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RICH’D W. GRUBB 1
Proprietor
DARIEN. GEORGIA,
SATIHIHT MOKMXG, JIXF. 13fh. ISP.
SECRETARY BRISTOW
Hon. B. H. Bristow, the new Secre
tary of the Treasury of the United
States, is the son of F. M. Bristow, a
prominent lawyer and politician of
Kentncky who has filled many posi
tions of trust, is forty-one years old.
He was born in Elkton, Todd county,
Ky. Practiced law with much suc
cess at Hopkinsville, Kv., before the
war. He was as trong Union man,
entered the Union army in 1861,
was at Doflelpon and Shiloh ns
Major of the 25th Kentucky and
was wonded at Shiloh; afterward
Colonel of the 81 h Kentucky cavn'ry.
The Louisville Courier says he was
appointed United States District At
torney about the close of the war, and
filled the position with distinction,
being frequently sent by the Treasury
Department to other Districts to look
nffer the interest of the government, i
He resigned the District Attorneyship
and resumed private practice.
When the office of Solicitor Gener
al was created he was appointed its
first incumbent, organized the office,
and during the absence of the Attor
ney General performed his duties and
filled his place iu the Cabinet meet
ings. Idle ability he displayed in
this office gave him a high reputation
at Washington. After two years ser- ;
vice, he resigned to attend to his pri
vate affairs. In December last lie
was nominated Attorney-General, at
tbe same time that Mr. Williams was
nominated Chief Justice. He is a
man of the purest, private character,
a strong will and mind, a great law
yer, conservative in his financial views,
thoroughly Western in his fielingsj
and interests. The nomination was
received in Louisville with great satis
faction, and full confidence that he
will fill the place honorably and ac
ceptably.
Secretary Bristow has already put
on foot several reforms in the Treasu
ry dopnrtineut, and with a determina
tion that indicates that ho means to
carry them out. Let us hope that he
will be an honor to the position.
TWO COLI.OSSAL BENEFACTIONS.
The Atlanta Constitution ears, the
past week has developed iwo charac
ters that are an honor to our race and
country. One of them was flashed
over the glad wires from the distant
shores of the Pacific. Mr. James
Lick of San Francisco, is the noble
giver in the case. Ho made no will
to bo the subject of scandal and of le
gal contests, for he still lives and we
hope will livo to witness a.id deeply
enjoy the reonlts of his shrewd, prac
tical benevolence, After reserving a
homestead and $25,000 a year for
himself, and after making ample pro
vision for his relatives, he proceeds to
deed the balance of his property—
about two millions of dollars—to the
public. He provides for the erection
of public baths, for the establishment
of an old ladies home, for the endow
ment ot a medical school, remembers
the orphans, and gives SIO,OOO for
the protection of animals. Such a
man deserves the gratitude and re
memberanee of all mankind.
The other gift was expressed in the
will of John Edgar Thompson, which
was probated on Friday. His estate
is valued at two million of dollais
also; and by the will it goes to fru -
tees who are directed to provide for
bis wife and relatives, and to apply
the remainder of the net income of
the estate to the maintenaucs and ed
ucation of female orphans whose fa
thers have been killed in the dis
charge of their duties as railroad em
ployees, preference to be given—first,
to the girls orphaned by the Pennsyl
vania railroad; and, second, to those
berefet of fathers by the Georgia rail
road.
Great and powerful p.s was Mr.
Thompson, and surprisingly success
ful as were all his plans, the legacy
to the orphan girls of the men who
peril their lues over the iron tracks,
is a monument that will outlast all
else that can be accomplished. As
personal recollections fail and the
years go on, that magnificent bequest
will keep bis memory perpetually
green by its coLstaDt stream of char
ity to the helpless and deserving.
AFFA RS IN GEORGIA.
A gentleman from Emanuel county
informs us that a Mrs. Mnacha Davis,
tied in that county recently, ai the
age of U 7 years, 2 onths an : 14 ’ays.
She has been in Georgia ever since
1800. She leaves a son and daughter
'ged respectively<6o and 70.
Mr. Walter H. Johnson has been ap
iointed and confirmed Postmaster of
Jolumbus. He is a son of Judge Jas.
!Johnson.
There is a man in North Georgia
who positively declines being a candi
date for Congress. Who won! 1 have
thought it ?
Judge Johnson held Court in Co
lumbus last week and nine negroes
were sentenced to the Penitentiary.
The Atlanta Constitution appears in
anew dress and is a real live newspa
per. i
Col. Tom Hardeman is in favor of a
short campaign this year. Col. Tom
is right.
Crops of Southwestern Georgia are
very good.
The Thomaeville Ea’r was a grand
success. How could Thornasville get
up anything that wasn’t a success.
The Hinesville Gazette comes to us
enlarged and much improved in ap
pearance. We wish it success.
Liberty county will make a better
oat crop this than for some years
past.
The crops of Bullock county are ex
cellent.
The badish boys have made anoth
er raid ou signs, gates, &c\ Boys will
be boys.
We have received from the proprie
tors of the Atlanta Constitution, an in
vitation to attend a banquet given by
them in Atlanta ou Monday night.
They also propose giving an excursion,
to Lookout Mountain. It is gotten up
especially for the Georgia press.
Money is so sr.aice in Sandersville
that some of the small boys are swal
lowing their nickles to keep from
losing them.
Atlanta has been made a put of
entry.
Colonel John D. Stewart seems to
bo the most prominent candidate for
Congress in the Griffin District.
Two ladies were run over by a calf
the other day, while kissing each oth
er on the streets of St. Marys. This
is another strong evidence against la
dies kissing nek other.
Havvkinsville had a case of infanti
cide a few 7 days ago.
A Henry couniy man married just
five weeks after the death of his first
wife. Of course he was iu no hurry
to marry.
The City Council of Griffin is aiding
the Public Schools of thitt city.
Griffin is on the march of improve
ment. Sev- ral new cottages are be
ing elected, besides additions to older
residences. *
Wheat straw is used as forage in
Griffin.
It is gratifying to notice the many
good and true men who aro willing to
sacrifice themselves for the good oi
their country by going to Congress.
Georgia is entitled to nine Congress
men and we think there is not less
than live thousands aspirants for these
nine positions.
The Maconites are enjoying hot
weather.
The Cotton Exchange Convention
met in Augusta this week. About
one hundred delegates from some of
the principal cities were p'-^sent.
The Augusta Chronicle says that a
most fiendish outrage was perpetra
ted in the heart of Augusta a few
evenings since. About four o’clock
the portion of the city in the viciuitv
of the Augusta Hotel was startled by
loud cries of distress, which seem and to
come from a room in the second story
of that building. A large crowd soon
collected there, and rushing in the
direction whenc the cries came, they
found, up stairs, a little girl in an al
most distracted condition, from whom
they learned that she bad been enticed
into the hotel by a negro, who had
made a most brutal assault up n he •,
accompanied by the most fearful
threats. She immediately commenced
screaming, when he ran. A dense
crowd speedily collected about the
spot, but so quickly tia 1 t.ie nimble
scoundrel made his escape that no
one bad seen whither he went.
* CHAN3IN j THE MODE OF ELECTING PRES
IDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT
The Baltimore Sun’s Washington
correspondent under date of Fi iay
ni. lit, sends the fallowing:
The commit e on rivile
elections submitted to-day their elab
orate and interesting report on the
method of electing the President and
Vice-President of the United States,
in which they recommend election by
direct popular vote, the result to be
counted by congressional districts,
; each district counting one presiden
tial vote, and each State entire connt
| ing two presidential votes, at large to
be given to the person receiving the
I number of votes in the whole State.
It has been generally 7 admitted for
many years past that the present sys
tem abounds in serious defects, and
that iu closely 7 contested elections i'
offers many temptations to attempts
to defeat the will of the people. The
new method proposed by the commit
tee is thought an improvement in
some respects on the old plan, but i
also very far from being free from ob
jections. Among the e is fhe clause
giving Congress the power To district
the States. It is not expected that,
the report and recommen lations can
come up for discussion at this session.
As the next session will be the short
one, and the discussion on so impor
tant a subject is likely to expand over
a long period it is probable .that no
action will be reached, if then, before
the session immediately preceding
the next presidential election.
Ba?*Gen. Jas. M. Lead), Congress
man from the Fifth North Carolina
District, declines n renominution, be
cause, after twenty-five years of pub
lic service, he finds himself compara
tively poor, and now desires to make
some provision for his family. We
wonder how many Congressmen can
say they have made no money in
twenty-five years? If Congress had
a majority of just such men as Gen.
Leach, theu everthing would pros
per.
second Democratic Gover
nor of New England, was inaugurated
last week in the person of Governor
Weston, of New Hampshire. In Ins
message he discusses the subnet oi
temperance, and favors a licens • law
of form. He considers entire prohibi
tion impolitic, because it is not in
harmony with public sentiment, and
for lack of proper moral support could
not, or would not bo enforced.
JSSsT’Tue latest California papers
contain exasperating accounts of tht
arrival of strawberries iu San Francis
co—thirty tons a day—the very best
of which retail at four cents a pound.
There is no market of much account
outside of that city, and the San Fran
ciscans are fairly deluged with the de
delicious fruit. It bids fair to pro
duce sharp corner insugar an i cream.
£®“The famine crisis in India is
substantially past, rain having fallen
all over the destitute districts. The
expenditures by the government were
large and ample. The outlay thus
far is set down at $32,500 000. In
some of the districts the grain provis
ion is so large that it threatens to
leave a stock on hand that cannot be
worked off except by a lavish distribu
t on.
fii&rThe Kellogg government has
routed the St. Louis Hotel, in New
Orleans for a State House, at the rate
! of $38,000 a year.
£gg“The mercury reached 100 in the
shade in Riclimou I, Va , on Wednes
day. There was one fatal sun-stroke
on Tuesday and one case on Wednes
day that was not fatal.
®sg“A letter from Cleveland, Ohio,
says iu audition to the crusade, the
temperance league men, some weeks
ago, hired ten spies, mostly from out
of town, who went from saloon to
saloon drinking and spotting men'for
witnesses. These spies went before
the grand jury, and through their tes
timony abon* seven hundred indict
ments under the State law have Let n
found against saloon-keepers—each
defendant having from three to twelve
in iictmeuts. No! c n*et.fc wuh th e,
large numbers of suits fo damages
under the Adair law have betm insti
tuted, at ibe instigation of the tern- J
perance league—plaintiffs claiming I
from SSOO to $20,000 iu each case.
One law firm makes a specialty of
this else? of car =6.
AN HOUR OF TERROR.
IN THE OlilP OF A VISE BEFORE AN AP
PROACHNO RAILWAY TRAIN.
Ti ere arrived in the city Friday
■ Ota::! g over iln Grand Trunk R it
.i- a mail named Patrick McArthur,’
who mel with a thrilling adventure
about six mile east of the junction
Thursday night. He is a laboring
man, and having no money, and fail
ing to get, a chance to work his pas
sage down from Port Huron on a
boat, he started to walk on the rail
road track and had nearly completed
his journey when the adventure betel
him. He laid by during the heat of
the day Wednesday, and was walking
in the evening to make it up. While
crossing tbe tracks where a switch
b ads down alongside the main track
he got his foot caught fast in a “frog,”
and Ins efforts to extricate it were of
no avail. H‘- had ou a stout boot,
nd u fitted so closely over the instep
that he could not draw his foot out.
In fact the boot w r as wedged in the
“frog” so closely that the mau’s toes
were severe.y pinched. He pulled
this way and that, wrenched and
twisted, but the “Jrog” held the foot
like a vise.
At length he could hardly move his
leg for the pain, and he found that he
must either be run over by the Text
passing train or make someone un
derstand his situa ion. He shouted
himself hoarse, hut no one can e. The
nearest house was a half mile away,
and if the tanner heard the wild calls
for help he gave them no attention.
After the man had been a prisoner
for upward of an hour, he heard the
whistle of a dowu freight train. It
was yet a long way off, and he had a
long timo to think. He laid a mat . b
box iu his pocket, papers in his bun
dle, and the idea came to turn to sig
nal the train. Tearing tiie paper off
his bundle and .getting at a number
of letters, he rolled them into a heap,
an 1 for fear that the flame would die
out too suddenly he added two flan
nel shirts from the bundle. The bun
dle was then made fast ti the end of
his walking stick, matches produced,
and he waited until the head ]i<H,t of
the locomotive should appear up the
track.
It finally greeted his vision, look
ing like a bright white star, as it glis
tened afar up the track. The rumble of
ihe train grew louder, the star grew
larger and brighter. He struck his
match. The flame hazed up brightly
but as he moved it toward the bundle
a little gust of wind blew it out.
Was there time yet? Up the track
he could hear the thunder of a hund
dred heavy wheels, and the great
li. hr of the locomotive glared at him
uko the fiery eye of some wild beast,
n other match, an instant of fear and
doubt, and theu the paper blazed up
and curled over and around the bun
dle and swayed right and left with
the night. He waved the signal of
lire back aud forth, and just when he
was n a ly ;o believe that death under
the wheels vv ,s certiiu he heard the
whistle tor brakes.
He eoul I heir the wheels grinding
and groaning, the hiss of steam as
ihe engineer threw back Lis lever,
and then the Heavy Irain came to a
stop wnh the great light sh.mung
own upon him, paling Lis dying sig
nal. Ho was saved, but the engine
had only thirty feet more to go
to crush him. The fireman came for
ward, got a crowbar and released
turn, aud he was taken back to the
cabuse. The train men were very
kind, and yesterday he found acquain
tances here who arranged for ins
board until ue will lie able to work.
His toot is badly swelled aud very
tender, and it wid be several days be
fare he will be able to walk. —Detroit
Free Press, May 30th.
Newspaper Advertising—Newspa
per advertising is now recognized by
business men, having faith in their
own wares, as the most effective
means for securing for their goods a
wide recognit ion of their merits.
Newspaper advertising impels in
quiry, arid when the art ole offered is
oi good quality and at a fair price,
the rnitnru! result is increased sales.
Newspaper a rvertising is a perma
nent addition to tlie reputation of the
goods advertised, because it is a per
manent influence always at work in
their in their interest.
Newspaper advertising is the most
energetic and vigilant of salesmen;
addressing thousands each day, al
ways in the advertiser’s interest, and
ceaselessly at woik seeking customers
from all classes.
Newspaper advertising promotes
trade, tor even in the dullest times
advertisers secure by far the largest
share of what is being done.
JKSfA dispatch from Ba timore of
Juue 10th says, the graves of the Con
federate dead at Loudon Park ceme
tery 7 were decorated this afternoon
with appropriate ceremonies. Gen
eral Bradley T. Johnson, of Rich
mond, delivered the audress. Tiie
commit'ee appointed by the Society
of the Army and Navy of the Confed
erate States placed a handsome cross
and Bouquet bearing the inscription,
“A tribute to the Union dead from
Confederate soldiers,” upon the can
non guarding the lot in which the
Federal dead are interred.
A FIGHT WITH A BURGLAR.
A MIDNIGHT BTEUGGLE IN A PENNSYLVANIA
FARM HOUSE.
Milton, Pa., June 3 — Farmer Sam
uel Bond lives with his family eight
miles from here. On Saturday night
last he awoke in the middle of tile
night and saw a burglar in his room.
He jumped from bed and grasped him
by the throat and whiskers. The
w hiskers, a long pair, were false, and
came off in the farmer’s hand. The
burglar struck Mr. Bond in tbe face,
but he did not release his hold. His
wife responded to his call for help.
The burglar unable to release himself,
started for the head of the stairs,
dragging the farmer with him. Mrs.
Bond seized the burglar by one leg.
Ho knocked her down. She jumped
up and seized him again, while her
husban 1 showered blows on his face.
Reaching the head of the stairs, both
the farmer and the burglar rolled
to the bottom. The noise made by
the struggling men aroused a son of
Mr. Bond’s, who joined his father and
mother in their attack upon the burg
lar. At tins juncture the burglar drew
a pistol, and would have shot the far
mer dead had not Mrs. Bond, seeing
the movement, pushed the pistol to
one siue. The ball took effect in the
groin of her son.
THE BURGLAR FIRED AGAIN,
hitting Mr. Bond in the right arm,
near the elbow. The farmer’s wife
seized hold of the pistol, while her
son ran out and got a club. The wea
pon was discharged twice while Mrs.
Bond held the barrel, but doing no
damage. Young Bond returned with
a club, and broke the burglar’s right
arm with a blow. The pistol dropped
to the floor. Mrs. Bond picked it up
with the intention of shooting the
burglar, but before she could use it
her s >n had knocked him senseless to
the floor with two heavy blows on the
head.
All of the Bonds were badly iujuied.
The farmer was terribly btalen about
the head and face. The pistol ball had
made un ugly flesh wound in his arm.
and his body was bruised by the fall
down stairs. Mrs. Bond had a long,
deep cut over her left eye, where ike
burglar had struck her. Her son’s
were confined to the pistol shot iu
the groin. The bull entered near the
hip joint, and was imbedded in the
flesh. They were all covered with
blood, as w< re the walls anil floor in
the hall.
A MIDNIGHT RIDE FOR HELP.
Mrs Bond attended temporarily to
the wants of her husband and son.
She then bound the senseless burglar
so he conl l not escape if he came to.
Mounting a horse, she started as fast
as it could carry her for this place.
Arriving here she aroused Dr. Billogs
and Constable Watts, and started
them both for her house. In au hour
and a quarter after leaving home she
arrived buck there, aud was soon fol
lowed by the doctor and constable.
Mr. Bond and ins son wire found to
be suffering severely from then
wounds, but their injuries were pro
nounced not dangerous. The ball
was extracted from young Bond’s
wound with little difficulty.
The burglar was found dangerously
wounded. The fall down the Stairs
had broken tnree of his ribs. The
blows iroiu tne club, besides breaking
his right arm, had fractured his skull
in two pieces. He was also badly
cut and bruised. The ropes with
which Mrs. Bond had tied him were
r< moved, and he was placed on a bed.
He suffered intensely. Dr. Billogs
gave him every care, and in au hour
or two he felt easier, and gave au ac
count of himself.
THE BTJRGLAK 8 STORY.
He was one of a gang of three profes
sional burglars troai Philadelphia.
His name is George Myers. His com
rades were Jack Schell and Wilson
Fry. They traveled through the
country disguised as umbrel.a men
ders and peddlars. Their plan of op
eration was to enter a town and
“work” it thoroughly, They always
got information of where good hauls
could be made. Iu Milton they
learned that farmer Bond Lad received
a day or two before the attempted
burglary a large sum of money, the
proceeds of a sale of cattle. They
determined to make an effort to ob
tain it. From various parties they
had received a good idea of the in
terior of the house, the habits of the
inmates, etc. Fry unlocked the front
door with a false key. Myers was to
search the upper part of the house,
while his companions were to take the
lower part. When the noise up stairs
warned the latter that Myers was dis
covered they fled, leaving him in the
lurch. Myers said it was his inten
tion to kill all three of the Bonds at
the foot of the stairs, and he would
have done so but for the young man
knocking him down with the club.
On Myers 5 person was found a pock
et-book belonging to Mr. Bond, con
taining SSOO. This had been taken
from bis pantaloons before the bur
glar w s discovered.
THE PRISONER RESCUED.
Dr. Billogs deciding that it would be
fatal to Myers to take him to jail, the
constable concluded to leave a man
to guard and attend to him until he
could be removed. A man named
Fitch was given charge of the wound
ed On Monday night he
from a nap by a knock
iat the door. He opened the door. A
man standing near said to Fitch that
the constable Wanted to see him out
Iby the wagon. A wagon stood a few
f 'et from the door. Fitch stepped
out, and when he reached the vehicle
he was knocked down by someone
standing by the front wheel. When
he came to consciousness the waon
was gone. He was gagged and lyino
on the ground. Dragging himself
into the house he was astonished to
see that the wounded burglar and a
portion of the bed were gtfne. It was
very plain that the companions of
Myers were informed in some wav of
his condition, and had planuid his
rescue in the manner stated. Fitch
made haste to inform the constable at
this place of the escape oftlie prison
er About daylight yesterday morn
ing several persons started in'pursuit
but had not at last accounts found
any trace of the flying burglars.
The Baggage Smasher’s Dream.— A
certain baggage smasher on he Wil
mington and Baltimore railroa 1 had
a fearful attack of night-mare the oili
er evening. He dreamed that some
man came along to his car with a
splendid new trunk that had never
been touched. And the dreamer got
hold of that trunk and soused it down
upon the floor three or four times,
and jumped ou it, and backed it up
with an ax, and spilt coal oil on it,
and smeared it with chalk marks!
And then he dreamed that he pitched
it out of the car, and was about to ex
plode a keg of gunpower under it,
when the engine of the down traiu
struck him, and he awoke. He found
his wife standing over him with a
chair, and rapping him on the bead
with earnestness. In his sleep he
had hold of the baby’s crib, and had
been waltzing around the room with
it, ramming it up against the wall,
and pounding it with the pitcher, and
trying to heave it out of the window,
while the infant yelled like a brigade
of Sosbmore Indians. It was the con
cussion of the chair in the hands of
the indignant mother that made him
dream about the locomotive striking
him.
l@“We believe it is rare that edi
tors indulge in a drop, but when they
do their readers tire sure to find them
out. A Noithern contemporary was
called upon to record a “melancholy
event” at a time when his head was
rather heavy and did it up in the fol
lowing manner:
“Yesterday morning, at 4 o’clock p.
m., a man with a heel in the hole < f
his stocking, committed arsenic by
swallowing a dose of suicide. Th'
inquest of a verdict returned a jury
that the decayed came to tin* facts in
aceordiance with Isis death. He leii
a child and six small wives to Jan ent
the end of his untimely loss In
death we are in the midst, of life 1”
fraT- No less than four thousand
sixty-two immigrants arrived at New
York in one day, recently, the major
ity of whom were Irish and German.
B®*“ls the old man any better?”
asked a bootblack of a newsbody at
Detroit the other day. “Better?”
echoed Jim; “I should say he was!
You ought, to have seem him slinging
stove wood at mother this morning.”
man whose Lair turned
white in a single night is surpassed
by the Texas girl who lost hers com
pletely in one dance.
JWaF*“Don’t, write any poetry about
me, and don't fool around about a
monument,” were the dying words of
of a Delaware man.
WILLIAM E. HOYT ;
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
DARIEN, GA.
April 25—tf.
HAWES & TYLER,
DEALERS IN
Dry Goods, Grocerieu Provis
ions, &c., &c
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
May 2—lm.
MACON & BRUNSWICK
RAIL JIOAD.
Change of Schedule.
SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE, M. & B. R. R., I
Macon. Ga„ April 25, 1874. (
ON and after Monday, April 27, 1874, trains on this
road will run as follows :
DOWN DAT PASSENGER TRAIN (SUNDAYS EXCEPTED.)
Leave Macon ... - 8:30 A a
Arrive at Jesenp - 6:45 p m
Leave Jessup .... 8.00 p M
Arrive at Brunswick - - - 10.30 pa t
UP DAT PASSENGER TRAIN (SUNDAYS EXCEPTED.)
Leaee Brunswick ... 215 m a
Arrive at Jesnp - - 4.45 am
Leave Jesnp - - - 616 a m
Arrive at Macon ... 6.00 p m
BAWEINSVU.de ACCOMODATION (SUNDAYS EXCEPTED)
Leave Macon - - 3 30pm
Arrive at Bawkinsville ... 7.00 p M
Leave Hawkinsvilje ... 7.16 am
Arrive at Macon - - 11.30 am
The down day passenger and express train makes
close connection with trains of Atlantic and Gnlf
railroad at Jesnp for Florida, and up day train con
nect* at Jesap for Savannah, and at Macon for points
North, Eafct and Waet
JAS. W. ROBERTSON,
f Geaaral £ sport n tenant!
