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South Cnrolltm Conference.
Thi; S..uth Carolina Conference al-
jourtii'l its annual S'.,»ion f«r l*T:i Lmt
■week. Their statistical report allows i
loon! rrahip of 38,0071 $1.12,303 value rf
church property i $130,733 in contribu
tions for religious purposes during the
your ; $58,900 in cash and bonds for Wof-
f»prd College, and $3s,0<»0 in property of
the Spartanburg Female College.
A lively debate occurred the last ilay
on what should be dune with the Sontl -
om Christian Advocate, now published
by our neighbors, J, IV. llurko & Co.
Two reports were antagonized— OT “' fur
leaving the whole matter In the hands cf
the General Cbnferonce, and the other,
for removing the offieo of publication
ba-k to South Carolina, which wero final
ly both ref rr.nl t<> the Stato delegates t
tho General Conference.
If “leave well alone" l*e a good proverb
tho Conference had batter leave their
re it Is; and so long ns
• is self-!.ii«tainlng at its pres-
p let them bo happy, ftiaan
t and conscientious paper—
(ted in a tolerant -and charitablo
and it.. valno to tlio denomination
bounds of its Conferences cannot
be over-oatinrnted. To andangar, by any
eau m of action, tbc Con. entrat ion which
now exists in support of the Advocate,
would bo exceedingly ill-judged in our
beat opinion.
ouch i
ent low
able, dt
conduct
splril, t
in thu
Just whe
Pennsylvania's New Coustl-
tution.
Tho friends of pure government aro
equally surprised and delighted at the
largo majority with which the new Con
stitution of Pennsylvania has been af
firmed. The traditional corruptionists
undo their boat fight against it, hut the
bulk of the people of all parties could not
be controlled. Wearied out with fraud
and (ho long reign of corruption, they
determined upon tho issue of perpetu
ation to put them down, by voting for a
now fundamental law devised with
apocial refereneo to tho cure of tho enor
mous abuses which have disgraced Penn
sylvania for many years. Tho ring made
thoir strongest stand in Philadelphia,
but wore ablo to poll only 27,914 votes
out of h2,G92. The aggregato majority
for tho new Constitution it is thought
will be in tlio neighborhood of 150,000.
E. J. Joliintlon's Jewelry Xliirt.
Mr Jjhnston is ono of the oldest and
most worthy citizens of Macon. For
/•rfy-ons years lii.s lot has been cast
among us, and ho lias enjoyed tlio privi-
lego of seeing our fair city emerge from
her swaddling clothes, and from a mere
trailing post in tho wilderness, become
opulent rentro of business and tho abode
of a refined mid cultivated population.
Growing with her growth,and strength
cning with her strength, this enterprise
ing gentleman lias cst iblishcd a perma
nent nnd lucrative trade in this region of
country, and enjoys nil enviable reputa
tion for probity nnd fair dealing in all
tho relations of life. So dnnger of get
ting pasta nnd pinchbeck when ho sells
an article for pure gold. And every
statement he makes may be implicitly
relied upon in reference to his wares and
workmanship.
Mr. Johnston at this time Is offering a
very clioico ami tastily selected variety
of Christmas goods in his line, which can
not fail to please. Work-boxes, perfect
gems of convenience and beaut j, writing
desks, fnney silver nnd plated ware, ele
gant jewelry, pocket cutlery, and a m al
titude of Other beautiful objects appro
priate as gift.-, at this season, ore to be
roen in his handsome store on Mulls rry
street. If you doubt tho fact call, nnd
examine for yourselves, and then Ivy
Uitmlly for the young folks at home.
A ukm auk a tit. c family is that of the
Heap 1 , of Hereford county, Maryland.
There are now living four brothers of
this family, whose names and ages are as
fallows: William, aged S7 years and 1
month; Johu, aged 85 years and II
months; Archibald, aged 79 years and
4 months ; an.l Elijah, aged 76 years and
5 months. They have a sister living in
York county. Pa., whoso ago is S2 years
and S months. Tho combined ago of the
five is 111 years and 5 months. Their
average ago is Ml years and 3 months.
Neither of them have over had a law
suit until now, the younger brother be
ing engaged in a legal controversy aris
ing out of the removal of a refractory ne
gro from ono of his tenant houses. Their
father, Archibald Heaps, w.is a soldier in
the Revolutionary war. and throe of his
sons shouldered their muskets in defence
of “ freo trade and stilors' rights'* in
1312.
l.irrixcoi r yon Jastaby is out with a
rich show of illustrations and table of
contents. Chapter 7 of the New Hype
rion and tho Trianon Palaces are illus
trated artich-s. The Princess of Thule
is concluded. Tlio Wife's Revenge—Ja-
]»anoso Fox-myths—Chester Hording—
The White Doo—Monte Carlo—My Christ
mas Ball—The Three Marriages—are all
lively papers. This numl>er may be had
at the bookstnvs. J. H. Lippineott A
Co., 715 and 717 Market street, Phila
delphia.
W* copy by request a communication
of Rev. Jesse Campbell, published in the
Christian Index, in reference to certain
statements made in Mr. Sparks’ popular
work entitled “Memories of Fifty Years.”
As a matter of justice, of course, the re
ply of that gentleman is also submitted.
Both are worthy men and we regret the
acerbity manifested in the controversy.
Draw it more mildly, gentlemen, “a soft
answer turneth away wrath.”
CoRVTITlTIoyAL COXVCWTIOX I.V KzN-
tccxt. A bill calling a convention to
roviso the Constitution of Kentucky
passed tho Legislature of that Stato last
Wednesday—in tlio Senate by 23 to 11
the House by 53 to 39.
It
of h movement for a convention to reviae
the ''mstitution of Georgia that, with
every other important question, it should
also embrace th# locality of the seat of
gov. mment. That is right and proper.
Tim people should have an opportunity
to enunciate their opinions and prefer
ences on this point, and for this reason
we would vastly prefer to have a vote on
that .ingle point, disconnected with any
other. We complain of the present State
Convection on tills point: that it located
tins Capital arbitrarily without any refer
ee, e t, the public will, and cornered the
people on tho question by compelling
th, Ill either to take Atlanta as the capi
tal, or to reject the Constitution itself
and prolong the epoch of military gov-
emment.
We would not have any such injus
tice and unfairness repeated in the adop
tion of a new Constitution—nor would we
have any man in favor of continuing At
lanta as the sent of Government, driven
from the support of a convention and
an improved Constitution, by the reflec
tion tliat the advocacy of oither commit
ted himself against Atlanta as tlie scat
of Government. What we want, and
what the people want, U a fair decision
or this question on its own merits, inde
pendently of any other collateral question.
This ought to be had very easily. One
way to reach it would be by providing
that the voter, when he casts his ballot
for delegates to the Convention, should
signify on that ballot his preference of
locality for tho seat of government, with
the understanding that the choieo should
control the dociiion of the Convention.
Another way would be to submit this sin
gle and separate point to the voters with
tho question of adopting the amended
Con.titution, first providing in that in
strument for carrying the fiat of the peo-
pls into effect. It is highly desirable to
deal with this question with such trans
parent fairness as tosoeure perfect acqui
escence in its final settlement, whatever
that may be.
But a fair location of the seat of gov
ernment is only one and by no means the
most important object to be secured by
a new Constitution. Beyond all compari
son with any other object is that ono of
securing the State and people against
bankruptcy and exorbitant taxation, by
limiting and restraining the powers of
the Legislature, and of county and city
cor|»or:itions to create bonded or floating
debts, and to tax the property holders.
Tho solvency of Georgia and of every
political corporation thereof now hangs
on tho singlo frail thread of the ability of
tho tax-payers to maintain a numerical
majority in oach ono of them. We have
now a party composed almost altogether
of property holder* and tax-payers, and
another in opposition to it, composed
quite as exclusively of voters who pay
littla or no tar. The security of the tax-
paying party, as matters stand, now rests
wholly upon tho question of success at
tho polls—a point which rests on many
contingencies, chiefly tliat singlo one of
their eontiuuod union and co-operation.
Xo man can reasonably doubt that if
tho tax-payers were defeated in tho elec
tion cf Governor and Legislature oven
once, tliat tho whole burden of seven or
eight millions bogns bonds would be im
posed on them, and any further amount
of debt which tho cupidity and entire ir
responsibility of the non-tax-pr-jers might
impose.
So of counties and cities—the condi
tion becomes frightfully perilous in |
every one, when politicians who contrib
ute little or nothing to the revenue may
tax, appropriate and spend as they will.
Wo want the protection of fundamental
law restraining this power—limiting taxa
tion and expenditure and restraining the
power to issue bonds—in the real inter
ests of all classes, and for the permanent
security of tax-paying citizens. And we
may well apprehend rueful times if we
fail, while we can, to provide such con
stitutional securities. Our whole politi
cal fabric is rotten without thorn.
The Cotton Crop,
The receipts for the week ending last
Friday night were 200,139 bales, against
116,203 for the corresponding week of
’ ,. bushels of oats, 35^00 Lusbels of poU-j Jeur xhe receipts lot the cotton
thahZof rtudjtocr free *hS is ! P’-ff-*’ 0 ^ r “ P ’ 3 °- 00 ° i ««« U P ^ £ ^“ t
dsEy becoming more uppMent. A smer- ! *° uods of su ^ tlu£ , . _ j L521.560 to same date last year-show-
nt of great expense did influ• j SpI ( ^- Thc ^CO- . ^ oq.433 bales in excess for the incom-
' stitntionaiist pithily remarks that "the j ing Truly of all marvels the prog
ress of the cotton crop is one of the live-
tried to keep pace with
Here is another short
spirit manifested in playing dirty and
enoe writes to this paper as follows:
" Seldom a week passes without an ap- - rfidkHM triok(1 upon ‘the officers of the | .T" ~ TT ™~
phration by some parent to have his pn r n cla-1 Ar apile3 is the same that fought j lieat - ' Vl ,°
'u»ed for an hour once, twice, , , n the war stote afterward and hroke | it, but failed,
week to take mum,
or bay
or three times a week to take muiic, , eTp _, the South.” ! crop bound to he a long one—a short
ia’ r grJdlcJ'Uke 1 oars'to 1 Wujtis county had a rousing meeting } crop of upwards of four million bales in
comply with su-h requests, without ma- * last week in favor of exiling a convention all probability, and yet a ahoit crop nn-
terially affecting the progress of entire j to amand the State Constitution. Gen-
classes. Many children from the middle [ enl Toom}tJ maJe 0 strong speech, and
t>ml noorer I’lajisos ire ucbuTW from lie _ , . ..
schools by the all day regulations, and I tbc Senator and Representatives were m-
there is a seeming selfishness on the part j strarted tj vote for a call for the Con-
of those who are rich enough to biro help , vention.
and dispense with the service of their ■ The collision on the Georgia railroad
children in the multiplied duties of the . r .
household and farm.*' SU -“‘ Mountam, on Friday, will cost
Tlio South Carolina University.
The Charleston News and Courier, re
ferring to the late message of that un
speakably infamous creature, Moses, the
so called Governor of South Carolina, in
which allusion is made to the " flourish
ing” condition of the above institution,
says:
And wliat is tho condition of the insti
tution which is said to be so “ flourish -
ing?” It has wins students, and tho an
nual appropriation is $30,000; so that
The Nine cost more than $3000 each.
Formerly, at this season, every room in
tho buildings was crowded.
This bare, plain statement is the most
eloquent denunciation of the crime that
lias ruined this once flourishing school,
that could be delivered. The negroes and
their loathsome carpet-bag and scallawag
allies have done the deed purely for the
purpose of insulting and degrading the
whites. They found the college full,
prosperous and useful. They have driven
off the white scholars by attempting to
force them into social communication
with those against whose presence every
high and honorable instinct of race, of
culture, and of nature itself, revolted.
We believo it is the deliberate purpose
of the Radical party by their so called
civil rights legislation to destroy every
school, college, and university at the
South, that can be reached by this legis
lation, and as they will assuredly perfect
the scheme at the present session of Con
gress. the fate of the South Carolina col
lege will soon be the fate of all State in
stitutions. We may as well look the
matter squarely in the face, and prepare
for the worst- The public school system
of Georgia and all other States at the
South is also doomed if this bill passes,
and we have not the shadow of a doubt
as to that consummation. The children
of the South are to be doomed to igno
rance in order that radical hate mar be
gratified- It will prove a two edged
sword, however, in Georgia. White men
rule here, and when the question is nar
rowed down to social equality with ne
groes in the public schools for their chil
dren, or no public school*, and no educa
tion at their expense for negroes at all,
they will not hesitate one moment how
to act. When the civil rights hill is forced
upon them, farewell to education at the
expense of the State. The negroes who
are now clamoring for their “rights”
will find out in this State, at least, how
sharp that sword is.
Th* Bio Cottov Rz.-iifts.—A corres
pondent of the New Orleans Times argues
that, owing to more navigable rivers and
the opening of new routes, a much larger
proportion of the crop has gone forward
this year than ever before, and the fret
of the excessive receipts shows that the
crop is pretty mach gathered. He insists
on a crop of 3,310,000 boles.
Wo h/xve already more than once, ven
tilated the evils of measuring the work
of education by the day, as you would the
hours of labor demanded from tho brawn
and muscle of a sturdy hireling. The
two cases are not apposite, but as diverse
and distinct as tho poles.
The inchoate mind of the child is capa
ble of just to much tension and application
to study, and no more. Attempt to crowd
cn additional exercises, and the pupil
grows listless, loses interest, ami becomes
dull and mulish. Indeed, by such a pro
cess the work of education not only halts,
but is positively retarded. Like the
trite figure of the luUg bent bow, all
elasticity departs, and us the arrow when
aped falls short of its mark, so the over
worked mind of the youth refuses to re
spond to the whip and spur of the teach
er, after a certain length of time. Hence,
wa trust that are long a new system will
be inaugurated in all of our schools and
seminaries, particularly those for girls,
which shall utterly abolish the present
habit of imposing tasks, and prescribing
hours of study, which consume almost
every moment of the day, and a consid
erable portion of the night also. It is a
fruitless effort to cram the pupil with
knowledge ad nauseam at the expense of
his health and vivacity, both of mind and
body. The result, too, of all this hurry
and diversity of mental pursuits, is the
absence of th°ruujhncss in female educa
tion especially. Wo hare seen some
girls who hod graduated in first class
seminaries, unable to pen a grammatical
letter. Yet they had been “put through”
algebra, geometry, Latin, French, rhet
oric, chemistry, philosophy and other ab
struse studies, and at the age of teeetUcen
liod their sheepskins, with the indorapg
ment of learned faculties that they were
proficient in them all.
Now, as far as the writer is con
cerned, he would prefer much to see his
daughter mistress of the three Rs,
" reading, ’rithmetic and ’riting," than
the possessor of a smattering only of the
entire alphabet of education. The first
would make of her a practical and sen
sible woman—tho last, soon forgotten,
would leave her without eren tho ele
ments of a good education.
But if the above argument in favor of
diminished hours of study, and single ses
sions, he applicable to high priced insti
tutions of learning, how much more is it
so to our free schools- These are neces
sarily graded, and a school is composed of
a tingle clast. If the hours of study there
fore, are broken into for music lesssons
(which assuredly should not be neglected,)
or becauso sick and needy parents mart
have the assistance of their children for
a portion of the day, is it not evident that
tho progress of tho entire school is inter
rupted and retarded?
Aside, then, from the increased mental
vigor which the blending of physical la
bor with study inspires, and the benefits
of ample recreation to the young pupil,
it does seem that the imperious necessi
ties of parents in straightened circum
stances, who cannot ditpnue with the ser
vices of their children for the entiro day,
ought to be respected, and tho hours of
Rcliool curtailed and limited to a single
session.
Let it be remembered that the prime
object of tho free school is to confer tho
blessings of education upon the laboring
classes, nnd the poor of the laud. Their
convenience and welfare, therefore, should
be zealously cared for in all the details
of tho system. The affluent can employ
private tutors, or send their children to
any institution of learning in tho coun
try. Our first duty is to the poor and
illiterate.
The Salary Bill
As it passed the House on Wednesday
in the shipe of a substitute offered by
Mr. Hurlbut, of Illinois, for tho bill re
ported by the committee, provides that
the compensation of members of Con
gress shall be at the rate of $G,000 per
annum and actual traveling expenses,
with addition of $2,000 for Speaker, mak
ing his salary $3,000, and making the
salary of the Vice President $8,000.
Other salaries are untouched. It also
repeals nil inconsistent laws, and pro
vides for covering into the treasury of
all sums returned as the proceeds of the
back pay.
The Toto on its adoption was 133 to
130. The Georgia members voted as
follows: For the substitute, Messrs.
Bell, Cook, Freeman, Rawls and Yonng.
Against it, Messrs. Harris and Blount.
The names of Messrs. Stephens and
Whitely do not appear in the list of yeas
and nays.
The Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial explains the vote
as follows:
The issue was a plain one, and closely
defined, those voting aye favoring a sal
ary of $6,000 for Congressmen, with $8,-
000 each for the Vice President and
Speaker. This was substantially an in- j
crease of $500 over the amount at which <
the House had fixed the salary by its in- j
struetions to the committee, and it is court, but have never made an appliea-
worth noting that nearly nil of the new j tion nor paid the fee required by law.
members who came here virtuous and The order, as wiH be seen, goes on to
fierce for reform, voted in favor of this : state that person* are not excluded from
increase. Those rating “no” favored the j attending to their own cases, but when
bill of the committee as amended, which i the petitions are filed by such attorneys
provided that Congressional salaries : as are not members of the court it will be
should be reduced to $5,500 a year, with so announced when the cases are called,
actual traveling expenses; that the sak- j Xm! -Atlantic Oil and Guano Compa-
ries of Caometofficers,the VioePresident, „ . . f ,, tlT% * ,,
and the Speaker should be reduced to W. manufacturers of . the Eurek *
what they were before the increase: that j fertilizer, had a field day in the Federal
the President's salary should also be re- Circuit Court at Savannah on Thursday.
the company between six and eight thou
sand dollars. Both engines were badly
wrecked and one baggage master had his
left ankle badly crushed.
Tax Dunning wing of the Atlanta dar
keys resolved as follows on Friday night:
That we. the Republican citizens of At
lanta, do hereby express our approval of
James L. Donning, Postmaster of this
city.'” We heartily endorse him as a true
hearted Repulbiean.a faithful and efficient
public servant, and an honest man. We
deprecate any action on the part of the
President of the United States or the
Congress thereof, which may tend to the
removal of Mr. Dunning from his post
mastership. os we are confident that the
government will not obtain as hqnoat or
efficient a man among those from whom
it would select in case of Mr- Punning’*
removal.
Tin Comptroller General is reported
as saying that the tax collectors are pay
ing up more promptly this, than last
year. Of the $71,000 due from Chatham
—the largest tax-payer—something over
$40,000 has been paid in. Irwin was the
first, and Hancock the second county,
tliat settlod up in full, - /
John Walk so, the negro who mur
dered Mr. David George at a corn-shuck
ing in. Henry county, on the 4th of No
vember, was arrested near Norcross on
Friday. From all accounts, this was one
of the foulest murders over committed
in Georgia.
The jury in the Penn Bedell case,
charged with the murder of policeman
Has berry, of Atlanta, la it year, hod not
brought in a verdict up to twelve o’clock
Friday night, though they haTO been out
nearly two days. y
Lemuel B. Anderson, who ran against
Col. Blount fo* Congress in this district
last year, has been appointed postmaster
at Covington. His reward was some
tiino in vo&ohlag bim.
The Covington Enterprise says appear
ances indicate a fine stand of wheat in
that section. Also, that bosses and mules
are cheaper in that county than they
have bnen for many years.
There muit be some of the meanest
folks in Pulaski county outside the South
Carolina Legislature. A churoh noa r
Hawkinsville was robbed of bible, two
tables, and a desk last week, and on last
night week a negro near Cochran was
waylaid and stripped of his shirt, coa^
pants, one bottle whisky, one pound of
cheese, and $2 85 in money. And “ hit a
rainin’ ” too. x/
Mrs. Martha Sullivan, a widow lady
living in Dooly county, died very sud
denly of heart disease in Hawkinsville
last Monday.
Small Farming in Pulaski Counts’.—
The Hawkinsville Dispatch reports the
following results in this line : J. W. Mal
lory, an Irishman living near Cochran,
"cultivated this year, with one mule,
about twenty-five acres, one-half in cotton
and the other in corn. His two boys,
aged eight and eleven years, helped him
in the farm. He used* fifteen hundred
pounds of Eureka guaAa. and made five
bags of cotton and two hundred bushels
of corn.”
And a negro “made this yoar with one
horse ten and a half bales of cotton, av
eraging over 600 pounds, 214 bushels of
corn, 75 bushels of potatoes, and five
stacks of fodder averaging about 800
pounds to the stock. He cultivated
about thirty acres in cotton and the same
amount in corn, and used $70 worth of
guano on liis cotton. His family did the
hoeing. He began the crop without a
dollar on hand. He botight a horse on
credit for $180, and this amount, with
what provisions and guano ho used, left
him a debt of $425 to settle after gath
ering his crops and paying his rents,
which, we believe, was one-half of the
crop—Mr. Anderson having furnished the
land and ono-half of tho horse feed. This
freedman will lack about fifty dollars of
paying out, bat will have his horse and
plenty of corn and fodder to run him
next year.”
Jm Cooper, negro, will bo hung for
the murder of John Morgan, ditto, at Au
gusta, on the 13th of February.
The - Washington Gazette tells how
they fight in that town now-a-days, as
follows:
Two gentlemen, one residing in Wash
ington and the other about nine or ten
miles in the country, got into a little dis
pute on Wednesday last. One called the
other a liar and the other called him
another, when one hit the other and then
the other hit him and then they both hit
one another. Then one of them fell down
and then the bystanders separated them,
and got one inside of a house and then
the other one went around town all the
afternoon looking for him. Neither one
having anything especial to do on the day
aforesaid, and there being no prospect of
a war with Spain concluded to bleed a
little at home and so they bled.
Look Out, Countrt Lawyers.—Un
der this head, the Savannah Advertiser
lias the following
By reference to the proceedings in the
United States Court, which we publish
this morning, it will be seen that in fu
ture no attorneys will be recognized in
the United States Courts except those
regularly admitted to practice in these
courts. The order was passed by his
Honor Judge Erakine in open court yes
terday, because it appears that a great
many cases, particularly petitions in
bankruptcy, are filed with the clerk by
country attorneys not members of the
court. Although they may have been in
the profession and in regular practice
long enough to become members of the
doubtedly when measured by what the
product would have been with propitious
seasons. It is not worth while to talk
any more about the scarcity of labor and
the limited cotton-producing capacity of
tho Southern States. Let ns make up
our minds that tho next good cotton
crop will be a gluttonous one, and fail to
pay for its production. It is time for
prudent planters to realise tho necessity
of such Taried cropping os will put them,
as far as is possiblo, out of the markets
as purchasers. No longer will wise men
trust to purchasing food supp'.iea with
cotton.
— m * ♦-
The Model Farmer.
The Selma Times of Sunday says :
We mot a Dallas county planter yes
terday, whose plantation is in the ex
treme eastern portion of the county, who
informed us that he hod at this time
thirty-seven fine fat hogs to kill so soon
as thu weather 1 js favorable. Ho raised
these hogs on his place, and has not fed
them os much as fifteen bushels of corn.
He raised them on potatoes, turnips,
peare, etc., all of which he also raised in
abundance. He has now on hand fifteen
hams of meat of last year's killing, and
has raised this year corn enough to make
another crop. Furthermore, he made
plenty of oats, and has one hundred and
fifty bushels of rust-proof seed-oats for
sale. He has already commenced opera
tions for another year, and has *t this
time seventy-five acres of eats and wheat
growing finely.
Our friend only raised fifteen hales of
ootton this year, but he ha3 plenty of
meat, oorn, fodder, oats, peas, potatoes
and turnips at home for white and black,
and his stock, until the next crop is
made. And, better than all, he does not
owe one dollar to hi3 commission mer
chant for advances. He ha3 paid out
and is untrammelled and unembarrassed.
This is the sort of farming to redeem this
country and make the owners of the soil
not only independent, but the richest
agriculturists in the United states.
And why can't others do as our friend
has done ? Think of it, thirty-seven hogs
ready for killing and not fifteen bushels
of com used in raising them ? There are
many who say that hogs can't be raised
here because they will be stolen, but
that’s too thin. Let one-fifth the atten
tion be paid to them that is given to cot
ton, and it will be found that they con he
raised. There are no mortgages on the
land of this planting gentleman, and if
you want at any time to find him go to
his plantation. He lives at home and at
tends to his business.
JOHNSON & SMITH,
WHOLESALE
North British & Mercantile
INSURANCE COMPANY.
OF LONDON AND EDINBURGH
Gov. Allen of Ohio.—Farmer Allen
has about thirty thousand dollars’ worth
of cattle, which he is now shipping to
Baltimore, preparatory to closing busi
ness on his farm for the next two years,
The old gentleman looks hale and hearty,
and really seems to grow fat over the ex
citement consequent upon his election
He still adheres to his determination not
to appoint any one to office until after his
inauguration. His mail is a huge one,
but os most of it is from patriots who are
anxious to serve their State, it does rot
bother him much. All his letters are
opened and read to him by his son-in-
law, Dr. Scott, and answered by him
when an answer is necessary.
Morton and the Peesidenct.—Some
days ago I had a conversation with one
of Senator Morton’s confidential friends,
who said as follows: “Morton wonld not
like to know that I have said what I will
say to you. His health will not permit
him to run for tho Presidency, and it is
just sufficient to enable him to fulfill his
less exacting Senatorial duties. If he
had his health he might make the cam
paign ; but it is my opinion that the two
men who are to make the contest in 1876
are yet in the stable, to be developed in
the course of events.”—Gath in the Chica
go Tribune.
The Healthiest in the Union.—
Charleston may fairly claim to he the
healthiest city in the United States.
The population is about fifty thousand,
▼iz: twenty-four thousand whites and
twenty-six thousand blacks. Last week
the mortality, us shown by tho return of
the City Register, was three whites and
fifteen blacks. Wliat other city than
Charleston, with a white population of
twenty-four thousand, can show only
three deaths a woek ?—News and Courier.
FACTS FOR PARENTS
Guardians to Consider.
G AINESVILLE, one of the healthiest and
pleasantest towns in Georyia, has just com
pleted a line Brick College Buildin?. and placed
it under the charge of GeodC. Looney. He has a
faculty of the best teachers, male and female, in
the State.
His system of teaeiiingdoes not crowd facts and
theories into the mind to the neglect of reason
and common sense. His pupils can enjoy their
political and religious views without any attempt
on the port ot teachers or students to bias or
ridicule them.
He will guarantee to each boarder bringing him
3175 in advance, board, lodging, iuel, washing and
tuition in highest classes, for ten scholastic
months. Lower clssses cost less. Board 310 to
31S persnonth. Tuition SS0 to 350 per year. Music
350-. Modem Languages, Painting and Drawing,
each 350 per year.
Calisthenics. Book-keeping (single and double
entry), practical out-door exercises in higher
Mathematics, with instruments, without extra
charge to pupils.
Students are kept under strict discipline, both
ill and out oi school. Drunkards, gamblers and
rowdies not received.
Young ladies constantly encouraged not to
dress fine to come to school
The spring term of twenty-four weeks begins
January 5th, 1874. dec!7 lm
duced after the present term, and that
members of this Congress who were mem
bers of the Forty-second or any preceding
Congress should have all the book pay
which they had ever received deducted
from their present salaries in monthly
installments. Those who defended the
back pay voted aye with all who were
opposed to any reduction, and many of
the new members, whose minds had ap
parently undergone a change after a sep
aration from their constituent* of a few
weeks. Political lines were lost sight of
in the struggle, but more Democrats
voted for the Hurlbut increase in propor
tion to the size ot the party in the House
than Republicans. Carpet-baggers in
variably voted for the increase and aU
the Southern Representatives, with one
or two exceptions, did so.
They brought several suits against form
ers in Screven county, who had used that
fertilizer and objected to paying for it,
on the ground that it was worthless, and
that they raised better crops without,
than with it. The company, on the other
hand, introduced witnesses from the same
section who swore they had ti?el it with
beneficial results. The Jury found for
the company in every case, with full in
terest from the date when the debt was
due.
A chiropodist announces on his busi
ness cards that he has “removed corns
from several of the crowned heads of Eu
rope.” Common people have them on
their feet. There’s the difference.
HB X. BLOTST. ISAAC HARDEMAN.
JOHN L. HARDEMAN.
BLOUHT, HARDEMAN & HARDEMAN
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
MACON, GA.
Office, Cherry street, over S. T. Walker's.
auclO tf
QE&BKBT »I ELDER.
I DUS L. FIELDER
H. & I. L. FIELDER,
Attorneys at Law,
CITHBEBT, GEORGIA,
‘TTJ'ILL Rive prompt attention to all business
▼ V confided to them, in the counties of Ran
dolph, Stewart, Quitman, Clay, Early, Calhoun
and Terrell, the Supreme Court of Georgia, and
the District and Circuit Courts of the United
States for the Southern District of Georgia.
•eptlT-tf
We have % large and Taried stock of GROCERIES and LIQUORS in store,
which we offer at low prices. We will continue to sell to
PROMPT CUSTOMERS
On 30 days, but thoso of our frisnds who have not paid up their aocounts within
that time must not expect us to acoommodate thorn with further credit. We desire
to approximate as nearly to cash as the 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.
WINSH1P & CALLAWAY.
CLOTHING
AT WHOLESALE.
CAPITAL—BOLD
*10,000,00
Insures Stores. Merchandise. Dwellinn Fu
ture and all other property at ’ ^ urni
LOWEST RATES!
I. C. PLANT 4 SON. Agontv.
Macon. Ga.
STONEWALL
fertilizer.
For sale by
octTtf
TURPIN & OGDEN,
SOLE AGENTS. MACON. GA
J. J. ABRAMS,
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
—AND—
NOTARY PUBLIC.
WE have opened a wholesale apartment over our retail store, and invite the
Georgia, Alabama and Florida merchants who buy in this market to give us a call.
We null sell them on as good terms and at as low prices as they can buy them in
New York.
Our stock is the largest that lias ever been brought to this State. The
RETAIL DEPARTMENT
Is filled with everything that i3 choice and stylish for
and see the
a gentleman's outfit. Call
L. B. ENDRES, CONSTABLE,
CHATHAM COUNTY.
Office Xo. C Bull street, SAVANNAH. GA
P. O. Box, SS7.
Speeial attention given to tlie collection of claims
Warrants issued and promptly served. Ollicv
hours 7 a. a. to 7 p. u. nor2 6m
HOWARD Hi -USE.
BROAD STREET,
Nearly opposite Montgomery and Eufauta Rail
road Depot.
EUFAULA, ALABAMA
J. W. HOWARD. - - Pkoi-hibtoiul.
Only a short walk to and from tlio Southwest*
«m Railroad. Seventy-five cents saved in omni-
bua fare •cuts dm
Virginia All Wool Cassimere Suits,
Good as the Scotch, for $15 per suit, worth $25.
SO SECOND STREET, MACON, GA.
THE FOUR LEADING
PIANOS
Now manufactured are the
Knabe,
Hallett, Davis & Oo.,
Haines Bros.,
And Southern Gem.
And the best and
Cheapest Place to Buy One
Is at
LUDDEN & BATES’
MUSIC HOUSE
SAVANNAH, GA.
From 25 to 50 different prices and styles always
on hand.
Every purchaser guaranteedni?ood instrument.
Largest piano trade iu tho South and lowest
prices.
Every one thinking of buying a piano is invited
to write us for terms and prices.
ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUES FREE.
OOTTON STATES
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.
MACON, - - - - - GEORGIA.
ORGANIZED
In 1869,
Under Laws of
State of Georgia.
The only Company having fir*t-cla»8 securities worth 3100.000 deposited with the Comptroller of th9
State of Georgia for security of Policy Holders.
GUARANTEED CAPITAL,
ASSETS, JANUARY 1, 1873,
$600,000 00
$542,202 28
ITS PRINCIPAL FEATURES ARE:
Absolute Security, Economical Management, and Liber
ality to the Insured.
Policies Issued on all Approved Forms—No Fancy Schemes.
SPECIAL NOTICE
Until times are better, we shall sell pianos at
wholesale prices for cash or on short time.
We guarantee first-rate Pianos for $205, $275,
$290 and $300. Superior Pianos. $325, $350 and $375.
The very best Pianos, $-100, $140, $450, $475, $500,
$550 and $000. Pianos never have been sold so
cheap before. These prices are only for the pres
ent. Do not let tho chance go by.
Pianos delivered, freight paid, 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 railroad, in exchange
for Pianos or Organs, at cash prices.
LUDDEN A BATES,
nov9tf Savannah. Ga.
W. W. WOODRUFF,
CARRIAGE REPOSITORY,
M \ <J f > TV, O A..
Every style of Carriages. Buggies or Wagons fur
nished at the lowest possible price at
this Repository.
MUT
POLICIES ISSUED ON TnE
XT -A. I, 3P X.i
-A. 3ST
SAMUIL D. IIYIX.
THOMAS B. ORESHAM
IRVIN & GRESHAM,
ATTORNEYS AT.LAW,
3IACON, GA.
TTTILL practice in the Superior Courts of the
If Macon Circuit, in the Supreme Court of
Georgia and in the United States Courts for the
Southern District of Georgia.
Office, after the 25th December, will be in
Boordman*s block, up stairs, rooms lately occu
pied by Assessor Internal Revenue, and until that
time either may lie consulted, when in town, at
the office of T. B\ Gresham. decll 3m
POE, HALL & LOFTON,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
MACON, GA.
Office, on Third street, over City Bank,
norltf
fjlKin A. RANSOM.
DARIUS W. GEER.
W. A. RANSOM & 00.,
Manufacturers and Jobbers of
BOOTS AND SHOES,
1» AND 140 GRAND BT, NEW YORK.
Represented by R. W. Hogan, of Georgia.
nrt-Odly
At the lowest mutual rates. ,nd Dividend* declared when policies are two years old and applied at
the end of the third year as follow,: To reduction of premium when all cash is paid; to reduction of
Loon, when loan is given, or to increase of insurance when desired.
POLICIES ISSUED UPON THE
STOCK OR NON-PARTICIPATING PLAN,
At as low rate, and upon as favorable terms as can be used with safety.
IT IS A
HOME COMPANY
Making all its investment* in the South and therefore aiding in the development of its industries
It is managed with economy, and great care given in tho selection of risks.
Good, Beliable Solicitors will Find this an Easy Company to Work
The Woodruff Concord Buggy*
Celebrated for light draft and durability, it
tlie leading.Buggy, and a specialty.
General Agent, or t
> Superintendent ot Agencies.
OFFICERS:
WM. B. JOHNSTON President
WM. 8. HOLT .Vice President
GEO. 8. OBEAR 8ecnr».-y
JOHN W. BURKE General A$mt
JAMES MERCER GREEN Medical Examiner
A. W. MAGILL. Superintendent of Age a ies.
DIRECTORS—MACON;
WM. B. JOHNSTON.
PETER SOLOMON.
VIRGIL POWERS.
DAVID FLANDERS.
JOHN W. BURKE.
WILLIAM A HOLT.
HENRY L. JEWETT,
A. L. MAXWELL.
R. W. CCBBEDGE.
E. J. JOHNSTON,
JOHN /. GRESHAM,
C. A NUTTING,
GEO. a OBEAR,
JOHN T. BOIFEUILLET,
_ JOHN S. BAXTER.
L. N. WHITTLE. WM. H. KOSR
SAVAOTTAH:
A R. LAWTON ANDREW LOW.
AUGUSTA:
JOHN P. KING,. J06IAH SIBLEY.
ATLANTA: _
RICHARD PETBS& —..V. R. TOMMBY.
T. J. SMITH
WILLIAM JOHNSON —
G. T. MEMMINGKR.„
C. P. HAMMET...
fehrtaunly
MontieeUo
.. Charlotte N. 0
.Charlerton, S. C
J,.. Greenville, 8. C
The Whitewater and Woodruff
Wagons.
And other Western Wagons, at
Descriptive Circulars furnished .o uow
will write for them. tf
All work warranted. —J--—
METROPOLITAN
IKON & BRASS WORKS
Canal Street, firom 6th to ,th,
RICHMOND, - * ' VA ‘
WM. E. TANNEE & CO.,
EMUIEERS, MACHINISTS AND FOUNDERS.
ENGINES OF ALL KINDS.
Bend tor Circular.
H. R. BROWN,
<i((SL
Janldlj