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LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
ktatio.'i :<>r Letters orGuardianahip $5 00
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Anplw ation lor Letters of Dismission Ailmln-
utnicr 5 00
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Applii atioD for Leave to Sell Lands •••• 5 00
3otic« r o Debtors and Creditors 5 00
■kales of Land, Ac., per square 6 50
■tales Perishable Property, 10 days, per sq... 1 50
Sttray Notice*, 30 days..., 3 00
■Wierlit Sales, per square 2 50
■Kiorift Mortgage ft. fa salts per square....— 5 00
lea Collector's Sales, per tquare 5 00
Foreclosure Mortgage, per square, each time. 1 90
ScempiloD Notices (in advance) - 2 25
Buie Nial's, per square, each time 1 50
•W The above legal rates corrected by Ordinary
if Clarke county.
Rate* of Atlvevtlslng.
Ad>er:isements will be Inserted at ONE DOL
LA 11 per square lor the drat insertion, and FIFTY
TENTS per square for each continuance, for any
'•■me under one mouth. For longger periods a lib-
sral deduction will be made. A square oqual to
•eo lines, solid.
Notices in local column, less than a square, 20
vents a line.
Ti t* c .t ton worm is on the rampage
ut Alabama.
V< !„vv tevor has already made its
a- jH its-Tite at New Orleans and Key
West.
Tin* Atlanta and West Point rail
way has declared a semi-annual divi
de:! ! i f four percent.
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At ’lie recent commencement in
Oxtor 1 the deg tea of L. L. D. was
rt>iriupon State School Commis
sioner Oi r.
* 1 am in favor of conventions and
ito-ii naiinn- Let us all put down
<h\i Kiii-.’’—A. II. Stephens, July
16'//. 1878.
Tiie N ational or Greenback party
m holding conventions and making
tioaiinations in the North-west. Hon.
Pan. Pittman, of Atlanta, will enter
tiie race for Congress on the green
back platform.
I'n the Texas State Democratic
Convention recently held Judge O.
M Roberts was nominated for Gov
ernor by acclamation, Joseph D.
Sayres for Lieutenant Governor and
lieu. McCormick for Attorney Gen
eral. The Convention adjourned on
the 23rd.
Washington, July 25.—The Post
publishes this morning an interview
with John S. Mosby on the subject of
Gen. Grant’s candidacy in 1880. Col.
Mosby received a long letter from
Grant several months ago, but no
allusion was made in it to his future
tourse or possiple candidacy. Mosby
belie ves that Grant will be nomina-
%id by acclamation as a republican
candidate for President in 1880, and
will be overwhelmingly elected. He
Bays Grant can carry all the states
Hayes did, and several more, and
that grant is the only Republican
who can carry any states in the
South, because Southern men will
dh.ro more and risk more to support
him th in anybody else.
Cheap Money Wiiat We Want.
The Nashville American gives the
following letter from one of the lead
ing merchants of that city :
“ Dear Sir—You are right. The
greatest and, in my estimation, the
best feature of the State bank scheme
is cheap money. What the farmers,
manufacturers and mechanics want is
not only an abundance of money, but
cheap money. They want and need
a bank that will do business upon the
old system, that fostered and sus
tained all the producing industries of
the State. They want an institution
that will loan them money for four
months at six per cent, interest.
This will give them facilities for
putting every acre of land
anjir cultivation and every wheel
in motion. Give the farmers
means to pay their hands promptly
every Saturday night until the ciops
are gathered, and you will heir no
mine of ‘farming on shares’ or ot
unmanageable labor. The great pro
ducing classes never have been nor
»vt w ill be assisted in this way by na
tional bank monopolists. They can-
Betgivo the collaterals required, and
ir they could the rate of interest is
to.i high and the loan too short to
do lb cm any good. Give us cheap
money—money so cheap that all in
dustrious men can safely borrow.’’
SOUTHERN BANNER: . 1S?8.
How the Perpetrators of the
Election Frauds have
been Cared For.
It was, says the Hartford Times,
Joliu Sherman’s promise to the hesi
tating Anderson and Don Weber
that if they would only “stand firm,”
and make false returns, a grateful
party would never forget it of them,
and they should be well “ eared for.’’
All hands have been provided for.
Let us see. There are a good roauy
of them, first and last, who were con
cerned in the Florida and Louisiana
iniquity; but they have all been
quietly looked after and “ cared for.*’
Only look at the list for the two
States:
FLORIDA.
Noyes, of Ohio—Minister to
France.
Kasson, of Iowa—Minister to Aus
tria.
McLin—Justice in New Mexico.
Governor Stearns—Commissioner
of the Hot Springs.
Dennis—In Supervising Architect’s
office.
“Judge” Cessna—Postmaster.
Black—In the Treasury.
Vance—In the Postotfice Depart
ment.
. Clerk Howell—Collector of Cus
toms.
Bowles, of Leon—In the Treasu
ry*
“ Judge ’’ Bell—Government Tim
ber Agent.
Elector Humphreys—Collector,
Pensacola.
Stearns’ Secretary—In the Treasu
ry.
Striker Maxwell—Lieutenant in
the Army.
Phelps—Commissioner to Paris.
Varnum—Receiver Land Office.
Taylor, County Clerk—In Land
Office.
LOUISIANA.
Kellogg—United States Senator
Tom Anderson—Collector ot Cus
toms.
Marks—Tax Collector. .
; Brewster—Surveyor General.
Clark—In the Treasury.
Hil!—Naval Storekeeper.
Campbell—United States District
Attorney.
Levisee—Internal Revenue Agent.
There are others. And now but a
few of them can remember how the
returns were forged. But they have
been “ well cared for.” John Sher
man seems to have taken a liberal
share. We find no fewer than eight
he has taken under his wings. And
it looks as if Mr. Hayes had “ had an
eye ’’ cn things.
Hon. Jefferson Davis.
On the recent occasion of the presen
tation to him, ai Mississsippi city, of
a gold badge and certificate of mem
bership of the Association of the
Army of Tennessee, made a stirring
speech in which he expressed bis
views on secession, the results of the
war, reconstruction, &c. In alluding
to politics of the present time and
the future of the government, he
said :
It was no part of my purpose, as
has already been shown, to discuss
the politics of the day, though the
deep interest, which I must ever feel
in the affairs of the country, has not
allowed me to ignore them, and will
net permit me to be unobservant of
passing events, or indifferent to
THE HUMILIATING EXPOSURES
to which the Federal government has
of late been subjected. Separated
■from any active participations in
public affairs, I may not properly
judge of those who have to bear the
heat and burden of the day. Repre
senting no one, it would be quite un
reasonable to hold any other respon
sible for the opinions which I may en
tertain. How or when a restoration
of the government to the principles
and practices of its earlier period
may be accomplished, it is not given
ns to foresee. For me it remains on
ly earnestly to hope and hopefully to
believe though I may not see it, that
THE RESTORATION WILL COME
To disbelieve this, is to discredit
the popular intelligence and integrity
on which self government must ne
cessarily depend. Though severely
triet£ my faith in the people is not
lost, and I trust, though I should not
live to see the hope realized, that it
will be permitted me to die'believing
that the principles on which our fath
ers founded their government
WILL FINALLY PREVAIL
throughout the land, and the ends
for which it was instituted yet be at
tained and rendered as perpetual as
many institutions may be.- I have
said we may not see how this may
be brought to pass, but it is not so
difficult to determine what means are
needful to secure the result. First to
order and importance—for it is the
cornerstone of the edifice—the elec
tive franchise must be intelligently
and houestly exercised let there be no
class legislation, low taxes, low sala
ries, no perquisites, aud let the offi
cial be held to a strict a Countability
to his constituents.
NEPOTISM AND GIFT'»taKJNO
by a public agent deserves the sever
est censure, aud the bestowal oi the
people’s offices as a reward for parti
san service should he held as a gross
breach of trust. Let not such offense
be comloned for. In a government
of the people there can be no abuses
permissible as useful counter-acting
each other. Truth and’justice and
honor presided at the birth of cur
Federal Union, end. its mission can
only be performed by their continual
attendance upon it. For this there
is not needed a condition of human
perfectibility, but only so much of
virtue as will control voice aud teach
the mercenary and self seeking that
power, and distinction, ninl honor,
will be awarded to patriotism, capac
ity and integrity. To your self sac
rificing, self-denying defenders of im
perishable truths and inalienable
rights, I look for the performance of
whatever men can do for the welfare
and happiness of the country.
The only medical college for ne
groes is in Nashville. It has an am
ple endowment.
The Michigan agricultural college
youths are armed witfC* Springfield
breech-loaders. ;?f
The Washington Post says when
Ben Butler is waked up suddenly he
is obliged to ask his private secretary
which party he belongs to, and the
clerk replies: “ The other party,
sir.”
Ben Butler is fighting Presidt ut
Hayes, who found out that ButLr’s
brother-in-law, Parker, was postmas
ter at New Orleans and bounced him
So he had a brother iti-law, too, in a
snug office all these years! Sly man,
that Butler.
New York, July 25, 3 a. m.—A
letter from Havana says: “ The yel
low fever is making its usual havoc at
this season of the year, and a large
number of cases arc reported from
the military and other hospitals.”
The heated term throughout the
North wound up with a grand exhi
bition of fire-works in the way ol
thunder and lightning. Many houses
ses were struck l»y lightning and
burned, and many people were killed.
The melancholy intelligence reach
es us that George II. Butler, a neph
ew of Benjamin, has been put in j »il
in Washington for stealing a suit of
clothes. The nephew seems to in
herit all the virtues of the uncle, but,
somehow or other, he lacks his
shrewdness.
F. J. Moses, ex-G »v. of South
Carolina, after falling so low that
there was none so mean as to do him
reverence, has now lost the last and
dearest prop to man. His wile has
sued for and obtained a divorce, the
the decree having been glinted by
Judge Thompson, at Sumter.
Mention of the Berlin Congress In •
been found in the Bible, in Zachariah,
viii., 23, as follows: “In those days,
it shall come to pass that ten men
shall take hold of all langnages of the
nations, even shall take hold of the
skirt of him that is a jew, saying, we
will go with you.”
The present growing crop of cot
ton is estimated at about five and a
half millions, some of the estimates
going a good deal higher. We fear
that the result of these figures will be
to keep cotton very low all this fall,
while our planters lave it to sell.
'Georgia News.
The Georgia State Fair opens at
Macon, October 28ih. and continues
six days.
The Georgia railroad will build
new offices immediately, which, the
Evening News says, will be a great
improvement.
Gov. Colquitt has accepted the
resignations of Major Jordan F.
Brooks, and Adjutant Albert S. Ba
con, of.the first Regiment.
In Georgia there were during the
past six months 88 failures, with lia
bilities amounting to $1,523,562,
against ;'.6 failures, liabilities $703,-
629, during the first six months of
1877.
Henry Jones, a colored farmer liv
ing on the plaster farm, near Peach
tree creek in Fulton county, whipped
his ten-year old son to death for run
ning away. Jones was arrested and
committed to jail, to answer the
charge of murder.
The grand jury of Bibb county
found a bill of indictment against the
late bankers, Messrs. Cubbedge,
Hazlehurst <fc Co. The offence ot
which they stand accused is cheating
and swindling. Messrs. Good, Small I
& Co., are the prosecutors.
EUijay Courier: We want to
live long enough to see the
last vestige of this Independent
fraud dead and buried and a hickory
poje raised on the coffin to keep the
iid down. There are but two nation
al parties that can hope to have any-
tiling but an ip'itiucral existence oil
this continent for years to come.
Mr. D. U. Creech, of Quitman, or
dered two packages of wrapping pa
per—tme of them was all right, the
other looked rather strange and on
examination turned out to be six bolts
of silk, worth some $1200 or $1500.
We fear our friend D. R. will find
somebody hunting up that silk be
fore long*
Tbe work on the Elberton Air
Line road is progressing, notwith
standing the delivery of iron has been
delayed for several days. Franklin
county will have three depots, name
ly: Martin, Lavonia and Royston.
Martin is near what is known as the
Furguson place, Lavonia at Burgess’
and all know where Royston is lo
cated.
A Bright Prospect for Mercer
University. —We are pleased to
learn that the indications are very fa
vorable for a full opening of the next
collegiate year of this excellent in
stitution. All the rooms and dormi
tories attached to the University
have already been bespoken, and the
outlook is exceedingly cheerful.
We learn that very shortly the
popular and energetic president of
the University, Dr. Battle, will make
a tour through those counties and
sections of country which are ttafo-
rally tributary to Mercer, and appeal
to the people to send in their sons
that they may be properly educated
and qualified for future usefulness.
The catalogue of the University
shows a curriculum of study equal in
character and completeness to any
in the South.— Telegraph <£• 3lessen -
ger.
Tliomaslon Enterprise: On lust
Tuesday evening a little daughter of
Judge Oliphant, about four years
old, while at play showed sudden and
alarming symptoms of suffocation.
It was evident that something had
passed from the month into the wind
pipe for it was with the greatest difi-
culty that she could breathe. Vari
ous remedies were used with the
hope of dislodging the foreign body
but without effect. She remained iu
this truly distressing condition till the
next morning when the operation of
tracheotomy was performed and a
part of a broken glass ear bob ex
tracted. Fefore the operation was
completed, all signs of animation had
become suspended, and she was pro
nounce 1 dead. The operator, Dr.
E. A Flewellen, notwithstanding,
went ahead—completed the cut into
the win 1-pipe and then resuscitated
the pat'ent by artificial respiration.
The chi d is cow running about and
in a few days tbe wound will be en
tirely healed and she perfectly well.
B H. WALTON, EDITOR,
Our Hall.
We presume that it is our duty to
say something about our Hall. Some
mouths ago there was a committee of
three appointed to raise a fund suffi
cient, if possible, to repair, to a limi
ted extent, the condition of our hall
It was onr intention to have this re
pairing done ere the meeting of the
Moot Parliament and the workmen
promised faithfully that they would
have the work done by that time,
but owing to some cau.-e unknown
the work is still untouched. Iu no
ticing the condition of our Hall, we
find that in the first place it needs a
new loof, and until this is done all
the work on the ceiling is lost. We
may patch the leaks, but this will on
ly be a temporary repair, for soon
tbe crumbling will commence in an
other place. Then a goodly portion
of the moulding and paneling in
front is sadly in need of repair.
Now, in behalf of the committee, we
w'll state that they have succeeded
in raising money enough to patch
the roof in three places and repair
the ceiling. Now we would like for
some member of the faculty in ma
king the report to the Trustees to as
sist us in obtaining u small appropri
ation for the repair of our Hall.
This Hall is connected with the Col.
lege and while it may rn>t be claimed
as belonging to the College, yet it is
upon the College grounds and under
the same control. Just now we urge
this for the simple reason that the
Society is not able, from her own
funds, to repair the building, and its
utility is sufficient to urge the neces
sity of its being kept in good order.
Now as it is, it will not require much,
but continued decay will soon place
it in such a condition as to require a
considerable amount. So we hope
that some one will assist us iu laying
our wants before the Board of Trus
tees in such a manner that still may
Vhe time-honored institution prosper
and maintain its position as in days
ot yore.
News.
Was there ever a set of young men
so intensely interested in what the
world is pleased to term news ? Every
corner is decked with a half dozen
students and the never ceasing ques
tion is applied to every new comer,
total's the news I Demosthenes chided
the ancient Greeks for being forever
in the streets, running from one
group to another, desiring to know the
latest news, but from his description
nothing among the ancient Greeks
could possibly equal the insatiable
thirst for something that is new. And
when after many unsuccessful at
tempts they at last strike some one
who has heard of some trifliug little
incideut, how they will crowd around
him with ears intent to glean every
feature of news possible, and then like
the great sower each strides indifferent
directions to spread the sweet morsel,
that all may enjoy the luxury. Thus
the average college boy spends his
time. This, to a certain extent, ex
plains the cause of the seeming dull*
ness from the time the students finish
reciting to Commencement. Had
they not better employ their time in
reading gome good books? Wears
not advocates for novel reading, but
will urge even the indulgence of dime
novels as a better educator than this
incessant asking after and seeking into
the novelties of the day. The former
will fill up the head with a set of
imaginative stories while the latter
will only reck the mental resources
without gratification to the student
and without any return for his trouble
in neither experience, command of
language nor increase of mental love.
There is to be an exercise in drilling
during Commencement for the benefit
of visitors We are glad that this de
partment will be represented, for it
appears to be the only department not
represented. Wejhave a Blue-List to
show the relative standing of the young
men in all other branches. We would
suggest that the commission officers
should be noted in our Catalogues.
Society.
There is an enjoyment in this
sphere, that can not be substituted in
any other ; we find grand aud inter-
| esting truths in books, but here we
j find them clothed with a vivacity that
forever excludes the idea that lie, who
reads ouly, can in the course of time,
realize both improvement and enjoy
ment. There are peculiarities in the
culture of thebook-worin that israrely
found in the person who frequents the
society of intelligent young ladies.
Some claim that *• calico” and hooks
do not harmonize ; but on this point
we beg to differ from the assertion.
To the student there must necessarily
be some time spent in recreation and
where can the student find more en
joyment than to turn from text books
and pour his very soul into the dis
cussion of some point or discanting
upon some interesting topic with the
young ladies? We admit that ex
tremists never succeed at anything—
when they erler society it is at the
expense of everything else. When
they do, which is seldom, determine
to study it is at the expense of health
and physical culture; and in the end
mental aud physical prostration is the
result. No, we desire a life, not re
galed in all the beauties that an
excited imagination can picture, nor
one that is entirely murky with gloom,
but a life ot interest, with enough toil
to give interest to past time and vigor
to society, with enough relaxation to
inervate the mental system. One
position gives both -study gives us an
appetite for the charming society of
the young ladies, and their society
prompts us to strive to acquire as
much as we well can carry from the
great store house of knowledge.
H. II. J. of the Macon Telegraph
& Messenger, in a late issue of that
paper brings out ail article iu which
occurs the pliras *, “reduced our no
ble University to its present
straights.'” This gentleman is no
doubt gifted with profound learning.
He has been for several years Chair-,
man of the Board of Visitors to the
University of Georgia, and during
those years it has been his province
to inspect the examination papers of
the Senior class in Belles Lettres;
and ho has taken occasion to criticise
the Seniois for their deficiency in
spelling. Now. since he spells stmits,
straights, we naturally suppose he
must be getting up a dictionary of
his own. If so, by all means let it
be adopted by the University in or
der that the students uiay get into
his way of spelling before his next
annual visit.
We are glad to see that some ar
rangement is being made by the class
ot ’68 to meet again beneath the
protecting roofs of their Alma Mater.
How pleasant to meet again after so
iong a separation aud talk of the
many changes that the ever varying
goddess of fortune has weighed out.
We trust that theirs may be such a
success as will encourage other classes
to “ follow suit.”
The Seniors are filing into line very
fast uow, each with his speech ; you
may readily recoguizo one of that class
by the radiant smiles with which he
greets every passer-by.
Dan McIntyre, like Demosthenes
has retired to a cave near town,
where he is preparing to astonish the
Athenian at the approaching com
mencement.
All of the students who heard Mr.
Stephens were highly delighted. We
admired bis vindication and only sigh
when we consider the tewness of
such patriotic men.
Lost! Fifteen pounds of solid flesh
during the final examination. The
finder will bo liberally rewarded by
returning the same to G. G. Sale.
Tige Anderson wishes to inform
the ladies, that no others need apply
for his photographs, as he has given
them all away.
Our friend Gross, we learn, has
located at Buena Vista, where he in
the future will wield the penile.