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RADICAL STEALIAC.
The South Carolina Legislative in
vestigating committee are still bring
ing to light the Meal ago of the Radi
cals, who have run the State govern
ment lor the past ten years. Sena
tor John J. Patterson is now the in
dicted ollicial. It seems that honest
John bribed the l gislature to secure
the passage of two bills while lie was
President of the Line llidge Railroad
Company of South Carolina. In or
der to pay the amount to the legisla
tors, lie wrote a letter to Parker in
which was an order to pay Kimpton
8114,250 on certain conditions, lie
handed the letter to Jifdge Mackey to
hand to Parker in person. Mackey
thinking . the contents should be
known, called oit Governor Scott
and proposed tint they open it and
know the contents. It was agreed,
and they opened it. So startled
were they that they each took a copy
and scaled the original and sent it on
to Parker. Since the investigation
of the legislative committee begun,
the order has come to light. '1 lie re
ceipts of members of the legislature
showing where they received the mon
ey have also fallen into the hands of
tiie committee. The following is the
order from honest John to Parker :
V ice—Presidents Officr,
Ci REENVILLE AND COLUMBIA R. It
Company, Columbia, S. C., March
4, 1872.
“Hon. .Miles G. Parker, State
Treasurer South ( arolina :
“Please deliver to 11. 11. Kimpton
revenue bond scrip due the Blue
Ridge Railroad Company according
to act passed March 2, 1872, amount
ing to *115,250 at par, upon the fol
lowing conditions : That 842,857 of
said scrip at par value is to be used
for paying the expenses of passing
through the house of Representatives
bills styled *A bill relating to the
bonds of the State of South Carolina*
and ‘A bill to authorize the Financial
Board to settle the accounts of the
financial Agent.’ Now, if these
above named bills Pare passed and be
come laws, this order for $42,857 in
scrip at par is to be paid said Ximp
ton : and if not passed, then this or
der for that amount to be void, and
the scrip is not to be delivered. Al
so, that $71,414 of scrip at par you
shall delivei to said Kimpton if said
bills shall become laws, and provided
that he shall pay the sum of $50,000,
the proceeds of said scrip at seventy
Cents on the dollar, in paying the ex
pense .incurred in passing through
the benate the bill known as ‘A bill
to relieve the State of all liability on
account of the guaranty of the Blue
Ridge Railroad bonds,’ etc., passed
March 1, 1872, which said expenses
said Kimpton has contracted to pay;
;mu if said Kimpton fads or refuses
to pay said amount in defraying said
expenses when required by me, then
'p Vs AL 'X 'j "
VOL. Vlil.
I O I* S YT It S T It 1: E X
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f \ f /% a STORE
jT J Jr P*- — —~ : 1 PUBLIC SQUARE
Jr / / 1 THIS IIU-ILDING IS STOEE
JJy // ptnfford, Blalock, & Col km.
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Proof Ware House,| alley
J &// 1 AND DEALERS IN 1
~ Jr <&// I j n MILLINERY
/ J// a* pMtODUCE of ail J t ISYnosTovk
/ ry ™ t kinds, Baggino, „2 U 221
jf 4?/ [Ties, Corn, Flour,jg gjßi o BA n I
f ~// sLoek J Lard,Bacon,Salt, ||
r aZ j yarJ p L line, etc., etc. i i , drug store j
* st - * SWOBS, BLALOCK & CO’S • " '
: this order to be void. If said condi
tions are complied with, and the
amount of scrip deliveied to said
Kimpton, he is not to be held liable
for or to account for its value. The
above two sums of 842,859 and 871.-
414 in scrip, at par, make up the
amount of scrip first mentioned in
this order. John J. Patterson,
President Blue Ridge Railroad
Company in South Carolina.
GEORGIA NEWS.
Mr. J. 13. Ross the well known
wholesale merchant of Macon is
dead. He leaves a large proper
ty-
Macon lias a merchant who is do
ing a flourishing business in peach
seed. Hcbu\sfrom little darkies,
and sells to a nursery company by the
car load.
Crop reports from Southern Geor
gia are not. promising. Corn lias been
sadly cut olf, and from heat cotton
opening prematurely.
Preparations seem active and
interesting this season for county
fairs.
Reports of death come from all
parts of the state.
Owing te the abundant fruit crop,
and difficulty of transport! ti >n there
arc a larger number of stills in oper
ation in Georgia than ever before
known.
In Quitman county corn is selling
at sixty cents per bushel.
Lumpkin cb.il [iron are being taU
tooed by chicken pox.
One of a party of excursionists
from llawkiusvillc to Savann ill re
cently. became very much inter* sted
in Pulaski's monument. After mak
ing various inquiries as to his histo
ry birth Ac, lie passed on to the paik
and seeing the fountain playing, ex
claimed with a look of astonishment.
‘•Who the devil is buried here.
Some of the wicked boys of car
tersville white and black have been
arrested for rocking the passing trains
breaking windows and striking pas'
sengers.
The News says the splendid health
of Savannah at present, enables her
physicians to indulge iu social recre
ation and pleasure.
Silas Basch clerk of Mr. Jacob
Cohen of Savannah has disappeared
after defalcating to the amount of
several hundred dollars.
The annual report of the Savannah
market for the business year just
closed shows the city to be in a more
flourishing condition than for several
years past.
Mr George Ilaseltine and Rev. Mr
Owens of La Grange have each sub
scribed 8500 to the fund for estab
lishing a free school for the colored
people of that place.
1 in *M ASTON. GA.. SATURDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 15, 1877.
A hard working colored man of
LaGrange recently lost his barn fill
ed with “new mown hay,” by lire.
A well in llogansville caved on an
old negro well digger. After sever
al hours hard work he was finally
dug out of the mud, having sustain
ed no seri ms injury.
Col. F. A. Frost left La Grange
Saturday morning, arrived in New
\ ork Monday morning, transacted
his business, left there the same day
and reached La Grange Wednesday,
making the quickest trip on record.
Col. F. 11. Terry of Harris coun
ty has about one hundred bales of
cotton that was raised before the
war, so says the Columbus Enqui
rer.
Two little girls, twins of Mr.
James Jones, of Ilawkinsville, died
one o.i Sunday and the other on
Monday of last week. Roth were
buried in one coffin.
Columbus had a 87,000 fire.
Sixteen thousand bales of cotton
were sold m Milledgoville last sea
son.
The total bonded debt of Georgia
is 810,045,000.
It is rumored that Rev. J. O.
Branch will return to Georgia.
Jim Everett, a negro preacher liv
ing near Marshalville, cut the throat
of a negro women and left her body
lying in the woods, where it was dis
covered the next day.
The Enterprise says a Mrs Roberts
died of starvation in the suburbs of
Dalton a few days ago.
The News says fewer people attend
Church m Gnliin than in any other
town in tiie State.
Mike Slum, the wife-murderer of
Miliegcvilie has been tried and found
guilty. Of course his attorneys have
made a motion for anew trial.
A Mr. Robcrston, living near
Hartwell, recently went with his
wife to visit some neighbors, leaving
four little children at home, who
during ihe absence of their parents
found a jug of brandy from which
they drank freely, and on the return
of the parents were found insensible.
One of the children died, and the
others are in a critical state.
A lady keeping a boarding house
in Savannah a few days ago discov
ered small particles of pounded glass
in a plate of soup of which she was
about to partake. She supposed it
to be the method of revenge adopted
by a servant girl with whom siic had
some trouble the day before.
The editor of the Fort Valley
Mirror thinks from the number of
hogs visible upon the streets of
that place that Houston county will
never import another pound of meat.
The Ordinary of Fulton county as
sesses 27 A cents on the dollar this
year to meet the expenses of the
countv.
The City Council of Augusta have
invited President Hayes and his Cab
inet to visit Augusta. Of course he
will not do it.
r i he Macon Telegraph thinks if
Atlanta is made the Capital, an ad
ditional debt of live millions dollais
will be placed on the State.
Saylor, Randall and Blackburn are
spoken of as prominent for the next
Speaker ol the House of Representa
tives.
Governor Hampton has been in
Washington arranging for the quota
of arms, for the South Carolina Mil
itia.
The President has appointed Tlios.
W. Hunt, V. S. Marshal for the
Southern District of Mississippi,
Lewis E. Parsons for the Northern
and Middle Distiict of Alabama, and
Sam G. Hill for the Southern and
Middle District of Alabama.
The Vintage of America. —The
cultivation of Grapes for vintage in
America lias increased to enormous
proportions. In California, Missou
ri, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michi
gan the industry is considered very
remunerative. In 18(50, the entire
production aggregated to 1,(527,192
gallons, one-third of which is claim
ed by Ohio, and one-sixth by Cali
fornia. In 1809, the total proino
tion was 3,002,53540 gallons , 1,814,-
650 gallons from California ; 220,-
113 gallons fro n Missouri ; 212,912
gallons from Ohio, and the remain
der from the other states. In 1870,
Ohio alone produced 2,577,607 gal
lons of wine, and 15,853,719 lbs. of
grapes. In 1871, owing to wet weath
er and the phylloxera, the number of
gallons fell to 1,031,623 gallons ; in
1812, to 42(5,923, and in 181 3 io 208-
289. In 1874, the phylloxera disap
peared and Oiiio again produced 1,-
078,036 gallons. The places of cul
tivation are principally located on
the shores and islands of Lake Erie.
Large shipments of wine are at pre
sent being made to Europe.—Polyte
chnic.
Human Milk on Sale. —lt strik
es the European as a singular fact
that human milk can usually be ob
tained without difficulty in China.
In the. native city of Shanghoi, it
costs at present about twenty cents
for half a pint. Dr. Mackenzie, of
Ningpo, says that he has frequently
seen the native women milking their
breasts into small basins, in the
streets of the native city and foreign
settlement of Ningpo. It is esteem
ed by the Chinese as a nourishing
food for old people, and for consump
trves.— Med. and Surg. Rev .
The woman in Slack.
Hnu Thirty-Six Years of Crime
ix New York and ix Califor
xi a.
[From tlie Saa Francisco Bulletin.]
The notorious Ellen Gibbons, al
ias Kate Smith, but better known as
“the Woman in Black,” was taken
into the Criminal Court recently to
receive judgement on two convictions
for robbery, and Judge Blake senten
ced her to State prison for two years.
She is the wife of a police officer m
Brooklyn, N. 3., and is about 40
years of ago. Her mother, who is
nearly 80 years of age, lives in this
city, also her two daughters, the
eldest a miss of 12. She came to
this State from New York in the
fall of 18GS. About this time nu
merous robberies of dwellings were
reported, and the police ascertained
that a woman dressed in black and
deeply veiled was frequently seen
near houses that were robbed. With
this cue the office re institut ala vig
orous investigation, and found in
her house stolen property of every
conceivable kind that could be se
creted under a shawl or a cloak.
Jewelry, with and without settings,
plate, clothing and even such triiies
as a moustache brush were among
thcdirtieles. She* was -sentenced to
State prison for three years, but was
subsequently pardoned. Returning]
East she resumed her depredations,
and the next heard of her is as “An
na Gibbons, alias PatteiN u,‘ the no
torious confidence' woman," on'trial
at Hudson, X. , for burglary.
•She was - eoTurinted in New York city
of stealing sls,oy6 worth of Govern
ment Irniuls from a hotel room, and
sent to Sing Sing prison for two
years. Nine months afterward she
was pardoned. Again she found her
way to this city, ami resumed her
former course of life. But she
changed her tactics. On her pre
vious visit she dressed neatly, and
confined her depredations to robbing
ro >ms in the day time. Latterly she
drefesed poorly, and selected night
time to commit buglaries. The de
vice did not deceive the expert de
tectives. Her defense has always
been that of kleptomania. She s ivs
she cannot resist the temptation to
steal when an opportunity offers.
Iler mother, Ylrs, Dooley, says that
Ellen has been a thief siuce she was
four years of age : that she was fre*
queutly arrested in New York for
thefts, but that people generally be
lieved her crazy, and that she could
not help stealing, that her uncle
went crazy and made several at
tempts to kill himself, and that her
husband is afraid to live with her on
occoiuit of her thieving habits.
Nebuchadnezzar’s Hunting Di
ary.—Among the discoveries made
by Colonel Kavvlinson, in the exca-
vations of Babylon, was Ncbueliad
nczzaifs hunting diary, with notes,
; and here and there a portrait of his
j dogs, sketched by himself, with his
name under it. He mentions it as
I having been ill: and while he was de
| iirious lie thought he had been out
to graze like the beasts of the field,
ils not this a wonderful corrobera
j tion of scripture? Rawlinson also
j found a pot of preserves, in an ex
! cellent state, and gave some to
Queen Victoria to taste. How little
Nebuchadnezzar's cook dreamed
when making them that twenty-five
centuries after the Queen of En
gland would eat some of the identi
cal preserves that figured at his mas
ter's table?— National Repository.
Invention* sold l>y Auction.
Lots of queer Devices Knocked
Down at ax Average Price of
§2OO Aweck.
Over a hundred patent rights were
sold by auction m Keeler's room in
Liberty street, \e.-terday, for about
§20,000. The rooms were crowded,
but the i living was not brisk, and a
large fraction of the buying was by
itwo or three bidders. The following
pare some of the prices : A wagon
wheel improvement, §l5O ; the
Eclipse Automatic Extinguisher
Burner, “warranted to put out any
■ lamp w’thout t e possibility of aeci
-dent,” §I,OOO ; an extinguisher to
■nut out the lamp at a designated
dune, §l2-3 : an improvement in bur
glar alarms, $230 ; an improvement
1 in the manufacture of artificial mar
't>!e, “whereby an imitation of mar
.blemay be made for tliir.y cents a
[foot,” §3OO ; a brake for baby car
riages, which begins to act as soon as
4he puddle is let go of, §1,200; an
improvement in horseshoes, §1,330;
a. design for street l imps, §3OO ; an
improvement in horse covers, which
allows currents of air to circulate
beneath the blanket, and advertises
the du si ness of the owner on the out
ti le, §4OO ; an improvement in the
tiro escapes of the portable ladder
pattern, §073 ; an automatic funnel.
§773 ; a charm and key, §l5O ; a
street lamp, the frame of which acts
upon the feeder so as to generate the
gas required for the tiame. §1,150 ; a
needle-threader, §SOO ; an improve*
nieiit in trusses, §I,OOO : an improv
ement in under braiders for sewing
machines, §O4O ; a seed and guano
distributor, SOOO ; an automatic
hatchway proctector, §3OO. No bids
were offered for an improvement in
smoking tubes, which would “fur
nish an excellent pipe at prices with
in the reach of the laboring classes
of workmen,” nor for a stamp can
celler, nor for an apparatur doing
away with the “licking of stamps
and envelopes to make them adhere.
X. Y. Ru n .
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i now -tfiuiT | to formth all wit:, ro.| ! , W |
' eiifpl 'intent at t,e vfa \*, f ihfclr time, or for
tunir ;*k P.MtirM*. *>• w. |ig!.t and
lVt-nmcf rithrr nn t -n tr.m h
m •'VB'pg, *n4 * rr*nmr>lox! ! y
I tlieir *Uo:c tut* to *le't,uaJij*4. Hoy*
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*♦’* '*■ •* Ui>tw* tatjr *. M j tis.-ir arrl Ua; t;*-
tHraMKelrd T* *n.*h s ?r.' jsyt *-! •%.
n, i *• wit; wrvi on- dollar tn j ,r for ttr* trouble of
wnttojT. Fi'U p.-.'U' v.'air, n..r,!: *, v. j.,
j ih .l .w to contract]'* w-rl on, nn.l n Cvtiv of Home
:i.l K:i ••ide. wie of the aar;r**t ami brai Tllnatratcd
I‘uUi.wUoti*, all acut ir.-e by Head, rif ion
"a:it permaiM'nt, pr-HUnbir w.ttl. .ii.tr, *t. ,;i
TIN* .'* 4 Cos . Ivrllui l. Miiur.
NO. :>.
The National Agricultural
Congress will hold its sixth annual
session at the Grand I’acidic Hotel,
Chicago, on Tuesday*, Wednesday
and Thursday, Sc [item I or 25tli, 2i>th
and 27th, 1877, commencing at 10 A.
M. on Tuesday. All Agricultural
Societies, Boards of Agricurture, Ag
ricultural Departments, Agricultural
Colleges, Agricultural Periodicals,
Granges. Farmers’ Clubs and other
organizations whose object is the pro
motion of Agriculture, in the United
States and in British America, are re
quested to send delegates ; and all
persons desiring to promote the ob
jects of the Congress are cordially in
vited to attend and to participate in
its deliberations. It is . uggested and
requested that in euch State an ef
fort be made to send at least one del
egate from each of its congressional
districts. Specimens of Agricultural
Products—such-as the Small Grains,
Corn in the Ear, Fruits, Nuts, Seeds,
Grasses and other Forage Plants, To
bacco, Hops, Cotton, Hemp, Flax,
Sugar, Wool, Dairy Products, etc.,
arc solicited for exhibition and for
the comparison of the similar pro
ducts of different parts of the country’.
The Chicago Inter-State Exposition
will be open during the meeting of
the Congress, and. delegates will have
the advantage of such reductions of
fare as may he ex ten ted to other visi
tors, and an opportunity of visiting
the finest exhibition of agricultural,
mineral and manufactured products
of the Northwest.
Alvin Adams, lounder of Adams
Express Company died at his res
idence inWateiiow Mass, on the 31st
of August, at the age of seventy
three.
There was another warm contrat
between the Russians and Turks last
I* rid ay. The Turks thrashed tlum
out again.
The factories of Columbus have
for the present year taken up fur
home consumption 0,730 hales of cot
ton.
The British brig “Rover” cleared
from Savannah tor" Cork on Monday
with a cargo of turpentine valued at
$17,70(1, and 236 barrels of rosin,
worth §312 13.
Senator Conkling is reported as
having said that he has received over
1000 letters imploring him to protest
against Hayes; sucidal and democrat
ic policy.
Take pride in the crops of fore
thought, not in those of accident.
The price received is not always the
measure of the value to the fanner,
for discipline and experience have a
vahie of their own, whose crops are
unceasing and abide, and the farm
crop is consumed.