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GEORGlA— Decatur County.
Martha Stalling having applied for ex
emption and setting apart of Homestead
and I w ill pass upon the same on the 14th day
of January 1874 at 10 o’clock a. m., at my office.
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jan-7- Ord’y D. C.
I VOLUME IX. )
j Kuinbt 35. [
[From Inter Ocean.]
Is Reform Possible.
That there is a demand for a reduction
of the expenses of our government, in all
branches and departments, from those which
center at Washington down to those which
are administered in the remotest rural dis
tricts, is too palpable and apparent to ad
mit of any argument or doubt. The people
feel that this government is costing too
"much. The constant rush for office shows
that employment in that direction is en
tirely too desirable. The country received
\yith surprise .the announcement by the
Secretary of the Treasury, two months ago,
that it would be necessary, in order to
carry on the government, for Congress to
provide for $42,000,000 more than the an
ticipated revenues of the coming fiscal year.
The President was thereupon requested to
cause a revision of the estimates by the
departments, in the hope that they might
he pared down sufficiently to come within
the revenues which might reasonably be
expected. These estimates were some
what reduced, but not enough to meet the
deficiency. Thereupon the Committees of
Ways and Means and Appropriations in
the House sought by their combined wis
dom to reduce the expenses so as to make
both ends meet as nearly as possible. The
latter, through its chairman, General Gar
field, of Ohio, informed the House and the
country that this was sought to be effected
in two ways : First, by lopping off alto
gether all that can be shown to be extrava
gant and useless; and, second, by postpon
ing until a more convenient season such
matters of expediture as will not be injured
by delay. In the matter of the public
buildings it is found that a saving can be
made of $1.1,500,000 by letting them wait.
In the army it was believed that three or
four millions of dollars could be saved by
making some reductions not at all inconsis
tent with the needs of the country or the
permanent interests of the service. Through
this and other similar means the committee,
obeying the instructions of the House and
basing their action on contingencies which
canuot be evaded, but which must be met,
hoped to cut down the expenditures about
$25,000,000.
But just here comes the tug of war, and
it comes in a shape that may well make
every patriotic _ man despair of any
reform whatever. The Committee of Ap
propitiations in these efforts for economy
are met with the most determined opposi
tion. Every species of expense finds its
special advocates on the floor, and the cry
is raised in favor of economy everywhere
else. The abuse or extravagance under
consideration is alleged to possess some
attribute of necessity, some halo of age o.i
sancitity, and it must not be touched by
the profane hands of any economist! A
sample of this procedure was shown in the
consideration of the army appropriation
bill on IV ednesday last. The appropria
tion last year amounted to $31,79G,G08.
The original estimates of the Secretary of
War were $34,881,018, but when called on
to “revise,” he cut it down to $32,768,716.
The committee, taking the matter in hand
for themselves, reduced them by the fur
ther sum of $4,318,799. The army num
bers 30,000 men at this time, and it was
proposed to make the reduction by stop
ping enlistments, w hen the natural depletion
by expiration of service, death, desertion,
etc., would in a short time reduce the num
ber so that these revised estimates w r ould
foot the bills. The reduction which would
ensue in the rank and file of the army would
still leave it effective for alf the purposes
of organization. The committee were at
once met by Mr. Albright, of New York,
in an elaborate and carefully prepared
speech, protesting in the most emphatic
terms against the reduction of a single dol
lar in the army expenses! “What,” ex
claimed he, “shall we do with all our brave
officers, if we let enlistments expire and
leave them no men to command ?” The
“pomp and circumstance of glorious war”
must be maintained, however much other
branches of the public service might suffer!
'Cut off expenses anywhere else, but don’t>
lay your impious hands upon the army.
Put your knife into the public buildings;
they are overgrown!” And this same
member, a few moments before, when the
subject of reaching an early decision in re
gard to reducing expenditures on those
same public buildings was under considera
tion, voted to stave off the subject inde
finitely ! Aud such is the course of other
members in regard to other proper and
just subjects of economy. Every appeal
for retrenchment is met with the reply,
•Economize somewhere—anywhere else !”
Their patriotism is of the same style and
not one whit more reasonable than that of
Artemas Ward, who was in favor of utterly
suppressing the rebellion, if it required a
sacrifice of the lives of every one of his
wife’s relations! This difficulty pervades
branch of the public service. It swells and
perpetuates the abuses which exist under
State, municipal, county aud township laws
and regulations. It is just exactly “what's
the matter!” So prevalent is this deter
mination on the part of individuals to sus
tain wrongs in which they are interested,
or to the perpetuation of which they have
become wedded, that General Garfield, in
his admirable speech, was led to remark:
If we can have the support of the House
BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 25,1874.
in carring out the measures already matur
ed and in preparation, I believe we may
make the reduction amount in the aggre
gate to the sum I have named. The ac
tion of the House to-day has greatly dis
couraged me in the hope that this w ill be
done; and the speech to which we have
just listened has added to my discourage
ment. It has led me to fear that, in the
view of many gentleman on this floor, .all
reduction of expenditure are good and
worthy and desirable, except any particu
lar one proposed. 1 fear we shall find
ourselves in this condition, that etery re
duction that is going lo come up by and
by, or that might beprogosed, is wise and
desirable.
General Garfield denounced this preva
lent ta 7 il of the times in a bold and patri
otic manner, but he failed to meet with that
measure of support from the House which
the justness of his appeal deserved, and
which the country demands from Congress.
The tendency is to more and more expense
Men struggle to get into office, and before
they are “acclimated” demand an, increase
of their compensation. It seems harder to
route an abuse or cut off a steal than it
was to storm the Malakoff or capture Vicks
burg. The work, however, must be done,
and it is just now* in excellent hands. The
House has an able Committee on Appro
priations, who are imbued with the true
spirit of retrenchment and reform- Their
labors in seeking to effect a reduction of
the public expenditures meet with the just
expectations of the people, and they will be
sustained. Y\ r e trust that they will gal
lantly persist in their efforts, and that the
press and the people will sustain them. —
We believe these important reforms are
possible, but it will require an immense
amount of work and persistence to bring
them about. It is the first step that costs,
but after an inroad is once made upon
these intrenched and venerable abuses,
others will be easily made to topple to
their fall.
The Slaughter House Case.
Grand Haven, Mich., Feb. 9,1874.
To the Editor of the Inter-Ocean.
Sir: I have noticed from the late
speeches in Congress that frequent, allu
sion was made to a decision in the
“Slaughter House” case. Now, I' have a
desire to know what the “Slaughter House
Case” was, and the nature of the decision
referred to so frequently, and being unable
to find any persons here w y ho can give me
the desired information, I take the liberty
of writing you to ask if you will kindly in
form me upon the question, aud oblige.
Your obedient servant,
I. B.
REPLY.
The Fourteenth Amendment to the
Constitution of the United States declares
that “No State shall make or enforce any
law which shall abridge the privileges or
immunities of citizens of the United States;
nor shall any State deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property without due pro
cess of law, nor deny to any person within
its jurisdiction the equal protection of the
laws.” The Legislature of Louisiana con
ferred on certain persons in New Orleans
the right to maintain stock-landings and
slaughter-houses within the limits of the
city, and within other portions of the
State. The corporation chartered by the
act was invested with the sole right to
carry on this business. Believing that this
grant constituted a monopoly, certain per
sons interested in having the business re
ferred to left open to all, brought suit to
test its constitutionality. They argued: first,
that it was void because it established a
monopoly which was in derogation of com
mon right and against common laW;second,
because it abridged the privileges of citi
zens, and was, therefore, a violation of the
Fourteenth Amendment. The Supreme
Court of the State sustained the law, and
the case was brought before the Supreme
Court of the United States. The defend
ants maintained that the act in question
belonged to the legitimate police power of
a State, which gives it the right to make
such regulations for the health and com
fort of society as are necessary; that, as
defined by Chancellor Kent, this included
the right to “interdict unwholesome trades,
slaughter-houses, operations offensive to
the senses,” etc., and generally the right
to compel every person to “so use his prop
erty as not to injure liis neighbors.” The
Supreme Court of the United States sus
tained the court below, holding that the
act in question was a legitimate exercise of
the police power above stated. No soon
er had this decision been promulgated,
than persons inimical to the colored race
sought to find in it a warrant for denying
equal rights to that race. They argued
that if the Legislature could confer certain
privileges upon a portion of its citizens (as
it did whien it granted the exclusive right
of establishing slaughter-houses, etc., in
New Orleans), thereby denying to others
privileges of a like character, then it was
competent for a State to confer upon its
white citizens certain rignts which it with
held from the black; aud that, in conse
quence, the spirit of the Fourteenth
Amendment could be practically ignored.
They also held that by this decision, Con
gress was prohibited from legislating
against discriminations on account of race
or color, and was powerless to prevent
such legislation. This is one of the strong
grounds on which the opponents of the
THU CONSTITUTION AS AMENDED—THB* UNION AS EESTOEID.
civil rights bill take their stand in con
tending against the passage of that meas
ure.
The Supremo Court, however, express
very clearly just what it meant to decide,
and took occasion to review at some
length the causes which led to the adoption
of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fif
teenth Amendments. The court said, iu
effect, that though a. State may confer
special privileges on some of its citizens,
denying them to others, it must do so in
the direct exercise ojf it s confer
or withoold these privileges for the com
mon good of all. and «pot for the purpose
of elevating one class of citizens at the ex
pense of another. It said, moreover, that
events fresh in the minds of everybody
caused these amendments to the Constitu
tion to be adopted, and that though the
negro i3 only referred to in terms in the v
Fifteenth Amendment, yet it is universal
ly known that the Thirteenth and Four
teenth were equally “addressed to the
grievances of that race, and designed to
remedy them.” It cannot be doubted
that the grounds assumed by the oppo
nents of tlie civil rights bill are totally un
tenable, as otherwise the late amendments
to the Constitution w-ould be practically a
nullity.— lnter Ocean.
Louisiana and Texas,
Prejudice blinds people to every object
save that which they most desire to see.
We do not doubt that the time will speedily
come when the action of President Grant
toward Louisiana and the other Southern
States will be regarded as the most fair
and impartial exercise of executive power.
Even now, the very men who make it the
business of their lives, to condemn the
President, are unwittingly vindicating him
by continued indorsements of a course
which he has pursued, but which they seem
to think has never been adopted. The case
of Louisiana is an example of this. Laying
aside all prejudice, what could the Presi
dent do that he has not done? An elec
tion was held, and each party accused the
other of gross frauds. The question as to
which of the candidates was elected went
to the courts. The latter decided in favor
of Kellogg, and,in accordance with this de
cision, the latter was installed and became
the head of the de facto government of the
State. The President could not go behind
this decision, lie is there to enforce the
laws, not to make them, or to promulgate
the decrees of a court. If any power can
interfere and go back of the record thus
made up, it certainly is not the executive.
He, therefore, simply does his duty iu the
premises. He maintains order,and regards
the de facto the prirna facie government
as the only one until the highest legislative
power can pass upon the matter. There is
not an unprejudiced person in the world
who would not commend this action. He
was forced to recognize one of the parties.
Now, which should it be ? The one which
had possession, had the certificates, and
had the support of the judicial tribunals, or
the one which had none of these claims to
recognition ? Why, to have recognized the
other party in this contest —no matter
what its equitable claims were-—Would have
been such a wanton disregard of every prin
ciple of law, and such a tyranical assump
tion of power by the President, as would
have righteously merited his'impeachment.
Accused of partisanship aud selfish seek
ing after power, the President has the firm
ness and good sense to go straight ahead
doing his duty fearlessly, regardless of
praise or blame.
Take the Texas difficulty as another ex
ample. Here the parties were changed.—
It was the Republican ox which had been
gored. And it must be said that there
were many legal grounds for doubt as to
the right of the Democratic candidates to
take control of the State;but the President
took the plain, common sense view of it,
and decided as seemed to him fair and hon
orable. He said to Governor Davis: “If
the election was illegal, you ought not to
have taken part in it. Having done so, and
having been defeated by 30,000 majority >
you are estopped from denying its legality.”
And upon this decision of the President,
the Democratic candidates entered upon
the various offices to which they had been
elected, and a disturbance was avoided. Is
it not wonderful that the Democratic Sena
tors in Congress, who so highley commen
ded this non-interference of the President
or Congress in the affairs of Texas, should
gravely propose to pass a law setting aside,
the election in Louisiana ? Yet, this is
the miraculous change that partianship can
effect in the principles of a State-rights
Democrat.
It is time that this reckless and silly de
nunciation of the President should cease.—
Senator Carpenter has been widely com
mended by the Democratic press for his
course in the Louisiana matter, but he had
the wisdom to perceive, and the good sense
to assert, that the President could not
have safely done otherwise than he did.—
The country will yet appreciate most fully
the inestimable service rendered by Gene
ral Grant in civil as well as military life,
and, conscious of his vindication, he can
afford to wait. —lnter Ocean,
Tlie Beclevimicnts of a Congress*
man.
That is the business your new Con
gressman (and your old, for the mat
ter of that has to do,; day and night.
1 know of one who had a letter from a
preacher (in the State of Pennsyltucky, we
will say) who stated that his meeting
house had been struck by lightning, and
he appealed to my friend for a contribu
tion. My friend (who is not by any means
rich)-sent a liberal donation. A few days
after he received another letter from the
same man', saying that the writer knew
President Grant to be a good Methodist,
and that lie had writt en to that pillar of
the church for a small contribution; and
he requested my friend to go up and see
the President, and ask him whether he
had received the letter, and urge him to
contribute the small sum offifty dollars to
rebuild the walls of Zion. (The postmas
ter at that town gets a salary of twelve
dollars a year, and I'll bet my farm against
Deacon Smith’s billiard table that the
preacher bounced that postmaster for fifty
dollars on the ground that he was draw
ing lucrative salary from the Government,
which the Lord expected him to account
for in his stewardship.)
All such duties as these the Congress
man must attend to. If he has served in
tlie army every soldier in his dis
trict will write him for a ’pension;
every idle young man will write him for a
clerkship; idle young man’s father and
soldier’s friends, influential local politi
cians, will write urging that Congressman
to do what he is asked, and he is reminded
that his term will expire soon, and votes
will be wauted again. Pretty young girls
comes on to Washington and demands
that her Congressman shall get her a
clerkship. She has read that Congress
men do that sort of thing for pretty young
girls, and in her innocence she supposes
that the thing is easy. Congressman’s
wife hears that a young hussy has beset
her bald-headed but beloved Congressman,
and she becomes at once frantically jeal
ous, and starts for Washington with the
whole family, at a terrific expense, though
Johnny has the measles and Dolly has the
whooping-cough, and board at the Arling
ton is anywhere from $35 to S7OOO aweek.
Washington Correspondence Columbus
Jonmol.
THE PRAYING CRUSADERS
Comments of the Press on the
Women’s "Whiskey War, and
on Temperance Expedien
ts Generally,
THE OHIO WHISKY CRUSADE.
It will follow, of course, that no actual
good can come of this movement, except
so far as it may go toward forming and fix
ing public opinion against bar-keepers and
dealers in liquor, and against the use of li
quor. The fallacious enthusiasm which
the shouts and songs of these women beget
will pa«3 aWay almost as the noise which
they make. The pledges which they secure
will be broken, for the simple reason that
they Were given without consideration and
under constraint. In a short time the ex
citement will die out, and then the old to
pers will drink again in peace, and the bar
keepers will resume their vocation with no
fear af disturbance. The religious feature
of the movement may cause it to sweep like
an epidemic over the land. People may
become religiously excited and commit all
manner of emotional absurdities, and the
affection may go from one to another with
greater rapidity and certainly than a dead
ly and coutagious disease. Some of tlie
most remarkable and curious, as well 83 im
portant, acts in the history of men have
been occasioned in this way. Nor is the
nineteenth century feee from evidence of
this truth, for within the past year pilgri
mages have been made in France and Eng
land, which would have been quite in keep
ing, barring the mode of travel, in the mid
dle ages. But no permanent temperance
reformation i3 likely to be secured by the
holy alliances in Ohio.— Courier-Journal
Homestead Exemptions.
The following is the text of the bill pass
ed by the Senate, amending the Constitu
tion as to Homestead Exemptions :
An Act to alter and amend the Ist para-;
graph of Section 17, Article 7, of the Con
stitution of the State, and for otner pur
poses.
1. Be it enacted by the General Assem
bly of the State of Georgia, That the Ist
paragraph of Section 17, of Article 7,0 t the
Constitution of this State, beginning with
the Words “each head of a family,” and end
ing with the words “they are set apart,” be
so altered and amended as to read as fol
lows :
Each head of a family, or guardian, or
trustee of a family of minor children, shall
be entitled to a homestead of reality to the
value of one thousand dollars, and personal
property to the valne of five hundred dol
lars, both to be valued at the time they are
set apart, and beds, bedding and common
bedsteads sufficient for the family, common
tools trade of himself and wife, ordinary
coooking utensils and table crockery, wear
ing apparel of himself and family, family
Bible, religious books and school books,
family portraits, the library of a professio-
J OPFICk BROrGHTON ST. )
( SaaWH BuUdiug. ’ [
nal man in actual practice or business, not
exceeding three hundred dollars in value.
But this change of the Constitution shall
not operate to divest any rights acquired
under homestead and exemptions set apart
prior to its adoption.
2, Be it further That no other
homestead be allowed than herein contain*
ed.
3. Be it further enacted. The above
and foregoing sections of this bill shall go
into effect and become a part of the Con
stitution of this State so soon as the same
shall receive a two-thirds vote of two suc
cessive Legislatures, and shall be finally
ratified by the qualified voters of said
State.— Albany News.
TlierConfedarate Forces.
In the November numbers of the Eclec
tic and The Land We Love, 1869, an in
teresting and. important correspondence
was published between Dr. Joseph Jones,
Secretary of the Historical Society, and
General S. Cooper, ex-Adjutant General of
the Confederate States. From that source
we glean the following facts for the benefit
of those who are not so fortunate as to
have preserved a file of the magazines.
Such facts are startling even to those who
participated in the Southern struggle.
1 The available forces of the Confede
rate army did not during tlie war exceed
600,000 men.
2. The Confederate States never had
in their defence more than 200,000 men in
the field at one time.
3. From 1865 the Confederate forces
actively engaged Were only 600,000.
4. The total number of deaths during
that time were 200,000.
5. Losses of prisoners counted as total
losses on account of the United States
policy of exchange, 200,000.
6. The loss of the Confederates States
army by discharge, disability and desertion
amouuted to 100,000.
7. At the close of the war, the force of
the Confederate army was less than 100,-
000.
8. Out of 600,000 men 500,000 were
lost to the service.
These facts are taken from calculations
made with great care by Dr. Joseph Jones,
submitted to and approved by General Si
Cooper, Adjutant General of the Confed
erate army.
Bismarck in Hot Water, —Bismarck
seems to have “lost his head” recently. He
has quarrels on hand with Switzerland;
France Belgium and Italy. In France
matters are most decidedly one-sided.
Papers are suppressed for alluding in dis
respectful terms to Germany; whiie, in the
latter, the papers can abuse poor Erance to
their hearts’ content. The complication
with General La Marmora, of Italy, is
exceedingly grave; and will eventually, we
have no doubt, lead to a duel. Already
La Marmora has characterised Bismarck’s
denials as false, and has asked leave of
absenee. He is a soldier of Undoubted
courage, but he will meet his match in Bis :
marck, who has always shown himself ready
to fight. Although he has never in the
course of his stormy life fottglit a duel, yet
ort the battle-field and when shot at by the
crazy fanatic, Blind, on the 7tli of May,
1866, has displayed courage of the highest
order. He is displaying an atrogetice now,
however, if all that is said of him is true,
which will alienate many of his best friends.
It must, nevertheless, be remembered that
as at one time all jokes were fathered on
Sheridan, so nearly all European political
movements are fathered on Bismarck.—
Baltimore Gazette.
An African King's Cure for Tooth
ache.—A correspondent at Cape Coast
Castle, writing on the 15th of December,
says :
King Bley still holds lii3 position within
his stockade, but is rather short of pro
visions. Jlis majesty has a most valuable
acquisition in the shape of a secretary who
can actually read and Write. The letters
of this official to the different commanding
officers of the British men-of-war are worthy
of study. I attach a specimen or two:
‘•Dear and honorable Commander—You
shall go to good point to-morrow (i. e.,
yesterday.) and kill much enemy. I send
you sis fowl for officer to eat, and hope
your health good, god bless your majesty,
my dear and umble commander your ser
vant King *Bley. Please send me piece
pork and bottle of rum.” “Dear Comman
der,—l hope your helth good. My spy tell
me enemy still in bush. I have bad tooth
ache, so please send me piece of pork and
bottle of rum, particular rum, as my tooth
ache very bad. Your umble servant, King
Bley.” Upon receiving the rum alone his
majesty writes : “Dear and umble Com
mander your Majesty,—l am sorry you no
send me the pork as my toothache much
worse this day. You think pork bad for
toothache, please send me more bottle rum.
Your servant King Bley.”
Kapha el Semmes.
Mr. v Gordon, of Georgia, introduced a
bill to relieve the political disabilities of
Raphael Semmes, of Alabama, which was.
referred to the Judiciary Committee.
ARMY OFFICERS rRAOTICIXO LAW.
Mr. Bayard, of Delaware, submitted a
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resolution requesting the President to
transmit to the Senate information Called
for in tlie resolution of March 1, tfchl, $ lo
whether any officer of the United Biases
army, on duty in South Carolina, used ef
forts to procure legislation in that State to
compensate hirh for services rendered by
him in the line of duty, and whether such
officer was admitted to the Bar in that
State, and practiced his profession while
holding a commission as an officer. Tlje
resolution laid over.
TWKTY-CENT SILVER COINS,
Mr. Jones, of Nevada, introduced a bill
authorizing the coinage of twenty-cent
pieces in silver, which was referred to the
Committee oil Finace. 7’lie bill proposes
to make them a legal tender at their norm,
nal value for amounts not exceeding five
dollars in any one payment, and applies to
the new coin all the existing laws relating
to coinage, abasement, or counterfeiting of
all other coins. v ,
Tlie Danube is closed by ice,-—and no
longer does the bounie blue strenm of sum
mer time, or the dark-rolling river by which
fair Adelaide strayed in search of her poor
wounded hussar. Campbell has left us in
the dark as to what became of that lady
but private intelligence enables us to state
that she married a well-to-do officer o f the
Aulic Council, with whom she lived happily
ever after, and had no occasion whatever
to regret that her poor wounded hussar
came to grief because he couldn’t come to
time. She became very fleshy in her latter
days, from her fondness for roast pork, peach
pudding, and lager bier, topped byoyesters
in a slight stage of decay. But we all have
our weaknesses, and We dare say that Hel
en herself was helped thrice at every din
ner to swan Soup, —and that the grand
Cornelia herself, when refreshing herself
after having sewed buttons on the jackets
of the Gracchi, and finished darning their
socks, laced her gunpowder tea with tho
best French brandy. Perhaps she took
Scotch snuff, or Irish blackguad. From
all the accounts of her that have come
down to us, certainly she was up to snuff,
and a pinch or two over.
The Siamese Twins.-— The autopsy up
on the bodies of the Siamese twins is be
ing proceeded with slowly and quietly, but
enough has been learned to inform tlie
public that the twins could not have lived
apart. Eng, whose death it was thought
was from fright, it has been discovered
died from blood poisoning. During life it
is said that Eng was a diciple of Father
Heritage, but his brother Chang bore a
stronger affection for Bacchus. Eng was
consequently often led to places he did not
like, and upon one occasion is said to have
fallen out of a Wagon on Chang’s account;
—Philadelphia Evening Star. i
Atlantic and Great? Western Canal.
—The Baltimore Sun’s Washington tele
gram of Tuesday, says:
Senator Gordon introdued in the Senate
to-day a bill granting aid to the Atlantic
and GrCat Western Canal project similar
in its provisions to the bill introduced in
the House. General Gordon says these
bills coutain in the main the same provi
sions as in the bill introduced by him last
spring. He is very enthusiastic over the
project, and is confident of obtaining gov
ernment aid. It may be said, however,
that appearance do not indicate that this
confidence is Well founded;
The Pistol in a Church. —On Thurs
day last during the revival. services in a
church in Alleghany county, Pennsylva
nia, a colored man named Gordon, who
was under the influence of liquor, with five
boon companions, entered and commenc
ed to disturb the meeting. One of tho
trustees of the church remonstrated with
Gordon,and after some difficulty the dis
turbers were ejected; before this was ac
complished, Gordon drew a seven-barreled
revolver and shot a peaceable colored man
named Smith. The wounded man stag
gered and fell, the ball from the pistol hav
ing wounded him in the stomach. Gor
don was arrested, but on the way to the
lock-up he escaped from his custodian. A
lively chase was given, the prisoner Was.
recaptured, and held to bail in the sum of
$5,000.
The bar of Savannah have united in tho»
recommendation of Hoti, Wm. B. Fleming
who formerly graced the bench of the Eas
tern Circuit; for the appointment to tho.
vacancy occasioned by the early resignation
of Judge Schley.
The Tyrone Herald says: “We asked
one of our German friends, the other day, ..
how much sauer-kraut he had put up for
winter use. He replied: I’se not got much;
little more as ten barrels, shust for zick
ncss.”
The Journal of Chemistry says: A
chain of compressed cakes of gun cottbn
tied around the of a large tree and
exploded, will cut it down instantly by the
violence of its action. The cut through
the truuk i3 as sharp as that done by the
keenest axe.
A Griffin twelve-year-older likes whiskey
well enough to forge orders for it.
Jonesboro will have a military hop next
Tuesday'.