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FRIDAY MORNING. APRIL 7th, IN7O.
Call For a District Convention.
The counties composing tlic Fourth
Congressional District are respect
fully requested to send delegates to
a District convention on the 26th ot
April next, at West Feint, Ua., to
select two district and four State del
egates, and alternates, to the Na
tional Democratic convention which
meets at St. Louis on the 21th of
June next, to adopt a platform, and
nominate candidates lor President
and Vico President.
Each county is entitled to twice as
many delegates as it has in the lower
branch of the Legislature. Done by
request of the members of the Dis
trict Executive Committee.
W. 0. Tuggle, Chairman.
LaGrunge, Ga., March 23, 1876.
Democratic Meetins.
Agreeable to the call of Col. E. M.
Butt, Chairman of the Executive
Committee of Marion county, the cit
izens of ihe county met in the Court
House on the Ist of April for the
purpose of electing delegates to the
Congressional Convention that meets
in West Point on the 26th inst., to
elect delegates to the National Dem
ocratic Convention, that convenes in
St Louis on the 26th of June.
Col. Butt called the meeting to or
der. J. L. C. Kerr was elected Sec
retary.
The meeting resolved itself into a
committee of the whole. Messrs. A.
M. C. Russell end AY. B. Hinton
were appointed delegates with W. B.
Butt and J. A. Story, alternates. The
Secretary was requested to furnish
the Argds with a copy of the pro
ceedings and request that they be
published.
Meeting adjourned.
J. L. C. Kerh, Secretary.
Gen. Sherman says ho does not
•wish to return to Washington.
There are too many “fair but fickle”
temptations in that locality.
The Grant Parish cases, called
the Enforcement Act cases, have
been decided by the Supreme
Court of tho United States, in fa
vor of the deiendants. The de
cision of the Supremo Bench does
not declare the act unconstitution
al, but renders it a dead letter.
The bench is this case, have shown
timorousness and dread of the ad
ministration, which is unbecom
ing their position. If the enforce
ment Act is unconstitutional, as it
evidently is, it is their duty to say
so, without “fear, tavor or affect
ion.” They have begged the ques
tion and as, therefore, derelict in
duty and highly censurable.
Our little pleasantry about Jo
sepli Dennis the excentric lamp
lighter, who publishes really and
truthfully the spicest paper that
illumes our sanctum, has made
him as testy and quarrelsome as a
setting hen. Ho pays us ironical
compliments and indulges in “sar
kastic” comparisons, which are
amusing both to us and his numer
ous readers. We had no idea that
our playful strokes would m raffle
the usually glassy feathers of this
young eagle.
The Bainbridge Demcorat in a
recent issue, has given us and the
other friends of Colquitt a regular
broadside, which failed its aim
and is not controversial. Our an
ewer to its query, is all we intend
to say on that phrase of the Guber
natorial problem. We are not
fighting Gov. Smith nor his past
record, we, therefore, respectfully
decline to bo seduced into firing
upon him. His over zeal .ms
friends have already led us into
saying more to his disfavor than
we otherwise would have done.
We favor Colquitt, not from any
antagonism to Smith.
“Dry Up Yourselves.”
Wo had fondly hoped that our
little article of a few weeks ago,
on the fence-riding yelpors of the
Georgia press, had shown them the
supreme folly, of censuring news
papers for making known their
orcfeiiccs and advocating the
claims of their candidates, but it
seems our hopes were ill founded .
Two or three nondescripts are still
screaming in the ears of their in
dependent cotemporaries, “hush !
in tho name of all that is deceitful
and fence-riding, hush!” The
blockheads must not know that
their course is eminently revolting
and glaringly transparent to all
decent men, or they would in self
defense, put a “quietus” tempora
rily at least upon
deceitful and cowardly utterances.
They know that it is jnst and
proper, that the qualities of public
men should he made known, so
that the people may judge of their
merits and act accordingly, and
prove themselves fools and idiots
when they “cry down” journals
thatreton this principle.
Tho truth is, these self constitu
ted “censor morums” have candi
dates tied, out, they dare not make
it known, lest the present incum
bent permit some dainty morsels
of official pap to pass by out -of
their greedy mouths, or they fear
A Correction
In our article last week on the
Operetta of Laila, occurs an error
which we hasten to correct. We
stated that the the exhibition
would take place on the second
Tuesday night in .April. We
should have said the third Tues
day night, as the young ladies de
sire the performance to take place
during the session of the Superior
Court. We hope that everobody
will come out' and patronize the
Operetta, as it will be a real litera
ry andmusical feas , well worth
more than quaruple the nominal
sum charged. The young ladies
are practicing daily, and they will
be able by the time appointed, to
render Laila, with extraordinary
accuracy and skill. Laila is
one of the sweetest and best oper
ettas in the English language.
Col. H. H, Jones in Macon Tele
graph : Major W. M. Moses’ farm in
situated in Washington Couniy, and
contains 287 acres of cleared laud.
From tho cash avails of the same last
year he realized a net profit of thirty
five per cent, upon an investment of
fifteen thousand dollars. Hiß share
wasone-ha'f of the gross sales, and
amouoted to $3,300. Eighty-five acres
are devoted to peach culture, and 4,-
300 baskets, holding three pecks each,
were shipped to Savanneb and New
York, netting over $2,000. He hasten
thousand trees in full hearing, every
one of which was budded by his own
bands. The crop the present year is
divided as follows: Cotton forty-five
acres, oats fifty-five acres, wheat five
acres, corn seventy acres, sweet pota
toes five acres, Irish potatoes a
halt acres, sugar cane one acre, millet
one acre, trucK patches one and a half
acres. To the above two tons of chem
icals, one ton of bone acid, three tons
of other fertilizers, fifteen hundred
bushels of cotton seed, and a vast
amount of stable manure, rotted leaves
and fence corner scrapings have been
applied. The working force is compos
ed of eight laborers and five mules.
Tbc Major expects to realize a bale of
cotton per acre and forty bushels of
corn, but reports that the fruit has been
damaged by the cold fully sixty per
cent. Washington county lias pur
chased fourteen hundied tons of Com
mercial fertilizers the present season.
But for the comfort of all concerned,
it may bo authoritatively stated, that
forty per cent, more of corn has been
seeded, and at least four hundred per
cent, more of oats, rye and wheat than
the previous year. With anything like
average seasons, the county will harvest
tvro years’ supply of provisions.
The daughter of Itev. Jordan
Flanders, of Emanuel county, on
Saturday last went into the field
where her brother-in-law was felling
timber. Unconscious of her danger,
she ran under the falling tree and
was so terribly bruised and mutila
ted that no hopes of her recovery is
terptained.
, Among Our Suite Exdiangt >,
Messrs. It. It. Ricks and John En
glish, stopping at tho Planters Ho
tel, Macon, were recently relieved ol
thirty-five dollars and a watch.
A Lodge of the Knights of Honor
lias recently been organized in Ma
con, with Dr. J. E. Blackshear, dic
tator.
The farmers ot Stewart county arc
replanting their corn crop which was
destroyed by the recent freeze.
Tho Lumpkin Independent gives
the following device for getting
in shooting distance of doves :
lie had cut down and was carry
ing in front of him a heavy pine bush,
and, with it as a “blind” 'was just
walking right up in among the doves
where ho had nothing to do but to
pick out the plumpest birds and .-hoot
ifWPffTwn.**—’ ~ • *
Mrs. Helen Wimberly, an estima
ble lady of Lumpkin, died on tho
29th ult. She was the wife of Judge
J, S. Wimberly.
Judge James Johnson, of Colum
bus, will be the Republican nominee,
for Governor of Georgia. He is the
strongest man in the Republican
Camp in this State, and it will take
a good man to defeat him.
The district conventions have thus
far been called, as follows:
First—At Savannah, April, 26.
Second —At Albany, April 26.
Third—At Macon, April 20.
Fourth —At West Point, April 20.
Fifth—At Griffin, April 26.
Seventh —At Milledgeville, April
26.
Ninth—it Gftinsvillc, April 26.
Waynesboro lms doubled its pop
illation in the last four years.
The Sanderville Herald says :
Anew daily will appear in Atlan
ta soon, to take the place the Couri
er, deceased, under the title of At
lanta “Daily Times ” Col. Jaa. D.
Waddell, a vigorous and versatile
writer, is annouced as its editor.
Eggs sell at three cent a dozen at
Sand Mountain, near Rowe.
Sixteen years have elapsed since
the last hanging in Talbot county.
Prof. G. J. Orr, State School Com
missioner, will deliver an address, in
Americus sometime this month, on
the subject ol Common Schools*
Sandersville Herald : Mr. M.
Webster an honest truthful farmer,
living five milts from this city, sent
to our office on Monday last, a lien’s
egg which has the owner’s name in
clear white, raised letters, extended
around the centre of the egg. A
daughter of Mr. W. found the egg in
a hen’s nest, with other eggs. The
family verily believe that the letters
were on the egg when laid by the
hen. We have examined it closely
know there is no mistake with re
gard to its being a hen’s egg, nor is
there any doubt about the name of
Mr. W. being clearly legible on the
shell.
Philadelphia is making prepar
ations to fleece visitors to the Cen
tennial. Fifty dollars a week is
what they expect to squeeze out
of the unwary Centennialists.
$2.00 per diun is all that visitors
should pay who desire board at
private houses. If Philadelphia
dues not reduce her hotel fares, the
Centennial will be the grand fail
ure of the century.
Liquor Law in Chattahoochee and
Marion Counties. —Both these comi
ties have liquor laws like that of Mus
cogee, which requires the consent of
two-thirds of the fiee holders of the
neighborhood to allow liquors to be
sold outside the limits of corporated ci
ties and towns. All the licenses have
expired in Marion county, and part' • ■
wlio desire a drink have to go to An e;
ricus. One man at Gobbler’s hill, four
miles from Cussota, still lias a license,
but the time for which it is granted
will soon expire. Law vers and otliets
who bav- returned fiom Cusseta report
the people well content with the pro
vision. Ml appear happier and more
content since she closing of the bar
rooms, the complexion of those who
formerly drank are healthier and clear
er looking, and there is no comparison
in point of order. Gobbler’s Hill was
well patronized during eomt week, but
the days of the bar-r>,om ai that place
are well nigh numbered. When this is
gone Co’utnbus is the nearest drinking
place, and the better class ol citizens
are well pleased at the idea that one
enemy has been removed fiom their
midst. — Enquirer.
Tho HoHi#su.au Aooision.
Simmons vs. Anderson. Homestead,
bom Montoe.
WARNER, C. J.—This was a claim
case, which wns submitted to the do
(•isiuii if the * ur 1 , without the ill-
ter m.lii'ii ofajuiy, on tho following
agreed statement of (acts : “ 1 hat
the defendant in ii. ta., James M.
Simmons, on the 27th day of March,
1813, executed to tho plaintiff, W.
W. Anderson, a mortgage upon one
hundred acres of land : that, said in
strument ns skated, soiled and de
livered with ail the solemnity neces
sary under the taw, and is in all re
spects a valid mortgage ; that in the
said instrument, the said Simmons
waived for himself and family, all
right, to a homestead, to or out of
said bargained and described premi
ses ; that said mortgage has been
foreclosed, and ft. fa. issued against
the defendant, and levied on said
land ; that the defftldant, a the bead
ol a family, has since said foreclosure
and levy of said ft. fa. applied for and
obtained a homestead on said land
according to the requirement of the
law, and lias, as agent lor his wife,
tiled his claim thereto.” Upon this
statement of facts the Court decided
that the land was subject to the
mortgage ft. fa. levied thereon,
whereupon the claitnaut excepted.
The only question made here on
the foregoing statement of facts, was
whether Simmons, the defendant in
the mortgage ft. fa , could waive his
light, as the head of a family, to
claim a homestead in the property
described in the mortgage, and to
claim the same as a homestead ex.
ornptiou, as the agent of his wife,
from being subject to that mortgage
ii. fa. The 1753d section of die code
declares that, “in this S ate, the hus
band is the head of the family, and
the wife is subject to him ; her legal
civil existence is merged in the hus
band, except, so far as the law recog
nizes her separately, either for own
protection, or for her benefit, or for
the preservation of public order.
The constitution of 1808 declares
that each head o£ a family, or guar
dian or trustee of a family ot minor
children, shall be entitled to a home
stead in realty to the value of two
thousand dollars in specie, etc.,
which, when set apart, is exempt
from levy and sale, except for taxes,
money borrowed and expended in the
improvement of tne homestead, or
fir the purchase money ot the same,
and for labor done thereon, or mate
rial furnished therefor, or removal of
incumbrances thereon. M hen the
constitution declares that each head
of a family shall be entitled to a
homestml in realty to the value of
two thousand dollars in specie, it
wasnothileudfdth.it it should be
compu!s ry on each head ol a fain ly
to takeout a homestead on his land,
whether lie desired to do so or not.
The obvious and lair construction of
this clause of tho cons itution is, that
each head of a family should be enti
tled t. a homestead as therein provi
ded, if he desired to have one, and
not otherwise. When Mr. Simmons
borrowed the money ami executed
Ills mortgage deed to secure its pay-
ment, he stipulated under his hand
■tnd seal, that he waived lor himself
and family, all right to a homestead
in the mortgaged premises, in other
words he declared that as the head
ofa family, he did not desire to have
a homestead on that land so mort
gaged by him. As the head of his
family and owner of the land, lie could
have made an absolute sale of it, and
thus have defeated all claims of his
family to a homestead on the land.
Why' as the head of his family and
owner of she land, could not stipulate
that ho would not claim a homestead
on it, the more especially if he did
not desire to have one ? Besides, it
does not appear from the record in
this case, but that the defendant,
Simmons, had plenty of other land
than that mortgaged, on which be
could have taken n homestead ex
emption as the head of a family. The
obtaining and claiming a homestead
exemption in the mortgaged property
by Mr. Simmons, as the agent of his
wife, after stipulating in the mort
gage, as the head of his family, that
he waived for himself and family, all
right to a homestead in the mortgag
ed premises, does not, we regret to
say, exhibit a very high standard of
either Lis legal or moral obligation to
pay an honest debt. In view of the
facts as diselosxl in the record, we
a (firm the judgment of the" court be
low.
Judgment affirmed.
Hainmoml & Berner, for plaintiff
in error.
J. S. Pinckard, for defendant.
Chattahoochee Court. —The.session
closed Thursday, and all parties have
repaired to their homes. Tlie follow
ing patties were sentenced :
Jim Floyd, colored, was found guil
ty of simple larceny and sentenced to
six months on the chain gang. •
Tom ooth, colored, felonious larce
ny, sentenced to two years in the peni
tentiary.
Andrew Roan, colored, found guilty
of involuntary mans'aughter, and son
ten cod to the extent of the law—three
years in the penitentiary.— Enquirer.
LiiMii OUT J?M HARD TIMES.
Great Reduction
MOMIGHML k STEVMS
In Standard Calicoes from 6c to 8 cents per yard;. Shirting from
8c to 9c per yard; Sheeting from 9c to lic per yard; E. and I*. Checks
at 12c per yard; Rlcecliing from 8o to lie per yard.
Gri’oceaies always at Botina ?{ ,mmi.
a mm
/fUiU SUOCK of Boot*, iSHiooh, Kit*, Trunks, Clothing, Hardware, Hollow-ware, Tinware, Patent Medi
4/ cines. Family Groceries, Tobajco, Segara, &o. include a variety—*which you will tlud fo*rgalu.- in
e next thirty Respectfully,
_ lIdfICIiAEL & STEVENS,
m:
Yoar Dwellings
Your Stores'!
Yoar Stocks of floods
Sine and grinjpauses,
From Loss by Fire.
A. M. CD.
General Insurance Agent,
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UwJSfiSt snmp;tMs gUjntafiifei,
3 ettkmtnts piuknwl jfatd at mtj Offfcr
We keep on hand and are constantly receiving from Eastcrh and Western
markets all goods usually kept iu a first-class Furniture and House Furishing
goods Establishment.
FURNITURE.
PARLOR SUITS, S EASY CHAIRS, LOUNGES, &c. t
Dressing Case Suits Commsn: Bed Room Suits,
at Prices from SSO Upwards; Dining Room
Chairs, Table's and Safes; Office Desks,
Counter and Desk Stoors and Chairs.
Chairs: Fine Cane Seat. Wood Seat and Cottage; Wash Stands, tables, Hu
reaus, Bedsteads, Lounges, &c.; Mattresses: Spring Beds, Feathers, &c.; Baskets
best assortment in the oily; Brushes: Hail, Clothes. Shoe, Dusting and Shaving;
Brooms: Floor or Sweeping, Hearth and Whisk; Upholsters Goods: hair, cloth,
reps, buttons, gimp, tacks, &o.; Picture Frames: pic'ure frame moulding, an<j
irames made any size desired; picture cork, nails add tassels;
HA BY CARRI AGES;
A
booking Glasses, Looking Glass Plate in pieoe, Window Shakes, decorated and
plain j Window shade goods, various widths, aod colors cut and made to lit
size wiudow.
China, dinner and tea sets; china by piece or dozen, decorated or plain; lamps,
lanterns, chandeliers, wicks, chimneys, kerosene oil and lamp goods generally;
Fancy and holiday goods, fine variety; Cutlery; table and pocket, fine assortment
imported and American, both direct from manufacturers, and Bpld very low.
Spoons, forks, castors, <feo
all sizes, at. prices ranging from six dollars to two hundrer
dollars; full hue of cheap wood coffins always on hand, for ladies, gentlemen o
children; Burial robes, and unkci takers barkware. j£#'Store next door north
of Waxelbaum & Gyles’, Cotton Avenue. Residence close to store iu house o.
Judge S* S. Boon Calls night or day, by telegram or otherwise, attended
faithfully.