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F-BJffiy MORNING. SEPT. 4, 1874
Nominating Convention.
The convention to nominate demo
cratic members of the legislature from
Harris comity, met in tlio court-house
last Tuesday.
l)r. T. F. Brewster was called to
the chair, and John YV. Ilodo to act
as secretary.
Tlio delegates were as follows:
Hamilton—ll M YViiifree, J D
Robinson, J YV Kimbrough.
Valley Plains—G G Murrah, John
Barnes, Joe Grant.
Milner’s —John Macaulcy, Sebron
Pollard, James Murrah.
Goodman’s—J T McGee, J II Da
vis, John L Goodman,
Cochran’s—John Albcrson, George
Murrah, J G Bryant.
Whitosvjlle—F M Talley, J E Wil
liams, It B Pattillo.
Davidson’s—J M Sattcrwbilo, J
P ljutchiuson, G A Myhand.
Blue Spring—J II Lynch, J Swint,
J A Moore.
Upper 10Lb—rL C Hargett, A Whit
ten, YV D Cook.
Lovvcr 19th —YV F Nunnallce, J
Hodge, J W Ilodo.
Cataula—T II Kimbrough, N B
Roberts, T F Brewster.
Ellorslio —N Passmoro, S M Bran
non, T J Cranberry.
YY’aveiiy Ilall—S Tarrantinc, E J
Stanford, P A Farley.
YVhitakcr’s —It M Whitten, T Spi
vey, S 0 Houston.
Majority rule adopted.
The object of the meeting being
explained by the chair, tho conven
tiou proceeded to ballot for candi
dates.
II E Moss was nominated on tho
first ballot, and Georgo Kilpatrick on
the third.
On motion, tho nomination was
made'unanimous, and a committee of
three was appoiutod by the chair to
inform tho genllonicn of their nomi
nation. They appeared beforo the
body, and signified their acceptance.
Tho body then adjourned to tho
court-room, where rousing speeches
were inado by lion. W. I. Hudson,
Maj. Bullock, of Talbot county, Capt.
Dundy, Mr. Cameron, Judge Miller,
and others.
Thh following resolution, offered
by Mr. J. T. Johnson, was adopted:
Resolved, That wo, the people,
heartily endorso the notion of tho
delegates of the nominating conven
tion, and, to a man, will do ail we
can to elect the ticket.
Tlio convention then adjourned.
T. F. Brewster, Chm’n.
J. W. Hodo, Secl’y.
Another Scandal. —Another cler
ical scandal has transpired. This
timo in Jgreoy City, N. J. Miss
Pomeroy lately diod thore, leaving
an infuut three weeks old. On her
death-bed she stated that her pastor,
Rev. Mr, Glendenuieg, was its father,
and that the reverend soonudrel had
forced her, with a drawn pistol, to
sign a paper denying his guilt.
Alter her death the haby was
christened Ella Stewart Glendonising,
as previously requested by the unfor
tunate woman.
Miss Pomeroy was much liked by
the citizens, and Glendonnlng's re
fusal to inarry.hor, together with his
attempt to blacken her formor good
character, bo inoensotl them, that
thejr hold an indignation meeting,
and passed resolutions requesting
the' clerical hypocrite to leavo .the
place at once.
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StiST The Atlanta and West Point
railroad is tho dearest road to travel
on in tho Stato. Its rates are six
pents a mile.
That' Bacon.—Considerable elec
tioneering is being dono with the ba
con sent to Alabama by the govern
ment for tho relief of the sufferers
by the overflow some months since.
It is being sent to places tiint never
Were overflowed, fof. the purpose of
laying np votes for tho Radicals.
Some of it has eve? been aunt to tho
mountaint! * ■ > ■
The Fourth District.— ln a no
tice of tho number of votes to which
each county is entitled in tho con
gressional nominating convention, the
Columbus Enquirer counts the four
of Moriwcllier for Col. Harris. Our
understanding is that the delegates
from Meriwether go mtinstruoted.
We call the at teuton of our
readers to tho advertisement of Ed.
Terry. Those who want an easy
shave by a first-class barber, must
call and see him.
Enterprise.— Tlio Atlanta Consti
tution of Sunday last canoe to ns in
a triple sheet. We are glad to 6ee
Matters in Georgia.
A fight lately occurred near Griffin,
between Alex. Fotral and YY’illiam
Lindsay, brothers-in law, in which
Lindsay shot Futral with a pistol,
killing him instantly. It is said that
the difficulty grew out of Futral’s
charging Lindsay with abusing hit
(Futral’s) wife during hit absenoe at
court,
A Jasper county, negro elected to
receive thirty-nine lashes rather than
go to jail for stealing money.
A. white man killed a negro for
his money above Dalton some days
ago.
Mr. A. W. Murphree, of Emanuel
county, made 2,124 pounds of fodder
on thirteen acres of land.
They have thirty ponnd musk mel
ons in Bamosville.
Louisville, Jefferson county, has
shipped about 14,000 bales of cotton
this year, nine-tenths of which found
its way to Savannah.
The hot wind storms that have
prevailed in Middle Georgia, lately,
have greatly damaged the cotton
crop.
A little girl was burnt to death in
Atlanta, last week, while kindling a
fire with kerosene oil.
During a recent meeting at the
African church in Talbotton the floor
gave way and sevoral of the congre
gation wero more or less bruised.
In twelve months 160,000 worth of
stamps have been sold at the Atlanta
post-office. 1,800,000 letters were
mailed, and 2,000,000 distributed.
The money orders paid out foot up
$450,000, and those issued $150,000.
Tho Georgia Radical is the name
of a paper shortly to bo started in
Atlanta.
Atlanta was recently flooded by a
heavy rain. Some of the sewers
wero choked, and several cellars and
basements inundated.
Five rattlesnakes wero lately killed
near Arlington.
A Marietta correspondent informs
the Savannah News that he has a
pumpkin growing on a vino which
weighs 60£ pounds.
An old negro man recently fell
dead in Columbuß.
Dr. Thos. P. Janes, of Greene
county, has been appointed State
Commissioner of Agriculture by Gov.
Smith.
Tho Allantese are making war upon
tho martins in tho incorporate limits.
Butts county claims to havo a mulo
colt that gives milk. .
The Press says that Mr, J. L.
Maull, of YVest Point, killed eleven
squirrels in one tree, and allowed
thirty-nine to escape. That must
have been a good tree in which to
maull squirrels.
An Atlanta sewing machine agent,
charged with embezzling, has eloped,
leaving his bondsmeu in the lurch.
A Mr. Jourdon fell dead in Macon
rocently.
There were ten babies born in
Uoiuc ono night rocently.
A Columbus negro was caught
stealing coru from tho poor house
the other day.
Young Marion Oates, of Augusta,
who was recently accidentally shot
in Athons, is dead.
Mr. Charles Ilearbst, Librarian of
the Young Mcu’s Library, of Atlanta,
has procured a Fejte war club to
place in the Library.
Tho Columbus mills have taken
8,74? bales againt 7,355 last season,
and this in spite of the panic.
Mr. ,T. 11. Ezell, of Monticollo, has
cotton that pToduocs two bolls to the
bloom and each boll has iVom eight
to eleven locks of the staple.
Destructive wind storms havo vis
ited various portions of tho Stato
during the past two weeks.
Col. V'robol, in company with an
engineer, lias been prospecting in
North Ooorgia, preparatory to sur
veying tho routo of a doublo-track
railway authorized by Congress.
This road is iulendcd to oopnect the
navigable waters of tl*o Tennessee
with tho South Atlantio ports.
The Augusta Chronicle Ins seen
several specimens of plumbago, of a
superior quality, from amino in
Madison county. A joint stock com
pany is to be formed to w ork it.
Tho Monroe Advertiser says the
Radicals aro traveling over that
county with a circus trait, under the
pretence of holding Northern Motho
dist district mootings, but really for
electioneering purposes, and to or
ganize tbo usual pandemonium be
tween the whites and blacks.
A terrible tornado swept over
Meriwether oouuty recently, causing
great dostruolion to the cotton crop.
Tho com crop in Murray and Whit
field comities is cut oil' one-half by
the drought.
Matters in General.
A slight frost was reported at
Lewiston, Me, on the 23d ult.
Wliiteley (his name ought to be
YVliite-fie), the U. S. detectivo, who
figured in Columbus a few years ago,
will soon be dismissed, so it is stated,
by the Secretary of the Treasury,
lie should have been dismissed long
ago.
The recent burning of a stocking
factory at Nottingham, Eng, threw
500 persons out of employment, and
entailed a loss of $500,000.
A colliery explosion near Stafford
shije, Eng., a few days since, caused
the death of 84 persons.
Beecher has been declared not
guilty by the investigating committee
which he appointed. YY 7 e expected
nothing else. Now let’s see if he
can get off as easily before the courts.
Tho U. S. government offers five sin
gle-turret monitors for sale. YVliere
is 11. I. Kimball ? lie ought to have
a chance at them.
On Wall street, N. Y., on the 26th
ult., a woman and six children ap
peared with a placard on each which
set forth that the family had depos
ited $5,000 cash with a certain well
known firm of brokers, and that the
latter had given them bogus bonds
as security. They afterwards turned
over their property to their wives,
leaving this woman with six children,
and a sick husband, penniless. They
could not realize one per cent, on
the bonds. The affair created quite
a sensation.
A young woman at Trenton, who
was sleeping with her feet hanging
out of the chamber window, was
struck by lightning and almost torn
to pieces.
England and Scotland are said to
contain six hundred thousand habit
ual drunkards, including both sexes.
The ruby mines of Upper Burmah
are worked solely by the King, who
picks out the best stones and sells
the rest —himself I He is said to
possoss a hundred of the finest water.
No foreigner is allowed to visit the
mines.
A fire at Buena Vista, Penn., de
stroyed about thirty buildings, con
sisting of stores, offices and dwellings.
Loss $75,000. Insurance light. The
fire is supposed to bo-incendiary.
Edward Tayson YY 7 eston has com
pleted bis arrangements to walk five"
hundred miles in six consecutive days
at tho Hippodrome building, New
York. Ho confidently expects to ac
complish the feat.
A Richmond news dealer wants a
hundred thousand Confederate notes
at 25 cents per hundred notes. Same
price for one dollar or one huudred
dollar bills.
A lady at Saratoga wears a Roman
breast-plate of emeralds and dia
monds, purchased at London for
$12,000.
The Alabama Radicals say the Re
publican party does not desire mixed
schools or mixed accommodations
for negroes. The Republican major
ity in Congress say they want exactly
these things. Now, which is the Re
publican party ?
Mullen, the pedestrian, Ims issued
a challenge to walk against any man
in the world, five hundred miles, for
one thousand dollars a side.
The Irou Convention at Pittsburg
advanced the prices of bar, sheet and
plate iron about six dollars per ton.
In Wotouwana county, lowa, the
number of grasshoppers was esti
mated at ono hundred bushels to the
aero.
The Montgomery Advertiser says
great excitement prevails at Munford,
Talladega county, over tho discovery
of a silver mine, fivo miles from that
place, said to bo very productive.
Over $6,000,000, worth of property
has been buried in the American lakes
since tho introduction of steam.
Sufficient returns hare been re
ceived from all the counties in Mon
tana to show that the democracy is
everywhere successful, and in most
of tho comities the local tickets have
been elected.
Tilton is going to sue tbo Tribune,
the World and the Brooklyn Eagle,
and several others not yet named,
for $50,000 each.
A fire occurred in the Studebaker
wagon manufactory, at South Bend,
Indiana, tho other day,which resulted
in a loss of about $300,000.
There is said to be a wonderful
girl in Ohio, who, when blindfolded,
can tell colors by touoh.
The delinquent tax lists of Chicago
show that ouly about forty per cent,
of her citizens aro able to meet their
obligations.
In Misaouai, after 1876, CTory
voter must be able to road and
write. Tire date for Florida is 1880.
[advertisement.]
A Card.
J. T. Johnson, C. S. C. of Harris
connty, never paid tho undersigned
one cent of the public school fund of
1871. Said Johnson admitted this
fact to tho undersigned at Bethel, on
the 22d of July, 1874. He has ad
mitted the same io other parties in
Hamilton.
In an interview had by the writer
with J. T. Johnson, October, 1873,
said Johnson informed the writer that
he was entitled to about s9l, which
Johnson denominated the “second
instalment of 1871,” and that this
amount would be ready in a few
days. The writer requested Johnson
to pay the specified amount, with all
other amounts due him, to Mr. S. A.
Hunt, who would present a written
order for the same. Johnson prom
ised to do so, and repeatedly asserted
that he had no authority to pay any
fund except to a teacher, or to his
written order, as no other receipt was
valid in his office. S. A. Hunt pre
sented the order, and Johnson paid
him $135 as my pro rata for 1873,
and refused to pay liim one cent for
18 ? /1. Johnson admitted this to the
writer on the 22d of July, 1874, and
then went home and advertised that
J. G. Calhoun received $335.85 of the
public fund for 1871 and 1873, John
son knew that Calhoun never received
one cent for 1871. Before the proper
tribunal will be established the fol
lowing facts:
1. That J. G. Calhoun did not re
ceive one cent of the fund for 1871.
2. All he ever received from public
fund is $135 for 1873.
3. That J. T. Johnson refused to
respect Calhoun’s order by S. A,
Hunt.
4. That said Calhoun taught orph
an and indigent children in 1871, for
whose tuition he has received nothing
—not a farthing from any source.
5. That said Calhoun made his re
turns in literal conformity unto John
son’s instructions, through a member
of the board of Harris county.
6. That J. G. Calhoun was the only
licensed teacher in Ellerslie district
in 1871, and consequently entitled to
all tho fund apportioned to said dis
trict. Calhoun assisted Ellison and
Brannon in taking the enumeration
of said district, traveled to Hamilton
four times in the interest of the school,
.taught said school ten months (not
three), honestly, earnestly and satis
factorily, and, under the law, Cal
houn, not Johnson, nor anybody else,
is entitled to that fund.
7. Several of Calhoun’s patrons of
1871 have relinquished their claim
upon tho public fund of 1871, in his
favor, as a partial compensation for
teaching the orphan and indigent chil
dren above-mentioned.
8. Joel T. Johnson cannot find one
patron of Calhoun’s school who has
ever received one cent of his pro rata
for 1871. Nor can he find one who
has settled with Calhoun for 1873
and lias not a credit upon his tuition
bill of $3 —no matter where he lives;
because Johnson instructed Calhoun
in October, 1873, to credit all the
pupils in his school, of legal ages,
.with $3, and it was done.
Finally, Honest Joel defies any
man to show an instance in which
he did not pay BSP teachers the
full amount of their pro rata. Citi
zen of Harris county, step into the
office of lion. J. T. Williams, and in
quire for an execution in favor of a
certain “ nigger schoolmarm’s ” claim
against J. T. Johnson. You will find
one. Wait a little while, and “one
Mr. Calhoun, of Talbot county,” will
furnish another. How' many more
there 4yo, “deponent saith not,”
Brother pedagogues, “The prayers
of the wicked are unavailing.” Then,
if wo cannot “ watch and pray let
us Aiiay watch !
J. G. Calhoun.
Bowery Academy, Aug. 12, 1874.
A Turn-coat.— Jack Brown, of
Sumter county, who commanded the
55th Ga. RegtjMuring the war, and
who was a Democrat to
vote for Grcelgy, lias been nominated
for Congress by the Radicals of the
3d district. He had previously an
nounced himself as an independent
candidate, and when the Radicals
offered him tho nomination, he swal
lowed it, civil rights and all. “ What
a fail was there, my countrymen ! ”
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Not Suspended.— A letter from
tho proprietors of the Aldino informs
us that this beautiful art journal is
not in any embarrassment whatever.
We are very glad to learn that the
rumor of its suspension was un
founded.
dF” Randolph county has two
democratic candidates for the legis
lature, each claiming to have been
nominated- The conveutiou split into
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