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v|u>v vi iHst came qu a now head, and otherwise improved. ' —i^,. Butter, —Is there no butter in the county? There hasn’t been any in Hamilton for some time past. If our country friends would bring some to town, they could find ready sale fof it. car Never have we known pret tier weather for picking cotton than wears now having. Aud onr farm ers aro taking advantage of it by get ting out and sending to market lots of the fleecy staple. J3T Franklin mourns the depar ture of her barber. A (loop Aork.—-The La Grange Bettor ter says that Mr. J. M. Truitt raised this year, on owe acre, 52 bush els of corn, evorat%nndred pounds of fodder and pea vine hay, aud a goodly rjuantity of peas. t : 2r Trov has a hco that drinks l*3r beer every day. j 64 135 97 Tax Collec- year, and find .un i. and and two dol y-nioe cen'a in arrears, tally suggest a speedy set ; sa-i-IVLy and diligently , lit* bonks and vouchers of (Jo u . fcj- uool Commissioner, J. .Inlitison, and find that he has lifuliy ischarged thaduties ofliis ; i. in csery particular, and for the ~rt .ation of all concerned we ap nd die fallowing exhibit: DEnrou To arm nt of Public School fund Reived otn County Treasurer for 171. unary, 873 $1,355 39 O' mbt 1873 997 25 $2,352 64 cbedit y ao>oi t paid teachers, tr < i mission, as per v. ,.Jie $2,446 33 Due i uinmissioner 93 09 DEBTOR. h ptet ' 1873—Amount e od. from State Treas’r $3,562 16 ■\"pm.t paid teachers as per vouchers 3,460 14 C: :h on hand $ 102 02 Tt'e fi; the roads and bridges in coup- generally in good condi tion. L'l'P ji. house is in' bad condition, an re ommend a thorough re ;.ir >f tan same, and whitewashing t'.in inner walls. The court-house is in gni : condition. We have elected Flynn Hargett, 'Viiliam ('. Johnston and Win. I. Hudson embers of the Board ol lucatiot for this county. We ho 5 allowed N. IT. Barden, • tea*, or tie superior v;ouri, nity a- dais foi extra services for the last' you; I>. I . Williams, Sheriff, fifty dollars, ioi 1 J. F. C. Williams, Ordi nary, fifty dollars. We recommend that the jurors be pub! two dollars per day, for this ten. i of top Court, and the bailiffs tw<- doli. s per day, and one dollar per day f< horse. ' We riL L-t to learn of outrages, of iv.c. in on heretofore peaceful coun ty, u,ion L e persons and property of aom- of r citizens, which wo con demn in lqnalified terms, and ask jaud mga i ion all well disposed per -84-oij a. and countenance all violations of law, no. use all means within their {power 1 o b ing evil-doers to justice. Wc id ir the thanks of this body to li : Ifc.tor, Judge Johnson, for the c\ lit )us and aide discharge of luty, nl o Sol. Con. Little for his >oliu i m ion during our session. W request these presentments midi.-.: a 1 in the Hamilton Visitor. ‘ lli nsox, Foreman, oice'i ! '• iv, James Swint, il' ’ ' rd'\ I!, J S Irvin, T !* .'<•< 11, W H Lnttrell, L Vi ci , T L Davidson, 1 T S el-on, John C Reid, f O Vie ■' Ainzi Grant, and Jas. L Whatley, s, W J Colvin, H rim'i uin, F M Jenkins, Br *.-!John M Askew. ( v f s tvannab News says that '.thus Dispatch is really dit. make much iuss about it. imu was because it didn’t have time—its death was too sudden aud unexpected for that. The next legislature \\ ill con sist of one white Radical, two inde pendent Democrats, and forty-one Democrats in the senate, and four white ami throe colored Radicals, twelve independent Democrats, and one hundred aud fifty-nine Democrats in the house, jrg; Gov. Smith has ordered anew election in Habersham, ns there was a tie in that county. fcSrThe West Point Press cor rects the statement it made some lime since, that Col. Harris loft the camp ground bn Sunday for the nom inating convention, by saying that Col. H. did not leave that day, nor w be at the convention at all. jiaT M. M. Barron, of the Frank lin Ntws, in bis last issue, offers bis pj>er lor sede. at 11. .dels . , more to <lition to this " *’ ■ ,r general lias issued nst ten of the principal . the State, and will soon „fl others. ,er one thousand military compa res have been formed in the State, and still they come. The Governor has authorized Dr. Flewellen, the receiver, to bid a mil lion and a half for the State, at the sale of the Macon and Brunswick road. Two men in Newton county killed 36 partridges the other day. A Covington boy recently caught seven ’coons in one tree. West Point has received 1,810 bales of cotton since Ist September. Rockmart is boasting off"a corn cob shaped like a human hand. Brimberry, white, is now the only Radical in the senate. Ten new stores have been built in West Point in the last year. A negro near Lawtonville recently committed suicide by hanging him self to a tree. His wife had deserted him a few hours previously. The gin-house of Mr. T. B. Law son, of Stewart connty, containing six bales of cotton, was recently burnt by an incendiary. Greene and Decatur counties went democratic at the late election, for the first time since the war. The gin-house of Mr. 11. Markham, of Talbot county, containing eight bales of cotton, together with a grist and saw mill, were recently burnt. It is rumored that Gen. Bethune is running as the Radical candidate for Congress front the 4th district. Romo claims a negro girl who weighs only ninety pounds, but wears a No. 13 shoe, A Hancock county negro is run ning for Congress in the Bth district in opposition to Hon. A. 11. Stephens Dalton has two colored schools, each having 100 scholars. Judge Weems, of the Macon city court, recently lined a man SSO and anal a for whipping his w ife. A rbjhl-- oous verdict. lion, A. 11. Ste[>hens is a remarka ble Democrat. In a recent speech at Augusta he said Grant had done his duty, and saw no reason why he should not be elected for a third term. In Thomas county several of the leading colored men worked nobly for the democratic cause, and 150 voted that ticket. Judge Erskine lately sent three men to jail at Rome, aud lined them $2,000, for illicit distilling. In Meriwether county, the other day, Jimmie Almau, aged 12, picked 270 pounds of cotton, and, the same day, S. S. McLendon picked 381 pounds, and Coolie Flemister, colored, 438 pounds. The Columbus hospital, for the first time since the war, is without a pa'i.nt. The gin-house of A. J. Rowe, in Meriwether county, containing eight hales of cotton, was recently burnt by an incendiary. Loss SI,OOO. Mrs. It. T. Simons, of Columbus, lately slipped and fell while cooking dinner, and displaced the bones of one of her shoulders. A little son of J. W. Burdett re cently died very suddenly in West Point of croup, 110 eat supper as usual, aud died before 12 o’clock. The Cutbbert Appeal says that out of the 1,093 votes received by Air. Tuinlin, “ independent ” candidate for Representative in Randolph county, nearly 900 were given by negroes. The gin-house of Dr. W. A. , Strother, of Mitchell county, was burned recently, together with seven bales of cotton. The Georgia Grange claims that its direct trade union will have shipped 100,000 bales of cotton from Savan nah to Liverpool by November. The State University commenced the fall term with 172 students, of whom nearly one half are new. A negro boy, sixteen years old, picked 350 pounds of cotton upon a plantation near Covington in one day. The Savannah Advertiser says that the Grangers have sent about one hundred bales of cotton to that port to be sent to Liverpool. A Berrien county man has a sow which sports five legs. A cowardly Sparta man named John J. Berrjpsbot a negro twice the other day without provocation. The Democratic mnjoiity in Geor gia is estimated at 75,000. Matters in General. A mackerel has been caught at Halifax, N. S, which was nine feet long and weighed over 500 pounds. As the rafters of a house in Char lotte, N. C, wi re being braced, on the 14th, one of them fell on N. G. Allison, a carpenter, ind threw him to the ground, a distance of fifty feet. Ilis neck and skull were bro ken, and he died instantly. Mr. Ross, whose child was kid napped some time ago, is confined to his bed, and is bereft of reason. A freight train on the and Eufaula railroad lately went through a trestle fifteen feet high. The engine passed over safely, but seven cars were demolished. A train hand was killed and the engineer slightly injured. A defalcation of SI,OOO is repot ted fn the custom-house at Havana. 11. Emanuel & Cos., the largest cigar importers in Canada, have failed. Liabilities $400,000. Gaza way B. Lamar, who died re cently in New York, bequeathed one hundred thousand dollars for the erection at Savannah of a home for the aged and infirm negroes. A San Francisco paper notes the destruction by fire of a large number of flour mills in that State during the past few weeks. The latest novelty in fashion that comes to us relates to visiting cards. When the upper right hand corner is turned down it signifies that you have called in person; when the lower right hand, that you have merely sent your card with compli ments ; when the upper left hand, that your call is congratulatory; when the lower left hand, consolatory. The Pennsylvania railroad claims the largest locomotive in the.country. It has twelve driving wheels and weighs seventy-five tons. Miss Carrie Ballard, of Avoca, lowa, while on her way to school in Cincinnati was frightened by some men on the railroad train trying to flirt with her to such an extent that she locked herself in the w'ater-closet and would not come out. When the train reached Peoria the door was forced open and the young lady found to be insane. The other Jay when a man at Paris, Ky., discovered a lire and yelled “ vvhoop l” thirty or f rty citi zens pulled out revolvers, “ whooped ” at him, and began dodging behind hitching-posts to get the first shot in on him. A bov iu Hudson, N. Y., while digging for fish-worms, a day or two ago, unearthed his grandfather’s jack knife, which had lain iu the ground over sixty years. For the nine momlis of the pres ent year 0,488 p t nts have been.is sued from the United States patent office, which shows a slight gain on the monthly average of the two pre ceding years. Asa result of the recent eruptions of Etna a fissure three miles long has been opened on the northern side of the mountain, in the course of which several minor craters arc formed. Cotton picking is new in full blast in Fresno county, California. In most instances Chinese laborers are pressed into the service, that being the only species of help obtainable. The crops are turning out fully as well as antic ipated. Few even among the thriftiest Scotchmen have made a penny go further than a firm of brass and cop pei; wire manufacturers, who recently drew a copper coin into 2,700 feet— more than half a mile—of wire. Railroad cars are henceforth to be supplied with Bibles by the Ameri can Bible Society. Mrs. Barclay, a widow of Presi dent Van Buren, died suddenly at Newport, a few days ago. A Paris retail dry goods and no tion store employs a force of 1,300 clerks and 215 porters, and its trade requires, for proper transaction, the use of 35 wagons and 83 horses. All the employes dine at the establish ment, and a number of them are lodged there also. About twenty-four thousand peo ple are entirely destitute in Angora, and will require maintenance through out the winter. They have found at Herculaneum the bust of a woman in solid silver. It weighs fifty-eight pounds. American sewing machines are ex tensively used in Jerusalem, Damas cus, Aleppo and other cities of the Orient. Mark Twain has refused thirty thousand dollars for fifty lectures. A gentleman living near La Grange has a negro woman on his place, who has bad nine children in tiie past 5 years—four pairs of twins and a single one. H. MIDDLEBROOK, NOOsAkOAD ST, COLUMBUS, GA, Manufacturer of and Dealer in Saddles, Bridles, Harness and Martingales, Has cn hand a large stock of every style and quality, from the cheapest to the last. Ladies’ and gents’ Trunks, Valises anil Traveling Bags, all styles nfd prices. Patent Dash Enaißel Leather, Harness, sole nd upper Lcjth. r, ename ed Cloth of „] kinds Leather and Bobber Belting, Collars. Han.es, Trace-ehan.s, Whips, Blind Bridles Backhands, Bils, Buckles. Spuis and all ai tildes in this line ufuilhr kept m a flrsbohje^honso! All goods in my line, will be sold at j-eduefa prices, witb_a jpewof clsßpg outlay business at an early day. Te rns stricly cash. • ‘ •? m ■ Mr. Mark A Bradford, formerly wijfe; Mr. W. B, Kent, is With me, afid would be pleased to see all his old customers and friends./ octl6-3m I, L. POLLARD, E. T. HARRIS, Formerly of Virginia Store. Of Harris county, Ga. KEW GROCERY STORE. FOLLABD Sc HARRIS, Old stand of JK. Dedd cfc Cos., next door to Chattahoochee Nat. Bard. A Full Line of FRESH GROCERIES and STAPLE DRY GOODS Just Received. Having bought our goods for cash, we shall sell them on a cash basis, guaranteeing our prices to be as low as any house in the city. Give us a call, and we will do our best to please. Terms Strictly Cash. No Charge for Drayage. octl6-6m POLLARD & HARRIS, Columbus, pa. SADDLES AND HARNESS! HOME-MADE WORK A SPECIALTY L 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 DRAY HARNESS, both Single and Double Wagon, Bug try and Plow Bridles. Wagon, Buggy and Plow Lines. Wagon and Plow-Hames and Trace Chains. Ladies’ and Gents’ Trunks, .Valises, Satchels anil 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- 3m 102 Broad st., Columbus, Ga. J. S. JONES’ CASH DB.T GOODS HOUSE, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. o FALL PURCHASE. Especial attention is called to large additions m..ldng to stock adapted to present season. A large line ot new Hamlmrgs. Anew and desirable iut of Ladies’ Ties. An immense line of Shawls, all grades, at exceptionally popular prices. Lillies’ and Children’s Hosiery, Men's and Boys’ Half Ho c. Mm’s and Ladies’ Merino Ytsts. Full Ino of Black A pacas. A superb quality of silk-warp AipaCa. Many desirable Black Mourning Dress Goods —the Cclonna Cloth deserves especial m. n tion in this line. Several grades Black Cashmeres and Moriuo*. Anew t dng in Embroidery is presented in Pique Edgings and Insertings. Beaded Tiimmings and Beads in end ess quantity. Beaded Scarfs, Fishus Barlv, Veils aud Veilings. New lot of Buffs, Ituchings, etc. Immense lines of JEANS and CASSIMEEES. BLEACHED and BBOWN SHiBTINGS at Satisfactory Prices. Mr. Eobert Spivey is again with me, and will he glad to see and serve bis /fiends whin they vi-it the city. sepi2s-lm J. S. JONES. J. H. HAMILTON, WHOLESALE AND BETAIL DEALEB IN BAGGING, TIES, BACON, CORN, SALT, SUGAR, COFFEE, Ac., Ac. FLOUR! FLOUR! FLOUR! A Largo Stock of Best Brands at prices which defy competition. ALWAYS ON HAND A FULL STOCK OF Piantation & Family Groceries & Provisions. Junction of Franklin, Warren and Oglethorpe Sts, COLUMBUS - - • GEORGIA. No charge for Drayage. feb2l-lyr A- WITTICH- , C- M- KINSEL WITTICH & KINSEL, PRACTICAL WATCHMAKERS, AWUUS AID IIBIIfIiS, NO. 67 BROAD STREET, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. Ss evonsunna & ? Stt’yKß AND * • L ■ ‘Sg5S§ of the Liatost MlaTKifactureS- Ad entirely new stuck of the best goeds and the latest st\ los hs Veen recently bought in New York, and is hereby ottered at the Lowest Cash Prices. , Diamonds, gold ami silver Spectacles and Eye-Glasses, gold and silver Thimbles, ladies and gents C hains, plain and fancy Gold King* of l catitilnl workmanship, and every variety of article fount! in a Jewelry Store. Stencil I late* of every description cut at shoit notice. Sole Agents for the celebrated Diamond Pebbled Spectacles and Eye-glasses, and Agent* for the Arundel Pebble Specks. which are slightly coidled, and in h’gh favor with evci}- body using specks or eye-glasses. Watch, Clock and Jewelry repairin'? in all its branches. Hair Jewelry, Society Badge.-/ Diamond setting; or any new work made to order at reutouablo thurces. JLW* Engraving promptly executed. o<*2*4yr