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THE SOUTHERN SUN.
Official Journal of Decatur County
JOHN B. HAYES, R. M. JOHNSTON
Editors. ■
. JANUARY 27tk 1878
G Bobor Aktsow. of Detroit, shook a ocw
kerosene lamp, duly loaded, to show that
bis burning fluid was safe* His widow
fs quite handsome and wi*l have the $5,000
Insurance on his life..
Ths Dutr on Rice.—The Savannah Morn
ing News reports a coloied indignation
meeting, headed by Wahoo Bradley and
attended by about 1000 negroes, denounc
ing the proposition to repeal the protective
dwiy on ru». •>-
To Paiictww.—The Financial Secretary
of the Printer* Uunion io Atlautn, notifies
the craft that business » extremely dull,
with little chanpe for improvement, and
the number of printers out of work is large,
while th« foods in the treasury have been
exhausted in supporting them. He po-
Jjjtely request the craft aot to come there
fay more.
Cbikv Ju-tick Warkrr. —The appoint
ment of Jndge Warner to the position of
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, meeds
the universal
—everywhere as
assurance of an intelligent and incorrupt
ible administration of public justice.
Exemplary .We are glad to see from
the following in the Milledgeville Recorder
that the Editorial fraternity at the old cap
ital are exemplary people t
It was a notable circumstance, at the
Methodist prayer meeting, last Wednesday
night, that six of the eight men present,
were connected with the city press.
The National Repnblican Convention wil'
meet in Philadelphia on Wednsday the 6th
of June next, for the purpose of nominating
candidates for President and Vice-PresU
dent. The basis of representation will be
donble the number of Senators and Repres
aentatives fiom each State and two del
gales from each organized Territory.
A RgMtNIBOENC* OF THE FAIR.— In th©
Herald “personal 1 ' of Thursday last, the
18th instant, we find the following :
Confidence* —lf the narty will return the
watch, lost at the fair at Macon, Ga., last
October, in good order, ho will receive a
reward of SSO; and also a reward of SSO
will be paid for the return of the pocketbook
containing $l5O lost at same time. To be
returned to 26 Chambers street, and no
question asked.
County Lines. —The Forsyth Advertiser
protcstelh against species of legislation
which makes maps impossible—burdens
the people,and makes mischief in various
other ways, as follows:
The mania for changing county lines,
that prevailed to such a fearful extent du
ring the last session of the Legislature,
has again broken out and bids fair to make
small turnip patches of some of them,
she measures are in some cases fought
with a commendable tenacity for the old
order of things, and in many cases are Big
sally defeated.
Nxw York Custom House Frauds*— One
New Committee, nftw in
Washington says that the time or auj?,*!. * n
went has not been deterraioed.but says the
Radical members are growing uneasy over
the fearful load of corruption which is un
cavlhod and has to be carried by Grant in
the next election, it is not probable that
• much longer story will be made. The
opiuion is expressed that tho report of
the committee will be not what people
have a right to expect from the testimony.
The miuoiity of the committee will give
the true condition of affairs, aud will rely
upon the conservative element of the Sen
ate to aid them iu a genereal warfare upon
corruption and tho securing of the reformat
tiou so long needed.
Th* Population of Europe.— Europe em
braces an area of 3.800,000 square miles,
and a population of over 300,000,000. The
latter may be roughly classified by races
as follows: Slavic race 82,200,000; Teuton
ic race 93.500,000: Latin race 97,000,000.
Besides these, the Turkish race proper num •
ber about 6,000,000, and the Jews 5,000
000,
The largestnational populations are Rus*
aia 71,000,000: Germauy 40,000,000. France
86,500.000; Aostro Hungary 36,000,000#
Great Britain 32,000,000; Italy 26,000,000*
uhese six States embrace over four fifths
of the entire population of the continent A
century ago about th« time of the disrup
tion of Poland those States coonted bn*
half the population of Europe. Russia had
Austria * W. 000,000; Prussia
000 000, or about its present popaUtmo-
Euro P eanß are classed into
148, 000,01 0. Roman Catholics, 70,000 000
71,000,000, PrnUstanta. * \
REACTION.
The people of the North, says the Chron
icle & Sentinel, are becoming alive to the
necessity of some action to stop the pro ;
gress of centralization and Military rule-
The late action of the Illinois. Legislature
in the matter of the shooting of Col. Gros
▼enor at Chicago, by soldiers under the
command of “Little Phil Sheridan, Lieu
tenant General in the United States army,
acting under the orders and afterwards re
ceiving public official approbation from
the Secretary of War in Grant’s Cabinet,
furnishes an agreeable indication that rea
son is reterning to the people of that
State, if not to the people of Chicago,
where' the crime was committed. The mat
ter was taken before the Legislature, where
it was referred to a special committee, and
that committee has submitted a report
fully endorsing and vindicating the action
States troops as an armed police force,
♦without any solicitation from the State au
thorities, and which unwarranted occupa
tion resulted in the death of Grosvenor. —
The report of the committee most fully
denounces the bayonet rule inaugurated by
the order of the President as an outrage*
and shows that it was more provocative of
“disturbance than conducive of good
order.” The murder of Grosvenor is de
nounced as a legitimate resnlt, calculated
to follow the overthrow of civil govern
ment, while the action of Governor Palmer
m opposition to grave and aggressive as *
sault upon the sovereignty of the ttate is
fully endorsed and sustained.
PRESIDNT GRANT AND SOCIAL EQUALITY.
A delegation of negroes visited Presi
dent Grant a few days ago, and requested
that he should send a special message to
Congress, asking th« passage of Sumner's
amendment to the Amnesty bill now pen
ding in the Senate.
After hearing the views and statements
of his sable friends, the President replied:
“That he had no doubt that the colored
people were deprived of some rights and
privileges they had a clear claim. His
Impression was that the recent amendments
to the Constitution was that the recent
amendments to the Constitution conferred
upon them all the privileges of citizenship
and he thought the Courts would accord
all the legal rights withheld. With regard
to amending the Amnesty bill by the edi
tion of the supplementary Civil Rights bill,
the President considered that such action
would jeopardize the passage of an am
«• his kao* ,t —>—«
Sumei’s bill he believed it con’d lie passed
on its merits as a eeperate measure.'
President Grant thus implicitly approves
the proposition of Mr. Sumner, enlorceing
by act of C ingress the right of the negro
to mix indiscriminately with the whites in
all our churches, theatres and other places
of amusement, school rooms, hotel, steam
boats and railroad cars. This, we appre
hend, will not strengthen him with his own
party in the North, while at the South it
will be met with almost universal condem
nation.
Almost a Crists in French Politics.
In consequence of an adveise majority
vote on the tiraflf tax question- in the As
sembly on Monday, M. Theirs sent in his
resignation as President. This operated
like a bomb shell upon the public, and the
oppositionists hastened to make the
amende.
A vote almost unanimous, B,x mem
bers dissenting, refused accept his re
signation and import'd M. Tniers to re
taiu his posit h** l . Dispactbes to the New
«--v Herald dated January 20th, p. m ,
annoenco that the President and his cabi
net have withdrawn their resignations,
and quiet has been restored.
It was feared the Prussians would have
reoccupied the departments, and remained
until the war indemnity had all been paid.
The cause of the whole embroglio, was
the opposition to the President’s proposed
taxon raw material for manufacturer.
The Fiench Republic has already existed
longer than any one could have believed.
When will a change of masters taken
place! Those who know that murcurioul
people best, are prepared for a political
convulsion at any moment. When it come 8
let us hope that the young Napoleon may
again occupy and illustrate the imperial
throne of the Bonaparte*, and command a
lasting peace for his unhappy country.
The Frenchman ueeds a kind master, but
still a master he must have.
Miserable Mexico —As usual, this petty
power which is composed o! a mongrel pop
illation mass of Mestizoes, mulattoes, In
dians, Spaniard*, Americans and negroes#
are fighting among themselves, in the inter
est of Curtioa, Juarex, and heaven only
knows who else. Anarchy and misrule are
the order of the day in that fair portion of
this continent, and with such materials to
deal with we see no hope in the future.
The unfortunate Maximillian was a kingly
and uoble personage, and would have made
agust and wise sovereign. But aee hismis
erablc fate. At last, the astute Santa Anna
is the sharpest they ever had, and they
would do well tobriug the cock fighter opou
the siege again if, indeed, he still eurrioes,.
State at Large. i
Newnan keeps on having her stubbing
affairs.
A little girl was burned to death at New
nan a few days ago. m
Valdosta Pendleton complains ts “dull
times,” and goes “one blind** at the Tem
perance societies. •
Valdosta refuses to organize her Thes
pian Corps,
Henry R. Jackson and HenryJL. Bill
yer, both members of the Legislature, had
a personal rencontre the other day at the
capitol..
Rose and Harry Watkins are in Atlanta.
Mrs Oates is in Savannah, burlesquing
to crowded houses.
Foster Blodgett declines the appoint
ment as a delagate to the National Repub
lican Convention.
The Industrial Association of Georgia
— —*—•*■■■»-*. -
Another man 0( j j n Savannah.
Atlanta is to have her
The jury in the case of L. C. of
Macon, for murder could not agree, ana
the case has been postponed.
Two new boats for the Barnett Line are
to be built in Columbus.
The numerous friends of Hon* E. G*
Cabaniss will be pleased to learn that he
has been re-elected to the responsible po
sition of auditor of the State Road.
Judge C. is the right man in the right
place.
Macon is in perfect convulsions over her
tunny goats.
Judge B. F. Dense, of Maflon, is dead.
It is reported that Judge Cole, of the
Macon Circuit, is to be removed.
Judge Lochrane, late Chief Justice of
Georgia, lias been retained by Henry
Clews & Cos., to preserft aid forward the
claims of the latter against the Ft ate-
Mr Jno. P. Dickinson, aid old citizen of
Albany, is dead.
Somebody, in a spirit of fun we suppose,
pied the forms of the Atlanta New Era.
The Macon Telegraph, of yesterday says:
We heard a gentleman say, yesterday, that
Col. Farrow made no secret'of mentioning
some of the Democrats, so-called, who had
affiliated with Bullock and Kimball in their
wholesale robbery of the people's money .
Fitzpatrick, too, has been snufling around*
and promises rare revelations when the
Presidential ba’l opens. These fellows had
better sell their “bonds” even at a heavy
discount, turn their fatjhorses and farms in
to money, and take passage for Australia
birds of their ownffeather,r r , and where
roguery a premium. Take
heed, gentlemen. Be sure your sin will
find you out.
The At anta Fun, of yesterday, says
that on the day before A- L. Harris (com
monly called “Fatty”) as Trustee for Julia
E. Harris his wife, sued out an attachment
against John Rice, late President of the
National Bank. He made oath before
Judge B. D. Smith, that Rice resides out
of the State, and is indebted to him as
Trustee, in the sum of $2,500, upon which
Judge Smith issued the attachment, which
was placed in the hands of J. P. Porter, L.
C., and the same levid upon three print -
ing presses and one paper cutter, of the
New Era office. Perhaps this will bring
to light the owner of the New Era, which
Mr. Rockafellow was unable to ascertain
before the Superior Court lately.
Kimball's Financiering— -We learn that
the Commercial Warehouse Company ol
New. York bold !he foil* wing bonds, lef
in their hands by H. I. Kimball, as collate
ral security upon which they have made
large advances, viz :
SIBO,OOO gold bonds of the State, indor
sed by Bullock and issued to the Bruns
wick and Albany Railroad Company in ex
change f.,r the second mortage bonds*
$160,000 fust mortage bonds of the Car
tersville and Van Wert Railroad, indorsed
by Bollock.
$240,000 second mortagebonds of the Car
tersville and Van Wert or Cherokee Rail
road.
On these, as collateral security, the said
Company have advanced to Kimball $205,
000 in cash.
Their whole security is not worth a tithe
of the mouey advanced.
[Atlanta Sun.
GO TO SLEEP.
Many children* instead of being as plnmp
and fresh as a peach, are'as wrinkled as
last year's apple*, because they do not
sleep enough. Some physicians think that
bones grow only during *l* ep.—This we
cannot say, certainty ; but we do know that
tiiose little folks who sit up late uigbta are
usually nervous, w» ak, small and b;ckL.
The reason you need more sleep tliau your
parents is, because you have to grow and
they do not. Tiey can use up the food
they eat in thinking, talking and walking,
while yon should save some us yorirs for
growing. Yon ought to sleep a great deal
if you do not you will iu activity consume
all you eat,and have uone.or not enough* to
grow with. Very few clever children excel,
or even equal other people wheu they grow
tip* Why is this? Because their heads, if
Dot their bodies are kept too busy* so that
they cannot sleep, rest aud grow Strung
in bod/ and brain.
BYMPTONS OF a KILKENNY CAT FIGHT IN
GEORGIA.
We bear sundry sounds, and see divers
signs of a regular Kilkeoy c|it figbt among
that frazzled out faction that still calls itself
the Republican party of Georgia. Its leas
ders having all been choked off from the
State Treasury are as mad as houest ‘spil
lin* fora shindy. One fag end says it was
the fault of the other, and the latter retorts
*you‘re another, and spits on its hands for
a regular ‘rnption.* Il‘s the old story
of rogues falling out and wanting to cut
each others throats because they see honest
men com'ngto their own. We contemplate
the spectacle with the serenest satisfaction,
and cry‘Sic him‘ Tige—“go in“ Towze r
with the most rigid impartiality.
We are sore the people of Georgia will
join us in the hope that the contest may go
on until there is nothing left of the unsavory
combattanls —not even so much as there
was of the famous cats aforesaW. They
have both had their whack at our pockets
and our liberties, and we have uever found
there was any great difference in their
greed, there insolence, and unmitigated
nieam™* The only diatinCtion we ~*nld
ever see was that, while one robbed and
outraged with smooth speech and some re
spect to ontward appearances, the other
went at the business without a blush or
pretence. They were mffling, ewagging
bandits who made no secret of their trade-
If there is any 6uch thing as a future for
Georgia Radicalism we can’t see it. It was
only kept alive by largesse from the Na
tional and State treasuries, and unlimited
lieeufc to loot. The former source prom
ises very poorly, hereafter, and as to lat
ter—a« the French says: nous avows change
tout cela. The plundered are on their feet
again, in Georgia, and with their hands
untied, If there ever was a slim prospect
for developing, it is now in this redeemed
old Commonwealth.
We might feel some pity for the scurvy
knaves if they had ever treated their vic
tims with even decent respect. But they
never did, so we are glad to know that
they must, work or starve. They and their
masters North had a deal to say to Tam •
many roguery roiling it as a sweet morsel
under their clacking tongues. Now they
probably “know how it is themselves.’
They have had a loftier tumble than even
Tammany, and must hereafter content
themseles with a hand to mouth existence
if indeed they have vitality enough left to
cal! themselves first class paralytics.
Andien messieurs les brigands, and may
you all soon safelv rest in yonr paternal
halls!
Praiseworthy' —When a young man b
of such rare occurrence -that we love to record it
How many young men who ought, to do better
and who could, were they not ashamed of hard
hands and tanned skin, have betaken themselvrs
to the gaming table or loa f around our ftree's do
ing nothing, sponging upon fiiernls and relatives
for something 10 eat and wear. But there is or.e
young man in Macon who is not ashamed of work.
He was raised in good cireumetances and received
a liberal education. The fortunes of war left him
penniless, and at its close but fifteen years of age.
Since that time he has alternately labored and
gone to school, giving all the sin plus money he
had, which was hut a mite, to he sure, to bis ris
ters who were as poor rs himself. Thinking that*
he hid scored a position iB Macon he came here
a few weeks ago, but upon reaching the city found
that he had made a failure. After looking' about
the city found that he had made a failure. Aifer
looking nothing to do he made arrangements
with a gentleman who had the means, to furnish
him with a dray and has accordingly gone to work
drivng his dray for a livelihood. We have known
him from boyhood and know him to be perfectly
honest and trustworthy. He is a young man of
fine sense and pleasing address, and though inex
perienced in business, will doubtless; one day, stand
far ahead of many who to-day are behind* the
counter commanding just barely sufficient salary
to eke out a living. Such young men are worthy
of patronage and until something better turns up,
we hope our business men will show their appie
ciation of such merit by throwing into his hands
all the drayage they possibly can. Will they not
Macon Telegraph.
The Cosraopolitic says the President, in
overlooking retains, should not overlook
ours with Spain.
No biography has even taken its readers
so by surprise as Mr. Forster's life of
Charles Dickens.
GEORGlA—Decatur County.
John Harrell has applied for exemption and set
ting apart valuation of Homestead of reality and
personality and I will pass upon the same on the
sih day of February at 10 oclock at my office in
Bainbi 4ge.
Jan 25ib 1871. Joel Johnson Oid’y.
GEORGlA.—Decatur County
It appearing to the court that there were two
deeds of conveyence to lot of land N<> 30,8 in the
29th District of Decatur county, wit: One made by
James M. Danfort j to J. H. Anderson ard the
otner male by Robert A. Pryor to Richard Sims,
have been lost or and. stn yed. It is therefore order
ed, that the said James W Danforth aud the said
Robott A Piy >r show cause if auv they have on or
b-fore the next time of the Court why copies should
not be established in leive of staid lots orgihats,
an I th;»t service of the order be perfected in terms
of the law
Witness the Honorable Peter J. Strozier. Judge
Suj>eri'r Court Decatur County This 18 January
1872 Thomas F. Hampton.
Clerk 8. C.
TB BAIfiBRIDGE FACTOR!
BAISBRIDGE, GA.
Patronize Home Institutions-
All ye merchants and planters of Southwest Geor
gia and Flotida ate rmpectfu ly requested to send
your orders to
THE BAINBRIDGE FACTORY.
Fcr O-nabures, sheetings, woolen goods, yarns
&c. lam satisfied that the merchants and plan
tors of southern Geoegia can save 25 per cent by
buying direct from the Factory, thereby enabling
them to underset Pall competitors who buy in North
ern tnatkets give me a j guarantee sati&fao
tittW.Q- D.Tojion
Mllllfi E ® MHi I)
-* \ . ' X
AT AUCTIO
OUR ENTIRE STOCK OF
Dry GoodSj Clothing,-Boots and Sli«
HATS a.mol O aps,
9 AH€Y DRV mm
&c. &c,
On Monday the22d inst, will be sold at Auction, our entire stock of gw
Bainbridge. 'he goods will be so ! d in lots to suit purchasers Without re®
here will be an entire change in the business; therefore the stock most aodi
losedout. .
TTJHiLBSfi gm.’sr
and secure good bargains
The a e will c mmence at 10 o’c t ock and continue from day to day unti tit
stock is so and.
TRIEST & RIGLtXI
_ > A T REID & CO,
If sxU&toms and HWi
- re now receiving their very large
FAL'L STOCE
Drygoods, Groceries, Bools and Sk
HATS, O.A.IF’S cfc IF^TJIFtS,
HARDWARE. WOOD, WILLOW AND QUEENSWAEE
15 Bbla. Sugar, all grades,
15 Boxes Tobacco, all grades,
15 Bags Coffee, all grades.
25 Boxes Soap, assorted.
50 Rbls Flour, in barrels.
10 Bbls Flour, in sacks.
mw fis, ■iaisss, fish. SA&nsutss, otsh
'WHISKIES, BRANDIES, GINS,
BUM AND WINE.
All For Sale Low For Cash.
,e P 7 * 6m ] rmr mm. jb3 jc je» afc
Jrts&wi, JPflors, paths, Hlauldiugs, f
BALUSTERS, ETC,
IC9 and 171 Bay Street, (up stairs) Savannah, Ga.,
Keep constantly, a large stock of the above articles. Go and see, or send them P*'
ROCKWELL. & WEST
HAS JUST RECEIVED A LARGE STOCK OF
STAPLE AND FANCY DRY-6^
LADIES DRESS GOODS,
NOTIONS,
•READY-MADE CLOTHING.
GENTLEMENS FURNISHING GOO 1
BOOTS, SHOES HATS, &C., &C.
HAVING bought for CASH, and under tbe most favorable circuiostaß^
aLE and DETERMINED to offer GREAT INDUCEMENTS to CASH K
£1 aud sea. ROCKWELL •
WILL BE SOLD
5000 Yds. Double Anchor Baling.
6000 Lbs. Arrow Ties.
6000 Lbs. Bacon, sides and shoulders.
1000 Lbs. Golden Hams.
1000 Lbs. Pure Leaf Lard.