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BY 1). W. D. BOULLY.
FRIDAY MORNJNG.JULY 3, 1874
A Cuazy House.— A horse in Al
bany, 111., cut up some queer antics,
a few nights since. As he was be
ing led through the streets by bis
owner, he suddenly whirled away
from him, and after going through a
gate and four fences entered Dr.
Robinson’s house by the front door.
Mrs. Robinson was seated in the par-
lor, and upon perceiving her strange
guest, immediately fled through the
rear of the building. In her momen
tary fright, she forgot her yonng
babe. I)r. Robinson, bearing the
crash, rushed into the house just in
time to save bis child. Indeed, not
a moment too soon, for the beast had
already demolished part of the crib,
besides leaving a flesh wound; upon
the child’s face. Sewing machine,
chairs, sofa and stove, toon followed,
aud the carpet was literally cat in
pieces. Having completed his course
here, he turned into an adjoining
bedroom, and, getting his fore feet
upon the bed, soon brought it to the
floor. Men soon collected, and ropes
wero thrown around his body, but
they cottld not force him to subjec
tion, until he was severely bled.
Then thirty or more men forced him
home, and having tied him down,
they managed to keep him in the
stable. lie did not return to con
scionsness, and died about midnight
the same night. The animal was
valued at t 3,000, and was sent from
New York not long since.
Interesting to Tkavkucrb.—We
arc in roceipt of tho first copy of the
Tourist, a newspaper published at
Washington, D. C., by Capt. W. D.
Chipley, formerly Superintendent of
tho. North & South It. It., now Gen
eral Agent for the South of the Bal
timore & Ohio, Washington City,
Virginia Midland aud Great South
ern railroads.
As an advertisemoul of these roads
nothing could be better; and as a
plain guide for travelers, it is perfect.
Wo congratulate Capt. Chipley on
his first effort.
JMBhThe Civil Rights bill having
failed to pass beforo tho adjournment
of Congress, let us hope that it is now
boyond resurrection. Of all the
iniquitous measures enacted since tbe
war, this-was the worst, and would
have been productive of more dis
oord among tho races, and more in
jury to the South, than all the other
infamies that have been forced upon
us pnt together.
Some days since we published the
death of three children in Blount
county, Ala., by falling in a well.
Now we learn the sad nows that tho
mother, partially erased by the loss
of her little ones, has drowned her
self iu the same well. Truly, thcro
is nothing on earth equal to a
mother’s love.
Singulab.— While a white and ne
gro woman wero lately conversing
together, in Pike county, the latter
was killed by lightning, and the
former seriously injured. Two little
negroes, who were between the two
women, were unhurt.
tsr* woods, of the llawkinsville
Dispatch, has bought the first water
melon of the season, someone lias
sent him half a peck of early peaches,
amV the prisoners have all escaped
from jail; consequently Woods is
happy.
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Kspvbucan Candidates. —Marion
Bctbuno, of Talbot county, Jno, S.
lVtgW, of Coweta, aud Win. F. Ilale,
of Meriwether, arc announced as the
candidates of the Republican party
for Congress from the 4th district.
Tan Elections.—There will be
two elections iu Georgia, this fall—
Got, 14 for members of the legisla
ture, and Nov. 3d for congressmen.
The election for oounty officers will
tako place next January.
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W"A brick buildiug is to be built
on tbe old post-office lot in Colum
bus, and to be used as a post-office.
Wo are glad to hear this, as the place
now occupied for that purpose is a
disgrace to the city.
A freight train on the Pennsylva
nia Central railroad ran over a cow
on tho 19th ult. Tho engino and
fifteen cars were thrown down a steep
embankment, and the engineer aud
fireman killed.
HP* Mr. Charles Rise, an old oiti
xen of Columbus, died last Saturday
frorn the effects of a heavy dose of
laudannm, taken to relieve an attack
of oolic.
Jm. ■
Congress has voted $25,000 to the
improvement of the Chattahoochee
river, $5,000 to the Flint, and
SIO,OOO to tbe Oosuusula.
The Senatorial Question.
EV>. Visixon —I have received a copy
of the Thomaston Herald through the
mail, coniamiurg an editorial advoca
ting the right of Upson county to so
lect the Democratic candidate in the
approaching senatorial contest. The
right claimed is endeavored to be
maintained by asserting that the ro
tation rule was adopted when Mr.
Birdsong was nominated ; and then
arguing that Talbot county had since
had since bad her candidate under
the rule, and as Harris county bad,
prior to the adoption of the rule , two
candidates, therefore Upson is now
entitled to the privilege of naming
the leader.
I suppose that the editor, by send
ing me the paper containing the edi
torial in question, simply intended to
“ throw down the gauntlet; ” for cer
tainly he did not think that his
parcntly false deduction from the ad
mitted premises—that the rotation
was adopted when Mr. Birdsong was
nominated—would even convince a
“ babe and suckling,” rryfch less your
humble servant, editor con
siders oT&orae influence
and as is the
fact that he troubled himseqPl wrap
up his neat and well got" up (except
that editorial) paper, stamp it, and
send it to me. 1 assure the kind gen
tleman that I am flattered, and far
more tickled by his mistake than con
vinced by his argument (?). My in
tellect does extend, however, to the
capability of comprehending the pain
ful and mortifying truth that my cal
ibre is small; yet ignorance, like mis
ery, loves company, and it is very
consoling to me to reflect that there
is even an editor, who scorns to bo
succeeding with his paper, no “big
ger in the bore than I am. Surely,
if he can’t get up something better
than his attempted argument on the
question of the Democratic senatorial
cundidatc, I can “ carry as big a ball”
as bo can.
I intend to subscribe for the Her
ald so soon as I can raise the funds,
and then watch; and if it does not
break down before I do in my pres
ent occupation, 1 intend to turn edi
tor myself.
Now, we Harris county people are
a very economical set. We econo
mize our intellectual ammunition, as
well as everything else, except titles.
We havo got more great men—more
colonels, judges, majors, captains and
corporals, than any oounty in the
State. .No one'but a acaramoucht
would fail to smell that Shakespeare
fibbed about “ a roso smelling as sweet
by any other name,” for there are not
many of us who do not expand, and
theroby open the perspiratiVo pores,
when addressed as “Colonel,” br
“Judge.”
A goose called ino Colonel, the
other day, at the Masonic celebration,
right in “ the heat of tho day,” when
that live editor was trying to hold up
his proboscis, and repeat tho piece lie
spoke at tho school examination on
the 10th, with “variations,” and I
“swelled up and expanded out” till
I thought I would sweat myself to
death.
While there, I struck up with one
of our “big guns”:
Major.—Well, old fellow, how d’ye
do ? Ilavo you seen the Thomaston
Herald’s editorial on the senatorial
candidate question ?
Private.—Yes, sir.
Major,—Fire away at it.
Private.—l’m ’fraid to.
Major.—Oh, bosh! What are you
’fraid of?
Private.—An editor wroto it, and
lie may “ come back ” on mo. Be
sides, I am merely ono of the untitled
rabble, and wiiero there are so many
great colonels, judges, majors, cap
tains and oorporais, ’t would be great
presumption in one so lowly to pre
sume to champion our proud old
oounty, whoso legislative paunches can
outoircle those of any other county;
and you doubtless remember, my
dear Major, that !>ack in the oidon
time, the soat of the intellect was lo
cated in the bowels.
Major.—Fiddlesticks, boy I As for
his being an editor, that's nothing.
Furthermore, it is useless to waste
ammunition shooting big guns at so
small an enemy; so, rnon petite ami ,
fire away at it. If, however, he should
11 go for you ” too heavy, some of us
“ big dogs ” will “ everlastingly tear
his hind sights off.” Besides, if you
pitch in, and show pluck and fight
when our dear old county’s rights
arc threatened, maybe you’ll got to
be somebody after a while, and not
only bo able to havo a tailor, but hare
the satisfaction of occasionally order
ing him to “ add an inch or so to tho
waistband.”
Private.—l yield. I hope, though,
that I won’t “ get to be somebody ”
while the hot weather lasts. If his
return fire is no more cffeoiive or
heavier than his opening, I’ll pop him
agaiu; but if he dost come book too
hot on me, I’ll turn him over to you,
and get out of range in my little
down-the-hill borne, and stay there,
where I can blessedly realize,
“ That the dearest pleasure in life
Is to sit by the stove-pipe and tickle your
wife,
And hug her and kiss her, in your moments
of glee,
And twist the cat’s tail when she jumps on
yoOr knee.”
Major.—Hal ba! ha! Put in a
whaling load of anti ex-post-facto-law
powder, and a tub full of anti-reiro
active-customa grape, and ram down
on top of it a canister full of some
thing to keep senatorial districts from
rotating backwards.
Private.—Yes, and I will get me a
good piece of paper for wadding, and
write on it: “ Mr. Editor Thomaston
Herald: Your assertion that the ro
tating rule was adopted is correct;
but your pretence that rotate means
to ‘go round backwards,’ and that,
although Upson had the first candi
date under the rule, and Talbot the
next, the thing ought to * crawfish ’
now, and leave Harris out, is sheer
nonsense. No reasonable and just
man in the good county of Upson, I
dare say, will sustain you in such an
untenable position. The wretched
condition of some of our sister States
under a different rule from the one
we enjoy, ought to admonish ns to
harmonize; and the only way to har
monize is: Let justice he done. Let
rotate mean exactly what it does
mean—to ‘go round forwards.’ Let
Harris have her rights, and let Tal
bot and Upson join with us now, as
we will with them when their time
comes; and by united, determined,
and harmonious effort, let us strive,
usi'g all manly, honorable and legal
means, to prevent our senatorial Dem
ocratic banner from again ‘ trailing in
the dust.’ While Harris demands
the privilege and claims the right to
designate the ensign when that polit
ical battle begins, she at the same
time assures her sister counties that
she will not put forward a drone, but
a man, competent, available—one
whom her citizens Lave repeatedly
honored with their suffrages—one in
whose vocabulary thero is no such
word as defeat, aud on whose wall
no hand has ever nor ever can write,
Tekel.” Private.
Down tho-Hill, June 26, 1874.
Phonography. —We are in re
ceipt of the latest text-book on pho
nographic writing. This fs Burns’
Phonic Shorthand, published by
Burns & Cos., 33 Park Row, New
York, price -$1.00. The work is so
arranged as to be a complete self
instructor for any intelligent student;
tho engraved phonographic exercises,
which are numerous and well execu
ted, being all keyed in common print,
whioh is anew and valuable feature.
Full directions for study are also
given.
Tbe author of this book has un
doubtedly succeeded in greatly sim
plifying both the system of phono
graphy itself, and tho study of it.
Tho rules for position and the forma
tion of outlines are not only clearly
expressed, but adhered to through
out the writing; the various conso
nant signs are so classified that the
memory is greatly assisted in re
membering, and applying them prop
erly ; interesting reading matter illus
trates tbe principles as they are suc
cessively unfolded, and this, with the
freedom from the numerous excep
tions of older methods, converts a
dry mid difficult study into an easy
and attractive one.
The book is well worth the atten
tion of eduoators and teachers, as
well as our young people generally.
It is endorsed by many leading pa
pers, as the N. Y. Tribune, Hearth &
Homo, Scientific American, etc.
While a blind negro was lately
catling up a load of wood for a bar
ber in Albany, the latter’s infant son
got in the way, and the descending
axe cleft his skull, producing death.
Intelligence has been received at
Constantinople, that a collision oc
curred betwoen two ships in the Sea
of Marmora, on the 19th ult., and
that 320 lives were lost.
During a strawberry festival at
Syracuse, N. Y., on the 23d, the
church floor gave way, causing the
death of nineteen persons, and injur
ing several others.
A little negro in Columbus died
tho other day from driuking potash.
The same beverage caused tho death
of another negro in Augusta, a few
days ago.
James’ friends think he stands a
better chance for Governor than
either Hardeman or Colquitt. The
people don’t think so, though.
The Radicals failed to nominate
Loehrane for Congress, a few days
ago, and. now tho rosy fellow says
ho has been a life long Democrat.
A Sad Death —Mr. Francis But
ler, a New York dog fancier, died
recently of hydrophobia. Ho had
been bitten at his store, some six
weeks previously, by a sick dog,
while giving it medicine. Mr. But
ler had been bitten many times, and
was a total unbeliever in hydrophobia
—saying that it was merely a ner
vous affection, and that the disease
following the bite of a dog was caused
by fear. In spite of all this, Mr.
Butler’s death was caused by the
bite of a rabid dog.
A New York .butcher was bitten
by a dog about a month ago, but
the wound soon healed. On the 22d
nit., he began to have sharp pains in
his back, and died of- hydrophobia on
the -25th.
A man bought a supply of mourn
ing stationery' in Macon, the other
and ' and then wanted stamps to
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Wml Hudson, administrator, of Lovick
Graddick, dec’d, makes application for leave
to sell the land belonging to said deceased—
All persons concerned are hereby notified
to show cause, If any they have, by the first
Monday in August next, why said applica
tion should not be granted. Given under
my hand officially, June 16, 1874.
junlfi-td J. F. C. WILLIAMS, Ord’y.
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