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I lie* A moiint of Gold In the Treasury.
In reply to the resolution of Mr. Say
lor, of Ohio, asking to know what amount
of gold there is actually in the United
Htatea Treasury, not obligated, Secretary
Bristow replies that the actual amount of
gold owndd by the government, and
available for the resumption of specie
payments, after deducting the amount of
gold certificates outstanding, and all other
obligations was, on the 24th day of Feb
ruary, thirteen million, three hundred and
forty-one thousand, four hundred and
twenty-three dollars and seventy-six cents.
The total amount of coin on hand that
day was $91,987,028 17, for which amount
there ia to be deducted for coin coupons,
$1,547,402 06; demand notes, tn dollars:
coin certificates, .$1,427,24)0; sinking fund
and interest, $1,8711,825 50; bonds re
deemed and interest, $31,832,558 65; in
terest due and unpaid, $0,254,634 50;
outstanding bonds called for sinking
fund, $2,548,000; outstanding coin certifi
cates, $33,008,800; silver coin and bullion,
$14,100,618 70; total, $78,645,604 41,
leaving as above stated, $13,341,423 76.
This resolution of Mr. Baylor is the third
that bad to be introduced before the
Treasury Department would divulge its
actual financial condition. Treasury offi
cials have been saying thut Mr. Baylor’s
resolution would have the effect to bull
gold, and the Secretary very reluctantly
answered it, as it is the first time in years
when the true condition of the treasury
finances was made known in detail.
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Kicckkh of Carr. Eads’s Jetties. —
Most grutifyiug accounts aro published
in the New Orleans papers of the rapid
progress of the works for the improve
ment of the mouth of the Mississippi.
Although the work is by no means finish
ed, and the engineers have not expected
to see the full effect of the jetty system
until other channels have been closed,
and the stream confined to the prescribed
width, nevertheless the incomplete works
have already caused a remarkable scour
and rapid deepening of the cliaun*). It
is computed that more than half of the
deposit forming the bar, which must be
removed to secure a permauent depth of
channel sufficient for the largest vessels,
has already been removed by the action
of the current as yet only partially con
fined. Thus far everything promises a
jjiplendid success for Captain Eads; a suc-
will make producers rejoice
HHgh"Mt, all the Stut< sof the Missis-
V valley.
H|H- suer. -IS of l 'a, .hull 1. uls's jetty s\ s-
HjWn giving mi a nj>lo ship eliunnel at
of ttie Mississippi, will lie It
v 'Hi i *■ i in. si ..i tin .i. in:Mtii.it.
usd# ia llfia ails more,
than twenty years ago, viz: That the
obtaining of any required depth of water
for commercial purposes, in land locked
river harbors, was only a question of
labor aud expense. What is being ac
complished at the mouth of the Missis
sippi may be accomplished with equal
success in our own harbor. A compara
tively small outlay in the construction of
jetties iu the Savannah river would give
us a depth of water sufficient ior the
largest ships.
The question of the engagement of the
Princess Beatrice to marry Prince Louis
of Battenberg was sottled a few clays ago
by the announcement in the British Par
liament that an appropriation of six
thousand pounds a year would bo asked
for as a dowry. It was at the same time
intimated that the Queen would be much
gratified with a ready acquiescence in the
request. Her Majesty will thus have
provided for her last unmarried daughter,
and can now give attention to the selec -
tion of wives for her three bachelor sons,
Prince Arthur, the Duke of Connaught,
and Prince Leopold. These young gen
tlemen, it is thought, will be pretty cer
tain to have Germaft wives, as the Queen
is already casting her eyes over the blue
blooded girls of that country in behalf of
bet sons. Prince Louis, the Priucess’s
intended, is a cousin to her brother-in
law, Prince Louis of Hesse Darmstadt.
Governor Beveridge, of Illinois, is very
much alarmed about the dangers that
threatened the country twelve years ago,
and strangely' sereuo about dangers that
threaten it now. In a speech at Chicago
on the 22d iustaut, he told his hearers
that the great issue of the day is not the
currency, nor the tariff, nor taxation, nor
even that of “corruption or honest gov
ernment” —hut “whether the government
shall remain in the hands of the men
who fought for and preserved it, or shall
pass iuto the hands of the people who
fought to destroy it. The St. Louis lle
jntblican thinks that people who read the
evidence in the whisky prosecutions may
be pardoned if they take a different view
of things. Those who fought against the
government twelve years ago were beaten;
those who are robbing it now have not
been beaten.
Then it wasn’t Grant that saved the
Union after all. Old Ben Wade has made
a statement to the House Military Com
mittee in behalf of the claim of Miss
Carroll, cf Maryland. He says President
Lincoln told him that the credit of the
Tennessee expedition in 18t>- was due to
her. and that the movement was carried
out in detail according to her suggestion.
Stanton, he asserts, corroborated Mr.
Lincoln's statement. Well, if Grant
didn't save the Union, to him and Pierre
pout belongs the credit of saving the
whisky ring.
Prominent New York politicians have
called a mass convention to meet at
Syracuse on the 15th instant for the pur
pose of taking measures to co-operate in
carrying out the greenback policy in
augurated in Ohio. It seems that the
financial ghost will not down.
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Tom Scott’s Southern Pacific Railroad
bill has been laid asfoe for the present,
but the sanguine Associated Press agent
more than hints that this action is not to
be regarded as unfavorable to the bilL
The prosecutions of poor Harry Von
Arnim by the German Government still
continue. He is now charged with high
treason, and is refused permission to
kasit his sick son.
Tyndall, the distinguished
married in London yester-
of Lord Claude Hainii
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
Ex-Spenrisor . Munn xf on the
Ilocket.
Only one more person of those origi
nally indicted for complicity in the
whisky frauds remains to be tried in St.
Louis, and then the whisky war will have
ended in that region, unless new trials
are granted to McKee and ex-Cbiof Clerk
Avery. The case yet to be tried is that
of ex-supervisor Munn, of Illinois, who
has been indicted both in St. Louis and
Chicago. He will have to stand trial in
the first-named city, and if he is for
tunate enough to escape conviction there,
then he will take a second chance in Chi
cago. The trial of Munn will bring be
fore the public another prominent indivi
dual—ex-Senator Carpenter, of Wiscon
sin—who, aa munn’s counsel, will be
called upon to display his abilities as a
criminal lawyer.
According to a Washington dispatch,
Munn is both confident and defiant. He
has recently been in Washington to see
his counsel. He charges Solicitor Blu
ford Wilson with securing his indictment
proper time he intends to arraign Mr.
Wilson and compel him to explain cer
tain transactions which occurred when he
was District Attorney in Illinois. Munn
says that he does not intend to be con
victed, and that before his trial ends some
testimony will be introduced which will
expose a bold scheme to convict innocent
men for dishonorable purposes. The ex-
Bupervisor has been strongly supported
by Senator Logan, and there is said to be
evidence that an attempt was made to in
duce certain gaugers to swear before the
grand jury at Chicago that Senator Lo
gan, Itepresent&tive Farwell and ex-Rep
resentative and ex-District Attorney Jas
per D. Ward were all connected with the
whisky ring. This story seems almost
incredible, but there are persons in Wash
ington in position who say they know it
to be true.
Trickery of the Centennial Showmen.
The New York Sun expresses the pre
vailing opinion when it says the repre
sentatives of the Centennial Exhibition
in Congress would appear to lose no op
portunity of creating in the public mind
a prejudice against the enterprise. The
underhand ways pursued in getting a
formul recognition of the project under a
distinct pledge that the United States
should not be expected to assume any
liuancial rcHponsibilty in the affair, and
then making that recognition the basis
for a peremptory demand for a subsidy,
disaffected many people who were dis
posed to look favorably upon the exhibi
tion itsolf. The deadhead excursion of
the President and Congress to Philadel
phia, and the free lunch provided
there by the Centennial managers,
though it may have had a fa
vorable influence upon Congress, was
regarded as a scandal by the majority of
tax- payers. And now, after having got
an appropriation of a million and a half
from the public funds, when it is found
that a question arises as to whether the
iefUMMttider Which the subsidy was grant
ed are as favorable to the govenTi&ttil af
was supposed—when it seems doubtful
whether the provision making the gov
ernment a preferred creditor can be en
forced —Mr. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, who
has been persistent in his endeavors to
get government aid for the affair, chuckles
over the supposed effect of the misappre
hension, and sarcastically remarks that
Congress has given the Centennial board
more than it asked for. If the trickeiy
which has been resorted to in Washing
ton in behalf of this show should be
parallelled in its management in Phila
delphia, the result will he exceedingly un
fortunate for all concerned.
Unlimited Confidence.
According to the testimony of Mr. W.
C. Merrill, Treasurer of the State lioad f
no record is kept in the books of the
lesees of moneys paid out for extraor
dinary expenses, such as lawyers and
editors’ fees. These are paid by the
President of the company, and charged,
not specifically, but in gross by the
Treasurer to “bills payable.” Whatever
amounts Joe Brown may see fit to pay out
to attorneys for professional services and
to editors of newspapers for advocating
the interests of the lease-! and
“reconciling the public to tin, f is
lumped together in the Treasurer’s state
ment under the head of “bills payable,’’
and so reported to the Executive Com
mittee of the company, who ask no ques
tions. This seems like a novel way of
conducting the business of an honest
joint-stock company, and the fact that
Joe Brown, the President of the lease
ring, hns a carte blanche to use the money
of the concern at his discretion, argues
one of two things: The ring mustjhave
had unbounded confidence in his integ
rity; or if, as has been alleged, they w r ere
compelled to resort to disreputable means
to secure the loan, they had a just
appreciation of the acknowledged
genius of the ex-Governor of Geor
gia, and placed the fullest reliance
in his ability not only to manage any
crooked negotiations that might be neces
sary to the accomplishment of their ob
jects, but also to cover his tracks so se
curely as to defy detection. In this their
confidence wasj not misplaced, for it is
conceded that “for ways that are dark
and tricks that are vain” the wiley J. B.
is peculiar.
The rage for notoriety rages nowhere
more outrageously than in Washington,
says a correspondent. It infects every
body, from dignified Senators, and
austere Justices of the Supreme Court, to
girlish debutantes. It is disenchanting
to worshipers of heroes and women to
observe the vulgar greediness with which
they seek for and gulp down praise.
There is in the large corps of female cor
respondents in Washington one who is at
the head of her profession in the word
painting of toilettes and physiques, and
in the superlative flattery of everybody
and everything, not omitting the eyes
and mein, the hands and feet of Senators
No writer is so popular as she. The car
riages of statesmen whose names are
familiar ip nil parts of the country are
before > tor, and her table is literally
covered the cards of distinguised
personage id those of their wives who
have tested dainty praise, while her
portfolio contains fulsome notes from
others who have been titilated by her
rare confections, and have replied in
kind.
Cincinnati had a heavy fall of snow last
night, while we had a heavy tall of rain
with thunder and lightning accompani
ment.
It is intimated that Egypt is about to
abandon the development of her equato
rial possessions.
Haiti ffems
The Hopeless Negro Republic.
Another revolution is reported to be in
progress in Hayti. Revolution seems to
be the normal state of things in that
island, where, with every advantage of
soil and climate, the black race have de
monstrated their utter incapacity for self
government. The history of the island
since it came into the possession of the
negroes has been one of continual revo
lution, turmoil and disorder. Its agricul
ture, which under the whites was brought
to a high state of development, making
it the richest of the West India Islands, has
been neglected until its fertile soil now
scarcely yields subsistence for the lazy,
improvident population, who. under the
misrule of chiefs perpetually in conflict
with each other, are fast relapsing into
beggary and barbarism. Hayti was
proclaimed independent in 1800. The
French were expelled in 1803 by Desaale
ries, who made himself Emperor rf the
French part of the island, and whose
despotism and cruelty rendered him so
universally detested that be was slain in
an insurrection in 1806. The island was
then divided among the several chiefs,
the principal of whom wa3 C hristopher
in the northwest and Petior in the south
west. The former proclaimed himself
King in 1811, under the titleof Henry 1.,
and committed suicide in 1820. Petior
died in 1818, and was succeeded by one
Boyer, who, after the death of Christo
pher, became master of the whole island.
He was deposed in 1843, when San
Domingo separated itself from Hayti, and
formed itself into a separate republic.
The next change was into an empire,
President Soulorpue assuming the title
of Emperor Faustin I. in 1849. He was
forced to abdicate in 1858, when Hayti
became once more a republic, so-called,
under the Presidency of one Geffard. In
1867 another insurrection broke out un
der Salnave, and Geffard resigned, being
succeeded by Salnave, who was elected
for a term of four years in the following
June. In November he in his turn had
to encounter an insurrectionary crisis,
and three rival Presidents divided the
island. A sanguinary civil war followed,
which lasted over twelve months, when
Salnave succeeded, in 1869, in overthrow
ing his opponents, only to be himself
overthrown in January, 1870, by an in
surrection headed by General Barget,
who had Salnave shot, and was proclaim
ed President in the following March.
Before the first Haytien revolution the
produce and commerce of the island
were equal or superior to those of all the
other West India Islands. The fertility
of the soil is scarcely equaled. The
mountains, even to their summits, are
capable of cultivation. Under the French
regimes the growth of sugar resulted in
an average of about 2,712 pounds an acre,
or nearly two-thirds more than the gen
oral yield of the land in canes in Ja
maica. The coffee plantations were
also exceedingly productive. Cotton, in
digo and cocoa were prolific sources
of wealth to individuals and of revenue
to the State. Large quantities of maize,
rice and almost every description of vege
tables were raised. Large shipments of
mahogany, dye wood, &c., were sent to
foreign countries. One of the first efforts
of the first revolution was an enormous
decrease in the amount of agricultural
produce, until now complete commercial
and industrial ruin has overwhelmed the
most productive island of the West
ludies. Nothing but a strong and civi
lized governing power, of which there
seems no earthly prospect, can restore
Hayti to its former prosperity.
The House Afterthe Whisky Ring.
It seems that the acquittal of Babcock
is not to end the scandal which his con
duct has brought upon the White House.
The resolution which has been adopted
by the House authorizes the appointment
of a special committee of nine, with
power to send for persons and papers,
administer oaths, and to ascer
tain the true inwardness of the whisky
frauds. This proceeding, it is said, is not
so much for the purpose of exposing the
crooked distillers, as to show that for
years the administration has used both
the whisky ring and the int rnal revenue
officials for partizan purposes. It is
stated that the President, his private
secretary, ex-Commissioner Douglass,
Supervisors and ex-Supervisors of Reve
nue, Senators and Congressmen are on
the list of witnesses to be summoned.
Particular attention is to be directed to
the testimony of Mr. Douglass in the
Avery and Babcock cases, as to what
Senatorial elections were to be influenced
or controlled by the whisky ring. The
depth of the political infamy which the
administration has been guilty of will
at last be thoroughly exposed to the peo -
pie of the country. Two other resolutions
have also been introduced calling upon
the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secre
tary of War and the Attorney General,
first for all papers, letters, telegrams and
records pertaining to the court of ipquiry
ordered to inquire into the conduct of
General O. E. Babcock, and also for all
letters, telegrams, instructions, papers
and other records pertaining to the dis
covery and prosecution of the so-called
whisky frauds in the State of Missouri.
Will Colonel Dteb Tell What He
Knows? —A Washington special to the
Baltimore Gazette says: “The Attorney
General says that he has not heard of any
intention of removing Colonel Dyer, and
does not think —e is any truth in the
statement, i _„imate friend of Mr.
Dyer, in Wash.ugton, said to-night that
it was understood Dyer would tender his
resignation in a few days. He has been
advised, and so also has Colonel Broad
head, not to do so without stating in full
their reasons. These' are substantially
that during the trial of the first whisky
cases the Washington officials assisted
the District Attorney and the special
counsel in every possible' manner; but
when it came to the trial of Babcock
every obstacle was thrown in their way,
and not the least of which was the letter
of Attorney General Pierrepont not to
allow distillers to testify. Should Colonel
Dyer follow the advice of his friends,
there will be such revelations as the
country little dream of.”
Don Carlos, while refugeeing from
Spain, desires it to be distinctly under
stood that he does not relinquish his
claim to the crown that now adorns the
youthful brow of Alfonso.
Dr. Linderman, the Director of the
Mints, seems to be imbued with the idea
that it is quite feasible to begin specie
payments at once.
By this time, Don Carlos, the Spanish
pretender, is well on his way to England.
SAVANNAH, SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1876.
Affairs in Georgia.
Who should step in upon us yesterday but
the Count Johaunes B’Gormanne? The
Count was fresh from Thomasville. where
he had been advising Captain Triplett in
recard to th wedding outfit of the latter. He
reports tLat the Captain is still cheerful,but
is afraid that a severe attack of depression
will supervene before the Ist of May. The
Count was kind enough to renew his prom
ise of a box of oranges.
The Geneva Lamp has discarded its yellow
cover, and also contains another chapter of
“What ?”
Joe Brown explain- how the Hon. B. H.
Hill went on Foster Blodgett’s bond. It is
all very vague to us except the main fact.
W e presume that by this time the Hon.
Potty has forgotten the cares and vexa
tions of public life. The duties of a legis
lator are almost as onerous as those of the
proprietor of a beer-saloon kept on the Eu
ropean plan.
Col. Jones, of the Macon Telegraph, is
getting away with his brother editors. He
now says that he was once acquainted with
a man in Liberty county who ate snakes and
grasshoppers for a living.
In view of the fact that a locomotive on
the Georgia Railroad has been altered so as
to burn coal, the canal is entirely lost sight
of by the Augusta papers.
It was by the merest chance that the Hon.
Potiphar Peagreen, of Tugaloo, was in
duced to favor Dr. Carlton’s bill reorganiz
ing the government of the Btate University.
In the course of the discussion some of the
advocates of the bill said it was to do away
with the sumptuary laws now in vogue'.
This decided the Hon. Potty. “Ef hit’s
agin old Sump., then I’m fer’it, dam ef I
hain’t. Come on, boys, less go talk to Dick
Tommins.” Dick, it should be remarked,
presides at the Big Bonanza.
When we heard that Fitch had tack
led the door-keeper of the Senate, we were
sorry he had in a measure retired from the
profession of journalism.
The Indian Spring Orescent Light is no
more. The material of the paper will be
carried to Jackson, the county site of Butts,
where anew paper, called the' Argus, will be
published. The Argus will probably be un
der the editorial control of Mr. J. B. Dura
ble, a journalist of no little experience.
There is one sad fact in connection with
the adjournment of the Legislature. Fifty
odd clerks will no longer have any leisure to
play billiards.
The editor of the Thomasville Times will
attend the Press Convention in Savannah in
May, accompanied by his bride. We are not
at liberty to mention either name or date.
A Valdosta man writes to know if we
really intend to vote for James for Governor.
In reply, we have to say that several editors
in Southern Georgia are arranging an ex
cursion to Atlanta on the 4th of July for no
other purpose than to vote for James, and
we intend to be one of the number. A
special train will be chartered, and every
one will bo expected to furnish his own
lunch. For further particulars, our Val
dosta correspondent can consult Colonel C.
R. Pendleton, Chief of the Okefenokees.
Talking about the Okefenokee r .minds us.
What has become of the swamp literature
that was to appear iu the Atlanta Constitu
tion?
Mr. Henry M. Mclntosh lives in two towns
and edits two papers—the Quitman Repor
ter and the Blacksliear Georgian —and both
are well gotten up.
The Hinesville Gazette appears to b 6 be
lated nowadays.
Columbus is proud of her factories. Some
of her prominent men sit and look at them
day after day.
A Worth county man has introduced a
dog law in his section that doesn’t need the
approval of the Governor. It is a breech
loader.
The intellectual Atlanta correspondent of
the New Yorii Herald doesn’t give Senator
Norwood any show at all to be liis own suc
cessor. This is probably one of the results
of the thoughtlessness of the Senator in
not employing a literary man as his private
secretary. Rowbeit, we repeat here what
we have already said: When his opponents
can match nis speeches in the Senate.
show one single mistake in policy thj t tie
has made, we will give some consideration
to the taii
One of the most-melancholy things in
this world is for a public man to suddenly
realize that his best friends are his worst
enemies. Mistaken Zeal ought long ago to
have been hanged tor assassination.
Corporal Cabaniss, of the Forsyth Adver
tiser, is not subject to road and jury duty,
dome people will even join a military com
pany rather than serve the county.
A colored magistrate and constable wero
up betore the police court in Augusta the
other day, for indulging in a negro riot.
Hang it all, are the manumitted citizens of
this Republic to have no recreation or amuse
ment ? Augusta may boast of her canal and
her prolific cows, but she will have no pros
perity in raising goats and chickens so long
as the native humor of the suflrage-slinger
is thus held iu check.
Eatontou is anxiously looking for another
fire.
Thomasviile is to have another rice mill.
We learn from the Macon Telegraph that
Mr. W. W. Turner, of Eatontou, lias injured
his write hand.
The Spring Fair of the South Georgia
Agricultural and Mechanical Association
will take place on the 20th of May. The
premium list is quite attractive.
Between writing amorous poetry and de
livering addresses before female colleges
and mixed schools, the romantic Lochrane
wilt have very little time this season for
either practicing law or going to lunch
parties.
Mr. George It. Sims, of Palmetto, is dead-
All the locomotives on the Georgia Road
aro to be altered so they will burn coal.
In a quarrel over five cents between two
Augusta negroes the other day, one of them
received five cuts. One or th*e other of the
mokes got the worth of his money.
A Coweta county man has forty acres of
wheat twenty-four inches high. This is
what we call crowding the season.
Mr. James Gargan, an old and prominent
citizen of Augusta, is dead.
The Lumpkin Independent says that Mrs.
Latimer, mother of Judge J. B. Latimer,
has a fan that is known to be over a hun
dred years old. Mrs. L. has had it in her
p issession for more than fifty years.
While we were rather unfavorably criti
cizing the incongruity of the sentiments put
in the mouth of the Hou. Potiphar pea
green by the Atlanta Constitution, we neg
lected to state that the full-length map of
the Hou. Potty, which accompanied the effu
sion alluded to, meets with our unqualified
approval. It is absolutely correct in every
detail.
The Macon Telegraph learns that Mrs. Nat.
Hicks, living near Appling, Columbia coun
tv, was fataliy burned last Friday morning
about 10 o’clock. She was burning some
nests in a chicken house, when her clothing
accidentally caught fire and she was terribly
burned before assistance reached her. Sbe
died from her injuries on Friday night about
12 o clock. Mrs. Hicks was about seveuty
years of age.
Mr. M. T. Farley, a well-known citizen of
Monroe county, died very suddenly on Sat
urday, while on his way home from Milner.
An Augusta cow has immortalized herself
by giving birth to three calves since the
second of last April. Two were twins.
The Methodists of Forsvth are quarreling
among themselves as to the propriety of
using the organ in the Sunday school ser
vices. We suppose there must be some
profound theological problem at the bot
tom of the difficulty, but it doesn’t occur
to us just now.
A correspondent of the Atlanta Constitu
tion has this to say of the claim of Colonel
Peterson Thweatt: During the war he re
ceived for his salary the Treasury notes of
the State, which on their face provided that
they should be received for all sums due the
State (say taxes, etc.,) or at the option of
the holder should be taken up by the issue
of State bonds. Air. Thweatt, having confi
dence in the honesty and good faith of the
people of his native State, took from the
State Treasurer, in payment of his salary,
these State Treasury notes, with the avowed
purpose (which is substantiated bv
the Treasurer) that he would hold
them and subsequently exchange
them for State bonds. He held
the State Trea-urv notes received for his
salary, during the whole term of the Bul
lock regime (when he could no doubt have
got the greenbacks for the amount of his
Treasury notes with but little trouble) and
only presented his claim when the true and
rightful Legislature of his State had come
into power again. Well, what is the result
of his highminded and honorable course.
The Legislature of Georgia refuses to allow
him even the poor privilege of having his
claim adjudicated by the courts of the
State, altnough there is htrdly an instance
(if any atjall) where a citizen of the State has
been relused this privilege. The case of
ex-Comptroller General Thweatt has a much
larger significance than that of the rights
or wrongs of a single individual. It is a
matter that comes home to the moral sense
of ’he whole people of Georgia. In truth,
the question comes up whether the Legis
lature of the State is to be sustained in the
role of repudiators of honest debts, or
whether the people will rise in their miaht
and rebuke those who have presumeato
think that the people of Georgia would re
fuse to pay a just debt.
The correspondence between Col. R. A.
Alston and H. I. Kimball discloses the secret
of Hi Hannibal's presence in Georgia, and
shows where he gets his money. H. I.
Kimbail is the agent of the holders of the
bogus Bullock bonds, and be will make an
effort to have them recognized Aha, Mr.
Kimball ’
The Georgian says the guano business in
Athens is larger than it has been siuce the
war.
The Athens Hofchmuii agrees with us in
regard o the “ethics” of Atlanta journal
ism. We print another dose elsewhere on
this page.
Thb following “ Card of Thanks” appears
in the Alapaha Sews : “ The Rev. D. N. Mc-
Millan takes this method of returning his
thanks to his kind mother for a tine mess of
eggs.”
Dr. i '. Newton, the distinguished agri
culturist who has been editing the Athens
Georgian, has skipped off to New York.
Mrs. Carrie Roberts Johnson, late of Ma
con, died at her home in Hawkinsville on
Tuesday.
Blue, the colored Representative from
Mclntosh county, is a subscriber to the
Mousing News as well as the Darien Gazette.
We must be allowed to lemark, in this con
nection, that Blue selects his trading matter
with great judgment.
A Berrien county man, aged ninety-nine,
received a letter the other day. Before he
perused it, he explained that it was the only
one he had received in sixty ye-rs. What
happiness must have been nis ! And now
to have the spell broken at bis time of life.
Dr, Steiner, of Augusta, returned ou
Tuesday night from a visit to Hon. A. H.
Stephens, and reports his condition un
changed. He is evidently gradually failing.
The venerable Dr. Pierce is now at Wash
ington, Ga , in improved health, testing the
value of t:he mineral springs at that place.
The fleet at Port Royal will thoroughly
test Georgia Ci l.
A colored child was burned to death near
Covington the other day.
E. C. Wade, while in Thomasville the
other day, acknowledged himself to be the
author of the lying letter to the Washing
ton Republican, an extract from which we
published some time ago. Commenting on
this, the Thomasville Enterprise says : “His
attempt to sully the memory of
a man who stands as high above
him as heaven is above hell, like his
attempt to injure the reputation of those as
far removed from him iu honor, honesty
and integrity as the east is from the west,
will surely rebound upon his own head.”
The Georgian learns that Rev. C. D.
Campbell, at present of Quitman, has been
called to the Baptist Church of Athens.
This gentleman, comparatively a young
man, is said to be a minister of great
promise, eminently capacitated by his ex
alted Christian character, intellectual and
oratorical abilities for his high profession,
and will unquestionably give general satis
faction in his new field of labor. He
graduated at Mercer University a short time
before the war, after taking quite a promi
nent stand in his classes.
Macon burglars don’t mind tearing down
a brick wall to get in a store.
The Augusta ice factory is how turning
out thirty-two thousand pounds daily.
Sixteen deer were started in a few hours
in Bryan county recently.
The Hinesville Gazette says many of the
farmers of that section have finished plant
ing corn, and some few of them have corn
coming up. In Bryan and Bulloch the
farms are all ready, and this week nearly
every man will be planting. The land in a
majority of cases has been well prepared,
and large quantities of fertilizers have been
used. The outlook is very favorable thus
far.
Eev. E. W. Warren has resigned the pas
torate of the First Baptist Church of At
lanta.
The Atlanta correspondent of the Augusta
Constitutionalist is of the opinion that the
recent scandalous attack on Governor
Smith in the New York Herald, will injure
that official. Let the correspondent hus
band his apprehensions. Such attacks as
the one alluded to defeat their own object.
Alissiles weighed down with so much venom
and seaveless spleen fal! wife of their
|n -lima — —
Geneva Lamp^m ypry tired of this
everlastiEi? ■Ciy-'oMHgRT emigration. Let
them go. The old crop of negroes is poor
enough, and the growing crop has every in
dication of being much poorer. The young
negroes of the country are more trifiingly
lazy, more roguishly tricky, and more badly
demoralized, than the older ones; and those
seem as unreliable as can be—we speak of
them as a class. There are many working
negroes among them, but these have no
idea of leaving. It is only the shiftless
part of them that is disposed to leave, and
the sooner we are rid of this element the
sooner will there be white immigration and
prosperity consequent thereto.
The Atlanta correspondent of the Au
gusta Constitutionalist, whom we take to be
Colonel Avery, remarks : “The stenograph
er’s report of the evidence elicited at the
session of the committee appointed by the
Legislature to ascertain how $70,000 was
expended in getting tho State Road lease
through, is creating no little wonder and
surprise by the occasional startles disclosed.
Some of it is irrelevant to the matter in
hand tliougL, hut rich and racy reading,
and whittles the ends of some sticks amaz
ingly sharp. It leaks out through the
cracks of the cross-questioning that news
papers and their publishers make it a spe
cialty to crook the hinges of the knees that
thrift may follow fawning. It seems that
the editorial course can be shaped according
to money in hand, and that instead of being
vehicles of news arer naught hut dump-carts
carrying garbage for any price from ten
dollars to five thousand dollars a load. Vir
tue and morality one page and vice and po
litical Influence on the other.”
R. H. Harris, in Thomasviile Times : “ I
tell you wat’s a fact, men; none of you hain’t
never seed no runnin’. I seed a dyeer run
wunst. Hit war a spike buck, an’ he war
stretched out whell he warn’t bigger’n a
shoestring. Talk about movin’! The shad
der on a buzzard a drappin’ to kyarn hain’t
nowher! I had a blue speckled houn’ what
had a tetch o’ gray houn’ in him, and he war
arter thatdyeer. He’d upped ’im in the thick,
an’ here he come a farly limberin’ through
them fiat pioey woods. ’’Fore God, hit tuck
my breath away to look at ’im. He’d a cotch
that dyeer too, shore, but jist as he got agin
me he struck a whalin’ big pine plum cen
terly, head foremost. He stove his splintered
bones three inches inter the wood! The
lick jarred the pine straw olFn the top
limbs! When he struck, his bine legs
flopped roun’ the tree an’ I hearn the toe
nails what jerked out a rattlin’ agin the
pines fifty yards ahead! Hits a God’s fact.”
Hiuesvillo Gazette: One of the very best
things done by the Legislature was the
abolition of the scheme known as the
Georgia Lottery. The thanks of the coun
try are due Senator Hester for the zeal and
ability he displayed in bringing to light the
great abuses of this bogus charity institu
tion. It was first organized when’ the State
was just emerging from her depressed con
dition, and, under the guise of charity to
the widows and orphans of deceased Oon
fedate soldiers, was smuggled . through the
Legislature, and the sanction of the
State given to its proceedings. Now
it has come to light that the
orphans have received little or.no benefit
from the drawings, while the managers have
received more money than it has taken to
run the State government. We are glad
that the act has been repealed. It is a re
buke from the government to that spirit
which seems 10 have taken possession of
our people, from the highest to the low
est-getting rich without working for it.
There is the wrong principle, and it is deep
seated; and it appears in a variety of protean
forms in every department of business. It
shows itself m the homestead, bankrupt
and protection law3, in the spirit of private
speculation, in public corruption, and in
legalized gambling under the cloak of aid
to the children of dead Confederates.
Thomson Journal-. If the fiend who in
vented butterscotch candy could have fore
seen the trouble—the disrupting of the
tenderest family connection, and ihe wild
agony of blasted love and affection which
his villainous compound was destined to
create in McDuffie county, Georgia, he
would have stepped under a pile-driver and
died with the secret mashed into liis boots.
This is how it happened: Mr. Bacon
came to town last week and bought a
half dozen cakes of butterscotch, one of
which he presented to Sheriff Langford
as a fine article of shaving soap. George
didn’t use it himself, but would take it home
to his father, who did. And right here he
committed the most egregious blunder of
his life. The next morning he was toast
ing his shins before the fire when the old
gentleman entered the room in his shirt
sleeves, a cake of half-melted candy in one
hand, a razor strop in the other, one eye
gummed up, and his face the color of so’ft
soap. He took George by the right
ear and yanked him around the
room, oyer * chairs and tables, and
jammed the candy in his 6yes, and
bored it into his ears, and he told him
that he would show him how to play tricks
on his old lather, and he rapped him over
the head with the strop, and smashed his
nose, and punched him in the ribs, and
i'ammed his head against the wall, and he
iept putting np and taking down shoe-ffiops
against George’s person, and finally he
staved a boot-toe loaded with dynamite at
George’s coat-tail. George stepped up into
the atmosphere and sat down in the wash
pot cu f in the yard, about as sick a sheriff
as the market affords.
Col. R. A. Alston, formerly of the Atlanta
Herald, but now of the Courier, has evident
ly changed his mind in regard to some
things. The Herald under his control was
the enthusiastic defender and warm apolo
gist of Kimball, but in his testimony before
the Legislative Committee, which wtfpnnted
yesterday, Col. Alston casually alludes to
Hannibal as one of a set of rascals. While
we exult, as becomes a Christian journalist,
over this conversion, we can but look upon
it as in some sort miraculous.
It is now charged that the Count Johannes
B’Gormanne is proprietor of a stock farm
in Tennessee. The Count was still at large
when last heard from.
The investigation made by the Legisla
ture into the manner the State Road lease
was obtained, has not been without its good
results. It has made clear to us the “ethics”
of Atlauta journalism, given us anew view
of the practice of attorneys, and—above all
—disclosed the plots of Kimball relative to
the bogus bonds. The weapon that he
placed iu the hands of Joey Brown to cripple
Alston will be used to "knock the stuff
ing out of Hi Hannibal.
Mr. J. M. G. Medlock, editor of the San
dersville Herald, has been quite ill reoently
of neuralgia of the heart. At last accounts,
he was convalescent.
It is perhaps just as well that no attempt
was made to disturb the lessees of tho State
Road. Joey 8., who is nothing if not
devilish sly, had retained and paid a whole
raft of lawyers beforehand. What a nice
thing it is to be an attorney-at-law.
Elsewhere we print a prospectus of the
Jasper County Banner, published by Mr.
John F. Shecut, and edited by himself and
wife, Mrs. Tommie E. Shecut. It will be
seen that subscribers to the Banner will
have the opportunity of drawing something
handsome in the shape of a premium.
It is good to sometimes sit square down
on yourself and reason about matters. As,
for instance : There is a ring in Atlanta
utterly opposed to a Constitutional Conven
tion. That is a proposition. Kimball is in
Atlanta, and Kimball is the agent of the
holders of the fraudulent bonds. That is a
suggestion. A Constitutional Convention
would forever settle the bogus bond busi
ness—Kimbail is opposed to such a settle
ment—Kimball is opposed to a convention,
End the “respectable two thousand” are
also opposed to a convention. That is a
deduction—or, what is more to the purpose,
a fact.
Mr. William. B. Harman, of Tennille, is
dead. He was a prominent citizen of Wash
ington county.
Mrs. Carrie Roberts Johnson, whoso
death at Hawkinsville we chronicled yester
day, was the wife of Dr. Herschel V. John
son, Jr., and the sister of Mr. J. H. Roberts,
of Waynesboro. No less than twenty-two
near relatives of Mr. Roberts have died
within a comparatively short period of
time.
Several of the interior towns are getting a
dose of “Rev. A. N. Experidon,” the
Bulgarian priest. This is no doubt quite a
treat to the inhabitants. One of the at
tractions of Experidon’s society is the fact
that before he left his home, thirteen years
ago, he registered a vow never to wash him
self until he returned, and this vow he
seems to have sacredly adhered to.
Augusta Chronicle: “None of the State
Road statesmen have a word to say. And
yet they only talked to legislators.”
A rumor is current through the State
that must be exceedingly painful to all true
journalists. It is stated that in the bril
liant sortie which Fitch made upon Cum
mings, the door-keeper of the Senate, the
latter not only repulsed, but seriously mal
treated him. We can inform Mr. Cum
mings that by his course in this matter he
has lost our influence. While we may be
induced to vote for him for door-keeper we
never will vote for him for President—
never.
Columbus has had an election for a mem
ber of the Legislature merely to establish a
principle. As the Hon. Potty would remark,
“Gimme a pound uv principle, an I’ll give
you a whole bed-tick full uv peanut hulls.”
The successful candidate will never take his
seat in the present Legislature unless an
extra session is called : which God forbid!
Waynesboro Expositor: “In a burlesque
session of j*e Legislature a resolution was
offered the life ofPotcrson
PCHFeatt, so that he nflgfit be
through one more session of the Legisla
ture. If the Legislature had been ouc-lialf
as faithful to tlio State of Georgia as has
this gentleman, their constituents would be
far better satisfied.”
The Medical College in Augusta turned
out twenty-nine now doctors on Wednesday.
Mr. Joseph C. Roberts, of Augusta, is
dead.
A student in the State University, who
was a candidate for West Point, was thrown
out iu the competitive examination on a
question in English grammar. Really, we
have a better opinion of the young man’s
intellect than those wno attempted to teach
him grammar or those who examined him.
The latest thing in Augusta is a woman
who goes around begging money to bury an
aunt who was killed by falling out of a
wagon. The woman was burying her
imaginary relative all day Tuesday and then
the people begun to get tired of the funeral.
The country papers will never be satisfied
until the romance of the Oltefenokee ap
pears iu the Atlanta Conslitution.
Some time ago, it will be remembered,
the Greenville (S. C.) New s announced that
it would shortly begin the publication of the
secret history of the Bullock administration
by Foster Blodgett. The promise, much to
the surprise of the public, was never ful
filled, and there were many speculations as
to the cause. Col. R. A. Alston, in question
ing a witness before the recent lease inves
tigating committee, hints that the State
Road lessees 9ent H. I. Kimball to South
Carolina for the purpose of stopping Blod
gett’s mouth, and that the stopper used was
a three thousand dollar check.
Burglars are operating in Henry county.
Dr. Harmon M. Edge will shortly start a
paper at Milner to be called the Pilce County
Courier.
Sandersville is to have a newspaper called
the News.
A sober negro robbed a drunken white
man near Americus recently.
Mrs. Jane Scoville, of Sumter county, is
dead.
A baby was born in Columbus on the 29th
ult. According to the Enquirer , as 1900 is
not a leap year, he will have to wait eight
years at one period of his life before his
birthday comes round.
Talbotton wants a calaboose.
Nine hundred and forty-live bills were in
troduced in the Georgia Legislature at its
recent session. Of this number nine hun
dred were introduced by the statesman from
Tugaloo.
The problem that we desire to see solved
is, why will a negro baby crawl into the lire
when left alone ?
The thieves near Fort Valley shoot oxen
in broad daylight and make off with the
hindquarters.
A colored desperado was captured near
Atlanta the other day.
An enterprising Atlanta man is advertis
ing for three female barbers.
Dr. Craig has retired from the Atlanta
Commonwealth, leaving Mr. Iverson L. Hun
ter as sole manager. Mr. Hunter is making
it a lively paper.
A negro child was burned to death in Tal
bot county recently.
From what the editor of the Athens
Watchman saw along the route irom Athens
to Monroe—going one road and returning
by another—he is inclined to the opinion
that an unusual breadth of land has been
sown in wheat in the counties -of Clarke,
Oconee and Walton, and it certainly looks
very promising. There is also a large quan
tity of fall oats sown, and it, too, looks
well.
Talbotton Standard : It is truly a myste
ry that a man, who has fifteen thousand
dollars in clean cash, can s:aad and see a
widowed niece, with two children, strug
gling day by day to keep the wolf from her
door, and never offer her a penny, and yet
such a man lives within the county lines of
good old Talbot. He has a through ticket
to hell and no mistake.
Alluding to the recent attack on Gov.
Smith in the New York Herald, the Colum
bus Enquirer says: We are not surprised at
this assault. It was understood some days
ago that it would be made. The bogus
bondholders desire to break down Gov.
Smith and prevent his renomination, and a
general assault is to be made upon him all
along the line. This letter in the Herald
may, we suppose, be regarded as the open
ing broadside. That the discredited bond
holders, the lobbyists and plunderers gener
ally hould desire to get Gov. Smith out ot
their way and put a more compliant man in
his place we can well understand, but we
can tell them they have gone to work in the
wrong way. Vlliification and falsehood
have ever been considered by wise men as
poor weapons; such, indeed, as are never
employed in a good cause. If there are any
Gubernatorial candidates iu Georgia who are
inspiring such articles they, too, are making
a sad mistake for themselves.
The Lexington (Ya.) Gazette says:
‘‘We never saw the wheat look better at
this season of the year. Some fields are
so rank as to necessitate pasturing them.
This will be contrary to the experience of
many years past, as it has always been
said that a winter with little snow was
sure to be followed by a light harvest.”
Florida Affairs.
IN e have received a communication from
Tallahassee which we decline. We have no
desire to make our columns the medium for
praising Stearns aud abusing the Rev. John
Fyler. If the Stearns ring are becoming
frightened let them print iheir effusions iu
Stearns’s organ. The Mousing News has no
interest whatever in the matter.
Some of the papers hint that Conover will
probably be elected to tho peniteutiary
pretty soon. Stearns needn’t crow over this,
however.
Storey, of the Chicago Times, is in Flor
ida. His advertising rates are still the
same.
It is intimated in some quarter that the
Rev. William Watkiu Hicks aspires to be
Governor. This is not true. On the con
trary, he is a warm friend and supporter of
the Rev. John Tyler, who will be the nomi
nee of the Florida Republicans.
A two-pound fish dropped from the talons
of au eagle into the dinner-pot of a family
near Jacksonville the other day. The oc
currence was enough to cause’ a thrill of
jealousy in old Elisha’s shade.
The steamer Dictator passed uear two
whales on one of her recent trips.
Col. Hart ought to be canonized by the
travelling public. He has prohibited all
shooting on his Ocklawaha steamers.
Mr. Benjamin F. Daniel, of Quincy, has
invented an improved urnth-trap for bee
hives. Above the lower bee entrance is a
sliding cover through an angular orifice, in
which the moth enters after the bee entrance
is closed. The iusect is led by a tube into a
compartment from which there is no access
to the hive. The upper bee entrance is
similarly arranged. This device is cheaply
made aud claimed to be efficient aud useful.
The grass opposite Jacksonville has been
on tire for the past day or two.
The Rev. John Tyler, when he has occa
sion to allude to a colored man, calls him
citizen—as, for instance, Citizen J. R. Bal
lard. This is anew move, aud one that
none of the Stearns men have brains enough
to improve upon.
The Jacksonville bad boy chunks the
mocking-birds.
The Jacksonville Press says that the
Sentinel is still engaged in dealing cards,
and “stocking” the same in favor of Stearns,
and iu opposition to Conover. Its wonder
ful tenderness in behalf of the State credit
is easily accounted for. We cannot help
wondering if it would manifest the same
degree oi interest, if Conover was not the
rival of Sell-us, the Last, for gubernatorial
honors. Hinc UUe lachrymce ! The parties
to the quarrel have our permission to make
a Kilkenny cat tight of the scrimmage.
“When rogues frll out, honest men get their
dues.”
Capt. George N. A. Latham, for thirty
eigkt years a pilot on Fernandina bar, is
dead.
The Jacksonville Press says that the Ob
server has hauled down the name of its
editors in order that they may praise each
other, and suggest each other as probable
candidates for the Republican nomination.
The landholders and citizens of Leon
county are called to meet at the Court
House in Tallahasse on Saturday, the 11th
instant, for the purpose of organizing an
industrial and immigration society.
Mr. J. M. Feaster, of ludian river, comes
to the front with a hill of sugsr cane, grown
last year on his place, that contained thirty
eigut stalks, which averaged fourteen feet
to the stalk. Several of the stalks meas
ured as long as seventeen feet. The hill of
cane, when grouud, filled a thirty-eight gal
lon barrel with juice. The number of joints
on the largest stalk was fifty-six, and the
largest stalk measured 3j inches diameter.
The length of the whole number was one
hundred and seventy-five yards. From
three-quarters of an acre ho realized three
hundred and fifty dollars—the result of the
sale of fourteen thousand seed cane, and
two hundred and eighty gallons of syrup.
The above can bo substantiated by twenty
people.
Jacksonville Press: The old-fashioned
game of “Simou says wig-wag,” is gen
erally provocative of a vast amount of fun,
and he who can play it successfully has to
have all his wits about him, and his hearing
remarkably acute. Our Senator in Congress
game into his
... . - fwfruaih a view
olj fispSijj Mfe J*sßjtaherna
colored'tTitsment, wiiuks he has a dead sure
thing of it; but it may be that others beside
himself and friends may have something to
say and do that may checkmate all his
plans.
Palatka Herald: Very few passengers have
any knowledge of one of the finest views in
Florida, known as Palatka Heights. It is
situated about one mile from town, at an
elevation of over one hundred feet. The
view from this high ridge takes in at one
glance a scene four miles square, including
the St. John’s river and the eutire town,
with a wide-spreading green plain, having
the appearance of a fairy scene,’and lovely
beyond expression. Ere long we anticipate
a fine drive, a shell road, and rows of orange
trees on the streets now laid out on the ele
vated spot. Just beyond these heights
there is a tract of country most desirable
for settlement, and suitable for orange cul
ture and winter homes for the Northern vis
itors. A prominent Northern gentleman,
who visited the heights, said it was “a most
lovely spot for a hotel or for a pleasant resi
dence.”
The following call is signed by 8. Pasco,
Chairman, and C. E. Dyke, Sr., Secretary:
The District Convention of the First Con
gressional District will be held at the samo
time and place as the State Convention, to
wit: at Quincy, in Gadsden county, on
Wednesday, June 21st, the hour for the as
sembling of the same to be fixed hereafter,
for the purpose of nominating a candidate
for. Representative in Congress for said
District, to be voted for at the next general
election, and to appoint District delegates to
the Presidential Convention of the Demo
cratic party. The counties will be governed
by the same rules iu selecting their delegates
as have been laid down by the State Com
mittee in their call, and they will have the
right to send the same set of delegates to
both conventions, or a separate sot to each,
as they see fit. Arrangements will be
made to pass tho mombors of the conven
tion on tho railroads and steamboats at re
duced rates, as far as practicable. The Dis
trict Committee extends the call of the State
Committee to the people of the First Con
gressional District, and urges the necessity
of an early and thorough organization of
the party.
South Carolina Affairs.
In Horry the tax levy this year is $21,-
553 30. The collections up to the present
time amount to only SB,OOO, leaving $13,-
553 30 still unpaid. This is the most unfa
vorable exhibit ever made by the county.
The books will be open until the 21st of
March.
Anew jail is being constructed in Aiken.
The citizens of Congaree township, Lex
ington county, are requested to meet at Mr.
B. Cacey’s residence on Saturday, the 4th
instant, for the purpose of forming a
Democratic club.
A circulating library on a small scale has
been established at Sumter.
Two colored men, Fielder and Fields, em
ployed on the plantation of Dr. Muller, in
Lexington county, fought on Friday even
ing, and Fielder stabbed Fields several
times, killing him. The cause of the diffi
culty is not known.
The whole tax of Edgefield county is 568,-
800. More than two-thirds of it have al
ready been paid.
The town of Beaufort paid off last week
every cent of its indebtedness excepting two
bonds for the engine, which do not mature
for twelve or twenty-four months. The
treasury is still in funds, and has about two
thousand dollars yet to collect for licenses.
Albert Guerry has nearly completed at
his studio in Sumter, a life size portrait of
General Lee, in citizen’s dress, for the Mon
umental Association of that place. The
Watchman considers it very fine.
Thieves stole a bale of cotton from John
F. Woodward, in Sumter county, and car
rying it half a mile buried it in the ground
four feet deep, where it was found.
On the 21st ult. Mr. John D. Andrews, of
Orangeburg, aged sixteen years, married
Miss S. A. Darby, aged eighteen years.
The Lexington Dispatch is informed that
Mr. John C. Caughman, who resides near
the line of Edgefield and Lexington coun
ties, killed on the 15th ultimo, at one shot,
four wild turkey gobblers, weighing 16, 18,
24 and 254 pounds, respectively, and a Mr.
Garner, of Beaufort county, also killed, one
day last week, four deer at one shot.
About six hundred dollars in bills of the
Bank of the State have thus far been ten
dered in payment of taxes in Orangeburg
county.
The Marion Star alludes to a widespread
report of a little trouble between the County
Commissioners and Treasurer Stoeber, con
cerning the withholding by the latter of
about six hundred dollars of the county
taxes collected in 1873. More light on the
subject is demanded.
A whisky raid has been made in York
county, which resulted in the capture of
two distilleries, two prisoners and 4,500 gal
lons of mash. Mr. Deputy Jarrett, on
Wednesday, in the same county, captured
nine stills, 20,000 gallons of mash and beer,
and other paraphernalia for manufacturing
crooked whisky. Bristow is treating the
boys badly. He, for one, evidently “knows
no North, no South, no East, no West” in
nosing out crooked whisky.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
LETTER FROM JACKSONVILLE.
Tlie Recent Homicide In Polk County
State vs. J. C. Hockener—An Abridge
ment of the Testimony—An Enthusiastic
Reception—Pugilistic Liquor and Ltck
ers—Addenda—Some Forcible Argument
Shatv —Jip Personal —Alunchuuseu
Let Loose —.Marine.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News.]
Jacksonville, February 28, 1876.
THE POLK COUNTY TRAGEDY.
As there seems to be considerable mis
apprehension existing throughout the
State respecting the death of Hillyard
Jones at the hands of 0. C. ltockener,
on December the 6th last, at Fort
Meade, and as the inhabitants of the
section where the homicide ocourred in
variably look to the Morning News for
reliable information, I have been at some
pains to obtain a certified transcript of
the evidence taken at the preliminary in
vestigation. The appended abstract of
the testimony will convey a very clear
and comprehensible impression of the
circumstances attending this unfortunate
shooting. The warrant for the appre
hension of Hockener is based upon the af
fidavit of C. <3. Singleton, aud was is
sued by Benj. F. Blount, a Justice of the
Peace, on the 20th of December. Jas.
M. Manley, under oath, deposes that
Hockener and Jones were rolling ten
pins at his place, and came to the desk to
settle accounts. While Manley was
making change he heard Hockener say to
someone: “You threatened my life last
Saturday; I am now prepared for you.”
Witness then heard the report of a
pistol and saw Jones fall. S. E. Roberts,
sworn, says that he was standing in the
door of Manley’s, aud heard a voice,
which he judged to be Rockener’s, say
ing: “You threatened to take my life.”
Witness turned his head to see what it
meant; a pistol was discharged, and he
saw Jones falling. Jno. E. Robeson,sworn,
in effect corroborates the testimony of
Roberts. Neither of the above mentioned
witnesses saw the pistol in Rockener’s
hand when Jones fell. Owen H. Dishong
swears that on the fourth of December
Jones tried to borrow a dirk knife from
him whioh he refused to lend. Deceased
then said, “I'll be d—d if Hockener
hasn’t run over me his last time.” Wit
ness remonstrated with him but Jones
said, “You are a friend to a scoundrel,”
and after some further remarks departed.
Dishong saw Hockener later §n same day
and related the conversation requesting
him to keep away from Jones and pay no
attention to his insults. Hockener made
no threats. William Shauueyhan swears
that when Jones went to get a dirk
from Dishong he said that he
would kill Hockener. Witness met Jones
shortly afterwards, when he said that
Dishong would not lend him a knife, but
that he could get one to kill Hockener
with.
H. L. Mitchell,sworn, says—That being
cognizant of the relations existing be
tween Itockener and Jones he talked
with each of the parties and advised them
to avoid a personal rencontre. Jones
averred that the matter could not be set
tled, as it had gone too far, and, with an
imprecation, said that he would kill
Rockener before the expiration of six
months, and that he had fully made up
his mind so to do. Itockener said to
witness that he should never bother
Jones; witness did not commuoicate
Jones’s threats to Itockener; may have
mentioned them publicly but did not,
recollect. John M. Poaroe, sworn, saysl
that about the first of December he had nj
conversation with Jones iu veferenc < ?
"RcdSrtner, WJWn ceased said that!
there was “a-= — d—n llat-headod
Dutchman” living in Fort Meade that
he intended to kill. Advised him to keep
cool and left him. The defendant, Julius
C. Itockener, was placed under bonds for
appearance in the sum of twenty thou
sand dollars, Messrs. James Hamilton,
Willoughby Tillis and James G. Wilson
becoming his sureties. The papers from
which the foregoing summary is obtained
are authenticated as true copies by the
Clerk of Polk county, under date of Feb
ruary 8 th, 1876.
MUSIC HATH CHARMS.
It must certainly have gladdened the
heart of every admirer of Mrs. S. M.
Weldon’s accomplishments to behold the
flattering reception which that lady was
greeted with on the occasion of a com
plimentary concert which took place on
Thursday evening. The St. James or
chestra in two thrilling selections con
tributed in no small degree towards the
enjoyment of the concert. Miss
Lizzie liainsford, in a piano solo
“Fantasie,” was charming, sparkling,
dazzling, radiant. Miss liainsford is
almost perfect. Miss Phena Hud
nall sang “Ernani Inviolani,” as she
always sings enchantingly, and, makes an
ancient mortal like myself wish that he
had met her when he was young—will
somebody lend me a veil ? Miss Hudnall
is really incomparable. “Una notte a
Venezia,” by Mrs. Moore and Mr. W. B.
O. Duryee, was simply sublime. Mrs.
Moore possesses that power, which is the
vital spirit of music, of enchaining the
attention of all listeners, and is
gifted with a voice as sweet as
the rhythmical murmur of a rip
pling brook. The audience at
tested their appreciation of Mrs. Wel
don’s splendid execution by frequent
applause. Mrs. Barnett and Mrs. Greeley
rendered “II Pescatori ” spiritedly, and
merited the encore which they received.
Professor H. Braun, in a violoncello solo
and a violin solo, was inimitable, and I
use the word advisedly. The obedience
which the strings yielded to the Profes
sor’s truly magic touch was unsurpass
able. Mr. G. Gardner, in “The Heart
Bowed Down,” has a winning voice,
like the faint surging of the summer
gulf. He was also entrancing in the
song, “Let All Obey.” Mr. Duryee has
a wonderful command over his vocal or
gans, and his singing was excellent.
Space forbids a notice of the entire ar
ray of talent gathered together at this
entertainment, but suffice it to say that
all were admirable, with one exception,
in the person of a man who had a voice
that closely resembled the “vain-glorious
grumblings of a crazy violoncello.”
ON HIS MUSCLE.
The hideous custom of extenuating the
eccentricities of intoxicated mortals, is
one for which no excuse can be discover
ed in ethics or charity. If a man cannot
indulge in stimulating draughts without
outraging all propriety and manliness,
his plain duty to society and morality is
to rigidly abstain, or in the event of an
infringement upon the privileges of de
cent people, to expect no mercy. This
time the party is from Middle Florida.
He began to curse and blaspheme in the
office of one of our hotels on Wednes
day, and utterly ignored all solicitations to
cease. After some angry words with the
proprietor, the inebriated gentleman paid
his bill and left, only to return next morn
ing and demand an apology. Upon the
proprietor’s refusal to make concessions
to the fellow, who was in the wrong, the
pugnacious stranger struck the first blow.
Then ensued a general melee, extending
to the clerks, in which some of the pu
gilists hit their friends by mistake, and
produced an indescribable and ludicrous
effect. The city got ten dollars from the
warrior, and he went home. I don’t give
his name, for prudential reasons. He
fights.
THE BECENT STATE FAIB.
In my report of the fair, I neglected to
state that Sir. W. C. Maloney was in
charge of the Key West table, and took
care of his department commendably.
Messrs. McMurray & Cos., of this oity, ex
hibited some wagons made in Jackson
ville, which were worthy of remark. The
prize for the best oranges was awarded
to J. F. Baya, of Columbia county ;
Orange county, through S. Stringer,
showed the best lemons, and Key West
the finest assortment of limes. The
above awards will serve to indicate
the extent of the so-called orange belt,
and show unquestionably that it is not so
limited as some would have us believe.
The fair, I am glad to learn, was finan
cially a success. A strong movement is
assuming shape for the removal of the
exposition buildings to a point in closer
proximity to the city. This should, by
all means, be accomplished before an
other fair is had.
COW-HIDING.
Hows, disasters, accidents, murders
and so forth, seem to have been ordained
by an omniscient Providence for the ben
efit of those people who avoid them, and
they appear upon a superficial survey of
the surroundings to be as essential to a
healthy modern existence mentally con
sidered as food. Last W6ek was inex
pressibly lively, and Friday was about
the liveliest day of the moDth for C.
Codr ngton. On Thursday night Cod
rington inserted a notice in two papers of
the oity cautioning the pul lie not to
patronize the yacht Spitfire, “for
substantial reasons.” Now, this is very
indefinite, and I am surprised that any
sensible conductor of a public journal
gave publicity to it. The Captain of the
Spitfire met Mr. Codrington on Friday
morning, on Bay street, and administered
a severe flagellation to his back and face
with a cowhide. The case ccmes up be
fore the authorities to-day. It is unne
cessary to enter into the m3rits of the
occurrence, but it may not be amiss to
say that the individual who takes a casti
gation in a public thoroughfare, without
resenting it summarily then and there, is
entitled to no commisseration whatso
ever.
THE ROSTRUM.
Josh Billings lectured to a crowded
house on Friday evening, aud the faces
of his auditors were an interesting study.
I noticed several among them whose risi
bles did not arouse themselves onco dur
ing the whole performance. Once from
my commanding position on the stage I
noticed tears trickling from the eyes of a
damsel while all around were laughing.
A critique upon the leotufier is unneces -
sary, as his school has been under discus
sion so often that every intelligent person
eat&rtahis an opinion peculiar to him
self.
JIP JUSTICE.
The Conoverites complain that m asso
ciating the Doctor, in a previous letter,
with Jip, I have done the former an un
justifiable injustice. They say that in all
of Conover’s careerings he will never in
any event descend to Jip’s level, aud on
thinking the matter over I have arrived
at the conclusion that they are right.
Many a better man than Jip is in the
penitentiary.
PERSONAL.
Judge A. O. Wright, whilom of Jack
sonville, but now the efficient and popu
lar principal of Jefferson Academy, at
Monticello, was in the oity last week, on
a brief visit, and is looking healthy and
hearty.
Mr. Win. Case, of the Toledo, Ohio,
Blade , is among the recent arrivals.
AN UGLY REPORT.
It is assorted by the initiated that the
Reform ward clubs, iu conjunction, have
it iu contemplation to place a Republican
at the head of the municipal tickot. It
is to be hoped there is no good founda
tion for the rumor, and that no citizen of
Democratic proclivities will allow a
wooden idol to delude him so disastrously.
Adrianus.
Joe Brown’s Disclosures.
[From the Geneva Lamp.]
For a period of time, in nothing differ
ing from the advent of the Radical re
gime, Joey Brown, the redoubtable, has
made occasional revelations. We do not
insist that he has any special aptitudes
for the business, nor do we argue that he
has any special fondness for such exer
cises, but without indulging curiosity to
inquire into his preferences, or
in any manner attempting to ac
count for his own estimate of
their propriety, we hereby solemuly de
pose that such is his custom, if not his
habit. Ho comes up to the work as self
confident as Joey Bagstock, Joey 8., J.
8., J., and shows himself as plausible,
as wily, and fully as corrupt a3 lago, and
his revelations always beget in us a pro
found melancholy, for which even helle
bore is no remedy, the learned Burton to
the contrary notwithstanding.
Well, the ever and anon of Joey has
come around again, publishing him tho
leader of u train of calamities i^,-.
I
tower a vertical, and!
we are even resigned, „;ter ft fashion,!
to his wantoning in corruptioiJ
to his owt. luckless ending, but top
the disquietude he scatters amongst those
of much fairer fame. Ah, there’s the
rub; Joey’s revelations are attempts to
make sure his own justification, or at
tempts, not always unsuccessful, to re
▼Jal fearful wr ;cks of hitherto spotless
reputations. The world, not unwisely,
regards any association with Joey crimi
nal intimacy, and he is largely gifted in
revealing unexpected fellowships.
But as fruitful a theme as is the crafty
Joe, it is not now with him we have to
do, aud he is rather the occasion than the
cause of this article. It has been charged
that the lease of the State Railroad was
fraudulently obtained, and Joey Brown,
President of the lease company, has
testified that a matter of twenty thousand
dollars was expended upon the press
of the State to popularize (develop) a
sentiment favorable to the lettiDg. He
further deposes that the startling sum
of five thousand dollars was paid to a
single paper, aud sundry two thousands
to each of several other journals, he
wisely deemed a mere bagatelle, or more
wisely bags which did tell. And still wo
gaze and still our wonder grows that
these journals admit the allegations aud
would excuse themselves, in that they
are very proper advertising mediums.
Well, with a dealing in revenues arising
from a 7 by 9 only, we can certainly
boast no large practice in computing
large sums, but it does appear that the
charge of the Light Brigade wa@ a triflim
affair, when compared with a charge ot
five thousand dollars for advertising a
scheme well and ftuly believed to
be of vital interest to the dear peo
ple. Indeed we would be loth to
give a very hearty adherence to the ad
vertising idea, but for the fact we fully
recognize it to be heavy work to support
any of Joey Brown’s measures, for we
would be afflicted with grave mistrust, if
nothing more serious, in such a follow
ing, and we would not deem an average
bonanza any very extra compensation, es
pecially if the advertising was done un
der the guise of editorial work.
We have bravely investigated the daring
of our brother journalists in espousing
the interest of Joey before the public,
and we have meekly concluded that it
were far better that we should wonder at
their intrepidity, than that we should
admire it. Metropolitan journalism
we know to be over and ~b'eyond_
our jurisdiction, and we could not
censure it if such was our desire,
and in this matter we could not sustain it,
even if we were more than mortal, but
the country recipients of Joey’s thousand
dollar bounty had better be in search of
rocks to hide them upon the first howl
we make upon thtir unlucky tracks. That
we will be as fearfully unsparing as Joey
Brown and some journalists are shame
fully unscrupulous at this writing, ad
mits of not even the least doubt.
How He Wound His Watch
[Virginia (N'ev.j Enterprise.]
A day or two since Mr. Shaw, time
keeper of the Consolidated Virginia Mine,
found a watch lying in the snow. vh<- ,
it had evidently been dropp by e
one working in or about the mine. Mr.
Shaw wrote a notice to that effect, post
ing it by the side of the window to which
the men came to give in their names
when going or coming off their shifts.
Several men called and described what
was, according to their ideas, a “valuable
watch,” nearly all making it gold, with a
fine chain of the same metal. Some set
a number of beautiful pieces of
quartz into the links of the chain
last a little Frenchman came to tl
window and said:
“You find one vatch, Mistair Sha
“Yes, sir,” said Shaw. “Have yo
a watch ?”
“Yes, sare, me have lose me one vb
“Can you describe It?”
“Oh, yes, sare, me can descript him
ver’ perfec’ly.”
“Well, what was it like?”
“My vatch he vas a silver vatch.”
“Very good. What kind of cases?”
“Veil, he have he’s face wide open.”
“What kind of chain-”
“Q.ne leetle brass sbain.”
“What kind of key etees on the chain?”
“Veil, no key bo oil ze shain. He have
no key at all. I wind him by zee tail.”
The watch was a stem-winder, and the
Frenchman had given a perfect descrip
tion of it, even down to “zee tail.”