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\S5 '£5, 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. 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