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AUGUSTA. O-A..:
Wednesday Morning, Dec. 20. 1876
J. R. RANDALL, Editor.
The Oldest Democratic Paper in the
S'ate of Georgia.
CURRENT TOPICS.
General Sheridan lias pneumonia.
Horseradish and vinegar poultice cuies
neuralgia.
General Grant will retire from the Pres
idency, says the Courier- Journal, with the
proud consciousness of having done his
whole duty—to his own family.
Washington Star: General and Mrs. V* il
diah Belknap and their little daughter
are at the Arlington. All are enjoying the
best of health, and Mrs. Belknap is look
ing, if possible, handsomer than ever.
Philadelphia Times: When you want
troops nowadays all you have to do is to
get a gentleman to go to General Sherman
with a message from the Attorney-Gene
ral. The Constitution prescribes another
method, but this is Sherman’s patent, and
no President should be without it.
Herald: The latest suggestion made here
toward solving the political problem is,
substantially, to draw straws for the Pres
idency. It is proposed that two or threo
dozen Senators and Representatives shall
put their names in a hat, from which seven
shall then bo drawn, who are to count the
electoral vote and declare, without appeal
whom they please to be President.
Capital: Hon. A. H. Stephens, of Geor
gia, Chairman of Coinage, Weights and
Measures, was, on Wednesday, given a
clerk, and on that day moved his bed and
baggage into the committee-room, where
he will live. He will remain here during
the vacation, and may not return home du
ring the summer. His health is very fee
ble, and he found it so utterly impossible
to bear the fatigue of going to and from
his hotel that the change of quarters of
which we speak, was absolutely necessary.
Philadelphia Times ; The letter of Mr.
Long, a Republican candidate for the Legis
lature in Louisiana, who was honored with
an election by the Returning Board after
he had been defeated by the people, is a re
freshing reminder that honesty has not
perished frem the earth. The gentlemanly
manner in which this worthy citizen raps
the Returning Board over the knuckles
commands all praise. We know of men
who, by writing just such a letter as Mr.
Long's, might not only quiet their own
conscience but give peace to the country
and make themselves the most popular
men in the United States.
The Sun answers an article in the
Methodist, in which a compromise of
the present political muddle is suggested.
The editor says : “While it is very de
sirable that the controversy respecting
the recent election should be settled, it is
not desirable that it should be settled in
any way except in accordance with justice
and truth; nor, indeed, can it be settled in
any other way. The wish for a compro
mise has a most respectable motive, name
ly, the desire to avoid armed or warlike
conflict over the question. But there is no
danger of such a conflict. In fact, the ODly
serious sign of such a danger is in the
rampant and reckless utterances and
threats of President Grant, and in the il
legal use which kelias made of the army
during the past two months.”
An offset to Mrs. Pinkston (Now York
Sun report of the Louisiana investigation):
“Then George Johnson entered the room.
He is a colored Democrat. His head was
bound with bloody bandages and his
clothes were nearly torn off. He testified
that he was beaten nearly to death, on the
day after the election, for voting the Dem
ocratic ticket, by two coloreG United
Btate3 Deputy Marshals. He appealed to
the police for protection, and the officer
told him that he was a Democrat, and
shouldn’t have It. He went to work at the
coal fleet this morning. Ex-Deputy Mar
shal Davis, at the head of a crowd, attack
ed him, crying, ‘Kill the !’ White men
interfered and saved him. The result was
his present appearance. Mr. Hurlbubt
spent one hour in badgering the wounded
witness, and then let him go.”
The Financial Chronicle does not believe
it possible that the President of the Senate
will undertake to count the vote for Presi
dent. After quoting the old record of Sen
ators Morton, Conklino and others, it
says: “There is no reason for solicitude
on this point. These questions are all to
he decided, not by politicians, but by the
conservative portion of our people. We
greatly wish a decision might be hastened,
for there is a feature of it which should
make us all solicitous for a quick adjust
ment. Our Congressmen scarcely appre
ciate the intensity of feeling with which
the mercantile classes are compelled to
consider the long continuance of the pres
ent uncertainty. The suspense has neces
sarily deadened trade, and coming, as this
depression does, after a tension since the
panic seldom, if ever, in our history
equalled, it is producing great distress.
The fall and winter trade has already been
destroyed; and if this contest is allowed
to continue through January, and to grow
in bitterness as during the past mouth, the
spring trade must also be considered dead
—and what next?
The troubles of Governor-elect John 8.
Phelps, of Missouri, bid fair to rival those
of the unfortunate Mr. Weller with the
“vidders.” To say nothing of campaig*
scandals, he is now threatened with a mis
tress of the Gubernatorial Mansion whom
he little expected. A number of years ago
his wife, a high spirited lady, deserted
him. There was no divorce, but a separa
tion by mutual consent, the General agree
ing to provide for the wife’s support a cer
tain but adequate sum per month. Mrs.
Phelps on leaving Springfield, their resi
dence, went to Oregon, accompanied by her
daughter, and made her home with a mar
ried sister. The existence of a wife had
been forgotten. Phelps was nominated
and, of course, elected. Just as he was
preparing to pack up for a removal to the
Gubernatorial Mansion, high on the banks
of the muddy Missouri, Springfield was
startled by the return of Mrs. Phelps, who
had come to preside over the new home at
Jefferson City. The fortunate Phelps was
astonished, but not delighted, and he has
as yet made no attempt to discover wheth
er her intentions are honorable. Fortun
ately she does not find another Mrs. P.
preparing her garments of state, and they
may be happy yet.
Philadelphia Times: Among the many
whom he sent South President Grant
seems to have stumbled upon one man who
preserved a judicial frame of mind
throughout the noisy strife of partisans.
General F. C. Barlow, of New York, makes
a detailed report of his observations, and*
notwithstanding his 6trong predilections
in behalf of the Republican case, admits
that he cannot arrive at any conclusion
with confidence in the correctness of his
judgment. In many instances he would
not have thrown out votes in Democratic
counties as the board did, while in others
lie thinks the board made correct decisions.
General Barlow does not tell the Presi
dent what would have been the result if the
board had decided according to the law and
the facts in the cases which he enume
rates, but it is very clear that it would
have been to give the State to Tilden in
stead of to Hayes. We know not whether
most to commend the candor of this honest
observer in expressing his condemnation
of the action of the canvassers in these
cases or the extreme delicacy with which
he presents the unpalatable truth to the
president.
nan iu reierenee to the duties of the Senate
in the counting of the electoral vote, in
which he says that “the more he reflects
npon this subject the more he is convinced
that this monstrous assumption of power
by the Legislature of Louisiana must re
ceive a decisive check, ; or the evil that has
begun there will spread through the Union,
until in every State the choice of a Presi
dent will be devolved upon an oligarchy of
officeholders, clothed with power to per
petuate themselves. Let the dominant
party in any State retain the control of its
legislative power long enough to pass sim
ilar laws, and it will remain indefinitely in
their power to cause the electoral votes in
their State to be east in any way that they
may choose to have thorn. The virtue of
parties will not be superior to the tempta
tion. No man can ever thereafter become
President without the assent of the most
corrupt and unprincipled leaders of the
dominant faction. The people will be ut
terly powerless to prevent the perpetual
reign of a successful State oligarchy under
the forms of law, and no relief will re
main but revolution. It is now possible to
stay the progress of this misohief by
treating the Louisiana electoral certificate
as void.”
CALLING THE DEAD.
My little child, so sweet a voice might wake
So sweet a si* eper for so Bweet a sake.
Calling your buried brother back to you,
You laugh and listen—till I listen too.
* * * * Why does he listen? It may be
to hear , . ~ ,
Sounds too divine to reach my troubled
ear, , ,
Why does ho laugh? It may be ho can see
The face that only tears can hide from mo.
Poor baby faith -so foolish or so wise;
The name I shape out of forlornest cries,
He speaks as with a bird’s or blossom s
breath.
How fair the knowledge is that knows not
Death!
* * * * Ah, fools and blind—through all
the piteous years
Searchers of stars and graves—how many
seers,
Calling the dead, and seeking for a sign,
Have laughed and listened, like this child
of mine?
Let Us Patronize Our Friends.
So many calls, at home and abroad,
have been made upon us for copies of
the paper containing the following ar
ticle that we are compelled to re-pub
lish it.
We see it editorially charged that
at the Saco water-power machine
shops no Democrat has been employed
for years ; that, though some employees
wished to vote with the Democrats,
this year, all of the 300 or 400 men vo
ted the Republican ticket, fearing dis
charge, as the company’s clerk and the
overseers were looking after the men,
all election day, the shops being closed
for that purpose.
Just now, when there is a tremen
dous outcry on the part of the Repub
licans against what they call “intimi
dation” in the South, it is a matter of
some importance for Southern people
to know a thing or two about Republi
can bull-dozing at the North. The
Saco machine shops furnish an apt il
lustration. This is the more pertinent
as we have ascertained that the Colum
bus, Ga., cotton mills have ordered
§300,000 worth of machinery from this
company which not only employs no
Democrat, but exercises terrorism at
the polls over the more independent of
its workmen who desired to vote for
Tilden and Reform. We submit, with
out meaning to dictate how a man or
corporaticn shall spend money, that
the people of the South should not, on
principle, strengthen the hands of
bitter Radical concerns at the North,
when purchases can be made with equal
benefit, in the same section, from Dem
ocratic manufacturers. In our col
umns will be found the advertisement
of the Lowell Machine Shop. Its ar
ticles are equal to the best, its terms
of the most favorable character, and
its officers Democrats and opposed to
the Radical domination that has so
long insulted and ruined the South.
The goods turned out by this Lowell
firm are known and appreciated all
over the South, for their uniform ex
cellence. The firm also spends money
liberally at the South in advertising.
We profoundly regret that the owners
or directors of the new Columbus Cot
ton Mill did not patronize the Demo
cratic Lowell corporation instead of
the rabid bull-dozing Saco concern.
We believe in the South helping those
who help her at the North, and giving
a cold shoulder to her enemies and per
secutors in that section.
The Springfield Republican.
We publish elsewhere a prospectus
of the Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
Readers of the Constitutionalist may
have noticed frequent quotations from
this New England journal, which is a
phenomenon of impartiality and good
sense, allied to literary, merits of the
highest order. Though the Republican
favored the election of Hayes, on his
letter of acceptance of the nomination
to the Presidency, it has dealt the
sternest blows againstjjthe method em
ployed to force him fraudulently upon
the American people a9 their Chief Ex
ecutive.
It would be well for the people of the
South, who desire a Northern paper, to
take the Republican. They will Had it
honorable and Just politically,and, as
a fireside friend, above all, praise.
If Ben Hill really thought Return
ing Board Hayes had any idea of
putting Southern men, of the right
sort, in hie imaginary Cabinet, the idea
may as well be dismissed. The latest
edUlon of the Now York Times plumply
informs Hill & Cos. that “the Republi
can majority will make no terms with
traitors, or with weak and timid souls
who imagine that they are serving the
country by surrendering to the pre
tensions of its treacherous enemies.”
The Atlanta Evening Telegram, of
the 18th, has this searching paragraph:
Ben Hill says, In the Herald interview,
that he “regarded General Hayes’ nomina
tion from the beginning as a victory over
the ultraisms of the Republican party.”
We say now that on the night of the 25th
of August, in the Hail of Representatives
in this oity, in a speech to the Young Men’s
Democratic Club, Mr. Hill declared that
Hates was “no better than Grant,” and
that "the man vho thought so was an idiot."
Ben Hill has a wonderful way of
being inconsistent with himself. He
will not do to trust, for any great
length of time, politically.
The people of Georgia, in their pre
sent temper, do not want Benjamin H.
Hill as successor of Thomas M. Nor
wood.
We print on our first page an extra
ordinary and startling revelation from
the New York Sun, concerning a Radi
cal plot to make the next House of
Representatives a Hates concern, in
defiance of law and order.
The Washington Capital vouches for
the truth of the Sun’s exposition of
the Radical design and adds some fui
ther information to the effect that at
a caucus since held the rather startling
discovery was made that there was no
law that required the Senate to select
one of its own members to preside
over its deliberations in case of the
death, resignation, or disability of the
Vice-President. On the contrary, as
the Vice-President, the Constitutional
presiding officer, is not Senator, and
a law that authorizes the election of a
: clerk and other officers of that body
! being ample for the emergency, the
reason favors the election of one not a
member of the body to preside over
its deliberations. To this view of the
situation not a dissenting voice was
heard, and* it was determined that in
case of any popular disturbance calling
for sharp, prompt action, that Grant
should be elected to the vacancy,
which would make him President of
the United States until his successor
was duly inaugurated.
Having sketched the plan and scope
of the conspiracy, the Capital com
ments upon it as follows :
“This is a deep -laid scheme by des
perate men, bold enough to attempt
its execution. It means revolution, or
rather that coup d’etat necessary to
close up and perfect the revolution
that has been in progress the last
eight years. If Returning Boards,
made of creatures dependent upon the
Administration at Washington, are to
determine the selection of a President
in States where the constituency of
Legislatures and the Governors are to
bo found only at the national capital,
and all held in working order by
bayonets, self-government has ceased
to exist, and the republic is a memory
of the past.
“To those who acknowledge the
wrong and yet preach submission, we
can only say that we are giving strength
to usurpation and bowing our heads to
what year after year will grow more
and more intolerable and more difficult
to remove. A submission to wrong is
a premium on vice. The man who
compounds a felony becomes the slave
of the felon. All these conspirators
ask is that they may have four years’
more of power with its title in outrage,
that in four years will become familiar
and a precedent for further outrage.
It is not the wrong that worries meD.
It is the effect that wrong may have
upon the people. If the people tamely
submit, God help them in the here
after. We are in the hands of the
vilest creatures ever permitted to curse
a people. Ruined in character, though
rich in spoils ; convicts in public esti
mation, yet holding to power with an
audacity that is without parallel, they
threaten the people they seek to op
press, and we have timid property
holders begging us to submit.
“There are some things more precious
to us than property, for they make
property valuable. These are more
dear to us than the Constitution, that
was made solely for their protection.
These are our manhood and the rights
that give that manhood dignity and
self-respect. How pitiful and mean,
then, is this cry of submission. What
are moneyed possessions, lands and
bonds, compared to the noble heritage
left us by the fathers, that enabled the
humblest among us to say proudly, “I
am an American citizen; there is none
to molest, none to make me afraid.”
“God knows we are opposed to vio
lence. We saw the desolation that
darkened households in the late
war, and woe be to the wicked men
who again force this upon us. But
they give us no choice. We must
either bend our necks to their iron
heels or fight. We know the;American
people—we know that, however long
suffering and patient under fraud, they
will not submit to the insolence of vio
lence.
“Let us be warned in time. Let us
arm for the conflict, for it is upon us—
the crisis is of to-day. Let the people
say that before they will consent to
have this temple of freedom polluted
with vile demagogues and dishonest
money changers, like the blind Samp
son, they will put their arms about the
pillars and bury all in one common
ruin.”
The New York World rather “puts
the beer” on Mr. Orton, thus: “It is
particularly unfortunate for the West
ern Union Company thatit should have
entered its protest at this time. The
late Vice-President of that company is
the manager of the Republican machine
in thi3 State. Tbe Western Union
Company during his administration
always produced, without any sort of
protest, any telegrams which any com
mittee of Congress called upon it to
produce. During that period the com
mittees of Congress were Republican.
It is only when a Democratic commit
tee demands the dispatches/if Repub
lican officials, for the purpose of in
quiring into the conduct, or miscon
duct, of those officials in regard to a
disputed election, that the officers of
the Western Union Company suddenly
wake up to the enormitj- of betraying
the secrets of their customers, and of
converting tbe men in their employ
Into “spies,” meaning witnesses, of the
dispatches they have sent and receiv
ed. It is not to be supposed that the
House of Representatives under these
circumstances will be inclined to agree
with Mr. Orton that “the present is an
opportunity which it would be unwise”
for him “to forego,” for resisting, for
the first time, the process of one of its
committees.”
Hon. W. F. Sameord writes to the
New York Day Book: “Let Mr. Tildin
make haste to say, over his own signi
ture, “The Republic Shall not be Des
troyed 1” A responsive echo will ring
from every hill and valley, and the Em
pire will be crushed in the egg."
V *• VVU.'IH U
good enough, before the Republicans
tinkered with it. The trouble was
that Sumner & Cos. had a “higher law”
doctrine and a generation wa3 educated
to hate and defy the charter of our
freedom. After all the cobbling of
pseudo-statesmeD, the difficulties of
our political situation are not made
aDy smoother ; and so, at every session
of Congress, some Hon. Bardolph
Slote has an amendment, which he
promises to be copper-bottomed and
copper-fastened enough to suit all
purposes.
This tendency to botch our Magna
Charta has set the Boston Herald in
motion. It announces that a dispatch
by grape-Yine telegraph just received
says: Senator Buncombe has proposed
an amendment to the Constitution
which, in his judgment, will obviate all
difficulty hereafter in counting votes in
the Southern States. His reasons are
fully set forth in Senator Sherman’s
recent report on the Louisiana elec
tion. The text of the proposed amend
ment is as follows:
Whereas. It Is a self-evident fact that all
persons of the colored race will always
and under all circumstances vote the regu
lar Republican ticket at all elections ;
therefore, It is provided that, In all future
elections for Representatives In Congress,
electors of President and Beators in Con
gress, the votes of all persons of the col
ored race entitled to vote at such election
shall be counted as given to the regular
Republican candidate. For the purpose of
determining who are the regular Republi
can [candidates at any election, a board
consisting of {live members, viz: John
Sherman, Zachariah Chandler, Oliver
P. Morton, Eugene Hale and James G.
Blaine, are hereby appointed, with power
to fill all vacancies from time to time as
they may occur in the board, by election
mado by remaining members of the board,
so that perpetual succession may be se
cured— which board shall determine after
each such election who were the regular
Republican candidates, and a number of
votes eq*al to the number of all qualified
colored voters in the election district shall
be counted as cast for the regular Republi
can candidate so designated by said board
and the result shall be determined accord
ingly.
Our Massachusetts contemporary al
leges that Senator Bucombe said it
was hardly necessary to point out the
advantages of this proposed amend
ment, they are so obvious ; intimida
tion, bulldozing and terrorism would
at once become of no avail, and would
cease to exist. It was also no small ad
vantage that the colored race would
be spared the trouble of attending
political meetings and the loss of time
in going to the polls. The value of this
saving in time and money would be
very great, and at a more convenient
time he would produce some carefully
prepared statistics upon this point,
but would only move that his amend
ment be made the special order for the
29th of February, 1877.
Did Ben Hill really think that Hayes,
if inaugurated, would have Cabinet of
fices for Southern men ? And did Ben
think auy respectable Southern man
would take an office from a Returning
Board President ?
If Hayes should be fraudulently and
forcibly put intojaower, would Ben Hill
accept a Cabinet office under him ?
OBITUARY.
Cora Netta LeVert Reab.
The many friends of Madame Oetavia
Walton LeVert have heard with genuine
grief that her dear daughter, Mrs. Rbab,
has been takeu from her arms and those
of her husband, and summoned to walk
through the Valiev of the Shadow of
Deatn. The grief we speak of is for those
who remain behind in this Vale of Tears.
There is joy among the angels that one
more mortal has been added to the celes
tial choir.
Mrs. Reab was indeed a lovely and lov
able person; devote i to her husband,
mother, sister and child. Home life she
beautified, and thereby fulfilled the scrip
tural definition of a perfect woman, To
make others happy was her delight, and
seemed to be the chief end of her domestic
duty. Brilliant gifts of mind were con
cealed from the public gaze by a charming
diffidence and rare modesty. In this cen
sorious age, charity in speech is a rare and
glorious attribute. Of Mrs. Reab it may
be truly said that never did one word of
censure of a human being ever pass her
tender lips. Her heart was too full of
gentleness, kindness and goodness ever to
overflow with anything but truth and bene
diction.
On the 16th day of December, 1863, Mrs.
Reab was married. On the eignth anni
versary of her nuptials, she was laid be
side her three darling children who had
“gone before.”
May the All-Father comfort those who
loved and lost so precious a treasure. Let
them remember, in the beautiful Janguago
of Lougteilow, that
“There is no Death! what seems so is
transition;
This life of mortal breath
Is but a suburb of tho life elysian,
Whose portal wo call Death.” J.
IKS AND lillffiß
A RE being regularly received, fresh and
pure. Particular attention given to the
prescription department. By
Dr. FRANK J. MORES,
Patent Medicines.
A-LL of the Proprietary Medicines of the
present day, always on hand, at
DR. FRANK J. MOSES’,
SOAPS AND" PERFUMERY.
SoAPS. Cologne and Extracts, both For
eign and Domestic, a large assortment al
ways to be found,at
DR. FRANK J. MODES’,
BRUSHES, ETC.
BrUSHES of all kinds, a great variety
for Toilet and Kitchen, at
Dr. FRANK J. MOSES’,
280 Broad Street.
FOR CHRISTMAS.
A. LARGE and select assortment of
Toilet Sets, Vases, Violet and Boquet Stands )
in Glass and Bohemian Ware; small Toilet
Sets for Christmas for childrens’ presents,
will be sold low, by
DR. FRAN K J. MOSES,
280 Broad Street.
decl7-7
DIVIDEND No. 65.
Geqegia Railroad and Barking Cos. !
Augusta, Ga., December XX 1876. j
A DIVIDEND OF THREE DOLLARS
per Share on the capital stock of tbls Com
pany was declared this day by the Board
of Directors, payable on the 15th day of
January next.
No transfers of Stock will be made for
ten days from this date.
GEO. P. BU TLER, Cashier.
decl3-wefrsu&we
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
For Ordinary.
MR. EDI TORPLEASE ANNOUNCE
that Capt. W. H. DICKINSON is a candi
date for Ordinary of Richmond County,
subject to the ratification of the Demo
cratic Convention. dec2Q-4t
For Coroner.
PLEASE ANNOUNCE THE NAME OF
W. A. BRAZIEL as a candidate for Coro
ner, subject to the ratification of the Demo
cratic Convention.
dec2o-lt MANY VOTERS.
For Tax Collector.
WE ARE AUTHORIZED TO ANNOUNCE
W. A. RAMSEY as a candidate for Tax Col
lector of this county.
dec2o- MANY VOTERS.
For Tax Collector.
THE NUMEROUS FRIENDS OF MAJ.
R. E. WILSON announce him as a candi
date for Tax Collector of Richmond Coun
ty, subject to nomination by the Demo
cratic Party.
declS-tu&sat MANY VOTERS.
For 9°unty Constable, 120tli Dis-
trict, G. M.
MESSES. EDITORS: PLEASE AN
nounce M. P. MoLEMORE as a can lldate
or County Constable, 120th Dist; ict, G. M'„
Second Ward), at the ensuing election, to
beheld on the Gth day of January next
and oblige, MANY VOTER'.
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FOR SHERIFF.
MESSRS. EDITORS: YOU ARE AU
THORIZED to announce Mr. Chaiiles H.
Sibley as a candidate for re-election to
the Office of Sheriff of Richmond County,
subject to the nomin.tionof the Demo
cratic party. decl7-6
MR. EDITOR, PLEASE ANNOUNCE
Mr. C. A. FLEMING as a candidate for
Sheriff of Richmond county—subject to
the ratification of the Democratic Conven
tion. MANY VOTERS.
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FOR TAX COLLECTOR.
DR. ROBT. M. McNAIR WILL BE Sup
ported for Tax Collector of Richmond
county, subject to the ratification of the
Democratic Convention, by
declO-td MANY VOTERS.
FOR ORDINARY RICHMOND COUNTY
MAJ. A. H McLAWS IS A CANDIDATE
for Ordinary, subject to nomination by the
Democratic Convention. nov7-tf
Mb. Editob: —PLEASE ANNOUNCE
JAMES T. BOTIIWELL as a Cand : date for
Ordinary of Richmoud County. Subject to
the ratification of the Democratic Conven
tion. MANY FRIENDS.
MR. EDITOR:-PLEASE ANNOUNCE
JAMES E. HARPER, Esq., as a candidate
for Ordinary of Richmond County, subject
to the ratification of the Democratic Con
vention. '
aug23-tf MANY VOTERS.
TUB FRIENDS OF MAJOR Wit E.
EVANS desire his nomination by the Dem
ocratic party of Richmond County, for
Ordinary.
THE FRIENDS OF COL. C. V. WALKER,
desire his nomination by the Democratic
party of Richmond county for Ordinary.
aug6 tf MANY VOTERS.
THE UNDERSIGNED RESPECTFULLY
announces himself as a candidate for re
election to the office of Ordinary of Rich
mond county. SAMUEL LEVY.
jul.vßo-td
THENAMEOF JOHN I?. POURNELLE
is announced as a candidate for the office of
Ordinary of Richmond county, subject to
the nomination of the Democratic party.
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Tlie experience of five years, 12 months
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HAY FOR SALE.
Best quality loose hay. by tho
pound, or put up in bales, and fur
nished at prices to suit purchasers.
w. h. warren,
At office of Warren, Wallace & Cos.
dec2o-wedtf
50 BARRELS NORTHERN APPLES
ON CONSIGNMENT,
JuST Received direct from New York.
For sale low to close consignment.
dec2o-l R. C. HEGGIE & cO.
MAGIC LANTERN
ENTERTAINMENT.
THERE will be a Magic-Lantern Exhi
bition for the bandit of the First Ward
Baptist Church und Sabbath Sc hoc , in
their house ot worship, corner of Greme
hi and Houston str ets, FRIDAY EVENING,
December 22d, at 8 o’clock. No tickets.
Admission, 25c. dec;Jo-3t
LOST,
OX tlie ovoning of the 17th, between St.
Paul’s Church and the Misses Deal
ing’s, part of an Etruscan Gold EAR
RING. The finder will be rewarded by
leaving same at the Misses Dealing’s.
dec2o-l
CHEISTiAS
Gr O O D S
will be opened all this week at the
Ctima Tea
AND
COFFEE STORE!
Fire Works! Fire! Freaticn!!
Do you hear the tribulation
Of those who need, but will not buy,
When Children make the playthings
fly-
R. N, HOTCHKISS.
Sign of Monument Tea Chest,
Opposite the Fountain.
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Ciiromos
FOR
CHRISTMAS !
At very Low Prices This Week, at
decl9-lw JAS. G. BAILIE & BRO’S.
Situation Wanted.
•A. BOOK-KEEPER of experience and
ability, thoroughly conversant with busi
ness, desires employment. Views mode
rate. Address W. SEAY,
dec!9-3t Box 658, Augusta.
OUT THIS OUT.
AT KROUSKOFF’S
BOLLINERY HOUSE
Specialties Offered for this Week.
TRIMMED LADIES’ HATS.
Exact copies from Mine. Verot’s Paris
patterns, *3 50; $5, $7 50 and $lO, far less
than New Yo-k prices.
5,000 RIBBONS,
Twenty-five pieces Silk Velvets, Velvet
eens, und silks in all the new shades, at
less than New York prices.
STRAW AND FELT HATS,
In any shape and In Immense quantities, at
less than New York prices.
I make It a specialty to offer full lines of
Millinery at wholesale and retail, for less
than New York prices.
S. KROUSKOFF,
Broad street, next to J. A. Gray & Cos.
oet22-rv _
J. F. & J. C. HART,
Real Estate Agents
Union Point, Greene Cos., Ga.
w ILL Give Prompt Attention
to all Business Entrusted to their
Care.
—' oct2s—
Santa Claus
ON THE H. AIVCI? ACH3
fytmtnm Goods 1
I TV
ENDLESS VARIETY
AT
J. H. TRTJMP’S,
NO. 220 BROAD STREET
CENTRAL HOTEL Bin
New Goods for Christmas
AT THE NEW STORE.
H. W. LANDRAM,
NO. 268 BROAD STREET.
O
I HAVE just received, and will open out. on MONDAY MOBSING lot* of ,
buitable for Christmas presents, a few of which we will name ’ " J - ew Good?
101 Beautiful New Cloak-, late styles ad low prices
100 Setis Furs, from cheap to fine, at prices to please
50 Pieces Black Alpacas, Mohairs, Cashmeres, and other new r j
at right prices. r DCW Bla Good*,
20 Pieces Beaut iiul Black Silks, the best in the market
50 Pieces New Fancy Dress Gooas. at all prices.
5,000 Yards Cotton Flannels, from 9c. to the best.
5,000 Yards all Wool Flau.iels, wh re, etc., from 20c. ud
5,000 Yards 10-4 Sheetings, at ail prices.
SPECIAL.
Lots of Notions, Fancy Handkerchiefs Holsery, Corsets. Ribbons Bentif.,i c .
and Fancy Shawls for the neck, and at all prices. -amoons. Beautiful Scarf*
100 Pairs 10-4 Blankets from $2.25 up to the Best.
SPECIAL.
10,000 Yards New Pi iots, from up to the best, at S' 1 .
50,000 Yards Check Strides, Brown Sheetings, at low prices by the niece
’50,0u0 Yards Bleach Shirtings, from sc. up to the best.
30,000 Yards Kentucky Jeans, from l&c. up.
MER HAN IS will do well to call and see the anove GOODS. Allthe above GOOJK
have been bought at low prices, for cash, ami will be sold the same way 3
Lookout the coming week for the NEW STORE before buying elsewhere.
H. W. LANDRAM.
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Thousands ofUseful Articles
SUITABLE FOR
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS,
AT
W. T. Anderson & Co’s
o
"VItTE \\ ON’T give prices this time, though every one who has visited our est&blish-
YY meet heretofore, will know what we mean, viz: LOW Pit ICES. Everything
mentioned is less than market value—Regular SLEDGE HAMMER PRICES.
Undervests, Corsets, Cuffs and Col'ars, Gents’Collars,
Buttons, Hooks and Eyes, Coatßndiig Ladies’Hose,
4; n ®’ Ribbons, Note Paper, Misse-’Hose,
Needles, La es. Envelopes, Gents’ Half Hose,
ead Edging, Hair Pins, Gents' lies.
5, •’ . Handkerchiefs, Linen Fioss, Gents’Sea rD,
Hair Brushes. Velvet, Pocket Books, Gents’GL\vs,
k" n ]® s , Tooth Brushes, Bracelets, Ordinal Ties,
Dram, Enabl'd Sacques, Gloves, >iik Han kcchief?,
E :l bcs. Bootees. Collar Buttons, Balbriggau Hose,
Machine Needles. Wool Mits. Cuff Buttons, Beits,
\vv . i De ’ Bleached Shirting, Gingham, Cassimeres,
Brown shirting, Lindsey, Cottonades,
J willed do, B eached SheetiDg, Drills, Dress Goods,
Opera do, Brown Sheeting, Jeans, Alpacas.
Plaid do. Mattress Ii k, Kersey. Cashmeres,
A*Y I .V| ,1 l ando * Feather Tick, Water fcroof, DeLaines,
Oil Clotn, Stripes, Italian Cloth, Silks.
Our celebrated Wamsutta Shirt, at 75c.
Furs, Muff and Cape at $1 95.
Harris' Seamless 2 button Kid Gloves at $2.
Harris’ Donna Maria Kid Gloves at $1 25.
Jouvin’s Kid Gloves at *i.
Alexander’s Black Kid Gloves at 50c. )
TO THE CASH TRADE,
W. T. AXDEBSOX .V CO..
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THE GREAT SENSATION OF THE DAY
A.T THE
OLD FREDERICKSBURG STOKE,
CORNER BY THE PLANTERS HOTEL, ARE THE
BARGAIN COUNTERS,
On the Pavement in Front of the Store,
THIS W E E K!
W^Y£ LL HAVE 9 N THESE COUNTERS POCKET BOOKd at 5 cents: 840 PINK
nnir- v® P*P er ,?' for sc: two rolls wide Tape for sc; Good Elastic Garters. 5c per
cards Needles 2 papers for sc; Hooks and Eyes, lo per card, or 5c per box of
nor nacV^°ia kmo f? ack # n *. for i°• good Note Kapor at 5c per quire; Enye-p.
vards . • 1 , Bu ttons for 3e; Paper Collars. 5c per box; good Snool Cotton. -
Dooi two spoois for sc; Merino Hose for Ladies, 10: Balbrfggjr i Hose.
Towflls Fn<?' Haif Hose for Gents at 10c; Good Towels. 6*fc; Very Large end H ?*7
chief* tnr r hemmed Handkerchiefs for Gents at 10c; good hemmed Hardk.r
Pencfta i/Ka• at u 5< V Undershirts. 35c; Shoulder Shawls for Ladies, 25c; g'*
75c"shirt C <^/? h oT ße4 i? t f ul i et Jewe| ry at 25 and 50c; Gold Plated Jewelry a )
Bows at m inn Vi oC ’.iws ar Bl, ttons, me; Gent’s Black Silk Bows. sc; B ant ful Fa c>
astonish Al , tb ® above goods recently sold for more than double, and > 15
omening: to see how low we can now, under the pressure of hard times sell
AND IIV ADDITION
hav ods ’ wll ich, for want of room, we are obliged to show out
to b-> found w! I i 8 ,! and . e i, 0f Bouse °n®| thp most choice and select stocks of Dry j
the great mtTnfif ouse J n South. All our goods are selected with great car.
DoSSible nr^. t iY,A We bl J y euables us to rrora first hands, and t th*
goods w ® k n° w 4hey are as cheap or cheaper than the old secon'l-h
they trv to nito.^or tlon .? n: ‘ of United States marshals by some merchants. n
as the licar on 9*® s®°!*!? at an enormous profit, and recommend to tie as g
for redvnd in ii e l*r, n ? er i C i b . an 1 a ,f a * bout getting their stocks from auctions, loA
3 tu goods and old trash that cannot be cold in a regular way.
THIS WEEK
iantStSEu HS® of F ! ne Cloaks, at much l-ss than former prices. Fine
nn res Bed ’Ratin' o“ ra ’ Cashmeres and colored Dress Goods. Fine (
Skirts’ Hd3 i ket! ’ Covers. Hearth and Sofa Rugs. Table Dam isk, Ba
mi n t v otlar Hiai ' Kan n i k 4 ashps . Face and other Handkerchiefs, Dressed Dolls, ac
\v i^Tf a ticl ®^ Bult,ble for holiday presents. .
by them w mr £ 4 antß V* ** ve I ,ur at °ch nn examination, as we know we read >
retail Ktoek ttP ontiuuo to send samples, and pay expressage on goods. rdered of
retail stock to the amount of $lO or over. The winter number of
RICHARD’S BAZAIt
Jfegam y ’ 16 a ,' beautifully illustrated paper, filled with choice reading *•*;
ThfL fafehiona iu dresses and other garments, etc^
mbei is & gem. bend for a specimen copy, which we will send free.
. V. RICHARDS At 880.
deol, ' ct 301 Broad street, Auguat*.da.