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MACON. NOVEMBER. 18. 1878
A soup kitchen for tho needy has been
Established in Memphis.
Railroad trains in Wisconsin are al
ready beginning to be blockaded by snow
drifts.
Gen. Thomas L. Rosser, the chief en
gineer of the Northern Pacific railroad,
haa resigned his situation.
Tint planters of Ijonisiana have been
reducing the pay of their hands from $18
and $20 per month to $15.
John Hay, the author of "Little
Breeches,” "Jim Bledsoe,” etc., is trying
to marry a four-million-dollar father-in-
law. This on the authority of the Detroit
Press.
Thk Clay County, Iowa, Register says
that “yesterday tho cold wind went whis
tling up the trousers of many a loafer,
asking him what he had been doing all
Cum mcr.” _
The sea serpent has turned up again,
thi» time in San Diego Bay, CaL He was
fully thirty feet in length, shaped like a
snake, with three sets of fins, a tail like
an eel, and a head like an alligator.
The man who drove the first spike in
the Union Pacific railroad has "suicided.”
There must be some awful catastrophe in
store for the man who drove the first
spike in the North Pacific. - Brooklyn.
Argue.
Salmon fishing in Oregon can scarcely
be an exciting sport if we may credit the
rej>ort that “the catch for the season of
1873 on tho Columbia river was 120,000
eases, each case weighing forty-eight
pounds, and 4,800 barrels of salt salmon.”
Dr. Thayer, who recently resigned his
more than thirty years’ pastorate of the
Congregational Church at Newport, R.
I., on account of ill health, has been pre
sented with $16,000 by several of his
parishioners, with the addition of an
annuity of $1,000 for life.
The Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial writes that old
Mr. Dent is on his deathbed, and trades
men and caterers anticipate a very dull
season, as bis demise will have the effect
of closing up th« social festivities at tho
White House this winter.
The tendency toward the "free seat”*
system is apparently more marked in the
Episcopal Church than in any other.
The acts incorporating the proposed
Episcopal Cathedrals of Albany and New
York provide that their seats shall always
bo free. '
Now that the elections are over
Treasurer Spinner makes the following
report for the edification of tax-pay jrs:
Diminution in receipts from customs,
$28,280,764; diminution in receipts from
internal revenue, $16,912,863, " while
the expenditures are largely in excess of
those of the previous year.”
The New Orleans Times learns that
the discounted paper held by the brinks
of that city, due to date, has never before
been more promptly met, in whole or
port. Referring to the present crisis
the same paper gives the following good
advice to parents: Husband your re
sources, and, if possible, your daughters
also.
The New York Times of the 6th inst.,
says: " The reduction of work in the
cotton and woolen mills of the United
States, and the consequent diminution of
production here has already given an
impetus to these interests in England,
where tho influence is already discern
ible in larger transactions in both these
staples, for account ofiBritish spinners.”
Matrimonial Suspensions.—Maine
seems ambitious of emulating the fame
pf Indiana as a State for facile divorces.
Marriage firms are suspending and going
into a dissolution with a panic celerity.
In Cumberland county eighty divorce
eases are pending, and in York county
twenty-two separations have just been
granted. »• •
Count de Villain, of Belgium, mar
ried Miss.Gordon, of Cleveland, Ohio, in
the cathedral of that city on the 5th
inst. Tho ceremony was performed by
Archbishop McCloskey, of Louisville.
The altar was decorated with flowers at
a cost of $6,000, and the bride receives a
dowery Of half a. million. Villainous
work. *
A ludicrous incident occurred at Hay-
market Theatre, Londou, recently. Miss
Edith Gray appeared as Juliet. She was
about to pledge Romeo' in poison, and
^exclaiming, “I drink to thee!” when
bottle burst with a loud ex-
^oxOn in the gallery. Juliet had enough
presence of mind not tAhved the formid
able interruption; but the public went
into convulsions.
- A suit is about to be brought fn Indi
ana to test the question whether the
statute forbidding persons with * visible
mixture of negro blood to marjy whites
is or is notin conflict with tho csil rights
law and recent constitution* amend-
mentd. The suit is in behalf Jpf Edward
Brown, of Indianapolis, <®nvicted last
spring of marrying a white woman, and
sentenced to five years in the peniten
tiary. The result will be looked for with
interest, as there are several other States
in which' a sinrilai law exists, and some
in which it is enforced.
Ip the Small Boy of the period is re
markable for one thing more than another,
it is his touching consideration for the
prejudices of other people. This, and a
boundless and picturesque ingenuity in
devising miscellaneous deviltry ,of the
most unique description, are bis leading
traits. A late illustration in Boston brings
these facts out very prominently. An
office boy in that city while mourning his
employer’s absence in a distant town was
devoured by ennui and at last determined
to grieve no more. Prom the gas-burner
in front of the office-door he hunga dread
ful effigy, with a black cap over its face,
its throat gashed and crimsoned, a sword
in one hand and in tho other & small jug
marked “Prison” in large letters- Then
he advertised for feminine cooks and
housemaids to apply at the office, upon
the door of which they read this inscrip
tion : “Walk in ; back in five minutes.”
Then hidden near, this Small Boy laughed
with the careless, sunny glee of childhood
as a crowd of excellent industrious wo
men screeched and fainted.
Last Week’s Cotton Figures
Tho total cotton receipts for the seven
day3 ending last Friday, as shown by the
New York Chronicle, were 128,114 hales
against 108,039 bales last neek, 100.452
bales lhe previous week and 78,756 bales
three weeks since, making the total re
ceipts since the first of September, 1873,
598,692 hales against 780,812 bales for
the same period of 1872, showing a de
crease since September 1, 1873, of 182,-
120 bales. The interior ports received
33,312 hales against 40,837 last year.
They shipped 30,680 hales against 24,-
962, and the stocks foot up 58,199 hales
against 59,272 last year.
The visible supply is 1,814,402 hales
against 2,014,051 last year, and 1,869,448
in 1871, showing & decrease of 199,649
and 55,046 bales respectively.
The Chronicle’s weather reports for the
week show a good deal of rain—one day
at Nashville, five at Vicksburg. At Gal
veston the fall of rain was nearly seven
inches. At Mobile it rained more than
balf the time. It is said all th ) crop in
that vicinity has been gathered. The
rainfall was three days in Montgomery,
two in Selma, three in Macon and four in
Columbus. Mercury average 57 at Mem
phis, 60 at Vicksburg, 61 at Mobile, 59 at
Montgomery, 62 at Selma and Columbus,
68 at Savannah and 60 at Macon.
Of the New York cotton market for the
week the Chronicle says:
Tho unfavorable conditions which have
of late surrounded cotton have found no
relief, but have rather been intensified
during the past week. On the one hand,
with gold lower, with foreign exchange
lower and almost unsalable, and with the
Liverpool prices for cotton tending down
wards, shippers have found but little en
couragement, and have shown little dis
position to operate; while on the other
hand the further suspension of work by
spinners restricting to a, very considera
ble extent the demand for consumption,
at a time when the difficulty of obtaining
advances on cotton or obtaining funds
with which to carry it, has made its sale
imperative, could not but result in a gen
eral demoralization of the market, mark
ed by a daily decline in prices. Hence
we find that during the past week there
has been great depression, which the
large receipts have tended to increase.
The price of low middling uplands, which
were quoted last Friday at 14Jc., closed
to-c|ay at 13Jc., being a decline of lie.
To-day, with the advance in gold; there
was a more active-demand both forex-
port and consumption and the close was
with a steadier tone.
Long Time Coming.
We have been listening for it several
days and wondering why it didn’t come
along as usual. We couldn’t account for
the delay. But it has come at last, and
here it is:
Washington, November 7.—Represen
tative James H. Platt, of Virginia, i3
here, and has much to say on the subject
of the late election in that State. He
charges that there was never such a dis
graceful system of terrorism and frauds
as on the day of election in many portions
Of the State, on the part of the Demo
crats. He says he personally witnessed
scenes of violence that would have sham
ed the worst of Tammany. He says ne
groes were beaten, ballots destroyed, life
threatened, and that men were driven
away from the polls who would have
voted the Republican ticket. He says'
that in Richmond workmen in the tobacco
factories were threatened with discharge
if they did not vote for Kemper; and,
finally, that the result was due to fraud.
He says many arrests will be made, and
trials had under the laws of Congress.—
Telegram to the Tribune.
The Democratic majority in Virginia
was in the neighborhood of 25,000, with
two-thirds on joint ballot in the Leg
islature, which result secures an hon
est man as successor of the scallawag
Lewis in the Federal Senate. Read in
the light of these events, carpetbagger
Platt, who said in the Radical convention
that he was proud of his share in the
back-pay steal, has drawn it rather mild
ly. He might have put in a few actually
dead negroes—or at least a half dozen or
so of them 'thrown into a millpond with
.rocks around their necks.
Garrett’s Triumpli.
1 As is well known, the Baltimore and
Ohio railway, managed by John W. Gar
rett, and the Pennsylvania railway, man
aged by Tom Scott, are bitter rivals,
and for years have been fighting each
other with unabated vigor. Sometimes
the victory was with Garrett and then
with Scott—first one and then the other
being on top. It is Garretts time to
crow now. Scott’s road has just been
forced to repeat the dodge of a senp in
stead of a money dividend on the last
six months’ business, but the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad has paid its semi
annual dividend in cash. The latter
company acknowledged a large falling off
in freights, but it is probably the only
railway corporation in the. country which
is going on with'its extensions; and full
gangs of laborers axe laying tracks up
the Valley of Virginia to Salem, and
putting down a triple track on the main
stem.
The Centennial in Macon.
We acknowledge the receipt of a num
ber of newspapers, and excerpts from,
newspapers sent by Mr. Horace J. Smith,
of the Philadelphia Press, who was a
member of the late ' Centennial Visiting
Committee. One of these we printed
yesterday, and all of them breathe a
friendly and cordial spirit which our peo
ple will be glad to reciprocate. Some of
the allusions. are so personal that modesty
forbids their publication. We believe the
representatives of the Quaker City, and
the grand occasion which is intended to
be a union of all the constituent elements
of this great nation, made a most agree
able impression upon every Georgian-
they encountered. Their mission, true
to the ancient legends of their old Com-,
monwealth, was peace. And amen we say.
Peace let it be, and forever.
Tlie Unties of an Organ.
The duties of a regular party organ
grinder must be often laborious and un
welcome to men of sincerity ami candor.
For illustration: The New York Times,
before the election, apparently could
not conceal its contempt for the
Democratic predictions of heavy gains
and propitious results; hut, after
the' election, the Times begins its leader
thereupon with this sentence: "Our read
ers will not be surprised at the turn which
political affairs have taken.” Will some
body Bend the Times a new supply of
candor and sincerity f He is evidently
out of those commodities. Or perhaps
he never uses, and therefore has no need
of them. How is it ?
Mississippi Election.—Ames’ majori
ty in Mississippi is said to be 26,567—
Alcorn haidly ran at all—which shows
that the plan of concentrating the Dem
ocratic vote on him fell through. Mis
sissippi has gone np.
Tlie Wedding Last Night
In another part of this issue will be
found duly chronicled, the nuptials of Mr.
R. W. Jemison, Jr„ and Miss Kate Boi-
feuillet. Both aro well known,and equally
esteemed and respected in this com
munity.
It is of the bride, however, we wish par
ticularly to speak. Bright, intelligent,
and lovely, she is indeed one of the choic
est jewels in the happy, yet afflicted
household of which she was a member
It may not be known to the public gen
erally, that in that family, another sister,
in the early blush of womanhood, her
cheeks plump and rosy, her voice sweet
and cheery, hor eye* soft and beautiful,
lies a helpless invalid bed ridden for
years. Yet some might gladly exchange
the pomp of wealth, and the thrilling ex
citement of robust health, for the couch
of t-big languishing sufferer. In her pres
ence not a trace of gloom Or sadness Can
be detected. Beauteous flowers exhale
their fragrance around, the glad sunshine
beams unobstructed into her chamber,
tender and lqring hands minister to her
every wish. But it is not these that im
part that air of sanctity and happiness
which pervades the scene. It is the in
effable peace and joy which have their
source in a Saviour’s love, that are a per
petual well spring of comfort and delight;
to this stricken girL And eTen the holy
minister of God may be edified, and learn
a lesson of faith and patience from her
example.
But now, in the midst of festal scenes
and joyons mirth, a shadow creeps athwart
the existence of the afflicted saint. This
dear sister and blooming bride, who, with
the fond mother, revered father and other
loved ones at home had ministered so
largely to her happiness, has cast in her
lot with another, and must leave the
paternal roof forever. Happy in the
honored husband of her choice, still her
departure brings sadness to every mem
ber of tho dear circle of which she formed
a cherished link. It is the helpless one
in the upper chamber, however, who will
feel her absence most keenly. Fpr she
may not follow that gentle sister with
admiring eyes from place to place, and
rejoice in h?r new born happiness., The
realities of absence and separation only,
will be hers.
And thus it ever is, even in the most
auspicious events and occurrences of life.
There is no perfect earthly joy to he
found. Funeral notes of sadness and
separation migle alas with the gleesome
chimes of marriage bells, and tears and
smiles struggle with each other on the
beaming countenance of the radiant
bride. Bat where heart and hand are
worthily bestowed, as in the present;in
stance, the tears like April showers soon
pass away, and glorious sunshine and se
rene happiness obliterate their remember-
aihee. 1 •-•’ • • ' - --» 1 '
To the happy couple wo extend our
heartiest congratulations, and wish them
the full fruition, of their most ardent
hopes. And what shall be said for the
comfort bf the invalid sister? Happily,
she has sources of strength and consola
tion the world wots not of. Moreover,
she is unselfish enough even to rejoice
in the assured welfare of the companion
of her childhood. So let us banish grief,
and rejoice that two loyal, loving hearts
have been made one.
The parent hive will swarm out from
time to time, and old folks must remem
ber that they too were once young, and
loved, and were wedded likewise.
, Mr. Hunter Explains.
The Richmond Whig of a late date
contains a letter from Hon. R. M. T.
Hunter explanatory of his speech before
the Shenandoah Agricultural Society at
Winchester. Mr. Hunter, in response to
inquiry, says that he did not make any
proposition to pay for the emancipated
slaves, either in substance or form, but
", suggested a deposit of $400,090,000 to
the slaveholding States, without interest,
to be loaned to the despoiled slavehold
ers in the same manner, after' the model
and strictly upon the precedent of the
act of June 23,1836, depositing the sur
plus revenue of the United States with
the different States upon the terms and
in the maimer therein specified.” .
Hr. Hunter incloses to the Whig a let
ter from a Northern gentleman, who
thirties " that a loan to. the South of' four
or five hundred millions would have many
friends.’ The United States to loan the
amount to the South at four per cent.,
the States to distribute ’ to the counties
and the counties to lend to the planters
at six per cent., on "unincumbered im
proved real estate in actual cultivation
and twice the value of the loan;” the two
per cent, excess to he paid to the Secre
tary of the Treasury annually, and to
constitute a sinking fund to entin&nish
the principal.
' A Government Detective Indicted
for Passing Counterfeit Money.—The
Knoxville Press and Herald pf Sunday
morning, says: v ~
A "right smart’’ little sensation was
created yesterday, by the report that one
of the noted "trappers”' had been trapped,
and was id durance vile. Upon inquiry,
we learned that 'detective Dybt, of the
"secret service," whose exploits have been
heralded abroad, and upon whose testi
mony alone, a large number of citizens
of East Tennessee have been arrested for
counterfeiting, had been indicted in four
different cases, for “tboving the queer,.’
by the Grand Jury of Union county, dur
ing the past week, and that he had been
arrrested on as many capiases,' by Sheriff
Gossett. We understand that be gave
bond for his appearance at the next term
of Union Circuit Court.
Who. shall say this is not right ? The
government detectivqsln East Tennessee,
in order to worm themselves into the con
fidence of the suspected dealers in coun
terfeit greenbacks, actually went into the
business themselves, and sold counterfeit
money to them, for the purpose of induc
ing them to pass it'to others, so as to
found an indictment against them. Who
made the detectives superior to law ?
What should shield any man who in
veigles another into the commission of
crime— counselling, aiding and abetting it,
from the fate of a particeps criminis ?
The director of the mint at Philadel
phia, telegraphs Secretary Richardson
that private persons in Chicago have
sent to the mint 30,000 ounces of silver
to be coined, which they propose to use
for business purposes. A large number
of five-franc pieces have also been re
ceived at the mint to be coined into
American money.
As a sop to Creswell, who failed so ig-
nominiously ill carrying Maryland for the
Radicals, and thereby having himself
elected Senator, his aunt’s husband, old
Jacob Tome, of that State, has made him
a present pf $50,000.
The Savannah News says tiiere La
been no "shrinkage” in the prices of pro-
visions in that market.- They all keep
np with remarkable steadiness. The
same may ho said of this burg. ,. * .
At the monthly court-house sales in
Elbert county last week, 1,200 acres of
land brought $22,000. ' '
. The Talbotton Standard describes the
scene after the town council has collected
a $5 fine, as follows:
“The city treasurer was seen with a
fine segar in his mouth immediately after
the court -adjourned, while the marshal
nudged a fellow-chum under tho short
ribs and gave him a sly .wink. Ami else
where you can see a call for ‘those town
tax/ TliO feto? preserve our municipal
fathers.’* . .; r-j •
p. w. Printup, who woa lately die*
charged from the position of road-ifiBatffif
pf the Georgia Railroad, for malfeasance
in office, has written a pamphlet attempt
ing to explain the matter. He says he
was not allowed a chance to clear him
self, and that one of the witnesses against
him has since made affidavit that he (wit
ness) was coerced while drunk to make
statements that were not true, and of
which he had no recollection.
The Catoosa Courier says Captain W.
J. Whitsitt’s dwelling-house in Ringgold,
was entered by burglars last Saturday
night, and some valuable property taken,
among other things, a gold watch belong
ing 1 to Mr. Charley Whitsitt, and a
watch belonging to the Rev. Mr. Leet,
who was a guest at the time. The ras
cals also got about fifty dollars in cur
rency. The same night) Mr. Frank Ab-
son’s grocery was broken into and a
quantity of liquor stolen, i
Alex Jenkins, freedman, lives in
Spalding county and was in Griffin on
Saturday settling up his guano hills. In
two years, as he informed-the editor of
the News, he had made, with the assist
ance of his 'Wife and a ten year old hoy,
enough money upon which to live com
fortably, and $890 to pay for land he had
bought. He takes very little stock in
politics, and none at all in whisky.
St. John (German Lutheran) Church,
Atlanta, a handsome building, was dedi
cated last Sunday. The services were
fill in German.
The Atlanta Constitution says a De-
Kalb county mule with lofty aspirations
recently strayed off, and was found at
the end of two days on top of Stone Moun
tain-
Wm. A. Jube, a native of New York,
bpt employed in the European House, at
Savannah, was fpund dead in his bed lost
Saturday morning. Heart disease.
One of the Atlanta papers, of yester
day, prints this telegram from Social
Circle: i i -i i .
Social Circle, Ga , November 10.
After three o’clock this morning a fire
was discovered in the new brick building
occupied by W. H. Stanton and V. H.
Crawley, merchants. The fire originated
in the store of Mr. Stanton, entirely con
suming the goods in both stores. Stan
ton was insured to the amount of $7,000.
Mr. Crawley was insured to the amount
of $5,000, Ins loss above insurance being
about $3,000. The safes of the store were
removed after the fire was over, with the
oontente undamaged. Messrs. Marcus &
Brown were also burned out. Garrett &•
Bro. moved all their goods from the store
to prevent them from being burne 1, with
considerable loss from stealage and break
age. Neither of the bar-rooms were in
jured at all. The brick building occupied
by Stanton & Crawley was not insured.
The owner of it is not known to the
writer. Only the front part of Garrett &
Bro.’s building was burned. About half
of the town was consumed.
Advice to Farmers.—The Griffin Star
under this head “ norates” after tho fol
lowing fashion:
i Farmers, as a class, get more advice
than any other breed of cattle, and that’s
why we advise them now. We could,
with equal facility, advise merchants,
printers, butchers, preachers, faro-dealers
ind coal-heavers, but we prefer to advise
farmers. This is a good time to lay in
your winter supply of rain. Rain falling
during the full moon in November will
wear better than any other kind of water
and will wash without fading. During
month you should also make; your ar
rangements to sell your plantations and
move to town. Every avenue of trade is
-open, and immense fortunes are being
•made eveiy. two or .three weeks. In re
ply to numerous letters from farmers as
to the best business to follow in town,
we will suggest a few enterprises
that always prove to be a suc
cess. The butcher lusiness- is ex-
excellent. For a ten-dollar cow properly
managed will pan out at least $50, be
sides the hide, tallow and horns. The
-horns are excellent to make fine-tooth
combs, and the tail will mako a splendid
waterfall. Next to the butcher business,
we recommend life insurance as the
safest and most lucrative, and; it requires
no night work and very little capital. A
shifty, man might .do well with a ten-
cent grocery, provided he had a good
well of ; water in the hack-yard. . Labor
ing as agent for a newspaper on commis
sion is also a good business, and if well
followed will insure wealth and freq
lunches at . all the bars in town.
There are many other branches of
business which offer flattering induce
ments to farmers,. to throw up the
plantation and come to town,' aiid it is a
strange thing to ns that the Granger^
don’t pass, a resolution to quit farming
and move to the city. Here fortunes are
made. Here life is' easy. Here every
comfort and every luxury iB enjoyed,
which the poor farmers cannot reach.
We cannot enlarge upon this subject, hut
we trust that by next Christmas all the
farmers will move to town.' In thp next
paper, if we succeed im bilking the paper
mill out of just enough paper to publish,
we will endeavor to give town folks cer
tain advice about moving to the country.
Plant cotton next year.
. A letter for Mrs. Hatty Ingrice,.Ma-
oon, is held for postage in the Savannah
office. . • / . . ) •
The Columbus Sun says in the settle
ment on Monday of the North and South
Railroal Company the Northern creditors
of the road took $92,000 of Georgia en-.
dorsed bonds at 90 cental J
Mr. P. L. Fair, i late clerk of Baldwin'
Superior Court, resigned last week and is
succeeded by Mr. Walter H. Paine,-who
holds office until an election in December
to fill tho Unexpired term.
. Mbs. Annie Harrell, daughter of Mr.'
Benjamin Cook, of Baldwin county, died
last Friday. On Sunday, the 2d instant,
the wife of Mr. Cook died, o . 1 '
The Milledgeville' Union and Recorder
announces the appointment by the Synqd
of the Presbyterian Cliurcli, lately in ses
sion at Newnan, of a committee as a
Board of Trustees to secure the endow
ment of and to organize the “Talmage
school’ ’ at Midway in such manner and at
such time as they may deem best; The
sons of ministers and candidates for the
ministry are to enjoy the benefit of the
school free of charge for tuition. The
Trustees are invested with full powers to
cany out the desire of the Synod in secur
ing the organization of such school, and
consist of the following gentlemen:
Col. Wm. McKinley, Dr. W. H. Hall,
R. H. Ramsey, Esq., Rev. George T.
Goetchioa, CoL W. T. Young, Rev. Rob
ert Irwine, D.D., Rev. I. 8. R. Axson,
D.D., Hon. Clifford Anderson, Rev. F.
Jacobs, D.D., Rev. J. H. Nall.
Messrs. JosJah Sibley,, C:>. Rowland . JIQRRIP ATKQGITIES IN CUBA.
• and John Craig, of ( Augusta, were ap- ' Forty-nine More of tiie Virginius
pointed a committee toreceive and iAvest ."captives Butchered,
any fun-l for the endowment of.the school rp; u; Spanish oppressors of Cuba lap
that.may be received. blood like a butcher’s dog. They love it.
The Vindicators reports thelnrgest at- \yhenever* there’s a chance to get any
tendance of people at the last monthly wan fc early service and a front seat,
sales in Meriwetiir coon tv since the war. <p|j e y ar e in a hurry. They can’t wait.
The lands bf the'-Dr. Park estate, two least delay might' endanger the en
trants, brought ten a. half dollars per tertainment.
acre respectively, and, footed np $18,000. at the horrid case of the Yir-
‘Ihe Jas. A. Render estate lands brought gjjjj us captives! The Virginiua was
ten dollars and* half per acre overhauled within three miles of the
We find these items in the la?t • Mon- coa3 t 0 f -Jamaica on the night of the 31st
roe Advertiser: of October. . On the morning of • the 4th
Rather Startling.—Mr. Cyrus Sharp, c f November, the bloodhounds hod made
about® sSte e e5° r fac?S’ ii^Tave the voyage to the nearest point of the
been foreclosed up to tins time, aggre- • " Ever-faithfrJ Isle —landed at Santi-
gating about $30,000. There is a moral a g D j e Cuba organized a military eprq-
«vP* that should be studied by our . tried and shot four of their cap.
farineM. . . ' ‘ •• j Oa (hp 7th they had tried and
At A PlEEstiuM.--Wo understand ‘that tivea. , , _ .
the stock of the Monroe County Building shot thirty-seven more, and next day, on
and Loah Association sold last week at a the 8th, they had tried and shot twelve
premium of twenty per cent., and that it morg , ^ re there any hloodhgvffids in the
is now worth'twenty-two per cent. When . , . ,
it is considered that tho association has ^averse whp can b.eat this ?
only been in operation twenty-four • The fact is, they feared tho mterfer-
months, this showing reflects much credit enee 0 f the home government, anddreaded
upon tho financial management by the that th mi g bt m fc s tbe feast of blood,
president and board of directors. if they failed to take it on the wing. In-
The san i-.paper pays e o ° win <? deed, we printed telegrams from Wash-
ute to the memory of the late Col. W. C. ^ 10thj ann p uncillg that the
Redding, o. t a coun y. Spanish Government, at the instance of
Col. Redding was in his 79th year when 1 . ,, ... , , ..
■he died. Over sixty years of this good tlie Washington authorities, hadpromptiy
man’s life was spent in this county. Our intervened and secured the present safety
citizens had honored him a number _ of 0 f the surviving captives by urgent tele-
times with their votes for Representative —.j^g to Cuba; and one would think
and Senator, which position he always f .. . . : .
filled with credit and distinction In all these telegrams ought to have inter-
the walks of life he .was honored and re- ceptod the murderers, even with all their
spected. as a Christian he was pure and haste. -
incorruptible; as a ^friend, faitnful and j pj u t if so, they were disregarded, and
w***-***-'** ■*»**»
charge of his duties, and as a father, in- | speed - finishing up the last of fifty-three
dulgent and blam* less. The long line of victims on the morning of the 8th.
his relations have the great consolation of I Spanish history is pretty much a carhi-
knowing that his escutcheon was Tvit'i- | ■ •. ,. . . . „ . f .
out blemish, and his character exempt j yal blwd attest, but this sanguinary
from those blurs and staim which creep performance wili shock. modern civiliza-
upon almost all of Us through the mhe- ^ tion—raise a cry of horror throughout tho
tent corruptions of human nature. In
sorrow, ye tender our sympathies to all
who mourn this goiod man’s fall.
From the report of the Superintendent
of Education of Chatham county, pub
lished in the Savannah papers of Tues
day, it appears, that there are fifty-three j
teachers and two thousand seven hundred
and forty scholars in the phhlic schools
of that city and county and that the cost
per scholar on the number enrolled, is
$17 60. During the past term the re
ceipts were $63,067 37 and the expendi
tures $62,049 94, leaving a balance in the
treasury of $1,017 43.
Thebe are fifty-eight prisoners in Ful
ton county jail of whom four—all white
men—are under sentence of death for
murder. Divided as to color there are
forty-one white men and seventeen ne-.
groqs, which is not a very complimentary
proportion for the Caucasians.
Bob Johnson, a negro employed at the
City Hall, Atlanta, as we learn from one
of the Atlanta papers of yesterday, is in
great trouble. He had three keys made—
one to fit the City Marshal’s desk, one
the Solicitor’s, and one the Sheriff’s, and
on.Monday went fqr the contents of the
Marshal’s desk to the time of $325. He
was suspected, and under a little pressure
showed where he had buried it under a
shade tree in the City Hall square. His
world, and demonstrate that further dom
ination over the Cubans by such blood
thirsty tyrants as these, is a thing which
cannot be permitted.
t The telegrams inform ns that the Sec
retary of War ordered out his iron, clads
bn the instant, and that they will be
ready to proceed to Cuba this week—at
least this is the inevitable inference.
One cannot easily see what the iron clads
aretodointheeventtheygetthere. Spain
-will, no doubt, disavow the act and per
haps propose to punish its authors. Cas-
'tellar and his Republican administration
ore exceedingly anxious to maintain a
'good understanding with the United
'States; and although they have already
'admitted, in correspondence upon the
'massacre of the first four of the Virginius
captives, that the course of administra
tive events in C,uba is not as fully under
control of the home government as it
ought to he, yet, it is doubtful whether
the United States can proceed to ulterior
measures of redress against Cuba so long
as they admit Spain to be the responsi
ble government, and Spain offers sympa
thy and satisfaction..
It is aouktful, therefore, whether the
sudden, muster of these old iron pots in
hot haste, is really intended for. anything
more than'a spirited display of just indig-
tag.
-' A correspondent of the Union and
Recorder, who writes over the signature
of "Cherokee,” declares that if the
question of a removal of the State cap
ital should ever come before the people
on its own merits. North Georgia would
vote for Milledgeville. This, he says,
may appear strange, bnt it is neverthe;
less true. He calls for a convention to
bring the question squarely before the
people. . " J, 1 , .
Curses Coming Hoke. Under ,this
head the Augusta Constitutionalist, • of
Tuesday, has this to eay s
A good many of tho God-and-morRlity
papers, so-called, are weeping -and wail
ing over the failure of A. & W. Sprague,
principally on account of “poor William,”
tlie politician and soldier boy of the fam
ily. We have no tears to shed. Wm.
Sprague, like many other renegades, is
simply reaping what he has sowed. At
the outset, of the war he was the Demo
cratic Governor of Rhode Island. He
Tiad been, to a great degree, enriched by
Southern trade; But caught by the 'war-
cry and bewildered by the vanity of a'
Colonel’s fine feathers, he sold out;
to the'' Abolitionists and was the
first man to raise, a regiment • and
march at the head of it. He soon got his
'fill of fighting, and, on.the strength of his
prowess at the first Manassas, and the
delirious newspaper puffery over the phe
nomena of a rich man and a live Governor
going into battle and not running away,
he became the darling of Rhode Island
and the first-best politician. Since the
, war, he has been half' trying to undo
what he had done j but it was a poor effort
at dramatization. He pretended to be
'the' friend of humanity and the champion
' of the poor, while all the time he wal
lowed “ wealth, and the court journals
■were never weary Of 'recounting 'his
splendid entertainments arid his wife’s
gorgeous paraphernalia. As long as his
father-in-law. Chief Justice Chase lived,
the little Senator from Rhode Island con
tinued to deliver''the thunder of Jovf
from his own penny trumpet. Bnt the
prospects for an engagement with the J J ..
pick W and shovel troupe of Grant. Alex- f nation, while, at the same bme. it may
ander & Co., aro considered very flatter* serve a useful purpose in diverting the
popular, mind. from home troubles and
sore spots in our own body politic.
The redress will come from the volun
teers. The excitement produced by the
atrocious act will give a headlong impe
tus to filibuster expeditions now in pro
gress, and Robeson’s iron pots, if they
get.to Cuba, will, whether they. mean it
or not, effect such a diversion of the Span
ish inarine as will facilitate the landing
of the filibusters, who will soon make
things hot for the Spanish .butchers.
The Lumber Trade of Georgia.
From statistics obtained by a gentle
man of this city, it is found that there
have been shipped from',Georgia during
thfe past year, ending the 31st of August
last, two hundred million feet of yellow
pine lumber and timber, valued at .al<oiit
five million dollars, being an increase of
shipments since the year 1867 of about
one hundred and forty millions of feet.
Query: How long will the supply of
pine timber last in Georgia, if the ship
ments to the markets of “the world con
tinue in the same ratio ? It is 'certainly
highly important for the interest of Geor
gia that this valuable -wood should be
protected. When once destroyed, it earn
never be replaced again. 1, f
Shipments from' GeWgfayfor the year
ending'3lst August, 1873,'of yellow pine
timber and lumber: , Feet.
From Savannah....,;. .........52,580,429
From Brunswick*......,....35^64,357
From St. Mary’s and.Colerain..ll,102,162
•From Darien.;.........,....... 75,000,000
From porta!or Georgia per 1 li- ;
‘Censed vessels (estimate)'... .‘..’11,000,000
From'railroads to Western and ' - ■
N. W. States (estimate)...:...10,000,000
From Chattahoochee and Flint
5,000,000
rivers to Apalachicola
J . 200,046,948
Our correspondent who sends the fore-
fcountity8<ioii found out the fsice, nnd | gomg <istimate6 that, at the present rate
when Mr. Chase passed away all'of the j of progress, it will take frotu fifteen to
Sprague thunder passed with him. One twenty years to denude Georgia of all the
ofthefiret men who fought to ruui u6 f . v * ’ W- v‘ l? „ , #
has beeii ruined himself by the “results 1 timber within her limits. Much of
of the war.” The ruin'of the South has , the most valuable timber shipped from
only ( ahtcdated the ruin of the North, 'the State to the North and foreign coun-
The men who ruined us will be the'I-- tries is said to consist of selected trees,
selves ruined. It is righteous retribu- ^ from wa-
—* j ter courses, find rai)w^js and without the
Knoxville Retail Prices. The consent or knowledge of the proprietors
Knoxville Press and Herald of Sunday c f the lands. The laws for the protec-
says their city market house on Satur- tlon 0l timber in this State are inade-
day morning was well filled and buyers ’ quatu or fc^y enforced. Land-holders,
unusually numerous. The fallowing were ' therefore, who are holding timber lands
the prices asked,'at retail: 1 Prnnfe butter- jn the expectation of reaping some profit
25a30 cents per pound; -eggs 16| cents on their .investments from the rise in the
per dozen; chickens 15a20 cents each; va .i ue * 0 { such timber, will probably find
turkeys 65a80 cents each; beef, quarters 12i tt p, i e ft of it when lumber prices sug-
&ao j- cents ; cuts 10 cents per pound; gest bringing these lands into market,
sausage 10 cents per pound; potatoes,' The time wheni ‘the -whole civilized
Irish,; and sweet, 60 centa per bushel; ' world ^ foa itself in straits for lumber
turnips S5a40 cents.per bushel;!com, in would 8eem be not far distant; but it
the ear, '50 cents per. bushel;. apples njay be presumed, perhaps, that some
$l,50a$2 per bushel," by the barrel, $3 50 substitute for timber ind lumber in build-
a$4; cranberries “ 16} cents pier quart, mg will then be found, just as in the
case of other articles, once considered of
prime necessity, but which, growing
scarce in the market, have been practi-
t cally supplanted by substitutes.
Paying tor the Slaves.—The Hon. R.
M. T. Hunter has lately been exercising
his gifts on .the matter of reclamation
from the government for the freed slaves {'
and however just such a claim' might be,
certainly no course more fatal to it could
be conceived than bringing the matter
up at.this time. The Washington Repub
lican raves over Senator Hunter’s letter
Flour brings $4 25 for good gTade, per;
hundred pounds, and meal 55 cents per
bushel. i. _ •'=■•- . o i .i
Mb. Crssswkll’s scheme for postoffice 1
banks does not please the Cleveland
Leader, a Republican organ, in Ohio.
That journal shares the popular, opinion
that the Post-office Department has more
on its hands now tban'it shows a capacity
to manage well, and in a very disloypl
spirit says:
There are a hundred ways in which
Mr. Cresswell could expend his surplus
time to better advantage than in devis- as a revival of “treasonand we may
ing new schemes to increase his already well suppose that a little ingenuity and
too burdensome duties, and we fear he bhlgter ^ make the proposition a use-
will be reminded this winter, when ho . , ,. „
a^ks to run the telegraphs and savings ful scarecrow for the Radicals. They ore
banks, that he had better look after the much in need of something to holler about
mails first. • - .ust now.
Anniversary of tbe Great Flre-1 l!f
The Chicago Tribune has a Boston dis
patch upon the approaching anniversary,
last Monday, of the great fire in that city,
and the progress made in a year in re
building tbe capital of New England.
SonnTof the statements are both interest
ing and surprising. We make the fol
lowing extract:
Boston, Mass., November 7.—The cer
emonies here on the anniversary of the
great fire will not be remarkable in inter
est; the City Government being disposed
to make no demonstration that will seem
extravagant in view of the unsettled con
dition of business interests. The papers
will publish a full resume of tbe progress
of rebuilding, and of. the improvements
which have been effected, with an account
of the eon<lHi<?n of the various interests
affected, by tbe calamity. The following
are some'of the notable facts that will be
brought out in this way. The city’s
wealth has been increasing at - a rate
never before known until to-day.
In one year from the fire, not only has
the enormously large loss of $75,000,000
V •■' Villf. -fitA jvalnafvAvt •bnmo
Hl&kANj Up, ..... . . ...vAIVLIVJAA O.AV/..0
an increase over that of last year of some
thing like, $11,000,000, and' on the 1st of
January next, the New England metro
polis will, with its new acquisition, show
a population of over 300,000, and a valua
tion hard upon $800,000,000, while New
Yprk, with three times the population,
is in valuation only $300,000,000 ahead;
and though, during the year, the city
has been subjected to extraordinary ex
penses in carrying out the street improve
ments in the burnt district, other im
provements decided upon before the fire
have not been delayed, but, on tbe con
trary, have beeen prosecuted vigorously.
We have, moreover, taken care of the
needy, the sufferers by the fire, and a
surplus of $40,000 still remains from tbe
relief fund. The portion of the city de
stroyed has been rebuilt entirely with
home capital, not a dollar having been
borrowed from abroad. To use a homely
phrase, wb have "paddled our own
canoe,” and, in the words of the New
York Nation, “Boston stands forth to
day as the inosti prosperous city in the
Country.” (
About three-fourths of the new build
ings have fiat roofs, and the remaining
one-fourth are Mansard, tiiere being few
pitch roofs. The new Mansard roofs are
not the perilous ones of old, which hurry
along the work of destruction to so great
an extent. The Mansards which now cap
po many of the rebuilt structures are fully
as safe as the flat roofs, every precaution
being taken to make them secure against
fire. Many of them are entirely of iron,
while a style that is now popular is to
construct the upright part of the Man
sard of brick and to cover this with slate
or metal. None of tbe new buildings
erected thus far are absolutely fire-proof,
tbe great C03t of such structures preclud
ing such, construction for ordinary mer
cantile edifices; but several banking and
insurance buildings are contemplated
which will be thoroughly fire-proof,
though, owing to the extreme care that
has to be taken in planning such struc
tures, progress must necessarily be slow.
There were 776 buildings destroyed in
the great fire. When the entire ' district
is restored the number of buildings will'
fbe much smaller than the original, owing'
to the taking of the land for . street im
provement, and to the fact that many of
the new structures cover ground occu
pied by several buildings before. f
MARK TWAIN - .
.i " 'ii i
How he Edited a Newspaper, and How
he Came to Harry a Rich Father-In-
Law,
A letter in the Washington Star says:
"Buffalo has many reminiscences pf Mark
Twain, and of his remarkable attempt at
publishing a newspaper on an entirely
new plan. After hi$ • return from the
Holy Land (per Quaker City), Mark took
a wife, and purchased the third interest
in the Buffalo Express, owned by A. M.
Clapp, Public Printer. They say that
Mark’s style of newspaper work was
unique. He is not an early riser, and is
as slow of movement as. of speech, conse
quently he didn't gel to the office very
early in the morning.- And, when there*
his movements were not characterized by
nervous -haste. Seating himself "in a
capacious pivot-chair, his first move
was to deposit his .. boots in
the waste-basket, and- replace them
with roomy slippers. Then, elevating his
slippered feet to a comfortable cushion
on the exchange papers (their only legit-
mate use in his estimation), it was his
wont to layback in his chair; swinging
himself lazily on its pivot, and toll stories
of wit and wisdom by the hour to the as
sociate editors. Thii was vastly pleasant
to all concerned, but somehow it did no;
work in the way of making a newsy paper,
and the end of six-weeks Mark came
to the caBplusion that publishing a news
paper was. not his forte.' He, however, 1
retained his interest in the Express for
about a year and a half, though, as afore
said* he did not take .part in the ‘active’
management for -more than six weeks.
Mark married the daughter of . Jarvis'
Langdon, of Elmira, N. Y., the heaviest
coal “Operator in the West. His property
was valued high as $10,000,000 in his life,
and had he lived to'get all his irons out
of the fire, perhaps that amount' might
have been realized* but'leaving Every
thing by the ends; there has been a great
‘shrinkage’ (the word, I believe).', in the
value ofv assets. -Still there is enough!
left to divide a trifle of a few millions be
tween Mari’s wife and her brother,
Charles Langdon. It was through this
.brother, by the way, that Mark got his
'wife. ‘Charley’ was oneof the ‘Innocents
Abroad’ who accompanied Clemens on his
famous trip on the Quaker City, and
wrote home so enthusiastically about
Mark Twain that Mr. Langdon, Sr., Bent
him a cordial ■fhvitat'on to visit them at
Elmira. Tlie result was the meeting of
Mark and Hiss Langdon; a case of love
at first .Right, and the - twain becoming
one.”
How England Maintains ‘‘Peace and
Order” In Ireland.
The Hori. Joseph Medill, ex-editor of
the Chicago Tribune, who is traveling in
Europe, writes in his last letter that he
was very much astonished, at first, to see
the quiet and good order that exists in
Ireland; but that he toon saw the cause.
In every city, town, village and railroad
station he saw groups of armed police
men—all large, powerful men. This
force numbers 30,000 carefully picked and
drilled men, with headquarters in Dublin.
At. every ’ Bub-station throughout the
island there is a telegraph office. These
stations are stockades, or forts, supplied
with plenty of arms and ammunition.
The railroad system connects most of
them with toe capital, where a large re
serve body of the police are quartered and
kept for special service, to be sent by
express.train, in companies or squads, to
any part of the country, on telegraphic
summons. This force of 30,000men are for
ever on the watch for the first symptoms of
disturbance or insubordination among
the people, and ready to pounce on it.
All the seaport towns of any size or con
sequence have garrisons of “ red-coats,”
lodged in strongly-built and armed forts,
so located as to command the town and
harbor; and in the harbor itself will al
ways be found one or more war-vessels
quietly riding at anchor. But these are
not all the precautions for preserving
peace. The inhabitants have been uni
versally disarmed. No man is allowed
to have a rifle or other fire-arm in his
possession except by taking out a license,
and paying a large annual sum therefor.
The man and his gun are then registered
and watched. #
By these means Ireland is kept quiet.
Prentioe Mulfonl in San Francisco Bull , t ; -
Fassjng through the hop fieHs
in Kent, 1 saw hills white with ^
of the hop-pickers. These are com
largely of Irish and the poores® 1 '
London poor, who -come in-thom^T
gather this crop. All *££?*•*.
work—men, women aud children, n-
their country "season,” and when «
ished they trudge back to townTrT
not think we have anywhere in Am • '
a class corresponding to the Tarrant!*'* 3 '
of England._ They are numbered^«! r
hundred thousand, and are as “low 7
as it is possible for humanit
Digger Indiancould give the' m leH A
clean.mess. The gutter enino Ja ls '-
extant in San FranSsco a few^^h* 38
would, as regards externals,
etage sample of the das*. ThA^'
feature of the matter is that nfe
them are vagrants from choice
Thty are great ‘travelers, and
the kingdom well, men cointiuf
runout of provisions and
smash a street lamp or window
insures them food and lodrino foi-’^^
in some jail or workhouse. Thtr i'
been known to tear them rags 0 f cuf®
so M to involve their
ina? Muffled indecently £ or gj
that the authorities nughthe- forced tc,
provide them with new garnlfufs B&w!
and girls among them consort tc^' -r
at the age of fourteen or fifteen ru-
own parents have been known and
to encourage and teach them in a
worst practices. The savage is a
animal compared with this vile and -aT
ged fringe which borders, as it war
what is termed the highest civilizafen
in the world. ^
Restoring Old Books;
A. Paris paper states that in the IW»
capital an industrial art is prosecc'Sf
of the eristenee, rf which
have any knowledge whatever. Th w
consists in the restoration of old ill
and manuscripts, and has beenvaisTIt
a few experts to a marvelous Derfei*™"
The skill of these artists "SSj*-
great no book is considered by them
yond their transforming touch n.
take out the most inveterate stams^s
markes; they reinstate the surface
holes have been gnawed by rats or eaka
by worms; they place missing lines md
leaves in such a way that no one can dis.
cover the interpolation; they remark!
margins, gving them exactly the cote
of the originals—in fact, so well is id
this done that frequently the most dii-
criminating judge cannot tell the restored
copy from the perfect original work. Or
namental frontispieces, editor’s nurbl
vignettes, coats-of-arms, manuscript or
printed pages, all are imitated to a, de
gree of accuracy that <hat tasks even the
most practiced eye. Such restoration ,
however, is of course, expensive. Thu,,
at a sale of books some time ago, & tab
tered, filthy and repalsiue, bnt in some
respects quite a unique copy of the Bre
viary of Geneva, brought only a hundred
dollars on account of the damaged coni-
tion it was in. The purchaser at once
took it to a book-restorer, who stated hii ,
terms to be one hundred dollars, and the, |
process would require a year.
’Harried.
Last evening, in the Presbyterian’
Church, by Rev. A. W. Clisby, Mr. B. W.
Jemison, Jr., and Miss Kate SoifeuSlet, ‘
all of this city.
The following gentlemen and ladies I
acted, as attendants upon the groom and
bride:
* Marion Dunwody and M?ga Nannie
Boifeuillet.
T. H. Henderson and Miss ZI_i
Whittle.
* H. T. Powell and Miss Carrie Bobeife
,F. D. Tinsley and Misa LucyWingfieil j
W. N. Pratt and Miss Anna Shadel-1
ford.
. .John G. Euan and Miss Fannie John
ston. |
J no. T, Boifeuillet, Jr., and Mias SaHie
Thomas.
S. H. Jemison and Miss Carrie Boi-1
feuillet.
i The church was crowded to its utmost j
capacity by the very elite of Macon, and I
the entire ceremony intensely interestmj I
and imposing. Nothing could erreei j
tho richness and elegance of the cos-1
tumes of the bride and her attendants, I
and seldom has such an array of beautv |
aud fashion been witnessed in our city..
A Large- Pasture . Not Fencsd dl— I
A Texas correspondent of the Louisville I
Courier-Journal, says: f
Apropos to the aforementioned beet
Mr. R. W. Crawford, of this county, BJ
a pasture- larger than the majority ot I
those in ’ Jefferson county. It erteris j
from Brenham’s to Galveston, a distance I
of one hundred and twenty miles, anas I
fifty miles wide. It is almost one nn-1
broken prairie, being divided only iere I
and there by skirts of timber. In s P r ‘ E o |
the grass is waist deep, and the pere I
green intermixed with counties pffi® I
flowers, gently-swayed
zephyrs, presents the prismatic hue* I
the setting - sun on the “sleepless v» T ® I
'of the ocean. Thesrenebecearsdoscr.fi
tion, while the perfume worn.. ■
'bin to die 1 of envy. But the pre'-t> - I
part of the picture, at least to the®*?’I
is the happy herds of cattle that u I
'surface. I asked him how many
and he answered, “something oyer tu I
thousand branded, and a thousand - I
unbranded.” Mr 1 . Crawford beg»
under Stonewall; Jackson
nine dollars'a month, and, after ^ I
four years, got back home j*'|
credit enough to buy a small ^ I
ships his steers to New Orleans^ I
them for money with which to b I
cows to raise more steers to gc ,i
money to buy more cows torrg® |
infinitum. , ,
' Texas Affairs.-A Washington W*
says: “Advices from Texas indicate
the Conservatives will cany
the election on the 2d of Deoem r • ^
increased majority over that l^J
Greeley last year. It is anticip^^
there may be some trouble in t e
and perhaps a recourse to Fed
ference, as in the case of Louisis®^
accordance with a law passed la-
new elections are to be held fay ^
Senate in a number of districts * „
parties now filling the positions c
have several years y et ^ > s ®f > ,i:’ 3 ss,d ( '
parties, all of whom
Clare they will hold 0“
which ©Tent there will b®
claiming to be the State Seiw •
event, Mr.
wili doubtless be applied to „
ion as to which is the lawful
The Jesuits of Germany
wall in Berlin with a huge
sent ing a vast cathedral ?
around it, at which Bismarc {
with all his might, and a
devil standing at his siee an ^
his efforts with treat curiosity-
lowing dialogue expiains^ ^ (
“His San tonic Majesty ’ J
are you doing there ?
going to pull down this ch"®
M.—Indeed, you are going wr $
the church ! and how long dojw
will take
or four years. H. S- M. j
I have been at the same J® j,
years and have not acoomp ^ j
If you do it in three or four J.
resign my office in J 0 ur
A fellow called to see a
ar.o">|
the other day who was eng-s-
his first bath sinoe tbe fa®*” Ljjo^
in. Theman’. wife toldtii^
oouldn’fc see Him, as he ]
TnatinMr ^ Of ^