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ncMluy Morning:. Mnv 2, 1*77.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
FOR STATE CONVENTION.
■ Tim ninny friend* of On. O. O. OSBORNK
announce him ns n suitable ninn to ropreanut them in
tlio Constitutional Convention.
T in- friend* af Ma and H. MELTON M
notuteo him an n candidate for the Constitutional Con
vention.
The friend* of Catt. JO MX PKKK announce
him a* a suitable man to represent thin County in
fi.„ r,.„.,iii..i|., n i Convention.
The Turko-Russian War.
The war dogs have been let loose nt
last, and the first battle of the campaign
was nt Kars between the Turk sand their
late enemies the Montenegrins, in which
the latter were defeated. Heavy forces
of Russians are advancing upon Turk
ish territory from different j oints, and
we may listen for stirring news from the
East at an early day. The effect the
war will have upon the commercial in
terests of the "United States is now agi
tating the minds of the newspapers, and
our loading commercial men. Some
say the South will be seriously hurt,
while others affirm that it will make
business brisk sill over the United States ;
but however that may be, common sense
indicates that the proper course for far
mers to jHirsue, is to be mire to raise their
own breadstuffs and meat, before jdant
ing cotton. This is the safest and best
plan, even if the blood of Turks and
Russians does not flow.
Let Us Have a Convention.
Yes let us have a Convention and a
new Constitution. There are many
changes which an honest and intelligent
body of men could arrange for the pros
perity of a great State like Georgia, and
let us elect men untram moled and quit
talking about removing the Capital and
all such things. Of course sensible peo
ple don’t want it removed to some cross
road stand or old dilapidated village.
Atlanta is easy of access and is the Me
tropolis and pride of the State.
With her enterprise, liberality and
splendid hotel accommodations, no place
in the State is half as suitable.
Jfei)'" It seems to be :i well established
fact that the ultra Republicans of the
country, under the leadership of the
howling Blaine, will make an attack
against the continuation of President
Ha yes’ peace policy. Already have
the daring leaders mapped out their
course, ami the war upon the adminis
tration will be relentless. Peace would
destroy the occupation of the leaders of
the bloody-shirt policy; discord and an
archy must be re-established at all haz
ards. The prosperity and happiness of
the people are secondary considerations
with these selfish creatures. We may
expect lively times, and Hayes will
have it in his power to show whether he
has the backbone to carry out his policy
of peace and brotherly love. When
Congress meets, then comes the tug of
war. Uneasy is the pillow of a fraudu
lent President.
Bk#” Following the withdrawal of the
troops from Louisiana, comes the grati
fying intelligence that Packard has,
like Chamberlain, given up the fight,
and Niciioll’s has in his possession the
State House and all the appurtenances
of the State Government. Packard’s
valedictory, like that of Chamber
lain’s, was full of sophistry, and re
flected upon Hayes in unmeasured
terms. But Louisiana is free —thanks
to a fraudulent President.
fiaT Hon. Thomas Chymes, editor
of the Toccoa Hamid, authorizes us to
say that he is not a candidate for the
Constitutional Convention.
Shf" The colored men of South Car
olina are flocking to the support of the
Hampton Government. They are
tired of earjict-bag rule, and will, in the
future, unite with their Democratic
friends to secure recognition of able and
conscientious men as their legislators.
The people of the South have been so
plundered by the Northern scoundrels,
that they have determined in future to
have their States ruled by their own
people.
The Kneel of War in thin Country.
If cut York Sun.
Though our commercial relations with
1 the two belligerents are comparatively in
significant, the clash of arms in the East
cannot but have an immediate and consid
j erablc bearing upon American commerce.
Oflate years Russia, and Turkey and her
appanages, have furnished England and
the Continent —principally England—with
an average yearly supply of grain, amount
ing in the agregatc to about 45.000,000
! bushels. This supply will not only be cut
off. but the two belligerents, with probably
together not less than a million and a half
of men in the held to feed, will be con
stantly in the market as buyers of grain
and provisions.
Any grain deficiency in Europe, arising
i from war or other causes, must be sub
| stantially supplied from the United States.
Owing to the perfect system of cheap rail
and water transportation from the grain
growing districts of the West to the Atlan
tic seaboard. American grain has oflate
years steadily crowded Russian cereals
from British markets. In the present in
stance no other grain-growing country can
successfully compete with us in supplying
an extraordinary demand for breadstuffs
for military consumption. This enlarged
export of grain and provisions promises
more money to our agricultural classes,
increased activity to railroad business, and
a probable revival to some other branches
of industry.
The sending abroad of dressed meat and
live stock, which has grown so rapidly du
ring the last eighteen months, will he in
creased by the Itussian-Turkish war. As
vet there is no demand for American fresh J
beef upon the Continent, but it is under
stood that several speculations are now
abroad with the intention of introducing
it ; and we have heard that the German
steamers will soon be fitted up with refri
gerators for the export of fresh beef, the
same as the English steamers now are.
The exportation of beef first commenced in
October. 1875. with a shipment of 36,000
pounds from this port, which had increased
to 6.262.355 pounds (valued at 8517.702 in
March last. The consumption of Ameri
can beef in England has surprised the most
sanguine shippers on this side. Within the
last forty-eight hours the largest shipper
of fresh beef in this town lias received a
telegram from a well-known and responsi
ble English house offering to take all his
shipments at sixpencec jier pound (a little
over twelve cents laid down in Liverpool.
War and war rumors have increased Eng
land’s needs in this direction. The expor
tation of fresh meat from this country is
likely soon to become a great feature of our
international trade.
But while war will probably increase our
sales for food products, it will to very near
ly the same extent check the consumption
of cotton, petroleum, and other raw mate
rials. for which Europe looks chiefly to us.
At the same time the existing prostration
of trade abroad must be greatly augment
ed by the closing of European markets,
and large lines of certain descriptions
of manufactured goods must be shipped
to this country and sold for the most they
will bring. American markets will be
come outlets for whatever is suitable in
the great centres of European trade.
The Russian Army.
A dispatch from Vienna says: The
Press publishes a letter from Jassy giving
a detailed ordre de bataille of the mobilized
portion of the Russian army both in Eu
rope and the Caucasus. It says: Concen
tration and organization is so far ready
that the forces may take the field at any
moment. The south army comprises an
active operating army of four corps d'armee,
having an effective strength of 144.000 men.
32.800 horses and 432 field guns; the
coast armv with 72.000 men. 10,400
horses and 216 guns, and the corps d'armee
in the Caucasus, reckoned at an effective
strength of 120.000 men, 25,000 horses and
352 guns. This fully corresponds to the
war effective as systematized by the or
ganization 0f1874.
State Mews.
Mrs. Nancy Williamson fell dead in the
streets of Jefferson last Wednesday.
Every Georgian will rejoice to learn that
Mr, Stephens is able to ride around Wash
ington.
An old negro woman, aged seventy, and
her grandson, aged eleven, were found
dead in the woods near Maxley's during
the cold snap of last week.
Mrs. It. G. Carlton, a noble Georgia
woman, died at Union Point last Saturday
night. She was a mother in our Isreal. and
leaves many friends to deplore her loss.
The following remedy for hog cholera
has been used by au East Tennessee stock
raiser with the.best results : J teaspoonful
spirits turpentine. 1 or 2 teaspoonful para
goric, 1 teaspoonful spirits camphor, (of
good alcohol.) 2 tablespoonsful whiskey.
One dose will usually cure : if not, repeat.
Sanford Gorham, of Marietta, who lias a
cow that gives six gallons of milk a day,
may consider himself and cow completely
prostrated beneath the cooling umbrageous
foliage of Spring—or. in other words “ laid
in the shade,” by a calf that the I.uinpkin
Ida.) Independent has trotted to the front.
Here is what the Independent says : ** We
1 heard yesterday of a calf that is certainly
great curiosity, it is of the A yshire breed
and is owned by (.’apt. Brit Davis, near
! Green Hill. At six months of age the
i calf,s udder became so large that it was
milked and a half a gallon of milk obtained
at the first The calf is not yet a
I year old* is not weaned and is milked reg
ularly twice a day. The milk is used fret
ly by the freemen on the place, who pro
nounce it very palatable. Bur informant
states that Captain Davis proposes to test
the milk shortly in order to ascertain if it
will make butter. We deem this the most
remarkable freak of nature of the kind
that has ever happened in the Slate of
Georgia. If there ever was a similar case,
we would like to hear of it.
The grand argument for Convention was
struck by Boh Toombs at a speech deliv
ered last week in Sparta, in which he said,
after noticing the force and fraud which
made the present constitution : •‘The main
reason for a convention is to make a ” bur
glar-proof” Constitution —one that will ef
fectually prevent, for all the future, any
more raids like Bullock and crew made.
The first and greatest objection to our pres
ent constitution is that it is the result of
force and fraud, and was not made bv our
people, thus destroying the foundation
principles of self-government and civil lib
crt3 r . Only fools and bad men oppose the
convention; the first because they lack
wisdom to understand the situation, and
the latter because they want the door left
open to steal the State's money.”
lion. 11. P. Bell, Congressman elect in
the ninth district, says that a Southern
Democrat can never endorse a usurper of
the Presidency nor accept office under him.
The argument of Hon. B. 11. Ilill, in the
Kberliart murder case, at the Oglethorpe
Superior Court last week, is said to have
been one of the ablest efforts of his life.
lion. George T. Marshall, a member of
the Legislature from Terrell County, is
dead. lie was buried in Dawson, and the
obsequies were of the most inposing char
acter.
Miss Ethel Hatton, of Augusta, the
charming young poetess and scholar, car
ries off the class valedictory among the
Seniors of theJ.ucy Cobb Institute at
Athens.
James Redpath, the snagle-toothed spy
who was sent south by Greedy just before
the war to work out a line of march for
John Brown’s incendiaries is still keeping
himself before the public. In the South he
was a peddler, sprinter and editor, and
marched through the country single file—
too mercenary to be honest, and too con
servative to be brave. His latest attack is
on Hayes, in which he charges that the
Hon. Alexander 11. Stephens controls the
government. We might gain some conso
lation for this fact, if Hayes is to be be
lieved.
DISSOLUTION.
rjIHE COPARTNERSHIP heretofore existing be
ll tween the undersigned, under the Ann name of
THE HARTWKLTj STEAM SAW MILL COM
PANY. is hereby dissolved by mutual eonsent by
the withdrawal of 1). C. Alford, having disposed of
his interest to Dr. W. A. Shelton. The business
will be conducted as heretofore.
E. P. BRADLEY,
L. O. WILLIFORD,
May 1, 1877 D. C. ALFORD.
The undersigned regrets tlio circumstances that
severs his connection with the above gentlemen,
w hieh has been of the most pleasant and harmonious
nature.
D. C. ALFORD.
DISSOLUTION.
rpnE COPARTNERSHIP heretofore I'xinting be-
X tween the uiidersiirned. under the firm name
and style of PEEK, STEPHENSON A. CO., was dis
solved. l>y mutual consent, on the 2d dav of April,
isn. The hooks are in the hands of W. R. Stephen
son, and all persons indebted to the late firm are re
quested to make settlement at oneo, either by cash or
note. JOHN' PEEK.
\YM. R. STEPHENSON,
36-09 THUS. H. ROBERTS.
DERANGEMENTS OF LIVER,
AND BOWELS.
A MATCHLESS FAMILY MEDICINE com
pounded from vegetable ingredients which are re
garded as standard remedies of the Materia? Mediea
actual experience confirm and has established this
compound as far superior to others claiming like
character. SIMMONS HEPATIC COMPOUND
lias nothing in its composition that can possibly in
jure the most delicate. Its taste is not unpleasant,
does not nauseate or gripe, and yet it acts on the
Liver and Bowels just as effectually as Calomel or
any of the preparations of mercury, without injuring
the constitution or debilitating the system. Many
people suffer with Torpid Liver and Constipated
Bowels and require something to stimulate these or
gans. From some peculiarity of constitution, they
cannot take calomel or blue mass. To such Simmon's
Hepatic Compound will be invaluable. It does not
produce large watery actions that weaken and de
press, hut acts mildly, producing no depression. It
simply stimulates nature to act. Heuee how invalu
able to the sufferer.
Try it and you will he satisfied.
For wdo by Druggists and Dealers.
DOW IE & MOISE,
Wholesale Druggists,
36-3 ft Charleston. S. C.
EDDLEMAN & MOWN,
BOOTS, SHOES, LEATHER,
Also, MANUFACTURERS OF BOOTS AND SHOES.
Mtorcs 32 Pcnclilrcv AOl V. Illt. liall NtmtN. and Slioo Factory, OH Uroad Nlrooi,
ATLANTA. (IKOKUIA.
rp* Special attention given to filling orders, and satisfaction guaranteed. (Mi-HO
L. PASSANO & SONS,
IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN
WHITE GOODS, NOTIONS, HOSIERY,
Gloves, Trimmings and Small Wares,
268 WEST BALTIMORE STREET,
BAL TIMORE.
J. C. CARTER,
WHOLESALE GROCER,
51 & 53 EAST ALABAMA ST.,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
- rnm l
Orders from Prompt Paying Merchants So
licited.
Will Guarantee Prices as Low as any Respon
sible House in this City,
„ J. C. CARTER.
SPRING, 1817.
M. (1. k J. COHEN.
OFFER this season UNPRECEDENTED BAR
GAIN >S in every department of their extensive
business. Immense lines of
DRY GOODS,
Clothing;,
Hats,
Shoes,
Matting;,
Fancy Hoods,
Furnishing; Hoods,
NOTIONS,
At such LOW PRICES as will please the closest
buyers.
Samples sent on application.
Remember,
NO. 5 BROAD STREET,
ATHENS, aA.
COHEN'S IKICE LIST:
Best Calico 7c
Fine Yard-Wide Bleached. 10c
Elegant All Linen Towels 25c
Beautiful Striped Piques 10c
Ladies' All-Silk Fringed Ties 25 to 35c
Fine Victoria Lawn 15 to 20c
Striped Victoria Lawn 20 to 25c
Elegant Summer Undervest 50c
Ladies’White llose—Extra Length 12J
Men’s Brown English Half nose 12J
Fine Hamburg Edging and Inserting 5 to 25c
Ladies’ Fine Cloth Gaiters $1.25 to $2.00
Men’s All Wool Suits SIO.OO
Men’s All Wool Suits—Fine *12.00 to $15.00
And Immense Lots of other Goods, at correspond
indly Loir Prices. 35-38
HIDES, HIDES.
Tirii will from this date barter. Boots. Shoes,
W Leather, &e.. for Hides, and allow a very
reasonable price for the same.
30-H J. W. AVERS A SON
E. B. B.
& Cos.
5000 yards prettiest and best Calicoes
ever sold in Georgia at 12 yards for
61.00. E. B. BENSON (& CO.
Cottonades, Cassimeres, Cashmarets,
and Tweeds at E. B. BENSON & CO.
Sheetings, Shirtings, Checks, Linens
for Ladies’ Dresses and Gent’s Coats at
E. B. BENSON & CO.
Men’s Hats, cheap as you want them,
at E. B. BENSON & CO.
“ Hampton Collars.” He who wears
them will never be hung and may be
President of the United States
E. B. BENSON & CO.
t
We have too great a variety of goods
to begin to mention in an advertisement.
“ For Cash ” we have no price, the bot
tom has fallen out.
E. B. BENSON & CO.
T)R. A. J. MATHEWS,
SURGEON AND PHYSICIAN,
FIRST FLOOR MASONIC IIALL,
1 HARTWELL, GA.