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ia towbmal & misim; CLI5BY, JONES k REESE, Pbopstctobs. Th* FisiLT Jon awil—N i ws—Politics — Lit i ritdsi— A. sbio oltdbi—D ox ksti : GEORGIA TELEGRAPH BUILDING Established 1826. MACON* TUESDAY. MARCH 2, 1880. Volume LY—N O BY TELEGRAPH lost ? a3 er ofthe extradition of-regicides, upon the XJ J- Justice ground that they cannot be regarded as ■ op,nion ’ declining to political criminals. Cincinnati, February 22.—It is now I jSS^Carte^andTone^fhe/of the^six Washington, February 23—The definitely arranged that the Cincinnati I Judges dissented. tDe wx National Democratic Committee as- Southem railroad will be opened through j i n the Senate, "immediately after r,«wr ' 3 ? mbled in Williard’s Hotel In this city to- to Chattanooga for freight to-morrow. [ and reading of the ionrnalf R2 day to select the P ,ace and appropriate The first train over the newly completed moved that in respect to the t,me for boldingthe National Democratic portion of tl.e road will leave Somerset at Geoige W^hinSthe &na “ S™ Convention. After some discussion it 9.30 Monday morning. It is proposed to Pending the motion, Mr McDonald a^’ , resol i ed to llold the Convention on celebrate the event here to-morrow by nounced that he would to-momw IkTuesday, June 22nd. Delegates from firing guns and hanging out guns. Forty final vote on topendiV* fiwMrmt Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis and other care were sent out last night to go in the I bill. ° ' e I* 51 c* 5111 ' cities then presented the claims of their first train, and the prospect is that a I Mr. Bailer nave notice nf an I several localities as suitable places for hundred car loads of freight will be gath- ment intended to be offered bv Wmn?the holdi,, S the Convention. On the first ered in time for the pioneer train. The bill, admitting frecof dHtv clothineand formal bal ' ot Cincinnati was selected by schedule time is fixed at twenty-nine other contributions from abroad for the ' a - , vote of twenty-four, Chicago having hours from Cincinnati to Chattanooga. relief of colored emigrants. The amend- i . St " C® 11 * 3 four > Washington Baltimore, February 22.—The Brit- I ment directs the Secretary of the Treasu- ish bark I actoliu, from Coosa, South I ry to liave such goods transported from Carolina, for Dublin, with a cargo of I the port of entry to the point ofde3tina phosphate, sprung a leas on the 18th in I tion, and appropriates funds necessary to the Gulf Stream, and put into Baltimore I so transport, and provides that the act im repairs. She arrived here on Satur-1 shall remain in force until June 1, 1880 day night. instead of February 1,1881. *an 1 KANCiscp, February 22.—A mass The Senate adjourned until to-morrow, meeting of workingmen at Union Ha l Washington, February 23.-In the last night was very largely attended. House under a call of the States, the fol- Mayor Ralloch was the principal speaker, lowing bills were introduced and referred: IBs address was conservative in advising By Mr. Van Vorlfis, of New York, repeal- his hearere to avoid unlawful measures m ing the act repealing the Bankrupt Law; their efforts for a local settlement of the by Mr. Piroir, of New York, relative to Chinese question. The audience was the sale or giving of intoxicating liquors enthusiastic, but orderly and attentive. to Indians; by Coffrath, of Penmylvania, Nkw Orleans, February 22.-Wash- organizing a court of Jwnsions to consist 1 of the Chief Justice and four Assis- onc and blank one. Galveston, February 23.—A News special from Jefferson says: “Reliable information from near Linden, Cass county, gives the following: Mrs. William Clarke, a respectable married lady, liv ing in that neighborhood, was yesterday brutally assaulted and murdered. Three men have been arrested, one .of whom confessed the crime. This one was taken from the authorities by a mob, his cloth ing saturated with coal oil and set on fire. He was afterwards hanged. Intense ex citement prevails. Savannah, February 23.—The new steamship ordered by the Central Rail road Company from John Roache & Son has been named the City of Augusta. She will be one of the largest steamers on the coast trade, having a capacity of six thousand bales of cotton and fine passen ger accommodations. New York, February 19.—The morn ing papers contain a card signed by Ben jamin B. Sherman, president of the Me chanics bank, Jackson S. Schultz aud other prominent gentlemen of this city, ingion s birthday was celebrated by a | of the Chief Justice‘and four Assis- mihtary parade, in which the Mobile Ca- tant Justices, who shall receive annual dels part ici pated. The Washington Ar- salaries of four thousand dollareacb. The tillery celebrated their fourth anniversary I court shall have jurisdiction as follows: by the unveiling and dedication of a I First, over all applications for pensions, monument in the military cemetery. which have been disallowed by the Secret New Orleans, February 22.—General I tary of the Interioi or Commissioner (.rant, replying to a letter from Acting 0 f Pensions; to all disallowed applications Mayor Isaacson, inviting liim to visit that for increase of pension. Third, applica- cityon his return from Mexico, says if tions forpensions which do not come un-1 , ... tiiere are good facilities for travel, he will der the present law; fourth, applications ^ ‘ Cdlns Jl eIp f “ r colored refugees in return to the United States via San Fran- of persons against whom there is a charce E?"* 33 ” T1,e canl says ther ? are aIready cisco. If not, he will return via Texas, of deserting; by Mr. Mr. Kellv of Penn- I bfteeu . or twenty thousand negro emi- aud visit places familiar to liim duringthe sylvania—Tp provide for the introduction § rants , ln th . at State ’. and that they con- Mexlcan War. and cultivation of the cinchona d ant to t,m,e 10 amvc ’ ra 2S ed > barefoot anil with- New York, Felmiaiy 22,-The Par- the United SteteS ItamboriSout money. Many are sick from expo- ncll Central Irish relief organization met Secretary the Triiasurer to ai^int a f Ure to , the £cver ® climat V’ aud . a uuluber to-ilay. Umiiininished confidence in Mr. suitableperson, whose duty it shall be to haT . ( rozen t0 dcat '“” Uel P 13 urgently Parnell and declarations of increased zeal visit the cinchona plantations in India 1 ne ?, rte<1 ' „ , W, died to-day, aged twenty-nine, at I his duty to employ suitable"pereons'iwet! Calcutta to the Times says au ac the residence of’Governor dT V. John- erably toosTwho CewuSoS- occurred on the Hthinstant on son, in Jefferson county, after a few I cbona plantations, in order to expedite th , e . Candabar Railroad, near \\ line, by weeks’illness. He has been the chief the cultivation of the cinchona plant m I "hieh seven coalers were killed and fonr writer on tlie Chronicle since the death of I the United State. The Secretary of State w ® umleu ‘ his father, tlie late General A. R. Wright, is authorized to open correspondence with f Febauary -3.—A dispatch and was one of the ablest writers on tlie such govemmentsas can assist the object Fetersburg sajs there is some Southern press. His death will be deeply intended. The appropriation is made in iSS 1 ** 111 ? 0,mectlan wlth Gel \ e . 1 / 11 ®. ko " re»nvtted in C*corcia* I blmik I ^ ^ ^ Appointment to comniAnd tlie Rns* Washington, Februarj- 22,-Tlie all- Cumberland, “February 23. - Tlie |i al \ expe.l.tion against the Turkomans, absorbing topic to-night is the decision of Miners in the Cumberland region struck I ,S Sa , I< ? V 1S ‘ St ( “ 3 I f‘ U ‘ S a ??., not tlie uie<>ting of tlie Democratic National I to-day for sixty-five cents. New Central, to , b ^ s . u } ,je . c . t to , . nt< u f erence from military Executive Committee, which meets here Maryland, Borden, George’s creek and a,I [ninistratioiis in Turkestan, nis nomi- to-morrow. Judging from the animated Franklin Companies acredcil to the de- natl0nwas mfluenccil by the fact that ins conversation in the corridors of Willard’s mand, but claim tlie concession is only TL.r,'f Hotel, which Is the headquarters of rep- temporary to fill present contracts. It is < ln, ?u ,lon of-England to hand ov er Herat resentatives from the cities of St. Lonis, likely all the companies will resume work Chicago anil Cincinnati, the question at the advance asked. where the Convention shall be held seems Washington, February 23. In tlie paramount for the time being to that of I House 'the ^fbllowfng bills were intro- wlio shall be the candidate. It may be, at 1 duced.* : ' ,. . ™ - best, but a guess to predict the action of the I By Mr. Muldrow, of Mississippi Piac- !ato . (be cause of t jc Winter palace ^ ex- committee to-niorrow, but the diances to- ing paper suitable for books aud newspa-1 inglit seem to be in favor of Cincinnati, I pers on the free list. to Persia be confirmed, it would doubtless materially affect Russia’s wish to avoid Merv, in <leference|to England. St. Petersduro, Februarj” 23.—The official organ announces that tlie inquiry Violations of the Sunday Laws. Rev. Stewart Robinson, D. D., at an | immense mass meeting held in Louisville to organize a secular alliance for the en forcement of the laws protecting public [ morals, offered the following resolutions Besolted, That the continual and in- A telegraph line will soon be estab-167,501 forthe corresponding week of last lished between Fort Gaines, Geoigia, and I year. Stocks—327,084 against 182,246 Columbia, Alabama. I last year. The first strawberries of the season I The Chronicle's visible supply table were exhibited and sold in Atlanta last I showed 2,459,090 bales of cotton in sight Saturday at $2.50 per box. I tat Friday, 1 against 2,494,405 at same date The Walton County Videtfe reports J ^ ast y ear > 2,699,675 at same date the j-ear that some snug sums of money have been before, and 3,060,609 at same date in I creasing ^^^srcKions'u^^our ^ane'pro- made in that section recently by owners of I WL These figures show an increase of I tecting public moralsi tlie entire failure of Georgia railroad stock. 135,315 bales on the visible supply of last I *be executive, judicial, and police author- The Irish relief fund of Augusta now year, and a decree of 240 ,585 bales on ^^ronutereTidTa^irobs^ct amounts to $2,784 40. It is expected that tbe supply of 1878, and a decrease of I the execution of the laws by the courts, it will very soon bo increased to $3,000. 1509)519 hales on the supply of 1877 at I and the amendment of them by the Legist The Columbus Enquirer states that same date ” Cotton was quoted last Fri- latur e> the extension by the Council of there is not an available sleeping room in da J’ ^pool at 7f for middling np- that city unoccupied. land. Last year at same date the quota- jury of this traffic to the public morals, Bill Arp will deliver a lecture in I tion was 55-16; in 1878 at same date j render it the imperative'duty of all friends Hawkinsville at an early day for the ben- 6 i> and in 1877 at same date, 6|. v ' 7 I ff law and order to combine together for efit of the library association. Under its table of receipts from plants- sonaTCnre and nS»l’ Sofi.Voffi? Madisonian: There is a sly fox near tions the Chronicle remarks as folldws: I as possible, to secure obedience to the Madison that baffles every effort o our I The above statement shows— I laws, and also by the use of all legal fox club to bring him in. He has been 1. -That the total receipts from tlie plan- I means to enforce obedience to them, if chased so often that ho snuffs danger in I tations since September 1, in 1879-SO found necessary, the breeze and the first blast of the hunts-1 were 4,418,60S bales; in 1878-79 were 3,- I Iiesolced, That the most proper and ex- mau’s horn or yell from their pack causes 1903,111 bales; in 1877-78 were 3,694,90S I pedient method of effecting such combina- him to think that distance lends enchant- bales. I tion of good citizens is the organization ment to the view, or at least renders the I 2. That although the receipts at the out I forthwith of a Citizens’ League in support safety of his foxship more certain. Our | ports the past week were 115,307 hales, of the laws protecting public morals, tax collector mforms us that, despite the tho actual movement from plantations The Doctor made a rousing speech in almost total failure of crops last year, our was only 96,416 bales, the balance being , b , “ fanners are paying and have paid their drawn from stocks at the interior ports. | behvlf of his resolutions, and also went taxes with more unanimity than could Last year the recepts from the plantations into man y di rty revelations as to the char- liave been expected, and that he thinks for the same week were 125,809 bales; and acter of the Sunday theatrical shows Sll .°Ti aS 1 S °°J 1 * recon , 1 for 1878 they were 103 > 318 bales. which had been unblushingly exhibited ^ ltli rc^iird to tsxcs as sIib his 111 scvpnl j TIig CHtohicIgwpatlipr tplftiu'AniQ nf I * • •• T _ _ years. We hope that the next crop will I ^ , ,. e 3 weather telegrams of to the public gaze. He even called upon enable our people to relieve themselves I brida y sh°w for Texas only very light and newspaper reporters to spot, and give the from financial embarrassment. insufficient rains or no rain at all. Cool names of those who patronized these in- JfJSSZXL a T S ££*&*£ l SJ'CtTr, Mr - Fo * , follo " e ‘ 1 stocks, Central going up to a point which | i £Illrty has been the lowest point of him in a stirring address on the same it had not before reached for years past, I mercur y in Texas during the week. I side. hence the market became greatly excited. New Orleans reports 1.62 of rain during We are opposed generally to vigilance rnrv> thaT a iKch L" n d d be e en U rece y ired from I ^ WeCl ;- ^urg report two days of committees. Ofttimes without sufficient New York stating that Central had sold rain » S W S planters there are giving in- I evidence .they proceed to unauthorized there at 105, but the highest point reached I arca t0 the cotton crop. Nash- I extremities, and take the law into their no. rc , • V , as 3’’ t , Le ] ma . rket c} 031 ?? s , tron s at vine had 5.73 of rain; Memphis 2.15; own hands. But if such an organization 98| bid, 99 asked. About twelve hundred I Mobile 2.41; Montgomery 2.91; Selma sini ply reports offenders and then ner shares changed hands, the last transaction _ f ... p,y re P ons ouenaers, ana tnen per- being two hundred shares at 99. I talee days - > Madison, Fig., three I nuts the statutes to decide every case on Berrien County News: Another days > Columbus, Ga., 1.47; Macon, one its own merits, no objection can he urged Sheep Slaver Slaved—We learn from day * At other.points the rain was light against them. Indeed, every law abiding ll J at Mr ’ JfbnFJetcherof frwin and there are no noticeable facts. citizca s]lould consider himself a commit- county, killed an eagle a few days since, **+++-« I. - 4 ... : which measured seven feet four aud a half I The Master of Bedleaf I tGC of ouo to ai<1 m conserv ^ n S tbe public inches from tip to tip. The returns are bv mrs. e. a. merriwether. pcace ' not quite all in, but as soon as they arrive T .. . „|j The meeting was very outspoken and we doubt not Mr. Fletcher will be entitled I Ihu thrilling story purports to be a 11 ° 3 How Easy Some Fortunes are Hade Mr. James Lenox, a New York million aire, by the will of his father, Robert Len ox, dated October, 1839, fell heir to a thirty acre farm at the “five inile stone” from New York. An extract from the will ran thus: • : My motive for so leaving this- property is a firm persuasion that \t may at no dis tant day be the site of a' village; and as it cost me more than its present worth, from circumstances known to my family, I like to cherish the belief it may be real ized to them. At all events, I want the experiment made by keeping the property from being sold. That little possession of land has* long, since been swallowed np by. the mighty city, aud to-day is worth ten million:) ot dollars. But Mr. Lenox respected 'his father’s injunctions, and held his farm in tact until 1864, when he sold: 1 two ‘blocks for $500,000, and afterwards gave away lots to various charitable -institutions to the value of $2,500,000. What he still owns is worth S7,500,000. What an instance of the multiplication of values by mere masteriy inactivity finally the tigers were dispatched be fore any of the men were seriouslv in jured. These exhibitions, be it remembered, were given by the great head of the Mo hammedan Church for Java, and none of the men ordered into the tigers’ den to fight them dare disobey, on penaltj” of death, i : ..d • s • —The Springfield Republican says Sen ator Bayard is the choice of the Massachu setts Democracy for President. I The grape islands of Lake Erie have 4,000 acres of vines, and the yield in 1879 was 16,000 pounds. The wine production was 1,526,400 gallons. . —A few diys since a snow storm occur red in Florence which rendered locomo tion impossible for nearly twenty-four hours. The streets were'covered wilt three feet of snow, and the roofi of seve ral houses fell in beneath the unexpected weight, a 1 • <i. ~ i • » • • •: - Buried nr the Snow.—Reno, Ne vada, February ^ 21.—Four men were buried by a snow-slide, near Franktown to tlie blue ribbon for having killed the I narration of the guilty experience of a latest eagle this season. _ | Yankee girl who was sent South from pronounced in its deliverances. Is There Foul Play.—Thomasvillo New England just before the late civil j Times: Mr. I. T. Taylor, the popular l , 11XI , sewing machine agent, left town Tuesday I war > 83 an emissary of an abolition so- morniug, since which time nothing has I ciety. been heard from him. His absence for | & Was immediately succeeding John j Beview of Bev. Frank Johnson’s Lecture on "Books” at Powell’s HalL Cuthbebt, February 18,1880, In the whole lengthy discourse, he men- this length of time is not uncommon, nor I Brown’s raid and tragical fate, when the I foiled no book but the Bible. His argu- would it now excite any notice but for w i, 0 i e North was in a blize of anti sliv ment f « r its authenticity, is that man the fact that his horse was found tied in 1 W1 ‘ 01e JN l 0rtl1a . aze olantl - 3la '- I conid not make or destroy it.. No Jew tlie pine tliickct near Mr. Blackshear’s on I 3*7 excitement. Her mission was to pro-1 claimed the authorship of tlie Old Testa- Tliursday morning. Ho w as tied to a 1 cure tbe situation of governess in the fam-1 ment; but all that nation claimed it to be newspa- t j, e cr j me was committed by a person who as' against Chicago or St. Louis. The I By Mr. Gibson, of Louisiana—Appro- f 3 a wor bm an ) and Jbat there is general impression seems to be that June priating $200,000 for deepening the mouth ff ason to suspec ^ a connection between 10th will the date of holding the Con- if Red rher.’ ^ ° l ,crso !> and . somc , individuals who vention. * I By Mr. Blackbnni, cf Kentucky-Ahol- XTf& 0 'Fehn an^Gen- ihimr the tax on tobacco: also redneimr wiTV or jkxico, reoruaiy ij. uen Galveston, February 22.-A News isbing the tax on tobacco; also reducing 'rrl'SrS,, -Tv-™ special from the City of Mexico says Gen- the tax on distilled spirits to fifty cents on ? ,ld l )al . ,y ainved at Vera erai Grant ami party arrived there last each proof gallon. P S ^ 0,1 G’nu jestenlay and were cordially re- niglit, accompanied by Minister Foster I By Mr. Gibson, of Louisina—Author-1 cel . ved ” The courtesies of the city were ami the Mexican recepUon committee, izing the Secretary of Slate to procure fook’tbo^min forVlrizabn 1 ^ 20 I>- ln ‘ tbL “ y They were met at the department by city copies of all papera in the possession of ‘° v.vxv v Febro^ o- The kw officials and members of the Federal the governments of Great Britain, France vt:’«T1 rin Government. The streets were packed jud Spaiis relative to the lilste.j of Louisi- nf ^ with people. The party in carriages were ana. trai Russia. I orty thousand people have escorted to the Mineral College by two At the expiration of the morning hour '“f^vnov in »ir mui thousand inrantiy and five hundred cav-1 publie bnsiness was snsp ...ted and me- i! ,i S mhlated 1,0 bUild,DS anJ StreCU " Cre iHU ‘ iate A Clmnrellm, introduced a^rill dSuftjg New York, February 2JL-A Denver tben affio^fed. M,SS0Ul, ' Th * V ** u * the tony^andnasalra wdleaM of lauds. special states that Special Agent Adams, I The House Committee on Foreign Af- Lispateh^savJVabor'?roubtes there areM- to whom w as entrusted Uie duty of Lihirs, ihstracted its chairman to-day t® re- aHnninff nr^rtirfns bringing in tlie twelve Utes against whom I port favorably to tlie House tlie bill,which ^ " 01° make^ “cSbi^f ^eri^ul- cliarges have been made, arrived in Den-1 as amended by the committee, nnpropri- ^ ^ ver last night. Tlie £arty consists of ates $300,000 for the relief of the distressed night. Tlie party consists^ of I ates $300JXM> for the relief of the distressed 1 teamsters tanners tobacco rollers stone- threa prisoners captured, and six other in Ireland. I tca ? nsle ^ taPne^ roOfcco Toilers, atone- Utes, with Interpreter Hears. The Indi- | (General Beauregard appeared before I ans an- guarded by a small number of the House Committee on post-offices and to^Wng Genera? dboffiSe Drt soldiers, and will proceed on horseback post roads today, and made a long state- jJftftaSl -branches oM*bo?^ CoaliSto from i heir present station, near Alamosa, ment relating to the Louisiana lottery. ers also im easy r ™ ° 1 to Fort Garland, where they will be joined j He said ifs- drawings were conducted in a by additional suilitaiy, and accompanied perfectly honest; manner, - ’ V invited eastward by a force sufficient for their I the most rigid investigation of its aflairs. protection until the Colorado line is | The House Committee o:i public lands reached. Agent Adams and party will I-instructed its chairman to-dnv to&sk asus- meet at Pueblo on Tuesday, and proceed I pension cf the rules, I11 order to secure the to Washington, which point they will j passage by the Hoitseof the resolution ap- reach on Friday. | pointing a committee , to investigate the Tlie Indians captured remain absolutely I acts of the Hot Springs, Arkansas, Coin quiet, and have not spoken to Adams.-I missloners. “ - 1. Jack lias been somewhat reticent as to his Norfolk, VA4 Fetniuly 23.—The journey through the mountains to the convention of Mexican Veterans met at hostile sections. He states that the In- j the Opera House in this ci*" this morning diaus have scattered over the country un- with 1 IS members present.' After a wel- til there are not more than ten lodges to-1 come from the local societies the Secre- getlier at a place. All of them are north J tarj .of the National Socie: . rrrvl a statc- of the Grand river. The winter has been I ment of enrolled members. After tbe a severe one in the mountains, and the I adoption of a resolution on perficting the Indians who have been compelled to rely | organization and resolutions expressing upon their own resources for obtaining I sorrow of the death of General Jeff C, food have found it difficult to get a sup-I Davis, an election for general officers of ply, as game has been very scarce. 1 the association was held and resulted in London, February 23.—A St. Peter®-1 the re-election of the present incumbents, Norfolk, Virginia, February 23.— At the evening session of the Mexican Veteran’s Convention, it was decided to hold the next annual meeting at Louis ville, Kentncky. General J. L. Williams, of Kentucky”, delivered an address Adjourned. Washington, February 23. — Mr. Vance, of North Caroliua, introduced a bill in the House, to-day to amend the nternal Revenue laws, and to prevent Ibnsesbytlie United States Courts in aunisliing illicit distillers. The sub-committee of the House Com mittee on Appropriations will submit a report to the fall committee to-morrow upon the necessities of the star postal ser vice. THE GE0EGIA PBESS. last week. Ben Hill and Round Dance both run at Washington City during the spring meeting. These horses are now quar- Triplett, of the Thomasville Times, burg dispatch states that six more soldiers, I after which the convention adjourned un-I complains because tlie young ladies do wounded by the explosion of the Winter I til 4 p. hi. ' not take advantage of Leap Year, palace, have died. It is stated that the I Norfolk, Va., Fcbraaiy 23.—The city I TnoMAsviLi f has received on to Fri commander of the palace has been put I was gaily decorated with hunting to-day I . ooin . , . up to Fri Uiuk-r atrest. (in'honor of Washington’s birthday and of | day S,S40 bales of cotton. Berlin, February 23.—A dispatch says I the Mexican warit 1 The streets were! Tub jury acquitted Mr. Thomas Bar- the Czar wisliesastate of siege proclaimed, crowded witli people assembled to witness ratte, charged with shooting Jack Moore, ml over Russia. I tlie military parade. The procession, fTh iI1 5 usi r f Geneva, February 23.—A dispatch re- I composed of-local military companies, ca- j ' ^ pons the destruction of tbe village of j dets, marine corps, Knights of iythias and I Chatham county, on Thursday morning. Kicin, iu Grisous Oberland, destroyed by I Mexican veterans, paraded the streets | There wore seven deatlis in Augusta fire on Wednesday. ; j under the direction of General Getly, C Ann., February 23.—A dispatch says ] from Fortress Monroe. Muslianti Khan, Minister of Finance under I Cincinnati, February 23.—A Cleve- Shere Ali and Vakoob Khan, has been in- j land dispatch saysAt three o’clock tills trusted with a letter to Mohammed Jau I evening, fifteen hundred barrels of oil es- , by General Kobe its, informing the liial- I capcd from the tank of the Standard Oil tered at Charleston, where they will re commit leaders that the government, is j Works, took firm aud a furious conflagra- ma i n until a few weeks before the meet- uisposed to accept as a ruler of Cabul any tion is raging, which tlireatens to envelope . ®°edan, with certain exceptions, which the company’s central, and principal I the assembled representatives of the. na- works. The blazing-oil is floatiug on the A young in an of Elberton is suem e his •mu mav choose. To this end Roberts I creek and river, making huge streams of I father for slander, placing the damages at invites them to discuss the matter at fire. - $5,000. '-■“nil. I XjOndon, February 23.—^A portion of a A valise belonging to Paul Jones, of ^ndon, Felmiaiy 23.—A St.. Peters-I I Atlanta, which was stolen from him at as found in the culvert be- Drenteln Chief of I al me railway siauon oy an me sons 01 me 1 *•*»“ and Maxey’s, cut open 1 toperiai"' 'pol icc**'and General’ Zouroff, j Emperor and by Prince Alexander, of Bui- and rifled of its contents. Prefect of st. Petersburg, have received I 3 a " a ) and ibe»ce conducted to the winter Columbus wants a park and a public notices from tlie Nihilist commander, in- palace. The Emperor awaited me at the forming ihern that they need not trouble staircase. We were proceeding through tlieuiselves to makp irrmnemonts for the I the large corridor to His Majesty’s apart- Rumination on tbe occasion of thc Czars Jueilt3 ' vlie n suddenly! fearful detonation county, killed twelve hog this season anniversarv. as the revolutionists are tire- was beard. The .flooring was raised as that weighed something near 4,800 faring for such an illumination as has not I by an earthquake, gas extinguished and ponndg. been seen since Nero burned Rome. I we were left 111 total darkness. At the The Presbyterians of Louisville and vl- sags Vn3£\i51. t»MoSimeU jai,»cre aoied So™ftooj” 1 •» “““““i“P lacc “»" day. en Uieir way by otliera from Mohammed ber had fallen down, where the table was Mr. Richard Peters, of Atlanta, Jan to Roberts, which were sent with the laid for dinner. lias just received from Asia Minor three evident olli.-et ,,f enmtnrr in term« The I I hastened tluther with the Czarowich , J . . , . . situation Jas^beenso^ftiriimwved tot an<l Grand Duke, while Count Adlcrbarz, Angoragoats-a buck and two ewes, competent judges believe that any less doubt as to wliat might happen, held Senator Hill writes a letter to Emoty Iliorongh settlement than the acceptance back the Emperor. « e found all the I Speer complimenting him on his recent tf-Voosa Khan, son of Yakoob Khan, as windows broken an<l>w a lls in ruins. The specch . bn.-1„ n ie 4meersliip and government of dinner hail been delayed half an_ hour I s November S90mnlesand 155 the country bv England durinc his mi-1 f °r my arrival, and it was owmgtotius since November 8JU mutes ana 155 nority, tmfo lead to farthe ® dfstiub- circuiistanee that the Imperialfamily had horses have been sold in Columbus and aa «e. N” 0 further news has been received 110t y et assembled in the dining hall.” there is now 155 horses and mules on W AIninrrapmed Khan. It is not believed | St. Petersburg, February 23.—The I hand. raiiway guanl bas been increased by OxLY$ia70 has been subscribed in 7C’’.I'’ "earner ana snows are reported in 1 twentj--six men, and the fat. Petersburg _ , , _. tlie liaiau and Khyber passes. I jiolice by thirty-nine men. Tlie Journal j Columbus toward the Lovick Pierce mon- £. - sappling with a rope, and had evidently ily 0 f a wealthy Southern plantef, and tlie Book of God, which contains the most been there some time. His friends are then nropppd nni< . nn ’ fI i ancient printed matter. The period of somewhat uneasy about him. Wepre-| , p , , son tae , of kis making the Bible in its several parts was diet, however, that Tom wilt turn up all I slaves against their master. This she sue- J fifteen centuries. No man claims author- right. j oeeded but too well in accomplishing. I ship of the New Testament. He exhausts Atlanta Post: Barely Saved his j The book Is full of startling incidents, Iwhole question by unanswerable hy- Life.—A man tried to board the Air and the interest of the reader never flags ^af^TSuKtlia^emad^ the Bibfo felf under the train, and but for tlie’time- mits tbe enormity of her crimcs > and is a ° r ly assistance of a passenger who liappened P re y t0 tb e most terrible remorse. ' i« , single gram, to be standing on tlie platform he would Still, running ail through the woof aud de?e4te?n^he^reat Con^ntfon SaSiSrSrfi? 5 by main force. To say that the adventnr- uearly tho entire period ot thewar, “tbere is no,God and ^bat “death is an ous fellow was scared is to put it mild. the virtues, sacrifices aud true genius of "X'sjS in reply to t ^epriral Cuthbebt Appeal: There appears to the Southern people, unwontmgly, as it I philospbers of that august assembly to be a perfect deluge of tramps infecting our were, are made to stand forth in bold re- confute them. section. Eveiy day new ones arrive, beg-1 n e f ^ the horrid accusations charged ! The lecture abounds with striking liis- ging money or food, but never work. . ... , torical facts and beautiful truths. But as Why it is every corporated city and town cture of olantation life with a lectunj b a ' conglomerated and incolie- rn the State does not enact laws protect- tnier picture of plantation life w ith masSi , rit h ou t method or aim beyond ing their citizens from such pests we can- lt3 hospitality and refinement was ever tlie display of the author’s learning, aud not understand. The idea of a State he- I drawn. The character of the negro, too, I the purity of his thoughts, guided by a ing flooded with able-bodied vagabonds j s we u depicted, and the brutality of her guileless heart and universal philanthropy is preposterous, especially when a remedy *• | * cnidierv ' Most un,ess il was mau ifest in the conclusion is so easily obtained. °wn people, tne *taeral soldiery. , Most t0 show , t]iat the Suited States constitutes Augusta Chronicle: Jolm T. Shew- I especially is this witnessed In the graphic! the largest country with the most exhaust- make, Jr., the ten j ear old son of Mr. Os- description of an interview with Beast I loss resources and unbounded capacity to car Sliuwmakc, wliile running with an I Butler. - «■- - j maintain a limitless population. That we open knife in his hands, a few days since, The work closes with a shocking tra"e- ar P nearer by sea and land to any other fell, tlie blade entering lusabodmen. We I v .. - . ?. I arid to all parts of the earth, and that this are glad to hear that tho wound is not dy in wklch tLe 8Uthor , W “ a «>ul Part mi- b and and is be ’ ing develope | considered dangerous. IThere is sometlpng both horrible I for the Lord’s people in the great future. Cuthbebt Appeal: Already are we I and ^tractive about tbe pages of this au- I His fertile imagination abounded with ceiving “orders” from our citizens for I tobiosrranhv. which can be found on sale I beauty when he was elaborating this far fetched vision. He erected in the valley of the Mississippi a thousand cities as large as New York, find an indefinite Grant’s Nomination Certain. Correspondence N, w York tjun.J . Wisnwni, February 20.—All the I lb is morning. William Soul was rescued, protests against the third term,’ made I badly injured.' Samuel Kennedy, Alex, through Republic in organs^ and all the McClain and John Bimey have not been alleged strength of Blaine and Sherman I found. • ' ! *i '• -■*' iu different localities, will count for noth-1 • : . . j ing on the material point of the nomina- A Railroad Bridge Burned.—The tion. And it will depend entirely upon I Nashville American, savs tho bridge across SSS. ?® **£ “*» Democrats insist iipon blundering, as in consequence the through; their Bourbon leaders have constantly train ° n the Chattanooga road did not ar- done of late, no human power can pre- rive here last night, and no Southern vent Grant’s election. Any old hack will I lnaIls ,.. pro rppjliv . pd ’ «Juuiem be beaten out of sight in tlie Presidential! < T - '1*5! -.fi: "D ce. . ' " —The : agent of Prince Torlonia, the Conkling,Cameron, Carpenter and men Rothschild of Italy, has disaDoeared with of that stamp care notliingfor threats'of , , . , ,. defection in the futm-e. Their hands have a ^jon francs belonging to his been immensely strengthened by the ope- I em Pl®J’er. ,The most, curious feature of ration ofthe machine in Pennsylvania, the affair is tot the Prince had been forei; where it was possible to hive organizedan warned 0 ftbe man’s character; but his^ imposing revolt, and to have mide a de- • ’ . , , cided impression on the country. This unsus P ectm g nature shrank from heeding chance was thrown away and canuot be I anonj’mous advice, recovered. ' ’* ! 1 , After New York does better than Penn- Proposed Monument to WAshing- sylvania, Illinois cannot be held back. ton.—A special meeting of the New With this capital to start upon, Indiana is York Chamber of Commerce held Satur- boundto fall into line. Here are four I , great States, with a round hundred votes uay afteruora to consider the subject of in the Electoral Colleges, and a corres- erecting a suitable monument in Wall ponding representation doubledin the street to commemorate the inauguration of sstr - ,b ° from the South when the purchased dele- J ?* States. nomination may be considered a fixed I reiterate d, in a communication addressed v fact. ' .* to an Egyptian journal, his conviction ex- The managers do not care a fig for the pressed in a dispatch to the New York i^;'»*tte r taud fcK „ v „ cdbrllm to ride roughshod over opposition, and to I unt * er ■ 6 obelisk of Alexandria are true dictate their policy without considering ijlasonlc sj’mbols. They will be brought whether it will be palatable or not. The to this couutry with the obelisk, and in a Of course the third-termers would never sonic ceremonies, have gone as far as they have done with- I , . , , , , , out taking a calm view of the chances and . ■ “ wannn 0 to speculators, to dealers the contingencies. ’ Their main depend-1 * n futures and gamblers generally, is con- cnce is on the Bourbon Democrats. With j veyed in the sage remaik of an old Bos- a regular candidate of tot brand into ton mer cl,ant: “I’ve stood here troyorbanishfromthis earth asingle grain they wiirfceT^mrd^suctossTand I ^ “® rcn . am: “ i ve stood here on State that assurance, with the announcement to I street f° r forty years, and I have seen men attend it everywhere that Grant will cer- I accumulate fortunes by speculation, and tAjulybe inaugurated, must operate on I have seen these fortunes disappear I !r^SiT n T^dS““' 1Um ' bair " 80»Pt. Worldly ^dtb, 7 While a crowd of Democratic candi- and S° do ' r ^ * nd I’ve always noticed that dates are contending with .each other for I those persons who Wert content with slow prerodence and intriguing for little ad- gains and six per cent, interest came out vintages, none of tom but Mr. Tiklen a |, eid in t) e lo _ „ hiving any extensive oiganization, the “ a “ in “» wot ran. Grant machinists are moving - forward Sentence of Rev. Edward Cowley. on their original line, by the shortest cut, \w : v nm . with the expectation of reaching the ol>-| York,. February 20.—Rev. Ed- jective point without serious obtrusion, ward Cowlej”, late manager of to ShepJ Tlieir opponents are quarreling over a herd’s Fold,. who was convicted into nomination whicli would be biit an empty General Sessions Court on Wednesday compliment, and neglcctmg to means r ,, . ^ by which all the elements of opposition I Por cnio y treating and. starving chil- could be united for the Utter overtlirov,- of drc n under his care in that. institution, Grant ism. • <■ 1 i was arraigned, again this morning for sen- Tiger and Rntfalp, _ I ten< ^” Recorder Smyth passed fitting re tina entertainment of representatives to a tthe store of Mr. Ed. Irvine, the Press Convention that meets here in Maj”. Our brethren of the press will be i — _ . . _ ... v . t ^—. r~r ----—=— welcomed by our citizens with open arms, I L&te Sal© of til© Kacon and I uumber along- the coast as. big as Londonj and made to feef their visit to our town is I Brunswick Bailroad. < . :h.,: I «ud grandly cj^cU^dthacapacity-of our appreciated.^ We hope - paper in j Nothing further has transpired concern-1^ sufficient For the popula- pared to spend a week with us. . 13 oaly g eneral, y conceded that the sale outline of history of our ancestors, and of Douglasville 8tar: “The body I bas been duly consummated, and report } ^berty, precedent to his conclusion atchers have been at work in Douglas says all tlie papers will be signed up and j 2?{ u ^ wit bj county. Our readets will remember that J .k ’ <r • « iT F , I out the Bible, and that Christianity could aboutsix weeto ago^ISSaedde^ th “ affa,r fi “ a \ ly a ^ a "S ed on Wednesday. no*flourish without civil liberty and that . .. - - - 1 One rumor is to the effect that Captain I this great country is the grand theatre tally committed suicide at Sait Springs, in,. this county, by drinking carbolic acid I John A. Grant, who is already; connected I w “2 ra toy Rre to unite, through mistake for whisky in the office of with one of tho roads represented by the ..,?, e „ s ^ e ? £s t0 demo,l3trat ? ?ur Scandina- Dr. J. W. Westmoreland He was twirled .... .... . 1 . . 3 vi an origin and descent, giving ns r rani- near Salt Springs. Not long ago some of c ° mjlllaton ’ Wl11 b9 P ,acad on dut y u P° n I parents that we know not of in our historic the parties living in the neighborhood of tho proposed extension. That Mr. Hazle- researches. In fact, if we are of that ori- tlie grave thought it showed signs of hav- I hurst, assisted by .Colonel Lane, will have IS 111 ) 33 be so distinctly announced, there ing been tampered with, and decided to charge ofthe Brunswickend of tbe erner- T ° 1Ume ° f We rjnS nX%i^^ ^’ 9 tS! t t0be in ad "^t. But n&^srour so-called ances’.ora a coffin except to clothes of to deceased. 33 yet nothing positive is 'known in the great, heroic and i rand people, imbued It is thought that his body found its way premises. ... I .With the principles of freedom—wh t nev- to one of- the medical colleges in Atlanta. The company now own lines of road f, r yf * re *i$ d ' or „ ir ptoc^iles The discovery that the bpdy has been sto- I extending from Lvnchburtr Virttlnia to I 8 R ulians.’He understands len hasereritedquitean excitement among S LjmcuDurg, vngmia, toU Gotll and Yandaitobo a better man the neiToes of this county. j Chattanooga, and from Memphis andl ton a Rtmai. That they transmitted “The cyclone season opened in this Knoxville to Chattanooga. A connection J their race, an l laws, and institutions, and county on last Friday evening,” says the I will also certainly be made with the Cin- | Jiberty to Britain, Extinguishing the Buena Vista Argus, “with significant fury, cinnati Southern and nossiblv the n.w I ailc ‘ ctlt race and Roman settlers, just as It ranged from southwest and northeast, , ^ oontuern, ana possibly to mw we drove out: to American Indians. That and was of the bounding and whirling va- exte nsion from Macon will be pushed for- t the Teutonic race and institutions Were riety, and fifty to one hundred yards wide. I 'ward, also, to Knoxville, via Cleveland, j transmitted to Amerifca.;> and that in onr We hear of it it on tlie place of Dr. Jeffer- Tennessee. ■ | successful strugglo for political independ- son, four miles from houses were unroofed, seventeen large green piue trees were l , .. . . T O --- blown down on less than one acre 0 f I 33 to wba t wili be to future policy of the I perfect and complete commingling 6f ground. There it bounded upward and } company. It is sufficient to know that j bloods,-of laws, customs* sentiments and again struck tbe ground at Mr. A. P. I that there will be another grand indepen-1 opbdoiis, an dtlm innate idea^ofliberty for Belk’s, a mile farther on, .where a part of I rtanDLinim-ov tw-in <i,„ w. ,. „ * I centuries in western Europe just as effect- his giu house was blown down, liis cotton deut bU n ' a > from the West to the ocean j naUy as the waters of the Missouri, Ar- screw overturned, a mule killed and a I terminating at Brunswick, but accessible I kansas, Ohio, the Cumbelland, the Red negro slightly hurt. It next struck the ) Savannah, also, via Jesup.- Wo quote [ ? nd , l be multitude of rivers are. mingled ground about Mr. S. B. Story’s about two j the following from, to Atlanta Phono- | a n d hc i town, where some Bnt it is too soon ^o sjieak with certain- I we . established German civil - “ d i at .---- e pl ?“ 1 tyof tlie «»utes that may be projected, or | 1 He skips over, and looses sight of the miles from town, where houses were ”un- J qranh • IWlfxil pltiinnorc 111 mrn rlnirn fimlint. 1 “ _ * * roofed, chimneys blown down, timber j felled, and fencing scattered generally.” sit'at its mouth easily |and appropriately and decide which one of It seems to.be a settled fact that Gov- I the tributaries is in truth the father of emor Colquitt closed to trade Jn New watets. Our codes of Jaw, civil, ecclesi- York Tlmrsdaj-. Wilson and other capi- astical, criminal and social; our opinions, telists were scared off because they did I tastes, sentiments; instinctive love of lib- not feel disposed to buy a big law suit. I erty , J our pliysical, mental and moral Last Week’s Cotton Furores. ( THE SITUATION* . . • ------ —« - — a —• —-■■■ ■ , uui yyws, .«■*-. Ilrni auu jumrai Saturday’s New York Chronicle fg. I Wlien the Governor assured them tot the I constitution, are not.-Scandinavian, Teu- i honor of Georgia would be maintained, tonic, British, Gaulic or Roman, but all . 9 ., • ,. onn i a “.i Uie . integrity °. { , contracts preserved, combined, in inseparable and indivisible ing Friday night, 20th instant, at 115,307 without any special guaranty, tore was but distinctive marks and characteristics bales, against 134,32S bales the corres-1 no further hitch, and the trade was made! of each. H. F. ponding week of last year Total from ^S'ch^f^ulf^prnSrbSft ‘ DeathbfH.G. 1 Wright, Esq. lstoflast September toth^t daio, 4,09S,-|is a strong one, and have the means to'| , Our Sunday’s telegramscontain'the sur- 825 hales against'3,726,517 tor to.corres- comply with the provisions of tbeW ponding period of tbe cotton year 1678-9, now a positive fort that Atlanta is ? sbowin“ a net increase of 37’ 30S hales afforded another outlet to to Atlantic, be- G - Wright, Esq., ope 6T the editors ofthe siiowmga net tnerease of 37-,308 bales. sides tUe Central road . Under the ^ Angusta chronicle anil Constitutionalist, Tie Cotton Exchange statement of authorizing the lease of the read, the less- at the eariv age of twenty-nine. He diedat me date was as follows: Receipts of ees are compelled to extend the road from .,, 0 rr sr r r. the week ending last Friday,' 121,548. Mac °n to Atlanta. Our friends in Jones Potion of ex-Goveroor H. Y. John- aniiMt I23:975> h«l*« ti.o nnr™ 0 non,ii^ I and Jas P° r counties must be patient, the I ®on m Jefferson county. Thisannounce- Bgrinst 133.272 bales tlie corrMpondm ti me is coming when the iron horse willl ment will excite universal regret. Mr. week of last year. Total, 4,106,1S6, j go tearing through the red hills of to. against 3,6S7,083—showing a net increase section. When that time comes, wo ex c of 419,103 bales. pc® 1 to come and talk Phonograph to the The Chronicle’s interior port table for | P 001 ' 10, ■ -,, r ■ .... to week shows 51,CIO hales revived, j TO G ^ y ®^“^fblmr a helping tondjiy j “Time is money, ^l^aUh is happinws regret. I Wright was a clear and forcible writer- well read ' in general literature and well posted in political history. liim » lLK ollUtt a tJIjUIU UalCS rCltliLUj < .1.1 , »2* . , 4-. v_ * 199 « - v - i • -q ooo ,i.~ • 1 recommending lnm to keep Dr. Bull’s Ba- I If yon have ^Iiad cold or cough, use a e ainst o8,082 to corresponding week of, by Syrup in his iamily for to ills babies | Btdl’s Cough Syrup. • It will cure Price twenty-five cents. last year. Shipments—70,501 against are subject to. We.^lin to following from tho Boston j Iuar k3l n justness of tbe sentence and its > Travellers Java letter: . .. I bejrig warranted by evidence, and gave ;•» We were shown a striped Javan tiger of I tbe extreme penalty of the law, one year . : : gr*at size aud with the most ferocious,ex- in’State prison and $250 fine, to stand n pression one can conceive of. Tho'Wild- est tiger tot Bamum ever exhibited is as Co tted t ?, jal1 the e xpir»tion pf Ilia a tame house cat compared with tills I sei 4t.enco until tne line was paid, one day m c monarch of the jungle, captured only I fori each dollar. The prisoner was ton. twenty days previously. A week ago the taken to the Tombs. He took his sen- - Sultan possessed seven, but a few days I ■ - since he gave a buffalo and tiger fight, teuce ver 5 Vnetly, keeping I113 eyes on tbe ayr which was witnessed by tens of thousands j ground all the time. There are twenty- r s yj of people. The audience being in t^tteu- four other indictments against him, but it i Efu dance, to preparations having been pre- ^ believed that none of them will ever bo f ♦ viouslymadfe, a little time was given to ,, j.. spectators to admire the: build of both an- j. 0 1 l ‘»“*' to trial, and that tb^ was taicen i> imals—tlie tiger, with its slick, glossy j too consideration by the Recorder when, e Ml a>at and . light, cat-like . .movements, he meted out full punishment to the pris- , at ™ -*«. few days before. Tlio builalo, from^its ^ ^ ie Supreme Court, this af- r i ^ dull and heavy appearance,, seemed- illy: terfioon, by counsel of Rev. Mr. Cowley, fitted to cope with his wily adversary., ; for ft stay of proceedings in his case. Tlie r H Jr* - !»* vionsly unecaisciousiof the other’s; pre3-|®W~ n ° writ of error had been ap- il cnce, found themselves face to, face., And I plied for or allowed. • • l what a wonderful change" this wrought inJ., ‘ to; appearance of each! ’This dull and | A Beauty’of a Trout.—A Fort Mis- hcavy buffalo Instantly displayed an as- j souri correspondent furnishes an account pect of the greatest ferocity. The horns, of :Colonel Gibson’s fishing exploit m Bit- ; <>» nepk seemed to be double its usual siie; I wp b a light cane rod, to which was at the body curved intoau arelq the tail was | tuched an oil silk line of less than twen- erect, and the animal awaited a charge ty-fdur yards, a leader of single gut and from its adversary, winch it watched most . .. . _ , . , ° b . u intently. The tiger seemed all ready to | a small hook, started out to the engage the buffalo. Its Cj’es dilated^ the river, halting at a point about two miles hair on its neck stood erect, its face seemed below to post.’ The water atom* the ok - ashort distance close , to the ground^ pre- *; rvJ Pa 80111(5 small trout jumping soma pared for ft tremendous spring. • r I distance below and near to water’s edge, AU the wliile.to buffalo remained with the Colonel reeled out nearly all his line “““ :«“»»»:•(. sr-W-r, Z\ itself for a spring, and ulade a ‘ single tre- do " n amon g them. In a moment some- mendous hound which the spectators felt thing took the hook and spryly made off ’’ sure wonld end the contest. Nert so, how- with it into deep water. Then followed a the neck, and only made a wound with its I an hour, intensified as it progressed to an claws, when it was thrown oft. Failing almost painful degree. Tackle and skill in its attack, it seemed to lose courage and the Colonel in a sidled off,cat-like. Now it wastobuUalo’s >T~* * * ( SC ‘ en “ d turn to make the attack, for in au instant it [ pid se ' erest test. Finally the finny rushed with great fury at the tiger, and l opponent was worried out, and the Colo- with a roar of fage, thrust'Its' horn into nel steered him to shore. Post Adiutant its striped side. This added'to: the fierce- williams amis i ness of to tiger, which returned to tlie ‘ ™T , y Wh ° hap * encounter, inflictinc , another serious I ^ >cne ^ ^ near > “ralliedon the center,” wound on the neck of'the buffalo. Again I and seized the catch by the gills and to tiger was thrown off, and to buffalo rushed him up a steep bank, thro wine liim succeeded in giving. it, another hoihc i nto .i,. Jr; , thrust. So the battle went on, neither „ a ,. eId ’ “ le Colonel launching the rod seeming to get the better of the other, till I attcr “uu- You can imagine the excite- after a contest of two hours, the buffalo ment of the post when the trout was found plungfed its horns deep into to side'of the to weigh nine pounds and to measure tiger, repeating the blow once or twice, i . , easure and tho contest was ended, to buffalo, as ^rty-one inches. Was not that a fisli usual, being the victor. - -.r- jEJ3 | sure enough—a truly royal trout? JPrevi- ' A few days after another tiger exliflyP ous to this to largest known trout caught **°. n ., ivas g iven by the Suan. A large , by any person in this section was one ta- “pit” was formed, around the inside of vL n • ‘ e ta which, it is said, some four or five thou- * kCU tl,e Commissary Seargent, which sand men ware placed, armed with spears, 1 weighed seven pounds. Larger trout than all “at chaige” and facing ir.ward. Into these have been sent from the Jocko ta- the centre of this ring four fierce tigers, ken, however, by the Indians in fish baa. tresli from the jungle, were placed when J tM3 ~ they at once made an attack upon the kPts °r. traps, the largest of which weigh- cure you.' men by whom they were surrounded. ed thirteen pounds aud measured thirty. The fight went on for nearly an hour, but six laches.