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WBATUAhOLLAMt
Mr. Hill deprecate* the ideeof m»k-
Ing 90 or 92 cent* ■ dollar. With .11
doe rewpeet for oar dwtingnUbed n .-
tor, wo brg leevo to say thit his ideas
»r* clearer on 007 other subject then
that of finance. What does he mast,
b/ s dollar of SO or 92 cents? From
tints Immemorial we have had a silrer
dollar of 4118 Trains sod a (old
dollar of 28.8 grains. lbs
silerr dollar was worth more
1 hen the (old dollar In 1873 and yet the
latter was a dollar. It bad the money
property, end eo the silrer dollar baa
now; for tbs underground act of 1873
did not lake sway the legal tender
cnaracter ol the silrer dollar. It simply
stopped its coinage.
What then does Mr. Hill mean by
talking shorn a dollar of SO or 92 cento ?
What cents does be mean? A dollar
of 412 8 grains is one of the legal aland
ards by which larger or lesser coins are
to bo judged. Are not lour of our sil
rer *1 narters a dollar? They are legal
tender for any eom below fire dol
lar*. and yet ihey are only worth
84 81 cents at gold rales. The
truth is, the gold or silrer dollar Is
worth 1001 100 of Itself. It is the
standard, and to talk, as Mr. Hill does,
of a dollar of 90 or 92 cents la, to asy the
least, confusing.
lint let us luck at tbeqnestionaa Mr.
Hill seems diapaeed to do. The Wash
ington Kepnblican presents the facta in
a concise form:
On Um Mid «f DicwiW at Boon um atliing
price of culd la Wall lUM, New Yftcfc, «u
10.54 The price In fold of gas direr
bnuuawaeSl.llMPWossea. Tnemulncprice
of Uis U.4. So l*r lassie was ft,71S easts, sad
thstsl oorralatalery direr ads, seen as kali
aud quarter <1oUm* o< pnaas.1 edsass, was St.,
ten mala To* Sallies rauoi af Inula dallarr,
tSaaMsucodard Solar, sad at Ike latslSiary
oiiaataln soldootnallb.atom rauaolsold
and miss at gas direr la as (allows.
Tiadadalla. Mn
HCaadarddoi:«r„ goes
Hub*Illary coins .... SI
Frum tkle It apptwrr that tbaaubddiarr dollar
wkleh la net a legal taedar lar aay ram In as.
earn of arc dollan, aad which contains bal St SI
era's el sold rams, is actually worthra am owns,
or 11.*87 orals men than u sboald ha aconnUns
to the Ihcort.aer the paakramesao wanblp-
Pns Oflbasddra calf. Il also uproars that
area the pads dollar, which Is not a U cal iru.
das lor any sum. but Is ssracly arampd bunion,
is worth amp roam amse than im Imilinaralue
- but as thorn la aouloasa C hars* of 1)4 cram on
aacb trade dollar. It Is bat mlr to deduct it
tbalolrora. laartuf the market rslua ol Um
trade dollar orar im balllOB roloe t MS cram.
I also appears that tharalueot hullluo In the
landard d. liar aborw that la the subsidiary dol
lar tab 17 cram
It te lair, tbsa, to assume that the dollar of
Sl.Js sraloawtald lie wurth at lerttas machaa
our satwldmrr dollar, plus the os era surer, nr
about Um ralaaa* ihasaaMaoia, whoa struct,
sumputlously or otbartrim. Iromtha Hal 01
standard r-doa. We da Bar think that say ea-t-
dhl. lair minded Parana, after carefully oourld-
ollnglfcte elmple suuamrat, will irel errtously
rlarmad al the del use ol loaeiau or domestic all-
rtf that la likely to pour In upon ue. or at the
praeiect at a notation 01 public faith, or the
rulu ol the public credit by Incrrortna the -ol-
uma of our 00(0 etieulatton and maklns thed I
lar ol our lathers a par factor in the pay meal of
our debts ^
TUB RATIOS AL 9 CARD.
The reply of the secretary of war to
the leeolntioo of Senator Deris, of
Wars Virginia, in regard to the militia
of the slates, will be submitted upon
the reassembling cf congress, and will
doubtless lead to a careful conaiders-
tion of this important subject. Ac
companying the reply mil be a lengthy
report from the chief of ordinance, in
which be will renew bis recommenda
tions that the annual appropriation for
proriding arms and equipments for
the whole body of the militia be in
creased from (200.000 to 11,000,000,
and that the law be so amended as to
8a the responsibility for arms issued to
the states, and require the necessary
property returns to be made at stated
periods to the ordnance office The
records of the war department show
that the organised militia of the country
numbers 90,868 and the unorganised
2.878,400. A general reyiaion of the
militia laws will be recommended, and
congress will be asked to legislate so as
to Us the p •peraccounisbilUy and care
of the arms issued to the state. The
attorney-general recently decided that
the states are inrested with nothing
more than a qualified property in the
arms issued to them, but the statutes
no provisions for any
accountability whatever to the
general government. It ' will
be recommended that tbe arms end
equipments Issued to them shall be ac
counted tor in the same manner as in
tbe regular army, and loss of, or dam
age to such arms, except the ordinary
wear and accidents of service, shall be
made good to the United States. Dur
ing the troubles growing out of the labor
•trikes last summer the government
bad no means of knowing the number
or condition of arms in the hoods of
militia ol tbe states on account of this
derect in tbe law. It will be shown that
Alabama, Florida, North and Hoot*
Carolina are entitled to receive certain
credita In tbe army appropriation bill
tor tbe fiscal year ending June 30,1876,
a clause wss inserted, providing that
so much of the annual appropriation of
$200,000 os would have been used for
the purchase of arms between January
1,1861, and April 9,1865, to be distrib
uted to the several states that were in
rebellion, should be covered into the
treasury. After the passage of the act
of March 3,1873, and before the pas
sage of tbe army bill, containing the
above mentioned provision, Arkansas,
Georgia, Iouiaiana, Mississippi, Ten
nTrace, Texas and Virginia drew their
quotas, amounting in tbe aggregate to
about $184,172 66; but A’abama, Flor
Ida, North and Boutli Carolina did not
make application for their quotas,
amt.anting in the aggregate to $70,-
183 68.
riACI AMD FRA TBXylTT.
TIRRSORM alUJSA.St
Home of the wreckers in New York,
who have money to loan are refusing
to lend to western borrowers unless,
along with other unjust elections, they
agree to pay principal and interest in
gold. At least such is the silly thing
the New Y’ork Tribune is publishing.
This Is revenge at the outlet, and a ter-
nb'e revenge, too—a revenge that pro
ceeds upon the aaanmplion that the
entire capital of the country is with tbs
wreckers of the east. This is
very pretty little romance, but Its
texture la suspiciously like that of the
ho.tiers of tbe forged Georsia bonds,
who vowed and declared that if the
bogus m entities were not paid the
credit of the state would be forever
ruined. The forgeriee, however, were
"repudiated’*—(we take pleasure in eru
ploying a term the use of which seenn
to give tbe afflicted men of Wall street
so much satisfaction)—lhe forgeries
were "repudiated,” and what is the
result? Why, the credit of Georgia
is as good as that of any state
in the onion, and her Dornls
find as ready market. It so happened
that shortly after these tremendous
threats, tbe state found herself com
palled to raise a small loan. Tbe nec
rosary bonds were Issued ard when tbe
Wall street men found that our own
people had taken them all up, they
jumped in with tboir bids and ran the
price up to 11A Ho much for tbe
power of Wall street and eastern capi
tab Tbe silver bill will not only para
but those of the south and west
who oppose it on the ba*is
of the sophoetical arguments
already advanced against it, will come
to regret their action, and western
borrowers will continue to gat mnney
on easy terms whenever they want it.
Heally, the etillnces cf the weekers
and their organa is gening to be tire-
Oa tbe question of reimpoeiog tbe
income tax, tbe committee on ways and
means will probably stand as follows:
for restoring the income tax, Meaws.
Tucker, bayler. Bobbins, Harris ol
Georgia, Gibson of Louisiana, and
Borchard of Illinois. On tbe other
hand, Messrs, Wood, Phelps, Kelley,
Garfield, and Banks represent tbe
eastern sentiment, and will oppose it.
In the house of representatives the
majority for such a tax Is estimated at
not leas than twenty or thirty. Tbe
southern and western members will
favor this tax as the only way of mak
ing tbe capital of the east bear its share
of the public burdens
Tits KentucSy legislature ia in ses
sion, and next week they will elect an
United Stales senator to succeed Thoe.
U. McOreery, who ia not a candidate.
Cniel Justice Lindsey, Gen Oetro
Gotdo Williams and Got. Jsa B Mc
Creary are the three leading candi
dates, having from 30 to 40 votes each.
Gen Williams is probably the moat
popular mao with the maaeee, but
Judge Lindsey has a reputation for the
highest ability and Gov McCreery for
tbe most political strength. Tbe dark
horse ia supposed to be either Mr
Caldwell or Proctor Knott.
BILL CBASDLSKS FRAUDS.
The New York Sun seems to be of
tire opinion that Bill Chandler knows
all about the frauds by which the elrc
torsi votes of the three southern states
of South Carolina, Florida and Louisi
ana were counted for Hayea. The 8un
is right. Hweet William knows a good
deal more then he dare tell. He was
the prime mover in that deplorable
business. He conceived and put into
execuiion nil the corruption whereby
tbe people were swindled out of their
rightfully elected president. We have
no doubt that Governor Brown, of this
state, if the matter were worth going
over again, could write up Chand'er’s
connection with the Florida frauds in s
manner that would convince ever.,
candid mind that the New Hemp hire
dyspeptic wss at the bottom of sll tbe
corruption practiced by Cowgill and
McLtn, of tbe Florida board of canvas
era. But the time la not suspicious.
Chandler little knew Ibst in working
tbe temporary success <1
tbe radicals ne woe laying
a mine that would explode in 1880 snd
blow his detestable party out of 1 xiet
once. We can not only afford to en
dure Mr. Ilayee and endorse that pari
of his policy which looks toward re
form and pacification, but we car
acquit him of all complicity in tbe cor
rupliou which gave him bis p-vseu
position. Tbe people, bowever.cauuui
afford to endure hie party longer than
1880.
Tux sub-committees of tbe bouse
committee on appropriations are busily
engaged in preparing the appropriation
bills, snd it is expected that they will
lie prepared to report at least tour bills
within a few days after the reassem
bling of congress. These will be pen
sions, army, consular and diplomatic,
and execu.ive snd legislative. Tbe
latter is usually ons of tbe last reported,
but sa it is at tbe same time one of tbe
Heaviest and most important, the com
mittee will try to report it early so that
it may be more carefully considered
than it could be toward tbe end of the
a sod rusks roars widow
Tnxx have go. up a story now W the
effect that Ulysses Grant, jr, ark.-d for
a free railroad ticket from S.. Louie lo
Cincinnati tb« other day, and was re
fused. 1! it wasn’t lor Um fact that
railroad ticket agents are daily accu
mulating more and more pride, and
vanity, snd brass, we would believe tbe
A paragraph in an exchange states
that the widow of Henry Tlmrod it
now in Washington endeavoring to
obtain s position under the government
It is to be hoped she will be success-
f al. The administration ci ul J not give
its southern policy a more graceful or
welcome direction than to pioTide a
place for one who, through the genii-.,
of her husband, is endeared to the
southern peop e. It ia not too much
ay, that of all the poe'.s
tb s section baa thus tar produced, pox
ferity will regard Timrod ee the best
Uis genius wss ol that rare sort that
made itself conspicuous in every line
he wrote, snd it wss purely and dis
tinctively southern. He died.brqoeath
ing to the wife he loved to tenderly,the
poverty that seems to be the hand
maiden of genius. For himself he bore
the burthens that misfortunes placed
upon him without murmur or com
plaint, and he wee gentle end patient
to the end. It is to be
itopsd ibst tbe wife ol tbe deed pool
will be eocceeslul in ber endeavors to
obtain government employment, and
we feel sure that no act of tbe admin
i*tration or any portion thereof will
more cordially meet the approval of
our people than that which places the
widow of Henry Hotrod beyond the
cuolingenciee of preeent want.
Tnataaoa bonds have uil.n from
about 80 to 32, and the Knoxville Tri
bune thinks Ihsy will probably rule at
about 30 "until the financial atmos
phere of tbe state is purified by agood,
sound democratic convention, and the
election of a reliable lecislature."
Butixs is holding receptions at the
Hot Springs, Tbs climate of Hot
Springs seems to be particularly suited
to our modern republican statesmen.
The firot thing yon know B .1 Chandler
will be trotting out there.
Tux wreoxer* and ummt organs ■
to labor under tbe opinion that abuse
will prevent tbe stiver btil trom beccm
ing a law.
It requires a vast deal of argument
lo convince s poor man that two stiver
jiglfelOilMV vcp'l hoy a dollar's north
Tbe little leather-winged angel who
•dito the Chicago Inter-Ocean, who ia
all tbe time talking about “southern
bonah, sab,” saja “the politic!ana and
the praaa of the sooth do not court
peace and fraternity very successfully
—for the season they hare never de
sired it.” This reznaik ia in reply to a
statement in The Constitution to the
effect that in fourteen months the
Conklinga, the Blaines, the Edmundsea,
snd all their mottev fol-
who have engaged
In tbe great northern rebellion against
sectional peace and good will must take
their places in the minority. Tbe
leather winged angel of the Inter-
Ocean ia eminently correct. Such peac°
and fraternity as these men have been
willing to accord us—the peace of hu
miliation and the fraternity of utter
abjection - the south neither courts nor
de«rwi. We want the peace of friend-
■hip, confidence and tqtuli.y, or none
at alL Happily, a majority of the peo
ple of the north agree with us in this,
and very shortly the radical elemeot
will be a minority in the federal coun
cils. Does the editor of the Ioter-
Ooean eujiy the prospect T
THE DEAD YEAB.
btmaelf. Iacer.dUzfcs tt work ta rtnauh.
Wm H Bicn, of • mcuna, Wipe on tbe lee and
teeoka a lac Two feouaaa burned in S*Tanuah
Annuel election of officer* f a tbe Central rul-
Iroed. at tbeir office in Serinonh, reluctate* tbe
o'A board ezotpc Ur H H Apia as. of Columbus,
rice Hon Ocavw Coben, decerned
Mr Ben Milner, of S»aiding,
by ta* fcer-re ookL Huge b! .. ...
omted down tbe Bariuman river by Augusta
3 epbens quite unwdl Cspum J W
iionA ,
ItotBM. of (kartell county, more* to Atlanta.
5. *> be ntg bctiM Death ol Mieajab Max
tin, of Truor rouniy Tbe Coweu Otr grounds
»od for *1,300 Ur James A Lone, a loading
p-3«tf4*n ol Lntf rinse, emberebe to Texas. W
CYaruorooffb of GmeoeU county, dies Iron:
wounds b flictftd by Andrew Nash.
wnifcky killed a Burke county ue*ra J U Bait
U oasMs am dam editor of tbe GsUnearlile JEa
Prof Wm Peek, of Atlanta, ketered la An-
A Letter iron Hoc j B Gordon to Governor
Coiqulu. on political affun. H ary now end
ft l'ttze have suspended oprrailor a In tbe cold
-*— — Lumpkin county. A son of James
i.of K nert county, fatally burned.
busty and killed. Ten thousand of Cal
ifornia aaimon pUo*d la the Ktowab, near
jutcreriUe. Mr Aleck Lome, ai uoolj county.
to tbe
cominla euiciue. Col EY Cowke
front with bh “Atlanta History."
a. Judea Pia Brawn becomes emodste
thtor o' tbo UHffia Presa A CuUira'or.
Tbe mltl sad gin bouse of Mr Hadden of Jtffcr-
>n county burned.
9. «bfPl»K bad a to
Augusts. Tbe Columbus Jailor
Mrasa Ompbell r nd Jones or Hhu
10tbe amount of *S. UQOia ouedsy.
Spring term of tbe Laiiranae Female
jre Meetiox of tbe Gx^rjla legislature.
Kolos E Lester, of Hsvannsh, elected president
af tbe senate; Hon E P Howell, ot Pulton, pm-
; A O Bacon, ol Bit^
idem fHOtem
tbe bouae; E _
boose, ai.d Wo
tbe 1
12 Inaugural addn _
Cuiinil Georgia Wsesly, psbl ated and ea'ted
n Alt * •""*
and 1 E Murphy, of BtrnetvlUe
Gin bouse of Mr J M Korum. of Oglethorpe
county. srcMlentally burned tkndetrrllte
Mecet ucer menred into tbe Herald and Oeor
gian Bnmawkk Wrt’k.y Journal puts in Its
app«arance. Henry E Welch, s prominent ciu-
avuof Alb-toy. dead.
13 Mis Ftvy Moors, of Harris county, 77 year*
ild, cultivated with her own band* and made a
D*\ i-. S*-vler e 1 president of tbe south Georgia
tg lc?Mural association
- ‘ courts proprietor of the
Tbe dwellims house oi
by fire.
16. Mr James P Han ieou elected state printer.
One hundred and fifty two maskers at ibe Co
lumbus ball. Howe’s Cticus levied on In Au-
* 17. Mrs Hanberry now edit* the Dalton Enter-
rue know in the mountains of norm Gvorgia
cutter than ever known before. Mr K b»«rdre
bints v, of ai><tuts, is dead. Cotton receipts
at Coiumbus €82 31.
18 Card irou> w Bchloj In reyard to tbe sen
atorial ra..«. A Taylor county man raised a six
hundred pound lion-
19 Tbe resldei ce of Mr M CWsdrwortb, cf
GiltBn. acnrojtu by fire. ^ Tbe military of
worked ssain. Hn *
Burke county, acddentally burnt.
Schence wabu’t a iunny m*n. Coe
?wqueutiy he cooldn’t be minister lo
Kuglnod and an honorary director in
in the Emma mine nt one nnd the ernce
time. Evarla is n fanny man nnd he
can leave the cabinet where he ia bd(>-
po ed to bo prime minister, and argne
little railroad case, with impunity.
*^hen we eay Evarts is fanny, we
peak by the card. Witness the soul-
stirring sarcasm with which he alluded
to “New Eigland virtues” the other
*fey-
Mr D 8 Ddulap, a war era trapper,
CutuosUi Houstnu couuij to trap beavura snd
oto-r* D.a h ol Col J B Fius of Putnam
county.
rabbed. Dr G N Holmes, of Macon, dead. Gin
Now' see here! la this fair play?
Wbeu poor old tehenck, who coaid do
nothing but p!ay p >ker, was minister
o England, he was recalled because bis
came iqp printed as an honorary di
rector of a mining company. But Mr.
Ev&rts, a cabinet minister, makes bold
o appear in a New York court as coun
sel in a railroad cAse,at d no: a word cf
comment ia heard. Is Evarts to esespe
censure merely because the publ c are
oleaaed with his raiher rough j >kes ou
New E..gland virtue?
Many oi the puliticsl economist.-
alk glibly of gold as a standard ot
valne, but does gold never flucluate in
price? It should be remembered that
if gold ia a standard of value it is als^
a commodity, as much so as silver or
greenbacks. Suppose A transfers his
horse to B for a gold consideration is
not the horse the pnee of the gold ? I>
is usual to aay that A sells hia horse,
but wonkl it not be equally as correct
io say that B eells his gold ?
And now they nay Bill Chandler
wants to represent New Hampshire in
the United Stateesenate By all means
let “New England virtue” assert itself
and elect him. The “New England
virtue” alluded to the other day by
Mr. Evarts will never be completely
represented until William E. ehowshie
dyspeptic «rin at the elbow of Blaine.
nr* OLD AND TQJC A MW.
Cl ssp tlM bauds of time who sie got ngs
Kte tbftUpa that are nuMd to be kiswe
For tbe life of Tte OM Year Is fljwin*
And mdtiag away In tbe mM.
Gieet tbe New Year with inode and laughter
Let the Old pm sw-y with a tear.
For we shail RmemUr beres»’*v
Tbe xaxzj who axe with i .# &r:
And the aooxs of tbe calWren of Sorrow
Sumi uaite with the tchon of mirth.
Era tbe sweet, gad scu of to^nonow
bmikedoauou the uight-smluen earth.
The preeent tariff bill covert twenty-
one hundred and sixty items. The new
bill will have, it is said, leas than three
hundred. The free list will be abolish'
All items not enumerated as due
liable will be free. The duties will be
made specific aa far as possible, and
ad valorem only where oeces ary. There
will be no compound duties on any ar
ticle. There will be three bills - one
fixing the rate of tariff, another to pro
vide the machinery for ita oolite i n
acd one for the internal revenue tax
The second named will be the last re
ported—probably about May 1st. It ia
hoped that the other two can be re-
reported to tbe hnnse early in February.
And the a<ek, stricken daughters of Anguish
Shali Uf. h-ir sharp bar.b.'as of pun,
Aad too*, as ih- y UageTaad languish.
For Chilst’s bkssed pm—uce acaul.
For Tme hath struck down the heart’s Idols—
The fairjsr. ih dearosi hsre dW,
And L*ft!h hath eooe rnaily to bnd-.l*.
And c’slmod the first kiss cl the bride.
Bet the glory ol soon and the gray-light
Are £A bend sod oiiagied la one.
Ana ih dsrUDese ol dawn sad the daylight
Frerade the approach of the sou.
A poor ssother-blxd is oftra lifted
“FTOea the srormehakea bough where she dung
Aad ctweUy driven aad drifted
Far away Ira— her acet full of young.
▼m.
But the wild etona that buffiew aad h rrirs
This looe hUU about In the w»t
Lift* up ou Its bosom aad cvrr.es
Another bird tale to her msl
to the blind:
Sows of our stale exchanges are still
shivering over the idea that Atlanta ’ , “
influence ia going to take everything by, f1 ^.
tbe heels when the legielautre meets. The Mueraat grkJt are ■
This is a tribute to Atlanta cf which j The cruekm fa- isoderad kind.
we are inclined to feel proud; for we 1 *•
kn2w that whatever mfioenoe Atlanta *beofthu- who^aragTtag.
has will be wielded in behalf of the Um *** l:p *^ 10 w
pas win pe wiesoeu in nepaii oi ute ^ llw 0 lc Yrar U fl »wlag
lntafftaiff, prosperity and gie*tn*w« of a^
” ^ KHfUs * * . , • ”
iixvnv.
1. Tbe profits of toe Augusta. Georgia,
r lor the past fix mouths a little over S
oca which a two per cent, dfrtdend wi
arod. Mev Charles w Howard died lx* Walker
cooQty Cbmtmeft —oralag Hkigh riding la
parts of north Georgia, e J blair, of Aturaata.
dkd Thom— S Drayton dfc d fro— woun *
oclrad la a houroef 1U fame near Boom.
weather killed email grata fa the neighborhood
oi Uytu—tNia W J Gray, of Hooaton. ic l-
d^otaliy shot and lulled a negro. Death of Mr
John Curran, of Ealooton. Fred WiLlams, col
ored. drowned otardevanaab
2 Heavy mow norm through
the rate A colored boy fi
Savannah. Mr Boicrlck 1
county, died.
A Jaham Fannin, late collector of tbe 4th
Go—gla district, Wallowed his—Buy. Mr John
N Meyer, tbe new mayor of Aurasta, la pro
- atadwttaabex— sad buggy Boben Hock-
»y stacted and killed William Cranes In
Heard ccuatt The coal famine extended to
blocks ol loe
...*wSbf ibecrc'oax Tfiewrols In Oie
of LnauUn dunassiStoTfii*-
If Vr Grime, ol MKUroo snarer. MBsS
Umseif sts lo's-rnUicz bx bsmins s blood tss.
the'premipo, of Ml Ueuy MllctaU. of BouDou
ODuntT, burned.
7. Mr E Speer parch*-*
IQ A colored man in Brooks county whips hi*
wife for folninx tbe church
SsuSmSd Coiumbus troubled bygrara-
hoapers The Z-a T
at camming. Tael ^
of Bal Irek county. At—royd by Ire. Mr Thoe
Christian, a . .
Tae fine dwelling of Dr Brown,
«■ mumsx county. At—roy*4 by fire. Mr Tboa
D Huff of Uw Columbus Enquirer, married to
Mira Lou Salisbury _
90 Tbe Atheos G^oreian la tote a tri-weekly.
Ma Dr Hrlmrs, of Darien, a d«wd- Judge
James Heard, of Merriv ether county, M dead-
ttevtnlanimtlsof the wee—1 species captured
la Pntnam county.
services over the graves
38 imerutlog religious revival
MAT.
1. Irwintoo ha* a fire. Talbotoo had a then-
4 Fro— aa far i
uth aa Savannah. Cold
weather In WUktaaoo coaatv*
15 Early cucumbers lo HawkintviUft. Death
of Dr Samuel G White or MlHedgevi to. MrC
* raves for
A Nuttine. of Maoou. leai
I county. Latter from
In souls ahtre leap4 aflbcuon' „
She ia all fesd-Ae— to her friends—to foes
She glows a[ thing of passion, strength and
She feels no trmor
I But the fight prer and victory won.
How, with strata.*, •-’duora, turn* her loving
Hi tearful we4^a»<neMh gaBaat aeul - : ’M
Oh, by her virttfcwof U hsitehed p-*l—
By all heviiOfca* of what the future brings—
I glory that tty : *t with h»]r Is cast.
For her I !.
-all placed upon her
25. A rattlesnake nine fuel long, with thirty-
x rattles, killed on Lookout mountain.
29. Five Ttriaoocrs —cape fro— Thames oonnty
i M Smith*# latter on
3L John Bally, of Floyd county, hangs him
self. Mr Louis McBride,» w *‘
rrr. Col
Gesfvs, cuts his
throat with a rsaor. Col L N Trammel), if
Whitfield, define* his position on a convention.
JOKX
L Tbft death of John Gsmt-ll, ot Savannah,
colored murder In J taper county Liter of
idge Ciaik-’, of the Atlanta city court; sub
ject, •‘Bailie”
A The old Rutherford building in Macon dw
rayed by fire
7. Deate of Major J R WhMchvnd, of Mflier
county. Hon Ab—lorn H Chap pel declines be
ing a candidate for the convention.
8. Arrest ci W K A rnetLapo— office employee
In the Augusta office. Robert T Clayton has
* T In eh tree of the consulate at fWllao,
of John M Cooper, of Savannah.
Thed
known bird captured 1
i, oi ID con. Anon-
—Senttor rattersoo’s disease is “ner
vous bolhe’-a-ion,
—Neither yniteriuiism nor Univer-
pdlism has ah organised existence in
Virginia. [
—Julia A; lloore, the sweet singer of
Michigan, hah received a liberal offer
to bring out a new edition of her poems.
—Osman Pasha has seven wives in
Constantinople, and yet there are some
people whu wonderei why he courted
•The report of the state auditor cf
lAlie two factories in Augusta going up
A baby show at Albany. Thomas
Kentucky s .owe that tbe vatuaMon of
* las decreased $13,521,751 dur-
Institute at Atbem^Dantel Monroe, of Emanuel
ccusty, is cultivating the cot—berry.
26 Weather warm. Bo—lag ears have putjn
the state has
ing the last year.
—Lydia Tb-mpeon is said to have left
this country forever. Uh, very well.
There are as^geod legs in the sea as have
been fisned oi&jbt lL—Rochester Dem-
i^*8?5»ebu?»dred seres of land Mr Z Harris,
of Newton county, gathered 1.341 bushels of
wbeaL He nry W Grady ltciureu ta Macon.
JCT.T.
8 A d—tractive bail storm ta Jackson county.
Cotton in full bioom in Jackson count -
itf, ‘
12. General U R Jackson fi>e«a bill for com-
plalnaots, petitioning Judge Tompkins of tbe
superior court of Chatham to grant aa injunc
tion rvsirlining the city of Savannah from
prying oat any monies to creditors, and praying
‘'isappointment of a receiver
It. Jord«n F Howard, of Dooly county, dead.
15 Rev F C Johnson rceigna he psTorate or
the BapUat church at Albany. Up to date. Fort
’’Filey has bought no western corn.
17. Crops injured ta Berrien by dry wevthsr.
18. ThSKMi of Bsv V A Stroud.of Folk
killed by lightning. — * ‘ *
Five head of rattle killed
i Floyd c
24. Death ol Col U^ B Cothran, of Rome.
Death of L H Wal ball, of Folk county E bert
county grow ng % p'—i perches. Dsath of
Judge N L Hosuu, of Columbus. Hon A H
... . _ ta . _ a_ _ fcjijHj colored m - ~
28 D- ath of Rev A J Dean, of Perry, Death
f Ktv J 8 Baker, of Quitman.
31. Marriage of Mrs Louise Clifcbf Wise, to Lr
AUOC8T.
Letter from Rev W P Harrison on btxirg
intrlli£ei|i
from ex-Gov Joseph K Brown re-
_ Burke's phampb’i-L
30. Jxs D Hardy kilted in Jasper county by
• Old Capitol
ecaterpulin
ing. of Auk
wounded by Frank O'Brlf-n.
axrrxNBxa.
1 A negro mao, John Franklin, i
15. Mr W T Curist . toe:, of the Fort Valley
Mirror, begins tne pubi.uation iu Atlenta. Com
plaining in various wetious of the state aa to
34 The Presbyterian church at Forsyth
the corn and cotton crop. Calico hop in Mari
etta. An lno ndiary attempt in Macoo
house of Colonel R bert Wayne, ot Lsurei _
county, banted. Tat firs', number of the *al-
tna County Vidette Tut- Ai»too warehou— at
16. W F Combs retires from tbe McDuffie
Journal. Ja.ksou couuty with $14,000 in her
treasury
county. In the vaults of the Griffin cemetery
l> B nj F Hubert, an old dtizgi of Warren
couuty, la dead. The hew chcle.a appeared in
Americas Mr Jobn Stark, uf 1 homaavii'.e, hr s
chi: ped 20.(00 cutut g> of graoe vUks to France.
t> Rains gen ral. Gin house} of JPKlnchen
burned in Puiscki county
63 The pormister at BinithTille arrested f >r
wing cancelled stamps. A bra— band organ-
37 Green buds swel lng In Oglethorpe county
— hr.
ou u ter felt five hunareu dollar bills offered iu
Aupusta. Griffin baa a military ball
29 Rumors < l the death of Hon A H See*
Com ripening all over the sta
plentiful in southern Georgia.
vcRiser bora.
l BiTsnnah ooosUUe levied c
fever stiffijreni at Veraandina. Five hundred
?choo's iu L’nootn county :mat j ear.
Michael O Caltahxu. oi O aramVil e. shot auu
axUed bj ame-o. Tne dwelling htaOme of Ton
A L liarm igc. neat tevaunau, destroy ed by
are.
vkbaoabt.
1. Bavanuab ships net hr.: cargo of kmo to a
foreign port 34— Sarah Snuih, ol Americas,
root a?.u kilted h<-r*eif with a ride. Chmne* T
Bartlett sppaintod solicitor general ol the Ma
OCT IBEX.
1. Northern capitalist* are itsves’.Ing quite
freeiy in 'rol' , minirg property ta Lumpkin
county Eight quar a onus in operation around
idn-uu
3 Gtn.ral Phil Cook, a teller ta the count of
the electoral vote. Criminal report of the au
torney general. The Tafbottoo
i»T!u a?<
on has a he
by negro prisoners. Warren ton has a hog with
' ack wool
5 Hon J— B Brown speaks in Atlanta on
the Marietta and North Georgia railroad Grif
fin Sou appears, wit» W K Hanleiter — editor
and W IV Randall aa manager.
6 A Monroe county man raises a 10)£
exported 7,337 bales f cotton. Quitman Free
Pre— issued, volicd by Usury M t McIntosh.
7. Bill smhorii-ng the s'ate to yuarantro the
ho*.ids of tii Mari-ua an t Nor.h Georgia rail
road lost In the br.n«e. Grasshoppers numerou-
8 Mr.Cabahl— takes position on the Newnau
Herald. Marshalli>euiretiresiromtheNcwaan
9 cuiooel C W Styles becomes the corres
pondent of the Angnsta Cous.nuitonaliai. Ac
worth has shipped lour thousand balea ol oop
10 Cokraei L L Lanier, ot Hancock county.
>ro nrboro U .-raids
12 Hog ctu-lera prevail ng in Emanuel conn
r. The Central railroad company order two
first-cUss steamships
13. Mrs Caiviu Tell, o* Harris county, dead,
aged nluc-ty-ecvcu P ttrick duehan. of A ugns
la. found dead in the Canal J H Boxter, ol
Sjiara. eurdtnd
14. A'l
i 21.000
white crow killed in Hart county
15 W r amiih fa now editor of the But.
county Argus The tin house of D B Cody, of
In Conngtsjo. Convict at Bartow iron works,
kii mi ic urine to rscape.
19 Mr Peasant Wiilfima ot Butte omul
C«raL A beaver wei b>na 61 pounds rapt a red iu
Chatto -ga couuty. Two stoxee ceaLoyed by fire
ha—, skwroysd by fire. Tim; wu:c factory of
32. Au incr aoiary fire at MsnhaUxilta.
L W P Talmage. of Athens, deed. Two large
2 Etrly com aad Irish potatoes were nipped
in ue bod ia Thomas county.
3 Miss Nora MsUaiuey. of GaioesTilte. dead
The kucait pros trees ta Albany were killed by
the recent cold scap.
r Nj 11 on the Cea>
Judge John Andrews, of
MWO.
7 The first cumber of the Rome Tri-Weekly
a two thonStaPd dtalUr fire in
bavannah has a three-legged
county had a freabtt. Rev J .% Shivers
connected with the Warren too Ctpp*r.
A to orth oouaty aau has lour
Ml— Salhe Cavaod.sU atari ia
11 The
w lull Us.’. J H Kami ofibrod to pay filOO for
■“ —t original story
emCro—,
13 The Bout era C
, the Oath oita paper ol
ta Worth <
act. in Ecndo'.jhccuntj
cy-
itT
baby born tn Twiggs
iu Tmu-s county. Fat—ers
ta Brewer cooaty sCLi pUrutog oom.
23 Dr aMpheasoB finds a beautiful sapphire
near Gatanwtlte. The Central raLroed sack
agency aa Maoou dieoootinned. Forsyth
wdvsd U,ffi botes of i
borned to death ta Jsi
r county. Mrs harsh
26 Two Mooroe ;
fiU I
Hie
i Lookout moon-
24. Colonel W A Shorter editor of Berne Cou-
prietorof the Rrmt* Tribune. Judge T«
^turned from Europe.
29 Ssv unr.h couuibutes fi 000 to the yellow
but 135. Ml— Mattie Da via, of Columbus, com
mitted suicide. Tue Savannah hospital oum-
5 Four new church*" to be bu’lt In Elbert
cowry. Columbus Acquirer wants Toombs fox
governor.
7. Small fire in Macon. Houston county fair
ilv l—...
Lquiuof.ju IrcsLctsta Thomas county.
*air. eratoue of the new Mneooic temple
at Rome laid. Brunswick troubled with forgera
Middle Georg—fair at Griffiu. Death of Elijah
Giaaa, member ol the gubernatorial convention.
Furman and Small speak in Covtogtou.
13 Marietta paper mUla nearly completed.
_ov Coteultt visits the De*f and Dumb asvinm
Kx-GoT am.th spoke at Zsbmoa 1<— AtlauU
•rue Griffin fair netted S3 UW. ”
18. Tjpbold fcTer rravstantlnDtilu—.
19. mi— N-llio Fold, of Dalton, completes a
quiit with 1 876 pieot*. Lincoln couuty has
adrift froet. ....
36. Henry Goe chlns becomes city editor of
the Columbus Times. Case of loe cream pni ou-
ing ta riaron. Col Capers writes letters favoring
Milled re vile from Brnnvwick
23 Four county fain Thomasville, Sanders-
vble, Gieensborosal New nan.
35. Eteren divorce .
returned to Bibb
superior court. Death of Prof G P Bancroft, of
the sut« ouivereiiy
10 Bev Willis Bus—11, fell from a bouse In
Lee county and broke his right leg. Death Of
Ko srtGar.iogtoa.of Gordon county.
aovataaa |,
latter on the capital Jasper county
onttoo enough to pay lor her guano.
3 W P Chester, of Dal too mada this year
bosheUof oom on \ A an acre of ground.
4 Tbe Fait barn Star, a
by M M Barron. Tew per cent, reduction _
wags*, caused a strike among the train heads
dreteatad by Bishop Gro
tto CF McO-yon them <ney question. Gen
eral Toombs’ tatter on tbe capItaL
13. Drath o- Ricnard T iyior, of Brunswick
Death of Mrs P a Haxiehurst. of Brunswick.
Judge Reese decline* running lor the senate.
17. Mayor Huff, •( Bibb.—chnea brings ca
dtaa— for the kglalature. Gea Toombs spoke
in C$rtexsvtlte on the constitution and location
of the cspitaL Meeting ta Columbus ot Ibe
VJ ja r ^oi*^uh Bn—ell in Gainesville. Death
o’ Hon G »; Kitnbro, of Lee ooanty. Burke
county has a touruamvnt-
f Morgan
1 from Augusta.
. Up to
rived 13.419 bal— Oi
28 New eom al 36 ceru a bushel _
The oolorsd peepi of E bert countv discu—tt«
Liberia qnc—ioa. Gainesville votes a city rab
Bcriprioa of 925JXW to the 8—te Baptls. college,
body wants more light and air than it
gets in the preeent costume of either
I men or women, and the one ia little, if
iy. tunny South!; any. better than the other. I snoratt
feeling, land forever mine 1 f or achool-oirlu tJ?a
«f*es of her rosy mouth. .fi ®* rma “ .P®**nt
tart swells aa with a draught of' aree8 » ln which there is no bifurcated
b’esring* of maternal love,
smite which hallows all my toll;
her generous smiles ap-
from the ski— sad fr.-m the
*! by her k>ariy pine*, that wave and rich—
Oh 1 by tstr myriad flowers, that bloom and
me, mortal or divine;
i. and exultant stags:
shrine; |
with lit
i. heart -
r GUSJS&AJj.
ocrat
—A southern Methodist says that
while five yefrs ago there were only
three membeys of bis church in con
gress, now there are 25-eight in the
6enate and 17 in the house.
—The maiden effort of a number of
congressmen* has been to go to the
treasury department, pick oat the pret
tiest girl to be found, and marry her.
—Boston Pest.
—Bain wateT brings down yearly
about twelve ponnda of ammonia to
the acre of ground, which forms a most
valuable and effective principle as a
fertilizer.
—There is fresh and merited criti
cism of Mr Evarts fer his attempts to
hold on tohis law practice while sec-
retatry of sate, as just illustrated anew
by his appearance as counsel in the
Erie railroad litigation.
—The war deportment is informed
that the Nez pierces Indians, nmnber-
iog about 100; who joined Sitting Bail
and his command, are anxious te come
back to the Bhited States. They assert
they are treated well by the Sioux.
Every evening the children of the.
white house--Fauiiie and Scott Hayes
-are allowed to romp on the parlor
floor before their bedtime. Their elders,
sometimes, including the president
himself, join them in a game of “puss
• -* «. .. .v ... .. „
low nothing to escape them, and they
seem to be always anticipating a storm.
There is a Targe tear under bis right
eye, caused, I think I have heard it
said, by a sabre thrust There ita
delta shaped mop of hair running down
to hid forehead, with a dash cowlick on
either side that cleans his temples. His
thin, expanding nostrils and his well
cut, sharp ears indicate the spirited
blood that is in him.
The old French convention lasted
three years, one month and four davs.
It had 749 members, and passed 11,210
decrees. Of its 749 members, 58 were
uillotined—l>uray, June 20, 1793,
ieing the first to look through the lit
tle window, and the head of Bishop
Huguet the last to fall, October 6,1796.
into the basket ;8 were assassinsted and
2 shot i 14 committed suicide; 5 died
cf grief; 6 perished in abject misery;
3 died on the highway, to be eaten by
dogs; 1, Armonville, the last wenrer of
the red cap, perished in a drunken fit:
4 died mad ; 2 were killod in tbe army;
1 was carried awav by the Prussians
and never heard of; 3 died suddenly;
1 expired in prison; 1 fell dead of joy
on learning that Bonaparte had disem-
* * * Fi * ‘ *
burked at Frejus; 138 perished in exile
or in penal settlements; 23 never were
heara of from the date of the Eigh
teenth Brumaire; 65 v&n'shed after the
coronation of Napoleon, and 25 died in
obscurity and poverty. The conven
tion hai 63 presiding officers, of whom
18 were guillotined and 8 transported;
22 were outlawed and 6 sentenced to
imprisonment for life; 4 died in mad
houses and 3 committed suicide.
in the corner,” “selling the thimble" or
other pleasant diversions suited to the
little ones.—Miss Grundy.
—An article has been published in
the Moniteur Univereel on the manu
facture of the hardened glass type for
printing. It is said that tbe new type.*
jave been found to work admirably on
the improved revolving press for con
tinuous piper.
—The president of the South Caro
lina state fair association sold his entire
crop of beard corn to General W. G. Le
Due, United States commissioner of
agriculture. This corn will be distrib
uted throughout the United States lor
seed.
—Mr. Birchard H. Hayes, son of B.
B. Hayes, it is understood will enter
upon the practice of the law in New
York city e4irly in January. It will be
remembered that young Mr. Grant,
the second son ol the ex-president is
now a member of one of the law firms
in this city.
—Women need much console; ion in
this world. Sxnetimesthev are in love
Indeed, this is so common*a complaint
with them thkt they should have a sub
limated Pond’s extract, a metaphorical
camphor or spiritual arnica to apply to
that hidden wound. The needle is a
good little lightning-rod—a conductor-
oil for conceded disturbance. Many a
heart-ache has been embroidered away.
Appietons*.
—“Utilization of margins” is the
latest addition to the lexicon of rascal
ity. Jim Fink called h’s operations
“rescuing other people’s property.”
When a man lends money on a collat
eral demanding a heavy m >rgin, aud
takes the collateral without the o wner’b
consent, and borrows money on it at a
small margin, the process is lermeu
‘‘utilization cf margins.”
—Mr. David M. Stone, editor of the
New York Journal of Commerce, is a
member of the Central Congregational
church ia Brooklyn, of which the Itev.
Dr. Henry M. Scndder is pastor. When
Mr. Edward Kimball, the debt-raiser,
ascended the pnlpit oi that chnrch last
Sunday, Mr. btone left the building.
Mr. Stone went out, he says, simply
because be felt that he would violate
his conscience by remaining, and fur
thermore he wanted to avoid being co
erced into giving, by subscription, a
method that is revolting to him.
—To illustrate the extent to which
the tricky sales of poetsge stamps have
been earned on it is Eaid that the two
largest business bouses in Salt Lake
City, receiving two bond red letters
' tty.
have not bought five dollart-.’
worth of stamps from the Salt Lake
postoffice for two years, bat have
stamps constantly for safe; and hat
one firm offered to furnish the Sait
Lake postmaster with $1 500 worth. A
Mormon from southern Utah, coming
into Salt Lake recently, bought new
fnraitnre for his whole house and paid
for it in postage stamps.
—United States senator-elect Farley.
California, is a Virginian by birth;
was a whig in early life; was a know
nothing s^ Dsequently; has been a dem
ocrat recently, is a poor speaker and
a huge man. When he was about to
l«>ave tbe position of speaker of the
Cdifornia assembly he procured a
friend to write him a fine valedictory.
This friend copied the valedictory of the
speaker, " * * *
previous speaker, and Farley declaim
ed it. On the morning after the two
valedictories appeared aids by tide
in the newspapers. He has basic ess
tact, and ouced received a broken leg
from some one’s hn band.
■The following statistics of the Prot
estant Episcopal church are given in
the chnrch almanac for 1878: Bishops,
61; priest* and deacons, 3.216; bap-
.ta —a . onion.
tisms, 46 778; confirmations, 29,189
communicants, 281 977; marriages,
10,122; burials, 21.937; candidates for
- - orders, 337; ordinations—deacons, 134;
» . m*d rfUbunud la N.WUO, 10 ?-, «***««.
eari^r *r«
a at tbe rate of
ll.^tnntnc isnceiTinc
100 bac* a 4*j. Mr. Robert A
the superior o^urt ol Lowndes county, ia
13 voiutnbos hod a small fire. Tsifc
ha* a jail delivery. The state cron re adjourned.
15. A ae*ro corse thief arrested ta axnrorth.
Death cf Mr. George Pag*, of Lee county
17. Cratrol Railroad and Banting
<kc are a dlviAeetf. Death of Got W i _
st. CM Herbert Ftadervt ry ill. Uote the
time Wanaotoa baa ftippri three
tftoorewi and forty-foar (tales of oouon.
Bos J W Jooeo. of Hm county, te dead.
lumbar. D««tan< house of
f -m—rAle OOSLtJ, -fcOJOJevi vj unr,
De»’h of C pxn C E Csroer. editor of the
Instated Scat craer aad Appeal.
35. House of W H Mercer, of Webster county,
tax collector, robbed of 317.(00.
JS Mr A € DeCctse*. rak er of the beak of
Augusta, dead. Prof erect Looney as
hxve left Hortw-ll tar Texas Duel
‘^SC ^fteT A C Recce, of Carrollton, ki'led a34
round wld tartty. Judte Wm pcouth taa*a*
the (iotarevute street railroad.
29.548 ; scholars, 275 018: contribu
tions, $6,742,268 Comparing these
statistics with those of last year, there
an increase in favor of this year
of 4 000 baptisms, 3 000 confirmations,
garment; and if one be added, it should
be of light material.”
—It is now said, on the authority of
ai8D&tchee to the Cincinnati Enqnirer
nnd several other journals,that matters
fe°k less encouraging at Columbus for
Mr. Pendleton, one of the Ohio aspir*
ants for a seat in the United States sen-
Ate. The Enquirer’s dispatch, dated
Columbus, the 28th inst, says there is
win e move move going on between the
Ewing and Morgan forces looking to a
combination against Pendleton; that
both Ewing and Morgan feel that if
they don’t succeed they can name the
man who will; bat the question is,
which of these gentlemen will be self-
sacrificing enough to withdraw for the
purpose of elevating the other? And
then the question naturally arises
U oill... L* -- Sr
whether either -Ewing or MorgaiTwin
the other with-
turn over big loros to!
out Pendleton getting enough votes to
nominate him. Time will telL
—Washington letter 8enator Gordon
has a well built, symmetrical frame,
sinewy, hard, and wiry,ana it indicates
peat strength and endurance. His
height is about five feet and ten inches,
And he is as erect as a lightning rod.
His skin is fair, and his hair is brown,
well dashed with gray. He wears an
imperial and mustache. His move
ments and bearing are somewhat strut-
ty and consequential. His features are
regular, studious, and impreesive.crest-
ed with a brow that is pregnant with
emotion; and under that brow his
^uick, moving,penetrating bine eyes al
ia
J•OlslXAVAls VOMMANT.
-The Griffin, Ga., News says the
Georgia legislature is overwhelmingly
in favor of Senator Gordon’s re-elec
tion. We are glad to hear it.—Vicks
burg Herald, dem.
—It is possible Mr. Hayes may need
a party before bis administration is
three months older. If it shall turn
out so, the needed party will beat hand
to support him.—tit. Louis Republican,
dem.
—Mr. Wattereon, of the Louisville
Courier-Journal, says that any man
who refers to him as a go-between, as
does Mr. Chandler, is a wanton and
vile calumniator. Mr. Chandler’s long
pole seems to have stirred up the ani»
mals all around the circle.—Louisville
Courier-Journal, dem.
McClellan a governor, Pendleton to
be a senator, Judah P. Benjamin the
wealthiest of London lawyers, Lee and
Pasha, “General*’ Key a cabinet
officer, Hilliard a foreign appointee,
and nobody satisfied.—New York Her
ald, ind.
— John Sherman has appointed U 8.
Grant, Jr., an asbiBtant U nited States
district attorney in the office of General
Woodford in New York. This is the
way to build up an official class in thi*
country. Provide for all the old official
families —Washington Post, dem.
— A Nashville paper intimates ihat it
none of Kentucky’s business whether
Tennessee repudiates her debts or not.
But it in some of our business, tiuch
offenses are rank and smell to heaven,
and does Tennessee suppose that Ken
tucky is going to He along-ide of her in
such a smell without even so much as
holding her nose?—Louisville Courier-
Journal, dem.
—Corbin, who wanted the seat in
the United Sates senate which Gen
eral M C Butier occupies, must have a
very poor opinion of the ability of the
public to *see through a ladder. He
says be did not bribe the members of
the legislature, but, as the state trea
surer was enj tyed by the c turta from
their fsalaries, he
paying the members
(Corbin) advanced $20,000 which was
distributed among them. The inno
cent fellow says there was no connec
tion between this and his election.—
Boston Herald, ind.
—Mr Chandler has in one sense ren
dered a public service. He has made
a searching investigation of this whole
business inevitable, and the more so
because of the contradictions which
have so quickly followed on the heels
of his charges. Between the two
stories there is no possible bridge of
compromise. One or the other is ab-
Holutely false, and the country is en
titled to know the whole truth. Ther
fore, we shall expect to see a proper
resolution of inquiry submitted to the
hou«e of representatives as soon as it
meets again — New York Hun, ind.
MOVX&aBOVI J.A UAOJtOiA.
—Somebody has been giving John
Triplett, of the Thomasville Times, a
deal in verse. The author pays oar
friend a high tribute, but it is emi
nently deserved.
—To a Savannah correspondent: If
the article yon allude to ia not too
long we would be glad to have it The
subject is one of great interest jastat
this time.
—The Christmas number of the
Christian Iudex was an exceptionally
good issue J an exceptionally good
paper.
—The name of the Athene Georgian
has been changed to the Southern B in
ner-—a name that has about it the fla
vor of the good old times.
—The poor over-worked newspaper
editor won’t have any holiday now
nntil the fourth of July.
—Six convicts escaped from the gang
of Grant and Alexander in Clarke
county on the 24th. They thought
they would take a little Christmas.
—It gives os pleasure to announce
that the baltAheet epidemic which has
prevailed among our weekly exchanges
during the holidays will disapper after
this week.
—Rich»rd«on, of the Samuub News,
orders.
29 ordinations, 3,000 Sunday school
teacners, 30,900 ectooiara, and $200,000
in contributions. Sixteen clergymen
have been deposed and 64 have died.
—Mrs. Swisehelm says on dress re
form: “You are equally mistaken il
yon think pantaloons the ultimatum
of dress reform. Women wonld not
skirts; and i doubt if men are. If we
could have a p**,fect dress, both sexes
wonld beet drapery more or less flow-
made up his Christmas items with a
shot-gun across his knees. There was
more fun in Savannah than in any
town in Georgia.
—Athens, still improving, is to have
a cotton compress.
—Athens had a “fantastic” exhi
bition on Christmas day.
—The Covington Star says that Cap*
_ ^ ^ Pqrcell, the hero of Oc .nee, and
ingTand noAxtawouMbe atuffed*Vnto the cleverest bell cord manipulator on
a new passenger car seat, wh ; ch is
bound to revolutionise the present old
style benches.
—The corn crib of Mr. Jones, of Laur
ens county was burned by an incendi
ary recently, together with all his corn.
Cdlonel W. H. Moore,of the Angosta
Evening News, has survived the Christ
mas festivities of the Saud Hills, and
is now in good form for tackling ano
ther holiday.
—Elder J. M. Brittain, of Conyers,
will remore to Covington and open a
school.
—Mr. Frank Doe, of Griffiu, killed a
pig fitteen months old the other day
which weighed four hun ,T 3d pounds
—The casual horse-thiet has put in
an appearance in Griffin.
—The Swainsboro Herald remarks
“Th* Constitution is indeed ably edi
ted, and is one of the best papers pub
liahed in the south.”
A Christmas tree blossomed in
Covington at the proper time.
—The Star says that a married lady
in Covington who has only seen her
ninth birth day, is the mother of four
healthy children, three of whom have
taken a tramp of over 5,000 miles.
—The Montezuma Weekly will here
tofore be ran upon a cash basis.
—Col. B. M. Ward, a prominent
lawyer of Emanuel county, is dead.
—A saloon was burned in Augusta
last Sunday.
— There was another general suspen
sion of newspapers yesterday.
—Thu Savannah News celebrates the
new year by appearing in a new dress
Tbe typographical appearance of the
paper, which was very nearly perfect
before, is not materially improved, but
the change is a sign of prosperity emi
nently deserved and upon which the
News, its proprietor and its editors are
to be congratulated.
—Did you call much yesterday? If
so, how do your eyebrows feel ?
—A negro man was found dead in
ColumbuB on Monday.
—The Rome Cornier says that last
Saturday night, abont 11 o’clock, the
Btore occupied by Albin Ornberg as a
wholesale book and music store, was
discovered to be on fire. The house had
been closed for tbe night but a little
while, when thestrorg smell of burning
papers caused passers by to look in
and the rear end of the store-room was
discovered to be on fire. The fire alarm
was sounded, and the fire department
turned out in force. Hose was run
through the second story and turned in
the fire from the rear door, and the
flames soon extinguished. The loss to
Mr. Ornberg, wh'ch was caused mostly
by the effects of water aud smoke upon
his goods, is estimated to amount to
$2,500 which was tally covered by in
surance. The heat was so intense as to
melt wax candles at the front end of the
store room, and to break the glass in
the front doors.
—Columbus had a little shooting-
scrape on Monday. NoDody hurt.
—Savannah has an occasional run
away and eroash-up. Savannah horses
always would enjoy the holidays.
—The Savannah News says that
abont a quarter after eight on Sun
day evening the Btore of Messrs
Hudson A Hardwick, at Davisbaro was
broken into, the safe forced open, and
some $1,500 in money packages in
care of the Southern express company
taken therefrom. The building wat*
fired in two places with the evident
purpose of destroying it, and thus pre
venting discovery of the robbery.
Before any Eerious damage was dont
however, the fire was discovered,
and the flames speedily extinguished.
Superintendent Dempsey, of the South
ern express c.mpany, was notified on
Monday, and at once set ou foot meas
ures for the apprehension of the guilty
party. A certain individual wassus
pected, but it was necessary to conduct
tfie investigation quietly, and, as stated
above, this couree has proved wise, as
there is now a proepect that he wilt
soon be captured, provided he is not
already in limbo.
—We learn from the Augusta Chron
icle that the comptroller general of the
state of Georgia has forwarded to Sher
iff Sibley, of Richmond county, tsx ex
ecutions against the Georgia Railroad
and Banking company for $212,000
Similar executions were issued once
before, but the railroad company care
ried the matter into the courts, aud a
decision was rendered in tbeir favor.
The attorney general, after in vestiga
tion, has given it as his opinion that
this decision does not cover several
grounds upon which the state of Geor
gia claims the right to levy taxi
the Georgia Railroad and B inking
company, and acting upon this opinion
and by the advice of the attorney gen
eral, tbe comptroller has issued the
executions and placed them in the
hands of Sheriff Sibley.
—Rome bn* a general jail delivery
last Saturday night.
—The Augusta Chronicle says that
last Saturday night a colored man
named Joseph Gannaway was run over
at McBean station, on the Central rail
road, by the down passenger train and
so fearfully mangled that he died the
next morning. 'He attempted to crawl
under a car fiom one side to the other
while it was in motion, was caught by
the wheels acd his right leg literally
mashed to pieces. It is supposed that
he had been stealing a ride on a freight
car in the train and trying to hide from
the conductor. He was carried to
Waynesboro, where he died Sunday
morning.
—Columbus Enquirer: This talented
young railroad manager,we are reliably
informed, baa resigned the posit'on as
superintendent cf rhe Virginia Midland
to accept tbe responsible and highly
a thorough-bred Irish excuse for his
conduct. When asked why he did eo,
he said “I met an old friend with whom
I bad just become acquainted and
could not resist.”
—Columbus Times: A gentleman
who resides in the city, but who has a
farm in the country, had killed and
brought to the city ten splendid pork
ers yesterday and wanted to sell them.
The hogs were in elegant order, well
butchered and the weather fine, and
no difficulty was apprehended in find
ing ready buyers at good prices. Bui
imagine his surprise when he found
that he must serd them back to the
country to be cured into bacon, as he
r ould not sell them in town—though
he offered 'hem at six cents per pound.
We were astonished when he told ns
about it, and felt the point of his re
mark that this is a poor market for
h >me raised meat.
— Covington Star: Mrs. Martha L
Camp, of Covington, who is now in the
or.j '.ymentof remarkably good health
fer oneof ^ herjnge, came to this place
-■ *- — “•-* * ~ * id lias
on the 24th of De cember, 1827, am
been residing here ever since. She is
now in her 83d year, and Is able to
walk about as lively as a young girl in
her teens. She only knows one per
son now living who was living in this
county when she came here, and that
person is still a cit zen of this city,
Mrs. Camp is still possessed of consid
erable vigor, and carries her age re
markably well. May she live to see
many more years yet to come.
—Griffin News: The contested elec*
tion of Hurkncra vs Grantland was
withdrawn, on yeeterday. It was settled
satisfactorily all around, and all parties
are to be congratulated that the matter
has been settled. The truth is, it would
have took all summer to hav.e comple
ted the invest’g^tiou the way it was
progressing. Capt. Grantland is a
young man of fine ability, and,
will make a good senator. He is very
popular in this county, as the large
vote polled for him shows. We are
glad toe matter has been satisfactorily
arranged, and think it was much bet
ter thau to have gone on with the con
test, as it would have necessarily cost a
great deal of money and time.
—Miss C. D. Upton, a yonng ladj
who worked in the Eagle and Phenix
Mills and lived over the river iu Rus
sell county, Alabama, was taken quite
sick on Monday while at work snd
went home. W hen she got home * he
gave a friend ten cents and asked aim
to get her a dose of morphine. He
weni to a druR store and got, instead of
a dose, ten cents worth—three grains—
of the desired article. Tbir she took
when the went to bed—and, she was
heard to call some one in the night, it
is supposed she discovered, from the
unusual effects, that it was an overdose
and wanted relief. Not hearing the call
repeated, it was not not attended to and
yesterday morning it was found that she
was dead. l>r Terry, of this city, was
Bent for, but she being already dead, of
course he could do no good. *Her rela
tives and friends are. sure that Miss
Upton intended no violetice to her life
in taking the drug, ua she had been
somew hat in the habit of nsing it when
nnweli, and buying it by the dose at
ten cents, expected only a dose for the
money sent, and not a quantity snfii-
cient to produce fatal results, hence she
took it all. This is another sad warn-
our habit of using poisonous drugs, ex
cept as prescribed by intelligent phy
sicians.
—Macon Telegraph: On Sunday
morning there was a very full attend
ance at Christ churcn, to hear the his
torical and farewell sermon of Itev. C.
C. Williams, who will shortly leave us,
to take charge of the Si. Paul’s Episco
pal chuich, of Augusta. The produc
tion wss profoundly lis ened to and
evinced the cloeest study
and preparation, giving a
history of the Christ church
parish sit ce tbe organization oi the
church, on the 5ih day of March, 1825.
The shifting Fcenes through which the
church had parsed in more than a half
cental y of time were port raved in
. . .. Jon, i __
that state,is the father of twenty-seven
sons, by one wife.
—Gen. John D. Rather, of Toscnm-
friends.
l 7~The New Iberia f La) Sugar Bowl
, 0 f cunu by the late
thinks that the loss c
freeze has been exaggerated, and esti
mates the damage at not over ten per
cent.
—The G. eensboro (Ala.) Watchman
reports the sudden death of W. F.
Russell, of that place, who fell in the
fire iu an epileptic fit and waa fatally
burned.
—Walter Malone, of Waldron, Scott
county, Arkansas, recently shot his
father-in-law dead when the latter in
terfered to prevent the former from
beating his wife.
Tim Matthews, of Houston, Texas,
shot in the leg, Christmas. The
following day C. a Dibbles and wife, of
the rame city, were drowned in Cherry
—R E. Robinson, of Petorsbnrg, Va.,
was da:,seron8ly wounded in the side
on the 24th by the accidental discharge
of a pistol which he was showing to his
wife.
Edward Webb, of Norfolk, Va., a
son of OoL Thomas H. Webb, of that
city, was shot on the 22d by a telegraph
operator named J. B. Fleshman. The
ball penetrated one of Webb’s lungs.
—The Atlanta Constitution reports
that the invention of the “telephono
graph,” by an inventor of that city, for
the printing of eonnd at the tertnini of
telegraph hues.
—The Tennessee Historical asesdation
has on its shelves a policy on the
steamer Andrew Jackson,issued by the
Louisiana insurance company, and
dated May 2, 1825.
—The Selma (Ala.) Southern Argus
reports a demoralized condition of
affaire in Franklin county and says the
people there will not testify against one
another in courts.
—Judge Sherman Png*, ex-Governor
sota, are in Tennessee, in search of in
formation of a desirable location for a
settlement. They intend to bring a large
colony down when a location can be
determined upon.
—The Galveston, Texas, Civilian i
arts the arrest in that city of Captain
’ Celesti,
[enry Kohn, of the schooner <
for the mnrder of Hugh McCaffery, a
sailor who was reported to have fallen
overboard from that schooner Novem
ber 30, and to have been drowned.
— Livingston, Ala., Journal: The
Alabama Great Southern railroad (the
old A. and C.) company has had re
corded in this county a first mortgage
for $1,750,000, to secure the payment of
bonds issued for the purpose of paying
nip the road.
graphic sentences. _ The times cf jjroe-
r»erity and times of sadness were
fully depicted, and the lives of those
who have broken for that people tbe
bread cf life were reviewed in sentences
which showed that the work was done
con amurc. The present and future 6f
(he charge were also spoken aud he
leaves the cioirch in a flourishing
condition. Al the Humming up he
bid farewell to the church in the
most tender and affectionate man
ner. Many tears unbidden welled up
in the eyes of the congregation as the
words of parting were spoken. In
his brief rectorship in our city, Mr.
Williams has entwined himself around
the hearts of his people, and in sunder
ing his pastoral relations he severs
many strong ties. His preaching in
Admired by all for its elegance < f dies
lion, grace and ease of delivery, beanty
of thought and evangelical teeching.
The eiiy in him foes one of her most
popular and accomplished divines, and
to his new home will follow nim ardent
wishes for his future prosperity. He
will leave this morning for New Orleans
on a short visit to relatives, and will,
on his retnrn, proceed to his new duties
in Augusta.
indebtedness and to equip t
Natchitoches, La., Vindicator: A
Louisiana man has had three wives in
four veare. He traded one for a farm,
another for a pair of horses and he ex*
pects to stock his farm entirely if he has
good luck.
-Cleveland, Tenn., Herald: John
M. Stephens was in this office the
other day and presented ns with an
apple of the second crop from one tree
in bis yard. Ue save the tree bore one
> in the summer, then bloomed
n and now has the second crop.
-A Fredericksbug, Tfexas, dispatch
of the 22d states that the postmaster of
that place was arrested on that date
and put under $500 bond for rendering
a false account ii connection with his
•oeition as treasurer of the Fredericks-
uig dramatic association.
—Galveston, Texas, News, Terrell
DOWN ah 1*1 xus.
—New Orleans police r.re admonish
ed for sitting down on their beats.
—Sam Bard’s Pensacola experience
was abortive.
—Mary Conner, colored, of Nash
ville, dropped dead on the26:h.
—Williamson’s _ ^
county, Virginia, has been establish)
—The L>uisiana Methodist confer
ence opens at Baton Rouge on Janua
ry 9di.
—The New Orleans grand jury recom
mend a Sunday liquor law fer that mu
nicipality.
—A three-year-old daughter of J. M.
Dent, of Columbia, ti. C., was fatally
burned on the 22d.
— Doc Hobdey, a Nashville colored
youth, was stabbed in the groin, Christ
mas, by an unknown dastard.
—Ralph Bingham, the seven-year-old
Richmond, Va., oratorical prodigy, ia
dabbed the “B *y Orator of Bethel.’’
—The incoming South Carolina legis-
I tture will likely call a convention to
draft a new constitution of that state.
—The speaker of the South Carolina
house of delegates is a young man of
twenty-seven.
—Dr. W. W. Bennett, of Richmond,
Va-, has been elected president of
Randolph Macon college.
lucrative appointment a« general super
intendent ot tbe L^ng Inland
railroad
its leased lines and branches aggregat
ing 325 miles. That the combination ol
industry, capacity, experience and a
most genial address should have secured
the eligible position tendered him is
gratifying to nis friends, bnt does net
surprise them, for tt ey recognize his
superior talents which make him mas
ter of any position he may assume in
the stirring profession in which he has
risen so rapidly. The principal office
of Mr. Spencer’s new company is at
Long Island City, and we presume his
Headquarters will be at that city.
—Columbus Times: A party of hun
ters from this city, composed of Messrs.
M«>te Williams, Robert Ledsinger,
Wm. Snider, James Thweatt, Robert
Tbweau, and Master Henry Burrus, in
a hunt on the McMillan plantation,
tridges, and by the roadside on
return yesterday tfiey flashed a flock
of black birds, into which the Messrs.
Thweatt fired killing 95. This is by far
the most successful bunt of the season
we have heard of. Master Henry Bur
ras, though this was his first day in
the field, killed 20 birds.
—Covington Star: Some of the church
members so f >nrot tbeir vows at the
late ball, as to alloy themselves to take
a turn at thb foot shaking. Oao chap,
Riley arrested here to-day
R. W. Johnson, charged with forging
two bills of lading on ths T. and P. R.
R. company, on which he attempted to
obtain money from J. O. Rogers A Co.
—The Montgomery. (Advertiser
and Mail’s Greenville, t • , letter tells
of the existence of a M rmon sect in
Butler county, in that state, within fif
teen miles of Greenville, under the
leadership of a self-proclaimed saint
named Vicary, who says be is inspired,
yet does not seemed disposed to make
sacrifice in behalf of
—Alexandria Va.)Gazette: A petition
is receiving signatures in the county
calling the attention of the “legislature
to (he excessive tax impoeod by the
county s upervisors for the purposes of
defraying the county expenses,” and
praying that “ as the countv is a small
one ana unable to meet such expenses.
it be relieved, and the taxes lessened
by extending the limit of the city over
the county, or that the county be
merged with that of Fairfax.”
—The Mobile Register thinks the
revolt in the western coffee dealers
against the Baltimore and New York
merchants and of the railroad lines run
ning eastward has called attention once
more to the advantages of Mobile as an
entrepot for coffee.
—Charlotte (N C JObaerver, 23d: The
first national bank began paying out
* ~ the open-
the Mexican silver dollars at
ing of business veeterday, and by
the city was flo.tded with them,
banks
other
have ordered this coin.
They pay 97 cento for it, and thus
make three
cents on the dollar, le
half cent apiece—the cost of getting it
here The first national yesterday re
ceived a barrel of this money ($5,000),
and daring the day disposed of aU but
$1,500 of it.
—The Baton Rouge Advocate of the
19lh reports that daring an attempt to
arrest a murderer at Moseen, Walla
Slack was mortally wounded in tbe
breast, and Gayle Sparks dangerously
wounded in t*
wounded In the groin.
—The Nashville Banner reports
Judge J. C. Guild, of that city, to be
preparing reminiscences of the Ten
nessee bar, covering a period of .sixty
years. Amusing incidents of politicians
of that state will be given in the book,
and a chapter or two will be devoted to
will hereafter be known by tae euphe
mistic appellation of tae limes.
ite, of Nor-
si lip of Os-
—William Grzwold, whir
folk, Va. bit off tae uppei
car Griffiu, colored, of tuat place, on
tae 221.
—The Hay nec vi He (Ala.) Examiner
records t .e sale of real estate at that
place at prices ranging from 25 cents to
$1 50 j*er sere.
—James Jeffrey, of battery E, U. 8.
troops, at Charleston, S. C., a ret-ident
of Lynn, Mass., died on the 24ta in
Charles on, aged 26.
—Texas Jack was known in old
times as Mr. Omohondro.of Palmyra,
Fiuvana county, Va., from which he
migrated.
—David MrClesky, of Etowah coun
ty, Ala., is 96 years ot age, and Mrs.
Landsden, ot Batter county, that state,
is 97.
—The Mississippi Coahomian reports
Molly Jack* way, ot that locality, to be
emulous of the fame of Jack Hark*-
way.
—The Sunday law ordinance in Lou
isiana has aroused much opposition,
and is known in tae state as a “Puritan
—The Milledgeville, Ga., old capital
building is to be converted into a mili
tary school as a part of tae state uni
versity.
—Some British shipping in the Sa
vannah harbor was decorated with
pe<]*r and greeu branches Christmas, in
j his clothes like' 4 fn* or a cub. Tbe the Georgi» ha» invent*.! a
when being hauled over the coala for! honor of the dajr.
thi« -iriUiinn rf chnrch discipline gave < —■Th; ''/i'mimrtrtn (JJ, C.) Star ■
‘T»
the legislators of the state.
—New Orleans Times: The re.
qnirement of the law in regard to em
bezzlement, that concealment for the
collection most be established, has
made it impossible, in several appro
priation of moneys by clerks, agents
and attorneys, to bring in a true bill,
and, unwillingly, the grand jnry bad to
preeent "not a true bilL" Ihey recom
ment a la* covering these cases be
—Tbe Corpus Christ!, Texas, Free
Preee report the attack npon a San
Diego stag, near that place on tbe 18ih
bv a party of greasers, who lariated the
driver, the only man aboard, and ex-
' tbeir determination to bang
preeaed I
and born him, and likewise any one
they caught from Corpus Chriati. Tbe
driver denied being from that place,
and waa allowed to depart with one of
the stage-horses, the others being de
tained by tbe Mexicans with the atage.
—The Marshall, Texas, Herald gives
the ; articnlare of tbe mnrdor of a Mr.
Kflinicke, a former resident of that
place, bnt at tbe time of hia death a
citizen of Longview, in Orepg county,
by two n-groee and a Mexican half-
breed, on the 24th, and of the nnrsoit
of tbe murderers after their flight by
Sheriff Durham, of that county, and a
posse. The outlaws eluded the latter’a
vigilance for some time, but the officers
kept on tbeir trail for a week, with
little aleep or rest, and finally bagged
their game.
—An Erekine college, S. C., letter al-
Indes to the president of that institute,
Prof. Pereton, as being a lineal descen
dant of Patrick "
Henry, and refers to
biogra-
“He ia
America.”
—The Huntsville (Ala.) Independent
records the arrest at GurleyviUe of a
gang of law-breakers who had long
the law-abiding patience of the
denisens of that place, and their sum
mary trial. Thomas Oaonsck. Fayette
Lee, Charles Connelly and Ribert
those arrested.
Karnpley were amon? t
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