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<l\)t Constitutionalist
_ AUGUSTA, GKA-,:
Thursday Morning, Sept. 2, 1875. j
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Dealing With Burglars.
The great lawyer, Chakles O’Conor,
has put it on record that a man whose
house is, day or night, invaded
by a burglar, need not enter into any
metaphysical disquisition, but should,
if so inclined, “shoot on the spot,” in a
General Dfx-like manner. His own
words are these: “No one will enquire
whether all the forms or ceremonies
were observed which some ancient law
yer or modern enactment for that case
made and provided may have discreet
ly suggested, whatever may be the
strict law applied to the case; and
whatever exact duty might enjoin, no
magistrate will commit the slayers to
prison, no grand jury will indict them,
nor will any district attorney prosecute
or any petit jury convict. If, indeed,
any one in this line of official authori
ties could be found to act adversely,
the next in succession would be apt to
repudiate his doings; or if a concur
rence of the whole could be imagined,
ending in a conviction, it is very certaiu
that no Governor would hesitate an in
stant in awarding to the accused a safe
deliverance by his dispensing power.”
This opinion was drawn out by the
alarming frequency of burglarious pro
ceedings in the North —a “result of the
war,” which, by emancipation and en
franchisement of negroes,knocked white
labor “higher than a kite,” and compell
ed thousands of ex-workmen and ex
soldiers to steal or starve. The Balti
more Sun, while admitting the general
premises of Mr. O’Conor, thinks, in a
half-hearted way, that a burglaf who
has taken the alarm and is attempting
to escape might be conscientiously
spared a shot on the wing. A good
deal depends, we should say, as to
whether ho went empty or full-handed;
and it is reasonable to suppose that
a robber received in that “conscienti
ous” manner would not hesitate utter
ly to return to the house of such a
generous man. The Sun, however,
shows that, in some cases, this neglect
of shooting may proceed from dis
cretion rather than conscience.—
It says : “ Burglars seem to have no
scruples at all as to using their weap
ons while engaged in nefarious acts
upon honest people. Asa general rule,
they go around expecting to murder
honest people if necessary to secure
their booty. Sometimes they will re
sort to the pistol if disturbed in their
rascally practices, and from sheer rage
and vindictiveness. The case of Mr.
Noe, of New York, who has unfortu
nately just died of the wounds inflicted
by a burglar, is one of the latest in
stances of parleying with a burglar in
stead of shooting. Another instance,
that of Dr. Hammond, shows that firing
is not always safe, for when the Doctor
fired upon the burglar, the latter, in
furiated at being interfered with in his
* business,’ returned the salute, and
grazed the Doctor’s forehead with a
nistol hall. The most effective remedy
lev 1 O AO UUI V\j -J
or valuables in a house which can be
safely deposited elsewhere. Where this
has not been done, or is impracticable,
every man must be governed by cir
cumstances as to whether he shall fire
upon a burglar or not, though if he
does fire and kills the criminal, he may
be sure that, if he has the approval of
his own conscience, he is not likely to
be troubled from any other quarter.”
The conclusions of the Sun are emi
nently wise. Asa general rule, bur
glars do not molest poor people ; and
people who have valuables concealed
or in open display at their houses may
be prepared for danger. If there be no
confederates among the servants in the
house, a good dog—even a terrier—will
aid in protecting property, and, in many
eftses, spare the tender-hearted the ne
cessity of making a target of any
wretched man’s body. People in the
South, In spite of the demoralization of
society by the war, and the war since
the war, have no conception, unless
from personal observation, of the con
stant terror of the rich families of the
Northern metropolitan cities. They
have drawn upon science for most in
genious telegraphic alarms and the
like ; but the New York cracksman has
also called upon the same source, and
now Dr. Hammond, himself a scientist
of the first order, finds that the best
way to meet a burglar is with an ounce
of lead or thirteen buck-shot put
“ where they can do most good.”
Glass. —Mr. P. F. Nursey contributes
an article to Appleton’s Popular Science
Monthly on the distinctive era in the
history of glass manufacture marked
by the invention of M. De la Bastie.
From such competent authority we
learn that, for 3,500 years, no iadical
chabge has been made in this industry.
The glass blowers of Egypt, who ex
isted before the time of Moses, were
quite as expert as men of our day. Mr.
Nursey thus concludes: “It is true
Pliny mentions that a combination was
devised in the reign of Tiberius which
produced a flexible glass, but both the
inventoi and apparatus were destroy
ed, in order, it is said, to prevent the
value of copper, silver and gold from
becoming depreciated. There is, how
ever, no evidence whatever that this
was the toughening process of De la
Bastie, nor does the record in any way
detract from the merits of that gentle
man as the inventor of an important
economic process. The fact remains
that the world has now given to it for
the first time, in a practical form, an
invention by which the brittleness of
glass is superseded by an attribute of
the most valuable nature—toughness.
It is by no means improbable that the
adage, *as brittle as glass,’ will soon
be superseded by anew one, ‘as tough
as glass.’ ” And now the practical
question will M. De la Bas
tie’s new styles be for sale in the
shops ?
California had an election yesterday
for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Sec
retary of State, Attorney General, Treasu
rer, Comptroller, Congressmen and Legis
lature. The Republicans, Democrats and
< independents ” have each nominated full
sets of candidates, and some minor organ
izations made nominations for State of
fices.
The Decline of Races—New England
and Old England.
Alluding to Malthusian doctrines,
pre-natal homicide and many startling
facts to prove the decline of native
families in New England, Mrs. Eliza
beth Cady Stanton declared that the
day was not distant when foreign-born
people would rule in that part of the
world, and that “the Celt would trample
on the graves of the Puritan.” Gen.
Butler, in a recent speech, which is
called “blarney,” made the same point,
and, with a wiihering satire surpassing
the criticisms of Gen. Preston, did not
hesitate to paint Praise-God-Bare
bones as he really is, and prophecy
that the Irish race would, before a
great while, push the descendants
of the Mayflower pilgrims from
their seats of power. The Golden
Age indicates the sources from which
Gen. Butler drew his gloomy vaticina
tions. It argues that Dr. Nathan Al
len, himself a New Englander, accumu
lated facts and figures to show that
New England families had run out.
ToVns once peopled with a hardy,
thrifty yeomanry of English descent
were now occupied for the most part
by Irish and other foreigners. New
Englanders are deserting the country
for cities. They have not the physical
eudurauee of a former generation; an
increasing number of them do not
marry; the average number of children
to a Yankee family has dropped from
7 to 3; infanticide is an epidemic, and
emigration sweeps away the native
population like a pestilence. Even in
the cities the native population is hard
ly holding its own. This is putting Dr.
Allen’s statistics in the mildest possi
ble form, but no attempt is made to
deny the plausible basis therein given
for such predictions a3 those of Mrs.
Stanton and Gen. Butler.
White admitting the prime facts al
leged by these modern J eremiahs, male
and female, the Golden Age has only
one consolation and that is the unfor
tunate condition of other places. It
quotes from Mr. Gallon to prove that
English society presents the same as
pects and says: “A constant tide is set
ting to the cities. Centralization is the
marked tendency of the age. The great
industries are in populous towns. But,
while marriages are fewer and the
death roll higher in the cities than in
the country, the number of births in a
giveiyiumber of families is less. Cities
contribute to the adult population 77
per cent, less than the country. In the
second generation the per cent, drops
to 59. The life streams of the country
districts pour their currents of popula
tion into the towns, where they are
swallowed up in these devouring whirl
pools something as the waters that
flow into the Mediterranean. The city
gains, but only a tithe of what the
country loses, and the city would ex
haust itself in a few generations were it
not constantly recruited from tlio coun
try. The dreary theory of Malthus is
disproved by facts he did not dream of.
These facts show a fearful consump
tion of life in modern times.”
It is also asserted by those who seek
to explain the decadence of the Puritan
days have not been shared by modern
populations; that extravagant mental
culture has dwarfed the physique of
men and women; that latter-day ideas
stamp the growth of a family as a nui
sance and not a blessing; that, by
reason of the constant migration of the
young men, the number of unmarried
women in New England is prodigious;
that the struggle for existence is so
fearful an ordeal that the moral nature
becomes abased and disease is en
gendered.
But be this as it may, New England
and her ideas are rapidly going to the
wall in this country. Far be it from
us to stigmatize much of the work
done for the world’s advancement by
these people. Much material good
have they accomplished; but it has
been dashed with a spirit of intolerance
and fanaticism which has worked enor
mous evil. The war waged upon the
South for the abolition of slavery has
turned out a crazy crusade, fatal to the
people who propagated it and a calami
ty to the whole country. Their war
against • Southern society and labor,
after the war in the field, has added
another horror to the bead-roll
of disaster—the proofs of which
are on every hand, and announcements
of them come daily and nightly by the
wings of the lightning. In the West
and in the South whatever is whole
some of the Puritan stock will exis; in
sturdiness and conservatism, modified
by different associations. But, at the
central source of Puritanism, “ Iclia
bod” will presently be written, and it
is well for humanity that the peculiar
doctrines of a Garrison, a Sumner,
and a Beecher should receive their
death-stroke.
Poor Oarlotta. —Mrs. Annie Brews
ter, writing to the Philadelphia Bulle
tin, gives a shocking account of the
widow of Maximilian. She says that
loving friends have sent forth beauti
ful fables concerning her condition,
“but unhappily the reality is as revolt
ing as the romance is attractive. The
Empress, instead of being better in
health, is worse, and her death, it is
believed, is close at hand. For some
time her insanity has taken the most
brutish form. She never leaves tier
bed, and has all the habits of an aoi
mal. The poor Queen of Belgium has
been unable for two years to bear the
disgusting sight of unhappy Carlotta,
but now, as she cannot live many
months, the Queen goes constantly to
her. This is the sad truth.”
Idleness.— There is a great deal of
idleness in the South, but hard times
at the North—brought on by the Abo
lition war and Radical Reconstruction
have turned out a host of “tramps,”
far in excess of anything of the kind
known in this region. The Chattanoo
ga Commercial (Rad) says:
It is clearly a fact that, in proportion to
population, there is not nearly so much en
forced or voluntary idleness and loafing in
the South as in the North—though this
section could spare several of its worth
less fellows, and be better oil for the rid
dance.
“Tramp, tramp, tramp ! the boys are
marching!”
Hard Times—What Causes Them.
Gen. Durban Ward is one of the
sturdiest opponents of the Ohio “in
flationists,” but he recently made some
confessions, in an able public speech,
which are good for the souls of those
men w T ho helped ruin the South.
Speaking of hard times and what
causes them, he said:
We have lived too fast! The war, in
cluding all, cost us at least eight thousand
millions, perhaps much more. From one to
two millions of able bodied laborers on both
sides of the line were lost from productive
industry nearly live years. They trampled
half the United States under the iron heel
of war. Everywhere production was les
sened, and in wide regions disappeared.
Commerce in our own vessels was driven
from the seas. Our flag became a stranger
on foreign waters, and our commerce a
vassal to foreign trade. And when the war
of steel was over the still more fatal war
of Reconstruction began, and is not even
yet ended. Radical politicians, playing the
high game of Southern robbery, before
which the extortions of Vebbes dwindle
into petty peculations, with the selfish
greed of winning fortunes and Senator
ships and Presidencies, bound States in the
festering chains of their policy, and drag
ged them at the tail of their triurnphhal
march of power. An empire in extent
was squandered upon a set of profli
gate “railroad kings,” and the plun
der parceled out among “incorrupti
ble” Congressmen. A credit-money sys
tem as bottomless as Government faith
—for no nation ever failed when pressed by
its wants to defraud its ei editors—was
framed to enrich those who were behind
the curtains of the Treasury Department.
A tariff, the vampire of every industry,
even those it was designed to protect,
sucked the life-blood out of the producing
employments of the country, and, like the
locusts of Egypt, devoured what the other
plagues had left. While the sales of bonds
to carry on the war had yielded but fifty
cents on the dollar, even this pittance was
the prey of Government contractors and
corrupt officials. The war cost three times
what a value currency and honest adminis
tration would have made it. And even yet
the movements toward retrenchment are
feeble and spasmodic. Every expense of
the Government is largely increased. The
army, navy, Indian Department, Post Of
fice, public buildings, consume million after
million, as though the Government owed
not a dollar and the people staggered under
no load of debt. Not only so; the example
of the Government has set the fashion for
the people. Improvident expenditure, lux
urious living, reckless speculation, has
marked for years the social and business
career. Is it any wonder, then, that the
times are hard! And are not these the
real reasons why they are hard? Is
it not with a nation as with ax indi
vidual ? Do not idleness and profligacy
bring poverty ? A nation is but an aggre
gation of men, and what is true of one is
true of the other. If a man has embar
rassed himself by extravagance he must
redeem his fortunes by industry, frugality
and economy; ands > must a nation. We
must return to frugality and specie money.
Let greenbacks enough bo funded to raise
them to par. It will not take many. Then
let them float till we are able to pay them,
which will soon be, when specie payment
has settled business on a stable basis.
Abandon all banks of issue, State and na
tional. Provide by law for the deposit of
gold in the Treasury by any citizen, and
the issuance to him of coin certificates—
“goldbacks”—redeemable on presentation
and receivable for all public dues. Every
paper dollar will then have the ring of the
genuine metal, and be “as good as gold.”
Fluctuations will cease, and a dollar will
then mean in fact, as it now does in law,
Give'tie peo
ple control of their own industries and cur
rencies, without dictation from rulers.
Give the country Constitutional freedom,
equal rights to all, untrammeled labor, se
curity to property, “ Uome Rule, Free
Trade and Hard Money,” and government
cando no more.
If this does not mean that the Abo
lition war and negro enfranchisement
have bankrupted this country, what
does it mean? We care not what kind
of dollar we get, so its procurement does
not destroy the many for the benefit of
the few. But one thing remains a cer
tainty, and that is, according to Gen.
Ward’s own testimony, the whole Rad
ical policy since 18G5 has to be revers
ed, or else this country will “shoot
Niagara” sure enough.
Drainage—How It Affects the Health.
We aro of those who rejoice at the
improvements made in the drainage of
Augusta, by our Mayor and Council.
Tho people of this city should pay for
such works with more alacrity than
anything else of a corporation charac
ter, because the health of the resident
population is thereby immensely in
creased. Apropos of this subject, our
attention has been drawn to an article
In the Atlantic Monthly from the pen of
G. E. Waring, jr., who has made drain
age and kindred topics a special study.
Ho says : “ There are several diseases
which are known to indicate more or
less definitely unfavorable sanitary ar
rangements, and as the knowledge of
hygiene extends, othor diseases are add
ed to the list. Nervous toothache, neu
ralgia, scarlet fever, cholera, dysente
ry, diphtheria, cerebro-spinal menin
gitis and consumption are among those
which are either generated by foul air
or foul water, or which are made worse
because of unhealthy surroundings.—
Dr. Derby says * that an obscure inter
nal cause—which, in our ignorance of
its nature, is called a proneness of dis
position to receivo the poison—is ne
cessary for its development does not
affect tho truth of the fact that with
out filth the disease is not born. * *
Tho improvement of public health, as
expressed by that unerring guide, the
death rate, corresponds with all the
means by which air and water are kept
free from pollution.’
“ Typhoid fever is the most conspic
uous type of the class of zymotic dis
eases, all of which are clearly pythoge
nic, and none of which can originate
under conditions fit for proper human
habitation.”
If statistics can be credited, our city
unfortunately does not stand high in
the list of municipalities which add to
their other attractions the prime qual
ity of salubrity. While we are not pre
pared to admit the fullness of this
statement, it is undeniable that there is
room for sanitary reform, and the best
way to remove even a partial reproach
of this kind is as perfect a system of
drainage as our ability permits.
Ralston. —The late President of the
Bank of California was a native of
Pennsylvania, and at the time of his
death only 45 years of age. He com
menced lifo as a shoemaker, and, to
his unutterable misfortune, “went be
yond his last.”
PERSON A|i.
Senator Key is a Hard-oney man.
The youthful Sartoris igl taking his ca 1 -
nip on the briny deep. 5
John Smith has at lastjjhanged himsef
in his brother-in-law’s baili, in Michigan
Mrs. Van Cott has special railroad traiß
run to her meetings on ifinday, and ste
sometimes fears that 1 ic wickednes
caused thereby will swam; the piety bori
of her efforts.
Mr. Bates, of Whitesbur; , Ivy., is twenty
eight years old, stands s r feet 11%, anl
weighs 473 pounds. His v fe is a year hh
junior, is of the same lie jht, and weigte
413 pounds.
They are now making gilt-edge papa
collars, and just as soon asj the public cai
be educated up to the p int of wearing
them, there will be no further need of do
lar store jewelry.—l Detroi|Free Press.
“The child has died sincJ” says a Penn
sylvania paper after givin>|an account of i
twelve-year-old girl who hid already mas
tered logic, rhetoric, geology, botanj
and the mysteries of mtiital and mora!
science. •
Grace Gbi dnwood describes Disraeli as
having grown horribly oil, with no trace
left of Vivian Grey; but wg yet await Dis
raeli’s photograph of Grille, who is con
siderably older looking thin she was some
half century ago. *
An awfully impertinfnt French min
writes to a Paris paper ab(|.it the women in
England, who, since the B;jker case, are in
clined to carry poignardl. He says me
most of them are better dej ended by their
faces. |
There was recently fornled in St. Petets
berga society of ladies will have renounc
ed the use of silk dresses ;|nd eve; y other
kind of expensive attire, In order to em
ploy the money so saved |n the education
of poor orphans. ?
A divorce in Grant colnty (Wis.) ms
recently applied for because the young
mother insisted on having** sls cradle. “A
bass-wood sap trough is j£ood enough for
that little red-faced vagi|>ond,” said tie
brutal husband. 1
A bicycle race over lift:!miles, for £DO
and the championship, hr?; taken place n
England between Tliuilbwb, the French
champion, and an amateuijnamed Stanton,
of London. The race is described as moit
exciting, the Englishman ifinally winning
by one yard. £
Punch has the followilg timely item:
“A notorious gentleman ’| ho has been in
jail is reported to have saiAthat he had left
prison, after having ser\l>d his sentence
without any stain on his Iharacter. Ve y
likely. Some characters arf of such a color
that they never show the c rt.”
Madame MacMahon w 1 give agratd
fete in the Tuillcries Gard n next Sunday,
for the benefit of the sufft ers of the late
inundations. She has already received
over 17,000,000 francs for and; ctribution. The
Minister of the Swiss Cei ifederation has
forwarded 300,000 francs Collected by liis
countrymen. !
Mr. Bass, the great at manufacturer.
I>ays the Midland Railway 71,000 pounds a
year for freight, owns one uccessful news
paper called the Hallway Service Gazette,
and has just started auotij er, the Commer
cial Travel r, It is said tbaj 1 there aro over
40,000 commercial traveler always on the
move in the United Kiugdt n.
Swinburne dislikes the j lysical exertion
of writing, which is ofto.i a pain iul effort
to him. His penmanship though rough
and ragged, is more leglike than that of
most literary men, for tie reason that
every stroke means a letblr, and he never
fails to dot his i’s and cross his t’s. But,
alas! he will not mind his J’s and q’s.
A man named Louis Burse, who lived at
Burkesville, in this county ja few days age i,
ÜBiH <Ws WM^irilgst’royea-ry
high water. He cursed Go 1 for having his
crops destroyed last yea , by heat and
drouth, and for destroying them this year
by flood, and concluded hi blasphemy of
the Creator, with the eo iro-sion, “God
damn Him!” His tongue c ;ovo to the roof
of Ids mouth, and lie*, died j.he next night,
never uttering another wo 4.—[Henderso n
(Ky.) Reporter. $
POLITICAL N(|tES.
The of the Mneteenth Ward
of Now York think of nonlnating Arneri
ean-Team Gildebsleeve i|>r the Legisla
ture. A man’s ability tojlie down and
shoot off a gun will carryjhim further in
the Republican party twenty-five
years of the most unscrupulous integrity;
though we do not just mlsv recall more
than five or six thousand If ‘publicans who
have actually tried the integrity plan.—
Courier-Journal. *
After stating that three fr four hundred
negroes por day were beingjkilled in the in
surrectionary district of Georgia the Chi
cago Inter-Ocean lets off as | blows: “These
butcheries must cease, evens if it becomes
necessary to put the whole South again
under military control. Tflie life of the
negro is as sacred in the ey* of the Consti
tution as the life of the white man, and it
must be so maintained.” I
The Nashville Banner Isays if Bill
Allen wins the Ohio fight he will be the
choice of the South for Pr<{-idenl* Whilst
the South lias no particular I “choice” there
are many characteristics al|>ut him which
we admire. In the first pla<l;, he is a plain,
blunt, honest man, who seems to wi sh all
mankind well. He has nolfiing savo the
kindest feelings towards tie South, aud
North, too, for that rnrttfr. He has al
ways onposedthe oppressive policy of the
Radicals. *
Will a few hundred ofjthe people of
Georgia be so kind as to Ikldown and per
mit the peaceful negroes to eft their thr<>ats
that tho Rochester Chronics may bo con
vinced that there is some fptjhdatioh for the
recent reports from that Si|tte? By their
present policy the Georg|ms have pre
vented bloodshed, audifthgy hope for the
respect of Republican journals they must
alter it. Any disturbance wish a little blood
in it—no matter who gets hlrt—is of vast
importance to the Ropublic;|a party at this
time.—[Courier-Journal. |
From the Philadelphia p&iiers wo derive
some further meagre infor liation relative
to the recent meeting of |hat shattered
humbug, the “National Exeijitive Commit
tee of the Union League |of America.”
There were seven individual; present, one
of them, Conover, being a negro
from New York, who playedsan important
part in the gathering. Thoi meeting was
held in the smallest parlor c3' a hotel, with
a great air of mystery, repoi*;ers being ex
cluded. The Secretary stilted, however,
that the League contemplated using all its
influence to gather tho oldAVhigs of the
South into the Radical ne, and added:
“You will hear of more important develop
ments before we meet aga|i in a month
from now.”—[Courier-Journtl.
“A Member of the weak Bsfitist Church,’’
of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to say:
“In regard to the letter writtf'n to Jeffer
son Davls by Mr. Frankllx Sutton, in
viting the former to delivel a locture for
the benefit of “a weak Baptist Church of
this city,” it is simply just If> say that the
members of the weak cliure| were in total
ignorance of any such letterlor invitation
until it appeared in yesterday’s 'limes. If
such a letter was written it all—and it
roads as if it might bo genuin|—it was done
without the shadow of authcl 'ty from the
church, and entirely on Mi-.-i Sutton’s re
sponsibility.” Jeff Davis njay attend the
Illinois Agricultural Fair ami help it out,
or assist the “weak Baptisf Church” in
Pennsylvania, t>ut if he maksf. any appoint
ments to help raise money t<| pay Beech
er’s hundred thousand salar|, we will pro
test. |
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
NOTICE.
OFFICE BATH (8. C.) PAPER C 0..)
Bajh, S. C., September L 18.5. )
ON AND AFTER THIS DATE THE IN
TEREST on the Bonds of this Company will
be paid at the Planters’ Loan and Savings
Bank. JAMES BARRETT.
sepl-2t President.
THE BOARD OF HEALTH.
Ordinary's Office, Richmond County, 1
Augusta, Ga., August 21,1876. )
THE FOLLOWING TWO SECTIONS OF
the law creating the "Board of Health of the
State of Georgia”, is published for the infor
mation of all parties concerned •
Sec. 11. Be it further enacted, That all Phy
sicians in the practice of Medicine in this
State shall be required, under penalty of ten
dollars, to be recovered in any Court of com
petent jurisdiction in the State, at the suit of
the Ordinarv. to report to the Ordinary, in
the forms to be provided, all Deaths and
Births which come under his supervision,
with a certificate of the cause of death, &e.
Sec. 12, Be it further enacted, That where
any Birth or Death shall take place, no Phy
sician being in attendance, the same shall be
reported to the Ordinary, with the supposed
cause of death, by the parents, or, if none, by
the next kin, under penalty of ten dollars, at
the suit of the Ordinary, as provided in Sec.
11 of tliis Act.
Physicians or other persons can obtain
blank forms for the return of Births or Deaths
at my office, and a blank form for the return
of Marriages will hereafter be furnished with
the Marriage License, the same to be prop
erly filled out by the officiating minister or
officer and returned to this office.
Physicians are required to make their re
turns from the Ist of August.
SAMUEL LEVY.
aug22-3 t Ordinary.
CARPETS.
ALTHOUGH CARPETS HAVE ADVANCED,
we are stilt offering our
BODY BRUSSELS CARPETS,
TAPESTRY BRUSSELS CARPETS.
3 PLY INGRAIN CARPETS,
At Reduced Summer Prices. We invite spe
cial attention to our stock of Body Brussels
which we are closing out very low. Also, a
full stock of
THOROUGHLY SEASONED FLOOR OIL
CLOTHS. New and Beautiful WIN
DOW SHADES, WALL PAPERS
AND BORDERS,
As we are daily competing with New York
prices and quotations, we will sell in future
for cash or nett thirty days.
JAMES G. BAILIE & BRO.
augu-eodim 205 Broad Street.
THE MAGNOLIA PASSENGER ROUTE.
PORT ROY AI, RAILROAD, )
Office General Passenger Agent,
Augusta Ga., Aug. 6, 1875. )
ROUND TICKETS !
i tfeK Ar\ AUGUSTA to CHAIILES- *5 ,\t)
j >X4U TON and RETURN.
! ON AND AFTER THIS DATE ROUND
; TRIP TICKETS will be sold, via Yemasee
I from Augusta to Charleston, for $5.40, good
j until October Ist, 1875.
DAILY SCHEDULE.
j Leave Augusta 8:ooa. m.
! Arrive at Charleston 4:15 P- m.
5 Leave Charleston 8:loa. m,
: Arrive at Augusta 6:45 p. m.
Passengers en route to the "City by the
| Sea,” and those seeking the salubrious cli
mate of Carolina’s Long Branch, Sul
livan’s Island, will find this a pleasant route
by which to reach their destination.
Tickeis on sale at Planters’Hotel and Ticket
| Office, Union Depot.
T. S. DAVANT,
augO-lm Gonoral Passenger Assent.
AT EQUITABLE RATES, IN FIRST-CLASS
Companies. Cull at or write to my office,
219 Broad street, before insuring elsewhere.
C. W. HARRIS,
aug22-tf Gen’l Insuranbe Agent.
WAIN m
i>*‘ Advertiaements not over Jive lines wlii
be inserted under this head for fifty cents
each insertion, cash.
WANTED.— A FIRST-CLASS EXPERI
ENCED TEACHER, to take charge
of the Baptist Middle Association High
School. Address Trustees, at Lawtonville,
Burke county, Ga. aug3l-st*
■ITT - ANTED—A situation as Porter in a
\ V Store, Warehouse, Office Boy or Car
riage Driver. Good reference given. Ap
ply to Charley Jones, opposite Georgia
Passenger Shea, Walker street.
Sep2thusattm3
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Special Notice to Passengers and
Shippers via Charleston.
DURING the pressure of inward freights
wo will be compelled to sail for New
York without regard to days, as formerly,
say Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays,
but will endeavor to advise Passengers and
Shippers twenty-four hours in advance.
The CHARLESTON, Captain Berry, will
sail TO-MORROW MORNING, at 8 o’clock.
Passengers from Augusta and vicinity will
Breakfast on board. The GEORGIA will
follow and sail on TUESDAY, p. m. For
Through Tickets, State Rooms and Freights
apply to W STEVENSON,
sep2-tf Agent Steamship Lino.
JUST RECEIVED!
CJEVERAL cases beautiful FALL CALI
- COES. Several cases of KENTUCKY
JEANS, cheap,and a variety of seasonable
goods. Cheap for CASH.
sep2-thsatu-2w M. S. KEAN.
“ FERROTYPES.
Four for Fifty Cents,
FOR A SHORT TIME ONLY, AT
Clark’s City Ferrotype Gallery,
148 BROAD STREET,
Augusta, Ga.
seps-lc2
BARMS' IS ULFAUItII SIIIKTIMiS.
A T THE ONE-PRICE HOUSE.—H ENRY
J\_ L. A. BALK, 172 Broad Street.—l have
received to-day a large assortment of
Bleached Shirtings, Sheetings, and of Sea
Island Sheeti gs and Shirtings, which I
will sell at prices less than ever before, at
wholesale and retail. Now open, New Fall
Calicoes. HENRY’ L. A. BALK,
sep2-l* 172 Broad street.
RAILROAD HOUSE,
THOMSON, GA.,
By Henry McKinney.
CONVENIENT to Railroad Depot. Fas
sengers by Day Down Train take din
ner at this place. sep2-tf
Engines * Ginning Cotton.
ANTED—Locations for Portable En
gines for Ginning Cotton. Call on or ad
dress DANIEL & ROWLAND.
sep2-dscl* Augusta, Ga.
THE MISSES JACKSON’S
INSTITUTE,
NO. 147 GREENE STREET.
THE EXERCISES OF THIS INSTITU
TION will be resumed on MONDAY,
September 2jth.
Scholastic year divided into two Sessions.
Tuition, one-half payable on entrance; the
remainder February 7th, 1870.
No extra charge for Latin or French.
sep2-tu,th&susw
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Grand Excursion and Ball!
THURSDAY, Sept- 9, 1875.
A. FAST TRAIN WILL LEAVE AU
GUSTA at 7:30 a. m., arriving at PORT
ROYAL', S. C., at 2 p. m., where dinner will
be served at the Mansion House at 4p. m.,
after which there will boa
GRAND BALL.
Music by Chapman String Band.
Return Train leaves Port Royal a 2 a. m.,
or at such later time as the party desires.
This will be the finest affair of the season
—FASL 1 TRAINS, GOOD DINNER and
ENCHANTING BALL.
Tickets $4, including Faro, Dinner and
Ball. Tickets for sale at Geo, Oates’ Book
Store, Quinn & Pendleton, Book Sellers;
Brahe, Jeweller; W. H. Tutt & Remsen,
Druggists; W. H. Fleming,Druggist; Rich
ards & Sons, Booksellers; P. H. Primrose,
0. E, O’Connor, C. K. Carter, at Blair, Smith
& Co.’s.
Every ticket holder is entitled to a chance
in a raffle for the set of SILVERWARE on
exhibition at Brahe’s Jewelry Stor •, to be
raffled at the Mansion House on the night
of the Ball.
TICKETS LIMITED TO 150.
Those wishing to visit the Fleet will have
an opportunity of doing* so. sep2-tilsep9
RAMSEY A D’ANTiGNAC,
A UCTIO NEK PfcSS,
\\7TLL SELL ON FRIDAY, at 10 o'clock
VV a. m., in fronted' their Auction House,
the following Goods:
CHAIlte, MATTING, CLOTHING,
MACKEREL, in kits, % and % bbls.,
FEATHERS, PLOWS and Plow Points,
IRON TIES, BEDSTEADS,
PILLOWS, PAINTS, SCALES,
PAILS, BUCKETS, BRUSHES,
SCHOOL BOOKS, HOODS,
And sundry other Goods. sep2-2
NOW’S THE TIME
To Patronize the New Store
AT
ISO. 330 Broad Nt reet.
Opposite C. V. Walker’s Auction House.
Come and see us.
sepl-tf J. A. BONDURANT.
TO RENT.
FOR RENT,
RESIDENCE AND STORE at 230 Broad
street, opposite 0. V. Walker’s auction
house. Apply to J. T. DERUY,
augl2-tf Or M. HYAMS.
TO RENT,
IfIRAME DWFLLING, with eight rooms,
1 on the north side of Walker, fourth be
low Centre street. Apply to
JAMES G. BAILIE,
auglO-tf 205 Broad street.
TO RENT.
171 ROM THE Ist OF OCTOBER NEXT,
" the Store on the corner of Broad and
Washington streets, now occupied by Mr.
J. B. Norriss. Apply at
augs-tf _ THIS OFFICE.
TO RENT,
FROM the Ist of October, the HOUSE
next to Dr. Garvin’s, with five Rooms,
and double Kitchen in yard, water and gar
den. Apply at
jy!4-tf NO. 84 WALKER STREET.^
STORE TO RENT.
[StORE No. 200 Broad street, now occu
pied by P. G. Burum.
For Terms, apply to
jyls*tf 11. H. D’ANTIGNAC.
TO RENT.
On Washington street, the TENEMENT
HOUSE, next door to Dr. J. H. Eve’s.
Apply to
_ jy7-tf _ _ W. F. EVE
FOR RENT,
ONE-HALF of the first and second sto
ries of a large Brick Warehouse, for
merly occupied by Wireless & Cos., Rey
nolds street. Wll be rented low to a good
tenant.
aug3l-0 W. T. WHELESS.
TO RENT,
From the ist of October next,
that LARGE and COMMODIOUS
STORE, No. 338 Broad street, at present oc
cupied by F. A. Timberlake & Cos.
Apply to
jy3l-tf P. H. PRIMROSE.
For Rent or to Lease.
THE WARRENTON HOTEL, newly fur
nished, and as desirable a location as is
in the country. Applications entertained
till September 10th next. For particulars
address Post Office Box No. 3, Warrenton,
Ga. aug2o-30d
TO RENT,
rjMIE OFFICE No. 3, Exchange Building,
at present occupied by Messrs. Beall, Spears
& Cos. Anply to
aug22-tf DANIEL A ROWLAND
TO RENT,
]MIOM the First of October next, the
. dwelling on the North side of Broad
street (4th door from Mclntosh) now oc
cupied by Dr. J. F. H. Brown.
WM. A. WALTON.
No. 10, Old Post Office Range, Mclntosh
street, up stairs. aug7-tf.
TO RENT.
| )AIIT OF A HOUSE with water, gas and
JL every convenience for house-keeping.
Price, $250 a year. Possession given Ist
September if desired. Also a suite of rooms
and a furnished lodging room. Location
central. Apply to
augl2-tf M. A. STOVALL.
TO RENT,
IMiOM THE FIRST OF OCTOBER next,
the elegant and commodious STORE,
209 Broad street, at present occupied by M.
S. Kean as a dry goods store, apply to
H. F. CAMPBELL,
Or A. S. CAMPBELL,
jy29-tf 207 Broad street.
TO RENT,
rjMIE STORE NOW OCCUPIED BY
YOUNG & HACK.
Apply to JOHN M. CLARK & CO.,
aug 29-4 t
TO RENT,
By E. W. HARKEII. No. 83 Broad street,
below Lower Market, line HOUSE
With Bath Room, Ac. Rent low'.
No. 18 Washington street, first door from
Broad street; has four rooms and four
kitchen rooms, and large store.
For sale cheap, 100 acres LAN D in Do-
Laigle’s old place. aug27-lm
For Sale or to Rent.
HOUSE and lot on the south sido of
Broad street, between Centre and El
bert, known as No. 84. now occupied by
Gen. R. Y. Harris. The lot has a front on
Broad and Ellis streets of 44 feet, more or
less. The improvements consist of a com
fortablo two story brick dwelling, a kitchen,
&c.
Georgia Railroad stock, at a liberal price,
will be taken in exchange, or long time
given, if desired, to an approved purchaser.
If not sold the property will be rented on
reasonable terms, and applications are so
licited. wm. a. walton,
No. 10 Old Post Office Range,
I \# ETIVI To agonts and others, male
1 w tall and female, asso secret and
beautifully illustrated 100-
A %A# AX/ page Novelty Catalogue, li.
Mwf ¥ IF. Young & Cos., 29 Broad
way. New York. jy29-iawiy
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
' ' OFF IC E O F TII E
Piedmont and Arlington Life Insurance Company,
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA,
August 27th, 1875.
To Our Friends and Policy Holders in South Carolina and Augusta, Ga.:
i -iL Wvr Htttsox Jr., lately of South Oaiolina, to take
charge * ouXeucyKliSsto' Oa, aud control the busies heretofore conducted hy
“• £ aratire the continued of W
earnest assistance m advancing oui mu , t aU( i would cite the con ection of one
„ evidence of how l,l g h your
Company stands with those best Rualffied to juage. interest, or by address
m* £ wUI re “ l ' B pru“pt—
on' w. C. CAI'.IRINGTOX, President.
• Q
agency of the
Piedmont and Arlington Life Insurance Company,
AUGUSTA, GA., August 7Hi, 187 T.
Kefenin g Uc> s *gS"com‘i‘a S'v’
SS i wA g°g> 3!
££e Jour pay,
K’sSMSt,' o o%‘a'ucS B P S U l,et J to r . or by HScpre*. upon receipt of w hlch you will
tiou i W iii aft S oon as possible, visit the different Counties of my Agency, and makoio?;al
arrangements for the convenience of our Policy Holders in paying then premiums.
Very Respectfully,
XV. XI. IIUTSOX, Jr.,
General Agent Piedmont and Arlington Life Insurance Cos.,
aug29 tf A UHUSTA , GEORGIA.
EDUCATIONAL.
SELECT SCHOOL.
Mas . WM. C. DERRY’S Select School fox
girls will be reopened on Monday, Septem
ber 20th 1875. Rates of Tuition, $lO, $8 and
SG, per Term of eleven weeks.
aug2sw&stilsept2o
Academy of Richmond Cos.
11HE EXERCISES of this Institution will
be resumed on MONDAY, 13th of Sep
tember, 1875. It is important that pupils
should be present at the openiug of the
SOStilOU ' J. T. DERRY,
aug22-3\v Secretary of Faculty.
SOOTiSM liISOMC FIMALBGOLLM
milE next session opens September Ist.
X This instution is in successful opera
tion under wholesome discipline, and
affords first class training for young ladies.
Rates for Board and Tuition moderate. For
particulars, send for catalogue.
J. N. BRADSHAW,
President.
Covington, Ga., Aug. 6,1875.
aug2o-d<fcc2w
MADAME SOSNOWSKI’S
HOME SCHOOL
FOR YOUNG LADIES,
ATHENS, GEORGIA.
CALENDAR.
]"IHE scholastic year is divided into 2 ses
sions. First session commences Sep
tember 15th; i-eoond session February 7tli.
Closing Exercises occur on the last
Thursday in June—preceding two weeks—
devoted to private examinations.
Terms (per session), payable in advance.
Board, with use of fuffi SBO 00
English Department 3 1 00
Music—lnstrumental 30 00
Music—Vocal, Extra Lessons 30 00
French Department 15 00
o. 15 00
Drawing 10 00
Painting, in Oil and Pastel 30 00
Use of piano 5 00
Each pupil is required to furnish her own
bed linen, towels aud lights.
Washing can be secured at moderate
rates. jyl-tf
INSURANCE.
Gi EO. SIMMS, Agent, represents thofol-
I lowing Companies, viz:
Commercial Union Fire As-uir
anco Company of London,
England, Gross Assets $17,714,578 0C
Connecticut Fire Insurance
Company, Hartford, Conn.... 877,594 58
Manhattan Fire Insurance
Company, New York City.... 700,885 36
New Orleans Fire Insurance
Company, New Orleans, La.. C15.5C6 56
Home Protection Fire Insur
ance Company, Huntsville,
Ala .-... 121,21115
John Hancock Mutual Life In
surance Company, Boston,
Mass 2,750,000 00
$22,809,835 71
GEO. SYMMS, Agent,
No. 221 Broad Street,
septl-6m Augusta. Ga.
m nous mm
—IN TIIE-
Insurance Company Nor ill America,
ORGANIZED 1794. ASSETS, nearly
FIVE MILLION DOLLARS.
Virginia Fire & Marine Ins. Cos.,
ORGANIZED 1832. ASSETS, FIVE HUN
DRED THOUSAND DOLLARS.
Lowest Adequate Rates. Apply in per
son or by letter to
J. V. H. ALLEN A CO.
Insurance Agents,
aug29-tf 227 Broad St., Augusta, Ga.
Fruilland Nurseries, Augusta, Ga.
PJ. BERCKMANS, Proprietor. Orders
. for Trees, Plants, Bulbs, Seeds, etc.,
etc., left with the undersigned will be promt
ly attended to.
GEORGE SYMMS, Agent,
No. 221 Broad Street,
septl-6m Augusta, Ga.
BEALL. STEAKS & TO.,
COTTON FACTORS
AND
Commission !
HAVE REMOVED to Office and Ware
house formerly occupied by them.
Warehouse, No. 6 Campbell street; Office
and Salesroom, No. 177 Reynolds street,
Augusta, Ga. sepl-3w
NOTICE.
Ip ROM THIS DATE Mr. GEORGE W.
CALVIN becomes a copartner of the
undersigned. The llrm name will remain
as heretofore.
CALVIN A JONES.
September Ist, 1875. sepl-tf
$5 REWARD.
Stolen, from the Christian Church, a
SURVEYOR’S SPIRIT LEVEL. Any one
returning the instrument will receive the
above reward.
sepl-3 T. O. BROWN.
FOR SALE,
8 HORSE PORTABLE ENGINE, Sliap
loy’s Patent Safety Boiler. Perfectly
safe from lire and explosion. Took lirst
premium at New York State Fair. I
bought it on the ground. It is now running
my Plaining Mill, at Harlem, where it can
be seen at any time for the next ten days.
I am putting in a 30 horse engine and have
no further use for this one. Warranted in
perfect order and to give perfect satisfac
tion. Come and look at it and buy it if you
want the Best Portable Engine in the World
at a bargain. H . A. COOK.
aug27-lw Harlem, Ga.
REMOVAL.
T HAVE REMOVED TO NO. 330 BROAD
X STREET, opposite Planters’ Hotel and
C. V. Walker’s Auction House. Come and
see us. J. A. BONDURANT.
sepl-tf
THE J’KXAS
Cotton Worm Destroyer!
A Sure aud Safe Itemed y for the Destruc
tion of the
CATERPILLAR.
f T DOES AWAY WITH THE USE OP
X Paris Green and all other poisonous ar
ticles; is more effectual, less dangerous,
and much cheaper than any article ever of
fered for sale. Having been extensively
used in Texas during Hie past year, is said
to be by some of the best planters in the
State the only article ever used that will
entirely destroy the CATERPILLAR with
out injury to the plant. It is easily applied
and no danger in its use, costino only
about 25 oiiNTS pek acre. For particulars
as to price, Ac., apply to
D. It. Ill) 1. 1 Savannah,
General Agent for Georgia.
IYI, A. STOVALL.
Agent, Augusta, Ga.
Agents wanted through the State. jelß-3m
GEORGE G. HULL,
PROPRIETOR OF THE
EXCELSIOR MILLS
(Formerly Stovall’s Excelsior Mills),
AUGUSTA, GA.,
MAFUFACTU RE- FLOUR in all grades.
The old and well known EXCELSIOR
BRANDS
PRIDE OF AUGUSTA,
GOLDEN SHEAF,
EXTRA,
LITTLE BEAUTY,
Always on hand, and their well earned
reputation will bo faithfully
maintained.
CORN ME AL,
CRACKED CORN,
CRACKED WHEAT,
GRAHAM FLOUR,
MILL FEED,
B R A N, Etc.,
Constantly made, and orders promptly
filled at the
LOWEST RATES.
je23lf
Attractions Extraordinary
THE ILLUMINATED TEA-CHEST,
Presented to the
China Tea and Coffee Store
TEAS. 1 EAS, TEAS.
Samples Given Away.
\TrE HAVE ALSO ERECTED A RE-
Vv \OL\ING PYRAMID, containing
samples of the choicest Bottled Liquobs,
put up expressly for those who are willing
to pay for a strictly pure article.
Call and see us. Satisfaction guaranteed
in all cases.
11. N. HOTCHKISS,
Prop’r China Tea and Coffee Store,
Red Gilt Front, opp. Fountain,
jy 25-tf 143 Broad Street
O. H. PHINIZV. P. B. PHINJZY.
C. H. PHINIZY & CO.
COTTON FACTORS
AUCUSTA, CEORCIA,
Make liberal advances on con
signments, buy and sell Cotton for fu
ture delivery in New York. Furnish Plant
ers with supplies. Keep always on hand a
large Stock of BAGGING, ami are the Sole
Agents for the
Beard Cotton Tie,
Win ship Cotton Gin,
And the
Peerless Guano.
Consignments and Orders respectfully so
licited.
aug!9-2m C. H. PHINIZY fc CO.
ASSIGNEE’S SALE.
BY BIGNON A CRUMP, Aucrr onekiis.
BV virtue of an order from the Register
iu Bankruptcy, will be sold for cash,
at public out-cry, at the Lower Market
Home in this city, on the FIRST TUESDAY
IN SEPTEMBER next, between the usual
hours of sale, the doubtfull and insolvent
notes and book accounts, (amounting in the
aggregate to about $4,000), of the late Arm
of Hvams A Neufviiie, Bankrupts, subject
to all equities, set-offs and defenses. A list
of said claims can be seen at the Court
House, store of Bignon A Crump, and the
office of T. A J. L. Oakman, No. 2 Warren
Block. JULIUS L. OAKMAN,
Assignee of Est. Hyarns A Neufviiie.
Bankrupts. au2B-tsep7
LACE CURTAINS
CLEANED AND WHITENED,
AT
123 BROAD STREET.
aug27-12 JAS. H. HULSE.
NOTICE.
A LL persons having left Watches, Clocks,
xjL Jewelry, Guns or Pistols for repairs at
J. Kaplan are hereby notified to call for
them within 30 days from date, or they will
bo sold at auction to pay expenses.
I will sell my stock of Clocks, Watches,
Jewelry, Fancy Goods, Pistols, Musical In
struments, Ac., 25 per cent, below cost 1111
September 29th, to close business.
JACOB KAPLAN,
150 Broad street.
Augusta, Ga., August 26th, 1875.
aug26-3Q