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Cljf £-1$ D. W. D. BOULLT. 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. in ■ ira . 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 ! ” ■ m lira 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 -'•-• •> • . i J. H. H A M I L T ON, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN BAGGING, TIES, BACON, CORN, SALT, SUGAR, COFFEE, Ac., FLOURI FLOUR I FLOUR! A Large Stock of Best Brands at prices which defy competition, ALWAYS ON HAND A FULL STOCK OF Plantation & Family Groceries & Provision Junction of Franklin, Warren and Oglethorpe Sts, CO JLUM33U S-- ■ GEORGIA, No charge for Drayage. feb2l-]y r BOATRITB & CLAPP, Wholesale and Retail Pealers in Dry Goods, Clothing, Hats, Boots, Shoes, &c., Have Jußt Received Their NEW SPRING GOODS. Best Spool Cotton 70c. Prints 10c. Dress Goods and all other goods at very low prices. 4—4 Bleached Goods 10@12^c. —worth 16c. Columbus, Ga., May 1, 1874. mayl-3m 1874 SPRING MILLINERY 1874 CHEAPER THAN EVER, AT YYHOLESALE AND RETAIL! MRS. L. A. LEE HAS NOW OPENED AT HER STORE, 75 BROAU ST-, OOLTJMBUS, GA, A Magnificent Stock of Ladies’, Misses’ and Children’s Hats, trimmed and untrimmed. Flowers, Parasols, Fans and Ribbons. Hosiery, Gloves and Corsets. And many other novelties, which she offers cheaper than ever. BSL. Orders faithfully attended to. may 1-3 m GRAND ATTRACTION. NEW CLOTHING STORE. THORNTON & ACER, *7B BBOAD ST-, COLUMBUS, GA- Having received their new stock of SPRING AND SUMMER CLOTHING, For Men’s, Youths’, Boys’ and Children’s wear, offer superior inducements to the trade. Having carefully selected their goods with an eye to the wants of the trade, and the finan cial condition of the country, and baviug purchased their entire stock for Cash, they are enabled to offer great bargains to all buyers of good clothing. Their stock of Furnishing Goods is complete, new, novel and cheap. Give them a call. aplo-6m J. W. PEASE & NORMAN, COLUMBUS. GA., WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN WSMSSk IPH^ST®S 9 EIU2IIES? EOUgllty, S>]£ AXmafife B>n(DET!7nMIB 8 ML Rosewood seven octave Pianos from S3OO to SSOO. Geo. Woods 4b Co,- Mason & Hamlin, and other Organs. Violins, Guitars, Flutes, Banjos, mouth harps, sheet music, etc. YVe make orders for sheet music and music books every few days, and anything wanted and not in stock, will be ordered and furnished at publisher’s prices. nov7-ly W. J. CHAFFIN', • • . BOOKSEIIiZjBR c So STATIONER AND DEALER IN .-TjIKAM MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, GBtROHOS, FRAMES AMD MQTODOTGS, NO. 92 BROAD STREET, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.^ A- WITTICH- C- M- KINSEL. WITTICH & KINSEL, PRACTICAL WATCHMAKERS, JIWULSIS 111 ISlIIfilS, NO. 6T BROAD STREET, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. All of tlio liatest ManufaoAurecf. An entirely new stock of the best goods and the latest styles has been recently bongbt In I New York, and Is hereby offered at the loWest Casu Prtcdi. ~*T Diamonds, gold and silver Spectacles and Eye-Glasses, gold and idlver Thjkblir, arid gents Chains, plain and fancy Gold Bings of beautiful workmanship, and every variety of article found in a First-class Jewelry Store. Stencil Hates of every description cut at short notice. ' y " • ' Sole Agents for the celebrated Diamond Pebhied Spectacles and Eye-glasses, and Agents for the Arundel Pebble Specks, which are slightly colored, and in h’gh favor with every- Ixxly using specks or eve-glasses. _ Watch CWk and Jewelry repairing in all Its branches. Hair Jewelry, Society BadgrA.