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Daily and *«kly robattiptions, singly and
by dab, arc coining in Jvery day. Wc are
very thankful for the favor of the people.
New subscribers will please notify tsaprompt-
lyof non-receipt Urnd money by peat office
older, registered letter or tzprew.
To Oar Weekly nabacribers.
Our snbsrriptien lut Is increasing with
soeli cteat rapidity that after the ontaide of
our weekly was ran olf *1 many tubscribera
were added that we fell Isbort screral hun
dred, and were compelled to send dailies in
stead. Those who fail to receive the last
number of the weekly will understand the
cause from thia explanation. Wc shall try
to prevent a like occurrence in the folore.
Robert is. Lee.
His pure spirit freed fn m earthly cod'act,
•peaks in tones of gentle admonition to ns
all. Aye, to all. For is well could yon
feller Ihcawccl wind of l ic south and bind
it in spring time, not to ■ waken to life and
joy the bird and floweret ef the Northern
forest, as to exclude the fragrance of the life
and cbar;ctcr of Robert E. Lee from the
hearts and minds of men and women of
every section of this couqlry.—Senator Ray-
aid, of Releunre, at Lexington College.
The Columbus papers rtjport the presence
of General llraxton Bngr in that city, lie
is there in the interest of s| company which
has offered Council propot!
water-works for Columbus.
Wyckoff pipe. Genrrat
very little in
Numbers of bis ol
Gossip mentions Chsrha Francis AdsmsM
the probable Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor of Massachusetts. Yonng John Quin
cy Adams, bis son, has been the chronic Dem
ocratic gubernatorial candidate there for long
years. It will be <piitc kind in the old man
to relieve the son, and tak< the periodical po
litical thrashing this time.
We know of no roori fihiliratiog an
nouncement than being a candidate for
office with no possibility >f success. It is
all fun. Massachusetts has a r>|uare
Itadical majority of i omewhere now
.10,0000. John Quine; ’ Adams has
grown jolly hutting bis head against it.
Charles Francis Adams it probably ont of
amusements, and wants to K jolly too. We
wish him great luck. The Jovelty of study
ing the philosophy of defes I is something to
In hankered after and p ofllably enjoyed.
The inxnry will lie compl 1c when tho de
feat Is administered by the prince of nature's
noblemen, the great and the good—Beall
Butler.
Happy Adams!
Tho "ertp».”
All of the New England italea except Ver
mont ami lUiode Island pre mile well.
In Western New York, 1 lew Jersey, Eas’-
ern l’ennsylvania, Maryla id and Delaware
there has been drought and only three-fourths
of a corn crop is possible under good circum
stances. Ilsy in all this country will ran to
tint half a crop.
Ohio and Michigan will average well. Il
linois has only a half crop of corn, tint a
splendid yield of wheat.
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Kansas and North
Missouri promise finely.
Iowa hss grasshoppers badly.
Nebraska will average well.
In the North and West corn won't reach
generally more than a half crop. Wheat will
attain a full average. There is, however, a
good deal of last year’s crop of corn on band
to snpply llic deficiency.
The Virginias, Carolioas and Tennessee
promise well. Kentucky has only h.ilfa crop
but good corn. Louisiana, Trxsa and Geor
gia are burdened with grass.
California and Oregon have better crops
than last year. Montana, Idaho, Colorado,
Arisons, Nevada nnil New Mexico have in
creased crops. Wyoming raises compara
tively nothing.
The grain crop of the whole country will
be slightly in cxceva of list year.
Fruits have suffered all over the country.
Toe bravirsl loss for years fa reported.
castrr'l Card.
Tliu cause of the Ithctt-Coolcy duel fa ts
as follows: Judge Cooley was counsel for
one Hawkins in a libel suit against the Pica
yune. Colonel itbclt editorially pronounced
certain statements of Judge Cooley’s speech
to the jury at" malicious and willfully false.
Judge Cooley addressed a letter to Colonel
Ilbcll propoeing that if he could show his
statements false to public acknowledge the
wrong: if be could not to make the acknowl
edgement himself.
Colonel Illicit responded declining to enter
upon the proof and referring Judge Cooley
to the files of hfa paper.
Judge Cooley’s reply ends as follows:
Col. Khctt having written in the Picayune
that 1 made assertions to the Jury which
were “malicious and wilfully false,” and
having subsequently refused my fair, honest
and honorable offer to decide which of us is
correct, 1 publish him to the people of New
Orb-uni as an unmitigated calumniator, a
deliberate and wilful falsifier, an attful
dodger, and withal, a thorough-paced brag
gart.
This evoked a challenge from Cot Khctt
and resulted in Judge Cooley's death at the
second fire. An interesting acconnt of the
duel will lie found elsewhere.
VOLUME VI.I
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
JULY
1873.
INUMBER 12
Tkc North asS Snulti ltallroad
The Home Commercial contains some in
tern ting correspondence between the Mayor,
Major W. F. Ayer, and the President and
S.vrrtsijr of the North and South Railroad,
W. A. McDougsId and W. D. Chipley, and
also Major Dunlap Scott. The correspond
cnee f urni- hrs valuable information about the
road.
Twenty miles of the rosu
plc-.cd an I fully equipped,
condition. The city of Home rubccribcd
jlJO.OUU of lainds to the
amount $61,000 have beci
from 61 cents to 09 cents c i the dollar, net.
The balance of $06,000 is held by John I.
Cohen A Son, of Augusta as collateral to
to secure $99,003 07.
At the Rome end of the road the right of
way has cost $2,600. This Deludes payment
to live parlies. The rest of
was given.
There are s : .\lcen miles
The right of way fa graded
the right of way
traded at Home,
to Cedar Town.
I"ICO.H 5IEKIWBTH 211 COUNTY
Dranulas ol a Wurth,
Cltlzan.-The
bar.
A gentleman from the lot crpart of Merl
in the city yea-
that, on Friday
industrious and
wether connly, who arrived
terdry morning, informs ns
last, Mr. Seaborn Fuller,
worthy blacksmith, living n{nr Rcdbonc Dis
trict Court Ground, w
that dsy while seining. It
just rescued a youth from d owning, and, in
attempting to swim to tl s bank of the
stream, he was seized with t ramp and floated
down and was drowned.
The deceased wss a harei-working, indus
trious country blacksmith, ■ id lea ere a wife,
six daughters and a small
daughter being scarcely gro
Our infeirmant states that
so promising as they were I
ago. Both corn and cc
poor.
Fields planted in cotton l^avc been “turned
out" for the want of labor.
Meriwether is one of tile best farming
elation for intelligence,
wealth net snip* sed by an}-.
have been com
and are in fine
road, tit thia
disposed of at
Brevities.
Delaware will throw on the market thia
year 2,183,730 baskets of peaches, or abonl
100,000 more tbsn lut seuon.
The New Hsmpsbiie Legislature added to
its resolution of censure, relative to back
pay, an amendment including all those who
culpably participated in the passage of the
bill. Cany the news to Hiram.
When Hiram Powers first went to Wash
ington, under the pstronage of Nicholu
Longwortb, be made the acquaintance
of William C. Preston, of South Carolina,
who manifested deep interest in hfa success
as an artist, and who procured from hfa
brother, Colonel John Preston, an yearly al
lowance that enabled Powers logo to Italy.
The shipment of fruit and vegetables from
Savannah and Charleston has become an item
of Southern trade. The account stands
_ _ KM.
New York, psekagf • 7.116
Philadelphia, packages i.ooo l,:ss
Palttwore, pscaaem l.ono it:
TSUI pickaxes P.iSU X.5I3
Central Railroad shares sold In Savannah
last week at 791 4, and Southwestern at 791.
The familiar P. D. of Tennessee reappears
in Sl Lcuts and New York u the M. C. M.
or malignant cholera morboa. It kills jnst
as quickly and rarely under its new name.
And the newspaper tnat hu the good sense
to treat its readers as rational beings, and not
u so many children, in the matter of the
epidemic’s first appearance, fa forthwith ac
cused of injuring the ‘'business interests” of
the city.
The Indianapolis Sentinel wanted tossy
that George Alfred Townsend had a letter in
two papers, and this ii the way it said it:
The roving romancer scatters his golden
words ont in verisitile triparilitndc in two
Cincinnati papers.” The Indianapolis Jour
nal accuses its contemporary of ‘‘trying to
get np a corner in dictionaries.” It must be
confessed that a greater than Webster is to
be found among the Hoosicrr.
The Wubington and Lee University Jin
Virginia bis received from Kcntncky $30,000
fer the endowment of a chair of history and
political economy. Missouri hu subscribed
nearly $50 <000 for a chair of applied chemis
try ; Louisiana, $27,000 for the chair of mod
em languages; and Tcxu $25,000 for one of
applied mathematics. Each professorship
bears the name of the State endowing it.
Lut year the University received nearly
$100,000 in bequests and donations.
The price of gu is just now agitating
many cities uf tho land. The New Orleans
Oas-ligkl Company announces that they will
reduce the price of their gu to three dollarsa
thousand fccL New York is dissatisfied with
her gu price-$2 75. The price in London
fa $1 78, although gu coal is 30 per cent,
dearer in London than in New York. And
yet the London gu companies divide over
ten per cent. The laws of England do not
permit gas companies to divide 200 per cent
on their original capital.
Wc give below tome results of municipal
grandeur and lavishneu in twocharactcristic
chics of the period :
The delinquent tax list of Chicago fills
eleven four page sheets of the Chicago
Post—14 pages and 352 columns in email
type, each column containing about 300 de
scriptions of property levied on for sale for
unpaid taxes. There must be at leut 100,-
000 different pieces of property described in
this heavy list.
The amount of money to be raised by tax
ation in New Yoik City this year, fa
$30,000,000. Tile State gets $6,000,(00 of
this, and the interest on the city debt takes
$7,000,000, leaving the actual cost of govern
ing the city at $16,000,000. This fa about
$16 for every man, woman, and chill in that
mnneipaiity.
Wm. M. Wadby hu been elected Presi
dent of the Mobile and Girard Railroad.
The graven image of the hero of Ticon-
deroga now stands on a three-ton granite
11 ick at Green Mount, Vermont.
Five ocean steamers carried off to Europe
last Saturday 1,237 paiscngers, among whom
was Peter B. Sweeney, of unenviable muni
cipal fame.
Kansu mosquitoes arc said to reach such
gigantic magnitude that there isn’t room for
more than two of them to bite an ordinary-
sized man at once.
The famous traitor of Nubville, Henry
Todd, was recently sold to Chicago panics
for $12,000. His late owners bought him for
$1,500. He made 2:22 1-2 lost before the lut
•ale.
Lord Harjoribanks, previously Mr. Robert
son, M. P., died on the 20th ult, less thsn a
wick after be had been made a Peer. He
wu eighty years old. His briefly-held title
becomes ex’inct for wrnt of an heir.
The recent destructive storm in the North
west extended from the Red River of the
North to Central and Eutcrn Kentucky.
Crops, dwellings and forcsts| were prostrated
at various points by the gigantic storm whose
coming wu foretold by the Signal officers.
When the mercury is trying to climb out
of the top of the tube, it rs pleasant to read
that, at Sandwich, New Hampshire, there fa
a snow drift three feet deep, with honey
suckle blossoms near it. The slope of Black
Mountain, Lake George, also contains a snow
drift.
A convention of all the Shaw family scat
tered through the New England Stales it
shortly to be held, for the purpose of deter
mining whether they descended from the
Shahs of Persia, and, if so, whether they
cannot rake np a claim to a proprietorship '
the pearl-fisheries of the Persian Gulf.
The discovery, at Vienna, of a comet hu
just been announced to the Smithsonian In
slitmkm through the cable. The right as-
ernsion of the comet fa no hours and
minutes; declination south four degrees
thirty-four minutes; motion unknown. All
right; wc know jut where to look for it
now.
The “Jersey Derby,” which is conducted
under the auspices of the Monmonth Park
Association at Long Branch, hu recently
instituted a tnrf reform which fa destined to
become general in this cr unity, u it is and
long hu been in England—free race tracks.
The refreshment privileges and the ule of
seats in the stands render the new and bet Ur
plan very profitable.
When John Qnincy Adams wu President
the Potomac played him a mean trick one
day. While taking an old-fashioned school
boy bath in the river the water rose so
rapidly u to sweep away hfa clothes. As
Hr. Adams walked toward the White House,
in the garb which nature gave him, he prob
ably did not over-appreciatc the dignity of
bb official position.
i that he had
son-the ol-’est
ns.
the crops arc not
o or three weeks
ton are rather
L'netcd Statu should made himself his par
tisan concerns the good name of onr common
country. It hu often been raid that Grant
never forgets a favor, and wc suppose that
the great interest be is now taking in Boiler's
behalf is prompted by a sense of gratitude
for the good turn Bn tier served him not long
ago. Butler, u all know, is the father of the
salary-grab."
A British itinerant vender of salt and
whiting made a slight mistake the other day
in the matter of a medical prescription.
This worthy wu the possessor of a donkey
“wot wouldn’t go, to Mrs. Jarley’s wsx-worx
show,” nor to any other place unless its own
perecnal sentiments were thereto disposed.
Being taken by its owner for an airing re
cently, it suddenly became enraged, probably
at not being consulted first, and attacked the
old gentleman, hurting him unmercifully.
He wu rescued and carried borne, and the
medical man ordered the application of half
a dozen leeches to his braises. The man's
wife not having the slightest idea how to
apply them had three boiled and three fried,
and the invalid immediately swallowed the
whole menu!
A young man andsyonng woman, engaged
to be married, with a boy, a brother of the
girl, went ont in a boat on the Fourth, from
the Canada aide, at Chippewa, for a little
pleasure cruise on the Niagara River, and
nothing more hu since been seen or heard of
them. Pieces of their bant have been picked
np, and doubtless its occnpants from their
“love’s yonng dream” went down to duth
into the awful abyss cf the Horseshoe Falls,
with their boat. Their bodies, some days'
hence, will probably rise to the surface in the
eddy just below the fall or at the whirlpool
farther down the torrent or at the outlet of
the river at Lake Ontario. These unfortu
nate people, ignorant of their danger, were
out on the nver from Chippewa for the
enjoyment of a sail, and were drawn by the
smooth, hot treacherous and powerful current
into the rapids before they fully compre
hended their terrible situation. And hardly
a summer passes away at Niagara without
some such terrible misfortune. Surely the
inhabitants on both rides of the river shonld
know enough from these oft-repeated dis
asters not only to avoid on their own part
the danger bat to prevent strangers from
committing themselves to the deceitful
stream, which, in a moment, may have them
within its grasp, beyond all hope of human
deliverance.
Sir Edwin Landscr, the animal printer, is
said to be insane.
L. W. Smith and F. Wyatt, both of Gcor-
cia, were among the graduates of the Vir
ginia Military Institute at Lexington.
The New York papers have invented a
very sensible name for our old border disease
—the P. D. They call it the “Scourge of
Sanitary Neglect”
At the close of the meeting at Dexter Park,
Chicago, Mr. A. W. Richmond, of Buffalo,
bought the stallion. Red Wing, owned in St.
Paul, for $12,000, cash.
Tho rage for the “ie” termination to girls’
names has come to a disastrous conclusion in
one Oregon family. A farmer named Ake
christened bis eldest girl Bella She had
some cards printed in the “ie” fashion, and—
well, after looking at the result, she concluded
Belie was pretty enough for her, and burned
them.
The St. Lonis Times of the first instant
says that a car load of corn was sold at
Chicago last Friday for $78 71, the railroad
charges on which were $90, involving a net
loss of $11 25 to the shipper, in addition to
commission charges and original cost of the
corn.
The French newspapers announce that the
United States Government has granted to
the “Nebraska Indians” the right to travel
gratuitously in every railway train on which
they are able to jump while it is moving at
full speed. “ Tho United States Government
is sure the whole tribe will be extinct in six
months.”
The following statement of the rain-fail
by inches, during Jane, for several year past,
as recorded at Dodlcy Overvatrry, has been
obtained by tbo Albany Express:
Yew. Inches. | Years. leches.
166.1 3 01 1810 7.48
1S66 4.6111811 7 96
1868
1660 4 67 |
The deficit of $821,000 charged against Ja
cob Thompson, Secretary of the Interior un
der Buchanan’s administration, is explained
by the statement that that amount of Indian
Uust bonds was abstracted by one Goddard
Bailey, a derk in the Department of the In
terior. The deficit though charged to
Thompson's account, is carried from year to
year in the accounts of tbc Secretary of the
Interior.
The Springfield Republican says Vice
President Wilson has passed into that stage
of health which Chose so long occupied, a
parity fc invalid to whom life is of most un
certain dnration. The nature of his disease
may not utterly destroy hfa usefulness as a
man and public servant, but it will undoubt
edly limit his ambition and activity. With
careful nursiogand cessation of exciting toil,
he mar yet enjoy for many years a kind of
honorety post in the public councils.
The most carious correspondence, per
haps In which John Stuart Mill was
ever engaged was a dicussion which
be carried on some months in French
(a language which he talked and wrote ad
mirably,) with Auguste Compte, respectin:
women. Tbc exalted opinion which Mi 1
held of the sex fa well kootrn, and Compte
controverted it by maintaining that “ the in
telligence of women amounted at brst to only
a small instantaneous sagacity.” Very
Frenchy, though not polite
The Knoxville Chronicle of the 31
lays that a student at the East Tennessee
University has recently, upon several occa
sions, attempted to commit suicide. The
cause of hfa troubles wu entirely unknown
until it wu at test discovered that a large
black bog bad entered bis car and borrowed
in the interior of bit shall, thus producing an
affection cf the brain, which rendered him at
limes insane. The bug being taken from his
scalp be hu become well, and fa troubled no
longer.
The Syracuse Courier uys: “Of comae.
counties in Western Georgi i, and hu a noo-1 u Bate *» Massachusetts’ choice for Got-
— - ” 1 ernor, outsiders cannot object. She — v * •-
refinement and
onghl
rilfb
pipe and ran an iron dad snow plow in front
of him to push the baggage ont with.
Let us read the latest production of the
presidential mind, and be prond of rack t
“gooff:”
Long Bbancb, N. J., June 28,18*3.
Mr Deab Mb. Bobib—Yonr favor, enclos
ing a letter addressed by Mr. John Welsh to
yon wu received lut evening. It wu my
intention to comply with yonr and hfa re
quest, but I am just now in receipt of a dis
patch saying that my father is sinking very
rapidly and cannot survive many hours,
start hence, therefore, at once, and remain
until after the Fourth, if my father should
lire that long, and cannot, of conrse, attend
the celebration in Philadelphia should he
not lira I hope and traat that the Centen-
niel will receive on the 4th proximo such
a “go-off” u will attract the attention of the
nation to it and awaken a determination on
the part of the people to make it a grand
success; also that foreign nations may have
awakened in them a spirit of honorable
rivalry with onr yonng Republic in the
exhibition three years hence.
Yours, truly, U. 8. Ghaut.
The Express uys: “The records of the
Observatory date back many years, and au
thorities that give the rain-fall for cveiy month
and year of the present century do not show
a June u dry u this hu been. Its effects
upon agriculture hu been most disastrous;
the hay crop is almost rained, while oats
and rye, and even corn look very poorly, but
if we have plenty of moisture during July
these will revive, and the crop in this vicini
ty be u large as it hu been in many previous
years.”
The zebra has heretofore been considered
an animal more ornamental than useful, and
altogether too vicious in his best estate for
harness. But at the Garden of Acclimatiza
tion in Paris they have succeeded in break
ing in two zebru and making them go in
harness. This is a great triumph. As long
ago as 1761 Had. dc Pompcdonr entirely
failed in taming a fine specimen cf this ani
mal from the menagerie at Versailles, hat he
proved u self-willed u the lady herself. At
tempts were made to break a female zebra
brought in 1776 by Lord Clive from the Cape
to London; but she could not be broken to
harness. It is odd that any amimal shonld
be more easily tamed in Paris than London
—Paris being not remarkable for tameness
of any kind.
Two hundred thousand buffaloes were
slaughtered on the Plains test year, princi
pally for their skins alone, and a decided fall
in the price of hides hu taken place. A
year ago the price of buffalo hides in the
West ranged from four to five dollars for a
cow skin, and from six to seven dollars for a
ball skin. Now, a skin that would have
brought five dollars a year ago, will scarcely
sell for a dollar and a half, and the reckless
slaughterers do not realize over a dollar a
skin. The army contractors of France and
Belgium arc haying them in large quantities
for the purpose of making them into military
equipments. It fa hoped that the present
prices will continue and Urns dels; the ex
termination of the buffaloes.
A story is told of a revengeful traveler
who packed a carpet bag full of revolvers,
and handed it to a gentlemanly baggage
smasher, who had rained three or four
tranks for him already. The smasher Hong
the bag against the wail savagely, and
then threw it on the floor and stamped on it,
and jumped np and down on it, u usual.
At about the fourth jump firing began
along the whole line. Forty-six revolvers
went off in rapid succession, dis
tributing ballets around the car with disgust
ing carlessncss of the legs of the smasher,
who wushot in six places before he could get
ont of the car. He rode upon the platform
during the whole of that trip, and when he
tm~ An observing fellow, writing for the
Boston Post about brides at Niagnra rays
that the New York bride sticks to her stilted
society manners intact. The Boston bride
fa qniet and self-sustained. The Southern
and Western brides are demonstrative and
h»rpy. _
Sumner.
Vesagc Ssget, the President of tbc Repub
lic of Hayti, has addressed a letter to Charles
Sumner expressing tho gratitude felt by the
African race to Snmncr.
Sumner replies that Saget does him too
much honor, and ho has done
but little of what he wished to
do. Tho certain triumph of civili
zation, in Snmner’s opinion, lies in giving
every equality of privilege to the blacks, and
the whites owe the Africans a debt for
wrongs that cannot be paid for generations.
Yet Snmncr don’t invite these persecuted
martyrs to hfa honsa
Georgia Railroads.
The preliminary snrvcy of the Talbolton
Branch Railroad is now being made, as we
learn from the Columbus Sun. The road,
that paper thinks, will restore to Columbus
the trade of Talbot and Mcrriwcther coun
ties, and will enhance the value of the North
and South Railroad.
The Sandcrsville Georgian declares the
Sandcrsville and Tcnnillc railroad to be a
failure, and charges the Central railroad
with the responsibility. It asserts that the
Central road promised to take half the stock
and violated its agreement The Savannah
News has no doubt that the Central road
had satisfactory reasons for its conduct
Col. Jones, tbc efficient Stale Treasurer, in-
foimcd us yesterday that he had sold jnst
$700,000 (f the new State bonds at par. This
leaves only $500,000 to be disposed of. This
flattering sole has been made in tho short
space of three months. And what fa moat
extraordinary of all, only $50,000 of the
amount have gone out of the State, the large
proportion of $650,000 being taken rp in the
State. Of the amount disposed of $150,000
were exchanged.
This is n very gratifying exhibit, and the
achievement fa something of which the State
Treasurer has reason to be proud.
THO Grangers’ movement.
Perhaps no recent movement in the coun
try hss given the politicians more apprehen
sion than tho farmers’ revolt—generally
called the grangers’ movement—in Illinois
and the West.
Tho first election has jnst been held in
Illinois for two Judges of the Supreme Bench,
in which the farmers and tbc corporations
and conservative classes came into collision.
The farmers triumphed in almost every poll,
and, as a leading pnblic man said: “ They
annihilated every candidate they moved
against as if he had been struck by lightning.’
Judge David Davis thinks the grangers’
movement is a big one with a deep grievance
behind it. He thmks it foreshadows a gen
eral popular rising against the advantage
taken by organized capital of the producing
classes.
The granges have , '*<1C0 agricultural asio-
ciations, with near ball a million of members.
Georgia Cxop News.
The Rome Commercial says that the crop
outlook in Polk, Floyd and Chattooga coun
ties is very favorable. The wheat crop will
only average a third. It has been all har
vested and partially threahed. The oat crop
is fine and larger than ever before. Clover
looks splendidly. Little rye grown. Corn
fa magnificent ana the largest crop since the
war. Cotton is promising. Fruit is abund
ant and fine.
Baker, Dougherty and Lee counties have
the caterpillar. Little damage yet.
The crop prospect in Mitchell, Colquitt,
Decatur and Thomas counties were never
better.
Gwinnett has had a week of good weather
and crops arc doing wclL Cotton looks
prime. Upland corn, with a rain now and
then, will yield abundantly. Oats arc good.
In Whitfield county a furious wind and
rain storm on Saturday in the upper part
of the county, scattered the wheat sheaves in
every direction, as wc learn from the Dal
ton Citizen.
A South Georgia fanner advises planters
who are badly in the grass to torn their sheep
into their cotton fields. He rays be has tried
it successfully. Feed them well beforehand,
and then they will prefer the yonng gross to
the cotton, and will dear a field of grass in a
short time.
Letter from Connecticut.
¥~
The Peculiarities ol Onr Stats Govern
ment—The Double Capital Question—
Onr Hew Minister to Russia, Mr.
Jewell—General Hanley and
the People, of the North.
Editors ConMlut
eminent of Conne
with anomalies,
smallest in the Uq
capital dries. The )
capital affair originl
colonies united the
July 4,1873.
: The State gov-
nt is indeed replete
: State ia one of the
n,yet it requires two
ay in which this plural
, was thia: When the
1 that the sessions
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represent her. But that the President of the | did enter the car be encased his tegs in at ore
OUR DALTON LETTER.
The 4th-The Constitution—Crops—
Ration’s Advantages.
Dalton, Ga., July 7,1873.
Editm Constitution: Amid the fear cf
cholera, and heat at 03 degrees, the gloriona
4th was not much celebrated here.
The people here look on the merging of
the Son and Constitution as a thing of vast
power and ability, against which none can
cope raccesafuly. There it a near future
in which Mr. Stephens will be
gladly heard on all the leading political ques
tions of the day, and Thb Constituion will
be a'happy medium through which the anx
ions people will be well informed from the
caustic pen of the great statesman, while the
quibbles and bickerings of the flying kit* f
will only rebound like the rubber ball from
the pavement
The fur weather for the put few days has
enabled the farmeis to get ont of the grass
Crops look fine. Cotton in this section b
doing welL The farmers are bound to make
this the gaiden section of Georgia.
Onr fair comes off test of September. It
will be a success.
Dalton ia fast improving. Two magnificent
high ichoola going np here, male and female:
They are pressing on to completion, and will
soon be ready for youths from all sections of
Georgia and Tennessee. Every inducement
can and will be offered to the people in mid
dle and lower Georgia to send their children
here to school. A delightful clime, healthy
seasons all the year ana fine society; beauti
ful churches, and in all, a magnificent grow
ing little city, whose railroad facilities and
mineral resources are not surpassed anywhere
in the world.
Fine mineral water abounds in nearly every
section of thia beautiful country. When onr
resources are betterjknown to the world, an
influx of inhabitants will increase onr popu
lation one hundred per cent in the next ten
3 ears. Spectator.
should be held alternately in Hartford and
New Haven. F4jn that day to this
the two citiC3 hate -been the scats
of Uic State’s government. This is
certainly an iilogicaC arrangement, but the
State politics are far-parer, under its influ
ence, than they otherwise, would be, Hart
ford fa very anxiotfiJW becoming the solo
capita], however, and a bill was introduced,
this session of the-Legislature, to let tbe
matter go before tbo people for them to de
clare whether they mil have one capital or
two. This bill fa, oLfpnrge, altogether in
favor of Hartford. The vote is to bo taken
on inis question, viz: Quit Hartford be the
sole capital or semi-capital 7 The people are
to decide early in October.
Another anamoly is the branch of repre
sentation. Towns, and not population, arc
the basis, and accordingly the representatives
arcjincqually distributed. The city of New
Haven, for instance, bas a population great
er than Litchfield county, yet Litchfield
has forty members, while New Haven
has but two. The House num
bers two hundred arid forty-one mem
bers, while tbe large ‘State of Pennsyl
vania has hardly a hundred. Still another
remarkable feature ia the freedom from cor
ruption, which the State government enjoys,
and this ia undoubtedly due to onr manner
of representation. •... , .
The present Legislctnre is, largely in a
Democratic majority, the first rime for many
years. The Stato was carried for General
Grant by four thousand majority. This
spring, however, the Democrats elected their
State ticket, having thirty-five hundred ma
jority. Thus far it has been a busily session,
principally on acconnt of the State House
2 ucslion. The legal rate of interest ia now
xed at seven per cent. A bill denouncing
tbe salary giab, has bccnintrddnced, bat it
is doabtful if it will, receive tbc
support of tbe requisite, majority. Only
two of our Congressmen hjavo thus far dfa-
rged the fruits of the retroactive clause,
ic two Senators and the remaining Repre
sentative are “yet to be heard from.”
Ex-Governor Jewell, our newly appointed
Ambassador to Russia, ha* been Governor
for three terms. He was born in Winchest
er, N. H, but early removed to Connecticut,
where be became prominently identified with
the tanning business of tho Btatc, and is
now largely concerned in I|s tannery inter
ests, (which may, perhaps, acconnt for Gen
eral Grant’s choice.)' In person, Governor
Jewell is very imposing. He is a large,
portly man, with white hair andbeard that
contrast very finely with hfa open and florid
countenance. Daring the tele presidential
campaign, he made a stumping tour through
the State, and although a very indifferent
speaker, and ono utterly dqvoid of any elo
cutionary grace, he made a strong impres
sion on tho people by the clearness and
soundness of his logic. One or two of the
principal Republicans in the Stato wilt
breathe freely, now, that Gov. Jewell ia pro
vided for. He would be a very formidable
rival for tho next Senatorial honors. He
sails for Europe to-morrow in the ship Java,
accompanied by bis family.
A few of our Northern journals, strongly
gifted with a remarkable prophetic vision, in
the scarcity of other political fatfarlp,haTO been
mentioning God. Jot. R. Harriers name as the
first on the Presidential ticket of 1876. That
is tho wildest prescience that points toward
such an event. The Northern people admire
Gen.. Hawley’s action in Congress last win
ter, in those days that tried men’s consciences
—they consider him to bean-honest,upright,
efficient statesman, but it ia extremely doubt
ful that he coaid carry a majority of the
Northern States. He is too intensely imbued
with tho firmest, most dogmatic, deepest-
dyed Itadical principles for even tho Repub
lic in party. He can always control a ma
jority of the votes in hfa own district, when
a candidate for Congress, Democrats and Re
publicans are alike supporting him. Bat, as
President, it is not a wild assertion to say
that he docs not represent the popular sen
timents at the North, in regard to per
petuating tho sectional ill feeling, resulting
from the late war. Take an extract from
from bis address in New York, May 30tb.
Let us te 1 onr children now the truth about
this day, and what it means. Tell them that
deliberate traitors sought for thirty years to
betray the old flag and sever tho bond of
nnion; tell them not that the thirteen thou
sand dead at Andcrsonville are viclima of
unavoidable necessity, bat that thgy are mur
dered martys, at whose untimely end history
will never cease to cry alond. Teach pos
terity that the time was infamous treason,
and without smooth worda Forever call
those men traitors who designed and prose
cuted this terrible work. Justice to the
dead demands thia! It is a weak and
wicked mercy that always seeks to spread
the mantle of charity over sin and crime;
weak because it is impossible to harmonize
justice and mercy; wicked because it places
the criminal and the sufferer upon an equality
again without an atonement, and thus invites
a repetition ol the wrong.” n
It is doing the North injustice to mention
this man or any other man whotwill rekindle,
and inflame the spirit which we all wish irre
vocably buried, as the exponent of theirsen-
liments. The North does not desire to rap
port a man who can look only to the scenes
of ten yean ago and refuses to look at those
yet before us. Gen. Hawley will do very
well as a Congressman; bat he fa & firm op-
postr of amnesty, and that will not be a dis
tinguishing characteristic of the “ coming
man.”. Until he can glanco beyond hfa pre
sent partisanship, deeper into the approach
ing future, he fa not likely to become Presi
dent. - \ Vincent.
Hood and Jolinston.
A correspondent writing from the Alle
ghany Springs, Virginia, says:
Jnst now there are not more than one hun
dred and fifty people here (though nearly all
the best quarters are enraged), and among
them I find several distinguished families
from the South. General J. B. Hood is here,
with bis wife and family, which fa a thor
oughly representative one. Mm Hood is a
tall, elegant and beautiful lady. Tho General
uses cratches, though a wooded leg supplies
the place of the one he lost at Chickamac
and tbc strength of his arm is impaired by
wound he received at Gettysliiig. Other
wise be fa as healthy, handsome and hearty
as he ever wu in hfa life. Though only mar
ried since the war, General Hood hu four of
the prettiest children I ever laid my eyes on
—two of them twins—and all so near of a
size that it fa hard to tell which fa the oldest.
Bht what utonisbed me most were the nones
—four nones to four children; and they all
seemed to be busy—in fact, to have their
hands fall. Three of the nnnes are as jet
black u coal, and are yonng plantation ne-
grcircs from Louisiana, while the fourth is
an old plantation mammy, evidentiya family
relic, who will die u she hu lived among
her old people and her best friends.
Many a poor old Southern negro woman
regrets the day she forsook her old owners,
when emancipation proved rather a cone to
her than the blessing for whichltwu intend
ed. Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, new visitin
at Abingdon, hu engaged rooms here, and,
with hfa beautiful and accomplished lady,
will spend the season here. And thb is
coincidence—Hood end Johnston hob-
t. i t i' together at the same water-
; , 1 iwiw, the most distin
guish J <>f tli Hie bring officers of the
laic Confederacy, Hood, the bravest and
mod gallant, who, by virtue of Jeff Davis,
superceded Johnston in command of the
army at Atlanta and left the way open for
Sherman’s march to tbe sea. Had Johnston
been in command the way would not have
been so easy, and the obstructions might not
have been enrioox enough to thwart tbe Lieu-
Boston, July 8.—The small sloop Mariet
ta wu found capsized, with tout drowned.
Cincinnati, July K—Tho following ac
counts of damages to the crops and buildings,
and the estimated losses by the recent rains
have been received here: In Ohio, through
Fayette county, oats, wheat and corn have
been seriously damaged; many trees wire
uprooted, and one bam demolished. Lots
estimated at $3,000, ontaide of crops.
In Washington county crops were consid
erably beaten down and damaged. An csti
mation of loss cannot be made u the receipts
are not sufficiently folk
In Belmont county several acres of timber
were destroyed. For miles around Belmont
nearly all the fences were blown down, thus
admitting stock into the grain fields.
Wheat and com were also flattened out
In Morrow county, in tbe vicinity of Carding-
ton, on Thursday and Friday, the storm lev
eled fences and timber in all directions, and
many valuable orchardswere entirely des
troyed. The loss in Franklin county fa esti
mated at from fifty to one hundred thousand
dollars. The bottom lands were covered
with water, almost entirely destroying the
crops. Port of tho canal in tho town of
Winchester fa under water, compelling some
firms to suspend business. In the southern
portion of lacking county, crops of all kinds
arc badly damaged. The New Ark, Somer-
and Strasvillc road suffered severely.
Twenty-five miles of track wu washed out
and several bridges washed away.
In Clinton county the grain in shock and
that standing in the field were alike prostra
ted, making it necessary to cut a great part
ofitbyhand. In southern portion of Greene
county wheat crops suffered greatly; the esti
mated Iocs fa from 15 to 20 per cent.; in other
portions uf the county the loss is considera
bly lighter. The weather is still showery and
unless it clears up soon, the wheat crop,
which is dead ripe, will be greatly injured.
Muskingum, Zanesville, Washington, Per
ry, Wayne and Knox townships suffered ion.
Damage to growing crops is not less than
$10,000, besides a heavy loss of timber. In
the southern part of Butler county the rain
did great damage to crops. A large lot of
timber wu also blown down.
In Clark connty damage is not so great,
except in extra work ana inconvenience in
harvesting down grain.
In Minn county the wheat crop is badly
damaged throughout, especially along the
creeks, where whole fields were destroyed.
In Ricksway connly the crops were de
stroyed and wuhed away. Approximate loss
one hundred thousand dollars; to this may bo
added broom corm within three miles of Cir-
deville, twenty-five thousand dollars.
In Athens county, at Nelionville, the Hock
ing river ova flowed and inundated the lower
part of town. A large number of families
were compelled to leave their bouses and con
tents and fly for life, so sudden and unex
pected did the flood come.
Crops in Iho bottom lands arc a total loss.
Damage to crops fa estimated at ten thousand
dollars. A great number of families living
along the river in tho vicinity of Athena were
compelled to move to higher ground.
The Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad track
is covered with water too deep to allow the
passage of trains.
The loss in pnblic and private property fa
estimated at over a half million of dollars.
On many low farms everything wu swept
away.
The Hocking Canal cannot be repaired this
summer, having fifteen large breaks within a
distance of twenty-five miles.
The Bremen Caunl wu six feet under water
on the morning of the 4lb.
Four bridges of tho .Cincinnati and Musk-
inghara and Cincinnati-and Hocking Valley
Railroads weto wrecked-z
The Hocking Valley Canal and river were
made one stream by tbe numerous breaks.
In tbe southeast part of Indiana severe
losses were reported.
In Union county crops were damaged 10 to
15 p:r cent.
In Ripley connty, wheat suffered badly.
In Decatur county, wheat yields hut one-
fourth cf a crop.
In Shelby county, two-thirds of Iho wheat
fa sprouting very last.
In Dearborn county the loss in tbc wheat
crop will be far up in the thousands.
Tho samo reports comes from Fayette
connty. Cora will yield about three-fourths
of a crop.
CROP PSOSPECTS IN TUE NORTH
WEST.
. FORTUNE^ WHEEL
Half a Million of Greenbacks
Scattered Among the
people.
List of Prizes Above One Hun 1
drod Dollars.
The drawing commenced at 8 o'clock in
the morning. The first number drawn from
the wheel wu 62,485, which drew two hun
dred dollars. About 11 o'clock ticket 31,764
drew $20,000. At 3 o'clock, ticket 64,170
drew $25,000. Then followed twenty-five
small prizes, after which ticket 20,893 wu
called, and carried off the $100,000 capital
prize. The interest and excitement reached
the climax at this point.
The $50,000 prize wu drawn coon after
wards, and from that time the interest began
to flag, though bnt a small portion of the
audience left the ball till the last number had
been drawn.
WHAT DID TOC DBAWf
This wu the common salutation ail over
tbe city while the drawing wu progress!
The Courier-Journal office alone sold 12,
extra copies. The $25000 prize wu drawn by a
liquor dealer; tbe $10,C(X) prize by five mem
bers of a Hook and Ladder Company; and
the $5,000 prize by a hatter—all of Louis
ville.
The only prize drawn in Atlanta, so far os
fa known, wu a quarter interest in a $100
prize. This amount belongs to a club of
ten.
Lucky Numbers*
The following numbers drew $1,000 each:
03.611
10,919
41271
7G.553
91,048
63,650
67,689
88,739
91263
37,461
27281
57,695
73,783
9,380
17,179
41740
93215
92,901
51,653
23,771
16,383
87,010
32.768
07,990
39,939
85,660
37,160
38248
46,441
90,604
18,066
5,050
45,743
80,064
13,934
2,176
90213
45,249
22,196
9,327
49292
99,701
76,323
38,003
98225
73,130
6258
95263
92,193
85,017
8,988
98,679
Tho following numbers drew $500 each:
32,047 68,848 15,985 27,049
90,055 80,986 19,938 13,025
15,463 74,454 43.117 1,950
15,604 18,147 53,437 38,043
54,636 97,637 27,137 46,709
The following nnmtxrs drew $400 each:
63,278 19,623 44,852 70,757
35,881 47,783 94,149 73,199
27,298 80,923 83,437 32,527
47,755 39,274 23,695 4.447
78,912 33,263 98,337 23,367
39,713 42,577 26,945 23,375
47,177 14,770 27,459 16,760
85,497 93,333 95,208 22,127
18,101 97,991 46,023 28871
10,073 72,005 49,805 71,290
7,994 24,593 99,031 28,167
54,760 34225 41,127 93,140
0,650 85,472 1,160 80,814
72,759 35,579 57,163 49,914
27,527 40,155 30,197 4,356
93,651 12,528 92,259 11,990
34.072 87,771 33.474 0.854
51,850 78,232 26,116 8,756
80,774 13,080 17,058 09,052
8,531
The following numbers drew $300 each:
Chicago, July 9.—Telegraphic crop re
torts from numerous points in Illinois and
Iowa, covering a greater put of these Stales,
show that while recent severe rain storms
considerably damaged the wheat crop parlic-
ululy in localities where it b just ready to
harvest, there will be fully an average crop.
Oats have suffered more, being bailly lodged,
and in many places will have be mowed.
Corn looks well, and with favorable weather
will make a full average crop.
T11L HARPER’S FERRY
PROPERTY.
Letter from the UDitcd States
Attorney General on the
Subject.
Washington, July 10.—The Attorney
General hu written a letter in relation to tbe
snits now pending to enforce the vendor’s
lien on tbe Harper’s Ferry property, in which
he rayi it is not my intention to have this
troperty offered for sale under tbe vendor’s
ien until all outstanding claims against the
property are adjusted, and particularly not
until it hu been judicially determined what
right or claim, if any, the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company have to the property
or any part thereof.
The Great Camming Cotton
Claim.
The Award is $20,000.
Washington, July 10—A P. Horse,
counsel for the claimsnts, telegraphs from
Newport that he has gained the great Cam
ming cotton claim before the British Com
mission here. Tbe cotton wu captured on
Red River. An award wumade of $20,000.
Suicide of a seaman.
Nobfolx. July 10—George Sand, the
mate on duty on the Uoited Blatcs Receiving
ship New Hampshire,' at the Nary Yard,
suicided to-day, by shooting.himself through
the head with a revolver. Tbe suicide, it fa
believed, wu caused by disappointment in
love. Deceased wu 23 years cf age and a
son of John R- Sand, Rear Admiral, United
States Navy.
THE fflORDECAI DUEL
The R'ghta of Witnesses in Oases Crim
inating Thexae'ves.
pose, Hood and Johnston will meet u ol
companions in arms.
BYGONIS WILL BZ BYGONES,
and they talked over the past u only two
distinguished and great officers who have
done their duty can afford to do.
tWThis fa how the Louisville Courier-
Journal looks at it: “ They shonld quit abus
ing Pen Hyacinlhe for marrying. They
shonld remember that the faacisations of a
Yankee widow traveling u the agent of a
patent corset are not to be whistled down the
wind u yon would tbe charms of an ordi
nary woman traveling merely for fan.”
Richmond, July 10.—In the case of Dr.
Cnllen, one of the surgeons in the Mordecal
duel, who refused to testify before the Grand
Jury on the ground that he might criminate
himself, Judge Gengre to-day decided that
he most answer questions propounded by
tbe Grand Jury or be held for contempt.
Tbe counsel asked for a suspension of sen
tence in order to appeal to the Supreme
Court, which wu granted and commitment
of tbe witness postponed till that time.
LATEB DISPATCH.
Richmond, July 10.—Notwithstanding the
refusal of Dr. Cultcn to testify on the dueling
case, the Grand July, with the evidence be
fore them, found true hills of indictment
against the four seconds for tbe wilful and
malicious murder of Hordccai.
17,021
51,849
94,971
43,467
28.018
3.C94
44,905
99,745
31,9110
420
53,150
53,734
86,472
7,710
90,888
97,511
74.610
42.813
38,918
7,120
73,328
49,807
36,320
24,»3
74,290
69,361
63,558
24,787
19208
55,023
39,764
87.611
3,362
80,160
69,540
90,710
45.782
71,203
1-2,956
46.611
74,810.
91220
93,903
43.827
83,631
29.783
61280
55,798
58,553
61268
07,865
82,542
07,145
40,405
92,060
49,906
20,845
22,000
46,807
20278
81,919
15,160
14,013
48239
25,910
55,074
59,095
44.631
12,057
81229
81,107
14250
77,343
3,128
3,851
2,369
0,634
50,834
88,059
71,038
43,190
03276
81283
86,720
21204
49,480
15274
84233
79,993
83,667
71,011
62216
89,321
25,166
16,036
20,655
83.187
45,723
The following numbers drew $200 each:
20,540
16,549
60,121
83.477
84,003
02.477
94,809
66,471
9.66G
90,062
7,720
92254
27,110
69,569
31,545
73,187
80,827
53,762
27.911
93.627
62,721
89,240
68,160
69,554
34,105
87,718
97,618
2,809
85,870
45,795
05247
83,496
13,492
37239
80,622
59,168
86,971
95,918
3,497
70,319
18,191
4223
43,044
5,395
36,106
74,753
11,101
59,857
79,513
23622
91.739
92,810
72,092
99,949
9.647
88,491
84,460
48261
48,681
31247
40274
60,198
68,050
74,446
28206
88268
82,958
68,072
27,797
64,705
73205
09,117
4,340
41,417
83245
47,840
01280
05,874
570
673
80263
48270
45,670
25240
34275
36,040
51278
15,220
17,772
78,184
63,349
8,830
64,686
62,485
37,716
50270
98233
04260
53,735
18238
70228
67298
70,502
16284
58203
19.G54
9,229
27,805
630
36,960
15227
43219
10,073
47227
70280
37,400
22,024
15204
5294
44,496
18.G64
4,118
69,708
73,560
82243
44261
20,043
94,345
80,979
40215
82,333
54,455
70,550
02,042
90290
27,526
03265
14,745
43,601
48,093
45,071
1230
09,881
4,645
64292
33,189
A Fighting Grout
‘rom tbc Loals’tUe Lefgtr.]
A groom and bride entered the sleeping-
car at Baltimore, the groom glaring at every
body as though be wanted to fight on the
spot Hfa little wife, however, seemed very
happy and good-natured. After tho train got
ont of tho city, the newly married man be
came extremely disagreeable. He picked a
quarrel with the negro porter on the car and
knocked him down. The 'aleeping-car con
ductor then inlerfcrring, he walked into him
and after a brief straggle laid him on the floor
blcedingatcveryporeTHavingmade way with
theso individual?, the rest of the passengers
carefully kept out of bis way, and he rat on
hfa seat boiling and simmering with wrath
and ready to engage in a fresh conflict.
After a while his wife expressed a desire to
retire, and he had a berth mado np at the
point of the beyond, and the bride, letting
her hoops and other useless adjuncts fall on
tbe floor, crept into the berth, followed by
her giant liege lord. Tbiokhtg that all wu
qniet and safe the gentleman who had the
berth above that of tbe newly married pair
attempted to reach it by resting one foot on
the champion fighter’s bath. No sooner
had he taken this first step than hfa leg wu
seized by tho monster below, >nd he found
himself dragged down with violence to the
floor, suffering considerable Injury. Then be
received a blow from the fist of the warlike
groom. He, however, leaped op, and, re
gardless of tbe presence of the bride in the
berth, gave the groom a good thrashing, uhe
lay cramped np. This quieted him, and
the car attest had rest When the con
ductor came around for tickets. Mr. Groom,
reaching down to the floor, picked up his
wife’s drawers, and mistaking them for bis
pantaloons felt for his tickets for about
twenty minutes; bat not finding any recep
tacle fn this garment for tickets he gave it
up in disgust, when, at the suggestion of the
conductor, he looked np hfa breeches and
found them. The fellow wu well dressed,
apparently had plenty of money, and wu
not intox£cated£It is supposed that the nov
elty of his situation overcame hfa
rig?" The Western Vindicator, of Ache-
ville, N. C.. hu the following advertisement:
“Wanted!—A Jolly, rollicking, laughing
boy wants to open a correspondence with
rosy, langhing, buxom girl; a frank,|
natured, honest girl: a feeling, flirting,
ing, doating, smiling, smacking, jolly, joking,
jaunty, jovial, poser, poking, dear little anck
of a gin. Hikz Flint.”
THE M0NM0TH PARK RACES
Long Bban<bi, July 10.—King Amw'cu,
won the two year old race; time 1:181- Hob-
bard won the four mile race, distancing com
petitors on the first heat; time 727j. Light
ning Colt won the third race; time 2:”4i.
XW Texu te large and sparsely populated
bnt the poor people are doing the best the
can. A Wade man te the father of 50 chi
drrn, having had 13 by his first wife,18 by hfa
second, 10 by hfa third, 6 by hfa fourth, and
thus far, 3 by his fifth.
jy Theodore Hook wu once asked fora
contribution to the treaury of the Society for
the conversion of the Jewa He said he
quite unable to give any money, hot if
society would send him a Jew he would
his best to convert him.
Summary ot stato Nevra.
AUGUSTA,
afternoon a negro named
Ed. Pelot knocked down and robbed a yonng
white man named Tom. Lanham on thcTtiiirh-
way three miles beyond Hamburg. The no-
go had obtained permission from yonng
Lanham to ride with him a abort distance in
to the country from Hamburg. When tho
two rrachcd the three mile post on tho high-
>n *fcnly struck hfa victim on tiic
head with a stidqknocking him senseless. He
then rifled hi, pocketof a considerable ram
of money, took bis watch and pistol and
then decamped. Mr. Lanham’a injuries are
severe, but will not be fatal Pelot fa sup-
iwaed to be in Augusta, and the police are on
the alert. This law-abiding darkey fa a con-
table in a justices court in Hamburg. Sure
ly the town ought to bo proud of him
Mra- Weriey Shelley committed sulcido in
Granitevilie, 8. O., on Monday morning bv
shooting herself through tho head. Shohad
been married less than a month. Domes
tic unhappiness was the cause of the rash
act At a meeting of tho Augusta Fire
Department on Tuesday night, Mr. Frank
Smyth wu elected Chief for tho unexpired
The day passenger train on tho Georgia
Railroad brought to the city a singular party
yesterday afternoon—a captured runaway
couple, consisting of a coal black negro man
and quite a good looking white girl abont 17
years of age, tbe father ot tbe latter, an of
ficer of the tow and several citizena of Wilkes
The negro was in chains.
_ after an explanation of the affair,
we ascertained tint the old gentleman,
father of tbe girl, was a respecta
ble farmer of Appling connty. Some
months since he hired a negro man
—tbo individual referred to as being
nnder arrest—to work on bis farm. About
month ago it wu discovered that rather
to intimate relations existed between tbc
negro and danghter of the employer, and the
two, to avffid the consequences, immediately
fled and proceeded to Elberton, where tbc
negro had relatives living. Hither, how
ever, they were followed by the justly
enraged father of tbe degraded girl, ac
companied by an officer of the law
several neighbors, and their ar-
was effected. They were brought
down, u statcJ, teat evening, and left test
evening for Appling connty, by the night
train of the Central Railroad. The negro, wc
understand, te also charged with having com
mitted the offense of burglary while in tbe
farmer’s employ. He fa a brutal looking
specimen, black, greasy and repulsive,
in every respect. The girl evinces no
contrition for her shameful conduct, but
”’ clings to her biutfah paramour,
asserts that her father was the
prime cauae of tbe trouble, as he raised sev
eral of hfa daughters as ladies and made the
others, herself among the number, work in
fields with the negroes. However, bo
t as it may, tho advocates of the detesta-
doctrinc of miscegenation have their fool
ideas carried out to their fullestextentin this
case. A more shocking example could hard
ly bo imagined.—Chronte'e and Sentinel.
The Anguatain hide fa tongh and tho mus-
quitocs havo departed disgusted and fam
ished. Their busy hum no longer “makes
music in the air.” '•
G BIFFIN.
Mr. Seaborn Fuller, of Meriwether connty,
ns drowned on Friday lasL He was in
Flint River swimming, and wes caught in a
awift current and unable to save himself.
The little folks of Gridin will have a party
at the handsome residence of Colonel Nun-
nally to-night. A btg time fa anticipated.
—The officers elected for the present quar-
', ot Warren Lodge, L O. O. F., were in
stalled on Monday night They arc all good
~ m and will materially advance the interests
tho Lodge.—Neat.
Only a few weeks ago a young gentleman
and a professor who had bran invited to de
liver an address at ono of the recent com
mencements in Griffin did so, and unfortu
nately selected for hfa subject, the fashions
Since that unhappy speech, the wretched
young gentleman has had no rest by day and
no sleep by night. First, the papers tackled
him, and wanted to know where he got all
hfa items ot information, he being a single
man, and now a lady comes to the surface in
a published letter, and completely crushes
him by raying that she can’t see “what Uni
on orator has, when called upon
deliver an address before an as
sembly of ladies, to intersperse it
with insulting and disgusting remarks
aboutthem and their dress.” We have not
learned whether the wretched yonng man
contemplates suicide or emigrating to Alas
ka, but wc are satisfied he will never again
dilate upon matters he fa presumed to know
nothing about. Wo have given the affecting
experience of this young gentleman as a
solemn warning to all yonng men who may
hereafter be called upon to mako a speech
before tbe girls. Upon all matters ot dress
the dear creatures have absolute and sovereign
control and ft fa the height of folly to attempt
to advise them upon anything, much less
upon this all important topic. Let ns, then,
THE DISEASE NO LONGER
PREVAILS IN THE
TENNESSEE
TOWNS.
Only Two Deaths in Chatta
nooga ---
TbeVansUtuiton’a Special Dltpalch.
Chattanooga, July 10, 1873.
Only two deaths from cholera have been
reported to-day. The City Physician rays
ho fa satisfied that one of these wu a case of
dysentery.
Tho weather fa very warm and oppressive
and if people are imprudent in exposing
themselves to the hot ana, there may be a few
more caaea The physicians, however, are of
the opinion that all the people, black as well
as white, are so aroused to the necessity of
prompt action to control the first symptoms
of tho disease, that there will be very few
more death*. Lookout.
PRESS D1SPATCUES.
Maiimiis, I July 10.—Only one cholera
death to-day.
Brest an, July 10,-Eightccn cases of
cholera have occurred here, fourteen of which
were fatal. In Linlubnrg eight person*
were stricken down—four are dead.
Tbc Choleraic Mutation.
The epidemic fa rapidly abating in Ten
nessee. There was only one cholera death
in Nashville on Tuesday and none on
Wednesday. Similarly gratifying reports
come in front the other infectod towns
of Middle and East Tenncsacr. The
disease is materially decreasing at
Huntsville and Ritmingham, the only
two infected points in Alabama. An
other week will probably aufllsc to drive tbc
scouigc away from all territories Booth of
Kentucky and East of the Mississippi river.
Its course in the North fa uncertain.
The Northern cities arc forewarned, and
every sanitary precaution will be brought
into the field to ward of the fell of King
Death. ' *
The telegraphic advice of our failhfal and
intelligent Chattanooga correspondent shonld
be heeded liy all towns in which the “ pre
vailing disease” prevails. He transmits the
result of aclnai experience. lie knows
whereof he speaks; and ho unqualifiedly
pronounces the use of lime an evil, and that
of copperas and carbolic add blessings, dur
ing an actual violation of the dread disease.
ujiuu uiuou luijiunuue luiiiu area ua, vulu,
bow our beads and submit in silence to all
the inflictions the angels may pfaco upon us
in the way of themanitold and unmentionable
mysteries of feminine toiletea. U they choose
to look like camels, or to cover np two side
walks and half the road, let them do it.
However hard it may be, and however vio
lent the presumption, it fa our duty to pre
sume that they never deal in counterfeit ar
ticles, or display charms they don't possess.
COLUUDUS.
The Columbus merchants are still exer
cised over the rale recently inaugurated
there of doting all stores at six r. x. One
of them has struck an attitude on the sub
ject. He rays be worked twenty years at the
rate of fourteen hoars a day, and thinks there
fa too much idleness in this country any how.
He fa going to keep his alore open until he
gets ready to shot it np, six o'dock leagues to
the contrary notwithstanding.—Allen Brown
alias “Possum,” a well known old iron hunter
of Coiambus, was brought befero the Ordi
nary on Tuesday upon a charge of lunacy.
After that learned dignitary had sat upon
him for about two hours he discovered that
“Possum” could be scarcely d&ssified among
the intellectual lights ot the present age.
“Possum” left for the asylum at Milledgevule
on Wednesday afternoon—Enquirer.
Two countrymen, incredible as the fact
may appear, actually had to search Colum
bus several hours the other day to find a life
insurance agent They finally discovered a
member of that irrepressible element of mod
ern society near tbe goard-bonse interview
ing a prisoner through a key hole on the
cy question. When he heard that they
rad been hunting for him bis feelings be
came too great for control, and for
some little time tbo astonished agent
was bereft, not only of speech, but
almost of consciousness. He subsequently
rallied when be beard one cl them intimate
something about a policy, andthdr business,
including the pocketing of the premium was
iromptly adjusted. Wc mention this for the
xnefit of those of onr readers wbo may be
contemplating starting an insurance business.
MACON.
Tbc reward of 21 cents offered by the city
authorities for all uncoltored docs is working
destruction in their ranks. Valter-legged
con arc growing beautifully less, and impe
cunious darkies are realizing quite a small
fortune In the dog business. The r
ites want tbe city authorities to convert the
city reserve at the upper end of Holbein
street into a public park. With a little
improvement in the way of terracing,
setting ont flowers, etc., it is thought
that thia at present unsightly spot can be
transformed into every pretty park, and fur
nish a place of recreation to large numbers
of people who are not accessible to the other
parks. Tbe increased taxable value of the
property around will more than repay tne
A Dcautifui Widow’s Fate.
Tragedy In Hillsboro, North Unroll.
na-TIic story ol Iho Sclr.dc-
■trncilon ol Sirs. Dinrray—
One Version or tho
Circumstance.
Orange County Greatly Kxellod.
Hilliboho.N. C., July 1, 1813.
Orange county hat never had such • mo
tion aa that caused by the anicide of Mrs.
Maria Murray. On the day of the raicide
there was a public execution, bnt that occur
rence exerted no interest whatever in com
parison with the snidde. Mrs. Murray re
sided in Orange county about four miles from
Hillsboro, tiho was the widow of Mr. Wm.
Murray, an esteemed (dtlzcn. She was
abont twenty-eight years old, handsome and
wealthy, and before her marriage
AN ACKKOWLEDGXD mix
Her social position was of the best, and
her family connections arc influential and
extensive- Mr. Murray died about four
years ago, leaving four small children. Pre
vious to hisdeatibhe employed on his plan
tation a man named White, of Parson county,
as overseer or “cropper.” White fa married,
and had the reputation of being a fellow of
low tastes and vile habits; but be behaved
well enough until tho death or Mr. Murray.
After that event he began paying attentions
to Mrs. Murray, and their intimacy, notwilh-
atand the disparity of their social positions
and the marriage of White, bccamo
TUB SUBJECT Or MCCU SCANDAL
Mrs. Murray, hearing of It mado White
move out of the kitchen, which he had been
occupying, and tmild a honsa for his own
use on another part of tho plantation. She
then went to Mia. White, who she under
stood had circulated evil reports about her,
and finding her at home, drew a pistol, and
threatened to qniet her jealousy by, a shot.
But Mrs. White wu not scared and dared
her to do her worst; whereupon Mrs. Mur
ray pocketed the pistol and left the boose.
About two weeks ago the remora in regard
to White and Mia. Murray were more pain
fully prominent than ever, and White sud
denly disappeared. Mrs. Murray then an
nounced her
INTENTION TO COMMIT SUICIDE,
and attempted to destroy herself, first by
city for tho outlay. Mrs. Boykin gave a
parlor {concert on Thuraday night at her
residence, which was largely attended by the
elite and fashion ot Macon. Two rooms
were thrown open to the company and beau
tifully decorated with flowers. Among the
ladies who contributed to the entertain
ment were Mrs. Hunter, Mra. Wells as
sopranoes. Miss Boilfeuillet and Mrs.
O. A. Bacon as barytones. Tbe whole
was nnder charge of Professor Czarda. .The
selections were very fine, and were admira
bly executed. The care of attempt to
commit rape, which has been pending in the
connty court of Macon for several days,
came up for trial before Judge Weems on
Tuesday morning. As fa uiaalin such cases
tbe court loom was packed with interested
spectators, bnt in this case they did not have
ail the fan they expected, for tbe prosecution
broke down and Ute Judge discharged the
prisoner.—Telegraph and Messenger.
la wanes.
John Morrow, an old citizen ot Gwinnett,
died test Friday. He had been in feeble
health one or two yean. A man named
Jackson Daniel was shot and severely wound
ed test week In the upper part of Gwinnett
county by a young man named Frayer. The
roll particulars are not yet known. On
Monday night tbe store of Mr. John H.
Shackleford was burglarized to tbe tone of
$350. While Shackleford went to the post-
office the burglar entered the back door and
secreted himself up stain in the building.
His operations were conducted later in the
night.—Herald,
annm, then by catting her throat, and
then by hanging, butcach time she was foiled.
Her friends then established a kind of guard
over her, and one or more of than stayed
with her all the time. On Sunday night
last a Mrs. Brown was with her, and they
occupied the same bed. In the night Mra.
Brown suddenly awoke and found that her
friend had escaped. Search was immediately
instituted, bnt not until there had been con
siderable delay, caused tiy having to send to
a neighbor’s for light, there being no matches
in tho house. At length the body of Mrs.
Murray was found in the garret. A hank of
yam, tied tightly abont her neck, was al-
achcd to a hook in tho ceiling. She had
stood with one foot on a chair and the other
on a box while
ADJUSTING TnE NOOSE,
and had then dropped between them.
When the discovery wu mado the body
was quite warm, fife not being extinct, and
it U possible that resuscitation was then
possible; but thoeo who found it were so un
nerved by the Bight that instead of catting
the body down, they ran ont to call in the
neighbors, and when they arrived Mra. Mur
ray was dead from suffocation. Tho coro
na's jury have u yet returned no verdict,
and have adjourned until the 5th instant. In
the meantime it fa hoped that White will be
found.
HT A citizen of Connecticut, recently in
troduced to a newly married man, congratu
lated him warmly, and said: “Ah, theso
Litchfield country girls make clever wins.
I’ve had three of them.”
|ST The intensity of dignity fa an old fe
male darkey sitting at asccond story window
sewing, with brass barred spectacles on.
BT The latest instance afforded by a “fond
mother” of her son's cleverness fa said son's
correcting her for raying that hewas all over
dirt. He said the dirt was all over him.
tSTA Buffalo girl, pretty girl, pretty and
eighteen, has sold over lire hundred sewing
machines in the lut two years. She travels
with a horse and wagon, smiles when she
leaves a machine, and aheds tears if anybody
afterwards refuses to keep it. This docs the
business.
X9T A physician stopped at the shop ot a
country apothecary and inquired for a phar-
macoptcpia. “Sir, said the apothecary, “I
know of no inch farmer living abont these
parts. No one of that name belongs to my
Grange.”
Beethoven’s brother used to sign his
name “ Von Beethoven, landowner,” to dis
tinguish himself from hit less thirl ty brother,
who retorted i>y signing “Von Beethoven,
brain-owner.”
Vice President Wlhsa.
It is authc r'.titirely stated that Vice Presi
dent Wilson is a confirmed paralytic invalid,
who can only live with careful nun ing and
cessation of exciting toil.