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HAMILTON, : : GEORGIA.
The largest Mock of granite ever
qunrried in New England lias been taken
out at Woodbury, Vt. It was 230 feet
long, thirteen to eighteen feet deep, fif
teen feet wide, weighed 4,080 tons, and
required <573 wedges with fifty jsiunds of
powder to start it.
Dead wood is booming. Alsmt two
months ago it was in ashes; now it is
livelier than ever. That is, of course,
buta repetition of the experience of every
burnt-out American city, and is another
example of the innate energy of western
life. The town is rebuilt with large
brick and frame structures vastly supe
rior to the orig'nal ones. All the mer
chants are in business again, many firms
having over SIOO,OOO worth of goods in
stock. Mechanics’ wages, which were
#8 a day, have now dropped to half that
figure, and last hut not least Deadwood
has 7J3 gamblers busily plying their vo
cation. Who says Deadwood is not the
future great?
It is announced that anew steamship
l'ne is to be started which cannot fail to
be of gi?at advantage to the south and
probably to the northwest. It is the
Mississippi Valley and Brazil Steamship
Line. The St. Haul Press is enthusias
tic alsmt the project, and it interviewed
ex-Governor Washburn on tin- matter.
The governor thinks that an immense
trade can Is- worked up between Brazil
and the southern and western states.
He considers the obstacles at the mouth
of the Mississippi as practically overcome,
and he looks on the new line as a splen
did scheme. “At present,” continues
the governor, “our communication with
Brazil is by British steamers and via
Liverpool. The result is that we have
little trade with that country, while if
wc had direct communication it would
furnish a splendid market for flour and
other products, and give us in return
coffee,” etc.
N evada feels the shortened production
of silver, and the consequent absence of
speculative tramps makes the capital
city dull beyond conception. The two
bonanzas are about played out. Their
three millions a month is reduced to
about a tenth. Nevada produced alto
together fifty-six millions in 1877, and
■u.i.i.r fiw millions in in 1878. In 1879,
we estimate twenty two millions. A
vast amount of money is being expended
in exploring since the Sutro tunnel gives
the mines easy drainage, and from aje
pearances, some rich ore bodies lately dis
covered may develop into veritable bo
nanzas and restore Nevada to its former
standing. Nine-tenths of all mining
charters in California and Nevada value
their property at millions, in shares of
SIOO, and new ones are being issued even
now. Nine-tenths are “wild-cats” of no
actual value, and a clean sweep will lie
made of them.
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.
The Texas state treasury hasabalance
of $300,000.
Four hundred Mormons have left
Georgia and Alabama this year.
The total indebtedness of the state of
South Carolina is $7,175,454 01.
Rome, (la., manufactured over 5,000,-
000 brick this year.
Norfolk, Va., did an export business
of $10,000,000 last year.
Jacksonville, Fla., uses four thousand
barrels of kerosene per year.
A hunting pa ty in Dintviddie county,
Va., killed eleven deer hist week.
Morehead City, N. ('., on the Atlantic
coast, is to have a $20,000 hotel.
Texas is larger than either the Ger
man Empire or the Austrian Empire.
Four thousand people rode on the
street cars at Little Rock, Ark., on cir
cus day,
A ten-thousand-dollar greenback was
paid into the Alabama state treasury
Monday.
There is a revival among the Winc
breenatians, or “ feet-washers,” at Lel
laire W. Va.
Montgomery and Mobile, Ala., two
hundred miles apart, are connected by
telephone.
Fast mail grains are now run over the
Atlantic Coast,lane and the South Caro
lina railroad.
An industrious young lady in Ander
son, S. C., has made a handkerchief
valued at $25.
They say that all that keeps the Au
gusta, Ga., canal from being a success is
too much water.
The first store in Grenada. Miss., was
built in 1533 by Col. N. Howard, who
still resides.there.
The colored people own 13,000 acres
of land in Halifax county, N. C., and
8,000 in Warren.
A contract for building a railroad
which will connect Pensacola, Fla., and
Jselma, Ala., has been let.
ing-nonses in Atlanta fins never neon as
certained. Living is cheaper here than
in any city of Georgia.
Patrick McDonald, not three years
old, sends the Charleston News $1.30
collected hy him at Lynchburg, S. C'.,
for the Hood orphans.
Tom Dav was stablsd to death at
Knoxville, i'enn., Sunday, hy his nephew,
Ed. Hay, a mere lad of seventeen years.
The lad is in the lock-up.
A bank at Rome, Ga., has received
$30,000 in A met lean twenty-do liar gold
pieces and they are lxdng paid out for
cotton the same as greenbacks.
A force is now busily engaged in con
structing a telegraph line along the She
tland' ,h Valley railroad, between Shejv
herdstown, W. V., and Front Royal,
Va.
The South Carolina legislature is con
sidering a bill to prohibit the running
of freight trains and to regulate the lim
ning of mail and passenger trains on Sun
day.
East Tennessee niarlde is to I use 1
in the construction of the proposed mon
ument to the memory of the bit: 1 Gen.
Roliert E. Lee in the city of New Or
leans.
Sunday two members of the Christian
church at Little Rock, Ark., each pre
sented a title to 1 <SO acres of land, as
the beginning of a fund to build a church
edifice.
Jackson, Miss., is building anew
opera house, capable of seating 900 peo
ple, and it is said that when completed it
will be one of the prettiest theatres in
the south.
Twenty-two young men will apply for
admission into the North Carolina Con
ference, M. E. Church, at its next scss'on.
This conference alieady embtaces 170
members.
Memphis Ledger : Gold eagles and dou
bles were freely paid out by those who
had debts to settle to-day. The yellow
medal will soon 1 come a drug in the
market.
Laborers from Pennsylvania have lie n
coming to Georgia lately. Quite a num
ber of them are employed at the timber
mills of the Georgia Land and Lumber
company.
There are two colored centenarans
in Spalding county, Ga. One aged 1< .
and the other 108, and both are women.
Thirty million cigars were made in
Wheeling, W. V., last year, and the
number will be largely increased this
year.
An eel six feet long got into the wheel
of a water-mill at Goldville, Alabair ,
and was sufficiently large to stop the
wheel.
The Little Rock Democrat says that a
no time since the war have the negroes
of Arkansas had so much money as at
present.
Lynchburg (Va.) News: The Mid
land railroad has a contract to ship 5,090
car-loads of iron ore to Pittsburgh. The
ore is to he furnished fron Riverville, on
the canal, below the city.
A Mr. Stoddart, at Pensacola, Fla.,
has an orchard of-3,500 fig trees, many
of which were imported from Europe,
Asia and Africa. Almost every known
variety is represented in this orchard.
A negro named escaped from
jail in Robeson county, N. C., last wc'k-,
and a deputy sheriff named Cole, while
trying to arrest him, wes shot and in
stantly killed. Leach is still at large.
Home burglars at Charlotte, N. C.,en
tered a store on Tuesday night by being
a few holes around the two locks cn a
door, filling the holes with kerosene and
burning the door until the lacks dropped
off.
The Avalanche says that there stems
no doubt that a sewer system, to cost not
over $225,000, and perform all the acc
essary service will be agreed on for .Mem
phis. It is within the city’s financial
scope.
It is thought that special session of tb
Tonnes ee l*pi latu.o will be called am
to pa ;an act enabling tbe taxing; ! -
trict of Montplii- to levy a tax for im
proving the sanitary condition of Mem
phis.
Brookhavcn Ledger: There is some
talk of changing the gauge of the Chica
go, St. Louis and New Orleans railroad
to four feet eight ajid a half inches, io
make it conform to the standard of
northern roads.
David K. Adamson carries the mail on
foot between Ridgwavand Leakville, Va.,
a distil’ * twelve miles. He has ink
failed to make a trip for several year
and receives twenty-five cents for each
ro ul trip.
The Arkwright Cotton Factory, at
Savannah, Ga., which lias been closed
for some time, is likely’ to be purchased
by A. Campbell, a capitalist and large
manufacturer of Philadelphia, who will
resume work at once.
The school children of Georgia pro
pose to contribute enough money'to erect
a monument over the grave of the late
Prof. Bernard Million, of Atlanta. The
suggestion is credited to Miss Laura A.
Haywood, of that city.
A large steam ginning and milling es
tab 1 shnient at Mikesville, Fla., was
burned on the night of the 21st it t., to
gether with 30,000 pounds of seed cotton.
The fire is believed to have been the
work of an incendiary.
Wilmington (N. C.) Star : The house
ot one Jacob Keaton, colored, on G. Z.
French’s plantation, at Rocky Point,
Ponder county, was accidentally de
stroyed bv fire on Monday last and his
four children perished in the flames.
The South Carolina public schools
were attended during the last school year
by 122,663 pupils, of whom 58,368
were white and 04,095 were colored.
This is the largest attendance the schools
in that state have ever had in one year.
tries* j, sufficient to make it popular,
Dt* Soto ( Miss.) Times: When our
darkies go to Kansas, ad other north
ern states, breadstuff* will lit* cheap, cot
ton go up to twenty cents per pound,
stock raising will lie a paying business
in this section, and treating negroes for
their votes will then be played out.
The Peabody fund makes the follow
ing allowances to Texas schools this year
Houston, $2,000; Han Antonio, $1,200:
Sherman. $1,000; Brenham, s too. After
this year the trustees propose to confine
aid from that fund to normal schools in
Texas.
The New } ork and North Carolina
Smelting company are erecting their re
duction works near Charlotte, N. (’.,
where they expect to handle gold, sil
ver, copper and znc ores. The capacity
of the works will he twenty tons per
day.
New Orleans Picayune: Hon. Judah
P. Benjamin, it is reported, stands a fair
chance of being soon raised*to the En
glish bench. Tin ro is a vacancy in the
Exchequer court. It is not the custom,
however, in England fur such positions
to bo filled hy persons of alien antece
dents.
Knoxville Tribune: Marble quarry
ing in east Tennessee lias grown to he a
very important industry, and new de
posits are being developed constantly.
Immense quantities are being shipped to
the eastern and northern cities, where it
is universally admired, and commands a
high price.
Savannah (Ga.) News: Dr. .T. L.
Wilkes, of Lincoln county, recently sold
one of his plantations to two young ne
gro men, who paid him cash for the
property. Despite the numerous “south
ern outrages” on the “poor African,”
the colored people are 1 pidly becom ng
land-owners and tax-payers.
The Americas ( Ga.) Republican tells
of a singular quadruped killed hy a par
ty of hear hunters' It was bear behind
and goat before, a sort of hybrid for
which they could find no name. They
have the skin and legs, and are anxious
that some skilled naturalists will come
and give it the right nomenclature.
At Corpus C’hristi, last week, a Mrs
Coghel was sent to the c'tv hospital to
gether with her two children, aged three
years and eighteen months, respectively.
One night she prevail; i upon the nurse
to leave them in her room overnight, and
next morning the children were found
strangled to death and Mrs. Coghel was
gone. She has not yet been discovered.
The State: The planet Venus created
a sensation in Richmond on Saturday.
Hundreds of people gathered at differ
ent times during the day at the street
turners, especially on Main street, to sec
the morning star in the southwestern
ieavens. It was plainly visible to the
jaked eye until bite in the day’, when it
let.
Memphis (Tenn.) Ledger: A weekly
average of about $1,500,000 worth of
cistern exchange termed cotton hills has
leen selling to bankers hy cotton buyers
lere during the past m< nth. The rate
'part is from $3.75 to $5.00 per $1,000,.
and it is from this source that the chief
profits of the banking business here is
derived.
Vicksburg (Miss.) Commercial: The: j
arc property owners in this city who
have not paid a dime of taxes on their
real estate since 1872. They refuse to
pay and there is no law by which they
can be compelled to do so. They pay
their State and county taxes to the sheriff
and keep the State from selling their
property, but the city has no way hy
which to compel them to pay. .
Nashville (Tenn.) American: J. C.
Rodimer, of Gallatin, a well known rail
road contractor, was in the city yester
day. He says the people of Sumner, Trous
dale and Smith counties are talking
strongly of building a railroad across
from Gallatin via Hartsville to t’arthage.
He says the country through which it
would pass is one of the most beautiful
and richest agricultural regie .is in the
State.
The Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution says
that V. J. Grant of Harris county, cul
tivated this year a crop which yielded
eighteen full bales of cotton and 300
bushels of corn, besides about 3,000
pounds of fodder, and he only i sed one
mule in the cultivation. Another fa tit
er, J. A. White, made -406 bushels of
corn and fourteen bales of cotton, weigh
ing 500 pounds, on a one-horse farm.
This was beside a crop of fodder, peas,
potatoes, etc.
Dallas (Texas) Herald: The-tide of
colon'll emigrants that is rolling into
Kansas at present from this State is very
large. They are going by hundreds to a
land where a great many must die of cold
and hunger this winter. Nearly every
train that goes north carries a lot of
them. So far they have been coming
from the southern cour Lies, but the
movement is spreading and is beginning
to be felt in this section cf the State.
Norfolk Virgini- t: Yesterday an Ital
ian was going the rounds of the city \\ .It
a cage oft allied mice. The little animals
gave recognition of their rc * : ctive
names and performed many singular and
amusing tucks. Among other things,
the mice arranged in order a miniature
cannon, put the cap on and fired it off,
and showed no alarm at the explosion.
One of the creatures then pulled his
mate, who lay down as if dead, into a
cart and hauled him off
New Orleans Picayune: We are in
debted to Major A.' W. Rountree for
specimens of an orange that is both seed
less and double. The finest is large, of
a rich gold color; keeps well, and is of
delightful flavor. In a httndr lof these
oranges there will seldom be found a
seed, and many of them have a pretty
miniature orange in the flower end of
the large fruit. The original tree in this
country was procured from the Emperor
of Brazil's botanical garden at Rio de
Janeiro.
The Semite.
The senate on the Ist was called to order
bv Vice President Wheeler at lj o’clock
The vice president laid before the senate,the
annual : sport of the Secretary of the Treas
ury, which was ordered printed. Just before
two o’clock the President’s message was re
ceived and read by the clerk. At its conclu
sion Mr. Ferry arose and announced the
death of his colleague, Zuehariah < handler,
and moved that the Senate, ns a mark of re
spect to the latter’s memory, adjourn, which
was agreed to, and the Senate adjourned at
3:15.
lit the senate, on the 2nd, Senator Gordon
announced the following joint resolution:
Whereas, The project of the construction of
the inter-oceanic canal in Niearauga, is re
cognized asa necessity for the prosperity and
commerce of the world and the development
of tin? maritime and commercial interests of
the United States, and, Whereas, sncli enter
prise must of necessity he considered ns of
international utility under the protection of
tho'l'nited States; therefore, be it resolved,
that the Government of the United States
pledges to accord full and complete protec
tion to the company to which sliail be grant
-1 eouce :ions by the government of Nica
rauga for the protection of said inter-oceanic
canal, and will secure to said company the
peaceful enjoyment of the rights conceded
by such concession. Referred to committee
on commerce when appointed Mr. Burn
side then called up his resolution of last ses
sion, reaffirming the Monroe doctrine in con
nection with the proposed Darien canal and
proposed to speak thereon. At the close of
Mr. Burnside’s remarks, the senate, on motion
of Mr. Garland, went into executive session,
and when the doors were reopened, it ad
journed.
Jn the senate, on the third, Mr. Beek intro
duced a bill to authorize the payment of cus
toms duties in legal tender notes: also a lull
to amend title 48 of the revised statutes so as
to authorize the purchase of foreign built
ships by citizens of the United States for use
in foreign carrying trad both of which
were referred to committee bn finance
Mr. Bayard introdiu ed a joint resolution that
from and after the passage of this resolution
the treasury notes of the United States shall
he receivable forall dues to the United States
excepting duties on imports, and shall not be
othe-wise a legal tender, and any of said
notes hereafter issued shall bear this super
scription. Referred to finance committee.
in the Senate on the 4th, Mr. Carpenter
ottered a resolution declarin'? that the re
sumption of circulation of gold, silver and
gieenhncks as lawful money and the expec
tation that finances would not be, disturbed
by precipitate legislation, had been followed
by revived industry and general prosperity,
(the successful conduct of business depended
upon a stable financial policy,) and that,
in the opinion of the senate, any legislation
during the present session materially clinng
ing the existing system of finances would be
inexpedient. .....At12:30 the senate went in
to executive session A bill was introduced
to-day by Mr. Mori ill to facilitate the refund
ing of the national debt. It is a dtipdlicate of
the treasury depar nent bill introduced by
Mr. Garfield At 12:45 the doors were re
opened and senate apjourned until Monday.
The House.
On the first, at precisely 12 o’clock, the
speaker called the house to order, and after
prayer by the chaplain, the roll was called
and showed an attendance of 232 members,
there being 56 absentees At 1:30 the Pres
-sdent's message was received and read by the
clerk On motion of Mr. Wood, of New
York, the message and accompanying docu
ments were referred to a committee of the
whole and ordered printed. The house ad
journed.
In the House on the 2nd, a resolution was
offered by (Mr. Price of Towa, declaring it to
be the opinion of the house that no change
should be made in the currency laws at the
present session of Congress. It was referred,
as was also the joint resolution introduced by
Mr. Mr. Ellis, of Louisiana, pledging the pro
tection of the government to the Niearauguan
inter-oceanic canal company, when it shall
have obtained a grant from the Niearauguan
government Mr. Speer introduced a bill
instructing the Secretary of War to prohibit
military parades and army bands front play
on‘Sundays After the introduction of
several unimportant resolutions the house
adjourned.
In the house, on the 3rd, by unrnmious
consent the St; es were called as on Monday
for the introduction of bills, under which
call the following was introduced and re
ferred by Mr. Wood, of New York, respect
imr the refunding of the Nai onal debt. The
bill is as follows : Be it enacted, that so
much of the authority conferred on the s: :•
rotary of the treasury by the acts of July 14,
1870, and January 20, 1871, to refund the
public debt to the extent of $1,500,C:0,C30 as
has not been exhausted and executed, be and
the same ' hereby modified, so as to limit
the rat n inbonds yet to be issued,
authorized bv these ai to a rate of- interest
not to exei e-j Sdp r cent, per annum
Mr. Garfield introduced a biU to facilitate
the refunding the national debt. Referred,
[it nrovides that all existing provisions of
the iaw shall apply to any United States
bonds bearing higher rate of interest th; ’
four per cent, which may hereafter become
redeemable; and it authorAcs the s rct.iry
ot 1 the treasury to exMr \ge directly at par
four per cent'bonds of the description au
thorized by act of July 14, 1870, for any such
bonds. It is understood that his bill was
prepared at tile treasuiy department by Sec
retary Sin . n, ard contains n.U the prov -
ions which he deems necessary to enable
him to cai'iv out successftdly the wotk oi
refunding the five and six per cent, bonus
which fall due in 1781, amounting to nearly
j ; ip 000,000] Without transactingany un
pot.aut business, the house, at 1 o clock, ad
“"iT’the' house, the 4th, ainc-ng the bills in
i reduced and referred was one by Mr. Gillet,
of lowa, declaring co ig: ess opposed to any
reduction in the volume of United St-at.
legal tender notes, but on the contrary is n
favor of sub:iiuting greenl)*ick* for nation?
1, >k notes, and that it is in favor of free un
red ictid co'uage of 412 K grain silver dob
Grs Mr. O Connor, ox South Carolina, in
■oduc''l a Lid to r. urn to the freedmen of
the V -nth their savings, deposited in the
Frecc’men’s saving and trust company. He
t'erred Adjourned until Monday.
The Zulu Female Reserve.
Has any paper recorded the fact that
at Kambula the Zulus brought up a
large body of women and stationed them
in the distance to represent a strong re
serve ? I suspect that it was by strate
gical dodges of this nature-dodges by
which Lord Chelmsford was more than
once outwitted—that the number of
Zulu warriors was so widely exaggerated.
We were told that Cetywayo had
twentv thousand fighting men before
Ulundi. Not one thousand were killed
there, but where now are the nineteen
thousand?
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Vi All s AM) WHIMS. W
A SCANDAL monger is a person >
mire.
Does a standing joke ever requirM .
seat. /
Are men who fit counters in boo*®
counterfeiters? I
The sawmill runs to the tune of \
log-a-rythm.
Sound logic—arguing through the
telephone.
A professional beauty, though
words, is really only one silly belle.
A thumb on the hand is worth twfci]
a dog’s mouth.
The editor’s position is one of trual ,
He has to trust nearly everybody.
It is a fallacy to suppose that a I*
is being shampooed when he is
by the minister. It is a rnituke.
“Genius finds its own road and ca*V
its own lamp,” says the
Journal. Been watching us, have
—Kentucky New Era.
It was a mean trick for the Buck®
State to hold an election while the DeS
ocrats were away attending prayer ruea
THE man that bought a “ salted!
gold mine in the Black Hills was a boll
sold fellow. |
Depend upon it, “ there’s a time if
all things.” The time to leave is win
she asks you how the walking is.
An individual who called his fit
daughter Kate, when his wife had a
other girl, christened her Duplicate.
Many a man who prays not to be h
into temptation would be awfully disa
pointed if his prayer was granted.
“Bob Injuresoul” is one of t
frightful results of the Chicago Tribum
new method of spelling <
A newspaper reporter says that
of the ladies at the late ball, “to<
everybody’s eye.” What an cye-deocy
Young Lady—“ Have you any dres 1
kid gloves?” Clerk—“No, miss, wel
nae kid gloves.”
The man who starts for the rivMl
drown himself will run for a
safety if he sees a cross bull coming.
The father with nine marriageab!
daughters must have been engaged i
the belle foundry business. — CincinnA
Commercial. i
“ The evil of men’s wives lives aft<
them, while the good which they do i
seldom spoken of with safety to a stm
mother.”
A newspaper reporter who died I
cently, left a large sum of money behix
him. In fact, he left all the money I
the world.
The best lip salve is a kiss. This rel
edy should be used with the greata
cautipn, as it is very apt to bring on J
affection of the heart.
Thoz hoo r advokatingafonetiksistq
ov speling seem to want to institut a “l
az u pleez” orthografy.— Detroit JM
Press.
There is a difference between Jtu
ning rods and enlightening rods.
takes the mischief out of the clouds, fl
the other out of the bad boys. Jj
“ Two souls with but a single thought, jfl
Two hearts which beat as one,”
Old folks abed—the lamp turned out—
Oh crackey I wasn’t it fun.
Whitehall 7*H9
In the room of a railroad deprSji
lowa is the following placard over ■
clock behind the counter: “This isl
clock —it is running—it is Chicago
—it is right—it is set every day afl
o’clock—now keep your d—d m*
shut.” j
Profanity is a very bad thing inyfl
body, but a good woman will
tate to darn her own
change. Her daughter will,
and that reminds us that the reasoU
many girls dislike this work is becatUj
sounds profane.
“Is Mike doin’ well in the new cM
thry?” asked Mike’s father of a ftfl
who had just returned to old Erin
America. “ Doin’ w r ell, is it?”
Mike’s friend. “Shure an’ye
say so. Ye’ll niver find Mike with* 8
-quart av the best twenty-five M
whiskey in the house.”
A man who was a great stickle j...
etiquette, having married a wido\C|
fore her term of mourning had ex]Ug
soon after made his appearance vug
weed on his hat. On being asked
his reason for it, he remark#!
considered it no more than the h 9
some thing toward his lamented prfl
cessor. ’
Servant (answering door-hell
by little ragged boy) —“ Come, gojß
awav. We have got nothing for
Boy—“ Haven’t asked you for
yet, have!?” Servant (bantering*
“ Well, what would you have asked*
B 0 y_“ Didn’t know but this
for sale, and if it was I wanted t£|
it.” Mi