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VOL.3, NO. 5J3| ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1871.3
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THE ATIjANTASUN
From The Dally Sun of January 7, 1872,
mr. At .V FOB 1873.
Kprrltl Announcement
Vnp.ftyx uaa entered upon the New Year
with several important changes, which
will, we trust, commend it yet more to
the pntronageof the reading public. The
subscription to the Daily is reduced from
ten to
Eight Dollars peu Annum;
luo Dollars per Quarter; 75cis. per Month.
The purjjose .of this reduction is to
place the Daily within reach of those of
1 every class who desire to read—the work-
ingmuu and the farmer, as well as of the
merchant and capitalist.
While Tiie Sun is not quite so large
as our cotemporaries of this city,
and wo shall not attempt to compete
with them iu the amount of general read
ing, we promise that as
A NEWSPAPER
it shall be second to uouo in tho city or
State iu quantity of news, either foreigu,
national, State or local. Our
MARKET REPORTS
shall bo very fu:l and strictly reliable,
and this, we are sure, will be au attrac
tion for our readeis, especially those out
of the city. Our —.
EDITORIAL STAFF
, receives two valuable accessions, in the
'persons of Mr. C. II. C. Willingham,
(late editor of the LaG range Reporter) in
the Political Department, and Mr. W.
H. Moore, well known in this city by a
former connection with Tiie Sun as its
City Editor. The Editorial corps of The
8un will bo as follow!.: f*J
Alex. H. Stei wi ns, Politic il Editor.
Sam’l A. Echols, Associate Editor.
C. H. G. Willingham, Assistant Politi
cal Editor.
Pascal J. Moran, News Editor.
W. H Moore, 1 City Editors.
A. J. Hulsey, j
With this corps of writers, we enter
The Sun upon the New Year, soliciting
of the public a liberal patronage, which
we shall endeavor continually to meiit
Letters and remittances for The Sun
should he ailiLcesed
Samuel A. Echols,
Business Manager.
jftjv-floi- Whitson G. Johnson, of Lex
ington, appears to have many advocates
in the 8th Distriot for his nomination for
Congressional honors.
Jolm E. Hatcher, who has been
doing the Prentieeana of the Louisville
Courier-Journal, is soou to start a new
paper at Columbia, Teim. We wish
•*G. Washington Bricks” grand success
on the right line.
Douglas County Election.—Tho re
turns l urn the election held iu Dougius
county on tho 1st of January, shows that
John M. James, Independent candidate
was elected Ordinary by a vole of 570.—
His oi liuii-nt, .MiLs Edwards, received
071 votes, leaving a majority of 105 votes
for Jumes.
fob matFMMBjrcM.
Chronology ef Loading Ereati of 1873.
JANUARY.
1. Gold 109J. City Council of New
York voted to impAch Mayor HalL Na
tional debt reduced during December,
$4,412,956.
2. Biot at Rochester, N. Y., resulting
from an attempt to lynch a negro lor
criminal assauU on a little girl; three
men killed and several wounded. Brig
ham Young arreeted on a charge of be
ing connected with the murder of Bich
ard Yates in Echo Canon.
3. The first case under the civil service
reform at Washington referred to the
Civil Service Commission. Court-room
floor at Kittychogher, Ireland, with 300
persons on it, gives away, killing twenty
persons.
4. The Spanish Government requested
to apologize for the Florida allair.
5. The Alabama Claim Arbitration
Commission organized by the election
of Count Sclopsis as President at Geneva.
G. James FiBk, Jr., fatally shot by Ed
ward S. Stokes at the Grand Central
Hotel, New York city.
7. Death of James Fisk, Jr. Dr. Mer-
riman Cole, of Baltimore, murdered.
8. Congress reassembles. National
Trade Congress opens at Nottingham
England.
9. Death ol Major General H. W. Hal-
leck, at one t ime commanding the army
of the United States.
10. Commander Alexander H. Semmes
court martialcd and suspended.
11. The Republican National Commit
tee meet at Washington and appoint
time and place for the National Conven
tion.
13. Fight of the Warmoth and Carter
factions in Louisiana.
14. Publication of the Fisk-Monsfield
correspondence.
15. Death of Hon. James M. Hanna,
a leading Democratic politician of In
diana.
15. The Chicago relief bill passes the
House of Representatives.
17. Vincent Coiyar resigns his Secre
taryship of the Indian Commission.
19. Wm. M. Tweed summoned before
a committee of the New York Legisla
ture.
20. President Thiers, of France, ten
ders and withdraws his resignation.
22. Garrett Davis arraigns the Presi
dent in a Senate speech.
23. The Manitoba gold excitement
commences. Heavy batcn of indictments
presented against the Tammany thieves,
24. The Chicago Relief Bill passes the
United States Senate.
2G. George Botts, tho murderer of
‘l'et Halstead,” hung at Newark, N. J.jjg
I 28. The State of Chihuahua declares
itselt independent of the Mexican Gov
ernment.
31. The new Apportionment Bill
finally passed in Congress.
FEBRUARY.
1. Gold 109J. Reduction of the na
tional debt during January, §5,663,511.
National Convention held in Cincinnati
to favor an amendment to the Constitu
tion recognizing God and Jesus Christ.
4. The British Government threatens
to withdraw its agreement relativo to l he
Geneva Conference.
County Officers Elected in Talia
ferro County. — Charles A. Btazley,
Ordinary ; Jos.D. Hammock, Clerk of Su
preme Court; Jos. 1). Hammock, County
Treasurer; Macons D. L. Googer, Sheriff;
Will in 1 Woodruff, Tax Collector; Jos.
NY. Farmer, Tax Receiver; Wm. J.
Fielding, Coroner; Wm. T. Burke, Snr-
All Democrats.
; anti-disability bill passes
Yevor.
Wonderful Change. —Wo had the
pleasure of meeting iu our office on Mon
day last, Mr. Frank Palmer, waorn we
have known as a deaf and duL. 1 gentle
man. At the battle of Gettysburg, Mr.
Paitner received a shot in tho head, which
together with a savoro concussion, rend
ered him totally deaf and dumb for uiue
years. List summer ho went to Phila
delphia with the hope of having bis
speech and hearing restored, which prov
ed most successful. He now speaks and
hears as well as he ever did, except that
in damp weather, his hearing becomes a
little impaired. He is a good business
man and we trust he may secure such
employment as will bo commensurate
with his capacity.
Professor Looney’s School.
The special attention of cur readers is
called to the advertisement of Professor
Looney—one of the finest and most
faithful educators iu the whole State of
Georgia. He has just left Hogansville,
wheie he bad a flue school, and now
casts his fortunes in Palmetto, upon
which acquisition to their town,the people
cay justly feel proud. We regard Prof.
Looney as one of the most: competent
and faithful teachers we ever knew. We
bespeak for him a heart j reception and
support in his new field of labor. He
is a teacher in every.sense of the term.
5. Asweepin
the House.
7. Death of tho Most Reverend John
Spalding, Primate of the Catholic Church
in the United States and Archbishop of
Baltimore, in Baltimore, aged 62 years.
12. Great snow blockade on the Pacific
railroad.
13. The Right Honorable John Evelyn
Denuhon, late Speaker of the House of
Commons, created Viscount Ossington.
First news < f tho famine in Perisia—
thousands dying daily with hunger.
14. ThuEaglisb expedition departs in
search of Dr. Livingstone.
15. Hon. Henry Wilson writes a letter
consenting to become a candidate for the
Vico Presidency, subject to the Philadel
phia Convention.
16. The Nebraska Legislature meets,
but Gov. Butler refuses to recognize it,
19. Tho bill for the removal of the
tariff on tea and coffee passes the House
22. National Labor Reform Conven
tion at Columbus, Ohio,nominates Judge
Davis, of Illinois, for the Vice Presiden
cy. Tho National Prohibition Conven
tion at tue same time and place nomi
nates James Black, of Pennsylvania, for
President, and John Russel, ol Michigau,
for Vice President.
26. Mr. Sumner’s resolution concern
ing the sale of arips to tue French passes
the Senate without debate.
27. Death of the Rev. Henry Benediot
Coakey, Vicar General and Administra
tor ol tho Archdiocese of Baltimore, in
the 64ih year of liis age.
29. The Japanese Embassy reach
Washington. Queen Victoria’s life is
threatened by an insane Irishman. The
pistol he carries found to be unloaded.
Thiers offers the Pope the hospitality of
France. Austria offers him £>aizburg
Castle for a residence.
MARCH.
1. Gold, 110i. Reduction of the na
tioual debt for February, $15,391,451.
2. National bank circulation outstand
ing at this date was $331,180,792. Se
verest snow storm known in Washington
for fifteen years. Emperor Francis Jo
seph issues a decree declining to recog
nize the old Catholic Bishops as a por
tion of the ecclesiastical heirarchy of
Austria.
3. Celebration of the seventeenth anni
versary of Alexander’s accession to the
Russian throne.
4. Japanese embassy presents letters
of credenoe to President Grant from the
Emperor of Japan. Appropriation bill
passed for public buildings in Cincin
nati The Centennial Commissioners
assemble at Philadelphia. Trial of May
or Hall commenced.
5. Government reception to Japanese
embassy. The Austrian Reicbsrath
passes the compulsory education bilk
6. Formal reception of the Japanese
in the House of Representatives. The
Tichbome claimant arrested for perjury
and lodged in Newgate prison. Slight
earthquake in Prussia. Seven steamers
burned in Cincinnati.
8. By payment of two milliards of the
war indemnity France gains entire con
trol of six departments.
9. Telegraphic communication estab
lished between France and the island of
Goadalonpe.
10. Coalition organized in Madrid
against the Spanish Government.
11. Joseph Mazzini, the Italian patri
ot, died in Pisa, Italy, aged 63. Hon.
John A. DiX elected President of the
Erie railway by a coup d’etat on the part
of the owners of tho Erie stock. Gen
eral Longstrect resigns as Surveyor of
New Orleans. Civil service appropria
tion bill passed.
12. Government bonds (1862) re
deemed by Secretary of the Treasury to
date, $104,281,800.
13. News received of the loss of the
Denmark, the largest clipper ship in the
world. Great bridge across the Missouri
river at Leavenworth completed.
14. The Prussian Government requests
the Roman Catholic Bishop of Erme-
land to revoke sentences of excommuni
cation. Anti-Temperance Convention
met at Springfield, 111. Funeral of Maz
zini.
15. Wisconsin land grant bill defeated
in the Hoose. Earl Granville announces
in tne House of Lords notice of abroga
tion of the French commercial treaty.
The Diet of Bohemia dissolved by impe
rial decree.
16. For rejection of the dogma of in
fallibility, three professors of the
University of Bonn excommunicated.
17. St Patrick’s anniversary obseived
throughout Ireland; at Drogheda a great
open air celebration occurs, at which the
Government policy toward Fenian pris
oners is loudly denounced. Great de
monstration at Rome iu memory of Jo
seph Mazmni. Rev. Dr. Eddy succeeds
Dr. Newman iu the pastorate of the Me
tropolitan church at Washington.
18. The Chicago Relief bill brought
to a hearing in the Senate. Death of
Judgo Whiting of New York.
19. The Chicago Relief bill reported
from the Committee of the Whole. The
President signs the act of Congress au
thorizing the survey and establishment
of boundaries between the territory of
the United States and of Great Britain
from Lake of the Woods to the summit
of the Rocky Mountains. The New York
voucher thieves arraigned. Dasseldorf
Academy of Art burned.
20. The Chicago Relief bill passes the
Senate. Unprecedented ice blockade in
the lake straits. The Pacific Mail Sub
side bill defeated iu the House.
21. The Sutro Tunnel has progressed
2,800 feet. Foreign dates describe hor
rible outrages practiced ou the Jews in
Roumania.
22. Severe gales on the Atlantic. Ex^
cited discussion in the Euglish House of
Lords over the course to be pursued with
egard to the Treaty of Washington
Emperor William’s seventy-fifth anniver
sary. Government duty removed from
tea and coffee.
23. Annual boat race between Oxford
aqd Cambridge. James Cuddy, a prom
inent iron manufacturer of St. Louis,
dies.
24. Famine in the vicinity of Tient-
fin, China.
26. Earthquake at San Francisco, Cal.
Assassins attempt to kill Mikado of Ja
pan.
28. Death of General Humphrey
Marshall at Louisville, Ky.
29. Several towns in California partial
ly destroyed bv the earthquake on the
26th.
2. Advices from Zanzibar of a hurri
cane in April which destroyed $10,000,-
000 worth of property and many lives.
3. Horace Greeley nominated for
President and B. Gratz Brown for Vice-
President by the Cincinnati Convention.
5. Don Carlos being defeated, flees to
French territory.
9. Fire at Somerset, Pa.: loss, $1,000,-
000.
10. Senate French Arms Committee
report they find no cause to secure the
Secretary of War.
11. Death of T. Buchanan Read, the
poet, at New York city. United States
troops called upon to suppress riot
ainoug Michigan mines.
13. The House Committee on Appro
priations recommends the passage of the
postal telegraph bill.
14. Marshal Bazaine arrested for bad
conduct about the surrender of Metz.
16. News of a teirible conflagration at
Yeddo, Japan, April 23; space burned
over, three miles long by two miles wide.
18. Internal revenue receipts for fiscal
year to date, $113,S63.156. The Senate
Foreigu Relations Committee report fa
vorably upon the supplemental article
relativo to the “indirect” Alabama
claims.
20. Mr. Greeley accepts, by a formal
letter, the Cincinnati nomination.
22. The Senate passes the kn-klux,
civil rights and amnesty bills. The
Seeor Claims Investigating Committee
report and exonerate Secretary Robeson
23. Unvailing of the Shakspeare statue
in New York city and appropriate cere
monies.
24. The National Workingmen’s Con
vention at New York nominate Grant
nd Wilson for President and Vice-
President.
27. Deaths in England of William
Russell, Duke of Bedford and Sir Henry
Lytton Bulwer, brother of Lord Lyt ton.
28. Death of the Archduchess Sophia,
of Austria, mother of the Emperor
Francis Joseph.
31. Charles Sumner’s speech iu the
Unitea Slates Senate against President
Grant, aud reply of General Logan.
JUNE.
1. Death of James Gordon Bennett
3. Grand Liberal mass meeting at
Cooper Institute, New York.
4. Meeting of the International Typo
grapieal Union at Richmond, Va.
5. Meeting of National Republican
Convention at Philadelphia.
6. General Grant nominated for Pre
sident and Henry Wilson for Vice Presi
dent by the National Republican Con
ve tion at Philadelpnia.
10. Adjournment of second session of
Forty-3teonc! Congress.
12. Seventeenth International Conven
tion ol You.j, 'Urn’s Christian Associa
tions ut Lowell.
13. Strikes among trades union mn
in New York. Opening of World’s Fair
at Copenhagen.
15. Reassembling of the tribunal of
arbitration of Alabama claims at Geneva.
APRIL.
2. Death of Prof. S. F. B. Morse, the
inventor of the magnetic telegraph, at
New York; age 81.
5. Death of Hon. Samuel Galloway, at
Columbus, Ohio.
8. Indictmentof the Tichborne claim
ant in England fete forgery and perjury.
11. O’Conor, who attacked Queen
Victoria, sentenced to prison for one
year.
12. Liberal mass meeting iu Now York
addressed by Senator Trumbull, at which
he denounced the Republican party as
robbers and hirelings.
13. Files and great loss of property at
Philadelphia, Pa.; at Toledo, Ohio; at
Tiffin, Ohio; at Ayer, Mass.; and at New
York city.
15. National Colored Convention at
New Orleans pledges support to the Re
publican party.
17. Grand Republican mass meeting
at Cooper Institute, New York, addressed
by Hou. Henry Wilson, Senator Morton
and General SicKies.
21. President Grant transmits to the
Senate a copy of the counter case in the
matter of the Alabama claims.
23. A Japanese Imperial decree abol
ishes all edicts against Christianity.
24. The Cass county bond excitement
in Missouri culminates in the murder of
Judge J. C. Stevenson, S. E. Datro and
J. R. Cline.
26. Eruption of Mt Vesuvius, Italy;
loss of life and property in towns adja
cent to tne volcano. Extensive fires in
the woods of New York State.
27. Burning of large silk warehouses
on Broadway, New York; loss, $500,000.
29. Warlike proclamation of Don Car
los, of Spain, and commencement of tbe
insurrection.
HAT.
1. Meeting of the Liberal Republican
Convention at Cincinnati, Ohio. News
received at Bombay of the discovery of
Dr. Livingstone by Stanley, the Her,da
explorer.
16. Strikes and riots among working
men in New York and Berlin.
17. Opening of World’s Peace Jubilee
at Boston. Celebration of anniversary of
battle of Bunker Hill at Boston.
22. Grant and Wilson ratification
mc-eiings iu many of the States.
24. St. John’s day; Masons through
out the country celebrated the event.
JULY.
2. One hundred sun-strokes in New
York city. Longfellow beats Harry Bas
sett for the Monmouth cup at Long
Branch.
6. Ratification of the treaty for the
evacuation of France by the Prussians.
7. Passage of Anti-Jesuit bill by the
Prussian Parliament abolishing convents
of the order in Germany.
9. Assembling of the National Demo
cratic Convention at Baltimore.
10. Greeley and Brown nominated for
President aud Vice President by Balti
more Convention.
16. Reassembling of the Geneva Tri
bunal after a vacation.
18. Death of Juarez, President cf
Mexico. Attempt to assassinate King
and Queen of Spain at Madrid.
23. Trade Mark Convention between
United States and Austria taxes eJect.
27. Marriage of Mile. Christine Nils
son and M. Iiouzand, iu Westminster
Abbey.
30. Riot in Savannah, Ga., occasioned
by preventing colored men from riding
on street cars. Great fire at Hunter’s
Point, Long Island.
3. Diamond discoveries reported in
Arizona. Governor of Arkansas issues a
proclamation against Pope county disor-
de&s.
august.
I. Republicans carry the election in
North Carolina. Anniversary of the
West India emancipation; celebrations in
ail large cities in the United States.
6. Meeting of National Educational
Association at Boston.
8. Magnificent display of auroral lights
throughout the country.
II. Queen Victoria prorogues the
British Parliament. Six hundred Com
munists prisoners shipped to New Cale
donia to serve their sentence of impris
onment.
14. Horace Greeley’s first political Pres
idential speech, at Portland, Me.
17. Judge Barnard, of New York city,
found gnilty and removed from office.
21. Twenty-first annual session of the
American Association for the Advance
ment cf Science assembles at Dubuqne,
Iowa.
■22. Democrats carry West Virginia.
Opening of the International Statistical
Congress at St. Petersburg, Russia.
26. Bishop Bayley, of Newark, N. J.,
appointed Archbishop of Baltimore, to
succeed the late Archbishop Spalding.
30. Steamer Metis sank at Watch Hill,
R. 1., thirty lives lost
SEPTEMBER.
3. Assembling of National Straight
Democratic Convention at Lonisvill, Ky.
Election in Vermont carried by Kepuo-
licans.
4. First anniversary of the formation
and proclamation of the French Repub
lic. Charles O’Conor and John Quincy
Adams nominated for President and
Vice President respectively by the Louis
ville Convention. Formal opening of
the Cincinnati Industrial Exposition.
5. Meeting of the Emperor of Austria,
the Czar of Russia and the King of Prus
sia at Berlin.
12. Death of Rev. Manton Eastburn,
Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Mas
sachusetts.
15. King Amadeus opens the session
of tbe new Spanish Cortes at Madrid.—
Official announcement of tbe award oi
$15,000,000 by tne Alabama Claims Arbi
tration tribuual as damages sustained by
the United States.
18. Horace Greeley’s speech at Pitts
burgh. Death of King Charles XV. of
Sweden and Norway.
20 Anniversary of occupation of Rome
by Italian troops, and celebration of the
event there.
22. Oscar, brother to the deceased
King Ciltirles, succeeds to the throne of
Sweden and Norway. Death of Hon.
Garrett Davis, United States Senator
fiom Kentucky, at Paris, Ky.
25. Death of Rev. Peter Cartwright,
of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
30. Expiration and abrogation of
stamp duties npon all documents except
bank checks, drafts or orders.
OCTOBER.
2. Death of Dr. Francis Lieber, the
historian and scholar, at New York.
Democrats carry the election in Georgia.
8. State elections in Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Nebraska and Indiana, carried by
the Republicans. Appearance of the
horse disease at Toronto, Canada.
10. Openirg of the great St. Louis
Fair. Death of Hon. Wm. H. Seward,
at Auburn, N. Y. Death of Fanny Fern,
13. Funeral of Fanny Fern at New
York. Prince Napoleon quits French
territory pursuant to orders of the Thiers
government.
15. Death of Prince Frederick Henry
Albert, the third and youngest brother
of the Emperor William of P; ussia.
16. Republicans carry election
South Carolina.
18. Appearance of the horse disease in
New York. Appointment of Sir Roun-
dell Palmer as Lord Chancellor of Eug
land.
21. Radification of a new postal treaty
oetween the United States and Switzer
land. Death of Rev. Jean Henri Merle
d’Aubigne, the historian of the Reforma
tion at Geneva, Switzerland.
22. Burning of the steamer Missouri
off the Florida coast; eighty passengers
lost.
23. The San Juan boundary contro
versy between the United States and
Great Britain decid°d in favor of th
United States by Emperor William oi
Prussia, the arbitrator, making the Canal
de Haro the boundary.
24. Death of Theophilo Gautier, the
French poet, novelist and critic, at
Paris.
25. 1 he epizootic prevails in New
York and other Eastern cities. Death
of Hon. Chas. E. Perry, United States
Consul at Aspinwall. *
30. Death of Mrs. Horace Greeley at
New York. President Grant sigus a
proclamation to •ollectors to enforce dis
criminating duties against imports in
French ships.
NOVEMBEB.
1. Death of Francis Maguire^ M. P.
for Cork, and editor of the Cork Exam
iner.
2. Arrest of the females Woodhull and
Clafiin on charges of libel and blackmail,
and their incarceration in Ludlow street
jail, New York. News of the marriage
of the Emperor of China, October 16.
5. General election day in all the
States, Gea. U. S. Grant being the R3-
puolican candidate for Presiuent and
Henry Wilson for Vice President; Horace
Greeley the Liberal candidate for Presi
dent and B. Gratz Brown for Vice Presi
dent. Grant and Wilson carry tne elec
toral vote of thirty-one States, and Gree
ley and Brown of six States.
6. Death of Major General George G.
Meade, U. S. A., the “hero of Gettys
burg,” at Philadelphia.
9. Commencement of the terrible con
flagration in Boston^ which continued
until the following day. Fifty acres
burned over. Total loss $50,000,000.
10. Failure of Bowles Bros. & Co., the
great Paris bankers.
13. Message of President Thiers to the
French Assembly, in which he declared
that the Government most De a conserva
live Republic or it could not exist.
14. Death of James Hadley, Greek
Professor in Yale College.
23. Total productions of cotton in the
United States iq 1872 announced is 3,-
450,000 bales.
26. Complete exposure of tbe Arizona
diamond swindle.
28. National Thanksgiving day.
29. Death of Horace Greeley, editor
and founder of the New York Trfttmeaad
Liberal Democratic candidate for Presi
dent of the United States. Profound re
gret throughout the country.
DECEMBER.
1. The German Emperor creates twen
ty-live new peers iu order to secore the
passage of the Counties Reform Bill.
The members of the French Cabinet
tender their resignations to President
Thiers.
2. Meeting of third session of Forty-
second Congress at Washington. Mes
sage of the President and reports of de
partments. Public debt, less cash in
treasury, $2,160,568,030. Members of
French Cabinet and President Thiers
withdraw tbeir resignations. Charles
Sumner introduces bis oblivion resolution
in the United States Senate.
4. Funeral of Horace Greeley at New
York; impressive ceremonies, aud pres
ence of President Grant, officers oi the
Government aud distinguished men.
Meeting of Electoral Colleges iu the
several States. Meeting of Ceutennial
Commission at Puiladelpbia.
6. Election of United Suites Senate
standing committees.
7. Judge Darrell, of United States
Distriot Court at N«-w Orients, issues an
injunction restraining Gov. Warmoth
and his Returning Hoard from interfering
with election returns.
8. Louisiana Legislature presents ar
ticles of impeachment ag 1 nst Governor
Warmoth. A r >t«mi mi-u. 1,1 a new Min
istry in France. t. iuj.- uDuu of the
crisis in Governmental flairs. Final
passage of the O uin*ies [’"form biil by
the Prussian Diet
11. Meeting of National Commercial
Convention ut St. Louis. Fire in Fifth
Avenue Hotel, New York; homing to
death of thirteen inmates.
12. Commencement of the hearing
before the Committee on the Credit
Mobilier Investigation. Death of Ed
ward Forrest, the great tragedian, at
Philadelphia.
15. Defeat of the petitions for a disso
lution of the National Assembly in
France, the members of the Assembly
voting yeas, 201; nays, 409.
16. United States Supreme Coart do
mes the motion of Governor Warmoth
for a writ of prohibition against Kellogg
and Pinohback.
17. Prince Bismarcx resigns the Presi
dency of the Prussian Council of Minis
ters. Excitement at Washington over
the Credit Mobilier Investigation.
20. Crisis in the Spanish Cabinet, and
new Cabinet formed, with Echegaria as
Minister of France. Judge Orr, of South
Carolina, accepts tho mission to Russia.
Death of G. P. Puiuum, the publisher,
at New York.
21. Death of Gen. A. 11. Wright,
editor of the August* (Ga.) Chronicue <fc
Sentinel, and memlK-r i-f Congress elect.
24. Conclusion ot postal treaty be
tween United States and France. The
coldest day in the United States for many
years.
25. Tbe S'jacis’.t Government prepar
ing to free tue slaves iu tbe island of
Porto Rio.
27.. Severe weather tlirongnmu the
country iuterfereuco with railway travel.
30. A rising of Alphouists enpeeted in
Spam.
31. Break of ice gorge at Cincinnati
damage, $500,000.
15. Discovery by the United States
Signal office of the existence and extent
of the great annual November atmos
pheric wave. The Royal Geographical
Society of England thank Mr. Bennett,
of the New York Herald, and Mr. Stan
ley, for discovery of Dr. Livingstone.
17. Blessings asked in all the French
cathedrals and prayers offered for the
French National Assembly.
18. Official canvass of recent elections
shows Grant’s majority in Illinois to be
56,118, and Oglesby’s 41,424, and Re
publicans elect fourteen oat of nineteen
Congressmen.
20. Enforcement of tho Civil Service
rales by President Grant, in the appoint
ment of G. W. Fairman as Postmaster
at Philadelphia. Ministerial crisis im
minent in France. Loss at sea of the
barks Larrabee, of Savannah, Ga., and
the Lanercost, of Baltimore, with all on
board.
GEORGIA—Douglas County:
We, the underaignad Commissioners, appointed
by the General Assembly for the purpose of Dfa-
tricUng said county, UHk leave to report as follow*,
viz: That we have performed said commission by
arranging No. 1, commencing cn tbe Paulding
line, at tho north-cast corner of land lot No. C18 in.
the first district and third section of originally
Cherokee, thence due south, crossing the purchaea
line at the north-east corner of the fractional Ink
No. 230 in tho second district and fifth section in
originally Carroll; thence south to the south-weak
corner of lot No. 101 in said second district; thence
east to the south-east corner of iot No. 102 of tba
first district and fifth section of originally Carroll;
.hence north to the north-east corner of lot No. 3W,
in tho 10th district of 2d section of originally Chero
kee; thence along Cobb and Donglas line to tba
starting point at tho north-east corner of lot 618, in.
tho 1st and 3d of Cherokee.
No. 2—Commencing at the north-east corner ot
lot CIS, in the 1st and 3d as aforesaid; running
thence along the Douglas and Paulding line to *i<«
north-west corner of fracUonal lot No. 218, in tbn
2d and 5th of originally C&rroU; thence south to tba
south-west corner of lot No. 79 in said 2d distriot;
thence east to the south-east corner of lot No. 70, bn
said 2d district; thence north to tho starting point—
No. C18 as aforesaid.
No. 3—Commencing at the south-east corner Of
No. 70, iu the 2d district of originally Carroll; run
ning thence west to the southwest corner of lot Kan
9, in district of originally Carroll; thenoa
south along the Douglas and CarroU line to tba
southwest corner of lot No. 200, in the 3d district of
originally Carroll; thence east to the northeast cor
ner of fracUonal lot No. 32, on Chattahoochee rives
thence along the river to the southeast corner of)o
No. 61; thence north to the starting point, at tba
southeast corner of lot No. 70, in ?d of Carroll.
No. 4—Commencing at the northwest corner of lot
No 92,In the 2d district of originally Carroll; thenoa
sonth to the southeast corner of lot No. 34, In tba
3d of Carroll; thence along the Chattahoochee river
to the northeast corner of lot No. 160, in the lei a**.
trict of originally Carroll; thence west to the north
west corner of lot No. 92, in the 2d of originally
Carroll—the starting point.
No. 5—Commencing at the southwest corner t
lot No. 112, in the 1st district of originally Carroll;
thence east to the southeast corner of lot No. 191,
said 1st district; thence along the Chattahoochee ta
the Cobb line; thence along the Douglass and Cobh
line’to the northeast corner of lot No. 356, In tba
18tb, and 2d of Cherokee; thence south to the ba»
ginning point—at the southwest corner of lot Now
112, in the said 1st district of CarroU.
We, the said Commissioners, would fuither reper
that >0.1 in this arrangement Is designated as 730th
District Q. M.; that No. 2 in this arrangement baa
no militia number; that No. S has no militia nuaa-
ber; that No. 4 is designated as 736th District a. IE.}
that No. 6 is designated as 784th District G. M.
Respectfully submitted, this, tho 7th day of De
comber, 1672.
W. N. MAGOUIRK;
INO. & BOWDEN
JAS. H. WINN,
Douglas Coukt or Ordwaby, 1
At CHAWtgee, December 7th, 1872. j
Ordered, that the within report be approved aaA
recorded on the minutes of this Court. pnrtuaaM^
law. W. W. HINDMAN.
Urdinaiy.
Copied from the minutes;
W. W. Hinrmas, Ordinary and ex-cfilelo I