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PARIKK TIM BERG. I \ZETTE, RICH’I>. W. Gill Hit, - Editor. ANN UAL SUBSCRIPTION, - - $2.50. DARIEN, GA., DECEMBER Ift, IH7l>, EDITORIAL RREVnms. Congress adjourns to-day to moot on the fitb of January, 1880. Grant's weight is now 179 pounds, or q lite enough to control a boom. Ex-Reantor Ramsey, of Minnesota, has Been confirmed Secretary of War. Congressmen Cook and Blount, of this State, are said to be for Randall. A colored man in Raleigh, N. C., pawn ed a Bible at a liquor shop for spirits. Randall is in favor of Tilden because he is the only man that can win, ami ho is sure he can. A large number of North Carolina ne groes have passed through Petersburg en route to Indiana. Captain Wm. L. Courtney, the Demo cratic candidate, waa elected mayor of Charlostown, 8. C. The person who fraudulently slole Mr. Hayes’s message made fifteen hundred dol lars by the operation. A negro man in a Settsboro (Ala.) drug store bit a ten-penny nail in two for a nickel and some candy. Gorman carp is being extensively dis tributed in South Carolina by the Fish Commissioner of the State. Mr. Wells, of Missouri, has introduced a bill in Congress to do away with printing the Congressional Directory. The Little Rock Democrat says that at no time since the war have the negroes of Arkansas had so much money as at present.. The leading Democratic citizens of Rich mond county, Virginia, have petioned Judge Jones to include negroes in hisjury list*. Senator Bock remarks that the length of the session will depend on whether Jim Blaine shakes the bloody shirt in the face of Ben Hill. Colonel Fred Grant has written to John F. Henry, New York, that his father will nnab'e 0 visit New York and Brooklyn this winter. Independentism in Virginia means turning crippled Confederate soldiers out of office and putting Republican negroes In their places. The Detroit Free Press thinks that it would not be a bad idea to have an Amer ican Minister at Washington to represent the United States. The third term managers have arranged to have the Grant reception in Now York postponed till the eve of the Radical nomi nating convention. General Joseph E. Johnston has been appointed chairman of the sub-committee cf the house committee on military affairs, to consider the subjoct of the reorganiza tion of the army. Susan B. Anthony says: “Women want the oomforUi of life.” “And yet give a woman her cho:oe between a ton of coal and a pair of French heeled shoos, and we ll bet she’ll take the shoes.” Lightning at this season of the year in a latitude as high as New York is of rare oc currence. A Mrs. Jonos was struck by the cleotrio fluid on Saturday evening last in Jersey City and partially paralyzed. The Cincinnati Commercial thinks that "Mr. William E. Chandler and Mr. Roscee Cockling would be vviiiiug to have har mony if the concession that the republi can party belongs to them could bo made.” Col. Roberts, editor of the New Orleans Times, says either Bayard or Hancock can carry Louisiana by 25,000 majority. He says there is no Tilden sentiment in the South. He can’t prove the latter asser tion. An English woman,now in this country, ban ordered from a New York jeweler a bangle bracelet which is to cost the com fortable sum of $40,000. It is made like the bangles of the harem, of beaten gold, and is set with every known jewel. De Soto (Miss.) Times: When our dark ies go to Kansas, and other Northern States breadstuff's will be cheap, cotton go up to twenty cents per pound, stock raising will be a paving business in this section, and treating negroes for their votes w ill then be played out. Dalltw (.Tex.) Herald: The tide of color od emigrants that is rolling into Kansas at preoent from this State is very large. They are going by the huhdreds to a land where a great many must die of hunger and cold this winter. Nearly every train that goes north carries a lot of them. So far they have been coming from the south ern counties, but the movement is spread ing, and is beginning to be felt in this section of the State. CoL A. K. McClure; editor of the Phila delphia Times, writes to his paper from Washington: “There is a chill on the Grant movement all through administra tion circles, and the stalwart leaders, who now embrace nearly all the prominent re publicans, are intent on a systematic effort to defeat the third-term innovation. Sec retary Sherman is the favorite candidate of the President and most of the cabinet for the succession.’ The different State delegations are dis cussing among themselves the matter ol the appointment of supervisors of the een as it is understood that their recom mendations will have influenc with the superintendent of the census, to whom the President has remitted the appointing power. The Yiiginla delegation has al ready had a final understanding as to the ft >meß they will recommend. The other tsmte delegations will tube bimilar action i time. They have a returning board in Maine as well ns in Louisiana, Florida and South Carolina, and it is a poor rule that will not work both ways. The Republican majority in both branches has been count ed out and the Republican members counted down from 90 to 58. The Demo crats are oounted up from 61 to 78. It is claimed that this has been done on tech nicalities and informalities in the returns. The Senate under the count will have a Democratic majority of 9. The Governor and Council count three Senators from Cumberland, one each from York, Lincoln and Washington, and two from Androscog gin. The Democrats will have a majority large enough in the House to give them a quorum, if none of the Republicans take their seats. They have thrown out the Republican representation from Portland, Bath, Saco, Rockland, Lewiston and other tow ns, enough to make vacancies in four teen Representative districts. The Atlanta Constitution says the ft;- sionists have again carried Maine. They will have a fine working majority in both branches of the legislature, insuring the re-election of Governor Garcelon or the election of the greonbacker, Mr. Smith— probably the latter. It is understood that one of the earliest undertakings of the new legislature will boa thorough in vestigation of the methods by which Jim Blaine & Cos. have carried the state during late years. The result of an investigation may leave the State in democratic hands for a long time to come. The fusionists now control the entire state, and will take steps to capture the successor of the ven erable Hamlin. We congratulate Maine upon the good effects of a strict applica tion of the law to the returns for members of the legislature. The main feature of the bill introduced in the House of IteprasWitatives by Repre sentative Herbert, of Alabama, to amend the censtis act is a provision requiring each census numerator to cause to be made out and posted in a conspicuous place a complete list of the inhabitants enumera ted by him, distinguising the colored from the white persons. This paper will not suspend publication next week because it is Christmas, altho’ we intend to “take in the day.” The New York Herald and the Darien Gazette are two journals that nevor suspend on the Fourth of July and Christmas. A real hot fire is the only thing that will suspend the Gazette, and then it wont stay suspend ed long. Another hill to regulate the counting of the votes for President and Vice President and the decision of questions arising there on, will be considered in Congress in a few days. Let the people of the United States vote directly for President and thus do away with your frauds in counting in States against the wishes of the people. When the appointment of Census Su pervisors are made there will be about two hundred and fifty disappointed applicants in Georgia. This State will only have five supervisors although there are over two hundred and fifty applicants for the po sitions. The appointments will be made when Congress convenes in January. Cyrus H. McCormick, of Chicago, a rich Western L> mocrat of Tilden sympathies, says in an interview that Tilden is “in the hands of his friends,” —but shows a readi ness to withdraw in favor of some other hard-money man which he has never be fore manifested. McCormick suggests Bayard as the coming man. Governor Thomas A. Hendricks, of In diana, positively refuses to take the sec ond place on the Democr tie presidential ticket next year. This is really too bad in Mr. Hendricks, and if he is determined in this matter, why we don’t see any other way than to take the place ourselves. We are sorry tor Hendricks. Ex-President Grant met with a grand welcome on his arrival in Louisville, Ken tucky, the other day. We hope General Grant will conclude to visit other Southern cities before the winter is over. We are satisfied that the General would meet with a hearty welcome throughout the South. There seems to he great and growing opposition to Senator Bayard, of Delaware, and it seems that the great objection to him is his honesty of purpose. We like Bayard but we don’t think lie will ever be elected President unless there is a radical change for the better in this country. Hon. Alexander H. Stephens was asked the other day what he thought of the situ ation when he replied as follows: “Oh that is all agog.” Well really we think it will be all egg-nogg before this time next week if eggs will not go up too high. The Maine Standard, the Democratic or gan of the State government, annouces that the Governor and Council will reject returns from several counties, in which fif teen Republican representatives were elect ed, on account of alleged defects. Dr. Felton has put his politics aside for the present and has gone to work in dead earnest trying to procure appropriations for the Georgia rivers. Felton makes a goad Congressman and there is no getting around it. Congress has been in session just nine teen days and still William Pitt Kellogg fraudulently holds the seat in the Senate from Lor.isip.na, Ben Hill has ebarge of Kellogg. The many friends of Rev. H. E. Harman will be glad to learn that he has been r - ! t urned to Darien for another year. It is reported in Washington that Mr. Tilden is preparing a paper for publica tion in which he will withdraw from the candidacy for the Presidency in 1880 in fa vor of Speaker Ran lall. The latter in an interview, is reported as saying: “I have always been a faithful and earnest friend of Mr. Tilden. The recent defeat in New York has not ehang-ed my fidelity toward the man, nor has it changed the enormity of the great wrong done to the Democratic party and to Mr. Tilden in the induction of Mr. It. B. Ilayos into tho oflfico of Presi dent. I yet hope tho American Democra cy will, in their own way and justly, recti fy the wrong done to both party and man. I believe Mr. Tilden, whether nominated or not, will give a cordial support to who ever is selected as the Democratic nomi nee for the Presidency. Mr. Tilden or j ganized the Democratic party’in the State of New York in 1875, and has ever since maintained its ascendancy until the divis ions this year brought defeat. We want and must have thorough union in that j State, and I believe such will bp accom | plished between now and the meeting of the National Convention, with hanaony. j There is hardly a human doubt but our I next President will be a Democrat. I hope there will be no currency legislation at the present session of Congress. Let well enough alone, and let the present prosperity' have its full, natural and unre strained course.” Congressman Money, of Mississippi, be ing interviewed in Washington the other day, gave expression to these emphatic opinions: “Tilden is unquestionably tho man in the Democratic party. Ho has more pluck and grit, more courage and I power, than any other leader the party has. This was shown in the way lie.dealt with the men who opposed him in his own party. He is the strongest man the party has, and he ought to be renominated. Tilden Ims, in fact, been treated shameful ly. Men talked as if he ought to have come down here after he was elected and pried open tho White House with a lever and taken his seat there. Well, what good would he have done ? What could he have done afterward? Ask these men, and none of them could tell you. I know that Tilden tried to hold back the electoral commission bill as long as he could, for I saw the telegram to Hewitt, but, after the bill was reported, he said we must all go for it; there was nothing else to be done.” Prince Napoleon called upon the cx-Em pross Eugenie while she was in Paris, and was kindly received. The conversation turned solely on the painful bereavment of the Empress. Tho Prince had not time to bring his sons with him, and expressed his regrets. The Empress replied: “If I return through France I shall seo your sons with pleasure.” The interview was marked by extreme cordiality, but the Em press, after the departure of the Prince, was greatly affected by the recollections revived, and was in prayer before a por trait of her son when the Princess Mathi lide arrived. The Princess respected the grief of her oousin and withdrew without seeing her. Who will succeed Mr. Bruce in the Uni ted States senate from Mississippi is just now an all-absorbing question among the politicians of that state and one difficult of solution. The joint legislative oaucus or nomination will consist of about one hundred and twenty-five democratic mem bers. Of these we are advised that none of the more prominent candidates will be able to command anything near a majority. Mr. Lamar favors General Walthall, but Barksdale, Singleton and Chalmers are competitors of great strength, and the most dangerous competitors of all is that mysterious personality known as the dark horse. Mr. P. B. S. Pinchback, colored, of Louisiana, has written a letter in which he declares that ever since he “was ruthless ly slaughtered and sold out” in the house of his political friends in his senatorial contest—“an act without a parallel in po litical history”—his political aspirations have been very limited. lie says he op posed the nomination of a Republican State ticket in Louisiana at the late elec tion, and foretold the results which have followed. The Postoffiee Department has decided that the acceptance by a postmaster whose salary is less than SI,OOO per annum, of the office of supervisor of the census will not vacate his post-office except in cases where, for some special reason, the super vision of the census will interfere with the attention of the postmaster to his du ties at his postoffiee. The Atlanta Constitution says General Grant doesn’t know whether he will come to Atlanta or not. Well, he must hurry up and let us know,because if he is coming we are going to chain up Andy Stewart’s cast-iron dog, and have Broad street bridges painted red. We are determined that the whole affair shall pass off' pleas antly. Mrs. Hendricks, it said, believes she shall yet live in the white house. Mrs. Lincoln had a similar premonition, and used to say of her husband: “He’s going to be president, or I shouldn’t have married him, for he isn’t pretty, you know.” The Atlanta Constitution says, "we have forgotten whether Chastine Cos was hung, or whether he was elected to some office by the New York republicans. It is diffi cult to remember all the news.” Senator Hill emphatically denies the correctness of a recent dispatch sent from Washington the Savannah News, and pur porting to give his criticism of Geneal ! Gordon's policy of silence. Georgia Affairs. John E. Bryant is going to reorganize the Radical party. The Thomasville Times advises the hold ing of colored fairs. Ben. Russell is for Samtiel J. Tilden first, last and all the time. Depoty United States MaMhal, John W. Andsrson, has resigned. Hon. Alexander 11. Stephens thinks that Tilden will bo found on top when the time comes. Mr. W. M. Brantly shot and instantly killed Mr. L D. Paulk, near Alapaha, the other day. General Grant will visit Atlanta shortly and while there will be the guest of “Un cle Remus.” Hon. W. O. Tuggle wants to live and die in LaGrange. Well, we shall offer no objection. Waterman says “it has been fully a week since the last time Bob Toernbs murdered the Union.” Hon. Francis Fontaine, the Commis sioner on Immigration, has gone to w rk in earnest. Kate Southron is the only white woman now in the penitentiary, md she ought to be released. Sweet William Arp thinks some fellow will be elected President. Of course; who said he wouldn't ? It is said that Col. E. W. Cole, the great railroad king, has his eye on the Macon & Brunswick railroad. John W. Drew, is in Savannah and he will start the temperance boom to-night. We wish him success. The LaGrange Reporter says: “Uncle Remus is the Clement attachment of the Atlanta Constitution.” It is thought that Hon. John S. Bigby will get Hon. H. P. Farrow’s place as U. S. District Attorney for Georgia. AVliy don’t the Independents and Re publicans run Judge Lochrane for Gover nor? He would make a good race. The rumor that “Uncle Remus,” of the Atlanta Constitution,had joined the “blue ribbon” brigade, needs confirming. The Brunswick & Albany Railroad is building a number of good, substantial depots at each station along the line. Hon. Emory Speer, the brilliant young Congressman from the ninth district, is against brass bands playing on Sunday. We get this item from the Griffin News: “Three divorce suits have grown out of the Sam Hill trial for the killing of John Simmons.” A noted desporado in Scriven county ' named Bill Verdery, was killed the other day by a crowd of colored men whom he had attacked. The Echo says that excitement in the gold region is at fever heat, and remarks that the future of Oglethorpe county is as good as made. The prisoners in the Walton oounty jail, seven in number —six white and one colored—effected their escape on Wednes day night last. The liquor dealers of Atlanta don’t like Drew, the temperance advocate, worth a cent. They have been losing some of their best customers of late. Rev. W. P. Pledger, a Methodist preach er, committed suicide in Atlanta, on Sat urday last. At one time Mr. Pledger preached in Darien. Harry Gilbert, the wheel-of-fortnne man, was fined S6OO in Fulton Superior Court, the other day, for running his ma chine. Harry paid up. Col. James 11. Randall has arrived in Washington from New Orleans and is now sending the Augusta Chronicle some spicy letters from the Capitol. The Atlanta Constitution says that the Georgia mule is a reformer. It says that a colored man can’t take care of a mule and dabble in politics at the same time. Hon. James F. Nelson, one of the best men living, was elected Mayor of Bruns wick, on Saturday last. This is the third time he has been elected to the Mayorship of that city. Friend Waterman says “it is not yet known what party Lochrane belongs to this week.” Oh ! yes, John; he belongs to the same old party —the Lochrane par ty, we mean. The Dispatch anticipates that Hawkins ville will receive twenty thousand bales of cotton this season, and calculates that the present rise in the staple will put at lest eighty thousand dollars in the pockets of the people. Sam Small writes to the Atlanta Consti tution as follows from Washington: “Eu gene Speer has fallen quickly into all the details of his position in the house of rep resentatives, and promises to become one of the most efficient of the corps of clerks.” We are betting on 'Gene, who by the way is one of the best boys living. Wo endorse the following from the At lanta Sunday Phonograph: “And now the irrepressible J. E. Bryant, comes to the surface in Georgia. We thougnt the State was rid of him. Ho has brought more dis repute upon the Republican party in Georgia, than all the others combined. Such men as him made Republicanism odious to the people of the State.” Billy Christopher,of the Atlanta Sunday Phonograph, gets off a good thing once in a while. Here is his latest: “We like the Sparta Ishmaelite, but the Chronicles of Uriah Sanballant Grant as sketched by that paper, are just too stale for anything. Moses, Job, Aaron and some other of the old time roosters might enjoy suoh litera ture, but people of the present day want l something fresh.” Hew Advertisements. Notice. jq-EITHLH THE CAPTAIN 5011 CONSIGNEE of tho Ger. bark LOHENGRIN, Captain Dale*, will be responsible for any debt contracted by tie crow of raid vessel. D. M. AfCNBO. Darien, Oa., December 18, 16T9. Notice. xteitheb tbh CAPTAIN NOB AGUfcrrS OP iN * BritiiU Bar* BKRLIS, o*pUln Zoom, will b© r*fipon;blfl f or amy <M>ta by the cr©w of said roasei. D. M. MU NIK). Darion, Georgia, Deo. 10, 1879. , Notice. EITHER THE CAPTAIN NOR CONSIGNEE OF the Hwediah bark INFATIGABLfi.Capt. Baehatone, will b© roaponsiblo for any debts contracted by the crew of said vessel. L. HILTON GREEN.y Darien, Ga., December, 13, 1879. Notice. THE CAPTIAN NOR CONSIGNEE OF the Swudish hark IRIS, Capt. Gronvall, will be re sponsible for any debts contracted by the crew of said vessel. JAMES HUNTER. Darien, Ga., December 16, 1879, Notice. EITHER THE CAPTAIN NOR CONSIGNEE OP the Br. bark NELSON, Cajit. Claister, wiU be re sponsible for any debts contracted by the crew of said vessel. MUNRO. Darien, Ga., December 15, 1879. Notice. THE CAPTAIN NOR CONSIGNEES of the Norwegian bark KATHLEEN, Captain Hoy en, will be responsible for any debt contracead by tho crew of said vessel. JAS. K. CLARKE A Darien Ga. November 28, 1879. Notice. THE CAPTAIN NOR CONSIGNEES of the Swed. Bark KONG EYSTIEN, Capt. Schylup drup, will bo responsible for any debts contract ed by the crew of said vessel. JAS. K. CLARKE & CO. Darien, Georgia, December 8. 1879. N o lice. THE CAPTAIN NOR CONSIGNEE of the Swedish bark BELLA GADTTANA. Capt. Brobeck, will be responsible lor any debts con tracted by th'e crew of said vessel. L. HILTON GREEN. Darien, Ga., December 8, 1879. Notice. THE CAPTAIN NOR CONSIGNEE of the German bark WILHELM Ist, Caption. Peter son, will be responsible lor any debts contracted by the crew of said vessel. JAMES HUNTER. Darien, November 10th, 1879. Wanted. y SITUATION AS TEACHER BY AN EXPERl eneed graduate. Some of the best references in the State given. Address, TEACHER, Munerlyn, Ga.. C. R - R. Notice. THE CAPTAIN NOR CONSIGNEE of the British bark ARETHUSA Captain Rob son, will be responsible tor any debts con tracted by the crew of said vessel. I). M. MUNRO. Darien, Ga,, December sth, 1879. Notice. THE CAPTAIN NOB CONSIGNEES of the British bark LOUISA, Captain Morgan, will be responsible for any debts contracted by the crew of said vessel. HILTON TIMBER & LUMBER CO. Darien, December sth, 1879. Notice. THE CAPTAIN NOR OWNERS OE the British bark FISHER, Captain Temple, will be responsible for any deb ts contracted by the crew of said vessel. (AMES K. CLARKE & CO., Ag’ts. Darien, Ga , December 1, 1879. Notice. THE CAPTAIN, NOR CONSIGNEES of the British brig JOHN ABBOTT,Capt. Crane,wiU be responsible for any debts contracted by the crew of said vessel. JAS. K. CLARKE & CO. Darien, Ga., December Bth, 1879. EMIL A. SCHWAB!. NICHOLAS SCHWAB! Emil A. Schwarz & Bro., DEALERS IN CARPETS & FURNITURE, 125 &L 127 Broughton,St. SAVANNAH, GA., Carpets, Oil Cloths, Matting, Crum C'lothS, Hugs, Vfjats. FURNITURE, In Variety and Style. Curtains, Cornices, WINDOW SHADES. UPHOLSTERY SHADES. AND TRIMMINGS. Wall Paper & Decorations CHURCHES, OFFICES AXD FUBLIC BUILDIXGS FURXISIIED. EMIL A. SCAWARZ A BRO., Oct3-tf. MAvannHb. *' **Th Bent Agricultural Journal PwtißefceA'lß the South.” THE SOUTHERN jam urn. 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Hats & Caps* Clothing for Men, Boys k Children, Ladies Cloaks, Hardware and Table wed Pocket Cutlery, Patent Mediates, Toilet articles of all ktads, Fruit k Confectionary, Gents Furnisniug Goods, never such a selection in Darien be fore, Stationery, Saddlery, Garden Seed, Farming implements, Wheettrttrrows, Ploughs, Hoes, Spades, Corn Mills, Shovels, kc., kc., Crockery and Glassware. Canned goods of all kkidp, Cigars, Tobacco. mm FURNI&3NS.JGQDS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. Teas of all Kinds. COFFEE, SUGARS, In fact everything uanaUy k#pt ia a first eUfIN Country Store. And last bnt not toast, a 5 Gent Goueter, Whichis the Wonder of THE TOWN. Tbanking who have favored me with their patronage in the pa*>h and asking them for a continuance of the aame.ani inviting all thoss who j wish to recsive just weight and fall measnrs at reasonably prices,bo coffle •nd purch&ae frotn n- I Heart Respectfully, <M§r&