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’HE EASTMAN TIMES.
VI ‘iJCIiJQH, Editor Proprietor
HUIWDAY, FKIiliUAlty (5, 1870.
a ~ ■- E FARMER VICTORIOUS.
I ) ’ all die avocatiojps of life, we ktiow
■no so independent in all its
at of farming. Jt is the
e tre mound which revolve all
iilmr industries, and yet how
times do those who are engaged in
fad utterly to realize it. But in
•'Cljon in reference to the late proposed
increase on tho price of
fertilizers, they have demonstrated a
spirit,of independency which is
ua ridable, and they did not have
l o wait before reaping their
Aheady a number of
have seen the folly of an attempt
increase the price of fertilizers on
oeggarly, low and depreciating
a cotton and have abandoned the
Thi-i they never would have done if
far iiors all over the country hud
cd their necks and submitted to
;alli; g yoke.
State Agricultural
It appears from the following,
a dip from the Dispatch of lust week,
due IiAwkinsvjllo is preparing to
tei >m the State Agricultural Conven¬
tion which convenes there on the 18th
uftant :
‘T >c Georgia State Agricultural
ny, represented by two hundred and
titty or three hundred delegates, will
meet in Hawkinsville on tho 18th
February; and many visitors are
expected to be in attendance.
<• - it ion now is to find something (and
’gli) w ith which to feast this great
d of distinguished farmers and
r aidants They must not return to
. r uom.es in distant ports of the State
•ling that we have not done all that
' .could to entertan them and take
ro of them. They were invited to
hold their next convention in Hawkins
viMe, and they are cpming, and we
test—one and all—do our duty. We
must heve a few stall-fed .beeves, two
hundred fat turkeys, and chickens,
* *gs and home-made sausage In abun¬
dance. Some of them may want but
•..r-inilk homemade butter, col lard s>
etc , and these little things should pot
be overlco-ked.
Let us do our best—-extend our hos
Jrality cheerfully—and none of our
isitora will leave our town dissatis
i
The Next State Fair,
1 be Augusta Chronicle says :
'Col. T. J. Smith, of the committee
' •pointed by -the State Agricultural
o : et v } to arrange for holding the next
c ate .Fair, returned to Atlanta yester
° v morning. He.^ays there seenas to
>e no disposition in the Gate City to
c itu its .rights under the contract with
the state society^ and Macon is not in
n financial condition <to have the fair
.:o that Ire now considers the question,
an open one, and is satisfied that Au¬
gusta can have it held there if she so
desires and takes the proper steps in
that direction. Atlanta will fill her
.part of ,the contract the Agricultu¬
ral Society insists on it, hut as the com
mi,ttec are in favor qf Augusta he does
not anticipate any difficulty op that
score. He thinks that it \yould be a
good idea for the people of Augusta
to hold a meeting and make some defi
i ite proposition to the State Agricul¬
tural Society, which will soon assem¬
ble in convention in Hawkinsville. So
far no decided answer has been re¬
ceived from Atlanta, but it is clear that
that city is not anxious to hold :he
State Fair, as it has a fair association
of its own, which will give ap exposi
tson thc latter part of October. A
Chronicle reporter conversed w r ith
Mayor Meyer in regard to the State
Fair yesterday afternoon. Ilis Honor
sajd the Council could not contribute
;| oy money to such an object without
being authorized to do so by a vote of
the people. Ic w’ould cost six or sev
m thousand dollars to replace the buil¬
ding removed from the fair grounds
and that destroyed by fire, and lie did
not think the city would be repaid for
tU’s ont’a-y, even it it bad the authority
• spend the money. He would like
■ see the fair he,Id here if it did not
cost the city anything.
The Union Recorder says : '‘Bob
pfncer # formerly Bob McCob a col¬
ored man, has worked at the Alii ledge
ville Factory^, as fireman for twenty
consecutive years During this long
lime, as a tlavo and afreedman, Spen¬
cer has been faitlfful in the discharge
,of exery duty assigned him, and dili¬
gent in and out of season, hearing an
irreproachable character with both
races—temperate, polite and industri¬
als. What an example to the colored
" u have we here! Such men are
respectid in every community, where
dustry, honesty and temperance are
denounced virtues.
English peas are up and growing
finely in some parts of the State.
LETTER FROM REV. E. M.
WHITING.
From His New Home—Beautiful
Scenery, Ect., Etc.
Mu. Editor —The weekly issues of the
Eastman Times come to my quiet room
like newsy ietteisfrom a distant home.
I he names in its “locals’'' are those
old friends, and reading its advertise*
meets is almost like walking about the
town. Will you allow me space to
fiend back my heartiest greetings to
all the dear folks in Eastman and
county, and the many more in Dublin
and Laurens.
And “now that I have the floor" let
tne tell y- u of one thing in my
ent surroundings that is a constant
light to me—the natural scenery.
and reared among the hills, I have
ways cherished a love for their
features. Tho feeling, I believe,
universal—the attachment to the
of our birth and its
From the hills in the northern
of my circuit may be seen
miles of the I’ine Mountain range
one view. The hills on the
limit are just .on the verge of the
natural te.rra.ee that ends the hills,
begins the lower and more level
of ti e State. From their tops you
look the undulating country
stretches southward and seems
blend with the sky in the hazy
Along these limits, and between
there are tranquil landscapes that
visions of beauty. Last Saturday eve
ing I walked out, like Isaac of old,
to the fields to meditate. Following
trail through the woods, aluig
“the lowing herd 5 ' was returning
pasture, I entered a gale, and
tho hill inside the field. I did not,
Isaac, meet a future wife, “a damsel
fair to look upon* at that eventide.
I did stair! up on that hif’-top fir one
hour and feast my eyes and soul upon
the scenery arppnd m,e. The eastern
horizon was partly shut oft by a
boring hill, higher than that on which
I stood. Through the valley to the
left the Chattahoochee river splashed
and roared on its many shoals “ The
voice of many waters’' I could p'ainly
hear. Along the whole western hori¬
zon the lofty bluffs on the Alabama
side stood up in bold relief, But in
the centre ot this lovely picture the
Divine artist has given the finest
touches. From the deep valley in front,
through which a winding creek sought
the river, the hills rose in successive
terraces, (as it seemed) each higher
than the other, and more distant, until
“the blue hills far away'’—the ranges
of Fine and Oak Mountains —were
hardly discernable. Now imagino£his
scene wifh the sunset ashing the
heavens and purpling the hills, and the
atmosphere so -ealm that the chatter ol
guinea-fowls and the scream o: pea
cocks from farm-houses half a mile
away could be distinctly heard Such
scenes never fail to inspire within me
the spirit of worship So^ standing
there, I sung, as best I could, the sub¬
lime old stanza,
‘ ‘Praise God from whom all blessings flow, ” &c.
Why is it that in the presence of
such earthly scenes, wo always think
of those that are heavenly ? Two re a *
sons occur to me. Just in front of mq
about thirty yaids down the hill, stood
a tall pine. Mouths ago the axe had
been “la ; d at its trunk, - ' and now it
stands there dead, stripped of its bark
by winds and raius and holding out
bleached and broken limbs. Right in
-the foreground ot this living scene
stands the symbol of death and decay.
Is it not always so? No scene- on
earth is so fair or joyous as to dismiss
the unbidden signs ot our mortality.—
Again : right over this quiet landscape,
in April, 1875, gathered that first and
most furious cyclone. My heart has
been appalled at descriptions of the
.thunders tiiat rallied, and the winds
that drove with furious haste the SUl
rounding clouds into one dense and
black one—until about 11 o’clock,
with awful form and frightful velocity
it swept across the State.
Ah, these scenes are beautiful at
.times, but their beauty is fleeting and
their quietness deceptive, We think
of thiSj and then our thoughts go up
to landscapes that smile under sunlight
tar more sweet and golden, over which
no tempests gather, and upon which
“no night” shall throw its gloom. That
which 1 have attempted to describe
was so beautiful on that, evening that
I involuntarily wondered if any in
Heaven could be fairer, Perhaps we
always make this comparison. Tne
sun went down too soon for my pleas**
ure. The distant mountains melted in¬
to sombre twilight, and the nearer h)lls
seemed more distant and .shadowy.
After lifting my voice again in prai«e
to God, I turned away. Readers !
shall you and I ever see the landscapes
of the eternal world—possess an inher¬
itance there ?—and visit the “many
mansions” that nestle among its hills ?
“ God grant it in infinite mercy ”
E. M. Whiting.
Cataula Ga., Jan. 30, 1879.
The gold mines in the counties of
McDuffie, Wilkes^ Lincoln and Colum¬
bia arc growing in importance, and
are turning out large quantities of rich
ore.
‘W. T. SHERMAN, GENERAL/
He Arrives iii Atlanta and is
Duly Received.
The Atlanta J J / / t/j?iograph thus de¬
scribes, in its witty t^tyle, the late visit
of Gen. Sherman to ti^t .city :
“Somewhere about tire .front end of
the past week a wild rumor plumed
dself on airy wings and flew in and out
and round and about the confines ,oi
this busy city that \vo were about to be
honored with the distinguished pres
enceof the man to whom we pay $20^
000 per annum for keeping in Leash
Uncle S <nf s dogs of war. It was
ted that he was bearing down upon us
from the rugged fastnesses of Tennes¬
see, and that in all probability he'd
reach the city via the great Kennesaw
route (for time tables, etc , see sma’q
bills) and would actually in person,
break the white bread of peace in our
borders,or rather in the Kimball House,
which is about the same thing.
This intelligence created a bit of a
commotion, though not near so great
as a similar announcement on a previ¬
ous occasion. The great red heart
colored humanity began to throb and
pulsate with loyal desire to see great¬
ness, and even som * of our stablest
citizens threw their thumbs into the
armholes of their vests and took to
standing guard in groups on the street
corners, white the ragged newsboy
shortened the twine string that served
him for a suspender, gave his pan*s an
extra hitch, polished his cuff once more
on the end of his-nose, and prepared to
“brace up" and be equal to the dignity
ol the occasion.
Ou every h ind could be seen the
evidences th^t we were upon the eve
of some great event The proprietors
of the Kimball House scrubbed down
the front windows, a H<>p Bitters man
distributed a large cargo of U. S flags,
and Louis Clark had the banana peel¬
ings swept off the pavement in front of
his store. Nor was this all—Sid Hol
land polished up his dental sign until
t shone like a bull's eye lantern in a
dark alley. Hart, ihe blind, door and
sash man ordered four and fifty bo xes
of glass. Will Wright, the wild laud
clerk, had a new rubber spring [put oil
bis left crutch, and Treasurer Renfroe
bought a dozen postage stamps. All
was hustle and activity.
On Wednesday morning the SITU
rose soon after day_-break and hurried
off on his course that he might reach
the noon mark Lur enough ahead ot
time to spare half an hour to witness
the arrival of the distinguished coiner
Every darkey in Atlanta bounced out
of bed feet-fbreniost and made ready
to behold Highness^ and the passenger
shed raised its root a little, that the
Highness aforesaid might not get its
upper termination abraded by contract
therewith.
One o'clock came and with it the
engine of the VV. & A. R, R., following
it came the traiiq and in or on the train
came General Sherman. The train
stopped, the crowd surged around it,
two boot-blacks had a fight about a
front seat, and humanity strained its
eyes for a glimpse of the king bee ot
the army. He appeared on the rear
platform of the rearcst coach of all^ as
though he tried not to get here at all.
He was met by several, U all of whom
he spoke and shook hands with his
right hand He then drew out a silk
handkerchief and distinctly blew his
nose twice. He then walked over to
the hotel by the nearest route, regis¬
tered his name with black ink an 1 a
bran new pen which Ed Calloway had
ordered out from Paiis for the occasion,
took a check for his overcoat, followed
a black nigger up stairs, entered his
room and closed the door, Further
than this, our reportorial rascal could
not follow him.
At night he attended a ball at the
Barracks and danced wisth divers and
Sill 'dry ladies, chased the flying hours
with nimble heels, and cut the double
shuftlo with all the ease and abandon
of a country boy at a corn-shucking,
lie is no slouch on the light fantastic.
Thursday he reviewed the troops,
end made them evolute round over the
old hill at a lively pace. Then he dis¬
missed them, went into the barrack
headquarters and took a drink—of wa¬
ter, and then inspected the quarters of
the men. Occasionally lie drew breath,
and certainly winked his eyes as often
as three times. He wore a glove on
each hand, and to this may be attriba¬
the fact that we are uninformed as to
whether lie wore a ring. Our impres¬
sion is that he does not. He wore no
sword, and if he had any matches they
were hid somewhere in his clothes.
It has transpired since he left tiiat
he ate three meals a day during his
entire stay, He does not economize
on his nourishment. He first morsel
izes his food with his knife and then
lifts it to the gash in his face with a
forkj and from thence it sinks into a
cavity and is seen no more.
Friday he left us. We wept no salty
tears, nor did we bedew our lace ker
chief with drops of woe. Once before
he left us, or that is he U ft the land
where we now are. This time he has
behaved much more civilly, and no
brick blocks have been missed up to
the time we go to press, Ta, Ta, Te
curaseli. Shall we ever have another
chance to slop over on you ?
NEW FRENCH PRESIDENT.
Resignation of Marshal McMa¬
hon—Election of M. Gtevey,
Versailles, Jair. 30.—Marshal Mc¬
Mahon’s letter r>I resignation says that
being in disagreement with the minis¬
try, being hopeless of forming
cabinet, and unvei ling to accent to
measures which be regards as contra¬
ry to good army organization, lie with¬
draws from power At a meeting
the bureaux of the left Gambetta pros
posed M. Grevy lor President of
Republic, which was unanimously
proved. Marshall MaeMahon asked the
ministers to countersign his letter
resignation, but they refused,
the letter a merely personal act.
present ministers will r^asigu, and
new parliamentary cabinet will be
stituted. It is reported that. M. Gam¬
betta will take the premiership
foreign portfolio, Tue concourse of
general public ut Versailles is not
great. The exc.tem nt does not
pare with that of May 24,
Mr. i’hiers resigned. There is no
turbance anywhere.
Some groups of the right,
the Bonapartists, will support Mr.
vy, whose election will bejpearly
imous The legitimists will
abstain from voting. M, Martel,
president of the senate, will
over fin* .congress. M. M.
and Mareere have oeen to
M. Grevy. It is understood that
ministry will move that the
alter the «lection, adjourn for a
to allow time to settle the
question It is the general opinion
the d-putiesof the left that the
cabinet should remain in office.
Gambetta expressed this opinion
decidedly to-day, but reported
M. Dufaure had announced his
tion of retiring to private life.
On the assembling of the chamber
deputies, M. Grevy .read the
letter from President MaeMahon,
nouncing his resignation, amidst
found silence:
“At the opening of this session
the chambers the ministry
to you a programme which, \vjbile
fording satisfaction to public
appeared to the cabinet such as
be voted without danger to the securi
ty or good administration of the
try. Putting us‘$e all personal
I had given the programme my
bation, foi l was sacrificing no
pie to which conscience
me to remain faithful. To-day
ministry, thinking to respond to
opinion of a majority in the two
bers, proposes to me in regard .to
high military commands,sonic
measures which 1 consider contrary
ihe interest of the army, and
quently to those of the country. I
not subscribe to them ; any other
istry taken from the majority
impose upon me the same
I consider myself, therefore, bound
shorten the duration of the
which the national assembly
to me, and I therefore tender my
ignation. In quitting the power 1
the consolation of thinking that during
the fifty-three years I devoted to
service of my country, either as sol¬
dier or citizen, 1 have never been
guided by sentiments oilier than
and dn.ty, and absolute devotion to
country. I request you to
cate my decision to the chambers.
MacMahon,
Du,he ol Magenta.
M. Grevy then read articles of the
constitution applicable to the situatioi t,
and announced that the two chambers
would meet in ^congress at 4:30 p. m.
The sitting then suspended.
The proceedings in congress of the
two chambers were opened by M
Martel, who again read Marshal Mjc
Mahon’s letter of resignation ,an<J the
articles of the constitution.
M- deGavatdes, senator, amid the
shouts of disapprobation,asked wheth¬
er congress accepted the resignation
of President MaeMahon. The co ngress
set this inquiry aside by voting the
previous question by a large majority.
Congress, after appointing tellers, pro¬
ceeded at five o'clock to vote for the
presideiit of the republic. Seven bun
dred aud thirteen senators and depu*
ties were present, of whom six hundred
and seventy voted. The absolute ma¬
jority required was three hundred and
thirty-six. M. Jules Grevy obtained
five hundred and thirty^six votes, and
Gen, de tGhftiiScy 7 ninety-nine. M. Gre¬
vy was accordingly declared elected
and was proclaimed president of the
republic for seven years
Forty-three blank voting -papers
were deposited The result was ari?
nounced at 7*45 p. m. Shortly after,
the senate and chamber of deputies re¬
sumed separate sittings,
M. Betheniot took the chair in the
chamber of deputies, lie read a let
ter from M. Grevy expressing the pro¬
found regret with which he resigned
his seat as a deputy, and thanking his
colleagues lot* the sympathy with which
they had honored him and would con¬
tinue,to honor him. The deputies de¬
cided to elect a successor to the presi
deqey of the chamber to-morrow. It
is understood that Gambetta is willing
to accept the post; and his candidacy
meets with increased fa*or.
The ministers congratulated Presi¬
dent Giety this Evening on his ck'C
lion, and collectively tendered their
resignations. M, Grevy expressed a
hope that they Weuld continue in
at least provisionafljr, The cabinet
will meet tomorrow to consider
situation. Martial MaeMahon
evening visited and congratulated
Grevy. The interview was most
j teous. The ex-president announced
j | intention of going to Grasse, where
I will remain sometime
The Guano War.
I he Central Georgia Weekly says :
‘‘The gmmo war is raging
In this controversy of public interest,
as in all others affecting the good
the people^ we take a side We
to take the side of right under all
circumstancess, and will do so
ever our judgment 16 not at fault.
In t e guano war between
and manufacturers of commercial
(
tilizers, we take eheetfglly tUeside
the farmers, for tin* reason that
is on their side. The war has arisen
ties wise : Last year when times
no harder than they are now—.-indeed
not so stringent—a tanner could
a ton of first-class guano with 50.0
-of cotton, and m some instances
480 lbs. This year a convention
guano ruen have agreed iu solemn
clave assembled, to demand of
5.50 pounds of cotton for a ton of
same article of fertilizers tfiat was
last year for 480 or 500 pounds.
Ihe indignation ot the farmers
aroused, a.id justly so, we think.
idea of advancing the price of
thing those hard times is proposter
We “glory in the spunk” of the
handed sons ot toil in their
tion to give no more for guano
they did just year. Now we say
them stand to tfiis resolve
the heavens fall.'' They have right
their side, and therefore power to
quer.
Worth County Court Hoose
Burnet!..
In regard to the destruction of
court house and record; of
county, the Albany Advertiser
lishes the following- thrilling letter
a citizen of Isabella. Here is the
ter-:
January 27, 1878.
Dear AnvERTisER-r-Some
fiem^ engendered from hell's foul
pool, about midnight last night, sot
to our court house and everything
burned. Col W A Harris'friends
to save bis library, etc., but the
of a fiend did his work well. He
saturated the whole with kerosene
some combustible material, and it
a hurrioan of fire Col. Harris lost
—not a paper or a book or
saved ; all gone a clear sweep.
>
God grant Col Fleming has got
bills ot indictment in his pocket, so
hell-hound won’t escape. Our
is ruined- I want to he attached
Dougherty. Tuxes ! my God^
will ruin us. Col Harris says he
for hire; even to drive a dray.
Tifton, unable to do anything like
ual labor; and Lippitt,
gone; papers lost that can never
established again in the world.
The Macon Telegraph says several
parties are suspected of tin's foul
but there have been no arrests.
loss ,of all the records of a countv
indeed a serious affair, and will
much embarrassment and possible liti¬
gation.
Another Macon Shoots
Through the Head.--Accidental.
Fiona the Telegraph & Messenger
we learn of the sad occurrence of the
death of Mr. W. Arthur Whittle^
Macon, about twelve o'clock on Sun¬
day night last. hud just returned
from the Lanier House, where lie had
been spending the evening with friends.
His brother, who was sleeping in the
room was awakened by the opening
of the door, and said, ‘Hai]<> # Arthur,
is that you ?'he replied, ‘Yes^ in his
usual tone of voice. His brother thinks
that in replacing the pistol in a draw¬
er which was crowded with papers,
and about as high as a man's head,that
the pistol was accidentally discharged
and the contents entered the head of
Mr. W. Arthur Whittle^ killing him
instantly, and in this opinion he is sus¬
tained by the finding of the coronei's
jury, alter hearing all the evidence.—
Mr. VV. was about 24 years of age, aud
was very popular in Macon
Gen. W. T. Sherman is now* in Flor¬
ida, on a Southern tour. He passed
through Atlanta, Macon and Savan¬
nah last week. There was no demon¬
strations, save a desire with many to
see the General whose path way through
Georgia fourteen years ago was mark¬
ed with a torch.
H. S. Glover, present postmaster at
Macon, fia. } lias been renominated by
the President. He seems to be very
popular with ail sorts of people in that
city.
S T A T B N E VV S.
The gold product of Georgia for
1878 is said to be $100,000.
It is probable that Jeff Davis will
visit Georgia at an earfy day.
Over two tfiousftttdl males were **>fd
in Atlanta in one week.
Athens young men are clerking at
$5 a month and board.
Thomas county issued 204 marriige
lic enses during the year 187$
Georg.’ 3 ** new fonr cent bonds are
selling rapidly at par in New Yoik.
MilLdgevilD is fwn to hare a new
hotel, the handsomest * n Mate.
There is said to be 12.000 TVeshvte
rians and Episcopalians in Geo/’Q***
Mi. E. I Byingt >n lias sold Cochran
Observer to Col. \V. F* Kelsey.
The Atlantic & Gulf Railroad has
removed its depot ficfm Tebeauville to
Way cross.
Mrs. Dodd # of Lumpkin county, has
just fini-hed a bed quilt containing
1 550 different pieces.
The Methodist conferences report
2,231 accessions to the membership of
the-church in Georgia during 1878.
The National Hotel at Maeon has
been dosed- We learn it is soon to
be opened under a new proprietor.
Gen Sherman is taking a tour
through Georgia. This tour is quite
different from that other ever memora
b!e one.
Tom Hardeman, Jr., is brought for¬
ward by many of our exchanges as the
most suitable man for Georgia's next
Governor.
Mr. John H. Hodges, editor ol the
Irwinton Southerner & Appeal, was
marriel on the 21 st nit, to Miss Kate
V. Norwood, of Houston county.
Hon. Jefferson Davis will lecture in
Atlanta soon for the benefit of the
Atlanta Library.
The cotton shed of Hon. James M.
Smith of Oglethorpe county, was .de¬
stroyed by fire on the 18th ultj with
about 100 bales of cotton.
The Berrien county News says
a barrel of choice syrup sold at
pafta in that county, for eighteen
per gallon.
Harris of the Atlanta
bids good bye to the press-gang
public, in his issue of the 30tli nit.
better could have spared a
man.
The Griffin Sun says : ‘There
about twenty four (lawyers in
and only eleven common law
were returned to the February term
the Superior Court, which is less than
a half a case to each attorney.
Two important conventions will
held iu Atlanta in May next. On
8th the Southern Baptist convention
convenes ; and shortly afterward there
will be held a general convention
medical men from all parts of the
United States.
The notorious J. E. Bryant, who has
lived, by his wits, off the colored peo¬
ple of Georgia torso many years, and
has bfteo connected with so many dis¬
graceful transactions in this State, hav¬
ing exhausted other sources^ is now
trying to get money from the benevo¬
lent of New York.
We learn from the Telegraph and
Messenger, that Mr. O'Conner, a po¬
liceman of Macon, in arresting an old
negro man on Sunday lasfi struck him
with his baton, which resulted in the
death of the old mail a few hours after
he had been confined in the barracks.
It seems that the old man made very
little complaint, and it was tuft known
that he was at all seriously liurfc v until
he was found dead in his ce!j ; and
even then a careful examination of the
deceased failed entirely to giye any
satisfactory explanation of the cause of
his death till the skull was sawed open
and a clot of blood about half the size
of a man's fist was; discovered. The
skull was also found to be fractured,
and remarkably 7 thin—being le&a than
sixteenth of an inch. Mr. O’Con-.
i,or was immediately arrested and put
jail.
A few days ago, says the Sumter
a colored man, Jim An
> was exhibiting a marriage li¬
near the Planter's warehouse
9
a gentleman, who was acquaint¬
with him, said : ‘Jim, what have
done with your wife V f Fve got
a divorce,' replied the darkey. T> f ,
gentleman asked to see the divor <*,
and Jim took oat a bundle of papers
from his pocket, in which Ive hurt care
fully wrapped the precious document
11c handed it to the gentleman to r $ a ,|
and here vs a copy :
‘'This is to certify that Jim Ander¬
son has been legally divorced from h»
wife at the court house in Arncri CUg
January 25th, 1879.’'
[Signed] A Lawyer,
Whether a lawyer duped the i*>
negro, or some one else impose!
him, we cannot say. He Lad his Ifo
to marry another woman, and w* ‘ l )r
sumo by this time he is the happy p
sessor of two wives, for tie divorce
certainly a fraud. The man who "rot
the receipt may have intended fun a .
tike negro's expense, but we befnevep
committed a grave offense against the
laws of the State, and caused the pv r
negro to commit bigamy,, milcss per.
snaded out of it by the gent!ennui
A StrtMigre “Bod-Feller.”*
The Owensboro (Ivy.) Messenger
tells the following grrd story ;■
During the last cold snap, one of 'iir
farm *?rs chose a certain day to kill E*
hogs, v/hieh Wa8 > to use ids own !an
giiage, <« . v leette too cold.’, Tie hog,
froze on the f ole as they Wt'Ft
hung up, and au er uI1 kil K the
boys took several i' r more * ddit,^
and tlie old man, w. J, ° was a!ready
staggering, stumbled u. ff into a back
room and was soon fast ,R the
wrong bed. About 8 o'clock a nt 'U r L
bor, who had been helping, conco’Ued
to go homo, and as ho went out stop
ped to examine the hogs on the pole
which he found as cold as stones. Tak
ing one ol the smallest down, he lug
ged it around the house to tho hack
door, carried it into tho old man,s room
and throwing back tho bed clothes, he
laid it snugly up to the old man, spoon
fashion, then covered them up and
left. About II o’clock the old man
awoke,and instantly yelled out: “Dave,
Dave ! Dave !" Dave was busily
engaged at eucrc in the other room,
but answered, “What the devil do you
want with mo?" “Come here quick,
with a light—run hero ! Your poor
mother is dead and cold as h—1 !"
Orncnlnr Explanation of the
Weather.
The Talbotton Register “gets off'’
the following :
“During the late cold spell a little
“nig," with his hands far down in his
breeches pockets^ and shivering all
over from the caresses of the polar
wave, approached an old negro nian (
o ie of the wiseacres of the neighbor"
hood, with the question : “Uncle Cub
fee, what makes it so cold V Where
upon the sable Guffee delivered him"
self of something to this effect:—
“Well; you sees I knows de why, but
I dunno of you kin understand meet
I tell you. You see, wen de equonv
cal line crosses de equator dat makes
de morn in' and ebenin’ star step ober
to whar de norf star ought to be. You
see. den, dat produces a fluxnination iu
de air and all de cole cum right down
on us at once. Dat’s de why fore.—
Does you comperhends ?" And old
Guffee took another “chaw” of tobac¬
co, and remarked that the weather was
getting colder.
Gen. Grant sailed from Marseilles,
France; for India on the 23d ult.
The Washington Post says there is
riot a lawyer in either branch of the
Connecticut Legislature.
The President has signed the Pen'
sion bill. It is said this measure will
cost the people forty millions of dol
Ins.
There were buried in Turkey,
Europe, 129,47 1 Russian soldiers, and
out of the i20,959 sick and wound' d
sent home, 42,950 died. Total 172,4*21.
California leads among the woo’
producing States ; Ohio second, and
Texas third. Mercer county, Texas,
has more sheep in its limits than any
other county in the Union—056,000.
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Miss Gertrude Lee> the eldest daugh
ter of Gem R. E. Lee, is said to he at
energetic traveler. She was not long
ago entertained by Lord and Lady
Napier at Gibi alia, and a Jew week;
before was within the Russian lines if
Turkey.
MD.Glll informs the Savannah News
that some t*ime since their house in
Baltxmore received, a box of tea leaves
from plants grown on the farm ot Mrs.
R. J. Screven in McIntosh pquutyj
whi^h they cii^edi and experimented
with, and produced a very fine quality,
cf tea that was highly commended.
the agricultural department, He is,
satisfied that the cultivation oi the
plant in Georgia is practicable, 3^
will prove very profitable as soon
our people are thoroughly informed
upon the subject, and one of the objects
of his mission is to see that they a rC>
as far as lies in bis power. His firm
will pay one dollar per pound for the
and will do the curing and prep*
aratjon themselves.