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THE EASTMAN TIMES. tl. L. BURCII, Editor & Proprietor THURSDAY, 3EI’T. 10, 1873. third district. Democratic Nominee for Congress: Gen. Philip Cook. Of Sumter County. Gen. Cook’s Appointments. I will address my fellow-citizens of the Third Congressional district as fol lows : Pulaski county, Thursday Sept.. 10. llawkiusville, Pulaski county, Sat" •jrday. Sept. 21. Abbeville, Wilcox cbnnty* Monday, Sept. 23. II orse Creeks Wilcox co., Wednes day, Sept. 25. Irwinville, Irwin county, Friday, Sept 27; Douglass, Coffee county* Tuesday, Oet. 1. - Lumpkin, Stewart county, Friday, bet ; 11. Preston, Webster county, Saturday, Oct. 12. Kllaville, Schley county, Saturday, Oet. 19. Eastman, Do'dgC County, Tuesday Oct. 22- Mcßae Telfair county, Thursday, Oet. 24. Mt. Vernon, Montgomery county, Thursday, Oct. 31. Americas, Sumter county, Saturday Nov. 2. Philip Cook. OUK FINANCES. The country is agitated over this momentous question. All sorts of prop bsitidhs, platfontls, speakers, leaders H id omrii gdmls have afflicted tile cottntry so that it is a difficult matter for a plain thinking man to comprehend the issue. The most sensible solution hr ‘.lie difficulties is what is called the Thurman platform, which is substan tially is follows : “We favor the gradual substitution of United States legal tender paper for national bank notes, and its perma nent establishment as the paper mon ey of the country—made receivable for all dues to the government and of equal tender with coin. The amount of Such issues to be so fegulatcd by law as to gite the people assurance of stability ill the volume or the citrrenCy and consequent stability of the value —no fujllier increase in the bonded debt, and no further sale of bonds for the purchase of coin for resumption purposes/’ It occurs to us that a platform of principles embodying the plain state ments above set forth would meet the approval and support of all lovers of honesty and constitutional liberty, We need peace we heed all the blessings a government can bestow ; a bright era was dawning upon us wticb political knaves, such as Kearney,and Sherman and Butler bxcited tile country by their cries of linancial reform. All the refoim and relief the country stands ih need of will be fully met and provided for by the Democratic party. The greenback movement is the movement of pol'tieians who want place and pelf, and they ought to be denounced —in our country especially—for it only teads to divide the people; they are like the “independents,” enemies in disgitlse, ahcl ought to be visited with the condemnation df all honest people. HON. riHL. COOK. Our worthy representative in tho U. B. Congress and the Democratic nomi nee of this, Third Congressional Dis tract, addresses the people of Cochran to-day (19th,) and the people of Haw kinsvilleon the filst inst. We see by Gen. Cook's appointments he will address the people o! this coun ty on the 22d October. This county having gone for Gen. Cook on the elec tion lor delegates by a large majority it is to be expected that a large attend ance of the people will honor him with their piesence. We hope to see it, and We hope too that our p>eoplo will not lose sight of the all-important fact that it is necessary for us to poll all our Votes ; let us give our leader a larger vote than ever, and encourage him in the work h<- has undertaken. IION. N. J. HAMMOND. It affords us pleasure to announce the unanimous nomination of lion. N. J. Hammond, of the county of Fulton, alter the 180th ballot, to represent the Filth Congressional District in the 46th Congress of the United Spates. Col. Hammond needs no eulogy, Lis career lias been an honorable one ; ids servi ces to the Slate in the resp msible po Bilious to which lie has been c died, entitle him to the unqualified praise of all good people. We congratulate Georgia on the choice of the Barnes ville convention, and fullon e unity for the victory achieved. HOMICIDE IN HANCOCK. On the night of September 10th, U. S. deputy mftrshal Lffmsden with a posse composed of Jack Kimbrew JanteS Lakey and Jim Moore, with process of arrest against the Ennis brothers, proceeded to Hancock couns ty, where, upon arrival, a collision oc curred between the Ennis brothers and the Marsha'/s posse, in which Mr. Kimbrew of the Marshal’s posse, was mortally and Mr. Laney seriously wounded. The process was for illicit distilling* and the place lias been watched by United States officials ; subsequently Capt. J. W. Anderson, chief deputy marshal, proceeded to Milledgeville,organized a strong posse ; and went in search of the parties charged,and returned without succeed ing in making an arrest. The Ennis family have appeared in cards published in the Macon Teles graph & Messetigcr, and so has Mr. Lnmsdcn, deputy marshal, but the statements are conflicting, and it is difficult to give the real facts. We regret there should be a conflict between our people and the United States and exceedingly that the life of a good citizen should thus be Sacrificed. Geli. Cook’s Letter of Acceptance Macon, G\. f Sept. 4th, 1878. Gen. Phil Cook: Dear Sir—We, the undersigned com mittee, have been appointed by a con-* vention of the Third Congressional Dis trict to tender to you for a fourth time the nomination lbr Congress from this District, as an evidence of confidence in your integrity and faithfulness.— With the hope that you will accept the samoj We remain, Very respectfully yours, Jas. K. Barnum, W. H. Wiius, L. C. Ryan, Committee. Americus, Sept. Gtb, 1878. Messrs. J. K. Barnnm, W. II Willis and Ij. C. Ryan , Com.: Gentlemen —Your favor of 4th inst. inhuming me of my ‘renominatio’rt, for the fourth time* for Congress frrfm the Third Congressional District*’ is re ceived. In accepting the nomination I beg to atfSnt'O you of my high appreciation of the honor tendered and of my earn est purpose to so net as no friend who supports me will have occasion to re gret it; Endorsing both the Slate and National platform of the Democratic party, I shall give my support to no policy inconsistent with the great measures of retrenchment and reform which have been so steadily advanced by the Democratic party. I beg to assure you that I shall enter upon the canvass with an earnest purpose to sustain the majorities heretofore given mo, whether my opponent shall be a ‘‘straight out Democrat," an Inde" pendent Democrat, or a straight out Radical. Very respectfully, Your obedient serv’t, PhfiTp Cook A Slander Refuted. Washington, Sept; 14.—The Post yesterday, says the Telegraph & Mes- published an interview with Dr. Ramsey, one of the physicians who returned frdrri Memphis, in which he stated that he had been authentically informed that white ladies have had to take negro men fof nurses or go withs out, and that such negro men nurses have taken advantage of their helpless victims. Mr. Keating, editor of the Memphis Appeal, having liad his attention called to the statement, pronounces it utterly untrue, and adds : ‘No man, white or black would be allowed to breathe a second breath af ter such crime became known. No such crime has been committed. White women Lave not been reduced to the necessity of taking negro men for nurses. The statement is a libel upon the negroes of Memphis. All honor to them. |They have done their duty. They have acted by us uobly as police men and as soldiers, as well as nursesi They have responded to every call made upon them in proportion to their number, quite as promptly as the whites. A few of them threatened trouble about food at one time, but they were at moment suppressed by a company of citizen-soldiers of their own color. The colored people of Memphis, us a body, deserve well of their white fellow-citizens. We ap preciate and me proud of them/ Mr. John Patrick, of Montezuma, says the Sumter Republican, Was run over and killed just the other side of Flint nv< r, last Saturday. lie was on Lis Way to Oglethorpe, walking on the track ; was deaf and could not hear the whistle blow— an extra train fol lowing the down passenger ran over h min the curve oi the track. C. A. Lily, of Gainesville, m&nufacv tures one bundl'd par of shoes p r day OUR PARIS LETTER. The Canadian Trophy—Sight and Scenes ArOund Champ de Mrs Paris, Sept. G, 1878. Tiie Canadian towering up a hundred feet under the north-west ern dotfto, is an immense structure composed of the timber of the couutry, and is surrounded by specimens of work done in it, and by a grand col lection of ornamental woods ; and I may state once for all that nearly all the English colonies have sent speci mens of their timber and ornamental woods, which have been prepared and set up with much care. And the same remark will apply to many of the ge ological and natural history collections —especially Canada, which has a sep erato list of the former class. All the colonies exhibit stuffed birds and animals ; and generally they are well set up in the usual manner. But in the Caaadian department a novel and remarkable plan has been adopted —the carcasses of deer and other ani mals and birds are suspended by the feet, as in a market or and pre sent an admirable tableaux of “dead game/’ while the fish lie on something resembling herbage, and look as natiu ral as if they had come out of the sea or river an hour two since only. The trophy contains examples of nearly class in the collection, and visitors wind up and down its staircase con tinually, neither deterred by the black bear that stands sentinel at oue door, nor by the white one which performs the same duty at the other.] People who take in hand an inspec tion of the Paris Exhibition in the ex pectation that it will furnish them with a faithful reflex of the present aspect of the manufacture of iron and steel are not only likely to be largely dis appointed, but are certain, if influenced in their judgment only by what thdy see in the Champs de Mars, to be led to altogether incorrect conclusions. England, the leading country in all that relates to the metalizing of iron, is very inadequately represented; America, the next in importance, comes so far short of pul ting forth its real strength that it had much better have left itself altogether out of the reckon ing; Germany, the third greatest rep resentative of iron and steel, is in the same position as America ; and Belgi um has been content to leave itself very largely in the hands of one firm which, however, has worthily dis charged the trust. On the other hand it will be found that such countries as Russia, Austria, and Sweden, with natural resources and degrees of de velopment that only entitled them to a place in the third rank of the Euro pean family, have done more in the way of asserting their claims to recog. nitioli as industrial powers than might have been expected from them even if they had been much more liberally endowed by nature, and geographical ly within easier reach of the Champ de Mars. But alter these considera tions have been duly discounted, the collective exhibits of iron and steel pre sent education and facilities and scientific memorabilia quite as notable, and probably, on the whole, much more complete than any antecedent exhibi tion . England and America have had nu merous opportunities, of which they have taken full advantage, of showing to the world their capabilities and re sources in this sphere of iudutsri.il ef fort ; and heretofore the race has been so fur to the swift,- that the right of England to pre-eminence has hardly been challenged* It is a fact much too notorious to be gainsaid, that the pride ol place enjoyed by Great Britain has made her disregard the threats of for eign eompetion, and it is perhaps due more to their incuiar prejudice and contempt of than to aught else, that English firms have come so far short of their best efforts in the pres ent exhibition. But the extent and character of foreign competition have been brought very near and made uncomfortably apparent to the English industrials, who have never until now ceased to believe in their manifest des tiny as “the workshop of the world,’' and must, unless they are as far from wisdom as an ostrich, persuade them their energies must more than ever be taxed to breast the rising tide of for eign competition. In the printing department the new composing machine works wonders.— The apparatus is not unlike a piano, aud is composed of a series of vertical tubes placed side by side: each tube is filled with one kind of letter. These tubes all converge at the lower end into one pipe, which abuts upon a hor izontal trench. The compositor has before him a keyboard, upon the notes of which the letters of tho alphabet are marked. When.he strikes one of the notes the corresponding tube opens and drops the letter indicated into the trench, where a special mechanism ad vances it to the place it is intended to occupy. Ttie types then pass into the justifier, a kind of movable metalic frame, of a size suitable to the line which is to be pointed. Each line, when comp osed,is lowered to give place to the succeeding one. , The superior rapidity of this method is evident. By | the Usual mode a skillful compositor Can turn off 1300 letteis in an hour; by this machine it is possible to make 230,400 botes in the Same time ; but allowing for the fatigue to the fingers it is no exaggeration to put the aver age at 60,000 notes per hour. There is, of course, the difficulty of reading the manuscript, which delays the ra pidity of the work ; but even if the machine made no more than 6000 notes it would be a great saving of time and labor. The operation of replacing the letters in their respective tubes is per* formed by a machine having an exact reverse arrangement to the preceding one. The edmposing and distributing machines which* under the name of Chambers, have now been brought to great perfection, are now in success ful use in the office of the London Times. A good story is told of ja Washing tonian who hired a conveyance during the recent strike of cabmen and drivers. Upon the man saying “It is 100 sous per hour,''’ the hirer replied, “All right, drive on/’ lie kept the cab four hours, and then having finished his business, asked the driver how ? much he had to pay him. “Four hours,’’ replied the man, “that will be 20 francs/ “Then drive me [to the prefecture of the po lice, ’’ replied tne Washingtonian. The driver, thunderstruck, endeavored to make concessions * On the way to the station he stopped the cab at a tobac conist’s, and got out to gel a cigar.— Ilis purchase finished he left the shop and looked for his cab, when, behold, cab, driver and horse had all disap peared, and Monsieur had had the use of a carriage four hours without its costing him a sou. Alpha. YELLOW FEVER. Still Dropping Down All Along the Line. New Orleans, Sept. 15— The number of new cases to-day is 149 ; deaths 59. Sopt. 15.—There were 22 deaths to-day. There was a slight frost yesterday in the Mississippi bot toms. The fever here is abating in new cases, but the number of deaths con tinue very larg ■. Memphis, Sept. 15.—Ninety deaths are reported to-day, Sept. 15. —There were 111 deaths to-day—more than was anticipated, The yellow fever summary, as re ported by the telegrams from all the infected cities, shows the following for the past 48 hours : Memphis—Sunday, over 98 ; Mon day, 111 ; New Orleans—Sunday 59 ; Monday 73 ; Canton 1; IJ oily Springs 5. Grenada—Saturday, 5; Baton Rouge —Monday, 2; Vicksburg—Sunday, 22; Monday, 23; Bilox—Saturday, 1 ; Gab ipolis—Sunday, 3. Six Months in tho Chain-gang or $25 and Cost. The UawklnSvillc* Dispatch says: ‘Jeff Johnson, the colored boy who fired the shot that entered the residence of Mr. G. P. Woods on the night of the 4th ult., was arraigned before county Judge H. H. Whitfield on Thursday last. According to the prisoner's own admission—the only evidence in the case—that he was shooting at a dog, it was evident that he could not con victed for intentional or malicious shooting, and Capt. J. 11. Martin, the prosecuting attorney, decided to bring suit against Jeff for carrying conceal ed weapons. After a hearing of the case and a plea of guilty from the prisoner, J udge Whit field sentenced him to serve a teim of six months in the chain g'ang or pay a fine of $25 and costs, amount ing In all to about $32.50. Jeff suc ceeded in raising a sufficient sqni to pay the fine, and will probably be more particular m the use of his litlle pistol hereafter/ Tiic Yellow Fever Plague. Those who ao not realize the extent and horror of tho yellow feVer visita tion in the West, have only to consult the statistics of tins mysterious and deadly 1 disease. Carefully compiled calculations make the aggregate deaths foot up over four thousand. Seldom, indeed, has such feartul mortality, outright, lean re corded, even after the most sanguina ry conflict upbn a stricken field. The destroying angel has appeared among our distressed fellow-citizens, and thousands have succumbed under the stroke of his relentless scythe. Nor is the end yet. Long weeks will probably elapse before a friendly freeze can be expected, to put a quie tus to the plague in New Orleans and many points in Mississippi and Louis" iana. Let us not be weary in well do ing, Lut continue our benefactions to the sick and suffering until God in His infinite mercy brings them renewed health aud prosperity.— Tel. <b Mess. The Savannah News says accounts Irom the Ogeccbee rice plantations are very gloomy. The entire rice crop has been greatly damaged in that section, only three plantations having escaped injury. A Strange Story*. The Buena ViSta Argus tells it os, follows : Mr. Letvis Webb in our town is very strangely affected. For several years lie appeared p iralvz- and in bis I'm t and legs for several ye aVs he wont oh crutcl.es, but Fu the past eight he Inis been walking with a stick. He says he con’d drive a knife through his foot and not feel it ; that when he drives his foot agaiust any object he knows it just as he knows when he strikes a stick against a substance, JL>v the re sistance offered only, and not by feel mg. He frequently blisters his feet in walking, but knows nothing of it until the blisters burst. He bathes his feet often—sometimes in cold ; sometimes jn hot water. He cannot tell by the f cling in the feet whether the water is hot or coldj Thus he had lived for eight years sometimes Walking about and often in bed. Now the strange part of the story is that when a cat touches his foot ; whether bare or with sock oh, sends instantly prickly s n sations all through his foot. 11a may be blindfolded, but can instantly tell the touch of a however slight, whether by day or nighty expecting or not expecting the touch, UNPARALLELED OUTRAGE. A Harmless Old Gentleman ol Seventy and One of His Grand Children Shot by Masked Villains. We clip the following account of a dastardly outrage from the Dublin Post : “OnJast Friday night seven masked men rode up to the house ot Mr. Wil lard Grayq, living two, miles east of town and hailed. As he stepped out on the porch, they fired several shots at him and riddled the house with bullets A rifle ball and four small shot struck the old in one leg and one or two small sshot struck one of his grand children, who wa* inside the house, in the back. There is no cine to the perpetrators of this shameless horror. But this matter should be looked into, and the villains should every one be made* to pull hemp. Mr, Gray is a harmless old m m of about seventy years of age. The only thing that can bo said against him is that he has two , or three disreputable daughters, ’ Senator Thurman in Macon* The Macon Telegraph says : ‘G’lie Secretary of the State Agri cultural Society announces that Hon. Allen G. Thurman of Ohio, has accept ed an invitati >n to attend The Georgia State Fair in Macon, the 28th of next month. As Mr. Thurman is now the most prominent candidate for the Democrat ic nomination for the Presidency, less than two years fence, as well as one of the most eminent and trusted of the Democratic leaders, there will be strong desire among the people to see and hear him. He will probably ad dress the people during his visit, and explain at length iiis views on the cur. rency question/* Heath of Herbert S. Landrum. The friends of Dr. L mdrum and fam ily will regret dec ply to learn this morn i.ng by the wiretq that Me, Herbert S. Landrum, city editor of the Me mphis Avalanche, is dead. Ijq dp-<l y. ste,- day morning at 2 o’clock. One of the most brilliant lights of Western journalism has gone out for ever, He died at his post, as a brave man and all lp-nor will be as.* cribt'd to him h;s hero .vn. Dr. Landrum and his noble wifi; are both down with toe fever the former being attacked while watching by the bed side ot his son. —Macon Telegraph. Wilkinson County Cane, Wo take the following from the Southerner & Appeal of last week, and ask our readers to send in some of their best stalks, that we may mention it next week and show what the wire grass can do in the way of raising cane. It says : '“Capt. G. AM. Bishop sent us last week a stalk of sugar cane having fif teen well developed joints, and large in proportion to its length. If this is a fail* sample of the Captain's crop, there will be no scarcity [of “long with him this winter/' We learn from the McDuffie Journal that Dr. J. S. Jones of McDuffie coun ty Las resigned his seat in the lower house of the General Assembly on ac* count of “ill health and other untoward circumstances." Anew election has been ordered by the Ordinary, to take place on the 2d of October. Plenty of men in McDuffie whose health and cir cumstances will not deter them from serving the r county in a legislative capacity, as we infer from the list of candidates. Augusta has a cotton tie factory which will turnout 10,000 bundles this season, which Sell for $2.15 per’bnudle. Nineteen m n are employ' and TRUNNELL AND CARTER. (XH IUIAXi GW. A Srand Announcement! WR OFFER TO TItE PUBLIC A LARGE STOCK of DKY GOODS, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, CLOTHING FANCY GOODS, HARDWARE) CROCKERY', WOODEN WARE, ' saddLehv, harness, & c . &p Together with a complete stock of GROCERIES of every kind. a mmm 101 oi smqkkg mb urn. j&tSTWs we buy our goods exclusively of Northern markets \ye are cnall \ to sell them as cheap as any Ifuuse in the South. sepl9-3m ' THE GREAT ©borgia State Fair, 1878,- At ir vCOX, GA., from October 2StU to November 2d. S9OOO IN MONEY PREMIUMS* An interesting racing programme cntch day for Premiums covering over $2500. The best nrrranged, most commodious and most beautiful Fair Grounds, and the Vest Mila Track in the South. Liberal premiums for every department of Husbandry, Manu factures, Machinery, and Works of Art Send tor Catalogue of complete list of Premiums, Rules and Regulations,, which will be mailed, postage paid, On application to the Secretary, COUNT V PREMIUMS. To the county winch (through the Societies or Clubs) shall furnish the largest and finest display, in merit and variety of produces and results of Home Industries, (except Stock, which are excluded) all raised o( produced in the County S3OO Ol) Second Premium .• 150 IK) THOMAS HA It OEM AN, Jr., Pres. MALCOLM JOHNSTON, Sec’y. septftdf M. j. 11 \TG 11EIt, General Sup't. 98 CHERRY STREET, MACON, da,, Manufacturers of and Dealers in Carriages, juggles, agons, Agents for the Celebrated JACKSON WAGONS, The best wagon made, Every one guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction- Also the TENNESSEE WAGON-a low-prlccd, durable wagon. 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