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MAC03N* FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1880.
Volume LY—NO 12
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The Simple Onmo Which no One Can
Do, Except when Alone.
For just forty-nine days the New York
papers have been full of the new ‘game of
Fifteen.’ The game has traveled South
slowly, and has at length reached Macon
and will soon take possession of all. The
few sets of the game now in the city have
been for the past few days in
active • demand, and the little blocks
contained in them have hardly,
been idle a moment. The game is
ceedingly simple to all except the person
engaged in solving the problem, and it
looks-simple enough to him also. Two
sets were in full operation on Sunday af
ternoon. Two young gentlemen, who
had started on a tour of calls, acciden
tally came across one. Oh! yes, simple
enough; they could get it in' 4 moment.
Go on; they would join-the party in
moment. The rest of the party wandered
up “the Hill” made one or .fwo calls, al
ways keeping watch for their companions,
but they came not in sight.
Late in the evening they were discov
ered in an earnest search after the solu
tion of the puzzle, seated on an accom
modating curbstone. -Another young man
was up until nearly fouFo’clock Saturday
night shoving the" blocks desperately
around, trying to get the last three num
bers in proper position. Fascination is no
suitable expression for the hold the game
has on all who give themselves over to it.
It resembles the severe attack of the simple
rhymes “Punch with care,” which took
possession of the unfortunate Mark Twain.
The puzzle consists of a square box into
which are fitted fifteen, wooden squares,
numbered consecutively from 1 to 15.
There is room for four ro.ws of four in a
row. The absence of the sixteenth block
in the box affords room for the movement
of the others. The gapae is to disarrange
the blocks and then to bring the numbers
into consecutive order by shifting them
into place without lifting one off the bot
tom of the box. The intricacies of this
apparently simple exercise are startling.
A mathematician who reported the result
of his calculations in the New York Sun
wrote that the number of possible move
ments is 1,307,<574,308,000. There are
said to be a number of combinations that
are either very difficult of solution, or, as
some believe, impossible.
The game is taking the ‘country by
storm. Everybody nearly in New York
have their little puzzle boxes. Lawyers,
bankers, merchants, pleasure men, even
news boys all have them. The demand
has increased so that the trade can with
difficulty be supplied by several firms,
who are now devoting themselves to the
manufacture of the wonderful puz
zle. It was formerly considered
reprehensible to come to busi
ness in the morning with dishevelled
locks, unkempt beard, bloodshot eyes and
general untidy appearance, but the expla
nation is found in the fact that the person
so presenting himself is one of the unfor
tunate victims of the “game of fifteen”!
It is said, that while many /claim to have
worked it, that they cannot go over their
work again and explain it, and although
many lay emphatic claim to the distinc
tion of being one of the solvers of the_ puz
zle, no one has been looking on while it
was done.
The puzzle was invented in Boston
about two years ago and the inventor
passed a few of them around to his friends.
They received . slight notice and then
passed out of sight. About three months
ago, Messrs. E. G. Selchow & Co., of New
York, who handle them now about
as extensively as any dealers in the-North,
and who claim to hold the right of man
ufacture, ordered out from Boston some
thirty or forty dozens of the puzzle from
the old stock of the manufacturer of the
inventor. They could, however, do noth
ing with them and turned them over to the
pedlers of the city. They were soon dis
posed of and orders came in for more.
The fever for them began. One hundred
dozen were ordered out, followed by an-
order for a thousand dozen. Nine hun
dred dozen were disposed of in one day.
The orders now ranged up in the thou
sands, and the supply could not equal the
demand.
The Northern papers have been full of
the puzzle, the Herald of New York de-
votiug from one to four columns daily.
An offer of $100 for a solution of the puz
zle for certain difficult positions has been
. offered by the Herald. Other parties
have made standing offers of the same re
ward. The puzzle is very simple until
the last three figures 13,14 and 15 are
reached.
The arrangement of the other numbers
are comparatively simple and easy. The
rub comes in jnst when it looks as if the
end is reached. The order in which the
last two figures usually stand, is 14,15,
13; 15,14, 13, or 13,15,14, and when the
blocks assume those relations, thesolu-
lution seems well nigh impossible.
Only a few of the games have up to this
time reached this city. In a few days,
however, the city will be fully supplied
through one of its popular firms, add then
. all will be able to show their skill or suf
fer defeat at the hands of the “Game of
Fifteen.”
A New Opera House.
Plans for the building of a new opera
house linve been developing for some time
past. They seem at last to have taken
some definite shape. Mr. T. Guernsey
and other parties have perfected plans for
a building to be located at the comer of
Cherry street and Cotton Avenue, to be
completed above the first floor for an ope
ra house. • ‘ <■_
The building is expected to cost a num
ber of thousand dollars, and will be an
ornament and handsome improvement to
that part of the city. The lot now owned
by Mr. Guernsey is too small for the lo
cation of the opera house as it now stands
and Council has been peti
tioned for a permanent encroachment
of twenty-five feet in addition to twenty
feet granted by the last Council to Mr.
Wolffe extending down Cherry street into
First street. The building would certain-
ly improve that part of Macon very much
indeed. The question will come up in
Council this evening. We hope all the
encroachment that the body can give will
be given to the scheme of improvement.
Mity D»y—Preparation* for the An
nual Celebration.
It is probable the Sunday School cele
brations this year throughout the State
will be more extensive and general than
ever known before. The late. State Sun
day Schopl Convention which met in this
city, last summer unanimously agreed to
a resolution introduced by Governor Col
quitt, who was a delegate, to set apart and
designate a day to he known as the chil
dren’s day which it was proposed be de
voted to a general celebration throughout
the whole State. The exact date was left
to the decision of a committee and the 1st
of May was selected. The whole State is
becoming interested, and on that day the
children belonging to nearly every Protes
tant church will join in the celebration.
The Idea is a good one,' and is finding
great favor with the Sunday School
workers in the State. The custom of hav
ing union Sunday School celebrations is
well established in this city, and steps
are already being taken to keep np the
fine old custom. The day, on account of
the recent action of the Sunday School
Convention, will be even more-generally
observed than usual here.
Yesterday, in response to the call made
on Sunday morning, a nnmber of the
Sunday School workers were at the office
of Messrs. Cobb& Clancey, on Second
street.
The First Baptist Church was repre
sented by Messrs. H. M. Willet and S. A.
Torrence; Mulberry. Street Methodist, by
Mr. W. W. DeHaven; Vineville, Isaac
Hardeman; First Street Methodist, J. A.
Rogers andH. L. Jewett; Presbyterian,
G. B. Dettre, Dr. P. H. Wright and Dr.
J. P. Stevens; South Macon Baptist
Church, IW. B. II. Ivey; Mission Chap
el, C. C. sWb.
The meet^JP^^very harmonious. No
definite actioiJn? Weaken, and the meeting
adjourned oftr to assemble on next
Monday afternoon. It is thought there
will be no doubt about the union celebra
tion taking place, as usual, at the Park.
Entertainment of the Hebrew Uter-
ary Association.
On Sunday evening, at the hall , of
the Hebrew Young Men’s Literary Asso
ciation, an entertainment was held, which
for general excellence, was equal if not
ahead of any'ever given by the Associa
tion. The music and recitations were all
good, and fully appreciated by the large
audience ssembled.
Miss Lizzie Merkel played .an instru
mental piece very nicely. Mr. Dave Bar
nett gave a burlesque lecture; Comic Vo
calisms found apt expression from Mr. L.
Lowenthal; a recitation, “Asking for a
Wife,” was well done by Mr. D. Einstein;
“Fairy Tales Waltz,” Faust, was played
quite prettily by Miss Mary H. Loh. Miss
Miss Belle and Master A. Harris played
The Jolly Brothers” in good style.
The entertainment was closed with “Onr
Honeymoon,or My Motlier-in-lsw,”by Mr.
John Hartz. The best was certainly sav
ed for the last and Mr. Hartz was inimita
ble in his rendition of the selection. Init
he assumes three characters, Mr. Walter
Fitzsummons, Mrs. Walter Fitzsummons
and Mrs. Skinflint. The bill for the eve
ning announced that the piece was “pre
sented for the first time in Macon by Mr.
Hartz as performed by him one thousand
consecutive nights at the Dooly county
opera house.” ne displayed great versa
tility and fiyrly took the house by storm.
The farewell entertainment of the sea
son will take place on the 4th of April,
when extraordinary efforts will be made
to have it the best that has ever been
given by the Association.
The names of the committee on enter
tainments are Messrs. John Hartz, Wil
liam Landsherg, M. Skalowski, D. Bar
nette and S. S. Einstein.
Putnam Rifles Election.
The following were the officers chosen
at an election of the Putnam Rifles, one
of the companies of the Second Georgia
Battalion, held at Eatonton. on the eve
ning of the 4tli instant:
Captain—I. H. Adams.
1st Lieutenant—C. M. Davis.
2d Lieutenant—W. L. Tumor.
Jr. 2d Lieutenant—A. I. Branhalh.
1st Sergeant—J. S. Tomer.
2d Sergeant—C. D. Pearson. • ti.
3d Sergeant—F. R. Pelot.
4th Sergeant—R. A. Gibson.
5th Sergeant—J. R. Webster.
1st Corporal—W. H. Pelot.-
2d Corporal—J. T. Spivey.
3d Corporal—C. X-McDade.
4th Corporal—B. F. Adams, Jr.
Chaplain—Rev. Dr. I. R. Branham.
Surgeon—Dr. D. B. Nisbet.
Lesseps and Eads Trying Conclusions
before the Special Committee of
the House.
Onr noon dispatches announce that
Count Dc Lesseps has been granted a full
hearing before the special committee of
the House of Representatives, and pledges
himscif to answer satisfactorily any ques
tions that may be propounded financially,
politically, or otherwise concerning
his great Panama Inter-oceaHic Canal.
The discussion had not terminated, but
it was understood that the Count would
remain over in the Capital another day to
complete his statements and argument.
Captain Eads is a quiet and inter
ested spectator of what is going on, and
in due time he also will be heard before
the Committee. The Nicaraguan route
likewise has several zealous advocates on
hand, ready to present its superior claims,
and on the whole the inter oceanic canal
question just now is decidedly interesting.
Our night, or midnight dispatches, may
throw further light upon the subject. '
“A friend in need, is a friend indeed.”
Such a friend is Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup,
which should be in every family, it costs
only cents a bottle and may save many
a dcMor bill. Give it a trial.
Last Week’s Cotton Figure#.
The New York Chronicle reports the
receipts of the seven days, ending Friday
night last, at 78,451 bales, against 83,266
for the same week of last year. Total
since 1st September last, 4,280,271 against
3,919,830 for the corresponding pe
riod of the previous cotton year, showing
an increase of 3G0,441 bales.
The Cotton Exchange statement for tlje
same time was as follows: ‘Receipts, 78,-
688 against S4,565 for the same week of
last year. Total since 1st September,
4,2S9,061 against 3,879,023, showing an in-
creese of 410,018.
The Chronicles interior port table
shows 89,011 receipts during the week
ending Friday, against 51,223 hales for
the corresponding week of last. year.
Shipments 53,304 against 56,042 last
year. Stocks, 303,279 against 1G5,619 last
year.
The Chronicle?s visible supply table
shewed on Friday 2J>S0,33S bales of cot
ton in sight, against 2,585,009 last year at
same date, 2,814,614 the year before at
same date, and 3,210,388 in 1877 at samo
date. These figures show 'a decrease
of 4,671 bales on the supply of last year;
234,270 on the supply of 1878, and 630,-
050 on the supply of1877 at same date.
Cotton wa3 quoted last Friday in Liver
pool at 7| for middling upland. A year
ago the quotation was 5 5-16; in 1878 at
same date it was 6j, and in 1877 at same
date 6 9-10.
We note the following among the points
of interest in the Chronicle's weather tel
egrams for last Friday: There have been
rains in Texas—light at some points but
heavy at others. At Galveston there was
0.23 of rain during the week. In the
whole month of February 1.92 was the
total rainfall. At Indianola 1.76 fell alto
gether, in February, and 0.09 during the
week. At Corsicana 1.49 fell during the
week and.4.98 during February. At Dal
las 2.30 fell during the week and 1.15
during all February. Ice formed during
one. night of the week, but did no damage.
At Brenham there was rain on five days
during the week, hut only 0.40 in Februa
ry. The weather has been generally
showery in the Southwest. At New Or
leans 4.62 was the measure of rainfall in
the month of February. At Columbus,
Mississippi, the rainfall in February was
4.83. At Little Rock, Arkansas, it was
very wet. The rainfall during the week,
on four days, was 7.61, and in the month
of February 7.75. Nashville had rain on
five days during the week, during which
the fall amounted to 3.13._ The rainfall
at Mobile, in February, -was 6.73; at
Montgomery 0.25. There was none in
Columbus or Macon during the week. In
Columbus 2.S6 fell during February. In
Augusta the rainfall of the month was
3.57.
The Chronicle remarks as follows upon
its weekly table of receipts from planta
tions:
1. That the total receipts from the
plantations since September 1 in 1879-80
were 4,576,249 bales; in 1878-70 were 4,-
079,797 bales; in 1877-78 were 8,845,9S4
hales.
2. That although the receipts at the out
ports the past week were 78,451 bales, the
actual movement from plantations was
only 04,758 bales, the balance being
drawn from stocks at the interior ports.
Last year the receipts from the plantations
for the same week were 78,447 bales, and
fob 1878 they were 72,477 bales. ..
The Rainfall and the Weather.
The Nashville American prints a table
of rainfall at that point since 1873, show
ing an average of 52 inches a year, and
adds that the fall in the past two months
(January aud February, 1SS0,) has
amounted to 16.11 inches, while, as we
know, the fall in Macon for the same two
months amounted to only 4.14. Nothing
seems to be mdre irregular and uncertain
than the rains. of late years in this lati
tude. For while we seem to be fairly en
titled to about sixty inches a year, of late
we have fallen far below forty. The Amer
ican's table is as follows:
Year.
In.
Year.
In.
1S73. . . .
. . 49.47
1877 . .
. . 49.64
1S74. . . .
. . 58.14
1878 . .
. . 48.50
1S75. . . .
1870. . . .
. . 53.49
. . 46.91
1879 . .
. . 67.69
According to the Montreal Witness, the
Canadian weather prophet, Yentnor, pre
dicts a cold term ending in heavy snows
on the 15th, 16th and 17th days of March,
although these snows may be represented
by cold rains as far south as Boston.
April, he also says, will enter cold and
stormy, with snows up to the 4th or oth
(lay.
The weather question is now an ex
ceedingly interesting one, particularly to
farmers and gardeners. We are reminded
that ten years ago, on the 27th day of
March, 1870, there was snow in this part
of Georgia, which slaughtered young
crops almost totally. . On the night of the
9th day of April, 1S53, the writer being in
Florida at the time, there came a freeze
which killed all the young com and cot
ton. Corn, in that region at the time,
was a foot and upward high, and cotton
was four to six inches. It was the day
before that frost, that wejnet the planter
who had . not dropped a seed, and yet
claimed to be ahead of all his neighbors—
for, says he, I am ready to plant, and they
who have their crops up have yet to get
ready, for they must all plant again. He
was the man who never planted cotton
until he saw tumble-bugs.
There is, of course, a possibility of frost
and ice yet—just enough of it, we repeat,
to make the weather question inter
esting; but we hope to escape all such set
backs.
New Rules of the House.
The new rules of the House of Repre
sentatives were finally adopted last Tues
day and went into operation yesterday.
It is generally conceded that they will
simplify business and put the brakes upon
interminable debate. The' “morning
hour,” so-called, is abolished. Commit
tees have simply leave to report hills
when called without discussing them.
There are three calendars for three gen
eral classes of bills, that of the committee
of the whole, thatot general legislation,!
and the private calendar, precedence be
ing given to them in the order named.
Motions to suspend the rules may. be
made only on the first and third Monday
in each month, the previous question is
regulated and restricted, and ^riders” to
appropriation bills are prohibited unless
germaue to the subject and reported by. a
committee. .The chief effect of the new
rules will be to restrict speech-making and
add to the business powers of the House.
Farmers, Take Heed.
One of Georgia’s most prominent agri
culturists, who resides in Macon county)
informed the writer on Saturday, that Ite
had finished planting his entire com crop
and farmers are more advanced in their
preparations the present season than in any
previous year within Ins recollection. As
was to he feared, however, regardless of
consequences, they are bending every ef
fort to increase their „ cotton, production,
and many a broad acre that shoiild.be de
voted to bread and lieme Eomforts_will.be
planted with the seed of the delusive sta
ple. This, of course, is due to the present
inflated prices. But no ignis fatuus was
ever more alluring and illusive to those
who would pursue .it. An incident that
came under the writer’s personal observa
tion will form a fitting illustration. An
opulent Sea Island planters in Liberty
county-sent a lot of 45 hales of cotton to
his Savannah factors with directions to sell
at 50 cents per pound, * The commission
merchants, Messrs. R. A W. King, wrote
back that they could only obtain 48 cents.
The planter replied, saying, take the offer.
Again the factors.wrote, “the market has
receded, and we can only get 44 centsffor
your cotton.” The'fanner answered by:
return mall, and ordered the sale at that
figure. t
Before the lot could be closed out, how
ever, there was another decline, and final
ly little or no demand for Sea Islands.
Matters remained thus until July, when,
to quote the words of the owner, “I went
to Savannah in person, and begged a sale
of my cotton at eighteen cents per pound;”
This same story may be repeated next
fall to the ruin of thousands. Tinder the
stimulus of enlarged.acreage, unpreceden
ted guano sales and high prices, with or
dinary seasons, such a crop of cotton will
be produced the present year as the world
never saw. We should not he surprised
to see it reach six and a half millions of
bales, or even more. This increase, too,
will he at the cost of diminished bread
stuffs, meat supplies, and the small crops
which contribute so much to the real in
dependence' and comfort Of the • farmer/
Nor will his profit, granting that a full
crop is gathered, by any means come up
to his expectation.
In the first place taking Marshallville
as a guide, over one-fourth of the Cotton
raised must be handed over to the guano
dealers, even if the crop is an average one.
If the worm,drought,storms or early frosts,
contract the yield, so much the worse off
will the farmer be.
2. Labor, mules and plantation imple
ments are from twenty-five to thirty per
cent, higher than last year.
3. Com, (of which immense supplies
must be purchased), and bacon, have ad
vanced twenty-five per cent; and
4th. It is evident from'the tremendous
trade of the winter and early spring, that
our farmers have had their heads turned
by the rise in cotton, and are disposed
to go back to their old habits of extrava
gance.
While it is still time, therefore, we call
upon them to .look out for’“breakers
ahead,” reef sails, cast out bow and
stem anchors and resolve to ride out the
coming storm under “bare poles.”
While the season will permit, too, let
them add 30 per cent, to their com crops
and plant largely in the early varieties of
peas, not neglecting chufas, ground peas,
sweet potatoes, highland rice and German
millet. Pursuing this course, the millet
and peas will come in early in July and
eke out their scanty com supply until
harvest, and the root crops will furnish
food for their swine. The rice, too, they
will find to be their most profitable mar
ket crop.
We are aware that many of our farm
ers are accustomed to regard these ap
peals as stereotyped. But the' prudent
and knowing ones will give heed never
theless, and be able to hold their own
whatever may betide in the* luture.
Surely • the sad experience of the past
should be a sufficient monitor to them.
over two hundred mules purchased by
their customers. The season has not yet
closed and there will beagood demand
for stock until late In the spring.' We
beard a drover remark yesterday that he
was confident there would be a good trade
in stock until late in the season. Since
.October there have been brought to our
city-and sold one thousand ana seventy*
six mules and horses. Of this nnmber
there were probably not more than two
hundred horses. There Is now on hand
eighty mules and thirty-seven horses
The trade is rapidly increasing, and Co
lumbus is a favorite market with the dro
vers.
Douglasvtlle Star: There died in
this, county, on the' 25th instant, quite a
Notorious character. We refer to W. B.
Smith, more generally known as Doctor
Smith. He bred to the ripe old age of
seventy-three. In his youth he was a
large portion of his time among the Creek
Indians, and quite intimate with their
great medicine men. From these, like
Edwin Eastman, he claimed to have
learned the secret ingredients of many
valuable remedies, and especially one for
the cure of cancers. Although he was a
very, illiterate mau, mauy people had im
plicit faith in his powers as a physician
aud as a conjurer, in the capacity of both
of which he frequently practised. Many
people from all portions of Georgia and
of East Alabama, have come to this coun
ty to be treated by him. . Of his cures we
kiiow nothing. He had been gradually
failing for the last year, and finally died
from the effects of old age. During his
last illness he would take, no medi
cine except that of his own manufacture,
The Louisville* Courier says: “We
learn that M. W. A. Roberson came very
near being bitten by a mad dog a few
days ago. He saw the dog aud threw a*
rock at him, which enraged the crazy ca
nine 96 that it made frantic efforts to get
to Mr. R. to bite him, but he made his cs-
cape by jumping a fence, and afterwards
fie and Mr. Caldwell followed the dog out
of town and killed him.”
Walton County Vidette: On Friday
morning last, about ten o’clock, two ne-
GE0RGIA PRESS.
Captain Boynton, the celebrated
swimmer, is exhibiting his skill in Sa
vannah.
The scrap iron gatherers are. having a
boom in Cartcrsville, and all the old wells
and out of the way places are being
searched for old shot aud shell.
Carteesytlle has a Pliilomathean
Society.
Mr. R. R. Blocker is a correspondent
of the Arlington Advance, as well as the
Early county News.
Dr. S. D. Rambo, of Blakeley, is at
home from Rio de Janeiro, where he is
engaged in business.
The papen of the State arc urging
Congress to exempt the chemicals used in
the manufacture of paper from duty.
The Crawfordsville Democrat says that
a petition of three hundred names has
been forwarded to the proper authorities
for the establishment of a post-office at
Powelton. It is likely to he granted, as
such an office is much needed.
The Louisville News and Farmer say3
that its town has had a sensation in the
lerson of a sou of one of the best families
n the State, who has been there under
the name of Professor Gillipool, picking
his banjo, singing comic songs, and selling
song hooks and a grease lotion.
Colonel Foheacre, general manager
of the Air-Line railroad, is very active in
encouraging the cultivation of tobacco
throughout the section of country tributa
ry to his road, and is gratuitously distrib
uting packages of tobacco seed among the
farmers.
Says the Fnquiter-Sun: During the
th living on Dr. Barrett’s plantation,
near Centerville,' engaged in a difficulty
In relation to some opprobrious words
-•sedby the latter to the mother of the
former. On Friday morning it seems
Thompson attacked Patrick with a knife,
wielding it with ferocious eflect, stabbing
him fatally in the left side of the abdo
men and cutting him severely in the left
arm, hand, etc. Patrick backed and de
fended himself, as .best he could for ten
paces or more, and then fell weltering in
hla blood. The murderer fled atouce,
and Mr. Willie Barrett took his gun
and pursued him some distance, but
failed to. overtake him. He then called
on Simou Baker, Dawes Baker and Bill
Ivey, three worthy colored men living on
the. place to pursue and capture the mur
derer. This, to their credit, be it said,
they did with alacrity, and soon they
brought him: to bay in a swamp, where
7e in hand, he warned them that he
id kill the firqt one that attempted to
•oacb him. One of the pursuing party,
however, brought him to his . senses by
firing one barrel of the gun in close prox
imity to his carcass. This at once caused
him to throw down his arms and surren
der, and they marched him back to the
scene of the murder. Mr. Barrett at once'
] procured a warrant, arraigned him under
the cliarga of assault with intent to min
der, before Justice Evans, who committed
him to jail, where he now is. The woun
ded man liugered until Saturday after
noon and died, hence, George Thompson’s
trial will he for* a graver offense. Mr.
Barrett and the three negro men named
above, all deserve much credit for their
prompt and manly action in bringing to
such justice, the murderer.”
The Stonewall fire company of Griflin
has received its new steamer.
Our wishes for the prosperity of the
Griffin News are credited to another pape:
No matter, we meant what we said, all
the same.
Some of the citizens are expecting forty
thousand hags of cotton for Albany this
season.
Colonel Nelson Tift, of Albany,
will plant a large crop of rice this season.
The. Oglethorpe Echo says next to its
old bachelors, Lexington is noted for its
army of useless curs.
Lexington is in dread of an almost
certain water famine the coming season.
A white girl, by the name of Ella Jane
Smith, was fatally burned last week near
Lexington, and died the next day.
Governor J. E. Brown, while in Al
bany on his way to Florida, in company
with his family and brother, was sere
naded at the Barnes House,and responded
in a speech to the young men in which
there was no admixture of politics.
On Tuesday night the train on the Al
bany and Gulf railroad ran over a negro
man at Teheauviile, cutting off an arm
and a leg.
Colonel Christy, of the Athens
Watchman, had a beautiful little daugh
ter horn to him on the 29th of February.
More attention is being paid to the
opening and development of the gold
mines of Dawson county at this present
time, than at any period heretofore.
The Cusseta correspondent of the Co
lumbus Times says:
Israel Gordon, a colored man of this
county, and a former 3lave of. General
John B. Gordon, has accumulated since
the war four hundred acres of land and
four or five good mules. He is out of
debt and is making money. He takes
pride id telling that he used to belong to
‘Mars John.”
Darien Timber Gazette: Our city has
been visited during the past week by sev
eral prominent timber merchaots of the
North, who succeeded in placing a num
ber of large orders with our dealers for
coastwise shipment. The importance of
Darien, as a timber market, is becoming
more manifest every year, notwithstanding
the prediction of old fogies that she has
seen her best days.
Dahloneoa Signal: A huge rattle
snake took possession of a tbunnel on a
mine in Dawson county, belonging to
Bev. A. Martin, Esq., sometime last sum
mer, and to-day holds it undisputed. All
efforts to get him out proving unavailing,
Bev. is now taxing his legal lore and
searching all the'authorities to make out a
case against his tenant and oust hig snake-
ship.
Oglethorpe Echo: Last week while
a young lady near Mount Pleasant wai
getting some sand from a branch, she dis
covered several particles of gold. An in
spection of the gravel proved it to be rich
in the precious metal. Our entire county
is beyond doubt underlined with valuable
minerals.
The same paper says: We notice that
caterpillars are yearly increasing in this
county. They have destroyed the per
simmon trees and are now taking the
frait. In the spring their nets festoon
iresent season the mule trade in our city our woods. It is said these are only the
ms been far greater tbau for many years, j videttes of the main army, now in Missis-
Tlie revenue to the city is .juite an item. | sippi, and which advances twenty miles
One of our warehouse firms alone pai.d for cash season. It-will take just fifteen
years at this rate for them to land in our Mr. Jonas presented a concurrent reso
county—when the Echo will exodust. lutionofthe Louisiana Legislature, ask-
Dublin Gazette: Hon. Charles C. ing an appropriation for the improvement
Kibbee, of Hawkinsville, would make an of the mouth df the Calcalsier river. Re-
excellent Governor. He is a young man, ferred.
hut one of the most intelligent in the • Mr. Kirkwood submitted a resolution
South. He made a good State Senator,' instructing the Secretary of the Treasury
and knows more attbut the State’s affairs , to communicate to the Senate a statement
than one half of the men who are now j of the amount of money'expended by the
holding public positions in Georgia. Col- j United States for all purposes necessarily
onel Kibbee is very popular in Georgia, growing out of the late war, specifying
and if he would onlv make a fight, he \ separately amounts paid on principal of
could secure most any office in the gift of
the people.
To prevent distemper in horse and cat
tle, when it prevails in the neighborhood,
use Foutz’s Celebrated Horse and Cattle
Powders. They are a safe and certain
remedy. mariblw
BY TELEGRAPH
Washington, March 7.—The follow
ing is the reply of Hon. Fernando Wood,
chairman of the Ways and Means Com
mittee of the House, to the second dis
patch from C. W. Durant, in which he
asked whether the merchants and impor
ters who have memorialized Congress are
to understand that Mr. Wood favored im
mediate action by Congress to remove the
difficulties that sugar refiners and impor
ters complain of:
C. W. Durant, Ncto York:—I am in
favor of a just and equitable tariff on su
gar, which shall impose the duties equita
bly upon all grades and not iu the Interest
of any classof refiners, merchants or for
eign makers, and am opposed to the un
just discriminations attempted to he made
between the several grades, for the pur
pose of favoring particular interests, and
am also opposed to the continuance of the
color standard, by which so much loss to
the treasury has ensued, unless it is ac
companied by some other test of value.
Such a bill as I indicate I will cheerfully
support at once. Fernando Wood.
In conversation this evening Mr. Wood
stated that the sugar question would come
up dgain in committee, the vote by which
its consideration was postponed last week
not being intended as a final determina
tion of the matter.
Paris, March 7.—A semi-official state
ment has been issued correcting newspa
per accounts of the Hartmann affair. It
declares that the decision not to surren
der Hartman as a prisoner was adopt
ed unanimously. No perplexity ever ex
isted. The whole matter was settled in
the ordinary way.
New York, March 7.—Delegates from
various Irish societies and Hibernian or
ganizations in Brooklyn met this after
noon and decided not to parade on St.
Patrick’s day, hut to send the money usu
ally appropriated for such occasions to the
suli'eriug poorof Ireland.'
Washington, March 7.—De Lesseps
attended early mass to-day, and called on
friends during the day. To-uiorrowhe
will appear by invitation before the inter-
oceanic canal committee.
Cincinnati, March 7.—A fast passen
ger train on the Cincinnati Southern rail
road through tn ^Chattanooga, will leave
here to-morrow morning' at o’clock,
and wijl run through in twelve hours and
fifteen minutes. The schedule time North
is twelve hours between Chattohooga and
Cincinnati.
Leadville, March 7.—The celebrated
Iron mine. was sold Saturday to New
York parties for three million dollars.
St. Paul, March 8.—A fire broke out
yesterday iu the wholesale house of Aur-
iiach, Finch Culberton & Co., the Iaigest
building and occupied by the heaviest
firm in the city, and it is a total loss. The
building was three years old, cost $90,000
and was insured for $45,000. It was
filled with goods in anticipation of the
spring trade. The value of the goods was
$850,000; insurance $492,000.
San Francisco, March 8.—The Call
publishes the result of inquiries regarding
the recent movements in military circles,
from which it appears that all the arms of
the second regiment of the National Guard
have been removed to the old City Hall
or central police station, and a guard of a
lieutenant and ten men of company F
kept over them. Companies B and C of
the first regiment, are concentrated at the
armory of the latler, aud the arms of
company G, of the second regiment,
placed in their charge.
An officer and guard is mounted nightly
at the armory of the third regiment,
which is allowed to retain its arms. The
armory of the first regiment is closely
guarded, and no one allowed to enter.
The anus of the three. cavalry companies
have been removed—locality not known.
Camp regulations have been established,
and “grand rounds” visit various posts
nightly. ' General McDowell was tele-
-grapheff yesterday from Washington to
>ring all available troops in his division
to San Francisco, and companies, amount
ing in all to fire hundred men, are al
ready en route, with more to follow,
probably fifteen hundred altogether.
London, March 8. — Twenty-three
deaths-have occurred front the holler ex
plosion at Glasgow Friday. * L
A Pari* dispatch says it is announced
that Prince Orloff intends to quit Paris on
a prolonged leave of absence. This is be
lieved to be in consequence of the Hart
mann affair, as Orloff confidently expeo-'
ted .to obtain his extradition.
Another Paris dispatch says the ware
houses of the Messageries Natiouel (the
great carrying compauy), have been des
troyed by fire. The merchandise, valued
at two million francs, was destroyed. Six
thousand square yards of earth are cov
ered with the debris.
Yokoho.ua, February 16.—Another
fire has oenrred at\he capital. Twenty-
five hundred housqs were destroyed.
Washington, March 8.—The select
committee of the House on the inter-
oceanic canal, gave audience this morning
to Count Ferdinand De Lesseps. Besides
the chairman and members of the com
mittee, several members of the House, no
tably, Joseph E. Johnston, of Virginia,
called and paid their respects to the great
leveller. Captain Eads chattqd familiarly
with M. DeLesseps, and there were also
present Commodore Sullivan, Lieutenant
Collins and Mr. Menocal of the United
States navy, who are zealous advocates of
the Xicarauga route for a canal in prefer
ence to the Panama route. The Appro-
the public debt thereby incurred; the
amount of interest paid on such for the
year; amount paid for pensions including
arrears; and amount paid soldiers and
sailors of the war, such information to be
brought down to January 1st, 1SS0.
Adopted.
The Senate proceeded to consider the
calendar bill to amend the law relative to
the seizure and forfeiture of vessels for
breach of revenue. Passed. It is inten
ded co prevent such forfeiture when smug
gling is carried on without the knowledge
or priority of officers or owners of the,ves-
sel.
In the House the Speaker announced
that the new rules would be operative to
day, and in accordance with those rules,
proceeded to call States for bills, etc., be
ginning with the State of Alabama- The
first bill introduced was one by Mr. San?
ford, of Alabama, to reduce the tariff on
certain articles which he desired to have
referred to the Committee on Revision of
Laws.
The bill provides that no duty In excess
of fifty per cent, of the present rate of du
ties, shall, after July 1st, be collected on
imported merchandise made principally
of cotton, hemp, metal, wood or leather.
The Speaker ruled that under the new
rules the bill should be referred to the
Ways and Means Committee.
Mr. Morrison, of Illinois, moved its
reference to the Committee of the Whole.
After debate, in which Messrs. Fernando
•Wood and Robeson held it was the Speak
er's duty to indicate the reference of the
bill, which reference could only be
changed by a suspension of the rules, and
Messrs. Cox of New Fork, Haskell of
Kansas, and Morrison held that a major
ity of the House had the right to send a
bill to any committee it chose. A vote was
taken and the bill was sent to the Ways
and Means Committee—yeas, 144; nays,
88.
Mr. Sanford also introduced a bill abol
ishing the tariff on printing type and
blank paper, or the material used in their
manufacture. Referred to the same com
mittee
By Mr. Nichols of Georgia, abolishing
the duty on paper, and reducing the duty
on unsized paper to ’five per cent, ad
valorem. ■
By Mr. Speer of Georgia, forbidding
military dress parades on Sundays.
By Mr. Gillett of Iowa, appropriating
$50,000 for the encouragement of the
manufacture of sugar from com stalk3
and sorghum. - 1 '
i By Mr. King, of Louisiana, abolishing
t he tariff on the materials used in making
paper ani printing inks, and on paper for
books andnewsnawuy- —- -- -V"'
By Mr. Hatch, of Missouri, abolishing
the tariff on 3alt. •
Mr. King, of Louisiana, Chairman of
the Inter-Oceanic Canal Committee, of
fered, by the unanimous instruction of
that Committee, a resolution re-affirming
the Monroe doctrine, declaring that any
canal constructed must he subject to the
control by this Government, and author
izing the abrogation of any treaties incon
sistent herewith. Ordered to be prin
ted. They will he Called up hereafter.
The Committee on Elections reports
that Mr.’Slemons was entitled to the seat
from the Second Arkansas District.
Mr. Weaver submitted a minority re
port declaring the seat vacant. Both were
laid on the table.
A message was received from the Presi
dent, transmitting correspondence rela
tive to the inter-oceanic canal, and de
claring the right and duty of the United
States to exercise such authority over any
speh canal as will protect our national
itercsts. Printed and referred to the In-
r-Oceanlc Canal . Committee, Ad
journed.
Washington, March 8.—In the Senate
a! message was received from the Presi
dent regarding a correspondence with for
eign governments about the inter-oceanic
canal.
A bill for the relief of homestead set
tlers was passed. It gives such settlers
the same privileges as to filing applica
tions and-perfecting an entry as now en
joyed by pre-emption settlers, and in other
respects equalizes the homestead and pre
emption laws,
Mr. Bayard advocated Mr. Randolph’s
substitute for the bill I for the relief of
Fitzvfohn Porter. It authorizes Porter’S
explosion in the Winter Palace. Since
that time 5,000 persons have been arrest
ed. The authorities learning that suspi
cious persons lived at a certain house, or
dered twenty policemen, under five offi
cers, to search the house. Nothing suspi
cious was discovered, but three men being
seen to hastily leave a neighboring shea,
five policemen rushed into it. Instantly
a-terrible explosion of dynamite occurred,
blowing up the policemen and the shed.
Hardly had this explosion become known
when a great fire broke out on the* street
called Balsliaba. Three police buildings
and a private house were burned, and
several policemen perished in endeavoring
to save the papers from the police station.
San Francisco, March S—-I1 ;• im
possible to ascertain who orders the mili
tary movements, but it is coDjecaired they
result from the representaaons to the
Washington authorities by Colonel Bee,
Mr. Bayard regretted' that the Senator
from Wisconsin, (Carpenter) had intro
duced an appeal to partisan fueling into
his able speech on Saturday. There Was
no reason for making this a party ques
tion. It was purely a matter of public
justice. He denied that the jurisdiction
•of courts martial is co-equal with that of
civil tribunals. Military power must, in
all respects, be subordinated to civil
•power. Civil courts have authority to4n-
terfere in case of irregularity'In courts
njartiai, but military courts have no such
authority concerning civil courts. This
fact alone would prove the subordination
of courts martial. They are creatures of
Congress and under its control. Whereas,,
the civil tribunds are permanent and in
dependent and always open to repair the
wrongs done by courts martial or
otherwise. Congress.cannot be debarred by
the sentence of 'a court martial from re
moving political disabilities. He cited
cases of Surgeon-General Hammond and
Captain George A. Arms to show that
Congress has before annulled the findings
of courts marshal. He said the testimony
in the case showed that -Porter’s action
was wise and soldierly, that he obeyed
the spirit if not letter of the orders, and
that his gallantry on the thirtieth, caused
Stonewall Jackson, who was a good judge
of bravery, to make special mention in his
reports of the previous assaults of the
Federal force under General Porter
which nearly broke Jackson's line.
It had been said that Congress would
hear from the country if it passed this
bill. He hoped so, and wanted the coun-
priSioM^committee ‘S&eoS* JSBg ! Urn
its room for the holding of the reception, tiffin
hut after a time the gafferyrecently W
ed at theback of the Speaker’s chairjwas ^
put in requisition, only to be again aban-
doned for the Appropriations committee 1 ^
room on account of the pressure of specta- '-J? tTmwL ° fwf
tors anxious to see M. De Lesseps. dence ’ ^-McDonald t oo k thc floor) but;
He gave his views at much length. Mr. SeSS ‘° n ’ after
Appleton, acting as interpreter. He had whlch the Senate adjoumed '
not completed his statement at thc hour ' Washington, March 8.—The House
of adjournment, hut at his own sugees- Committee on Coinage, toWay, agreed to
tlon, and in compliance with the wishes provide for the exchange of trade dollars
of the committee, he postponed_his intend- for legal tender silver dollars, at par. Thc
ed departure from the city and will come trade dollars to be recoined into legal
again to-morrow before the’ committee, tender dollars, as now provided by law,
when Captain Ead3 is also to have a hear- tlie further coinage of trade dollars so re-
ing. Count De Lesseps requested the deemed and coined into legal tender dol-
oommittee to submitt, to him in writing lsrs is not to interfere with the minimum
any question affecting the Panama scheme, amount of legal tender dollars now au-
present precautions will
continue until the United States Court de
cides the constitutionality of the Jaw pro
hibiting the employment ot Chinese by
corporations, and until the question of the
condemnation of Chinatown is settled.
The workingmen are much excited over
these movements.
■ London, March 8.-—The news from
Vienna of thc betrothal of the Arch Duke
Rudolph, Prince Imperial of Austria, to
Princess Sleptame Clothilde, of Belgium,
is official.
Julius Beer, proprietor of tlie London
Sunday Observer, is dead.
A dispatch from Capetown, dated Feb
ruary 17, says that at a meeting of the
Boer party, Paul K. Ruger, President of
the former republic of Transvaal,proposed
that the Boer committee, when it met on
the eighth of March, should discuss meaDS
for establishing friendly relations with the
British government authorities there.
London, March 8.—In the House of
Commons to-day the Chancellor of the
Exchequer stated that the Queen had been
advised to dissolve Parliament at Easter.
In regard to the election in the depart
ment of Dordogne which resulted in the
return ofM. M. Dg Fourton and Bosredon,
Conservatives,, to the French Senate, the
Paris correspondent of the Times says:
“M. Fourton is the famous ex-Minister of
the Interior. He was strenuously ap
posed by the Bonapartists on account of
his share in the crisis of 1S77, but M. De-
Fourton’s local influence over the Con
servative Senatorial electors enabled him
to triumph.
The Paris correspondent of the Daily
Telegraph says be has reason to" know
with certainty that the Government b*«
taken elaborate measures in case of the
defeat of article seven' of Gerry’s educa
tion bill, which prohibits members of un
authorized societies from teaching in the
schools, that should the article not be
voted in thc Senate, all the laws now ex
isting against the Jesuits are to be put in
force with the utmost possible rigor.
Harrisburg, .Pa., March 8.—The
riot bribery cases came up for trial to-
4*i' oaiter, Rumberger, Kembler and
era afford pleaded guilty of corrupt solici
tation. Long’s case Was continued until
to-morrow.
message to the Senate accompanyrng
copies of the correspondence touching the
Inter-Oceanic Canal:
The policy of this country is a canal
under American control. The United
States cannot consent to surrender their
control to any European power or powers;
treaties contrary to their view should be-
amended. Capital invested by citizens of
other countries cannot be protected by the
intervention of those countries without,
the adoption of measures on this continent,
which the United States would deem in
admissible. If ouT protection is relied on,
we must have such control as will enable
us to protect the national interests and
rights of private capital. The canal will
be virtually a part of our coast line—our
commercial interest in it surpasses that of
any other nat ion, while its relations to our
power of prosperity-are a paramount con
cern to us. No other great power would
under similar circumstances fail to assert
the right to a fall control over a work so
vitally affecting its iuterest and welfare.
St. Louis, March 8.—Hon. Henry F.
Scharrett, planter of Pass Christian, Miss.,
is now here and says that in view of the
negro exodus from the South and the dis
turbed condition of things in his section,
the planters have considered the question
to some extent of attempting to obtain
Chinese laborers. Correspondence haa
already been had with on» of the Chinese
companies, and probably some Chinamen
will be set at work in Southern Missis
sippi in-a few days.
xluvuuu ruricr.- it sutuuruxs lgrwrs 0i „ T. _
appointment as Colonel, with pay from ® A ?„. Marcl1 8.—Placards
1SGS. ate being posted jn prominent places
about the city, warning employers not to
continue to employ Chinese labor, and
vaguely hinting at terrible consequences
.if they persist inso doing. A pointed ref
erence is also made to the condition of
the unemployed. The placards are
signed “Council of 13.” A company from
the First Cavalry regiment and Company
G, Eighth Infantry, arrived this morning
from Camp Halleck, Nevada. •
Strikes not Usually Successful.
The New York Bulletin says out of 259
strikes embracing a long series of years,
.(since 1830) occurring in Massachusetts,
109 were unsuccessful, 18 successful, com
promised 16, partly successful 6, result
unknown 9, still pending L The report
of the British Iron Traders’ Association
for 1878 furnishes a list of 277 strikes
which are classified as follows: Coal
miners 58; iron ship builders 0; boiler
makers 4; builders 77; miscellaneous 112.
Out of the entire number only four were
successful, while seventeen were settled
by compromise. But who can calculate
the amount of hardship and suffering
which have been the result of these com
binations? How much better if the mas
ter manufacturers of the country would
seek to follow the example of the Lowell
mill owners, who have, without solicita
tion, made a general advance in wages
within the past few weeks. The iron
makers especially, it would seem, could
afford to do so.
either politically, financially or otherwise,
they might desire to propose, that lie might
be prepared to-morrow to accord to them
the fullest information at his command.
Washington, March 8.—The Vice
thorized by law.
Washington, March 8.—Postmaster-
General Key to-day rescinded his order
stopping letters addressed to R. C. Win-
tersmitli, Supervisor of the Frankfort
President laid before the Senate a memo- School Fund lottery, on the ground that
rial of the trustees of the Peabody educa- it was inadvertently given.
tional fund, recommending legislation to “London, March 8 A St. Petersburg
aid in thc education of colored children, special savs the rigor of the despotism in
Referred.
Poisonous Drugs in Bbead.—The
Baltimore Nun sounds the alarm that a
large proportion of the baking powders
now on the market are composed largely
of alum. The action of alum on the hu
man stomach is precisely the same as on
the mouth; it draws aud puckers it all up,
producing all sorts of dangerous disorders.
In Germany, England and France, any
one found selling alum powders is subject
to fine and imprisonment. Pure baking
powder should be made of grape cream
of tartar, which is worth from forty to
forty-five cents per pound. Alum costa
oply three cents per pound.
There is nothing more harrowing to
the sympathetic mind than to hear a cry
ing baby. Dr. Bull’s Baby Syrup will
give instant relief to the little sufferer.
Russia has much increased since the For sale at all drug stores.
