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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25. 1875.
STATE TREASURY.
At the heel of the last session of the
Legislature, * resolution was introduc
el and passed in that body for the ap
pointment of a Committee to investi
gate the condition of the State Treasu
ry. The result of the investigation,
■■nd the report of the Committeo were
calculated to excite tho apprehensions
-f the people as to the conduct of this
important department ofthe State Gov
ernment. But Gradually the excite
ment abated and the matter had well
nigh passed out of mind, until within
a f,-w days past, his Excellency Gov
*3mith notified the Treasurer, that his
Bond must be increased. The princi
t.le reason for this course on the part
i.f the Governor, seems to be that owing
to the death af Gen. Henning. who was
<no ofthe bonJsmen, tho Treasurer’s
bond is insufficient. At last aceoun's
the Treasurer had not made hi- bond
good. The following from “Halifax,’’
the Atlanta correspondent ofthe Citron.
A Fen'incl, explains the present status
of afl'airs :
“There are no new developments of
importance touching the Treasury dif
ficulty. The Governor of course can
take no action and express no opinion
until the ten day’s notice has expired,
in the meantime the reeeifts of money
from the various tax collectors through
out the State arc deposited for safety
in one of the city banks. A number of
Mr. Jones’ friends are in almost daily
consultation, and even should the
Treasurer, fail or decline to renew or
strengthen liis bond, they claim that he
will have abundant proof to establish to
the satisfaction of all that lie ha- been
guilty of no wrong; indeed, that he has
been far more unfortunate than culp
able, and that if he has been guilty of
negligence and lack of proper vigilance,
it was such negligence as he could m t
veil avoid. They even intimate that
they can account for the payment of
the $150,000 of bonds twice in a man
ner that will relieve Mr. Jones in a
•great degree of the blame and respon
sibility in the matter. The len days’
v.ruce, however, will soon expire, when
rite result will be known. There is no
~ort of probability that the Legislature
Will he called together earlier than us
ual, for thero will hardly occur any
such emergency. If Col. Jones cannot
make his bond, it is not apprehended
that he will make any resistance to the
procedure of the Governor to enforce
the law and declare the office vacant.
Texas C'onstitiiiionnl Conven
tion.
Tnc Texas Constitutional Conven
rtion is doing a good work for the State.
Among other matters of importance, it
'lias addressed itself to the Railroad
question, and incorporated a very com
T’rehcnsive article in the State Constitu
lion, bearing directly upon the subject.
It gives to all roads the right toeonstruct
and operate connections with intersect
ing roads; prohibits consolidation of
parallel or competing line**, or the con
solidation by contract or under judicial
saio of any road within the State with
one organized under the laws of anoth
er State, or of the United States, and
reserves to the Legislature the right to
establish reasonable rates and to enact
laws prohibiting discriminations. The
farmers in the Convention dictated a
clause requiring any road hereafter con
atructed to within three miles of a coun
try scat to lay a track thereto and es
tablish a depot there.
Tiie t outing Struggle.
Prominent Southern journals have
icper.tedly declared their conviction that
no Southern man should have a place
■ n the National Democratic ticket next
.ear. hut recently some of them seem
to 1 e changed in opinion. Thus the
Petersburg Index and Appeal, noticing
he nomination of a ticket with Rayard
• r President and (Jordon f r Vico
i r sident says-—“Wo are not yet
'hanged from our original position that
there should Lest not he any Southern
inan on the ticket. Rut if there is to
e any such candidate, we do not think
Jen. Gordon is likely to he the man
If auy-Scißlhern man is going to oc
cupy the second place on the Presi
de;.tii! ticket, wo arc reasonably con
ii'.lei.t (hat Senator Rausnm of North
f -rolina'.twill probably he selected. lie
v i.tuios every quality ami recommen
dation for the high and honorable se-
Alien. If anybody from the South
so distinguished, we believe Senator
i ' ;iSom has the lest chance to secure
•be prize.” The Richmond 157!<’</, on
contrary, tlios reiterates its former
-co; ments: ‘The time has Dot come
yet for the South to have a man on the
nati nal ticL< t. It can do no good,
■ U-! may do .much harm, either for
Northern journals or Southern journals
co cypress themselves ia favor of it.—
Th re i an immense moderate Ilepub
;i :n vote in the North which is gradu
ally gravitating toward the position
<mid by the Democratic Conservative
■ irt\ That vote must not be lost to us
i ti e Psesidential election, and now is
time t<< secur* it. L"t it be pro-
claimed that the South is to have the
Democratic candidate for Vice I’res
ident, and wc shall inevitably lose it.”
GLEANINGS.
Augusta has received 70,000 bales
of cotton since September.
Thomas Downing was be.it to death
in Dooly county by two drunken men.
A party of some thirty persons left
Ac worth Tuesday morning for Texas.
It is computed that 18,000,000 hogs
will go into the pork barrels of this
country between now and January.
A Marietta brick mason dreamt bis
wife was a broken brick, and uncon
sciously hurled her from bed on to the
floor, and then yelled for ‘'more rnort.”
The North Georgia Annual Confer
ence, of the Methodist Episcopal
Church (South) will convene at Grif
fin, Gu., on Wednesday the Ist of De
cember proximo.
.Tosh Billings, the Telegraph says,
will lecture in Macon sometime in Jan
uary. This will be bis first visit
South.
Marietta. —A negro convi t, whose
time has expired, refuses to leave the
chain gang at work on our railroad,
hut wears his stripped clothes, eats and
works, and thinks it is good enough
place for him —and probably it is.
Suicide —A daughter of Mr. Isaac
I’endley, of Camming, Forsyth county,
committed suicide by hanging herself to
a tree, the first of this week. She was
insane.
Governor Smith has required Treas-
urer Jones to file anew bond, his old
one, on account of the death of Gen
eral Denning and the division of his
estate, being inadequate
The farmers of North Georgia are
sowing largely of wheat.
lion. 11. 11. Carlton, editor of the
Georgian, arid from
Clark county, is reported dangerously
ill.
The Atlanta Herald says, that Judge
Hopkins has announced his intention
of resigning the Judgship of the At
lanta Circuit. Col. Toni Gleeo, it is
supposed, will be his successor.
Tho Medical Commissioners appoint
ed by the Governor, to investigate the
sanity or insanity of Stephen D. Brink
ley, the wife murderer, have discharg
ed the duty, and report hitn sane- lie
will hang.
Should the proposed quick mail
transit between the North and South
include the Georgia Railroad, the time
between Augusta and Atlanta will be
reduced to six hours.
Mr. F. T. Berry, of Oglethorpe coun
ty. has now in his pen five hogs, of his
own raising, that it is estimated will net
him over 300 pounds each. They are
of c ituuiuo stock and 18 months old.
There are now either in full blast or
in contemplation in the States of North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia,
Tennessee, and Alabama fifty four fur
naces for the manufacture of iron.—
Georgia and Alabama are the chief
seats of the production of hot blast char
coal iron, which is shipped directly to
England from Selma, Daltou, and
Home In additiou to native whites
and blacks there arc large numbers ol
English, Scotch, and Swedish workmen
employed at this business.
1 ft
Sad Ending of a Wedding.—At
shout 1 l o’clock on the night of Mmi.
day. recently the residence of Mrs
Susan Bradley, in the town of Che
shire. Ot., was discovered to he on firs 1 .
There were live or six persons in the
house at the time, and among them
Peter Murray, who had just been
married to the daughter ot Mrs. Brad
l*-y The building was entirely con
sumed, an' l the charred remains of Mr.
anil Mrs. Murray were afterward found
on the iron springs of their bed. —Han-
over Citizen.
The articles so far adopted by the
Texas Constitutional Convention pro
vide that the legal rate of interest, shall
not exceed eight per cent, a year, and
that the Legislature shall pasj laws to
punish usury; that current wages sha'l
not b. subject to garnishment for debt;
that a married man shall not sell nor
u.ortpa e his homestead without the
consent of his wife; that a homestead
shall be protected from seizure for
debt, except tor the purchase money
tliereo f, aud that it shall not be par
titioned among heirs duriug the
lifetime cf a surviving husband or wile.
Education is liberally provi<ied|fi>r, and
the public lands protected from plun
der.
Dalton Citizen: While in East
Tennessee last week we gathered a
piece of information with reference to
the value of the tomato crop that may
interest and profit our readers. Mr.
Adam Broyles, u large and successful
farmer of Greene county, told us that a
very superior wine, much better than
blaekhcrrv. can be made from this
j vegetable. He says he made this year,
from less than a quarter of an acre,
three hundred gallons of excellent wine,
anil this test, which was not as go id as
it might have been, thoroughly satisfied
him that, witli proper cultivation and
attention, as high as fourteen hundred
gallons can be realized from one acre of
ground. We know nothing as to how
this wine would sell if placed upon the
market; but it would seem, if it is all
that Mr. B. claims for it, that it could
be sold readily at fifty cents per gallon,
if no more, making it a very lucrative
business for small farmers to engage
in.
The last Thomas county Grand Jury
spoke out pretty boldly on some mat
ters of general interest. Upon State
School Commissioner Orr’s proposed
school hill, it remarked :
Our attention has been called to a
small pamphlet, published by the State
School Commissioner, giving the de-
tailed provisions of a bill he intends to
lay before the next Legislature, for the
pnroose of enabling the counties to vote
for and levy an additional sehool fund
tax. not exceeding one tenth of one per
cent., when two thirdsoflhe voters vote
in favor of it. for the purpose of estab
lishing primary schools in all the coun
ties. n..d higher grade schools in any
sub district in the county, when two
thirds of the voters in the sub district
have voted for it. While wc are in fa
vor of giving the best education to ev
cry child in our county, and are willing
to be taxed for educational purposes.we
are unalterably opposed to any law that
will breed discontent among our people,
and prolmbly form the entering wedge,
bring about mixed schools of whites
and blacks, as we honestly believe the
bill will do. Wc therefore unqualified
ly condemn this bill as calculated to
breed dissent ion and conflict among
the races ; and we ask the representa
tives of our county *to vote against if
when it conies before the Legislature
for passage
Smlilrii Death <*t the Vice-
Fresltlciit ol the United Slates.
Washington, November 22.—The
Vice-President died very suddenly at
7:30 this morning. He rested well last
night, awoke at 7 a. m. and expressed
himself as feeling bright and better;
sat up in bed to take his medicine, lay
down on his left side and expired in a
few moments without a single struggle!
imtm ft
There has lately come to light a case
which will rank with the most curious
on record. The mines of Laurium-
Greece, which were worked about 1600
years ago, are in a great measure com
posed of scoria, or the refuse of ancient
mines, which still yield a high per
centime of silver. In clearing awiv a
mass of this refuse, a quantity of seeds
were discovered, which must have been
bui ied for at least fifteen centuries. —
Restored to conditions favorable to
germination, to the heat of the sun and
contact of the air, the seeds gave signs
of life, burst their buds, and sent down
roots in the earth, an 1 threw up stems
into the light, where those last hud
budded an i blossomed feo a lost
species of the genus r/lnnrimn (horned
poppy, of the order papnvr.reuz )-.vas re
vealed. Pliny and Dioscorid s frequent
Iv describe tho flower in their writings,
with great particularity, ns its golden
corolla is very beautiful, but it has
hitherto been unknown to modern
science. Now the plant which had dis
appeared from the face of the globe for
15(i() \ears Ims been restored.
A Baker of Fotnprii.
An interesting discovery has recent
ly been made at Pompeii in the shape
of about 31 Ml tablets covered with wax.
which were found packed carefully in a
wooden chest, which having been com
pletely carboni-lied fell to powder on
it- exposure tn air. These tablets are
squares of wood, and each is about the
Ibi kcess of the blade of a knife; they
arc all arranged in triptych*, and were
ri.dually tied together so that they
could be opened and read. Each trip
tycb forms a book of four pages. The
wax is covered with small writing, and
most of the books are contracts for the
loan of money and interest in the fol
iowingform: “1. The acknowledgment
of the receipt of the amount by the
debtor (the sum being always written
in words, not iu figures,) with a prom
ise to repay the same with interest on a
certain day. 2. The date, some with
the names of the diutnviri (municipal
magistrates) ouly, and others with the
names of the consuls also. The names
of the witnesses to the contract are
written down and their seals are placed
on the cords with which the tablets are
fastened together. In some cases the
creditor has also written in the margin
an abridgment of the contract. All
these contracts appear to be for money,
but at interest. The name of the bank
er who carried on this business was
Lucius Cectlius Jucundus. of whom a
fine life size bust in bronze has been
discovered in the house, placed above a
Hermes in marble, and bearing his
name. This bust is one of the most
remarkable works of art as yet discover
ed in Pompeii.
5 f"Job Work done here
NEW YORK.
ME AID Til ME,
IC9 Broad Street, (under Augusta Hotel) AUGUSTA, Ga.
MANUFACTURING DEPARTMENT Embraces—Copper and Sheet Iron Work,
Galvanised Iron Cornices and Roofing; Tin and Slate Roofing; Tinware made
by Machinery.
DEALER I\ EVERT VARIETY OF
HOUSE HARDWARE FURNISHING GOODS, Wholesale and Retail.
teTThe Wholesale Department offers the same inducements offered inXew York to
Dealers. STOVES, GRATES, MANTELS and TINWARE at rates never before of
fered in this market.
BSiC Persons needing Cooking Stoves will find it to their interest to examine our
Price List before purchasing. We sell the celebrated
TIIN/EiES COOK STOVE
Warranted to be the finest baker Ju the South—Price on cars at Augusta, with (16
pieces of ware—No. G, $24; No. 7. S2B; No. 8, SB2; No. 9, S3O.
toficREFER TO EDITOR OF “HERALD.”
E. M. E3ABEBiF.It. S'rop’r. J IS. CI.4FVEI', Sup’t.
Augusta, Ou.. November 2 >, 18/j—lin
J. E. DART & CD.,
BEG leave to ca'l tb-* attention of the citizens of Greene and adjoining counties, to
their Complete block of Staple and Fancy
MU w™ y Mpn MifSj
GROCERIES
AND
General Merchandise,
All of which they sell at the closest figures for CASH.
TUAiFUVi: STUTPTPILiTIUS
A SFEC’I AI/FY. They offer Choice Flour, Fresh Ground Meal, Black and Mix
ed Oats, Rye and Barley, and choice Seed Wheat. A large invoice New
Orleans Sugars and Syrups, very (it,e and cheap, Green and
Parched Goff es, etc., etc.
They have on hand the
COLUMBUS PLOW STOCK,
and a full Line of ROOTERS and TURNIXG PLOWS, 11 icy are the tiling needed just
now.
READY-MADE C LOTHING,
Cheap —Medium and Fine. Call and examine the Stock, and you cannot help but be
pleased.
SHOES
In Great Variety, and almost, below bottom prices.
PARTIES BUYING BY THE BALE. PACKAGE OR PIECE
WILL BE CONVINCED THAT THEY CAN
BSI W L2l 1 If] .ASk S2® 8 ®
IT?”Parties not known to us, must give references.
KF"The highest u a sh Prices paid for Cot’on, or liberal advances made on all ship"
ments to our friends in Augusta. Charlete:i and Savannah.
QT'Callectiuiis mndc ou all accessible points.
J. F. II ART & Cos.
Union Point. Ga 1 1375.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
Foreign and Domestic Hardware,
AND AGENTS TOR
4 and 8 Horse Power Engines for Cotton Gins, Howe's Scales, Dixie Plows,
Sulky Ilay Rakes. Grain Drills, Cotton Planters, Champion Mower and
Reaper, and Agricultural Implements and Machinery of all kiuds.
August 26. 1875-tf
~ I* £ uMmEw,
Importer and Dealer in
¥Pines, JLiqmors,
Ales, Porter , {Jigars,
Agent for E. inheitser & Co.’s
ST. LOUIS LAGER BEEIL
ncLTcr ioi <£ 256 Eroad St., Augusta, On.
To Itrugsiisls, Hardware and
Benrral Morelia tfs.
I carry in stork from 1,000 to 3,000 b> x-s
of window glass, (tin* 'argest stork in the
South.) emiiracitig a I sizes. from 4 x (S to
40 x 60 in single or double thiol; and polish
ed plate. Standard brands of Kr ■ ch and
American, made. Stained, Cut, Ground,
Enameled, and Church Glass. Putty by
the bladder or ton. Glaziers’ Points,
Knives, Diamonds. Arc.
Above are imported direct from the fac
tories and I guarantee bottom prices. Send
for latest quotations.
Truly yours,
P. P. TO ALE.
Charleston, S. C.
Nov. IS—lm tc,
Executrix Sale.
BY consent of parties inte ested, ami for
the purpose of a distribution among
the heirs at Law of Daniel Waguon. dee’et.
I will sell at priva e sale, between this and
January next, all that valuable tract of
Land belonging to said deceased, and Ivina
in Greene county on the road from Leslie's
.Milt to Smyrna, adjoining lands of More
land, Atkinson and others, containing One
dundred and Thirty-five acres (more or
less.) On the place is a comfortable dwell
ing and all necessary out buildings, and
good water. If not sold privately, the land
will be sold at public outcry before the
Court-House door in Greenesboro’, on the
first Tuesday in January next. Terms of
sale One-half Cash, balance in twelve mos.
with internet.
MARTHA M. WAG NON. KxW
of Daniel Wagnon. dee'd.
W*LP. M. Wagnon aid show the land
to parties desiring to purchase.
Nov. 18. 1575-. tr
Notice to Trespassers
VLL persons are forbid hunting, fishing
or trespassing in any wa v upon my
plantation, under the penalty of the law.
Pasties who have heeu pulling down my
fences and turning stock upon niv lands are
notified to desist, or l will prosecute them.
JAS. L BROWN
N"r. 19, 187 V. "•
C. Gray & Cos., Augista, Ga.
Bullion nml Fancy Dress
Fringes in z*SI (lie new shades
anti latest styles, at
C. GRAY & CO’S.
Ten eases Kentucky Jeans,
very cheap at retail. Ltlicnil
terms to the trade.
C. GRAY & CO’S,
Fine Bed Blankets at very
low prices, at
C. GRAY & CO’S.
300 boxes ofXcw Kticltings,
800 dozen of Kuriles at 50c.
per dozen,
10 pieees new Itlaek Cash
mere,
5 pieees fine Itlaek silk, at
C. CRAY <k Cos.
100 pieees fine Heavy t'assi
meres, rangins from SOe. to
$5 per yard.
C. GRAY & Cos.
Nov. 18—tf.
STOVES!!
THE COTTON KING STOVE.
THE IRON KISS,
DIAnOM) STATE,
GKAA'GE,
BECK’S Kill V.LI \.\T,
Anil other First-Class STOVES always on hand, at Prices to compete with any mar
ket South.
ALSO, a Full Stock of
TIHNT RE,
At WHOLESALE and RETAIL.
%
coiling ami (buttering,
Or any work in TIN or SHEET-IRON, done at short notice,
W. G. DURHAM,
Greenesboro’, Georgia, November 4, 1875 —tf
255 IB road Street,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA..
Organs and Piano JFortes
milE LARGEST and BEST assortment South of Baltimore, of the MOSTCELEBRA
JL TED MAKERS, at the LOWEST Factory Prices for CASH, or small monthly pay
ments.
QUICK SALES-SMALL PROFITS!
Special Inducements to CASH Buyers!!
PIANOS with a good Stool and cover, and ORGANS
at New York and Boston prices forwarded to any point—freight paid—with no adyaaaa’
in price
EVERY INVESTMENT is not only fully warranted for Five Years, hut intended!
to he a permanent advertisement of superiority and exce lenee.
m M li. IXSTIIITIEXTS AND m SU AE NEIM HAMIISE
Of our own importation direct through llie Savannah Custom House ai lowest importers
prices
VIOLINS, VIOLONCELLOS. LASS, DOUBLE BASS, GUITARS,.
ELUTES, FLUTINAS, CONCERTINOS. CLARIONETS. FLAGE
OLETS, TAMBOIUNES PICOLOS, DULCIMERS. CONCERT
HARMONU 03, ELUTE UAR.MONICOS; ZITHER, AC
CORD EON 8 (French and German.) TRIANGLES,
HAND ORGANS, MUSIC BOXES. MUSIC AL
BUMS, BRASS and SILVEL INSTRUMENTS
DRUMS. FIFES. < VMBALS,
And everything appertaining to a First-Class Music House. BANDS supplied with
Silver, Brans sussl Sirius ißistriimeiifs at prices that will defy competition.
from European manufactories, including the Celebrated “Pargailini” Strings made i
by RUFFINI, ot Naples. Italv. —superior to all others.
A Full Stock of SHEET MUSIC, SONGS and MUSIC BOOKS, of all kinds.
receive MUSIC daily by mail or express. ORDERS for Music, String*,.
ete., will receive prompt attention—mailed free, or charges paid by us.
Augusta, Ga.. Oct. 28, 1875—augo-Bmos GEO. O. ROBINSON.
BooUSI&re!!
BOOKS AMD STATIONERY.
W E HAVE AI WAYS OX HAND THE HOOKS OF A MERCIAN" PITBLISH-
KilS ns soon us they are issued, which we supply at the lowest tales. Our stock it ua
surpnssed in quality and cheapness, embracing
a a HfiCliSB B*. ftd,
Standard and >lisccll memis Bunks. Bib'es. I’rnyrr Beaks Hymnals, Albums. Jivenilcs Ac
In greai variety. Also, school and office Stationery, including the best Note, Letter and
Cap writing Paper: Blank Books, half and full-hound - Ledgers ; Memorandums, Past
Hooks, etc.; Best Inks, Pencils and Pcnlnddeis, Stationers’ Hardware. Blotting and
Tissue Papers, etc. Buyers of this class of merchandise are invited to cal] upon us be
fore making their purchases elsewhere.
MM OI ATS TO THE Tlt W>E*®l
All kinds of Newspapers and Magazines. Wholesale and lietuil Booksellers and
Stationers.
W. T. RICHARDS & SON.
Augusta, On.. Oct. 14. 187o — 55".>
A . F. Pendleton,
SUCCESSOR TO QUINN & PENDLETON,
331 Rroatl Street, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
BOOK SELLER AND STATIONER.
-Newspapers, periodicals, music, etc., a Specialty.
Subscriptions taken for Newspapers and Periodicals at Publishers’ Prices.
Having the NEWEST and BEST selected stock of School Books, Miscellaneous and;
Standard Books, Blank Books and Stationery, will sell as low, if not lower, than any
house in th 2 city. Be sure you give me a call before buying elsewhere.
A. F. PEAIH-ETOV,
0ct!4,1 5 75—2ms 224 Broad Street, AL’GUSTA, Ga.
f s & a e ir
cqttonH^factor
And ("ofmission Mercliant,
JACKSON STREET,
AUGUSTA, - GEORGIA
st'[Hid'-.4
LIME!
LIME! LIME! LIME!
1 AA barrels of fresh lime
A v/A just received and for sale cheap by
Sept 2—tf C. M. KING.
C'H’K I TkUUi>l.E WVO ft
ot’K A I Boodle ||o V
OOKb 1■ 9 looDI.I nil) I
O(JK ll i/OODLE E*o
I AM NOW PREPARED TO FURNISH
young Brahmah and Cochin Fowls at
| SB.OO per pair, or single at $2.00 each.
I Orders from a distance will receive prompt
{attention. It. H. PERRY,
Sept 16, 1875n53 Greeaeaboro’. Q*.