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GEORGIA PRESS.
Jajies Morgan, the supposed wife
aaurderer, of Columbus, after a two or
days’ trial before a court of commit
tal, was, on the 31st ult., discharged from
custody, the prosecution failing to present
giroof sufficient to commit Mm to jail to
;aw*it a trial before a higher tribunal.
TiiH people of LaGrange are having a
temperance boom, and over one hundred
.signed the pledge and joined the
Urine ribbon brigade on last Tuesday.
"Waterman is happy, and great enthusiasm
31 re vails upon the subject.
Tub Columbus fire company, Young
America, has received an invitation from
~/)y. hrc department of Rome to visit that
<jty, and participate in their annual pa-
cade on the 11th of May.
The Griffin News gives an account of
the arrest of a guano thief by the name
of James Craven, of Pike county, who
swindled S. K. Dick, of Griffin, out of
twenty-two sacks of guano. He is now
in jail awaiting trial.
Hu. Redden Smith, of Thomasville,
T«« in his hot house a pineapple tree bear
ing- The plant is vigorous and the apple
well advanced. A novel sight m Geor-
Captain Triplett, of the Thomas
ville Tones, has returned, with an addi
s'Jenal supply of pictures. He gathered
tUtetn on his Cincinnati trip.
TnK game laws of Georgia forbid the
•scooting of game of any Mnd after to-day,
April 1st, until October. The boys will
cemember and keep their little shotguns
■jst. home.
Of the financial condition of Ameri
cas, the Republican says:
The people of Americus may not be
raware of the fact that they have cause to
choice over the wise selection of Mayor
■and Coundlmen who have governed the
interests of Americus with wisdom and
-prudence for the last two years. Each
member has exhibited a sacrificing spirit
in personal Interest to promote the good
•of tbe city," and. here is the result of the
finances, a showing that when compared
•with her impecunious condition several
pears back, is most gratifying:
'Cash on hand and in bank, $8,190 08
Less mutilated city bills to
b* destroyed, 1,400 00
Uteblic School Tax collected,
5?»id out on School Fund,
6,790 08
4,110 39
544 00
3,500 39
The Louisville Courier, of the 31st ul
timo, says:
While Willie Green and Napoleon Ber-
ey, two small colored boys living in this
place, were out hunting on last Thursday,
they got into an argument about some
ammunition, when the former shot the
latter with a shot gun, the entire load en
tering Ms forehead and killing Mm in
stantly. The boy was arrested and placed
in jail, and the Coroner’s jury found a
verdict charging him with murder. He
was arraigned before Justice Hayles, and
at preliminary trial was held last Monday,
when he wa3 committed for trial in the
Superior Court. He claims that the shoot
ing was accidental. \
We learn from the Albany Advertiser
that even lawyers in the low country bor
vow horses without any intention of re
turning them. Somebody has possession
of Dr. P. S. Hale’s horse, and the doctor
is solicitous as to Ms whereabouts. We
.suggest that they put John Thrasher on
the trade. “He’ll fotch’em.”
The Thomasville Enterprise discussing
the relative strength of the two races in
the second Congressional district, says:
We were so fortunate as to receive,
.since our last issue, a copy of the Comp
troller General’s report tor the year end
ing October 1,1879. By going over that
carefully we find the following majorities
as shown by the polls of wMte and colored
": men in each county:
COLORED MAJORITIES.
Raker, 381j Calhoun, 207; Dougherty,
1,118; Early, 109; Mitchel, 10; Quitman,
112; Randolph, 101; Thomas, 118. Total
-colored majorities, 2,222.
WHITE MAJORITIES.
Berrien, 719; Brooks, 135; Clay, 03;
"Colquitt, 350; Decatur, 292; Lowndes,
349; Miller, 241; Worth, 072. Total
white majorities, 2,721.
These figures show that the white polls
exceed the colored by 499. Now, is it
seasonable to suppose that there are more
colored voters not liable to pay poll tax
4ban there are whites? These figures are
Oaken from the official returns, and are
therefore correct.
Tile following reflection is from the
Sparta Isfunealilc: ,
Bret Harte has been nominated to be
United States consul at Glasgow. The
tpeculiar characteristic which suggested
Tils appointment to D. Facto was, doubt
less, his great skill in stealing and pub
lishing, as his own, the writings of other
peopled He is as bad at that as some of
tthe Grorgia editors.
Tiie Americus Republican says: On
Sunday the 28th instant, during the ab-
jjence of the proprietor, Sir. Albridge Wil-
Uixms, two miles northeast of Anderson-
vilie, lie bad his dwelling, out houses,
some stock and all his household. and
kitchen furniture, together with all his
supplies on hand, burned, supposed to be
worth $1,500. Origin of the fire is un
known. No insurance.
"The Columbus Enquirer says of the
Trinity (Episcopal) Church: The Easter
offerings on Sunday amounted to $440—
•quite a handsome sum. The choral ser
vice in the afternoon by the Sunday
-school was very beautiful. The music
(was sweet and charming.
The Marietta Journal says: Rev.
.Martin Porter, who hasa mill near Dallas,
PAulding county, on last Friday morning
went to his mill to do some work. His
prolonged absence from his house, in
duced some of his family to go in search
-of Mm. He was found underneath the
xnill, in the water, dead. It is supposed
that he accidentally fell and struck a
xock, knocking him insensible, and that
lie was drowned. He was about sixty-
five years of age, widely known' and
Jjighly respected.
The Griffin News says:
The South possesses every clement to
xnike her independent of the world, and
at will not be very long before outsiders
■will discover the feet. All we need to
•Jevelop our resources is enterprise. Go
to work, young man, and make your for
tune. No age or clime ever presented
fcettcr opportunities than the one in wMch
you live.
Albany Advertiser: The many friends
•of Judge P. P. Clayton, of Morgan, Cal
houn county, will be pained to learn of
Siis death, which occurred on last Satur-
•lay afternoon, after an illness of three or
four weeks. Judge Clayton was the pro
prietor of the Morgan Hotel, and a mem-
4xir of the mercantile film of Clayton &
Tinsley. He had been a resident of Cal
houn county for a number of years, and
was universally esteemed for Ms many
fiigh traits of character.
The Thomasville Enterprise says:
At a meeting of the Board of Directors
«af the Fair Association, the time for hold-
ing the Spring Fair was changed from Fri-
Aav, the 7th day of May, to Saturday the
1st of May. This change was made in
deference to the Decatur County Fair
Association, they having previously fixed
upon the 7th for the holding of their fair,
*,fact not known by our Board when
iViy selected the 7tb. The admission fee
• or Sabbath School scholars was also
nJmjiged from iiiteen to ten cents. The
schools will, as first provided, enter as or
ganisations in order to secure the benefits
of tills rate.
Warre.vton Clipper: Mrs.Thompson,
am old lady living near Camak, is beyond
doubt or.e of the sprigbtliest of her age in
<It« State. Mrs. Thompson is about
eighty-four years of age, aud considers it
nothing to walk almost daily from four to
five miles. She is about the oldest lady
inhabitant of our county. Her husband
was a soldier in the revolutionaiy war.
The Sparta Ishmaelite says: Our com-*
munity was filled with sad surprise on last
Sunday by the death of Mr. Lavoisier
Forbes. Although it was not expected
that he would ever grow well and strong
again, very few thought that he would
pass away so soon. He was taken sick
on the 4th of last July, since which time
Ms decline has been steady and irresisti
ble. At the time when insidious con
sumption laid hold on him, he was a prin
ter in this establishment. He gave up
that job, and after months of confinement
to Ms room gained strength enough to
take a trip to Florida. But the disease
had laid fast hold on him, and after a few
months he returned home to die. Sun
day morning, a few minutes alter eight
o’clock, he bade Ms friends and relatives
farewell, and went quietly out, as one go-
etb to sleep.
The Irwinton Appeal says that _ in
Gordon, last week, some little sensation
was created at the residence of Mrs.
Lingo. A little dog belonging to Sammy
Goode showed signs of being mad, and
several of tlie boarders began to feel un
easy when he came into the house. He
commenced to bite everything he came
in contact with, and he was promptly dis
patched with a bullet. Several days
since, Mr. Steele, a gentleman hoarding
at Mrs. Lingo’s, was‘bit on the hand
wMle playing with this same dog, and we
learn since he left that Ms sufferings have
been intense.
Americus Republican says: The fi
nancial and moral condition of Lee coun
ty at this time is better than it has been
for twenty years. The county is out of
debt with a surplus of funds on hand, and
there is not a prisoner m jail at this time.
The jurors were all paid off in cash at this
term of the court. The grand jury were
composed of some of the most intelligent
gentlemen of the county,
The Republicans of Richmond county
will have two delegations in Atlanta on
the 21st at the State Convention. No,
The
denounces No. 1 vociferously.
Prince of the party will address the party
at some future time.
TrrE following wail is taken from the
Athens Banner
Just think of it. there has not been a
wedding in Athens since Christmas, and
Athens "is considered the seat of learning,
too.
Athens may be the “seat,” but Macon
claims to be the “head” of learning in
Georgia.
Mr. II. G. Bean, whose death we an
nounced in our last issue, had an insu
rance of $7,000 on Ms life. He leaves a
wife and six children to receive this sum
when paid by the insurance companies
Barnesville Gazette: We regret to
chronicle the death of George Bush,
which occurred last Friday afternoon from
the gun shot wound by Mr. James F,
West. The circumstance is universally
deplored on account of both families.
Doctors McDowell, Perdue and Dickey
did all in their power to save him but
could not. lie leaves a wife but no chil
dren to mourn his loss.
Captain John C. Rutherford, of
Macon, has kindly consented to deliver
Ms celebrated lecture on |“Paris” for the
benefit of the Perry Public Library on the
evening of Wednesday, the 24th inst.
■Sandersville Herald says: An in
fant child of Mr. B. F. Murphy was pois
oned by its colored nurse, on Wednesday
of last week by drugging it with nitric
acid. Mr. Mmphy has been using some
of tMs acid to remove warts from horses,
The mouth of the cMld is badly crisped
from the poison, and on Thursday refused
to eat. Dr. Brantley, the attending phy
sician, we learn, says there is no hope for
tlfe recovery of the child. We learn that
this nurse once before gave the child an
overdose of paregoric, causing it to sleep
over two days. It i3 certainly time one
of such murderous proclivities should at
least be placed where her fiendish nature
can not be gratified.
Cartersville Free Press says:
A young couple from the mountains
were romantically married on the depot
platform the other day at the point of a
shot gun wielded by the girl’s father.
The young fellow was making for Texas,
but as he will now have to provide for
the purchase of two more tickets, Ms visit
is postponed.
Savannah News of April 1st:
The adjourned annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Savannah, Florida
aud Western Railway Company, was
held yesterday. Mr. J. H. Estill was
called to the chair, and Mr. G. H. Tilley
requested to act as secretaiy. After
transaction of other business, the stock
holders proceeded to-the election of Di
rectors, with the following result: H.
B. Plant, H. S. Haines, M. J. O’Brien,
W. S. Chisholm, J. H. Estill, Henry San
ford, G.H. Tilley.
After the adjournment of the stock
holders, the Directors met and elected
the following officers:
President—H. B. Plant.
Vice President—W. S. Chisholm.
General Manager—H. S. Haines.
Secretary—G.H. Tilley.
Treasurer—W. P. Hardee.
Barnesville Gazette: Mr. Jeff Blood-
worth had the misfortune to have his
dwelling burned last Friday about noon.
The fire was blazing up in the closet when
discovered. The only solution to the fire
is that the closet was left open and the
wind blew the fire into it, and thus pro
duced the fire. He saved the contents of
the house and also the kitchen.
Cartersville Free Press: George
W. Patterson, a lunatic, was confined In
our jail last Tuesday. He was sent from
Gordon county to the asylum two or three
years ago and returned to Adairsville,
where his wife was living, on last Satur
day, but his condition soon became such
that it was’necessary to confine him again.
He had, we learn, made threats and en
deavored to kill his mother. His wife and
father came to Cartenville with Mm on
Tuesday, and a warrant was issued by J.
H. Wilde, clerk of the board of commis
sioners for Ms arrest and confinement in
jail.
Under the head of “No Steamer for
Hawkinsville,” the Dispatch says:
We learn that Judge M. L. Mershon
has granted a temporary order to some of
our citizens restraining the Council of
Hawkinsville in the purchase of a steam
fire engine, or against receiving it if
shipped to Hawkinsville. The injunction
will be heard about the eighth of this
month.
Some of the citizens are opposed to the
levy of several thousand dollars in taxes
for the purchase of a steamer. It is
claimed that the purchase of a steamer,
the digging of cisterns and the erection of
an engine house would require an outlay
of nine or ten thousand dollars, and that
to levy this amount of taxes upon the
property of the town for one year would
be too heavy.
The other side claims that the town' is
at the mercy of. the flames, and that
some efforts must be made to prevent and
extinguish fires. The insurance com
panies are becoming frightened, and will
not insure a house and stock of goods
more than twenty-four hours at a time,
and then only while a big rain is falling.
And it is now being “narrated around”
that the chemical fire engine recently
bought by the town council came very
near being burned up the other night" of
the fire, and that it would have been “to
tally gone up” if it had not been for Dave
McCormick’s.liand pump.
Savannah News, April 1.—Yesterday
afternoon about 5 o’clock, some excite
ment was created on York stieet, neal
Lincoln, by a negro woman who was ter
ribly under the influence of liquor. In
the midst of her antics, Abram Davidson,
a colored man, passed by, when the wo
man, with an oath, staggered up to him,
drew a pistol and leveled it, stating that
she intended to kill him, as she had long
been on the lookout for him. Davidson,
thinking discrcttonthe better part of valor
fled lip (lie street, anil Deputy Sheriff War
ing Russell, who was in the vicinity and
son six barrel, and every chamber was
loaded. The woman being very drunk
was allowed to be taken off by some
friends.
At.bant Advertiser: Captain Ed. L.
Wright says the Albany Guards have de
cided to drill at the Spring Fair for the
two hundred dollar prize offered by the
Fair Association, and he expects the Ma
con Volunteers, Savannah Cadets and the
Blues to enter the contest.
-A good story comes to the surface at the
expense of General Toombs. Daring the
war, President Davis visited “the front,”
and was at once assailed by General
Toombs, who said: “Mr. President, I am
a Brigadier General, and senior in rank
to Brigadier General McLaws. Yet, he
has 10,000 men under his commandwMle
I have but 1,000.” “Is that so?" said
Mr. Davis, and that very hour, he com
missioned McLaws a Major General.
Cedabtown Advertiser:
Charles S. Johnson, a young man in
the employ of the Estey Organ Company,
and who has made this place his base of
operations for more than a year past, has
absconded, and his whereabouts is now r
matter of much concern to sundry credi
tors.
Savannah News, April 1st, says: •
The numerous frieDds of James
Hines, Esq., will regret to learn of Ms
death, which occurred on Tuesday after
noon at the residence of Ms son-in-law,
Hon. Rufus E. Lester. Mr. Hines was
formerly of Burke county, but of late
years had resided in tMs city. He was in
his sixty-fourth year, and had been an in
valid for about nine years, suffering from
a paralytic stroke. He leaves a wife and
three children, one of whom is the wife of
Mr. Lester. His funeral will take place
this morning, and the remains will be in
terred in Laurdl Grove Cemetery.
The Augusta Chronicle, of the 1st,
says:
Sister Cecelia, who has been the Moth
er Superior of St. Mary’s Convent in this
city for the past three years, has gone to
Atlanta to take charge of a hospital in
that city. She carries with her the good
wishes, a3 she will always have the pray
ers, of many people in Augusta, to whom
her kindness, her gentle spirit and her
Christian virtues are so well known.
Alb ant Advertiser: A subscribe*
writes us the particulars of a frightful ac
cident, resulting in the instant death of
Wm. M. Seats, near Graves’ Mill, at Mag
nolia, on last Friday evening. Mr. Seats
was a teamster for Mr. Graves, and was
driving his log cart along the’ road, when
he attempted to alight from Ms saddle
without stopping his team, to get a drink
of water. His foot became entangled in
some way, and he fell to the ground, and
before he could move the ponderous cart
wheel caught him, first crushing his skull
and then passing over Ms entire body
Mr. Seats was a middle-aged man, a wid
ower, and of good character.
Augusta News of the 1st inst, says
George Shaw, a well known colored
man, formerly of this county, but now in
Liberia, writes to friends in Augusta,
warning the colored people not to go to
that benighted region. He says the coun
try is mountainous and sterile, and the
climate very sickly. All the necessaries
of life are very inferior, scarce and high in
price. The letter farther say3: “Wrong
statements have been made to the colored
people of the South about Liberia, which
cause many a poor soul to come here and
suffer. Liberia is a certain death ibr all
the American people who come here, and
the natives, who think we are just out of
slavery, look on us with suspicion and
scorn. If the true facts about this coun
try were generally known, it would save
many a poor soul from dying, which a
large majority do who land on these burn
ing shores. There is no machinery in the
country, and fanners cannot keep out of
debt from one season to the other. The
much talked of bread fruit is nothing like
the bread you have in the States; it is a
peculiar kind of fruit growing on large
trees, and very insignificant.”
We are glad to copy the following from
the Americus Recorder :
The report having obtained circulation
in the State press that Mr. E. Brake, who
was burned out by the fire on the 27th
ultimo, aud who was quite sick at the
time, “was so overpowered by Ms loss
that he died soon after,” we desire to cor
rect the statement. Mr. E. Brake, we are
glad to state, is not only not dead, hut
much unproved, with tair prospects of his
recovery.
Fort Talley Mirror: We learn that
Mr. A. J. Burnett, of near Knoxville, re
cently lost four stacks of fodder, a wagon
body and several other articles by fire. He
had been after coal, and left it in his wag
on, which was trader the shelter with Ms
buggy. There must have been some fire
remaining on the coal, wliich ignited and
burned the shelter as well as the articles
enumerated. Being awakened and assis
ted by liis neighbors, he managed to save
Ms buggy and corn cribs by hard work.
Columbus Enquirer: Some fears
were expressed when the wires, for the
telephone exchange, which is yet to be es
tablished, were put up that there would
be danger from lightning. People put
lightning rods on their bouses to guard
against lightning, and half the time the
rods became uninsulated in a short while.
A great many of them have no ground
connections, and yet the occupants of the*
houses felt perfectly safe if the rod is only
there. Although lightning rods, when
kept in order, are undoubtedly a protec 1
tion, yet when they are not so kept, they
are dangerous. Now the telephone wire
is a lightning rod with a guarantee that it
will he kept in perfect order; it gives a
multiplicity of ground connections, and
the distribution of the electricity over the
number of wires decreases the danger
most materially.
Columbus Times: For several days a
crowd of carpenters have been busily en-
jagcil in building a fishing smack which
is to ran in the waters of the Chattahoo
chee. Yesterday the boat was pronounced
finished, and one of onr able judges was
called upon to officiate in conducting the
ceremonies of IauncMng. He suggested
that it was necessary to have a bottle of
wine to break over the boat. After a
long consultation they finally agreed to
compromise, on beer, and the beer was
soon brought, t.nd the boat christened “A.
W. McMichael,” as a compliment to our
most excellent bailiff.
saw the disturbance, hastened forward
and succeeded in getting the pistol from
the woman before she could fire it. The
weapon is a perfectly new Smith & Wes
Fokt Valley Mirror: The sad in
telligence of the death of Mr. Thomas A.
Harwell, telegraph operator at Feny,
readied ns last night. He died about
5 o’clock in the evening, of congestion of
the bowels. He was a rising young man
of noble qualities, and bis many friends
here will be sad to hear of his sudden
death. His remains will he brought to
tlfis place for interment.
Americus Recorder : One of the
prominent farmers of Schley county in
formed us Thursday that he expected to
have a barrel of new flour in the Americus
market by the 20th of "April—that the
grain had shed the bloom, and in fact, is
almost “ready for the harvest.”
Oglethorpe Echo: Abner Blount,
the negro preacher who was arrested in
Lexington for eloping with a colored sis
ter, has been bound over to -answer the
charge at Hancock Superior Court. It is
now said that this scamp has never been
married to the woman be owns as a wife.
Quitman Reporter: Now that the
wild land investigation has been brought
to a close and left the Georgia Legislature
with nothing to do during the recess,
would it not be well for the Governor to
call an extra session of that body, say
some time in July, and have a committee
appointed from among its earnest work
ing members whose duty it shall be to in
vestigate our Colquitt county friend’s (A.
D. Tatterson, Esq.,) “Indian (?) Grants.”
We are inclined to the opinion that there
is a fraud, or some other screw- loose,
about these papers, for we are sure the la
mented Mr. Cobb did not, in his book of
Statutes, authorize the procuring of grants
from any such source; and, consequently,
they must be null and void ab initio, and
the cdurts will be in duty bound to so de
cide.
A correspondent of the Albany Ad
vertiser, writing from Bainbridge, says:
Last Friday Mis. J. W. D. Girtman,
living in this county, undertook to bum
tlie soot of a stack chimney with grass,
fcjhe succeeded to her sorrow. Not only
did she burn out the soot, but the dwel’- is only 25 cents a bottle.
lng, smoke bouse and com crib. In fif
teen minutes after the fire caught the.
dwelling, every out-house was in flames
Her husband and hands were at work in
the field some distance from the premises,
and before they conld get there nearly ev
erything of value was destroyed. Girt
man lo3t thirty dollars in money, nearly
all the household and kitchen furniture
wearing apparel, and all of his com, ba
con, and syrup. He had just emerged
from financial • troubles of the past, and
had everytMng needful to raise a crop
without running in debt. All perished in
the flames, leaving him penniless, aud his
family naked and homeless.
On Saturday last a fearful cyclone
struck the western part of our county,
traveling from due west due east, leveling
fences, tearing down trees, unroofin
dwellings, blowing away outhouses am
killing cattle.
TheHemry County Weekly says: The
most antique rencontre thatwehave heard
of took place at the Fayette county poor
farm, last Saturday afternoon. Bob Gay,
aged 86, and Peter Gay, aged 79, got into
a dispute wMle shucking com, winch ter
minated in a regular old-fashioned knock-
do im-and-drag-out fight. Peter bit off
Bob’s thumb, which Bob resented by
smoothing the wrinkles out of Peter’s
countenance with a brick, and was pro
ceeding to maul Mm in true pugilistic
style when the overseer came upon the
scene and put an end to the struggle. “Age
ain’t nothin’—blood will tell.”
Oglethorpe Echo: About the poor
est paid class of humanity is ladies who
teach country schools. But for the public
fund, they could not pay for their scanty
fare. We heard of one young lady from
Lexington who walked three miles often
to school, and one of her piratical old pa
tronspaidup his tuition with three old
hens. A man who would thus defraud
helpless female, deserves to be burnt at
the stake.
The editor of the South Georgian has
been to Macon, and has this to say about
us:
While in the city we visited the office
of the Daily Telegraph, and Tound that
some very important changes had been
made on the editorial staff. The senior
editor, Mr. Joseph Cushy, after an active
and useful editorial career, has divided
1ns labors with Rev. Mr. Sweet, the “Jack
Plane” of the Savannah News, whose fa
die pen has made much reputation for
that paper. His duties on the Messenger
are chiefly devoted to its Weekly, and we
have no doubt that under its manage
ment the “old and reliable” journal will
gain a rich harvest of wealth and fame,
The former local editor, Mr. J. H. Jones,
has retired from the management of that
department, and his duties are now per
formed by Mr. H. C. Edwards, whose
rich humor and sparkling sketches have
won for him as “X. I. E.” no small
amount of fame. Bat we must .bid adieu
to Macon, and return to onr little dty
refreshed and inspired by our visit.
Oglethorpe Echo: TMs is amatter
that farmers should not neglect. Besides
giving better grazing for stock, it has been
discovered that many of the diseases of
late years prevalent among animals are
occasioned by their swallowing a parasite
that inhabits unburnt pastures. In old
times the woods and uncultivated fields
were fired every spring, and then we
heard of few diseases among live stock.
Savannah News: Mr. Edward Coyne,
an old employee of the Central Railroad)
died on Wednesday and was buried yes
terday. The decedAd had been an em
ploye of the Central Railroad from the
date of its inauguration until within the
past few years, when, on account of Ms
old age, he was retired on pay. He was
highly esteemed by all who knew him, as
a faithful, employe and Ms funeral was
largely attended.
Mb. Patrick Murphy, the oldest man
and also one of the oldest employes of the
Central, died suddenly yesterday morn
ing at breakfast, from a stroke of paraly
sis. The deceased was a native of Ireland;
was eighty years of age, and was twenty
years in the employment of the railroad
About six months ago, he lost his eyesight
and became incapacitated even for the
humble position wMch he then occupied
of porter in one of the shops, hut Colonel
Rogers, the superintendent, kindly kept
him on the pay roll until his death. The
deceased was well thought of by every
one who knew him,and his death, though
his life was extended through many years,
ismourned by his fellow employes. His fu
neral will take place this afternoon at four
o’clock, from his late residence, ■ comer
West Broad and Jones streets.
The Savannah News gives us this about
the worthy Postmaster of that city:
During the late war General McLaws
was riding down his picket line, and en
countered a genuine son of the Old Pine
Tree State on duty, who had taken his
gun apart with the intention of giving it
a thorough cleaning. The General halted
in front of Mm, when the following con
versation ensued:
.“Look here, my man, are you not a
sentinel on duty ?”
“Well, y-a-s, a bit of a one! ”
“Don’t yon know it is wrong to take
your gun apart while on duty?'”
“Well, now, who the d—I are you ? ”
The General saw his chance, and with
a sly twinkle of his eye replied : “I’m a
bit of a General.”
“Well, Gineral, you must excuse me.
You see thar is so many d—n fools ridin’
’round here a feller can’t tell who’s Gin
eral and who ain’t. If yon will jist wait
till I git Betsy Jane fixed I will give you
a bit of a salute.”
The General smiled and rode "on, firmly
convinced that that sentinel would prove
equal to any emcgency.
From Hon; Andrew Cornwall,
Ex-Member op Legislature, New
- York" State.
Alexandria Bay, January 3, ISS0.
H. H. Warner A Co.:
Gents—I have been troubled with kid
ney difficulty" for the last three years, and
in October last had a very severe attack.
I then commenced taking your Safe Kid
ney and Liver Cure and obtained relief at
once. I have’used two bottles and felt as
well 1 as ever, and I shall always keep a
supply of Warner’s Safe Kidney and
Liver Cure in the house. Yours truly,
mcli30 2w. ... A. Cornwall.
As to the double-edged platform on
which Grant is running, the Tribune dej
livers itself as follows:
The third-termers are getting their is
sues mixed. General Grant is creating
something of a Democratic boom for him
self in the South by saying that the coun
try needs as little government as possible.
Whether unjustly or not, this is construed
in the South to mean that he is no longer
in favbr of a “strong government.” Mean
time, in tiu. North, he is urged as the
“strong man” who can be depended upon
to keep the Sonth in check. He can’t fill
both these characters, and the only point
to decide is whether he or his friends are
the more accurate interpreters of his own
views. i v'"
It is no wonder that so many mothers
praise Dr. Ball’s Baby Syrup. We heard
one of our best physicians pronounce it to
be the only safe remedy for children.
Raising Frogs.—The American Fish
Cultural Association was,by last accounts,
in session in New York, and the not&3 on
papers read before it are novel and inter-
esting.Setli Green, tlie veteran fisb breed
er, digressed in one of Ms fish speeches,
to remark as follows:
‘One thing the writer was greatly sur
prised at, was that fanners did not give
more attention to raising frogs. If a farm
er made a small pond, twenty-to thirty
feet square and from four to five feet deep,
and surrounded with a tight board fence,
he could raise enough to supply his own
table and have some left over to sell. The
farmer who learned how to raise frogs on
large scale, could make more money
than by his agricultural products.”
Very probably, with a market like New
York, a crop of frogs could be profitably
disposed of, but they would be of slow
sale in Macon. .
A fanner told us the other day that be
would not be without Dr. Bull’s Cough
Syrup if it cost five dollors a bottle, it
Not"only must be a wonderful remedy. The price
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington Citt, March 80, I860,
SENATOR THURMAN’S
sudden illness yesterday wMle replying to
some of Jim Blaine’s impertinent inter
ruptions, created a scene in the Senate
that was almost dramatic fora short time.
Before he had fairly risen to his feet, he
was observed to suddenly put up his right
hand to Ms forehead, clasp it firmly for a
moment, and then withdrawing it, dip it
in a goblet of water on his desk, and then
slowly to apply it to Ms forehead. Then
he sank slowly back into his chair, Ms
head drooped on Ms breast, and he seem
ed suddenly to lose consciousness. Eaton,
of Connecticut, who sat near, raised
Mm to his feet and supported
Mm to the cloak room, where
he was laid on a sofa and medical aid
summoned. Senator Withers, of Virginia
who is a physician, quickly responded, anc.
applying some simple remedies, soon re
stored Mm to consciousness. His first
thought was of and for his wife whom he
directed should not be informed of his ill
ness. After a short while he was able to
walk down stairs to his committee room,
whence lie was driven home. It is said
he is subject to vertigo, and has been for
many years, and Ms physician said last
night that he would soon be able to re
sume his duties. 1 sincerely trust this
may he the case. The American Democra
cy can illy afford to lose Mm just now. He is
one of their ablest and mo3t trusted leaders
and if the eternal fitness of things coulcl
determine the question, would live in the
WMte House for the next four years from
the 4th of March, 1881. fie is, and has
been, since I came to know him, my es
pecial candidate for- that position. I
would rather vote for Mm for President
than any other living man. What" a fu
ture for the country and the party his elec
tion would secure I
BUSINESS IN CONGRESS
gets on very slowly, as you have doubt
less noted. There is too much gab in
both Houses. If there were one
two more Congers on the Radi
cal side, and the same number of
chatterers whom I could.name on our
side, I do not see how a wind up would
be possible short of next March. If a
half dozen men in each body were to get
sick and stay so for a month Congress
could adjourn by the last of May easily.
But they are the very ones who never get
sick, and never ask leave of absence.
Other members may come and go, but
they go on forever.
THE GORGE OF SCANDAL
with wMch Washington has been sick
ened this winter, continues to grow. The
latest concerns a clerk of the Executive
Mansion namedChapman,whom Mr.Hayes
has been compelled to boot out of that
building this week for undue familiarity
with young women who went in search
of government positions. The story goes
that Chapman, under pretense that he
could secure such appointments, has
ruined several of them. It is also alleged
that he has an interest in a house of bad
repute in this city which has afforded
much food for gossip lately. It is also al
leged that he had a partner in the latter
business in the peison of a Western M. C.
happen to know Chapman, and my
knowledge of him strongly inch’nes me
to take considerable stock,in these reports.
He was appointed to hi3 present position
by Grant and retained tfy Hayes.
The Christiancy scandal rests in its rot
tenness, awaiting the venerable
Isaac P.’s arrival. His friends
say he will make things hum
when he gets here, and that Mrs. C. will
be everlastingly smashed when he un
folds bis tale. She is still with her dear
mamma, hut doesn’t dash quite so much
as she did some time ago. It turns out-
that one of her flirtations was with her
step son, Dr. Christiancy, who wrote her
some exceedingly picturesque letters
which will doubtless be made public dur
ing the divorce proceedings.
THE GRANT BOOM.
For bounce and bluster, and a magnifi
cent capacity for claiming everything, the
Grant boomers “bate Banagher"’ as our
Irish friends phrase it. I go out very
seluom at night, and see very few people,
but occasionally drop in at Willard’s, aud
never without encountering some of
these boomers. They almost persuade me
sometimes that no other name will
be heard at Chicago but Grant’s, and
that before the Convention meets all oth
er candidates will have withdrawn from
the race. I have heard a good deal of
that sort of tMng in my life, but never
anything to equal this. These people ei
ther know their man has a dead sure
thing, or they are the biggest liars and
blow bards that were ever known. I still
hang to my belief that Grant will win at
Chicago, but not like they claim. I don’t
suppose, however, it makes much differ
ence to Grant how he gets the nomina
tion. He will take it at the end of the
hundredth as eagerly as if by acclamation.
Mrs. Grant yearns to re-arrange that fur
niture in the White House, which Mrs.
Hayes so ho rribly disarranged when she
came in, and that will settle the business
if her husband should be disposed to put
on any frills about the manner of his
nomination.
MR. BLOUNT
introduced yesterday a hill authorizing
the Secretary of War to deliver to Govern
or Colquitt as a loan 150 stand of light
breech loading rifles, with the necessary
accoutrements for the use of the Middle
Georgia Military and Agricultural Col
lege at Milledgeville, and also a bill to
designate Atlanta and Macon as ports of
delivery, both of which were read twice,
ordered to be printed and referred to the
Military Affairs and Ways and Means
Committees respectively.
These things take time, however, to
push through, and, therefore, patience is
A very necessary virtue lor those who are
interested in Congressional action or mat
ters of this kind. Mr. Blount lias his
hands and time fully employed by reason or
his place on the Appropriations and other
Committees, hut his capacity and disposi
tion for steady, hard work are co-equal, as
his constituents fully know and appreciate
by this time. A. W. R.
Religious Persecution.—It is curi-^
ous to see' Republican France following
so closely the example of Bismarck in
the warfare against the Jesuits. The re
vival of the obsolete and almost forgotten
laws against “unauthorized religious
congregations,” is just-now the most ex
citing subject in France, and the decrees
wMchbave just been promulgated, are
likely to produce as much disturbance in
their enforcement as the unauthorized
congregations ever produced when let
alone.—Philadelphia Times.
Query: Would not these “unautho
rized religious congregations” do far less
harm if they were left undisturbed in the
enjoyment of their peculiar tenets ? Per
secution is certainly the best plan to mul
tiply tlioir adherents and bring them into
notice. If otherwise law-abiding citizens
why not let them alone ?
As to Mgh water ahput Montgomery t
the Advertiser of Wednesday says “a
train left for Mobile yesterday. As yet
transfer has to be made by boat between
Tensas and Mobile. The water is over the
track for a considerable distance, but as
the winds have lulled from the bay, and
the rivers fallen, the superabundance of
water at the lower end of the line, will
soon disappear. No damage has been
done to any part of the road. The train
did not go out last night, but will go this
morning, and the one due at 8 p. m. did
not arrive until after midnight. Eve
rything will be on schedule again in a
few days.
How is the baby ? is the question often
put to a mother, and many an answer
comes, “thanks to Dr. Bull’s Baby Syrup,
much better to-day.”
General Toombs on the Railroad
Commission.
Washington, Ga., March 23.—The
action of tMs commission attracts a great
deal of public attention. It seems to meet
with much approval and some discontent.
This is very natural. The question of
transportation by railroads, especially in
the agricultural and exporting States of
the Union, is scarcely less important than
production itself. Hence, it deeply affects
the business and interests of a large ma
jority of the people of the United States.
The Railroad Commission had its origin
in wide-spread complaints that the rail
road companies of this State claimed
and exercised the power to make
their own tariff of rates, fixed their
own schedules for the transportation of
passengers, freights and cars over their
roads and to discriminate against persons
and places, and to combine at pleasure
with each other to prevent competition
among themselves and thus toll, at their
own pleasure, every article produced and
every article necessary to production
which had to be transported by them, as
well as all passengers using their roads.
These charges seem to have been well
sustained, as the Constitutional Conven
tion, the great majority of the people of
the State and the Legislature all took
prompt and efficient action to redress the
evils complained of, and to these ends,
among other tMngs, established this Rail
road Commission, clothing it with author
ity and imposing upon it the duty of regu
lating railroad freight and passenger tar
iffs, preventing unjust discrimination and
requiring reasonable and just rates of
freight and passenger tolls.
All civilized nations have found it ne
cessary to regulate by law the tolls of
common carriers. All human experience
has vindicated the necessity and wisdom
of tMs principle under all circumstances.
TMs necessity is greatly increased in this
age and country by the fact that the great
body of the transportation of the countiy
is under the control of huge corpora
tions, practical monopolies, clothed with
sovereign exemptions, rights and
powers. It would violate the princi
ples of eternal justice to permit either
party to fix these tariffs for both par
ties, and justice can only be done and
rights protected by interposing a compe
tent and impartial tribunal to decide,‘in
the first instance, all disputed questions
with the right of appeal to the judicial de
partment of the government. This is just
what the Legislature has done by enacting
the law in question and establishing the
railroad commission to give’it full effect.
These railroad tarifls can neither he uni
form nor fixed without injury to the pub
lic or to the carriers, and, therefore,
ought to be altered from time to time as
provided by the constitution. The real
cost of transportation is the primary ele
ment in making a fair, reasonable and
just tariff of railroad rates. The cost of
transportation is not uniform, the topog
raphy of the country through which rau-
road3 are constructed,the different grades,
the amount of travel and traffic upon
them, besides many other things, greatly
affect the actual cost of transportation,
even at the same periods of time; hut
the most potent of all the causes, affect
ing all the roads alike, are the marvelous
discoveries and inventions wMch are be
ing constantly made by this generation of
men. These discoveries and inventions
have reduced the actual costs of transpor
tation by railroads probably not less than
seventy-five per cent. These discoveries
and inventions do not belong to railroads.
Saving the rights of discoverers and in
ventors, they are the common property of
the human race.
For these, among many other reasons,
the commission has fixed the schedule
for the present, with the lights now be
fore them.
This schedule is by no means perfect;
nowise man expected it to be perfect;
but it removes great evils, rectifies many
grievous wrongs, and it also uses the
power granted it by law to correct its
own errors from time to time by inviting
all complainants on either side to come
before it and submit their complaints
with such facts and arguments to sustain
them as may be in their power, and thus
right the wiong, if any is found to hare
been done. The public have abundant
cause to be thankful to the commission
for what it has done. Its services have
been very valuable to the public, and let
us hope that all parties will meet the
questions submitted to it with fairness
and candor, and rely upon the power of
truth for the proper solution of the great
est economical questions of the nine
teenth century, R. Toombs.
Decisions of Supreme Court
RENDERED MARCH 31.ST, 1880.
{Abridgedfor the Telegraph and Messen
ger by Hill & Harris, Attorneys at. Law,
Macon, Ga.)
Davis, Adm’r. et. ai. vs. McLester.
Equity, from Stewart.
Where, in a proceeding to reform a
deed at the instance of a daughter against
the vendor and the administrator of her
deceased husband it appeared that the
father of complainant paid the purchase
money and the deed was made to his son-
in-law, and the question was whether or
not it should have been made to Mm as
trustee for Ms wife, the death of the son-
in-law did not prevent the father-in-law
who paid the money, from testifying as to
instructions given by Mm to the decease A
in regard to the manner, of taking the
title, wMle the latter was acting as Ms
agent forthat purpose. Judgment affirmed.
Dendy vs. Gamble & Copeland. Home
stead, from Harris. •
An indigent sister and her children,
though mainly dependent on the appli
cant for support, do not constitute a fami
ly for whose benefit he can take a home
stead. To constitute one head of a fami
ly witMn the meaning of the homestead
clause of the constitution, there must be
some legal obligation on him to support
its members.
Judgment affirmed.
Cannon vs. Dnnlap.
Bibb.
Attachment,from
Where an attachment is sued out against
one partner on a partnership account un
der §3270 of the code, the declaration in
attachment need not be against both part
ners, but only • against him who is thus
subject to summary process.
Judgment affirmed.
Mayor, etc., of Griffin, vs. Powell. Cer
tiorari, from Spalding.
The ordinance of the city of Griffin pro
vided that “no person or persons shall
keep a livery or sale stable, or let out
horses or mules or other stock, carriages,
buggies or other vehicles * * without
first obtaining a license • * • provi
ded that nothing in this section shall be
so construed as to allow any person to
run a dray for Mre.” Another section
provided that “no person shall run a dray,
cart or other carriage in the city of Griffin
for the purpose of hauling for the public
goods, produce, wares or merchandise of
any description, without a license.” Held,
that one who had taken a license as the
keeper of a livery stable might hire out
two-horse wagon by the day for the pur
pose of hauling lumber without obtaining
a license to run a dray.
Judgment affirmed.
Waters et al., executors, vs. Perkins
Equity from Taylor.
1. ; If a defendant has a legal defense
to an action at law, he must then
make it, or he will be concluded; and
equity will not relieve Mm unless ho
failed to make the defense by the fraud of
the other party, or by accident, and with
out fault in himself. But where the de
fense is equitable, aud requires the intro
duction of new parties, the defendant will
not be concluded by his failure to plead
it to the actiou at la w. He may assert the
same by bill in equity after judgment.
2. The general rule in considering a
demurrer to a bill in a equity is to look
only atr the bill and exhibits. When,
therefore, a general demurrer was filed,
considered and overruled on the basis of
the bill as originally brought and amend
ed, with all the original parties, and the
writ of error was sued out on the same ba
sis, tMs court will consider the case so
made, although an order appears on the
record dated some four years previous to
the judgment complained of dismissing
the bill as to two cf the defendants, their
names not having been actually stricken,
nor the attention of the presiding judge
otherwise called to the fact that they were
not parties.
Judgment affirmed.
2. A life estate in money with remain
der over may be created. Money roar
be lost, but it cannot be destroyed in the
2. There being no ambiguity or uncer
tainty m the provisions of a will, thei r
constructionjs for the court- and not fo?
the jiuy. All parts of a will are to be ta-
^^Sethcrand given effect. If this can-
not be done because of a conflict in the
different parts, then the law must p£
Judgment affirmed.
Embarrassing Impediments.
The ex-Khedive of Egypt, who with his
harem, is residing at Resina, would do
well to provide Mmself with an extra
supply of patent locks, bull-dogs, broken
bottles, cat-teasers and Ethiopians with
rolling eyeballs and curving scimitars.
Not long ago one of the beauties of his
harem eloped with a young Italian artist,
and now a fair Circassian, Miss Nasik
Missak, who is rising sixteen, lies fled to
a mansion opposite where lives a young
gentleman “who,” says the report, “had
fallen in love with her from seeing her in
the window and with whom she had
managed to carrry on a pantomimic woo
ing. It seems that the young man’s
affection is sincere, for he has now ap-
ilied to the municipal authorities of
lussia to publish the notice of Ms intend
ed marriage with the interesting young
fugitive. But the authorities are much
embarrassed by this request, for the Ital
ian law demands that all strangers wish
ing to marry must produce a certificate
from the authorities of their native coun
try, that there exists no impediment, and
as this young girl, now only sixteen year’s
of age, was sold in Cairo when a mere
baby, no one knows to whom to apply.”
Who can be sure that the wily ex-Khe
dive, if not openly offering a chromo for
each elopement or stimulating the export
trade of wives and bayaderes by a liberal
system of bounties, is at least t ipping the
■wink to the ferocious eunuchs whom
he puts on guard and leaving the
front door carefully unbolted at
night. The charms of unlimited female
society might commend themselves to a
despotic ruler in Egypt, where the inmates
of the harem could be kept secluded and
beyond the influence of Frankish fashion
plates, and where, if the worst came to
the worst, lie could remove to another of I to do, and have made the sale accoSing-
liis palaces or try the water cure upon 1 ■ — - • — - - — - -
the Obnoxious females in connection wi;h
a sack. But in Italy, with a fixed income,
a comparatively narrow house and no
possibility of extinguishing summarily
the lights of his harem when they begin
to flare up, it is so clearly to the ex-
Khedive’s interest to make reductions in
tlie stock of spouses he is carrying that
we shall not be surprised to learn by and
by that, with true Oriental cunning, he
has been conniving at the elopements he
pretends to condemn.
Moses vs. Watson. Equity, from Musco
gee. SV-M
1. A bill in equity was brought by a
married woman against a manufacturing
company, her husband as her trustee, two
non-iesidents, and their attorney in Geor
gia. It alleged that stock of the company
was held by her trustee, that he, without
her knowledge transferred the certificate
in bank to pay 1ns own debts, that the
transfer was to one of the non-residents,
who has since transferred to the other,and
the latter holds for his own benefit or for
his creditors, that their attorney had the
certificate in his hands and has notified
the company not to pay dividends to her,
although the certificate (which also con
tained power to transfer stock on the
hooks) showed the trust on its face, thus
interfering with her rights. The object of
the bill was to enjoin the payment of div
idends to the attorney, to have the certifi
cate delivered up, her trustee removed,
and a new certificate issued to her:
Held, that the hill was not demurrable
for want of equity, or for misjoinder of
the attorney with the company.
2. The Superior Court of the county
had jurisdiction, although the attorney
•lived in another county.
3. It appearing that one of the non
residents had died, and no representative
of the estatei being made a party, and the
other had not been served, but that the
attorney in this State who was in posses
sion of the stock certificate had been
served, there was no error in allowing the
case to proceed to final decree.
Judgment affirmed.
Pitts vs. Flournoy & Epping. Injunc
tion, from Muscogee.
A bill filed by F. & E. alleged as fol
lows : P. had a fi. fa. against K., F. & E.
had two fi. fas. against him, one older, the
other younger than P.’s, but the younger
was founded on a mortgage containing a
waiver of homestead. All were levied on
certain cotton. To defeat P., K. had the
cotton set apart as an exemption, and filed
a claim with F. & E. as securities. The
mortgage fi. fa. was proceeding; K. ap
pealed to F. &E. not to sacrifice the cot
ton at sheriff’s sale at Lumpkin, but to
take it at a fair valuation of $400, carry it
to Columbus, where it could be sold, and
if it brought more than that, to give Ms
family the benefit of it, this they agreed
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The Great Civil War.
Washington, March 29. — Colonel
Robert N. Scott, who has charge of the
preparation for publication of the Union
and Confederate records of the rebellion,
reports to the Secretary of War that ex
cellent progress is being made in collect
ing tlie Confederate records. These are
widely scattered over the South, many of
them are in the hands of prominent offi
cers, and these have beengenerallyplaced
at the disposal of the Government, at
least §o for as to enable it to procure cer
tified copies of originals, which answer all
the puiposes of publication. Generals
Joseph E. Johnston and Pemberton, the
cavalry officer, General Wheeler and
some others of prominence, have placed
their large collection of papers at the ser
vice of the Government. A general dis
position is manifest to contribute such
official material, as is in their possession,
to this history of the war. Aside from
tliis report of Colonel Scott, it is known
that the general feeling among the cx-
Confederate officers here is very favorable
to the publication of their records. In
fact they take a deep interest in it, and
will doubtless vote for all needed appro
priations for the publication of both of the
Union and the Confederate archives.
Their feeling is that when the histories of
their campaigns are accurately presented
and judged as military operations alone,
they will take equal rank with any of the
Union campaigns.
—A woman was the inventor of tlie hay
press. She got the idea from wishing she
ly. The claim of K. under the P. fi. fa.
was dismissed without a trial, and K. re'
fused to interpose another claim. He and
P. are kinsmen, and have colluded, etc.;
both are insolvent. P. has notified them
to produce the cotton, and they will be
subjected to suit on their bond; discovery
was waived. Defendant’s answer denied
collusion with K., and charged that the
claim itself was the result of fraudulent
collusion between K.andF. & E. to delay
Mm:
Held, that, under these facts, the chan
cellor did not err in granting an Injunc
tion to restrain P. from proceeding until
the final hearing.
Judgment affirmed.
Saulsbury, Bespess & Co., vs. Blandy.
Illegality, from Libb.
‘ 1. A motion which has been settled by
a verdict cannot be again raised affidavit
of illegality to tbe fi fa. founded
thereon.
2. Even if it be allowable by affidavit
of illegality to go behind the judgment
and inspect the verdict, still the reason
able interpretation of a verdict in favor of
plaintifis for a stipulated amount, would
be that such finding was against defen
dants who had been made parties to tbe
case, and no others, and a decree against
such defendants only would folio w the
verdict.
3. Factors to whom the drawer of a
draft for the purchase money of a steam
engine for ginning cotton, was in debt,
and when agreed to accept it in order to
facilitate their collection from the drawer
out of his cotton, did not stand cn the
footing of accommodation acceptors, but
were original contractors.
Phillips, administratrix, vs. Creus et.
al. Assumpsit, from Muscogee,
1. Where the remaimler-men brought
suit against the administratrix pf the life
tenant for $000, allog'ng his receipt there
of, his life estate therein, his death, and
her refusal to pay, and the evidence sus
tained tlie averments of the declaration,
a motion for non-suit was properly over
ruled.
Porter & Mumford vs. Gorman. Com
plaint, from Talbot. ^ onx
1. When action was brought for breach
of covenant,, and a recovery is sought upon
an alleged agreement not Jfound therein
the plaintifis must allege that such was the’
real contract, that the omission was
caused by fraud, accident or mistake, and
that one or both parties intended its in
sertion.
2. When a business is sold, a stipula
tion is necessary to prevent the seller from
carrying oa the same occupation in that
town; but the mere purchase of the
“good-will” will not compel such result
Judgment affirmed.
Phillips versus Lindsey. Equity f rom
Spalding.
1. Whilst the bare conclusion of a wit
ness as to an agreement made between
parties should be excluded, yet after stat
ing the facta connected with the transac
tion, the witness may give his understand
ing of it as he heard it from the parties
themselves.
2. The examination preliminary to the
Introduction of secondary evidence of a
lost original is left largely to the presiding
judge, and where he is satisfied and ad
mits the secondary evidence, it must be a
clear case of abuse of discretion to require
the interference of this court.
3. Where the case made by the com
plainant involved only the conduct of the
defendant as to the excess of certain notes
turned over to Mm after satifying com
plainant’s indebtedness, wMlst that made
by the defendant was that ail of the said
notes were placed in Ms possession as col
lateral security to certain fi. fas. against
complainant held by him, it was not er
ror in the court to charge the jury gener
ally as to the duty of the holder of collat-
rals, and not to confine its instructions on
ly to the duty of the defendant as to the
excess of such notes over and above the
indebtedness of the complainant to him.
"Judgment affirmed.
Anti-Third Tenners Gaining.
The Chicago Tribune says:
The anti-third term shows signs of great
activity m all "directions. In New York
State club meetings are held almost night
ly in the different Assembly Districts, and
it is estimated that there are more than
50,000 Republicans in the State who will
vote fora Democratin the event of Grant
being the Chicago nominee. In the ad
dresses issued by the Independent Repub
lican Association in New York City, the
keynote of opposition to a third term is
sounded in the declaration that the nomi
nation of General Grant would he a step
toward defeat. In New York,*as in St.
Louis, the anti-tbird-termers are burning
their bridges behind them, and rendering
retreat impossible. They have begun by
acting withing the Republican party wMle
yet there is time for their efforts to accom
plish the object for which they have or
ganized, and it rests with the party itself
to determine whether they shall remain
Republicans or be driven to the fulfill
ment of their determination to support the
Democratic nominee as against General
Grant.
Since 1509, when it is generally suppos
ed that the duration of English Parliament
was first extended beyond a single year,
only four Parliaments have existed for
seven years, and eleven only have lasted
as long as six years. Taking one Parlia
ment with another, the duration of each
since the accession of Henry Yin does not
exceed three years, even including the
“Long Parliament” of Charles I, and the
still longer Parliament which Ms son,
Charles II, kept in existence forsevent/wn
-jesrsi—xEe'tww-oironesi' Parliaments
since the accession of. George IH have
been that of 1S0G-7, wMch lasted only
four months and fifteen days, and that of
1830-31, which lasted only fire months
and twenty-eight days. " V!
Actors who have reached the ripe age
of one hundred are rarely to be seen ac
tively engaged in the exercise of their pro
fession. According to the Paix, however,
one of these rare birds, may now be seen
nightly at Toulouse. He is a comic actor
named Graffetot; was born on tbe 2d of
July, 1780; he came out at fifteen years of
age, when the revolution was at its height,
and appeared successively at Bobino, at
tbe Montansir theater, at the Gaite, at
Nantes, and at Toulouse, where he settled
for good. He is said to be still a very
amusing actor. .
A Partner’s Individual Name to
A Note.—Fred. Leuckel, a butcher, of
Lehighton, furnished meat to workmen
who were engaged by William R. Maffet
& W. T. Rhoads to build a section of
railroad near Lehighton. Mr. Rhoads
conducted the business of tbe firm. Ho
occasionally borrowed money of Leuckel
to pay tbe bands on the road. In Novem
ber, 1860, he gave a noie to Leuckel for
$200 and signed it with his individual
name. Leuckel subsequently brough suit
against Maffet & Rhoads, asserting that
the debt for which the note was given was
a partnership debt. Maffet contended
that he ought not to be liable; that the
taking of the individual note was proof
that the debt was contracted by Rhoads
for himself. The Court below decided
against Mm and this judgment the Su
preme Court sustains.
Wonderful Early Growth of
Fruit.—The Eufaula Times says: ■ “We
are told that there is a single apple tree on
the premises-of Mrs. W. Toney, a few
miles north cf the city, which bloomed in
January and has fruit on it as large as
guinea eggs. It was never known to
bloom and fruit so early before, and
strange to say all tbe other fruit trees on
the place are more backward than usual.
All the trees of the orchard having been
subjected to the same climatic influences,
this marked difference in advancement
seems quite unaccountable.
“Brandy, brandy, bane of life,
Spring of torment, source of strife,
If I could half thy vices tell,
The wise would wish you safe in li—1.”
Such is the refrain from the lips of the
poor deceased toper, who would fly from
his enemy if possible. ‘Recollect it is a
diseased liver that craves relief. Instead
of brandy or any other stimulant use Sim
mons’ Liver Regulator, and it will afford
relief. mar3Q lw
The End not Far Off.
A Washington dispatch to the New
York Bulletin says:
It seems agreed that the action of the
Ways and Means Committee in placing a
rider in the interest of ftee admission of
all articles entering into the manufacture
of paper on free bili for bichromate potash
augurs well for the speedy relief from pa
per monopoly. Some free traders have
tried to think it only a trick of the protec
tionists, but this is denied, as Mr. Kelley
himself proposed the most sweeping
amendments.
The sooner this can be done the better.
It is a shame and disgrace that the press,
the most laborious branch of industry in
the country, and, we may add, the most
essential to true progress and the mainte
nance of tlie liberties of the people, should
be made tlie special object of persecution
by the Representatives of a Radical Con
gress, through the medium of an unjust
tariff for protection. We trust tlio harvest
of the paper monopolies will be brief.
Free trade is wbat the consumer desires,
the world over.
Reliable.—It is useless to deny the
great curative effects of Simmons Liver
Regulator. Its virtues are attested by
thousands who have used tbe medicine,
and it is now largely in demand. It com,
mends itself to the public by its compo
nent parts, being entirely vegetable, no in
jurious effects from its use, being pleasant
to^the taste, and Us operation upon tbe
liver being perfect, at the same time so
imperceptible that it interferes with
neither business or pleasures. mar4 lw
