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Columbus, (la.
County Court Return Day.
'ILe ‘‘Return Day” of Muscogee County
,'„ ur t is on the 2;’.d of this month. This
ci,tu t lias jurisdiction of all criminal cases
I,slow felony, and all civil cases as high
„ s one thousand dollars
Change of Schedule.
Notice is given that the trains ou the
North and South Railroad will run on
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
They will leave Columbus at (! a. in. and
.”>■.2o p. in., and arrive at 0:50 a. m. and
7:30 p. m.
Eu Route.
I he new engine purchased' by the North
and South Railroad Company is now en
r mite for Columbus. The engine and
tender are permanently fastened together
—somewhat similar to the engiuo ou the
Tuskegee, Ala., branch narrow gauge
road.
Colored l’anlorr*.
in this city they are paid very well.
Sularies range between S7OO and $1,200.
The last is paid Win. 11. Nobles, the pas
tin' of Anbury Chapel (Methodist), the
largest colored church in the city. The
colored people act very liberally in this
matter.
Can Only Sit oil Soft Places.
A darkey, caught stealing peaches a few
days since, from the orchard of Mr.
Elisha Calhoun, living in Hog Island,
Russell county, was slightly peppered
with small shot by that gentleman. And
now the decendant of Ham can’t sit easy.
A. M. Instead of IS. A.
A note received from Mr. M. A. Frazer,
of the A. A M. College at Auburn, Ala.,
states that “Sidney Herbert” in bis letter
of the 31st gave the name of It. O. Itouu
scvall as having received the degree of 11.
A., when it should have been A. M. The
hitter degree is much the highest. We
cheerfully make the desired correction.
Large Investment..
The four Building and Loan Associa
tions in Columbus are now virtually car
rying a half million of dollars for bor
rowers. This is perhaps more than the
combined capital of all tlio city banks,
’these Loan institutions have been great
helps in the erection of houses. They
may wind up in seven years, and are com
pelled to do so in eight.
Law Soil Leads to a Stabbing Affray.
Mr. Griffin. Gatewood, an old citizen, of
flog Island neighborhood, Russell county,
Ala., was stabbed on Saturday last by
Mr. David Morrell, living in the same
locality. Mr. Gatewood is not seriously
injured. The parties are said to be rela
ted. A law suit between them was the
origin of the difficulty.
The First Ojien Roll.
Dv. It. A. Ware laid on our table Thors
day an open boll of cotton, from Lis
plantation in Lee county, Ala. It is of
the l’eeler variety, which the Doctor says
is an early kind, and the staple is long
and fine. Though this would not be con
sidered early if we take the yearly average
of opening in this section, it is earlier for
(his backward season than any cotton we
have seen.
Camp Meeting.
The Catania camp meeting, four miles
from Fortson’s, on the North ami South
I util road, will commence on Friday night
before the second Sunday in September.
Ministers and visitors will find convey
ances at Fort sou’s.
Thos. T. Chkistian.
August 7th, 18711.
A Military Battalion.
It is very prohahle we will soon have a
battalion in the city of Columbus. The
Columbus Cuards arc now well establish
ed ; and the City Light Guards and Geor
gia Grays have been reorganized and au
spices are favorable to their success. The
artillery company, which lias a fair pros
pect. will form a valuable acquisition to a
battalion, and increase the interest of the
military department.
Itatlicr a 1 >mil)t fit I JProbleiu.
Just now it is rather doubtful what cot
ton is going to do. The recent heavy
rains, which show but little sign of abate
ment. have set everything to growing, if
the weather suddenly becomes dry and
hot, look out for droppiug of leaves and
fruit The crop is greatly behind and
fruiting slow ; still there is promise sis a
very excessive crop. Caterpillars are not
* doing much harm as yet. Many are talk
ing of four millions for next sense*.
New Presbyterian Church.
The Kev. J. 11. Nall and Elder J. M.
Frazer, of this city, spent last Sunday
fit Hamilton, where they were called
to assist in the organization of anew
l’resbyterian Church, to be under the
pastoral oaro of ltev. G. W. Maxou, who
also preaches at Talhotton and Geneva.
Major Maxou is a gentleman of line cul
ture, a good preacher and a popular citi
zen, and will no doubt do much good iu
this new field of labor.
Ill'll til of Young Thompson.
Columbus, Augusta and Portland, Ale.,
papers are requested to announce the
death, at Eagle Lake, Texas, on the 28th
of July, of congestion, in his twenty
second year, of Dexter 15. Thompson,
formerly of Columbus, and only brother
of Airs. J. E. Putnaui, of Savannah.
.’ his official announcement confirms all
previous reports, that the deceased was
formerly a resident of this city.
lVrmanently Located.
The Kev. l>r. Skinner, formerly pastor
of the Baptist Church in this city, is de
lightfully situated at Athens, where his
wife’s health has greatfully improved.
The Doctor thinks seriously of settling
down for life iu that healthy and desira
ble town. We dined with him a few days
ago, and found him occupying one of the
most attractive residences iu the suburbs,
where good cool air. pure water and out
door enjoyments restore rosy health to all.
Degrees Conferred.
The Board of Trustees of the University
of Georgia, mt Wednesday last, conferred
the degree of Doctor of Divinity upon
Kev. A. J. Battle, President of Mercer
University, Macon; and the title of Doc
tor of Law's upon the ltev. John X. Wad
dell, D. D., of the University of Missis
sippi-
Sent to the Asylum.
We indeed regret to learn that the wife
of Key. Major E. G. Gordon, of Alabama,
has been sent to the insane asylum at
1 nsealoosa. 11l health is said to have
been the cause, and travel has accom
plished no good. Major Gordon is a son
Kev. Z. H. Gordon, of Russell county,
Alabama, and a younger brother of Gen.
Jehu K. Gordon. He fought gallantly
in A irginia, and for a considerable time
" as on his brother’s staff.
Granges iu This County.
Tuesday, at the office of C. H. Wil
liams, Esq., a number of gentlemen, de
sirous to establish Granges in this county
met Col. Geo. W. Adams, of Forsyth!
Deputy Grand Secretary for this District.
Among those present were W. G. Wool
folk, Major A. M. Allen, Dr. E. C. Hood,
E. Semmes Banks, W. K. Banks, Dr. G.
B. Heard, Tom Reese, F. J. Mott, C. H.
Williams and lieese Crawford, Esqs.,
Majur A. R. Calhoun, editor of the En
quirer, and the reporter of this paper and
others whom we may not now recall.
Owing to a misunderstanding, the pe
tition necessary for a Grange, which must
bear the names of nine males and four fe
males, was not filled up, and it was there
fore deemed prudent to postpone the
initiation of those present until the regu
lations could be complied with.
Two hours were spent pleasantly listen
ing to the explanations of Col. Adams,
who gave a full and satisfactory insight
into the workings of the Order, while he
eloquently advocated its necessity and
urged on the planters to co-operate for
mutual protection. He stated that while
there was nothing in the organization op
posed to any man’s religion or political
opinions, religion and politics were both
ignored from a sectarian or partisan stand
point.
Major Allen made an interesting ad
dress, endorsing the views of Colonel
Adams, and moved a vote of thanks to
that gentleman, which motion was unani
mously adopted.
It is the intention to establish Granges
in Columbus, Bethel and the lower part
of the county.
The object of these Granges is to bind
the farmers of all sections together for
common interest and protection, and to
elevate the business of agriculture. The
minimum number for a Grange is nine
males and four females; the maximum
twenty males and ten females. After a
Grange has been fully organized the initi
ations can befriended indefinitely. The
initiation fee is three dollars for males
and fifty cents for females. All the
Granges are under a Grand Lodge.
The Order has spread all over the coun
try. Many Lodges have been established
in Georgia. Prominent men Lave charge
and everywhere the movement appears to
be exceedingly popular.
The Older is of Scottish origin. The
word Grange is from the Latin granum,
and its signification has been applied to
a well-regulated farm.
The Talbotton Branch Road.
From Talbotton to Kingsboro, on the
N. AS. R. R., the survey shows the dis
tance to be some twenty-two miles. The
Chief Engineer is said to have stated the
grading would not exceed two thousand
dollars per mile. This road will add
vastiy to the business of Columbus.
People must pay, however, to get rail
roads. The one spoken of will benefit
Talbotton and the residents along the
line more than any others and hence they
should lie prepared to shoulder most of
the burden. Public meetings and talk
do not build roads, but greenbacks do.
Even if a dollar of dividends is never re
alized by Talbotton, the farmers on the
line will be repaid in increased value of
property and speedy communication with
the outside world.
More Iron for the N. & S. K. It. Also
Another Engine.
We have been told by parties who are
informed, that arrangements are about
perfected for more iron for the North and
South Railroad. Capt. Chipley has been
in New York for the past two weeks nego
tiating for it, and we are glad to know his
efforts are about to be crowned with suc
cess. His intelligence and perseverance
will get it, if it can be gotten, and the
stockholders ought ever to be proud of
their efficient Secretary and Treasurer.
It is indeed a feather in a young man’s
cap to go North in the present stringency
of the money market, and buy a hundred
thousand dollars worth of iron, and of
which lie and liis friends should be proud.
We were also shown a photograph of a
new engine which Capt. Cliipley has pur
chased for the road, and which will be
shipped very soon. It is a regular Fairlie
locomotive after the English Festinog,
original narrow gauge road, pattern. This
shows progress.
Crop Reports.
Our travelling correspondent reports
crops between this city and Sparta as be
ing ordinary, but rather better from that
point to Athens, via the Georgia Rail
road. At Milledgeville he heard com
plaints of a drought of several weeks,
which has injured the corn crop, but cot
ton is doing well. lion. I). W. Lewis, of
the Agricultural College at Dahlonega,
and Col. N. G. Barnett, of Atlanta, report
crops good in their neighborhood and
along the routes which they have trav
elled. Crops about Athens are reported
as being good, with fair prospects for the
future.
A Negro Man Shoots a Woman.
A negro woman living on the premises
of Mr. George Young, nine miles from
the city, in Russell county, Ala., was shot
on Saturday, 2d, l)j r a negro man named
William Blackman, who lives ou the
plantation of Capt. John S. Burch. The
negroes were at a spring and the woman
stalled in the direction of the house, when
the rniiu called to her to stop, or come
back, if she did not he would shoot her,
which she failing to do, he fired, the
charge taking effect in the back, shoulder
and arm. The shot were small, making a
painful but not serious wound. The
woman was visited by Dr. Norwood, who
reports her doing well.
Death of Mrs. T. U. Camak.
This lady, a telegram states, died in
Griffin Tuesday morning. The reuiaius
will be brought to this city and laid in
the family burial ground. She was a
daughter of the late Col. Thomas Ragland,
who, for so many years, was proprietor of
the Enquirer,und the wife of Col. Thomas
Camak, who fell while leading his regi
ment on the bloody field of Ohickamauga.
She was a true Christian lady, known aud
beloved by a wide circle of friends. Re
tiring and domestic, in. the privacy of
home and the education of her children
were life’s triumphs gained, and in that
home her memory will ever be held sacred.
Another Line of Boats.
A letter has been received from Mr.
Puppy, the Superintendent of the railroad
from Jacksonville to Chattahoochee, by
Mr. Wm. Thompson, a pilot on our river.
Mr. F. states be is going West to purchase
steamboats and asked the views of Mr.
Thompson regarding the class of steamers
suited to our river. He also engaged the
services of Mr. T. us pilot. The latter
has accepted the position aud given the
advice required. This looks like we are
to have another line of boats upon our
river.
A Bailiff Thrown into the River.
Bailiff Fergursou, on Monday, arrested
one C. Tike, (we believe that’s the name)
who lives up the river. Tiie prisoner es
caped. On Tuesday the bailiff procured
a pistol and went fishing for pike again.
This time he was less successful than be
fore; for Fike got into a fighting mood
and threw the bailiff into the river, where
lie got a rare ducking. The accused is
still at large. This is anew way to treat
officers and is one that cannot bo allowed,
for it brings the courts into contempt.
Good Management.
The Savannah aud Memphis Railroad,
running only twenty-eight miles, on an
average, last year, has made running ex
penses, salaries, Ac., and cleared live thou
sand dollars. Shows good management.
The track is now laid forty miles, and it
is thought twenty-three more miles will
be laid this year. The road has two en
gines aud ample rolling stock for present
needs.
Sidewalk Notes.
Major Hamilton Wilkins is haw em
ployed as draughtsman on the engineer
corps of the Savannah and Memphis Rail
road, but is at present superintending the
building of the rock piers at the Tallapoo
sa river bridge. A more gallant or cour
teous gentleman does not live.
The girls in a Springfield, Mass., facto
ry are supplied by the proprietors with
chewing gum, in order that they may not
waste time in talking. This dodge has
not yet been adopted by our mills.
“v! 0 ) U m hthe . m j, 113 of the God grind’ slowly,
A et they grind exceeding small- 1
Though with patience He stands waitin'-
w ith exactness grinds He all.”
Politeness is real happiness kindly ex
pressed.
A dying negro was told by his minister
to forgive a certain darky to whom he en
tertained feelings of animosity. “Yes,
yes,” he replied, “if I dies. I forgive dat
pigg er > but if I gits well, dat nigger urns'
look out.”
The deputies of a great German me
tropolis offered Marshal Terrenne one
hundred thousand crowns not to pass
through that city. “Gentlemen,” re
plied he, “I cannot in conscience accept !
your money, as I had no intention to pass
that way.”
Paris green is iu immense demand, and
the price is said to have risen. Cheaper j
substitutes are being sought for.
The Augusta factory, together with the
Graniteville and Langley, located in South
Carolina, near Augusta, consumed in the .
last fiscal year, 17,135 bales of cotton.
A disgusted journalist, who has been
through tiie mill, speaking of the difficul
ty of pleai'lng every body, says—“even if J
one sounded the praises of his Maker, the !
devil would be offended.”
Avery lazy man of our acquaintance
was asked how he had attained so much
information, when he drawled out: “I
didn t attain it; I just heard and was too
lazy to forget it.”
Among the prisoners captured at the
battle of Waterloo, was a Highland piper.
Napoleon asked him to play a pibroach,
and he did it. “Play a march”—it was
done. “Play a retreat. “Na, na,” said
the Highlander. “I never learned to play
a retreat.”
The Demosthenian Society of the Uni
versity of Georgia on Monday elected
Rev. Dr. J. Dixon, of Augusta, and Major
Sidney Herbert, of this city, honorary
members.
An infant daughter of Thomas M. Mnr
phree, who married a daughter of Mr.
Jordan L. Howell, died in Troy on Mon
day, aged seven months.
The Atlanta people want the Bishops of
the Catholic, Methodist and Episcopal
churches in Georgia to make their resi
dences in Atlanta.
The prospect is that business will soon
reopen very prosperously. Good crops
thus far.
A Columbus man was once asked if it
was not worse for the gentlemen to drink
than for the ladies to take snuff. He re
plied that both were very bad, and that
if his wife should ever take to snuff, he’d
linker certain.
A friend was telliug us the other day
about a graduate of West Point who ab
horred mathematics. The Professor asked
him to explain the method of ascertaining
the horizontal paralax of the sun. He
didn’t kuow. “But suppose you were
appointed by the Government to ascer
tain it, what would you do?” “I’d resign,”
said the student.
We were once at a theatre when an
actor thus spoke: “The angel! I have
her picture here—l always wear it next
my heart.” Here ho produced the pre
cious daguerreotype not from his bosom,
where his heart was supposed to bo, but
from a pocket in the tail of his coat,
where it was not supposed to be. This
broke up the play.
We saw a model husband—in a dream,
Where things are not exactly ivhat tlieyseem;
A moral man, to skeptics be it lcnrwn,
The wife he loved and cherished—wasliisown;
And for the test—we saw the husband wait
With horse and buggy five minutes at the gate,
While Jane put on her things; nor speak
One sour or bitter word, though waiting half
an hour
For dinner; and, like patience on a throne,
He didn’t swear to find a button gone.
Experience is an excellent schoolmas
ter, but he charges dreadfully dear for his
instruction.
Mr. Robert C. Weir, for many years a
very popular clerk iu the store of Mr.
Kyle, left on Tuesday, for Ireland, where
ho will reside in future. Sorry to lose
him as ho was a good citizen.
A largely attended railroad meeting
was held iu Talbotton on Tuesday. Col.
E. Hulbert addressed the meeting on nar
row gauge railroads. We can’t see the
use of such addresses when they can come
to Columbus and see one in daily opera
tion for twenty miles. He also urges the
building of the branch road connecting
with the line of the N. A S. Col. T. A.
Brown presided, and J. B. Gorman was
Secretary of the meeting.
We understand that Mr. H. Castleman
intends shortly removing to Atlanta, where
ho will still be engaged iu the brokerage,
insurance and commission business.
At sixteen a girl says who shall I take?
at twenty, who shall I get ? at twenty-five,
who will take me ?
The evils of life are like the evils which
alarm travelers on the road; they both
appear great at a distance, but whin we
approach them we find them less insur
mountable than we had imagined.
A gentleman who, under the least ex
citement, would exclaim there’s a crisis
coming, was considerably amused at being
gravely informed by a four-year-old son
that the erg sin had come, and was iu tied
with mother.
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows
us truth; we can never see the stars till
we can see little or naught else—and thus
it is with truth.
An Irishman was once standing before
a looking-glass with his eyes shut, and on
being asked why he stood there, replied :
“I’m after seeing how I look when I’m
slape.”
Don’t many a woman until she is
twenty-one. She hasn’t come to her
wickedness before then. So writes a
sage.
Zi Pike, who threw Bailiff Furgeson in
the river Wednesday, when the officer en
deavored to arrest him, was brought in all
right by Sheriff Ivey, and put under SIOO
bonds to answer the charge before the
Superior Court.
“What are you fencing that pasture for?
Forty acres of it would starve a cow.”
“Certainly, aud so I am fencing to keep
my cows out.”
One in nine hundred is the proportion
of insane persons and idiots iu all coun
tries. Os 1,000 lunatics, 810 were caused
by drunkeness; 270 by disease; 1(10 by
excessive labor; 70 by misfortune; 54 by
disgrace; 07 by love; 9 by remorse,and 00
were born idiots.
“Bill, you scamp, if you had your due
you’d get a good whipping.” “I know it,
daddy, but bills are not always paid when
they come due.”
Never neglect a person because you ima
gine he can never be of use to you. We often
derive assistance from those whom we do
not desire or expect to take an interest in
our welfare.
Our age is remarkable for having pro
duced two great thoughts—that of Froud
homme : Private property is public rob
bery ; and that of Eugene Sue: No one has
the right to luxuries unless every one is
provided with necessaries. These are
great thoughts, but they are not popular
ones nor do they deserve to be.
Country Produce.
For the benefit of our subscribers in
the country, who may have any articles
of produce to sell, we have enquired the
prices of some of the more important of
them. They are:
Wholesale. Retail.
Butter, 30 ets. 40
Eggs, _ 17 25
Onions, $0 50 bbl. 75 pk
Cow peas. 100 bush. 3ri 2.i
Frying chickens, 20, 271 25, 40
Grown chickens, 27j, 33y 35, 4.>
Irish potatoes, 50 75 pk
Sweet potatoes 75 $1 00, 125 pk
Female Education.
The Southern Masonic Female College,
of Covington, has its full announcement
in this issue of our paper, to which we
call the attention of parents aud guardians
having young ladies to educate. The lo
cation is healthy, the society good, and
the institution, under President Brad
shaw, one of the best iu the State.
We call attention to the advertisement
in our columns of the University of Vir
ginia, one of the Universities of highest
rank in America. It if founded on the
elective system, iu its broadest sense, aud
is equally well adapted for those who de
sire to make special and professional at
tainment as for those seeking broad gen
eral culture.
Great Advantages the South has Over
New and Old England.
Gen. John B. Palmer, who is manufac
turing cotton goods in South Carolina,
says we can, on No. 20 varus, make five
cents more per pound than the Lowell
Manufacturer, when both sell in the
North. He says he can make the yarn,
estimating the price of cotton at twenty
cents, and after paying freight and insur
ance to New York, for 29.8 cents. The
lowest cost at Lowell, including the ratne
items, except freight and insurance, esti
mating the price of cotton there at 22.5
cents, is 34.8 cents.
A pound of the same yarn at Manches
ter, England, the cotton there estimated
at twenty-four cents, costs 35.25 cents.
Now if we add freight and insurance from
New York to England to the cost of South
ern manufacture—that is 1.5 cent3 to 29.8
cents--we find that the Southern manu
facturer can lay down yarns in Liverpool
4.C7 cents a pound cheaper than the Eng
lish manufacturer can offer his there.
These are calculation); mud >y a prac
tical manufacturer from ;..u boritative
data. Such demonstrations as these, ren
dered more evident every day, will bring
more anil more capital to the fiouth,
where such immense advantages are en
joyed.
W T e expect to see the day when North
ern and English spinners will establish
large mills upon our river. Let the South,
generally, show that her people have con- j
tidence in such enterprises, by embarking
their means in them, aud let our mills go
on declaring large dividends, and there
will be no lack of capital to build others.
A few years will tell the story.
En ltoute for Seale, Alabama.
The parties authorized by the sheriff of
Talbot county, passed through here last
week, on their way to Seale, Ala., with a
negro who they charge is the veritable
Scab Walker, who killed Mr. Mac Halli
day. They had this same negro here last 1
week or the one before. Deputy sheriff
A. H. Burch at that time was in the city,
and went to the guard-house to see him.
He stated the negro was not the Seab
Walker who had escaped from the jail
at Seale. All our officers declared the
same thing and so did Seab’s relatives.
The prisoner was then carried back to
Talbotton. We presume they now have
a requisition. The negro declined going
to Seale when he was brought here the
first time; now he cannot help himself.
Suppose the negro proves not to be Seab
Walker as he already seems to have done,
and he chooses to sue Talbot authorities
for false imprisonment, won’t it create a
rustling among the lawyers? It seems to
us the murderer of Mr. Halliday should be
captured somewhere. The reward offer
ed amounts to several huudred dollars.
This prize ought to find him. From all !
we hear we do not believe he has been ;
found yet.
Another Snake Story.
We have had lately a big snake story
from Florida, where one was seen large
enough to swallow an ox; another from
Dalton, Ga., where a little girl vomited a
snake from her stomach ; and again in
our own city, where a snake was found
iu the third story of a residence attempt
ing to swallow a pet mocking bird, in a
cage. And now a gentleman living iu a
neighboring village “rises to explain”
what he knows about snakes climbing to
great heights, etc., and tells his story
thusly :
While Mclntosh’s battalion of artillery
was stationed at Cobhain Station, on the
Gordonsville and Danville Railroad, Va.,
a Frenchman, a private, belonging to the
command, discovered the den of a grey
squirre l , in the hollow limb of a red oak
tree, about forty feet from the ground.
The tree was two and one-half feet in
diameter, and a considerable number of
feet to the first limb. Mr. Frenchman
climbed the tree to the hollow limb, and
proceeded to search therein for the squir
rel, when lo and behold! the first thing
discovered and brought forth was a black
snake, about four or five feet long, which
ho threw to the ground, aud proceeded
with his search, found the squirrel, drew
it out, killed, threw it to the ground,
skinned, cooked and ate , jis will be
vouched for by those who witnessed it.
Next.
New Trustees Elected.
At the meeting of the Board of Trus
tees of the University of Georgia, held at
Athens on Tuesday last, L. G. Harris, of
Athens, was elected to till the vacancy
made by the death of Hon. Wm. Dough
erty, of Atlanta: Gen. John B. Gordon in
place of Judge I. L. Harris, of Milledge
ville, resigned; Col. John Screven, of Sa
vannah, in place of Col. Samuel Barnett,
of Washington, resigned. The Alumni
Trustee, J. C. Rutherford, Esq., of Bain
bridge, who was elected last Oomffieuce
meut for the short term of one year, was
re-elected for the long term of five years.
Although rather feeble, ex-Gov. C. J.
Jenkins was present and occupied bis po
sition as Chairman of the Board.
Commissioners’ Court, Russ, it County,
Alabama.
The Russell Recorder, in its Court
calendar, gives the wrong dates for the
holding of the regular terms of the Com
missioners’ Courts in Russell county. For
the information of our readers in that
county we again publish the correct dates
of holding regular terms of said court.
(See section 829 of the Revised Code of
Alabama.) The dates for regular terms
are the second Monday in February and
August, and the first Monday in April aud
November.
Cutting Affray in Macon.
Conductor John Giles, who had charge
of one of the passenger trains between
this place and Macon, was badly cut in
the latter city Wednesday evening, at sup
per time.
Conductor Giles had been running be
tween Columbus and Macon for a number
of years, and is very popular with the
traveling public. He seemed to have a
kind word for everyone and was quite at
tentive to his duties. The people here
greatly regret to hear of the accident.
We trust he will soon recover.
A Cusseta Poet. "
The North East Georgians-, of Athens,
in its report of the Class Tree Celebration
of the class of 1873, has this to say of the
Poet of the occasion. “The gifted young
poet, T. I>. Huff’, of Cusseta, next en
chanted the house. In flowing measures,
and truly poetic expression, he gave im
mortality to “My Boyhood’s Home.’ The
rythmic melody stole over our senses like
some Orphean note, while the sentiment
he expressed brought into our eyes tears
of unaffected sorrow and grief. Mr. Huff
bids fair to become a greater one than
any of the Immortal.”
Enough Bridges.
Since 1533 nine bridges have been built
across the Chattahoochee river at this
place—six by the city and three by the
railroad companies. Os the city bridges
two were washed away, and two were
burned at the time of Wilson’s raid.
One railroad structure was burned at the
same time. We have now two city and
two railroad bridges. Each has been
built upon the piers of those which were
destroyed. These nine bridges, with re
pairs, have cost the city or ~ $200,000.
We hope these we now ; -a . 11 lie lucky'
enough to stand for a century or two, just
to see how long they can last.
Hick’ry vs. Juanner.
An old Georgia negro woman is report
ed as saying the following in explaining
the difference between the old aud new
systems:
“De way dey use to make cotton iu my
day was wid a plenty o’ hick’ry. Dey
didn’t need no juanner den. And if you
will jes gib me a few niggers and a good
hiek’ry now, I kin make any of dis laud
about here fetch good cotton, dat will
beat any of yer juanner.”
MOKE COKX Tit.lX COTTOX.
Agricultural Report of Marion County
for 1873.
Mr. D. B. Wells, Receiver tax returns
of Marion county, furnishes the following
figures. It will be noted that the land in
com exceeds that in cotton by 1,340 acres.
Hurrah for Marion. With full corn cribs
her people will be happy and prosperous,
and we are rejoiced to know that her
model farmers have made splendid corn
crops and cotton is flourishing. But for
the statistics:
There are 20,239 acres in cotton; 1,401 j
in wheat; 937i in rye; 5 in barley; 1,243
in oats; 21,579 in corn; 403 J in sweet po
tatoes; 138 in sugar cane; 14 sorghum:
284 peanuts; 900 in orchards.
Great Trunk Line.
The great trunk line between Savannah
and St. Louis will be through this place
when the Savannah and Memphis railroad
is completed, which will be within three
years. The Mobile and Ohio, and the St.
Louis and Iron Mountain roads have guar
anteed the interest ou the S. & M. Com
pany, and also made a traffic agreement
by which the three roads take $50,000 per
annum of the S. A M.’s bonds for three
years after the latter road is completed.
The road Las aid to the extent of four
thousand dollars per mile from Alabama
and the same from Mississippi. Colum
bus, Ga., and Corinth, Miss., —the latter
on the Mobile and Ohio railroad—will be
the termini. They are not three hun
dred miles apart. Iron is now laid forty
miles beyond Opelika, Ala., aud about
thirty more miles will be completed this
year.
Trains on an average ran only over
thirty miles of road the last fiscal year;
yet the reports say five thousand dollars
were cleared. This shows splendid man
agement.
Freights from St. Louis to Southern
Towns by Green Line.
To Columbus —bacon, hay and lard per
100 lbs. 84; grain per 100 lbs., 57; flour
per barrel, $1 15; beef and pork $2 19.
Macon, West Point, Opelika, Union
Springs and Enfanla have the same rates.
Fort Gaines and Georgetown are a little
higher.
To Box Springs, Geneva, Reynolds,
Fort Valley, Butler—bacon, lard and hay,
per 100 lbs., $1 00; grain per 100 lbs., 03;
flour per barrel $1 35; beef and pork
$2 79.
To Troy, Ala.,—bacon, hay and lard,
$1 14, to Clayton $1 00; grain. 77, to
Clayton 18; flour per barrel $1 51, to
Clayton $1 40; beef and pork $2 84, to
Clayton $2 73.
To Stations on Apalachicola, Chattahoo
chee and Flint rivers, except those men
tioned—bacon, hay and lard $1 04; grain
75; flour per barrel $1 55; beef aud pork
Horrible Railroad Accident.
We witnessed a horrible sight on the
Georgia Railroad, nearly seven miles
from Macon, on Friday night last. An
old man of about fifty years of age had
been to town, where he had purchased
some bacon lor his family and a bottle of
whisky for himself, and was on his way
home again. But having taken too freely
of the contents of the bottle, he fell upon
the track, and the Augusta train, on
which we were a passenger, ran over him,
dragging his body about thirty feet, and
mangling it in a most horrible manner.
The engineer whistled on brakes as soon
as he saw the object on the track, but the
speed of the train was such that we passed
the spot nearly a quarter of a mile before
the train was brought to a stand still. A
Coroner was sent for, and we presume the
verdict of his jury will be—-“killed by the
whisky bottle”—thus adding another vic
tim to the long list, that is daily swelling
its numbers, of those who have perished
thus suddenly and horribly while under
the influence of the terrible demon of In
temperance.
Serious Accident.
At the depot of the Southwestern Rail
road, yesterday evening, a number of the
employees took down a box of parlor
skates that had been in the warehouse for
a year’or so, and putting them on, com
menced practicing. One young gentle
man, Mr. James Benson, anew beginner,
while being led with a handkerchief in
the hands of an expert, who was skating
backwards, fell heavily backward, strik
ing on his right hip, and breaking his leg
close to the hip joint, it is thought. He
was carried to his home ou a litter. Drs.
Word and Grimes, Jr., are in attendance
on him.
Different Altitudes.
Mr. R. L. Bass, who has made a survey,
states that the side walk in front of the
house owned by Mrs. Nance, but occupied
by Mr. A. F. Johnston and family, is four
and a half feet above the curb stone of
the Georgia Home building.
The gale sill at the entrance of Judge
M. J. Crawford’s residence is live feet
higher than the Georgia Home curbstone.
Chancellor Lijiscoml) Kcsi^ncd,
The many graduates and students of
the University of Georgia in this section
will regiet to learn that Rev. A. A. Lips
comb, D. D., LL. D., has resigned the
Chancellorship of the University of Geor
gia, and that his resignation has been ac
cepted, to take place at the next Com
mencement. His son, Prof. Frank A.
Lipscomb, is now reported out of danger,
and hopes are entertained of his speedy
recovery.
Patriotic Speeches.
A large and enthusiastic crowd of ladies
and gentlemen gathered at the Newton
House. Athens, on Tuesday night, at the
close of the exercises of the University,
and called out. Gen. John B. Gordon and
Hon. Henry W. Hillard, both of whom
made eloquent and patriotic speeches in
which they highly commended Bishop
Pierce’s views in regard to “Southern
Civilization.”
Complimented Ex-Governor Jenkins.
During the course of his address, at
Athens, on Monday last, the Hon. A. H.
Stephens made a most handsome allusion
to the unswerving patriotism and sterling
integrity of ex-Gov Charles J. Jenkins,
who occupied a seat on the platform. Ilis
graceful and deserved compliment was
promptly endorsed by the hearty applause
of the vast audience present. *
Released.
The negro mentioned yesterday as hav
ing been arrested in Talbot county,
charged with being the murderer of Mr.
Mack Halliday, we understand has been
released, he having proved not to be the
man the authorities are desirous to find.
Religious Meetings.
A series of protracted meetings com
menced last Sunday in the Methodist
Church in Girard. Rev.*J. W. Simmons,
the pastor in charge, is assisted by the
city pastors. We hope much good will
result.
Northern Mills Stopping.
A private letter states that nearly twenty
thousand looms at Fall River, Massa
chusetts, have stopped for the month of
August. Dull business is the cause. All
the Southern mills are running on full
time and making money.
For loss of Appetite, Dyspepsia, Indi
gestion, Depression of Spirits and Gener
al Del. ility, in their various forms, Ferbo-
Phospocated Elixir or Calisya made by
Caswell, Hazard A Cos., New Y’ork, and
sold by all druggists, is the best tonic.
Asa stimulant tonic for patients recov
ering from fever or other sickness, it has
no equal. If takf-n during the season it
prevents fever and ague and other inter
mittent fevers.
The Catoosa Courier of the 7th inst.,
says: Notwithstanding the short crop,
wheat is coining in rapidly, between three
and four thousand bushels have been
marketed here within the last week. It
quotes $1 35@$l 50.
“XOLLE MOSSED'* RT DEATH.
A Tallapoosa Story as Tol,l by a Talla
poosiaii.
When at Opelika, [Saturday, we heard
an agml man. who hailed flora Tallapoosa,
a county rendered famous iu old times by
being the home of "Simon Suggs,” and
now known as the "banner Democratic
county” of Alabama, relate the following,
which we will try to give in his language:
1 'lt wus, as well as I kin rickolek, at
the fall term of court, in ’l>4, at Dadeville.
when (that clever old man, he is ded and
gone.) Bob Dougherty was the jedge and
Squire Joe McDonald—as you're from
Columbus, mister, you mout know the
squire, for he lives down thar iu liussell
now—had bin discharged from the army
and wur solicitor of the “Bloody 9th.” as
our cirkit wus called. Thar had bin a
true bill found by the gran jury at the
spring term uv the court agin old man
Jim Rentfrow; and Jim he went to the
war that summer, thinking prehaps the
case would be drapped on that account.
“Well, while the Court wur in session,
I went to Squire McDonald fur to try and
git him to nol. pros, the case; and ho
'lowed as how it went mitily agin his
grain fur to prosecute Rentfrow; and I
knowed it did, fur the Squire wus as big
harted as he Wur free-handed, and wus
powerfully beliked in Tallapoosy ; but he
sed the law' would hev to be carried out.
“Well, I sot down by a winder, on the
fur side of the Court room, and kinder
looked out, and jist then a waggiu, with
a yoke uv steers hitched to hit, driv up
in the squar, sorter in fruut uv Cap.
Young’s grocery. Cap. he wus a nephew
uv old Simon Suggs, you know, and a
crowd uv fellers cum outen the grocery
and stood round thewaggin, sorter talkin’
like to the driver.
“Jist then the clerk —it seems to mo Jim
Phillips—a mighty good fellow he wus—
wur our clerk; but I disremember now',
—or else it wus the jedge, sung out,
‘State uv Alabamy agin Jeems Rent
frow,’ and the sheriff—l b’lieve Alferd
Slaughter was sheriff then, and he made
a good one—hollered outen the winder,
‘Jeems Rentfrow cum inter Court.’ A
feller stepped outen the crowd, by the
waggin, and said, loud enuff fur every
man in the court to hear him, ‘Jeems
Rentfrow’s ded body is here, cum back
from the wars in this here cart;’, and it
wus so too. Thar wus a stillness then in
that court house, I never knowed afore ;
and I seed Squire Me drap his hed, and
then wipe his eyes as he riz; and iu a
husky voice sed, ‘Noll-prossed by death;’
and so it wur entered on the dockit, I
b’lieve. That wur a solemn scene, mister,
and es I liv a thousen years, I’ll never
furgit it; and thar wus menuy a man set
ting thar that day what felt watery about
his eyes, besides the solicitor and me.”
THE SQUIRE’S MULE AXD ROUS
SAU’S RAIDERS.
A Tallapoosa Story as Tolcl by a Talla
poosian.
“ When Roosau’s Rade cum through
Tallapoosy, the mane heft uv his cum
mand tuk the rode from S tow’s Ferry di
reckt through Dadeville. Thar wus sum
few what hed, however, straggiled off
frum the cummand —jest like soljers will
do everywhar, you know, mister —and
they cum roun a nigh cut by Squire
Luke Devon port’s. Well, the Squire—es
you ever go to Dadeville yon ort to git
ecquainted with him, fur her lies bin
elected Jestice uv the Peace fur Dadeville
boat nigh onto :-».*» years,and is thort a beep
uv—he hed bin mitily pestered by fokes
a borrowing his ereeturs to ride to mill
and a’ter the docturs, and sech like ur
rands; so he ouncluded he would trane a
mule fur his own use specially.
,‘Well, he bort hisselt’ a young mule,
what wus’nt bridlewise, and he sot in to
brake him, so’s when everybody stuck a
spur into his side, nr hit him with a
switch eunywhar ’eeptiu over his neck he
would jest kick and rar; t’well he thing
w'hoever wus on his back nigh into the
middle uv next week.
“This ere nmle were specially upposecl
to crossin water, and would stop rite still
whenever he cum to a branch ur creek.
“That ar straggling crowd nv Yankees,
I told you bout, kinder slipped up on the
Squire train behind; far ho bed packed
up a lot of his’en and the old ’ouian’s and
the gal’s truck, and hitched two mules to
his carridge, and drove on to Parson
Gratelionse’s, what lived rite up on the
brow nv (lie hill, jest this side uv Big
Sandy creek, and Led stopped in the
rode to talk to the Parson, lest then the
Yanks cam up behind m.li a hoop, and
afore he knowd what wu:-. , .vine on, (hey
bed captured the whole ganb uv them
and was cuttin the traces.
“One uv the blue coats tu . wan mule,
and another tak this ere mule wluit (he
squire bed trailed. While they wus pull
ing off the harness the Yankee was mak
ing fun uv (he squire, and jest as he wus
tying his saddle-bags onto tins trailed
mule’s saddle, he sed to the squire, ‘Thar
is a lot uv .sugar and coffee in them bags
as would make yore damned rebel month
water;’ and you know sugar and coffee
war mity skoerce in the war times, and
powerful high.
“Ennyhow, the Yankee rid off, and the
squire, when he got a leelle piece off, sed,
‘Yes; and I’ll bet I drink sum uv that, ar
coffee to-niglit, es my cook don’t die
afore then.’
“So he sorter followed the Yanky t’well
lie retched the top of the hill, vvliar he
could see the ford in the creek, far and
squar; fur it win only 300 yards down the
hill, and a plum strate road. When the
mule cum to the bank, lie stopped and
spred out his legs—jest like a mule will
do, you know—and the Yank, he shuck
the rainz a spell, and then he stuck liis
spurz in the mule; and the next thing the
squire seed wuz the l'unk as he liz outen
the middle uv the creek—fur the mule
hod flung him nigh onto 20 feet over his
hed. The way that Yankee cussed then,
wur a sight; and then when he seed the
mule a gwine hack towards home, and the
squire a laffin, he throwed his carbeen to
his shoulder; and here, the squire says
he left in a hurry, fur he heerd the whiz
nv a mimiy ball too close to his hed fur
curnfort. That ar mule never stopped
t’well he stuck his nose over the squire’s
lot fence; and when the squire got back
home, thar he stood—saddle-bags, sugar,
coffee, a fust late Yankee saddle and bri
dle and sum other plunder. You can jest
bet the squire hed coffee at his meels for
menny a day a’ter that,”
Receipts at Interior Towns.
The following shows the receipts of
the named interior towns from August
31st to August 2nd. Their united stocks on
the 2nd were 2-5,439 against 8,333 same
date last year:
1873 1872
Augusta 178,025 143,402
Macon 01,620 54,439
Eufaula 20,520 22,050
Columbus 57,809 40,437
Montgomery 01,997 52,478
Selma 40,889 58,985
Nashville 00,290 50,824
Memphis 410,401 379,711
910,223 808,320
Stephens and Gordon.
Avery pleasant incident is related in
connection with the delivery of the ad
dress of Hon. A. 11. Stephens at Athens,
on Monday’ afternoon. As Gen. J. B.
Gordon came upon the platform Mr. Ste
phens cordially extended his hand, which
the General as cordially grasped, and for
several moments the great statesman and
brave soldier were in animated conversa
tion. The kindly feeling thus shown by
them for each other was duly appreciated
by all present.
Sehool at Opelika.
We refer to the advertisement of a
young lady’s seminary and boarding
school at Opelika, of which T. 0. Pinck
ard, A. M., is principal
When is a man done brown V When his
friends toast him.
DADEVILLE, ALABAMA.
Its Fine Springs and Climate—Pretty
Women— Business, etc.
Dadevills. Ala., August 8, 1873.
Friend Local: This is certainly one of
the healthiest spots that the invalid can
find. Situated high up among the hills
of Tallapoosa county, with tine free stone
water, cold as desired, and an atmosphere
that braces a person up at once. I sleep
every night under a sheet and thick coun
terpane, and when I awake in the morn
ing. am refreshed, and feel like getting
up, which you kuow I am loth to do at
home.
There is a mineral spring here; the
component parts of the water of which
seem to be iron, iu large quantities, with
a slight taste of sulphur. Drinking this
water will give one an appetite for any
thing, and a digestive power secured only
to an ostrich.
A large hotel is needed here badly. If
such an one were built and kept well, 1
do not doubt this would become a favorite
summer resort, as these are a whole-souled,
hospitable people.
There are many pretty ladies and young
widows here, and consequently time does
not hang heavy on your eorrepoudent’s
hands.
This afternoon, Mr. William R. Fitts
took me out behind a horse that, were he
properly trained, would soon show 2:4f>,
and being only four years old, I think
some of your horse men would do well to
get him.
The crops about here are in splendid
condition. I saw corn fully fourteen feet
high, and cotton nearly waist high on
these red uplands. In fact, the crops
here promise bettor than near Columbus.
No caterpillar to be heard of in this sec
tion. Where are your warehouse men?
None have been here this season; yet
much cotton will seen a market from this
county.
Business here, as elsewhere, seems dull
and money very scarce, even though fer
tilizers have not been sold so much as
heretofore, and men’s pockets are conse
quently heavier, as “guano notes” are not
now like leaves in Vallambrosa.
Your Tallapoosa story of “Nolle pressed
by death,” I heard Messrs. Sol Maugham
and Jas. Nickerson, who brought Mr.
Reutfrowt’s corpse up from the railroad,
say was true, to the letter, except that
there was a pair of mules instead of
steers.
Every one speaks well of the “Sun”
and your stories of this county please the
people. Yours, Bob.
ALABAMA XEHS.
The Dadeville News of Thursday says
the corn crop in Tallapoosa on uplands is
very tine. Cotton never has been better
at this season.
And the Headlight of the same date
says that the caterpillar has not yet made
its appearance in Tallapoosa, so far as it
can learn.
The Selma Times, of the !)th inst, says :
“The caterpillars, as anticipated, have
made a general appearance again, and
this time in far greater numbers than
before. The present crop has apparently
come to life during the past forty-eight
hours. The damage done just yet is slight,
but unless they are speedily killed off, the
cotton crop will be greatly shortened, and
upon some plantations there will be almost
a total failure.”
The North Alabama Reporter says:
“From all quarters, the crops of both
corn and cotton are reported sorry. The
corn crop in this valley will be much
shorter than last year, but the recent
rains have helped it very materially. We
think the cotton crop will be nearly as
good as last year, though some of our
planting friends seem to be of a different
opinion.”
The Eufaula Times mentions a superior
article of jeans made at the Newton Fac
tory in Dale county, Ala., and says that it
sells readily in the Eufaula market.
Hon. W. S. Mudd. of Jefferson county,
is nominated by the Birmingham News
for Governor of Alabama.
VROE EROSEEVIS.
From our exchanges in all parts of the
country, we have made up the following
synopsis of the prospects for crops of all
kinds in the different States :
Prospects for wheat and other grain
were never better in Wisconsin than at
the present time. Iu Minnesota like re
sults are reported and also iu lowa. In
all of the Northwest there will beau av
erage yield of wheat. In Pennsylvania
that point has been advanced upon.
The same may be said of New York and
Ohio. The corn crop will be less than the
average to the acre planted in all the
States except Arkansas. Florida, Min
nesota and West Virginia being the only
States where the crop will be increased.
The late rains may augment the yield, but
not iu a heavy degree. The potato crop
is estimated to be above the average, hav
ing increased in two-thirds of the States.
The drouth was disastrous in some States,
but with good weather henceforward the
farmers hope to gain much apparently
lost ground. The return of fruit will be
only partial in its success. Os apples and
pears the yield will be small iu the Mid
dle States. So little as to amount to
nothing in the income of the farmer. Iu
Ohio and some portions of New York,
however, there will be a fair crop of these
fruits. The peach crop will be abundant
ly remunerative, notwithstanding the
croaking of growers of this article of pro
duce. The grape crop was more disas
trously affected in California than any
where elso, and the yield there will not
probably be more than sixty-one per cent.
The Western States east of the Rocky
Mountains report favorable, Nebraska
making a large increa.se. On the whole,
the crops of the country are such as to re
ward, in a proper manner, the labors of
all legitimately engaged in raising and
getting them to market.
W. F. Ivey Refused Bail by Judge
Hopkins. —A few days ago the testimony
in the case of the State against Ivey,
who was charged with the killing of
the negro convict on the preliminary trial,
and which was taken down and written
out by Judge Thomas Spencer, was hand
ed to his Honor Judge Hopkins, for exam
ination, along with an application for bail.
The Judge scrutinized it closely, and on
yesterday morning formerly heard the ap
plication at the Court House, Judge W.
E. Wright of counsel for defence, made
an argument in favor of the application,
but without hearing from the prosecution.
His Honor granted an order overruling
the application. The Judge commented
upon the testimony and case, and on the
material points sustained thepositions as
sumed by the couneel for the prosecu
tion. The defendant will remain in jail,
therefore until the Court convenes. At
lanta Herald, Sth.
Romantic. —There is n band us Gypsies
living in this county, about eight or nine
miles from town. Like other people
they have “kinfolk ” and recently the
head of this family w.n visiud by a broth
er who rules a similar baud somewhere in
Georgia. The two families thus united
had two sons and two daughter of mar
riageable age and this visit gave them an
opportunity to perfect their plans for
matrimony. Accordingly the four eloped
to Fort Gaines and were pursued by their
parents and brought back. Finding them
determined to marry they very sensibly
consented and came to town to have it
done legally. They were utterly ignorant
of the laws on the subject, but applied to
an acquaintance who referred them to
Father Savage. The parties then repair
ed to the Catholic church where the cere
mony was pei formed. They created
quite a sensation on the streets.—Eufau
la Times.
A now element of opposition to the Far
mers Granges has made its appearance.
The New York Freeman's Journal says :
The disadvantages of the secrecy of
this secret order of “Patrons” and gran
ges, are ffrst that it will, of rigorous ne
cessity, exclude from it the entire body
of faithful Catholics, who are prohibited,
by their religion, from joining such a se
cret society. The exclusion of Catholics
will be a fatal blow to success of the
farmer movement. The Catholic farmers
iu the Northwest; and those who are
identified with thorn iu interest, are too
large a part of the classes interested to be
dispensed with.
From Florida.—A private letter to the
publisher dated July L'bth received a few
days since, says cotton in Gadsden and
adjacent counties, is bettor than it has
been any time since the war.
No sign or report us caterpillars yet.
'fire corn crop is very good and more
THIS WEEK’S STATEMENT.
Columbus, Ga., August 8, 1873.
Financial. —Exchange on New York, buying
par, selling % premium. Currency loans
I@l % per cent, per month.
The Weather.— I Thermometer for the week
averaged 82 3 . Frio rainy days.
Same week last year the thermometer aver
aged 84°. Heavy rains on three days.
The Markets.— The following shows the
price of middlings in New York and Liverpool,
cold at New 1 ork and Low Middlings in Co
lumbus eaoh day of the week:
Up. Or. Up. Or. Gold. Col
Saturday..., B*. o *s
Monday —, —2O&2Qj!? g 1
Tuesday.... 9U'
Wednesday. B' s 9y 3 20 1 -, ;aOV| 11W?
Thursday... 9%, l#k@
Friday | B,'si 9p 8 !30 1 20>q1 115^|18>pS
On the week Liverpool, unchanged; New
York declined Columbus *£c.
Prices Past Year. Liverpool rplands
10;- 4 ' ; Orleans 10%d ; New York, Up.
lands Orleans 22J4c. Gold 11 bye. Colum
bus Middlings 100.
Market to-day quiet. Sales 13 bales.
Inferior 7 (3 10
Ordinary 12 ©l4
Good Ordinary la pAo'A
Low Middlings !«;.,© IS 1 ,
Middlings , lp?Js '
Good Middlings jj'—
Week’s sales 207 bales—lso Non hern spin
ners, 57 home consumption, 0 tor New York,
u to Savannah, o tor speculation, 0 for
New Orleans, 0 lor Charleston.
Total sales since September Ist per report of
shippers 57.074—35,58’-’ lor Northern spinners,
i.455 tor speculation,4,STS tor New Y0rk,5.489 tor
Savannah, 1,450 lor Mobile, 1,000 for New Or
leans, 122 tor Charleston, 7,308 lor Home Con
sumption.
Week’s receipts 78 bales, against 74 the
previous one, and ’do tuo Corresponding week
last season—l by S W K K, 40 by M it (J It
R, 2 by Opelika K R, 5 by river, 21 by wag
ons, 9byNsc SR R. Shipments 288 Oates
-231 by’ S VV R R, 57 tor home consumption,
0 by W R R to Charleston.
WEEKLY STATEMENT.
1873 1872
Stock Aug. 31st JSS 1,000
Received past week 78 20
Total received 57,887 40,457
Total received, in’ding 5t0ck.58,045 42,007
Shipped past week 288 20
Total shipped 5(5,700 41,812
Total home consumption 7,308 d.727
Stock Aug. 8 1,339 105
Sales 2u7 20
Year’s receipts 40.650
MODES Ob' lqtCEirTS.
1573 1872
Southwestern Railroad 2.827 1.285
Mobile and Girard Railroad. 18,402 11,681
Western Railroad 1,992 1,671
River 6,774 4,902
Wagons 26,278 20,918
North and South Railroad... 1,814 0
57,887 40,457
STATEMENT PRECEDING YEARS.
1867-8 1868-9 1889-70 1870-1
stock, Aug. 31, | 358 2801 125 1572
Ree’d to Aug. 8.. I 85641 48219 67078; 74734
Stock Aug. 8 | odo, 1151 1887 1680
Year’s receipts.. 85685 43500 j 672741 75007
U. S. Crop 1243089312260557 1 329800014352317
Through Cotton.—By Mobile and Girard
Railroad 3414 against 2180; by Western Railroad
56,712, against 37,675 last year.
Freights.—Per 100 Its cotton: To Savannah,
70e.; to New York, Baltimore and Philadel
phia, $1 15: Boston $1 25.
The United States Ports.—Receipts for
the week 11,336 bales, against 11,140 last week
—12,618 the week before and 1178, same
week last year. The total movement is as
follows:
1873 1872
stock Aug. 31 45,929 118 966
Week’s receipts 11,336 1,178
Total 3,585,468 2,712,009
Week’s exports to G. 8.... 15,148 9,068
“ " Con 2,116 0
Total exported to G. B. .1,874,082 1,446,687
“ “ Con 747,496 497,992
“ “ 2,621,578 1,944,679
Stock 158,597 81,825
Year’s Reoeipts —— 2,725,439
General Remarks.—Business very dull,
but improving. Crops better. Caterpillars
have not yet effected much damage.
WHOLESALE PRICES CURRENT.
Bacon—Clear Sides 'f ft 12J£c; Clear Rib
Sides 12; Shoulders 9>.i@lo’4: Sugar-Cured
Hams 16@18c; Plain Hains 15©17c.
Bagging—lndia ft yard 17c; Scotch Flax —c;
Kentucky 18c; Piece lde.
Bulk Meats Nonein market.
Butter—Goshen f) lb 50o; Country 35e.
Brooms—doz $2 25@3 60.
Candy—Stick f) ft me.
Canned Goods—Sardines fl case of 100 bxs
$24; Oysters, Ift cans doz, $1 75.
Cheese—English Dairy %! ft, 18c: Western
7e; N. State lge.
Candles—Star ® ft 22c; Sperm 45e.
Coffee—Rio r fi ft 22@28c; Java 30@34c.
Corn—Yellow Mixed bus 87c, White
92c, ear load rates in depot.
Cigars—Domestic M $18@50; Havana *9O
@IBO.
Flour—Fine fl bbl $8; Superfine 49 00; Ex
tra $10; Double Extra $10; Fancy sl2 00.
Hardware—Wide Iron '{li ft 80; Refined 6c,
Sad Irons 8e; Bar Load 14c; Castings
Plow Stool Cast. .Steel 30c; Buggy Springs
2uc; Horse and Mule Shoes ft ft 9c; Horse
Shoe Nalls Nails ft keg $8 50; Axes
doz $16@17.
Hay—cwl $2 00.
Iron Ties—sl ft loc.
Lard—Prime Leaf ft ft 11@11] C,c.
Leather—White Oak Solo sfft4sc; Hem
lock Solo 33c; French Calfskins s2@4 : Ameri
can do s2@3 50; Upper Leather $2(0)3 60; liar
ness do 50e; Dry Hides lie; Green do~6c.
Mackerel—No 1 M bbl $25; No 2*15; No 3 $9;
No lat A bbl $10; No 2 $9; No 3 $0; No 1 kit
$3.
Meal—bus $1 00.
Molasses—N. O. ® gall 85e@—; Florida 6f.
@7oc; Cuba 45@50c; Golden Syrup sl@l 35.
Oats—li husliol 70c.
Oi 1. -Kerosene gall 36c; Linseed, raw $1 20;
do boiled $1 25; Lard $1 60; Train $1 25.
PrcKLEs—Case pints '« doz $2 50; quarts
$3 60.
case $9 50.
Potatoes—lrish, fl hi ss®7.
Powder—f) keg $7 50; H keg $4 00; 14 bog
$2 50, in Magazine.
Rope—Manilla [-( ft 28e; Cotton 40c; Machine
Made 11c.
Rice—ft ft 9c.
Salt—ft sack $2 25.
Tobacco—Common ft ft 60c; Medium bright
70c; Fine 75c; Extra $1; Navy 60@65<s; Maceaboy
Snuff 85c.
Shot—ft sack $3.
SODA—Keg 7c ft 6,; box 9c.
SUGAR—Cuba ft ft 13@13)4; A 13 A; Bor
extra C 13; C 13; N O yellow clarified 13@13U
do white 14@14J4c.
Starch—ft ft 9e.
Tea—Green and Black ft ft $1 lo@2.
Vinegar—s gall 40c.
Whisky—R .ed ft gall sl@2; Bourbon $2
@4.
White Lead—ft 3, !2@l3> 3 c.
City Mills Prices.—Wholesale ft 100 fts.
Flour, A $5 00; Bs4 50; O $3 60. Bran $1 25.
Rich Shorts $2. Corn Meal and Grits 90c per
busnel.
Factory Prices Wholesale—% shirting at
11%c.; 4-4 sheeting at 13c.; bleached do. 14Jgc.
bleached drilling 14V£c; stripes and fashions 14@
16c.; hickory starting 16J4c.; ticking 13@33e.;
checks and ginghams 16@22c.; pantaloon goods
(cotton) 18@33c.; cottonades 33@35c\; osna
burg, plaids and stripes 18) (c.: woolen goods
40@66c.; cotton blankets s'2 25@56 00; yarns
$1 60; sewing thread 60c.; knitting thread
60@85c.; wrapping twine 60e.; rope 32@3G0.
osnaburgs, 7 oz., 16c
Dry Goods—7-8 Brown Domestics 12c; 4-4 do
14c: 10-4 do 35@42%c; 4-4 Sea Island Domestles
15«: 3-4 Bleached Domestics loc; 7-8 do lie; 4-4 do
14@20c; American Prints 7@llc; Furniture
Flints 12J4@20c; American Delaines 19@21c;
Black Alpacas 40c@$l; Ticking slo@4oc; (Jot
ton Flannels, bleached 20@40e; do brown 15@
36e; Plaid Liuseys 12Jzj@30c: Corset Jeans
@lß%e; Colored Cambrics 12'4c; Rolled do 13e;
Crash Toweling Red Flannels, wool
20 @ 45; White do 25@60e; Opera do 57U@65e;
Wool Blankets, colored $Ci; do 0-4 white s3@3 75;
do 80-4 $3 50@5; do 11-4 $4 50@7; Kentucky Jeans
15@45c; Ladies’ lloso per doz sl@B 60; Ladies’
L. C. Handkerchiefs per doz 75c@$3 75; Corsets
62J4e@$3 75; Coats’ Spool Thread 80c per doz.
COUNTRY produce.
Wholesale. Retail.
Goshen butter $ 40 $ so
Country “ 30 40
Eggs 17 25
Frying chickens 25@30 35@40
Grown “ 30@35 4ogaO
Irish potatoes 50 p’k eop’k
Unions 60 p’k 60 p’k
Cow peas 1 25 bu 1 50 bu
A Critical Season.
Toward the close of the warm season the
long continued heat begins to tell upon body
and mind. Both being exhausted, and we
feel instinctively that nature, after lighting a
gallant battle with a debilitating tempera
tuie is drooping at last and requires to be st im
ulatcd and reinforced. This, therefore, is a pe
riod of the year when a course of Hostettcr’s
Stomach Bitters is especially useful. The im
mediate effect of this unequalled vegetable re
storative Is to strengthen the stomach, sharp
en the appetite, tone and regulate the bowels
and give steadiness and vigor to the nerves.
Asa preventive ol the endemic and epidemic
complaints that prevail at this season, and as
a remedy for indigestion, liver disturbances,
nervous debility, constipation, languor, head
ache, and all irregularities ol the bowels, this
pure and wholesome vegetable tonic and al
terative lias no equal among medicines.
PINE KNOT SPRINGS
ARE opened to visitors through the months
of August and September. Persons wish
ing to visit the above Springs will lind convey
ance at Box Spring, S. W. Railroad 011 Mon
days, Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Board $2 00 day, $lO 00 week. S3O 00 month.
aulO dlt&wtsepl Du. J. W. HALL.
S. M. F. College.
rpHE FALL TERM opens 27th /sjv
.L inst. Every Department tilled TfAZiiS
by experienced Teachers. *
Discipline rigid. A School Gos- > >
tume has been adopted and exer- fs
ciscs in Calisthenics are taken
daily.
Tuition S6O per Annum; Board sl3 to S2O per
month. Send tor Catalogues.
J- N. BRADSHAW,
Covington, Ga. auloeod2w&w2t Pres’t.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
Opens October 1; continues through nine
months It is organized in schools on the elec
tivo system, with full courses in Classics, Lit
erature, Science (with practice in Chemical
and Physical Laboratories,) in Law,Medicine,
Engineering. Teaching and Agriculture. Ai>-
ply for Catalogues to JAMES F. HARRI
SON, Chairman. P. O. University of Virginia
Albemarle Cos., Ya. aulo im
Royali’s Cotton Worm De
stroyer.
PLANTERS ilesirious of using an efficient ;
and sale remedy for destroying the Cotton 1
vv orm would do well to band in their orders *it
once or they may fail to supplied when in j
most need. E. < \ Atf’t,
)y3l Columbus, (fa. I
MUSIC BOOKS
BOUND IN ANY DESIRED STYLE, AT
SUN OFFICE
A Profitable Investmer/ lor
Capitalists.
A Cotton Factory
TO BE BUILT ON THE
Water Site of the Palace Mills,
Columtous, Ga.
It is proposed to build on the water
site of the Palace Mills, a COTTON
FACTORY for the manufacture of Cotton
Goods. Tko Capital Stock will be $250,000,
which will include an ample floating capital.
I Tlle building and machinery will be erected
j and arranged under the direction of J. Rhodes
| Browne, Esq. The building will be a sub
: stantial structure, and the machinery of the
most approved patterns.
The capital of the public is invited to this
enterprise as one promising sure, speedy and
j profitable results. No subscription will be
binding until $200,000 is secured, when the sub.
scribers will be Invited to oonveue lor the pur
pose of organizing the Company, and the work
will bo commenced.
ISO TAXATION, either State, County or
Municipal, attaches to this Investment mr
Tod Years. The BEST water power on the
river is secured; the warehouses of cotton are at
the door; the railroads radiate from the city to
every market tor the goods; and operatives are
soliciting employment. With such advantages
is it unreasonable to promise a profit ol 20 per
coat, per annum on the investment.
Subscriptions will be received at tho Chatta
hoochee National Bank; the Banking House of
John King, Esq.; the Merchants and Mechanics
Bank, and tlio Banking Office of the Georgia
Home Insurance Company.
J. RHODES BROWNE.
RANDOLPH L. MOTT
JOHN KING.
JAMES F. BOZEMAN.
W. L. SALISBURY.
JAMES RANKIN.
JOSEPH KYLE.
EPPING &. HANSKRD.
JNO. L. MUST IA N.
CHARLES WISE.
SWIFT, MURPHY & CO.
niyl ALLEN, PREEIt A ILLGES.
N. J. BUSSEY, G. GUNBY JORDAN
President. Sec’y a Treas.
OFFICE OF THE
Eagle and Phenix
Manufacturing Company.
(JolvuTilm*, Georgia.
Paid up Capital, - $1,250,000
To inculcate the habit of saving on
the part of its Operatives, and to pro
vide a safe and reliable arrangement
fertile beneficial accumulation of the
earnings of artisans and all other
classes, this Company has established,
under
SPECIAL CHARTER FROM THE
STATE OF GEORGIA
-A-
Savings Department
in which the following advantages are of
fered to Depositors of either large or
small amounts.
X.
PERFECT SECURITY. The assets of
tiie Company were on Ist
January, 1878 sl,7ol,tMi 4C
and are steadily increasing.
The Reserve fund is 02
j All of which property is specially
pledged by act of the General Assembly
for the protection of Depositors; and in
addition, by the same act, the Stockhol
ders of the Company are made INDIVID
UALLY RESPONSIBLE in proportion
to their shares, for the integrity of the
Savings Department and its certificates of
Deposit.
2.
LIBERAL INTEREST. Rate allowed
Seven percent, per annum; Compounded
four times a year.
71.
DEPOSITS can bo withdrawn of any
time without notice. Depositors residing
out of the city can draw deposits by
checks.
4.
RULES AND REGULATIONS of this
Department furnished upon application,
and all desired information given.
5.
ROOKS CERTIFYING DEPOSITS
; given to depositors.
G.
All accounts of Depositors will he con
sidered strictly private and confidential.
DIRECTORS:
N. J. BUSSEY,
W. H. YOUNG,
W. E. PARRAMORE,
ALFRED I. YOUNG,
Os New York.
CHARLES GREEN,
President of the Savannah Bank and Trust
Company. mr2l eodtar
NEW BOOKS!
KENELM CHILLINGLY,” by Lord Lyt
ton—Paper—Price, 75e.
“The New Magdalen,” by Wilkie Ceiling-
Paper—Price, 50c.
“Old Kensington,” by Miss Tiiackery—Pa
per—Price, $1 00.
“A Fa is Saxon.” by Justin McCarthy—Pa
per— Price, $1 00
“Little Kate Kikby,” by F. W. Robinson—
Paper—Price, 75c.
“Romance and Humor of the Rail”—Cloth
—Price, $1 50.
“Purple and Fine Linen,” a Novel—Clpth
—Price, $1 75. ~~
“Betsy and I are Out”— Cloth— Price, $1 50.
Just received and for sale by
J. W. PEASE & NORMAN,
Booksellers and Stationers,
je22 eoe&w Columbus, Ga.
STOVES, STOVES
■aa NATHAN CROWN jpt
(Opposite Sun Office)
COLUMBUS, CA.,
WOULD respectfully Invito the attention
of his friends and customers to liis exten
slve stock ot STOVES, HOLLOW AND
STAMPED WARE, HOUSE FURNISHING
GOODS, stc. Also, TIN WARE at wholesale
and retail.
Manufacturer of TIN, SHEET IRON and
COPPER WORK.
Hoofing and Guttering
done promptly and in the licit manner
He solicits a call, feeling assured that he can
give entire satisfaction.
4}s>- Price as low as the lowest. Come and
see before you buy. ocl8eod&W
OUR.
METALLIC CASE, CASKET
AND
COFFIN DEPARTMENT.
19 SUPPLIED WITH AN
-23 2Skt OX3. S INTO Variety
0 OP
llctallic [inri;>l Caws ami Caskets,
Wood Cases and Caskets,
I'iivsi], 3iiiit:xtion Itoseivoeil, amt
Pine Collins,
AT prices within reach op all.
ROONEY & WARNER,
FURNITURE WAREHOUSE,
83 and 85 Broad St.
anl dimX.w3in
Hats! Hats ! Hats !
AT THE
NEW HAT STORE.
rpHE undersigned having secured the store
J. house recently occupied by J. l>. Carter
would respectfully inform their friends and the
public generally that they are now receiving a
well selected stock of
HATS and CAPS,
FOR MEN AND BOYS.
STYLES SUITABLE FOR THE SEA
SON will be kept constantly on hand.
We respectfully solicit a share of public pat
ronage, feeling assured to please any who may
favor us with a calf.
J. R. JOHNSTON &. CO.
jy26 d&w3m]
Blank Distress Warrants for sale at the
Sun office.