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AUGUSTA, C3-A..:
Sunday Morning, September 5, 1875
A Crusade Against Fashion—The Old
Bull Against the'Comet.
It is an undeniable fact that extrav
agance of all kinds has, as one of the
“Tesults of the war,” very powerfully
conduced to the low condition of
finance and morals in the United
States. The papers of the East and
West are using some strong language
of protest against this tendency to, and
practice of, fashionable folly. The New
York Times, for example, speaks right
out in meeting, thus :
It is not without feelings of apprehension
that a husband of the present day glances
into the windows of the bonnet makers and
milliners. The show which is there set out
gives him some idea of the demands which
will be made on his purse this Winter.
What is offered to his notice at this mo
ment is not calculated to put him in good
spirits. The bonnets, or hats, or whatever
the mysterious articles are to be called, are
evidently made up more extravagantly
than ever. The other day it was announced
that bonnets during the coming Fall and
Winter would be trimmed with lace, and
• tliat a specimen of this kind of workman
ship might easily cost S2OO. Poor paterfa
mil as! His heart sinks within him as he
reads these melancholy things. A failure,
not immediately affecting himself; a burg
] u\v in a neighbor’s house; an earthquake
in some other part of the country—these
events would not make him naif so misera
ble. Even in ordinary times, the price of a
bonnet is out of all proportion to its
worth, or to the means of its purchaser. It
ranges from $25 to SSO, not putting an out
side ligure either way; and we believe the
lady of the present age expects at least
four or five bonnets a season, and then
will boast of being much more economical
than “ other women.” A bonnet for which
$35 is charged is seldom worth intrinsi
cally more than $10; and how many men
are there, in these shaky times, who can
honestly afford to buy four or five bon
nets at say S3O each in one season?
Milliners and dress-makers have sent
more husbands and wives to the divorce
courts than all other human beings com
bined. They are the great sbwers of do
mestic unhappiness.
Very few Southern ladies worthy of
the name, we should think, can be
brought under such an accusation,
and very few Southern husbands or
fathers could be induced to pander to
such reckless fashions in these days of
stringency. But we doubt not that, at
the North, thousands of the shoddy
nobility are travelling this desperate
path to perdition, and many of the
male fools who allow the women of
their households to cut such capers
will end in the mad-house, the peni
tentiary or the river. The Times con
tinues thus:*'
Men’s dress affords comparatively little
scope for cheating; but still, if men were
as careless of their money as women are,
tailors would contrive to run up bills al
most equal to those of the dressmaker.
Hut, as a rule, men keep a watch over their
expenditure. They try to get the worth of
their money. And that is a matter to which
the women of the present day seldom pay
any attention. Ask them if a bonnet for
which $35 is demanded is honestly worth
that sum, and they will answer no. But
they "want” it all the same; and those of
us who have lived long enough to get a
gray hair or two in our heads know that
what they want they will have sooner
or later. It is, then, only from their
sense of kindness and justice to
ward their own families that any change
for the better Can be looked for.
It was stated the other day that a num
ber of ladies in Paris had resolved to dress
only in the cheapest of materials all the
►Summer, such as prints and muslins. Of
course they were French ladies. And these
dresses were to be made'up in the cheapest
manner possible. Now, suppose such a
custom as that were to become universal ?
Where would Worth and all his tribe, male
and female, be in a couple of years ? Sweep
ing crossings or scrubbing floors. Ladies
would not suffer—for never does a pretty
woman look so pretty as when she is neatly
and plainly dressed. Who is there that
cannot summon from the ‘‘moonlight of
memory” some form all radiant in beauty
of which there is no more to be said now
than can be put into the two words of the
poet —urnategit? Was it dress which gave
to that form its unforgotten charm ? No,
nor is all this excess of outward adorn
ment ever attractive to men; perhaps it is
not meant to be.
Despite the sail truth of much of the
above, it must not be forgotten that
thousands of poor women live by the
follies of the rich. It is a pity and a
shame that any woman should help
ruiu husband or father, but as thou
sands have done so, and will continue
their wild work till the end of time, it
may be some compensation that what
brings woe to the wealthy has brought
breail to the, indigent. We have long
been of the opinion that fashion is, as a
rule, as impervious to ridicule or as
sault, as the cotton planters are deaf to
appeals for diversification of their
crops. Men will keep on sermonizing,
and the women of the world will wear
fashionable attire, no matter how vio
lative of health and propriety. Now,
what is to be done? We see no outlet
save the old, old sentiment,which a con
temporary neatly expresses, that “until
a woman’s mind is occupied with high
er thoughts, and until she is admired
for mental and moral worth more than
for her beauties of form and feature,
the fashion plates will be consulted,
great bargains sought for, and every
novelty find ready adoption.” And un
til that time many husbands hnd fa
thers will continue to be bankrupted
and some of them utterly disgraced.
Hazing. —Sometime ago, Cadet Er
win, at West Point, thrust his bayonet
into one of his companions who essayed
to “haze” him by throwing him over a
precipice. Erwin’s action has been, we
learn, entirely justified by the authori
ties of the Academy. And now it is
said “some foolish students of the sci
entific college of Yale University hazed
a freshman the other day, and by doing
bo kicked up an international qparrel,
for the freshman was a young China
man of high rank, and part of the
hazing consisted in cutting off his cue.
He has therefore, lost caste, and has
been deprived of his allowance by the
Chinese educational commission in this
country. The Chinese minister at
Washington has investigated the mat
ter and sent home a report to his gov
ernment. The latter may ask satisfac
tion for the insult.” Now, here is a
question of international law which
might engage the attention of legal
oentlemen of this State, when they get
through with the Supreme Court.
A Gay Old Prophet—Staff Reorganiza
tion Imminent.
The New York Herald is an uue
qualed newspaper, and a sensationalist
without a peer; but the truth of his
tory compels us to declare that, as a
prophet of events, it is a failure. Just
now that journal is assuming lordly
airs in the way of giving advice to the
Democracy, and, incidentally, predict
ing that the Democratic party is pro
gressing rapidly to the “demnition
bow-wows.” It concluded an article, a
day or two ago, in this self-satisfied
fashion : “The truth is that the Demo
crats are frightening the country back
into the Republican party. They are
preparing the way for a third term;
for if the next election is to be carried
by a sort of panic revulsion against the
Democratic leaders then it is clear to
everybody that Gen. Grant will be the
nominee, The country is certainly op
posed to a third term; but if the Dem
ocrats go on as they are going it will
prefer a third term to Democratic
rule - it will rush to Grant out of aver
sion to and suspicion of the Democrats.
That is the real danger in our politics
to-day; and the danger of a third term
comes, not from the Republicans, but
from the Democrats.” What evidence
is there that the country is being so
frightened? Perhaps the Herald thought
California would come to the rescue of
the editor’s theory, but California
Democrats, to use a forcible slang ex
pression, “did not scare worth a cent.”
if Grant is put up for a third term, it
will simply bo because he is the strong
est and most available man; and if
the people of this country—the voting
masses who have been ruined by Re
publican enormities —re-elect the Pres
ident-General, why, let them do it, and
take the consequences. So far as the
South is concerned, we say to the Her
ald ami all its ‘tribe that, if they prefer
the present policy of the Radicals to
Democratic restoration, let them try it
on at their peril. The South can stand
Grant if the North can. Meanwhile
what are the facts extant to demon
strate that the Democracy are “fright
ening the country back into the Repub
lican party ?”
Tramps.
The Chicago Tribune says: “The
tramps of Massachusetts, of New Eng
land, and New York, are not the North
ern people, but the dregs of European
emigration, who would rather beg, or
even steal, than work. Tramps abound
in the North because the North is in
dustrious and prosperous, and is able
to give them a living. They always
flock to places where the people are
prosperous enough to give them seme
tiling. They do not go South, because
industry does not generally prevail in
the South. Were every man at work
in the South, general prosperity would
abound, and the tramps would then
flock there as they now flock to the
New England States. At present a
tramp would starve in the South be
fore he had tramped auy considerable
distance.” And yet, a few years ago,
these foreigners were the “glorious sol
diers of the Union army.” The South
may thank God, perhaps, that she is
too poor to be tramped over, and the
question is, how long can New Eng
land’s prosperity last, when the mice
are gnawing at her cheese. If we are
to grow rich for the pickings of tramps,
after the robbery of carpet-baggers, it
may be just as well to remain poor.
So far as Augusta is concerned, the
tramp would have a hard time here
sure enough, so long as Mayor Estes
reigns and Atlanta is hankering after
enterprising immigrants.
The Supreme Court. — We fear the
Supreme Court question will become a
rival of the Schleswig-Holstein contro
versy. The Court is good enough as it
is and the salaries are amply sufficient.
If a poor man apprehends that he can
not get justice from that high tribunal,
let him thank God for the knowledge,
and oave his cash by keeping ou; of
litigation. If the Judges think they
are not well enough paid, let them
“step down and out.” There are plenty
of men left who would b 8 only too glad
to take their places. A New York
Judge died the other day, at an ex
treme age, too, who frequently did the
work of all of his colleagues. Perhaps
the race of such Judges is extinct, but
we do not believe it. Perhaps the best
course of all is to let the Supreme
Court alone.
Jay Gould.— The fate of Ralston is
starting speculation as to the possible
end of Jay Gould. The New York
Herald says: “ The question which
people ask themselves now, in view of
the course of Mr. Gould, is — How long
can he be expected to keep it up ? Can
be continue to carry the whole street
on his shoulders? They are broad ;he
is strong; nobody pretends to doubt
his ability to bear burdens. But is lie
not carrying too great a load? No
doubt Mr. Gould will continue to buy ;
he is not a man to falter in an under
taking. He will increase his load. But
may it not become too great, even for
him?” If th g Herald expects to frighten
Jay Gould from absorbing the tele
egraph and press of this country, on
the first of October, it is mistaken. J.
G. is a regular lizard and will proba
bly die as rich as Dives. Beyond that
let Lazarus look.
The Children. —The Baltimore Ga
zette says : “A child beginning to read
becomes delighted with a newspaper,
because he reads of names and tilings
which are familiar, and he will progress
accordingly. A newspaper in one year
is wortii a quarter’s scliooling to a
child. Every father must consider that
information is connected with advance
ment. The mother of a family being
one of its heads, and having a more
immediate charge of children, should
herself be instructed. A mind occupied
becomes fortified against the ills of
life, and is braced for emergencies.
Children amused by reading or study
are ofttimes more considerate and more
easily governed.” True as the gospel
according to St. Luke. If parents will
not read themselves, they should at
least encourage their offspring to do so.
The curbstone politicians look gloomy
and hungry.
Y r endetta. —We see it stated in one j
of our exchanges that the “Bulliners,
Russells and Hendersons, the families
engaged in the Williamson county j
(Illinois) vendetta, are all wealthy, and
are actually said to hire out their
killing to strangers from Kentucky
and Tennessee, who are imported for
the purpose and then vanish. In Wil
liamson county, since 18G2, there have
been seventeen murders and man
slaughters and twelve assassinations.
For the latter offense no convictions
have been made; for the former one
man was pardoned out after serving a
year,and one other is in the State prison
for toenty-five years, a sentence that
in Illinois means from four to seven
years’ confinement.” How would it do
for the Government to arrest the whole
tribe of Bulliners, Russells and Hen
dersons, confine them closely, feed
them generously, gorge their livers
like epicures do Strasburg geese, and
have them in good order for eating by
the time the delegation of Fiji islanders
visit the centennial?* Contracts for
“missionaries” are promulgated, but
we prefer to spare the clergy and make
a useful example of these assassins by
proxy.
Charity. —The art of living ou other
people when you have means of your
own amounts to genius in some cases.
There are persons who do this thing in
handsome style, and there are persons
who practice it like grub worms. An
old Baltimore man, Dr. Monahan, was
of the latter class. He got sick, and
petitioned for entrance into a Charity
Institution. In his clothes were found
£4.400, and he owned, in addition, two
good farms in Montgomery county.—
The old feilow boarded around promis
cuously, and seldom paid the landlord
or landlady. And now these victims
are after his estate with very sharp
sticks.
Ralston.—We do not rejoice over tho
death of the Pacific Monte Cri to, but
if anything could console us for his
loss it would be the fact that he was re
ported to have been “an ardent Repub
lican, and like a good many more of his
party, did not scruple to use any means
within liis reach to accomplish his par
tisan ends. He made Sharon and Jones
United States Senators, and the means
by which the thing was accomplished
is explained in the story of the Bank of
California, liabilities $14,000,000, assets
$7,000,000, without making any allow
ance for inevitable shrinkage.”
Iron. —The Baltimore Sun records
that Graff, Burnett & Cos., of Pitts
burg, Pa., exhibit remarkable speci
mens of sheets of iron manufactured
by that company. The sheets are
freed from carbon, are perfectly mal
leable, and easily used without break
ing. A surprising thing about it is
their delicate thinness. In several of
the samples there are thirteen thou
sand five hundred sheets, and in the
heaviest specimens there are seven
thousand five hundred sheets to the
inch.
Clammy.— The Courier -Journal says :
“A feature of a political clam-bake,
near New York, was the self-destruc
tion of a member of the suite of the
Italian Minister to the United States.
Clams do not always * minister to a
mind diseased.’ ” Passionate declama
tion, after eating a clam as tough as a
gum shoe or Jay Gould’s gizzard, is
enough to make a high-strung fellow
blow his brains out.
Protection.— The New York Evening
Post remarks that “ the old notion that
governments are instituted to protect
members of society in their lights is
fast yielding to the apprehension that
members of society have no other du
ties than to protect themselves from
governments.” True, oh, King ! But
what great pains the abolition Post has
taken to make that statement a mel
ancholy fact.
Gold Bugs. —And now it is said that
those ex-bar-keepers, Flood and
O’Brien, are supposed to have on ac
tual deposit, and locked up in various
ways, not far short of $J0,000,000. They
are good Democrats, and probably we
owe the victory out there in Califor
nia to their “ demnition cash,” quite as
much as to their principles, begorra !
Financial.— The Now Orleans Pica
yune, in one of its financial articles,
says : “The people who sit nervously
in counting houses, or behind their
goods, waiting for customers to take
them by storm, and making no effort
to let the world know the bargains they
have to offer, will find the season very
unpropitious.”
Tile Jate lamented balloonist, Donald
son, was an inflationist, and Western men
should consider what he came to. —JYew
York World.
Bosli! It was not inflation, but con
traction, that did the job for Donald
son. Next.
Muscular.— Prize lighters frequently
die of consumption—or whiskey. When
they leave the ring, they nearly always
turn drunkards and gamblers. John
Mouiusey is an exception so far, but lie
may have to drink cod-liver oil yet, and
take up his abode at Aiken.
Alex. H. 11. Stuart, of Virginia, pro
nounces for immediate resumption of
specie payments—this afternoon, if possi
ble.—AL Y. World.
It might not be impertinent to en
quire if A. H. H. Stuart promptly
pays his own debts in rag or any other
currency?
Why is the Picayune, when speaking- of
its "nearly doubled” the edition of the
Times , on the Ist of September, like a harp
struck by lightning?—2V. O. Times.
The Times ought to be ashamed of
itself for insinuating that the Picayune
is a “blasted lyre.”
A Big Debt.—New York city is
plodding along under a debt of $156,-
568,000: or SBOO for every family of five
persons.
How Now?—California is a hard
money State, but the Democracy con
trived to have a soft thing of it.
A Mississippi Judge couldn’t convince a
lawyer that a certain decision was consti
tutional until after he had knocked him
down.
PERSONAI|.
Tennyson’s wife’s mothfgr was the late
Sir John Franklin’s sister, lllence the epi
taph. I
Goethe would have betii one hundred
and twenty-six years old |f he had only
lived till last Saturday. i
Thu Vendome Columnjffstill worrying
the I’arisians. They wan* somebody to
“put a head on it.” |
Catharine Beecher is working hard for
a university for women i| Boston. Per
haps a chair can be founlled for Bessie
Turner. I
The Whitehall Times sal’s a merchant
who does not advertise cl n no more suc
ceed than can a young *ady without a
bustle. *
Since the Vendome Column In Paris has
been restored, it is as popt lar as ever as
a place for suicides to th ow themselves
from.
General Sherman dar :ed with Miss
Wood ie McCormick when h was at Omaha.
Sheridan wanted to, but 1 rs. .“.wouldn’t
let him.
Mrs. M. G. Davenport v is t ected one
of the delegates to the Mjiliaska County
(la J Republican convention! last w-ek, but
the csonvention, by a vot|| of 36 to 17, re
fused to admit her. * j
Ton Thumb is a pockef Bennett. His
yacht,, Maggie 8., is winnit% prizes in New
England. His last trophy S a silver punch
bowl in which the whole: family can be
drowned. I
Smjler Colfax exhaufts every ex
pedient to win popularity. iHehas publicly
announced that he believtls a woman oan
keep a secret, and that | the contrary
opinion is a miserable, wor# out theory.
Because CoL-nel Baker ugLsbeliaved Mon
cure D. Conway jumps at,|the conclusion
that all the higher officers in the British
army are in danger of demoralization from
sheer idleness. |
The reason Adelina Pattiliscribes for not
coming to the United State’ is her dread of
sea sickness. So accomplished a canta
trice should bo tolerably omfortable on
the high o’s.
Th e Hon. Alexander H. S ephens is said
to hold views on the monej question simi
lar to those of Governor .lien and Hon.
George H. Pendleton. Alec c’s head is level
there.—Nashville American
Here’s consolation for tj pors. Just be
fore the start in the last rai e at Saratoga,
the other day, a quart < 1 whiskey was
poured down the throat oi Brigand, and it
is claimed that it was this stimulant that
made him the unexpected x inner.
Agnes Meyers, a youi ? lady living at
San Buenaventura, has j ist st. rved' to
death, owing t > the burnin, of her throat
by a solution of potash wh ::h siie took by
mistake, the excoriation be ng so dreadful
that she was unable to sw dlow anything
but ice-water.
The people wonder—Can it be
That Captain Webb sw: m over
The twenty miles of choi ping sea
Between Calais and Do er ?
Yet, really, when one re ds the tale,
With candor undiluted,
’Tis fair to ask, how coui 1 he fail—
A man that's born AVeb >-footed ?
Miss Ada Luck, of Car hage, 0., won a
cook-stove at tho Cincinn: ti fair “as best
and most expeditious cook ’ In thirty min
utes she cooked, and cooke ; well, potatoes,
chicken, porter-house stea : tomatoes and
corn, and made coffee, tea, pie and biscuit,
and set tho table in the net ;est style.
Tice murderer who go s often to the
scene of murder com s he ne*murdered at
last. John King, of Pella, la., got drunk,
and mounting liis horse re ie away “to kill
old man Ritchie,” but fell ( T his horse and
broke his neck, ro that ‘ )ld man Ritchie
’’was foreman of the Corot ?r’s jury.
A number of Baltimor. girls who had
gone to Round Top to pici peaches, being
assured they could earn $2 a day, have
gone home disgusted. Wi ges were from
fifteen to twenty cents a day, their food
was such as swine would h ive loathed, and
they had to sleep in barns >n straw thinly
littered down.
Senator Morton, of I diana, who lias
embarked in the Maine ca vass, has taken
j the ragged, bloody shut Tom his trunk,
and is waving it about him with the furious
energy of a Red Republic: u. The Spring
field (Mass.) Repubii an t links lie might
announce liis mission in die language of
Mr. Wardle’s Fat Boy, “ ( want to make
yer flesh creep.”
Milton—Milton’s Paradi ;e Lost is not so
lofty as his character, no : more sublime
than his life, as we are abk to measure and
trace its influence.
“Thy soul was like a star, nd dwelt apart ;
Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like
the sea,
Pure as the naked heaven: : majestic, free.
i did’st thou travel on lit' ’s common way
In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart
The lowliest duties on hers df did lay.”
POLITICAL N >TEB.
A Democratic procossio i at Raymond,
Miss., a few days ago, was joined by three
hundred colored citizens.
Ra dical organs point w h pride to the
existence of no less t hai 1 twenty Know-
Noti ing lodges in Clevela id, 0., and they
claim to number hundreds n that Radical
stronghold, the Western R -serve.
Attention of Radio ils o gans, which try
to convince somebody that ( lie Democracy
will split next year on the currency issue,
is called to tho fact that thirty Radical
oratois are helping tho C lio soft-money
Democrats out of their g -rape. Will the
Boston Advertiser make a i ote of this?
The examination of the • outhorn Illinois
Ku Klux prisoners, at Cere "alia, before the
Unit 'd States Commissioi t, on Monday,
revealed the fact that t ie organization
numbers fifteen hundred n in, in William
son, Franklin and theneigl boring counties.
A largo number of them v ere Federal sol
diers during the war.
The Constitutional Condition of Ala
bama will meet at Mon 4 >mery to-mor
row. It will be compose! of tin;old-fash
ioned wisdom and virtue )f the State, in
whose hands liberty is in r ) danger, it i s
no part of their purpose to frame anew
instrument other than in erfeet harmony
with the genius of tho Cc istitution of the
United States, as interpret and by our states
men of tho better anti p rer days oj the
Republic.
The following exciting paragraph ap
pears in a column of pol tical news in a
Western journal. Tli j ca vass out there
must be getting exceedin fly hot: “ Who
ever heard of H. 11. Gray -afore ?Is Wal
ter 8. Greene a piseieui urist, or what ?
Where does Philo Dunni ;g live, and who
is he, anyway? Gurnee. Gurnee! Can’t
place him. Never heard c ? him before. Is
Philo A. Orton the other ’hilo? A large
reward Is offered to any person who can
tell who ho is.
Wooan’s Wimpy (he whe wanted a pack
age ol counterfeit money f r the sole pur
pose of catching the coc iterfeiters. you
know) has pronounced in avor of himself
for United States District Yttorney. Con
sidering the present set (. f office-holders,
Grant would do himself jreat credit by
docketing Wimpy.
Josephus Sooy, the h'tr ,e Treasurer of
New Jersey, w’hose def lcation to the
amount of $60,000 was an ounced by tele
graph the other day, is a* Republican, and
he was only “holding ov r” because the
Radicals, having a small majority in the
State Senate, refused to ;o into an elec
tion last Winter. In tun. i out that they
pursued this factious cou se in order to
keep a rascally defaulter in office. He w is,
we believe, ttie only Radial State officer
left in New Jersey, and i >w he has left
New Jersey for the good ol the State.—Co
lumbus Enquirer.
SPECIAL NOTICES
DEUTCHER SCHUETZEN CLUB.
MORGEN, MONTEG, COMPANIC SCHIS
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punkt 2M Uhr am Steapen Eisenbahu Depot
ein, Zuflnden.
Im Auftrage des Praesidenten.
H. A. BRAHE.
sep 5-11 Secretary.
DEUTCHER SCHUETZEN CLUB.
DIENSTAG, DEN 7TEN CT ABENDS 8
Tlxr Versammlung. Pucnktliches Erschci
nen wird erwartet.
Im Auftrage des Praesidenten.
H. A. BRAHE,
sep 5-lt Secretary.
GEORGIA COMMANDEItY, NO. 1, K. T.
THE REGULAR MONTHLY CONCLAVE
of Georgia Commandery, No. l, K. TANARUS., will be
held TO-MORROW (Monday) NIGHT, at 7>i
o’clock, in the Asylum, at Masonic Hall.
By command W. E. McCoy, Capt. Geu,
J. B- POURNELLE,
sep 6-lt _ Recorder.
OGLETHORPE INFANTRY, CO. B.
Attention I
THE USUAL WEEKLY DRILL WILL BE
re umed on the 7th instant, and you are com
manded lo appear at jour hall TUESDAY
EVENING, at 8 o’clock. Prepare yourselves
to moot the assessment made upon you f r
Fatigue Cap, ad ptedaty ur last meeting. A
full attendance is order, and.
By J. O. CLARK, Capt. Commanding.
W. B. Fitzsimons. O. S pro tern. sep -it
OGLETHORPE INFANTRY, COMPANY 8..
ATTENTION.
THE USUAL WEEKLY DRILL WILL
bo resumed on the 7tli instant, and you are
commanded to appear at your Hall TUES
DAY EVENING, at 8 o’clock. Come pre
pared to meet the assessment made upon
you for Fatigue Cap. adopted at your last
regular meeting. A full attendance is
ordered by
J, o. CLARKE. Captain Commanding.
11. B. FITZSIMMONS, O. S, pro tem.
sep— s
THE BOARD OF HEALTH.
Oedinaky’s Office, Richmond County, 1
Augusta, Ga.. August 21,1875. )
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. li. Bo 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 Ordinary to report to tlio Ordinary, in
the forms to be provided, all Deaths and
Births which come under liis supervision,
with a certificate of the cause of death, &c.
Sec. 12, Be it further enacted, That whore
any Birth or Death shall take place, no Phy
sician being in attendance, the same shall he
reported to the Ordinary, with the supposed
cause of death, by the parents, or, if none, by
tli© next kin, under penalty of ten dollars, at
the suit of the Ordinary, as provided in Sec.
11 of this 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 he furnished with
the Marriage License, the same to be prop
erly tilled 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,
aug22-3ft Ordinary.
THE MAGNOLIA PASSENGER ROUTE.
PORT ROYAL RAILROAD, )
Office General Passenger Agent, V
Augusta Ga., Aug. 6, 1875. )
ROUND TRIP TICKETS !
JLX in AUGUSTA to CHARLES- <jtK 4 A
'V 4U TON and RETURN. V' ; ’ 4U
ON AND AFTER THIS DATE ROUND
TRIP TICKETS will be sold, via Yemasee
from Augusta to Charleston, for $5.40, good
until October Ist, 1875.
DAILY SCHEDULE.
Leave Augusta 8:00 a. m.
Arrive at Charleston 4:15 p. m.
Leave Charleston 8:10 a. in,
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.
Tickets on sale at Planters’ Hotel and Ticket
Office, Union Depot.
T. S. DAVANT,
augO-tm General Passenger Auent.
GIN HOUSES INSURED
AT.EQUITABLE RATES, IN FIRST-CLASS
Companies. Call at or write to my office,
219 Broad street, before insuring elsewhere.
C. W. HARRIS,
ang22-tf Gen’l Insurance Agent.
WANTS.
. aSf" Advertisements not over five lines wtli
be inserted under this head for fifty cents
each insertion, cash. _
WANTED— A Purchaser for a first class
IRON SAFE, medium size. Also, 3
large COUNTERS. Apply at N0.313 Broad
street. seps-*
17^ Olt SALE—IOO Lure-bred Buff Cochin
1 Fowls, at $5.00 per pair, or $7.00 per
trio. Address A. P. Hearing, ,Jr„ Athens,
Georgia. sept4susweß&sul2
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*
Sew advertisements.
Dyeing and Cleaning,
IN ALL ITS BRANCHES. GENTS’
(Tothing C leaned in the best style.—
Gents’ Clothing Dyed in a superior manner,
and guaranteed not to soil the whitest lin
en. Orders left at 400 Broad street, above
Upper Market, will receive prompt notice.
seps-lt* GEO. R. DODGE.
Kentucky Horses and Ponies.
A CARLOAD just received and for sale
low. Among them a nice lot of Saddle
and Buggy Horses. All of small and com
pact build. Prices ranging from SBO to
$l6O. Satisfaction guaranteed. Inspection
invited. Warranted to pieaso.
G. W. CONWAY,
Kentucky Stables,
seps-4 850 Broad street.
J. W. NELSON,
RETAIL GROCER, No. 3C4 Broad Street,
(old stand of John Nelson & Son.) lias
opened a. First Class Grocery Store. He
will keep constantly on hand choice GRO
CERIES of every description, and hopes,
by close attention to business, to merit the
prtronaflfl of his friends and the public
generally. Ha\ ing secured the agency for
Fairbanks’ Standard Scales, he is prepared
to furnish llieso celebrated Seales to all.
Scales promptly repaired. seps-suthtf
Co-Partnership Notice.
Mr. HUGH H. PENNY having bought
the half interest in the Foundry and
Machine Shops, Tools, Machinery, Material
and Fixtures, movable and immovable,
known as the Pendleton & Boardman Iron
Works, the business will be conducted un
der the firm name of
Pendleton & Penny.
Thankful to the public for past patronage,
with ample means to carry out all contracts
for Iron and Brass Castings, and Machinery
of all descriptions, with dispatch and good
style, we hope to merit a continuance of the
same.
WM. PENDLETON, HUGH H. PENNY.
seps-oUthlm
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
NOTICE.
.A.FTER this date my offico will be at the
Store of BONES, BROWN & CO., where'l
will be pleased to see my friends.
R. F. URQUHART.
Augusta, Sept. 4th, 1875. seps-sututh2w
DISSOLUTION.
rnHE FIRM of E. A. HEGGIE & CO. was
X dissolved September Ist, by mutual
consent.
HEGGIE BROS.
S. O. GILLETTE.
seps-l
BAGGING, BAGGING.
J_QQ HALF ROLLS HEAVY BAG
4)A BALES STANDARD GUNNY
■JV J BAGGING,
On Consignment and for sale bv
seps-l J. Q. MATHEWSON & CO.
ON CONSIGNMENT.
BaC N, LARD, FLOUR, WHEAT, CORN
and OATS. Also, Tennessee Butter, Eggs
and Poultry, received daily by Express and
for sale low to the trade by
J. 11. VANNERSON,
septs-3 " li4 Reynolds street.
NEW CARPETS.
JJK. EDWARD MURPHY of the firm of
J. MURPHY & CO., will open in a few
days a large and well selected stuck of
CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, RUGS, MATS,
WINDOW SHADES, 4C., &C.,
And would very respectfully ask au ex
amination of the same.
Carpets, &c., made to, order by compe
tent hands.
244 Broad Street, over the Crockery Store
of J. Murphy & Cos, septs-tf
YOU CAN FIN
AT
O. JT. T. BALK S
r r
X HE best 6%c. BROWN HOMESPUN.
The best 9c. SIIEE TING.
The best 10c. DRILLING.
The best 10c. BLEACHED SHEETING.
The best 12%c. COTTON FLANNEL.
The best 20c. JEANS, for Pants.
The best $1 WATER-PROOF CLOTH.
The best OIL TABLE CLOTH.
The best $1 BLACK SILK.
The best 50c. CORSETS.
The best 50e. UNDERSHIRTS.
The best assortment of CASSIMERES,
The best 10c. BED TICKING.
The best assortment of CALICOES.
Look for No. 13G Broad street, below
Monument street.
C. J. T. BALK.
seps-tf
A. F. PENDLETON
SUCCESSOR TO
QUINN & PENDLETON,
224 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga.,
ItOQk SELLER AND STATIONER.
Newspapers, periodicals, music,
&e., a specialty.
Subscriptions taken for Newspapers and
Periodicals at Publisher’s Prices.
Having the NEWEST and BEST selected
stock of SCHOOL BOOKS, MISCELLANE
OUS and STANDARD BOOKS, BLANK
BOOKS and STATIONERY, will sell as low,
if not lower, than any house in the city,
lie sure you give me a call before buying
elsewhere. seps-suwe&fritf
registry" list opened!”
Office of Registry Clerk, I
Augusta, Ga., September 5,1875. j
ON and after MONDAY, SEPTEMBER
6th, 1875. the Registry List will bo open
ed at my office, at the City Hall, for the
purpose of registering the names of the
legal voters of the city of Augusta, in ac
cordance with the Acts of the Legislature,
and the Ordinances of the City Council of
Augusta for carrying said Acts into effect;
the said List to be kept open until the fourth
Wednesday in November next, at 2 o’clock
I>. m., at which time it will bo positively
and absolutely dosed.
Each and every applicant for registra
tion will be required to take the following
oath, or affirmation:
“ You do solemnly swear (or affirm) that
you are a citizen of the United States; that
you are twenty-one years of age; that you
have resided in this State for the lust six
months, and within the present limits ol
this city for the past six months, and the
District or Ward where you now reside for
the past ten days; that you have consider
ed this State your homo for the last six
months—so help you God.”
r He will also be required to give the
location, and, where practicable, the num
ber of his residence.
Shir Office hours, daily (Sundays except
ed), from 9 o’clock a. m. to 2 o’clock p. m.
G. W. BOUCHILLON,
seps-6 Registry Clerk.
China Tea & Coffee Store.
LABORERS’ PRICE LIST.
A Penny Saved is Two Pence Earned.
WE guarantee everything we sell, and
propose to offer special inducements
to all in want of Supplies for the next 30
days, previous to inventory, as our stock
is to bo closed out to make room:
10 lbs. Good Brown Sugar $1 00
9 Its. Extra O. Sugar 1 00
8 lbs. Crushed, Powdered or Granulated
Sugars 1 00
2 lbs. Ciood Oolong Tea l 00
2 lt>s. Green Imperial Tea ' gl 00
1 tb. Extra Moyune Hyson,with Caddy, 1 00
4% Its. Choice Ido Coffee, 1 00
3>a “ ‘‘ “ “ Roasted 100
9 lbs. Choice Prunes l 00
8 lbs. Good Raisins 1 00
10 n.s. Zantee Currants 1 00
4 lbs. Preserved Figs 1 00
25 bars of Soap 1 00
0 lt>3. of the Best Lard 1 00
16 lbs. Soda Crackers 1 00
12 lbs. Laundry Starch 1 00
11 lbs. Best Carolina Rice 1 00
8 lbs. Ginger Snaps or Lemon Cream
Crackers 1 00
5 lbs. Larrabeo’s Nic Nacs 1 oo
5 lbs. Peeled D. Peaches 1 00
5 % lbs. Best A. B. Gum Drops 100
4% lbs. Best French Candy 1 00
40 Good Five Cent Cigars 1 00
Also the Choicest Qualities of Fine Wines
and Liquors at Astonishingly Low Prices.
R. N. HOTCHKISS,
seps-tf Red Gilt Front, 143 Broad street.
DISSOLUTION OF COPARTNERSHIP.
Augusta, Ga., September 4, 1875,
The firm of quinn & pendleton
was this day dissolved, to take effect
from the Ist of September, 1875. A. F. Pen
dleton is alone authorized to receipt for ac
counts due the late firm.
D. QUINN,
A. F. PENDLETON.
NOTICE OF COPARTNERSIIP.
Having puschased the entire
interest ol Mr. D. QUINN in the firm
of QUINN & PENDLETON, Booksellers
and Stationers, we have formed a limited
copartnership, to take effect from the Ist of
September, 1875, under the Arm name of
A. F. PENDLETOIN
As general partner, and 1. P. GARVIN as
special partner. They will conduct a First
Class Book, Stationery and Periodical Busi
ness at the stand of the late firm, No. 224
Broad street, Augusta, Ga.
. A. F. PENDLETON,
1. P. GARVIN.
A CARD.
IN DISPOSING OF MY IN I EREST TO
my late partner, Mr. A. F. PENDLETON.
1 beg leave to recommend the new firm to
public patronage. To my friends especially
l commend them, asking that any business
favors heret'ore extended on my account
may be continued to them.
seps-au&welm D. QUINN.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
I M PORTANT TO THE
BOOT, SHOE AND HAT TRADE.
o
are now prepared to supply our friends and the trade generally with
BOOTS, SHOES HATS AND TRUNKS,
At Greatly Reduced Prices.
—o
Our Wholesale Department
Is complete, and we will sell to the trade at NEW YORK JOBBERS’ PRICES.
Our Retail Department
Is well supplied with Miles & Sons’ Boots, Shoes and Gaiters; Ziegler Bros’ Ladies’ But
toned and Lace Boots, Shoes and Gaiters; Dunbarr & Go’s Children’s Buttoned and
Lace Roots; Sollers & Co.’s Children’s Buttoned and Lace Boots; and full lines of other
desirable goods.
Small Profits and Large Sales is our Motto.
No trouble to show goods. .An examination of our goods and prices invited.
CALLAHER & MULHERIN,
augs-suw<fcflm 289 Broad street .
NEW FALL DRY GOODS.
—o
James A. Grray c to Cos.,
Would respectfully inform the public that they are now receiving their Fail
Stock of Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, which they offer to close buyers at re
markably low prices.
10 Bales Eagle and Phoenix try colored CHECKS AND PL AIDS.
10, Hand 12-1-4 (All Cotton BLANKETS, a superior article at a very
moderate price.
50 Bales Domestic, all widths, and quality.
5 Cases very superior 10, 11 and 12-1-4 SHEETINGS.
A full line of CALICOES in new and beautiful Styles.
KENTUCKY JEANS, TWEEDS, SATINETS, CASSIMERES, FLANNELS,
/
To all of which they respectfully euvite the attention of the public,
sep s—d-w.5 —d-w.
THE BEST MATERIALS
CAN BE OBTAINED AT MY STORE.
I deal only in the best make ol'
Varnishes, Turpentine, Window-Class,
BRUSHES of all Kinds and Price 4 ;
COLORS, Dry and in Oil;
READY-MIXED PAINTS,
By the Gallon, Half Gallon, Quart and Pint;
PARAFFINE OIL,
SPERM MACHINE OIL,
WEST VIRGINIA LUBRICATING OIL.
I guarantee ray Goods to be THE BEST IN THIS MARKET, without exception.
CEO. D. CONNOR,
seps-sututhlw 53 JACKSON STREET.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
SEED GRAIN.
BEG TO OFFER THE FOLLOW
ing varieties of
Ci ll A. I V ,
Carefully selt eted for Seed purposes:
RYE,
WHEAT,
BARLEY,
BLACK OATS,
Red Rust-proof
OA'IS.
seps-l\v <J. 0. MATHEWSON & CO.
GEORGE G. HULL,'
PROPRIETOR OF THE
EXCELSIOR MILLS
(Formerly Stovall’s Excelsior Mills),
AUGUSTA, GA.,
MAFUFAC I URES FLOUIt 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 be faithfully
maintained.
CORN MEAL,
CRACKED CORN,
CRACKED WHEYT, >
GRAHAM FLOUR,
MILL FEED,
BRAN, Eta,
Constantly made, and orders promptly
tilled at the
LOWEST RATES.
je23tf
rand 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
bo served at the Mansion House at 4 p. m.,
after which there will be a
GR B ALL.
Music by Chapman String Hand.
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
—FAS r TRAINS, GOOP DINNER and
ENCHANTING BALL.
Tickets $4, including Fare, 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,
O. E. O’Connor, C. K. Carter, at Blair, Smith
& Co.’s.
Every ticket holder is entitled to a chance
in a raffle for the sot of SILVERWARE on
exhibition at Brahe’s Jewelry Store, 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
Geo. T. Jackson. John T. Miller
Walter M. Jackson. Marion J. Vekdeky.
m, T. JAM & CO..
PROPRIETORS OF THE
GRANITE MILLS,
AND
General Produce Mercifts.
DEALERS IN
MEAL, GRITS, HAY,
CORN, OATS,
PEAS, CRACKED CORN,
PEA MEAL,
Bran, Middlings, Etc.
Orders are respectfully solicited,
and prompt attention promised.
apr2s-tf
RAMSEY & D’ANTIUXAf,
AUCTION A > t>
Commission Merchants
No. 304 BROAD STREET, Old Stand of
.John Nelson &. Son,
BEG to inform their old friends and cus
tomers that tliev hive opened an Auc
tion and Commission House in this city
and hope, by strict attention to business,
to merit the confidence of all who may con
sign goods to them. Every effort will bo
used to give entire satisfaction. Our
motto is
Quick Sales and Prompt Returns.
Commissions the same as any other First-
Class House. All parties consigning goods
to us can rely on their interest being faith
fully attended to.
We shall be thankful to our friends for
all lavors.
VuiS-w&m H ; dantignac.
LACE CURTAINS
CLEANED AND WHITENED,
AT
123 BROAD STREET.
. au g 27 ~ la JAS. H. HULSE
1 111 ill
—IN THE—
Insurance Company North America,
ORGANIZED 1704. ASSETS nearly
HIVE MILLION DOLLAKS: 5
Virginia Fire & Marine Ins. Cos..
ORGANIZED 1532. ASSETS, FIVE HUN
DRED THOUSAND DOLLARS
Lowest Adequate Rates. Apply in ner
sou or by letter to
J. V. H. ALLIjJN & CO,
Insurance Agents
aug29-tf 227 Broad St., Augusta, Ga.
ANTOINE POUI.LAIN,
Cotton Pactoi’,
AUGUSTA, GA.,
WILL continue the bus ness at my fire
proof warehouse, corner Jackson and
Reynolds streets, and will give my person
al attention to the sale of cotton. Consign
ments respectfully solicited. sei)4tf.