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Macon Dai1 3 £nterprisr. Stevenson & Smith, Proprietors, Ttraii of Subscription One Tear * ? PR Six Months i Three Month* * Invariably in advance. To city subscribers by the month , Seventy-fire •onto, lerved by carrier*. % TKUNKSSEE MOTHER'S TBAUI€ HEATH. SHE 18 TAKEN FROM HER BED BY ROB BERS AND HANGED ON A HOG GAL LOWS —THE HOUSE ROBBED AND THE MURDERERS ESCAPE. The Nashville Banner of the 16th, gives the details of the murder of a Mrs. Hous den on the previous night, at tyer house, on the Noleusville pike, nine miles from that city, it is supposed by robbers, who secured but SIOO. The Banner says : Mrs. Housden was a widow, having an only sou, wha was married and lived at her house. Not long before night he went to Mill Creek to fish, leaving his mother and wife at home. His wife says that her self and mother-in-law retired for the night and went to sleep. She had not been asleep very long before she was awakened by the screams of her mother in-law. She immediately got up, saw the door open, but did not see her mother-in law. She then ran over bra Mr. Barnes’ house, from two and fifty to three hun dred yards distant, and told Mr. Barnes that tiiere was somebody over at the house; that she had not seen anybody, but from the screams of her mother-in law she sup posed someone must be in the house Mr. Barnes came down to the road which separates their places, and there met Robert H. Patterson, who, having bejird the screams of Mrs. Housden, came down with bis gun for the purpose of rendering her every assistance possible. They then proceeded to the house, Barnes telling Patterson on the way thither, what young Mrs. Housden had told him. When they entered the house it was found that the bed and bed-clothing in Mrs. Housden’s room had been thrown off the mattrass and were lying upon the floor. They then instituted a search about the house and premises for Mrs. Housden, but failed to find her. They had concluded to give up the search, after repeatedly hallowing for her, and had started toward the spring, id going away, when they were greatly as tonished to find one of her garments. This was the only clue they had discovered as to the direction she had been taking, and they followed the path to the spring, where they were astounded to find her hung to a gallows which had been used by the Housden’s for the hanging of hogs after they had been killed. Yesterday morning the large tracks of a bare footed man were found leading from the house to the place Mrs. Housden was hung, and the traces of another who had worn shoes. These tracks also led off from the gallows. When Coroner Everett had reached there about half-past five o’clock the body of Mrs. Housden had been cut down and covered with a quilt. Her feet were entirely free from mud, and this of itself was sufficient to justify the opinion that she had not walked, but had been carried to the gallows upon which she was hang ed. The rope had been tied so tightly around her neck that it had cut into the skin. It had been drawn tightly by means of a slip-knot, and the rope had been wound around her neck (besides the noose) four times. The rope had been so closely drawn upon her neck that it had to be severed with a knife. She had been drawn up so closely to the pole of the gallows that the hair of her head had been rub bed off. Mrs. Housden was about sixty years of age, of small stature and weighed about one hundred pounds, so that she was inca pable, both by reason of her age and phys ical weakness, of making more than a fee ble resistance to the \ illains who took her life. Coroner Everett summoned a jury, which, after an investigation, returned the following verdict. “That the said Mrs. Housden came to her death from being hanged by the neck with a cotton plow line, and it is the opin ion of the jury that she was hanged by some other person than herself.” No one can realize what could have prompted the perpetration of so heinous a deed upon a defenseless, inoffensive, aged woman. The whole affair is wrapped in mystery, and it is to be hoped that some clew will be obtained as to the perpetra tors of the crime. Mr. Housden returned home with a string of fish, to hear the dreadful story of his mother’s death, which he would doubt less have prevented had he been present. Mrs. Houston is said to be the third of four children who have met with violent deaths. One was frozen to death, and ODe drowned in the James liiver. It is said of her that she was a hard working, industrious economical woman, and a devout member of the Methodist Church. About twenty years ago she was com pelled to quit the place upon which she lived on account of the non-payment of rent. On retiring from it she made a vow that she would live to own it. Fortune favored her. She bought valuable prop erty in Nashville and Edgefield, and finally purchased and lived on the farm of her choice. Facts for the Idle. —Hang this in the library, parlor, ofißce, store, shop or some other place where it will be seen. “What does it matter if we lose a few minutes in a whole day?” Answer —Time table : —Days in a year, 313 ; working hours in a day, 8 : Time. D. 11. II 5 minutes lost each day la, in a year. 33 5 10 minutes lost each day is, in a year. 9 6 10 20 minutes lost each day is, in a year 13 4 540 30 minutes lost each day is, in a year 19 4 30 00 minutes lost each day is, in a year 39 1 30 Two hundred and seventy thousand dollars of the special school fund wilf be ready for distribution by Ist of July. WOMAN. SOME I'L.VIN BUT VERY KIIAKt* TALK TO FEMININE IDLERS BY A GENTLEMEN OF MEUI*niS. In the columns of the Appeal and other journals of Memphis there has been going on for soveral weeks a spicy and remarka bly earnest controversy in regard to the employment of women in which botli sexes have freely taken part. Friday's Appeal contains a letter from which we extract the following: Your doctrine that women should have the same wages that are paid to men, whether they do or do uot earn as much, is gallantry, but not business. Nobody denies “ woman’s right to work at any thing for an honest living.” The trouble is that they, as a class, do not want to work. They prefer to play the twiney, viney and whiuey and marry for support. Everyone wishes them to work, but they won’t do i; if they can help it. You justly say tlmt ■ the want of a trade makes loafers and < urtesans.” Ask thirty women to learn i trade, and twenty eight will consider 1 emselves insulted. You can find any i umber who are willing to accept places < ease, honor, and profit, but nature lias t >t seen fit to bless above one ten-thou -1 ndth part of them with the capacity re -1 ;ired for such places. Not able to be 1 ad, they refuse to be anything. Woman Ins had for a century her destiny in her own hands, and she alone is to blame for her misfortunes. She has herself sneered out of the pale of “respectability” her nat ural avocations, such as housekeeping, cooking, nursing, dress making, etc. If there is a position at once more naturally delicate, responsible and honor able than that of a nurse for children, I fail to see it; but Where will you find a so called "respectable” young woman wlio will nurse any one else’s child for even five hundred dollars a month ? Eveu wealthy mothers are either compelled to Dtjrsc their own children or to entrust them to the mercy of hirelings with whom they would not dare leave their uulocked trunks. The natural avnues for women’s labor are on every band, and the demand for it at high wages is enormous ; but the women steadily refuse to fill them. This will al ways be the case until mistresses learn to give not only the pay, but the courtesy— due competency in the lines of industry. Where will you find a mistress who will sit at the table with the woman who saves the family from the horrors of indigestion ? Merchants have vainly tried to put sales women behind the counters. With very few exceptions none but the utterly irre sponsible, will accept the situation. Female purchasers fail to encourage it, for, with rare exceptions, these ladies prefer to trade with salemen, because, as they say, saleswomen are lacking in that knowl edge of business and obliging suavity of manner so charcteristic of the dry good clerk. One of the largest houses in this city has failed, after a trial of dozens of saleswomen, to procure a competent one to retail ladies’ underwear. Physicians in Sweden. —One morn ing, says a letter writer, I went to call on a Swedish acquaintance and found her doctor with her. He was merely paying a complimentary visit, as bis services were not required. I learned that an arrange ment is made with the medical man ; a small sum of £5 or £6 a year contents him, and for that he attends the whole family, however often they may happen to be ill. The difficulty seems to be to get hold of him quickly enough in an urgent case ; for if be has gone his rounds he finishes every visit before be goes to the new patient. A lady with whose rel atives was slightly acquainted bad a bus band who had always very delicate health, and upon one occasion, when they were staying with her, be was seized with a sharp attack connected with a heart com plaint. They urged her to send at once for the doctor, but she only used some simple remedies, because she said lie had just dismissed her Usual medical attendant and had made no fresh arrangements with anybody else, so that she could not ask any one to come to her assistance. A p .or lady while I was there lost a child ft >m water on the brain, and she sat by it fi hours in the most terrible anxiety, v iting the doctor’s time for coming. To p iple accustomed to command prompt a vice in illness, Stockholm, or, indeed. £ 1 eden, would not seem to be a desirable p ce to bo attacked in. A Prediction Soon Verified—The “Dig Sensation” has Come. —Less than tv r> weeks since a correspondent of the I w York Graphic wrote {hat when ocean sleamships, “as at present constructed are crowded, something must break before a great while.” In concluding his commu nication, he said : It is so secret, and it Is scarcely denied that they do crowd the Inman and White Star ships. There has been and is a fierce rivalry between the ships of these lines. They are what are called “wet” ships, from the fact of their being long and narrow, and equipped with powerful machinery. Their models tell the story. They are built to run, and they are run simply for the glory of who gets there first, and with out any regard to safety of the passengers. During the past winter there has been a sharp race between several of competing lines, and in nearly every instance the ships have been delayed, machinery has given way under the strains, and in some in stances lives have been lost. The facts are carefully kept from the public, and to the public everything appears to be lovely. Keep your eye upon these steamers, and you will have a big sensation to illustrate before long—and from skethes not taken on the spot. “The "big sensation” did come, sure enough, at a cost of human life that chills the blood to think. Atlanta has a hospital in which no ten ant has remained more than a few days. The Agents offer it rent free. MACON, GA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1873. Don’t Read Is! Wf It ore now in receipt of it fresh and invl- VV ting stock of CHOICE Family Groceries Consisting in part of tho following: Fresh Fulton Market Beef, Ferris’ IV. Y. lining (unexcelled) Choice Beef Tongues, Keeker's Sclf-mising Flour, Canned Fruits and Vegetables, Fresh Crackers, Illc., llle., Fie. PARCHED Rio and Java COFFEES, GROUND FREE OF CHARGE. Oolong and Im perial T,gas, AT 70 AND 80 CTN. IKR 1.11. OKRMAN GROCERIES A SPECIALTY. Segars! Segars! PUTZEL’S DELIGHT ” AND “ PUTZEL & JACOBS' FA VORITES” Are the most popular Segars in town. Try them anti you'll smoke no other*. OUR PRICES ARE LOWER THAN EVER. GIVE U 8 A CALL. PDTZIL & JACOBS, Second St., Humour's Block. marls jRECUL AT Dr] •'••*' ' - - - 4fli<m(y< • '‘ih^ For over FORTY YEARS this PURELY YEiiETABLE LIVER MEDICINE lias proved to be the Oreat Unfailing Specific for Liven Complaint and the painful offspring, DYSPEPSIA, CONSTIPATION, Jaundice, Billious attacks, SICK HEADACHE, Colic, Depression of Spirits SOUK STOMACH, Heart Rum, Ace., <vsc. After years of careful experiments, to meet a meat and urgent demand, we now produce from our original GENUINE POWDERS, Till: PREPARED, a liquid form of SIMMONS’ LIVER REGU LATOR, containing all its wonderful and val uable properties, and offer it in ONE DOLLAR BOTTLES. The Powders, (price as before;! 1.00 perp’kge. Sent by mail 1.04 car caution : i j&i Buy no Powders or PREPARED SIMMONS’ LIVER REGULATOR unless in our engraved wrapper, with Trade mark, Btarnp and Signa ture unbroken. None other is genuine. A. 11. ZEILIA Ac CO., MACON, GA., and PHILADELPHIA. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. lan 81-523 I.TIPOBTAST TO CAPITALISTS! X HE City Bank is authorized to receive sub scriptions for the State Bonds authorized to- ire issued by an Act of the last Legislature. The Bonds to have the following strong points to commend them to such as are seek ing investments: They bear eight per cent, interest. They are free from all taxation, and irrepeal able prevision is made In the act of authoriza tion for the prompt payment of the interest and the Bonds as they fall due. Wall street says the State of Georgia has no credit since the report of the Bond Committee in 1572. Georgians, hurl back this libel on your fair fame by promptly taking up this loan In the interest of your State. marSl C. A. NUTTING, President CASES AM CASKETS TIIE FINEST, THE BEST, THE CHEAPEST METALLIC CASES A N D C A 8 K E T S, WOOD COFFINS, CASES AND CASKETS, A T A ItTII Fit L. M OOD *. Next to *• Lanier House.” Night and Sunday calls answered from the “Lanier House.” feblO-3m GEORGE T. ROGERS’ SONS, WHOLESALE GROCERS. fFLOUR A SPECIALTY,j CHERRY STREET, MACON, ------ C^A. Flour! Flour ! ! 5 CARS FAMILY FLOU It, in 50 and 25 lb. Hacks. SEYMOUR, TINSLEY A CO. Potatoes T 50 BARRELS POTATOES, WILL BE SOLD LOW TO CLOSE CONSIGNMENT. SEYMOUR, TINSLEY & CO. BROOMS. BUCKETS and TUBS, JUST RECEIVED BY Seymour, Tinsley & Cos. mar 23 tf. ESTIMATING AMD BUILDING I AM now prepared to make estimates and contract for the erection of any kind and style of building needed, and would solicit a share of the patronage of the public. I will undertake the building complete when de sired—brick-laying, carpentering, plastejing and painting. *L C. KEEL, na 30-1 Hi ~ WANTS, f Adyertisements of five lines under this head wiil he inserted 3 times for SI.OO in advance.J WANTED— A good cook without extra in cumbrance. To attend to the cooking and general housework of a small family. Must corne well recommended. Apply at Tula Office. CAPITAL WANTED—In a well established business. A capital of S3OOO required.— address, with real name, “ Livinostouk,” Enterprise Office. NEWSBOYS— To sell the Daily Enter prise. WANTED To Purchase Immediately. ANY person or persons having a small MARKET GARDEN from two to three acres, not over one mile from the city, for sale, can hear of a purchaser by applying at THIS OFFICE. On the place must be a dwelling house with from four to five rooms and all ne cessary outbuildings. The place must he in thorough repair, to coet not exceeding SI6OO. ap!s W. & E. P. TAYLOR, Cor. Cotton Avenue anil Cherry Street, DKALIRB IN FURNITURE, CARPETS & RUGS, SOIL CLOTHS, WINDOW SHADES, etc. ■ Metaiic Burial Cases & Caskets, Fine and Plain Wood Oofiins and Caskets. LgUOrders fly Telegraph promptly attended to; 791f IMPROVED GIN RE AR. SOMETHING NEW. SUPERSEDES ALL OTHER HORSE POWER IT IS NO HUMBUG!! fTMIE settling of the Gin House floor linn no effect ou the Gearing. King Post of Iron and all JL the work boltud to iron. IT IS MADE TO LAST, AND TO RUN TWENTY-FIVE PER CENT. LIGHTER THAN ANY OTHER POWER IN USE. Cali for vouaself. I bui.u a Portable liorso Power that challenges all other MAKES, bat it will not do the work with the lame Draft that my PATENT GIN GEAR will. All kinds of Machinery made and repaired ut < IIOFKFTT'N IRON WORKS 108-186 Near Brown House, Macon Georgia. OF *lo^o cropJLo a & PloYcr and (1 ras Seeds. RED CLOVER, CRIMSON GLOVER, SAPLING CLOVER, HERDS GRASS, LUCERNE SEED, BLUE GRASS, ORCHARD GRASS &c., &c. J nut received, HUNT, RANKIN & LAMAR, Wholesale Druggists, 146-815 46 and HI Cherry Street ANNEXATION! WE have added to our large and varied stock of Choice Family and Fancy Gro ceries, Wiues, Liquors, Fruits, etc., the fol lowing LUXURIES! 250 BARRELS FLOUR, all the favorite brands, 15,000 lbs. SUGAR CURED “GOLDEN'’ and “MAGNOLIA” HAMS, 40,000 lbs. BULK SHOULDERS and CLEAR RIB RIDES, 00,000 lbs. BACON SHOULDERS and CLEAR RIB RIDES, 75 BARRELS POTATOES, embracing every variety, 70 CASKS McEWAN’S ALE and BASS’ PORTER, DIRECT importation: Terms Cash, unless other arrangements ure made at time of purchase. CREER, LAKE & CO., <’or. Cherry and Third Ila. moh24-tf EDWARD SPRINZ. N otary public and ex-officio jus tice OF THE PEACE. I can be found for the present at all hour* of the day at my oifl- e adjoining the law office of A. Proudflt, over the store of Jaquea & Johnson, Third St, Macon, Ga., to attend to aU Magisterial busi ness. 118-830. Volumk I.—Number 305 ES'^W^WANS. S6O, SBO, SIOO. sl2, Etc., Etc. Tlie Cheapest and the Best. UN RIV A LLF.D for beauty of tone and finish, durability and thorough construction. — Endorsed by the best musician* of America arid Europe. Largest manufactories ip the world. UIIlLi’OKI), WOOD At CO., General Agent* for Georgia, Alabama, Florida and South Carolina, Importers and dealers in i’ianos, Organs, Music and Musical Merchan dise. marlß Cilice Leaf Lari A Very Choice Lot, JUST RECEIVED, IN PACKAGES TO SUIT THE RE TAIL TRADE. For side by , 15. 11. WRIGLEY A CO., Commission Merchants. mariS Macon, Ga. SUGAR GREEK. PAPER MILL! M AK tJFACTUBE BOOK AND NEWS See the Knteio'hisis for specimen of paper. Highest cash price paid for OLD NEWS, un sized BOOK PAPER, and pure WHITE PA PER SHAVINGS. W.M, McNAUGHT & CO., . iuar3l Atlanta, Ga. THK EMPIRE STONE FOES. IHAVE opened a STONE QUARRY near the Cemetery and am now ready to contract and till orders for Stone and Stone Work of any kind required. My attention will be especially directed to the enclosing of lots in the Cemetery with good substantial and lasting walls, ana would he pleased to receive orders for that kind of work. Being convenient, prices will be reasonable. 1 will also build foundations, basements, walls, sewer*, gutters, in fact any kind of BPONE WORK wanted. P. H. WARD, Firm of Ward <fc Nelson, Cherry Street. apls-lm