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How to Save Bacon.
Distressing reports of spoiled pork come
The Struggle Between the Bailroad go into the mining business. So we leave
Titans off as we began, wiih the remark that up
Despite all that has been said or writ- : t0 ttis writin S the whole railroad question j from all parts of the State, caused by the
» F .. .. . , , . 1 continues foggy, and, after a while, “we protracted spells of mild weather, which
ten on the subject, there is absolutely ^ sl / all see .” in reality have converted winter almost
nothing new of an official character upon! —— _ • j . . , ' -
the railroad situation. All the newspa- j “Honest Honey and the Hext Freer. int0 pe«nui»i spring, in Cobb coun-
There are thirty thousand students in
American colleges.
—Many Northern men of money are
Visiting Florida to ldok at the orange
groves in Volusia and Orange counties. In
some orchards as many as 2,000 trees are
dropping their spheres of gold.
—Charleston Drt.—No rain of suf
ficient quantity to replentisbthe cisterns
here has fallen for many weeks in this
city. The main dependence of the peo
ple is on artesian wells for their supply of
Water. Unless we have rain in a few
days the matter of water supply will be
come • a serious one with our people Ai
re* ly much inoonvenience is being felt.
—Another Factory.—The Sibley
Cotton Manufacturing Company of Augus
ta, Georgia, has just been organized, with
Mr. Josiah Sibley, one of the wealthiest
men in Georgia, as president. The capi
tal stock of the company is $500,000, and
the work of erecting a mill to accommo
date 24,000 spindles is to be commenced
at an early day. Augusta is fast becom
ing a second Lowell.
—The Value of Home Supplies.—
Reports received at the agricultural de
partment of Georgia show that eight per
cent, of the larmers of that State who
raise their own supplies make money by
farming, whilst seventy-five per cent, of
those who gave lines and mortgages and
pay high rates of interest on supplies fail
* to make expenses. A stronger argument
in favor of the importance of raising sup.
plies at home as far as practicable could
hardly be produced.
—Unmade camels’ hair gowns in boxes
with sufficient embroidery for trimming,
arc sold in New York for $20, and are an
nounced as the harbingers of spring goods,
The cashmere gowns and trimmings that
were imported by a Boston firm this win
ter were sold at prices so low that it does
not seem as it there was much demand
here for that class of goods, but it is possi-
sible they may come into fashion again.
—Parnell’s manner before an audience
is thus described in the Springfield Repub
lican's Boston correspondence: “Parnell
is cold as an iceberg. He evidently com
mits his speech to memory, and he has no
animation, no style. His voice is thin and
his-manner awkward. He does not seem
to be in earnest; he does not warm with
his theme. He seems the politician, not
the pleader. He does not sway his au
dience. He cools, rather than fires its ar
dor.”
—The quinine market, according to a
recent New York letter, is getting into an
anomalous condition. The price of Amer
ican has advanced to $3 per ounce, which
is 40 cents higher than the point to which
it dropped some months after the duty was
taken off. There are reports among the
trade to the effect that a strong effort is
making, or will be made, to reimpose the
duty, but well-informed parties in Wash
ington intimate that it will not be success
ful. An inferior substitute for quinine,
chinchonidia, is coming into more general
use. Large quantities of it were import
ed awhile ago when the market price was
comparatively low. Manufacturers ask
$1 per ounce, but at that rate they are not
disposed to accept orders to any extent.
Outside parties ask all the way from $1 10
to $115.
—The Hayden Trial.—New Ha
yen, Connecticut, January 19.—There
was a large crowd at the Hayden court at
9 o’clock this morning, as it was expected
that the Sunday deliberations of the jury*
would result in something; that they would
at least report a disagreement. As the
crowd surged by the sheriffs office Hayden
stood in the open doorway smoaking a
pipe. He looked refreshed after his rest
of Sunday. Mrs. Hayden looks anxious
and wearied, and expresses surprise that
there has not been a verdict. It is thought
that those in the minority are In favor of
a verdict for murder in the second degree,
At 2:32 p. m. the jury reported that they
were unable to agree and were sent back
by the court.
THE JURY DISCHARGED.
The jury, being still unable to agree,
was discharged by Judge Park. The last
ballot stood eleven for acquittal and one
for murder in the second degree. Counsel
will move for Hayden’s release on bail at
the first oppportunity. There is scarcely
a probability of another trial. Hayden was
warmly congratulated by his friends.
—Disappeared From Montgomery.
—The Advertiser of Tuesday has the fol
lowing: The relatives and friends of Mr.
B. R. Holt, of this city, are greatly dis
tressed at his mysterious disappearance.
He was terribly wounded in the forehead
at the battle of Chicamauga, and has been
a great sufferer since that time. Last
Friday morning he ate breakfast as usual
but since then has not been seen. Search
and inquiry have been made in all this
vicinity, and letters and telegrams sent to
various points, but nothing yet has been
ascertained as to his whereabouts. It is
feared that while laboring under mental
abberation he has wandered off, and is not
in condition to give an account of himself.
He is a medium sized man, about 39 years
of age, and weighs probably 150 pounds.
His hair is auburn, complexion is florid,
and on one ^ide of his head is a deep
scar, caused from a gun-shot wound, ex
tending down to his forehead. He was
dressed in a dark grey suit of clothes and
heavy black overcoat. Any information
of him will be gratefully received if sent
to Dr. W. J. Holt or W. W. Screws, and
our exchanges will confer a great favor by
copying this notice.
—William H. Vanderbilt as
High Liver.—The Correspondent of the
Philadelphia Times says: “I took a good
look at William H. Vanderbilt yesterday,
He waxoth stout and grewsold apace.
You see the old Commodore kept his
eldest sou on that Staten Island farm,
where he dug and delved while his good
wife milked and churned, until the me
ridian of life was passed and the first half
of their century was gone. Coming to
New York, wealth and position at a
bound, with a repressed nature and rural
go-to-bed-at-nine-o’clockhabits, our friend
William grasped at the expansive oppor
tunity that unfolded itself before him.
He was fond of eating, and, a new bill of
fare was on his table—he ate. He was
fond of drinking, and hitherto unexplored
cellars disclosed their choicest vintage to
his thirsty throat—he drank. He had
without knowing it a social temperament,
and suddenly men and women were at
his service -he plunged. The consequen-
oes are perceptible, for he is a big eater,
a good drinker, and one of the jolliest
dogs in the pound. He works like a beav
er—desk work—and is fast pegging out.
His obitdary was long ago placed in well-
regulated pigeon-holes, and long may it be
per press from New York to Brunswick
are full of quasi statements, sensational
rumors and wild speculations relative to
the result of tbs Louisville and Nashville
coup d’etat.
Opinions utterly diverse from each other
are entertained and vehementy pressed.
We give a few samples.
“H. W. G.” telegraphs to the Constitu
tion January 21st from Louisville, as fol
lows : *
I have just had a long talk with Colonel
DeFuniak, just from New York.
The following conclusions are authentic
and positive;
1. The lease of the Central Road will
not be confirmed.
2. The Louisville and Nashville Road
will not give up the deeds to the Georgia
Western road-bed to any company for
any consideration.
3. They will probably build that line to
Guntersville, and work it as a local line.
The surveyor will go ahead and DeFu
niak will lay bis estimates before the
board with recommendations.
4. The Owensboro and Evansville ex-
tensionwill be carried to Russellville and
then stopped.
5. A line of steamers will be put on
from Pensacola or Mobile, for Havana on
March 1st.
6. The idea of a trunk line from St.
Louis to the sea will be abandoned, and
Atlanta made the southem.distributing
point.
The Chattanooga Times, of the same
date, contains several distinct news
paragraphs of a diametrically opposite
character. We print each of them:
The corporations which are trying to
secure the control of the W. & A. will
meet the opposition of the man whom
President Davis failed either to beat or
circumvent during the late war. Gov
ernor Brown never was beaten in any
contest be undertook and he is in this
war to stay, so please recollect that,
Messrs. Standiford & Co.
Nashville is a good deal worried over
the removal of her great railroad head
quarters to Louisville. Never mind,
they can’t take the road away, and there
are other days coming. There is no
strength in the Louisville and Nashville
combination. It is an absurd thing that
can’t last.
THE WAR OF THE KINGS.
Yesterday the air was rife with rumors,
more startling than reasonable. The
principal report was that Cole is all right,
and lias gone North to save Ids system. It
was further stated that the Georgia Cen
tral was secured by the Brown-Cole party
and in combination with the Cincinnati
Southern would force the Louisville and
Nasnville to gladly resign its grip on the
throat of the Cole system. It was st ated
by a gentleman from Nashville that
Stevenson had telegraphed Cole to
“come on at once,” and that like sum
monses came from the South and Balti
more ! Governor Brown, who went to
his coal mines on Monday, returned last
night to Atlanta on a pressing call, it is
said, from Savannah. Keep cool, the end
is not yet—and no one knows what it
will be.
George Alfred Townsend telegraphed
the Cincinnati Enquirer from New
York Sunday, after; full survey
among the speculators and managers, and
he says that Cincinnati has full swing to
Atlanta, that line not being in the calcula
tions of the so-called Louisville combina
tions.
The Enquirer says editorially after sug
gesting that Colonel Cole may join the
Cincinnati Southern interest:
“From Chicago to Savannah, by way of
Cincinnati and the Southern road, is a
round hundred miles less distance than by
way of the Louisville and Nashville sys
tem. From St. Louis, by way of the
Cincinnati Southern Road, the distance
will be about the same as by the Louis
ville and Nashville system, and the road
a better one. From Cincinnati and the
great district which pours its wealth of
products into this center to Savannah by
way of the Southern railroad will be near
er than by any other possible course,
nearer than any other Western city.
before it is called fori”
deucy.”
The World, of Wednesday, utters a
note of solemn warning to the West and
South in connection with the financial
legislation now before Congress. The
strength of the Democrats lies in the “sol
id South” and in the three metropolitan
States of the East. All the latter of which
is hopelessly lost if the South follow the
lead of Beck andVoorhees on the finan
cial question. We are quife prepared to
say that were the question the success of the
stalwarts, or the re-establjshmentof the
anti-helium local bank currency, we are
inclined to believe less public mischief
would follow the first than the second,
For the first would be incurable. Once
occupy the field of circulation again with
local bank paper and nothing but some
great civil commotion would drive - it out.
The war did it, and that was the only
public benefit the' war conferred on the
country; but at a horrid cost. Once open
the flood-gates to local banks of issue
again, and the case would be like that of
the man out of whom the evil spirits were
cast—the increase would probably be not
far from seven to one, and in place of pa
per currency equal in value to gold and
perfectly reliable, every considerable vil
lage in the Union would have its local
bank, and mercantile points of greater
magnitude would speedily furnish from
five to fifty apiece. The dread of such a
state of things cannot be too great or too
active.
Our quarrel with the so-called “honest
money” men is in nothing that they ac
tually propose now, but in the almost
certain sequence of their action. For
concede that the United States Govern
ment is shut out from furnishing a paper
circulation properly secured and guaran
teed, there follows, as a matter of course,
a paper circulation furnished by the
States, and the experience of nearly a
hundred years has informed the people
just what that means, and at wliat incon
venience and loss from insolvency to the
great masses, this work will be done.
As to really “honest money” that is to
say, money which will not waste and per
ish in the bands of the people, it is five
fold more important that the Federal
Government shall issue it, or regulate its
issue by the most strenuous guaranties
and requisitions, than that they shall reg
ulate the coinage. Coins never will main
tain any very considerable part in the vol
ume of active currency. That - great
stream will always be composed of paper
except in those critical periods in which
the paper is shown to be so worthless
to be rejected in payment of debts.
Bank notes are not a legal tender, and
yet, ordinarily, they will pay debts even
after suspension, when they sink to five,
or ten, or fifteen cents below par. But
when tjliey sink, by easy stages to twenty,
thirty, forty and fifty, then specie is
dragged out of bidden recesses, and, for a
time, becomes currency. All the seniors
will remember these times. Then, when
judgments are enforced by execution on
property bought in flush times in this
bank money, the specie must be paid the
sheriff, and one dollar of it will pay ten
of the debt. Homes bought at $5,000 will
be knocked down for $500. And in
slavery times what old man will deny
that he has seen negroes which were
rated at $1,200 to $1,400 bid off at $200,
$300 and $400! These are some of the
beauties and excellencies of this “honest
money.” It will bleach the heads of
every generation with despair—except of
the tew who know it is not money at all—
but mere due bill good on occasion and
will not do to be used as a standard of
value.
Now, who cares about a law compelling
the people to receive Treasury notes for
debt? They will always be so received
unless the Government sets the example
of refusing them. Congress may be a
little wild sometimes, bat always better
than a hundred thousand local bank di
rectors bent on accommodating each other
and their customers. Congress will never
allow, except in case of a question of pub
lic self-preservation, an over-issue—and
even then the faith in ultimate redemption
will not belost. The pride and patriot
ism of the .people, and the immense re
sources of the nation constitute a univer
sal indorsement and overwhelming secur
ity. What insanity is it, to banish these
notes from circulation in favor of the
“honest money” Issued by local banks.
Practically it is as-bad as substituting
gold by brass buttons.
But so long as there arc so many peo
ple all over the country who want to
make money by issuing due bills at the
rate of three to ten for one—s6 many who
expect to trade in them—so many who
really prefer cheap money—inflation and
flush times, that the danger of a local
bank currency is very great. Its friends
everywhere are numerous, and they will
begin their operations by discours lag on
the dangers of government notes—upon a
sound system of finance, and hard money
—honest money, and so on. The scheme
is first to destroy or remove the impedi
ment of a really trust worthy paper circu
lation, which preoccupies the field—for
so long as United States Treasury notes
circulate, private due bills stand no fair
chance. But let no honest mau be delu
ded by this cry of honest money. It
means bank notes containing a promise to
pay—which may be kept, hilt far too often
hot. The true Democratic doctrine was
thoroughly anti-bank.
Darien’s Exports of Lumber for 1^79.
We have received 'from Mr. B. W.
“At all events, it seems more than
probable that the Cincinnati Southern
may look upon the condition .and pros
pects as materially benefltted by the events
of Saturday, and upon Colonel Cole as an
earnest ally in its work for the business
of the South.”
And again: , ,
Those who do not believe that
the whole transaction of Saturday
consisted of the maneuvers of sharp stock
gamblers will believe it when they see
the “fancies” of that day go down like
lead. There is nothing in the business of
the L. & N. to make her paper appreciate.
And’wby should the loading upon it of
other lines to the manifest damage of
their business, create a boom? The whole
thing is only less artificial that the Cou
rier-Journal's sheet-iron thunder oyer the]
event. We say again, wait and see !
In an article upon the same subject, the
New York Commercial Bulletin says:
The terms of the purchase have not
been made known, but it is understood
that the price at which the stocK was sold
was much below the market quotation.
The final basis of agreement was not
reached until Saturday afternoon, when
the contracting parties, who had been in
session at 51 Broadway, adjourned to the
Fifth Avenue Hotel and signed the articles
about 5 p. m. The capital stock of the
Nashville and Chattanooga road is $6,500,-
000, so that the Louisville and Nashville
road, in order to acqnire a controlling in
terest, must' Lave acquired at least $3,-
300,000 of the stock. The negotiations
for consolidation were begun in Louisville
in December last, but being unsuccessful,
a transfer was made to New York. The
interests of the Nashville and Chattanoo
ga were represented by Mr. G. M. Foi
director and also the attorney for
road, and the Louisville and Nashville in
terests were attended to by Mr. H. Victor
Newcomb, the vice-president. The nego
tiations were in progress all last week at
No. 52 Broadway and were finally con
cluded, as stated above, at the Fifth Ave
nue Hotel. The purchase of capital stock
includes all the lines leased, owned or op
erated by the Nashville and Chattanooga
company, and this will include among the
rest the Georgia Central.
A special from Chattanooga to the
Nashville American, dated Januaiy 21st,
states that “Colonel Wadley, of the
Georgia Central, telegraphed here to-day
that the Georgia Central will not pass un
der the control of the Louisville and
Nashville'combination. The general
opinion here among the best informed
railroad men is that the Cincinnati South-
era railroad will not be flanked by this
movement, but that an outlet more favor
able than ever to the company will be of
fered by the managers of the Western and
Atlantic railroad, and the Georgia Central
and Georgia Railroad and Banking Com-
iany, which latter controls a line from At-
anta to Augusta, from which latter there
are two roads—one to Charleston and one
to Port Roydl; also an outlet to Wilming
ton, and via Macon to Brunswick. It is
not considered that the combination will
damage Chattanooga. Mrs. H. L. White-
side, of this city, transferred $90,000 of
Nashville and Chattanooga stock to-day
to New York parties at eighty-five cents.”
And thus, we might continue to repro
duce extracts from other contemporaries,
such as the Seaport Appeal, Savannah
News, Evansville Journal, New York
Star, New York Herald, Knoxville Chron
icle, Cincinnati Gazette, and others, all
differing in tone and aiming at precisely
opposite conclusions.
The truth, Is nothing definite can be
known until the meeting of the Directors of
the St. Louis, Nashville and Chattanooga
Railroad takes place, which will occur in
a day or two. It is said Colonel Cole will
be continued in bis present position, while for widowers, 273 for bachelors and 240 rectly controlled by^the Pennsylvania
another account avers that he is about to for married meu.” ' R a >' roa( l Company is o,252.
ty especially the complaint is general, and
j very few sound joints, indeed, are to he
found in. the country. Even the occasion
al snaps of cold that have supervened, by
their severity and brief duration, seemed
only to aggravate tbe,calainity. If pork
is salted in a freezing condition, and then
a thaw and continued warm spell suc
ceeds, it is almost certain to spoil, from
the fact that the salt, dissolving suddenly,
escapes in the form of brine from the
meat before it has penetrated to the
bone.
A personal experience of some years
in a warm climate, justifies the writer in
recommending the following method of
curing pork, which faithfully observed, h(
has never known to fail:
Select a clear day, not excessively cold
and as fast as two or three hogs are
slaughtered and dressed, proceed to cut
them up forthwith. As soon as the joints
are trimmed, and while still warm and
flaccid, salt very thoroughly' with pulver
ized alum salt, if at hand, and stack very
closely together, so as to retun the animal
heat. Cover each piece veil with ordi
nary salt, and go on repeating the process
until the killing is computed. Let the
meat remain undisturbed over night, if
possible, or at least twelve hours. Then
remove it from the trough or hogshead,
and rub in the salt, adding more to each
joint. Next, spread, so as to avoid con
tact, in a cool place, until each piece is
thoroughly cold—or about twenty-form
hours. Salt thoroughly orce more, and
and submerge each joint in strong, cold-
brine, applying weights to keep them be
low the surface.
This completes the curing process. Al
low about four weeks to elapse, and then,
on some windy, cold day, take up the
joints, and after washing and wiping them
carefully, proceed to hang up in the usual
way. Some smoke with oak chips and
red pepper. This, however, is not abso
lutely necessary, though very safe prac
tice.
The ralionaleof the above method for
saving pork is that, in the first instance;
when newly salted, the warm flesh dis
solves and takes up the salt, and it is con
veyed, by capillary attraction, through
the pores to all parts of the joint. Treated
in this way, meat cai be cured even at
quite a mild degree oftemperature,
The Pair of the Mtcon Volunteers.
We spent a half hour very pleasantly in
Masonic Hall last evening, which has
been converted under the magical touch
of the ladies and gentlemen charged with
its decoratiou, into a very fairy scene of
beauty. It is here that the old historic
Macon Volunteers are holding their fair,
and we question if any enterprise of the
kind in the State ever surpassed it in ex
tent, beauty and variety.
The numerous contributions are grouped
with excellent taste and effect, and em
brace an almost endless array of pretty
things and substantial goods of every de
scription. The furniture, grocery, dry
goods, tobacco and jewlry stores are all
well represented, and flowers and fruits
deftly arranged challenge the admiration
of the visitor on every side. Even poultry
and pigs have a showing, and yet, strange
to say, are such pretty specimens that
they do not look out of place in their neat
cages. But the reader has already had a
full description of the several tables, show
cases, etc., and their contents, on the
other side of the last issue of this paper
and we are only speaking generally. Suf
fice it to say, the fair is a proud success,
and, we trust, will net a handsome sum
for the Volunteers. There will be any
amount of buying, selling, raffling and
voting every night.
A feature that must commend itself to
all is the reasonableness of the prices
charged for everything. There is no at
tempt to gouge or extort money from any
body.
On the opening night several sturdy
well-to-do farmers,from the country, were
present, and one of them was so enrap
tured that he exclaimed: “I have heard
Parson talk lots about Paradise and
try to describe it, but I never save it be
fore.” We again reiterate the hope that
the “Volunteers,” which is one of the
crack companies of Georgia, may realize
their fondest anticipations in the results
of their magnificent fair.
Robbing the Government
Commenting on the wholesale subsidy
bill introduced into Congress by Ellis, of
Louisiana, to appropriate $5,000,000 to
keep up some half dozen steamship lines,
the New Orleans Times says:
“The omnibus steamship bill intro
duced in the House by Representative
Ellis, of Louisiana, is one of the most re
markable specimens of subsidy grabbing
that lias been thus far placed on record.
A hundred old flags with an appropriation
under each is the proposed object of the
measure. Its proper title would be ‘An
act for the relief of John Roach.’ We
have no hesitation in saying that the meas
ure is not in accordance with the desires
of the people of New Orleans, nor would
the bill,'if passed, benefit this city in the
least degree. Ou the contrary, the only
result we can see would bo adverse to
our commercial interests.”
It is about time that John Roach was
squelched. The ocean lines will be un
dertaken fast enough when the fact be
comes patent that they will be paying
entciprises. The general government
should not vote a single dollar to promote
any private ventures of that description.
The New York Bulletin thus character
izes Roach:
The boldnessj the persistency and the
insensibility to shame of this man’s men
dicancy is something entirely phenomenal,
Thrust from the door of Congress session,
alter session he returns with his petition for
alms in some freshly disguised form, and
ever refuses to cease his importunities un
til he has again been ordered off the
premises. Tho ingenuity of bis disguises,
Grubb, of the Darien Gazette, a very
neatly compiled statement of the lumber preuiiaca .
business for the past year of the port of I the varied pretenses of his pleas, the suc-
Darien. The total number of feet ship
ped abroad of all sorts of lumber foots up
07,252,915 feet, which famished cargoes
for 172 vessels aggregating 81,378 tons.
This is a very creditable showing for Da
rien which is bound to be one of the most
important lumber ports of the Sontb.
—An act to prevent and punish the in
termarrying of races, passed at the last
session of tho South Carolina Legislature,
provides that any parson so offending shall
be subject to a line of not less .than $500,
or imprisonment: for not lew than one
year, or both, at the discretion of the
court. Any clergyman or magistrate who
shall unite in the bonds of matrimony
persons of different races la subject to : the
same penalty. ' !'
—“M. Bertillon* the French savant,
says that the number of suicides in
France is at the rate of 028 per 1,000,000 ! Tn ij ea g e of all the roads^directly or indi-
cess with which he induces one Congress
man after another to become his spon
sors, tbo case with which he secures the
services of the lobby and apparently with
out the substantial quid pro quo which
that agency usually exacts, the facility
with whldi he procures the aid of a sec
tion of the press, and the success with
which he wins the favor of the Postal De
partment of the Government, these are
among the many things that substantiate
his claim to being considered the Prince
of Mendicants.
The Third Largest.
Pbl’adelpMa Pres*.I
The 2,300 miles of track which the
Louisville, Nashville and Great Southern
will now operate make it, in that respect,
at least, the third largest railroad combi
nation in the country. The Gould-Van-
derbilt syndicate ranks first. The total
length of the combined roads under this
interest cannot be less than 7,000 miles.
The Pennsylvania system, which formerly
exceeded in length all others, is now re
duced to the second place. The total
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
Washington City,
January 21st, 1880.
SOME MORE TRACKS UNCOVERED.
I referred in my last letter to the
probable rejection by the Senate of one
of the Georgia Supervisors of Census
named by Mr. Hayes, to-wit: Thomas J.
Simmons, of Resaca, a bitter Radical, but
a special friend of Dr. Felton, who had
lecommended him to Mr. Hayes for that
position. Since then I have come into
possession of some documents bearing
on this case, which I think will, as Mr.
Greeley used to say,-prove “mighty inter
esting reading,” particularly in the Sev
enth Congressional District: They will
be foufid below, and are submitted without
comment. Let the political parson and
unctuous demagogue, whose tracks are so
thoroughly uncovered by these documents,
wriggle out of the “ugly scrape,” as he
expressed it in conversation with a
friend.
CONGRESSIONAL MATTERS
are still inexpressibly dull, with no imme
diate prospect of improvement. I have
not known such a dead level of barren
ness since my sojourn here, and I hear
loud and general complaint from the
brethren of the quill on this score. Even
Randall, of the Augusta Chronicle, who
can come as near making plentiful episto
lary brick out of the greatest paucity of
straw, confessed to me the other night
that he was sorely put to it to find mate
rial for his letters. This monotony is
really frightful, and calls loudly for abate
ment. Oh! that Jim Blaine would re
turn, and that be could so multiply him
self as to furnish the House with two or
tliree of the copies. Then we should
have some fun, and the newspapers some
spice in their Washington reports.
STILL COMING.
I refer to the damphool negroes from
North Carolina, on their way to Kansas
and other Western States via this city.
About 500 arrived yesterday afternoon, and
a sorry looking set they were. There were
more women, babies and rusty looking old
boxes, trunks, and carpet bags, than men,
and the latter seemed somewhat iu the
vocative. People who talk with them say
they all tell the same old story about “bnck-
ra” meanness and oppression, and are
filled with the most gorgeous anticipations
of the Western Canaan to which they are
bound. As usual, it turns out that these
poor creatures have been deluded into
leaving home by scoundrels, white and
black, who are making money and notori-
ty out of the business. The latter got
the money and the former the notoriety.
That there are many Bible bangers
of the red-hot Radical sort prominent in
this business goes without. There can be
no deviltry of this kind without their
willing aid. Of such is Rankin, D.D.,
Blaine’s pet parson, who was put through
a course of interrogatory sprouts before
the Senate exodus committee yesterday.
He is understood to have owned after
wards that the Democratic and “rebel”
Amalekites of the committee smote him
hip and thigh. Voorhees, who is chair
man of the committee, relishes nothing
better than to skin just such creatures as
Rankin, and does Ills work with “happy
dispatch.”
THE P. o. D.
closed yesterday tlie reception of bids for
carrying the mails in the States of Ohio,
Indiana,Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi,
Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South
Carolina and Florida. The number of
routes to be let was 3,200, and there were
50,000 bids—the largest letting in the
history of the Department. The awards
will be made on the 10th of March.
“FEENANCE,”
As that eminent statesmen with the
bull of Basban voice, Kelly of Philadel
phia, pronounces it, has the call to-day in
the Senate, where Beck of Kentucky, is
thundering away at this very moment.
Beck passes for a “right smart man,” as
times and the present breed of statesmen
go, but knows uext to nothing about “fee-
nance.” lie is on the wild Western plat
form or more money, and, like Voorhees
and others of that stripe, would wreck
the country in twenty-four hours if they
could carry out their crazy schemes in
that time. I hardly think theDemocracy
are ready to commit the hari kari under
the leadership of sucli blind men, but
there is no telling. I have seen our peo
ple blunder so much and so needlessly of
late years, that I have almost reached the
same conclusion that Grant announces,
viz: That it can generally be relied upon to
assure Radical success. This financial
debate in the Senate will probably run
ten days or more, and will doubtless be
both interesting and instructive, especially
as outlining the ground to be occupied by
the respective parties in the coming cam
paign. If there is no more harmony de
veloped in the Democratic Senatorial
ranks than in the party at large, it will
certainly not mend matters for us.
CAN THIS BE TRUE ?
The Post this morning prints the fol
lowing telegram from Chicago, dated Jan
uary 20th: “The communists of this city
who attended the recent Greenback La
bor Conference at Washington, have re
turned, and report an interview with
Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, in which he
declared himself a communist and au
agrarian, saying he was in sympathy with
the labor reform of the day.”
A. W. R.
COPY OF A LETTER OF THOMAS J. SIM
MONS, OF RESACA, GORDON COUNTY,
GEORGZA, TO THE PRESIDENT, MAKING
APPLICATION FOB APPOINTMENT OK
SUPERVISOR OF CENSUS.
Resaca, Gordon County, Ga,
May 27tb, 1879.
To his Execelency R. B. Hayes Prisi-
dent U. S. of. A.
Honored and Dear Sir:
I take the liberty of writing to you. If
I am correct in act of Congress providing
for the taking of Censes of 18S0 you have
the appointing of Supervisors in each
State.
If it should meet your approval I would
he glad to receive the appointment as one
of the Supervisors of Georgia. My mainc
object aside from the faithful performance
of the duties in asking for the appoint
ment i3 that owing to my Strong Union
principles and my giving or furnishing
Ticketts to some colord voters (Hayes and
Wheeler Ticketts) on the day of Presi
dents election, for that act and maney
others of simular nature I have bad Leap
ed upon me abusive words and curses,
Charging me with doing more for Radical
aid than aney one else in this country.
I would gaine a considerable victory of
no little worth over these corrupt sesessiou
traitors. I referyou toDr. Felton mem—
in Congress from my Dist. the 7th for In
formation as to my Standing and can give
you maney others of the best men of
North Georgia If you require it. I will
give you further the names of Judge D.
A. Walker of Dalton Georgia and D.
Sboll special com. on Southern Claims of
same place
Your friend and Servant
[Signed] Thos. J. Simmons.
I certify that the foregoing letter is an
exact copy from Ibe original as to spelling,
use of capital letters, etc.
William P. Young,
Notary Public.
Washington, D. C., January 17,1880.
COPY OF LETTER OF W. H. FELTON AC
COMPANYING THOS. J. SIMMONS’ AP
PLICATION—NOW IN THE HANDS OF
THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR.
(Copy)
PRIVATE. -
Cartebsville, Ga.,
September 12,1879.
President B. B. Hayes:
Sir—Rev. Thomas J. Simmons, of Gor
don connty, informs me he has applied
for the position of Supervisor of Census.
He is one of the best men in the Seventh
Congressional District, and 1 am satisfied
would make one of the most efficient Su
pervisors in the State. He is Independent
and conservative in his political opinions,
and if you appoint him you will not
regret it. He is a local Methodist preach
er aud of splendid character. I hope you
will again read his letter asking for .this
office. I am, Mr. President, very respect
fully, your obedient servant,
[Signed] W. H. Felton,
M. C. Seventh District Georgia.
I certify that tlie foregoing is a correct
copy of a letter received at the Interior
Department from Hon. W. H. Felton, M. i
C. of Georgia, with a stamped endorse- •
ment in red ink as shown on margin.
Wm. P. Young, Notary Public.
Washington, D. C., 17th January, 1880.
ces.
Small vs. the State. Manslaughter,
from Chatham. Johnson vs. the State.
Colonel Cole’s-Movements.
Advices from Evansville state that the
special excitement in railroad circles to
day was an order from Colonel E. W. ir t —. v . n ,? nrr , ■
Cole, President of the Nashville and Chat- Chatham. -■ .
tanooga road, to Superintendent Culver- I H
house, of the Nashville, Chattanooga and 1 “!?; nce
St. Louis road to continue work on the j U P?? a good indictment has been arrested
Evansville and Owensboro sections of ths. verdict set aside, not^for any^^al-
that road, and to push the line through to
completion as speedily as possible. It is
THE SUPREME COURT. • set aside the sale of the mortr-a-w.,1
1 orty for the purpose of payin'-
Decisions Rendered January 20th, *“? the evidence was conflicting therrW
1880—Hon. Hiram Warner. Chief er controiiil S “■"■Sr %
Justice. Hon. James Jackson and be granted. ^ . a new trial should
Logan E. Bleckley Associate Justi- 5. Deeds thirty yeare old, annarentio
genuine and coining from the prone?™/
tody, are admissible without prorfof«
ccution or of proper record. * 1 ex '
Judgment reversed.
Ruftis E. Lester, for plaintiffs in error
t £?** H - B - ib?X:
claimed that Cole retains control of the
St. Louis and Southeastern road, extend
ing from St. Louis to this city, and that
when the road to Nashville is completed
he will have Southern connections which
will give him as complete a line as before
the Louisville and Nashville road’s pur
chase of the majority of the Nashville aud
Chattanooga road’s stock.
The above we think, lacks confirmation.
So far &3 we can gather at this writing
there have been no new developments
concerning the railroad situation.
later.
From the Savannah Homing News, re
ceived last night, we gather the follow
ing:
g^The stock of the Central Railroad took
a very decided step upward yesterday,
closing at 86(087, an advance from 79(080,
the closing quotations of Wednesday. The
cause of this rapid appreciation in its
value was a dispatch received by Mr.
Milo Hatch, Cashier of the Savannah
Bank and Trust Company, from a reliable
gentleman in Nashville, as follows: “A
majority of the directors reside here. It is
now understood here that Cole secures the
lease of the Georgia Central.” Last night
about eleven o’clock, however, we received
from our special correspondent in Atlanta
the dispatch published elsewhere, which
states that Colonel Cole had been in the
city during the day in consultation with
ex-Governor Brown, but that upon being
interviewed he had no present information
to give on the subject.
From this it may be readily seen that it
is by no means definitely settled yet that
the Louisville, Nashville and Great South
ern road will carry out the contract origi
nally made between the Central and Col
onel Cole. There are a good many con
flicting reports on the subject abroad, and
it must be remembered that while a ma
jority of tlie stock is held in Louisville
and New York, and so long as Colonel
Cole keeps silence on the subject, our cit
izens will be wise not to base too high
hopes on the rumors current in Nashville.
Rumors were current last night in this
city that the Cole-Brown contract had
been broken up. But nothing positive is
known about it.
Further Details of the Recent Heavy
Transaction in Railway Stocks.
The purchase of the Nashville, Chatta
nooga and St. Louis railroad stock, made
by the Louisville and Nashville Company
in this city on Saturday night, w.is con
summated yesterday by the delivery of
the stock and the payment for the same.
The amount handed over by the New
York capitalists is understood to have
been upwards of $2,500,000 par value, and
tlie price paid is variously reported as hav
ing been from par to 120. The parties to
tlie transaction withhold the amount and
the price. The reports that the Louisville
and Nashville would require two-thirds of
the stock' of its former rival to iusure con
trol, and that further negotiations with a
pool of brokers would be necessary are
pronounced untrue by the officers of the
company. Without doubt au effort was
made by President Cole, of the Nashville
and Chattanooga, through his friends in
this city, to thwart the plans of his oppo
nents by aggregating the strength of the
unpurcliased stock, but it was too late.
Louisville aud Nashville officials say that
their personal relations with Colonel Cole
are friendly, and that he will.undoubtedly
be associated in the new management.
It is learned that reports as to a union
with the South Carolina Railroad, to se
cure an outlet to Charleston, are in any
event premature, owing to the unfinished
state of that road and especially its Knox
ville branch, which, it is estimated will
require about five years for its completion.
—New York Sun of the 22d.
—The Clement Attachment.—A
Corinth dispatch to the World says the
Clement Attachment is in successful oper
ation iu this town. This newly-patented
machinery, by wliichthe cotton is spun off
into yam of superior quality as it flakes
from the gin, promises to almost revolu
tionize the handling of cotton in the South.
It is estimated that the introduction of
this new process with modest and unpre
tending machinery will add over $75,000
to the annual value of the cotton crop,
and afford employment to 150,000 opera
tives who cannot now he utilized in the
various industries of the South. It is
claimed for it that an immense saving
will occur in bagging, ties, insurance com
missions, &c., that now absorb about 25
per cent, of the value of the crop.
—Iron Booming.—A Cincinnati spe
cial to the Philadelphia Gazette, says iron
seems to be going up every day and prices
are $1 higher to-day than on Saturday.
Buyers are not so very numerous, as most
of the large consumers have supplied
their wants until midsummer, but still the
supply is so small that, although the pur
chasers have a good lot on band, they are
abxious to get more, fearing a still further
rise. No. 1 foundry sells at $41 to $43
per ton, an advance of 150 per cent, in ten
montlis, and 25 per cent, in twenty days.
The market for steel rails is all up. It is
nominally $S0, an advance of $10 since
the first of tlie year, but a large order at
that price for fall deliveiy was refused by
one of the large mills.
The advance in iron rails has been fully
$10 since the first of the year, and orders
cannot be placed at less than $70, for
wliich steel were sold last month. At no
time during the last six months have manu
facturers found themselves delivering rails
within several dollars of the ruling price,
aud they are now refusing orders, unless
subject to the price at the time of delivery,
every change having been against the
manufacturers.
—The New York Herald has interview
ed - a large number of members of the
New York Senate on the proposed change
in method of appointing Presidential
electors. The Democrats are all against
it, and many Republicans are equally
pronouneed in opposition. Quite a num
ber express no opinion, and not cue avows
himself in favor of it, while several de
clare that they would be for a plan to se
cure tho whole electoral vote. Unless
there is a change the measure cannot
pass.
-The New York Sun says tlie queerest
immediate result of M. de Lessep’s visit
to Panama has been the postponement of
an intended overthrow of the government
out ot respect to the illustrious French
guest. It is an additional queer feature
that this set of courtesy and sacrifice orig
inates with the negroes of Arrabal, who
ore said to be only awaiting the departure i
of the fatuous French engineer to rise and
destroy the government. Such, at least,
is one story that comes from Colombia.
A community that will put off the luxury
of a revolution for a more convenient sea
son, lest it should injure the prospects of a
proposed canal, surely has a future before
it.
—“Ave Caesar” is the liead-line over an
article in La France predicting the elec
tion of Grant to a third term. Tho
French know how it is themselves.
leged defect in the indictment, but solely
on the ground that the judge who presided
at the trial was unauthorized by law to
hold the court, he being the judge of an-
othevircuit, the prisoner may be again
tried on the same indictment, whether the
arrest of judgment or the setting aside of
the verdict was erroneous or not. In as
mnch as the State cannot have a writ of
error in a criminal case, if the prisoner
procures any direct final adjudication to
be made by the tribunal which has tried
him, which necessarily involves the legal
conclusion that he was not in jeopardy, it
is binding upon him as well as upon the
State, and the question of former jeopardy
thu3 closed cannot be reopened on a sub
sequent trial of the srme case.
2. No error was committed on the sec
ond trial; the evidence was sufficient,
aud the conviction and sentence were le
gal.
Judgment affirmed. •
R. D. Walker, Jr.; J. J. Abrams; R. E.
Lester, for plaintifls in error.
R. N. Ely, Attorney General; A. B.
Smith, Solicitor General for the State.
Andrews et. al. vs. Halliday, et al.
Equity, from Wilkes.
Bleckley, J.—1. Where the main ob
ject of the litigation is to ascertain and
settle authoritatively the amount which
each distributee ha3 been advanced by
the intestate, the verdict should find the
several amounts specifically. Tlie law,
and not tlie jury, determines whether ad
vancements shall be accounted for. In
the present case the amounts are material,
and should be set forth iu the verdict, no
matter whether they are equal or une
qual.
2. It is not sufficient to bar an account
ing that the intestate believed he bad ad
vanced his distributees equally, if, in fact,
he had not done so.
8. Where one of several-distributees re
leases a codistributee from accountability
for advancements; whether with or with
out consideration, the release is operative
as to all persons whose rights are not
prejudiced by it; and it is also operative
as against the releasor until she repudi
ates or disaffirms it. If, in a pending
case, it is set up to her disadvantage, and
she elects not to be bound by it, this elec
tion and the grounds on wliich she resists
or attacks the release must be alleged in
the pleadings.
4. When the defendants in a bill are
entering on the final trial of their case
under a decree requiring them to Inter
plead, it is not competent for one of them
to vary the pleadings by amendment so as
to raise questions with the complainant
in the bill touching tbe amount of tlie
fund, waste, etc.
5. After a decree that the defendants
interplead, the complainant in tbe bill, if
he seeks no further relief, is not-entitled
to be beard in argument at all, much less
to be heard in conclusion.
Judgment reversed.
R. Toombs; John C. Reed; S. H. Harde
man, for plaintiffs in error.
D. M. DuBose, D. A. Yason; W. M. &
M. P. Reese, for defendants.
Jordan vs. Kelly & Brothers. Injunc
tion, from Jasper.
Bleckley, J.—1. A decree at cham
bers dismissing a bill on demurrer cannot
be reversed by a “fast” writ of error. 44
Ga. 634; 58 lb. 184.
2. When there are two defendants to
a bill, and an injunction and receiver ad
interim are prayed for against both, and at
the hearing of the application no injunc
tion is granted or receiver appointed, and
the complaint assigus for error, among
other things, that the judge erred in not
appointing a receiver as prayed for, both
defendants are necessary parties to the
writ of error, and if one oi them be served
with the bill of exceptions and the other
not, the writ will be dismissed.
Dismissed.
Bartlett & Anderson; C. L. Bartlett,
for plaintifls in error.
Injunc-
kin.
Jackson, J—1. Sale of property cov
ered by a mechanic’s lien executed hr the
owners and lessors of said property' and
regularly forecloses, should not be enjoin
ed at the instance of a creditor of the les
see of the property who holds a younger
mechanic’s lien on tbe interest of the les
see for tbe completion of work which the
lessee bad bargained with tbo lessors to
have completed—especially where the
bolder of tbe junior lien had notice of the
older lieu.
2. If there were doubt as to the priori
ty of liens, the property should be sold
aud the contest be made over tbe proceeds
of sale; and tbe mere allegation that from
the condition of the times the property
would not bring its full value, is no equifc.
able ground for injunction.
3. If both liens were on the whole
property under contract with the owneis
thereof, the oldest would be the better
lien, aud unless attacked as invalid for
some, legal or equitable reasen, the sale
under the older lien should not be en
joined at the instance f tbe junior credi
tor.
Judgment reversed.
Richard & W. J. Winn, by C. A. King,
for plaintiffs in error.
No appearance for defendant.
Warren vs. Wilson & Creekmur. Cer
tiorari, from Fulton.
Jackson, J.—1. The answer of the
justice of the peace untraversed will be
alone considered by the Superior Court
on the hearing of a certiorari—no motion
being made for a further return.
2. Where the only issue presented
therein is that of fraud or no fraud on the
part of claimant in an alleged purchase of
property attached, and the evidence,
though conflicting, authorized the finding
of the justice of the peace, and the affirm
ance thereof by the Superior Court, this
court will not interfere.
Judgment affirmed.
John A. Wimpy, for plaintiff in error.
E. A. Angier, ior defendants.
The Methodist Ecumenical Council
The Philadelphia Record says an im
portant movement is on foot looking to
the convening of an Ecumenical Council
or Conference from all parts of the world,
to be held in the United States some time
next year. This idea was first mooted at
the Methodist Episcopal Conference held
in Baltimore in May, 1877, when a com
mittee was appointed by tlie board of
Bishops to take it into consideration.
This body, of which Right Rev. Bishop
Simpson is chairman, lias been in corre-
pondence with representatives of the
American Wesleyan Church, the Metho
dist Episcopal Church, South, the Metho
dist Protestant Church, the Evangelical
Association, the Methodist and Methodist
Episcopal Cluirches of Canada, the Wes
leyan Methodist of England, and other
bodies in every quarter of the world. Fa
vorable replies having been received from
one and all of these bodies. Bishop
Simpson has issued a request ior a meet
ing of the committee, to be held in Cin
cinnati, May 6, to prepare a call for the
council. Every recognized organization
of Methodists will be invited to send its
representatives. It is expected that the
conference will represent 20,000,000
Methodists in all parts of Christendom,
as well as in Asia and Africa. Its formal
object will be to discuss “topics relating
to the position, work and responsibility of
Methodism for the evangelization.” The
discussions will not be limited to a mere
interchange of views on general subjects,
but will embrace proposed changes in
church rules and modes of government re
form in missionary work," and tlie adop
tion of a common psalmody among the
Methodist churches, as well as a uniform
order of service. Tliis latter feature, how
ever, does not mean tbe adoption of a
prayer book, after the Protestant Episco-
pal'forra, but theint reduction of a regular
Bolling Whitfield, by Jackson & Lump- and stated order of service, the tendency
n, for defendants. at the present time being in tbe direction
of an increased formality in the inodes of
worship.
—Senator Lamar, of Mississippi, is sit
ting up and is doing finely. He expected
to leave for his home, Oxford, on Tues
day.
—Archbishop Purcell is failing rapidly
under tbe weight of years and tbe great
calamity which has overtaken bis diocese.
He has given up all attempts to adminis
ter the affairs of tbe Church and is in re
tirement at a convent in Brown county,
Ohio. According to recent reports he has
grown so feeble that he has to be helped
from one room to another.
—Railroad Iron.—A special cable
dispatch states that tbe correspondent of
the London Times estimates the increased
production of railroad iron in tbe United
Kingdom for the current year at 1,700,000
tons, and the American increase at 800,-
000 tons. He says that the supply and
demand in 1879 were just balanced by
American shipments.
—The Mississippi Democratic Senato
rial caucus made a nomination on Wed
nesday night, the forty-eight ballot stood:
Barksdale, 46; George, 45; Stngleton, 4&
■The name of Barksdale was then with
drawn. The forty-ninth ballot resulted in
the nomination of J. Z. George, he re
ceiving 79 votes, Singleton 56, scattering 4.
The nomination was made unanimous.
—The New Orleans Democrat says an
estimable and well-known young lady of
this city is about to lose her right arm as
a result of tbe boisterous aud rude con
duct of one of her boy friends. In exhibi
tion of bis superior strength during a re
cent visit, be twisted her arm in such a
manner that one of the large blood-ves
sels near the elbow was ruptured- Two
days after, the arm began to swell, and,
as a mortification is now rapidly setting
in, amputation has been declared neces
sary. 1
A Stkage Case of Starvation.—A
recent special from Cincinnati says Jfe
Tumy, the lady of Walnut Hills, who bw
been living so long without food, died this
afternoon, in the thirteenth day of her
wonderful fast. Her family and physi
cians declare that not a particle of food or
drink passed into her stomach in all this
time,"Wonderful as it may seem. 8he
was but skin and bones when life went
out. The poor woman was laboring un
der the monomania that she bad no stom-
acli.
London, January 18.—A land meeting
was held at Williamstown, county Gal
way, yesterday, at which Michael Davitt
was present. A Government reporter and
a number of police were in attendance.
At a meeting of the Council of the Home
Rule League yesterday, a resolution
passed thanking tbe people of America
for their prompt aid to tbe distressed in
Ireland. Tbe Duchess of Marlborough
fund now amounts to £20,000.
A Bad Thing fob the Presiden
tial Campaign.—Unless a collapse of
the sharp tricks of the iron trade comes
soon, politicians will be bard run. In the
past six months the price of nails lias ris
en at the mills from $2.10 to $5.30 P er
keg, and mighty meanjnails at that—brittle
as glass—will break and break any car
penter's neck who trusts them to uphold a
staging. Now, with nails at five dollar 3
and a half per keg, who is to meet the ex
pense of “nailing lies to the counter,” »!*
Warren vs. Purtell. Appeal, from Ful
ton.
Bleckley, J.—1. When a case has
been called and tried in its order, a new
trial will not be granted to the losing par
ty on the ground that his counsel, who
was voluntarily absent without leave, be
lieved the case would not be reached, or if
reached would not be tried until much
later in the term, his belief not having
been warranted by any direct announce
ment by the court or any consent or
agreement of the opposite party or his
counsel, and being an inference apparent
ly well founded on circumstances, but,
as the event proved, not well founded in
fact.
2. Where a claim case is tried in the
Superior Court on appeal from a Justice’s
Court, and the plaintiff makes a prima
facie case by his evidence, aud there is no
appearance for tbe plaintiff is not contrary
to law. It is not the right of tlie court,
much less its duty, on its own motion, to
dismiss the claim.
3. The attachment being levied by a
proper officer, any mistake In directing it
is amendable, and therefore neither the
process nor the levy is void for the misde-
rection. - •
Judgment affirmed.
John A. Wimpy, for plaintiff in error.
E. A. Angier, for defendant.
Gibbs vs. Sterling. Appeal, from Ful
ton.
Bleckley, J.—1. Where the affidavit
for attachment obviously means that the
defendant is indebted to the plaintiff iu
the amount named, a clerical omission of
the word “is” will not vitiate.
2. The direction of an attacluueat to
sherifls and constables, when it ought to
be directed to constables only, is amenda
ble; and the levy being made by a consta
ble, tbe proceeding is not void.
8. A physieiau is not obliged to charge
for all bis visits, though he may have a
legal and moral right to do so.
4. Where there is no debt of another,
present, past or pros|>ective, there can be
no collateral promise to pay ii. Tho
promise proved m this case was original,
not collateral.
Judgment affirmed.
John A. Wimpy, for plaintiff in error.
A. A. Manning, for defendant.
Weitman et al. vs Thiot et al. Inequi
ty, from Effingham.
Jackson, J.—1. Where a bond and
mortgage were executed in 1854 aud ma
tured in 1855, and the maker ‘died and
letters of administration issued in 1861,
and administrator died in 1S64, and estate
was unrepresented until 1872, When let
ters de bonis non were issued:
Held, that, inasmuch as tbe statute of
limitation was suspended from 1804 to
to 1S6S, and the time intervening between
tbo termination of the first administration
de bonis non is not counted until the expi
ration of five years or more, and nine
months and fifteen days in addition are to
be added before the bar prescribed by that
act in 1872 when the letters de bonis non
were issued. 55 Ga., 85.
2. Administration de bonis non having
been granted in 1872 to one of several
trustees for tlie purpose of securing the
payment of the bond and mortgage, they
were not barred whilst he was the sole
administrator, and when he administered
tbe assets and applied them to the debt
due from tlie intestate to the trustees
without unreasonable delay. 67 Ga., 568
(13.) m . •
3. An administrator cannot sell the
lands of the intestate whilst In the adverse
possession of the heirs at law, and equal
possession of part of a tract will construc
tively extend to the limits prescribed ia a
deed recorded, or of the boundaries of
which the adverse party had knowledge.
4. Where tlie real issue of the case on - - ws .
trial turned on the question of such pos- k* the standard practice of party new^
session in tlie heirs as against the admin- papers? They will have to float roc™
1 istrator, on a hill brought by the heirs to ‘ loose.