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Southern States
WEEKLY
OR,
REVIEW;
A Bird’s Eye Glance.
THE COMMERCIAL WORLD.
Gold, Silver, Stocks, Bonds, Cot
ton, Produce, etc., etc.
VALUABLE INFORMATION.
GENERAL INFORMATION.
Georgia.—Mrs. M. Sutliff, of Griffin is dead.
The retail liquor license in Athens this vear is
$400.
D. I*. Fjsrgosok, of Jonesboro, is putting up his
own rice.
CoLUMisrs has warehoused 02.182 bales of cotton
this season.
Mr. Jacob Rosenband, an old citizen of Sa
vannah, is dead.
The colored real estate owners in Columbus
number forty-nine, and the value of their real es
tate $27,350.
The gin house of Ltr. Jones, of Burke county,
with ten bales of cotton, was burned a few days
ago.
Douglasville Medium : Travelers from this point
to Atlanta should not undertake the journey un
provided with a paddle, a fence-rail or two, a life
preserver, an extra coat and two or three blankets.
The road is too soft for wagons and rather too stiff
for boats.
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 20, 1877.
Atlanta .Honey Market.
Gold—
Baying 106
Exchange —
Baying at par
Bonds—
Georgia 6s 93a96
Georgia Ts 102al04
Georgi a 7s gold.. 103al05
Selling 109
Selling 1-4 prem
r p XI K There are ten times as many bar-rooms as lasses, corn, oats, peas, etc., for when they are not The State Treasurer paid out $315,000 on the
churches in Memphis.”—Milan Exchange. raised on the farm, they have to be purchased at j 1st inst. in interest and redemption of bonds.
The approaching Mardi Gras in Memphis will enormous prices from other States, with the little j $125,000 of this amount was paid out in the city
be the grandest ever witnessed on the American money which may be realized from a small cotton of New York.
continent. There will be an un usually large num- crop sold at low figures. Our State and county Waco has nine inches of Mud-and slush on her
her of visitors. have entered upon a new life politically, and why streets and the Examinaner calls on the Council
The approaching carnival at Memphis promises not our planters and farmers determine to enter a to adopt some plan to raise the infernal darkness
to be the best and most brilliant of any previous new agricultural life, and in a few short years they that hangs like a pall over them at night,
one. The Memphi, Ulks and Motley Krewe, with will be as independent, as far as living is con- A fire in Bonham, on the 3d instant, destroyed
other organizations, are making extensive prepara- cerned, as they were before the war. the entire west side of the square (the main busi-
tions for this occasion, which wi.l be inaugurated j ness portion of the town) from Smith & Bro's drug
Monday, February 13th, by the entrance of Rex Virginia.—Virginia Fur Trade.—The fur store to Nunn’s—about eleven huildiugs.
Cnrnirali, and continued until Wednesday morn- trade of Petersburg, Va., has lately grown into A negro entered J. W. Smith's residence at San
ing. great proportions, and forms one of its most im- Saba, Texas, one night last week, and beat the
Knoxville complains of the scarcity of butter and portant branches of business. Beavers, foxes, gentleman quite severely,
eggs, the latter selling at twenty-five cents a ; muskrats, minks, coons and rabbits furnish the Buffaloes are more numerous on the plains of
dozen. largest quantity of pelts, and it is surprising to western Texas than they have been for years past.
The Young Men’s Christian Association of Nash- know how many ot these animals are killed in the Large droves of antelope, several liun tred in
ville have established a distributing store-house for vicinity. number, are reported near Brady creek, Texas,
the poor. There are twenty-seven Young Men’s Christian The habits of these animals are similar to buffalo
The benevolent ladies of Knoxville are conduct- j Associations in Virginia. These associations are or sheep, as they keep well together while feeding,
ing a soup-house for the poor of that city. | doing a great deal of good, and we would be glad The San Saba (Tex.) News says there are several
Friday night Judge Whitehead gave a brilliant j to see their number increased. herefrom Missouri lmntiug localities for farms
reception at the Maxwell House, Nashville, to the Mrs. E. S. Hamilton, of Loudonn county, was and sheep ranches. There are also several Cali
members of the Legislature. burned to death a few days since by her clothes
A Chattanooga doctor has a real wolf for his taking fire,
yard-dog. Many horses are dying from some cause that
Fire wood at Nashville is selling for five dollars we do not understand. Mrs. General Loving, of
a cord. Lovingston, has lost three, Mr. W. R. Johnson one,
The following railroad companies have paid i (a valuable mare), Mr. Thos. N. Dickinson, at
their taxes to the State for the year 1876: Nash- j Gulleyviile, five, all he had, and his neighbor, Mr.
ville, Chattanooga and St. Louis, $22,522.75 , Lou- ! John G. Witt, three.
isville and Nashville anti Great Southern, $27,- i The crop of ice this winter in Lovingston is
095.08; East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia, something remarkable, both for quantity and qua!- Palestine, Texas. About two moths ago H. M.
$14,454.75 : Memphis and Charleston, $5,698.44. ity. Some of it is twelve inches thick. The ice- Hoxie, Superintendent of the International and
Total, $47,049.17. j houses are all fillen, and our people will be ena- Great Northern Railroad, established a home for
In the Rogersville jail are confined two boys bled to temper the fervid heats of summer with at j immigrants at Palestine—a temporary home, or j r lI ' e ’ and never buy on credit, and raise their own prqvis
We learn that in Marietta and vicinity there are under four,eerl )’ ears of a ? tf * waiting trial on the least cooling draughts. On liockfish river the ice, j shelter, until guestscan permanently locate. The j most pro spero us "iou n try* o a ear th .A confrkry course
.... „ , , . , r. I charge of having committed murder in the first we are told, is 11 inches in thickness, and on the I “Home” is similar in its objects to “Castle Gar- ; makes us nothingmore nor less than“hewers of wood
millions of young grass-hoppers hatched out since degr ^ e C . Johnson is said to have murdered a Tye, on a mill-pond, fifteen inches. '
girl named Martha West, last September, and! The anniversary of the Demosthenian Society of
John Woodward to have killed Robert Brooks on ' Roanoke College, at Salem, Va., was held on the
Christmas day. 19th. T. H. Jarrett, of West Virginia, was the
During the heavy rain yesterday a fall of small ! orator of the occasion..
live snakes was noticed in the southern part of
Memphis, thousands of which could be seen to-day. j JVest Virginia.—The West Virginia State
They are from a foot to a foot and one-half in i Senate organized on Wednesday by the election of
length. j U. N. Arnett, of Marion county, President; E. A.
Athens Post: A note received from Cog Hill says ■ Cunningham, of Pendleton county, clerk; J. D.
the Methodist Episcopal Church at Sal m, near j Alderson, of Nicholas county, sergeant-at-arms;
that place, a large, comfortable and seemingly ; Thomas H. Percival, of Jefferson county, door-
staunch house, was crushed a few days ago by the keeper; Wm. Martin, of Cabel county, assistant
weight of snow on the roof, and is a heap of ruins, clerk. The House organised by the election of the
The sides and ends of the house fell outward, and following officers, all Democrats : Speaker, Gus
fornia sheep-raisers here looking for ranches. They
report land in California too costly to be used for
grazing purposes.
The Goliad Guard says that diarrhea prevails ex
tensively in some portions of that county, and lays
the blame upon the grasshoppers—the poultry be
coming very fat upon them; and the people eating
the pork, chickens and eggs.
‘Castle Garden” has its miniature counterfeit in
Atlanta City 8s 88a92
Atlanta 10s’. 105al06
Augusta Citv 7s 76a79
Georgia 8s 100al09 Georgia R. R 97al00
Atlanta Water 77aS l A. A W. p. R. R... ttSilOO
Atlanta City 7s 77aS0 Savannah Citv H5a70
M. & B. first mortgage, endorsed by the State...96a98
Stocks—
Georgia R. R 70a73 A. & W. P. R. R 72a75
Central R. R 37a40
Cash anil Credit. Trade in Atlanta.
Our merchants have been complaining of dull trade, al
though they expect a revival as soon as the unusuallv
rugged weather changes so that our farmers can travel
with their wagons.
Our farmers bought considerably less on credit last year
than ever before since the war, for two reasons: One, they
could not get the credit, the other, they determined to do
without. We advise them by all means to pursue the
same course this year. There never was a people guilty
of a greater folly than they are in paying from 23 to 50 per
cent, profit for about six months’ credit. They had better
adopt a cash basis, even if they have to mortgage all they
have and borrow the money. The money thus borrowed
will cost them about six per cent, for the six months in
stead of about fifty per cent, they pay if they buy goods
aud produce on credit. If oar farmers would adopt this
’ young grass-hoppers
the melting of the snow. The theory of some
savans is that the eggs deposited last year in the
ground were hatched out by the warmth of the
snow.
Twenty thousand salmon eggs have been placed
in the Apalachee near its confluence with the
Oconee.
The statistics show that two and a half million
dollars are expended annually in Georgia for fer
tilizers.
Incendiaries are at work in McDuffie county,
the barn on the Iselin farm being destroyed Wed
nesday night.
Mrs- Alexandr Patterson, of Colquitt, has given
birth to seven boy babies in the short space of four
years.
Many of the farmers of Oglethorpe county com
plain that the fall oats are ail killed by the severe
weather they had during December.
There are forty-five cotton factories in this State,
all in active operation, and paying dividends either
in money or stock-
We learn from the Reporter, that Mrs. Mabry
has established a stocking factory in LaGrange.
She has now six knitting machines. As many as
thirty-three pairs of lio-e have been made at Mrs.
Mabry’s in one day by one operator, but the av
erage is about seventeen or eighteen pairs. These
retial at twenty-five cents a pair.
This is as it should be. The Houston Home
Journal says: “We believe the negroes to be bet- j
ter satisfied, and are working in better accord with j
the whites than at any time since the war. We |
have seen very few farmers in town hiring hands; i
in fact most of the farmers will be run with the j
same labor that was on last year.”
D. L. Moses, a notorious character, attacked
James Sullivan, constable, in Moses’ saloon, south
Broad street, in Savannah, last week, and hacked
him horribly with a knife, making mince-meat.
Sullivan is in a dying condition. Moses fled, but
was captured, and is now in the barracks. He is
already under indictment for assault with intent
to murder during the epidemic. He killed a man
in Florida, and escaped through the meshes of the
law; has cut and maimed numerous people in Sa
vannah; horribly mutilated the woman Jourdan,
several years ago.
Butler Herald: Mr. R. Mumford drilled his oats j
last fall, and he reports that they have been dam- j
aged but little by the cold weather. He drills all ]
his small grain, and always makes a splendid crop.
den” in New York City and it is furnished with
clean and comfortable sleeping apartments, stoves,
cooking utensils, etc., with fuel and lamps, all free
of charge.
The Texas Pacific railroad bill, as reported by
Mr. Lamar, will, it is predicted by those who
ought to know, pass both houses this Congress.
It provides for the construction of a main line
from Fort Worth, the present western terminus of
the Texas and Pacific road, by way of El Paso, to
San Diego, California, a distance of twelve hun
dred and eighty miles. The government is to
guarantee the interest, not the principal, on the
five per cent, fifty-year gold bonds of the main
line from Fort Worth to Fort Yam-an, a distance of ; Futures 1-16 cheaper.
and drawers of water ” for the North and West, and our
farmers constitute one vast army working hard fora small
commission and not getting that.
Atlanta Cotton Market.
Cotton, middlings, 11 3-4
Low middlings, 11 1-4.
Good ordinary, 10 1-2.
Ordinary, 10. ’
Stains 9 1-2.
Receipts to date. 80,880.
Stock on hand, 4.756.
NEW TORK QUOTATIONS.
Cotton, uplands, 133-16; Orleans, 13 17-32al3 3-8.
Future opened lower.
LIVERPOOL MARKET.
Cotton firm. Middling uplands, 7; middling Orleans,
7 3-16. Sales, 15,000 bales. Speculation and export, 3.000
bales. Receipts. 21,600 bales. American, 13,900 bales.
the roof and overhead ceiling fell on the seats, 1 tave Gibson, of Cabel county; clerk, J. B. Peyton, ! about a thousand and eighty miles. That portion
pulpit and stove, ruining all of them. ! re-elected ; sergeant-at-arms, N. B. French, of i of the line lying between Fort Worth and a point \ butter — "
Several barns and other buildings in Monroe 1 Mercer county; door-keeper, S. H. Campbell, of one hundred miles west of El Paso, is to be con- j Country
and McMinn counties have broken down under j Gilmer county.
the weight of snow. The roof of the barn of Mr. ; An arrangement has been effected whereby the
L. H. Reeder, who resides two miles west of Cleve- trains of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad run
land, went down under the weight of the snow through from Harper’s Ferry to Staunton. The
upon it, killing a horse and four head of sheep. | Valley railroad has been formally turned over to
The barn of Mr. John Keebler, about a mile be- j Mr. P. P. Pendleton, the President, by the Shen-
yond Mr. Reeder’s, met the same fate; no stock I andoah Valley Railroad Company, lessees, through
Atlanta Produce Market.
its President, Mr. William Milnes, Jr., notice hav
ing been given by the latter company that it was
unwilling to continue the temporary lease, made
some months ago, at $2,000 per month. Mr. W T .
H. Jordan, who was Superintendent of the Valley
road for the lessees, has been retained in that po
sition by Mr. Pendleton and all the station agents
will also retain their places, so that there will be
no interruption to the business of the road.
injured.
The Knoxville Chronicle states that a great many
rabbits, birds and other game have been frozen
and starved to death during the snow, it being al
most impossible for them to navigate and get any
thing to live upon.
Mississippi.—Water Valley (Miss.) Central:
“ Water Valley has the best schools, white and
colored, more churches, the most liberal merchants,
more hard-working men, the fewest loafers, more ; Louisiana.—At five oclock on January 13,
good-looking ladies, and some of the worst boys of j Senators Demas (colored,) Wheeler and Hamlet,
any town in the State.” i accompanied by Pinchback,entered the Democratic
Yazoo City, Mississippi, has no debt, and her ; Senate and were greeted with chiers. After a
treasury contains two thousand dollars. : short^executive session the two former were admit-
It is rkimored that Water Valley is to be the j ted to seats and sworn in. Mr. Hamlet was granted
headquaw-ers again of the Mississippi division of; permission to make a personal explanation, which
the New {Orleans. St. Louis and Chicago railroad, lie did. Not being electedJjSUie Democrats claimed
The Sdrdis (Miss.) Star says the extreme severe ! he explained tTiat he h^RvUntfrawn from the Re
weather of the last few weeks has seriorsly inter- 1 publican Senate and v/oup\ not serve with it, after
iered with the shipping and moving of cottou, and j which Mr. Pinchback las granted permission to
brought business to a dead lock generally. j make a personal explanation. He said that the
J action of himself and these Senators was only de-
ArKansas.—Fort Smith, Arkansas, has a j cided upon after mature deliberation, and they in-
humorous club which gives masquerade balls. I tended to stand the hazard of the die. They had
Arkansas City (Ark.) Post: The snow-fall here j come there as Republicans, because they believed
was about twent3’-eight inches on the dead level, i that the interests of the State were above those of
strueted by the Texas and Pacific company. The !
branches provided for in the bill are: First, one J
from Shreveport or Marshall to New Orleans ; sec- j
ond, one from Jefferson to Memphis; third, from [
Shreveport to Vicksburg, and fourth, from Vinita,
Indian Territory, to intersect with the Texas and ! Beeswax ..’ 26a28
S5a40
15a20
Tennessee 20a25
Poultry—
Chickens .. 12>£al8
Dressed chickens 8al0
Geese 40
Ducks 15al8
Feathers 55a60
Olliers over the county report their oat crop badly ab ° ut ten inches more than at Pine Bluff - where ! of P art y- He denounced the Republican party of
nineteen inches was the maximum. La., in unmeasured terms, and said that Hayes, if
Jesse Cochran, the Cherokee who has been in ! inaugurated, could not afford to soil his administra-
damaged.
Tennessee The majority for Governor Porter i j ftil for fourteen months at Fort Smith, Arkansas, j tion with this blight upon the prosperity of the
of Tennessee, an his re-election, was so great that awaiting trial for murder, was acquitted one day people. He accused ex-Gov. Kellogg of securing
the legislature declared 1 im to be the Governor j last week.
without consulting the votes. There are one thousand one hundred and sev-
Mr. George Donegan, of Dickson, Tennessee, enty-eight dogs in Prairie county, Arkansas.
while squirrel-hunting a few days ago, was killed I . . , _ .. , _
bv a falling tree Florida.—James Gordon Bennett turned up
David Smith, colored, has been sentenced to im- at Jacksonville Florida last Friday
prisonment, by the United States Court at Knox- ! , hundred '“ d lnfant aKl S at ° r8 ' vere
ville, for robbing the Chattanooga postoffice. kll,ed b 7 . ,he cold » Palatka - Fla - recently.
his election as Senator by corrupt means
The Secretary of War has received a report from
Major Comstock, the officer detailed to inspect and
report upon the Eades improvements at the South
P ss of the Mississippi River. The report men
tions that a channel twenty feet in depth and two
hundred feet wide has been constructed at the
mouth of the Pass. This will be laid before the
Owing to the want of wood, many poor people of
Nashvilie had to burn the slats of their beds to
keep from freezing.
Tbe error of the above statement is as evident
as the sincerity of its utterance by the editor of
the Exchange, for there are one hundred and forty-
five saloons and sixty churches in this city. The
editor of the Exchange has visited every saloon in
Memphis, but never was in but one church; and
this accounts for his serious and honest mistake.
Appeal.
The Nashville American of last Friday says:
“ Charles N. Gibbs, Secretary of State, yesterday
received a despatch from General Campbell, at
Union City, announcing that the latter’s daughter,
who was badly burned there a few days ago by
having her dress ignited by a grate fire, would in
all probability recover from her injuries. General
Campbell was in Nashville at the time of the ac
cident, and was called home by a despatch stating
that she had been fatally burned.”
The Louisville and Nashville and Great South
ern Railroad Company paid, on tbe tenth instant,
into the State treasury $27,095.98, the amount
The only marmalade factory in this country is : Attorney-General, who, it is expected will soon
at Jacksonville, Florida This establishment works i decide that Eades and his associates are entitled to
up about three thousands oranges and ten barrels ! a half million of dollars under the provision of the
of sugar per day, and turns out some fifteen thou- ! Act of Congress for making the improvements re
sand pounds of marmalade every week, but it is j ferred to:
capable of increasing the amount to five tons or ! Kellogg is to be the subject of a grand jury in-
more. The proprietors own an orangery of ! vestigation. If found guilty (and we don’t see
3,000,000. ! how he can escape), he will be sent to the peni-
| tentiary, as he should have been long ago. Every-
South Carolina.—In the Court cf Sessions thing is quiet in New Orleans and the Democrats
of Chester, Judge Mackey stated that if any offi- i are as hopeful as ever. All danger of a collision
cial of the county read in court a commission by j i s regarded as past. General Auger rebuked
Daniel H. Chamberlain, dated after the 14th 0 f | Packard in a v e ry p°int ed letter. The Democratic
December, when Wade Hampton was inaugurated ■ Legislature passed resolutions to investigate the
the lawful Governor of the State, such official j Radical Governor.
would be placed in the common jail of the county j pbe Pope has confirmed the nomination of an-
for contempt of court. j other American Bishop, viz.; that of the Very Rev.
The State Grange will meet in Columbia on the j Francis N. Leray, D. D., Vicar General of the Dio-
first Wednesday in February, at seven o’clock in j cese of Natches, to the Bishopric of Natchitoches,
the evening. Every grange in the State ought to j (Western Louisiana), vacated by the death of the
be represented. The railroad fare will likely be I Pev - Pr - Martin,
reduced, and the hotel prices are more reasonable i
than since the war. | Texas.—The Austin Gazette says the loss of
The Greenville News of Tuesday says: Some of stock in Texas from the snow and cold will amount
due the State for taxes on that portion of the road the rabble undertook to whip out a party of Theo- j to millions of dollars.
operated in Tennessee, as required by the act of logs yesterday afternoon, and after a hand-to- The Hamlet of the Waco Examiner thus solilo-
March, 1S75, regulating the assessment of taxes hand combat of fifteen minutes, the embryo par- : quires: “Government lands cost one dollar per
upon railroads. This amount was about eleven sons held possession of the field. They were acre, and good whisky two dollars per bottle. How
Pacific at some point east of the 103d meridian.
The government guaranteeing the interest, not the
principal, on the bonds of the companies construct-
ng the main line, at the rate not to exceed thirty-
five thousand dollars per mile ; but the bonds only
to the amount of the actual cost of construction
are to be used. If the road can be built for
twenty to twenty-five thousand dollars per mile,
bonds only to that amount are to be issued. To
secure the government for this guarantee, the sev
eral companies are required to execute a first mort
gage upon the whole property of the companies,
and upon their land-grants from the United States
and the State of Texas. In addition, the govern
ment is to retain all dues for military and postal
transportation and telegraph service, and to have
a lien on such part of the savings of the company
land the entire proceeds of the sale of their lands
js may be necessary to provide for the prompt
payment of the current interest on their bonded
debt. The bill contains stringent provisions pro
hibiting combinations with the existing Pacific
railroad companies, and requires a perfect reci
procity in traffic of connecting roads now in exist
ence and hereafter to be built, thereby forever re
maining an open highway.
Since April last 43,300 emigrants have entered
Texas by way of Dennison, by actual count.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Rags... 2 l-2a3
Potatoes—Irish $4 50a$5 50
Dried Fruit—
Peaches, unpeeled 7a7 1-2
Peaches, halves 8
Peaches, peeled 10al2 1-2
Apples, peeled 3a3 1-2
Live Stock Market.
Shotes and light hogs 6 l-2a8
Dressed hogs
Common cattle 2 l-2a8
North Georgia cattle 2 l-2a3
Tennessee 4a5
Sheep 4a4 1-2
Atlanta Grocery Market.
Corn 65a67 1-2
Meal 65a67
Grits $4 75
Wheat—
Red $1 65a$l 75
White $1 75a$l 80
Wheat Bran 85a90
Shipstupps $1 00
Barley $1 00
Rye #1 00
O ats, feed 60a70
Hay—
Timothy $1 00a$l 10
Clover 90a$l 00
1 Tennessee 80a$l 00
Molasses—
Barrels 35
Tierces 33
Hogsheads ’. 32
No. 1 half bbls $7 50; kits : $1 75a$2 00
No. 2 half bbls $600; kits $1 OOajl 10
No. 3 bbls 39 00; half, $5 50; kits $1 00
Coffee—
Rio 21a24
Java 33a35
Sugar—
Standard A I2jf
Extra C 121-2
Crashed 13 1-2
New Orleans sugars 10al2 1-2
Flour—
Choice $9 00a*9 25
Extra Family $8 50a$8 75
Family $8 00a*8 25
Extra *7 50a87 75
Superfine $6 50a$6 75
Bacon—
Clear sideB none
Clear rib sides none
Shoulders 8 1-2
Thirty-three New York business firms failed in
December last, with assets aggregating $297,001,
and liabilities aggregating $1,873,298.
Brigham Young has promulgated an edict de
creeing that there shall henceforth be no round
dances indulged in by the faithful: aud moreover,
that all bails shall begin at 2 o’clock in the after
noon and close by 10 in the evening.
The sale of pews in Plymouth church took place
last evening. The highest bid was that of Mr.
Claflin, who paid a premium of $600, making, with
the rental, $726. The total amounts received have I Bulk Meats—
been as follows; 1876 $60,000; 1875, $70,219; !
1876, $63,680.
The libel suit of P.ev. Stewart Robinson, of j
Louisville, against McKee, Fishback & Houser, J
proprietors of the old St. Louis Democrat, was
brought to a close by the defendants confessing ,
judgment in the sum of $30,000, and agreeingto
pay all the costs of the suit, including attorneys’s
fees of plaintiff. The original demandwas $50,000.
According to a just published “Yearly Review
of the Population of the Earth,” the total popuia- ! cheese-Cream16al6 1-2
tinn of the globe amounts to 1,423,917,000. Of j Cabbages—Northern, averaging 10 lbs per head 171-2
this number Europe claims 309,178,300; Asia, [ Peas iaiilaaW “““f
824,548,500; Africa, 199,921,600; Australia and
Polynesia, 4,748,600; and America, 85,519,800.
Clear sides 10
Clear rib sides 9 3-4
Long clear sines 98-4
Shoulders 8
Hams—
Sugar-cured 14 3-4al5
Country 12 1-2
Bulk 12
Lard —
Tierces, kettle 12 l-4al2 1-2
Refined 12al2 1-4
Tierces, leaf. 12al2 1-4
Kegs and cans 13
Buckets 13 l-2al4
Kettle, leaf 12al2 1-2
Onions .
$2 50a$2 75 per bbl
Miscellaneous.
. „ , , , i Lime $1 00a$l 25
lhe average density of population ot the whole Nails—12d, lOd 3 25
globe is about 28 inhabitants to one square mile of ! Leather—
land surface. The density is, of course, greatest
in Europe, where it is 82 per square mile; in Asia,
48; in Africa, 18; in America, 51; and in Australia
and Polynesia, about H.
The Vanderbilt Will.
Commodore Vanderbilt’s will was published Jan
uary 8th. It makes his son, Mr. William H. Van
derbilt, his principal heir. Tohim, as residuary
per cent, more than was paid on the earnings of pelted on every side, but those who fight in a good many men die landless who, during their lives,
1875, aud represents one and a half per cent, cause always fight hardest, and are most times vie- | have swallowed whole townships, trees and all.”
upon the gross earnings of so much of the road as torious.” Houseton, Texas, did a glorious day’s work on legatee, the bulk of the great property goes. The
lies in this State. A corresponding increase in The election of General Butler to the United : the 1st instant, by electing a Democratic Mayor j Commodore’s wife receives, in performance of an
the earnings for the next eight years would re- States Senate gives universal satisfaction. He and the entire Democratic ticket. This is the first ! ante-nuptial agreement, S500,000 in 10-40 bonds
suit in the State receiving more revenue than it seems to be the choice of the people, as well as of time since the war that the Democrats have been at par, in lieu of dower and all claim on the per-
would if the road was taxed under the other sec- their representaeives. He is “ a noble scion of a able to carry an election in that city, and they ! sonal estate, besides a life interest in his residence,
tions of the assessment law. noble family,” and will fill the position with credit 1 have reason to feel proud over the event, and we and, absolutely, his furniture and pictures and
Ed. Miller, alias Mueller, known as “ the kid,” to himself and honor to the State. W T ith all due congratulate them on their success. two horses and two carriages. A codicil made in
deference to the claims of the many distinguished The Fort Worth Democrat of the 31st says an ! June. 1875, adds two thousand shares of the New
gentlemen whose names were spoken of in that immense large stag was killed yesterday, about six York Central. To five of his daughters, Mrs. Cross,
connection, there is no one, in our opinion, so well I miles northwest of town. He weighed over six
fitted far the position of United States Senator, ; hundred pounds.
just at this particular juncture of affairs, as Gen- Rev. Mr. Wickens, pastor of the Episcopal
eral M. C. Butler. Remarkable alike for his great j church at Fort Worth has received and accepted
ability and rare eloquence, he will be a match for an invitation to take charge of Saint Luke’s
any man on the floor of the Senate. He embodies. Church at Denison.
too, the sentiments and feelings of our people, Gas works, street rail ways new hotels, Railroad
The election of Isharn G. Harris to the United and possesses all the attributes needed in the rep- round house, maguificent courthouse, new jail,
States Senate gives general satisfaction throughout resentative of a people “ who, knowing their rights, beautiful City Hall, elegant and new residences
the State. Even manv who opposed him now dare maintain them.’’—Spartanburg Herald. are among the many improvements that Fort
freely admit his capacity and fitness for the place, The Barnwell Sentinel says our planters and mer- Worth now boasts of, not to say anything of the
some going so far as to confess regret that any op- j chants experienced in the life of last year a severer compress water works and elevator projected
position was manifested toward one who deserved time than they have for years. This year wepre- Quail are selling at 40 cents a dozen in San
well at our hands, and whose past services stand diet just as hard, if not harder times in all finan- Antonia.
out in such enviable contrast with the public men cial circles, business will be dull, the general cry The Waco, Fairfield and Palestine road is to cost
of his time. W 'U be n ° money, but people have made bread, $10,000 per mile.
The Bollivar Bulletin, of the 11th, says ; “ We and with corn in their cribs there is no danger of The Tyler Tap railroad will soon be completed ; Braisted, the old man’s money all goes to his rela-
deeply regret to announce that James Harris, one starvation. It is nevertheless true, that nine- to Pittsburg, Camp county. : tives, and the great part of it to William H. Yan-
of the ablest and best-beloved citizens of Harde- tenths of our planters have been unable to meet People are bagging pigeons by the wagon load . derbilt.
man, died last week. He lingered for gome time, their obligations, and will find it exceedingly diffi- at Magnolia, Anderson county, at the roost there.
but the best medical skill and assiduous attention ! cult to procure meat, which difficulty shoUd tend Snow was reported as thirteen inches deep at i An infanticide epidemic is raging in Liverpool,
i of an affectionate circle of friends were of no avail to renew their determination to make their farms Texarkana. At Little Rock there was nine inches i the number of cases occurring daily being totally
tin averting disease. self-sustaining, by raising their flour, bacon, mo- of snow on the level. J unprecedented.
was arrested yesterday by officer Simonds for
roping, a game which is being extensively prac
ticed "by sharpers and adventurers in Memphis.
The attention of the chief of police and of the de
tectives has already been called to this evil, which
is complained of by a good many citizens.
The Memphi have issued their invitation to the
grand tableau and bail at the Memphis theatre,
Tuesday evening, February 13th
Mrs. Thorn, Mrs. Clark. Mrs. Torrence and Mrs
La Bau, he gives S2,500,000 of Lake Shore and
Harlem bonds, to be divided in equal shares among
them. In trust for his daughters, Mrs. Allen, Mrs.
Osgood and Mrs. Lafitte, he leaves respectively
$400,000, $300,000 and $500,000 in 10-40s, and
also in trust $200,000 of the same bonds for his
son Cornelius J. Vanderbilt, giving the trustees
discretion to pay over the interest to him in such
way as they may think best. To the sons of Mr.
William H, Vanderbilt he makes handsome direct
bequests. The executors and tru-tees are William
H. Vanderbilt, two of the sons of William H., and
the JCommodore’s nephew, Samuel Barton. With
the exception of small legacies to Dr. Deems, to
his physician, to his old clerk, and to Captain
Hemlock sole 30
Harness 30a31
Salt—
Liverpool $1 50
Virginia 1 75
i Hides -market active.
Flint 12a 13
Dry Salt 10al3
Wet Salted 6a7
[ Bagging—
Domestic. 2 1-4 lbs 12 3-4
Borneo, 21-8 lbs 13
Gunny 11
Powder—
Blasting. $3 90
Rifle 6 40
Tobacco.
Chewing—
Common, sound, 11 inch, new, per lb, 45a48.
Common, sound, 11-inch, old, per lb., 47a50.
Medium, 11-inch. old,50a55.
Good 11-inch old. 50a60.
Fine 11-inch, old, 70.
Bright navys, 60.
Bright quarters, 12-inch, 65.
Good, 75
Fine, 80.
Grovely. $1.
Calhoun, $1 24.
Natural Leaf, £1.
Smoking—
Durham, per lb., cash, 60c.
Fruits and Confectioneries.
Lemons, $7 50a};8 00.
Bananas, per bunch, none.
Apples. $4 00.
Oranges. $10 50a$12 50.
Pears. $5 00a$6 00.
Raisins—
Layers, whole, per box, $3 00.
Layer, half, $1 75.
Quarters. 90c.
Cocoanats, $6 50.
Currants—in barrels. 10c.
Citron—leghorn, per lb., 35c.
Figs—Selected Eleme, drums, per lb., 17 l-2c.
Dates—In frails. 8 l-2c.
Pranes, in barrels, per lb., 14al5c-
Nuts and Almonds.
Langeodoc. 25c.
Taragona. 25c.
Pecan nuts, 20c.
Brazil nuts. 12 1 2al5
English walnuts, 15a20c.
Filberts, ,
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