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&ekgrapfj unit TUESDAY, DECEMBER 46, 1679. —Jay Gould tells a St. Louis reporter that he has just ended a trip of2200 miles on railroads controlled by himself. The •whole run was made In eight days. —-The Texas & Pacific showing of earn ings for the past six months is a most gratifying exhibit of what the road can do, unfinished. Net earnings of $694,572 in six months Is an extraordinary exhibit. —It is given positively as a fact in quar ters where facts are solid 18-karat that General Grant would have accepted the management of the Manhattan Elevated Railroad, in New York, if the directors had been willing. But the directors thought that they couldn’t afford to pay the salary necessary. —An inhabitant of Palermo, Catafal- mo da Cefalu, who was captured by five brigands, has been found dead in a cave of Monte Pellegrino, his bead cutoff, and his body shockingly mutilated. The brigands had demanded 200,000 franees ransom, but on the family declaring their inability to collect more than 7,000 francs they ultimately agreed to take 8,500 francs, which was accordingly sent; but the re cipients kept it all themselves, whereupon the accomplices who guarded the prisoner resolved to murder him. Nearly all the culprits are in custody. —Mirabeau-Tonneau one fine morning rang for his valet, and to him did say, “You are faithful, honest and intelligent; indeed I have no fault to find with you”— M. tv ▼!... ■!. <- ... 9—4,11 mmym ilu. flattered servant. “Only I won’t require your services after to-day.” “But why, sir?” “Because, you rascal, in spite your positive agreement on the subject, you get drunk on the same days that I do, instead of remaining sober to take care of me. That’s why, sir.” The valet (with dignity)—“and am I to blame, sir, because you get drunk every day?” Mirabeau- Tonneau kept him. —John Roach has begun the construc tion at his Chester yard of a minature ship, wliich will be borne in the Grant parade. The little ship is 35 feet long, 3| feet breadth of beam and is a perfect ' model of the City of Pekin, one of the largest vessels over built in this oountry. It will look like a vessel in the water. It will have four masts, two smokestacks and cany several boats in its davits. The little City of Pekin will be nicely painted, trimmed off in nice style and will form very prominent feature in the line. The men building it arc making rapid pro gress, and they will have the vessel ready by the lGtli inst. It will be hauled by four fine, large horses. — Philadelphia Timex. —The Chinese in California have begun to go. The steamer that sailed from San Brandsco for Dong Kong, a few days ago, took 901 of them to their native land The port statist is tics ofSan Francisco show that the arrivals of Chinese during the year ended November 1 were 6,128, and departures 8,746—of whom 6,229 went to China and 2,517 to Honolulu—the ex cess of departures over arrivals being 2,- 018. It is estimated that there are 62,000 Chinese on the Padfic coast, which shows that this population is decreasing instead of increasing, for when the anti-Chinese agitation was begun a few years, ago, the estimate was 100,000. The total number of Chinese arrivals for twenty years ended December, 1878, was 230,450, and the departures and deaths 133,491. At this rate the Chinese will soon cease to trouble California workingmen. —A chair has been endowed at Har vard for the teaching of Chinese, but it proves a sin*—— •»— •*-- •*» there being no D"plls. At the East the reason a. mis is stated to be an unwillingness to devote time and enaigy to the study of a language of which mly a superficial knowledge can be obtained, and that only of a single dialect, the Mandarin Chinese, which is unintelligible to the great mass of the inhabitants, including the mercan tile class. In California this is pronounc ed a mistake. The Mandarin Chinese is described there as the true language of the country, spoken by the court, the learned, the officials, and by all the higher Classes, both literary and mercantile. It lathe only dialect which an American should attempt to study. As commerce with China increases, the utility of a knowledge of the language of the country it is thought would be very great. Pbof. Proctor and the Meteors.— Prof. R. A. Proctor writes to the New York Herald to explain that his announcement Qf a flight of meteors on the evening of Thanksgiving Day was construed too literally and not enough in a Pickwickian sense by the public, to whom he seems to think he owes a little apology. He puts some of the blame upon Prof. Pogson, who, being away off at Madras, can prob ably stand it, but says: “I do not think it can be shown that I made a prediction on either point, (that of the meteors com. ing “end on” or being visible on Novem ber 27,) though I showed how desirable it was that the heavens should be observed that night.. Writing now, when no news Of a single Andromede being observed has reached me, (here at Montreal,) I yet Tenture to express my confident anticipa tion that many hundreds of meteors be longing to that system have been seen by observers in this country or in Europe.” Sensible Fred Douglass.—Those who are responsible for the colored immi grants from North Carolina who are in Washington en route for Indiana have been treated to a letter from Fred Doug lass, in which he says: “I cannot hut repeat the opinon already often expressed —that all organized effort at the North designed to prompt and promote further stampede of this sort should be discoun tenanced. These poor people should not he deluded and allured from their homes, especially at this season of the year by promises, expressed or implied, of pecu niary aid. I see no wisdom, but much folly—no good, hut much evil—in bring ing to this city multitudes of these people, under the impression that when they reach here money will be raised and furnished them to pay their traveling expenses to the North, the West, or elsewhere. There are hundreds and thousands everywhere ready to ride on railroads and to visit dis tant cities if assured in advance that their fares will be paid, and that food and shelter will be provided for them.” How to Lose New York.—-The World of the 9th, in a column and a half editorial, shows how to lose New York next year. We should Imagine the New York Democrats understand the how of this thing perfectly. They have brought the science and practice to perfection. But how to win New York back again will be ^roUmrsoiuc. Central Railroad Report. We. are indebted to the courtesy of General John E. Jones for a copy of the last and forty-fourth annual report of the Central railroad and its various branches. The pamphlet covers 104 pages, and is el egantly gotten up by George N. Nichols, Savannah. Having recently published from ad vanced sheets furnished to the Morning News, a succinct statement of the Presi dent’s annual report, and the earnings and expenses of the company, it is unne cessary to repeat the same. The follow ing figures, .condensed, however, from the admirable report of General Superinten dent William Rogers, will show the in crease and decrease of up and down freights on the three principal branches of the road: 1st. On the Central Railroad, Savan nah Division, the total increase of up freights was $43,798.32, against a de crease at some of the stations of $9,358.18.' In the same division the increase ' fh down freights was $77,227.54 against a de crease of $21,416,70. 2d. On the Atlanta division, the in crease in up freights was $9,787.76. De crease $3,842.95. On down freight the in crease was $8,883.34, decrease on same $11,138.30. 3d. On the Southwestern the increase in up freight was $10,411.95, decrease on same $15,220,47. On down freight the increase was 20,428.87 and decrease $3,267.41. The total net increase of earnings on the whole road for the past year was $106,- 335.90, and the increase in expenses $18,- 396.95. This is considered quite a satis factory exhibit. tnf at number of hales of cotton transported over the Central ranruau in 1878-9 to August 31st, was 647,971, against 478,580 bales for the previous year—an increast of 69,891 hales. The amount of Georgia cotton yam transported foots up 11,593 bales, against 7,135 bales in 1877. Of Georgia domes tics the road moved 16,820 bales in1878-9, against 13,761 bales hrlS77-8. The num ber of pounds of wool transported in the past year was 587,084, which is an in crease of about 100,000 pounds. Of hides there were shipped 480,681 pounds, or 86,- 641 pounds more than in 1S7S. Of leather 170,152 pounds—a gain of 73,490 pounds. In tobacco there was a falling off of 63,- 453 pounds, and a decrease in the ship ment of copper ore of 8,700 pounds. In rosin the gain is 4,448 barrels, and of tur pentine a loss of 210 barrels. The shipments of dried fruit show the shortness of the fruit crop the past season. As compared with last year they stand for 1878,1,942,627 pounds to 339,147 pounds for 1877. Georgians may take comfort from the fact, however, that in 1879 they only imported by the Central Railroad 46,744 bushels of com while the demand in 1878 was for 228,- 875 bushels. Of bacon, too, there was brought to Georgia over the Central this year only 3,477,272 pounds against 8,078,- 680 for 1878. On the other hand, the tables show a decided increase In the ex ports of wheat, lumber, paper, feathers and other products. In guano there is a decrease of 13,594,686 pounds. A slight falling off is notioeable also in the passen ger statistics. In 1878 the number trans ported was 76,387, and in 1879, 75,198. This has probably been more than made up in the past few weeks. REPORT OF OCEAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY. Mr. George Yonge, the clever and in defatigable agent of the line, says the net earnings of the ships have been $187,- 210.79. The several vessels have shown themselves to be “safe and comfortable sea boats” and their commanders are »" gentlemen and owned navigators. Tit., nave transported in the past year 131,275 bales of cotton, 43,673 packages New York Rooming. I ‘A Solid North.” iThe Proposed Railroad Contention One of our merchants who has just re- That our dear brethren of the North l on the Thirtieth of December, turned from the great, Manhattan metrop- are really bent on being truly solid, will I The'responses to the call made for olis,Tsays the whole city is astir rwith life 1 be noticed from the fact that a motion 1 convention ef citizens of the counties ad- and animation, and business is fairly ac- j was before the Union League, of New I jacent to the Macon and Brunswick RAil- ti vc. Broadway is jammed with crowds York, night before last, to admit no South-1 road, and those living on the route of the all day long, and at night brilliantly il- em man into that Holy Place. It was I proposed extension under the lease) are luminated from one end to the other, laid on the table and not adopted at once, j numerous, and from influential sources. The merchants have had a most successful I because, as stated by a member, it was I There is every prospect that the attend- trade, and are in the highest spirits. I hard to tell a Southern man or Democrat I race will be^ large, representing Everything wears a different aspect frbpa I fnom any other human being entitled to I capitalists of intelligence, who, doubth the outlook a year or two ago. I admission. They had all the ordinary I will consider the important Now, if the passion for insane specula-1 features of men—eyes, mouth, nose and I volved in all their length and breadth, tion does not seize all classes, it will be ears—they bore no indelible mark of their I It is highly desirable that the cities of | jj. Ross and j. F. Hanson. The only well for Gotham. But already this catas-J infamy, and, therefore, it might well hap- j Macon and Brunswick, and the iuhabi-1 absentees were Messrs. "J. W. Burke and TMEJPECT Organization EOccted. poinl ion of the Legiilature fbr the purpose j Mr. Jas. C. Warner, a prominent iron of landing the bonded debt of the city of manufacturer of that city, who expects to Macon, held a meeting at the office of I turn out from it forty-five to fifty tons Colonel John E. Jones, at the Central I °f P*g iron per day. Georgia Bank, and effected an organiza-I This furnace was owned by aNew York JTk£ following 'mffflbers of the company, which, according to the Ameri- coxnmission werft present il I can, had expended in the purchase of lands, Colonel John’ET Jones, Asher Ayres, R. I machinery and other material outfit for F. Lawton, Henry L. Jewett, I. C. Plant, the manufacture of iron, about half mill ion dollars. But the Company failed, and the cost of the property fo the present trophe seems to be brewing, and next will pen that, after admitting a brother in due J tants, also, of the region most directly j Colonel John P. Fort, both of whom are I owner, who had purchased its-depreciated come the oft repeated stoi^'of panic'and form, it would be discovered that he came I concerned, should spare no effort to retain ou j 0 fthe city. obligations, is not more than $150,006. failures by the thousand. What a queer J from Virginia, or the Carolinas, or Geor-1 the control of this outlet to the sea. We Colonel Jones was elected president of Mr. Warner is also principal owner of world-is ours? Verily the “lamp of expo-J 0 r some other prohibited and pro-1 are credibly informed that, if a proper or-I the commission. Mr. McLaughlin acted I the furnace at Chattanooga, which is rience” yields but a dim and fitful light scribed country, from which it was impos-1 ganization can be effected, the money to ^ secretary, he being designated as such making thirty tons of pig iron per day, upon the future. aible that a worthy Union Leaguer could j build the extension will be forthcoming. j a the bill establishing the commission. and has leased and is now operating the 1 1 — ___ come; and the solidity of the brotherhood j It is even asserted that the latter can be The city bond question was canvassed Worley furnace, in Dickson county, Ten- No Winter Yet—Green reas Bear in spite of the resolution. I constructed upon the sale of first mortgage hy the members of the commission, and nessee, which is producing fifteen tons per Meat. . This is an unfortunate state of facts, j bonds alone, while there is not the least th e set of hooks required, determined on day—so that his total product is now up- With the exception of a few ros an I ^ don , t fiee bow j t can he remedied I doubt of the ability of the present road to and ordered to be procured at once. The I wards of eighty tons per day. a slight freeze two or three times, c I ex t b ft constitutional provision that I earn tlie required sixty thousand dollars commission will wirnTunnw. the funding Mr. “Dickson having run some of all Southern men shall he branded as | lease money. of the bonds at once. Tl^e preparation of I these furnaces steadily on through the Our people should not remain passive, the books will hut a few days. I panic and low prices at a profit, as Ids refusal, shall not be permitted to cross the I and allow this highway, so crucially I The meeting was entirely harmonious, I hooks will show, has demonstrated that he line and mingle and trade with the re- I important to their future welfare, to slip and it was evident that the members of can make iron in Tennessee at prices spoctable people of other sections, and I though their hands. What say the solid this commission were fully alive to ths I which forbid the product in Pennsylvania, Congress shall have power to enforce this I burghers of Macon? And will Brunswick j situation and the important trust commit- and with present prospects the American provision by appropriate legislation. It is j and the several towns and villages on the ted to thom. ■ ’ I is confident that iron making is to be the line of route do their duty? Are the The large attendance i>fthe members J gmat business of Tennessee in the future, counties north of this, too, who expect to | wa s a gratifying circumstance and shows I this view of the matter the coal and The com- | coke companies are enlarging their opera- reign of summer has been uninterrupted, j neighbor just returned from a pleasure jaunt to Cumberland Island reports Eng lish peas for dinner, and sweet potato vines still green. Ban annas also were ripening in the open air, and the atmos-1 of ^ Wtonce, particularly when phere wasdelightfhllysoftandbalmy. officeg are £ bedistributed)that these __ Our friend and his companions Southern men should be kept out of the I be so vastly benefitted by the extension, I that they mean business. — D — 0 r — jolly good time on their maroon, and many | the faithful children of the ready to come down with liberal subscrip-1 mission is composed f of some of the I tions. The Tennessee coal and railroad a ^lendid sheephead, broad floimdcr an | ^on League. J tions to forward the good work? These j best and mc^t prominent business men of | company lias in blast two hundred coke arc pertinent questions, which must be answered before the convention. imperial whiting were drawn from their briny retreats. Prawn too are very Dien-1 The Rangers of the Gould*Vander* tiful, and clams at their best. The oys-l dllt Railroad Combination, tere, though fine, will he fatter in Febrna- New .Yorkers, and the peoph. the rv The party succeeded in killing a East generally, are much exercised over ENDING COMMISSION. , TensMtAS I Down with Pol . JWe are against our frvf ~ Ye&erday afternoon the commission ap- I sa y s that the Rising Fawn iron property dent who, while charcino- s -i • C , n " " ros '~ tinted in the bill passed at the last |Dade county, Ga M has been bought by ( sage in behalf of a free ? u ^ mes * warded all the scoundrels with°fht^nfR T& ~ who helped by their ZriZ ? ? ffices without reserve. We do endorse Mr. Hayes recommends that tV , ment for this crime against 8oi£gt be the deprivation of the right of suffrage and sitting upon juries, But it seemsto us upon conviction of an offense so revolt- ing to civilization, fine and imprisonment should he additional penalties. The New York.-Olwercer, discoursing on this subject, is of the opinion that the same difficulty exists in New York in en forcing the laws against gambling as ob- ta*ns in Utah against polygamy. That re ligious journal goes on to say, “but in Now York the largest church in the city is made a gambling house and the entire world of fashion spends two weeks at a soldier’s fair, violating the law all the time. The reason in both cases for the evil is the same; there is no public senti ment in Utah to condemn polygamy and do public sentiment in New York to con- nemn gambling.” This is a great reproach to Gotham, but we fear it is too true, both there and in a majority of the cities of the Union. But the evils incident to polygamy are far greater than inure from what is falsely regarded as the venal sin of the lottery system in our Sabbath School and church festivals. Neither are to be defended, hut they can hardly be called parallel offen- mqpt prominent Macon, aud in their bauds the matter can I ovens, and is building two hundred more, be safely trusted. The new bonds are 1 Ex-Governor J. E. Brown, who is running expected to arrive about the 20th tenant, J the Dade coal mines, near Shell mound, and after the signatures have been put on I has one hundred and thirty coke ovens What of the Utes? was the slaying of a veritable bear that terests of Jay Gould and W. H. Vander- orado ^ tlu3 absorbing topic of conversa- A nrunher of applications for the funding more, also. weighed 150 pounds. Bruin was brought I hilt. The West on the contrary crows tlon ln the War Department to-day. Gen- ® ft he present bonds have been made to A Word from a Cottoil BulL to bay in a swamp by the dogs. He was over it. Thus the Scdalia (Mo.) Demo-1 eral Sherman,when questioned,by a World I member3 ofth e commission. | As to the prognostications of the New found in a sitting posture by one of the I oral says: I reporter, replied : hunters, dealing savage blows at his ca-1 There is every_ reason upon earth why I «j have nothing to say. If the Corn- nine assailants. A well directed shot missioners effect anjthing it will save us . .. ,.. . .,. . . ' pmficauy. ana not one j f rom a } ongj vexatious war. I sincerely tumbled him over, hut the beast rose again-J sjhgle reason why they should^ make it | hope they may be successful. We have nothing to do with the matter.” General McCook, of General Slid man’s staff, said: “Ouray is with them. Ho knows they cannot be brought to Washington for trial. This certainly shows considerable ig-1 If I was there I would take them prison (e reason and renewed the fight. Two other bul-1 arbitrary,-: hurtful or ( Oppressive. Jay lets were required to dispatch , him. The I Gould is jiutthe sort Of man the West . . . „„ . „„ . . „ I needs to make aggressive the West’s cash, whole party feasted on hear steaks, and I j aben |. vigor and Immense resources, pronounced them savory and toothsome, j Heretofore the West has slept like a shorn Mr. Bunklcy is making several comma-1 Samson, dious additions to his establishment, and Cumberland Island will doubtless be | members of the commission. Sonth Georgia Vonference. Perry, December 12,1879. The conference was opened to-day by Dr. A. T. Mann. Prof. M. Calloway, of Emory College, was introduced. Dr. Key asked the following to be con firmed as members of the Committee on Missions: J. E. Godfrey, AV. E. Williams, W. H. McRae and J. W. Cheatham. Dr. R. W. Lovett read a report from amore popular resort than ever next turel Unlimited P™r usually cwrle. ri^e^u f t w«gnmt^ with it arrogance and a disregard for the I jt fa absurd to temporize with these I rights of those who may be in opposition I Utes.” I to it, though honorable exceptions to the | Adjutant General Townsend said :_“I | . i never from.the first have thought the In rule are not wanting. On this subject the | dian murdererg W ould be given up. The I year. _ Another Dividend. The lucky holders of Southwestern Railroad stock will be pleased to learn I New Yo rk Bulletin remarks: I interior Department has now exhausted from the notice published elsewhere, that! it is true that the railroads to-day are I all its resources. The war—for it will a dividend of three and a half dollars per | beyond all comparison the greatest power I come—will rest on the Utes; the Govem- share will be to their credit on and after on this continent; but whether it is in hu- ment will not be to blame.” »i.e ootu nt the cnnnter nf man nature to exercise that power so as Adjutant General Drum said, when aiearthoTDecember, at the counter ot i on;n der jt “arbitraiy', hurtful or oppres- asked if he believed the Utes would be the Central Georgia Bank, m this city. J s i ve » is a point upon which we suppose I given up:, The stock of the Southwestern Railroad I some difference of opinion may be toler-| “No; it is'absurd. The Indian! at the has been steadily creeping upwards for ated, several years, until from 70 it lias ad-1 Erio° are certainly of a character I guilty parties will ever be given up.” to warrant some grave doubts I ■ on the subject. Men exercising so vast a Thc st - Pawl’s Entertainment, power, often in spite of themselves, be- | Last evening, in the parlors of Mr. D. The following were appointed a Board of Education; J. S. McLaughlin, H. Pilleyers, J. T. Derry, W. B. Hill. Question 1—Who are admitted on trial? Answer—J. T. Lowe, Lyman H. Green, W. D. McGregor, J. Langston, R. W. Mac- Donell, John R. Carter. Question 2—Who remains on trial? Answer—G. W. Matthews, J. J. Ansley, Burrell S. Key. Question 4—Who are admitted into full connections? Answer.—W. H. Tigner, J. R. McCles- vanced to 103| in the market. At this time, dividend off, it is held at par. We are among those who believe that the salutary restrictions and checks expec- This class is said to have passed the best examinations of any clash that ever were admitted into this Conference. The Bishop addressed them in a most interest ing manner, and they took the usual vows York Financial and Commercial Chron icle, alluded to in our cotton article of last Tuesday, a writer in the New York Commercial Bulletin takes them to task. He complains first of the measurement of the incoming crop by the present excess. He says all observing cotton merchants know that immense receipts during the first three or four months of the cotton year have always hitherto accompanied a short crop. And next, as to the increase of Euro pean consumption. The writer asks: “Can it he possible that the Chronicle has forgotten that more than two weeks ago the consumption of Great Britain was reported at 60,000 hales per week with the probability of its reaching 65,000 or 70,000 in a short time. We have shipped to Great Britain so far 240,000 bales more than last season, and what have they to showforit? Barely50,000excess instock and afloat; and this with a weekly con sumption at least of 15,000 more than this time last year. Last season in the midst ofthe greatest depression they had a panic in Manchester on account of deficient supply. What will they have this season of fruit and 88,126 packages of vegetables. By a salutary change in the method of loading and unloading the ships, Mr. Yonge has effected a saving of $10,000 annually to the company. The total number of miles traveled by all the trains in the past year year is 550,- 242 miles. The net earnings per mile amount to $653. Bridges, track, etc., are reported in good order. Very few accidents have occurred. There are sixty-one locomotives in use on the roads, and 1,792 passenger and freight cars. The value of the stock killed by the trains and paid for in the past year is $13,809. The capital stock of the Central rail road amounts to $7,500,000. The Upson branch barely paid expenses. The report closes with a list ofthe names of the stockholders of the com pany. An analysis shows that they number. ,839. Among the largest stockholders are Moses Taylor, who owns 3,590 shares, A. Low 1,663, W. J. Hood 1,122, Merch ants’National bank 1,258, J. F. Screven 783, James Potter 518, B. Ingham 587, Charles Green 420, and so on down to a solitary share. These statistics will be read with inter est at this time when the railroad question is occupying such general attention. A Kentucky widow recently planned a marriage without taking the pains to in form her son, a lad of twelve years. While the ceremony was in progress the urchin escaped from the nursery, and approach ing the gentleman who was rapidly being converted into his stepfather, gave him a violent blow under the ribs with a fire- shovel. The widow ordered the tempo rary elimination of the child from the do mestic problem, and the minister was enabled to catch up the broken thread of the service and to tie the knot. Don’t Be in a Hurry.—According to the New York Tribune, General Garfield says he was a good deal surprised to see the President and Secretary Sherman come out so fiat-footed on the greenback question. He is himself in favor of get ting rid of the greenback as soon as possi ble, but he is not prepared to say that the present is the time to do it. He thinks the better plan would be to let things ad just themselves to resumption, and then feel our way carefully along.. There are many evidences that this is the popular view in Washington. The common idea was that the aboli tion agitation would cease when slavery should be abolished. But it was a grand mistake. That part of Northern Method ism, which locates abont New York and Brooklyn, has now gone into spasms abont their anti-slavery record. If there Is any thing the brethren do love above all other things, it is controversy; hut seeing the quarrel is among themselves let us he re signed. The widespread fame of Dr. Bull’s _ Cough Syrup is justly won hy its own i merits, and the reputation it has gained bcea secured tj- ics unjverscl use. wI arbitrary and dictatorial, forgetting I r. Cook, on College street, a very pleas-12&*I with bu y ers for more goods than they can ted to be imposed hy the “Railroad Com- Uiat j is excellent to have a giant’s aat entertainjne fo was given . T u e at . Dr. Callaway made a report^ of the «>n- Possibly make ?” mission,” in the removal of local disenm-I strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like . s , , . I dition of Emorv Co11p«» T'ho eniimro ie I — inations and the proper regulation of the a giant.” The disposition of the railroad tendance was large, the room being full of doi wc g an ^ focreas^g coLtantlf fo A Great Inland Cotton Port several schedules of the different roads, corporations to misuse their power, as a spectators. The programme presented nul X r and nsefufoess. J The cotton receipts of St. Louis forthe attaMgigiSrt*s;;~!gg ™ * _9=a» »*— *r— » - frr 450 - M0 investments, and make these neglected se-1 pect, save such judicious legislation as I o ^ ... T i * \xr I Answer. W. J. Stallings. J bales, or about twenty-three times more rarities more popular. At least we hope j while doing nothing to discourage legiti- I open vu i its. or ey s ax I ipbere was one other man in the class J tban the amount received in 1866. This ' roointment of mate railroad enterprise and railroad de- Works, hy Mrs. Griffin, of Vineville, fo j ReV- c . T. Bickley, hut he was not pres- is all due to the completion of the Iron —. —i™,«..!» S3SSJT *ry l ” I - ft* ”“5°" ft** *• “ft ^ I **“■=■ “ d present value of Sonlhxestem E *“ road KfluS! “““ "MS* »» In eSllent stile. Mts. Ii.K. stock conclusively shows. Hard Weather in Europe. The reports of inclement weather on I The Indiana Negro Colonization. A World Washington telegram says the the European continent to-dayjire Hines favored the audience with a vocal selection which was rendered in her usual [■ cultured “ na admired style. “Peter Dowdy,” a farce, in which the [ characters were taken by Miss Lannie $51 for his year’s salary, on which he had to support his wife and children. He therefore had not money to come to the | Conference. Question 12.—What traveling preach ers are elected elders? Texas railroads, which have opened up this splendid addition to the business of the metropolis of the West. Verily these railroads, though much abused and often Answer.—W. F. Floyd, DonQ. Abbott, I sinnin S. against particular localities, and L. W. Stubbs, R. M. Booth, Thad. J. I unjust m their aiscnminations, are better Nease. I developers of a country than every other Question 5.—Who are re-admitted? I agency combined. But it has come to be ^fj. e orZ°cfa?ke P ^ e allowed to pre-» believed in “ neteca States of ** Union occurred in Sicily and the southern ex-1 G reene an< Wayne. It had its origin in I Holmes, Miss Lilian Roberts. Miss Leila tremity of Italy. Intense cold and heavy I manipulations of two or three negroes who I Cook and Mr. E. B. Rees, was well pre- snows are noted in Berlin and Vienna, j ba d lieen forced to flee the country for sented, and was followed by a vocal solo by ■ ... , .. and in Silesia a temperature is recorded I bad conduct one having been indicted Miss Coeke, in wliich the splendid vocal j tal Church, wliich lie didlhi a most^lo- of twelve degrees below zero I To what I ® >r forgery and another peijury. Some I powers and accomplishments of that lady I quent address to the Conference, meteoric disturbance are these singular I parties have furnished money to start I were admirably displayed. I After notices Conference adjourned, climatic developments due ? tbem 0H tbeir journey. One of these de- One of the best received actsof the even- ~ . ■ V~Tr.- t laded matures when questioned as to ing> however, was the singing in cliarac- t^eftatVrowd altoSdi^ ite Corferencl! Charleston Election. I the cause of his leaving, said that Grant I ter, of “John Anderson my jo,” by Mig$ I It is my pleasure to be quartered with the The election in Charleston resulted as j had sent them word to get out of North I Hines. | most genial and hospitable man of all, follows: Carolina before Christmas and go to In- Miss Hattie Hall favored the audience ” Courtenay, regular Democrat,.... 4,4741 diana to vote for lum against the rebels. | itl ,, f l Gayer, Independent .... 2,343 Congressman Singleton, of Mississippi, W1 “ a "el executed song. Sale, ” 1,490 3,8331 who arrived here Saturday, states that as [ The entertainment was closed by the j he passed through Murfreesboro, Tenn., I “Legend of Mary Jane,” an amusing Courtenay OTcr both 641 he saw a group of two or three hundred shadow representation illustrating the ex- Tlie Courtenay ticket^fbr Aldermen was S^doubl thatmonoy h« b£n P^ ion ’ “ love lau S b The successful by corresponding majorities. furnished to colonize colored voters in actors were themselves invisible, hut The Cruel Test a Wife Underwent patch says: The Booms.—Very serious combina-1 that State on quite an extensive scale. their talented shadows on white ^can- I Yesterday—A Dramatic Scene in Yesterday the lower house of the Prus- tions are now being formed against Grant, I , J vass afforded no little amusement for the the Hayden Trial. s *au Landtag, hy a vote of 226 to 155, against Sherman and against Blaine— cr it w^ the work of negro preacliers^ho ““Pany. A reader, also invisible, ex- New Haven, December 10—There er^ntoftE^ kfojriot^to p^h^e^he each to crowd the other two off thetrack. j had been hired by somebody to get up a plained the situations. The occasion was I was a dramatic scene in the Hayden trial chief railroads of the country, the Berlin It is very clear from present indications I crusade in the South. Ho said there was I highly enjoyed. j to-day, during the cross-examination of I and Stettin, Madgeburg and Halderstalt, that Grant’s spontaneous and unanimous 15? extraordinary demand for labor in In- J Mrs. Hayden, when Mr. Walker asked the Hanover and Altenbechen and Cologne c.11 tnt.ira mrommont aM t„ I diana—]indeed that farm bands were I RrorcuLOus Errata.—The “intelli- fo n owin2 anestion . and Minden railways. The dissentient call to take the reins of government again I down at barely living rates, and that in gent compositor” will have his own way ° qu !* ion ‘ vote comprised pretty much all classes of is not going to show itself. I the winter months much of this sort of , .... . . 'I ‘Now, madame, you needn’t answer | the opposition in Prussia, which was evi- b labor was discharged and not re-employed occ * si ° MU y des P ,te ^ most transparent this question until you are told to by the dently much reduced at the!recent elec- News from the Arctic is to the ef- agaid till ploughing time, in the spring, corrections of proof. Thus, he makes the court. Mr. Hayden, you say, Is your bus- tions. feet that the weather is eettim? eool nn I ™ apprehended that this influx of people editor say, in his resume of the Central I ba 57 u , tber °* your three children, j This was a sweeping remedy for the feet that the_weather is getting.cool n P| wofodbecome, as in Kansas, a serious Railroad annual KV0It> that the net earn- ? n< ? heh ?? devoted husband to a * General Eli Warren, who is now in his seventy-ninth year, yet he is full of life and energy, and leaves no labor undone to make liis guests comfortable. J. W. B. LEGAL TORTURE. that they require to he {“regulated,” and wholesome checks, if properly ad justed, perhaps will in the end inure more to their benefit than harm. How much better this than the forcible seizure by purchase on the part of the Government, of all the railroads fo the country. Yet the Baltimore Sun pub lishes a cablegram received this week, that Prince Bismarck, after long hesita tion and careful investigation, has suc ceeded in securing the practical assent of his government to becoming the owner of all the important railroads. The dis- that way. Whaling bark Helen Mar got j I charge on'the ramm^nite ’ into wfodbl f 8,110311 aanual rep0 "» uiat lne nel earn ‘ I loving wife for between eight and nine I evUs com P Iained of ’ and we ‘™ 8t * ach into San Francisco on the 8th and re-1 they had been imported. He believed itl in S s P cr mi >e of the road “amount to years; you have constantly maintained I tyranny wiil never he witnessed or toler- ports one vessel frozen up and abandoned h™ld react againstand iqjurc the Repub- $653,” when it was written, and rewritten “ ld b “ been, ated by the people ofthe United States, and tbf. nm«rv»ctof a wintpr of pvh-inrHi I llcan Party. He did not know whether in the corrected proof $0,653 or about 64 ? nd 13 now the utmost confidence existing As well take a company’s steamship, cot- ‘ss'sssk zzrstti »» b - tod i2 the Republican party many votes. Labor I orowd would very gladly accept the error, I ty, he must suffer ignominious punish-1 ma y possess at an arbitrary price fixed by ■ ‘ _ " 1 * ‘ ' “—■*“ • circumstances, woult prospect of nary severity. The Dangers of the Fishing I was already cheap'enough in Indiana, I if the printer could make it good. Again, | ment; under these circumstances, would I the buyer, and in defiance of all justice Trade.—Gloucester, in Massachusetts, I and any attempt to further cheapen it fo giving the amount of dried fruit trans- yo , u . not ’ und 4 er oa ? “f you “re. make a I au d vested rights. But this despotic ao- a small fishing town, reports, during a sin- ^’Rdi^ure^the party held accountable 1 1K)rted ln 187£)( the ^0^,^ ma de it order t0 save him from I ^ sllows tba t the general complaint gle gale, thirtedb vessels sunk and 143 men drowned, leaving fifty-six widows for whom $28,216.72 cents have been col lected. During the year 1879, thirty ves sels have been lost, aggregating 1,980 tons, valued at $118,769, and with them 240 lives, leaving eighty-eight widows and 219 orphans. An exhibit of dairy products in New 1877. Minor mistakes the average reader | can correct himself, but the first of those There was no answer. The witness burst into tears, as did nearly every woman , against the management of railroads is not confinod to this country alone. Bat Aid to Colored Colleges. , . It is thought that the bill introduced above mentined was too DreDosterous to 1 111 co “ rt ’ tears glistened inthe eyes of I the strictest justice and equity should be - -- - - - ...i r r ■ numbers of the sterner sex. A silence | meted out to them, as well as totheag- by Senator Bailey to devote the unclaimed pay and bounties of colored soldiers, amounting to $510,000, lately covered hack into the treasury, to the various col ored institutions in the South, will become a law. In that event it is provided that the amount shall he funded in four be overlooked. Sight Work. Mr. Avera, who lives in East Macon, in the classic section known as Black An kle, has been a watchman for the Central road for the last fifteen years. His work of death pervaded the room, and the! | counsel for the defense hissed out: “It is an insult to the witness.” Mr. Walter defended his action, hat the j Court ruled thc question out as an im- J proper one. grieved parties, pute. And this no one will dis- Ex-Senator Goldthv ot Alabama, A True Railroad King. John B. Garrett, Esq., has just been re elected for the twenty-second time Presi dent of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. _ _ , iwaite, w York, has brought up prominently the I per cent, bonds, and the annnnl interest I ba3 he 011 entirely at night, and for fifteen I says the World, was noted for his extreme I In his hands that vast enterprise has flour- subject of “olemargarino,” or butter man-1 thereof apportioned to the Howard Uni-1 y ears » while other men slept, he ba s and he WM oc^ion- ished almost without precedent. The Bal- ufactured from the fat of beeves. Held I versify, Washington, D. C.; Hampton, watched the night away from dusk to to out and beh," unable to find thf tunore and Ohio.is probably the best con- by one vote that it is intolerable, filthy Virginia, Normal and Agricultural Insti- dawn. Ho has literally turned night door. He would have half the page-boys I ducted and most profitable railroad on the stuffi nauseous and fit only for soap tute; the Fisk University, of Nashville, int0 day. Not many men in this viemity in the Senate looking for his hat or cane, continent. It is represented to be insu- grease. By that it can hardly be distin- Tenn.; the Atlanta University andStraight can sa y they have devoted their days to whicliwould be all^UiewMlefinfolycla*>; p«rb order and is doing an immense bnsi- guished from a No. 1 gilt-edged. | University, of New Orleans. rest and their nights to work for fifteen wa lking up and down the lobby, plunged ne J!?’ p.. . , ,, If the appropriation can be made con- years. in deep thought, often smoking a frag^nt ^ Garrett rs as remarkable for his stitutionallv it will certainlv be a wise We have no doubt Mr. Avera’s duties I Havana, and entirely oblivious or all suaTlt y and pleasant manners as he is for (Ucrv™in™'l’fn,nfi,rwi in I have been well performed, or he would I tbin Ss about him. Often some cheeky farseeug sagacity, firmness and indomita- dapoaltionof,tofufldmqnestion. I _ ^ agj “!»— Help for Poor Ireland. I He must he, from long association, much I would mechanically hand over his cigar, Christmas Beeves.—The New York Sun tells of sixty-four cattle on sale in that city, weighing 140,800 pounds. Many ofthe two year olds weigh over 2,000 pounds. They are grade cattle—a Dur ham cross—and promise fine beef. is on foot to raise $250,000 to “make his old age comfortable.” Ulyses was bora j under a lucky star. The destitute condition of the bulk of I better acquainted with the stare than the I the boy would take a light, put the ehoice the Dish population at home, owing to face ofthe sun. I weed fo his precious mouth and hand over his old stump to the old gentleman, who would continue Ins stroll Coanty Court. | in blissful ignorance. It is related on j high rents and the almost total failure of | Poor Grant.—And now a movement j the crops, Is eliciting much sympathy in this country, and, we are glad to learn, | has at length taken practical shape. Tee Supreme Court.—The Herald says Justice Hunt, of the Supreme Court, I is to resign, and to be succeeded hy Sena- fo_ abd striving to provoke ra ter Edmunds, of Vermont. I other rebellion, which would almost Yesterday, in the County Court, Riley good authority that, in one of his fits of Jossey, colored, was tried for larceny from abstraction, he walked into the Senate el- In St. Louis, in a few hours, $222.501 the house and convicted and sentenced to SoVtee P S r rad^toly r^uMted were collected, and the good work is to be I Rine months on the chain gang. | to be let out at “H” street, industriously carried on there and in other I The case of Geoige Stevens, charged This is far better than encourag-1 with the same offense, was settled. | Paying the Fbeedmen. — As to Jannette Hill, colored, was convicted of I O’Conner’s bill for payingup the swindled larceny and was sentenced to six months j depositors of the Freedmen’s Bank, Thk if ew York* World's weekly edl-1 * urel l r entail increased suffering rad dis-1 on the chain gang. ( I Washington correspondent ofthe Charles- tion of the 10th instant was 278,000. 7 * I Mtcr npon that long oppressed but gal- Jack Johnson, colored, was found guilty I ten Mew* and Courier thinks it is likely , ,,, , I lant people. We trust America, out of ] of larceny from the house. j to be pressed to a successful issue. Cotton dropped below seven pence I her abundance, will deal generously with yesterday in Liverpool. | the starving sons of Erin. I Of the thirtv-nine thanksrivimr nrocla-1 _ wl “ t * restless do not stuiiefv it bv adininis-1 Sunday morning last the farm house of J is that If even when war and pestilence I f b ® did not use SOZODONT. It costs so terinp oDium but soothe it with a reliable two brothers, Richard and William Need- prevail we have cause to render thanks, so bt tle to buy it considering the good it remSv P such as Dr Bull’s Babv Svran ham, in London township, was entered much more reason have we now when ac- does, and its benefits stretch out into her K oAfo twentv-five cente» bcS& P * I b y “asked burglars whostolc $500 and | tivity has been restored to trade and work | Rfe. Poor girl! declO Iw *. 9tm , I clubbed the two Needhams so mercilessly I given to laboring men, in whose homes mw iSSSU SSK95S n’iVT to- A dark, sullen anil wet day yesterday, that both are expected to die. * privation and want so long prevailed. j »4‘.UQ QB ,<j.w ij Of the thirty-nine thanksgiving procla-1 wn»t m PUj; mat ions Governor McClellan’s is thought I * ba t the otherwise beautiful girl should London, Ontario, December 9.—On | to be the most original. The burden of it I harre. such bad teetln And all because He is railroad king who rales well and wisely. An Explosion Felt for Forty Miles.—A‘ magazine of iiitro-glycerine and dynamite on Fox Island, Ontario, ex ploded on Friday night last, shattering windows in town, and felt like the shock of an earthquake for forty miles around in all directions. An explosive force on top of the ground that can shake the solid earth for forty miles cannot be too carefully stored and watched. The Cold in Hungary, coupled with the disorder and destruction incident to a general overflow, is producing terrible re sults in the way of suffering and death. The telegrams say many entire families have been frozen to death. Notice to Druggists and Store keepers.—I guarantee Shriner’s Indian Vermifuge to destroy and expel worms from the human body, where they exist, if used according to the directions. You are authorized to sell it on the above con ditions. David E. Foutz, proprietor, Bal timore, Md. The People’s Mutual Relief Associa tion. As shown by their advertisement else where, this is the name of a Life Insur ance Association which was organized in August, 1878, at Mobile, under the laws of Alabama. The company simply requires an iuitiation fee and one death assessment from a new member, and afterwards an annual payment of $8.00. By a law of the Association, no death assessment can be made upon those holding policies so long as $5,000, the largest amount insured for any person, re mains in the treasury. At present the sum of near $30,000 stands to the credit of the company, and they have only made one death assessment since its formation. The premiums and payments are based upon the age of the party, so that a young man is not required to pay for the increased risk of his senior. No one over 60 years of age will be re ceived at all. The chief advantage of this method of life insurance is its cheap ness and simplicity. No large sums to be manipulated houestly or otherwise in a palatial structure, the cost of which is borne by every policy holder, are required in the premises. The admission fees and annual assessments, after paying abso lute expenses, based, upon the most eco nomical schedule, are all allowed to ac cumulate as a reserve fund to meet the losses hy death. The tables and risks too are based upon lhe most intelligent mor tuary statistics. The writer has taken out a policy in this company, which is the best evidence he can give as to its reliability. Others of our most prominent citizens, also, among the number eminent bankers, physicians rad merchants, have done the same. The list of members already counts 1,600, among whom may be mentioned B. H. Hubbard, ex-Goveruor of Texas, Sen ator Herndon, of Alabama, Governor George F. Drew, of Florida, Governor William B. Miller, of Arkansas, Governor A. S. Marks, of Tennessee, and a host of others, covering the clergy, mercantile and legal community, and the best representa tives of every guild rad class. The very clever agent in our midst, Mr. James P. Hough, who may be found at 100 Cherry street, over the store of E. Price <& Sons, has added a long list of Macon members to the insured. Ho is every way reliable, rad brings with him the highest testimonials of char acter. The motto of the Association is, “Bear ye one another’s burdens,” rad we know no better way of doing so than by taking out a policy in the “People’s Relief Asso ciation.” Silver Change. While it is the fashion abroad to groan over a depreciated silver currency—and while in Macon,at seasons of the year when business is stagnant, silver accumulates in mercantile drawers and safes, it is never theless true that no sooner does trade start up, and labor begin to find employ ment, then every body feels a scarcity of fractional Change. This has been the case here since cotton began to open- showing a much greater capacity to float silver than has yet been satisfied. The fractional currency of the olden time, the circulation of which, if memory serves us, used to be somowhere between eighty and a hundred millions, has never yet found an adequate substitute in silver. Cheap Gas. The Cincinnati Commercial declares that the ^question has been settled, that gas can be manufactured and sold at a large profit In that city at $1.25 per thou sand feet. Petroleum is bound to make a revolution in the cost of gas, and this per haps is the beginning. The consumers will rejoice thereat. Rev. J. Wm. Jones, D. D. We had an exceedingly pleasant call from this genial gentleman and erudite scholar yesterday, who is the embodiment of genuine bonhomie and intelligence- He has shown himself to he as faithful a historiographer of the great Robert E- Lee as Boswell was of Johnson, without the cringing sycophancy, not to say toadj- ism, of the latter. It is fortunate that the revered chief of the Confederate cause has had so faithful and reliable a witw® to his achievements and sympathizer with the lost cause, to chronicle his illustrious deeds and send his name rad fame do* 11 to the latest posterity untarnished hi * single stain. Dr. Jones is well known as a distil" guished divine, and the accomplished e<h* tor of the Southern historical paper* ® a the events of the late war, which will furnish invaluable data to future writer* upon these dark and bloody days. The people of Macon extend to biff * warm welcome and appreciate his seme** in behalf of our favorite institution, Public Library. It Is hard work for thc baby to cut teeffi and it should be assisted by the use Dr. Bull’s Baby Syrup. It will cool toe inflamed gums. General Mahonb was nominated for the United States Senate by the Bead- justers and Radicals in the Virginia Leg islature hy acclamation on Friday -.ight-