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DAILY ENQUIRER-SUN: COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 6. 1877.1
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THURSDAY SEPTEMBER C, 1877.
LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION!
AND MORE THAR
TWICE THE LARGEST
AGGREGATE CIRCULATION I
Bbiohim Youno wu Interred at Balt
Lake City Banda? with great pomp.
Hoeheater Dtmoorat: "It la time that
Gen. Howard threw away hie foolish seta-
plea and oalled for tho polioe."
Mtnanu. Biztna, instead of playing
the part of Osman Pasha at Plevna, is
quietly residing at Geneva, Bwitzerland.
Mississippi's expenses noder Demo,
oratio rale were only $464,666, as against
91*064,882 under Badlonl misrule the
year before.
SnuToa Oann Darn oonreyed himself
npon one of his farm soales the other day,
and was weighed. The beam tilted at
322} pounds.
Trxsx hare Just arrived at Philadel
phia for the Zoologloal Garden three
Arabian sheep, the first of the breed
sror brought to this oountry.
SsnaToa Mobtom is said to be not at all
a wealthy man, being the possessor of
only about $24,000. He haa norer been
extravagant, nor a money maker.
A tombstone with a six shooter en
graved on it is to be erected to the mem
ory of one Tom Burns, who was killed in
the Choctaw Nation last month. The
Fort Bmith (Ark.) Independent surmises
that a six-shooter was probably the last
thing Tom saw, hence the novel design.
The Balt Lake telegram about the fu
neral of Brigham Young stated that in the
line of mourners wsa a brass band, among
other things, and tho family on foot.
Properly Ura. Young should have had a
earriage, but there are only about two
hundred hacks In Balt Lake, and some
body bad to walk.
The crop of oabbage is so enormous
this year that it does not pay the Long
Island farmers to bring them to market,
where they only got $1 a hundred, in
stead of $86t>10. The oabbage are con
sequently rotting in the field, and be
coming a horrid nuisanoe from their
smell.
The failure of tho ioe - manufacturing
enterprise of Senator Jones, of Nevada,
in Atlanta haa, by no means, dampened
that gsntloman’a ardor in the same direc
tion. He is having made a two bnndrod
and fifty horse power engine with an ioe
maoblne, made to bo nsod in supplying
New Orloans with the oooling substanoe.
They are now tolling that Judge Wost,
Hopublioan oandidate for Governor of
Ohio in ordor to divert $76,000 from the
Ohio, Wosleyan University, broko a will
which plaoed the property at a widow's
disposal and then married the widow. The
will haa never been disturbed, the Judge
says, and he never has used any of his
wife's money.
The fiftieth annual oonvention of the
national association of ohiof fire engineers
of the United Btatea met at Nashvillo
Tuesday. Forty-two ohiefs were present.
William Htookell, of Nashville, was elect
ed President. Henry A. Hills, of ltomr,
was eleolod recording and corresponding
Beoretary, and A. O. Hendrioks, of New
Haven, Treasurer.
Puor. Watson, of the Michigan Uni
versity, at Ann Arbor, Monday, an
nounced the discovery of another planet
of the oleventh stellar magnitude. Its
right ascension is twonty-three hours and
ten minutes, and ite declination 0 de
grees 46 minutes north. The daily mo
tion retrogrades 65 aeoonda of time in
right aaoenaion, and south one minute of
aro in deolination.
Philadelphia, now that the Governors
are gone or are about to go, has beoome
exoited over the little Ohio boy supposed
to be Charley lioas. A couple of thou
sand persfius Bunday escorted the ohild
to the Boss residence, and almost tore it
down in their oagerness to see him. Mr.
Boss declares the boy not to be his; but
bis neighbors insist that be is, and it is
not improbable that Mr. Boss may be
forced to take him to satisfy them. The
boy has been carried back to Ohio.
Simon Oambdon denies the statement
published in the New York Sun that he
prophesied the defeat of the Ohio Re
publicans this fall. He says that he dif
fers from the President rv to the expedi
ency of trying to run a ltepubllorn Ad
ministration with Domooratio officials,for
he thiuks tho effect will bo to make "a
solid Booth" with all that tho term im.
plies. If, however, the President should
snooeed in building up and strengthening
the Hopublioan party, and thus promote
the good of the oountry, he says ho shall
rejoioe with him.
The facta about General Meade’s sister,
whom Beoretary Bohurs turned out of
her olerksbip in the Pension Bureau, are
that she was one of Bixty women be found
on the rollB doing nothing but drawing
their pay—her only oapaoity being for
copying, where sho was not needed—and
that she is not destitute, nor even in
cramped ciroumstanoea. Mr. Bohurx's
dismissal of these sixty women, most of
whom were especial pets of Congress
men, was tho beginning of his troubles
with machine politicians. The President
sustains the Beoretary.
Uabd on Buebman.—The Republican
State Convention of Pennsylvania yester
day adopted a resolution demanding an
early repeal of tho legislation whioh de
monetized silvor, and established
almost gold standard, and favoring a
eoinago of tho dollar of 1798 and its re
storation to the position it held as a legal
tender for eighty years of our national
cxistenoe. This is dirootly against Bher-
man and his theories. The Pennsylva
nians desire the double standard of values.
The same oonvention gave a partial en
dorsement to Mr. Hayes.
uopr roH no iailmad *»im-
GEIHnATIOSS.
The business season opens moat oheer-
fully, and if there be no railroad discrim
inations the futuro promises to sustain
the most hopeful angaries. Columbus
has been more oppressed by monopolists
than any oity in Georgia. That railroads
bavo greatly benefittod our city, and that
in consequence of having outlets, speedy
and convenient to the markets of the
oountry, she has rapidly advanced in the
progress to wealth and importance,cannot
be denied; but it is equally true that she
has advanced in spite of the opposition
of a most oppressive and onerous dis
crimination. The indomitable will and
onergy of hot people have made her great
in her internal resources. If she pro
gresses as rapidly in manufacturing enter
prises in the next ten years as she has in
the past, she will have railroads seeking
her instead of exhausting her sub
stance in bollding connections with the
outside world. Columbus haa oonatruoted
three rallroads^mt in the process of time
they have passed Into the ownership of a
corporation whiob for several years has
been endeavoring to improve Alabama
towns at the expense of those on the West
ern Georgia border, which it would seem
was to its best interest to eoourage and
foster. We know the polloy was to extend
oonnectlona and push the Centra*
Railroad to the West—even to the Missis
sippi and strive to be tbo grand route of
the Southern Faoiflo line. In doing so
there was a hard fight at every competing
point, and the Central combination has
proved only a partial viotor. One season
cotton was oarriod from Montgomery to
Savannah for nothing, while from Colum
bus ninety cents per hnndred were exact
ed. The endeavor was to make Columbus
supply the dofialoenoy at Momgomery. All
can at onoe perceive tho immonse harm
done Columbus, and the justice of her
oomplainta regarding snob ruinous dis
crimination. Binoe tho same rule haa
prevailed and the only approaoh to fair
ness on the part of the Central Railroad
has been when as now the same rates are
demanded of Montgomery as Columbus.
Our merchants and business' men do not
complain of the charges, bnt they do most
bitterly of those great differences which
pull them down and raise up their rivalr.
The system of pooling, whioh main
tains fixed ratoa and prevents cutting
under at oompoting points, will aid the
Interior towns where a monopoly preva"s.
From this we can confidently expeot to
be plaoed on a parity with other towns,
and will prosper in proportion. A greater
reliance is upon tho faot that the new
Constitution is certain to be adopted, and
that allows the Legislature to fix nnifoim
rates proportioned to distanoe. The dis
criminations whioh have worked so muob
harm, woro they to ooour again would
foroe tbo Legislature to interfere.
Columbus for the season just dosed
consumed 10,746 bales of cotton, and the
prosont season, as the oapaoity of the mills
will be increased 20,000 spindles, will take
16,000 to 18,000. It would seem that a
corporation that looked into its own future
as well as tho material prosperity of the
Btato would most oheerfully grant advan
tages to a oity whioh has developed such
wonderful industry, and is making her
self bo internally great. It would be en
hancing tbo value of the trafflo along its
own line and encouraging a trade whioh
will add to its own wealth, and increase
population. Buoh has not boon tho ac
tion heretofore, but we believe now the
dark days are over, and surely plenty will
shed his beams over all.
Tna Govebnobbiiif.—Already tho jour
nals ore speaking of candidates for the
position of Govetnor of Georgia. Hon.
Thomas Hardeman appears to bo adopt -
ing the mode pursued by Governor Col
quitt, by beooming President of the
Georgia Agricultural Booiety. Hon. J.
H. Jamos takes the example of Governor
Bmith, and is reaohing for tho high posi
tion through a Legislative reputation.
We have thought it would show a
proud and jest appreciation of Gen.
Toombs as to elevate him to the obief
executorship, that he might oarry out
the provisions of tho Constitution, the
most important features of whloi; are of
his own framing. In point of intellect
he has not a peer in the Btate, aud
though otton rash in speech, in oonnael
his notions are governed by Wisdom,
Justioe and Moderation. It would be
a fitting and appropriate tribute to make
him' the first Governor under *he new
Constitution.
*Osman Pasua.—They have decided he
is not Bazame. Now a Obioago paper
asser’s that it haa proof he is a Ohioago
man. He will be looated after awhllo
unless the Russians lick him out of his
boots. Then no corntiy will be desirous
of claiming him.
NORTH AND SOUTH.
From the report of the Commissioner
of the General Land Offioo it appears that
the Bontbern States have reooived the
following donations of land for the pur
pose of internal improvements:
AlaUaina a, ere,120
2.380,114
1,577.840
4,87V,149
2,895,180
Total to Southern State* 16,291,383
The donations to Northern States have
boen as follows:
■ NS. JULIA L REYES.
As we copied the original article from
the Constitution, it is only fair we should
oopy the following i
Quite reoently, under the caption of
“A Curious Case of Euthanasia,’’ we woro
led, by an article in theBt. Louis Globe-
Democrat, to make some very unjust and
ungenerous remarks with respect to the
death of Mrs. Julia L. Keyes, which took
place tu Florida, some weeks ago. We
had not seen the artiole in the Montgomery
Advertiser, upon whioh tbo Qlobe-Dem-
ocrai baaed its oomments, and what we
said was based wholly npon the oomraonts
of the Bt. Louis paper. Those oomments
are entirely at varianoe with the article in
the Advertiser upon whioh they are based.
It foltowa, therefore, that our editorial,
which was in some sort a synopsis of the
artiole in the Bt. Louis paper, was utterly
unfounded, and bad an appearance of
heartlssaness which, under the oircum-
stanoea, might well be mistakon for cruel
misrepresentation. We take sincere
pleasure, therefore, in publishing the
following latter whiob bears the signature
of two of the most eminent physicians of
Montgomery:
Montoomebt, Ala., Bept. I, 1877.
Bdite/s Constitution: Dr. J. 8. Keyes
and his wife, Mrs. Julia L. Keyes, whose
oonduct baa been oritioiaed in a recent
issue of your peper, and their large and
interesting family have been long and
favorably known in this community. We
do not speak extravagantly when we say,
that no one has ever whispered aught
against their good name in any of the re
lations of life. Cheerfulness under every
fate, loyalty and love to honor and to
eooh other sad congeniality of taste and
temper have been the recognized charac
teristics of the members of this truly re
markable family. One, who for many
years knew them in the relations of inti
mate personal friend and family physi
cian, has been frequently heard to say
that although fortune had not Bmiled
upon them with an abnndanoe of worldly
goods, they were blossed with content
ment, and were the happiest family he
had ever known.
When adversity was doing its worst all
up and down our land, the furrows of its
rude plowshare were never aeen upon the
brows of those who dwelt under the bum
ble roof of Dr. Keyes.
Under tbeso ciroumstanoea, you will
not be surprised to learn that your edi
torial of the 29th ult.. with rogard to tho
death of Mrs. Julia L. Keyes, has not
only laoerated the feelings of a deeply
afflicted and bereaved family, but has
exoited the astonishment and shooked the
sensibilities of all who knew the doctor
and bis beloved wife.
We do not impugn your motives, bnt
we do foel that unwittingly—we must
believe—you have plaoed an unfair and
unwarranted construction upon the letter
whioh you have notioed; and bavo thereby
inflicted a most grievous wound npon the
character and good name of the husband,
the memory of the wife and the feelings
of relatives and frlendB.
As is well known in this city, Mis.
Keyes has been suffering for a long time
with consumption, and for woeks, nay
months, there has boen no reasonable
hope of her reoovery.
We have written you under tbo inv
presslon that in view of the forogoing
considerations, and view, too, of a fair
construction—after more oareful exami
nation on your part—of the letter of Dr.
Keyes, you will be pleased not only to
publish the original letter, togethor with
a withdrawal of your editorial on tbo 29th
ult., but also, in justice to all ooncerned,
you will oheerfully do whatever may bo
in your powor to sootho the quivering
nerves and bind up the wounds whioh
have been laid baro and blooding by the
artiole of whioh we complain.
Very rospeotfully,
W. O. Baldwin, M. D.
J. B. Gaston, M. D.
We are permitted to make this extraot
from a letter of Dr. Keyes :
The Nooe, Calhoun Co., Fla., )
Friday, August 10, 1877. >
The shadow has fallen I At six o’olook
this morning Julia died. She might bavo
lived a few days longer, but I oonld not
get her to take any food exoopt cream for
several days and not enough stimulant—
not as muob all day es she should have
token at onoe. I talked with her about
dying; she said she had no fear of here
after—no dread only the pain of dying.
Bhe begged me to give her chloroform
when the time came and let her die ensy.
I bad just gone out into the yard, leaving
the girls making somo ohango in her
dress, whioh she insisted should be done.
When I returned, I found her strangling
with the muous. I tried to get her to
tako some stimulant, but‘she would not.
Bhe begged me to give her the ohloro-
form. To give it, I was afraid; to with
hold it, was to' see her slowly strangle.
When I found she would tBke nothing—
she begged us to let her die easy—I gave
her the bottle of chloroform. Bho
breathed a little of it; put a few dropH on
her handkerohief, then passed her hand
caressingly over my beard, gasped a few
times, and—a great shadow was over tho
house 1
Bhe longed so to be with little Mat. Bhe
seemed to forget, at times, that she had
any other dear ones gone before. We
buried her in the same enclosure with the
dear ohild Bhe loved so fondly. It is
beautiful, quiet spot between the two
lakes.
THE TERROR OF TEXAS.
A SHBEWD TALEEB—ONLY AFRAID OF THE
MOB—SOME HISTOBX OF HIMSELF—HIS
ATTEMPT TO EVADE PUBSUIT.
Florida...
Louisiana
Arkansas
Missouri
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Oregon
Illinois
Iowa
Michigan
Kansas
Ohio
Indiana
6,238.707
9.884.042
1 888.600
3,249,968
8,796,268
8 982,4B0
8,840,000
1,100.301
1.439.279
Total to Northern State. 44,378,783
Again, in the report of the Beoretary
of the Treasury made to the Senato Jan
uary 7, 1874, it is shown that from 1789
to 1873, the appropriations of money in
aid of tho construction of wagon roads,
railroada and oanala were as foilowB :
For the slxtoon Southern and tor-
dor States | 8,981,982 SO
For tho Northern States and Ter
ritories *7,028,782 79
Daring the same period the Beoretary'e
Faport shows that for other public works
the disproportion was nearly as groat,
being $11,619,086 66 for tbe border and
Bonthem Btatea, against $76,869,609 60
for the Northern Btatea and Territories.
A CLERGYMAN IN BAEKKIIPIGT.
THE BEV. M 3. OAHBOLL OWINO MOBE THAN
$100,000—TBT1NO TO SUSTAIN A CHCUOU
New York sun J
The ltev. T. Halstead Carroll, for merly
of the Lee Avonne and tbo Bedford
Avenne Ohnrohes, in Brooklyn, and who
is now paator of a Newbnrg church, has
filed a petition in volantary bankruptcy
in the United States eourt. The follow
ing are hie liabilities:
BROOKLYN.
Robert G. Anderson, 242 Fulton street, 59,000 00
Samuel Stewart R <’o,174 Fulton street 1,423 32
John Wood a Uo. 229 Fulton street 634 00
Foster Broth*rs,30e Fulton atreet 602 96
Fulton Bank, 861 Fulion street. 1.700 On
Uommerolel Bank.363 Fulton atreet.. 5,668,00
Meohanloa Bank, Fulton street, 001 aer
Montague- 3,696 42
George S. Llossy, 48K>ates avenue 2,600 110
Charles T. Corwin, 164 Naitau itroot.. 2,309 00
C. I). Rust 141 Quincy street 1,4*0 00
William U. Page,897 Grand avenuo 398 05
NSW YORK,
William H. Harbeek, 81 Baaver street 38,868 28
Manhattan Lite Ineuranoe Co. 158
Broadway,. 40,00000
Stophen W. lilake, 81 WeatTwonty-
•tith itreet 1.B7000
John U. and Kobart U. Culvert. 190
Front street 808 32
Elijah Alllger, 120 Broadway 0,000 00
list. Nat. Bank or the City of New
York 1.Q30 0-
Total $117,339 3g
The reason for the clergyman's indebt
edness, it ia thought, will be found to be
an' endeavor to oarry on the Bedford Ave
nue Church while pastor thereof. He
contributed of hit own money, and bor
rowed where he oould to pay expenses.
It was a very expensive edifice, heavily
mortgaged. This ohnrcb was at length
sold under tbe hammer. Mr. Robert An
dorran, the coofeotioner at Fulton and
Clinton (treat*, Brooklyn, aays that he
aotnally mortgaged rame of his own prop
erty to lead money to Mr. Carroll. He
was not muoh acquainted with Mr. Car-
roll, bat be anpporad all of God’s minis
ters were good men.
The creditors have been requested to
meet at the offloe of Register Little on
Monday.
Do not stupefy your Baby with Opium —A wiokod man killed bimaelf in the
or Morphia mixture*, but use Dr. Bull's lowest level of a Nevada mine, and the
ll*by Syrup, whioh ia always safe and re- account 1*J*: "Thus his alleged rani wa*
liable and never disappoints- 35 cents, I Rated over half • mile of transportation. "
Austin Letter in tho Ualveetou Nawi,]
A News reporter visited John Weoley
Hardin in the Austin jail, and moke* the
following report:
Tho prisoner begins to realise the pete
ils of hla sitnation, and ia wary and can-
tiona in replying to questions. He ia 26
years of age, very stoutly and rampsetly
bnilt, weighing about 160; height five
feet ten inehea, light hair and bend, and
intelligent. Being caked bow many mur
ders were charged against him, he said
there was a great deal of exaggeration
about that.
"What was your first trouble?”
“I don’t think it would be proper for
me to tell about my killing any one; but
my first trouble we* with the Yankee*
and the Btate polioe.”
"How many scrape* did you get into
in Kansas and the Indian Territory?”
"I had no trouble there. Read what
you have taken down, if yon please.”
Upon reading tbe foregoing to him, he
said he didn't want it to start off that
way; that it might appear I said I have
killed somebody. I don’t went to deny,
andl^don'twantto affirm. I’ve kilted any
body. Please dont,'atari in that way. No
I never had any trouble except in Texas.
"What were you doing in Comanche
when yon got in the trouble with WebbS?
"I wee in the stook business, and hod a
herd of 800 oattle gone to Kanaaa,and was
on tbe way there, in company with Jim
Taylor, my wife having gone to Ooman-
ohe, where I hod a father, J. G. Hardin,
and my mother and a brother, Joseph G.
Hardin, who was afterward killed by *
mob without any indiotmenta against him
anywhere. I went there on my business,
and had no idea of any trouble. But I
have never had any showing in Texas.
In tbs first place the Yankees and Btate
police got after me and tried to arrest me
without any warrant*. I never yet got
into any difficulty with legal offloera; It
waa always mobs or Yankees or State
police. I was at Oomanohe about three
weeks before the killing of Webb; was
pausing my time as plesaantly as possible,
not expeoting anything up to the hoar of
the Webb killing; and I think if I can get
tbe protection that the law should give
me 1 will oome olear of killing Webb, for
he fired the first shot.”
“Were you over tried ?”
"I never stood a trial In my life; never
bad a fair showing. When the Legisla
ture passed a law offering a reward for
me I heard of it immediately. I nevor
would have left Oomanohe exoopt for feer
of tho mob—knowing that my brother
aud relatives hod been hung by the mob.
I have never feared the law and do not
fear it yet, end am perfeotly willing to
stand tho law.”
In reply to questions numerous and di>
versified, the following replies were given,
the prisoner refusing to answer many of
tho reporter’s questions:
“I left Texts bofore tbe passage of
law offering a reward for my arrest,
was in Gainesville, Florida, when it was
pasaod. Whan I left Oomanohe I went to
Gonzales, passing through Austin on my
ronto. I was not in Austin when tbe
Fourtoonth Legislature was in session,
left the Btato from Gonzales, traveling
on horseback through New Iberia, ao-
oompanied by a friend. It ia not neeoa-
sary to mention hie name. From New
Iboria I went to New Orleans, and there
a mot my wife. As I was traveling I
wont by the name of Walker. From New
Orleans I went to Cedar Keys, Florida.
I had never been there before. I did not
know whether it waa a good plaoe to hide.
I went there for refuge from the mob. I
tad no idea then of leaving the United
States; thought I wonld go to England,
but I stopped at Gainesville, Florida.
There I bought oat a merchant named
Bam Barnett and went into the grocer; ■
business—crooeriee and liquors. No, I
nevor drank rnueh. I gold out there and
went to Jacksonville, Florida, taking
drove of cattle, expeoting to sell to the
bntobera. But there, seeing an opening;
for a hntcher, I set ap a shop and wen:
into the batcher business. I had oonsid
eruble money when I left Texas, I
ma ! led >u Jacksonville until I wps forced
to leave. I stayed there from July, 1876,
to July, 1876, when I was foroed to leave
by deteotives having found me out. Jaok-
sonvil'e was a big plaoe. It was a resort
for pet pie from the North, who go down
thoro to spend money. I found ont the
deteotiveB at the same time they fonnd
mo ont,and escaped before they could get
papeis from the Governor. My wife then
weet to some of her kinsfolks in the east
ern portion of Florida. I went to Eutaa
1», Alabama, and finding that my wife
had passed on with Gus Kennedy, I fol"
lowed her to her kinsfolks. There I re
mained ever since, in that portion of the
oountry, about fifty miles from Penaaoola.
I was following no partioular business. 1
thought it would not do to go into any
settled business, and was looking out for
some way of getting beyond pursuit.
Sometimes I oonoluded I would come
back.aud surrender, bnt waa afraid of the
mob, thinking I wonld not get the pro
tection of the law. I never have been in
Texas since 1874, and can prove it.
have not been anywhere exoept in Florida
end Alabama, and I do not know
anything about the murders they oharge
me with in that time. No, I wss not
baok in DeWitt oounty. I don't want to
say anything about tbe DeWitt oounty
mnrdor. Never helped to break a jail in
all my life, bnt I took legal prooeas and
got men out; bnt if a man WAS not a man
of honor I never helped him at all. I
never had anything to do with hone
thieves or robbers; I always avoided them
I had nothing to do with them in an;
shape or fashion. On the other hand,
have tried to bring thorn to juatioe.
oould name instances but don’t feel dis
posed. I don't know Longlay or any of
those parties; have no acquaintances of
that kind. They have done all manner of
crimes and than laid them on to me; but
I never had anytbiog to do with them,
always went on my own hook. No,
never waa the leader of any band, and
never wcb with sny large party, exoept to
lead a party down in DeWitt end Gon
zales, and that difflonlty was settled by
both parties signing a pledge that they
wonld lot the. matter alone end that
neither party would take
arms only for legal purposes, wbiou
agreement I have kept np to the
present hoar. I quelled that trouble
when I was at tbe head of one of the par
ties. I never helped mob any one; no one
was killed when we made that agreement.
Tho papore were signed peacefully, and
no odo waa murdered. When they ar
rested me the other day they kidnapped
ino and bad no papers. No paper was
shown me nntil I got to Montgomery. I
got out a writ of habeas oorpns there, bat
the Judge bad not nerve enough to stand
by tbe law, so they kept on to Texes with
mo. I havo never seen any indiotment;
don’t know what the charge* are. I think
they want mo for Comanobe. They have
said so. I am not afaid to go there, ex
oept from the mob It I can get pro
tection from the Governor against tbe
mob I am willing to go; more than will
ing to abide by the lew. I hope the Gov
ernor thoroughly understands the Co
manche mob. No, I never threatened
Senator Stephens or any. Representative;
nevor did it. When Stephen* had tbe
bill passed offering a reward for me, and
waa rasoared of bis life, Iwaa not here in
Ansi in, and wonld not have hurt him, for
I did not know anything against him in
r irticuiar. If I had wanted to hurt him
could have managed ram* plan to get
1 never threatened him. They
were ell false reports, or else he had e
guilty oonaoienoe.
I we* bom in Fannin oounty, Texes.
Lived in Trinity and was raised in that
oounty, in the town of Sumter. I was
bronght up under striot discipline. My
father died eboot a year ago. My mother
alive yet; but I have not heard from
her direct for three years. I don’t know
where she is. I went juatioe. I want to
be dealt with aooording to law. All I oak
is legal protection against mobs. The
charge against me in Gonzales oounty was
an attempt to mnrder a Btate polioe man.
ro named John Laskey. I hope the
>eople of Oomanohe oounty, knowing
tow badly I have been treated, trill give
me juatioe, and not be afraid to turn me
loose, aa I never undertook to revenge the
death of my mobbed brother.
Hardin refused to go into the particu
lars of the killing of Jack Helm end sever
al Btate polioemen and Yankee soldiers,
attributed to him, or to detail his connec
tion with the fend in DeWitt, or to admit
any of the murders in Ken*.* and else
where, whiob it is popularly believed he
oommitted.
There ere some seventy prisoners in the
Austin jail, and among them several very
desperate eriminala, as anxious to eaepe aa
Hardin oan be. Tbe oounty Judge haa
given notloe to the jailer that the oounty
would not pay a oent for guards, and aa
eseapea have been made horn the same
ail, it is not altogether improbable that
Hr. Hardin will yet have a ohanoe to get
at the Senator from Oomanohe.
AH HEIN WANTED,
A FOBTUEB OF ONI HUHDBBD AMD EIGHTY
MILLIONS LTINO ABOUND LOOSE.
A letter haa reoently been reoeived by
tbe Chief of Polioe at Denver from Lake
Addle, McLeod county, Minnesota, signed
by H. O. Giitner, asking for information
of his brother, Amos C. Giitner, whose
ireaenoe ia requited to prove a claim to
;he estate of his great-grandfather, said
to amount to abont $180,000,000, the
heirs having been advertised for by the
Government of Holland. He also for
wards a letter to be banded over to his
brother aa soon aa bis address ia ascer
tained, in which, after partlonlarizing
their relationship to Catherine Oanb Kate
Webber, the wife of John Franois Giit
ner, be informs him of there being other
heirs in Pennsylvania and New York city,
who bad met at Trenton,
N. J., and appointed their seoond
oousin, E. B. Humphrey, aa their
agent, and that a letter bad been reoeived
from him at Amsterdam, stating that be
had found everything oorreot, and that all
heirs muBt prove their indentity at onoe.
After regretting that a mutual 00-opera
tion between the respective families had
failed, he wishes lo know if h'l brother
will join him in scouring their share,
which be estimated to be about one twen.
ty-fifth of the whole amount, their being
abont twenty heire, including seven chil
dren of their great-grand-father. He
does not think there will be any trouble
in traoing their line, as tbe other branch
of the family have succeeded in bringing
the reoord down to their grend-fatner,
and urges Amoa to lose no time in 00m-
mnniosting, as a meeting of the heirs is
to be held in the Fall. It is (apposed
that the loat heir, if alive, will be heard
from, aa there are several residents of
Denver who remembered Amoa O. Giitner
and hia having engaged himself aa a mi
ner in Colorado some years ago.
A CARD.
* BEG leave to inform my frienda and the
. public generally that I have removed tem<
irarily to the Store next below Messrs, r
Norman’s Book Store, dlreotlv opposll
old stand, and am prepared to furnish i
THING WANTED IN THE DRUG LINE,
from Goods of the tiby best quality, i
low prices HOST. t'ARTEK*
septt eod3t
row SALE AND RENT.
FOR BENT.
rjYUE STORE HOUSE now
occupied by KadoUll A Lamb.
Possession given October let.'
Apply to
FOR RENT.
T HE Desirable Two-story
House on west side of
Troup street, near St. Paul
Church,now occupied by O. G.i
Holmes, Esq. Possession glv-|
en Dot. 1st.
>'Y to w. L. OLARK,
At M. A Q. KatlroA.1.
FOR RENT.
HE MUSCOGEE HOME
— HOTEL, containing six
teen rooms and all conveni
ences neoessary for a first-class
House.
Also, Store Rooms in Musoogee Home.
Apply to CHARLES COLEMAN.
auss lm
FOR RENT,
A N office and on*
Sleeping Room on seoond
floor of Georgia Home Build
ing. Also, Sleeping Rooms Ini
third story,which will be rent-l
*d ft* low as any In tho oity.
Apply to CHARLES OOLEMAN.
auM lm
For Rent.
fJlHE NICE LITTLE
HOUSE just across the street
east of St. Luke Churoh.
au28 tf J. MARION ESTES.
NOTICE.
T HE COPARTNERSHIP or A. A. BOYD
h CO. was dissolved on the 1st Instant by
ual consent. Parties Indebted to said firm
requested to make payment to
GIBSON & BOYD,
who are alone authorised to settle up the out
standing Indebtedness,
sepi Iw A. A. BOYD * CO.
DENTISTRY.
Dr. el. M. MASON, D. D. S.
Office Over Enquirer-Sun Office,
COLUMBUS, GA.,
C URES Diseased Gums and
other dlseasos of the Moui
cures Abscessed Teeth; lnsei
Artificial Teeth; fills Teeth with
ir material tf desired.
>nd
rebate
Johns Hopkins UN1YKMTY,
BALTIMOWE.
The Programme of Studlee for the year be
ginning Bept. 18, 1877, will be aeot on applies
tlon, jut. caw 4m
To Tax Payers of Muacoge
County.
T HE BOOKS are now open for OOLLEO
TION OF STATE AND OOUNTY TAX
ES (or tho yoar 1877. Prompt aeuiemenu are
required by law. D. A. ANDREWS,
Tax Collector.
Office in Georgia Home Building.
sepi codim
BANKING AND INSURANCE.
“The Best is the Cheapest!”
———————:o:
This Maxim applies with peculiar force to your
FIRE INSURANCE!!
PLACE YOUR RISKS WITH THE
RICH, PROMPT, RELIABLE
COMPANIES
We represent, and when Losses occur, you will surely by
Indemnified ;
LONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION,
HOME OF NEW YORK,
MOBILE UNDERWRITERS,
GEORGIA HOME.
Offloe In the CEORCIA HOME BUILDINC.
R. B. MURDOCH’S
INSURANCE AGENCY!
NO. 03 BROAD STREET,
Representing Fourteen Millions Dollars Capital I
Southern Mutual Insurance Company, Athens, Ca.
Phoenix Insurance Company, Hartford, Conn.
Manhattan Insurance Company, N. V.
Lancashire Insurance Company, Manchester, Ena.
BOCTHEUN MUTUAL roturnB FIFTY FEU OENT. premium to the insured and no
liability to polioy holders.
MANHATTAN WILL INSURE GIN HOUSES AT LOWEST RULING RATES,
■fir 825,000 deposited with the State at seourity for polloy holdtra.
AUK'illy *
Q. GUNBY JORDAN.
JOHN BLACKMAR.
JORDAN & BLACKMAR.
FIRE INSURANCE AGENTS,
:o:
Representing the Well-known, Responsible and Justly Popular Compands,
Commercial Union Assurance Company,
LONDON—Assets $19,351,671 02, Gold.
Westchester Insurance Company, N. Y.,
Assets 81,000,000, Cold,
Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company,
SAN FRANCISCO—The Most Popular Ins. Co. in the United State*.
:o:
All of theso Companies oheerfully deposit Bonds (U. S.) with the Slate Treasurer* to oompt
with the Georgia laws for protection of Policy lloldors.
Klsks reasonably rated, Policies wntton, Lobpos talrlv adjusted and promptly paid.
JG^ Applications for Insuronoo mado at elthor our Office, next to Telegraph office, or to G *
iUNBY JORDAN* Eagle A Phonlx Manufacturing Company’s Offioo, will reoelve prompt
attention. / Jyl 8m
WCIN HOUSE RISKS TAKEN.
INSURANCE DEPOSIT!
:0;
PROMPT COMPLIANCE WITH THE LAW
BY THE
Royal Insurance Company!
Of LIVERPOOL,
INIAHOME
AND THE
Of RICHMOND, VA.
B Y ACJT or the Legislature approved February 28th, 1877, all Fire Ineuranoe Oompanlei
doing buslueaB in this State are required to make a deposit or *26,000 In State or Georgia
or United States bonds with the Siato Treasurer, signifying their Intention of doing so bv
next Ootober. The ROYAL INSUKANOE COMPANY of Ldverpool, and the VIRGINIA
HOME INSURANCE COMPANY of lilohmond, Va., have already made the neceaiary de
posit with the Treasurer, botng fully six months ahoad of the time allowed by law, or three
months before that when they are required to signify tholr Intention.
Theso Companies, In the hands of the undersigned, are well known for their prompt, oarafnl
dealing, and ability to moot alt their obligations, anil tf Policy holders needed any further
guurantee, they have It now In the Doposlt so promptly mado.
f.be eodtf
D. F. WILLCOX, Agent.
I HAVE REMOVED MY STOCK TO
No. 158—under Rankin House,
Until my Stores are completed. Belnei desirous of r
duclne; the Stock, I shall offer
SPECIAL BARGAINS BORING THE EXT THIRTY DAYS!
apl5 eodsm JAS- A. LEWIS.
Notice to the Fnblie.
An Act to alter and amend an
act to change the place of
holding Legal Sales in the
County of Muscogee*
red and amended as to read as follt.. _.
Be it enacted, etc.. That in the county of Mus
oogee all sales by Shorlffs, Cons ta bio#, Exoou-
tors, Administrators, Guardians and Trustees
may be bold at any or tbe street oornors on
Broad street between Bryan and Crawford
streets, or at any bbqular auction house
between said streets, in the city of Columbus,
upon giving the legal notice designating tbe
time and plaoe of sale.
Section II. Repeals conflicting laws.
In compliance with above law the Sheriff's
sales of Musoogee oounty will be advertised
and held In futuro at the Auction House ol
Messrs. HIKSCH A HECHT, on tho oornor of
Broad and Crawford streets, in ttfe city or Co
lumbus. Administrators, Exocutors, and oth
ers advertising legal salos, will find it to tholr
Interest to hold them at the same place.
JACOB G. HU UK US,
flopHoodttt Sheriff Musoogee County.
V&PLA $100, $200, $500, $1,000,
'P'JV/q ALEX. FROTHINQUAM *
oo., Broken, Ho. 11 Wall itroot. Mew York,
make desirable lnvoetmenta In Hooke, whioh
frequently pay from fir* to twenty Urn** tho
amount Invested, stock* bought anti oarriod
*s long *• deelrod on depoelt of thro* par out.
Ekpl atory olronlan end weakly reporta aeot
• eotUeedly
Warm and White Sulphur
SPRINGS.
| ^ni ! i f i jffgg
ejwSSal
P ASSENGERS going to the Warm and
White Sulphur Springs will find It more
convenient and pleasant
YiatheM&MBailroail,
AM arrangements have been made to hav
HACKS meet every morning
and evening’s train.
WM. REDD, Jr.,
juB 3m Hnp’t.
onds.
E d*
of
m
April lit. Uonpone, April and October, re
ceivable for Taxoe and all other oity duel.
JOUN ULAi'HIAg.
•U10 tf Broker.
PRINTING
BOOK BINDING
OF
Every Description,
LOWEST PRICES I
THOMAS GILBERT,
43 Randolph St.
GBAUD CENTRAL HOTEL,
Hot Springs, Ark.
HB«T-CLm IM EVERY RE8FICT
This House haa Bath-Rooms under
same roof, supplied from the Hot Springs.
mh¥7dflm ^ BAU «Biaa.
W F. TICNER. Dontlat.
Ova* Mabon’i Untie Stokb, |
Randolph Street, Uolnmbui, Oa.