The Bainbridge weekly democrat. (Bainbridge, Ga.) 1872-18??, February 22, 1872, Image 2
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The Weekly Democrat.
Tliaraday, February S2nd, 1673.
BEX E. RUSSELL, fc JOXES,
niOPRIKTORS.
BH.f K. RC8MELL, I I i I Editor.
EDITORIAL ITEMS.
The Bainbridge Democrat.—The
Bainbriilge Democrat will be pub
lished hereafter as a weekly paper.
This is a good move on the part of
the publishers. One weekly jaaper
edited with taste, discrimination and
industry, is worth all the semi-week
lies, tri-weeklies or bi-weeklies in the
universe. That the Democrat will
lie one of the best we have no sort of
doubt.—Savannah Morning Mews.
Wc thank our able contemporary
for the above flattering opinion ol
The Democrat, and we shall do all
in our power to merit it.
Editorial Change.—We regret
to learn that Capt. Allison has re
tired from the editorial chair of the
Quincy Journal. Under his admin
istration the Journal occupied a high
rank with its contemporaries. Maj.
W. H. I'Anson succeeds him, to
whom we extend a fraternal wel
come.
Why is It ?—Have the Advertiser
and Republican newspapers, Savan
nah, dropped The Democrat from
their exchange lists ? We have not
received a copy of either in a week.
An Interesting Letter.—We
copy from the Savannah Republican
in our issue of to-day, a very inter
esting letter, written to that paper
from this city, by Dr. Babcock, its
travelling correspondent, who spent
several days among us week before
last. Read it.
The Next Georgia Press Asso
ciation Meeting.—The next regu
lar meeting of this Association is to
be held in May next. Several cities
have been suggested as the proper
place of its meeting, but we rather
incline toward Columbus as the most
appropriate place—for, as the Sun,
ol that city, very truly says: “The
members of the press would not
only be well entertained, but would
be afforded an opportunity of acquir
ing a fund of valuable information
as (tb the:; exhaust less resources for
future greatness • of this locality—
the undoubted Lowell of the South.”
As to the Press Excursion, wc are
decidedly in favor of it, and would
suggest that New Orleans be the
city visited by the Georgia editors.
The LaGrange Reporter can put
The Democrat in its pyramid.
Senator Norwood.—Senator Nor
wood has gained for himself an en
viable reputation in Congress ; of
which the people of Georgia in gen
eral, tend of Savannah in particular,
may justly be proud.
Governor Allison.
At the session of the United States
District Coart for the Northern District
of Florida, Judge Frazier presiding,
held last week in the city of Tallahassee,
ex-Goveruor A. A. Allison of this place,
was tried upon an indictment based
upon the charge of •‘unlawful interfer
ing and using intimidation” while an
election was in progress. This was the
third trial of the case, and as on the two
former occasions, a verdict of “guilty”
was rendered. He was then sentenced
by the Couri to pay $250 and to under
go imprisonment in the jail of Leon
couhty for the term of six months.
Thera are those who believe that
Governor Allison stood no chance of an
acquittal from the beginning. That it
was designed to make an example of
him as a prominent citizen, and to that
end, a jury was organized purposely,
with-a view to conviction. We have no
sympathy with such an opinion. The
juries we have now-a-days are none of
the bast, u must be admitted. But then
they are composed of such material as
the law contemplates; aud such as they
are we have to accept them. It is hardly
to be expected that a -jury of ignoraut
and prejudiced negroes, embittered by
political hatred aud urged by the ani
mosity of raoe, would be very nice in
their administration of justice, when a
white citizen of prominence end hold
ing political seutimeuts obnoxious to
themselves, is subjected by circum
stances to their domination. But we
cannot help these things. They are upon
ns, and it becomes us to bear them with
what grace we may, uud look to the fu
ture-lor deliverance.
The question however arises, was the
verdict in this case just? Was Governor
Allison guilty of the offence os charged?
A jury, if not of In*; peers, at least of
his conn tty men, have three times de
cided that he was. On the other hand,
his witnesses—men of the first respect
ability—protest that the witnesses for
the prosecution, all of whom were ner
groee, swore falsely throughout and
perjured themselves in every count.—
This declaration, it shonld be added, is
strengthened by the testimony of
scores of persons here, who affirm that
on the day of the election, they saw
none ef the scenes sworn to by the wit
nesses for the prosecution.
In this conflict of testimony we con
fess ourselves at a loss which way to
determine. But we tend to the. convic
tion that Governor Allison is at this
time, *» durance vile, expiating an of
fence he never committed. In his pres
ent unfortunate condition ho has onr
siDoerest sympathy, and the sympathy
of this entire community. It would be
some alleviation, of lii» suffering if be
could be permitted'to serve out his term
of imprisonment'here where he might
receive the attention of his familv and
accomplished. Efforts is this direction
we understand arc now being made.—
We hope they may prove fuocessfnl.—
Quincy Journal.
The above narrated outrage is
in keeping with the record of those
tools of Radicalism who have held
political sway in Florida since the
election of Reed as Governor of tha-
State.
Ex-Governor Allison is an old
gray-hcaded man, respected by all
who know him, and whose unim
peachable reputation gives the lie
direct to the charge brought against
him. And now he is condemned to
suffer six months’ imprisonment in
the common jail of Leon county, by
a jury of negroes whose ignorance
of law and justice is not surpassed
by their counterparts in the jungles
of Africa.
We are of “those who believe that
Governor Allison stood no chance of
an acquittal from the beginning;”
and “that it was designed to make
an example of him as a prominent
citizen, and to that end a jury was
organized purposely with a view to
conviction, ” the Journal, which has
“no sympathy with such an opinion,”
to the contrary notwithstanding.
We are surprised at the “milk-
and-water” stand taken in this mat
ter by so respectable an organ as
the Journal—a paper published in
Governor Allison’s own town. And,
again we are surprised that after
acknowledging that the Governor’s
witnesses were of the first respecta
bility, and all of the witnesses for
the prosecution were negroes—the
Journal should be “at a loss which
way to determine" in the matter of
the justice of the verdict.
Here is what the Tallahassee
Floridian has to say of one of the
jurors on Gov. Allison’s case:
• • * * • “One of them,
a white man, was seen yesterday morning
entering a low negro house of prostitution
within rifle-shot of this office; and on leaving
and while in the public streets, one of the very
lowest prostitutes of the city was publicly
soen to throw her arms around his neck and
exchange kisses with him. In a few hours
thereafter this man was uniting in a verdict
agninst General Allison on a false charge of
intimidating voters ! What a mockery !”
A Day la Albany.
Wc spent Monday in Albany.
The town looked quite “cityfied,” if
times were dull, and everybody dis
cussing the Senatorial election to
take place there on the 4th of March.
Several new buildings have been
erected since our last visit, and we
learn’that many more are in con
templo-tlon
Col. Carey W. Styles, editor of
the News, has been nominated by
the Democracy for the State Senate,
at the election in March. Wc trust
that he may be elected. Several in
dependent candidates for the same
position have announced themselves.
Albany has two first-class news
papers, the News and Central City,
both of which are well patronized,
and appear to be doing finely. The
latter paper has not been in exis
tence hardly two months, but its
popularity and success is really won
derful for so short a time.
Frank Evans the sprightly
local editor of the News, showed us
around the city in a way that we
liked. Frank is a good boy.
The Town’s Hotel and the Albany
House are both creditable establish
ments, either of which are worthy
of the public patronage. We put
up at the Towns, and found it to be
a hotel equal to the best any where.
It is kept by those two gentleman
ly and enterprising men Collier and
Cheeves. Sucoess to them.
Taken altogether Albany is about
as nice a little village as can be
found in Southwestern Georgia; and
it is without doubt the “Central
City 17 of Dougherty county.
pleasant impression, and has stored
away in the crypts of his memoiy
some happy reminisences.
The taste that directed the exter
nal decoration of the Court House, is
rather questionable. It is unique
and singular, to say the least, and
displays considerable originality.
The Italian sculptors have certainly
never handled marble of such won
derful shadings and variety of color.
A large unfinished brick baildin,
on the outskirts, erected for the pur
pose of a college, stands, and has
stood for ten years, a lofty monu
ment of blighted hopes and blasted
expectations. Efforts have been
made to obtain appropriations to
complete the work, and to estaDlish
a Polytechnic School, but thus far
without success.
It is feared that the completion of
the Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mo
bile Railroad at Chattahoochee, and
the low rates at which they are
offering to take freight from that
point to Savannah, via Fernandiua
and Jacksonville, may prejudice the
interests of the Atlantic and Gull
Railroad. At all events, it is proba
ble that a brisk competition will be
instituted, and that ibe public will be
the gainers thereby. TUo annual
meeting of the stockholders of the
road will take place in Savannah pn
the 14ih inst., and you may expect a
large delegation from Bainbridge,
A widow lady, residing in this city,
has in herjjossession some relics of
great value and interest. They con
sist of a set of plates, once the prop
erty of the immortal Patrick Henry,
together with an inkstand formerly
used by that erratic bnt gifted genius,
John Randolph. Her little son is the
last direct male descendant bearing
the name of the eloquent and patriotic
Henry. May vre express the hope
that he has likewise inherited the tal
ents and ability of his great ancestor!
The factory for cotton fabrics pro--
duces goods of excellent quality, aDd
pays a handsome dividend upon the
capital invested. The Presbyterian,
Methodist and Baptist churches sum
mon their members to their weekly
devotions, whiie a neat Episcopal
Church will soon be completed. Mr.
Sharon, of the hotel bearing his name,
accommodates and renders comforta
ble the wearied wayfarer.
Notwithstanding the fascinations of
the softer sex (and we may remark
here that for beauty of face, grace of
figure and charm of manner, Jbe ladies
of Bainbridge are unsurpassed), we re
gret to state that we found in this
city an unusually . large fraternity of
bachelors. Among them we grieve
to enumerate that very clever gentle
man and able official, the Mayor. Also,
that good looking compound of the
Bohemian, bandit and poet, linn of
the dreamy eyes and disheveled
locks, yclept Ben Russe'l, of the
Democrat. We can account for their
insensibility upon no other hypothesis
than that the frequent use of the
waters of the Flint river has exerted
a petrifying influence upon their once
tender and clinging affections.
The press gang of the Sun and Dem
ocrat art active and vigilant sentries
upon the watch-towers, and are striv
ing manfully to wheel Decatur countv
into line at the fall election. We like
Baiobridge, and look forward with
pleasure to another visit.
W. H. B.
A Seriwns Accident-A Howe
Rams Away with a Boggy
containing a Gentleman and
his Wife and Child-
Yesterday morning about 10 1-2
o’clock, Mr. Cohen, of the firm Mey
er, Cohen k Co., shoe dealers,
Broughton stieet, was driving down
Bay street, accompanied by his wife
and child, when near the corner of
Jefferson street his horse became
frightened from some cause, and des
pite the efforts of Mr. Cohen, tore
down the street and collided with
horseman. Mr. Cohen was thrown
from his seat by the shock, and
struck upon his face, the wheels of
the boggy passing over his head,
cutting off his left ear, and also oyer
his body, inflicting severe injuries.
The frightened animal continued his
pace until turning the corner of
West Broad, the wheels came in con
tact with a wagon, throwing Mrs.
Cohen and her child out, and smash
ing the buggy badly. Fortunately,
we may say, miraculously, the lady
sustained but slight injury^ and the
child none at all
Mr. Cohen was picked up by par
ties who saw the accident and car
ried to the residence of a physician,
where he received proper attention.
His left ear was served from his head
as if cut by a knife. He also re
ceived several bruises about the face
and head. It is feared that he has
sustained internal injuries.
Mrs. C. received a contusion on
the side of her head, but otherwise
not injured, although her nervous
system sustained a severe shock.
* We understand that the horse -Mr.
Cohen was driving bears a very bad
name, yesterday making the third
or fourth time he has run away.
The affair created a great deal of
excitement and drew a large crowd
to the scene of the accident.—Sa
vannah News.
The Proposed Lease of flie At
lantic and Gulf Kailroed.
Letter From Bainbridge.
[FROM on TBA.VEUKQ OOZBESrOlTQEfT. ]
Bainbridge, Ga., Feb. 12, 1872.
Editor Republican:
Among the pretty cities to be
found on the line of the Atlantic and
Gulf Railroad, Bainbridge, the term-
inus ; is one of the most attractive.
The'numerous tasteful private resi
dences, with their neat gardens and
luxuriant shrubbery, the wide
streets,, shaded by magnificent
oaks, the high bluffs, with their va
ried scenery, arre3t the attention
and command the admiration of the
visitors. The Flint river, with fts
deep and rapid current, is naviga-
Journalistic Amenities.—This is
iha way the Ohio State Journalist
glorifies a brother journalist:
The most attractive figure at the
Nilsson opera, in Cincinnati, we are
told by visitors, is that of R d
S h, of the Cincinnati Gazette.
Dressed in an irreproachable lavender
cravat and claw-hammer coat, with
bis blonde hair flowing in frizzled ring
lets of ravishing workmanship, he is a
joy forever. His gloves are the
envy and despair of the yoong bucks of
the Queen City. His generons hands
are first encased in a canvass covering
from one of Phippe’s sugar cured
hams, to corset them into shape; then
this is covered with green kid of the
finest quality, by the base ball maker
of the Red Stockings. C'ockeril! says
be would be willing to die if he couid
achieve such a pair of gloves and
Haistcd would give an eight cylinder
press to have such heir.
cotton from Columbus, and Western
produce from New Orlans via Apa
lachicola. Near the river landing
arc shown two or three wells, dug
by Gen. Jackson’s troops during the
war with the Creek Indians. The
peculiar posltkm of Bainbridge, sit
uated as it were In the angle form
ed by the junction of Alabama, Geor
gia and Florida, has been conducive
to her prosperity, and has attracted
buyers and sellers from a consider
able distance. Her people are hos-
pitaMe and agreeable, and her so
ciety polished and refined. AKo-
Clean Currency.—The 'office of the
Treasurer of the United States has
been at all times si nee the commence
ment of the issue of legal-tender notes
of 1869, and is cow prepared to sup
ply notes of any of the denominations
from $1 to $1,000 that may be re
quired and paid for. For all notes of
issue prior to 1860, (or mutilated and
defaced notes of 1869) or fractional
currency sent to bis office, the Treas
urer will furnish new notes of any de
nomination specified, the Department
paying the expenses both ways if sent
in accordance with instructions in the
various circulars on the subject. For
notes of the issue-of 1869 that are suf
ficiently good for circulation, sent to
the Treasurer's office, the Treasurer
will also furnish notes of any other de-
ble at all seasons, and the steamers
of transportation most be paid by the
party asking the accommodation.
It will be remembered that in the
proceedings of the annual meeting of
the stockholders of this road on
W ednesday iast, mention was made
of a proposition to lease the road for
a term of years, and after debate,
the following resolution, offered by
Hon. B. F. Bruton, of Bainbridge,
was unanimotsly adopted:
Resolved That in response to the commu
nication of this Cate from Morris Ketchum,
Esq., addressed b the presiding officer of
this meeting in ssfercnce to the lease of the
road, <tc., the directors are hereby instructed
to invite.a specific and definite proposition,
and that when such proposition is received
by them, if it is fuch as in their opinion is
entitled to earm*t consideration, that they
shall proceed to lay the same before a con
vention of stockW J -rs to be called as early
after as practicable.
Our community is deeply interest
ed in this road, and no rnc can fail
to discern the great advantage which
must accrue to Savannah as a sea
port city, in the event of the original
design of this grand enterprise—that
of connecting the Atlantic with the
Gulf of Mexico—being promptly and
energetically carried out. The pres
ent condition of the road, as evident
by the able report of the President,
all things being considered, cannot
be described as discouraging.
It will be gratifying to the stock
holders to know that the prime mover
of the aforementioned oroposition is
a well known Georgia Railroad man,
who, since the war has used his ad
ministrative and financial abilities to
such good purpose as to accumulate
a fortune in the railroad business.
Enjoying the confidence of the capi
talists of this city and also of New
York with ample means at his dis
posal, there is no doubt of his ability
to faithfully carry out the require
ments of his proposition, and to fully
secure the lease to the stockholders.
Such being the case, should the Board
of Directors who have the matter in
charge make any agreement to that
end, the present stockholders will
have the satisfaction of knowing that
the road will be under the adminis
tration of one of our own people,
and per consequence nothing will be
done to militate against their inter
ests or the interests of the State.
We feel, however, that the stock
holders will not approve of the case.
—Savannah News.
Increase your foundries, rolling
mills, machine shops and enrich your
merchants. An interior city can be
truly prosperous - upon commerce
alone.
Establish manufactories, and com
mercial prosperity necessarily fol
lows.
In examining the statistics of Pitts
burg, the great city of this continent,
we find that she is rapidly becoming
a great commercial mart demonstra
ting the fact that manufactures are
the foundation of commerce.
In one of the Western States there
resided a family consisting of an old
man by the name of Beaver, an<j
three sons, all of whom were very
wicked. They had often laughed to
scorn the advice and entreaties ol
a pious, though very eccentric minis
ter, who resided in the same town.
It happened that one of the boys was
bitten by a rattlesnake, and expec
ted to die, when the minister was
sent for in great haste. On his arri
val, he found the young man very
penitent, and anxious to be prayed
with. The minister kneeled down
and prayed in this wise: “O, Lord,
we thank thee for rattlesnakes; we
thank thee because a rattlesnake has
Bitten him. We pray thee to send a
rattlesnake to bite John; send one to
bite Bill; and O Lord, send the big
gest kind of a rattlesnake to bite the
old man, tor nothing but rattlesnakes
will ever bring the Beaver family to
repentance."
The South Gives Alexis a Hint.
It is stated that the Grand Duke
Alexis was exceedingly surprised at
the great carrying capacity of the
Mississippi steamers, and in Louis
ville made special study of jheir con
struction. The result of this has been
a correspondence with a firm in that
city, in which His Royal Highness
states that he desired to see similar
vessels on the rivers of his native
country, where such steamers as
those which take cotton freights on
our Southern streams are unknown.
Thus, as far as wc are informed, the
unhappy South has given Alexis the
only practical hint which he has con
sidered of sufficient importance to
carry home with him.
Ladies' Protective Society.—A a
Ohio town kas a “Ladies’ Protective
Society.” Obyeet—to discover and re
veal to each other (hot not to out
siders—this they take their oath not
to do)any immoralities of character
among their young masculine acquain
tances, aud by united effort banish
from respectable society such young
men as ore discovered not to be vir-
t*». "S. ! ••••* for tl
Manufactures.
The following extract in regard to
manufactures, is taken from an ad
dress delivered on the 10th ult., by
Mr. Hulbert, ex-Superintendent of
the Georgia State Road, before the
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce.
The manufacturer necessarily dis
burses large amounts of money for
the raw material'and labor.
This money rapidly finds its way
to the retail merchant, aDd from him
to the wholesale dealer.
The merchant cannot possibly have
a more powerful and direct support
thau that furnished by the manufac
turer.
Commerce and manufactures are
twain sisters. They move side by
side.
As the one advances the other nec
essarily progresses, acting and reac
ting upon each other, with a concen
trated collective power that neither
can command separately.
Dissever them and you destroy
both.
Blot out the few manufacturing
establishments and railway shops
that we have hr our midst, and you
immediately dose up a luge propor-
establish-
Tlie Guffaws at Southern Recon
struction. •
There is one class of people who
have no right to join—much less
lead off—in the current guffaws of
the Northern press over the crimes
and antics of the "Southern recon-
structors. These are the men and
party by whom treason to common
sense, humanity and patriotism re
construction and its reconstructors
were fastened upon the Southern
people. Let these men keep silent
over the knavery and antics of yieir
representative statesmen—Mayor
Gumbo. Judge Quashee, Hon. Peter
Bones, Lieutenant Governor Blub-
beriip, Captain Simon Thievall, from
Boston, the Rev. Appollos Clutch,
an<j that enlightened and pious Mis
sionary Gabblemore, from the State
of Maine. These embody in their
sacred persons the highest achieve
ment of “modern political progress.”
If they are failures, or a good deal
worse, the party which produced
them is a still greater monstrosity.
“Every tree,” says the good book,
“is known by its fruits;” and again,
“by their fruits shall ye know them."
If, then, Radicalism in its efforts to
arrange things “according to its no
tion” in this Southern country is
compelled every day to burst into a
guffaw over the grotesque folly and
enormity of the change it hath
wrought, a just retribution should
petrify its countenance in the very
midst of the grin', and it ought to be
pilloried between the heavens and
the earth, as an example to politi
cal knaves and quacks down to the
end of time.—Macon Telegraph.
The County Court Bill.
“Justice,” in the Southern Re
corder, a portion of whose first
unanswerable argument in favor of
the above bill, has another article
in the issue of that paper of Tuesday
last, from which we extract as fol
lows:
“The ‘other feather’.is found in
the following language of the bill :
‘Said County Judge shall discharge
all the duties formerly devolved on
the Justices of the Inferior Court, as
to county business.’ This feature
cannot be too highly commended,
for it is apparent to every intelligent
thinker that the Court of Ordinary,
as now constituted, is vested with
more powers than is safe to repose
in any one man. I will not enumer
ate those powers; suffice it to say,
that the Ordinary possesses, in addi
tion to those belonging to the Court
of Ordinary proper, for probate and
other purposes, all the authority
formerly exercised by the Interior
Court, as to county business.
‘Establish the County Court and
the jurisdiction of the Ordiiiary will
be limited to the regular business in
Courts of Probate—granting of writs
of habeas corpus, and passing upon
applications or exemptions of per
sonalty and setting apart and valua
tion of homesteads.
“All other business pertaining to
county matters—-such ag the super
vision of road commissioners, build
ing, inspecting and receiving of
bridges, provision for paupers, aud
iting' of claims against the county,
assessment of county tax and dis
bursement of the same, etc., will de
volve on the County Judge; a wise
’and wholesome change, for as this
officer will have control of the county
finances, and be amenable to toe
grand jury for an honest and faithful
administration of the same, this su
pervisory power will operate as a
clicck upon him and prevent a reck
less expenditure of the public funds. ”
We understand that most of the
opposition to the court in counties
where it lias been proposed, has come
from the ordinaries and magistrates
The milk in the cocoanut as to the
former is very plaiuly discovered in
the above, aud the motives of the
latter are equally well understood.—
We hope the grand juries of the
several counties not exempted from
the operations of the law will, at
their spring session, weigh this very
important matter well and wisely
before deciding upon it. Let them
close their c^rs to the buzzing and
lobbying of interested parties either
pro or con, and give an honest
judgment upon the square merits of
the case.—Macon Telegraph.
air was densely filled with snow
which whirled and twisted in all di
rections. So dense was the mass of
snow flakes in the air, and so pow
erful and irresistable to the wind,
that one could not see a yardin ad
vance, even on the side-walks,
where the streets were sheltered hj
a continuous row of buildings, a
person was liable to be lost in the
most farmiliar localities, and some
citizens who happened to be ont
lost their way wittun half a block of
their own honses, one lady becom
ing bewildered when almost inside
her own door yard. The children
at the public school had to be taken
to their homes, as it would have
been utterly impossible for them to
have made their way alone through
the storm. This terrible squall con
tinued until after mid-night. The
morning was one of the coldest ever
evperienced in the city, the mercury
indicating twenty degrees below
zero.
It is reported that Miles Leather-
wood, the notorious sconndrel who
murdered General John Morgan, was
accidentally burn.d to death iu Po'k
county, Tenn., recently. We have no
further particulars, and would not like
to make inquiries, lest the story should
turn out not to be so.-Mbbile Register.
The mathematician of the Colum
bus Sun estimates that the members
of Thomas’ Orchestra got away with
at least forty kegs of lager during
the twenty-four hours they remained
in that citv. %
Bishop George F. Fierce is sixty-
one years of age. He has been a
minister forty-one year3, and eigh
teen a Bishop. His father, the ven
erable Loviek Pierce, is still alive
and able to attend to bis pulpit du
ties.
orrw»s~ tion of vnur mercantile
Old Maids.
Old maids are found in clusters in
quiet country towns; they are, as a
rule, both genial and sociable beings,
who gives pleasant parties when
they are poor—who spend weeks at
a time, sometimes even months, in
other people’s houses, yet save them
selves from the reproach of being
parasites by rendering services
which are far more than the equiva
lent of the little they consume for
their bodily sustenance and the
room they occupy in the mansion.
Old maids keep house for brothers
who are widowers, or married sis
ters who are ill. In short, nature
seems to have intended them to be
lieutenants, not having very much
to do on their account, but placed
by the very fact of their leisure in a
position to render great services on
occasions when their help may be re
quired. It is not hereby intended men that the road could be opened
to recommend too much, or the re- in twenty-four bourn. ” At Cheycn-
sult would be fatal to the continua-
Methodist Publishing House
Fire.—The Nashville Union and
American of Friday says the loss by
this fire is not so large as at first
supposed. The Union says:
With the exception of a few half
completed plates, stored in the upper
room, the presses and stereotypes,
valued at $100,000, were saved,
together with a large stock of books
and stationery. A good deal of sheet
stock in the bindery was lost. The
value of Mr. John Locken’s property
in the bindery was a little over $15,-
000, on which he suffered a loss of
not more than $3,000, saving most
of the machinery.
The minutes of the Tennessee Con
ference from the time of its organiz
ation, going back to the beginning
of the present century, -as also the
minutes of the General Conference,
dating back from 1845, the time of
the split between the church North
and South, were deposited in the
room occupied by Dr. Summers.—
Yesterday morning Rev. Dr. Young
and Rev. Mr. Brown went in search
of these precious documents and
found them partly in a charred con
dition, but with the exception of
those of the last Conference, it is
thought they can be transcribed.
Rev. Dr. Summers’ library, con
taining valuable books aud rare man
uscripts, which cannot be replaced,
was utterly destroyed.
The entire loss to the Publishing
House is estimated at $25,000. On
the whole building, Rev, Dr. Red-
ford had an insurance in various
companies of $70,000, of which sum
$5,000 in the Imperial was on that
part of the building used as a bind
ery by Mr. Locken.
The Great Snow Storm in the
West.—The Cheyenne Leader of
February 14, says: “The weather
has been so severe at Sherman with
in the past l^ree dajp that the men
employed to clear the road could
not be kept at their work more than
a few minutes at a time. Neither
money, threats, persuasion nor re
volvers would avail to keep them
out. The wind blows a hurricane
all the time,. and the thermometer
ranges at from ten to twenty de
grees below zero- -If the wind would,
subside, it is the opinion ol railroad
The cholera lias broken ont
among the hogs in aud near Ameri-
cus, Ga.
Col. Cary W. Styles, editor o!" the
Albany News, has been nominated
as the D mfoei’alic candidate for th 5
State Senate from tlieTchth District.
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