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THE ATLANTA SUN
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Floyd county lias elected the Demo
cratic ticket.
Conn county lias elected the Demo
cratic ticket.
A gw »t t, Roman tenement house has
been burned.
The editor of the CarUrsville Express'
is in favor cf compulsory education. "We
direct Lis attention to Texas.
In Marietta, Tommy Paino made his
dde pain with a pistol shot Acci
dental.
Calhoun wants more houses. If it
COftdd get enough of them it would then
be a city.
The Calhoun Times no longer mar
shals J. W., but runs on the schedule of
Rankin’ a Freeman.
W. M. & J. A. Gammon want their
friends to pay up, and no gammon abont
ft The parties are all Roman.
Con. W. S. Cothron, of Rome enter
tained the employees of the Rome Rsil-
tit, u \vcli set table tuesdey last, and
nil on board were happy.
In Gordon county, Mr. M. L. Foster
rths nnited in marriage to Miss M. A.
rolliam. The young couple have our
felicitations.
Ix is not General Philips, of Marietta,
vflio is running for Secretary of State,
bat Charles D. Phillips, a worthy brothel
eff a worthy man.
The editor of the Calhoun Times has
Ugen spreading himself at a wedding;
«nd would have been supremely happy
t£ his mind had been satisfied about
‘Vthafc trip to Chattanooga.”
The Calhoun Times of the 2d instant,
ii a good number. If the publishers
will keep the paper up to that standard,
ft will be a welcome visitor among its
patrons.
On tho night of the 21st ultimo, the
stare of Mr. Hardy Batten, at Kanue-
saw, was totally destroyed by fire, eon-
Hnming books, accounts, goods, and en
tire conterds. No insuranoe.—Marietta
Journal.
Gordon county reports about a dozen
nJprriages. They are so numerons at
Uie present timo we coaid not begin to
give a fall list, suffice it to say, we wish
them all the congratulations Bnitable to
8nch occasions.
We learn, that at a recent meeting of
the stockholders of the Roswell Manu
facturing Company, a report of earnings
for the post six months show a profit of
bine per cent, on their capital stock. A
dividend of six percent, payable January
let, was declared.—Marietta Journal.
Died, at the Rome Hotel on the 31st
otf December, Mr. Maximillian Fisher, a
Dtttivj of Wurtemburg, but a citizen of
Detroit, Michigan. Though dying in
the midst of strangers, the deceased had
every care and attention paid to him that
could be extended by CoL J. J. Cohen
and others.—Rome Courier.
SOUTHERN sews.
Clipped from oar Exchanges.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
— Several cases of small pox are re
ported in Anderson.
— Thomas D. Eason died in Charles
ton last Thursday.
— Meniogctis is prevailing to a con
siderable extent in Anderson.
— Seventeen blacks and ten whites
died in Charleston the week ending 21st
December.
— Mrs. Mary Richardson, aged 10%
the oldest white person in RichlaDC 1 ,
died on the 2Gth ultimo.
—Bishop Howe has presented a fine
pictore of the Right Rev. James Otey,
late Bisnop of Tennessee, to the Univer
sity of toe South.
—A National Bank has been organized
at Anderson with a capital of fifty thou
sand dollars. Mr. Joseph N. Brown is
the President.
—The Charleston Courier is offered
for sale. The Courier is one of the old
est papers in the United States; beiog
now in the seventieth year of its publi
cation.
—Four vessels with ten thousand bales
of upland cotton, besides other valuable
freight, were cleared from Charleston
for various European ports one day las*,
week.
—The report of Comptroller General
Neagle, which has not been published,
shows the public bonded debt to be
{115,851,327.35. The total expenditure
for the fiscal year ending October 31st,
1872, were Si 434,835.61, which was
SI,266,405, that of the total expenses for
the same period. Kimpton got $303,000
of the money expended. The estimated
expenses for the current year are $2,-
054,346.10.
VIRGINIA.
—A drunken negro was frozen to death
in Grayson ceunty last week.
—The Rev. Dr. Munsey delivered
lecture in Bristol-Goodson, on 4 ‘The
Ideal Arts Music’’ last week.
—Washington and Lee University is
worth $600,0C0, and hopes to have $1,
000,000 soon.
—CoL John S. Barbour is laying out
a new town at Arlington depot, on the
Orange and Alexandria railroad.
Dr. E. G. Yertegans, of Grayson,
whose illness from small-pox has been
reported, died a few. days ago. Three
other cases have devolved themselves in
the Doctor’s family.
—The Manassas Gazette records the
death of Mr. George Wheedon, the oldest
man in Fairfax county. He was eighty
six years, old, and for many years a mem
her of the connty bench of that county,
—A shooting affray occurred last week
at Btaunton, between J. L. Bryan and
N. B. Dickerson. The shot from Bryan’
pistol struck Dickerson in the forehead
but glanced, not inflicting any injury.
NORTH CAROLINA.
licenses in
C9LB cojaeom r.
iper on the Woman’s Rights
Movement in England.
From the New York Times.
The cause of woman s rights has met
A Dai
with a blow in England. A judicial de-i job* Botuo. The prayer of the petition
A Murder Brought to Light After Con-
cealment for Twenty Years.
Correspondence 0 f the Toledo Blade.
About twenty-one years ago a travel
ing preacher by the name of Edgil,
whose first name is not remembered,
from some place in Ohio, a member of
what was at that time known as the
Campbelite Church, came into the vici
nity ef what is now known as Titusville,
After remaining for a few days he con
tracted for a farm, at the sum ot three
thousand dollars cash, and was making
his headquarters with one of his “flock,
as the preacher would term it—
The duy came to pass the title. The
reverend gentleman lay sick at the
house of liis host. The seller, willing to
execute his part of the contract, and the
buyer being too unwell to attend con
sented that the seller should go and have
tno deed executed iu due form, and that
at the place of his sickness he would pre
pare his part of the contract. Upon the
return ol the seller the purchaser was
worse, and tho matter was delayed until
morning.
In the morning the seller appeared and
inquired for the purchaser, but was in
formed that he was better, as supposed,
as he had be«u quiet during the latter
part of the night, and hud not yet arisen.
The seller being somewhat in haste,
demanded to be shown to his room, when
the hostess offered her services to see
how he was ind report. On her return,
she reported him absent, and supposed
that he had risen early and gone to see
4he purchaser, which proved to be false.
Many were the coujectures to the fiu&le
of the missing man. Some supposed
that he had been foully dealt with; oth
ers oonjectured that he was a thief, and
had stolen a horse, or other property,
and had departed for other ports to prac
tice the same thing.
Some of the most saspecting made pri
vate search, and declared that the
preaoher had been foully dealt with.
Daring tho stay of Rev. Mr. Edgil, he
was called upon to solemnize the ntea of
matrimony, which he did in accordance
with the roles of the church which he
represented. He failed to return the
marriage certificate, as required by the
law of our State, and, some months after,
the couple procured a licence, proceeded
to the office of a justice of the peace, and
had their first work done over, so far as
marriage ceremony is conoerned.
The lady above referred to has died
within the past week, but, previous to
death, confessed that she and her hus
band had poisoned Mr. Edgil, and his
remains were buried tinder the house.
— Sixty-nine marriage
Wake in December.
— Colonel L. C. Edwards of Granville
now resides in Raleigh and practices law
with the Batchelors.
— Eighteen colored boarders in Wake
county jail.
— Walter A. Montgomery, Esq.,
talented young Warrenton lawyer, moves
to Memphis.
— Colonel John A. Gilmer, Judge
Turgee and others ate just back from a
big deer hunt in Montgomery county.
They hunted twelve days and killed only
four deers.
jfij/jvsr bis wiitij.
Married Before He Kelt Quite Ready.
In the drerait Court yesterday a peti
tion was filed by W. H. H. Russell, at
ilt the name of Philip Boulo vs.
Th. l hroi
The
Brsaswlek.
H llham, the ex-King of Hanover
eon, shall sucoeed to the tnrone.’ Th!!
Ducal House of Brunswick is on the
S oint oi beooming extinct, as the present
overeign, wh°is66 yeaVs old.T^-
married. His only brother, whom he
eucceeded, fled the Duchy on the break
out of the riot in the city of Brnns-
-"-fmber 8, 1830, and was after-
by a isolation of the
*■ * ' -’.en.”
—Says the Sentinel: It is rumored
that a gentleman named Jay, a member
of the Society of Friends, commonly
called Quakers, is to be appointed by
Gov. Caldwell Superintendent of Public
Instruction, vice Rev. Jas. Reid, de
ceased Superintendent elect. Mr. Jay
is now in charge generally of the Friends’
school of this State and is said to be a
gentleman well qualified for such a posi
tion. A petition urging this rumored
appointment is said to be in course of
signature.
— Printing was introduced into this
State in 1749, by James Davis, who pub
lished the North Carolina Gazette in New-
bern, “ with fresnest advices, foreign and
domestic. ” It waa a weekly on post sized
folio. In 1851, North Carolina had 43
newspapers; one tri-weekly, four semi
weeklies and the balance weekly or
monthly. Major Seaton Gales, of this
city, then published the old Raleigh Reg
ister, and was toe first to ever attempt
the publication of a daily in North Car
olina.
UfiJJAOE.
Troup Election—Democratic Success—
The ' Holidays—The Planters — S. E.
College—Kind Words.
La Grange, January 2d, 1873.
Editors Sun: Our election yesterday
passed off very quietly. 1,139 votes were
polled in this city. The regular Demo
cratic ticket has been elected by from
foot to six hundred majority, with the
exception of Carter for Tax Collector.
Loftin is probably elected by a small
majority.
We have had no excitement since the
holidays commenced. Everybody seems
to have been kept busy securing hands
for the next year, and as far as I can
learn, have anooeeded. Oar planters
will, I haye no doubt, plant for large
crops.
I was glad to learn on yesterday that
the Southern Female College will open its
spring term with a largely increased
number of young ladies. This institu
tion, the pride of LaGrange, is now one
of the first institutions of the kind in the
State or Souifi. Indeed, I do not sup
pose there is another institution where
so many advantages for female education
is offered. President Cox, a gentleman of
high literaly attainments and great en
ergy, is determined to make for his ooliege
a reputation that will be unsurpassed. The
brightest names in the female literati of
Georgia now may be found among the
alumni of the Southern Female College.
Our people generally regret the loss to
our community of Charlie Willingham
and many fear that the vacuum can
never be filled. May our loss be his gain,
is the only satisfaction. We expect,
however, to seo The Sun daily and there
by keep up with him. Your correspon
dent heard many say on yesterday: “Well
I’ll take The Scn now.” Excuse haste.
cisiou has been rendered which attacks
not merely the claim of the wife to be
independent of and superior to the hus
band, but even her right to share equally
in one of the most indispensable priv-
.leges of any household. It is not her
right to the metaphorical and symbolic
trousers which is denied, but her reason
able and proper claim to a share in the
marital blanket.
Jt has hitherto been supposed that the
wife had a property in the undivided
half of the marital bedstead, mattrass
and other accessories, which could only
be destroyed by her own misconduct.
The law has supported this view by spe
cifically granting to the widow the sole
ownership of her bad-stead and bedding;
while the practice, peculiar to slighted
husbands, of advertising their runaway
wives as having resigned all rights in re
spect to bed-room furniture, stroogly
supports the same theory. But now we
are told by an English Judge that this
view is a wholly mistaken one, and that
die wife who attempts to enforce it, is
guilty ef a misdemeanor.
The case which called out this decision
originated in the vigorous conduct of a
wife who re.urned to her home late in
the evening, and found her husband
monopolizing the entire sheets and bian
kete, wholly regardless of her feelings or
the Btate of the weather. Indignant at
bis selfishness, she prooaeded to eatab
lish her rights with the fire-shovel, and
to convince him with the poker of the
gross injustice of his conduct. The in
genuity with which he had encased him
self in a maze of blanket proved fatal
to the integrity of his cuticle, for he was
unable to extricate himself before his
wfe bad proceeded so far in her argu
ment as to decorate him witu a yariety
of neat patterns in black and blue. The
following day he prepared against her a
charge of assault and battery, of which
she was f and guilty, and for which she
was tent -seed to fine and imprisonment.
The possession of a right implies the
further right to enforce it. If this in
jured woman could not enforce her
elaim to half the marital blanket, it fol
lows that her claim was not a legal one.
The effect of this decision is, therefore,
to apprise the wives of England that they
are dependent for blankets wholly upon
the generosity of their respective hus
bands. Hereafter, the selfish hnsband
may condemn his wife to shiver through
the night unprotected, except by the
casual mat or the accidental hearth-rug,
and no woman of foresight and caution
will consent to enter the married state
ualess a proper provision of blankets be
expressly guaranteed in the marriage set
tlement.
Thus, while Mrs. Jex-Blake and her
friends are fighting for the unsubstantial
shadow of hospital privileges, they are
losing the indispensable substanoes of
sheet and blanket. Though they gain
the sweet privilege of covering the corpse
of the pauper, their triumph is embit
tered by the thought that the law has
established a male monopol r of blank
ets, and that the monster man is hence
forth permitted to revel in unlimited
bed-clothes, while the wife is forced to
sue humbly witn the fire-shovel for
corner of counterpane, and to feign
boundless gratitude for the boon of
narrow strip ot sheet.
A Breach of l’ramitc Cage.
A breach of promise case of more than
usual interest has just b een made public
in London. In 1865 Elizabeth Ann
Dredge was book-keeper in tlie hair
dressing and perfumery establishment of
the Messrs. Tmefitt of London, and
there became acquainted with Clinton
Winans, a member of a wealthy Balti
more family of the same name, princi
pally known in connection with Prussian
railway contracts and cigar-shaped steam
ers. Miss Dredge was pretty, and Wi
nans, after a brief courtship, asked her
to marry him, stipulating, however, that
the oeremony should take place only af
ter his brothers had settled an income
upon him, which he thought would be
donee shortly.
The brothers failed to be generous,
however, and finally Miss Dredge was in
duced to live withWinans as his wife,
under the promise that the marriage
wonld take place as soon as he received
his property. They lived together in
very fashionable style as Mr. and Mrs.
Clinton Davidson, in Manchester square,
and in October, 1867, a child was born.
The intimacy continued until some time
before the 15th of September, 1369,
when Winans married a widow named
Sm<th, who was possesssed of an income
of 90,000 a year. An allowance was
made to Miss Dredge of from $100 to
$200 per month for the support of her
self and child, and was continued for
some time. Finally this was Btopped,
Winans writing a letter con
demning Miss Dredge as an un
grateful women who failed to regard his
feelings, ana enclosing thirty pound,
which he said was the last she would
ever receive from him; adding, however,
that he would graciously give the child,
for its support, thirty pounds per month.
Then Miss Dredge brought suit for
breach of promise, and the court awarded
her £2,500, with which she said she was
satisfied. It is, pehaps, lucky for Mr.
Winans that the case was not tried in
this country. Our courts wonld have
held him as folly married to Miss Dredge
as if there had been a regular ceremony,
and he most accordingly have been found
guhty of bigamy.
is to obtain a decree of divorce from the
holy bonds of matrimony, entered into
on the 20th of Jane, 1871, in the city of
St. Lonls. The marriage, it is alleged,
was never consummated. And thereby
hangs a tale. The parties are bqth
young, high spirited, of Southern blood
and birth, and one is beautiful They
were residents of the city of Mobile, and
moved in circles of the "highest respecta
bility.
An intimacy sprang up between them,
which continued for a year and a half,
when the young lady discovered that
matters had gene too far. The lover ap
prehending violence at the hands of her
relatives, Bold out his business
and came to St. Louis. Here he
opened a Btore, and is still thr ving.
Last summer, while walking down
Lucas Place in company with a couple of
friends, he was met by n lady who was
deeply veiled. He aid not recognize
her nntil she rasied her veil, and then he
was startled to find his Julia standing
before him. She demanded an interview,
and they took a ride to Lafayette Park.
There, seated nnder the statue of Benton,
under the shadow of green boughs, they
talked over the pleasant hours they had
passed together in their Southern hone.
The feelings of both had undergone
a change, and but lit tie of the love was
left. The object of her visit was to ob
tain reparation for the wrong she had
suffered. She gave him to understand,
in unmistakable terms, that ualess he
made her his wife within twenty-four
hours, he would be a dead man. She
bad oome for this sole purpose, and was
determined to accomplish her object
Did not care to live with him, and was
determined to accomplish her object
She did not care to live with him, and
agreed to retnrn to Mobile immediately
after the perfermanee of the oeremony.
She has teamed of the whereabouts of
her whilom lover, and obtaining an l -
troduction from Father Ryan, the poet,
to Bishop Ryan, had followed him to
this city. There was resolution in her
voice as she spoke and the young man
knew the oonsequenoe of a refusal He
contented.
The twain went to the residence of
Bishop Ryan, and the eexnmony was per
formed without delay. The bride then
departed at once for Mobile, and has
never since seen her,, hnsband. More
than a year has elapsed, and now the
husband comes into court and preys forfa
divorce on the gronnd stated.
Death’s Doings.
While feasting and revelry and Obriat-
mas pleasures have been the or4er of the
day generally throughout this region,
death has been busily at work in our
midst, and especially here in Griffin.
Two days preceding Christmas, Dr.
Banks aad friends were called upon to
perform the monmful duty of bearing
to their last resting plaoe the mortal re
mains of Mrs. Banks, a most estimable
and lovely woman, who had been ill bat
a few dsys.
On Christmas day, the bleakest and
most desolate of the season, when the
clouds hung sombre and heavy about ns,
and the cold bleak northern blast were
howling through eyery crevice and sing
ing their mournful dirge all around us,
the funeral cortege of Miss Nannie Mil
ligan was seen wending its way slowly
along the frozen streets, and the funeral
chimes sang out to the bleak winds and
a sorrowing people, that one of Griffin’s
loveliest and most amiable daughters was
on her last earthly pilgrimage to the
cold, dark, silent grave. Nor had the
winds of heaven scarce borne away the
last sad wails from the grave
of Nannie Milligan when the swift
winged telegram brought us a message
from the sunny land of oranges that
Am Vnromantle Parent.
A young man, between twenty and
twenty-one years of age, was locked up
in a Pittsburgh station house the other
day, on the complaint of his father that
he was “incorrigible.” The event which
had produced in the paternal mind tnis
conviction of the hopeless moral state of
bis son was the marriage of the latter,
who had persisted in violating the ex
press orders of his father by providing
himself with a wife. The young man,
of coarse, supposed that his father would
express liis auger in violent laonuage,
but that in time he would relent and
bless his children, alter the manner of
heavy fathers of the stage. Great was
his surprise to learn, by sad experience,
that he was ineligible to all tho privi
leges of the house of refuge, and that
his stem fattier was determined to make
him spend his solitary honeymoon in
the degrading occupation oi breaking
stone.
X/AieSMD, BBORaiB.
It* 8chMll ana its SurrogMsdlng*.
Ringgold, Ga., Dec. 91 1812.
Editors of the Sun: On last evening
the teachers and patrons of the Union
Sabbath School at this place erected a
Christmas tree at* the Baptist Church,
around which the usual ceremonies were
performed, and the children delighted
and benefited
Our tow* can boast, in point of sound
practical instruction, moral and religious
training, cue among the be6t high
schools in the State. We have efficient
teachers in the different departments,
who are very punctual in their attend
ance upon their classes, and greater ef
forts are made to advance the pupils, than
any school within my knowledge in
North Georgia. Let me say to parents,
who desire health in their families, and
want to patronize a growing healthy
school, to move to Ringgold. We have
no drones in this school among teachers
or students; but all move forward with
certain aim and steady step to secure
what is more valuable tnan gold or silver-
a first-class education. This school is
oalled the “Ringgold Male and Female
Masonic Literary Institute,” organized
aad put imto operation by a joint stock
eoapaay oeenpoeed of the best citizens
of our oouaty.
Ringgold, nestled among the moun
tains ol North Georgia, bounded on the
East by the Western Sc, Atlantic Railroad
and the White Oak Mountain, and on
its other sides by the winding Chicka-
manga in the shape of a horse-shoe, pre
sents one of nature’s loveliest pictures.
The natural facilities for propelling
machinery on the Ohiekamauga around
the town are most excellent, while a
canal cut through the East side of the
town aoeording to the survey made by
CoL Evans last spring, wonld seem a fall
in the stream suffieent to turn all the
machinery needed in North Georgia,
Abont two and one-fourth miles from
town is the Cherokee Springs, which has
recently been purchased by a joint stock
company, composed of the most enter
prising men in the county, who have the
energy as well as capital to improve the
same. Te tnis end one of the best topo
graphical engineers in the United States
nas baea at work, sketching a view of the
place, and a competent surveyor to lay
off the place into suitable building lots,
streets, alleys, Ac. The abject of the
proprietors is to sell lots to say one who
may wish to purchase and build
summer residences. The piece is beau
tiful beyond description, and happy will
be the family who bays a lot and builds
thereon.
The far-famed Catoosa Springs, dis
tant four, and three-fourths miles, is still
making improvements on bnildings and
enclosures, aad will open in the spring
with better accommodations and on bet
ter terms than last season.
We have a variety of water here that
will act like a charm upon each and every
organ in the system. The proprietors
of these several establishments, being
men of of good sense, I am satisfied will
patronize »the newspaper press, adver
tising extensively the coming season.
White Oak Mountain will ever be fa
mous in history as having been the place
where General Cleburne, by hard fight
ing, saved General Bragg’s wagon train.
In the retreat from Missionary Ridge,
Gen. Cleburne stationed his division on
White Oak Mountain, behind breast
works made of old logs and rocks, and
for three hours held Gen. Hooker’s corps
in check until the wagon train on the
east side of the mountain, stuck up in
the mud, oould get away. It was re
ported here that during the fight Gen
eral Bragg sent a dispatch to General
Cieburn to fall back as quick as he could,
that he and all his men would be surround
ed and captured by Sherman who was sur
rounding him with his left wing. Gen.
Clebum’s reply was: “ Go and tell Gen.
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UcutraUtlei. '
— A woman in Mazeppa, Minn
a hundred-dollar wager, recently bvI,?
ing five quarts of cy iters in fifteen w
utes. ““a-
— The dark red spots now so iash.w
able in carpets are said to be dealt'
with arsenic; and it is just because th
carpets “are scenic” that the people %
—The Louisville policemen threatenL
strike because it has been made part *
their duty to transport small-pox patio^
to the pest-house.
—Col. Fritz Annecke, a Western G«.
man editor, was fatally injured, recent
by falling into an open cellar in ttl
burned part of Chicago.
—Half a dozen sand sprats, columns of
sand ten feet in diameter and 1,000 feel
high, lately danced around TT • -
City.
Virginia
—M r "_ Cornell lias received over eight
hundred different journals containing
notices of Mr. Greeley’s decease, in rj
sponse to his request
land of flowers to the realm of the cher-
ubims. Among all of Griffin’s accom
plished daughters, none were more be
loved ftwi Miss Sallie. She has been
afflicteawith pulmonary disease for some
time, and went to Florida several weeks
since, in the vain hope of the restoration
of her health, bnt the angels have taken
their sister home to their mansions in the
skies.
We can but drop a tear upon their
graves and engraven their memory npon
our hearts.Star.
'Wedding Party Astonished.
A wedding waB recently broken up at
Columbns City, Iowa, in the following
manner: The preacher asked if any one
had any objections; the young lady said:
“ Yes; I don’t want to marry him.” The
expectant groom folded his broadcloth
and silently stole away.
—Mr. Edgar Snowden, Jr., writes from
Richmond to the Alexandria Gazette:—
“A movement is said to be on foot to
bring out Judge Wm. J. Robertson, of
Charlottesville, as the Conservative can
didate for Governor of Virginia, with
General James A. Walker, of Pulaski,
for Lieutenant Governor. Jndge Rob
ertson was for some years upon the
bench of the Court of Appeals, and
stands deservedly high as a lawyer and
high-toned gentleman. Gen. Walker
—Macadam, a Scotch philospher fay,
that flour mills are liable to explode*
As long as they don’t do it who car«a
Macadam for their liability.
—When the striking silk-weaves of
New Jersey get those now working to
join them they will number about 4.00Q.
—Matilda Heron recently forced a rs-
porter to take a generous draught ol cit
rate of magnesia in order that he might
not say the bottle contained whisky.
—Pinckney Pinchback, the Louisiana
usurper’s son, is the latest to play with
firearms and shoot himself. The wound
is not fatal, however.
—A man in Newton, N. J., to whom a
license to sell beer by the glass was re
fused, now sells it by the quart, and will
take his case,, before the Supreme Court.
—There have been four explosions of
oooking ranges within a week at Ciuciu-
nali and the inhabitants are deliberating
whether they hadn’t better live on cold
victuals.
—The editor of the Examiner at Elk
Falls, Kan., hung himself lately, and
left a note for his foreman, telling him
to go and ohop wood if he wonld he
happy.
—Mr. Thompson, a Haroldsburg, Ky„
agriculturist, having twenty-three attach
ments for debt, a divorce suit and a lew
accusations of forgery brought against
him simultaneously, has made a “myste
rious” disappearance.
— A pumpkin pie ten feet in diameter
and four feet deep was the desert at a
recent California dinner. After that,
stop talking about your grandmothers.
— So extensive an exodus to Europe is
expected next summer that many people
in New York and elsewhere are engaging
passage for there in transatlantic steam
ers.
— Mrs. Mary E. Grammar, of Nash
ville, the actress, better known as Miss
Bettie Gilbert Gray, wants a divorce
from her husband on aoconnt. of ernpm
in Grammar.
— With the East river bridge complet
ed, the ferry boats still in operation, and
a tunnel for street railroad and pedestri
an transit, underneath the stream, it is
thought that the facilities for intercom
munication between Brooklyn and New
York will be sufficiently multiplied to ac
commodate every need.
Miss Sallie Deane had passed, f rom the Bragg to go back to the rear—he is scared ;
' ‘ ' * I know what I am doing. J -will whip the
fight, save my men and your wagon train.
In this fight between 2,500 and 3,000
of the Federals were killed and wounded;
abont five hundred of the number killed.
The Confederates had about 500 or 600
killed and wounded; about 150 of?
the number killed. After the fight Gen.
Hooker was so aagry as to issue an order
that every house in Ringgold be burned
to the ground without an exoeption; bnt
Gen. Grant having arrived a few hoars
after issuing the order, countermand
ing the same and allowed only
such houses to be bnrned as was left
vacant. I was living iu Ringgold at the
time this fight occurred; was pressed
into service bv the Federals to dress the
wounded, ana know what I have related
to be true.
In eight milea of tnis plaoe is the
battle-ground of Ohiekamauga, with
which I am familiar, but ite deeds are
sickening to me, as well as all others
daring the war. I strive to wipe out the
past and to invite the North and South
together in the future. How shall we
do this ? Bjeendirg Alexander H. Ste
phens to the Senate ef the United States.
We are experiencing one of the cold
est spells of weather I have known for
twenty yean.
P. S.—With doe respect to you r much
esteemed traveling agent, Mr. E. Nebhut
Acton, (who, we learn, is a son of T. M.
Acton), I desire to any he has paid us a
visit and won the admiration of «»1 who
commanded the Stonewall brigade in
the Confederate army, and is a member ; formed his acquaintance,
of the present House of Delegates.”
Proposed Constitutional Convention.
Hartford, Conn., December 30.—A „
number of prominent citizens of this •
city, including Governor Jewell, Mayor
Robinson, Hon. R. D. Hubbard, BLou.
W. W. Eaton, Judge Waldo, and Gen
eral Hawley, have signed a paper concur
ring with citizens in other towns in an
expressed desire for a Constitutional
Convention.
— General Early is to deliver several
addresses in aid of the Lee memorial in
Lexington, and a move is on foot to se
cure one of these addresses at Stanton.
fctr P. H. OELRICH, AGENT FOR
Kauffman’s Cincinnati Lager Beer—
Owing to increased sales and recent ar
rangements, begs leave to inform the
public that he can now furnish this cele
brated Beer at FIFTEEN DOLLARS
PER BARREL. He also makes a spe
cialty in his stock of Fine Wines, Li
quors and Cigars, both retail and whole
sale, under James’ Bank, Whitehall
street. d&w!2t.dt24-
apemltcr a( the IIernes.
From Uie Auguste, G»„ Chronicle end ftwtieel,
January SI, 1872.
Grueksboro, Ga., Dec., 27, 1872.
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel: Allow
me to respectfully but earnestly suggest
to such of your readers as may be mem
bers elect of tiie incoming Legislature
the name of CoL E. F. Foge as a suita
ble person for the Speakership of the
next House of Representatives. The
writer hereof has known him long and
well, and was a constant attend
ant upon the last session of the
Legislature, where he witnessed
with admiration the ease and facility
with which he presided in the Absence
of your own fellow citizen, Major J. B.
Camming, whose firm bat courteous de
portment in the Chair endeared him to
the entire Assembly.
Colonel Hoge, while he is, by nature,
adapted by liis commanding appearance
and dignified bearing to the duties of
presiding over deliberative bodies, he at
the same time exhibits a wonderful famil
iarity with parliamentary laws—an indis
pensable qualification in one who pre
sides over large bodies of men.
That he may bo elected, is the earnest
of a hope Parliamentarian.
News Items.
—A ton of rough ore from a California
mine recently sold for $7,800.
—A party of Tallahasseeans killed four
teen deer on James island recently.
—New Jersey’s apple whisky crop is
nearly double that of any former season.
—Twenty-one dentists are on trial in
Indiana for infringing the Goodyear
Vulcanite Rubber patent.
— The house in which Joan of Ale
was born is falling into rains. The offi
cials of the department of the Vosges
have decided to repair it.
— The natives of Fredericksburg have
preserved all the noted points of the
great battle, and tourist* can see them all
for a quarter a head.
—An English clergyman has been ar
rested for resurrecting dead bodies, not
by the power of the spirit, but with pick
and spade, according to the ordinary
method.
—Cincinnati street conductors also ad
as tract distributors, and they throw
down “The Road to Death,” and "The
Gospel Light,” without regard to the
feelings of anybody.
—A Syracuse man has turned up, who
was supposed to bo dead five years ago,
and found his heir calmly enjoying hie
property.
—Two Parisuu musicians lately had 8
duel on the piano, one sinking after fbd
playing the “Miserere” iu “H Irova*
tore” 580 times.
Business. —The following letter to s ^
large aud well known grocery establishment in At
lanta, was received /rem one of their customers,
who, it appears, was a little slow In remitting * bal
ance of $19 99. The letter is given as much (or the
information contained as to the scarcity ol money
amongst country merchants, as It Is for its WW
contents:
F ■, Ga*. **•
Unm. ; Dkak Sirs: Your valued, (**
you say to correspondents—with /ot remittances.)
favor is received, and that $19 99 has haunted
like Banqao’s ghost did that Shalupeare "chap.'
The way those figures “proioed,” was about thi»W*J :
$19.99, $10.90, $19.99, 119.91,119.11
At first there was a small impression on me, W*
now a cart wheel is a ‘‘mild size” as compared wilh
those “figs.” Let ma ask yon as s favor, that J 00
change their general appearance by adding one cent*
and making it even 190.001
When yen ask what “alls’* Hannah t that mils*
me come right devm, like the coon did, npon whom,
(or which, or what,) Captain Scott brought his f° w} *
ing piece to bear—I have been foroed to aurreads
at will!
The lact of the business Is: I am much In th 6
condition of a college friend of mine, who was about
‘•ttw ;■*
jack Calhoun was once importuned by the stu
dents to go to e theater which had been performing
for more than a month, and to which he had g on ®
nightly. Jack unexpectedly threw himself back
upon his hind legs, and declined to go, saying
was against his pecuniary dignity.
Your “monthly statements," so beautifully an
ten, so concisely stated, and so rogularly— so shock
ingly regularly sent and received, have found m<*""
in a state of suspended animation, and with an ‘‘nh*
tire Buapension of specie payments." .
But laying all joking aside—money has not
“numerous" with me lately—though I conless ‘n*
I might have tent it. end left some one un P* 1<1 ’ t h 4 t
I presumed upon our past relations, end knew t
it would not be felt by you. . » 0
During this montu I will place you In funua
balance. » * * * V.D