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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST
THURSDAY, August 12, 1875.
GEORGIA GENERAL NEWS.
General Longstreet has again re
turned to Gainesville and has decided
to locate there.
The University has agreed to admit
six of the most deserving boys of the
Atlanta High School free of charge.
Mr. Jeremiah Walker, the last sur
vivor of the war of 1812 in Wilkinson
county, died last Friday, aged 80 years.
Gov. Smith offered a reward of S3OO
for the murderers of Charles Lang,
and the advertisement and notice of
arrest were published the same morn
ing.
Mr. George D. Sylvester, of Mari
etta, was run over on the State Road
on Tuesday evening, and crushed to a
jelly. Supposed liquor, but looks more
like insanity.
Macon Telegraph : At six o’clock yes
terday morning, after a paiuful illness
of about a week, Miss Atnie C., daugh
ter of Mr. J. N. Seymour, died at the
age of fifteen years and four days.
Rome Courier : One of the most
pleasing incidents that occurred during
Mr. Stephens’ visit, was a beautiful
and magnificent bouquet sent to him
by Mrs. G. W. Bowen on Sunday morn
ing. Mr. Stephens said he had seen
many larger and perhaps more costly
bouquets, but this one was more pro
fuse in the variety of flowers compos
ing it, more tastefully and artistically
arranged, and more fragrant than any
lie had ever seen. This he carried off
with him in triumph, with many thanks
to Mrs. Bowen.
Columbus Enquirer: We agree with
the Louisville Courier-Journal in wish
ing a vast number of the Columbuses
were swept from the face of the earth.
There are too many of them. They
are found in every State. Isn’t it pos
sible at this late date to call our city
something else? What’s in a name?
There is a Columbus in every State of
this blessed Union, and they continue
to multiply. Oh ! if the man had only
been drowned in the ocean the country
would have been spared this infliction.
Cartersville Express: An old man
named Jack Stark, an Irishman, died
in this place one day last week. He
had long been employed by Captain
Thompson as a hostler, and was re
garded as a faithful and attentive em
ploye. He used to be proud of the
fact, that he once drove a carriage, in
which Daniel O’Connell was riding.
O’Connell was taking a pardon to a man
about to be hung. One of the horses
stumbled and fell to the ground. O’Con
nell jumped out of the coach and ran
on foot to the scene of the hanging
and just reached it in time to save the
mau’s life—the rope was around his
neck. Jack died on the centennial an
niversary of O’Connell’s birth.
Atlanta Constitution : The fale econo
my that last winter prevented any ad
ditional accommodations for the insane
is producing its inevitable fruit. The
asylum is shamefully overcrowded, and
many of the State’s unfortunate chil
dren are confined in unwholesome, ill
ventillated j ails or private quarters, in
defiance alike of the commonest claims
of humanity, of the safety of the com
munity and of even economy itself.
The want of foresight induced by this
pitiful saving at the spigot has led to
all this. It has led to something
more, for it has evoked an unanimous
expression from all parts of the State
that action should be speedily taken to
provide for all the insane of the State.
Wilkinson Southerner: We learn
from Mr. Wm. Solomon, a citizen oi
of Twiggs, of the commission in that
county on Saturday, the 31st ult., of a
murder which, for fiendish cruelty,
stands unparalleled in the history of
crime. On that day a number of ne
groes beset upon the highway, near the
residence of Captain J. A. Barclay, an
Irish peddler, from Colquitt county,
whom they attacked with stones and
sticks without any provocation and
slew. They were not instigated, so far
as our informant could learn, by any
of the motives that usually provoke
the crime of murder, such as cupidity,
r *veuge or sudden and violent passion,
Lut they simply slew him in mere wau
tonness, iu a sport that would have dis
graced a tiger. Their poor victim
offered them no resistance, but pleaded
for his life, and was answered by
his incarnate and fiendish tormentors
with jeers aud scoffs and blows.
Mr. Max Cohen, the escaped passen
ger of the Schiller, whose return to
Georgia we mentioned the other day,
gave his experience and opinion to a
correspondent of the Perry Home Jour
nal, as follows : He says it is impossi
ble to tell anything about the going
down of the steamer beyond his own
observation. He censures the Captain
in strong terms. The fog had pre
vailed several days, and as he couldn’t
swim, he had provided himself with a
life preserver, and kept it with him con
stantly. On the evening of the wreck
a fellow passenger from Macon, Ga.,
(Spritz,) and himself were having a
game of cards on deck, when Spritz
complained of being chilly, and went
below to get his overcoat. He never
saw Spritz again, as during his absence
the vessel struck three rocks in quick
succession and went down. Having his
life preserver at hand, he immediately
donned it and plunged into the briny
deep. After a few hours buffeting the
waves, which ran very high, he was
picked up. He says he has enough of
travel by water, and can’t go to Eu
rope any more till a bridge is built.
Americus Republican: A ease of
somnambulism occurred on last Sun
day night at the residence of Mrs. Ham
ilton, relict of the late B. B. Hamilton,
about three miles from this city. A
sister of Mrs. Hamilton was on a visit.
About midnight she got up and lit a
match, and with it lighted a lamp. A
young lady, Miss Texas Hamilton, of
Thomasville, was in the room, and the
explosion of the match awoke her, but
she did not regard it. Mrs. Barlow went
out of the room, thence by the back en
trance into the back yard, then into the
front yard through the front gate into
the highway leading to Smithville,
down that road about half a mile,
and into the woods on the right of the
road, where she wandered about until
morning, having been awakened some
time during the night by the rain. She
says she did not know how she came to
be where she was when found. Not long
after she left the house, Mrs. Hamilton
noticed the light in the room and went
to see what was the matter ; she soon
discovered that her sister had left the
house, when she immediately aroused
the inmates, and all commenced a vig
orous search for the missing one.—
They looked in vain until day, when
they found her in the woods about
three-quarters of a mile from the
house. Mrs. Barlow received no injury
whatever with the exception of a slight
bruise on her right arm.
A colored woman, a few days since,
inquired of her husband what was the
meaning of arrest. She said: “I hear
so much ’bout people being under ‘a
rest,’ what does it mean?” “Why,”
said the colored definer thus appealed
to “and —and —why arrest means when
anybody do anything mean dey take
’em up an’ put ’em in jail, and let ’em
rest dere. When dey done got sufish
ently rested den dey lets ’em out.”
“Well, well,” said the anxious inquirer,
“Jim, I beleabs you nose mos’ any
thing ; I never knowed dat afore.”
SOUTH CAROLINA.
LETTER FROM CHARLESTON.
The Recapture of Parker—Specula
tion as to the Results—Will He
Confess ?—The Boss Rogue an Ex
pensive Elephant on the Public’s
Hands—Theories of His Escape—The
Water Famine—A Dying People-
Negro Mortality—No Rain for Forty
Days.
[From Our Regular Correspondent.]
Charleston, Aug. 11,1875.
The recapture of Parker, the boss
buzzard of South Carolina carpet-bag
gery, followed so rapidly upon his es
cape that people here are at a loss to
arrive at a correct opinion of the affair.
It was very generally thought at the
outset that Parker had been allowed to
escape; that he had, rather, bribed the
jailer, or had been allowed to get out
by the powers that be, and I doubt if
there was half a dozen people iu the
State who believed the story of the
escape by means of the lightning rod.
The idea of a man lowering himself from
the roof of a two-story building by
means of a rope made out of mosquito
gauze was something so exceedingly
thin that it didn’t go down to a great
extent. The public very generally re
garded it a put up job to impose on the
reporters aud to deceive the officers,
and it was very appropriately suggest
ed that Parker, while he was at it.
might as well have made a rope out of
some of the detached coupons, for the
stealing of which he has been loitering
in jail during the past three months.
Whatever the means of his escape,
however, the people of the State were
disposed to regard the act itself as a
good riddance, and one not to be grum
bled at, the fact being that Niles has
plundered and stolen to such an enor
mous extent that we are afraid of him
even within the walls of the peniten
tiary. As long as he has the money to
employ eminent Conservative counsel
to defend him it was to be expected
that he would show fight, and every
fight that he showed cost the State
about SI,OOO, which, of course, must
come out of the
Pockets of the Tax Payers.
Hence I say the people were disposed
to become reconciled to the surrepti
tious absence of the mighty Niles G.,
and while the general impression
seemed to be that he had been permit
ted to escape, nobody was disposed to
grumble at it. But his capture at Cam
den on Monday last, of which the read
ers of the Constitutionalist have al
ready been advised, has put an entirely
new phase upon the matter and upset
all previous theories concerning the
escape. The promptness with which
the Sheriff of Richland offered a reward
for his arrest, and the pains that that
officer took to reland his fish after it
had been hooked clears the skirts of
that officer from any seeming complici
ty in the escape, and gives color to the
statement made by the jailer. Park
er’s escape was doubtless planned by
Neagle, a brother buzzard whose ras
calities have been more successfully
cloaked, and was carried out by his
son, a young gentleman who has been
educated iu Germany at the expense of
the State, and one Mattison, a murder
er who has been allowed to roam
around on parole, while the courts are
making up their minds to try him. The
rogue was captured near Camden in a
wagon,
Covered by a Quilt,
and when ironed and placed in jail,
presented a very disgruntled appear
ance. Having caught the escaped
thief, the next question is, what are we
to do with him? And lam very much
inclined to the belief that we have an
elephant. If Parker would only come
out and make a clean breast of it—tell
all that he knows about the rascalities
of the Scott administration, there
might be some chance of making the
boss rogues disgorge. Scott, Neagle,
Patterson, Crews, Elliott and the other
great luminaries of Reconstruction, like
Parker, have made millions; but, un
like Parker, have managed, heretofore,
to escape the clutches of the law.
Parker was the chief financial officer
of the State, and can, if he wants, let
light into many dark places, but I
doubt if he will do so. He has money
enough, as I have already said, to fee
eminent Democratic counsel, and to
buy up the court, and I don’t doubt
but that he will ultimately escape the
puishment due to his manifold crimes.
The Water Famine.
While the people of Columbia are
grumbling at being compelled to drink
river water, and the people of Augusta
are drinking both river water and
spring water without grumbling at all,
the poor people of Charleston are ac
tually dying for want of any kind of
water. The drouth in this city has
lasted forty days; the cisterns upon
which the people depend for their sup
ply of drinking water are nearly all
empty, and the wells, which furnish a
brackish water scarcely fit for beasts to
drink, are all more or less gone dry.
You who have water works, and who
consequently don’t know what it is to
have to go out of your houses for wa
ter, can form but a faint conception of
the amount of suffering which has been
caused in Charleston by the water
famine. Poor people have to walk
miles for a few gallons of water,
and then have to draw it
up from dirty and unwholesome wells
by means of tin buckets and a rope.
The artesian well water is sold at ten
cents a bucket-full, but it is only the
rich who can afford to indulge in this
luxury. It has rained repeatedly within
the past week all around us, but never
a drop has fallen in Charleston for 40
days. It may seem somewhat strange
that a place like Charleston, with
50,000 inhabitants, should be so en
tirely unprovided with the means of
supplying her citizens with water, but
the mystery is explained in two words
—“Public Plunder.” The people who
have been entrusted with the adminis
tration of public affairs during the past
ten years have been too busily en
gaged iu feathering their own nests
to think about the wants and necessi
ties of the poor, and hence Charles
ton is to-day absolutely with
out drinking water, n A propo
sition has been made to supply water
to the city by means of artesian
wells, but it comes in a very cranky
shape, and will scarcely amount to
anything. The people who are suffer
ing now are awake, however, and at
the coming municipal election the
water works question will bo made an
important issue. The large weekly
bills of mortality, that have lately given
rise to rumors about the unhealthiness
of the city, are traceable directly to
the want of pure drinking water. So
far as malarial diseases are concerned
Charleston never was freer from them,
except diptheria, which prevails to an
alarming extent among the children.
The deaths occur principally among
the poorer classes of the negroes, and
are traceable directly to their slovenly
habits and the difficulty of procuring
water. The average weekly rate of
mortality in Charleston is from 35 to
50, out of which two-thirds and often
three-fourths are negroes. The bill of
mortality for the week ending to-day,
for instance, is 41, viz : 12 whites and
29 negroes. Of this aggregate 22 were
children, viz: 18 negroes and 4 whites.
The Warm Spell
in the city is over, and the mercury
never gets above the eighties. The city
is remarkably free from malarial or
contagious diseases, aud all that we
want to fill the measure of our happi
i ness is a lively aud vigorous shower of
• raiu or first-class water works; for
neither of which is there at present any
prospect whatever. Even these afflic
tions we can bear, however, for have
we not Parker with us ?
Qm Vive.
AGAIN IN LIMBO.
Recapture of the Fugitive Parker—
His Arrival in Columbia—A Warm
Reception at the Capital—The State
ment of the Escape—His Aiders
Alarmed—Things About the State
Capital as Watched by Our Special
Reporter.
[Special Dispatch to the News and Courier.]
Columbia. August 10.—The announce
ment of Parker’s capture has worked a
complete revulsion in the public feel
ing. As long as he was gone, aud his
whereabouts only guessed at, nine
tenths of the people expressed them
selves relieved at his decampment, but
now things have changed, and the cou
pon clipper is again iu the custody of
the State, everybody is equally rejoiced,
(except his friends and colleagues.)
The boys who sought Parker and glory
in the sand-hills are particularly well
pleased, and the story of Saturday
night’s escapade has run up above par.
They have gone back to the old
story, and nearly every one is willing
to swear until they are black and blue
that Parker was seen here and there,
and that it was the result of the hunt
which drove him out on the main road
and led to his capture. However true
all these statements may be, it is
pretty clearly proved that Parker was
secreted in the city until Saturday
night, when it is thought that he left
for the country in consequence of a
rumor which was afloat that certain
houses were to be searched. Why he
went to Camden and put himself in the
way of capture he alone knows. It is
more than probable he was betrayed,
as it is stated as a fact that Andy John
son, his colored chum, offered to go
back on him for SIOO. Parker is by no
means the worst scared man iu the
county to-day. His aiders and abettors
in his escape are far from being easy.
The result of the announcement of
Parker’s capture so far among this
class is the reported decampment of
one of his aids—Dennis. It has caused
another—Neagle—to go on one of his
periodical drunks. A gentleman said
to Neagle on Saturday that he would
bet fifty dollars that he could name the
house Parker was in at the time, and
it was noticed by a number of persons
standing by that he changed color per
ceptibly aud refused to take up the
wager. Capt. James Canton, Deputy
United States Marshal, says that he
was within a mile of Parker for
five horns on Saturday night, and
at one time was almost sure of
making the capture and the seven hun
dred dollars reward, but the rain and
lightning afforded the fugitive a good
chance for concealment, and he made
his escape. The points at which Mr.
Canton said he saw him are along the
road which Parker confesses he went.
There is considerable doubt this morn
ing and up to 2 p. m. what route the
sheriff will take in escorting Parker
back to his old quarters. One tele
gram from him said that he would
leave Camden at daylight this morn
ing, and get to Columbia about mid
day. The whole town has been on the
qui vice all day, but as the hour stated
passed by, the next probable route was
that he would come up from Kingstree
by rail. Whichever way he comes lie
is sure of a warm reception from the
people. The capture of Parker is a
glorious victory for Sheriff Dent, who
has been well nigh crazed since his es
cape. Suspicion has attached to a
number of officials and private indi
viduals, but amid all rumors the sher
iff’s name has never been breathed in
connection with the affair.
Later —lo p. m.—Sheriff Dent arrived
at 3 o’clock to-day with the fugitive
Parker in charge of a special guard,
having traveled all the way from Cam
den by the public road.
In an interview with the News and
Courier reporter Parker confirmed the
statement already published as to his
escape. He says after reaching the
ground by means of the lightning rod
he was completely unnerved by the fall
received in the descent. He also failed
to find the men and horses who were to
meet him and take him away. He
walked about town until 11 o’clock,
when he went to the house of a friend,
who, however, refused him admission.
He then went out into the eastern sub
urbs of the city and took shelter in the
house of a colored woman. Here he
struck up with Andy Johnson, a color
ed man, whom he took into his confi
dence, and on Saturday, suspecting that
Johnson wanted to betray him, he
compelled him, by threats, to go with
him, and the two set off on Satur
day night, and walked sixteen miles
to Graham’s Turnout, where he took
a chill and could walk no further.
He then hired a wagon of a man
named Brown to take him to Camden.
Brown betrayed him, and he was cap
captured as stated. Parker says he
never would have attempted to escape
if he had not been pushed up to it by
his friends. He also says the jail of
ficials knew nothing of the matter. He
feels the degradation keenly, and says
he knows ho has made his case" a
thousand times worse. His hands are
badly lacerated by the descent down
the lightning rod. Sheriff Dent lias
delivered the two hundred dollars re
ward offered by him to Witherspoon,
the Chief of Police of Camden, to be
divided among Parker’s captors at his
discretion. Parker is now confined in
his old cell, but under lock. Andy
Johnson is confined in the guafd
house, to await the prosecution that
will be instituted against him. Hun
dreds of people were at the jail when
Parker was brought in.
Attractions Extraordinary
THE ILLUMINATED TEA-CHEST,
Presented to the
China Tea and Coffee Store
TEAS. TEAS. TEAS.
Samples Given Away.
TX7"E HAVE ALSO ERECTED A RE
VV VOLVING PYRAMID, containing
samples of the choicest Bottled Liquors,
put up expressly for those who are willing
to pay for a strictly pure article.
Cali and see us. Satisfaction guaranteed
in all cases.
R. N. HOTCHKISS,
Prop’r China Tea and Coffee Store,
Red Gilt Front, opp. Fountain,
j y25-tf 143 Broad Street.
JACKSON STREET
Iron and Brass Foundry,
Corner of Jackson and Calhoun sts.,
Augusta, Ga.,
GEO. COOPER, - Proprietor.
STEAM ENGINES, Mill Machinery of all
descriptions made to order, Gin Gear
ing of all Sizes, Store Fronts and Iron
Railing of the Latest Pattern, Horse Pow
ers and Threshing Machines made of the
best material, at prices fully ten per cent,
less than ever offered in this city, for cash
only.
Also, four engines, new and second-hand,
from ten to thirty-horse power, will be sold
very low for cash.
jy24-lm GEO. COOPER, Prop’r.
Nameßiss.
There is a name so sw* It, so dear.
That I could never wri4 it here,
Where careless eyes, pedchance might see—
The name a one ( ,4ve to me;
A little name, one simpip word,
Soft as the twitter of tA.ird.
Brooding above her tic nest;
But, oh! it is thedeare ; |, best;
And softly I’ll that nai ip repeat
Until my heart shall c@|3e to beat!
There is a little, plaintijis song,
M y heart repeats the wSole day long;
I heard it once at day’s-decline.
Low breath’d by lips ch|;e pressed to mine.
I would not that a careifss ear
Should catch the songugove to hear;
So my heart’s throbbimjk come and go
As to myself I breathe :§ low;
Soul-music holy, glad sid deep,
Within my heart of healts I keep.
There is a heart so war, 4 and true,
And eyes of pure and tijlder hue;
I know full well I need )t fear
What fate may bring, iff,hey are near.
Oh! fond, true faith, on Vhich I rest,
And on myself so richly jdest!
Oh! faithful friend, for |hom I yearn,
And count the hours til|they return;
The name, the song, the lieart 1 own,
I keep for thee, and the lalone!
PEREMPTOE|Sr sale
i
AT AUCTION BY CONSENT OF PARTIES
On Easy Terms an*§ Long Credit
OF MU |
%
Permanently and Productive
CITY PROPERTY,
The Lafayette Hall ai.|i Opera House
Containing Spacious Stores, Offlcess and
Saloon
ALL SUCCESSFUL AND f ’OPULAR BUSI
NESS STANDS.
SITUATED IN THE MjJST CENTRAL
PORTION OF Tl|E CITY.
With Fronts on Broad iujd Ellis, Between
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Jackson and Camj-hell Streets.
BY C. V. WALKER U Auctioneer.
p
TUESDAY, the 7th Septsfmber, 1875, at 12
o’clock, m., in frefit of the Opera
House Arcade, in this city’, will positively
be sold, at public auction, iy consent of the
parties iu interest, the following described
and very choice commeflial and invest
ment property, to-wit :
That centrally situates, substantially
built and very productive Iproperty popu
larly known as the LaIV,J/ette Had and
Opera House, situated inilthe city of Au
gusta, county of Richmoill, and State of
Georgia, and iu the squire bounded by
Broad, Ellis, Jackson and > jimpbeU streets.
The portion of ground ofl which they are
built measures a total Pont on back of
Broad and Ellis streets (£ leet, by an ex
treme depth between par,£ lei lines and ex
tending from street to stfc et of 271 feet 0
inches, said measurement B i being more or
less. J lie said property]; if not sold in
block, will be sold subdivide dinto lots, des
ignated by the Nos. 1, 2 I.l]< 3, according to
[dans of J. F. Braun, arch It et, to be exhib
ited on the day of sale; '1 he said lots
measure asj follows: Lei Nos. 1 and 2
front on the south side oj Broad street,
having eacli 20 feet six inch s thereon#by a
depth between parallel lift ss of 126 feet in
depth towards Ellis street. ■;
Lot No. 1 is improved wifi the Substan
tial Three and Two-story j igrick Buildings
known and designated hi the No. 272
Broad street. The lower lory contains a
spacious and commodious* Store—one of
the linest business stands \n the city and
arranged and adapted for • •ilices or Dwell
ing above. With Lot No. 1 and the im
provements thereon will bo sold the Tene
ment east of the Arcade or entrance, erected
immediately above the same, subje t to all
the conditions of servitude hereinafter
specified.
Lot No. 2, west of he Arcade or entrance,
measures 20 feet 0 inches front on the south
side of JBroad street by a depth between
parallel lines of 120 feet towards Ellis street,
together with all the improvements there
on, known and designated by the No. 274
Broad street, and comprising the substan
tially built three-story Brick Building with
a spacious two-story Brick Store in the
rear. The main building contains that
splendid Store and choice business stand
occupied by Messrs. Myers & Marcus,
wholesale ury goods dealers. The upper
portion is arranged for dwelling and adapt
ed for offices. The foregoing described
property is leased to and occupied by the
well known wholesale dealers in dry goods
and clothing, Messrs. JVJ yens & Marcus, L.
Sylvester aud others, until the Ist of Octo
ber, 1875, yielding an aggregate rental of
$0,400 per annum.
Lot No. 3 comprises the remainder of the
property, measuring a total ; i -i ont on Ellis
street of 05 feet by a depth butfveen parallel
lines of 145 feet 0 inches, from which point
it contracts ro a widtli of 12 feet, and ex
tends to and fronts on South Broad street.
This said extension is known as the Ar
cade, or entrance from Broad street to the
Opera House. Also, the present existing
alleyway, of 7 feet width, o(&n< ag on Ellis
street—Lots 1 and 2 to liavl* ttic right, in
common with Lot No. 3, to use* but not to
obstruct, the said At cade or valley way -
together with ail the improvements there
on, comprising that extensivt, capacious
aud subst ntially-bu It brick (Lera House,
covered with slate, copper gCtl srs, cement
ed basement throughout, will ighted and
ventilated and provided \fttl ample en
trance and exit at rangemenis nd accom
modations. Hie stage is 411i'ei t depth, the
auitorium lias a parquet! and vss circle,
gallery and a seating capacity < f about one
thousand—lias contained 1,4*0 plusons. The
basement is aiiapted for safoof purposes,
lighted with gas throughout, aid the only
establishment of its kind >u the city for
public entertainment. With- oitliuary care
and small expense this pnfpeitty alone is
susceptible of producing a jurfsc a.id cer
tain income. It has yielded; ini ordinarily
prosperous seasons over $6,L00 j tsr an mm.
The above decscribed proport ■, compris
ing, as it does, the most ext<* asi o and cen
trally located property in tlj - t |ty of Au
gusta in market, is well wor jhyjthe atten
tion of capitalists seeking tail:, reliably
productive and permanently?va Liable city
property for investment. * Ait business
stands, adapted for either thr wholesale or
retail trade, banking or insulau<|3 business,
no property can be more desp at e. It will
be sold free from all incumtfcan o whatso
ever, the whole according t,pi n of J. F.
Braun, architect, to be exhibited >n the day
of sale, and on the fix lowing favorable
terms and conditions: i ■
Oue-tliird or one-half eash.jftt Ihe option
of the purchasers; the reinJand ,;r at one
and two years’ credit for noti-s o ; the pur
chasers, specially secured by* mo 'tgage on
the property, bearing interest air the rate
of eight per cent, per annum* froth the day
of sale until final payment; skid iiiterest to
be paid half yea* ly lrom dat<! aril the pur
chaser to keep the improvement! insured
for thtir value, and to transfer tli po icies
thereof to the holders of tfie r.|>tes; the
notes, if required, to be drjkwn for such
amounts to suit the parties iq interest, and
the acts of sale at the expense ok the pur
chasers, before Wm. A. VVaiion.iEsq., No
tary Public. The rentals of al| theluroperty
are reserved up to the 3'Jtli <s£ Btutember,
1875. * |jy2s-td
L. li. MILLER.) j ESTAIjLI Jll ") 1857
millerls!
Safe and Iron |v|rks,
BALTIMORE!. J
Salesroom, 205 W. Baltimorl Street, One
Door Above Hanover Factory, sqaiire
Bounded by Henrietta, <j3irk.*Fre
mont and Warner Street f,
I TWER Y variety of the Be.jt FIRE and
{ j BURGLAIi-PROOF SALES, BANK
ERS’ CHESTS, Improved Koyf am Combi
nation LOCKS, BANK V/,UL' : :'S and
DOORS. ' *■
jo6g“ 1:4,000 ill Use anil Teqied ;in 400
Fires. *> h a|>3o-6m
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THE SEMI-ANNUAL MIiSTIL’G OF
the Savannah River Valley ; ;Association
P. of H. will bo held in AUDI'S IA, Au
gust 25th, at the Masonic Hal’,at l<f o’clock,
A. M. All Granges not mijmbqrs who
sympathize with us are cordially invited
to send delegates. A full is
desired as this meeting is very important.
EDWARD A. (. f*.R sEli,
augl-taug2s |eci|>tary.
| \# gj 1 |k| To agents and male
Vd I V KLIH and female, a sr*.i secret and
beautifully ill-.k trafad ion-
A \AJ A W page Novelty Cr.tahsrue, R.
Mil T F. Young & 29? Broa
dway, New York. >y2S|iawiy
THE GREAT SUMMER ROUTE NORTH,
VIA
AUGUSTA, WILMINGTON, PORTSMOUTH,
AND
The Magnificent Sidewheel Steamships
OF THE
OLD DOMINION LINE!
WHICH leave Portsmouth, Va., upon the arrival of Trains via the Atlantic Coast
Line, at 7:30 p. in., in the following appointed order:
Steamship ISA A. c BELL, I,GOO Tons Capt. BLAKEMAN, Monday.
Steamship WYANOhE, 2.040 Tons Capt. COUCH, Wednesday.
Steamship OLD DOMINION, 2 210 Tons. Capt. WALKER, Saturday.
And upon the above named Schedule during the entire Summer and Autumn The su
perior a com modations, luxurious tables any absenceof all unpleasant and dangerous
ocean navigation, commend this Line to the attention ot North-Bound Travelers as the
most pleasant Excursion Route to New York, and within six hours of all rail time.
State Booms and Berths engaged by Telegraph upon application to till Agents of the
At antic Coast Line, and Through Tickets sold at all Bail way Ticket Offices.
Baggage checked to destination, and equal facility of transfer and delivery in New
York as by other Transportation Lines.
W. XI. STANFORD,
Secretary Old Dominion S. S. Company, No. 197 Greenwich Street, New York.
W. M. TIMBERLAKE, Agt. Atlantic Coast Line, Augusta.
B. F. BROWN, Ticket Agent, Planters’ Hotel.
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BffHß SAVINGS BANK,
IV O. 233 BROAD STREET,
Osh Capital SIOO,OOO (with Stockholders Liability A
TRANSACTS A
General Banking, Exchange and Collection Business.
5 Per Cent, allowed on DAILY balances, subject to
CHECK AT SIGHT.
Interest allowed on Time Deposits as may be agreed upon.
T. P.’-BRANCH, President.
J. T. NEWBERY,
CASHIER
N. B.—Draw SIGHT DRAFTS on Great Britain and Continental Europe
iu sums of £1 and upwards. mh3o-tf
AUGUSTA TO NEW YORK
VIA
PORT ROYAL, S. C.
The following Comfortable and well-known Steamships,
Montgomery, 1,5500 Tons, Capt. Fairoloth,
Huntsville, 1,5500 Tons, Capt. Oliestei*,
Are appointed to sail from PORT ROYAL for NEW Y r ORK, direct, on FRIDAYS of
e ich w ek, afte' arrival of Morning Passenger Train from Augusta.
The following reduced rates of Passage are offered the Travelling Public:
Augusta, t o New York Ac Return, S3O
Augusta to New York, Straight, S2O
Augusta to New
Which secures Accommodations in all respects equal to those of other lines.
STATE BOOMS AND BERTHS
Can bo secure I by application to
RICH’D. P. RUNDLE, Agent,
Port Royal, S. 0.
Or to the undersigned,
T. S. DAVANT, G. P. A.,
Augusta, Ga.
Tickets on Sal > at Planters’ Hotel and Ticket Office, Union Depot _ je4-3m
SCHOFIELD’S IRON WORKS,
(Adjoining Passenger Depot,)]
MACON, GEORGIA.
SCHOFIELD’S PATENT COTTON PRESSES,
17^ OR Hand, Horse. Water ot Steam Power; FAUGHT’S CENTRE SUPPORT GIN
i GEARING; STEAM ENGINES and BOILERS; SAW MILLS; GRIST MILLS;
IRON RAILING for Cemeteries, Balconies and Residences; IRON STORE FRONT’S;
SHAFTING PULLEYS and HANGERS; PUMPS; WATER WHEELS; COTTON MA
CHINERY (gears of all kinds cut). Repairs of Mills and Machinery of all kinds prompt
ly attended to. MR. JOSEPH NEAL, formerly Superintendent of Forest City Foundry,
in Augusta, would inform ids friends that he is now Superintendent of SCHOFIELD’. 1 '
IRON WORKS, and will be glad to have their patronage, assuring them that, with the
increased facilities we now have, that they will get first class work at the lowest figures.
J. S. SCHOFIELD & SON,
Send for Circulars and Prices.] PROPRIETORS.
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WILMINGTON, N. C„ LINES,
SEMI-WEEKI.Y
Fast Freight Route to All Points South or East.
BALTIMORE,
Baltimore and Southern Steam Transportation Company,
SAILING FROM BALTIMORE
Tuesday and Friday, at 3 P. M.,
AND FROM WILMINGTON Wednesday and Saturday.
NEW YORK,
CLYDE’S WILMINGTON LINE,
SAILING FROM NEW YORK
Tuesday and Friday, at 3 P. M., and from Wil
mington Wednesday and Saturday,
GIVING through Bills of Lading to all points in North and South Carolina. Georg a
and Alabama. For North or East bound Freight, to Baltimore, New York, Phil*
adelpliia, Boston, Providence, Fall River, and other Eastern cities. Also, to Livorpool-
Glasgow, Bremen, Antwerp, and other European points.
These Lines connect at Wilmington witii the Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta
Raih’oad; connecting at Columbia, S. C., with the Greenville and Columbia Rail lioad,
and Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad.
At Augusta, Ga., with the Georgia, Macon and Augusta, and Central Railroads, and
with their connecting roads, offer uuequaled facilities for the prompt delivery of
Freight to all points. The Steamers of these Lines, on arrival in Wilmington, stop at
Railroad Depot, the Freight transferred under covered sheds to Cars without delay
and forwarded by the Fast Freight Express that evening.
No drayage in Wilmington, and no transfer from Wilmington South. Rates guar
anteed as low as by any other route. Losses or Overcharges promptly paid
Mark all Goods “ VIA WILMINGTON LINES.”
For Further information,apply to either of the Undersigned Agents of the Line:
EDWIN FITZGERALD, Agent Baltimore Line, 50 South street, Baltimore.
WM. P. CLYDE & CO., Agents New York Line, 6 Bowling Green, New York.
A. D. CAZAUX, Agent Baltimore and N. Y. Lines, Wilmington, N. C.
E. K. BURGESS, Agent W. 0. & A. Railroad, 263 Broadway, New York.
JOHN JENKINS, Agent, Augusta, Ga.
A. POPE,
novs Gen’l Freight Agent, Wilmington, N. C., and 263 Broadway, New York
THE GREAT
GEORGIA STATE FAIR
18 73.
The Annual Fair for 1875 of the Georgia State
Agricultural Society will be held in
M A O O KT, €3r E 0.,
At the Beautiful CENTRAL CITY PARK GROUNDS,
BEGINNING
MONDAY, OC T O BFR 18.
AND CONTINUING ONE WEEK.
A large, varied and liberal Premium List covering all Departments of Industry, from
which the following are extracts:
Field Crop Department.
For the best and largest display in merit and variety of sample products from the
Reid, garden, orchard, dairy and apiary—the contribution of a single farm SIOO
For the best six stalks of cotton—to become the property of the Society 50
For the best five bales, crop lot of short staple cotton, by one exhibitor 150
For the best single bale of short staple 50
For the best single bale upland long staple 50
Horse Department.
Best Thoroughbred Stallion sioo
Best Walking Horse 50
Best Saddle Horse or Mare 75
Best Single Buggy Horse or Mare 75
Best Combination Horse or Mare 100
Best Doub: e Team, owned by one Exhibitor .100
Best Georgia Raised Mule 50
Best Mule, open to the world 50
Cattle Department.
Best herd—one Bull and four Cows or Heifers—all to be of one breed and owned
exclusively by one exhibitor SIOO
Best M ilch Cow ’.. 50
Cow giving the Richest Milk 50
>4O and S2O for the Best Bull and Cow, respectively, of eacli of the following breeds:
Alderney, Ayreshire, Devon and Durham.
Best Sow and Pigs under six months old 50
Poultry Department.
For best trio of each variety $ 10
Best and largest display in merit and variety of Domestic Fowls, raised iu Georgia.. 50
Best and largest display in merit and variety of same, open to the world 50
Best display of Pigeons 20
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 var ety of Female Handicraft, embracing Needle Work,
Embroidery, Crocheting, Knitting, etc., by one lady SSO
Fine Art Department.
Best Oil Tainting, (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 ot Millinery 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 line 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., and containing two ongravings of the beau
tiful and magnificent Fair Grounds.
A. H. COLQUITT, President.
T. G. HOLT, General Superintendent.
jv4-sututh&ctoctlß MALCOLM JOHNSTON, Secretary.
Pendleton & Boardinan Iron Works, Augusta, Ga.
WITH increased facilities and experienced workmen, can furnish at short notice,
IRON and BRASS CASTINGS of the best material and iinish, and MACHINERY
of all descriptions. THE GEORGIA COTTON PRESS, HORSE-POWER COTTON
PRESSES, WATER-POWER COT LON PRESSES, CAST and WROUGHT SCREW
PRESSES. PLANTATION STEAM ENGINES, THE BUST 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.
B jL. ACK
IRON GRENADINE,
SO CE3VTS,
WORTH ONE DOLLAR!
The (BEST IN THE WORLDJjFOR THE PRICE. JUST RECEIVED FROM
JAMES A. GRAY’S.
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The Last Ten Bales
OF THOSE DAMAGED SHEETINGS
and DIIILLS 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
I angley, S. 0., that will be offered in this
market, and in order to prevent 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
past week, it was impossible 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 M&tWv 1 :
ileges, and paid 900 per cent, profit. “ How
to do it.” A book on Wall street sent free,
TUNBRIDGE & CO.. Bankers. 2 Wall Si,
N. Y, jel9-d*e3m
GEORGE G. HULL,
PROPRIETOR OF THE
EXCELSIOR MILLS
(Formerly Stovall’s Excelsior Mills),
AUGUSTA, GA.,
MAFUFACTURES FLOUR in all grades.
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
tilled at the
lowest rates.
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