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SATURDAY. DECEMBER 27,1M9-
J.Jui Sherman causes prompt denial
to be made of the sun; tliat lie lias struck
beads witli tlie tliinl-temi men to help
eloo^ Ux- nomination of Grant. SUer-
bih'i bargains are all in his own Interest.
Mme. N ilsson's debut at Madrid in
••Faust" on December 4 was one of the
greatest triumphs of her career. After
»k> garden scene she was recalled three
times, and three times also at the end of
each following act. tlirir Majesties joining
la the applause, which at certain moments
was almost frantic.
A |«-t dog fell Into the hands of the
Plofaaors at tlie Detroit Medical College,
who nvd him for vivisection. A part of
his skull had Iss-n removed and* some of
his brains tak-n ont. wlx-n his master
fouiKl him. The brute was put under
curative treatment, and is recovering, but
will never know as much as lie did before
tlie operation.
A Washington telegram to Wednes
day's Ciurinnali Cotii-m.-rtial says: ‘Witt;
president Wheeler leaves in the morning
f,.r Chattanooga. Tennessee, to visit hi
eossin, XeiM-plieis Wheeler, and will lie
goii'- a week or tell days. The Vico
I'resJdent has ls-eu sadly bereft, death
taking his family, leaving him no relations
nearer than cousin."
—Tlie notification issued hy tlie Prime
Minister on the Mil of Octolier finally re
moves tlie suspicion which still lingered
in |its,pk**s minds as to the existence of
torture in Japan. That remaining stain
of ancient barbarism has now been once
fur all removed from the node of Japan,
and it lias at last linen removed in tlie
most formal manner.
—Cannes is now all the rage as a win
ter quarter and is fall to overflowing. The
proximity of Monte Carlo is ruining Nice
and Mentone for quiet, decent people, ns
there plac-s an- filled with all the adven
turers and sliarper; of Kunqic, anil the
arum of its rascality; and alemt both, but
especially a! Nice, there is a nauseous
rowdyism which vitiates the whole atmos
phere.
—TI.» European city which has made
tlw greatest proportional progress of late
years is Hanover. In IMT7, the pojinla-
tiou was 74,000; in 1MI5, 107,000, or -14
per cent, of increase. In the meantime,
Berlin gained :»S |er cent.; Antwerp, 24;
Vienna and Cojienliagen. 10; Munich.
Rotterdam, and Tin; Hague, Id; Dresden,
20; Edinburgh anil Hamburg, 20; Paris, 2;
Stockholm. W; Aiusi.-rd.un, S; Leipsic, -10;
Frankfort, dl.
Du. Plummer.—The Baltimore Sun of
last Wednesday says the venerable I)r.
W. S. Plummer was prostrated in the
pulpit of tlx- Second Presbyterian Church,
Sunday, whilst announcing the sacrament
of the Lord's Supper. Medical assistance
was promptly at liand, and in less than a
quarter of an hour the clergyman recover
ed consciousness enough to explain that
his faiuting spell had been caused by over
exertion while preaching.
—From the criminal statistics just pub
lished bv the Government of Italy, it ap
pears llml in tlie first nine months of 1S79
there men* lio fewer than 2,1)00 murders
■v attempts at murder committed in the
kingdom, being an average of ten and
twoghird- a day. In the same period of
three-quarters of a year there occurred
1JMM) ca-s-s of robbery on tlie highway, of
the perpetrators of which as many as eight
hundred liad entirely escaped tlie hands
of Justice.
—Hugh Median kept a livery staldc in
San Francisco, did tlie hardest and most
menial work himself, lived in a loft among
tbs hay. and ate tlie coarsest food. lie
was so close at a bargain that, when lately
brought to his deathbed, he refused to
employ a physician, except on the condi
tion of no cure no pay. He left $200,000
to his wifi-, whom lie had many years be
fore turned away, Ix-cause slie bought a
silk dress, and who afterward earned a
living as a domestic servant.
—One uiglit. at tlie close of last month,
300 ex-convicts met at a mission chapel in
a mean street of a low district in London
for the third annual supper of an associa
tion devoted to tlx- aid of discharged pris
oners. A member of this mission attends
every morning at one of the chief city
primus and invites discharged prisoners
to breakfast, alter which the question of
what can lie done to help them is consi
dered. During tlx* past year, o.-T>2 break-
taau have been given. 172 men were placed
at work. 50 sent to sea, IS to various
“refuses." 45 had their railroad fare paid
to their homes. 25 are in the home of the
amoebcion, and IS have been expelled or
have been absconded from it.
—When -Thad" Stevens was a young
lawyer in the Pennsylvania courts lie
oooe lost his case by what he considered a
; ruling of the Judge. Disgusted, he
I his books on tlie table, picked up
his ha* and started tor the door with some
vigorous words in liis month. 'The Judge,
feeling that his dignity was assailed, rose
Impressively and said, “Mr. Stevens!"
Mr. Stevens stopped, turned and bowed
deferentially. “Mr. Stevens," said tlie
Wp, “do yon intend by such conduct to
express your contempt for this Court?"
And Stevens, with mock seriousness, an
swered, “Express my contempt for this
Court? No, sir! 1 was trying to conceal
it, poor honor."
—The ship Crocodile which crossed the
r on September 21, encountered a
experience, thus related by a
“On the following night a
moot curious circumstance occurred, which
would hardly be credited. The ship was
staffed by Jellyfish, which, shortly after
1 o'clock, appeared in myriads as far as
the eye eould reach, and the tliousands of
boniaons bodies floating upon the water
pave the appearance of a scene from fairy-
land. Some of the fish got into the strain-
us, and blocked the boles, so that the
water could not enter, and the result was
that the vacuum went down, and then
disappeared entirely. The condensers
afterward became so heated that we had
So Wop steaming altogether, take off the
, and clear them. Three attempts
|e to steam, and each failed from
cause. In this way we were
no leas <)■«" five hoars; but at
i the fish sank, and the ship was
able to proceed. The same thing oocured
again on the following night, the ship be
ing delayed four hoars."
The Trouble in Maine.
The trouble hi Maine came near cnlml-
nating in a figlit on -Christmas. Tlie
State Government in Augusta hail sent
orders4o the State arsenal at Bangor for
tlie shipment to Augusta of a portion' of
tlie arms on deposit there. These were
in course of transmission to the railway
station when their progress was. arrested
by a crowd of citizens, who compelled a
return of the weapons to the arsenal. Tlie
altercation over this shipment of arms
came near provoking a general row.
A very inflammable condition is report
ed in Maine, which is liable at any mo
ment to break out into liosilities.
The New York and Boston papers re
port that tlie Bepublicans are actively or
ganizing military clubs and throats of
force are very common, even from the
pulpit. An Augusta correspondent of the
New York Stui says:
In all tlie meetings reported up to date,
tlie immediate aim of the speakers, as per
fectly apparent in their words, lias been
to inflame tlie passions of the rank and
tile, and blind their reason, both to the
facts and to the law of tlie case. In some
instances tlie same speakers have gone
from town to town to help along the
spontaneous indignation of communities
tumble to manage tlie business for them
selves.
Perhaps the most extraordinary feature
of these assemblages is the part taken in
them by ministers of the Gospel. For
many years tlie Republican organization
in Maine has assumed a sort of semi-
sacerdotal character. In some parts of
tlie State the term Democrat is under
stood to mean pretty much the same
thing as atheist. I know excellent peo
ple who utterly fail to comprehend how a
man who voted for Mr. Tilden in 1870 can
be a good Christian. Some time ago one
of tliis class attempted to discipline Gov
ernor Alonzo Garcelon—then Mayor of
Lewiston—at a prayer meeting of tlie
Pine Street Congregational Church in
that city. Governor Garcelon is a mem*
her of that church, and was present at tlie
prayer meeting. The Republican brother
who was exercised at the time about
some purely political act of the Doctor,
took occasion in the course of his prayer
to urge tlie Lord to “grant more wisdom
to the chief magistrate of this city, and
open his eyes to the wickedness of liis
ways.” Those who sat near tlie sturdy-
old Governor saw the temper rise to his
cheeks, and saw liis long legs and amts
shake with suppressed wrath. They ap
prehended an outbreak, but the Governor
restrained himself until tlie end of the
prayer. I am rather glad to add, how
ever, that as soon as “Amen” had been
uttered, Dr. Alonzo Garcelon strode down
the aisle, and, taking a conspicuous posi
tion front of the desk, commented in suf
ficiently severe terms on the impropriety
of “dragging municipal polities into a
prayer meeting in the house of God.”
The clergymen that have been induced
to speak at the indignation meetings have
been adroitly used by the professional
politicians to fmtlier their own purposes.
Many, if not most of these excellent men,
have a very faint notion of the questions
at issue. They have been told that the
liberties of tlie people are assailed, and
popular suffrage threatened; and they rc-
spond with an abandon of utterance that
amuses Mr. Blaine, himself vastly more
cautions in what lie says about appealing
to force. At Ilalloweli, night before last,
three clergymen spoke. I give a single
passage from the remarks of each. The
Rev. A. W. Burr said: “I liopc the peo
ple will try every means this side of blood
shed to right tliis wrong; anil if it must
come to that, even, I am for trying that."
The Rev, II. V. Emmons demanded:
“.Shall we, who have, once and again,
fought for our rights, quail before these
men ?” The Rev. A. R. Crane said: “In
the thirteenth chapter of Revelations we
have the description of a beast of seven
heads and ten horn*, witli tlie word Blas
phemy written on their foreheads. I have
been at a loss for an interpretation, but I
think it may refer to this infamous Gov
ernor and Council. If they set asido the
law, they cannot expect us to be so partic
ular in the observance of law in hurling
them from their high position.”
Where party feeling takes this form of
utter contempt for aud ostracism of the op
position, it is easy to get up a row.
Starving IX Kansas and St. Lons.
The St Louis GlobvDmocrat reports the
Mississippi colored emigrants, both in
St. Louis and Kansas, in terrible straits.
As cold as it isTSome of them are selling
their covering for food, and many are sub
sisting on tlic scanly doles of private char
ity-
AGoodBulL
The Berlin correspondent of the London
Standard, writing of the tunnel which was
! dug to blow up the spedal train that car
ried the Czar, concludes as follows:
“From these and similar circumstances
not a few Russians are led to imagine
that there is more in this subterranean
matter than appears on the surface.”
The World, of Wednesday, prints four
times over in italics the following proposi
tion:
Suppose Horatio Seymour nominated
bv the Democratic party for the Presiden
cy in 1880. Does anybody suppose that
Grant could carry this State against him.
Add after 1880 the words, “and every
body voted for him.” It would make the
case still stronger.
A Change.
Everybody was complaining about the
“scarcity of change” for Christmas pur
chases this week; but during the night oi
Christmas we got a supply of change
Christmas morning the sun rose on a tem
perature of CO; the morning after,it rose on
a temperature of 22—showing a change
44 degrees. There was not a word
complaint about change in town all day
Friday.
HisFraudulency, Hayes, in Bad Odor
with his Predecessor, Grant.
A special to the Courier-Journal states
it as a fact that the President intends to
go to Philadelphia to see General Grant,
who has twice declined to visit the former
at tlie White House, aud has accepted the
invitation of an old friend to stay at his
residence when he does come to Wash
ington. In this connection it is remarked
that in all of his conversations with friends
since his return to this conntry, the cx-
President has never asked after or made
any comment upon the administration of
his successor.
This is hard upon Rutherford, who just
now seems to be like a general without an
army, or a statesman with no “following.”
Indeed, lie may be said to resemble a
“reed shaken by the wind.” There are
none, or at lea3t but few left “to do him
reverence.” This is a fitting finale to au
administration based upon fraud, and
which lias been remarkable for nothing.
We can excuse General Grant's disgust
for our so-called President, who, at best,
is but a negative quantity.
Teliair County Moving.
The following note from a prominent
citizen of McVille will explain itself.
McVille, Ga., Dec. 24th, 1870.
Editors Telegraph and Msssenger:—
At a meeting of the citizens of Telfair
county, held at Lumber City yesterday,
tlie following delegates were selected to
attend the Railroad Convention in your
city on the 30th instant, viz: Hon. M. X.
McRae, W. J. Williams, W. L. Smith, A.
J. Cameron and C. C. Smith, Esq.
Our people are thoroughly aroused to
tlie importance of the Convention, and
hope that other sections are equally so.
SUBSCRIBER.
There is now every probability that tlie
Convention will not only be numerously
attended, but include many of the best and
most intelligent citizens of Southern and
Middle Georgia. We are still is the dark
as to what specific line of action will be
adopted, but suppose the whole lease
question will be discussed in all its bear
ings. That good may come of its deliber
ations, aud some plau be devised by which
the section most interested may be ena
bled to retail the control of the road and
its extensions, is the earnest wish of nine-
tcatlis of this community.
A Shockingly Blasphemous Parallel-
The New York Sun is responsible for
the following: “A Philadelphia preacher
has capped the climax by comparing the
excellence of Grant and Chkist.”
A few days since the writer pre
dicted that Grant's obsequious friends
would not stop short of canonizing
their favorite. But we were not pre
pared for the extravagant utterances of
this sacrilegious Boanerges of the the pul
pit. To mention the bibulous horse fan
cier ex-President in the same breath with
the Saviour of mankind, and dare to
compare one of earth's potsherds witli the
immaculate Son of God, betrayed a depth
of bathos which none save a besotted
Radical fanatic would have attempted.
AHeayt BrsiXES.—The trade of New
Orleans the present season is simply im-
menseJLast week,in a single day40,300bales
of cotton were shipped, and the total value
of the goods and produce exported,
amounted to die enormous sum of three
millions of dollars. TEC star of the cres
ent city is in the ascendant again.
The Third Term.
Deacon Richard Smith, of the Cincin
nati Gazette—a man confidently affirmed
by the New York Sun to be almost too
good for this wicked world—must be held
in restraint by the third term party. He
insists that the German vote in Ohio will
bolt the third term. They arc so hostile
to it that if it be insisted on they will leave
the Republican party in a body, and so se
riously endanger the State.
Hogs Declining in the West
Tha last Cincinnati prices current
shows a falling off of fifty cents per one
hundred pounds in the price of fatted
hogs. In Chicago the decline is nearly as
great. The number of hogs slaughtered
and packed since November 1st, of the
present year, is 2,968,300, against 2,815,400
for the corresponding period of 187S.
There is a strong probability that prices
will go lower as the stock of hogs in far
mers’ hands is thought to be very large.
Another of the New York millionaires
died last Tuesday. This was Alexander
Stuart, of the old firm of R. L. & A. Stu
art, well known in the business world as
sugar refiners on a large scale, but retired
from that business for a number of years.
Mr. Stuart, the deceased, was a man of
large means aud extensive character.
He was a devoted Presbyterian. His
gifts to Princeton Theological Seminary
may be reckoned by the hundred thou
sand; and his other benificences have
been large and numerous.
Running to Extremes.
Our English friends are as much given to
lionizing notorious characters as their
American cousins. The reader will re
member the famous Ticlibome claimant,
who is now paying the penalty of his for
geries in prison.
He is represented to he a very coarse
creature, and withal disgustingly filthy
in appearance and habits. As the term of
his confinement draws near its close, the
name of this man is gravely suggested for
a seat in Parliament.
Could any proposition he more superla
tively absurd and preposterous ?
The National History of the
Turkey is interesting literature, and the
papers coming to hand have a deal about
it. Where did they originate? Our
Christmas turkeys this year originated
from the egg mainly in East Tennessee.
They came to Macon, denuded of heads
and feathers aud closely packed in bar
rels. As they encountered three or four
successive days and nights with a temper
ature ranging between sixty and seventy-
five, suspicions were entertained that they
were gamy. These suspicions proved well
founded in very many cases. Consequent
ly the Christmas turkey account footed
up with a balance to loss.
Lesseps Means Business.
Advices from Panama, dated December
24, state that great preparations are go
ing on for the reception of Baron Lesseps
who is expected .soon to arrive. A signifi
cant fact is that foreign merchants have
no place on the Committee on Arrange
ments, though they bear the largest por
tion of the expense. “The festivities will
include a ball, banquet and bull fight.”
We learn also that the Panama Railroad
is expected to be in full operation by the
opening of the New Year, and it is esti
mated that 25,000 tons of freight will be in
readiness for shipment.
In this connection it may be stated that
a corps of engineers, embracing several
very eminent experts, are en route for
Panama to meet Lesseps and decide upon
the most eligible route for the proposed
canal.
To Arms
In addition to what appears elsewhere
concerning that “Tempest in a Teapot,”
the threatened Maine war, the following
dispatch from Washington says:
“A circular, without signature, has
been sent to tlie clerks in tbe departments
from'Maine who served in the Union
army daring the war, ordering them to so
arrange affairs that they can meet without
delay at the Grand Army Hall to organize
a rifle club and start at once for Augusta.
The circular says uniforms of great coats
and caps will be furnished,with rations and
transportation, and a supply of Spencer
rifles will be provided on the way north.
Now, this is nothing else than rank re
bellion, emanating as it does, from the
grand head centre of loyalty, the capital
of the Nation. Alas! General Scott is no
more, or certainly he would have those
cannon in position again which did silent
duty at the inauguration of Lincoln
This time, however, strange paradox, they
would be turned upon the “hall” and
headquarters of the “Grand Army of the
Union,” for it is from thence that rifle
club is ordered to march on their mission
of blood and vengeance upon the Maine
Greenbackers and Democrats.
Pity the same enthusiasm “for a fan-
count” was not manifested when the Rads
of South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana
were consummating their villainies to
swindle Tilden out of his rights.
In 1682, William Penn purchased from
Charles II, King of England, the territory
now comprised in the State of Pennsylva
nia for the sum of sixteen thousand
pounds, or eight thousand dollars. Had
Penn lent this sum at compound interest
at six per cent, until now, he and his heirs
would have received far more than the
valne of the State at the present time. It
would have amounted to over eight thou
sand millions of dollars, or about eight
times the value of all the farms in tbe
State according to the census of 1870.
A Strong Presentation of the Case.
The Chicago _7Vf5une».which is .'one of
the most influential and widely circulated
of all the Western journals, says of the
pending bill to take away the legal tender
feature from a large portion of tlie green
back currency;
“The conspiracy .of "the goldites to de
monetize greenbacks and then cancel them
is the greatest outrage ever sought to be
committed upon a free people. If persist
ed in to the point of success, it will shake
the Government itself to its very founda
tions. The period of hard times covering
six years—1873 to 1879—brought tlious-
ands of estates, involving hundreds of mil
lions of dollars’ worth oT property, to the
anction block, and the profits of these
forced sales went into the pockets of re
tired capitalists and professional money
lenders.
The period of hard times exhausted
the means and credit of hundreds of
thousands of otherwise solvent merchants,
drove them into liquidation or bankruptcy
and out of business, and left the field
of trade clear to the small class of ex
ceptionally “strong men.” The hardtimes
closed workshops and factories by the
thousand, and forced idleness upon mil
lions of men and women to whom idle
ness meant beggary or starvation. Mean
time, the capitalist class foreclosed their
mortgages and doubled their estates. The
country bore all this for the boon of a
sound currency.. A sound currency was
secured; resumption was accomplished;
the factories and the workshops were re
opened and resounded with the hum of
machinery, and the starving idlers re
sumed work with light hearts. The coun
try is on a high tide of prosperity. There
is joy in a million households where, but.
a few months ago, there was want. But
it is proposed to renew the squeezing pro
cess. The greenbacks are as good as gold.
There is not one man in a thousand who,
being tendered payment in gold or green
backs, would not take the latter in prefer
ence to the former.
But it is proposed to demonetize and
cancel the greenbacks; wipe them out of
existence; retire from circulation one-third
of the volume of the currency! Is any man
so ignorant of the economic laws of a cur
rency as not to know that such a step
would produce a tremendous moral revul
sion? The resumption of specie payments
unlocked millions of gold and silver, other
millions poured into the country from
Europe, and both these vast supplies serv
ed to swell the volume of currency. The de
monetization of the greenbacks would pro.
duce exactly the opposite effect. The retire
ment of the whole volume of greenbacks
would be the equivalent of the transpor
tation to Europe of every dollar of the
gold and silver now in the country. The
effect, immediate aijd overwhelming,
would he a tremendous decline in values
of all commodities but one—gold!
THE GEORGIA. PRESS.
Sparta girls eat oranges on the street,
and the Ishmaelite very truthfully re
marks that this is better than gnawing
away on chewing gum.
An exchange regrets that the “spirit of
Atlanta” has ‘not “pervaded” the entire
State. If the’originators of the regrets
could have been in town Christmas day,
when 1,700'stuall hoys were testing their
horns, he would have acknowledged that
to sonic extent iHiad pervaded.
Tiiere is still great excitement in and
about Marietta over the body snatching
cases. The arrested janitor of the Atlan
ta medical qollege has been carried to
Marietta for trial. Steps are being taken
to examine the cemetery to learn to what
extent the robbery has been carried on,
Mr. J. K. Roddenbuby was killed at
Thomasville, while in the store of Mr.
W. N. Davis. He had engaged in a dif
ficulty with Mr. Davis, during which a
single shot was fired by some one present
and Roddenbery fell dead. Nothing but
a thin layer of smoke in the air indicated
from whence came the shot, and the wit
nesses differ as to who was nearest the
smoke. The coroner’s jury, in their ver
dict, charge the death to Emmett Davis,
who was behind, and leaning upon the
counter. *
Paul Boyton, speaking of his swim,
says he draws only eight inches of water.
Our weekly exchanges have nearly all
informed us that fat turkeys and egg-nogs
awaited their Christmas appetites. Also
that there would be no issue of their pa
pers oil the following week. Tliis is a
novel way of illustrating cause and effect.
The coroner’s jury in the case of the
murder of Mr. Gammon, in their verdict
charge that the wound producing death
was inflicted by a knife in the hands of
either Hilliard Dixon, Wesley Jake or
John Gaza way. All these parties are col
ored.
We clip the following from the Colum
bus Enquirer, in which paper it appeared
as an advertisement without comment.
We know nothing of the facts in the case,
but it seems to us that a gentleman stands
ing as high in the community as Mr.
Crawford, must have had great provoca
tion to act as the article charges :
As I was writing at my desk this morn
ing Reese Crawford came rushing into
my store, and, without any ceremony, de
manded, in an insolent manner, to know
where was the colored man who waited in
our store, saying that he had slapped his
little boy in the face and turned him out
of the store. Mr. Schuessler and I pro
tested that this could not possibly be the
case, as the hoy positively was not in the
store during the morning; and there is not
in Columbus any person more truthful,
respectful and considerate of others than
our porter, Lindsay, is. Notwithstanding
our protests and begging him to desist, he
cursed Lindsay and beat him in his face
with his fist, and swore he would cut his
throat, saying ha took his father’s advice
before he started. Now, if I were te go
into his house and attempt to punish a
servant, it is not likely that I should come
out alive; and yet there is no redress.
W. Beach.
The following account of an heroic act
we clip from the Sumter Republican. Let
us remember with gratitude, that the act
ors are Georgians, illustrating in infancy
the spirit that animated their countrymen
in the “dark days.” Verily, “there’s life
in the old land yet”:
A week or two ago a very prominent
man of Sumter county was having some
hogs killed, and his wife was drying out
the lard, when her clothing caught fire,
instantly enveloping her in flames. Her
young children, seeing her peril, ran to
her assistance, and succeeded in tearing
the burning mass from her body, burning
their little heroic hands in their effort to
save their mother. They were successful,
and their mother was not hurt by a single
touch of fire to her person, while every
shred of her clothing was destroyed. This
was truly a grand thing for little children
to do, and makes them heroes worthy to
have their names inscribed on the roll of
honor. We have withheld the names at
the request of the father, who has a deli
cacy of letting such things go before the
public, and who believes in giving all
thanks and praise to God, who inspired
their little children to their grand work.
The following explains itself:
Flushing, L.L, December IS, 1879.
Editors Evening News, Augusta: Will
you kindly inform me if there is in or near
Augusta a pond or small lake, of about
one hundred yards long,fifty wide, enclos
ed, or that coaid be enclosed without
great expense? I desire it for the purpose
of giving an exhibition in my life-saving
dress, as programme enclosed. Will you
also give me a little information of the
Savannah river in the vicinity of Augusta.
I would like to make a voyage from Au
gusta to Savannah, if possible, to get a
few notes for my book. I draw about
eight inches of water. How for above
Augnsta do you think I could start with
that much water under ipe? What is
about the average weight of the current?
Are there any obstructions in the shape
of dams or falls between Augusta and Sa
vannah? -Pray pardon me for troubling
you. I would not do so if I knew of any
other person who could givemetbe desired
Information. I am well aware editors have
trouble enough, and I assure you I would
not willingly add to it. Thanking you in
advance, I am, sir,
Yours most respectfully,
Paul Boyton.
Southern Enterprise: The dwelling
house on Mr. O. C. Hall’s place, near
Miccosukie, was totally destroyed by fire
on Friday last between six and seven
o’clock, p." m. The origin of the fire is
unknown, but is supposed to have been
the work of an incendiary. The family
living in the house say that they were in
the corner room farthest from'the one
where the fire started, and that there had
been no fire in that room since early in
the day, and that they smelt kerosene oil
near the fire. The house being of wood it
was soon destroyed and very few of the
contents were saved.
Sparta Ishmaelite: Cotton continues
to roll in. The crop of Hancock this
year is not less than 15,000 bales—more
likely over than under that amount. A
few more crops like this one, with in
creased provision crops, will set our peo
ple once more upon their feet.
Wabkenton Clipper: In our Georgia
news colnmii brother Lewis, of the Ish
maelite, expresses his opinion of those
who call the late war a “rebellion,” Yes,
brother Lewis, we are one of the grey
coat boy i in the ranks from beginning to
end, and think a private’s war record en
titled to as much respect as a general’s,
though he bo Governor of Georgia; and
the noble ladies of Augusta, who crowned
the lofty shaft of their memorial monu
ment far above the heads of Lee and
Jackson with a grand statue of a private
soldier, declare forever in marble that
they think so, too. We can’t contradict
the patriotic sentiments of the Augusta
ladies either, by teaching our children to
call their fathers rebels.
A Kind Word for the Silver Dollars,
The New Haven Register is of the opin
ion that it may be a good joke on Con-
gressmen for the treasury officials to pay
them off with ten per cent, of their sala
ries in silver dollars, but it would be a
still better joke to give them ten per cent,
in five cent nickles, while to give them
their entire salary in three cent silver
pieces would he perfectly uproarious. It
would also be funny, perhaps, if Congress
men should pass an act reducing the sala
ries of the treasury officials about ton per
cent, or legislate half of them out of office
altogether, but it is likely that the
jolly treasury officials would hardly appre
ciate the humor of the thing.
The fact of the matter is that the con
stant effort of the Washington newspaper
correspondents and the federal officials to
depreciate and make fun of the silver dol
lars is idiotic. The field for criticism of
tlie silver half dollar, quarter, twenty cant,
ten, fire and three cent pieces is vastly
richer than the field for criticism of the
silver dollar. Tlio people have approved
and still approve the action of Congress in
coining the standard silver dollars. Those
coins are vastly more convenient and ser
viceable than the pesky little gold dollars
which do not circulate at all.
The common people are not so burdened
with wealth as to find any trouble in carry-,
ing or taking care of thejsilvcr dollars. Most
people would like to havo more of them
and would esteem it a pleasure to bo ablo
at all times to look the broad, white, shin
ing, generous-looking silver dollar in the
eye. Men of great wealth and bankers,
of course, prefer the more precious forms
of money. Copper cents and nickles are
a nuisance in their eye3, because the hand
ling of them consumes time. It would be
mort convenient for men of wealth to have
their property in diamonds.
Most of them, in fact, object to hand
ling money in any form at all. Instead
of carrying gold about their persons, they
draw checks upon banks. The banks, by
the clearing house system, obviate nearly
all necessity for handling money at all.
Tho common people, however, who are
not blessed with bank accounts, and many
of whom feel rich with a silver dollar, all
their own, in their pockets, have no dread
of the “dollar of the daddies.” For our
part, we-think the common people, the
great masses, of vastly greater impor
tance, than the few rich men, who hate
the silver dollar.
The News from Maine.
N. Y. Herald, tho 24th.1!
Our dispatch from Augusta gives the
latest features of the political situation at
the capital of Maine. Wliat was said and
done at the private consultation of Re
publican leaders is very carefully guarded,
but our correspondent has learned enough
from conversations with ono or two partici
pants to satisfy him that no definite plan
of operations was decided upon and that
the temper of the conference was opposed
to violence. But there has been so much
wild and threatening talk at the Republi
can indignation meetings that a spirit has
been raised which it may not be easy to
quell.
Tho studied secrecy in which the con
ference is enveloped may he regarded as a
proof that its proceedings were unimpor
tant, and that the Republican leaders do
not wish it to be known that all the bluster
and bravado ’which have been indulged
in are to lead to notliing beyond mere
protests. It is in the power of Mr. Blaine
to precipitate the State into a civil war if
he chooses, but he will do nothing of the
kind. Ho has before him the problem of
maintaining the excitement at feTer heat,
and restraining it within legal and peace
ful limits. There will he no resort
to. force. The Republican leaders bare
committed a blunder in causing violent
redress to be talked about, for the Demo
crats are making a great handle of these
menaces and are alarming citizens for the
peace of the State. This was the drift of
the fusion meeting last night.
The Republicans will be compelled to
disclaim the violent intentions attributed
to them, and will thereby lose ground
with foolhardy and excitable members of
their party. There ought to have been no
talk of force at all, for it is easier to kin
dle popular passions than it is to allay
them.
The election proved that the Republi
cans of Maine are a minority. Tho pre
ponderance of phyisical strength is on the
side of the fusionists. Mr. Blaine knows
this perfectly well, and even if the Repub
licans were a minority he is too wise to
disturb the peace of the State. But he
has permitted some of his followers to
play with fire, and things have come to a
pass where he must hold thorn in check.
Appeals to the courts and to tho justice of
the Legislature are the only legitimate
methods of seeking redress.
- Any father who goes out and puts tar
oa top of his front gate after dark must be
lost to all sense of humanity.—Not so the
one who buys a bottle of Dr. Bull’s Cough
Syrup for his family.
A participant in a New London “Old
Folk’s Concert,” recently wore a dress of
striped pink and white brocade silk upon
which were finely wrought roses of nearly
natural size. The fabric was made prior
to 1728, and the dress was worn by a bride
in 1729—one hundred and fifty years
ago.
A Sine of Wcaltii.
There is a mine of wealth for the peo- ,
pie in Warner’s Safe Pills; for health is;
wealth, and nothing so contributes to the j
health of a large class of people as these !
pills. As a laxative and regulator of the i
bowels and a cure for bilious troubles and j
malaria they surpass all other remedies. : !
dec23-2w
PILLS
gyiw^toku;
TORPm UVERn
X-c -s of Aopetito, Bowels costive, Fain in
tlioifAvd, wfth r. dull rensationiuthe back
v:rt, i’ata trade.-1'ahouldorblade, fuli-
n'cssnificrcalti'ji,'!.- — disinclination to
c-rcrt'enefto.. t irritability of
v, muiibeUnxtrfh!W-
W. A. HUFF & CO ,
managkrs
to. ■!
loro »t;o eyes
. r, W Airiness, Dir-
a. : t.io Er.it, Eots bc-
VcJeir Skin, Headache
IMm tfcoiiaStays; Restlessness
withli’-Tai dreams, highly colored Urine.
Ir IXXSX WARNINGS ARE C a HEEDED,
SHtiCUS DISEASES WILL SOOil BE DEVELOPED.
ToTI’S ~T~T.it two especially adapted (o
mi. U ense.-i, one done etTects sin'll a ebange
ol'fcrli-cT at to lu.toitish the stiflrrcr.
CONSTIPATION.
Only \vi;h rj.\T.!ari:y id the bowel3 can perfect
bcailh 1>j cnicy-tl. ’ If tho con>»iipalioa la
r.f recent dat-\ a s r./’c tioso of TUTT’S PILLS
krill sttfijfrfr t.R.t it ii li t i beco;se iiabiiuai.
Icon Cotton onfl Produce Exetago.
MACON, DECEMBER 93.1879.
The market opened in New York this morning with an advance of
five to fifteen points, then suddenly fell off and continued to decline
<| a y till a loss of about twenty-five points had been reached,
*• ’ • * closing a shade higher and steady.
•Till SUMiV,
pil chon . - -
thofrocsei*7 i'fihc dose tint ilarepxlar daily
movement t3obt..:::c L which will soou follow.
Dr. I. Csy Lew!.*, I'ultoa, Ar!c., raysi
m After a practice of 23 year?. I pronoutico
TVTX'S PJLt^J the best tuiti-biiiou* xuctiiciue
ever leadc.*' _ ______
If or, F. II. CiH’aoJf ?• York, rayas
*’ I liave !::ut livapopjia. Weak S.’ouiach and
Ifcrvotaaeio. 1 ucner niul aiir medicine to do
me $0 much £00.1 S3 TVTTS l’l LLS. They Arc
as good as
Oillcc S5 .riarrny Street, Npw York.
mnW-miEL dye.
OaATllAKiop. VTstsswm chanfM to r. GtOaS? i
Ulacx bjr ^ application oi thU I>ye. It nn- 1
part* n JSatur l CV<i..r, aci* la^tAMtaROcesly, &nd is
e* ns wa!»c. Sold by DruggigU, or !
•Smbyexswwonix'SWtQf $1.
Office 33 swuvraty St., Slow York, |
THO&BtTRF’S
FEES II GARDEN SEEDS.
U PON receipt of-.be r.mcuntwe trill ma to
applicants th ■ following se&fonable pure
ssedn
prr i3m. per lb
Jersey WaVtSoid t nl bsfo S5c $ S 80
Sop-rior Klrt Dutch.............. 8Se 2 00
Extra Early E-yrtfsii liret 15c 75
Eariy Porcius Carrot roc 125
LocsOr-rga inrr-.t 10s 75
No'parlai l'irJ;fiovrrr Sfo 10 CO
Gwgfa C- Ilrrus Mo 2 00
Srctch Kalo * 10c 100
Lars' Flas L-»-t 25o 250
American Gstb.-rir-s I i-ttuc*... !5o 2 50
White Cabbige 1-i-ttvm 20c 2 00
White Portugal OuiMi 15« 160
Curled Parl ey....... 10a ) 00
Frei ch Breakfast Redi-h........ !5e 75
Roond Siv. ; Stirach 10c 60
Saliify "be 2 00
Deicrtr till! "rised aav.l,mues uron applirat-on
to J M THORBUUN JtCO.
ocf '* 6ui IS John street, New York.
MACON COTTON MARKET.
The Macon market has been firm with a good demand notwithstanding
tbe weakness in New York futures, and middling remains steady if not
strong, at 11 3-8 to II J-2c.
NEW YORK COTTON MARKET.
Spot Cotton in Now York to-day was quiet and steady at 121-2 cents
Liverpool closed dull but steady.
COTTON - FUTURES.
‘he following table shows the fluctuations of cotton in New Yorjp to-
Nbw York, December 24, 1879.
day
45 Years Befoi-e the Public.
DR. O. MoEANE’S
CELEBRATED
VER PILLS
t OR THE CURE OF
or Liver Complaint,
i.I KFSIA AND SICSC IlEADACUB.
Symptoms of a Diseased Liver,
pAIN in the right side, under tho
1 edge of .lie ribs, increases on pres
sure ; sometimes the pain is in the left
side; the patient is rarely able to lie
on the left side; sometimes the pain
is felt under the shoulder blade, and
it frequently extends to the top of the
shoulder, and is sometimes mistaken
for rheumatism in the arm. The stom
ach js affected with loss of appetite
and sic!:ness; the bowels in general
are costive, sometimes alternative with
lax; the bead is troubled with pain,
accompanied with a dull, heavy sen
sation in the back part. There is gen
erally a considerable loss of memory,
accompanied with, a painful sensation
of having left undone someth ing which
ought to have been done. 5A slight,
dry cough is sometimes an attendant.
Tile p iticat complains of weariness
and debility; he is easily startled, his
feet arc cold or burning, and he com
plains of a prickly sensation of the
;kin; his spirits are low; and although
he is satisfied that exercise would be
Wncfickvl to him, yet he can scarcely
summon up fortitude enough to try it.
In fact, lie Tist.usts every remedy.
Several of the above symptoms attend
'he disease, but cases have occurred
.t here few of them existed, yet exam
ination of the body, after death, has
shown the liver to have been exten
sively deranged. >
AGUE AND FEVER.
Du. C. McLane’s Liver Pills, in
cases of Ague and Fever, when
taken with Ouininc, are productive of
the most happy results. No better
cathartic can be used, preparatory to,
or after taking Quinine. We would
-tdvise all who are afflicted with this
disease to give them a fair trial.
For all bilious derangements, and
as a simple purgative, they arc un
equaled.
BEtVAaE or IMITATIONS.
The genuine are never sugar coated.
Every box has a red wax seal on the
lid, with the impression Dp.. McLane’s
Liver Pills.
The genuine McLane’s Liver Pills
hear the signatures of C. McLAKB and
Fleming Bros, on the wrappers.
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, spelle- differently but
same pronunciation.
TIMB.
WHFAT.
C. S. SIDES. i PORK.
LARU.
CORN.
Tec.
Jaii.
Fob'J
Lt-o.
Jan.
■’Jib.
Jan
9.35
IS if/.
8 40
;«67
fl.So’ lis.tto -1S.82
7.52
7.76
0 SI
957...
is* y,
mit
iStH:c«
lSl*i6.«
:5-**7
:«.67
6.80 *13.00 ! 10.62
6.bO tlSCO *13.82
7.63
762
7.75
7.75
lO-'O....
i-vVS
134 i«.40
•C.67
6.82 % |18.70 :18.82
7.62
780
10 S7 .„.
.......
133
IStNiA.4*
: 0.67
6.89,q IIS.70 j 13.82
7.62
7.ro
10 54....
1SS
154
B.40
‘6.67
6.82't i 'S.70 :13.«
7.0*
7.77
2 20
133
131
1.40
fl.60
6.70 :1545 :13.67
7.0
7 77 ;j
2 17....
—
1SS*
134
3 40
6 57
6 72* *13.52 jlS.75
7.37VC
7 «7S
‘‘SI
VOLTA! 8-ELEC™ 8
m
Time
Dec.
Jan.
feb.
ll&rch.
April.
May.
Jan*.
Ju.y.
lUftlMt
Sept.
Oct.
If :20
12.61
12.70
'2.90
IS 22
13 43
SfS
’3 71
13.87
13 96
10.40
13.84
12.87
1299
13.24
It!
13 03
13 77
13.87
13.87
11:28
12.60
12.56
12.98
13.23
1345
LESS
12.87
is.es
12.’5
13.22
13.41
13.60
13.76
13.89
13 96
1.8;
...........
12.64
12.97
1323
13.41
so:
...•—....a
- IT
2 45
11.00
12.68
12.93
15.23
13.43
1360
13.31
13.90
14.1*
333
12.69
12 67
13 97
13.24
13 41
13.04
13 79
<391
1401
Sales, 87,000 bales,
Macon Meat and Grain Market.
Bulk meats were firmer to-day under the advancing tendency of the
west, and sellers less anxious about their stock. Bulk sides, 7 to 7 1-4;
hams, 11 1-4 ; bulk shoulders, 5 1-4 to 5 1-2 ; tierce lard, 9 1-2; corn, 68
to 70j; rust proof oats, 85; mixed oats, 60 to 62-
WESTERN MARKETS.
CHICAGO FUTURES.
Chicago, December 24, 1879.
The following table shows the fluctuations in wheat, corn, clear rib
sides, mess pork and lard, in the Chicago market to-day:
Market closed dull and weak.
Factory Stock.
Aurcsta Factory Stock..,.. 120@125 I
GranitcviUo Factory Ntook,,.... 1133120 I
Langley Fa-tory Stack
Bnt irptiie Factory Stock.
Macon Bank Stock.
Nat ional Bank Stock..-
Central Georgia Hank tttock..... .....
V-xchaPjM Bank Sto.'k
Capital B&nkBtork
Macon H&vickb Bonk fctock..*.
__. ...Inone off^rinc
!!!.*.*!.’. 78?8o
..HQanil none offering
Municipal Bonds,
ui*yofSaTaunah news percent.Bonds... 72to 7S|
Citr of Ausuit* 7 per cent. Bends
City of Rome new Bonds
City of Columbus Bonds......
..100 to 1011
, 80 to 85 f
. 75 to 80
Ciiy of Macon 7 por oent- Bends.. 75 to TT%
Cty of Atlanta new 0s — »® 100
• old 7s „1« to 10*
- •• •• 8s... „.ioomis
State of vseorgi^, Bonds.
ri.jtiaS percent, -nnx il.tes
" 8 “ short *•
“ 7 ^ ' Rond* -
G or„-i» Bah;
...ii* to lit
„l(t to 105
_tll to 1U
J.1M> to 102
...ICO to 110
... n toiioe
Railway Mocks and Bonds.
fPEN times moi-Mxiwerfui tbnn li» best po-
A rous plaster when r ’acc. - . over the centre of
tbe cervocs forces, the pit of lbe stomach, they
, stimulate the liver. i>m»tli ar.d bowels, perfect
| digestion, cor-dyspepsia. bU'.iouacclic, eramps
j and pains end prevent *rue and malarial dis-
I ruses. Pr t weak and sora longs, palpitation of
: the lira-,, painful kidneys.rheumatism, neurel-
; e ia and seiitic*.they »r» the best remedy in tbe
: w ortd. Gat tbe ceirai-o. Ask far COLLINS’ t
YOIiTtlC ELECTRIC POROUS PL4STERS
Bitter Times. .
The business revival and new era
prosperity which has commenced are in j Pr .«» *» «'*■ ?or rale hr Hnnt. Rankin
keeping with the increased health and i f
happiness all over the land, resulting ; ;
from the introduction of Warner's Safe FOR RENT.
Kidnev and Liver Cure. “The changes) ...... ,.. *
wrought by this remedy,” _ says Rev, Dr. ;
7S to 74'
*6to8»
......... nominal
„ "in to lot
...... 107 to K*
1<0 tolls.
KS
75 to m
endorsed ky Georgia and SontL* Carolina B. &....»• IwO to 108
hailrmd St'x’k ...—
<: eorm ** “ -
Mwcona-<i tusuata R«ilr*>» Suck.-
/•©rt “ * —•
ftouth Wflftfm “ *. an.........i
jAuiue’a and c a»annah ** ...........
jU’ini'Rinfi Wfd loin* 11 “
Cforirfi RMiroad 7 p^r *-ent. Bonds...
l X&con end Angaria first mortctjre Bondi
Harvey, “seems but little less than mime- j w5l oi £tTronl£.
ulous.” dec23-2w , rcs-rsrcn given 1st January. Apply to
-oomr — . JNO. T. B0UPSUILS2T.
If your Baby is sick, suffering and cry-i drrsi st» or MIX A KIRTLAND.
ing with pain of cutting teeth, soothe it .
with Dr. Bull's Baby Syrup, which does ■
not contain opium or anything injurious. (
Price 25 cents a bottle.
Real - Estate Wanted*
SEWING
E. J. ANDERSON & CO.,
_ ‘. , PO Mulberry Street,—MACON, GA.
Grant having reached Philadelphia and ; w
so circumnavigated the globe, will be ex- ; Dealers in ail kinds of
pected to call in his advance agents and ; Sewing Machines, Needles, Attach-
retire into winter quarters like other re mexts, Parts, Oils, etc.,
Je ' i ~ We have'a3 order for a small farm of 100 to 200 acres, anywhere
■air a d. .T ‘ within four ro..es of Macon. Auy person having such property for sale
MAQiUNEb! ; can find a buyer by calling on
W. A. HUFF & G •
spectable circuses.
d. I aprif
ro4 peransenPjr
Also a trill brills
tbe limes. Mrs--*.
fuses. ilruJ.JLoE
J LBfotts, SodUOn
yaking a speciality of the
WHITE,
Brlievisg it to be tbe best and m^st durable zaa-
cli n . in tlw mart et. it runs perfectly light and
quiet, and, is so simple that a child canopeiate
n. Call aud see it: sit down ana try It. and be
convinced. Price >30 to SCO. dec23-tl
■Sil E TATE FOH SA E-
We have now on our sale book 'seven good houses and lots,
ranging in price from Si,000 to $1,800. Some very cheap and desirable
property. Those wanting to purchase a cheap house can get a bargain
by calling on . __
J 6 W. A. HOFF ScOOi
deeds