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NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES.
Lexington, Ga.
Guano sales are light thus far.
Seed sweet potatoes are selling for two
dollars per bushel.
Mr. Blockman; engineer on the Athens
Branch, narrowly escaped death the other
day when his engine jumped the track.
A little child of Mr. Alec. Johnson was
buried last Tuesday in Lexington.
Ground is broken tor two new houses in
Lexington.
Echo: It is said that suit will be com
menced at our next court against a promi
nent citizen of this county, to recover about
$7 ,000, which sum was paid by his wife, as
as trustee for minor children, in Confeder
ate money.
A perfect army of bran-new babies have
made their advent in Crawford and sur
rounding country within the past few days.
A negro is filibustering for the position of
Postmaster at Crawford.
Elberton.
Mr. D. F. Daniel, a highly respectable
citizen, died Friday of last week.
Mr. W. S. Gaines and Miss M. C. Teas
ley were married on the 6th.
The male school at Elberton continues to
grow. The same can not be said of the
female.
The measles are doing a wholesale busi
ness in the county. They propose trying
the blue grass cure.
The Gazette man knows of no place where
a first rate boot and shoe maker is more
needed than in Elberton.
Crawfordville.
Clarence Stephens is postmaster at Craw
fordville.
Mr. J. L. Moody died at his residence in
Crawfoodville, very suddenly, on Monday
last.
Mr. Samuel H. Rhodes and Miss Emma
T. Tucker were married on the 22d.
They have a Liberty Hall brass band in
Crawfordville.
Horse racing is fostered by the natives of
Crawfordville.
The farmers are using unusually large
quantities of guano this season.
Anew bridge has been built across the
Oconee river at Carter’s Ford.
A good, industrious tinner is greatly
needed in Crawfordville. Work plenty,
and at remunerative prices
The > oung men gave a dance Friday night
at the Academy.
The Crawfordville Democrat is a lively,
gossipy sheet.
Irwinton.
Col. J. A. King, of Dublin, is quite sick.
Irwinton is now supplied with Essex,
Berkshire find Guinea pigs.
Wesley Brack, who was put in jail some
time since for stealing two mules and a
buggy, has given bond and been released.
A large quantity of pork put up by farm
ers has been found to be spoilt. The meat
was killed during the freeze, and the late
warm spell ruined it.
The editor of the Appeal has been sued
by the members of the Town Board of
Commissioners for publishing what they
consider a libelous article.
The Sparta Murder,
The cruel assassination of Mr. Rozier, of
Sparta, a week or two since, is still being
investigated. A detective from Atlanta has
been woiking up the case at his instance.
Mr. W. C. Grigg, the Town Marshal, and
Messrs. W. R. Lovett and Columbus G.
Barnes have been arrested and committed
to jail to await the action of the April term
of the Superior Court. Tbis has caused
much surprise in Spart ion account of the
standing of these parties in that commu
nity.
Recorder’s Court.
Yesterday was a dull day in this court
there being only two parties present for
trial.
Andrew Gilmore a prominent member of
Gilmore’s band, appeared on the charge of
disorderly conduct, drunk and fighting. He
paid $2 50ani costs.
Lewis Williams, drunk and insulting a
couple of colored ladies was released on the
payment of $lO and costs.
Two other cases, plain drunks were con
tinued, the parties not being present.
PHILADELPHIA.
An Injunction Against Tobacco Manu
facturers.
Philadelphia, February 24.—A notice
for aa injunction was argued in Janu
ary last, to restrain McDowell & Cos.
from impressing tin tags into the sur
face of plug tobacco, as an infringe
ment of a patent granted to Chas. S.
Edier and assigned to Lorillard & Cos.
The opinion of Circuit Judge McKen
non was filed Saturday granting the
Injunction.
Minor Telegrams
Baltimore, February 24.—Gen. An
drew W. Dennison, Postmaster, was
fouad dead in his bed.
Deadwood, February 24.—A band of
Indians attacked Spearfish City. A
hundred shots were fired. No damage
to mineis.
Shreveport, February 24. The
steamboat Bell Rowlaad, with a thou
sand bales of cotton, sunk in Swan
Lake. The boat is a total loss. No
lives lost.
It is expected tbat the coming Lon
don season will be very gay, as it is
said to be the intention of the Queen to
spend two or three days of each week
after Easter at Buckingham Palace.
She has not done this since the death
of the Prince Consort.
The author of the phrase “Invinci
ble in peace, invisible in war,” which
has been ascribed to Ben Hill, was the
late Captain George H. Derby, better
known as “John Phoenix,” who, while
in San Francisco, at a public dinner of
the State militia, gave it as a toast to
(he California militia,
@)t A ngustfi Constitutionalist.
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CONSTITUTIONALIST.
FBOH ATLANTA.
A Tragedy—Excitement Over the
Washington News—Ben Hill Not as
Popular As He Used to be. Politi
cians on the Fence and WaLing for
Pap - The Marietta and N. Georgia
Bill Signed.
[Special to the Constitutionalist.]
Atlanta, February 24.9
Tom Black and Bill Pettis have just
had a rencontre on Alabama street.
Black shot Pettis twice through the
lungs. Pettis wrested the pistol and
beat Black. Pettis will probably die-
It was a business quarrel.
There is some excitement over the
Washington news. The sentiment
generally favors resistance of the De
mocratic Congressmen and condemns
Hill and Hewitt.
The air is musical with discord about
State and Federal affairs, and all men
are cautious as to their utterances.
Prominent Democrats absolutely re
fuse to iudicate any policy or opinion.
They will wait for the people and then
slip in on the stroDg side. Corruption
in high places is as common as pig
tracks, and it now remains for the
people to unearth and punish it. The
South’s future is a cloud charged with
electricity and dynamite, and the power
to thunder is reserved to the people in
convention.
Joe Brown continues to improve.
The Marietta and North Georgia
Railroad bill was signed by the Gov
ernor. Wentwobth.
Associated Press Dispatches.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
O’Mahony’s Remains —The German
Parliament Turkey and Servia
Reconciled Marine Disasters -
Russia in no Hurry to Move.
Cobk, February 24.—O’Mahony’o re
mains were brought from Queenstown
in a special steamer, and now lie in
state at Mechanic’s Institute. Demon
stration small.
Berlin, February 24.—Herr Yon
Forckenback has been elected Presi
dent of the Reichstag and Prince Ho
henlope, Lauxenburg and Herr Hauf
fenburg Vice-Presidents.
Constantinople, February 24.—1 t is
believed that a complete understand
ing will be reached to-day between the
Porte and the Servian envoys, the lat
ter having accepted Turkish condi
tions, except those claiming equality of
the Jews in Servia and the right of the
Porte to be diplomatically represented
at Belgrade. Servia will be evacuated
by the Turkish troops ten days after
the conditions of peace are ratified.
An agreement between the Porte and
the Servian envoys was concluded to
day.
Prince Milan Wall addressed a letter
to the Sultan, accepting the Turkish
conditions, except those claiming equal
ity for the Jews in Servia and the right
of the Porte to be diplomatically repre
sented at Belgrade.
The Sultan will grant Prince Milan a
new firman, determining the further
relations of Servia and Turkey.
The Russian Minister has communi
cated to the Sultan a dispatch from
the Czar explaining that the assem
blage of troops on the Turkish frontier
are solely meant to prevent the depre
dations of a nomadic tribe. These as
semblages have been ordered to cease.
Bilboa, February 24. —Tempestuous
weather past two days. One English
and two French ships are reported lost,
with all on board.
London, February 24.—A special dis
patch from Berlin to the Pall Mall Ga
zette says it is stated in well informed
circles that the Czar will certainly await
the Powers’ reply to Prince Gortschoff’s
circular before attacking Turkey. A
Russian officer just arrived from Kis
cheneff gives n highly favorable ac
count of the Russian army, but it is
positively asserted that Russia in no
case will commence hostilities before
March 31st.
England Refuses a Concession from
Russia.
Brussels, February 24.—The Lenord
publishes a letter from St. Petersburg
declaring that England will obtain no
concession from Rusiia, short of an
agreement for the coercion of Turkey,
in case the Porte persists in its refusal
to execute reforms. Englands present
attitude might even precipitate Russia s
decision to abandon an attitude which
is neither peace nor war, yet imposes
upon Russia all war’s sacrifices.
FROM NEW YORK.
Death of a Cuban Vice President-
Loss of a Vessel—lnsurance Decis
ion.
New York, February 24.—General
Aguila, a Vice-President of the Cuban
Republic, died in New York yesterday.
The schooner M. E. Donner, from
Weymouth, Mass., for Savannah, was
run down and sunk by the brig Mari
pora on Feb. 19th, in latitude 26.40,
longitude 74.12. The crew of the Don
ner were brought to this port by the
brig Mary E. Pennell.
A decision on a policy for 810,000 has
been decided in favor of the insurance
company. The policy exempted pay
ment when death occurred from surgi
cal or medical treatment. Death oc
curred from an overdose of hydrate of
chloral.
Meeting of the Board of Brokers.
New York, February 24.— The New
York Open Board of Brokers, at a
meeting this evening, announced that
the first floor of No. 21 New street was
secured. Business will commence at
9:30 Monday morniDg. All stocks on
the list of the New York Stock Ex
change will be dealt in ; also Philadel
phia and Reading and Pennsylvania
Central, which have officers in this city.
Forty years ago the average daily
number of pins made in England for
home use and export was 20,000. Now
it is 50,000,000.
Costume balls of a curious kind are
in vogue in Paris—ordinary dress, but
a fancy head dress. The men thus ar
rayed look even greatey “guys” than
I the women.
FROM WASHINGTON.
THE DEMOCRATS GROWING BIT
TER.
Chances of Blocking the Radical
Fraud—Julian to Argue the South
Carolina Case —Oregon County
Crafty Conkling Falls into Line—
Pennsylvania Objected To, But
Counted In by the Senate—Hayes’
Friends Explaining an Editorial
Bombshell.
Washington, February 24.—1 t seems
to have been forgotten that there are
two returns from Vermont. The high
est Democratic candidate of that State
cast his vote in place of a postmaster.
The feeling among the Democrats is
becoming more bitter,
In the House, McMahon offered a
resolution to meet the Senate at one
o’clock. Wilson offered a substitute to
meet the Senate immediately. Adopted;
145 to 85. Then Vance moved a recess
to Monday. Ruled out. Under the
motion to reconsider Wilson’s motion
to lay on the table, the ayes and nays
were taken on this, the object being to
flllibußter past 12 o’clock, when the
Friday Legislative day ends, when a
motion for recess may be entertained.
Julian, of Indiana, is here to argue
the South Carolim* case in behalf of the
Democrats.
11:53 o’clock.—The dilatory motions
have failed. The Senate entered. They
will make a report on Oregon, when a
recess will be ta' _n to noonday. The
result of t his morning’s proceedings is
tegarded favorable to Hayes’inaugura
tion. It has been found that Honore
has not fully complied with the subpoena
duces tecum. Additional papers nave
been ordered and the committee will
await their arrival.
No committees are in session.
Ferry is reported as denying having
duplicated returns from Vermont. They
will, however, be called for when Ver
mont is reached. It is suspected Ferry
fobbed the extra returns.
The motion of Mr Clymer, an irre
concilable. that the House take a re
cess to 10 o’clock Monday, was defeat
ed—ayes, 107 ; nays, 132. This was by
a standing vote. The ayes and nays
are progressing. The result will be
nearly the same, and two hours debate
on Oregon will occur. The second joint
session and progress of the count to
South Carolina is possible to-day.
Lane, of Oregon, moved a recess to
half-past nine o’clock Monday.
Randall ruled the motion out of or
der, and debate was opened by Mr.
Lawrence, of Ohio, in favor of sustain
ing the decision of the Commission.
Upon the return of the Senate to its
chamber, at 12:10, Mr. Sargent sub
mitted a resolution that the decision of
the Commission upon the electoral
vote of the State of Oregon stand as
the judgment of the Senate, ODjection
made thereto to the contrary notwith
standing.
Debate was opened by Mr. Kelly, of
Oregon, who denied that Watts was
eligible as a Presidential elector.
Nomination : W. H. Kennon, Post
master at Columbus, Miss
At the end of two hours the two
Houses reassembled in joint session,
and the vote of Oregon was counted
for Hayes and Wheeler.
Pennsylvania was next opened.
SpriDger and Tucker presented ob
jections. They were signed by a suffi
cient number of members and Senators,
and allege a vacancy illegally filled by
the college. The Houses separated,
and a motion for recess to 10 o’clock
Monday was carried by 137 to 121.
In the Senate, Mr. Conkling, who
was absent heretofore when questions
of sustaining the decisions of the Com
mission come up, said : In Oregon the
State of Oregon intended to appoint a
Republican elector, and the people of
Oregon intended to elect a Republican
elector and voted for Mr. Watts. The
Commission had given its decision and
he disclaimed auy intention of alluding
to any of the reasons which prompted
the decision of the Commission, and
believing that the State of Oregon in
tended to appoint Republican electors
he should vote to sustain and affirm
that intention and the decision of the
Commission. He was also opposed to
impeding in the slightest degree the
operation of the decision of the Com
mission, and on the contrary was in fa
vor of aiding it and consummating it
at the earliest practicable moment.
The decision was sustained bv a party
vote.
J. B. Williams, Jr., of Mobile, Ala.,
testified before the Senate Committee
on Privileges and Elections in regard
to the Chapel Hill Church fight, in
Mississippi. He said the negroes did
the first firing ; that B >gaa was four
miles from the fight. He is the man
that Outlaw said killed the negro
Charley Curry ; tbat Henry Outlaw was
one of the ring leaders of all the dis
turbances that occurred during the
canvass in Okteibbeha county.
Disavowals that Hayes in any way
inspired the article in the Ouio* Slate
Journal regarding the recognition of
Packard’s government in Louisiana
continue to come in. The associate
proprietor of that paper, an.l the
Speaker of the Ohio House of Repre
sentatives, both telegraphed that Gov.
Hayes was not responsible for it. Oen.
Cornly, the editor, is seriously ill.
Speaker Groovenor’s dispatch says the
article in question was originally a
communication lying in the office, and
was used by the young men in charge
of the office in the absence of Gen.
Cornly, occasioned by severe illness.
The Senate, after a two hours’ de
bate, agreed to count the vote of Penn
sylvania without division.
The House Caucuses.
The House committee on appropria
tions agreed not to concur in subsidies
for New Orleans and Brazil, and Cali
fornia and China mails.
Secretary Morrill is getting better.
The President spent an hour with him
to-day.
The House is caucussing to-night.
An effort has been made to day to
secure an immediate expression from
Southern Legislatures on the duties of
the House. It is claimed that the
Democrats are losing some important
advantages by the ulra-conservative
course of Southern leaders.
At the caucus—Some 75 members
present.
The Committee on Powers and Pri
vileges was directed to report a bill
amendatory of the law of 1792, to pro
vide for an election in case of a failure
before the 4th of March. The Presi
dent of Senate to become President in
the meantime. The skeleton of the bill
provides for the election in April.
The Committee was directed to re
port another bill by which an illegal
President can be Ousted. There was
some bitter talk but no action looking
to dilatory measures. They will not be
interposed effectually unless represen
tative men are instructed by State
Legislatures.
■Mb*
AUGUSTA, GA.. SUNDAY. - FEBRUARY 25, 1877.
FROM ATLANTA.
Closing Hours of the Legislative Ses
sion-Incidents Attending the Ad
journment.
(Special Correspondence Constitutionalist.)
Atlanta, Feb. 22—Midnight
The Senate, after passing a number
of local bills, took up the bill of the
House, which allows the county of
Chatham to retain one-third of its
State tax for the present year for the
purpose of draining the swamps near
the city, which, by scientific men, are
supposed to have furnished the malaria
that rendered the yellow fever of last
year epidemic and malignant. It is
the opinion of those best informed on
this subject that the disease, when in
troduced by ships from other infected
ports, will not prevail as an epidemic
if there is not malaria in the locality,
and that this condition of the atmos
phere of Savannah was caused by the
stagnant water in the swamps near the
city.
So soon as the bill was put upon its
passage, it was assailed by Brewster,
of the Thirty-sixth, who, though one
of the youngest men, and also one of the
youngest members in the Senate, has
made a reputation for extreme watch
fulness of the Treasury. He was fol
lowed by the President, Mr. Lester, in
support of the bill, and Mr. McDaniel,
chairman of the Finance Committee.
The ayes and nays were required to
be recorded on the passage of the bill.
There were, ayes 19 and nays 16. So
the bill was passed.
The Senate then repaired, under a
joint resolution, to the Representative
Hall for the election of a State Printer.
There was only one nomination for this
office, Mr. James P. Harrison, of this
city, who was elected.
The Senate, after returning to their
Chamber, adjourned for the morning.
The House spent most of the morn
ing session on local bills. A message
was communicated to that body by the
Governor, showing the probable sum
required to meet the liabilities of the
State for the present year, over and
above the amount appropriated, which
must be raised either by increasing the
rate of taxes or by temporary loans.
The latter method being recommended,
a resolution authorizing his Excellency
to raise the required sum, $500,000, by
pledging, if necessary, the State taxes
und the unappropriated proceeds of
the Western and Atlantic Railroad was
offered and agreed to.
The rules were suspended for the
purpose of taking up a Senate resolu
tion authoriz ng the Governor to pay
Col. Snead, of New York, $2,000 due
him as a balance for services rendered
the State in relation to outstanding
bonds. He was employed on this ser
vice by Gov. Smith and had been paid
$3,000, Quite an animated discussion
on this proposition ensued, in jw
Messrs. Jordan, Carlton, FifJfOOds for,
engaged. Mr. Jordan qirikn]
lution, and the other gentlemen advo
cated it with warmth and zeal, assert
ing that it provided for the payment of
a just obligation, based upon valuable
services performed for the State by
Col. Snead. Tneresolu ion was lost by
a small majority.
The afternoon session of the Senate
was devoted mainly to the considera
tion of the bill of the House, appropri
ating the net profits of the convict
labor, for four years, to the Marietta
and North* Georgia Railroad. This
measure elicited able and prolonged
discussion. It was opposed by Messrs.
Reese aDd Shewmake. The effort of
Hon. T. B. Cabaniss in favor of the bill
was most creditable to him, as also the
remarks of Hon. Evan P. Howell, on
the same side. The bill passed the
Senate by 23 yeas to 10 nays.
Tne night was spent in closing up
the odds and ends of legislation. The
usual hilarity with good feeling pre
vailed. and the session was closed at
12 o’clock by an adjournment sine die.
Wentworth.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The negroes in Newberry are dying
rapidly of consumption. Six died of it
last year on Mr. W. Y. Fair’s place
four men and two children.
Application has been made to Gov
ernor Hampton for commissions to the
officers of the Abbeville Rifle club and
the enrollment of the club as a part of
the State militia.
Rev. Dr. Wm. Williams, of the South
ern Baptist Theological Seminary, diec?
at Aiken on Tuesday morning last, at
11 o’clock.
An uninhabited storehouse, the prop
erty of Mr. S. Nelson, three milesYrom
Kingstree, on the Santee road, was de
stroyed by fire last week. The work
of an incendiary. No insurance.
Nine distillers were brought in on
Tuesday last and lodged in the jail at
Greenville. They were captured in the
mountain country by revenue officers,
aided by a detachment of United States
troops.
S. B. Gibson, of Georgetown, who
was shot accidentally by E. C. Ramey;
publishes a sworn statement relieving
Ramey of any bad intentions, and say
ing that he and Ramey have always
been and are yet good friends.
Starvation has actually set in with a
number of poor colored people in Ab
beville county. They are clothed in
rags, without friends or credit, and
there’s nothing to steal. Patterson and
Chamberlain cleaned out the concern
long ago. The severe winter we have
had, the low price of cotton, and the
disturbed condition of the country
have led to the hardships of which
these people are now passing through.
Captain Perrin, of Abbeville, has col
lected $9,932.95. Of this amount $6,-
887.10 were paid in obedience to Hamp
ton’s ten per cent, call, and the balance,
$3,145.85 for the county. One thousand
four hundred and eighty-seven receipts
were issued for the county and two
thousand and seven for the State. One
hundred and Dinety-four colored people
nave paid up, and others are coming
forward with their contributions as
fast as they can raise the money.
The Abbeville Medium still holds the
fort. In its last issue it says : “Some
of the half-way farmers who have been
hiring proscribed negroes, against the
wishes and interests of their neighbors
are loud in their threats against us for
intending to publish their names. They
talk about resorting to violence if their
names are used. This is all stuff, 0 f
course, but nobody is afraid. We are
accustomed to eating three average
sized men for breakfast every morning.
The policy is to starve ’em out—pro
scribed negroes, employees and all, and
this policy is sure to win,”
WEST POINT.
The Biggest Place of Its Size in Geor
gia—Checked by a Pistol Ball.
lFrom an Occasional Correspondent.]
West Point, Ga., Feb. 23,1877.
lam a little vain of West Point. In
deed all of us are. Wherever, in this
State, I have mentioned the name of
the little city to which the “uncertain
waves have borne me, I have heard
the invariable concession that “it is the
biggest place to its size in Georgia,” and
it is bigger in pluck, energy and busi
ness vim than any equally dimensioned
corporation from Darien to Dalton. It
has long since swept mockingly by the
haughty aristocratic ante helium city of
LaGrange, and left her to meditate upon
hr former prosperity, and the progres
sive ness of her younger sister, Opelika
oar Alabama neighbor, with all its big’
enthusiastic hopes of metropolitan pro
portions, has gradually subsided into
a quiet, settled town, thankful for its
prer enfc prosperity and expecting
nothing more.
Newnan is as test asleep as towns
ever get to be. When the biblical Ga
briel blows his judgment horn it will
take a double blast to wake Newnan
up, and she will wake unwillingly and
lazily then.
But little West Point, modestly, qui
etly, but bravely and vigorously, has
fought its way along—slowly, perhaps,
but always rising surely—until its busi
ness and its crowded streets have be
come the envy of its less fortunate
neighbors, and it is now without doubt
the “favorite son” of the Fourth Con
gressional District, and the embryo
Atlanta of Western Georgia.
It would be hard to assign the
REASON OF THIS SUPERIOR PROGRESS.
We are situated, however, in the cen
tre of a large agricultural section, and
haying the advantage of through
freights, can present unusual induce
ments as a cotton market. So much for
the physical cause. I believe that the
tue secret of our success may be
stated in the bubbling enterprise and
public spirit of this sturdy citizensy.
.1 ust after the war, the reputation of
this little corporation was 4 rather
shadowed. A set of desperate men,
stripped of property by the fortunes of
the fight, ruined in purse, reckless in
purpose, and maddened by defeat,
gathered here and inaugurated a reign
of lawlessless, in which all differences
were settled by the straight-shouider
stroke, or the swift bullet. Those were
days when an insult was washed away
in blood, or a sneer
CHECKED BY A PISTOL BALL.
And many men won that bitter meed
of rashness at a time when the laws of
the land were powerless to avenge
them. But, as the years, with their
softening influence wore on, this wild
class of men settled into a thorough
going, business community, and that
ov\d eß P er ate, daring and reckless ven
a'nd^av e ou^ let ’ vented itße,f
siTTi au inseparable charaeter
lavc of this people and their public
a<:ts. Nor does this spirit seem likely
to decay as the old generation passes
away. Behind them, coming steadily
on, is a numerous troop of strong
armed, steady-browed, brave-hearted
young men—the finest troop I have
seen in the South—young men of mus
cle, will and business training ; bearing
in their sturdy sinews none of that
effeminacy and weakness born of lux
ury and petted indulgence ; no spoiled
darling of fortune with frames and
hdarts too delicate for the breath of
the world, and white, aristocratic hands
that shrink from honest toil, but a race
of coming men, reared in the stern
school of adversity, and goiDg out into
life, prepared to do battle successfully
with all its bitterness, trials and weary
disappointments—a noble race -a
splendid population—
AS GALLANT A HOST
as ever bared their arms to the re
building of the wasted solitudes of a
war-trampled land. * * * To illus
trate the justice of this rather extend
ed laudation, I might cite a hundred
instances in which this strong spirit
has been shown. Notably among these
is her
PUBLIC SCHOOL ENTERPRISE,
just inaugurated and now in full blast,
with 184 pupils already, and, of course,
on the basis of permanent prosperity.
Last summer the idea was suggested
duiing the dull season, found favor
with the people (who readily and over
whelmingly ratified a resolution to levy
annual tax of 553,000 upon their small
population of twenty-five hundred),
and determining that it should be done,
they set to work with characteristic
energy, and in spite of depressed
finances and political agitation, it was
done. It’s plan may be stated briefly
—city tax payers send free; outsiders
can enjoy the advantages of the school
by paying a matriculation fee of $5 per
term for each scholar. Five teachers
are employed, at salaries ranging from
81,200 to 8400 per annum. Before
spiiug the numbers of the school will
reach 225. It imparts inexpressible
life and vivacity to the appearance of
the town.
r. m. c. A.
Following fast on the heels of the
public school, a few energetic young
men have rapidly and easily built up a
flourishing and vigorous association of
the above name, which now holds its
meetings in an elegant fitted up and
attractive room, furnished with 2,000
choice volumes and most of the promi
nent periodicals and magazines of the
day. It is a charming resort, and its
founders are pablic benefactors.
Other instances in point crowd upon
me, but I deSist— not without a final
assertion that “West Point is the big
est place to its size in Georgia I”
Spar.
Consumers of keroseno oil will be
interested in hearing that the great
petroleum combination has gone to
pieces, so far as Canada is concerned.
Forty refiners of the Dominion have
been thus set at liberty to manufacture
for the Canadian market, and the price
there will immediately fall at least 15
cents a gallon. It is not probable, there
fore, that 40 cents can much longer be
extorted from our own people for 20
cent oil, as this important change In the
Canadian trade will not act as a tonic
on the moribund monopoly.
A citizen of Indiana having occasion
to go home rather unexpectedly a few
nights since caught a gentleman ac
quaintance in the act of kissing his
wife. On relating the circumstances to
a friend he was asked if he punished
the guilty couple, and replied : “ No,
not exactly, but they must have seen
from the way I slammed the door that
I was not satisfied.”
MAJOR SCHOTIGUHN’S BABY.
A Cotemporaneous Human Drama in
Four ActSi One Pickaxe and a Shovel.
I—THE ARRIVAL OF THE BABY.
The Major had always loved chil
dren, and he hoped to have some of his
own to whom he could transmit his
honorable name and vast estates. More
than this, he wanted to see growing up
around him strong, manly boys and
charming girls, so that as he grew old
he might renew his youth Id the bud
ding glories of his own fireside. At last
there came along one day a bewildered
little angel which fluttered down and
alighted upon the Major’s own hearth
stone. That was a great day for the
Shottguhns. Life had turned for them
a new page, written all over with joy
ous letters and filled with good cheer.
II. —THE SCHEDULE.
At the end of the first month, when
things had got settled down a little,
Mrs. Schottguhn announced her inten
tion of bringing the baby up by rule.
She said she knew who had let babies
have their own way, and so had
brought great trouble upon themselves.
The babies became exacting as they
grew older, and left no peace in the
household. But, said Mrs. SchotN
guhn, while it might make some con
fusion at first, still if they were once
made to conform to some regular rule,
it was vastly better for them and infi
nitely more comfortable for the par
ents. The Major heard with forebod
ing the details of this plan, and he
shuddered when Mrs. Schottguhn pro
duced the following schedule as the
time card on which the baby was to be
managed:
£I j? 2 S’ £ | |o
?! ® -§ o a ® T 5
Feed. : S 3 ? j
: • : s o> • :
: ; & . :
LJ_ _J l_Jl : : :
7 a.m.. 7:30 800 7777 ~
8:30 9 to 10 !" i;" 7 >
2 p.m 30 to3 2
3:30 4to 5 5-
5:00 5:30t 0 7 ;r
_ 7 l°° 7:30 8:00*
Mrs. Schottghun confidently an
nounced that in less tban three days
the baby would get used to this rou
tine, and that afterward we would all
be thankful that there was some regu
larity in her treatments. In actual
practice it was found that the baby
followed the first and last entries with
marvelous precision—that is, she was
ready for her breakfast promptly on
time, and whatever else happened she
cried all night; but if the intervening
part of the schedule had been struck
by lightning, it couldn't have been more
badly mixed than the baby mixed it,
and the Major thought what an amaz
ing thing it would be to attempt to run
twins by schedule. The infant refused
absolutely to be scheduled, and reso
lutely insisted on having her own way
or nobody’s. On the second day Mrs.
Schottguhn informed the Major that
there were exceptions to all rules; that
while by schedule was undoubtedly the
best way to bring up children, still
there were some babies that you had
to let have their own way, and this
evidently was one of that kind. To
this view the Mu,jOr cordially assen’ed.
After that there was more peace in the
household, and the time-table was put
away in a closet to wait for some in
fant whose propensities must be more
schedulic.
lit—THE ZEPHYR,
The baby grew rapidly, and came to
be a sort of human calliope. After its
victory in the schedule business it took
everything into its own hands and did
just as it pleased. About 2 o’clock one
morning the Major was suddenly
awakened, and the first sound that
reached his half-opened ears was a low,
wailing moan. During the difference
between the North and South, from
’GI to ’65, the Major had travelled in
the South without a trunk ; he had
heard wounded men groan and dying
men cry for water, but never any sound
of sorrow got so close to his heart as
this baby’s pitiful, helpless moan in a
darkened room at 2 o’clock in the morn
ing ; while the baby writhed amf moan
ed the Major and his wife leaned over
the cradle, powerless to help the little
one in this unexpected and unknown
suffering, and wept the bitterest tears
that had ever seared their eyes. Then
the Major flung on his garments and
ran for a physician. HurryiDg in, the
breathless doctor hastily laid aside his
hat and took one look at the baby;then
as hastily he turned and seized his hat
and in a tone in which sympathy and
sarcasm were evenly blended, he re
marked, as be passed out, “Major,
don’t be alarmed ; it’s nothing but
zephyr on the stomach !”
. IV.—THE DEPARTURE OF THE MAJOR.
After that somehow the romance
faded. The baby’s moan no longer
caused its father’s hair to stand on end;
it served only to keep him awake
nights, and the continuity of it was irk
some. Gradually it dawned on the
Major that months must elapse before
quiet could be restored, and he shud
dered at the prospect. Yesterday
morning a gentleman who lives near
the Major saw a solitary footman slow
ly and wearily wending his wav down
Greenwich street. The form was fa
miliar. Did his eyes deceive him?
No! It was indeed Maj. Phillip Y.
Schottghun, of the Fifteenth Ward,
andhecairied on his shoulder a pick
and a shovel, tied together with a piece
of string! Entering a saloon near
Washington market, the Major set
down the pick and shovel and called
for coffee ana cakes.
“Where are you going, Major?”
asked his neighbor.
"West,” said the Major.
“Prospecting for gold?” said his
friend, tapping the pick and shovel.
“Well, no, not exactly,” answered the
Major. “I’m going to work on some
railroad, I expect. I ain’t well, and I’m
going away for a while. You’ve heard
that baby of mine cry? I thought so.
So have I, for three months, and I
need rest. Mrs. Schottguhn says, ‘Phil
ip, be patient; it won’t be no more
thau a year longer.’ But I am not
strong, and I can’t stand it. As the
old Latin professor used to say at col
lege, ‘Lifeicus shorticus—terapus flee
tumorium !’ Life is short, time is fleet
ing ! lam not an adept with the pick,
neither am I an expert with the shovel,
but—hark 1” It was only a baby in the
tenement overhead, but the Major
thought it was the voice of his own
first born, coming all the way down
from the Fifteenth Ward, and he
grabbed the pick and shovel and
darted out. Hurrying along Cortlandt
street he boarded a Jersey City ferry
boat, and was
Oft for the land of the rolling prairie,
Off for the laud of the setting sun.
—N. Y. Sun.
Every day brings something new.
This new principle, new way, Dr. J. H.
McLean’s Cough and Lung Healing
Globules, will cure Coughs, Colds,
Hoarseness and Consumption. Trial
boxes, by mail, 25 cts. Dr. J. H. Mc-
Lean, 314 Chestnut, St. Louis, Mo,
GEORGIA NEWS.
A wild cat is prowling around Cedar
Shoals.
Sore throat is prevalent in various
parts of the State.
Rumor reports Rough Rice ready to
revive the Rutledge Reporter.
Gov. Colquitt has not honored Troup
county with an appointment yet.
Mr. Thomas P. Wofford and Mr.
Mack White, two young gentlemen of
Cartersvilie, have left for Fort Worth,
in Texas.
Atlanta is now exercised over for
geries of every description, which are
being practiced upon her by several
cunning knaves.
A negro prisoner confined in the Ter
rell county jail endeavored to bulldoze
the jailer the other day, and got shot
in the neck for his trouble.
Robbers infest LaGrange to an
alarming extent. The store room of
Prof. I. F. Cox was robbed of a large
amount of provisions the other night.
Mr. John B. Joiner, a merchant and
well known young man in Cochran, died
of consumption at Clear Water Harbor,
Hillsboro county, Florida, on the 30th
day of Jauuary, 1877.
The LaGrange Reporter Bays: “If the
bobtail economists of the Legislature
had passed only necessary laws and ad
journed, they could have got through
in twelve or fifteen days.”
Conyers Courier: Mr. Jack Murray,
of Watkinsville, was robbed in Atlanta
on Tuesday of 8200, by one Bud Bray,
of Atlanta. He recovered 8135 of the'
money, but the thief escaped.
The Marietta Journal says that R. J.
Bolling, of Cherokee county, made
1,176 pounds of lint cotton on two
acres of ground last year, using 170
pounds of guano. He is going to try it
again.
The Columbus Times publishes the
following evidence of thrift: “A Chat
tahoochee county farmer returned
home yesterday with three full wagon
loads of flour and meat and four un
broken mules.”
If there are any of the Edwards
family, originally from Virginia, in the
State of Georgia, they may hear of
something to their advantage by com
municating with box 145, Liberty, Bed
ford county, Virginia.
Conyers Courier : Savannah had Tup
per and Atlanta had supper at the
Young Men’B Library, the same week.
This has stirred up Augusta, and she
is wondering whether it would be best
to have Tupper for supper, or supper
for Tupper.
Jane Wilson, the negro girl who at
tempted to poison Mr. Ferguson’s fam
ily in Rockmart last fall, was tried and
found guilty on Monday last. She will
also be indicted for the murder of Mr.
Ferguson's little child by means of poi
son, and it is understood that there is
a very strong case against her.
DeKalb County News: Mr. E.
Reeves, of this county, is the owner of
a pair of boots that he has worn ten
years, a bridle-bit that has been in con
stant use fifty-four years, a horse that
he has had for sixteen years, and sev
eral years ago ho split eight hundred
rails in one day. He don’t owe a cent,
and don’t buy guano.
The Cedartown Express says: “The
yankee soldiers of whom mention was
made in our last issue, have arrested
forty or fifty good citizens of Polk and
Haralson counties since their arrival,
and sent them off. This outrageous
and unlawful arresting and imprison
ing of honest men on frivolous charges,
to gratify the malice of malicious and
unscrupulous men, should terminate.
Albany News : Albany received cot
ton this season from all around and
about Cuthbert and Dawson, from near
Americus, from Webster county, from
country adjacent to Bainbridge, etc. We
remark this in no spirit of gasconade,
but simply as a few solid facts pointing
to the future prosperity of our town.
They carry it there* says the Cuthbert
Messenger, to shun debts elsewhere.
We buy Dougherty cotton here, too.
Savannah News : On Tuesday morn
ing the body of a white man was found
on the track of the Atlantic and Gulf
Railroad near Wayleron. It was sup
posed that the man had been killed by
a train, although the engineers of trains
passing over the road report that they
know nothing of the matter. An in
quest was held upon the body, when it
was ascertained that the man was
named John Ratchford, a native of
Dublin, Ireland. It was also learned
that a friend of the deceased had left
him in an intoxicated state on the rail
road track in the vicinity mentioned.
ACTUM EBT!
(N. Y. Freeman’s Journal.)
Yes, “it is finished 1” More is finish
ed than the contrivers of the swindle
thought or cared about. Average it,
cook it, humbug it as you may, the en
tire fabric of government that our
grandfathers were proud of, as an
nounced from one four years to an
other, as “in the full tide of suc
cessful experiment; that ice had
been taught, and loved to think of,
as more than an experiment—has
utterly collapsed. It is a wreck on
an inhospitable coast. It has not
one sheet flying, to keep it from roll
ing in the trough of the sea.
Actum est—de Republica! “The Re
public, as our grandfathers made it, is
finished; and gone forever. Come what
may come, that kind of a Republic can
exist here nevermore! We speak in
the interests of no parties. Hayes, or
Tilden, are puppets, of no account, in
the game of life and death for the past
institutions of the country, that have
now perished.
The country will still live. It will
live because God Almighty has made
all peoples "sanabiles"—capable of being
healed. If his true servants will pray
for the country, as they are bound to
do, there will be many upheavals, but
God will show Himself Ruler of men,
and gracious to His true servants that
trust in Him.
The “Commission,” or Committee, or
Board, of supposed experts, to whom
the Senate and House of Representa
tives handed over, as to a Referee, mo
mentous questions, to be settled, have
not settled these questions, but have
settled the fact that this “Board” or
“Commission,” out of its number of
fifteen, contained on it eight of whom
it is only just to say, not in rash and
vulgar speech, or in any careless use
of language, but exactly, deliberately,
in full understanding of the terrible
Import of the words—uttered by one
that loves the country his grandiather
helped to make —are scoundrels worthy
of damnation ! In this list of infamy
we count, as least accursed, the ahal
low-pated Garfield and Senator Mor
ton, that vice has rendered rotten in
body and soul. These two were fla
grant demagogues, that the Republi
can party disgraced itself by putting
to act as arbitrators. What such crea-
SIX DOLLARS A YEAR
kiown W ° Uld tfy d0 was
Next least worst we put the Hoar of
Massachusetts, and leave Ben Butler
ay °? l i e right spaing of his
name as ne has done ; and Freling-
before bis time, of
New Jersey. Then come Miller of
Jus Sees of the°R g ’ ° f Pennß y lv a’ n ia.
United iK Upreme °° urt of the
a nitea States, these are called Thev
except tJ
render that Court hated, as a mockerv
by the people of the United States. 7 '
Two remain to be spoken of. One is
Joe Bradley, who was
1110 Supreme Court
hfrM? States only to do the
bidding of his political masters, and
by a reconstruction of that deeply
dishonored Court, to reverse its de
cision that thegreenback -legal tender”
was unconstitutional.
T -^ n^ r the other day, in the
VP ro P oß <*i to link
. . e j Pradley > of New Jersey, in immor
t.il infamy with Jeffries and Norbury
It cannot be done. Joe Bradley can
mi e & er ? etuated in the memory of
li w a Viio oootemptible^fel-
InnL^ 1 k , now wbo have the misfor-
Mrn of baring to know anything about
Wa Put as Justice, on the
ruined Supreme Court of the United
States, to do dirty work, and he did it.
e remains true to his antecedents
and promotes the contempt, and exe
cration, of all Americans of the Jeffer
sonian school, for that “supple tool of
tyranny the Supreme Court of the
That 18 wliere we are
j&25 USSST”*" thxman ‘
But of all the eight traitors to their
country, we consider the most infa
mous, the ablest, and the craftiest
worker, Senator Edmunds, of Vermont
In the Freeman, of January 27th, we
adverted to Senator Edmunds’ arcu
ment in favor of forming the “ Com
f,°n Bettlin g the hopeless
trouble, as follows:
" We began reading it with the most
intense prepossessions against the man.
Long before we had ended we felt:
Here is an honest man! Here is a Sen
ator that has risen from partisanship
into the higher plane of statesman
cuiiog for tlie welfare of his country.
\\e, for our part, ask leave to thank
Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, and to
assure him that our gratitude for his
large-miudedness, and for his truth
fulness to the logical conclusions of his
clear intellect will not easily be sup
piantod by any contrary construction
of bis actions. He has succeeded in
rivetting on him, by his strong argu
ment of last Saturday, the respectful
attention of all public men worth
counting, in whole of the United
States.”
Oh how the cunning Yankee has
cheated us!
“An evil soul producing holy witness!”
“The devil can quote scripture to his
purpose,” and, of course, can put on
airs of candor, and pretentions of good
intention.
“Oh what a goodly outside falsehood has !”
No! It is not that common fellow,
Joe Bradley, of New Jersey, picked out
of minor practice in the Courts of his
State to be Justice in the dishonored
Bench of the Court of questionable in
tegrity, called the United States Su
preme Court, that is to be held re
sponsible. The man that we hold re
sponsible is Senator Edmunds, of Ver
mont. His smooth words beguiled us.
We did really believe that he was an
honest man. His action has proved
how he has been “smart” enough to
deceive us, and others. We take back
every word we have said In his favor.
Senator Edmunds is very “smart”
But the depth of our contempt for his
vile, mean, petty use of New England
methods of cheating, applied to poli
tics, is of such proportions that self
respect forbids us to express it. Of all
the rogues that have been at work
Edmunds is guiltiest, because most
false to what he has known as right.
But no matter about men. The
fraud has been committed. It was
right, it was the last resort from an
archy, to U'y whether we had in our
political composition something of the
robustness of our grandfathers. The
necessities of the position called every
American, not a cheat or a scoundrel,
to leave dead parties, and rise to a
higher plane.
The result is before us. In law it is
non binding, because the Commission
has not done what, alone it had the rea
son of its creation to do— examine evi
dence, as to wlo was elected President.
A trifle it is, were it Hayes or Tilden.
Neither is of any account. But it is of
vital account that the people of the
United States shall not hate and desjjise
the Government they are under, as an
usurpation, and the result of a paltry
fraud. J
THE SOUTH.
Views of the National Republican on
the Situation—The Present State
Governments of the South Not to be
Interfered With
(Special to the New Orleans Times.)
Washington, February 21.—The fol
lowing remarks published in the Na
tional Republican of this city, the Presi
dent’s paper, have caused a profound
sensation among Republican politi
cians :
“In view of the prospect that the ad
ministration is to remain in the Lands
of the Republican party, it may not be
inappropriate to suggest some changes
in the policy, which, in our opinion,
should characterize the conduct of the
government. There is no longer any
thing to hold the North and South
apart, but everything to counsel union
and harmony, and as a first step to
ward such a desirable consummation
we are in favor of leaving the present
State governments of the South to
sustain themselves or perish, just as
the people shall be for or against them,
seeing to it only that violence is re
strained and peace preserved. Wo are
in favor of inviting Southern states
men, having the confidence and sup
port of their people, to the counsel of
the administration.
“Anew political era dawned upon
the Republican party yesterday. Tho
Southern statesmen, the true and the
patriotic, boldly put themselves apon
record as being against any attempt to
evade the decision of the judicial tri
bunal or thwart its result.
“It is the bravest and wisest act that
has been recorded in the annals of po
litical history for half a century. It
does honor to the South and credit to
the manhood and integrity of her peo
ple.
“These articles are known to have
the approval of the President and his
moat prominent friends, and are creat
ing a moat intense interest. The Pres
idential count has become a secondary
question to th 6 new political departure
of the administration.”
The people demand a fair count, and
they get a faro count,