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THE DISPATCH
THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1877.
GKO. P. WOODS.
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
THE LEGISLATURE TO BE REDUCED.
The indications now arc that the
Constitutional Convention will pro
vide for a reduction in the inetOber
ship of the Legislature, and that
there will be but one session in two
years—forty or fifty days only being
allowed for a session. It is reported
that Hon. Mr. McDonald, represent
ing Ware, Coffee and Clinch coun
ties, favors and advocates a reduc
tion in the membership of the Gener
al Assembly, and that lie is endorsed
by the delegate from Lowndes coun
ty. as well as by others. There is a
proposition under consideration to
allow each comity one member only ;
but cadi cotruty now having two
members shall have two votes cast
by its representative, and counties
now having three representatives
shall ft'ffvc three votes. The forego
ing briefly, one of the plans for
reducing the legislature!.
Another plan D to allow hut one
representative lor two counties.
TRkfißst baleW sew cotton
RECEIVED IN GEORGIA,
Primus W. Jones, of Baker comi
ty, sent to 1 Albany last Friday the
first bale of the new crop-of cotton
raised in Georgia the present ye \r.—
A Was soft? for seventeen Cents per
pound—feeing the first bale—and
was shipped to Flanders Brothers, of
Macon. Mr. Jones has sent to mar
ket “the first” bale for the last three
years.
ftEMJCTIOK OFSALARIEB.
Tlib convention lias reduced the
salaries of the - Various offices as fol
lows :
Governor, three thousand dollars
per annum.-
Judges of Clie Supreme CouVt,
three thousand dollars per annum.
Judges of the Superior Court, two
thousand dollars per annum.
The delegates have voted them
selves four doffars per day fot their
services, aiid show a willingness to -
Bold on, “if it takes all the'-sumaef.’*
It is believed by some that the
Convention will provide that the
legislature elected last year shall
not assemble again, and that a liew
assembly shall be elected under tlie
new constitution. This may be
mere conjecture, but if true/ it is un
wise policy on the part of the con ven
9ion. The delegates should wot over
do-themselves.
AN SEEN fit* OUR SElUfi HftRS.
Tlie Charleston (S. C.) Journal of
Commerce, referring to the work of
Constitutional Convention, says:
“The Georgia Constitutional Con
vention is not accomplishing its
task as rapidly as was expected
The indications now are that it will
be > session nearer forty than thir
ty (fays.- The trouble seems to be
that a party of well meaning but not
wry sensible gentlemen have become
possessed with the idea, as the swine
became possessed of devils, that the
Wisdom and virtue of (tyrapa will
depart when they more,
and that no future LegiHlfre will
be Worthy of trust.- This class is
endeavoring to cumber the constitu
tion With details of legislation which
have no business in such an instru
ment, and are greatly retarding the
Work of the convention.”
Two youthful lovers with but a
single thought between •them, who
lived and loved over in Harris eotru
ly, eloped last Tuesday, and arc now
happy as a couple of big sun flowers.
Be was fifty, and she thirty. Bless
ye, my children !—Macon Telegraph.
The Lumpk'n Independent says
file yield of corn in that section will
be itsry small this year. “Lands that
have previously yielded from ten to
twelve bushel's, will not yield this
season half as much. Some estimate
their crops as low as two bwshcls to
Olio acre. The great majority of our
farmers will not harvest enough corn
to hat (hear beyond the next plant
ing season, and none will make more
than enough to supply home de
mands.”
The New York Jorwnaf of Com
merce, in relation to the clause in
the new constitution making lobby
ing a crime, thinks that “it will be
impossible to make any such legisla
tion constitutional, and adds, that
th* true remedy lies in electing high
minded, intelligent men to govern
the State, who en neither be bought,
bullied, nor cajoled, ami in creating
a public sentiment that will ostracise
the lobby. Otherwise, even a con
stitutional provision will not avail.”
Hon. 11. W. Hilliard has been ap
pointed Minister to Brazil. Mr. Hill
iard will be remembered as the in
dependent ciindidato for Congress in
tle Fourth Congressional District,
where lie was beaten by eight thous
and votes.
It is said llmt in Savannah llieie is
no fractional currency tm simulation.
Everything under a dollar fiifl is sil
ver. The fractional currency has
been redeemed by the government and
specie given out in return.
The wolds “capital” and “capitol”
are confounded vrry frequently by
renders and writers. Capital is the
place where tlie scat of government,
of an empire, kingdom, state nr prov
ince Is located. Capitol is an edifice
occupied by legislators iu their delib
erations.
THE STINGIEST BODY THAT EVER
MET.
It is a source of regret that we
cannot agree with and fully endorse
all the acts of the Constitutional
Convention now in session in A tlnn.
la. But candor compels us to admit
that the convention is guilty of an
act of tlie most shameful picaynnish
ncss tlmt ever characterized a legal
assembly. Their action in reducing
the Governor’s salary condemns them
in the eyes of every Georgian with
the least particle of State pride. We
believe in economy—indeed we ad
vocate it ill private and in public af
fairs—but to bring down the office
of Governor to the pay anil honor of
a mere clerkship, is not wise econo
my. A poor man—however honest
and capable—can never fill tlie office
of Governor of this State with any
honor to himself and his constituents
upon tlie mere pittance of three
thousand dollars.
Georgia has one hundred thousand
dollars invested in a “Governor’s
mansion,” and tiie chief Executive
is allowed to live ,in this elegant
building free of rent, nc may live
in a flue house, even if he should
starve. Would it not be better econ
omy to sell the mansion for, say fif
ty thousand dollars, pay this money
upon the State debt, and allow the
interest to go into the salary of the
Governor, and thus permit him to
rent a house according to his means ?
Verily the people have a cheap set
of delegates in Atlanta, and there
was niorfi wisdom than wit in the
proposition of Mr. Hudson to allow
the Judges to peddle without license
in their circuits and pay Half the net
proceeds into the State treasury.
THE HOMESTEAD AND EXEMPTION
REPORT.
The Homestead and Exemption
Report, which was made to the Con
stitutional Convention on Wednesday
of last week, is as follows. It lias
not yet been acted upon by the Con
vention :
Section 1. There shall be exempt
from levy and sale, by virtue of any
process whatever, under the laws of
the Slate, except as hereinafter ex
cepted, of the property of every head
of a family, or guardian, or a trustee
'of a family of minor children, or ev
ery aged or infirm person, or person
having the care and support of de
pendent females of any age, who is
not the head of a family, realty aud
personalty, or both not to exceed in
value in the aggregate sixteen hun
dred dollars.
Sectiou 2. No court or ministe
rial otlieei in the State, shall ever
have jurisdiction! or authority to en
force any judgement, execution or
decree against the property set apart
for the purpose, including swell Im
provements as may be made thereon
from time to time,-except for taxes,
for the purchase money of the same,
for labor done thereon, for material
furnished therefor, or for the removal
of encumbrances thereon.
Sec. 3 The debtor shall have,
power, with the consent of his wife,
if any, to be made in writing,- and at
tested by two witnesses, to waive or
renounce his weight to the benefit of
the exemption provided for in this
article, except as to household and
kitchen furniture, wearing apparel
and provisions for one year, to be
selected by himself and wife, if any,
not to exceed three hundred dollars
in value ; and lie shall not after it is
set apart, alienate or encumber the
property so exempted, but it may lie
sold by the debtor and his wife, if
any, jointly, with the sanction of the
Judge of the Superior Court of the
county where the debtor resides, or
the land is situated, upon application
to him, the proceeds to be reinvested
upon the same uses/
Sec. 4. The General Assembly
shall provide by law, as early as
practicable, for the setting apart and
valuation of said property, ami there
shall be no other exemption than pro
vided for in this article.
Sec. 5. The applicant shall at any
time have the right to supplement Ills'
exemption by adding to an amount
already set apart, which is less than
the whole amount of exemption
hereiu allowed, a sufficiency to make
Iris exemption equal to the whole
amdunt.
Sec. 6. Rights which have become
vested under previously existing
laws shall not be Effected by anything
herein contained.
Sec. 7. All property of the wife,
in tier possession at the time of her
marriage, and all property given to,
inherited or acquired Iry her, shall
remain her separate property, and
not be liable for the debts of her hus
band/
NEGRO KILLED/
The Irwinton Southerner has the
following :
We learn from parties from if aid
win county that Mr. James Whit
taker killed a negro in that county
last week for attempting to violate
the person of his sister. The young
lady had gone to the orchard for
some fruit, when she was r.cized by
the black brute. Her screams were
heard by her brother, who seized his
shot gur* and went to her rescue.—
Upon his approach the black rascal
fled, and as he mounted the fen'cc
Mr. Whittaker fired, and shot him
dead. The coroner’s jury very prop
erly brought in a verdict of justifia
ble homicide.
The Irwinton - Southerner says:
“Rumor has il that tl.o wife of Miv
John Justice, the missing, man, has
received a letter pnrpoiling to have
been written by her husband in Flor
ida. We learn that Dr. Frank
Green is going or has gone to that
State to Imnt him qv rend settle the
question as to his file. Some peo
ple believe that lie did not Witte the
letter.”
The neg.o government in Liberia,
Africa, lias an article in llieir Con
stitution forbidding white men from
owning land or becoming citizens of
that Republic.
FEWER SPEECHES AND MORE VOTES.
The Atlanta Constitution of the
2nd inst. says:
The Convention has been in ses
sion three weeks. Yesterday was the
eighteenth day of actual session, and
yet only three short articles have
been adopted—that relating to the
militia, to the elective franchise, and
to counties and county oillcers
This is the total sum ol work com
pleted in the three weeks that were
concluded yesterday. These three
weeks have-exhausted the last dollar
of the sum appropriated by the Leg
islature ; and the work, judging from
the results of yesterday, is but fairly
begun. We write in no captious
spirit; hut we would like to insinu
ate that there is a vast difference be
tween the amount of talk and the
amount of action in the Convention.
If the innumerable speeches that
crowd our columns were one and all
full of facts and points before un-
known to any considerable part of
the Convention, there could he no
objection to their delivery; but it is
notorious that few of them carry
conviction to any one’s mind, that
they do not as a rule change a vote,
that the members of the Convention
canvass each subject before it comes
up until they are prepared to vote
upon it as soon as it does come np—
that many of tlie speeches of each
day do, in fact, but consume valua
ble time anti the money of the peo
ple. Is this right? Is this necessa
ry ? Can we not have fewer speeches
and more for ovr money ?
HORRIBLE MURDER IN HARALSON
COUNTY.
A letter from Haralson county to
the Cartersville Express gives the
following details of a horrible crime
committed in that county :
At about 11 o’clock to-day church
services were interrupted and the
congregation appalled by the news
that Mr. Washington Golden, a
young man about 18 years of age,
had shot and killed Mr. Lee Fierce,
an old man about fifty years old,
both citizens of Haralson county.
It appears that young Golden and
two other young men, had been ac
cused by Pierce of having shaved
the mane and tail of a horse belong
ing to one of Pierce’s friends while
he was spending the night with
Pierce, and Pierce and Golden had
had some words about it.
To-day Mr. Pierce’s two daughters
and little son had gone to church,
leaving the old mail at home. When
found he was just inside his gate
dead. One pistol ball had entered
below the left breast and ranged
through the heart, the other being
just above and ranging through the
lungs. Powder stains on his shirt
showed that Golden was just out
side, only the gate between them
By Pierce’s side, lay his shot gun,
with the hammer pulled back, an
old load in the gun, and an old cap
on the tube, and between the body
and the house lay some papers,
proved before the Coroner’s jury to
have been Golden’s.
The coroner being at the church,
as Weil as the sheriff and deputy,
they proceeded at once to Mr. Sea
born Golden’s and arrested young
Golden and carried him to Buchan
an jail. Two of young Golden’s
brothers testified before tlie coro
ner’s jury that Wash told them he
had killed Pierce.
The jury returned a verdict that
Pierce came to his death by two
shots from a pistol in the hands of
Washington Goklem
"HIGH GRINDING* INBEEfi.
A threatened tax on flour of a very
curious kind has com'e to light
There is a process called high grind
ing in use in most of the flour mills
in tlie country, which is said to be
essential to the best results in re*
ducing wheat to flour. It has long
been in use in Europe, and Was in
troduced hero in 1871, and the ma
chinery in use in all the great mills
is adapted to it.- A ring of specula
tors in Washington is said to have
got hold of an old paten* oil the pre
cess, quietly had.it reissued, got up a
case in which the defendant was a
man of straw, carried it to the Su
preme Court withont any real de
fense having been made, and got a
decision in support of its validity.
Now suits have been brought for
infringement against the leading
flour manufacturers of the country,
including the Jewells, of Brooklyn ;
the Hasalls, of Richmond, And C/ C.
Washburn, of Minneapolis; and the
holders of the patent propose to
grant licenses to millers for live mod
est sum of $6,000 for each run 1 of
stone. This would impose a tax of
$36,090,000 on the flour business of
the country, which would, of course,
come out of the consumers in the
end. It is unnecessary to say that a
vigorous fight will be made against
this imposition, and a special act of
Congress cancelling the patent will
be asked for next winter.— Telegraph
and Messenger.
Mr. Stephens is opposed to re
ducing the Legislature.
A Union Point man has named his
little girl, “’Ann-so-forth."
The boot blacks of Augusta have
organized a strike. They want ten
cents a boot, or Will shine two for
fifteen cents. The capitalists are
stubborn and will not yield to the
demand.
Some of the employes of the Cen
tral road held a meeting at Savannah,
and protested against a further re
and action.
The Convention has placed the
Governor’s salary at $3,000, and the
term to two years, lie is eligible to
two term.
The Montezuma Weekly, in its
Ogletho"pe items, has the following :
“Last week some negroes in the'edge
of Schley county committed an mu
rage on a white girl, between eleven
and twelve years of age. One of
them was arrested and lodged in jail
at Kliaville, another sought refuge
irt this county, ami some dozen or
more negroes' undertook to harbor
and conceal him from arrest. The
good people in old Howell’s district,
rallied en masse and arrested ten of
tlie offenders' and brought them’ be
fore the County Judge at Ogle
thorpe.”'
One firm in Brunswick shipped by
steamer to New York hist week font
thousand watermelons.
OLD BEN PHILLIPS’ PtlT OF SOUP.
A Gum Swamp Correspondent Makes
Some Suggestions to the Constitutional
Convention-A General Mixture of Good '
Things.
[From the Telegraph aud Messenger!
Gum Swamp, July 31",
I say to you, Messrs. Editors, from'
the headquarters of civilization in
Georgia, that you are altogether
wrong about the Constitutional Con
vention. The Constitution-makers
should put into it every thing good
they van think of, and plenty of it.
When old Ben Phillips made hia
famous pot of soup for this yere set
tlement at the grand picnic on the
4th July instant, he said: “Tlie
beauty of soup, boys, is that you can
lut everything into the pot, and it is
bound to harmonize and conglomer
ate in one grand general effect; and
ef it don’t, there is such a mixter of
Havers, you can’t tell the difference.”
You see here now, I begin with
them twenty pound catfish, and 1
pile in on them inguns, taters, sim
lins, butter, snaps, milk, koreumbers,
eollards, and everything 1 knows to
be good.
A gal jest brought a basket of figs,
and figs is good, aint they ? so I
soused them in. Another brings a
lot of biled syrup candy, and in that
went. And alter that I sent iu a
paper of sugar, an ounce of cloves,
cinnamon, alspice, a box of mustard,
a jar of pickles, a paper of raisins, a
slioat, a hind quarter of lamb, a snap
pin turtle— anything I knows to be
good, I puts into this yere soup.
And here comes a gp.l with a buck
et of dried apples and they’ll foller,
for whatsoever I knows by experi
ence to be good I combines in this
yere soup.
And that’s the sound principul
they are acting on in the Georgia
Convention. Whatsomevcr they be
lieves to be good they puts in the
Constitution, and I say it will work
out like Ben Phillips’ soup. That
was good, and there was plenty of it,
and the boys was mighty hongry.
They made a case of the whole bilin
before sundown, and there was a heap
of fun when we ecme to the bottom
to see what would turn up next.
So it will be with this yere Consti
tutional pot of soup that old Bob
Toombs is a stewing up to Atlanty.
The little cooks are bringing up
everything they ever thought of, or
their neighbors and friends ever
dream’t of, and Uncle Bob, he smells
of it a bit, and says, says he, that’s
good, and all that’s good I want in
this yere pot; and so in it goes.
And then the old gentleman ho tips
a wink and calls for the man with the
next armful.
Hits the true way of making a
Constitution in my jedgment, for it
will fill up the pot and there’ll be
plenty for everybody.
Aud then if there’s anything wrong,
I’ll jess be dex - ned ef anybody can
tell where it is and what’s the mat
ter ; bekasc you see it is such a gen
eral mixtur that you can’t tell totlier
from which ; or fix the responserbtli
ty on nothing, and that makes it just
as good as if ’twas all right. So ypu
may jest swar by the bar on the top
of yer head, you are wrong.
Ever yours, Peter Sapp,
THAT MYSTERIOUS MURDER NEAR
AMERICUS.
The Atlanta Constitution gives
the following additional particulars
of the murder recently committed
near Amcricus:
Wc learn from a gentleman from
Southwestern Georgia that great ex
citement prevails about Americus
over a mysterious murder recently
committed near that town. A lew
days since tlie mutilated and partly
decomposed body of a white man was
found near a deep pool iu the heart
of a dense wood near Americus. Ev
ery particle of clothing hail been
stripped from the body and burned.
Only a small piece of shirting, about
an inch square, witli the edges ail
scorched, was found. Tlie head had
been torn from the body in tho most
brutal manner. It appeared that it
had been hacked at or cut around the
edges until the gristly part of the
cartilage was reached. This appa
rently proved too stubborn for the
dull knife, and the murderer had
taken the head and twisted it off, just
as one would twist off the head of a
chicken. The muscles were strained
and tangled, and knotted, and the
bony or gristly part of tlie neck stood
out fully four inches above the fleshy
or fat part of the body. What was
done with tlie head no one can imag
ine. It was uot thrown into' the
pool, and coifld not have been burnt.
It was doubtless taken to some dis
tant place by the murderer and then
concealed. No trace could be found
of the assassin except one single
foot print. This showed that he had
a small, well-shaped foot and wore a
box-toed shoe, pointing to the fact
that it was a white man rather than
a negro. The most myeterious thing
connected witli the affair is tlie feet
that no clue can be found that will
suggest the identity of tlie murdered
man. There is no one missing from
the city or the neighborhood. Amer
icas is so small that every man
knows every other man in the city or
country around. It is positively cer
tain that the murdered man is not a
resident of the county in which the
murder was committed. Few
strangers visit the town, and all who
have been there lately are satisfactos
rily accounted for. There are a few
peddlers moving about through that
country, but none of them have been
seen for months. A supposed clue
to the murder was followed a day or
two since, but it led to nothing.' A
cigar manufacturer who had been so
journing in the city for some weeks
and who had some money, left a few
days before tlie body was discovered
accompanied by his jourtfeyman.-
They failed to report in tho town that
was their ostensible point, and it was
thought that one of them might have
been killed Both of them have been'
definitely located, however*, and the
suspicion is absolutely without a hint.
The case is exciting great interest.
Several' detectives arc working the
matter 071.
Mrs. Wm. Ford, of Cheatham conn-'
tv, Tennessee, wns about dropping in
to-a slumber the other night, when
she felt something cold and clammy
encircling her feet. A oop|>erheade(l
snake iwd Wrapped rise if snugly
around her foot. She Wns bitten by
il between the toes several times,
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH
Bloody Battle in Turkey!
THE RUSSIANS DEFEATED.
Barbarities of the Bashi Bazouks.
rtlE BATTLE OF PLEVNA.
' WAsiftfto-roN, August 2 Fifty
Sditcusand Turk s'occupied a series of
positions at I’ieVna natufaHy strong
and artificially fortified at every
point. The attacking force of the
Russians consisted of the ninth army
corps, under General KrtlrTeher; the
thirtieth division and thirtieth bri
gade of the second division, under
Prince Schoskosky, -with three brig
adesi of cavalry and one hundred
and |sixty guns. The battle com
menced at 9 o’clock Monday. The
Russians carried three lines of de
fense, and towards the close of the
day got a foothold ia Plevna itself,
but finally lost all, the Turks at
sundown commencing a continuous
forward movement, prolonged by
the Bashi Bazouks who murdered
the wounded. The Russians have
asked permission to bury their dead.
London, August 3. —A correspon
dent of the daily News sends from
Parsdcn, near Plevna, a graphic ac
count of Tuesday’s battle, the sub
stantial facts of which are as tele
graphed to the United States yester
day. The following closing scenes
give a. vivid idea of the extent of
the Russian disaster. It will be
noticed that the correspondent is
with Prince Schoskosky’s command
and does not purport to give any ac
count of the condition or losses of
General Kruderer’s corps. The fol-
lowing are the closing sentences of
his dispatch:
And now all hopes of success any
where were dead, nor did a chance
offer to make the best of a defeat.
Prince Schoskosky had not a roan
left to cover his retreat. The Turks
struck without stint. The Turks
had the upper hand for once, and
they were determined to show that
they knew how to make the most of
it. They advanced in swarms
through the dusk on their original
first position and captured the Rus
sian cannon before the batteries
could be withdrawn. Turkish shells
began once more to whistle over the
ridge above Radishova, and fall into
the village beyond now crammed
with wounded. The streams of
wounded wending their painful way
over the ridge were incessant. The
badly wounded lay where they fell.
Later in the darkness a baleful sort
of Krankentraegor swarmed over
the battle field in the shape of Bashi
Bazouks who spared not. Lingering
there on the ridge till the noon time,
the moon rose, the staff could hear
from below, on the still night air,
cries of pain and entreaties for mer
cy, and the yells of blood-thirsty fa
‘natical triumph. It was, indeed, an
hour to wring the stoniest heart. We
stayed there to learn, if it might be,
what troops were coming out of the
“valley of the shadow of death” be
low. Were there, indeed, any to
come ? It did not seem to be the
■case. The Turks had our range be
fore night, and we could watch the
flash of flames over against us, and
then listen to the scream of the
sliells as it tore by us. The sound
of rifle bullets was incessant, and the
escort and retreating wounded were
struck. A detachment at length be
gan to come straggling up, but it will
give an idea of the disorganization
to say that when a company was told
off to cover somewhat the wounded
in Rodishova, it had to be made up
of men of several regiments. About
nine o’cleck the staff quitted the
ridge, leaving it littered with groan
ing men, and moving gently lest we
should tread on the prostrate wound
ed, we lost our way, as we had lost
our army. We could find no rest
for the soles of our wearied feet by
reason of alarms of Bashi Bazouks
swarming in among the scattered
and retiring Russians. At length,
at one o’clock in the morning, Raving
been in the saddle since six o’clock
on the previous morning, we turned
into a stubble field, and making beds
of the naked grain, correspondent
and Cossack alike rested under the
stars; but wc not even then were al
lowed to rest. Before four o’clock
an alarm came that the Kashi
Bazouks were upon us, and we had
to arouse and tramp away. The on
ly protection of the chief of what in
, the morning was a fine army was
now composed of a handful of wearied
Cossacks. General Krudevcr sent
word in the morning that he had
lost severely, and could make no
.headway and had resolved to fall
baek on the line of the river Osma.
: There had been some talk of his
troops being fresh, and of renewing
the attack to-day with his co-opera
tion, but it is a plain statement of
facts that we have no troops to attack
with—the most moderate estimate is
that wo have lost two regiments—
-5,000 men out of our three brigades,
a ghastly number—beating Kylau
or Friendland. This takes no ac
count of Gen. Krudercr’s losses. We
too retire on the Osma river about
Bulgasia, and, to the best of our
weak strength, cover the bridge at
Sistova. JOae cannot, in this moment
of burden confusion, realize all the
possible results of the stroke so rash
ly courted. Not a Russian soldier
stands between Tirnovia ami the
victorious Turkish army in Lovica
and Plevna and only a weak division
of the Eleventh Corps stands between
Tirnovia and the Shumla army. I
look on Prince Schoskosky’s force as
wreeked, if no longer,- for this cam
paign to be counted as a fighting
interger. It is not ten' days since
the 30tu division crossed the Danube
in the pride of superb condition.
Now,- what is left is demoralized
and shattered. So oo this side of
the Balkans there remains but the
9th corps, already roughly handled
once at Nikopolis, and once at Plev
na, one division of the 11th corps
and the Rutschuk army. Now if
the Rutschuk army is marched to
the west against Plevna, then the
Turkish arrov at Rutschuk is let
loose on the Russian communications
to Tirnovia. One cannot avoid the
conclusion that the advance over the
Balkans is seriously compromised.
The Rnssiwn strait is so bad that
scattered detachments have been
culled up from out of Roumanian and
the RqhwkvhU : division commanded
by General Maun, winch crossed the
Danube a day or two ago at Nikopo
lis, has been called up to the line of
the Osina river. An aid-de-camp of
the Grand Du'ke Nicholas was pres
ent at the battle, and at once started
for Tirnovia with the’ evil tidings.
We are just quitting this bivouac,
leaving the Bulgarian villages to the
tender mercies of the Turks. As I
close, I learn that 6n our left Gen.
Skobeloff was very severely handled,
having lost 300 mer. out of his single
baltaliofi of iitfantry.
Eft/EROUM, Augflst 3. —The Rus
sian centre, which has been rein-
forced by fourteen battalions of in
fantry and three field batteries, has
resumed the offensive. There has
been continuous fighting on the ad
vanced line before Kars. General
Tergankassoff has also been rein
forced by five battaliops of infantry,
One battery and a regiment of dra
goons. The lUfssiafl right is match-'
Ing on PeneS;
The War iu the' East—Russian Flight
from Plcrua.
London, August 4. —A Semnilza
dispatch to the Loudon Daily News,
speaking of the Russian panic and
flight from the battlefield near Plev
na, on the Ist instant, says;
At a narrow bridge near Dulgareni,
there was wild confusion, and a com
plete block of tumbrils, ambulance
wagons, provision wagon a, officers’
caleebes, lead horses and carts filled
with wounded. All these were
jammed together in inextricable con
fusion.
These had been wounded along the
road, but the bulk of the wounded
began a little way beyond Bulgaroni,
and extended in an unbroken line for
seven miles along the road to Sis
tova. They were mostly carried - in
ox cartS. The severer cases were in
ambulances, and large numbers were
tramping along on foot.
Immense numbers of wounded had
tramped the whole way from the
battlefield, and were already entering
Sistova at six o’clock yesterday even
ing. They must have walked forty
miles in twenty-four hours, wounded
as they were. Nearly all these
wounded, however, consisted of men
who, somehow, managed to walk out
of the battle. The bad cases were
mostly left where they fell.
A staff officer, with whose estimate
I am inclined to agree, thinks the
whole loss between Bix and seven
thousand men in killed and wounded.
Egypt Helping Turkey.
A News dispatch from Alexandria
s lys it is reported and generally be
lieved that 6,000 more Egyptian
troops are going to Constantinople.
SAMBO DOES HIS BEST FOR HIS
FRIENDS.
A lady whose position enables her
to form a just estimate of the unfit
ness of the negroes for legislators in
their present uneducated state sends
to the Woman’s Journal a specim.-c
of one of their speeches, delivered in
the lower house of a Southern Legis
lature. The speech, by a negro
named Dabbs, who can neither read
nor write, was in opposition to a pro
posed tax on dogs, which is greatly
needed to protect the sheep. Said
Mr. Dabbs :
“Mr. Speaker : I arises to a point
of discussion, and to explain a few
words of kind conversation to you,
as has been long my desires to do,
but has no opportunity presenting
until this time of present, and which
I conducts myself as a gentleman
for both blaek and white. In all
this ’lection doings and speechfng I
have keeped my mouth shut, but when
you talks about dogs, you can count
me in—yes, sah—has owned dogs—
got dogs now—good as ever treed a
coon ; and when you remarks about
killing them fellers, you know you’re
steppin’ on my toes, and you bound
to hear me growl. VVhyfore should
attacks be instituted on this useful
friend of both black and white ?
Which is the most benefit to a man—
a dog, or something that ain’t no ac
count ? Sense is sense, and dar ain’t
no foolin’ about a dog. Come at me
far and squar. Politics arc one
thing and dogs is another. When
ever you tax dogs, you’se breaking
up infringement cn sassengers, and
you will have to swallow your own
resolution, mind, v.liat I tell you.
And ders more wool-gatherin’ in de
Governor’s message than they is
dogs in the United States. Whar’s
dc use of dis infliction ? No, sar.”—
Providence Journal. ,
Drowning of Lillie Nellie (Juarterman
in the Wilhlacoochee River.
The Valdosta Times, of the 26th
nit., says:
Our community was shocked last
Thursday night by the sad intelli
gence of the drowning of little Nellie
Quarterman, daughter of Dr. K. A.
Quarterman, of this p'ace. She and
her oldest sister were on a visit to
Mr. J. A. Ousley, of Ousley Station,
and in company with her sister, Miss
Kate Burton and one of Mr. Ousley’s
little daughters, went across the rail
road bridge over the Withlacoochee
river to the springs for a bath.
About dusk they started back and
when they reached the bridge Miss
Kate Burton offered to take her
hand, but she refused, saying that
she had gone over safely and thought
she cowid get along better by herself.
Just as they got over the middle of
the river, those in front were attract
ed by a splash in the water and to
t.bcir horror turned and saw little
Nellie struggling in the swift current
thirty feet below A negro man
was near at hand, but he refused all
entreaties to go in after her, saying
he could not swim, when really the
water was not over four feet deep on
his side of the river out to the mid
dle. The cries of the distressed
children attracted those at the
springs, nearly a quarter of a mile
away, and they made all possible
speed to the fatal spot. Mr. W.-
Gaulden, of Tliomasville,- was one of
the first to reach the spot and he
plnnged into the river, it being very
deep oir th 4 west side, and swam to
the spot where he saw her sink, and
raised her a lifeless corpse.
The New York Journal of Com-
Frerete of Wednesday, July 18th,
stales that another bale of Texas
cotton of the new crop was received
yesterday by Or toman, Daval k Cos.,
118 Pearl street, from Galveston, and
was sold by John 11. Draper k Cos.,
auctioneers, to Rail Bros., at cents
per pound.
Council Proceedings.
Council Chamber, }
llawkinsville, Ga., July 11,1877.)
Regiflar meeting. Roll calk Pres
ent Mayor Whitfield, Alderman
liyckes, McCormick and Fleetwood.
Abseut, Alderman Willis, Pate and
Willcox. Minutes of last meeting
read and confirmed.
On motion, the finance committee
was granted further time in reference
to account of J. O. Jelks, Jr.
The following is the report of the
committee appointed to investigate
the guano and lumber business : Find
Henly & Fann and Thos.- Hcnly sub
ject to specific tax. The following
bills were referred to finance commit
tee: Thos: Si Jones, $1.00; A. A.
Lowe, 15 cents ; M. O’Brien, $2.50 ;
Wm. Alexander $2.50.
On motion, the following bills were
ordered paid: T. ,S. Jones, $1.50;
Geo. Johnson, $2.25 ; J. 11. Dyches,
$12.75; Wm. Alexander, $2.50 ; Thos
Henlyf $11.22 ; Lewis Jackson, $5.40/
No other business, the council ad
journed. T. S. Jones,
Clerk Pro tern.
Confirmed.
11. H. W hitfield, Mayor.
Pulaski Chapter, No. 20 R. A. M.
Regular Convocation first
.f’riday evenings in each month
at 4 o’clock. Sojourning compan
ions in good standing invited to at
tend.
11. A. Merritt,
may 24 cf Secretary.
Little Harry Night Lamps!
For the sick room, and any other
use, where, or when a light is wanted
all night, at the expense of about
one cent a night, for sale by
John Fale & Cos.
May 22, 1877. may 24 tf
Good News.
No more Chills and Ague in this
section. Our Druggists are selling
an article called “Ague Conqueror.”
It is about the only satisfactory
preparation sold for tbe cure of Fe
ver and Ague, Dumb Chills, Inter
mittent or Billious Fevers. The
Proprietor of the Ague Conqueror
has used but little energy to make
this medicine known, and yet its
sales is immense in Ague Districts.
It purifies the blood, Liver and oth
er Secretory organs so effectually
that the Chills do not return even
when persons have had them for
years. Entirely vegetable prepara
tion. Price, 50 cents and SI.OO per
Bottle. Two doses will stop the
chills. June7.-ct.
New Crop Turnip Seed.
We are just in receipt of new crop
turnip seed!, all kinds, at prices to
suit the times. Now is the time to
sow rutabaga seeds.
John Fale & Cos.
July 2, 1877. j ulys tf
CUT THIS OUT—IT MAT SAVE TOUR
LIFE.
There is no person living but what
suffers more or less with Lung Dis
ease, Coughs, Colds or Consumption,
yet some would die rather than pay
75 cents for a bottle of medicine that
would cure them Dr. A. Boschee’s
German Syrup has lately been intro
duced in this country from Germany,
and its wonderous cures astonishes
every one that try it. If yon doubt
what we say in print, cut this out
nnd take it to you Drngists, Jno.
Fale & Cos., Ellis & Cos., Hawkins
ville, and Y. 11. Morgan, Cochran,
and get a sample bottle for 10 cents
and try it, or a legular size for 76
cents. junc7ct
Eureka, Dooly Comity.
Grand closing out at the Eureka
Store. Goods at cost for cash. Come
at once. Respectfully,
W. C. Oliver.
Eureka, Ga., August 1, 1811.
aug2-4t
din Repairing, Etc.
Messrs. Joe B. King and Geo. W.
Holmes, of Ilawkiiisville, have
formed a partnership for the purpose
of repairing and whetting cotton gins.
They are experienced workmen and
guarantee entire satisfastion. Tlioy
would bo pleased to receive the pat
ronage. of the public. Charges mod
erate. July 19-tf.
Aazlcliurst Lodge, F. & A. M.
Hereafter the regular Communica
tions ol Hnziehurst Lodge, No. 283,
P. &A. M., will be held on the
fourth Saturday in each month at
10 o’clock, a. m.
J. 11. Latimer, W. M.
July 81, 1817. aug2tf
Ice! Ice 1
I koep on hand ice in any quanti
ty, and will sell from a pound up to
a ton, if desired. Families may
order in any quantity, and rest as
sured of getting the worth of their
money. D. Rhomb,
Havvkinsvillc, Ga.
julyl9-tf.
Notice.
I hereby appoint and authorize
Mr. C. M. Bozeman, Sr., my agent
to disjKise of any property or the
collection of any debts due me dur
ing my absence from the State.
Charles E.- Clark.
June 6tb, 1877.- June? tf
A BOOK FOR ALL!
No Library Should be Without It.
History, Proceedings, Debates, Sketches,
Diagram, Ac.,of the Constitutional Con
vention- of r 877.
The New Constitution m Full.
The names of every post office, county,
City and village in Georgia.
Other useful one! varied information
presented- to all subscribers of the Georgia
Grange.
In order to increase- the circulation of
their Journal, the' Georgia Grange Pub
lishing Company are preparing the book
indicated above as a present to their Mih
scrilrcrs. Bee particulars elsewhere. Spec
imen copy ami circular sent free on appli
cation-.
GEORGIA GRANGE PUR CO.,
V. O. Drawer 31, Atlanta, Ga.
augU sc.
South Kentucky College,-
HOPKINSVILLE, ICY.
Board, Music, Drawing and Painting,
French, German and Latin for S3O per
month. Entire expense, including books
and travelling expenses, for the year $350.
Rjollege 26 hours ride by rail from Macon, -
Ga. Address
MISS ELLA MASON,
auga lin Longstreet, Ga.
F. M. FARLEY, J. p. HAMMOND/
E. DWELLE.
F. M. FARLEY,
COTTON FACTOR
—AND -
Commission Merchant,
I*. 0. Box 232 ] SAVANNAH, GA/
aug9 lm*
J. E. MARTIN. j. m. TOWNS
MARTIN & TOWNS,
MCRAE, GEORGIA,-
Dealers in Dry Goods, Hats, Shoes, Med-'
ieines, . Provisions, Hardware, Fancy No
tions, Etc. \Vc are continually receiving
new, goods, and will not be undersold.
Will give highest prices for all kinds of
country produce, and make it lo the in
terest of our friends to patronize us. One
of our firm will visif Savr.Tiniili on Satur
day, 18lh inst., and will take pleasure Ih
purchasing goods for any of our friends at
Wholesale cash prices. Any one wishing
goods cheap can get them iu this way.
Mcßae, Ga., August 0, 1877. aug9 It
PULASKI COUNTY
GEORGlA— Pulaski County.
Whereas, Mrs. Martha Sanders, Execu
trix of tlie iaßt will and testament of Miles
Sanders, -leeeased, applies to me for leave
to sell the real estate of said deceased :
This is, therefore, to notify all perrons
interested to be and appear at my office
on or before tin- first Monday in Septem
ber next, to show cause, if ni.y they have,-
why leave tojsell should not be granted. -
While.-8 my hand aud official signature
this 6th day of August, 1877.
P. T. McGRIFF/
al, s9 td Ordinary!
GEORGlA —Pulaski County.
Whereas, A C Pipkin, Guardian of if
M Pipkin, applies to me for letters of dis
mission froih his said trtisfi This is, -
therefore, to cite and admonish all'persons
concerned to be amt appear at mV office’
on or before the first Monday in Novem
ber next, lo stiow cause, if any they can,-
why letters of dismission should not be
granted said applicant. GiVen under my
hand and official signature tills 6th day of
August, 1877. I*. T. SIcGRIFF,
aug9 td Ordinary.
GEORGlA —Pulaski County.
Whereas, James 11. Pulley, adtninistra-'
tor on the estate of James McDaniel, de
ceased, late of said county, applies to mo
for letters of dismission from said trust:
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish
all persons concerned to be and appear at
my office on or before the first Monday iir
November next to show cause, it any they
can, why letters of dismission should not
he grnuted 1 lie applicant.
Given under my hand officially, this the.'
6th day of August, 1877.
P. T. McGRIFF,
aug9 td Ordinary.
Wool Carding!
NEAR IRWINVILLE, GA.
I would inform the people of Irwin and
surrounding counties that I have newly
clothed my Wool Card, and am now pre
pared to make as good rolls ne can he
made in the State. Having secured the*
services ot Mr. P. C. Laslinger, an expe
rienced carder, lie will take pleasure itf
rendering satisfaction to all who may
bring their wool. Good rolls guaranteed
at the following prices :
Plain wool, 10 cents per pound.
Mixed wool, 13 cents per pound.
Wool will be hauled from Alapaha, B.
& A. It. It,, and rolls returned for two
cents per pound extra.
Parties shipping wool by railroad are
requested to write their names and sta
tions plainly on each rack in order to save
trouble aud avoid mistakes. Send or bring
me tour wool and gel good rolls.
R. W. CLEMENTS,
Near Irwinvitle, Irwin county, Ga.
july26 4w
JOHN FJ.ANNEUt, JOffN L. ./OWNSON.
Managing partner late
firm L J Guiluiartin
& Cos., 1865 to 1877
JOHN FLANNEIIY & CO.,
COTTON F-A CTORS
AND—
Commission Merchants,
No. 8, Kelly’s Block, Bay Street,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
Agents for Jewell’s Mills Yarns and
Domestics, etc., etc.
Bagging and Iron Ties for sale at low
est market i-ates. Prompt 'attention giv
en to ail business entrusted to us, Lib
eral cash advances made on consign
incuts.
Our Mr. Flannery having purchased
ti e entire assets and assumed the liabili
ties of the late firm of L. J, Uuilmartin
& Cos., we will attend to ..It outstanding
business of that firm. junel-f-fhn
J. PATTERSON BURK. JOHN R. WEST..
BURI) & WEST,
GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
(77 Bay Sire#,) '
4
SAVANNAH, --- OEOKO'f A .
tar win pay special attention to con
signments of cotton and other produce.
Thus. Henly and John Z. T. Fann aro
agents at Hawkinsvilie for the sale of our
Bagging and Ties. july 12 8m ct
L. J. GUILMABTIN. | J. E. GAUDItY,.
Lute cashier Bontli
ern Bank Btatc of
Georgia.
L. J. GUILMARTIN & C 0„
COTTON FACTOR*
--AND—
Commission Merchants,
Kelly’s Block, Bay Street,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
Bagging an.l Iron Tics lor sale at low
est market rales. Prompt attention gtrci*
to all business entrusted to us. Liberal
cosh advances made on consignments.
junel4-6iiv
I>n. t. r. WALKER. . DR. T. . /OIIDAN.
DrSv Walker & Jordan,
Having associated themselves in the prac
tice uf medicine, would respectfully offer
their professional .services to Hie citizens
of Cochran and vicinity. Office on Second
Street, next door to poslofflce. Al night
l>r. Jordan can tic found :u his room its
the rear of his office. mar 22 ty