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Volume 4.
BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 30, 1875.
Numbef 51.
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They have finally got it into verse.
•You’ve pinned it hack,’ he cried with grief,
“Much further than you’d orter.
Your front stands out in bold relt ef—
Mv darter! oh, my darter!”
“Thirty-nine lashes on the bare back”
i-s proposed in New Jersey for any man
who accepts an office, the duties of which
hr knows himself incapable to perform,
do up head, Jersey. How would that
lev work in Mississippi, Louisiana and
.South Carolina ?
A Woman that Wouldn’t Hug?
Brooklyn has a mania for queer law suits.
Its latent venture in that direction is nn ac-
t:m lirdiighl by one Ilugg against Miss
Mrah Williams for breach of promise. While
Mrali was poor she pledged lierselfto Hugg.
I-lit an uuiit died and left her §40,000, and
she repudiated Ilugg. The damages are
laid at ''20,000, which shows a disposition
mi Ihigg’a part to deal fairly.
Senator Gordon on Carpet Bagirers
Under this caption the New York Hr aid
condemns Seualur liordon for his denuncia
tion ol -carpet baggers” in his lute speech
in Mississippi, and very strangely construes
it into a sweeping attack upon the Northern
men. The Northern press ought certainly
to know by this time that the word “carpet-
logger'' at the South is applied solely to po
litical adventurers, who are among us only
for the purpose of personal aggrandisement
*nd gain by unprincipled use of the ignor
ant negro vote, and whose characters, like
their worldly goods, can be packed away in
an exceedingly small receptacle and trans
ported with ease and rapidity. These are
the men denounced by Senator Gordon, and
not honorable Northern men, who are wel
comed to our midst.
A Car Load-
Tin- following explains the general term
ear load: Seventy barrels salt, TO of
lime, JHi of flour, lit) of whiskey, 200 sacks
°f flour, (1 cords of soft wood, 18 to 20
head of cattle, 50 to (50 h°ad of bogs, 80
to UH) head of sheep, 9,000 feet of solid
hoards, 17,000 feet of siding, 13,000 feet
of flooring, 40,000 shingles, one-half less
°f hard lumber, one-fourth less of green
lumber, one-tenth of joists, scantling, and
all other large timber, 340 bushels of
wheat, 800 of corn, 080 of oats, 400 of bar-
lev. 350 of flaxseed, 300 of Irish potatoes,
•ItlOof sweet potatoes, 1,000 bushels of
'mm. A heavy box car weighs about 10,-
flW) pounds.
The President has requested Governor
Arnes to try and keep the peace without
flic interference of United States troops.
The .Mobile Register thinks there is noth
ing easier. This is the Register’s plan of
Pacification: “Let Ames resign and turn
the government over to some good Missis
sippi Conservative to act until an election
tan take place, which will restore the
white people to their proper place as the
ruling and governing race, and the ne
?roes to theirs as the race to be ruled and
governed, and we shall hear of no more
trouble in that State. Peace can only be
assured in that section when society is
tattled upon its logical basis.”
Getting Down to Business-
The internal revenue men have been
of late picking up the small whisky
thieves iu the northern part of Georgia.
'tl'in the last few days upward of one
hundred illicit distillers have been arrest-
and the capture of fifty more in the
same section of country is reported. The
cue in the average of these oases will
amount to one hundred dollars, and im
prisonment two months. This raid has
hot been made without some loss, as a lo-
f a ‘ agent by the name of Greer, belong-
thg m Pickens county, Ga., has mysteri-
? u '‘. v disappeared, and it is feared that he
has been foully dealt -with. The authori-
j’\ s have also picked up fifty whisky
ueves in Virginia.
T , . The “We” Style-
10 vpme editors, and in Geor-
iwly unable to distiuguifftJ ^
Ween their own contempt?-
ai >d the newspaper which they ^
hs “Managing Editors.” Why, the
<■‘14 and smallest newspaper in Georgia. >-
a bigggf and a nobler thing than some ot
ihes<! up starts “We’s” of the big Dailies.
M ill ij le poor, miserable asses never
warn that it is the paper and not the
"Miiuigiiuj Editor" that is- the "n®*
hhtl that it is what the paper contains anu
hot the name of the chucklehead who
on the “We” style, that gives char-
heter and influence to the press!—AUnny
-W«.
T ou hit the nail spang on the head that
rime, Careyann.
Address of Dr. G- W- Cromwell,
Health Commissioner for the Sec
ond Congressional Cistrict, Deliv
ered before the South Georgia
Medical Society in Bainbridge on
the 21st Instant
Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Society.
I am present with you at the invitation
of your President, on this, the first meet
ing of your society, after its organization.
It gives me great pleasure to meet you to
day, for I take more than ordinary inter
est in the sueeesaful conduct of this Socie
ty. I share the deep interest that doubt
less all of you feel in promoting tiie wel
fare of an organization tiiat must prove of
great value to the votaries of our profes
sion in Southern Georgia For as a means
of bringing together medical men from a
large scope of country to discuss those
questions of medical itnpor.ance that have
occurred iu the interval; to interchange
views as to the etiology, pathology and
treatment cf our endemic diseases and
such other questions as will naturally
arise ; and last but not least, as a means
of bringing our Doctors together in social
and friendly intercourse, the advantages
of this society cannot well be over esti
mated.
But besides the interest that attaches to
this organization from these purely pro
fessional motives, there are others that
effect us as citizens of a portion of the
State to which scant justice has been done
by public opinion, and it is not too much
to say that this injustice has befallen her
partly through the apathy of her own
medical men. Southwest Georgia has an
unenviable reputation abroad for unhcallh-
fulness, and this character given Her chief
ly by her own runaway citizens (who be
coming unduly alarmed at the appearance
of a few cases of congestive chills or ma
larial luemaluria, spread wild and exag-
erated reports of death and disease as they
fly.) This character given her, has serious
ly and injuriously affected her material
interests. She has been described as a
“Grave Yard” where it was certain death
to remain during the summer months, and
much more of the same tenor, which hav
ing a medocum of truth overlaid with
much that is not true, has been the means
of keeping down her population and retar
ding her development. Southwest Geor
gia is a country where malarial diseases
prevail no doubt—to a greater extent for
merly than now, and more now than they
will in the future ; but malarial diseases
are not the only affections that human in
firmity is heir to ! Indeed the doctrine
of compensation seems to apply here, as i
Philosophers tell us it applies in all other
conditions of life, for with our malarial
diseases we arc so singularly exempt from
those other scourges of the human family,
that, in a calm survey of the situation, we
may congratulate ourselves that we have
chills and are spared those other more
grave affections, that figure so largely in
the mortuary tables of more Northern,
aud more favored (?) localities.
Here then again gentlemen, in an earn
est enddhvor to place the sanitary record
of our portion of the State right before
the people, and to remove those impres
sions that have operated so injuriously
against her, I have an interest in the suc
cess of the South Georgia Medical Society
that is common to you all.
But I have an interest in the successful
and prominent organization of your body
which is, in one sense, selfish. As Sanita
ry Commissioner for this District, and
being conscious of my inability to proper
ly discharge the duties expected of me
without the cordial support and co-opera
tion of the medical men throughout the
District, I was delighted to find, by the
circular of your President, that the socie
ty would be an auxiliary in aiding the
State Board of Health to discharge the du
ties that have been committed to it. As
the Representative of the Board here, I
will be pardoned in bringing before you
its claims to your support aud for saying
a word or two in explanat ion of its object,
and the good it hopes to accomplish.
In the first place, the Board hopes to
become a medium of eoutaet between the
medical and scientific mind of Georgia,
and the great body of the people of the
State. It is well known to you, that eve
ry vocation, whether profession or other
wise that depends upon popular patronage
for its support, seeks to educate the mas
ses, aud does educate them into a fair
knowledge of‘that vocation—while our
profession—that of medicine is singularly
deficient in such efforts. The attendance
upon court of those interested, and fre
quently of large numbers of citizens
when important trials are in progress, has
diffused through our population a techni
cal knowledge of law that could not have
been obtained otherwise, and which cer
tainly could not have been obtained had
the court house door been jealously guard
ed against their admittance.
The pulpit has been so sedulous an in
structor not only in matters of religion, but
•^the dogmas of their special forms of
« that it would be difficult to find a
man o. . . ,
of his^r IKPman ignorant of the ground
aes through tifcf. The politician diffu-
stump orations, suerfes by means of Ins
matiou touching the posroount of tnfor-
Nay, even the allied sciences are seeking
to popularize their teachings, and to make
a knowledge of them requisite to a polite
education. This they do by means of
lectures by popular scientific men, and
by essays and reviews written in untech-
nical language and adopted to popular
modes of thought.
But how is it with regard to our profes
sion? What means does she employ to
educate men into a just appreciation ot
herself, or to dispel the gross ignorance of
it that characterises even those of liberal
culture? And yet we are shocked and
provoked when in our daily walks
meet men of cnligthentment gravely dis
cussing the pretentions of quackery,
advertising the virtues of some nostrum.
But why should we expect other results
of men, whatever may be their general
culture, who are ignorant of the first
principles of Physiological science—to
whom the processes oi digestion, aeration
of the blood, secretion and excretion are
mysteries which they never hope to solve,
And yet it would seem that an acquaint
ance with Physiology and Anatomy is as
necessary to a liberal education, as it
knowledge of the dead languages or
artistic acquaintance with the fine arts,
The fault, I fear, gentlemen, lies with
the profession herself. It being her province
to grapple with some of the greatest ques
tions that can engage the human mind, to
wit, the acult laws that govern life and
development, health and disease, she has
been withdrawn from contact with the
great struggling world of every day
thought, and her votaries have communed
with her apart. She has too, until witnin
recent times invoked the aid of supersti
tion as an adjunct to her remedial mea
sures, and her votaries either themselves
believing in the Alchemist’s magic,
knowing its worthlessness when its
methods were understood, combined to
throw round the profession a mantle of
mystery, the better to cloak their own
ignorance aud impotency But with the
advance of scientific knowledge—a
knowledge slowly but surely acquired—
rational medicine discards these shroud
ings, and inviting criticism by the key to
the attainment of truth, she desires notli-
better than that the masses should be
educated up to her standard, and be able
to bring an enlightened aud just criticism
to bear upon her work.
lienee by diffusing practical scientific
information amongst the people by means
of essays and reports ou such subjects
are indicated by its standing Committees,
and by inviting and encouraging such
papers from Physicians friendly to scien
tific pursuits throughout the State, the
Board of Health hopes to inspire the peo
pie with a partiality for such literature,
and so to advance the great interests of the
people while it improves those in the
ranks of the profession.
Another, and at present, the most
prominent object that the Board of Health
has in view, is llie collection of vital sta
tistics. Of course, for many years the re
sults to be obtained by the collection of
these statistics will be of a negative char
acter, but when sufficient time shall have
elapsed,and the returns shall be sufficient
ly complete, their value to medical men,
and indeed to all other cltisses of the com
munity, will be very gret-t.
Besides these important duties, there
are others intrusted to the Board. It
made its duty to investigate, iu connection
with the local Physicians,and report upon
any extraordinary outbreak of disease that
is novel in its character or destructive in
its tenderness; such as ^he outbreak of
vellow fever that occurred here in 1873.
This duty will devolve upon the commis
sioner in whose District it occurs, aided
by one or more neighboring commissioners
as the President may direct, and as I said
above, by the local Board of Physicians.
To one committee is given the conside
ration of endemic, expedemie and conta
gious deseases,with the view of obtaining
such information concerning them, as will
lead ultimately to their control. As a
means of aiding in this,another Committee
has been appointed ou Geolog}', Topog
raph, climate, &c—which, aided by the
State Geologist who is ex-officio a mem
ber of the Board, will study the climatic
conditions of the different portions of the
State, in their relation to their endemic
and cpedemic diseases. This committee
will also devote special attention to the
influence that trees have upon the general
health. It is believed that the considera
tion of this la<t subject has received two
little attention from Physicians residing
in malarial districts; it is through the
value also, of our pine forests and their
health giving exhalations in pulmonary
affeotions.should be brought more promi
nently before the public.
To another Committee has been entrus
ted the duty of investigating and report
ing upon the sanitary condition of our
public buildings—our jails, public school
buildings, Hospitals and other public in
stitutions that may properly come under
their supervision. By their report to the
Board, and by the Board to the Govern-
where the Physicians of the District, by
keeping the Commissioners informed as to
the sanitary condition of the jails and
other public buildings, can do the Board
a service, and aid materially in having the
facts properly brought to the notice of
the Legislature.
One other subject has been thought of
sufficient importance to be entrusted to a
standing committee; it is the subject of
poison and special sources of danger to
life and health. The subject is compre
hensive and embraces a wale field of en
quiry, but I suppose the most obvious du
ties of the committee wili be to consider
bow best they can suggest a means of pre
venting the fatal mistakes that some times
occur in Drug Stores in filling prescrip
tions or in vending by mistake poisonous
articles for innocent.
I have spoken above of the service that
Physicans can render the Board, by re
porting the condition of the jails and other
public buildings in their counties, let me
now indicate as briefly as I can, some of
the other modes by which they can ad
vance the work, the Board has been en
trusted with. They can aid the Com
mittee on endemic, epidemic and conta
gious diseases by furnishing them infor
mation concerning their local endemic
diseases; their cause, course, treatment
and general result, with any departures
from their usual course, or any unusual
complications; their amenibility to treat
ment, and vote of mortality; with such
other information as they deem of inter
est. Of Epidemics, by stating the cause
if any can be assigned ;tiie place of origin,
whether imported or indigenous; their
period of inception, of greatest intensity
and decline and final cessation; the treat
ment pursued whether satisfactory or not;
new methods of treatment adopted with
promising results; vote of mortality, and
any suggestions as to means to be em
ployed in promoting its return. They
may aid the committee on Geology, To
pography, &c—by describing such leluric
and climatic conditions as in their judge
ment, tend to produce, modify or cure
diseases;—naming the diseases so in
fluenced and the conditions that affect
them, giving instances as the result of
their persomd observation sufficiently
often repeated to give the observer a well
rounded conviction of sequence. To
illustrate my meaning 1 will give for in
stance;—the reported personal observa
tion of the effect that a residence it. pine
forests have upon Phthisical patients; the
effect that mineral waters found in tlieir
locality have upon any given disease as
Rheumatism, Dyspepiia, Chlorosis &c.
The effect if any, that certain trees have
in warding off malaria or of mitigating
its influence; the topographical character
of those portions of the country that suf
fer most from malarial poisoning, with
tlieir location as to swamps, marshes
ponds and low damp grounds iu relation
to prevailing winds. The effect of recent
clearing of wood land, and of “ileod-
nings’’ in generating malaria ; if the re
moval of skirts of wood or undergrowth
that acted as screens between infecting
localities and settlements, and in fact any
information which is the result of actual
observation, on this most important sub
ject, will be of great service lo the Com
mittee in making tlieir report. Finally
any specific information that can be given
as to the Eucalyptus trees that have, as it
is claimed, done so much in destroying
malaria in Algiers and other countries, by
drying up low and marshy places. It is
considered of the greatest importance to
ascertain all that can be known about this
tree, for if half what is claimed for it be
true, its introduction into South Georgia
will prove indeed a blessing to.
1 have endeavored Air. President, to lay
before the Society as briefly as 1 could,
the claims the Board of Health lias to your
consideration and support, and I have
stated my own sense of dependence, as
Commissioners for the District, upon
your aid in properly discharging the du
ties fexpected of me. I have touched upon
those duties of the Board that seem most
obvious, but I do not presume when I say
that its sphere of usefulness will be en
larged and better defined as time is given
it to mature, and the needs of the commu
nity shall indicate. It is almost superflu
ous for me to add, the amount of good in
it accomplishes will be in proportion to
the support it reeives from the profession
it represents.
The Mixed School Question Dispos
ed of in N«w York.
The telegraph, a day or two since, an
nounced that Judge Gilbert, of the Su
preme Court, had denied, in Brooklyn, a
motion for a mandamus to compel the ad
mission of a colored child to a public
school for white children. The grounds
upon which Judge Gilbert- based his de
cision will be rcaii with interest. The ap
plication was made in behalf of a colored
clergyman, the Rev. William F. Johnson
whose son the officers of Public School
No. 35 had refused to receive, on the
ground that there were separate schoo
for colored children, and that, under the
rules of the Board of Education, such
children were required to attend such
schools. The question was whether the
board had a ri^lit to make such a rule,
The Judge decides that it has the right
under the laws of the State. The State,
he holds, is not controlled in its regulation
of the subject by the Fourteenth Amend
raent of the Federal Constitution. “Com
inon schools are a public charity;” their
benefits are not a right but a “free gift.
They are “no part of that body of politi
cal and civil rights which arc protected
and secured by the fundamental law.”—
The Fourteenth Amendment “has no ap
plicationtotheca.se.” As fiee education
is a gift of the State, the State may attach
such terms and conditions to the gift as it
pleases. The Judge decides that the civil
rights law of this State, which was passed
iu 1873, and which secures the “full aud
equal enjoyment” of school privileges,
and forbids “discrimination against any
citizen on account of color,” does not
prohibit the maintenance of separate col
ored schools, because such a distinction
does not interfere with the privileges of
the colored people or discriminate against
them. The Indiana case, which attracted
much attention some months ago,differed
from the Brooklyn caea in that "there was
no school which the colored children, who
were refused admission to a white school,
could attend. If the Board of Education,
while shutting the doors of white schools
against colored children, had maintained
no colored schools, a different set of facts
would have been before Judge Gilbert.
His construction of the law is clear and
forcible.
Commenting on this decision, the New
York Post (Rep.) says: As to the expe
diency aud justice of the law thus inter
preted by Judge Gilbert, we have hitherto
contended that a classification of schools
and scholars, as to color, does not name
any deprivation of equal educational rights
while often it may promote the interest of
both white and colored citizens.
How Ames Sculks-
The Vicksburg Herald, of ihe 8th inst.
thus exposes the course and.designs of the
carpet bag Governor of Mississippi, in call
ing for “more troops” to uphold him and
his party in that State. -
Adelf>ert Ames, the murderer, has not yet
denied the eharge of Colonel Wiley AVells,
the United States District Attorney, that he,
Ames, instructed Peter Orosbv. last Decem
ber, to arm the negroes of Warren county
and march upon the city of Vicksburg.
George E. Harris, the Attorney General of
Mississippi, is the witness relied upon by
Colonel Wells to prove the charge, and as
Harris was present at Hernando when it was
publicly made, the failure of Ames, thus far,
to enter a denial or to demand an investiga
tion. must be accepted as a plea of guilty.
The reason given for his atrocious instruc
tions. that “the blood of twenty-five or thir-
rnent, such defects in ventilation, over,
, 4 s t e | sv nesnves would be oi gre=u benefit to the
crowding and want oi proper faeibt.es for ^publican partv .“ 0J1 £ a.Ids to the a.roci-
cleanliuess of the inmates, will be brought .. .. _
before the Legislature for such action as
d their relation to the Fedetrf parties, that body may deem advisable, and it is
aU L !,!« endeavors to' ‘State hoped, in time, abuses in these particulars
eoverniueuu* *»» »*• j * .
gov
popularity and suffrage
that we nwj w iH Ih> remedies.
iusfi v be considered a nation of politicians. ] *a n d here Mr. Pn
4 * V ititCi
President is one iustuuce
ty of the course pursued by him. The recent
action of the friend and henchman of Ames,
Dr. Algood, of Noxubee county, ami tint of
Morgan.another henchman iu Yazoo couuty,
to say nothing of the late murders in Clin
ton, all go to prove a. well devised plan to
organize riots for Ihe benefit of Ames, and
FaUaly Packed Cotton-
The following rules were adopted at
the second annual convention of the
National Cotton Exchange:
False and fraudulently packed cottons
are such bales as may contain foreign
substances, water packed bales or bales
containing damaged cotton in the inte
rior without atty indication of such
damage upon the exterior of the bales,
and such bales its are plated, or compos
ed of good cotton upon the exterior and
decidedly interior cotton in the interior
of the bales in such manner as not to
be detected without opening the bales.
MIXED PACKED COTTON.
That mixed packed cotton shall be
defined to be such bales as contain
more than one quality of cotton, the
lower quality being so situated in the
bale that no design of false or fraudu
lently packing appears, the difference
however, in qualities must be equal to
at least one-half grade in bales sold as
low middling and above, and one full
grade in bales sold below middling.
That xvhen mixed packed cotton is
received it shall be received as of the
grade of the lowest quality in the bale.
That no bale shall be rejected as
mixed packed when the lowest quality
in the bale is equal to or better than
sample by which it was sold.
That after cotton has been examined,
received and passed upon by the brok
er or agent of the buyer, no claim shall
be made except for false or fraudulent
packing.
That reclamation on false and frau
dulently packed cotton, to be entilted
to collection, must be made within one
hundred days of the arrival of the cot
ton at its destination, and be presetted
to the seller at point of shipment within
thirty days thereafter.
aauv -Hirers that I could name, sustain the charged Colonel Wells.
The Maine Election.
A Washington special of the 14th inst.,
«to the Baltimore Sun, says “the heavy de
crease in the Republican majority in
Alaine is regarded here by the leading
politicians of both parties as of remarka
ble significance, and as forecasting among
other things the death blow to tit? Presi
dential aspirations of ex-Speaker Blaine.
It shows that Air. Blaine’s influence in his
own States is on the wane, and that the
importation of Senator Alorton was a pos
itive damage. A leading Government of
ficial, in conversation to day, said that he
fully expected now that both Ohio and
Pennsylvania would be carried by rousing
majorities for the Democrats. He said it
was evident Unit the hard times would be
the destruction of the Republican party.
All history shows that when the pressure
of hard times is upon the people they re
bel against their rulers. In monarchical
countries they can be put down by the
bayonet, but in the United States, through
the silent agencies of the ballot box they
dethrone their rulers. A leading Demo
crat said that next year he expected to
see the same popular rising, only a great
deal more so, which drove Alartin Van
Buren out in 1840" The idea gains much
treugth here that General Grant will be
brought forward as the hard money can
didate, and that he will liave the combin
ed support, as in 1872, of what is called
the money power of the country. But it
is not expected that he will win, whatev- j
er platform be may accept.”
Radical Efforts to Bring About Vio
lence and Bloodshed-
A Washington special to the New York
World says the “Southern Radical politi
cians and their sympathizers in the North
seemed determined to bring about a war
of races at any hazards. An appeal is
printed here this morning iu one of the
organs of the Administration, in which
tiie Southern negroes are advised to or
ganize against the whites for their own
protection. It is recommended to them
to let it be distinctly understood that the
death of one of tlieir number means the
death of two of their persecutors. The
author, who was an associate of John
Brown, says in his addrese : “Remember
two deaths for one, two buildings burned
for one ; the avenging angel must always
double the returning blow of retaliation.”
This advice is somewhat the same as
Frederick Douglas gave a few days ago
on the same subject, when he said, “My
own impression is, that when the Govern
ment will not protect the colored man, he
ought to and will finally try aud protect
himself. There are midnight murderers
who have respect for no moral considera
tion. They are scarcely to be called hu
man. They are wolves and tigers in hu
man form, and to slaughter one of them
is no more a crime than to slay a real tiger
when his fangs are in one’s flesh. If tiie
negroes must die at the South, my advice
to them is to sell tlieir lives as dearly as
posssible. Let it be seen by these cow
ardly mobocrats that in attempting to
slaughter black men they invite the khife
to their own throats and fire and repine to
tlieir own hearthstones and they will
cease.” When sentiments of this charac
ter are prominently printed in papers sup
posed to r2present the Administration in
this latitude and are given editorial en
dorsement, it is easy to imagine what will
be said and done in the obscure sections
of the South where there is no restraint
so far as public opinion goes.
North Carolina Convention-
The North Carolina Convention is pro
gressing with its work. The Democrats
have entire control of the body, and de
feated all of the motions made by the
Radicals for an adjournment sine die.
About one hundred and twenty-five or
dinanccs have been introduced to amend
the present State Constitution. The prin
cipal of these are to reduce the number of
Supreme and Superior Court Judges, aud
providing that they be appointed by the
General Assembly instead of elected by
the popular vote ; fixing the pay of mem
bers of the Legislature at $300 per annum ;
reducing the number of County Commis
sioners ; fixing the term of Governor and
State officers at two instead of four years;
providing for the non-suspension of the
writ of fwbeas corpus; for seperate schools
for white and black children ; modifying
the appointing power of the Executive ;
fixing the salaries of the Governor and
State officials; abolishing the Senate
branch of the Legislature; prohibiting
felons from holding office or sitting on
juries, and providing for the compromise
of the public debt.
The following singular advertisement
lias appeared in the London Morning
Post: “A lady is anxious to find a home
for a young lady in whom she is deeply
interested, as a wife to a man with or
without children. She has good health,
good temper, cultivated mind, quiet,
homely tastes, deep religious principles,
devoted to children. A Plymouth broth
er would be preferred. Any one who
gets her will bless God for such a life com
panion. Address, etc.”
“Brick” Pomeroy lectured in Baltimore,
the other day, and told of some of the
things he saw while with the Federal army
out West during the war. At Cairo he
said “he saw a coffin which was supposed
to contain the dead body of a lieutenant
in the army being sent home for burial.
The coffin was broken open by accident
and it was found full of silverware stolen
in the South. A piece of raw meat was
on top of the silver, which emitted the
offensiae odor expected from a corpse.”
A Chicago woman advertises in the
Marriage Bazaar: .“I want a honorab!
honest gentleman for a husband. No
lawyer, doctor, or politician may apply.
I will give my future husband on my
marriage day $10,000 cash, and twice that
amount in real estate. I am 22 years of
age, 5 feet 4 1-2 inches high, weigh 140
pounds, a good musician, and well edu
cated. Editor has address.”
ATLANTIC & GULF RAILROAD.
Change of Schedule.
G«xeral Supkiuntkxdk.nt’b Office, 1
Atlantic and Gulf Railroad, V
Savannah, May 1st, 1875. J
On and after Sunday May 2nd Pas
senger trains on this road will run as
follows :
EXPRESS;
Leave Savannah daily at
Arrive at Live Oak daily
*• at Thomasville ••
“ Bainbridge “
“ Albany “
Leave “
“ Bainbridge
“ Thomasville
“ Live Oak
Arrive at Savannah
Connect at
. .4:00 p.
at 2:56 a.
4:45 a.
7:46 ».
9:20 a. m.
4:10 p m.
6:16 p. m.
8:20 p, m.
10:06 p. m.
8:60 a. m.
Live Oak with trains
on J., P, & M. Railroad for and from Jack
sonville, Tallahassee, etc.
No change of oars between Savannah and
Albany.
Close connection at Albany with trains on
Southwestern Railroad.
Mail steaiuer leaves Bainbridge for Apalach
icola everv Sunday evening.
ACCOMMODATION—WESTERN DIVISION
Leave Dupont, Sundays excepted 7:00 a. m.
Arrive at Valdosta
“ Quitman “
“ Thomasvile “
Leave Thomasville “
“ Quitman “
“ Valdosta “ ‘
Arrive at Dupont “ ‘
Accommodation train-
.9:00 a. m,
‘ ... .10:16 a. m.
1 ...,12:15 p.m.
1 ...,2:10 p.m.
1 ... .4:08 p. m.
6:28 p. m.
7:80 p. m.
-ALBANY DIVISION.
Leave Thomasville: Tuesday
Thursday, and Satur
day at 8:10 p. m.
Arrive at Caminilla: Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday at. .5:40 p. m.
“ Albany: Tuesday Thurs
day and Saturday at 7:60 p. m.
Leave Albany ’Tuesday, Thurs
day and Saturday at 9:20 a. m.
“ Cammilla: Tuesday, Thurs
day and Saturday at 11:17 a. m.
Arrive at Thomasville: Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday... .1:45 p. m.
Canned at Albany with night trains on
Southwestern railroad, arriving in AlDany
Tuesday, Thurday and Saturday, 7:45 a. m.
II. S. HAINES, Gen.
Superintendent.
Established 1852
H. C. M KKE.
D. M. BENNETT
McKEE AND BENNETT,
Bay & west broad streets,
SAVANNAH, - - - GEORGIA-
CARRIAGES,
BUGGIES,
AND PLANTATION WAGONS.
WARRANTED WORK INVARIA
BLY PROTECTED.
Jan 71875—ly,]
THE OAK CITY
News Company
KEEP
Late Newspapers, Writing Paper
and Envelopes,
School Books,
And every other article usually found in
a First-Class
NEWS DEPOT
Particular attention paid to sending Sub
scriptions
TO NEWSPAPERS!
Call and see our NEW GOODS,
IN WATT S GUN STORE,
East Side Broad Street,
Bainbridge : : : : : Georgia.
Feb. 15, 1875.—t .]
Brick for Sale.
1,000,000 BEST BRICK FOR
SALE.
The undersigned hereby gives notice that
he offers for sale ail the bricks and materials
of the College Building iu lots to suit pur
chasers. and at the most reasonable prices.
The brick are of the same as those in Ehr
lich's new store. Call on
W. W. WRIGHT,
Sep 2, I875-Im. Agent.
Ten PerCent
COUPON BONDS OF BAIN
BRIDGE, GA., FOR SALE.
By direction of the City Council of Bain-
bridge Georgia, we offer for sale
FOURTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS
OF BONDS
of tiie Cily of Bainbridge, issued under an
act of the Legislature of Georgia, which in
allowing the issue, makes it incumbent upon
the Mayor an d Aldermen to levy a sufficient
tax to pay principal and interest. ..
The bonds are issued in sums of $60 and
§100 each, and bear interest at the rate of
TEN PER C’NT PER ANNUM,
payable semi-annually on thejfirst of Janua
ry and July of each year; these bonds and
coupons being receivable at maturity for
all dues to the city. They are divided into
scries of $2,000 each, that amount falling
due each year, which amount with the annu
al interest on the whole issue (decreasing
annually) experience has shown can be readi
ly met from the city treasury, with the usual
tax levy.
We offer these bonds
A $2,000 principal due Jan. 1,1877
B 2.000
“ “ “1878
C 2.000 “
“ “ “1879
D 2.000 “
“ “ “1880
E 2.000 “
“ “ “1881
F 2.000 “
“ “ “1882
G 2.000 “
“ “ “ 1883
These bonds will be
Tiie Only I>el>t
Aainst The City
and are a safe and paying investment for
capital, and as sneb we recommend them to
the attention of investors. They can be ob
tained at the office of Messrs. Dickenson &
Stegall, Bankers of this place. Any infor
mation will be furnished by either of the un
dersigned.
J. P. DICKENSON, 1 Finance
A. T. BOWNE. f
F. L. BABBIT. J Committee.
Bainbridge Sept. 6, 1875.—3m.
SAVANNAH GEORGIA.
A. B. LUCE,
Board per day
Proprietor.
$3,00.
Clerks
las, O’Connell, and R. M. Johnston.
c e a s