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Monday, August 23, 1875.
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Hon. David M. Key, of Chatta
nooga, has been appointed, by the
Governor of Tennessee, as the suc
cessor of Andrew Johnson, as Sena
tor of that State.
Gilmore wants, at the Centennial
at Philadelphia, next summer, the
One Hundredth Pslam sung by 100,-
000 voices on the 100th anniversary
of the Declaration of Independence.
The unfinished monument of
Washington remains an eye-sore to
the city named for him, and the
trustees propose to erect begging box
es at the Philadelphia Centennial
next year, in the hope of raising
enough funds in that manner to finish
the work. For shame !
Brutal Kentucky.— The St
Louis Globe-Democrat , Administra
tion organ, says: “Kentucky has
given her usual brutal majority for
her Democratic candidates. It al
ways takes them about a week to
count the vote, but it is generally
safe to bet on 50,000.”
They are having a serious time
with the negroes in Washington
County, Miss. The darkeys, when
they are refused credit at the stores,
take it as a personal insult, which
death only can atone for and make
their arrangements accordingly, but
they got terribly checkmated.
Lengthy accounts are given in the
Constitution of Thursday morning
last of the threatened inspections
of the negroes in Washington, John
son on adjoining counties. We hope
the people will make short shrift
with Morris and Rivers, Candy
Harris and Mr. Jas. Watters. It is
the best way to cure such evils.
In noticing the return of a number
of emigrants to their old homes in
Georgia, the Galveston News frankly
confesses that if they are displeased
with Texas this season, they would
not be satisfied with the state in any
season, as the crops of this year are
unusually abundant. The truth is,
Georgia is the best state in the coun
try for Georgians.
Notwithstanding the enormous re
ceipts of the Government during the
last fiscal year, and thirty millions
of extra taxation ground out of a
panic stricken people by the last
Congress, there is a deficiency of
more than seventeen and a half
millions of dollars in the amount
due to be provided for in a deficien
cording to the terms of the act creat
ing the sinking fund, a certain sum
must be set apart for it every year.
At Omaha, for the year 1874, the
average freight received and forwar
ded by the routes centering there
was over 200 cars per day. Agricul
tural implements to the amount of
$700,00*0 were sold last year, notwith
standing it was a grasshopper year.
The average deposit of our four
banks (two national and two private)
were $2,457,874 38. Deposits for the
year were $55,308,960; exchange sold,
$25,768,426 92; post office money or
ders, $1,054,705 83.
The building of the Southern Pa
cific railroad through Tehachape
Pass involves a vast amount of la
bor. For twenty miles there is a
succession of cuts, fills, and tunnels.
To reach an elevation in one part of
this section eight miles of track will
be laid to attain one mile of actual
progress. The road at the point runs
through a tunnel, and then encircles
a hill at a heavy grade. Another
tunnel is two miles long, and in
places over a thousand feet below the
surface.
Pullman. —The Nashville Union &
American says the Pullman Palace
Car Company give notice that they
will pay the outstanding bonds,
amounting to $1,000,000, bearing 8
per cent interest, first series, and due
November 15, 1875, at anytime prior
to that date, with accrued interest,
on presentation at the office of the
Farmers Loan and Trust Company
in New York. The same paperadds
that the Pullman Palace Car Com
pany is a plethoric monopoly that
has fattened on the folly of a too
long thoughtless people.
Two American ladies are just now
making a pedestrain trip in the
Highlands, and enjoying the best of
all ways of traveling amid mountain
scenery. They are alone, each hav
ing her knapsack on back, &nd each
also armed with a revolver. The
weapons were produced for the in
formation of a gentleman, who cer
tainly meant them no harm. We
hope we may not hear that these
strong-minded ladies have shot them
selves or any body else, by misad
venture.—Courier Journal.
The marriage of Hr. Livingstone’s
daughter, at Hamilton, Scotland, to
Mr. Alexander L. Bruce, one of the
pardners of a well known Edinburgh
firm (Messrs. Willian Younger &
C0.,),0n the 28th of July, was an event
in the fashionable w’orld. The bride
received presents from nearly all
parts of the globe. The venerable
Hr. Moffat t, the African missionary,
performed the ceremony, and the lit
tle town of Hamilton had on its best
holiday attire. It was in the neigh
boring mills of Blantyre the weaver
boy Livingstone learned his Latin
declensions while working at the
locan.
FARMERS AND NEWSPAPERS.
We have been frequently surprised
to see how many farmers, well-to-do
in worldly riches, neglect or refuse to
take some good paper for the benefit
of himself and family. They seem
to think they have no interest in the
affairs of the world; that they have
to deal with nothing except the land
they plow, or the stock they feed,and
the children rearing in ignorance.
They forget that they are a part of
the human family, placed upon this
orb to work out the plans of the good
and wise Creator, and as such have
no right to hamper the great streams
of progress.
The laws of progression are as un
alterable as any others of nature and
that man who impedes those laws
with an offspring—children unedu
cated and besotted with ignorance
commits a sin which reacts not only
on himself, but on his descendants
in the long years of the future.
No farmed should do without this
social schooling, both for his own
good and that of his children ; and in
no way can it be obtained so fully
and so cheaply as through a news
paper and periodical literature of the
day; and he who neglects to receive
the advantages deprives himself of
light, and lives out his days in worse
than heathen darkness.
The commissioners appointed to
liquidate the affairs of the Freed
men’s Bank report that there are
now in the United States Treasury to
the credit of the bank $466,000. Con
gress, however, provided that no
dividend less than twenty per cent,
should be declared. The Commis
sioners now are preparing cheeks
payable to the sixty-five thousand
depositors, so that there will be no
delay in payment when the dividend
is declared. This will not now be
before Dec 1. Depositors outside of
Washington will be paid by check
upon the Sub-Treasurer at New
York. Depositors will be required
to send their pass-books to Washing
ton. The Commissioners have dis
covered that the real estate assets in
this city are quite as worthless as
they were represented in Congress to
be. Of thirty-five pieces of real es
atate offered for sale, the Comissicin
ers were obliged to bid in thirty-one.
All that is necessary to make the
United States money good, in the
estimation of the bondholders and
national bank officials, is that it
should bear interest. A greenback
with interest, is belter than gold. A
greenback, without interest, is de
clared no better than a cabbage leaf.
Suppose we obviate this objection by
having all the greenbacks at interest.
They would then pass without any
objections from the monetary classes,
who would hoard them from gener
al circulation. Those who have
confidence in the big bonds, with in
terest, profess to have none in the
little ones which are free from it.
Couch. —A foreign medical journal
contains an account of the successful
treatment of uncomplicated whoop
ing cough with diluted nitric acid, in
doses of from 5 to 15 minims, accor
ding to age, with simple syrup, given
every three or four hours; the effect
being to alleviate the cough and
spasm, and apparently cutting short
the disease. The operation of this
remedy is believed to be that of a
tonic sedative andantiseptic, its re
frigerating properties being also of
some account. An aperient combin
ed with an alterative is given in all
cases where required by the state of
the digestive organs.
While Gov. Chamberlain, of South
Carolina, was absent from the state,
the negro lieutenant governor,
Gleaves, commuted the death sen
tence of Joseph Gibbs to imprison
ment for twenty years. Chamber
lain holds that his action is null and
void, and asks Judge Reed of the
Charleston circuit to enforce the sen
tence of his court. This raises a very
interesting question. If a lieutenant
governor cannot grant pardons, what
is to become of the eighty-four crim
inals that Lieutenant-Governor Da
vis, of Mississippi, set free for $1,200
a head ? If they are to be recaptur
ed how are they to get their money’s
worth ?
For some time past it was plain to
be seen that the Louisiana Radicals
were trying to stir up riots in that
State. It is about time for a fresh
batch of outrages, and they are de
termined to be up w ith the times.
At last they have got a state of af
fairs to suit them in half a dozen
parishes,and Kellogg wants good cit
izens to help him restore order.
That is Kellogg’s blind. He wants
disorder first, and United States
troops next. He has had them be
fore without much trouble, and he
wants them again. He will have a
dreadful exhibit for the next Con
gress.
W. T. Hatch, of Minneapolis,
Minn., has now on his books the
names of over 3,000 persons,scattered
over twenty States, Canada and
many in Europe, who apply for doc
uments relative to the Southern
States, and this list is increasing
from fifty to a hundred a day. At
the rates that names are coming in,
he expects soon to have a list of ten
thousand persons anxious to change
their location to a milder climate.
A frightful accident happened up
on the St. Louis and St. Joseph,Mo.,
Railroad on Thusday last, A trustle
gave way and precipitated four pas
senger cars containing fifty or sixty
passengers, a distance of twenty feet.
One man only killed, but about for
ty persons were more or less injured.
The Kansas City Times state that
crops in the grasshopperod districts
of Missouri are better that they ever
were known to have beea before.
mcltum in parvo.
A young man,named Chas Cowart,
of Atlanta, died in Dallas, Texas, a
short time ago One hundred
and twenty copies of Chamber’s En
cyclopedia, at SSO per volume(?) were
sold lately in Atlanta, says the Her
ald. Don’t you mean $5, Grady ?
Victoria has twenty grand children
Madame McMahon has col
lected $2,500,000 for the benefit of the
French sufferers by the late floods
The body of Grimwood the re
porter, who ascended with Donald
son, the aeronant, has been found
Copeland the ministerial fraud
who has lately created such a scensa
tion, has been tarred and feathered by
citizens of Knoxville Tenn
164,581 watermelens have passed
over Georgia railroads, going to dif
ferent markets the past season. These
at twenty cents each,gives a total
value of $32,616,20 Chas. G. Sin
ney, for many years President of
Oberlin (O.) College, died in Cleve
land 0., on the 10th instant
The Jesuits have been ordered to
leave Costa Rica, by an act of the
Congress of that country A man
living on Licking River, in Ken
tucky, estimates that he has seen at
least ten thousand bushels of wheat
pass down that stream, having been
swept away by the terrible freshets
A young Englishmen recently
drove a velocipede four miles in
twenty minutes to bring the fire de
partment of a neighboring village,
thereby saving much property from
destruction by a fire which was ra
ging On the coast of England
a steamer ran into a whale and had
to make to the nearest port, leaking
badly. The whale leaked pretty
badly, too, and turned up his belly
to the sun and washed ashore
The butchers of Montreal aie going
to start a paper with $50,000 capital.
Blood will tell. Perhaps the English
language will be slaughtered
A California judge has decided
that, in future, he will not natural
ize any person who has not read, or
heard read, the constitution he
swears to support The body of
the young lady who was drowned in
the eddy near the Cave of the Winds,
Niagara, has been recovered
Moody and Sankey, the great revi
valists, have reached the United Stat
es...^Yellow fever has at length made
its appearance in the city of Pensaco
la. It has not been nearer than Bar
raucas before Between 4000 and
5000 persons went to the Twin Moun
tian House, N. H., on the 10th inst.,
to hear Beecher preach It is sug
gested that the dead Presidents
should be reintered at Mount Vernon,
in a mausoleum for each, in a circle
around the grave of Washington
The son of ex-President Andy John
son knew nothing of the reported
life insurances of his deceased father
—though he says the policies may be
among the papers of his father
in the banks of Nashville
An attempt was made by an incindi
syiny\ia:,-?>it , 'fh6 , 'YfltfiHflg a< bf f
day last the 17th instant but failed
Gen Bassil W. Duke, of Ken
tucky, has been elected Prosecutin g
Attorney of the ninth District of
that State Republicans of Miss
issippi have had a serious split in
their ranks quarreling over the
the spoils of office The body of
Capt. Fritz of the steamer Hugh
Martin which exploded from care
lessness of all hands, in the river
above Chattanooga, not long ago has
been found and hurried Four
prisoners escaped from the jail of
Dade county, Ga., on Sunday night
last.
The Telegraph & Messeuger says
there are signs that some of Govern
or Smith’s friends think he is the
best man to succeed himself, and
that his chances are exceedingly
good to do so. An Indian Spring
correspondent of the Barnesville Ga
zette furnishes the following proofs to
that effect:
Of course the great question of who
is to be our next Governor was the
prominent topic. Hardeman and
Colquitt each had their admirers, and
many predicted, and some even bet,
that one or the other would be the
coming man. I found, however,
upon investigation that a large ma
jority w'ere in favor of re-electing
Governor Smith, and some of the
supporters of both Hardaman and
Colquitt said that if Smith was a
candidate they would support him.
One of the gentlemen argued in fa
vor ofSmith “that he had made as
good a Governor as we ever had—
that the people were w’ell satisfied
with his administration—that when
he w'ent into the office of January,
1872, everything was in confusion
no one knew W’hat the debt of the
State was—her bonds were not quo
ted on the market—and that within
a little over three years her credit
was re-established and her securities
commanded a higher price than any
other Southern State—that her 8 per
cent, bonds were now bringing 108,
and her 7 per cent. 98, and to do all
this the taxes of the State had not
been increased. This showed that
Smith’s administration had been a
prudent one.” These facts were con
ceded to be true by those present,
but one said “Smith will not be a
candidate.” Smith’s friend replied.
“He will be a candidate if the people
desire it.”
Andrew Johnson was buried wrap
ped in the flag of his country, upon
the brow of the hill at Greenville,
Tenn., by the Masonic Fraternity.
An immense concourse of people
numbering near ten thousand were
in attendance, composed in part of
distinguished men from various
parts of the United States. Eminent
Commander Woodward and the
Knights Templar Cceur de Leon
commandery from Knoxville con
ducted the funeral ceremonies. Af
ter they had concluded Deputy Grand
Master J. C. Connor, of Chattanoo
ga, and the Greenville Lodge per
formed the blue rites over the body.
No clergyman officiated in any way.
Upon the coffin was a Masonic apron,
a Knight Templar’s shroud draped
in mourning, and a wreath of ever
greens presented by Mrs. Patterson.
Thus has passed away the great com
moner, whose deeds will forever illu
mine the pages of imperishable his
tory.
Rejected Southern Claims. —
The last Congress appropriated one i
thousand dollars to enable the clerk
of the House to prepare for publica
tion a record of the claims rejected
by the Southern claims commission.
This was done for the reason that it
was found many of these rejected
claims were brought up again and
filed at the War Department, and
there was no means of knowing
whether they had ever been adjudi
cated or not. The form adopted for
the report of these rejected cases,
which number about 4/500, is to con
dense from the petition and evidence
of the claimant the points of his case
and then add the adverse opinion
thereon of the commission. This
commission, it will be remembered,
is composed of three persons—Judges
Aldis, Ferris and Howell. Those of
the opinons prepared and delivered
by the letter are remarkable. The
pharases “secesh,” “reb” and “rebel’
are of constant occurence, and this
judge seemed to have adopted no
other manner of describing those who
adhered to the fortunesof the late Con
fedraey. The display of such obvi
ous prejudice will of cource not at
tend to satisfy claimants that their
claims have been rejected after a fair
and impartial injudication. The re
port referred to will be printed for
the guidance of the department and
Congress, who otherwise would have
no means of ascertaining whether a
claim had ever been presented and
rejected, and upon what grounds.
There is a mine or a fountain of
honey on the eastern slope of the San
Fernando range of mountains, in
Los Angeles, Cal., which men have
tried several times to capture and
have as often failed. It is in a rift
which penetrates the rock to a depth
of 170 feet. The opening is 30 feet
long and 17 feet wide, w ith two pass
ages. The bees come and go in solid
columns about one foot in diameter.
Efforts have been made to descend to
the store of honey in the rock, but
the men were invariably driven back,
and one man lost his life. The hive
has been known four years, and it is
estimated that there cannot be less
than eight or ten tons of honey in it.
A man who lives in a cabin not far
from the spot gets more honey than
his family can use from the leakage.
It flows out of a small aperture in
the rock. He has a honey fountain
at liis door.
A similar deposit of honey, in a
cave, exists in extreme Western Tex
as. An expedition on the hunt of a
gold mine,from Bell county, when we
resided, there some sixteen or eigh
teen years ago, camped near enough
to the mountain—in the side of which
w T as the immense bee hive, to observe
the great number of bees going to a
certain crevice in the face of the
mountain. They got one of their
number up to the aperture, who
found immense quantities of honey,
and procured several buckets full for
the use of the company.
THE RATE OF TAXATION.
We observe that this subject; is at
tracting some attention, and that
some of our editorial brethren, no
doubt from want of a proper under
statements and drawing conclusions
that have no foundation in fact.
We see it alleged that the state taxes
are higher this year than they were
in 1874, and the ground for this opin
ion is that the present assessment is
five mills on the dollar, while last
year it was but four. Both of these
statements—the premise and the con
clusion—are wrong in point of fact.
Instead of being greater, the taxes is
to be paid by the people to the state
this year are less than they were in
1874, and the assessments for both
years are exactly the same, to-wit,
five mills. The difference lies only
in the mode of statement. Last year
the assessment w r as four mills for
general purposes, and one mill as a
special tax to meet the interest on
the Nutting bouds. The same pur
poses exist this year, but in announc
ing the assessment both were inclu
ded in the single statement of five
mills, or one-half of one per cent, ad
valorem.
The people will actually pay less
taxes to the state this year than last,
from the simple fact that while the
amount of assessment remains as it
was last year, by reason of a consid
erable reduction in the amount of
taxable property solvent, and of
property exempted by the legislature
at its last session, there has been a
considerable shrinking of the taxa
ble values of the state.
We repeat that the idea of a hea
vier tax this year than last, is wholly
erroneous, as is clearly shown above,
and we trust the press of the state
will make the necessary correction.
— Constitution.
Packed for the Other World.
—A defunct Celestial was yesterday
packed and ticketed through to Chi
na heaven by Mr. Wilson, the un
dertaker. The receptacle for the
body was a costly casket, for that
pendant pigtail had swung from
“away up” head during life. Around
the body was packed an abundance
of little pieces of paper, all spotted
with gold, such as are seen scattered
along the way when the defunct
Mongolians are called to the grave.
TJiese pretties are very glittering
and easilyblow’n about by the wind,
and are to attract the attention 'of
the Chinese devils and give the de--
ceased an opportunity to escape
while his tormentors are in pursuit
of them. The remaining emptiness
of the casket was filled with pork,
rice, chickens, candies, etc., upon
which the dear departed is expected
to feed while journeying to the un
known. He was also abundantly
supplied with Chinese coins, with
which to defray the expenses of the
journey. In his mouth was placed
a United States ten cent piece, to
show that he came from that land of
civilization, and as a passport to bet
ter seats and society over there.
Lastly he had a fan placed in liis
hand, with which to cool his heated
brow and as a badge of high rank in
the land of his earthly nativity.
With all this preparation he is ex
pected to make a rapid and safe jour
ney to the “Land of Leal,” and a
triumphant entry into Kingdom
come.— Virginia {New.) Enterprise.
A Queer Case.— Some years ago
a girl named Mercy Blossom, in Wa
verly, lowa, married one Jim Mur
tagh, lived with him two years or
more, became dissatisfied and was
divorced. A pretty boy, the result
of the marriage, born after the di
voi&e, was often met by the father,
who learned to love him with fond
ness. This brought ab out a reconcil
iation resulting in a remarriage.
“And a little child shall lead them.”
There are some “Southern outra
ges” on which the Radical press in
the North does not dwell; these, says
the World, are the outrages commit
ted by ignorant and brutal negroes
and their Carpet-Bagging leaders on
the country and society. Leflore
county, Mississippi, which was car
ried for Grant by three to one, affords
a fair specimen of the work of these
men. It posesses one negro who is
the clerk of three courts and a United
States Commisioner. He has been
eleven times indicted for misconduct;
he is accused of perjury, embezzle-
-ment and forgery, and of having been
an accessory to murder ; he has rob
bed the county of thirty thousand
dollars—no difficult matter, for none
of the Supervisors, all of whom are
colored, can write—his accomplice in
a mail robbery is in the Albany Pen
itentiary, and yet the Republicans of
Laflore county are about to “vindi
cate” him by electing him to the
Legislature. There is yet hope that
we may see him in the Senate at
Washington, unless the honest peo
ple of Mississippi are happily ab*le to
jreak the chains of the Carpet-Bag
gers as their brethren in Alabama
have done. Like leader, like follow
ers. The negroes emboldened by his
promise to secure them pardons, re-
vel in crime and mock the law. The
jail is Ailed with criminals. In the
past month four negro murderers
have been hanged; while two of
these were swinging in air another
negro attempted to commit a rape
within a mile of the gallows. With
in two weeks a negro had been ar
rested for killing his child, and a ne
gro woman for shooting two of her
children and two of her neighbors.
Add to this, United States Marshals
scouring the country and two-thirds
of the lands sold for taxes, and what
a picture is presented of one of the
thr€ States in the South that yet
groan under Radical misrule.—
World.
The biggest private land claim of
modern times is that of the heirs at
law of Don Joseph Valliere, who
was Captain of a regiment of Spanish
infantry in Louisiana 1793. In that
year the Baron de Carondeiet, in the
name of the King of Spain, granted
to Captain Valliere a tract of land
ten Spanish leagues in depth from
North Fork Rio Norte Grande to the
source of the White river. This tract
was surveyed and found to contain
nearly ten thousand square miles. It
extends into Missouri, covering
what now constitutes six counties in
the southwestern part of that State.
When Louisiana reverted to France,
the Spanish land records were re
tained by the Captain-General of
Cuba. Captain Valliere died intes
tate, and forty years after his de
cease an entry of the grant was acci
dently found among the records of
Louisiana. This led to a search of
the archives of Cuba, where it is al
leged, the origonal grant, signed by
the Baron de Carondeiet, was Anally
found. And now tho heirs, of the
Spanish Captain,about forty in nnm
ber, seek to obtain land warrants for
an equivalent of this enormous grant
with the privilege of locating them
on any vacant public land of the
United States.
A Vsrnlog to Clirildren.
A little son of Mr. and Mrs. Gid
eon Jackson, residing near Spring
Place, fell into a well last week,
which wassixty-Ave feet deep, and
contained 20 feet of water. He fell
with his head downward, but turned
in the water striking the bottom
with his feet. He soon came to the
top of the water when he miraculous
catch the brick with which the" well
was walled, and to cry for help.
His little sister near by, heard him,
and quickly told his frighteni and
mother, who ran to the well and
carefully let down the bucket into
which the child climbed and was
drawn up. He was cut and bruised
in several places, and expresses that
he was freezing while in the water,
it was so cold. The little fellow
strange enough is now living and do
ing well. This should be a serious
warning, to mothers and fathers, for
not one cjiild in a thousand could
have been saved under like circum
stances.— Dalton Enterprise.
Andrew Johnson’s Probable Successor.
It is thought in Tennessee that the
Governor will appoint General Wil
liam B. Bate to the seat of the late
Andrew Johnson in the Senate.
General Bate was a close competitor
of Mr. Johnson, the latter winning
only by a very small vote. He was
a Confederate officer, but that he has
become fully reconciled to the situa
tions is evident from the letter which
he wrote to a recent meeting of
Southern soldiers:
“We have not at any time lost
sight of the fact that this is our coun
try, and the only one in which we
have a special interest; that its glory
is our glory, its shame our shame,
and that it is both patriotic and man
ly for us to vie with our late adver
saries, in a geuerous way, in elevat
ing, strengthening and ennobling
it.”
SOME FINE HORSES FROM SCOT
LAND.
Ten fine stallions of the celebrated
Clydesdale stock have arrived in New
York, which were imported from
Scotland by the Powell Brothers, of
Crawford county, Pa., for breeding
purposes. They are natives of Cly
desdale, and on account of their
scarcity and intrinsic worth, com
mand high prices. The aggregate
cost of this herd was $85,000. They
were selected with great care by an
experienced horseman. They are
bays, brown and gray, handsome and
large, and from two to five years old.
The smallest weighs 1,600 and the lar
gest 2,200 pounds. Their strength is
enormous. Mr. Powell says he has
seen them pull five tons, and that
threS tons is an ordinary load. This
is the largest importation of such
horses ever brought to this country.
SPINNER’S MISSING #47,000.
Arrest of Severn] Chwrining Young Men.
Washington, August 7.—Detec
tives brought Theo. W. Brown,
known as “peg leg Brown,” here
from Saratoga, charged with com
plicity in the $47,000 theft from the
Treasury. Benj. B. Halleck, clerk in
the Treasury cash room, now on
leave of absence, was arrested in New
York by detectives McDevitt and
McElfresh, on the same charge.
Wm. H. Ottman, restaurant keeper
of this city,was arrested. The theo
ry is that Halleck took the money.
Some of it was left with Ottman and
that Brown went to Saratoga to work
some of it off. Meanwhile Halleck
was making arrangements to buy
jewelry, clothes, harness, and other
paraphernalia of fast life in New
York.
“I tell you what it is,” remarked
a critical person standing upon the
bluff at Long Branch the other af
ternoon, “if American girls get any
thinner, bathing dresses will need to
be padded, or gentlemen will have
the surf ail to themselves.”
Mr. Pinchback, at a convention o
colored people lately held at Cincin
nati, is reported to have said :
“This rolling in the dust, this
truckling to power, w hether wrap
]>ed up in an individual or a party,
[ have long since abandoned. I
strike out boldly, as if born in a des
ert, and looking for civilization. I
am groping about through this Am
erican forest of predjudice and pro
scription, determined to And some
form of civilization where all men
will be accepted for what they are
worth.”
If “Pinch” got what he is worth
he w r ould be rambling around some
pe niten tia ry. —>Sa vannah Ad vert ise)\
Yet Pinch is not one-half as bad
as some of his white associates in
Louisiana.
Under the Fifth Rib.— On the
Vicksburg and Meridan Railroad
the other day a Louisiana planter en
countered a colored man whose face
had a familiar look. The negro had
his attention attracted likewise, and
it was soon ascertained that he was
once owned by the planter.
4 Yes you once owed me,” he re
marked, “and I was no better dan a
hoss. Now I holds an office, and is
as good as anybody.”
“Do you want to do me a favor
George?” inquired the ex-master.
“I ‘spects so, sah.”
Well, in case you ever tell any one
that you hold an office, don’t let on
that I ever owned you, for with this
one exception all my niggers turned
out to be respectable people!”
The ex-slave didn’t do any more
boasting.
A young lady residing at Mount
Morris N. Y., recently received an
anonymous letter containing an in
sulting proposition. She gave it
to her mother, and then secured the
presence of an officer and made the
sign requested in the letter (hanging
a colored string on the door knob.)
Shortly a negro named Charles
Reed appeared and gave certain de
monstra ions that showed him to be
the writter of the||letter. A crowd
gathered,put a rope around his neck
and dragged him through the streets
toward the canal to drown him. Both
of hi i shoulders were dislocated, but
he was Anally rescued and lodged in
jail.— N. Y. World.
BAUTOM COUNTY SHERIFF SALES.
WILL BE SOLD before the Court House
iloor in Cartersville, on the First Tuesday
in September, 1875, within ttie usual hours of
sale.tlie following property, to-wit:
Seventy-three acres ol land, number not
known, In the lti’-h District and 3d section of
Bartow county, known as the property of Jas.
lteed,bounded on theeast by the Borne railroad
on south by land ot ( ouch, on the west by lant.
of McMakin. Levied on and sold as the prop
erty of said James Heed to satisfy one Bartow
Superior Court 11 fa. in favor of .1 as. G. Rogers,
use of Newell Rogers vs. said Jas. Reed. Prop
erty pointed out by defendant.
Also 145 acres, more or less, of lot of land No.
127 in the sth District and 3d Section of Bar
tow county'. Levied on as the property of
W ade 11. Wofford, to satisfy one Superior Court
11 fa. in favor of Susan Gaines vs. Wade 11.
Wofford. Levy made by W. W. Rich, former
sheriff.
Also, all the mineral interest in lot of land
No. 149, in the 4th District and 3d section of
Bartow county, will be sold as the property of
W. 11. Hargis, to satisfy one Justice Court fi fa
from 95‘2d District Justice Court, G. M., in favor
of Robert B. Trlppe vs. W. 11. Hargis. Levy
made by Wm. G. Anderson, L. C.
Also, one house and lot containing one and a
half acres, more or less, in the sth District and
3d Section of Bartow county. Sold as the prop
erty of Henry Russell, to satisfy one Justice
Court fl fa, from Justice Court 828th District, G.
M., in favor of Robert B. Trippe vs. Henry
Russell. Said property bounded by John A.
Crawford’s land on the west, by Warren Akin
on tho north, by Chapman’s property on the
east, and fronting the Cassvllle and Ringston
road, on the south side. Levy made and re
turned to me by J. L. Milhollin, L. C.
Also, the land and property known as the
Peck Lime YY’orks ; property containing twen
ty acres ol land, more or less, in the 4th List,
and 3d Sec. ot Bartow county, the same being
the east half of lot of land No. five hundred
and ninety-one (591). Said property is now in
Bartow Supi. 4 !®?t Ladd^L.S, v ,*,9 l ldV°Ji ;l sf - v 11
Briant against StyleTPec’k,'principal* and ’ a’
C. Ladd, endorser.
Also one narrow gauge locomotive and ten
der, named Euharlee. Levied on and sold as
the property of the Cherokee Railroad Compa
ny to satisfy one Bartow Superior Court It fa
in favor ot the Georgia Railway Contracting
Company vs said Cherokee Railroad Company.
Said engine is now at Taylorsville in said
county' and will be delivered to purchaser
there.
Also one lot of land, No. 79, lying in the 17th
district and 3d section of said county, contain
nig 40 acres, more or less, to satisfy one 11. fa.
issted lrorn the Inferior Court of Wliitfleld
county in lavor of Harrison Rogers vs. G. tv.
Suttles, Henry Brooker and R. H. Sapp secu
rity- Levy made by former sheriff Kennedy.
.Air otons 0 tons of . P*g iron, as the property
of W. H. Stiles. Levied on to satisfy a Bartow
County Court ti fa., in favor ol G. J.'Briant vs.
said NY. 11. Stiles.
MORTGAGE SHERIFF’S SALE.
. Sale to take place on the Ist Tuesday in Oc
tober. 1875.
_€>ne-lialf interest in lots of land Nos. 19, 659,
654, 601, 755, 826, 825, 759, 081, 685, 567. 687 and 784,
all in the 17th district, and 3d section of liar
tow county; also one undivided half interest in
the following lots of land lying and being in
the 4th distnet and 3d section of said county,
tO-Wit: G4S, 649 577, 646, 506, 714, 582. 632, 643, 654,
427, 430, 42J and 651. Levied on as the property
of YV. H. Stiles, to satisfy a Superior Court
Mortgage 11. fa., in favor of Fannie C. Pritchett
vs. said YV. H. Stiles. Defendant in possession
of said propety.
A. M. FRANKLIN, Sheriff.
G. L. FRANKS, Deputy.
Gilmer Street School.
THE FALL TERM of my School will open
on Monday, 2d day of August, in the
house opposite my residence, on Gilmer street.
My patrons will receive the benefit of the
common school fund.
Kates of Tuition, from $1 to *3 50 per month,
payable monthly. J. Y\'. PRITCHETT.
July 29ml
FURNITURE!
Coffins, Coffins, Coffins.
METALLIC COFFINS 20 per cent, less than
formerly.
First Class wood Collins from |8 to $25.
Second quality do. do. Cto 18.
Third do. do. do. 2to 12.
Common Coffins from $1 50 to SB.
A Fine Hearse for my customers, at lial
Price. WM. GOULDSMITII.
August 2, 1875 3m
(iOWEK. JONES & CO.,
AFTER MANY YEARS of close applica
tion and indefatigable labor, have suc
ceeded In building the best
WAGONS BUGGIES,
Carries & Piiaetoiis
That were ever introduced into this country.
Their trade extends far and wide, and their
work lias given entire satisfaction. They are
now selling a great many Jobs, and have
deduced Tlieir Work
TO
EXTREMELY LOW FIGURES!
Thankful for past favors, they would solicit
a continuance oj their patronage.
Gower, Jones & Coi
are also Agents for the celebrated
Studebaker Wagon,
and keep constantly on hand their
2-HORSE FARM WAGON.
• ALSO ■
Diamond and 3-Spring Picnic Wagon,
for sale at extremely low prices. These wag
ons have been l'uliy tested in this country, and
have been proven to be the very best Western
wagon ever introduced here.
PRICES FOR 2-IIORSE WAGONS:
2% Thimble Skein Brake and Spring Seat $ 95
3 y m " “ “ “ 100
“ “ “
Diamond Spring Wagon 12k
Picnic 3-Spring “ 150
apl22-y.
ROBERT B. TklpPeT
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
OFFICE with Col. Abda Johnson, in the
Court House.
maylMm.
H, A. PADGETT & SONS,
Contractors and Builders, Manufacturers of Sash, Doors,
BLIN DS, Etc.
FLOORING A SPECIALTY.
Having purchased one of the best
COTTON and a PRESS,
which M ill make heavier and smaller bales than any other now in use, would respectfully
nouncc to the public that we will be ready by the first week in September to gin all
brought to us, on as good terms as can be had at anv gin in this section. We have obtained th
use of Baxter’s Fire Proof W arehouse, in which we will keep cotton before and after ginningit
Our gin is entirely disconnected with the warehouse, which will be a guarantee against A..'
ete. YVe will deliver cotton at the depot free of charge. 6 nr *>
Having bad long experience in running machinery and ginning cotton, we feel safe in sari.,
that we will give satisfaction.
YVe a_ia still prepare! to furnish parties with Flooring. Ceiling, Dors, Sash, Blinds, Frama
Mouldings, etc., of the very best material, and to take contracts lor buildings of every ri.’
tior. at the lowest price. 3 ueSin P-
Tbanktul lor the patronage we have bad, we respectful}' ask a liberal share in the future
H. PADGETT & SONS.
g August 23, 1875-4inos
ADVERTINKnEIH.
LARGEST AND GRANDEST
FAIR EXPOSITION
OF
Agriculture, Horticulture, Mechanical, Mineral and Art
Ever Held in this Country, Will Commence in Rome, tia., at the
Old Fair Grounds, October 4, 1575, and Con
tinue until the 9 th.
COME, ONE AND ALL, TO SEE THE GRAND SHOW!
Exhibitors arc earnestly requested to commence preparations NOW, and to bring to the Fair
all their Fine Stock, Mechanical Inventions, Minerals and YY'orks of Art, not alone for the
Premium, but to gain reputation for our intelligence and skillful workmanship. No entry fee
for articles on exhibition. A great many of the most noted and prominent men of the United
States are invited and EXPECTED.
J# J. COHEN) Manager.
T. J. PERRY, Secretary.
THE
Mobile Life Insurance Company,
Mobile , Alabama.
maurice McCarthy, h. m. friend,
President. Secretary.
JOHN MAGUIRE, SHEPPARD HOMANS,
Vice President. Actuary.
nTTH? 17 1 TT7 17 was organized June, 1871, by the banker*
I rtUi JUlli JljIJ; Tj and merchants of Mobile, and up to
June, 1875,
Has Issued over Four Thousand Policies,
and paid out for death losses
OVER ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS,
Every death loss has been paid promptly and without delay.
THE MOBILE LIFE
Is rapidly coming into popular favor with Southern insurers.
VIGOROUS and PROGRESSIVE
HOME COMPANY.
About the only Southern Company
that increased the number of its policy-hohlers, last year.
Insure in this Staunch and Reliable Company.
R. E, JONES, Agent,
Cartersville , Georgia.
tW Agents wanted in every county in Georgia. Address
R. O. RANDALL,
General Agent and Manager,
june24-6m.
_______________ ROME, GEORGIA.
XISCELLAXEOIIS.
SAVE YOUR MI LES!!
Only Three Hundred Hollars.
Four - anft-a-Ealf Horse Power
ONLY S3OO 00!
YOUR ATTENTION is directed to the ex
ceeding low price of the BOOKWALTER
ENGINE. These engines are especially adapt
ed to the driving of Cotton Gins, small Grist
Mills, etc., and guaranteed to do all claimed
for them or the money refunded.
Orders received and further information
iurnished upon application to
T. W. BAXTER,
Agent for Manufacturer,
aplß-y. Ca rtersville, Ga
KW. MURPHEY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CARTERS VILLE, GA.
W ill practice in the courts of the Cherokee
Circuit. Particular attention given to the col- ;
cction of claims. Office over Baxter & Cha
fee’9 store. Oct. 1 1
PROFESSIONAL CARPI.
O. Pinkerton. Lindset Joinso*
Drs. Pinkerton & Johnson.
Physicians and Surgeons,
OFFICE —in Johnson & Curry’s Drug Store
Marctf 18,1875.
J L. &J, M MOON,
Office: Up-stab-s, over Stokely A William*.
West Main Street. Maril
'yy’ARREJi AKIN & SON,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA.
Feb 11, ly. _
OEO. C. TUMLIN,
attorney at law,
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA
Office : Up-Stairs, Bank Block.
jan w-D •
Q H. BATES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Office in the Court House.
Feb. 6-
M. FOUTE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
CARTERSVILLE, GA
( With. Col. Warren Akin,) .
Will practice in the courts of Bartew, Cooßj
Polk, Floyd, Gordon, Murray, Whitfield and ••
Joining counties. March
JOHN W. WOFFORD. THOMAS W. MILS**
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.,
up stairs, Bank Block. g.j.#.
Only Three Hundred Hollars.