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Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON JUNE 21, 1870.
Dentil of Bcnnftirt Elliott, Esq.
Wo loam by telegrams, dated at Quitman,
Brooks county, on the lGtb, that Mr. Elliott ex
pired in that place on the 15th instant, at nine
o’clock p. »• He was bom in Beaufort, South
Carolina, October 10th, 1810, and was an active
business man in Savannah, and subsequently in
the city of New York. In New York, disease
attacked his throat and lungs and ho returned
o Georgia for tho benefit of amilder climate.—
He spent last winter and spring in Macon, and
left Macon in May for Quitman, in a very fee
ble condition, to die among friends in Brooks
county. The only member of his family with
Um a t the time of his death, was his wife, who
has our deepest sympathy.
Mr. Elliott was in many respects a model
man. He had a fine, stately person, very en
gaging manners and affectionate disposition.—
His integrity was perfect and his business abili
ties remarkable. This sad conclusion of a lin
gering and distressing malady which he bore
with uncomplaining fortitude and composurewill
be mourned by numerous friends.
Washington College, Virginia.
The editors of the Telegraph and Messenger
beg to thank Messrs. Wm. Preston Johnston,
Wm. Allan and J. J. White, Committee on the
part of the Faculty of this College, for an invi
tation to attend its approaching Commence
ment. It would afford them great pleasure to
accept it, but they must send this sentiment to
represent them:
May Washington College live and prosper
in exaet proportion to, and in beautiful har
mony with, the noble life and still nobler char
acter of its venerated and beloved President,
Hodebt E. Lee.
Household Treasury.
We have from Messrs. Claxton, Remsen &
Haffelfinger, the publishers, through J. \V.
Burke & Co., a copy of a very handsomely
bound volume with the above title. It is a re
ceipt book or rather a book for receipts, with
tho pages appropriately beaded and lined, so
that a thousand receipts, if necessary can be
copied into it under the proper beads. Receipts
for making soup and cooking anything from a
wafer up to a haunch of venison all have their
oppropriate place. It saves space and makes
everything easy to find, which are great desid-
eratnms with housekeepers.
Washington News.
Our noon dispatches report that the Recon
struction Committee, in full meeting, have come
to a final development of their Georgia policy.
They will report tho Virginia bill with a militia
clause, and force it through the House under
the previous question, so as to cut off amend
ments and debato.
The telegrams also report the resignation of
Judge Hoar, and, as we suppose, the nomina
tion or appointment of Amos T. Akerman, of
Georgia, to the vacancy. As, however, tho dis
patch is worded simply: “AmosT. Akerman,
Georgia, Attorney General,” wo are left to con
jecture what has actually been done in the
premises.
St:ilc Treasury In a Bad Way:
If we may credit Treasurer Angier vs. Govern
or Bollock and Gov. Ballock vs. Treasurer An
gier the State funds are in a bad fix. The At
lanta New Era of the 16th contains a communi
cation from Gov. Ballock to the Joint Commit
tee of investigation indorsing a report from
Geo. P. Burnett, appointed to look into Treas
urer Angier’s accounts. Burnett reports that
he finds a deficit of $43G,674 30, which the
Treasurer eithor cannot or will not account for,
ten charges of abuse, fraud and malversation
against Angier, and Angier, we are sure, must
have preferred first and last, a great many more
than that against Bullock. The Era hopes this
discrepancy can be explained, and no doubt
there is a great deal of explanation duo all
round.
“Congress, or tlie Penitentiary.”
Under this head the Now York Tribune of
Monday lets itself loose upon Whittemore and
the House. It tells both that it has stood as
much Congressional merchandising as it can
stand, and is going to take no more responsibil
ities on behalf of tho carpet-bag Congressmen.
The Tribune hears that Whittemore confidently
expects to be reseated, and reputable members
are deploring it in a helpless sort of way, and
going about dolefally asking each other, “How
can wo prevent it?”
A Mississippi Senator Gallants a Colobed
Damsel.—On Friday afternoon, at Jackson,
Hiss., quite a sensation was created in the
Hooso of Representatives. Senator rMorgan
(white) escorted Miss Highgate (colo ed) to a
seat on the floor, and remained an hour, the
observed of all observers. Ho then escorted
her out, took a carriage and drove off for an
evening drive. The members made many sig
nificant gestures, audible remarks, and other
rignsof disapproval Several ladies, wives of
Republicans, manifested their emphatic protest
by leaving tho hall at once. Others remained,
but looked as unhappy as fish out of water.
Wo find tho above paragraph circulating
around in our exchanges. The members who
made “signs of disapproval,” it strikes ns,
were not only very ungrateful, but very illogi
cal Tho negroes put most of them in office,
and they ought to be proud to associate with
and honor their constituents. Gratitude de
mands that much. As they want to force the
Southern people to accept the negroes as their
equals, their “signs of disapproval," at its prac
tice by one of their number, was illogical in the
extreme.
The Messrs Lo As Diners Out.—Don Piatt
gives some interesting information of how the
Indian chiefs recently at Washington City, be
have at dinner parlies. He says:
It is customary for these children of tho wilds
to eat all that is placed beforo them. This
Variegated Narrative and others proceeded to do
with solemn resolution. Thus, n pot of mustard
being put within the reach of Red Cloud, ho
immediately tossed it down. Then, while tho
tears came for tho first time in his savage eye,
he seized Mrs. Fish’s finger glass, and after
swallowing tho same, to that stately lady’s
amazement, he cried out: “Hip, by dam, too
hot a-most.” While eatiDg tho little kick-shaws,
these noble red men had a discontented look,
as if they would greatly prefer roast baby, or
scalps on toast. Tho odor arising from the
children of tho forest and plains gave tho com
pany on aristocratic air. Your genuine aristo
crat, especially if he is a Senator, always looks
as if he smelled something. The odor, Jones
says, was a strange compound of old moccasin
and Blue-lick water. It was so powerful at times
that Secretary Robeson, of the Navy, who is
prone to sea-sickness, had to retire several
tunes.
Taking am Outlook.—The Chattanooga Daily
Times, of last Wednesday, reports the legisla
tive investigating committee of tho State road
on top of Lookout Mountain taking a broad and
comprehensive view of the railway track as well
as the surrounding country. The Times thought
they would get down to business next day. They
Were taking an elevated view through the bot
tom of a tumbler. . ,
Hath me Deuobest and a lady whose iiamo
docs not appear, have formed a copartnership
in the tea business. The Madame will be the
receiver at New York annd her partner will re
side in Canton and scatter agents throughout
the Celestial Empire in quest of the herb. The
firm starts with a capital of Ssoo.ooo, and cheek
nongh to make thp thing a success.
Fruits of a Bad Practice.
Wo read, yesterday, a very bitter, insulting,
and evil-toned speech printed in the Louisville
Commercial, a Radical newspaper, and which
was recently delivered at Paris, Bourbon county,
Kentucky, by Gen. John T. Croxton to the ne
groes of that county. The speaker, we believe,
is very well, if not favorably, known here
abouts. We don’t know him, ourself, nor are
we very anxious for that honor,- now that we
have read this speech. A more venemous, pas
sion-stirring appeal we never expect to meet
with anywhere. If it don’t stir np the negroes
there to deeds of blood and brutal violence,
we think Croxton will be sadly disappointed.
We do not know the meaning of words if that
was not his intention. It was addressed to the
negroes, especially, there not being one word
in it for the whites who are of Croxton’s politi
cal faith.
We, refer, however, to this speech more for
the purpose of illustration than any thing else.
Croxion boasts that he returned from Yale Col
lege an abolitionist,' and that from that day to
this he has never been anything else. The
probability is that had he been educated at
home, his mind would not have been poisoned,
and instead of being t&^lay a supporter of a
faith and policy that reads its title dear to the
National hate in the blood of half a million of
men,and a broken, dishonored Union, he might
have been a friend to his country and mce, and
an advocate of the principles of peace aid or
der. We have no hesitation in believing that
Croxton’s sojourn at Yale College, like that ot
other Southern youths, was his ruin as a true
Union man and good citizen. The abolitionists
hated the Union as they “hated hell,” and tb«y
plunged the country into war to dissolve and
dishonor it. If there had never been any abo
litionists in this country, there never would
have been any secession, and by the end of this
century there would not have been any slavery.
They, and they alone, are responsible at the
bar of History, and in the sight of God, for
the disgrace, and ruin, and misery that now
stain the National name, and clog and hinder
the National growth.
We hope the day for the education of the
young men of the South at Northern colleges is
past and gone forever. There is not now, and
there never was any good reason for it. For all
the good it has done, we can cap the result with
nntold harm. Croxton is not the only monument
and illustration of its ruinous effects. We know
others who, if they have not done their birth-land
and fellow-countrymen as much evil as he, nev
ertheless, are as signal and emphatic witnesses
for our position. Slavery is dead, it ia true, but
right principles of politics and religion have
found, and will find for years to come their
staunchest defenders and securest citadel in these
Southern States. Lot tbe South train her own
sons and daughters now, henceforth and forever,
so that if in the Providence of God, the evil day
should ever come again—which may he forbid
—when the two sections confront each other in
deadly struggle over opposing forms of civiliza
tion or political creeds, there may be no rene
gades or deserters from this cause.
We are for Nationality in its broadest and no
blest sense, bnt that is a bastard, dangerous
Nationality that demands of those who would
worship at its shrine, the renunciation of home
faith, and home training—the base abandon
ment of brothers and birth-place. We denounce
that Nationality as more false, more hurtful and
more degrading than the most bigoted, unrea
soning, and vindictive sectionalism that ever
existed.
“Revising tlie Bible.”
The British House of Commons refused, lost
Monday, to sanction the scheme for a so-called
“revision of the Bibleand Mr. Gladstone
characterised the work as one of “dubious util-
the fixers and fussers and amenders of this
fussy, inflated and self-confident generation will
not havo tbe sanction of the British government
in their projects to tinker the good old King
James translation of the Holy Scriptures.
It is a well of good English, simple, majestic
and pure—not without its faults, of course—
not absdlutely unsusceptible of improvement;
but, on the whole, good enough ! Its obscuri
ties have been made sufficiently lucid by ex
position—its use of words in an obsolete, but
sound etymological sense, has a positive value
in restraining pestilent and nnreasonable in
novations and changes, which are defiling the
English tongue, and tho proposition tochango
the versification is fraught with great mischief.
True, the divisions are often very arbitrary
and unreasonable, impairing the sense and
breaking the connection to a considerable ex
tent. But think in what inextricable confusion
the whole great mass of Scriptural commentary
and theological science would be plunged by the
change proposed in the entire system of para
graphing! Every Biblical reference in print
would be put at fault, and the endless number
of commentaries, concordances, dictionaries,
exegeses, sermons, platforms, catechisms, and
theological expositions and deliverances of every
sort, would be confused and disordered. •
It is said the English language has changed
since the standard translation—but it is a seri
ous question how far changes resulting from
mere perversion of words from their original
and true derivative signification ought to be
permitted by men of letters. If anything hu
man can be audio fixed and permanent, it should
be language; and if there are any points around
which tho intelligence of tho civilized worldcan
and should rally to prevent useless and mischiev
ous changes and perversions of language, those
points are presented in the books of religion,
law, philosophy and science; and more than all
others in those books professing to bo direct
revelations of the Divine will to men.
But ovary material and intellectual interest of
a people, as well as their common i«mo ..a
glory, aro concerned in stoutly maintaining their
language against innovations—nine-tenths of
which aro merely icsthetic, at best, and of that
sort of taste which, being founded on no sound
principles of judgment, perishes with tho using
like tho fashion of a bonnet. Do Anglo-Saxons
want to seo all their cherished literature laid on
the shelf, and become obsolete like that of the
thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, merely by
force of needless changes in orthography and
signification of words. Who, in course of time
is to “revise” Shakespeare, Milton, Pope, Addi
son and all the other classic authors, to keep
them in grammatical fashion, so that they can
be read and appreciated by future generations ?
and what sensible man doubts that the pure En
glish in which they wrote is just ns good as any
English lately introduced, and will be amply
sufficient for all important pnrposes of an En
glish-speaking people to the end of time ? Noth
ing whatever will be gained by changes in the
tongue, which shall practically silence the best
divines, philosophers, poets ana novelists tho
race has produced. It should be the great busi
ness of all sound men of letters to stand by
their language in its standard productions, and
consent to no tinkering. Here the battle must
be fought and radicalism whipped out. Above
all, when they propose to put the old Bible in
the newest fashion, however stunning, let every
sensible voice utter a deep and emphatic nay.
The South Georgia and Florida railroad is
now open and in running order from Albany to
Thomasville.
The Savannah News tells of a man who, to
save his own life, had to knock another man
into the Altamalia river off the deck of a steam
boat, who then jumped into the river and saved
him from drowning. Avery few of that sort
grow anywhere, these days.
The American ship Charlotte took os cargo
from Savannah -for Liverpool, on Tuesday,
$337,713 44 worth of cotton and cotton seed.
There were 23 deaths in Savannah, for the
week ending the 13th instant.
Interesting Case.—Tho Savannah News has
the following notice of a case Of some interest.
Joseph Lippman vs. the Union Society, as
sumpsit The object of this suit was to recover
the value of fifty shares of Macon and Western
railroad stock alleged to have been sold by the
defendant to the plaintiff, September 10,1863,
for three hundred and ten dollars per share in
Confederate money, amounting to the sum of
fifteen thousand five hundred dollars.
The fifty shares of stock in question were
purchased at a sequestration sale made by the
authorities of the Confederate government.
Lippman sold the shares to one Scudder, who,
after the Courts had decided that the sequestra
tion sale conferred no title, sued Lippman and
recovered the sum of $7,000.
Lippman then brought this suit against the
Union Society for tho amount paid for the
shares, on the ground that there was an implied
warrantee of title, and that the title had failed.
The defence was that the plaintiff knew that
he was purchasing confiscated stock—that he
was one of the Direetois of the Union Society,
and voted for the sale of this identical stock, for
the reason that it teas sequestered stock.
The case was ably argued by Lloyd for the
plaintiff, and Lovell and Mercer for the defend-
oat.
After hearing the charge of the Court, the
jury found a verdict for the defendant.
Motion for a new trial by plaintiff.
Tho first new wheat shipped from Augusta to
New York sold there, on Saturday, for $3 per
bushel
William B. Chavous, for many years in charge
of the bridge gang on the Augusta and Savan
nah railroad, died Saturday, in Burke county.
The Burke county corn crop looks exceedingly
well, says a correspondent of the Chronicle and
Sentinel, and is from waist to five feet high.
The Georgia Railroad Company has declared
a semi-annual dividend of four per cent
Ballock must draw on that “private fortune’
again, to help his friend Blodgett against whom
a judgment in favor of Benedict Hall & Co.,
far the sum of $3414, has just been rendered in
Richmond Superior Court
The Chronicle and Sentinel says :
A Probable Fiend. —A friend writes to the
Columbia Phoenix, from KingvilD, that tho
train which left Columbia for Camden on Sat
urday, at 1p.il, was fired into near the old
junction of the South Carolina and Charlotte
Railroads. The ball, supposed to be from a
pistol, passed between Miss Wright, of Sunder,
and Mrs. Diseker, of Columbia. The bro'ren
glass was scattered over Captain Frederick, hr.
Diseker, and Messrs. Paul Joner and Graham.
Atlanta Agent Associated Press.—Ws
learn that Mr. W. A. Hemphill, of the Consti.
tution, was on yesterday appointed Agent of the
New York Associated Press of Atlanta, vice Mr.
J. C. Gregg, deceased. We believe that the
appointment of Mr. Hemphill will give general
satisfaction to the Press.
The Southern Atlantic Telegraph Company.
This new telegraph company, which for some
weeks past has been spreading its wrings from
the extreme northern frontier southwards, has
reached Charleston, and Mr. David O’Keefe, the
well known telegraphist, has secured the con
tract for building the line between the cities of
Charleston, Augusta and Columbia. Yesterday
Mr. O'Keefe surveyed the route to Summerville,
and staked out the distances of his posts, which
he will put in position in a day or two. The
new line, under Mr. O’Keefe’s management, is
oxpected to be put in operation by the 15(h of
August.
of the Richmond
T TLlVVf* OftAA/ ___ _
A gentleman tells the local of the Columbus
Enquirer that he saw, the day before, at Opeli
ka, bound for Columbus, 10,000 bushels of corn
and wheat, and the local moralizes thereon as
follows:
We suppose it was sent here to be sold on _
credit to planters to enable them to make a huge
crop of cotton to be disposed of at 15c. per
pound next winter. If this summer don’t make
a finish of our agriculturists the next will, un
less more com is planted than is generally sup
posed to be. With corn at $2 per bushel, ba
con at 20c. per pound, and cotton at 15c., what
else but starvation can be looked for.
DHCISXOVIS
—OF THE—
SUPREME COURT OF GEORGIA.
Delivered at Atlanta luesday, Junelith.
(reported expressly fob the constitution, by
N. J. HAMMOND, SUPREME COURT REPORTER.]
Wm. L. Livingston, plaintiff in error, vs. the
City Council, defendants in error. From
Dougherty.
BROWN, C. J. , .
The Mayor and Council of the city of Albany
has no power to impose a specific tax of one
dollar per head on each horse or mule sold by
drovers in said city. They may tax such sales
ad valorem.
Judgment reversed.
James Armstrong for plaintiff in error.
No appearance for defendant.
Robert Freeman, executor, plaintiff in error,
vs. Wm. J. Layton and wife, defendants in
error. Will and Caveat from Early.
BROWN, C. J.
The will in tbfa case shows upon its face that
the testator made it in contemplation of the
birth of a child or children to him, subsequent
to its execution, and the Court erred in instruct
ing the juiy to find a verdict setting it aside,
because such provision was not made.
Richard Rims, A. Hood, for plaintiff in error.
No appearance for defendant.
Thomas Ozmore, plaintiff in error, vs. Percy
Ann Ozmore, defendant in error. Libel for
Divorce, etc., from Randolph.
BROWN, C. J.
The declaration in this case sets forth a cause
of action, and the demurrer was properly over
ruled.
Judgment aflbmed.
E. L. Douglass, Hood and Kiddoo, for plain
tiff in error,-
B. S. Wdrrill for defendant.
Wesley M. Blankinship et al., plaintiff in error,
vs. the State, defendant in error. Fine on
Road Commissioner, from Webster.
BROWN, O. J.
1. A proceedingagainst a Road Commissioner
under section 701 of the revised Code is not tech
nically a criminal proceeding, but a proceeding
against a public agent for neglect of duty. And
the presentment of the grand jury, mentionedin
said section, need not be in the form required in
a presentment of a person for a violation of the.
criminal la w of the State. In such case tbe Road
Commissioner is notentitled to demand a trial by
jury-
Judgment affirmed.
Hawkins & Burke, C. B. Wooten, for plaintiff
in error.
S. W. Parker, Solicitor General, N. J. Hom-
mond, for defendant.
Henry J. Lamar, plaintiff in error, vs. S. A.
Thornton, defendant in error. Complaint,
etc., from Randolph.
BROWN C.J.
This ease falls within tho scaling ordinance of
1865, and as there was evidence to sustain the
verdict this Court will not interfere.
Judgment affirmed.
E. L. Douglas, B. S. Worriil, Lyon & Irvin,
for plaintiff in error.
C. B. Wooten, A. Hood, for defendant.
Wm. G. Cross, administrator, plaintiff in error,
vs. Young Cross, defendant in error. From
Lee, new trial.
BROWN, 0. J.
Where the verdict is wrong as to any of the
joint defendants, and the Judge of the Superior
Court is dissatisfied with his own rulings on the
trial, and has granted a new trial, this Court will
not interfere with his discretion, though the ver
dict might have been sustained in the discretion
if the Court a3 to part of the defendants.
Judgment affirmed.
Hawkins & Burke, for plaintiff in error.
Lyon & Irvin, for defendant.
Jcfan Williams and E. R. Brown, plaintiffs in
•rror, vs. Isaac Coalson, et. al, defendants
ii error. Ejectment from Calhoun county.
BROWN, C. J
Its an action of ejectment by the heirs at law,
proof that the ancestor died, seized and possess
ed oi tho premises in dispute, and that they
were afterwards by the judgment of the proper
court assigned as dower to the widow, and that
she went into possession, and is now dead,
Gen. Geo. W. Rains will resign as Principal mates such prima facie case, as entitles the
P.’okmo.J A o.J. - *T.1 in PTVlflnf'CI cbnu*
Academn-=-frnMober - defendants show
] Judgment affirmed'*.-^**’'*—i . .
C. B. Wooten, Vason & —avis, lor'plainfiHs
in error.
Strozier & Smith for defendant.
“If all the thieveB in the South were hung,”
says the Southern Argus, “there would be an
archy in aU the reconstructed States.’’ We don’t
know about the anarchy, but there would cer
tainly be a great scarcity of hemp unfit the next
crop comes in.—Courier Journal. * ' 4
And of Radical politicians, tq^f
The Columbus Sun says a negro Baptist
Church, on the Mobile & Girard Railroad, near
that city, was struck by lightning, and burned
to the ground, Sunday morning.
The Enquirer says:
Eagle and Phcenix Items.—Tho Company
received Monday three handsomely gotten up
diplomas from the Louisiana State Fair—1st
for the best cotton and woolen goods; 2d, best
sewing thread; 3d, best cotton blanket made in
the Southern States. Medals were awarded by
tbe same Fair for these goods last year.
The Company aro turning out a new fabrio
for gents and boys pants and coats—being
made of a French sample recently sent out.—
The goods is heavy twills, of white and blue
colors, and appears superior to anything in its
line. The bolt we saw is better than the
French sample and cheaper. In Franco it is
worth 40 cents in gold; here, only 33 cents in
currency.
Between 400 and 500 hands now find employ,
ment at mill No. 1 and 2, which number will be
increased.
Mr. G. J. Foreacre, tho Sun leams, hns been
appointed Superintendent of the Western
Railroad—the one between Columbus and West
Point and Selma, Alabama—a portion of the
line being what was formerly known as tho
Montgomery and West Point Railroad.
The editor of the Sandersville Georgian has
recently visited Macon, and indulges in these
reminiscences:
We visited Macon, that is wo passed along the
old federal road through what is now Macon,
first in 1822. But the settlement on tho east
side of the Ocmulgee, known as Fort Hawkins,
was an tho of improvement that we
saw on either side. In 1824 wo were tu aiaoou.
proper and thero wero two stores. Tho build
ings have long been removed. The Macon of
1824, did not foreshadow the city of to-day, cov
ering an area of miles, with a population vari
ously estimated at from 25 to 35,000. (Both too
high—Editors Telegraph and Messenger.
In 1824, there was not a railroad in tho world,
and the Ocmulgee was the pathway to market.
The voyage to and from Darien in pole boats
was made (we believe) in from 6 to 8 weeks.—
Now Macon connects with Savannah by tho Cen
tral, with Atlanta, by Macon & Western, with
Columbus and New Orleans, by tho Musoogee;
with Americas, Albany, Cuthbert, Eufaula,
Ala., by tho Southwestern; with Brunswick, by
tho Macon and Brunswick Railroad; and will
soon connect directly, with Augusta, by tho Au
gusta and_ Macon Road. Like Atlanta it is a
city of Railroads and one of the best markets in
Georgia. Of easy access to this country, many
of our merchants and planters have been attract
ed thither, and there is little doubt, that its su-
porior commercial facilities, and the enterprise
of its business men, will command a large trade
even from this county.
Eighteen Federal soldiers left Atlanta, Wed
nesday evening, bound for Cairo, Decatur coun
ty. What trooly Ioil man down there haB been
caught doing something mean?
The looms for the Palaski factory have been
bought and paid fgr, and will soon be in Haw-
kinsville.
portions of Pulaski county wero visited by a
wind storm on Snuday. Trees, fences and
com were blown down.
The Atlanta Sun says:
Fourteen colored men were at the car-shed
yesterday afternoon, on their way home. They
had been in the Penitentiary, having been sent
from Graene. county for having been engaged
te-ariotr They were pardoned by Governor
Bullook on Monday. Recently they have been
working on the Air Line Railroad.
Smith Treadwell vs. Wm. J. Phinizy. Motion
for Dew trial from Terrell.
WARNER, J.
_ When thero is evidence on both sides in rela
tion to the matters in controversy between the
parties, and a motion for a new trial, on the
ground that tho verdict is contrary to the evi
dence, this Court will not control the discretion
of the Court below in refusing to grant a new
trial.
Judgment affirmed.
0. B. WooteD, D. A. Vason, for plaintiff in
orror.
F. M. Harper, Lochrane & Clark, for defen*
dant.
D. F. Bryan et. al, vs. The Southwestern Rail
road Company. Motion for new trial from
Randolph.
WARNER, J.
When a suit was instituted by D. F. and H.
M. Bryan, against the Southwestern Railroad
Company, to recover damages for a breach of
contract for the delivery of forty thousand cross
ties along the line of said road, between Dawson
and Cuthbert, in the county of Randolph, and
tho defendant plead the statute of frauds against
the plaintiff’s right to recover; and, upon the
trial of the case, it appears from the evidence
contained in the record, that Crews, in the fall
of 1865, made a contract with tho agents of the
defendant, to supply the road with forty thou
sand cross-ties between Cuthbert and Dawson
to be delivered as soon as he could reasonably
get them, to be paid for when delivereed. Noth
ing was said about the price, but understood
the road at that time was paying twenty-five
cents per tie. Crews transferred ms contract to
the plaintiffs, who, at considerable expense and
labor, made the necessary arrangements and
preparation to perform the contract, by pur
chasing land having the timber on it, hiring
hands, purchasing mules, wagons, axes, provis
ions, etc. The plaintiffs commenced getting
the cross-ties under this contract in January,
1866. and delivered to the agents of the defend
ant on tho road, thirty-four hundred and twelve
cross-ties, for which the road paid them the es
timated prices of cross-ties at the time of deliv
ering thereof. There is evidence in the record
that the agents of the defendant knew that the
plaintiffs were getting the cross-ties for the road
under the Crews contract. In June, 186G, the
defendant notified tho plaintiffs that no more
cross-ties would be received from them for the
roao, and o»« of the plaintiffs told Heard, one
of the agents of the defendant, that, ir tLo OOZtt
pany did not allow them to finish their contract
that they would sue the company for a breach of
tho contract, whereupon Heard replied: that if
they did it would be impossible for them to get
anymore cress-ties for that road. The jury
found a verdict for the plaintiff for two thou
sand dollars damages.
A motion was .made by the defendant in the
court below for a new trial on the following
grounds: First, because the court had no
, urisdiction of the suit in Randolph county.—
Second, because the verdict was against the
evidence had on the trial, and was without evi
dence to sustain it, Third, because the verdict
was against the law. The court sustained the
motion, and granted a new trial, which is ex
cepted to here as error.
Held, That when a defendant is sued and ap
pears, and pleads to tho merits of the suit,
without pleading to the jurisdiction of the court,
and without excepting thereto, he thereby admits
the jurisdiction of the court.
Held also, That there is sufficient evidence
in the record of tills case to authorize the jury
to find that the defendant made a contract with
Crews for tho delivery of forty thousand cross
ties, to bo delivered on the line of the road, to
be paid for at the estimated price thereof at the
time of deliveiy, and that thero is sufficient
evidence in the record of the recognition by tho
defendant of tho transfer of the contract
by Crews to the plaintiffs, and of such
part performance of it on their part, as well as
on the part of the defendant, ns will take the
case out of tho statute of frauds, and require
its performance on tho part of tho defendant
Held further, That as a general rule, remote
or consequential, damages are not allowed
whenever they cannot be traced solely to the
breach of the contract, or unless they aro capa
ble of exact computation, such as profits, which
arc the immediate fruit of the contrnot, and are
independent of any collateral enterprise entered
into in contemplation of the oontraot, but that
any necessary expense whioh one of the con
tracting parties incurs in complying with the
contract may be recovered as damages—Code,
section 2409.
Held, That inasmuchas there is no exception
to the charge of the court as to tho law,applica
ble to the facts of this case, and there being
sufficient evidence in the record to sustain the
verdict, and the question of damages for a
breach of the contract being one for the jury
alone to consider, as provided by the 2496th
section of the Code, the verdiot is not so exces
sive as to justify the inference of gross mistake
or undue bias on the part of the jury as will au
thorize the Court to interfere with it.
Judgment reversed.
H. Fielder for plaintiff in error.
A. Hood, Lyon, deGraffenried & Irvin, for
defendant.
Supreme Court ot Georgia.
Jane Term, 1870.
DAILY PROCEEDINGS.
Wednesday, June 15, 1879,
Several orders were granted to establish lost
papers from Schley county.
Argument was resumed and concluded in No.
30, Pataula Circuit. It is Bryan, et al vs. The
State—Rule vs. Road Commissioner of Ran
dolph. Col. H. Fielder for plaintiffs in error,
and S. W. Parker, Solicitor General, fox defend
ant in error.
The continued cases from the Chattahoochee
Circuit were next in order.
No. 12—John Walker vs. James Jackson—
Ejectment, from Schley—was dismissed because
plaintiff in error had not prosecuted his case
with sufficient diligence.
No. 2—Cartelaw vs. Meyer—was transferred
to the heel of the Circuit.
No. 7—Wells vs. Blount and Mathews—Com
plaint from Talbot—was dismissed because not
certified within the time prescribed by law.
No. 13—Mahone, Administrator, vs. Howard,
et al—Equity from Talbot—was argued for
plaintiff in error by General Bethuno, and for
defendant in error by Mr. Willis.
No. 14—Darden vs. Carhart & Bro.—Com
plaint from Talbot—was argued for plaintiff in
error by General Bethune, and for defendant in
error by Mr. Willis.
. No. 30—G. H. Brown vs. The State—Indict
ment for keeping a gaming table, from Muscogee
—was argued for plaintiff in error by Col. Jas.
Ramsey, and for defendant in error by Col Mark
Blandford.
No. 1, Chattahoochee Circuit—Belk vs. Smith
—Compiaint from Marion—was transferred to
the heel of the Circuit.
No 3, Chattahoochee Circuit—Smith et al. vs.
Boatrite, et al—Equity from Marion—was dis
missed because the errors complained of were
not distinctly specified.
No. 3, Chattahoochee Circuit—Sales vs. Ordi
nary of Chattahoochee county—was argued for
plaintiff in error by John Peabody, Esq. No
appearance for defendant in error.
The Court adjourned till 10 a. sl to-morrow.
[Era, 16 th.
Thursday, June 16, 1870.
No. 5, Chattahoochee Circuit—Alexander F.
Owen vs. Jas. T. Willis, administrator—Com
plaint and dismissal of plea from Talbot—was
argued for plaintiff in error by Judge E. H.
Worrell, and for defendant in error by Mr.
Willis.
No. 6, Chattahoochee—Isaac Cheney vs. Wm.
Keller—Refusal of an injunction from Talbot
—was withdrawn because prematurely brought.
No. 7, Chattahoochee Circuit—Jacob M. Gay
vs. B. T. iPeacock et al. Equity from Schley
—was argued for plaintiff in error by Gen. Phil
Cook, and for defendants in error by Messrs.
Mark Blandford and B. B. Hinton.
No. 8, Chattahoochee Circuit—John T. Crain
vs. Stephen A. Sellars—Motion for new trial
from Schley—was argued for plaintiff in error
by Col Mark Blandford, and for defendant in
error by Mr. Smith, representing Samuel Hall.
No. 9, Chattahoochee Circuit—is Benjamin
Davis vs. T. B. Myers, Sheriff, et al—Rule vs.
the Sheriff from Schley.
No. 10, Chattahoochee Circuit—is Isaac Ter
ry vs. T. B. Myers et al—Rule vs. Sheriff from
Schley.—Era, 16 th.
Friday, June 17 1870.
Argument in the case of Benjamin Davis vs.
T. B. Myers, Sheriff, et al, and in tho case of
Isaac Terry vs. T. B. Myers, Sheriff, et al, was
resumed and concluded.
Judge Richard Clark for plaintiffs in error,
and M. H. Blanford, Esq., for defendants in
error.
An order was passed to enter the judgment,
nunc pro tunc, in the case of Frank Smith, et
Jones vs. John tfia
record was not certified within the time prej
soribed by law, was overruled on the ground
that plaintiff in error had not shown sufficient
dilligence on his part to have the record so cer
tified and transmitted.
The case of Joseph L.[Belk vs. John L. Smith
was withdrawn.
No. 11, Chattahoochee Circuit—TIson vs.
Sellars—Award from Schley*—was argued for
plaintiff in error by Judge E. H. Worrell and
for defendant in error by M. H. Blanford.
No. 12, Chattahoochee Circuit—C. Lopez vs.
Felix MoArdle, administrator—Equity, from
Muscogee—wasdissmissed because not certified
within the time prescribed by law, plaintiff in
error having failed to show sufficient dilligence
on his part to have the record so certified and
transmitted.
Pending argument in No 13—Calhoun vs. Kel
logg—the Court adjourned till 10 o’clock, a. si.,
to-morrow.—Era \ 8th.
From Macon County.
Montezuma, Ga., June 15, 1S70.
Editors Telegraph & Messenger: Who
ever has control of the raining department is
certainly absent, and left an unlimited order
as to the quantity required in this section at
this particular point of time, and unless a
speedy return, and countermand of the order,
wo will soon have to go in quest of “Gopher
Wood.” It is a difficult matter to tell, in the
absence of a rain guage, the quantity that has
fallen and is now falling here [ suffice it to say
it is an extra-abundant quantity, “the same”
causing an advance on our present growing
crops, in the way of grass, weeds and other
living things equally as deleterious to our
planters as other “advances” I know not of.
Trade, with the exceptions of the purchas
ing of a few necessaries and a fewgew-gaws
of fashions for tho fair ones, is quite dull I
have reference to tho credit, trade; tho cash
trade, like tho ghost of constitutional freedom,
very seldom makes its appearance; so much so
that the party who pays it, if not a stranger,
is generally charged for the article he ha3 paid
for, the draft and lien system having become
so universal.
Since the passage by Congress of Exera-
billeillud stahitum to enforce the Fifteenth
Amendment to the Constitution of the United
States, but little is heard of politics., for any
conversation on this subject is considered as
suicidal as well as compassing the death of the
King.” Wonder if they struck out the reme
dy, by mandamusj given to the unsuccessful
Radical candidate in said statute. I cant see
how mandamus will operate in such a case as
a legal remedy. In such cases it is wholly un
available and will not lie as provided for, or
was provided for in said statute: I am of tho
opinion it was an error of some kind, and the
author of the bill orignal intended the recent
remedy known as fuse Major Eascal-damus,
which has been used with marked success re
cently, the legality of which having never
been tested, in consequence of the proximity
of till military..
For fear I might influence your vote, and
you might be so foolish as to think I had
$5.00,1 will not indulge in any more of the po
litico legal, but will remain “trooly loil” and
quietly. • Yours.
- |>t Flint.
Exhausted at Last.—The British papers com
plain of a deficit of over tlueo million dollars
(£625,000) in the East Indian budget, notwith
standing increased taxation and reduced expen
ditures on tho public works* The immediate
cause is alleged to bo a break-down in the opium
trade. Tho Chinese now cultivate tho poppy
and poison themselves on homo products. Tho
wealth of tho Indies” is going out at Inst.
The typeB made us talk great nonsense in our
notice of Rcado’s last novel. IVe used tho word
“lacks,’’ and they put in tho “lacking." Wo
said certain things were “utterly indefensible,”
and they said ^“utterly indispensable," which
last mistake was vory discreditable, not only to
tho types but to the man who stuok them up, to
make such asses of themselves.
Death of John D. Liddon.
Died on the 4th of May, J. D. Liddon, in the
17th year of his age. He was the only son of a
widowed mother, and died just as that mother’s
fondest hopes began to be realized; hopes cher
ished through aU the meandering vicisitudes of
childhood and youth as only a mother’s hope
can be just as the goal as she had looked for with
the eye of faith through the alternate mists and
sunshine of long years of widowhood, of toil,
sickness and care, was about to be reached;
that seeing her only son, a virtuous, useful and
industrious man, having a strong, willing, arm
on which to lean for protection in her declining
years, when she would most need them, an arm
that would grow strong as she grew weaker; and
in the evening of life ttaiding her son that tec--
der find loving support which would doubly re
pay her for aU her past care and toil But how
vain are all hopes, human, and the calculations
arising therefrom. Little did that fond mother
and sisters think that so soon would all their
fond hopes be blasted — that the castle
they had been building for years, so near its
completion was to tottle and fall, and crumble
to dust. Tho flowers they had planted years
ago and watered and nurtured with love and
hope, and sometimes with tears, and tended
with such watchful care and tenderness was to
fade, wither and die in a few short hours, leav
ing only their pure, lasting fragrance behind to
consecrate the memory, to cheer and enliven
the otherwise desolate spot where they grew.
Little did they think that the angel of death was
hovering so near that he had poised in his wan
ton flight and settled among them, and was
watching with eager eyes and merciless talons,
his prey, and when he again expanded his dark
wings and soared away all that remained to
their mortal vision of the one they loved most
would be his lifeless, pulseless clay.
To human wisdom and understanding John
nie’s death was premature. He was cut off in
the early flush of his happy, joyous youth, just
as he began to understand and prepare for the
intensity of life—just at the time when all was
clear and beautiful before him—ere a shadow
had fallen across his bright pathway—just at tho
ago when young hope begins to expand her new
fledged, glittering wings in the enchanted reg
ions of the ever distant and, to yonth, ever
eolden fntnre. But to Omnipotent Wisdom
and Goodness his task was done—the work
which he came to earth to do was finished—his
mission had ended—the appointed hour had
come—the appointed hour, ne'er too soon nor
late—when this earthly partnership of spirit and
clay must be dissolved, the one to be laid in the
cold silent tomb, to moulder away to its native
dust, tho other to wing its way to a higher
sphere of existence to associate with kindred
beings and its God. Yes, mother, sisters, un
cles, aunts, cousins, all who watched over him
with such yearning tenderness and sympathy in
his last hours, Johnnie is keeping the family
record in Heaven. Can you not see him, with
an eye of faith, with a happy smile on his
bright, angelic face, beckoning you on—waiting,
with pen in hand, to record your names in that
book whence, once recorded, they will never be
erased? . . .
Reader, to say that Johnnie Liddon was a
good boy would be but fully expressive of his
life and character. He was an uncommon boy,
such a one as we seldom meet with in this de
generate age of this age of corruption and de
moralization, especially in city life, where there
are so many temptations to yonthful sin and
dissipation. It is true he had that greatest of
earthly blessings—a good mother, to whose sole
guidance he was left at an early age, his father
having died when he was only three years old.
Notwithstanding a boy having a good mother
may account, in part, for his good morals, it is
not always the case, for many a good mother
has had a wayward son. Johnnie was naturally
inclined to be truthful, honest and pious from
early childhood, and as ho grew older under
good precept and examples these good principles
and habits grew stronger and firmer. His
genius and intellect was of a high order, not
inferior to his social and moral qualities, and
these combined, had it been God’s will for him
to have lived to the years of maturity, would,
no doubt, rendered him a shining light in the
firmament of the moral and intellectual world
and a bright ornament to society. He was
steady, industrious and faithful in business,
and had the confidence and respect of his em
ployers ; was true and constant in friendship;
beloved and respected by all bis acquaintances;
he was gentle and affectionate at home with his
mother and sisters; he was the center around
which all the hope, love and pride of that little
home circle gathered; the pride and joy of his
widowed mother’s home; the household angel:
he had a pleasant, genial smile on his bright
young face for all he met, and a cordial for
ail he knew: he never left his mother’s house
uiguu wiuuuu ■» vvuaeui,. -„/} approval, and
never failed to tell her, on his return,
had been and how he had employed his time;
he never sought amusement or pastime in
vicious company or bad habits, bnt always de
lighted in the company of the pure and good.
He told bis mother, before bis illness, that in
health was the time to prepare for death. On
his death bed he warned his comrades to leave
off their bad habits and turn their thoughts on
better things. He wa3 to have received the
rite of confirmation in tho Episcopal Chnrch in
a short time, had he lived. If tears and pray
ers conld avail, Johnnie would be here now;
but they cannot, though hearts may be wrung
with mortal anguish and bleed, and break and
die, it cannot alter the decrees of Providence.
God’s only appointed will is done, neverthe
less ’tis well; ’tis merciful that we do not for-
see; that the book of Faith is sealed till it i3
opened and read as it transpires.
Reader, it is our duty to submit to the will of
God with patience and resignation, be it as it
may, saying, feeling it is well: Thy will
be done. In this, as in all things, I recognize
the work of Thy hands, and, with Thy help. I
will conform to thy righteous decrees and mur
mur not
Dr. John W. Strother, died at Banesville,
Ga., May 28th, 1870, aged 68 years. A good
man, ho "died in peace, and in the faith of the
gospel
Died, in Jones county, Mattie Udora Had
dock, tho only child of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Haddock, departed this life June 5, 1870, aged
one year, four months and twenty-three days.
After a protracted illness of nine days, the mes
senger of death came and wafted her innocent
little sonl to that bright land above.
J. R. Andrews.
An Ohio Belle.—A singular shooting affair
occurred recently at McArthur, Ohio. A local
paper says: “Miss Sarah M. Sage, connected
with one of tho best families in the village, and
one of the most beautiful and brilliant young
ladies in the community, has been for some time
blindly infatuated with a young man by the
name of Mack Will, who is also of the most re
spectable connections and of good talent, but
whose habits of intemperance havo become of
the most fearful character. The lady devoted
herself to him, making every effort for his re
formation, but apparently without the slightest
success, and, becoming maddened by the fruit
lessness of her efforts, concluded to hold the
saloon-keepers responsible for her failure. On
Thursday night between 9 and 10 o’clock she
visited tho saloon of Patrick O’Keefe with a
loaded six shooter, and, opening the door, fired
npon O’Keefe without effect.
She then entered the saloon and' accused
O’Kcef 0 of selling liquox. to Will He denied,
and some altercations ensued, when she shot
again without effect. A bystander then grasped
her hand and threw it down, and in .this posi
tion sho again fired, the ball passing through her
shawl and lodging in the thigh of O’Keefe, in
flicting a serious and painful wound. She was
then placed outside of the door, and went away.
The next morning she was arrested and token
before a justice and discharged on some tech
nicality. On Friday she was reairested on a
warrant from a justice at Hamden, where she
waived an examination, and held was to answer
at court in tho sum of $500. On the same day
Will and a married sister of Miss Sage ap
peared at Hamden, and the party proceeded to
Jackson, when the belligerent lady and her
spiritous lover were safely linked in tho silken
chain of matrimony.
Natoleon, while visiting a carriage manu
factory in Paris, the other day, was approached
by a workman, a native of Corsica, who re
marked, with familiarity enough, that they were
cousins, since a Bonaparte married one of his
ancestresses in the last century. “My cousin,”
said tho Emperor, “I am incognito—be you
equally so.’’
“Plantation Manners.”—This used to be a
pet phrase with the abolitionists Bfefore the war
when speaking of Southern men in Congress
who wouldn’t be called names without punching
tho callers’ heads. The Cornier Journal thinks,
however, now that Senator Chandler, of Michi
gan, calls Hatch “a worthless scoundrel,” and
Fitch, of Nevada, says somebody is a wicked
The Cotton Situation
Watts & Co.’s Weekly Cotton Oiretf.- I
Liverpool 3a of June, has tho following. ^ I
The receipts at tho American ,
almost ceased to have any marked effe * I
market; the receipts last week wern' 1 ° a
at 30,000 bales, against 44,000 the ^ f°Xell
week, a falling off of 14,000, whereas ,?^
crease the corresponding week of last
only 2000 bales. Telegrams report re/J b > I
the^rstsix days of tbe past week at 17 ! i I
which indicates a further decrease thi ! !, f‘. I
nearly 10,000 bales, against 3500 decre-« I
week last year. During the fortnight f' 1>: I
this date last year, the decrease in I
was only about 500 bales per week L !
the decrease during the past fortnight I
as if we may reasonably calculate udou ^ I
more rapid decrease during the co^ 111 ^ I
night, and should this proveto be f ' ,r -1
will tend to strengthen this market case iit I
as it will lessen tho current estimatesI
quantity available for shipment to EurmLt li 'l
now until the incoming of the new cron frr ' I
The advices from India are at preset ,■
sorbing topic of conversation on ’Chanw ^
actual sailings from Bombay last month 7 ^
Europe are variously reported at 215 onnt J? I
000 bales, of which about 182,000 were tn I
Britain, and remainder to the Contineri “S?
receipts at Bombay from the Up-count J ^
ported as unusually large ; bnt tho advir-^ 15 '
so conflicting we are unable to arrive ,,
we consider reliable figures. The qra“.n 5:
cotton on shipboard in the harbor is tenn f", **
telegraph of 30th ultimo, at 200(j£rKi J l
against 167,000 at same date last year
figures are, however, very deceptive *****
learn it has now become a very common 6
tiee to enter at the Custom House of Bo IS? 1
cotton as ha vino gone on shipboaid boe^-•’
weeks in advance of the actual shipmen’ tv 3
it appears, is done in order to make it ’
that certain vessels have the larger port ; c ..
their cargoes engaged. Messrs. Bell, Venn, 1
Lucius, give tho receipts into Bombay
seven weeks ending the 15th April a t
070 cwt., against 1,253,040 hundred weinUa^' ■
iug same time last year; if reduced to uf
this decrease is equal to about 1*'
bales per week. They give receipts durinstk.
fortnignt ending 29th April at 452 |
against 380,412 cwt. same time last yea
increase equal to about 10,350 bales per ml I
The increase since 29th April appears from td. i
grams to have averaged some 25,000 to4am,
bales per week. ’
Supply.—Above we give our usual table I
showing the estimated visible supply ^5
now shows an excess this as compared vithki
year of 47,121 bales, wherpas by our last ream
the excess was only 23,030 bales. TM3 chats
is, however, more apparent than real, and!
explained by the fact that daring the past met
spinners have taken from this marketoaly U.
470 bales against 64,000 same week last \eu I
In order to show more fully and clearly theij. I
tnal position as compared with last year, tt I
would invite attention to the followiug table e I
supply on the 28th ultimo: 1
. T . 1870. 1K3.
Stock in Liverpool
and London 633,070 488,2?;
Afloat from America-156 000
“ India.—330.000 6:8.900
Stock held by spin-
ners(cstimatei) 54,000 101.«m
Total Great Britain— 1,182.010 i
Stock in Havre....—..137,070 £4.800 ' 1
Stock in other Conti-
nental ports £0.509 ' 43,300
Afloat from America. 55,095 tSJ.so
“ India— 66,321 lii,sT.'
Total Continent 338,986 ;
Stock at American
ports - 310,0)0
Stock on shipboard in
Bombay 290.000
Grand total — 2,631056 l!
In this table we have included shipments frm I
America and Bombay to the 28th ultimo, asn- j
ported by telegraph, and from India ports other I
than Bombay to the latest mail duties. In or. I
der to arrive at the stock held by spinnersi: I
this country, wo have taken the delivery figtw I
of the Liverpool and London Cotton Broken I
Association, and assumed that since the com
mencement of this year tho consumption of tti
country has averaged per week 52,000 bales,
against 48,000 last year. Now, the point to
which we would specially direct attention is tie I
fact that the deficit in the supply in and doit
for Great Britain exceeds 200,in a 1 kfi
more than sufficient to absorb the entire eia*
in the stock at tho American ports and on slip-
board in Bombay.
The Manchester market has during the past
week been quiet, and prices the turn in favorrf
buyers. The advices from Calcutta have, hot-1
ever, imparted some degree of firmness dnrinr I
the past two days, and the indications are that I
a small reduction in prices a large bnsicesscaM I
be done in both cloth aafl yarn. Qnotatios I
are ror oRb shirtings 1039dtolls ljdperpiecr I
No. 40 mule yarn, common 15|d, best liil
The trade are reported to hold but small stock j
of goods, etc.
Affairs in I,ee County.
Smxthville, June 12,1S70.
Editors Telegraph & Messenger: I sec!I
a report of affairs in Lee. The prospects vert I
never better for good crops, both of corn anil
cotton. Both are a little more backward tlal
last year, but cotton has a good stand andyfll
can see whole fields which average knee hit!? j
and will have plenty of blooms by the 20th i
this month. All are ready to lay-by tlel
corn. Laborers are diligent as a general thiiil
1 have thirty acres under cultivation to ewj
hand and my crops are in good order, £|
some of my neighbors have the same. I s|
some fields of corn tasseling and silking, tl
we have plenty of rain. It has been nml
all day, and with no disaster old Lee will cil
more cotton than any year since the war- I
I am sorry to say she has not corn cdk?|
planted; but all of our farmers say anc:-l
year they will plant one-half of their bni: I
corn. But so they say every Bill and forge; 1 1
in the spring. [This time tiny icill rema&l
—Editors. ] I know some families who b' I
been buying* corn for bread and stock at J- |
a bushel the whole year. . L
The weather is wet. It has been raining^!
three days, and farmers will be runaway **1
crass if it goes on at this rate much l<wp-;|
Wheat was a complete failue. Cane hi:-I
most played out. Field Peas ditto. _ .1
On an inspection of my cotton this mowfi j
I found some of it three feet high, and j r; -J
twenty to thirty squares on the stock. Ip;I
ten acres which I think in two weeks |
a full crop on it. Gardens arc fine.
mellons will be splendid. Chickens
few or none. Peace and good order P KV r.l
If we are let alone old Lee will work ost
temporal salvation. T>
Terrapin ts. Turtle* ^
Dougherty County, Ga>
Juue 14,1^1
Editors Telegraph dc Messenger:
in your most valuable paper uf
account of an Upson county turtle, cae? . J
Potatoe Creek, which I thinkI«a?
a Dougherty county terrapin. This
weighed fifteen pounds, had one hr ma "'... ; l
forty-two well developed eggs, and I
small ones. lie was striped like anr .^j
terrapin, with a small head. I ®®®*
my cotton field, fifty yards fro® *,
branch that runs through the fi e ‘ a
Touches into Flint River about ..^l
yards from where he was found. 4 ce ,^1
two leeches on him at the time he **
I would like for some friend to tdl ® e . ^1
he Iiaiied from, or can any one best* ■
side of the sea? FO****.
■ —
From MlHedgeriUe.
Melledgeyille, Ga., J® 5 * >
Editors Telegraph <& Messenger
A few notes from this quiet town 0 -, ^
ville may provo of some interest
ers. This old town wakes up oc ^ a ' ! ?[. to 'foL- ■
its old fogy ways and seems to desn»
the example set by some of its
For example: a stranger arriving 1 “ . ^-.j:
terday evening discovered at some m
ahead of him a red flag hanging. 0 ’ 1 -
of the stores as a sign, when he_ **“
quired if- wo had the Small Fox m , . t [cb* r |
On proceeding he noticed that &ll0 r.t [;|
iness houses were closed, (it oeiu c
o’clobk) and he at once wished w |
was dead. . , . e
The merchants and their c ;'-‘ «l!
from their labor and this lnoniiagmr.
much refreshed, and the T3^1ag e w
appearance. , -Mg.
YYe have pleisty of rain and good
The Chinese.—The Herald
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and cowardly liar, a disgraoe to his profession g 0 i ng to be the very mischief i»
aud a yelping coyote,” the boot seems to be on 0 n the question of those Celestial sfi
he other leg.
on the question,
nd factory hands.