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Current Comments.
1 Quam dei destractavit, unaru faci Our political “white mice” seem
dementia.'’—Smith. ! droopy, despondent and soar, and act
as if they expected a spring from old
Atkins run the every minute. Cheer up gen ole-
Mr. Stephens will be the nominee of j wiU Farrow and
the Democratic party, and be elected«
Governor of Georgia. 1 “ b#g C0BW ““" ! ^
: It is evident that the small-pox is an 1 a modest P 0,ltlcian m these days of
The words “siuall-pox” are the most sprea(ling in Atlanta, t.iough everybody < rieker y and corruption will never be
interesting in the English language to , i nteres ted in that city is trying t c< n- *“ U
the A tlanta papers just now.
i ceal it.
ected to office. The battle must,
fought—be up and doing.
be
C ongress has a bill before it to re j Emory Speer seems to have b'coni''
lieve drummers from corporation taxes. ^ l00 unanimous. His chances f r re-
"1 he bill is right, and should pass . e ] ec tj on f i0 Congress is evidently grow-
promptly. ( ing smaller every day.
On the 21st inst., the State Execu-j The Atlanta cottou m ill s are to b e
tive Committee will meet in Atlanta, j po ] d at Sheriff sale s-mn. It does seem \ the cause, and the simple announcement
C.ol. J. J Jones, oi Waynesboro, is a S ( ran g e th a t Atlanta can’t make a cot- of the death of such a man is enough to
member, and will, doubtless, be in at- ton fac . expenses,
tendance. 1
i The natbe’ic letter of Mrs. Jesse
Mr. Stephens understands the con- Jamegj which has appeare d i n several
Augusta News, 15th inst : William
K. Jackson died at his residence in
Augusta about 2 o’clock this morning,
after an illness of only a lew days.
Paralysis of the brain, brought on by
an attack of typho malarial fever, was
“Home, Sweet Home.*
structnn of a sentence and the meaning
of every word better than any man in
of our State exchanges, turns out to be
the world.—Post-Appeal. ' j nothing more than an advertismg dodge.
The world is a large place, brother 1 _ , ... , , , ,
i Fancy colored infants shoes at Julian
life Co’s.—Macon Telegraph.
Could our Macon contemporary send
State Asylum, of which 223 are co'ored. ufi a 9 P ecimen C( W of those ‘‘fancy
The rate of insanity in Georgia is about ^ ccdored infants 1
le iu fifteen hundred. The principal
ises for insanity are drinking and loss
property.
Thornton.
There are now 636 patients in the
east a gloom over this who e coinmu
nity. Ail c'asses alike lament his los-.
When George Washington, who was
a delegate to the Continental Congress
from Virginia, heard bis name proposed
as the commander-in-chief of the Ameri
u
Just nineteen years ago, or in the
spring of 1863, two great armies
were encamped on either side of the
Rappahannock, one dressed in blue,
the other in gray. As tvvi ight fell
the bands on the Union side began to
olay the patriotic notes of’“The Star
Spangled Banner” and “Rally ‘Round
the Flag, Boys,” and that challenge of
mu«ic was taken up by those on the
other side, and they responded with
the equally patriotic strains of “The
Bonnie Blue Flag” and “Away Down
South in Dixie.” It was borne in
upon the soul of a single soldier in
one of those bands of music to begin
a sweeter and more bender air, and
slowly as he p'aved it there joined in
a sort of chorus the instruments upon
the Union side until finally a great
and mighty chorus swelled up and
down onr army, for the soul inspir
ing notes of “Home, Sweet Home”
Post-Appeal; Col. William H.
Moore, the Milesian end of the Augusta i '-V bu .V « b 'P thousands of bales of
1 the Stiip e the local i*nvnriim«.nT iu
Texas has passed a Rail Road Com
mission act, and the railroad companies
are very mad about it. They will
Mr. Stephens has again been inter- contrive to elect a Legislature and Gov
jicyed and says that he is not a candi- . ernor friendly to their interest.
late for Governor by any party, but .
.p., , . ,. . , A young and very “organised” of
lua if'the people d* sire him to make 3 ” J r
, ii- .» .. , . our town says, “if the Democrats nonn
liejtfice aud he is authontavely nomi- 3
% . na e Mr. Stephens I’ll—I’ll—I 11.'
KViuriml niake the race. K
'But we suppose when the thing is av-
F.esident Arihur has signed the compl I shed he will scramble back, and
modified Chinees bill. His veto of tell his friends he has just been “ober
the first bill cauied such a howl that de fenc:.”
the \7h0le Republican party became
frightened, aud the President was glad
to get*a chance to do his work over. . T , ,
j News, reached the city th»s morning. 1
The press of New Orleans has be- ! and was met _at the depot by a com.-
come so accustomed to the existence ofjmittee of citizens through whose cour
ihe lottery business that some of the tesy he was at once taken to the station
papers are complaining, not of the evil ' house and vaccinated.
es it is, but that the Legislature re-!
fuses to charter more of the swindling! Post-Appeal: The hearing of Gui-
cenc a rni i tenu’s appe.il is a mere legal farce, as
the justices who sit have already passed
^The present liquor law in South upon all the poin’s raised, the questions
polina requires every barkeeper who ' as they arose on the trial having been
[s liquor to sell it in a “room fronting [ submitted by Judge Cox to his asso-
"street, without any screen, (dates before he would give a ruling.
iinWj|^leyiee for preventing the j The nex‘, step will be an appeal from
Sng piW^J^^^ully viewing wha^ the jurisdiction of the Dis riot of Co-
[be transpirin^^WlllllH^Hyspro. lumbia Court, by habeas corpus, before
|n went into effect on the 1st of T&e United States Supreme Court.
This, it isvCT^i^iikely the letter court
will entertain, and so the last act of
Mr. W. J. Stanley, a citizen ot \\ il- ^ be tragedy may confidently be looked
jqgfoty N. C., patentee of the process | for on June g 0 th.
extracting oil from pine wood, is in'
igusta for the purpose of erecting the j Railroad car-wheels are now kept in
Machinery and other necessary things j their place without being keyed on. In
fir its manufacture here. Tne factory former times they were almost sure to
•n Augusta will be owned by Mr. L. L. | precipitate an accident, besides, keys
Cann, who lias recently made this place would drop oat by the constant jar. and
Ida home, and is expending much money be weakened by the axle and wheel,
iu improvements and the purchase of Axles are turned to fi''lie wheel snug'y,
|.ropertjy.—Augusta News. | and are driven in place by hydraulic
1 ’ ' | pressure. Previous to being driven
Alf Doya), who so brutally mur- the axles are covered with a thin coat
^crcd Hancock, the Griffin policeman, 0 f wb ij e lead and oil, which hardens in
“^as tried, convicted ot murder and sen- a short tiinp, and holds the wheel so
iced to be hung last week. Judge fi rn ,iy in^aco that a pressure of from
rewartwntenced him to hang on Fri - 100 to 140 ton8 is roquirod to remove
y, uue 0th, but the prisoner arose > h broken axle from the wheel in which
4u open court and asked him to change p i ace d
the day, as Guitcau was to be hange'
t»u that day, and he didn’t want^j^e j The following statement shows what
Gauged on the sarq^day, Th^^^dge those who are elected to important of
can nr:uy. so modest was v c that be floated in the air. When they’had
snrangfrein Lis seat, and did not appear! finished there was no challenge yon~
aga:n until he ques'ion was decided, j der, for every hand upon the other
Now a-days, u politi al gentleman shore had taken up the lovely air. so
w.mld smilingly congr itulate any legi-- attuned to all ibat is holmstard dear-
ative body upon even the mention of, est, and one great chorus of the two
his name for an import n' position. j great hosts went up to God, and when
| they bad finished from the boys in
We copy the following paragraph gray came a challenge, “Three cheers
concerning our town from the Macon for home!” and they went np, re-
Telegraph it Messenger of the 13th inst: sounding to the skies, from both
\\ aynesboro, Ga , May 12. — j sides of the river ; for the time being
Fleasant y located on th' 1 in ; of the the two armies forgot grim war and
Augus'a and t-avannah railroad, Way- , ., , * - . , ,
nwboroi. alt-lenity of fifteen hut , ♦ thouarht of their loved ones »t
dred inhabitants, the county site of one k °tne ! ‘ Something upon the sol-
of the larges counties in the State, and diers cheeks washed away the stains Calcasieu river,* LouiMunn,* 17,600;
Washington. May 12.—The follow
ing are some of the items in tho
river and barber appropriation.bill:
Charleston S. C M including Sullivan’*
Island, 830,000; Brunswick, Georgia;
$15,000; Cumberland sound, Georgia
and Florida, 860,000; Savannah Gem -
gla, 8200,000: Apalachicola bay, Flori -
<la. 825,000; Bensacola, Florida, $25,-
000; Tampa bay, Florida, $20,000;
liarbor am] liver ot Mobile, Alabam >,
8125.000; Arkansas 1 pass and bay,
as, $60,000; Galveston, Tcxaa, $30,-
000; Pass Cavallo, Tck»», $00,000;
Sabine Pass, Texas, $150,000;
river, Virginia, $75,000; Obpe Fcnc
river, from the ocean to Wilmington,
N. C., SldO^OOf); Great Pee Dee rivm,
S. C.. $6,000; VVappaCut, 8. G, $10,-
000; Wateree river, 8. O., $10 000;
A Item aim fiver, Georgia, $16 000;*
Chattahoochee river, Georgia, $25.**
000; Co"sa river, Georgia ami Ala
bama, 875,000; Flint, river, Georgia,
825,000;Oemu^gee. river,Georgia,$!*.-
■000; Oconee riv<T, Georgia, $6,000;
Savannah riv r, Georgia, $25,000:
St. Johns river, Florida, $160,000;
Suwarnee river. FloriJa. $5,000; Vo
lusia bar, Florida, $.i,0(K); Cbociklaw
batebie river, 'Florida and Alabama,
$120.CKX); Eseumbia and Oeoecuh ri v
ers, Florida mcJ Alabama, $12,000;
Alabama river, .Alabama, $20,000;
Warrior and Tombigbee rivera, Ala
bama and Mississippi, $30,000; Big
Sunflower river, Missiasippi, $5,000;
Noxube river, Mississippi, $10,000;
Pascougala river, MissiijRippi, $8,000;
Pearl river Mississippi, $2,600; Pearl
river, below Jackson, Mississippi,
$15,000; Tallahalchwi river Miaiaa-
ippi, $3,000; Yazoo river, MiHaiwiLppi,
$8,'>00; Bayou Bartholomew, -Lntrui-
ana and Arkansas, $5,000; Bayou
Black, Lousiana,-$10,000; Boouf riv
er, Louaiana,$5,000; Bayou J|Vrrehon
ne, Louisiana, up to Houma, $7,000;
rranted the reqi
to June
[iceman in
noon to-
lome on Gwinett, be
id Marbury s reeta, in the
^ighWWGd of Johansen’s, and shot
Ltuaelf in the left breast, evidently
|th suieidal intent. The pistol ball
ltered near his heart and thus
irrowly escaped immediate deatl
te effect is likely to be fatal, anywa
^called in think he
jgusta News, May 1
sd the flees are doing: Mahone, of Virginia,
has been in his seat about forthright
hours, alMtold, during the B^Nion
Camerot Ms been out of his seat near
ly all the lime; Lamar is home with
his sick wife; Logan is at the Hot
Springs with his lame bnok; Edmunds
has been away with a sick daughter;
Garland Ins been much in his own
State ; Hill is at home, in a dying con
dbion, ajg^enator Brown is at home
the center of an immense mor. an'ile of powder.’,
business Among 'he prominent mer-1 —
chants are Maj W. A Wi kins, S. A.| An Exciting; Case.
Gray and S. Schwarz Weiss, who annua’- 1 -
- Athens, Ga., Watchman.
government mi . The( l ui< t bt'le village of Daniels-
well organised and regulated, and cur vihe has at last been treated to a sen-
town move- along smoothly and progres j sation of some magnitude. It seems
sivi ly. A neat country weklv, I he, that most scandalous and libellous
TaUE Cii ix N, edited by V\ 1). Rul i re p 0r p, were inciiculation, respecting
livan. was inaugur ited bore two weeks , ’ r 8
ago, and bidsTair to claim a large share a '’S’- 1 ) esteemed lady of that pDce,
of the patronage and confidence of the which the injured party traced to
people. On the nig .? of the 10th. a a worthless neg^o woman. Meeting
terrible s‘orm passed over the lower the creftture a few davs 8 j ncc she
eJge of the c unty. \\ e have received . , . , . , ,
.•v r • 'ce L , . , . asked tier about the slander, when
no tic. ngs of i seffects ve , bu pidging '
from the violent action of the am* 11 pm- th< ’ p P oke «p and said that
tion which pa^.^ed over Wayne boro, sin* had started and circulated the re-
the worst may be expected ’I be crops purls, and moreover that they were
of Burke, at this Mine, give evidence true and she intended to prove them,
of an abund .ut yield God g'am that 1
the “signs.” now so propitious, may At t,n^ acknowledgement
prove but tlie harbingers of better things the lady’s indignation got the better
to come. 'I'be star of Hope glitters of her judgment and she slapped the
bq^uti'ully in the firnmnent of the far- j ia g’ s face. The negress w r as a stout,
mer’s dreams: that hem y not be dis- , , , , ‘ ,
• * • ,• , • able-bodied woman, and as the white
appoi ed in Ins real.zations. ih the um- 1 , , ’
voi sal prayer J S. R. ^ lady had no one to belriend her she
, j was cruelly beaten by the creature.
Tlie Railroad Velocipede. ^ 1(i n(>ws outrage soon spread, and
j the marshal, knowing that the lady’s
Charlotte (N. c.)News and Observer | husband would certainly kill tho as-
This v ry peculiar c*'nc« ro. ab<>ut sailant of his wife should he get his
which not a litt'e has been said in tlie hands on her, locked the woman in
paper* lately, has made its appearance jail, whore she was kept fora short
on the tricks in Charl'd-tn. and the, time. But. as soon as she was releas-
bi.s-men can be seen spinning along ( ed he went f »r her with a stout hick*
fr >in one depot to another ev* rv few ory and I.r Might the juice at every
minutes. The construction of the , lick amid the cheers of the by«stund-
machino is very simple. There is era. The w<\jpan was completely
nothing but a piece of hoard about backed, and when released was found
three feat b»ng and wide enough f>.r to bo fearfully beaten, although not
a lean man to sit on, two wheels seriously hurt. The action of the
which run on the same rail under the, husband in the premises was exactly
obard, and one little wheel which runs J rightand was endorsed by both whites
on the opposite rail and does service 1 gnd l »bicks, as the slanderer was one
only as a balance wheel. The man 5 <*l'the vilest creatures in tho country
, ..... , 1 he righteous chastisement restored
who rides tho thing, takes his seat on qlliet> Hud Danielsville soon relapsed
tho board, catches hold of a handle j into its accustomed peace and tran-
in front of him and pumps it back and quifity.
forward. This handle works on two * * *
-inah cog wheels, which give the: P n Wednesday last at J. J. Cum-
..... .. iningg sawmill, McNeila Station,
motive power. It is the swiftenti p or t Hn«l Augusta ra-ilroml, th e
machine yet invented, one of the' sawyer, Mr. Neal Hewitt, reached
railroad men says that anybody Whose j across the saw whilo running to ad-
back is suple and whose muscles are'j 08 ^ H band, his foot slipped and he
7-ww a.
tram and k*ep up with it as long us ^ c j or ^ H frightful ga-h out across Ids
his strength will hold out. These i breast and his right arm msagled and
velocipedes are coming in geneml' pulied nnder the saw. The saw had
use ou this runs' and will soon make 1 £ l,e T take « down io „ re,ea8 « the ann -
Mr. Hewitt was alive and conscious
the “crank machine^' a thing of the , ^ SSnlTbut no hope of re-
oovory.—Auguuta News.
Red river, L«uiaikiwi, $75,000; Brazo.
river, Texas, 50,000; Buffalo bayou,
Texas, $50,000; improving tho ship
cam.l in Galveston bay, $50J)00; N<*u-
ces river, T«xns. $(>0,000, Trinity
river, Texa B , $8,000; Bombay marsh,
near Doboy, S. (i. fi $10,060; Kdisp.
river, S. C. $8000; Geergct»wn Baj .
bor S. C., $7 000; Gahaba river, AG
bama, $20,000; Sa'kahalcbee river, S.
C., $5,000; S»h>ipobHa' river, AD--
bams, $15,000; Key West harbor Flor
ida. $25,000; Mous'ee river, Won dr,
$12 000; Ga lo osa bate ho** river, Flo
ida, $50 000; i -
* u- —
Sai.em N. C. May 10.—A remark
able and fatal terminalinn of the
burglari"us exploits of tjnce despe
radoes took place in Wilke# county,
John Boston, Will Wildfire aud Jus.
A'stead losing thflir live*, thereby.
The three men -had effected an ' et:
trance into the smoke house of Mr.
Albert Dyson by prying up the hga,
and, being discovered, Will Wil Jli r*>
was shot dead by Mr. Dyaon. The
other two, in attempting to effect an
escape, knocked out the prop, which
caused the opeoing Ihoy had made
to close just as they were Inlf way
out, crushing both ao lint th -y <6 >.1
in half an hour.
The report of the farmer’s gu»
brought out a number of Uie nl-ui'a-
tion bands with pine knot torch is,'
and they witnessed tho teirib'c death
of the two doomed dcHpoiadoy , wl >
wriggled like worma in agony l> •»,«• * ‘n
the logs which held them like n vi ••».
They begged the by-«.tand<*r^ (o i<‘-
lieve them, to knock them in the
head and release them from th'di Mif
fering?.
The city of 8l. f^uiis was /i,sited
by a violent hail sturn oi»k\i<Gy af
ternoon laRt. About 4:30 o’ci .ok,
says the Globe^DemocriK,^ when t»«c
*torm had somewhat abated »r. fuiv
the gloom waa lighted hy tin; decent
of a globe of fire from Ibe iwnitlHh u
winged its flight, toward the eaiGi
with frightful apeed. Two forked
project ions were attached (<• either
side of Uie Aatiling bull, which bo
a moment aectued to tJuea^ tho
centre of the oily with
The electric raleue fmot dbwH j
the river, and at a point that nv ^
directly in th« centre af $he\^
an explosiou occurred which
the air with a oollettfflih of iUurr]
ed shafts
direc'iongj
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