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MACON, JANUARY 80, i860.;
There are thirty thousand students in
American colleges.
—Many Northern men of money are
tisiting Florida, to^look 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 Dry.—No rain of suf
ficient quantity to replenish the 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 hare fain in a few
days the matter of water supply will be
come a serious one with our people. AI-
rc» ly’ much inconvenience 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 ii 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 farmers of that State who
raise their own supplies make money by
fanning, 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 he produced.
—Unmade camels’ hair gowns in boxes
with sufficient embroidery ibr trimming,
are sold in New York for $20, and are an
nounced as the harbingers of spring goods.
The cashmere gowns and trimmings that
werg imported by a Boston firm this win
ter were sold at prices so low that it does
te for that ci^s'oTg^ 11 ^ 1 - d “ d
sible they may come into fashion again.
—Parnell’s manner before an audience
is thus described In the Springfield Repub
lican’a 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
hismanner awkward. He does not seem
to be In earnest; he does not warm with
his thecae. He seems the politician, hot
the pleader. He does not sway his au
dience. He cools, rather than fires its ar-
doj-,7
—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,
ebinebonidia, 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 $110
to $1 15. .
'—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 sheriff’s office Hayden
stood In the open doorway sinoaking a
pipe. He looked refreshed after his rest
of Sunday. Mis. Hayden looks anxious
and wearied, and expresses surprise that
there has hot 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 courts
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
wfll move for Hayden’s release on bail at
the first opportunity. There is scarcely
^probability of another trial. Hayden was
warmly congratulated by his friends.
•—Disappeared From Montgomery
‘ —The AdtertUer of Tuesday has the fbl-
, 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 th* forehead
at the battle of Chicamauga, and has been
^.jS- great sufferer since that time. 1 '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
abberatioa 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.
Hk hair is auburn, complexion is florid;
and oh one side of his Lead 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 a
High Liver.—The correspondent of the
Philadelphia Times says: “I took a good
look at William H.'’Vanderbilt yesterday.
.He waxeth stout and grows old apace.
You see the old Commodore kept his
eldest son on that Staten Island farm,
where he dug and delved while his good
wife milked and chinned, 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
hound, 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 wa3 fond of eating, and, a new bill of
f.tre was on his table—he ate! Ho 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
ces are perceptible, for he is a big eater,
a good drinker, and one of the jolliest
dogs in the pound. He works like a heav
er—desk work—and is fast pegging out,
” ras long ago placed in well-
on-holes, and long may it be
led for!”
The Straggle Between the
Tituu.
Despite all that has been said or writ
ten on the subject, there is absolutely
nothing new of an official character upon
the railroad situation. All the newspa-
per press from New York to Brunswick
are foil of quasi statements, sensational
rumors and wild - speculations relative to
the result of the Louisville and Nashville
coup d’etat.
Opinions utterly diverse from each other
are entertained and vehementy pressed.
- We .glut* ft* pimples. AGft
«H. W. G.” telegraphs to the Consluu
Won JaflmirjrSiist Aon* LotflSviUe, as 'fol
lows : -'b IladJs ...-YCS«;
I hate 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.
»■ S. They will probably build that l ! ne to
Guntersville, and work it as a. local line.
The surveyor will go ahead and DeFu-
niak will lay his estimates before the
board with recommendations.
4. The Owensboro and Evansville ex-
tension’will be carried to Russellville and
then stopped. - ■■
5. A line of steamers will be put on
from Pensacola or Mobile, for Havana on
Marcli 1st.
0. The idea of a trunk line from St.
Louis to the sea will be abandoned, and
Atlanta made the southernMistributing
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 he undertook and he is in this
war to stay, so please recollect that,
Messrs. Standiford & Co.
Nashville is a good deal worried oyer
the removal of her great railroad head
quarters to Louisville. Never mind,
they can’t take the road away, and there
are other days coining. There is' no
strength in-the Louisville and Nashville
255* *bs«rd thing that
THE WAR OF THE KINGS. J ... ■ '
Yesterday the air was rife with rumors,
more startling than reasonable. The
principal report was that Cole is all right,
and has gone North to save his system. It
was further stated that the Georgia Cen-i
tral was secured by the Brown-Cole party
ahd in combination with the Cincinnati
Southern would force the Louisville and
Nasnville to gladly resign its grip on the
throat of the Cole system. Itrwas stated
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 tbe 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 tbe
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.
• *•«•••
. “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’ Souths”
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. AN. to make iter paper appreciate.
And why 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-Joumal's sheet-iron!thunder over the
t go into the mining business. So we leave
sfT as we began, wiih the remark that up
* to this writing the whole railroad question
continues foggf and, after a while, “we
shall see whaf -e shall see.”
Honest Money and the Next Presi
dency."
The Trbrld, of Wednesday, utters a
noteof.solemnwaming to theWestand
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 foHow the
leid of Beck, and Yoorhees on the finan
cial question. We arb'quite prepared to
say that were the question the success of the
stalwarts, or the re-establishment of the
anti-bellum 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 tbe only
public benefit the war conferred on the
country; but at a horrid cost. Once open
the flood-gates to local hanks 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 haveits local
bank, and mercantile points of greater
magnitude would speedily furnish from
How to Bar® Bacon.
Distressing reports of spoiled pork come
from all parts of the State, caused by the
protracted spells of mild weather, which
in reality have converted winter almost
into perennial., .spring. In Cobb coun
ty especially complaint is general, and
very few sound joints, indeed, are to be
found in the country. Even the occasion-
snaps of cold that have supervened, by
their severity and brief duration, seemed
only to ^aggravate the calamity. If pork
* salted in a freezingcondition, arid then
thaw and continued warm spell sue-,
ceeds, it is almost certain tp. spoil, v from
event. We say again, wait and see 1
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.nnderstood
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
sessiou at 51 Broadway, adjourned to the
Fifth Avenue Hotel and signed the articles
aboUt5p;m. The capital stock, of the
Nashville and Chattanooga road is $6,500,-
000, so that the Louisville and Nashville
road, in order to acquire a controlling in
terest, must have acquired at least $3,-
300,000 of the i 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 Nashvjlle and Chattanoo
ga'were representedby Mr. G. M. Fogg, a
director and also the attorney-for that
road, and the Leuisvilleand 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 w4 ll indude among the
rest the Georgia Central.
A special from Chattanooga to the
Nashville American, dated January 21st,
states that ‘^Colonel Wadley, of the
Georgia Central, telegraphed hero.to^day
that tlie 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
ern railroad will not be flanked by this
movement, but that an outlet mors 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
pany, which latter controls a line from At
lanta to Augusta, from which latter there
are two roads—one to Charleston and one
to Fort Royal; also an outlet,to Wilming
ton, and via Macon to Brunswick. It is
not considered that, the combination will
damage Chattanooga. Mrs. II. L. Wliite-
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
Bailroad takes place, which will occur in
a day or two. It is said Colonel Cole will
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 what incotl-
Vemc"'™—HfMajjom insolvency to the
great masses, this work'wiirbe none.
As to really “honest money” that is to
say, money which will not waste and per
ish in the hands 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 as
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 they sink, by easy stages to twenty,
thirty, forty and fifty, then specie
dragged out of hidden 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 mast 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 $400! These are some of the
beauties and excellencies of this “honest
money.” It will bleach the heads of
every generation with despair—except of
the lew who know it is not money at all—
but mere due bill good on occasion and
will not do to be used as a standard of
value.
Now, who cares about a law compelling
the people to receive Treasury notes for
debt? They will always be so received
unless the Government sets the example
of refusing them... Congress may be
little wild sometimes, bat always better
than a hundred thousand local bank di
rectors bent on accommodating each other
and their customers.-Congress will never
allow; except inoia«C of$' question of pub
lic self-preservation, an over-issue—and
even then the faith in ultimate redemption
will not be lost. 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 favot of the
“honest money” issued by local banks
Practically it is as bad as substituting
gold by brasshuttons.
But so long as there are so many peo
ple all over the, country who want to
make mqney by issuing due bills at the
rate of three; to ten for one—so many who
expect to trade in them—so many who
really prefer cheap money—inflation and
flush times, that the danger of a local
bauk currency is vepy great. Its friends
everywhere are numerous, and they will
begin their operations by discoursing on
the dangers of govenunent notes—upon
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 pre-occupies • the 'field—for
so long as United States Treasury notes
circulate, private due hills stand no .fair
chance. But let no honest man ;be delu
ded by this cryi.of honest Rioney.
means bank notes containing a promise to
pay—which may be kept, but far tooofteii
not. The true Democratic doctrine was
thoroughly anti-hank. :r 1 * ' r
i 11
rien which is bound to be one of the:
raBSnAHiSBK W#S*££gSgS2?; j
Vaolipillo.end f'hotton/wro oIaaIt bw * t .if ]
escapes in. the form of brine from the
meat before it has penetrated: to the
bone. ■ ■ - ■ ' • ’
A personal e^pejience ~pr some .years
In a warm climate^ Justifies t^e' Wlter in
recommending the following method of
curing pork, which faithfully.observed, he
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 retain the animal
heat. Cover each pie'c$ well with ordi:
nary salt, and go on repeating the process
until the killing is completed. 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, irt a cool place, until each piece is
thoroughly cpidr-or about twenty-four
hours. Salt thoroughly once more, and
and submerge each joint in strong, cold
brine, applying weights to keep them be
low the surface. t
, 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 ab?o-'
lutely necessary, though: very safe prac
tice. ' '"■
The rationale of the above method for
aving 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 can be cured even at
quite a mild degree of temperature.
Darien’s Exports of lumber for 1879.
We have received from Mr. R.
Grubb, of the Darien Gazette, s vqry.
neatly compiled statement of the lumber
business for the past year -of the port of,
Darien. The total number of-feet si
ped abroad of all sorts of lumber foots
67,252,915 ‘ feet^'whifchfurnished caig
for 172 vessels aggregating 81,378 tabs.
This is it very creditable showing for Da
—An act to prevent apd punish tl
termarrying of races, passed at the last
session of the South Carolina Legislat ire,
provides that any person so offending s tall
be subject to a line of not less than $ >60,
year, or both, at the discretion
court. Any dergymap or magistrate J
shall unite Jn, the bonds of \
persons of different raoesis subject t
same penalty.
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 - tyME^ilSyes; towlt; "Thomas-J.
Simmons, of Resaca, a bitter Radical, bnt
a special ftiehd of Dr.- Felton,- who had
recommended him to Hr. Hayes for that
position; Since then I have come into
possession of some documents bearing
—j, YTT — on this case, which I, think will, as Mr.
suddenly, Greeley used to say, prove “mighty inter-
Department from Hon. W. H. Felton, M.
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.
The Pair of the Macon Volunteers.
We spent a half hour very pleasantly in
Masonic Hall last evening, w^ich has
been converted under tbe magical touch
of the ladies and gentlemen charged with
Its decoration; 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 etftellent taste and effect, and i
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 repretonted, 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 ot 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, rafiliug 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 fanners,from the country, were
present, and *ne of thorn was so enrap
tured that he exclaimed: “I have heard
Parson talk lots about Paradise and
try to describe it, but I never saw 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. *.
esting reading,’’-particularly in-the Sev-
enth( ^ongressioual'District.' 1 ; They will
be found 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 ift conversation with a
friend. -- .• '
CONGRESSIONAL MATTERS
are still inexpressibly dull, With no imme
diate prospect of improvement. I have
not known such a dekd level of barren
ness since my ibjdurfa here,- and I hear
loud and ' general complaint -from the
brethren of Abe -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 tb ‘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, ahd that he could so multiply him
self as to furnish the House with two or
three of the copies. Then we should
have some fun, and the newspapers some
spide In their Washington reports
STILL COMING.
I refer to the damphool negroes from
North Carolina, bn their way to Kansas
and other' Western States via this city.
About 500arrived yesterday afternoon, and
a sorry looking set they were. There were
more women, babies and rusty looking old
boxes, tranks, and caTpet bags, than men,
and the latter seemed somewhat in the
vocative. .People who talk with them say
they all tell the same old story about “buck-
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- but of the business. The latter got
the money -and the former the notoriety.
That, .there ore many Rtble 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 paroon, 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 Democrat ic and “rebel”
Amalekitcs of the committee smote him
hip aud thigh. Voorhees, who is chair
man of the committee, relishes nothing
better than to skin just such creatures as
Rankin, and does his work with “happy
dispatch.” '
£ .'; ;r . the r. o. d.
closed yesterday the reception of bids for
carrying the mails in the States of Ohio,
Indiana,Kentuc£y, 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 he made on the 10th of March.
I . f' “feenance,”
As. ‘that eminent statesmen with the
bull of Baslian 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 next to nothing about “fee-
nance.” He is on the wild Western plat
form of more money, and, like Voorhees
and others of that stripe, would wreck
the country in twenty-four hours if they
could cany out their crazy schemes in
that time. I hardly think theDemocracy
are ready to commit the hari kari under
the leadership of such 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 day? 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. Ifthereisno mote 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 an
agrarian, saying he was in sympathy viith
the labor reform of the day.”
A. W. R.
Colonel Cole’s Movements.
Advices from Evansville state that the
special excitement in railroad circles to
day was an order from Colonel E. W.
Cole, President'of the Nashville and Chat
tanooga road, to Superintendent Culver-
house; ofthe “Nashville, Chattanooga and
St. Louis road to continue work on the
Evansville and Owensboro sections of
that road, and to push the line through to
completion as speedily as possible. It is
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 ! glve him as complete a line as .before
the Louisville and Nashville road’s pur
chase ofthe majority of theNashville and
Chattanooga road's stock. . ......
The above we think, lacks confirmation.
So fara3 we can gather at this writing
there have been no new developments
concerning the railroad situation.
‘ LATER.
From the Savannah Morning Nows, re
ceived last night, we gather the follow
ing: '. • '■ • ..;
ftThe stock of the Central Railroad took
a very, decided step upward yesterday,
closing at 86(287, an advance from 79(280,
the closing quotations of Wednesday. The
cause ef 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 tbe directors reside here. It is
now understoodhere that Cole secures tbe
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 tbe
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 ip
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 Cdto
Hiding reports on th& subject abroad, and
it must be remembered that while a ma
jority of tbe 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 ip, Nashville.
Rumors were current last night in. this
city that the Cole-Bro^vn contract had
been broken up. But nothing positive is
known about it.
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 dozeu 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 has 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 tbe relief of John Roach.’ , We
have no hesitation in saying that the meas
ure is not in accordance with the desires
ofthe people of New Orleans, nor would
the bill, if passed, benefit this city in the
least degree. On the contrary, the only
result , we can see would be adverse to
oar 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
enterprises. The general government
should not vote a single dollar to promote
.auy .private ventures of that description.
The New York Bulletin tints character
izes Roach
Tbe boldness, 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 tome freshly disguised form, aud
evir refuses to cease his importunitiesun-
til he has again been ordered off the
premise*. The ingenuity of his disguises,
the varied pretenses of his pleas, the suc
cess with which he induces one Congress
man after another to become his spon
sors, the. ease 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 which he procures the aid of a sec
tion ofthe 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. __
'’wei'e
The Third Largest
Pbl’aJdphto Frew.!
or imprisonment for not lesss than one The 2300 miles of track which the
■Ma 1 ™ 11 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 Gouid-Yan-
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
—“H. Bertillon, the French savant,
says that the number of suicides
France is at the rate of 628 per 1,000,000 StoaTof rfl tlm^roads^dTrectly or indl-
be continued in his 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 men.” 1 Railroad Company is 5,252.
COPY OF A LETTER OF THOMAS J. SIM
MONS, OF RESACA, GORDON COUNTY,
GEORGIA, TO THE PRE81DENT, MAKING
APPLICATION FOR APPOINTMENT OF
SUPERVISOR OF CENSUS.
Resaca, Gordon County, Ga,
May 27th, 1879.
To his Execelency R. B. Hayes Presi
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 1880 you have
the appointing of Supervisors far each
State: - J
If it should meet your approval I would
be glad to receive tbe appointment as oue
ofthe Supervisors of Georgia. Mymaine
object Aside from the faithful performance
ofthe duties in asking for the appoint
ment is that owing to my Strong Union
principles and my giving or furnrshing
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 had heap
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 corruptsesessron
traitors. I refer you to Dr. 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 yon further the names of Judge D
A. Walker of Dalton Georgia and D,
Sholl special com. on Southern Claims of
same place
Your friend and Servant
[Signed] Tnos. J. Simmons!
I Certify that the foregoing letter is an
exact copy from the 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 AD
COMPANYING THOS. J, SIMMONS’ AP
PLICATION—NOW IN THE HANDS OF
; " THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR.
(Copy)
PRIVATE.
Cabtersville, Ga.,
September 12,1879.
President R. B. Hayes:
Sir—Rev. Thomas J. Simmons, of Gor
don county, 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 I 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 Wm you will not
regret it. He is a local Methodist preach
er and of splendid character. I hope you
nili again read his letter asking for this
offioe. I am, Mr. President, Very respect
fully, your obedient servant,
[Signed] W. H. Felton,
( M. C. Seventh District Georgia.
I certify that the foregoing is a correct
^nnv^of a letter received at the Interior
v ' THE SUPREME COURT.
Decisions Rendered January 30th,
1880-Ho^. Hiram Warner, Chief
Justice, Hon. James Jackson and
Logan E. Bleckley Associate Jnsti-
Small vs. the State. Manslaughter,
from Chatham. Johnson vs. the State.
Murder, from Chatham.—
Bleckley, J.—1. If, at the prisoner’s
Instance on a verdict of guilty found
upon a good indiclmenrhas been arrested
or the .verdict set aside, not for any al
leged defect in the indictment, but solely
on the ground that the judge who presided
attire trial was unauthorized by law to
hold the. court, he being the judge of an
other circuit, tbe prisoner may be again
tried on the same indictment; whether the
arrest prjudgment or -the setting aside of
the verdict was erroneous or not. In • as
much' as the State cannot have a writ of
error In a criminal case, if tbe prisoner
irocures any direct final adjudication to
>e made by the tribunal which has tried
him, which necessarily involves the legal
conclusion that he was not in jeopardy, it
is binding upon Wm as well as upon the
Stale, and the : question of former jeopardy
thns closed cannot he reopened on a sub
sequent trial of the srme case.
2. No error was committed on the sec
ond trial; tbe evidence was sufficient,
and the conviction and sentence were le
gal.
Judgment affirmed.
R. D. Walker, Jr.; J. J. Abrams; R. E.
Lester, for plaintiffs in error.
R. N. Ely,. Attorney General; A. B.
Smith, Solicitor General for the State.
Farther Details of the R¢ HeaVy
Transaction in Railway Stocks.
The purchase ofthe 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 tire same.
The amount handed over by the New
York capitalists is understood to have
been upwards of $2,500,000 par value, and
the price paid is variously reported as hav
ing been from par to 120. The parties to
the 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 insure 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 an effort was
made by President Cole, of tbe Nashville
and Chattanooga, through his friends in
this city, to thwart the plans of Ws oppo
nents by aggregating the strength of the
unpurchased 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 ati 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 wiil
require about five years for its completion.
—New.York Sun of the 22d.
—The Clement Attachment.—A
Corinth , dispatch to the TPorld says the
Clement Attachment is in successful oper
ation W this town. This newly-patented
macWnery, by which the cotton is spun off
into yarn‘Of superior quality as it flakes
from the gin, promises to almost revolu
tionize the handling of cotton inthe 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 be 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 tire 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 Teiy numerous, as most
of the large consumers have supplied
their warits iintil midsummer, but still the
supply is so small thafe although the pur
chasers have a good lot on hand, they are
anxious to get more, fearing a still further
rise. No. 1 foundry sells at$4l to $43
per ton, an advance ofrlSO per cent, in ten
months, and 25 per cent, in twenty days.
The market for steel rails is all up. It is
nominally .$80, an advance of $10 since
the first of the year, but a large order at
that price for fall delivery was refused by
one of tlie large mll^, {
The advance in iron rails has been fully
$10 since the first of the year, aud orders
cannot be placed , at less than $70, for
which steel were sold last month. At no
time during the last six months have manfo
facturers found themselvesdeliyering rails
within several dollars of the ruling price,
and 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 Ras interview
ed a large number of members of the
New York Senate on the proposed change
in method of appointing Presidential
olectors. The Democrats arc all against
it, and many Republicans are equally
pronounced in opposition. Quite a num
ber express no opinion, and not one avows
himself in favor of it, while several de
clare that they would be for a plan to se
cure tbe whole electoral vote. Unless
there is a change the measure cannot
pass.
—The New York Sun says the queerest
immediate result of M. de Lessep’s visit
to Panama has been the postponement of
an intended overthrow of the government
out of 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
are said to be only awaiting the departure
of the famous 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
proposed canal, surely has a future before
it.
—“Are Ctesar” is the head-line over an
article in La France predicting the elec
tion of Grant to a third term. The
French knew how it is themselves.
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 has been advanced by
the intestate, the verdict should find the
several amounts specifically. The law,
and not the jury, determines whether ad
vancements shall be accounted for. In
the preseht case the amounts are material,
and should he set forth in the verdict, no
Hotter whether they arc equal or une
qual. :
2. It is not sufficient to bar an account
ing that the intestate believed he had ad
vanced his distributees equally; if, in fact,
he had nbt done so.
8; .Where one of several distributees re
leases a eddistributee 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
ease, it is set up to her disadvantage, and
she elects not to be hound by it, this elec
tion and the'grounds on which 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 cefee
under a decree requiring them to inter
plead, it Is nbt competent for one of them
to vary the pleadings by amendment so as
to raise questions with the complainant
in the bill touching the amount of the
fund, waste, etc.'
§. After'a decree that the defendants
interplead, the complainant in the bill, if
he seeks no further relief, is not entitled
to be heard 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. Vason; 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 hill 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 ho injunc
tion is granted or receiver appointed, and
the complaint assigns 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 ol them he served
With the hill of exceptions and the other
not, the writ will be dismissed.
Dismissed.
Bartlett & Anderson; C. L. Bartlett,
for plaintifis in error.
Bolling 'Whitfield, by Jackson & Lump
kin, for defendants.
t set aside the sale of the mortgaged prop-
! erty for the purpose of paying the debt,
and the evidence was conflicting thereon,
and the court charged erroneously ou oth
er controlling points,’ a new trial should
be granted.
5. Deeds thirty years old, apparently
genuine and coming from the proper cus
tody, are admissible without proof orex
ecution or of proper record.
Judgment reversed.
RuftrsE. Lester; for plaintifis in error.
J. R. Sanssy; H. B. Tompkins, for de
fendants.
Winp & Winto vs. Henderson. Injunc
tion,-from Cobb.
Jackson, J.—1. Sale of property cov
ered by a mechanic’s lien executed by the
owners and lessors. of said property and
regularly foreclosed; should not be enjoin
ed at the instance of a creditor of the les
see ofthe property who holds a younger
mechanic’s lien on tbe interest of tbe les
see for the completion of work which the
lessee had bargained with the lessors to
have completed—especially where the
holder of the junior lien had notice ofthe
older lien.
2. If there were doubt as to the priori
ty of liens, the property should be sold,
and the contest he made over the proceeds
of sale; and the mere allegation that from
the condition of the times the property
would not bring its full value, is no equit
able ground for injunction.
3. If both liens were on the Whole
property under contract with tire owners
thereof, the oldest would be the better
lien, and 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 the junior credi
tor.
Judgment reversed.
Richard & W. J. Winn, by C. A. King,
for plaintiffs in error.
No appearance for defendant.
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 pan
ty on the ground that his counsel, who
waa 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 ndt haring
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,
Warren vs. Wilson & Creekmur. Cer
tiorari, from Fulton.
Jackson, J.—L 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, for 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 soma 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 the board of
Bishops to take iteinto consideration.
This body, of which Right Rev. Bishop
Simpson is chairman, has been in co’rre-
ponaence with representatives of the
American Wesleyan Church, the Methp-
dist Episcopal Church, South, the Metho
dist Protestant Church, the Evangelical
Association, the Methodist and '.Methodist
Episcopal Churches of Canada, the Wes
leyan Methodist of England, and other
bodies in every quarter of tbe world. Fa
vorable replies having been received from
one and all of these bodies. Bishop
Simpson has issued a request for a meet
ing of the committee, to be held in Cin
cinnati, May C, 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
Metbodiim 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 the adop
tion of- a common psalmody among tne
Methodist churches, as well as a uniform
order of service. This latter feature, how
ever, does, not mean the adoption of a
prayer book, after the Protestant Episco-
parform, hut theint reduction of a regular
and stated order of service, the tendency
at the present time being in the direction
of an increased formality in the modes 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 the weight of years and the great
calamity which has overtaken his diocese.
He has given up all attempts to adminis
ter the affairs of the Church and is in re
tirement at a convent in Brown county,
Ohio.-According to recent reports he has
as the event proved, not well founded faiJ grown so feeble that he has to be helped
fronri one room to another.
—Railroad Iron.—A special cable
dispatch states that the correspondent of
the Lopdon Times estimates the increased
production of railroad iron in the United
Kingdom for the current’year at 1,700,009
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, 48.
The name of Barksdale was then with
drawn. The/orty-ninth ballot resulted >a
th* nomination of J. Z. George, he re-
ceiTing79 votes,.Sjngleton 56, scattering 4.
The nomination was made unanimous.
y—The Ne w Orleans Democrat says an
estimable and well-known youpg lady of
this city Is about to lose her right arm as
a result of tiie boisterous and rude con
duct of one of her boy friends. In exhibi
tion of his superior strength during a re
cent visit, he twisted her arm in such a
manner that one of the large blood-ves-
gelg near the elbow was raptured. Two
days after, the arm began to swell, and,
as a mortification is now rapidly setting
in s amputation has been declared neces-
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.bis evidence, and there is no
appearance for the plaintiff is not contrary
to law. It is not the right of the court,
much less Its duty, on its own motion, to
dismiss the claim.
8. 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 misdi
rection. '' ■ '
Judgment affirmed.
John A. Wimpy, for plaintiff in error.
E. A. Angier, for defendant.
Gibbs vs. Sterling. Appeal, from Ful
ton. ■
Bleckley; J.—I. Where the affidavit
for attachment obviously means that the
defendant Is indebted: to the plaintiff in
the amount named, a clerical omission of
the word “is” will not vitiate. .
2. The direction of an attachment to.
sheriff and constables, when it ought to
be dlroctedto constables only, is amenda
ble; and the*levy being made by a consta
ble, tbe proceeding is not void. - * ..
8. A physiciaif is not obliged to charge
for all his visits,, though he may have a
legal and moral right to do so.
> 4. Where there is no debt of another,
present, past or prospective, there can be
no collateral promise to pay it. Th#
promise proved in this case was original,
not collateral. :■ ‘i ;
Judgment affirmed. ;
John A. Wimpy, for plaintiff in error,
A. A. Manning, for defendant.
Weitman et al. vs Thiot et al. In equi
ty, from Effingham. •
Jackson, J.—1. Where a bond and
mortgage were executed in 1854 and ma
tured in 1855, aud the maker died and
letters of administration issued in 1861;
and administrator died in.1864, aud estate
Was unrepresented until 1872, when let
ters de bonis non were issued:
Held, that, inasmuch as the statute of
limitation was suspended from 1864 to
to 1868, and the time intervening between
the 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 haring
been granted in 1872 to oub of several
trustees for the purpose, of securing the
payment of the bond and mortgage, they
were not barred whilst he was the sole
administrator, and when he administered
the assets and applied them, to the debt
due from the intestate to the trustees
without unreasonable delay. 57 Ga., 568
(13.)
3. An administrator cannot sell the
lands ofthe intestate whilst in the adverse
possession of the heirs at law, aud equal
possession of part of a tract will construc
tively extend to the limits prescribed in a
deed recorded, or of the boundaries of
which the adverse party had knowledge.
4. Where the real issue of the case on
trial turned on tire question of such pos
session in tlie heirs as against the admin
istrator, on a hill brought by the heirs to
saty.
- A Strage Case of Starvation.—A
recent special from Cincinnati says Mrs.
Tumy, the lady of Walnut Hills, who has
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 thi*
time, wonderful as it may seem. She
wa> but skin and bones when life went
ou*. Tue poor woman was laboring un
der tbe monomania that she bad no stom
ach.
London, Jamtary 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 the people of America
for their prompt aid to the distressed m
Ireland. The 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 tlie iron trade comes
soon, politicians will he hard run. In the-
past six months the price of nails has ris
en at the mills from $2.10 to $5.30 per-
keg, and mighty meanjnails at that—britt le
as glass—will break and break any car
penter’s neck whp trusts them to uphold a
staging. Now, with nails at five dollars
and a half per keg, who is to meet the ex
pense of “nailing lies to ;the counter,” af
ter the standard practice of party news
papers ? They will have to float roun.
loose.