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Telegraph & Messenger.
FRIDAY MORNING. JULY 28, 1871.
Mercer University.
We invite particular attention, especially of
city readers, to the address of the President of
the Board of Trustees of Mercer University, to
be foond in another part of the paper. The
final establishment of Mercer University in this
city is an event of great local magnitude, as
affecting the material standing and future of
the place. It will bring considerable accessions
to onr population and consequently to our trade;
and these secessions will be of a highly desir
able character—tending to elevate the social,
intellectual and moral tone of tho city. What
the Universities of Edinboro’, Glasgow,
Dublin, Harvard, Yale, etc., have done for their
sites and surTonndings, Mercer University, in a
bumbler degree, will do for Macon, in con
tributing to her wealth, character and repnta
tion.
The denominational support to Mercer Uni
versity will alone make it a very prominent, re
spectable and wealthy scholastic institution.
That thoyhave not done asmuoh as they should
have dono for it, heretofore, was due simply to
the obscurity of its sylvan retreat, which kept it
comparatively out of sight and so out of mind.
In tho prominence of' its new central position,
it cannot fail to enlist the warmest sympathies
of the numerous and powerful denomination
which controls it, and when these are backed by
a liberal outside support, we may confidently
expect a rapid growth and development from
year to year.
The public spirit of Macon cannot take a
wiser or more effective direction than in pro
moting all tho ends of this University. Let it
be aided in constructing its College edifices—
in laying out its grounds—in preparing cheap
accommodations for students and providing it
with all material appliances of a substantial and
imposing character. The people will scarcely
realize that the University is hero until they see
tho visible homes of science, philosophy, litera
ture and religion, in solid brick and stono and
mortar.
Our people will see tho substantial fruits of a
benefloent spirit in aid of this oollege not alone
in tho progress of the city—but in the refining
and improving influences which it will throw
around us. It will promote a tasto for educa
tion, and provide tho means to gratify it. Our
youth will be inspired with a noble emulation
for study and self-improvement, and with the
opportunity to educate and provide for them at
home the way to a liberal education will be open
to the children of the poor.
From Musliiiicion County.
Sandeusvxixe, Ga., July 27, 1871.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: In your
editorial commonts in yesterdays’ issue on the
forcible liberation of Oxford from the MiUedge-
ville jail, you unwarrantably assumo that it was
the work of a lawless gang from Washington
county.
Lawlessness is no more countenanced by the
people of Washington county than it is by the
people of Macon; nnd as an evidence of this
fact, tho summary trial and conviction of both
the Oxfords, soon after they were brought here,
speaks for itself.
While tho citizens of Washington county, in
oornmon with nil good citrzens, deplore the
prevalonoe of lawlessness in the laud, they
should not be held accountable for acts perpe
trated by persons, whoso names nor local hab
itation aro unknown. Washingtonian.
We should certainly have made no appeal to
the people of Washington county in this case
had we not been satisfied that they ore patriotic
and law-abiding, and bato disorder as much as
wo do. Our assumption that the gang in ques
tion was from Washington county was based on
tho fact that Oxford was convicted in Washing
ton county, and we inferred that his friends
lived tbnre. and his personal friends mndn up
the gang. But we are informed that Oxford
has lately lived in Burke and Hancock, and this
puts a different aspect on tho matter.—Editors.
Medical Controversy.
Wo have reoeived a communication from the
Atlanta side of the medical ombroglio, which is
temperato and courteous in its terms, and bears
the impress of a candid and impartial mind.
Having rejected several of a like character
from the opposition, because unwilling to make
tho Telegraph and Messenger the medium of
an angry controversy, which would doubtless
bo spun out to the length of the Atlantio cable,
to the sore disgust of its readers, we are com
pelled respectfully to decline the article re
ferred to.
Sheathe your scalpels, gentlemen, and make
commoncauso against “yallor jandierd," “fever
and Rger,” and all the other ills which afflict
your race. It is in these that the people have a
mournful interest, nnd not in the wars of the
pill boxes, which bids fair to be as sanguinary
as those of the roses of York and Lancaster.
Wo struck the Convention in the outset, not
from a partisan point, but to rebuke the viola
tion of parliamentary usage and the amenities
nnd proprieties of life. In that respect let the
majority “go in peace and sin no more."
Hold Them to their Contracts
A citizen informs us that in one day daring
the present week, he had not less than twelve
applications for employment by freedmen from
the country. Without exception, they told him
they had come into town to work on the Fair
Grounds, preferring a dollar a day and rations,
to such wages as they were getting, or any pros
pective share in the crop of their employers.
We trust neither onr worthy Mayor or any
private citizen will hire one of these runaways,
unlesc he produces clean papors with respect to
post obligations. The laws enforcing contracts
cannot be too stringently executed, if we would
preserve anything like organized field labor in
the country. Let these loafers be arrested
under the vagrant act, and remanded back to
their employers.
Give Him a Big Vote.—Tho withdrawal of
James Fitpatrick from the race for Tax Collec
tor leaves Mr. Heath to walk over the track.
Now let ns show our appreciation of a first-rate
offioer and good citizen by giving him a rousing
vote. He deserves it, and W6 earnestly call
upon all to give it to him.
To Waou It Mat Concern.—We have re
oeived two communications signed, respectively,
“Citizen" and “Visitor," but which aro not ac
companied by the real names of the writers.
Our rule on this point cannot be relaxed, and
the parties who sent the communications most
decide themselves what shall be done with them.
Magazinei.—The Rural Carolinian for Aug
ust is at hand to-day—an excellent agricultural
journal from which we often quote.
Burke’s Magazine for Boys and Girls,
August number, was issued yesterday—an ex
cellent number, which will be a treat to the
little folks.
The attention of master mechanics and build
ers is specially invited to the notice of the
Mayor calling for plans and specifications of the
large Dining Hall, to be erected on the new
Fair Grounds. Bids will be received until noon
of next Saturday. _
Fine Tomatoes.—We are in receipt of three
fine tomatoes—exemplary fellows—from Mr. E.
C. Greer’s plaoe in Griswoldville. The Trophy
variety.
A Cotton Bole.—Mr. Krentz, of this city,
bronght ns an open boll of potion yesterday.
“Captain” Taliaferro, Cute of the C
H. A.— Another Kiulical Witness
Shown Up.
On the ICth of July the following dispatch
wa3 fnminbed the Associated Press as an ex
tract from the proceedings of the Kn-klnx Com
mittee, and was published all over the country
the next morning:
TESTIMONY ON THE KtJ KLUX.
Captain Taliaferro, a native of Virginia, a
Captain in tho Confederate service, and now a
planter near Macon, Miss., testified before the
Ku-klnx Committee on Saturday, that within
the past year in that county fifteen oolored men
were killed and a number whipped. There is
an organized band of Ku-klnx in that county.
He had attended three or four meetings of it,
although he had never taken the required oath,
the supposition of those present being that be
was a member of the Klan, and that he had
been initiated by the Captain of the band, who
can swear in members. His friends and neigh
bors all belonged to the band. The witness
gave the Committee the details of the organiza
tion, the signs, grips, etc. On one occasion he
went on a raid with the band, and was pres
ent at the whipping of several colored men,
bnt after that be did not go with them any
more. Their object was to obtain entire con
trol of the negroes, and make them vote as
their leaders required. No prosecution has
been or conld be instituted in that connty. No
body dare prosecute. He was a witness before
the Grand Jury at Oxford, and on his testi
mony several members of the Ku-klnx were in
dicted.
The Baltimore Gazette, unfortunately for this
swift witness, knows a good deal of him and is
cruel enough to publish it. Synopsized it
amounts to this: That he never was a “captain”
at all, being only a private in Col. Herbert’s 1st
Maryland regiment (0. S. A.) tho first year of
the war, and was noted as the most dissipated,
worthless chap in the command. At the end of
a year’s service he was discharged, and after
wards loafed around Richmond, dodging the
conscript law by claiming Maryland as bis
home. After playing ont in Richmond he loafed
down into Georgia, and one of his exploits, or
one at least of which be has boasted in Balti
more sinco tho war, was, with others, having
taken threo Union prisoners from the jail at
Madison, carried them to the woods, tied them
to trees and shot them to death.
After the war he returned to Baltimore, and
obtained employment ns salesman in one of the
largest business houses of that city. While so
employed he was caught obtaining goods in tho
name of the firm, and appropriating them to
his own nso. A part of the goods were found
in a bouse of ill fame, and, of course, ho was
kicked out. After he was discharged it was
discovered that he had, while on a Southern col
lecting tour for the same house, received money
dne the firm, pnt it in his pocket, and never ac
counted for it. Another Baltimore firm, in
whose employ ho was for a short time, testify
pretty mnehtothe same effect as to his peculiar
ideas about other people’s money, and add that
ho was so notoriously and sonsistenly untruth
ful that they would not believe him on oath.
P. S.—Since tho above was written wo have
heard something else of “ Captain ’’ Taliaferro.
After Sherman’s army passed through Putnam
county, “Captain". Taliaferro came along at
the head of a band of marauders, claiming to
be Confederate scouts, and near Eatonton came
up with and captured two stragglers from the
Foderal army whom they deliberately murdered,
‘and whose bones were afterwards carried to the
Federal Cemetery at Marietta. This fact can
bo attested by citizens now living in that vic
inity.
All of which, wo submit, entitles Taliaferro
to first-class rank and pay as a model trewly
loyal witness before the Radical Ku-klnx in
quisition at Washington.
Nuking ia Itiver Ktiu Up Stream.
This provtrbially impossible feat has boon
accomplished by Chicago—greHt in all material
nndflrtuVitiflo, •** in OUICBgU
tf-ao founded not upon a rock, bat upon some
thing little better than a morass—finding a
partial drainage by means of a bayou or outlet
into Lake Michigan, dignified with the title of
Chicago river, which afforded the only outlet
for the drainage of the city into the lake, and
the only channel of approach to the city by
shipping.
After the city had been well bnilt, it was
fonnd that its site was tod low to admit of
healtbfnl drainage, and accordingly the whole
city was raised block by block six feet. In this
extraordinary feat the possibility of raising
great blocks of brick and stone bnildings by
means of jackscrews, and then of bnilding base
ment stories under them, was for the first time
demonstrated. Miles of such bnildings were
thus raised without disturbing inmates or con
tents,
But, after all this was done, and a new and
sufficient grade for drainage eotablished, the
evil was not effectually cured. The bayon
called Chicago River, received all the drainage
matter, bnt having no sufficient current to car-
ry it off into the Lake, became little better than
a cess-pool, possessing all the contiguous waters
and filling the atmorphere with fonl odors. The
water from near the lake shore which supplied
the city hydrants became offensive, and then
Chicago bnilt an immense aqueduct leading
her water supplies from a great distance beyond
tho lake shore, and out of the influence of the
poisonous discharges of the river. Yet, still
there was the tnrbid and sluggish river with all
its filthy oontents festering under the hot sun
and poisoning the atmosphere—a perpetual
menace to the publio health. «
Among the internal improvements of Chicago
however, she had constructed a canal leading
from the head of this bayou or river to naviga
ble waters in the Illinois river, which seeks its
outlet through the Mississippi into the Golf of
Mexico. This canal was twenty-five miles in
length, and the Chicagoans conceived the idea
of so deepening it as to change the current of
the Ohioago River up stream, and through this
canal make Lake Michigan an affluent of the
Mississippi and the Golf, instead of the St.
Lawrence and the Atlantic. Accordingly, they
obtained legislative authority for the project,
and a week ago last Saturday the work was all
completed. In the presence of an immense
oonconrse of people the waters of tho filthy river
were let into the deepened canal, and the people
held their noses and looked on in admiration.
It took a long time to snbstitnte the clear blue
water of the lake for the filthy fluid of the river,
but eventually the last dark streak of filthy
water disappeared, and a current of two miles
an hour was established up the Chicago River,
which it is believed will keep everything fresh
and pare.
Tlie llouroe County Fair.
Wo haT6 complimentary tickets to the Mon
roe Connty Fair next Saturday, and wonld be
represented there, bnt as two of onr number
must attend the Alnmni Meeting at Athens, the
other one must stay at home and keep the mill
going. We are requested to print the follow
ing letter:
President's Office )
Macon and Western Railroad, >•
Mac in, Ga., July 26, 1871. )
S. D. Mobley, Geo. A. Cabaniss, Jno. IL
lhimly. Commiitee:
Gentlemen,—I have given the agents at
Barnesville, Griffin and Macon instructions to
issue tickets to yonr Fair, on the 29th inst., at
one fare, and this privilege will only be allowed
persons from these places, and Conductor
Vivan has snch instructions.
Very truly,
A. J. White, President.
The story that Attorney-General Akerman has
gone to address Lowery’s band of Kn-klnx ne-
THK «EOR«!U PRES8.
The Colnmbns E iquirer says corn in that
section is made, and the crop is large. Cotton
has improved greatly, of late, but the opinion is
that the crop will be short at least a fourth.
The Enquirer says:
North and South Railroad—Work at Last
—Something Definite and Certain.—Messrs.
Hammond and Davis will arrive here from
Enfaula on Sunday s boat, with their force, and
will commence work at once on the North and
South Road. Mr. F. Hazlehurst, a brother of
CoL George Hazlehurst, will reach here with his
force on the 29 th inst., so there is do longer any
doubt about this great enterprise being under
way by the first of August. We will hear the
whistle of the locomotive on the North and
South before November next.
The Central Railroad has subscribed §5,000
to the capital stock of the Savannah Industrial
Association, and will, it is believed, increase its
subscription to $10,000, if the City Council
will subscribe that sum.
It strikes us that there ought to be more
harmony between the size of the chimneys and
that of the chimney sweeps down at Savannah.
The way they have there of pu’lrng out the big
sweeps who get stack in small chimneys by a
rope tied to one of the sweep’s hind legs, is
rather rough on that class of onr fellow-citizens.
A sailor fell from tho second story of a house
at Savannah, Wednesday morning, but being
full of whisky, his carom on the bricks below
had no serious results.
A snffrnge-slinger named Israel Cohen, is in
trouble at Augusta for showing too great par
tiality for a lot of fine brandy, soap and per
fumery belonging to Dr. W. H. Tutt, of that
city. Israel’s tastes are certainly commendable,
whatever may be his moral instincts.
The Chronicle and Sentinel, of Wednesday,
says the dam at the Langley Factory will be
rebuilt, and the factory commence work again
within thirty days.
The Cartersville Standard has this centre
shot:
Murder—Bigamy.—To have rendered val
uable services to the cause of the Union duiing
the late war, or in support of the reconstruction
acts of Congress since, either of which is val
uable service to the Union in Radical parlance,
is sufficient to authorize the happy individual
thus circumstanced to murder or marry to his
heart’s content. Governor Bullock, when' he
pardoned John A. Long for the cold-blooded
murder of Mr. Echols of Gordon county, among
other things, said aioaasons moving his Excel
lency to executive (^Hency, that the .said John
A. Long had rendered valuable services to the
Union cause. Radical morals may recognizo
the fact of being a scalawag os a sufficient
atonement for the mnrder of innocent and nn-
offending citizens ? If so, be it that way. GeD.
Grant, in his pardon of Bowen, the nnmerously
wived individual, recites as reasons moving the
compassion of his Excellency that he has ren
dered valnable service to the Union. We have
always believed that to be a scalawag was pun
ishment enough for ordinary offenses, bnt we
did not know till assured by high authority,
that it was an atonement for muder and bigamy.
A correspondent of the Valdosta Times tells
a pathetic story of a little child, three and a
half years of age, who wandered from its home
near Homersville, one day last week, and was
lost for three days and nights, during which
time there was a severe wind and rain storm.
The correspondent Bays:
The alarm was made and the settlement com
menced gathering to tho place, continuing to
hnnt all Saturday night. By Sunday morning
about fifty persons had gathered and searched
diligently all day, bnt fonnd no sign. They
scattered about and lay out all night, but could
hear nothing. Monday morning tlio search was
continued, persons still coming in to assist.
About one or two o’clock on Monday the first
sign was fonnd—where wo supposed it lay on
Saturday night about one and a half miles from
the place it left. It had lain all night in the
mud and water. This revived our hope, and all
hands started with renewed vigor, expecting and
hoping to find the child every minnte. Late in
the evening more sign was fonnd, where it had
crossed a thick branch some fifteen or twenty
■ , «»n in water, and gone into a field and
ronnd an old vacant house, ify this time dars
had come. Mr. Smith had provisions sent in the
woods and all lay in the woods again. On Tues
day morning all started ont again andabont one
mile from the lost sign fonnd, and abont three
and a half miles from Mr. Smith’s, abont one
honr by son, Mr. Thomas F. Morgan fonnd the
child, several yards in a thick bay, hnng fast by
the clothes in bamboo briers, about half thigh
deep in water where it had stayed all night, it
was very weak and scratched np with briers.
We find tho following indictments in the last
Griffin Georgian. It certainly seems to de
mand an investigation by those having authority
in the premises:
An Officer who Does Not Attend to ms
Business.—The revenue law requires that per
sons distilling fruit should give bond to the
amount of §500, conditioned that the distiller
will “faithfully comply with all the provisions
of law and regulations in relation to the duties
and bnsmes8 of distillers, and shall pay all pen
alties incurred or fines imposed on him for a
violation of any of the provisions,” eto. We
learn that the penalty on failure to give bond
before beginning the business of a distiller is
six months' imprisonment and a fine not ex
ceeding $5,000. N. Sellers Hill, the Assistant
Assesor of this District, who resides at Macon,
has made no provision whereby those of this
section who may desire to give bond and obtain
license can do so. His objects in not making
any provision for the obtaining of snch license
we presume is his desire to reap all the emolu
ments without being at the expense of hiring a
a man to attend to the duties in this section.
The consequence is that but few are able to
give bond and procure license; and some are
prevented from distilling by the penalty which
is held as a terror over their heads. The way
the affair stands, so far as this section is con
cerned, the law amounts to a positive abolish
ment of the right to distill fruit, as-the fruit
season will soon be over. We are not particu
larly an advocate for the business of distilling,
yet we are not aware of the passage of a law
preventing people from going into that business.
As it now stands the law is prohibitory in several
cases. If Mr. N. Sellers Hill cannot and will not
afford those who may wish an opportunity to
procure a license, it seems somewhat oppressive,
to say the least. Mr. N. Sellers H. is the man
of raiding notoriety, and delights in burning
and tearing np still houses. We presume he
belonged to Sherman’s army and has never been
able to check the propensity for burning, con-
oontracted while on its march through Georgia.
A Mr. Hargiss, of Kingston, was robbed of
§1,000 a few nights since.
Mr. EL L Couch, of Kingston, is putting up
a fine hotel at that place, and will call it the H.
I. Couch House.
The tax returns of Bartow county for 1871
show taxable property to the amount of §3,429,-
804—an increase of $105,000 over last year.
Oa last Friday Mr. Joseph Pittman, of Madi
son connty, while ont hunting, was shot and
killed by the accidental discharge of his gun.
Characteristic.—The Montgomery Adver
tiser says:
We heard it said yesterday that a prominent
Radical, of this city, not long ago left the bed
side of his dying child to join in, and parade
with a negro possession! When he returned he
fonnd the little sufferer a cold and lifeless
corpse.
If there is anything the average scillawag or
“thieving carpet-bagger” won’t do to keep his
nose in the swill tub, we haven’t the slightest
conception of what it can possibly be. Bnt,
this story puts him below the brute level, or
rather he puts himself there. And yet these,
and snch as these, are the favored representa
tives at the South of the Grant administration.
The Ku-klcx Witnesses,—A World dispatch
says the responsibility of interfering to delay
and prevent the attendance of witnesses sum
moned by the Democratic members of the Ku-
klux Committee, as narrated in yesterday’s
World, is at last assumed by Judge Poland, the
acting chairman, thus relieving entirely the Ser-
geant-at-Arms of the Senate.
Rev. O. P. Gadsden, Rector of SL Luke’s
Church, Charleston, died on Sunday last, and
How tne Khedive of Egypt Failed to
Establish Ills “Corps Logislaiii.”
Colonel Jas. M. Morgan, formerly, of South
Carolina, bnt now an officer in the service of
the Khedive of Egypt, arrived recently at New
York, and was straightway tackled by a World
interviewer who reports results in a late issue
of that paper. The reporter asked the Colonel
how the laws of that country are made, and the
Colonel answers the question by telling tho fol
lowing story:
Well, when the Viceroy returned from France
he called his prime ministers together and said:
'In order to have a great country we must have
a legislating body,” and he made known his
plans. Delegates were selected from various
districts, and luformed they must be divided in
opinion; that every measure should be debated,
and the minister who called them together said:
“Now, all who favor the government will stay
on the right, those who oppose it will eross to
the left, and those undecided will remain in the
centre.” No sooner was the division called
than all the delegates made a rush for the
right. There was no opposition or no medium
party. “This won’t do,’’ said the ffimister “there
must be an opposition,” and he called to him
an old sheik named Ibrahim, and said: “You
must lead the opposition.” “What is it?”
said Ibrahim “Well, when the Govern
ment introduces a law yon must protest
and argue agaiust it.” “Hum,” said the sheik,
“then if the Khedive says he wants so and so,
I am to say no, you shan’t have it.” “Yes,”
said the minister. A jovial smilo lighted np the
tanned leather face of old Ibrahim; he shook
his head and said: “None for Sheik Ibrahim;
too much bastinado.” After a time, by liberal
bribery, an opposition was established. One
day when the minister, Hasam Bey, was absent
one of the opposition violently opposed a meas
ure of the Khedive’s. A Government member
from Panta jumped up and moved that the op
position member be bastinadoed for treasonable
conduct. The motion was carried, and the re
cusant Egyptian was knocked down and basti
nadoed on the floor of the house. That was the
last session of the Egyptian Corps Legislatiff.
That sort of government wonld suit Grant
and his party exactly. We understand now lyhy
such a representative man as Beast Butler’s
nephew was sent to Egypt.
Gen. Sherman and the Next Presidential
Election.—Gen. Sherman’s idea of the next
Presidential race and its result is set forth by
an interviewer from the Commercial Advertiser,
as follows:
Reporter—“Do you think it polioy to elect
Grant again ?
General Sherman—Of course I do. Why not?
He knows the ropes now—ho has become ac
quainted with tho duties—acquainted with thou
sands of public men, and ten thousand good-for-
nothing White House bummers who would do
nothing but harass a now President for the first
year. Ha has jnst got where he can tell a good
man at sight Humbug men always get the
bestcredentials; every Congressman signs their
recommendation at sight, and many of them
deceive a new President. These party frauds
are now pretty much played ont, and Grant is
enabled to deal squarely with true men. Ex
perience and acquaintance is the stock in trade
of a good President.
“Who will win in ’72 ?”
“There is no question in my mind,” said the
General, enthusiastically. ‘Til bet on Grant
against the field—two to one.”
“Who will run against him?”
“There won’t anybody run; but, not being a
politician, I can’t guess for a moment who will
bo nominated.”
Platforms.—The Savannah Morning Nows
says with soiho force and justice:
The day of political platforms is passed. Res
olutions of political conventions aro no longer
regarded as embodying the principles of politi
cal parties, bnt as cunning devices to deceive
and betray the people. Since the Radical party
at its last national convention solemnly declared
that the suffrage question was one belonging to
the States alone, and immediately after enacted
laws taking the control of the matter from the
States and giving it to Congress, no one will
pnt faith in Presidential platforms.
In the coming Presidential election the ques
tion of the perpetuity of onr form of Republi
can government will be submitted to the peo
ple—the issue will be Democracy, the constitu
tion and State rights, or Radicalism, centrali-
■r.fian or,a despotism. The decision rests with
the people, nnd will not be influenced by the
platforms of intriguing, anumiug .
A string of resolutions a mile long could not
broaden the issues between the two parties in
tho next Presidential election.
reSSIGNEES PER 31. A W. It. It.
July 27,1871.
Holmes & Clay; E T Davis; Smith, S 4 Co; Small
4 Gamble; Seymour, Tinaely 4 Co; Rogers 4 Bonn;
Campbell, O & Co; Geo T Rogers’ Sons; order W
H Middleton, for J F Barfield 4 Co; Burdick Bros;
Jones 4 Baxter; Greer 4 Lake; A Dessau; Sawyer
4 Moore; M W Johnson; L W Easdal.
FOR TAX COLLECTOR.
Wo are aro authorized to announce F. M. HEATH
as a candidate for Tax CoUector of Bibb county, at
the election to be held tho 28th inst.
jul9tf ‘ ‘ MANY TAX PAYERS.”
WORKINGMEN’S CANDIDATE.
CHILLY AUDOIN offers himself to the votera
of Bibb connty as a candidate, on the part of the
workingmen, for Tax Collector, and, if elected, will
give bond and discharge tho duties of the office
satisfactorily. july23 td*
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
FOR SALE.
r WENTY shares of Cotton Stat«3 Life Insu
rance Stock. Apply to
jnly 2S-3t CUBBEDGE * HAZLEHURST.
"WANTED.
A NO. 1 Pastry Cook can find a good situation
by applying at the Brown House. Must be|of
steady habits and thoroughly understand the bus
iness. None other need apply.
jnly 28 3t W. F. BROWN 4 CO.
Savannah Morning News copy three times and
send bill.
Notice to Bridge Builders.
T HE Grand Jury of Pntnam comity in March
last, having recommended the building of a
bridge with stone piers over Little river at Judge
Pearson’s MUl. It ia therefore,
Ordered by the Court of Ordinary of Pntnam
county, that said Bridge be let out at public outcry,
lo the lowest bidder before the Court-house door
in Eatonton at 10 o’clock a. m , on Tuesday the 15th
day of August next
The piers will be let out separately if desired
Specifications of the above work can be had of
the Ordinary npon application.
D. H. REID, Ordinary,
jnly 23-it Putnam Connty.
groes on the state of the country, is denied. — was buried from that Church, on Tuesday.
MERCER UNIVERSITY,
MACON, OA.
T HE next Term WILL OPEN in Macon, on
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1871; and tho
collegiate year will extend to the Firet Wednesday
in July, 1872, with a vacation of one week at
Christmas. Plans for a suite of elegant buildings
are now preparing, and they will be pushed to an
early completion. Very valnable additions have
been recently made to the chemical and philosophi
cal apparatus.
Tuition for the collegiate year, $100; Board, in
cluding lodging, fuel and lights, in good private
families, ranges from $25 to $28 per month.
For further information apply to Professor J. E.
Willet, Penfield, Ga., until October 1st; and at
all times, to Rev. H. O. Hosnady, General Agent,
La Grange, Ga.
FACULTY:
BEY. J. L. M. CUBBY, LL. D ,
President (elect) and Professor of Systematic
Theology, Intellectual and Moral Philosophy.
SHELTON F. SANFORD, A. M-,
Professor of Mathematics, Civil Engineering and
Astronomy.
JOSEPH E. WILLET, A. M., M. D ,
Professor of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, Ge
ology and Botany.
WILLIAM G. WOODFIN, A. M.,
Professor of Ancient Lansuages.
REV. JOHN J. BBANTLY, D. D.,
Professor of Theology, Belles Lettres and Modem
Languages.
D. E. BUTLER,
S. Landrum, President Board Trustees.
Sec’y Board Trustees jn]y28 toctl
G EORGIA, DOOLY COUNTY.—Whereas, Ava
Sheppard, applies to me for letters of Admin
istration, with the will annexed, npon the estate of
John Sheppard, deceased.
These are, therefore,to cite all persons'concemed,
to be and appear at my office on or before the first
Monday in September next, then and there to show
cause if any they have, why said letters should not
ba granted. Given under my hand and official
signature, this 26th day of July 1871.
jnly 28- wlOd WM. H. DAVIES, Ordinary.
NOTICE.
COLLEGE COMMENCEMENTS.
Superintendent’s Office Ga. Railroad,)
Augusta, Ga , June 12th, 1871. J
r HE Commencement exercises of Collegee will
beheld at
Athens, J uly SOtb, 1871.
Persons desiring to attend any of said Commence
ments will be passed for ONE FARE.
Full fare to be paid going, and the Agent selling
the full fare ticket will give retnm tickets FREE.
Return tickets good for fifteen days, from Thursday
before Commencement day.
Jnn20 tjnly 30 S. K JOHNSON, Snpt.
DINING HALL.
T HE plans and specifications for a Dining Hall
at tne Park are now ready. Leave yonr bids
at Major Fusb’ office np to Saturday noon. Bids
will also be received for brick-work per thousand.
jol27 2t G. B. ROBERTS, Acting Mayor.
WANTED.
(S1AAA In GDLD by B. A. WISE, at his Mnl-
U v/ V/ berry street Crockery Store.
jul27 2t
LABORERS FROM SCOTLAND.
B EING about to send an order to my brother—
in the North of Scotland—for House Servants
and Farm Laborers, other parties who wish
Scotch help can have their orders sent at once, on
application to the undersigned, or through Messrs.
Jones & Baxter. GEO. SMITH,
jnl27tf P. O. Box 134, Macon.
STRAYED OR STOLEN,
F ROM the common near Yineville branch, a dark
mare Mule, with a white spot on her neck, and
a small sore on her withers. A reward of $10 will
be paid for tho recovery of the Mole.
STEPHEN STEWART,
j ul27tf At the Bock MUl.
EUSPfJER,
Begs leave to inform the citizens of Macon that he
is now prepared to
MAKE OR MEND
BOOTS, SHOES, GAITERS, ETC.
GOOD WORK AND REASONABLE PRICE
Will bo his motto.
SIiop Over T. W. AdUonX < lierry Street.
Everybody knows Mike Eisner. He has been
working for J. Schall for nearly fifteen years.
ju!27 fit*
HAVE NO USE FOR THEM.
OT needing in my business any longer, I offer
For Sale my Horse, Wagon, Buggy and Har
ness for cash, or on four months’ time for bank
able paper. JNO. W. CONNOR,
july2olw No. CO Cheny street.
N'
FOR SALE,
T HE GROCE LOT, on Spring street. It fronts
814 feet on Spring street, 164 feet on Magnolia
street, and 86 feet on Washington avenue. For
further particulars, apply to
TURPIN 4 OGDEN.
july25 lw Real Estate and Insurance Agents.
FOR SALE.
A YOUNG man, who oxpects to leave the city,
offers for Bale cheap, a good set of WALNUT
FURNITURE and handsome CARPET; with all the
conveniences of a well furnished room. The pur
chaser can secure board at the house, and srill not
have to move the furniture. Apply at this office,
for five days. july25 lw
TO RENT.
O NE five-roomed house, double kitchen, and ex-
ceUent well of water, situated on Oglethorpe
street, next to Crockett’s Comer. Possession given
on the 1st August. Apply at 63 Cherry street.
. jul21tf J. MARKS.
LOST—POINTER PUP.
S TRAYED or Stolen on the 24th inst., a Liver-
colored Pointer Puppy, abont four months old;
all four feet are Upped with white, and it has a
white streak also in tho forehead. The finder will
bo suitably rewarded. Apply at this office.
july2G tf G. 0. NAPIER.
JUST ARRIVED.
O NE car load of No. 1 Harness Horses, for sale
at Holmes 4 Clay’s stables,
july 26 3t S. D. ARDEBY.
ICE. ICE.
F ROM this dato wo aro prepared to retail Ice at
No. 88 Cherry street. Sunday hours 7 to 8%
A. M. and from 12 ai. to 1J£ P. it.
jull6 tf S. T. & B. P. WALKER.
NOTICE.
Office Master Trassportatiok, )
Macon and Western Railroad. >-
Macon, Ga., July 25,1871. )
to Dav Pasaen-
MM BE RUN ON
SUNDAYS, leaving Macon and Atlanta, at 7 50 a.m.
jnly 2C-5t H. VY. BRONSON, M. T.
O N ana alter oiuia.j, oon,u.i., u,.
ger trains on this Road, WILL
NOTICE.
H AYING sold out our entire interest in onr Old
Stand, near the market, we will now concen
trate our whole business at our New Stand, No. 88
Cherry street, and will there be prepared to furnish
the public with the best of everything in our line,
snch as Fancy and Family Groceries, Fruits, Veget
ables, ChickenB, Eggs. Euttter, and Caromel Cocoa-
nut. Also, Winos, WhiskieB, fine Brandies, and
choice Cigars.
jnll4 tf S. T. 4 B. P. WALKER.
NOTICE.
P ERSONS in want of Rough and Dressed Lum
ber, Sash, Blinds, Monldings or any kind of
building material, or any style of house bnilt, from
a cottage to a mansion or templo, are advised to
call on It. C. Wilder 4 Son, Third street, near Ar-
tope’e marble yard. Terms cash and very reason
able.
jfflyll lm R. C. WILDER 4 SON.
BLACKSMITH SHOP.
A LL who desire first-class smith work are re
quested to call at tho Blacksmith Shop of
HOLUES A CLAY,
Near the Passenger Depot, and ba satisfied.
Horse-Bhoeing a speciality. juljG tf
Largest School in the South.
NASHVILLE, TENN.
W E WARD'S Seminary. Parents wishing
, very superior city advantages for their
daughters, in the most successful school of the
South, at reasonable charges, will send for a
catalogue to W. E. WARD,
Nashville, Tenn.
Open Sept. 7. july25 eodSw
DIXIE WORKS,
MACON', GEORGIA,
Guernsey, Bartrum it Hendrix, Fropr’s.,
Contractors, Builders, and Dealets in
DOORS, SASH, BLINDS, BRACKETS, MANTELS,
WINDOWS AND DOOR FRAMES.
WHITE PINE WORK, SCROLL WORK,
And all sorts of Torningdone to order.
Ready Dressed Flooring, Ceiling, Ron^h Lnmbe
and Lathes in any quantity always on hand.
Orders solicited and promptly filled. may20 tf
HDIM SPRING HOTEL.
T HIS House m now opened by Mrs. 0. H. Var
ner as a private Boarding House. The large
Hall belonging to the house will be need as a
Dancing Saloon and Skating Rink, accompanied
with good music, which will make it pleasant for
tho guests. Terms of Board $35 per month; $10
per week. jul2-dlm
J. E. ELLIS.
MANUFACTURER, CONTRACTOR
And
LUMBER DEALER,
WHARF-ST., Bet. Third and Fourth, MACON GA.
I HAVE leased tlio large and commodious two-
story brick factory on Whatf street, where I ex
pect to manufacture Bnilding Material in all its
styles. I will keep on hand Blinds. Sash, Doors,
Monldings, Brackets, Mantles, Ballusters. Door
and Window Frames; also, Rough and Dressed
Lumber of all varieties and sizes. I will build and
repair houses; fencing of any and all dimensions.
Let the house be ever so small and the fence short
I will gladly receive the job and give prompt at
tention.
Thankful for past favors, 1 earnestly solicit a
share of public patronage. Orders from the country
will receive prompt attention and tho goods ship
ped with dispatch.
Terms—Cash; charges moderate
jnnell-tf J. E. ELLIS.
J, A. ANSLEY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
AMEBICUS, GA.
TT7TLL practice in the Courts of Southwestern
Yv Georgia, the Supreme Court and the U. S.
Circuit Court. marl7 6m
READ THIS!
BAGGIE Ai TIES.
H AVING made onr arrangements to be furn
ished with BAGGING and TIES for the com
ing season, we are prepared to offer the
BEST BRANDS
Of Heavy and Domestic Bagging, in 50 and 100
yard rolls, at about
SEW YORK PRICES,
freight added. Parties would do well to apply to
us before making any contracts, as we can save
them money.
SEYMOUR, TINSLEY & CO.
FLOUR ! FLOUR !
WE ARE NOW BECEIYIXG IN STORE :
200 barrels GASKET—Choice Family.
100 barrels JESSAMINE—Choice Family.
400 barrels FAMILY and SUPERFINE.
Packed in any^size packages and made from Choice
Wheat.
TRY OUR PRICES.
SEYMOUR, TINSLEY 4 CO.
LIQUORS! LIQUORS!
~jPJ~AYING determined to discontinue this branch
of onr business, we will sell any part of our Stock
AT COST I
Parties who think of buying North or West, can
save railroad fare and hotel bills by calling on
SEYMOUR, TINSLEY & CO.
GROCERIES!
EEPING at all times a full stock of GEN
ERAL GROCERIES, and being satisfied with
SMALL PROFITS,
We can guarantee to give satisfaction to all who
may favor ns with their business. We are de
termined to soli goods, and aro willing to sell
as low as any house in Georgia.
SEYMOUR, TINSLEY 4 GO
jnly 27 tf
JNO. W. O’CONNOR,
WHOLESALE DEALER IN
BRANDIES, WINES, GINS,
HUMS, ALE AND PORTER.
And sole agent for his Premium Whisky,
Old Monongahela Rye.
x x x x.
Just received—
15 barrels XXXX WHISKY,
100 cases CLARET and ST. ANDRE,
50 cases CLARET, (HARDY 4 CO.),
150 M DOMESTIC CIGARS,
Together with a full line of Sherries, Ports,
Champagnes, Jamaica and St. Croix Rum, etc., all
of which will be sold cheap for CASH, or on time
for approved paper.
To Country Merchants, extra inducements will
be given.
. „ , „ JNO. W. O’CONNOR,
jun21 toctl 60 Cherry street.
TAKE YOUR CHOICE.
A City Residence and also a Suburban Res
idence for Sale.
T HE City Residence is new and corners Oak and
New streets; contains four rooms, hall and ve-
randah. Well shaded. In an excellent neighbor
hood. No better water in the city, and convenient
to church. Sufficiently near the business portion
of the city for a business man, and yet far enough
removed to avoid the disadvantages attending a
residence too near. Time given on part of the pur
chase money on both places. The other residence
beyond Tattnall Square and on tho Columbus road,
contains five rooms, hall, verandah, basement and
all ont-hnildings. Water good. Grounds covered
with shade, both natural and artificial. On the
place is a great quantity and variety of frait, inclu
ding a vineyard. This property is admirably adap
ted for a boarding house for the Mercer students,
and the grounds offer superior advantages for gar
den purposes. It is a delightful home, and can
never depreciate in value. Also, I will sell several
choice building lots adjoining Bame. If not sold, I
will offer for rent, ending October, 1872.
ju!22tf A. W. PERSONS.
Hegeman’s Ferrated Elixir of Bark.
NICHOLS ELIXIR OF BARK AND PROTOXIDE
OF IRON,
In store and for sale by
G. E. SUSSDORFF.
UNIVERSITY MEDICINES
Fresh supply at
DB. G. E. SUSSDOBFF’S DRUG STORE.
Prescription' Business.
Onr Prescription Department is carefully and re
liably managed.
G. E. SU88D0RFF,
jn!27tf Druggist and Apothecary.
HEALTHFUL PLEASURE.
A NEW SKATING BINE at the Central Geor
gia Trotting Park, with Hubbard’s Patent
Parlor and Sidewalk Skates. Open day and night.
No charge for admission.
N. H. BIDDLECOM, Proprietor.
The above Skates for sale WITHOUT ANY RE
STRICTION. Leave your orders and measure at
Brown 4 Co.’s Book Store.
jnn2tf MATT. R- FREEMAN. Agent.
NEW_MILL.
SWIKDIiEHUBST & AUSTIN
B EG leave to inform the public that they have
established
A GRIST MILL
On FOURTH STREET, near Macon and Western
Railroad crossing, where they are prepared to
grind GBITS and MEAL of a superior quality and
at Reasonable Bates.
A call is respectfully solicited. july25 3m*
WHOLESALE
DRUG HOUSE,
C gross SPEARS’ PRESERVING SOLUTION
5 Gross Tarrant’s Seltzer Aperient,
50 Bbla West’s Kerosene Oil,
Epsoms Salts, Sal Soda, Sulphur, Copperas, Hue
Stone, Logwood, Indigo,
All for sale as low as the articles can be bronght
here in small lots.
100 Cases Crystal Potash,
6000 Lbs. Rock Potash in bulk,
50 Carboys Oil of Vitrol,
20 Bbls. Marble Dust,
At very low rates.
1100 Ounces Quinine,
50 Lbs. Calomel,
100 “ Chloroform,
50 “ Bine Maes.
WILHOFT’3 A-fTI-PiERlODlc,
HOLTON’S AND FARMER’S PILLS,
And all the nostrums for Chills and Foyer id
any other disease.
We are Headquarters for
Jewett’s Perfectly Pore White lead,
And can offer the best figures on
LINSEED OIL, TURPENTINE, VARNISHES
COLORS, ETC.
450 boxes Windsor, Glass from 8xl0toS0xiG
Warranted good Glass and in good order. Dealer*
and others who buy in large or small quantities
will find that it is to their interest to deal with ns
HUNT, RANKIN * T.Amft
jy20-3m Druggists, 82 and 84 Cherry St.
CORN. CORN.
-j A CARLOADS Choice White and Mixed Com on
1U consignment and for sale at lowest market
raleB by JONES A BAXTER.
BRAN, OATS AND HAY.
16,000 pounds WHEAT BRAN,
1,000 bushels NEW CROP OATS,
16,000 pounds COTTON SEED MEAL,
300 bales TIMOTHY and CLOVER HAY,
All for saj*cheap by
JONES 4 BAXTER.
MOLASSES. MOLASSES.
20 lihds in fine order, for sale by the hogshead or
barrel, very low, by JONES 4 BAXTER.
“ACME.”
25 cases “ACME” WHISKY—full quarts,
25 cases CHESTNUT GROVE WHISKY—full (marts
10 cases “ PURE OLD RYE WHISKY.”
For sale by JONES 4 BAXTER,
Sole Agents for Georgia.
LIME,PLASTER AND CEMENT
Always on hand and for sale by
JONES 4 BAXTER, Agents.
SOAP, CANDLES, ETC.
50 boxes “ YELLOW ERASIVE” SOAP,
60 boxes STAR CANDLES,
24 boxes TOBACCO.
6 bales 4-4 SHEETING.
For sale by J ONES 4 BAXTER.
COTTON STATES
Life Insurance Co.
PRINCIPAL OFFICE, MACON, GEORGIA*
Authorized Capital $2,000,000
Guaranteed Capital 500,000
Deposited with State Comptroller for se
curity of Policy Holders 150,000
W. B. Johnston President.
W. S. Holt Vice President
Geo. S. Obear Secretary.
J. W. Burke General A{$nt
J. Mercer Green, M. D Medical Examiner.
W. J. Maoill Superintendent of Agencies.
C. F. McOav Actuary.
INSURE ON ALL POPULAR PLANS,
INSURE YOUR LIFE AT HOME.
ALL ITS FUNDS INVESTED IN GEORGIA
ALL LOSSES PAID WITHOUT DELAY.
IT IS MANAGED WITH ECONOMY.
ITS POLICIES ARE NON-FORFEITING AF
TER TWO YEARS.
F. M. HEATH, Special Agent,
jnl8tf Macon, Georgia.
iSTETW BOOKS!
TWO GUARDIANS, by Charlotte M. Tonge.
THE ROSE OF TYPHAINES, a Tale of the Com
mon in the twelfth century, by Count A de
Goberean.
JAS. GORDON’S WIFE, one of Appleton’s Library
of Choice Novels. Paper. 50 cents.
WON—NOT WOOED. Paper. 50 cents. One of
Harper’s Library of Choice Novels.
FAB ABOVE RUBIES. Paper. $1.00. One of
Claxton, Bemsen & Hatelfinger’a Library of
Choice Reading-
THE ISLAND NEIGHBORS, a Novel of American
Life Hlnstr&ted, Paper. 75 cents.
THE FIGHT AT DAME EUBOPA’S SCHOOL.
Illustrated by Naste.
All at
julyl4 tf J. W. BURKE 4 CO.’S.
B. F. CRAVJELEY’S
CHEWING- TOBACCO.
T HE most desirable article of the kind manufac
tured. A fresh supply.
HUNT, RANKIN * LAMAR,
Druggists.
WHOLESALE DEPOT
for the fine
Pharmaceutical Preparations
JOHN WITH A BRO.
11 ’HE Trade supplied at Manufacturers' Prices.
HUNT, RANKIN 4 LAMAR,
jnly23 ct Druggists.
NOTICE.
T HE firm of Clisby 4 Reid was dissolved Novem-
vember 14, 1869, by mulnal consent. W. A.
Reid is alone authorized to use the firm name in
settlement of the old business of said firm.
JOS. CLISBY.
WM. A. REID.
NOTICE, . , .
The firm of Clisby, Reid 4 Reese was dissolved
by mutual consent May 1, 1871. Win. A. Bied is
alone authorized to use the firm name in settlement
of any old business of said firm. „
JOS. CLISBY.
WM. A. REID-
A. W. BEEbE.
TO THOSE INDEBTED io ABOVE FIB*S.
You will perceive by the above that I am entitled
to close np the old business of the said firms, hav-
closed business as far as my former partners are
concerned. You will oblige by early attention-
Those out of Macon can address me, F. 0. W
106, Macon, Ga. __
jua2246tw2t WM. A.