty, died at his home near Hayne- villa last Sunday morning. —HonA. O. Baooa*addressbetatstb* two societies of the University was nj the “Ideal Statesman.'' —Mr. Engine Byrd, Of Btimi|fc# ty, received a sunstroke while engaged in saving fodder. Not serious. —Americas Motived her firm bale of new ootton from Calhoun eonnty oo Tuesday; weight 461 pounds. —Mrs. Folly Denial, wife of Joseph Daniel, and mother of “Uncle Billie* Daniel, died last Monday in Marion coun ty- —Mr. Thomas A. Brown, agad eighty- two, and Sarah Carrol, aged seventy-two, were married in Greene oounty n few days siooe. —Mr. Thomas Godard, of Fikeoojnty, son of Rev. W. T. Godard, waa reoently killed by being ran over bjr a train in Tennessee. Tax Convention YxsTXBdIy.—It did good work. It refuted altogether to re open tbe bond question, snd leave the matter to tbe Oonrts. Another most axaellent clause was plaoedin tbe Constitution whioh will save thousands of dollars to the treasury. The 8tate printing it hereafter to be awarded to the lowest bidder in the Btate. This is a measure we have been advocating for months. In this paper was this feature first edvooated. We oould see no reason why papers should be pensioned more than individual*, and why printing should oost a State more than a private corporation. Tbe Convention In this haa exhibited a spirit of true eoonomy. Print tag yearly oosta Georgia thousands of dollars more than It shonld. Hereafter the lowest bidder and not combinations of newspapers will obtain the work. FAUEHOOD OUT—WHO TOED IT I Secretary Bobnrs, whom we regard ae mnob a “politician of fortune" Ss ever Oapt. Dagsid Dalgatty was a soldier of the seme flokle g odd see, is now in sore trouble. Gail Hamilton charges him with hiring his services to any party or interest that will pay him beat. Kem ble, of Pennsylvania, direotly even tbat be was paid #500 per week for making Republican speeches in several Presides tial campaigns, and states that one week be knows that Bohnra draw on tha Execu tive Oommlttee of hie Btate for that amount. Here ie a lovely ■pecimen of the latter-day Republican reformer. He hires hia thoughts end voice to a party jaat as a laborer rents bis personal servioe. true, he has no principles, and is con trolled only by money end party rewards. This has before been alleged against the gentlemen, bnl the parties now prefer ring the aoonsstion claim they oan sob stentiete it by proof. It is fair, however, to Bay that Behnrs denies everything, end farther avows he has never required pay for his eervioea, but has taken active participation Jn po litical oonfileta when ha could illy afford to do so. He also dearly insinuates that Kemble haa lied. Kemble, we believe, is or was chairmen of the Republican Exec utive Committee of Pennsylvania. It is a very interesting fight on whioh Demo crats oan look and enjoy. It is a nioe business throughout. HOW SCHURE HAH HADE MONET Si jk* , stm quite 111. •O'Mr- - . _ man advertise* in tbe New York Clipper tor n leader of orches tra to aooompany a negro minstrel troupe organiatag ih that eity. —Tbe result of tbe election In Mobile in' tits sueoeea of wbat was sailed the critic nominees by over 1,800 majority. —Oapt. B. W. H. Kennon, a former citizen sad merchant of Union Springs, died, of yellow dlabaai, at his home near Braoevilie, Sunday night, fith tar —TiIUpoom ooonty William O’Brien, Sheriff; BenUn WUUi«v3Sa Collector; Nathan Nabcir*, Tax Arosroof; William Cody, Treteniar. All Democrats, of coarse. —Jefferson eonnty defatted the Iede pendent*.by 100 majority; Mnoon, by. 700. Ia .the latter oounty not an inde pendent *ot« Waa pollW at Rotasnlga or Mltty Hill, and bnt two at Texas—both negroes. —Tbe ebild of . Mr. Joseph Blurt, of Montgomery, being unwell on Tuesday night, - the father rose and in hie night Wu4 dwewwaiwvsw nw 4k- t«v_ tt___ _ _# _ —Tbe A. * G. Railroad company has rednoed fare from Albany to Savannah from $12 to $9, and to other plaoee pro portionately. -Mr. W. P. Merritt, n worthy oitixen of Tattnall oounty was strnck by light- nlbg during the dreadful thunderstorm on lest* Tnesday. —Several eases of small pox are re ported in the “Cypress 81aab,” in Tattnal county. It is oonfioed principally to tbe oolored population. —The podal route from Buena Vista to Tazewell will be discontinued In a few days and that of Buena Viata to St. Elmo will be substituted for it. —Mr. John O. Frazier, of Mltobell county, has 806 sheep of improved breeds —all obtained einoe tbe war. He has lost, by dogs, at least 100 bead. Tbe National Board of Underwriters have offered a reward of $260 for tha in cendiaries who set fire to the Aaher Ayres' property, in Macon, on the first of last month. —Tbe grand jury of Bpnuldtag oounty unanimously endorsed Col. J. Q. A. Al ford for tbe position of County Judge Of tbe oounty, and requested bis appoint ment by the Governor. Mr. J. 0. Gabel), of Coweta eonnty, fell dead in his yard near Newnnn on the 1st, while engaged in the usual early pur suit* of a farmer. Heart dlaeaae. Leaves e wife end five children. —Mr. Micajah Tnoker, in Berrien qonnty, while drunk was running his horse at fall speed. The horse strnok a tree at tbe division of two roods and was ruined. His rider was killed. turning up the low flime of a kerosene lamp, whan It exUleded and fired hie garments. He ruahodtMta tbe house. He was so badly burned ha died next day. . — JohoC. Calhoun, a rooent graduate of Washington and Lee University, baa been elected to tha ohsir of Greek in the University of 'Alabama, and W. W. Canon, another graduate of the same Institution, to that of Mathematics in Davidson Col lege, North Caroline. A meeting of dtiaena was held at Florence, e few days ago for the purpose of urging on . the completion of the Mnsole Shoals Osntl. A visit to the canal was arranged, for the 16th Instant, and many prominent oiliaens-of the State have been invited to join in the excursion. —In Pike ooonty B. H, Begets waa elected sheriff over six competitors; John Freeman, 'tam Asses-or, over three; J. W. Harris, Tex Collector, over nine; John O. Brown, Treasurer; W: H. Bar nett, W. L. Hendrick and T. B. Faulk, Commissioners; W. B. Coleman, Coro ner. —The briek mason employed on the Tuskegee court bouse Isst week demand ed en advanoe to wages, whereupon he waa promptly discharged by tbe contrac tor. He succeeded in persuading the first set of bands employed to join in his de mands, bnt bands were finally employed In Montgomery. —Thursday, in the lower pert of Union Springs, e whirlwind oanght a lot of ofothes that had been hang on a fence to dry, and carried them np ont of sight. A few of the articles were the next dky found scattered In different directions, several hundred yards from their start ing point. Borne have not been found at all. —In Lowndes county * part of eaoh' of the rival Radiotl tickets—Brnner for tax- collector end Pepperman for sheriff—was -In Marion ooonty th* building of the S' 801 * 1 - The latter waa on both tiekets. bridge at Taylors’mill was let ont to 2?" P ri “olp«l contest was between Mr; Jack M. Gill at $96, and ths repair- S*™ 8 * and Armstrong, for collector. ing of the bridge at the burnt mill was let to Mr. Doily and Dokee at $28. —Tbe Montezuma Weekly Bays the “dry weather for the poet few weeks has made serions inroads npon ths erupt, end farmers ere apprehensive. Some portions of the oounty have uot enjoyed a good rain Bin pa (ho Aral nlhaiitit ” rain since the first plowing. —The first bale of FloridaQoiton reached Savannah lost year on August 2, whioh weighed 666 pounds, end sold for 2te. SELLING BIS VOIOB TO BILL KEMBLE 41 FIXED PBIGI PEB HOUR. From Gall Hamilton's Better In tbe Tribune.] If raising money for * political cam paign be an improper thing, 1 do not see wby ell of those who knowingly spend and nee money so raised are not partieep* criuunit. In the pnblio papers I have seen the statement iterated end reiterated that Mr. Sobarz has asked and reoeived from the Republican Btate Committee of Pennsylvania $1,600 for making a single politioal speech thrioe in a political cam paign, and I have agtin and again heard it Bteted es e feet so oarrent that no one thought of denying it, that Mr. Sahara habitually, as a regnlar business, obarged, and charged very highly tor hie political speeches; so that the $1,600 he reoeived. in Penoaylvanie was not exoeptionel, end was but e email part of the grow receipts for ail hie year* of stamp speaking. Where did Mr. Bohan think this money acme from ? Wes it any worse for the Republican State Committee to oak s One- tom Home offloer to pay five doliera to wards carrying the Pennsylvania election than it was for Mr. Sobuis. to ask the Republican 8 ate Oommlttee $1,600 to put into his own pocket ? All tbe parti sans and politicians and eorruptionia's tbat I know make their politioal speech** without money and without price, and never even asked to have their expenses paid. Mr. Boburs enjoys end is said to deserve the reputation of being alone to tbe business of selling his voles at a fixed prioe per hour in aid of the Republican oause—a cause of whioh he is ao mnoh more pare, nnselfleh end petrtotlo an apoatta than his poli tical eompeera, It wo may believe hie Chamber of Commerce speech, that it ia only after’his own eooesaion to plaoe tbat the American people beUeve ones more that they can get an honaal Govern ment. Mr. Bohnra hea ehoaro to attaok wantonly tha feelings and pride of native- born Amerioena by tmvsrttag the whole country, and for tha sum of $100 an even ing, leas of more, denouncing the corrup tion and depravity of our Government and our people. I attribute no dishonor to Mr. Behan, hut if Mr. William A, Kemble** assertion is Ires that bepuid Mr. Bahaa #800 • night for his apaeah, Mr Behan i* oertain ly estopped fromuhernetetfaiag Federal Railroad stock is in demand. Shortly after s tale at the court house yesterday of some shares at $80, parties were after it for $80 60 aud $81. -At Savannah, Tuesday, twent; r shores of South western Railroad stock sold for $80; Atlanta Paper Mill Com pany $9,266, of whioh $9,060 was for mill and $216 for stock; several shares Citizens’ Mutual Loan Association Stock, $86 60; 85 acres of land on Wilmington Island for $85, and 86 on Middle Ground Railroad for $29 20. —Fulton County Snnday Sohool Asso ciation held its 10th anniversary at Ponce de Leon Springs Wednesday. Thirty- four schools were represented. There ere 41 Bchogls in the Association. Tbe Third Baptist Sobool won the prise of fered by Hon J. H. James for the beet singing. B. D. McConnell wee sleeted President of the Association. —LtGrsnge's educational reoord tor the past few years is not bad. Several thousand dollars—we forget the exact fig ures—have been raised for the LaGnn'ge Female College, five thousand dollars for the LtGrenge High Sohool, and five thonaand dollars for the Sonthern.Femele College. This is rather hard to beat by any town of its size in Georgia. —Darien Oaietle: Jcstloe H. Aiken beard the canso of Moser*. Wiloox A Cburohill vs: O. O. Hopkins, tax collector, for tbe recovery book of the earn of sev enty-fire dollars, paid him by them aa re tail liquor dealer*. After argument on the constitutionality of the set, tbe jus tice rendered judgment for the plaintiff upon the foil owing grounds: let. Beoanse the act was in oonfliot with artiola 6 and paragraph 3 of tha Constitution of Geor gia. 2d. Beoanse tbe tax waa pot “ad va lorem:'’ 3d. Beoanse the act of incorpo ration of the oity of Darien, gave to the Mayor and Aldermen of said eity the right end power of imposing mid tax orlioenae. The defendant, eeting under instructions from the Comptroller General, has entered en appeal to tbe Superior Court, and the oase will be beard this fell before Judge Tompkins. offiee-hoMtts, np riehes than himself, ea iswenarien. politioal me The New York Herald claims that ita circulation is 90,000 larger Uun it thia time tart year. AL4B4HA IIWI, —No white person died in Selma daring Jane. -The Democratic majority ta Bollock oounty is 2,064. -It is estimated that th* wheat crop of Talladega oounty will bring ta $76,- 000. —A storm near Fort Deposit, reoently, blew down 834 tree* on Mr. J. 8. Knox’s piece. -There were thirteen deaths in Mont gomery daring the lest two weeks of —A lets New York Herald speaks of Dr. Petrie preaching ta Edinburg on Sun day, Jply 8tb. —Died in Pike oounty, July 26th, 1877, at th* residence of her father, M*'* LUla Dalton, aged 16 years. —Tho • inters of Larotto have gone into n retreat with Bev. Father Preen, of Mo bile, at Spiritual Director. *HQ] en 'lUV —Eph. Kelly,-a negro boy ebont ti BOOTS AND INOll. FINE SHOES! LADIES’ AND MISSES’ NEWPORTS, Plain and with Bnakltt*. Sandals ! Slippers, !» New and Txety fftylm. BURTS’ Fine Button Boots. 3NT T THE HANM0ME#T SHOE OUT. Also * full Lina of SPRING WORK In Ml the A Heavy 8took of Brogan#, Plow Shoot, and Sta ple Good#, FOR WHOLBNALC TRADE aw For anything you want la th* Shoe an* Leather Use, call at THE OJLD 8HOE STORE, No. 73 Broad Ntroot, (Bitnof Ms Btg Beet.) WELL8 ft CURTIS. Two negroes, Brnoe MoOall and William Canon, of tbe Brnner tioket, were re spectively elected treasurer and tax asses sor. —The original Independent tioket in Maoon county aa printed was aa follows: For Sheriff, O. G. Motley. For Tax Aa- Besaor, Beid Smith. For Tax Collector, J. M. Clough. For Treasurer, W. 8. Jack- eon. For Com mission en, J. A. Wright, M. K. Wheat, J. A. Weathers and F. A. thia year .it reached Savannah on August ***? 7, weighed 401 pound*, end Bold for 12o. JJrre whereoMn^hdr'^’.m^wIro fr.reO Both oamfl from Mr RtatAn WDoreopoD (heir DAmM W6f0 ertsed Both came from Mr. Bteten. and L. O. Randle anbatUuted for Sheriff, •T. A ‘ w ‘ and W. A. Bussell for Tex Aaaeeaor. of Mr. Mobsh think we ougbl not to have —Tuskeoee Newt- The cotton orou ta touched them np on th. lottery bfialne*.. ont promletam SnTwita taailiidtaa’ to n \T e thar 8 M? ,0 M ‘“’P* 1 ? 1 * good Beaton* from this time forward will InAM.nreA tn°mih« t tai^ W K° a»ke more than an overage yield. The " mike thw , P* 0l< * of B»mb- aeterpillare ere not developing rapidly end ling lawful? apprehension* from thisnanroeere daily —The Savannah Newt, of Wednesday, diminishing. The crops ta the prairies saya : There was inquiry et the monthly ere said tol»e magnifioent. A few of our sales yesterday for Central Railroad stock, oitixene took a ride among the plantations but none wa* offered. Southwestern in tbat section a few days einoe, and their reports are highly rosy—from fifty seventy-five buahele of oorn and a bale of ootton to tbe sore waa tbs common oaloutetion. If the price of ootton will hold up this will be e profitable year for the farmer. That it haa been the oheap- est crop made ainoe the war i* universally oonoeded. vase: Atlantic Coast Line Passenger Route* TO ALL POINTS NORTH UAd CAST Raorganlitd for th* rammer of 1877. Travelera: Route No. 1—All Reil, , Vta 5sr Oolumbua to New YeHL 1 liman Sleeping Oar attaOad at Maoon lor. Wilmington. Through Route No. 2—Bay Line.- Over th* tame Lilnos to Wilmington ae by Route No. 1. Thenoe by Through Train to Portsmouth, Vs. Thenoe at 4:40 r k flatly ol the Ray bine to I York Express—arriving In New York at *04 A 41 honr« ran, only 7 hours In axeesa of all rail time, with the advantage ot undisturbed nlgbt’s rest, and superior eeoommodatlooa on th* Ohseapeake Bay. Route No. 8-The Old Do minion Line. . Th* tame Lines to Wilmington and Porta- month as Routes 1 and 2. Thenoe on Mondays, W ednesdnyt and Saturday sat 4 «o ra by tho magnificent side-wheel Steamships ol the Old at thslr New York wharves by s * a. A through run ores hours, oomDInlng the as- sentlal element, of oheapmsas, speed and oom- Passengers should leave Oolnmbtu Sundays, Tuesdays and Fridays to oonneot olossly with this Lin*. Why buffer Dyspeptic Ter lures. When th* r-moui regulator of onfoablod, acid or bilious stomachs, HostaWaris Stomaoh Bit ten, will ouro you t Oould you read th* testl. mony of tho myriads of dyspeptlos whom It has oured, though you might he of a akapttoal turn, you would be oonvlnoed. EVldeno* of its eBoaey ts sonstantly multiply tag, and this re lates not only to eases of dyspapsla, hut also liver onmplalnt, oonatlpetlon, urinary and at- arine troubles snd malarial disorders. Tha saeoesi which has attended tha great stomach ic has lnolted unscrupulous parties to manu- faetare cheap Imitations of It, whioh they at tempt to palm off aa tha ganulno article. But so familiar Is th* publio with tho reel allzlr, that those nefarious attempts ate rarely sue- eessful, Neither Imitation or competition affects the popularity of th* standard article. Railroad. ~ A POME, J H WHITE, JSSSS KgS is& _Attg6 luo ATTENTION, CAPITALISTS! ANNOUNCEMENTS. For Tax Receiver. 1 announce myseir a candidate for th* oMe* of TAX RECEIVER at the election to be held on the ate last. auT td* F. O. WIlKINS. To the Voters of Muscogee TAX RECEIVES. I have endeav ored to satv* you faithfully ta tbs past, and lr you should do m* tha bttdaoes to eloot me, I win not disappoint you ta tha fitter*. Election Tuesday, August ttth, 1877. sue td* JORDAN L. HOWELL For Tax Receiver. a-^sr- Tha many Mandi of F. A. JEPSON 8=53 respectfully announce his name for Tax Bxcbivbb, and earnestly sollelt the sup port of his lollow-oltlcens. Election Tuesday, August 24th. sue td* For Tax Receiver. Isnaouaee myself a candid at. for th* ofllo* of TAX RECEIVER to fill th* uaeeptred term of my father. Election Tuesday, nth of August, aua td* JA8. T. THWEATT, onds. _ of th* ntw liana, with an rued Interest slue* April 1st. Coapoua, April and Oatqbcr, re sale) U $5,000. I WISH TO BORROW FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS oa fire years' time, at a low ref. of Interest Security as good aa United States bonds. Address auS4t POST OFFICE BOX I Each wt-ck to Agent.. tout Imottlalf received. ... tlculan fre«. J. W ortti A >* Good# 81 )ple. 10.08 d*'Terms | herel.P#p tttt.X«ll c North and South Orrioa or Noetb A Sours . Columbus, Oa.. Augaai TTNDEB and In pursuance of U sued from th* Executive Depart: the State of Oeorgla, on the 24th day 1277, wll b* sold, to th* hlgSmt bidder, llo outer*, at tbt Depot ol th* North At South between the hoars of 10 o’oloefc ▲ v and 1 o'eloek p m, the following property, lo wit: All the Property of the North «l South RdII* The Charter or tal right, aid fr.nchUe. all of whioh has bean or said Baad, with of Ita •» 4WWU, HMD Ml VI SMI (Tom Columbia to Romo, IXVIH UVIHIBVVI W BVIBVi surveyed, amd AbootM mil** graded, 20 mile* laid with >!T" rail, M mtondi per yard, now In op.ration (gang* » '••til 1.442 feat turnouts, 2 depot building., * remits, i looomoUre and equipment, 1 first- •ankAUa _ master's tools (10 hands), 4'oar bumpers'1 oil tank, 2 hasting stores, 1 engineer', box for 1 water buoket, dipper ind week pen, 1 wash- stand, 1 common pin* wardrobe, * common Ohalri, i letter press, 2 offles dtsks, a paper file*. 1 Faltbank't real**, 1 vlaa, 1 Iron safe (•eoond-hand), undivided half ol lot aa Floyd county, ea., 100 sores. Said sal* to be aa J isde Tor cash or In bewdlof , . bonds of the Company en dorsed In behalf ortho State under th* aa thor ny of th* act approved Oct, SAIXTC, WM. REDD, Ja. ':g*nt or the State of Georgia. ISON, Auctioneer. augloawtw J O. S. HARRI SYRUP BARBELS! W* have juat received on consignment BOO A No. I Of different gradsi et bottom priis*. Forfor- thar particulars address SHAM CENTRAL HOTEL, Hot Spring*! Ark. NBRT-CLABR IE EVERT REXPECT ■ roof, supplied front mhSTdim o- BAL vj&atb,
