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]3Y TELEGRAFJtL that negroes had been ill treated by the
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*— I To show that this was not the case, he
Augusta, Me., December IS.—Full quoted cx-Govemor Holden, Hon. R. C.
details of the count made by the Governor Badger and several Republican State Rep-
and Council show the following results: resentatives and prominent colored citi-
In the Senate, the Fusionlsts are given zens of North Carolina, who declared that
twenty members and the Republicans , the colored people of that State had not
J ” ' 1 “» I been unfairly dealt with. Mr. Ransom
thought the Southern teeatment of the ne
groes would compare favorably with the
Northern treatment of the Indians. One
race was visibly and rapidly improving;
the other was disappearing from the earth.
Mr. noar, of Massachusetts, asked if the
negroes were well treated in the South,
why they were emigrating to an inhospi
table climate. Mr. Ransom asked, in re
turn, why, if people were once well treat
ed in Massachusetts, they were emigra
ting to Tennessee ? If the cause was op
pression in one case, why not in the
other?
Mr. Ransom thought the exodus was
due to the misrepresentations of various
people, perhaps of some Republican Sena
tors. He would like to know why the
colored emigration had been diverted from
Kansas to Indiana.
Mr. Windom.—Perliaps because the ne
groes, as Mr. Hill says, are so fond of
Democratic rule, and Indiana is about
the only Northern Democratic State left.
Mr. McDonald.—I would suggest that
it is because they are more fond of Demo
cratic than Republican charity.
Mr. Windom quoted from the report of
Senators Bayard, Beck and Blair during
several years when they were investigating
the condition of the Southern negroes to
the effect that in the natural course of
events there was no future alternative for
the negro except exodus and extinction.
Mr.' Hill called attention to the fact
that when this report was made the Re
eleven. In the House, the Fusionists
have seventy-eight members and the Re
publicans sixty-one. Five cities with
twelve Republican representatives (viz.
Portland, Bath, Lewiston, Rockland and
Saco) are disfranchised. The House will
thus be twelve members short at its or-
ganization.
London, December 18.—A Candaliar
dispatch says a conflict occurred between
the Ileralti and Cabul troops near Herat.
It is uncertain which party was victorious,
but Zakoo Khan lias been imprisoned by
the Cabuli, who lisld the citadel under
.the leadership of a low adventurer, who
has been proclaimed Governor in Ayoob
Khan’s place. The Afghans hold Bala-
hissa and Cabul.
London, December 18.—Details of the
last Chilian victory, state that the allied
forces of Peruvians and Bolivians,
11,000 strong, inarching northwards from
Noria to effect a junction with the rein
forcement of 0,000 men, under command
of President of Bolivia, attacked on the
21st of November, the Chilian advance
corps of 0,000 men, who occupied an en
trenched position at Doroles, near Agua
Santa. The Chilian’s heavy cannon com
mitted great ravages among the ranks of
the enemy, whose cavalry charged three
times upon the guns and attempted to
carry them, but tlicir efforts on each occa
sion was unsuccessful.
In the evening, the rear of the Chilian
force came up aiid decided tlie day. The
allied forces were driven hack and
their camp taken, in which thirteen^can- j publicans had control of the Southern
non were'found. Many wounded officers
Including the Bolivian General, Villigas,
was taken prisoner and another of the al
lied generals killed. The losses of Chilian
forces were heavy.
Washington, December 18.—In the
Senate, the Vice President laid before the
Senate a communication from the Secre
tary of the Treasury, transmitting, in ac
cordance with Senate resolutions calling
tliereTor, information concerning the effect
upon tlie revenues and upon consumers of
the repeal of the duty on tea and coffee in
1872. Referred to the Committee on Fi
nance.
Mr. Saulsbury, from the Committee on
Privileges and Elections, reported a reso
lution that an attachment issue to the
Sergeant-at-Anns, commanding him to
bring to the bar of the Senate, for con
tempt, Mr. Smith and other witnesses sub
poenaed by tlie sub-committee to investi
gate charges against Senator Ingalls, and
who have refused to testify. Adopted.
Mr. Hoar presented a petition signed by
Robert C. Wintlirop, Charles Francis
Adams and other distinguished citizens,
members of the Massachusetts Historical
Society, praying a suitable appropriation
for the erection of a monument to com
memorate the victory of Yorktown. Re
ferred to tlie Committee on the Library.
Mr. Hoar presented a petition of citizens
asking tlie appointment of a labor com
missioner. Referred to the Committee ou
Education and Labor.
The resolution introduced by Mr. Davis,
of West Virginia, reported yesterday, from
the Committee on Agriculture, instructing
tlie Agricultural Committees of both
Houses to consider the subject of agricul
ture and report what ought to be done by
the government to promote agricultural
interests, was adopted.
The Senate proceeded to consider the
pension appropriation bill, and it was
passed.
The Senate took up Mr. Voorliecs’ reso
lution for tlie appointment of a committee
to invest igate tlie causes of negro emigra
tion from the South, and Mr. Voorliecs
spoke upon it.
Tlie President sent tlie following nomi
nations to tlie Senate to-day: Cohen C.
Williams to be United States Consul at
Swintovv, China; Samuel Spackman, of
Pennsylvania, to be United States Consul
nl iaitaoil liCHO at
Owensboro, Kentucky.
At a meeting of tlie National Republi
can Executive Committee, yesterday, Col.
Thomas B. Veagh, of North Carolina, was
elected to succeed ex-Govemor McCor
mick.
In tlie House, ou motion of Mr. Gibson,
of Louisiana, a resolution was adopted
authorizing tlie Committee ou tlie Missis
sippi Levees to proceed over the Missis
sippi river to its month, at such times as
tlie committee may direct, for tlie purpose
of acquiring knowledge of its peculiar
condition and wants and gathering infor
mation relative to the liest method for its
improvement, with power to take testi
mony.
Tlie call of committees for reports is
now progressing.
Indianapolis, December 18.—Samuel
E. Perkins, Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court of Indiana, died at midnight.
Richmond, December 18—A bill was
introduced in the Senate to-day by Mr.
States. The government’s situation was
then indeed deplorable, and if it had con-
continued, there might indeed have been
no alternative between exodus and ex
tinction. But the situation was now hap
pily changed.
After sorno further debate, in which
Messrs. Ingalls, Hill, Jonas, Davis and
others participated, and after a slight mod
ification of Mr. Voorhees’ resolution, a
vote was taken thereupon, and resulted in
oyes 27, nays 12. The Senate then ad
journed.
In the House a bill wus introduced aud
referred as follows by Mr. Gibson, of Lou
isiana: To authorize national hanks to
make loans on real estate; also to repeal
section 3412 of the revised statutes with
regard to national hanks.
> By Mr. Acklin, of Louisiana—For the
regulation of the inter-State freight and
passenger rates, and to relieve the same
from the restrictions of local quarantine.
Mr. Gatcb, of Missouri, from the Com
mittee on Agriculture, reported a bill to
repeal so much of the internal revenue
law as prohibits farmers and planters from
selling leaf tobacco to others than manu
facturers without paying a special tax.
Referred to the Committee of the Whole.
Mr. Scales, of North Carolina, Chair
man of the Committee on Indian Affairs,
reported back, with amendments, the Sen
ate bill for the removal of the Utes from
Utah, and asked for its immediate consid
eration.
The House went into a committee of
the whole, laid aside previous business
and proceeded to debate on it at great
length.
Washington,December 18.—The sub
committee of the House committee on
militia, to whom was referred tlie resolu
tion authorizing the Secretary of War to
furnish the Cherokee Artillery Company,
of Rome, Georgia, with a battery of field
artillery and equipments, have agreed to
report favorably upon the bill, with an
amendment that tlie Secretary of War be
authorized to loan to said company a bat
tery of four guns with equipments and
take bond for tlieir safe keeping and re
turn when called for. General Bennet,
Chief of Ordnance, has assured Represen
tative Speer, Chairman of the sub-com
mittee, that he can readily supply guns
»«I <xjuipmontO»
Andrew Clark, Internal Revenue Col
lector at Atlanta, Georgia, in a dispatch
to Commissioner Raum, reports seizure of
four illicit distilleries, and says the deputy
marshal accompanying him, has made
several arrests.
Savannah, December 18.—At the
the stockholders meeting to-day, Presi
dent Wadley, of the Georgia Central
Railroad, announced that tlie policy of
the company had been to leave undis
turbed the established centres of trade,
but the ample facilities it possessed would
be employed to circumvent hostile legis
lation, which had been foreshadowed in
tlie interest of other lines detrimental to
tlie Georgia Central and the city of Sa
vannah; that the company were prepared
to accord every privilege desired by the
Northwest in the transportation of freight,
aud he could not divine the motive of
those who, rumor had it, were striving to
open up new lines which would injurious
ly affect Savannah and the Central Geor-
imrouuceu ... u, ^r. ja Railroad, wh en there was no necessi-
F ulkerson, to incorporate the Richmond The Comnanv however, were
and Southwestern Railway Company, tlie j ,jetennined to use all tlieir advantages to
road to extend from some point in the tlu ,ir interests.
southwestern boundary line of Kentucky
to aud through the city of Uiclunond to
tidewater in the State of Virginia, It
is claimed that tlie incorporators propose
to expend $5O.0!*0,000 in Virginia In the
construction cu the road aud development
of the mineral and other resources of the
State.
No progress was made to-day in the
General Assembly in the election of Conn
ty Judges, aItftough a number of candi
dates had lieen selected by the Readjus
tees in caucus last night. The delay was
due to some demoralization among the
members of tlie dominant party, arising
from dissatisfaction with several of the
caucus nominees. The resolution was
therefore adopted, postponing the joint
order until to-morrow. In the meantime
a caucus of the Jieadjusters will be held
to-niglit. Everything will be set right,
and tlie work v ! 11 go on again.
Petersburg, Va., December 18.—A
large cot. on gin at Weldon, North Caro
lina, belonging to Thomas L. Emery, was
destroyed by lire to-day with fifteen bales
and a large quantity of loose cotton. The
loss is $.">,000, no insurance. Tlie fire
originated by tlie friction of tlie gin ignit
ing tlie cotton which was passing through
it. An adjoining building valued at
about $200, belonging to the Petersburg
Railroad Company, also took fire and was
completely destroyed.
Washington, December IS.—The tak
ing up by the Senate of Mr. Voorhees’
resolution for the appointment of a com
mittee to investigate tlie negro exodus in
the South, led to a long and animated de
bate, which occupied most of tlie fore
noon. Mr. Voorliecs said it was desirable
to know whether the exodus was or was
uot caused, as alleged, by unjust, political
treatment of tlie negroes at the South.
Indiana did not wish to be colonized by
negroes any more than California to be
colonized by China. He considered Mr.
Windom’s amendment, providing for in
quire with regard to setting apart separate
territories for tlie negro colonists prema
ture. Better \pt the committee act on its
own discretion with regard to such sug
gestions. After a brief defense by Mr.
Windom of his amendment, Mr. Hill, of
Georgia, said he was tired cf these Con
gressional investigations. The negro ex
odus would settle itself. The talk about
Ihe causes of tlie movement was gammon.
*be negroes were contented in direct pro
portion to tlie time the Southern States
had been freed from carpet bag rule. Tlie
number of colored school children in
Georgia would probably reach ninety
thousand this year, and the tax books
snowed that tlie colored people of that
state owned more than five million dol
lars m real property.
The discontent among the negroes
xvas in tlie unthrifty an d worthless, who
were worked upon by designing men. He
had doubted tlie capacity of tlie blacks to
become good citizens, but was glad to ad-
init they had done better than was ex-
ported. They had found out that their
old masters, instead of being their worst
eneinios as they had been told, were their
best fricuds. lie would not, however, op-
pose the resolution further, than to depre-
It on general principles.-
The vote was then taken on Mr. Win
dow s amendment, which was rejected,
ilr. Hill and Mr. Garland voting with the
Republicans. The debate was then re
sumed. Mr. Ransom, of North Carolina,
said he voted against the amendment be-
protect their interests.
Chicago, December 18.—Fowler Bro
thers have discharged two thousand hands
in their packing house at the stock yards,
because they insisted that no non-union
man should work with them. Other
houses are running very few hands, and
the whole number of workmen now idle
is estimated at 5,000 to 8,000. literal pau
pers.
Washington, December IS.—Post
master General Key has ordered the es
tablishment ot free delivery system at
Macon, Georgia and Little* Rock, Arkansas,
to go into effect January first.
The House Committee on the revision
of laws considered and discussed at some
length tc-day, a joint resolution intro
duced by Mr. Townsend at the last session
of Congress, proposing an amendment to
the Constitution that no claims shall here
after be paid or allowed by the United
States as damages or otherwise, for any
property, real or personal, taken, injured,
used or destroyed by the United States
troops or by tlie order of any officer, civil
or military, acting under the authority
thereof during the late war, for the main
tenance of the Union in any of tlie States
which were engaged in tlie war against
the government of tlie United States. The
committee postponed action upon the bill
until after the holiday recess.
Fair and Festival.
Tlie ladies of Vineville, in order to raise
money to make some very needful repairs
to the church building, hold a fair and
festival to-niglit, at which they would be
pleased to see their friends and the pub
lic generally.
Public Meeting in Jones Countv.
The citizens of Jones county are invited
to attend a meeting to be held in Clinton
on Saturday, December 27tli, for the pur
pose of appointing delegates to the rail
road convention, which will assemble in
Macon on the 30th instant.
R. T. Ross,
and others.
—The latest product to which California
soil lias been found well adapted is opium,
of which a superb quality, much superior
to the opium of commerce, lias been raised
in tlie Sonoma Valley. The only obstacle
to its cultivation is tlie fact that labor
costs more than in the Orient, but that is
oflset by the better quality of the domestic
article, and the absence of heavy duties.
There seems to be hardly any product of
the earth that cannot be raised in some
part of the Golden State. Tea, figs,
oranges, lemons, bananas, olives, dates,
even tlie cinchona tree and poppy plant
grow there along with the fruits and vege
tables of temperate climes.
“I always let a cold go as it come3,”—
one says; which means that he overworks
the system in getting rid of a cold rather
than assist it by using Dr. Bull’s Cough
Syrup. Price 25 cents.
Patience and gentleness are useful and
powerful, but they cannot cure a cough,
which, however, Dr. Ball’s Cough Syrup
will always do.
SUPREME COURT.
Decisions Rendered December 16th,
1879—Hon. Hiram Warner Chief
Justice, Hon. James Jackson and
Logan E. Bleckley Associate Justi
ces.
Benton vs. Roberts et al., commission
ers. Complaint from Jasper.
Warner, C. J.—It appears from the
record in this case that the plaintiff, James
Benton, on the first day of April, 1878,
brought his equitable action against tlie
county commissioners of Jasper county,
(making the tax collector and his securi
ties parties thereto) for the purpose of re
covering the sum of $767.52, which he
alleges he had paid to the county as one of
tlie co-securities of James F. Blackwell,
tax collector of said county. The follow-
i ng are the substantial allegation contained
in his-declaration: That on the 24th of
May, 1872, the county judges of Jasper
county, having by law jurisdiction and
control of the assessment and collection of
taxes of said county, issued an execution
against Blackwell, tax collector, and his
sureties, (one of whom was the plaintiff)
for the sum of $510 with interest thereon
at the rate of twenty per cent, per annum
from the twentieth day of December,1S69,
for arrearages of taxes due from said last
mentioned day and year by said tax col
lector; that said tax fi. fa., on
the 24th day of July, 1872, was by the
deputy sheriff of said county levied on the
property of the plaintiff as one Of the.
defendants therein; that afterwards (to-
wit), on tlie 13th of May, 1873, by the ad
vice of counsel he paid oil* said fi. fa. as
against himself by paying to said county
through its attorney and the deputy sher
iff the sum of $767.52, and took tlio con
trol of said fi. fa., as is allowed securities
in such cases, and sought to reimburse
himself by enforcing it against his cosure
ties and defendants pro rata; that on the
3d of July and on the 20th of August res
pectively he caused said fi. fa. to be levied
on the lands of S. W. Blackwell aud E.
W. Baynes, two of his co-sureties and de
fendants, who thereupon filed their affi-
davits^of illegality to said fi. fa., which
were sustained by the court at the Octo
ber term thereof, 1876, and tlie said fi. fa.
was ordered to be quashed and annulled
on the ground that tlie same was not
founded upon nor issued from any court
of competent jurisdiction, and was with
out any judgment of any court to support
it, which judgment quashing said fi. fa.
and dismissing the levies aforesaid made
thereunder, was not excepted to and is
now of force. Tins plaintiff alleges that
there was nothing due from said tax col
lector to the county for taxes when said
fi. fa. was issued, but if there
was, is willing to pay his share
of what may be found to be due, and prays
that an accounting may be had between
the plaintiff and said county of Jasper
and the other defendants, and if nothing
sliall be found to have been due by said
tax collector to the county, that it may be
adjudged to pay tlie plaintiff the $767 52
collected from him, or whatever amount
may be found to be justly and equitably
due to him, etc. To this equitable action
of tlie plaintiff the county commissioners
demurred: First, because it appears ou
the face of the plaintiff’s declaration that
his cause of action is barred by the statnte
of limitations. Second, for misjoinder of
parties. The court sustained the demur
rer, and the plaintiff excepted. It appears
from the bill of exceptions that pending
the demurrer, the plaintiff moved to amend
his declaration by striking therefrom the
names of the parties objected to, and after
the judgment of the court upon the de
murrer tlie plaintiff voluntarily took an or
der to strike the names of the tax collector
and his securities from the declarat ion.
One ground of exception is, that pend
ing tlie demurrer, the court allowed the
defendant’s counsel to read Benton’s affi
davit of illegality and the judgment of the
court thereon, which was not mentioned
or referred to in the plaintiiFs declaration.
Tlie judge certifies that he did not recol
lect it, lint states that tlie judgment of tlie
cuuii iv as predicated solely upon tlie facts
contained in tlie declaration. The only
question therefore for our discussion, is
whether the demurrer was properly sus
tained on the ground that the plaintiiFs
cause of action was barred by tlie statute
of limitations. The money was paid by
the plaintiff on the tax execution issued
by the county judge in favor of the county
on the 13th of May, 1S73, aud the judg
ment declaring tlie fi. fa. void was ren
dered in October, 1876. In view of the
facts of this case, as disclosed on the face
of the plaintiff’s declaration, did the stat
ute of limitations commence to run against
hint from the time of the payment
of the money, or from the time the execu
tion was quashed by the judgment of the
court ? The county judge, who issued the
tax fi. fa., was the officer and agent of the
county, and had by law jurisdiction and
control of the assessment and control of
the taxes of the county, and, in its name
and behalf, issued the tax fi. fa., which
was regular upon its face, and caused it
to be levied upon the plaintiffs property as
a valid and legal fi. fa. To save his prop
erty from sale under it, the plaintiff paid
it as one of the tax collector’s securities, so
as to enable him to control against his co
sureties, as provided by the 2170th section
of the code. Can the county of Jasper,
the defendant, during the time it was
(through the plaintiff who had been sub
rogated to all its rights) enforcing the fi.
fd. as a legal and valid li. fa., it having.
coerced tlie payment of it from him, and 1
with the money in its treasury, thus ob
tained, plead the statute of limitations un
til the fi. fa. was afterwards quashed ? We
think not, and that the statute m this case
only commenced to run in favor of the de
fendant when the fi. fa. was quashed in
October, 1870, and therefore the plaintiff's
cause of action was not barred by tlie stat
ute of limitations, and that tlie court erred
in sustaining the defendant’s demurrer to
the plaintiiFs declaration.
Let the judgment of the court below be
reversed.
George T. Bartlett; Bolling Whitfield,
for plaintiff in error.
Fleming Jordan, by Z. D. Harrison, for
defendants.
Blecbxet, J.—If it be true that par-! less, and introduced proof‘to that effect,
ties are entitled to a special jury, taken’and that no tender of such a mule had
from the grand jury, to try an appeal .com- ! been' made.
ing from a justice's court to the superior) Held, that tlie defendant was entitled to
court such right is waived by selecting . have that issue submitted to the jury, and
without objection, a jury from the traverse . that the courterred in charging the jury
juries instead of the grand jury; and after that “if you are satisfied front the evidence
a jury lias thus been selected in daeifonn, j that at the time .of the sale of the mule
it is too late to demand another.
Judgement affirmed.
W. W. Williamson, by brief, for plain-
tiffin error.
Sanford & Furman, by brief, for defend
ant.
McCulloch vs. Good, Small & Co. Ap
peal, from Jones.
Bleckley, J.—1. The general law pro
viding for affidavits of illegality to execu
tions, does not apply to distress warrants
for rent, defense to such warrants being
specially provided for, on condition of giv
ing security for the eventual condemna
tion money. Where security is not given,
the levying officer is not authorized to
receive any affidavit, or to return any is
sue for trial, and if he so do, the court
should dismiss the same ou motion. Af
ter the counter affidavit is dismissed,
both parties are out of court. 91, Georgia
169.
2. Only landlords, or those to whom
they have duly assigned their liens for
rent, can collect by distress warrant; and
if other creditors resort to this remedy,
they will do so at the peril of answering
for all damages.
Judgment affirmed.
C. L. Bartlett, G. T. Bartlett; R. E
Hardeman, for plaintiff in error.
No appearance contra.
Latimore vs. The State. Burglary, from
Wilkinson.
Bleckley, J.—1. Where the only ex
ception is to the refusal of the court to
grant a new trial, a ruling or decision of
the court not referred to in the motion for
a new trial is not covered by the writ of
error.
2. If newly discovered evidence be
merely cumulative, or not likely to pro
duce a different verdict, or if the circum
stances strongly indicate the want of full
diligence, on the part of the movant, in
bringing out the alleged new facts, a trial
may be refused.
The evidence adduced on the trial
was sufficient.
Judgment affirmed.
J. W. Robinson, H. G. Gilbert, for plain
tiff in error.
Robert Whitfield, Solicitor General, by
Jackson & Lumpkin, for the State.
Gerding & Co. vs. Bell. Homestead,
from Putnam.
BLEckLEY, J. The widow of a debtor
who died in October, 1877, applied in De
cember, 1878, fora homestead of realty, to
to the value of $2,000, in the estate of her
husband;
Held, that tlie homestcod provision in
the constitution of 1868 was applicable to
tlie case, and that said provision was kept
of force by the constitution of 1877, in re
spect to debts contracted under the former.
Judgment aflirmed.
W. B. Wingfield; H. A. Jenkins, for
plaintiffs in error.
W. J. Jenkins, by brief, for defendant.
Gerding, surviving partner, vs. Ander
son, Star & Co. Motion, from Putnam.
Jackson, J.—To require the Supe
rior court to consolidate three ac
tions on three promissory notes into
one, tlie defendant must make it
it appear to the court either that he has
no defense or that the defense is the
same to all the of tlie notes; and in the
latter case he must aver what that defense
is, so that tlie court inay adjudge whether
it lie the same in all the cases.
Judgment affirmed.
W. A. Reid; W. B. Wingfield, for plain-
tifi in error.
W. F. Jenkins, by brief, for defendants.
Samuel Walker vs. Huff, defendant in fi.,
fa., Wall, sheriff, Johnson, claimant of
fund in court. Rule, from Baldwin.
Jxeiuus; J. I. The defendant in fi.
fa., who claimed the fund as exempted by
tlie ordinary, not having been served with
the bill of exceptions, this court will not
review the judgment of the superior court
on the validity of that exemption.
2. The exemption of the fund being
treated as valid, an unrecorded mortgage
for purchase money will take in preference
to one duly recorded to secure a debt not
within any of the exceptions of the con
stitution rendering the exemption liable—
both mortgages having been foreclosed
and the executions in the sheriff’s hands.
Judgment affirmed.
F. C. Furman, by brief, for plaintiff in
error.
W. W. Williamson, by brief, for defen
dants.
Williams vs. the State. Burglary, from
Glynn.
Warner, C. J.—The defendant was
indicted for the offense of burglary in the
night time, and on liis trial therefor was
found guilty. A motion was made for a
new trial, on the grounds therein stated,
which was overruled by the court, and the
defendant excepted. Upon looking into
tlie record and tlie bill of exceptions, we
find that the presiding judge approved the
truth of the grounds in tlie motion for a
new trial, and therefore we reverse the.
judgment on the ground that the court re
fused to allow the defendant’s counsel to
poll the jury. This is not an open ques
tion in this court; section 62d, Georgia
reports 478. Let the judgment of the
court below be reversed.
Mabry & Crovatt, for plaintiff in error.
S. W. Hitch, solicitor general, for the
State.
Vulcan Iron Works vs. Brown. Equity,
from Riclimoml.
Bleckley, J.—1. Matters presented
and overruled on a motion to dissolve in
junction, may be again uiged at the prop
er time on demurrer to tlie bill, ifthey are
pertinent as grounds of demurrer.
2. If an assignee of the debtor, for the
payment of creditors generally, or for the
payment of certain preferred creditors,
lias title as such to clioses in action which
a particular creditor is pursuing by gar
nishment and endeavoring to collect, the
interposition of a claim in the garnish
ment proceeding, under section 3541 of
the code, is an adequate remedy at law in
behalf of the assignee, and the interfer-
enceof equity by injunction isunnecessaiy.
3. After a demurrer has been submit
ted to the court fop decision, the absence
of tho*counsel of one of the parties for the
balance of the term with leave for
mally granted, is no reason for withhold
ing judgment on the demurrer when the
court is ready to pronounce it.
4. When a demurrer is properly sus
tained, the consequences are to be dealt
with between the remaining parties in
subsequent stages of tlie cause.
Judgment affirmed.
Frank II. Miller, for plaintiff in error.
D. S. Printup; Davenport Jackson, for
defendants.
Milledgeville manufacturing company
vs. Ethridge. Appeal, from Baldwin.
White R. Smith vs. R. A. C. Bryan.
Claim from Emanuel.
Jackson, J.—This was a motion for a
new trial. In such a case it is not neces
sary that the brief of evidence be embod
ied* in the bill of exceptions, but it may
come up in the record, if it be referred to
in the bill of exceptions, so that tlie atten
tion of tlie presiding judge is directed to
it. Code 4253. No reference is made to
tlie brief of evidence in this bill of excep
tions, nor docs the record contain any
approval thereof by the judge. The only
grounds for the new trial are that the ver
dict is against law and evidence: there
fore the evidence is absolutely necessary
to review the ease, and tlie writ of error
must be dismissed. The plaintiff in er
ror loses nothing, however, by the dismis
sal; for if what purports to be the evidence
in the record be that which was before the
superior court, and if the court charged
the law correctly (and there is no
copy of the chaige or exception thereto in
the record, and the presumption is that
the court did so chaige correctly,) the case
made is one of fraud or no fraud, and in
case of fraud a trust resulted in Smith,
the grantee and claimant, for the benefit
of Daniel, the defendant in fi. fa., as Dan
iel’s mule paid for the land, and it was
properly subjected to the payment of his
debt, tlie jury having found that issue of
fraud in favor of thcplaintiffin execution,
which must have been done if it was prop
erly submitted by the charge. There is
sufficient evidence, if that wltich puiports
to be evidence be correct, to sustain such
finding; and thus in any event the judg
ment would have been affirmed. In order
to preserve the uniformity of our decisions
and the plain statute (Code, 4263), the
bill of exceptions being defective, the writ
of error is dismissed.
B. W. Carswell, by brief, for plaintiff
in error.
No appearance contra.
DeGive vs. Seltzer. Injunction from
Fulton.
Jackson, J.—Tlie obstruction of any
twenty foot alley dedicated to the use of
the grantees of the lots adjoining the said
alley by a common grantor, who divided
the block lying between four public
streets by said alley for the convenience
ot all tlie grantees, by the erection of two
privies thereon projecting two feet four
inches into the alley, and each six feet
wide, is a nuisance, and a court of equity,
at the instance of one of said grantees,
the windows of some of the bed rooms of
whose private* residence overlook said
alley, will restrain another from the erect
ion of said privies upon an alley to the tin-
obstructed use of the whole of which alley
both grantees are tenants in common. The
city council lias no legal authority to au
thorize said obstruction to be made, and
from the nature of tlie case, if the build,
ings were finished, the damage could not
be estimated in money, and injunction is
the only adequate remedy.
J udgment affirmed.
D. F. & W. B. Hammond, for plaintiff
in error.
Hopkins & Glenn, for defendant.
Bentley and wife vs. Johnson. Com
plaint, yrom Wilkinson.
Jackson, J.—1. -Where a mule is sold
on credit and title is reserved in vendor
until payment, and before payment is due
tlie mule dies without fault in the vendee,
can the vendor recover on the note for
purchase money; quere?
2. Where the defendant sets up no ab
solute warranty of soundness, but defends
on the ground of failure of consideration
in this, that plaintiff agreed that if the
mule did not live to make the crop of that
year, lie would furnish another mule
worth $150, and that the mule did not live
to make the crop, but was wholly worth-
(the consideration of the contract sued on)
the plaintiff expressly refused to warrant
the soundness of the mule, then you should
find for the plaintiff, even if you believe
tiiat the mule was diseased when sold,
and died of the same disease,” and in fail
ing to charge to the effect that if the con-,
tract was as set up-by defendant and the
mule was diseased at the time of sale and >
died of that disease without making the
crop, and plaintiff* had not tendered an
other mule according to contract, then the
plaintiff could not recover.
Judgment reversed.
O. Bower, by Z. D. Harrison, for plain
tiffs in error.
No appearance contra.
The Proposed Repeal of Legal Ten.'
der United States Note*.
In corrobration of the masterly argu
ment of Senator Morgan, of Alabama,
against -Mr. Bayard’s bill for the repeal of
the “legal tenders” that sagacious and in
fluential New York journal, the Commer
cial Bulletin, makes this emphatic deliv
erance:
Now, in all the large money centres of
the United States and of Great Britain,
coin and bank notes only compose about
five per cent, of the daily payment l into
aud out of the banks. Hence the with
drawal of the legal tender attribute of the
United States rotes would be of little im
portance, were it not for the clause of the
National Bank Act which compels the
great money centres * to keep on hand, at
all times, in lawful money, 25 per cent, of
their entire deposits. Withdraw the legal
tender attribute of United States notes,
and immediately the amount of legal
money within reach of the hanks will
be diminished to the extent of $346,000,-
000 and hence they will be forced at once
largely to diminish their loans to their
dealers, which compose 95 per ce.nt.of the
instruments with which the large mone
tary operations of the whole country are
effected. Should such a measure he
enacted by Congress, a severe monetary
panic would be inevitable, and all the op
erations of industry, commerce, tlie Stock
Exchanges and banking tlirougliout the
country, brought to a sudden standstill.
Will Congress and the public press aid in
bringing sueli a disaster on the country by
joining in the senseless outcry against tlie
legal tender notes, which arc, at present,
the foundation of all the monetary opera
tions of the country?
This certainly is sensible talk. What
better circulation can we have than a cur
rency backed up by the imprimatur and
whole power of the United States govern
ment? If such a guaranty is not suffi
cient, why is it that even the lowest Fed
eral bonds are in such universal request?
And why is it that even the greenbacks
that are not legal tenders, command in
New York this day a premium over gold ?
We had hoped that the financial question
had been settled, at least temporarily, and
would form no disturbing element in the
present Congress. But the Democrats
seem fated to throw away tlie trumps they
hold every time.
Public Meeting of the Citizens of
Macon on the lease of the Macon
and Brunswick Railroad.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger.—
As the 30tli instant is near at hand we
recommend that the people of the city of
Macon and of the county of Bibb, meet at
t e City Hall on Saturday, the 20th inst.,
12 o’clock, for the purpose of appoint
ing delegates to the Railroad Convention
on the 30th inst. Respectfully,
Johnson & Harris, Charles J. Harris,
Jaques & Johnson, W. A. Julian, Nus-
baum & Dannenburg, S. T. Coleman &
Co., W. F. Cannon, C. L. Bartlett, Bernd
Brothers, E. Price’s Sons, F. S. Johnson
Sons, Robt. II. May & Co., A. O. Bacon
Isaac Hardeman, Rankin, Massenburg &
Co., A. B. Small, B. Dub, O. G. Sparks
& Son, J. W. Rice & Co., Flanders Broth
ers, S. Waxelbaum & Bro., J. J. Flanders,
S. S. Dunlap & Co., Isaac L. Callaway,
George T. Rogers’ Sons, I. C. Plant,
Tinsley, Brother & Co., G. Beggs, A. P.
Whittle, B. L. Willingham, J. W. Burke
& Co., Collins & Winn, James T. Nisbet,
T. Hardeman, Jr.
Tlie foregoing notice will doubtless
elicit a warm response from our people
and section, who are so vitally interested
in the result of the lease soon to be made
of the Macon and Brunswick railroad.
The gentlemen taking the call around
could have^ obtained any number of sign
ers, as the feeling is well nigh unanimous
in favor of the movement. , -. ,
. . rustees and a number of the gang, which
An earnest attempt will be made to or-j cu i minat ed 5n a general row. During the
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GEORGIA PRESS.
N$hen a man attempts to shake hands
with a cotton gin in full motion,he should
remember that cordiality is not expected
of him. He should extend only one fin -
ger patronizingly; it will always be taken.
By observing this rule he can shake hands
with .more than one gin.
Mb. Hf.nby B. Fbazer, of Augusta, is
dead,
The Courier has organized a boom in
favor of the Stellarville railroad.
Tiiomasvillx is inclined to be a little
proud over her ripe strawberries and Le-
Conte mars,
We would like to publish all that our
exchanges have to say upon our new dress,
but space forbids. We can but bow our
thanks.
“Ocb County” tliink3 thateach “pole”
in Georgia should be taxed for education
al purposes. The Ishmaelite says the
“poles” are not located in Georgia, and
that the plan is therefore impracticable.
We are inclined to think that “Our Comi
ty” meant the polecat, and we heartily
endorse the proposition to tax him for ed
ucational purposes. We know of no more
touching sight in the universe than a pole
cat teaching the ignorant masses.
Chronicle and Constitutionalist: Intel
ligence reached this city yesterday after
noon of a most atrocious murder at Mc-
Bean, on the Central road, fifteen miles
from Augusta, Monday night. The vie*
tim was Mr. William Haralson, a young
man about eighteen years of age, who
kept a store at the station. He had made
arrangements for coming up to Augusta
to purchase Christmas goods, and it is
supposed liad a considerable sum of mon
ey in the store for that purpose. It is said
he instructed a negro named Anderson
Jones to call him early in the morning,
in time to take the passenger train for
Augusta, having frequently called upon
Jones for similar services before. We
also heard it stated that Jones slept
in the store, so as to be certain about
calling Harralson. Yesterday morning the
store was closed, but as it was known that
Harralson was coming to Augusta no at
tention was paid to the fact. About 12
o’clock, however, Harralson’slittle brother
went to the store and opened the door,
when a horrible scene met his gaze. His
brother was lying on the floor dead, in a
pool of blood, his head crushed by a hatch
et which was near by. The boy at once
raised the alarm, and in a short time sev
eral neighbors gathered at the spot. The
unfortunate young man had evidently been
killed tor tlie putpose of robbery, as his
money was gone. The negro Jones
was missing, and suspicion was directed
to him as tlie murderer. As it was
supposed that he liad come to Au
gusta, a messenger was sent on
the freight train to inform the police. This-
he did promptly, and Jones was found ini
a short time near tlie depot. He denied
all knowledge of the murder, and said he
was on his way to South Carolina to get
married. He declared that he came to
Augusta Tin the morning passenger train,
but the employees of the road on that
train, stated that he did not. The police
were also informed that Jones was seen
in Augusta yesterday morning before the
train arrived. He told one of the officers
that he was at Mr. Harralson’s store late
Monday night,at which time he paid an ac
count that he owed at the store. Jones
was lodged in tlie guard house to await an
investigation.
Harralson was a quiet, hard working
young man. His mother lives a short dis
tance from tlie station.
Sparta Ishmaelite: Tlie folly of car
rying coal to Newcastle is not near so
marked as that of those Georgians who go
West in search of either health or wealth.
In point of climate, health, diversified in
dustries, capabilities of soil, and social
and material advantages, Georgia is not
second to any State in the Union. But,
then, these men are kin to Adam; and it
will be remembered as of record, that lie
was not contented even in Paradise.
Again it will be noticed that Adam did
not better Ids surroundings by “going
West.” His kinsmen who are leaving
Georgia for even less cause, will in all
human probability fare worse.
Negroes Cut Savannah JVetM: A
row occurred at St. Phillips’s colored
Methodist Church on Monday night, about
eleven o’clock, which resulted in the cut
ting of two of the combatants. It appears
that one of the societies connected with
the church was holding anniversary, and
and a grand banquet was spread. The
first table was ovei, and the guests were
being seated to the second table, when a
number of negro ruffians, who were out
side, attempted to gain admittance to the
ball uninvited. They made a rush for the
door in a body, but were confronted by
Elder W. H. Nobles and several of the
trustees, who heroically barred their pas
sage. A fight ensued between one of the
ganize some plan by which a controlling
interest will he secured in the lease and
the future extensions of the road. Macon,
Brunswick, Middle and South Georgia
cannot afford to remain quiet and see this
important outlet to the ocean pass out of
tlieir reach and perhaps ■ even into the
hands of inimical parties. In any event,
however, the moral effect of the conven
tion and its deliberations must he saluta
ry in tlie premises. In this connection we
invite attention also to a call for a meet
ing of the citizens of Jones county to se
lect delegates to the convention, and our
advices arc that the people on the line of
the road and its proposed extension to
Covington and Atlanta are fully aroused
likewise to the importance of being prop
erly represented in that body.
We learn that the convention, on the
30tli inst., will also assemble in the City
Ilall, which is placed at their disposal.
Tiie Afghans.—Cabul is still held by
the Aighans, and it is believed the British
are meeting with unexpected difficulty in
the attempt to subdue that revolt. The
people fight boldly, and by some means
have obtained better weapons than they
have ordinarily had.
Mrs. Governor Sprague Seeking
Divorce.—Mrs. Sprague has authorized
her attorney to draw up papers fora
divorce from Governor Sprague. It is
said tiiat she intends to push the case to
the courts as speedily as possible. She
has made arrangements to leave Edge-
wood, and is fitting up a house in the city
on Connecticut avenue. •
—A wedding party was assembled at
the residence of the bride’s father at
Rochester. Tlie groom and the rest were
waiting for tlie girl, who lingered in her
room. Half an hour after the appointed
time the announcement was made that
she had been united to another suitor,
having changed her choice at the last
moment. The jilted man was dumbfoun
ded, but he rallied quickly, congratulated
the bridegroom, kissed the bride, and pro
posed a continuance of the festivities, and
they were accordingly continued.
■A number of occupants of European
thrones are forced to give more time to
their physicians than they can find to de
vote to affairs of government. The Czar’s
nerves are shattered, and Emperor William
has to he very particular as to his food
and airings. The King of Italy is misera
ble in ill-health, his only child is frail and
delicate, and Queen Margaret faints away
at the least exertion. It ia necessary to
carry her when she is moved about from
one place to another. The Queen of
Sweden suffers greatly from chronic heart
disease, and since she received a letter,
not long ago, threatening the life of the
Crown Prince, she has not left her bed.
melee a colored man named Williams, re
siding on Pine street, was seriously
stabbed in the back, and another negro,
whose name is not known, received a gash
with a razor on the head.
I)r. Cokfir, colored, who was present at
the entertainment, attended to Williams’
wound; The other wounded man was
taken home by his friends. The ruffians,
after much difficulty, were driven away
and order was partially restored, but tlio
festivites were shortly afterwards con
cluded.
It is reported that one of the ringleaders
of tiffs shameful outrage was a negro
named Brooks. There were no policemen
about at the time, and consequently no
arrests were made. Subsequently, how
ever, anogro named Adam Williams, was
arrested and arraigned before the police
court yesterday, aud fined $10 and thirty
day’s imprisonment.
Athens Banner: The bodies of Father
Doyle and Mr. Moynihau remained at
Mr. Lafierty's, Monday night, and were
placed on the train yesterday morning to
be conveyed to Washington, Wilkes coun
ty, for burial. A Catholic convent is at
that place, and a Home for Orphan Boys,
in charge of the Catholic Sisters. Sharon,
which was Father Boyle’s place of resi
dence, is but ten-or fifteen miles from
Washington. A priest was to meet the
remains at Barnett, and go with them to
Washington to perform the last sad rites.
Persons who saw tlie bodies after they
were brought back to the city say they
had none of the usual appearance of the
dead except the rigidness. They were
placed in warm water till the rigidity was
relaxed, and then they seemed as if only
quietly restiug in sleep. No distortion of
tlie features was apparent, nor even the
pallor of death.
Southern Enterprise: On last Friday,
little Tommie, the three year old son of
Mr. W. P. Coyle, our worthy sheriff, was
standingin front of the fireplace at home,
the mantlepiece suddenly toppled -over
without any warning and struck the little
fellow jost a little back of the top of his
head. The blow cut the scalp and tore it
away from the skull for some two inches
or more, scraping the hone clean and lay
ing it bare, but fortunately not injuring it
at all. The weight of the mantlepiece at
the same time threw him forward and
bruised hi3 forehead badly. Dr. Taylor
was called in and dressed his wounds,
which operation the little fellow bore
with a fortitude that might well be emu
lated by many older persons. We are
glad to be able to report that be is rapidly
recovering and will speedily bo well
again. ■ :
Warrextox Clipper: On last Mon
day about 9 or 10 o’clock Mr, William
Barksdale, a prominent planter in the
western portion of this county, was sud
denly killed 'in the following manner:
He went down under the gin house to see
something about the horses or the gearing,
and, without warning, was inextricably
caught by the gearing and killed. Mr.
Barksdale was one of the most substan
tial men of this county. He was above
sixty years old, and lias always been a
very careful man, and this unexpected oo . ,
currence is almost unaccountable. He ! » en route to Washington from
leaves a large family to mourn his loss, i whence they go to Indiana. More will
Sadness broods over our entire county. 1 arrive here to-morrow, en route West.
A Grave Question
Somewhere between five-sixths and
ninc-tentlis of the actual currency of the
United States will always be paper. The
great question underlying all these cur.
rency movements in Congress is, there
fore, simply tins: Who shall supply this
paper currency? Who shall multiply in
definitely these representatives of value,
and under what guarantees are they to be
issued and find circulation? Itisareiy
grave question. It involves many millions
of profits to the speculative classes, and all
history is a lie if it does not involve ques
tions of millions of loss to the great body
of the American people—that great mass
who must draw their subsistence from
daily labor of head or hands. No one,
therefore, should-be-suiprised to see the
persistence.Twjth Which this; -{currency
question is enforced* on Congress and the
excitement which attends its discussion.
The advocates of a bank paper currency
are most ingenious in placing themselves
and their opponents in precisely the posi
tion which neither is entitled to occupy.
In the first place, they claim to be “hard
money men” when they are really local
bank paper men—for all their schemes re
solve themselves into a currency composed
of local bank paper. But they say this
bank paper is redeemable in gold aud sil-r
ver on demand. It is so printed on the
bills, and is, in point of fact, so redeema
ble—tchen it is so rcilccihable. But one
thing everybody knows who is old enough
to remember twenty years—that the prac
tical effect of such a currency is to banish
hard money from circulation.
Next they plead that all Democratic
precedent is in their favor—tiiat the Dem
ocratic party has always been a hard
money party, Yes, but it was in opposi
tion to thesjj very banking institutions
that Jackson, Benton and the old hard
money Democrats- put the party on a
hard money basis. They were for hard
moneyas against all bank bills, which the
experience of that time had shown to he
untrustworthy. No one now contends
for a purely metalic currency; but the
next approach to it i3 a paper currency
bearing the most indubitable guaranties
of value, and the least liable to perish in
the hands of holders.
They style their opponents inflationists,
but if any contrivance for inflation can be
invented equal to the creation of thou
sands of local banks, scattering their duo
bills ad libitum over the face of the coun
try, we never have heard or conceived of
Its fatal activity in inflation aud
explosion, have been the financial history
of America for the past hundred years.
And now the question is, what kind Of
a paper currency are we to have in the
future? We are about, it seems, to make
a new departure. The Constitution, it is
said, is violated by making United States
Treasury notes a legal tender. There is
no such warrant in that instrument. The
bank men are tender of the constitution,
except when it strongly prohibits the
States from issuing “bills of credit,” and
then they attach no meaning to it. But
our reading is vain if that iirohibition did
not coniine the whole business of furnish
ing whatever should circulate as money t •
tlie Federal Government alone. What
else did or could it mean? Accordingly,
the paper now in circulation, being either
the direct obligations of the government
or issued under its sanction as trustee for
the people, is undoubted. Countless mil
lions would .have been saved to the
masses had this provision been enforced.
But there the prohibition still stands
and there are the contemporaneous argu
ments in the Federalist, showing what
losses had occurred and might occur to
the people, and what misunderstandings
might arise with foreign governments, if
this power of issuing paper liabilities re
mained with the States. The constitution
in any just interpretation thereof as wo
believe forbids tbe issue of any of the
whole tribe of paper liabilities.
But whether it docs or not the impor
tance to the people of a thoroughly relia
ble currency cannot be overstated. Our
paper currency, as it now stands, is better
than any we ever had, and a departure in
to the field of speculative banking will be
woeful change for the worse, unless
some scheme can be elaborated to make it
a great deal better than it ever has been.
More Trouble in Ireland.
Cablegrams from London, received as
late as the 15th instant report increased
excitement among the people on account
of rent difficulties and the terrible
scarcity of food that prevails. Occasion
ally acts of violence occur. Thus on
Saturday , in the porch of the Limerick
county* Club House Lord Fermoy was
felled senseless to the pavement by a blow
struck with a cudgel in the hands of an
evicted tenant. The assailant was arrest
ed. Another dispatch says:
Messrs. Davltt, Daly and Killen left
Carrick-on-Shannon to-day for Dublin.
They were accompanied to the railway
station by a large crowd, and a band
playing Irish airs. The attorney-general
arrived at Carrick-on-Shannon last night,
and was escorted to Ids lodgings by twenty
armed policemen.
One, Mr. Killen, and probably the others
of the three prisoners, had refused previ
ously to accept the bail offered them.
Things must be pretty squally over there
when the highest counsellor of the gov
ernment requires a body guard when in
attendance upon his duties. Now is the
time for England to show her liberality
and generosity to the suffering Irish by
large concessions and substantial aid tor
their material wants. This would have a
more tranquilizing effect than the largest
stauding army. ■
Negro Exodus to Kansas.—A St.
Louis dispatch of Thursday says the ne
gro exodus from Texas to Kansas con
tinues. A considerable number of colored
people pass through Dallas daily, bound
to that State. On*the other hand, quite a
number have returned, stating that they
have been deceived concerning Kansas.
■A Norwich, Connecticut, naturalist
has one of the largest butterflies known to
entomologists. It measures nine and a
half inches across the wings and is five
inches in breadth.
—A billiard, player at Kansas City was
made insane by the excitement of a series
of match games. On losing, he turned
savagely upon two jtnoffending spectators,
and beat them with the but of a cue until
they were dangerously hurt.. •
—The lower jaw of a human being, said
to have belonged to the primitive race, has
been dug up on the banks of Lynx Creek,
in Arizona. The jaw never had more
than six teeth, and from its conformation
the possessor subsisted wholly on fruits
and grass. . . •
The Negro Exodus to Indiana.—
Petersburg, Virginia, December 16.
—One hundred colored ’ emigrants from
Goldsboro, North Carolina, arrived bore,
A Financial, Dinner Party.—A
special despatch to the World says: A
few evenings ago Representative Cliitten-
den gave a dinner party to several mem-
hers oftheNatjonai Board ofTrade^among
whom were Messrs. Ropes and Hill, of
Boston; Mr. Stranahan, of Brooklyn; Mr.
Farley, of Philadelphia, and Congressmen.
HLscock and McCook, ofNew York. Sen
ator Hill, of Georgia, was also present
especially to meet the gentlemen ofthft
Board of Trade, who had expressed a
great desire to meet and converse with
him. During the course of the evening
allusions were made to the financial situa
tion, and those present expressed them
selves fully on the subject. Senator Hill
was attentively listened to in all he said.
His sound advocacy of honest and consti
tutional money secured for him the ad
miration and esteem of all those present.
To use the language of the dinner party,
everybody seemed charmed with the Geor
gia Senator.
The Surrender of the Utes.—
South Pueblo, Colorado, December 16.-—
To Carl Schurz, Secretary of the Interior,
Washington: Yours of yesterday just
received. While traveling home your dis
patch of the 9th was received by us on the
11th, and communicated to Ouray, who
immediately left for the camp of the
White River Utes to hurry up their move
ments. Before the receipt of your dis
patch, one of the twelve designated by us
as Douglas had been brought in, but wo
instructed Ouray to keep him and the
others until the full number was ready ta
be delivered. Before I left I understood
that a few others were at his house, but
no; all, which was hardly to be expected,
sas only Jive days had elapsed, with the
snow very deep, traveling slow and the
Indians much scattered. I consider the
surrender an accomplished fact, and can
not think of the possibility that it can bo
prevented, although Gen. Hatch may ho
delayed in bringing them out, as the snow
fall in that country has been unpreceden
ted, 'and transportation can hardly bo
obtained. Further designation in Wash
ington as to the reservation will be easier
of accomplishment than our task so far.
Charles Adams.
The Washington Monument.—The
joint committee on completion of the
Washington monument submitteda detail
ed report to the House, to-day, showing
that $67,903 had been expended in the
work of strengthening the foundation,
leaving available $32,096 of the appropria
tion for that purpose. They have expeu-
dsd $31,351 upon the completion of the
monument, leaving $68,643 available of
the appropriation for that purpose. The
total amount unexpended of the appropria
tions and now available for carrying on
the work is $100,739. This amount will
be sufficient to complete the strengthening
of the foundation, providing the iron
framework of the interior stairway for two
hundred aud fifty feet; to construct a shaft,
and to add twelve feet to the height of the
monument. To continue the work until
October 31, 1881, will require $300,000
additional and to complete the shaft to
the proposed height of500 feet will require
$677,623.
Washington, December 16.—An in
formal meeting of the members of the
National Republican Executive Commit
tee was held here this morning and was to
discuss the selection of a chairman in
the place of the late Senator Chandler and
to compare views as to the time and place
for holding tire next National Convention.
It seems to be virtually settled that Came
ron will be the chairman, and that the
Convention will be held in Chicago some
time during the last of May or first ot
June.
CONSUMPTION CURED.
in old physician, retire 1 from practice, hav-
nr had placed in his hands by an Bast India
missionary the formula of a simple rezetahl*
remedy for the •peely and permanent curetft ?
Cmsamption. Bronoriita*.Catarrh. Asthma, aci.
all Throat and Lung Affections, alnaposfti’-
and radical cure for Nerrous Debility anaafs
Nervous Complaints, after having tested ■ ■
wonderful curative powers m thousand* of east*,
has felt It his duty to make it known toils,
suffering fellows. Actuatod by this motive am
a desire to relieve human suffering, I will send
free of charge to all who desire it. this recipe,
with full direct ons for preparing and using, la
German. French or English. 8ent by mail by
addreising with stamp, naming this paper. W w
SaiKZB 149 Power-* Block. Rochester. N T
THE GENUINE
DR. O. McIiANJETS
Celebrated American
WORM SPECIFIC.
OR “ l
VERMIFUGE.
SYMPTOMS OF WORMS.
T HE countenance is pale and lead
en-colored, with occasional Hushes,
or a circumscribed spot on one or both
cheeks; the eyes become dull; the
pupils dilate; an azure semicircle
runs along the lower eye-lid; the
nose is irritated, swells, and sometimes
Meeds; a swelling of the upper lip;
occasional headadie, with humming'
or throbbing of the ears; an unusual
secretion of saliva; slimy* or furred
tongue; breath very foul, particularly
in the morning; appetite variable,
sometimes voracious, with a gnawing
sensation of the stomach, at others,
entirely gone; fleeting pains in the
stomach; occasional nausea and vom
iting; violent pains throughout the
abdomen; bowels irregular, at times
costive; stools slimy, not unfrequent-
ly tinged with blood; belly swollen
and hard; urine turbid; respiration
occasionally difficult, and accompa
nied by hiccough; cough sometimes
dry and convulsive; uneasy and dis-
turbed sleep, with grinding of the
teeth; temper variable, but generally
irritable, &"c.
Whenever the above symptoms
are found to exist,
DR. C. McLANE’S VERMIFUGE
will certainly effect a cure.
11 DOES NOT CONTAIN MERCURY
in any form; it is an innocent prepa
ration, not capable of doing the slightest
injury to the most tender infant.
The genuine Dr. McLane’s Ver
mifuge bears the signatures of C,
McLane and Fleming Bros, on the
wrapper. —:o:—
DR. C. McLANE’S
LIVER PILLS
are not recommended as a remedy “for
all the ills that flesh is heir to,” but in
affections of the liver, and in all Bilions
Complaints, Dyspepsia and Sick Head
ache, or diseases of that character, they
stand without a rival.
AGUE AND FEVER.
No better cathartic can be used prepar
atory to, or after taking Quinine.
As a simple purgative they are un
equaled.
BEWARE OF IMITATIONS.
Th.e genuine are never sugar coated.
Each box has a red wax seal on the
lid, with the impression Dr. McLane’s
Liver Pills.
Each .'Trapper bears the signatures of
C. McLane and Fleming Bros.
Insist upon having the genuine Dr.
C. McLane’s Livf.r Pius, prepared by
Fleming Bros., of Pittsburgh, Pa_, the
market being full of imitations of tbe
name McLan e, spelled diSfcrcsvly bog
same pronunciation.