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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST
sfnday, August <s. iS7S.
GEORGIA GENERAL NEWS
Atlanta celebrated the O’Connell cen
tenary.
Gainesville has a visitor named Eze
kiel Tight. •
Judge Gibson and daughter, of Au
gusta, are in Gainesville.
The Eagle and Phoenix stock of Co
lumbus is quoted at 8102.
Mis. JamesO. Jelks, of Hawkinsville,
died in Atlanta last Saturday.
Mr. Stephens has been making a
speech at Cave Springs. He is now in
li me, fresh as a rose and gay as a
lark.
We have received the first four num
bers of a pretty little evening paper
printed at Atlanta and called the Daily
National American.
Our neighbor over the way had bet
ter straighten out that “ten or fifteen
thousand” people present at the Athens
Commencement, before it finds fault
with what others had to say about it.
Hawkinsville Dispatch : The town of
Eastman is out of postage stamps, and
as the citizens have nothing else to
lick, they have gone to licking each
other.
“ Four cars full to-day and more
coming to-morrow.” “An immense
throng is in town.” “The number of
people in town are estimated at from
10,000 to 15,000.” That’s what’s the
matter with Hannah.
“The chapel is crowded from x-oof to
cellar.” If Dr. Tucker can’t find any
better place to stow away visitors than
the cellar of the chapel, he had better
resign. That is where the “ 10,000 to
15,000 ” hid themselves.
The Perry Journal reports that “sev
eral planters have reported numbers
of cotton flies in their fields, and the
ravages of the worm may be expected
soon. Signs of the boll worm have
also been noticed in several parts of
Houston county.”
Columbus Enquirer: Spite of all
the rumors of drought, shedding, etc.,
we heard a warehouseman say the
other day, that he would bet a hundred
dollars, or any amount upwards, that
Columbus would receive at least 55,000
bales the coming season, and could find
no takers among the low estimate men.
We are going to receive more cotton
than many dream of.
In publishing the following from the
Gainsville Eagle, we reserve the right
to do our own thinking about the
meaning of the word “cow” which oc
curs in it: “A mad cow, supposed to
be from hydrophobia, got after Mayor
Bradley last Monday night, as he was
returning from couucil meeting, and
the Mayor had to take refuge on the
street railroad trustle. The cow pur
sued him on the trustle, but fell off and
was killed.”
The Telegraph and Messenger has got
in hot water, because a correspondent
said the hotels at Indian Spring are
not equal to the Fifth Avenue. It’s
now looking every way for a hole to
jump out at, ora gap to skip through.
But Collier and Elder, ciub in hand,
guard every point. “H. H. J.” will go
up in a few days and try to patch up a
peace. The landlords will no doubt
keep him out of doors until he duly
explains. We always found this wa
tering place far superior to Saratoga.
Columbus Sun: On Saturday last
Mr. W. and Miss S., young and hand
some, left Auburn for Opelika to be
come man and wife. They had no
parental sanction; but love laughs at
that when a railroad is near. Arrived
at their destination, the gentleman soon
procured a license and minister, when
the marriage ceremony began. It had
gotten as far as the joining hands, and
the words making them one were al
most announced, when the fair one
peremptorily backed out, and no per
suasions could induce her to go fur
ther. The pair returned to Auburn un
married. A wise second thought prob
ably infiuencep the maiden. Better late
than never.
A correspondent of the Barnesville
Gazette nominates Governor Smith as
his own successor. He says he “has
made as good a Governor as we ever
had ; that the people were well satis
fied with his administration ; that when
lie went into office in January, 1872,
everything was in confusion—no one
knew what the debt of the State was—
her bonds were not quoted on the mar
ket —and that within a little over three
years her credit was re-established and
her securities commanded a higher
price than any other State ; that her 8
per cent, bonds were now bringing 108,
and her 8 per cent, bonds 98, and, to do
all this, the taxes of the State had not
been increased. This showed that
Smith’s administration had been a pru
dent one.”
Hawkinsville Dispatch : Indian Sam,
the only living representative in this
country of the Uchee tribe, died at the
residence of D. G. McCormick, in Haw
kinsville, about four o’clock this
(Wednesday) morning, aged fifty-one
years. Sam was born in 1826, and in
1831 his parents gave him to Major Ma
thias McCormick, one of the oldest
settlers of Pulaski county. Sam had
been with the McCormick family forty
three years, and served them faithfully
in his younger days, and in his declin
ing age was kindly cared for. For the
last few years he had been in bad
health. Since the death of Major Mc-
Cormick last year, he has lived with D.
G. McCormick in this place. He en
tertained an opinion that he would nev
er die. and when death finally came to
bear his spirit to the “happy hunting
grounds,” Sam was sitting up right, in
his chair. He died of an abscess in the
lungs. His remains will be buried this
(Wednesday) evening iu Orange Grove
Cemetery.
Brunswick Appeal: Saturday night •
last, one week ago, Pat Hawkins and
Frank O’Neal took a sailor in a small
boat for the purpose of carrying him
to a vessel lying in St. Simon’s Sound,
aud in making the trip down the sound
they were struck by a squall which
capsized their boat. The sailor was
drowned, but Hawkins and O’Neal
managed to hang on to the boat until
they could succeed in getting her again
iu position, aud arrived safely home
during the night. They reported the
fact that the sailor was drowned.
About a week after the accident the
body of the sailor was found on the
beach of St. Simon’s Island, without a
particle of clothing on his person, ex
cept his shoes aud socks. His flesh had
been torn from his bones by buzzards,
etc., aud he could only be identified by
his shoes and socks, and the fact that
he was the only person who had been
r ecently lost in the sound.
Under the head, “A Romance of the
War,” the Macon Telegraph relates the
story of a sword which was captured
from a Federal officer during the war.
It bore an inscription that was used by
the Telegraph to attract the attention
of its owner. The words are: “Pre
sented to Adj. E. F. Bishop, 87tli regi
ment Illinois Volunteers, September 3,
1862.” The owner proves to be the
Clerk of the United States Court at
Denver, Col. A Denver paper thus tells
the manner of its loss: “The colonel
lost the sword mentioned at the five
days' battle of Stone river, or Murfrees
boro. During the preceeding night the
euemy, under Bragg, massed heavily
on the front of his division (Major Gen.
Johnson’s) which occupied the extreme
right of the Union army, and at
daylight opened heavily with small
arms and artillery. The colonel had
just finished his sow-belly and ba
con, and was reclining on the ground,
with his sword around him, but un
buckled, when the enemy opened sud
denly. Without stopping to buckle on
his sword, he sprang to his horse and
to the front of his regiment, where he
was soon after shot in the head, and
left for dead, but awakened in the ene
my’s lines, and soon afterwards es
caped. The sword and sash, with his
horse, saddle and bridle, were present
ed to him by some of the citizens and
friends of Chicago. He will at once
write to the editor referred to, and
when he receives his sword, among the
most pleasant reminiscences connected
with its singular history will be the
courtesy and kinkness of a brother
American in returning it.
Brunswick Appeal : A most diaboli
cal murder was committed on Satur
day night last in Camden county, at
Burrough’s store, near King’s planta
tion, on the Satilla river, upon the per
son of Mr. Charles Lang, a most excel
lent young gentleman, who was in
charge of the store. He was seen sit
ting in the store about nine o’clock Sat
urday night, by someone who was
passing. Failing to come to his break
fast Sabbath morning, at the usual
hour, a negro woman was sent over to
the store to call him up. She found
the store door had been broken open,
and the body of the unfortunate young
man lying on the bed, with his breast
literally torn to pieces by a load of
buck-shot discharged from a shot gun.
From all of the particulars which
we can gather it is supposed
that he was murdered for the
purpose of robbery, his money, watch,
and many articles from the store being
missing. Since the above was put in
type we are gratified to be able to au
thoritatively announce that two ne
groes have been captured who were un
questionably the perpetrators of the
murder. The money, watch and a cart
load of goods were found in their pos
session. It is said the negroes do not
belong to Camden county, but were
from Floiida. We presume they will
not be allowed to escape. One other
ucgro who was engaged iu the murder
and robbery is still at large.
John I. Cheatham makes the follow
ing statement to the Gaiuesvile Eagle
of a freak, or series of freaks, of a
bolt of lightning which struck a house
in which ne was sleeping at Davisboro :
At a little past ten o’clock, a thunder
bolt struck a poplar tree that stands
about four feet from, and near the end
of the veranda, passed over the roof
of the same, entered the room in
which my brother aud I were in, knock
ing a hole in the lattice work at the
end of the room some three inches iu
diameter, shattering one corner of the
frame of the looking glass—breaking
the glass into innumerable pieces, and
tearing and breaking every leg from
under the dressing table, within three
feet of each of our heads, severing the
corner post between the veranda and
the room, near both of our heads, into
fragments aud splinters ; bursting the
weatherboards on the outside and the
ceiling on the inside the whole
length of the room, and within
six inches of my brother’s head;
broke the base and threw the chimney
of the lamp out of one of the windows,
which was picked up ten feet from the
house, without either breaking the
body of the lamp, the chimney, or spill
ing the oil in the lamp. The whole top
of the dressing table, without a mark
of ever being struck, was lying almost
touching the bedstead on which I lay ;
with but slight injury, my brother’s
was found on the floor immediately un
der where it had lain on the table ; my
own watch, which was near my head,
was knocked wide open, with several
splinters and pieces of the looking
glass lying in it, without injury to the
contents ; the washstand, bowls and
ewers were not inj ured ; and after other
freaks in the room, passed out into the
veranda at the side of the room within
three feet of where it came in, knock
ing auother hole about the size of the
one through which it had entered.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
SEA SIDE NOTES.
Island Comforts and Island Miseries—
Ducks, Donkeys and Fiddlers—Salt
Water Spiders.
(From Our Regular Correspondent ]
Moulthieville, August 7,1875.
Before bidding farewell to the balmy
breezes of the Island, your correspond
ent would fain make some mention of
the peculiar institutions of Moultrie
ville. Everybody knows, or at least
everybody should know, that a lot of
well-bred donkeys is as essential to a
watering place as the salt air or surf
bath. When I say donkeys I desire to
be distinctly understood as having re
ference to the quadruped which bears
that name. It is for this reason and
no other that the presence of the ani
mal in question, on Sullivan’s Island,
can be accounted. For lam ready to
stake my reputation for veracity on
the fact that no living man or woman
has ever seen one of them in harness.
They are to be found iu great numbers
high upon the beach near the myrtles,
and have never been known to do any
thing but eat crabs, bray inordinately
and sleep soundly. Their personal ap
pearance is not very prepossessing.
Imagine a short, shaggy, seedy quad-
that looks like a huge Esqui
maux dog, and at the same time bears
a striking resemblance to a cross-cut
saw or a salt water cooter, and you will
have a tolerably accurate idea of a
Sullivan’s Island donkey. I am not
positive whether they live on land, in
the water or in the mud, but I am very
strongly impressed with the belief that
they affect pluff mud.
Ocean Mosquitoes.
One of the chief attractions of Island
life is its exemption from the presence
of the festive mosquito. People who
live here turn up their noses at any
thiug iu the shape of mosquito bars, and
regard you with a pitying look when you
prate about hot nights and mosquito
plagues. The little imps that make
sleep a hideous nightmare in the South
ern cities have no local habitation in
Moultreville. There are four of the
animals on the Island, by actual count,
but they are entirely different from the
rest of their kiud. They are lean lank
insects with hollow eyes and bony
limbs, and their attenuated frames
evidence the hard life they lead skulk
ing about on the back beach picking
uy a precarious living upon sand crabs
and eels.
Ducks aud Fiddler's,
But as there is no temporal happiness
without its attending alloy, so iu this
instance, the place of the mosquito
plague is amply supplied by another
nuisance, which belongs peculiarly to
Moultrieville, and which very often
makes life a burden to the average
Moultrievillian. The myraids of young
ducks that infest the place would lead
one into the belief that Sullivan’s
Island is the place where good ducks
and moral fiddlers go when they die.
It is almost impossible to put ones feet
down on the back-beach or in the streets
without becoming responsible for
the untimely death of a duckling, or
crushing a belated fiddler iuto atoms,
At low water millions of these little
Crustacea (fiddlers) cover the sand so
completely as to convey the impression
that the ground is moving. These are
the fiddlers taking an airing and enjoy
ing all the luxuries of a fiddler’s loaf.
While gazing upon the scene, a flock of
two or three hundred ducklings will
make a descent upon the Crustacea,
and for the next five minutes will revel
on the delights of fricasseed fiddlers.
And while writing of fiddlers, let me
just here relate an incident that occur
red during the late unpleasantness.—
Soon after the war broke out a brave
Confederate officer, from Edgefield
county, well known in Augusta, who
afterwards became a distinguished
general in cavalry, visited Charleston
and saw a fiddler for the first time in
his life. The general, then a captain,
was on board a train on the Savannah
and Charleston Railroad, and evident
ly enjoyed his first whiff of salt air.—
As the train was moving across a low
marsh flat, which was, as usual, literal
ly covered with fiddlers, the gallant
soldier, struck with amazement, ex
claimed in accents of holy horror:
“Great God! just look at these
spiders!”
Good Bye to tlie Sea.
And now your correspondent is about
to return to the mosquitoes and flies
and heat and humdrum of city life. I
have endeavored to give a brief and
imperfect sketch of the fair little city
that has risen upon the sands of the
sea-girt historic island which guards
the entrance to Charleston. In the ten
years that have elapsed since the boys
iu grey laid down their arms and re
turned to their desolated homes, giant
strides in the race of improvement
have been made on all sides of us, but
none have been more complete than
the rapid growth of Moultreville. In
auother year or two, when the place
shall have been improved by the ad
dition of the much needed hotel, Moul
treville will become the Long Branch
of the South, where shall be gathered
every Summer the beauty and fashion
of the Caroliuas and of Georgia.
Qui Vive.
A ’New Railroad from Augusta to
Greenwood, S. C.
Messes. Editors.— That the times are
hard, no one can dispute. That they
will grow harder, seems probable.
This should not cause despair.
The city of Augusta occupies a geo
graphical position to be envied. She
is in the centre of a rich country. Im
mediately contiguous, are the richest
counties of the two States, South Caro
lina and Georgia. In the olden time,
when tobacco was rolled in hogsheads,
and cotton hauled on wagons, Augusta
could not fail in receiving all this
trade.
But times are changed. Men change,
things, everything changes.
Trade is not an exception. Men of
sense do not now haul their cotton to
Augusta when it takes a week to make
the trip. They prefer hauling it to
their nearest depot and selling it for
what they can get than undertake to
haul it so long a distance, neglecting
the gathering of their crops.
Whilst I do not believe this a time
for expansion iu any form, I cannot
help thinking our people must do
something to keep our trade, or admit
that we are willing to sit down and see
half our stores vacant for the next
year.
Mr. Editor, I have gone a long way
to get at what I intended saying. It is
this:
The city of Augusta is being gradu
ally cut off from all her legitimate
trade. The Air-Line Railroad has taken
away at least one-fourth of her best
customers. The Macon and Augusta
Railroad, by its discriminations, has in
jured it to nearly the same extent.
These statements will seem unreason
able to persons who have not thought
of the matter, aud especially so to
those who imagine the city of Augusta
to be so located as to command a great
business in spite of fate, circumstances
and everything else.
What we need to bring Augusta back
to her proper position as a commercial
centre is the building of a railroad
from here to some point in South Caro
lina, crossing the Greenville and Co
lumbia aud Air-Line Railroads, and
forming a connection with another road
tapping the West, thus giving us two
competing lines for out aud inward
freight from that section.
Tne people of Spartanburg (backed
by the city of Charleston), are building
a road from their town to Asheville,
N. C. (a distance of 66 miles.) There
they connect with the road down the
valley of the French Broad to Knox
ville, from which point there is build
ing a direct road to Cincinnati, crossing
and intersecting many roads in its
route, thus giving them ( i . e. Charles
ton) every advantage over any South
ern Atlantic city.
All Augusta has to do to flank this
great project is to build a railroad from
here to Greenwood, S. C. Nor will she
have it all to do. The people along
the lino will do fully as much as Au
gusta.
I know this is no time to advocate
the building of a railroad. I hear it
said every day, we have too many
now. This is is true in some respects.
It is certain there has been one too
many built for Augusta (I mean the
Air Line.) But when a man has been
poisoned, it is sometimes necessary to
give auother poison as an antidote.
To build this road to Greenwood it
will cost about one million dollars. The
city of Augusta can afford to give half
this sum, and never feel it. The shares
are only 820 each. Let every man take
as many as he can. He will not have
to pay in more than five per cent, a
month. Any man who has a house and
lot worth 8500 can well afford to sub
scribe 850, and so on iu proportion.
The house and lot, worth 8500 to-day,
will be worth 81,000 long before the
Greenwood and Augusta Railroad is
finished.
I may be visionary ; I may be wrong ;
but I cannot help thinking the people
of Augusta will yet come up and build
this road.
It will tap the whole eastern valley of
the Savannah; the counties of Laurens,
Spartanburg, Oconee, Newberry, Pick
ens, Greenville, Anderson and Union,
S. C., in addition. This will give us
fully 100,000 bales of cotton per annum
in addition to what we get now.
Will our people sit down and see all
this rich trade slip by ? I believe not.
Augusta.
. -*•►-
THE FUGITIVE PLUNDERER.
Parker’s Counsel Appeal From tlxe
$75,000 Verdict —Tlie Public Senti
ment Upon the Escape.
[Special Dispatch to The News and
Courier.]
Columbia, August 6. — lt would in
deed be a tedious aud futile task to at
tempt anything like a rehearsal of tho
thousands of surmises, opinions, &c.,
entertained by different individuals on
the subject of the all-absorbing topic—
Parker’s escape. One is as probably
correct as another, and the mere fact
that he disguised himself as a negro
and slid down a lightning-rod, while it
is another argument iu favor of the
conductive power of the patent Electric
Twist,, is very little satisfaction, and
goes but a short way to satisfy the
public indignation or curiosity. Just
here, it is a remarkable fact that there
is very little indignation about the
matter. There is an abundance of cu
riosity, but far from feeling wronged or
injured by Parker’s escape, nine-tenths
of the community express themselves
relieved by it. Parker’s friends of
course rejoice from sympathy; a fellow
feeling make them wondrous kind.
This is not surprising; but they are not
all who express joy at the escape. Those
who have lent their aid to prosecute
him indirectly, those who from being
good citizens must naturally entertain
no kindly feelings towards the man
who has plundered them, even they, to
whom Parker owes money personally,
express themselves pleased at his
flight, from the simple fact that they
took it in the light of economy.—
They hold that it will evidently cost
the State less to let Parker go than to
keep him in jail at the State’s expense
at the cost of further expensive litiga
tion. They say the State has been
avenged as much as it ever will be. —
Parker has been tried, convicted of
theft, and has now, as an increased
evidence of guilt, fled the country, and
that the moral effect is the same as if
he was kept in prison. To a certain
extent all this is true ; the mere bodily
punishment of the man would add but
little to the glory of the State, or ren
der more complete the vigilance of the
law. But with Parker has gone the
secret of the robbery and those impli
cated iu it besides himself. Justice
certainly demands the conviction of his
accomplices as much as the punish
ment of Parker himself. The hold of
the law upon Parker’s person rendered
a disclosure probable at any moment.
This probability is now gone, and in
just to that extent the State, the peo
ple and public justice are the losers.
Mattison and Richardson, the two
accomplices in Parker’s escape, who
were partly examined by Justice Sill on
Thursday, were brought up again this
morning. Col. Rion, who arrived here
yesterday afternoon, assisted the State
in the prosecution. It had been ex
pected that the defense would have put
up witnesses in reply to rebut the tes
timony given yesterday on tne part of
the State, but the lawyers for the de
fense, Messrs. Bachman and Youmans,
adopted the same course pursued in
the trial of Parker—they weakened
i ight down, aud offered a bail of 81,000
for Mattison and 8500 for Richardson.
This proposition was accepted by Col,
Rion for the State, it being argued by
him that it was better to accept the
bail and let the fellows run away, leav
ing fifteen hundred dollars in the pos
session of the State, than to put the
State to the expense of supporting
them in jail. The very action of
the defense is a confession of guilt. At
7 o’clock this evening Mattison was re
leased from jail, Parker’s son deposit
ing the one thousand dollars bail The
negro Richardson is still in custody.
Parker’s lawyers have given a formal
notice of an appeal from the 875,000
verdict against him (Parker.) The no
tice of appeal is signed by Parker’s six
lawyers. The Attorney General is in
constant communication with Col.
Rion by the wires, and both are making
every effort for the capture of Parker.
As an evidence of the diligence being
made by the Sheriff to recapture Par
ker, it may be stated that the Sheriff’s
son and one Deputy were at the Char
lotte depot this afternoon with a car
riage, to apprehend Parker on the ar
rival of the train, but he did not come.
About Mattison.
It will probably be remembered that
this worthy has been confined in jail
for the last year on the charge of mur
dering a man named Davis, in Ander
son county. It appears that Mattison
was, and still is, a United States reve
nue collector; that he attempted to
seize property belonging to Davis, and
to arrest Davis for violation of the
revenue law. Davis ran, and Mattison
shot and kilted him. He was then con
fined iu the Richland county jail un
til the recent term of the United States
Circuit Court, when the case was trans
ferred from the State Court to the
United States Court, and Mattison was
released on parole. This is how the
matter stands with regard to him now.
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General State Items.
J udge Reed is summering in Green
ville.
Rock Hill and vicinity had good rains
on Monday.
Camden has broken the dry spell
with refreshing showers. Solah !
Lancaster rejoices. Splendid rains
on Monday, and good crop reports.
Oconee farmers are happy. After
two weeks’ drought, they had fine rains
on Monday.
Mr. A. T. Black, one of the oldest cit
izens of York county, died at Rock Hill
on the 2d inst.
Spartanburg knows no drought. Two
days’ rain all over the county have
made the farmers happy.
Rev. Ellison Capers, Rector of the
Episcopal Church of Greenville, has
been elected to fill the Rectorate of
Christ Church, Macon, Ga.
The Rev. William States Lee, many
years ago pastor of the Dorchester
Church, at Summerville, died at Lang
ley, last week, aged eighty three years.
A hail storm last Friday evening, ex
tending from the Catawba river, near
Landsford, to Dry Creek, cutton up the
corn and cotton, iu some places dama
ging it considerably.
There were seven candidates for the
West Point cadetship offered by Con
gressman Smalls. The examination
took place on Tuesday last, but the re
sult has not yet been announced.
On Monday last the brick, lumber,
nails, etc., purchased by the county to
build a Court House at Barnwell, were
sold by the County Commissioners, at
Blackville, to Dr. W. F. Holmes. Query:
How much did the county make by the
transaction?
The Beaufort Tribune says: “Six
weeks without rain has utterly destroy
ed the corn crop in a great portion of
this county, and cotton will yield but
little. Along the Port Royal Railroad
and on the islands the drought seems
to have been the most disastrous, and
many people must suffer for lack of
food.”
The Edgefield Advertiser puts it
thus: “Why is it that Judge Carpen
ter can try a civil suit for damages
against Parker, and hold a special term
in Columbia for such purpose, when he
cannot try three Edgefield officials who
have been indicted in the Court of Ses
sions for this county? Will Judge Car
penter please rise,” etc.?
At the meeting of the stockholders
of the Union Savings Bank of Colum
bia, held on Wednesday, the following
Directors were elected: W. K. Bach
man, John Meighan, John Fisher, J. H.
Kinard, W. C. McGregor, Geo. Sym
mers, J. P. Southern. At a subsequent
meeting of the Directors J. P. South
ern, Esq., was unanimously re-elected
President.
The Fairfield Sabre Club, at their last
meeting, elected the following officers:
President, T. R. Robertson; Vice Presi
dents, Irenius Pope, T. W. Rawls and
W. C. Rabb; Wardens, W. J. Herron,
M. C. Armstrong, W. W. Brice, T. L.
Johnson and W. B. Ford; Directors, A.
Evans, J. W. Bolick, W. R. Rabb and F.
A. Neal; Color Bearer, R. J. McCarley.
Mr. N. B. Meyers has beaten the
Smalls Ring, who tried to prevent him
from qualifying as couuty treasurer of
Beaufort, to which office he had been
appointed by Gov. Chamberlain. The
board of county commissioners who
are in the Ring refused to approve his
official bond, but the Attorney General
reversed their decision and pronounced
the bond good.
The annual convention of the teach -
ers of Spartanburg county will meet at
Mt. Zion Church on the 19th instant,
and continue in session three days,
during which addresses will be deliver
ed by Mr. J. R. Blake, President of
Davidson College; Dr. Jas. H. Carlisle,
President of Wofford College; Dr. John
A. Leland, President of Reidville Fe
male College, and others, on the sub
ject of education and kindred subjects.
The Kitson Machine Comp’y,
LOWELL, MASS.,
RICHARD KITSON, President,
SAMUEL E. STOTT, Treasurer and Agent.
BUILDERS OF
PATENT COTTON OPENERS
AND
LAPPERS, WITH RECENT VALUABLE IMPROVE
MENTS, SHODDY and WASTE MACHINES and
RAG DUSTERS, NEEDLE-POINTEI)
CARD-CLOTHING, Etc., Etc.
Kitson’s Patent Compound Opener Lapper.
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THE cotton is spread on this machine from the bale, and is made into a very even
lap, at the rate of 300 to 400 pounds per hour. The laps are then finished on a
TWO-BEATER LAPPER,
WITH
KITSON’S PATFINT EVENER
Attached, and owing to recent improvements in this Evener, the laps when ready for
the card, only vary one-quarter of an ounce to the yard. The cost of picking by this
system is only about one mill per pound on the cloth produced, and the picker house is
safer from fire than the card room.
There is also a great saving of room and power over the old system.
These Machines may be seen at the mills of the Augusta Factory, Langlev Manufac
turing Company, and at the best mills at Lowell, Lawrence, Fall River, Manchester,
Lewiston, Providence, Richmond, BaltimorCj etc., etc.
The following are a few among many testimonials which we have received:
AUGUSTA FACTORY, Augusta, Ga., July 5,1875.
The Kitson Machine Compang, Lowell, Mass.:
Gentlemen ; We have been running your Compound Opener Lappers and Finisher
Lappers, with Eveners, for more than one year, and frankly say that they have given
the most eminent satisfaction. We have no hesitancy in giving you our unqualified en
dorsement, and cordially recommend your Machines.
F. COGIN, Superintendent.
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OFFICE LANGLEY MANUFACTURING COMPANY, )
Langley, S. 0., April 14, 1873. j
The Kitson Machine Company, Lowell, Mass.:
Gentlemen: I have been running your system of Compound Opener Lappers aud
Finisher Lappers, witli Eveners, for more than two years past at the Cotton Mill of the
Langley Manufacturing Company, and have found it to work the most satisfactory of
a y opening and picking arrangement I have ever seen. We li ive no . weighed a pound
of cotton upon the picker apron since starting, yet we have had a remarkable regularity
of numbers. The staple is not injured by over beating, and it leaves the picker without
being curled or knitted; the seeding and cleaning is very complete. Over forty per
cent, in labor in this department is saved over the old system. One of the greatest con
siderations with this arrangement is its secur ty against fire.
Yours, &c., M. F. FOSTER, Superintendent.
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office Massachusetts cotton mills, i
Lowell, February 20, 1874. |
The Kitson Machine Company, Lowell, Mass.:
Gentlemen : This Company have now in use twenty of your Finisher Lappers, with
Eveners, and ten Compound Opener Lappers. Some of these machines have been at
work for ten years or more, and have always given us satisfaction, doing a large amount
of work, doing it well, at a low cost for labor and repairs. In our ‘ Prescott Mill,” where
we have two Compound Opener Lappers, and four Finisher Lappers, we have averaged
the past seven weeks 39.207 lbs. Cloth weekly. Yarn averaging about No. 22. Cost one
14-100 mills (.00114) per Id. of cloth. Wo consider them a first class machine in all re
spects. Yours very truly,
F. F. BATTLES, Agent.
MERRIMACK MANUFACTURING COMPANY, I
Lowell, January 23, 1874. J
The Kitson Machine Company, Lowell, Mass.:
Gentlemen : We have been using some of your Compound Openei Lappers and
Finisher Lappers, with Eveners, for nearly three years, and at present are passing all
our cotton through them. The machines have proved satisfactory, and both in quantity
and quality of their work have answered the expectations formed of them.
Yours respectfully, JOHN C. PALFREY, Superintendent.
(The above Company have in use eight Compound Opener Lappers and sixteen Fin
isher Lappers, with Eveners; ordered at difi’erent times.)
Send for a Catalogue to THE KITSON MACHINE CO viPANY.
SAMUEL E. STOTT. Treasurar,
jy6-3m LOWELL, MASS.
SUMMER RESORTS.
WARM SPRINGS!
MADISON COUNTY,
WESTERN CAROLINA.
rpilESii SPRINGS at e situated four miles
_L from the Tennessee line, on the banks
of the French Broad ltiver, in the very
midst of the highest ranges of Mountains
the Mississippi River, in a country
generally known and truthfully called the
Switzerland of America.
The Hotel accommodations are unsur
passed at any Watering Place or Summer
Resort in the country. The Baths consist
of large pools of a Clear, Powerful Mineral
and Electric Water— temperature, 102 to 104
deg. Fahrenheit—which are wonderfully
invigorating to all invalids, equalizing the
circulation and stimulating the secretory
organs, and will in most cases of chronic
and sub-acute Gout, Rheumatism, Dispep
sia, Neuralgia, Secondry Syphilis, Nephri
tic and Calculous Disorders, Scrofula, Cu
taneous, and many diseases peculiar to
females effect a radical cure. There is also
a cold Sulphur Spring near the Warm
Springs, resembling very closely in tem
perature and color of deposit the Yellow
Sulphur Spring of Virginia, with a sul
§liurous odor much stronger. These
priugs are easy of access from all South
ern cities, by all lines of railroads converg
ing into East Tennessee via Atlanta, Knox
ville, Tenn., to Morristown, East Tennes
see. Excursion or Round Trip Tickets are
on sale to and from this place in all South
ern cities, at three cents per mile.
Rates of Board, S4O per month; sl2 50
per week; $2 per day. Childrc n under ton
and over two years, and colored servants,
half price.
Tho Price of Tickets to Warm Springs,
N. 0., via Atlanta, $20.90.
J. A. SAMPLE, Gen’i Manager,
For Wakm Springs Cos.
Apply to Manager or Druggists in the
city for Pamphlets and Circulars. je2-tf
MANSION HOUSE
PORT ROYAL, S. C.
SITUATED AT THE TERMINUS OF
the Port Royal Railroad, where connec
tion is made with the fast sailing, first class
steamers Montgomery and Huntsville,
sailing to New York every Friday.
Round trip from Augusta, $.lO.
This is an entirely new and elegantly fur
nished house. Situation unsurpassed, sur
rounded with magnificent live oaks, com
manding a splendid prospect of the sur
rounding country, the Beaufort and Port
Royal Rivers, and offers unusual attrac
tions to travelers or to parties who desire
Board or to spend a few days near the salt
water.
Table supplied with everything the mar
ket affords. Fresh milk, butter, fish, veg
etables and fruits in their season.
Be-t of Cooks and Attendants.
Terms liberal.
C. E. WARREN,
je2G-tf Proprietor.
The Charleston Hotel
WILL not be closed this Summer. All
guests patronizing us during the
Summer and Fall months, and remaining a
week or more, will be allowed a reasonable
discount—except occupants of rooms on the
first or parlor floor.
The attention of the Cou .try Merchants
is respectfully called to this notice.
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Tile Pines,
AIKEN, S. C.
mills centrally located establishment is
X now open for the reception of Summer
Boarders. The house is capacious, airy
and within one minutes’ walk of the Ac
commodation train from Augusta.
Fare first class.
Aiken is well known to be the most pleas
ant Summer resort within an hundred miles
of Augusta. Just one hour’s ride. Three
trains daily each way.
Board S3O per month.
P. B. WILLIAMS,
augl-suwefrsu Proprietor.
PIANO FOR SALE.
7H OCTAVE Hallett & Davis Square
Grand PIANO, nearly new and in good or
der. For sale cheap. Call early.
Apply at 135 BROAD STREET,
jell-tl' Nearlv opposite Monument St.
EDUCATIONAL.
DANCING SCHOOL.
MONS. BERGER, Professional Teacher,
informs the Ladies and Gentlem* n of
Augusta that he will open a First-Class
DANCING SCHOOL at the Masonic Hall
He wi 1 be there on Thursday, the 24th
June, from 4 to 6 o’clock, to receive pupils.
Mons. 8., being an Artist, teaches what is
really Dancing. He teaches all the new
dances as well as the old ones, which com
bine the harmony of bodies and the poetry
of motion. Mons. BERGER is well known,
and can give the best reference here and in
Charleston.
For circulars, etc., apply at A. Prontaut
& Son. je2o-tf
MADAME SOSNOWSKI’S
HOME SCHOOL
FOR YOUNG LADIES,
ATHENS, GEORGIA.
CALENDAR.
]IHE scholastic year is divided into 2 ses
sions. First session commences Sep
tember 15th; s-eoond session February 7tn.
Closing Exercises occur on the last
Thursday in June—proceeding two weeks—
devoted to private examinations.
Terms (per session), payable in advance.
Board, with use of fue SBO 00
English Department 3) 00
Music—lnstrumental 30 00
Music—Vocal, Extra Lessons 30 00
French Department 15 00
German Department 15 00
Drawing lO 00
Painting, in Oil and Pastel 30 00
Use of piano 5 00
Each pupil is required to furnish her own
bed linen, towels and lights.
Washing can be secured at moderate
rates. _ __ __ jyl-tf
Southern Female College,
LA GRANGE, GA.
THE Thirty-Fourth Annual Session opens
the 25th of August, with the old corps
of eight thorough teachers. Ten Premiums
for excellence in Music, Painting and Draw
ing were awarded pupils of this College at
the Georgia State Fair within the last four
years. Board, with washing, lights and
fuel, per annum, $155. Tuition, S6O. For
Catalogues, address I. F. COX,
jy27-d&wlrn _ President.
St-JoHn's.
ASelect Boardinq School
FOR YOUNG LADIES,
IN ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL
and healthful districts of Western Mary
land.
Parents and gua dians who desire a
pleasant and attractive home for their chil
dren or wards, with first-class educational
opportunities, will please address
Rev. GEO. LEWiS STALEY,
Knoxville, Frederick county, Md.
aug3-2taw&tri-wlm
STOCK PRIVILEGES.
$lO. SIOO. SSOO. SIOOO.
Often realizes immense profits when in
vested in STOCK PRIVILEGES. Circulars
containing full explanation of the mode of
operating, and quotation prices of all
Stocks dealt in, at the
New York Stock Exchange,
sent FREE on application to
SIMONSON, BAIIREIRAS & CO.,
Bankers and Brokers, No. 6 Wall street,
Opp. N. Y. Stock Exchange. New Yobk.
]e!s-tuthsaly
SIOO REWARD!
Waynesboro, Ga., July 3.
A REWARD OF ONE HUNDRED DOL
LARS will be paid for the apprehension
and delivery to the Jailer of Richmond
county, at Augusta, Ga., of R. COLUMBUS
WIMBERLY, late Tax Collector of Burko
county, who escaped from the jail at this
place on the night of the 2d instant.
By order of the Board of County (Joinmis-
JNO. D. MUNNERLYN,
jys-30t Clerk, B. C.
THE GREAT
GEORGIA STATE FAIR
18 73.
The Annual Fair for 1875 of the Georgia State
Agricultural Society will be held in
M A C O 3\T, C3r E 0.,
At the Beautiful CENTRAL CITY PARK GROUNDS,
BEGINNING
M O ND A Y, OOT O BER IS.
AND CONTINUING ONE WEEK.
A. '? r K e ’ y a Ged and liberal Premium List covering all Departments of Industry, from
which the following are extracts:
Field Crop Department.
I 1 or the best and largest display in merit and variety of sample products from the
field, garden, orchard, dairy and apiary—t he contribution of a single farm SIOO
ror the best six stalks of cotton—to become the property of the Society 50
j? or the best live bales, crop lot of short staple cotton, by one exhibitor 150
I or the best single bale of short staple 50
For the best single bale upland long staple 50
Horse Department.
Best Thoroughbred Stallion * lnr .
Best Walking Horse *
Best Saddle Horse or M are \!. 7,-,
Best Single Buggy Horse or M are 1.!.'!'.!.'!'.!.'!".". 75
Best Combination Horse or Mare ... ...... 10!)
Best Doub e Team, owned by one Exhibitor 100
be-t Georgia Raised Mule . . 50
Best Muie, open to the world 50
Cattle Department.
Best herd—one Bull and four Cows or Heifers—all to be of one breed and owned
Best Milch Cow
Cow giving the Richest Milk 50
i4O and S2O for the Best Bull and Cow, respectively, of each of the following breeds i
Alderney, Ayreshire, Devon and Durham.
Best Sow and Pigs under six months old ~ 50
Poultry Department.
For best trio of each variety I 10
Best and largest display in merit and variety of Domestic Fowls, raised in Georgia.. 50
Best and largest display in merit and variety of same, open to the world 50
Best display of Pigeons <.O
Best display of Rabbits 10
Horticultural Department.
Best display of Garden Vegetables, grown by one person $25
Home Industry Department.
Best collection of Jellies. Preserves, Pickles, Jams, Catsups, Syrups and Cordials,
made and exhibited by one lady $ 50
Best display of breads by one lady 25
Ornamental Needle Work.
Best display in merit and variety of Female Handicraft, embracing Needle Work,
Embroidery, Crocheting, Knitting, etc., by one lady .’sso
Fine Art Department.
Best Oil Painting, (any subject) $25
Best Portrait Painting ... 20
Best Painting in Water Colors 20
Best display of Paintings and Drawings by one exhibitor ... 25
Best collection of Drawings by a girl under sixteen years of age 25
Best display of Paintings and Drawings by the Pupils of one School or College. . 50
Best display of Photographs. Silver Medal and 25
Best display of Jewelry, Silverware, etc Silver Medal and 25
Merchants’ Displays.
Best display of Dry Goods SIOO
Best display of Fancy Groceries 100
Best display of Glassware and Crockery ’. 50
Best display of Clothing ’ * 25
Best display of M illinery 25
Special Premium for Granges.
To the Grange in the State making the largest and finest display in merit and va
riety, of Stock, Products, and results of Home Industries, all raised, produced or
made by the members of that particular Grange $l5O
THE ABOVE ARE BUT SPECIMENS of a comprehensive list of large MONEY Pre
miums.
THE BEST AND LARGEST LIVE STOCK show ever held in the State or South. More
and finer Horses. Mules, Cattle Sheep, Swine and Poultry than ever before exhibited.
Parties wishing fine Stock, as a line Harness or Saddle Horse, Milch Cow, Thoroughbred
Bull, Trio of Chickens, etc., will find the occasion of this Fair a rare opportunity to
secure them. *
SEVERAL EMINENT and representative men from the North and Northwest, have
been invited to deliver addresses at the Fair, and many distinguished visitors through
out the whole country are expected.
THE PUBLIC will be kept posted of the progress and developments of the Fair in
future advertisements.
SEND TO THE SECRETARY at Macon for Premium Lists, embracing a full schedule
of the Premiums, Rules, Regulations, etc., aud containing two engravings of the beau
tiful and magnificent Fair Grounds.
A. H. COLQUITT, President.
T. G. HOLT, General Superintendent.
jy4-sututh<fcctoctlß MALCOLM JOHNSTON, Secretary.
Pendleton & Boardman Iron Works, Augusta, Ga.
WITH increased facilities and experienced workmen, can furnish at short notice
IRON and BRASS CASTINGS of the best material and finish, and MACHINERY
of all descriptions. THE GEORGIA COITON PRESS, HORSE-POWER COTTON
PRESSES, WATER-POWER COTI’ON PRESSES, CAST and WROUGHT SCREW
PRESSES. PLANTATION STEAM ENGINES, THE BEST HORSE POWER MADE
ALL SIZES GIN GEAR, SAW MILLS AND SUGAR MILLS.
Send for Circular for THE BEST WATER WHEEL MADE.
WM. PENDLETON,
my2l-frsuwe&c3m SURVIVOR
BL. AC XSL
IRON GRENADINE,
SO CENTS,
WORTH ONE DOLLAR!
The best in the world for the price, just received from
AUCTION, at
JAMES A. GRAY’S.
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The Last Ten Bales!
OF THOSE DAMAGED SHEETINGS
and DRILLS will be opened on Mon
day Morning, August 2d, at
C. J. T. BALK’S,
This is positively the LAST LOT of
those Goods, damaged at the recent lire at
Langley, S. C., that will be offered in this
market, and in order to pr event spe ula
tors from getting hold of them, NOT
MORE THAN FIVE PIECES will be sold to
any one person. The price will be marked
on each piece in plain figures, at the rate of
about.
#3.00 For #5.00 Worth!
In consequence of the extraordinary rush
during the past week, it was impo tsible to
avoid delay in the delivery of purchases.
This week none of these goods will be sent
out.
Call early and get first choice, at
C. J. T. BALK’S.
Communications.
SSO TO SIO,OOO
ilegos, and paid 900 per cent, profit. " How
to do it.” A book on Wall street sent free,
TUMBRIDGE & CO., Bankers, 2 Wall St,
N. Y. jei9-4Ucauu
GEORGE G. HULL,
PROPRIETOR OF THE
EXCELSIOR MILLS
(Formerly Stovall’s Excelsior Mills),
AUGUSTA, GA„
'VT AFUFACTU RES FLOUR in all grades.
Itl The old and well known EXCELSIOR
BRANDS
PRIDE OF AUGUSTA,
GOLDEN SHEAF,
EXTRA,
LITTLE BEAUTY,
Always on hand, and their well earned
reputation will be faithfully
maintained.
CORN MEAL,
CRACKED CORN,
CRACKED WHEAT,
GRAHAM FLOUR,
MILL FEED,
BRAN, Etc.,
Constantly made, and orders promptly
filled at the
LOWEST RATES.
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