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COLUMBUS CHRISTMAS ENQUIRER: TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 25, 1877.
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COLUMBUS, OA.i
TUESDAY, DEC. 25, 1877.
LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION
AMB HOBE TIMS
TWICE THE URGEST AGGREGATE
CIBCUIiATIOIV!
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About half the Senate and House
are in New York cutting their eye
teeth.
The unclaimed dividends now
lying at the Bank of England
amount to £3,500,956.
The telephone has been successful
ly operated between Chicago and Co
lumbus, Ohio—375 miles.
The four judges of the Kentucky
court *of appeals weigh respectively
222, 220, 208, and 201 pounds.
At a recent fashionable toll in New
York all the dresses of the ladieswere
either white or cream color.
Bass, the brewer, is the largest con
tributor to the revenue of Great Bri
tain, averaging $5,000 for every work
ing day of the year.
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Tjie number of desertions from the
British army was last year 1,751, as a
result of which 1,740 soldiers were
committed to hard labor.
The Washington correspondent of
the Cincinnati Gazette intimates
that Mr. Hayes will veto any Texas
Pacific railroad bill that may pass.
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The Cincinnati Enquirer says that
the Republican party has failed, and
demands that Stanley Matthews be
appointed receiver to wind up its af
fairs.
Senators Edmunds and Thur
man, though bitter political enemies,
take “cold tea” out of the same
tumbler and are the best of friends
outside the Capitol.
The London Gardeners' Chronicle
says that a bunch of grapes from Lady
Charlevilie’s, Kings county, Ireland
24Jfivt long and 23 pounds 5 ounces in
eight, is the heaviest ever grown.
The jetties at South Pass have so
far cost $3,400,000, of which the
National Treasury has paid $500,000.
It will he some time beforeCapt. Eads
: gets his money back, according to
this.
A woman fifty-nine years old, with
. her .son, arrived in La Grange, Ore
gon, recently, having walked thither
from her home in Indiana. She car
ried a pack weighing seventy-five
pounds.
During Commodore Vanderbilt’s
last sickness a Mrs. Tufts directed the
old man to put four salt-cellars under
j the legs of his bed without the know-
rltfi U ^° ^ 1V ’ Yanderbilt, and they
, “Vould prove good health conductors.
The increase of our exports to for
eign jxirts of refined oil has been
steady and rapid for ten years. In
Isos 3,151,801 barrels were exported,
and in 1876, 7,097,416 barrels. It is
supposed that this export will reach
10.0(10,000 barrels in 1877.
A fascinating young American
lady recently married a Frenchman
with a title. After getting all her
money away from her he ran aw r ay
with her maid. She is now r support
ing herself by keeping a laundry in
London, managing her business ad
mirably, and employing between sev
enty and eighty women.
—■ Nashville American: Of course the
GorJBn-t ’onkhng difficulty Mould be
incomplete without a letter from W.
E. Chandler. Hence he hastens to
furnish it. Mr. Chandler is an excel
lent observer of affairs between gen
tlemen— occupies such an impartial
standpoint. Not being a gentleman
himself, be is wholly unbiased.
It appears from a Blue Book just
issued respecting ihe greatest cyclone
ami storm wave which visited certain
districts in Bengal on the morning of
the 1st of November, 1876, that the
total number of persons drowned was
90,000, and that the outbreak of chol
era which followed carried off 75,000,
making a total mortality of 165,000.
A State Convention, called to
consider and agree upon the best prac
ticable method of riding the State of
the many tramps and vagrants in
the various counties and cities of
Maryland, assembled in Baltimore
Thursday. A tout 150 delegates, con
sisting of many prominent and in
fluential gentlemen, were present.
Hon. Montgomery Blair was chosen
President.
— —
.Should Senator Patterson die, he
would certainly be succeeded by a
.Democrat, which would make the
Senate stand Republicans, 38; Demo
crats, 37, with Judge Davis counted
as Independent. Should the latter,
however, continue to vote with the
Democrats on all political decisions,
as lie has thus far almost invariably
done, the Senate would be equally
divided politically,and Vice President
Wheeler would have the casting
vote.
A Relative of Gen. Grant is re
ported as saying that theex-President
will remain abroad indefinitely, and
adding: “I am sure he will not
come back while the quarrel totween
-the party ami Hayes goes on. He
j^Vsn’twantto be mixed up in it.
til - °u may. make up your mind that
geijiilo there is conflict inside of the
^r epublican party here Grant will
keep abroad. * * 1 suspect he is
studying civil sendee administra
tion on the other side.”
The largest bell in the world is in
the temple of Clars, in Kioto, Japan.
Unlike the great bells in Pekin and
Moscow it is whole, and its tone is as
perfect and as sweet as when first sus-
l>ended. Where and by whom it was
cast is not known. Chinese and
Sanscrit characters completely cover
it, but they are not translatable by
Japanese scholars. It is twenty-four
feet high and sixteen inches thick at
the rim. It lias no clapper, but is
struck by a sort of wooden battering
ram on the outside.
The House Military Committee
lias addressed a letter to about 100
officers of the army representing all
branches of the service, asking for
oflfeial opinions as to the various
plans for consolidating stAflk, corps
; and regiments. A sharp redaction is
still contemplated by the Democrats
of the House, but the present circular
i to daniore partieulaily with the
of the consolidation
_ rtermaster, Commissary
■ Departments, and the tnuis-
uraMi to the War
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CHRISTMAS.
With all the cheer and brightness
of the glad holiday time, it comes
with the warm skies and plenteous
showers of spring. Under damp skies
all the quickening pulses of young
life die away. One feels as weak as
an unstarched outer garment. Fun
flashes for a moment on the glisten
ing rain drops, then hies away to
mingle with the grand flood that
beats remorselessly on the shores of
time. Thus may we learn the lesson
of humanity the season teaches. The
rain drop, clear and pure, comes from
the serener heavens. Warm and cold
produce it—the heated passions of
earth meeting the cooler breezes of
the upper skies. Tt is typical of the
little life we lead—one moment in
fusing the feelings of earth, another
the beatitude of heaven, happiness
followed by the deejiest gloom, im
pulse succeeding another as the shift
ing clouds. “Into each heart some
rain must fell, some days must be
dark and dreary.”
We do not mean to preach, for the
true instructor counts the bright
hours only. Christmas is the glad
dest time of all the glad new year.
Enjoy it to the utmost. Fill the bowl
and quaff to the joys that are past,
and quicken the anticipation of the
brightness that is to come. Make
life a gleesom holiday, gay with all
that existence can lend it, for sorrow
comes soon enough ;
‘So fill tlic can and fill tlie cup.
For (lie windy days of man
Are but dust that rises np
To be lightly laid again.’"'
Repining does no good. Grieving
does not remove the cause of offense.
Hearts are not playthings. The
sting cannot be extracted bj- regretful
words. So what’s the need of sad
ness. Keep the birth day of the
Christ child as one of gladness. Care
for the day, and let who will the
morrow. Like the gay flowers, be
brightest while the season lasts. The
winter comes soon enough with
wrinkled care. The motto of the
mirthful rest period should be
“Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call to-day his own ;
He who, secure within, can say,
‘To-morrow, do thy worst, for T have liv'd
to-day.’ ”
Independents in Georgia.—The
Northern Republicans and press
seem to derive great gratification
from the seeming increase of an In
dependent party in Georgia. Never
were they in greater error, and never
yet were they correct in their judg
ment regarding our State., Of Inde-*
pendents opposing the Democratic
party we have no such tjiing, or at
least nothing approaching opposition.
An Independent in Georgia is
simply a Democrat who refuses to
submit to machine politics. Most
frequently he is a better Democrat
and man than the one who has
received a put nomination. Were
he to say he was not a Democrat, or
that he was in favor of forming a new
party he would be beaten so badly he
would regret sadly ever starting the
race. Our Independents simply
mean they will not be controlled by
cliques. They are all the members
of the only party we know in Georgia
—the Democratic.
Georgia Election.—The procla
mation of the Governor is given in
this issue. The ratification of the
Constitution received 110,442, and
against ratification 40,947, being a
majority for the Constitution of 69,495.
For the location of the Capital the
vote was, for Atlanta 99,147, and for
Milledgeville 55,291, being a majority
for Atlanta of 43,946.
For the adoption of the homestead
the vote was, for the homestead of
1877 94,722, and for that of 1868 52,000,
being a majority for the homestead
of 1877, of 42,722.
Hence, Governor Colquitt proclaims
that the Constitution is adopted, t hat
Atlanta is to remain as the Capital of
Georgia, and the article adopted by
the Convention on the subject of the
homestead forms a part of the new
Constitution.
Mr. W. E. Chandler, of New
Hampshire, has published a state
ment that Sir. Hayes’ installation in
the Presidential office was brought
about by a specific bargain between
him and Southern members of Con
gress. The statement may be true ;
it has been repeatedly made and re
peatedly denied, before this, but there
are many who think the denials
weaker than the case calls for. But
what right has Mr. W. E. (.-handler
to complain ? He went to Florida
just as Senator, now Secretary Sher
man went to Louisiana, to secure
the fraudulent counting of the
votes of the State for Mr. Hayes. In
this he was successful. Mr. Hayes
teas counted in, and if Mr. Chandler
and a great many other who assisted
to bring about the result are not satis
fied, it is because their own fraud
yielded other fruits than were expect
ed of it. Criminals sometimes are too
successful for their own profit. Their
snares sometimes catch themselves.
If Mr. Chandler and his co-conspira
tors were not entirely sure of the man
whom they were putting in office last
winter, they ought not to have pushed
their conspiracy with such reckless
disregard of right and law.
At the Presidential reception in
New York, Friday night, Mrs. Hayes
was attired in a dress the groundwork
of which . was pearl-colored corded
silk. ThesJeeves and sides of. the
corsage were in the following style:
Down the front and rear, passing over
the shoulders, were two broad stripes
of silk, with a self-colored ground in
terwoven in narrow, zigzag stripes,
with dark-brown velvet. This was
headed by two rows of small shell
trimming in front. The entire front
and rear was of brown silk. In front
it was scalloped out on the edges, and
was decorated with a row of blue vel
vet buttons. The corsage was made
high in the neck, which was encir
cled by a thick point aquille lace and
scarf, fastened in front with a plain
Etruscan gold brooch. The sleeves
were long and coat-shaped—the
wrists, likcthecorsage, being trimmed
with tiny ruches of white tulle. The
skirt below the corsage, front and
rear, was composed of broad fluted
bands of velvet-striped silk, brought
down to rounded points in both
places. Behind the point ended in a
large bow of brown silk, lined with
blue. The remainder of the skirt and
train was pearl-colored, trimmed with
the velvet-stripped stuff, and deco
rated with small dark-blue bows.
Two rows of the trimming ran down
each side of the front, and these were
headed with broad, lustrous shells.
The bottom of the train was similarly
ornamented.
The Ohio Senatorsiiip.—In a let
ter to yesterday’s Cincinnati Enquirer
the Columbus, (O.,) correspondent of
that paper, after stating wliat he sup
poses to be the relative strength of
the Democratic candidates for the
United States Senate says:
“This estimate gives Pendleton, 37;
Ewing, 24; Morgan, 21; Hurd, 4;
Ward, 4; and Payne 3 votes, and
elects no one. It isn’t claimed, un
derstand, that this is the first ballot
or the second, either, for the compli
mentary votes may not be disposed of
in either; byt I think it is a very close
approximation to the vote when they
shall get down to their business.
More likely it will be the condition
of affairs toward the close of the first
evening’s meeting. Perhaps they
may adjourn witli such a result pend
ing.” t t
Ex-Senator Simon Cameron, who
has been in Washington for a day or
two, is exceedingly bitter in denun
ciation of the President. He is repre
sented as having said that Hayes’ in
gratitude toward his party is baser in
ever}’ essential than the policy of
John Tyler or Audrew Johnson
Simon says the latter was entitled to
respect for the honesty of his opin
ions and the vigor with which he de
fended them ; but that Hayes is drift
ing along in the current, having no
special aim or purpose, and has not
shown the force of statesmanship or
courage in any movement he lias yet
made. _
Caleb Cushing, after some years’
investigation, for which the Govern
ment paid him $5,000, discovered that
the Bank of England contains about
$12,000,000 in cash belonging to the
late Confederate Government.
The New York Mail has been in
formed that the absurd custom of
“beating” is of Irish origin.
Thf gross earnings of twenty-four
railroads for November, reported by
the Commercial and Financial
Chron icle, aggregate $7,425,125 against
$6,931,622 last year, showing a net
increase of $423,563. The same roads
for the year to November 30 report
gross earnings $71,847,141, a decrease
of $705,449. The heaviest increase is
that of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain
and Southern, $474,708, and the
Denver and Rio Grande, $266,582, or
over 60 per cent. The Central Paci
fic shows a loss .of $1,370,688, or about
8 per cent., the Chicago and Alton
$437,483, or 10 per cent., and the Tole
do, Peoria and Warsaw, $295,706, or
20 per cent. Nine companies report
their gross earnings for Octoberat$3,-
041461, an increase of $134,769 over
last year, or about 4 per cent. For
the ten months they were $7,070,-
130, showing a decrease since 1876 of
280,4-53.
The unpleasant publicity given to
the late important secret sessions of
Senate ending with the account of the
Conkling-Gordon matter gave rise to
much talk among Senators both in
and outside of the executive session
as to the propriety and expediency of
abandoning them altogether. Every
one knows that the so-called secret
sessions are for the most part a farce.
If anything is said or done of any
special interest, it is sure to be known
without much delay, and is generally
known in time for the morning
press.
A wonderful feat in engine build
ing was recently accomplished at the
Michigan Central Railroad shops at
Jackson. Two gangs of fourteen men
each began at 7 o’clock upon two sep
arate locomotives, the parts of which
had been previously laid to hand, and
“set up” the two machines, each
employing thousands of pieces, and
started them out of the yard under
steam in exactly two hours and fifty-
five minutes.
Castelar, the orator and ex-Presi-
dent of the Republic of Spain, has
been interviewed for the New York
Herald. He is fully of the opinion
that the Republic will be restored at
no distant day. He holds that the
Bourbon restoration is not a solution
of the problem. “Restorations have
never been definite solutions of politi
cal questions. At best they are but
make-shifts,” Alfonso reigns with
out the desire of any important sec
tion of the people.
Senator McDonald, of Indiana,
says that out of the thirty-six Demo
cratic Senators, only seven—Messrs.
Kernan, Eaton, Bayard, Davis, Hill,
Lamar and Saulsbury—will vote
againstthe silverbill. If Messrs. Hill,
Lamar and Davis, of West Virginia,
vote in accordance with the over
whelming sentiment of their respec
tive States, the Democratic opposi
tion M ould be confined to the four
Senators from the Middle and East
ern States.
Sob* or the M-Hrartrd Syndlcatf—
Maniple of Mberman'M Vnnwrapnlona
Warfare Acalnat the Sliver Bill.
Special Dispatch to the Cincinnati Enquirer.]
Washington, December 19.—Sec
retary Boutwell, who has been revis
ing the Statutes at the rate of $5,000
per year, submitted the results of his
labors to the Secretary of the Treas
ury to-day. To the new volume he
lias prefixed the Constitution, with
annotations referring to all Supreme
Court decisions, relating to any part
of the Constitution, and an index.
In the body of the book the verbal
alterations enacted by Congress have
been inserted in different type, with
marginal notes referring to the stat
ute authorizing the change. Margi
nal reference is made against every
section amended by Congress since
the Revised Statutes were adopted in
1873, designating the statute by
which the amendment was made;
and all decisions of the Supreme and
Circuit Courts bearing on any sections
of the Revised Statutes are also desig
nated by marginal notes. Boutwell
is now authorized under the law to
draw half his salary.
A Treasury official, M’ho has been
eighteen months in London repre
senting the Treasury in connection
with the Syndicate; and has just re
turned, recites a gloomy state of
affairs. The Treasury clerks have
been sent home, and all parties in the
Syndicate interest agree that funding
operations must stop. They attribute
it all to the agitation of the silver
question in Congress. He says the
syndicate people are of the unanimous
opinion that no more four per cent.
United States bonds can be sold in
Europe. He had been to Naples dur
ing his leave from London without
pay, and reports that some wealthy
investors he met are greatly excited
about the probabilities that United
States bonds, from which they derive
their income, will be repudiated.
This is a sample of the manner in
M’hicli John Sherman, through his
innate cussedness, attempts to dam
age our credit; unless, indeed, legisla
tion is in the interest of the bond
holders.
James B. Eads, of jetty fame, hav
ing accomplished the depth of twen
ty-two feet of water in the outlet of
the Mississippi, is on his way here to
collect his second half million, put
of which is to pay notes due in New
York next Tuesday. The Secretary
of War says he will not pay it until
he sends a committee down there to
examine and report, he not deeming
the report of the inspecting engineer
sufficient evidence upon which to
base his warrant for pay.
A Fancy of Worth’s is that of fin
ishing the back of basques with
loops made by tinning up the end
of each form separately. These loops
are very effective, are easily matte,
and take the place of more expensive
trimmings; flame basques have but
two loops, others have terns.—New
York Herald.
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BOXSirjUS I.AW.
■•a. Porter Iatm u the flMdlra—
The Aetloa Chari; Mates.
Uolumbus, Ga., Dec. 24,1877.
Hon. F. M. Brooks, Judge of Ordi-
dary, etc.:
Dear Sir—Some flays ago you
asked for my opinion in reference to
the homestead laws now of force, and
lately the Hon. J. F. C. Williams,
Ordinary of Harris county, has made
a similar request.
The Questions involved are as fol
lows : Whether there is any home
stead law now of force, and, if any,
what is it ?
Can the applicant have the benefit
of the old exemption, of fifty acres of
land, etc., as it existed before the
adoption of the Constitution of 1868?
. Can he have the benefit of the
Homestead under the Constitution of
1868?
Can he have the tonefit of the
Homestead under the Constitution of
1877?
Briefly I will reply as folloM’s:
1st. The old exemption of 50 acres
of land, etc., is still in full force, and
any one entitled to the benefits of it
can take it, and M’ill be protected as
against all debts, no matter M’hen con
tracted.
2d. The Homestead of 1868 is
still in force, and M’ill afford protec
tion, as to all debts contracted since
July, 1868, and before the 5th day of
December, 1877.
3d. The new Constitution was
adopted on the 5th of December, 1877,
and the Homestead under that Con
stitution, Mill be a protection only as
against debts contracted since the 5th
day of December, 1877.
These are plain and simple proposi
tions and can not be successfully con
troverted.
Nobody M’ill deny that the old ex
emption, of 50 acres of land, &c., is
still of foree, but ifthe applicant takes
the benefit of that, he can have
nothing more.
The homestead of 1868 is still of
force, as to all debts contracted before
the adoption of the new Constitution
and since July, 1868. The benefits of
that homestead are expressly reserved
in the new Constitution. The section
(7) in which that right is reserved,
reads as follows :
“Homesteads and exemptions of
personal property which have been
heretofore set apart by virtue of the
provisions ofthe existing Constitution
of this State, and in accordance with
the law’s for the enforcement thereof,
or which may to hereafter so set
apart, at any time,shall be and remain
valid as against all debts and liabili
ties existing at the time of the adop
tion of this Constitution, to the same
extent that they w ould have been had
the existing Constitution not been
revised.”
How a doubt can be raised upon
the construction of that section is be
yond my comprehension. AH the
right of homestead under the Consti
tution of 1868 remain exactly as they
would have been “had the said exist
ing Constitution not been revised.”
The result clearly is, that the appli
cant for homestead under the Consti
tution of 1SG8 is entitled to the same
and to the full amount allowed by
that Constitution, and this right will
continue so long as he may desire to
be protected as against debts contract
ed since July, 1868, and before the
adoption of the new Constitution, but
it will be no protection as against
debts contracted before July, 1868, or
since the 5tli of December, 1877.
And now what about the Constitu
tion of 1877, and what rights of home
stead are secured by that ?
It seems to me there is no room for
two opinions about it. The home
stead provided for in the new’ Consti
tution lias no bearing, on earth, upon
any debts except such as may be con
tracted after its adoption ; and as to
ail debts contracted before its adop-
tion it is simply null and void.
The courts have decided the home
stead provisions of the Constitution of
1868 to be null and void, as to all
debts contracted before its adoption ;
and, most clearly, the same ruling
must be applicable to the homestead
provisions in the new Constitution.
There ivas a long and spirited con
test in the Convention in fixing the
amount of the homestead. That be
ing done, the Convention adjourned.
At tlie next session some delegate
suggested that unless some remedy
should be provided there w’ould be no
homestead at all, as against existing
debts, except the “Pony Homestead”
—that the courts w’oukl declare the
new exemption of $1,600 to be null
and void, as they had done the one of
$3,000. The delegates at once saw’ the
difficulty, and for remedy the said
section 7 was introduced and adopt
ed; and but for that section, there
would have been no homestead pro
vision of force in the new Constitu
tion, as against debts existing at the
time of its adoption, except the old
homestead, of fifty acres of land, etc.,
etc.
And briefly allow me to recapitu
late :
First—When a party applies for the
old Pony Homestead he is entitled to
it, and it will be good as against all
debts, no matter when contracted.
Second—When one applies for a
homestead under the Constitution of
1868 he is entitled to the exemption
of $3,000, and it will be a protection
to him, as to all debts contracted
between July, 1868, and the 5th of
December, 1877, and as to no other
debts.
Third—When one applies for the
exemption of $1,600, under the new
Constitution, he is entitled to it, and
it will be a protection as to all debts
contracted since the 5th of December,
1877, but worth nothing to him as to
debts contracted before that time.
Porter Ingram.
The Conkling-Gordon affair
has received every variety of treat
ment from the press—abusive, sarcas
tic, humorous. Here are some speci
men verses from the Philadelphia
Times. They are entitled “Rumpus
Senatorum; or, The Escape from
Danger,” and are dedicated to the
Peace Society of the world:
“GothereyourselfP'the fiery Gordon roared.
Till alt the Senate trembled at the word;
And Conkling, bulging with imperial pride
“You are another!’’ “blisteringly" replied.
Then bloody thunder rumbled through the
air;
And, ghostlike, by one Conscript Father’s
chair.
Rose gallant Mosby, spoiling lor the fray.
With Sheridan but naif a mile away!
But blessed are the Peacemakers! The scene
Is quickly changed! With proud but smil
ing mien,
Conklin;
GEORGIA NEWa.
—Atlanta has four hotels and forty-
one boarding houses.
—Americus haa received to date
16,928 bales of cotton.
—A six-legged pig Is passing the
holidays in Thomasville.
—Maurice Daly and Cyrille Dion
have been through the State giving
billiard exhibitions.
—“The Devil’s Half Acre,” a well
known spot in Putnam county, is the
surveyeil centre of Georgia.
—Augusta, in the past eleven
months, has saved in city expenses
$38,000. Licenses have increased.
—Married, in Taltot county on the
13th, Mr. R. II. Turner and Miss
Lizzie Mahone. All of Talbot county.
—A negro in Taltot county w r as
killed last Friday on Mr. John Wil
lis’ plantation by being throw’ll from
a mole.
—Mrs. Dr. Turman, of Talbot coun
ty, last week had an arm, above the
wrist, broken by toing thrown from
a mule.
—Capt. C. E. Carnes, editor of the
Irwittton Southerner and appeal is
dead. He died last Wednesday at his
borne.
—The dw’elling house of Mr. Wash
Gaddis, of Lumpkin eonnty, was acci
dentally destroyed by fire a few days
ago.
—Judge Harkness contests the elec
tion of Capt. Grantland for Senator
in the 26th District on the usual
grounds.
—Mr. Chas. Smith, Sr., an aged
citizen of Talbot county, is dead.
This leaves only three pensioners of
the Mexican war in Taltot.
—Donan Johnston, colored, arrested
for the murder of E. F. Sweat, at
Steubenville, has been jailed on a
chain of circumstances reachingas far
back as 1876.
—The Macon Amateur Minstrels,
composed of city gentlemen, played
Friday night at Macon to an immense
house. Duff Claney proved inimita
ble as an actor.
—The Rome City Council have
passed an ordinance prohibiting
smoking in or about warehouses or
other places where cotton is stored
under a penalty of five dollars.
—Blind staggers of a very malig
nant type has broken out among the
horses and mules owned in the neigh
borhood of Social Circle, ' Walton
county, and has generally proven fa
tal.
—Mr. Benjamin Ivey, of Gibson,
Warren county, was fotally stabbed
by Graham McAuley. According to
the evidence Graham was simply re
pelling a ferocious attack upon him
self.
—A party of young ladies in Griffin,
after an exciting chase, caught a fine
coon the other night. There is noth
ing more demoralizing to a real bash
ful coon than a determined party of
girl hunters.
—The Rex ball at Atlanta will occur
on the night ofthe 9th, as the 6tli falls
on Sunday Preparations are on foot to
make it a memorable event in Atlanta
society. It will be given in new
Concordia hall.
—Mrs. LoulaK. Rogers,of Tliomas-
ton, a lady of remarkable talent, has
just been awarded the prize offered
by the Central Georgia Weekly for
the best .story. Mrs. Rogers had
tw’elve competitors.
—The Young Men’s Library Asso
ciation, of Atlanta, has expended du
ring the year for books no less than
twelve hundred dollars, and the libra
ry now has nearly seven thousand
volumes on its shelves.
—Mr, Thomas Spikes, of Pierce
county, met with an unfortunate ac
cident a few days since. While haul
ing saw-logs, one of the log-dogs be
came unfastened and dropped the log
across his legs, breaking both of them.
—While Tax Collector W. II. Mer
cer, of Webster county, n r as asleep,
his residence was entered on the
night of the 18th and robbed of $1,700
belonging to the State and county, a
gold M’atoh and all the jury script and
county orders.
—At a sale of personalty on the
Dozier place, in Talbot county, a cow
and calf sold for $4 50. Cotton seed
brought 12} cents per bushel; seed
cane, $1 per hundred; seed potatoes,
40c. per bushel, and eating potatoes
31c. per bushel.
—The corner stone of the A. M. E.
Church of Americus was opened by
some scoundrels on the night of the
19tli inst. and robbed of its contents.
The church had been dedicated but a
feM’ months ago, at which time the
corner stone was laid.
—The young men’s masquerade, to
be^jiven’at the opera house in Atlanta
on the evening of Monday, January
7th, M’ill be a very elegant affair. It
is to be manged by some of the best
young men of thecity,and will doubt-
leas be largely attended.
—A letter just received in Atlanta
by Dr. J. P. Logan from a druggist in
Binghamton, New York, announces
the death of young Dr. Aljen, from
an overdose of chloral. The deceased
was a son of Dr. Allen, an old and
respected citizen of Marietta.
—Four miles of the Augusta and
Greenwood Railroad have been grad
ed and made ready for the iron and
cross-ties. Convicts are worked to
advantage, and everything is going
on at as little expense and M’ith as
much dispatch as possible. This road
makes connection at Walton’s Island
with the road from Augusta.
—The Stone Mountain News says
that a little son of William Clark, col
ored, was out hunting last Friday,and,
after discharging the gun was reload
ing when his younger brother, M’ho
was putting on a cap, let the hammer
fall and the entire contents of the
gun were emptied into his abdomen.
At eight o’clock in the evening he
died.
—A Georgia member of Congress
disputes the conclusions arrived at by
the Administration as to the legisla
tive election in that State. About
eighty “Independents” were elected,
and this it was claimed was the re
sult of the President’s policy. He
says that there is another Georgia
member who is very anxious to raise
up a Hayes party, and it is probable
that he may have given color to the
views of the Administration. He
says that it has alM’avs been more or
less common for ^Independent candi
dates to run in Georgia, and that out
of all the Independents M’ho have just
been elected to the Legislature there
are probably not a half dozen who are
not pronounced Democrats, and many
of them of a more extreme type than
the regular candidates.
—TheHartM’ell Sun.says: “On last
sale day the old jail was sold; then
the lot on which it stood. ‘Old B.’
bought the lot, and theTovvn Council
had erected a neat calaboose on it,
which was not reserved M’hen the
lot was sold. ‘Old B.’ lias rented it
out for a confectionery. A few days
ago Marshal Dooley M’as seen crossing
the public square with his hands full
of halter chains. On being intesro-
gated he said Christinas was coming
and the town had no calaboose, and
he had bought the lot of chains to
halter the boys to the blackjack sap-
plings in the rear of the new jail.”
This reminds us of the series of reso
lutions passed by an Irish Town
Council in the old country: 1. Re
solved, That a new jail be erected on
the site of the present old jail. 2.
Resolved, That the material of the
old jail'be used as far as it may suit
for the building of the new jail. 3.
Resolved, That for the security of the
prisoners, the old jail be not pulled
down until the new jail has been
finished.
g and Gordon, see!—with measured
pace,
Advance to meet, unarmed, and to embrace.
Each, “You can kiss me,’’ in a whisper
speftks,
And to tbe other times both manly cheeks.
While all mankind rejoice that now the pair
Can simullaneousiy go together there!
The illustrated papers are prepar
ing to caricature Conkling and Gor
don, and have sent to Washington
for photographs of the two gentlemen.
“Mamma, where do the cows get
the milk?” asked Williet looking up
from the foaming pan of milk which
he had been intently regard
ing. “Where do you get
your tears?” was the an
swer. After a thouhgtful silence
he again) broke out: “Mamma, do
the cows have to be spanked?”
Dr. Toc^iamer says that the little
black specks on apples and oranges
are clusters of fringi, and that they
produeelwhooping cough.
ALABAMA NEWS.
—The Supreme Court has adjourned
to the 31st.
—The Troy Light Guards gisge an
elegant toll on the 26th.
—A. C. Hargrove’s ginhouse, in
Tuskaloosa county, and nine bales of
cotton were burned the 1st.
—From 114 turkeys and 228 pairs of
chickens a Marshall county lady has I
realized during the present year $616.
—Nearly every train from Troy
carries tM’enty or thirty emigrants
from the southern counties to Texas.
—The Baptist church at Troy has
invited Rev. A. P. Morris, of South
Carolina, to preach to them, and it is
thought he M’ill accept.
—After reserving three wagon loads
of seed cane from the product of a
half acre of land, Dr. R. E. Huey, of
Pike county, made three hundred
gallons of syrup from the remainder.
—Hester, of Sumter county, Ala.,
fame, turns up again as a detective
in the public timber business, and is
instituting suits to recover lumber,
logs and turpentine to the Govern
ment.
—It seems to be definitely settled
that Mr. Piilans, the Democratic
nominee for Mayor of Mobile, M'as
defeated by 37 votes, Duffee, the In
dependent, People’s, or M’hatever you
may call him, candidate beating him
by that majority. As there is a charge
of manipulation of returns in one of
the M’ards, an investigation by the
proper authorities is highly probable,
and the fact may be developed that
Piilans Mas elected. Mr. Sheffield,
tbe Democratic nominee for City As
sessor, M’as elected, but the Duffee
combination carried the other offices.
The straight-out Democrats, lioM'ever,
have an ovenvhelming majority in
both branches of the City Council,
and virtually control the city govern
ment for the next two years.
Report of Ihe Auditor of Alabama.
The report of Hon. Willis BreM’er,
State Auditor, for the fiscal year
ending October 1, 1877, is upon our
table. The revenue receipts for the
year have been $781,800, not inclusive
of school money paid by collectors in
the counties, and the disbursements
have been $682,591, leaving a balance
in the treasury of $153,955. The school
money paid out in the counties by
collectors amounted to $197,791. The
entire revenue receipts, therefore,
amounted to $979,592. This is a grat
ifying condition of the State finances.
It has been reached in the face of
contracted values, and a reduction of
half a. mill in the rate of taxation of
last year, and is due to the frugality
of Gov. Houston’s administration.
The Auditor informs us that the
improved condition of the State is
shown in her appreciation of the
funded liabilities. The 8 per cent,
obligations, known as Shite money,
are being absorbed as an investment
by citizens of Alabama, and the new
two and three per cent, bonds have
advanced in value at least twenty
per cent, within the past few months.
The State debt stands at present:
Old bonded debt $5,084,713 50
Debt since July, 1868 3,041,209 50
Railroad debt 1,-542,500 00
WASHINGTON.
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TURKO-RUSSIAN WAR.
WEST INDIES.
Washington, December 24— Pat
terson’s condition is not as favorable
as yesterday, but he is resting com
fortably. His friends say should he
recover, he will be confined to lus
room several weeks.
VICE CONSUL AT PENSACOLA.
The President recognized Thomas
C. Watson Vice Consul of Uruguay,
at Pensacola.
SENATOR PATTERSON IMPROVING.
Senator Patterson’s condition is
somewhat improved this morning.
The pain in his head, with M’hich he
M’as suffering yesterday, has left.
He is, however, very much M’eaker.
DEPARTMENTS CLOSED.
Washington, Dec-. 24.—All the
departments are closed. Secretary
Thompson has gone to Indiana’.
FROM THE RIO GRANDE.
The following M'as received at the
War Department this afternoon :
Chicago, Dec. 24.—Gen. Ed Town-
send:—The folloM’ing telegram from
Gen. Ord is forM'ardeil for the infor
mation of the General of the army:
P.H. Sheridan, Lieutenant-General:
Lieut. Ward who Mas sent to the Rio
Grande to find the trail of the horses
stolen and driven into Mexico on the
fifteenth inst., has just come in. The
Mexican troops got to the river on the
morning of the twentieth. Ward
showed the Mexican Lieutenant the
trail and at his invitation crossed his
men and joined the Mexican troops.
They folloM’ed the raid together all
day, going about twenty-five miles.
As it had rained heavily the trail M as
hard to follow, and another hard rain
setting in, they found it impossible to
follow it farther. The trail was left
about three miles from the nearest
town, and only six or eight miles
from M’here it crossed the river.
Ward says there was perfect good
feeling among the Mexican soldiers
and our own, and that tbe Lieutenant
offered to go with him any M'here.
He thought the horses could be
found. Signed Ord,
Brigadier-General.
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CONDITION IN CONSTANTINOPLE.
Special to Enquirer-Sun.}
London, December 23.—A Reuter’s
Constantinople’ dispatch says it is de
clared that the Porte is determined to
carry on the war to the last extrem
ity, should the request for mediation
fell. Mr. Layard, the British Am
bassador, has not yet received Lord
Derby’s reply to the Porte’s note.
Great distress prevails among the
poor of Constantinople. The
’ i lie Kiitr.
here
1 ‘“I'lees to t|„.
SI. Thomas and San
Hnytl.
■ Special to Enquirer-Sun.]
Havana, December 23
lish mail steamer has arrive,i .
from St. Thomas with •>.(• : 1< rt
15th inst.
The Floating Dock Coin,,.,,,,
Thomas has decided to « f , int,, . st -
dation, the income not beto’
cient to pay expenses. " lf!| -
Reports from San Doniiu-,, ,,
9th show that the rebellio,f|...., Iu "
been suppressed, and that m,,, i
and other outrages were still h'- eN
committed About 100 political S?
oners had been banished without nil
vious warning. One schooner e-n-ri •
prices
of provisions are rising in conse- ■---
quenee ofthe depreciation of the cur- tht“*n to Rio Hacha.
rency. Difficulties are feared, if the ! hayti
Total $9,668,423 00
Patton certificates 37,255 00
Grand total $9,705,678 00
The interest paid at present by the
State upon her debt is:
1. On >7,872,238 50 2 per cent $157,444 77
2. On $542,500 5 per cent 27,125 00
3. On $1,000,000 8 per cent 80,000 00
Total $264,569 77
The Auditor estimates the receipts
for the next year at $925,000, and the
disbursements at $852,752. The re
ceipts from licenses is estimated at
$60,000. If instead of the present un
fair and unequal system of liquor
licenses, some such system as that of
the Moffett Register could be adopted,
we would receive a much larger reve
nue from liquor traffic. In Virginia
it is thought that the Moffett Register
will bring in $500,000 revenue. In
this State, with one-fourth less popu
lation, we might fairly expect more
than $300,000 income from a similar
institution, or $240,000 more than we
now receive, and a corresponding re
duction of taxation to the extent of
tM’enty-five per cent.
The* poll tax is not collected as
carefully as it should be. The reve
nue from that source falls nearly $50-
000 behind that of last year. With
more than 200,000 voters it is singu
lar that the revenue from polls is only
$152,000.
The Register again calls attention
to the extravagant cost of feeding and
caring for prisoners. To feed prison
ers in the county jails costs the State
for the past year $76,096. This is an
improvement upon former years, but
still there is room for reform. The
county jails should be made self-sup
porting. If necessary the General
Assembly should send a commission
to examine the plans by M’hich the
Northern States relieve their people
of this great burthen.
’Tis the dulcet voice of a fair Iowa
girl, speaking to her noble brother,
M’ho has been out all night: “Nixy
Rocks, that stiffs too thin ; you see
1 am up to snuff"; you bet I am on
to the boys now, and you might as
M’ell cheese your racket about staying
up M’ith a sick friend. I heard about
your drinking three straights and a
whiskey sour at Bill Rye’s saloon,
and then went doM’n to old Bourbon’s
place and give him your finger for a
blue-blazer and a hot rum punch.
When you were playing fifteen-ball
pool with Ike Smith, didn’t you get
stuck for six-straight games and the
drinks, and stand him off for the
Mhole business? Oh! but you’re a
staver, and the first thing you know
you will have a bad case of the jims,
and then everybody about town M’ill
say you M’ere a pretty good fellow, but
too much of a kid to run with thor
oughbreds.”—Fairfield Democrat.
Indians in Utah.
Special to the Enquirer-Sun.]
Salt Lake, Utah, Dec. 24.—Col.
John E. Smith, commanding the 14th
infantry who was sent to Fort Hall,
Idaho, to investigate the threatened
war M’ith the Bannocks made a de
mand for the surrender of the Indian
M’ho murdered Alex Rhoilen at Ross
Fork. They promised to deliver him
but it is not*believed they will. The
Indians are well armed, M’ell
mounted and insolent and are thought
Mill make trouble in the Spring.
Shoe Strikers.
Special to Enquirer-Sun.]
Lynn, Dee. 24.—The labor troubles
in this city are increasing. The ope
ratives in the shoe mamifactury of
S. K. Hollis, Market street, struck.
The strikers, forty men, include the
M’hole shop’s crew. The cause is the
proposed reduction of wages. The
strikers are authorized in the action
by the Crispin Board of Arbitration.
The strike of testers at the shoe
manufactory of Kene Bros, caused
the whole shop’s creM-s, numbering
75, to lay idle. The strikers in the
city number 300.
Illinois Postmaster Arrested.
Special to Enquirer-Sun.]
St. Louis, December 24.—Buxton,
postmaster at Morrisonville, 111., was
arrested by special agent Williams
this morning for destroying mail
matter from St. Louis, Chicago and
Deeatur. Buxton is a merchant at
Morrisonville, as M’ell as postmaster.
He is said to be M’ell off". Drafts de
stroyed M*ere drawn on him by parties
here and elsewhere anil sent to the
Morrisonville bank for collection. He
confesseil destroying two letters con
taining drafts * for Shaunhorst &
Hochmann in this city. He M’as
taken io Springfield for examination
tofore the U. S. Commissioner.
Death of R. B. Parrott.
Poughkeepsie, December 24. —
Pobert B. Parrott, the inventor of the
Parrott Gun, died suddenly at the
Cold Springs this morning.*
Bobber; and Border lo Mew York.
Rochester, N. Y., December 24.—
Early yesterday morning three men
entered the house of George Mindle,
near Attica, knocked him down,
dragged out bis wife, aged 56 years,
abused aud murdered her. Two
have been arrested on suspicion.
MEXICO.
Cortina Attempt* to Organize a Revo-
Intion.
Matamoras, December 24.—A no
torious partisan of Cortina, named
Portual, M’ho some years since made
an attack on the police headquarters
and killed the chief of police and
M’ounded two others and escaped, has
recently been robbing on the high
way near this city. He rode into the
market place test night and shouted
for ex-President Lerdo. When the
police attempted to interfere, they
were fired on and M’ounded. After
considerable shooting, which created
quite an excitement, as it M’as feared
that a portion of the troops M’ould re
volt. Portual M’as captured and
lodged in jail. It is supposed it M r as
to create a disturbance to try the loy
alty of the government for President
Diaz, and, if the troops were not feith-
ful, to take advantage of their disaf
fection and organize a revolution. As
nothing to the advantage of the Ler
do party was developed, order was
soon restored.
INDIANS IN NORTHERN MEXICO.
San Francisco, December 24.—A
Tucson dispatch says about one hun
dred and thirty Indians are camped
near Janos Sonora. Recently the So
nora troops attacked them, losing
twenty-seven killed and a number of
of wounded. The Indian casualties
are not stated. The Indians were ap
parently victorious, as they subse
quently stripped the country in the
vicinity of Janos of stock. The In
dians have been robbing trains in
San Simon Valley. Troops w’ere in
pursuit. *
RIO GRANDE BORDER.
Anterlrau zad Heileaat Unite in Fol
lowing tbe Raider*.
Special to Enquirer-Sun.]
Nem’ York, Dec. 23.—A special
from San Antonio, Texas, says: On
Thursday last, Lieut. Ward in com
mand of a detachment of United
States cavalry followed the trail of a
party of Indians going out of Texas
with stolen stock to the Rio Grande.
Lieut. Ward notified the nearest
Mexican officer, who appeared with a
detachment of troops, and the tw’o
commands joined in following the
trail in Mexico. As heavy rains fell,
the joint scout M’as fruitless, but the
Mexican officers expressed a willing
ness to co-operate in pursuing the
raiders M’hen they cross over into
Mexico.
CUBA.
IMPORTANT SURRENDERS.
Havana, Dec. 24.—An official
telegram from Sancite Spiritu9 says
600 insurgents surrendered in the
Central Department. Among them
M’ere wife and family of Maximo Gor-
mez. The surrender of the family of
Maximo Gormezhad been previously
offered, and General Martinez Com
pos permitted them to surrender
either on the island of Cuba or out
side, according to their M’ishes. To
day forty-six surrenders M’ere report
ed in the Central Department.
ENGLAND.
\8BMSCMJMjA tmoxs.
Prince Leopold Kick.
EDINBURGH PETITIONS FOR NEU
TRALITY.
London, December 24.—The Edin
burg Chamber of Commerce to-day
agreed to memorialize the Govern
ment to continue neutrality in the
present M ar. Only two members of
the chamber opposed the adoption of
the resolution.
FRANCE.
London, Dee. 24.—The Times' cor
respondent of Vienna says it is re
ported from Paris that very active
diplomatic intercourse is going on
between Paris and London, in view
of establishing an understanding
about the Eastern question. The
chance of accomplishment is rather
favorable.
STANLEY RETURNED.
Stanley, the African explorer, ar
rived at Aden Sunday. His folloM’-
ers were paid oft" and discharged at
Sean’s bar.
SCALES TURN IN FAVOR OF REPUB
LICANS.
Paris, Dee. 24.—A dispatch to the
Times says the proceedings in coun
cils general confirm the belief that
the recent elections turned the scale
in favor of the Republicans. The
Left have a majority in forty-five
counties, instead of thirty-six osten
sibly.
ORDER OF PREFECTS.
Paris, Dec. 24.—M. DeMarcer,
Minister of Interior, ordered prefects
to re-instate all municipal councils
dismissed since the 16th of May.
■■solvent Waving* Bank.
Boston, Dee. 24.—The savings
bank commissioners, of Massachu
setts, enjoined the Taunton Savings
Bank from doing further business.
According to tlie official statement,
the bank assets are $1,404,513; liabili
ties, $13,537,636.
Measured to Twenty Year*.
Buffalo, Dee. 24.—Henry Turkey,
on trial for the murder of his brother,
Glesson Turkey, M’as found guilty of
manslaughter in the first degree and
sentenced to twenty years in Auburn
prison.
New Jersey Nanafaetariag Company
Failed.
Patterson, N. J., December 24.—
Dale Manufacturing Company is go
ing into liquidation. The creditors
meet Wednesday. Liabilities are
three to four hundred thousand dol
lars—all secured but twentvyhousanil.
They own the largest aK mill in
Patterson. Depreciation^f prices in
silk goods is the cause.
price of bread rises higher.
GREECE ARMTNO.
Special to Enquirer-Sun.}
London, December 23.—A Reuter’s
dispatch from Athens announeesthat
M. Conmountouros has submitted bills
to the Chamber for nominating offi
cers of the Mobile National Guard
and immediately calling on the re
serve of the regular army.
AROUND ERZF.ROUM.
Special to Enquirer-Sun.]
London, December 23.—A Reuter
telegram from Erzeroum reports that
twenty battalions of Russians have
been northeast of Erzeroum. Con
siderable Russian forces are also con
centrated behind Dev Bojun.
RUSSIAN LOSS.
St. Petersburg, December 23.—
The total Russian loss by tlie M ar up
to December 20 is 80,412 men.
SNOM’ CEASED FALLING IN ASIA.
Erzeroum, Dee. 24.—SnoM’ has
ceased falling here. The Meather is
now fine andM’ill facilitate operations
of the Russians.
THF. RUSSIANS WILL PROBABLY
TAKE SOPHIA.
London, Dec. 24.—Tlie Daily News'
Constantinople dispatch via. Slioia,
says it is reported that tlie Russians
are within six hours march of,Sophia.
The heights above Kamal are now
the only positions held by the
Turks to defend Sophia.
troops perishing of cold.
London,December 24.—The Times'
correspondent at Bucharest telegraphs
that the snow storm M’hich com
menced on the 18th inst. in Bulga
ria and Roumania M’as severe, and it
is feared that hundreds of Turkish
prisoners and the Russian troops,
who M’ere caught on the march, have
perished of cold.
A convoy was overwhelmed at
Catroceni, a suberb of Burcharest,
with forty prisoners and horses,
tM’enty-nine of which were frozen to
death*
SULEIMAN PASHA IN CONSTANTINO
PLE.
The Times' correspondent at Pera
telegraphs the arrival of Suleiman
Pasha in Constantinople has strength
ened the war party and he counsels re
sistance a outrance. Tlie Grand
Vizier supports him.
THE ROUMANIANS M ILL NOT ACCOM
PANY THE RUSSIANS.
London, December23.—The Times'
Vienna correspondent says tlie Rou
manians will not accompany the Rus
sians across the Balkans. They M ill
garrison Plevna, Nikopolis anil Ra
hova, and co-operate with Servia
against Widden.
The Manchester Guardian's Lon
don correspondent telegraphs that no
special preparations are going on at
WoolM’orth arsenal, except the man
ufacture of field guns. Only 4,000
hands are employed, whereas the war
force is from 10,000 to 12,000. It
should, however, be added that equip
ment is already in store for two
army corps.
TURKS DESERTING BECAUSE OF COLD
WEATHER AND NO PROVISIONS—
TYPHUS FEVER.
New York, Dee. 24.—A special
says General Gourko’s campaign has
resulted in theloss of only 5,000 men.
The Turks are deserting in consider
able numbers because of the increas
ing cold, which causes them, poorly
clad as they are, and wanting in pro
visions, terrible suffering.
Typhus fever is raging among the
Turks at Renta.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
St. Petersburg, Dee. 24.—Prince
Gortsehakoff has assumed the direc
tion of the Ministry of Foreign Af
fairs. General Ignatieft’is appointed
a member ofthe Empire.
SEIGE OF ERZEROUM.
Erzeroum, Dee. 24.—Turkish com
munications is threatened. It is be
lieved the seige of this place will soon
begin as the Russian forces are over
whelming anil the Russian infantry
are advancing into the Plain of Erze
roum.
EGYPTIAN CONTINGENT.
Alexandria, Dec. 24.—Half of
the Egyptian contingent destined to
reinforce the Turkish army left here
this morning, it is rumored, for Crete.
The troops are mostly blacks.
RUSSIAN HEADQUARTERS MOVED.
Bucharest, December 24.—It is
expected the Russian headquarters
M ill shortly be transferred from Bo-
gert to Selvi, 25 miles southeast of
the former place. The Grand Duke
Nicholas telegraphed from Bogert to
Prince Milan, of Servia, congratula
ting him upon the successful opening
of the campaign by the Servians.
CRETE.
Vienna, December 24.—The Polit
ical Correspondence, newspaper,
states the Insurgents in Crete have
convoked a National Assembly to es
tablish a provisional government.
SERVIANS REPULSED—THE BRITISH
FLEET.
London, December 24.—A Reuter’s
from Constantinople says the Servians
have attempted to carry Yatne by as
sault, and have been repulsed M’ith
immense loss. They M’ere pursued
by the garrison to Yavor, about five
miles distant.
A portion of the British fleet in
Besika bay are expected to proceed to
the Gulf of Valo.
GERMANY.
ALSACE-LORRAINE.
Special to Enquirer-Sun.]
Strasburg, December 24.—The
Alsace-Lorraine provincial commit
tee passed a resolution expressing the
wish that Alsace-Lorraine should re
ceive its own constitution, as a fed
eral State, and have a representative
in the Federal Council of the German
Empire.
Nr*. Stewart Injured.
Special lo Enquirer-Sun.]
New’ York, Dec. 23—This morn
ing as Mrs. A. T. SteM’art M as ascend
ing tlie marble staircase in her man
sion on Fiftli Avenue, she fell and
severely injured herself, sustaining a
dislocation of her right wrist. Her
physician fears tbe shook to her nerv
ous system more than the injury to
her arm.
Resigned.
Special to Enquirer-Sun.}
Baltimore, December23.—Nathan
Guilford, general freight agent of tlie
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, has re
signed, to accept the position of Com
missioner of the Western railroads.
Special to Enquirer-Stin.]
New Grenada, December •>”
letter from Hayti says that on' i>
cember 8th a fire in Port-an-Pri,.
destroyed $50,000 worth of iinnS*
Owing to the low price of ffi"
viz: $11 per quintal, transactions
Europe M’ere limited.
The Spanish war steamer Sanehb
Barcejate arrived at Port-au-Prj..'
on tlie 2d from Cuba, with the olr H ',
of affording protection toom-Santi/ ;
a Cuban, M’ho had been condcim^i
to death by the Haytian (i..v,. ri 'S
on charges of incendiarism.
The l". S. Consul General h i....,,
left December 2d for New York
■*—0—0
Job II. Jarkaon Returned uud 11. .
euted. , " J|
Atlanta, Ga., December 24. j,,(,
H. Jackson, of Wilmington (),.|
who Mas brought here in < b-tols-r oil
a requisition from the Governor of
Georgia to answer a charge of j,„
properly obtaining money from the
State, arrived Thursday and laid all
the facts of the ease before the Gov
ernor. He left for home yesterday
bearing a letter signed bvGov. (V.l-
quitt, in which he says:
“Upon a full luaring of tin' facts in
the ease I am satisfied that the crimi
nal suit M as brought under a misap
prehension. The executive head his
no right or power to interfere with
the judicial department of the go v .
eminent or its proceedings. I shall
advise that a nolle prosequi be en
tered in his ease, on tlie ground that
the facts fully vindicate you."
Hemi-Cent«uiiial Celebration in Bo»o, u .
Boston, December 24.—At the
Church of the Most Holy Redeemer,
East Boston, a celebration was held
yesterday afternoon, the occasion be
ing tlie completion of fifty years min
istry of Rev. Father Janies Felton
M ho Mas born, educated and entered
the ministry in Boston, having been
ordained by the first Catholic bishop
in America. Among the gifts were
a set of vestments valued at $500 ser
vice of gold, and $2,(XX) in money.
Abarondrd With 840.000.
New York, December 24.—Excise
Commissioner Murphy is reported
having absconded with $30,000 to
$40,000.
Chicago ou Finance*.
Chicago, December 24.—A petition
signed by the leading bankers, mer
chants and business men, requests
tlie (Senators and Congressmen to
support the President’s views on
finance as expressed in his message,
and as elaborated in Secretary Sher
man’s report
Failure*.
Chicago, Dec. 24. — Russell R.
Breekford, a lumber dealer, failed hv
unsecured debts of 1860.
Weather.
Washington, December 24.—In
dications: For the South Atlantic
(States, diminishing and easterly
winds, possibly shifting in the inte
rior to westerly, falling barometer,
cloudy and rainy, folloM’ed by clear
ing M eather, will prevail.
Whisperings op Love.—Your liaby'i
life is in danger whenever it is trou
bled M’ith a cough or cold. Give In,
Bull’s Cough Syrup.
A PROCLAMATION
a TATE OF GEORGIA:
4J Whereas, A Convention of the people
ofthe State of Georgia did assemble at tlie
Capital on the eleventh day of July la>t; and
whereas, the said Convention did revise the
Constitution of the State and provide that
the proposed new Constitution he submit
ted to the people for ratification or rejec
tion; and whereas tlie said Convention hv
ordinances provided that the people slioul.l
vote separately on the question of the loca
tion of the Capital at Atlanta or Milledge-
ville, and also on tlie adoption of tlie home
stead of 1868 or the homestead of 1877.
And whereas, on the first M’ednesday In
December, the present month, an election
was held In conformity with tlie law pre
scribed by the Convention, and the vote cast
by the citizens of tlie State was, for ratifica
tion, one hundred and ten thousand four
hundred and forty-two (110,442), and against
ratification, forty thousand nine hundred
and forty-seven (40,947), being a majority id
sixty-nine thousand four hundred and uim-
Jy-five (69,495) votes for the rat ideation ofthe
Constitution. The vote cast for location of
Capital was, for Atlanta, ninety-nine thou
sand one hundred and forty-seven i.Wf
and for Milledgeville, fifty-five thousand twu
hundred and one (55,201), being a majority <c
forty-three thousand nine hundred and
forty-six (43,946) votes for Atlanta. Thei»t>'
cast on tlie adoption of a homestead w:i>.
for the homestead of 1877, ninety-four thou
sand seven hundred and twenty-two 9I,>-
and for the homestead of 1SG8, fifty-two thou
sand (52,000), being a majortv of forty-two
thousand seven hundred and twenty-two
(42,722) for the homestead of 1877.
Now, therefore, I, Afrod H. Colquitt, < i( o-
ernor and Commander in Chief o! the Stan
of Georgia, do issue this my proclamation,
declaring that the Constitution adopted k
the Convention at Atlanta, in the year ",
our Lord one thousand eight hundred an i
seventy-seven, is ratified by the people "•
tlie State of Georgia, and is now the ion-
tution of the State. Also, that Atlanta '
declared to be the Capital of the Stafi
Georgia. And that t tie article adopt 1,1
the Convention on the subject o: the
stead forms a part of tlie new Constitut ’ -
Given under my hand and the great -•
tlie State, at the Capitol in Atlanta,
twenty-first day of December, in tli»* > 1A
of our Lord one thousand eight him
and seventy-seven.
ALFRED II. I t>r.Qi 1 * *•
By the Governor:
N. C. Bakfett,
Secretary of State. ...
A. CARD.
To all who are suffering from tlie
and indiscretions of youth, nervous
ness, early decay, loss of manhood, ••
send you a receipt tiiat will cure yon. ’
OF CHARGE. This great remedy
covered by a missionary in South
Send a self-addressed envelope to ^
Joseph T. Inman,
Neto Yory City. sep:
House,
Station D, Bible
25 eodAwh'
ietor.
Ci«a. Grant.
Special to Enquirer-Sun.]
lieuj. Hawkins Kieser, l'ropr
tiie only
LIVE DEMOCRATIC PAPER
In East Alabama"
The largest circulation; the hes*
Ilka ever had; edited and P^ r “
b\ a man known by tin on*
' inhabitants of Museo-
,,,■(• county tor
* the last•>»
rears.
HfrgcTlie Merchants
«f Coin'" 1 ’ 1 '*
-aHtt«/iw«|ttHcrwu»i.j laruuBu.* «• fhrif
Palermo, Scicjly, Dec. 24.—Gen. ! wo|lW <j 0 well to give “Ohl Il * n .
Grant arrived here on United States! ;„p- *!»-’ 1
steamer Vandalia | Advertisn.g. — —- '
Warning In New York. ! usriEW
New York, Dec. 24.—Commis- ; :0: —
sioners Morton and Patterson are
warned the banks will not honor
the checks ot" Commissioner Murphy,
their abscondiug treasurer.
Ht-RTViLi-F, Ala.. I’ ei ’ .
call"t y
Deter live Hill* HI* Wife nud Child.
Memphis,Dec. 24.—Detective Win.
C. Pride, imagining he heard a burg
lar at his window, exploded bis pis
tol. In the attempt to cock it his
wife and little child M’ere killed.
riVHE FIRM OF BANKS, -V 1 " t mU > e
X CO. has this day been d-s-o.^,, pr. a
withdrawal ot Dr. N. P- 6a* . oiiii* 1 ' 1 a
Caldwell. The business win A
hereafter under the name *>t *||/£ I
W. H. J J. J. BINKS-1
The new tiru> having pu 1 * 11 * • .^suvnc an
sets of Banks, Caldwell A ' IW bus'"'""’’
their liabilities and coAti'* 1 '* ,\ v t 1 ,*• O'
de22 tf BANKS, -
Leopold Mirk.
London, Dec. 24'.—The health of
Victoria’s son,Leopold, again causes
anxiety.
W. F. TIGNER, DeifD* 1
Over MASON’S DRUG.SjrpKE.
Bandoiph.Street, Colum