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one hundred and thirty years old, was I crowd of men belonging ‘to The ‘Hone
last night, by her 1 ''— n ° 1
burned to death
clothes taking fire.
j collected and proceeded to Main street,
4. u mi -r, | meeting the United men near the Atlan-
S ^ ptemb ® r lo -— Tbe Demo- , tic saloon, when fighting between the
ciatic State Convention passed resolu-; two companies immediately commenced,
tions commendatory of General Hancock During the fight about 20 shots were
as a soldier and a citizen. fired from revolvers, by which two men
, Charleston, September 15.—Two were seriously and four slightly wounded,
deaths from yellow fewer have occurred The police gathered in force and succeed-
in tne last 24 hours. ed in arresting the leaders of the riot.
Mobile, September 15.—Coroner and restoring order.
Washington, September 15.—Reve
nue Supervisors Corwin, Fry, Dutcher
nud Sutton are consulting with Douglas
for a more efficient system of collecting
the tobacco tax.
The sentence of Satanta and Big Tree
has been committed to imprisonment for
lifC* mfA ^ t
The bondsmen of defaulting Revenue
officers very generally ask for a continu-
of the suits; but Commissioner
Douglas declines to accede, as the Gov
ernment has determined to press the
suits in nil of these cases.
Washington, September 15.—No cot
ton crop reports purporting to have come
from the Department of Agriculture dur
ing the month, have been genuine. The
items in circulation, often contradictory'
in tenor, assumed to be official, have had
no origin in the statistical data iu that
office.
The returns of August and September
include reports from about four hundred
cotton growing counties, representing a
very large proportion of the cotton area.
Those for August point to an average
condition of the crop, almost identical
with that of the preceding report; the
averages for Alabama aud Mississippi
being the same; those of Louisiana, Ar
kansas and Tennessee being higher, and
those of the other cotton States lower.
The State averages of the September
report are somewhat lower than those of
August, though the principal deprecia
tion occurs in the States which yield a
small proportion of the crop; while the
redaction is slight in the important dis
trict represented by Georgia, Alabama,
Mississippi and Louisiana.
The percentage of the full condition
in the first week of September, as aver
aged from all attainable data, is thus
stated: North Carolina, 82; South Caro
lina, 80; Georgia, 78; Florida, 75; Ala
bama, 80, Mississippi, 80; Louisiana, 77;
Texas, 81; Arkansas, 95; Tennessee, 9G.
There are reports of injury by the boll
worm and caterpillar, mainly in Missis
sippi and Louisiana; hut no evidence that
a general or very serious loss from in
sects is probable.
Rust is common in the Atlantic States
and to some extent on the Gulf coast.
Droughts have been injurious in the
Carolinas and in Texas ; though the re
ports of the rain falls through the South
indicate a fair supply of mositure, the dis
tribution of which has been somewhat
more unequal than usual. At one point
in Georgia the fall in amount was nearly
14 inches, and in parts of Florida it
amounted to 23 inches. These variable
atmospheric conditions have increased
the prevalence of rust and caused the de
struction both of leaves and fruit.
These drawbacks, though greater than
those reported in September or last year,
are not sufficiently serious to excite, ap
prehensions of a greatly depreciated
yield; they are reported each year in some
portions of the cotton area. In the re-
oord of last year there was considerable
complaint of damage to the cotton crop
from rust, worms and unfavorable Au
gust weather.
These facts do not point to an enlarge
ment of the expectation hitherto in
dulged. If they are reliable the most
favorable season could scarcely. bring a
crop exceeding three and one-third mil
lions of bales. If the growing season
should he short or unfavorable, three mil-
ions would be a good result, and with a
combination of unfavorable circumstan
ces the product might be still further re
duced.
City of Mexico, September 6.—One
hundred and forty-seven members were
present at the preliminary meeting of
Congress. The whole number is 227.—
The election, in this temporary organiza
tion, resulted in favor of Juarez.. Jna-
rezists were selected on the Committee on
Credentials by a vote of 75 to G8. This
vote alarms the opposition. A call de
priving the meeting of a quorum is re
ported.
Diaz is for peace and will move aga.nst
any revolutionary attempt.
The Juarezists are sure of a majority,
including the Committee on Credentials.
Strong revolutionary threats have been
made.
The permanent Junta will be installed
on the 16th of September.
A pronunciamento has been issued in
Zacatecas by which forced loans are lev
ied in smaller towns.
Vienna, September 15.—The provis
ional diets of the empire have opened
sessions.
The Emperor willingly recognizes Bo
hernia’s right by a public coronation
and taking the oath at Prague.
Brussels, September 15.—The Bank
of Belgium has advanced the rate of in
terest to 4J.
Versailles, September 15.—The bill
authorizing Thiers to conclude the cus
toms of treaty with Germany, embraces
provisions for Alsace and Lorraine.
The details reduces the German troops
in France to 50,000.
Labipkn, a large town in Algiers has
been destroyed. The insurgent leaders
in the vicinity were captured and shot.
Berlin, September 15.—There were 93
new cases of cholera at Keonigsberg the
12th instant, and 63 deaths; on the 13th
inst., there were 68 new cases and 45
deaths. The disease has disappeared
from Dantzig, and merely is sporadic
at Stetten.
Cincinnati, September 15.—The In
dustrial Exposition has received its fin
ishing touches. The cotton gins from
New Orleans are in operation.
Owing to the lateness of the cotton
crop the time for the entry of raw
cotton has been extended to October 6th,
The Chamber of Commerce has offered
in connection with the Exposition, special
premiums on cotton to the amount of
nearly S3,500. The premiums are offered
for the first and second'best bales each,
from Texas, Louisiana, Kansas, Tennes
see, Mississippi, Alabama aud Georgia.
A grand gold medal is offered by the Ex
position for the best bale from any of
these States.
New York, September 15.—The secret
meeting called by ex-Sheriff O’Brien to
organize the Democracy in opposition to
Tammany was thinly attended. But
two of the notables specially invited at
tended. The proceedings have not trans
pired.
Postmaster Jones and others, responsi
ble to the government, have resolved to
pay the defalcations in the New York
post office.
A fire in the hold of the Columbia,
from Glasgow, created a panic among the
passengers. The crew by hard work ex
tinguished the flames.
Jacob Vanderbilt, President of the
Statent Island ferry company has been
arraigned for manslaughter.
Judge Bedford charged the Grand Jury
to consider the conspiracy in Wall Street
to lock up millions in gold. He conclu
ded by saying: “The culprits ought to
be brought to speedy justice.•’ Many
leading Wall Street brokers are implica
ted.
Rosenweig has been indicted for abor
tion.
The proprietor of the Torpedo estab
lishment which exploded yesterday has
been held to bail in the sum of $10,000.
At the conclusion of the arguments in
the injunction case against the city offi
cials, this afternoon, Judge Barnard pro
nounced his decision granting the motion
for making the injunction permanent.
Philadelphia, September 15.—Han
nah Roberts, colored, supposed to be
denounces . the introftliction of foreign
workemeu into English shops as a dange
rous political expedient.
wheat crop is reported disas-
terously deficient
Clark, the American land forger, has
been sentenced to eighteen months, im
prisonment at hard labor.
Norfolk, September 17.—A serious
affray ocenred last night between the
United and Hope Fire companies of this
Clt 7» growing out of a jealousy that has
for some time existed between them.
About 8 o clock in the evening, a number
of men from the United company, pro
ceeded to the engine house of the Hope
company, on Coke street, dragged the
engine and hose^carriages into the street
and then went away. Half hour later a
DALTON, i
The appended items Me from the Ctti-
Paine, yesterday, arrested E. P. Sprague,
United States Inspector of Boilers, and
Hugh Barney and Bill Murray, owners,
charged with manslaughter in accordance
with the verdict of the jury inquest in
the steamer Ocean Wave disaster.
The Inspector furnished hail ia the
sum of a thousand dollars, and the own
ers two thonusand each.
Lewiston, September 15.—The first
killing frost of the season occurred this
morning.
Auburn, September 15.—Rev. Jacob
Van Vechter is dead.
New York, September 17.—The cot
ton movement of the week shows an in
crease in receipts over last week while
the exports are largely in excess of last
year.
Washington, Sept. 16.—Grant is at
Washington, Pennsylvania.
The Treasury has issued an elaborate
statement exculpatory of itself iu the
Hodge defalcation. Hodge’s bonds are
$40,000. His property is estimated at
$50,000.
The Mexican Commission reassembles
next week.
M. Meredith, of Pennsylvania, and
Caleb Cushing have been appointed as
arbitrators to Geneva,
S*t/t Latte City, September 16.—The
Gentile residents of Salt Lake City are
organizing a cavalry company. Over one
hundred names have already been, enroll
ed.
Cincinnati, September 16.—Three spe
cial trains leave to-night with the Tem
plars from the South and West for Balti
more.
Montgomery, September 16.—United
States Circuit Judge Woods refused tho
appointment of a receiver, on the appli
cation of W. F. Drake, a second mort
gage bondholder of the Alabama and
Chattanooga Railroad, upon the ground
that the State Courts had possession and
jurisdiction through a receiver. Judge
Woods, upon petition of W. A, C. Jones,
second mortgage bondholder for one
hundred thousand dollars, granted an
order to show cause, on the first Monday
in November, before the United States
District Judge, why .the Alabama and
Chattanooga Railroad should not be de
dared bankrupt.
Lexington, September 16.—Joseph
Shawhan, the oldest turfman in Ken
tucky, died to-day, aged 90, from inju
ries received by being thrown from ‘ ~
horse.
The track is bad. Ginger won first—
4:15V, 4:14J. Bombshell won second—
2:214.
Pilgrim, Longfellow, Beulah, Nellie
Gray and Morgan’s Scout entered for
three mile race Saturday.
Lowell, September 16.—The City
Council had a special meeting to consid
er the prevalence of small pox, which
pervades all classes. Eleven new cases
to-day.
Worcester, September 16.—There
were twenty-four delegates elected here
who are hostile to Butler. Butlerites
took possession of one ward and elected
delegates whose seats are to be contested.
Boston, September 16.—Charles T.
Simpson, Treasurer of the Chelsea Gas
Light Company, attempted suicide. He
will die. He is charged with indecent
assault upon a boy.
Chicago, September 16.—Judge Chase
is here. He is quite thin, but his eyes
are bright, figure erect and his speech
slightly affected from disease.
Omaha, September 16.—Gallagher, a
Democrat, is probably elected as delegate
to Congress from New Mexico by about
five hundred majority.
Burlington, September 16.—Simon
Cummings, the oldest lawyer in the city,
died, aged 78 years.
A negro barber attempted an outrage
upon Alderman Johnson’s wife. He was
held in twenty thousand dollars bail.
San Francisco, September 16.—The
surveyors of the South Pacific Railroad
have reached Petropolis, thirty miles
from Los Angelos.
A Democratic State Harbor Commis
sioner was elected.
Lyons, Sept. 16.—A proclamation to
day announces the disarmament of the
National Guard. All arms in the pos
session of the Guard are required to be
surrendered within two days, and fines
aud imprisonment follow a failure to
comply with the terms of the proclama
tion. * Regular troops replace the Na
tional Guards when disarmed.
Versailles, Sept. 16.—A majority of
the Assembly is known to be favorable
to the project of the law for the customs
treaty with Germany, including Alsace
and Lorraine, the result of which will be
the evacuation of the departments of
Aisne, Aube, Cote D’Or and Jura, by
the German troops. A debate upon the
bill introduced by Count de Pelusat, au
thorizing the signing of such treaty, will
take place to-day. # _
Gen. Changarnier is dangerously ill.
The Alsace custom question has proven
a troublesome one, and fears are ex
pressed that unless it is speedily settled
the entire trade of Alsace will go **
Switzerland instead of France.
The court-martial to-day sentenced the
agent of the International Society, M.
Parry to imprisonment, and certain sol-
diersto death, for passing over to the
Insurgents on April 14th.
London, September 16.—Tffie Mont
Cenis tunnel was traversed in thirty-eight
minutes. The air is excellent and
rails perfectly level.
Duke Alexis’ squadron is at Plymouth
where it remains a week.
The London International Society
promise the London weavers tb
will prevent the importation of foreign
workmen. The London Labor League
The Lowell firemen, who are visiting
this city, were at their hotel during the
riot and are no way implicated in the
affair.
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GEORGIA NEWS.
SAVANNAH.
The News of the 14th has the follow
ing:
The country editors have been making
a run on Savannah for the past few weeks.
We hope they find it profitable as well
as agreeable.
On yesterday at about two o’clock, on
West Broad street, a small child of Mr.
James Murphy, about two years of age,
was run over by a lumber wagon and se
riously injured. The child was play in _
in the street when the wagon was pass^
ing, and by some means got thrown un
der the wheel, which passed over its
shoulder and hand.
Yesterday morning about eleven o’clock,
as Mr. Frank Reeves, an old resident of
this city, was driving a cart along Pine
street, the mule attached thereto became
frightened and ran away. Mr. Reeves
was thrown violently out, and the heavy
wheel of his cart passed over his body
in the region of the heart, bruising him
so seriously that he.died in about an hour
after the accident occurred.
Wootten & Haight’s circus is in Sa
vannah, and Harris says he will see it if
it costs him his beer for a week.
MACON.
The Telegraph will publish a State Fair
BuUetin Hwdng the State Fair.
The Telegraph speaks as follows of the
recent election for Senator from that
District:
The election for Senator yesterday was
like the handle on a skillet—a one-sided
affair. The Rads, were thoroughly de
moralized. In nominating old Mr. Tin-
ley (a life-long Democrat) the darkies saw
a small rat trap filled with large-sized
mice, and didn’t go for the mite of cheese
in it. It will be seen that Mr. Tinley
was not in the race at all, and we hope
he will take the first opportunity of mak
ing affidavit to the fact, and of washing
his hands of the bad company he has
been in, and get back into respectable
society again. We are willing to forgive
the old man if he will do that and prom
ise not to do so any more. The idea of
a native of South Carolina and an old
Georgian like he is being found hobnob
bing with such a set is preposterous. It
can’t stick.
But the election here yesterday was a
very quiet and peaceable affair. The
Rads, didn’t rally two hours before day,
as is their custom, and take possession of
the polls, and they didn’t rally at any
time, or during the whole day.
The Democrats had the polls from the
beginning, and made a clean shucking of
the whole thing. It no doubt excited
the disgust of Mr. Tinley to see leading
Radicals working for Col. Simmons all
day. And it was funny.
The following is the official vote of the
city—2,173 votes beingpolled : Thos. J.
Simmons, 1,698 ; James Tinley, 475 ;
Simmons’ majority 1,223.
We have unofficial returns from Rut
land district of this county, in which Mr.
Tinley resides, which give the vote :
Simmons 43 ; Tinley 17.
Telegrams from Forsyth andBarnes-
ville, received yesterday afternoon, show
that the election in Monroe and Pike
counties went as it did in Bibb—all one
way. At 5 o’clock, p. m. at Forsyth 405
votes had been polled—all for Simmons.
At Barnesville the vote stood: Simmons
256; Tinley 66.
To sum it all up, Mr. Tinley is the
worst beaten man that ever aspired to
office in Middle Georgia.
zen, of Friday:
The weather for a week past has been
delightfully pleasant. Since the rain the
com and sweet potato crops have improv
ed wonderfully.
The cattle hereabouts are still dying
up very rapidly with murrain. No less
than ten have died within the city limits
during the past two weeks. The disease
bas assumed alarming proportions.
We learn that a Northern company has
purchased a mill and two lots of land, on
Rock creek, in Murray county, for the
purpose of erecting an extensive factory,
tor the manufacture of all kinds of cotton
goods, from the best prints, bleachings
aud sheetings, to the coarser fabrics.
COLUMBUS.
The Sun of Friday “rises to explain”
the cotton question, in the following
words:
Last year Columbus received 75,007
bales. This realized, averaging it at 13c
per pound—$4,875,452. In 1871-2 we
will most probably receive 55,000 bales.
The indications are it will average 18c.
and may go beyond it. Many speak of
25c. as the average, and it may be reach
ed if the United States crop is not under
estimated. We fc k© a figure which is
certain—18c. per pound or $90 per bale.
Our 55,000 bales will realize $4,950,000
or about $80,000 more than last year,
though the crop he 20,000 bales less. If
we get 20c. per pound, or $100 a bale,
the total realized the present cotton year
will he $5,550,000; and if we should reach
25c. $6,875,000 will be the amount to be
distributed, or near $2,000,000more than
last year. With this amount, trade will
flourish and a change for the better come
over every branch of business.
The South received very little money
comparatively for her tremendous crop
of last year. The yield was 4,347,000
bales, and the planters received for it
(13c. per pound) $271,000,000. In 1869-
70, 1,200,000 hales less were produced.
The crop was 3,114,000.hales, which real
ized to the planters $299,000,000, $20,-
000 more than the succeeding year, not
withstanding the enormous increase in
yield. This should teach farmers a les
son by which money can he made. A
large crop yields less money than a small
one, and you can’t fool you neighbor
easily. If you plant largely, so will he.
If every farmer would raise Ms own pro
visions and then plant the remainder of
his land in cotton, the South would be in
a few years the most prosperous country
on the globe.
The Sun of Saturday has the following
items:
In the last four days the freight bills
of Columbus on New York goods
have amounted to $5,400.
The right of way has been given, free
of charge, to the North and South Road
along its entire length through Harris.
Several Italians near here are engaged
in the manufacture of wine from differ
ent varieties of European grapes. One
tells ushe expects to get one hundred and
forty barrels from his vineyard; another
two hundred and fifty.
We understand that while digging a
well in the yard of the oil factory, a cha
lybeate spring, of considerable volume
and very strongly marked mineral prop
erties, was discovered. The grounds
have been covered with old iron of the
foundries that have been there so long,
that everything in the shape of a liquid
should have its characteristics.
DAWSON,
Chrtnide and Sentinel makes a good show
ing of what “one cotton factory will do:”
In order to give onr citizens some idea
of the value of manufacturing interests,
we give below some figures which will
tend to show the amount of money wMch
the Augusta Factory Company has dis
bursed here in the past six years—since
the war. We will premise by stating
that the company is working upon a
capital of only six hundred thousand dol
lars. In round numbers it has paid out
since the war for
Laborers’ wages. $1,783,000
Dividends 720,000
Taxes .... 257,000
Incidental Expenses 153,000
Repairs —. 55,000
$2,968,000
Thus, in round numbers, it will be seen
that this company has expended three
millions of dollars in six years, or an av
erage of half million per annum. Of
these three million there was expended
directly in Augusta:
Operatives’ wages $1,784,000
Dividends 720,000
Taxes (municipal) 49,000
Repairs 55,000
the Macon and Western Railrod, by
placing; obstructions upon it. If the
fiend is caught at it we hope a hemp
halter will be convenient to strangle him
on the spot
Referring to the Central Railroad the
Telegraph says:
Mr. William Rogers, Superintendent of
the Central Railroad, has been in Great
Britain for some time, including Scotland
and Lie of Man, purchasing steel rails for
his road, the first installment of which
arrived recently at Savannah, on the
steamer “Onward.” Mr. R. will return
next week. Mr. Wadley, President of
the road, is going to crown his reign with
a mammoth depot in this city, on the
site of the old court house, at the foot of
Mulberry street. Parties who have seen
the design of the building say it will
eclipse anything of the kind South of
Mason and Dixon’s line. It is also said
that the Central Railroad Company will,
in course of time, build all of their own
engines here, and that Macon will gain a
valuable accession of skilled mechanics
thereby. The amount of money they
will distribute here will be enormous, and
go far toward building up the city and
its trade.
$2,607,000
Only a small amount of the stock is
held out of the city. Over two millions
and a half of dollars have found their
way directly into the pockets of our citi
zens from this factory in six years, be
sides the benefits derived from increase
of population, etc. The factory has paid
out here annually more money than it
requires to support the entire municipal
government and pay off interest on the
city bonds. Putting our population at
16,000—the census figures—the factory
has declared since the war a cash divi
dend of one hundred and sixty-two dollars
to each inhabitant.
SAVANNAAH.
The Advertise)' of the 15th has the fol
lowing interesting item in its Washing-
ington telegraphic correspondence:
A'gentleman named Wigfall, formerly
of Virginia, but who is now a resident of
Brooklyn, owns a handsome residence in
Clinton avenue, in that city, valued at
$75,000 cash. He says that within the
past ten days a prominent lawyer of
Georgia proposed to him to buy this
property, offering in payment a certified
claim against a certain railroad in Geor
gia for legal fees amounting to an hun
dred thousand dollars, stating that all he
had to do was to present the claim and
get the money. Wigfall refused to give
the name of the lawyer as he had been
requested to treat the matter confiden-
tially. It is suspected that this claim is
against the State road and certified to by
the commissioners recently appointed by
Bnllock to settle the claims against that
road.
The News of the 16th announces the
death of Capt. Bryan Connor.
Messrs. Ludden & Bates will commence
the publication of the Southern Musical
Journal—a sixteen page monthly—on the
first of October.
MAYOR’S COURT.
Books Opened
Early, but
Trade.
not Much.
The News of-Saturday has the follow
ing:
The Chronicle and Sentinel of the 14fch
has the following:
We learn that the Powder Mills prop
erty, situated on the Augusta canal, a
short distance from the city, has been
purchased by CoL E. W. Cole, General
Superintendent of the Georgia Railroad.
The tract of land comprises, we believe,
about 120 acres—a greater portion of
which was the property of the United
States government before the war. Dur
ing the war several large brick brick buil
dings were erected by the Confederate
authorities, and powder was manufac
tured on a very large scale. Since the
war the buildings and a large quantity of
machinery in them have not been used.
It is a splendid manufacturing site, and
we hope that as soon as the canal is en
larged cotton factories will be put into
operation there.
The Journal, of yesterday; furnishes
the appended items:
The wife of Mr. John G. Brumby died
at his residence, in tMs city, on last Sat-
urdOy. The fnneral obsequies took place
on Sunday evening.
About one hundred colored preachers
and delegates from different parts of the
State, attended the “Ebenezer Associa
tion,” of the African Methodist Church,
in this place, daring the last week.
An altercation occurred on last Thurs
day, in our city, between D. B. Parks
and Thomas Leeman, both white, which
resulted in Leeman being stabbed in the
left side of his breast, a severe cat in the
throat, a gash on the head, and a piece
of one of his ears cut off. Parks was
arrested and lodged in jaiL Leeman is
lying in a very critical condition.
The Journal of the 14th has the fol-
ing items:
In common with the citizens of Daw-
son^md surrounding country, we regret
the contemplated move of Hon. C. B.
Wootten to Macon.
The dwelling of Mr. J. W. Edwards,
of ChicasawhatcMe, was burned on the
night of the 8th. This is a heavy loss
of Mr. Edwards, hut we are glad to know
he is surrounded by neighbors who know
how to sympathize with a friend in dis
tress.
ALBANY.
The following items are from the News
of the 15th :
The health of the city is remarkably
good.
The rains continue, and the country is
flooded with water.
The A. & G. Railroad has recovered
from the storm washes, and the trains
now come iu on schudle time.
Several squads of hands have passed
through on their way to work on the
Southwestern Railroad extension.
The storm and disasters have delayed
work on the B. & A. It. R., end it will be
some days before the cars will run into
lf;he city.
Col. Chas. L. Schlatter, CMef Engi
neer B. & A. and B., O. & C Railroads
went down to Bainbridge, to receive iron
for the latter Road, and returned on
Wednesday. He is now in the city, and
is in fine health.
HAWK3XS7TUT.E.
The Dispatch of the 14th recounts the
“thrilling adventure” of an Atlanta man,
as follows:
Notwithstanding the extraordinary
rains of last week, and the swollen streams
on his route, Mr. Ephraim Mann left
early Thursday morning as usual with
the Irwinville mail. Mr. Daniel, of At
lanta, having reached here on his way to
Wilcox, where a business appointment
awaited him, engaged a seat in the boggy
of Mr. Mann. They arrived at Big Creek,
and although seeing the stream very large
and running far this side of the bridge,
they drove in with the expectation of
reaching the bridge, when crossing could
he effected in safety. Ere they had pro
ceeded far, the horse began swimming,
and the water run over the buggy. Tins
state of affairs was not very desirable,
and Mr. Mann was compelled to jump
into the creek and cut the harness from
his horse. By this time the current had
drifted the buggy down some distance,
and nearing a large willow tree, Mr.
Daniel seized and threw the bag of mail
matter among its boughs. All this time
Mr. Mann was struggling to save his
horse, which he did alter much risk and
exertion. Mr. Daniel climbed into the
top of the willow tree and there remained
till late in the evening. Mr. Mann swam
out and came to town after a batteau,
which he hauled to the creek, and thus
rescued Mr. Daniel and the mail, some
of the latter being much damaged.
AUGUSTA.
In the subjoined facts and figures the
The last issue of the Palatka (Florida)
Herald contains an extraordinary rumor
to the effect that J. H. Gould, the recent
revenue collector, whose alleged defalca
tion created, such a stir in this city, was
foully dealt with by a party whom he
had employed to pilot him over the Big
Cypress in Florida. While in Orange
county recently the editor of the Herald
learned from a respectable source that
Gould, who figured some time ago as a
revenue Tdefaulter in Savannah, to the
amount of thirty or forty thousand dol
lars, is no more. The party who piloted
him over the Big Cypress returned with
iiis gold watch and horse, which he said
Gould had no further use for. This par
ty is suspected of having murdered Gould
for his money. He was never heard
from beyond the Big Cypress. This
same party, it is said, has been spending
money freely and foolishly. The gentle
man to whom the editor of the Hei'ald is
indebted for the above information, said
that Gould was dead, and that he would
give the family of the deceased satisfac
tory information on the subject if they
wished it. From this it would appear
that the mystery which has so long en
veloped the disappearance of Gould will
soon he satisfactorily cleared up.
Wootten & Haight’s balloon, which
went up at Savannah last Friday, was
obliging enough to alight in the river.
The balloonist said Tie didn’t want e’er a
nautical expedition any more.
MADISON.
The Appeal of the 16th, has tlie follow
ing items:
Ben Shields, the negro convicted of
murder at the late extra term of the Su
perior Court, and sentenced to be hanged
on the 15th of this month, has been re
spited to the 27th of October.
Onr city was visited on Thursday
afternoon and evening by two of the
severest rain storms that have been ex
perienced in. this section for many days.
Yards, streets and roads were flooded,
and in many places badly washed.
Now what I'm 'bout, a grinding out
Is an important theme—
’Xi8 these mediums of the devil
Scandal venders that I mean,
In every one-horse country town ..
There are a certain few,
Whovillify their neighbors;
For they've nothing else to do—
And don’t you know that that’s a fact,
And just the simple truth?
In the neighborhood where Matilda
Scott lived, were just such cattle as the
above, and they set to work to brew a .
fuss atween Tilda and her “lovyer.” As
is usually the case, they succeeded, and
Til was too quick on trigger, and instead
of using the original Scott’s tactics, she
went off half-cocked. This cansed her
sweetheart to flee the realm, and Matil
da paid her $10 and costs.
Dr. Hemhold’s Hottentots were seen
gathering Buchu leaves again this morn
ing around the Mayor’s snorting pole.
Some half dozen semi-civilized Hots
were up, swearing all about how Nelson
Overton struck another nigger over the •
head with the edge of a long handle
shovel, and how it bent the shovel double
and drew from the nigger’s head some
royal Hottentot blood, and various other
things, the half of which wasn’t so. Any
way, there was a gash on the nigger’s
head, and the cold clotted blood on his
shirt. This was some proof, and Nelson
contributed $15 and costs (an unusual
fine) to the city exchequer.
Tony Daily, Isham Logan, John Stew
art, and Billy Jones, white boys and ne
groes, were all up [for getting upon the
cars while in motion, and were fined the
cost in each case. This is a new syndi
cate of the police and a very good move,
and hereafter the boys had better look
out on this quarter.
James Peavy and a negro blacksmith,
named Monroe Marshall had some high
words about the mending of a wagon.
The police interfered and they each paid
costs for the fuss.
George Steele plead guilty to drunk,
disorderly and profane, and begged th©
clemency*of the Court, which was granted
by his paying $5 and costs.
An old chronic case of disorderly and
profane, which occurred on the 7th of
May, was settled by paying $5 and costs.
For being drunk on the streets E. A.
Dozier paid $5 and costs.
Max Phelts had never been so before,
and the way he came so this time was by
mixing beer with whisky. He was wil
ling to stick to the original beer, but was
persuaded by others to abandon the old
land- marks—to depart from his raising—
and he departed. He told his story in
his own pathetic way:
BUENA VISTA.
A letter from Hon. B. B. Hinton, pub
lished in the Americus Republican, says
the colored people of Buena Vista have
held a meeting in the interest of tho
Newnan and Americus Railroad, and
subscribed $3,000. They propose to
work out the number of shares subscrib
ed, demanding one-half of their daily
wages in cash, the remaining half to be
as a payment of their stock; and in this
way they propose to continue to work un
til the number of shares subscribed be
fully paid into the company.
MACON.
The Telegraph of Saturday has the
following :
Those who came in on the different
Railroads yesterday, report the creeks in
Central and Southwestern Georgia again
overflowed. The river is still rising at
this point. It rained steadily nearly all
of last night.
The report of the Comptroller-General
of the State says Bibb county possesses
a greater number of acres of wild lands
than any other county in the State, being
695,130 acres. In the value of improved
lands, Bibb ranks third best in the State
$10.53 per acre.
Some murderously inclined villi an has
made two unsuccessful attempts, recently,
to throw passenger trains off the track of
At fia picnic oudin Fechter’s wood
De beer was soft—de gals were good;
Oontil von feller, vUd and rasch,
Called oud for a yankee brandy smash.
A crow vas Talking on de vail
Feel dead ven he hear dii Dootchman call:
For he knew det droples coom, py shinks,
Ven de Dootch go in for yankee drinks.
Be Dootch got ravin’ droonk ash sin,
Dey smash de windows oad and in;
Dey bust and bang de bar-room ein,
Und caU for a bucket of branntewein.
Avay, avay, demselfs dey fioong,
Und a vild, infernal lie dey sung;
'Twas “tarn de wein and cuss de bier I
Ve ton’t care nix for de demperance here 1
“O, keep a pringing juleps in,
Und bald-faced corn dat pum like sin;
Mit apple tods und old shtone fence.
Ye'll all get corned ere ve go hence 1”
Dy dash deir glasses on de cround,
Und taoz till it vus all to brick dues ground.
Ven dey hear von man had a ten-dolia» note,
Be crowd go dead for dat rich man’s treat.
Do demperance chap vot coom derein
Vent squandering oud mit his shell bust in ;
‘•It’s valk you chalks, you loost your chance,
Dis vot ye caU de Dootchman’s dance.”
"What is called the Mayor’s horn-pipe
was executed for Max by His Honor,
while Jonsen “patted” and Fitzgibbon
whistled. The performance was worth
at least $5.
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Associate Counsel.
We learn that Hon. John W. H. Un
derwood, of Rome, has also been re
tained as associate counsel with Col.
Farrow and Hon. B. H. Hill, to prose
cute before the Superior Court those who
have been arrested for State Road plun
derings. _
Yesterday officer D. P. Kendrick
arrested Henry R. Cody, formerly of
Warrenton, Ga., but now a resident
of this city, upon a warrant issued by a
magistrate in Warren county, at the in- •
stance of of Messrs. Branch, Scott & Co.,
charging Mr. Cody with larceny after
trust delegated. It is said to be a mat
ter of dispute about the proceeds of a
•wagon sold by Cody on commission,
being the property of B., S. & Co., for
which they allege he had never paid
them.