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The Elections.
ih result of the elections which took
place in eleven States on Tuesday last—
except in the States known to be largely
Republican- has demonstrated the effect
which the financial question is having
throughout the North, in the breaking
U P of old party lines, and the power
which the money monopolists are
exerting on the masses. The suc
cess of the Radicals in Massachusetts
is, under the circumstances, no surprise.
1 he result in Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota
New Jersey and Wisconsin might have
been confidently foretold. The issue in
the great States of New York and Penn
sylvania was regarded with more inter
est nnl uncertainty. Maryland, too,
owing to the defection of leading
• Democrats and the introduction
of local issues, was doubtful. Virginia
was regarded as safe for the Conserva
tives, and strong hopes were entertained
for the emancipation of Mississippi from
carpet-bag and negro misrule. ThiH
hope has been realized, and another
Southern State resumes her place among
the redeemed commonwealths of the
South.
Our dispatches published this morning
leave the result still in doubt in New
and to some extent undecided in
Maryland. In Pennsylvania the Itadi
cals have elected their Governor
by a small majority. In this
State there was not a fair issue
between tne parties on the financial
question, there being very little if any
real difference between the platforms,
both declaring against contraction, and
in favor of “free hanking and a
safe and uniform eurroncy adjust
ed to the growing business inter-
Ota of the country.” Hut while there was
really no difference between the parties
on the currency question, the potent
influence of the national bunks was ex
erted on the side of the Itadicals as being
the party of the bondholders. In New
York tho issue between the monoy power
and the people wus more fairly made, and
the rosult, as far as known, is little calcu
lated to inspire the confidence of the
bondholders or reward tho devotion of
their Democratic allies. If the defection
of the World and the Tildonites lias de
feated the Democracy, it has also blasted
their political prospects. If the State of
New YorJ* is lost to tho Democracy, it is
lost to Tiiden too.
Arc There Lands In Southern Geor
gia Tor Sale ?
A few days ago wo called attention to
the fuct that it would be well for those
persons in Southern Georgia and Florida
who have lands for sale to register the
same at the ollieos of the Atlantic and
Gulf Railroad, giving the number of
acres, the location and other facts that
might be of interest to immigrants
from the North and Northwest who
have expressed a desire to settle amongst
us. We recur to tho subject again, not
alone because it is of suoh vital import
ance to this section, but because tho
numerous lotters of inquiry which have
been received at tho office of the Moun
xno News, and which wo aro still receiv
ing, as well as those that are daily
pouring into the office of Superin
tendent Haines, forces the matter
upon our attention. It is impossi
ble to induce a valuable class of
immigrants to settle in any section unless
they previously come into possession of
some sort of definite information in rela
tion to tho people aud tho country. In
formation of this character, so far as re
lates to Georgia aud Florida, can easily
be supplied by journals like the Morn
ing News aud “Evans’s Guide to Florida;”
but in addition to this, tho cautious im
migrant will desire to know something of
tho uatnro and capabilities of ilie soil upon
which ho proposes to settle as well as its
topographical features. This informa
tion can only bo given by the owners of
the laud, and wo once more urge upon
their attention tho necessity of giving
the necessary information to the officers
of the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad, in
order that Superintendent Haines may
issue an enlarged and revised edition of
his land pamphlet, for the purpose of
distribution in the North and North
west. Nearly all the letters received
have one refrain —“Please give us
reliable information in respect to buying
and selling land along the line of the
railroad. ’’ As wo said in a previous arli
le, we trust the newspapers in Southern
Georgia and Florida will press this im
portant matter upon the attention of
1 their readers.
A PiJOTOobaphic Victory. —The Brook
lyn photoX ra ph r who sued for the value
of seventeen e*ti**<, purporting to
represent one a‘ od th ' 9 Bame Bittor ’ and
all rejected by the laller as boin 8 uusat
isfaetory, has won L’* 9 case. Judgment
in his favor was prouov ,noed ou *** turda y
last. Henceforth becomes
a safe and sure business. element
of uncertainty has been elimi.from
•the business, and the photogi "‘‘pher is
now oheered by the certainty ti.’ at his
patrons have the discernment to rec" 0 ?
nize their own likenesses when reflected
by the camera, they must at least pay
him for the time and materials he has
used in the endeavor to get a good nega
tive of a negative face.
A preparation of cork known as cuir
liege is attracting considerable attention
in Paris. The cork is cut in fine sheets
■or strips, and covered on each side with
a B kiu of India rubber. It thus loses its
•fragibility and keeps all its advantages.
It is perfectly water-tight, is heat proof,
and as light as a feather, while its strength
is such that a strip of it an inch and a
half wide has been holding up a 1,000-
pound weight for six weeks. Boots,
buokets, portmanteaus, hats, knapsacks,
ambulance tents, awnings, and many
other articles, are made of it, and it is
proposed to veneer thicker sheets of it
with fancy woods and make carriages of
them. _
Mr. J. Edgar Thomson, late President
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
who died in May, 1874, left a portion of
his estate, valued at over one imilion dol
lars, for the eckication and maintenance
orphans of railroad employees
wve killed while in the
Ik of their duties- There are
HLhiu the estate which, if al
n prevent the carrying luto
Blesire of tin testator.
J. 11. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR,
The Southern Pacific Railroad—Tom
Scott’s Misnomer.
On our fourth page we publish the eifeu
lar issued by the Memphis committee
calling a convention of delegates from
Southern cities and Boards of Commerce
to assemble in Memphis on the 39th inst.
to consider the location and adopt meas
ures for the construction of the so-called
Southern Pacific Railroad, in aid of
which the United States Government is
to be asked for large subsidy in the
shape of endorsement of the company’s
bonds. It will be remembered that
during the last session of Congress, when
Colonel Tom Scott's lobby were pressing
this subsidy scheme in that body, and
when an effort was making in our State
Legislature to have our Senators and
members of Congress instructed to vote
for the Scott bill, we expressed our dis
approval of the proposed action, not only
on general principles of opposition to
government subsidies to works of internal
improvement, but for the reason that the
road was a private speculation, in which
tho South, It whose behalf the govern
ment aid was asked, had really no inter
est. We have seen no reason since to
change the views then entertained in
reference to an enterprize ostensibly for
the development of the com
merce of our section, but really
for the promotion of private in
terests and incidentally detrimental
to Southern commerce. We give the cir
cular of the Memphis committee for the
information of our public, who are now
asked to send delegates. The following
editorial from the New York Bulletin is
so opposite, and so fully expresses our
own opinions, that we adopt and endorse
it in lieu of a repetition of what we have
before written on the subject:
“ We learn, through a United States
Senator from a Southern State, that the
Southern Legislatures have, in every in
stance, instructed their Senators to vote
at the next session of Congress in favor
of government aid to a Southern Pacific
Railroad. Whether these instructions
have been given in each instance in fa
vor of Col. Scott’s scheme we are not in
formed. No means have been spared to
influence opinion at the South in favor
of that route. Gen. Beauregard has been
retained in that special interest, and it
is to be presumed that his efforts have
not been entirely in vain. It is, how
ever, a matter of the first consequence to
the South that it should know just what
is to be asked in their behalf. Col. Scott’s
scheme is in no sense a Southern road.
It gives the South the go-by, making a
western and southwestern circuit of
the Southern States, really calcu
lated to draw trade from that section,
rather than to develop it. It is a total
misnomer to call it a Southern Pacific
road; but mere names are sometimes po
tent ; and this Scott pseudonym is calcu
lated to lead the South into clamoring
for the very thing it does not want. We
can easily understand how some of the
border cities of the Southwest which Mr.
Scott’s road proposes to touch should Bh
earnest in the advocacy of that project;
and for this reason we are not surprised
at the strictures of the Louisville Courier-
Journal upon our recent remarks on this
question; but the South will not be long
in discovering that a road which touches
its territory only at its most northern
boundary caa be of no advantage to the
ten cotton States it passes at such a dis
tance.
“Our Louisville contemporary inti
mates that we are indifferent about
whether the South has a Pacific Road or
not, because we have expressed an opin
ion against the government aiding any
such enterprise. W e are opposed to the
government lending its credit to any
more railroad enterprises. First, because
tho government has no business to bol
ster up schemes which cannot command
confidence on their own merits ; next,
because government aid begets political
and corporate corruption ; next, because
it fosters vicious speculation ; and,
next, because, if donations of do
main and endorsements of bonds
are to be renewed after the signal
break-down of railroad speculation in
1873, we show ourselves incapable of
profiting by the severest lessons of expe
rience. But while thus generally op
posed to more government aid, we are
especially so against a scheme that de
mands the xegium donum under false
pretenses. It is argued that to make the
government sponsor of Col. Scott’s road
would be an act of political wisdom, inas
much as it would show a spirit of gener
osity towards the South that would tend
to the healing of rancorous memories.
What an admirable specimen of sugar
coating. But how much healing would
such an act effect when the South dis
covered, as it ultimately would, that
this generosity was not intended
for it, did it no goodj prevented the
possible building of some other road that
might be of great service to it, and that
the real object was to render available a
few hundred miles of railroad in the
wilderness, foolishly built in the times of
railway mania and which must become a
total loss to its speculative constructors
unless the government can be made re
sponsible for it ? We are inclined to
think the South would, in the long run,
conclude it had been shrewdly practised
upon by Northern speculators, and
that, under the pretense of political
generosity, it had been made a party
to anew national burthen, to its
special injury. To all intents and pur
poses, this is a scheme to benefit North
ern speculators; aud we cannot imagine
how the South can be hoodwinked
into si''PP° 8 * n 8 has any other concern
with it u'mn to pay its share of the addi
tional taxai i° n that must be saddled upon
the country t o pay the expense of main
taining it These pretenses are too hol
low to stand the scrutiny to which they
will be subjected. If there be really
good reasons why the South should have
a railroad running through its heart and
connecting with the Pacific coast, it is
only necessary for good, practical railroad
men of resource aud character to place
the question before the public purely
on its merits, and with due guarantees
that it will be constructed with honesty
and economy, and there will be no lack
of the means to build it There must,
sooner or later, be a central Southern
road of this kind. If Col. Scott succeeds
in committing the government to this
border route, the realization of the route
that must benefit the South must be
indefinitely deferred. If the South
demurs to waiting until it can have a
road to suit its wants, constructed upon
proper conditions, it certainly cannot
afford to accept the alternative of back
ing Mr. Scott's proposals.’’
It will be seen, by the report of the
gmjMfc ittefeljj Sous,
proceedings of Council last night, that
the subject was considered by that body,
and that it was resolved to send dele
gates to represent Savannah in a conven
tion to be held in St. Louis on the 23d
instant. This action on the part of
Council is eminently proper. It is of
the utmost importance that the State of
Georgia and her chief seaport should
be represented perhaps in both the pro
posed conventions, and that our people
should have a voice in a matter which is
to compromise or greatly promote the
commercial interests of our section. In
these conventions the project of a South
“ern Pacific road will be fully discussed,
and the route definitely determined. If,
as is alleged by the Bulletin , the object
of the projectors of the road is to “com
mit the government to a border route,”
thus “indefinitely deferring” the con
struction of a central Southern road,
the scheme should be resolutely
opposed by our people. If, on
the contrary, the proposition is to
build a great central Southern Pacific
trunk road upon a line constituting it in
reality a Southern route between the
South Atlantic and Gulf States and the
Pacific Ocean, then it will be for our
people and their Representatives in
Congress to consider whether the
benefits to accrue from the speedy
consummation of such an enter
prise are such as to justify a depar
ture from principle for its attainment
through the aid of government subsidy.
By just such schemes as Col. Tom
Scott’s Pacific Railroad the United
States Government has in years past
been plundered of millions upon mil
lions of dollars. It may not be
in the power of the Representatives
of Georgia to prevent a repetition
of this species of government robbery,
by which corrupt Northern corporations
have been enriched, and the burthens of
the people enormously increased; but
there is no reason why they should
give their aid and indorsement to a
ruinous policy in which their constit
uency, while they would have to
bear their full share of the taxation,
would not have even the poor excuse of
being sharers in the plunder.
An Impending Revulsion.
The contrast between the condition of
the South and the North is, says the New
Orleans Times, attracting the marked at
tention of thinking men. Scores of in
telligent gentlemen, who have recently
returned, appear for the first time to fully
realize the extent of our vast resources,
and particularly the improved condition
of those in the humbler walks of life.
While the poor continue in the majority,
their status is the true criterion of
prosperity. Already have capitalists
begun to scrutinize the crowds of
unemployed operatives who throng
Northern streets. Many of them are still
in their shirt sleeves, and without the
means to procure winter clothing. It is
feared the soup houses will, during the
severe weather, be attended by hundreds
who never Before sought such assistance.
The rigid economy of the Southern peo
ple is beginning to produce a marked
effect. Luxuries of all kinds have been
almost wholly eschewed, and what were
heretofore considered necessities, are
selected of the cheapest and most durable
fabrics. Our demand for dry goods par
ticularly has been restricted to staple
articles, and in consequence the dividends
of Northern mill owners are materially
reduced. What has benefited this section
of the country impoverished the North.
While the climate may be more oppres
sive in summer it is far more genial in
winter. We have the full use of our land
twelve months in the year, while snow
and ice restrict the farmer of the North
to seven. Improved machinery and
great enterprise has effectad much ; so
far as human ingenuity can, they have
overcome the obstructions of nature, but
man is not omnipotent, and there is a
point where human effort must cease.
The cotton mills of New England might
be stowed with millions of yards of fab
rics, but while the consumer is unable
to purchase, or forced by his necessities
to do without, they are .simply dead
capital. To the operative they are even
worse, representing, as they do, so many
hours of labor, which must be exhausted
before the opportunity for employment
is afforded. The winter season there pos
sesses positive characteristics, while here
they are negative. Fire and heavy rai
ment there are absolute necessities upon
which life depends; here their absence
may be attended by discomfort, but no
greater sacrifice. The instinct of America
is progression, and it will surprise many
if the experience of the approaching
winter does not revolutionize the traffic
of the entire country. Of the whole
land, the South to-day presents the most
profitable field for investment.
Grant’s Last Move on the Third Term
Checker-Board.
Alluding to Grant’s latest third term
ruse, which was so mysteriously an
nounced through the Washington Asso
ciated Press dispatches of Monday last —
so manifestly an attempt to make a war
with Spain a means of securing a renomi
nation—the Cincinnati Enquirer says:
“The endeavor is illy concealed and ill
timed. When nearly two years ago the
brutal Spaniard captured a vessel bearing
the flag of the United States, butchered
scores of men claiming to be citizens of
this country, and for the hour certainly
entitled to its protection, when the flag
of the nation was assaulted. Grant was
insensible to the •’Uional honor, forget
ful of the 'ms of bleeding
Cuba, unmindful °Jhe material inter
ests of the Uniti States that were crip
pled by the protracted war upon the
beautiful isle of the sea. The war in
Cuba has been in progress more than
seven years. Grant has looked calmly on
this wholesale slaughter upon that island
since October, 1868. He has seen the
sugar and tobacco of that gem of islands
fall before the destructive hand of the
insurgent, and has witnessed the conse
quent loss to the people of this country
with a tearless eye for nearly
one hundred months. Only on the
eve of a Presidential election is
he moved to sympathy for the
Cuban Republic or for the honor or the
interests of the United States. The peo
ple of this country are a humane people.
They have looked with sadness upon the
blood that has moistened and the torch
that has blackened the sentry of the
great Gulf. They sympathize with peo
ple everywhere struggling for liberty.
But they will not be seduced into a war
whose only purpose is to promote for a
third time the Presidential chances of a
man the thought of whom as an occu
pant of the White House makes the
whole head sick and the whole hear
faint.”
SAVANNAH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1875.
Indictment of Harney Richard.
It will be seen by our special dispatch
from Jacksonville, Florida, that a true
bill has at length been obtained against
Mr. Harney Richard, charged with the
murder of the late State Senator Johnson
of that State.
It is not too much to say that the his
tory of this case, thus far, furnishes the
most flagrant example of unpro
voked partizan malignity and the
shameless prostitution of the ju
dicial office and forms of law to the
basest partizan purposes, that ever dis
graced the annals of even Radical usur
pation and misrule in our down trodden
sister State. We have carefully read the
reports of the testimony and judicial
proceedings in the preliminary examina
tion, when no effort was spared on the
part of the prosecution and the
presiding J udge to make out a
oase of reasonable suspicion against the
accused, and when it is notorious that all
the testimony that could possibly be elic
ited, was adduced; and we know that we
e*P*frwi.he opinion of every fair-minded,
unprejudiced man who heard or has read
the evidence, when we say that not
only was there an entire absence
of credible testimony connecting
Mr. Riehard in the remotest degree
with the crime charged against him, but
that an alibi was established in his favor
by the concurrent testimony of several
witnesses of unimpeachable character.
That, under these circumstances, the
accused should have been sent before the
grand jury was a most flagrant wrong,
but that he should, after the bill of in
dictment had been ignored by that jury,
be dragged before a second grand jury,
packed and drilled to indict upon trump
ed-up and perjured testimony of ignorant
and prejudiced negroes, was an outrage
upon decency, justice and law, which
calls for the most unqualified public con
demnation.
It is time for the law-abiding citizens
of Florida to become alarmed for their
personal security when their courts of
justice are converted into partizan cau
cuses for purposes of intimidation and
persecution of political opponents, and
when the Judge on the bench, pandering
to the mercenary greed and vindictive
hate of an ignorant rabble, becomes the
prosecutor, and leads the hungry pack in
their relentless pursuit of an innocent
victim.
Where Shall the Next National Dem
ocratic Convention he Held 1
The Cincinnati Enquirer says the next
great contest which will come between
the people and the money power will be
at the place where the next National
Democratic Convention will be held,
which will nominate candidates for Presi
dent and Vice President of the United
States. It will be determined by the
National Democratic Convention, a body
which is composed of one delegate from
each State. There are now, since the
admission of Colorado, thirty-eight
fcßatoo. Jt will twenty tn
make a choice. It is a body that
does not represent population or
Democratic votes. In it a small
minority may prevail over the wishes of
the vast majority. The six New England
States have only the population, and bare
ly two-thirds of the Democratic vote of
Pennsylvania, and yet they will have in
the matter of fixing the place of the con
vention six votes to Pennsylvania’s one
in the oligarchical body appointed for its
decision. The money power will endeavor
to drag the national Democracy within
the shadows of Wall street, and load them
down with the fragrant reminiscences of
Tammany Hall, in which building it would
put the Convention, just as it didin 1868.
The people of the Ohio and Mississippi
Valleys prefer going to Cincinnati, St.
Louis or Chicago. Every Democratic
National Convention has been held east
of the Alleghanies with the exception of
two—Cincinnati in 1856, and Chicago in
1864. We think with the Enquirer that
it is time that there was a change in ibis
programme. There is a majority of the
people living west of the chain of moun
tains to which we have referred.
The East has had nine Conventions
to the West's two. Have they any right
to ask the tenth? In 1867 there was but
a single vote’s difference between St.
Louis and New York, and that vote was
given by one or two members who rep
resented States near St. Louis, who were
influenced up by the national bank and
bondholding gentlemen. Let the people
of the West and South begin early to
look to and consider what will be the
action of their national committeemen in
fixing the site of the next Democratic
National Convention.
Southern Scalawags and the Next
President. —A Washington dispatch says
the Southern Republicans who arrive in
that city seem to be more interested in
the question of the next Presidency than
in any intermediate matter. Some of
them are talking very favorably of Gov.
Hayes, of Ohio, as a candidate, while it
is eertain that there is a movement on
foot in behalf of Chief Justice Waite.
The Southerners say that the candidate
must be a .Western man, and that he must
be a man against whom there are no ani
mosities within the party. Prominent
among those engaged in this movement
are Judge Settle, of North Carolina, and
Judge Hugh L. Bond, of Baltimore, who
have recently made a Western trip in the
interest of Mr. Waite. It is claimed,
says the dispatch, that this movement is
not unfavorably regarded at the White
House.
The French Claret Crop. —The latest
reports from the Medoc (France) region
regarding the vintage, are very encour
aging. The grape crop is said to be the
largest ever produced, and the quality
such as to produce a very fine wine.
The weather has been propitious for
manufacture, and indeed everything ap
pears to be favorable to the industry.
The production in the different sections,
it is estimated, will average from 15 to
35 per cent, greater than last year. The
only drawback apprehended by producers
under the circumstances, is an over sup
ply mid decline in prices.
The New Policy Against the Mob
mons. —President Grant has ordered the
removal of the Postmaster at Ogden,
Utah, who is a Mormon, but not a polyga
mist. This, says a Washington dispatch,
is the first step towards the removal of
all Mormons holding Federal offices in
Utah. The movement was opposed by
Senator Sargent, of California, on the
ground that the incumbent had a right to
his religious belief so long as he did not
practice polygamy and thereby break the
tews of his country.
Affairs in Georgia.
The only way the Griffin boys can have
fun is to carry their terriers to church.
There is something morbid in scones such’
as these. ;
Col. Jones, of the Macon Telegraph , is in
fatuated on the subject of beggar lice for
age. and yet we doubt if he has lost a meal
on that account.
Where, in the name of all that is unconsti
tutional, was the Count Johannes B'Gor
manne during the recent fairs? We know
there was a screw loose somewhere.
During the recent State Fair, a Savannah
visitor discovered a Macon man about ten
o’clock at night walking home on his all
fours. “My friend,” said the humane
visitor, “you’ll never get home that way.
Allow me to assist you.’’ To which the
Macon man indignantly responded :
“Whonell’s drunk ? I’m sober’s plank fence.
I was seeiu fi couldu’t make’s good a bear’s
Benner’s.” The Savannah ian sat down in
the sand and shed scalding tears.
Some villain shot and wounded a valuab'e
mule belonging to Mr, J. H. Toler, of Wil
kinson county, the other night.
The physician of Mr. Stephens has strong
hopes that the old man eloquent will be able
to take his seat in Congress at its next ses
sion.
Eugene Atkinson, of Morgan county, has
gathered two five hundred pound baies of
cotton from two acres, and expects to get
another bale from the same piften.
Wilkinson county hunters nightly pursue
the savage opossum.
Mr. James McAllum, a highly respected
citizen of Twiggs county, is dead.
Rev. S. P. Callaway, of West Point, has
been called to the pastorate of the Baptist
Church at Greenville,
The Americus Republican suggests that
there is too much shooting in the streets of
that city at night.
Two negro children were burned to death
in Meriwether county in one day recently.
Up to the 29th of October, Americus had
received 8,890 bales of cotton, 1,514 less than
during the same period last season.
Mr. Robert H. Sut’aerlin, of Meriwether
county, complains that, while he has an
abundance of provisions, he hasn’t made
cotton enough to do him. Sutherlin will
keep on fooling around in this exasperating
mauner until someone will bounce him out
and run him for Governor.
Mr. John W. Turner, formerly of this
city, will shortly take charge of the tele
graph office at Americus. J. W. is a light
ning operator.
Well, well—change is marked on every
thing. Eatonton is to havo a town hall,
aud Frank Leverett is going to run it.
Up to last Saturday. Eatonton had receiv
ed, according to the Messenger , three thous
and aud eighty-eight bales of cotton.
In Monroe county recently, Mr. Ike W.
Thomas was married to Miss Dollie Gibson.
We raised these children, and if there is a
more promising young man than the groom,
or a more accomplished and charming young
lady than the fair bride, we have never heard
of them.
The Hebrews of Macon have organized a
society called Cbewra Biker Cholim and
Kadisha. The objects of the society are
charitable.
Augusta had a small slice of the earth
quake which is reported by telegraph. The
editors of tho newspapers came very near
saying their prayers.
The proprietors of the Eatonton Messen
ger desire to purchase a hand-press—size
28x40. They will either pay cash or ex
change a smaller one.
John Duncan, colored, slew one of his
own race in Sumter county recently. It was
all about a crop “ divvy.”
The Sunday Press, of Griffin, has been
consolidated with the Star and Cultivator.
Thus it is we loso a good paper and get a
better one.
Mr. Robert L. Bates, of Macon, is dead.
Fifty acres of land in Monroe county,
which’had been in cultivation tor fifty years,
were made to yield one thousand bushels of
corn the past season.
A negro attempted to rape a little white
girl in Early county last wesrk. Tho wretch
escaped.
A little negro boy was burned to death
near Forsyth recently.
The editor of the Forsyth Advertiser is
endeavoring to digest Early Rose potatoes
of the second planting.
Here is something suggestive from.the
Appeal: “About twelve months since a
farmer living near Cuthbert was taken with
the Western fever, and sold his plantation
for less than $2 50 per acre, in order to make
the change. The purchasers this year
gathered over three hundred bushels of corn
from less than fifteen acres of this ground.
One of the owners of this place showed us
the other day an ear of corn grown by them
which measured eleven inches in circumfer
ence and was over nine inches in length.
Still, some of our farmers will continue to
buy corn the year through, and are always
talking about the glorious West.”
Columbus Enquirer : The present term
of the Supreme Court has made a decision,
out of which will necessarily grow a great
deal of litigation and comparison. The
case went up from Griffin. It is too long to
publish it in full. The decision declares
unconstitutional the eleventh section of the
homestead law. That section allowed par
ties who had taken the homestead to sell it,
provided the wife and husband both
sign the deed, and the Ordinary of
the county approved it. TLo decision
declares that * such a provision in the
homestead iaw is unconstitutional,
and that they cannot sell except as
provided in the constitution. The consti
tution only provides four circumstances un
der which the homestead can be sold : Ist,
for taxes; 2d, for improvements made on
the homestead; 3d, for labor porformed on
the homestead; and 4th, for mortgages,
etc., in the shape of incumbrances lifted
from the homestead. Outside of these, the
law now declares a sale of the homestead
null and void. It almost repeals the elev
enth section of the act, and places
a homestead almost without tho pow
er to even sell. We apprehend, how
ever, that a sale of the homestead
might be made, through a bill in equity, for
some good reasons. As the decision now
stands a number of people in our knowledge
have bought property of this nature, and
the title to it is not worth the paper it is
written on. It is an ill wind that blows
nobody good This wind will probably
revive "the sinking ship, labelled “law busi
ness.” We are not sufficiently posted as yet
to fathom the justice of the decision, or to
foretell the practical workings of the law,
but if we understand the decision aright,
we know it will be the production of consid
erable harm to those that have bought
homesteads, and may recuperate the pock
ets of some that have sola.
The Columbus Enquirer does not regard
the last State Fair as a success. Referring
to the published statement of- the receipts
and expenditures, it says: Bat the reader
will notice that the former was very small,
(much less than formerly), and the latter
did not exceed them merely because they
were cut down to a figure smaller than that
of some county Fairs. Less than five thou
sand dollars in premiums wese distributed,
while at the Fair of laßt year the pre
miums for county exhibitions alone
amounted to two thousand dollars, and
the premiums to military companies
to about nine hundred. The total
receipts for tickets of admission at
the Fair of last week are put down at
$8,500, while ’the receipts fox only one day
at the State Fair of last year were estimated
to be fully equal to that. The total receipts
from all sources at the late ffacon Fair are
stated at $16,000, and if our memory serves
us, the total receipts of the State Fair of
last year W9re nearly twice at large. So it
would appear that the succiss of the late
Macon Fair consists in a cautious and pru
dent limitation of its expenses (premiums,
etc.,) to its receipts. This is not our idea of
the success of such an exhibition. Any lit
tle local fair may succeed in he same way,
when neither its receipts ntr its expenses
exceed one thousand dollars. But such an
exhibition would fall far siort of what a
Georgia State Fair ought to be.
Colonel H. H. Jones, observing bales of
beggar lice hay at the Thomaiville Fair, thus
wntes : “The history and value of this for
age crop deserves more than a passing
notice. About ten years since it was intro
duced into this region fron Florida, and
soon, borne by the winds ard birds, began
to spread in all directions, uitil now it nas
covered the entire surface of the county.
So tender and juicy is the plant, and sweet
and delicate to the taste, that horses and
cattle will abandon pea fielis, if any is to
be found in the vicinity, and prefer it to
every other description of forage. The
seed, which resembles millet, though nearly
black, comes up like crowfoot grass in the
fields, after the cultivation of the growing
crop is over. The growth is very rapid, and
it soon shades the ground completely, thus
protecting it from the ra> s of the sun, And is
also exceedingly useful as a fertilizer. It is
only recently that the farmers have become
aware of the inestimable valae of thia gift
of a bountiful Providence, and if properly
utilized it can be made to drive out all the
Northern and Western hay, which is each a
grievous tax to our people. Indeed, why
should a dollar be expended for forage
while Indian corn can be sown for stock,
and crab grass, millet, oat and this new
food plant can be raised and saved with so
little outlay and in such abundance? The
“beggar lice” should be sown just before
the last ploughing of corn, ana afterward
will take care of itself. It is easily cured,
sod groweluxoriaotly on alnoet any soil*
Mrs. J. W. Rankin, of Macon, died sud
denly in Atlanta the other day.
The dwelling-house on the plantation of
Judge E. Dumas, of Forsyth, was burned
last Tuesday.
Will Dr. Janes please keep the tally-sheet ?
Here is the eighteenth since the Ist of Sep
tember: The gin-house of Mr. A. M.
Wright, of Newton county, together with
the gin, press, engine, and eleven bales of
cotton, was burned last week.
There is one Macon man who hasn’t got
over the Fair yet. He was bruised by a
prize mule.
We were in hopes that Colonel Whidby
would lead the Okefenokee expedition. He
wouldn’t need any folding boats or patent
mosquito nets. He could simply roll up bis
pantaloons and penetrate right to the foun
dation of Billy’s Island.
How about the Atlanta Custom House ?
The Geneva Lamp, which came to us yes
terday enlarged and improved, seems to
have a morbid suspicion that our notice of
its initial’ number was not altogether ami
able. This suspicion, however, is wide of
the mark. We were a li'tle hypercritical,
perhaps—nothing more. The troth is the
Lamp can afford to be criticized. Its origi
nal matter is conceived and written in a
spirit and style very rare in country week
lies—a spirit'and style to wh.ch even some of
the city editors might aspire—and we might
say much more in this direction without ex
aggerating. As to our doubt of the author
ship of the salutatory, we think our young
friend might well take it as a compliment.
The American Grocer , of New York, a
publication that should be in the hands of
every Southern merchant, takes occasion to
remark as follows : “We have received a
very neat little book prepared by Mr. B. H.
Richardson, the able city editor of the Sa
vannah Morning News, describing the
principal attractions of the Forest City, its
suburban resorts and points of local inter
est. Savannah may fairly compete with St.
Augnstine as an agreeable watering place
for Northern tourists and invalids, and we
would strongly recommend it to those con
templating a journey South. Avery fair
dea of its many attractions may be derived
from a perusal of Mr. Richardson’s little
pamphlet, which is written in a pleasant,
lively style.”
Negroes have been serving on juries in
Bibb county since 1869.
The Hiuesville Gazette enthusiastically re
marks that “Southern Georgia is the best
country in the worid, anyhow.”
Rev. W. C. Wilkes, formerly President of
Monroe Female College, will take charge of
the Gainesville College. He is a ripe
scholar and a wise disciplinarian.
We hope the Commissioner of Agriculture
has his pencil ready. Here is the nine
teenth since tho Ist of September: The
gin-house of Judge F. C. Furman, of Bald
win county, was accidentally burno I on Fri
day last, together with about seven bales of
cotton.
The twentieth is the mill and gin of Mrs.
Robinson, near Covington, which, together
with six bales of cotton and a forty-saw gin,
were burned last week.
The steamer Clyde is up the Altamaha
river waiting for a heavy dew to fall. The
river is very low.
Milledgeville had a piece of the earthquake
the other day.
The Hiuesville Gazette says that the acre
age of oats in that section will be larger
than ever before. Reports of this character
are calculated to offset, in a measure, the
election news.
Coving tou has received more than three
thousand bales of cotton this season.
A party of men in Habersham county
went to the house of a revenue iuformer
the other day, and bounced him aud his
around in quite a lively style.
Mr. C. C. Mitchell, of Milledgeville, is
dead.
Judge Lochrane has been doing a rushing
law business lately.
Rev. J. C. Branch, pastor of St. Paul
Church in Columbus, has been appointed to
take charge of the church at Santa Rosa,
California.
Mr. D. D. Johnson, general agent of the
Georgia Home Insurance Company, of Co
lumbus, was found dead in his bed in Perry
on the Ist inst.
The Atlanta Constitution doesn’t take the
responsibility of its cotton man’s articles
this season. This is well.
Mr. Wm. Copeland, an old and highly
esteemed citizen of Henry county, is dead.
Confidence meu are worrying the mer
chants of Griffin. The Griffin Banking
Company was taken* in by one of them for
two hundred dollars.
Messrs. J. D. Alexander and Eugene P.
Speer have become editors and proprietors
of the Griffin News, Judge Pitt Brown re
tiring. They are both good newspaper men,
full of energy and enterprise, and withal as
genial as the day is long.
The Athens Watchman says that Mr. Mal
com, near Mars Hill, assisted by his son 13
years old, made this year upwards of 300
bushels of wheat, a large quantity of oats,
abundance of corn and meat to do his
family. Besides this, he has made on 12
acres of ground ten baies of cotton, aver
aging 500 pounds each. The whole crop is
worth upwards of $1,500. Mr. Malcom be
lieves in the good old doctrine, that land
must be fed if it remains productive—hence,
he saves all the fertilizers he can—returning
to the land all the straw, chaff, cotton seed
aud other refuse. He also “plows deep
while sluggards sleep.”
Griffin came very near having a miscege
nation sensation the other day. A white
girl wanted to marry a negro so bad that
she swore she was a negro also.
The cotton crop of Northeast Georgia will
be larger this season than ever.
Dr. Yancey, of Covington, tried to butt a
gate-post down the other night. He didn’t
succeed.
Covington Star: Mr. F. P. Reynolds has
made this year, with three plows,*27 bales of
cotton, nearly 400 bushels of corn, and 160
bushels of wheat, besides a large crop of
peas. He made 150 bushels of peas from
one bushel pilanted. Mr. Reynolds is one
of the most energetic and industrious young
farmers in onr county, and his example is
worthy of emulation. If any one has beat
him we would like to hear of it, for ten
thousand such farmers in this section would
make it truly the garden spot -of the “Em
pire State.”
Macon Telegraph: Some mischievous or
disaffected person or persons have been
busy for several days past in sowing broad
cast over the State reports to the prejudice
of the commercial standing of a large num
ber of our most prominent merchants, nor
have at least two of our banking institutions
escaped animadversion. Yesterday the writer
made it his special business to call upon these
gentlemen and ascertain by direct question
ing and investigation, the true condition of
affairs. Nearly all of their number were
seen, and we can safely assert that, save in
two instances, the above rumors are without
the slightest foundation, and simply lies
manufactured out of whole cloth. And even
in the case of the exceptions referred to,
there has been no failure or closing of
doors, the extensions asked for having been
granted, and the parties still actively en
gaged in business, and resolved by diligence
and personal sacrifices to make good their
obligations. This statement is made by
authority, and can be relied upon abso
lutely.
In Ellijay they feed cows with whole cab
bages.
The earthquake took in Sandersville in its
route, and those who felt the shock are per
fectly happy.
Col. D. E. Butler made one of his old
fashioned speeches at the Sandersville Fair
As usual, he talked right out in meeting.
Several persons have been arrested for
stealing cotton from the Eagle and Phoenix
Mills, of Columbus.
Another. A little negro child was burned
to death in Washington county last week.
Between thd colored children and the gin
houses, we are having some right serious
conflagrations.
Another nigger ball in Columbus was
wound up by a cutting scrape. We shall
begin to believe after a while that little
pleasantries of this kind are not confined to
religious assemblies.
The Columbus Enquirer claims credit for
its article on through cotton. Some people
are so forward. After awhile DeVotie will
claim the cotton.
Montezuma came near having a destruc
tive fire the other day.
Mr. Thomas Brown, of Macon county,
caught an alligator six feet long in a gill
net the other day,
Mr. P. G. Hyatt, of Gilmer county, was
set upon and robbed while on his way home
from Rome a few nights ago.
Mr. C, A. Nutting has resigned the Presi
dency of the City Bank of Macon, and Mr.
John J. Gresham has been elected to fill the
vacancy. The resignation of Mr. Nutting
was accepted by the Board of Directors with
considerable reluctance.
We regret to learn that Mr. Joseph Clisby,
editor of the Macon Telegraph, was thrown
from his carriage the other day, and some
what injured. The injury, however, was
not at all serious.
Mr. H. C. Stevenson, business manager of
the Augusta Constitutionalist, who has been
extremely ill for several days, is convales
cent.
The Griffin, Monticello and Madison Rail
road, or what there is cl it, was sold to
Judge Lochrane the other day for five j
thousand dollars.
Mi*B Floretta Mason, daughter of Mr.
Timothy Mason, of Pulaski county, a charm
ing young lady about fifteen years of age,
was thrown from a horse on Tuesday, aud
instantly killed.
The colored people are getting mightv
sensitive lately. One of them fell down
and remained insensible for a considerable
period, in Fort Valley the other day, simply
because another moke smote him behind
the ear with a brick. It was not always
thus.
Ward, one of the song and dance men of
Duprez & Benedict’s Minstrels, was arrested
in Atlanta and fined ten dollars for saying
to a friend, “Good-bye, God bless you!”
An efficient policeman standing near
thought it was profanity, and so it was— in
Atlanta.
The Montezuma Weekly has plunged
boldly and successfully into the second year
of its existence. Here’s luck to you, young
man.
We find the following obituary iu the
Milledgeville Spirti of the South : “Mr.
I. P. Baxter, a butcher of this place,
slaughtered a cow on last Friday, and in her
stomach found nearly a pouud of ten-penny
and horse-shoe nails, au escutcheon from a
stock lock, a small piece of an iron hoop, a
five cent nickie piece, a watch key, aud a
kev check marked W. A. Carey, Crawfords
ville, Georgia. It is very evident from the
above that the cow eat ’ Mr. Carey at some
period of which we have no knowledge. It
will doubtless be a matter of melancholy
gratification to bis friends to learn of his
whereabouts. His disappearance, doubt
less, up to this time has remained a mystery
to his friends.”
On the night of the earthquake the best
’possum dogs iu Baldwin county couldn’t
be induced to pursue their accustomed prey.
The Americus Republican says that the
North Georgia Conference of the Methodist
Church convenes iu Griffin on the 2d of De
cember next. The South Georgia Confer
ence convenes in Americußon the 15tli of
December. Bishop Doggett will preside at
this Conference.
The earthquake played a slight—very
slight—engagement in Griffin.
Father Stephen A. Batty, a native born
Georgian, is in Americas for the purpose of
purchasing a house of worship for the
Catholics of that place.
Don’t come tooling around us with any
more of your curiosities. Here is one that
we don’t care to see beat. The Butler Her
ald is informed by Mr. W. W. Foy, who
lives on Mr. A. M. Walker’s place, near Car
sonville, that he has a collard head which
is four feet and a half in diameter, and in
the middle of that collard head one of his
hens has built a nest and has laid in it six
or eight times. Mr. Foy and Mr. Walker
have both seen this and assert it to be a
positive fact.
The Americus Republican says that Aleck
Crawford, colored, in the employ ot Mr.
Jesse Aycock, of Sumter county, a<tempted
to take the life of his employer a few days
ago. While conversing with Mr. A. on
business, the negro became offended at
some remark made by that gentleman, and
taking up an axe lying near by made an as
sault on him. In warding off the blows
Mr. A. was struck on the left arm, which
was broken about three inches below the
elbow. A warrant was issued, tho negro
arrested and taken beforo Judge Williams,
who sent him to jail to await trial before tho
next term of the Superior Court.
Mr. Thomas Joiner, of Taylor county, has
four hundred bushels of home-made corn
for sale.
Wo learn from the Thomasville Enterprise
that Captain F. W. Hopkins, machinist in
the machine shops of the Atlantic and Gulf
Railroad, Savannah,exhibited a case of tools,
ratchet drill, surface gage, square and ma
chinist hammers of his own make, at the
late Fair, which would do credit to “Wm.
Brice”or anyother millionaire manufacturer.
This young gentleman possesses talents
that would have graced wliat are called the
“professions,” but ho sensibly and nobly de
clined to join the mighty throng of half idlo
non-producers, and chose to be of intrinsic
worth to his fellow men.
Here is ono from the Fort Valley Mirror:
“General Longstreet is going to koep tavern
in Georgia. Glad ho has got inn to busi
ness.”
The Griffin News says the farmers in that
section aro discharging their obligations to
the merchants with commendable prompt
ness.
It is no harm,we presume, to put in the fol
lowing little piece of gossip about two per
sons with whom some of our readers are
slightly acquainted. It is Irom the Tbom
asville Erderprise: “Col. Thompson, of the
Savannah News, was the most popular indi
vidual from abroad who attended onr Fair.
He was in request everywhere, and on all
occasions., Everybody had business with
him, and when Mr. J. H. Estill arrived
everybody wanted to see him. So much for
the popularity of the News in this sec
tion.”
The Americus Republican learns from re
liable authority that a white man by the
name of John Clark, formerly a resident of
that county, shot and killed a negro, Joe
Richardson, in Lee county on Monday last.
It seems that the negro wont to the resi
dence of Clark aDd called him out for the
purpose of raising a difficulty. In tho dis
pute that took place between them the ne
gro callod Clark a d—d liar, when tho latter
shot him, the wound proving fatal.
Augusta Chronicle: Last Monday night,
about ten o’clock, as a well-known citizen ot
Augusta was riding along the Columbia
road, near Bedford, a bright light suddenly
illuminated the roadway in front of him for
a few moments. The moon was not shining
at the time and almost complete darkness
prevailed immediately before the light ap
peared. The gentleman at first thought
that someone had struck a match and
lighted a torch, but could see no one in the
vicinity. On reaching his destination be
was told that the house had been shaken by
an earthquake, and at once concluded that
the light he had noticed was an electrical
phenomenon connected with the shock.
Early the same evening a very large and
brilliant meteor passed over the plantation
from north to south. Its nucleus was as
large as a bushel basket, and it left a long,
shining path behind it. The electrical light
was also seen in Greene and Lincoln coun
ties.
Irwinton Southerner: Mr. O. G. McCoy,
of Jeffersonville, is seventy-three years of
age, and lately performed a feat which
would have severely tested the endurance
of a young man. On Saturday, the 16th
day of October, he labored as a carpenter
on the storehouse of Mr. R. J. Smith, at
Cool Springs, which was burned that night,
and after finishing his day’s work rode
home, a distance oi fifteen miles. On ar
riving at home he found that the corpse of
a little great-grand-child had arrived to bo
interred in the cemetery at Jeffersonville.
It was necessary that a messenger be dis
patched to a daughter, who resides twenty
five miles from Jeffersonville. He unhesi
tatingly mounted his horse and went to the
place and back to Jeffersonville, a distanco
of fifty miles, and reached the latter place
before day Sunday morning, having worked
ten hours at a laborious occupation and
rode sixty-five miles, performing the whole
in a little less than twenty-four hours—and
strange to say, although seventy-three
years of age, he did not complain of any ex
traordinary fatigue, and has since pursued
his ordinary occupation. The horse he
rode was twenty years of age.
Augusta Chronicle: Yesterday afternoon
at half-past three o’clock an interesting op
eration was performed in the amphitheatre
at the Medical College, before the clas*, by
the Professor of Descriptive and Surgical
Anatomy. An enormous fibro cellular tu
mor, twenty-five inches in length, twenty
eight inches in circumference around the
largest part, and weighing eighteen pounds,
was taken from a negro man named John
Thomas, aged thirty-five years. Thomas
was born in Beaufo’rt, S. C., but since the
war he has lived in Burke county, Georgia.
He has carried the tumor from birth, but
up to last June its circumference was
small. It has always been the same
length, however. Last June it com
menced to grow and rapidly attained its
present proportions. Attached to the
left breast, it hung down below the knee
and had to be carried in a bag. The burden
became intolerable and the negro deter
mined to have it taken off. He was brought
to the city and put in charge of the profes
sors of the Medical College. The patient
was placed on the table, and put under the
influence of ether. The scalpel was not
used, but the operation was performed with
the ecraseur. The patient appeared to suf
fer considerably at first, but after getting
thoroughly under the influence of ether
seemed to experience no pain. The tumor
was excavated in a few minutes. The pa
tient was all right after the operation, and
was evidently delighted to be rid of his un
pleasant companion. His body is literally
covered with small tumors from the size of
a shot to that of a pigeon egg. His photo
graph was taken before the operation was
performed.
Atlanta Herald : Another one of those sad
and fatal accidents, the like of which we are
almost daily called upon to chronicle, oc
curred about 9 o’clock yesterday morning, at
the Atlanta Paper Hills, situated about five
miles from the city, and the property of
Col. James Ormond. The name of the un
fortunate man was William White, and had
been employed about the mills for six or
seven years. His apartments were on the
upper floor, where he was engaged in finish
ing ofl papier. A few days ago the superin
tendent employed anew hand to work on the
lower, or ground floor, and among his other
duties was that of sharpening the knives
with which the rags are cut. White went
below yesterday to show the man how the
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operation was performed, and taking an old
piece of bagging improvised an apron by ty
ing it around bis body, and another string
around his lower hmba to prevent the waste
from the grinding stone from soiling his
clothing. The shaft which turns the stone
lies very near the ground, and revolves with
much force and great rapidity. After hold
ing the knife to the stone a 'minute, White
stepped over the shaft, and stood astride of
it. The bagging apron became connected
with the revolving shaft and whirling and
throwing him to the ground and winding
him around tightly. He was so securely
lashed to the shaft that his head struck the
ground with such forco as to kill him in
stantly, literally crushing almost the entire
skull into a shapeless mass. Before the ma
chinery could be stopped he had made a
number of revolutions, and his head and
body had scooped out a large portion of the
solid earth in passing between it and the
shaft.
Augusta Chronicle: Last Monday night
Mr. S. W. Howland, the Superintendent of
the Grauiteviile Factory, left his office in
the factory building at the usual hour, eight
o’clock, and followed a path which it was
well known he always moved aloug at night,
towards his residence across tho street. As
he was thus walking quietly, without any
app’ eheusion of danger, he was firea upon
by an assassin hid behind a tree. Mr. How
land, who was struck in the head and
shoulder by several number three shot, fell,
and the would-be murderer, supposing that
he had accomplished his work—that the
victim was dead—tied. A citizen of
Grauiteviile, who heard the shot and ran
immediately to the spot, found Mr.
Howland leaning against a tree, bleeding
profusely. He assisted him to his resi
dence, and a physician was sent for, bv
whom the wounds wore dressed. The in
juries, while not of a dangerous nature,
were very painful. Mr. Howland will be
confined for several days. Mr. Hickman,
the Fresident of the Graniteville Manu
facturing Company, was naturally deeply
indignant when ho heard of the outrage.
He has offered a reward of five hundred
dollars for the approhensiou of the assassin.
The latter may depend upon receiving a full
measure of punishment when he is caught.
Mr. Howlaud is a very worthy gentle
man, much liked by the operatives in
the factory, all of whom sympathize
with him ami are indiguant at tho out
rage. Since writing the above wo learn that
Mr. Howland’s life was only saved by an ac
cident. Tho assassin had placed himself
behind a tree near Henderson’s store, in
front of which Howland would have to pass,
aud where the full blaze of light would be
thrown upon him. If the shot had been
fired when Mr. Howland was in front of the
store it would probably have proved falal.
But just before Mr. Howlaud reached the
spot a clerk went to the window of the store
to put up the shutters aud the assassin was
afraid to fire, knowing that he would be
seen by the clsrk when ho moved off alter
the deed was committed. He therefore had
to wait until Howland reached tho bridge
across the canal, thirty paces off.
Florida Affairs.
Dr. J. Hume Simons, of St. Augustine,
doesn’t seem to admire the manner in which
the newspapers have handled Archibald.
This is to bo regretted for several reasons.
They are having oyster roasts iu St. Au
gustine.
Marion county has a population of 11,000,
including a good newspaper.
A Marion county orange, not fully ripe,
weighs a pound and a quarter.
Anew locomotive will bo placed on the
St. John’s Bailway on the first of January.
A cuttle-fish was captured in St. Augus
tine the other day.
Archibald and his Radical cabal liavo at
last coerced the grand jury of Nassau
county into finding an indictment against
Harney Richard for the murder of Johnson.
Jackson county has tlio journeyman thief
of the State—a negro who stole his own
shirt. He is in jail.
A Mellonville negro beat his wife the
other day. Whereupon her friends came
near making marmalade of him.
The quarrel between Harris, of the Ocala
Banner , and Perry, of the Cedar,Key
Journal, is gradually toning down.
Key West flourishes under a Cuban
Mayor.
John R. Scott is going around bossing
colored camp-meetings.
Tampa can get a telegraph line for twolve
hundred dollars, and she is feeling in her
pockots to see what she thinks about it.
It is estimated that on Friday and
Saturday of last week, the merchants
of Lake City purchased, from tho small
farmers in that section fully seventy
five thousand pounds of cotton in seed, of
the Sea Island variety.
The gay gambolierhath put in an appear
ance in Jacksonville. Ho precedes his gudg
eons, however, only by a few days.
Alluding to the fact that the authorities
of Tallahassee are warning off all suspicious
characters, the Union expresses a well
grounded fear that if this rule is rigidly
enforced the Legislature will have to con
vene out of town.
Isaac Newton, of Mellonville, journalist,
etc., indignantly denies that his name is
Isaac Walton, and threatens to prove that
he has a character if the mistake is per
sisted in.
Jacksonville will shortly have an oraugo
marmalade foundry in operation. It will be
under the management of Thos. Ritchie &
Cos.
The Jacksonville Press is informed by a
gentl man who has just returned from a
tour among the orange groves of the upper
St. John’s that he saw an orange tree in the
grove of Mrs. Stephens, at Welaka, that
yielded her an income of ninety dollars last
season, the fruit being sold at a wharf within
a half mile of her residence. Mrs. Stephens’s
grove contains about a dozen trees of nearly
the same productiveness as the one men
tioned. Suppose that these twelve trees are
put at an average of one-third of the above
figure, this little property will show an in
come of one dollar a day—enough, with
economy, to purchase all the supplies not
raised by a small family living in the coun
try. Truly this is the country for the poor
man as well as the rich.
The Press thus speaks out: "The Radical
pet of the Governor and other carpet-bag
gers, LeCain, who is plastered all over with
indictments found by the grand jury of
Marion county for the various offenses of
forgery, embezzlement and other grades of
crime, has been released, as is stated, by
the Sheriff of Marion county, for the pur
pose of aiding and assisting in the organiza
tion of the Radical party. It is also be
lieved that the rascal knows too much of
the former workings of that party to stand
the test of a judicial inquiry, and that for
prudential reasons his escape has
been connived at. Be this as it
may, we hope and believe that
the action of the Sheriff and others con
cerned, will be thoroughly ventilated by the
Legislature at their meeting in January,
and that the guilty aiders and abettors will
be brought to summary account for their
heinous misdeeds. If these infamous and
unparalleled evasions of justice are to be
allowed, we shall not be a bit surprised, as
we stated in our last issue, to see the peni
tentiary convicts marched from Ch.attah.oo
chee next year to vote for the Radical candi
dates. The present carpet-bag ring will
not hesitate to use means as desperate as
illegal to sustain their waning fortunes.
According to the Ocala Banner, itself
rather a tender-footed official paper, the
whole dark transaction recks with infamy
and savors of the vilest turpitude.
What can bo the material of a party
reduced to the necessity of using such
men and such means to promote their
villainous purposes V Is it not time for all
men who have a spark of honor or honesty,
either to ignore such leaders, or abandon
such an organization ? The time has come
for all those who yet believe in the ascen
dancy of virtue, and the suppression of vice,
to unite in one strong, unanimous, deter
mined effort to overthrow our common ene
mies, and to re-establish the era of sound
laws and good government.”
Pensacola Gazette : Oar readers remem
ber that the ship “Wester;/ Empire” was
caught in the great storm three days after
clearing from Pensacola, was dismasted,
water-logged aDd abandoned about one
hundred and fifty miles from here, and that
seven of her crew were drowned in endeav
oring to land on the Florida coast, near
Apalachicola. The abandoned ship has
been found, after making a voyage of more
than five hundred miles without a hand at
her helm. Caught in the reflux current,
which must have set out southwest
from the Bight of Florida after the storm
which drove a surcharge of water up into
the angle formed by the peninsular coast
line, the masterless ship drifted within the
influence of the Gulf stream, was swept
through the StraitH of Florida and on to
ward the Atlantic, until she was discovered
thirty miles north of Jupiter Inlet, swinging
to an anchor. When we reported the dis
aster it was Btated that in order to enable
the hoisting out of the boats both anchors
were let go to act as a drag to bring the
ship’s head to the wind. The length of
chain allowed was thirty-five fathoms. Thus
the ship has piloted herself remarkably well
in navigating round tne dangerous coast of
Florida, with its keys and reefs, in never
less than two hundred and ten feet of water,
until her anchor finally reached bottom and
brought her to in one of the most frequent
ed of ocean pathways. But for her anchors
swinging overboard the ship would proba
bly have gone on with the stream to the
coasts of Europe.
The Union baa been shown by Mr. Miles
Prioe three sprigs from the same tree. One
supports a roll grown orange, another is
covered with blossoms, and the third has a
small orange about the size of a marble
upon it. This is certainly a freak of vegeta
ble natnre.
The Montioello Constitution gives em
phatic notice thus early that Jefferson coun
ty will have a fair in 187 G. And we predict
it will be a grand success.
In Monticeilo the negro women dress
themselves in men’s apparel and go round
serenading aud stealing—stealing and giv
ing odor.
Monticeilo has a debating society.
The Lake City Reporter says that bunches
of the banana (and elegant specimens of
this luscious fruit they are) are shipped
from Lake City to Georgia, Tennessee,
Kentucky, North and South Carolina by
every night’s train. Columbia county has
this season raised some of the largest and
finest flavored bunches of the banana we
over saw exhibited anywhere.
Monticeilo is bragging on tomatoes in
November.
The Lake City Reporter, among the best
of our Florida exchanges, comes to us this
week greatly enlarged and improved.
Speaking of the Thomasville Fair, Col.
Jones, of the Macon Telegraph, says of the
furniture display of Mr. L. J. Brush, of
Ellaville: This is au honor to Florida. Mr.
Brush has a bedstead made of a great
variety of native woods, a single post being
composed of nino species, all fitted to
gether with exquisite skill. We here
practically demonstrate that we need not go
beyond our own doors in quest of the
handsomest materials for every description
of cabinet work. Some of the woods used
were oak, red cedar, sweet gum, poplar,
ash, waluut, pride of India, persimmon,
dogwood, cypress, rod bay, etc. Several of
these are susceptible of the highest polish.
It may not be uninteresting also to learn
that the prices of Mr. Brush’s native
furniture are far lower than for the same
articles when purchased from abroad.
Thus tho Floridian: The Sentinel says :
“Au energetic Northern man succeeded last
winter in getting up a Board of Trade.”
That is so; but does that paper remember
how that “energetic Northern man (Jndge
liippey) was denounced in its columns as
the vilest of men? Does the Sentinel not
know that Mr. Millor went to Minnesota as
the agent of tho Board of Trade and
has just returned with one hundred
and eighty-one immigrants ? If so, why does
it denounce the Board of Trade as having
“subsided like tho froth of champagne ?”
Did any one connected with the Sentinel ever
belong to the Board of Trade? Has it not
always, either directly or indirectly, sought
to deter immigration by covert or direot
insinuation that the lives of North
ern men, especially if Republicans, wore
not safe, and that tho whitos were
possessed of a spirit of demoniac hate
agaiust all Republicans of whatever color ?
Lake City Reporter : The peculiar adapta
tion of the soil aud climate of Columbia,
Bradford, Suwannee, Hamilton, Baker and
Alachua counties, constituting the interior
section of East Florida, is now an establish
ed fact, admitted even by those who, al
though residing a dogroo or so southward,
were unwilling, until circumstauces forced
them, to concede to us tho success of orange
culture. Tho experienced, who are unbias
ed by the ownership of property on the batiks
of the famed St. Jolin’s and its tributaries,
readily aver the unsurpassed advantages
we of East Florida’s interior posaoss ifor
tho pre-eminent success of tho or
ango as a reliable and remunerative
crop, and fruit of every doscriptiou. The
soil of our section, valuable in its variety of
chemical properties, producing with tho
slightest cultivation astonishing crops and
blessed with natural strength and elasticity,
is one in which tho orange luxuriates. The
climate iu its evenness of temperature, not
subject to the suddeu transition from mod
erate heat to cold, so unpropitious for and
destructive to the orange, renderß this a.
peculiarly a: tractive and auspicious location
for the establishment of groves. We are
informod by the South Goorgia Journal,
published at Sanford. Orange county, that
thoso ougaged in tho roariug of groves
in that locality protect their young
trees from tho winter cold. This is
an unknown thing in our section. Our little
trees uot only go through tho winter without
injury, but start off actively upon the earli
est opening of spring, hardy and prosper
ous. We can only attribute the difference
in the climato in our favor (although San
ford is nearly three degreos south of ns), to
the fact that whilo wo are blessed with an
even temperature, the section contiguous to
the St. John’s river, two or three degrees
south, is naturally warmer, and an unusual
spell of cold weather results in injury to
the orange treos, especially to the younger
plants. As ovidenco of the plausibility of
our remarks, wo cito tho fact of tho prepa
ration for establishing groves in Columbia
county by several residing on the St. John’s
river.
South Carolina Affairs.
Two hundrod and fifty cords of pine wood
were destroyed on Friday last by lire, about
two miles from Oreenville. It belonged to
Gen. Sullivan. Loss estimated at $375.
Tho revival services at the Baptist Church
in Qreeuvillo last week were largely at
tended.
An inquest was held on Sunday afternoon
on tho body of an infant colored child, four
months old, three miles above Greenville,
and the verdict of the iury was that sho
came to her death by being accidentally
smothered by her mother.
Mr. J. J. Rowe, one of the wardens of
Marlboro, has resigned.
Mr. J. W. Mosely, of Orangeburg, was
thrown from his buggy last week, and sus
tained some injuries.
Mr. T. A. Garwin killed on Thursday last,
near Farker’s ferry, on Edisto river, a large
black bear, weighing over 250 pounds.
Tho Aiken Hook and Ladder Company,
No. 1, will give a grand ball at the Academy
on Thursday evening, Novembor 11.
Henry Bacot, who stole Mr. George Rob
ertson’s horse, was brought from Columbia
Sunday by Sheriff Ruff, of Winnsboro.
A baud of Gypsies passed through Aiken
on Wednesday on their way to Edge field.
There were on Saturday six hundred and
sixty-two bales of cotton in the depot of
Winnsboro awaiting shipment.
Mr. John A. Weldon’s gin house in Winns
boro, with sixteen bales of cotton, were
destroyed by fire on Wednesday night last.
Mr. Weldon had left the gin house only
about one hour previous to the discovery of
the fire. In connection with the gin was a
mill, both run by water, and had been built
only a short time. Mr. Weldon’s loss will
roach two thousand dollars.
The Greenville Daily News, of the 2d
inst., reports the sale at public outcry of
thirteen parcels of land, ranging from fifty
to“one hundred acres each, in Greenville
district, at an average of about eiyld and a
half dollars per acre. One plantation, con
taining one thousand five hundred and
eleven acres, also was knocked off at sher
iff’s sale for $6,400, and another of two hun
dred and twenty-two acres for $1,265.
The A ugusta Constitutionalist says that at
6 o’clock Tuesday afternoon smoke and fire
was dicovered breaking out from the South
Carolina freight warehouse at Aiken, 8. C.
In a few minutes tho wholo building was in
flames, and in one hour it was reduced to
ashes. It contained three bales of cotton,
two or three barrels of kerosene, a box of
bacon, and some smaller articles of freight
of no great value. Nothing was saved.
There was some cotton on the platform and
cars on the track near by, all of which were
hauled off and saved. Total loss about
$2,000. No insurance. Origin of the fire
unknown.
A Lady’s Toilet, Tempo George IV.
At ten, after her “dish of Bohea,” as it
was called, generally taken before rising,
the lady arranged herself in a muslin
peignoir, or wrapper, and had a regular
reception of her friends, while, with her
hair disheveled, she was submitted for
the first time in the day to the hands of
her hair-dresser; for usually she dressed
four or five times a day. Her hair,
dragged off her face, covered with
powder, plastered with pomatum, and
frizzled in stiff curls, was raised, by means
of gauze, feathers and flowers, into an
edifice often equal to her height. Four
ells of gauze have been contained in some
of these erections, with butterflies, birds,
and feathers introduced—the last of tho
most preposterous height of, it is record
ed, about a hard. After an hour’s plas
tering and frizzing, the hair dresser’s
task was over, and a weary one it was,
though enlivened by the animated con
versation of the visitors. The remainder
of the toilet was finished, the most im
portant of which was the arrangement of
the patches—a point of great interest.
These were made of black silk, gummed
and cut into stars, crescent and other
forms. Patches had originated in Franc©
under Louis XV., with a view to show
off the whiteness of the complexion, but
they were never worn by women of
dark skins. Great was the art in plac
ing these patches near the eye, the cor
ner of the mouth, the forehead and the
temple. A lady of the world would wear
seven or eight, and each had its special
designation. She never went without a
box of patches to replace any that might
accidentally fall off; and these littie
boxes, generally of Battersea enamel,
finely painted by some eminent artist,
had usually a tiny looking-glass inserted
within the lid, to help her repair the ac
cident. Nor was the rouge pot forgotten,
rouge at that time being an indispensa
ble adjunct to the toilet—so indispensa
ble that when Marie Antoinette came
over to France to marry Louis XVI., and
begged to dispense with wearing it, a
family conclave was held at Versailles on
the subject, followed by a formal order
from the King to put it on—a command
which she had no alternative but to obey.
—London Society.
Some men noted for their means ar©
also noted for their meanness.