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Newspaper Page Textgrnm — 1 ll H. CARLTON & CO YOU 4. NO. 29. denoted Tj our political, educational, agricultural, and industrial interests. Two Dollar^ per annum, in advance. ATHENS, GEOSGHA, TUESDAY,- APRIL 4, 1876. lie litlicns (Georgian. II. CARLTON & CO., Proprietors. H "tEUMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: —to:— ONE COPY. Orm Your. ~ * 800 FIVE COPIES, On* Year,.— 8 78 TEN COPIES. Ona Year. 18 00 RATES OF ADVERTISING. TrUHiMit Advertisements $i.50 per square gr-i in-eriion and T5 cents per square for each cunt inuanee. Local notices 20 cents per line, notice inserted fur less than $1 00. ,«follows: 1 Column 12 months } Column 12 months I Column 12 months 1 Column fi months } Column « months [ Column fi months No local Contracts ..*20000 . 120.00 .. 05.00 .. 1200(1 .. 70.00 .. 4000 A. K. OUIL JS, a. MOOIM. legal advertisements. Cuo .n for unrn or (i ii.nllanshlp $5 00 lt.11.0 Sir laattn. .f Admlateinilon 4 00 \,Dlicaliun lur la-tien of pluai-alon Adraini.tr.ter. 5 00 Aiii.lir.li»i‘ far ■ ' ll *» ol Di«mi«*km Guardian 5 25 Jipllr.ti.iB f-r l-»r to tljjj Land, 5 UO Selin In Krlilor. nod I rwliUirr p 00 S.I.. ot Unit. .»'••. 1ST «t«B» 6 50 Sain ivr.,ii»iilr Property, 10 day., per nq i 50 E-trav SMiri-. :W d.y. p 00 S, rnd»»lr». |or wo.nr.™ 2 50 sh.ntt Moru-v " t» «■«» per wioarr. j oo T. i Gill-. i..r'. Sal.K, per aquarr. ....... 5 00 1‘tfwrl.worr MorWafe, per aquare.cach time. ... .„ .. t 00 K.mii.iloii Notice.(In advance) il K.lr Ni»i I"T i“|U.rr, each lime ...... | 51, CHILDS, NICKERSON & CO. PEALEK8IN Hardware, Iron, Steel, Nalls. FAIRBANKS’ SCALES, H DBBKR BELTING, AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, 31111 Finding, aqihtj ro* Winship and Sawyers Cotton Gins. Ac., Ac., &c. , ATHENS, GEORGIA. GINS DELIVERED IN ATHENS AT MANUFAC TURERS PRICES. Sept. 80-1-tf. Business and Professional Cards. Lamar Cobb. L. & ll Howell Cobb. COBB, Attorneys at Lair, Athens, Ga. Office in Denpreo Building. fclc&lv. _____ ALEX. S. ERWIN, Attorney at Lan\ Athens, Ga. Office un Bread Street, between Center & Leaves and Orr A Co., upstairs. It. E THRASHER, ATTORNEY AZ LAW, WATKIN8V1LLE, GA. . 1 iiTiner Ordinary’. Office. jmgS-ly REMOVAL! T. A. SALE, REN2IS2, HAn KK MOVED to tlio office lately occupied by Dr. J. W. Murrell. Satisfaction guaranteed in both Work and PricJ*. iaui.v*tf V. D. HILL, attorney at law, | ATHENS, GEORGIA. F Vmnipt attention given to all Balinese and the sun Janll-ly. ti'pn'li'ally eolicted. POPE HARROW, ATTORNEY A2 LAW, ATHENS, GA. in Mr. J II. Newton'* new building. jn4.1v. AUGUST DORR, HE It CHANT TAILOR, Ui'urrt* or Fink Cloths ash Do skins, Bits, ready-made clothing, and-gents’ FURNISHING GOODS, Wlta. ’J22 Broad Street, Augusta, G»._ W. R. LITTLE, Attorney at Law, cabnesville, ga. J S. DORTCH, Attorney at Lair, CARNESVILLE, ga. A. 0 MeCURRV, jtto n,rE r a t •»*, HARTWELL, GEORGIA. JILL sire ,trirt personal attention to all business an- ‘M»t*dl to L'w c»rc. Aug.«—dfr-ty. M. Jackson. L. W. Thomas. JACKSON A THOMAS, Attorneys at Law. Athens, Georgia. 9*. S’. TAE.MA9GS, -DEALER IN— Ameikan as! Imported Watches, (Mv Jrvrln, SILVER AND PLATED WARE, Musical Instruments, (inns, Pistols, Etc. WATCHES, CLOCK. AVD 1 WKLLT RKFA ItED IS A SIAT, WOBXUAKL KE MASSE it. And wamuitrd to give entire sati-fartion. Ornamental and Plain Letter Engraving a Specialty. eOUIOB AVI’.tJE, Bitelta Bisk Blot Corar. AIBtSS, OA. feb.l.Mf. **- W*U, and Shoe Manufacturer, COLLEGE AVENUE, Next Door to Post Office. O N hand, Uppers for malting Low Qnareii-, Con gress, Ak-.xia-Tii.-i>, and Frince ..Albert*. Repair ing promptly executed. , Send ten dollars, per mail or express and you shall re ccive a first clans pair of boots. June 30, 1875. Great Reduction in Prices F op the next thirty days. Brockets, Wall Pocket!, and all kind, of Ornamental Wood Work, win be sold at GREATLY REDUCED PRICES. Now Is the lime to make your houses beautiful at low figure.. Great bargains given In everything at BURKE'S Bookstore. BANKRUPT BLANKS. P hilip asolom AN’S authorized edition. the only cuinnle e edition published. Sent by mail at 21. For sate bv T. A. BURKE, Bookseller and Stationer. feb8.«f. Uni mi ron woo L.g —OR— CLOTH FOR WOOL. The Athena Manufacturing Company are now making a muon larger variety of Woolen Gooui than over before, and propose to Exchange them for Wool, believing it to bi more to the interest of the Planter to Exchange the Wool lor Cloth, rather thou have it Cart ed and Spun at home. Call for Samples and Terms ol Exchange. R. L. BLOOMFIELD, Ageut. May W, 1875-tHf. ’ * Miss C. Potts, t‘ ashionnblo !)ressmaker (Over Culrersltr Bank.) UroaH Street, - -' - Athens. Would respect fully inform the Ladies and her triend. generally, of Athens an vicinity, that she is now pre pared to do Dress making in tha Neatest and most F MSIIION \BLE .STYI Es. With her exi giving satisii OLD SERIES, VOL. 55. U. S. Internal Revenue. Dkotv Collxctok’s Om», I Fourth b.-irict, Georgia, \ Ann.- s, Jan. 15,1878.) \ LL PARTIES DESIRING INFOR motion as to TAX imposed by the United S'atce Internal Revenue Luws, can obtain the oatne by apply ing to W. S. MAYFIELD, Deputy Collector. Office over Jacobs ft Michael’s Store, Broad Street, Athens, Ga. junld-tf JOHN IF. OWEN, Attorney at Law< Tooooa errr, a*. Will (motive in all the counties of the Western Cir- Hart undMaUwon of the Northern Circuit. Will ’ (JtSSSrlv * tten ‘ 0Q 10 a11 entrusted to his cur®. CENERAL TICKET AGtKCY. ItAILROAD TICKETS For sole, by all rentes, and to ail principal pointa in UNITED STATES. Bay your Tickets before leaving Athens, and get ail intorinatiou from Capt. \VM. WILLIAMS, Agent Soul hem Express Co- Athens, Ga. May 18,75 • 88.tf. P. G. THOMPSON, Attorney at Law, Ijrtd attention Jrtd to erimiikd preoUoe. For refer- nJjJWJ 1-k-Gov.T. H. Watts and Hon. David ^.M-ragomerv Au. Office over Bung’s^ Store, FRANK HARRALSONr attorney at aw, ^ CLEVELAND, GA. < r«ticc in the counties of White, Union, Lum- S:Ysuning, and tlie Supreme Court at ill eivt.p.oial attention tool! elnimaer --— An*. 11 1875—41—If. E. R Rt SAULTERj DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF WINES, WHISKIES and LAGER BEER, ALE, GIN, CIGARS, A., ft., CALL AT SAULTERS EXCHANGE, Jantaon Snucxr, Avnr o. Gxo .eix. Oct. 2—d-tt. SCHAEFER, COTTON B UYER, kit..i . . ,oc ®oa errv, os. UfwW,t lv - * G.rw „„) p r E A. WILLIAMSON, VtTf, PRACTICAL tm • , ,AKER AXD JEWELLER, 11 votkl™" Dru (t Store, Broad Street, Athens, Go. ft m a maimer tmd warranted to "•Awaction. • - A. A. WINN, Hoover, stubbs & go., Cotton Kao.tors, —And— Commission Merchants, Savamiah, Ga. l S Wtrj* n< * oth * T «nFPN“ _P urn ^.*R^i ports. May t 80-tf. LlV F.HY AND ULE STABLE. Co * rr '<tgu, lhtggitt and Hones for Hire. TERMS reasonable j4'»u f w HlTEI,EAD - Washington, Wilks, Co., Ga. At th, medical notice. tC lc ' ui *°n Of many of ray former patrons, oricncv in tho business, she feels »nrv o ction. May 14,1175—8<t-tf. OLD UNCLE DANIEL DREW. UPS AKD DOWNS IN WALL STREET BUSINESS. iFkom the Butfhlo Courier.} Nf.w York, March 16.—So good old Un- t-Je Daniel lias gone up at lact. The disaster took the form of Nortliwes;. He never got over the squeeze. Many a time aud oft had the old man given the *• p’inu” to the boyr. and scooped in their dututs with a smiling face, but the tables were turned wilh a t en geance. Il cost him something over a round million to gel out of that Northwest corner, and he has been a tliflerent man ever since. First a hare-legged farm boy in Putnam County, then a drover, next a cattle specu lator, then working into steamboats and rail roads, and at last rising to the etuineucy of ■Monarch among stuck gamblers. Draw pressed steadily on hy sheer shrewdness and cunning and made enough monev, had he been able to keep il al 1 . to t>e as rich a man hi-day as Vanderbilt or Stewart. His plan It otn the first Was to sell short and rake in ■>iif profits when the periodical Wall street panics came along. This served him well till Gould and the late Horace F. Clark ciiught him in the Northwest whirlwind and took 81,225.000 from him at one sweep. He hail Iteen selling Northwest short at 70 to 80, and Gould anti Clark arrange! to buy up all that Drew sold and as much more as they could get. When their trap was ready to spring, they notified Drew to deliver the stock. This was impossible, for it was all locked rp iu the safes < f Gould’s brokers. The uphot was that Drew settled with Gould at a loss of a million antl-a quarter. But he was not often caught that way. Van derbilt once tried to nip him, and gut hatUv bitten for his pains. Drew was president of the Erie Railroad at the time. He owned a iew millions of Erie bonds, which were re- cretl) convert! d into stock. The stock was selling at par, ami Drew was known to be a oeavy seller on the short side. Vanderbilt Itegau to buy, with a view of catching Drew in a corner. He bought, and got his friemls to Imy, till he thought he controlled all the sto k in the market. Then he called.upon Drew to deliver. Toe old man was* wide • wake and ready. He not only delivered all the stock that Vanderbuilt claimed, but he th e>v a lot more on the market, and broke t e price down to forty. Vanderbuilt wa< lurinus, and set the law upon Drew, who rtn aw.iy and entrenched himself in New Jer ev; hut the two afterward became very good friends. Vanderbuilt never sold short. When asked for advice about stocks, his re ply always was, ‘ • Don’t you ever go and sell wbnt you haven’t got.” Hundreds of stories have been told ahnut- Uncle Daniel’s way of doing business. Here is one l heard in Wall street some time ago that will do us a specimen. Once while sit ting in his office, Drew was. approached by a clerical looking personage, who introduced himself as a Methodist minister; hum a-town up the Hudson. Uncle Drew wanted to know what he could do for him. “ Well, I thought Mr. Drew,” said the person, “that you might put tne in the way of making a little money.” “Thinkin’of buying some sheers, eh!” Yes, sir. I’ve got so nettling saved up, and if you’ll lie good enough to tell me what is best to do to ittcreose it, you’ll oblige me very much.” ’• Well, now* it’s kind a re-ky you know, but p’r’aps if ye tried a little Erie”— Thank you. Mr. Drew, thank you. Now, will you be kind enough to tell me a good place to buy? You -ee, I am not uc- juaiuted down here at all.” Drew sent him to one of his own brokers, who had orders to sell Erie right along, and >vhen the ]tar-oit was leaving, he good old nan said to him ; “ Now, don’t ye go an’ tell any of the folks up there that i’ve been .livin' ye any pints, fi r I don’t want ’em to ne comm’ down here and S|ieeklatin’. n The parson ordered some Erie, put up the natgin and went home, and in less th in a week every one of his neighlmrs who could ■ommand a thousand dollars had come to New York and bought Erie in the same place. But they were all surprised to fiml stocks falling instead ot rising, and when, more margin was called for, the dominie came down in hot haste to see Mr. Draw rind fiud out what was the matter. Mr. Drew, ntv dear sir, how is this? You told me Erie was a good thing to buy. “ Well, said Uncle Daniel, with his Egyp tian mummy smile, ** it has turned nitty ponty had, that’s a fact.' But of course I ton't want ye to lose any money. Let’s s- e; tow much tire yeout?” The dominie named his loss, and Drew told a clerk to fill a check for the amount. It was handed to the visttr who became q dte profuse in .hi- thanks and when he was -living the office, Uncle Daniel stopped him fora minute ami said : ” Seems to me i told ve not to say any- liiei), feed and Sale Stable, .a.ttxxscts ga GANN & REAVES..... PROPRIETORS Will be fonnd A their okl eland, rear Franklin Hi building, Thomas street. Keepalwaya on band Turnout* and careful driven. Stock well eon when entrusted to our eon. Stock on baud Jbr ■ ail timea. ^eel fijr i r me BOOTS AND SHOES TO ORDER. N W. HAUDRUP, ARTIST, Vanderbilt never was a speculator in the ' Strict- Wall stBwff: fcmac.' Hit policy all along, was to buy only those stocks which he knew to be valuable and oava^ to buy on a margin. When he bought stocks be paid for them in foIUand- then locked them up in bis aafa; JBut the general rule is to sejl short or so lung on a margin, and many a man has it brought -to grief. Among the monarchs of the market who preceded Drew or were his contemporaries, one of the first was Henry Keep, who made a large fortune in a short time, lost the greater part of it in less, and then withdraw from Wall street, to die in comparative obscurity a few years later. Woodward, a Brooklyn Sunday eclmol superintendent, next figt red conspic uously, and got jammed to a jelly, so to fiprwk, in the great Ruck Island corner seve ral years ago. That was the last of him. Jim Fi-k’s career is too s ell ktw.vu to jieed any particular mentieobere. He was sup posed to' he worth millions, but when (ieatb snatched him through the pistol of Stokes, they quickly melted away to thousands. Slock well, the head of the Pacific Mail clique, who almost ruled the street a tew year* ago. lost nearly all he made and has disappeared altogether. Leg rand Lockwood went down as suddenly, and is unw almost forgotten. A '- broker named Dimmock made a sensation fora short time as leader of the Atlantic Mail speculation, but he too got swamped, and every dollar he had made was swept away. Jay Gould is the succes sor of there and several others. Luck has stood by him thus far, hut it will be strange if he too is not brought down in the long run. Fate seents to have ordained that every man atm takes the luarderahip in Wall stieet shall ultimately come to grief. [For The Atl era Georgian.] Agricultural Reports, What is Required, i . Air. Editor: Sir—With your permis- MOii, I will state through your valuable ftp r to the tax-payers, who will doubtless like. to know what t the Commissioner of Agricult lira requires of them in their Agri cultural Reports. Each tax-payer is re quired, by law, under oath,'to make two ra|Mirts In the first, the crops produced m 1875; the second, the acreage planted I'T the current year, 1876. I will state the requirement iu both returns with as much brevity as the circumstances of the case aid permit. To-w;t: crops promuced—1875. Tlie Grain Crop—Number of bushels ot Indian corn, of wbe.it, oats, rye, barley, rice and cow or field peas. Hay and Forage—Number of tons of 12,000 lbs.) hay and forage saved of clover, grass, corn, rice or pea vines And number of pounds of corn fodder, ,1-v,; Miscellaneous—Number of bales of cotton averaging each, ^450 pounds. Num ber of pounds of leaf tobacco and of cane sugar. Number of gallons of cane syrup and of sorglmni syrup. i I’uoorrrs—crop of 1875. Number of bushels of Sweet potatoes, Irish potato) s, and of turnips. Melons — N umber sold—all kinds. Money value of all garden products sold, except Irish potatoes and turnips. fruits—crop or 1875. Apples—Number of .bushels. sold and saved for Winter. Peaches and Pears— Numlier of bushel* sold of each. Dried fruit—all kinds—Number of bush els savetL Grapes—Number of pounds Mi!d. Wine—Number of gallons made— any kind. * BEE AND POULTRY PRODUCTS—1875. Hon y -Number of pounds taken. Money value of eggs and poultry sold— any kind. FACTORY PRODUCTS—I87A Cotton yarns—Number of bunches spun, five pounds each. Cotton cloth—Number of yards woven. Woolen cloth—Num ber of yards woven. Wool Carded, 187$—Number of pounds of wool earded by wool-carding machinery not connected with factories. WAGONS AND CARRIAGES—1875. Money value of all new Wagons, carriages aud ouggies made. , .* ^ crops planted -,1876. Number of acres planted or sown for the Grain crop of 1876—In Indian com, wheat, oats, rye, barley, rice and cow or field peas, planted alone or with com. Numlier of acres—Hay and forage crop of 1876—In clover or grass of any kind, ■hiii}! about that pint on Erie to the folks up your wny Lota of era’s hen down yer buy- in* an' i fear they haiut made nntbiu'. Sor whether to be oat for hay; or coin, rice or pea vines, to be out or gathered for forage. Number of acres iu other crops, 1876— la cotton, toliacco. sugar cane, sorghum, gr.mnd ]ie;ts—any kind—Sweet potatoes, I. Lsli potatoes and melons. Number of acres—gardens and orchards, 1876—In gardens or garden products, besides Irish potatoes. In orchards, in- c'uding all kinds of fruit trees and Grape NUMBER OF FARM ANIMALS' OX BAND 1st APRIL, 1876. Horses aid mules—whole number; Jacks ry. hut it haint tiiy lault, for I told ye not t.. Jennets work ox n. milk cows all 10-11 Van* Thev had bean Iraviii* thn at«.-k w her cattfo; whole number of hogs; num- unorenteed. Junt 16,1875—SS-tf Blasting and Digging Wells! it rra AN EXPERIENCE OF TWENTY TEARS, It I hereby trader raj oervlcea to «Je mtittnso Athena nd vicinity. Firrt claw work guaranteed. Residence at the Talmud go House, between the npr»i bridge and Cheek Factory. AU ortere wiU receive premjt^traUon. • nmVV.MKim. Planters’ Hotel, Augusta, Oa. ri'HIS WELL KNOWN HOTEL HAY- I In* bean BemodaUd, Enlarged, thoreaithty Bra ovated. Re (Minted and Newly Funnelled daring l*M Sommer of 1875, la now opened, with inereared ftratt tie* for the accommodation of tho travelling public, ftbt-ly B. P. CHATFIET.D, Proprietor. Blacksmith Shop. FEW ft MKIUWEATHER. H ill few and wesley meriweatiieb, having formed a copartnership for 1876, rc»pect- . fatly annonno to the citizen* of Atncn* and enrroand- • in£ country, that t'icy arc prepared to do w ?nanner of 1 1.1- »i-!j Blackamith Line, and ut reitsom-ble chrtrpei*. the beat workmen and n«*e mulling but tho j « Carrico work, plantation work, horse past «ny difficult job# a apeoialty. **■' 1 Gann & Ueavea’ livery Stable.; iell Vm w They had bean buyiuz the st<K*k that Drew was* selling, ami the ch.-ck to the d.iminie was only a small part of what h tmd made out of the dominie’s friends. In the days of his prosperity, Uncle Dan iel mabe a bid for pious reputation by en dowing two theological seminaries. To one named after him iu Madison New Jer ey. he gave $250,000, and to the Wesleyan Uni- ersitv, in Middletown, Conn., he gave $100,000. But the greater part of )he gifts were merely on paper, and there isn’t much likelihood now of the institutions getting the money itself. The bequests are not secured,’ and the regular creditors are. pretty sure to object to tneir |«yment while other claim* remain unsatisfied. Drew’s total liabilities, iurluding the endowments, are something over a million, and his nominal assets reach $750,000, bnt it is doubtful if thev would re alize half that amount. His personal prop erty, such as wearing apparel, jewelry, Bible, hymn-books, Ac., foots up $530, which' isn't what might be called extravagant for 'a rail linnaire. Bnt, although good old Uiicle Daniel voluntarily hands over everything to his creditors, he u not to he without a home during ihe few years he has to live. The house at the corner of Broadway and Seven teenth Street, where he lias lived as long as I remember, still remainis to shelter - him. With that clever foresight for which so many men who become bankrupt* are distinguished, he transferred this valuable property to his wife, through his brother, over a year ago. The canveyauce was not put on record till S&nrday Isst, the same day that his bank raptcy leaked out; but no doubt the trans> acugn is all fair and square iu a legal sense. tern Hirers vbfte, b, r of lio_s for killing nett Winter, sheep and goats. MISCELLANEOUS, 1876. Number of dog*, sheep killed by dog*; fish ponds in order, stand of bee*, whole numW of grown poultry, all kinds FARM LABORERS—1876. Number of form laborers hired for the year or for the crop Number of farm |a- I >o re re on land rented from you. ^ Number of form laborers cropping on shares wjth you. Of the total number of turn laboi of the forgoing classes, how many are wl and how many colored f LAND, ACRES OF—1876. Number of acres of unclosed pasture, and whole number of acres under fence. Respectfully, •' DavidE-Sims, T. R. TH AT SHOWER OF MEAT. A SIMILAR OCCURRENCE IN WILSON COUNTY, FORTY-THREE YEARS AGO—HOW IT WAS ACCOUNTED FOB. -- GucLiBAii Times, Maro’.i 19. The uawspaper* are considerably exercised over the strange appearance ola rain of flesh which fell in Kentucky a few weeks ago. Such a thing is nut new, though rare. About the year 1833 or 1834, a remarkable shower ot flesh and blood fell in a tobacco field near Lebanon, in Wilson county, Tenn. It etin3 in the night. Next morning when the negroes went out to work, and saw the particles ot meat aud spots of blood over the tobacco leaves, they rolled up their eyes, and with uplifted hinds cried out ‘‘ A miracle! a When Mr. Tarplev, the owner men of the land' to day. Mr. Tarpley gath ered up a quantity ot the flesh from the to baeco leaves and sent it with care to Dr. Girard Troost, a chemist and naturalist of reputation, who was then and till his death * professor in the university of Nashville. He promptly pronounced it meat aud bloody matter. Nor was he under the necessity of eating of it to oe satisfied on that point; as it is said some mec iu Kentucky did to test this late shower. Alter various theories as to the origin ot that wonderful shower (some of them as wise as those advanced to ac.ount (or a similar shower which recently fell in Kentucky) were suggested, discussed, and laidaside to give place for others equally profound, the true oolution was given by some unlettered ne- Stpes, to the entire satisfaction of all the cu rious, the scientific as well as the simple. After some of Tarpley’s negroes bad enjoyed the practical ioke as long a* they could keep it to themselves, they let it out that they took a dead hog, and alter chopping it up iu small pieces, they scattered it broadcast over’ th6 tobacco field. Perhaps we had better learn from this to withhold our wise theories as to the origin of the recent shower in Kentucky, till time lets out the secret facts in this case, as it did in regard to the shower which fell in Tennessee 43 years ago. _ I was a student in the university of Nash ville soon after this 'wonderful event, and after graduating, spent a year in Lebanon, where the trick of the fuu-loving negroes was still talked about. A Member of the Class of 1838. THE SUPREME COURT. An Important Homestead Decision Simmons vs. Anderson —IIomrstea i>, from Monroe. WARNER, C. J. This was a claim case which was sub- milted to the decision of .he court, with out the iiiterrontiim of a jury, on the fol lowing agreed statement of fact-: “that the defendant in fi. £t., James M. Simmon*, • on the 27th day of Alarch, 1873, executed to the plaintiff, W. W. Atidersoa mort gage upon one hundred acres of laud; that said instrument was signed sealed and de livered with all the solemnity necessary under the law, and is iu all respects a valiil mortgage; that in said instrument, the said Simmons waved for himself and family, all right to a homestead, to or out of said bar gained and described premises; that said mortgago has lie -n foreclosed, an 1 fi. fa. issued against the defendant, aud levied on said land: that the defendant, as the head of a family, has since said foreclosure and levy of said fi. fit, applied for, and obtained a homestead on said land according to the requirement of the law, anti has, as agent for his wife, filed his claim thereto.” Uppn this statement of facts the court decided that the land was subject to the mortgage fi. fa., levied thereon; whereupon the claim ant excepted. Theonly question made here on the fore going statement of facts, was whether Sim mons. the defendant in the mortgage fi fa- could waive his right, as the head of a fami ly, to claim a homestead in the property in the mortgage, so as to prevent him from aftei wards obtaining a homestead on the specific property mortgaged, and to claim tlie same as a homestead exemption, as the agent of his wife, from being subject to that raortagage fi. fa. The 1753 section of the Code declares that “ in this S ate, the husband is the head of the family, aml.the tvi e is subject to hitu; her legal civil exi-tence is merged in the hushand, except so far a* the law recognizes her separately, either for her own protection, or for her benefit, or for the preservation of public order.” The constitution of 1868 declares, that e-ich head of a family, or guardian or tru-te? of a family, of minor children, shall be eutitled to a home stead of realty to the value of two thousand dollars in specie, eta, which, wlieu set apart, is exempt from levy and sale, except for taxes, money borrowed and expended in the improvement of the homestead, or for the purchase money of the same, and for labor done thereon, or material tarnished therefor, or removal of iucurabrances thereon When the constitution declares that each head of a family slutll he entitled to a homestead in realty to the value of two thousand d <ltars in specie, it was not intended that it should be compulsory on each head ot a family to take out a homestead in his land, whether he desired to do so or nuL The nhvious and fair construction ot thi« clause of the consti tution is. that eaci head ot a family should be entitled to a homestead a* therein provid d if he desired to have one, and not otherwise. When Mr. Simmons borrowed the money and executed his mortgage deed 'o secure its payment, he stipulated under hi- hand ami seal, that be waived for hints -If and family, all right to a homestead in th.- inort gaged premises; in other words, he de clared that, as the hea 1 of a family, he did not desire to have a homestead <111 that land so mortgaged by hint. A* the bead of his family, and owner of the land, he could have ma le an absolute sale of il, and thus have defeated all cl tints of Id* family to a homestead on the land. Why, as the head of his femily and o wner of the land, could he not stipulate that he wonltl not chum a homestead on it, the more espe- •cially }f he did not desire to have one? Besides, it does not appe r from the record in this case, but that the defendant, Ammons, had plenty other bind than that mortgaged, on which he could have taken a homestead exemption as the head of a family. Tlie obtaining and claiming a homestead exemption in the mirtgaged i.-lattire of Georgia approved February 3d. 1874. That as such agent during the* sea sou 1874 and 1875, he received a quantity ot cotton aud shipped the same to Liverpool. England, in behalf of his principal, the “Di rect Trade Union of the Patrons of Hus bandry ;” that there was forwarded to him, during the month of February, 1875, as an advance on said cotton, to be. paid to the owner, Elihu H. Walker, the sum of five hundred dollars; that he failed to pay over to Mr. Walker, the owner of the cotton, for whom the advance was made, the five hun dred dollars so sent to him, and refused, on demand, to pay the same over to his princi pal. tlie “Direct Trade Union ol the Patrons of Husbandry.” The UeteuduutV counsel, Judge A. M Speer, aud Judge R. P. Tripjie, of Atlanta, moved to quash the indictment, because the act of incorporation was forhidden hy the Constitution of Georgia, the Legislature having no power und,r the Constitution to grant corporate power to any private compa ny, except to banking, insurance, railroad, canal, navigation, milling, express, lumber, manufacturing and telegraph companies; the object tor which this coqioration was created being neither of those mentioned; that as the ac of incorporation was such an one os the Legislature could not under the Constitution pass, the company was not incorporated; that therefore there was no such artificial person as the “ Direct Trade Union of the Patrons of Husbandry,” to entrust fund* with defendant, or to make the demand necessary under the statute to be made. The motion to quash was supported bv Messra. Speer and Trippe in able arguments. Counsel for the State argued that the corpo ration was one with powers of navigation But the st itute creating the act did not state nor imply power to eugage in navigation. The motion to quash was sustained and thus the act incorporating the “ Direct Trade Un ion of the Patrons of Husbandry” was de clared unconstitutional and hence that corpo ration has no existence in law. A large numlier of able lawyers were 1 res ent in the court room, Messrs. Blauford, An derson, Wooten and Simmons Irora Macon, Hunt of Batnesville. the local harof Forsyth, and all ire reed that the decision of Judue Hall was a pro, er one. NBRVOUS C >NT1M!15 Y. sensation from amputated limbs. William Solon, of V'rginia City. Nevada, had one of his feet so badly crus ed b . an accident on the Virginia <& Truckce Rai - road Some days ago, tut to teq tire amput;.- t on. The operation was successfully per formed, ami one of the doctors to->k the foot home with him lor dissectio . While thus engaged, a boy arrived, and said tha* he bad como for tlie foot, that Mr. Solon wanted it. The font was accordingly taken away and placed in a bureau drawer in Solon’s room near his bed. Tbe victim at once became very restless, suffered intense pain, and all the opiates administered failed to give hi it relief. He said he felt as though his toes were doubled under bis feet, and that tie was standing with his whole weight on that foot; also, that there seemed to be a knife sticki ig 111 his 1 g. The doctor, who was by this time at the patient’s side, went to the drawer, and, taking up tbe foot, found the toes doubled back, and sticking in it a small hook-shaped instrument used in taking np arteries. The instrument was removed and tho loot placed in an easy position, when Solon declared he - was free from pain and felt quite easy; indeed, soon liever ; usu ]t our manhood by”getting into as ell into a sonnd sleep. This remarkable • ■ - 8 _ miracle I _ ^ There is food tor reflection in~lhe”fact that «' the’farm, came out ami saw it, he sent off almost everv man who has risen to eminence ' for a number of bis neighbors ; all of whom for himself raid family, all right to a home stead in the mort.A- - — we regret to say, ard of cither his legal or moral obligation to pay an honest debt. In view of the facts as disclosed in the record, we affirm tho :ent of the court below, udgtnent affirmed. Hammond & Berner, for plaintiff in error. J. S. Pinukard, for defendant. AX IMPORTANT JUDICIAL DECISION. •* The Direet Trade or the Patrons or Hus bandry” a Noaentlty. [Monroe Advertuer.) A decision was made by His Honor Judge John I. Hall during last week, the second of the February Term of Monroe Superior Court, which is a very important one and will attract considerable attention. Mr. William Lampkin was idicted for “ larceny after trust delegated.” The indiet- lilt’-RAPa. The man who had a project on foot went to a corndoctor. 1 dosped her fair tian J in a niptura «f bliw _And thought, 01, tm» Mea-ed onr f itea 1 Tl!t I looke 1 on t e glove* i.ut et.cii claJ tier > ri*t And found that, aha l they were “eight*.” * “Don’t you think,” said a husbiud in a mild form of rebuke to his wife, “th it wo men are poesed hy the devil?” “Yes,” >vas the answer, “as soon as they are imrric.I." “That was very.gteedy of you, Tom uy, to eat your little sisters shnre of cak !’’ “You told me, ma, I was always to tuke her part,” said Tommy- A wag upon visiting a medical museum, was8hown some dwarf* and specimens of mortality all preserved in alcohol. “Well,’’ *aid he, “I never thuught the dead could be in such spirits/ While au Iowa woman was struygiiug in the water, and likely to dmwn, her Itusbind yelled out : “New bonnet—swim for life!” and she kicked out and safely reached the shore. At a little gathering the other evening *omebodv asked a man if I e was fond opera. He s-id he was, passionately.' He was al ways 1 ked that pirt where* the Indy rides around and jumps through the hoops. A down the country farmer who put in a half acre with turnips last summer, sayg they didn’t br ng him a cent He shot. d try onions the next time. They always bring a scent. Breath)-* there a mao with soul no dead, Who MV rto hirawtf hath said, I will a family paper take, Both for my own and children*’ rako t If »uch there be. let him repent, And have Tin Gkokqux to him sent. A Nevada sheep man who had tried and s ceeeded with. sheep, said: “Sheep are better than a government I10111; voit can tear off a coupon every six nr01 tbs half: s log as the b n t, and the bond is left as big as it was.” Scene, a butchers’ stand Butcher: Come, John, be lively now; break the hones in Mr. William’s chop* and put Mr. imitb’s ribs in for him.’’ Joint briskly : '* AM right, sir; jnst as soon as'I’ve sawed >ff Mrs. Murphy’s leg.” A waggish speculator, on - o! a limn ‘rolls family i.: the world, recently add: “Five years ago 1 was not worth a penny in the vorld; now see where I am through mv own exertions.” “ Well, where are you “ Why, a thousand dollars in debt.” A Middletown compositor has calculated that in the course ora year’s type-setting, the average c mpositor will put up more than V,000,001* separate piece.*, which with .heir distribution, requires more than 15,000,000 mot.ons. “And what became ol Saul, Jimmy?” ask ed a Sunday school teacher. “Killed his- *elf,” was the reply. “How did he.kil him- •elf?” continued the teacher. “ Blowed his brains out with a revolver/ replied Jim my. A young lady dressed in much false hair was warbling at the piano, and uhen h r mother summoned her to assist in some household duties, her rosy lips opened pout, inuly and snapped out “6, do- it yourself?” And then went on singing, “Kind words can never die.” 0 We notice seventy-five cent shirts ad vertised in our city exchauges. Wu shall bop ep- case is not without parallels, but the phe uometion is of a character that, while it has been the subject of much thought and in vestigation, is still a puzzler mid without even an approximately satisfactory explana tion. While, as a physician, we are not pre pared to endorse the theory ot continued nervous sensibility after amputation, still, as a matter of interest, and not as au en dorsement of the above cited case, we will give our readers tbe history of a case oc curring in our surgical practice: In the year 1866, Mr. Rabun Dunahooe. well known in this comity, applied to us for advice in regard to a gun-shot wonnd which he had received during the war just below the knee joint. The wound, hough comparatively slight at the time >f its affliction, had, at this time, become quite serious; not only completely laming him, but seriously, threatening bis life. Ujmn examining the limb, we found our patient suffering from Osteo Sarcoma, which had already disintegrated about two incite* of the T.ltia, so we at onc<‘ advised amputation, to which he readily consented. So proceeding in a few day to his borne in Watkinsville, we amputated bis limb about four inches alipve the knee joint. The case being one of surgical in. (crest, we took the amputated limb home ivith us for dissection Having completed our examination, we depo-ited tbe limb in box for burial Finding our box too saort, we partially disarticulated the limb at the ankle joint and forced it into the box, bringing, of course, much pressure upon the foot. A few days afterwards, we paid a vial to our patient, and, while finding the stump doing finely, yet, -he was suffering from a good deal of nervous excitabilibly, saying that lie had nut rested we!!,coald not sleep. Enquiring what was the probable cause ot his restiveRC8s, he stated that his foot and ankle had been hurting him very much indeed. We asked, how conld his foot which had been taken off, hurt him? He replied, that his foot felt like there wadfon immense weight or piessare upon it, which seemed as if it would tear it off at tbe ankle joint. This statement of onr patient filled ns, as a matter of coarse, with much surprise, as he could, not have possibly known our disposition of the amputated limb. Believing, however, the suffering to be only imaginary, we did not attach suffi cient importance to the statement to induce us to exhume the limb that it might be placed in a more comfortable position. Mr. Dnnahooc remained quite nervous for several days, but finally, all untoward symptoms passed away, and lie soon re cheap a rag as that No I rather let us con tinue to deceive an unsuspecting public with a paper collar, skillfully pinned to the crater of a close-buttoned vest.—Franklin (Kg.) Patriot. The New York Mail says that many of the brown stockings worn by ladies are so poisonous as to endanger life. Those who wear them assume an unlovely yellow color. You’ve got your cue now, dear reader. vVhen you see a lady friend assume an un lovely color, yon should pull her stockings right off, and light out for a stomach pump. —Danbury News. exception that I can think of just now, the wise' a corporation created by an Act of the Leg- 1 covered with a sound and healthy stump. A Fort Madison man went into his cow -table the other day, and, by mistake, mixed _»er up a nice mash in a box full of saw dust instead ol bran. The cow, merely supposing the hard times hail come and they were all going to enconomize, meekly ate her supper, and that man never discovered his mistake until the next morning, when he milked that cow, and she let down half-a-gallon of tur pentine, a quart of shoe-pegs,'aud a bundle of laths.—Burlington Hawlceye A Winter Snow storm. -• We present the following from tho New York Herald, as an interesting, description of the late8now storm: The remarkable season which is now draw ing to a close, has put y unprepared ns for a genuine snow storm, such as rl.at of last night. We were in hopes tlia> we could slip quietly into a pleasant spring without any meteorological incident which would remind ■is of our escape from the severity of a long winter. But the season of storms aud cold is asserting her rights to r e -gniti n, and presents hereelt all of a sudden in bet man tle of white, as If to remind us that her powers are as yet unexhausted after the long struggle with tin- genial airs of the tropics which have invaded her domain. The vast accumulation ot moisture in the atmosphere after a prolonged season of warmth fur nishes the material from whidrwinteir weaves with her icy breath the snow shrouds that she casts over the sleeping earth. When this vaporous element is acted on by air of temperature lower than thirty-two degrees, a indentation and precipitation at once fol low. which assume the form of snow or fro- zen rain. This phenomenon will continue untiTthe excess of moisture in the air is precipitated and the density of the asmos- phere raised to a degree which will enable it to resist the influx ofcold winds. In reali ty, these winds are caused by the peculiar condition of the air, tbe most important one being a lack density. The effects will cease to be produced when the cause cease to exist. Nearly all snow storms come with a north easterly wind because the centre of low pres sure aud the line of contact between the warm and cold air .waves He to the westward ot us. Directly the wind changes to the southward the low barometer is on our meri- diau, and its constant ea*tward movements is followed by a corresponding tendency of the flow of the winds from westwardlv direc tions. Thus, in a short time the snow storm will turn to rain with a southerly winds, and will be followed by clear, cold weath aud a northwesterly blow. On rare occasions the low pressure passes to the southward ot New York, when tbe wiod backs from tbe northeast to .the uorthwest, and cold comets without tbe ioterveoidg period of rata. -rtfcl

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Athens weekly Georgian. (Athens, Ga.) 1875-1877, April 04, 1876, Image 1