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DARIKN TIMBER GAZETTE | *i icii'i*. v<. hr. - ;: ANNUAL S( BSOillPriON DARIEN, UA., Ji NE 25, r' 0. ij im I. nmr—i^i waspmwm gggi■ FOB OOVKUNOII OF GEOIiUIA; RUFUS K. LESTER, CHATHAM COUNTY. EDITORIAL BREVITIES. • There is great immortality among ne groes in Lexington, Ky. “Every man has his price," said Wal pole. Garfield’s was So,ooo. The census returns indicate that Brook lyn has a population of 550,000. A telephone is reported at Pittsburg that has not been out of order for two weeks. More mosquitoes to the cubic inch in Alabama than has been known there for 25 years. A Mission homo for the reformation of abandoned women has been dedicated in Memphis. “Of course, if they don’t want ns, wo won’t stay' here,” is the way Mrs. Hayes feels about it. It was only a question as to precedency in setting it forth, and the World takes the cake with “Arfield and Garthur.” The republican presidential ticket ha: a credit mobilier head and a dishonored custom-house tail. James A. Garfield was a good J>oy. When ho had an orange he never refused his little brother a suck. John Dougher, a ono logged man, went to Easton to buy an artificial leg, met nn old sweetheart and they were married. Gilbert says it was called “Pinafore” in order to rhyme with “tbreo cheers more,’ and that “Semaphore” was the first idea. A Paris, Ky., landlaly is eighty-five years old, has been blind fifteen years and yet conducts a hotel and is noted for her char ity to tho poor. ltev. William Roberson, who died re cently in Virginia, married when he was fifty years old and lived with his wife 75 years, dying at 125. The solid south, 138; New York, 35; Indiana, 15. Total, 188. Necessary to a choice, 185. But Now Jersey is suro be sides. Blaino receive 1 on tho first ballot four years ago 285 votes tor the president nom ination. This year ho received 284, ono less. Upwards of $400,900 was taken in at the Chicago hotels while the Radical menage rie was in that city. Some of this was lor drinks. Both Grant and Blaino nro for the presi dential raco in 1884. They evidently mean to fight it out on that line if it takes them severul summers. Philadelphia Chronicle says: Garfield has eight letters in his name, Hancock has but seven. Is this going to bo another eight to seven campaign? Moses Howe, ofDraent, Mass, is 92 years old. He has married 1,908 couples, and buried 2,530 persons. He p eached bis first sermon sixty years ugo. Hays Conkling: “The name of Grant will glitter like a star in the diadem of the Republic when those who have villified him have mouldered in tho dust.” Spurgeon is one of seventeen children, their mother one of twenty-two. Ho was converted a Methodist, and began to preach at sixteen years of age. An old man in Virginia jumped into the well to spite his wife for running in debt. She let him stand in 3 feet of ice cold water until he agreed to deed her the whole farm. Philadelphia Times says: “It is begin ning to bo suspected even by some of the organs that General Garfield is greatly in need of a certificate of character.” A Gentleman in Paris has brought ac tion against a cabman who was engaged to carry’ him to a burial at tlie cemetery, but who accompanied the wrong funeral procession. The czar is the only crowned widower and Victoria the only crowned widow a mong the European potentates. Alfonzo and Christine of Spain are tho youngest wedded couple: William Augusta of Ger many the eldest. Chester A. Authur is n big, broad-shoul dered, soft-handed man with a red pulpy j face and a pleasant soft manner. He is j the sort of man who always gets up late ! in the morning and from the dinner ta ble. The latest estimate of the dead and missing by the Sound disaster, as far ns can be given with the information at hand : is supposed to be: Lost, 33; missing, 17. : The number known to bo saved is 3GG. A prominent politician has informa tion that all members of workingmen’s unions throughout tho United States will vote against Garfield on account of his op position to the eight-hour law. Should such a concert of action take place, he will lose many thousand republican votes. The first National Convention of the present Republican party was held in Philadelphia, June 17, 1856, when John C. Fremont was nominaten for President on-' the first doallot; in 1860 at Chicago. Abraham Lincoln on the third ballot ; in 1864, at Baltimore, Abraham Lincoln on the first ballot : in 1868, Grant on the first ballot; in 1872, at Philadelphia, Grant on the first ballot; in 1876, at Cincinnati, lb B Hayes on the seventh ballot, an 1 in 1880, at Chicago, James A. Garfield, on the thirty-fcixth ballot. THE CINCINNATI DEMO CRATIC CONVENTION! THE NEXT PRESI DENT ANT) VICE PRESIDENT!!! HANOI )CK Unanimously Nomin ated !! WILLIAM H. ENGLISH FOR VICE-PRESIDENT. Tho Convention assembled on the 22ud of Juno and was called to order by ex-Scn ator Barnum, of Connecticut, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, at forty minutes past 12 p. m. Prayer was offered by tho Rev. Charles W. Wendt. Hon. George Hoadly, of Ohio, was made temporary chairman, and addressed tho Convention briefly’, but with force and judgment. The mention of tho namo of Samuel J. Tilden was rocoivod with cheers and great enthusiasm. Hon. F. O. Prince, of Massachusetts, was elected temporary Secretary’. Tho Hon. John M. Stevenson, of Kentucky, was elected President of the Convention. Gen. A. R. Lawton, was elected by tho Georgia delegation as their Chairman. The following Georgians were elected officers of the National Conven tion: Hon. J. It. Alexander, Vice-Presi ident; Hon. John D. Stowart, member of Committee on permanent organization; Gen. P. M. B. Young, chairman of com mittee on credentials; Hon. E. P. Howell, member of committee on resolutions, Hon. M. A. Harden,ono of tho Secretaries. The Convention then took one ballot, upon which Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock, of Pennsylvania, received 170 votes, Hon. Tlios. F. Bayard, of Delaware, 147; Hon, Homy B. Payne, of Ohio, 91; Hon. Allen G. Thurman, of Ohio, 08; Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks, of Indiana, 49; Hon. Samuel J. Tilden, of IJew York, 38; and the rest scattering. Tho Convention then ad journed to meet at 9 o’clock yesterday morning, and met at that hour. WINFIELD SCOTT HANCOCK I On the second ballot Hancock received 360 votes and before tho ballot waS closed he was nominated at hall past twelve o’clock, amidst tho grandest enthusiasm, and by a unanimous vote of the Conven tion. No bettor man could liave been se lected to bear the Democratic standard to victory. His Union and war record are unexceptionable. His reputation as a General in the Federal armies was second only to that of Grant and Sherman and would have been greater than that of any other Union officer, but that hewasalways kept back and hampered by the Republi can administration of the war period, be cause of his political principles. General Hancock has been a staunch and life-long | Democrat. As soon as tho war ended, he j sought in every possible way, to restore S peace and harmony to the distracted coun ! try and to subordinate the military to the civil power, and to the constitution and laws of the Union. As one, who fought so gallantly and successful for its preser vation,he must ncedsjcommand the highest | enthusiasm of every Northern patriot, while by bis moderation, justice, and* kindness in ameliorating the horrors of war and his magnanimity to u defeated foe, together with bis profound respect for those civil laws, which still protected them from out rage and oppression’in their defeat, he has endeared himself to the whole Southern people. We have received the intelligence of the nomination of Hon. William H. Ex- I gush, of Indiana, for Vico President, ! just in time for this issue of our paper. : This is truly a National, Union ticket, of j peace, harmony and good will, and the peopio of America will elect it and see i that their candidates are not again de frauded out of their seats. While we pen ; these lines, a Presidential salute of 13 guns, are being fired in front cf the Ga zette office in honor of Wlnltlu) Scott {HiN’ Oi K, th< coming President of the 1 United States. IT tt* tIBATMTO MIX KtITGION ANB IMMTiO.. A man’s politics ought to be as sacred to him as bis religion, but in certain respects the two ought to be kept ns fur apart as the earth from the sun. These were tho teach ings of our Lord and Saviour, when in this world he said, “Render unto Caesar the things that are Cusar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s.” Before that time,the man who took the oath of fidelity to the Roman Emperor, had to include in it an asseveration of his faith in all the Gods from Jupiter to Priapns. Before the coming of the milder dispensation, the Jews were frequently required to slaughter whole na tions, which differed with them in religion and politics on that account. They suffered destruction in turn from the same cause; and centuries afterwards, the creed of Ma homet, which tolerated no differences in re ligion and politics,swept the Eastern world with fire and the sword,in its enforcement. In violation of the precepts of the Great Teacher, His professed followers have, too often in modem history, disregarded his instructions and mixed politics, intoler- ance and religion so-called, in such a way, as to bring the direst calamities upon the human race. Tho list is too long to name them all, but we can recall here the folly of the crusades—the horrors of the inquisi tion in Italy and Spain—the thirty years war in Germany—tho massacre of St. Bar tholomew in France, and the subsequent expulsion of six hundred thousand Hu guenots in a single day 7 from that country; the confiscation of church property by Henry VIII —the bloody contentions of Protestants and Papists in England and Scotland,and the horrors of Cromwells’ in vasion of Ireland, wading ankle deep in Catholic blood. As between Protestants, wlio can forget the star chamber of Charles the I—the murder of that Monarch, great er in his death than he had even been in his life--the usurpation of Cromwell,by which first Episcopacy fell, and then Presbyteri anism, and then Independentism, leaving nothing but the despot? His is an instruc tive career. All, with him, was done for the glory of God! He was a great lay preacher and visitor of Sunday schools and church associations in his day 7 . He was gifted in prayer and exhortation above the average man, an expounder of the scriptures,and regarded by his follow ers as a pure Christian Governor and a great General, but he became corrupted by remaining in office too long. The people did not hold him to accountability, and tho result was, that he began to use the religion of his followers as a stepping stone to absolute power, and through it, he accomplished his purpose,and reduced Groat Britain from a constitutional Mon archy to an absolute despotism. Now all these experiences, as well as many more equally as disastrous, came home to the American people, when they were forming their government, and if there was one idea above another implanted in their minds and hearts, and into the Constitu tion of the United States and of tho several States, it was that there should be no union of church and state, that religion and politics should be kept seperate and apart. So deep did this sentiment take root in the American mind, that the Cath olics, the Episcopalians,the Presbyterians and the Independents,all of whom had in turn persecuted more or less, for tho sake of religion and politics, were at a discount with the masses, and the Methodists and Baptists, who were either too young in their origin, or too small in their numbers to have made a party in the affiirs of the old world, and therefore had not mixed in its religious and political contentions to any great extent, became tho favorites of the people and absorbed into their organi zations a large proportion of the American population. They agreed with the genius of tho people, met their religious wants and requirements and did an amount of good, which can never bo calculated or told. But of late years, these most admir able religious organizations, as first con ceived, went into politics in the northern part of our Union. The samo disastrous results, as those strewn all through the pages of history, ensued. The churches north and south were riven in twain. Tho Sunday schools of the north were inun dated with selections from uncle Tom’s Cabin, and the refrain of “John Brown’s Soul is marching on” rang out from great audiences in sacred edifices. A semi-reli gious war against slavery ensued, and a million of men were offered up as a sacri fice to the union of religion and politics. That struggle has ended,but in its end has the connection between redigion and pol itics also ended? We fear not, although wo do not know, from observation; but the churches north and south have not reu nited, and an able writer recently in a Northern paper asserted,that “The Meth odist Church north was a huge political machine.” The churches south until re cently kept clear of politics. Is this to continue ? We hope so, but of late there drops a circumstance ora remark now and then which fills our hearts with forebod ings. It is an expression in effect, that we will vote fora certain man for Governor,or Sheriff or Clerk of tho Court, as the case may be, because he is of a certain reli gion, or wc wont vote for him because ho is not of a certain religion. The begin ning is small, but if carried out the teach ings of history will be repeated. We have written with no interest or motive, save that of tho welfare of our whole people, believing as we do, that it is death to tem poral liberty and happiness, to mix reli gion and politics. Senator Ben Hill says that the letter of Hon. Samuel J. Tilden declining to be a candidate for President, was “the grand >st ever written in our political history.” Tic letter will live after Samuel J. Tilden has gone. Tilt: ci'RRtK outrage. Of all the judicial outrages which have ili Kg raced modem American coarts, the recent acquittal of the Texicn murderer Currie, is the most abominable. Two gen tlemen and a lady were quietly eating their lunch in a Texas railroad restaurant. This drunken scoundrel, Currie came in, and without the slightest provocation grossly insulted the lady, using language which will not bear publication. Her es- I eort mildly interfered for her protection, j when the murderer instantly opened fire | upon them, and in cold blood succeeded !in depriving one of them of his life. This is the plain, unvarnished statement. The ' facts were all proven on the trial. A Texas i jury has acquitted him upon the groun 1 | that he was insane, that is, drunk; and he is now at liberty to repeat his pleasant ex ploit upon the next inoffensive traveler he may meet in that delectable region. It is useless to talk about his being a wander ing Yankee vagabond, and ex-soldier in the union army. That does not relieve the people of Texas of this disgraceful, denotement of his trial. We can think of but one good effect it will have, and that is to keep the restless part of our popula tion in their safe and pleasant homes here, rather than to go wandering off k to a stale, where a man’s life seems to be regarded of less account than that of a respectable dog in Georgia. Alt GEBSOS DOE* IT THIS TIME WITH A KXIFE. We have all been down on the Marshall, Texas court, for the acquittal of the mur derer, Currie. The ink was not dry in our Georgia papers, denouncing that out rage, when we have been reminded by another playful exploit of the Macon, Ga., pet by the name of “Ab Gibson/’ that we too have some glass in our house, which ought to admonish us, how we throw stones at our neighbors. About two years ago the gentle “Ab" slew an inoffensive man without provocation, and a Macon jury acquitted him on the ground that he was insane or drunk or something of that sort. He has now tried his hand suc cessfully upon another old and highly es teemed citizen of Macon, Mr. Wolihen, be cause that gentleman could not see the propriety of permitting Mr. Gibson to in trude his drunken person along with his ruffiainly associates, upon the privacy of the guest of the National hotel,over which he presided. This time when the Bibb county jury acquits this beautiful speci men of ehivahy,of bis crime, they should vote him a resolution of thanks for the reputation he is achieving for his native city, and take up a collection in order to bestow on him a fitting testimonial of their appreciation of his courage and manhood. The Athens Watchman of June Bth made the statement printed below. Is this statement true or false. The Watch man says: “Led Gov. Colquitt answer this: Did not H. W. Grady bring from Wash ington City to Atlanta, Gen. Gordon's re signation as Senator, about may the 10th ? —and did not the Governor keep the whole matter quiet until May the 20th, and then get a telegram, announcing the resignation of which he had actually known ten days previous ? Grady told twenty members of the Pioneer Hook and Ladder Company, of Athens, on their way to Rome, about the whole matter on May the 18th, riding on the cars from Lulu to Atlanta. Told that Gordon was to get a railroad position worth $14,000; that Brown was to bo made his successor, and that Colquitt was to be made Governor again.” Tne Philadelphia Item, Independent, says: “The Chicago ticket has not created the slightest enthusiasm. Nay, it has pro voked bitter ’ criticism from those who should be friends and supporters. Al ready the party is on the defensive. Grant and anti-Grant all say they wall work for the ticket, hut with the former element at least there is certainly nothing of enthu siasm. The Grant men are sore, and take a melancholy pleasure in talking OTer their grievances. Privately, many of the Grant leaders say they have no doubt of the defeat of the ticket. Perhaps things may take a favorable turn, hut at present disappointment is general.” The Savannah News says: “A Texas jury has acquitted Currie, the murderer of Porter, the actor, on the ground of in sanity. Much has been said of the loose manner in which criminal law is admin istered in Texas, and we have always be lieved that great injustice is being done the people of the Lone Star State; but we are forced to admit that a country where Colt’s revolver in one pocket and a bottle of insanity in the other, free from the re straints of law and irresponsible for their actions, is not a safe place to live in.” The Chicago, St. Louis and New Or leans Railroad management have notified the Louisville and Nashville Railroad offi cials that on the 28th inst., they will ter minate all agreements existing between the lines; that facilities heretofore given it will be withdrawn. The “grand jury at New Orleans have visited the Chinese dens where white per sons, male and female, assemble to smoke opium, aud will make a special present ment, directing the attention of the city authorities to the evil. “Was not James A. Garfield tho chair man of the committee of appropriations in the House of Representatives that report ed the salary grap, and was not he a snq - porter of that iufainons measure ?” It is said that Queen Victoria is begin ning to age pretty rapidly, and is grow ing so whimsical as to cause a great deal of trouble to court officials. GEORGIA AFFAIR*. The Atlanta Constitution had four of its editors on hand at Cincinnati. The tri-weekly Albany News reaches us regularly and is a first-class paper. Hon. Emory Speer ia going to run for Congress again in the Ninth District. To let Henry Washington Grady tell it, Colquitt will bo elected by 20,000,000 ma jority. Judge Underwood, of Rome, will prob ably be the successor of Attorney General Bob Ely. These columns are always open to the public; all we ask is, to write your articles short and to the point. The colored Republicans in Augusta have, declared that if Seymour is nominat ed at Cincinnati, the will vote for him in preference to Garfield. The Atlanta Constitution, one of the ablest d°ilies in the South, is now so wrapt up in the Colquitt boom that it pays but little attention to anything else. It is said that the Georgia delegation to the Cincinnati Democratic Convention was composed of the finest crowd of men that was ever sent out of the State to a National Convention. The Atlanta Phonograph says it is use less for the young men in Georgia to make an effort to hold any high office, it mat ters not how capable they are, until all the Colonels und Generals die and get out the way. Hod. Francis Fontaine, Georgia Com missioner of Immigration,with head-quar ters at New York, recommends that the next State Convention, when it finishes its business, resolve itself into an Immi gration Convention. Under the new Democratic administra tration, Ben Russell, of the Bainbridge Democrat, deserves the best Federal office in Southwest Georgia. Ben is a good Democrat and deserves a good position and we hope he will get it. The following from the Brunswick Ap peal which we endorse: “Joseph Ghanal, of Augusta, is spoken of as a candidate for Attorney General. There is no gentle man in the State for whom we have a high er regard, or for whom we could vote more cheerfully.” We are glad tohear that Count Gorman, of the Talbotton Register, is fast recover ing from the snake bite he recently re ceived. Every member of the Georgia Press Association, besides all the girls in the State, deeply sympathize with you, John. The Quitman Free Press says: “Oh !it does our heart good to see such a large majority of the weekly press of Georgia coming right square to the scratch and battling for the right. We won’t call the boys one horse ink stingers any more,they are whole teams.” The Valdosta Times says: “Mr. Lester is right. It is a question of personal pre ference, and candidates for the nomina tion have no right to galop over the coun try and urge themselves as eminently fit, above all others, for the highest office in the gift of the people of Georgia.” The Cartersville Free Press says: “The Atlanta Daily Post is bravely contending for the best interest of Georgia,politically. But for it and the Phonograph the people would know but little of “the deeds that are dark and the tricks that are vain” in connection with the Kirkwood Democracy. Price $5 a year.” John S. Bigby, whose nomination as United States District Attorney for Geor gia failed of confirmation in consequence of the adjournment of Congress, will he appointed by the President during recess and renominated when Congress reas sembles. The same action will he taken in the case of J. Mason Rice as Collector for the District of St. Mary’s. In speaking of State Treasurer John W. Renfroe, the Sandersville Mercury' says' “This able and distinguished gentleman who has for years filled this honorable po sition of the State, is again a candidate for that office. We know him. He was born here in Sandersville, and here the greatest portion of his life has passed. Our people delight to honor him and elected him to many r important offices of honor, trust and profit. We know him to he honest, able, faithful, just and upright. In fact he is one of the best men in the State being above reproach and beyond suspicion, and it gives us pleasure to in dorse him, and Washington county will support him gladly and proudly for re election to the position he so ably and satisfactorily occupies, for in his hands the financial condition of Georgia will continue to improve and every dollar of her money' be honestly and properly ac counted for. He is the right man in the right place.” We heartily endorse the following from the pen of Col. Alexander, of the Griffin News: “We see from the press dispatches that Col. Peter F. Lawshe, of the Gaines ville Southern, has been appointed post master of that place to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Gen. Long street, who has been appointed Minister to Turkey. Col. Lawshe is in every way competent to fill the place, and we are glad he has been the fortunate applicant, for if there is any class of men who works faithfully for the success of their party and friends, it is the newspaper editors. Whenever a man becomes a candidate the newspaper proprietors use the brains, in fluence and capital to secure his election without fee or reward. Some of them work tor years for the success of their par ty and friends, and are never rewarded for it, even by some small honor in the way of a recognition of their labors. When a man announces himself for office, if ho is nominated the party papers have to fight his battle for him, and they do it faith fully without the hope of any personal re ward. Col. Lawshe has fought many bat tles for his friends and he fought them well, and we are glad to know his labors were appreciated und rewarded.” ii -N. A.. IS AEON AT* a THE GEORGIA SESATOBSHSP. The Hon. Augustus O. Bacon may now be regarded ns fairly before the people of Georgia as a candidate,brought forward by his many friends and admirers,for tho seat in the Senate vacated by Gen. Gordon. Mr. Bacon possesses in an eminent degree tho qualities which will make ft good Senator, He has had an experience of ten years in the House of Representatives Of this Stste. During a large part of that time he has filled the place of Speaker of the House and filled it with a grace, dignity and ability, in all of which he has not been surpassed by any of his predecessors. He is an able lawyer, a profound states man and cultured gentleman. By the peculiar circumstances of his life, Mr. Ba. con must needs belong to all of Georgia and cannot be a sectional representative of any particular part of the State. Hr was a low-country boy, born in Bry.m county, he spent the early part of his youth in Liberty. From thence his fami ly moved to LaGfange, where he resided for years. He was educated at Athens and’ has passed tire years of his manhsod in Macon. We do not pledge ourselves, at this early day to support him against all who may enter the race, but we cam con scientiously say that we do not know his superior for the exalted position, and we certainly have reason to be proud that i j O. Bacon first saw the light on the old sea board of Georgia. Jt DfiK BLACK DEFENDS GARFIEI.It IN IS I* CAPACITY AS A LAWYER. A good deal of capital has recently been sought to be made by the Radical press, out of the letter written by Judge Jeremiah Black, in the defense of Garfield, against the charges of his corrupt connection with the credit mobilier. Some of our people have been imj>osed upon, not knowing the fact that this letter was written by Judge Black in 1873, not in bis individual capac ity as a man, but as the retained counsel of Garfield, in order to influence the ac tion of the Poland Congressional Commit tee, which then had under consideration Garfield’s corrupt tamperings with this, infamy. Judge Black's letter therefore should receive just that amount of consid eration at the hands of the public, which the remarks of any lawyer defending his client for theft heforea petitjury,would be entitled to. That,and nothing more. But even - Judge Black’s great ability was in sufficient to save his client from the moral stigma, attaching to the members of the credit mobilier ring. MAJOR !. N. SPEER. Mr. D. N. Speer, of Troup county, is an nounced as a candidate for State Treasur er, subject to the Democratic Convention. He is highly endorsed by those who know him best, and no doubt would make a faithful officer if elected. —Gainesville Ea gle. In this issue will be found the an nouncement of Mr. D. N. Speer; of La- Grange, who is a candidate for State Treasurer, subject to the indorsement of the State Convention. While we do not go much on Conventions, we are compell ed to say that Mr. Speer will make a good Treasurer, with or without the indorse ment of the Convention. —Gainesville tienith ron. Major D. N. Speer, of LaGrenge, has a handsome following all over the State, for the office of State Treastlrer, and no man in Georgia is more eminently fitted for the place, or more deserving of the confidence of the people at large. His prospects for being elected are being enhanced every day. We do not fight the battle of any candidate for office, but merely show up things in their true light— Wa.skington Gazette. We publish to-day a notice of the candi dacy of Major 1). N. Speer, of Troup coun ty, fir Treasurer. We have not the pleas ure of a personal acquaintance with Maj. Speer, but have the evidence which satis fies us that he is a gentleman of strict in b-grity, exact and careful business habits, thorough ability,and able to give not only the heavy bond required of this officer,but one whose perfect honesty and high sense of duty will ensure the faithful discharge of the onerous duties of this office— South ern Fnierjmse. The friends of Major Daniel N. Speer,of Troup county, have announced hitn as a candidate for State Treasurer. We have known him from his boyhood as well as any one living knows him. He has been our constant personal friend for a quarter ot a century. His candidacy has beexj an nounce and by and with the advice of some of the best business men of the State. Wo know liim to be well qualified to fill the office, p.nd that he can promptly give the required bond of $200,000, composed of nif-u of unquestioned responsibility, and which will in no sense, bo regarded as a straw bond. In fact, we know of uo man who could do so with less trouble nor with "better security. If Major Speer should be elected, we stake our head upon his suc cess us a faithful and honest officer. He is not only a successful officer, but a first clast; basinets man, as bis success in busi ness fully demonstrates. We want men to attend to our public affairs who have been successful in their own business. Bpeer is just the kind of a man. —Cartersville Free Press. The case of Currie, tried for the murder of Porter, at Marshall, Texas, has termi nated by a verdict of acquital on the ground of insanity. the Mail louse WITH ITS Spacious VJESTIB ULE! Extensive and elegant VERANDAH I Affording ladies a fine view ol the Promenade. Airy and icdl Ventilated Booms ! An Unrivaled TABLE! IS PAR EXCELLENCE THE “Leading” Hotel of Savannah ! O ir Motto still will be, a full house at moderate rate*, which means the best of everything at the lowest possible figures. JOHN BRESNAN, Manager. M. L. ILXUNLIT, ia the office. aprdO-tf,