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o IKAT HARD TIMES PAPKI3 I Tho r.‘-it. the u.".ii>os; Mini‘.he nv.sti opn- V J " X ir You oau’t iill'ord to be without it. CRICKET iU*. hearth 1 : ' J **U tu*’ c’loUvrt sundtjig '• vo.itijj. ttoa su-jft stories, tcf knpw'U’jgo. wit eu humor, " ( m* •- 1 ..V .gapmul,” jjiwsßm, game*, ••popular V i Ueiy inttummlng, tmutsiug ill. i pi,c i? r L MlwJwwVsf,' r.n\i ratnr 't i-f ti-’** only -I jw* Lsr, jf ihttg premiums ; the Lvnubful new * lJ “ i.\*os ov No?” sizo 15x1!) ibcLe* . pny one oi l ;;r(,ul .T ,{,. (,iovito by Charles Dipkeue, or an oie -I, c,. n i atiourjr. l’ior 1 hour premium' n■” ■_ per year. Of we will send it tour months 01> ;' r oli |y coats. 2 copy j ou . t ‘" ; ofsliiup. Agent} wanted. Address!? YM. i IVPTO N & CO., IbibltoherMl i’aik ltow, N. Y tssan II baknesyille, . ifS’ir?" H Trm EKCLOS j o j August 91, 1877. —t,’ eoODS C ° % Macon & Western t t I I Please IIOt.CC t!IC Signs, aild il you are Clothing, Hat?,Bo3ts f Shoes, ,77 ; MM ’’ ll ‘ OLI “ M ' A - Nl, | j Iwatching your interest, and waut bargains h I ,H any Kind or goods sold on the conti-Stafford, Blalick &Cos s nrnrn I X Bucll'>8 ucll '> au< * the liigncsr market once for cot- Sqoß Mar/uFAcroitY s s V 1 u Itou, or anything you have to sell follow AuJ all kimUKEPAIR ' VORK - EOF rron; , v , J r I tl,e streets as per diagram to STAFFORD, BLALOCK * IOL FLOUR, OR FLOUR lOR WHEAT; CORN' J) I & r B , 5 C FOR MEAL, OR MEAL FOR CORN; or have yourl {j V O ft C IlilVe Si COUllol‘t Ui>!C lIOUSC 011(1 CO 111 1110(11 OUS| Grinding: done promptly, and guarantee satisfaction. Our| L If; f .. D a , g . * , - ! Mr. FRA i\ T K RE EYES, with 20 years’ experience, has jj 2 lift near our warehouse tree at ail times to our friends. j 3 c.i.aigc of the Mill, ami will give it Ins personal attention.! Vtf I Wo can ami will offer superior inducements, and pledge you FAIR AND HONEST DEALINGS. We are grateful for past! S., B. $1 CO. fc REEVES. 1 |‘* lr “ # B c > and solicit acontim, a, ice of the same. SfifffOffO, & CO. I?£.SBftY w®SS£.''->S9?t3®‘ **tjSKit *• a*tfaWEs.:v**a*l2A' -TT-n—nr -iT-mniM mil ■nil. - . _ 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 / A* // \r jr <y /y BANK f \ f /% a STORE jT J Jr P*- — —~ : 1 PUBLIC SQUARE Jr / / 1 THIS IIU-ILDING IS STOEE JJy // ptnfford, Blalock, & Col km. Xjj // L. _ Gx ‘ sx “ ite I—^ — 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 . MHMHH 'Fo tile Woi’kiiitt < 111 •**•,—We nr*' 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* Ml ' fcMa **rtt nrntb nt nmrh uc ii.eo. That all Who *♦’* '*■ •* 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.