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The Weekly Democrat, RUSSELL & JONES, Proprietors. Ben. E. Russell, - Editor. THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1873. Assassination Whispered. It. is rumored that the reason Presi dent Grant reconsidered his purpose of making a trip through the South this spring, was that the Itadical leaders whispered assassination in his ear, and so wrought upon his mind an impres sion that his life would be in danger in the South that he determined not to make the projected visit. Vetoes from the Governor. The Atlanta Constitution, of Wed nesday. gives currency to a rumor that Governor Smith had vetoed certain por tions of the General Appropriation Act. The sections reported to have met the disapproval of the Executive are those appropriating ten thousand dollars for a printing fund, twelve hundred dollars as a salary ibr a State Librarian, and one thousand dollars as salary for the Keeper of the Penitentiary. The print ing fund is certainly ridiculously small, r.nd it is difficult to discover upon what estimate the Legislature based its fig ures. The Governor probably thought* that there was no reason for approving aii appropriation which he knew was en tirely too small. ~ LAST thus gained and busied himself in put ting his property in shape to femove it at the shortest notice. His plans per fected; at least, he purchases a fine wag on and a pair of fleet mules, sends the husband off on so-called important busi ness, sends his own wife to Reidsville to carry important papers, and makes ready to elope. The woman, the object of his affections, nothing loth, puts her twt> children to sleep, takes the three born out of wedlock, and leaves the house of her husband with the spsiler for parts unknown. The children, thus deserted awaking in the morning, missed the heartless thing they called their mother. Being interrogated, they reply that they left their"mother in the house the night be fore, and now they know not where she is. A search is instituted, and the wife and her wearing apparel gone; the three children are gone, the mules are gone, and the wagon and owner all gone. Nor have their whereabouts been ascer tained, but it is thought the fugitive pair have emigrated to Texas. Iu cool calculation and bold execu tion, in shrewdness and secrecy, in wickedness and audacity, this instance of modem faithlessness on the part of both husband and wife, out Hcrods Herod, and challenges the chronicles of Chicago to produce a parallel. MRS. WESTMORELAND’S WORK. “Clifford Troup ” Not having read 3Irs. Westmoreland’s last work yet, we cannot* tell what we think of it. In the meantime, we print the following from the New York Her ald of 31onday : Southern ladies seem to take natural ly and easily to novel writing. The latest work of this class is Mrs. West moreland’s “Clifford Troup.” As “Nev er Again” is a New York story. The idea of the “unhappiness” is the same in both—the business necessities of a supposed millionaire and the desire of the father to marry his child in order to pay his debts and escape imprisonment and reproach. In the one Mr. Ledgcval wanted to give his daughter to a count to whom he owed money. In the other Clifford Troup, Sr., desired his son to marry the heiress of “Mossy Creek” to help him to pay the mortgages on his estate. Love of course, was to be sacrificed. Dr. 3Inyo could not defeat the young lov ers, and so he unravelled his plot and caviul il-> ou> Introtliipilnn of Mmo. Steignitz, who gave old Ledgeval the money lie required, and young Lans- dalc the wifi? he loved. 3Irs. West moreland sacrificed the lovers and left the “3Ianor” for which they were sac rificed to be lost after all. Her story is a singular story of selfishness and dis appointment, and while it is not what can be cal’ed a great novel, it will find readers because it deserves them. CHICAGO ECLIPSED. Tatnall County,Ga., Ahead and Should be Awarded the Medal. Chicago, it is generally conceded, stands pre-eminent and alone in the fre quency of its strange elopements and its legal machinery for obtaining di vorces. Indeed it is earning the repu tation of a paradise for those whom the yoke of wedlock chafes. It offers quick release both to the oppressed husband and the masculine wife. But Chicago, with all its fecundity of invention, can scarcely construct a story tliat will eoual in its plot! a recent elopement that occurred a few days ago in Tattnall county. There is a man living iu Tattnall who had a beautiful wife, whom he married before the war. When the call to arms came from Richmond, the husband, the father of a boy and girl, the latter now seventeen, and the former fifteen, left his home with many others, and took the field. He was absent for .several years. Meanwhile, a prominent citizen of Tattnall, a mag of high position and some ability, appointed by the govern ment a cotton agent, spent much of his time in the company of the soj-dier’s wife, and eventually grew unduly inti mate. Himself a man of family, contrived to send his own wife and children to Uiuesville under pretext of educational advantages, ar.u the coast thus cleared, pursued his uuhvwful intimacies secure trout interruption. At the close of the war, the husband j ‘turned. The disturber of his peace i.attn j; a large amount of cotton on hand, belonging to the Confederate Gov ernment. converted it iuto gold. A rich nan, now, he employed this unsuspect ing < bstaele to his wishes from time to ;ime on special business which called him uwaj from home. Meanwhile the Fasting and its Influences. Whilst the secular press has nothing to do with the religious influences of Lent, it is interesting to note how an cient and general has been the custom of religious fasting. It was in practice among the ancient Egyptians by those who devoted themselves to the worship of Isis, and was common among the oldest nations of the Orient. There were periodical fasts among the Greeks and Romans. The public fasts of the Jews were numerous. The Lenten fast is esteemed by the Greeks, Catholics and some Protestant churches a tradi tion from the age of the apostles. The Catholic Church prohibits flesh but not fish for food on fast days, and carries out the duties and penalties of Lent to the very letter. The Episcopal Church also observes the forty days’ seasen by unusual exercises of devotion and in culcates self-denial. Whilst the press has nothing to do with the religious sig nificance of the season, it is impossible, as the Brooklyn Eagle pertinently ob serves, to overlook the fact that, in sec ular interest, the season of Lent is more important than any other. Those churches which carry out the duties and penalties of Lent strictly, and those in which it is observed only to a. n.fxliH.'il oxteat, tiro sufficiently nu merous, even in this country, to have the effect of their religious abstinence felt in various employments and voca tions, such as those of the butchers, graziers, and theatrical managers. What the butchers loge, however, the fishmon gers gain—Lent, which is a fast to others, being financially a feast to them. If it be true that too much animal food is eaten in this country, the abstinence from it and the use of vegetables and fish for a certain period may he a posi tive benefit to the health of those ab staining. Indeed, great multitudes of the population of Asia, who are healthy, strong and well developed, never touch animal food at any time. It is only used in Europe sparingly, at least, by the mass of the laboring population ; vet, on the whole, they are as robust and long-lived as onr own people. At any rate, forty days of temperate eating and drinking can do no harm to any one.—Sac. Advertiser. with Hon. Turner H. Trippe, and also with Hon. Charles Dougherty. He was admitted to the bar in Rabun coun ty, in 1840, and then went actively into the practice of the law in Monroe coun ty. Here he has since resided. He was elected to the lower House of the Legislature in 1849 and 1851." In 1855 he was elected to Congress, beat ing the present governor ; and in 1857 he was re-elected. After the war broke out, he was elected to the Confederate measure was to he brought before the Legislature, and would probably be suc cessful, and he took advantage of this knowledge to xealiae a few “dividends’ by speculating in sehool houses. Of the two brothers, Oliver Ames is the general favorite, and he is certainly morally and intellectually the superior. If you want a favor, go to Oliver; he will grant it if it is within his power; and if not, he will give you a courteous refusal, which is more than.you will a! ongress. Returning home from Con- 'ways get from Oakes, who is as rough gress, after the close of the first session he volunteered in a military company commanded by the late Judge Cabaniss and made a good soldier—obtaining furlough and going to Richmond when Congress convened, returning to camp when it adjourned. Since the war he has been practicing his profession in Forsyth. He com mands the highest respect from his co- temporaries at the Bar, and is an ex emplary member of the 3Iethodist church. These particulars we learn from a lengthy sketch of Judge Trippe in the Atlanta Herald THE SUPREME^ COURT OH THE DOG LAW. No Dog Tax. The Washington, D. C., Republican reports that the Supreme Court of that District decided on Saturday the case of R. J. Meigh vs. The Corporation of Washington, a case which has been up on the calendar for some time, and has attracted no little attention, as well be cause of the high character and ac quirements of the appellant as of the interest which grew of his denial of the right of the city to tax dogs other wise than as property. It will be re membered that Mr. Meigs, on his refus al to pay the dog tax, was arrested by the police aud held for some time at the station house. The arrest was made some years ago, and the case has been in court ever since. The court on Sat urday decided that the arrest made in such case was without authority, and that the warrant issued for the appre hension of 31 r 3Ieigs was null and void. The court held also that dogs could be taxed only as property, and in propor tion to their value. THE AMES FAMILY. Something About ths Man who Occu pies the Most Disgraceful Position in the Union. Stephens on his Democracy. non. Alexarfder II. Stephens, recent ly elected to Congress from the 8th District of Georgia, “defines’’ his polit ical principles as follows: “I am a Democrat of the ‘straightest sect’ of the Jeffersonian school of politics. In it I was reared, and in it I expect to die. In this school I imbibed a fixed faith in the ‘capacity of man foe self-govern ment’ and a firm belief that upon the unswerving maintenance of the princi ples of this great apostle of liberty rest not only all future hopes for the preser vation of our matchless system of free institutions on this continent, hut all sure hopos for the political redemption of the down-tjodden and oppressed peo ple in all climes and countries.” JUD£E TRIJPPJS, A SiographiagJ Sketch of Sou. R.P. Trippe- Hon. Robert P. Trippe, the -new Juige of the Supreme Court, was borp in Jasper county, Ga., 1819, and is therefore now fifty-three years of age, in full vigor of mind. When quite young his father removed to Monroe, where he was principally raised. At the age of fifteen he entered Ran dolph Macon College, of Virginia, and afterwards entered Franklin College, i»obt nii.l. ,, , . Georgia, where he graduated with the j L ' u *° l ' time ; first honor of his class. He read law j A correspondent of the Springfield Republican writes of North East in, the birth place and home of Oakes Ames— LllC tuali tt liU J USL licnr otevudo in okj dio graceful prominence before the Ameri can public. The town lies midway be tween Boston and Fall River, on the line of the Old Colony and Newport Railroad. In this place is the great shovel manufactory of 0. Ames & Co The number of hands employed in the various departments of this factory ranges from 300 to 400. In any ordi nary season, each day’s work produces 3,GOO shovels. Oakes and Oliver Ames are the senior partners of the firm, and their sons comprise the company. Oliver Ames, Sr., the father of Oakes and Oliver, began the businessinavery humble way, first as a manufacturer of nails, and then of shovels, in a small one-story building, with no machinery The little shop gave way to a larger one each succeding year saw a steady gain over the preceeding, and when, ten years ago, Oliver Ames died, his little nail and shovel shops had grown to be one of the leading industries of the na tion, and Ames’ shovels were known and used throughout the world. He died at an advanced age, having lived to see a flourishing town grow up around him, which, in a large measure, owed to him its existence and prosperity. He was universally respected; a keen, energetic man of business, yet singularly straight forward and upright in his dealings. The Ames family have always been interested in the welfare of North Eas ton. and every scheme for public im provement meets their ready support and receives from them substantial aid. They have always been firm advocates of the temperance cause, and have waged relentless warfare against the li quor traffic in their midst And this has not been without its perceptible effect, for I will venture to say that no other town in the State, in which the foreign element so largely predominates, can show so good a temperance record as does this place. Three or four years ago Oakes Ames began building an ele gant school house, with the intention of presenting it to the district in which he resides, but before its completion the school district system was abolished, and not caring to include the whole town in his liberality, he offered to sell the build ing at a slight advance on cost. After much controversy upon the subjeet. the town finally bought the house, and some people have been so ungenerous as to assert that 3Ir. Ames knew that this and blunt as one of his own shovels. The people of this village met the “campaign slander,” at first, with indig nant denial, then with attempted de fense, which has given place to a feel ing of almost personal shame and hu miliation. The Ames family has been held in such high esteem that the de fection of Oakes is keenly felt. Daily Life of the Pope. The Roman correspondent of the Lon- dm Tablet in his last writes: “I saw the Holy Father a few days ago. He was in excellent health and spirits, every one who sees him remarks upon his vigor and elasticity. A bright ness surrounds his countenance which some persons might fancy more than natural. He rises early, makes his meditation in the little chapel of the Blessed Sacrament, just over his bed room, and then goes to the larger chapel, where he says his mass and hears an other as thanksgiving. He took a per son in his %little domestic chapel the other day, and looking round at the relies of the saints and the- Tabernacle, he exclaimed: “What more do I want? Here is Jesus Christ and his saints. Eero un vero parudisoC He spends a great deal of time at night and in the early morning at prayer before the Blessed Sacrament. He sleeps on a little iron bed without curtails, and though he sleeps well, he sleeps little and eats lit tle. He is full of confidence and hope. The Pope’s discourses and sermons from the time of the seizure of Rome till last Advent have been published in Rome- They form an octavo volume of about f >ur hundred pages. Another volume will be out befor Ion".” A. T. REID & COMPANY COR. WEST & BROUGHTON STREETS, BAINBRIDGE, GA. DRYGOODS & GRCOERIES. THE LARGEST STOCK THE CITY. CLOTHING AND HATS. A Large and Fashionable selection at a. T. REID & CO ’S HOOTS AND SHOES. Ladies, Gentlemen, Misses, Boys and Children’s at A. T. REID & CO.’S I>ress Goods A complete and handsome stock at and Prints. A. T. REID & CO.’S Bacon, Bacon. Sides, Hams, Shoulders and Bulk Meats at A. T. REID & CO.’S Tlour, ETotit*. One hundred bbls., different grades, A. T. REID & CO.’S Sugar and Coffee. Fifty bbls. and sacks Sugar and Coffee at A. T. REfD & CO.’S IVortliem Hay. One hundred bales Morthern Hay at The Bond Business. Carey W. Styles says : “We do not pretend to have mastered the subjeet. nor do we assnme to know all the facts; but, under the solemn sanction of an oath, it was made our duty to devote much time and labor and all our mental f calties to an earnest, full and faithful investigation of every question involved in the discussion; and from the knowl edge thus derived, imperfect though it may be, eandor and just criticism con strain us to the conclusion that onr re spected contemporaries, who have been and are still fighting the proposition for an equitable adjustment of the bond claims, either have not taken the trouble to inform themselves or purposely ig nore legitimate argument to ply error to the passions arid prejudices of those less informed. Oats, Oats. Five hundred bushels Black and Yellow Oats at Cheeks, Stripes and From Columbus, a choice selection at Butter, Cheese and All fresh and arriving weekly at Enquire For any goods you may want at A. T. REID & CO/S A. T. REID & CO.’S Y arns, A. T. REID & CO.’S Eisli. A. T. REID & CO.’S fastTH —TO— CHANGE 0McHED DIe . WESTERN AND ATLanti! Railroad OFFICE MASTER TRANSPORT^ Atlanta, Ga., Febru-n^f, On and alter 9th instant °utward Night Passenger Tra- Through to New y ork . Knoxville, * 8 *1 *V ill leave Atlanta I Arrive at Chattanooga - * „ 9- *J " leave Chattanooga - Arrive at Atlanta °. ' ' y '"' P-1| Outward Day Passe J e r S '' Through from New York, Leave Chattanooga Arrive at Atlanta . ' 1 » a?.!"” ^ p- ■ fcBa, l-:<)0 widsjjkl Leave Arrive at Dalton Leave Dalton Arrive at Atlanta !8i> feb27] e. 3. walker Masterof Tr)i n ap oflatk||| ATLANTIC AND GULF RAILROAD j A. T. REID & CD ’S Change of Schedule. Gk.tkkai. SlTF.RIxtexdext’s OrFIOE 1 Atlantic anij Gi lf Railroad ' Savannah, Feb. 21.187:). ’ j On and after Sunday, FehnuwK l*;- Passenger trains on this toad ivill nin j$ I follows - EXPRESS PASSENGER. Leave Savannah daily at - Arrive at. Live Oak - Arrive at Thomasville Arrive at Bainbridge - - Arrive ai AJbaay Leave Albany - Leave Bainbridge Leave Thomasville Leave Live Oak - Arrive ** Savannah Connect at »nj_, P, & M. Railroad for and from Jatk- sonville, TalTaliasso*, etc. No change of cars at Live Oak; no rhnnpe of cars between Savannah and Allianv. 4:10pm | 3:201 1: 55 i a, I 7:o0>m I - 5:20pm - 0:45 p a - 10:00 p n — - 11:40 p m I - - 10:10 a Live Oak with train* | CITY MARSHALL’S SALES. "Will be sold before the conrt house door in the city of Bainbridge, Ga., between the usual hours of sale, on the first Tuesday in April next, the following property, to-wit: One Job Press in the possession of Russell & Jones, Democrat office of the city of Bain bridge: levied on as the property of Willis M. Russell, to satisfy one tax fifa issued by George W. Pearce, Clerk of Council, vs. said Bussell; this March 6, 1873. P. COLLIER, Marshall City Bainbridge. Cotton, Corn, Hides, Wool, and any country produce bought by AT. REID & COMPANY. FALL AND WINTER! 1872—-1873. We are in the market with our usual stock of FALX and WINTER GOODS. Close connection at Albany with trains n Southwestern Railroad. DAY PASSENGER. Leave Savannah, Sundays exe_, - 7:20am I Arrive at Lawton, Sundays exc., - 3:115 pm I Arrive at Live Oak, Sundays esc., 5:40 p a I Arm* Jaiksonville, Ssntbtys cxcc| irctf - 11:03 p ns I Leave Jacksonville. Samdays esc.. 0:40am I Leave Li ve Ottk, Sundays esc., - 11:40 a ns I leave Lawton, Sundays ex<_ - 2:20pm I Arrive at Savannah, Sun. tic.. - 10:00 pra I No change between Savaiauh ami Jack-1 sonviffe. ACCOM MOD AT! ON THAIX. f WEsraiix mvtsttw. I heave Lnvetnn, Shoulnjs excepted, 7:30am | Arrive a* Valdosta. Sundays ta« T ‘.klftna Arrive at QrntWSundays M - 1W?a ra I Arrive at ThwmasviP.e, “ “ laltlpm Anive at ARsiny, “ “ 7:40pa I Leave Albany, Sundays excepted, 7:50am I Leave Tlunuasvifle, Sun-lays “ 2:21)pm Leave Quitman, Stirs lays “ 4:02 p Leave Valdosta,Sundays “ 0358pa I Arrive- at Lawton, Sundays “ 8:10pa [ Conrnrect at Albany with night trains on Southwestern railroad, leaving ASeny Mb- day, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, id arriving at Albany Tuesday, Wedneshr. Friday and Saturday. Jh-riJ Steamer leaves Bainbridge wry Wednesday at 9:00 a. m. for Apalachicola H. S. HAINES. G«n’l Supt. H. F. Abell. C. E. Hochstrasser H. F. ABELL & CO., GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS, And Dealers in Plantation, Family, Steamboat GROCERIES. Consignments of Florida syrups solicited. Particular attention paid to all orders and consignments. [oct24 6m 116 Broad St., Columbus Ga. lOO bbls. FLOUR, 8,000 pounds BACON Sides Ac Shoulders, J. P. Dickinson. C. W. Stegall. DICKINSON & STEGALL, H ANKERS Bainbridge, Ga., DEALERS IN Exchange, Bonds, and Stocks, Coin. Deposits received and Collec tions made And promptly remitted for at current rate t>f exchange. State nf Georgia Decatur eomnty : The undersigned have this day entered into copartnership for the purpose of doing a Banking and Exchange business in the city of Bainbridge, Ga., under the firm name and style of Dickinson & Stegall. John P. Dickinson and Calvin W. Stegall are the general partners, and Arthur P. Wright and Thomas C. Mitchell are th* special partners, who have this day contrib uted the sum of Five Thousand dollars each to the capital stoA. Said copartnership to commence this day and expire on the Sixth day of August, A. D., 1873. JOHN P. DICKINSON, CALVIN W. STEGALL, ARTHUR P. WRIGHT, THOMAS C. MITCHELL. August 6th, 1872-—tf 1,000 lbs. LABI), 3.00 yaud* BAGGING, lOO buns. ARROW TIES. PAINTING MATERIALS, Of all kinds—White Lead, boiled and raw Oils, colored Paints assorted. 10.000 YARDS OF PRINTS, ALL GRADES AND PRICES. 5.000 yards Brown and Bleached Shirtings and Sheetings. 25 pieces KENTUCKY JEANS. And the usual assortment of DRY-GOODS and DRESS GOODS. Petitios and Rule Hi Si to Foreclose Mortgage. Drury Rnmbo, Executor, cs. J. J. W 1 *- Superior Court, Dcceshrr County Mty Term, 1873. STATE OF GEORG IA, DECATUR CO. It being represented to the court by *“* petition of Drury Rnmbo, ns executor of tte last will and testament of Daniel Raw ■ deceased, that by deed of mortgage, dated!* the first day of November, 1870, -L L j ,l? , conveyed to the said Drury Kambo a lot land in the 20th district of .“aid “"W- known in the plan of said district as lot : 372, for tiie purpose of securing die pa.™’’, of a certain proniisory note made by the 3 ' J. J. Yates to the said Drury Kambo. due™ tiie first dny of November, 1871, for the of seventeen dollars and fifty cents, note is now due and unpaid : R w " r ,. that the said J. J. Yates do pay into™, court by the first day of the next term t er the principal, interest and cost due on sa note, or show cause if any he has to the " trary; or in default thereof foreciosu granted to the said Drury Rambo ° - mortgage deed, and tiie equity of redeaip of the said J. J. Yates therein barred, and that service of this rule r fected on said J. J. Yates by publics i" n a month for four months, according ,0 , Witness the Hon. Peter J. Stroxier, Ju „ said Court, this January 2d, 1813. T. F. HAMPTON, Herk BABBIT & WARFIELD. THOS. BRANCH * CO., BRANCH, »O xi * Richmond, Va. Augusta, BRANCH & SONS, Commission Savannah, Ga.. Market Prices corrected Weekly > Branch & Sons- Salt—By car-load, 1.50 per sack; l-«»* small lots. „„ nl 0 t n j4etf. Bacon—Clear rib sides, OOsOJ; 6Ja7; D. S. C. R. sides, . »5c-' 1 Sugar House Syrup—20c. in > ■' lots of five bbls. * . jjfmw Hay—Northern, T.80 from store. • ^ wharf; western, 1.80al.90 from store, al-75 from wharf. white- 9'- Cora—Yellow and mixed, " Oats—70c. i. higher Coffee—15a20Ic in 25-bng lot * in ten bag lots; five bag lots c ? tjerc e3. Rice—7;ja8} for fair togood ’n ^ Pearl Grits—6.00 perbbl. ofy 00 . 1 -^.#: Flour—Superfine, 6.50; extra, family, 9.50*10.50 bags or bbjs. Potatoes—white, 4.2oa4.bo P/ Onions—6.50a8 00 per bbl. * hlt Apples—4.00*5.00 per bbl. ^ Bagging—weighing 2.30 to y . Tobacco-—40a75c according to fV quality. 4