Georgia Historic Newspapers

    The Greoi'gia, "Weehly Telegraph.
THE TELEGRAPH.
MACON FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1869.
The Powers of Nine Dollavs a Day.
~VFe learned yesterday from a source entitled
to confidence, that the Executive office in At
lanta has been pretty well besieged by members
of the Legislature, clamoring for a called ses
sion in mid-summer, to decide this negro ques
tion. “Ah,” the reader will say, “we can be
lieve that, without any assurance from the Tel
egraph. We are certain that the reconstruction
Radicals are eager for more fuss and more
money.”
But we will go further now, and tax your cre
dulity in good earnest, with the information
that the Radicals are not alone in their clamor.
Our informant, a trust-worthy young gentle
man, in a situation to know, said that at least
twenty so-called Democratic members had been
ito Governor Bullock with the same entreaty for
an extra session. We did not ask their names
in f ac t, we do not want to know their names.
We don’t mean to suspect any body in particu
lar of such an insatiate greed for nine dollars a
day.
* .wild Gov. Bullock told these ap
plicants that if he coma na.. nnr reasonab J e
assurance that the Legislature, if called togsu.
er, would dispose of this question at once and
adjourn, he would comply with their demands ;
but the Treasury cofild not stand another two
hundred thousand this year, wasted in unprofi
table wrangling over the question of negro eli
gibility. This is all the information we have to
impart in this connection, and while we cannot
doubt its accuracy, we confess it excites a pro
found and painful surprise.
The Cora Question.
One of our leading grain and provision houses
in Macon received yesterday the following:
St. Louis, July 3, 1869.
Gentlemen : You no doubt have observed the
steady advance in our com market. To-day
and yesterday we made purchases at 98<a>94 for
choice St. Charles white, and S9<®90 fbr mixed
white, and 80@S4 for mixed and yellow, for
choice grades. We much fear figures will gt>
still higher. _ We have not been mistaken in our
judgment this season so far, and think now we
have good cause for notifying our friends that
farther advances may be looked for. Floor
very scarce. So much so that orders for X and
XX and snperfines can’t be filled, even at an ad
vance of GO cents per barreL Respectfully,
Maruaduke <fc Brown.
The circular of Coates & Alden, of the same
date, quotes the Agricultural department month
ly report for May and June as follows:
“Cotiok—The high prices have stimulated
the business of cotton growing. New operators
have flocked into it; old plantations have en
larged their boundaries, and the indications are
that prices will- decline. An increase of twen
ty-five j>er cent, when in bales, will yield no in
crease in dollars, and the profits of the culture,
as of yore, wiU be absorbed in the purchase of
corn and bacon which should be raised and cured
at home."
We think the Southern planters, when they
thns see even the com dealers of St. Lonis ad
monish them to raise their own bread and
wheat might well dispense with further argu
ment. Corn and wheat are destined to be high.
Fortunately the com crop of this year will be
far more abundant than we had any right to
expect, and, no doubt, many of our planters
will raise a sufficiency for their own consump
tion. But as to tho general average, we have no
donbt, Georgia will be short at lens*
or ten millions or bushels.
Impracticable Justice.
A Columbia correspondent of the Charleston
Daily News says:
A negro stole a chicken worth thirty-seven
cents. He was convicted and sentenced to one
month’s imprisonment. He had been kept in
jail two months before brought to trial. His
case came on the thirtieth day of the session.—
The expenses I have had carefully made out by
an officer of the court. They are as follows:
For jail expenses, that is fifty cents a day for
three months, are $45; six witnesses in atten
dance for twenty days, $120; jurors, SI 8; soli
citor’s, sheriff’s and clerk’s fees $25: making
an aggregate of just S20S. Isn’t tho taxpayer
fond of that kind of administration ?
There is no sense in it, and yet it is the kind
of justice universal throughout the South. All
the counties of Georgia are more or less bur
dened with it Every petty offender must be
bound over or committed for trial before the
Superior Court, six months perhaps from date
of offence committed. Then he must be indic
ted, tried, convicted, sentenced and punished at
a eost altogether disproportioned to the magni-
tude of the offence and the occasion. What is
the reason we cannot have some such system of
polioe justice as is found in the great cities, by
which petty offenders can be carried before the
nearest magistrate, red handed from the act of
crime, and tried and punished within the hour
and without expense ? It is evident that this
is the kind of justice the condition of the Sonth-
, eni/fionn try imperatively demands. Is there no
^vayto^idopt it?
A. fit. Seymour's Crop.
On the 8d anst we had the pleasure of in
specting a field of cotton of about 150 acres be
longing to our townsman Mr. J. N. Seymour,
who plants about three miles from the city, on
the Honston road. He has experimented with
the best of gnanocs, including Ayers AGnstin’s,
Soluble Pacific and Dickson’s formula. All have
had a fine influence so far. He also has planted
largely of Feeler, Dickson, Brazilian and ordi
nary cotton. Some of the varieties presents
■fine appearance. One patch of Peeler is fully
waist high, and all is well formed and promises
wall JTq has about 350 acres more which we
#» not see. On that day, he had suspended
work for the colored laborers and families to en
joy a dinner and gala day generally. They ap
peared to be a contented and happy set We
hope oar friend will realize his most sanguine
expectations.
Out-Ebaying Boynton.—The Charleston pa
pers say that the Rev. Wm. H. Brown, colored,
was,chaplain to the colored4th of July perform
ances in thatjeity. Brown, daring his prayer,said
that he thanked God who had made the colored
people free after two hundred and fifty years of
bondage, and bad placed them in triumph over
the whitemen; that the “colored people now had
the white men down in the dust and their feet
upon their necks.”
That beats Chaplain Boynton and we hope
Boynton will send Brown his hat and hold his
peace for evermore.
Destruction of Life by the Western Fresh.—
A St. Lonis dispatch of the 3rd says: Captain
Barlow, of the steamer Mountaineer, reports
that at a creek below Council Bluffs he saw
twenty-seven dead bodies taken out. They were
the bodies of the men, women and chrilden
drowned from the sudden rise of the rivers and
the overflow of the fiat prairie lands.
From every point below Kansas City the re
port comes of the loss of life and property.
Groover, Stubbs & Co.—The firm of Sloan,
•Groover & Co., Factors of Savannah, has be en dis
solved, Mr. A. M. Sloan retiring. The other mem
bers of this well known and popular firm will
continue business under the firm name of Groo
ver, Stnbbs & Co. Their old customers will find
them as before, ever ready to sell cotton for
them on the best terms, and attentive in every
particular. See advertisement.
A Jones County Beet Mr. W. A Juhan, of
Clinton, sends ns a long blood beet raised by S.
B. Glawson, from seed bought of J. H. Zeilin
A Co., and planted last march. The beet is
two feet long denuded of all the top and two or
three inches of the point, and weighs eight and
one half pounds. It is all of eighteen inches in
circumference in the largest part This beet
carries off the palm among spring beets.
Tara Great Infobmeb.—The telegrams say
the pions Howard holds claims as informer, for
pointing ont Southern property for confiscation,
amounting to two millions of dollars. That’s
what it is to be “truly loiL” Howard can beat
Titus Oates as an informer. Titus never got a
tenth of that money, and was whipped at the
salt’s tail into the bargain.
Sixtt-two emigrants, direct from Switzerland,
arrived at Goldsboro, ST. CL, on Friday evening.
They are in a fine condition, and were received
by members of the North Carolina Immigration
Association. Mr. Atkinson, the agent of the
association, has returned from Europe.
Near Cheyenne has been discovered an im
mense tract of land covered with edible mush
rooms of extraordinary size and delicious flavor.
One is spoken of which was seven inches in
diameter, with a stem two inches thick, and
which weighed a pound.
A submarine diver who has been operating in
the river at Norwich, Conn., says there is a cave
under the banks of considerable size, the hidden
beauties and strange formations of which, could
the water be drawn off so as to make it accessi
ble, would form one of the wonders of the
world.
During a late hurricane at Shipman, Ill., two
men were blown over one hundred yards and
lodged in apple trees without sustaining any ma
terial damage. A calf eight months old was
likewise transported into a urge locust tree, sev
eral hundred feet distant from where it was qui
etly and peaceably grazing.
“A Type of flie Age.”
Boston, New York and Philadelphia are still
at logger heads about the Peace Jubilee. Bos
ton carried off her breeches full of glory at hav-
ing originated that grand performance, and the
other cities are swollen with envy nigh to the
point of collapse. Boston says the Peace Jubi
lee was a type of the age. The New York Trib
une concedes it to have been an “embodiment of
the spirit of tho age.”
There is a great deal of truth in this idea.
The spirit of the age, as illustrated by its pre
dominant people, longs for nothing but the
largest physical and material display. It pants
for hugeness and force; and even in what is
called music, nothing so much delights the pop
ular taste as power.
Tlio big drum and the accompaniment of a
hundred sledge hammers on so many anvils
struck heavy blows on the sympathetic chords
of the nation’s great heart—(see Greeley)—and
was, as Mr. Mantilini justly observes, “demni-
tion fine.” Eight thousand men and women
open-mouthed, screaming for dear life—the
big organ howling under the propulsive power
of a forty-horse steam engine. The big drum,
and a hundred little drums, and one thousand
musicians blowing till their eyes popped, and
their cheeks were in danger of rupture—the
hundred red-shirted blacksmiths, with a thou
sand pounds of sledge hammers, and their hun
dred anvils—tho forty cannon outside all pop
ping off simultaneously by lightning—and all to
gether blowing and striking and pounding and
thumping and exploding—while the twenty
thousand auditors, so-called, were screaming
simultaneously, in an ecstasy of admiration and
excitement—constituted, in our judgment, one
of the most forcible illustrations of the spirit of
the age which has been seen in that quarter
since they hanged the witches and stopped beer
from working on Sunday.
Neither New York nor Philadelphia intend to
be out dona as exponents of the taste and tem
per of the age. Both are seriously inclining
themselves to the matter of outdoing Boston in
this particular, and we may therefore prepare
ourselves for other displays of musical dynam
ics in which all known mechanical and natural
agencies will be employed in creating sound,
and earthquakes, thunderstorms, tornadoes and
cataracts outdone. The contest will be inter
esting. '■■■
Ten Months' Work,
To obtain from Congress a charter enabling
an association of financiers to transact business
in every State of the Union; to organize a com
pany under such a charter; to open a main of
fice and install a staff of officers therein; - to se
lect leading financiers and business men as gen
eral agents for transacting the business of the
Company in the several sections of the country;
to have these general agents 60 carefully ex
amine their respective districts as to select the
most efficient and respected men as connty
agents; to have these connty agents, in turn,
moke judicious selection of local agents in cities,
towns and villages; to prepare the multiplicity
of blanks, forms, orders,instructions, pamphlets
and other documents with which to supply all
these agencies; to inform the public, through
the medium of the newspaper press, of the ex
istence of snch on organization, the financial
basis upon which it rests, and the ground-work
of its claims to public approval and support—
these things would seem to be sufficient to oc
cupy the first twelve months of such an organi
zation, leaving to subsequent years the accom
plishment of actual results. But we find a no
table exception to such a course in the case of
the National Life Insurance Company of Amer
ica, chartered by Congress in July, 1868, and
consequently not yet one year old. It has had
all of the above mentioned work to-do, and it is
bnt rational that, in doing this, it should have
met with the opposition of old established insu
rance companies. But the New Company has
done far more. Indeed, its successful record,
for the first ten months of its operation, has
been most remarkable, and utterly unprecedent
ed. It has already issued no less than 5,395
policies, representing insurance to the amonnt
of oxer fifteen millions, an amount exceeding by
nearly $5,000,000 that insured by any Company
prior to 1863, in any full year of its existence,
and nearly doable that ever insured by any
other company in the world, during its entire
first year. After such authenticated statement,
there can be no doubt what the investing public
thinks of the National Life.
Some of the especial advantage offeredby this
Company are set forth in the advertisement of
the agents, in another column, and its operations
will be explained, in further detail, at tho office
of this agency. We believe the National Life
to be well secured—the paid-up capital of one
million dollars is a good base to start from—and
that it will be honestly as well as successfully
carried on.
A dispatch from Washington says: “Mis. Dr.
MaiyE. Walker has at last succeeded in her
persistent applications for a government office.
Pantaloons and all, she is to be inducted into a
clerkship in the office of the third auditor. She
will be the only woman in that office, bnt it will
be remembered that she expressed herself as
“not afraid of the men."
Sr. Loui3 Coen Market—The Atlanta Intelli
gencer publishes the following:
St. Louis, July J, 18C9.
Mr. A. K. Scago, Atlanta:
Dear Sir—We are to-day in receipt of your
favor of the 28th of June, and note the same,
and we to-day made your telegram reading:
“Letter received. Can’t fill order for com:
choice white $1." These prices preclude all
chances of filling your order to lay down in At-
From Brooks County.
Once upon a time, the young people laughed
at good old ’Lijah, shouting to him, “Go up,
thou bald-head.” But 'Lijah “knowed” his
business better than they did. He wem’t a going
up till the chariot of fire called for him, all reg
ular, and then he went up with a through
ticket Per contra> the bears came out of the
woods and bit the boys, and if any good ever
came of them afterwards, we never heard of it
The Quitman Banner has been laughing at
the Telegraph, because it said that some of the
planters in Brooks had oats seven feet high
The bears did not bite the Banner, although
they might well have done it for not knowing
what was going on in his own connty. Bnt af
ter he had laughed his fill at the Telegraph,
one of his planter friends writes him that the
yellow oats in that connty on fresh hammock
lands, frequently grow seven feet high, and he
has known them to be eight feet high. There
upon, the Banner, no doubt, feels as if some
thing had bitten him, for he says : “Well, we
give it up; we never heard of such remarkable
oats before;” and oats are not the only thing
the Banner never heard of before.
The same paper, July 2d, discourses as fol
lows upon the
Crop Prospects.—It is conceded by all who
are conversant with the facts, that the growing
com crop in Brooks county is decidedly better
than any previous year since the war. Com is,
in a measure, made, and-the yield will be un
precedented.* Cotton, a few days ago, gave
hopes of a splendid crop, and it was generally
conceded that, if the caterpillar kept at a re
spectful distance, there would be happy hearts
and smiling countenances in Brooks connty
next winter. Within a few daj-o, however, a
new disease has appeared in the cotton, which,
if not checked, will prove equally disastrous as
would be a return of. the caterpillar. Numer
ous black spots suddenly appear on the leaves,
and in a day or two the leaves turn yellow, and
drop off. Some pronounce it the common rust;
others declare that the discoloring and dropping
off of the leaves is produced by “cotton lice,”
which, more or less, attacks the young plant,
and disappears as it advances in growth. Both
suppositions are erroneous. We have been to
considerable pains to ascertain the true disease
that threatens to lay waste our cotton fields, and
have discovered that it is what is known as the
‘Yellow Rust.” Several years ago it was prev
alent in Florida—its symptoms were precisely
similar to the disease now afflicting the cotton
—and created great damage. In some instances,
however, although the tender plant was com
pletely shorn of leaves, the rust having run its
course, tho growth of the stalk continued, and a
top crop was secured.
We hope the disease will not become gen
eral : but, if it should, all business for the next
twelve months will be annihilated, and great
suffering will ensue.
Tile Virginia Election.
Enthusiastic Reception of Colonel Walker—
Great Recolution of Sentiment in Virginia—
Conservative Majority Estimated at 25,000.
Washington, June 29, 1869.
At a late hour to-night I received from Rich
mond the following intelligence concerning the
canvass in Virginia:
Colonel Gilbert C.'Walker, the conservative
republican candidate for Governor, reached
hero this afternoon, after a stumping tour
of over six weeks’ duration, which embraced
every section of Virginia. The Colonel is highly
elated with the prospects of his snccess, and
states that the revolution in pnblio sentiment
and the enthusiasm created in his case—a North
ern man—are really marvellous. Everywhere
he was cordially received and taken by the hand,
and the tour was nothing short of a series of
ovations. He believes that he will carry the
entire white vote and a large portion of the
colored vote, and, being without political ante
cedents in the State, there will be none of the
prejudice that would exist in the case of a for
mer whig or democrat With the exception of
two counties of all visited in the southwest, the
valley and the Piedmont region, all had large
white majorities. Mr. Walker calculates at
least a majority of thirty in the Legislature and
CS,OOO majority in his election. To-night he
was serenaded at the Exchange Hotel, respua-te
ing in a brief speech, which was received with
the most enthusiastic cheers.
The Boston “Pence Jubilee” a Good'
Thing for Gilmore.
The New York Times says: v
The books of the Board of Directors of the
Boston Peace Jubilee, it is reported by one of
the Board, show that the total receipts for the
five days of the Jubilee amounted to $413,000.
As the sum total of the expenses was $812,’300,
the profits amounted j to $110,700. It was
agreed by the Board or Management at the out
set of the enterprise that if it should prove a
sucoess, Mr. Gilmore should receive 50,000, and
the balance of the profits should be distributed
among the disabled soldiers, and widows and
children of deceased soldiers of the towns and
villages of New England, in the proportion of
their subscriptions to the Jubilee. It was
found that if Mr. Gilmore’s $50,000 were to be
paid ont of the $110,000 profit of the Jubilee
week, the money left to be divided up among
the subscribing towns would give only a trifling
sum to each. The supplementary performance
of Tuesday night was therefore arranged _as_ a
means of paying Mr. Gilmore, without dimin
ishing the fund for the widows and orphans.
That Mr. Gilmore’s services are estimated at
their true value by the directors, is shown by
their presentation to him of a house and lot
valued at $25,000, in Boston. This was a free
gift, over and and above the stipulated
$50,000.
No one else has been allowed to make money
by the Jubilee, the subscribers having received
the amounts of their respective subscriptions
and nothing more. The investment proved a
poor speculation as far as attracting trade to
Boston was concerned; no business of conse
quence, either in wholesale or retail trade, was
done during the whole week. The dry goods
merchants and leading grocers, who snbsoribed
freely to the Jubilee, confess to a total miscal
culation of its effects on trade, though they are
not disappointed in not making money diiectly
from the Jubilee receipts, as they did not expect
nor wish to do so. The building will probably
be allowed to stand about four months, and will
be rented for fairs, great meetings etc., the pro
ceeds of such rental to be given to the charita
ble institutions of the city. By the terms of the
contract the material of tho _ building, when
taken down, reverts to the builders, who were
paid $80,000 for putting it up.
“Let us have paace" down this way.
From Spalding Connty.
The directors of the Griffin and North Ala
bama Railroad held a meeting here yesterday,
and made some arrangements for commencing
large operations on tho road very soon. We
are still in hopes of the completion of the road
to Newnan by the 1st of October next.
The frnit crop was not entirely destroyed by
the late frosts of spring. On the rivers and
creeks there am bnt few peaches, bnt in higher
and warmer localities the trees have a great
deal of fruit. The apple crop was never better.
Strange Accident.—Mr. Jacob Bumhard, re
siding in the edge of Henry county, about six
miles from Griffin, had a strange accident to
befall him last week. His fine mare and colt
were grazing in a lot where there were several
begums. The mare accidently turned over'one
of the gums, and the bees attacked her immedi
ately. Mr. 'White, the miller, tried in vain to
drive the mare from the spot. In the effort he
was severely stung, but conld not move tho
animal, who was stung so badly that she died
in one hour. The colt died soon afterwards.
The New Cabinet Minister.
We clip from exchanges the following in re
lation to the new Cabinet Minister, Mr. Robe
son, and how he came to be appointed:
Robeson hauled up Borie by the waistband at
the naval ball at Annapolis where the latter fell
down and broke his crown. And when Grant
came tumbling after through the lancers, “swing
ing comers” worse than he ever dodged round
them in earlier life, it was Robeson who took
him through, telling him that the “grand chain”
was not the one worn by Mrs. Admiral Porter
on that occasion, who was also in the set. And
now Robeson is made Secretary of the Navy.—
He is fair, fat and forty; has hay-colored whis
kers and straw-colored hair, is five feet eight,
weighs 187J pounds, wears spectacles, drinks,
smokes, has a colored housekeeper in Camden
(so did Thad Stevens at Lancaster,) has never
been married, and was never anything worth
speaking of. His standing at the Jersey bar is
not even first-rate second-rate, and the great
ness thrnst upon him amazes all in the State
who knew him.
Grant seems to be governed very much by
the same principles in the choice of his Cabi
net officers that he is in the selection of his
horses. The best illustration of thi3 is found
in the case of the new Secretary of the Navy,
Mr. Robeson. The President met Mr. Robf-
son for the first time about a year ago, when
he was introduced by Senator Oattell. He had
met him once or twice since, but only casually.
When Mr. Borie told the President that he
wanted to retire from the Cabinet, Grant asked
him whom he would recommend as his successor.
Borie mentioned Mr. Rcbeson. Grant said he
did not know him well enough. This happened
just before the President’s trip to West Point
He wanted to get a chance to study Robeson’s
good and bad points without letting the object
of his curiosity know about it. Before starting
for West Point, the President said to Borie:
“Suppose you write a note to your friend, Mr.
Robeson, and say you are going with me to
West Point, and that a3 you have the privilege
of inviting a friend, you would like for him to
be one of the party. In that way I will get a
chance to see what kind of a nianhe is.” Borie,
who, it seems, was anxious to place Robeson in
his old shoes, readily complied witLthe request.
The result of it was, Mr. Robeson made one-
of the Presidential party at West Point. On
the way up and during the time they remained
there Grant embraced eveiy opportunity to
draw Robeson out on various topics. Of course
Mr. Robeson—who had no idea at that time of
being offered a place in the Cabinet—felt con
siderably honored in the attentions he received
from the President, and spoke his mind quite
freely on every subject introduced. Grant is
said to have eyed Robeson as a man does a
horse he is about to purchase. The President
told Borie that Robeson had many good points
about him, and he would appoint him Secretary
of the Navy, as he guessed he wasaboutasgood
> a man as he could get.
Supreme Court.
Atlanta, July 1, 1869.—The Court heard
argument'to-day in the following oases:
No. 1. Cherokee Circuit—McHan vs. Stan-
sell. Argued by Messrs. McCntchen for plain
tiff in error, and by Wm. R. Moore. Esq., for
defendant.
No. 2. Cherokee Circuit—Camming & Co. vs.
the Northwestern Bank of Georgia. Suit on
bank bills from Catoosa. Dismissed on motion
of counsel for plaintiff' in error.
No. 3. Cherokee Circuit—Harris & Co. vs.
the Northwestern Bank of Georgia. Suit on
bank bills, from Catoosa. Dismissed on motion
of counsel for plaintiff in error.
No. 4. Cherokee Circuit—Jones vs. Lellyett
and Smith—Claim from Catoosa. Argued by
Colonel Hoge for plaintiff in error, and by Mr.
Dodson for defendant.
No. 5. Cherokee Circuit—Dooly vs. Isbell—
Claim from Whitfield. Argued by W. R. Moore
for plaintiff in error, and by J. A. R. Hawks for
defendant.
No. 6. Cherokee Circuit—Flipper vs. Reid,
principal, and McFarland, security—Motion for
a new trial from Catoosa. Judge D. A. Walker
opened this case, and the Court adjourned.
_ Era.
We lately mentioned the attempted destruc
tion of a valuable orchard in Michigan by gird-
, . , tl ™-, ... . - ... ing the trees, and the prompt assistance of
lanta at $1. Choice white is very scarce on the neighbors in covering up the wounds. The
market, and held very strong.
We are still having very rainy weather. *
* River high and rising. Yours trulv.
Frances W. Crane & Co.
miscreant has repeated his work, and this time
has done it thoroughly. There is no doubt that
the people of the neighborhood would lynch
him if they could get their hands on him.
The New Orleans Ice Factory.—The ice
factory at New Orleans, situated in one of the
elevators, is a great snccess. It consists of six
retorts of a chemical freezing mixture. From
these six retorts six pipes descend to six huge
chests, which chests in turn radiate severally off
into fonr compartments. In each compartment
are long, thin tin cases, seven on one side and
eight on the other. This making by ail the
rules of arithmetic a total of fifty-six cases in a
box, and there being fonr boxes to a chest, and
six chests to «a factory, it follows that at full
blast this Southern ice factory can turn out 1,344
cakes of ice eighteen inches long, twelve broad,
and two thick at the completion of each process.
The ice is much colder than that frozen natu
rally, and lasts much longer. The factory is a
joint stock enterprise, and the property is ex
ceedingly lucrative.
A Flying Machine.
San Francisco, June 30.—Recent successful
experiments'have been made with the working
model of an aerial navigation machine. It not
only asceuUcii lato me on. Knt war oronBlbd in.
any required direction by machinery of the
capacity to carry eight or ten persons, being
constructed for the purpose of making a trip to
New York. The inventor is confident the trip
can be made in twenty-four hours.
A young han named Joseph Wagner, living
in Charleston, West Virginia, professed to have
the power of charming snakes. Last Thursday,
having captured a rattlesnake, he was giving
some friends an exhibition of this power. After
fondling the snake for a time in his arms, he
threw it on the ground, and switched it until it
writhed with rage. He then took the reptile up
in his arms again, and saying, “Are you mad ?
—Kiss me and make up,” he put its head in his
month. The snake bit his tongue, and he died
in about an hour afterward. In fifteen minutes
after being bitten, his skin assumed the spotted
color of the snake.
A Radical Senator from one of the mountain
districts of Tennessee, on his arrival at Nash
ville to take his seat, put up at a first-class ho
tel, when the following occurred on taking his
seat at the table :" Senator to servant—“What
is your victuals?” Servant—“What will you
have, sir, tea or coffee?” Senator—“Tea.”
Servant—What kind of tea ?” Senator—“Store
tea, by—; do you suppose-1 come here to
drink sassafras?’'
At Concord, New Hampshire, on the 23d
inst, Mrs. Eliza J. Wood had the second molar
on the left lower jaw removed, and having ex
pelled her breath in the usual exclamation of
pain, drew in so strong an inspiration that the
tooth having slipped from the forceps, was
drawn down into the right lobe of her lungs and
afterward settled as far as its size would admit.
The lady was removed to her home the next
day, and the tooth was’ raised by coughing to
the base of the throat.
The strike in the Pennsylvania coal regions
has greatly increased the trade from the Mary
land mines. The number of cargoes of coal
which left the port of Cumberland in 1868, up
.to the 20th day of June, was, 1,415. The num
ber of cargoes of coal which left the same port
in 1869, up to the 20th of June, was 2,064, show
ing an increase this season of 649 cargoes. The
total increase of coal shipments over last year
amounted to 215,872 tons. %
Fermnand, the ex-King of Portugal, is not
morganatically married to Fanny Ellsler, as has
been reported, but to Mademoiselle Elise Hens-
sler, formerly an opera singer. This lady is re
ported to be highly accomplished, and has al
ways enjoyed a high reputation for purity of
character. A morganatic marriage only differs
from the usual ceremony by the fact'that the
children do not inherit any right to assume the
throne which may descend to the noble parent.
A theological seminary, it is reported, has
recently been established in Berlin, for the pur
pose of educating clergymen and teachers to ao-
company the Prussian emigrants to the United
States. The number of emigrants from Ger
many has been so large for the last few years
that great difficulty has been experienced in ob
taining educated pastors for the colonies, and
this institution has been established to supply
the want. It is supported by voluntary contri
butions. v
Tall Oats.—We have received from Mr.
Brooks Smith, of Tronp connty, a few stalks of
oats that seem to have been inspired by Long
fellow’s motto—“excelsior." Their height is
about six feet, the stalks as large as reed pipe
stems, and the heads fourteen or fifteen inches
in length.* We do not know the variety, except
that they are said to be rust proof. We are in
formed that they grew on an old field, not ma
nured—Columbus Enquirer.
Storm in Pike County.—The Griffin Star of
Friday, says: A terrible storm, accompanied
with a perfect deluge of rain, passed over farm
ers in Pike county, adjacent to Flint River, last
week, doing great damage to the crops. Among
the sufferers were 0. B. Wilson, WilliamBeeks,
and Capt. D. D. Peden. The land was badly
washed, and the cotton greatly injured. Mr.
Wilson says his will.be at least six or eight bales.
A Teuton on Liberty.—Said a robust Teuton
to me one morning: “Vats you tinks apout dis
ting vot you calls liberties?”
“Liberty, my friend, is a great institution,”
I replied.
“YeUj.dat’s vot I tinks. I yust oooms to,'ese
country for fe liberties. Ten I oooms here to
dis city de beeples say nix no peer; den I says
no liberties. Yot you tinks of dat, hey?”
I told him that if he was dissatisfied with the
laws of our country he would enjoy his glorious
liberty and go back to where he came from; to
which he replied;
Negro Marriages ta Massachusetts fn
1710.
“One of the moat accomplished historical
scholars in the country, Mr. J. Wingate Thorn
ton, of Boston, has recently discovered the form
of negro marriage prepared and used by the
Rev. Samuel Phillips, of Andover, Massachu
setts, whose ministry there, beginning in 1710
and ending in 1771, was a prolonged and emi
nently distinguished service of more than half
of the eighteenth century. Eds immediate suc
cessor was the Rev. Jonathan French, (1772-
1809) in the family of whose son Mr. Thornton
had found the document at North Hampton,
New Hampshire, on the 31slof December, 1868.
I am indebted to his liberal courtesy for the op
portunity to make use of it at the present time.
“It is copied exactly from tho original now
before me, and the Italics are marked by the
author himself, whose work could oertainly
have been none other than of the most improved
and orthodox pattern. Ex uno disce omnes.
“ ‘form fob a negro-marriage.
“ ‘You S., do nowin ye Presence of God, Sid
these Witnesses, Take R: to be your Wife;
“ ‘Promising, that so far as shall be consistent
with ye Relation wch you now Sustain, as a Ser
vant, you will Perform ye Part of an Husband
towards her: And in particular, yon Promise,
that you will Love her: And that, as you shall
have yo Opportunity & Ability, you will take a
proper Care of her in Sickness and Health, in
Prosperity & Adversity: (
“ ‘And that you will be True & Faithful to
her, and will Cleave to her only, so long as God,
in his Providce, shall continue you and her
Abode in Such place (or Places) as that you can
conveniently come together: Do Yon thns
Promise ?
“ *You R; do now, in ye Presence of God,
and these Witnesses, Take S: to be your Hus
band;
“‘Promising, that so far as your present Rela
tion, as a Servant, shall admit, you will Perform
the Part of- a Wife toward him; and in particu
lar,
“‘You Promise that you vnhlove him:—
And that, as you shall have the Opertty & Abili
ty, you will take a proper Care of him in Sick
ness and Health; in Prosperity & Adversity;
“‘And that you will be True& Faithful to
him, and will Cleave to him only,so long as God,
in his Providce shall continue his & your Abode
in Such Place (or Places) as that you can con
veniently come together: Do You thus
Promise ?
‘“I then, agreeable to your Request, and with
ye Consent of your Masters & ilistresses, do
Declare, that you have Licence given you to be
conversant and familiar together, as Husband
and Wife, so long as God shall continue yonr
Places of Abode as afore-said; And so long as
you Shall behave your-Selves as it becometh
Servants to do:
“ ‘For, you must, both of you, bear in mind,
thatjyou Remain Still, as really and truly as ever,
yonr Master’s Property, and therefore it will be
justly expected, both by God and Man that you
behave and conduct your-selves, as Obedient
and faithful Servants towards your respective
Masters & Mistresses for the time being:
“ ‘And finally, I exhort and charge you to be
ware lest you give place to the Devil-so as to
take occasion from the License now given you
to be lifted up with Pride, and thereby fall
under the Displeasures, not of man only, but
of God also; for it is written, that God resisteth
the Proud, bnt he giveth Grace to tho humbul.
" ‘I shall now conclude with Prayer for you,
that you may become good Christians, and that
you may be enabled to conduct as such; and
in particular that you may have Grace to behave
suitably toward each other, and also dutifully
toward your Master & Mistress, Not with Eye-
Service as Men-pleasers, but as ye Servts-of
Christ, doing ye Will of God from ye heart, Jcc.
“ * [Endorsed Negbo-Mabbige. J ”
An Awful Alternative.—The Fort Atkinson
(Wisconsin) Herald has the following: “A
dreadful report was current in this village, yes
terday, that a mad dog had bitten two children—
a boy of seven and a girl of four—in the town
of Milford, in this county, and that the parents,
whose names we did not learn, were informed
by the attending physicians that the only possi
ble way for the children to escape the agonies
of rabieB would be to take their lives. Incredi
ble as it may seem, they administered an opiate
to the boy and bled him- to death, and the girl
was smothered in a feather bed. There seems
to be no doubt of this, as it is well attested.
•**
DlSTKCUIWlE^ Yxoitmw^ Womv ^lcoowJ-Aru
notice tjiat. our city is honored this week by the
Hon. Linton Stephens and wife, of Sparta,
the Hon. Wm. Reese, of Wilkes, and Father
O’Hara, of Augusta.
Judge Stephens visits old-Greene for the pur
pose of spending some time with his family at
the Chalybeate Spring, on the farm of,our fel
low-citizen, Mr. John E. Jackson, about nine
miles from Greensboro. We learn that the Hon.
Alexander H. Stephens is also expected in a few
days at the same place.
This valuable spring should he brought to the
notice of the public, and accommodations made
for visitors. With proper management it may
be made a source of wealth, to the owner, and
add much to the public interest of the comity,
by becoming a place of fashionable resort. It
will soon be that there will be no necessity for
a Georgian going outside his native State to sup
ply any of ms wants. God speed the day.
Since writing the above, Judge Stephens has
returned home, having been disappointed in se
curing accommodations at the Spring for him
self and family and his brother. We regret
that this is the case.—Greensboro Herald.
Thomasville and Albans Railroad.—The
Thomasville Enterprise of Wednesday says:
The first train load of iron for the above road
arrived at Thomasville from Savannah on Satur
day evening last, and the work of track-laying
commenced near the Thomasvlle depot yesterday
morning. We expect to viat Ocklocknee rail
road bridge on the train in ten days from this
date, and promise our Mitchell county friends
to visit them, by train at Camilla, in the early
days of October.
Senator Sprague and the Columbia Canal—
The Project not Given Up.—The Columbia
Phoenix of yesterday says: “Colonel S. A.
Pearce, late of the United States Army, who, as
an agent of Senator Sprague, of Rhode Island,
purchased tho Columbia Canal and a large por
tion of the Kinder “brick yard" property, sev
eral months ago, is now in Columbia, accom
panied by Mr. G. C. Tinsley, a surveyor, who
has commenced making a survey and estimates
for widening and deepening the Canal. Colonel
Pearce states that he has resigned his position
in the army, for the purpose of taking charge of
this work; and that Mr. Sprague is determined
to push ahead with it. Active operations may
not be commenced during the summer months,
but early in October, Colonel P. asserts, & heavy
force of workmen will be employed.”
Crops-in Florida.
The Floridian of the 29th ulti, says:
Cotton is in fine condition and looking and
doing remarkably well, especially where it has
been well worked. There is more rain than is
healthy for the weed, and reports continue of
presence of the caterpillar. Com is made, and
a good crop will be gathered. This is the case
throughout West and Middle Florida. In the
East and South, com has suffered much from
drouth, and the crop will be very short..
Supreme Court ot Georgia—June
Term, 1S6».
Thuesdat, July 1, 1869.
The entire day was consumed in the argument
of case No. 7, from the Middle Circuit—Green
vs. Anderson—Messrs. J. J. Jones and Alpheus
M. Rogers for plaintiff in error and Judge J,
S. Hook for defendant.
Storms—Storms.—The papers are foil of
storm chronicles. They have had fearful storms
in North Carolina. Terrific storms throughout
the West. A hurricane well nigh tore Johnson-
viUe, Tennessee, to 'pieces on the 1st instant
The auguries are violent. Lotus have peace.
A New Radical Paper in Augusta.—On dit,
that John E. Bryant, the newly appointed Post
master, wrill soon commenoe the publication of
a Radical paper in Augusta.
From Talbot.—Our agent in Talbotton, writes
us that crops in that connty are still doing finely.
The French steamers are rivalling the best of
English bnild for swiftness. The steamer Pereire
has jnst made the trip from Brest to New York
in nine days,
Thu VengeaMt of Heaven.
The Knoxville Press and Herald of the 4th
nst, says that of the knot of Radical Ku Klux
engaged, some fifteen months ago, in cruelly
whipping parson Neal, a Southern Methodist
preacher, while traveling in pursuit of his call
ing, three have-since died, one was lately thrown
from his horse and killed, a fifth is in jail for
crime, a sixth was struck by lightning, and in
the same storm the tree to which Neal was tied
while they were whipping him was rent in twain
by a thunderbolt. Says the Press and Herald:
Even the tree to whioh Mr. Neal was tied by
his persecutors, has been since smitten by the
same unseen, bnt ever watchful power, and is
now dead.
About two weeks since, during a storm of
thunder and lightning, the house of William
Goddard, about seven miles from Maryville,
was struck by lightning. Mr. Goddard’s son,
who is under indictment for being concerned in
the whipping, was stricken down, and for some
time was believed to be dead. After a time he
partially recovered, and is now able to be about.
A hired lad of the family was killed by the same
flash. The strangest part of the story is that
daring the same storm, the tree to which Mr.
Smith had been tied was struck by the lightning,
rent in twain down its massive trunk, and the
tree is now dead.
Supreme Court.
Tuesday, July 6, I860.—E. J. Kiker, Esq., of
Calhoun, was admitted as a member of the Su
preme Court bar.
Judgments of affirmance were announced in
the following cases: A. W. Green, plaintiff, in
error, vs. The Southern Express Company, de
fendant in error; Moses P. Green, plaintiff in
error, vs. John Anderson, defendant in er
ror; Alexander McCullars, plaintiff in error,
vs. .Frances R. Haines, defendant in error;
Sallie E. Bruce, administratrix of Eli M. Bruce,
plaintiff in error, vs. Joseph Crews, defendant
in error; and Sharp & Brown, plaintiffs in er
ror, vs. E. B. Loyless, defendant in error.
Judgment of the court below in the case of
T. M. McHan, plaintiff in error,vs. W. H. Stan-
sell, defendant in error, was reversed on the
ground that the court erred in holding the de
fendant in the trial below to be an intruder. It
being the opinion of this court that the obligor,
in a bond for titles, after the obligee is in de
fault in payment of the purchase money, may,
if the premises be in fact vacant, enter, and
having done so he is not an intruder.
This court also reversed the judgment of the
court below in the case of W. H. Boyd,plaintiff in
error, vs. S. B. Sales, defendant "in error, on.
the ground that the court below erred in order
ing the payment and satisfaction entered by the
Sheriff on the fi. fa and judgment to be vacated
and set aside.
Argument in case No. 7, Cherokee Circuit—
Thornton vs. Trammell—was resumed and con
tinued until the hour of adjournment by Messrs.
McCutcheon, Walker and Moore.—Atlanta In-
Idligencer.
From Monroe Comity.
The Monroe Advertiser of the 7th instant,
prints the following:
The crops continue to promise welL Indeed,
we are told on every hand that the pros-
peots for a large crop in this connty are better
than for a number of years before; and it is
quite likely that there has never been a period
in the history of this county when the seasons
have been so generally propitious as for the past
six months. A general satisfaction is manifest
in the face of our farmers, and they are working
with a will A great many have laid by their
corn, and consider it as good as made. Cotton
is healthy and vigorous, and, unless some un
foreseen disaster cuts it short, will yield a large
crop.
A subscriber in Jasper connty informed us
yesterday that the crops in.his section have
had no rain since the 24th nit. If the dry spell
continues another week, it will result in serious
injury to both oom and cotton, though, as yet,
both crops are looking well
Death by Drowning.—We learn that a
young man—whose name has not transpired— _ _
toaped from the end of the ferry boat at Key’s j wa ever aaw fa a mm'g face" antfiiTmtom
Ferry on the Ocmulgee, one day last week, and called hu devil ^ ordered h5m to bm]d , ,
was drowned. The body was found after a 1 . .. » , , J*
search of four hours. Those present at the j “ &re-place, as he had to mate a mfe
timo orm-ess the opinion that the leap was ! devil promptly proceedeu to execute ti* order,
taken with the internum ui cuuimtuiiiij nuiviav, i mi-nwfa« iViA ronm was about hot as hi
We have heard no cause assigned. ; could make it. We knew that Black wanted
m i suggest that we both walk across tu street and
The Am Ship.—The-California flying-machine j a man, or he never would have issued Hats
Avitor, it is said, made a su«essful trialin San 1 order; so we kept our seat and said notkii:;
Bather tbaffrur over the octhwestem Bo*j>
dusty and warm,‘ft. *be city, where all ^ j
present week, we detenJJ 1 * ^ I * t Biree days of ^ 1
toEufaula, and while fe
view of the crops along themed* 6 4 I
news of the people in regard to the u?* 0 *"*® i
turn of tho Central and Soutbreetero^^ 0 ^
In regard to the cotton and eom
little else to say than that the} #r . . P9 ’k,,
thing, along the line of the SoimJJr * ^ I
fine aa we ever saw them at this ^ ^ WI
growing beautifully and have . ** J
It is true, we saw several patches of C ° lot I
on poor lands, that had been badlyn!^ 00 ^
reoeived no fertilizers, that were anyh 104 k.
promising; but wherever there was^^ tl *I
land, properly tided and guanoed, both * * Tta »
rsean abundant yield this fall. We^ Pr5Cf I
heard tho rAiark, during the trip,' that
lands would yield from three to seven w’*® 0 *
cent, more cotton than lands of the same on? 1 p9
which no fertilizers had been used. y. “I® I
that both corn, and cotton were much I
looked far better between Macon and
between the latter city and Enfanla. Tf
the fact that we have had rather more 15 1
end of the road than the other, and OoreW^
were used on the lauds nearer Macon. ^ I
We found the planters generally ia
and elated over the promising condiUoa^ ^71
com and cotton crops, and the abnndjac ItY'
and vegetables with which they have w!? 1
this season. ' "•Si
In regard to the late railroad combhjLV, , ,
people appear to be rather reticent ir.Y '^1
presaion of their views, or indifferent i-Y * 5 '|
transaction. It is generally conceded tlr v I
combination has virtually existed all the I
and the simple fact that it is now nnd» 7*, I
and binding does not change the *J
the matter in any respect. Wo are sure wil
that a large majority of those with whom we- < I
versed on the subject, entertain the opinion •-il
the stockholders of the Southwestern road, icy! I
of the several strong competing lines of riUn T L I
rapidly building, made a splendid trade wd*h t! I
Central railroad company, in securing fron.ul
powerful corporation a guaranteed dividend of ; T ll
cent, on the capital stock. The people seea Y'-J
at it in this light: The business relations of • J
roads have always been very intimate, and if - I
stockholders in the Southwestern road rocYl
lieved that the different lines of roadnoY-l
built and in contemplation would depreciate
present value of their stock, they should h»v e
tectedthemselves,-in advance, against the fc
enedloss; it was their own business, and is,
the people of Southwestern Georgia arc disposal
let it rest, at least until it ia clearly established ti
the combination of the two roads wasmih;
other reasons than those set forth and ta fe •
ferred from the terms of the contract.
We found the good people of Eufaula lively, fc
and hospitable, as usual. Business appeared
moving along briskly for tho season, and thsfe
prospect of the crops make the people all feel r
and, consequently, they look well and tm--
welL
Eufaula now sports two first-rate weeklies rf]
tri-weekly paper—the’Eufaula Weekly sad h
Weekly News and the Bluff City Times. Thtsep
pets are now being printed on new type and;:-
quite a handsome appearance, and are edited i
spirit and ability. We etarted out early in the a
ing, and found our friend, John Black of the.wj
before he had chambered more than two or t
cartridges for the Fourth, and he took us tin
his neatly arranged and newly equipped ofictie
a steady step, and really spoke in a coherent id:
telligent maimer of his papers and their bright -_- J
pects for the future. After doing so, he inrfe^
to take a seat—the thermometer indicating ia
perature of 90 degrees, in the room. In a hub
we noticed that he looked nnoasy or anxioa. i*t]
he would like for us to make a suggestios.!
whilst endeavoring to read his thoughts, hi*!
tores were suddenly lit up by as bright a(0&
Francisco last Saturday. The steamer rose in
the air about 75 feet, the machinery operating
successfully, buoying up and driving forward
the vessel at considerable speed.
The Commencement exercises of Mercer Uni
versity will commence on Sunday, the 11th.
The Baccalaureate sermon will be preached
by Rev. Henry H. Tucker, D. D. The poem
before the literary societies will be delivered
by Richard J. Larcombe, -Esq., of Savannah.
The address before the literary societies will be
delivered by Alvan D. Freeman, Esq., of New
nan. •
Wrong! Wrong!—Tho Macon Telegraph of
Saturday misprints us in quoting our notice of
that paper. We said it was “one of the best
papers in the twenty-seven States and a score or
so of territories.” We are not quite bo igno-
“ of ‘ he t events of the last eight years, down Black bad 80 mnch of the ga . lorions Fou nhf.
here, as to count thirty-seren States, when . ... - T B , , . , , , w
7 , .. . “cat * , 7 . *n»r hfl TTMaroAlr ns fnr hjs bnf*kt*k mmu .X»
there are ten wanting in ‘The best government
etc.” Correct your political - geography, CoL
Clisby.— West Georgia Gazette.
termined to melt right there before we wo
the hint. Like a great many people who Co,
contemplate the consequences of a hasty \
aot, Black did not think, perhaps, that in '
ns out he would bum himself, and it was i
before he was wriggling in his chair like a i
fish-hook. Fortunately for us, the imp i
brought the roller bucket and glne, and on: t
suggested thafVhHe the glue was boiling, wen
stroll out on the shady Bide of the street i
“cooler.” That was just what we wanted, mLH
Falstaff, we larded the green earth as wewjj
out; for both were melting rapidly. Darin;«
stroll from the office, several friends recek-dij
treated us most kindly—among others.
& Conric, extensive grocers and provision i
chants, and also the popular proprietors'
business “under the gas light.” In an honror4
Huff’s Bine.—We havo neither the time nor
apace to notice, in extenso the interesting exercises
yesterday afternoon at this popular place of
amusement, and must speak wily in general terns.
that he mistook us for his bucket oighr.i
convince him that he was mistaken, we deta
to stick to him no longer, and we went onr*
look once again upon familiar spots, where i
spent many happy hours.
’ Eufaula is improving steadily, and we notice^
eral new buildings going up: among them, s -
new Presbyterian Church on Bindolpli street.
An hour before the, racing and riding began, 1 Baptists have not yet commenced their new c’-s
spectators were thronging into the Itink, with as but we were informed that something over ri: j
much interest, perhaps, as the thousands who • had been subscribed for the building, and til
crowded into the Coliseum at Boston on the first ! erection would soon begin. The Methodist*f
day of the Great Jubilee. By five and a half t also entertaining the idea cf building a new <’
o’clock the Bink presented a most brilliant and im- ! and we hope they will do so at an early iky,
posing display, especially in the ladies’ department. ; present house of worship is not commenssm-H
The ladles were out in great cumber, and we have ! the population and commercial importance \
never seen the beauty and fashion of Macon present I faula, or the financial ability of thememben- ; 1
itself in greater force, or to more advantage. We ' church. ' • I
heard the crowd estimated at from eighteen bun-j We-were glad to learn that the Union Ten^'j
dred to three thousand, but think about twenty-five i i ege , Q f Eufaula, under the able admiaisn
hundred the right figures. ■*; D r> Armstrong, just closed a most
The exercises began with a grand entry of all the j torm, and that th» excellent institution i^'
principal and best riders of the city—twenty-two in \ growing in public favor and patronage. Me*-
number—audit was really an imposing and lively terson & Craven’s High School for boys
display—many of the machines being beautifully : over one hundred students the last see***
decorated with flags and ribbons. This was fol
lowed by the best riders, singly, double and in
fours, after which the racing for prizes began.
The first race was a dash of 555 yards, or three
times around the Sink, for a silver pitcher. There
were five entries: Messrs. Knight, Griffin, Dasher,
Cunningham and Lilianthal. The prize was won by
Mr. Knight—time one minnto and a half-second.
The next contest was slow riding for a silver
pitcher, half around the rink—92 yards. Entries:
Messrs. Freeman, Collins, Griffin, Isaacs and,
Groce. The prize was won by Mr. Collins. Time i fag account of the doting - exercises of
occupied in riding the 92 yards by Mr. C., in a track ! and its bright prospects for the futnre-
three feet in width, two minutes and one second, i in Physical Training—a spedality ia t* 3 (
[Two of the contestants in this match failed, by i numbers over seventy young ladies-
dosed recently with a flattering eshibia.-
teachers and pupils, in the way of a pnti" iS
ation. declamations, etc.
We left Eufaula on Tuesday mara^- £
company with several most comp»nion»-’- e ^
teresling ladies and gentlemen, among™ 0
Col. N. and his sister-in law, Mi® ^ R
Athens’fairest and brightest jewels-
P.ev. Dr. A. L. Hamilton. President of 1
male Coilege, dropped in with us ^
road as far as Smithville. He givens* 01 -1
getting out of the prescribed limits ot the track.)
This match was followed by one of the richest
things of the season. It was tiie appearance on the
track, in company with the proprietor and Mr.
McLendon of two young ladies (/) (tressed in tip
top style, with their heads and faces so done np in
straw hats or bonnets as to prevent their faces from
being seen. Their entrance was hailed with shouts
of merriment and laughter on all sides. Miss D.
rode her bicycle just like ladies ride on horseback,
and propelled her steed with only one foot. The
other, Miss C., got aboard in the usual way, and
like men folks. Both rode well and gracefully, and
after running around the rink several times with
their gallant attendants, darted out at a tide door,
before anybody could get a glimpse of their face.
It was a good thing, regardless of the originator.
This was followed by graceful riding for a silver
goblet—all the contestants riding at the same time,
singly, or in pairs, as they might prefer. There
were about ten entries, and, after riding for abont
ten minutes, the judges were baffled for some time
in deciding the matter. It was finally decided in
to the cultivation
Seward in California,—Wm. EL Seward
arrived at Sacramento, and reoeived a salute of
fifty guns. All flags in the city are flying. Men
of both parties united in honoring him. Many
prominent Democrats being in attendance.
A $6000 monument is being cast at Munich
“Dat’s ybost what I do. Veu I nc gets mine for the graves of Confederate soldiers interred
laget I leaves de country.” in a cemetery near Baltimore,
Florida, it is asserted, contains over seven
tion of coffee. perhaps, of sevarti young ladies, w
who got a few
words into the ears of the judges.
The next race was a dash of one mile for a silver
pitcher and the championship of the State. -There
were six entries, but after the third rider had fin
ished bis mile, darkness set in, and, to avoid acci
dents, the race was postponed until Monday after
noon at five o'clock, and the huge assemblage dis
persed.
claims that physical education or develop 1 - j
intimately connected with mental
the latter cannot successfully proceed ** (
former, and honoe he exercises the yo®i
daily with dumb-bells, rings and partite*
only does thie give his pupils the necesf ^
cal exercise, but it cures, in a short
shoulders, spinal curvature, crooked ne ^ .
toes, nervous debility and incipient PtJ
Hamilton will visit several cities of
tiie vacation this summer and will lecta 1 * '
subject. We should be greatly pleased to j
be will visit Macon some time goon.
In closing this article, already too tetf
again thank the kind and courteous a “
the Southwestern Railroad tor their j
favors during the time they had ns in ^
road is now-well ballasted and in
and in charge of such conductors ano
are now upon it, a traveler may , J
comfortable as If sitting in a cushion
home with his family around him.
The Courts.—The Mayor has bad a ‘
time in his Oourt for the last two s
docket being pretty well spotted with
occasion. Nothing of. a more series*
however, was before His Honor
and their usual reauite, fighting w** 1 •
duct. It ia not worth whUe topart^*®^,,
In the Superior Court yesterday
tag done of public interest—the triti®*
case being the only thing before wff*
day.
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