The Southern sun. (Bainbridge, Ga.) 1869-1872, October 26, 1871, Image 1

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VOL. VL THE SOUTHERN SUN. Ptiblirflied Weekly by J o hin r. Hayes. Proprietor. Serins of Subscription. T bopy. one year, r ...... .. ~........*.52 So One Copy, six months 1 50 One Jopy, three months 1 oO Ad vorttsem ents. Will be inserted at one dollar per Square for the first insertion. Libera] deductions Wl| lie made on contracts. Obituaries and marriages will be charged the same as other advertisements. RITES OF ADVERTISING. No Squares. 1 Mo. 2 M a 8 Mos ti Mos 12 Mos 1 square $4- 00 $7 <>o ~s9 tMl| 14 01) S2O 00 2 squares 800 11 00 14 00(20 00 '.30 00 8 squares 12 00 15 00 20 00 20 00 40 00 4 squares 10 00 20 00j 20 00 83 00 50 00 5 squares 20 00 25 q 03200 40 0 00 00 0 squares 24 00 81 00 38 00 48 <»0 7u "0 i squares 28 00 37 OOi 45 00 00 i>t) 80 00 8 squares 32 00 43 00 02 00:04 On 00 o 0 9 squares 30 00 49 Oy 00 00172 00 1 00 00 10 squares 40 00 55 00 08 Uo|Bo 00 110 o<> | column 44 00' 02 00 74 GO 39 00 120 00 PROFESSIONAL CARDS. B- B. BOWES K. 0. BOWER BOWER & BOWER. ATTORNEYS AT LAW BAINBRIDGE, GA. OFFICE IN THE COURT HOUSE. March 23. 1871. • 44-ly It. W. DAVIS* ATTORNEY AT LAW, BAINBRIDGE. GA. ST Office over Patterson & McNair's Store. OIIARLEB 0. CAMPBELL H. F. SHARON. CAMPBELL & SHARON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BAIN BRIDGE. GA Ail business cntrus.eil to their care, promptly at tended to. Office lu Court House. [julyl3, ly DFTETJ MORGAN. OFFICE on SohtVi RVoftd, ovet J W. Den nurds store. RerideOce on West Street. March 30-1 y BAINBRIDGE, GA. MISC ELISA Ntit) US THE SHAR3X HOUSE, JOHN SHAItON, Proprietor Bainbridge Georgia. TRANSIENT BOARD $3 PER DAY. THE traveling public are hereby notified that thiH house has been thoroughly repaited an* refited, an well as refurnished throughout, and ten dered one of the most desirable and agreeable hotels in the State worthy the liberal patrona e it has heretofore r ceived from the passeuiers on the river and railroad. No pains or expenses wilt he spared to make the SHAKOS HOUSE all tin* auy one could desire. Call afid test its merits. fff“ln connection with the Hotel Is an elegaiu SALOON where the finest of liquors are kept. C. Hates, . Sen. J. Lestkb Richmond, Va Savannah, Ga 9 iq»i*w WhotosaU Tobacco, Liquor, and Commission House Wm. C. HAYES & Cos. 141 Bay Street, Savannah. Georgia. fiFFKR special and particular inducements to the U m.rohXnt« and planters of Cteorgw and _ ■ «T Hidea, Cotton and general l>ro*te»wild exchange, and on consignment, V* ith lib*. «' a « vincSquick sales, and small hope to share a liberal patronage from then Da 1e generally. THE BBS” IS THE CHEAPEST. sat pmpoot & f #t»tioß & m\>t Fire Insurance Co s over S2O,(XH',OOO in Gold. Over $8 000,000 Pays losses immediately alter adjustment. The New York Life insurance Comp’y Assets $it5,000.000. J. E. JOHNSTON St CO , General Agents. T. B. HUN NEWELL A CO., Agents . , nmr at arrrtW ft CO., Cotton Factors an La General to Cus Savannah, Ga. Ustu* Facilities lgf(My BIEINHABD, BEOS &C 6. Wholesale Dealers iu SO©TS SHOES. 1 HATS, Ready Made Clothing, etnHtmfn’u |uruisUing <6o#dS 111 BougMon St. savannah, Georgia. ai iv OJTIC* H. MeluW . 82 WHITE BT. j S. Kelnlia sl. MelnbaroJ & & \ g. flic ifouflion Sun, The Premium Cotton Bale at the St Louis Fair, and What the Man Who liaised it had to Say We oopy the foil-•wing from the St. Louis Re public m, of Siturday : Next in interest after the bale of co*ton which carried off the sweepstake*, was the lucky gen tleman, Mr B Mc'-han of Le*> county, Wissfs ti?l>i. Ibe producer What he said may be con* dewed into the following statement,' which, is nearly ’verbatim. MR. M’SHAfc’a STATEMENT. I take the Wist premium for the best bale raised in of SSOO, then the premium for the third best; hd McGehee, the dionged competi tor I dread and, getting the second premium I got the sweep-takes of SI,OOO as a-ainst all the ten competing States, I hid three bales this year on exhib tio 1, but one was defeated on account j of being improperly entered; Last year l got the sweepHt.ikes and the first premium at the St. Lo .is Fair, the contest being geneial Several suits were made for myself ai.d family out of the cot- ’ ton by the New Brunswick, Now .Te.sey, Hosiery 1 company, as complimentary of our industry, en. j torp rise and energy. A female and mile suit is! on exhibit on here, manufactured out of my pre mium bale of cotton, mixed with fine merino wool. These goo Is wore piesented by the manu facturer through Me.-srs. Fhyrock <t Howland The piemium bale I have presented to the Wid ows’ and Orphans’ Home through Shyrock <fc Rowland. It has brought me within a fraction of $4 per pound. Its ordinary market value would be between 25 and 30 cents per pound. My son. Wm. S. Meehan, was offered, a ter the premium was awarded, S4OO for the bale. It weighed 408 pounds. It is an improved cottm, from which is termed the “Old Pettigulf seed” so named f.ora a point below Vicksburg, and took its name from being there fir-t introduced It is the most commdnly planted cotton of the country Asa general tiling it has very much deteriorated, it LDing mixed up with other varieties Since the war, in picking cotton my son discovered that there was a great difference in the texture of the lint, and in pick ing he made a selection from the choicest stalks and bolls For the paid six years ho repeated the same process, and has succeeded in obtaining a choice variety, 'i hi ee years this fall , we took it into our heads to exhibit odr cotton at the fairs. The first premium we obtained at Memphis, of SBOO, on a five bale entry The next season. 1870 we made a one bale entry at St. Louis, and took the first premium of $500; also, the sweep stakes of $ :000, and with one other bale at the Mi>sisdppi State fair at Jackson, we carried off tho ftr.-t premium of slo<> the same year. I now enter three bales; on one I net the state premium of $ •< 0, and the general sweepstakes of sl,ooo. On the second bale I get a premium of sloo, making in all si,6ow at this Fair. 'Hie merit of the cotton depends on its fineness and silky texture. It is a hard discrimination to make between long and short staples, if raised on upland; because if well cultivated the length and strength is improved by good cu'ture and manur ing When I first commenced expeiimenting in toe matter, and piepairing cotton for fairs, my principal object was to induce others to produce cotton ofabi ttei quality, belieVtng that it would be more remunerative to the planters to produce and make a better quality of cotton than finder our old system of labor, which bus been cl>ftng**d, a great deal beinur made by white labor, they being better capable of handling it than under slave labor. Suicide and Life Insurance. —tn the Unt ied Stales Circuit Court, at Hartford, some days past, a suit was brought to recover from a Life Insurance Company of Maine the amount of a policy on the life of one Sher idan Gay, the suit being brought by his widow. Gay, shot himself on a railway in Connecticut in 1869, dying from the effects of the wound. The defendants, the Life Insurance Campanv, on their fide alleged that he deliberated suicided in consequence of ex*, tcutuxe defalcations in New \ont,aud tliti as the policy exempted suicide the plaintiff could not recover. The plaintiff, the suicides widow, on her side put in a pb-a that her husband was in sane, and presented a number of witnesses who testified to his previous dondtiost. The arguments weie made by the leading Hartford lawyers,and the jury brought in a verdict awarding the full amount of the policy, $5,000; with interest iu the sutn of stst 40 additional: A well known E«*u lucky miaistor, sobject I to severe spoils of nervous headache, was in our office the other day,says an exchange, j during one of those attacks. M »jm ' j of Mexico, was present, and proposed to re- j lieve him in five minutes, which he did mos | egectually > . The foilwing is the prescription: Take a dessert spooful of common soda.snc: as is us.d iu making bread, and dissolve u thoroughly in a quart of cold water WHn this thoroughly shampoo th * head for about five minutes, scratching 'he skin of the head and the back of the neck well with finger ntt jl ß Then rinse the lo ad with clean cold water. Major Brown says that he has used this remedy iu perhaps a thousand cases since 143, and never once faded to g»™ lief in five or ten minutes. This renn y for nervous headache, and is not for those afflictions of the head irking from dee ranged etomachs.-American Rani home. £.,, -■ - 1 - . l3acie 'Pe:ricaerLt Journa—Demoted to tlae Interests of Georgia. I'. —— >»■ - «Jt BAINBRIDGE, GA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1871. Tlio Insurance Companies an<| the Greater©. The following information is said to bare been gathered from reliable sourcea| The Royal Insurance Company, ofliver poo!, logos $133,000; the Imperial titer— pool, $000,000; North British, $2, 700,000. Good authority lb@tSnp the loss of Liverpool and London insuMnce companies at $4,500,000. All Chicago companies are bankrupt; The Boston Transcript says the insu j ranee companies of Boston have suffered severely by the great fire. Those having j agencies in Chicago are National, New j England, Hide and Leather, and Indepen dent. A dispatch front the agent of the : first named company announces is losses ito be $500,000. The officers of New Eng , land company estimate their loss at $700,- | 000, and have voted to suspend for tbe | present. Hide] and Leather Conpany’a liabilities foot up nearly the same. This company also suspended. The Indepen dent advises its patrons to cancel their lices and reinsure pending reports from their Chicago agency. Several other Bos ton offices are reported sverally crippled. The following additional losses are re ported: Home Coiunibus(?) $150,000; Commercial, $80,000; Howard, $275,000; Lamar, $200,000; Mercantile, SIOO,OOO Manhattan, $500,000; American $250,000; Resolute, $75,000; Washinston, $400,000; Yonkers and New York, $300,000. All the above are New York companies. The Hartford loses $1,200,000; Manufacturers, $350,000; Pacific of San Francisco, $500,- 000. The JEtna, of Hartford and Home, of New York, have each about $4,000,000 insurance in the burnt district. The Phoenix, of Hartford, has $700,000 insur ance. Several others are reported, but their losses are comparatively small. All the Chicago banks, it is said, wdl be al>le to resume business. A number of bank vaults have been opened, and tl/e contents, without exception, wore uninjur ed. Every bank iiethe city claims that in time it will be able io pay every dollar of its indebtedness. How They stand It — Dr. C. A. Dents, of Quincy, in a let tear to the Journal, thus speaks of the general health if the Swedes living ill Gadsden county: Those who came in October of last year have been remarkably exempt from the fe vers incident to our climate. Some were sick whou they arrived from exposure in dt-ck passage, and some who settled in lo calities that were notoriously subject to intermittent fever, suffered accordingly. The majority of them, however, have been, so far as my information extends, entirety free from sickness; have been toiling in the fields during the summer without any call for medical aid. Those who canie in May last have suf fered more from fever, of an intermittent type, mild and easily controlled. Every case that came under ttiy observation, how ever, has been attributable to imprudence iu exposure and rain—such imprudence as going about in heavy rains without um brellas, as no home-born citizen would tliiiiK of committing, gome difference is evident in favor of those who left 'Weeden iu ihe Fall and be gan their aclimation here with the winter season* A Sweet Temper. No trait of characier is in«*re valuah ! e in women than the possession of a sweet temper. Home can never lie made happy without it. It is like the flowers that spring up iu our pathway, reviewing and cheering us. Let a man go home at wesf.ed by the toils of day, and how sooft ing is a world dictated by a good disposi tion. It is sunshinefalliug on his heart. He is bappj’, and the cates c.flife are all forgot ten. A sweet temper has a soothing in fluence on the minds of a whole family.— Where it is found in the wife and mother, you observe kindness and love pred«»tnin»- ling over the natural feeling of a bad heart smiles, kind words and looks characters-* csi Orel) , and peace and love have their dwelling there, A sweet temper is more valuable th in gold; it captivated bean'y, and to close of life it retains all freshness and power. Information has been received of the de direction of the town of.Crocket, Texas, by fire, on the Ist instant. The whole busi ness portion of the town, including <he. principal hotels, was bnrned, except the dry goods house of L. E. Down. The loss is not known. The insurance amounts to about $50,000* General News. The first trial by jury bus taken place at Home. The accused waa a Woman; she was convicted of theft and sentenced to three years imprisonment. The proceedings were interestiugiand the Court-house waa crow* , , The Thirteen-year ol<l lowa girl weighs 230 pounds. At Muscatine, lowa grapes are selling for three cents a bushel. A San Francisco firm is shipping cured salmon to England. There arc 486,000 acres of corn reported in Livingston county, Illinois. It is estimated that there are 75 000 cat tle in the vicinity of Baxter Springs, Kan> aas. Mr. E'lis, of Mouiuie county, Illinois, last week found a rich specimen of gold quarts in his coal mine. Very large amounts of currency are find ing their way Westward in payment of the enormous giape crops. In the past three months twenty persons have committed suicide by jumping into the.river at St. Louis; A colony of Shakers from Ohio has purs chased a large tract of land in Osage coun ty, Kansas, and intend locating there im . mediately. All colored laborers oh the extension of the Chicago and Southwestern Railroad have been discharged at the deuiaud of Irishman employed on the work; Kansas City, Missouri, claims to be the wealthiest city in the West. With a popu lation of 35 000, it has a property valuation of $30,000,000, or nearly SI,OOO tor every man, woman, and child. A Kansas paper says, that M. C. Page, while digging a well Upon his farm a short distance from Salina, iu that State, came upon the most perfect fossile found in this country. He found wonderfully perfect specimens of oak. walnut, maple, and pine leaves, which would be of great value to a museum. Mr. Page has also found a good indications of coal upon bis place. The many discoveries directly the attention of scientifiic men thither The shipwrights Clyde who have joined the nine hour league have been locked out by their employers. Some parts of Ohio are suffering ly from the drouth and the prevalence of fires along the railroad routes. Twenty Professors in the University of Rome have refused io take the oath requir ed by the Italian Government. Business is improving in Utah, and min ing transactions are unsually heavy. 8 fi ver Cloud Mine, in Camp Floyd, was sold last Friday, for $350,000. The municipality of Pairs has voted two million francs for repairs to monuments and public buildings damaged during the siege and the reign of the Commune. A son of John Mumphy, of Springfield, Ohio, was bitten in the heel by a rattle snake ' while walking in the woods last week. It is thought he cannot recover. Brigham Young takes his imprisonment very quietly, but some of his newspapers are takeing blood and thunder at a ra id bate; There are no fears of a disturbance. The National Convention of the Rail road Conductors’ Association closed its proceedings In« hicago last week. Louis ville was selected for the place of holding the next convention; The exploring party of Governor Safford of Arizona, arrived at Fort McDowell des titute and suffering, having been misled by a man named Miuea, who professed to know where there were rich places. The New Yolk elevated Railroad, from the Bttterr to its northen terminus, was sold last week, by an auctioneer, for the sum of $75 ,000, to ihe Trustee for all bond holders. ihe sale was by order of refer ence, to pay off mortgage. Prairie fires have broker! out at several points east and west of Yankton, D. 1. re*, suiting in the destruction of several dwel lings barns and other property. At B »n --hauitne a saw-mill and a large frame dwel ling were burned from this Cause* The jail in Laramie, 'V. TANARUS., was ‘uv.ded by a gang of borne-thieves fr«.ni the Black Hills on the 4th itist., about 7 o'clock, wlio with sledges, crowbars, cold-chisels, Ac., broke into the ceils and liberated three of their champions. All made their escape into the UilU- There was no officer on gnard. N»m* have as yet been recaptured. Upper Sandusky, Ohio, has a repetition of the Buffenbarger case. Barnabas Wag oner, an old soldier of 1812, is the name us the victim, aud the parties implicated, by (he reports thus fax published, are his wife I her brother Robert; and a peripatetic ! tor named Forney, who now proposes to confess, because as he says, his fee of S2OO has not been paid. The Santa Fe Daily Post has just received a letter from B.L. Pipers, United States Indian Agent, dated Covoda, Alamasa, September 30, stating that the fahiotis Ap ache chief, Clichis and party came in en the 24th ultimo, and went through the ceremo ny of making peace; It 19 hoped that this will do more toward settling the Indian troubles in Sew Mexico and Arizona than anything that has taken plane for year**. She Southern Claims Coniniission will not at this time allow their oommissioite in the South to receive testimony in support of any claim exceeding three thousand dollars in amount, but claimants who have already filed claims/ exceeding that eiim, by reduceing the amount, bring their within the jurisdication of their resident commissioner. No further application for the hearing of testimony can be entertain ed by the Commission until after the first of January next. Deficiency of the Indian Cotton Cop Accordig to the latest mail advices from India it would appear that the prospect of enlarged supplies from that quarter are not likely to be realized. Messrs. Finally Muir & Cos., in their last Bombay Circular, state that their best information is that ‘no efccoss oVer last year's Crop can be looked for, and unless the Weather improves, there seems room lor a considerable deficiency. The season generally is a lato one.' So, too; Messrs, Watteiibach, Hedgers & Cos. write from Calcutta that it “is reported that the late heayy rains have seriously ins jured the growihg ciop.' Tns Ladies’ MAGAZtNE, St. Louis.—'The Oc tober ntlmber of this Magaziuo is before us looking brighter and fresher than ever. It ned ed but one tiling to make it superior to any ladies’ book in America, ami that was an engraved title page. That has now been furnished, and the Mag axine is compelet. The design of the cover sym bolical of the high intellectual standard of the work. It consists of five portions of as many American women who have distinguished them selves iu their chosen life work. The upper right hand corner is adorned by the portrait of Alice Car ley, Author: the Upper left corner by Mrs. William, Teacher; the centre by Ilariiet Hosmer, Artist; the right lower corner by Anna Dickinson, Orator; the left lower corner by Mrs. kozier, Phys ican. The plate is beautiful and appropriate. TERMS. 1 copy, one year, - ; . . $3.00 4 copies for dne year, - . „ . 11 *>o 6“ « 15.00 0 “ “ •' and one to getter up of chib, ----- 18 0Q 12 copies for one year, - - - 21.30 Semi twenty-five cents for sample copy and Pre miuna list, to Morgaret L. Johnsofi, 407 N. Fourth Street, St, Louis, Mo. Macon, Ga. October 12,1811. Editor* Telegraph and Messenger: I band you herewith a copy of a dispatch received Irom General J* E Johnston; General Agent for the ‘Liverpool and London and Globe In surance Company. * This company will have a paid up capital of eighteen million dollars in gold in baud, after paying all their losses in Chicago which will be paid promptly. Yours, truly, I. C* Plant, Agent at Macon. To I. C. Plan’, Agent at Macon, The Com pany b'legraphe, *\Ve estimate our loss at two million. If every risk had been burnt it would not have seriously impaired the Company's strength. J. E. Johnston, General Agent. General Albert Pike, of Arkansas, re* Cently visited Newburyport, Mass., the place of his birth. A little supper, to be given bird by his friends at one of the ho tells, was Spojfi-d by the lanlord's saying there was not money etibugh in the city to buy a supper for a rebel General. Another pnplicau was found, however; who was not so ardent a Republican, and at his house the supper took place as proposed.* ‘Patrick,* said a lady to a slip of green Er*n who wSs officiating in the kitchen, ‘where is Briget ? Indeed m'aam she'd fast asleep, look in at the bread baking** Scratch ed. -The veterinary editor of ‘Wilkes Spririi of the Times* recotnrtiends the fol lowing for scratches in a horse: Take sul phate of zinc, one drachm; glyceriuo, two ounces; apply every morning. A Lively Race. —Massachusetts has fonr candidates for Goveruot—Democratic, Re publican, Ltbor Reform and Anti-Liqnor. Asa plurality elects, Jobu Quincy Adams stands a good chance for an election. ‘So mote it be.* A Fenian Raid. —Montreal o<j{olW*l2. It is oft dally atated that the Fenian Gen* era I O’Neal, with a fiircd not atated, haa crossed the border at Pembina and fieftfbd the Canadian Custom bouse and Hudson Bay Fust. They were attackttTby United State* troops and O'Neal cuptared, It wa* also reported that a large party hfid crossed at St. Joe, with United Statea troops in pur* suit. A special telegram from Washfhton, to the World, says a grand scheme for gob* bling up Mexico is on foot. Generftl Jos s<«ph E. Johnston is spoken of as thsmil/ itary leader of the tutiprisc, and Generals Rosincrahs dud Logan are cohhected with it. it is claimed that Jaurei, with quite a number of trusted puplic men br Mexico, favor the move. I ■ -—■■■■■■» *■» © » 1.l .1! —Mil I, . .. The ihineral wealth of TeJtafl ilßald to be enormous, but yet sleeps undisturbed. She has iron enough to divide the earth Into railroads ten miles across j ahd baait least 5,000 tons of coal in a dormant dortditiun She alsd po*Boßßea millions of acres of tiraber«land, and an Untold wealth of other matters. All this says; Mr. Uotaco Gree ley. What Ift the and inference botWett Stabbing a man and killing a hogs ‘ The one is assaulting with intent to kill; and the other is killing with intent to salt. General Beauregard has been interview* ed. He says Grant will iuaugiirate a mil itary despotism if ne is re-elected. Ha goes for the now departure and Grata Brown for President. An Ohio young man had a girl whoirt he was courting arrested for biting his lips. The fool l We would be chawed into bash before having a girl arrested ifor that. Blacksmith. and WOOD SHOP* At the old stand of Randle Kenney, there yori’ find tho THE BE3T OF VV.VOO NS iaj-ui /flaiSL-EMari miS&£S!3SB5m!lLk That can be bought on mra-mrmarmTa fm Complete and ready for the road. CrawforD & ArliND. COABLE3 A. VASA. ZdUor. fc&egfonwWwMtjJ&ni A ibsPmnt Tl***. latnM tor Feofl* Saw a link: Including Farmers, Mechanic*. Mere*****, Pie* Suelonal Mas, Worker*. Thinkers, sad *ll Mam aer of Eonset Folks, sad tka Wltss, Mas, sal DsogMaraof allaaeh. * * oilt on dolus A nit i / OKI HUNDRED COPIES FOB «M Or |«s than Oaa OaHiOo pf. Let there he a SOO Ctab at sveey Fast Odtos. BIKI-WEEKLY SEE, «9 A TEAK, ot tbs same sis* and gcaertl character a* TBS WBEKX.T, bat with a greater variety es —eaUaasoa* readme, sad fonUahtag the mw to H* samorUMis with greater ermbnem. haaaaaa MMaoaitwlM a want fastest of aoeeaair. - THE DAILY SUM, i4 A YEAS. f TERMS TOCLTTBa i / THE DOLLAR WHKLTBCT. Ftra m iniaa ana mar separately afldfaaaad. tv— fQwjW. fill TBftr. MMftftllvSdAFflMai In# an sKttZmgyte^gea>^m^Vmß^” f shbse: «§i&es^g3l THE BEXL-WSEKLY SUIT. A Fiv copue.oa* j»ac«Mpar»lciy adTtiigai. . T * ***. MUNI BUD TOUR KOKXT ft «*•**»«-* *** jSSfOI NO. 22