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lav 11.—Tho Times of this
t0SD .’»vs “there could hardly have
® ornlB! l,«r« critical situation than ex-
been upon the arrival of the
isted » 1 f u uss ia. The German gov-
gmpero'f b a bla to declare that a
^“movement was never entertained,
bortfle mo - s . nce ttere wa3 serious
but a . J-riifce counsels would pre-
^ eI WemaysupposePrincoGo r tscha.
ra' 1 - ,, fLJLjy expressed determina
te 5 c , as an enemy the first State
tiont t^ the-peace. In spite of Eng-
f^I^deof reserve, wo believe the
1804 ™.«t thought it a national duty in
f?* C l!Snt crisis to express es opinion
tbe ^Jaivelv in regard to the mainte-
-jirv _ rrWft rf'nTriTnnmen.t.iim
w , Ticiee. The communication
53,100 -Luc- read and a most satisfac-
*** retorted. France has ex-
‘ILd the acknowledgement of Eng.
that tho Czar
Tho Daily Telegraph is in-
that Russia has given England
gj and satisfactory assurances in
"^nt^May 14.—'The British steam-
^cSateffromHuU for Montreal,
15 blay^l Tho youth O’Con-
D ^X'cn the day of thanksgiving for
^’recovery of the Prince of Wales at-
Smnwd to shoot tho Queen, was again
‘ on the 5th instant. The Queen
a drawing-room at Bucking-
fp.lsceand O’Conner was found in
fX’to/ tbe railings from which he had,
Reformer occasion, pointed his pis-
tel at the Queen. He was arrested
Jmietlv and sent to Hanwell Asylum by
of Sir Thomas Henry, the Chief
jS-istrate of the Bow ^Street Police
<w, on certificates of physicians that
the prisoner was subject to suicidal and
homicidal impulses.
The agents of the Inman line of steam
ers received a dispatch from tho captain
of the steamer City of Brussels confirm-
the report that that vessel was
aihore. Tho captain reports that she
went ashore near Carnsore, Point Inland,
at a quarter past five o’clock this morn-
A dense fog prevailed. He expects
the steamer will ;come off by high water.
She lies in the soft sand and makes no
inter.
Paris, May IV—La Volatile Rationale,
0 r<*an of Prince Napoleon, in a leading
article, declares if tho Prince Imperial
should die, Prince Napoleon would never
claim the throne. The principle of her-
cditaiy succession is dated. A third em
pire accruing at the restoration of Prince
Napoleon, or his nephew, would end in
ruin The article concludes: “We never
doubted that France, even if consulted
through a plebiscite, would energetically
pronounce m favor of the republic, which
is the form of government most compat
ible with universal suffrage.”
Milwaukee, May 14.—The four dis
tilleries which had been released by the
court on special bonds resumed operations
yesterday. A dispatch was received from
Washington ordering officers to stop
them until they had given bonds in place
of those given on the 1st of May. The
distillers here telegraphed to distillers at
Chicago, St. Louis and elsewhere, pio-
posing to unite with them m testing the
constitutionality of tho internal revenue
set. A favorable reply was received
from Chicago, and the distillers have
resolved to proceed. They have retained
ei-Senator Carpenter to take the ques
tion into the courts.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., May 14.—While
the freight train was passing through on
arch at the Sing Sing State Prison, four
convicts jumped on the engine, presented
revolvers at the engineer and fireman,
and compelled them to get off, and then
cut the engine loose and started south
ward, nbindoning the engine three mile3
north of Tarrytown,
St. Louis, May 14 —Orders have been
issued from headquarters of the army
hen* that Indian prisoners now confined
at Fort Leavenworth be conveyed to St.
Augustine, Fla., and confined in Fort
Macon under special guards.
Baltimore, May 14.—About 500 bar
ids of whisky, the product of the 'West
ern distilleries recently closed by the
Government, were seized in this city.
The seizures were made at five or six dif
ferent warehouses.
New York, May 14.—The agent of the
Inman line has received the following
from Mr. Wm. Inman: “The Brussels
got off at 9 a. m. without assistance, and
proceeded on her voyage uninjured.”
Calias, Me., May 14.—Tho Methodist
Conference in session here yesterday or
dained six Chinamen as deacons.
V/AsnixaTOK, May 14.—Tho new Inter
nal Revenue C ommissioner will assume hi3
duties to-morrow. No immediate changes
ia his office are contemplated.
The Black Hill Sioux will be here to
morrow, and will be joined in a day or
two by the Brule and OgaDa, under Spot
ted Tail and Bed Cloud.
In consequence of prior engagements,
the President will not be able to attend
the Bunker Hill centennial celebration.
Judge Pierrepont will take charge of
the Department of Justice to-morrow.
There is nothing new in tbe whisky
raids, no prominent officers have been
dismissed, and the officials of tbe Treasu-
rj Department are still searching for
crooked whisky. A largo amount of
seizures are reported daily, and in many
cases the distillers and sellers manifest
disposition to appeal to the courts.
Montgomery, May 14.—C. Davis, late
postmaster at Union Springs plead guilty
in the United States Court to-day of em
bezzlement of funds from letters, ne
received, by request of the district at
torney,who stated that there were exten
uating circumstances, the lowest punish-
iM-.at,which was a sentence of six months*
imprisonment and fine to the amount of
the stolen money. Davis was a Eepubli-
can member of the Legislature ia 1872,
took his feat nt the Court-house which
elected Spencer to the Senate, and voted
.or him for Senator. Soon afterwards ho
was appointed postmaster.
Tteoxb, Pa., May 14.—Fifty men went
. worb at the Sterling mines this mom-
! n S- About 11 o’clock a fight took place
■otween tbe police and the strikers, and
tw° of the latter were arrested. There
^ not a police force sufficient to protect
ico workmen, and the sheriff is dilatory.
“ G-Contri, editor of VItalian, who
, 5? a y was captured by the strikers,
at Tyrone with forty Italians, deter-
Put them to work with proper
0 . tl( ' a - Affairs in Clearfield county
a hid state, and nothing short of a
Thu • ry .£ orco wiu suppress tho outrages,
niri ‘^tho opinion of the most intelligent
P r' tk] community.
South iu^ KCISC0 'May 14.—Sydney,New
advices say the bark St.
v, 10 ? 3 Adelaide, from Brisbane, enter-
Hhentt? a aud took a pilot on board,
he- i,, 0 wind chopped round, giving
- ’ain x* ore * 11114 tbe kart stood to sea
*£ a • "**t day she was discovered bot-
A steamer searched unavailingly
0 survivors of the wreck. She wa3
i jjJ? and sailed by Captain Eisterbrook,
sf aj i .? an « for many years a resident
CnJ!l/ 8ANCISC0 » May 14.—The steamer
-J °? C2, from Sydney, brings intelli-
Cea- , at .fho new South Wales Parlia-
c-enti.“** “eluded in the supply bill re-
of jrJL?? 8 *® 4 <45.000 for representation
tthihu- atb ^ales at tho international
Th »ir a at Philadelphia.
Hav l , n °ulu Commercial Advertiser of
ev/ *.*says in January last Z. S. Spald-
ji r 1T *d from San Francisco and made
'uto a 4lon 10 sugar planters to enter
inera f! :on, if act with San Francisco re-
tor nt r a cntire crop of the coming
•si (]; cxIL„ X _ c4 P rice ‘ Tho proposition
fixed price.
n.'‘‘approved,
of*tv. \? 8 ** May 14.—The suspension
Jin™? National Bank of Bio, at Bio de
jraim * U re P° rte4 by a London tele-
Citj**f»“J ccb °f the Inman line says the
U &e 1,84 a P Uofc on board
T»o* 9 sho erounded.
rtow *' f > N. Y., May 14.—Three of
the convicts who escaped from Sing Sing
were captured near Sleepy Hollow. They
hod stolen the clothing of the engineer
and fireman. The fourth one is being
hotly pressed, and will be caught.
Ottawa, Ont., May 14.—The Depart
ment of Justice has been informed that
several murders have recently been com
mitted in the Northwest Territories by
white men, who havo taken refuge in
Montana, U. S. An effort vrll be made
to recover the criminals for trial by
means of tho extradition treaty.
Detroit, May 14.—In the American
Social Science Association this morning,
Hon. Dorman B. Eaton, President of the
late Civil Service Commission, read a
paper on the Experiment of Civil Service
Beform in the United States, which was
extremely lengthy; but which wa3 list
ened to with marked attention by a large
audience.
Atlanta, May 14.—Three negroes, in
two cases of murder, have been tried and
sentenced, in the Superior Court here,
within two days, to be hung on the fourth
of Jane next.
Washington, May 14.—The nine
shrewd lawyers are of opinion that the
whisky men will beat the Government.
Secretary Bristow has been led into a
blander which, while it prostrates for the
moment an important industry, will give
the lawyers somehund red thousands and
secure nothing to the treasury.
Tho whisky frauds are still receiving
attention by the Treasury Department
and Solicitor Wilson, and they are con
tinually unearthing new frauds. Further
record evidence was discovered to-day
against the Union Copper distillery at
Chicago, and 150 barrels of spirits were
seized at their works. Three hnndred
barrels were also seized belonging to
Beris & Frazer, in St. Louis, fresh proof
having been obtained against them.
Photographic copies of internal revenue
returns are being made at the Treasury
Department and forwarded to the officers
in the different cities to aid them in sub
stantiating their charges. Among those
mode to-day was one from the gauger at
Cincinnati certifying that a certain num
ber of barrels of spirits had been emptied
and the stamps destroyed, in accordance
with the law, and upon further search
the same lot of spirits was found in Chi
cago in the original packages, thus con
clusively showing the collusion of the
gauger with the distilleries. On this
transaction alone the Government lost
$3,000.
On April 30th Mr. Wilson called upon
the Collectors of Internal Bevenue in
different localities to furnish certain in
formation concerning transactions in
their districts, but up to last night very
few of them had responded, and to-day
the Secretary of the Treasury called
upon them for an explanation of their
non-compliance, and for an immediate
reply- He is determined that all orders
of this nature shall be obeyed, or the col
lectors must take the consequences. A
large number of communications have
been received from different sections
from parties offering to furnish proof of
fraud, and the Secretary has directed all
such to furnish tho proof to the proper
officers, and if found valuablo and used
parties furnishing it will be remunerated.
Information reached hero thi3 morning
that the distillers in Milwaukee had call
ed upon those of St. Louis to combine
with "them in procuring the services of
Hon. Matt Carpenter to obtain their re
lease. In response to it Secretary Bris
tow sent dispatches to the supervisors at
Chicago, St. Loui3 and Milwaukee, in
forming them that the best legal assist
ance will be furnished them in their ef
forts to convict those under arrest, and
the Government is confident of establish
ing the guilt of all the parties. It hav
ing been intimated that the whisky ring
wili be able to furnish wealth and power
enough to corrupt some of the prosecu
ting officers, tho solicitor declared that it
could not be done, as the Government
attorneys in those sections were among
the most able and reliable connected with
the Government.
Charleston, May 14.—The eighty-
fifth annual convention of the Protestant
Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina,
which met yesterday, and includes thirty-
six clergy and eighty-nine lay delegates,
has been engaged for two days discussing
the application of St. Mark’s church of
Charleston, a respectable colored congre
gation with a white pastor, for admission
to representation in the convention.
The issue was made upon a motion to re
fer the application to a special committee
with instructions toreportnextyear. This
was supported by Hon. C. G. Memmin-
ger, Edward McCrady, W. F. Coleock and
others, and was warmly approved by
Bishop Howe, Bev. A. T. Peter, Eev. C.
C. Pinckney, Hon. G. A. Trenkolm and
others, who advocated immediate admis
sion. The question was taken up this
afternoon and a motion to refer was car
ried by a close vote. Eev. W. O. Pren
tiss then announced that he was request
ed by the St. Mark congregation to with
draw tbe application.
Josh Frazer, colored, wa3 hanged nt
Camden, in this State to-day, for the
murder of Benjamin Cooper in December
last. He was convicted on circumstan
tial evidence, but after conviction con
fessed tbe crime. On tho scaffold to-day
ho confessed that he had also mur
dered his wife and child and a negro
woman, and that he had burned many
barns and gin houses. He was perfectly
resigned. The rope slipped and death
was caused by strangulation in seven
minutes. Six thonsand persons were
present. There was great religious ex.
citement. No disturbance occurred.
Lexington, May 14.—The condition of
Gen. Breckenridge remains unchanged.
He is still free from pain, and those in
attendance upon him are less apprehen
sive of his sudden death than they were.
He saw a few visitors to-day.
New York, May 14.—Mutuals 2;
Philadelphia 1. The only counts were
mode in the first innings.
New Haven, May 14.—Earvards2;
New Havens 9.
London, March 15.—One of the Schil
ler officers has informed a correspondent
of the Standard that many persons on
board the steamer were drunk when she
struck, and that several firemen and many
steerage passengers lay helpless until
they were swept away by the waves.
Thus far about one hundred anjd thirty
bodies of the dead have been recovered
from tbe wreck of tho Schiller. Of those
which havo been taken from tho water
just lately are the bodies of the following
persons: Jacob Bronner, L. Fathrig,
chief engineer of the Schiller; William
Fralun, Davenport, Iowa; Fritz Thomas,
Michael Harlomann, Highland, Illinois ;
Holm Leonard, (probably one of the
Leonhardts of Augusta, Ga.); Mrs. Lech,
linolsdn; the body of a lady having a ring
marked “Hermann Stinkeisen” on one of
the fingers ; the bodies of two firemen ;
tho bodies of two sailors; five bodies of
females, and the bodies of some other of
the passengers, males, which remain uni
dentified.
Paris, May 15.—M. Bonber informed
tho Government that the ex-Empress Eu
genie will accept no compromise of her
claims cn the civil list, and will not bring
an action demanding a fulfillment of the
convention concluded by the De Broglie
ininistiy-
Berlin, May 15.—The inquiry institu
ted into the Catholic societies of Berlin
at tho time of Hallman’s attempt to
shoot Bismarck ha3 been closed. The
public prosecutor has mode charges
against their directors, and tho casc3 will
come up for trial in June.—[Of coarse
with courts organized to convict, the re-
suit is easily guessed.]
New York, May 15.—The rate of duty
to which hosiery and other cotton goods
are subject was paid upon silks alleged to
have been smuggled through the apprais
er’s office at under-valuation by Chas. L.
Lawrence. The difference between silks
which was paid is, it i3 claimed $1,330,400,
and suit was begnn yesterday in the U.
States Coart to recover that amount from
Lawrence.
Hartford, March 15.—Athletics, 2;
Hartfords, 12.
Washington, May 15,—Ho successor
to Bush Burgess, Collector of the Bich-
mond district, has been named.
The Indian prisoners confined at Leav
enworth will be removed to Fort Marion.
Florida.
Judge Pierrepont and ex-Senator Pratt
assumed their positions to-day as Attor
ney General and Commissioner of Inter
nal Bevenue.
A terror-stricken knave of Baltimore
sends to the Treasury over three thou
sand dollars which he had withheld from
the Treasury.
The Postoffice Department has brought
suit against the Postmaster at Calvert,
Texas, for a defalcation of postal rev
enues amounting to $700. This is the
fourth successive postmaster who has
been prosecuted for embezzlement the
past four years.
Ex-Senator Bright, formerly of Indiana
and now a resident of Baltimore, is lying
there dangerously ill with rheumatism of
the heart.
Springfield, Mass., May 15.—Samuel
White, a prominent citizen of Lndlow,
was bitten in tbe thigh by a boar this
forenoon and bled to death before assist
ance could reach him.
Boston, May 15.—Fifty thousand dol
lars’ worth of alleged crooked whisky ha3
been seized here.
Btjtland, Vt., May 15.—Tho Bipley
brick opera house has been burned. Loss
$7,000.
Augusta, May 15.—Judge Gibson re
fuses to grant an injnnction restraining
the Georgia Bailroad Companv from pay
ing interest on the bonds of the Western
railroad of Alabama, on the ground that
the question of facts involved should go
before a jury.
John P. Branch, s& Virginia, has ap
plied for injnnction in the United States
Court at Savannah to restrain the sale of
the Macon and Brunswick railroad, which
is advertised to take place in June next
on the ground that no provision is made
for tho payment of the second series of
bonds endorsed by the State and repudi
ated by tho Legislature, a portion of said
bonds being held by Branch. Arguments
in the case will be heard on Monday be
fore Judge Bradley.
Washington, May 15. — The Post
master General ha3 issued an order re
ducing the postage to and from all coun
tries with which postal conventions have
not been concluded, from ten cent3 to
five cents for each half ounco or fraction
thereof.
The Postmaster General to-day issued
the following order:
"Ordered, that seccion 103 of tho reg
ulations of the Postoffice Department be
amended by striking out the words ‘and
the subscription must he for less than
three months’ in tho 7th and 8th lines,
and tho section so amended shall he as
follows ; Section 103—a regular subscri
ber is a person who has actually paid or
undertaken to pay a subscription price
for a newspaper, magazine or
other periodical, or for' whom
such payment has been made or under
taken, with the previous consent or at
the previous request of tho person to
whom such newspaper, magazine or pe
riodical is sent. A person to whom any
such publication is sent without his con
sent or request is not a regular subscri
ber witbin the meaning of the law, and
double transient rates of postage must
be charged and collected on such publi
cations before delivery.”
(Signed) Marshall Jewell,
Postmaster General.
Note to Posthaste us.—Postmasters
will observe that by this amendment of
the 103d section of the regulations, per
sons who are subscribers to a newspaper
or periodical, as defined in the regula
tions, are to be regarded as regular sub
scribers witbin the amendment of the
postal laws, without regard to the length
of time of their subscription.
New York, May 15.—Six steamers
sailed for Europe to-day, taking out
1,006 cabinand 1,293 steerage passengers.
Specie shipments for the week $2,223,-
115.
Deaths this week 543.
Weekly imports $4,550,862, including
$1,339,776 dry goods. The remainder
general merchandise.
Paris, May 15.—The Natioaal Assem
bly to-day rejected the principal clauses
of the savings bank bill, and it was
thereupon withdrawn by the committee
having it in charge.
The Chamber adjourned till Tuesday.
London, May 15.—The Pall Mall Ga
zette says: “Bussia, annoyed at Eng
land’s persistent refusal to participate in
the St. Petersburg conference, and the
coolness of the other countries, intends
giving tho force of law to the declaration
of the Brussels conference negotiations,
separately with the powers to induce
their adherence thereto.
Vienna, May 15.—The Emperor Fran
cis Joseph, who has been making a tour
of his dominions, returned to this city
to-day, and was enthusiastically received
by the populace.
Motes on the Way.
The great Scott vs. Garrett war has a
confusing effect on travel to and from
the South. There were passengers on
our train bent on getting to Washington
with a ticket which they subsequently
discovered would not take them there.
There were matrimonial couples travel
ing on tickets which would divide them.
Others were going by one route while
their baggage wa3 checked by another,
and the confusion and difficulty were ag
gravated by tho impossibility of getting
any certain information even from tho
officers of the train. None of them could
tell in advance why one ticket would fail
to take you through Washington and
which ticket failed to do it, and even
tickets by dissimilar routes were often
pronounced identical.
The point of divergence, however, is
at Alexandria, seven miles below Wash
ington, where the Baltimore and Ohio
party have tunnelled a descent to tho
river and transfer their cars across it
npon a float, driven by a tug. Here the
train takes water and makes a voyage of
about four miles across to Shepherd’s
Point, from which a branch road leads to
the main stem of tho Baltimore and
Washington branch of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad
Meantime the Tom Scott passengers
pursue their way up the river bank—
across Long Bridge—into Washington
and thence to New York by the Balti
more and Potomac route. When they
left U3 at Alexandria we thought the sep
aration final, but at the Jersey City ferry
they turned np again, and we entered
New York together Sunday morning, the
9th instant, in a fog so dense that noth
ing was visible a hundred yards off.
Tho incessant clatter of the fog bells
impressed the mind of the ruralist with
the idea that he had landed among a
people extremely anxious to get to church,
and bent on going early and often, but
the never-ending screams of tho steam
whistles enlightened him as to the pur
pose of all this tintinnabulation. What
an enemy to locomotion are these dense
fogs of our seaboard, and how many lives
axe lost on account of them.
It was a misty, moisty morning—with
a temperature of about fifty, and the
vapor on the grass elosely resembling
frost. The leaf-buds had hardly burst.
There is tho same corresponding back
wardness of season North and South, but
tho markets hero show almcst every vege
table of midsummer, and abound in
squashes, cucumbers, pea3, new potatoes,
asparagus and the like from the South
ern and tho West India islands. Seasons
make little difference in market supplies
here.
I find a great ebaugo wrought in tho
tone of these people since September,
1S73—the period of the great crash.
There is a wonderful sobering down and
a moderating of expectation. The point
now is not a fortune,but a subsistence,
and fortification against tho assaults of a
protracted period of dull times and light
trade. C.
At a recent sale in Paris of pictures by
the deceased Spanish, artist Fortuny, Mr.
A. T. Stewart gave 49,800 francs for a
picture of the beach at Portici, and 24,-
000 francs for one of the lower court yard
of the Alhambra.
Ye Jolly Fishermen.
Apalachicola, Fla., May 10,1875.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: The
“Central Georgia Bed Snapper Fishing
Club” has become a regular, well organ
ized institution, having laid under contri
bution Augusta, Macon and Columbus to
furnish the. requisite material, and well
have they responded to the demand. Not
wishing to leave our sister city, Atlanta,
out in the cold, one genial affiliating
spirit from that burg was initiated, and
ere this pawed and raised into the sublime
degree of Master Snapper Fisherman.
The club is critically well organized
and officered, having for commodore and
quartermaster veterans of tested worth
and experience, under whose preparation
and guidance all felt confidence in its
success.
Orders were issued for the members
from Augusta to meet those of Macon at
the depot in your city at sharp 8 a. m. on
the 6th instant, promptness and alacrity
being distinguished characteristics in
tbe organization. It was with a com
mendable pride one saw the unanimous
response made to the call.
One of the exacting rules of the dab
is for an uniform and outfit of entire ap
propriateness in all its details, including
kind and quality of material, color and
style, even to the head-gear. And for
any default of minute exactness in com
ing up to the requirements, the delin
quent was made to feel he could not
with impnnity set at defiance such neces
sary and appropriate regulations. From
some strange mental hallncination about
forty members of the club, each consid
ering his own case to have some peculiar
justifiable merit, probably having close
and intimate connections with depleted
financial resources, made drafts for
their outfits on wrecked and depleted
wardrobes, and reported ready for service
in as variegated and grotesque an outfit
as a premeditated and laborious prepara
tion to that end could have arranged.
Tho first impulse was to vote out of the
club such as so wantonly set at defiance
one of the primary rules, but on compar
ing notes they were found so overwhelm
ingly in tho majority that it come to be
a question whether the rnle-observing
portion were not likely to bo voted the
privilege of remaining at home. A com
promise was effected, and the rule sus
pended. The danger thus passed, all
boarded tho cars bound for Fort Gaines.
Five o’clock brought the club to this
port, where they lay at anchor off the bar
-waiting for the good steamboat Julia St.
Clair, with the Columbus portion of the
club.
Our sister city had done herself infinite
credit in the quality of her material,
coming fully up to the standard furnished
by Augusta and Macon. In one hour we
were under headway down the river, with
a strong current, making good speed, for
Fort Jackson. At 11 p. h. wo hauled up
to wood, requiring sixty cords to be taken
aboard by sunrise. This required re
markable industry in a corps of colored
Americans, who worked with a will, un
der tho inspiring influence of the old me
lodious plantation songs. The inspira
tion becoming contagious, tho refrain
was caught up by the boat’s choiristers,
and there come swelling up over the tur
bid waters and quiet valleys of the Chat
tahoochee a volume of melody to be heard
only to be appreciated. Imagine a score
of musical voices pouring forth in tho
dead hour of night the soothing and sug
gestive ditty:
"I wish I had a jug of rum.
And sugar by tho pound;
A great big bowl to put it in.
And a spoon to stir it ’round.”
Obtaining sleep under such circum
stances was surrounded by insurmounta
ble difficulties. A majority of tbe club
passed the night in reviewing the history
of the early settlement of this land of
wonders—its rise to influence, opulence
and wealth—its final decline and stagna
tion to a point painful to the reflective
patriot and moralist.
Our destination is gulfward, and sun
rise found us under way in that direction.
A vote taken decided going into the
“Dead Lakes,” and at noon wo entered
the Chipola Cut Off, and from this point
to entering the lakes, five miles of more
difficult steamboat navigation cannot be
searched out on the face of the globe.
Two hours of turning, twisting, forward
ing, backing, windlassing, poling and
hawsering, brought the boat into the
lakes.
How suggestively and appropriately
named ! A more wild, wierd, unforbid
ding locality would be difficult to con
ceive. The waters termed the lakes are
about two miles wide by twenty long,
and averaging some twenty feet deep.
They are, in fact, only a spread of the
Chipola river, which i3 navigable by
barges to Marianna, 150 miles distant.
With the exception of narrow, sinuous
channels the whole body of water is cov
ered with a dense growth of cypress, from
the trunks and branches of which hang
in long pendant festoons the parasitical,
malarial long moss, water transparent,
and having a light brown tingo caused by
vegetable contact. Slowly working our
way up about three miles we cabled to
a cypress and preparations were made for
capturing a dinner. Perch, bream and
trout are in abundance. Half a dozen
boats fully equipped with men and ma
terial put off, each seeking some apparent
favorable locality, and the sport com
mences in earnest. Fish, and of epicu
rean quality, are caught in abundance,
and with voracious appetites all partook
of a square meal, tho fruits of the sweat
of their brows. Scientists assert a fish
diet as promoting healthy, vigorous action
of tho brain, and hero was a fine opportu
nity of testing the theory—a favorable
combination of circumstances assisted in a
remarkable degree in the investigation.
As the evening cast its shadows over
this gloomy, desolate place, an enemy of
formidable ability to successful irritable
annoyance appeared in overwhelming
numbers, equal to any one of the Egyp
tian plagues. The club was not properly
fortified against the fierce attacks of this
newly found, insidious foe. Tho rules of
the club requires its members to read
each evening such works as mostintimte-
ly relate to this particular section, that
they may be wellinformod in everything
appertaining thereto, and even hero in the
lakes this rule was not relaxed. One by
one tho books wore closed, and the stu
dents retiring for sweet, refreshing sleep,
“but not for Joo." Ejaculations moro
energetic than reverential were heard
from various quarters, constantly in
creasing in frequency and force
until the commodoro succumbed to the
persistent attacks of an overwhelming
army of voraciously hungry Florida mus-
quitoes. Seeing tho contest inevitable,
preparation was made for the fight. One
by one the club were driven from their
moorings and drifted into the cabin. The
intellectual excitement ran high, and the
youthful indiscretions and episodes in
the history of many prominent members
was taken into review. A venerable ex-
Maconite, now luxuriating on the banks
of the Chattahoochee, was thoroughly
and successfully interviewed. His past
life furnished a mine of wealth for the
merriment of all. His early associates
come in for a share, and scene after
scene of past records were unrolled and
severally criticised. Missing the ex
citement from the necessity of whiling
away time, tho musical talent wa3
brought into requisition, floating out
upon the lakes and it3 wierd surround
ings such a hilarious entertainment never
before resounding through these solitary
abodes. Another day of successful fish
ing and another night’s entertainment,
and early on tho morning of the 9th we
pulled up stakes, wormed back into the
river and headed for Apalachicola, where
wc dropped anchor in front of the town
at 2 p. si. To-morrow we go into the
bay, and if another opportunity of send
ing a letter presents itself I will forward
further notes. Aquatic,
“Hill nisi! kill him 1” shouted a
crowd in Virginia City, Nevada, as they
gathered around a hotel. “What for?”
inquired a stranger. “He's got on alliga
tor boots and a velvet coat. Mash *im l"
George H. Price’s Account of tbe At
tempt to Bob and Harter Him, and
tbe Killing of the Would-be Assas
sin—Cool Nerve aad Hard j Courage.
Courisr-Jonraa], 12th inst-J
A wonderful example of the nerve and
presence of mind possessed by some men
was probably never more forcibly illus
trated than in the case of George H.
Price, the Adams express messenger who
killed H. C. Brinkley, near Lima, Ohio,
last week Though many accounts have
been published concerning the deed, few
can lay claim to accuracy or correctness,
especially the interviews Pittsburg re
porters allege to have had with Mr. Price,
who never saw them that he remembers
of, and he says his memory is a first class
one.
The hero of the daring affair, a Louis
ville man, and formerly editor of Our Ex
pressman, when that journal was publish
ed in Lonisville, returned to his family,
at 70 Eighteenth street, Monday. In con
versation with a Courier-Journal reporter
yesterday, he related the appended ac
count of his peril on last Friday morning,
when attacked by the robber Brinkley:
“I am an express messenger, running
between Chicago and Pittsbnrg, bnt have
lived in Lonisville for ten or twelve
years. For the past two months I have
been on this ronte, but before that ran
between Lonisville and Memphis. I left
Chicago Thursday, May 6, at 5 p. at., for
Pittsburg. My car was fastened on the
inside. The train had proceeded to Lima,
Ohio, when I arose and filled the stove
in the car with coal. We had gone a short
distance from Lima when I suddenly be
came aware of the presence of some one
in the cor by the command of
SURRENDER!
“I was on my feet in an instant, and
took in the situation at a glance. 'The
car was well lighted with candles, such
as ore used on railroads. The man who
had so suddenly entered was between me
and my pistol, which lay on my *P. P.’
chest containing small valuable packages.
I dodged down behind him and reached
for my pistol. As I did so, the fellow
fired at me. His shot struck my right
shoulder. We stood within one foot of
each other. I grabbed my pistol, a
Smith & Wesson, with my left hand, and
immediately changed it into my other,
raising the hammer as I sprang into the
rear part of the car. As I turned to face
him, I saw the flash of his pistol again,
and throwing np my left arm received his
shot just above the wrist, from which it
glanced to my left cheek near the chin.
By this time I had
SIT PISTOL LEVELED
at him, and knowing that unless I fired
he might again shoot and perhaps kill
me, I pulled tho trigger of my weapon.
A flash and report followed, and he fell,
uttering no sound whatever as he did
so. I then cocked my pistol again and
waited a second or two, but seeing ho
did not move, went forward and exam
ined hi3 body; found him dead. I then
pulled the bell-cord and stopped the
train. Tho brakeman came to my car
door, which I had opened.. I told him to
look there and see what I had done, de
signating the corpse us I spoke. The
brakeman called tho conductor, who got
into the car with the rest of us, when we
found the
ROBBER HAD HADE AN ENTRANCE
to the car by sawing the lower panel out
of the door of the rear end, which was
below somo bags of corn, and thus hid
den from my view. He made this hole
by sawing the panel as the train went
along, the noiso of traveling preventing
my hearing tho sound of his sawing. My
car should havo been next to the engine,
but a refrigerator car intervened, thus
placing my coach between that one and
the baggage car. I have sinced learned
that tho man boarded our train at Fort
Wayne, Indiana, and probably crawled
over the baggage car to the rear platform
of mine and there did his sawing as the
train moved along the route. The con
ductor, the brakeman and I went up to
tho body, and tho first-named
PULLED OFF A MASK
which rested on the face of the dead. It
was a piece of black cambric and hung
from the top of hi3 head to the waist, was
fastened to tho body with a string and
had eye-holes, and an aperture for breath
ing, strongly reminding one of the regu
lar kuklur raiment. We did dot recog
nize his face, and let the body remain
where it had fallen. The train proceeded
on to Forest, Ohio, tho brakeman remain
ing with me in my car during this part
of the trip. At Forest, I sent
DISPATCHES TO MY ROUTE AGENT
at Mansfield, Ohio, and also onr agent at
Crestline, Ohio, to have some one ready
to take my ronte, as I did not consider
myself able to make tho route through.
When we arrived at Crestline a messen
ger relieved mo. We put tho dead man
off at this point, and hero he was soon
recognized as
H. C. BRINKLEY,
a former conductor of the Pittsburgh,
Ft. Wayne and Chicago rood, who hod
been discharged two weeks before on ac
count of hi3 bad associations. I went to
Mansfield, Ohio, where I laid over and
saw our route agent. Here I had the
ball taken out of my shoulder by the
railroad surgeon, who said my wounds,
being merely of the flesh, would be all
right in a few days. The ball that glanced
into my chin lodged somewhere in the
car after it passed out. From Mansfield
I went back to Crestlino with the route
agent, W. H. Damsel, Esq. The authori
ties of this place refused to hold an in
quest on the body of Brinkley, a3 ho had
been killed in Allen county. We then
took the corpse to Lima, Ohio, where the
inquest wa3* held, the jury returning a
verdict of
JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE,
inasmuch as I had killed Brinkley in self-
defense, after liis two shots hod first hit
me. From Lima I went to Pittsburg,
then to Cincinnati, and there saw the
superintendent of the Adams Express
Company, Mr. J. H. Bhodes. I left Cin
cinnati Sunday night, and arrived in
Louisville at 1 o’clock Monday morning.
My wife had been made aware of what
had happened by telegrams. I will leave
Louisville to-night for Cincinnati, to be
present at a meeting of tho Erpres3 di
rectors to-morrow.”
HOW MR. PRICE FELT.
“When I saw Brinkley shooting I never
felt the least bit afraid, and thought only
of saving my sealed safe containing the
company’s valuable packages of money,
tho amount of which I am not aware of,
though it was considerable.
“My pistol ball, I afterwards ascertain
ed, entered directly over Brinkley’s right
eye. It was afterwards extracted and
found to bo slightly flattened, as if it had
struck a bone. It was taken ont of the
back part of his head. When I fired we
were about eight or ten feet apart.
“THE WOULD-BE AS3A8SIN
was a resident of Fort Wayne, where he
had lived some years, and leaves a wife
and two children, one a daughter of six
teen and the other a boy of five. His
family aro much respected by Fort Wayne
people. I do not know it to be so, but
think Brinkley had accomplices to whom
he would have thrown the safe after se
curing mo. It i3 hard to say whether
Brinkley intended to kill, but his actions
tended that way. Besides his pistol, a
smaller Smith & Wesson than mine, he
had a coupling oak block and a rope
around his left arm made into a slip
noose, with which he doubtless intended
to tie, strangle or gag me. I regret the
affair occurred for his family’s sake, but
it wa3 for either him or me to die, and
you know what i3 said about self-preser
vation.”
Mr. Price i3 Tery well known, and gen
erally liked by his Louisville acquaint
ances. He has a pleasant face, and
weighs 193 pounds. His age is 32 years.
Brinkley was 38. It is said that the wife
of the latter has become deranged since
the deed.
The committee of the “Machinists and
Blacksmiths’ Union No. 5,” will accept
our thanks for an invitation to attend
their second animal “basket picnic,” to be
.given at Colaparchee, on the Macon and
Western railroad, next Thursday* tbe
20th instant.
Tbe School Question—"What
Has Been Accomplished*
Editors Telegraph and Messengers Since
writing my last a short interval has
elapsed, the temporary interruption being
occasioned by the pressure of official du
ties and my absence at Griffin, during
the recent meeting of the Georgia
Teachers’ Association. There may be
irregularity in the appearance of these
papers in the future, as I am not in a po
sition to control my time. Official duty
must not be neglected. I will say once
for all, however, that I shall continue to
write as regularly as I can, and shall en
deavor to make each communication brief
and pointed, and as nearly complete in
itself as may bo practicable.
I sometimes hear it said that our school
system has accomplished hut little—that
it has been tried, and has proved a fail
ure. I have very rarely heard this objec
tion from the lips of intelligent men.
When I have, a little conversation has
sufficed to develop the fact that they had
not sought to inform themselves on this
particular subject. I state the objection
because it affords me the opportunity to
give briefly what has been accomplished.
La doing this, I shall repeat much of
what has been contained in official papers
published by me from time to time. I
shall venture on this repetition for the
reason that the facts contained in these
official papers have failed to reach the
people. School officers have received the
publications containing them, and they
nave been placed within the reach of the
members of the General Assembly. I am
seeking to reach the masses of the people.
The interest which I am endeavoring to
represent is their interest—not mine. I
would not force any system, however
fraught with benefits, upon an unwilling
people. Sound reasoning and the solid
array of facts which may be presented
will, in my judgment, force the public
school system upon our people, by con
vincing them that their interests require
the system to be sustained. Toward the
accomplishment of this end, I desire to
contribute my part.
The first public school law enacted un
der the present constitution, was passed
October 13,1870. Under this law schools
were put in operation in many counties
of the State, in the month of August,
1871. Tho report of my predecessor,
which was doubtless very incomplete,
shows that thero were enrolled in the
schools 42,914 white pupils and 6,664 col
ored, making a total of 49,578. The
small number entering the schools was
doubtless partly due to the fact that tho
system was new and untried, but much
more largely to the entire lack of confi
dence on the part of the better portion of
our people in tbe State administration of
that period. Many good citizens ac
cepted the subordinate school offices, and
no doubt, made honest exertions to ac
complish the best work possible under
the circumstances. A few of a different
character, as I have reason to believe,
were put into these positions, and dis
charged the duties as such men might
have been expected to discharge them.
They promised to teachers sums largely in
excess of what they had been in the
habit of earning, either upon the idea
that “whit comes easy should go easy,”
or upon the equally loose view, that, as
the teachers would not be likely, in the
end, to get more than one-third or one-
half of the amount promised, it was
proper to take that fact into account in
fixing their compensation. Assurances
had been given that the necessary funds
wonld bo forthcoming at tho proper
time. These assurances were given, too,
in the face of tho fact that every dollar
collected under the constitution for the
support of schools had been appropria
ted to other use3 under a law passed
moro than twelve months before the
first school was put in operation. As
might have been expected, when tho
time of payment arrived, tho wherewith
al to make the payment was wanting.
The operations of that year exhibit a
strange combination of recklessness, or
lack of foresight, on tho part of the
head of the department, with an unu
sual want of care in looking into the
grounds of promises, on the part of
those, who rendered services. Very many
innocent persons among those who ren
dered services were no doubt deceived.
No person exercising the care that
thoughtful men usually exercise, ought
to have been. It must be admitted that
our school operations for the first year
under our present system, were a failure.
But it may be asked m what branch of
the public service under the Bullock ad
ministration was success achieved ? Was
it in the management of the State road?
Was it in any of the departments of the
State government, legislative, judicial or
executive? Vast numbers of our people
think not. Must the public school sys
tem be condemned on acconnt of this ad
mitted failure ? The same rule of judg
ing would condemn the scheme of State
government itself. Equally as strong an
argument can bo made against State gov
ernment on the ground of failure at that
particular period.
Let us trace the subsequent history of
onr public school operations. At the be
ginning of the year 1872 the present State
administration came into power, and I
had the honor of being placed in the po
sition which I now hold. The difficulties
of the position were very great. Let us
take a calm survey of the surroundings.
I received as an inheritance from my
predecessor a debt of about $300,000.
There was not a cent in the treasury with
which to meet this indebtedness, or to re-
inaugurate school work throughout the
State. The friends of public schools were
dispirited, quite a number of them having
lost all hope in consequence of the disas
ters of the previous year. Those un
friendly to the system took courage and
cast into the teeth of its friends the
stereotyped "I told you so.” Letters
from all quarters kept pouring in upon
the department. Nine hundred and thirty-
nine of these wore received that year,
the replies to which covered nine hundred
and fifty pages of written matter, as my
letter-books show. Alargenumberofthese
letters related to the failure to meetthe ob
ligations of 1871. The state of things above
sketched convinced me that it would be
folly to attempt to put schools in operation
in1872, and one of my first official acts wa3
to issuo a circular advising school officers
accordingly, and recommending them to
turn the thonght3 of the people to such
private schools as were ip existence, or
were likely to be established. Firmly
believing in “the omnipotence of hon
esty,” I made it up in my mind that if the
people were deoeived in the future, I
wonld not be the instrument of that de
ception. My mind was next turned to
our financial status as to schools. My
investigations resulted in the production
of a pamphlet on that subject, which
was circulated among the school officers
of the State. I then directed my atten
tion to the mistakes and defects of the
existing school laws, and my first report
related mainly to the changes which I
considered necessary. To the Legislature
which convened in the summer of that
year, the friends of public schools are
under lasting obligations. They passed
a law making provision for tho par
tial payment of the debt of 1871,
repealed the general school law which
was then in force, and passed a new
one, retaining all that was valuable
in the old, and embodying sach im
provements as had been suggested by
reflection and experience. The year
1873 opened with much brighter pros
pects. The school funds whioh had
been accumulating from the regular
sources had been faithfully kept. Tho
law providing for tho payment of the
debt of 1871 had yielded $174,000, which
was apportioned among the counties,
and faithfully disbursed. Upon an accu
rate calculation it was found that this
sum had moro than replaced all school
funds that hod passed into the treasury
from the 6th of August, 1870, up to the
19th of August. 1872, by the sum of $7,-
610.25. Thus it will be seen that, under
the present administration, the people
were taxed to replace a large portion of
the school fund seized and squandered
under the preceding. The regular school
fund had accumulated to the amount of
$250,000, which was also properly appor
tioned. The schools of 1873, which were
put in operation under instructions issued
in that year,accomplished agood work
under the circumstances. Sly annual
report shows that there were in attend
ance upon the schools 63,922 white chil
dren, and 19,755 colored, making a total
of 83,677. The perfect good faith kept
on the part of the State in 1873 inspired
increased confidence, as evinced by the
large additions to the attendance npon
the schools of 1874. There were in the
schools of the last named year as follows:
White children, 93,167; colored, 42,374;
total 135,541, being an increase over the
attendance of the former year of 51,864.
The amount of school funds apportioned
in 1874 was $265,000, which was sufficient
to pay to each pupil in attendance upon
the schools an average of $195, It'will
he thus seen that we are not able to pay
the entire expenses of the three months*
schools for which the law provides.
What is paid, however, acts as a stimu
lus and brings large numbers into the
school3 who wonld otherwise never en
ter. Many, who are thus brought in,
continue as pupils after the public
schools are turned into private schools.
The school officers in some portions of
the State testify that the number of pn-
pils in the schools last year, in their sev
eral counties, was at least doable that of
any :year since the close of the war.
Many persons seem to think that a three
months’ school can accomplish hut little
good. They forget that the school age
reaches from six to eighteen, a period of
twelve years. With these limited ad
vantages no youth will be excusable, who
grows up to maturity without acquiring
a good elementary English education.
If we could make our schools absolutely
free* a school of from four to six months
duration would perhaps, at present, meet
the wants of the greater portion of onr
people. We arc, in the main, an agricul
tural people, and the necessities of our
farmers are such, at the present, as to
compel them to employ their sons for a
considerable portion of the year in farm
work, and their daughters are needed
much of the time in domestic service.
Of course an intelligent population would
desire, and, if able, would have schools
of longer duration. We shall never have
prosperous free schools of longer or
shorter duration, however, till our Legis
lature shall confer upon the people of the
counties a well guarded power of taxing
themselves for school purposes. For this
I have been laboring for the last three
years. In a future paper I propose to
discus3 this branch of the subject. I
shall only say at the present, that I have
good reason to belive that a majority of
the people are with me.
Upon a calm survey of the labor of the
last three years, I think I may state the
following aa the results that have been
achieved:
While wo havo failed to obtain legisla
tion much needed, hostile legislation has,
in every instance in which it has been
attempted, been defeated, and sometimes
by very large majorities.
Our schools, during the last two years,
have accomplished much good.
A wide-spread interest has been awak
ened in the mind3 of our people in relation
to our schools.
Universal confidence has been restored.
A thorough organization has been ef
fected throughout the entire State.
I look with pride upon what ba3 been
accomplished. Gustavus J. Orb.
^Communicated.]
Southern Baptist Convention.
The Southern Baptist Convention re
cognized and cordially received Dr. La-
throp, of New York, as a messenger of
the Northern Home Mission Society, and
ten delegates were appointed to repre
sent tho Southern Baptist Convention at
the approaching anniversary meeting of
the Home Mission Society at Philadel
phia, May 25, with permission to increase
their number indefinitely. But, in re
sponse to a communication from the
Home Mission Society, a report was
adopted which expressly disavowed the
desirability or probability of any organic
union or co-operation between the con
vention and the H. M. Society, while it
expressed the strongest fraternal feelings.
Dr. Cutting, Secretary of the Baptist
Educational Commission, was received iu
u manner highly gratifying to himself,
and the convention, after some speeches
of extraordinary power and eloquence,
commended the educational centennial
movement.
In regard to conveying religious in
instruction to the negroes, the committee
acknowledged it to be a sacred duty and
a privilege, but said that the main re
sponsibility of it rested on those who had
emancipated and enfranchised them.
We could endow no colleges for them,
and conld only sustain students in the
Institutes established in tho South by
the Home Mission Society.
Tho finances of the Foreign Board
were declared in a gratifying state, and
it was resolved to build the Borne chapel
a3 soon as possible—$21,000 being
raised for that purpose—and to press
vigorously the mission work in Africa.
Bev. J. B. Hartwell is on his way homo
with his wife, who is in very bad health.
Dr. M. T. Sumner declined a re-elec
tion as Secretary of the Home Mission
Board, and Dr. B. Manly, of Kentucky,
was elected corresponding secretary,
Should he not accept, the Convention in
structed tho Home Board to secure the
services of Dr. Sumner until his success
or enters npon his duties. He, therefore,
is likely to retain hi3 position, as Dr.
Manly’s acceptance is very uncertain,
and it is considered doubtful whether or
not the Home Board ha3 the right to
elect any one else.
Hind Word*, the Sunday school paper
of the Convention, was left in statu quo—
to be edited by Eev. S. Boykin, and pub,
lished by J. W. Burke & Co. on the same
terms as before. This guarantees its
publication for a year from June 1st,
without tho possibility of debt, or loss,
by tho Convention Tritb some prob
ability of gain.
The session was harmonious, and large,
over three hnndred delegates being pres
ent, and tbe hospitality of the city wa3
both magnificent and magnanimous. Too
much praise and commendation cannot
be bestowed npon the gentlemanly and
enterprising proprietors of the Nines and
Courier, for its admirable and full re,
ports. I have rarely met men so capti
vating, agreeable, courteous and full of
newspaper enterprise, as the editorial
and reportorial staff of the News and
Courier. Their entire establishment,- in
all its appointments, is simply admira
ble, and their paper one of the best in
the South. The following shows the es
timate placed on their reports by the
convention:
Besolved, That the thanks of the con
vention be tendered the proprietors of
the Nines and Courier, tor their fall, accu
rate and excellent reports of the proceed
ings of this session. S. B.
Ylnevllle Protracted Meeting.
The religions exercises in the Yineville
Methodist church continue to be well at
tended, and much interest is manifested
by all classes of the community. On
Friday night the meeting was of a social
and experimental character, and many
interesting addresses were pronounced,
and fervent prayers offered in behalf of
the unconverted. Among the speakers
were Judge Jamas Jackson, Colonel Isaac
Hardeman, Mr. Peter Solomon, and oth-
s.
At tho close of the services many pre
sented themselves at the altar and asked
the prayers of the brethren, and one
young gentleman was received into the
church. Tho meeting will he resumed
to-night.
The replacement of an iron bridge to
succeed the great wooden structure re
cently burned at Portage Falls, on the
Erie railroad, has been put under con
tract’for completion within forty-five
daye—no slight undertaking when it is
remembered that the piers have an ele
vation of more than two hundred feet,
and that the situation is full of obstacles
and difficulties for the workmen.
Thanks H Vrm the me as
Heart.**
WmangnoN.LscnraQg* fu ’ ' a
August
Dr. B. Y. Pmcs, Buffalo, R. Y. i
Dear Sir—Your Tiindii ians Golden Med
ical Discovery, Dr. 8age‘e Catarrh Xem-
edy, have proved of the greatest service
to me. Six months ago no ode thought
that I could possibly live long. I fad*
complication of disassss snrnfrili, man
ifesting itself in eruptions and great
blotches cn my head that made such
sores that I conld not have ay hair
combed without causing me much suf
fering ; also causing swollen glands, ton
sils enlarged, enlarged or "thick neck,”
and large and numerous boils. X also
suffered from a terrible obiwip catarrh,
and in fact I was so diseased that life
was a burden to me. I had tried many
doctors with no benefit. I finally procured
one-half dozen bottles of your Golden
Medical Discovery aad one dozen Sage’s
Catarrh Bemedy and commenced their
use. At first I was badly discouraged,
but after taking four bottlae of the Dis
covery I began to improve, when I had
taken the remaining I was mil. In ad
dition to the use of uiaoovery I applied a
solution of iodine to the goitre or thick
neck, as you advise in pamphlet wrap-
S ing, and it entirely disappeared. Your
lisoovery is certainly the most wonder
ful blood medicine ever invented. I
thank God and you, from the depths of
my heart* for the great good it has done
mo. Yery gratefully,
Mrs. L. Chaftee,
Most medicines whioh axe advertised as
blood purifiers and liver medicines con
tain either mercury, in some form, or po
tassium and iodine variously combined.
All these agents have strong tendency to
break down the blood corpuscles, and de
bilitate and otherwise permanently in
jure the human system, and should there
fore be discarded. Dr. Pierce’s Golden
Medical Discovery, on the other hand,
being camposed of the fluid extraots of
native plants, barks and roots, will in_no
case produce injury, iti effects being
strengthening and curative only. Sarsa
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utation as a blood purifier, is a remedy of
thirty years ago, and may well give place
as it is doing, to Uhe more positive and
valuable vegetable alteratives which
later medical investigation and discove
ry has brought to light. In Scrofula or
King’s Evil, White Swellings, Ulcers,
Erysipelas, Swelled Neck, Goitre, Scrofu
lous Inflammations, Indolent Inflamma-
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Eruptions of the Skin and Sore Eyes, as
in fall other blood diseases, Dr. Pierce’s
Golden Medical Discovery has shown its
great remedial powers, curing the most
obstinate and intractable cases. Sold by
all dealers in medicine.
The Kcinetiy.
To escape the worthless abominations
offered under the title of Flavoring Ex
tracts and Baking Powders, rests ’wholly
with the consumers, they are the ones
that have to suffer. Purchase only those
articles you know by experience to bo
pure. Look upon cheap goods as an evi
dence of their adulteration and worthless
ness, upon those that dealers complain
of as being too high to keep for sale as
an argument in their favor; for good,
pure goods cannot bo sold as cheap as
worthless ones, and afford a less profit to
manufacturer and dealers. Dr. Price’s
True Flavoring Extracts and Cream
Bating Powder are acknowledged by
chemists to be the purest, and the only
scientifically prepared articles of their
kind in the market, and are now used in
a million homes, and daily increasing in
popular favor.
The cordial welcome given to the Yice
President in the South, and the proposi
tion to celebrate with floral offerings the
virtues of the soldiers of the late war,
Federal as well as Confederate, are indi
cations that the bitterness of feeling that
survived hostilities is dying out. The
fact that we are one people, living under
the same flag, and having common inter-
terests and destiny as a Nation, is no
longer questioned. If tho politicians can
arrange their programmes for the future
without including the war issues, the day
is not distant when all tho people will
recall tho civil conflict only as a historic
incident in the life of the Nation, to bo
regretted for the calamities that attended
it, and recalled with pride for the splen
did valor displayed on both sides during
tho contest.—Cincinnati Commercial.
The Commercial is making pretty good
time getting at the true inwardness of
this matter. We wish it much luck and
a faster gait. But will the Commercial
support the candidate for President of
the only party in this country that can
completo the work of reconciliation ? We
fear it will prefer to waste its influence
in trying to vitalize a third party.
THE 0. W. MASSEY
EMIORCOTfON GIN.
Superior to all Otriers!
F ouler to accommodate those wanting a low
er priced Gin than the Excelsior, I will mako
two other styles of Gins this season. One I call
the MASSEY GIN. the other the GRISWOLD
GIN, and will warrant either ot them to perform
as well as any Gin made except the EXCEL
SIOR.
Send for Circulars and Prico Liit.
O. W. MASSEY, Macon, Ga.
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SPECIAL FLAW0B1HGS.
miLLA, LEMON, ETC.-,
i'w Flavorics Ice Cream, Cakes and Pasfrj.
With great care, by a new process,
we extract from tbe true, select Fruits
and Aromatics, each chamc*fistic fla
vor, and product Flavorings of rar
excellence. Of great strength and perfei
purity. So poisonous oils. Every jiavc
as represen ted. So deceit—each botticfuU
measure, holding one-half more than others
purporting to hold same rpuxntiiy. TJst-
them once, will use no other. The nun
delicate, delirious flavors ever made, g
superior to the cheap extracts. Ask ft
Dr. Price’s Special Flavorings. Mans
factored only by
STEEL23 & rPIRICIt
Depots, CHICAGO and 8T. LOUIS.
Manufacturers of Dr. Prieds (b ,r ~‘
Baking Powder.
COTTON GINS.
TXTHEREA8 the roll-box of the O. W. Mwaey
tt Excelsior Cotton Gin, and alao that of the
D. Pratt Company’s Lin ter, and ail other roll-
boxes in form of a "major part of a circle, are
infringements upon letters patent tuned to me
June 10,1873, aad reissued December 8th. 1874;
Now, therefore, this is to notify the manufac
turers of all such infringements, M well as all
those who sell, buy or use them, tbat I will pros
ecute them all, severally and indindually, to tbe
fullest extent of the law.
board with interior curve, aad the eureed upper
substantially as ssi forth* 1 * „ „
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