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THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 18*5.
THE IMIBKET
TIOIV.
For a week past, the whole State has
been in a fever of excitement over the
discovery of a most diabolical insurrec
tionary plot on the part of the negroes
in Washington, Burke, Jefferson and
contiguous count.es. Conscious of
their strength numerically in those
counties, they seemed to have sup
posed that it would be an easy matter
for them to massacre the whites and
possess their property. This spirit of
agrarianism which has developed itself
in an organized and systematic effort at
insurrection, is bat the result of the
pernicious teachings of Radical eu.is
sariea—carpet-baggers—who, for po
litical ends, prowled all through the
South, for several years after the war,
instilling tfee poison of hate into the
negro’s heart, and educating him to be
lieve, that, of right the lands and prop
erty of the Southern people were, or
ought to be his.
Fortunately for the negro, the dia
bolical scheme was discovered before it
had assumed a phase that might have
resulted in a war of races, and his con
sequent extermination. Several hun-
dred prisoners have been arrested and
incarcerated. Extra sessions of the
Superior Courts of the several counties
have been called to investigate the
charges against them, and it is to be
hoped that developments may be made
which will lay baro the whole hellish
scheme and fix the guilt,where of right
it should rest, up )D its fiendish origi
nators.
mov. aTh.^tktiikvs.
As our readers are aware, the recent
visits of this distinguished gentleman
to Southwestern and Northern Geor
gia, created a considerable stir in po
litical circles throughout the State.
Out of it grew a rumor that he was
looking around in the interest of an
independent candidacy for the Govern
orship, aaid, viewed in this light, his
movements struck terror to the cliques
and rings that are manipulating Geor
gia politics llcally, however, no po
litical significance attached to his
jnurneyings. The following, clipped
from a letter of the Atlanta correspond
ent of the Bavannah News, fully ex
plains the object of his recent travels :
“ Finding himself in excellent health
at the commencement of the warm
weather, Mr. S. concluded to carry out
a long cherished purpose to visit some
ot the old and revered friends of ante
helium daj’s, nnd with this object in
view went to Southwestern Georgia,
ana kter to Chorokee, Georgia. At
Oedartown many old associates from
Greene county are located, and Mr,
Stephens was at this plaee when the
Charleston Convention assembled. llis
recollections of that period, are, there
fore, quite vivid, as he was then in the
mi Ist of a community ‘red hot’ for
seccession. After a lapse of nearly
fifteen years he revisits those scenes,
and mingles again with the loved and
familiar friends of his boyhood. There,
too, he met some o.f iiia .earliest clients,
and talked over oaee .mere .'.he profes
sional labors of his early manhood. To
this was added a sacred duty—the ex
amination and revision of the manu
script of the life of Linton Stephens,
recently prepared by Col. J. P. Wad
ded, and which is now nearly ready for
the press. These wo tike plain unvar
nished facts connected with the late
juurueyings of' Little Alex.’ ”
PLAXS OF THK ■XM'RBKC -
TIOXIBTS.
The following extracts taken from the
valuutary confession of John Chiles, a
■negro prisoner, under arrest in the
Johnson oounty jail, explain fully the
diabolical plans and objects of the poor
dolu'led negroes in their insurrection
ary schemes:
“I do kßow that there is an organi
zation existing in this part of the State,
and it is of a military and secret charac
ter; and if you will allow me. 1 will ex
plain the whole movement in full—
from the very beginning—what it is
for and who the principal negroes are,
and the offices they hold, and what
they intended doing. The movement
first started by Corday Harris, colored,
(who is secretary erf the organization,)
calling a meeting.of the colored people
to assemble in Sandersvilie for the pur
pose of getting general orders, and to
know bow to proceed. Francis Murk
erson, colored, (who is captain of a
company in Washington county,) also
was a principal man in the meeting. I
attended the meeting, as also did most
all tbe.colored people in this section
"The object of that meeting was to get
all ibe colored men to uovfce into a se
cret military organization for the pur
pose of getting 'equality*—by that, I
ate an to take lands in this county by
fi-reeand situs —to kill out the whites
beginning with the little babe in the
Crib, and killing all up ”
‘•The negroes intended to take the
lands by force, to divide by lot the
lands into forty acre lots—each to draw
for his share, and to divide the person
al prosperty, such as horses, cows,
wagons, household furniture, between
us. I know that we <1 mean nil in
eluded in this organization) were to
kill out all the whites, as I have told
you before, and to take all the money
we could find and give it to our treas
urer —which was for our mutual bene
fit.”
“I know that the above is true, and
that the time was near at hand when
the general movement of bloody work
would begin. My withdrawing from
the organization as soon aa I did pre
vented me from getting other secrets
they have, and the laet orders, which I
believe to be the orders for the general
movement to begin alluded to above.”
“As I have said before, the objeot
of the organization was to kill out the
whites, from the babe in the cradle up;
to get all the money we could find and
put it in our treasury ; to divide all the
personal property between us, and to
divide the lands into forty acre lots be
tween us; and I suppose you know
that their intention was to kill all the
whites along the line of o arch, but I
don't know what they intended doing
after reaching Wrightesville, except to
hold a mass meeting, and at that time
ail would know what to do. I might
say right here that one of the main ob
jeets of this organization was the en
forcement of the civil rights bill, rep
resentation in the jury box, Ac. I
know that Corday Harris is the princi
pal leader in this section of the State
and ill orders were issued by him.”
[TOR TBI HZRAI.B.]
GOVERNOR SMITH IV AV*
vvm.
Governor Smith arrived in our city
on yesterday, August 23d, by the Cen
tral Railroad, on his way home from
and Waynesboro’. As
soon as it was known that a real live
Governor was in our midst, a demon
stration was decided upon; and pretty
soon hand-bills were scattered all over
the city stating that a serenade would
be given Gov. Smith at nine p m., at
the Augusta Hotel.
If the serenade had been all of the
entertainment —as the hand-bill would
have led the unsophisticated to have
believed—the affair would have been
exceedingly tame; in fact it seems to
me, that to have really serenaded the
Governor with such music as Gardner’s
Band discourses, would have been al
most an insult rather than an honor.
Oh, music ' “ what crimes are committed
in tby name I ”
By nine o’clock a large crowd had
gathered in front of the Augusta Hotel.
Amongst them, in uniform, wore owe
or two of our military companies. The
time for action had arrived. The
aforesaid band blowed and drummed
through a tune; our artillery men fired
seventeen shots from a Revolutionary
cannon, and excitement ran high as
repeated calls were made for Governor
Smith.
lie appeared od one of the verandas
of the hotel and was introduced to the
crowd by Judge Snead.
A huge bonfire lighted up the whole
of the square, and enabled me to see
the speaker quite plainly. You know
the maxim, “Do gustibus uon dispu
taodum but as for myself I thought
the tall, well proportioned man before
me was remarkably handsome. How
well he must have looked at the head
of his regiment in the late war 1
But the Governor has commenced
speaking and .we must liaten. He is so
very hoarse that he wants to get out of
a speech altogether; but the people
below are not so kind as that, and he
must “ go ou.”
He spoke about the recent
trouble with the negroes in Burke,
Jefferson and Washington counties;
bethought the negroes really meant
serions harm, but that now the disturb
ance had been quelled ; many of the
negroes were in jails awaiting speedy
trials ; ample proof for the conviction
of some was to be had, and their pun
ishment would keep down such things
in the future. Nevertheless, he thought
that, even in times of peace we had best
be prepared for war. He oomplimented
highly the white people in the dis
turbed counties for the calm and for
bearing manner in which they had
acted
He spoke of the political condition
of the State; said it was better off per
haps than any of our Southern States;
and as well off as any of the Northern
ones. And as to finances, our State
bonds were selling now, even in New
York, at par; but, we hoped that our
sellingdoonds would soon be a need of
the past.
Some-of the Northern States, said
he, had pathetically remarked that they
ought to help us; but he replied that
all that Georgia wanted was to W sc
j vcrely In alone.
He touched on the industries of the
State, spoke warmly of tho good that
the Geological Survey—whioh will be
completed in several years—will do;
many of our citizens have beeu uncon
sciously treadingon mines of wealth un
der their feet, while poverty was in their
doors. Told us then of this new office
of Commissioner of Agriculture and
seemed to have great hopes of what
this Department will do.
Under this heading, the Granger
question cropped out with some humor
ous sarcasm; and while he seemed tp
like the Granger, yet I could not see a
single hay seed in his hair.
The Governor does not seem to be in
favor of high free schools—for every
one; does not see tho necessity, nor
what peculiar advantage it would bo to
the country, for his boot-black to know
French, or his hostler to be master of
Hebrew and Greek. Also said, that it
was a very strange fact, that a negro
no sooner learns to read than he turns
preacher, and imagines himself burden
ed with the worth of toult; that indeed
some of them were so ignorant,supersti
tious, lazy, wicked and given to taking
up collections, that it was impossible
to believe that all of their Commissions
came down from on high.
After a few other remarks tho Gov
ernor made us good night and with
drew. He was frequently applauded
in his forty-five minutes speech, and
all the people seemed pleased with
what they had heard. Calls were
made for Honorables J. C. C. Black
and Jos. B. Cumming, but they did
not appear. Etwi^l.
Augusta Ga., August 24, 1875.
GEY. SHERMAN .AND JEFF.
U.AYIS.
The ANsmaniiintion of l.inroln—
lien. llrngK on the Ntand-
Alleged Attempts to Assassi
nate the Confederate Presi
dent.
[Austin (Texas) Statesman July 11.]
General Bragg was in the city
several days during the §ast week
He referred, in the course of a con
versation, to the recent assertion
of General Sherman that he had
suspected Mr. : ’crson Davis of
complicity with the assassins of
Mr. Abraham Lincoln. General
Bragg said that he had seen Mr.
Davis tested in cases of this sort,
and while two efforts it ere made by
hired sssassins in 1864 to destroy
Mr. Davis's life, he never manifest'
ed the least signs of resentful feel
ing. It was in June, 1864, that
Mr. Davis, when riding along the
defense of Richmond, was fired at,
the bullets passing very near bis
person. Once afterward lie was
•hot at when in the outskirts of
Richmond. But we propose to
settle this question finally. Dahl
gren's raid will not soon be forgot
ten. Colonel Dahlgrcn’s address,
as written and signed by hi*n, was
memorized and spoken or read to
his followers. They were disguised
as spies, and were captured as spies
inside of the Confederate Lines.—
They came, as stated, to murder
Mr. Davis. When they were cap
tured and this paper was found on
the person of this man, Dahlgren,
Mr. Davis' Cabinet and his military
staff concurred in declaring that the
prisoners should be executed in ac
cordance with the laws of war.—
President Davis, after reading the
paper and finding that be especially
was designed to be assassinated by
Dahlgren, peremptorily forbade
other treatment than that accorded
to prisoners of war. [General
Bragg preserved photograph copies
of Colonel Dahlgren’s orders ] If
Mr. Davis were capable of enormi
ties which General Sherman would
ascribe to his intervention he would
never have hesitated to punish with
death the disguised followers of
Dahlgren. And would it not be
well for General Sherman to re
member that Mr. Davis at all times
intervened in behalf of the con
demned? It was the complaint of
many Confederate leaders that no
body could be executed who ap
pealed to the President for pardon,
lie spared Harrison Self, the bridge
burner of East Tennessee, and each
Unionist who became a spy rather
than soldier, and was captured
within the Confederate lines. Of
all men Mr. Davis’s personal vir
tues and character have been most
grievously misrepresented and mis
understood by Northern people,
even as Lincoln’s character and
spirit were at first misapprehended
throughout the South. Mr. Davis
differed from Mr. Lincoln in that—
both Kentuckians, and both reared
in the midst of the same moral at
mosphere—Davis was elaborately
educated, and taught, and refined
in all the schools; while Lincoln’s
generosity, neither greater nor
purer than that of Mr. Davis, was
more conspicuous because of his
personal rudeness, with which his
womanly traits were in strong con
trast. General Sherman is a man
of force and genius and a skilful
warrior; his selfishness, and thus his
vanity, is his most significant foi
ble, often degenerating into an un
pardonable vice. Occupying his
position he had no right to ascribe
a degree of criminality to Mr. Davis
which could only be suppose ! just
to tho extent that partisans, North
and South, traduced Mr. Davis in
order to mako tho cause he espoused
odious. Genera! Shermar., if mor
ally a great man, which he is not,
because his vices of intellect are
great, should have considers ! the
facta before pronouncing an opin
ion, aa disgraceful to Sherman as
designed to be ruinous to Mr
Davis's personal fame.
STATE'ITEMS.
Augusta has shipped nearly 17U,000
watermelons this season.
A lodge of colored Odd Fellows has
been organized in Augusta.
Rust in cotton is causing complaint
in the vicinity of Fort Valley.
The question of fence or no fence
will again be agitated in Newton
oounty.
The next meeting of the State Agri
cultural Convention will be held in
Brunswick.
There are over one hundred vacan
cies in the Agricultural Collego of the
State University.
The people of Social Circle and vi
cinity wish anew county cut out of
Newton with Social Circle as the court
house.
A bible, two hymn-books, table cover
and water pitcher have been stolen
from the Methodist church in Green
ville.
Mr. Peter W. Leslie, living in Meri
wether near the line of Troup, was se
verely cut with a knilo in the handu of
his son.
During a storm at Brunswick, on tho
17th inst., a gentleman named Pinker,
while walking in the street, was killed
by lightning.
Coluiubns, a few years ago, hardly
used a ton of coal. Now she takes
about eight thousand tons a year, and
the amount increases every year.
Georgia has 218,723 wnites and
175,335 negroes between the age o-f six
and eighteen. The present annual edu
cational appropriation is 8181,000.
To avoid confusion with other .names
it is proposed to change the name of
Thomson, on the Georgia Railroad, to
“ Herschel,” in honor of Hon- H. V.
Johnson
The compromise of the Rome bonds
was defeated by forty-eight colored
men who voted against it. The largest
property owner* voted for the measure,
but Cuffee’s vote killed it.
The Macon Telegraph says Governor
Smith is by no means an indifferent
spectator to the scramble for the next
Governorship, and that he iaa “agreed
to leave his name with his friends to
do with it as they deem best in regard
to that office.”
Ac unsuccessful attempt was made
to burn the court house of Monroe
county, located at Forsyth, on Tuesday
morning. The fire was discovered in
time to be extinguished before any
considerable damage was done, except
to one flight of stairs.
The Warrenton Clipper says: We
have now to record a very singular in
cident which took place at Raytown, in
this county, a few days since. Rev.
Nathan Davidson, while preaching bad
occasion to allude to the miracle of
Jesus having restored a blind man to
sight by putting clay upon his eyes,
and remarked that this was “ very
foolish in Christ,” when he was sud
denly stricken with paralysis of the
tongue, and remained speechless, utter
ly uuablo to articulate for several hours.
Hans Christian Andersen, the popu
lar Danish poet, whose charming works
have been published in almost every
language, died at Copenhagen. Den
mark . on the 4th inst.
GLEANINGS.
The Presbyterian population of the
world is 30,000,000,
Tennessee complains of a searci ty of
hogs for fattening purposes
New York city has 1,064,-72 in
habitants, and owes 8158,000,00 U.
Eighty-six Confederate Oenerals will
occupy seats in the next Congress.
There are 30,000 acres containing
30,000,000 grape fines in California.
The Lowell, (Mass.) mills have re
ceived orders for 1,200 bales of goods
for China.
At Jartenau, Ontario, three chil
dren were killed by a bear while p.ek
ing berries.
The hay cropjn the L’nited States
for the past year was over 27,000,000
tons, valued at $500,000,000.
The spiritualists arc moving to estab
lish a seminary for anew system of
education at Lelvidere, N. J.
New Jersey wants to tinker her con*
etitution, and an election will be held
September 7tb, to see if the people arc
willing.
Ex-President Jefferson Davis has
cancelled his engagement to deliver the
address at the Rockford Illinois Agri
cultural Fair. •
Kentucky has gained another Demo
cratic triumph. McCreery lias been
elected Governor over Harlan by a ma
jority of 45,000-
Ex-Governor Bigler’s prospects for
being the next Democratic candidate
for Governor of Pennsylvania are
brightening every day.
One of Brigham Young’s better frac
tional parts has eloped with a military
person ; fcuttha Prophet, having a flw
more left, doesn’t miss her.
English gardeners now gladly pay
$1 each for toads. They find them the
best aud cheapest destroyers of the in
sects which infest their plants.
Columbus, Mississippi, shipped 300,-
000 boxes of fruit North this season,
and expects next year to realize a mil
lion dollars by similar shipments.
Gen. Spinner is happy. B B. Hal
leek, one of the clerks in the Treasury
Department, has confessed that he stole
the package containing 847,097,65.
Governor Porter, of Tennessee, has
appointed Hon, D M Key, ol Chatta
nooga, to succeed Andrew Johnson in
the Senate of the United States until
the Legislature makes an election.
Ii is a remarkable fact that, while
not one ex-President is living, the
wives of five of them survive—Mrs.
Polk, Mrs. Fillmore, Mrs. Tyler, Mrs.
Lincoln and Mrs. Johnson. Of these
ladies, one is insane ?.nd another at the
point of death.
Mr. Andrew Johnson, son of the late
ex-President Johnson,denies all knowl
edge of the reported insurance on his
father’s life, though he says he has not
yet been able to look over all his fath
er’s papers. The estate of the ex-Pres
ident is estimated at between $150,000
and $175,000
The Mayor of Baltimore has ap
proved an ordinance iately passed by
the City Council, providing for the in
surance of the lives and limbs of fire
men. The proposition is to insure so
that a wounded fireman shall receive
five dollars a week during his inability
to work, and bis representative five
hundred dollars in case of his death,
A man named Louis Burke, who
lived at Burkesville, Kentucky, a few
days ago indulged in very blasphemous
language because his crops had been
destroyed by high water. He cursed
God for having his crops destroyed last
year by heat and drought, and for de
stroying them this year by flood, and
concluded his basphemy of the Creator
with the expression, "God damn him!’’
His tongue clove to the roof of his
mouth, and he died the next night,
never uttering another word.
More good points in the Missouri
constitution : The Legislature is, for
instance, to meet once in two years,
can not have adjourned sessions, and if
it is in session longer than seventy days
every member loses one dollar a day
from bis pay. which in the regular ses
sion is $5. Every amendment must be
incorporated with the original bill, and
priced with it before am action is
taken, and no motion to reconsider at a
future tiuie can be entertained if a hill
jis lost. The necessary expenses of the
State government, interest, school,
charitable and other funds must be pro
vided for before money is voted for
anything else.
An Amusing luciilrnt.
The following authentic incident
indicates the spirit with which po
litical contests were carried on in
Tennessee twenty years ago:
Andrew Johnson and Meredith
P. Gentry, in 1855, were the op
posing candidates for Governor of
Tennessee. The leading organ of
the Democratic party of the State,
at that time, was edited by E. G.
Eastman, who possessed a happy
faculty for stirring up the bilo of
political opponents. We make this
statement iu order that what fol
lows may be thoroughly understood.
The contest between the parties
was a fierce one, but Johnson tri
umphed. Gentry bowed grace
fully to tho will of the people and
retired to his home in Bedford
county.
Two enthusiastic friends, Col.
Matt Martin and Rev. William G.
Brownlow, soon paid him a visit
The latter is not wholly unknown
to fame. They tarried sevoral
days, and when they were about
to depart, Gentry, taking down a
Biblo aud hymn book, said, “I
never permit a distinguished divine
to visit my house and leave without
saying prayers for the family and
the neighborhood. Brownlow you
must pray.” The invitation was
accepted, and after a chapter in
the Bible was read and a bymn
sung, they all got down, on their
knees. Among tho petitions that
Brownlow offered up was this one;
“May tho Lord send a beam of
grace upon the heart of Andrew
Johnson and his man Eastman.”—
Gentry sprang to his feet and ex
claimed in a loud voice: “Stop,
Brownlow, stop! If that petition
is answered the plan of salvation
will be exhausted, and tho balance
of us will be damned !”
Col. Jas. A. Thornton
Is our duly authorized Agent
to solicit and receive subscrip
tions to the llerald, and re
ceipt for the same.
jTf. TAYLOR,
FASHIONABLE
BARBEE AND EAIR DRESSER,
Room over J P Cartwright’s saloon,former
ly occupied by M L Richter,
may2o,’7s-tf Greenesboro’, Ga
Take Notice!
I WILL TEACH ANY ONE to determine
the age of Horses from on,e to twenty
one years of age.
Price $5.00 ; In advance—satisfaction
guaranteed.
EATON J. MAPP.
April 28th, 1875.—6m0
Tax Notice!
milE TAX BOOKS will be closed on the
X first day of July. Tax payers will
please take notice and govern themselves
accordingly.
C. E. LITTLE,
June 3, 1875-tf Tax Receiver.
GEORGIA— Greene County—
Vincent S. Hall. Administrator of
John Hall, deceased, applies for Letters of
Dismission, and such Letters will be grant
ed on the first Monday in October next,un
less valid objections theretoare filed.
Given under my hand and official signa
ture, this June 10th, 1875.
July7-3m JOEL F. THORNTON, Ord’y.
Southern Masonic
FEMALE
C O L L E G E !
COVINGTON, GA.
THE BALL TERM OF THIS INSTl
tution
COMMENCES SEPT. Ist, 1875.
A competent and experienced corps of
Teachers will be employed, which, with
the discipline maintained, gives assurance
to patrons that their daughters will be
well cared for. Mental, moral, and physi
cal culture are all attended to in this
school. With the thorough training of
mind and morals free calisthenics are given
daily.
FRENCH, MUSIC,
DRAWING & PAINTING,
are added to the regular curriculum and
are taught with great success.
TUITION is at medium rat&s.
BOARD in good families can be had at
from $16.00 to $20.00 per month, washing
extra. Special arrangements at much
lower rates can be made with the Principal
by furnishing rooms.
For Catalogoes and special information
send to the undersigned.
J. N. BRADSHAW, Frest.,
July 22ml Covington, Ga.
Wm. H. Branch,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
RF.ENEiBOBO% GA.
/ CONTINUES to give his undivided aiten
-4 J tion to the practice of his Profession
Returning thanks to his clients for their
encouragement in the past, he hopes by
Hose application to business to merit a con
tinuance of the same.
ftgr’Office over Drug Store of Messrs B
Torbert & Cos
GieenrsWn' Jan IMb DTI—I v.
Petition for Corpora
tion.
ST ITE OF GHO ICG It, !
Greene Comity. /
TO THE SUPERIOR COURT OF SAID
COUNTY:
riMIE Petition of Antoine Poullain, Thom-
X as N. Poullain, Jr., Philip Poullain,
Celeste Moore, Marion B. Moore, Harriet
M. Ware, Julia C. Poullain, Sarah N. Poul
lain, Henry B. Plant, John ’P. Kennedy,
Maurice Wilkinson, William M. Reese,
Augustus Reese and William L. High,
Sheweth : That your petitioners have asso
ciated themselves together under the name
of the
‘Fonfenoy Cotton Mills’
for the purpose of engaging in the business
of manufacturing Cotton or Woolen fabrics,
grist, flour, and lumber, at Scull Skoals, in
the count]) of (Jrecne aforesaid, upon a body
of land which your petitioners propose to
acquire, known as the "Funtenny tract," ly
ing on both sides of the Oconee River, in
the counties of Greene, Oglethorpe and
Oconee, and containing Thirty-eight Hun
dred acres (more or Jess;) Also, of using
so much of said land, in the prosecution of
their said business, as may be requisite or
necessary, and dividing the remainder into
farms of ten,twenty, forty, and one hundred
acres, or into village lots, with convenient
avenues or streets, and [leasing or selling
the same to immigrants or actual settlers,
in furtherance of the objects above speci
fied.
The capital stock of the Company to be
One lliiiulreil anil Filly Thou
sand Hollars, divided into shares of
One Hundred Dollars each, and to consist
in part of the land aforesaid representing
Seven Hundred and Fifty shares, with the im
provements and property thereon, to wit:
A large Factory containing 3,300
spindles, 116 looms, and other machinery ;
A grist mill, having two run of corn stones
and two of wheat stones; a Saw mill, a wa
ter Q in, a blacksmith shop, atoll covered
Bridge upon stone piers, a brick ware
house, brick dwelling house, a two story
Store house, and sundry operative houses,
cabins, etc.; and in part of seven hundred
and fifty shares in cash subscriptions, to be
made by the said Henry B. Plant, John P.
Kennedy, Maurice Wilkinson, William M.
Reese, Augustus Reese, William L. High,
and others.
And to this end your petitioners desire
to be Incorporated, under said name, for
the period of twenty years, renewable at
the expiration of that time, with the privil
ege of acquiring for themselves, their asso
ciates, successors, and assigns, the legal ti
tle to said land, improvements and proper
ty, and of using, laying otf, and leasing or
selling the same, or any part thereof, as
aforesaid; of making and<using a common
seal; and of issuing coupon bonds, to an
amount not exceeding said capital stock, and
mortgaging said land, improvements, and
property, to secure payment of the same,by
deed of trust to three or more persons, up
on the following conditions, to wit: That in
case default is made in the payment of the
principal or interest, at the time stipulated,
said trustees shall be authorized and requir
ed, upon the written request of any bond
holder, to advertise said land, improve
ments, and property, once a week for sixty
days, in a newspaper published at Greenes
boro’, Georgia, and another in the city of
Augusta, and to sell the same for cash, at
public outcry, before the Court-House door
in Greenesboro aforesaid, on the first Tue. -
day in the month next after the expira
tion of said sixty days ; and if after deduct
ing the expenses of sale, and paying the
principal and interest due on said bonds,
any surplus remains, such surplus shall be
paid to said Company, or divided among
the stockholders thereof; Provided, That
said bonds shall contain, upon their face,
notice to the holder that not less than five
per centum of the amount issued, to be se
lected by lot, shall be redeemable annually,
after the expiration of two years from their
date.
Also the privilege, of conducting the a (fairs
and business of the Company through a
President, Secretary and Treasurer, and
three Directors, who shall bo elected by a
majority of the Stockholders in person or
by proxy, aud hold their offices during
good behavior, and until removed by the
Stockholders at an annual or special meet
ing : Also of making such By-Laws for the
government of their affairs and business,
and the compensation of their officers, as
shall be deemed expedient or necessary; of
increasing said Capital Stock hereafter
from time to time as the said corporators,
their assigns and successors may see fit, to
the sum of Five Hundred Thousand Dol
lars, and generally, of exercising all other
corporate powers necessary to the purposes
of their organization, with no other liability
than that fixed by Section 1676, of the Re
vised Code of this State, to wit: “In case
of the failure of said Corporation, the
Stockholders shall bo bound, in their pri
vate capacity, to any creditor of said Cor
poration, for the amount of stock subscrib
ed for by him until the said subscription is
fully paid up, or until the stockholder shall
have paid, out of his private property,debts
of the said Corporation to an amount equal
to his unpaid subscription.”
WHEREFORE your petitioners pray that
this declaration be recorded' and published
once a week for one month, in the Greenes
boro' Herald, and that the usual order
granting the same, be passed by the Court
at the next Term.
W. A. & J. M. WALTON,
Aug. 12, 1875—1 m Petitioners Att’ys
To Farmers.
I AM NOW PREPARED TO SELL
LIME in Car load lots of Ten tons to the
Car, at ‘greatly reduced prices. Farmera
that intend using Lime for fall crops, will
find it greatly to their interest to make ar
rangements with me at once.
C. M. KING,
Greenesboro’, Ga., July 29, 1875—tf
PA PIECES'-ESP
lal I CURED CANVASSED
jll DRIED
UU BEEF
At less than packers’ prices—only 12J cts
per pound. For sale by
W.C. CARTWRIGHT
FAIR NOTICE.
HaVING disposed of my-Saloon busi
ness, I hereby notify all those indebted to
me to come forward immediately and set
tle, otherwise they will find their claims in
tho hands of a Lawyer for collection. I
mean what I sav.
.1. T. I'l LVER.
Greenesboro', Ga , Aug. 5, 1875
/Y EORGlA—Greene County.
vX Thomas Swindall, administrator of
Gilby Moore, applies for Letters of Dis
mission from said estate and .such Letters
will be granted on ihe first Monday in
August next, unless valid objections thereto
are f.lcd.
Given under my hand ami official signs
lure, the 6th day of May. 1875
KiRL F. THORNTON Ordinary
O.av Mh 1875 n m *