The Athens weekly Georgian. (Athens, Ga.) 1875-1877, April 04, 1876, Image 1
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Athens, Ga.
Office un Bread Street, between Center &
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It. E THRASHER,
ATTORNEY AZ LAW,
WATKIN8V1LLE, GA. .
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| ATHENS, GEORGIA.
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ti'pn'li'ally eolicted.
POPE HARROW,
ATTORNEY A2 LAW,
ATHENS, GA.
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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.
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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
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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
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intorinatiou from
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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.
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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.
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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.
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