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LOCAL AFFAIRS
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cheaper paper has ever been offered to the
public. V desire to put the Sun in the
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untry, prompts us to offer the following :
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c,aicc at sl-25 each 12.50
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Twenty copies, one year, to same
post-office at SI.OO each 20.00
f-if The Weekly Sun is discontinued on
expiration of time paid for.
\H remittances must be by registered
etter or post-office money order, other
wise at the risk of the sender.
Address, Thos. Gilbert & Cos.,
Columbus, Ga.
It has become a matter for serious
thought, that so many negroes, old and
jonug, are dying about here, especially
voting children. There must certainly bo
a want of proper caro and attention on the
part of parents, otherwise there could not |
l„. so many burials of little children.
W. B. Orr, next door to Sun office, I
agent for the Wheeler & Wilson Sewing I
Machine, makes public a telegram from
Vienna announcing that this machine has
taken thehonorsand medals at the World’s j
Exhibition.
Gunn for t!i« flight Guard*.
A telegram was received yesterday, by
Major C. -J. Moffett, from the Private
Secretary of Governor Smith, in reply to
a dispatch sent from here, stating that
the guns for the City Light Guards are
now in Atlanta, and will be forwarded to
Columbus on receipt of the required bond.
\ :tlliable J’roperty for Sale*.
Mr. 'J'. J. Dudley is offering, in our ad- j
vertising columns, some very valuable
property for sale at remarkable low rates,
consisting of a house and lot in this city,
and a plantation in Bussell county, Ala.,a
full description of which is given in the
advertisement, to which we call the es
pecial attention of our readers.
Health of Rev. Hr. Pierce.
The Macon Telegraph , of the 2<ltli, un
der the head of “Personal,” has this to say i
of a gentleman in the improvement of j
whose health the citizens of Columbus !
feel a deep interest: Bev. Lovick Pierce,
0 1 1 , is now in the city, the guest of the !
Kiowa House. His health is as good as it
has been in a long time.
death of Mrs. W. W. Marlin.
Wo are indebted to a friend at Seale, ,
Ala., for the sad intelligence that Mrs.
Emma Sterling Marlin, wife of Mr. Wm.
W. Martin, and daughter of Mr. Simeon
O’Neal, of that place, died at the resi
dence of her husbamj, near Sandfort,
Bussell county, at 5 o’clock p. in., on the
evening of the Kith, after a brief iihiess,
of puerperal l'ever. Deceased was in the !
23rd year of her age, and leaves an infant J
only eight days old.
A Very Pretty Idea.
Somebody lias systematically arranged j
the titles of the popular songs of C. A. i
White, thus forming several quite unique
paragraphs. But the prettiest of these is I
the following, in regard to the “sweet \
hour of prayer” of our childhood : “Now j
tis Bedtime,” so “Father, Pray with me i
To-night,” that sweet prayer, “Lead us
not into Temptation,” but “Guide us in j
the Path of Bight;” then “Put me in my |
Little Bed,” and “Kiss mo and L’ll go to j
Bleep.”
'• be Suirider Kccovrriiif'.
Jacob Bnhrer, who shot himself Wed
nesday afternoon, was visited Thursday
morning at the city hospital, by Drs.
Schley and Terry, who report his condi
tion as considerably improved since Wed
nesday. He can now see a very little out
of his left eye, but it is doubtful if ho
ever recovers the use of his right eye. i
The ball with which he shot himself was (
very small indeed, and has probably
lodged back of his nose and near the right
eye. He will undoubtedly recover.
Death to Caterpillars.
We visited, a few days since, the manu
factory in this city of Koyali’s Infallible
Hutton Worm Destroyer, which is being
run by lOddie Harrison, of the drug house
of E. C. Hood & Bro. A careful inspec
tion of the manner in which this destroyer
is compounded, and an examination of
ingredients used in its preparation, satis
fied us of its efficiency as an exterminator
of the terrible cotton worm. The firm
above named is now offering the Destroyer
low for cash, or on good terms for thirty
days. See advertisement elsewhere.
••The Letters of .Tunius.”
Dili thanks are due the Hon. Alexander
11. Stephens, for a copy of the admirable
and valuable address on the above topic,
which he recently delivered before the
Literary Societies of the University of
Georgia, and we hope that some enter
prising publisher will yet make it »n
introductory chapter to an American
edition of the letters it so ably and suc
cessfully discusses. It would greatly j
increase the value of a work that his supe
rior intellect considers one of the most
desirable thut the young men of the pres
ent day can study, both ns a model ot •
pure English and a true expounder of ,
Constitutional liberty.
Negro i'hHit Poisoned.
It is reported that a negro woman of
this city went to market on Saturday j
night, and left her baby in charge of the j
older children, telling them that it the j
child waked up and cried, they could give |
it some tea out of a bowl on the mantle. :
Unfortunately there were two bowls there, 1
one with cold tea in it, and the other con- j
taming a dilution of potash. The child- ;
reu gave the baby a drink of the potash,
which the mother discovered on her re- i
turn, ami immediately called in Dr. Terry, j
but too late to save the child, who died in j
great agony. This is another of those
unfortunate mistakes, too frequent by
far, that should lead people to be more
careful with deadly preparations.
Deputy V. S. Marshal.
George Huugerfcrd, Esq., of this city,
has been appointed Deputy United States
Marshal for this section of the State, by
U. S. Marshal Wm. 11. Suiyth, of Savan
nah. We congratulate Mr. 11. on his ap
pointment, and trust that he will so dis
charge the sometimes unpleasant and
perplexing duties of the position he now
occupies, in a manner that shall win for
him the respect and confidence of all
good citizens. Without this, all the hon
or's and emoluments of his office are worse
than nothing to him, while living, aud
when he shall come to die,cannot purchase
a place for him in tlm hearts of an op
pressed but patient people.
A Heartless Wretch.
'The city editor of the liome Commer
cial is one of the most diabolical and
heartless wretches that wfc have ever met
with in the local editors' fraternity. It is
evident that he never loved a "dear ga
zelle,” nor anything else, that, from chili
hood’s hour faded away aud left his “poor
heart still sad with its dreaming. 1 uder
the head of “A Side-splittiug Joke, he
tells how a Borne chap went to Atlanta to
get married, but returned without con
summating the nuptials, on account of
which this editor congratulates the young
Ldy. And then he diabolically adds:
, hasn't it a funny sell, though? We
counted no less than forty-six coffins pass
the street, yesterday, intended for per
sons who had literally laughed themselves
to death at the stupendousness of the
joke.' V
Attempted Suicide.
It will he remembered that we gave a
full report of the attempt of Jacob Buhrer
a native of Switzerland, to commit suicide
m this city on the 16th of July last, by
taking two ounces of laudanum, at his
hoarding house, opposite the Empire
Mills. By the efforts of nine men, an
antidote was administered and his life
saved. His troubles at that time grew out
of financial difficulties connected with the
building of two bridges in Girard. It
seems that these troubles have worried
him considerably, and caused him to be
come more dissipated and low-spilited,
and therefore a lit subject for suicidal
contemplations.
Our city was startled on Wednesday
afternoon about 5 o'clock, by the report
that a man had just shot himself near the
Gas Works. We hastened to the spot,
hut found that the unfortunate victim of
self-destruction had been removed to the
city hospital, whither we went in search
of him. Ihe gentleman in charge was
very kind to us, but iu the absence of
any one who knew anything about the
case, we found it impossible to got at the
real condition of the patient, who proved
to he this same Jacob Buhrer, and still
bent upon self-destruction.
He lay in a room by himself, and when
spoken to by us, gave a rational reply.
But we only asked him a single question,
in order to see if his brain was injured by
the shot, which he had fired into the side
of his head, just behind his eyes, and be
low the brain. His eyes are badly bulged
out, aud we presume they are seriously
injured. The ball is still in his head, but
in what particular locality we could not
learn.
Laboring under the influence of liquor,
and depressed by his financial troubles,
it seems that Buhrer Wednesday afternoon
went down to the hank of the Chattahoo
chee river, in the rear of the Gas Works,
and placing his pistol to his head, shot
the ball just back of his eyes, as above
stated, and then fell into the river. He
was immediately rescued from his peril
ous position, and taken by the police to
his boarding house, but not finding ac
commodations there, they carried him to
the city hospital, where he now lies, lie
is about twenty-eight years old, and has
been iu this country nearly two years.
Ilis relatives live in Switzerland, which
country ho left about five years ago,
spending three years in Spain.
This, Thut aud the Other.
The lines of the Southern and Atlantic
Telegraph Company are now completed to
Selma, Ala., and open for business, uuder
a very liberal tariff. The line will alsobe
completed to Mobile in a few weeks.
Reports reach us of a family rencontre,
on Wednesday last, on the line of the
Southwestern Railroad, in which one
brother-in-law used a knife pretty freely
upon another brother-in-law, but inflicted
no serious wounds. Alas! how few realize
thut “he that ruleth his own spirit is
greater than he that taketh a city.”
Wonders will never cease, in regard to
the “Magic City” of Birmingham. It has
been called, by its founder, the “Civilized
World,” and now the jubilant editor of
the J\ewn, of that place, on seeing three
pretty girls there from abroad, exclaims
with a proud satisfaction: “ Truly, all
the world comes to Birmingham ” What
now becomes of the greatness of Diana of
the Ephesians?
Military Matters.
Gov. Smith, in reply to the application
for a battery of guns for the proposed
Artillery Company here, states that the
approprition will only justify the purchase
of a single battery—the cost of which is
five thousand dollars—and that has al
ready been promised to the Chatham Ar
tillery, of Savannah, which is the oldest
Company of the kind in the State. Gov.
Smith also informs the committee that he
will in a few days authorize, in due form,
the organization of another Infantry Com
pany in this city, which will no doubt
offer the Artillery boys an opportunity to
fill up its rank.
♦ ♦
“Where Ignorance is Bliss.”
The genial fellow who does up the funny
things for the Danbury Hews, more sen
sible than most newspaper men, takes
this cheerful view of the labor, trouble
and expense of running a daily paper.
He says: “The Fitchburg Sentinel, an
excellent paper, is going to start a daily.
We are glad of it. We started a daily
once. We. ran it nearly four months and
then paused. Since then we take a lively
interest in such enterprises. We have no
doubt the Sentinel people will make the
daily work, and we are quite sure it will
make them work. A man who goes
through life without having started a
daily paper, misses a rare and valuable
experience. Falling down stairs will
hardly compensate him.”
I>r. Bussey in Kurope.
Our enterprising follow citizen, Dr. N.
J. Bussey, President of the -Eagle and
Phenix Factory, writes a very interesting
letter to a gentleman in this city, dated
at Liverpool, August 3d, and published in
the S' nt/uirer, in which he gives a concise
and graphic account of his tour on the
Continent. He landed at Glasgow, and
proceeded from that point to Liverpool,
and from thence to London, via Man
chester.
From London he went to Paris, Vienna,
Munich, Milan, Turin and Geneva, taking
every opportunity to see whatever of
interest there was along the route. He
proposed to spend, at the time of writing,
about two weeks in the great manufac
turing city of Manchester, in examining
the factories, after which, on the 23d, he
would sail for home, reaching New York
about the 4th of September.
Os Liverpool, the great cotton market
of the world,Dr. Bussey says: It is built up
and supported, in *a large degree, by
our Southern cotton growers, while our
farmers, as a class, are growing poorer
every year, these people are growiug
richer, and our staple is cheaper here to
day than it is in Columbus. It is the bad
policy of our people that makes it so. If
our people would exercise and practice
common sense they T could have it very
different.
LIMITATION' ACT Ol' ISC!>, SEC
TION EIGHT.
/\> the Editors of the Atlanta Herald:
Under section eight of the limitation act
of 1 stilt, an interesting question arises as
to whether a note dated July 1, 18(15, and
not sued till August Ist 1871, is barred.
The ordinance of the convention of
I S(',.■> suspended the statute of limitations
until civil government was restored, and
that was on the 21st of July, 18(58. (3t(
Ga., pp 38(5-30.) Without more the note
would plainly be barred; hut section eight
of act of 1800, says that all such cases in
which “the right of action has secured
since June 1, 18(55, shali he controlled and
governed by the limitation laws as set
m the Revised Code of Georgia, adopted
by the new Constitution of this State; and
under this it is claimed the limitation
dates from the date of the note—that the
plaintiff takes no benefit from the suspen
sion of the statute by the ordinance of
18(55.
A reply to this (besides others ad
vanced) which I have not heard suggested
before is, that the sth paragraph of 11th
act of the Constitution of 18G8, makes
those limitation laws of the code subordi
nate to that ordinance of 18(55, and ne
cessitates the construing of the act of
1 Stiff in connection with the ordinance.
That article is as follows: "All rights,
privileges and immunities which may
have vested in or accrued to any person
or persons, etc., * * under any
act of any legislative body, setting in this
State as such since the lffth day of Janu
ary, 1865, shall be held inviolate by all
the courts of this State, unless attacked
for fraud or unless otherwise invalidby
this Constitution.
Now, a right which this plaintiff had ac
quired was that the statute of limitations
should not commence, running against
his note until July, 18(58. [3Bth Ga. It.
302.]
Blank Distress Warrants for sale at the
Sun office.
REPORT OE TAX RECEIVER.
We herewith submit to our readers the
concise and comprehensive annual report
of Mr. M. W. Thweatt, the energetic and
efficient Tax Receiver of Muscogee county,
which speaks for itself in regard to the
excellent manner in which he has per
formed the duties of his unenviable posi
tion ; for if there is a single requirement
of the law that men shrink from, and in
too many cases try to avoid, it is the one
which exacts from them annually a list of
their taxable property. Everybody feels
at liberty to abuse tax assessors and tax
collectors without stint or measure, and
to hold them, in some cfties, in as much
contempt as the Jews of old held the car
pet-bag tax gatherers of their day. But
this is all wrong. These public officials
are quite as necessary as any that we
have, and when they discharge their du
ties with fidelity and courtesy, as “Uncle
Alike has done, they should be duly ap
preciated and properly respected by the
people they serve. His report shows that
there is not a single defaulting tax payer,
and only one hundred and twenty-four
colored polls on the defaulting list.
A GRATIFYING EXHIBIT.
By reference to the tabular statements
which follow, it will be seen that the re
turns of this year are more gratifying, in
the main, than those of the year before.
The deficiency in factory stock returns is
readily explained. By a recent act of the
Legislature of this State, every stockhold
er iu any cotton manufactoring company
is required to pay the taxes on said stock,
not in the place where the factory is situ
ated, as before, but in the town or county
iu which the said stockholder may reside.
By the operations of this act, Mr. Thweatt
informs us, Muscogee county has lost the
taxes on $475,200 of the capital stock of
the factories situated within her borders.
But in the face of this discrepancy, the
digest for the present year shows an in
crease over that of 1872, of $186,888.
This increase is equal to a clear gain of
$662,088 over the returns of last year,
which included the $475,200 of stock
above referred to.
OCCUPATIONS OF TAX PAYERS.
187.'1. 1872.
Total number of Polls, 2,110 2,173
Professions, on 68
Dentists, 5 3
Auctioneers, 1 3
Daguerreans, Photograph
tsts, &.0., a 3
Billiard, BaggatclloorPuul
Tables, j e
Children from 8 to 18 years
of age, 811 667
Children from 8 to 18 years
of age as guardian, 132
Number oi bands employed
between 12 and 05 years,.. 1,525 491
REAL ESTATE RETURNS.
Total number of acres I.and, 128,7e4!4 133,728
Aggregate value ol Laml,. .1,100,880 1,088,984
Aggregate value city or
town property, 3,003,175 2,937,473
RETURNS OP MONEY INVES
TED.
1,000 shares in Nat'l Banks, 110,000 100,000
Amt. of money and solvent
debts, 983,405 781,930
Capital invested In Mer
chandise, 809,853 755,900
Capital invest and in Stocks
and Bonds, 142,375 165,450
Capital invested in Cotton
Manufactories, 1,116 370 1,619,606
Capital invested ill Iron
Works, Foundries, &e.,.. 114,525 90,800
REPORT OF PERSONAL PRO
PERTY.
Value of Household and
Kitchen Furniture, inclu
ding Musical Instruments, 127,625 78,165
Value ol all other property
not heiore enumerated,
such as Plantation and
Mechanical Tools, Horses
Mules, Sheep, Hogs, 4-e., 276,759 220,789
Aggregate, 47,843,805 $7,050,977
AGRICULTURAL RETURNS.
The following agricultural statistics
were given in to the Receiver, under
oath, for the year 1873, and are as near
correct ns it is possible to make them:
Acres in Cotton, 14,715
“ in Kice, 1
“ in Wheat, 148
“ in Kye, 37
“ in Barley,
“ in Oats, 1,442
“ in Indian Corn, 9,820
“ in Sweet Potatoes, 378
“ in Irish Potatoes, 13
“ in Sugar, Cano 12
“ in Sorghum, 8
“ iu Clover and Seeds, 20
“ in Vineyards, 10
“ in Orchards, 44«
“ in Peanuts 5
RETURN OP LIVE STOCK.
Sheep, .T 229
Dogs, 453
Hogs, 1,597
Horses and Mules, 910
Cattle, 1,894
PACTORIEB AND SPINDLES.
Cotton Factories, 4
Spindles, 29,500
Woolen Sets, 7
Spindles, 2,000
American Journalism Triumphant.
We learn from the New York Sun that
according to private advices just received,
the medal for merit, iu group 26 (educa
tion, teaching, and instruction), has been
awarded to the collection of the periodical
literature of America, brought together
and exhibited at the Vienna Exposition
by Mr. E. Steiger, of that city. It ap
pears that the Germans felt quite sure of
keeping the medal at home; but it will
have to leave them. To those who main
tained that the only excellence of which
America gave evidence iu Vienna was in
machinery, this award will come as a
stimulating surprise; by the country itself
this signal triumph iu anew field over
her European competitors will lie hailed
with solid satisfaction.
It is also very gratifying io 11s to know
that copies of the Daily and of the
Weekly Sun are included in the volumes
to which this medal was awarded, and
will thereby he handed down to posterity
in a permanent and attractive form. Air.
Stieger deserves the heartfelt thanks of
every newspaper publisher in America,
for the efficient and successful mannei in
which he accomplished the work assigned
to him in this department.
More, About Drop Letters.
As there still seems to be a doubt in the
minds of many of our citizens, in regard
to drop letters, other than postal cards,
we will here stale that the law requires,
on local or drop letters, at offices where a
free city delivery by carriers is established,
two cents for each half ounce or fraction
thereof —weight of packages to he limited
to four pounds. But at offices where there
is no such free delivery, as is the case
here iu Columbus, only ons. cent per half
ounce, or fraction thereof, is required.
This lucid and full explanation, from an
official source, should at once settle the
vexed question of drop letters in this city.
A Sad Sight.
On our way back to the office, from
supper last night, we overtook a police
man having iu charge a little bare-headed
and bare-footed white boy, about ten
years old, who hail been stealing some
money from a negro at the factory, a por
tion of which he had already spent on
Broad street, for marbles and chewing
gum. It was, indeed, a sad sight, whoever
the boy may be, to see one so young —a
mere child—in the hands of the. police for
stealing. Starting out thus early in life
in the pathway of crime, who can prophe
cy what the years of manhood will bring to
him of sin and degredation, if some benign
and restraining influence is not immedi
ately thrown about him, to eradicate the
evil desires from his heart, and guide his
youthful feet into the path of iu.egiitv
and honor.
The Native Georgian.
This was the name of the first river
steamer ever built in this section, which
was a light draft, but substantial craft.
She was constructed of Georgia timber
and by Georgia mechanics, owing to
which she received the name of “Native
Georgian.” She was launched at Fort
Gaines during the latter part of the month
of February, 1833, by Capt. Guyard, of
this city. So says th 6 Enquirer of that
date; and, also, that the boats then on
the river, six in number, were built in
Ohio and brought here, via New Orleans.
J. 0. Harris, of the Savannah Jfews,
after publishing his spicy sketchesof Geor
gia editors, seems unwilling to meet the
consequences of his rash act, and has left
the State ar.d fled to Canada. This is
better than to have left a young widow to
mourn his early and tragic "taking off
by some irate ink sliuger.
Columbus Manufactures.
Ex-Governor Patten, of Alabama, hav
ing written a letter to the New York
“South ” newspaper, in which he compares
the large profits of the Southern cotton
factories with the languishing condition
of many similar enterprises at the North,
the Louisville Courier-Journal well and
truly declares, that one fact like this is
worth a thousand theories which aim to
show why it is that manufactures will not
thrive in the South. It is undeniably
true, and beyond controversy, that they
do prosper whenever good business men
conduct their affairs, as is the case here
in Columbus. We fully agree with the
editor of the Courier-Journal, that the
future glory and stability of the South de
pends upon the success of her present,
and the speedy creation of new. manufac
turing interests. This will not only se
cure the restoration of past good fortune, ,
but will result in an excellence and pros
perity which this section of the country
never attained iu the past. Ours, says
the above named editior, is a material,
money-seeking age. Its favorite pursuits
and investigations are not speculative,
ohivalric nor romantic, but are employed
in those fields which promise to yield the
greatest amount of wealth, comfort and
independence to the individual, and to
society.
The Southern people are in a condition
to feel the force cf this fact rather pain
fully. They have lost hundreds of mill
ions of their property, at a time when
other portions of the country have been
accumulating wealth rapidly. The North
east and West are rich and prosperous;
the South only moderately so in a few
scattered localities. Yet the mass of the
people in all parts of the United States
belong to the same intellectual, active,
thrifty, enterprising Anglo-Saxon race.
The agricultural capabilities and mineral
resources of the South are of the first or
der, while its climate is one of the finest
on the globe. There is no good reason
why the South should lag in the rear, in
the accumulation of wealth, and the ac
quisition of material power generally.
While our lack of development is attribu
table in no small degree to political cau
ses, much of (he blame justly falls upon
the Southern people themselves. There
is a lamentable want of enterprise appa
rent iu many of the finest portions of our
territory. What city of thirty thousand
inhabitants in New England would, for ex
ample permit a water power like that of
the Ohio falls to run to waste for years as
we have done? Here is a mine of wealth
which, if worked with the right object,
would not only at once bring a force of
operatives to oar doors in their own num
bers equal to the population of a large
city, but every interest and trade now
existing in Louisville would receive a
powerful impetus. The merchants would
double their retail custom, the wholesale
merchants would double their trade, the
professions would be beneiitted in the
same proportion, and every vocation,
from the highest to the humblest, would
receive an infusion of new life. Not
Louisville only sleeps ovor patent ad
vantages and opportunities. Many in
stances of like neglect exist over the South,
whose people are slow to learn the fact,
shown in the history of every country in
Christendom, that the wealth of a nation
comes from her manufactures far more
than from the raw material that it pro
duces. It is nonsense to say that manu
l’actnies will not prosper in the South
We maintain, on the contrary, that they
can be made more profitable, with fair
business management, in the South than
they are to-day in Great Britain, Ger
many or New England.
Revival Meetings.
Revival meetings have been held in the
Methodist Church at Hamilton during the
past week.
Bev. L. B. Payne, of Talbotton, lias
been holding revival meetings on the
Talbot Circuit, which havo resulted iu
good results.
Rev. C. B. Ilines, of the Glenalla
Alethodist Church, has had twenty con
verts join the church during his recent
protracted meeting at that place.
Revival meetings have been held in
Buena Vista Circuit, Marion county, re
cently, by Bev. W. W. Stewart, and with
gratifying results in most instances.
The llev. Mr. Wiggins, the preacher
on the Cataula Circuit, has lately held
protracted meetings with his charges, and
reports considerable interest manifested
by the congregations.
Rev. R. E. Evans, of the Cusseta Cir
cuit, is now holding a protracted meeting
at Liberty Hill, having closed his meet
ings elsewhere, which resulted in the con
version of about twenty souls.
We are glad to learn that the meetings
at Pierce’s Chapel, during the past week,
have been well attended and interesting.
The llev. Dr. Wright and Bev. W. F.
Robison, of this city, were among the
preachers present for several days.
The revival at the Girard Methodist
Church still continues to increase in
; power and influence,andpromis s to result
in much good. The pastor, Bev. J. W.
Simmons, is being assisted in his labors
by the preachers in this vicinity.
llev. T. T. Christian, Presiding Elder
of this District, has recently made the
tour of the churches under lifts super
vision, and reports to the Enquirer
that they are iu a good spiritual condi
tion, nearly all having recently been
blessed with revival meetings. Their
financial condition is also reported as
being good.
A Singer Sewing Machine.
A good joke is told on our friend W.
B. Orr, the agent of (he Wheeler & Wilson
Sewing Machine in this city. On Friday
afternoon an old gentleman from the
country, who lias several industrious
daughters, called at On's office, aud was
asked if he didn’t want to buy a sewing
machine. Ho replied that he already had
| one. Our young friend then asked him
if it was a Wheeler & Wilson or a Singer;
to which the old gentleman replied : “It
is a Singer; all my girls sing as well as
, sew." It is needlsss to add that Orr was
1 silenced by this sharp reply, and quietly
; waited for some shrewd Life Insurance
Agent to come along and try his hand on
; the old gentleman from Muscogee, who
had proved too much for a Sewing Ala
chine Agent.
Death of Mrs. M. L. Martin.
It is with feelings of deep sorrow that
we announce the death of this most, ex
cellent lady, the mother of the Messrs.
Alartin, of Talbotton, which occurred at
her residence in that place on Wednesday
night last, after a brief illness. Her
decease was sudden and unexpected, and
robs her numerous children of the com
panionship and care of a devoted Chris
tian mother; and to them we extend our
i most sincere sympathy in this hour of
their sore bereavement. By a sad expe
| lienee, henceforth, they will realize the
tender mournfulness of the song”—
“What is home without a mother ?
Postage on Newspapers. —Should a
subscriber to a newspaper or a periodical,
who has paid one year’s postage in ad
vance, remove within the delivery of an
other place before the expiration of a
year, the postmaster should give him a
receipt; the party should then notify the
publisher to send his paper to the new
i office, where, upon the presentatou of the
receipt, the postmaster must deliver the
; publication free for the remainder of the
| term paid for.
i Time Books For Plantations and
Farms. Enables one to keep accurate
accounts with their ands. Printed and
for sale at the Sun Office.
To Country Printers. —The Sun office
has just received a quantity of superior
i Printers' Ink (black ), in ten pound cans
and twenty-five pound kegs, which will
, be sold at 25 cents per pound.
.1 RIOODT DEED !
Horrible Midnight Murder : !
CLERK BUTCHERED IN A STORE ! ! !
Capt. J. E. Dense, who has again re
sumed his trips on the Southwestern Rail
road, brings us the particulars of a bloody
murder which was committed on Thurs
day night last at Smithville, the dinner
station on the Eufaula and Alacon branch
of the Southwestern Railroad. The vic
tim was a young man by the name of Jo
seph Johnson, aged about fifteen years,
who slept in the store of his employer,
Mr. Batts. The boy had gone to bed, aud
being aroused by the noise of burglars,
probably arose and walked behind the
counter, where he was attacked and killed
by them. The weapons used were a hea
vy screw plate aud a knife. With the for
mer the boy's skull was crushed in, and
with the latter the left artery of his neck
was severed, producing instant death. It
was evident that the original object of the
murderers was to rob the store, but being
discovered by young Johnson, who, alone
and single-handed, undertook to defend
his employer's property, they did not hes
itate to add murder to their original evil
design. No clue to the villians has yet
been obtained, and only five dollars in
money and a bottle of whisky have been
missed from the store.
TEE $12,000,000 LEGACY.
their Good Torture.
From the Atlanta Constitution, 22J.
We stated about a week ago that it was
reported that an old lady living near Wash
ington, Wilkes county, in this State, had
fallen heir to eight millions of dollars in
France. This information we obtained
from a vague rumor floating about, but
since that time the matter has assumed a
definite shape, and on yesterday we came
in possession of facts, from positivo au
thority, in connection with the matter,
which leaves no room for doubt. From
this authority we learned yesterday that
Mrs. Virginia AI. Campbell and her niece,
Airs. Elmira Chambers, of Madison, Ga.,
are entitled to not eight, but
TWELVE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS
now waiting in France to be claimed by
these fortunate ladies. Airs. Campbell is
a widow about seventy years of age. Her
niece, Mrs. Chambers, is also a widow,
aged about thirty-six. The vast property
which they have inherited belongs to the
Rennauleau estate. Information in re
gard to it was received by them about
three months since, and by the advice of
a gentleman in Mudison, who says he was
once a law partner of the Hon. Judah P.
Benjamin, they at once wrote to the latter
at London, asking him what course to
pursue in the matter. Mr. Benjamin,
after thorough investigation in the case,
wrote to Airs. Campbell and Airs. Cham
bers that there was not a question of
doubt in regard to their claim, and ad
vised them to come to Europe at once.
The property descends to these ladies
through a Mrs. llenuauleau, grandmoth
er of Airs. Campbell, and great grand
mother of Airs. Chambers. Airs. Camp
bell's maiden name was Maguire, and that
of her mother, Mademoiselle Ilennauleau.
They are connected with one of the best
families in France.
It appears that a certain party who
once resided in the United States and for
a number of years transacted business for
several old refugee St. Domingo families
living iu this city, in connection with
their indemnities from the French Gov
ernment for their losses in that island,
became aware some time ago that the
HUGH ESTATE
was waiting in France to be claimed. He,
therefore, hurried post haste to that coun
try, hunted up a remote branch of the
Rennauleau family, and succeeded in
marrying one of the female members of
it. He then presented proofs of the
death of all of the American aud nearer
branch of the family, and claimed the
estate for the distant branch into which
be. had married. Air. Benjamin, in his
letter to Air. Campbell and Mrs. Cham
bers, remarks that this man w ill soon find
out that the
DEAD CAN BF. RESURRECTED.
By the terms of an agreement between
Air. Benjamin and the two ladies, the
former will take one-half of the whole
amount of the estate, and the other half,
six million dollars, will then fall to Airs.
.Campbell and Airs. Chambers, the share
of each being the neat little sum of three
million dollars. Os the entire amount of
twelve millions, soven millions ind a half
are in the bank of France, and four mill
ions and a half are in the hands of the
Rothschilds, the celebrated bankers.
Airs. Chambers was in the city yesterday
making arrangements for the voyage of
her aunt and herself to Europe. They
will be accompanied by a lawyer from Sa
vannah and Air. Antoine Picquet, of this
city, who goes for the purpose of identi
fying them. They will also carry papers
signed by old citizens of Augusta, prov
ing their identity. They will leave for
Europe, we understand, next Tuesday.
Airs. Chambers was the observed of all
observers on Broad street yesterday, the
story of her good fortune and that of her
aunt having beeouio pretty well known
in the community.
This windfall illustrates to the fullest
exteut that fact is stranger than fiction.
The two ladies named have suddenly been
raised from moderate competence to im
mense wealth, and only wait a voyage
across the Atlantic to step into their pos
sessions.
Successful Farming. Mr. J. 11.
Booker, who lives five miles Northwest of
Hamilton, started after the war without
money or land. In 1866 he ran two
plows, and made five bales of cotton, and
corn to do him. He has been increasing
each year, and tell us that he expects
to make this year 60 bales of cotton and
2,000 bushels of corn. He made 300
bushels of wheat this season. He had
corn to sell last year, and will have it for
sale again this year, and also 200 bushels
of wheat. He has plenty of hogs for meat.
He uses very little guano, and attributes
his success to the money saved by not
buying corn, meat and guano. He says
that those farmers who buy corn and
meat arc getting poorer every year. He
knows some who ran eight plows when he
was only running two, and now they aro
running two, while 110 is running eight.
Air. Booker owns 500 acres of laud,
bought since the war, and, together with
the stock* paid for as bought. All this
has been wrought by the legitimate
profits of the farm. If any “mortgaged”
farmer can make as good a showing, we
would like to hear from him. And yet,
in spite of all public speakers can say,
and editors write—iu spite of such exam
ples as the above, our farmers deliberate
ly persist in working their own ruin, and
that of the country generally, by refusing
to raise their own bread and meat. If
they can’t see the folly of their course
for themselves, we can hardly hope to
' convince them. — Hamilton Visitor.
Chops About Montgomery.—A gentle
man who has traveled partly’ through this
county gives ns the following items in
regard to the crops: Some farmers will
gather corn sufficient for home use, while
others will not; so that on the whole the
corn crop may be called short. The cot
ton has bean preserved where the Paris
Green has been applied according to the
formula for each crop of worms; where
this has not been done, the stalks are en
tirely bare of leaves, aud farmers think
they will do well to gather a third of a
crop. They ; tile farmers) say it will not
pay to make several applications of the
worm destroyer to cotton on poor land,
and even on rich land the profits are pret
ty’ well consumed. On the whole, scarcely
a half crop seems to be in prospect, and
if the farmers, their colored employees
and tenants can manage to come out eeen
at the end of the year, and retain their
eorn, it will he as much as they expect.
This seems to be the case in general, but
of course it is better, or worse on planta
tions here and there. —Advertiser 22d.
Noeth Georgia, Norte Alabama, and
Tennessee Chops.—We have talked with
a good many farmers from different parts
of this county aud from various counties
up the river, aud from North Georgia and
Alabama. All unite in saying that wheat
has “panned out” something near two
thirds of the splendid crop of last y’ear,
while the berry is superior on an average
to that of the last crop.
Corn, the only crop yet to he harvested,
promises a yield equal to last year’s. It
is the opinion of nearly ail we have talked
with, that with the exception of the fruit
crop, our farmers will do quite as well
this year as last; and last year was the
most bountiful seen here since 18Gff.—
Chattanooga Times, 21st.
There have been no transfers of real
estate recorded at the Court-house during
the past two weeks.
Blank Distress Warrants for sale at the
Sun office.
' GEORGIA CROP REPORTS.
The Talbutton Standard of the 20th
Says: The caterpillars have done no ma
terial damage to the crops in this county,
as yet.
Tike count., —cotton not nearly as good
as thin time last year. Weed large but
poorly fruited. Four feet stalks have
only four bolls, says the Gazette.
Gordon county—Recent rains. Crops
doing well, both corn and cotton, says
the Times. Crops in Cobb and Bartow
fine, says the same paper.
Early county—Our inquiries this week
amongst planters in regard to crops, have
elicited about the following : In the sixth
district, where we first heard of the cater
pillars in any quantity, the crop is still
uninjured by them. Mr. W. A. McDowell,
who is one of the best farmers on the
Chattahoochee river, gives it as his opin
ion that crops, both corn and cotton, are
poorer on the river this year than they
have been for the past two or three years.
The season has been too wet for the river
lands. He also gives it as his opinion
that the caterpillars will eat out the cotton
crop on the river by the last of the month.
—News.
The Sandersville Herald says: Planters
report a great come out in the cotton crop
during the past few weeks. The yield per
acre, however, will be far short of the
crop of last year, as a general result.
Thomasville Enterprise says: Nothing
favorable from the cotton crop. On the
contrary, the news grows worse. The al
ternate showers and sunshines augment
the shedding, the rust continues to spread;
the caterpillar is on the increase, and the
boll worm has commenced operations in
some localities. With all these to con
tend with, we think it safe to say that
there will be little more maturing of
young fruit, and, as a consequence, the
crop will fall far short of what was expec
ted a few weeks ago. This is a melan
choly thought, for, in this county at least,
much depends on the present cotton crop
—more, perhaps, than any previous year
—and nothing short of a good yield ana
fair prices can shield the farmers, as and
class, from serious embarassment.
LA ULESSRESS IK DOUGLASS
COURT Y.
Correspondence of the Atlanta Herald,
Douglassville, Ga., Aug. 21.—During
the last week our quiet littie community
has been greatly excited. First of last
week two brothers, named James and
Robert Seals, attacked an old man, a mil
ler, at Geo. Stewart’s mill. One night
they went to his house and called him,
and when the}- thought that he was di
rectly in front of the door, fired three
shots through the door, but failed 10 do
what was doubtless their intention, viz.,
to kill the old man. Next day the bailiff,
D. H. Hollis, went and arrested one of
the parties, Robert Seals,and started forth- I
with to the Justice with him, when the
other brother, James Seals, appeared upon
his horse and ordered the posse to re
lease his brother. This they refused to
do, when he dismounted and fired
upon them. The posse returned the fire,
but failed to hit him, and his brother
struggled and freed himself. They then
in company made several threats (i. e.
threatened their lives) against certain par
ties in the neighborhood. On Thursday
the entire community almost rose en
masse to arrest them, knowing them to be
desperadoes of the worst kind. On Sat
urday the posse in charge of a bailiff
followed them to Drake Town, in Haral
son county, where they met the elder
Seals (James), who, when he saw them,
threw himself off his horse and pre
pared for fight, but the posse began
the same preparation, when he turned
and ran. The posse then fired upon
him some fifteen or twenty shots,
but failed to hit him, except with four
buckshot, which did not stop his flight.
They then went on six miles and captur
ed the other, who is now lodged in Camp
bell county jail, awaiting his trial. The
other, it is thought, is still dodging
through the settlement.
They are both noted desperadoes, and
it is rumored that Robert is a fugitive
from North Carolina for the offense of
murder.
THE MOIiOCS’ CASE.
Executive Clemency Invoked in JBelialf
of the Modoc Prisoners.
Washington, August 111.—A number of
letters have been received here from
Quakers and other friends of the Indiau
peace policy throughout the country, ask
ing Executive clemency in behalf of the
Modoc Indians lately on trial for the mur
der of General Canby. Many of these
letters raise the question that the trial of
the offenders was illegal under the decis
ion of the Supreme Courj in the Mulligan
case; that the civil courts being open, the
military tribunal had no jurisdiction. An
other question raised is that Gen. Canby
was killed while acting as a Peace Com
missioner, and not as an officer of the
army in war.
These questions will come directly be
fore the President for his action, as the
court for the trial of the Modocs was or
ganized in pursuance of an opinion of the
Attorney-General that the military court
had jurisdiction in the premises. The
Judge Advocate General of the Army
takes the same view as the Attorney-Gen
eral, and will approve the i tilings of the
court, as will also the . tary of War.
The President, howev r must approve
and order the execution oi the sentence,
and upon him, will be a p assure to set
aside the findings. The f lends of the
peace policy declare that when all the ar
guments are presented to the President he
will not order the execution of the sen
tence of death, in view of the doubtful le
gality of the tribunal before which the
trial took place.
On the other hand, old army officers de
clare that tlio President will be guided by
the opinion of the Attorney-General al
ready rendered and his own sense of jus
tice; that the prisoners were guilty of
every violation of the rules of civilized
warfare by violating a flag of truce, and
therefore were subject to trial by mili
tary law.
MARKETS JSY TELEGRAPH.
Money Market.
New York, Aug. 28— -Evening Money
easy at I Cu' 1 S per cent. Gold inactive at
Governments dull; little do
ing. State bonds quiet and nominal.
Cotton Markets.
New York, Aug. 2:5 —Evening.—Cotton,
net receipts 277> bales.
Cotton quiet and steady; sales 2,25">
bait*.; Uplands 20c.
Sales of futures 10,000 bales as follows:
August 10 21-82; September 18 7-32: Oc
tober 17 2.1-32; November 17 13-32; De
cember 175.
New Orleans, Aug. 28.- Cotton quit;
middlings 18;|e; low middlings 17:|@17fc;
good ordinary 1 1 f>e; net receipts 2-10;
sales 7>00; last evening 100; stock 12,870.
Savannah, August 28. — Cotton, market
bare; middlings 17ic; net receipts 110;
sales 11!); stock 001.
Provision Markets.
New York, August 23 Evening.—
Wheat 2c higher; light supply; new win
ter, red $t <>3. Com opened at 1 to 2e
higher, but closed quiet with partial ad
vance. Pork Steady, at Lard
weak and nominal. Groceries quiet.
Cincinnati, Aug. 23. Flour quiet.
Com firm at 4(!@4Bc. Provisions steady.
Pork nominal at $lO r>o<S)slG 75. Eard,
steam kettle Bacon firm and in
good demand; for shoulders 0.1 c; clear
rib, spot, 10J, buyers for August, clear
sides lo). Whisky firm at 00c.
t
The Granitevili.e Strike. The
Edgefield Advertiser, of Wednesday,
says :
In passing through Graniteviile, on
our Augusta jaunt, we discovered that the
strike was still obstinately kept up, neith
er party r showing any sign of yielding.
Saw many operatives enjoying their forced
vacation very merrily. We fear it will
prove an unhappy one for them in the
long run. The strikers hold meetings
twice a day, at which, thus far, they for
tify themselves in demanding fortnightly
payments. In the meantime, all parties,
the operatives, the merchants, the com
pany, the whole community, are sustain
ing ruinous losses. The machinery of
the factory is said to be rusting fearfully.
This strike has lasted since the oth inst.
Such a state of things is almost unheard
of in the South. Os the employees of the
factory there are upwards of 700. We
I fear this matter will prove calamitous to
i Graniteviile. But still we see no reason
why the management of the factory
should hesitate to comply with the de
mand of the operatives. Their request is
a most reasonable and just one, and
should be granted.
The Black Hawk (Col.) Journal tells a
tough story about bears and grasshop
pers. We quote : “A man recently saw
thirty-nine cinnamon bears upon a snow
bank on the range, eating grasshoppers.
They were mostly she-bears and cubs.
The grasshoppers are very numerous on
the range. When they light on the snow
banks they become so chilled they can
I not fly away, and accumulate in the small
depression in great numbers, giving the
: bears a splendid feast.”
GEORGIA REITS.
Houston county has made a contract
for the building of anew jail at Ferry, to
cost $0,210.
The Macon Telegraph corrects the re
port that Sanders, who killed Maj. Kelly
at Gordon, made his escape. It says that
he merely went home. The coroner s
jury found that he acted in self-defence,
and exonerated him.
The following ten of the best counties
have “entered'’for the handsome premium
to be given at the State Fair to the county
making the best display: Bibb, Cobb,
Clayton, DeKalb, Floyd, Houston, Mon
roe, Farrell, Thomas and Washington.
The Telegraph of Tuesday morning
says : “It- is very evident now, that if no
unforseeu disaster occurs, the fair will be
the most stupendous over witnessed in
the South. It will attract hither from ten
to twenty thousand people,”
The total amount of property given in
Baldwin is $1,338,127, of which $35,021)
is given in by freedmeu. No. white polls
078, colored polls 1>!)8 —total 1,071.
Mr. Asa Bruce, of Morgan county, was
drowned last Saturday in a mill pond. He
was bathing, and was seized with a fit aud
sank immediately.
Seriocs Affair in Oglethokte. —W’e
learn that a very serious difficulty occurred
on last Saturday at Eberhard’s store, iu
the Goosepond district of Oglethorpe
county. The facts, as we learn, are about
as follows: A large body of negroes were
collected together at a celebration or ex
amination. On breaking up in the after
noon, a negro on leaving drove over a
young man named Stribiing, who was
riding along the road. Stribiing, very
much enraged, drew a pistol and shot the
negro through the arm. The rest of the
negroes immediately rushed upon Strib
iing, knocked him from his horse, and
cut and beat him very seriously. Two
negroes who lived near him rescued him,
or he would have been murdered on the
spot. His skull is fractured, and on Sun
day, his recovery was considered doubt
ful.— Washington Gazette.
The colored Baptist Church of this city
have had forty three additions to its mem
bership during a recent revival, aud they
were all baptised at Travis’ mill pond last
Sunday, by Rev. Daniel Wilson, colored. ;
Griffin Star.
Wo learn that young Charlie Dupree, j
who was so seriously stabbed by young i
Massey, a few days ago, near Bear Creek, I
is considered belter. His wounds are, I
however, very Serious, having an ugly cut !
iu the breast, another on his back, and
several on his arms and shoulders. As
yet, nothing has been heard of Massey.
—Griffin Hews, ‘2oth.
Should any person hear of, or bo able
to give information concerning the where
abouts of the relatives or legal heirs of
Charles Wise, who left Georgia for Texas
many years ago, and who died two years
siuce—such person or persons will confer
a favor by addressing J. C. Lumpkin,
Sheriff, Rome, Georgia.— Home Commer
cial.
The United States District Court was
opened for its regular August Term, at
Savannah, on Tuesday, and immediately
adjourned to the first Monday in Novem
ber next.
The State Pomological Convention as
sembled iu Atlanta on Wednesday. J. R.
Wallace waselected permanent President,
and Morris Cole, Secretary. Among the
Vice-Presidents are R. J. Redding, of
Schley, for the 3d District, aud J. L. Fan
nin, of Troup, for the 4th District. A
committee was appointed to secure a char
ter. Adjourned to meet on Thursday.
Mr. G. H. Crabb, of Troup county,
committed suicide on Thursday, by takiug
morphine. It is not known whether he
designed suicide or not, or what cause, if
any, he had for self-destruction.
The Augusta Constitutionalist of Thurs
day mentions great complaint of rust ou
cotton in Richmond county, particularly
on light guanoed lands, and says: “A
material shortening of the crop promised
a few weeks ago cannot fail to be the re
sult, particularly should the present un
favorable showery weather continue a few
days longer.”
A special from Kingston, August 21st,
to the Atlanta Herald, reports the death
of Mr. R. T. Couehe, proprietor of the
Couche House. He died of inflammation
of the bowels.
Forty Dollars. —Andrew Davis, a ne
gro, who was concerned in the row at the
colored church ou Monday night, which
culminated in the death of an inoffensive
colored man, was fined forty dollars by
Recorder Hammond yesterday morning
for disturbing public worship. — A tlanla
Herald, 2‘2d.
Several of the “street walkers” of At
lanta, white and colored, were on Thurs
day fined $2!) or $25 each, and sentenced
in default of payment to terms of eight or
twelve months in the chain gang.
The Rome Commercial of Thursday
reports the notorious “Chap Norris”
nosing about its city for whisky upon
which the tax has not been paid. He
found some, and the owners will have to
pay the penalty.
An excursionist over the Air-Line Rail
road writes to the Atlanta Constitution :
“About a mile out, we passed the tents
of the United States Coast Survey, under
the charge of Capt. C. O. Boutelle. This
gentlemau is a thorough veteran, having
been engaged in the work of the survey
for about forty years. He is now in
charge of a geodetic survey, which will
be carried through this range of the Blue
Ridge, from the Atlantic to the Mississip
pi river. Thence a system of t.riangula
tion will be carried across the continent
to the Pacific coast. Auxiliary to the
main work are astronomical observations
for determining the latitude aud longi
tude of the principal points, and a net
work of subsidiary triaugulatious which
are filled in with a minute topographical
map of the face of the country, showing
the boundary and kind of crop of every
farm, the character of the forest growth,
the height of the hills and mountains,
the course of every stream, the route of
every country road, as well as the main
roads and railroads.”
Judge Hill, on Thursday, granted an in
junction restraining the city of Macon from
the collection of taxes upon the property
of the Central Railroad and Banking Com
pany within its limits.
The Augusta Constitutionalist, of Wed
nesday, says Gen. Hat lee is dangerously
ill at Montgomery While Sulpher Springs.
It is believed, from intimation given
out, that the correspondence between
Gov. Smith and Ex-Gov. Johnson has
been resumed, but will for the present be
withheld from the newspapers. We hope
that it will be withheld altogether until
Ex-Gov. J. makes a distinct charge that
Gov. Smith deceived him iu reference to
an appointment to the Supreme Bench.
The Macon Telegraph mentions a “per
fectly white leather-winged bat,” which
was seen flying about on Wednesday
evening last. It ought to tie sent to Dar
win.
Two boys experimenting with coal oil,
at Stone Mountain on Monday, suffered
the flames to communicate with the oil in
the can, bursting it and burning both of
them badly. One of them. Willie Mc-
Donald, soon died of his injuries: the
other is recovering.
The News says that the “domestic tele
graph” system, introduced about a year
since in New York, ly the American Dis
trict Telegraph Company, will soon he
inaugurated iu Savannah.
The Griffin News of Thursday says:
“S. T. Massey, who cut Charlie Dupree,
near Bear Creek, so severely, three or
four days ago, was caught and brought to
that place ou yesterday. He telegraphed
Judge Stewart to go at once to defend
him, and the preliminary trial will take
place to-day.”
011 last Monday evening, a drunken
man in a saloon iu Dalton, was carelessly
handling a pistol, when the weapon acci
dentally fired, discharging the contents
of one barrel into an inoffensive ne"ro
who was standing near. The careless,
unintentional homicide is now in the cus
tody of the law. The negro died Tues
day, leaving a wife aud two or three chil
dren.
RAROUET TO THE SOUTHERN
HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Special telegram to the Dispatch.
Montgomery White Sulphur Springs,
Va., August 11). — this evening at six
o’clock the proprietors of the Springs
gave a magnificent banquet to the South
ern Historical Society. The entertain
ment was splendid. The company assem
bled promptly, General Early presiding,
President Davis ou his right, and Gov
ernor Letcheron his left; Admiral Seiumes
at the foot. The first toast was to Mr.
Davis, given by Admiral Semuies. Mr.
Davis returned his acknowledgements,
thanking his friends. Admiral Semmes,
General Early, Colonel Johnson, Governor
Letcher, Captain Maddux and your cor
respondent, made short responses. It
was a most enjoyable affair and reflects
the highest credit ou the proprietors,
Messrs. Colhoun A Cowan, for their lib
, erality.
A REIGHRORLY MURDER.
Intelligence of very Sociable murder
comes from Walton county, Florida.
Following, as it does, close upon the heels
of another tragedy, and as woman, wheth
er lovely or not, is at the bottom thereof,
the facts in the ease are perhaps worth
relating. Some months ago Mr. George
Parish, having some misunderstanding
with his brother-in-law, a Mr. Leyden,
armed himself with a shot-gun and
promptly put his recalcitrant relative out
of the way. Shortly after this sanguina
ry affray, which made Mrs. Leyden a wid
ow, she doffed her weeds for the legenda
ry orrange-blossom, and became the bride
of Mr. Robert Bell. The honeymoon
sped by without a ripple on the surface of
tne placid stream of domestic felicity. In
a snort time, however, Mrs. Bell made
complaint to her husband of the amorous
advances of one Mr. William Nathie, a
neighbor, and aftorwards made the same
complaint in the presence of Nathie. Mi - .
Bell simply requested her to stop her
noise, intimating if this reasonable de
mand was not complied with, he would be
under the painful necessity of severing
the marital tie. Whereupon Mr. Nathie
remarked that Mrs. Bell could always find
a shelter under his hospitable thatch.
This remark upon the part of Mr. Nathie
roused the sleeping demon of jeniousy in
the breast of Bell, and an olu-tashione
seuffie ensued, iu which Nathie was sornet
what worsteds His two sons appeared ad
this juncture, and they made a united ef
fort to suffocate lleli by shutting off his
wind, while their respected parent saun
tered into the house after a guu for the
purpose of putting an end to the pleasant
ry. Bell managed to break away from
his friends and went to his own domain
for a shot-guff.
He procured his armament and appeared
on the scene just in time to receive three
buckshot in his head from Nathie's artil
lery which brought him to the ground.
Recovering, Bell saluted his opponent
with one barrel and mortally wounded
him. Nathie died in thirty minutes,
while Bell recovered sufficiently to attend
the funeral the next day, where,according
to all accounts, he was the most promi
nent mourner. The little community has
relapsed into its former pastoral peace
fulness, and all bauds are probably satis
fied with the situation.— Savannah News.
Transferring of Suits to Federal
Courts. —The Washington correspondent
of the New York Tribune writes, August
13 th:
“A ease lias lately been entered on the
docket of the Supreme Court involving
principles of the greatest importance. It
comes by appeal from the United States
Circuit Court for the district of North
Carolina, and turns upon the question
whether under the Civil Rights law crimi
nal suits may be transferred from the
State to Federal Courts. The case arose
out of the murder nearly five years ago
by Dunlop (colored), a Republican, of
Gleason (white), a Democrat, in Mecklen
burg county, N. C., and the subsequent
removal of the case from the Slate to the
United States Circuit Court on affidavit
by Dunlop that all the county officers were
Democrats; that no colored man had ever
been drawn or summoned 011 the jury in
that county, and justice was denied him
under the laws of the State. The Supreme
Court of the State ordered the case to be
transferred; but when it came to trial,
United States Judge Bond dismissed it for
want of jurisdiction, a decision from
which Dunlop appeals. As the docket of
the Supreme Court has a large accumula
tion of business, the case will not proba
bly be reached for a year or two, and
Dunlop, though ouce sentenced to death,
is now likely to die from natural causes
before the courts decide where he is to be
tried.”
The following awards of “medals of
merit” were made at Vienna on the 18th
—we select only those to our Southern
States or their citizens:
The State of Alabama, for minerals.
The States of Indiana and Tennessee,
for minerals.
T. Bradliss, Louisiana, for sugar.
The Bienville Iron Works, Louisiana,
for cotton oil.
The Printing House for the Blind, of
Louisville.
Better & Cos., Baltimore, for leather.
Conrad, Babel & Morrey, of Louisville,
for leather.
Adolph E. Bader, of New Orleans, for
sugar cane.
Behan, Thorne & Cos., of New Orleans,
for alcohol.
Edmond Bourgeis, of St. James parish,
La., drugs.
For loss of Appetite, Dyspepsia, Indi
gestion, Depression of Spirits and Gener
al Debility, in their various forms, Febro-
Phospocated Elixir of Calisya made by
Caswell, Hazard & Cos., New York, 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 taken during the season it
prevents fever aud ague and other inter
mittent fevers.
The Kcginuiiigs oi Sickness.
Never trifle with what are called small ail
lnents. A ill .liter easy of control at first, if
neglected lor a lew weeks may become a mor
tal disease. Be especially careful not to let
debility gain upon you, for it is the door
through which all maladies enter the system.
If you feel languid, inert, and to use a com
mon expression, “as if there was no life left in
you,” resort at onee to 110-totter’s Stomach
Bitters. That great vegetable tonic will sup
ply the vitality you so urgently need. It is
nerve food. By Its tonic action the stomach is
so invigorated that digestion becomes regular,
easy, perfect; while its mild, cathartic proper
ties relieve the bowels from obstructions, and
its alterative operation beneficially affects all
the secretive organs. For the miseries of dys
pepsia, and they include almost every unpleas
ant feeling that belongs to physical disease
and mental wretchedness, this potent tonic is
a certain and speedy balm.
iUAltatllil),
In New Orleans, August 12th, 1873, Mr. F.
McC. BILLING to Miss LUCY J. NOBLE.
VIENNA EXPOSmONT^
First Premium to the Wheeler and
Wilson.
The following telegram was recciv
e,i tt t tlio Wheeler and Wilson Office,
in this city, of which Mr. W. 13. OKU is Agent.
World’s Exhibition, Vienna, Aug. 19.
Wheeler and Wilson Manufacturing Com
pany, 6*25 Ilromlway, New York, are awarded
the Grand Medal of Progress, Grand Medal of
Merit , and the only Sewing Machine Company
recommended by the International Jury for
the Grand Diploma of Honor. [au2‘2<lot&wlt
NOTICE.
MY SON, JACOB, having left his home
and parents, I hereby warn all poisons
not to credit him on my account.
\VM. THOMAS BKOADNAX.
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JUST RECEIVED!
A Good Stock of Paris Green and
Arsenic.
Also, all the ingredients for making
Rcyall’s Infallible Cotton Worm Destroyer,
LOW FOR CASH, OK CITY ACCEP
TANCE THIRTY DAYS.
Also, Farm Rights.
E. C. HOOD &. BRO.
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PLANTERS, ATTENTION!
rno keep pace with the increased patronage
_L so liberally bestowed upon theGINNING
DEPARTMENT,
The Eagle anil I’henix Manufacturing Cos.
has built anew, roomy and comfortable Brick
Gin House, and added to its ginning capacity a
splendid double geared 80-Saw Gin, of the lat
est approved pattern, with all the modern at
tachments.
Nodelajs! No lack of room!! The location
is convenient, the attention prompt aud polite.
As these Gins are new, double geared and
run by steady, ample water power, farmers can
rely upon their cotton making a beautiiul sam
ple, thus securing the highest market price.
Toil for Ginning will be as heretofore, the
seed or 1-20 of the seed cotton.
Highest market price always given for seed
cotton, samples or remnants. aul4 dAwlrn
"PRATT’S ASTRAL OIL.
Absolutely sale. Perfectly odorless. Always
uniform. Illuminating qualities superior to
gas. Burns in any lamp without danger of ex
ploding or taking fire. Manufactured express
ly to displace the use of volatile and dangerous
oils. Its safety under every possible test, and
its perfect burning qualities, are proved by its
continued use in over 300.000 families.
Millions of gallons have been sold and no ac
cident—directly or indirectly—has ever occur
red from burning, storing or handling it.
The immense yea rly loss to life and property,
resulting trom the use of cheap and dangerous
oils in the United States, is appalling.
The Insurance Companies and Fire Commis
sioners throughout the country recommend the
A - ' I'RAL as the best safeguard when lamps
•’.re used. Send for circular.
For sale at retail by the trade generally, and
i wholesale by the proprietors, CHARLES
1 RATT A CO., 108 Fulton Street, New Y’ork.
au24 and A worn
Georgia and Alabama Crop Liens.—
Several forms of Crop Liens for sale at the
Sun Office.
GRANDEST SCHEME^EVT?
FOURIUt
Grand Gift Concert.
FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE
Public Library of Kentucky.
12,000 CASH GIFTS $1,500,000.
Every Fifth Ticket Draws a Gift.
$230,000 for S3O.
, ihe Fourth Grand Gift Concert authorized
by special act ol the Legislature lor the bene
fit id the Publie Library of Kentucky, will tako
place in Public Library Hall at Louisville Ky
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 3cl, 1373.
Only Sixty thousand tickets will he sola and
one Half ofthese arc intended for the European
Market, thus leaving only 30,000 for sale iu the
t nited States, where 100,000 wero disposed ut
tor the Third Concert. The tickets are divided
into ten coupons or parts and have on their hack
of drawing U WltJl a luU c H>lauation or the inode
At this concert which will be the grandest
musical display ever witnessed In this country
tho unprecedented sum of ’
#1,500,00 O ,
divided into 12,000 cash gilts will bo distributed
by lot among the ticket-holders. The numbers
of the tickets to be drawn from one wheel by
blind children and the gilts irom aaother.
List of Gifts.
ONE GRAND CASH GIFT *250,000
ONE GRAND CASH GIFT 100,000
ONE GRAND CASH GIFT 50,0u0
ONE GRAND GASH GITT 25 000
ONE GRAND CASH GIFT 17,500
10 CASH GIFTS SIO,OOO each 100,000
30 CASH GIFTS 5,000 each 150,000
50 CASH GIFTS 1,000 eacb 50,000
40 CASH GIFTS 500 each 40, 000
100 CASH GIFTS 400 each 40,000
150 CASH GIFTS 300 oach 45,000
250 CASH GIFTS 200 each 50,000
325 CASH GIFTS 100 eaclt 32,500
11,000 CASH GIFTS 50 eacii 550,000
TOTAL, 12,000 GIFTS, ALL CASH,
amounting to $1,500,000
Tile distribution will be positive whether all
the tickets are sold or not, mid the 12,000 gifts
all paiil iu proportion to tho tickets sold—all
unsold tickets being destroyed as at the First
and Second Concerts aud not represented in the
drawing.
Price of Tickets.
Whole ticketssso.oo; Halves $25.00; Tenths
or each coupon $5.00; Eleven Whole Tickets lor
$500.00; 22 kj Tickets lor $1,000.00; 113 Whole
Tickets tor $5,000.00; 227 Whole Tickets for $lO,-
000.00. No discount ou less than $500.00 worth
of Tickets at a time.
The unparalled success of the Third Gilt Con
cert as well as tho satistaotiou given by the
First and Second makes it only neoessary to an
nounce the Fourth to insure the prompt sale ol
every ticket. The Fourtli Gilt Concert will be
conducted iu all its details like the Third, and
full particulars may be learned Irom circulars
which will be sent free from this oflice to all
w ho apply for them.
Tickets now ready for sale and all orders ac
companied by the money promptly tilled. Lib
eral terms given to those who buy to sell
again.
THOS. E. BRAMLETTE.
Agent Public Library Kentucky, ami Manager
of Gift Concert, Public Library Ituibllng,
Louisville, Ky. [aul9 <l*2t;iw&w «leel
Hats! Hats ! Hats !
AT THE
NEW HAT STORE,
THE undersigned having secured the store
house recently occupied by .1. I). Carter
would respectfully inform tlielr friends and the
public generally that they are now receiving a
well selected stock of
and O-A. lE* fit,
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 ploaso any who may
favor us with a call.
J. R. JOHNSTON & CO.
jy2o d&tlmj
otih
METALLIC CASE, CASKET
AND
COFFIN DEPARTMENT.
IS SUPPLIED WITH AN
SaLtonsiTro V arioty
OF
Jlcti&llic Knriui I'ases aml Caskets,
V» «e«>«s Cases am! Caskets,
nans, !initiation KtoM‘\vomt, anti
i*sne Cuffs 11*,
AT PRICES WITHIN REACH OP ALL.
ROONEY & WARNER,
FURN ITU RE WAREHOUSE,
S3 and 85 Broad St.
a ul tilin&.\v3iu
MONUMENTAL MARBLE
WORKS,
No. 40 131*031. < I Ht.
COLUMBUS,,Oa.
riTHE undersigned respectfully calls the at
I tention of his friends and the public in
geueral to his stock of tine
Monuments, Headstones, Tom bs
Tablets, Vases, &c.
Also, a large and splendid stock of
Metalic Burial Cases, Rosewood,
Mahogany and Pine Coffins,
all of which will bo sold cheap for cash or on
time.
Call on or address
HENRY McUAULEY,
jyO cod&w Sm Columbus, Ga.
S. IV!. F. College.
rpHE FALL TERM opens 27th
1 inst. Every Department filled .
by experienced Teachers.
Discipline rigid. A School Cos- Y
tume lias been adopted and oxer- #
cises in Calisthenics are taken (JSEr
daily.
Tuition S6O per Annum; Board $lB to S2O per
month. Send for Catalogues.
J. N. BRADSHAW,
Covington, Ga.'auloeod2w&w2t Pres’t.
Alt. Akii*.y
Male and Female Academy.
rpHE next session of this school sTSz.
_L will open on the 21st inst., and
continue during lour months -
eighty scholastic days.
Tuition for the session $13,00. jMjip
Board can be obtained in good lam- tSr
iiies at reasonable rates. Pupils are rigidly
examined upon entrance and at the clo t I
each session.
AS*Thkse Examinations auk not pri
vate. They are open to the public.
For further particulars, address the under
signed at Waverly Hall, Ga.
jyO d2(Aw4t .1. A. CALHOUN.
1873-4.
Agricultural and Mechanical
College,
< >l' Alabama.
rnHE next session begins Wed
.L riesday, first day of Oct. 1873, H
and closes July Bth, 1874. =
Tuition lor the entire session ('4
in advance,) SSO. vN&fT
Surgeons lee for the year in ad
vance gj
Board Irom sl3 to $lB per month, paid month!o
in advance.
Uniform lor the year, (one fatigue and one
dress suit,) about S4O.
One student from eacii County will he re
coil ed in the Agricultural course by paying 011
entrance one hundred dollars for his Board,
Tuition and Uniform, for the year.
Two students from each County nominated
by the county Superintendents of Education
will he admitted free of Tuition fees; also the
sons of Ministers in active service, and young
men studying for the Ministry.
For turther information, apply to E. T.
Glenn, Treasurer.
I. T. TICHENOR, D.D., Pres.
Auburn, Ala., Aug. 4, 1873.
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NEW BOOKS!
KEN EL VI CHILLINGLY,” by Lord Lvt
ton—Paper—Price, 75c.
“The New Magdalen,” by Wilkie Collins—
Paper—Price, Sue.
“Old Kensington,” by Miss Tliackcry—Pa
per—Price, $1 00.
“A Fair Saxon.” by Justin McCarthy—Pa
per—Price, $1 00
“Little Kate Kiruy,” by F. W. Robinson—
Paper—Price. 75c.
“Romance and Humor op the Rail”—Cloth
—Price, $1 50.
“Purple and Fine Linen,” a Novel—Cloth
—Price, $1 75.
“Betsy and I are Out”—Cloth—Price, $1 50.
Just received and for sale by
J. W. PEASE & NORMAN,
Booksellers and Stationep.s,
JC22 eoefcw Columbus, Ga.
PINE KNOT SPRINGS
ARE opened to visitors through the months
of August and September. Persons wish
ing to visit the above Springs will find convey
ance at Box Spring, S. W. Railroad on Mon
days, Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Board $2 00 day, $lO 00 week, S3O 00 month.
aulO dlt&wtscpl Dr.. J. W. HALL.
Scale in Boilers.
■J WILL Remove and PreventSCAl.E inany
Steam Boilers, or make no charge.
Address, GEO. W. LOUD,
rnrfl d&wtt Philadelphia, Pa