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_It <• <Wre«d by the Prussian military
—itoirlliri that any officer who shall be
leach hy a civilian most forthwith draw
upon that civilian. though tlic latter is
M iai and defence leas, anil cut him
dm npnw the spot. An officer negler-
tfa^tB perform this duty is liable to be
CMhimd.
—The Kin? of Sweden, in a scry larpv
sainded manner, is returning good for
evil;be has charged himself with the
edges*ta«. of the tail win recently wrote
a threatening letter to the Queen deman
diff money for refraining from killing the
Crnsrn Prince. The youth declares that
h was want of means to continue his
Madias which led to his crime.
—The steamer Kolit, £700 tons, with a
cargo of.V*r> hales of cotton, sailed from
Charleston. South Carolina. Tuesday, for
Sebastopol, crossing tlte bar on a draft of
eighteen fret three Indies. This is the
larges! ■;earner and tlie heaviest cargo
that have ever passed out of lie port of
f?fcArtal«»it.
—ADayanl club was organized in .St.
Limb last week, and already numliers
several huielred Democrats. including
prominent m.nlianU, attorneys ami poli
ticians, TIk* pieamhle of tl*' constitution
of the dob *ay.» : “Tlie objects of this
duh sliall l» to urge ii|s»u tlte Democrats
•>f the nation tlte policy of nominating
.SenMor llsyaol for the presidency, and,
when nominated, of fleeting him."
—The InmW season, which has Just
eh nod at Chicago, has I icon without ex
cept sat the mml |tros|s<rous on record.
Prices haw* ruled higlier than for years
psst. and tlie amount of lumlier received
in the city, l.4«i.S4.*.,OOU feet, is :’.0 jut
cent, larger titan last year—tlie largest lip
to tha’ .lair—and .Viper cent, greater
than tlie receipts ten years ago. Tlie
shingle trade, while prosperous, owing to
Inoeasesl |iriie<, has tug lleeII larger in
quantity than for several years |»st.
—The lion. William K. Chandler says
the lion. Ihm Cameron lias told liim
w itliiu a week that lie is for f •rant, ••lint,
last, ami all tlie time,” and that (irant’s
nominal ion next year is now a foregone
esuidusioii, no tglier ISepiihliean aspirant
having the gliost of a chains- against liiiii}
This sort of talk will mg commend the
ll<gi. Ill>n Cameron to tlie alTectiouof
the lion, John .*sln-nnan and tlie lion,
dames ti. lilaine. to say iiigliing of other
aelf^ppreeiative lte|Hihlican Statesmen
who might lie named.
Ki.m mi' I.hiiit ox Siiii-mi.vnn.-
Tln- luman steamer City of Berlin, which
arrived at Xew York on Saturday, was
lighted during thu voyage hy electricity.
Pour lights wen- placed in tlie saloon and
two in tlie steerage, each having a light
power of atl standard eaiulh-s, the appara
tus being driven hy a small four-horse
power engine. Tlie experiment proved
such a success that tlie delighted passen
gers presented all address of thanks to the
Inman Coni|iaiiy. througli Capt. Kenuevly,
commander of tlie vessel.
—California pajs-rs contain much in
formation almut the grape culture In tliat
Nate. Tin- St. Helena Star says: Last
summer a certain forty-aero tract, ump
teen of which was in vines, was unbred
toe tt..V«l. Patties tlniught it too high.
This fall the vineyard alone yielded $2,-
M) worth of grapes.” The Aualieim
tiazrtlt rrjsirts: -Jt is said that there are
tons of grapes rotting in tlie vineyards at
Westminister, the owners being conscien
tious temperance people, who would
rathrr see the fruit waste than sell it to
winenMkcrs.”
—Lonikm lias been startled by the
news that Prince Uisman-k lias written to
Lord Bearonsiield to say that ho will visit
him in the summer of ISA). Tlie invita
lion b of old standing, having been given
daring the sittings of tlie Berlin Confer
ence at the Kadizvi! Palace. Bismarck
was aWnt from two of tlie sittings, and
on learning the ailment, Lord Beacons-
Crld said that Bnxton's Spring was a
specific. Bismarck suffers from a strange
complication of disorders, aggravated by
his mormons consumption of tobacco and
his proportionate use of beer, not the
light Bavarian, but tlie heavy beer brewed
m his own estate.
—The Arvhduchess Christine, now
Qno-u «if Spain, was greatly beloved In
Vienna, and lier departure has left a void
in the circle in which she lived that will
nor soon be filled. She is described as
grails, graceful, tender, amiable, interes
ted in music, the drama, and the fine arts,
and often seen in public with her mother,
who is still a handsome and majestic
woman, with a head like Maria Theresa's.
The Emperor was extremely fond of
Christine—fully as affectionate, probably,
as the lather whom she lost some years
ago. At her departure for Spain Chris
tine wept bitterly, and would not be com
forted: the assembled Princes of her family
emtnaeed her with Ill-reptessed emotion,
ami Iha Emperor had to withdrew hastily
to avoid giving way to an nnkingly ex
hibition of feeling.
—The British situation in Cabul and
■ throughout, says the Balti
San, is certainly critical. The
■nts arc marching on Can-
r, when the forces to oppose them arc
mmtrsii illy inadequate, the garrison hav
ing been weakened by detachments sent
to keep the Ghilzi tribes fft>m joining in
be determined attack now being made
■poo General Kobe its in liis position in
Cabal. The attack upon this place was
made tram Ghuxnee, the strongest fortress
in Afghanistan, and the force assailing
■■wpi... 10.000 men. The Afghans,
after being by Macpherson and
Baker, whom they partly repulsed, estab
lished themselves on the ridge south of
he Bala llissar. Roberts sent Macpher-
OQ —vimt them on Friday, and succeed
ed ha aiM.i^gh.g them temporarily, but the
was renewed, andseems to continue
at the present time, and Roberts announ
ces »b«i he has withdrawn into the canton-
aeents of Sherpur, a strongly fortified
barracks erected by She re Ali to enable
his troops to overlook Cabul. Reinforce
ments at advancing tiirougli tlie Kliyher
Pass to the assistance of General Roberts,
bnt they will probably encounter a vigo
rous opposition from the hill tribes licforc
they reach the open country and get Up to
Cabul. In the meantime it is winter in
thiSuleiman ■otaftln, the pa'*-* are
liable to be blocked witli snow, aitd the
difficulty of supplying provisions and
forage is almost insuperable.
Congress— 1 The Holidays.
The Senate at 12:10 yesterday noon ad
journed over till Tuesday, Oth January
next, for the holidays. The'House also
did the same later in the day, making the
report of the Committee on Rules the or
der of the day from day to day until dis
posed of.
The following Committee on the Isth
mus Canal was appointed by the Speaker
King, of Louisiana; Singleton, Illinois;
Wliittliome, Tennessee; Martin, West
Virginia; Nichols, Georgia; Hutchinson,
Xew York; Page, California; Conger,
Michigan; Frye, Maine; Haskell, Kansas.
In tlie Senate Messrs. Voorhecs, Vance,
Pendleton, Windom and Blair were ap
pointed a committee of investigation, un
der the resolution of inquiry into the caus
es of the emigration of negroes from tlie
Southern States. Unquestionably, if the
committee will appropriate to the negroes
the money they arc about to expend on this
iu vestigalkm,tbey can stop this emigration,
if it be desirable to do so. But a general
diffusion of the negro population through
out all tbeSUtes, will be a fine tiling for the
country. It will Improve the negroes by
bringing them into sharper contact and
competition with tlie whites. It will im
prove the whites by enlightening Uiem on
the geacral subject matter. For the first
time they will lie able to comprehend that
there is such a thing as a distinction of
races lielow tlie skin.
The committee ou the Isthmus Canal
will not, we presume, lie required to en
ter into personal examination of tlie dif
ferent routes on the ground. What will
be demanded Is a counter manifesto to tlie
Lcsseps-Panama scheme and notice to the
world tliat no canal across Central Amer
ica must be dug under a foreign protector
ate. That would have been a matter of
vital moment before the Pacific railroads
were constructed, but as with the aid of
these xnnies could be transferred from
tlie Atlantic to the Pacific shores in a
week the sting of an Isthmus Canal is
pretty much drawn.
IjCsscpH, however, does not cnntcinplata
building his eanal in opposition to Ameri
can views. lie relics, on the contrary, on
receiving sul>scri|itioiis In tlie United
States, and with this view lias announced
that he will lie in Xew Y'ork next sum
mer. It Is very improbable that he will
accomplish anything important in tho way
of enlisting capital in Ids enterprise, if it
is not supported in tills country.
"First Blood for Grant.”
The election of Don Caraero l to the
chairmanship of tlie Republican National
Executive Committee and tlie location of
the National Convention at Chicago are
claimed to lie an important victory for
Grant. Tlie IleruUTs Washington cor
respondent reports that the occosion of
flic General’s visit to Philadelphia would
be embraced for a consultation with him
by such of his party friends as are op
posed to his running for a third term.
Says the writer:
A considerable number of these friends
of the General are known to Ik; very de
rided in tlieir Opposition to his re-entering
political life, as offensive to the traditions
of the country compromising hi* present
high position and fame,exposing him anew
to the disagreeable turmoil of a partisan
contest and in every way needless and un
lit for him. A number of his friends arc
also understood to be strongly of the opin
ion tliat tlie time lias come wlion ho should
publicly decide the matter one way or the
other, and that it does not comport with
his high public position, now that lie lias
returned home and has loisurc, to have
tlie question of his candidacy flung
alHHit the country or lc,t any
longer a matter of doubt. To remain
silent, it is urged, is for the General to
stand in the attitude of an expectant, and
tills, they say, docs him injury in tlie gen
eral esteem—greater injury than even a
frank declaration that lie desires a nom
ination to a third term. They say:
“It makes him look like a beggar mute
ly holding out his hand.”
" Some of General Grant's friends here
expect an announcement of liis'purposes,
to be made by him, or for him hy author
ity, within the next week or ten days.
Tho effect oftliis app-al will doubtless
be shortly apparent, whether it elicits any
response or not. It is a case where si
lence will have all the meaning of words.
Artificial Diamonds.
Among tlie London items of yesterday
is tlie following: “Mr. James Maclear, of
St. Bollux Chemical Works, lias informed
the Glasgow Philosophical Society tliat,
after experiments since I860, lie has suc
ceeded in obtaining chrystalizcd forms of
carbon which Professors Tyndall and
Smith, and Mr. Maskelyne, of the Britisli
Museum, do hot doubt are diamonds.”
That, if true, is a practical realization of
the dream of the philosopher’s stone ? nor
need human skill and perseverance despair
of ultimately producing all those changes
and combinations of matter which, in the
order of nature, are perfected by time.
But unless Maclear's process is exceed
ingly costy or imperfect, the jeweled
world will find itself a heavy loser in the
value of natural gems. Kohinoors, them
selves, will sink in value from millions to
hundreds, and all the immense treasures
of crown jewels now locked up in Europe
and Asia may be outshone by stones of far
greater size and splendor, fresh from tlie
workshop. _
Why Hot?
The Hiuesville Gazette suggests that a
sugar refinery in Savannah would pay.
At pres?nt the cane growers are content to
turn their crops into syrup, having no ma
chinery or means at hand to make mer
chantable the dark sugar, which only
classes as “milado” in the markets.
We agree ftilly with our sprightly con
temporary, and would suggest that Macon
also offers peculiar facilities for the estab
lishment of a refinery.
The culture of the genuine Otaheite
and West Indian cane is rapidly extending
in Southern and Southwestern Georgia,
and soon, every farmer will make his own
sweetening.
But the bulk and freight upon syrup
subtract very much from the profits de
rived from the production of that article.
Hence the importance of a refinery where
the raw juice boiled to the granulating
point can be converted at very slight ex
pense into the crystal ized, white grades of
commerce.
Baker, Lee, Terrell, Randolph, Dough
erty, Webster, Houston, Macon and Sum
ter counties alone could furnish crude su
gar enough for a first-class refinery. And
still this most profitable of all the crops
save that of upland rice in Southern Geor
gia, as yet, is only in its infancy. We
shall say more anon upon this subject.
Proposition- to Tax Churches. —
The special tax commission in Xew Jer
sey is engaged in the examination of the
subject of taxing church and college prop
erty. It is understood that there is a
[ widespread and growing feeling in that
State that neither churches nor colleges
should be exempted from the general bur
den of taxation, and that strong represen
tations to this effect will be laid before
the commission.
But, after all, as Xew Jersey is said to
receive enough income from royalty on
railway traffic to support her State gov
ernment, the strain on the churches will
be light.
The Bailroad Meeting To-day.
We trust there will be a full turnout of
the solid men and capitalists of Macon
and Bibb county^to-day, to give expres
sion to their views on the lease question,
and pave the way for practical action in
the premises. Tlie importance of the ex
tension of the present road to the people
of Jones, Jasper, Xewton and other coun
ties on and near the line of route is very
evident. And then, aside from the At
lanta connection, there looms op in pro
spective tliat most desirable project of
building on to Knoxville, which will be al
most a necessity to the financial success
of the lessees. With the completion of
the line to Cincinnati, which in alt proba
bility would be accomplished in the near
future, no stock in the country would pay
better, while at the same time it would
give an impetus to the growth and
prosperity of Macon and Brunswick, which
can hardly be estimated.
Of course,however, this depends upon
whether the capitalists who lease or buy
the road, arc friendly to our section, or
intend to run it simply in tlie interest of
their own pet scheme and outlying con
nections. It is possible tliat we may re
ceive justice at the hands of the lessees
whoever they may chance to be. But
how much better if it be witliin the
bounds of possibility, to make assurance
doubly sure by joining together and leas
ing tho road oursolros, thus retaining its
control hereafter.
All those questions, we suppose, will he
discussed by the approaching Convention,
and the whole subject be folly ventilated
in all its bearings.
Resurrected Memphis.
All accounts agroo in stating tho busi
ness of Memphis this season to be more
flourishing than ever before. Her trade in
merchandise and ootton is most surprising.
Tliis shows the power of a salient and
commanding commercial location. One
would have thought that thousands of the
affrighted citizens would seek homes else
where. Blit not so, AH sectn to have ter
turned, and hundreds of others who are
not afraid to risk their lives in seeking for
the almighty dollar even hi this unfortu
nate city, which, in two years, lias been
twice decimated by the pestilence. This
has been true of Xew Orleans also In the
past and of Havana. Self-interest will
cause a man to dare almost any danger,
The people of Memphis, however, are
showing great pluck and industry in tlieir
efforts to improve tlieir hygienic condition.
With this in view, an extra session of tlis
Legislature has been called, and that
body met on the 10th lost. The Govern
or announces in his message that the ob
ject of tlie session is that Memphis may
be clothed witli additional ilowers for tlie
construction of the proposed sanitary
improvement for tlie protection of tlie city
against yellow fever. The action required
will lie tlie granting of authority to levy a
special tax for tliat purpose. Xashville
desires the same boon also. One or two
other minor measures maybe acted on,
sucli as to prevent tlie robbing of cemeteries
for scientific purposes, and to enable tlie
Paducah Railroad Company to raise funds
to coniplotc their road. The session will
probably be a short one.
What General Lee Said of his Great
Adversary, Grant
Tlie Philadelphia Times prints a conver
sation held last week witli Colonel J.
Stoddard Johnston, a gallant ex-Confed-
erato Kentucky soldier, who surrendered
with liis command at Greensboro, X. C.
He says, after Lee’s surrender tlie Attor
ney General of the United States pub
lished an opinion tliat tho Kentucky Con
federates had expatriated themselves by
taking part in the war. This caused great
uneasiness among them, and Colonel
Johnston and General Echols, of Virginia,
were appointed a committee to visit Gen
eral Lee, and seek his advice as to the
course best to be pursued. We quote the
interview as related by the Colonel:
We both knew him and were cordially
received. Upon stating the object of our
visit, General Lee replied very impressively
that our condition and Hie condition of the
whole South was very deplorable. By tlie
terms of General Halleck’s order we were
left without the protection of law while
the South was a ruin, lier people impov
erished, and the youth ot our country
growing Up without education. That he
had hut one conviction, which was that
whatever fate might bo in store for us, we
who had been leaders should not leave
tlie country and abandon our people, but
should share their fate. We should re
main with them, seek to build up the
waste places, alleviate their troubles and
educate tlie youth. “As to my own fate,”
said lie, “I know not what is in store for
me. I believe the politicians at Wash
ington are bent on the most extreme
measures, and ii they have their way will
atop at no humiliation they can heap on
me. My sole reliance is in General Grant.
I have faith in his honor - and integrity as
a soldier, and do not believe that he will
permit the terms of my surrender and the
parole given me to be violated.’ The se
quel shows that General Lee was correct
in his estimate of General Grant’s char
acter. Stanton bad intended to arrest
and imprison him, when General Grant
interposed and prevented it, demanding
that the terms of the surrender should be
strictly complied with, and declaring that
if Genera! Lee was molested he would
break his sword. Knowing this as a his
torical fact, although opposed in the past,
and expecting to be in the future, politi
cally, to General Grant, I have always felt
that he was entitled to the gratitude of the
Confederate soldiers for this act.”
Commenting editorially on this inter,
view the World says: This confidence in
General Grant as a soldier was not mis
placed. This does not affect the fact that
the Southern people have had real and
deep wrongs to complain of at the hands
of General Grant as a civil ruler,and
through the policy of which he sufficed
himself to be the instrument. To deny
those wrongs would be to obscure and
misrepresent tho history of the United
States for eight years. But nobody In the
South, we presume, has ever imagined
that President Grant was inspired by any
feeling of personal vindictiveness towards
the South any more than General Grant,
or that his errors proved anything more
against him than his unfitness for high
trusts of civil government.
The last remark of our contemporay
will find no response at the South. Our
people have a feeling remembrance of his
bayonet practice at the polls, and so have
thousands of South Carolinians who were
rendered homeless and houseless by his
tyranny. Poor Louisiana, Alabama and
Mississippi, too, have nothing to say in fa
vor of Grant’s .reign, however much they
maybe grateful for the clemency he ex
hibited in the first flush of victory.
The Kirkwood High School.
One of the editors of this paper has
been associated with the principal, Mr.
Charles M. Xeal, for several years as a
member of the Board of Visitors of the
University of Georgia, and knows him to
be not only a perfect gentleman, but
thoroughly competent educator.
Mr. Xeal toadies one of the most select
schools in the State, and numbers among
his patrons many of the best citizens of
Georgia.
He will do justice to the moral and
mental training of every pnpil entrusted
to his care.
Disappointment never attends the use
of Dr. Bull's Baby Syrup. Price only 23
cents a bottle. |
THE GEOlleiA PRESS.
It is rumored that, ft theatrical compa
ny recently visited ^U’liiigjfon. and the la ;
dy who did the song business, fixed her 1
mischevious eye upon the handsome
young editor of the Advance, while she
sang a betwitching lore ballad; whereup
on the' gentlemgn~fiastily retired. And
now they call itthe Arlington Retreat.
EFFonisjirc. being made in-Brunswick
for the establishment of a Public Library.
This is an enterprise worthy tho support
of every dtizen of that important seaport.
There is nothing so civilizing as the ex
change aud comparison of thoughts, and
libraries are thought centres in which the
seeker may compare with both the living
and the dead.
Perky Vixsox, burglar, captured by
the energetic citizens of Leary, and sen
tenced to twenty years in the penitentia
ry, has escaped from the Calhoun jail and
gone to join Harry J. Ryan.
We notice that a preacherin Xorth Geor
gia receives only $150 per year.
0>'K HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE
dollars has been subscribed in Sanders-
ville to build an armory for Howell’s Ar
tillery.
Cotton is paid for with gold through
out the State of Georgia. Fourteen years
ago a twenty-dollar gold piece would hare
paid for fifty-two dollars’ worth of cotton.
An actress should bo content with a
good support.
We learn from the Buena Vista Argus
that an insane negro woman, living on
the plantation of Rev. W. J. Short, near
Brantley, walked into the fire a few days
since and was burned to death.
The Augusta police have been armed
witli loaded r guns, and instructed to de
fend to the last extremity the jail in which
is confined Anderson Jones, the supposed
murderer of Mr. Haralson. It was ru
mored that a party liad been organized to
force tho jail and lynch the prisoner. The
murder for which Jones is held was com
mitted at McBean, a few miles from Au
gusta, upon tho person of an estimable
young merchant, who was preparing to go
to tho city to purchase his Christmas,
stock. lie was found iu his store with
his head cut open. The Chronicle and
Constitutionalist says:
Everything remained quiet last night
and there was no indication ofamovement
to take Jones from prison. In the after
noon two special bailifls catno to tho city
from McBean, with a warrant issued by
Justice Ward, for tlio arrest of Jones, but
upon their making application 'to Chief
Christian for the prisoner, he, after con
sultation with Judge Ere, declined togive
him up at that time. He informed the
bailifls tliat if they would call in the day
time with tlie warrant, they might have
the prisoner but as there was good ground
to suppose that he would be violently
dealt .with if carried to McBean that night,
he could not turn him over to them then.
They will probably return this morning.
Tiie Ilawkinsville Dispatch says that a
Dodge county man was jailed last week
in that city; liis brother went to the rescue
witli an axe and cut him out. A few win
tors ago Wash Boon was jailed in the same
place and a friend hewed out an exit for
him and left. Wash went up town and
reported to the police that he had left the
jail to keep from freezing.
A darkey in Hawkinsvillo took Mr.
Spurlins horse from the lot, rode him all
night, but returned him before morning.
The grand jury refused to indict him for
stealing, the court refused to convict him
of trespass, aud Woods is puzzled to
know what the boy is guilty of. It strikes
ns that the jury should have brought in
the verdict, “guilty of riding another
man’s horse in the night time without liis
permission (the man’s) and returning him
(the horse) before morning.” This wquld
have been a verdict in accordance witlr’the
facts.
The temperance movement is gaining
strength in Savannah.
A Columbus man went out with a
shotgun to revenge himself upon an old
owl that had been stealing his chickens.
He saw the outlined form of the thief
perched upon tlie. roof of his dwelling,
took deliberate aim and fired. Three
chickens for breakfast.
The mill-pond of Mr. Daniel Maloy, of
Telfair county, sprung a leak last week
and went off under a bill. The mill will
never grind with the water that goes
round.
Enquirer-Sun: Two old colored wo
men living in the house of Thurston An
drews, colored, of our city, were startled
on Wednesday night by what they thought
was a third party in the bed. They be
lieved it was a ghost but one assured the
other “it was the cat,” and both were soon
asleep. The same ghost was heard sev
eral times but no more attention paid to
it, hut in the morning great was their sur
prise to find a fine large sized coon asleep
between them. When they attempted to
make him crawl out he showed fight and
as one says, “Lord bless my sould, ho
growl jist like a lion when us tried to
make ’am git outen dat bed.” Two men
were called and succeeded in killing him.
After being cleaned he weighed ten
pounds. The old negroes were badly
frightened, and in a few minutes aroused
the neighborhood.
Hawkinsvxlle Dispatch: W e are in
formed that Bryant Edmonson,' near
Haynesville, Houston county, made last
year twenty-one bales of cotton, eight
hundred bushels of com, and four hun
dred bushels of oats, besides peas, pota
toes, etc. The entire plowing was done
with two mules and a mare. One mule
was twenty-two years old, and the other
forty years old, and the mare twenty-five
years old. Mr. Edmonson is said to be
eighty years of age, and has been able to
sell com, oats, and meat to bis neighbors
the present year. When we remember
this, together with the fact that Uncle
Xat Statham, of Wilcox county, is in his
eighty-fifth year, and is cutting his third
set of teeth, we don’t care a cent about
the Grant boom in Georgia and the usury
law of the last Legislature.
The following gentlemen have been
appointed delegates to the convention
called to consider the purchase or lease of
the Macon & Brunswick railroad, in this
city: John B. Habersham, Thomas W.
Lamb, C. P. Goodyear, James F, Nelson,
J. M. Couper, Morris Hichelson, Carey
W. Styles, T. W. Dexter, A. G. P, Dodge
and A. O. Best. We learn from the Ap
peal that the citizens of Brunswick are
fully alive to the importance of tho mover
ment contemplated. The following is the
resolution recently adopted at a meeting
in Brunswick:
Resolved, That the citizens of the couth
ties contiguous to the Macon and Brims-
wick Railroad, and along the proposed
line from Macon to Fulton, including the
latter, be and they are hereby earnestly
invited and urged to hold meetings
promptly, and appoint strong delegations
to the convention at Macon pn tho 30tli
instant, to consider the policy of the lease
act, and the dangers that menace the car
riage of the lease sale on the 13th of Jan
uary next.
Augusta Evening News: How many
people in Augusta are aware that rice is
grown in fifteen miles of this city with as
good and at times a better net yield per
bushel than on the coast? Mr. H. F.
Walker, of Jackson, on the Port Royal
Railroad, expects this season to send to
Charleston 175,000 pounds of rice, and
has already sent over 150,000 pounds. As
an instance of the prolific yield, he stated
in this office and exhibited the bill of sale
from a well known Charleston house,
showing that 30 tierces of rice grown on
fifteen acres of land, sold for $1,-100, and
after deducting expense of planting, reap
ing, shipping and selling expenses in
Charleston, netted him $1,125.95.
J. P. STEVENS & CO..
TBOLESiLE ail RETAIL JEWELERS,
34 Whitehall Street, Atlanta. Georgia.
We hare 360,000 worth^ oT»IA*ONDS, WATCHES,
JEWELRY, BRONZE and MARBLE CLOCKS,
For ho'MehoId.and presentation purposes, which we are
selling off at prices that cannot be competed with any
where in the So»th Any article tliat we sell will be
handsomely engr i ved free of charge.
Oar new Illustrated Catalogue and Price List will be
sent to any address upon application for same. Save ’the
fancy profits of small dealers by sending your orders to
J. P. STEVENS & Cl),, Wholesale »nd Retail Jewelers,
declS-dti
S-l Whitehall Street, Atlanta, Georgia.
And yet some of our people talk of hard
times and starvation.- This beats cotton
or anything else, and is a good lesson to
farmers, who hare swamp land or marshy
plats.
Patience and gentlsncss are useful and
powerful, but they cannot .cure ai cough,
which, however, Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup
will always do.
A Compliment to Representative J.
H. Blount.
The Atlanta Constitution says Con
gressman Blount is a bigger man than
old man Grant, in Macon. He has given
the .city free delivery of mail matter, and
made it tho center of a new judicial dis
trict. If ho keeps on as he lias begun, lie
may urge Congress to move the capital to
Macpn. , Whatever he presses upOh the
Attention of Congress is sure to go through.
Long indulgence in over eatiim or
drinking produces a disorganized liver,
and all tho evils attendant upon such de
rangements; depression of sprits, habitual
costlveness, nervous exhaustion, indiges
tion; pain in the head, with nausea; full
ness of stomach after meals, dullness, gen
eral debility and languor. Seek from
Simmons’ Liver Regulator.
“It is a very valuable remedy for dys
pepsia, sick headache, torpid liver and
such like diseases.” W. S. IIolt,
President of S. W. R. R. Cr., of Ga.
declO lw
A iAifr’a Wish.
“Oli, how I do wish my skin was as
clear and soft as yonrs,” said a lady to lier
friend. “You can easily make it 80>” an
swered the friend. “How ?” inquired the
first lady. “By using Hop Bitters, that
makes pure rich blood and blooming
health. It did it for me, as you observe.”
Read of it.—Cairo Bulletin. 2w.
An Important 1’crsonnl Item.
Charles S. Prentice, of Toledo, O., went
to Paris and thence to England to Ibo
treated for Bright’s disease, and after tho
best physicians of both countries had done
what they could for him, gave up in des
pair and returned to America to die,
Hero he received further treatment from
skillful physicians without bonofit, and
while “listlessly Jiugoring in pain and
anguish,” as ho says, heard of tho Safe
Kidney and Liver Cure, took it, and was
completely cured in a few weeks. He
gives circumstantial details of liis painful
experience and astonishing cure in a long
letter to H. H> Warner & Co., which will
he forwarded on application, dec 10-2w.
THE GENUINE
DR. C. McLANE’S
Celebrated American
WORM SPECIFIC
OR
VERMIFUGE.
SYMPTOMS OF WORMS.
T HE countenance is pale and lead
en-eolored, with occasional flushes,
or a circumscribed spot on one or both
cheeks; the eyes become dull; the
pupils dilate; an azure semicircle
runs along the lower eye-lid; the
nose is instated, swells, and sometimes
Needs; a swelling of the upper lip;
occasional headache, with humming
or throbbing of the ears; an unusual
secretion of saliva; slimy or furred
tongue; breath very foul, particularly
in.the morning; appetite variable,
sometimes voracious, with a gnawing
sensation of the stomach, at others,
entirely gone; fleeting pains in the
stomach; occasional nausea and vom
iting; violent pains throughout the
abdomen; bowels irregular, at times
costive; stools slimy, not unfrequent-
ly tinged with blood; belly s\yolJer,
and hard; nrino tnrhid; respiration
occasionally difficult, and accompa
nied by hiccough; cough sometimes
dry and convulsive; uneasy and dis
turbed sleep, with grinding of the
teeth; temper variable, but generally
irritable, &c. •
"Whenever the above symptoms
are found to exist,
OR, C, MeLANE'S VERMIFUGE
will certainly effect a cur?.
IT DOES NOT CONTAIN MERCURY
in any form; it is an innocent prepa
ration, not capable of doing the slightest
injury to the most tender infant.
The genuine Dr. McLane’s Ver
mifuge bears the signatures of G
McLane and Fleming Bros, on the
wrapper. —:Q;—-
SR. C. MeLANE’S
LIVER PILLS
are not recommended as a remedy “ for
all the ills that flesh is heir to," but in
affections of the liver, and in all Bilious
Complaints, Dyspepsia and Sick Head
ache, or diseases of that character, they
stand without a rival.
ague and fever.
No better cathartic can be used prepar
atory to, or after taking Quinine.
As a simple purgative they are un-
equaled.
BEWABE OF IMITATIONS.
The genuine are never sugar coated.
Each box has a red wax seal on the
lid, with the impression DR. McLane’s
Liver Pills.
Each crapper bears the signatures of
C. McLane and Fleming Bros.
Insist upon having the genuine Dr,
C. McLane’s Liver Pills, prepared by
Fleming Bros., of Pittsburgh, Pa., the
market being full of imitations of the
name McLane, spelled differently brf
same pronunciation.
THORBURF’S
FBESH GARDEN SEEDS.
U PON receipt ot the amount we will m to
applicants the following seasonable pure
teedi: --pi
per dos.
Jersey Wakefield Cabbago SSc
Superior Flat Dutch SOc
Ultra Early Egyptian Beet 15c
Early Torcins Carrot —.. SOc
Long Or.inge Carrot lOo
Noopariel Cauliflower 8«o
Georgia Coilards 2*0
Scotch Kale... 10c
Large Flag Lee* — 25o
American Gathering Lettuci... £5o
White Cabbage Lettuce...™ 30c
White Portugal. Onion 15c
Curled Parsley 10c
French Breakfast Radish...™,.. 15c 75
Round Savoy Spinach lOo 5»
Salufy. 20o 200
Descriptive priced catalogues uron application
to J MTHORBUBN A CO. ■
octl4 Cm II John streak NawTork.
per lb
$ S 50
200
75
125
75
10 00
200
100
250
2 50
2 00
150
100
W. A. HUFF & CO
managers
Macon Cotton ai Produce Exchange
To tlie Merchants and Business Men ofMaoon, and the Publio
Generally.:
C.„,r ™ arm name or w. a. non * u , we propoic to do a general
brokerage and commission business. mskingCotton. Grain and rroruion. onr inecialtia. Wh.n
»PfJ< u ?isn°t wanted ,« shall oiler authextraordmary facilitief ?a th““ptioS buriitii as will
en £'’le*U whoteelUko it, to deal m futures, in largo or small lots, without extra risk or expense
Our facUiiies for obtaining tbo very latMt n««« fmm «il tim T.t‘a« ~.
WARNER’S
: the impurities or tho Wood, tbo
.1 and iK-cesHsry result Is the euro orsieror.
nlonaandnUnTSiklis i:i-ui>ii»n».v ,
including Cancers, I’lcrra. and other sores.
It Is a medicine which should To In every
jflUNtv cUl*£
SAtt
DlAl TTE5
Cure
saif NfhviNE
SAfi: pius.
J66J“WARNER’S
i Safe Remedies aro
sold by Druggists
’ & Dealers in Med-
Iolne everywhere,
iH. H.Warner & Go.
Proprietors,
ROCHESTER, N. T.
A combination of IJonn. Bacini* Tf nWriVf.
and IteBdelloo, with «U the host and most cont
est Blfood PwrtHcr, Liver ScruUtor.
■ml Health Bnstonng Agent on earth.
Mo dlwein or in health can possibly inwg exist
where Bop Bttters Are used, so varied and perfect
are their operations. ^
To all whose employments cause irregularity of
Jie bowels or urinary ereuas. or who require an
Appetiser, Tonic and miid Stimulant, Rop Bitten
are invaluable withawt Intoxicating.
No matter what your feelings or symptom* _ I
what the disease or ailment la, use Hop Bittern
bo person or family should be without them.
ri*c to all others. Cores by absorption. Aak>
ores, use of optara, tobacco and aarootjcai
Hop Hittm Mfr.C*. Earfcwr, *.T«
- - SwUHvCl/tmlw.' ~ A
:• mem,
L^oUbydfi
[Job. Soemoneliii
xnoHAn TAiLoa.
Fine reiteaade to order end tte rniu
. II 2 Brvwn Hneen aeeaaenn
Dclkto
A
Glass Ball ^asters
—you—
Furniture, Pianos, OrganB, eto.
rriHE BEST and MOST ORNAMENTAL Cub
X ter in tho world. No NERVOUSNESS,
RHEUMATISM or SLEEPLESSNESS where
bed. are insulated by thorn. App’y to tho Hard
ware Trade generally, or tho
GLASS BALL CASTER CO,.
dec7deod gun wSw 98 John Street, N.T.
TO RENT.
A Yoiy dwinble Jesidence on Georgia Avenue,
containitg six room., four closet., with
kitchen and servant’s houso. aDd excellent wa
ter. Apply to
R. W. OUBBEDGE.
dcclG St Broker and Beal Estate Agent.
IRON BITTERS,
A Great Tonic..
IRON BITTERS,
A Supp Appetiser.
IRON OTTERS,
A Complete Strecstficner.
ironbWehs,
A Valuable Medicine.
IRON BITTERS,
Not Sold 11 a Btvirage.
ironiWers,
For Dslie&to Female,.
Highly recommended
(o the public for all dis
eases requiringacertain
and efficient TO.VIC;
especially in Indites-
Hoti, Itumpexiaia,
Intermittent I'e-
®*M i trail* of Ap
petite, loss of
strength, hack of I
Energy, etc. It en
riches the blood.l
strengthens the mus
cles, and gives new life
t6 tho nerves. To the
aged, ladles, and chil
dren requiring recuper
ation, this valuable
remedy can not be tool
highly- recommended.
It nets like « efcurm
on tho digestive organs.
A teaspoonful before
meals will remove all
dyspeptic symptoms,
i TRY IT.
Sold hy all Druggists.
THE BROWfi CHEMICAL CO,
BALTIMORE, Md.
RECEIVER’ SALE:
Saw Mills, Mules, Trucks, Carts, Stc.
TTTJLL bo sold on Friday. 2d Jannary. 18S0.
IT at tbe mill ground of Colley & Overstreet,
in Emanuel county. Georgia, three and a hall
miles from the terminus of WadleyACo. rail-
The saw mill and fixtures in complete running
order. IGheadot mules, timber carts, trecks,
one horse cart, and all the property belonging to
thg firm ol Colley & Overstreet, for tho pm-pose
of effectTnga setflemeit wiih the creditors ot
said firta. Terms made known on day of sale.
An - engine willleaTe No.9,0. R. R.. ateight
o’clock a. tn.. 2d Jannary, 18S0. to oonvey parties
who may wish to attend the sale.
■- r ■ U! IP MAT TADV
$500 Reward.
TTBREweare again, armed and equipped as
11. the law directs,^with a formula for mak-
ng a Fertiliser as good a« the beat sold in Geor
gia, and we hare hundreds ot Georgia farmer,
to back- us in saying
1
when made right, ts.equal to Commercial Fertil
izers snd tbe whole cost of ingredients to make
a ton of BLACK’S FERTILIZER is
Less Than Five Dollars,
and to make ten tons will costless than FOUR
DOLLARS PER TON.
We give helow a tew of the many names who
have certified to the merits ct BLACK’S FER
TILIZER, .ii,
Ihos E Brown. Eacdersvifle, Georgia
Leonard Sketoe, Gri.woldviiie, Ga
JEM LeSueur, Miln-r, Ga
Rev L G Evah«. Bibb county, Ga
K W Hatoher. Knoxville, Ga
T JMwmj, HarshaUrille, Ga
Uriah King, Linton. Ga
W R Stanley. Liston. Ga
Dr P S Bower, Thomasville, Ga
W1 Renfrce, Carrs Station, Go
B T Peacock, Buena Vista, Ga
DrS M Anderson, Cornucopia, Jones county
Georgia
Eli Frazier, Gorden, Ga
J; J B Waldrep, Gladeville, Ga
D:E Holloway do
County and farm rights for sale.
Headquarters at the offiee of the Telegraph
ani Messenger, Macon, Georgia.
decSdlwAwtf ASHLBT ASPEIR.
_•—I »»i*i«»iu'wuriBiB, receive our an patches from ten to twcrti
212“* w!?£ dT * n “ ? [ ony other Georgia, except Augusta which it Southern hw. fqu.r-
ters. We receiro telegram; eTcry thirty minute, direct from the Etchsnxei of Liverpool \’ew
L ll ' c,1 * 0 - t an d mark tho same on tho Publio Bulletin Board in our office for thebeaeSt
h2 r i m ? ton Jf. ove T < ',' lst ? mer * and the public generally, and everybody can eouse and get tbli
valuable information without cost or expense. We are also in constant receipt ot special and pri
vate telegrams from a'lths loading marksts of the world, and can furnish the veralatest quota
tionsi forany leading article wanted in this market. J ‘ “
RTTBA\n» 6 .S£ li ? lIts ® n . 4 rI «2 ut .‘ on *governing our .COTTON AND PRODUOE
DAunAriuS, as well as other features of our business. \y_ a, HUFF
Rules and Regulations.
W. A. HUFF & CO.,
MANAGERS
Produce and Cotton Exchange
Real Estate. Stocks and Bonds bought aud
sold on small commission.
RULES FOR TRADING.
In Spots and Futures.
At the latest quotations posted ou our Bulletin, you can buy or sell
corn, wheat, pork, lard or bulk sides.
From 500 to 2,000 bushels of grain, for any future month.
From 25 to 100 barrels of pork, “ “ «
From 25 to 100 tierces of lard, “ * «
From 1,000 to 5,000 lbs. clear rib sides, “ «
Delivered iu Chicago on maturity of contract, unless closed in tho
meantime by purchase, or sale for same delivery, which can be done at
any time at the latest quotations posted on our Bulletin, and when that
is done, settlements will be made, and
DIFFERENCE!! PAID AT ONCE at our OFFICE ia MACON.
OPEN OPTION IN COTTON.
Margin $2.00 per bale*.
Trades on this plan can be made in cotton, based on New York quo
tations, as posted on Bulletin, either to purchase or sell same.
Limit, 10 to 100 Bales,
Deliverable in New York, and Trades may be closed at any subsequent
quotations, if done within Twenty Minutes after posting quotations ;
but no trade received or closed later than twenty minutes after
posting. Twenty minutes will be tbe limit for makin g
and closing transactions on all quotations.
FOR LEASE OR RENT-
r Offer my plantation, known ts the J. B. La-
1 mar place, oh the Ocmalgee river, for lease
The plantation consists of
809 ACRES OF CLEARED LAND,
which is divided into two tracts of 500 and 300
teres.
The *00 acre place omtains 420 MM up-land
-and 80 acres swamp land.
The 300 acre place is fine, fertile swampland,
-The plantation ii well known for its fertility,
and to a rood lessee or tenant favoraolo terms
f trill be oOErod. . ,, , , ,
I also have four or five hundred bushels of
com and 1.S0U bushels cotton seed ou -too place,
which I wiil sell on reasonable terms to lessee or
d tfimtni
•Mans- B. M. PATTERSON.
dec7U Macon, Ga.
SPECIAL OPTION IN COTTON.
Limiting Margins, Profits and Losses.
10 to 100 Bale lots, Margins $1 per bale.
"We will allow parties to buy or sell cotton in 100 bale lots, their
f irofits to stop with one dollar per bale, less tbe commissions; and their
osses to stop with their margin.
LIMITED OPTION IN COTTON.
From lOO to 500 Bales l
The Limitation Plan, Limiting Margins,
Profits and Losses and reducing
Commissions.
We will allow any party to buy or sell from 100 to 500 Bales Cot
ton with only 50 cents margin,—the profits and losses to be limited to
Fifty Cents per bale-—les3 the commissions, which will be only 13 i
cents per bale on such transactions.
MARGINS REQUIRED.
On Grain, 2 cents per bushel. On Pork, 50 cents per barrel.
On Lard, 48 cents per tierce. On C. B. Sides, I cent per pound.
On Cbttori, from 50 cents to $2 per bale, according to option taken.
COMMISSIONS.
Grain, 3-8 cent per bnsbel, when trade is closed same day made.
Pork, 10 cent3 per barrel, when trade is closed same day made.
Lard, 24 cents per tierce, when trade is closed same day made.
C. R. Sides, 1-2 of 1 per cent, when trade is closed same day made.
Cotton, 25 cents per bale, on all transactions to buy or sell, except on
limited option, when it will be only 13i cents per bale.
Doable abire Commissions charged when trade car-
1 ried longer than the day, except Cotton.
All trades in Meat and Grain carried till margin exhausted, unless
closed sooner at option of party making trade, and all Trades closed!
without notice when margin Is exhausted.
Margins on open options in cotton must be kept up equal to 50 cents
per bale, or contracts will be closed without notice.
Additional margins may be deposited any time before original mar
gins are exhausted, but not afterward.
All Trades made through us, the property will be received and de
livered at points of delivery on maturity of contract, if desired. Five
days’notice given and required.
The above Bales apply only to trades made on Bul
letin Quotations.
When parties desire to make Trades for larger amounts, we will place
Trades in Chicago and New York on the market at the market price
at the time our telegram is received in Chicago or New York.
All orders for spot meats or grain will be filled from the lowest m ar-
kets in the West, without charge or expense to the buyer here, as we re
ceive our commissions from the sellers in the West.
Orders for spot cotton in this market will have the be3t attention at
reasonable charges.
We shall make the purchase and sale of stocks and bonds, and the
selling and renting of real estate, a specialty.
SSTAny changes in these Rules will be Posted on our Daily Bulletin
■without notice, as we shall claim the right to increase or decrease the 1
limits to our transactions at any time.
. ¥« A- HUFF & CO-