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TH« WEEKLY REPUBLICAN.^
HANCOCK h ' EXIIitY,
j W. Hancock, Editor.
AMKBICU8. GEORGIA ;
'Wdv' Morning, ~April 9,18757
Aftnti to the Republican.
K. A. PASSMORE, WestoD.
MAJ. E. 0. BALDWIN, .^Schley
R. A. STRANGE. EHatflle.
W. G. REDDING, Drayton.
W. H. SMITH, AnderaonviUe.
tar Four inches of snow fell in Og*
•ienburg, N. Y., on the 2d inst.
jtgrTho New York Herald ad vises that
Mrs. Woodhnll be called to testify in the
Beecher trial.
G&* Those who "poke fan” at others
should not become offended when they
are paid back in their own coin.
S6U When a girl deliberately select*
the muddiest crossing, you may be sore
she knows exactly the sixe of her foot
DajrPrince Blucher, son of the famous
Field Marshal, died on March 8th, at
Kadnsu, in Austria, at the age of 78
years.
Can-Can.—A Philadelphia jury in the
Can-Can case against the Varieties Thea
tre, declared it not a nuisance, on Thurs
day last.
Death of Rev. Joseph C'. Stiles.-—
This distinguished Presbyterian divine
died in Savannah on Sunday last, aged
70 years.
Exit Band.—The President having
appointed Benjamin Conley, Postmaster
at Atlanta, Sam Bard, Gov. Ac. will have
to step down and out.
te/*Col. Thomas Hardeman, of Ma
con, has been elected to deliver the Me
morial address in Columbus on the 2fith
of April, and has accepted.
Election Returns.—'The latest dis
patches from the North and West bring
the gratifying intelligence that in the
late elections the Democrats not only
hold tbeir own, bnt hare made consider
able gains in various places. In Connec
ticut the total vote stands, Ingeraoll,
democrat, 53,784; Green, radical, 44,-
256 ; Smith, prohibitionist, 2,674. Be
sides electing their candidate for Gov
ernor, the democrats have carried the
First district by 4S8, the Second by 1500,
and the Fourth by 2,235. The Republi
cans carry the Third by 731. The Senate
is democratic by 15 to 6. In the House
the democrats have a majority of 20.
In Cincinnati, Johnson, democrat, sent
Old John Robinson, radical, back to his
circus ring and menagerie, by a majority
of 5,358 for the office of Mayor.
In Columbus, Ohio, the democrats
elected their candidate for Mayor by 618
majority. In the same State the demo
crats have elected their ticket in Zanes
ville, Troy, Limn, Bucyros, Crestline,
Dayton and other cities.
In Michigan the republican majority
is estimated at fifteen thousand.
Election Row.—On Tuesday last dur
ing the progress of an election held at
Annapolis, Md., a difficulty occurred be
tween the whites and negroes in which
two of the former and eight of the latter
rere shot. Two of the negroes will prob
ably die.
The difficulty was first caused by a ne
gro knocking down a white mau, who
-bile down being assaulted, drew bis
pistol and fired two shots, both taking
effect. Afterwards a second assault was
made by a negro upon a white man
and an indiscriminate firing between the
whites and blacks took place, with the
result above stated. The disturbance
was quelled by the whites of both parties
ioterferring.
Communicated.
fcirThe debt statement of the United
States shows a decrease during March of
over 3,500,000. In treasury—coin $48,-
. 000,000, currency $5,000,000.
Teacher's Association.—The Georgia
State Teacher’s Association will meet in
Griffin on Tuesday, 4th of May next, and
remain in session for three days.
tciTA wife hassued a Louisville LodgJ
of the Knights of Pythias for 850,000,
for having fatally injured her husband
during the initiation ceremonies.
There are eighty-two priests,
eighty-five churches, one hundred and
.sixty-five chapels, and a Catholic popula
tion estimated at 200,000 in the tbreo
dioceses of Texas.
Ad vice* from the Spanish frontier
r epresent that the prospects.of peace are
increasing daily. One hundred and
eighty Carlists officers have already give^
in their submission to Alfonso.
The New Np.whfaper Wrappf.bs.—In
consequence of the increase of postage
on third'Nclass matter, the Post Office
Department is issuing two cent newspa
per wrappers, the s'amp being the sam<
as the present two-cent stamp. The one
cent wrappers are continued for papers
weighing less than one ounce. Tho two-
cent wrappers will be sold to postmasters
for $21.20 per thousand, and proportion
ately for smaller qualities. The depart
ment will also issue, upon requisition,
the No. 4 and No. 6 nngummed envelopes
in the denomination of two cents. The
former will be seid for $21.80, and the
latter for $22 per thousand. It is cot ex
pected, however, that there will be mneb
demand for these, as circulars seldom
weigh over one onneo each with the en
velope.
O-Su We are to resume the use of silver
currency in a couple of months, the treas-
J ury having succeeded m getting a large
; amount'of bullion. If we are not
taken, the fractional paper currency is to
be retired, and we are to enjoy the chink
of silver pieces of the denomination of
five, ten, twenty, twenty-five and fifty
cents. Exactly where forty or fifty mil
lions are to come from we don’t know,
suppose that Congress will pro
vide for their forthcoming.
Charlotte, N. C., April 2, 1875.
Dear Republican : I have been think
ing for some time of dropping a lino to
yon and, through yonr columns, to my
friends in and around America*.
It is only since realizing that I, in
very truth, have left Southwest Georgia
to change my home, that I appreciate as
I ought tho many friends of my yonth
left behind, experiencing that blessings
are not appreciated until they are taken
Away. And while I have met with a
warm reception in my new home, yet I
miss sadly the hearty hand-shaking and
kindly faces of the true and tried friends.
I am now parted from it, may be for
many years, and possibly forever; and
while I felt, and still feel, that the health
of my family and other pressing reasons,
demanded a change in location, I cannot
help but recur to the pleasant memories
and happy associations that clnster
around the retrospeot of the seventeen
years I spent in the pleasant city of
Americas.
with great pleasure I read in
your ever-welcome "tri-weeekly” of the
completion of the Flint River Bridge.
I trust that it may be the "viaduct” of
great additional prosperity to the city
and counties contiguous.
Mrs. S. and myself look ont for the
tri-weekly arrivals of the * Republican
with eagerness that would do yon good
to see, and so far it has put in its appear
ance punctually. We have been sadden
ed at some of its visits, on aooonnt of sad
news contained of the death of some of
Georgia’s best citizens and highly es
teemed friends. We rejoice with yon
your joy, and add our teara in yoor
sorrow.
very much pleased with my
home—baring the fact that I have not
yet become acquainted with the people.
The city of Charlotte is destined to i
bright future, and is “no mean city’
,w. We claim a population of
between eight and ten thonsand inhabit
ants, six railroads feed its large and in
creasing trade and travel, and for beauty
of business and dwelling bouses, for
terprise and energy of business men, and
dignity and beauty of women, I challenge
comparison with any city of its
the country. There are several whole
sale grocery and dry good* houses, aud
the retail establishments of various lines
Charlotte and Savannah quotations are
pretty neatly together. A Hydraulic
Compress is in successful operation, and
most of the cotton is repacked before
shipping.
I expect you begin to say "give us a
rest,” so I bring this disjointed commu
nication to a dose. If you think it
worthy of space in yoor valued paper,
you may publish it; if not, consign it to
the "wa3te paper” basket, for I don’t set
np for a newspaper correspondent;
Wishing for you another 21 years stand
asjehampion for the interests of South
western Georgia, and much prosperity to
Americas, I am yours with respect,
G. w. a
Lord Chief Justice Cockburn’s
charge to the jury fu ihe famous Tick-
horue case has just been published. In
size it equals Gibbons’ "History of the
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.”
tar Paul CuKsugnac says that every
imperialist keeps the birthday of the
Prince Imperial, bnt keeps it privately,
because the emotions excited by the oc
casion are too sacred to be indulged iu
public.
Beecher Testifies—Beecher took the
stand in the scandal case Thursday. His
testimony, thus far, is irrevalent to the
scandal, being, for the greater part, a
history of his career as an editor and
theologian.
SOT The txial cf Theodore Tilton for
generul immorality is coming to an end.
At least we suppose so, since Beecher is
now on the stand. As soon as his exam
ination is over Tilton’s attorneys will re
sume the trial of Beecher for adultery.
Considering that both parties have been
put in the position of plaintiffs and de
fendants, the unfortqgate jury will find
it an exceedingly difficult matter to render
a verdict.
BQ.TI10 ceremony of conferring the
title of Cardinal on Archbishop Manning,
t iok place in Rome on Wednesday, 3l8t
nib Tho ceremonies were imposing,and
witnessed by one thousand Eugliah and
American Catholics.
*®u- Five members of the senior class
at Harvard intend forming a ( arty to
travel on foot through Ireland, England,
France, Switzerland, Germany, and
Italy. They propose to start immedi
ately after commencement and be gone a
year. They will take passage over by
steerage aud return by cabin. By rough
ing it they hope to get a better insight in
to the customs and baaits of the people
whom they will meet than by traveling
the customary way.
tar The Atlanta Commonwealth of Fri
day evening says: "The office of Super
intendent of Public Works being a sine-
care, the Governor will make no appoint
ment to fill the vacancy created by the
resignation of Dr. Flewellen.”
tgk- The Milledgeville Union and Re
corder saya careful investigation shows
that nine persons were killed, sixty
wounded, ninety-fonr honses blown
down, and $50,000 worth of property de
stroyed in Baldwin county by the late tor
nado.
tOr Dr. Lovick Pierce celebrated the
ninety-first anniversary of his birth lost
week, by a reunion at his home. His
health has been quite poor, but the
Sparta Times says he is now rapidly im
proving, with every prospect of recover
ing much of nis former vigor.
VSu A terrible row about canal frauds
in New York papers, saya the Courier-
Journal, is based upon very excellent
reasons. The contract prioea for work
done was $424,735 90, and the State has
paid on the same contracts the magnifi
cent sum of $1,560,769 84. Some fine
professional stealing there.
letter from Florida.
U The Chronicle and Sentinel says
Billy Emmett, one of the Can-Can troupe
that lately visited that city, gave his wife
beating with his fists on Thursday night
behind the scenes, because she responded
i encore after he had forbidden her
to do so. She was badly cut in the face.
The gallant Emmett wonld have repeated
the offence had not a scene shifter threat
ened him with a good walloping if he did
Emmett’s wife is known as
Katie Howard. Pass bmfe Billy urouud.
CQUCliarles O’Connor has declined,
without giving any explanation, to deliv
er the proposed oration, in New Y’ork,
on John Mitchel. Richard O’Gorman
was then decidod upon by tho commit
tee, hut the family of Mr. Mitchel per
emptorily objected to Mr. O’Gorman.
Thomas Clarko Lnby, one of the Fenian
leaders will, in all probability deliver the
oration.
republican paper having spoken
of President Grant aa the "watch-dog of
American liberty” (by the suspension of
the writ of habeas corpus), theNew York
World replied that "judging from his
evident inclination to stay in the White
House, we should call him a tarry er.”
Vice-President Wilson has pre
pared a record of his colleagues in the
Senate since February 10, 1855.
theee, seventy-seven have died—five from
Kentucky and six from Texas. Taking
the old slave line as a boundary, thirty-
nine of those deoesaed were Southern,
and thirty-eight Northern men.
j&'.The saltan of Turkey has an in
come of ten millions of dollars a year,
and he spends it with amazing rapidity
on tho peculiar oriental luxuries, while
thousands of his subjects are actually
dying of starvation. *A subscription is
now being taken up in Eogland to re
lieve theee poor devils, while the sultan
is luxuriating in his harem.
JQTAt least one important reform
seem9 likely to como out of the agitation
of cremation. This is the substitution
of other material than wood for coffins.
Just now the municipal authorities of
Paris are deliberating the propriety of
requiring that all coffins shall be mado o!
cement, as they were, in fact, in the Gal
lo-Roman period of French history.
Suspension op the Macon Stab.—
The last number of the Star contains the
annr.uncement of the suspension of that
paper. In their card of explanation, the
proprietors say
When we assumed possession of the
paper some time since, it was with the
firm conviction that with a reduction of
every possible expense, and by conduct
ing the business on the most rigidly eco
nomical basis possible, that we could
make it a success. To do this, we confi
dently looked to the basinem men of the
community for that encouragement and
substantial aid by way of patronage that
would enable us to publish a paper in
their midst which should be a credit to
us and their dty. That in this we have
been sadly disappointed, while it may
not be any one’s" fault, is certainly our
misfortune, and having become fully
convinced that in a business point of
view, -in the matter of dollars and cents,
for we never proposed to print a paper
for glory—it cannot be made a success,
Wo have determined to meet the issue,
"accept the situation,** and yield as
gracefully as may bo to a fate that it is
beyond our power to avert
are par excellence.
The business nit-u are wide awake to
te importance of t’ui.s point, and
go ahe id fraternity. The city has fine
surrounding* in an agricultural way; the
lands are rich and yield abundant har
vests to the honest toil of tho "jeans coat
boys.” The cotton estimates for this
year run to 45,000 bales in this place,
good deal of which is still held by the
producers. It would make a Southwest
Geoig’a farmer open his eyes to see long
lines of country wagons selling corn
the streets of Americas as I have
Charlotte, prices ranging frem 85 to 90
cents per bushel. My next door neigh
bor has now in store some 1,500 bnshels
bought during the past thirty days.
Wc have fine banking facilities,
sistiog of three National and two State
banks Real estate seems high to
but it ia steadily increasing in valne
every day. Lota that would bring$1,000
in Americas would bring $5,000 to
$10,000 here. I find living some cheap
er than with you, bnt most goods are
about the same price. We havo fine
educational advantages: one "Female
College,” nndcr management of Dr. and
Mrs. Chapman, and the "Carolina Mili
tary Institute,” under charge of Colonel
Thomas, both well supported and very
creditable institutions. There are "Pul>*
lio Schools" operating under the "Pea
body Fund,” assisted by private contri
butions. I understand they have some
thing over three hundred pupils. It i6
probable that a -‘graded school system”
will be inaugurated by next fall, support
ed by taxation. I hope it may be so. for
no city should be without a well-organ
ized and well-maLaged public school sys
tem.
I will say regal ding the disadvantages
of this section, that the "worst roads” in
the South are no worse than those in
Meclenburg and sQrroundiug counties;
and Charlotte itself may be said to have
no better etreeLs than tho county has
roads. That is daring the winter months.
I am informed that in Spring, Summer
and Fall, the road* are very fiue, and
dust takes the place of mud. I hear it
remarked daily, "Charlotte is the mud
diest place in winter and the dustiest
place in Summer in the United States.
Well w« n'.-s' It * i in g to put up with
■>' * . My business has
oucii my expectations so far, and tak
ing into account tho very disagreeable
weather and condition of the roads, I
feel encouraged at the prospect, rather
than complaining. We have seven
charchc*—Baptist, Episcopal, Lutheran,
Reform Presbyterian, Catholic, two
Presbyterian and two Methodist. The
Presbyterian Church has tbo greatest
numerical strength in the section aronnd
Charlotte.
Our fire department is composed of two
steamers,one hand engiue, and one hook
and ladder company,bnt here tho author
ities are moving on the same schedule
that the municipal authorities of Ameri
cas have been for the past two years, in
reference to "water supply.” I think
yon have as mneb improvement in that
direction as we have here—only a small
portion of the city protected at all. Bnt
we are going to have an election in May
for city officers, and ono plank in the
platform on which they will have to stand
is "good streets,” and "water supply*
another.
The people here are full of the **Cen-
tennial Celebration” of "Meclenbnrg
Declaration of Independence,” to take
place on 20th May. We expect a large
crowd and pleasant time. Gen. Joe. E.
Johnston ia to be Chief Marshall of the
day, and there will be general holiday
and jolification. I send you order of
prooqarion as proposed. Would be glad
to see Southwest Georgia represented.
The proas is well represented by the
Daily Charlotte Observer, Weekly Demo
crat and Southern Home, all live, reada
ble, newsy, and of good circulation.
There is to be another daily paper pub
lished here soon.
There are four freight lines to New
York, and consequently freights are low.
Cotton brings good prices, and it is said
that Charlotte is one of the best cotton
markets in the Booth, and I notice the
Jacksonville, Fla., April 5,1875.
Editor Sumter Republican:
It is only at times your yonthfnl cor
respondent that has just left hia teens,
can take his seat at his escritoir to write
for yonr interesting paper. The Repub
lican is edited by those who know what
suits the publio mind beat. It has been
said recently "Ilia* its list of subscribers
has been increased one hundred per cent.
short time.” Ia there a subscriber
of the Republican who cannot say that
the paper itself merits the same per oent?
think not, as i seems to me that I read
it more eagerly every time it comes to
Those who do not read the Repub
lican in Southwest Georgia are deprived
of the best papers that is pub
lished in that portion of the State.
Jacksonville is now one of the most
beautiful cities in the South. The
daut water oaks and orange trees shade
its macadamize streets when the
casting his almost vertical rays. A few
evenings since I walked ont In the
try a few miles, and there saw. hundreds
of pedestrians looking at the fine gar
dens, in which were growing corn, Irish
potatoes, English peas, okra, cucumbers,
lettuce, radishes and other esculents,
also saw the orange groves in full bloom.
The St. John’s River is one mile wide
here at Jacksonville, and is navigable
from if 8 mouth away south of Melonville
into the onae happy hunting grounds of
Billy Bowlegs and his tribe, which is
three hundred miles, and the geo
graphical question may be asked why is
it that it ia navigable so Ur when it has
tributaries, and is iu such a small
State as Florida? Tho answer, I think,
is because it has a great many lakes and
ponds that empty into it.
There have been over fifty thousand
Northern people visiting East Florida
ince October lust, though they are now
eluctanliy leaving the flowery bank3 of
the St. John’s, returning to thf.ir icy
homes. Many of them remain here, have
bought them homes ou the St. John’s,
bnt the proximity of a scorching sun
necessitates most of them to rotarn.
LoDgfellow immortalized the land of the
Acadian, Grand Pre, tho home of Evan-
goline. The fair Opelousas once had her
many charms. The Booth of Europe,
Nice, Italy, Egypt, and tho Holy Land,
hath charms nnd pleasures to a fog-rid
den Londoner, bnt there is no where on
the globe, resorted to by tourists, so
beau*iful a land, so charming a winter’i
borne, and the resort for pleasure seekers
a* tLe banks of the St. John's.
Mr. Wm. B. Astor, the New York mil
lionaire, has recently purchased one of
the landmarks of Jacksonville, the
erablo Union House, just opposite the
City Park, the house in which I reposed
a fatigue body after the night of my
rival into Jacksonville. The Union
fjoufto was, prior to the building of the
fit. James and the Grand National, one
of the finest hotels in the place, though
it is now mnch dilapidated. Mr. Astor
contemplates tearing it down this Sum
mer and bniiding iu its place a hotel (not
such a one as he owns in the city of New
York,) of which the metropolis of Flori
da will be proud.
It is not known what name Mr. Astor
will give it, bnt it is thought that it will
be termed the Astor House, which will
only accommodate the wealth and elite of
this country.
Tyszkiewies, a Russian Count, with one
of Boston’s fairest danghtera, recently
visited our “Sunny clime,” his baggage
containing thirty-fie tranks. This Count
is not the only foreigner that came to
Florida this winter, as there were several
here from England, France, Spain, Ana*
tria and Prussia, who say that Florida is
the Italy of America.
Going to one of the Coarts of this
county, I saw more than half of the jury
composed of the inky sex, who think
themselves a part of the Parliament of
England, but to me they seemed aa
though they had just arrived from the
barbarous shores of Africa, and were I
one who bad to be forced into such a
6tale of humiliation, I would carry with
me a handkerchief that is eaturated with
German Cologne to prevent the inspira
tion of that pestiferous odor that came
from a six montlis unwashed hide.
The Indiana editors visited this city
lost week, and I am iu hopes that
them are Democrats who will give to the
public a letter relative to the Republican
government of this State. The Demo
crats thongh predict such a revolution in
1876 as was in Georgia last November.
I contemplate taking in May, a pleas
ure trip to St Augustine, and will, while
there, give a brief letter from the ancient
city. Very respectfully, B. E. P.
GEORGIA NEWS.
Mr. J. L. Hanlon, Second Assistant
Engineer of the Angusta Fire Depart
ment, fell dead in the street last Satur
day. Heart disease.
The Madison Home Journal saya Mrs.
Ann Saffold, of that place, died last Fri
day, aged eighty-two years. She came
to Madison to live in January, 1814, and
died in the room she had occupied sixty-
one years.
The following report is made by the
Savannah News of the proceedings in
the bankrupt court at Savannah last
week :
Petition in voluntary bankruptcy as
follows : Nathan McCollum. Waynes
boro’, Burke county. Petitions for final
discharge a* follows : Julius Greenwood,
Americas. Final discharges granted in
chambers: Reuben Brown, Baena Vista,
Marion county ; Charnick A. Tharp,
Drayton, Dooly county; Dixon Carroll,
Thomasville; Wm. Woodall, Thomson,
McDuffie county. In re: Ethelndge
Ogburn, bankrupt, Wilkinson county.
Petition for injunction against Kelly el al.
denied.
Mr. Francis Fontaine has become joint
proprietor and editor of the Columbus
Time*, and announces the fact in the fol
lowing sensible and pithy cord :
laming the duties of an editor, it
| Charges of Violation of the Enforce
ment Act
loyal adherence to trot
field of journalism with a determination
neither to indulge in offensive personal
allusions, nor to encourage that bane of
journalism—a war of epithets. I recog
nize the responsibility of the position,
and shall spare no effort to fill it worth
ily. Meanwhile, I beg the indulgence of
discerning public.
Francis Fontaine.
Yellow Fever.—This terrible epi
demic made its appearance, over a week
ago, on the United States steamer Ply-
month, at Key West, Fla. Nothing was
done to prevent its spread, and it conse
quently increased with great rapidity in
a few days. Now all the naval vessels at
that port are quarantined, and dispatches
have been sent to surgeons at Pensacola,
Mobile, New Orleans and Galveston, to
look out for the yellow fever and be pre
pared for it Its appearanoe and violence
thus early, indioste a favorable oondition
of the climate for the spread of epldemio
diseases, and serious apprehensions are
felt that it may beoome wide-spread in
its ravages. What with epidemics, tor
nados, political oppressions and financial
troubles, our South land bids fair to
drain the cup of misfortune to its dregs.
These from the Macon Telegraph :
Macon And Brunswick Fare Bills.—
These bills, it will be remembered, will
not be received by the road for fare
freight after the 15th inst. Those v
hold them bad better be nJmng some
disposition of them, as they will be an-
enrrent ns soon as the road discontinues
taking them. The people, however,have
had fair notice, and if caught with these
bills on haud they will have no one to
blame but themselves.
Fatal Accident.—Jimmie Ring,
sprightly lad of fifteen, whose parents
reside at Reynolds, was killed on Sstnr
day by being thrown from a horse,
was riding a race for fun,and was thrown
violently against a tree and lived but
few miDntes thereafter. He was n
conscious after the accident. He was
very bright and clever lad, and was great
ly beloved by all who knew him.
Homicide at Butler —A negro
named Wm. Smith was shot and killed
yesterday morning, at ten o’clock, at
Butler, by a white man named Leonard
Hayes. The negro is, represented as a
dangerous aud bad man. He told Mr.
Huy«v> that the civil rights bill had t
passed, god hp "owed him one” and
tended to get even with him by potting
a ball through him before night. Where
upon Mr. Hayes went off, loaded his
gun with buckshot and went to the neg
ro’s shop—he was a shoemaker—and
shot him through the head, killing him
instantly. The killing took place
ust about the time of the arrival of the
ucoming Columbus train, and we get
the facts from Mr. J. A. Dense, the
conductor.
Recovering Cotton Tax.—Some two
• three \ ears ago, when somo claims
for captured cotton were paid by the
government, two per cent, of the same
was held for tax- This was regarded as
an unlawful detention on the part of the
government, and suit was brought to re
cover the amount po held for tux. This
was regarded as an unlawful detention
the part of the government, aud suit
s brought to recover tne amount
held for taxes. The matter finally reached
the Supreme Court, and that tribunal
recently reudered a decision against the
government and in favor of the claim
ants.
This decision is advantageous to some
persons in thwei’v m. : any through
out the State. C-.pt. II |Vioders, of
East Mucou, has ulicadj received the
amount due him, and Mr. Asher Ayres
has been notified, by his counsel, that
they hold a check in his favor for the
amount of bis claim. Others, holding
similar claims, hare only to make appli
cation to get their money.
Another Victim to Heart Disease.
Mr. Henry Akera, who resides on the
corner of Lnckie and Hall streets, came
up town yesterday morning apparently
as sound and healthy a* ever. About
noon he returned home, and while in the
act of drawing a backet of water fell
tver on his back and expired immedi-
itely. His death is attributed to a
disease of the heart. Mr. Akers was be
tween forty-five and fifty years of age,
and bad resided here for about twenty
Ordered to the Asylum. — Judge
Dumas, Ordinary, tried two persons
last week on a writ of lunacy, and both
were ord ■*- 1 t’»e asylum at Milledge
ville. The tamey of the parties are
Mrs. Amelia Honcrief, who bos been
living in the Fourth District, and Mr.
W. H. Savage, a resident of Forsyth.
Mrs. Moncrief ia a widow, and up to the
time when she was so unfortunate as to
lose her mind was held in high esteem
as a pious, worthy lady. Loss of prop
erty and children by the war exercised
her mind to each an extent that her in
tellect gradually gave way.
Mr. Savage had been engaged in the
business of merchandising until last fall,
when he sold his goods, spent his moncj
so recklessly and acted in suoh a man
ner that his friends discovered that he
was not of sound mind. He has been
getting worse until it was not safe to
leave him with his family. He has been
a dyspeptio for a long time, and ill
health has occasioned his nnfortnnnte
condition. He has been confined in jail
until he can be sent to the asylum. He
has a family consisting of a wife and
child, for whom we feel the deepest
sympathy.—Monroe Advertiser.
Sudden Death. — The Montezuma
Weekly says: One day last week Mr.
Solomon Burn am. of Houston county,
was fonnd dead, haring died suddenly
oq his return from a water oourse in the
neighborhood,where he had been fishing
during the day. It was thought that be
fell dead from the effect of heart disease,
as no appearance of oonyolsions indicated
a straggle or marked therissgeof the
corpse. He was heard to oomplain of
being unwell several days before his
death, but no one thought to apprehend
anything of a serious nature from such
complaining. Mr. Burnam was well ad
vanced in years, being about sixty-five
years of age.
Smyth reached
Savannah on the Macon train with three
persons charged with a viol ttion of the
Enforcement act. Tbeir names are Jef
ferson D. Houser, J. B. Glover and J.
W. Colyer, all gentlemen of high stand
ing, irreproachable character, and much
beliked in Fort Valley, their home.
The offence with which these gentle
men are charged is based on the part
taken by them in the election for Gov
ernor and Representatives, which took
place in October of 1872.
We learn from them that there is re
riding at Fori Valley* one Joel R. Grif
fin, who is United Statee Commissioner,
and was also a member of the Legisla
tare daring the Bollock administration,
and his reputation thero is far from en
viable. During this election there was
a personal difficnlty between him and
Mr. Colyer, and ever since he has been
untiring in his efforts to bring about the
arre-t of Mr G. and his friends. Onr
readers will probably remember that
some time back Mr. D. N. Hightower,
of the same place, wm brought here on
a similar charge, but that afterward the
matter was compromised. After several
failures, he, Joel R. Griffin, sneoeeded,
daring the fall term of the United States
Coart, in producing such evidence that
the grand jary found a true bill against
the throe above named gentlemen, and
a bench warrant was issued for their
arrest, but never served until the past
week.
Mr. J. D. Houser is charged with hav
ing refased to allow one. Riley Black-
shear, p. c., to vote. This is denied by
Mr. Houser, who lias witnesses to prove
to the contrary, and it is also on record
that the said Riley Blackshear did vote.
Mr. J. W. Colyer is charged with hav
ing refused to reoeive the vo'e of one
Shadrack Ball, and Mr. J. B, Glover, the
railroad section master, with having in
timidated one Charley Stamp.
AT COST! ATC0ST!
FOR THE NEXT THIRTY DATS!!
For the next Thirty Days We have Determined
Boots, Shoes Hats
A.T GREAT BARGAINS!
-WE WILL NOT RE UNDERSOLD BY-
-AND IF YOV '
BOOTS, SHOES OR HATS
For YOUIttKLVlCS yonr CHILDREN or yoor NEIGHBORS, canon nibofnnH,
pir&tion of tho next thirty days, or yon will suffer loss. n lIle •*-
BELL & COOPER.
The affair had lain over for such a
long time that theee gentlemen were
thunderstruck when the Marshall pre
sented his warrants la*t week, bnt of
coarse accompanied him and reached
here as before stated, yesterday morning,
and gave bonds to the amount of one
thousand dollars each, for their appear
ance before the April term of the United
Sta’es Court to answer to the ohargea
alleged against them.—Sar. Adr.,(\th inst.
Native Cruelty in India.
A Baroda correspondent of the Bom
bay Gazette furnishes the following re
markable, and if true, atrocious particu
lars, of a case of cruelty, which, he says,
has created a profound sensation, as well
it might. "It appears,” says its authori
ty, that one of Mulbar Rao’a courtiers,
who was iu great favor with his highness,
was looked upon with jealousy by some
of his fellow-courtiers. So, to get him
into trouble with the Maharajah, they
reported to his highness that the favorite
had been casting amorous gluncea at the
queen. The poor man was then seized
under—as I hear it will be satisfactorily
proved—the ordets of the Maharjah,
and ca9t into prison. 8pecial fetters and
manacles were forged for him. I have
them. A great iron bar nearly a9
thick as your wrist aud about eighteen
inches long, with thick, heavy rings fitting
on it for the hands to go in to secure his
arms. These things alone weighed t'
ty two pounds. An iron ring of great
weight was put around his neck, aud a
chain was, I believe, attached to it.—
Huge iron bars with rings attached, alto
gether weighing thirty-five pOnuds, were
attached to his legs, so that it most have
been impossible for the poor fellow even
to walk a yard. He could neither stand,
sit, uor lie down. I am told the weight
of the iron attached to bis hands must
have been almost always on his chest,
aud the iron around his neck must have
bent his body down so that bis sufferings
must have been terrible. Bnt they dis
covered a way of adding to them. For
abont sixteen days they had fed him on
chntney made of chillies and gave him
salt water to drink. At the end of this
time he died. Every one who has seen
these fetters feels sick at the thought of
wbat this poor wretch rpnat have toffered'
All tUis time there was no charge made
against him, and there i* no reason to
suppose tb»* *:•> li.Mi-*- w >i!d ever have
been taken ol re »-i eu $ s.at ce if it had
not been for the inquiry which La» been
ordered to be held."
Victoria Cuts Loose from Tilton.
[From a Recent Letter from Mrs. Woodhull-l
I do not intend that you shall falsely
add any more darkness to the dona
that you have already cast upon my name
and fame. I am the one, and not you,
sir, who has good grounds of complaint
in this regard. You came to me unsought
and pressed your services, one after an
other upon me, and when you had failed
to accomplish what you had in view too
want out to the world and said you had
been entrapped into doing these things
by a designing woman and wbat yon hail
said or done for her.
This is the deepest infamy that can be
cast upon a iy woman, .and were you to
live a thousand years and have a thou
sand lives, every one of which should be
devoted to undergoiog an injury that yon
have wrought for me, you would still fail
to wholly repair the wrong that I have
suffered from your erratic oourse.
I, sir, am no creation of yonr consider
ation or making, or of your magnanimi
ty. I exist, and maintain my position
to-day in spite of your renouncements.
But, you, sir, stand testifying against
Mr. Beecher—against that for which yon
have long since forgiven him—because I
have not been low and vile, so trercber-
ous to the trust you reposed in me, as to
lay bare before the world what I knew of
yonr condnct since the 22d of May, 1871,
t^m The constitutionality of the en
forcement aet is under consideration in
the Supreme Court. Mr. Justice Brad-
ley. it will be remembered, has already
decided that the law is auconstitutionaL
The decision of the court will be looked
for with mneb interest.
Dyspepsia.
Dyspepsia is the moat discouraging aid
distressing disease man ia heir to.—
Americans are particularly aubjeot to this
disease and its effects; such as soar stom
ach, rick headache, habitual ooativeness,
heartburn, water-brash, gnawing and
borniug pains in the pit of the stomach,
coming np of the food* coated tongue,
disagreeable taste in the month, impure
blood and all diseases of the Stomach
and Liver. Two doses of Greeks Au
gust Flower will relieve yon at once,
and there positively is not n ease in the
United States it will not cure. If yon
doubt this go to yoar Druggist,- Daven-
roBT & Smith, and get a sample bottle
for 10 cents and try it Regular size
75 cents.
koT A new life and activity iu trade is
springing up in New York, and the pros
pects are becoming very hopeful. The
fields of winter wheat are looking su
perbly everywhere, the mills and facto
ries are expanding their activities, and
the transportation interests are putting
every wheel in motion. The New York
Bulletin adds:
We wish it were possible to speak as
cheerfully of the South as of the West
and Northwest. That section, it is well
known, has still to oontend with many
serious difficulties; but, in the nature of
things, these must wear themselves ont,
and, leaving it free to better influences,
the door will open to a revival of its
former prosperity. Its most severe per
plexities for the moment are political and
social; these removed, as they most be
ere long, nod the recuperation of its ma
terial interests must speedily follow.
This, thou, being an outliue of the sit
uation os it is to-day, it is difficult to du
cover any just cause for croaking or
head-shaking as to the spring and sum
mer. It looks like plain sailing, though
of course there may be snags und rocks
ahead whioh the most careful observation
will fail to detect. It wuuld bo puerile,
however, to cease going forward from a
bare apprehension of the danger ahead.
The time will never come when the.-e
will not lie more or less danger ahead,
bnt a prudent regard for the admonitions
of experience and especially a resolve to
avoid the risk aud recklessness of the
ante panic period, will carry ns safely
through them.
Thirty years ago Mr. Stephen
Griffith who lately died iu Illiuois,
promised the Almighty that if he would
prevent a decline in the prioe of beef
and pork, thus averting a heavy loss on
bis stock on hand, he would devote to
His cause all that he might thereafter
make above a living. Prices did not de
cline, and when Mr. Griffith came to
die he kept hia word, donating to
churches, missions, and tract societies hia
property—$150,000. His heirs are now
striving to break the will in McLean
county, on the ground of insanity.
Dr. Wilhoft's Anti Periodic ob Fe
ver and Ague Tonic!—Wilhoft’s Tonio
has established itself as the real infalli
ble Chill enro. It ia universally admitted
to be the only reliable and harmless Chill
medicine cow in use. Its efficacy is con
firmed by thousands of certificates of the
very best people from all parts of the
ooontry. It cures malarious diseases of
every type, from the shaking agues of
the lakes and valleys to the raging fevers
of the torrid zone. Tryitl ' It has never
been known to fail. Wkxlock, Fihlat
k Co., Proprietors, New Orleans.
For sale bt all Druggists.
manly course. I confess, sir,
hoped almost against hope that the many
brilliant talents that have been given of
God to you might yet be consecrated to
the social regeneration of the race.
But the last vestige of that hope has
now gone ont in tbs darkness beyond
where hope exists.
BLOOD DISEASES^
The blood being the source from which
our systems are built up, and from which
we derive our mental as well as physical
capabilities, how important that it should
be kept pure. If it contains vile fester
ing poisons all organic functions are
weakened thereby. Settling upon im
portant organs, as the lungs, liver or kid
neys, the effect is most disastrous. Hence
it behooves every one to keep their blood
in a perfectly healthy condition, and
more especially does this apply at this
particular season of the year than at any
other. No matter what the exciting cause
may be, the real o&use of a large propor
tion of all diseases is bad blood. Now
Dr. Pierce does not wish to place his
Golden Medical Disoovery in the cata
logue of patent nostrums by recommend
ing it to cure every disease, nor does he
recommend it, on the contrary there
> hundreds of diseases that he acknowl
edges it will not cure; but what he does
claim is this, that there is but one form
of blood disease that it does not cure,
and that disease is cancer. He does not
recommend his Discovery for that dis
ease, yet he knows it to be the most
searching blood cleanser yet discovered,
and that it will free the blood and sys
tem of all other known blood poison, be
they animal, vegetable or mineral The
Golden Discovery is warranted by him to
cure the worst forms of Skin Diseases, as
all forms of Blotches, Pimples and Erup
tions, also all Glandular Swellings, and
the worst form of Scrofulous and Ulcera
ted Sdrea of Neck, Legs or other parts,
and all Scrofulous Diseases of the Bones,
as White Swellings, Fever Sores, Hip
Joint and Spinal Diseases, all of which
belong* to Scrofulous diseases
CONFIRMED—HIP JOIST DISEASE
O UR ED.
W. Grove Station, la, July 14, 1872-
Dr. Piesce, Buffalo, N. Y.:
Dear Sir—My wife first became lame
nice years ago. Swellings would appear
Dr. W. J. REESE,
Druggist,
North Side Publio Square.
AMERICUS. CA.,
KEKTS A FULL ASSORTMENT OF
DRUGS, MEDICINES &C.,&G.,
QUININE and MORPHINE-
STILLINGIA, GLOBE FLOWER.
DB. BBADFIELu’S FEMALE EE0TJLALJB
ROSADALLIS,
AYERS’ PREPARATIONS,
HARTER'S IRON TONIC, WALK
ER’S VINEGAR, HOST LI
TER'S, PLANTATION and
SOLOMAN’S BITTEILS,
Tutt’s Preparations.
Dr. BAILEY’S PILLS,
AYER'S, HALL’S, TCTT’S
t M n. CUvlIlw'i Hmlr I»vlg«rai
COLOGNE,
f Superior Qualify!
SOAP Just Received.
An Elegant Article of Starch,
GOOD COGNAC BRANDY,
PURE RYE WHISKEY.
ing aad Kmoking Tobacco, a good quality
Potash, Cast er OU aud Turpentine.
a scraaioa qcai.it: ok
GARDBMT SEED.
KEROSENE OIL.
CHEAP FOR CASE
Strayed.
sized BLACK HORSE MULE, branded on
right shoulder with the letters C. D., or A
P- Any person taking up said mule, •
sanding us word will be paid for all trouble
and expense.
and disappear on her hip, and she
gradually becoming reduced, and her
whole system rotten with disease. In
1871 a swelling broke on her hip dis
charging large quantities, and since that
time there are several openings. Have
had five doctors at an expense of $125,
who say nothing will do any good but a
surgical operation.
July lGth, 1873, he writes thus: My
wife has certainly received a great bene
fit from the use of yonr Disoovery, for
she was not able to get off the bed, and
was not expected to live a week when she
commenced using it a year ago. bho has
been doingmost of her work for over six
months. Has naed twenty bottles and
still using it. Her recovery ia oonridered
as almost a miraole, and we attribute it
to the U9o of your valuable medicine. I
can cheerfully reoommend it as a blood
purifier and strength restorer.
J. M. Robinson.
Discovery is sold by druggists.
April 6, 187&
SAMUEL HAY k l
L<v Postponed Sheriff Sales tor Iij
TWILL b. .old before lb. Court Horn. eta.
W in the town of Leeabarg, on the Ini
Toeade* ia May next, bkweea the w»l
hours cf sale, the following property to-mt:
Settlement of lands making the pleat*.***
known as the Dr. Hitt or MaxweBlAK?
Place, in said County, levied oa
of Dr. V. O. Hitt, by virtue t
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
t&m How is this? Julia Ward Howe
rays that "there is nothing so beneficial
to yonng men as the companionship of
sisters.” And to see yonng men mean
dering about on Sunday afternoons with
other fellows* sisters, you might think „ , , -
they fully coincide with Julia’s remarks.' aj^U ify P . w 8 ° wlDg thein ’
MRS. M. E. RAINES
Amerieue, and vicinity, that she ie daily
receiving a large lot of
MILLINERY GOODS,
-SUITABLE FOB—
Spring and Summer Wear
—CONSISTING OF—
Hats, Bonnets, Caps. Flcwert, Plumes,
Ribbons, Laces, Silk, Velour and Velvet,
Hauburge, and other trimmings, Berege
Tissue Love and Fancy Veils; Silk net, dot
ted and Plain. Washblond, Tarletton and
Illusion, Corsets, Belts, Belt Buckles, Lin
en and Lace Handkerchiefs, New Styles,
Collars, Caffs, Raffs, Scarf* and Ties,
Chains, Combs, Fans, Glovos, Plaits and
Switches, Hair Pins, Lilly White and
JUST RECEIVED.
A LARGE LOT OF THE
FINEST FLOW
RernB.loUii.BukH. Luver.oft'J
1 come and see far yeorsdvee- Fw*
low. at 8INGLETABY BBC'S-
irlMss South aide public *1?*.
Tax Notice.
I WILL ta at the Comt Row. in U»
Americas, during Ocurt weeks,ud oMJ
days and Saturdays of each week, tor the F
pou Henna tor
rilJlm ’ B.T.a,b c -
Mrs. Baines proposes to keep pace with all
the
LATEST STYLES
of the above goods, and will sell at the
LOWEST CASH PRICES.
Personal.
jxuraoBT
ueae, will leave their order* at the lad*
house of Messrs. Wheatley A Dudler,*^
ton Avenue. I will be in America* t»k* 1
D. P. HOLLOWAY
DENTIST,
TQERF0BM3 >11 opuitioit. on U»
Jr tMth, and inurt. uiiflcUl talk. 08
Utut nnd BOB Imonmdntabod.
Qou. Fn.I-T.ol II W
Arnr^nL Turn. Fcix Hit. 30 co w
CrraonLowm Bra
Bovin, proridwl bbnulf wilb lb. Wjjj
provemtnu in both OputUu ud
&nttarr. b. tnuiM gtKdnnd tagS
Office over Davenport A Bmlth eDrtf
mar 18-th ^
r the District Court of the Vajtg£ i {S
3lJr?i5K<, will bThSdM
W. Warwick, at Hmithvllle. Qa.,00»•» ^
of April, a. d. 1875, st 3 odoci,P-*£. V
8. Wise Parker, Reaieter JaBanfa*!**
order of the said District Court-
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