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W. V. OMSSSHER, Editor.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, '81.
TO POSTMASTERS.
When newspapers are not called for It !• made
he duty of Postmaster* under the law to notify
the proprietor* of tbl* fact. Cards, already print*
«d, ore furnished on application to tho Postmaster,
whose only duty will be to fill ont with the name
of the party not retting the paper.
David Davis says be stands be.
tween the two parties—Democrat'
10 and Republican. Perhaps that
is what keeps them so wide apart
Doctors do agree, says the De<
troit Free Press, more than they
nro supposed to. There’s Dr.
Wm. A. Ifnmmond, lie agrees with
Guitcau that the doctors killed Gar
field.
Tho Ishroaelilo puts it down
right when it says, that the only
protection the Southern people
want is protection against monoply.
The text is brief, hut the sermon
long.
The Yorktown correspondent of
the Detroit Post declares positively
that-Goneral Hancock did order
brigadier general’s saluto in honor
of Fitzhugh Leo, and is very indig
nant.
Tlie Augusta News observes that
“Augusta is more than ever anxi
ous to boost up the ticket ofliluine
and Brown. The gentlomun from
Maine shall not go without ajnli if
wo can help him along.”
A track laying machine is used
on the extension of Mncon and
Brunswick railroad at Macon. It
lays down tho cross-ties and rails
in proper position, and only the
spikes aro driven by iinnd.
Macon cotton merchants nro sit
perstitious about organ grindors.
They declare that whenever one of
these gentry puts in an appear
ance in that city the price of the
staple falls immediately.
Rev. Honrv Ward Bcolicr, in a
letter to tho New York Tribune
referring to the assnssin Guitcau
lays down the proposition that “lie
who is Banc enough to organize the
elements of a crimo enii accomplish
it, is sano enough to be hanged.”
John Sherman now favors
tlirco per cent, bond, subject to
Federal taxation, though one year
ago he professed to believe that a
tlirco per cent, bond free from tax-
ation, could not be floated. The
bondholders would rather have cv.
cn a tlirco per cent bond than the
debt paid otT.
Twenty-five years ago James G.
Blaine began public life with about
$500. He is now said to he worth
$1,000,000, and on the 1st of Janu
ary will inhabit an $80,000 man
sion Itirnishod at a cost of $25,000.
Blaine and John Sherman under
stood Republican methods of mak
ing politics pay.
It is a little singular that all the
groat crops of the country whioli
enter iuto commerce and form the
bulk of tho railroad freights arc so
short, and yet tho volume of rail
road business is larger than was
ever before known and all the roads
are making the most extravagant
dividends. And yet the railroads
want to wipe ont the Railroad Com
mission!
The new liquor law which sliort-
. ly goes into elltct in Indiana makes
tlie dealer and tho buyer equally
liable and responsible. Dealers
who sell to drunkards arc fined for
the first and second olfenccs, and
for the third olfencc arc liable to
imprisonment and disfranchise
ment, and persons guilty of drunk
enness are served exactly tue same
way. The law makes no distinc
tion between the two.
Mr. Ward of Pennsylvania lias
introduced into Congress a bill
providing an Assistant Secretary
of War. It is a great pity that
the War Secretary, in time of peace,
is so overburdened with business
that he cannot take care of an
army of the size of ours, with the
General and the bureaus and the
staff corps to help him. Is tho
Navy Secretary also a badly over
worked man on account of our
enormous fleets?
The London Times is excited by
Mr. Blaine’s proposal to a annul
tho Clayton-Bulwer treaty;' but it
Is not too mod to make a little
prophecy which may become histo
ry before any isthmus canal is’com
pleted. It says: “Mr. Blaine’s case,
however, is stronger in some ways
then he ventures to make it, as the
time must arrive when the weak
Central America counties will be
absorbed by the United States and
the coast line will oxtend to the
full limits that Mr. Blaine fanci
fully indicates.
It seems to be well within the
probabilities that the famous iron
clad oath', enacted in July, 1862,
which no longer serve any good
purpose, and encumbers the revis
ed statutes as section 1756, will be
swept away during the present
session of congress. Senator Beck
has introduced a bill for its repeal,
and the changed political tone is
favorable to its speedy passage.
At present in swearing in members
of the house the operation with re
spect to a considerable number has
practically to bo performed twice,
involving a useless loss of time.
A bill has been introduced in the
Legislature of Kentucky which
provides that a convention to re
vise the Constitution of the State
shall be called if at the next Au
gust election it shall appear that a
majority of the votes cast upon the
proposition shall be in its favor.
Tlie present constitution, wbicli
was framed in i860, prescribed an
impracticable condition for calling
siipli a convention, which is that a
majority of all the voters in the
State shall vote in its favor. The
supporters of tho present move
ment rely uponjthe inherent rights
of the people to alter or reform
their government at such time as
tiicy may think proper.
Tlie regulation defence of tlie
murderer was formerly “emotional
insanity,” lint Guitcau proposes to
change it to “inspiration.” Al
ready a Massachusetts barber 1ms
mitated Guitcau’s crime by raur
del ing his sleeping wife for no reas
on than that “something crossed
his mind and told him to do it.”
for all such people, and tliero is
need for its stern enforcement, or
murder by “inspiration” will lie'
come an epidemic in tho land.
Tlie only remedy for such abolition
of crime is tho execution of the “in
spiration” murderers ns fast as
they come along. Tho lesson of
tho gibbet will speedily arrest tho
crank murder trade. There may
bo reasonable differences of opin
ion in regard to capital punishment
for any crime, but while the law
dooms the murderer to death the
cunning crank must not evade its
terrible judgment.
“Puck” for the current week has
cartoon of Grant as a “sturdy
beggar ’’applying witlijextcnded hat
Mrs. Columbia’s door for“moro.”
He carries a basket filled with the
profits of two terms,” a blanket
tied about his neck filled with the
presents from all over the world,
o bugs one marked $250,000, tlie
other $100,000 from merchants,
while bis dog “Logan” henrs in
mouth “a hill to place U. S. Grant
tlie retired list.” One leg is
carried on a knee crutch, having
been “wounded at the Chicago con
vention.” The title reads: “Our
Perennial Pauper,” and Columbia
exclaims: “\V lint, begging again?"
its comments upon the cartoon,
Puck remarks: “It was probably
one of the mast expensive things
the country ever did to put this
gentleman in command of thu army
during tlie war, because he has
never forgotten it, and is deter
mined that we never shall,” etc.
Another cartoon represents Gui-
teau standing by a guide-post,
whose four arms point to It lunatic
asylum, to suicide, to a tree with a
rope on it—lynch law—and to the
gallows. Common sense stands in
the way of his going to the asy
lum; Vigilance guards him from
suicide; Law from lynching, while
Retribution points to the gallows
ns “the only road for him.”
The Gnltean Cue.
The Philadelphia ZYmes in speak
ing of the Guiteau case, says: Pro
foundly as the nation was shocked
by the atrocious murder of Presi
dent Garfield, the trial of the crim
inal has been delayed until the so
ber reflection of the people had
taught the supreme necessity of
trying and judging Guiteau with
the same fairness that would be ac
corded to any ordinary offender
and it has been done. Indeed,
many have hesitated and striven
to resolve doubts in favor of the
assassin, lest the stain of judicial
murder should lie stamped upon
the Republic.
We have noted the testimony
with care, from the beginning to
the close, and weighed dispassion
ately tlie daily exhibitions of the
prisoner, so methodically aimed to
shield himself from legal responsi
bility for his act; and the conclu
sion is irresistible that Guiteau is
legally and morally responsible and
should be convicted and punished
as murderer. If the evidence has
made the same impression upon
the jurors that it has made upon
tlie public, tliero can be no reason
able doubt of a verdict declaring
him a deliberate assassin, who is
Justly answerable to thi law for
his appalling crime.
Colton.
According to the Financial
Chronicle of tho 17th, the total re
ceipts of cotton for tho week end
ing on Friday last were 236,576
bales. Receipts for the same week
last year 238,490 bales, showing a
falling off of 1,914 baics.
The total receipts from Septem
ber 1st to last Friday night were
2,739,603. In 1880, 3,019,684.
Tlicso figures show a falling off
from last year of 280,081 bales,
and an increase as compared with
1879 of 65,345 bales, and increase
compared with 1878 of 353,448
bales.
The total visiblo supply was 2,-
827, 866 bales. In 1880 it was at
same date 2,606,648 bales, and in
1879 2,466,302 bales.
Tlie above figures indicate an in
crease in the cotton in sight of
221,218 hales as compared with
last year, and an increase of 361
564 bales as compared with 1879
and an increase of 516,580 bales
as compared with 1878.
New Convicts.
Six persons all colored, were sen
tenced at the last term of our coart,
which adjourned on Wednesday
last. William Jones convicted of
burglary, was given ten years. This
is the negro from Dooly who some
time ago broke into tbedwelling of
Mr. T. J.Beverly. Allen Ross who
attempted to rape one of his own
color, received a just reward of fif
teen years. Ches, Ned and Frank
Turner, convicted of stealing cot
ton, were each sent np for fear
years; Frank Tamer bad just serv
a term oat in the chain gang. Ben
and John Shivers were given six
months each in chain gang, a fine,
for loitering about the streets of
our city. Abe Rodgers, the color
ed man, who sometime ago severe
ly beat a Mr. Clark, was acquitted.
The case of the State vs. Joseph
llobbs and Zaeh Worsham, accused
of arson, was continued on account
of the absence of a witness —Mont
ezuma Weekly.
Guiteau was astounded when he
heard that the stalwart leaders had
denounced his crime. Proof is ac
cumulating that the wretch is per
fectly sane.
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A. M.
lariinali, Florida aid Western Railway
Ukneral Superintendent's Office, )
tiAVAKHAU, November 20, 1881. f
IXN AND AFTER SUNDAY, Novefnber 20th,
U 18*1, Pasaenger trains on this road will run
as follows:
Leave Bavannali dally at...l 11.00 A. M.
Leave Juasnp dally ut 1.20 P. M.
Leave Waycrosa dally at 2.42 P M.
Arrive at Callahan dally at 4.43 P. M.
Arrive at Jacksonville cfally at 6.30 P. M.
Leave Jacksonville daily at 9.00 A M.
Leave Callahan dally ai 9.60 A. M.
Arrive at Waycroaa daily at.
Arrive at Jessup dally at...
Arrive at Savannah dully; ml
Drawing room coaches between Savannnh.and
Jacksonville on tbla train.
Passengers from Savannah for Brunswick take
this train arriving at Brunswick 6.00 p. m.
Passengers leave Brunswick st 10.16 a m. t arriv
at Savannah 8.40 p. m.
Passengers leaving Macon at 7.80 n. m.. (dally),
connect at Jessup with the tr In for Florida.
Passengers from Florida by this train cannect
at Jessup with train arriving in Macon st 7.60 p.
Folkston, Callahan and Jacksonville.
JACKSONVILLE EXPRESS.
Lcavo Savannah dally at 11.00 P. M
Leave .Tessqp “ 2.45 .A M 1
Leave Waycross “ 4.45 A. M.
Arrive at Callahan “ 7.00 A. M.
Arrive at Jacksonville '* 8.00 A.M.
Arrive at Live Oak dally (except Sun*
day)at.... ....11.80 AM.
Lcavo Live Osk dally (except Sunday) 2. to P. M.
Leave Jacksonville dally st 8.00 1*. M.
Leave Callahan *• 7.10 P. M.
Lcavo Wnyc.-OBS 44 9.65 p. M.
Arrive at Jessup “ 11.40 P.M.
Arrive at Savannah 44 2.35 A. M
jpy - v
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DRY GOODS I
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stops only at Jessup, Waycrosa,
Jacksonville, Cincinnati and Jacksonville, and
Montgomery and Jacksonville.
Passengers for Florida by this train connect st
Jessup with train arriving at ” - -
dally.
7 a. m.,
Passengers for Darien take this train.
Passengers from Savannah for Brunswick taki
ng this train arrive at Brunswick 5.30 a. m.
Passengers leaving Brunswick 9.00 p. m., arrive
A man by tbo name of Brogdeu,
a violator Of the law in Cobb coun
ty and for whom there was a re
ward of fifty dollars offered, was _ _ _
arrested in Rome Monday night I ing them to' cease following his'eir
by two policemen. |cus.
Taxes to support tbo United
States government are of several
kinds. No direct tax upon prop
erty is collected at all. The
amount of property, therefore, that
a man possesses lias nothing to do
with the amount lie may contribute
to the support of tlie government.
Nearly all of the $400 000,000 of
rovenuc raised by the government
is tlie result of the salo of stamps
through tlie internal rovenuo do-
partment and of import duties
collected through tho treasury de
partment at the various custom
houses. Apart from tho proceeds
of stamps and the tariff on import
ed goods, a few millions aro col
lected on band deposits, circula
tion bank stock, from tobacco and
liquor dealers as licenses, and from
sales of publio lands, etc. There
is no tax on incomes now. The
amount a citizen pays towards tlie
support of tlie government docs
not depend at all upon kis wealth
or whether he have any property
whatever. It depends entirely upon
how much stamped or imported
goods lie consumes; or, more ac
curatcly, upon the amount cl goods
he consumes, whether stamped or
unstamped, foreign or domestic,
for the cost of ail articles which
arc the fruit of labor is enhanced
by the taxes named
One of our most notorious states
men carries an Irish potato in bis
pocket as a preventive of rheu
matism. The time will come when
this remedy will be more widely
recognized.
Atlanta is scared up on a small
pox sensation. ■ All the people are
being vaccinated and the doctors
are busy. They expect it to break
out there at any moment. ‘
On Friday last a row between
somo of Coup’s show-men and the
“three can! monte” men, occurred
in Perry just as the street proces
sion was over. One man got his
eye put out and another got bis
teeth terribly shattered, supposably
by brass knucks. The affair was
compromised by Mr. Coop’s pay-
tssso tigers iroin oavannan xor oiuaison, mon-
licollo, Tallahassee and Quince? take this trail*.
Passengers from Qulniey, Tallahassee, Monti*
eollo and Madleon tako this train, meet'ng sleep
ing cara at Waycross at 9.38 p. m.
ALBANY EXPRESS.
Lcavo Savannah dally $tt 5.10 P. M.
Lcavo Jeaiup •* 8.U5 P. M.
Lcavo Waycrosa
Leave DuPont
4.40 P.
4.80 P.
8.30 P. M.
1.05 A M.
vo Batnbridge
Arrlvo Albany
Leave Albany
Leave Balnbrldgo
Leave Thonuavllle
Arrive DuPont
Arrive Waycrosa
Arrive Jeesnp
Arrive Savannah 44
Sleeping cara betwcou Sevanuah and
vlllo by this train.
Moll steamer leaves Bainbrldgo every Thursday
nd Sunday for Apalatchacola and Columbus.
Connection at Albany daily with passenger
rains both ways on tho Southwestern Railroad
to and from Macon, Kufaola, Montgomery, Mo-
bllo. Now Orleans, etc.
Closo connection at Jackaonville daily,(Snndays
excepted) Ifor Green Cove Springs, 8t. Augus
tin*, 1'alatkn, Enterprise, Sautord, and all land
ings on St John’s river.
Trains on B. Jt A. R. It. lcavo Junction going
west, at 12.20 p. m., and for Brunswick at 3.43 p.
“h, dally except Sunday.
Through tickets sold an
and Dan wing* room car accommodations secured
at Bren's Ticket office, No. 22 Bull 8t, and nt the
Company's Depot, foot of LIoerty atreot.
J. ST TlSON. JA8. L. TAYLCR,
Master Trains. Gen’l Paaa’r Ag
R. G, FLEMING, Superintendent.
and iAmn.
Owing to an entire change in cur business
we will sell after this date
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This is not a penny catching advertisement,
but a real fact that we will SELL between
now and the first day of January any AR
TICLE in our store at real
New Prices!
BOOTS, SHOES, MTS, FUR
WISHING GOODS MD
UMBRELLAS.
house In this section, which I a selling at *
BOTTOM PRICES,
I Invito the Inspection of the public generally;
satisfied that all who purchase*.wilt be pleased.
Those who do bay will be convinced! that I
will undersell any house in Americas or any town
away Rom wholcealo markets, as 1 keep only
Goods, and New Styles.
I can salt the most fastidious in all branches of
iy stock. Country merchants n*e Invited to
ill on me as I can make it to their interest to do
•o when In need of such goods as 1 have in stock.
Coo. S, Watts.
December 16,-1 m.
ARCHITECTURE.
To Those who Coitenlate Mity:
4VEKH ANNE AND EAST LAKE
or any other of the modern styles, ao modified as
o Unit both yonr taste and your pocket.
Address B. J, BLOAN, Architect. .
FOR CASH!
Usd©?? RTo
Will Gop&p b@ Charged at
Whose Friees.
Cali and examine our prices and be con
vinced that we mean business.
& mourn & ot,
PROPRIETORS NEW YORK STORE