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CONTENTS
“ATLANTA WEEKLY SUN,”
FOB THE WEEK ENDIXO
■VVKDNESDAY, AUGUST 83D, XS71.
Page 1—“Why Attempt to Mislead the People ?
—'•The Telegraph and Messenger.”—Speech of Ex-
Gov. Joseph E. Brown before the Agricnltural Con
v.'ntion—University of Georgia—W. H. Howard &
Son—State Road Plunderings—Joseph Fry Heard
From, «‘.c.
Page 52—The Great Armageddon of Constitution'
alism—Now York Correspondence—Washington City
Correspondence—Politics in Georgia—Politics in
Mississippi—Politics in Ohio—Politics in Kentucky
—Telegrams—Catching a Shark—Sun-Strokes—Geor
gia News, etc.
Page 3—State Hoad Plunderings—Examination
of N. P. Hotchkiss—Joseph Fry—Stealing to Hide
their Guilt—Supremo Court Decisions—Sun-Stroke?,
etc.
Page 4—“The Political Situation”—'The Ken
tucky Elections—Elections in St. Louis—Georgia
Pros on the New Departure—Democrats in Vermont
—Live and Let live—Georgia Nows—And Why was
This?—ole.
Page 5—Evidences of Popular ; Approval—The
State Road Books—Foster }Blodgett—That Auditing
Committee—What Does This Mean ?—Suu-Strokc: —
OeorgtuNews—Politics in New Jersey—Politics in
Alabama—Telegrams—Georgia Western Survey—etc.
0 J4 ‘
Page G—“Is it a Judicial Question ?”—Why Re
tained and T aid—The State Road Plunderings—Ken
tucky's Triumph—Tubal Cain—Dow’s Idea of Hes-
ven—Sun-Strokes—Look Out, Girls—Georgia News—
Four Historic Estates, etc.
Page 7—Col. Winder P. Johnson—Politics in In
diaua—Early Rising—Washington—Telegrams—Tho
Bohemian’s Anacreontic—Singular Case—All for
Science, etc. *
Page 8—Washington City Correspondence—Pol
itics in Georgia—Telegraph News—Items- -New Ad
vertisements, etc. . - »-■ ?j
BSu It is strange how some people
will impose upon inoffensive children.—
Colfax addressed a Sunday school in Min
nesota lately.
This is the heading of an article in |
the Montgomery Advertiser of the
15 th -inst., and we repeat the inquiry,
with a special application, why does j
that paper so persistently «at
tempt to mislead the people” *s
to the position of The Atlanta Sun?
TVhy does it so studiously avoid let
ting its readers judge for thenuelyes
of our views and objects, by with
holding from them our own utter
ances in our own plain and unmis
takable language, and giving them on-
ly garbled extracts with its distortions
of their meaning? Why, in this very
article alluded to, does it arraign
and complain of the Mobile Register
for giving its readers what we have
said on the leading questions in our
own words? Is this the course of
one whose object is the ascertainment
of the truth, in fair discussion, and
its maintenance when ascertained?
Is it not a clear “ attempt io mislead
the people” ?
In this article the Montgomery
’ldvcrti$er\cssay$ to make the impres
sion that there is a wide difference
between tho position of Governor
Leslie and the other leaders of the
Kentucky Democracy, including the
bold and eloquent .T. Proctor Knott,
and that of Tna Atlanta Sun—a
difference as wide as that between
day and night.”
Have not we published the speeches
of Knott, and Leslie, and Carlisle, and
Craddrick, and endorsed them fully?
Has the Advertiser ever done any
such thing ? HaS it ever given its
readers either what we have said, or
what those distinguished Kentuckians
have said, that the people may judge
for themselves whether there is any
difference between us oT not ?
"We deal fairly by the people. We
have given them in fulP jHi what
the Advertiser had to say against ns
in its arraignment of us before its
readers. When has it ever let its rea
ders see our reply to its charges ?
In this article of the 15th instant,
the Advertiser, in speaking of the
political editor of The Sun, asserts
that:'' “HbTnts in posicrveTemrs,"as
“ sumed the extraordinary ground of
“ either opposing the Democratic par
ty or ’of dictating its platform.”
This is simply an extraordinary
statement without any ground what
ever to stand upon, and the editors
of that Journal knew it when they
made it ? Whatever else may he said
of it, is it not a clear attempt to mis
lead the people ?
Again the Advertiser makes an
other attempt in this same article
grossly to mislead the people by en
deavoring to impress upon them the
sdea that there is a wide difference
between our position and that of the
late Kentucky Convention which
nominated the State ticket, which
has just been so triumphantly elected.
The language used is this: “ In the
“ first place the Resolutions of the
“State Nominating Convention con
curred, to all intents and purposes,
“in the advice set forth in the Con-
“gressional Address.”
And pray did we not concur fully
in the same ? Did we not fully in
dorse the Resolutions of the Ken
tucky Convention? Have we not
again and again endorsed fully the
principles as well as the advice set
forth in the Congressional Democratic
Address ? Have we not repeatedly said
that we were perfectly willing to go
into the next Presidential Canvass up
on either that Congressional Address
or the Kentucky Resolutions here re
ferred to? The Editors of the Adver
tiser know all this. Then why thus
“attempt to mislead the people”?
The reason of it we fully under
stand, and the people shall know it,
to the extent of our means and abili
ty. Wcl are enlisted iu the cause of the
people. We have no purpose hut to
servo them in aiding them to under
stand their rights, and in all proper
modes to maintain them in despite
the wilv tricks of those who are at
tempting to mislead them
neither of these approve or sanction
the infamous usurpations of Congress
attending the proposal, or adoption of
the 14th and 15th Amendments so
called, of the Constitution of the
United States.
1 lu-y want the Democracy of the
L nion to bow down and do worship
to the Baal of Imperialism by ac
knowledging, in the language of the
Xiiuh Pennsylvania Harrisburg Res
olution that all matters pertaining
to those great frauds have been dis
posed of -in the manner and by the
authority Constitutionally appoin
ted”
ilhis most ignominious deed w.y
say the Democracy of the Union ought
never to do. We say further that wejelo
not believe they ever will. Very great
efforts are being made, now it is v *truej
by .the Advertiser and other co-lahorers
with it to pui’snade the Democracy to
do it. Our most earnest efforts are
exerted to keep them from it. This
is the height of our offending. We
never yet deceived or misled the peo
ple, and we do not intend' that others
shall do it if we can prevent them.
A. H. S.
M-i 2
“ Thc| Telegraph & Messenger.”
We clip from our cotemporary of Ma
cau (of the 16th inst.,) the following
morceau: A
The Resident Republican Executive Committee
are actively distributing the documents prepared
aud published by them in tbe States where elections
are to bo held this ensuing fall. These documents
include the splendid review of our national finances
recently issued in English and German; General
Sherman’s speech at Columbus, Ohio, iviih Southern
Democratic comments on the *• new departure ;** also, a
review of the land-grant policy in English and Ger
man, and a record of anti-slavery legislation. They
are also preparing a careful review of the Ku-klux.
tafir * *
Cherokee, I had never made but little I of the land around it, which had been in
over three tons to the acre in one year, | wheat the year before. The third year
weighed when _.dried and ready for the I which was the last summer, the field was
market; and this I have regarded a very | again sowed in wheat and, I could have
fine crop. Indeed, it takes our best carried you into the edge of the wheat
with, a tabular statement of the crimes committed by
it during the past two years, and a brief summary
of tho principal facts established by tho evidence
taken during the past six months.
The above is an extract from the Wash
ington telegraphic correspondence of the
Philadelphia Press. The Atlanta Sun
el id omne genus—which, being freely
translated, means all those Democratic
newspapers that prefer to repeat the im
becility of 1868, and give the Jacobins
four ydars more of deviltry at Washing
ton rather than the election of a Demo
cratic President in 1872—will please copy.
We comply readily with our neighbor’s
request, but suggest that perhaps it
would have been more discreet in that
journal to have waited and seen what
Southern Democratic comments on the
“New Departure” have been used and
how used by the Radical Executive Com-
J muieo Dcnjrw—canrug uni optima- utwm
tion to it, with such an air of supercili
ous arrogance
We have not seen the document, but
venture to express the very decided opin
ion in advance that it contains no com
ments of The Atlanta Sun on the “New
Departure,” or on anything else, which
can bo used to injure the Democratic
party.
The comments of The Sun are quite
as distasteful to the Radicals everywhere,
as they are to the Telegraph and Messen
ger.
We think the comments upon the
“New Departure” of our neighbor of Ma
con—el id omne genus—of Southern De
mocratic newspapers (so-called,) which
feel so seriously as onr neighbor does the
“imbecility of 1868,” and which are so
eager, not only to abandon their princi
ples, but to adopt and sanction the worst
of the ^“deviltry” of the JacobiDS “at
Washington” for the last five years, would
be much more likely to find a place in
Radical campaign document, than any
thing that can be culled from the columns
of The Atlanta Sun.
We may say more of the document and
its contents, however, when we see
This, we trust, will suffice our neighbor
for the present. A. H. S.
lands up the country to procluci that
quantity. .*
METHOD or CULTIVATING CLONER.
l ain satisfied, our people are neglecting
their best interests, whenever they neg
lect to cultivate largely of grasses, or it is
scarcely any labor to make the grass crop,
ana it is the most available crop made on
the land when produced. A word as to
the mode of sowing and cultivating it:
have never, in a single instance, failed
to get a good stand when Ihave sowed in.
Mai’eh, with oats. I prepare my land
thoroughly, then sow the oats and plow
them in, and, after they are plowed in,
when I would be ready to leave the field,
if I only intended to make an oat crop, I
sow down the clover seed upon the fresh
plowed land, at the rate of a buslu-1 of
clean ■ seed to six acres and brush them
m with a brush cut in the woods near by.
having a heavy top, which makes a light
load of two horses, running over, cover-
ering the seed, and leveling the ground,
as our fathers formerly did their tur-
nip patches. A bushel to six or seven
acres is more seed than is usually
put upon land, but I have found it in the
end much the cheapest to put on enough
seed to be sure .to get a good stand the
first year. Some object to covering it
with brush ami say it does just as well to
sow it on wheat, or even on land un
prepared, and leave the seed on the top
of the ground. If sowed in the snow on
wheat, which seldom have here, - or
sowed in a very rainy time, this will do,
but take one year with another and risk
the season and it is entirely too uncer
tain It is said that the brush, covers,
part of the seed too deep and they do not
come up, and that'we thereby waste seed.
This may be true, but it leaves a proper
quantity the proper depth under the
ground, and when it comes up, having
some depth of earth, the root is not so
easily killed by the hot sun as it is when
the seed is on the top of the ground. X
find it, therefore, decidedly best to brush
it in. Besides it leaves the ground level
and in good order for mowing. The oat
crop is the one to be looked to for that
year, as we do not expect a crop of clover
the first year; and you should not pasture
the land the first year, unless you. do so
very late, say the latter part of Septem
ber or the first of October.
Of an ordinary season, the clover will,
the year it is sowed, grow up a considera
ble height, before frost, if the land is
good; and with it will be a good
coat of crab-grass and a consider^
able crop of weeds. Just before frost, X
put my two-horse mower in and cut all
this down, and dry it, and stock it, and it
makes a fine crop of hay. The stock will
eat all the young clover and the crab
grass, and even the tops of therag weeds,
when they are cut green and. dried with
the hay. But not’ th^least benefit from
this coarse is the fine order in which your
land is left for mowing.in tbe Spring.—
SPEECH OF EX-GOV. BROWN
BEFORE THE AGRICULTU
RAL CONVENTION AT ROME
ON THE 11TI1 DAY OF AU
GUST.
Tlie Culture of Clover aud tiie
Grasses.
Best Fertilizer-—Hillside Ditch
ing-Stock. Raising.
[Fully and correctly reported expressly lor tlie At
lanta Daily Sun.]
field and said “Two acres of this has
been in clover,” and asked yon to point
it ont. to me, without my indicating the
place, and you could have showed me,
to the very row, where the clover had
been, as the wheat on that part was deci
dedly taller and looked better every way.
The effect of the Jclover, therefore, has
been not only visible, but very marked
for three years after tbe crop had been
turned under.
Me. President : I rise for the propose
of seconding—which I do most heartily—
the resolution of thanks to Dr. Janes, for
the very instructive and practical address
which he has just delivered on the cul
ture of clover and grasses in Green coun
ty. • It had been fully demonstrated, by
previous experiments and practice, that
clover and almost any of the grasses grow
well in all the section above Atlanta to
” e P 10- the Tennessee and North Carolina lines;
claim then to the people everywhere, but it was still regarded as a matter of
The (burur-Journali* -willing to j ^ . ( f lg ?o ( if / n r iq)on
4-1 v yv TfTlI 11 flirt KAni'llATlO ” * 1 *
.........------ . ii advocates I doubt, whether it could be profitably
tliat tlie aIuit «. *■ CA 1 grown as low down as Groen county,
of the “New Departure' 5 arc nof u'lll- . 'jq ie experiments of Doctor Janes, how-
to ao into the Presidential Can- ' ever, settle that question beyond further
\ng io go nuu d • d bt true that clo-
No doubt of it; but are the Bourbons j L ‘ l J' lL , / ,
probable that they Resolutions nfei.id to,
“works meet for reper- (which are so commendingly spoken |
willing ? It is
first demand
tance,”
.7 , 7-) ! caviling, and it is no doubt true that elo-
T/it ui u. o- ver ^ the other grasses may be profita-
sional Address, or the j Lly grown as low down as the red or clay
: lands extend. The result of the Doctor’s
experiment is truly astonishing, as the
yield is one of the largest I have evc-r
weed croprsfei^faall, you will find, in
the Spring, that the large dry weeds are
very much in yonr way, and it will be
necessary to employ hands to gather them
and pile them out of the way, before yon
can reap your crop of clover.
CLOVER AS A FERTILIZER.
In reference to the quality of land best
adapted to its growth, I state that, in my
opinion, it does best 'upon stiff black,
rich river bottom, which needs no manure,
to make a good crop. If you pnt it on
uplands, and expect a good crop, yon
must manure your land well before you
sow; and when it is once set with clover,
if you cultivate it properly, you may keep
it perpetually rich. If you have poor
lands and wish to enrich them with clo
ver. you must turn over several successive
crops in the green state, giving them to
the land, and, if you have the patience,
in this way you can soon improve it until
it will produce a good crop for use, and
may then keep your Land rich for the fu
ture. But yon need not expect a heavy
crop of clover on poor land, any more
than you may expect a heavy crop of any
other sort.
the quality of land suited for clover.
And, in this connection, I wish to say
a few words as to the value of the clover
crop as a manure. We have heard here
a very interesting discussion on the sub
ject of commercial and domestic, or bam
yard manures, during which many very
valuable suggestions and interesting state
ments have been made. My judgment,
however, is that the clover is the best of
all fertilizers. It enriches the land, and
continues to keep it rich, if you con
tinue to alternate the clover with other
crops, or to ran it a considerable portion
of time in clover. The first two acres
which I sowed in river bottom in Chero
kee county, as an experiment, was sowed
in the middle of a corn field, that it
might be sure not to be pastured the first
year. With the clover I sowed some
Heard’s Grass seed. For three successive
years I got heavy crops of clover from the
land; The clover decidedly predomina
ted over the Heard’s Grass. On. the fourth
year the crop was pretty, equally divided
between the two; and the fifth year it was
about three-fourths Heard’s Grass. This
shows that the Heard’s Grass will stand
longer than the clover. The latter should
be plowed up every third year. The
Heard’s Grass might be continued indefi
nitely, were it not that briers, broom
sedge and other wild growth, will spring
up and compel yon to cultivate the land
to get lid of them. In the Fall of the
fifth year I had the two acres above re
ferred to turned under with a two-horse
turning plow, and I afterwards sowed it,
as I did the corn land around it in wheat
The following Spring, when the wheat
was about maturing, you could see the
difference to the very row, from a very
considerable distance. That where the
clover had been was from twelve to eigh
teen inches higher than that around it
The next year it was cultivated in corn,
and the tenant informed me that he could
shut his eyes before he came near the
place and tell by the looseness of the
ground, the moment the plow struck
the part that had been in clover.—
The com crop was decidedly better on
hillside ditching and draining.
M e have heard some very interesting
statements here, on the subject of hill
side ditching and drainage. In my opi
nion, the very best hillside ditch that can
be made in this climate, is made of clover
and grasses and deep plowing. If you
will plow your lands deep, and keep your
hillsides in clover and grass, aud use
them mostly as pasturage for your stock
which will pay you better than any other
crop you can put upon them, you will
have no use for hillside ditches and the
deep plowing and the clover and grass
will prevent any wash.
A REPROACH TO THE PEOPLE OF GEORGLV.
I desire to state a fact here which is
really a shame to the people of Georgia.
The records of the W. & A. Bailroad
show that there was imported over the
road into the State, during the six months
from the first of January to the first of
July, in round numbers, 33,000 bales
of hay. This was worth about §200,000.
If the same quantity should be imported
for the last half year, it will be, say 66,600
bales, or §400,000 worth. Every pound
of this should be grown in middle aud
upper Georgia, aud if our friends who
raise cotton in the sandy lands should de
sire any hay, we should certainly furnish
it to them. I trust onr people will wake
up to this subject. Not only should we
raise all our own hay, but we should raise
our own stock. Where we have our
lands set with grass, we can do this easily
and cheaply. As an illustration—I keep
upon my farm neither a mule nor a horse
to aid in doing the work, but I work
mares entirely, and I have a jack and
raise mule colts. Last Fall, in No
vember, I was on my plantation in Gor
don county, and my manager, Oapt. Fin
ley, asked me how he should treat the
colts. I told him to turn them into the
bottom land upon a.clover field where we
had mowed it for * the winter, and let
them run there as long as it would sup
port them, and then give then! a plenty
of hay and some com, if necessary, for
the balance of the winter. The FaU had
been a favorable one and the clover was
np a very considerable height and thick
over the ground. The winter was wet
and bat one really very cold spell came
about ^Christmas. The result was that
there was enough clover for them to feed
upon all the Winter. I again visited the
farm the first of March, and ’ went with
Captain Finley to. see my colts, and found
them in good growing order, doing well,
ear* of "corn, during
and that they had run' there upon the
clover field and had had nothing else, ex
cept that they had probably eaten about
half a cart load of my seed clover, under
a shelter. This.was cut when it was rath
er dry and hard, for hay, when the seed
got ripe, and "they did not like, it,
and indeed they did not need it.—
They are now going on two years
of age, and I do not suppose
they know what com is. A mule colt, on
a clover farm, I find costs me less than a
bull yearling to raise it.
near your stables, aud will plow your
horses during the summer, giving them
plenty of clover bay, and allow them to
run in the pasture nt right, with one
feed of com each day, you may keep
them in good order and work them olt
summer.
CLOVER AS PASTURAGE EOB HOGS.
This is not confined to < at le or horses,
A clover field is a most excellent place
for your hogs. I set apart a field for
that purpose, and have now from 130 to
140 hogs upon it, and they have been
doing well nil summer, with scarcely auy
corn. W hen tlie weather is very wet,
the best plan is to move them off from it,
to prevent them from rooting up the
land. They will graze on the green
clover all the while, aud it is an excel
lent food for them. The cheapest way
to make meat iu the up country is to
have a good clover pasture for your hogs,
and after you cut your small grain in the
summer, turn them in for a time and
pasture them there. Taking the two
together, you need feed them very little
corn until August or September. Then
as soon as your corn is iu roasting ear,
fence off’ a small piece at a time (for
which Mr. Charles Wallace Howard’s
portable fence, a model of which is now
before the convention, would be very
convenient), turn them upon it, or cut it
aud throw it to them, stalk and alL—
They will eat the ear and chew up the
cob, the stalk and .fodder, aud it is all
nutritious. You. will find it will start
them off to thriving, growing and fatten
ing as fast as dry corn, and they get a
great deal more out of tho stalk, includ
ing tlie fodder, ear, &e., than they do out
of a dry ear of corn. In this way they
may be carried on until corn-gathering
time, and then feed them a short time
upon dry corn, and they are ready for
the butcher.
HGW TO OBTAIN SEED.
I of when* i suits a purpose..) because fiord of. On my best river bottom, in the clover land than on the same quality
A word now on the subject of seed.—
Until last year I have been buying my
seed each successive year, from Ken
tucky, because I did not wish to have the
trouble of cleaning the seed. Last sum
mer I had the second crop on ten acres
set apart for seed. I let it stand until
the seed was ripe and had it mowed as I
would mow hay, and. hauled it up and put
it under a shelter. In the spring when I
wished to sow, I had it thrown out with
forks upon the hard ground near the
bam, and a couple of hands took flails,
such as our fathers* formerly used in
threshing wheat, and a few licks would
beat off all the pods-from a considerable
bed of it. That was thrown aside and
another portion thrown down, and by
continuing in the same way I had the
seed thrashed off of the entire quantify.
With the seed which grew off the ten
acres, I sowed about sixty acres, the past
spring, and got an excellent stand. It
was sowed in the rough seed chaff and all
together, from seven to ten bushels to the
acre, on fresh plowed land, sowed in oats
and brushed in* as already stated in the
the case of clean seed. The seed off of
ten acres, if 1 had purchased it from
Kentucky, would have cost me about
§100. I therefore recommend every far
mer, of the first year, to save his own
seed. Buy your seed and sow the first
few acres; then set apart a portion of the
second crop of each year for seed, and
save it and prepare it and sow as above
stated, and you will have no difficulty
about it. You need therefore, after the
first year, spend nothing for seed; nor
need yon spend any labor on the clover
crop, except the simple labor of cutting
and housing it. This is certainly much
better, under the present labor system,
tb an our old habit of breaking up our
land, planting com and cultivating it all
summer, and pulling fodder and then
gathering the com, hauling it up,
shucking it and throwing it into
the crib and carrying it out in our
arms in baskets, and throwing it to onr
stock. Instead of all this labor, sow
your hillside lands, such as you cannot
well mow, turn your stock upon it in the
summer, and, unless in case of drought,
they will do well upon it all 'summer,
without any of your labor. Set apart
some of yonr land, bottom if you have
it, to mow; cut and save the crop there,
and you have nothing to do but to throw
the hay to the stock, with a little corn,
and you carry them through safely.—
There is, therefore, no comparison be
tween the two crops, so far as your stock
is concerned.
If you will sow a lot in clover and gras >
HOW TO TURN A CROP UNDER.
Before I conclude, a word more in refer
ence to turning under tlie clover crop. As
already stated, you do not pasture it the
first year, and your fist crop is saved,
the next spring after it is sowed.—
That year you may mow it twice,
and the next year twice. Tbe third
year, you should cut the first crop
and save it for hay, and you should turn
the second cropunder with a two horse
turning plow, giving it to the soil, and
either sow it in wheat that fall, which is
probably best, or cultivate it in corn, the
next spring. It should not stand more
than three years, without being turned
under, as the fourth year’s crop will not
be a very good one, and the wild growth
and broom sedge will become trouble
some by the fourth hear. I may also
remark that the first crop cut each year,
which in Cherokee, Ga., is ready for the
mower about the last of May, is much
the«best for hay. The second crop will
make your horses slobber, though the
hay is very good for cattle. The proper
time to mow the crop, is when it is in
full bloom, and a few blooms, here and
there, of the earliest, are beginning to
fade, preparatory to ripening the seed.
The old theory was to let it stand until a
third or half the blooms were fading, but
this is not the best, as the stalk becomes
rather hard and the hay is not as good.
If cut in full bloom, when only half of
the earliess blossoms are changing color,
your hay will be more nutritious and
better.
But I have already detained you too
long, Mr. President. My object was not
to make a speech, as I do not care to do
that further than to offer a few practical
suggestions, the result of my own expe-
tlie people to the great importance of this
subject, we will not have labored iu vain.
I thank you and the Convention for the
attentive hearing which you have given
me.
University of Georgia.
This venerable and deservedly popular
Institution of Learning enters upon its
seventy-first year on the 15th of Septem
ber next. We inrite attention to its ad
vertisement in our columns this morning.
We have frequently heard it remarked
by intelligent gentlemen, during the last
four years, that this Institution had the
ablest Faculty and was really the best
school in the Southern States.
W. II. Howard & Son.
The card of this firm in Augusta ap
pears this .morning in The Sun. This i s
an old and well established commission
and cotton warehouse, well and favorably
known in Georgia. The junior partner,
Mr. W. H. Howard. Jr., has resided near
and transacted business in this city for •
near two years, and is highly esteemed as
a good business man, Read their card..
This house proposes to advance moneys
on cotton in store, and purchase supplies
for customers with care and economy.
»-♦-<
The Superior Court of Spalding ad
journed on Saturday last. Many of" the
attorneys in attendance left for Merri-
wether Court at Greenville—among, them
Judge Linton Stephens, who accompa
nied CoL A. D. Nunnally.
State Road Plunderings.
We learn that investigations into tho
great State Road robbery will be resumed
in a day or two. Parties have put their
hands to this plow who wi Knot look back.
It will be probed to the bottom, and ev
ery thing connected with it exposed.
;.
Joseph Fry Heard From.
We have received reliable intelligence
of Mr, Joseph Fry’s whereabouts. Ho
will return to this city in a short time.
We deem this notice necessary, as Mr.
Fry has communicated his intentions to
ug . Z. B. Hargrove,
E. P. Howell.
The Courier-Journal says: The
five-column flashes in The Atlanta Sun
are said to be due to the Alecktricity in
the concern, but they are not particularly
enlightening.” The babblings in the
Courier-Journal only those of water,
but they were not particularly dampening
to Democratic prospects in Kentucky
daring the late elections.
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