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Elu -zUonrcc Advertiser.
Q. A KING, B.T.EING, W D STOKE,
PROPRIETOR*.
WILLIAM D. STONE, Editor.
FORSYTH :
TUESDAY. : : : : : APRIL 22, 1873.
I)h Hough, of Oxford, d.rd in Atlanta on the
12tb.
Thu Her. W. 8. Mansfield died last Thursday
night in Marietta.
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A Gtange of the Patrorsof Husbandry Las been
organised in Band**rv.l e.
Rev. Gbo Smith will deliver a lec'ure to-night
in Marietta on Kd'r Poe olid h'.f Poetry.
Thb White Sulphur gprirgs. of M .rrlwetler
couuty, will be open to visitors this Bummer.
Thh Atlanta Herald ttio.ks tba* the last issue of
Georgia 8 per cent, bonds will be taken up by the
ll of August.
Ths city authorities of Savannah, intend to en
force the law rigidly against the fortune —tellers
of that city.
Thb Macon Enterprise learns that there is be
tween forty and fifty cases of i mall je v In the city
hospital at that place.
One of the negroes concerned in the recent
murder at Cochran, lias btea arrested and has
confessed his gu'lt.
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By the enlargement of the cua! Augusta is to
have a lake which vcill cover one hundred and
thirty acres of ground.
Pitsruis A Hcweli., of Atlanta, lime petitioned
the government to drop MtCtiia as informer in
the State road cases.
Governor Smith lias appoint*d Mr. W. A.
filaymakcr, o! Atlanta, Commissioner to represent
Georgia at the Vienna Exposition.
Prop. J. H. Lovelace, of the Hamilton Female
College, Harris county, is erecting a largo and
elegant college edifice.
Col James I). Waddell, of Marietta, will de
liver the address at the anniversary of the Odd
Fellows ol Georgia in Atlanta on the 261 h.
The Marietta Journal says that on last Monday
* a colored woman iu that place naiiud Andrews
give birth to three children, two boys and one
girl.
Mas. Maly Kobe Lewis, the wife of Joslah
Lewis, pastor ol the Methodist Church at Athens,
died Monday morning, the 14th, after a severe 111-
i.eae.
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Hon. Henry K. Harris has declined, owing
to business which will call him away, delivering
the memorial address on the 27th o! April, iu Co
lumbus.
The Atlanta Herald says: “On Thursday morn
ing last the authorities ol the Macon and Western
Railroad Company impended live conductors and
t e n train bauds.
The Tu)button Standard says that it is fashion
able for the business men of that place to roll
each other in wheel-barrows in order to kill the
dearth Ol uffiir*.
The Sandersvillo Herald announces ns a tact
that some of the planters in tnat section are redu
cing the area of land set apart for cotton and
planting the same iu corn.
The Georgia railroad, says the Atlanta Consti
tution, will show as its gross earnings lor the
year ending May, 1573, the handsome sum ol sl,-
000,000, the largest amount ever reclined by that
road in one year.
Confidential—Fcr the Ladies.—Uuder the*
above head 1 he Monroe Advertiser lias a local
paragraph, in which the ladies are referred to
James Lochrey, ot the Atlanta l)ge works. What
does the writer mean ? Talbotton Standard.
Conundrum—What article of food docs the
above editor mostly resemble t A cracker.
The Central City learns that Bishop Pierce has
appointed Rev. W. F. Williamson, of Ellaville,
Gu., to the pastorate of the Method'et Church in
Albany, to All the vacancy occasioned by the ill
health of l)r. Boring, who had accepted the
charge in the place Rev. Mr. Cramer, who failed
to till his appointment.
The LaGrange Reporter has heard of tlirc-e little
negro boys, about eight or ten years old, pulling
a plough to cover cotton seed, which was guided
by a uegress. The boys were hitched tandem, and
made good time, keeping up with another plough,
drawn by a mule, which was opening the rows for
the reception of the seed.
Thb Savannah Republican says: “ The census
takers lately appointed by the County Commis
sioners to enumerate the orphau children between
eight and sixteen, etid the Confederate scldiers
nudei thirty, who reside iu Chatham, are in the
Held and pushing ahead in their tusk. We had
the pleasure on the 6th of answering to rebel roll
call again, and for the first time in about eight
years.”
The Atlanta Constitution says at the Young
Meu’s Library may be seem two iron head boards,
ea6t by Mr. W. 8. Withers. On one of them is
the inscription in raised letters, “J. B. Young
hood, 43d Regiment, Ga.and on the other,
“ Uukuowr. Lougstreet*s Corps, Army, ol Va.”
These head boards ao? desigued, we are informed,
for the Confederate Cemetery at Resaca. The
design of these head boards is a beautiful oue.
Extra Sbjsion or the Legislators.— We
Hive below a letter written by W. McKinsley, to
the Union and Recorder, on the subject of labor.
The plan suggested is anew one. He says:
“ Assemble the Legislature to extra session and
give us a Land and Labor Court, a Court Baron—
a system of ‘Copy Tenure’ for the laborer. Give
us labor for the land aad a safe home for the la
borer and for his family when he dies. We must
attach the laborer to our soil and protect his wife
and children. Give us * Plantation Courts,’ or
five mile square Land Courts, to establish at once
a wisely modified ‘ Copyhold Tenure;’ a * Copy of
Court Roll Tenure.’ Our English ancestors have
wisely led the way. Let us profit by their experi
ence. As an old lawyer and land holder this is
my earnest counsel. Away with all immigration
projects, which propose to bring white laborere
from Europe, who will raise the price Of land but
never work for us. Who imported our aucestors ?
The only way to get some material is to get it in
the same way; let it come at its own expense.
The South is our country ; let us keep it lor our- 1
aelves and our children. If we fail to do so our
children will have a right to reproach us. Let the
boys and girls of our poor soldiers start life in a
cheap land market. What thoughtful Georgian ;
envies Massachusetts wuh her land market at one ]
hundred to iwo hundred dollais per acre, s.nd
most ol her young people all hirelings, with more
beggars iu the Stare than iu all the South.
" We have now abundance of both land and la
bor; let the Legislature at once secure them for
us. The * Copyhold’ system of labor homes, well j
tested by English land holders lor hundreds of j
years, a little modified to fit Georgia liie, will ac
complish the great object, and make both lend j
holder and negto happy and prosperous, fixed, :
legal homes tor the negro, his wile and children,
with gardcus ana orchards and wages, on condi
tion of home and protection for the negro. Old
lawyers kuow how to fix the system.
‘‘Editors, call up the Legislature; do this]
great, good work quickly. Next winter is too lar
off. Offer to the labors lawful, happy, Georgia
homes, agaloat MiaaUuppi swamps, i will explain 1
fuller hereafter.”
Bankruptcy and ISoiuenlead.
The following paragraph o' a recent decision of
the Bupr*-me Court of the United States on the
subject of Homestead exemption in Gecru-:a, is at '
this time of peculiar interest to oar people :
No. 185—Gunn vs. Bart v, error to the Supreme
| Conn of Georgia In 'hisciae the Court bi-id tuat
: an act ol i . Le ; •la'ure of Georgia of 186', in
! crt-Bsir" in- -m-'-iri f VuiTHs'ead eiempttoi#w ja
l notappi.cs le to pre-t x s';r g debts and judgments
and reverse** ihe judgment below, retusing the
wri* ot manctaniu* to compel the sheriff to levy on
certain property of Hirrv, that officer Laving de
clined to make the levy on the grounds that the
property was exempt under the act cited. Mr.
Justice ewayn- delivered the opinion.
Thus, it will be seen, that the Homestead of
two thousand dollars realty and exemption oi
personally of one thousand dollars, does not de
feat the coliection of any dtbt or contract created,
or in existence prior to the adoption of the Con
stitution of 1868, and the Homestead Laws, passed
in pursuance thertef; and as by another decision
of that Court, no affidavit showing the payment
oi texts is necessary before any levy can he made.
Congress, at its last session, did provide a
cl.acce cf saving the same amount of property in
Bankruptcy.
The original Bankrupt Law only allowed such
exemptions as were provided lor iu the different
States in ISG4. Parties, theiefore, who were
ioretd or voluntarily went into Bankruptcy after
the war ia 16G7, were allowed to retain in addition
to the five hundred dollata provided fcr in the
act, only such property a6 was exempt under the
2013th section of the Code of Georgia. This act
was amended by Congress in 1871, allowing ex
emptions then provided for in the different States,
that is, such exemptions as were provided for in
1871.
This, the Supreme Court .n Virginia held not
to be retroactive so as to deieat the collections cf
debts created before 1871.
And agan, Congress passed an act, declaratory
of the amendment of 1871, providing that it should
he retroactive as to old contracts, and, hence, par
ties can row be discharged from ail liabilities grow
ing out of any debt created prior to the let day of
January lrG'J—and save the same amount ot prop
erty to-wit: two thousand dollars iu realty and
one thousand doliais in personalty by going into
Bankruptcy.
To be discharged entirely from all debts, oid as
well as new, the Bankrupt must have assets suffi
cient to pay fifty cents in the dollar, on all con
tracts and liabilities c: rated since the first day of
January ltfltf.
This we conceive to be the effects of the law as
it now stands.
Usury Laws.
We have entertained the opinion that the repeal
of the usury laws, without the repeal of the home
stead and Exemptions allowance, would "be detri
mental to the true and substantial interests of our
people. So far there has been no material good
derived from this law, nor is there any evidence
of a change that will inure to the benefit of the
public. Upon this subject, however, the N. Y.
Bulletin says:
“ Although a period of only two months has
elapsed since the repeal of the usury law in Georgia
it is yet too soon to judge of the general reeulia,
yet advices from Atlanta represent that there is
already an increase iu the supply of money, and a
reduction in the rate of iuterest. Several large
sums which had been intended for investment in
the Western States were received in that city; a
new bunkiDg company has been already organized
and preliminary measures have been taken for the
formation of another. Business men no longer
meet the al! but insurmountable obstacles hereto
fore encountered iu obtaining money, and alto
gether there is an evidence ot increased means
and industrial activity that warrant the most fa
vorable anticipations for the future.
“ We commend this example to the attention of
the enemies of progress iu this and other States.
The immediate effects of tree trade in money in
Georgia are to cause an influx of capital and a re
duction of tlie rate of iuterest. Money, by a
natural law, flows in the direction where it is
rao6t needed, and where there are the iewer im
pediments to its employment. Thß Wester
States, with characteristic sagacity, impose no
restrictions on the price paid lor mousy, and as a
result they attract the wealth of the older States,
which commit the inexcusable blunder cf driving
away by absurd usury laws the capital which
might be better and more profitably employed at
home. Georgia Is now in a position to compete
on equal terms with Minnesota and other Western
States, for the capital of which she stands in so
much need, and the results will soon bj apparent
in an increased prosperity, which will afford an
other illustration of the advantages to be derived
from tree trade in money.”
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Judge Ersk.ne.—The Columbus Sun gives the
following piece of unpublished history, as to how
the man who attempts to thrust upon the good
people of Georg’a, a jury of negroes, secured his
appointment: Now that the official whose name
heads this article occupies a apace in the public
mind as large as it is unenviable, it may? interest
the people oi Georgia to read a bit of unpublished
history disclosing the circumstances which placed
him in the high position he 6o unworthily occu
pies. Every one remembers the chaos which en
veloped our State following the surrender ot the
Confederate armies. During these dark days of
uncertainty and dread many meetings were held
throughout the State by citizens known as Union
but honest men, to appoint delegates to proceed
to Washington and secure order and civil govern
ment from President Johnson. One of the largest
of these meetings was held at Coiumbus, embrac
ing Irepresentativea from a cumber of counties.
It was composed of good citixens and tax payers.
Men who were originally Union men and opposed
to secession, hut who did not forget the ties of
kindred and were not false to the cla’ms of neigh
bors and friends.
Among the delegates appointed by the Colum
bus Convention was Col. M , with others,
who called upon Mr. Johnson and were kindly
received. The President, knowing of the repre
sentation at Washington from Georgia, requested
that the delegates should hold a meeting and des
ignate acceptable men who would undertake to
bring atou* order and secure peace to Georgia.
The meeting was held and Hon. James Johnston
suggested as Provisional Governor. He was ac
cepted by the Columbus delegates, ag he was a
fellow-townsman ar.d a man ot talent and integ
rity.
About this time the members of the meeting
present with a shew of authority were disgusted
to find themselves outnumbered by a ring of
Washington hangers-on from Georgia, led by
“ biaud and childlike 1 ” Loehraue. One Ridgely
or Ridlet, of Savannah, was proposed as U. 8.
Marshal.
Who 16 this man ? asked Col. M . There he
sits, was the reply. Questions duly put demon
strated that he was not a citiaen of Georgia, and
soon the ring dropped him. Stone was then se
lected against the protest that no man of any po
sition of that naaie lived in Savannah. Then
John Erskine was named to fill th high position
as Judge cf the United States District Court.
Col. M , ever on the alert in the interest of hie
State, demanded, who is John Erskine? Mr.
Erskine is immediately on your right, replied one
of the ring. But who is he? asked the vigilant
delegate. I assure this meeting, he added, that I
know whereof I speak, and I unhesitatingly say
that there is not a lawyer in Georgia of any repu
tation whatever, named “ Erskine.” But the ring
had the pregrtmme cut and dried, and John Ers
kine was thrust upon the people of Georgia
against the will of the delegates who were present
with a show of authority.
John Ellsky, a steward of the Atlantic,tells cf
Rosev Sheal, about S years old. “She sat at my
table, says be, “with her father, mother and
brother, aad was fond of me. When I got out
Mr. oheat p:aeed her in my arms in her night I
dress, and asked me to save her. I thought of
my own little girl of the same age iu Liverpool,
aul 1 kept her as long as I could. I saw her
father and mother swe;t away by the sea, and
the Utile one uicaued and continually called,
‘l’ajsi Papa ! I am so wet !* She dud in my arms,
aud I had liot the hea-t so let her drop, but
handed her to a man who was stronger than
aiyeelf.
The President's liiGlhi! s*olioy.
The massacre cf Geuera! Canby and his uieu by
the Modc-cs, wnile they were Laving * liiendly
conference by which it wa ti >ped shat peaceable
relations might be established, is an act oi treach
ery, that can be excu-ed under to circumstances.
Gen. Grant should hide hims. lf in shame ed sor
row, for this calamity is thargealil alone to hi*
foolish and erwy policy. There can *■• no p
ble escape !or him. Not sati-fUd with having
won for himself and posterity, a record of infamy
and disgrace, but still clinging to the t elicf that j
be is a great man, be has blundered ia hi 6 ignor
ance aud greed for reputation, uulil he stands to
day before the American people and the world a
convicted murderer.
The New York World in a length!) - article on
the above question has this to say: Since the j
shocki:.g Modoc murder, we trust we shall hear
no more of the benignity and humanity of Presi
dent Grant’s Indian policy. The univ real outcry
of indignant scorn will convince him that those
cruel, treacherous savages must not be dallied
witt and dandled, but taught that it they attempt
to obstruct the advance of civiliziti *u, they will
be Clashed and exterminated. The country will
have no farther patier.ee with the nerveless hu
manitarian slip slop which has sacrificed the safety
of white sutlers to the preposterous sentiraeutsl
isin of the political part) which puts men of all
colors, and all races, and stages of savagery or
civilisation, on the same level, and is as tender of
the lift of a treacherous, blood thirsty Modoc as
of the lives of the pioneer settlers who go forth to
subdue the wilderness by their industry. General
Grant’s boasted Indian policy is not merely ex
ploded tut disgraced. The blood of General
Canby and the Rev. Mr. Thomas cries from the
ground against if, calling down vengeance upon
the treacherous savages, and heavy condemnation
on President Grant and his abolition-of-race and
color advisers. A political paity might as well
proclaim that asses are hoists, as that races of
men and stages ot civilization do not and fler. God
made the earth for cnltiva'ion. A tract which
would support a hundred wretched savage hun
ters, would feed half a million of hap; y, prosper
ous civil'*- and men, a: and there should be no more
compunction ia sweeping off the savages than la
exterminating the wolves and panthers that in
fest the same territory, or than a farmer feels In
substituting Scu'hdown sheep in his paetures for
a scabby fiock which yields neither good wool nor
palatable flesh, it is as easy to multiply, by the
natural powers of propagation, the best races ot
men as the lowest; and there is no more sense In
trying to stock this continent with inferior tribes
than there would be in stocking a farm with mis
erable breeds of cattle.
In our settlements which border on the abodes
of the savages there has long been a profound be
lief that this is a white man’s country, Rnd that
the interests of the white race deserve the com
pletes!, protection. In the light of the recent
horrors this sentiment will be universal, and
General Grant must he forced by the public in
dignation to abjure that corner stone of tha Re
publican faith which declares that al! races and
colors should be treated with equal consideration.
Atlanta. From the editorial correspondence
of the Macon 'iilegraph and Messenger we clip
the following sensible remarks about Atlanta and
her newspapers :
“Never content unless some sensation—politi
co, religio or diabolical—be on foot, the surging
populace of the Gate City have now a two-fold
source cf excitement and ate, consequently, su
premely happy. The first is the war to the hilt
and insane competion which rages between two
of their leading city journals. Utterly oblivious
of two of gEaop’3 fables, to-wlt: The irog and the
ox, and the goose that layed the golden egg, our
eontempoiaries of the Constitution and lieiald
are puffing and inflating themselves to dimensions
so preposterous that collapse may be the result.
Of course, they know their own business best,
and we wish the fullest, measure of success to
them both. But heboid! gentlemen, Atlanta,
cosmopolitan, progressive and noisy as she may
be, and in point of mud equal to Chicago, and
pretensions superior to the “Hub,” cannot com
pete with New Yoik—ncr*ncr newspapers, how
ever enterprising, with the “Herald.” In sapping
ar.d tniuing the mountain that-may impede your
march, don’t pour in ail your powder, for it the
mass does not move, other Hants will be necessary.
" We consider the true test of newspaper suc
cess to be the steady and continuous reception,
like corn into the miller’s hopper, of paying ad
vertisements and subscriptions. Reactions always
follow abnormal exertions. Now a careful scru
tiny of the quadruple sheet on Sunday last of onr
esteemed contemporary, the Constitution, will
reveal the iact that a very large proportion of the
new advertisements (and indeed the proprietors
told us so) go in only once or twice. True, the
summing up is very flattering and satisfactory,
but when reduced rates from active competition
are considered, the danger that patrons will refuse
to continue favors afier this sporadic and extraor
dinary (fiort, cr will demand similar concessions
in all cases hereaiter, and when the co3t ot paper,
composition, extra help, etc., Is deducted, to say
nothing of the wear and tear of conscience and
tseling involved in such a struggle with a neigh
bor, to us the result is anything but satisfactory.
May not indeed each journal exclaim with the
conqueror of old, “ one more victory and I am
undone.” Still, as au outsider, and member ot
the craft, we love to scan such evidences of genius,
skill atd industry, and can only wish both parties
God speed in their career, and invoke more of
coidiality, fraternity and friendship in their Inter
course.
the other sensation
is the Grand Canal Convention which comes off
on the 20th of May. Governor Smith’s able letter
to the Governors of the interested States, and his
kind invitation to partake ot the hospitalities of
Georgia’s capital, have been most favorably com
mented upon by the Western press. The Bt.
Louis Republican, of the 14th instant, contains a
deeply Interested and exhaustive leader on this
subject. It boldly proclaims this national work a
necessity, aud contends that the great West
should demand of the Government relief, and a
reliable outlet and market for her teeming pro
ducts.
Every day the project gains ground, and the
writer has seen letters from nifllionaire New York
bankers, proposing to purchase
THOUSANDS OF ACRES OF MINERAL LANDS
lying on the route of the car.al. Let the work be
completed, and continuous villages and towering
6moke stacks, denoting the factories and smelting
furnaces, which will rise like magic on its banks
will rapidly develop and enrich the State.
A Memorable Month.— Under the above head
the Savannah News says :
“ The mouth of April is full of days commemo
rative of eventful periods during the late war. Oa
the 21 Richmond was evacuated, and occupied on
the ol by the Federais, 1865; on the 6th, the
bloody battle of Shiloh, in 1562; Island No. 10
surrendered on the 7th, 1882 ; battle of Pittsburg
] Landing on tbe 7th, in 1562; surrender of General
] Lee on the 9tb, 1865; Fort Sumter first bombard
j ed on the 12ib, 1881; on the 13th the war ended,
practically, iu 1865; Sherman occupied Raleigh
and Lynchburg, surrendered on the 13tb, in 1886
on the 14th President Lincoln was assassinated
and Andrew Johnson inaugurated on the 15th, in
1n65; all North Carolina forts and arsenals were
occupied by the Confederates on the 16th, in 1562;
President Davis was captured on the 16th, in
1865; Virginia seceded on the 17th, in 1861; Mas
sachusetts volunteers mobbed in Baltimore oa the
19. h, in 1861; Gosport navy evacuated and burned
by the Federais ou the 20:b, in 1S61; Harper’s
Ferry burned on the 20th, in 1S61; Lower Missis
sippi opened on the 24th, in 1562; Fort Macon
captured on the 25th, in 1862; on the 26th, Gen- I
eral Joe Johnston surrendered and J. Wilkee
Booth was shot; on the 28th, Admiral Farragut
captured New Orleans, in 1861; on the 29th, in
1863, occurred the battle of Grand Gulf; on the
80th was fought the battle of Sabine Fork, in
1862 ; 12th and 13th, battle of Fort Pulaski.”
It is estimated that there are not less than two
thousand parsons— many of them ladles —who are
employed In tbe introduction of sewing machines
iu Georgia. Ttie Comptroller General in constru
ing the law in reference to the Sewing Machine
Companies is going beyond tne spirit and inten
tion of the law, it ia thought.
>ttti!if it**.
Under this Lead. Dr Kali, in the Journal o:
Health, humorously dincoursis ol iLc i-nd.ue . ■ !
the times, a- follows:
It is really a great wonder that eves) body is not
dead and buried, Jand the world itself u ed up
entirely, if the thousandth part of w hat is told us
about microscopical and other “discoveries,” so
called, h true, line man will have it that the
glorious L’nion over wh cl: the stripes and stars
fijat so proudly will soou become depopulated,
because respectable people don’t have children;
another has discovered myriads of bugs in the
chatelaines aud waterfalls ol the ladies, boring
into their skulls and socking out all the remain
ing bruins of the dear deiighlfuis. A German
suvau now tells us that every sip of tea we take
is full of cilv globules which get into the iucgi
direct, weaken them, set up a cough, aud the per
son dies of consumption. Another man has
found that the purest spring water, clear as
crystal to all appearance, if let alone will deposit
a sediment which generates typhoid fever; hence
he proi*oses that everybody sba’.i quit drinking
water. Another says that bread has so much
lime in it that it is turning us ail to bone, and
m.kes ua 6t:ff in the joints, that being the rea
son we have no lithe, sprightly old men now a
dys ; hence we are full of limps and rheumatics
long before our time, therefore we had better quit
eating bread altogether, and live on rice aud
sago and tapioca. The water care ioik assure us
that poik and beans and ham and eggs are full
of abominable trichina, and that, if one is swai
lowed and gets fairly nestled into the system, be
she or it will breed a million more in a short
time, aid that roast beet has juvenile tape worms
in it. And here come Tom, Dick and Harry, all
iu a row, loaded down with microscopes aud spy i
glasses which show as plain as day that the air
is swarming with living monsters and putrid I
poisons, which fly into the mouth and crawl up
the nose and creep into the ear ; hence it is death
to breathe such pestileutial air, and that tha best
way is to keep the mouth sha*, plug up the nose,
aud ram cotton into the ears.
Ever so many learned professional gentlemen
have been torturing poor figures for years to make
them tell the stupendous fib that everybody is
either crazy or soou will be; that the annual in
crease is ten per cent., consequently iu eleven
years everybody will be crazy, and more too.
Ihe tact is that the people who spend their
time hatching out these tomfooleries, ought to
be put to work aud be made to earn au honest
living. This world has been pretty well taken
care of for some thousands of years, increasing in
comiort and wealth and life, the average length
of which last has doubled within two centuries,
and the population perhaps increased threefold ;
and the presumption is that the Great Maker of
all will so arrange ail the antagonistic forces ot
life for the future as eventually to make “ the
wilderness and solitary place to be glad, and the
desert to rejoice and blossom as the rose,” and
the race he happy still.
JoaaDA Hill and Scruggs —From a Washing
ton correspondence to the Atlanta Constitution,
we clip the following : I don’t know much about
politics, except that I hate Radicals, but I heard a
gentleman tell brother lorn the other night that
out of two hundred millions of dollars appropria
ted by the last Congress, the South only got
twelve hundred thousand dollars—less was given
to both Wisconsin and Michigan, to clean out
their rivera, harbors, etc. Why, said the gentle
man, that is more than the whole commerce of
these States is w'orth. Then out of twenty-five
public buildings r'rovided for hut four are in the
South, and these to cost only $50,000 to SIOO,OOO,
while those in the North are to cost all the way
up to millions. Is it not shameful! Tom’s friend
said also that the report of the Commissioner of
Interna! Revenue shows that the great bulk of
the revenue comes from the South. It’s a down
right swindle, I declare.
Senator Hill—l can’t help calling him Sena'.or—
has bought him a fine residence here, the papers
6ay, and I suppose he intends to make Washing
ton his home in the future. I am glad of it. I
like Senator Hill, and I don’t think he is cne bit
of a Radical.*'lf W*\,as lam sure I should hate
him. I can’t help wishing some time that he had
been re-elected, and then I think ol brave General
Gordon, who fought so gallant'y for us, and feel
that I could not spare him. Well, they ate noth
good men.
That Mr. freruggs, or Shrugs, (what a horrid
name) —that the Senate refused to confirm as
Minister to Columbia, has been again appointed
by the President. Now wouldn’t it bs a good
joke if after Mr. Scrugg6, or Shrugs, had goua out
to the 6cene of his duties, bag and baggage, the
Senate should again refuse to confirm the appoint
ment. Then Mr. Scruggs, or Shrugs, would have
to come home again, bag aud baggage, and
wouldn’t he feel small. But I suppose the Geor
gia ring will take eaie of him—that is if he pays
them well for it. He must be sure to do that.
Do tell him so, that the poor man may not have a
long journey all for nothing.
The New York World sains up the postal car
imbroglio thus:
The Postoffice Department insists, and Las pro
cured the passage of a law providing, that the
railway companies ol the country shall receive the
same rates of pay for carrying the mails on fast
trains in postal cars costing $5,000 each as the
public pays them lor second class freights on slow
trains in the ordinary freight car costing SSOO.
For the transportation of postoffice officials in the
postal cars, which averages an annual value of
sl2 ,COO per line, the Department proposes to pay
nothing. The companies are naturally disin
clined to favor any such one-sided arrangement,
and hence tbe imbroglio named. For his share in
It Mr. Creswell ought to be ashamed. His De
partment is henceforth to receive full pay for all
its services, but the companies are only to have
half pay for theirs. Nouody is to commit the
abuses of free mailing and dead heading on Mr.
Poslmaster General, but Mr. Postmaster Genera!
is to perpetrate these wrongs upon others.
Hew ALLIOATOR3 Get Theik Living.—Al
ligators frequently fill their stomachs with ducks.
They find the spots in the marshes where the
duck3 huddle together at night, aud make a de
scent upon them. Frequently while flocks of
great fat ducks are swimming in the deepest
part of a fiver or a lake, an alligator will glide un
der the eucks and select those, that suit him best.
They are drawn undvr the water so quietly that
the flock Is not startled lor some time, aud the
alligator manages to secures square meal before
he is suspected.
On summer nights the alligator crawls to a
chosen spot in the marshes. Tna air is filled with
millions ol mosquitoes. Tut monster opens big.
enormous mouth and keeps his Jaws apart until
the inside of his mouth is black with insects.
Then he bring 6 his jaws together with a snap,
runs his tongue about the inside of his mouth
and swallows his winged visitors. He will keep
this up until his appetite is satiated.
Autemcs Ward once leut money. He thus
recounted the transaction : “ A gentleman friend
of mine came to me with tears in his eyes. I said,
‘Why these weeps ?’ He said he had a mortgage
on his farm, and wanted to borrow S2OO. I lent
him the money and he went away. Bometime af
ter he returned with more tears. Ee said he must
leave me forever. I ventured to remind him of
the S2OO he borrowed. He was much cat up ; I
thought I would not be hard upon him—so I told
him i would throw off SIOO. He brightened—
shook my hand—and said : ‘Old friend, 1 won’t
allow you to outdo me in liberality—l’ll throw ofi
the other $100!’ ”
International Regatta.—A special telegram
to tbe Savannah News from New Y ork, says a
project is on foot for a grand International Re
gatta on Pleasure Bay and Shrewsbury River the
approaching season. The Oxford and Cambridge
University ctews, of England, the famous London
Rowing Club, and any amateur crew in the coun
try which may desire to visit the United States,
are to be invite! and be allowed to contend. Asa
novel feature, two or more Gondolas from Venice,
with picked men, are to be invited. Sufficient
money will be raised by subscription to afford a
number of prizes well worth contending for.
The London Saturday review says: “If General
Grant had fortunately died a year ago, the head of
the Government that is to be a guiding star to all
nations would have been a person who lately ac
cepted a paltry bribe, aud who afterwards con
cealed his guilt by false statements. A Republi
can nominee for tbe Presidency hes just been
convicted in his absence by a French court ol
justice of a pecuniary fraud.”
NE\Y ADY ERTISEMENTS.
MULE FOR SALE. "
T HAVE A BLACK MARE MULE WHICH I
Lwill sell cheap lor cash, or on time with accep
tance. B. H. NAPIER.
apliß.tf
Ki# S ~
ATHAIRGN
Only 50 Cents per Settle.
It promotes tho GROWTH, ritTSillt’. K3
x the COLOR, and inert uses ttie Vigor
and BE.trTl' of the HAIR.
Orrr, Tstbtt Teat.', at -> I tos't, TCatt.vt -"; • ,rt
tbs Hair was first j.;.. in Ihomai
E. Thomas Lyon, n graduate of I’nr,i ( otlmr.
The name is derived from the Greek, •• K.u'n r ..-i," - : j
nifyin? to cleans?, pur: r y, r.;;. rt'i or •j Vi. r ! h j
favor it has received, uu i j>i-pahw.:y ,t ius• *. -i.- and,
is unprecedented and incredible. it i.:.: ... • n
Gbowth and Beauty if tho Hair. :t is n df-hihti'ul
dressing. It erodi ; Dandruff. It pro'
Hair from turning gray. Js keeps tho lit;: ice. • '..id
gives the hair a rich, soft, glossy appearance. 11 is the
SAiiE in Quantity and Quality •. ■ i; v.uowr . vir.va-
TERof a Century Aqo, and issoldhvnU Dimrva-tsunil
Country Stores at only Fifty Ceuta pi- fictile.
Kf nan’s Glory is Ir lir.
LYOfrS
ATHIJBQN
ap!22.ly
A GREAT BLESSING.
NEVER, since the time “when the morning
stars sang together,’’ has there been a greater
medical discovery and blessing to the human race
than the
GLOBE FLOWER COUGH SYRUP.
This delightful and rare compound is the active
principal, obtained by chemical process, from the
“ Globe Flower,” known also as “ Button Root,”
and in Botany as “ Cephalaathus Oecidentalis.”
Globe Flower Cough Syrup is almost an infalli
ble cure for every description ot Cough, Colds,
Hoarseness, Sore Throat, Croup, Whooping Cough
Pleurisy, Influenza, Asthma, Bronchitis, etc.; and
will cure Consumption, when taken in time—as
thousands will testify.
Globe Flower Cough Syrup will cure the most
obstinate cases of Chronic Cough and Lung af
fections, when all other boasted remedies fail.
Globe Flower Cough Syrup does not contain •
particle of opium or any of its preparations.
Globe Flower Cough Syrup does cot contain a
particle of poison, or any ingredient that cculd
hurt the most delicate child.
Globe Flower Cough Syrup has become, where
known, the most popular Cough Medicine in the
country, because it has successfully withstood the
three great tests of merit, viz : Time, F.xperienco,
and of Competition, and remains, after passing
through this ordeal, the best article of its kind in
the world.
Globe Flower Cough Syrup is pleasant to the
taste, and does not disagree with the most delicate
stomach.
Physicians who have consumptive patieufa, are
invited to try the Globe Fiower Cough Syrup. Its
magical effects will at once be felt and acknowl
edged.
Beware of counterfeits: the genuine has the
words Globe Flower Cough Sgrup blown in each
bottle, and the signatures of the proprietors upon
each label. The trade mark label and compound
are protected by Letters Patent.
Don’t take any other article as a substitute for
Globe Flower Cough Syrup. If your druggist or
merchant ha 6 none on hand, request him to order
it for you.
Thousands of Testimonials of the most wonder
ful cures are constantly being received from the
North, East, West and South—some of which
seem almost miraculous.
Sold by all Druggists at SI.OO per bottle, $5.00
for one-half dozen.
J. S. PEMBERTON & CO., Propri-tors,
Atlanta, Ga.
For sale in Forsyth bv McCOMMON& BANKS
and L. F. GREER & CO.
HEARD, CRAIG &CO.. Wholesale Agents,
ap122.1y Atlanta, Ga.
si|l6ox
v: fT’.LPALATIGN. ccm
-1 posofißi-E-;-> >f well-known ROOTS, HER 33
■And FR U I > O, cr.-ab-UTii vri-U other properties,
which ha taeir ,• Cat! arti \ Aperient, k'u
iritious. r>iurr-i: . a.'torsi vo an i A t:-!i;i:;oan. Tha
whole is prose i i,i a ‘ o':.;. i.t. .i.t. yof spirit
from ... • -. HA l < . .v,; in any
Clio: '.to, Wbl-Jl i—i.-O* t>.e
- m iTION <
IT Bitters
cne of ill- mot desirable Tonies nnl Cnttiar
tii -in the wo.id. ’i hey are intea.'--J strictly as a
1 emperaaca Bitters
only lobe used cc i. medicine, and always according
to directions.
he; are the suict-ar . err of the feeble end dabfti
taf.-.i. 3 hey a. .U;- j a mscaEcd I.v. r. and stimuiato
to each a dej. :ee t:: tc, healthy action la at OBca
brought about. .* .- u j ... ay to v.h.ch V.'omtn
nr<- especial, y r-:'i .:i: i j e i.y ?is ding every other
Etimul. i.t. /s u ' ju ir.fi j. j;il Nunimei TOBlc
they have xu ‘‘J , Tb. y pro a ir.fld end geutla
Puraativ, a, vie ■lnc v I criiy tne Blood.
They are atpl- n-id Apj (.User. Uhey make the weak
strong. They r •mi y and invigorate, they cme
l'jspepsia, Couet;ration an 1 Headache. 'lLcy acta*
a specific ;ne!l c; ecies of disorders which undermina
tne bodily airtXoU, a: . * Lreaii down the animat ep-irita
ap122.1y
TO THE LADIES!
■Ji rRS. WILDER has jast returned from New
iJ-L York, with a large and well selected stock
of
Millinery and Fancy Dress Goods.
Also a fine assortment of
Ladies and Childrens’ Shoes,
To which we cell
SPECIAL ATTENTION.
We have a 1 so the
Butterick Shears and Scissor*,
Conceded to be the best now in use. We will
sell our goods at low prices for the cast.
aprl.lm. MR3. WILDER & McGINTT.
XKW ADYEIL FIS E M E X l>.
SPECIALTIES
lOF
S. F. WILDER & SOIV,
FORSYTH. GA.,
Manufacturers and Dealers in
Materials for the Same '
Every Description.
Fepaitirg cf Bi ggies,Carriages and Wagons Promptly Attended To
OUR BEST EFFORTS exerted to Elve satisfaction in QUALITY of rn vehi.d*-. and m.Vrtlal
sold, and repairs done. Oat pay for the same shall be as little as anybody's !>m same ibtng
sold or the same services rendend. None >ut the best Northern work sold by u<. oa which we give
the same guarantee is on work done by ourselves.
Furniture, Carpeting, Wall Paper,
WINDOW SHADES and FIXTURES, RUGS, <Sc., up stairs over tho store of Mrs. Benrntf Ip
PearlstiD’s Building. We are prepared to exhibit a better variety and s*\le of Fu-nitm<- than 'the
public have ever seen here, and we have left nothing undone to t ost ourselves as thorough.v in the
Furniture business as could be done, and we are determined to bend our euergiea in making Fur
niture an important branch of our trade. " *
It will be a great pleasure to us for the people to call and see ns, and permit us to show
them through our stock and tame priies. If >ou patronize us, we staail endeavor that no ore
shail be disappointed.
THE FARM PUMP
We offer for sale need only be seen at work to b • appreciated and desired by every one QCtbtf a *;!
for water. They are adapted alike to either shallow or dfep wells
Singer Sewing Machines
We offer for sale, believing them to be the most di-sir. b!e and seivicable mauMtie made vf
every description pertaining to this Machine we cau auppiy.
•* I—-1 —-
BURIAL CASKS AND WOOD COFFINS
Extra or plain styles, coui tantly on hand. We otfer to the citizens of Montoe County the use of,
our'Hearse and our servites aa Undertakers.
aprlct S. F, WILEER & SON.
THE LATEST fttEWS!
4i EST . IT AS TI HI E M
‘HAS BEEN DEFEATED BY
GEN. LOW PRICES
AT
wmm? a mm to m btobe,
IN
HEAD’S NEW BUILDING.
Forsytli. Go.
o
HAVING JUST RECEIVED A LARGE AND WELL SELECTED SPRING .tSl> SUMSJJCR
Stock ot DRY GOOD3, CLOTHING, BOOTS, SHOES, IIaT3. TRUNKS, Ktc. t Et?,., are
prepared to sell at the following Low Prices :
30.QC0 Yards BEST SPRING CALICO at 11 cent/.
10,000 Yards 4 4 SHEETING at 12X cents.
2,000 Yards DRESS MUSLINS at 12>£ cents.
2,C00 Yards BROCADE GRENADINES at 2C cents..
1,000 Yards FINE JAPPANEESE at 25 cents.
500 HOOP SKIbTS, Slightly Damaged, at 50 cent*.
400 EXTRA FINE CORSETS at *1.60.
500 LINEN COATS at *I.OO.
SCO Pairs LINEN PANTS at SI.CO.
500 UNION PANTS at *I,OO.
100 CASSIMERE SUITS from *5.00 to SS.OO.
100 CASSIMERE SUITS from *IO.OO to *20.00.
2,000 Yards HEAVY LINEN DRILL at 20 tents.
3,000 Yards HEAVY COTTON DRILL at 35 cents.
500 Pair GOOD BROGANS at *1.25.
500 Pair LADIE’S StiOES at *I.BO.
1,000 Pair LADIE S CLOTH fcHOES at *I.CO.
500 LADIE’S SUNDOWN at 50 cents.-
2,000 Pair LaDJE’S WHITE HOSE at 12% cents.
1,000 Pair GENTS HALF HOSE at 10 cents. -
1,100 HEMSHUH HANDKERCHIEFS at 10 cents.
And a Large Assortment of JACONET, CAMBRICK fc PIQUE, SWISS, TO W RLS, and NO IUSA-*
in proportion. Also a lull line ct
GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS /
Corn. Bacon, Flour’Sug'ar, Etc.
Don’t Fail to CALL when you are in Town an(? sec the Prices, at
aprlct WOLFE’S NEW YORK SToRE.
J.2H- TURNER
Attorney at Law,
Forsyth, Oa.
W r ILL Practice in the Cour ; i t g comprising
the Flint Circuit, and j n ;he Suprem,
Court ol Georgia. Prompt at* ention given to ah
business entrusted.
Office up Stairs—last door to tue right, in Pte’s
Brick Block. marlS.ly
LAND AGENCY. -
The undersigned having made ar
raugements f'.r t'r.e purchase and sale of landr
in this section o’. Ger,rgia offer their service to the
public in that lice pt-rsoca wishing to sell or;
purchase cati eoca municate with either ot us a’,
Forsyth. Muoroe county, Ga.
A. D. HAMMOND,
ac2B.2m GEO. M. RHODES.
WM. D. s IO.M],
a TTORGEY AT LAW. FORSYTH. GA., WILL
-A practice la the Courts of the Flint Circuit,
and the Supreme Court of Georgia.
Office —Second door to the right and.
opposite otffee of The AxjVEbtiskb
Unai.tf
JAS. W. !GREE\E,
VTTORNEY AT LAW’, THOMASTON, GA.,
will practice in the Counties of the Flint
'Circuit; Clayton, of the Atlanta Circuit, and Tal
!bot Courts of the Chattahoochee Circuits; also,
in the U. 8. District Courts of Georgia at Atlanta
and Savannah. !ebll.3m.
Ae TO Q A Per Day! Agents Wanted! Ail
wJ claeses o! woiking people of
either sex, young or old, make more money at
work for U 6 in their spare moments, or all the
time, than at anything else. Particulars tree. Ad
dress G. BTINBON <fc CO., Portland, Maine.
janl4.ly
P. IL HlM.lilt.
Attorney at law’, foksyth, gforgia
Will practice in the counties comprising the
Flint Circuit, in the Supreme Court cf Georgia,
jU. 8. Supreme Court, and elsewhere per special
contract. Office iu the Court House, Up Btairs.
; feb!B.ly
Marshal! House.
SAVANNAH, GA.
‘ Board Three Dollars Per Day.
A. B. LI'CE, Proprietor*