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j|ariensimkt 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!