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Volume V.
BArvmrt»tiE, geokgia, Thursday, august 10, is76.
Number 43
Address of Maston O’Neal, Esq.,
Chairman County Executive Com
mittee-
lUntTintnoE, Ga., August 2d, 1870,
Ti '• Democratic and CoHscrcattvc pang of
Incatur County.—
11: low Citizens: By resolution of your
Kv'.utive Commiuce il has been made my
■luiy os Chairman of said Committee, to
undress you on this occasion. The time is
fast approaching when we must place before
people our candidates for the Legislature,
ni well as county officers. To that end, each
member of the Executive Committee, in the
M-vcra] Districts in the county, will cal! a
meeting of the Democratic and Conservative
voters of said Districts to assemble at. their
respective precincts, and select three dele
gates to represent said District in the nomi
nating convention, to lte held in Dai abridge
on Wednesday the GtW day of September
next. I would here suggest that fifteen or
twenty days notice be given before the time
of meeting, in order that the voters of the
whole District may he informed of the time
nnd place of meeting. And the Committee
would also urge upor every voter the im
portance of attending those primary meet
ings. and to select true and capable men to
make nominations for the several high and
important offices in your county, for in
tiicse primary assemblies lie tlie power of
the people. We do earnestly request every
voter to come out and exercise the authority
guaranteed to him in these conventions.
The Executive Committee also desire and
request the several Districts to organize one
or mote Campaign Clubs, on or before the
■I'li Saturday in August, and to furnish the
Chairman oftliis Committee with a full list
of the officers of the same, and their respec
tive post office addresses.
The Executive Committee directs me ns
Chairman to urge upon the people, and
especially the voters of the county, the
great importance of taking our home or
"county newspaper, the B.uxmtniGE Dbjio-
cuat. D is a channel of information to the
propte on all countj affair*, us well as State
and national politics. The Dkmocii at labor
ed zealously and with great effect in oar
! isl campaign, and there is no doubt lmt our
'unprecedented success "as a pony iu this
county and Congressional District was in no
small degree effected by the repealed as
saults nnd blows, skillfully directed, by the
1 ii More at against our opponents. Several
hundred copies of the 1) luuciat w ere dis
tributed in 1 S7d, partly at the expense of
‘the Central Demo.-vatic Club of 15linbridge,
mid gratis by the Editor. Den E. I!iis»el!,
throughout our county. The Executive
Committee earnestly request that the sever
al Clubs in the county take this matter
specially in charge, an 1 procure as many
mi iscribers for the Dmmouoat rs possible,
and where parties are unable to pay for the
paper, each club should make up a small
fund to furnish it to them, at lea-t (Irving
She campaign. By this means tire Democuat
will be distributed broadcast throughout the
county, and while this will sustain our
home paper, it ill at the same time have a
telling effect for good iu the coming elec
tions.
1 find by reference to the Tax Digest for
3871* for this county, that there are 1145
white polls, 1084 colored polls returned,
showing f»l more white than colored voters.
Of course this docs not represent truly all
the voters in the county, lmt it is a pretty
correct approximation to the true numbers.
The census of 1870 show that the white peo
pie in this county were in (he majority at
'that time about one hundred, and it is
believed by some of our most intelligent citi
zens that more of the colored people have
emigrated from the county than of the whites
since that date. This being true, and the
fact that the Republican party in this coun
ty look, I may say, almost, wholly to the
"colored race for their strength and support,
should we not be encouraged at the outlook?
Yes; at a fair prospect of success at our elec
tions this fall. Then let us rally t he Demo
cratic and Conservative h osts of our
county around our standard—
'the standard of Reform, Economy
and Retrenchment—the standard that has
emblazoned on its folds—equal and exact Jus-
'tice. to all—Injury to none. To do this let us
not enter the campaign with the extre
mists argument, the fiery abuse of our oppo
nents, nor with the language of the “milk
and cider"’ politician, but with bold decla
rations of right and justice, let us deal with
facts. We have enough of them.
As “eternal vigilance is the price of liber
ty,”so are unity-, harmony and activity the
only guarantees of political success. Let us,
beyond all things, hate unity and harmony
in our ranks—forget whatever of dissatisfac
tion may have heretofore marred our feel
ings or "relaxedpur patriotic efforts, and now-
pusli forward in one common cause for the
good of our country ; and 83 a party, with
that activity that guarantees success, arise
as ose max, on the day of election, and tri
umphantly bear our candidates into offiee.
And now, in conclusion, as the party of
progress in securing reform, retrenchment
and economy in the administration of gov
ernment and the ultimate redemption and
prosperity of the country, we earnestly in
vite all persons of whatever nationality, race,
or former political creed, who are willing to
conform to the principles of the Democratic
and Conservative party, to allign themselves
with us in our patriotic efforts to obtain
good government, and we will hail their
advent with pleasure, and guarantee them
a cordial reception.
Respectfully
Maston O’Neal
Chairman Democratic Committee Decatur
County.
riie Weekly Democrat.
BEN. E. RUSSELL, Proprietor.
Bainbndffe, Georgia, August 10, ’76.
Ma. Jxo. D. Harrell is the General
Agent cf the Democrat, and is authorized to
receipt for suliscriptions and advertising.
AMONG OUR NEIGB80SS.
The Dawson Journal says cotton in
Terrell has the rust, and is shedding
badly.
Clay county recommended Col. Harde
man for United States Senator.
Mrs. Haines wife of G. W. Haines died
at her residence, on the Tallahassee place,
Oaky Grove, near Albany, Monday morn
ing at 9 o’clock and was buried in the Al
bany Cemetery, Tuesday morning. Rev.
Mr. Mallory officiating. Her remains were
followed to the grave by a large number
of 'ovrcwing friends and relatives.
The terms of the notaries public all over
the State expired last week, and Gov.
SmiJt is now eppointing new ones.
Albany New. Keep aa eye on all In
dependents, and as soon as one announces
in opposition to the regular Democratic
Candidate, give him a whack over the
head and eyes, that will so blind him,
that ho can’t see his waj- into the ranks of
the Radical party.
The Methodists of Thomasville are
carrying on a protracted meeting.
Thomasville Is eating ripe peaches.
The recent rains seem to have been
general throughout the State, doing much
good and cooling the atmosphere to such
an extent in some localities as to render
fires desirable.
Seven persons are charged with murder
and about ninety as accessories by the
jury of inquest in the Hamburg riot. Of
the latter sixty are Georgians
The Quitman Gem prints this deserving
compliment to a Georgian: ‘ Mr. fftn.
11. Dart, of St. Simon’s Island, paid our
town a visit "recently, and of coarse could
not go away without leaving his.subscrip
lion for the Gem, which he did in true
Georgia style by paying a year in ad
vance.
Albany shipped the first bale this, sea
son, but it was grown in RikerT'ouut.y.
Quiini iu is a good deal worried with
sore eyes.
Quitman has a society of "upper tens.”
According to the Receiver’s books there
are but 4,278 sheep in Brocks county-; 534
were killed by ■ loirs.
Dawson Taunutl: The yield of Capt.
Pulton’s five acre patch of wheat was
about 85 bush -Is. Does this not evince
the truth that all the Hour consumed in
Southiv st Georgia could, with but little
cost nr iroublbe raised at home.
An oi l bachelor editor says: “When
we reflect tliit at pic hies, a hundred
years ago, it was the custom for the girls
to stand up in a row and let the then kiss'
them al! good-bye, all this enthusiasm
ahoot national progress seems to be a
great mistake.
Fort Gaines prances to the front with a
beet 27 inches in circumference.
The foundry department of the Rolling
Mills of the Messrs. Findley Bros., of
Macon, was destroyed by fire last week.
Incendiary.
The catterpillars have as yet done no
serious damage in Dougherty county.
The Cuthbert messenger prints this
sensible paragraph: “The Balnbridge
Democrat, we arc glad to see,lias resum
ed it’s former size and is more full of
news and sparkling reading matter than
ever. It deserves the patronage of the
people in that section and we trust that
not one jot of its usefulness rnay be cut
off by the want of a proper support.”
Dawson Journal: “Several young
ladies went swimming in Mr. J. M. Critn’s
mill pond, tlte oilier day. Jim is a sensible
boy, and thinks of bilin’ that pond down
and "making ’lasses of it.”
The colored Methodist’s near Cuthbert
are camping out.
Query: Who writes up the Mayor's
Court for the Cuthbert Messenger, George
Francis Train, or Bill Arp?
There arc 66,014 acres of land under
fence in Brooks county.
Andrew Female College at Cuthbert,
begins exercises on the 19lh September.
Quitman Gem: We are pleased to note
that our sprightly neighbor the Cam
bridge Democrat has again assumed its
original size. We hope the people of
Decatur will see that under its present
management it will not have to reduce iu
size again.
Savannah New One of the features
of the commencement exercises of the
State University at Athens was the delive
ry on Monday evening last of an address
before the two literary societies of that
institution by Colonel John Screven, of
this city. The fundamental idea of Coio-
uel Screven’s address was that universal
motion or activity is essential to universal
existence. The subject was treated with
that ripe scholarship, profound research,
pithiness of argument, pungency of ex
pression, and rare facility for capturing
the subtleties of thought characteristic of
the distinguished orator. At the conclu
sion of the oration. Chancellor Tucker
advanced to the platform and warmly
congratulated Col. Screven, thanking him
in behalf of the societies and the audi
ence.
Albany New A planter from Calhoun
county reports (bat be will make enough
corn from cue quarter of an acre to bread
his white family “consisting of himself
wife and one child,” for one year. He is
now selling and loaning corn to his neigh
bors of the present year's growth, having
planted a few acres of extra early corn.
Would it not be well for each farmer to
adopt the same plan, the coming year.
Albany Ne<c»: On Monday our boys
were somewhat excited over a telegram
to the commanding officer of the Albany
Guards, purpoting to be from Governor
Smith, for an immediate report of the
number of men lie could muster for active
service. Tiie Company could have mus
tered one hundred men; bGt it turned out
to be a hoax, gotten up to vary the mon
otony. It was a very clever trick, and
its originator must have felt some satis
faction at the result. A few were ‘sold,’
but none will admit it.
Early County News: The Cuthbert
boys seem to be in a disorganized condi
tion, generally. After having challenged
the Dawson boys for a game of base ball
on the 4th inst., they failed to make their
appearance, and appologized throng!: the
columns of the Aj>pcnl, attributing their
failure to their disorganized condition.
The “disorganized condition” of the
Guards prevented them from being pres
ent at the Battalion drill at this place on
the 20th. Organize, gentlemeu organize'
Fort. Gaines Messenger: There is a far
mer living near Fort Gaines that owns a
“yaller” bitch named “Dixie,” that fol
lows the guinea-hens daily, and whenever
one lays, or she hears one cackle, she
runs immediately to the uest and covers
up the egg with straw or leaves,and what
is remarkable, she has never been known
to eat or break an egg. If “Dixie” can’t
hide the roost from the chicken brigade,
she can the nest, and thus far she has suc
ceeded finely. “Harrah for Dixie.”
Thomasville Enterprise: That the late
drought did considerable damage to all
the growing crops there can be no doubt.
The yield of corn, which before promised
so well, dies been generally cut short and
in many localities to a very great extent.
The fodder, also, has ripened premature
ly and much of it rendered valueless.
Cotton is rusting and dying and many
fields will mature no more fruit. This,
at least, is the condition of the few fields
that we have seen, and a gentleman who
ought to be posted, gives it his opinion
that the crops are . now made—in other
words, that no more bolls will mature.
If this be so, the crop will be cut off very
nearly or quite one-half. Altogether the
outlook is discouaaging, and it behooves
the farmer to be unusually dilligent and
frugal in husbanding and appropriating
Iris crops.
POLITICAL CONDENSATIONS.
Take vour time, Mr. Tildcn. The tax
payers all know what you are going to
say.
After all, it it is the masses that should
he reformed. The dead heads that have
been to the Piiiladelph.a exhibition art-
said to number-63,921.
Seven Johns adorn the Missouri Demo
cratic ticket. Reginald and Augustus
don’t seem to be coming out this year.
The respectable Republicans will give
.$100,009 for a copy of one of the reform
speeches made by Mr. Hayes while in
Congress.
Mr. Hayden, of Hartford, Ccnu., has
come out for Hayes and Wheeler. He
came out of the penitentiary, on a pardon
from Grant.
Democrats North and South may as
well understand that every black man iu
the South is to be proteted in all his
rights as an American citizen. The Re
publican party accepts that issue.—[To
ledo Blade.] And will immediately pro
ceed to put up another freedmen’s bank.
When men are lynched in the Southern
and Western States, the sneaks who mur
der them usually go by night and wear
masks. In the North, the mob goes by
daylight, and when the work has been
done the names of the members of the
mob are published with laudation in a
big daily newspaper.
It is aunouuced in an Administration
paper that Mr. Thomas Wentworth Hig-
ginson is convinced that the Southern
whites do not yet accept the results of the
war. If the protuberant Mr. Higginson’s
friends, who have been stealing ever
since the war, would return some of the
“results,” they would be accepted.
Warmoth, of Louisianua, is reported to
have said, about the sending of soldiers
to that State: “We don’t want any white
troops in Louisiana. They affiliate with
the people too soon and we can’t use them.
We want the colored regiments to intimi
date the niggers and prevent them from
joining Democratic organizations.”
Western Massachusetts is coming lip
nobly for Tilden and Reform. The
Chinese question is one of the elements
of the canvass in that section, and the
working-men express themselves as dis
satisfied with the equivocation of the Re
publican platform on this matter, while
they heartily approve the position of the
Democratic party.
The campaign already' “rows warm in
Ohio, Judge Stallo, General Brinkerhoff,
and Fred Hassaureb, the great Liberal
leaders who supported Hayes for Gover
nor last fall, are plunging into the thick
of the tight iu behal: of Tilden and Hen
dricks, and this means a hotly contested
and aggressive canvass on the part of the I
Democracy.
Nathan Goff, who was nominated for
Governor by the West Virginia Republi
cans last week, has already been tw ! ce
defeated for Congress in the least Demo
cratic district in the State. No doubt is
entertained that he will be as successful
in his race for Governor as for Congress
Mr. Goff is now the United States Dis
trict-Attorney for West Virginia.
WHAT THE SOUTH HAS DONE
FOlt THE REPUBLIC
[Baltimore Sun.]
In the address of Gen D. i3. Hill
before the Mecklenburg (N. C.) His
torical Society, which is republished in
the May number of the “Southern His
torical Society Papera,” some interest-
; ing facts are revived as to the conlribu-
j tions which the South has made to the
j military and civil service repub
lic. Regiitrfihg with the fact that the
commaudor-in-chief of thp first great
rebellion was a Virginian, it is added
that the South furnished troops out of
all proportion to the number of her
population. Almost ali the battle-fields
of the North were drenched with South
ern blood. At the battle of Long Is
land (Brooklyn) a regiment of Mary
landers fought so stoutly and checked
the British advance so long that it was
virtually destroyed. Half the victors
ofTrentou and Princeton were from
Virginia- Two future presidents of
the United States, of Southern birth,
were in that battle, one of whom was
wounded. The only general officer
there slain was from Fredericksburg,
Virginia, and he was commanding
Southern troops. The retreat at White
Plaius was saved from disaster by a
charge of Southern troops, and at Ger
mantown a Southern brigade gained
immortal honor. The Virginia troops
bore the brunt of the battle of Brandy
wine. At Monmouth and on the plains
of Saratoga Southern blood mingled
with Northern in the battles of freedom.
After (he massacre by the Indians in
the valley of Wyoming, 1776, George
Rogers Clarke, of Virginia, with a bri-
g de of his countrymen, penetrated to
the upper Mississippi, chastised the sav
ages, captured the British garrison at
Detroit, and seized £10,000 sterling,
a most seasonable addition to our cur
rency. In the war oflS12 Harrison
and Jackson, Southern men, gained the
most laurels as shown by the elevation
of both of them to the Presidency for
their military prowess. The most bril
liant land fights of that war were in de
fense of New Orleans, Mobile, Craney
Island and Baltimore, in which few but
.Southern t: oops were engaged. While
the North may have furnished more of
the naval heroes in that contest, yet the
war of 1S12 was unpopular in New
England, and the South again furnish
ed in,ire than her proportion of troops.
Kentucky is said to have furnished
more troops for the invasion of Canada
than anv State in the Union. If we
read of the bloody battles in Canada we
are struck with the number of South
era officers there engaged, mostly gen
eral officers—Wilkinson. Tzzard, Win
der, Drayton, Hampton. Scott, Towson,
Brooke, Gaines, &<r The supplies of
the army iu the Revolution and in the-
war of 1812 came largely from the
South. In the .Mexican war the com
manders of both American armies were
Virginians, one of whom (Taylor) ue-
came president, and the other ah unsuc
cessful candidate for the Presidency.
Two-thirds of the volunteer troops of
that war were from the South. Even
in the late civil war the Federal Presi
dent was a Southern born man, and the
first commander-in-chief, Whose plait
for the subsequent conduct of the war
was probably that which was finally
successfully acted on, was a Virginian.
Next to Grant nud Sherman, whose
leading military conceptions were, per
haps, derived from Gen. Scott, the most
successful Federal generals were South
ern men, viz., Thomas, Canbv, Blair,
Sykes, Ord, Getty, Anderson, Nelson,
&e. General Hill declares that the
stubborn resistance of Gen. Thomas at
Cbickamauga and the refusal of An
drew Johnson to give up Nashville, as
Buel directed, dug the grave of the
Confederacy. Farragut, of Tennessee,
rose to the highest rank in the Federal
navy. The naval forces at Hatteras
were under command of Goldsborougb,
of Maryland. General Hill is of opin
ion that the South furnished as many
troops to the Federal army as did the
populous North. At any rate there
were no better troops in the Union ser
vice. Missouri gave 108,773 soldiers
to the Federal army, Kentucky 92,000,
and Maryland 49,730. Other South
ern States contributed in greater or less
degree. In all there were 400,000 na
tive born Southerners in the Federal
service. This does not include the
250,000 negro troops, without whom
Mr. Stanton said that “the life of the
nation” could not have been saved—
which, though, is generally regarded as
bosh. In regard to the loss of life in
the battles of the late war, General H'll,
states that since the introduction of
firearms the losses sustained in the
great battles of the world have only in
rare cases been so much as a fourth of
the troops engaged, and (hey range
from that up to one-twentieth. The
Confederates thought that battle almost
a skirmish in which their losses did not
exceed a fourth. Tried by this test
Europeau fighting has been child’s play
in comparison. “I am ashamed for
strangers to see my barefoot, ragged
hoys in camp,” said General Lee to an
English visitor, “but I would be glad
for all the word to see them on the
field of battle.”
It is not necessary to follow General
Hill’s sketch of the political services of
the South to the country from the be
ginning of Washington's administration
to that of General Grant. Without
disparaging either the military or the
civil services of the North to the Re
public, it may be well in this centenni
al y •• to revive the memory of what
toe South, too, has done for the com
mon country,and to vindldate the truth
of history.
POLITICAL TAMPERINGS-
We have respect for Mr Tilden. We
nfler nothing in disparagement of hit
character or his worth.—[Albany (N.
Y.) Journal, Rep.
We congratulate our Democratic
friends on being led by so respectable
a standard-bearer as Samuel J. Tilden.
—[Poughkeepsie Eagle (Rep.)
President Grant shows signs of Fa
tigue in holding the country up by the
tail. Sometimes there are symptoms
that he has a great notion to let the
thing drop like a hot pota o —[Cincin
nati Commercial.
Ts Tilden a safe man ?—[Harper’s
Weekly.] If our memory serves us
right, the names of the safe men are
Harrington and Babcock. Their per
formances at Washington in that line
have led to their indictment.—[World.
Arkansas has for two years been in
the control of its own people, and there
is peace and prosperity ; South Carolina
has been in carpet-bag hands for eleven
years, and scenes like that at Hamburg
are still possible.—[Boston Post.
History repeats itself. In 1776 the
people had to fight the taxation impos
ed by the British monarchy. In 1876
they have to fight the taxation impos :d
by Radical tyranny. The only differ
ence is iu the mode or fighting. It was
bullets in 1776—ballots in 1876.—
Pittsburg Post (Dem.)
Silly people in the United States
who speak so contemptuously of re
form, and of those who are honestly at
tempting to reform the Government by
reducing taxation and increasing hon
esty in high places, know but little of
the feeling deep down in the hearts of
the people.—[N. Y. Express.
Many Republicans admit that reform
is necessary, and, were it not for old
associations, they would vote for Gov.
Tilden and thus secure it. These men
should not delay id t'neit choice nor in
carrying, out their convictions. Reform
with Tilde n is a certainty. With Gov.
Hayes it is a remote possibility.—
[Omaha Herald.
He (Tilden) has always had the rep
utation of high personal character, and
his opposition to the Tweed gang of
thieves has even placed hint iu some
degree among political reformers. Mr.
Tildcn is a man of great wealth, and is
generally recognized, we should say, as
u thoroughly safe, conservative person.
—[Troy (N. Y.) Whig, Rep.
May not the carefully written reports
of Grant’s insanity, or uiadn'ss, or brain
softening, be only a device of the Re
publicans to escape responsibility for the
infamous acts of his administration?
But, then, how about Babcock, Belk
nap, Williams, Boss Shepherd, and the
parasites who surrounded him, and were
indorsed and sustained by “the Party?”
Were they all mad. too?—Peoria Dem
ocrat.
If the negroes were in arms to “defy
the law,” they should have been put
down by the law, and not by the shame
less violence employed by a few lawless
white men who have brought disgrace
on themselves aud serious damage to
the South and the Democratic party of
the country, We can have no tolera
tion for such conduct or for the perpe
trators thereof—[Sumter (S. C.) True
Southron.
The Republican professors of reform
can dispense with further remarks on
Governor Tilden’s powerlessness in case
of his election until after they have
shown that they possess any particular
power of their own. One thing is sure
in the eyes of the people ; it is the pow
er of the rings that stands in the way
ol all reforms in our public affairs, and
the only successful ring-t masher in the
couofry is Samuel J. Tilden, the Dem
ocratic candidate.—[Boston Post.
A Massachusetts Republican says:
“My mind is about made up to vote for
Tilden, although I hate to ; but I feel
that if any one ever needed a thrashing
If Governor Tildm is not an honest
and able man, the Republican papers
of New Y«rk are tremendous liars,
[Dayton (O.) Democrat.
Both Whigs and Democrats used to
hats the word abolitionist with a per
fect hatred, but still they never so ab
horred it as the Republicans now do
the word reform.—[Indianapolis Senti
nel.
Safe burglars, whiskey rings, bribe
receivers, and the whole nest of scours-'
drels in and about the Cabinet, incHLe
smaller thieves in places over the coun
try, are to be protected so long as they
contribute to the fund relied upon by
Chandler’s committee to continue the
peculation of Grant’s* Administation
through the election of Hayes.—Boston
Post (Dem.)
Ilaycs sayes he will not accept a sec
ond term. But he said he would not
accept the Governorship of Ohio, but
lte did and is now on his third term.
He says he will only remove inefficient
men from office, yet his record as Gov
ernor of Ohio shows that in all the
State boards he exercised the most par
tisan disposition and filled the boards
almost exclusively with Republicans.
His promises are worthless.—Indianap
olis Sentinel (Dem.)
The Senator from Georgia was scarce
ly looked to for tne plan of a revenue
reform which, compressed into a para
graph, has more air of business about
it than all President Grant’s large, ten
tative civil-service reform operations,
with Mr. George W. Curtis’s labors su-
peradded. The S wth has suffered her
full proportion of maladministration,
and her statesmen are probably quito as
sincere in desiring honest and economi
cal administration as those of the rest
of the country.—Philadelphia [Times.
( Ind )
\Ve defy the dough-faced Radical or
gans that persist in disbelieving every
thing that comes from the South except
stories of “negro outrages,” to show us
one instance where the representative
Southerner ever engaged in any of
these riotous demonstrations. We in
sist that these people are peaceable. We
know them to be peaceable; but we do
know that the carpet-baggers, and those
too indigent to own carpet-bags who go
•South arc not peaceable. They trek
up a disturbance through the instruc
tions they receive, and the instructors
then rush to the wires and telegraph
the news all over the country of “an
other negro .outrage.” . They are out
rages; but they are put on foot by the
Radicals and scalawags to help carry
the elections.—[Troy Press.
The Westliche Post calls for proof
of the charge that Shurz has been bar
gaining with Hayes. Here it is. A
politician draws the portrait of a man
whom he would not support under any
circumstances, and follows it with the
portrait of a man whom he would sup
port. The man whom he would not
support is nominated by one convention
and the uian whom he would support
by another. While occupying a proud
position on the fence, he has a private
inte view with the mqa whom he de
clared he could not support, and then ,
conies out in faver of that man .and
against the man whom he declared he
would support. There could be no bet
ter evidence of bargain and sale than ■
this.—[St. Louis Times (Dem).
THE GERMANS STRONG FOR
TILDEN.
The Germans are strong, for Tildcn.
The Westliche Post, in an effort to show
that this was not the case, recently pre
sented a list of sixty-nine German papers
which supported Hayes. The St Louis
Reoublican has completely eclipsed this
and shown, in the press criterion, where
the bulk of the Germans stand, by pre
senting a list of 176 German Tilden
papers, being more than two-thirds of the
German papers in number and nine-tenths
in circulation. The Free Prrcs says the
Germans generalliy throughout the coun
try demand of the great political parties
the nomination of men for the Presidency
who were thoroughly imbued with the
spirit of reform. Bristow was the choice
among the Republicans and Tilden
among Democrats. The Republican Na
tional Convention showed how little it
regarded the reform sentiment which was
urging it on to good by rejecting Bris
it is the Republican party, and I go, in tow, the foe of the whisky, ring, and
this campaign, for disciplining the Re
publican party, fully assured that the
Democrats will be on their good beha
vior, and will try to make a record du
ring the first four years.”
My preferences are most decidedly
for Tilden. l»have knowo him all my
life, and I knoW him to be honest to
the core, singularly conscientious in all
he does, of great disinterestedness, and,
as a statesman, head and shoulders
above any man now prominent. He is
the most profound, sound, and clear in
his political economy of any man I
know—completely grounded iq princi
ples, sure of his every step, extremely
judicious, and without conceits, preju
dices and weaknesses. If he were
president at this moment, in les3 than
three months we would see our finances
on their best feet, taxation reduced a
half, and the currency in a sure way to
recover, by gentle and almost impercep
tible means.—Parke Godwin.
nominating a man who was unobjeclion
able to the ring, and who was indebted
for his nomination to some of the worst
ring politicians in the Convention. The
Democratic National Convention heeded
the voice of the people crying for reform,
and nominated the known reformer
whose nomination the best elements in
the country had requested. The Germans
see that the Democratic party gave an
emphatic proof of its earnestness in its
nomination, while the Republican party
refused to do so. The larger mass of the
Germans have taken their stand accord
ingly.
They tell a story of a Judge iu Alabama
who sent an officer out to get him a drink
of whiskey. The officer returned with it.
but the amount did not satisfy the Judge.
The second time he came back with a
tumbler full, and remarked that the bar
keeper said that he “didn’t know that the
old fool wanted to take a bath.”
THE GRASSHOPPER.
Commissioner Janes, after an exami
nation of the grosshoppers which have
appeared in different portions of the
State, has issued the following circu
lar:
STATE OF GEORGIA, )
Department op Agriculture, [■
Atlanta July 2 r ', 1876. )
The Grasshopper which have appear
ed in many sections of the State aro,
without doubt, the Hatefnl Grasshop
per of the West—that dreaded pest
that has, during the last few years, de
stroyed eutire growing crops, reducing
people to the point of famine. They
arc now in the first and comparatively
helpless stage of their existence.
They will grow rapidly and in the
course of a few weeks they will be able
to fly.—They will then dsposit eggs in
the earth by millions. Next year these
eggs will hatch and there will be mil
lions where there are now only doz
ens.
You are earnestly advised to destroy
them now, beforo they can fly, and be
fore their eggs are deposited.
They can be driven into piles of dry
straw aud burned.
Thousands may be destroyed by ac
tive men and boys with brush.
Nets may be made similar to par
tridge nets, of some cheap material,
with widely extehded wings. The in
sects can be driven like birds into these
nets or snares and destroyed.
By every means in your power, and
that can be devised by your ingenuity,
utterly exterminate them and save our
State front a plague, such as we have
never experienced.
I respectfully suggest that you lay
all other business aside, unite together
and make common cause and combined
attack against the enemy.
By coucert of action, and immediate,
persistent, efforts, the evil may be avert
ed.
You are respectfully invited to send
to this Department, all valuable facts
as leaned from your observation and —
experience in relation to the grasshop
pers, the extent of damage, what means
of destruction found to be most effec
tive, etc.
Very respectfully,
Thomas P. Jamfs,
(Commissioner of Agriculture.
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T* O J
GOOD CROPS EVERYWHERE.
From all over the world come simi
lar reports of the crops—all good, and
in most cases bountiful. Mother Earth
never yielded such a harvest as the
present. From the wheat regions ol
Europe, and especially from the south
of Russia, the reports are very favora
ble. Croaking disappears as the har
vest approaches, and throughout the old
world the change, it" any there be, is
for the better.
In the great wheat-growing states of
this country the harvest proves to be
much larger than was anticipated.
Wheat is probably a full everage, bar-
ley, rye and oats are turning out finely,
and corn is growing so rapidly that it
promises the largest yield in the history
of the northwest.
In California the wheat and barley
crops are fully secured. Not less than
23,500,000 bushels of wheat and 10,-
000,000 bushels of barley will be avail
able in that state alone for export. It
will take all the spare tonnage of the
world to carry this enormous surplus to
market.
In onr own section large crops are in
sight. Texas has millions of bushels
of wheat for export, and the entire
south will come bo near to raising their
own breadstuffs this year that the oc
cupation of many produce dealers in
St. Louis and other western cities will
be as good as gone. The soath will
supply her. elf very soon.—Atlanta Con
stitution.
AN HEIRESS TO $560,000,000. ,
Miss Mellissa Elder was a poor clerk in
a hotel dining-room in Atchison, Kan.,
and here is the account from a journal of
that city of her wonderful luck:
A short time ago Melissa Elder fell heir
to $112,000,000 sterling, amounting to
about $560,000,000. It seems that her
great-great grand-father, on her mother’s
side, who was a Roman Senator, had all
his property, which consisted of a vast
amount of real estate in and around the
city ol Rome, confiscated to the Roman
Empire on account of lxts being concern
ed with Marc Antony in the terrible as
sault on the body of Ctesar. Caesar’s wife
was also accused at the same time, but
Marck Antony afterwards said she was
above suspicion, and nothing was done
in the matter. AH the property of Melis
sa’s great-great-grandfather, however, was
confiscated upon the testimony ofadetec-
tive. The detective afterwards was taken
with frenzied remorse and wrote a full
confession, moved to Pompeii and was
living in that ill-fated town when the
sudden catastrophe which befell it cut
him down in the prime of life. During
the recent discoveries among the ruins of
Pompeii this confession was discovered,
and Miss Elders great-great grandfather
was fully vindicated. A Chicago lawyer,
who was traveling through Europe, heard
of the circumstance, and by aid of de
tectives, found in the person of Melissa
Elder the only surviving heir of her la
mented great-great grandfather. The law
yer has taken the prosecution of the case
on a contingent fee, and Melissa leaves
for Rome to take possession of that town.
Of course we tender our congratulations ;
$560,000,000 does Dot grow on bushes.
The Quitman brass band is electioneer
ing in Florida.