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The principal sufferers near Oak
Rowery, are Abner Allen (brother of
Maj. A. M. Allen, who had all his fenc
ing and houses destroyed, except his
dwelling, and that seriously damaged.
Two negroes killed and two badly in
iured. D. Hightower’s houses mill
and fencing were all destroyed, and
one horse killed. T. J. ®
mill was destroyed. J. 1- Hams
(State Senator from Lee) gm house,
barns, fencing and negro cabins de
stroyed. Fletcher Tucker, Wm. Tucker,
Washburn Ferguson, Menifee and
many others whose names are not re
membered, had everything demolished.
Force of the Wind.
parties report that large trees, two
feet in diameter, were torn up by the
roots and carried several hundred
yards. When the cyclone dipped down,
even the grass and surface of the earth,
down to the clay, were torn up and
large trees twisted off at their roots.
Buggies and wagons were carried aw ay,
and much stock killed. The roof of
one large house was carried nearly
half a mile.
Direction—The Columbus Whirl.
This storm blew from southwest to
northeast. At the same time another
wind, equally as destructive, so far as
heard from, passed about two miles
above Lafayette, about six miles from
the track of the other, blowing in pre
cisely the opposite direction, from
northeast to southwest. [This must
have been the- opposite edge of the
whirl.]ln this storm West Allen had all
his houses and fencing destroyed ; also
Matthew Harris. Sixteen negroes were
in one house. The house was entirely
destroyed down to the ground and
carried away, and no one hurt. In
another house a negro woman and
three children were killed near West
Point. Passengers represent the storm
equally destructive through Troup and
Heard counties, Ga.
THE CYCLONE IN HOUTH CAR
OLINA.
Its Ravages iu Edgefield and Other
Counties.
[Edgefield (May 6th) Advertiser.
Certain portions of -our unfortunate
county were laid waste on Saturday
afternoon last, by a tornado almost
equal in its fury to that of six weeks
back. Like the former one, it first
worked widespread and horrible de
struction in certain counties of Geor
gia—Oglethorpe and Burke principally
—and then passed into Edgefield. We
hear of it first in the Dark Corner and
at Liberty Hill. In the Dark Corner,
Dr. Joe Jennings seems to have been
the greatest sufferer. Twelve of his
outhouses were blown down and many
of them completely destroyed. Fences
and timber in this section, as also at
Liberty Hill, were terribly sacrificed.
Dr. Joe Jennings informs us that the
highroad for five or six miles below his
house is totally impassable—complete
ly blotted out by fallen timber.
The next section seriously devastat
ed was Gilgal. The citizens of this
ueighboorhood have suffered terribly.
Dr. John Barker has written us a let
ter, the details of which are shocking.
He says : “ The storm has destroyed
seven of my houses, and has not left a
panel of fence standing on my planta
tion. My oats and wheat, in fact my
entire crop of all sorts, is totally ex
posed. My Dwelling and furniture are
badly damaged. Both my carriage
and my buggy are in flinders. My loss
is beyond description or calculation.
And what I say of myself may be said
of most of my neighbors. They have
been terribly broken up. I hear of num
bers of valuable horses and mules be
ing killed. The cries of frightened wo
men and children during the storm
were enough to make the strongest
mars shudder.”
From another source we hear that
the following citizens of the Gilgal
section lost their gin houses, besides
being otherwise badly damaged: Col.
Sam Strom, Mr. Luke Culbreath, Mr.
John Reynolds, Mr. Ebb Reynolds, Mr.
J. R. Williams, Mr. Wm. Williams and
Mr. Jabez Martin. We hear further
that Mr. Doug Timmerman, Mrs.
Joshua Harris, Mr. Abner Bushnell,
Dr. Mayson, and many others sustain
ed very heavy losses.
Six or seven miles to the north of us,
on Turkey Creek, the storm also raged
furiously, destroying timber, fences
and gin houses to a shocking extent.
Mr. D. R. Durisoe’s gin house, in this
quarter, was leveled to the earth.
In Columbia the storm amounted to
a veritable cyclone. We publish an
account of it in another column. And
all along the line of the C. C. and A. R. R.
raged the destructive w T inds. The
Johnston section was much injured. A
new house of Mr. James Mobley’s was
prostrated. It is said that the fine
plantation of Capt. Clinton Ward is as
bare of fencing as a prairie, and that in
one of his fields alone 100 dead pines
are lying upon the earth.
The details from Georgia are as
tounding and pitiful. Next week we
shall be able to give our readers further
particulars.
Index to New Advertisements.
Call at Moore & Co.’s and get your
Mowing and Reaping Machines.
Match Gamn of Base Ball between
the Skylarks and Mountain Boys, col
ored.
Bamboo Fishing Poles—For sale by
E. H. Ruggers.
Augusta Chapter No. 2, R. A. M., will
meet this evening—Geo. Adam, Sec’y.
Cassimeres, Drills, Jeans, &c.—By
H. L. A. Balk.
Races at the Fair Grounds Friday
Evening—Lewis Jones, Secretary.
Georgia State Lottery—Wilson &
Cos., Managers.
Ascension Day.
There will be service in the German
Lutheran Church to-day (Thursday)
at 10:30. Preaching by the Pastor, Rev.
D. P. Cammann.
The Military.
The several volunteer military orga
nizations of Augusta are earnestly per
fecting themselves in the manual of
arms and company evolutions, for par
ticipation in the coming contest for the
handsome prize offered by Mr. Plant.
We learn that the date of the prize
drill has been fixed for Thursday, the
3d of June.
The Cyclone and the River.
The observations of the gentlemen of
the Augusta Signal Office give the fol
lowing measurements as the depths of
water in the Savannah river for the
past five days :
May Ist 5 feet
May 2d 16 “
May 3d 18 “
May 4th 10 "
May sth 8 "
These observations are taken every
day at 3 o’clock in the afternoon. It
will be noticed that at this hour last
Saturday, the date of the cyclone, the
• water in the river measured only five
feet, but by the same time next day,
Sunday, succeeding the cyclone, it had
risen to sixteen feet, and on the next
day, or second day after the cyclone, it
nad increased still further to eighteen
leet. On Tuesday the waters began to
subside, and the depth decreased to
ten feet and yesterday came down to
eight, it is still some two feet above
its average water mark. After the cy
clone passed the river continued to
rise Sunday a>nd Monday, reaching its
greatest reported depth [the latter
date, showing that the cyclone rains
were indeed t orrente while they lasted.
COTTON THIEVES CAUGHT.
How' a Boat was Paddled by Guns
on the Savannah.
Policeman James McDonough was
wounded with bird shot in the ankle
and in the hand while attempting to
arrest three cotton thieves he observed
stealing the fleecy staple from the
warehouse of Messrs. Geo. E. Ratcliffe
& Go., corner of Bay and Mclntosh.
The men’s names are John Lewis,
Robert Bunch and Lewis Walker, and
they are negroes, the first being a
laborer on the Augusta bridge, the
second a woodchopper of Beech Island
down the river, and Lewis Walker be
ing a hand employed in the warehouse
robbed. They were noticed by the offi
cer as they were passing between a
boat at the bank of the river on Bay
street opposite the warehouse and a
ladder with which the latter’s wall had
been scaled, carrying their spoils to
the awaiting boat. The summons
of Policeman McDonough to the
parties ‘‘to' halt,” was instantly re
sponded to by a salute from a
musket charged with bird shot in the
hands of John Lewis, and a second
similar answer was given from a
double-barrel gun, loaded with the
same sort of harmless ammunition,
fired by Lewis Walker. A shot from
the policeman’s fusee demoralized the
gang, and the trio rushed for their
boat as the echoes of the advancing
footfalls of members of the force com
ing to aid grew louder and loud
er. In this hasty embarkation, the
paddle- and oars were forgotten, and
pushing out into the river the negroes
found themselves adrift on its cur
rent, in the darkness of the night and
amidst hovering dangers of capture,
with nothing to steer with. The situa
tion was a desperate one, prompt ef
fort was required for any hope of
escape, and then all was not assured.
Their guns were thought of, and w’ith
them used as paddles aud immerged to
the stocks in the water, the boat was
feebly and silently propelled away
from the bank and out into the broad
stream.
In the meantime several policemen
had collected in response to the pistol
shot, musketry and double-barreled
gun practice, and running along the
side of the river, made for the bridge
not far below the point where the boat
had been anchored, with the hope of
intercepting the parties in the boat
which, as the paddles had been found
on shore, would drift with the current
and pass under the structure; but
when they reached the bridge, the
shape and track of the piratical craft
had faded from sight in the shadows
that hung over the bosom of the Sa
nnah, and nothing was heard above the
sound of the rush of the swollen river
to Indicate the course of the fugitives.
An exciting scene, during the time,
was transpiring aboard the boat. From
the river the escaping darkies beheld
the policemen assemble, and soon
heard their footsteps tramping on the
bridge, and recognized too well for
comfort the perhaps fatal significance
of that echo. If beyond capture as
they floated under the bridge, they
would not be beyond the range of the
policemen’s pistols, and would be sub
jected to the danger of a heavy and
concentrated fire as they slowly drift
ed along. This idea so scared the
Carolina negro, Robert Buncb,that lie
slipped over the side of the boat and
committed himself to the mercy of the
waters, with the hope of swimming to
the Carolina shore, rather than en
counter this apprehended risk of death
from bullets. The two other negroes,
however, held to the boat, aud pros
trating themselves in its bottom let it
drift silently and as unobservable as a
log in the darkness down the middle
of the river, safely passing under the
bridge and making shore a good dis
tance below the city. The man, Bunch,
achieved the feat of swimming to the
Carolina side, and landed safely and
in reach of Beach Island.
The paddles left unintentionally on
the bank when the thieves shoved off
furnished a clue to the identity of the
parties, which our vigilant and shrewd
police officers were not slow to pursue
to success. Between 8 and 9 o’clock
yesterday morning, John Lewis was
arrested at his work at the Augusta
bridge and Lewis Walker at the ware
house; and by 3 o’clock p. m. Robert
Bunch had been taken into custody.
Each one without hesitation owned up
to the whole affair. Walker planned the
raid and the details were agreed to
at 7 o’clock the previous night. A boat
was hired from a lad in the lower part
of the city. This boy has recognized
his paddles and identified the three
negroes as the men whom he had let
have his boat. By means of a ladder the
brick-wall of the warehouse was scaled
from Bay street, a bale of cotton was
opened aud repacked in pony bags,
five sacks of flour were selected, and
the work of transferring the spoils to
the boat had just begun when the
challenge of the policeman startled the
thieves. Only two sacks of flour had
been put aboard, the other three and
all the cotton being left behind. The
first shot was fired by John Lewis with
a musket, and the second by Lewis
Walker with a double-barrel gun.
The weapons were secured, showing
signs of their service as paddles.
The three men were committed to
jail by Judge Claiborne Snead under
warrants for assault to murder, and
will be tried as soon as Policeman Mc-
Donough sufficiently recovers to get
out.
Lost Treasures.
A communication was yesterday re
ceived by Mayor Estes from Mayor
Alexander, of Columbia, S. C., bringing
information that on Sunday morning a
heavy built negro, giving his name as
Henry Daniels, had been consigned to
the calaboose in that city, and upon his
person had been found four gold
watches, six silver watches, a lot of
pocketbooks, knives and jewelry, to
gether with papers that indicated the
festive peripatetic had come from Au
gusta. With the view to restoring this
stolen property to the rightful owners,
those who have recently lost articles of
the sort mentioned are desired to fur
nish the numbers of their missing
watches, and accurate descriptions of
their lost property, to Capt. Christian,
Chief of Police, to be forwarded to the
Columbia. Capt. Chris
tian can be found at his office.
Mr. Kimbrough, book-keeper of
Messrs. Barrett and Carswell, having
had a fine gold watch stolen from him
some time since was much interested
to learn of the capture of this negro
through a private channel from Colum
bia, and at once going over found,
identified and recovered his watch. He
also got back a missing gold watch
that belongs to Mr. Hale Barrett.
This negro thief will be brought
back to Georgia by requisition from
Gov. Smith, and be kept to account for
his varied criminal accomplishments.
A Compliment to the Clinch Rifles*
On Monday evening last Capt J. A.
H. St. Andrew, of Virginia, visited the
drill room of the Clinch Rifles, and
watched that corps drill under com
mand of Capt. Frank Ford. Having
witnessed the evolutions of the Rifles,
Capt. St. Andrew stated to Capt. Ford
that, as an old English volunteer officer,
he could testify that no corps which he
had seen in America was better drilled
than the Clinch Rifles, and that he had
never seen a finer body of men. We
mention this incident as evidencing the
views of an impartial visitor to Au
gusta, and congratulate Capt. Ford and
his gallant company.
JUDICIAL.
Richmond Superior Court.
HON. WILLIAM GIBSON, PRESIDING.
W. Milo Olin vs. Macon and Au
gusta Railroad—eomplaint. Order ta
ken putting the case on terms to be
arbitrated previous to next term, or
then to be dismissed.
In the matter of Porter Fleming, ap
plication for homestead—objections by
John G. Winter on appeal from Court
of Ordinary. Dismissed as to objecting
creditors and affirmed as to other par
ties.
Elizabeth R Whatley vs. Jonathan
M. Miller aud Bender N. Miller. Rule
absolute foreclosing mortgage for $lO,-
000.
Wm. R. Adams vs. Wm. H. Goodrich,
laborer’s lien on appeal from Justice’s
Court. Verdict for defendant.
Henry Dunbar vs. Wm. H. Goodrich,
laborer’s lien on appeal from Justice’s
Conrt. Verdict for plaintiff for $32.60
with interest.
An order was taken appointing Jos.
Ganahl, Esq., Judge pro hac vice iu the
cases of Wm. R. Adams, et al., vs. WTn.
H. Goodrich, lien fi. fas. as laborers and
mechanics, Judge Gibson being dis
qualified from relationship to the de
fendant.
Martha V. Frain, administratrix, vs.
Edward W. Haley, administrator. Dis
missed.
Miles G. Dobbins vs. Josiah Sibley,
and Miles G. Dobbins vs. Alfred Baker
—judgments. Order taken authoriz
ing the Clerk to enter the judgments
satisfied, except for costs.
Paul F. Hammond vs. Port Royal
Railroad. Verdict: “We,the jury,find
for the plaintiff three thousand dollars’
damages up to the time of the filing of
the declaration, and that the Port
Royal Railroad Company be required
to comply with their agreement as set
forth in the deed made by the plaintiff
within ninety days, under a penalty of
five thousand dollars.”
The court took recess to 9 a. m. to
day.
County Court.
HON. CLAIBORNE SNEAD, PRESIDING.
Two criminal causes were heard yes
terday.
State vs. John Parker, white, ac
cused of simple larceny. Verdict of
guilty, and sentenced to twelve months
on tlie county chaing gang.
State vs. George Washington, color
ed. Plea of guilty of assault and bat
tery, and sentenced to a fine of twenty
dollars or imprisonment and labor for
ninty days.
Recorder’s Court.
HON. MATT SHERON, PRESIDING.
Two subjects awaited the judicial
axe yesterday morning. Henry
and Hattie, his wife, colored couple,
had indulged in a pitched battle with
in the domestic circle, the latter com
ing to the scratch every time in nobby
style, and showing herself to be by far
the better half of the concern. Had a
policeman not rashly interfered, it is
barely possible the conflict may still
have been raging on her part. She
was awarded a diploma for two and a
half cash down, while he was told ‘ o
go and be henpecked as little as he
could. He smiled at the request, t o
the idea invaded his brain that the re
quest Was an im-Posey-tion ; and the
doxology was sung.
CITY TOPICB.
A trot and a dash for the gay ones
to-morrow.
To bee, or not to bee—that is the
question.
The Irish Volunteers were drilling
last night.
The trees along the central avenue
of Greene street are being trimmed.
The cyclone rains swelled the Savan
nah to a depth of eighteen feet on Mon
day.
Tho Mechanics’ Hose Company were
trying their speed on Broad street last
night.
Capt. J. A. H. St. Andrew, of Vir-
I ginia, whose successful efforts to esta
| blish a St. George’s Society in Augusta
will doubtless long be remembered in
1 our midst, left for Atlanta last &re
-1 ning.
The Augusta Ice Manufacturing
Company, having 760,000 pounds of ice
! on hand, cease work to-day to wait for
warm weather. The season seems too
backward for the ice trade.
Prizes for the Firemen.
Mr. G. V. De Graef has presented a
president’s revolving chair of black
walnut, which will be given as the
second prize for the best decorated ap
paratus at the annual parade on the
11th.
The Commercial Union Insurance
Company of London and the New Or
leans Fire Insurance Company have
presented, through their agent in this
city, Mr. George Symrnes, a handsome
tilting pitcher and goblet, to be con
tested for at the coming annual parade.
The German Fusileers band, of Char
leston, has been engaged to furnish
music on the occasion. The South
Carolina railroad will bring the band
and guests for four dollars for the
round trip.
Kennesaw Route Gazette.
The May number of the above
sprightly railroad paper is before us.
The paper has been much enlarged of
late, and it abounds in fun and rail
road information. No traveler should
be without the Gazette, if he wants to
laugh and grow fat. Our friend, B. W.
Wrenn, the editor and manager, and
who is one of the livliest, railroad
men in the country, seems also to un
derstand the newspaper business.
Whether he-has laughed and giown
fat, or grows fat as he laughs, we don’t
know. But we do know that Wrenn
is “some fat,” and laughs much. Long
may may he live and successfully run
the Gazette!
Racing and Trotting.
Sport is announced at the Fair
Grounds for to-morrow (Friday) after
noon. The fun will come off at half
past three o’clock.
The amusement will consist of two
races, the first a half-mile dash, for a
hundred dollars a side, between “Van
dal, Jr.,” and “Belle,” and the second
a trot, the best three in five, for one
hundred dollars a side, between “Ro
anoke” and “Ross.”
Pool selling will take place at the
Globe Hotel this evening at 8 o’clock,
and will commence at the track at 3 p.
m. the day of the race.
An Invaluable Modern Invention.
We have carefully examined and
tested a miniature cooking stove now
on sale at Mr. Frank Smyth’s, Jackson
street, which is not only a curiosity in
mechanism, but invaluable to a house
hold. It in reality makes cooking a
pastime, that is, for the more simple
articles of diet in all families, whilst
families in moderate circumstances
could use it for all their wants. Its econ
omy is great in the consumption of fuel,
five cents’ worth of coal or chips being
ample to cook a raeal. The price is
only three dollars and a half, an
amount which it would save to any one
using it in a month. It is made to fit
any cooking stove, and is not larger
than a tea kettle. The ladies should
all call and see it.
The Most Certain Cure for Chills
and All Fevers, and all disorders
arising from malarial influence is the
Magic Cure, to be had at
J. H. Alexander’s Drug Store.
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A Presidential Suggestion.
To the Stockholders of tfie Georgia Rail
road Company:
It is well understood on all sides that
it is necessary for the Georgia Rail
road Company to have another Presi
dent. Things have reached that con
dition when a change is imperatively
demanded. Judge King, bent with age,
overcome by infirmity, worn by long
and arduous labors, and weary of his
burden as President must perforce lay
it aside. It would not be more unjust
to the stockholders than cruel to think
to ask him to undertake it again. Hu
man strength and effort have a final
limit and he, after a long career of un
paralleled success as President of this
company, has at last quite reached
that limit. It is understood that it is
his desire to relinquish the task at the
approaching convention of the stock
holders, and the all important ques
tion rises instantly to the front, who
shall succeed him ? it is indeed to the
stockholders an all important one. This
road is their property. To many it is
very nearly their all. He who suc
ceeds Judge King will have it in his
power to re-establish its prosperity or
launch it into hopeless bankruptcy. It
is useless to mince matters or to
shut our eyes to obvious facts. The
Georgia Railroad is, and has been for
some months, in a critical condition.
The sudden and violent fluctuations in
its stock we have witnessed within the
past six months, the failure to make
the usual dividend, the threatened dis
continuance of trains, and other cir
cumstances that are but too well known
to well informed stockholders point
directly to the conclusion that the busi
ness needs a head, and a head full of
brains at that. Reform, thorough,
systematic and judgmatical (if you will
allow the expression) is what is needed
in the management of the company’s
affairs. It requires but half an eye to
see that a bungler as President in the
present condition of things would ruin
the company in less than a twelve
month. The very best and ablest man
in the country is what the company
needs, and even he will find it no easy
task to steer safely in the present con
dition of railroad interests in the
South.
Mr. Charles H. Phinizy, who is
now one of the Directors of the
road, and who is the choice
of many of those most deep
ly interested for President, pos
sesses the necessary qualifications
for the position. He unites in himself
more of the qualities that are required
for the position than any other man in
the State of Georgia. An almost un
erring judgment, quick perception, un
tiring industry and an uuusually strong
and well balanced mind are combined
in him with an extensive experience, an
accurate knowledge of the situation and
financial abilities of the highest order.
The company’s affairs could not be in
safer and more prudent hands. He adds
another qualification that may not be
generally known—he is a well educated
and thoroughly trained civil engineer,
which would give him great advantage
and add largely to his usefulness as
President of a Railroad Company. No
better rule cau be laid down in selecting
a man to fill such a position as this than
to judge him by the way he manages
his own private affairs. The success
of C. H. Phinizy iu conducting his
business has rarely been sur
passed. Few men of any age
have made fewer mistakes in business
or built on firmer or broader founda
tions. If his services can be secured
as President of the Georgia Railroad
Company, aud he gives to the duties
of that office tho same attention he
has heretofore given to his private af
fairs, tho stock will be worth 110 be
fore Christmas. Besides all this, and
above all, he is thoroughly aud-incor
ruptibly honest. He will pever de
ceive the stockholders, nor allow' him
self to be controlled by rings or indi
viduals, and whatever else may hap
pen, if he is at the head of the roadj it
will be fairly and honestly managed.
I do not know that he wall accept, but
have recently heard several stockhold
ers express a warm preference for him,
and a hope that he would allow his
friends to support him in the coming
election. Everybody who has the in
terests of the road at heart, and who
knows the man, feels satisfied that with
him as President we would have the
right man in the right place. He is
our choice. We know him, and we
want him. Our money is invested in
that road, and we want it In safe hands.
With these views, we respectfully pre
sent his name to the other stockhold
ers as a candidate for President at the
approaching election.
April 30,1875. Athens Branch.
KING DEATH IN COMMAND
The Fearful Voyage of the Mendota
from the Island of Java to the Port
of New York.
[From the New York Sun, April 29.]
Yesterday afternoon the Mate of the
bark Mendota, Mr. Frederick Adams,
ruddy of face aud broad of shoulder,
sat in the cabin of his vessel, a cigar in
his mouth and the log of the Mendota
before him. Everything was neat and
ship-shape above and below, and the
vessel showed no signs of a four months’
voyage.
“We left Batavia, on the island of
Java, on the 23d of last December,”
said the Mate. “When we started
Captain Parry and one seamau were
sick with Java fever, a sort of bilious
fever, with chills. On the 7th of Jan
uary the Second Mate, John Wolfe, and
the Steward were taken down with the
same disease; on the 12th another
seaman was prostrated. They all were
very sick for weeks. Here in the entry
for January 22 I have written: ‘Cap
tain not expected to recover.’ On the
30th of January I was attacked with
the fevor, making the fifth man
sick out of our little crew of ten.
I had been the only one able to
navigate the vessel, and after my at
tack I had to continue my work. The
fever used a man up mighty quick.
The Captain and Second Mate were un
able to move; perfect skeletons. I
used to crawl out of the cabin on my
hands and knees to ‘get the sun,’ and
then crawl to the ship’s chronometer
to get the time, and then I worked out
our position. You could smell the fever
on any part of the ship. On the 13th
of February the Second Mate died, and
we buried him in the sea that after
noon; it was too hot to keep the body.
I had decided to make for St. Helena
for medical aid, though it would take
us 300 miles out of our course. We
reached there on the 19th of February,
and soon Dr. Fowler, the Hospital Sur
geon, was on board. He knows all
about Java fever, for nearly every ves
sel from the island touches at St,
Helena with sick men. He helped us
all, and on the 27th we started for
New York. We had a rough passage,
crossing the equator on the 22d of
March. We were within 500 miles of
New York for sixteen days, baffled by
west winds and big seas that swept the
decks. I’ve seen some hard voyages,”
continued the Mate, “but this last was
the toughest. It’s bad enough to go
to sea, but to be sick throughout a
voyage with Java fever, which will
shake the life out of you, is too much.”
De Mun.—A Captain de Mun, of the
Cuirassiers, is lecturing throughout
France, under official auspices, on sub
jects relating to religion and morals.
Wherever he goes he has immence au
diences, but the singularity of his mis
sionary labors is that the Minister of
War approves of them, and holds that
he is not on furlough, but on active
service.
LETTER FROM ATLANTA.
The Strike of the Puddlers— I The Daily
“News” Strike—Firemen’s Parade,
Personal, &c.
(From our Regular Correspondent.)
Atlanta, May 4th, 1874.
Just at this particular time there is
some tall squabbling between labor and
capital—that is, between employes and
“ Union ” men. The puddlers, or men
who perform the hardest labor in roll
ing and casting iron, of Schofield’s Roll
ing Mill, have formed a union among
themselves, and, wishing to show what
the Union was for, “ struck ” the other
day. They held a meeting Saturday
night, and, after a full discussion,
agreed to stop work unless three of
their members were re-employed, they
having been discharged a few days be
fore.
There is also a war between Mr.
Abrams, of the News, and his former
printers, who were Union men. These
men struck because Abrams failed to
pay them the money they had earned ;
but Abrams makes the issue with the
Typographical Union.
I must admit that trades unions pos
sess some very bad features (and show
me an organization that does not) and
are regarded by the employer as array
ed in warlike attitude against his every
interest. The fundamental principles
of trades unions are the., protection of
rights and mutual benefit. By mutual
benefit is meant the bl’ending of the in
terests of employer and employe; also,
to regulate and keep wages to a uni
form scale. But these principles are
lost amid the arbitrary and odious
rules made by hot-headed fanatics.
The union becomes a Ku-Ivlux organi
zation, with death to the employer em
blazoned upon it3 standard, instead of
a society for mutual benefit.
As I take it, men who work honestly
for a living should be paid for their la
bor according to their worth. Their
wages should be forthcoming every
pay day. But if money is scarce with
the employer and he can effect a satis
factory settlement with his hands, the
union, or any other organization, has
no more right to call a “strike” than
the man in the moon. The printers did
wrong to strike on Abrams. He owed
them but little, and they well knew how
hard he had struggled to pay them.
According to the statement published,
only one man was dissatisfied; and he
alone caused the strike of the whole
force, and thus suspended the paper.
I am sorry to say, however, that
some employers declare they will not
employ union men—not for any special
hatred for the union, but because they
would be compelled to pay them off
weekly and in full, whereas with “rats”
they could bead them as the twig.
These “rats can be put off from time
to time, for their salvation rests in the
employers’ hands, but the union men
must have their money.
The News has revived and came out
Sunday with four columns of hot shot
for its former printers. Ido not know
how it stands financially, or whether it
will continue to live ; but I hope it will
prosper, aud that a reconciliation be
tween Mr. Abrams and his hands will
be made, the odious features of the
union done away with, aud both em
ployer and employe will sail along
peaceably and prosperous.
Foot Notes.
Yesterday was the anniversary of
the Fire Department. For the benefit
of your firemen I append the result of
the trial. The test was to run 300
yards, attach 100 feet of hose and
throw a stream of water against time.
No. 5 made it in 1:32)4; No. 1 in
No. 3in 1:16, and No. 2in 1:24>4. No.
3 used patent couplings.
The nigs swarned around the brew
ery yesterday to celebrate, but it was a
failure. Freddy Douglass, was non est.
and only a few local lights orated.
Nothing incendiary was evinced.
Miss Alice Dawson, the young lady
spoken of in my last letter, as
trying to shuffle the mortal coil,
again tried it Sunday night. She is
evidently bent on going down to the
pale city. The young man upon whom
she has unwisely showered her affec
tions hails from your city.
Col. W. F. Herring, of Augusta, was
in this city yesterday, and subscribed
quite liberally to our cotton factory.
Couldn’t a few more of your good men
come over and see us?
Quite a large number of your citi
zens were here on Sunday on an ex
cursion. They seemed to be well
pleased with their trip.
Atlanta grown strawberries are now
on the market. They command good
prices.
The race in the Ninth is going on. I
regret that I am uuable to give you
any idea of the result. The Hill men
here are sanguine. Roanoke.
GEORGIA TEACHERS’ ASSOCIA
TION.
Proceedings of the Firet Day.
(Correspondence of tho Constitutionalist.)
The above body met in Griffin at 10
o’clock, Tuesday, May 4th. Hon. J. D.
Stewart, Mayor of the city, delivered
an eloquent and interesting address of
welcome. Rev. A. J. Battle, D. D.
President of Mercer University, re
sponded in his usually happy style.
Hon. D. W. Lewis, President of the
North Georgia Agricultural College,
opened the discussion on “ The Teach
ers’ Resources,Outside of Text, Routine
and Rule.” Mr. Lewis is among the
finest reasoners and most eloquent
speakers in Georgia.
Prof. Dews, of Columbus, and Prof.
Orr, State Superintendent of Public
Schools, spoke on the same subject.
Both these gentlemen are too well
known to need further mention.
At 3.30 p. m. Prof. B. Mallon, Super
intendent Public Schools, Atlanta, lead
in the discussion of “What are the
most important elements of success In
teaching,” and his well
earned reputation as a finished edu
cator. Rev. B. Sears, general agent of
the Peabody Educational Fund, ad
dressed a large audience at 8 o’clock
on public education. The address made
a favorable impression.
Augusta is represented by Mr. Levy.
Other teachers are expected from Au
gusta. The grand event of the exer
cise to-morrow is the address of Alex.
H. Stephens. The noble old man
reached our city yesterday. He has
been visited by many citizens. All our
people are proud of him.
Programme for Second Day.
Wednesday, May sth, 9 a. m.—Read
ing and Elocution. By B. M. Zettler.
10:30 a. m.—Science—Education. By
Prof. W. Leßoy Broun, President of
State College of Agriculture and Me
chanic Arts, Athens. Discussion of
subject, introduced by S. C. Caldwell,
Rome. 12:30 p. m.—Business report of
Committee on Publication. Address by
Alex. H. Stephens. 4:30 p. m.—Busi
ness. Bp. m.—Literary and Musical
Entertainment by the Pupils of the
Griffin Female College.
Wingfield.
A Frenchman learning the English
language complained of the irregular
ity of the verb “to go,” the present
tense of which some wag has written
out for him as follows : “Igo ; thou
startest; he departs ; we lay tracks ;
you cut sticks ; they absquatulate, or
skedaddle.”
Call at the office of C. W. Harris,
No. 219 Broad street, for Insurance at
adequate rates in non-Board Com
panies dec4-tf
From the Pulpit to the Gallows,
Is rather a marked contrast, but here
Is a record where the gallows ought to
follow the preacher, and that j ust as
soon as policy will permit
John Andrew was a black man and a
preacher, doubtless as impassioned as
is the usual religious exhorter of his
race. He lived at Georgetown, Del.
Last Sunday night he preached a ser
mon on love, merey, charity, or some
similar text, but forgetting the text,
“ Whoso sheddeth man’s blood by man
shall his blood be shed,” he told his
poor, ignorant hearers, seeking in their
feeble and humble fashion after their
soul’s salvation, of the curse of Gain:
“ And now art thou cursed from the
earth, which has opened her mouth to
receive thy brother’s blood from thy
hand. When thou tillest the earth, it
shall not henceforth yield unto thee
her strength ; a fugitive and a vaga
bond shalt thou be in the earth.” The
sermon over, he went home and mur
dered his wife most brutally. Under
what circumstances the deed was done
nobody knows but the man and the
Master he had served. No human ear
but that of the slayer heard her ap
peals for mercy, nor any human eye
but his witnessed the killing. Her
prayers of forgiveness may have
reached heaven, but they were wasted
on the night air. The next morning
her lifeless body was found in the
yard, and the murderer was a fugitive
and a vagabond. He was pursued, but
for days he could not be found.
For four days the man was safe in
his hiding ; but murder will out, and
yesterday he was found in the attic of
the church in which he had preached ;
the sanctuary was his City of Refuge,
where, like the spillers of blood of old,
he had retired to escape the avenger.
For three days and nights he had hid
den himself in tiie dark recesses of
that garret with the burden of murder
upon his soul; from it he had wit
nessed the burial of his victim, and
heard the sermon preached over her
dead body. Ho had plenty of oppor
tunity to hang himself, and might havo
made a gallows of his pulpit like Mo
kauna, who converted the sacred flame
that burned upon the altar of his faith
into a funeral pyre. But he was
dragged forth. Inexorable justice
takes no heed of nature. The man’s
weak will and strong passions may
plead for him in heaven, but not on
earth' When the next John Andrew
preaches it will bo from a scaffold.
Charlick—Garlick —Greeley.
[From the Star.]
Oliver Charlick, when he thought
himself right, cared little for denun
ciations. When he took charge of the
Long Island Road he issued commuta
tion tickets bound or sewed up in a
sort of book. Each ticket bore upon
its face the date of the day it was good
for that month, and it was held to bo
good for no other day in that or any
other month. A gentleman bought one
of these books in the middle of a
month. At the end of the month he
had fourteen unused tickets, dated
from the Ist to the 15th. On the Ist
of the next month he offered the first
of these, which was refused. The gen
tleman went to Charlick.
“No help for it sir. It is the rule of
the road, sir.”
“ But 1 paid for the number of rides
indicated by the whole number of
tickets.”
“ Can’t kelp it, sir,” said Charlick.
“ Let me see the book.”
The gentleman handed Charlick the
book. He coolly took it, rose, put it
into his safe, saying: “These belong
to the company.’’
The gentleman, amazed and morti
flned, exclaimed : “ You are a d—d
scoundrel! ”
“ Ah,” said Charlick, “ ah, my dear
sir, I have heard that said so often that
I am beginning to believe it myself.
Good day ! ”
Charlick was a delegate to the Balti
more Convention and strenuously op
posed Greeley. When the nomination
of the latter was confirmed, Charlick
said to a brother delegate: “ This is
the first time I ever thought we were
serious about this thing. I thought
it all a good joke ! ”
"Joke,” replied the other. “Joke—
Greeley will be elected.
“Eiectedl” replied Charlick. “He will
be the worst beaten man that ever ran
for the Presidency. Every Irishman
on my road will vote for him, how
ever.”
“Why?”
“Oh! the Irish like a joke, and voting
for Greeley on a Democratic ticket will
tickle ’em to death.”
When the roll of the convention was
called, the Secretary called out “Gar
lick” in lieu of Charlick. A delegate
wanted the correction made.
"Never mind,” said Charlick, “never
m nd; I want to change my name with
my principles.”
Sidney Smith on Kissing.— We are in
favor of a certain amount of shyness
when a kiss is proposed, but it should
not be too long ; and when the fair one
gives it, let it be administered with
warmth and energy ; let there be soul
in it. If she close her eyes and sighs
immediately after it, the effect is
greater. She should be careful not to
slobber a kiss, but give it as a bum
ming bird runs his bill into a honey
suckle—deep, but delicate. There is
much virtue in a kiss when well de
livered. We have the memory ol' one
we received in our youth, which lasted
us forty years, and we believe it will be
one of the last things we think of when
we die.
It will Pay Pou to buy your Boots,
Shoes and Hats from Gallahkr &
Mulherin. _ mys-wetf
Lime! Lime! Lime I—Alabama1—Alabama and
Georgia Lime at Kiln price by car load.
We have special rates of freight to
points in North and South Carolina
and Georgia. We sell low by barrel
and car load. Our Alabama is 98 per
cent. Carbonate Lime. None purer in
the world and white as snow. Orders
solicited. Sciplf. & Sons, Atlanta, Ga.
ap29-10.
Congress Water, constantly arriving
fresh from Saratoga Springs, kept on
Draught and in Bottles, also the best
Soda and Kissengen Water and Ginger
Ale, at
J. H. Alexander’s Drug Store.
apr2B-3m
Buffalo Spring Lithia Water, and
Gettysburg Katalysine Water, at
J. H. Alexander’s Drug Stork
apr2B-3m
“Neuril.” —The instantaneous cure
for Neuralgia, Depot, No. 291 Broad
street. ap7-ly
The Best and Pleasantest Throat
Lozenge, at
J. H. Alexander’s Drug Stork
apr2B-3m
FineYalentia Oranges, for sale by
Ji F. Quinn, 48 Jackson street.
my 4 6
Every Flavor True.— With great
care, by a process entirely his own, Dr.
Price is enabled to extract from each
of the true select fruits and aromatics,
all of its characteristic flavor, and place
in the market a class of Flavorings of
rare excellence. Every flavor as rep
resented, of great strength and perfect
purity. For any flavor that may be
wanted for flavoring ice cream, jellies,
custards, pastry, etc., we recommend
Dr. Price’s True Flavoring Extracts,
and feel sure that like his celebrated
Cream Baking Powder will give per
fect satisfaction. There is no imposi
tion in these articles. mys-tuthsaasu
FINANCE AND TRADE.
The Augusla Markets.
Constitutionalist Office, \
May 5, 1875. J
Business was very quiet yesterday, with
a general dullness pervading all lines of
trade. No important transactions In finance
occurred.
New York Exchange quiet, buying at %
premium and selling at %.
Savannah and Charleston Exchange, buy
ing at % off and selling at par.
The Cotton Market.
The tono of the market has been quiet
and nominal to-day. with offerings light.
The Augusta Exchange closed at 4 p. m.,
with reports and quotations as follows:
Ordinary Nominal
Good ordinary 14%
Low middling 15
Middling ; —15%
Good Middling 15%
Receipts all all U. S. ports to-day * .2,006
Similar receipts same date 1874 .. .2,336
Receipts at Augusta to-day 62
Sales in Augusta to day. 61
Stock in Augusta, by actual count, to
day 8,738
The Meat Market.
The meat market to-day wa3 steady. We
quote:
Clear Ribbed Bacon Sides 13?* a 14
Dry Salt Clear Ribbed Sides . .13 a
Dry Salt Long Clear Hides 12% a
Bellies 13 a
Smoked Shoulders : 11 a 11%
Dry Salt Shoulders .10% a
Sugar Cured Hams 15 a 15%
Pig Hams ..16 a
Tennessee Hams . .14% a
Lard—in tierces, 16%a17; In cans, kegs
or buckets. 17%a18.
The Corn, Oats and. Wheat Market.
Wheat is still active, with a good de
maud and small arrivals; holders appear
unwilling to sell at quotations. Choice
white, $1.70; prime white, $1.65; amber,
$1 60; red, $1.50.
Corn steady and in good demand. White,
$1.12; yellow and mixed, sl.lO, sacks in
cluded.
Corn Mead—City bolted, $1.1201.15;
Western, sl.lO.
Oats—Feed Oats. 85a90 eonts.
The Hay and Stock Feed Market.
Hay—Choice Timothy—car load lots,
$1.50 per hundred; Western mixed, $1.35@
1.40 per hundred; Eastern Hay, sl.6s<g>
I.7oper hundred; Northern. $1.40@1.50.
Bran and Stock Mead—Wheat Bran,
S3O per ton; Stock Meal. 90@$1.
Peas—Mixed, $1.25; Clay, $1.35.
Fodder—sl.7s<§}2 per hundred.
Country 11ay—$1 per hundred.
The Flovtr Market.
The market to-day was firm with steady
prices.
city miles quotations:
Supers $6 25 a 6 75
Extras 6 75 a 7 25
Family 7 25 a 7 75
Fancy 7 75 a 8 25
western quotatirns :
Fine $5 50
Supers C 50
Extras 6 75
Family 7 25
Fancy ' 7 75
The General Grocery Market.
Butter—country, per pound, 25; Goshen,
33@40; Beeswax, per lb., 25; White Table
Peas, $1.25(3)1.501 Chickens—Spring, 35;
grown, 40; Ducks, 50; Geese, 65; Eggs, per
<loz., 18; Honey, strained, per lb., 20; Irish
Potatoes, per bbl—Western, $4.50; North
ern, $4; Onions, new per bunch. 5 cts:
Sweet Potatoes, $1,50 per bushel; Dried
Peaches, peeled, 14:. per lb.; Dried Ap
ples, 10c. per lb.; Soda, 8; Turkeys, $1.75
(3i2 apiece; Tallow, 7(3)0; Grits, per bushel,
sL4oft£l-50; Western Pearl Grits, per bbl.,
$5.70(0(6; Pearl Hominy, $5.5035.75.
European Money Markets.
London, May s—Noon. -Erie, 26%a26%.
Paris, May s—Noon.-Rentes, 63f. 55c.
United States Money Markets.
New York, May s—Noon.—Stocks dull.
Money, 3 per cent." Gold, 115%. Exchange
—long, 488; short, 491. Governments ac
tive. State Bonds quiet and steady.
Gold openey at 115%.
New York, May 5—P. M.—Money ac
tiver at 2a3. Exchange quiet and steady
at 488 Gold dull but firm at 115%a115%.
Governments active and strong. State
Bonds quiet.
New York, May 5—P. M.—’Bl cou
pons, 123%; ’62 coupons, 116%; ’64 coupons,
117%; ’6s’s, 119%; new, 121; ’67's, 123%;
68’s, 123%; new s’s, 115%; 10-40’s, coupon,
117%. State Bonds quiet and nominal:
Tennessee 6’s, 71; new,-7>; Virginia 6’s, 33;
new, 34; Consol, 60; deferred, 8%; Louisi
ana 6’s, 37; new, 37%; Levee 6’s, 37; -Levee
B’s, 25; Alabama B‘s, 44; s’s, 38; Georgia
6’s, 88;7’s, 98; North Carolinas, 2 %; new,
10; special tax, 4; South Carolinas, 33;
new, 33; April and October, 32%.
Stocks closed dull and weak: Central,
105; Erie, 29%; Lake Shore. 70%; Illinois
Central, lo 4%; Pittsburg, 93%; Northwest
ern, 41%; preferred, 54; Rock Island, 104%.
European Produce Markets.
London, Mav s—Noon.—Tallow, 4te 6d.
Liverpool, May 5—P. M.—Long clear
middies, 51s. 3d.
New York Produce Market,
New York, May s—Noon.—Flour quiet
and firm. Wheat a shade firmer. Corn
firm. Pork heavy; mess.s22. Lard heavy;
steam, 15%a15%. Spirits turpentine heavy
at35a36. Rosin unchanged. Freight; heavy.
New York, May s—Flour firmer with a
moderate inquiry—common to fair extra,
$5.30a5.36; good to choice extra, $6.05a8.50.
Wheat rules quiet and firm, with a limited
business—sl.3Bal.42 for Winter red West
ern. Corn opened dull and heavy and
closed more active and steadier with a bet
ter demand—9oa9l for Western mixed.
Coffee steady at 16%a19% (gold) for Rio.
Sugar quiet and steady at 8%a8% for fair
to good refilling, 8% for prime refined.—
Molasses very firm at 44 Ribe quiet and
steady. Tallow steady at 8%a9%. Rosin
heavy at $2a2.05 for strained. Turpentine
heavy at 35. Pork firmer—new mess,
$22.12%. Be-*f quiet. Lard firmer at 15%
tor prime steam. Whiskey steady at $1.17.
Freights heavy— cotton per steam, %.
Western Produce Markets
St. Louis, May s.—Flour in good de
mand ; superfine Winter, $5.10a5 30. Corn
shade firmer; No. 2 mixed, 74%a75. Whis
key firm at $1.15. Pork decliniug and offer
ed at $22, no bids; sales of email lots at
$22.25. Bacon—shoulders firm at 9%;
clear rib, $12.37, last half of May; clear
sides, $13.12%, first half of Mav; jobbing
and order lots, % higher. Lard dull at 16%
asked. 15 bid.
Louisvidde, May s.—Flour steady, some
bran is held at 25a50 above quotations; ex
tra, $4 50a4 75: extra family, $5 25a5 75. Pro
visions strong and in good demand. Pork,
$22 50a23 00. Bacon—shoulders, 9%a9%;
clear rib, 13%a13%; dear sides, 13%, pack
ed ; sugar cured hams, 13%a14. Lard quiet
and firm—prime steam, 15%; tierce, 17ai6% ;
keg, 16%. Whiskey firmer at $1 05. Bag
ging firm at 13%.
Chicago, May s.—Flour in good de
mand. Corn active and higher; No. 2
mixed,74% bid; rejected, 71. Oats in gwod
demand; No. 2, 62%. Pork in fair demand
and advanced to $21.87%. Lard in fair de
mand and advanced to $15.50. Whiskey.
$1.14.
Cincinnati, May 5.-Flour quiet and
steady. Corn firm at 77a78. Pork quiet
and steady at $22525. Lard dull; summer
steam, 15; winter, 15%; kettle, 15%a16.
Bacon steady; shoulders, 9%; clear rib,
12%; clear, 13%. Whiskey active and
strong at $ 1 .15.
New Orleans Produce Market,
New Obdeans, May s.—sugar excited,
scaroeand advancing; common, 7%e.; fair
to fully fair, 7%a9c.; prime, 9%<r. Molas
ses in good demand; fair fermenting, 48c.;
common not fermeating; dealers selling
reboiied; 53a56c. for fair; 53a60c. for prime;
63a68c. lor strictly prime to choice. Coffee
—no stock; first hands dealers stock, 3,000
baga; fair to prime, 18%a19%c.
Louisville Wheat Market.
[Private Letter.]
Louisvidde, May 3.—Can’t exactly say
we have “ thrown up the sponge,” but just
now the Wheat market is painfullv worrv
lng. it seems no ono will sell, but" the fact
is there is nothing like the quan
tity of old in the country
that has been reported. We have been after
a lot of 2,000 bushels for ten days, waiting
to get parties to name a priep. It is amber
and a good article. Don’t think thev will
tAke ices than $1.35, Provisions firmly
held. Gram and flour active.
Baltimore and Wilmington Produce
Markets.
Badtimobe, May s.—Flour very strong
and higher; Howard street and Western
superfine, $4.75a5; family, s6a7; city mill*
superior brands, $7; family brands, $5.25.
Wheat strong; Marvland red, $1.35a1A5;
amber, $1.47a1.50. Corn quiet and without
change. Oats and rye steady. Provisions
firm and unchanged. Lard—refined 16a
16%. Coffee steady; cargoes, 16%a19.
Whiskey firmly held at $1.18a1.i7. Sugar
very strong at 10%.
Wilmington, May s.—Spirits turpentine
quiet at 3lc. Rosin steady at $1.55 for
strained. Crude turpentine quiet at $1.50
for hard; $2.40 for yellow. Dip tar sterdy
at $1.65.
Liverpool Cotton Market.
Liverpool, May 3—Noon Middling up
lands, 7%; middling Orleans, 8a8%; sales,
20,000; speculation export, 2,000; to arrive,
easier basis of middling uplands, nothing
below low middling, deliverable in Mav
and June, 7%; do., deliverable June and
July, 7%-; do., deliverable June, Julv and
August, 8.
5, P. M.—Cotton—Sales of shipments of
new crop, basis, of midling upland, nothing
bolow low middling, 8%; sales of diliverles
do., 8.
New York Cotton Market.
New York, May s—Noon—Cotton dull;
sales, 658 bake; uplands, 16%; Orleans,
16%.
Futures opened weak as follows: Mav,
16 l-32a16 1-16; June, 16%a1 5-32; July, 16
5- 11-32;• August, 16 15-32a10 %. Sep
tember, 16 3-16a16%.
New York, May 4—P. M.,~ Cc tton—net
receipts, 93; gr>6S, 461.
Futures elosHl quiet; sales, 68,'200 bales,
as follows : May, 15 27-32a15% June, 15 29-32
al6; Julv, 16%a5-32; August. 16 9 32a16
6- September, 15 16-38; October, 15 21-32a
15 11-16; November, 15%a15 17-32; Decem
ber. 15 17-32a15 9-lfi; January, 15 11-16al'
23-32: February, 15 27-32a15%; March, 16
1-16a16 3-16.
Cotton quiet; sales, 836 at16%a!5%.
Southern Cotton Market.
Mobile, May s.—Cotton excited; mid
dlings, 15%; low middling, 14%; good or
dinary, 14%; net receipts 58 bales; ex
ports coastwise, 39; sales, 200; stock, 20,562.
Savannah. May s.—Cotton dull; mid
dling. 15%; net receipts, 193 bales; ex
ports to Continent, 1,000; sales, 2,^2o;stock,
30,234.
New Orleans, May s.—Cotton quiet and
easy; middling, 15%; net receipts, 673
bales; exports--to Great Britain, 664;
coastwise, 320; sales, 1,500; Btock, 123,706.
Memphis, May s.—Cotton et sy; mid
dling, 15a15%; net receipts, 118; shipments,
32; sales, 1,300; stock, 27,900.
Wilmington, May s.—Cotton quiet;
middling, 15; low middling, 14%; good or
dinary, 14; net receipts, 2 bales; exports
coastwise, 207; sales, 50; stock, 1,508.
Galveston, Mav s.—Cotton easier; mid
dling, 15%; good ordinary, 13%; net re
ceipts, 246; exports coastwise, 172; sales,
363; stock, 41,683.
Charleston, May s—Cotton quiet; mid
dling, 15%; net receipts, 301 bales; ex
ports-to Great Britain, 1,943; coastwise,
238; sales, 400; stock, 12,420.
Boston and Philadelphia Cotton Mar
kets.
Boston, May s.—Cotton dull and nom
inal ; middling, 16%; net receipts, 34 bales;
gross, 1,134; sales, 229; stock, 18,' 57.
Philadelphia, May s.—Cotton dull;
middling, 16%; low middling, 15%; good
ordinary. 15%; net receipts, 47 bales;
gross, 216.
MARRIED.
At the residence of Mrs. D’Actignao. in
Augusta. May 5, 1876, by Rev. Clement A.
Evans. Miss MARY LOU WALKEI;, daughter
of Major John W. Walker, and Mr. ISAAC
W. REASON, all of the same place.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
AUGUSTA CHAPTER NO. 2, Rv AV Mv
A CALLED CONVOCATION OF THIS
Chapter will be held THIS (Thursday) EVE
NING, th last., at MsonicHall.
Work in the M. M. Degree.
By order W. H. Rich, H.\ TV.
GEO. ADAM,
myo-l Secretary.
LADIES, ATTENTION !
THE MAGIC NEEDLE THREADER HAS
arrived, and is being sold or. the street by
MR. SHEPARD, at the Globe Hotel corner,
and for threading Sewing Machines or Hand
Needles, it can’t be beat. Don't fail to go and
see it. for it is one of the most ingenious
little inventions that has ever been intro
duced in that line. mys-3*
PAY YOUR SPECIFIC TAX.
THE TAX ACT OF 1876 REQUIRES ME T< *
collect from each Agent of any insurance
Company doing business in this State the
sum of Fifteen Dollars. Agents of such Com
panies are herewith notified that, said Tax
must bo paid on or before the Btli iast.
JOHN A. BOHLER,
my4-'t Tax Collector. R. C.
NOTICE.
City T exasubuh’s Office. Mry }, 1875.
HOLDERS OF CITY OF AUGUSTA
Bonds, Lettered Y, and payablo on Ist of
JULY next, are notified that such Bonds,
with interest to this date, will be paid on
presentation at the City Treasurer's office.
I. P. GARVIN.
myi-3 Collector and Treasurer.
GEORGIA RAILROAD A BANKING CO.. )
Augusta, Ga., May ud, 1876. )
THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
Stockholders of the Georgia Railroad and
Banking Company will be held in this city on
Wednesday, the lath of May. 18T5.
J. A. S. MILLIGAN.
my2-td Cashier.
NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS.
Superintendent's Office, j
GEORGIA RAILROAD.
Augusta, Ga., May 4th, 1875. )
GEORGIA RAILROAD AND BANKING
COMPANY. —Stockholders and their families
will be passed over the Georgia and Macon
and Augusta Railroads to August a and re
turn, to attend the Company’s Convention,
which will meet at Augusta on WEDNESDAY.
May lith, 1875.
The Down Day Passenger Train, from At
lanta to Augusta, on Tuesday, May nth. will
carry cars sufficient to accommodate all
Stockholders and their families wishing to
attend the Convention.
Stockholders will not be allowed the privi
ledge of riding free to any point on this
Road or branches other than Augusta and
return, to attend the Convention.
Athens, Washington, Madison, Covington,
Atlanta, Greensboro and Miiledgeville pa
pers will copy until the 18th.
S. K JOHNSON.
may2-tilmayis Superintendent.
NOTICE TO HOLDERS OP UNPAID
COUPONS.
THE HOLDERS OF PAST-DUE COUPONS
of the first Mortgage Bondß of the Montgom
ery and West Point Railroad Company of
Alabama, are hereby invited to send sai i
Coupons to tie Georgia Railroad Bank in
Augusta. Ga.. or to the Centra! Railroad
Bank, iu Savannah. Ua.. previous to the 6th
day of May next, that the same may be paid,
in accordance with the requirements of the
decree of the Chancery Court of Montgomery.
Alabama, and under which decree the West
ern Railroad of Alabama—which embraces
said Montgomery and West Point Railroad—
was duly sold in Montgomery on the mh day
of April, instant, and was bought by the Geor
gia Railroad and Blinking Company, and the
Central Railroad and Banking Company.both
of Georgia.
Upon the confirmation of said sale of the
Western Railroad of Alabama, x> the two
aforesaid Railroad Companies iu Georgia, bj
the Chancery Court of Montgomery, to be
held on the 1< th day of May next, the Coupons
so sent in to us will be paid by us to the par
tie* remitting the same.
Holders of such Coupons not forwarded to
us by the 6th of May will look to tie Register
of the Chancery Court of Montgomery for the
payment of them.
T. M. CUNNINGHAM.
Cashier C. R. R. & B. Cos., of Georgia.
J. A. S. MILL’GAN, ,
Cashier Ga. B, R.AB. Cos .of Georgia.
APBIL23D. 1876. apraS-3w
FITS CUBED FREE !
Any person suffering from the above
disease is requested to address Dr. Price,
and a trial bottle of Medicine will be for
warded by Express
FREE!
. The only cost being the Express charges
which, owing to my large business, are
small. Dr. Pkige has made the treatment of
FITS OR EPILEPSY
a study for years, and he will warrant a
cure by the use of his remedy.
Do not fail to send to him for a trial
bottle: It costs nothing, aud he
WILL CURE YOU.
no matter of how long standing your case
may be, or how many other remedies may
have failed. Circulars and Testimonials
sent with
FREE TRIAL BOTTLE.
Be particular to give your Express, as
well as your Post Office direction, and
Address ok. chas. t. price
febilfi-dacly 67 William street, N. Y,