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BY I). W. D. DOULLY.
FRIDAY MORNING. OCT. 2, 1874.
* No person is authorized to
collect money for this paper without
a written order from the proprietor.
Do Your Duty.
Before another inane of this paper,
the election for members of the next
General Assembly will have trans
pired, and upon its results depend
many of the sacred interests of the
people of Georgia.
Every white voter of the State
should be at his post of duty, and by
his ballot and iiiilueneo sustain the
gloiious reputation of ear good old
commonwealth in her tuftwOTiag
fidelity to democratic principle*.
This is the only path of duty poialed
out for every patriotic citizen to walk
in who loves his countiy anil the
great fundamental principles ol con
stitutional liberty. Vox popuii, vox
Dei, is no empty sound to the Amer
ican ear. It is full of meaning, and
significant of that high and onward
march in Christian civilization which
was vouchsafed to the noble defend
ers of our liberties in the days of ’7O,
and hallowed by their sacred blood.
And we, their noble descendants,
should verify this great truth, that
this is the white man’s government,
and that the chivalrie blood ol Amer
icans will rule America.
The genius of our institutions is
concentrated in the sovereign will of
the people, and the prosperity and
advancement of our national integrity
finds its Herculean power in the di
rection of that will, sublimated by
llio benign influence of au enlightened
conscience.
Let there bo no lethargy among
the poople on the day of the election.
Let every man turn out and do his
whole duty in holding up the hands
of our standard-bearers, Hudson,
Moss nnd Kilpatrick ; and when tho
polls aro closed and the ballet is as
certained, let tho loud huzzahn go up
for tho largest democratic triumph
that has over been known iu our
county.
To do this, all must act in noble
oonoert. There must bo no apathy,
but every mau must feel it his duty
to do something on that day. Lay
asido all prejudice, and ooine bravely
up to the work, like tho Roman co
horts, determined to conquer or per
ish nobly in the breach. And, our
word for it, you will feel proud of
yoursolves, and your wives and chil
dren will sing preuns of praise that
will fairly make tho mountains of old
Harris reverberate with the melody
of ten thousand iEolian harps. Then
“ Strike for yonr altars,
God aiul your native land."
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Cotton has been steadily de
clining for Bovdral weeks.
Deaths in Columuus. —Mr. Win.
Snow, ono of tho oldest and best cit
izens of Columbus, died iu that city
lust Sunday.
Mrs. Bontrite, wife of Mr. A. V.
Boatrito, a merchant of Columbus,
also died there on the same day.
IW Brooklyn sustaining her
reputation. A case of rape nnd an
other of Beecherism aro the latest
sensations.
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2-2*" Wo met up with a mau in
Columbus, last week, who said ho
never advertised. Tho sheriff may
advertise for him some day.
£37* Columbus, at this time, is a
city of movers.
A Typhoon.—A frightful typhoon
passed over Hong Kong, ou the 27th.
Ten vessels were wrecked, and many
lire missing. A largo number of houses
were destroyed, and 1,000 persons
are reported missing. The damage
to property was immense.
Saw a Vision.—Butler was mak
ing a speech at Essex, the other day,
and while urging all men to pay their
debts, some wag lowered a spoon
through the roof by moans of a string,
mid there it huug suspended. The
crowd first laughed, then roared, and
for once iu his life the “ brass ” of the
Beast deserted him, and ho was un
manned.
*es“ Judge Clark, Radical, declared
iu a recent speech at Somerville, Ala.,
that before he would execute such a
law as the civil rights bill proposes,
Ite would go to the penitentiary.
Dkaiv —Mr. J. -It. Johnson, of
Waco, Texas, from whom a letter
appeared in the Visitor some mouths
ago, died on the 13th nit. lie was a
coumu of our townsman, Mr. Joel. T.
Johnson.
17" By the recent explosion of the
boiler of a steam thresher at St. Paul,
four persons were killed, and several
miters more or less injured.
In a Tight Flack. —The Jessup
Georgian says that a teamster lately
discovered a snake in the road, and
stopped to kill it. He struck at it
with a small limb, but the stick was
rotten. The snake began to coil for
an attack, and the man found himself
hemmed in between the wagon and
a large log. lie has a wooden leg,
and this he placed between the snake
and himself, and threw bis other leg
some distance behind. The snake
struck his wooden leg, and went its
full length beyond. Before it couid
recover from the spring, the man had
it grasped tightly by the neck. lie
pnt his other hand in his pocket,
took out his knife, opened it with
the assistance of the arm which held
the snake, and cut off its head. It
was a very largo rattlesnake.
Firs. —Fin s occur more frequently
at this season, particularly gin-house
burnings. Head the card of D. F.
Wtfleox, in to day’s paper, and call
on him tight off and have your prop
erty insured, before it is too late.
IT-3?* A few days ago a boy in Sa
vannah drank some carbolic acid,
mistaking it for alo. Ho had asked,
his mother for ale, and been refused;
and during her absence from the
•room he went to the closet where
the ale was kept, and took a drink
from the bottle of acid. When his
mother returned ho told her he had
had some ale, and showed her the
bottle he got it from. Medical aid
was summoned at once, and his life
was saved.
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Saddlery. —lf you need anything
in the saddle or harness line, call on
W. R. Kent, in Columbns. 110 has
an excellent stock, well adapted to
the wants of farmers, and sells at pri
ces which will give satisfaction. See
his advertisement in this issuo.
VWA negro shot and killed his
wife Boston, Mass., on the 20th.
Groceries.— Head tho advertise
ment of J. <fc J, Kaufman, in this
number of the Visitor. They are
doing a large wholesale business, keep
a big stock of everything in their line,
and guarantee that no house in Co
lumbus shall undersell them. Mr. J.
W. Ilodo, of Harris county, is with
this house, and would ho glad to see
his old friendst
IT??” A recent negro meeting in
Thomasville broke up in a row.
Whittle)’, who was present, sloped
hurriedly through a window. The
matter was brought before the mayor,
nnd ono witness, on being asked why
he was there, said bo heard Mr.
Whiteloy was to issue bacon rations
to them.
I®* The Atlanta Musical Eclectic
asks: “ Have we a Peabody among
us?” Wo can’t say as to that; but
you have several Shylocks in your
midst.
E'i.7" A singular ease of hydropho
bia is reported from Chicago. Charles
Haake, a hoy six years of age, was
bitten on the hand by a cat about
five weeks ago. The wound was so
slight that tho child did not complain
of it at all, hut on Saturday morning
he was taken with all tho symptoms
of hydrophobia, and died before night.
The oat has never at any time exhib
ited any signs of madness, and the
physicians regard it as a most re
markable case.
£37" .Jackson, of tho Columbus
Dispatch, has known us for several
years, but ho hasn’t learnt to spell
our name correctly yet.
£ •?' A man was recently run over
and killed by a Pennsylvania railroad
train of which his son was conductor.
Highwaymen. —Last Sunday night,
as a limlman from Mr. Kyle’s plan
tali >n, at Woolfolk's bend, was re
turning home from Columbus, bo was
halted nt Hull creek bridge by two
white and two black men, who de
manded his money, lie wheeled his
horse, and dashed back to Columbus.
They fired at him, but missed.'
$r A telegram reports Grant as
being in Now York last Monday, and
leaving that night. Just as if the
Southern people cared to know of
Grant’s whereabouts.
£ Tho Columbus Baptist Asso
ciation closed its session at Liberty
Hill last Monday. There was a good
attendance each day, and a large one
on Sunday. The next session will be
held in Columbus.
I’nufAVMKNT. —Alter tho Ist day
of January next subscribers will have
uo postage to pay on printed matter
—all postage being prepaid by the
publisher.
J i?** A sheriff at Ellsworth, Kan
sas, was shot through the head and
killed by a Texas eow-loy reoently.
The cow-boy was then shot and
killed by eilicr officers.
Matters in Georgia.
Chas. De Lyon, a youthfulnegro
thief, who was being carried , from
Jessup to Brunswick, lately, jumped
off the train and broke bis neck.
The Americus volunteers have de
termined to arm themselves, as the
Government cannot furnish thorn
arms.
The dairies around Savannah fur
nished that city with twenty thous
and pounds of fresh butter during
the past year.
A heavy rice crop is anticipated
by planters near Savannah.
The deaf and dumb institution at
Cave Springs has seventy pupils.
A negro woman aged 60 years, who
lives on Mr. Sam Smith’s plantation,
near Saudersviile, has cultivated this
year, the Gazette says, ten acres in
cotton, ten acres in corn, a potato
patch and a garden. She will make
about three bales of cotton and near
ore hundred bushels of corn. Dur
ing the year she hired two days’ work
to aid her in cultivating her crop*
otherwise the work has all been done
by herself.
About oiie-fourth of the business
part of Bainbridge was burned on
the 20th inst. Loss nearly $30,000.
This is the fifth disastrous fire that
has visited Bainbridge in three years.
The Thomaston Herald mentions
the Lillnisr of an owl last week, meas-
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uring four feet ten inches from tip to
tip.
Mr. W. C. Eason has left at the
Thomasville Enterprise office a cotton
stalk with over 400 large bolls. It
is of the Dickson improved variety.
Mr. E. has 25 acres of it, which he
says will make 30 bales.
Mr. Wm. Howard, aged 69, died
recently in Thomas county from inju
ries received by the falling on him of
a heavy portion of a cotton screw.
A young lady at Grooversville,
Thomas county, recently received,
through the post-office, a letter from
a buck negro, proposing elopement
and marriage. The citizens are much
excited, and are hunting the writer,
for the purpose of showing him his
mistake.
A negro school-teacher tried to
spit on. a young man in Talbotton,
the other day. llis head has not
yet sufficiently healed to remove the
bandage.
The Atlanta custom house is to be
built on the Westmoreland lot, oppo
site the capitol.
The night train on the Selma,
Home & Daltou H. 11. went through
the bridge at Waxahatchie creek on
the 24th. The engine and six ears
were wrecked, four persons killed,
and eleven seriously and fourteen
slightly wounded.
Jeff. Long, a negro politician of
Macon, said, in a late speech to his
race, that the white man who would
vote the radical ticket was too mean
to he trusted—ho would steal.
■ Tho News reports some four or
five more deaths from diptheria, in
the no’gliborhood of Franklin, since
its last issue, and says there are yet a
number of malignant cases.
The'dairies around Savannah fur
nished that city with twenty thous
and. pounds of fresli butter during
the past year.
Mr. John G. Butler, of Savannah,
who went North last April, and was
returning to the city on the San Sal
vador, when nearly in sight of home,;
stepped on a lady’s dress, who was
stauding near the rail, apologized,
threw himself into the sea, and was
drowned.
The Constitution says two hundred
and fifty cases have been brought to
tho present term of Fulton Superior
Court, the heaviest being that of Re
becca 11, Davis vs. tho Central Rail
way Company for $20,000 damages
for personal injuries.
The Appeal says that Mr. Wash.
Smith, of Wilkinson county, was as
saulted, a few evenings ago, while
driving nlong the road in his buggy,
by a persou dressed in womau’s
elothes, who sprang up behind his
buggy and attempted to cut his
throat with a knife. He warded off
the knife with his band and received
a slight wound, and, seizing his whip,
struck the assassin a blow’ with ‘the
staff, knocked her out of the hitggv,
and, whipping his horse, made his
escape, the persou running after tho
buggy some distance.
The Board of Aldermen of Sanders
ville, charge one thousand dollars for
a license to retail spirituous liquors
within the incorporate limits.
Tho Columbus factories pay out
$24,000 per month to their employes.
Tho books and furniture of tho Co
lumbus Library Association were sold
at auction last week, and brought $l3O.
Tho engineers of tho United States
Coast Survey have Commenced the
erection of buildings for a permanent
.post on Lavender’s Mountain, near
Rome.
Matters in General.
A collision occurred on (he Balti
%iore and Ohio railroad on the 23d.
The mail car took fire and was de
stroyed, and a clerk therein was
burnt to death. The baggage car
was also burnt, and some of the plat
forms demolished, but none of the
passengers were injured.
A boy fell from a swing, in New
York, on the 25th, and died .soon
after.
A woman in Rhode island drowned
herself, on the 25th, because her hus
band had rebuked her for getting
drunk.
The widow of “Stonewall ’* Jack
son lives in Charlotte, N. C. She is
reported to be not more than 25 or
30 years old, and quite handsome;
And now the members of Plymouth
church, not content with “ white
washing ” their hypocritical, villain
ous pastor; speak of increasing his
salary to $30,000. Such a church is
stench in the nostrils of the Al
nP-Shty 1 .
There are more white women in
fif'-nnessee than negro women who
can neither read nor write.
The Republican State Convention
of Pennsylvania has declared against
the third term, and favoring Ilart
raiift for President.
Admiral Scinraes is a candidate for
Congress in Mobile (Ala.) district.
His disabilities were removed by
Congress last winter.
The colored troops of Evansville,
Ind., met a short time since and pass
ed resolutions denouncing the Radi
cal party as corrupt and no longer
worthy of trust.
It is stated that a person can live
cheaper and better in San Francisco
than in any other city in the country
for tho amount of money expended.
The silk factories of New Jersey
employ 7,000 girls.
A spectacular drama, founded on
Webster’s dictionary, unabridged, is
in course of preparation.
A New York doctor figures it out
that an average woman will shed a
barrel of tears in forty years.
At Richmond, near London, the
ants, red and black, and without
wings, have suddenly assumed the
character of a plague.
The grasshoppers have gone into
Mississippi to finish the work of the
Citvpet-baggers. In LawreucO county
they fiy so thick that it 13 impossible
to see through them, and they devour
every green leaf that comes iu their
way.
The consumption of the flesh of
horses, mules and asses is decidedly
on the increase in Paris. Returns
show that the flesh of 2,111 horses,
asses and mules was sold to the
Parisian public during the first quar
ter of the current year, against 1,275
in 1872, and 680 in 1870.
The total state debt of Texas is
$8,384,336, which includes the new
issue of $1,000,000. A portion of the
latter has not been negotiated.
Charleston reports a curious varie
ty of rice. It has the stalk, the blades
and the cob of the ordinary corn, but
the cob is covered with grains of lice.
Tho seed was obtained from Georgia,
where a pond which had been planted
in rice for years was drained and
planted in corn, the result being a
crop of the hybrid vice above de
scribed.
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A lightning rod, which was put up
under the personal supervision of
Benjamin Franklin, in 1762, remains
still upon a hotel in New Hampshire.
In Kansas an extra session of the
Legislature is called to relieve the
people who are suffering from grass
hoppers.
A sun dial on one of the forts in
Texas, the actual value of which was
originally sl7, is said to have cost
Government $4,000.
The post-office department has
lately issued an order w hich is of in
terest to persons in the rural dis
tricts. The order requires country
post masters to keep their offices open
every day during the usual business
hours and to attend at all other times
that may be required to receive and
dispatch the mails; and also requires
them to open their office one hour
on Sunday morning if a mail arrives
at the office on that day.
The yellow fever is said to be on
the increase in Pensacola. There
were fifty cases in the city and thirty
at the navy-yard on the 21st.
Jn Coosa county Ala., the white
folks raise their own corh, cotton,
rye, oats, etc. They tau the leather,
and make their own shoes.
George L. Cornell, a wealthy citi
zen of Rye, N. Y., was trimming o
tree, recently, when he fell from the
ladder and broke his neck.
A steamer recently made the trip
from San Francisco to Yokohama,
I Japan, in seventeen days and thirteen
1 hours, the fastest or.ssatre oil record.
SADDLES AND HARNESS!
HOME-MADE WORK A SPECIALTY!
o
W. R. KENT,
Manufacturer and Dealer in all kinds of
SADDLES, BRIDLES, COLLARS, WHIPS,
BITS, SPURS, CURRY-COMBS and BRUSHES.
CARRIAGE, BUGGY, EXPRESS WAGON, CART and BRAY HARNESS, both Single and Doable
Wagon, Buggy and Plow Bridles. "Wagon, Buggy and Plow Lines.
Wagon and Plow Haines and Trace Chains. Ladies’ and Gents’ Trunks
Valises, Satchels and Carpet Bags. Baby Carriages. The best Axle and
Harness Grease. Harness, Sole, Upper, Lace and Hame-string Leather.
Also, patent Dash and Enameled Leather. Enameled cloths, Saddle and
Horse Blankets. Saddlery and Harness Hardware.
Any kind of new work made to order, and old work repaired at short notice.
Call and examine, and be convinced that I am determined to sell as cheap
as any other house, regardless of cost. My stock is complete. \
Satisfaction guaranteed. W. R. KENT,
oct2-3in 102 Broad st., Columbus, Ga.
J. S. J O N E S’
CASH DK.Y GOODS HOUSE,
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
FALL PURCHASE.
Especial attention is called to large additions mking to stock adapted to present season.
A largo line ot new Hamburgs. Anew and desirable iot of Ladies’ Ties.
An immense line of Shawls, all grades, at exceptionally popular prices.
Ladies’ and Children’s Hosiery, Men’s and Bovs’ Half I Tot e.
Men’s and Ladies’ Merino Vests. Full line of Black Alpacas.
A superb quality of silk-warp Alpaca.
Many desirable Black Mourning Dress Goods—the Colonna Cloth deserves especial iileii
tion in this line.
Several grades Black Cashmeres and Merino*.
Anew tidng in Embroidery is presented in I’ique Edgings and Insertings.
Beaded Trimmings and Beads in end'ess quantity.
Beaded Scarfs, Fislius Barbs, Veils and Veilings. New lot of Buffs, Ruchings, etc.
Immense lines of JEANS and CASSIMERES.
BLEACHED and BROWN SHIRTINGS at Satisfactory Prices.
Mr. Robert Spivey is again with me, and will be glad to see and serve his friends when
they visit the city. sept2s-lm J. S. JONES.
J. H. H A M I LT O N,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN
BAGGING, TIES, BACON, CORN,
SALT, SUGAR, COFFEE, &0., &&.
FLOUR! FLOUR! FLOUR!
A Large Stock of Best Brands at prices which defy competition.
ALWAYS ON HAND A FULL STOCK OF
Plantation & Family Groceries & Provisions.
Junction of Franklin, Warren and Oglethorpe Sts,
COLUMBUS - - • GEOEG3A
tigQr* No charge for Drayago. feb2l-lyr
GRAND ATTRACTION.
NEW CLOTHING STORE.
THORNTON & ACES,
78 BROAD ST., COLUMBUS. GA-.
Having received their new stock of
SPRING AND SUMMER CLOTHING,
For Men’s. Youths’, Boy s ’ and Children’s wear, offer superb r inducements to the trade!;
Having carefully selected their goods with an eye to ttie wants of the trade, and the finan
cial condition of the country, and having 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,
COBTJMBXJS, GA.,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
isoDOtfssk u>nisr®s a ®ns®ik£JS
buheeip j&rcrsircb ira Axcjssb ipiKDSJTinMBBs &©<>
Rosewood seven octave Pianos from S3OO to SSOO. Geo. Woods & Co
s & Hamlin, and other Organs. Violins, Guitars, Flutes, Banjos,
month havps, sheet music, etc. We make orders for sheet music and music
books every few days, and anything wanted and not in stock,‘will D'e
ordered and furnished at publisher’s prices. nov7-ly
A- WITTICH- C- M- KINSEL.
WITTICH & KINSEL,
PRACTICAL WATCHMAKERS,
iIWILIIS 111 BSf Bit 11$,
NO. 67 BROAD STREET, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
iBBt EramMiia
All of tlio Latest Manufactures-
An entirely new stock of the beet goods and the kites! stj leg hog been recently bought in
New Yoik, and is hereby offered at the Lowest Casu Prices.
Diamonds, gold and silver Spectacles and Kve-fliasses, (told and silver Thimbles, ladies and
gents' Chains, plain and fancy Hold King* of beautiful woi kin airship, and every
variety of article found in a i'irst-c'ars Jewelry Store.
Stencil Plates of every description cut at shoit notice.
Sole Agents for the celebrated Diamond Peb'Jed Spectacles and Eye-glasses, and Agents
, for the Arundel Pebble Speed s which are slightly colored, end iu fegh favor with every
body using specks or eve-glasses.
Watch, Clock and Jewelry repaiiing in all its i'ranches. Hir Jewelry, Society Hodges,
Diamond setting, or auy new wnk made to order .U reasonable charge*.
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