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AMERICUS. GEORGIA:
Friday Vnmfag, lone 10,1870.
omCIAL 0B6AV OF SCHLEY COTOTY.
Official Organ of Lee County.
Official Organ of Webster County
Foolishness of Intemperance.
The habit of drinking v; to onr mind,
the most inexcusable piece of destruct
ive nonsense in tho world. And no
irheraia it more prevalent than in cities
The money ponred down tho throats of
men each year is greater than is expend
ed for improvements. Whysky shops,
saloons, and all sorts of irrational devi
ces and places to fool away money, are
fonnd by the hundreds and thousands in
Official Organ of Sumter Co. i cities, If a man is tired, he drinks; if at
work he drinks. If doing nothing he
must have acip every hoar. If too warm
he most have julip; too cold
whisky. If he is by himself, out comes
a flask or bottle; if in company, he stands
treat till all his money is gone; then like
aj“ dead beat,” lie sits around till some
one asks him tip.
A man of moderate salary steps iuto a
saloon, invites half a dozen friends to
drink, pays half a dollar or more, and
walks out. Three or four times a day
he repeats this and always drinks when
asked. It is social. Men mean nothing
by it But daring the week half aman’s
salary is poured down his throat, de
stroying his stomach and weakening his
nerves, over-exciting liis brain, and rob
bing himself and family of money need
ed for other purposes. But it is social.
Drink in tho morning, at noon, at
night, then a few between drinks. The
brain whirls—the hand grows unsteady—
the pocket grows empty—the home ones
suffer—the eyes look red and tremulous,
as if asliamed— ambition is drowned in
poison. Pretty soon poor fellow, he
anfit for business—he makes
He is sick, unable to work. He is not to
be relied on. Ho leaves his place and ii
time finds a poorer one. Then he feels
blue—drinks still more, his family suf
fers, ho leaves his place again, and at last
dies a wreck. Bat it is social.
We believe a man has no right to kill
himself snddenly or by slow poison. It
may be none of onr business in the ab
stract, yet we are soriy to see men fool
ing themselves away, dying liko weeds in
a gutter when they might be men, up
right, healthy, loved and useful, of benefit
to themselves and others, and this is why
wo write against intemperance. Health
is too precious to be wasted. Manhood
is too noble to be thrown into the gutter.
Life is too sweet to be drugged with
poisons now compounded and sold os
liquors. To drink poison may be social
but it costs too much for us, or any other
To Scrsciuuebs.—In accordance with
the programme adopted by tho Southern
Press Association at its late session in
Savannah, wo have determined that the
subscription price of the Republican
must bo paid in advance by subscribers.
Those who are in arrears and who have
been repeatedly donned by tho “X ” mark
on their papers or otherwise, will be
dropped from onr books if they do not
immediately settle up. We are compell
ed to pay the cash for every article used
in this office and therefore adopt this sys
tem so that we may be able to meet all
demands against us. Those who do not
wish to comply with the above can not
expect ns to continue to send the paper
to them, if they do, they will be sadly
disappointed.
Persons who ore advertising under con
tract most pay quarterly in advance, as
l>er agreement. We cannot afford to lose
time to don a man two or three dozen
t imes before wo can get money that lie
bus promised to pay when called for. If
he cannot fill his part of the contract and
"’ill lot us know it, we will appropriate
the space devoted to his advertisement to
something moro profitable.
Prize Candy.—Commissioner Delano
has decided that dealers in prize candy
avc subject to the same internal revenue
tax ns gift enterprises, vis: $150 per an-
Capt. Matthew Hunt, tho oldest
pilot of Boston, died Saturday, aged 70
years. He was a pilot in tho war of 1812,
and witnessed the famous engagement
between tho Chesapeake and the Shan-
B9u Commissioner Delano has decided
to allow insurance companies to deduct
sums paid for re-insurance when making
returns of gross receipts, reversing a pre
vious decision of Commissioner Rollins’
division as made retroactive.
| man who loves himself or others. Who
S3. It is said that Whittemoro’s over- j of onr readers dare think of this matter
whelming success in South Carolina was and act as their better judgment shall
attributable, in a great measure, to the I dictate.
fact that Mrs. W. campained for him by j —
kissing the negro women promiscuously.' Beautiful and Appropriate Dedica-
' >x.—Mr. Stephens sends forth his sec-
•Stamped Pater.—Commissioner De
lano has approved a design for a stomp to
1»e imprinted on blank paper with the
words, “ Good only for a Bank Check,
printed across it. This new form ' of
stamped paper will be supplied under
tain restrictions, so that-parties may have
their bank checks printed where and by
whom they choose.
This is something new under the
*uu : The inmates of the jail in Pittsyl
vania county, Va., have formed them
selves into a moral association. Among
the articles in their creed is one against
profane swearing, the penalty for violat
ing which is stripes. It was enforced on
one of the members last week.
S®. At the 17th anniversary of the Bnp-
t ist Historical Society, held last week in
Philadelphia, on appeal was made for a
sum of five to ten thousand dollars, to
make once for all time, in America, a
complete collection of the sources of Bap
tist hist on*. *
tOf* Tho General Conference of the
Methodist Church, which was lately held
in Memphis, passed a resolution recom
mending an amendment to the book of
discipline, prohibiting the marriage cere
mony for any divorced party whose hus
band or wife is living.
Philadelphia hii3 a great divorce
case. Mrs. Louisa Kocher charges her
husband, Dr. Leonard R., a well known
dentist of having been unfaithful, and of
ornamenting his office with unchaste
statuettes and pictures. He alleges, how
ever, t hat in a time of pecuniary dfficul-
ties, he made over his property to his
wife, and that she wants to leave him
and retain it Tho parties are worth
about $75,000 each, she being an heiress,
have lived happily for twenty-fonr years,
and have three children, one at a convent
school in Boston.
Good Negro Sense.—The editor of the
Maysville (Tenn.) Republican, tho only
paper in that State edited and published
by a colored man, inarecent article, says
of Radicals:
They are men who want office; are ma
licious and want revenge; people who
want to increase, the colored man’s ene
mies and make a break in tho friendshi]
now existing between the negro man anu
his late owners. They are the dema
gogues—unprincipled and corrupt poli
ticians ; men who want an army of sold
iers, to saddle more expense upon onr
State, in order to do their dirty work un
der bayonet protection—in a word, ex
treme Radicals. We entreat the men of
onr race not to bo blinded or fooled; be
free, and not tho slaves of miserable
gnides, without judgment, conscience or
honesty.
As a matter of historical informa-
tion, not perhaps generally understood,
says the St. Louis Times, we publish the
following, incidentally stated by Senator
Howard in his speech upon the enforce
ment bill
" I was struck by a coovenation which
I liaa not long since with a gentleman
connected with tho Union army doting
tho war, who Tinted Richmond during
its moot flagrant period, and had there a
conversation.with Jefferson Davis. In
that conversation he represented Ur Da
vis •» declaring, in the most emphatic
and earnest terms, that the idea that the
Soothnn people were fighting tor the
porpetoatxm or even the preservation of
slavery waa an entire mistake; thatthey
wen contending for no such thing; that
they were pounog oat their bkiod and
ond volume of the war between the States,
with the following lieantiful and appro
priate dedicatory : “ To the memory of
those whose lives, in the late war between
the States, was sacrificed, either in 1 tat
tle, in hospital, in prison, or elsewhere,
in defence of tho Sovereign Right of Lo
cal Self-Government, on tho part of the
people of the several States of the Feder
al Union; and in defence of those prin
ciples niton which that Union was estab
lished, and on which, alone, it or any
other union of the States can l>e main
tained consistently with the; preservation
of Constitutional Liberty throughout the
country, this volume is most solemnly
and sacredly dedicated; while others are
to-day strewing flowers upon their graves,
this oblation, with like purposes and kin
dred emotions, is thus contributed by the
anthor to the same hallowed shrine. ”
“Futures.”
Daring the past cotton season quite on
extensive business has been done by
Northern sharpers with Southern green
horns, in what is known in the commer
cial world as “futures.” The operations
are conducted somewhat upon the gift
enterprise and Peter Funk plan. Ropers
and blowers are sent ont to every village
and city where cotton is sold, who do the
work. The whole thing is a swindle, (and
' the men engaged in the dirty business
are swindlers, and should be so regarded
by our courts.
Whether these transactions are in gold
or cotton, the purchaser is always sure to
lose. A moment’s reflection and a glance
at a bill of charges will satisfy any specu
lator that there is no chance to win at
that game. It is well understood by the
ring that no cotton or gold ever changes
hands in these transactions, though the
silly purchaser thinks he has made large
purchases, and imagines himself the
holdef of fabulous amounts.
Great ingenuity and skill is displayed
by the ring in getting up these enter
prises. Shrewd, sharp men are son! ont
from New York, who profess to be posi
tively certain that cotton or gold, or both,
will advance in a few weeks, and that
“there is money in it”
Mr. Sharper proposes to sell Mr. Green-
hem “futures;” a trade is consummated;
a bonus of ten to twenty per cent is re
quired, which Mr. Sharper pockets; ii
dne time invoices aro rendered, upon
which Mr. Sharper informs Mr. Green
horn that to hold the cotton or gold
longer, the bonus must bo increased ten
tojtwenty per cent more; if this is refused,
it is immediately reported sold; sales are
rendered; Mr. Greenhorn’s bonus is all
absorbed by charges, and largo reclama
tions are invariably demanded. There
may have been little or no change in the
market yet this is always the result We
have known cotton sold at i cent lees than
they cost and held only a few days, and
loeo from eight to ten dollars per bale.
Commissions for baying and telling,
brokerage, drayage, mending? insurance,
warehouse expenses, labor,loss in weight
etc., are a few of the items which appear
in a bill of charges, when in reality there
has never been a bale of cotton bought
or sold.
SMkbe^'ss?
little, a tMoimJ Indepenflinae; ml in-
■lependcnco wo will have, or vo vrfll luvre
the rebellion, for
spirit.which fa chief; wad
there was no trner representative of the
M^The most immoral country in
Europe is Scotland, there being 90 illegi
timate births in every 1,000. IUegititi-
macy is greater in the country than in
the towns. The next Is England, in
which illegitimacy is in tho proportion
of «to 1,000. These figure* may be of
interest to somo who think these two
races tho pinks of perfection. On the
contrary, illegitimacy in Ireland Is only
in the proportion of 38 in 1,000. It will
thus be seen that the social fabric is three
times more rotten in Scotland than in
Ireland, and almost twice os rotten
England. Does this not show that the
Irish are the superior people of the three
races?
Again: In the Province of Col naught,
J —An Arkansas colony wflt soon bo
fonnded by Chioagoana.
—A citizen of Bangor has entered into
tho frog-raising business.
—Tho Minnesota Grand Lodge of
Good Templars has resolved to support
no mau at the polls who not openly
favor prohibition. x &
—Domortie, who married,tho^nigger
wench,Downing, in Washington, wnot
a distinguished Frenchman, but a mu
latto who used to bo a messenger at the
Boston Custom House, and is said to be
a son of Senator.Sumner’s.
While Revels is being lionized by
the Raiicals, his sister is in a. New Jersey
charity hospital, destitute and friendless.
. . Bo* then she has not got a vote.
which is pre-eminently Celtic, being in -There are over 500 visitors at Hot
Lilft UmnnrHnn r\f O4a Ft .11 * • _._ rt • • • -
the proportion of 95 to 5, illegitimacy
is only 19 in 1,000, while in thQ Province
of Ulster, which is almost exclusively
Scotch, it is 62 in 1,000; Thus it will be
also seen that illegitimacy in Ulster tre
bles that- ci Connaught, and that the
same debasing crime is fire times greater
in Scotland than among the unadulterated
Irish. These figures are furnished by
the “First Annual Report of the Regis
trar General of Marriages, Births and
Deatlis in Great Britain k Ireland,” re
cently published by the British Govern
ment for general information.
Crops in Southwestern Georgia.
A friend who has just returned from a
tour in Southwestern Georgia, furnishes
the following report 'of the agricultural
condition and prospects to the Macon
Messenger::
lias made an extended tour
through many of the counties of South
western Georgia daring the past fifteen
days. The prolonged drought of ah
weeks’ duration extended everywhere,
bat it hod been succeeded by a most
beautiful fall, or rather series of fall*, of
rain.. Corn, cotton, wheat and the small-
crops looked remarkably well in every
field which fell nnder his eye. The oat
crop has been a partial failure—the dry
weather striking it at a time when it
should have matured. Little wheat was
i, but it is now being harvested and ii
yielding well.
Never were better stands of cotton ob
tained. It is small for the season, bnt
there is no lack in the quantity of stalks
above ground. Since the rains of last
week and the week before, cotton seed
which have lain dormant for a long time
have almost universally come up. The
long drought hnrt nothing really except
oats, and afforded planters an excellent
opportunity to clean their fields of gross,
chop cotton to a stand, and put every
thing iu fine order. This was not lost;
that when tho showers came, they
fonnd all prepared for them.
The area of land planted in the great
staple is about equal to that of last year,
while three times the amount of fertilizers
lias been used over any timo since the
lands were first shorn <5f tho original j 7 ^ *
forest As every financial hope hangs i Look upon this Picture and
upon the production of cotton, planters
jnst now in fine spirits and look for- en 0n
ward with the greatest confidence to i The Constitution of the United States
reaping a rich reward for their labor.'
Springs, Arkansas.
-Tim numbers ol tho Mississippi
have learned to call each
other liars in debate as gbbly as -though
they belonged to Congress.
—All women of ill-fame have been ex
pelled from Omaha.
—An Indianian has just hung himself
haring been married one year without
a divorce.
The London Jewish Chronicle urges
the concurrence of the Jews in the reris-
of the Bible.
-Strawberries are only 20 cents a
quart in Dubuqne.
—The only discouraging crop news
comes from Californio.
Our. Saxon grandmothers cnlt what
are now known as garters shankbands.
-A rebellion iu Iceland, and a conse
quent separation from Denmark, ore
probable.
—A Norwegian mother at Sionx City,
Iowa, recently gave birth to a child
weighing twenty pounds.
—Tho first Masonio lodge established
in Indiana was at Vincennes in 1809.
There are now 425 lodges and 22,000 af
filiating members.
■ fi™ Bolt has been convicted of mur
der, in Cecil, Maryland. He was doubt
less driven crazy by bis incessant efforts
to “remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt,”
by request.
The squabble in England about the
comparative merits of ether ond chloro
form, baa been renewed with great vigor.
The doctors go in exclusively for chloro
form, while their patients, less bigotted,
exclaim:
“How happy should I bo with ether,
Were t’other dear charmer away.”
A new county in West Tennessee is
to bo named after Emerson Etheridge.
—The Right Reverend Thomas Grant,
Roman Catholic Bishop of .Southwark, is
dead.
The agents of Mazzini aro very ac
tive iu tho neighborhood of Genoa.
There is reason to believe that a sediti-
tious movement of somo kind is on foot,
and the Government is taking all*need-
ful precautions.
The recent publ.cation of the proceed
ings of a conference hold last winter at
Philadelphia by the Rabbis of the latter
school, for tho purpose of agreeing
leading principles, enables ns to state
with precision what they are. The atten
tive thinker, of whatever religious per
suasion, cannot bat take an interest in
knowing the religions and philosophical
movement* going on in a race which has
always taken a principal part in those of
the worhl in general.
The first article of faith agreed on by
the conference renounces the idea that
the Isnielitish expectation of a Messiah
refers to the re-establishment of the Jew-1
ish kingdom under a descendant of Da
vid, and tho gathering together in Ca-I
naan, of the now scat! ,
Interpreting the doctrine __
in a purely religious and intellectual sense
it defines his coming to mean “ the asso
ciation of all men os ch ldrcn of God,
actaiowledging one solo deity, for the
union of all intelligent beings and their
moral purification. ’ Article two declares
the destruction of the Jewish kingdom
to hare been not in punishment of the
sins of its people, bnt as a step toward
tho fulfilment of the divine design to scat
ter the Jewish race over the earth that it
mighfperform its high priestly duty of
calling all nations to the true knowledge
and worship of God. Articles three and
four declare that the Aaronio priesthood
and the Mosaic forms of worship were
merely preparatory to the more extensive
priestly calling of the whole Jewish race,
and the offerings,-in which alone God de
lights, of inward veneration and moral
purification ; that with the destruction of
the second temple that old Mosaic dis
pensation-came to an end forever; that
consequently in public worship and in
privileges of the descendants of Aaron
.have ended. Article five declares that
special emphasis is to be laid on tho call
ing of the Israelites to be a religious peo
ple, the depositary of the highest idea of
the human race, and like emphasis on
their mission to preach throughout the
world tho equal love of God for all His
children. Article sixth denies the resur
rection of the body and declares that the
belief in existence after death is to be in
terpreted as referring solely to the im
mortality of the souk
These six articles exhibit the leading
principles of the reformed Jews, their
confession of faith as it may be called.—
But the changes they introduce into the
discipline anu pnbiio religious service of
their community are equally sweeping.—
Tho exclusive use of the Hebrew lan
guage in their religious service is disap
proved, and their publio worship is made
greatly to resemble that usual among
Protestants. The marriage ceremony is
changed so as to exclude the oriental idea
of the wife’s subjection to the husband,
and express their equality in duties and
rights. Polygamy is denounced and for
bidden, and the spocial laws of marriage
applied to the descendants of Aaron
among tho existing .Tews aro pronounced
obsolete, and abolished. The Mosaic
form of repudiation of a wife by tho hus
band is declared to be a nullity aud di
vorce is left to tlio- civil tribunals. The
question of aliolisbing tho rite of circum
cision was debated and referred to a fu
ture conference. The same course was
taken with regard to the observance of
the Sabbath and the details of the ritual.
—St. Jjuuis Republican.
HORRIBLE STORY OF BRIG
ANDS.
TELEGRAPHIC.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Washington, June 7.—Simon Wolf
has dispatches from Europe somewhat
confirmatory of tho outrages upon the.
Jews In Roumania.-■ •
Emery (conservative) is «l*y»toVl Mayor
of Washington by over 3000 majority.—
The votes reached within 1000 of tho re
gistration. Many negroes voted and
electioneered openly for Emery without
molestation from their colored fellows.—
The rejoicing throughout the city is al
most universal. The Bowen men have
only two members of the upper and four
of the lower Board* Three colored men
were elected to the Council on the Emery
ticket.
Dispatches to Republicans hero con
cede the election of a Democratic Gov
ernor, but claim the Legislature of Ore
gon by one majority on joint ballot, thus
securing tho next Senator. Nothing de
finite through regular channel.
Red Clond made a speech at the grand
council of the Indian office to-day. He
said he wanted Fort Fetterman removed
and the military taken ont of his country.
He desired no people seut there who had
no sense and no hearts. He also wants
his reservation moved away from the
Missouri,and protests that it is tho whites,
and not t he Indians, who have been un
friendly. He made an earnest demand
against tho whites coming on the Block
Hills and Big Horn mountains, which, he
said, belonged to him. His people were
melting awav liko tho snow on tho hill
sides when the sun warm, while the whites
aro like blades of grass in Spring, and
were.great and powerful. He wants am
munition. His speech was of great length
... r « £ nd delivered while he was sitting on the
private life, all the peculiar duties and. “ 00r * J* HL no * at probable that the gov-
t powder at pres-
A Funeral Without a Conrsx.—Wo
yesterday, aays the Rome (Go.) Conner,
a train of four country wagons, loaded
with Western hay and Western corn,
polled V ee$npy little mules, and driv
en by dejected fanners, pass through the
city to their farms in the suborbs. We
have never seen sadder looking men in
onr lives than were these poor farmers,
nor do wa ever wxpeot fa* until next fall,
when the same men will be selling cotton
at ten coat o pounds and buying corn at
two dollars a bushel.
Disasters may yet come which may blight
tho crop, bnt it is to-day in an extraor
dinary fine condition.
In view of all which has been written
and said, the writer was astonished to see
so much corn in tho ground. If heaven
fit to send rain, almost enough
wiil be raised to supply the wants of the
great body of planters. As a rule
lioaest effort is mode to prodace a i
cient quantity. The planting of a plen
ty has been the rule—none at all the ex
ception. In some few neighborhoods
grain has given away to cotton almost ex
clusively. In some sections repeated
efforts to raise corn, in past years, have
invariably resulted iu repeated failures.
This has led to discouragement. No one
can find fault with these men. They
complain of the ungenerous flings of the
press toward them, when the facts are
above.
Upon the whole the situation is me
encouraging. . Everything black and
white is in the field knuckling down to
the hardest work—presenting a picture
of reconstruction, golden-lined front and
back, behind which lingers a brilliant
dream of future Georgia, dazzling with
the truest elements of peace and prosperi
ty- _
IS* On Wednesday morning May 25,
three men went to the house of Daniel
and Neil McLeod, two brothers, living in
the Western portion of Cumberland Co.
N. C., and murdered them, and also bad
ly wounded the wife, daughter and son
of Neil McLeod.
The McLeods were Democrats, peace
able citizens, and were highly respected
by their neighbors.
I0T The English Presbyterian Synod,
after a stormy session lately, voted in
favor of allowing organs to be used in
their churches. One old Scotch clergy
man was, however, terribly distressed
abont it He oaid that “when he left
quiet Scotch manse some time ago, he
never dreamed that he was going to join
an organ-playing community in Eng*
land. He should rather expect the bless
ing of God in connection .with tho use of
tho bag-pipes—played with all tho intelli
gent energy and natural enthusiasm of
the Highlanders—than in connection
with the use of mechanical contrivances
played by professional musicians.
The McFarland Tragedy on the
Stage. —The McFarland-Richardson
case has been dramatized in San Fran
cisco, at the new Pacific Tteatre. The
death-bed marriage is made the chief in
cident, and is made intensely humorous
by Horace Greely giving away the bride
and Senator Revels signing his z
witness. Tho leading oomie role is that
of Ned Harrigmn, who plays and dresses
Horaocr Greely to the life. The denou-
ment is a perfect reconciliation; between
McFarland and his wife, and the curtain
falls upon their second nuptials, the oere
mony being performed by Beecher and
Fothingham.
S- No exil propenzitj of tho human
heart iz»o powerful that it majnot be
znMnodbydladpline.
*®-The tweak in the French i-dd.i...
been ueertained to be about twohadred
and ninetj-fiTO miles east of the «f—-
chuaetta
Frank B. Austin, n pioneer Cali
fornian, haabeen appointed bjtbe Unit
ed Statea Grand Siroa apodal eommia-
aiooer to eatabliah Odd FeUowahip in
As interpreted and As understood by
cameil ont in 18C0 : tho Radical admin-
istration of Grant
iu 1870:
* 1. The power to say
1. The people of, who shall vote taken
eacliState to say who away from the State
shall be voters with-;and people, and
in their limits. lodged in the Fede
ral government, and
cannot be changed
except by three-
fourths of the State
legislatures, two-
thirds of Congress
| concurring.
2. A majority of
2. No State could'the States represent-
be deprived of its,edin Congress exer-
representation injeise the power of de-
Congress unless all laying to a minority
the people abstained jof the States their
from voting for votes in Congress,or
members to it. for President and
'vice president of the
United States,
„ .... 3 * In one-third of
8. The military the Union to-day no
force* of theGovern-1 State power is exer-
ment not allowed cised except that
nrnjer any circum- Winging from elec-
stances to interfere tions controlled by
in elections. the soldiery acting
under orders of the
President
4. States are now
4. No State oonld! compelled to adopt
be compelled torat-jeonstitnt ion a 1
ify a constitutional Amendments, nnder
amendment against pftnalty of loss of
the will of its people.' Congressional repre
sentation if they re-
'fase,
j 5. Men not in the
5. No person conld, military service are
be brought to trial I now tried by milita-
for a criminal offence .nr commissions, and
exoept before a jury deprived of all the
of his countrymen, common-law rights
|of prisoners.
* j 6. Elections are
6. All elections now nnder the con-
were regulated bvtrolof the bayonets
the pooplo of each of the Federal Gov-
Statoto suit them-'eminent
selves. , 7. Now a Gene-
7. Each Legisla- ral in tho United
tore was the judge'Statcs Army as-
of the qualification'names to say who
of its members, 'aye, or who are not
members of a State
jLegialatore, and to
violate every known
•Jaw.
The contrast conld be extended much
farther, and all to the same purport in
power token from tho people and lodged
in a centralized, arbitrary despotism.
‘Things, L&«1 begun, make strong themseives
by ilL"
The Hero of Eleven Divorces.
From the'Akron (Ohio) Times.
On the 11th of April, 1866, Samuel Les
lie was married at Wooster to a young la
dy twenty-four years of age, Samuel hav
ing reached the mature age of fifty-seven.
He had possessed too wives before this,
each of whom had obtained divorces from
him. She had known him bnt from the
8th of March to the 11th of April, but he
had money; and she.laid all the blame
upon his former wives and gave him her
yonng and virgin heart She lived with
him bnt a short time when she discovered
that he was a common drnnkard. and he
commenced to dianlav his affection for
her by hitting her over the head with a
shovel, throwing boiling water at her,
driving her ont of doors at the dead of
night, and other snch pet acts as were not
very pleasant, to say the least She ap
plied for a divorce, but he pleaded so
warmly and made her so many promises
that she withdrew her application, bnt
he soon renewed'his former coarse and
she agaii made her application. This
time the suit was prosecuted, and on Sat
urday Jadge Boynton gave her the di
vorce aud *1,200 alimony. This was tho
suit that has been
A horrible stoiy of brigandage reaches
us from Chili. Don Gomez y Logo er
on, a famous bandit captain who, from
his fastness in the Sierra l’rofuuda, has
long defied the Chilian authorities, wus
recently pnrsued, with the brigands un
der his command, by a body of troop*-,
which succeeded in cutting him off from
his followers, and driving him to take
refuge in a cavern situated near the stim-
of one of the loftiest mountains constitu
ting the above named range. In this
cavern ho had concealed a female captive,
whose husband he had robbed and slain,
and whom ho had for some time com
pelled to live with him as his mistress.
The soldets made several attempts to
reach the entrance to this cavern, to
which there was only one means of ac
cess—a mere mountain goat-track; but
Lagoberon; a man of gigantic stature and
herculean strength, rolled heavy rocks
down upon them, and succeeded in boat
ing them off, after several men had been
severely injured. Tho officer in com
mand, unwilling to sacrifice his troops
uselessly, resolved to starve the bandit
out, and “sat down” before the place.
After two days’s blockade, however, the
soldiers grew weary of so tedious and hu
miliating an expedient, so they impro
vised an escalade of tho robber-chiftain’s
stronghold, and succeeded in capturing
him. To their horror, they found that
Lagoberon had ont off one of las unfor
tunate companion’s breasts npd eaten it.
The poor woman was discovered in a dy
ing state, having sustained a fearful loss
of blood; and she expired shortly afUr
her rescue from the clutches of her bar-
barons paramour. The butcher was
conveyed to Talca, where he waspxompt-
triedand condemned to death by the
garotte. In South America, execution
follows sentence with startling rapidity ;
and Gomez was straightway conducted
to the scaffold, guarded by a strong es
cort of mounted gendarmes. While the
executioner was o igaged in adjusting his
toilette do mort, the convict drew a whis
tle from his pocket, and blew it sharply;
whereupon about sixty of his men, who
had introduced themselves amongst the
crowd surrounding the scaffold, rushed
upon the’gendarmes, and masacreed them
ere they conld offer any resistance. They
freed Lagoberon, and completed their
enterprise, in tr manner not devoid of a
certain ghastly humor, by garc
executioner; after which they escaped,
unscathed to the mountains. They are
prqbibly still at liberty, practicing their
profession to the terror of the ■ v ’
country round. It should bo Qbs
that to facilitate their flight they
nexod” tho horses of the fallen gendar
mes, and that a good many of them
seized women from tho throng gathered
upon the i lace of execution, carn-i
them away, flung across their sodd
bows. The social condition of Chili,
revealed by this narrative, is one of al
most hopeless degradation, only to be
equalled by that of Mexico, Greece, and
certain districts of Central Africa, where
murder, lust and rapine are the rules of
life. Civilization penetrates bnt slowly
into these savage countries, of whose ex
istence we are scarcely ever reminded
save by some appalling and revolting in
cident, like the Marathon massacre, or
the cannibalism of Don Gozmez y Lago
beron.—London Telegraph.
The small-pox has broken ont in Wal
ton county, near the Morgan line. Six
or seven families are afflicted with ii
Rev. C. W. Howard delivers an address
before the Newton County Agricultural
Society on Saturday, the 11th insi
Miss Fannie 0. Tennyson, of West
Point, waa awarded the first premium at
the Louisiana State Fair for the finest
qnili
The Czar drinks $150 worth of wine a
day, and that is chiefly what’s the matter
with him.
Ex-Governor M. L. Bonham, Judge J.
E. Bacon and General M. G. Gray, ol
South Carolina, were in Augusta on Sat
urday.
A New York reporter says that the legs
of Weston, the pedestrian, resemble two*
ordinary lead pencils fastened to one end
ernment will give tin
eni
Tho usual speeches were made by
Messrs. Cox and Parker. Mr. Cox said
they could not have powder until all the
todians were at peace withthe whites.
The Republicans have favorable private
disjiatches from Oregon.
Returns from Oregon are meagre. In
dications are that the Legislative contest
will bo very close. Grover, Democratic
candidate for Governor, is probably elect
ed by 400 majority.
A Portland telegram says the election
passed off quietly. The Repnblicans
claim a majority in that city and county,
and some gains in other counties and be
lieve tho vote in the State is very close.
In the House the Reconstruction com-
mittBO added n proviso to tbo Georgia
bill that nothing therein contained should
interfere with an election this Fall, as
provided in the Georgia Constitution. It
also resolved to take no action regarding
Tennessee this session.
general news.
Hartford, June 7.—The citizens’tick
et, composed of men of both parties, has
teen elected over the regular Republican
San 1 HAScisro, June 7.—A special
election will be held to-morrow to deter-
mine whether tho city shall donate ono
million dollars toward the construction of
tho bontheni Pacific Railroad.
York, June 7.—There n a rumor
on the street which cannot be traced
that the steamer Dacia, belonging to the
Central American Telegraph Corps, has
been lost near Bermuda.
FOREIGN NEWS.
Constantinople, June 7.—The confla
gration lias been checked. Though it is
still raging, it cannot spread, the houses
having been blown up, leaving the burn
ing district isolated. Tho burned district
includes one of the wealthiest and best
built portions of the city.
Paris, June 7.—Owing to tho drought
the wood* ore bnrnnig in manvfjarts of
Europe, involving loss of life. *Ono hun
dred acres of tho Pontainbleau forest has
been destroyed.
Bombay, June 7, via London, 7.—The
prospects of the cotton crop are improv
ing. Heavy rams have fallen in the
planting districts, and apprehensions of
a short crop have been removed.
Fnaxkfokk, Jnufi 7.—Wkzt is known
i the dead season lias fairly set in here.
But few transactions in bonds or other se
curin'>s.
•Bomb, June 7.—The Augusta Gazette
says: “The American delegates in the
Ecumenical Council show a growing dis
inclination to the infallibility dogma, are
disgusted with the sophistry and syco
phancy of its advocates.”
Juno 5.—The Irish telegraphs
e still deranged.
Madrid, June 6.—The debate on the
question for electing a King commenced
in Cortes yesterday. It opened with ani
mation and bids fair to become exciting.
The most prominent among the speak
ers yesterday was Senator Rivere. He
created a marked sensation, by declaring
(bat the restoration of a Bourbon in Spain
would never be permitted by tho majori
ty. He then proceeded to denonnee a
monarchy in general It hail produced
nil the evils from which Spain .offered
Hia speech was received with cheers, and
hud an undeniable effect npon members,
Replies were made by tho supporters of
royalty. The *scnssion lasted until a
Into boor, when, without taking any ac
tion on the qnestion, the Cortes adjonrn-
Tq-ilny, the Cortes is engaged in the
consideration of various railroad schemes.
tO. In tho Virginia House or Dele
gates, May 20, llev. Dr. Bettelheim, of
the Jewish faith, offered the following
prayer:
“Almighty Go<l! still we aro in want
of justice, righteousness und truth ; still
we are auxious to boo Virginia* governed
by \ lrginmns, through virtue and integ-
nty. Justice, truth and peace were the
pillars upon which Virginia has been rest
ing. Oh Lord ! sludl these pillars totter
Shall Virginia, the star of
toe states, be trampled down by heart
less strangers and by native enemies ?
* lr 6toi a ’« light grow dim in our
days y Oh Lord ! have mercy on us for
the sake of our widows und orphans, for
toe sak£ of tlio actions of our noble an
cestors. How they fought for freedom,
for enhghtcnmAt, and relief from op-
pression J 1
“ Oh Lord! remember us in thy mer-
cy, and bless this noble assembly, bless
both Houses of the Legislature of this
Commonwealth, the Speaker, tho Gov
ernor, and all officers of this State. Re
store to us the glory of Virginia, nowand
forever. Amen. ”
-Col. Baxtor. Smith, of Nashville, is
called upon to run for Congress. ', 1
Some of Gen. Lee’s friends advise him
to go to Europe this summer.
Stock is being subscribed iu Memphis
to bnild a Masonic Temple.
Tho colored men of Forsyth propose
organizing a fire company.
More than an an average crop of wheat
will be harvested in Monroe.
Monroe Female College commence
ment exercises begjn on the 30th inst
A “ Slipper Club” is to be oi^ganized
in Girard.
i Macon to
o highly favor-
Heavy rains have fallen in Burke
county, doing slight injury to the crops.
Governor Alcorn, of Mississippi, is
patting all his relatives in office.
A secret order, with ritnal, signs and
grips, called the Earthquake, has origi
nated at Tiptou, Indiana. Its object and
purposes are unknown.
Prospects are good for a war between
Persia aud Affghanisten.
The Protestant Episcopal Convention
of Virginia and West Virginia is sitting
at Wheeling.
The Cortes is opposed to conferring
royal prerogative on Serrano.
_ One man was killed and several
others seriously injured by a falling wall
**“ Charleston, on Wednesday last.
Mary Delany, of St. Louis, asks George
Henderson $2,000 for a thrashing he ad
ministered to her recently.
W. H. Campbell, charged with horse
stealing, escaped' from Thomisville jail
on Thursday night.
A fashionable tailor of Pittebnrg has
been sued for obtaining money under
false pretenses, failing to make a suit of
clothes fib
When a young man in Greece joins the
Brigands his friends regretefuly an
nounce the fact by saying “ he has gone
into politics.”
At Sb Joseph, Missouri, a man arrest
ed for assulting a musician while perform-
“ Shoo Fly” on an accordeon has been
acquitted.
The San Francisco Bulletin remarks
that “General Sherman in as successful
in literature as in war. He sees the key
point of the position and hurls his words
upon it as keenly and successfully
did liis troops.”
tQE. In sixteeu counties in this State,
in March and April, dogs killed 2,543
hogs. Ia Missouri and Illinois in thirty
counties over 10,000 hogs were killed.
In 417 counties in the Union nearly 100,-
000 were killed.
E®b. The New York Sun declare that
“ the Republican party in New York is
disintergated rain; and General Grant,
ed on a cigar. box, contemplates this
i, and in undistnrbed placidity blows
Sumter Sheriff Sales for J^~ =!
smoke through his^n
gw Dtlverfefraente.
WILCOX & GIBB’S
SILENT
J. Ik Won*; 1
•ndroontyftx for iJRimHfuig :h “ 8ui '
trator on estate ofSSah
ALSO; ° rSU *®
tax fl fk issued forSUto *° •****
year 18C9. county tax tc. r the
ALSO:
):
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prowrtvoljol,,,
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g l.nd in lj,l,
k<*l r.fri-tor to “IVJxMr ol
tlx foraSScV* ,nr **"
erty of G. \V. Doaier «■ I * c S ed on M pwp-
to satisfy fi for ****7 Summers,
4Tu 9: “*** *** “only tax for ise£
a-.
erty of Joeopl, lUnn,
fc-Sutcmlconnt,t„
giLjsiws srsataawas
iaenedfor N,.„. ral count, u?f„?£?tg*“
H. A, lUSBBCXK, Dop. Hhff.
"7——dI place, 1 house aud lot in
at v of Amencus. Levied ou is proper trot M
“* * llic, > i» now live. V,. Mtiji
I! fcs fur nut, rail coral,
,J ' n . c ■ >i ?“ *,“ J > >U “t 1101 •“ eit, of Airar-
mu crauimug 1 rare, boradeil e. bv F 11
bcwborragli, n. b,A.B. Se.,i L . L l "
ltoone . kit rail utreet, ky Church street
Uvicil ont, property or It. CDUckto utiw,
tg ) fa | 5'„?."* ^nted ra',.
•nim! * nd pU ^> 60 •crea land in old
W A d p J? Umtcr ®°;. ^ ned on aa property of
W. A lUmscy, on which he lives, to satisfy tax
ATRn' 1 * StaU " Dd eount >' ta x for 18G9.
AtB*™ e time and place, 320 acres land of Nos
12, 22o, in 26th and 27th diet. Sumter oo. Levied
on as property of T. J. French to satisfy tax ti fa
jyjjtato aud county tax for year 1868.’
i ;Y* h i e 6aI ‘ lc » anii . l’ko!, ono house and
lot in the city of Amencus, bcini* the place
where on J. G. Harrison now resides. Levied
on as tho property of J.D. Carter, as Acent for
Mrs. Memwcathvr, to satisfy her State and
°T J ’ T t tLu * Teir 1869 ' Property !*ou>ted
ALSO:
Johnw.n, to satisfy one Tax tUfa^fd? the year
18C'J, m favor of tlio State and countr’ v«.
Le^Johnson Sr. lToperty pointed out iu fi-fa.
At the same time and place 2GG acres of land,
os. 86 and 1S3 being in 2*Jth District of Sumter
county. Levied on as the property of James T.
Singletary to satisfy one Tax fi-fa In favor of the
State and county vs James T. Singletarvforhi*
Taxes for the year 186'J. Property poinhted out
ALSO."
and place 100 acres of land
No. 174 in the 15th Diet of said county of Sumter.
t8 the pr; petty of Jackson f
ro tax ti-taa for the years 1863 a
of tho State and County vs
Property pointed out in said fi-fa.
and place SO acres of land
atu i»‘ * - -
Levied on as t
A PERFECT WONDER
In its simpUcity. strength of stitch, apd beauty
of finish. Needle ia self-adjusting and cannot
be set wrong. It tucki, cords, hems, fells, em
broiders, brauls, quilts and does all kinds of
plain and fancy sewing, with neatness and dis
patch. For sale at manufacturer's prices by
I. N. HART CO., agents.
Canary Seed, Rape Seed and Cuttlefish bone.
LACON at prices to correspond with the de
cline in gold and cotton by
mh30-3m L N. HART A CO.
Furlow Masonic Female
Annual Examination.
Sous Genuine Ku-Kixx.—It has been
teqnentiy asserted and as often denied
that some of those Indians who harass
the border were really white men plnmed
and painted; but we have Gen. Sherman’s
official declaration that, “in areoentcase
between Fort Hayes and Camp Supply,
the Indians, on being captured, tuned
out to be white men in disguise.” The
reader will also remember that the case
of the Into horrible outrage at Ladore.
Kansas, it wu stated in theflnt dispatch
that it was thought the ruffians who to
brutally maltreated Iwo girls were either
lexans or Indians; whereas when the
villains were brought to the gallows they
were fonnd to be white m*»n t one and alb
from the Eastern States. These oases,
ooming so close together and in a time of
a threatened war npon the Indiana for al-
tedged outrages, would seem to im]'
that while thp red men are no doubt I
enough—rendered so, we believe, in most
coses, by. wrongs done to them in the
first instance—they should not be held
responsible for all the outrages on the
Camillo Urso is better off by #40,000.
She fiddled fo* the Californians.
The examination of the classes i
ntiou will liegin ou
Monday Morning N^xt,
lo o’clock. The exercises will continue
from 9 to 12 ami from 3 to 5 o’clock on Monday
and Tuesday.
Annual Concert,
At the same ti t __ «v.w» M .«*,
No. 215 in the I5th Diat. of said county of Sumter.
Levied on as tho property ofjesmt A. Sucg*.
to eatifv unpaid Taxes for tbeyear 1868, in favor
of the State and comity, va. Jesse A. Suggs.
Property pointed ont in li-fa.
ALSO.
le and place, 100 acres of hit
tho 2S:h District of Snmter
_ . - oa the property of Jane
Cleincuts for the year 1368 to satisfy one Tax
fi-fa in favor of tbo county and State vs J*ne CJern-
ALSO 1>IX,perty P° intctl out in fl-k-
At the same time and place, 100 acres of land,
213 in the 15th Dut. of uaid countv of Sumter.
Levied on as the property of A. A. Flowers, to
satisfy one Tax ti-fa for the year 1868, in tavur of
the Suto aud county, vs. A. A. Flowers. I’rop-
ertygointed out in li-fa.
ty of Amencus, being the
D. W. Smith lives. Levied on \aa property of
■ W. Smith, to satisfy tax fl fa for State and
un ty tax for year 1868. Pointed ont by G. M.
jon7tds
HJBY,
Wheeler.
June 9th 1870, tda.
TAX NOTICE.
MY BOOKS WILL CLOSE 13
DAYS AFTER THIS DA YE.
All persons who have net given their
State ai\d County Tax
Are requested to come and give them in a
T. b; GLOVER,
Tax Receiver,
3-10*1 Sumter Comity.
TUESDAY NIGHT,
Acimlwaion 25c.
Class day exercises open on Wednesday morn
ing at 10 o'clock.' Literary address by Samuel
Lumpkin, Esq., of Americas, Os. Tbo public
generally are invited4o attend.
THE MEMBERS OF THE MASONIC
FRATERNITY,
ffe respectfully requested to assemble at their
hall on Wednesday morning at 9 o’clock, and
proceed to tne college in procession to attend
the class clay exersisc*.
TETER F. BROWN,
Jun» President.
E. B. AMOS.
Attonxesr* at-Zuaw,
AMKRlCrS,*GA.,
TTTILL give prompt attention to professional
Jr. in the different conrtsof Snmtr-
tsneo with J. A. Analey, over B. EmannelA
Bro * Jan *4f
niSSOLUTIO N—The
JLf _ partnership heretofore existing between
joiu, uy xnewii
tbs debts of the old firm wiU-be
new one. A. R.BROW1,
jau »-lm • W. A-cSo^’
TH0S. M. EDEN,
[GUN & LOCKSMITH,
Doftloi- In
GUNS, PISTOLS,
Powder, shot, cape of all kind*, wada,
tridge^ pistol heisure, moldj,
ing ammunition of every kind. Wesson * tw»
loading Rifles. Now on hand a hrge and
assortment of Calling tackle, consisting in
of grass, eilk, cotton and linen tyes,
floats, tinkers, jointed and reed .poke*
Wilson Shuttle Sewing fiachinre.
Publio Square, next door to Wo. Sirnne * »
Carriage Manufactory.
Dancing Academy-
PROF. ALLEN V. B0BIN-
1 SON bega leave to notify the dtix«»”
Americas and vicinity that he will «WS*j7
the exercises in the above mentioned im««»
rad polita art, oo Rood*? p. a., 2Kh of
for young ladles, misses and masters at
o'clock, in the City Hall. Person*
Tuesday*. A practiringWon tor
ssarsasSfcflStiSsaB
Mi.od.yrad Torad., weoi; F ,V°
EjSSr 1 - Ho, ‘- P ' lt OB " r coo*r
XTOTICE.—All persons «*
11 iimbr tamrad raraat
William.rad wil. radra,"^
CTMtfggj
sas-a.^-jsr-ssna-—
about 5 ft. 8 or tin. fa