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vljc Constitutionalist
AUGUSTA, GJ-2V.:
Wednesday Morning, Sept. 8, 1875.
CURRENT TOPICS.
The Size aud Valuation of Farms in
the United States.
The New York hxpreas has some valuable
.statistics upon the size and valuation of
farms in the Unfted States. Twelve of the
States have farms that average less than
125 acres in extent, which is less than the
average elsewhere, which in some States
even runs up nearly to an average of 500
acres. These twelve States give the fol
lowing as the average size of their farms:
Maine 98 acres, j N. Jersey.. 98 acres.
N. Hamp.,l22 “ 103 “
Maes’tts. 103 “ Indiana.. ..112 “
lih. Island. 94 “ Ohio 11l “
Oonnect’ct. 93 “ Michigan ..101 “
N. Y0rk...103 “ Wisconsiu.ll4 “
While the total valu i of the farms in the
United states is put down at $9,262,803,361,
the value in the above small-farm States
foots up $5,407,587,178, or nearly three-ilfths
of the total—and this, too, while the area
of these States is less than one-tenth of
the area of the whole country. No more
conclusive exhibit of the practical superi
ority of the sm IT farm system could be
given than this.
While this record is of interest to those
engaged in farms, the following table, col
lected from our Agricultural reports, is of
hardly less interest. We give the average
value per acre:
Maine sl4 16' Texas sl2 84
New Hainp’re.. 19 15 j Arkansas 17 Go
Vermont 17 87 1 Tennessee 12 X>
Massachusetts 31 10 | West Virginia.. 15 04
Rhode Island.. 34 00 i Kentucky 15 54
Connecticut ... 33 94 I Ohio 14 57
New York 22 94 [ Michigan 15 65
New Jersey— 27 96 j Indiana 13 51
Pennsylvan a., 20 8o | Illinois 11 13
Deiawaie— . 13 24 1 Wisconsin 14 18
Maryland 15 42 [ Minnesota 11 38
Virginia 14 15 j I wa 8 49
North Carolina 11 38 I Missouri 11 99
South Carolina 10 45 | Kansas 8 92
Georgia... 11 68 Nebraska 773
Florida ll 47 j California 15 10
Alabama 13 78 j Oregon 16 70
Mississippi— 15 61 j Nevada 44 30
Louisiana 13 61 j The Territories 26 10
Emblems of Civilization.
We can always compute the gauge of
civilization in many countries by the
amount of soap consumed. Pure civiliza
tion demands good soap, and the party who
would seek to adulterate certainly deserves
expulsion. Few of us ever think that soap
is anything but soap. We have thought so
since the days of our old grandmother, who
never would “bile soap” in the light of the
moon. She always made what she declared
good soap, and we always agreed to what
she said for the leason there was a broom
stick in the corner. The moon part was
the truest philosophy'. The old lady may
have been faulty' in theory, but she never
tried to cheat like the following story tells
us the soap chandlers are now doing. We
quote the following anonymous paragraph:
The adulteration of soap is reduced to a
science. The first step in the process is to
melt and mix with the soap all the sal-soda,
which costs from one and a half to two
cents per pound, that it will bear, thus giv
ing it a strength destructive to cuticle and
cloth alike. The next step is to add finely
powdered silex—white sand—fine as Hour,
which adds to the bulk, solidity’ am? weight,
and thus enables the maker to produce a
cheap article. Sometimes talc (soapstone)
is used for the same purpose in finer soaps.
The silex costs from three-quarters to one
cent per pound; the talc costs from two to
three cents. In this way' cheap soaps are
all adulterated. It is plain to see that, at
7 cents per pound for soap adulterated in
this way there is more than 125 per ce t.
profit on the added articles.
Mr. Calhoun on Currency.
It is indeed refreshing at this time to
read Mr. Calhoun on the propriety of the
Government issuing a stable currency in
sufficient quantity to satisfy the demands
of commerce. What he said forty years
ago is applicable to this day. We quote:
“No one,” said Mr. Calhoun, ‘ can doubt
but that the Government credit is better
than that of any bank—more stable and
more safe. Bank paper is cheap to those
who use it. On the other hand, the credit
of the Government, while it would greatly
facilitate its financial operations, would
cost nothing, or next to nothing, both to it
and the people, and would, of course, add
nothing to the cost of production, which
would give every branch of our industries,
agriculture, commerce and manufactures,
as far as its circulation mightextend, great
advantages both at home and abroad;
and I now undertake to affirm, and with
out the least fear that 1 can be answered,
that a paper issued by Government, with a
simple i romise to receive it for all its dues,
would, to the extent it could circulate, form
a perfect p ;per circulation, which could be
as uniform in value as the metals them
selves; and I shall be able to prove that it
is within the Constitution and powers of
Congress to use such a paper in the a an
agement of its finances, according to the
most rigid rule of construing the Constitu- i
tion.”
Savannah Steps to the Front with a
Governor.
Savannah, like Augusta, has had pre
ious little to say about the next Governor I
of Georgia. They are missionary ground,
standing off and enjoying the scramble, but
fully intending to walk up at the proper
time and vote for some respectable gentle
man who has not made an ass of himself.
Savannah has bolted from this dignified as
sociation, come down and entered the ring.
Augusta is now alone. Every section has a
candidate—but us. A correspondent of the
Savannah Advertiser says:
“ First. Chatham h is not had a Governor
since the days of Gov. David Brodie Mitch
ell, who was elected in 1815, making just j
sixty years since old Chatham has been
honored.”
He then nominates Gen. A. li. Lawton,
and says:
“ However, he is not our only man. We !
can present Gen. Henry It. Jackson. Gen.
Joseph E. Johnston, Hon. T. M, Norwood,
Hon. Julian Ilartridge, or Hon. E. C. An
derson, who has displayed a fine executive
ability as Mayor of Savannah.”
Gov. Elect Irwin.
Governor elect Irwin, of California, is a
native of Butler county, Ohio. He went to
the Golden State in 185.', and in 1861 was
elected a member of the Lower House of
the Legislature. In 1869 he was elected to
the Senate, and re-elected in 1873, being
President of the Senate pro tem., under
Governor Booth. He was elected to the
Senate again, and became acting Lieuten
ant Governor. He is now tilling that office.
From 1866 up to March last he adorned the
editorial chair of the Yreka Union, and
there had an excellent experience for the
new position to which he has been called.
The Public Debt of South Carolina.
We suppose no one, not even the chief
beneficiaries of the public debt of South
Carolina, suppose that it will ever be paid
dollar for dollar. Gov. Chamberlain - ays
he cannot replace the money of the State
that was lost in the failure of Solomon’s
bank. That money is needed to pay the
interest on the new jconsols. The total
amount thus far issued of the latter is $3,-
100,000. When the whole of the old debt is
funded in these consols the debt of the
State will not exceed ss,Boo,ooo—the r st will
then be legally repudiated.
Helmbold, the famous buchu man, has
been released from the Pennsylvania Asy
lum on a writ of habeas corpus by Judge El
gock, the Judge holding there was no occa
sion for-his detention in such an institu
tion, and. stepping down from the bench,
congratulated him on his release. Dr.
Helmbold’s counsel, Clarence Deringeb,
proposes to bring suit for damages against
the Asylum.
GEORGIA GENERAL NEWS.
The Atlanta Constitution is organizing an
expedition to explore and survey the Oke
linokee swamp. There is a chance for > r ou,
Harris.
The Brunswick Appeal crows over the
fact that the exports from that port during
the month of July were $41,239, while those
of Savannah amounted to only $35,662.
The Atlanta Herald reports seventy-five
drinking saloons in that city', which pay
$20,000 per annum as license into the city
treasury. There are seven more saloons
licensed this than last y'ear. Out of this
number only three are for negroes. The
average daily receipts of a saloon in At
lanta are from SBO to SIOO.
The Jefferson (Jackson county) Forest
News says Miss Jane Davis, of that county,
died on the 22d of August, aged 19 years.
She had never spoken a word; never had
any use of her I.mbs; could uever partake
of any food, except as it was given to her
from a teaspoon; had not set up in twelve
months previous to her death and
weighed exceeding 25 pounds.
The Appeal also states that G. €. Fahm,
“Clerk and Treasurer of the city' of Bruns
wick, has been arrested under charge of
‘forgery.’ He is charged as being either an
accomplice or principal, in forging a large
sum of the circulation of the currency
commonly known as the currency' of the
city of Biunswiek. At the hour at which
we go to press the investigation of the
charge is being examined by the court—
Judge Houston, presiding.”
The Houston Home Journal reports what
it deems suspicious movements among the
negroes of that county, such as frequent
night meetings at their churches, and
picketing of the roads leading thereto, and
preventing the approach of all persons.
The Madison Home Journal reports similar
actions among the negroes of Morgan
county. Keep cool, gentleman, and don’t
go aff “half cocked.”
A Dublin correspondent of the Irwington
Southerner gives the following account of
the late troubles in Laurens county: This
morning, early. Deputy Sheriff, Jesse M.
Joyner and several men, went to Mrs.
Clark’s plantation just below Turkey creek
in this county', to arrest some negroes,
upon warrants for insurrection, Ac, The
negroes, live in number had heard of their
intentions and were all at one house, and
when the posse arrived, bid them defiance,
declaring their intention to “the”* be
fore being arrested by “a white man.”
Young Mr. Clark, one of the posse, expostu
lated with them; asking them to surrender
without resistance, etc. A general fight
ensued, one of the negroes snapping his
gun right in the breast of one of the whites,*
others in the party killed him on the spot;
another received a mortal wound a short
distance off, another was wounded in the
thigh. A good many' arrests have been
made and commitment trial is in progress.
In the above affair there were no casual
ties among the whites.
Irwinton Southerner: Wo are informed
by Mr. Robert Wayne, of Savannah, that
upon a recent visit to his plantation in
Laurens he discovered that something was
wrong with the negroes on the place known
as the Valdosta Plantation. This was the
residence of Governor Troup and the ne
groes employed on it were most of them
all servants of his and noted for t.heir in
dustry, politeness and cheerfulness. This
had given place to sulienness, laziness and
general discontent. An investigation
disclosed the fact that a South Carolina
negro on the place, named George Smother
man, acting as the deputy of Adkins, of
the Savannah Custom House, chairman of
the State Republican Committee, had or
ganized these negroes into an oath bound
society, with printed constitution, by'-laws
and rfi.uals, the professed object of which
was to consolidate and organize them for
the campaign of 1876, by'binding them to
vote the Republican ticket, and go to the
polls in a mass, and to forcibly re
sist any interference with their poli
tics, and to punish any' of their mem
bers who should violate their obligation
The calm, firm and reasonable remarks of
Col. Wayne caused the negroes to dissolve
the society, deliver up the rituals into his
hands and return to their labors with their
usual cheerfulness. George Smotherman,
the ring-leader, alone obstinately refused
to forsake Ins society, and he was settled
with and dismissed from the plantation as
a dangerous and turbulent character, i hese
societies are no doubt the leading cause of
the present insurrectionary excitement.
Gov. Smith lias issued the following
p reclamation:
Lxecutive Department, State of)
GEORGIA, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, >
September 6, 1875. )
To Hon. Win. L. Goldsmith, Comptroller
General:
Whereas, a petition has been presented
to me by a number of the citizens of Mor
gan county, representing that the Tax Re
ceiver of said county lias included in the
digest .of taxes returned by him for the
year 1875, as taxable, all cotton held by
farmers and producers on the first day of
April last, and has required said farmers
and producers to return the same as taxa
ble ; said petition praying that an order be
granted by this department suspending the
collection of said tax until the next meet
ing of the General Assembly; and
Whereas, In the opinion of many persons
it was not the intention of the Legislature
in enacting the act of 1875 to impose a tax
on products in the hands of the producers
thereof; audit being a matter of the first
importance to the producers that the inten
tion of the Legislature in th s regard
should beedeariy understood, aud that they
should not be unreasonably limited as to
the time within which they may dispose of
thei- products, and thus be placed to that
extent, within the power of speculators;
and „
Whereas, The public interest can suffer
no injury by granting the prayer of said
petitioners; it is therefore
Ordered, That the Comptroller instruct
the several tax collectors of this State to
suspend the collection of the tax upon cot
ton aud other products in the hands of far
mers and producers on the first day of
April last until the next meeting of the
General Assembly of this State.
James M. Smith, Governor.
By the Governor:
J. W. Warren, Sec. Ex. Department.
Grim visaged war now presents its ruf
fled front between the Atlanta Common
wealth-Herald and Griffin News and Messen
ger offices. It broke out by the former pa
per accusing Jack White with being the
father of negro children, and forcing a
railroad conductor to give them accommo
dations in a sleeping car, of which road
Jack was an official. It now stands thus.
We quote from the Commonwealth-Herald:
We find the following in the Griffin News
and Messenger of the 3d, and give it
for the purpose of showing our readers
what sort of a hair-pin the editor of that
little * * is: “The Atlanta Common
wealth of Monday brought a very grave
charge against Captain A. J. White, which
was copiod into the Herald as local matter.
In Thursday’s issue both of the papers
backed square down, and say that injustice
has been done Mr. White, basing this upon
the earnest protest of a gentleman in whose
‘character, judgment and veracity (tuey)
have the utmost confidence.’ If this is iot
a regular square out back-down of the high
est tvpe, after making charges against
a mail that involves him in moral tur
pitude, then we don’t know what it is.”
Now, if a greater depth of moral turp
itude can be reached than this, in which
the editor of the News and Messenger sinks
himself, in a disreputable attempt to bols
ter up the character of a disreputable man,
we pits’the craven miscreant who has to
reach it. Our readers know what we said
about the matter. They know’ the charges
wo argued against Mr. White, and they
know the defense we allowed the friend of
Mr. White to make, and in presenting that
defense we simply did for him what we
would have done for the meanest dog in all
creation—give him the right to be heard.
This we believe the pusillanimous editor
of the News an l Messenger would have
been incapable of doing, for had he the
personal courage to make the charge we
made, which we capitally doubt, he would
have lacked the moral courage to have re
tracted the charge, had ho found that it
was false. But we did not retract the
charge, simply because we have yet to be
convinced that it is false. We only gave
Mr, White the benefit of his friend’s assu
rance that wo had done him an injustice.
! common justice to the lowest of God’s
I creations would have dictated this much.
y 8 for the assertion above, that we said
! “that injustice ha3 been done Mr. White”
it is a lie, simple, direct, snd unequivocal.
And now let us see who will “back down. ’
Some ingenious observer has discov
ered that there is a remarkable resem
blance between a baby and wheat, since
jt is cradled, then thrashed, aad finally
becomes the flour of the family.
More confusion. “The Cliemiloon,”
says the Tonker’s Qa§ette, “is the pa
tent back-action bustle, now so promi
nent a part of the dear feminine’s
make-up.” Bustle—bustle? I'fowpray
what’s a bustle ?
It is complained that the army chap
lains do not pray with much fervor,
but then they get only moderately
paid, and declare that they are now
giving the Government liberal figures.
[Detroit Free Press.
It is said that the new style of panta
loons to be worn this fall will be large
enough to tie back. Also that a modest
| man can’t climb a ladder with a pair of
j em on.
SOUTH CAROLINA AFFAIRS.
LETTER FROM BARNWELL.
Some W irds of. Explanation—The
Rival Villages aud Their Everlast
ing (Quarrel—A Distinction With a
Difference—The Constitutionalist.
[From a Special Correspondent.]
Barnwell, C. H., S. C. ; Sept. 5, 1875.
My last letter, on the possible upris
ing of the negroes in our community,
has excited some comment, both
through the columns of the Chronicle
and Sentinel and the Blackville Sun.
The comments of the Chronicle's cor
respondent was, at least, fair, seeing
that he did not distort my letter to
your paper by crediting me with hav
ing affirmed as a fact that which I
gave (and which wits stated at the time
to be) upon rumor; but others have not
manifested the same candor in dealing
with it. The fact that I hail from this
locality is enough to infect any con
tributor to the columns of the Sun (at
least as far as we may judge from the
contents of that sheet up to the
present writing) with sufficient maligni
ty to view anything from me not
through the lights of reason and com
mon sense, but alone through the
murky medium of unconquerable hate.
Because I gave your numerous readers
the benefits of a rumor, stating there
were 300 stands of arms and 3,000
rounds of ammunition at Blackville
depot for the negroes, a certain cor
respondent from Williston, writing to
the Sun over the pseudonym of “ Ob
server”—and herein clearly proving
the absence of any just claim to that
title—attempts to impress the .good
people of Blackville that, ergo, I
was endeavoring to cast aspersions
on them. Ordinarily this would be
too transparent a folly to notice ; but
in view of the ill-feeling which the
county seat question has engendered, I
judge he reckoned wisely in thinking
his seed was well east and would as
suredly bring early and beneficial
fruits. It is to play the marplot to
this nice little scheme that I beg the
indulgence of your kindness. There is
no one in this county who hails with
greater gladness the advent of perfect
good feeling between the respective
localities than I. I think it is a matter
of prime importance to unite and march
in solid phalanx against the corrup
tionists who have so nearly pros
trated every energy of our citizens—who
have robbed us of our property and
who have outraged civilization aud
decency. Now let us see upon what
authority Observer has spoken, I have
written some half dozen or so letters
to your esteemed journal within the
past two months, and I defy Observer
or any one to point to a single line of
any letter from me reflecting upon any
gentleman of Blackville or upon Black
ville as a locality. I differ very widely
from them on the county seat question
but for that reason alone am Ito con
demn them- without stint? By no
means. But rather I have looked
upon this matter very much as we are
accustomed to view the meeting, con
troversy and final end of those
two knights of old who met at
some monument (?) the shaft of
which was a golden color on one side
and of a silver hue on the other. They
“fought, bled aud died,” each maintain
ing the correctness of his opinion, both
differing and each being right. Let us
suppose that the arms and ammunition
were, in fact, in the depot in Blackville.
In the name of common sense were the
Blackville people answerable for that ?
How could they have helped or pre
vented a consignment of that charac
ter of freight to that or other railroad
stations? Does “Observer” mean to
say that Blackville or Blackville men
are responsible for everything landed
at that point by the S. C, R R Cos ?
If not what sense can we make out of
his remarks ? Won’t Observer admit
that he has strained his observing lens
just a little too much ? There was not
the slightest imputation made against
Blackville in any part of my letter, and
no one should know that better than
the man who professes a talent for ob
servation.
There were a great many good men
enticed into the war against the South
by cries of “The Union” and “The Old
Flag” who were fatally deceived and
are to-day repenting in sackcloth and
ashes their want of perception to pene
trate the fraud that was enveloped
in the folds of the “Star Spangled Ban
ner;” and it is possible that it would be
just as well for the people 6n this aud
the other side of “Ross’s” to think over
this fact iu connection with the the
“war between the towns”—as a possi
ble salutary lesson would be learned.
The Constitutionalist is to-day the
best daily paper iu the South, and
must be the sine qua non of the “ex
change” list of interior country papers.
The new dress aud heading comport
well with the high excellency of the
editorial department. Fiutz.
The Will of Johu O. Breckinridge.
The following brief sentences disposed of
the small amount of this world’s goods of
the late John C. Breckinridge : First-
After the payments of my debts, which are
few and small, and the expenses of a
moderate funeral, I direct that my wife,
Mary G. Breckinridge, shall receive out
of the proceeds of my estate SIO,OOO, which
is not to be charged as part of her distri
butable portion of my estate ; and in like
manner my daughter is to receive $3,000 ;
but this sum is given for convenience as an
advancement, and is to bo charged as a
part of her distributable portion. These
sums are to be paid as soon as miy b
without a sacrifice of property.
Second—l leave to my wife all the house
hold an l kitchen furniture, except the fur
niture in the room of my daughter Frances,
which is to be hers absolutely, aud neither
of them is to be charged in respect to these
items.
Third—Those articles, whose value lies
chiefly in the associations connected with
them, as family pieces, pictures, military
relics, and the like, I leave with my wifo
for distribution between herself and the
children, and this I trust entirely to her
discretion and affection.
The will distributes the remainder of the
property equally between his wife and his
children, His wife, James B. Beck, and
John R. Vjley are appointed executors.
A Solid Reason,
FROM THE PERSIAN OF SADI.
“Pray, Gaffer, why do you not marry ?”
To one who did from wedlock tarry.
The old man—his reply was human—
Answered, “I love not an old woman.”
“But you can choose a young one now,
For you are rich.” He knit his brow:
“Since I who am, as you behold,
Old, love not an old woman, how
Gan a young woman then be found
(There are so many young men round)
To love a man who is -o old ?”
“Your money.” “Psha”—with bitter laugh
ter—
“ ’Tis love, not woman, I am after.”
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Amid the objurgatiofis of infuriated
draymen, the wild anathemas of exas
perated ’bus drivers, and the half
smothered oaths of reluctant police
men, the benevolent and intrepid Bergh
moves a Daniel ip the lion’s den.
To see him thus harrassed, insulted
and threatened, and at the same time
fulfilling the noble task he has set be
fore him, with a temper as serene as
the blue sky above him, and a dignity
as simple as it is grand, is a spectacle
inspiring enough to make the hempen
tail of a wooden hobby-horse get up
and wave.
“John, I came very near selling my
shoes the other day,” said one man to
another. “ Row was that ?” “ Why,
I had them half-soled.”
MISCELLANEOUS.
RAMSEY & I’ANTIGNAC,
aucticln and
Commission! Merchants
No. 304 BROAD STIjsET, Old Stand of
•Joh.ii TVels >n Sc Son,
BEG to inform their old friends and cus
tomers that they iave opened an Auc
tion and Commission House in this city,
and hope, by strict a tention to business,
to merit the confident of all who may con
sigff-goods to them. Every effort will be
used to give entire satisfaction. Our
motto is
Quick Sales and ’rompt Returns.
Commissions the samt as any other First-
Class House. All part is consigning goods
to us can rely on their interest being faith
fully attended to.
We shall be thankfu to our friends for
all favors.
W. A. RAMSEY, I. H, D’ANTIGNAC.
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I HAVE given Mr. J s. Daly an interest
in my bus ness; th' style of the firm
from this date will be J IMES A. GRAY &
Cos. JAS. A. GRAY.
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this valuable vegetab! > extract. Price $1
a bottle. Sold by all 1 ruggists. Office 18
Murray street, N. Y. jel3-suwefr&cly
100,000 Livii g Witnesses
ATTEST the valuab e ropertiesof these
Pills for the cure f Constipation, Dys
pepsia, Biliousness, F ver and Ague, Piles,
Sick Headache, Eulli ?ss of Blood in the
Head, Sour StomLcl Disgust of Food,
Fullness or Weight In the Stomach, Flut
tering at the Heart, D ill Pain in the Head,
Yellowness of the -ki and Eyes, Nausea,
i hoking sensations ' ’hen in a lying pos
ture, Disease of the Liver, Kidneys and
Bladder, Nervous All actions, Paul in the
Side, Chest and Limbs Sudden Flushes of
Heat, and many of th diseases iucido.it to
females.
OR. tctt’S PILLS ire warranted harm
less, and will effect a ijositive cure < f these
disorders. They can |e taken at any time,
without restraint of *diet or occupation'
Price, 25 cents. Lall'ratory, 18 Murray
street. New York. t
Kentucky Horsbs and Ponies.
A CARLOAD justlecejved and for sale
low. Among thefi a nico lot of Saddle
and Buggy Horses. ,|ll of small and com
pact build. Prices ifiuging from SBO to
$l6O. Satisfaction guaranteed. Inspection
invited. Warranted t|> please.
G. \\J. CONWAY,
Kentucky Stables,
seps-4 [ 350 Broad street.
MOSQUII 6 NETS•
Mosquito Net Slupporters.
Bedstead and Calling Fixtures.
Child’s Crib Nels.
Skeleton FramJs to Make Nets
On. j
AL|O,
Moth Proof Ceijj.ar Chests.
Opened and for salelhy
my2ssu&tu-2m JAMijj sG. BAILIE & BftO
IMPORTANT TO THE
BOOT; SHOE AND HAT TRADE.
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are now prepared to supply our friends and the trade generally with
BOOTS, SHOES, HATS AND TRUNKS,
At Greatly Reduced Prices.
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Our Wliolesale 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 Boot*, Shoes and Gaiters; Dunbarr & Co.’s Children’s Buttoned and
Lace Boots; 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 sh w goods. An examination of our goods and prices invited.
CALLAHER & MULHERIN,
seps-suw&flm 289 Broad street.
NEW FALL DRV GOODS.
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James A. Gray dta 00.,
Would respectfully inform the public that they are now receiving their Fall
Stock of Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, which they offer to close buyers at re
markably low prices.
10 Bales Eagle and Phoenix tri colored CHECKS AND PLAIDS.
10, Hand 12-14 (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 envito the attention of tne public.
sep s—d-w. _
il 'SAYINGS BANK
IV O. 223 13I30gVX> STREET,
Cash Capital SIOO,OOO (with Stockholders Liability'
TRANSACTS A
General Banking, Exchange and Collection Business.
5 Per Cent, allowed on DAILY balances, subject to
CHECK AT SIGHT.
Interest allowed on Time Deposits as may be agreed upon.
T. P. BRANCH, President.
J. T. NEVVBERY,
CASHIER.
N. B.—Draw SIGHT DRAFTS on Great Britain and Continental Europe
in sums of £1 and upwards. janl2-ly*
WILMINGTON, N. C. LINES,
SEM I-WI]KKLY
Fast Freight Route to All Points South or East.
BALTIMORE,
Baltimore and Southern Steam Transportation Company,
SAILING FROM BALTIMORE
Tuesday and Triday, at 3 P. M.,
AND FROM WILMINGTON Wednesday and Saturday.
NEW YORK.
CLYDE’S WILMINGTON LINE,
SAILING FROM NEW YORK
Tuesday and Friday, at 3 P. M., and from Wil
mington Wednesday and Saturday,
Giving through Bills of Lading to all points in North and South Carolina. Georgia
and Alabama. For North or East bound Freight, to Baltimore, New York, Phil*
adelphia, Boston, Providence. Fall River, and other Eastern cities. Also, to Liverpool-
Glasgow, Bremen, Antwerp, and other European points.
These Lines connect at Wilmington with the Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta
Railroad; connecting at Columbia, S. C., with the Greeuviile and Columbia Rail Road,
and Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad.
At Augusta, Ga., with the Georgia, Macon and Augusta, and Central Railroads, and
with their connecting roads, offer unequaled facilities for the prompt delivery ol
Freight to all points. The Steamers of these Lines, on arrival in Wilmington, stop at
Railroad Depot, the Freight transferred under covered sheds to Cars without delay,
and forwarded by the Fast Freight Express that evening.
No drayage in Wilmington, and no transfer from Wilmington South. Rates guar
anteed as low as by auy other route. Losses or Overcharges promptly paid.
Mark all Goods “ VIA WILMINGTON LINES.”
For Further information, apply to either of the Undersigned Agents of the Line:
EDWIN FITZGERALD, Agent Baltimore Line, 50 South street, Baltimore.
\VM. P. CLYDE & CO., Agents New York Line, 6 Bowling Green, New York.
A. D. CAZAUX, Agent Baltimore and N. Y. Lines, Wilmington, N, C.
E. K. BURGESS, Agent W. C. & A. Railroad, 263 Broadway, New York.
JOHN JENKINS, Agent, Augusta, Ga.
A. POPE,
novs-ly Gen’l Freight Agent, Wilmington, N. C.. and 263 Broadway, New York.
MISCELLANEOUS. INSURANCE ADVERTISEMENTS.
NOTICE.
THIRTY DAYS after date I shall become
1 a PUBLIC or FREE TRADER, in ac
cordance with provisions of Section 1760 of
the Cos .e of Go rgia.
SARAH RICH.
I hereby consent to iny wife becoming a
Public or Free i rader. J. RICH.
Augusta, Ga., August 6th, 1875.
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“ PURE SEED”
“RUST PROOF OATS.”
PRICE SI.2SCASH. PER BUSHEL. Sown
in August or September, the most cer
tain crop raised—succeeding on the Sea
coast, where no other oat ever matures
seed, as well as on high’ands.
Grown expressly for seed, and for sale by
EDWARD BANCROFT,
Athens, Ga.
For sale by
C. H. PHINIZY, & CO.,
_augl3-lra* Augusta, Ga.
MANSION HOUSE
PORT ROYAL, S. C.
SITUATED AT THE TERMINUS OF
the Port Royal Railroad, where connec
tion is made with the fast sailing, first class
steamers Montgomery and Huntsville,
sailing to New York every Friday.
Round trip from Augusta, S3O.
This is an entirely new and elegantly fur
nished house. Situation unsurpassed, sur
rounded with magnificent live oaks, com
manding a splendid prospect of the sur
rounding country, the Beaufort and Port
Royal Rivers, and offers unusual attrac
tions to travelers or to parties who desire
Board or to spend a few days near the salt
Tabie supplied with everything the mar
ket affords. Fresh milk, butter, fish, veg
etables and fruits in their season.
Best of Cooks and Attendants.
Terms liberal.
C. E. WARREN,
je26-tf Proprietor.^
Communications.
SSO TO 10,00 Q gffatoiWv':
ileges, and paid 900 per cent, profit. “ How
to do it.” A book on Wall street sent free.
TUMBRIDGE & CO.. Bankers. 2 Wall St.
N. Y. jei9-d*c3m
INSURANCE.
GEO. SYMMS, Agent, represents the fol
lowing Companies, viz:
Commercial Union Fire Assur
ance Company of London,
England, Gross Assets $17,714,578 06
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.. 645,566 56
Home Protection Fire Insur
ance Company, Huntsville,
Ala 121,211 15
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 mrn insured
-IN THE-
Insurance Company North 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 & CO.
Insurance Agents,
aug29-tf 227 Broad St., Augusta, Ga.
NOTICE.
A LL persons having left Watclies, Clocks,
Jewelry, Guns or Pistols for repairs at
J. Kaplan are hereby notified to call for
them within 30 days from data, or they will
be sold at auction tq pay expenses.
I will sell my stock of Clocks, Watches,
Jewelry, Fancy Goods, Pistols, Musical In
struments, &c., 25 per cent, below cost till
September 29th, to close business.
JACOB KAPLAN,
150 Broad street.
Augusta, Ga., August 26th, 1875.
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The Kitson Machine Comp’y,
LOWELL, MASS.,
RICHARD KITSON, President,
SAMUEL E. STOTT, Treasurer and Agent.
BUILDERS OF
PATENT COTTON OPENERS
AND
LAPPERS, WITH RECENT VALUABLE IMPROVE
MENTS, SHODDY and WASTE MACHINES and
RAO DUSTERS, NEEDLE-POINTED
CARD-CLOTHING, Etc., Etc.
Kitson’s Patent Compound Opener Lapper.
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THE cotton is spread on this machine from the bale, and Is made into a very even
lap, at the rate of 300 to 400 pounds per hour. The laps are then flnished on a
TWO-BEATER LAPPER,
WITH
KITSOIV’S I* VTI .N I’ EVENER
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Attahed, and owing to receent improvements in this Evener, the laps when ready for
the card, only varies one quarter of an ounce to the yard. The cost of picking by this
system is only aboutone mill per pound on the cloth produced, and the picker house is
safer from lire than the card r<> mi.
*5" The re is al- o a great saving of room and power over the old system.
These Machines may be seen at the mills of the Augusta Factory, Langley Manufac
turing Company, and altlie best mills at Lowell, Lawrence, Fall River, Manchester
Lewiston, Providence, Richmond, Baltimore,etc., etc.
The following are a tew among raanv testimonials whicn wo nave received:
AUGUSTA FACTORY, Augusta, Ga., July 5, 1875.
The Kitson Machine Compang, Lowell, Mass.:
Gentlemen : We have been running your Compound Opener Lappets and Finisher
Lappers, with Eveners, lor more than one year, and frankly say that they have given
the most eminent satisfaction. We have no hesitancy in giving you our unqualified en
dorsement, and cordially recommend your Machines.
F. COGIN, Superintendent.
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OFFICE LANGLEY MANUFACTURING COMPANY, [
Langley, S. C., April 14, 1873. \
The Kitson Machine Company, Lowell, Mass.:
Gentlemen. I have been running your system of Compound Opener Lapper-. and
Finisher Lappers, witn Eveners, Mr more than two wars na>-t the < vtton Mill of t.no
Langley Manufacturing Company, and I have found it to work the mod satisfactory of
any opening and picking arrangement I have ever seen, wo have not weighed a pound
of cotton upon the picker apron since starting, yet we have had a remarkable regularity
of numbers. The staple is not injured by over boating, and it leaves the picker without
being curled or knitted; the seeding and cleaning is very complete. Over forty per
cent, in labor in this department is saved over the old system. One of the greatest con
siderations with this arrangement, is its seeur ty against lire.
Yours, Ac., M. F. FOSTER, Superintendent.
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OFFICE MASSACHUSETTS COTTON MILLS, 1
Lowell, February 20, 1874. j
The Kitson Machine Company , Lowell, Mass.:
Gentlemen : This Company have now in use twenty of your Finisher Lappers, with
Eveners, and ten Compound Opener Lappers. Some of these machines have beon at
work for ten years or more, and have always given ns satisfaction, doing a large amount
of work, doing it well, at a low cost for labor and repairs. In our ‘ Prescott Mill,” where
we have two Compound Opener Lappers, and four Fiuisher Lappers, we have averaged
the past seven weeks 39,207 lbs. Cloth weekly. Yarn averaging about No. 22, Cost one
14-100 mills (.00114) per lb. of cloth. We consider them a first class machine in all re
spects. ' Yours very truly,
P 3f. F. BATTLES, Agent.
MERRIMACK MANUFACTURING COMPANY, )
Lowell, January 23, 1874. j
The Kitson Machine Company, Lowell, Mass.:
Gentlemen: We have been using some of your Compound Openei Lappers and
Finisher Lappers, with Eveners, for nearly three years, and at present are passing all
our cotton through them. The machines have proved satisfactory, and both in quantity
and quality of their work have answered the expectations formed of them.
Yours respectfully, JOHN C. PALFREY, Superintendent.
(The above Company have in use eight Compound Opener Lappers and sixteen Fin
isher Lappers, with Eveners; ordered at different times.)
Send for a Catalogue to THE KITSON MACHINE COMPANY.
SAMUEL E. STOTT. Treasurer,
jy6-3m LOWELL, MASS.
SCOTT’S IMPROVED. COTTON fit
DOZIER, WALTON & CO.,
COTTON FACTORS, AGENTS,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
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OFFICE OF THE
Piedmont and Arlington Life Insurance Company,
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA,
August 27th, 1875.
To Our Friends and Policy Holders in South Carolina and Augusta, Ga.:
We have arranged with Wm. M. Hutson, Jr., lately of South Carolina, to take
charge of our Agency at Augusta, Ga., and control the business heretofore conducted by
M. A? Ransom as our Agent. _ , , ,
We beg to assure you of the continued prosperity of your Company, and to ask your
earnest assistance in advancing our mutual interests by increasing its business.
We commend to your courtesies our new Agent, and would cite the con ection of one
so worthy and experienced in Life Insurance, as a substantial evidence of how high your
Company stands with those best qualified to judge. ......
Mr Hutson can give you all needed information as to your interest, or by address
ing the Home Office, at Richmond, Va., your correspondence will receive prompt atten
tion Very Respectfully,
W. C. CARRINGTON, President.
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AGENCY OF THE
Piedmont and Arlington Life Insurance Company,
AUGUSTA, GA., August 3Tth, 1575.
Referring to above Card, by which your attention is called to my appointment as
General Agent of the PIEDMONT AND ARLINGTON LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY,
at their Augusta Office, I think it proper to state to you that you may rest assured all
your interests with Company will be well cared for by me; you will bo duly notified, al
ways before the time, when your payments on policies becomes due, which payments
you will please either make personally at my office, or send to me by Post Office Order,
by Sight Draft, or in a Registered Letter, or by Express, upon roeelpt of which you will
have sent you promptly the Company’s receipt for paymont.
To my friends in South Carolina, known through my connection with Security Life
Insurance Company, of New York, since 1871,1 would commend most heartily the Com
pany I now represent as General Agent. While not detracting from well deserved mer
its of the Security Life, I would ask your liberal patronage to the PIEDMONT AND
ARLINGTON LIFE, a Company so well known to you for its solidity and strength, as
well as its conservative and able management, as to need at my hands do recommenda
tion.
I will, as soon as possiblo, visit the different Counties of my Agency, and make local
arrantraments for the convenience or our Policy Holders in paying their premiums.
Very Respectfully,
W. M. HUTSOIN, Jr.,
General Agent Piedmont and Arlington L; t je Insurance Cos.,
aug29-tf AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
Fruitland Nurseries, Augusta, Ga.
PJ. BERCKMANS, Proprietor. Orders
• for Trees, Plants, Bulbs. Seeds, etc,,
etc., left with the undersigned he promt
ly attended to,
GEORGE SYMMS, Agent,
No. 221 Broad Street,
septl-6m Augusta, Ga.
NOTICE.
From this date Mr, george w.
CALVIN becomes a copartner of the
Undersigned. The firm name will remain
as heretofore.
CALVIN & JONES.
September let, 1875. . sepi-tf
SEED GRAIN.
BEG TO OFFER THE FOLLOW
ing varieties of
GRAIN,
Carefully selected for Seed purposes:
RYE,
WHEAT,
BARLEY.
BLACK OATS,
Red Rust-proof
OAI S.
seps-lw J. 0. M VimWSON & 00.