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So you read tlio placard in almost every
place of business, and learn fre,m it, (if
you did not know the fact before) that
the people are bavin),' another financial
flun v. Tin times sre ti^Lt—teimi cash
_b,,. .hnost I’Onvertibloexpreriions. Eut
why dt.iuond oanfa only when you are least
likely to (?et it ? The people hare very
little ready money—therefore they must
pay reaily money for all they buy. That
i • the lack of true phil.. ophy in this way
of enforcing “Terms Cash.” The true
time to say "Terms Cash" is when money
is abundant—when it comes easily—when
for
Mr, bonce on Civil KigliU.
The Hon. Samuel Bones (called "Starr,”
for short) is a barber, or, to speak more
politely, “a fashionable hairdresser.”
Not but that, in these piping days of an
“a/vaHity" which consists mainly in :n-
v. re ion. S..m might not have b. u some
thing more or lean. He was in M: i::-
sippi once, and, we are told, escaped the
Supreme Bench in that State only by a
hair—wo beg pardon—a filament on the
negro’s head which snb-erres the general j Tn;: Avgustt papers announce the
purpose of n hair. Then they wanted to I death of Mr. W. C. Jessup, an old iner-
run him for the Legislature wit’u a nhnn— i chant of that city, on Monday night, of
immeasurably to th
comfort of hundreds of c
crease in the value of r
suburbs also would l>e a
population would Sow
managers of t
trusty men. an.
the a. com mod;
conveniOT.cc and ! Tim new municipal machine at Colum
■itizens. The in- ; bus was set going on Monday by the in-
Li estate in the j augnration of the recently elected offi
mail item, and j cials, the selection of others by the coun-
u aiuce. The I oil and the fixing of salaries. The salary
load are faithful and of the Mayor was fixed at $1,000; Clerk,
! xrill pare no p..in
ttion cf the public.
THE GEORGIA. PRESS.
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THURSDAY MOllXIXC, DEC. 1«. lW
xperimimting with wooilen
Loxnow L
pavements.
Ex-SSKATOI
admitted to U
Tjewia T. Wigfall ha i bi
• Hallimoce bar.
Osi hundred and twenty men in Cnli
fornia own between them 3,110,000 acre:
of land.
the Senate beside llev-
it is to lie hail. Not many men go black- I els. WheS he got to Georgia::" wa
berrying in I>e<-einl«er, and if any do they | crowded on wonderfully by Bullock for a
avo sure to come home with empty buck- j “Justice." b sliort, they wanted to
cto. make a dignitary of Sam, for the purpose
To put our proposition in poors precise of subordinating his natural sense and
form, we mean to say that “Terms Ca.h." shrewdness to the inter. - ts of corpet-lv.
It la said that, the
about to build a Bin
the ViUo du Havre.
French company a
steamer to repla
K i Leon's terms are said to l>c ono thous
and dollars a night, and half the gn< -
receipt* wlfon over tliroo thousand dol
lars.
Mus, Samuel Colt signs every chock
and order for money, and takes a walk
through her revolver foundry twice a
wt-ek. _ _ |j
A Wssnunt paper said that the hello
of o xeeent assembLige was the esprit du
corps of the evening. Porhapi thin con
fusion arose from her being all in arms,
or in all arms.—Graphic.
I)o. Tiffany is authority for the state
ment that total abitinoneo is enforced at
the White House. I'roblhly so, when
Tiffany is around. There nro some uyeo-
phnnb; so powerful that a social glass
with them would ho too much even for
Grnnt.—New York Ban.
A Hospital foe Hypochondriacs.—
Tim Into Both Adams, of Boston, loft an
rata to valued at $1,700,000, and provided
in his will for the establish ment within
fifteen miles of Boston of a home or hos
pital for tho treatment and accommoda
tion of persons nlllictcd with hypochon
dria, from which malady ho had suffered
for years.
Who Can 11kat It?—A gentleman
from Crawford county who was in our of
fice yesterday, informed us that Col. T.
V. Gibson, of that county, has caught,
•luring tho last two limiting seasons, one
hiintlrtJ anil thirty foxes, anil tliat ono
hundred of thin liumber were of the "rod”
V:irioty. That is sport, indoe 1. and hard
to heat, wo should think.
A narkiko woman whoso will has been
proved in England gave all her estate to
her hieitiaud; directed her clothes to bo
sold to pay her funeral expenses, and
added i '• It is also iny earnest wish that
my darling husband should marry ere
long, a nice, pretty, girl, who is a good
housowifo, and, above all, to lie careful
that she is of good temper."
Cost of thk Modoc AVah.—Tiny are
now counting tho cost of that little
Modoc war ill the War Department at
Washington. The Quartermaster Gen
eral reports that with some as yet un
ascertained expenditures, which, how-
over, are small, the Modoc war east $335.-
IKV 78. Tliis is exclusive of tho pay,
elotliint: and armament of tlie troops en
gaged. To catch these warriors, their
squaws and papooses, cost about $2,000 a
pave.
Thr youth O'Connor, who, souio timo
ago, tried to frighten Queen Victoria Into
signing a pardon for the Fenian convicts,
is now in Australia, The Queen interest
ed herself in him, shortened liis term of
imprisonment, and, when ho was released,
had him fitted out and sent away from
Knglund. Ho consumes his timo with
attention to somo elerieal duties and com
posing letters in verse, expressing his
gratitude to the Queen.
In a recent letter from Cassia, Minis
ter Jewell writes, " Banks have been
regularly chartered here now for about
ton years, and pay, all of them, eight,
nina and ten per cent, dividends. These
stocks an' all worth from 130 to 100. I
have not learned how many there are in
operation; hut there has not n-< yet been
a failure among them. The Government
exorcises a strict watch over them, and a
defalcation would be simply " the army
for life, or the Siberian mines.’ ns crimi
nals do not escape here.”
Too Many or Thkm.—The Judiciary
Committee of the nouso yesterday re
ported a resolution authorizing tho com-
mittoo to send for persons ouJ papers in
investigating the official conduct of
Judges DurroU, of Louisiana, and Bns-
teod, of Alabama. lYo should bo dis
posed to clap our hands if this action
foreshadowed any possibility of bringing
these men to exposure anil condemnation.
But where will the eini be if the work of
bringing these Radical office-holders to
account oneo begins ?
Texas Bkkf.—Tho first train of refrig
erator ears carrying fresh beef from
Texas to New York, completed its trip
l:ist week, having been eight days on the
way. Two car loads of the beef were
sold on tho arrirnl of tho train. Ar
rangements have been made for dressing
and shipping five hundred cattle daily,
and agencies for the solo of the beef arc-
to be established in all the principal E.is-
tern cities. This seems to be a new
form of tho effort that was made a year
or two ago to bring Texas beef to lfliila-
delphia by sailing vessel. The refrigera
tor ears, of course, save timo in transpor
tation. which fa an advantage, but it must
largely increase the cost.
A Hoes Gcx.—The SutclilT guu, east
recently at the West Point Foundry,
weighed in the rough state 72,000pounds,
and is tho largest gun ever made. The
gun is mads of iron, standing a pull of
30,000 to 85,000 pounds, and is now nine
teen foot long, but, when finished, will
lv only fifteen foot in length. It is to
have a steel barrel four inches thick at
tho breech and throe at the muzzle, with
rifie boro, and weighing -15,000 pounds.
Tho shot wilt bo nine inches in diameter,
and will weigh about two hundred and
fifty pouuds. It will require eight days
to cool tho monster by the Hodman pro
cess, water being run through the bore
during all tliat time. Tho guu is being
MUtdo for Government experiments.
instead of bring put up occasionally when
there comm a money pinch, and then
taken down or practically disregarded
bsfor.- tiie placard has become dusty or
fly-blown, should Is) kept up and enforced
js-rman.-ntly in the interests of nil par-
tie ; to trade. With the total anniliilation
of i red it tho fortune of Georgia would
begin. But that we suppose i-: practical
ly impossible.
When merchants began to open tiieir
doors in the spring of 1805, ju.->t after the
surrender, the opinion was universal tliat
a credit business in this section was final
ly c-xplodod. There uppeared to bo little
or nothing left to hum credit upon at tliat
time, except individual character, which
after all, is the only basis worth a corn-
shuck. But if you inquired into individ
ual character, tho vast majority of the
people were straining every nerve to
■ -s.-api resi>onsil)ility for past due obliga
tions.
And sinco that time, what a long chap
ter of dishonest and evasive legislation
has bean enacted to delay, obstruct and
prevent tlio collection of debts by law
and render property irresponsive to pe
cuniary obligations. Wo need not go
into detail. Every man’s common sense
and good conscience tell him that in re
spect to the common obligations of debt,
tlio debtors have controlled tlio legisla
tion in their own interests, to the prac
tical emasculation of the rights and rem
edies of creditors. Do you point us to
tho wretched and miserable lien laws as
illustrations of a contrary policy ? Why,
they grew out of tho simple fact that
the debtor class still wanted to horrou,
and could not borrow under tho existing
rtatutory system, because it gave the
creditor no rights entitled to respect.
These lien laws were only botch laws,
necessitated by tho destruction of even-
handed legislation for debtor and
creditor.
What, then, shall be said of this ridicu
lous spectacle in Georgia—that in tho
face of general social nnd political un-
settiement—in tho absence of available
property assets—in tho teeth of tho fact
that the hulk of the people were noto-
rioie ly seeking to evade tho payment of
debts past due, aud notwithstanding tho
further fact that all tho legal remedies
for creditors wero boing sapped and
emasculated, tho credit system suddenly
•welled out again like a bladder fish, and
with not a whit more of solid substance
about it. It is a fact without sens
apology.
* Terms e.tsh!" Well, tho merchants
may think just now that they want to do
a c.uh business, but wo beg leave to
doubt it. If they wanted to do a cash
trade, they nover could have seen tho
first sensible reason cince the war for any
oilier trade. There was not tlio first
thing in the situation to justify any other
kind of trade.
. But lest somo may imagine tliat these
credit disabilities are altogether tho ont-
growth of the disasters springing from
the wnr, and not due in great part to the
inherent- vices of tho credit system itself,
let ns glance a little to times before tho
war. We cun recollect four or tiro times
previous to the war when “Terms Cash"
figured everywhere in Mncon, showing
that tlio credit system had exploded nt a
timo when tho people had convertible
as vt i in lands nnd negroes and when, os
we look upon them now, times wero pros
perous and jiooplo rich. On the contrary
the vices of the credit system brought on
pinches and stoppages of credit once in
about three years then, just as they do
now. The merchants broko with their
lodged full of worthless debts then, per
haps even worse than now. And outside
of this city we could lay our fingers on
whole counties currently said to be all
under mortgage to some sharp local tra
der for store debts—the people ruined by
tho credit system. Wo doubt whether
there is anything less than a dose of slow
poison practically worse for the average
farmer than easy facilities for getting
into debt.
If then tho people of Georgia bad been
compelled to keep out of debt by tho im
possibility of getting credit, the State in
the course of a generation would liavo
been somewhere about knee dee" in gold,
and if sho could rot get a cent’s credit
now, in ten years we would be rich again
—for it is debt which practically disables
all from making money. Debt compels
us to fight the battlo of life with, both
bauds tied and a lame leg. It compels us
to run a race with a heavy burden on our
backs and drags us through all the sloughs
of disadvantage and degradation.
Then we say to the merchants, keep up
that “ Terms Cash" henceforward forever-
And wo say to the farmers and all who
buy from the merchants, put up " Terms
Ciu-A” in your houses—write it on your
doorposts—grave it with a pen of iron on
the flashy tablets of your hearts, and
never forget it. A generation of ob
servation has satisfied us that the kind
of extravagance engendered by running
up bills—an d tho disadvantage, loss and
practical imbecility resulting from debt
have alone kept the Southern people
poor.
for
good barber, and would
-ified into a poor poli-
oongestion of the. bow,ds. He was a na
tive of New Jersey, but had been a resi
dent of Augnsta for more than thirty
049>- .OO A nOB*ivli •"
Letters for Starr A Euan, andj. F
Kolbc, Macon nnd Brunswick railroad,
Moran, are held for podage in the Savan
nah office.
Tub Stir, Georgia Cultivator, and
Temperance Watchman, all of Griffin,
havo been: consolidated, and will appear
on Christmas day as tho Weekly Star
and Cultivator, A daily edition of the
Star will be i-rued on January first.
The Gnfiin Star learns that Rev. Dr.
DeVotie, pastor of the Baptist Church in
that place, will be married to-day to Mrs.
I Amos, of Meriwether county. -
| Two muscular Christians named re
ism; but Sam
He said he was
not be transuu
tician.
This speech brought him into trouble.
He has been damned five thousand times
and waylaid three limes as a “Democrat
nigger,” and rarely ventures to go home
nights, even now, without a cbooting-
iroa in his right hand, and never takes
the same road twice in succession.
“Sam,” said the deponent during one of
the interludes of a lonsorial operation, 1 spcctfiilly, Dabbs and Hicks, collided last
“how about this civil rights hill—will it Saturday near Rome, and Dabbs lifted
not interfere witli your business ? “Not one of Hicks’ eyes by a scientific turn of
at all, Boss,” said Sain, “I shaves ’em all his thumb—the first game of old fash-
widout distinction of race, color or pro- j ione-1 gouging we liavo hoard of since
vious condition. Dat I’se got to do, an I
does it ’eorJing to law.” “How many
negroes a day do you shave, Sam?" “Why
I!033, I’vo shaved nary ono sen.-c tree
weeks afore las Christmas. You see,
Bos.--, when I shaves a nigger, X seats him
in dat chair and givc3 him a lesson which
he members and tells all his friends. I
hones my razor on a grindstone aud straps
it on a pair of muddy boots and guvs dat
nigger civil rights wid a bode on it—dat
I docs? His sensibilities come out wid
d« beard for sartain; and when he’s got
liis rights onst he never comes back for
any more, nor any of his friends nuthcr.
Dat’s de way I dispense wid do supjde-
mcutal bill.
“But, Sam, it does not seem to mo
that this is the equality demanded by the
hill?” "Ki’, Boss, de law eay nothin’
’bout sharpening de razor, nor semtehin’
on do upper side of the skin. De law say
you shall share do nigger, and I shaves
him occordin. He no like my shave, ho
go c-lsowlinr. Dat is all right—I find
no fault, but I comply wid de law.”
“Well, Saui, you are a pretty fair law
yer, and. havo helped to illustrate the
folly of tlio Civil Rights Bill.”
‘‘Affairs Down tu Orleans.”
A correspondent of the Memphis Ava
lanche , after pervading New Orleans sev
eral days, foiuid a unanimous verdict of
hard times everywhere. The old woman
in the market, who retailed cups of cof
fee at a picayune each, said “white folks
hain’t got no money, and nobody never
see sueh tough times,” and that senti
ment in differing phrase was in all
mouths. Produce was coming forward
rapidly, but the banks were not paying
out currency, and the vast incubus of
public and private debt swept away all
convertible assets as fast as they came.
The writer chronicles the arrival there
of the R. K. Loo last Monday, from
Vicksburg, with a cargo of 5,034- bales
of cotton piled twelve tiers high.
Kaiser Wilheln’s doctors urge him
spend the rest of the winter in Florence
for his health, but the imperial invalid is
obstinate.
A New Feature In Journalism—
Moclcsty at a Discount.
We notice that somo of our contempo
raries aro publishing every man’s name
who subscribes to his paper, and even
the letters conveying the announcement,
and cash. The Tet.egiui-u and Messen
ger can’t afford to do this at the expense
of its patrons. It would ba downright
robbery. All the available space outside
of tlio wants of tho advertising public, is
needed to transmit the immense volume
of news which comes daily through the
gurgling depths of the “deep blue sea,”
and by rail, and overland, from every
nook aud eomer of Christendom.
Instead of blowing our own horn all the
while, and bragging “like rip,” which to
tlio initiated, looks very much like whist
ling to keep one’s courage up, we prefer
to do our best, and then let a discrimm-
ating public judge of our deserts. It is
as truo as trite, that “self praise Is no
praise.”
To those who really wish to know
whether the TtcLKaiuru bolls its own fi
nancially, we invito an inspection of our
books. It is sufficient to say, panic or no
panic, we have no cause for complaint, but
rather for sclf-gratulation at the cxlxibib
the “figurej which cannot lie” afford.
Thank God wo liavepoobligations over
due, and not orielf^atingle note running at
all. Nor are we printing a line for Bun
combe, or to save composition. The
Telegrafh cannot afford to work for
nothing, hence expands or contracts its
dimensions to suit the immediate' exi
gencies of business. Besides, to do other
wise wonhl destroy its prestige and ac
knowledged value as an advertising me
dium.
But there is still ample verge and mar
gin for improvement in circulation, and
interest, too, and tho increase of tho for
mer has much to do with tho latter re
sult. It requires a mint of mqpey to con
duct a first-class daily newspaper, and its
ability to please, is only limited by the
extent of its revenue. We would there
fore earnestly invoke the ol.l friends of
our long tried journal to come to the tcs-
e with the advent of another year.
The session of the Legislature, Con
gressional proceedings, the “speck of
war,” ready at any moment to enlarge
into an over-shndowing disk, the grand
movement of the patrons of husbandry,
the condition of the markets and finances,
and in short the current history of the
whole world will be presented every day.
And where, at such infinitesimal cost,
an you procure so vast a volume of in
formation, which we purchase at an ex
pense of thousands of dollars'.
Once more, then, we say subscribe for
the Telegraph on its own merits—not
for the privilege of drawing a blank in
somo o-ealled prize. We will give you
an honeit qn-f aro quo—nothing more.
Can yon ask aught else ?
Macon Street Railroad.
The public will note the reduction
which the managers of this useful city
institution advertise from to-day, in the
rates of passage. The old price qf five
cents each way has been restored, and
surely the very saving of shoe leather will
go for to pay this tax.
The Ma-’on Street Railroad Company
have had many difficulties to contend
against from the very outset, an<l deserve
the support and patronage of the com
munity for keeping up its lines. In the
first place they began with a considerable
debt. Then succeeded very serious losses
in stock from the epizootic, and the total
suspension of business fora whole month ;
the small-pox and meningitis followed
next, very sensibly diminishing the
amount of travel, aud to crown their mis
fortunes the wretched panic east a dam
per upon everything just when the fall
business was about to open.
Still, they have struggled on manfully,
and wo are glad to clirouiele a marked
increase in cash receipts fur several
months past. What citizen would net
esteem it a public calamity if the enter
prise were abandoned ? Let the people
sustain it. then, with liberality. With
proper support, the company could very
soon push its cars into Yineville, and in j
the direction of Troup Hill, thus adding I
the war.
“ Newt " Alsiand, aged about Iwvnty,
and owning Atlanta as his home, is
in the Nashville woikhonso on account
of lifting $1,100 from liis brother in the
former city. When arrested his pockets
were empty, somo good Nashville Samari
tan having knocked him down and placed
his funds where they would do the
knocker most good.
The following ministers were appoint
ed visitors to the Methodist colleges in
this State, by the North Georgia Confer
ence recently in session at Newnan:
Emory College—Rev. Dr, W. P. Harrison,
Rev. J, IV. Scott, Rev. W. P. Rivers, Rev.
Dr. Wm. Watiin Hick:, and Rev. Dr. A.
T. Maun. Wesleyan Female College—
Rev. J. W. Heidt, Rev. Josioli Lewis, Jr.,
Rev. W. R. Foote. La Grange Female
College—Rev. P. M. Ryburn, Rev. F. A.
Kimbal', Rev. J. R. Hayson, Rev. D. D.
Cox, Rev. W. P. Pledger. Dalton Female
College—Rev. Dr. W. P. Harrison, Rev.
W. M. Crumley, Rev. W. P. Pledger, Rev.
Louis J. Davies, Oen. C. A. Evans.
The following appointments were made
by the Conference for tho Griffin District:
Griffin District, J. Lewis, P. E. Griffin,
J. W. Heidt; Zebulou Circuit, D. Nolan;
Fayette Circuit, Geo. E. Gardner; Jones
boro Circuit. R. R. Johnson; McDonongh
Circuit, J. R. Mayron; Jackson Circuit,
W. T. McMichael; Hampton Circuit, J.
D. Gray; Pleasant Hill Circuit, Wm. U.
Speer; Pine Circuit, Eli Swath; Barnos-
ville and Salem, G. G. Smith; Culloden
Circuit, B. J. Johnson; County Lino Cir
cuit. Samuel A. Mitchell; Thomaston,
J. B. Payne; Upson Circuit, W. H. Gra
ham ; Forsyth. D. D. Cox : Forsyth Cir
cuit. John A. Reynolds : Clinton Circuit,
J. J. Carr; Jones’ Mission, supplied by
C. H. Wood.
Messes. Dancht and IIuetei.t,, of Sa
vannah, classed out and shipped on Mon
day for S. Fatman, 1,323 halos of cotton—
the largest number ever classed out by
one shipper in one day in that city. ’ ' v/|
Is the Federal Circuit Court at Savan
nah on Monday, Messrs. Samuel Ilall, of
Bibb county, Wm. Robinson, of Macon
eounty, and L. E. Welch, of Dougherty
county, were appointed to appraise the
property taken by the government for tho
Federal cemetery at Andersonvillc.
The Georgia Press Convention met at
Columbus on Monday last, but no quo
rum was present. The convention re
ceived and accepted, however, an invita
tion to attend the Black Crook that
night, and also an invitation to assist at
a banquet at the Rankin nonso on Tues
day night. Tiie following papers were
represented:
Albany News, C. W. Styles; Sanders-
ville Herald. Sampler Republican, Sa
vannah Nows, Bern bridge Sun, Dawson
Journal, C. W. Styles, proxy; Tliomas-
villo Times, J. R. Christian ; C.imilla.En-
terprisc. J. M. Brown; Talhotton Stand
ard, O. D. Gorman and J. B Gorman;
Monroe Advertiser, C. A. King; Coluin-
bfis Enquirer, Colonel A. R. Calhoun;
Columbus Sun, .T.-H. Martin and Tlios
De Wolf; Atlanta Herald, J. H. Smith
and W. i >. Tiuiuc!!.
The Columbus Sun, of Tuesday, pays
the following well-deserved tribute to our
friend Albert R. Lamar, late of that pa
per, and now Solicitor General of tlio
Chatham Circuit. We endorse it with
all our heart:
His many friends here have been grati
fied by the announcement that Mr. La
mar’s health is suifieieutly restored to
enable niin to outer upon an active dis
charge of the duties of hi.-j'olfiee. Tho
readers of this paper, upon which his
able and caustic pen was for some time
employed, need no assurance that he will
fill his present position creditably to him
self and beneficially to the State. He
lias been tried in other positions, under
the State and tho Confederacy, and found
always capable and efficient. * He was a
trusted counsellor of High Confederate
authorities during the war, and liis own
station intbatcontliet wa3oneas neeessa-
ryaml importantto the Confederacy as the
soldiers in the field. Nor is it forgotten
tliat perils and responsibilities had to be
encountered byourpublic men, iui mediate
ly after the war, of quitea-i responsible and
hazardous a nature as service in the field.
We all know how manfully Mr. Lamar
stood up daring our “reign of terror”—
when able and influential m*n were de
serting their principles and their race—
against the effort to degrade Georgia to
the condition of South Carolina and Lou
isiana as to-day exhibited. Though known
to be "spotted,” and though speaking and
writing at the risk of his personal liberty,
he did not hesitate to denounce nnd ex
pose the outrages perpetrated on the
“Ashbum prisoners” ana the tyranny and
knavery by which they were committed.
He carried with him from Columbus the
affectionate regard of our people, which
many of them evinced by their support
of the paper on which he was engaged in
another city, and they still remember with
pride the capacity, courage and fidelity
with which he has filled every position
entrusted to him.
Ar a meeting yesterday, says the Au
gusta Constitutionalist, of Tuesday, of
the committee “lately appointed by the
Georgia Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animal--, “to draft a bill to be
presented to tho Legislature to render
cruelty to the brute creation a misde
meanor in this State," tho details of sneh
a measure were decided upon, and the
bill will shortly be placed in the hands
of the Richmond delegation for presenta
tion at tho proper time. The bill declares
cruelty to animals a misdemeanor and
punishable with a fine not leas than $3,
nor more than $l£. certainty of punish
ment being aim.-1 at in firing the penalty
so low. It is also provided that proper
fees shall 1-- paid the officials entrusted
wdth the enforcement of the law. The
nSeasitre will be finally perfected at a
meeting of the Society next Sat ar-lay,
when the committee will report.”
We hope the Legislature will pass this
bill unanimously. It is imperatively de
manded by every consideration of hu
manity and civilization, and if rigidly
enforced, as it should l>e, will put a stop
to many practices that are a disgrace to
the age and to human nature.
$l£0u;i Treasurer, $1,000: Marshal
$1,000. or $S00 nnd feed of horse; Dep
uty Marshal, same salary on same condi
tion. City Attorney, $200; Wharfinger,
$400; market and magazine keeper, $350,
and perquisites; hospital keeper, $300,
and 35 ceuts per day board; City Physi
cian, $1,000, and he to furnish liis own
medicin
J. N. Barnett wa3 elected Treasurer ;
J. G. Burrus, Wharfinger; C. H. Wil
liams, City Attorney; Dr. D. W. John
son, City Physician; Cash and Moran,
police captains—with $70, and privates
$00, per month salary. An ordinanci
was also passed giving Council, and tlio
Police Committee thereof, authority to
employ and discharge policemen
We clip the following from the Sa
vannah News of Tuesday:
An Interesting Cask—Can a Stock
holder of a Bank that has Mads an
Assignment bk Hkij> Liable for its
Debts.—Among live coses tried in tho
United States Circuit Court yesterday
was ono of those known as hank cases,
and which was calendared as G. W. Hatch
vs. G. B- Lamar. This suit was brought
by the plaintiff against defendant on
his liability as a stockholder of the
Bank of Commerce of six hundred and
thirty-seven shares, tho suit being
for "(53,700 dollars. The counsel feu-
defendant in this suit claimed tfiat he
had redeemed his statutory liability by
taking up $91,000 did bills before tho
suit was brought. Judge Woods ruled
that this was a good defense. It appeared
that Mr. Lamar was president of the
Bank of Coimnoreo, and that on July 31,
1SGG, tho bank made an assignment to
John C. Ferrill, assignee. Mr. Lamar
acquired his bank bills after tho assign
ment. The counsel for plaintiff contended
that the statute 6f Georgia made it pe
nal for a bank officer to purdhaso bills of
his own bank at a discount; that the
assignment did not destroy tho hank or
vacate tho officers, therefore that Mr.
Lamar was still president, and could not
claim any benefit from bills ao purchased.
Mr. Lamar’s counsel claimed that tho
statute was only Intended to apply
to hanks engaged in business; that
the Rank had practically ceased ta
be a bank after the assignment, and
the officers ceased to perforin their func
tions ; also that Mr. Lamar proved that
he took many of tho hills at par in pay
ment of old debts, and that tho number
not being ascertained by plaintiff nfter
cross examination, the pvosumption at
law was that Mr. Lamar did not violate
the statuto, but acquired tlio $G3,700 in i
hills nt par.
Judge Woods charged that if the jury I
found that tho bank was still in exist
ence, Mr. Lamar continued as President,
and would not buy tho bills at a discount
aud then use them to redeem his liability
as a stockholder.
Tlio jury, under the charge of tho
court and the evidenco submitted, found
a verdict in favor of Mr. Lamar, the de
fendant.
We regret tho thickness of tho skull
of that editor of the Griffin Star who
fails to understand our allusion to tho
lack of originality displayed in liis stupid
contemptible and ill-mannered personal!
ties. But as we are not a surgeon wo
can make it no clearer; and if wo wore,
perhaps the job would turn tho edge of,
if not absolutely break tho instrnment-
It is not a question of language hut of
density of bone, in this case.
JOHNSON & SMITH,
WHOLESALE
North British & Mercantile
INSURANCE COMPANY.
OF LONDON AND EDINBUUOn.
We have a large and varied stock of GROCERIES and LIQUORS in store,
which we offer at low prices. We will continue to sell to
PROMPT CUSTOMERS
On 80 days, bnt those of our friends who have not paid up their accounts within
that time must not expect us to accommodate them with further credit. Wo desire
to approximate as nearly to cash as tho condition of trade will admit, and necessity
compels us to require hereafter the very best security from those who wish to buy-
on 30 days.
JOHNSON & SMITH,
MASONIC TEMPLE, MULBERRY STREET,
dec3tf Macon, Georgia.
CAPITAL—BOLD
$10,000,000
Insures Stores. Mcrcliandise, Dwellings, Farm-
tuve and all other property at
LOWEST RATES!
SPplfi Cm
I. a PLANT & SON. Agents.
Macon. Ga.
STONEWALL
LIBERAL ADVANCES !
^jADE TO PLANTERS ON COTTON in the
various warehouses ill this city,
decli fit I. C. PLANT & SON.
BARGAINS I
Bargains! Bargains
I AM olTerinz Tor rale tlio entire stock and fix-
lures of Burr A Flanders, consisting of Flour of
their various brands, empty Sacks for Grain and
Flour, Hones, Mules, 'Wagons, Harness, Hogs,
Barrels, Barrel Staves and Heads, Stationary En
gine, Iron Safe, and various other articles,
duel2 lw MILO S. FREEMAN. Receiver.
E. B. POTTER, M. D.
HOMtEOPATHIST
O FFICE Wood’s BlocV, Second street, third
door below Jobnstou jewelry establishment.
Residence Lanier House.
iuly!5 tf
Bar and Restaurant.
OPEN ALL NIGHT.
J_ VALENTINO,
TTAVING refitted his entire premises, is now
JLI-. prepared to furnish his friends and patrons
with rverylhins pertaining to a first-dam restau
rant. which will be served in tho very best style,
lie will always have on Iiaud
FRESH FISH, OYSTERS, SAME, ETC.
Strangers visiting Macon should privo him a call.
I will open on the 1st of October, at No. 00
Cherry street, next door to my present restaurant, a
Ladies’ Sating Saloon.
JOHN VALENTINO.
sej»7 tf 31 aeon, Ga.
MAYOR’S NOXICE
Ordinance Against Fire Works.
QECTION G01. It shall not be lawful for any
O person to lire a gun. pistol, or any other lire
arms, within £00 yards or any bouse, except in
eases of military jarade; nor shall any jierson
burn rockets, crackers, or any kind of fire works,
within the limits cf the city. Any person so of
fending shall be lined in a sum not exceeding $‘20.
Clkek’s Office, City Council.}
Macon. Ga., December3,1S7S. J
I, John A. McManus, Clerk of eaid City Coun
cil, do hereby certify tliat the above Ordinance is
a true extract from tl»e minutes of Council.
J. A. McMANUS. Clerk C.C.
Mayor's Office, Macon, Ga., Dec. S, 1S7G.
The attention of citizens and property holders
is hereby called to this Ordinance as certified to
above, which is now in force, and which must bo
respected during the Christmas holidays. The
public interest demands tho rigid enforcement of
our city Laws.
dcM lm W. A. HUFF, Mayor.
WfflSHIP <fc CALLAWAY.
CLOTHING
AT WHOLESALE.
1YE liavo opened a wholesale apartment over our retail stoi-.?, and invite the
Georgia, Alabama and Florida merchants who buy in this market To give im a call.
Wo wiU seU them on as good terms and at an low prices as they can bny them in
New York.
Onr stock is tho largost that has ever been brought to this State, The
RETAIL DEPARTMENT
FERTILIZER.
For sale by
TURPIN & OGDEN,
or ITU
SOLE AGENTS, MACON. GA.
CANNED GOODS
CHOICE GOODS IN TIN AND GLASS.
FRUIT JELLIES. FRUITS,
PICKLES, SALMON.
LOBSTERS. OYSTERS.etc.
Just received direct from one of tho most relia
ble i>:u-kiii!? establishments in the country, and
fur sale at low prices.
ort-Zllf H. H. VRIGLKY .t CO.
Is filled with everything that is choice and stylish for a gentleman's outfit,
and nee the
Virginia All Wool Cassimere Suits,
Good as the Scotch, for $15 per suit, worth $25.
Call
oct!2tf
50 SECOND STREET, MACON, GA.
C. J. GAMBLE.
A. BECK.
A. W. GIBSON.
HOWARD HOUSE,
BROAD STREET.
Nearly opjiosilo Montgomery nnd Iiufantn Rail
road Depot.
EUFAULA, ALABAMA.
J. Mr. HOWARD, • - Paorniirons.
Only a short walk to and from tho Southwest
ern Railroad. Seventy-live cents saved in omul*
bus fare HentSOm
THE FOUR LEADING
PIANOS
Now manufactured mv the
Kuabe,
Hallett, Davis & Co.,
Haines Bros.,
And Southern Gem.
And tho best and
Cheapest Place to Buy One
Is at
LUDDEN & BATES*
MUSIC HOUSE
SAVANNAH, GA.
From -5*to 50 different prices nnd styles always
on hand.
Every purchaser guaranteed a good instrument.
Largest piano trade in tho South and lowest
prices.
Every one thinking of buying a piano is invited
to write us for terras and prices.
ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUES FREE.
GAMBLE, BECK & CO.,
WHOLESALE GROCERS.
ltd VISION AND LIQUOR DEALERS.
LOWEST MARKET PRICES GUARANTEED.
61 THIIRID STEBET-
NOTICE.
T HE wild land digest is now ready for those in
this county owning wild lands in other
counties to come lanyard nnd pay their taxes.
The time is very short. G. T. WARD,
nov2S 50d j . Ordinary.
For Sale.
FERTILE FARM, situated one and a half
L miles south of the town of Cuthbert, Ran
dolph county, and containing four hundred mid
fifty acres, of which about two hundred and fifty
•c*cleared and under cultivation.
On tlio premises are a gin house and excellent
n, one double log dwelling; and a sufficiency of
Laborers’ houses, a line well of water and a good mill
seat. There Is timber and fuel sutficient on the
place also to realize more than double the pur
chase money. This proj»erty will bo sold on ac
commodating terms, or exchanged for city im
provements. Apply at this office, or to
oct±?tf
j. j. Aim AMS,
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
—.urn—
NOTARY PUBLIC.
Ik B. ENDBES, CONSTABLE,
CHATIIA'I COUNTY.
Office No. C Bu’l strecti SAVANNAH. GA
P. O. Box. SfiT.
attention given to tiie collection of claim,
\\ arnuiU i>suetl nnd promptly sorted. Office
hours 7 ,. V. to 7 P. V. nor2 6ro
SXMCEL IIAJX.
XOFTOJT.
POE, HALL A LOFTON,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
MACON. GA.
Office, on Third street, over City Bank.
IlOVltf
Boots and Shoos!
FOE THE FALL TRADE, 1873.
No. 3 Cotton Avenue and 60 Third Street.
SPECIAL NOTICE
Until time* aro l>etter, wo shall sell pianos at
wholesale prices for cash or on short time.
We guarantee first-rate Pianos for $265, $275,
$890 and $.*100. Superior Pianos. $325, $350 and $375.
The very best Pianos, $400, $440, $150, $475, $500,
$550 and $G00. Pianos never liavo been sold so
cheap before. These prices are only for tho pres-
ent. Do not let the chance go by.
Pianos delivered, freight i»aid, to cash buyers in
the South. Pianos sold on long time.
COTTON FOR PIANOS.
We will take cotton at Savannah market price,
delivered at any point on the rail road, in exchange
for Pianos or Organs, at cash prices.
LUDDEN & BATES. -
novOif Savannah. Ga.
W. W. WOODRUFF,
CARRIAGE REPOSITORY,
\ t i * TV, <• A,
Every style of Carriages, Bugsies or W«gons fur
nished at tho lowest possible price at
this Repository.
The Woodruff Concord Buggy,
Celebrated for light draft and durability, is
the lendiiigDuggy, and a specialty.
The Whitewater and Woodruff
Wagons.
ONE OF TUE BEST SELECTED STOCKS OF
Anil other Vi este
Descriptive Circnl
will write for them.
ft]l work warranto.
i Wagon*, at low uncos.
-.s furnished to those w]
METROPOLITAN
BOOTS AND SHOES!
Ever offered by us in this market.
Ladies’, Misses’, Children’s, Gents’, B oys’, and
Youths’ Wear.
Comprising all varieties and styles, from the heavy brogan to the most delicate
der and of tiie best material.
Country merchants will find it to their advantage to examine our stock, from
selections can be made at prices that will compare favorably with those of the N
In the retail department, we have, at No. 3 Colton avenue and Third street,
Ladies’, Gentlemen’s and Children’s Boots, Shoes, Gaiters and Slippers, finished
manner, and warranted durable, to all of which we would invite our friends and
to call and examine.
sfc‘»poT. made toor-
■'which wpaalSy good
wthom cities.
U1 the latest strics of
. in the most elegant
the -public generally
MIX & KIRTI .AND.
r$f>- —
~m
IRON & BRASS WORKS,
Canal Street, front Gtli to 1th,
RICHMOND, - - - VA.
WM. E. TANNER & CO.,
ENGINEERS, MACHINISTS AND FOUNDERS.
engines of all kinds.
Send for Circular.
i&nl41j
H. R. BROWN,
Agent.