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MACON, JULY 21, 1874.
Important Advtce to Cowmoul
TRi.TELl.RRS.—TraTCl!
French soldiers are allowed to work
on farms during harvest time. The price
fixed by tho government this year is
thirty cents a day and hoard.
Dk. A.*L. P. Green.—Thi3 well known
and venerable Minister of the Methodist
Church South, died in Nashville on Wed
nesday 15th instant. His age was sixty-
seven.
All at Sea.—The Nashville Banner
says tho Republican party of the volun
teer State are “allat Sea.” Well we
hope their craft will never reach port
again- ^
Corn in A T - >n * MA -—The Montgomery
Advertiser says that a Lowndes county
gentleman agreed on Wednesday last to
deliver 300 bushels of com at 65 cents
per bushel.
• The Third Term. — The spirits
through one E. Searle, of Norristown,
Illinois, reveal that Grant will run for a
third term, and tho New York World
and Chicago Times will support him.
There is a plan on foot to plant the
San Joaquin Valley, California, with the
eucalyptus, or blue gum tree. Por a
length of two hundred miles, and a
width of from forty to fifty miles, the
valley is almost level, and is almost en
tirely devoid of shade.
The Rice Crop.—The reports from
the rice regions continue to come in of
the most encouraging character. Esti
mates are now made of tho product as
high as 140,000 barrels. It appears thero '
never was a season so favorable for the
production of rice as tho present one.—
New Orleans Times.
Harper'8 Weekly thus closes an arti
cle cn the third term rumors: “We have
no fear that Gen. Grant proposes to make
himself an Emperor or a Pope, but it
should be well understood before any
plans are laid that there would be a gen
eral and decisive uprising of the people
against any serious suggestion of a third
term.”
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Tax Sales in South Carolina.—The
News and Courier, of Thursday, says
that in the last two years the sales and
forfeitures in South Carolina for non
payment of taxes have amounted to
848,657 acres; that is, one acre in every
nineteen acres of land, of all kinds, in
tho State has been confiscated under the
guise of taxation.
The Chicago Times has been making
an analysis of the groceries sold in that
city, and says that specimens of tea, cof
fee, sugar, soap, baking powders, cream
tartar and syrup3, obtained in the ordi
nary course of trade, from leading gro
cery establishments in the city, have
been subjected to an analytical test, the
result showing that adulteration is the
rule, without exception.
The Chicago novelty of having letter
boxes attached to the street cars has
proved very successful and satisfactory.
The experiment was first tried in Octo
ber, during which month 39,9S0 letters
and postal cards were mailed in tho box
es, but for June the number had in
creased to 16-4,113. The plan causes no
extra trouble to tno mail carriers or the
post-office, and no cost with the excep
tion of tho expense of the boxes.
A Feat in Telegraphy.—Wednesday
afternoon last, at the Broadway office of
the Western Union Telegraph Company,
a test was made of an invention which
promises to be of almost more importance
to the present age than were Morse's first
achievements to the people of his own
time. The test resulted successfully,
and it proved that four messages can be
simultaneously sent on a single wire in
opposite directions, and with no more
liability to mistake than as if an equal
number of wires were used.
Coming South.—Tho reports from the
Great West give us every reason to hope
that thousands of agriculturists from
that region will move South next fall.
In Iowa, Wisconsin and Michigan tho
Southern fever is hot; and tho latter
State i3 being actively canvassed by Hy
att and other well informed agents, and
will doubtless ere long contribute largely
to the population of this section.—Aber
deen Examiner.
There is no doubt, says the Mobile
Register, as to tho existence of a strong
inclination in the Western mind to share
the splendid lands of the genial South
with that white population whose gal
lantry, truth and honor tho Western men
recognized and admitted during the four
years which they grappled with them.
Advices from Liberia indicate that the
commerce of tho country is steadily ex
panding, and that the coffee crop is abun
dant. The coast trade, however, still
languishes in consequenco of want of
good roads, trival squabbles, and petty
wars among tho chiefs of the interior
districts, and the demoralization always
incident to trading with an uncivilized
peoplo. Strenuous efforts to establish
Christianity among the aboriginal popu
lation have not met with much success,
because of lack of means to establish a
system of primary education, although
the missionaries ore laboring with much
zeal to that end. Tho twenty-seventh
anniversary of the declaration of inde
pendence will be celebrated on the 26th
of this month.
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How the English Groom Horses.
An English groom at Saratoga has
been telling how English grooms take
care of horses. He says: In England we
take tho horse as he comes from a drive,
and sprinkle blood warm water all over
him, from his head to his feet. Then we
scrape him down and blanket him, rub
bing his legs and face dry. Thus in an
hour ho is clean and dry, and ready to
take a good feed, while, with your way,
he will stand and swelter for hours, and
finally dry sticky and dirty. Our horses
never founder, and take cold. We never
uso a curry-comb. You scratch your
horses too hard. The only care neces
sary is to have the water not too cold;
then bathe them quick and blanket them
instantly, while you are rubbing their
kff*-"
In this section crops are still reported
very fine. Cotton is doing welL The
only drawback is tho reported appear
ance of the caterpillar fly in neighboring
southern counties on both sides of the
river. Corn is already made, and the
yield will be tho largest since tho war.
l’eas and potatoes will also be abundant.
—Columbus Enquirer.
Tlie Crops.
Wo make no doubt that the corn and
cotton crops, in their present attitude,
are as promising in this section of Geor
gia as they often get to be. Tho early
com is now secure, and our lighter soils
have produced at least a third above the
average.
Tho cotton is irregular in stand, and a
little behind in growth, but it is healthy,
vigorous and promising. Nothing yet is
apparent to jeopardize a good product,
hut it is still open to most of tho chapter
of accidents. Everybody speaks of the
caterpillar as sure to come, but he has
not yet come, and the “signs” are not
more threatening than they are every
season. A few weeks will tell ns what to
expect under this head, and meantime
the measure of success which attended
the treatment of the insect to cold poison
last year, leaves the farmer not wholly
defenceless against this destructive foe.
On the whole, the aspects are bright.
This isoneof those rare cropseasonawhen
fault-finding planters are uncommon. A
representative of the Telegraph, in a
neighboring counly, says ho found him
self in a circlo of half a dozen planters
who wero discussing the aspects, and
though each one of them found some
thing unsatisfactory in his own crop, yet
each told of his misfortune with an air
of contentment showing that he failed
to take it to heart. Subsequently one of
them took onr friend aside and cautioned
him not to he misled by what he heard.
“I have tho best crop I ever saw, but I
don’t like to brag over my neighbors.”
Before he had left the town, each one of
them had given our correspondent the
same assurance. The crops are fine and
promising, and we hope nothing will oc
cur to change the aspects of the situation;
although, in respect to cotton particular
ly, they may be materially changed in a
short time, as this is now the critical pe
riod with that crop.
Medicine and Divinity versus
Tobacco.
On a recent occasion the writer en
countered in his travels on the rail, a
certain learned and venerable Professor
of a medical college, who was engaged
in an earnest tele a tete with Rev. Dr.
, famous for his eloquence, and well
known to many of our readers. Attracted
to the vicinity, we listened to a most vio
lent and alarming phillipic against the
use of that narcotic, which is the comfort
of husbands and tho plague of their
wives.
“So you really believe tobacco huitful
in every form, and to all constitutions”
inquired the D. D. “Certainly, Sir. No
one can use this poison with impunity.’’
Just then the deponent saw .the aged disci
ple of Esculapius squirt out a mouthful of
amber colored liquid, and smelling amice
exclaimed, “Well Doctor, it surely is a
very much diluted poison in your case,
and why don’t yon practice what you
preach.” “Ah, well,” rejoined the vete
ran incorrigible, “I am like my pious
friend here, who is a sign board and
guide to point out that road to his lost
fellowmen, which he never travels." The D.
D. winced and tried to look solemn, hut
gravity was impossible, and the laugh was
on the sido of the sachem of the mortar
and pestle.
No Hot Weather.
We perceive our city columns yester
day got up a groan about hot weather;
but it was without occasion. There has
been no hot weather worthy of the name
in Macon this season, but everything has
been balmy. Yesterday there was a good
deal of talk about hot weather on the
streets, which tempted us into an inves
tigation. The thermometer in Hertz &
Co.’s store on Cherry street, at half past
four, gave the temperaturo at 89, while
at Zeilin’s corner under a blazing sun in
front and tons of aqua forti3, oil of vitriol,
phosphorus, Liver Invigorator and capsi
cum in the rear, tho mercury could get
no higher than 93. All this while Cin
cinnati, St. Louis, Chicago, New York,
Philadelphia and Baltimore are basking
in a heat ranging anywhere from 100 to
140. We say there’s nothing which can
be reasonably termed hot weathcrin Ma
con. It is cool—pleasant—delightful—
inspiring—stimulating equally to the
body and the mind. The com and cot
ton rejoice in it, and tho caterpillar
tum3 his languid eyes to tho god of day
and sweetly sings. Nono hut a Londoner
could object to 89 in tho shade. We call
that nothing bat moderately exhilarating
weather.
Tbo Louisiana Overflow.
It has now been moro than two months
sfneo tho cry of distress came from over
flowed Louisiana, the liberal response to
winch by the benevolent in this city we
last week referred to. Tho intelligence
from Louisiana indicates that the floods
have disappeared, and that tho well-di
rected benevolence of the country has
been so well bestowed that most of tho
expected destitution has been prevented.
Tho New Orleans Times beam testimony
to this, and says, besides, that the injury
to the crops will not he so serious as was
at first supposed. Although tho over
flow caused quite a diminution of the
acreage planted with sugar-cane, yet
there will be actually more sugar grown
in Louisiana this year than during any
season since the close of the war.—News
and Courier.
Radical Pronunciamento.
The New York Herald of the 14th pro
poses to give tho substance of an address
to tho “Republican Party of the Nation”
written out by Senator Howe under the ap
pointment of a caucus of Radical leaders
held just after the adjournment of Con
gress. Tho Herald’s synopsis would
seem to make the document a huge
joke— a piece of "sarkosum” on the party.
A brag about tho achiev meats of Con
gress—the national prosperity—the in
tegrity and fidelity of public officers—
the condition of the currency, etc., etc.,
may possibly ho intended in sober earn
est, bat in the light of facts looks os if it
were intended to raise a continental
guffaw.
Tennessee State Debt.
The Nashville Union of Thursday says
the total liabilities of Tennessee to-day
arc, in exact figures, $27,920,3S6.45. Of
this there is $6,437,548.95, on which solv
ent railroads are promptly paying their
own interest, so that the amount on
which the 8tate is called to pay is $21,-
182,837.50. This represents the total
burden resulting from State aid to turn
pikes, banks, railroads, etc. To this must
be added our voluntary contribution to
the cause of education, in the shape of
the school fund, amounting to $2,512,500,
and making the total liabilities on-which
interest is called for $23,995,337.50. Tho j
amount of interest to be paid annually
is cbout $1,400,000. ,
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
A letter from Dublin, Laurens
county, the 15th, to the Toombsboro Ap
peal, contains the following paragraph:
Yesterday our citizens met in a nom
inating meeting and' selected our clever
fellow°citizena J. J. Connor, J. Giles
Wright and Colonel C. S. Guyton to rep
resent us at Milledgeville on the 12th of
August. All are Blount men, and our
county is a unit for Colonel James H.
Blount. His active services and ability
in the late Congress suits our people, and
we appreciate him.
Wilkinson county has 2,054 children
of school age—1,772 white, and 1,283
colored. The County Board has ordered
schools to be opened on the 20th.
Eggs are tho circulating medium at
Toomsboro.
The Executive Committee of tho Dem
ocratic party of the Seventh Congression
al District met atCartersville on tho 15th,
and decided to call the District Conven
tion to nominate a candidate for Con
gress, to assemble in Calhoun, Gordon
county, Georgia, on Wednesday, Septem
ber 2d.
Constant applications says the Atlan
ta Herald, are being made for convicts
for farm purposes. We stato for the
benefit of such applicants, that there is
no chanco to get such labor. All on
hand or that may bo convicted have al
ready been provided for.
The Grand Lodge of the Knights of
Pythias for the State, meets in Atlanta
on next Tuesday. There will be a ball
at the Kimball House on Wednesday
night and a banquet at Pease’s on
Thursday night.
Fulton county jail ha3 fifty-three in
mates.
The Executive Committee of tho Sev
enth Congressional District, among other
resolutions, adopted the following very
sensible one:
Resolved, That we suggest that the
personal attendance by aspirants for Con
gress at the Congressional district meet
ings, for the purpose of electioneering for
tho nomination, is disrespectful to tho
delegates, and unbecoming tho dignity of
tho office sought. Adopted.
Colonel Luther J. Glenn, owns np to
being a candidate for Congress in the
Fifth District.
Oglethorpe Infantry, Company B, of
Augusta, held a meeting last Tuesday
evening and decided to contest for the
military premium at tho Georgia State
Fair, at Atlanta, commencing October
19th, for the best drilled volunteer mili
tary company. Thirty-two men signed
the list, and the requisite number of
forty men,rank and file, will be made np.
The Fifth Congressional District is en
deavoring to hoar np under tho burden
of twelve patriots who are willing to im
molate themselves beneath the laurels of
Congressional honors.
The Athens Watchman says;
Tho University of Mississippi and St.
John’s College, Annapolis, Md., each, con
ferred the degree of LL.D. upon Col.
LeRoy Broun, President of tho Georgia
State College of Agriculture and the Me
chanic Arts. This was a well deserved
compliment to our distinguished fellow-
citizen.
The Executive Committee of the Ninth
Congressional District passed tho follow
ing:
Resolved, That we most heartily en
dorse the resolution adopted by the State
Executive Committee, in regard to can
didates attending county and Congres
sional District meetings, for tho purpose
of controlling their action, and election
eering for the nomination.
The Sandersviile Herald has tho fol
lowing paragraphs:
Hon. Curtis Humphreys died at his
residence in Screven county, a few days
since, aged about seventy years. Ho
was formerly Ordinary of that county,
and was a member of the secession con
vention in 1860.
We regret to learn that Colonel John
McKinney’s mills, in Emanuel county,
were burned on Wednesday night of last
week. Tho mills were a valuable prop
erty, and will he a great loss to Colonel
McKinney. We learn there was no in
surance on the property.
An Acworth poet does up tho comet as
follows for the Marietta Journal:
Coggia’s comet! what a wonder!
Will It pass ? or make a blunder,
Smashing earth ? or will it skip her ?
Kill the Bear and break the Dipper?
Blight ing Juno ? crushing Venus ?
Blow out all the stars between us?
Make the oceans foam and bubble ?
Bringing famine, war and trouble ?
O, alas 1 what will be done
If it snuffs the Moon or Sun ?
Kings and Priests and holy Martyrs,
With their kingdoms, crowns and garters,
(While the earth with heat is glowing)
All to judgment will be going.
"Holy Father I" Uncle Neddy?
Yankee Doodle? Areyouready?
Storm in Cobb County.—The Mari
etta Journal chronicles a severe storm
last Sunday evening and says s
Tho deafening successive peals of
thunder, accompanied with vivid flashes
of lightning, leaping athwart the watery
face of the clouds, from heaven to earth,
forked holts of it playing along the
craggy heights of Kenaosaw, striking
railroad iron and shivering trees, with an
alarming report, while wind raged and
hail fell, making a scene that thrilled
hearts with dread apprehension and sol
emn awe, driving man within doors and
beasts to seek shelter for safety. The
sheets of water that fell covered the
ground in running streams. Window
panes rattled with tho beating hail,
houses trembled and shook, fruit trees
were uprooted, corn in gardens and fields
prostrated and entangled in damaging
confusion, stalwart trees bowed in hom
age to the fury of tho raging elements,
while water courses became foaming and
rushing torrents, destructively sweeping
bridges and fence%away and overflowing
lowlands and destroying to a great extent
the crops of the farm.
The Atlanta Herald of the 18 th says:
On yesterday the case of Henry Clews
& Co., vs. the Cherokee Railroad was
opened before Mr. L. N. Whittle, of Ma
con, Master in Chancery of the Road, at
Hon. X. H. Hill’s office. Clews & Co.,
was represented by Judge O. A. Loch-
rane of Atlanta. The road was repre
sented by Judge Jackson of Macon, Hon.
B. H. Hill, Judge Richard Lyon of Ma
con, Col. A; Johnson of Cartersville, who
are here, and Hon. John E. Ward, of
New York, will be. here to-day. Tho
case involves two hundred and seven
ty-five thousand dollars. The circum
stances of the case are about these:
Henry Clews and Company, bought two
hundred and seventy-five thousand dol
lars worth of bonds for the Cartersville
and Van Wert railroad and the money
paid, was used for the construction of
the same. When the name of the road
was changed to the Cherokee railroad,
Mr. H. I. Kimball promised to exchange
Cherokee bonds for the bond that Clews
& Company held of the Cartersville and
Van Wert railroad. Clews & Company
hold that the bonds were valid, and
that they never received the promised
Cherokee bonds in exchange. As a proof
of tho last position they still hold the
Cartersville and Van Wert bonds. The
other side claim, first, that the bonds
were illegally issued. Secondly, that
other securities were given to Clews &
Company to cancel these bonds. The
trial of the case opened yesterday, and
will probably continue two or three
weeks. All of the preliminary points
were settled yesterday, and toe court
will commence receiving testimony to
day.
Thr editorial corps of toe Savannah
News has been smacking its chops over a
25 ounce tomato.
The Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel
says:
The nurses, cooks, and the last patient
were discharged from tho Pest House i
last Wednesday. The buildings have all
been whitewashed and closed. There is
row not a case of small-pox in the city.
Of the total number of cases—between
thirty-five and forty—in the Pest House
during the prevalence of a mall-pox, only
one Droved fatal, and the patient is that
instance was almost at the point of death
when carried to the institution.
Calhoun, of the Columbia Sun, has
gone io - make a'speech at a school com
mencement at Peroto, Ala. His subject
will hardly be “Chivalry.”
The Hawkinsvillo Dispatch announces
the death of Mr. Oscar Eddingfield, of
Berrien county.
A new post-office has been established
in Dooly county, named Eureka.
Mr. Thomas Both well, formerly of
Dooly , county, died in Hawkinsrillo on
Thursday.
Griffin has a Young Men’s Demo
cratic Club. ■». _
Mrs. J. E. Ellison died on Friday, in
Talbot county,-aged eighty years. Her
husband died two years ago, aged eighty-
two.
A step-eon of Mr. Thos. GoodwiD, of
Jasper county, was drowned in the Ge-
mulgeo river » few days ago. -
The wife of Col. Richard Sims died at
Bainbridge last Saturday.
GEORGIA CROP NEWS.
We make up from our exchanges the
following summary respecting the pres
ent condition of too crops. . We find
nothing very unfavorable in any of tho
reports: - - v
From every section of the county too
most cheering accounts reach U3 con
cerning the growing crops.—Gainesville
Eaqle,
Col. Jonathan River3, who has just
returned from a professional visit to
Dublin, reports splendid corn crops in
Laurens.—HawJcit\sville IDispatch.
A Good substantial farmer from Pike
informed us yesterday, that Pike county
would make plenty of corn to do the
county two years, that .there never was
such a prospect for a large corn crop.
The cotton, though small, looks well, and
will with good seasons make a pretty
fair crop.—Griffin Messenger.
From every part of Pulaski, and from
all tho adjoining counties, wo hear the
most favorable reports of tho corn crop.
Mr. James McGriff, who has just returned
from a trip into Dodge and Telfair, ex
tending along the Ocmulgeo from Hawk
ins villcjto McRae, reports tho crop tho
largest and best, in his opinion, that has
been grown for many years. Mr. J. J.
Land, of Wilcox, also makes a favorable
report. We havo conversed with many
others, and all agree in pronouncing the
growing com crop the largest sinco tho
war.—Hawkinsville Dispatch.
Since our last report of the condition
of crops in this section, wo have been
visited by heavy and almost incessact
rains, and some apprehensions have been
felt of a general overflow. The showers
have done no material damage to com or
other crops than cotton. We learn, how
ever, that the latter has been injured
considerably in this and some of the ad
joining counties. Cora, potatoes, sugar
cane and rico are flourishing, and arc now
perhaps far beyond the reach of disaster.
The com crop of this year in Berrien
county will probably exceed that of any
previous year by one-third. Thero is no
spirit of despondency exhibited by our
planters, and the probability is tlint a
few more hot, sunshiny days, like the
three just past, will set everything ex
actly “square.” We have heard of no
report of caterpillars in the wiregrass
counties 03 yet. In other counties flying
rumors have it that they are doing some
bad work already. Wo are afraid the
continued rains will serve to germinate
them, hut still there is some hope.—Al
apha Forester.
From a gentleman who has just re
turned from an extended trip through
Sumter, Schley, Marion, Talbot and Tay
lor counties, wo loam that crops in tho
two first mentioned, to a point four miles
north of Ellaville, are all looking exceed
ingly well and growing finely, besides be
ing free of grass. Com is in silk, and
cotton will average from twelve to six
teen inches high, well filled with forms
and blooms. Tho lands upon which the
above crops are growing aro what is
termed red and gray stiff lands. About
four miles north of Ellavillo our inform
ant states that he struck the sandy lands.
The crops in this belt for the distance of
25 miles, running through Schley, and
Marion counties, were not near so good
or as far advanced. The continued rains
through June caused com, which is only
about five foot high, to becomo yellow
from the ground to the top. Cotton
seems to have the rust and will not aver
age moro than eight inches in height.
On the red lands in Talbot crops will
comparo favorably with thoso of Sum
ter and lower Schley. Cotton and corn
are both doing well in Taylor county.
All the bread crops in Southwestern
Georgia are abundant and safe from the
ordinary evils. The cotton crop is not
so promising. We havo had rainy
weather since the 1st of June, and much
of tho time the fields have been flooded,
and work greatly impeded. Five days of
snnny weather last week, ending with a
heavy rain Friday morning, helped won
derfully, but Friday evening there came
a deluge, and that night another and
another, and these immense falls of rain
continued at frequent intervals till the
forenoon of Monday, filling tho earth,
with water and giving the cotton plant
on gray lands a reddish, sickly tinge.
The caterpillar made its appearance, well
defined and unmistakably, on Friday, the
10th, in many plantations, and since then
its existence in many others is reported.
We have, however, conversed with many
planters—intelligent, vigilant, close ob
serving planters—who have not been
able to find tho fly even in their fields;
and those who have discovered thd genu
ine caterpillar report fewer flies than
were observed any previous caterpillar
year, at this stage of tho crop.—Albany
News.
A Thomas .county correspondent- of
the Savannah News writes:
Tho crops of all kinds aro looking very
well now. The potato crop is unusually
promising. The season for planting out
vines has been very propituous, and most
of the farmers have taken advantage of
it, and I think there will be an abund
ant crop of this esculent root. Tho com
crop bids fair to be as good as we have
had for several years. There is more
planted than usual, and if the seasons
are favorable until the com is all matur
ed, we will make as much as we will need
for home consumption, and we will be
able to keep more shoats next year, and
keep them in better condition than this
year. There is not as much cotton
planted this year as was last, but the
crop is very good, although it u not so
forward. The farmers are expecting the
caterpillar. Some have already reported
the fly in their cotton. We have been
having a good deal of cloudy weather and
rain lately, and if ; it continues much
longer it will likely cause the caterpillar
to make their appearance early. Its fly
has already been seen in some cottoa
fields.
Take Dae Notice.
After toe 1st of January next newspa
per postage will be paid by the publish
ers instead of subscribers. This change
will force ell publishers to adopt the cash
system of payment. No man will expect
a publisher to famish his paper on cred
it and, at the same time, advance the
postage. —Marietta Journal.
If postage prepayment works that re
sult it will be a blessing to newspaper
publishers. But why should they not
advance the postage as well as the paper
and the labor, which are as much cash
articles as the stamps themselves ?
Twenty-one thousand and siity.two
emigrants arrived at Castle Garden dur
ing the month of June.
Cause oi the Chicago Fire.
Less than a week ago (says toe Balti
more Gazette) a writer in the Chicago
Times gave the city authorities due credit
for expending large sums of money in
the purchase of apparatus and for pro
viding all the necessary means for extin
guishing fires; hut he criticised, in strong
terms, the management of the firo de
partment. "The result of all this expert-
diture is,” he said, “a fire department
equal to a task of but ordinary magni
tude, a3 we have recently experienced;
engines without steam, and apparatus
unwieldy and useless at the very mo
ment of emergency.” A Louisville archi
tect, after viewing tho city from tho
roof of a tall building, and examin
ing tho construction of a number
of buildings, is quoted as saying re
cently: “This city will be destroyed
again.” Very soon the prediction found
its partial fulfillment in the conflagration
of Tuesday, and in the second, though
less extensive fire whose ravages we re
port this morning. “It is a city of shams,”
said the writer in question, the shams
consisting, we presume, in flimsiness of
construction and in the vast number of
wooden buildings outside of the district
ravaged by fire three years ago. Tho dis
trict bordering on the lake, that was
scourged by fire on Tuesday last, was
largely built up of wood; but with
the exception of the post-offico, two
churches and half a dozen hotels, and
a few handsomo houses on Wabash
avenue, the buildings destroyed were
of the meaner sort many of ‘them
of a character whose destruction is wel
comed os a purification that was needed
rather than a calamity to he mourned
over. In a city of such a rapid growth
a3 Chicago, the cheapness of timber
brought, in the first instance—03 it does
in all now cities—wood into general use
as a building material. In the business
parts of tho city these older structures
have since been replaced by warehouses
and stores of stone and brick. Many
others have been destroyed by fire, yet
large numbers still remain, and knowing
how inflammable they are, it is surpris
ing that the city authorities should not
long since, as wo have in Baltimore, for
bidden tho construction of wooden build
ings within tho limits of the municipal
ity- m t m
Tlie Macon County Democratic
Meeting:.
Oglethorpe, Ga., July 17,1874.
In pursuance of a call by the Chair
man of the Democratic Executivo Com
mittee of Macon connty, the party met
in the Court-house at this place.
The following resolutions were intro
duced by Col. W. H. Willi3, and unani
mously adopted:
Resolved, That we cordially endorse
the course of tho Hon. Phil. Cook, our
immediate representative in the Con
gress of tho United States, and take
great pleasure in presenting his name to
tho convention of tho Third Congres
sional District for renomination and re-
election.
Resolved, That this meeting appoint
eight delegates each to the Congressional
and Senatorial conventions, and that tho
chair appoint a committee of seven to
select and report the names of delegates
to each convention, for the action of the
meeting.
The chair appointed tho following gen
tlemen : F. T. Snead, W. B. Hill, John B.
Mathews, A. G. Stewart, J. D. Fredrick,
L. E. Veal, Jasper N. Bryan.
The committee reported tho names of
tho following gentlemen as delegates:
To the Congressional convention—W. B.
Hill, W. H. Willis, Mathew English, F.
T. Snead, J. D. Frederick, J.H. McClung,
H. L. Hill, and Davis Gammage. To the
Senatorial 'convention—W. H. Willis, C.
F. Hill, W. B. Hill, A. G. Stewart, M. H.
Patrick, H. A. Lee, W. H. Felton, L. E.
Veal. The report of tho committee was
unanimously adopted.
On motion, Montezuma was recom
mended as a suitable and convenient
place for holding the Congressional nom
inating convention.
On motion, Americus was recommend
ed as the place, and tho 25th day of Au
gust as the time for holding the Senato
rial convention.
On motion it was agreed that a meet
ing of tho Democratic party bo held in
Oglethorpe on tho first Tuesday in Sep
tember. for nominating candidates to
represent the county in the Legislature.
Onmotion,tho Secretary was instructed
to furnish copies of the proceedings of
this meeting to the Telegraph and
Messenger and Montezuma Weekly for
publication, and that all the papers in
the district be requested to copy.
On motion the meeting adjourned.
• J. H. McClung, Chairman.
J. A. Edwards, Secretary.
General Gordon.
The following letter from our Senator,
says the Constitution, explains itself, and
fully corroborates tho views expressed in
our editorial of Tuesday on “Grant and
Gordon.” We knew well that Gen. Gor
don, as wo stated, would ho found totally
averse to any Southern or Democratic
coalition with the head and front of the
Radical party or any other portion of it.
But tho letter speaks for itself:
Atlanta, Ga., July 13,1S74.
Editor Constitution: I feel impelled
to correct a misapprehension which some
of too press havo received from tho. re
port in the Herald of a conversation with
myself.
Personal considerations would not in
duce mo to speak; but, lest the com
ments which I have seen in some of the
Democratic papers should cause damage
to tho Democratic party, I beg to say
that, whoever interprets me as advoca
ting any other than a purely Democratic
canvass, with a Democratic platform,
and the truest of Democratic candidates
upon it, or as doubting too probability of
Democratic success, misinterprets me.
It i3 not necessary, I hope, for mo to
say that I havo not claimed any intimacy
with Gen. Grant, nor to know anything
whatever of his views or purposes from
anything that he has ever said to me;
for I have never talked with him upon
any party issues or party programme, of
the past, the present or the future. 1 he
reporter entirely misunderstood me. All
I now say, or have said, is that General
Grant is cordial and courteous to South
ern gentlemen, and my ideas of his pur
poses are based entirely upon observation.
With my thanks for the justice you
have sought to do me, I am,
Very truly, yours,. , *
’ J. B. Gordon-
Florida Items.
No Caterpillars Yet.—rThe Talla-
hasseo Flordian hears nothing farther of
tho caterpillar, at least nothing particu
larly to alarm. Tho excessive rains are
favorable to tho worm, hut it is to bo
hoped that toe planting interest will es
cape with nothing moro serious than a
little fright. To make assurance doubly
sure, an outlay in Paris green is by all
means desirable, accompanied by a con
stant and careful inspection of the crop.
Crops in the West.—The Marianoa
Courier says: “Now that toe rains have
ceased and we have the sun’s rays and
warm weather, the cotton is blooming and
fruiting to its utter capacity, and the
farmer is pushing everything to clear it
of its weeds and ^raas that have so rapid
ly sprang up during the rainy weather
just passed. The caterpillar has not yet
appeared, and onr farmers speak hopeful
of but little damage from this dreaded
enemy. The corn crop is made and onr
county can again boast of an abundant
yield. The smaller crops—cane and po
tatoes, ore looking fine, with an unusual
largo area of the latter planted.
New sweet potatoes from up toe river
aro selling in Jacksonville at $1.25 per
bushel.
The Tampa Guardian of a recent date
sayi: “We were shown lately a lemon
of toe Sicily variety, grown at Point Pin-
alis, on Captain Maranda’s grove, which
is larger than the largest ever reported
at the Agricultural Buread in Washing
ton, one being fourteen, the other a little
upwards of sixteen-inches in circumfer
ence.”
A farmer of Nassau connty has raised
eight barrels of onions on a quarter of an
acre. Who can beat this odoriferous
ield?
The Enforcement Act.
The far reaching importance of tho
late decision of Judge Bradley, in New
Orleans, in the case of the Grant Parish
prisoners, is not fully appreciated. ■ The
St. Louis Republican says it is as “com'
pleto a disemboweling of the Enforce
ment Act, as it is called, a3 could be con
ceived. He does not declare the act un
constitutional, hut he substantially de
clares that it is limited to cases that can
hardly ever arise. Tho United States au
thorities can tako cognizanco under the
act, net of all murders and doings done to
colored persons, but only of' those done
against them 'on account of color, race,
or previous condition of servitude,
It iB the duty of a State to manage its
own elections under its own laws, and to
punish murder also under its own laws.
If the State refuses to do this, then, and
then only, p.s we understand the decision,
can the Federal authorities intervene to
perform the duty for it. Mere interfer
ence with tho right of voting is no of
fence under tho jurisdiction of toe
United States, says Judge Bradley; the
interference must bo not only. with a
colored man, bnt on account of his color,
race, or previous condition of servitude.
Such a wrong will hardly ever occur, for
it could occur only under some law of a
State which denied to colored persons
the right to vote.” The Republican
adds: “Judge Woods dissented from
Judge Bradley’s opinion, and the differ
ence had to be certified to the Supreme
bench for final decision, but there is
little doubt that tho reasonable and well
fortified opinion of Judge Bradley will
be sustained.”
Tlie Canebrake Region.
A Uniontown correspondent of the
Mobile Advertiser says:
The crop of the canebrako is generally
better than it has been since 1867, more
particularly the com. I rarely ever 8aw
better com. It is a grand sight to sec
tho immense amount of thi3 cereal in
cultivation. The increased acreage in
com in Marengo county will equal at
least fifteen per cent, more than that of
last year. I frequently hear tho que3
tion asked what can we do with so much
com ? There is one thing certain, we
cannot starve here in 1875. The rogue3
will get their part and yet enough ho
left for honest people.
The cotton a3 a general thing is far
better than for several years past, not
quite so largo as it was at this date 1867,
but it strikes me is equally as full. There
i3 talk of caterpillar, but I have seen
nono, and no sign of any. Have ob
served some few squares flared by boll
worm, and it is pleasant to behold the
cheerful tone of the planters, though not
one of them have a dollar in their
pockets.
I suppose in the history of the country
sinco its earliest settlement by civilized
people, money was never so scarce, or
half so scarce, before. I have heard men
say, who do not tell stories, that they
have not seen or had fifty cents in six
months—living entirely at homo and
subsisting entirely upon the productions
of this rich and bountiful soil. Indeed,
this is the richest part of the habitable
globe. This year has proven it fully to
my mind. Tho garden, where worked,
has homo everything that man loves in
the way of vegetables, and the fields are
actually loaded with com and pea3 and
pumpkins. Tho orchards, where atten
ded to, are excellent, and the dairy has
been good. With a plenty of fruit,
vegetables, milk, poultry, beef, mutton,
and some swine meat, can wo not enjoy
life? Is it possible that man is so cra
ving and avaricious that he would ask
more than this? We can raise sugar
with little trouble, and we do not need
much salt. Wo have learned that coffee
is deleterious to tho nerves, and wo get
along better without it.
Concha’s .Last Battle.
Tho way tho World’s correspondent
with the Spanish Republican army states
the case may he seen below. He is wri
ting June 28th:
Tatalla, Navarre, June 28.—Marshal
Concha’s great army, composed of toe
best soldiers of Spain, has sustained an
overwhelming defeat, and Marshal Con
cha himself, in a desperate effort to turn
his defeat into a victory, has been killed
while leading a charge.
This startling news, which by to-mor
row will ring throughout the world, must
at least open the eyes of the peoplo to a
fact long patent enough to every one in
this region of Spain,hut to which strange
blindness has been elsewhere shown—tho
fact that the Carlist cause grows stronger
every day, and that its ultimate triumph
is at least probable.
Marshal Concha, the most skilled of all
Spanish generals, had been preparing for
the pitched battle in which he lost his
life ever since he raised the siege of Bil
bao. No ono know better than ho did
the difficulty of the task ho had under
taken, and the very slowness of his move
ments manifested his determination to
make himself as strong os possible before
he attempted to strike the blow which
he hoped might prove decisive. When,
then, ho had brought together seventy-
four guns and 33,000 men of all arms—
toe best troops that toe Madrid govern
ment could furnish—ho began the great
battle. It lasted for three days, hut it
has ended not only in his death, bnt in
the defeat of hisfino army, the loss of
4,000 killed and wounded, of 3,000 mus
kets, of many flags, and of a considerable
number of prisoners. Tho rout of the
army oh Saturday night wa3 complete;
and to-day, (Sunday) its shattered, de
moralized and disheartened columns are
finding their way to this town, to Lan-
raga, Lerin and Lodosa.
A Senseless Prejudice*
A writer in the Macon Telegraph and
MESSENGER seeks to make capital against
Hon. C. A. Nutting because he was not
bom in Georgia. This is appealing to a
prejudice as senseless as it is dishonorable,
If a man is intelligent, honest and capa
ble, and faithful to the interests and
honor of the people among whom he has
cast his lot, neither prejudice nor intol
erance should be invoked to prescribe
him for.his birth place or ostracise him
for his religious convictions. Mr. Nut
ting camo to Georgia when a poor
boy and worked os. a mechanic for
many years. By his industry and fore
sight he has elevated himself to a
prominent position. His intelligence
and capacity as a successful financier
have been demonstrated and established
beyond question. He h<u» proven him
self a good and useful citizen. The ef
fort to make capital against such a man
because he was. not bom in Georgia is
so mean and contemptible as not to
merit more than a passing censure.
All sensible peoplo should seek to ele
vate rather than put down such men as
Col. Nutting, whose example will serve
to nerve the heart and quicken toe as
pirations of every poor boy in Georgia,
whether in the field, the mill, the work
shop or toe store.—Augusta Chronicle and
Sentinel. _
A rxw years ago a hungry crowd sat
down at toe well -spread supper table of
a Sound steamer, upon which one of the
dishes contained a trout of moderate sise.
A serious looking individual drew this
dish toward him, saying apologetically,
“This is a fast day with ma.” His next
neighbor, an Irish gentleman, immedi
ately inserted his fork into the fish and
transferred it to his own plate, remark
ing, “Sir, do you suppose nobody has a
sowl to be saved but yourself ?”
BEECHER.
The Mystery ot Iniquity—The Usual
Conflict of Surmise and Statement—
A Battle to the Death—Tilton
Wants an Appeal to the Courts—
What Committeemen Say.
New Yobk, July 15.—The Brooklyn
Eagle says: A member of the Beecher
Investigating Committee to-day stated
positively that even if Beecher were not
acting in good faith and desirous of such
a compromise with Tilton as would close
Tilton’s mouth.it would be impossible
lor him to effect it. The investigation
has gone beyond Beecher’s power and
control, and whatever may be at the bot
tom of the scandal, andno matter who or
how much it injures, the facts, so far as
lies in the power of the committee, shall
he brought to light.,
Another member of the committee
stated that Beecher did not authorize
Moulton to say he concurred in the state
ment read by tho latter before the com
mittee.
TILTON WANTS THE WITNESSES SWORN,
Tilton’s friends say he has already taken
eminent legal advice as to toe best method
of carrying hi3 case where, in his judg
ment it belongs, to the courts. Mr. Til
ton regards the committee and its report
as a mere incident in the future develop
ment of the case; that the interests in
volved aro so great that they can prop
erly only be settled in conformity with
the rules that govern courts where tes
timony is taken nndcr oath. Tilton will
meet the committtee next Monday.
A WEAK CASE.
Tho Argus says: Mr. Tilton is in a
tight place and he realizes it. Mr.
Beecher would not permit any one to
broach tho subject of compromise at this
stage of affairs, and toe committee have
scouted tho idea. • They have already
heard enough to convince them that
Tilton ha3 a "weak case, and ho is at pres
ent trying to avoid an issue.
MRS. TILTON
remains at the residence of Edward J,
Ovington, which has been visited by
numberless newspaper men, but the
lady ha3 quietly declined to talk with
any representative of toe piess. Mr.
Ovington reports that Mrs. Tilton in
formed Mr. Tilton Saturday morning
that in consequence of the course he had
taken henceforth their paths were apart,
WHAT HR. TILTON SAYS HRS. TILTON SAID,
The Union has tho following: Mr.
Tilton to-day said: The firet intimation
I had of the existence of Beecher’s in,
vestigation committee was an announce,
ment made to mo last Thursday night
by Mrs. Tilton, who informed me on h<r
coming in, after having been, as I sup
posed, spending a social evening with
some friend, that by Mr. Beecher’s ad
vice communicated to her through his
lawyer, she had just been before such a
committee and had answered some ques
tions put to her in advance by that law
yer for tho purpose of clearing Mr.
Beecher of the charges and imputations
made against him by public papers, in
connection with her name. She had
been informed, she told me, that her
testimony if given 03 required would put
an end to the trouble and she was will
ing to say any ting for tho cause of peace
and religion.
TILTON WILL HEAR OP NO COMPROMISE.
In answer to a question whether the
case was to be compromised, Tilton said;
I know nothing of future events. I only
know my present duty, which is to make
the sworn statement which I have prom
ised to tho committee of the exact facts
in the case. I have tried four years,
using my best wit, which has proved
small, in endeavoring to cloak and cancel
the facts which are now to be divulged.
The responsibility of divulging them be
longs to Mr. Beecher, who has commis
sioned six men of his own church to ex
amine into facts which, when they are
made known, will put an end to Mr.
Beecher’s ministry, show him to have
been guilty of a degree of criminality
which the world little suspects.
As to a compromise, I know nothing.
I shall accept none. It is a day of bat
tle and of death.
Reading: Thought.
The New York Literati are just now
puzzled by the experiments of one John
R. Brown, a young man of twenty-two,
from Iowa, who is hfghly charged “with
some mysterious power which gives him
control over the thoughts of others. He
does not claim to be a Spiritualist, and
distinctly says that prophecy is not a
part of his art. He takes the hand of
another and thus establishes a chain
along which tho magnetic current flows.
Brown’s mind is passive, or at least it
thinks only the thoughts which the brain
thinks with which it i3 in sympathetic
contact. The thoughts of the subject
whoso hand3 he holds are photographed
to his own brain, and hence the subject
can have no secret from the operator.
Yon may hide an article in any out
of the way place, and if you will concen
trate your thoughts upon the thing Mr.
Brown will take your hand and lead you
directly to it. Yon may write down the
name of any place or individual and Mr.
Brown, although not in the room when
you made the writing, will quickly spell
out the name for you. By means of a
copper wire ho can establish a current
between himself and yourself, and receive
tho brain messages. He is the battery
and you are the instrument. He has been
put to very severe tests by the skeptical
journalists and scientistis of New York,
and has acquitted himself in such a way
that tho greatest doubter cannot hesitate
to believe in his powers. He does simply
what he say3 he will do. He is a riddle
to himself, os he is to all who have seen
him operate. That his power is great is
undeniable, but just what it is is a ques
tion which the wisest cannot answer.
THE INDIANA DEMOCRACY.
Their Voice upon the Civil Rights
Bill.
The Indiana Democracy talks to the
point upon the Civil Rights BilL They
say:
The civil rights bill recently passed
by tbe Senate of the United States, and
now pending in the House of Represent
atives, presents an issue of vital moment
to the American people, and calls upon
them to decide at the ballot-box whether
they will or not be coerced to absolute
social, os well as political eauality of
the negro race with themselves. We
view with abhorrence this attempt on
the part of the Federal Government to
take control of all schools, colleges,
churches, hotels, railroads, steamboats,
theatres and graveyards for the purpose
of establishing negro equably, and the
enforcing of it under numerous penal
ties of fines, damages and imprison
ments. We arraign Senators Morton
and Pratt before toe people of Indiana
for their votes in favor of this atrocious
measure, and shall ask judgment against
them at the hands of their constituents,
whom they have misrepresented.
A Boston Wedding:.
Prom the Boston Journal.]
An Oregonian occupying a seat under
tho Old Elm on the Common last night,
was disturbed by the arrival of a small
party of ladies and gentlemen, headed by
Dr. Dio Lewis. The party halted under
tho gaslight, and forming in an irregular
half circle, a gentleman walked out hold
ing a paper in his hand. Immediately
another gentleman leading a lady stood
in the circle fronting the first named,
who in a low, musical voice, serenely au
dible, made a short address to the par
ties, who joined hands and then saluted
with a kiss. Dr. Dio Lewis stepped for
ward, and imitating toe example, minted
the lady and congratulated the gentle
man. Others followed, doing likewise,
and then toe party returned to toe Belle
vue parlors. The stranger inquired of a
gentleman who stood gazing at the re
treating party what this romantic episode
meant, and was rewarded with toe an
swer that toe Rev. Win. R. Alger had
just bound together in the bonds of holy
wedlock Mr. Fisher M. Clark and Mr*. S.
Helen Trip. The stranger dropped his
chin on his breast a moment and said,
Is that the way you do such things in
Boston ?” “It appears so.”
Tlie Chicago Fj Pe
The Tribune says editorially. E
cool-headed observer of the fi ’ * Ter 7
have felt that we have paid a J*! #, "*t
ally for allowing our magnifi® Al
ness center to be surrounded with bosi -
rookeries. We have co me off
The great gilded martyr around
tho fagots have been so nrofn^i ^
has not yet burned to death n ^
this small calamity will
save it; perhaps not. The-e ho * to
acres of territory burned* wT 80019
fagots and toe victim. The ^ n
the means of saving what is
let us thank God that the 1180 >
fato of every wooden building to
city is to be burned sometime w
now offered up 60 acr.s of our
blesas a sacrifice to the genCJ®*-
institutions—meaning, thereby th!
domof every man to keen a' W T*-
and an oil factory where it smit* v v 1 ®
Would that we could say tha‘ th m bes -
last of such mad folly. It * b
cago still has thousands upon thm, S’
of wooden shanties to feed fuwT 3s
and go down they will all in «J
THE RISE AND PROGRESS Or 7UXrt
X GRAPHIC DBSCRIPIIOS IS *~‘
The following general des^n*:
the progress of the fire and the J^ 0
the fire department to get
trol, is furnished by the Times • \ J?
east of the shanty, where too is S?
nated was a large brick oil refiner**?*
interior of which, with its Wee tail, ,
oU. was all ablaze before the Viivri
the second engine. Tho heat
by the burning of its inflammable Z 1
tents was intense, and when th» »
fell, hut a minute after the first
began to play upon it, the whole 2?
borhood for a radius of thirty S
around seemed to hurst forth into T
simultaneous blaze. Just north of tb
rag shop was a story and a half bt»
filled with hay, which flamed ud 5*«
instant, and tho ' ®
FLYING WISP3 OF BURNING HAT
lit on the roofs nearly a block 65rsT
With such rapidity did ihc fire spread
after it was first discovered that two
horses in this barn were burned to death
before they could be rescued. The (feu
or ton engines in the first district
speedily on the ground, and the mostri
them took their stations on Clark street
where Marshal Benner attempted to
check the northern spread of the flame.
Engine No. 21 and one other wa3 fe.
tioned on Fourth avenue, and a rigoras
fight with the advancing foe was c®.
menced at this point. In ten minute
after the first alarm the pine shanties
stretching eastward toward Fourth a;,
enue were all aflame for nearly hall a
square. At 4:40 o’clock, eleven minafe
after the first alarm was out, Msrshfi
Sweeney turned on the second alarm,
and the engines from the greater parted
the south division and from several ;j
the west side engine houses were soon it
the scene of peril. The heat arisbgfec
that half acre of
BLAZING PINE SHANTIIS i
was terrible, and the breeze stiffened as
the heat increased, hearing c’estroctin
to the dry roof3 that lay in the path e!
the destroyer. A large part of the aug.
mented fire force was concentrated c:
Fourth avenue, half way between Tay
lor and Twelfth streets, where they
worked with terrible energy to shy tie
progress of tho advancing enemy, h
twenty minntes after the first ahum the
roofs of the buildings on Fourth arane
were all afire for a width of a tea
buildings north of No. 2S5. At 4:31
o’clock, 22 minutes after the second
alarm, the general alarm was turned cn
by Assistant Marshal Petere. This last
warning brought to the spot the entire
fire force of the city at the time the
alarm was struck. Seven of the West-
side engines were at a small fire on the
comer of Ashland avenue and Twenty-
second street, and they were thus re
tarded nearly half an hour. In less
than half an hour the engines thit woe
posted on Fourth avenue, directly in the
path of tho fire, wero
COMPELLED TO BEAT A RETRIAL
All succeeded except engine compaiyil,
the colored company of the force, vie
delayed a minute too long and thefaas
bursting upon them before they hnl at
tached their horses to the engine, they
were compelled to abandon it, ad tie
handsomo steamer was warped cl
twisted into a mass of iron and steel
half melted in the fiery furnace that
girdled it. The fire had swept diagonally
across the block to the corner of Tsy’s
street and Fourth avenue, and was sp
icily eating its way through the reraiite
of the block fronting on Clark and Tsyis
streets. The Marshal stationed a mate
of engines on Clark street, and e:sy
effort was made to stay the uoifc"-
progress of tho flames along that ti’-
oughfare, but th? shanties from wbs
poured
A SWARM OF FALLEN WOMEN
laden down with wardrobes and fea
ture were ripo for destruction, is*
sooner had the torrents of .water art-
gnished the fire in one building tnsa •-
roof of tinder boxes still further to to
north would hurst into flame. Bat-y
most of too Marshal’s attention was <-•
rectod to the front of the fire, and ttes
energy was exerted to stay its 0*^
At the comer of Taylor and Fonrta aw-
nue, a large amount of hose was conct.-
trated and every effort was mice
keep the fire on the west s’-u-c 0.
avenue, hut the driving wind was
LADEN WITH BURNING
which lit on the roofs beyond, and ^
died them in an instant. The >■'
Baptist Church was the first buu®L »
go on toe east sido of the avenue.-
tittle over an hour after tho
the fire had swept over the
tween Clark street and Third a “
and had reached Polk on the n°rt--.j.‘,
southern boundary of the hurnt an--
extended east, in almost a stra 1 ?-* ^
running nearly parallel with A
street and about 300 feet north
The aim of the Marshal was sti--
the fire from tho front and to « ^
ably os possible its onward
wards the better built P 0 ? 08 ** v#
city- Tho front line of tn ? ^
nobly battled with by the 6* ? ^
were doing their best and not of
the gale, to which was due oTC
toe mischief, carried destruc •
their heads, and , ;El
ENCLOSED THEM ON , -
with a wall of fire. They P u
■takes and went to tho front
toe unequal battle was r JL s . ^
their efforts were in vain- 1 c j jy
were powerless to save ndso fl*
pine roof* to the westward, a
fire swept on as it P lea ^ l;
turned from its course an
the efforts of the depart® 6 ®,’ ^
reached State street, which
now attacked. Having Tto-
street the fire was in its S ^hsW
story frames was the rule ana ^
tinl structure the exception-
leaped gaily from .building ^ y
nqw and then skipping a s , ti rS
two to facilitate its progress,^
valiantly among these ston j*
most that could be done was _
it spreading southward, and
comptiahed. A steamer was ^ijjS
Harmon Court which forma t ^
limit on Stato street, and tn
nected therewith did valia
They fought the fire into
ITS VERY TEETH, ^
and to enable them to do bo, t jf-
a barricade out of a 1^ ; d ^
board, which waa held in |
pipemen, and thus the fiw ^'v^ord ^
ed so closely that the wg® inisfl't
fire. The wind increasing
broke through the alley di
street from Wabash L th» *
toe first time, about 60 doc*,
began to
cupolas and observatories,
of dollar* wero oonaumed er^v
Tn various newspaper? ojJj£
Cite afe said to own about 1 * 603
dollar* worth of real estate.