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J. ’X'. WATERMAN,
PROPRIETOR.
The Justice Court.
Ho l.ioki (1 like :i j-istice, for his head
vn> iv'aiifiiod with the frost of many
«iut< r.-, ami i lie • agh- eyes <>! I he law
seemeil mure s! arp through the mag.
nihing hue ol a |>air of old-fashioned
spectacles. He was surrounded by
boohs of legal lore, and with a care
lessness that had something enticing
about it, his feet res'ed on the com
mentaries of Blackstone. He had just
finished a martiage ceremony, and he
was unconsciously jingling the two
silv r dll tills in his pooke*, when the
door was thrown open and two liti
gants appeared, accompat ieil by a
very m an looking yellow dog.
Tin- ju-tice’s room presented a
stiangi speitaek that morning, for
the pari i* « who requested the scales
to he leda'iced were members ol the
bar. comm ni'v and appropriate 1 }’ call
ed lawyers. The yellow dog was the
cause oi nil the trouble, and the ven
erable justice looked at him with an
uneasy ylance. In fact, the court got
his umbn !la and placed it before him
thinking that the weapon which had
shielded hint lroiu the storms of life
would protect him from the dogged
look ol that formidable canine. The
court passed into the next room and
n mail ed t ! ere for a few minu’es, and
returned io iking composed and judi-
oiai. Hea-kit' the nature of the
trouble, ami racli told his tale in his
own peculiar way.
'1 he first who spoke up said he lived
i ti the same thn r with the other, and
up to the time of the difficulty, had
believed him to be n right sort ol
man. But a lew days before h had
come home from the court of one of
the neighboring counties, and bad
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ATHENS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY^MORNING, DECEMBER 2$, 1SS0.
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Number 8.
I.KOHI.IA NEWS.
Mr. Garland H Prior has been elec
ted mayor ot Rome.
Henry II : U, in Atlau'a, was charged
$6.75 for whipping his wife.
of
Warrenton, came near being acci
dentally destroyed by fire the other
morning.
An attempt to assassinate Mr. Jno.
P Cailownv, at Leesburg, was made
In Atlanta on the 16'.h, a man was ' by a neuio the other night. Mr. (Jal-
oway was the man who, some time
ago, killed Isaac 1‘ Tison.
Mr. .1 T Henderson, Commissioner
ot Agriculture in Georgia, thinks the
guano trade this year will show an
increase of at least 35,000 tons above
the amount sold in this state in 1879.
A gentleman informs the Amerieus
Republican that more syrup would lie s,cia "‘
robbed ol 875 on Broad street.
The indications are th it Augusta will
soon have a new opera house.
Col. D S Davenport, of Sumter
county, died on the 12th, inst.
Mr. R P Daniel has been elected city
judge ot Griffin.
Mr. .las. Perry, of Covington, died
very suddenly a few nights since.
The new brics depot at Warren- I t |, an jhe c untv could consume
ton is going up rapidly. I twelve months'.
(.apt. Nelms lias been appointed , negro man was picked up in an
I principal keeper ot the penitentiary, insensible condition in Griffin on the
Mr. J Clarence Simmons and Miss ■ night ot the 18lh inst. His skull was
| Carrie Gardiner, of .Sparta, are mars crushed. The indications are that he
ried. j was struck with a sling shot.
R"v. C A Stakely, of LaGrange, , Gen. Toombs insists still that Geor-
was ordained a Baptists minister last gia is growing poorei every day. If
Sunday.
t produced in Schley county this year
An open switch at Gruwbly’s Mil's;
on the Macon and Brunswick rails;
road, caused two trains to come to
gether the other night and caused a*
general wreck of both engines. By
leaping from the moving train ail
hands -aved their lives, with some
bad bruises on their bodies.
A short time since Dr. W L Se!^
man, of Rome, by some means got
some ]ioisonous matter on a sore fin
ger. It has poisoned his whole sys
tem, and it is now thought he canm
possibly recover. Dr. Selnian
highly esteemed gentleman and ph;
The heavy rains of Saturday under-
reined Fort Hawkins, at Macon, aud
it fell to the ground. This old fort
was built in the year 1802, it was
mimed for Colonel Benjamin Haw
kins, who acted as commissioner for
tlio government and selected a site
for the building. It was surrounded
by a stockade aud several block
houses, all of which have passed away.
No attack, we believe, was ever made
upon the 'fort itself, but fights were
~ in the vicinity, and the spot was
dezvous for the white settlers.
ONE MAN’S FBOGENY.
Father of Forty-One Children.
Sted I
‘ Ye->, it’s ad,’ said the man.
‘ O, J.-hn, you must be mistaken,’
replied his third wife.
* Well, I tell you it is, I ought to
know !’ was the emphatic reply of
John IE ffuer, who lives on Maple
street, between Chestnut aud Spruce,
in this city.
A reporter of the Eagle had c-illed
upon Mr. Heffner to learn tbe correct
I history of this much, valked-about
grep.tpjSbJftl of forty-one,children
... -- r . , i
A cavalry company is to he organ
ized in Adam a with Gen. Fierce
Yc ung as captain.
The main building at tbe fair ground
in Albany will be converted into a
school house for boys.
Fifteen new buildings are under con
tract to br-put up in Saudersville rlur- now
that be true it must be largely due to
the tact that the General is running
up another big tee-bill against bis
‘ old mother.’
Daniel Z.-igler, colored, was ari
ed in Savannah on the 9th, by polic
man Jones at the instance of Gilbe;
Morgan, colored, w ho charged
w ith the murder of Clias. Count,
ored, on tlie Daniel Henderson plan
tation, No. 54, Sc r iven county,
the 11 th inst.
hinil
col-]
hr.
„ht with him a lee in the shape | '"g the »> ODth January
ot the yellow dog, who though lie
seemed to be always in a brown study,
if a dog can be in that condition, was
really a vicious and disreputable ani
mal. In a truly pathetic way, lie told
how he came to t.is room one night,
and as he mounted the steps lie saw
the yeliow deg on the mat before the
door. With a descriptive power that
has seldom been equaled and rarely
ever surpassed, he described the dog
and the scene.
In a style peculiar to locals of daily
papers, he related how the dog showed
a pugilistic frame of mind ; and with
all the art and logic of a lawyer he
told how he endeavored to persuade
the dog that he did not want a fight.
Then becoming aroused by tbe remem
brance ol the scene he told the court
th it the defendant set the dog on him,
and watched lha mutilation of his
suir< ( da.isante costume w ith delight.
And when he, alter efforts most super
human choked the dog off, the de-
fi.intnif],, ayIhHJVM i.'t with
the dog, pultfert hitrf'oUj and the fight
began again. He rec< tinted bis
wiongs, and asked the court to award
that justice for whicli it was famous.
Th** court proceeded to do so in fit
ting style, and cited the famous case
of Jones vs. Smith, where the defend
ant’s dog had entered the shop *>f the
plaintiff', who was a butchci, and had
stolen therefrom several pounds of
meat, and was about to show the sim
ilarity of the two cases, when he was
interrupted by tbe defendant who
demanded a hearing.
The court said the dog was the
defendant, and as he, (the dog,) had
expressed do desire to be heard, he
would continue his remarks. The
defendant said that he represented the
dog, and was empowered to speak for
aDd in belinlt ol the dog; and becom
ing a little wrathy be said be would be
dog-goned if be didn’t do it.
The court with admirable self-pos-
sis-ion declared such language a:
centtinplnous, and ordered the de
fendant, so-called, to shut up. The
so-iu!h d defendant would not shut up,
and said he was a better man than the
court any day ; and, with a courage
that is only obtained by the imbibition
of six glasses of bier, he snapped his
fingers in the court’s face and calling
his yellow dog, departed from the
judicial hall.
The court then continued its decis
ion by saying that inasmuch as the
dog was the defendant, and from the
evidence submitter! to the court, the
court was of the opinion that the dog
had been guilty ot assault and bat
tery ; but in view of the fact that the
personal effects ol the dog were not
subject to legal seizure tbe court or
dered the dog to be confined on the
public works for the term of sis
mouths ; and, with an easy grace that
eminently be came him, the courts de
liver! d a short allegorical lesson on
the subject of fighting.
The plaintiff was of the opinion that
while the ruling of the court
was in arcordance with the “new-
work that should he in (he hands
of every justice,” lie deemed
it best to appeal to n higher
court, as he thought he should have
si me pecuniary compensation, and in
a few words stated his reason to the
court for so doing; whereupon th<
justice told the dog that if he did not
show can c why tbe demurrer of the
plaintiff should not be granted before
tin-next sitting of ti e court, the case
would be appealed. But as the dog
wir- no' there, the matter was post
poned.
Ti e legal \ fraternity is much
aroused over this cate, and it is said
that a certain honorable will introduce
a bill in tbe July session ot tbe legii
lature, to allow tbe personal property
of dog ownt re subject to the penalties
<«f dog offenses.
Mr. C J Barton, an attorney at law
in Atlanta, has been indicted tor per-
John Mann, of Conyers, was plow
ing in wheat on Tuesday last when he
fell dead at the plow handles.
A twelve year old boy was badly
mangled at the Excelsior mills, Au
gusta. His left aim was amputated.
J M J Cason and Mr. J II Felts,
two of the most prominent citizens of
Warren county, died last week.
The Atlanta bar passed this : Re-1
solved.—That it is the sense of this|
meeting that the name of lion. II
McCay be presented to the president!
to fill the vacancy of the circuit bench]
of the United States caused by
A shoit time since Dr. W LSelman, | appointment of Hon. W B Woods Ui
of Home. I»y B**roe menus pot some l ^ e supreme buneli. Amos T
poisonous matter on a sore linger. It I ,,,an ,s a ' >0 a candidate for the place,
has poisoned his whole system, it is j Henry Tate and Jerry Ileanli
thought he c-innot possibly
cover.
A petition signed by over three hun
dred persons in Eatonton is being pre
pared, requesting the comity commis
sioners of Futnain to increase the taxes
tor selling liquor in that county to five
thousand dollars.
The executive committee of the
state Snnday School convention held
a meeting in Atlanta a few days ago.
The next convention will be held either
at Gainesville ot Athens the latter
part ot August, 1881.
A negro man near Savannah was
M J M Car-on, ai d Mr. J II I*cits, : ou j hunting when his dog, in a play-
lioth good citizens of Warren county
are dead.
Airs. V W Wright, of Norwood,
and Mr. Thomas Bristow, of Craw-
tordville, arc married.
A negro woman was found dead in
bed rear Savannah with her child
clasped in her ai ms.
Ice nearly a quarter of an inch thick
was noticed on the Bay in Savannah
Saturday morning.
The Grand Division of tbe Sons ot
Temperance will meet in Warrenton
on December 29th.
Capt. J W Veronee has retired
from the Warrenton Clipper, and w ill
fnl mood, jumped up aud caught Ids
foot in the trigger of the gun discliar-
iug it. The load took t fleet in the ne
gro’s arm which bad to be amputated.
A negro boy has been arrested
charged with the murder of Mr. E B
Lee, near Savannah a few days ago.
He confessed the crime aud says he
was told to do so by Isaac Mmsen a .
negro who is badly wanted in Savan-! " as n °4 granted.
colored, were arrested on the 16th
charged with st< aling cotton at i'ilber-
ton. Quite a number of bales of cc
ton have been stolen from the cott*
yards in town recently, and strenuous
efforts have been made to spot th
thieves. The proof is .-aid to be ’ ^
strong aga list the parties arrested7~
K it,niton Messtnger: On Tliureda;
evening the house ot Mr. J C
in this county, v>as burned, togethc
with filteen bales of cotton and tvv
gins. There was some insurance,,
which we hone will cover the loss v i
A few bales ot'cotton belonging to Mr
A M Reid, and lying near the
house, were somewhat Gamut:
The fire was accidental.
A would-be colored benedict
West Point applied for a marriage li
cense the other day. Being asked the
name of his fiance, he replied that . he
didn’t know—all he knew about bet
was that she had a daughter unmet'
Moilie. The Frees the - licen-p!]
Georgia
f annual session-in Thomas rilie
p 14th 'inst., and sonic eighteen
were represented-with, ot-
’ J Smith; master; 6 P Wood,
pro tern, T H Kimbrough,
.. I David Nichols, stewards
Karlin, assistant steward
i; A Moffot, chaplain pro
"^McDaniel, secretary pro
i F Daws gate keeper pre
master delivered an ■ address
• which .'ubordinate granges rr»!l
• Standing committees :are
to prepare : reports’wr ihfejr
olive positions for the next sea;
1 the state grange. Mr Everj-
of Oglethorpe county, was
■ a member of the ex-commit-
Mr Wood, of Decatur, treas
Iacon was selected as the placed
[the next annual meeting on Tuqs-l
■■ter the second Monday in No-
:r. A committee was appointed
laidorlhe propriety, of locating
H*.
TUE SOUTH AND PROTECTION.
Senator Ben Hill, of Georgia, is
credited with the following remarks:
‘We intend to try the virtues of
the 8-ime line of |¥ilicy that has built
up the great manufacturing centres of
the North, and that which has made
its people rich and prosperous. Such
states as Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia
aud Alabama are gradually beginning
to reallize that a protective tariff con
tains more essence for their material
devetopmentthau^all the political plat
forms that were aver constructed, and
T wTr-jkV'ndt bo ;.t all snrp'rj. ed, if
built, smoses the people o', thbse states are relieved'
’kjakes a living in jjjj;- Ji e many disturbing
I m jljpiHo 1” sixty-five with which they have been beset ever
years oI«,»a|(d['hns a' pleasant vnUM since*(fie close of the war, so that they
and a chej’riDt^jfpeting for all friends.. ’-‘-f—
The story’: of the man’s married life
as jrela&ff by himself is probably the'
most remarkable one'on record. He
di { wp*bom in €k*agaay in 1815. When
to' twenty-five years old—in ■ 1840-^-he
parried his first,wife, who lived'eight
years. She became the mother of
seventeen ; ' children in thaf time,
having twins the first year of their
marriage. The next year another
pair of twins were born. Each suc
ceeding- y< ar for four years there
after, Mrs. Heffner became the mother
of triplets. The seventh year was-
signalized by the birth of only ofie
child. Jfrs. Heffner , died; and was
laid away ill the village church yard
iu Gprmauy. Thu widower had now
a family of seventeen children, the
driest ouly seven years 'of age. Three
months thereafter a young lady took
charge of the children, and jn
can examir.e this subject intelligently,
they will become: strpogcr advocates
of a protective policy than those pf
Pennsylvania,.frur the reason that they
sf^^^^gsgMr Beed of a-ptyMctwre
state eraiige and-building ft hall, course of time became the second
Uu .tilivdf'rv ’ tl. fli fTL . ...If.. U«.l
Bfchnnddfcme rfonetlTmr bjprtYRft?
tbsoriplions, were proposed in its aid 1 .
the treasurer 'showed
proved dbndition ot tbe ffwnices
If- -
if that body.
;vt ikcuu m r^t, p
establish*pdperfrtfHaiiemi^ jBfr^Hf’vWs'dffmnnueaWbout bln.V
Atlanta Post: Mrs. Lacey, a wid- i *n—. c...:.k J
c,w of Savannah, who is over 99 years
ol age, is cutting another set of teeth.
The receipts ot cotton in Augusta
to the 15th aggregate 141,185,
against 105,888 for the same period
last year.
The next session of the national
educational association will be held in
Atlanta convening July 19th and
continuing four days.
A negro attempted to assassinate
Mr. J P Callaway at Leesburg. Mr.
Callaway killed Mr. Tison. The negro
made his escape.
Two negroes in Scliley left their
little child in tbe hou-c where there
was a fire. On their return they
found the child burned to a crisp.
There were twenty-six deaths in Sa
vannah last week. Ten among the
whites and sixteen among the color
ed inhabitants.
The Dawson Journal says that i
white woman living on Terrell coun
ty’s pauper larm gavehirih to two ne
gro babes one morning last week.
A negro boy was burned to death
in Schley county, lie was out on tho
farm of M*\ !Seab Dozier and his cloth
ing caught from a burning stump.
Prof. W H Woodall’s residence at
Bartlesville was recently set on fire by
a chair of clothing tailing into the fire
place.
The two prisoners carried from Up-
sor county to Spalding jail some days
Bince, sawed out with a case knife last
week and made their escape.
The gin house of Colonel John B
Willcoxon, of Coweta conutv, contain
ing thirlecD bales of cottoD,
burned last night by an incendiary.
Jolly, tbe murderer of Victoria Nor
ris, has been interviewed by the Con
stitution, and says the girl was acci
dentally killed by jumping out of the
wagon.
The gin house ol Mr. K L Worthy,
of Sumter, was burned on the 12th
with three bales of cotton and 2,000
bushels of eolton seed. No insur
ance.
Many of the fields in Hancock coun
ty were white with cotton when the
wet weather began. The fanners were
unable to gather it, and it was left to
rot.
The office of Wm. A Tyneh, in EL
berton, was entered by tire drawing
ot a staple, the lock broken off his
trunk, and two hundred and fifty dol
lars in money taken therefrom.
It is slated that a parly of Atlanta
capitalists and other moneyed miu
will visit South river coon, with a view
to locating a cotton factory somewhere
on the numerous falls of that river.
The would-be duelist ol Augusta,
was put under a bond of $1,000 to
keep the peace. The party who de
livered the challenge shared the same
fate. No name given.
The sale of cotton in Savannah on
the 20th reached the large number
ot 6,521 bales, the largest tor one sin
gle day this season, and at 4 p. m.,
prices advanced Jc. all round.
Atlanta Constitution : Several rail
roads, we tear*, are asking the rail
road commissioners to fix the rate for
passengers when collected by conduc
tor at 3$ cents per mile, and when
passengers purchase tickets three
cents per mile.
nah.
Bill Jefferson, colored, attempted
to outrage the |>erson of a young lady
in Amerieus. He was prevented by juries upon
Mr. Thomas Cobb and the negro, whoH from which
is about seven teen years of age is in be Gy in
—' warrS
One Rev. J Albert Smith astoni-h- j * |RS ' ,een
ed the natives of Bainbridge by telling | 1
them that the world was on its last I b'-,UUo.
legs, and they were well nigh ready to !
surrender. The said J Albert is get
ting crauky.
It appears that the Atlanta Fire
Depaitment is not in a healthy condi
tion, and the people fear a destructive
conflagration awaits them. The vol
unteers apparently have lost interest
in the matter.
A man from Monroe county, who
was moving West, was fleeced out of
fitly-thrce dollars by an Atlanta thief
the other day. It is getting to be a
dangerous tiling to visit the Gate
City with any loose change in your
pocket.
A hint for wives—A woman who
has tried the experiment says: ‘When
a man finds a place that is pleasanter
to him than his own home, his wife
should put two lumps of sugar in his
coffee and double the quantity ol sun
shine in the front room.’
Gainesville Southron : Mrs. Gen.
Longstrcet got a letter trom the Gen
eral last week. He had arrived safe
and sound at Constantinople, hut had
as yet made no reconnoitre of the
burg, and therefore deferred all com •
roent on the Turkish Capital.
Mr. J M Forehand, living near
Cochran, was seriously injured by his
horse running away with him and
throwing him from the buggy, and as
Dr. Walker was going to see biro bis
own horse also ran away, completely
demolishing the buggy.
Physicians have declared that
Jolly is unfit to work in tbe Dade
was coal mines, as he is suffering badly
from hernia. Evidently there is more
solicitude fell lor Jolly’s welfare than
he showed tor poor Victoria Norris
when lie so mercilessly killed her.
The dividend ot three and a halt per
cent, declared at Augusta on the 14th
added to the strength ol Georgia rail-
roar! stock. In the afternoon 1,134
was freely Did for its ex-dividend, witli
no offi riugs. It was quoted on the
15th at 1,134 bid, 1,144 asked, ex-
dividend.
Who says Augusta is not an enter
prising city—a flying horse nparatus,
an Indian corn doctor, a jewelry com
bination man, a stationary combination
man, Georgia road directors’ meeting,
a new railroad syndicate, a mammoth
church fair—all during the same day.
A colored boy was shot and killed
liy a while boy iu Savannah. The
weapon user! was a twenty-five cents
toy pistol. A shot had been rammed
in the blank cxltridge, which penetra
ted tbe boy’s heart. Tbe coroner’s
jury found it to he a case of manslatigh
ter.
The government boats are about
completed at Albany. The engineer
in charge of Flint river improvement
will commence to raise the old bridge
wreck at the island below tbe bridge.
Col. Slaughter will then push his force
up the river and take out the brush
and logs as tar up as Montezuma.
On the 15iii as the frieght train
from Atlanta was on the road between
Powell’s station and Newnan, it struck
a negro said to be deaf and dumb
and knocked him off the track, break
ing hla back and inflicting other in
juries. He was brought to Newnan
by the 8ame tram. It is thought be
cannot live.
d the prospective;
to ascertain
led bride.
who inflicted the iu
izbee, in Atlanta,
latter is reports
'" THRASHED BY A W031AX.
i Tuesday afternoon, Miss Aliofr
- Freeman, eighteen '.years* old,
at 282 West Fourth .street,
2 into the hallway at No-Si
^ciay street, and sent a bay .np
. irs to the rooms occupied -by Hows
ajd- S. Ingersoll, mrnuftlct oyer of-
* iL »r stamps, witli the request that
sue to the door, us p lady’wished'
: him. AS Ingersoll 'appeared' .
jw rid pepper itt-'llJs eyes and
r a heavy whip! the lasb of which
; armed with twisted pine, and-cut
ilngersoll across the face and hands,
i blood’qd 'every..stj-oko.
Mrs Heffner. The first .wife had
diet! in Febroary, 18481 In Feb
ruary 1849, this. second wife
presented ilfr. Heffner with a boy.
•Cjn Christmas day ot the same year
the nineteenth child was added to the
•Heffner flock. The family now. was
-larger than any other in-that part of
4he country. Five years passed on,
'ifcd.Mr. Heffner’s household was in-
-creased by the addition oi ten more
children, a-pair of twins being born
every year. There was now a lull, and
f<»r,jthree years thereafter only one
-cjijldrwas burn unto them. In 1854
lie came to this country with his fahR
lily,-hhd^thinast three children were
-bonfRnnfiiriea. In 1857 his wife
tariff.* ' - ,y*
The Senator'igrther remarked that
he was now considering a speech - in
favor of g protective tariff, and that
it the occasion present itself, he may '
deliver it at this session oi congress.—
Hardware Reporter:
The United States have 24.77 mil48
ot railroad to S^ery 10,000 inhabi
tants. This is eight times as much as
Europe, Whieh has .3.29 miles to the
10,000. The European idea is that;
traffic must go before railroads. but in
this country the-idea is that railroads
ought to be pushed forward ii> Order
to open new sections to population
and'thou create traffic. Outside of
trade demands, railroads are built in*
Europe exclusively for stragetio. pur
poses—something never done in the
Uuited States. Here we find appar
ently superfluous roads- laid Gown
sometimes in- tbe furtherance of com
binations aud rivalries of interests,
but otherwise all our roads are run on
lines and parallels supposed . 'to.J»e
most conducive to. the ■ extension' of
commerces
The City Fathers.
That representative body sometimes
caHed the city council, bat more ap* •
met iu the hall of deliberation at the
usnal hour. Their faces beamed with
satisfaction and pride, for the result
ot the city election had not been for
gotten. They felt grateful to the cit
izens for their renewed expression of,,.
-confidence, and' they determined ■ to - ^
show their gratitude by not adjourn
ing as early as usual, but to sitarouDd
the council board an^deliberate about
those maiters pertaining to the welfare
of their beloved city. Sending the_^
clerk out for some refreshments, they U
prepared themselves lor the reception'
of the frnit, and settled themselves
preparatory to the weighty business
before them? The usual formalities
were gone through with, and the ice
was broken by an aldennip, who
moved the public school system be
fnV^fcw’Jjfr «ud*fbaMgun^$ i * *
system info successful operatipa, ; ~“' J
co*rt the sum iu exij
tlio present, Wvwiuo,- but hd 'sail
knqw tba> -citizens ‘would cheerfully
..bear tie extra 1 • - ™ ■***
A gentleman from one of the’wards r
said ho had not quite finished disposing
of} bfotscwlfe property, afid:l»p«d:Ui* '
council would wait until Twhafl plnoed
eyerything beyond tile reaeh of $he
assessor. , He stud it had always been
In the estimation of the Columbus.
Enquirer-Sun the defeat of John.
Kelly causes generalrejohfiitg in (
ocratic ranks. Hejbas, two papers
New York, tgid it is said he'will pej-j*
sonally edit one, Hie Express y 6uT
without official posftion he iniist-lose
djed,'dk*viitg.been married nine year* much of his anthority and' lnfluence.-
He was nqtv the father of tbirty-fwo He cannot ruin tb6 ,democratic; patty
hildteti, twelve of whom had died,
., K ., leaving't wepty to be taken in chat
endeavored to shield hi- fa*-, ^ a 'v>d“;v.,wliom be marriedtot?!
fmM'SV*. «»d' a <:>• ’"d.of Mrs; Leffyr number three »■*'» -
again, by.refusing to abide by,a . ma
jority of a convention,'opppsing its
"wifk^putti^gWejaafo- into tb^aahds
of the reptrtiicanK, - an d ' thus’' prepare
^jno to place -their taxable property
beyond the reach otthe tar, before an.
assessment was made; and ho oxpress> .
ed himself to the effeqt that it was hia
wish that the council-rdefer all action
in regard to tliO public school system,
until he made tie necessary tiansl'era.-
On'motion.'tlie matter was indefi
nitely postponed, but the .maker of
tlie motion declared that a councilman
should nofhay© any property at all—
that the possession of property did ; .
not allow him to give, that attention
to city affairs, which their importance
demanded. A distinguished repvesens
tative frotmone of the wards, Whotfw*; v
joiced iu tho possession ota name that i.i
was once fatqjliar to tho “chosenpeo« ,.
pie,” remarked in that characteristioj'Y
way ofhis that “dat ish true.’*
■ \
Air alde» iuan who had the-be.^1 in- }
rests o ki.U* a t heart, spoke of •
N.j* askedtkefetilers'
jnVen^on-.'of.lbe same
n-ouW UQt/materially bi.-pefftthe tflty? ...
Severaf speeches Were made oti^ this. l ;' v
subject dand during Bm couisefoJtho'
rertjjife^tbe Nortl^»Ea.Htip-n..'Wli*
ferred to a?' “ tbui otcat t lOirlV- Knft fc'r *
'the world
rfor assault with in- T ' voma: '' The bleectng man
and his bail fixed at I tempted to run up stairs, but was
event of Buzbce’s ?>’V vn »' ,h '' l b >’
ible that Stewart will ! 1,1 the brea8t ' , 1 , he won,a , n ‘ h » t ° M
upon the charge of a reporter that she came from Eng-
Ir-ath it is
be resindid
murder.
The LaGrauge Reporter announces
the following marriages : Mr. VV H
Nix and Miss Eugenia Gay ; Dr. J P
Huntley and Miss Mattie Pringle, of
Saudersville ; Mr. Earnest Cary anil
Miss Sallie Boykin ; Mr R M Slrick-
lan, of Heard, aud Miss Moilie Cooley;
Mr. R A Bradshaw and Miss Sallie
Bunch; Mr. J T Terry and Miss
C4ecrgia Bunch ; Mr. R C Sloan aud
Miss Venada Sloan.
A few nights ago the frieght train
on the Savannah, Florida and Wes
tern railroad was coming into Albany
at the rati* of about twen’y miles an
hour, and a cow was standing on the
track. The cow catcher ran sinooth'y
between her fore-legs, lifted her up
laud three weeks ago, after her falh
er’s rh-atli, in the hope of earning a
living. She answered an advertise
ment for a saleswoman at Ingersoll’s
address, and when she called he em
ployed her, but at ouce began praising
her ap)>earunce in an insulting mau-
tier, and finally persuaded her to enter
with him an empty house in Brook
lyn upon the pretence that it was his
residence. She cried out at this dis
covery and made her escape, and now
took this revenge as her only available
method-of redress.
e tbe mother of nine more chil
dren in ten years by single births
None ot the first set of seventeen chib
ilren survive. Two of the fifteen of
the second wife’s children still live,
and three of the third wife’s. In a pes
rioil of twenty-eight years—from ’40,
when lie first married, to 1868, the
date of the birth of his last child—he
became the father of foity-one chil
dren. The five who are still living
are girls. With the step-child that
the last marriage added to the list,
forty-two children have called John
Heffner ‘ father. ’ The old man has
long since forgotten the names of his
numerous progeny, and can only re
call those born in later years.
inee for president.
use for those who only wish to rule or
ruin. He has in the last two years
been of more use to the republicans
than democrats. We have no affilia
tion with one so selfish that for office
and revenge he will destroy the party
with which he pretends to act, while
really opposing.
Buckle’s explanation of thedccliue
of the spirit of religious persecution,
was that in modern times faith had
undergone tin eclipse, and men coulrl
not bring themselves to persecute oth-
gent ly and look her’iong for somriters into believing that whereof they
.* . 1 • 1— . A 1 *aC* .»ai A tlronualtinu *L’OTlt l<»*ll Til 11 InOlK
distance, she seemingly con’ented with
her tree ride. After'a while the-en
gineer halted his train, got down and
had to force his bovine dead-head pas
senger off the engine.
Tbe News learns that Signor Ales-*
candro Gavazzi, the Italian patriot
and deputy of tbe Free Church in Ita
ly, will arrive in Savannah the latter
part of the week. He will occupy
the pulpit of the Independent Pres
byterian church next Sunday morring,
and preach at the Baptist church,
Chippewa square, on Sunday night.
The object of his mission to this coun
try is to give an account of the spread
of the Gospel in his native land, and
plead for assistance to carry on the
good work.
Albany News : ‘lion Ishmael Lo-
non, our coim-ed represenalives in the
legislature, is at home again. Ishmael
says he enjoyed his stay in Atlanta,
but frankly admits that he felt . tbs
wet e themselves skeptical. The inad
equateness of this explanation of one
of the most striking social phenomena
of our time, is forcibly shown in the
North American Review for January,
by Prof John Fiske, who assigns a
number of other causes that have been
at least as influential in bringing
about this most desirable result First,
there is the decline ot the martial
spirit and the greater devotion to pa
cific industrial pursuits. Then, as
men rise in the scale ot civilization,
they are less disposed to be domineer
ing. Finally, men in modern times
have quite lost the sense of corporate
responsibility—the belief that a whole
community is liable for the offenses o'
each individual comprised in it. These
points are established with all the in
genuity of reasoning and wealth of
jearning for which the author is so
distinguished. The other articles in
this number ot tbe Review are: ‘Cons
trolling Forces in American Politics,
whole time as though he had better, by Senator George F. Edmunds
lie at home shoeing hones. He say*
he was treated with marked rsppcct
by every white member «f thr-honse,
and lakes pleasure iu mentioning the
tact that the white democratic legisla
ture in both cases where there were
contests between white and colored
men seated both colored republicans.’
The Georgia Annual Conference of
the A M E Zion Connection, con
vened in its fiftlentli session at ML
Zion Church, in Augusta, on the
lfilh, Right ltev J P Thompson, B
D, in the chair. The bishop’s ad
dress was full ot instruction and en
couragement -touching mainly on
vital religion, tem|>erance, education
and morality. The bishop also spoke
at consideralile length of the fraternal
feelings which are lieginning to per
vade the ranks of the different
branches of tlie Methodist church.
On the second day the main business
of the conference was devoted to fin
ancial matters, settling with bi-hop,
stewards etc. The examination of
characters was next taken up. The
bishop spoke at some length of the
necessity of getting rid of original
* Cain ’—envy. He earnestly urged
the necessity of being content in your
station in tile. It you are black be
conleut; if you are poor be content,
and not seek otf er men’s properly,
lie also insisted on the members ot
tbe conference to take no part in
politics, but to apply themselves to
the study of the word of God.
» Atheism in Colleges,’ by President
John Basoom ; ‘ The Ruins of Central
America,’ by Desire Charnay ; ‘ Par
tisan Government,’ by William D. Le
Sueur; ‘Popular Art-Education,’ by
Prof. John F. Weir: ‘The Limita
tions of Sex,’ by Nina Morais; 4 The
Mission of the Democratic Party,’ by
Senator William A. Wallace; and fi
nally, a review of Recent Philological
Works, by Prof. F. A. March.
The Review is sold by booksellers
and newsdealers generally.
Among the undeveloped resources
of tbe-Pacific slope may be mentioned
the timber lands of Washington
Territory. These lands, 20,000,000
acres, border on Puget Sound, and
are traversed by fine logging streams.
The timber, principally pine and fir,
is equal to any which grows elsewhere,
the soil from which it springs being
of great depth anil richness, and kept
moist by a rainfall which contiunes
during ten months of the year. One
stick is represented to have been hew
ed which was 124 feet long, squaring
twelve inches at the small end, and
without sap. The average height of
the trees is 200 feet, while many
stand 300 feet tall, tiKasuring twelve
feel through at the butt. It is to be
hoped that lietter care will be taken ot
this magnificent belt of forest than has
been taken of the timber lands of
Maine and Michigan. This territory
has also 11,000,000 acres of grazing
arairie, where a nutritious bunch grass
jeeps green five-sixths of the year,
and 5,000,000 acres of wheat lands,
which yield trom thirty to eighty
bushels |ier acre The catch of salmon
last year was 40,000,000 pounds.
Who would care to go to tho frost,
nipped, wind-swept bottom lands ot
Manitoba when he cun settle in Wash
ington Territory, where it rains as
much as it’does in Ireland, while the
influence of high latitude and frost is
quelled by the balmy touches of the
Kuro Siwo current—the Gulf Stream
of the Pacific?
The Philadelphia Times states that
while the New York and Boston pa
pers have been publishing requests for
contributions to a fund for the oldest
living ex-President, a number of gen
tlemen of Philadelphia have quietly
raised between themselves tbe sum of
$100,000, which will be presented to
General U. S. Grant at an early date.
This latter movement is entirely dtss
tinct from the others, and has been
conducted b/ a few personal friends of
the ex-President with a view of ex
pressing their esteem for his services to
his country in a substantial manner.
WHA1 IT HRANS.
The meaning ofthe taking of $140,-
000 in Augusta and Kuoxville rail
road bonds in three days, without so
lieitation, proves that the road is to
be built immediately, and insures this
beneficial result. President Verderv
stated this morning that the work
would begiu at once, and the i<on
would first be laid to the river so that
the iron bridge might be carried up to
Walton’s Island and put in position
The bridge has already arrived in Au
gusla, and only waits to be hauled up
over the first sixteen miles of new iron,
Trains will be running to the river in
h ss than niuety days. President Ver
dery and the directors are h?ppy in
the prospects of an early completion,
and the city of Augusta has a right
to rejoice in the immediate opening
up ot so rich a cunntry as that aloof;
the upper Savannah in Georgia anc,
Carolina.—Augusta News.
We find the following in the At
lanta Post: “ The Women’s Christian
Temperance Union being deeply im
pressed with the dangers and dissipa
tion attending the Christmas holidays,
do most urgently request the heads of
families, in this city, to throw all their
influence, during these holidays, in
tavor of temperance and sobriety,
especially in discountenancing the use
of wines and liquor. We, also, re
spectfully ask the ministers of all
churches to read our petition from the
pulpit, on the Sabbath preceding
Christmas.” This is a timely move
ment which we should like to see im-
ittted elsewhere.
The Rev. Mr. Nutting, in his ser
mon at Fall River on thanksgiving
day, laid bare with a steady hand the
evil consequences of what he, a Rhode
Islander, frankly styles ‘Yankee’ influ
ences. He charges the ‘Yankee peo
ple,’ wherever located, with the
oflence of seeking to destroy the
American family ‘through divorce aud
worse crimes,’ aud declares that the
license of tho worse periods of the
French revolution is surpassed in
Rhode Island and Connecticut. That is
a very startling confession to come
from the land of steady habits.
The attempt of the republicans in
the house to make out that the Vice
President must count the electoral
votes says (he Courier Journal, is but
a repetition of the effort of four years
ago, from which they were force! to
i ecede. As a matter of historic fact,
the Vice President has never counted
the vote, and is not permitted to do
so by tbe Constitution. The republi
can organs are foolishly charging the
democrats *• propose to steal the press
idenuy” in February, The democrats
will certainly not imitate the republi
can paity, who perpetrated that crime
in 1876-77. One feature of the con
troversy ot the past week is noticable.
The republicans have been bitterly
opposing a measure which is simply a
reaffirmation of that under which they
performed tbe count of tbe electoral
votes of 1868 and 1872.
In a recent lecture Mr. Murray said
some people regarded heaven as a spot
of such limited extent that they would
naturally run against about everybody
they knew. He had seen so much of
some ot bis acquaintances that he
should like to take a rest of a few
thousand years before he met them.
One of hia happiest conceptions of
heaven, he added, was that it was
largo enough to enable him to dodge
a great many people. That is no new
idea, Adirondack. Everybody who
has hosts of creditors feels just that
way.—Ew.
On last Tuesday, a gentleman in ] diUnasea c aused by the late fire,
■7 L! (NAnofn* Knn Hill ° *
It is stated by intimate friends of
General Garfield that he will in all
probability, take one member ot his
Cabinet from the Pacific coast, con
sidering it a political necessity to have
that section represented iu bia admin
irtration.
speecti
grew somewhat visionary, and as his
mind wandered into the regions of the
distant future exclaimed “ Methinks
hear the whistle of the engine as the
signal for Clarkesvilln is given !” So
life-like a picture did he draw, that
the council looked round for their
satchels and valises, thinking the train
was entering the coufines of that sleepy
village, in whose very breezes the
average North-Eastern director ex
pects to find a gold mine.
They grew tired of the subject in a
few minutes, and a member from a
ward suggested the police force as a
matter of some interest. He said that
inasmuch as the old council had been
reselected, the police force should be
reduced. This was considered a very
unlucky speech, and a sportive aider-
man bet another member t en dollars
to eight that the remark above would
defeat the father at tbe next municipal
election. The clerk took the stakes,
and the business went on.
A very conscientious representative
spoke against the reduction of the
police, and said that while the police
did not have as much to do as they
did the first of the month, they had
been worked hard in re-electing tho
council, and deserved some rest.
When it came to vole, the council
stood seven to one, and the solitary
asked the clerk as a personal favor, not
to make any mentiou of it in the min
utes.
One gentleman from an upper ward
thought the council should pass a reg
ulation prohibiting the police from
retiring at night before half-past
eight But he was persuaded to withs
draw the motion, and was warned
that such would be considered as an
encroachment upon the freedom of
action that the police force enjoyed.
A member whose sidewalk was a
little rugged, got permission to have
it repaired by the street force, and
immediately aftewards a petition call
ing attention to the disgraceful condi
tion of ono of the streets was disre
garded by the fathers.
The keeping open of bar rooms on
Sundays was considered, and quite an
animated debate followed. Action was
deferred, however, until the next
meeting. The question of repairing
tbe City Hall was next discussed, and
after some objection on the part of two
aldermen, it was derided to repair the
Washington asked Senator Ben Hill
if the South would remain solid, and
his reply was: “ I do not know ; I
think so. Everything depends upon
the attitude of Gen. Garfield’s admin
istration. If the South is treated fairly,
I thiuk a large number of the South
ern people will rally to the support of
Garfield. It is, however, too soon to
predict whether the solid South will
break o* not.” Yes, altogether too
| soon, and it will be next time you hear
from the subject.
After a session of one hour and
twenty minutes—the most laborious
one in the history of the present coun
cil—the fathers adjourned, and cross
ed over the street and warmed their
shoes by the fire of a neighboring ex
change. The city fathers are good
men, and have the best interests of
the town at heart, and in their own
peculiar way they legislate for (hs
good of the few, thinking it best to
make ten or twelve happy than to
cause contentment to rest on tho
many. Tukon.
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