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Tin poor house at Saco, Mo., is vacant
and offered for rent. • .
Bra^rER Blaise is found on the list
V debtors to Jay Cooko & Co. for $30^00
borrowed money.
Gsobob H. Pendleton, it is said, will
•otqpoto with Senator Thurman for the
United 8tat' v Sene torship in Ohio.
Tux late.; rumor that Secretary Bich-
crdson was about to vacate the treasury
is authoritatively denied.
Thx Boston Globe claims to know that
Justice Swayne is Gen. Grant’s personal
preference for the Su preme Court vacancy.
Tint farmers’ movement in Kentucky
has begun to make demonstrations
against tho high charges of physicians
and lawyers.
The grapo crop in Ohio is reported to
bo much better than was expected. Wine
making is now going on in all the grape
growing districts.
Nast.—A movement is on foot to get
np a testimonial to Thomas Nasty. His
admirers call him “tho American Hog
arth.” We think so, too.
The agent of the Cunard Steamship.
Company, at New York, denies the report
that a daily steamship line to Liverpool
will be established by them.
Colonizing Virginia. - The Richmond
Dispatch has information that negroes
were being colonized in Virginia from
orth Carolina in order to vote on Tuesday.
The most extensive family wedding on
record occurred tho other day in Cincin
nati. . A widowed mother, three sons and
two daughters were all married at once.
The Governor of Tennessee is consid
ering the expediency of calling an extra
session of tho Legislature, in order to
afford assistance of some sort to the
stricken city of Memphis.
Andt Johnson, in his Washington
speech, said: “I stand upon the Consti
tution of my country."
Get off of it, Andy. Why are yon
standing on the Constitution with your
dirty feet? - • ■ —-
Arris the congregation of a church in
Portland had waited half an hour last
Sunday for the minister, a gentleman got
np and said: ** Let us not sit here any
longer like a parcel of fools.” And then
they all left.
The Des Moines Quartette were some
what startled the other evening by find
ing that the selection, “When wearied
wretches sink to sleep,” had been printed
on their programmes, “When married.
wretches, etc.
Worcester, Mass., raised a subscrip
tion two years ago, which was intended
for Chicago but not needed by that city,
and again rejected by Boston, and the
committee now propose to offer it to
Memphis.
The German navy is a long way from
making that imposing appearance, even
on paper, which the Germans want. It
consists of only forty-two ships, carrying
307 guns. There are hut twenty ships
on active service.
Professor Jakes Allen, a veteran
aeronaut of Providence, R. I., has n-jarly
completed arrangements with some per
sons in San Francisco for a transconti
nental voyage with a balloon which shall
have a capacity of 200,0000 feet. He
will make the attempt about the first of
May, 1874.
Mrs. Caroline Richinos-Bebnasd an
nounces that she has organized a troupe
of twenty-seven performers for a series
of concerts of “ye olden times,” in which
the singers will appear in the costume
of the periods from which date the mu
sical compositions - to be rendered. The
debut will be made in Philadelphia.
"John Paul " writes as follows to the
Tribunal “The chief drawback to hu
man happiness found in travelling on the
Boston and Albany road is having to pay
your fare; but, os the good minister re
marked last Sunday, if one could travel
through Massachusetts free, there would
be but very little to look forward to
in another world."
Rev. Seth G. Clare, a missionary in
Western Kansas, has a portable church
tent, fifty by seventy-five feet, capable of
Beating 700 persons. He has two good
■rt’ 's and a wagon on springs, furnished
<spv sly for the purpose of transporting
hia church from place to place. He is
doing frontier work, and in the last five
months bos preached 111 sermons to large
and attentive audiences.
Until lately, whenever there was any
thing wrong in Wall street, the New
York interviewers rush ed to Henry Clews
to pump him for his opinions about the
cause, nature and prospects of the trouble.
This was before “Poor Henry” failed.
Since that event the " great metro
politan dailies ’•have paid no attention
to his opinions, and have ceased publish-*
ing them.
Financial Affairs in Boston.—The
Boston Advertiser says: "At the time
the panic began the large New England
establishments were in excellent condi
tion and were fully prepared for an active
and prosperous season. In the complica
ted system of related interest depending
upon public confidence they were the
last to feel the pressure and the most re
luctant to yield to it. It is still the
opinion of many leading manufacturers
that the reduction will be but temporary,
and while it lasts it will be so distributed
as to cause the least possible inconveni
ence to tho operatives affected by it.”
Moralizing.—The Richmond Express
says several negro men, conversing on
Broad street, a few nights since, devoted
their reflections to the State campa gn.
Apparently the leader of the party sug
gested that " arter all, dia ’lection ain’
g wine do us any good.” “Yes,” respond-
«d another, “dat’e what I been thinkin*—
ef we go and vote for all dese white peo
ple whar say dey all for us, and git noth-
in’ ourself, why wont we be like a cut-tail
djg ? I don’t b’lieve in um much as I
■use to.” A third, concurring in these
sentiments, added : “ Yes, and ef we go
and do all de work for people dat take all
and <loaa care for us, we will be like de
boy dat climbed de apple tree and shake
down de apples for dem whar under it.”
These sage reflections were not dissented
from.
The Senate Transportation
Committee.
In a personal interview with Senator
Norwood, who is now in this city on his
way home from his extended tour of ob
servation as a member of the Senate
Committee on Transportation, we gather
the following interesting facts in relation
to the labors of the Commission:
The citizens of Georgia expected that
the Senate Committee on Transportation
would visit this State about the last of
October. Mr. Norwood says, however,
that their visit has been postponed until
the 19th of this month. The prevalence
of yellow fever along the Gulf coast has
caused the postponement, as the com.
mittee intend to go to New Orleans im
mediately after leaving Georgia.
The Committee convened in New York
city early in September, and after consid
ering a large volume of statistics which
had been gathered during the summer
by their chairman, Senator Windom of
Minnesota, they took the statements, of a
number of gentlemen connected with
railroads and canals. They proceeded
thence along the canal from Albany to
WhitqHall atthe foot of lake Champlain—
thence to Montreal to inspect the canal
around the Lachine Rapids— thence along
the Oswego and Erie canals—thence to
Niagara where they rode over theprojected
canal around the Niagara Foils on the
American side—thenoe to Chicago where
they examined a large number of experts
on rail and water transportation thence
to Portage City where they examined the
r-innl. connecting the Wisconsin and Fox
rivers.
They then proceeded to Virginia, and,
from Richmond, went over the Chesa
peake and Ohio railroad, which runs for
over a hundred miles along the proposed
line for the extension of the James River
and Kanawha Canal. They stopped at
Charleston, West Virginia, Cincinnati,
and Louisville, Ky., and continued their
examination of the relative merits of rail
and water transportation. At Louisville
they examined thoroughly into the con
dition of the Louisville and Portland
canal, which has been owned exclusively
by the Federal‘Government ever since
the year 1855. They then went to St.
Louis, and devoted two days to hearing
the people of the West and deputations
from the Granges, on the respective sub
jects which they considered important, if
not vital, to their material interests.
As thja committee has given particular
attention to the comparison of rail and
water transportation, and to this end has
token the statements and opinions of
many of the ablest men in the country,
we may reasonably expect an aggregate
of statistics and other information on the
cost, expense and profits of railroads and
canals, as constructed and arranged in
this country, that has never before been
gathered and laid before the public. On
the 19th, as stated, they will reassemble
in Atlanta, and after completing their
labors in Georgia, visit New Orleans and
make thorough examinations of other
projected canal and coast routes.
As yet no expression of opinion what
ever has been made by the (President or
any of the members of the committee as
to the relative value of the several routes
which have been examined, though a vast
amount of testimony has been taken in
the premisei. The presext deranged
state of the finances, it is to be feared,
will delay, if not indefinitely postpone, all
decided action on the part of Congress.
The Financial Situation.
Every telegram from the North seems
to complicate the financial situation and
deepen the gloom of the outlook. The
worst and most portentous aspect of the
case is presented in the increasing sus
pensions of mills and factories, and the
discharge of hands. If the movement
goes on, at the present rate, the winter
may be inaugurated with two hundred
thousand mechanics and workmen in the
Northern cities out of employment—rep
resenting, perhaps, a million of the pop
ulation in a penniless condition.
Many fear that such a condition of af
fairs must result in tumults, riots and
public disorders of great magnitude and ‘
destructive results. A starving laboring
population in the great cities will be hard
to control, and in the present condition
hard to provide for. We trust these ap
prehensions will prove groundless, and it
will be found in the march of events that
anticipations have far outrun actual evils.
It is hard indeed, that, with fair crops and
with really abundant financial resources,
a groundless panic should impose on the
people misfortunes and sufferings prop
erly the results of war or famine.
Notes on the I*te Fair.
Now this grand exposition of
the
divers resources of Georgia has closed,
1 after attracting vast crowds and evoking
an exhibition without a parallel in mag
nitude and interest at tho South, it is
most proper to accord to its master spir
its and assistants, that praise which *
pre-eminently their due.
It is well known that the conduct and
management of theFa ir, were turned over
to the city under certain stipulations and
conditions. From that moment Mayor
Huff, with characteristic energy and in
dustry, bug devoted hia whole soul to
undertaking. The beautiful improve
ments and additions to the buildings on
of
Something' New and Import
ant.
Captain G. C. Dent, of Floyd county,
but formerly an "old salt” from the sea
board, exhibited at the Fair two inven
tions of his own, which have attracted
much attention.
One is a self-steering aparatus for sjiips
when under weigh, for which he has ap
plied for letters patent, and the other a
steam propulsion contrivance for canal
boats. The former is regulated and ad
justed by one of the sails of the craft,
completely superseding the necessity of a
helmsman, and holding her to her course
in any wind or weather. The design is
simple and commends itself to favor at
sight. In fierce gales or when a crew
has been decimated in action or by sick
ness, this discovery may prove the salva
tion of many a noble vessel.
The Propulsion for Canal Boats—
claims not to agitate the water, so as to
disturb the banka; to ran at any usual
depth of canals, regardless of irregulari
ties of the bottom. The arms can be ex
tended for greater depth. Also long nar
row paddles may be applied in the place
of the extensions, for river navigation.
The wheel can be promptly raised to avoid
obstacles. The rakes adjusted on the oscil
lating connecting rods, rise and fall, tak
ing into the sloping trank running aft,
all grass and rubbish which may collect
on the wheel.
The above inventions are uniqein their
character, and we trust will make the for
tune of Capt. Dent, who is a worthy gen
tleman and true Southron.
The South Carolina Debt.—The
Charleston News and Courier proposes to
fund the old or ante-war debt of South
Carolina at pax—a second class debt
having some claim to legality at 75 cents
in the dollar and disown all the remain
der, which would reduce the aggregate
State debt and accrued interest to $9,112-
504. It stands at present, $15,750,727.
According to the Carson Appeal J. W. Ne
smith, (Dem.) recently elected to Congress
from Oregon, “plays an accomplished
hand at seven-up, and is, on an average,
a pretty gnarly specimen of' a Maine
Yankee offshoot grafted on to a Webfoot
sapling.” 1
the grounds, which experience has dem
onstrated were indispensable, are
Numerous special premiums were
pended to the list also at his suggestion.
No expense, no amount of labor did this
indefatigable public servant spare in
premises. He was emphatically ubiqui
tous; to-day here, to-morrow at Louis
ville, Nashville, New York, Columbus,
Savannah, and everywhere else, where
interest could be excited in behalf of the
exposition, and contributions elicited to
add to its grandeur.
So, also, te Capt.Thad. Holt, Mr. John
ston, Secretary of the State Agricultural
Association, and several of our own pri
vate citizens, among whom may he men
tioned Capt. Fort and Mr. Dunlap, the
success of the Fair is in no little degree
owing. Mr. Dunlap is the originator of
that unique cottage which was so hand
somely fitted up and furnished, with ma
terial and articles of Bibb county manu
facture—carpets, chairs, bedsteads, bod
ing, sheets, coverlets, curtains, tables,
grates, stores, mats, ornaments and even
the substantial iron railing which sur
rounded this little elfin abode, were the
handiwork of the artisans and ladies
Bibb.
Mr. Fort, too, has given all the ener
gies of an active mind and great experi
ence in agricultural matters, to the exhi
bition. No man worked harder or accom
plished more. We could instance Mr.
Peters; Col. Lewis, Mr. Wrigley, the
members of the executive oommiteee,
and scores of others also, to say nothing
of the glorious ladies, who did excellent
service in the work of preparation. Bat
whero each official did his duly so nobly,
we cannot and ought not to particularize.
During tho Fair, too, the all essential Car
rington, Mr. J. Henley Smith, of Atlanta,
id the large staff of clerks and supervisors
who did dnty in the business department
at the gates, showed themselves efficient
and courteous to all. Nor were the police
wanting in vigilance, as is evinced by
the perfect order which prevailed. For
once, under the active operations of our
worthy street contractor, Mr. S. I. Gus-
tin, and the master builders in charge,
the Fair opened with everything in per
fect readiness. The grounds were beau
tifully graded, and industriously watered
to keep down the dust, all rubbish had
disappeared, the race track was in splen
did condition, and paint-brush, whitewash
and broom, had united to impart? beauty,
brightness and. cleanliness to the whole
scene. The most hypercritical visitor
could find no just room for complaint,
and so, day by day the exhibition grew,
until it culminated in the mighty suc
cess which has been witnessed by thou
sands, and duly chronicled.
Of the incidents and pertonnel of the
Fair we may continue to speak.
Grant's “ Specie Payment
Farce.
The Tribune’s Washington correspon
dent writes that the paying out of silver
coin on Tuesday, by the United States
Treasury, was the most absurd farce that
has been seen in Washington City. The
morning newspapers had' announced
that the coin would be put in circulation
to-day, and the journals in all parts of
the country had been giving the matter
much attention for the past week or more.
Banks and bankers from every section
had sent orders for large sums, considera
ble excitement was created, and the Sec
retary wa3 greatly pleased at his idea.
The result of the attempt, at least so far
as this city is concerned, is ridiculous,
and places the Treasury on merely the
same foundation as some of the restau
rants and places of amusement here
which have been paying out silver in
small sums for change for a week or
more. Two little bags of silver were
placed on the paying teller’s counter on
the opening of the cash room, and these
were heroically guarded' byan ample
force of tellers'/counters and other em
ployes. A circular in plain characters,
laid on the projecting marble slab, told
the eager multitude that creditors of the
Government in presenting checks or war
rants for payment could receive not to
exceed $5 of the amount due them in
silver coin if they desired. Many em
ployes of the Departments and & number
of citizens went into the cash room du
ring the day to see the long expected
process of payingtrat silver, but the bags
remained on the counter and no silver
was seen. It was carefully guarded du
ring the day, however, and-the,report
was carried to Secretary Richardson at
the close of business that less than $100
in coin had been paid out at the United
States Treasury. This is the result of
Mr. Richardson’s first attempt to resume
specie payments.
Congress and thi Panic.—A late
Washington telegram Bays that such
Senators and members of Congress as
are in that city converse very freely in
regard to the condition of Affairs, and
most of them have, propositions to be of
fered as soon as Congress meets. Upon
one point there seems to he considerable
unanimity of opinion, and that is that
there must be at least some modification
of the bankrupt law, if not its absolute
repeal As the law now stands the largest
house could, if temporarily embarrassed,
be forced into bankraptcy by the smallest
creditor. In such times as these the
staunchest houses have their moments of
weakness, and it should not be in the
power of those to whom they may owe
but a trifle to deprive them of the oppor
tunity to recover.”
A toung man.named Glass up, while
gathering nuts in Kent, England, a few
Sundays ago, fell into an excavation
which had been commenced for a spring.
It wae forty feet in depth, and the fall
gave him some severe braises. His cries
were not heard, and he remained all Mon
day without anything to eat. On Tues
day he caught some field mice, which
were devoured. He became delirious
that afternoon. On .Wednesday his cries
attracted the attention of a man who was
out shooting and he was rescued.
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
The Savannah News, of Monday, says:
The Mails.—For sometime past the
mails have been very irregular, but it
seems difficult to tell where tho fault lies.
That some one is to blame for this nublic
annoyance, is certain, and it is equally
true that some investigation should bo
made by the postal authorities to ascer
tain the cause of these frequent irregu
larities. Last week the Northern mails
were three days behind, and our State
exchanges have rarely reached ns for
some time past in proper time. We have
not received a Macon Telegraph since
Friday, and last night the Macon pouch
was received at the Post-office empty—
not a paper or letter. The same has fre
quently been the case with our Augusta
and Charleston papers, which ought to
reach us the same of publication, but sel
dom do. Will some one step to the front
and inform ns who is responsible for this
general mixture and irregularity of the
mails?
We second the motion for an investiga
tion. Something ought to be done to
abate the nuisance, and that speedily.
Mr. H. W. J. Ham bids adieu to the
readers of the Eastman Times in the last
issue of that paper. He will hereafter
devote all his time to the practioe of law.
Messrs. Philip M. Russell and Wil
liam Stetson, of Savannah, are reported
by the News as victims to the taking
ways of some of the tar fingered fraterni
ty during the late Fair.
The same paper says that Messrs. In
man, Swaine & Co., of Savannah, received
on Saturday an entire train load of cot
ton by the Savannah and Charleston
rood, from Atlanta.
The Houston Home Journal says a
man named - Meeks stabbed another
named Killebrew, one day last week at
Marshalville, inflicting a dangerous, if
not mortal wound.
The same paper has the following:
Macon Banks Suspended.—The Ma
con banks, except the City Bank, have
closed during the fair. It may look like
a good excuse to some, but it seems
rather thin to us, especially after they
had been bragging so over their sound
ness. • •
The Macon banks did not “close
during the fair." They were open every
day for the transaction of business until
one o’clock, due notice of whioh was
given beforehand. The caption of the
paragraph and the general tinge of un
friendliness pervading it, suggests that*
somebody about the Journal office has
been unsuccessful in & financial interview
with some of these " suspended ” banks.
The Constitution of yesterday has the
following:
Sacrilege—Robbing Churches.—On
last Tuesday night, some sacrilegious
wretch’ entered the First Methodist
Church and stole the communion table—
a beautiful black walnut, carved, scroll
frame, marble top table. It appears
that a raid has been made upon several
churches. The clock in the Central
Presbyterian Church was not long since
stolen. The Pastor’s study in the First
Baptist Church was also recently entered
and a fine mirror, gold pen, table cover
and organ cover token. At the Second
Baptist Church the robber contented him
self with a silver pitcher from the com
munion service.
Death of Mb. H. M. Burns.—Wo re
gret to state this gentleman, for several
years of the Greenesboro Herald, died in
this city on Friday night last, of con
sumption. He had lingered for many
months with that fell disease, and vainly
tried every means for relief. Mr. Burns
was no ordinary man, as all who knew him
as editor of the Herald will testify. By
perseverance, discretion and industry, he
builtthat paper up to a fine influence. But
disease forced him from a position in
which he would have won distinction.
The Rome Commercial announces the
sale, last Saturday, of the Lee and Graves
farm on the Coosa river near that place,
to Messrs. Graham & Barnwell, of Savan
nah, for $18,000.
The Sparta Times and Planter an
nounces the death, lost Wednesday, in
that place, of Mr. J. B. Johnson, for sev
eral years past Clerk of the Superior
Court and Treasurer of Hancock county.
Wx learn from the Griffin News that
the depot at Corrolton station, on the
Savannah, Griffin and North Alabama
railroad, was burned one night last week.
Loss estimated at from $1,200 to $1,500.
We find these items in the Savannah
Advertiser and Republican:
The Largest Cargo Ever Carried
from Savannah to a Foreign Port.—
The British steamship Tiber, Captain A.
Clark, was cleared yesterday by S. Fat-
man, Esq., for Liverpool with the largest
cargo of cotton that has ever been token
by any steamship from this port, at least
such is the assertion; She carried 4,467
bales of upland cotton, weighing 3,540,-
881 pounds, and valued at $338,890 19,
The First Shad.—The first shad of
the season is and has always been con
sidered' as anarticle worth obtaining, and,
if our information is correct, it is really
so? We learn that the first shad, of the
season was brought to this city yesterday
by Mr. Charles Sallas, who caught it in
what is known as Second Cove, St. John’s
river, Florida, and sold to Mr. Passmore,
the steward of the Marshall House, for
sixty-five dollars.
The Griffin News says that up to date
the tax collector of Spalding county has
only collected $700.
The News says it is a great mistake to
suppose there is no money in the country
and illustrates the point as follows:
Let a circus come along, or a perform'
ance of any character, and they can
gather in hundreds of dollars every day.
Worse than this, let one of these little
lottery concerns, or an itinerant pill ped'
dler come this wav, or a prize soap man,
or a Punch and Judy humbug, and crowds
will flock to them, and spend greenbacks
as freely as if they grew on trees. There
is money in the country, and if every
man would go and pay his debts, instead
of hoarding his money, and squandering
it foolishly, everything would become
much easier, and we would have less of
the ceaseless ory of hard times.
Wx find the following in the Savannah
News with reference to the second day’s
drill at the State Fair and the Volun
teer’s share therein:
As stated in our special telegram in
Saturday’s issue, the Atlanta Cadets,
Governor’s Guards and Savannah Cadets
having drilled on Friday, there were two
companies—the Georgia Zouaves, of At
lanta, and the Macon Volunteers—to
dose the contest. Accordingly, at the
sound of the hugle, the Georgia Zouaves
marched upon the parade ground and
took their position. This company is
uniformed similarly to our Phoenix Rifle
men, hut its material is not of as good
quality. The Atlantians seemed to ex
pect a great deal from the Zouaves, as
they had evinced great efficiency at home,
but from some cause they did not come
np to the mark. After the expiration of
the time allotted—forty minutes—the re
call was sounded and the Zouaves re
tired to give place to the next com
petitors, the old veteran organization,
the Macon Volunteers, a company which
achieved an honorable name for gallantry
during the late war, and which has been
the pride of the Central City from almost
its settlement. No corps has kept so well
together, pr serving intact its ante-bellum
caste, as tie Macon Volunteers. The pre
vailing opinion was that the issue had nar
rowed down to a contest bet woea the Vol
unteers and the Savunnah Cadets, and 03
the former marched into the arena with a
quick, steady step, under the command
of their gallant captain, Jones, a decided
chilly sensation pervaded the circle of
eager Savannaians, who had pressed
around. The drill of the Volunteers was
superb, and elicited unsparing encomi
ums from all quarters. ■,
Two letters for Thomas Jenkins,
Macon, are held for postage' in the Sa
vannah office. 1
' Our State exchanges come to us full
of good words concerning the late Fair
and the efforts made by our. municipal
authorities to make it a success. All
unite in the opinion that it was the grand
est affair of the kind ever seenin Georgia.
Aa a sample of what they say we quote
the following from the Rome Courier and
Columbus Sunt
The attendance was very large, averag
ing 10,000 for Thursday and Friday. An
admirable system of police was mainti
and no disorderly conduct on the part of
anyone' disturbed for a moment the
perfect peace and order of the occasion.
An air of elegant refinement pervaded
the whole assemblage, and made it an
occasion of social enjoyment to all. It
was very creditable to the character of
our Georgia society, and the impressions
made upon visitors from abroad- were
very favorable. Indeed, we doubt if the
moat courtly circles of Europe could have
paraded a more elegant and refined as
sembly than that which daily thronged
the beautiful grounds and halls of the
Macon Park. The hospitalities of the
citizens of Macon were very grateful, and
sufficed for the accommodation of the
large crowd of visitors. We found every
body well lodged and well fed, and it
must have been a very fastidious person
who went away dissatisfied. Our own
visit will be long and pleasantly remem-
herd.—Courier.
Thx State Fair.—We spent only
Saturday in Macon. We have only
praise to give to the general man
agement, and tho skill, enterprise
and pluck which governed the en
terprise. The Fair grounds without
doubt are the most beautiful we have
ever seen, and we have been so fortunate
as to have been present at the leading
exhibitions of States, North, South, East
and West. The exhibition was a grand
one with the exception of machinery.
This department proved a failure. The
live stock was worthy of Georgia—of the
noble Empire State. JETer county exhibi
tions alone constituted a good Fair. The
military companies added much to the
exhibition. The races were good. We
say hurrah for Maoon 1 She deserves to
have all the State Fairs. No other city
would exhibit the pluck of her Mayor and
Council. In the face of & great financial
pressure, they had the nerve to be firm
and unswerving and the consequence is
we have witnessed the really greatest ex
position ever seen in Georgia.—Sun.
Thx Chronicle and Sentinel is adver
tising for “the gentleman who dropped
his slung-shot in the Opera House Ar
cade" the oilier night.
Wx find these additional items in the
same paper i
A Singular Fact. -For several days
past Mr. John P. Foster noticed that one
of his best cows was gradually giving a
less quantity of milk per day than usual.
On inquiry into the reason of this he was
informed that a fine setter pup, which he
owned, was in the habit of sucking the
cow. Mr. Foster at first disbelieved the
story, but after investigation became sat
isfied of its truth. The young canine was
caught in the act last Saturday. It was
as quietly taking its breakfast as if the
cow was its own mother.
Annual Renting oy Market Stalls.
The annual renting of the stalls at the
market house took place yesterday
There are in all twenty-two stalls renting
on an average for one hundred and eighty
dollars per annum. The highest rents
for two hundred and thirty-four dollars.
The market pays an income to the city of
about three thousand dollars clear of all
expenses.
The roof of the residence of Major
Geo. T. Barnes, of Augusta, was badly
damaged by fire and water on Monday
morning. The house and furniture were
both insured.
The Griffin Star says the Grangers’
Convention in this city was quite an im
portant oune— from which we infer that
the editor of the Star must either have
slipped in somehow, or is a member of
the order. He also says that the Gran
gers declinod to select a newspaper organ,
which action blasts the hopes of two or
three "live” papers that have been claim
ing the honor.
The Savannah Cadets had a grand re
ception on their arrival home from the
Fair on Monday morning. They were
received at the depot by the First Geor
gia Regiment and a salute of thirteen
guns by the Chatham Artillery,
After which there was the usual con
gratulatory addresses, winding up that
night with the most interesting feature
of the occasion: A huge bowl of O. A. P.
A young lady of Rome is credited by
the Commercial with the remark of a
young gentleman “to whom she had just
been introduced, that he would be very
presentable if the Lord hadn’t turned up
soanuch of his legs to make feet of.'
The passenger train from Macon to
Atlanta, last Monday nig^tTwas delayed
by an accident that happened about fif
teen miles above this city. A tom up rail
threw the rear tracks of the baggage car
off the track, and frightened some of the
passengers so badly that one of them
jumped out of the window. The dam
aged car was left at Forsyth.
On account of the strike by the em
ployes of the East Tennessee railroad, the
Western and Atlantic railway has ceased
to sell tickets or to receive freight to go
over that road.
Wx clip these items from the* Savannah
News of Tuesday:
Heavy Draft of Water.—The Brit
ish steamship Tiber, with the largest cot
ton cargo ever token from this port by
steamer, amounting to 4467 bales upland
cotton, steamed down the river from her
berth yesterday, and passed safely over
the wrecks, the shallowest part of the
river, drawing eighteen feet of water.
Savannah as a Cotton Port—Heavy
Receipts of the Staple.—The receipts
of cotton at this port yesterday amounted
to 8,445 bales, of which 5,578 bales were
received by the Central railroad, making
the heaviest day’s cotton receipts ever
brought over the Central, and also the
largest amount of cotton received at this
port in any one day by upwards of a thou
sand bales.
Tfix same paper is of opinion that the
route agents and postmasters in Georgia
judging from the regularity with which
the mails come to .hand, are still in at
tendance on tho State Fair.
At the Fulton county sheriff’s sales on
Tuesday 101J acres of land two miles
from West End were sold for $750, and a
lot fifty-two by two hundred feet on Cal
houn street, Atlanta, for $200.
Wx find the following in the Columbus
Sun, of Tuesday:
A Boy Accidently Kills Hikselt.*—
On Friday afternoon, on the plantation
of Captain David Cody, in Chattahoochee
county, a little boy, son of a Mr. Willis,
was killed by the accidental discharge of
his own gun. His age was about twelve
years. He was hunting rabbits, and had
wounded one which he was running to
secure, when he fell and a load of the
weapon was discharged and passed
through his heart, instantly falling him.
A Prbkittjt Worth Taking.—Dr. N.
J. Bussey, President of the Eagle afld
Phenix Mills in Columbus sold for cash
last week to' merchants in Macon ten
thousand dollars of the productions of the
manufactory. It ia said two merchants
made the purchase. t
Death op a Strange Character.—
Thirty Years Residence in a Shall
Household Menagerie.—Mrs. Finegan,
a well-known and eccentric character,
' died Saturday night in this city, aged
seventy-nine years. She was noted for the
avoidance of human beings and loving
the companionship of brute animals.
She has lived in. a little house beyond
the residence of Mr. T. S. Spear in Lin-
wood, for thirty, years, almost solitary
and %done—entirely bo since the death of
her mother—surrounned by such pets
as two fierce^ dogs, two parrots, tamed
mice, rats, and chickens. All lived in
one house. The canines slept on her
bed, the poultry made their roosts above,
and rate and mice tumbled around loose.
With such companions she has spent
many years of a * blameless life. She
seemed to understand them and they her.
Latt Week's Cotton Figures.
According to the New York Chronicle
the cotton reoeipte for the seven days
ending last Friday night, 31st October,
were 108,039 bales against 100,452 bales
last week, 78,756 bales the previous week
and 45,746 bales three weeks since, mail
ing the total receipts since the first of
September, 1873, 470,078 bales against
646,989 bales for the some period of 1872,
showing a decrease since September,
1873, of 176,911 bales.
The receipts of the interior ports for
the same time were 34,032 bales against
43,522 last year. Shipments 27,354
against 33,909 last year. Stocks 55,669
against 43,397-
The visible snpply table foots np 1,-
702,279 bales against 1,951,017 last year,
and 1,878,689 the year before, showing a
decrease of 248,738 and 72,428 bales re
spectively. The Liverpool quotations
last Friday wdre.8|d for middling up
lands, against 1010^ and 91 the corres
ponding date of 1872 and 1871
. Weather for the week reported favor
able for picking, with a killing frost at
several points, inclndidg Galveston.* The
average of the mercury was 48 at Mem
phis, 53 at Savannah, 58 at Columbus,
59 at Mobile, 58 at Montgomery and 62
at Galveston.
Stoppage of the Cotton Mills.—In
a long article on this subject the Chron
icle looks for a speedy resumption o< or
dinary activity in the American mills.
Since 1857 these mills have taken no
notes for their goods, but considered all
cash sales. They were entered on the
books for liquidation in the course of
thirty days. The mills held no accumu
lation of debits. The panic, however
checked their receipts on September sales
and the resulting suspension of work was
simply a precautionary and temporary
measure. There is no accumulation of
goods, and demand must soon revive.
The banks are rapidly gaining strength,
and there are the best of reasons for
viewing the general mercantile and man
ufacturing relations with hope and con
fidence, rather than with despondency.
The Knoxville Railway Strike.
The Press and Herald, of Tuesday
morning, says that no solution of the
question at issue between the employes
of the E. T. & Virginia and E. T. & Geor
gia roads and those companies had been
reached. The strikers graciously permit
passenger trains to be ran, (it would he
serious business stopping tne mails;) but
they forcibly resist the running of freight
trains. Not a freight train had been
moved, and even the unloading of freight
cars full of freight for Nashville was pro
hibited to the great damage of the mer
cantile interests of that city.
This unlawful action is charged by the
Union committee directing operations to
he done without their authority, and by
men acting on their own responsibility
alone. The stoppage of freight trains
had thrown a heavy business on the hands
of the Express Company, as express mat
ter was allowed to be shipped without in
terruption.
The strikers held a meeting on Monday
night and heard speeches from the Mayor
and Baxter, the attorney of the road, but
the situation remained unchanged. The
strikers said they were willing to accept
reduced hours from the roods, but would
take no redaction in their wages per
hour. Baxter warned them that a freight
train would be sent out in the morning,
and if it was interfered with there would
be trouble. The telegrams yesterday
gave no information of the threatened at
tempt to resume business by the roads.
Tlie Louisiana Atrocities.
The excitement in Louisiana over the
atrocities of Kellogg’s army is very great.
A public meeting was heid in Alexandria
on the subject, which passed the follow-
ing among other resolutions:
Whereas, reliable information has
reached us of the perpetration in Grant
parish of a detestable outrage of rape
upon the persons of two respectable la
dies, by niembes of the New Orleans Met
ropolitan Police, or by negroes who are
emboldened to commit acts of violence
by the presence of that police, and terror
and alarm have been occasioned in the
locality where the crime was committed,
a« also in the surrounding country—
Resolved, That we will first appeal to
the constituted authorities of the country,
civil and military, for protection to our
people before consulting or instigating
any extra legal measures, and to this
end a committee of five shall be appoint
ed-by the chairman to wait upon the
commanding officer of the United States
troops stationed opposite this town, and
solicit his intervention, and the ordering
of a portion of his command to the dis
turbed neighborhood.
Resolved, That we appeal to our fel
low-citizens of this and contiguous par
ishes. to curb their indignation, justly
aroused by this outrage, and to restrain
themselves within the bounds of law
while the authorities to whom we appeal
are vindicating our right to protection,
or shall have refused to do it.
Resolved. That we are fully sensible of
the violation of law by whoever dis
patched the police of New Orleans sev
eral hundred miles in the interior of the
State, ostensibly to assist the deputy
United States Marshal in the execution
of process; and we have not failed to
discern the real purpose of this State
military and naval expedition to be the
hope and expectation that some tumult
might be raised by our people, of whioh
politioal capital might be made to our
disadvantage—a hope we intend to dis
appoint.
Resolved, That the' presence of this
police force from New Orleans has pro
duced, and is now producing, injurious
effects on a portion of the population of
Grant and adjoining parishes. Bad ne
groes commit crimes, assured in their
own belief of immunity from punishment
by the presence of these uniformed men,
but it is due to the negroes, whom we
have no desire to harm, to know, and due
to ourselves to say, that we understand
the government under which we live is for
the protection of the white people as
well as the black, that the white people
have at least as many rights aa the
black and all have the same duty of'
obedience to law to observe, and if those
having or claiming authority d6 not dis
pense equal justice to both races, we
shall take care of ourselves and of those
to whom we owe protection.
In some districts of North (w
negroes seem to be sinking ^
barium ae heathenish and J - -
Financial,
Gold and Silver nominal.
Exchange on New Tort buying at per
cent, off and selling at par. On Providence and ““ “ ea “ l eni8H and deersd-T* 1 *"
Boston, buying at i per-cent off. that of their African ancestors w **
The general outlook in financial.affairs daring Brown Marsh, a station on th r>
the week haa improved in some respects. Cotton Central railway, about fc-K.“ S .5^08
haa been freely sold during the week and all ma- r , IOrt y Buies W
turing paper met. which h» put coruddorable , Wilmington, byes a colored woman
money in circulation. , lena, who is worshipped by the
The banks here are in a strong condition, and of the neighborhood as if she
propose to keep so. Their line* of discount, are Her'sanctuary is a , 0re ® | ietj.
large inview of the large reduction made indepoa- which she sits Turkish f l-°^ ‘•Ka.k
its, and therefore they are not discounting, even , xiah fashion, while W
for depositors, except to partially renew maturing r °llowers are prostrate on the flow
paper, which they own. The consequence is that . casionally she stepe on the woisV
that the merchants are forced to contract their in order “to mash out their *
operations. Much depends upon the action of indulges in very urn-rvli; Ju*' ’
the planters in sending their cotton to their lac- . ^goabke language,
tors, aa with the cotton in hand they can renew 18 m ^ c “ f° are d- Tena is m ^
maturing paper or raise money to meet the wants looking woman f bout fifty years rf ^
of the planters without the sacrifice of the cotton, and was formerly member of a Ar tv 5^
The chief obstacle to the recovery from the de- Church in Wilmunrton. T,;v„ «**"•**
pression caused by the panic is the condition of ,, . . , '•‘•a god of
the New York banks, and their resumption of *be Assyrians, she is supplied with
full currency payments at an early day ia eagerly °y adorers,
looked for. j . • ——
Money is in good demand at 11®2 per cent, per A “ aerollte ktely fell at Y»
month on good securities. , *ysYilIe, California, with such force
Provisions.
Since our last report tho meat market has be-
I bury itself eight feet in tho earth, WvT
_ du « U P hot enough to set' fe ?
come completely demoralized in the West, and the cart in which it was carried
TIP TH » 'new to a partiil chance ef
sale a fine body of oak and hic-Wv
embraces a first-class water tWr
site for building up a W *
Interest. It is on the Ormulm*
above Macon. I can sell tracts
to two thousand. Address 100 *'**
» sep88 SawAwtf
land sale.
tTM. LUNDY.
Ahern, fa.
_ acres) of i
290, in the 7th district of saw cmmfr .iris'
wort of Knoxville. This landh tirawf/t
valuable for a saw mill and shinvle ^
Jin Dtoarta-
1 Shinule machine.
Golaparches, Monroe count^Gi
octndlawSwiwtds *
David Styles got through being the
oldest man in the Northwest at Dubuque
the other day, aged one hundred and sev
en years and four months.
to-
consequently we note quite a decline and an un- and the astonished inhabitant'
settled condition of the market. . that the devils had been
Bacon, C.R. sides 9@91. 1 of sky-ball. . *
Dry Salted Meats, long clear aides 10i<gI0i :
, Georgia Land and 1^.
Hams—Canvased, according to brand, lS@15c. - Power For Sale.
Lard, per lb. tierces kegs and tubs lOt
@111; buckets 121@lSi. j
Bagging, Ties, etc. !
Domestic Bagging, according to weight, 15K§
17. r
Ties, Arrow 9k, Beard 9. j
Bagging Twine 18@22. ;
Stock of bagging ample. Arrow ties are scarce
and in good demand.
* Butter and Eggs,
Butter, country 25@S0; Tennessee S0@35; Go
shen, according to qualitv, S0@35.
Egos, per dozen 35@40.
Butter and eggs are in light supply with a good
demand at full prices.
Candles, adamantine, full weight, boxes 20@ ^
21c; halves ic higher; sperm 46@«.; parafine wax ^ItaTES ^HKSOUThXSI*
4°@«- , ^ I TaiCTOFGEOBGUT
2^r cry i7@i7h —~ l7 ® l7h . ; “r- $&$*-**+ *
Cheese has had a steady market all the week, j mo whom it may Concern: -m - .
and with a small advance in prices. Higherprioes j A. hereby gives notice of his appointments
will bo realized as soon as the present stock on , J £, rJan -. 01 tne county
hand here is reduced. i SSZ&g££%2&SftS&K
Coffer, Bio, common 24; Mr 25t prime 26* his own petition by the District Court of uii¥Z
choioe27;JavaS0@54. ■ ' I THOMAS N.' GREEN, Jt,
In coffee the trade has been only fair, the sale. ' aw ^ — biro
being iq very small lots’ for immediate oonsump-
$ n. Upward tendency.
Candy, Northern I6@17c.; city 17@18c, per lb.
Canned Goods, per doz., 1 lb. cove oysters,
140@150; 2 lb do,2S0; 2 lb peaches.300: 21b
tomatoes, 2 GO; 2 lb pine apples, 3 00 ; 2 lb pears,
2 60@2 75 ; green com,—; brandy cherries, 2 qti,
4 00® i 25; brandy peaches, qts, 400®4 50; con
densed milk, 2 75@300; sardines, 1 boxes, pe
case, 19 00.
Cracebbs (no charge for package), per lb, soda,
71@8i; butter, 9@U; picnic, 10@U; sugar, 10®
12; cream, 14® 15; lemon cream, 14® 15; ginger . . . . ,
...o,,. ,, The startling drawback on nearly all tnedidar
snaps, 14®15; terated, IS. agents haa ever been that in tfieir proaxTj
YRUITS.apples Northern and Western, accord- ; purgation and purification thev have abedeMi.
ing to condition, per bbl., $G00®8 00; dried ’ rated the system. To obviate this difficulty phv-
peaches per lb. dried apples per lb— | ■«“* have lon « *° u S ht toT “ ™ld
Layer Bahuns, new, boxes; 425@4 go; half purge, Purify and Strengthen
do, 2 40®2 GO; quarter do, 110@125. Old crop i
50c per box less, other sizes in proportion. I At One HBd the Sane Tin
Mackerel, Na I, bbls $22 00®2S(K>; halves j Their hsg at ^ rewirfed ^
$11 50@13 60; kits, according to weight $2 5003 00 diioorozy which fully realizes the fon'l&t demfg
No. 2 bbls. $16 00nl7 00; halves $3 5ba0 00; kit?, ao- * of the medical faculty, and which is justly refirf.
cording to weight. ?175a2 00; No. 8, large bbls.
*14 00al5 00; halves *7 GOaS 00; kits, according to | 1 '—mammu
weight, *1 coal 65. Dr. Tntt'8 Vegetable Liver MH
White Fish. Na 1, half bbU. *9 00. | WUck p^y Ce blood and remove all comrt
Stock of mackerel large. Whit© ffoh in light humors und unhealthy accuiimiuhitions f$om the
supply.
Flour, per bbl. superfine *7 oo@8 00; extra *8 SO
@9 00; family 9 60@10 00; fancy 1100@12 00.
In flour the stock is large, with light enquiry
Prices tend downward, caused by holders anxious
to realize on a cash besis.
Grain, com per bushel, white *100; yellow and
mixed 90@05; Oats, per bushel, white and mixed
rust proof —.
In moderate demand, stock tight.
Gunpowder, PFG, kegs. 7 50; half do, 4 00;
quarter do, 2 50.
Hay, per cu t.. Timothy —; Western —.
Molasses and Strut, reboiled, hhds. per gal
52; bbls. 85. Syrup, refined, according to quality.'
52a75; Georgia and Florida, none in market.
Potatoes, per bbl. Northern *4 00; Western
*350.
Onions, per bbl. $5 50a6 00.'
Pickles, per doz, gallon, —; half do, 400
quarter do, 3 00; fighth do, 2 00.
Bice, per lb., choioe 7JaS; prime 8a8J.
Snuff, per lb, Maccaboy 78n80, Scotch 78a80.
Salt, per sack, Liverpool *1 90a2 00; Virginia
fine *2 20.
humors aud‘unhealthy aecuiumulations f jum l
body, and yet produce no weakness or lussimde
whatever, but on the ceoanuy tone the stomach,
and invigorate the body during the profits of
Dr. Tutt’s Pills are the most active am?
searching medicine in existence. Thej at art
attack trie very root of diseases, and their vtiro
is so prompt that in an hour ortwo after they are
taken the patient is aware of their goodelertA
Thev may be taken at any time without rostmet
of diet or occupation; they produce neither nau
sea, griping or debility, and as a family medicine-
, they nave no rival. _
Price 25 cents a box. Sold by all Dntmstv
Principal Office, 48 Cortlandt street hew Tod.
I seplSeodAwly
Immense Success of Ditson & Co.’s Sow Colleo-
| -v tion of Organ Music, entitled
“THE ORGAN AT HOME”
lar music of the day, well arranra.il for the
Parlor, or Pipe Organ. Contains emTl™r
which is so-called “popular'’—melodies of the day,
marches, waltzes, voluntaries, variations, ton-
soriptiona of the best sacred airs, gems of Hsn-
del, Mozart, 8chnmann. etc.; hi fart, ttejta
Soap, per lb., common 5}a6; family 7a8; olive 71 all music, from Beethoven s AdsgioJ to
I: wramted. ner box. 100 cakes. MSOuSOO. Danube Waltz. First edition sold m - weetoJl-
i/aillllfa VIOllt. i wv_;_
ter publication, and Fourth now ready! ra<*r
*2 50 Boards; *3 Cloth.
Unparalleled success of Ditson A Co-’s
GEMS OF STRAUSS,
Which contains literally the gems of Sto^
Waltzes, Mazurkas, etc., and is to-day tbenos
popular music book in America —over
copies haring been sold in 10 month!.
*2 GO; Cloth, *8.
GREAT SALE OF
THE STANDARD.
This great’Church Music Book byLO-g
son and H. R. Palmer, has double the merit ^
is likely to have double the sale of common^
by one eompeser. The works of elllL , r ^r:^
men have sold by the hundred thon»iA«Mi*
STANDARD will continue to be <*Hed fcrumi
eTery Choir, Singing Class and convention wv
octSfldinwAwtf
Koston.
FILLET’S FAMSSS
LOW RESEUVOIE
sMlWlky/.r
&8; wrapped, per box, 100 cakes, *6 50a800.
Sugars, per lb, cut loaf 141; crushed and pow
dered 131, A 121nlS; extra C Ufal2; yellow extra
C lOfalli; yellow tOalOi.
In large supply and light demand. Downward
tendency.
Starch, refined pearl, per pound, 71.
Spicks, per lb, pepper. 28; spice, 18; ginger 18.
Shot, bags 25 lbs, drop 2 90a3 00; buck 3 25.
Tobacco, per lb, common 4SM8; medium 50a55;
fine bright 60a70; extra fine and fancy 80al 00
Smoking, according to quality and brands 40a75.
Stock of manufactured large; holders anxious to
realizo; prices ia buyers’ favor.
Yineoab, cider per gal. 85044; white wine do
mestic 40O45; white wine imported 60.
Wines and Liquors, proof com per gal. *110;
proof Bourbon, *125al 50; common Bourbon, *la . _ __
116; Robinson county, *120al 75; fine iye,*2a3 KV, i rep^ieilL^Prii^l ^50.'*‘ 1 pnbli»hed bv „
gin*12562001 ; - PP CHAS. H. DITSONiW-
Chamfagnb Wine, Heidaick per pint, *33; dry OLIYEB^ITSON * CO,
Verzenay, *S0; Krug A Co, *33; imported Oabi- 1 ““
net, *25; Works’ Golden Bagle,*22; per quart, *20.
• > n ’“I
The Effect on the Cotton anil
Manufacturing Business.
A reporter of tho New York Tribune in
the last Monday issue of that paper gives
a long account of interviews with the
cotton men and the representatives of
cotton manufacturing interests in that
city. The report covers several columns
of that paper and shows a most depress
ing state of affairs. The purchasers both
for home and foreign markets complain
of small orders. The commission mer
chants, who usually advance the money
to the mills for their purchases, are afraid
to do so now, which adds another to tho
array of difficulties. Some of their best
paper has to pay 2 per cent, a month.
The exporters are the only ones, compara
tively, who are doing any business and as
they have no competition, they are, of
course, not disposed to raise the price
among themselves. It is impossible to
estimate how much the business in do
mestic specimens has decreased since the
months before the panic.
Mr. Eutichidi, a Greek, who buys es
pecially for Liverpool merchants or Man
chester manufacturers, said that the de
pression was due mainly to the fall in for
eign exchange, and the remedy consisted
altogether In a return of monetary values
to a sound basis. The stoppage of the
domestio mills, of course, contributed to
the general dullness, on the principle that
competition is the life of trade; but at the
best they seldom took more than 20,000
bales a week, while England took 50,000.
No complaint had yet been heard from
the manufacturers in England. They un
derstood the state of affairs here, and
whereas they once took 32,000 bales, they
now contented themselves with 12,000. :
So long as freights were high and ex- I
change was low, although cotton was 1
cheap, trade must remain as it was.
A gentleman who dealt only in "future ,
deliveries,” said that prices for February
and March were rating quite high, as
purchasers felt sure the depression in the
trade would be ended by those months, j
and that monetary affaire would then
have resumed their normal condition.
The general drift of talk among manu- 1
faetprers wae that there would be a gen- 1
eral reduction in time of work if not an
almost suspension for a time.
In 1871, two persons were killed in
England by the sting of a wasp, and two
more by the bite of a rat, while the death
of one infant ia attributed to circumcis
ion.
Are Med fo all
AND FAMOUS FOB BE1S0
BEST TO TJSSI
CHEAPEST TO BU7I«
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sold srr
E1CKLSI0I MANUFACTURING
ST. LOUIS,
TRUMAN & GREEN,
MACON. «A-
oetl4Hnas.thAw«m
ia. Foran»edycuraorth<»e orci% r port?
of a private nature. raJl. or aeml
circular of advice to both
Western Medical InaUtotem 8ycan>£c ^
lia and restore manhood.