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MACON, GA., SEPrEMBEE IT *878.
Mb. Tildzx is still at Saratoga, and as
fond as ct©t of taking an airing on horse*
tack. Ho often walks three or four miles
a day, and is said to carry a pedometer
in his pocket to measure the distance be
has traversed.
Queen Victoria is to visit the Date
and Dnchess of Edinburgh, at Coburg,
daring the present month, when the
Crown Prince and Princess of Germany
will also be there.
Conaht, the thieving bank cashier of
Boston, turned over to his employers a
largo quantity of Sierra Nevada mine
stock, which was then worth only $9 a
share. The preaent price is $100, and
the rise more than covers the loss.
The father of Tom Thumb is a pauper
in the Chicago poorhouse- Tom quarrel
led with him when a boy, and has never
visited him since. He has fourteen -sens
and daughters in all, several of whom
are wealthy.
TTffat.ht or Mobile.—The news from
Mobile continues to be good. It is now
eight days since the last case of fever was
reported. At this rate, three cases in six
weeks, the fever wont spread to any
alarming extent in one hundred years.
Earnestly and sincerely do we hope that
we have heard the last ease reported
there this year. Mobile is quarantining
most effectively againt infected places.
One of the characters at Saratoga this
season is the rich Mrs. Thompson, who'
has an income of $55,000 from a fortune
of about a million dollars, and who never
accepts more than five per cent, on her
investments. Mrs. Thompson gives to
the extent of self-denial. Her personal
expenses, exclusive of the actual necessi
ties of life, do not exceed $250 per annum,
yet she gives away all of her large in
come and sometimes pawns her iewelry
to raise money for some object of charity,
redeeming it when she receives tho next
installment of interest.
Bs Gentle With Cows.—A New York
State dairyman gives his method of treat
ing cows as follows; The cows are gen
erally driven to the barn each night and
morning, If they do net, as is usually
the case, come of their own accord, when
they take their places in the stable, each
in its own particular stancheon with
mathematical precision. No dog, no
worry, is permitted; and the milking is
done quietly and orderly, ’ with no loud
talking, no sudden and startling noises.
There Is no patting of the oowa on the
back with the stool, no persuading with
the toe of the hoot, no coaxing at the top
of the Toice. They are made to ‘give
down’ by generous feeding and gentle
treatment, and the principle of kindness
ia illustrated by the depth of the cream
on their milk.
Flood, the California millionaire, is
building what will, it is said, be the
finest private residence in America. The
grounds include 1,500 acres on San Fran
cisco Bay, comprising a natural park
ready for improvements to any desired
extent. The house is 100 by 200 feet in
area, and resemblcB a French chateau of
the old style. Verandas surround it,
and the roof is broken with many gables
and two towers 140 feet high. The entire
exterior is very ornate. Among the
apartments are several parlors, mnsic
room, dining room, breakfast room, bil
liard room, library, and wine room, the
latter being of uncommon size. The
dining room is one hundred feet long, so
that great dinners may bo given in it;
but moat of it can be shut off, leaving a
room of comparatively small size for
ordinary use. Fiveyeara will be consum
ed in completing the house and its sur
roundings. Hr* Flood also contemplates
a city residence of corresponding magnifi
cence.
Evauts and Conkling.—A New York
letter speakg of a report in Conkling cir
cles that Secretary Evazts meditates
making an address there on the political
issues of the day, with particular refer
ence to the position of the administra
tion, in which event Senator Conkling
might be so severely handled as to com
pel him to say a word in eelf-Jefehse.
The mere anticipation of Conkling’s
"greatest effort of bis life” excites the
liveliest feelings of interest among the
supporters of the recent Saratoga repub
lican conference.
England Opening Heb Exes.—There
is mnch comment in commercial circles
upon the decrease of the exports from
Great Britain to the United States and
the great increase of American export
trade. The figures of the last fiscal year
show an increase of $92,500,000 in the
exports from the States, and a diminu
tion of $74,250,000 in the imports. It is
expected that (me result of this will be an
early and largo demand for gold for
America, which may materially affect the
rate of diaoount. Last year the require
ments of America were met by means of
Uhited States five-twenty bonds, but
these, we uaderstand, have all been
absorbed, and nothiagbutour jgoldjwill
now satisfy Uncle Sam.—Liverpool Post
It has been generally supposed that
the people of Indiana would have the
good sense to return Hon. D. W. Vco:-
hees to the United States Senate from
that State, but Senator McDonald says
that the nationals may hold the balance
of power in the Legislature, and that a
Senator may be elected not booked on
the slates of either the Democratic or
Republican parties.
Delaware andMabtland Ship Canal.
The Wilmington (Delaware) Every Even
ing contains a letter from New Market,
under date of September 4, which states
that the prospect for a ship canal across
the Eastern Shore-peninsula is taking
shape and substance in so far at least ar
surveys for the best route are concerned
The impetus has been-given by 'the eon
greaeional appropriation for thl3 purpose
by the last Congress. United States
engineers are now at work, and the letter
in question gives the following informa
tion concerning their operations. It is
gratifying to learn that even now "the
most direct and moat favorably consider
ed route in the minds of the engineers ia
what is known as the Chester river route.’
Butler as a BsroEjiis. — In his
speech at North Adams, Massachusetts,
last Saturday, Butler said:
“ I do not ask you to support me as a
Republican, I do not ask you to support
me as a Democrat, I do net ssk you to
support me as a Greenbacker. I do
not ask you to support me aa a la
boring man, or upon any issue at all this
year, except the issue of cleaning this
State Government, and washing down
the steps of the State House, so that a
men’s feet won’t stick as he walks down,”
But who shtll wash Butler?
Last Week's Cotton Figures.
THE MATUSING CHOP—THE COTTON
OUTLOOK.
The New York Chronicle reports the
receipts of the six days ending Friday
evening, 6:h instant, at 26,750 bale?,
against 5.885 for the corresponding days
of last year, Tho interior port receipts
for these days were 12,051 bales, against
2,852 last year. The shipments were
8,671. against 2,669 last year, and the
stocks 9,979, against 16,449 last year.
The Chronicle’s viaiblo supply table
showed, on Friday night last, 1,115,485
.bales of cotton in sight, against 1,627,382
bales at the same date last year—1,785,-
613 the year befere, and 1,785,797 in
1875. These figures show a decrease on
the visible supply of last year of 511,897
balcE-^a decrease on the supply of 1876
of 670,128 bales, and a decrease on the
supply of 1875 of 650,312 bales.
Cotton last Friday in Liverpool was
quoted at 6 916 for middling upland. At
satiae date last year the quotation was
sixpence—in 1876, 6 1-16, and in 1875
sevenpente.
The Chronicle’s Friday telegrams upon
the maturing crop, show a pretty good
condition. On the coast felt of Texas
the caterpillars are at work destructively
and there was too much rain- There were
3.93 of rain daring the week in Galree
ton, and 8.12 daring the month of Au
gust last. At Indianola the rainfall dur
ing the month waa 4.72. Corsicana and
Dallas, on the other hand, complain of
drought, bat no caterpillars. In Bren-
ham, again, there was too nlpch rain and
the caterpillars were doing much damage.
In Louisians, at New Orleans, there
was rain on four days of the week,
amounting, in gros3, to 1.35. The rain
fall during August was 5.39. At Shreve
port the caterpillars were doing great
harm. The rainfall during the week
was only .26.
As to Mississippi, Vickaburg sent no
telegram. Columbus reported a rainfall
of only .66 and wotms on the increase.
Arkansas, at Little Bock, reported an
average thermometer of 92, which must
be a mistake. There was 6 78 of rain
during Augu ».
Tennessee reported at Nashville, some
damage from rust, but crop continues
promising. Nothing from Memphis.
As to Alabama, Mobile had showers on
six days during the week, in which the
rainfall was 1.26. The. rainfall at Mo
bile in August reaohed the extraordinary
amonnt of 9.95. Mobile reports cater
pillars everywhere, and much damage
from them and iU3t, shedding and wet.
On prairie and bottom lands the crop
will bs from one-fourth to one-third short
e! last year. Uplands will be equal to
last year. Montgomery reports two
light rains during the week; and cotton
coming to market freely. Selma says
crop reports from the black lands are
less favorable.
As to Georgia, Columbus says cater
pillars are reported everywhere and do.
ing great injury. The top crop will b9
poor. Picking making fine progrees. Ma
con reports rain on Sunday, but has no
thing to say about the condition of the
crop. Savannah reports an inch of rain
during the week. Augusta reports 5.46
of rain daring August. Colton coming
forward freely. Nothing about the crop
from the Carolinas or from Florida.
The Chronicle states that its annual
crop report will be issued on Wednesday
(to-day) in circular form. Says tho
Chronicle:
The Squeeze in the English Cotton
Tbade.—On the 17th of August we pub
lished an extract received by cable from
tho Manchester Guardian, showing the
discouraging state of the cotton trade at
Manchester. Tim week we have the
Liverpool Post of August 22d, and it is a
fuller review of the situation, which will
be of interest to onr readers, and we
therefore give it below:
It is a long time sinoe cotton waa in so
strong a position statistically as It is to
day; but it is a still longer time since the
state of trade in Manchester was so bad
as it ia now. Of late, these two influ
ences have about neutralized each other,
espeoially as it was thought that the ear
liness of the American crop wonid bring
speedy relief; bnt the movement of the
new crop Is slower than was anticipated,
and fixe opinion is beginning to be enter
tained that the autumn pinch will be as
severe as the most sanguine bull ever pre
dicted. Undoubtedly the figures look
Tsry strong, and it is very oertain that
spmneis wHl have to diminish their rate
of oonshmption. Bat the general belief
is that the necessary rednstton in con
sumption will cot be brought about until
prices have undergone a further advance
y, at least, to 7d. for middling. If a
further rise isneoassary, the sooner it
comes about the better, for the simple
reason that a high range of values doting
the earlier months of the season wonid be
fatal to the prosperity of business next
year. How needful it ia that the produc
tion of yarns and goods should be ent
down, is shown dearly enough by an ex
amination of the comparative prices of
the raw material and the manafootnred
article.
Here follow tables showing the margin
between raw cotton and manufactured
goods to be 1) pence per pound less than
the average of the years from 1873 to
1876, during which the manufacturing
business was by no means remunerative.
The trouble must inevitably find its solu
tion in short time at the mills and dimin
ished production at Manchester, or In
lower prices in Liverpool..
Politically Mixed.
The recent election in Maine and the
movement in Boston forBatler indicate
that the Democracy In New England are
disposed to go over bodily to the green-
backers. Good bye, gentlemen. We
shall not see you again until experience
has cured your folly. We take it for
granted that the Boston Democratic ske
daddle for Ben Butler will make him the
nominee of the Massachusetts State
Convention. This is nob certain, but
probable; and should Butler secure the
Democratic vote of the State, he will
probably beat the Republican candidate.
In each a fight we can feel no interest.
Butler is neither a Democrat nor an hon
est man. It is a low state of public taste
and morals which renders his election a
possible event. This fact is so patent
and undeniable that perhaps tho better
put of the Democratic following in the
Bay 8tate may bolt his nomination, if
made, aad thus spoil the scheme.
Thebe was a big fire in Huntington,
Mobs., and Alfred Wells refused to have
the goods removed from his store, believ
ing that the risk of thieves was greater
than of the flames. So the stuff was
burned. The insurance company refused
to pay, heeause the policy required Wells
to use all possible means to save the pro
perty. Wells holds that he did what
seemed best for that purpose. The ques
tion is to be tried in court.
A ««Burro’* ueavliy Loaded.
Some of the Greenbackers not only in
sist on greenbacks without limit, but
they ‘‘demand” also that the ten per cent
tax on local currency mills shall be
lifted, so as to give us not only green
backs in plenty, bnt multiply them three
fold as the capital of local banks of issue.
This opens a charming prospect to the
people. No matter how plenty green
backs may be made, not one will find cir
culation when the "local currency” is
once floated. The sirculation of a coun
try always consists of its most undesirc-
ble funds, whatever they may be. Give
us the bills of the currency mills and the
greenbacks would vanish from sight as
plenty as you might make them.
The country wants only a currency of
moderate volume, of undoubted credit,
and of uniform value from Maine to
Texas—this and nothing more.
Mabtland Agricultural College.—
We call special attention this morning
to the advertisement of this insti
tution, which will be found else
where. It is situated near College Sta
tion, on the Baltimore and Ohio railway,
nice miles from Washington City, and
twenty-eight from Baltimore. The Pres
ident is Captain William H. Parker, for
merly of the Federal, but in later years
of the Confederate Navy, in both of
which he stood exceptionally high as a
moat accomplished and gallant officer.
We are assured that Captain Parker is
especially fitted for the position he now
holds, and that his assistants of the fac
ulty are all gentlemen of distinguished
excellence in their several departments.
The course o£ instruction at this Col
lege is literary, agricultural and milita
ry, and is very thorough. The college
farm contains 286 acres, and from the re
port of the products in the circular before
us, we infer that they were thoroughly
tilled, and that the boys are not allowed
to shirk their work. Altogether the
Maryland Agricultural College seems a
capital institution at which to educate
the muscles as well as the minds, of its
students.
M. Thiers was an admirer of the En
glish people, bnt uncompromisingly hated
their law of primogeniture for a reason
which English old maids will appreciate.
What could be more decided and sweep
ing than the following t "The English
are the only people I respect; the Italians
the only people that Hove; all the rest—
the Bussians, the Germans,the Spaniards,
the Americans—excite my detestation
or contempt, or more frequently both,
Bat among your institutions there are
some no opposed to my sympathies and
judgment that I would not submit to
them in order to obtain all your wealth
and all your civilization. I mean the
sacrifice of a whole family to one of ite
members. It is your detestable right of
primogeniture which forces you to make
slaves of a hundred millions of Hindoes
in order to enable an English younger
son to consume the revenue that would
feed fifty Indian families, and to bring
back a proconsular fortune. .It is pri
mogeniture which makes half of your
gentlemen exiles and halt your ladies
old maids.”
Boston Educational Notions.—The
Baltimore Sun says a complete revolu
tion has been introduced thisyear in the
primary departments of the Boston public
schools by the substitution of oral exer
cises and object lessons by the teaoher
for books. There will be an exercise
called “language,” which means English,
and which is intended to train the schol
ars to express in their own words what
they really Lknow. The spelling and
grammer books are abolished (thU is in
the primary section) and correct reading
takes the place of both. The spelling
lesson is never so valuable aa when it is
a written drill, as spelling cemes by the
eyeqniteasmnchas correct, grammati
cal speech is properly taught to young
children by the ear alone.
Much of the time heretofore given to
georgraphy and the constant exercises m
boundaries and capitals is to be spent in
natural philosophy and physiology. In
stead of parsing there will be written
exercises in composition, in letter-writing
and the arrangement qf work, which may
be made of great interest to the class, if
they are called on to criticise blackboard
work. From May to November plants
will be studied by the little folks, from
November to May animals, trades, occu
pations, common phenomena, mythologi
cal and biographical stories, metals and
minerals, by means of these teachers’
talks. The changes in the upper school
ofB -1 a include the study of physiology,
whic.'i is of prime necessity to every
growing girl and boy, and may keep
them from ignorant neglect of violation
of the healthful lavs that govern them.
The bodies of over 600 of the viotims
to the late steamboat ooUision on the
Thames river have been reoovered.
THe Pestilence.
The reports from Memphis to-day are
gloomy and hopeless beyond expression.
The epidemio had assumed proportions
beyond all manigement and control. Nine
of the volunteer physioians there are re
ported down, jand it was no longer possi
ble to heed all the calls for medical at
tendance. Dr. Mitchell, the Medical pi
rector, concludes his report of the situa
tion with the declaration, "at this rate it
will not be long before all the living will
be converted into a burial oorps.”
The heavy easterly winds and olonds
which have prevailed for the past two
days in this region, seem to have been
represented in Memphis by oool rain
storms, and the direetor complains of the
Impossibility of obtaining covered Vehi
cles for the non-resident phyaioians. He
has supplied them with water-proof coats
whtoh is the best that could be done.
It is no longer possible (o keep a record
of the oases or to attend properly to the
slok or dead. The fever, in short, has as
sumed the charaoterof aninoontrollable
pestilence, beyond the power of physi
cians, nurses and other ministers of relief
to keep pane with the demands of its vic
tims.
Gallipoli?, Ohio, which now seems to
be stricken, is a city on the Ohio, about
200 miles (by the river) east of Cincin
nati. There have keen no cases in uin-
cinatiof domestic origin, so far as we
know; bnt several fevered refugees have
died there. Doubtless Cincinnati will
feel very uneasy with the disease to the
eastward of her, at a distance, by land,
of only abont 130 miles. Gallipoli?, yes
terday, waa fighting the fever by fircB of
gas tar kept burning night and day in
all her streets terminating on the river.
Great consternation prevailed in tho
place. _
Beep the blood pnre and the health of
tho system will follow. Dr. Bull’s Blood
Mixture will accomplish this in a short
period.' J
jTDe Main a Election.
There is no use being Eugene Hale,
Blaine’s lieutenant and Each Chandler’s
son-in-law, if one is to -be beaten by
Thompson March—a Greenbacker. "We
sympathize with a beaten Badical from
such a State as Maine, because it is an
event for which there is no preparation.
It takes him like the cramp colic, and
bores him through with a sense of wrong
and injury*
Pretty muoh the same reflections are
applicable to Hon. Llewellyn Powers in
the Fourth distriot. He is also beaten by
Geo. W. Ladd, a Democrat, on whom the
votes of the Greenbackers aud Demo
crats were united.
Aud so the Bepublicans lose two mem
bers of the House fen tbs State of Maine!
—a very bad showing, indeed, for that
house majority in the 46th Oongress,
which they are bending their energies to
procure. The fall eleollons, so far, Earn
up with a loss of three members to them
—one in Oregon—the extreme West, and
two in Maine—the extreme East. There
is little probability that the Bepnblioans
can recover the House; but it is not so
oertain that the "National Greenbackers 1 ’
will not hold the balanoe of power in that
body.
Senator JSaton.
The Herald of Monday interviews Sen
ator Eaton, of Connecticut, on the politi
oal and fiuanoial situation. The Senator
pours scorn on the delusions of the Green-
backers, and prediots that they will not
poll fonr thousand votes in Connecticut.
He says the fiaancial distress is the inevi
table offspring of the inflations produoed
by the war and the resulting extrava
gance, bad investments and enormous
debts oreated by the country and people-
The remedy is a return to Urn currency
of the commercial world, the increase of
onr foreign trade by proper legislation
and the retrenchment of cur governmen
tal expense?. There is already a mani
fest revival of business, and a strict ad
herence to this polioy would in twenty-
four months cure our troubles,while if led
astray by tho wild, irredeemable paper
theories of the demagogues, we might as
well build a Chinese wall around the
oountry and go to trading jacknives
amoDg ourselves for a living,
English Cotton Mills.
Yesterday we noticed the declaration
of a Liverpool paper that the margin
between raw cotton and manufactured
goods had ceased to afford a living profit
to the British mill?. In the telegrams
to-day will be noticed a more discour
aging statement by the London Times ct
yesterday, on the same subject. .The
cotton trade of Manchester is prostrate.
There is so sale of goods, except at
sacrifice. The large manufactory estab
lishments ore piling them up in their
warehouses and mills, and the smaller
concerns, which cannot hold, are selling
out at almost any loss.
The effect of this atate of affairs on the
raw ootton market is already being felt
everywhere in a general decline. It ia
counteracted, in part, by the diminished
supply of ootton in sigh!; but a general
adoption of short tii^e by the English
mills would soon reduoe the deficit
particularly at the Yery opening of what
promises to be au abundant crop season*
Ia a few weeks the influx of raw ootton
will be very heavy, and we are apprehen
sive of the resnlt on the market. The
trade will be in a pinch at both extremi
ties. The producer cannot bold tho ra
staple and (he manufacturer oanuot sell
the fabrics made of it.
Tlie Benin Peace
Is likely to result in a good deal of war
before its dicta is enforced on the late
Turkish provinces. The Constantinople
telegrams from Albania, relating to the
facts attending the massacre of the
Pashas, disclose a state of excitement
among tho peoplo bordering on phrenzy.
They aro Turks, and would rather die
than submit to Christian rule. They
have.forly-five thousand armed men, and
will die fighting Seivian occupation,
This province, as well aa Bosnia and
Herzegovina, must be conquored and held
ia the teeth of desperate resistance and
deathless hostility. Vienna i3 debating
tho point whether to overrun tho whole
country or not; and is likely, at best, to
pay a high price for what they believed
would prove an acquisition by bloodless
diplomacy. Apparently she has a heavy
winter’s campaign before her.
The AbcbbishCpbic if Naples.—
Says the World: The quarrel between
the Vatican and the Quirinal over the
Archbishopric of Naples will have to be
fought out. On the 11th ult. Mgr. San
Felice, whom the Pope had preconized,
took formal possession of his see. In
consequence of the Government having
refused the exequatur naked for, oa the
ground that recognition most first be
made of the regal right to nomination,
all external ceremonial has been express
ly prohibited, nor was any attempted
beyond the procession passing along the
few yards from the monastery to the
Daomo, which was crammed. Within
the Daomo the cuBtomary ceremonial
as fulfilled with the usual pomp.
As King Humbert has forbidden the
payment of any of the revenues of the
see to the Pope’s nominee and the open
ing to him of the archiepisoopal palaoe,
things cannot very long go on without a
collision, something after the fashion of
that implied in the problem concerning
the impact of the body moving with an
irresistible force upon' an immovable
body. Tfie Bing claims the right to
nomination which rested in the Kings of
Naples, by virtue of his conquest of the
realm of the Two Sioiles, and the Pope
insists that if this oe true Italy must also
accept aa binding the concordat existing
at the time of the conquest. It is a vary
pretty quarrel, indeed. ■
shith’s wean oil.
Prepared by E B LYNDON, Athens. Ga.
1 Athkts, Ga, December 8,1877.
A few nights since I gave my son ono dose of
Worm Oil, and tho next day he pasted sixteen
large worms. At the same time I giTO one dole
to my little girl, four years old, and she passed
eighty-six worms, from four to fifteen inobea
long. WF PHILLIPS.
Athens, Ga* February SI, 1878.
Sim My chid, fire years old, had symptom* of
worms. I tiled calomel and other Worm Medi
cines but failed to expel any worms. Seeing Mr
Bain’s certificate, I got a Vial of yoor Worm Oil
and first dose brought ferty worms, and the sec
ond dose so many were passed I did not count
them. S H ADAMS.
Hunt, S&nUn k Lunar, Wholesale Agents.
jnnS.„6m
The railroads are now at peice, and
tho hotels have had their "war.” The
result of this recent cutting of first-class
Hotel rates ia New York leaves the Grand
Central in the lead, with rates one and
two dollars per day lower than the rest.
eeplOeod.,.lw
Large salas indicate the merits of all
rood articles. Druggists sell more of
Dr. Boll’s Baby Syrnp than of all other
remedies for the cure of Baby Disorders.'
KILLING of jack kimbrbw,
Desperate Fight Between the United
States Officers sind Bancocu Coua.
tv Moonshiners.
Yesterday morning the oity was Btax-
tted by the report that a collision had ta
ken place between a posse under tho
charge of Deputy United States Marshal,
B. D. Lumsden, and two brothers by the
name of Ennis, living in Hanoook oonn-
ty, and that one of the posse was mor
tally and another seriously wounded.
Those reports were confirmed by the
fallowing telegram received st mid-
day:,
Milledobvilli, September II.—A
bloody . fight occurred, just over the
Baldwin line, in Hanceck county, last
night, between a United States Marshal’s
posse, under Deputy Lumaden, and two
young men named Ennis. Jack Kim-
brew, of Macon, was mortally xounded,
and died here this morning* Laney, of
Macon, was severely wounded. Great
excitement prevails in the community.
The Ennis brothers are respectable, in
dustrious farmers.
It,seems that for Borne time past the
section of Hancock conuty in which the
difficulty occurred has been under the
condemnation of the authorities.
Deputy Marshal Lumiden has made
three visits to the locality alone, and on
one visit arrested one of the Ennis broth
ers, bnt was defied by him, and told that
if he wanted him ho wonid like to see'
him take him off. These faois were com
municated to the authorities in Savannah,-
and a few days since the Ghief Deputy
Marshal for Hie Southern Distriot, John
W. Anderson, of Savannah, sent pro
cesses against thess parties with orders
that they be executed at all hazards.
Mr. Lumsden proceeded to execute the
instructions and formed a posse contest-
ing of Mr. Jaok Kimbrew, Mr. James
Laney, and Jim Moore.
As it was not deemed safe to go im
mediately to Hancock .county the posse
and marshal went to Sandersville and
there procured private conveyances to
their destination.
They arrived at about 8 o’clock at the
house of the Ennis brothers and here they
alighted.
From Mr. James Laney, who was
wounded, but returned to the city last
evening, we learn the following particu
lars of the rencontre, and as Mr. Laney
was a participant, he was in a position to
know what happened. He ia corrobo
rated in many particulars, and by other
information, his statement may, in our
judgment, be received aa correct.
"When the patty alighted, Laney and
Moore were stationed near the house, joBt
outside of a low fence. Lumsden and
Kimbrew went to the front door and
called. One of tho EnnisBes came out,
He did not hear what was said. Ennis
then turned and walked to one side of
the house where the kitchen joined it,
followed by Kimbrew and Lumiden, Mr.
K. being in advance. The other brother
was standing m the side dcor leading to
the kitchen. Mr. Kimbrew said "good
evening,” and as the words escaped his
lips the man standing in the door jerked
a gun from the inside of the house and
fired both barrels into Kimbrew, who was
not ten feet distant. One load took ef
fect in his right arm just above the el
bow, completely shattering it.
The firing then beoame general. The
other Ennis discharged a double-barrel
gun. into the arresting patty, and then
both resorted to pistols. Mr. Lumsden
fired one barrel of bis revolver, when it
refused to work, and be retired from the
contest.
Mr. laney leaped the fence and emp
tied te>ar barrels of his weapon at the ss
sailaote.but with what effect ia not known.
He then tamed half around and zeocived
a load of No. 4 shot ia the side end the
side of his thigh snd hip. He fell, bat
rose quickly. Kimbrew fell When he was
first aho 1 . The Ennises then isn off the
women aud children, and all Laving the
honse.
Moore disappeared in the early put of
tho difficulty, and Mr. Laney, though
wounded, helped Mr. Kimbrew to the
boggy and put him in, and together
drove off. Mr. Moore joined them down
the road, and with a negro they drove to
the house of a Mr. Behfro, three miles
distant. In the meantime Mr. K.'s arm
was bleeding freely, aud he fainted on
reaching the house.
A doctor was procured by sending five
miles, and the bleeding stopped.
The party, Messrs. Laney, Kimbrew
and Moore, then came to Milledgfeville,
and medical aid was summoned.
The best medical aid was given, but in
vain, and at 12 o’clock yesterday Jack
Kimbrew breathed his last. He was
conscious about an hoar and a half before
his death and asked for his wife. His
death was the result of the loss of blood
and had he received the commonest sur
gical attention his life could have been
savdd. * . -
In the melee about twenty-two shotif
were fired.
Mr. Kimbrow’s death yesterday pro
duced a profound sensation throughout
the city, and many offers of assistance
were tendered United States Commis
sioner Freeman. He would have been
able to have sent a posse of fifty men
from the oity with case.
Mr. Kimbrew was one of the most fear
less officers of the law, and a man of un
doubted bravery, even to a point of des
peration. He was for many years one of
the most efficient policemen on the force,
was a member of No. 3 Fire Company,
and waa very popular in the city.
He leaves a wife and one ehild. He
was just thirty-five yean of age.
An immense crowd ef friends met both
the Central and the Augusta trains yes
terday afternoon expecting his remains
wonid be brought in. They will, howev
er, reaoh the oity this afternoon by the
Central Bailroad train at 6:45 o’clock.
Mrs. Kimbrew and Mr, Ed Kimbrew
left yesterday morning in a private con
veyance for Milledgoville, and had not
reached that place when the Augusta
train left last evening.
HB. LANSI'S CONDITION.
Mr.' Laney ia very painfully bnt not
dangerously wounded* The entire load
went into his thigh and side, and the
gun could have been distant bnt a few
feet. He is at the jail ani ia being well
taken care of. .
HThe’Ennieea are reported te have sent
for a bag of buckshot t# Milledgeville,
and it is supposed they will continue to
show fight.
Deputy Marshal Andetson yesterday
nstructed Mr. Lumsden to procure a
posse of one hundred men, and make the
arrest at all hazard*. The.difficulty is,
however, that such a pone cannot be ob
tained in Baldwin or Hancock county,
and it is possible United States soldiers
may be called inti requisition.
Macau Relief Society—Steps ter Far.
. ther Aid Taken.
Yesterday afternoon at 8 o’clock there
aiBsmbled at the court-house a meeting
of the officers of Msoon Belief Booiety
and persons in sympathy frith the yell
fever sufferers:
Mr. George S. Obaar, President of the
Society, presided over the meeting.
The terrible distress in the west was
discussed and nraoh sympathy spoken
for those oiliea whose life blood ia being
wasted away by the dread pestilence.
The amonnt now on hand was consid
ered, and it wbb found that nearly five
hundred dollars were,available and the
prospect of several mete amounts repor.
ted good.
On motion a Bey canvass of' the oity
was ordeied and the eemmittee on solicit
ing contributions was doubted in the oity
wards.
THE OOlOflTZKE.
The roll of the committee now stands
as follow?/ the first three of the names
being the ol'J.membara and the .last the
added members:
lit Ward—D. BE. Funders, C. Master,
son, Asher Ayers, G. C. Conner, Jacob
Dinkier, J. Valentino.
1 2d Ward—J. W. Aiderhold, L. W.
Easdai, J. G. Dciiz, A. MoKcnna, H. J.
Petor, J. 0, Wilder.
3rd Ward—W. B. Boger?, E. J. Johnz-
ston, J. P. Fort, W. W. Carnes, W. 0.
Singleton and A. P. Whittle.
4th Ward—A. G. Bait?, T. D. Tinsley,
Alex Reynold?, W. A. Crutchfield, L. W.
Hunt and R. K. Hines.
The committees in Vinevilie and South
Maoon remain unchanged.
The plan of receiving contributions and
having them auotioned off was also con
sidered freely, and that of inviting the
Immediate co-operation of the county was
also discussed and embodied in the fol
lowing resolution introduced by Colonel
0. J. Harris:
1. That, in addition to the committee
already acting in the city, the Chair ap
point a committee for each district in the
county, and that each solicit any thing or
article of value, such fts cotton, corn or
other produce, goods, wares or merchan
dise, cattle, sheep, hog?, beef, mutton,
bacon, pork, poultry and vegetables.
2. That these articles be deposited at
some convenient place in the oity, and be
auctioned or raffled off, and that the citi
zens of adjoining counties be requested
to send contributions. The proceeds
of whiab, after being disposed of in the
- manner pointed out, shall be distributed
by the Chairman and Executive Com
mittee.
Unanimously passed.
Colonel Harris ateo introduced the fol
lowing resolution:
•‘Resolved, That in parting with our
esteemed fellow citizen, Dr. E. G. Fer
guson, who is about to proceed to” the
fever-stricken city of Vicksbnrg, Missis,
sippl, wejcannofc do bo without giving ex
pression to onr feelings of high admira
tion for this act of heroism and devotion
to the cause of suffering humanity, and
we cordiaily recommend him to the peo
ple of that afflicted section as a mas
worthy of their highest regard, and a
physician of great merit and experience.”
After the unanimous passage of this
resolution the meeting adjourned.
The conclusion reached yesterday was
that contributions of all kinds will be
received and anctioned off, and the pro
ceeds devoted to the general fund.
The contributions have taken a new
start. Our people are giving more freely
and the general interest in the cause is
greater than it has yet been, and Ma
con’s contributions will run np to a good
round Bum.
Among those present were the pastors
of the colored churches of the city, and
other colored men, who reported that the
work of contributing was progressing
among them, and that a considerable sum*
had been received. They showed a wil
lingness to co-operate with their white
friends in this great charity, and made
several short speeches embodying the
foregoing facts.
Dr. B. 6. Ferguses,
Dr. E. G. Furguson leaves for Yioka*
burg to-day, where he| will enter the ranks
of the physicians who are battling with
the epidemio in that fe7er-bouud oily.
Dr. Furguson has been a resident of Ma
con for se veral years, and in that'time
has not only established himself in a good
praotioe, bat has made many warm
friend?. His heroic ooHduct daring the
epidemio of 1876, will not be soon forgot
ten. When the fever was raging
in our little soaport town of 'Brunswick,
and the axil for help came he went
fearlessly into the midst of the dan
ger, and did noble work in the cause of
humanity.
We know of so higher type of bravery
than to face the monster death in the in
sidious form of yellow fever. These who
would walk to the oannon’s mouth and
lift the laurels of immortality from
death’s outstretched hands, shrink and
qaail when pestilence walks abont the
streets, and those who are most daring
in deeds of valor, fly when the seals are
broken which hold back the wasting pow
ers of disease.
We hope that Dr. F. may pas3 safely
through the epidemio and return to Ma-
eon, when his friends will welcome him
with the greatest pleasure.
The Walnut Creek Bridge.
We ore reliably informed that the
bridge over Walnut Creek is in a very
dangerous condition.
The main timbers of the structure have
given away, and the bridge is totally un
able to support a heavily-loaded cotton
wagon, and is dangerous for the passage
of even the lightest kinds of vehicles.
We hope the Ceunty Commissioners
will give the matter their immediate at
tention. Cotton wagons this morning
will be waiting on the other aide of the
creek to come to Macon, and the city can
not afford to lose the trade which comes
to her over this very important bridge.
The bridge should be fixed without the
delay of a single day. It has been in an
unsound condition for a year, and either
the moat thorough repairs should bo im
mediately put on it, or a new structure
be thrown across the stream. As it is,
travel is now stopped over it.
The Astiury Hull,
The engine Asbnry Hull, which was
wrecked on last Sunday morning in the
accident on the Macon and Western
road, was yesterday brought to the city
with all the available portions of the
debris and placed in the shops of the
road for repair.
A Handsome Toilet Better the Yellow
Fever Sufferers.
A very beautiful toilst set and vaseB of
exquisite French glass ware is on exhibi
tion at Captain Massenbnrg’s drug store
to be raffled off for the benefit of the yel
low fever eoffers. Sixteen chances have
already been taken, price $1 per chanoe.
The refill will take place on Friday night.
The set ought to bring a Targe amonnt
independent of its object.
HUBS Clara Louise Kellogg.
Preceding Miss Kellogg’s concerts the
newapapers teem with favorable notices,
extracts from the press, and testimonials
from th6 late President Lincoln and oth
ers, reminding people of the power of
voice possessed by one of .America’s
sweetest singers. If your confidence be
secured by such advertisement', why
shake the head and donbt while reading
the testimonials of positive cores effected
by Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription ?
It is nonsense for ladies afflicted with the
diseases and weaknesses peculiar to their
sexto continue to suffer, or to submit to
the harsh and caustio treatment sow in
vogne. The Favorite Prescription is 6old
by druggists under a positive guarantee
to enre. sep!2 d sw w It
REPUBLICAN MEETING,
THE CHABOE.
The charge against the Ennissea was
illicit distilling, and one warrant for their
supposed connection with a shooting case
in Milledgeville was issued against them
several months since.
The arresting party were all good
Democrats.
We regret tbat the difficulty should
have occurred.
A New Executive committee Appoint
ed and tne Discordant Districts Die-
cussed.
It was not generally known yesterday
that the State Central Committee of the
Bepublican party of Georgia held a meet
ing at the court house. Such was, how
ever, the ftict, and with closed doors in
the grand jury room they held their ses
sions free from molestation.
The meeting was quite largely attend?
ed, thhty one delegates from the State
being present. From all we can learn
the meeting was quite important and
questions of interest were discussed.
The proceeding were harmonious.
Among other things a new executive
committee consisting of five members
was appointed.
Discordant districts were disoussed,
and the prospects of the anooess of Be-
publioaa nominees in those portions of
the Btate canvassed.
The Etoontive Committee appointed
hold no ofiteiSl position under the Govern'
ment, and la designed to be a working
body, as the active work of a campaign
oaauot be ttanssoted by the State Central
Committee, as such intermingling with
politios would be antagonists to the Presi
dent’s civil servioe reform idets.
From underground Information it is
possible tbat a candidate will be pat ont
in the 4th and 5th districts' for Congress.
One has 1 already appeared in the Sev
enth, in Mr. J. A. Holtxolaw, former Col
lector of Internal Esveaue.
The indorsement of independents did
not seem to be very favorably received.
This redivlvua ef the Bepublican party
is the normal ontoome of the conduct of
the Demooracy, and the galvanizing of
the Bepublican corpse may be expected.
From appearances and information
generally the best olass of the Georgia
Bepublicans pnt in on appearance. Bat
one colored brother participated in the
deliberations.
A vote of thanks win returned to the
county officers for the use of the Court
Honse.
Medical men often puzzle themselva
ever the large Bale that Dr. Sail’s Baby
Syrup enjoy?. Ite great popularity ia
due only to the exoelleut qualtiities pos
sessed by this household medicine. 25
cents. ^ -
AtKM,
The First National 3*nk Bella New
York Exchange at par.
News Items.
Baltxhobe, September 11.—Judge
Bond is still sick and unable to hold court
in the Sonlh Carolina railtoad case, in the
application for an injunction and appoint
ment of a receiver. T&e daily postpone
ment of the hearing tinoe Satsrday last,
unavoidable as it is, causes no little in-
oonvenienoo to a large number of attor
ney?, about twenty-four, from South Car
olina and New York who are engaged in
the case.
Boston, September 11.—A glove fight
took place yesterday between John Con
nolly, of Boston, and'Charley Walsb, for
merly of New York. The latter was
knocked out of time in the fifteenth
round. j
Baltimore, September 11.—The Dem
ocrats of the Third Congressional Dia
trict to-day renominated William Kim-
mel. In the Fourth District, at present
represented by Thomas Swann, Bobert
McLane, Democrat, was nominated.
Boston; September 11.—The State
Convention of the Independent Green'
book party of Massachusetts met to-day,
with nearly one . thousand delegates.
Among them is one lady, Mr?. Josephine
R. Stone, of Boston. B. F. Batter was
nominated for Governor on a rising vote.
Tbinton, N< J., September 11.—The
National Local Preachers' Convention of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, which
was to have assembled at Covington,
Kentucky, will meet in this city next
month. The change te made in conse
quence of the feyer in the South.
Madison, Wis., September 11.—The
President and friends visited the State
University and Lake Mendota to-day.
They leave at one o’clock for Milwaukee.
BOSTON, September 11.—The Wenbam
Ice Company having offered to load ten
cars with ice duly for five days, for the
Memphis sufferers, the connecting rail
road lines transporting it free, the first
five oars will leave Boston to-night, via
the Boston and Albany Railroad; marked
"for the yellow fever sufferer?, Memphis,
Tennessee.”
Augusta, Ga, September 11—Augusta
has contributed thirty-three hundred dol
lars to the fever sufferers. Thomasville,
Georgia, sends four hundred and sixty
dollars to the Howard Association, at
Memphis.
New York, September 11.—The Cham
ber'of Commeroe' Committee to-day
transmitted $5,000 to New Orleans, $1,000
to Vicksbnrg and $4,000 to Memphis.
These sums were roported to the Howard
Association for distribution in the cities
lofeoted and adjacent towns and village?.
Congressmen Action and Ellis and State
Senator D. F. Jones, of Louisiana, Cyrus
Baaing, President of New Orleans Cham
ber of Commerce, aud Messrs. Baylis and
F. O. Davis, of Memphis, attended the
meeting and conferred with the eommit-
tee as to the feasibility of establishing a
central depot in this oity for the xeoeipt
and distribution of provisions. A tele
gram from Memphis, storing that there
was no abatement of the fever, and that
the working foroe was growing smaller
daily. Also that two Howards died yes
terday, and five physicians were down to
day, and the state of affairs is indtecriba-
ble. The total sobsofiptions received to
day by thepommtttee were $7,549.
Philadelphia, September 11.—The
following Congressional nominations were
made by the Republicans to-day: For
First District, General H. H. Bingham;
for Second District,' Chartes O’Neill;
for Third Distriot, John Shedden, who
was yesterday nominated by the Nation-
ah; for Fourth Distriot, William D. Kel
ley; for Fifth Distriot, Alfred C.' Harmer,
O’Neill, Kelley and Harmer are renomin
ations. The Democratic county conven
tion made the following nominations for
Judge of the Court of Common Pleas,
J. J. Clark Hare, and M. Bussell Thayer;
Judges of Orphan’s Court William N.
* Ashman and Clement B. Penrose.
Bcbdentowk, N. J., Sept ember li
The Demoorat) of the Second
nominated Htzskiah B. Smith, who
reoentiy nominated by the Greenbacker*
Cnsele>tow, Septenbjr 11.—A heat?
easterly gale prevailed here all day. kI
?o?hte\im£‘ BWppi “ g WM reportod «P
Chattanocoa, September 11.—Dr V
M. Wright,of thi*city, tc-day wasmJi
noted by the Bepnblioan S.ate Central
Committee for Governor, in tho pig^ of
Etheridge, formeily nominated bv th»
Convention, bnt declined ' °°
L ir 0K ’ N ' K > «^'tember li
^SSSw.’ri ,b ”
Washington, September 11.—General
James Longstreet has been appointed
revenue agent for Georgia acd Florida
viceSpencerordered to Lonistille. '
The com balance in the Treasnrv
at the close of the tu3incs3 to-day waa
Sttsstsd&r
£c«£.”inKS&" u «^*"»•«.
t uHJ’n 1 ' 0 ? 06 Dirimentauthorizea
fv 8;S 4 T H a ^ P? 8tma «tet at Hol-
ly Springe, J.S.Knowlton at Momohis
and W. C. McCracken at Grenada.
A. L. Wilaon, one of the mur
derers of Deputy Collector Cooper,
during the recent raid oa illicit
distillers in Tennessee, has been arrested
and is in jail in Grayeoa county, North
Carolina.
The Navy Department ia adrised of
the arrival, on tho 28th of June, at Apis,
Samoan Islands, of the United States
ship Adame, which left Panama on the
10th of May, with the Samoan Ambassa
dor, M. K. Marne* and suite, on heard.
On the 24th of July Commander Rodgers,
of tha Adame, paid an official visit to
Taman and Taipule at the Government
house,' accompanied by Mr. Edwards,
special agent of the State Department’,
and by several officers belonging
to the vessel. The treaty between the
United States and Samoa, which was rat
ified by the United States January 25th,
1878, was ratified by Taimsn and Fai-
pnle, of Samoa, July 23,1878. Speeches
of congratulation were exchanged be
tween the members of the Samoan Gov
ernment and Commander Bodgers rela
tive to the enactment of the treaty. A
grand meeting was called, to take place
at Apia, on July 17th, of the representa
tives of all the Islands, for the purpose
of proclaiming a treaty. On Jnly4th
Commander Rodgers dressed the Bhip
and received on board the members of
the Taiman and Faipnle, and many of
the principal Chiefs aad representatives
of the Samoans.
MxKPHie, September 11.—The weather
is clear but cool. Two undertakers re
port 46 deaths up to noon. Among the
dead are Dr. Derate, Mrs. Degray, Ben.
net Martin Eyke, Isaac Leopald and F.
W. Boyster, Jr. Herbert J. Landrum,
city editor of the Avalanche, is reported
dying. HiB mother is down with the
fever. John G. Lonsdale is down.and B.
B. Clarke has been appointed in his stead
as treasurer of the Citizens Belief Com
mittee?. Wm. Knowlton, acting post
master has been taken sick. W. J.
Chase, one of the bondsmen of late post
master Thomson this morning took
charge of the post-office and requests no
money to be sent here by post-office order
as the force now in the office is bo small
that nothing can be done except deliver
ing the mails. Only seven coffin makers
are left in the city. A. D. Longatoff,
president of the Howard Association, has
telegraphed to Bichmond, Indiana, and
Cincinnati for1,000 ready made coffins.
SChicago, September 11.—The receipts
: 'rom yesterday’s great pionic were over
ten thousand dollars. The entire amount
goes to the afflicted Southern cities. The
total amount raised here to noon to-day
and regularly deposited ia fifty-seven
thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight
dollars.
Camden, N. J., September 11.—Nino
hundred dollars in aid of tho fever snffer-
ers was collected at a public meeting at
the opera house here on Monday evening.
Boxes have been placed at the ferry land
ings here, in the po3t-office and at other
convenient places for the reception of
contributions.
New York, September 11.—The citi
zen’s relief committee repoit subscrip
tions to-day for the relief of the fever suf
ferers to the amount of two hundred and
seventy-six dollars. The amonnt collect
ed for the same purpose in the lost twen
ty-four bouts in the various police pre
cincts in Brooklyn amounts to two hun
dred snd seventy dollars. The Brooklyn
relief committee reports collections cf
seven kundred and thiriy-oao dollars yes-
terday.
New Obleans, September 11.—The
weather is cloudy and chilly with a stiff
northwest wind all day. Tho deaths in
clude thirty-seven minor?, twenty-two*
being under seven year?. Among the
deaths are Matilda Iaadore, age thirteen;
second daughter of the lets E. W. Barnes
and a five year old son of F. A. South-
majd, of the Howards.
New York, September 11.—Arrange
ments were completed to-day for a strag
gle of speed and endurance for two thou
sand dollars and the Astley champion belt
between John Hughs, of this oity, and
O'Leary, the champion. The contest will
tako plaee next month. Botb men will be
allowed to walk or ran.
Milwaukee, September 11.—Arrange
ments have been completed for the peo
ple’s conceit and festival to be given to
morrow, p. m., and evening, at Quentin’s
Park, for the benefit of the fever suffer
ers. It ia expected that there will be an
immense attendance. Business houses
generally will close at noon, and no af
ternoon session of the Chamber of Com-
mene will be held. The refreshments
have all been donated. Almost the ec-
tire gross receipts will be available for
relief purposes. A large attendance
from the interior cities ia expected.
President Hayes and party will visit tho
park at one o'clock.
Mrs. Charles Schley?, wifo of a promi
nent and wealthy citizen, left here to-day
for Jackson, Mississippi, to offer her ser
vices aa a nurse in the fever hospital?.
Last evening her house was thronged with
friends to hid her God speed.
Gallipolis,*0., September 11.—In the
vicinity of where the plague ship John
Porter wbb moved aud in a radius of seven
miles, the northern boundary of which is
within two miles of this city, there is re
ported to be fiqpvfifteen to twenty case?
of yellow fever add seven deaths since
Sanday. There Is Mete excitement, and
the; eitizsns are sending their familios
away in Ml directions. Captain J ohn Por
ter arrived this morning, and in consulta
tion with the Board agreed to do anything
to prevent the farther spread of the fever
from his boat. It was decided to Seattle
and rink fourteen barges which are path-
ally filled with bilge water brought, from
Vioksburg, and to thoroughly disinfsot
the steamer.
Columbus, September 1L—The New
Orleans Howards have been instructed to
draw on the Mayor of this city for SB*
other five hundred dollars. The societies
connected with St. Patrick’s Church ts-
day forwarded $250 to Memphis, and tho
Tamers sent $35 to St. Louis for use ®
New Orleans.
Foreign.
Athens, Gbeicb, September lL—FW-
loughed soldiers have been ordered to
rejoin their regiments immediately. Tho
Government announces that the measure
is merely precautionary; but semi-omeuj
journals say that it is nesessitated by im
portant reasons. ,
Paris, September 11.—A telegram
from Semlin says thatBussia has advieea
Setvia net to disarm, and premised w
continue her subsidies. ,
London, September 11-—A Dem-
Belgrade dispatch aaya the Turkish
troops and Albanians uejmthe nmgh
borheodof Mitrovitea, and Novi Bazar m
rapidly sending reinforcements, said
include a large foroe of artillery, to „
erate against Scapan.
The recent beheading of HoeMtho
would-be assassin, at Berlin, was the h« [
SSSt sentence which the Emp<*£
William has allowed to bs executed ?m
1866.