The Thomaston herald. (Thomaston, Ga.) 1870-1878, February 02, 1878, Image 1

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Dr. W. T. Park, „ aTI avtA, GEORGIA, has for twenty -0 five years made the treatment of all A niscases upon which other physicians a Specialty, with a success unpre he has, of his own discovery and pre jesld” “ estahltsned painless cure for the paration. an t MORPHINE and LAITDA fI tl I 1 lln NUM HABIT, and its cau- I V I I 111 ses. GUARANTEEING sat j, U ill isfactlon on three days’ trial- ful i description of whatever af - > Vton you may have, and ten cents lor reply. Terms of Subscription : JeSS’^^' lthß 100 McMICHAEL & MEANS, PUBUSIIEKS, Advertising Rates. rua .s. | iT-TTALfa M. I6 M uTm . . .. jfluo ,12 50 Is 700 i flout) 1115 18,1 ww ' 200 1 500|1000 | 1500| 25 •" 400 11000 120 00 I 3000 | 40 jggjdSSlaiSg SB|jß_ Hunt & Taylor, ATTORNEYS AT LAW BAiLNESVILLE, Ga. r~r ILL practice in the countie W comprising the Flint Judicia is. Tint and in the Supreme Court of the Btate> ' stOffice over Drug Store of J. VV. llightowcr. # dec2-ly attorney at law, B\rNF.sVILLK, IA. Will practice In the counties ol tne Flint Circuit and In the Su preme Court of the State. sep2S-3m ,J. S. POPE, attorney at law, ZEBULON, GA. fciT Prompt attention given to business. D L. BERNKB. Ci A * TURNER. BERNER & TURNER, attorneys at law, Forsyth, Cla. WILL, practice in all the Courts, and give spe cial attention to the collection of claims. Re fer to Wm. H. Head, Banker. Forsyth, Ga., Dumas & Allen, Cotton Factors, Forsyth, Ga. EiehS-tt James M. Smith* attorney at law, ZEBULON, GA. lir prompt attention given to business. Cabaniss & Peeples, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Forsyth, Ga WILL practice in all the comities of the Find Circuit. D. N. MARTIN. T. R. MILES, JR. MARTIN fc BILLS, A T T O R N E Y S A T L A W, Griffin, Georgia. Will practice in all the State Courts of Georgia, and the United States Courts. H3T Office, front room, up-stairs, in Cunningham building. mchl-6m_ sl2 OO per I>ay. mowN HOUSE. Opposite Passe or Depot, MACON, - - GEORGIA. Largest , Best Arranged , and most Thoroughly Furnished Hotel in the Sotuh. E. E. BROWN & SON, Proprietors. GREER HOUSE, fOES'ff m, SA, JOE GREER, Proprietor. BOARD per month $25 BOARD per day $2 SINGLE 50c Also pood livery accommodations, such as Carri ages, horse aud buggy, and pood shddle horseß. Also IIACK LINEto Indian Spring. doH-tf, CANCER Can be Cured b ■ Dr. Bond’s System. No Knife. Positively No Caustics. Absolutely No Pain. Remedies sent to any part of the World. Pamphlets and particulars free. Call on or address Dr. H. T BOXD, 1231 Chestnut St., Phiia delphia, Pa. julyl2 ly BARGAINS! BARGAINS! BARGAINS!!! SEW STOCK ! TAM pleased to inform the public that I have re- J- opened my Store in Barnesville with one of the finest and best selected stock of Dry Goods. Clothing. Boots, wlioes, Ilats, Trunks, Um brellas And a general assortmont in Cents Furnishing Goods per offered in this market, and would be pleased to have you call and examine my stock before purchasing, My stock has been bought for Cash only at very ° w pnees so I am enabled to offer the same at greatly reduced prices. Itt. JI. Nussbaiuii. sepi3-5m Established 1856. 100 acres in Nursery Stock Fruitland Nurseries AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. F-J. Berchmans, Proprietor. stock of FRUIT AND ORNAMENTAL off in the Southern States. Everything fruit* 1 18 s P ec iully adapted to need of Southern tor t’ l i°' Verß Eeing grown in this climate. Send atologues which are mailed free by addressing Sepl3-tf J • i. TAYLOR, barnesnille, ga., DEALER IN Family Groceries and Con fectioneries. la hi.PS °n hand Meat, Flour, Syrup, Molasses, thioff Inffar, ar Coffee, Cigars, Tobacco, and every- Wli h 11H> yGrocery line give the f< l r Country Produce of all kinds, and highest market price. iwW-lj* 86 ® me l>etore I'urchasiug. VOL. IX. A Disgusted Georgian. Hi: Goes to Texas, Tries Law, JOURNALISM AND PEDAGOGUEING MAKES SIBOO A YEAR, RETURNS FOR SOCIETYS SAKE,IS INTERVIEW’D AND SHOOTS THE REPORTER WITH THE LONG BOW. It will be remembered that du litig lust .March Colonel S. 13. Spen cer, exMnayor 0 f Atlanta, packed up his effects and moved out to Tex as. On last Monday he returned to Atlanta without his effects. His story of Texas life is a rich one. lie certainly realized, while out there, the yearnings of that poor fellow who ran away from his father to go to Texas, and after be ing there a year or so, telegraphed back, “Prepare the fatted calf for me.” Colonel Spencer is a man of fine abilities, undoubted talent, tireless energy and unblemished character. No man was better calculated to give Texas and its vast outcome a fair trial than lie. Ilis words are con sequently of practical importance, and may be called fitting “apples of gold in pictures of silver.” We found the distinguished returned reclining on avouch in his room. A box of pills sat near. Colonel, can you give me for pub lication some reason why a Georgian should not emigrate to Texas ?“ “Well, sir,” replied the colonel, with that grim humor that is his characteristic, “Ido not know that I could give you a better reason than I furnish myself. Look at me. Here’s a good reason for not leaving Georgia for Texas.” “You had better luck out there, didn’t you ?” “Yes, sir, I did. 1 reminded myself of the fellow who went to Calafornia to make a fortune digging gold, and wound up by washing clothes for the miners until lie had scooped enough money to bring him home. I didn’t do quite that badly. 1 went to Texas to practice law with a good firm. Both of the partners were invalids. I soon found that the business, while large, was a great deal of it criminal and pauper business. The best run of work was the practice among the cattle drovers of the western countries. These were called “c-ow boys” and good patrons. But it was the wild est circuit that ever a man rode. It would take you a month to reach your court, and your life was in perpetual danger. If you pressed a prosecution against some fellow he would shoot you, or if ho didn’t want to do it himself, might have it done for $5 by some dirty and un disiinguishable Mexican. I felt that it was mot the sort of a business that a man at my time of life should build up. Consequently I gave it up. I went to San Antonio and thought 1 would try it there. I commenced editing a daily paper, and was doing very well, when I found that the depressing, enerva ting climate was killing my wife. In that city there is actually ten months of summer every year. It just takes all the energy out of a man. While there I met a friend, who had been to school to me in southwestern Georgia. And he told me if I would go to Dallas 1 could get a good school. I want to Dallas, and soon had a school that would have paid about SI,BOO a ytar, but I found everything so un etth-d that 1 determined to come back to Georgia, And here I am, heartily home-sick, and determined never to play truant to this great old state again. ’ “What are the advantages that Georgia has over Texas?” Why, nearly every advantage. In the first place, let me tell you this. When a man finds it hard to get along at his own home, lie fancies that lie is suffering from the effects of a local depression, and that if he were elsewhere he wool 1 do a fine business. He forgets that tie same depression exists everywhere, and that a man has to scratch like the mischief for a living, no matter where he is. “Now when he’gocs to T- xas it is generally in response to the tlcsire to ofo and “grow up with the country. This is all folly. He will find when he gets there that he is in a misera ble society. It is chaotic, uncertain, shifting and transient. Instead of meeting with a warm leception, he tinds that he is looked on with a sort of suspicion, and simply because he is one of a host of strangers Unit Lave come into the state from every where, many of them the worst of adventurers, and most of them with out conclusive credentials. This spirit of social and business distrust pervades nearly every town in Texas, and naturally, too, because there no man knows who is his neignboi, or where he came from, or what his character is. Everything is loosly thrown together. “You can hardly imagine how this spirit of suspicion weighs a stranger down, and keeps him back in his business. It is a terrible load to struggle against. The same amount of work, put to any sort ot business in Georgia, will give much better results than it would in Texas. lam certain of this. Youthen have the advantage of better society, and all the social comforts here.” “Is Texas a better country for a young man than Georgia ?” “It is not. In the first place, the most of the young men who want to go there have little or no capital. They consequently desire to get work as soon as they get there. To do this is almost totally impossible. The ttate is simply overrun with THOMASTON, GA.. SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 2, 1878. } 7 oung men desirous of obtaining w° r k. Y r ou never saw anything like it, They can get literally nothing to do. It may be possible to get a job on a farm, but I tell you the man who tries to work as'a farm hand out there will find his muscles tested to the utmost. The most of the plowing is done there with two horse plows—oftener four horses than one. The plow itself is a huge eighteen inch affair and it cuts a fur row like a gully. It is a tremendous task to follow one of these plows for a day. One of the plows we use here couldn't be pulled a foot through that marshy soil out there. “No, sir; a young man had a thousand times stay in Georgia than go to Texas. If lie has capital he can use it much more safely, and quite as profitably here, as there. If lie has not and desires to get work, his chances for a job are a dozen here to one out there.” “Is Georgia a better farming country than Texas ?” It is not so rich, but it is much more safer. A man will sometimes make as much in one year in Texas as he can make in three years here, but in the ag gregate of ten year’s work he would make more in Georgia than he would make in Texas. “The soil there is wonderfully rich. It is six feet deep, and is very fertile. A sack of guano is a curios ity out there. It is hardly ever used. But this rich soil Is uncertain as arable land. If there is the slight est drouth it toughens so that you can’t work it. If it happens to be a little rainy it gets so boggy that it would swallow a saddle-blanket. For instance, I know a man who last year made twenty bales of cot ton on twenty-five acres. “This year on the same land he had a good crop and on Saturday came in town to get hands to gather it. It commenced raining and blowing on Sunday, and hegothard lv a bale of storm cotton from the whole twenty-five acres. If you miss a hair’s-breath in either direct ion you will become a bankrupt. As an evidence of the uncertainty of the crops, I will say that when I went out there, corn* was a drug on the market at twenty to twenty-five cents a bushel. Now it is worth seventy cents a bushel in Dallas — more than it is worth here I believe. “These sudden changes make ev erything out there uncertain and feverish. There is nothing settled and safe. It is a place that a mai with a family and respectably— should certainly avoid.” “Is living cheaper here than there?” “Yes sir: I find that I can board my family here cheaper than I can out there, and at the same time get better fare and accommodation; out there, there are so many strangers that everything is pitched at tran sient rate, and it is consequently cheaper here.” Just as we started to leave, Coio ! nel Spencer stopped us and said: “1 have nothing personally to say against Texas. I was treated kindly there, and made a great many warm friends. There are many pleasant associations connected with Texas, and I should have liked very much to have made it iny home. “But I oave it a fair trial. It failed in all the essential elements of a home, and I felt it to be my duty to warn my friends and the public in general against making the mis take that has proved so disastrous to me. “If you had seen what I have seen, you would raadily perceive the ne cessity for making some efforts to stop the enormous tide of immigra* tion that is flowing towards Texas. L never dreamed that it was half so serious. All through northern Texas the trains are literally jamm ed with immigrants pouring into the state. They are full, the aisles of the cars are packed, and children are pinned in between the seats. I have seen, since 1 left here, hun dreds of such trains. The immi grants are, most of them, the poors est of people, having barely enough money with which to reach their destination. I have seen mothers sick and fainting, with a half-dozen hungry, crying children with them, and husbands, depressed and dis couraged, and not a week’s living assured them after they had ridden out-their ticket. My heart always bled for those people. Nineteenths of them that stay in Texas do so be cause they have not the money to aet home on, and eke out a miserable existence—away from home and friends and kindred—despondent and almost helpless. In Dallas, Sun day two weeks, I saw a train of thirty-two wagons file into the town. The occupants were in good spirit, and were going further west. By a wonderful mischance, they metabout fifteen wagons of immigrants going back to Missouri. They would lis ten to nothing, however, but push ed on ahead.” Colonel Spencer was very earnest in his remarks, and said: "W bile I am going to do my very best to keep people in Georgia, it is a o-reat, and often a fatal mistake, for a man to try Texas as a remedy against hard times at home. °Colonel Spencer is now at home for all time. He will never leave Atlanta again. He says he is satis fied that it is the best city in Ameri ca, and he intends to go to work and build up his shattered fortunes right here. We are heartily glad to welcome Colonel Spencer back, llis energy and ab’lity won him a host of adini iers here, and he is certain to achie\e a success. The Ve; Dili a Solid South. [Washington Union. 1 lhere was a full audience of col ored people, with a fair sprinkling of white men, at the Second Baptist Church last evening to hear John Millis Menard give his views on the present and future status of the ne* groin the South. The effect of the President’s Southern Policy re ceived a laige share of the speaker’s attention. He said that the ulti mate adju&tment of the social and l*olitical status of the negro is a problem which time, aided by the enlightment of populai education, alone can solve. The failure of le construction he regarded as an ad mitted fact, but says that the time is near at hand when THE STORY OF THE NEGRO’S WRONGS will become stale, and he will be expected, like other men, to hoe his own row in the great stuggle of hie. 1 lie idea that the negio race is doomed to extinction he corn patted by reference to the last cen sus, where it is shown that their increase in the decade of 18G0 to 1870 was 328,000 in the old slave States alone. 1 he “solidity” of the South is, in his opinion, merely temporary; it may last till the next Presidential election, yet the various indepen dent political movements, and the recent success of the independent candidates in Georgia obtained m every case by negro votes, indicates an early break in this solidity. He thinks it absurd to expect a whole race of people to maintain one set of political opinions. This may’ have been necessary’ during the period of reconstruction for self-protection, but now with the necessary will pass away the fact. It is best, said he, that the negro should be no longer considered an issue in American politics, and the sooner his rights and wrongs are taken out of the party platforms and political discussions, THE BETTER IT WILL BE FOR HIM. The best policy, lie thinks, is to seek such local political alliances as are favorable to a wide-spread sys tem of internal improvements at the South by r the Federal government. The fact of the negro race being one of laborers, seeking employment, and that the supply Df labor at the South is far an excess of the demand makes a very vital question to them. The negro would reap his share of the prosperity following Hie advent T orthern capital, which is being vn South by the establishment of sate and responsible State govern ments. Increased enterprises and educational facilities are necessary to prevent the ballot being AN ELEMENT OF WEAKNESS to the colored race. Another point which the lecturer dwelt on was the effect of troops at the South on the condition of the negro, lie said that not only were these hostiles to the negro, but pro voked from the whites, we felt that the troops were used to maintain the negro in power over them. He thought no additional evidence was needed to show that the Republican State governments had been unable to protect the negro, who has little, if any, cause to regret the withdraw al of troops from the South. Among the means for ameliora ting the condition of the lower class es of Southern negroes he advised. A MIGRATION WEST AND SOUTHWEST, and also the negro republics of llay ti and Liberia. The negro must work out his own salvation, and not depend on any political party to do it for him; he has been played long enough as trumps in the political game, aud it is high time for anew deal. The Southern policy of the Ad ministration is, he thinks,only a wise and timely anticipation of an end made inyi table by public opinion, and the urgent necessities of the country. He only follows the logic of events as they had commenced to shape themselves at the close of Grant’s administration, and which lie had really inaugurated in with drawing the troops from Mississippi and Arkansas. In conclusion, he said the condi tion of his race would, indeed, be deplorable if they had not faith in the ultimate triumph of liberty and justice, quoting the beautiful lines of Lowell : New occasions teach new duties, Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They must upward still, and onward, Who would keep abreast of Truth.. It is now an acknowledged fact that con sumption can be cured. It has been cured in a very great number of cases (some of them apparently desperate ones) by Schenck's pulmonic syrup alone, and in others by the same medicine in connection with Schenck's Sea Weed Tonic and Man drake Pills, one or l>oth, according to the requirements of the case. The old supposition that “Consumption is incurable’ ’ for many years deterred Physicians from attempting to find any remedy for that disease, and patients af flicted'with it reconciled themselves to death without an effort being made to save sheui from a doom which was con sidered inevitable. Dr. Sckenek himself was supposed at one time to be at the very gate of death, his Physicians having pronounced the case hopeless and abandoned him to his fate; he was cured by the aforesaid medicines and afterward enjoyed uninterupted good health for more than forty years. Thous ands of paople have used Dr. Schenck's preparations with the same remarkable SUCCCBS. Schenck’s Almankc, containing a thor oughtreatisc on Consumption, Liver Com plaint, Dyspepsia &c., can be bad gratis, of any druggist, or of J. H. .Schenck & Son, Philadelphia. Full directions for the use of Schencks medicines accompany each prekage. Schenck's Pulmonic Syrup, Sea W eed Tonic and Mandrake Pills are for sale by 1 druggists. The Returning Board. The Lonis.ana Returning Board, arraigned some days since before the bar of the Superior Court* to answer to the charge of forgery,*their At torneys mu le every effort to have their ca?w transferred to the United States Circuit Couifc. Ti:e Judge overruled the motion to transfer their cases, aud called their names for trial, but they did not respond. A capias was issued for each of them and the sheriff and his deputies, hunted the city over without find ing them. They were hiddeu in the Custom House, and their names as you will remember are Wells, Anderson, Cassanave, and Kenner. When the Sheriff applied at the Col lector’s office, which was locked, he and his deputies were arrested, by the Lnited States Marshal, and ta ken befoie Judge Billings, of the United States District Court, who refused to have anything to do with the case. They were then taken before In ited States Commissioner. Lane who was a Clerk of the Re turning Board, and an affidavit was made to the effect that tne Sheriff and his deputies attempted to enter and forcibly destroy Government prop erty. This affidavit was made by Deputy Collector Tomlinson, wh 0 should be kicked out of the service of the Luitcd States before lie could breathe three times. His infamy, in attempting to shield the Return ers from justice is great ami should be punished. But the Sheriff and his deputies were released. The Custom House was placed under the Guard of the United States marines —two at the head of the main stair way, two or three in front of Ander son’s office, where he, Wells and the other two were hidden f and one or two more in the hall in front of wells’ office. The marines remainep on guard until night as a posse, when they were withdrawn. The action on the part of the United States authorities, especially District Attorney Lacey and the Marshal, has most certainly brought on a conflict legal, at all events, be tween the State and Federal authori ties, and it will yet wind itself into a snarl that Hayes himself can not unravel, unless he through the Unit ed States Attorney-General, sits down on the United States District Attorney and United States Marshal at once. Attorney General Ogden is in earnest in his prosecution of the Returns, and to see what the Wash ington authorities will have to say, he has sent a telegram to the United States Attorney-General, ' relating tne facts as shown, and asking if the Federal Government has authorized or will sanction this conduct. The United States Marshal and United States District Attorney have also telegraphed for instructions, they claiming that the Returning Board has sought refuge in the Custom house, on the theory that it is out side of the jurisdiction of the State, being Federal territory, and that the State authorities serve a process of any description therein, or even arrest a criminal therein. In this they will be found to have taken the wrong view, as, when the State ceded the ground on which the Custom-house stands, it did not cede the power to the government to make it a refuge for criminals, else a man might commit a nuisance in the] streets in front of the building and run inside and be free from arrest by the State. It is probable that Anderson and his friends have determined to do what they can to help the Blaine fac tion in putting Hayes on the record for or against the Returning Board. It was said to-day that while in Warhnigtou Wells was told by Hayes that the High Joint Commission was a higher power than the Louisiana Returning Board, once that when Wells tried the bull-dozing game on the President it didn’t win; and now comes another little game to get he State and Federal authorities at log gerheads through their own action with L'nited States officials. Ander son is a Speical Treasuary Agent and Special Deputy Collector and Wells is Surveyor of the Port. They are all in the Collector’s office to-night with a few Deputy United States Marshals outside in the corridor and at the front door, and near the latter stand a few Deputy Sheriffs, ready to gobble them should they come out during the night. Judge Neal of the county court of McDufie county held that a Home stead could not be taken on property after a bill of sale had been given and the porperty deliverd, even though the transaction might seem a security for supplies. (•ortfon and Hill. As Georgia is represented by two senators in the National Legislature and they assume opposite positions on the Silver Bill, in order that tiieir constituents may know their respee tve positions, we give the following as the substance of oppinions express ed by tlum in the United States Sen- ate: In the Senate Mr. Gordon, of Geor gia, said he might have something to say when the silver b.il should come before the Senate. He would vote for the preamble and resolution of the Senate from Ohio, because lie l*e lieved the recital of the tacts contain ed therein was true, and the resolu tion suggested a policy which he be lieved to be honest, wbe and just. 1 here was one thing, however, he de sired to say, and that was lie feared the country was being led to expect too much from the remonetization of silver. He cautioned the people of the country against such expectation-, because they would be disappointed. It was light to remonetize silver, but it could not gi\e the relief the people expected. The eyils under which the country now suffered, in iiis judge ment, resulted from a long series of enactments, and false financial system. Incidentally the remonetization of di ver would give some relict by cheek ing that pernicious system of contrac tion which has eyer and will always destroy the prosperity of any country. There was another good reason for the remonetization of silver. It would give the distressed people of the country some hope, and that was no small matter to him. It would enco urage the people to believe that at’ last their representatives here lir.d determined to call a halt in the sys tem of legislation which provided for class and not for the masses Mr. Hill slid he could not vote for tho resolution, because it affirmed that the debts of the United States to-day were payable in silver dol lars when there were no silver dollars. They had been destroyed by the gov ernment, and how could silver dollars be paid when the debtors had strick en them from the coinage of the coun try. There wvs mother question. He believed that the proper remone tization ot silver would be a gi eat ad vantage to the people of the country at this time. An improper restoration of tho silver dollar to the coinage of the country would result in evil. It would absolutely impoverish the already poor and hungry, the already starving. It the silver dollar could be remonetized in any way to make it equal to the gold dollar, a good thing would be done for the country. He believed silver could be made equal in value to gold in three ways; fust, by increasing its weight; second by limiting its coinage and third, by limiting its legal tender power. He believed it would be one of the great est mistakes ever made by the Amer ican Congiess, to pass the pending silver bill. He would not vote to coin a silver dollar and again throw upon the country a depreciated dol lar that cheated everything that tou ched it Senator Gordon voted for the Matthews resolution which passed by 43 to 22. Senator Hill was pair ed with Gariield and did not vote, but had he not been paired he would have voted against the resolution. Spain. TIIE MARRIAGE OF THE KING. The marriage of the King Alfonso to his cousin Princess Mercedes, third daughter of the Duke De Monlpen sier was celebrated on the 23 inst with great splendor. His Majesty left the Royal Palace at thirty min utes past ten in the morning attended by a numerous and brilliant suite. He went in state to the church to await the corning ot the Princess who with the Duke and Duchess of Montpensier arrived at eleven. The marriage ceremony with High Mass and the Te Deimi lasted till nearly one. Among those presnt were Queen Christina and King Francisco, the the King’s grandmother and father: the special Embassadors from France Austria,Russia, and England, the Ap ostolic Delegate the count and Coun tess of Paris, the Grandees of tpain, Senators and Deputies, foreign Min isters and other dignitaries. Numer ous crowds throng< and the street and enthusiastically cheered the King and the Princess on their passage to the church. After the ceremonies the King and Queen returned to the royal palace. The procession was one of great grandeur. The cortege included all the foreign Ministers Speci and Envoys to the wedding from foreign Courts, and many Grandees of spain. Bells were ringing an 1 salutes of artillery filing in honor of the event' The whole city presented a very gay and animated appearance. The rejoic ings began at eight o’ clock in the norning when the bands of all the regiments of the garrison paraded tLj various quarters of the city. Thou sands of foreigners and visitors from the Provinces were in Madrid to wit ness the festivities which lasted five days and consisted of illuminations, races, bull-fights, fire-works, special theatrical performances and other features. A sixweek’s season of Ital ian opera will also be inaugurated. A distribution cf alms to the poor is also o be made and new foundations established for poor scholars. The Pope, who is the King’s god father sent by the Apostolic Delegate a wedding ring blessed by His Holi ness and a rose of diamonds for the gave his daughter 55, 000, ( 00 fraucs in addition to a great quantity of diamonds and h* r womicTfuliy rich trousseau. Alfouso gave lus (jiu-vu several suits of jewels and his por trait set in brilliants. The (Jueett al so received from her sister the Count ess of Par.s a magnificent set of jew els. NO. 3. The Ibi-tmi W ar. for two weeks we have anxiously sought the telegraphic news, thiusing every day to learn the terms of the armistice. A Reuters dispatch frein Constantinople, of January the 25th says: The Poite yesterday accepted the Russian conditions. Peace is regard ed as virtually concluded. The Rus sian conditions are not yet officially known here, but it appears certain that they greatly exreed the conf r euce programme, and stipulate both for territorial concisions and the (lavmcnr of a war mdemni'y. The Daily Telegraj h, in a seeon l edition, prints the following from Constantinople The Turkish dele gates have been ordered to sign peace preliminaries, and an armistice wi.l probably be concluded t\'-day. The i*eaee conditions are stated on excellent authority to include the following: Servia i> to lie iudepemßut without compensation; Moutenegio is to receive Aiuivari, Nicsic ami .-pi/, and a portion of the territory border ing on Lake Scuterb Russia is to hold Batoum, Kars and Ktz< roinn until a war indemnity of twenty million pounds is paid; the Dardan elles to be opened to Russian men- iff. war; Bulgarian autonomy* to be con ceded rather on the principle ot the Lebanon than on the plan of tho Constantinople conference, and Tur key to nominate a Christian govern ment for a long ti rtn of years subject to ratification by the powers. Bui* garia is. not understood to include 1 brace, but only to ex tend to the line of the Balkans. A part of the Rus sian army is to embark ar Constanti nople for their return home, and t le final treaty of peace is t > be signed at Constantinople by the Grand Duke Niehol is. This arrangement will satisfy Russian military honor wiih oul involving the occupation of Con stantinople* The Legislature of Ohio has a bill before it providing that: Any person or persons engaged in any legitimate business, and who, on account of tin* present depression of business, or otherwise, can not dis pose of their property without suf fering great sacrifice in the sale there fore, shall be exempted from having their property, either personal or real put at forced sale, by either Sheriff or Constable, in th • county or town ship where they may reside or carry on such legitim it.* business, for the collection of any debt by distre-sed sale thereof for the term of twelve months.” We can see no rea-on why this bill should not become a law It is not designed to cheat the creditor out of his dues, but to s’ay pressure and thereby give the debtor time to meet his obligations, and at the same time save his property Ironi being sacrificed. Col. Thomas Alexander of the well-known firm of Grant, Alexan der died last Tuesday in Atlanta of congestion of the lungs and liver. O o CANCERCAN BE CURED Cancer lias from time immemorial been a great scourge to the human race, ami is now becoming the greater. For many years it has been held by the medical pro fession, and generally believed by the peo ple, that Cancer is incurable ; that ouce its roots take hold upon a victim, there is no chance for a sufferer to escape a lin gering terrible horrible disease, not only to the sufferer, but to liis friends. Hapr pity, this fell destroyer need no longer be feared Dr. H. T. Bond, of Phila delphia, i well known physician, of large experience, lias for years devoted himself to the special study and treatment of Can cer, and the result of his experience is his discovery for the radical cure of Cancer without the use of either knife cauatic or plasters, and without pain. The majority of persons are greatly de ceived iu regard to the first symptoms and appearance of this most dreaded disease, considering its painful from the commence ment. This is a sad mistake, carrying thousands to an untimely grave. In most cases there is little or no pain until the disease is far advanced. The only symp toms for many mouths, and even for years are occasionally a stinging, darting, stab bing, shooting, smarting, itching, burning crawling or creeping sensation, and in some cases not any of these- If a malady is growing worse instead of better, it is conclusive evidence it is of a malignant character and demands immediate atten tion. If you have a branny, scaly, warty appearance, with an occasional breaking out of these upon the face, lip or nose, or any other portion of the skin, attended with any of the above symptoms, or a sen sation of a fly being on it, or a hair tick ling, it, is certain evidence it is Cancer, and there should be no delay in using Lr. Bond’s treatment. Life is too valuable to be tampered with. Dr. Bond’s treatment consists of an “Antidote” that is applied locally ; this at once arrests the growth of the Cancer and by chemical action neutralizes its maD ignity, rendering it harmless and chang ing it to a simple 6ore, which nature, as sisted by constitutional remedies, soon heals when the skin is unbroken, and the Cancer is a hard tumor, the Antidote doe* not make an open sore, but removes it by absorption). In connection with the An tidote is used the Specific, taken internal ly. This tones up the general health, strengthens the patient, purifies the blood and eliminates the poison from the sys tem. Dr. Bond’s Antidote contains nei ther caustic nor poison, and can be ap plied to the most delicate tissues of the body without injury and therefore is the only remedy that can be used in internal Cancer, such as cancer of the stomach, cancer of the womb, etc. Dr. Bond s remedies, with full directions for success ful treatment will be sent to any part of the world. Pamphlets and full particulars free. Address, DR. H.T. BOND, 1241 Chestnut St.. Philadelphia, Pa. julyl2ly Let us do your Job Work.