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iLACON, JANUARY 16, 1880.
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
Hock. A. O. Bacon has written an open
>o<r t» the Augusta Chronicle and Con-
sHlaiionalist on the situation, giving
woxje sound Democratic views. He con-
<e£odes as follows:
The money question is not second in
importance to that of the tariff. Its prop-
■«c determirrarion vitally conceives the
^prosperity of the people. It should be
fifV.it upon true principle of finance, and
-solely with regard to the public good, and
fee positions assumed upon it 3hould not
he, as seems the tendency, mainly with
the view to the influence which they will
Have upon the Presidential election. The
South, .and indeed the whole country, is
xncch more interested in having free
'trade or a tariff for revenue only, and
grrtd money and a proper supply of it,
than in the question of who shall be the
next President. I would not.be under-
as liolding that the election of a
Democratic President Is unimportant, or
that die party should be indifferent to its
-axcomplislnoent. On the contrary, it is
highly important, and all proper means
thould be used to secure it; but it should
«u!y be a prominent incident in the work
•of the party, and not the all absorb
ing and exclusive purpose to be
^accomplished at the expense of all other
interests. The struggle for personal pow-
-eras the main feature of political contest,
and in disregard of popular interests, is a
^characteristic .of despotic governments;
hut in republican governments the ruler is
only allowed because necessary, and his
accession to power should never be per-
SKittcd at the cost of injury to the material
interests of the country. The Democratic
party is one of essentially conservative
principles, of which a fundamental one
is that the government should be strong
oriy in the strength and prosperity of the
people. In this day of official aggrandize
ment and intemperate lust for power, the
strongest claim upon the support of the
-country will be found in. the bold advo-
-caey of those measures which make for
Che good of the private citizen even though
-Shey It&zard the acquisition of the most
-coveted political prize. The people, who
sdone can legally give power, will not be
-slow to confer it upon a party which shows
feat the possession of the spoils of office is
ssot its highest aim, but that in seeking
their true prosperity it is ready, if need be,
£» sacrifice the Presidency rather than
week to gain it through the sacrifice of
their material interests.
The editor ol the Quitman Reporter
feelingly and solemnly asks:
IK4 you ever see a fellow try to court
Coo giris at the same time and preserve a
apod average?
Evidently something has transpired to
jostle the even tenor of events about
tjaitman.
The second number of the Journal of
•Progress,published in Cutlibert and edit
ed by colored men, has reached us. It is
quite carefully edited, and does credit to
She proprietors.
Tjee conductors on the trains of the
Stale report many newly married couples
this season endeavoring to pass for vete-
" The Confederate monument has been
reset in Columbus, and is now true and
-level.
Xb. J. B. Wright, of Columbus,
fffetr down the chimney of ;,his little
Scap and the places that knew the
Sajap will know it no more.
Xhe Gammon murderers in Columbus
Have not confessed, says the Times.
Columbus real estate is assessed at $3,-
■378,085.
Jlss. A. J. Rountree has been elected
Alajor uf Quitman.
The Quitman factory has been sold to
3fcj. Charles E. Groover, of Savannah,
j for $12,555. This amount pays all exo-
« -actions, and the factory will be run by its
r mew purchaser.
We are obliged to the Berrien County
Ansm for the following kind words for our
Wty:
Macon is “coming out” wonderfully of
Sale. She now has a free letter delivery
aad telephone. She is also thinking of
■Timbering Tier houses, and it would not
raiall surprise us to hear that she had been
made a port of entry. Wadley’s cross
v^ads, indeed!
The press is beginning to tell all the
to make cotton a secondary crop
-*»* the farmers are all preparing to do no
sc eh thing.
Says the Darien Timber Gazette: 1 ‘We
mast congratulate the colored people of
-McIntosh county on their advancement
•zr'Jein the past few years. They have
cerr raved wonderfully and will compare
-nbly with any other class of colored
people in the South. Just here, however,
vats srould state to outsiders that the col-
eared people of McIntosh are not in need
ft'^ny more leaders from Brunswick, At-
Saata or elsewhere. Rogers, Crawford
Could, and other colored men, are equa
to that task and can manage tilings witli-
-r~t the assistance of colored men from
abroad. Our colored people are peaceable
mil law abiding and are respected by our
white people. We would advise new
werners to go along and attend to their
«»a business and not attempt to lead the
adored people of this county.”
Augusta Chronicle: “A Mrs. Ave-
r»sr complained to the police yesterday
feat she bad been deserted by her hus
band, Claries Avener. According to her
statement they left Washington, Geo: I
Thursday to go to New York, from which
j&aea they originally came. Upon reach-
lag Augusta, Avenerput his wife and two
b*a children on the Central train, tak-
u. . V youngest child - in his arms and
•sayiag lie would soon return, but this he
fraied to do. The train started off with
out him, and after it was under way, Mis.
Avener received a note from her absent
htobaiid, telling her to proceed to Savan-
mab and take the steamer for New York.
Mrs. Avener returned to the city on the
aaext train. The police soon found Ave-
wtx near the union depot intoxicated.
The Columbus Enquirer has the fol-
Sawlngc
There is a widow lady, Mrs. Angella
Brannon, residing in Dale county, Ala-
’•jama, who has had thirteen children, sev
en at whom are living; seventy grand
-■WMren, fifty-six of whom are living;
fcrty-iive great grand children, thirty-sev-
ss of whom arc living. Probably the
nuoit remarkable thing connected with this
Tilly and her descendants is that all of
Our®, who are alive, are living in the
-.uxte neighborhood, near enough to visit
35>*r every day if they desire to ao so. The
above facts wero obtained from a gentle-
zeaa living in thosame neighborhood, who
■ri^rreaents that they are among the best
diizens in Dale county.
The L&Grange Reporter was thirty-six
.years old its last birthday—January 1,
fSBQ—In honor whereof it will hereafter
appear as an eight-page paper.
Columbus Times: Body Found.—
Captain T. H. Moore, who came up on
ale steamer Jordan, informs us that the
$•0y of one of the Irish boys, recently
cour iered near Jernegan, has been found.
A was discovered floating near the river
hank and a few miles below Jernegan.
tor ir formant did not know which one it
was. The parties who found the body
earrieu it to Eufaula and came back to
Jem 'an on Captain Moore's boat.
We nave heard that a rumor was out
'Jtif. it was not the Irish boys who were
-Jirdcred near Jernegan, and if such are
iacu*, the finding of this body, which was
xca idly recognized, establishes the murder
• she body beyond doubt.
‘,Ve are glad to know that the body has
iu«Y, as much solicitude lias been
friends to the parties in this city.
: .jied that the other will be recovt-r-
... . a a new search has been instituted,
i. A i -nton has received 8,101 bales of
- bis season,
The conductorship made vacant by the
death of Captain Whiting, who served for
many years on the Eatonton and Gordon
branch of the Central Railroad has not
been filled.
The Indians and the .dramatic donkey
of the Buffalo Bill troupe seemed to make
a great hit in Griffin and to fill the groove
of the people’s fancy to a nicety.
A cannibal hog created a good deal of
excitement in Griffin on Monday by chas
ing a small darkey down and the little
moke was with great difficulty rescued.
We are afraid that the Macon Tele
graph and Monroe Advertiser stand
alone in their opposition to the establish
ment of State banks with power to issue
currency. But then we are right.
Several large droves of wild pigeons
passed over Montezuma Tuesday. Some
of the citizens succeeded, in bagging a few
of them.
Muhfohd is mayor of Talbotton by a
large majority. Shake, Mnmford. Shake,
if memory serves us, is speaking from a
Shakspearian standpoint, admirably qual
ified for such honois.
Mb. Frank Goodman, who accident
ally shot and killed Miss Mary Payne, in
Wilkinson county, has been discharged,
from custody.
The Middle Georgia Military and Ag-
gricultural College will be formally open
ed on next Tuesday, the 19th instant.
Captain M. R. Bell, of Milledgeville,
in getting off a dray ix a runaway affair
at Milledgeville last week, was thrown to
the ground and sustained a compound
fracture of the right leg.
Milledgeville Union and Recorder:
Robin Humphries, and aged colored man,
on Wednesday night last, drove his horse
into a railroad cut, near the city. Result:
a smashed up wagon, a badly bruised
horse, and a broken arm for poor old
Robin. The' cut was fully thirty feet
deep.
Considerable apprehension is felt in
some sections of the State, for the safety
of the next fruit crop. The earth has been
kept so warm all the winter except for a
brief interval at Christmas, that it is fear
ed the fruit trees will blossom premature
ly, and the fruit he killed by the freezes of
March or April.
Professor W. H. Q. Cook, of Amer-
icus, accidentally fell down a flight of
steps last week and broke an arm.
Matt O’Brien, of Columbus, has writ
ten an opera, and the amateurs of that
place have recklessly consented to per
form it. The words will be given on the
inside; the audience wilLget the air at the
door. .
The Columbus Enquirer insists that
the Gammon murderers have confessed.
It also says:
Last night some drunken fellow en
deavored to raise a mob to hang the ne
groes in jail. He had but few followers,
and was promptly arrested by the sheriff.
Distress in Ireland. — Columbus
Enquirer: Mayor Wilkins lias received
the following dispatches, which speak for
themselves. Much suffering prevails
among the peasantry of Ireland, owing to
failure of crops. Bishop Gross has ap
pealed to his diocesa; Macon, Savannah
and Atlanta arc acting:
New York, January 8tli.—To the
Mayor of Coluihbus: London, Thursday.
The distress is increasing. Aid is urgent
ly required. Lord Mayor,
Irish Relief Committee.
New York, January 10th.—To the
Mayor of Columbus: Distress is increas
ing. Aid is urgently required.
Lord Mayor of Dublin,
Irish Relief Committee.
Mb. W.Moon, in the Evening New, of
Augusta, says:
The power to whistle is not unfrequent-
ly a solitary gift, so that the young man
who comes into the busy sanctum and whis
tles well cannot be expected to know how
to do much else.
Mr. George Kukgleb, says the Con
stitution, a butcher by trade, shot and in
stantly killed himself in that city.
The temperance movement, in Savan
nah, lias taken a fresh start.
The Atlanta correspondent of the Sa
vannah News pays the following tribute to
Mrs. Gugel.
Death of an Excellent Lady.—
The many friends in Atlanta of Mrs.
Daniel M. Gugel, of Macon, wife of the
Master Machinist of the Central railroad
shop, were shocked by a telegram announ
cing hersudden death on Wednesday, and
quite a number went down to attend her
funeral, which occurred on Thursday.
The deceased was, before marriage, a
Miss Clark, of Savannah, sister of Colonel
W. L. Clark, of Columbus, Superinten
dent of the Mobile and Girard railroad,
and in all the relations of life she had
cultivated and displayed the highest
Christian graces of her sex. Her loss to
her five bereaved children can hardly be
comprehended, for she was in all things
a loving and tender mother. To her sorely
stricken husband the deepest sympathy of
the community was extended, as all felt
that he had indeed lost a devoted and
affectionate companion, . Nor is this a
light bereavement to Colonel Clark, whose
heart has been repeatedly burdened with
sorrow of late by the death of members
of his family circle, including a dearly be
loved and promising son, just entering the
bright years of early manhood. Mrs. Gu
gel was a favorite sister, and strongly at
tached to her brother, and her death is
therefore a severe stroke to his already
sorely stricken heart.
Body Found.—On Thursday the body
of Dan Harvey, one of the Irish lads
murdered by negroes near Jemigan, Ala
bama, a short while since, was found near
Florence, Geoigia. The Eufaula Times
and News has this to say of it: |
Some negro clildren who were playing
on the bank of the river nearly opposite
Florence last Thursday, discovered a body
floating with the current. They immedi
ately ran and notified their father, who,
procuring a bateau, pursued the corpse
down the river, and between two and
three o’clock in the afternoon overtook it
lodged against a willow on tho bank. He
succeeded in securing it, when he imme
diately went to a Mr. Thomas, in the
neighborhood, and told him the facts in
the case. Mr. Thomas told him there
was a reward of $50 offered for the body,
and that if he would bring it on to Eu
faula, he (Thomas) would meet him here,
and they wonld divide the money. The
negro secured the company and assistance
of a companion of his own color, threw a
quilt over the dead body and paddled
down the river, arriving at our wharf
about 7 o’clock. They then awaited Mr.
Thomas, who arrived about 11 o’clock,
when information of their discovery was
conveyed to the friends of the deceased.
They immediately recognized the body as
that of Dan Harvey, the older of the mur
dered youths.
The corpse was in a remarkably good
state of preservation, the skin about the
face being unbroken and the features very
distinct. There was no trouble in identi
fying it.
The Guarantees Offered the
Central Railroad.—Savannah Netcs:
Some doubts having been cast upon the
security to he offered by Messrs. Cole and
Brown for fulfilliug their part of the con
tract recently made by them with the
Central railway, we determined to inves
tigate the matter in the interest of the
stockholders of the latter road in this city
and State. To this end, we yesterday tel
egraphed Colonel Wadiey and requested
him, “If consistent with all interests,” to
inform us for publication what guarantees
had been offered the Central by the
St. Louis, Nashville and Chattanooga
and the Western and Atlantic roaas.
The following is his reply: .
Macon, Ga., January 12. — Editor
Morning News.: The security is that we
retain in our possession all our assets,
with the right to see that they are proper
ly applied, and we have the guare$M|v#nd
integrity of the Nashville, ChattaDdega
and St. Louis railway—repreae:
capital of about seven million do!
combination of roads a little over two
thousand miles in length, much of it run-
niag through one of the finest countries in
the United States—while the contract con
tains the most stringent conditions for the
maintenance and Improvement of the
property of the Central Railroad. It is
believed the combination by a large in
crease of through business, will add ma
terially to the present income of both
companies. Wm. M. Wadley,
President.
Griffin News; A messenger came in
town very rapidly early yesterday morn
ing from the plantation of Mr. S. H. Wil
son, near the city, and sought a doctor to
go out and see a man who had been acci
dentally shot. Dr. Caldwell went out at
once, but the unfortunate man died just as
he reached him. The facts, as developed
in the coroner’s inquest, are these:
For some time past, Mr. Wilson has
been aware that some unknown parties
were in the habit of stealing wood from
his place. He went away to Albany a
short while ago and left instructions for
the hoys on the "place to watch for the
wood stealers. Yesterday morning about
daylight some of the boys were getting
ready to go into the woods. Two colored
hoys, one of whom was the deceased, and
a young white boy, Henry Shelton, was
standing together. As the latter was
starting off lie threw the gun, a double
barrelled shot gun, over his shoulder,
when the right hand barrel was dis
charged, the entire load entering the low
er part of the stomach of one of the negro
boys, causing a terrible wound. Upon
examination it was found that the pas
sage of the shot, which were No. 5, had
made a hole large enough for a man’s
hand to enter, and that the bowels were
literally cut to pieces. The deceased was
a fine mulatto boy, of about 18 years of
age.
Bailway Combination.
The combination of railways made by
Cole, Brown and Wadley, is the first great
East and West combination made in the
South. North and South lines have been
organized, but the paying lines hare been
East and West,and until New Orleans ac
quires its old importance, it is probable
that East and West lines will continue to
be the real paying lines. These have not
been possible in the South until recently
for political reasons, want of capital and a
want of appreciation on the part of North
ern capital, and because no Southern port
had yet acquired the confidence of railroad
men in their future. This combination
marks the beginning of a new era of com
bined lines to the various available South
ern ports. Our own road is the first in
the field, and all others must come in
under the necessity of building new lines.
There is not a Northern road now seeking
such southeastern outlets that dees not
find the field occupied, so that the Nash
ville and Chattanooga line has se
cured at least two years exclusive occupa
tion of the field of possible combination
and through lines from the West to the
Eastern ports.
As it is now, says the Nashville Ameri
can, there are but three cities that can
possibly require, on account of their posi
tion and business, connection with the
Southeast coast. These are St. Louis,
Cincinnati and Chicago. Of these St.
Louis is a great centre of transcontinental
trade, connected now with the existing
lines to the Pacific, and soon to be con
nected with the Western ocean by two or
three more direct iines. Her shortest and
best route to the Southeast is by way of
Nashville where she strikes our railroad
center and gives us a route to the sea, in
securing her own. It is in our favor also
that this line is in no way the enterprise
of St. Louis, but of Tennessee, Georgia
and Eastern capital, and an enterprise of
a purely business venture, so that in con
ferring advantages on St. Louis, it will
not deny them to immediate points. This
will also be the shortest route between
the oceans, except a direct Southern route
which is some way off in the future. For
at least five years this will be the shortest
transcontinental line, and the cheapest.
The next city eastward, with a com
merce, requiring a line to the ocean, is
Chicago, hut her interests are so far north
that it is doubtful whether she will ever
need such a line as that required by St.
Louis. Chicago is also closely connected
with the Pacific trade, hut her ports are,
from her situation, further north and her
business likely to continue to he with
those from Boston to Baltimore. Chica
go has but little, and has sought but little
to obtain Southern trade. . She exports
largely directly from Europe, and sends
out immense supplies of grain to Europe;
but, as a distributing point, she is likely
to be centre of a northern territory, accu
mulating produce from that territory for
distribution and supplying it with exports.
Looking for new routes she will rather
have an eye to the St. Lawrence than to
any ef the Southestem ports. If, how
ever, Chicago seeks such an outlet, or
uses one when made, it will be either
through Louisville and Nashville or Cin
cinnati.
The next, and only other city to be con
sidered as having an interest in these con
nections, is Cincinnati. It is cut off by
Chicago and St. Louis from being a center
of distribution for transcontinental trade;
it has expended all the money an indulgent
public will contribute to build railroads,
aud it has a nearer route to the sea by way
of Baltimore. Nor is Cincinnati seeking
so much seaport as interior trade. She may
reach this to find it a barren field for the
sale of her manufactures when Southern
produce is finding a shorter route to better
markets. These are the only cities that
now can need to reach Southern ports—
these and their dependent cities, and of
these, only St.Loui$rcally needs toreach
Southern ports, or, if Chicago also does,
to do so they must both come through
Nashville.
An Allured Cure for Consumption.
It is reported that Professor Schuller, of
the University of Griefswald, Prussia, has
discovered a mode of treating consump
tives, which will cure in cases where the
lungs are not too far gone, and where the
patient has some strength left. By exper
iments with rabbits he has come to be
lieve that tho breath of consumptives is
poisonous, and that bacteria are sown by
it to become the cause of tubercles iu
others. Reasoning on this fact, he select
ed bonzoate of soda as the best among
substances which kill bacteria, and has
found that it destroys the tubercles. The
remedy is administered by inhalation, or
in some cases by sub-cutaneous injection.
In the inhalation,the weight ofthe benzoate
of soda used is to the weight ofthe patient’s
body as one thousand to one; that is, in
the case of a man weighing 140 pounds,
two and a quarter ounces would be the
proper daily quantity. This is used in a
five per cent, solution—i. e., five parts of
the substance to ninety-five parts of wa
ter. The remedy should be inhaled from
an atomizing apparatus from two to four
times daily, so that the daily quantities
will be divided into from two to four por
tions. The boiler of the apparatus should
be filled, in the absence of fresh spring
water, only with distilled water. The in
halations should be at first gentle, and
then gradually, witli the iuareaging
strength and cometude, deeper and deep
er. They should. not be protracted be
yond a half hour, when the patient should
take a rest.
Peach Trees Blooming in East
Tennessee.—The chances of a peach
crop next summer, we fear, are small.
The Knoxville Chronicle reports peach
blooms up in East Tennessee, aud says :
We are informed that on the Beaver
Creek and Black Oak Ridges, in this
county, the place where peaches are al
ways to be found, even when they fail
everywhere else, some of the trees are out
in frill bloom almost, under the influence
of this soft and mild weather.
A Curious “Animal.”—This is the
unique 'heading which the intelligent
compositor places over a notice of the
grain market in Tuesday’s issue. It
should have been printed “ A Curious
Anomaly.” But it was all the same to
the typo, and served just as well to fill out
kis.^le of “ems.”
"Keep it in the house and it will save you
Wiinai „ .Bapy an anxious moment during the
which has never, failed to meet its engage- J changes of season and weather; we rerer
incuts promptly, and which still control a to Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup.
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
Washington City,
January 9th, 1880.
THURMANN AND GARFIELD.
Few States have two more conspicuous
or exceptionable able sons and servants
than Ohio boasts in the' two whose names
appear above. That State as everybody
now knows, is unusually rich in fitting
timber for the manufacture of statesmen,
“visiting” and otherwise, but she can
boast none to outrank them. 'When,
therefore, one is directly pitted against
the other the outcome cannot fail to at
tract universal attention. This was the
case at the last electioa .in Ohio. Every
body knew that the struggle for the Legis
lature meant whether judge Thurman
should succeed himself in the Senate or
give place to Garfield. Garfield won and
Thurman will retire in 1881. His de
feat Is, I had almost said, a national
calamity. Certainly it is a most serious
loss to the Democracy in and out. of the
Senate. No man outranks him. You
can count on less than the fingers of one
hand those who deseive to stand in that
body even on the sane plane of intellec
tual force with him. I can name but
four who are his peers. Judge, then, how
serious the los3 we have sustained. The
Democratic party has cause to go into
mourning, and for tie Ohio Democracy
sackcloth and ashes would tc faint sym
bols of what their grief should be. Prob-
ably^Judge T. will not reappear in public
life again. He is sixty-seven now. He
could not re-enter the Senate in five years
at the shortest, for hi* colleague, Pendle
ton, has that period to serve, and
his defeat for the Senatorship
seems to he conceded as marking the end
of all Presidential hopes or possibilities.
Why could not some of the Democratic
feather weights ip the Senate been taken
and this giant spared to us ?
In Garfield, the Radicals in the Senate
receive a recruit worth having in any de
liberative body in the world. He has nat
ural ability ofthe first class, cultivation,
training and a wide experience in public
affairs. He is also a ripe scholar—has
read and thought much, and a forceful,
and at times, an eloquent speaker. He is
a lawyer and has been a Campbellite
preacher. The one thing he most lacks
is moral grit. He lets go too soon in the
face of attack. If he had the bull dog
tenacity of some men his make-up would
be pretty nearly perfect. Hale, of Maine,
in the House was far teneath him in the
intellectnal scale, but Hale had the pluck
and dogged resolution which sometimes
went further and was worth more than
brains. It made him lead sometimes when
leadership seemed Garfield’s special right.
Given Hale’s courage and tenacity, and
Garfield would show as nearly a model
party chief in a legislative body as could
be found anywhere. True there are some
shady spots on his shield, but what recks
that in these loose days and especially
with the party of great moral ideas and
unlimited capacity for jobbing and cor
ruption of all grades and description.
Perhaps he would not have been permit
ted to climb so high had his party discern
ed in him virtues it did not possess and
could not appreciate.
PRESIDENTIAL SPECULATIONS.
If one enjoys such things, here is the
point to get filled to repletion. The
Blaine, Grant and Sherman boomers are
numerous, active and boastful. It seems
to me Grant has rather more tongues
wagging for him than the other two and
they are singularly braggy. They scout
the idea of anybody’s else’s having a show
in the Convention—that Grant will have
been as good as nominated long before
the convention meets, and that its work
will only be a formal ratification of the
party will. They claim New York and
Pennsylvania as dead sure for him, aud it
really looks that way. These States will
lead off and then there will be a regular
stampede among the smaller States to get
in line. All this will be shown, they say,
in the State conventions which
send delegates to Chicago. As
regards the South they smile you
the scomfullest of smiles when you say
Sherman will have that in a swing, and
pooh pooh the idea that a few office hold
ers can break off the negroes from the
Grant column. They claim that Grant’s
name is still a tower of strength among
the darkies, who don’t know nor care any
thing about Sherman or Blaine. They
also hint that the zeal ofthe officeholders
for Sherman is hollow hearted and half a
sham, and that these officials are at heart
for Grant, and ready to sell Sherman out
at a moment’s notice. This is a sample
of their talk, and it seems to me to have a
pretty substantial stratum of fact. If all
signs do not fail, Grant seems to me the
coming man. I have always said so, and
I stick closer to the notion than ever.
On our side, things seem to me woe
fully muddled. I mean as to who will
lead us. If our people were all agreed on
financial questions, or would waive their
crochets for the nonce, and get together ok
a decent platform, things would look de
cidedly brighter. AVe could then see our
way pretty clearly towards victory in No
vember. With Governor Seymour or Mr.
Bayard on such a platform, New York,
New Jersey and Connecticut would be
surely won; and these with Indiana and the
South would be enough.' And why can’t
it be done ? It seems to me that if we al
low financial disagreements to stand in
the way of victory, we deserve to he
branded as idiots and forever disfranchised
It would he a righteous verdict. But it
would notjsurp rise mo very much if history
didn’t record that very verdict. Somehow
of late years,we have gotten into the habit
of blundering, and like all other habits it
is hard to break up.
ALL SORTS.
Nothing of Interest deing in either
House to-day. The report of the Com
mittee on Rules is up in the House, and
is the only_peg.on which anything of in
terest can b® hung just now. It brought
the Speaker, Garfield, and one or two
other strong men to their feet yesterday
in defense of the committee’s report, and
for a time matters were rather interesting,
Reagan and Hooker were the principal
assailants. Some think the report will
get a si few black eyes before it is finally
disposed of.
“Few die and none resign” is an old,
and in the main true saying about office^
holders, but there are exceptions. I know
of one of recent date, and hasten to record
it. It was a Georgian, too, Mr. James G.
Zachery, son oi Colonel Charles
Zachery,' of Newton county,
the old time and gallant com
mander of the fighting 27th Geoigia
in the late misunderstanding. Mr. Zach
ery has been holding a pleasant place in
the Patent office for nearly two years,
meanwhile studying law. He was admit
ted to practice the other day and forth
with resigned and went to work at his
profession in this city. Success to him.
He deserves the fullest measure of it.
General Gordon roturned Tuesday night
and is atWillanl’sl So far I have not
seenCaptain “Tete” Smith whp, I presume,
is still at home. With that exception
Geoigia is now fully represented in both
Houses.
The weather is simply horrid, and the
sleeping devils . of. .rheumatism and
neuralgia have been fully waked up
in' many a poor fellow’s pain-
racked corous. The universal
prayer is now for sunshine, of which there
has scarcely been six hours since Sunday.
The Greenback, Labor Reform, Wo
man’s Rights, Dennis Kearney, and the
old scratch knows what .else party is
holding a convention or something here
just now and Dennis is one of the Y. P.’s.
Murch, of Maine, is President. He wanted
the thing opened with prayer and then
the racket commenced.". One delegate
shouted, “let every man do his own pray
ing,” and a dilapidated looking woman
responded, “I came here to work, not to
pray,” and another shouted, “I came here
to work and not to pray,” • ■ while another
yelled for “a greenback prayer,” and an
other for “a labor prayer, ’ and another
suggested, “make it short.” But thoy
had the prayer all the same. Georgia, I
see, is not represented in the . convention.
Where are brother Pittman and “fanner”
Arnold of Atlanta ? A. W. R. •
BY TELEGRAPH
London, January 13.—The steamer
Glendower, which arrived at Liverpool on
the 9th from Norfolk, lost overboard 157
head of cattle during the passage.
The largest cotton mill at Bradford, be
longing to Sutcliff A Son,has been burned.
Loss $70,000. One woman was killed.
A Cabul dispatch reports Mahomed
Kahn surrounded Ghuzhee with a strong
force, killed the Governor, Abdul Kadin
and looted the city. He is now endeavor
ing to raise the tribes to attack the British.
Pnest Moehi has severed connection with
Mahomed Kahn in consequence of the be
havior of the insurgents in looting Cabul.
Jackson, Miss., January 13.—Senator
Lamar has been here several days in the
interest of General Walthall, and was
stricken with paralysis Sunday night.
His condition is not considered critical.
The Democratic caucus in' session last
night adjourned after twelve ballots for
United States Senator, the last ballot
standing: Barksdale, 54|; Walthall, 38};
Singleton, 40; scattering 4. Barksdale on
the sixth ballot received 58 votes.
Sedalia, Mo., January 13.—The lat
est returns from the seventh Congression
al district assure the election of Colonel
John Phillips by abour four thousand ma
jority.
Columbus, O., January 13.—Governor
Foster was inaugurated yesterday.
Pittsburg, January 13.—A general
strike was ordered yesterday among all
the miners of Alleghany county to secure
a uniform rate of three and a half cents
per bushel for all coal mined.
Wheeling, W. Va., January 13.—The
Charlestown City Guards have gone to
Hawks’ mines to protect men willing to
work.
Richmond January 13.—The collec
tion in this city for the relief of the famine
sufferers in Ireland, aggregated $2,500.
Augusta, Me., January 13.—At 2:15
this morning a committee of the Republi
can House to report questions to submit
to the court, submitted a series of ques
tions which it was voted to submit to the
court. The questions are lengthy and as
yet incomplete. They will not be given
to the public until to-day. Both branches
adjourned at 2:15 until Saturday, Januaiy
17tli, at 2 p. m.
The acting Governor will issue orders
to-day ordering the militia not to obey the
orders of General Chamberlain.
Forty Republicans came to the city last
night by the Pullman train.
Hale, in his remarks relative to the or
der submitting the questions to the Su
premo Court, said: “The Representatives
assembled hero did not desire a control
which the law did not give them, and did
not wish to ride rough-shod over any one
as they might have done days ago, but for
the main purpose and great purpose indi
cated in the order, and when the courts
shall decide the question Maine will take
that decision as a final exposition of the
law upon the question of the organization;
and it will be expected that every body in
the hall will accept it when it is laid down
by the court.”
Both branches of the Legislature
quietly • assembled here to-day with
out any disturbance—the Republicans
absenting themselves. The night at the
Capitol passed very quietly, there being
no disturbance. A full guard was on
duty. The only thing irregular which oc
curred this morning was when G. W.
Martin attempted to pass the guard in de
fiance of the regulations, and was sum
marily handled by the police.
The Fusionists are very reticent about
expressing their opinion of the events of
last night. They seem surprised, and are
entirely unwilling to converse upon the
subject.
Wallace R. White, whose card of denial
ofthe bribery Charges has been published,
was summoned before the bribery com-
Thc fol-
-.7i nwA
LTii.1
New Orleans, January 13.—Governor
Wiltz will be inaugurated nexfW6^ nes '
dayin Odd Fellow’s' Hall. ., _ ..
A special to the Times Ai om .Assump
tion, Louisiana, reports the killing of W.
Parker, Jr.? colored, by Allen IIltQ,"a jus
tice of the peace. Hite .escaped. ■ jli:|I " i; '
■ •- •' i 1 b i*iD» v*’ _• —'* .
viel-jinp I
mittee, hut refused to appear,
lowing is his card:
To Henry Ingalls, Chairman of the
Investigating Committee:—I havejreccived
your summons to appear before your
Committee, charged with the investiga
tion of alleged bribery of J. B. Swann and
Moses Harriman. I decline to appear for the
reason that you are incompetent to send
for persons and papers, and not competent
to administer a legal oath. The witnesses
before you could swear to anything with
out incurring the hazard of prosecution
lor pcijury. If Swann and Harriman had
secured the bribe they would naturally
swear falsely about it, and if they merely
put up the job they would be still more
likely to testify faisely.
When I meet them I want it to be be
fore a tribunal that has power to enforce
its decrees and administer punishments.
Your House of Representatives is ille
gally organized or not organized at all,
and if you have any doubt on that point,
I shall be glad to have you arrest me for
contempt, and thus have the authority of
your process tested by writ of habeas cor
pus before the Supreme Judicial Court.
If I am not sustained by that tribunal I
shall cheerfully appear before your com
mittee.
[Signed] Wallace R. White.
Washington, Januaiy 13.—In the
Senate several Senators presented numer
ously signed petitions for the appointment
of a commission of inquiry into the alco
holic liquor traffic.
Mr. Kernan presented a memorial of
over fifteen hundred individuals and firms
of New York State and city, of all politi
cal parties, for the withdrawal ofthe legal
tender quality of treasury notes.
Mr. Kernan, in presenting the memo
rial stated that he believed it represented
the views bt a majority of the citizens of
SfCW York, and asked for it the consider
ation it deserved.
Mr. Saulsbury presented a petition of
the citizens of Delaware for the same pur-
pose.
Mr. Ferry announced that- to suit the
convenience of various Senators he would
not ask.the Senate to devote Thursday to
the obsequies of the late Senator Chan
dler, as he had intended to do, but would
hereafter ask that another day be set
apart to that purpose.
The House Committee on Appropria
tions at their meeting to-day accepted the
report ofthe sub-committee to whom was
referred the matter of United States mar
shals’ fees, aud agreed to report to the
House a bill appropriating $600,000, as
desired by the Attorney General and sug
gested iifhis annual report.
The House Committee on Commerce
listened this morning to the argument of
G. R. Blanchard, representing the Erie
Railroad, in opposition to Regan’s Inter-
States Commerce Bill. Blanchard took
strong grounds against positive legislation
by Congress affecting the different inter
ests involved, and favored the appoint
ment of a commission of five to suggest
legislation on the subject.
. After transacting some routine business,
tlic House resumed consideration of a res
olution reported from the Committee on
Printing for printing the Glover Report.
New York, January 13. —• London
specials state that the Empress of Russia
has telegraphed the Czar from Cannes
that she wished to retiu-n to St. Peters
burg to die there, having first reconciled
her husband and son, and established
peace in that divided family. The Em
press says the fattier suspects his son of
conniving at Nihilist plots, while the son
accuses the father of dragging the Russian
Imperial family down to ruin. The Em
peror’s mistress poisons his mind with sus
picions against his son. The Czarewitch
and Czarerona are virtually imprisoned in
the palace. His uncle, the Grand Duke
Constantine, believes his own life endan
gered—he having offended the favorite.
Washington, Januaiy 13.—In the
Senate Mr. Jones, of Florida, presented a
petition of the citizens of Tampa, Florida,
for the improvement ofthe harbor at that
place.
Mr. Butler, of South Carolina, presen
ted a petition of the citizens of South Car
olina for the improvement ol' the Wateree
river.
Mr. Saulsbury introduced a bill to pre
serve the secresy of telegram. Referred.
Mr. Morrill introduced a resolution in
structing the Finance 'Committee to en
quire into the practicability of refunding
any part ofthe National . debt. at. a
lower rate of interest than .four per cent.
Laid on the table.
The Yice-Presideut laid before'the Sen
ate a recommendation from thtf Secretaty
of War, that the appropriation for arrang
ing (this Confederate archives, be increased
to seven thousand, five hundred doilal-s.
Referred.'••V-i
I 9l [i J Cd0,00C£) loeofo Jvnl ’
.bMiu-jh ?d) cl lexqo Ion i! hlsiv l
Mr. Morrill introduced a bill for the ap
pointment of a committee on alcoholic li
quor tariff. Referred to the Finance Com
mittee. Adjourned,
In the House, Mr.'TMcknell, oi Indiana,
from the committee on counting the vote
for President, reported back the bill
amending the statutes relating to Presi
dential elections, and prorfdmg for the
counting of votes and for rate. decision of
questions arising therefrom, t and, it was
made the special order XacJanuaiy 29th.
Mr. Money, of Mississippi, submitted a
report to accompany the hilf fof es
tablishment of return lettes offices. Re
ferred to the committee of the irtwle.
The House then went iato the commit
tee of the whole on the revision of the
rules, and there was much discussion as
to requiring the Commerce Committee
to report the river and harbor bill for ref
erence to the Appropriation Committee.
Pending discussion, at 4:20, the committee
rose, and after the introductlen and refer
ence of two or three bills, the House ad
journed.
The Senate to-day confirmed the nomi
nation of the following . postmasters:
Georgia—C. G. Wilson, Milledgeville;
Wm. K. Watts, West Point; U. Jordan,
Cuthbert. Alabama—J. S. Newcomer,
Greenville; W. Youngblood, Union
Springs. Louisiana—L. D. Esmarais,
Opelousas.
The Senate also confirmed a large num
ber of army and navy promotions.
A special from General Nathall to Sen
ator Gordon, dated Jackson, Mississippi,
this afternoon, states that Senitor La
mar’s physician says his condition is se
rious, but not dangerous. His attack is
believed to be vertigo, not paralysis.
The United States patent office to-day
issued a patent to David Flanery, of Jack-
sson, Mississippi, for an electric light ap
paratus, consisting partly of a lamp, but
chiefly of an entirely new method for ef
fecting the distribution of the current and
regulating the light.
Augusta, Me., Januaiy 13.—In the
Senate a petition was presented for a
bridge across Geoige river, at Friendship.
The House transacted no business what
ever. v
The reported scheme of electing Gover
nor and State officers has apparently besn
abandoned, both parties seeming willing
to await the decis ! on of the Supreme
Court before before proceeding further.
Mr. Lawson, who claims to he the act
ing Governor, has as yet performed no
official act that interferes with the prerog
atives of General Chamberlain.
The House has taken a recess until two
p. m.
Cincinnati, January 13.—Mr. Gar
field was elected United States Senator to
succeed Air. Thurman, by the Ohio Leg
islature to-day. The vote stood in the
Assembly, Garfield 20, Thurman 13.
Washington, Januaiy 13.—The bill
introduced in the Senate by Mr. Sauls
bury to-day, to secure the secresy of tele
grams, provides that dispatches and cop
ies thereof in the possession of telegraph
companies who avail themselves of the
privileges of title 65 ofthe Revised Stat
utes, shall be considered private papers of
the sender, and shall be exempt from
seardh and seizure, as communications
sent by United Statesmans.
Augusta, Me., January 13.—The fol
lowing has just been issued:
State of Maine, Executive De
partment, Augusta, January 12.—
Joshua L. Chamberlain, Major General
Commanding: Having entered upon the
duties of Governor of Maine, under criti
cal circumstances, it is important to me
to understand whether you are prepared
to recognize my authority as such.
Respectfully, James D. Lawson,
Governor of the State of Maine.
Augusta, Me., January 13.—Hon.
Jame8D. Lawson—Sm: I have the honor
to acknowledge the receipt of your com
municationinforming me that you have
entered upon the duties of Governor, and
desiring to know if I am prepared to re
cognize your authority as such. The
gravity of the situation and the impor
tance of my answer to your questions de
mand that I give it most earnest attention.
I am acting by authority devolved upon
me by virtue of the following order.
(Here General Chamberlain quotes the
order of Governor Garcelon, dated Janu
ary otb, and previously telegraphed.) In
the attitude which things have now taken
the responsibility resting upon me under
this order involves the liberties
ofthe people their most sacred prop
erty and the stability of constitutional
government, their highest institutions.
1 am thankful that you feel and under
stand this, and realize equally with,
myself the importance of your proceeding
with, caution. Your inquiiy calls upon
me to decide the question of constitution
al law which is smarter falling not at all
within tho province of my department.
In my militaiy capacity, 1 have not the
privilege of submitting such questions to
the tribunals competent to decide. The
Constitution declares that justices of the
Supreme Judicial Court shall he obliged
to give their opinion upon important ques
tions of law, and upon solemn occasions
when required by the civil branches of the
government, but that privilege is not ac
corded to the military department. Sup
ported by the decision of the court, I
should obey without ajmoment’s hesitation,
but solemnly believing that if at this junc
ture I abandon my trust, there will be no
harrier against anarchy and bloodshed, I
cannoj, under the present circumstances,
recognize your authority as Governor of
Maine. There are only two ways of set
tling the question now at issue—by follow
ing strictly the constitution and laws, or
by revolution and bloodshed. In this al
ternative, and standing where I must be
justified by God and man, I can only hold
’fast in my place.’and implore thosawho
have the power to do so, to decide these
questions by appeal to the peaceful course
of law. Believing that this answer must
commend itself to your judgment as the
only one possible for me to give, and \vith
the highest respect and esteem, I have the
honor of being your obedient servant.
J. L. Chamberlain,
Mqjor General.
Augusta, Me., January 13.—Orville
D. Baker, counsel for the Republican ad
visory committee, has made a report to
them, in which he takes the ground that
the State has now no legal or acting Gov
ernor; that Mr. Lawson was not legally
elected as President of a constitutional
Senate; that the Senate was not a legally
organized body, and never had a quorum,
and that the terms of office of the execu
tive council, Secretary of State, Treasurer
and other State officers expired January
8th, and all those offices are now vacant.
Portland, Me., January 13.—Register
of Probate, Caleb A. Chaplin, who was
counted in, and who took his seat Janua
ry 1st, resigned to-day. This leaves only
one counted in county officer who still
holds his seat.
Catetown, January 13.—The arrest of
Herr Pretorius, President ofthe former
republic of Transvaal, for high treason,
ha3 caused great excitement among the
Boers.
London, January 13.—Ex-Empress
Eugenie will leave for the Cape of Good
Hope March 26, and hopes to arrive at
the scene of the Prince Imperial’s death
by June 1st, which is the anniversary of
that event.
Paris, January 13.—M. Gambetta, Re
publican, ha3 been re-elected for the
Chamber of Deputies by 250 votes of 30S
votes recorded. There were 40 blank
voting papers.
CniCAGO, Januaiy 13—A collision oc
curred at the stock yards this morning
between striking and non-striking work
men in the packing houses. The latter
were attacked by a mob of 400 or more
with sticks and stones, as they passed in
and out ofthe gate. One man was dan
gerously stabbed. A number of the strik
ers were arrested and marched to the po
lice station at the muzzles of revolvers.
Serious trouble and bloodshed is feared,
The police authorities regard the situa
tion as'critical, and have transferred a
large force.to the stock yards. !
“Augusta, Me.^January 14.—The po
lice force at the State, house was strength
ened this morning by the addition of fifty
men. Matty rumors are afloat as to the
intentions ofthe Fusionists, 'and the ac
tion of„ General, Chamberlain ia case
Smith is elected to-day as Governor. The
Election Committee appointed by jthe Fu-.
sion house tills'morning', has just decided
by a vote of three .to Jwo fo.unseat Mr.' -courts? Cantheseven members thus de
H m i m RMi
It is reported that there is a rupture be
tween Solon Chase and Eboji T. Fills-
bury. Mr. Chase opposes the use of any
force, and will abide the decision of the
Supreme Court. He says he will with
draw unless the Democrats will agree to
tliis poBcy.
Boston, January 14.—The following is
the substance of the questions submitted
to the Supreme Court of Maine, by the
Republican'Legislature. They are prece
ded by a long preamble, reciting the facts
already given to the public:
1. Have the Governor and Council tho
right to summon a person to take a seat
in the Legislature, who, by the official re
turns, under the decision of the Court,
does not appear to be elected, or would
such summons he void ?
2. Has the holder of such summons
the right to participate in the organiza
tion and proceedings of the Legislature to
the exclusion of the members rightfully
elected, as shown by'the said returns un
der the decision of the court, or does such
right rest in the last named- member to
the exclusion of the member summoned
from the same district?
3. If the summons were issued under
the facts' recited in the accompanying
statement to Lewis Voter and others,
(ten Fusionists are named), would such
summons give either of them the right to
participate in the organization or proceed
ings of the House, or would the right rest
in Cyrus H. Thomas and others, (ten Re
publicans named) ?
4. This qaeamon is similar t<T question
three, except that summoned and non-
summoned Senators are used instead of
the names of Representatives.
5. Does the same rule apply when a
member who is summoned appears to be
elected only because of some error in the
name or initials of candidates not sum
moned, or because ofthe rejection of re
turns from one town on account of their
being unsigned by the town clerk.
6. If persons holding the summons
described in question one participate in
the organization of tho Senate or House,
and if without their participation the Sen
ate or House has no quorum of voting
members,.have such bodies any legal or
ganization or officers ?
7. Without such legal organization
and without a quorum .of sixteen voting
members in the Senate and seventy-six in
the House, can any valid law be enacted,
any legal officers be chosen, or any busi
ness be legally done, except to adjourn?
If any business be legal, what business?
8. Without legal organization and le
gal officers chosen by a quorum, can either
House compel the attendance of absent
members?
9. To make up a legal quorum or any
vote in either House, can the vote of a
person be counted who though summoned,
does not appear to he elected by the offi
cial returns under the. constitution and
decision of the courts ?
10. Can the Governor and Council le
gally administer the oath to members
elect of the House of Representatives,
when as shown by the record only seven
ty-three members vote on a motion to re
quire the attendance of the“Governor and
Council for that purpose ?
11. Can a valid organization of the
House he made under the revised statutes,
when under the circumstances stated in
the tenth question, a protest was entered
at the time that no quorum was manifest,
and when tho Clerk refused to put the
motion and the Governor offered and ad
ministered the oath?
12. Can the Governor and Council le
gally administer oaths to Senators elect
when only twenty members, both sides
included, vote on ” the motion to require
their presence for that purpose, and when
twenty-eight of those summoned did not
appear to be elected by the official re
turns?
13. “ When did the term3 of office of
the Governor, Executive Council, Secre
tary of State, Treasurer, Attorney-Gen
eral and Adjutant General expire?
14. When the terms of office of the
Governor and Council hare expired, and
their offices are vacant, can the members
elect of the House he legally qualified be
fore a magistate appointed and commis
sioned by the Governor under dedimus
potestatem , by virtue of the revised stat
utes or any other provision of law ?
15. WRen one governor’s term of
office has expired, and no successor has
been chosen, can the President of the
Senate become acting governor, if at his
election only twenty votes are cast, and
these twenty are made up as stated in
question twelve.
16. Can the. legally chosen President
ofthe Senate become acting governor, un
less he has been legally qualified as such
in addition to his qualification as Presi
dent ofthe Senate ?
17. Can such qualifying oath be le
gally administered by the President pro
tempore of the Senate, in joint convention
ofthe Senate and House, when less than
twenty-six members of the House vote on
the motion.to proceed to a Joint conven
tion?
18. This question is in substance as to
whether the twelve Representatives from
the five disfranchised cities had the right
to participate in the organization and pro
ceedings ofthe House without summons,
when no other persons held summons for
the same seats ?
19. Can the House legally organize un
der a certified roll containing 139 names
only, without admitting the twelve mem
bers from the five cities ?
20. This question is in substance as to
whether the Representatives apparently
elected from Skowhegan and Farmington
had the right to participate in the organi
zation of tho House "without summons,
when persons summoned declined to serve
on the ground that they were not elected.
21. Can eleven members duly elected
and summoned and seven other members
not summoned, but appearing to he elec
ted by a plurality of all the Votes returned
undorthe requirement of the constitution
aud decision of the court, constitute and
oiganizea legal Senate, provided said
eighteen members each have received a
plurality of all the votes cast, aud the offi
cial records as well as official returns show
that fact ? I
22. Can sixty-two duly summoned
members elect ofthe House, together with
twelve members elect not summoned
from the five cities, and two members
elect not summoned from the towns of
Farmington and Skowhegan, constitute or
organize a legal House of Representatives,
when the fourteen members above enum
erated were in fact elected, and that fact
appears by the official returns and the de
cision of the Court, no other persons hav
ing been summoned for the same seats ?
23. Can seventy-six members' elect,
enumerated in question nineteen, consti
tute or organize a legal House, together
with nine other members elect who were
in fact elected, and appear by official re
turns, and by the decisions of the courts,
to be elected, though the nine seats afore
said are claimed by other candidates who
were summoned by the Governor and
Council, but who were not in fact elec
ted, and do not apprtir to have been elec
ted by the official returns or decision of
the court?
24. When the terms of office ofthe
Governor aud Council have expired, the
acting President of the Senate having re
fused to qualify duly summoned mem
bers elected, and the acting House, made
up of sixty-two members, legally sum
moned, and fourteen others not in fact
elected, and not appearing to be elected
by .the official returns under' the fiecision
of the court, refuse to athnit-to'seats
fourteen members elect, speci
fied. or additional members elect,
specified in question No. 19, or
rune additional members specified in ques
tion twenty, or anyone of them? Can
the seventy-six members specified by
question nineteen, or the eighty-five mem
bers specified by question twenty, after
being called to order by one of their mem
bers and the roll of members elect read
(as they appear by the official returns], be
qualified before a justice, and thus consti
tute and Organize a legal House #f Repre
sentatives ?
25. When the • terms of office of tlie
Governor and Council have expired, can
the acting Senate, made up of. twelve
members legally summoned and eight
others summoned but not. in fact elected,
and not appearing. to be elected by the
official returns nor under decision of'the
courts, refuso to admit to tbpirseats, seven,
.members who were in fact elected by the
official returns and' by a decision of the
The •jmptomi otLWw
Compliint>r» a b it to
bud tittle 5u the m uth
pam in the Leek. li(! “
•'T JoirG, often mijtak Jn
t-r n-uuMtian, noor
stomach, lou of apoectte, boeo's alternate!?
costive and iax, headache. I Bs of memory with a
painful aenaatlon of having tailed to do some,
thinx which ought to hare been done, debilitr
low spirits, a thick yellow appearance of the skm
and eves, a dry cough often mistaken for con
sumption. Sometimes these symptoms attend
the disease, at others, very tew.
Pain in Side foe Three Yean,
_ „ Bast Foist, Ga. March IS, 18T».
DBAbFIW: I hare been down ten yean with
brer complaint; hare lay yean at a time, I hart
hra a terere pain in my side for three yrara
with a dry ootufix. This last fall my ooush be
came aerere. and wonld cough np hail a gallon
per day. The best doctors in Atlanta and my
settlement said it was the last stage of consnmp.
tion. I was so weakened down by New Year's
Day I bad to taka my bed. I then sent and got
Bimnona’ Liter Regulator. I commenced taking
it regularly, and now my cough ia nearly gone,
the pain has left my aide and I am able to ait up
nearly ball a day. lours, G MDODD,
« I Might Hare Been Bead.
[Extract cf a letter from X V Bryant.]
Hoystob, Texas, Feb 10.1ST*.
Ganti Xy health heretofore has been ran
roor. About four months ago I commenced tak.
ing Simmons' Liver Regulator, which relieved
me in a short time, and now I am able to say,
and thankfully too, that I am quite well—owing
to the use of your Regulator. If 1 had not taken
regularly when I was taken sick at Marshal), I
might now hare been dead. My faith in the
meulcine cannot be shaken, and I am a firm be-
lierer in the virtue und all-powerml oaring
qualities ol the Regulator, and I would like
cTeryono to know it» efficacy. Tour* truly,
XY BRYANT,
Cored of Dyspepsia in Six Weeks
Pottstlvai ia CRT, Va, Feb IS, 1S78.
Dxau Bibs; I had the dyspepsia about three
years ago; it had run on mo for two or three
rears, ana I tried allot our doctors and even
kind of medicine I could think of, and nothing
did me any good at all. I happened to get ou
of Simmons* almanacs, and saw the Regulator
highly recommended lor Dyspepsia. I was is.
dneed to try it and after taking the medicine
about six weeks it made a perfect rare. I here
recommended it to a great many persons, ana it
hat given general satisfaction.
J W LANDRAW,
Zt Core Chills and Feve*
> 08i, Saw. Sov IS, 18ft.
Bibs: I hive tried Simmons' Liver Regulator
and pronounce it as represented, and can lay
that an; one that uses it cannot remain unwell.
It cured the chilis and ttverand flux upon me.
Yours very respectfully,
W T MUSTER,
Prevents pillions Attacks.
South Boston, Hauyax Co, va
Mzssss 3 H Zxiua A Co.
Dbar 8ib»: ■ I have used your Regu'ator upon
mtaelf and stock witn great sucoess. I have
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has greatly affected mv nervous system, Am al
ways bilious. When I feel the attlck coming on
a good dose of the Regulator will always rollers
me, V ry truly yours,
DR G TRBBDBNSTEIN.
Furehaiera should be careful to see that they
get the genuine manufactured only by
J H ZHILIN A CO,
Philadelphia, Fa.
Price $1. Tor sale by aU druggists. aepH
nied their seats, acting with eleven mem
bers elect, duly summoned, after being
called to order by one of their number,
and the roll of official returns and the de
cision of the court read, be qualified by a
justice, and thus constitute and organize
a legal Senate.
26. ‘When a person has received a sum
mons as a member of the House, and re
turns the same to the Governor before the
assembling ofthe Legislature and resigns
his seat, is it competent for him to call
and cancel that resignation, if the Legis
lature has assembled and organized or
can he be compelled to attend as a mem
ber?
27. In case the official returns of the
votes for Governor should be lost, con
cealed or ho inaccessible by accident or
fraud, is it competent to count the vfites
for Governor by using certified copies of
the official record of the several cities,
towns and plantations in the State?
The associate justices will arrive at
Bangor this evening, and the court will
convene to-morrow.
■Washington, January 14.—In the
Senate various petitions were presented
for the liquor traffic commission; for i
cable to Central and South America via
the Gulf of Mexico; for the relief of Fitz-
john Forter, and for an amendment of
the law relating to the seizure and
forfeiture of vessels for- breach of the reve
nue laws, Private bills wero passed for the
relief of Messrs. Dorsey, Shepard* Y*t
lum.
Mr. Hoar introduced a hill relating to
claims of States against the United States.
Mr. Davis, of West Virginia, from the
appropriation committee, reported, with
amendments, a bill to relieve the United
States Treasurer from the amount now
charged him and deposited with the sev
eral States. Placed on calendar.
Mr. Kirkwood called up the hill to in
crease the pensions of certain totally dis
abled soldiers and sailors, and it was
passed. It increases the pensions of such
persons from $50 to $72 per month. Ad.
joumed.
In the House Mr. Upson, of Texas,
from the Military Appropriations Com
mittee, reported a bill appropriating two
hundred thousand dollars for the erection
of suitable posts for the protection of-the
Rio Grande frontier. Referred to Commit-;
tee of the Whole.
The House then went into Commit
tee of the Whole on the revision of thi
rules, and there was considerable discus
sion of the alleged excessive power given
by the new rules to the Appropriation aBu
Judiciary Committees* At 4:20 the Com
mittee arose, and after the presentation
and reference of several Executive com
munications the House adjourned.
The Senate to-day confirmed Elihu A.
White to be Collector of Internal Revenue
for the Second District of North Carolina.
Augusta, January 14.—On the assem
bling of the Hoime this morning a com
mittee on elections was appointed, aw
retired to perform their duties.
Washington, January 14.—In the
House a bill was reported from the Com
mittee of Ways and Means by Mr. ?•
Wood, ofNew York, and passed, for fa«
importation of classical antiquities. I
Mr. Buckner, ofMissouri, chairman
the committee on Banking and Currenq.
reported a hill requiring the reserves I
National hanks to be kept in gold and in*
ver coin.
Mr. Martin, of Delaware, desired to li
fer an amendment, providing that Unitw
States Treasury notes shall be reeeivabrf
for all dues to the United States, except
ing for duties on imports, and shall not be
otherwise a legal tender.
Mr. Buckner refused to yield the fto*
for the amendment.
In the Senate Mr. Davis, of Illinois, t»
Vice President, Messrs. Beck, Willi*® 5 ! j
Allison, Kirkwood, Baldwin, Anthoufi
Ferry, Dawes, Pendleton, Kernan, Cod
ling and others presented petitions of* 9,
men asking for the removal of their P^ 1 '
ical disabilities, and for constitution I
amendments giving women-citizens l« /
right to vote. Kernan and Bayard f^/ 1
sented petitions in favor of the Bar 5
resolution, withdrawing the legal
quality of treasury notes. I.
San Francisco, January 14.—Tf
graphic communication with PortP a i
Oregon, which has been interrupted/,
week, was restored to-day. Thef le ~
grams report the severest storm tin
known. The gale attained, in t
time, to a velocity of eighty mil
hour. A large number of houae/vere
blown down, including Bremen H| ana
the new Catholic Church. The P*S*
to property in the city will amY 1 t0
about sixty-five thousand dollifra. j
The storm in the country was
severe, The telegraph lines ~
Portland and Dallas are so buue
fallen timlier that they will liaie t<j
tirely rebuilt. A great number
were killed by falling bams
It is impossible to estimate the
the property destroyed, but it J
tainly be very great. Three
sons are so far reported as killed^
loss of life does not seem to '
very great.
London, January^14.—Met
jewelers, of No. 19 Cockspur i
don, hat e failed. Liabilities a
Extensive strikes of cotto
at Bolton, Brinloy and Ashton
are imminent in consequence |
ters refusing to grant an
per cent, in wages.
kittle
, Co.,
I Lea
ves
f-Tyne
j mas-
fof ten