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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9. 1873.
A Neat Thins for One of the
Family.
3Ir. Orville Grant, one of the adminis-
tion’a brothers, has lately stepped into a
very neat thing. He has moved from
Chicago to St. Louis, where the Govern
ment is about to build a big custom
house. The contract for furnishing the
stone, amounting to $800,000, has been
awarded to Messrs. Snyder & Brown. Mr.
Walsh, the local architect, is represented
ho be a friend of Mr. Orville Grant. The
5ew York Sun now charges that Mr. Or
ville L. Grant has secured from the con
tractors appointment as ^‘their clerk,
at a salary of $5,000 a year, in addition
to which Mr. Grant is also to receive a
commission of 10 per cent, on the amount
of their contract—that is to say, a round
aim of $80,000 over and above his salary.”
Indian Antiquities.
To Georgian*: A distinguished son of
Georgia, C. C. Jones, Jr., has lately writ
ten and published a most interesting
illustrated book devoted mainly to the
antiquities of the Indian races that
formerly inhabited this State. He desires
ur obtain further specimens of Indian
stone work, pottery and other objects
dlustrating Indian life, for the purpose
of bringing out an enlarged and im
proved edition of his fine work. Any
and ull contributions for this purpose will
be thankfully received by Mr. Jdnes, and
may be left at the Post Office, or at the
residence of W. G. MoAdoo, Esq., in Mil-
legeville, whence they will be forwarded
to Mr. Jones.—Milledgeville Recorder.
That’s a Fact.—Quoth the Montgom
ery Advertiser, it is a great convenience
to the traveling public when a railroad
ticket office is in the heart of the city. It
does away with all necessity of going to
the depot and hurrying around while the
train is, perhaps on the point of leaving,
to get a ticket, or of sending or going away
over there to effect that purpose before
one is ready to leave home.
That is a reflection we have often in
dulged in in respect to Macon. There
was a time when things were in a strait
here. Under the rules, regulations and
ordinances one could not pass into the
station house without a ticket, and could
act buy a ticket until he got into the
station house. That was the time they
had the people in a corner; but after a
while they let up on us. The truth is,
however, there should be a ticket office
up town.
' No reason exists for making agricul
ture a collegiate specialty, nor do these
institutions amount to any great sum
considered from that point of view. The
place to learn farming is on the farm,
and not on a garden patch or out of books.
As well try to learn blacksmithing or
bricklaying out of books as to plough,
sow and reap. It can’t be done.—New
York Commercial Advertiser.
Very glibly spoken, to be sure, but
many wise men think differently. Both
plans are good to acquire a knowledge of
farming. Combine the two, and the pro
duct is intelligent farming, which always
payv. A fool may stumble sometimes
upon a way to raise good crops, but it
takes an intelligent man who has studied
books that teach him the composition and
needs of his soil to know how they should
he cultivated. This railing against what
is erroneously called “book farming
has played out in all civilized countries.
Southern Lands—Why so Low ?
Before the war, says the Richmond Dis
patch, the abolitionists and Northern peo
ple generally said that the low price of
Southern lands was caused by slavery.
Well, we now have freemen, and our
lands are not worth one-third as much as
they were during the existence of slavery.
What do they say now ? Indeed, some of
the richest Southern lands that fell into
the negro’s hands, and that have never
been returned to their real owners—the
"Sea Islands,” for instance—have been so
poorly tilled that they are grown into
bush. And what do our censors say ?
• Indiana is suing one of her railroads
for a sum of money claimed to bo due the
school fund. The State law under which
the action is brought is that when the
aggregate amount of dividends declared
amount to the foil sum invested and ten
per cent, per annum thereon, the Legis
lature may so regulate the tolls of the
Company that no more than fifteen per
cent, dividends shall be declared on the
capital employed, and the residue of the
earnings shall be paid over to the school
fund.
Gr eor^ia, W eeklv Telegraph and Journal <fe JMessenger.
Death Of Mr. W. A. Hopson.
The profoundest feeling of pain was
created in this city yesterday morning by
the announcement that W. A. Hopson
was dead. No announcement could have
more thoroughly aroused the sympathies
of the people, or created more sadness
throughout the whole community, and
every one manifested great eagerness to
ascertain the facts connected with his
sudden demise.
Very little is yet known here in regard
to his death, and all that is known was
obtained through meagre dispatches. Mr.
Hopson left Macon for New York on the
morning of the 22d ultimo, in perfect
health. He was heard from as late.as the
28th, and was then well. Sunday night
Mr. Granville C. Conner received a dis
patch from Messrs. T. G. Holt and B. C.
Smith, who are in New York, informing
him that Mr. Hopson was very ill of in
flammation of the bowels and brain, and
that his physicians despaired of his re
covery, and telling him to prepare his
family for the worst. Later at. night
another dispatch was received stating
that Mr. Hopson died at five o’clock Sun
day evening. This is all that is yet
known of his illness, but it was enough to
cast a gloom of sorrow over the whole
city.
Mr. Hopson was a native of Vermont.
His father was an Episcopal clergymen.
He came to this State when a mere boy,
and went to Perry, in Houston county,
where he went into business as clerk in a
dry goods store. He finally became a
partner in the business, and. when the
war came on it found him at the head of
a thriving business house.
Though reared and educated in New
England, his sympathies were heartily
with the South during the war. He at
first joined a company which was raised
in and around Perry, but before it wa3
mustered into service he abondoned it,
and went to Norfolk and joined the
Macon Volunteers. Though he went into
the company a stranger to most of the
men in it, he had served with it but a
short time before he was one of its most
popular members. He remained with
the company about two years, during
which time he was frequently detailed
for service in the signal corps. Finally,
however, he was made adjutant of a
Georgia regiment of cavalry, in which
capacity he served until the close.of the
war.
After the surrender Mr. Hopson re
turned to Perry, where he again re
sumed the dry goods business. In 1866
he was married in this city to Miss Vir
ginia Conner, daughter of the late Z. T.
Conner, and sister to Messrs. Granville
C. and Thomas U. Conner and the other
well known young men of that name.
He leaves two children.
In 1867 he removed from Perry to Ma
con, where he has since been engaged in
the retail dry goods business, and had
succeeded in establishing one of the most
respectable'and popular houses in Macon.
His ambition was to build up a large re- .
tail establishment. He had'iio desire to
enter the jobbing business, but desired to
be known as a successful retail dealer in
dry goods. To accomplish this end he
labored very hard day and night, and
had the satisfaction of knowing that he
was on the high road to success. When
he went to New York, ten days ago, to
buy his stock of fall and winter goods, he
had the happy satisfaction of knowing
that his business was in a better condi
tion than it ever was before.
Mr. Hopson was a member of the
Episcopal Church, and was one of the
vestry of Christ Church. He was a pub
lic-spirited citizen, and was thoroughly
identified with the interests of Macon.
He took an active part in whatever prom-
issed to promote the general welfare of
the community. When the movement
toward establishing a Board of Trade was
begun last spring, he was one of its most
earnest advoeates, although he could not
have expected that his business would
derive any direct benefit from it.
His remains will be brought to Macon
for interment, and will probably arrive
about the last of the week.
First Concert of the Albany
Arion Club.
Albany, Ga., September 2d, 1873.
Editors Telegraph, and Messenger:
Last night the Arion Musical Club of
this city gave its first concert, and as for
obvious reasons the Albany News cannot
take that notice of the concert which it cer
tainly deserves, its editor being Vice
President of the Club and parent of one
of the prominent singers, permit me to
give you some account of one of-the most
pleasing amateur performances it has
ever been my good fortune to attend. I
know that of late it has become so custo
mary in local editors and correspondents
to bestow indiscriminate praise on these
entertainments—to characterize them as
splendid, superb, and all such extrava
gant epithets, that but little attention is
paid to descriptions of this sort; but no
one, who attended the concert, can deny
that merit of a very high order was de
veloped by some of the members of the
Arion.
Where each performer conscientiously
endeavors to make an entertainment a
success, it may seem a little ungracious
to mention some names to the exclusion
of others, but in order to be impartial, it
is almoat impossible to avoid doing so,
and I am sure that each member of the
Arion Club will cheerfully admit, that the
piano solo of Mrs. Woolfolk, Trom Som-
nambula, the two songs “Waiting” and
“Judith” by Miss Styles, the “Fear of
Home” by Mrs. Hampton and an Italian
song from the “Barber of Seville” by
Mr. Cromwell, were the gems of the
evening. As for Mrs. Mallery, who is al
most the life and soul of the Club, and to
whose untiring efforts and labors the
present high state of efficiency of the
Club is mainly due, it is almost unneces
sary to speak, her musical talents being
too well known in this community, as well
as to most of your readers.
Thus far, I have only spoken of the
Arions, but justice compels me to say
that much—perhaps the greater part of
the success of the concert—is due to Pro
fessor Van Houghton, of Eufaula, who
had been invited by the Club, and who
delighted the audience with some of the
finest executions on the piano and violin
ever heard in Albany.
In conclusion, Messrs. Editors, allow
me to ask you to say something in behalf
of these musical associations. I think they
should be encouraged throughout the
length and breadth of the land, and there
is no power like the press to aid in ac
complishing this object.
Albanian.
Profanation.—The Harper’s are is
suing an edition of Pickwick, illustrated
by Thomas Nasty. The papers say he
has vulgarized Mr. Weller and his illus
trious master beyond all possibility of
recognition. We should conceive such
a result inevitable. A man who has de
veloped his genius in the manufacture of
cartoons for the weekly “Carricature of
Civilization” must necessarily smooch
everything he touches out of a hog-pen.
Tax Cincinnati Commercial is of opin
ion from "the views expressed by Alex
ander H. Stephens in an interview with a
correspondent of the New York Herald on
the subject of ‘Csesarism,’ that the Presi
dent will find in the ex-Vice President of
the Confederacy, who enters Congress as
a representative from Georgia next win
ter, an advocate and friend rather than
an antagonist and foeman. Mr. Stephens
will take issue with the Radicals in Con
gress, no doubt, but not with Gen. Grant.’
New Conservative Daily in Wash
ington City.—The Washington corres
pondent of the Cincinnati Commercial, of
Monday, telegraphs as follows:
It is reported that a daily Conservative
journal will be started here early in De
cember under the control of H. V. John
son, of Georgia, who ran on the Douglas
ticket as a candidate for the Vice Presi
dency in 1860.
We see a similar statement in the last
Washington Sunday Herald. Our opin
ion is that somebody has been hoaxing
these Bohemians, badly.
Italian Colonists in the South.—
The Colonization Society of Port Royal,
has entered into a contract with the Ital
ian Labor Exchange at 49 Franklin
afreet, in this city^by-which fifty Italians
are to be sent to Tort Royal each month.
Each emigrant is to pay his passage and
S^epoailfo on account for forty acres of
kuulupon. which ho is to settle. Ten dol
lars is also to be deposited for each emi
grant's support in case of sickness. The
Port Royal Society is to furnish farming j
and building n at -rial. It contains 5,00
•pres- Chevallier de Luca, the Italian |
Cons ill; thinks that this attempt will sue- j
oeed.. Texas seems to him the best place
tor his countrymen.
Juggernaut.
Calcutta Correspondence London Times.]
I was premature in announcing last
week that the Juggernaut Car Festival
had passed off without a serious accident.
Next day the death of six—now increased
to eight—women at a place called Goopti-
para was reported. This justifies the
orders of the Lieutenant-Governor, who
left it to each magistrate to decide
whether a car was dangerous. In this
case the priests had been warned to re
pair them, and to take their pinnacles
down; but as there are ten large or
deadly, and one hundred and fifty smaller
cars in one district of Hooghly, the au
thorities cannot watch each. Last year
it was Hurripal, the year before it was
Serampore, and now it is the new case of
Gooptipara. The people care about the
fair and the shows, but not generally
about the dragging of the car, which
they shirk, unless tenants on the temple
lands. The priests only are interested in
their gains, and the stopping of the dan
gerous cars, as proposed by the Bengal
government, w ruld not be resented by
any but them.
In the heart of these cars is a famous
shrine, that of Tarkeshur, or Shir, in his
character of Esculapius. For two months
of the year the place is thronged by
orthodox Hindoos from all parts, who
have made vows in sickness, and by bar
ren wives. The Mohunt, or celibate Car
dinal of the palace—not necessarily a
priest—has a known income of .£4,000 a
year from land, and of twice that sum
from offerings. The late holder of the
office was a debauchee of 36, whom the
worshippers cquH not remove. He was
the terror of alf'iliq- virtuous families in
the country round; but, nevertheless,
they worshipped at his shrine, and paid
him. At last the Law has got hold of
him, and he has fled to French protection
at Chandemagore, leaving his rich reve
nues. He had purchased from her parents
a young married woman. When the hus
band, who lived six days out of seven in
Calcutta, heard of his shame, he at
tempted to take his wife away from her
father’s house. The numerous retainers
of the Mohunt threatened him, and in
despair he killed his wife and fled to the
police, to - whom he made a confession
which, in the original Bengalee, is deeply
affecting. He has, of course, been com
mitted for trial, and will doubtless re
ceive but a slight punishment after such
provocation. But the Mohunt has fled to
escape the trial for adultery, which is a
penal offense in the man in India, The
magistrate has put a Deputy Collector in
charge of the property of the temple, and
has called on the Maliarajah of Burdewan
to nominate another Mohunt whom a
chapter of Mohunts will duly recognize.
A Wet Place.—Pioche, a town in Ne
vada, 400 miles south of Salt Lake, had a
a wet time of it last week. A rain came
up in the afternoon, which in a short
time flooded the streets so as to drive the
people into the second stories of their
houses, and sweep wagons and horses
standing in the street.
About English Boots and Shoes
- Their “ Make,” Style and
Cost.
The London correspondent of the Shoe
and Leather Reporter writes on the sub
ject as follows:
There is not much taste displayed in
getting up English shoes, for they are
generally a clumsy-looking article, but
the wearing qualities are undoubted. The
ladies’ walking shoes shall have a para
graph devoted to them later on, after I
have interviewed Messrs. Hall & Son,
bootmakers to the Queen, on Regent
street, but I hardly think any American
lady would wear such boots as I
see in the shop windows here, even if
they belonged to the Queen herself. They
are not cut as high as we make them by
a couple of inches, and all fastened by
congress web or front lace, and there is
not a button boot or side lace to be seen.
It must have wrung the heart of Edwin
B. Burt to look into the fashionable la
dles’ shoe shops in London.
Men’s work is, however, built to wear,
and as it is well known our sex has no
vanity, the style is a secondary object.
Prices of good West End work (not boot
makers to the “Royals”) for patrons
from the mercantile and professional
ranks, are: For spring bottom gaiters,
French calf, £1 14s; and if of patent
leather, £116s per pair; or, in gold, say
$8 50 to $9; Oxford shoes (ties), low-cut,
are £1 5s; or for patent leather, £1 10s,
about $6 25 to $6 50 gold—enameled is
what this last leather is called here; grain
leather shooting boots, long and laced
up, looking just like our “ dirt-ex
cluders, are worth £2 2s to £2 15s,
equal to $10 50 to $14 in gold;
hunting-boots, heavy stock, coming well
the leg, are worth £3 5s to £3 10s, or say
$16 or $17 50, gold. Then dress boots,
called Wellingtons, of fifteen-inch leg, are
made for £1 18s; or, if patent leather,
£2 5s, which is $9 50 to $11 25 the pair.
No one wears the last named article in
England. It will be noticed that their
prices for gaiters are higher than with us,
while Wellingtons or boots, of which none
are made for the colonies, are sometimes
less than ours. The truth is, the day
of cheap prices has gone by in England
for many articles, and everything under
the head of the necessaries of life tends
to higher rates. The workmen get 7s 8s
for bottoming most kinds of shoes, but
fine work pays 11s a pair.
The Colored Element and tlie
Granges.
Under this head the Herald of Satur
day has the following Washington special:
The question of color is about to annoy
the Patrons of Husbandry. The colored
element heretofore has not been known
to the order. The constitution ignores
politics and religion, but says nothing
about color. Should the requisite num
ber of colored people apply for a charter
it would be issued; Out whether the State
granges would permit a colored master to
affiliate is a question of local jurisdiction
entirely. In the South, where the order
is flourishing, no application has been re
ceived for a charter for a grange composed
of colored people, but in Arkansas and
Missouri the impending crisis is at hand.
The order now numbers upwards of
6,000 granges, having increased over 800
during the month of August. From this
time until December it is expected the
increase will not fall short of 1,000 per
month. In Pennsylvania a State grange
will be organized on the 10th of Septem
ber. It has taken root in Massachusetts,
and promises to spread rapidly in the
other New England States. Virginia and
Kentucky appear to benentral ground,
there being but three granges in the
former and one in the latter State. The
clerical-force at headquarters in this city
has been increased.
All the elements of a lively political
campaign enter into the business of the
Order. Cartoons illustrating the farmer’s
position with monopolists are being pre
pared for general circulation, songs with
words adapted to the object of the Order
are being printed in New York by thou
sands, and a book called “Sbngs of the
Grange” cannot be printed fast enough to
fill the orders. The packages sent ont
from Washington have the following
pasted on them, "compound extract of
hay seed, an excellent mental invigorator,
warranted to cure itching for office, polit
ical trickery, and sure to remove unfaith
ful servants from office.” Connecticut,
Delaware, Florida, Maine, Maryland, Ne
vada and Rhode Island are the only States
where a grange has not been established.
New York has at present only nine
granges. _ _
Old King Thakumbau of Fiji has rais
ed a large army, thrown off his clothes,
and declared his intention to fight in
“Fijian fashion.” What enraged him was
that the mountain tribes, together with
Christians who had reverted to cannibal
ism, invaded the Soloira district and kill
ed and ate about forty old men, women
and children. Life in Fiji is still shaded
with disagreeable possibilities.
Interest ox the Public Debt.—The
World says the forthcoming report of the
Secretary of the Treasury will show that
the interest on the public debt for the
fiscal year ending on the 31st of June
amounted only to $104,750,6S8.44, against
$129,235,498 for the year ending with
June, 1370. The reduction effected in
the last three years of Grant’s first Ad
ministration therefore amounts to within
a fraction of $24,500,000 on the annual
payments for interest.
Tlie Cotton Crop.
Mr. DeLeon, one of the editors of the
Mobile Register, now 1 on his travels,
writes from Louisville, Ky., on the 26th,
as follows:
On the whole, I deduce from many
conversations with as many hard-headed
and practical countrymen—no less than
from the limited personal observation I
could moke in skimming some six hun
dred miles of varied country—that the
cotton crop of this year will somewhat
exceed that of last, in the States depen
dent upon the Gulf markets. Along the
line of my trip, say from Okolona down,
the cotton seemed to be a little back
ward, and I heard some few complaints
of grass. But I heard little of the worm
in the prairie country, all the planters I
talked with dreading its appearance, or
the rumors of its havoc, in some other
locality.
The general impression seems to be
that this year’s yield of the prararie
lands along the Mobile and Ohio road will
scarcely touch that of last year, but the
yield of the light lands, say commenaing
around and stretching back of 'and above
Corinth, is universally said to be better
than ever before since the war. Several
practical and reasoning men balanced
these facts, and then added to them the
aggregate amount of cotton lost to Mo
bile by the overflow of her river bot
toms hist year. No one placed this
estimate—even in its increase over the
probable yield of last year—at more than
60,000 bales of cotton; and yet at that
figure—calculating the possible loss on
the prairie, and offsetting it by the prob
able increase of the crops of the light
lands—the most careful of my interlocu
tors expressed their belief that the re
ceipts at Mobile would be far larger than
last year’s. This view really seems the
more probable the further up the Mobile
and Ohio road one goes. In the light
lands above there showed decided signs
of dry weather, yet the cotton looked
healthy and vigorous, and the com is in
excellent order.
Smashing a Stone Pier.
The extraordinary smashing of a new
pier at New York, last Wednesday, by
the steamship City of Limerick, when
moving at the rate of a mile and a half
an hour, is referred to by the Herald as
follows :
“ Hardly an impression was made upon
the vessel and not a passenger on board
felt the collision. Yet seventy-five feet
of the dock, it is reported, has been so
badly crushed that the work will have to
be done over again. The damage is esti
mated at $10,000. Not only was every
block of coping either displaced or
cracked, but even the several, courses
underneath were severed. This would
seem to be incredible, if not actually
seen. What sort of engineering and
work must be there? Evidently a thor
ough investigation into both the engi
neering and quality of the work is needed.
We have been disposed to boast of this
new pier and the general improvement at
the Battery, so well did it appear, and
have urged the vigorous prosecution of
iike improvements along the front of our
rivers; but if such feeble work is exe
cuted it will be necessary to reorganize
the department of docks and to subject
every foot constructed to a rigid scien
tific inspection.”
A California Cloud-Burst.
Those strange phenomena, the felici
tously-named cloud-bursts, that some
times devastate the California valleys,
are often terribly dramatic in their ap
pearance and effects. In Yogo canon
dwelt William McGillig and his four
daughters. On the 12th of this month a
small cloud appeared in the sky, rapidly
nearing the mountains, and increasing in
volume and density until the sky was ob
scured, and in the canon it seemed as
though night Jiad come suddenly. Fear
ing danger, the family started to escape
to the high grounds, but the eldest per-
suded the others to return and endeavor
to save that dearly-prized article of a Cal-
fornia girl's heart, the piano—an instru
ment, if once lo3t, difficult to replace in
the interior. This delay was fatal, and
involved the nntimely death of the entire
family. We read:
“Scarcely had they reached the door of
the cabin on their return when, with a
noise xesembling the discharge of a thou
sand pieces of artillery, the darkness sud
denly parted in the centre, and simulta
neously an immense sheet of water de
scended upon the doomed house like a
shot from a gun. One prolonged wail, a
few short shrieks, and the silence of death
closed over the scene. When the water
had subsided Yogo canon ceased to exist.
Where the canon had been was now omly
a part of tjie adjoining hills, the debris
caused by the cloud-burst having filled it
up to a level with their tops.”
Years ago, the late Dr. Spring gave up
his active ministerial duties, and has since
been settling into a semi-dotage. The
great grief of his life was in the death of
his wife—his life-long partner—soon after
the war commenced. I never shall for
get the touching manner in which he al
luded to her decease upon the follow
ing Sunday from the pulpit, adding that
he now lived mainly in the hope (God
willing,) of soon being placed by her side
in the vault under toe church. To the
surprise of everyone, Dr. Spring, in less
than eleven months’ time, was off on a
fresh wedding trip to Niagara Falls, hav
ing married a venerable maiden lady
from Hudson, New York, who declared
that she had always lived in hopes of be
coming his wife some day, or words to
that effect. People who saw the aged
bride and bridegroom on their tour were
much amused at the delicate attention
which they showered upon each other.
The Doctor affectionately addressed his
new bride as "Birdie,” and seemingly se
cured in her possession a new lease of
life.—New York Letter.
But we see it stated that he and
“Birdie” separated many years before
his death, and never saw each other at
all thereafter—and that the cause of the
separation was disagreements and dis
putes about money, of which she had toe
largest share.
Brigham Young is making arrange
ments for the formation of what he calls
“The Organization of Enoch, or a City of
Enoch.” In a public speech on toe sub
ject he recently said: “This is a matter
^that I am paying particular attention to,
with some of my brethren, to see if we
have skill enough to get up an organization
and draw up papers to bind ourselves to
gether under the laws of the United
States, so that we can put our means and
labor together and join as one family. As
soon as we can accomplish this and get
an instrument that lawyers «annot pick
to pieces and destroy, and apostates can
not afflict us, we expect to get up this in
stitution and enter most firmly into it.
Special Session of the'South Caro
lina Thieves.—The Columbia Union-
Herald, which doubtless speaks advisedly,
states that the extra session of the Leg
islatuxe will commence on the 21st of Oc
tober, and thinks that there will be busi
ness enough on hand to engross toe at
tention of the members up to the time
appointed for the beginning of the regu
lar session.
Mb. Smalley snubs Mr. Watterson, in
a letter on English journalism in Satur
day’s Tribune. Smalley mildly suggests
that if the London Times wouldn’t meet
the wants of the people of Louisville
(Watterson says it couldn’t,) neitherwould
the Courier-Journal be regarded with
favor in London. Just so. It is much
better for each to keep at home, and let
its "contemporary” severely alone. Mr.
Watterson isn’t a Thunderer.
How to Treat a Clock and the Besult
of the Treatment.
A Jones county, friend found the sub'
joined article in toe Business Mirror, pub
lished at Fort Valley:
When your clock stops do not tak§ it
to toe repair shop until you have tried it
as follows: Take off the pointers and the
face; take off too pendulum and its More.
Remove the ratchet from toe “tick” wheel,
and the dock will run down with great
velodty. Let it go; the increased speed
wears away the gum and dust from toe
pinions—toe clock cleans itself. If you
have any sperm oil put the least bit on
.the axles. Put the machine together, and
nine times in ten it will run just as well
as if it had been taken to the shop. In
fact this is toe way most shopmen dean
clocks. If instead of a pendulum the
clock has a watch escapement, this latter
win be taken out in an instant, without
taking the works apart, and toe result is
the same. It takes about twenty minutes
to so dean a brass clock, and saves a dol
lar.
The man from Jones, seeing from the
above how simple a thing it was to clean
a clock and put it in good running order,
determined that he had been wasting
money in clock repairing long enough,
and resolved at once to see what ho could
accomplish by following the receipt. He
mode one experiment, and recounts th
results of it in the following communica
tion to the paper from which he obtained
his excellent idea:
Jones County, August 28,1873.
Mr. Local of the Business Mirror, Fort
Valley:
I git your very vallable paper ’bout
twist in a fortnit, and I’d jist bet a plug
of tobacko that it lays over any paper in
seven States for receates. 0
I red one tother day ’bout how to treat
a clock, and I jist thought I’d try it on
an old dock at my neighbor’s. ’Twas a
mitey good one, but it would stop now
an then; so day before yisterday I took
your very vallable sheet under my arm
and went over an informed them that I
could beat the man that killed hisself a
fixin’ clocks. The old lady she bowed
she was mitey glad to hear it—powerful
glad—an axed me to try my hand on
thurn. So I went to fixin’ it in the man
ner you described. I took off the pinters
an the face jist like you sed—took-off that
thing you called pindulim, and toe long
wire it hitches onto, and then looked for
the ratchet. I sorter stopped to study
what that rfttchet was.
Susau, the gal that lives toar came up,
and you know how gals is, tride to sist
me, and jist to -humer her I let her. I
scraped all the dirt and stuff off the tick
wheel, and. then give it a little shuve—
encouragin like—rand then thought the
darned thing would commence running
down wid great velocity, as you sed in
your paper. But it didn’t run down
wurth a cent, and Susan lafed, and sed I’d
better put the old thing away before I
broke something. I axed her if she
thout I was a fule, and told her that if
she didn’t believe I could fix clocks, just
ta wate and see, so she waited. I was
sorter on metal then, and got reckless. I
pulled at that cons am that was hung on
to the bottom of the tick wheel a while,
then wound the clock up all round, right
hand side, left hand side, and bott
side, whar thar was sumthing printed
bout alarm. Still the darned merchien
would’nt go. Then I got mad and gave
another jirk at the thing that apeared
to me to hold the tick wheel afosed. That
time I fetched em and like to ave pulled
the hole aperatus off toe table, And.
right thar stranger I was toe
proudest man in the county, but
I didn’t stay proud long—not much.
That darned tick wheel was the cause of
all my trouble; it commenced to buzz
sorter like a gin, then to siz like a thrash
ing machine with two mules a running
away with her. Bout that time tother
side let in and commenced to rattle, an
the first thing I knowed away it went,
bang! zee ! whang! zee! bang! and kept
up such a dog-gomed fuss I thought the
old fool thing was crazy... I thought at
first I would run, but Susan was thar,
and I stayed. Bout this time the blasted
alarm opened, and, oh, lordy, how it went,
jist beat all the boiler makes for fuss in
the world—scared all toe chickens out of
the oounty, and set all the chillem in the
house a bawling. I got alarmed too, and
felt powerful like going home, but I jist
grit my teeth and bore it.
After a little it slowed up like a train
of cars, but that dumed left hand side
kept a cumming away like mad, so I
poked a file into it and stopped her. By
this time the hole mercheen was a smok
ing and I was sorter careful how I both
ered it. I told Susan that the kingbolt
was broken and that they would have to
send to town after another, and she said
they couldn’t pay for it and axed me to
put the clock away till another time, and
I told her just to please her I would. .
I hung that infernal thing that had
kept it stopped so long into the pin it
come off of, and hnng toe pendulum to
hit and just give it a little shove to start
it off. It ticked powerful fine for a little
while and then quit. Oh! how I did
want some sperm ile to put on the axels,
but there was none to be had.
Then I thought patent axel grease
would do. So I found an old box and
scraped some out with a stick and pasted
it all on the axis aftd then started it-
again, but it wouldn’t go worth a darn.
Will you please send me the rest of the
receat? I am sure there was some of it
left out—now, won’t there?
I’d give a dollar to shet that girl Su
san’s mouth; and the old lady is always
saying I broke her clock, and I tryed to
explain it to her, but she got so excited
bout it that I took the pieces to town to
have the whole time mill reconstructed.
I tuek it to Mr. Johnsing’s store down
next to top coat-house, and axed for the
man that fixed clocks. I showed him
mine, and he jist took one look and called
up the old gent hisself. He elevated his
specs onto his nose and said something
bout Jones county bottled lightning. ^ 1
thought he might be sinuating something
bout me.
Then the man that fixes watches come
up and put a dice box in his eye and
squinted at it a while and said that the
ch ilium must have been fooling with it.
I commenced to loose confidence in your
paper bout then. •
The young sprout that does the car
pentering on clocks axed me if I took the
Business Mirror? and I riz and said, blast
the mirror, and do^gon the clock—yes !!
then says he “I will sell you another clock
for what I’ll fix that’n.”
Now, Mister Local, if anybody wants
ty buy a new clock jist let ’em fix thum
cordin to your receat.
Very spectfully,
Peter Simpkinson.
Alarming Increase of the Ra
tional Expenditures.
The Tribune says the inconsiderable
monthly reduction of the public debt, and
the heavy sales of gold which the Treas
ury is forced to make in order to supply
itself with currency, are sure signs that
the expenditures of the National Govern
ment have been carried to an enormous
figure. No wonder the people look with
disfavor on the recipients of back pay: A
year ago we showed that the expenditures
of the Government, after deducting the
interest on the debt and premium on
bonds purchased, the army and navy ex
penditures, drawbacks of duties and taxes,
and pensions, had increased from $29,-
825,535 in 1860 to $34,015,359 in 1865, to
$51,688,502 in 1868, and to $63,137,379 in
1872—a startling progression. The cor
responding expenditures for the year
ended June 30, 1873, are about $75,000,-
000, or more than double the same out
goes in 1865, when the premium on gold
'was at its highest elevation. The army
expenditures, which were $16,001,167 in
1860, were $44,080,085 in 1871 and $46,-
323,138 in 1873. The navy expenditures,
which were $11,513,150 in I860, were
$19,431,027 in 1871 and $23,526,258 in
1873, which seems a good deal to pay for
the rotting of a few score old hulks,
adapted for modem warfare only as the
minnow is adapted for the jaws of the
pike.
We have before us an official statement
of the receipts and expenditures of the
Government for the fiscal year ended
June 30, 1873, which we proceed to com
pare with Secretary Boutwell’s estimates
laid before Congress in December last.
The revenue from customs was estimated
at $192,729,540; the actual revenue has
been $188,089,523. The revenue from
internal taxes was estimated at $108,-
169,047; the actual receipts have been
$113,729,314. From sales of public lands
an income of $2,297,325 was anticipated,
but $2,882,312 have been received. From
miscellaneous sources, the estimate was
$16,119,222, and the actual receipts were
$29,037,055. The total of the estimates
is $319,315,134; the total of the actual
receipts is $333,738,205, or more than
fourteen millions more than the estimates.
The disbursements for interest on the
public debt were estimated at $107,696,-
895; they have been $104,750,688. The
cost of the War Department was estima
ted at’$35,876,982; it has been $46,323,-
138. The cost of the Navy Department
was estimated at $20,805,146; it has been
$23,526,257. The disbursements for In
dian Affairs and pensions were estimated
at $36,172,734; they have been $37,311,-
132. The estimate for civil and miscel
laneous expenses was $59.999,891; the ac
tual payments were $73,328,110. Total
estimated expenditures, $260,551,649; to
tal actual expenditures, $285,239,325.
Total estimated expenditures, exclusive
of interest on public debt, $152,854,754
total actual expenditures, exclusive of
interest on the pub ic debt, $180,488,637;
corresponding expenditure in 1872, $153,-
201,856; increase, $27,286,781.
The estimated surplus revenue appli
cable to the reduction of the Public Debt
was $58,763,485; the actual surplus is
$48,498,880, of which $14,423,071 Is due
to an excess of revenue over the Secre
tary’s estimates. Had the revenue not
exceeded the Secretary’s anticipations,
the surplus applicable to the redemption
of the Debt would have been only $34,-
075,809, or nearly twenty-five millions
less than the estimated surplus. Do not
these figures call for serious considera
tion?
According to “HangmanFoote,” Jake
Thompson found himself, at the close of
the war, with $200,000 of Confederate
funds (gold) in his Custody, and pro
ceeded to divide with Jeff Davis, Judah
P. Benjamin and others. The story may
be true, but it will take better evidence
than the unsupported word of Foote to
make many believe it.—Springfield Repub
lican:
True for you, Mr. Bowles. We are
glad to see that old Foote is so correctly
appreciated up in Massachusetts. We
have no earthly doubt that the wretched
old creature lies—under a mistake in this,
as in all other matters concerning Mr.
Davis, Mr. Thompson and other gentle
men of Mississippi whom he is now slan
dering in the Washington Chronicle for
the delectation of the Shack Nasty party
at so much per column. Mr. Thompson,
as we have heard, is in comfortable cir
cumstances, but not by the means ojd
Foote charges. The latter only supposes
Mr. Thompson acted as he (Foote) would
have done under similar circumstances.
No, not that either. Foote would have
kept all the money.
Tlie Foreruner of Financial
Disaster.
The Herald’s Washington special of
Friday says: .
A government official in high position,
whose long experience as a banker and
merchant enables him to speak with some
degree of certainty, said to-day, in regard
to the frequency of fires originating in
business portion of cities, that such dis
asters had invariablyprecededeveiy finan
cial revulsion for the last thirty years.
The only explanation given was business
firms embarrassed find incendiarism the
easiest way of concealing their financial
complications, while it gave them the
amount of insurance for ready business.
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mar25 Slw 173 Greenwich street, N. Y.
G eorgia. Wilkinson county.—where
as, Joel J. Brewer, administrator of the es
tate of Sarah Brewer, late of said county, de
ceased, has tiled his application for dismission
from said administration:
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all
persons concerned, to bo and appear at my office,
on or before the Urst Monday in November next,
and show cause, if any they have, why said letters
of dusmission should not be granted.
Witness my hand and official signature; this
August 5th, 1873. W. F. CANNON.
aug7 8m Ordinary Wilkinson County.
G eorgia,wilkinsoncounty—wh ro -
as, John McArtha and J. W. Branan, execu
tors of the last will and testament of Sarah Hud
son, deceased. have applied for dismission from
said executorship of said deceased. Thes ■, are,
therefore, to rite all persons interested to show
cause within the timo prescribed by law why
said letters of dismission should not be granted
to applicants. Given under my hand and official
seal, this August 5th, 1873.
aug7 3m ‘ W. F. CANNON, Ordinary.
A DMINISTRATOR’S SALE.—By virtue of an
order of the Court of Ordinary of Dooly coun
ty, will be sold on the first Tuesday in October
next, at the Court-house door in said county, be
tween the legal hours of sale, the tract of land in
said county whereon the widow’s dower was laid,
and whereon Raiford Royal resided at the time of
his death, being part of lots Nos. 233,234 247 and
248,in the seventh district, of said county,contain
ing 287 acres, more or less. Terms made known
the day of sole.
JOAB ROYAL,
Administrator de bonis non of Raiford Royal,
augotds
G EORGIA,TWIGGSCOUNTY.-On the first
Monday m October next application. will bo
made to the Court of Ordinary of Twiggs county
for leave to sell the lands belonging to the estate
of James Batkcom, deceased, late of said county,
for the benefit of and distribution among the
heirs of said deceased.
J. F. BALKCOM,
LAFAYETTE BALKCOM,
aug7 SOd* Administrators of Jos. Balkeom.
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G EORGIA, DOOLY COUNTY—Four weeks
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application will be made to the Court of Ordinary
of said county, for leave to sell all the real estate
of Harmon H. Parker, late of said county, de
ceased, for the benefit of heirs and creditors of
said deceased.
MATHEW PARKER,
nugS SOd Executor.
G eorgia, twiggs county. — Notice «
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against Jas. Balkcom, deceased, late of Twiggs
county, to present them to us, properly made out,
within the time required by law, so as to show
their character, amount and for settlement. All
persons indebted to said deceased are also hereby
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J. F. BALKCOM,
LAFAYETTE BALKCOM,
aug760d* Adm’rs estate oi Jas. Baleom/ dec’d.
G EORGIA, DOOLY COUNTY. — Whereas
James P. Powell, guardian of the minor heirs
of Silas and Jane Powell, deceased, represents to
tlio court in his petition duly filed and entered on
record, that he has fully discharged all his duties
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ui ftIUUUUll 1WU1)1| OUU lull* niAUllUU)U lur Him
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singular the next of kin and creditors of said
wards to be and appear at my office within the
timo prescribed by law, then and there to show
cause, if any they can, why said dismission should
not be granted.
G ! ven under my hand officially.
aug26 4w J. R. HOLMES, Ordinary.
G EORGIA, DOOLY COUNTY.—Four weeks
after date application will be mode to the
Honorable Court of Ordinary of Dooly county for
leave to sell all the lands belonging to the estate
of A. Y. Peavy, late of said county, deceased, for
tho benefit of the heirs and creditors of said de
ceased.
aug26 4w J. Y. PEAVY, Administrator.
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the power of every planter to regulate the
of the seed to suit himself, and is the onhaw
made that does. Properly managed, SAWTEE’S
ECLIPSE GIN will maintain the full natunl
length of the staple, and be made to do is rapid
work as any machine in use.
Theold GRISWOLD GIN—a genuine pattern-
furnished to order, whenever desired.
Three premiums were taken by SAWYER'S
ECLIPSE GIN last year, over all competitors,
viz: Two at the Southeast Alabama and Sou thirst
Georgia Fair, at Eufaula—one a silver cup flu
other a diploma. Also, tho first premium atths
Fair at Goldsboro’, North Carolina.
ISTE'W OUSTS
Will be delivered on board the cars at the loltaf-
mg prices a.
Thirty-five Saws $1518
Forty Saws 150 00
Forty-five Saws 168 i5
Fifty Saws 187 50
Sixty Saws 225 00
Seventy Saws 262 50
Eighty Saws - *80 00
To prevent delay, orders and old gins should he
sent immediately.
Time given to responsible parties.
VOLUNTARY TESTIMONIALS!
Are furnished from various sections of the cotta
growing States, of the character following:
Locust Grove, Ga., October Sft 1872.
Mr. P. C. Sawyer, Macon, Ga.:
Company for $150, as payment for our gin,*
which we are well pleased.
Yours truly, H. DICKIN A SON.
The above letter enclosed the following testins-
liial, addressed to Mr. Sawyer, viz:
Locust Grove, Ga- October 30.1871
We, the undersigned, planters, have witness*
the operation of ono of your Eclipse Cotton Gna
which we think superior to any other gin wt bn
ever seen used. It leaves the seed perfectly reft
and at the same time turns out a beautiful saepa
etc. H. T. DICKIN A SON. _
E. ALEX. CLEAVELANR
M. L. HARRIS.
Mr. Daniel P. Ferguson, of Jonesboro, Co
writes under date of October 10,1872, as follows;
I have your gin running. » • • I ranssjtj
is the best that I ever saw run. It cleans the
perfectly. I have been raised in a gin house,™
1 believe I know all about what should be open
ed in a first-class Cotton Gin. I can gin five to-
dred pounds of lint inside of sixty minutes. nj
first two bales ginned weighed 1100 pounds
8010 pounds seed cotton, bagging and ties indnaro
Irwintoy, Ga-October 7,18»
Mr. P. C. Sawyer—Dear Sir: The Cotton Go
we got from you, we are pleased to say, meets*;
fullest expectations, and does all you pnmmean
Bhoulddo. Wo have ginned one hundred •ml®’
teen bales on it, and it has never choked aorsor
ken the roll. It picks the seed dean and mug
good lint. Wo have had considerable eipenewv
with various kinds of cotton gins, and ran.
safety, say yours is the best we have everswjrc-
THOMAS HOOKS.
ELIJAH LINGO.
CoL Nathan Bass, of Rome, Ga- saysto
used Griswold’s, Massey’s and Taylor's GinskJ-
that he is now running a D. Pratt Th? in of
county, Ga-and an Eagle and a Carver Ginm
kansas, and a“ Sawyer Eclipse Gin’ in Borne, o
and regards the last named as superior tow
the others. It picks faster and clkaxe*
any other gin with which ho is acqnatmem.
says he has ginned eighty-six bales with it mu-
breaking the roll.
Bullard's Station, M. A
January » ”5,,
Mr. P. C. Sawyer, Macon, Ga—Dav
Cotton Gin you repaired for me, -fc
proved box. gives perfect satisfaction. B
very great pleasure in recommending yoorr D
the public. F W. O’DANIEL, H- "•
Dr. J. W. Summers, of Orangeburg. S, C-
A11 your Gins sold by me this sea»siJ> , K: a i.',
well and giving entire satisfaction. I
to seU ajpreat many next season.
J. C. Staley, of Fort Valley, writes;"^,®?
is the only Gin I ever sauatliat anybody wuw f(< d.
is me only oriu in rr snw-.ua*. .-.feed-
I have heretofore been compelled to ^
er for ginning, but with your gin a cnnii
it and it will never break the roll. Mjs"®
clean and fixst and makes beautiful trot.
Messrs. Childs. Nickerson A fir!
write: “AH the Sawyer Gins sold by’ns
satisfaction. We will he able to sell * 11
them the coming season.’’
Cochray, Ga- January <■ ^
Mr. P. O. Sawyer, Macon. Ga.: ^ Fait
Sit—The Cotton Gin we bought ™TSJSJ: I*
after a fair trial, has given us
makes good Hnt and cleans tho seed we
• . - Yours respectfufiy,^ & B c jfE.
GINS REPAIRED PROMPT^
And made as good as new at the h®* *’
figures: goeat*
New Improved Ribs....... ooeo^
Roll Box — - ! jo esc 1
Head and Bottom Pieces. j ^ out
Babbit Boxes j ooc*^
New Saws,' per set — w £i3 *
Repairing Brush J5 <*
New Brush 6 ®
Painting Gin...
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