About Columbus daily enquirer. (Columbus, Ga.) 1874-1877 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 24, 1877)
Jliiilg gmjttitet. 4'«»I,IIMHIIN. UA. t FRIDAY AUGUSTS*, 1877. LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION! AND MURE TUAN TWICE THE LARGEST AGGREGATE CIRCULATION I Evans, the English jookey, rodo throe of the four winning horses at Saratoga, laat Saturday. A malicious striker says of Beeoher that perhapa he can lire on ninety oenta a day and free lore. (Jen. Beatty asserts there are 20,000 Bepnblioans who will not vote for the State Bepnblioan ticket. Not one Teasel of the merohant service of the United States haa ever passed through the Sues Canal. The debt of New York oity amounts to (181,987,450, less the amount held by the prisoner in Ludlow street. Gov. Thbooeiiobtoh of Tessa thinks It will be the polioy of the South to re-eleot Speaker Randall to offloe. Ir Morton abonld die—what then? A Senator would have to be appointed. Who? The Demooratio party of Indiana says Daniel W. Toorheea. Two thousand free thinkers at Roches ter are endeavoring to straighten out things. It is said to be the largest con vention of the kind ever assembled. It is rather worthy of note that when the Mayor of Soranton, Pennsylvania, summoned e posse comitntus to maintain law and order and snppress the riot which was raging in that city, he pleeed at the head of it “Lieutenant Browne, an old Confederate soldier.” This riot was sup. pressed. It is said that when Mr. Hayes drove into Bonnington, Vt., on Wednesday af. ternoon, he found the dead walls and feuoes of that historio town plastered over with big posters, displaying these words - ° | FRAUD TRIUMPHANT. • EIOBT TO SEVEN. • Mmb. Adelina Patti has paid M. Esou dier, manager of the Italian Theatre in Paris, 100,000f. as forfeit for the breach of engagement. Bbe haa also telegraphed to M. StrakoBoh, of New York, to say that she aooepted bia proposals for the United States—namely, 10,000f. for eaoh per formance and a benefit; fifty-one per formanees guaranteed at more than half a million frauoa. Thomas A. Hoott, President of the Pennsylvania, railroad, has issued a cir cular in which be Btatea that parties hav ing claims for goods destroyed by mob and riot on the promises of the Pennsyl vania Railroad Company, in the oity of Pittsburg, Allegheny county, Pennsylva nia, on July 21 and 22, 1877, are notified that if their claims are made out accord ing to directions, wbiob he gives at length, and forwarded to him, they will be examiued and put into shape and pre sented by counsel to the proper authori ties of said oounties, without expense to tho claimant, the said oounty beiug re sponsible to the owners of said goods for suob loss. If it should be necessary to iustituto suit against the oounty, snob suit will be proseouted by eounsel without oharge, upon the execution of the proper power of attorney for that purpose, form of wbiob will be furnished. situ on'exhibition. Mr. Hayes continues to show himself and Cabinet to the New Englanders, and they all uuite in making the silliest speeoheB that ever were inflioted upon American audienoes. They keep night editors in a fever of desperation to deci pher their meaning. The press agent tel egraphed a good thing yesterday. It was that Hayes A Co. wore “quoting Soripture like tho devil." They are, too. The leader of the band and Mr. Key have both triod their hands on Boriptural passages, and failed signally. Mr. Hayes made an awful blunder of it in bis New Hampshire speeches. Tho devil oan beat him at that business, for Satan would memorize a passage or two for the asks of appearanoes. The obief attraction in the menagerie ap pears to bo Mr. Key. Mr. Hayes always shows him off as the “erring brother,” “repentant rebel" and “vilest sinner," who really “voted against me last Novem ber," and soon will beoome a good Re publican. Then Mr. Key is trotted out, and very humbly and meekly eats his orow, and instead of speaking like a man, proud of his manhood, section and oountry, he shuffles, misrepre sents the oause he fought for, and cringes like a whipped spauiel. He admits he was au “erring brother," a vile sinnet that might return and a repentant rebel.' In not one single instanoe has he spoken the sentiment of tbo South, whioh is loy alty to the Constitution. There has been nothing of wbiob to repent. The South has not admitted nor will ahe ever admit she was wrong, but having aooepted the situation, she means to keep her faith in true and proud allegiauoe. She aooepts a placo not os a suppliant, not aa one who has erred, but as equal and tho peer of any. Mr. Key is making a very silly ex hibition of himself. By his talk he rep resents nothing and nobody. Tha speoohes of the whole crowd are like those of little school boys. There is too much talk and too little in it They bad better oomo home. The animals have been shown. Mr. Key has seen New Hampshire. He had better subside now. It is really funny, though. The people all look at the show; then they feed the animals; then they want to hear 'em roar ; Mr. llayes oomea to the frout and tells them to look at him (they have been doing bo for hours, especially the boys), and thou he oalls out his repentant rebel and the rest in turn, and they all tell how pretty New Hampshire is , how glad tboy are to see everybody, and they must olose the chasm and stop all the past foolish ness. All having finished their perform ance, they are ridden around and put in their little beds What a farce it all is! The procession draws as larga a crowd as Jh. otroua. POLLliUE TITLE* TOO CHEAP. ’ Not long since we notiood a paragraph going tho rounds in Georgia, end thou floating all over the country, that some college in our State, probably the Uni versity at Athens, had conferred the de gree of A. B. upon Gen. A. It. Lawton. The paragraph waa very amusing when tbs slightest reflection is given it. In our oolleges when a student has finished tho prescribed regular course and graduated he is always given thin degreo. The let ters merely stand for Bsobelor of Arts, and is the beginning of the grade of dis tinctions. The ides of bestowing this on so distinguished s gentleman as Gen. Lawton was faroioal, and we naturally supposed it was his non who had just com pleted his allotted studies at Athens and had been given the award wbiob be bad won by graduation. The paragraph fnruishes a theme for a lecture, and that is eollege honors, so- called, have become so frequent thst they have oeased to be distinctions. Every village now boasts several of these titled dignitaries, and tho larger towns are full of them. We believe the rule with most of tho institutions wbioh have regular courses is to give the degree of A. B., Bachelor of Arts, to full graduates on Commencement day, and three years thereafter, especially if it is applied for, that of A. M., Master of Arts. We find few, however, sporting these. They wail to obtain those of larger sound before air ing them in the oommunity. These, loo, are given on the slightest provocation. Why, almost every leading ohuroh in the land has a D. D. as its pastor. They are aa abundant as pig traoks in the western country, or a darkey's smiles. Originally intended as distinctions, they have beoome snob an every day business aa to be de void of all merit. The term Dootor is so often heard that tho listener really does not know whether hia physi cian or minister is meant. So it is with the other titles. They ere sent ont annually by the thousands, and they are as little heeded aa that of Colonel, which ia applied now to everybody—no matter whethor he ever had a swoni in bis hand or wore an epaulet. It would puzzle thousands who daily answer the eall to know why ho was no addressed. As John Pboniz, wo all remember, left San Fran cisco, he oalled ont from the departing steamer, “Good by, Colonel,” and two hundred men raised their hats and answer ed “Good by." We are sometimes inclined to think that the “Doolors” would answer tho same way. They certainly will if tho oolleges oontinue to flood the oountry so multitudinously. Even tho largor universities, though somewhat obary, are more plentious than they sbou'd bo with their titles whioh are really the ohenpest things on earth. The leading Amorioau universities ars free in giving them to men oooupying high posi tions. Gen. Grant tnnst bavo a busholful of them from LL. D. down. The degree of D. C. L. has lately been conferred on him by Oxford Universito, of England. He is a charming representative of a Doo tor of Civil Law. The only law he knows !b that of the bayonet—brute foroo. The groat osubo of this falao idea of to “sing belter skelter what nro intended aa literary distinctions in this oountry is thero are too mauy oolleges. Half of them are no more than high sobooln; yet badly endowed an they are, illy equipped and beggarly attended, they asnuino all tha privileges of the first universities of Europe, and fling tbo distinctions like banners on tho outer wall. If a combi nation oould be ofl'eotod by whioh tbo many oould he merged into one, the en dowments oombiued to plaoe one grand institution in a State in the highest plane of ednoation, one that oould employ the highest intelleets and profoumlest think ers, and furnish the librsrios sud appli ances that are necessary for an establish ment of the kind, then honors would not be qnile so easy. In the vast majority of osBes the degrees oonferred would have been won in the intellectual world by the reaipieuts. Georgia aloue has now three male oolleges, and last session in the reg ular oourse they did not uumber 400 stu dents. Alabama lias six with not more than 500 students. They throw around tho degrees of the higher order, however, and so thoy do everywhere. The praotioe is too aommon, and tbo titles too ohesp commodities. COLVHHIII PROSPERITY-THEN AND NOW. There ia one thing, among mauy others, that we especially admire about the Atlan- tese and that is Iheir admiration for their oity. They always laud it to the skies, and warmly mention its advauoemeut, and take a pride in extoling its sobiev- ments. The desire of all is to push nbead their town for whioh they feol such en thusiasm. How different those of Colum bus. They speak deprossiugly of the plaoe, and iustead of creating a bright pioture leave a dislike to the most enter- priziDg municipality iu Georgia. In the Georgia Convention Mr. Fontaine, the onlv one of our immediate delegation who resides in the corporation gratuitous ly informed Gen. Toombs, uocording to Mr. F'a own statement, that Columbus was more prosperous thirty yearn ago than now, and nearly as populous. Now this is published far and wide in a speech made by Gen. Toombs, given by that gentleman on the authority of a Columbus delegate, and of oourse prodoood a very disagreeable im pression of our little oity. Aooording to the statement published the town is rep reseated as having no more population than in 1845. The prejudice effeoted will be greater beoause the expression goes forth in the speech of a gentleman of suoh reputation that all his efforts are sought for end reed by nil oUsees. We have uo ides Mr. Fontaine intended his statement to have suoh an effeot—he only wished to aid General Toombs' argument—but it has aud will. The statement is entirely incorrect, as can be briefly shown. Thirty years ago (1847) the real estate was assessed at §1,883,825; now, spite of the depreda tion everywhere prevailing, at §3,826,700. That year Oolnmbua received 56,678 bales of ootton ; the present Beeson she has re ceived 72,245. Ootton is higher now than then, and provisions are about the same. Then Oolumbos had only one ootton fac tory, running about 2,000 9pindlee; now she is running 35,000 spindles and 1,000 looms, end ia six months will have in operation 55,000 spindles and 1,800 looms, and ounsome 18,000 bales of ootton an nually. The population, as has been nhowD in a communication published Wednesday, by offioial tables, has In the city alone to 1870 increased 83 per oent. and in the neighboring vil lages in Alabama quadrupled. Oar fac tories and banks now declare dividends, and are on a firm footing; then wild cats were common. Then little cotton came by the river—all went down stream; now nearly all oomes here. Our merchants generally have larger business then the few who were here then, and farmers sre beginning again to stand in good oredit. especially those who attend faithfully to their business. In the standing of her merchants, Columbus will compare with any eity. In considering the present, we leave ont of aoonont the immense losses in slaves, in life by the war and the mil lions bnrned by the Federate in 1865. Does not all this show a degree of pros perity, equalled by few and exoelied by none—a steady, onward, permanent prog ress ? Surely our delegate did not refleot upon suoh advances, and the actual con dition of affairs, if he was aware of them when be allowed Gen. Toombs to make Bnoh a statement, in the Convention, on bia authority. We venture the statement thst do plaoe has invested so much money iu in tore si improvements as Columbus siuoe the war—surely not in the Soa-h, Do not decry the piece. Let not, at least, our own citizens do it and especially our delegates. Follow the example of Atlanta—praise and do it heartily, for we have ranch to be proud of. Columbus has shown not the least indication of moving baokward. She goes slow, but is very sure. If her own people do not speak well of her, who will ? Ibelxnd sends 103 members to the House of Commons, 64 of whom repre sents 82 oounties, 2 Dublin University, and 37 represents 31 towns. These last thirty-one towns, whioh return more than one -third of the Irish member-, have only 58,953 eleotore, among a population of 882,146. uEimaiA hews. —Mrs. John M. Clarke of Atlanta is dead. —Montezuma has 43 business houses that advertise. —Rust is damaging ootton in Soreven and other connties. —Peaches dually sold as low as ten oenta a bushel in Atlanta late Saturday afternoon. —MessrB. Lowe 4 Uushin, of Buna Vis ta, shipped over 2,000 lbs dried peaohes last Monday. —Mies Mattie Callaway, of Maoon, and Mr. H. A. Riley, of Houston oounty, were married on the 21st. —The Spalding Greys have regained possession of their old flag presented to them before the war. —Mrs. Elizabeth Barnes, an aged lady and long a resident of Sohley county, died a few days ago. Aged 88 years. Baldwin oounty offers to pay tho ex- pesne of ibt own delegates to the Conven tion. All that has been obviated. Two immensely rioh blaok lead mines have been diaoovered iu Bartow oounty, on the Western Jt Atlantic Railroad. Mr. Uiohard Futral, an old resident of Griffin, died on Saturday night last at bis home iu that oity, in the sixty-seoond year of his age. —There are several fields in Marion oounty, on eaoh of whioh there areseversl acres, whioh will produoo fifty bushels of oorn per acre this year. Berrien oouuty contains six doctors, four lawyers, eight preaobers aud four hundred fiddlers, more or lesB.aud nine of this number are females. —About 11 o'olook ou Sunday night last tho servants’ house ou the premises of Mr. J. W. B. Calloway, in Madison, took fire, and iu less tbau an hour was totally destroyed. Fulton oounty returns aggregate property of all kinds at §18,929,797. The oounty has 96 lawyers, 77 physicians aud 17 doutists. City of Atlanta is valuod at $11,140,548. —A negro, Bill Taylor, sitting on the traok, n few hundrod yards from the jnno- tion at Maoon, was killed Wednesday by tho fust train from Columbus. It was dis covered he would not get up too late (o stop tho train. —Lieutenant Flipper, the eolored cadet reoently graduated at West Poiut, ar rived iu Maoon Monday and was met at tho train by a oarriage and escort. The oolorod troops think “he is a biger man than old Grant.” —Tho Pearson Pioneer says: “It is reliably asserted as a faot that, within the iimita of our sister county, Irwin, there is neither a lawyer, dootor nor Methodist preacher to be found, aud but one store, and yet ’tie said that the people are happy.” —A Constitution special, of tbs 22d, says: One Lnugfurd, a married man, attempted to commit a rapo on a little girl ten years of age, in Walker oounty. He whs detected, when he made bis es cape, stealing a horse. He was arrested in Dalton. —Col. 0. C. Jones, of Augusta, having deolined the obair to wbioh he was elect ed, instructions in natural philosophy will be given by Professors Charbonuier, White and Little, men of experience, learning and first-class abilities at the State University. —Superintendent W. H. Baker, of the sohoola of Chatham oounty, presents these statistics : No. teacher.—malo 21, fi-mnio 68 7S No. t>u|Hlnenrollod in city schools,white 2,167, oolo.od 1,031 * 3,174 In county school*—white 7S, colorod 832 910 Total number in all schools 4,081 Average number belonging 2.898 Average dally attendance 2,029 Per cont daily attendance 91 Number deaths... 8 —Three prisoners—Jaak Brown and Lem Ashley, n ’roes, sud Wm. Board, whito—sneoeodod iu ovei powering J. M. Biooks, jailor, ' i Cnthbert, and making their esoape fiom jail. After passing Brooks st the cell door they wore oon- fron 1 by b Iif H. B. Elder at the head of the stall way, whom they knocked down the steep flight of stsirs, breaking his right leg a few inoh s below the knee, and otherw' e bru'sing him. The prison ers immediately made for the Gormley branch and made good their esoape. Sheriff Smith offers a reward for their oaptnre. —Tho following oommittee was ap pointed at the Atlanta railroad meeting to arrange uniform freights: E. G. Gbid, general freight agent of the Seabor -d and lioanoke Railroad. George Nason, general freight agent of the Mobile and Montgomery Railroad. D. C. Morly, general freight agent of the New Orlerna, Jaokson and Great Northern Railroad. Sol Haas, general freight agent of the Richmond and Danville Railroad. J. S. Davent, general freight agent of the Port Royal Railroad. George K. Kuox, general freight agent of tho Nashville aud Obattauooga Rail road. —A few days ago one Mr. Self, for merly of White oonnty, was arrested and brought to the jail of Oberokee ooonty, to bo sent to North Carolina to answer s charge of mnrder in thst Stste. He wss for forty years Sheriff of White county, end in attempting to arrest a man, fol lowed him across the line, where he waa shot by one of the posse, oontrary to Self’s orders. —Dr. A. M. Walker, has just returned from his plantation in Sontbwest Georgia, and reports to the Maoon Telegraph that the crops throngh thst section are gener ally in s very bad condition. The oorn crop especially has been ont short about one-half by the terrible and protraoted drought through whioh thst Motion has passed. The doctor has been experiment ing with a little rye to see how it would yield in this portion of the Stste, and bia crop, notwithstanding tbs low latitude, gave a yield of twenty-five bushels to the sere. This is regarded ts a very extra ordinary orop for this seotion end plsees on the list of Southern Georgia produots another grain whieh may be profitably and easily raised. —Early Tuesday morning a fire waa disoovered in Maoon in the offloe of Dr. W. A. Greene, over the grooery store of J. F. Greer. It only bnrned in bis offloe. By it, says the Telegraph-Messenger, the Dootor looses his entire medioal library, which waa very valuable, consisting of an entire Bet of the Amerioan Journal of Medioal Soienee, sinoe its establishment over fifty veers ago, being the only entire set in the United States, exoept the pub lishers' file, and fifteen volumes of many other rare medioal journals of great in trinsic value, a flue sat of eneyolopediss, his sud his father’s diplomas, all of his medioal contributions to various journals end some of bis office furniture. He esti mates his loss at §2,000, but says it iB of a character that is irreparable. All the indications point to an inoendiary. Mr. Greer lost a little by water. —The Perry Home Journal has oolleot- ad the following faots in referenoe to the capitals of Georgia. “From the founding of the colony up to the time it felt into the hands of Ihe British, the seat of gov ernment was st Savannah. By procla mation of Gov. Wereat, the Legislature met at Augusta on the first Tuesday in January, 1740. The Stste wss afterwards overrun by the enemy, and Augusta was alternately in possession of the iBritish and Continental troops. August* was the normal seat of government, Qntil it was returned to Savarnah on the evaona- tion of that oity in 1783. In 1795 the Constitution fixed the Capital in Louis ville, in Jefferson county, from whioh plaoe it was removed to Milledgeville in 1804. Our readers can all remember its removal from Milledgeville to Atlanta in 1868. Milledgeville was the seat of gov ernment 64 years.” — Constitution: Fulton is the leading oounty of the State in taxable property. Chatham has heretofore led, and for a few years past Fulton and Chatham have pulled neok and neok. But this year’s returns in Chatham show a terrible fail ing off of §2,500,000 worth of property owing to the terrible soonrge of last year. The aggregate of all taxable prop erty in that oonnty now is in round num bers $17,000,000 Bibb has fallen behind laBt year's retnrns abont $1,000,000. Richmond has lost in figures only $170,- 000. Fulton is $600,000 behind her last year's reeord on the books. Rich mond has shown this year the smallest proportionate decrease in the State. It is ' aooording to itB population the riahest oounty in the State, if not in the South. With two- fifths lens population than Fulton, it re tnrns almost as mueh taxable property. Nearly all the tax books containing full returns from the oounties have been for warded to the Comptroller General. There is of course a general deorease on aooount of the great shrinkage in values. ALABAMA NEWS. —Sickness prevails to some extent in Troy. —Scarlet fever is raging in the upper part of Henry oonnty. —Talladega has its first Demooratio sheriff sinoe reconstruction. —The farmers in Pike oonnty are saving a great deal of good fodder. —Dr. John N. Kendall died at Benton last Saturday, aged about CO years. —The Opelika Library Association is a success. A good library is beiug fast ac cumulated. —Mrs. Sohott, of Maoon oonnty, has been carried to the Insane Asylnm at Tuscaloosa. —Willis Ligon, colored, brought the first bale of ootton to Tuskegee, and has done so for several years. —Paul Strobaoh, of Montgomery has beon appointed assignee of J. 8. Solo mon, bankrupt, of Troy. —The “Alabama Town and Land Asso ciation of Chicago” has bought 100,000 sores of land in Cullman Oonnty. —Troy ia endeavoring to get op a mann- fsoturing enterprise by subscription. We trust the effort may be suooeBsful. —The Government work on the Coosa is progressing finely under the direction of Maj. McCalls and Lieut. Marshall. —Mr. T. C. DeLeon,of Mobile,has leas ed the Mobile theatre. He ia a well known manager, and has written several plays. —The Dixie Brass Band of Tnskegee have put in an application to play for the Grange Fair at Montgomeiy, in October. —Ninety-five ears loaded with freight came into Montgomery over the South 4 North Railroad on Tuesday and Tuesday night. —Iu July, 14 whites and 22 colored were interred in the Montgomery oeme- tery, and of the total 12 were non-resi dents. —Abont fifty bands are now engaged in grading the road to be bnilt between Elmore station on the S. 4 N. Railroad and Wetumpka. —Judge Cobb waa appointed a delegate from Alabama to the meeting of the Grand Chapter at Buffalo, N. Y., and left last week to be present. —Troy Messenger : The reports of sorry orops come from every direotion and con sequently the prospeot for trade in onr town this fall is not very promising. —Two persons from Clay oonnty were brought to Montgomery Wednesday by United State authoritiea, oharged with illioit distilling, and released on bail. —Young Evaus, oharged with killing the negro boy Hederson, gave bond in the Bum of one thousand dollars Wednes day in Montgomery and waa released from oustody. —Caterpillars have put in their appear ance in several portions of Henry county, obiefly on tho river. They have also ap peared in the blaok lands of Bnllook by the thousands, and are playing havoc with the top leaves and forms. —Near Claiborne Frank Crinsen, the notorious negro who had stirred np the late disturbances at Claiborne, was shot by a quiet, orderly negro whom be had as saulted about a dusky damsel. Theslayer surrendered himself and waa discharged. —Grand mother Sessions, of Spring Hill, in Pike oonnty, wss born Decem ber 22d, 1776, when Washington and his veterans were st Valley Forge. She ia consequently nearly 101 yean old, still she is able to get abont with surprising aotivity. —On Friday Mr. John O'Donnell attack ed Mr. J. H. Love of Dale oonnty, with firearms. He first diobsrged both charges from a oouble- barrel shot gun at Mr. Love and then fired upon him three times with a pistol, seven shots taking effeot, none of which proved to be fatal. The Kennedale Factory property, at Tufkaloosa, was sold st euotkin on last Monday, under a decree of the bankrupt oourt. The first bid was §20,000, snp from that it was run np to §30,800, at whieh it was knocked down to Col. N. N. Clements. Col. Clements represented a Tuskaloosa company. —The Mayor has appointed Messrs. J. R. Goldthwaite and James K. Murpbree delegates to represent the interests of Troy at the convention to assemble at Blount Springs in September. Messrs. W. H. Barnett and Ezekiel Hollis will represent the Interest of Pike oonnty un der the appointment of Jndge Jones. —Troy Messenger : The frnit orop has been very fine in this seotion this year. Quantities of peaches, nndried, have bean marketed here at from twenty to seventy- five oenta per bushel. Dried peaohes of good grade sre worth two dollars per bushel. Mr. M. J. Siesel shipped in one lot last week 1,500 pounds of peaches to New York. —A writer to the Wilcox Vindicator says of R. M. Reynolds, lets eolleotor of the port of Mobile: “A few days before the eleation of Morgen end Reynolds spoke to Ibe feedmou in Allenton. I wss not present, but I understand from those who heard the speaking that Reynold* waved the bloody shirt to such an extent that it would have made Morton and In- gersol (Bob) blush.” —On sn sere of piue laud at Alabama Furnace Mr. Joseph Smith raised a hun dred bushels of Irish potatoes. Before the potatoes were dug he planted oorn between the rows, and the oorn now gives promise of at least fifty bushels. The potatoes brought a dollar and a quarter a bushel. The corn, at fifty oenta a bush el,will bring twenty-five dollars. The crop from tho acre realizing at least an hun dred aud fifty dollars. This is equal to about three bales of ootton. —Wm. J. MaCslley, an old resident of Huntsville, was seriously stabbed Tuesday evening by John Ford, his brother-in-law. They were having a settlement of MoOal- ley’s wife's property in the Probate Oourt when MoCailey remarked that some one had told a lie, and thereupon Ford cut him three timeB. The parties stand high in the community. Ford has gone to the country and is not yet arrested. His friends, however, promise to have him in Huntsville for a preliminary examination. —N. Y. Herald, 19th, says: United States Attorney Mayer, of the Northern distriot of Alabama, is in Washington, and it is stated that his resignation hrs been requested. No information, however, oan be obtained at the Goneral’s offloe ou the subjeot, but it seems to be understood among a number of prominent Southern ers that a change will be made not only in the office of the United States Attor ney, but in that of the United States Mar shal also, whioh position is now filled by George Turner. Of eonrse no aotion will be taken until the return of the President and Attorney General Devons, now in New Hampshire. —A lady of LowndeBboro had been 1 missing her frnit, and resolved to look out for the thief. She armed herself, a few nights ago, “as the law direots, ” with a double-barrel shot gun, went into the orchard and found a well grown son of Afrioa up one of her trees stealing apples. With her faint and feeble voioe she spoke onto him, saying: “Come down out of that tree, sir ;” but he regarded not the feeble voioe, and stirred not. Suddenly another louder end stronger tone was beard from the mouth of the gun she carried, whioh brought him down beg ging her pardon, and offering all he had colleoted as a “ compromise. ” She marched him to headquarters and turned him over to the proper authoritiea. Tlic Channels of Exit From the human Bystem bear the same rela tion to It as sewers Jo to a city. They carry off tho waste, the rofuse whioh It 18 essential to remove la order to prevent disease. Ono of the most salutary clfeotB of Hostetter’s stom ach Hlttors Is to renew activity of tho bowels when those organs are derelict in their duty. The bilious and dyspeptto symptoms whioh ac company constipation are also remedied by this sterling alterative. Its gently oathartlo action has tho effect of removing Imparities which would otherwise poison the system, and Its tonlo inffucnoo ts exhibited In an lnorease In vital power. It renews appetite, soothes and Invigorates the nerves, prevents and rem- dles malarial favor, and is a first-rate remedy for despondenoy. COODS. AT COST! AT COST! :o: — We will sell our entire stock of SPRING AND SUMMER DRESS GOODS jsr ID BEL O’W OOS5T FOR CASH 1 ! , ■ ——:o: ■ " — Now is the Time to Buy, A§ we are determined to dispose of them. «<r Prices on all other Coods guaranteed. BLANCHARD <fc HILL. We have teoured the exclutiva control in this market of tho Celebrated “BON-TON” CORSET. IT 1H HADE WITH ANNOUNCEMENTS. For Tax Receiver. I announce myself a candidate for the office of TAX RECEIVER to fill the unexpired term, of my father. Election Tuesday, 28th or August, au8 td*JA8. T. THWEATT, For Tax Receiver. I nnnounoe myself a candidate for the office of TAX RECEIVER at the eleotion to be held on the 28th Inst. au7 td* F. G. WIL.KINS. To the Voters of Muscogee iKVgM* I am a candidate for the offloe of TAX RECEIVER. I have endeav ored to serve you faithfully in the past, and if you should do me the kindness to eleet me, I will not disappoint you In the ftiture. Eleotion Tuesday, August 28th, 1877. auP td*JORDAN L. HOWELL. FOR SALE AND RENT. For Rent on Reasonable Terms. now occupy, corner For syth and St. Clair streets. The House has seven rooms and, closets. Pantry and Kltchem connected with House; Stables for four norees; splendid Vegetable Garden and line front au23 tl . MARION ESTES. For Rent. rjy HE NICE LITTLE HOUSE just across the street east of St. Luke Church. auiS tl J. MARION ESTES. FOR RENT TO THE HICHEST BIDDER I F NOT previously Rented, O. S. Harrison will Rent, , on the premises, on Satur<‘ the 25th Instant, my STC HOUSE, No. 122, to the high- est bidder. HENSON t au!9 BB,wod&sat] WANTED. GOOD GENTLE BUGGY HORSE, suitable for ladles to drrve safely. Inquire at THIS OFFICE. Superior French Clasps! AND ' Fine Curved Side-Steels, BEAUTIFULLY EMBROIDERED, AND THE Most Serviceable*, CORSET IN THE MARKET. EVERY PAIR onds. of the new issue, with acrued Interest since April 1st. Coupons, April and October, re ceivable for Taxes and all other elty dues. JOHN BLACK MAR. auio tf Broker. GRAND CENTRAL HOTEL, Hot Springs, Ark. FIRST-CLASS IN EVERT RESPECT This House has Uath-Iloome under eaine roof, supplied from the Hot Springs, mhZ7<16m °' B ^XSlKtSr Extra LONG WAIST, VERY STYLISH, Perfect Fitting, AND THE MOST C0MF0RTAB%$! CORSET . w ever sold. WARRANTED ! FOR -w ts? )A.XjZ] BY TB1E ork. Store, GORDON & CARGILL, 82 Broad Street. STRIKE FOR LOW PRICES! THE FLACE TO STRIKE FOR IS DRY GOODS STORE, S9 Broad Street. I offer for the next FIFTEEN DAYS my entire stock at lowest possible figures, to make room for an un usually large aud attractive line of Fall Goods. All Goods are marked down. Stock must be re duced. Clve me a call before buying. jy29 oodtf NX. JOSERH, EXTRA INDUCEMENTS! FOR THE NEXT THIRTY DAYS. I N ORDER to reduoe my atook aa mnch aa poaaible before repleniahing for the Fall Trade, I will, for the next thirty days, sell BLACK GRENADINES at New York Coat; COLORED GRENADINES at half New York Coat; PARASOLS and FANS at New York Coat; Speolal Bargelna In LINEN TOWELS, from lOo. upwards; All-Silk Groes-Grain RIBBONS from 5o. upwards, and a GENERAL REDUCTION IN THE PRICE OF ALL OTHER GOODR ^ Call at once and secure Bargains. ootl codkwly J. ALBERT KIRVEN. BOOTS AND SHOE8. NEW SHOES —AT— The Old Shoe Store. FALL and WINTER STOCK Just Received I NEW AND ATTEACTIVB STYLES Gents’ Shoes, L 'FIFTH AVENUE" CONGRESS, Ladies & Misses’ Fine Shoes, Kid and Pebble Button Side Lace AND A large lot of Ladles’ KID FOXED BUT TON SHOES—Very Stylish—at *2.35 to *3, Tho best Misses’ PROTECTION-TOE SCHOOL SHOES ever offered In this market. An extra large stock of BROGAN St* PLOW SHOE*. KIP BOOTS, WOMEN’S PLOW SHOES, dc., for Farmers. Onr stock for the WHOLE SALE TltADE is being dally received, and In quantity, quality and prices Is unsurpassed In tho city. Wo Invite the attention of Coun try Merchants. 4®* For anything you want In the Shoe and Leather Lino, at bottom prices, call at No. 73 Broad Street, (Sign of the Big Bool.) WELLS & CURTIS. sep80 tf DENTISTRY. DR. J. M-. MASON, D. D. S., Cfflcj Over Enquirex-8tin Office, COLUMBUS, GA., C URES Dlfl.ascd Gnml and other diieaaM of tha Month; care. AbamMd Teeth; lnaerta Artificial Teeth; fill. Teeth with Odd, or oheapor material ir dealred, All work at reasonable price* and guaran- aed. film illyAwOm Atlantic Coast Line Passenger Routes TO ALL POINTS NORTH and EAST Reorganized for tho summer of 1877. Present tho following attractive Lines to the attention of all North-bound Tourists aud Travelers: Route No. 1—All Rail. Via Macon, Augusta, Wilmington and Rich mond. 43 Hours 25 minutes Columbus to New York. Tkis being 4 Hours Quicker Time thau by any oilier Line. Solid Day Trains from Columbus to Augusta, with Pullman Sleeping Car attached at Macon lor Wilmington. Through train Wilmington to Rich mond and New York, a Sleeti*- ** ‘ “ mond l ALL CHANGES at SEASONABLE HOURS and into CLEAN and PROPERLY VENTILATED CARS. Route No. 2—Bay Line. Over the same Lines to Wilmington as by Route No. l. Thence by Through Train to Portsmouth, Va. Thence at 6:4U v u dally (except Sunday) by the magnificent Stoamers ot the Bay Lino to Baltimore. Thence by Now York Express—arriving in New York at 2:06 r m. A 61 hours run, only 7 hours In excess of all rail time, with tbo advantage of undisturbed night's rost, and superior accommodations on tho Uhesapoake Bay. Route No. 3-The Old Do minion Line. The same Lines to Wilmington and Ports mouth as Routes 1 and 2. Thence on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays at 6 4<J p m by tho magniheent side-wheel Steamships of tho Old Dominion Company, whioh iuvariably arrive at tholr New York wharves by 9 p u. A through run of &y hours, combining the es sential elements of cheapness, speed and com fort- Passengers should leavo Columbus Sundays, Tuesdays and Fridays to oonneot closely with this Line. For Tickets, Checks, Tlme-oards, and all In formation, apply to W II WILLIAMS, Tloket Agont, at Passenger Depot, Southwestern Railroad. A POPE, General Passenger Agent. J H WHITE, Southern Passenger AK ent * R E AD THIS! FAMILY "RIGHTS” for the use of Davenport’s Preserving Balm Ur the prepared Fluid, for sale by
