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FRIDAY, JULY-10,1880.
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—It is stated that Colonel Tliomas R.
Scott is an ardent supporter of General
Ilancock.
"—The sponge fisheries along the Florida
coast are growing into considerable pro
portions. A large fleet of vessels is al
ready engaged in the business.
—Dr. Cairns, now considered the head
of Scotch Frcsbyterianism, and principal
of the Theological Seminary in Edin
burgh, is in Boston. He is a tall and
slender man of nearly threescore years.
—The Chattanooga Times states that a
gentleman passed through there a few
days ago with two hundred mocking birds,
which he caught in this State. He was
carrying them to Buffalo, New York, for
speculation.
A* Eve to the Future.—“This may
be fun to him,” said one of General nan-
cock’s staff at the army and navy club,
the other night, about his chieFs nomina
tion, “but it isn’t to me. If he should be
elected President I would have to go back
to my regiment on the frontier, and I
haven’t seen a man of it in thirteen
years.”
Kearney Mobbed.—In San Francisco
on the 41 h, a stormy meeting was held at
the Sand Lots, the Greenback and Demo
cratic wings of the Workingmen’s party
assembling in close proximity. A cross-
lire of cheers and groans prevailed during
the meeeting and at the close the Demo
cratic faction made a rush for Kearney
amid cries of “Haug him.” Kearney was
rescued by the police, hustled into a hack
and driven off.
—A distinguished writer gives the fol
lowing as the prime cause of the present
stringent times: “These are hard times.
I'll tell you why: The nation is spending
more for intoxicating drinks than all the
bread it eats, all the clothes it wears, all
the books it reads, or all the churches it
has ever built. If every one of the ac
cursed drinking saloons were shut up and
every bottle smashed forever," we should
have good and happy times in thirty days.”
Drouth in New Yoke.—The Tribune
says that the visitor to the Central Park
may see nowadays a sight usually reset ved
for November. Along the shaded paths
workmen are everywhere raking up the
fallen leaves with which the ground is
covered, as in autumn. These, and the
withered look of many of the treetops,
hear pitiful testimony to the severity of
the drouth and of our late raging dog-star.
-Ex-Governor Hubbard, of Connecti
cut, in responding to an invitation to ad
dress a Hancock and English ratification
meeting at New Haven, writes: “Our
ticket is the wisest and the best. It rep
resents uo soreheads, no sections, no fac
tions, no fractions. It is not at discord
with itself; the head is not boiled crow for
the tail nor the tail boiled crow for the
head, and no machine politics in e.'tlier
end.”
Vermont's Population Decreas
ing.—The Woodstock (Vermont) Stan-
<lard publishes the returns from 11 towns,
im iuding Woodstock, in Windsor county,
one of the richest counties in the State of
Vermont, showing a present population of
12.117, or 12 percent, less than in 1S70.
This late of decrease will probably not
hold throughout flic State, but it is very
-->•<OiLif ^Vermont is able to secure I -TV""*'’
lore than twoCongrcao Tt I official influence as member of Congress
How it Came to Pass.
A friend asks how it happened that a
man with so fishy a record as General
Garfield’s should have been nominated at
Chicago? The answer is plain. It was
not done upon examination, deliberation
or choice, as a measure of party policy. It
was an expedient caught up at a moment,
to save Blaine and Sherman the mortifi
cation of a personal and political defeat
from the hands of Conkling and the stal
warts, which would have sent them to
Coventry. Conkling & Co. had planned
to stick by Grant indefinitely, until the
divided opponents of a third term should
be wearied out with the indeterminate
strife, and, in breaking ranks, should
leave them the moderate reinforcement
needed to constitute a majority of the
whole.
At the last moment telegrams flashed
from Chicago to Washington pointing out
the peril. Blaine and Sherman, un
friendly as they were, interchanged ideas
and endorsed the proposition to go for
Garfield as the best that could bo done
under the circumstances, and Garfield was
nominated as the result of the sudden
combination.
It was not the choice of the convention,
but the suggestion of the personal exi
gencies of Blaine and Sherman and their
following. The triumph of Grant and
the third term would have effectually
shelved the anti-stalwarts—“it may be for
years or it may be forever.” A party is
in a bad case when its cliques and factions
become so inveterate as to dictate its gen
eral policy by their necessities, and this
was and is the case with the so-called Re
publican brotherhood, which is a League
of Hates. In such a case the party be
comes practically non compos, because, if
reason and judgement are left, they are
unavailable. Perhaps one of the best
things connected with Hancock’s nomina
tion is that it was the defeat and confusion
of all Democratic cliques.
Now, at the time Garfield was suddenly
pounced upon as a compromise candidate
between the Blaine and Sherman factions,
time had dimmed the smut upon Garfield
growing out of the paving contracts and
the Credit Mobilier. It was.eight or nine
years old, and meanwhile he had been
able to hold his place in the House, and
was, in fact, the acknowledged leader of
the party in that body. Moreover, when
be had gotten over his irreconcilable mood
toward the vanquished rebels, he had
assumed a more conciliatory tone than
many of his Western competitors, and in
his speeches laid claim to a high standard
of public morals. Some considered him a
rather modified Pecksniff, and accused him
of hypocrisy; but the bulk seemed willing
to take his good nature for amendment,
and to believe that he would trade in
office no more, or swear to things which
were not so, but quite the' contrary.
Moreover, it will be remembered that at
that time there was not a handful of
prominent Republican members who were
not more or less similarly compromised.
It was the fashion to sell out, aud the
opportunities for trade were great.
Thus it happened that these objections,
when remembered, were viewed lightly,
nad they nominated Blaine still graver
ones would have to be met, and Sher
man’s record, could it be got at, we fancy
would have been worse. A man don’t
often grow to be a millionaire on a salary
of five or six thousand a year. It is only
when the whole business of selling out his
appointment.
—In view of the “readjustment” diffi
culties in Virginia, the Richmond Com
monwealth, of July 3rd, says: “The feel
ing of thankfulness throughout the coun
try at the result of the Cincinnati con
vention should not be marred by any ap
prehension as to this State. It would be
simply horrible if we alone, of all the
States in the South, should throw our
State in favor of Garfield by dividing the
white vote between two electoral tickets
for Hancock.”
Grasshoppers in the West.—It is
reported from Reno, Nejvada, that the
farmers in that section are thoroughly
alarmed at the ravages made by the grass
hoppers. Already they have done' con
siderable damage to the growing grain,
and the warm weather is hatching them
in myriads. In Sierra Valley the pros
pect is very gloomy. The north end lias
already been stripped of every green
thing, but at the south end the plague has
just begun to develop and the ranchers
hope that the grain will be ready to cut
before the iusccts are old enough to do
much harm.
••Scooped.”—Prince Demidoff, the
owner of the famous palace and art mu
seum of San Donato, near Florence, the
accounts of the sales of which recently
fiiled the newspapers, has found out a use
for his money. The proceeds of the sales
were nearly $2,000,000. A man with so
much cash on hand ought not to play
baccarat, especially at a yatch clup, but
l’rince Demidoff thought differently, and
Count Schouvaloff and Messra. Bentera
and lloblinski, who helped him to make
up his party, agreed with him entirely.
The result was that Prince Demidoff lost
$1,000,000 in a single night.
—A Galveston gentlemanjiad occasion
to go into a dentist’s shop to have a tooth
pulled. In order to nerve himself up to
the ordeal the sufferer had taken several
strong drinks of whisky. The dentist,
who had never seen the sufferer before,ex
amined the tooth and then retired for a
few moments into the back room. When
the dentist reappeared he had two revol
vers and a bowie knife strapped on his
person. After placing a large shot-gun in
a convenient comer the dentist approached
the sufferer with the forceps. “What in the
name of heaven does all this mean?”
gasped the man in the chair. “When a
man’s breath smells of emotional insanity,
like yours, I am not going to exasperate
him unprepared. You may be Jim Cur
rie himself, for all I know.” As the den
tist was afterward seen alive on the streets
the inference is that Currie is not in Gal
veston.
—Th# census enumerators of Louis
ville, Kentucky, found centarians in every
block. One registered the name of a lady
wlio reached her 115th birthday last
mouth. She walks about the house with
case, is unusually affable, bas never been
sick in her life, and can thread a needle
as quick as a young girl. She resides
with her great-grandniece, wlio is her
only living relative. James Stone is 103
yean old, and says be bas been married
eleven times. A colored woman named
Rosette Washington bad reached tbo
11 <th year of a checkered existence. She
* as very certain of her age, because she
remembered very distinctly doing up the
Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes for her old
Virginia mastor’s family to wear to
''^ 1 ' n8t0ns inau S uration - She remem-
cred all about tbo Revolutionary war.
ntm (Mmwi of tbfrsxouMi committee on
appropriations Is raked up and freshly ex
posed to the light of a purer atmosphere,
that people begin to see that it is a very
serious business—that a betrayal of pub
lic tmst is a heavy objection against in
creasing the magnitude of the trust. Mr.
Garfield might not sell out any more, but
that he should have sold out at all shows
a constitutional laxity which is not at all
favorable to his election as President.
. Gettysburg.
The Courier-Journal says the proposi
tion of General Alplieus Baker for the re
union of the soldiers who fought in the
Union and Confederate armies at Gettys
burg, the scene of General Hancock’s
most brilliant military achievement, is
one which we believe will be thoroughly
acceptable to those who wore the blue
and to those who wore the gray. That
was the decisive battle of the war. It
was the field where the grandest deeds ot
valor were performed by the sildiers of
both armies.
Here Hancock met the tremendous
charge of Longstreot’s whole command.
Here be fell wounded at the moment of a
victory which sealed the fate of the South
ern Confederacy. To this memorable
place it is proposed to go to ratify the
nomination of Hancock and English; the
soldiers who fought on either side min
gling in fraternal reunion, testifying their
recognition-of a restored Union and their
deep appreciation of the patriotism and
statesmanship of the great soldier who
knew when the war was ended, and, as
far as Ins influence readied, re-established
the supremacy of the civil power in the
South.
Such a reunion as that proposed at
Gettysburg will be a formal notice to the
promoters of sectional bitterness to go
and hide themselves and keep forever out
of sight. It will voice distinctly the sin
cerity of the South in her dioice of a
presidential candidate. It will demon
strate that no memories of bloody battle
fields, whereon they stood antagonists,
have alienated the soldiers of the oppos
ing armies.
TnE Census of Atlanta.—From a
perfectly reliable source we learn that the
summing up of the enumerators will
give a population veiging on 38,000 with
in tlie dty limits proper of Atlanta, our
State capital.
In 1870 tlie census showed 21,789 in
habitants. It will be seen, therefore, that
the increase during the last decade is
equal to about seventy-jive per cent. Thus
far five cities in the Union only have ex
hibited a more rapid growth, and several
of these are Western towns, which, like
Denver, under the stimulus of mining op
erations, and the gold and silver fever
have advanced with abnormal rapidity.
Of one thing there seems to be no
doubt: the work of taking the census in
Atlanta and elsewhere lias been most effi
ciently performed. Especially is this true
of Dr. H. P. Gatcliell who fills the posi
tion to which the notorious T. J. Sim
mons aspired. The appointment of Dr.
Gatcbell, we are assured, has given uni
versal satisfaction. Albeit a moderate
Republican, be is a gentleman of fine so
cial standing, clear judgment, extensive
information and a successful practitioner
of medicine. ■ His appointments were non
partisan and based solely upon tlie quali
fications of the applicants.
We trust at the end of another decade
our sister city will still be able to keep
up the same flattering ratio of increase In
the number of her inhabitants.
Sparks from an unoiled reaping ma
chine set fire to a great field of wheat in
Illinois, aud all the grain mem desfroved
“ A Canvass of the South.”
The New York Times and the Chicago
Tribune advocate a thorough canvass of
the South by tbo best Republican orators,
! at large mass meetings, but gently in
timate a suspicion that there will be some
personal peril connected with the enter
prise. The whole Southern press and all
the public men of the Southern States will
unite in the assurance that whatever they
can do in any part of the Union with im
punity they can do here. All their orators
will be entirely welcome and safe; and if
they will come early in the campaign they
can carry back to the North such esam-f
pies and tales of “intimidation” as the)
may be able to collect in their rambles, and
add to them all those “startling” accom
paniments that a fertile fancy may sug
gest. It is a good idea for the Garfield
campaign, and should be carried out
soon.
The Boston Herald suggests, in con
nection with the Northern States, that the
plan will be to waste few words on cer
tain States. All the efforts will be con
centrated upon tire doubtful. Among
these the Republican national committee
class Maine, Connecticut, New York,
New Jersey, Indiana and the States of the
Pacific slope. There the great financial
and moral strength of the party will be
concentrated, as they think, with terrible
effect.
Incongruous.
The public are daily looking for Gen.
Garfield’s letter of acceptance, which be
bas bad a month to study and sleep over,
and as he is “an accomplished scholar,”
will no doubt he a charming production.
All his late out-givings by speech lead us
to expect a honeyed production, which
will abound in all the phrases needful to
constitute a pretty attitude towards this
unfortunate section of the country. Even
Grant complimented the South, and what
will Garfield do, who leads the so-called
conciliators over the prostrate stalwarts?
The misfortune, however, is, that
though Grant may talk finely and Garfield
still finer, yet, as to their newspaper or
gans, “fine words butter no parsnips.”
There is not one of them in the whole
country, that can write the shortest party
paragraph and omit a thrust or blow at
this unlucky South. To sting aud to irri
tate is all that they care to do, and appa
rently, all that they have the ability as
well as the will to do. If anyone doubts,
let him try to find a so-called Republican
paper manifesting any other attitude or
disposition.
It seems to be the fatal misfortune of
that party that ita life is nourished alone
by discord and prejudice, and death must
follow the restoration of harmony and
good feeling. Garfield may write prettily,
but every one of his organs Hoods the
country with a diurnal tide of sectional
gall. Every paragraph is a fly blister on
Southern sensibilities, and they will have
no political success which is not a war
victory. This makes it practically cer
tain that tlie restoration of a cordial sym
pathy between all parts of the country
cannot be effected while such influences
are dominant m the government.
Will Vote for Hancock and English.
Senator Wade Hampton expresses his
coniident belief that very many of the col
ored people of the South will join their
white friends and help to elect the nomi
nees of the Cincinnati convention. Speak
ing of South Carolina, he said, “in my
last race before the people I received about
45,000 colored votes that had been previ
ously cast witH the Republicans, and I be
lieve that since they have seen the more
prosperous condition of the State since
the change of leadership, they will not
only continue to vote with us, but more
will join them. South Carolina is cer
tainly a strong Democratic State any way,
now, and I don’t really believe that the
Republicans will put up any State ticket
at the next election.”
This will be the case to a very great ex
tent in Georgia also. Our colored friends
are disappointed at the repudiation of
Grant, the man they universally regarded
as their savior, and have no special par
tiality for Garfield, or as some style him,
“Garfish.” Moreover, the more intelli
gent negroes are beginning to compre
hend that what is good for the white peo
ple is equally beneficial to them. In
other words, that the same laws extend
to all in the country, and therefore they
may safely follow the lead of their white
neighbors and employers.
The reign of the capet-bagger is over,
Solid Talk on the “Solid South.” Ei& Statistics and Fiah. Culture. Crop Hews.
There is a force and truth in the sub- j Among the most interesting, from a ma- Valdosta Times: A large crop of corn
joined editorial by tbo Chicago Telegraph, terial point of view, of the statistics of the is already made in Lowndes. Recent
which will commend it to sensible men ne ' v census report, says the Sun, will he [ rains ended the good work. No Green
„ , | those of the extent and variety of our Line cars loaded with corn will run into
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i fresh and sait water fisheries. In this
A “solid South” is only obnoxious to branch of inquiry General F. A. Walker,
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that set of men who for twenty years have
assiduously labored to consummate in
their political interest a “solid North.”
Their base attempt bas grown so manifest,
from year to year, that now a popular
sentiment throughout the Union ratifies
and applauds a “solid South.” To be
less than solid against the “bloody shirt”
policy would be" to have the wounds aud
sores of the late war reopened and repro
duced through all time to come.
It is credible to the temper of the South
ern people that they are at least disposed
to let bv-gonesbo by-gones, even if they
must bury the Republican party in order
consummate the work of union and fra
ternity. At every stage of national pro
gress the protestations of Southern loyalty
have been met with frigid indifference,
and treated by the Radical party with un
disguised suspicion. Had the wishes of
the' South been alone considered, a civil
ian and not a wan ior would have been
nominated at Cincinnati; but the Democ
racy of the North, anxious to silence all
cavil respecting *.he disloyal designs and
intents of the South, proceeded in their
own behalf to put tlio patriotism of that
portion of the Union to the highest test
by the nomination of Gen. Hancock. Do
Republican papers question the unani
mous response of the South—that it will
be solid for the Union soldier?
Nay. It is not the “solid South” but
the “divided North” that now disturbs
their rest. They would gladly content
themselves with a “solid South” forever if
they could but secure at all time a “solid
North.” They would be the last to ob
literate the dividing line between the two
sections of this great natron. The repub
lic, long distracted and disrupted under
Radical rule, now looks hopefully to the
Democracy of the nation for a “divided
North.” The South would be untrue to
the union of the States, to her own pros
perity and -instinctive patriotism to be
other than solid against the Republican
party, that has for tlie last fifteen years
despoiled and plundered her. To make
a “solid South” and “solid North” im
possible, vote down that party which has
continued in power so long by keeping up
the dividing line.
A Compliment to Georgia.
The Chattanooga Times founds a forci
ble appeal to the people of Tennessee to
resume payments aud levy a proper rate
of taxation for that purpose upon the ex
ample of Georgia. Says that paper:
Let us have something definite in our
State policy in reiercnce to the State debt.
As we have often before pointed out, our
difficulty with Tennesse as a destination
for emigrants having money or brains
enough to make money, is tlie total un
certainty as to what our future taxa
tion is to be. No stronger illustration of
the disadvantages of our state of suspense
is needed than to point to tlie State of
Georgia. That State is receiving ten em
igrants from the North and from abroad
to our one.
Money flows to Georgia in a steady
stream for investment in manufacturing,
commerce and' mining. And yet,' for
years Georgia bas levied a tax for State
purposes of 80 cents on the hundred dol
lars valnation, while Tennessee has levied
but ten cents. The soil of Georgia will
not compare with that of Tennessee in
productiveness. Her railway system is
inferior to ours. Her waterways are of
comparatively small value. And yet
Georgia is growing in wealth and popula
tion faster than Tennessee.
One or two facts will account for almost
if not all the difference in Georgia’s favor.
Georgia pays her honest debts; she has a
fixed and settled code of taxation, which
does not vary perceptibly from year to
year. A capitalist who becomes a citizen
of Georgia, knows beforehand that he can
never be made to blush for tlie folly and
dishonesty of his political leaders. He
learns before making the State his resi
dence, that her financial record is good;
that her credit at home and abroad stands
high; that her bonds sell at as high pre
miums as do those of the general govern
ment. The intelligent "immigrant to
Georgia informs himself in ad
vance as to the prevailing rate
of taxation. He therefore feels, first, that
he becomes one of an honest and proud
people, and that he is not liable to pay
exorbitant taxes through the machinations
of dishonest politicians. We personally
know of one colony which these reasons
decided in favor of Georgia, though every
thing else was, to the founders of the com
munity, more satisfactory in Tennessee-
That party took a large amount of money
into our neighboring State; they are draw
ing in more money every year and attract
ing additional popoulation.
We should deplore a policy of repudia
tion as a calamity to tlie State, and as af
fixing a stigma on lier name. But repu
diation, as a fixed, determinate policy,
would be botli more honorable to our
people and better for tlieir material wel
fare than the present fast-and-loose policy
saddled upon us by cowardly time-servers
and cheap rogues.
Cotton Factory Profits in the South.
Everybody knows that tacture of cotton
in the South, where cotton grows, and
where it can be handled with far less ex-
pause than in the remote North, might be
and the negroes are beginning to see made extremely profitable. It will prob-
“ ably be made so eventually, tnougli up to
through their own spectacles.
TnE Republican Executive Com
mittee.—The Baltimore Sun. reports the
late meeting of the committee as discord
ant and ill tempered. The stalwart mem
bers were in a sore beaded and splenetic
condition. Tbo majority wanted to make
W. E. Chandler chairman, but were told
that the New York Republicans would
not trust their money in his hands. Conk-
ling was in a sarcastic condition, and will
calm his ruffled temper by a European
trip. The Western stalwarts were ap
peased by the creation of a sub-committee
on an independent footing, to be managed
by John Logan. The chief merit of the
organization made actually lay in its
Jewelled head, but it was conceded that
here utility had been sacrified to orna
ment; for Jewell is not a very laborious
man, as one who tries to elect Garfield
should be.
A Unanimous Convention.—The
Gainesville Eagle says', As a matter of
news we may state that Mr. Speer has is
sued his call, held his convention and had
himsvlf nominated as a candidate for
Congress. As far as we can learn there
wa3 but one delegate besides himself pres
ent. This was one Pledger, of Athens,
who is of the colored persuasion. The
convention was quite harmonious aud
the nomination was made by acclamation.
This will not seem strange, however,
when it is known that the convention was
held ia Washington city where stalwarts
most do congregate.
Mr. Speer is a roost promising young
statesman, and it is a pity that he is not
willing to confide his political fortunes to
the keeping of the party with which he
claims connection. How sad to owe one s
preferment to enemies alone, who take
you only as the “least of two evils.
The New York city assessments of real
and personal valuations exceed those of
1879 by the sum ot $49,090,592, and
amount to $1,143,705,727-a large sum,
but only a little more than one-half the
national debt. But if the assessments
were at the same rate, the profits of the
year’s trade were certainly vory respecta
ble.
A SALLOW complexionls indicative of
the present the mass of Southerners have
neglected this important branch of indus
try. There are now 189 cotton mills in
that section, with 078,223 spindles—about
7 per cent, of all the spindles in the repub
lic. The mills are generally small, only
a few, at Augusta and Columbus, Ga.,
having more than 15,000 spindles each.
The machinery is said to be so inferior in
tlie main as to be hardly worth transporta
tion. Much of it is second-hand, having
been discarded by Northern establish
ments.
The mostsuccessful mills there would
not, in consequence of their manifest dis
advantages, have made anything had they
been situated in this section. One mill
in Georgia declared in ten years—four of
them war years—$1,250,000 dividends.
This proves the great benefit in position
of mills, which ran not only buy tbo raw
material cheaper, and spare freight, but
they can hire labor at lower rates. They
save the buyer’s commission, delivery from
warehouse and cartage, sampling, class
ing, pressing, shipping, discount on bills,
loss of weight in sampling for mixed pack
ages, fire insurance before shipping, ma
rine risks, and freight and cartage to inte
rior towns, which amounts in all to some
$7 a bale. The Northern mill3 also lose
from receiving cotton poorly ginned,
containing a good deal of leaf
and sand, which is computed at
six per cent, of the entire cotton
crop. The difference between the cost of
a bale sent to Fall River, Mass., and a bale
sent to Columbus, Ga., is 88.0S, the form
er costing $51.71 and the latter $43.05.
Many of tlie Georgia mills have made
profits of 10,12 and even 15 per cent, un
der all their disadvantages, tlie profit
coming almost wholly from coarse goods,
which experts think to he their best em
ployment. It is dliubtful whether they
will be able, at least for many years, to
compete with tlie North in fine cloth, and
if they should be able it would bo less
remunerative to them than coarse clo-.li
and yarn. The entire spirit and tenden
cy of the South is opposed to the better and
finer kinds of facture, and it seems next
to impossible to have it otherwise.—Acte
York Times.
Hall County Delegates to the
State Convention.—On lhuredaythe
Democrats of this county selected dele-
cates to represent them in the guberna
torial convention. The meeting was large
and orderly. M. Graham, Claude Estes,
Henry Perry and F. J. Davies were
The delegates go umnstructed r
the able superintendent of tlie census, lias
the valuable assistance of Prof. Spencer
Baird, the United States fish commission
er, who ha3 undertaken to write for the
census report a history of the past and
present condition of our deep-sea and in
land fisheries, and the results of the labors
of the United Statcs'fish commission up to
the close of the year.
It has been already stated that the
researches of the United States fish com
missioner have resulted'in adding fifteen
new varieties offish to the list of one hun
dred and seventeen food fishes previously
known and in use in the United States.
Besides this, the commission has imported
and hatched the eggs of the California sal
mon and placed the young fry in our East
ern and Southern waters, and has also im
ported and domesticated the German carp.
In all these doings the Maryland fish com
mission has participated, and while the
oyster beds of the Chesapeake bay were
being surveyed and mapped out by the
commander of a United States vessel, Dr.
Brooks, of the biological department of
John Hopkins University, was making
researches into the propagation of the
oyster, which resulted in a discovery that
will tend to keep up our oyster supply by
artificial methods as simple as those now
used in the propagation of the shad and
the salmon.
Of great importance, also, is the discov
ery made by Mr. Earll, of the United
States fish commission, in charge of the
Atlaulic fisheries. His discovery relates
to the Spanish mackerel. This fine food
fish is only found in Southern waters and
in certain places. “It has never been
propagated,” says the Washington Post,
“because no one knew when oi where it
spawned. Mr. Earll, after careful watch
ing, found that the lower part of Chesa
peake hay, known as Mob Jack bay, was
the place, and June the time. Next June
the Fish Hawk will be taken to the spot
and, with her improved apparatus, take
up a quantity of the eggs, which will be
hatched on board, and subsequently dis
tributed in favorable localities. If the
young fish survive, tlie well-known prin
ciple that they will, at any risk or laboi,
return to spawn to the spot where they
first saw light, is depended on to insure
their residence iu their new habitats.”
Prof. Baird now contemplates the organi
zation of a permanent bureau for the col
lection of statistical information in con
nection with the fish com nission, which
will afford much valuable information to
statesmen and political economists.
Cuthbert Letter.
Cuthbert, Ga., July 6, 1880.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger
The corner stone to the wine repository
of the Georgia Wine Company was in
formally laid to-day. A few citizens par
ticipated in the exercises by invitation.
Col. Herbert Fielder reviewed tlie his
tory of the grape culture of this county,
and the organization of the company, in a
very happy effort. This was followed by
an appropriate speech from Col. J. D.
Flewellyu in his usual eloquent style.
The following articles were then depos
ited and sealed in the granite walls:
By M. C. ParKerson—By-laws and con
stitution of Cuthbert Chapter R. A. M.
No. 31; by-laws and c institution of Wash
ington Lodge F. A. M. No. 19; by-laws
and constitution of Ladies and Knights Of
Honor No. 244; by-laws and constitution
oi'KnightsofHonorNo. 113, Macon Tel
egraph and Messenger, issue of July
4, 1SS0.
By C. N. Simpson—Atlanta Constitu
tion, cigar and fifteen cents, the cigar to
be smoked when tlie stone is removed by
the person who discovers it, and if he
feels a little dry he will have the money
to purchase some spiritual consolation, if
the market does not fluctuate unfavorably.
By J. C. Martin, president—One bottle
of wine.
By George McDonald, secretary—Syn
opsis of the conception and organization
of the wine company.
Bv J. A. Hay, superintendent—One
bottle of wine.
By Capt. W. F. Kiddoo—Photograph
of Judge W. D. Kiddoo, founder of the
company. Several coins were also de
posited.
These things having been safely laid
away, the wine company “set up” the
grape juice, and many toasts Here drunk
for their future success, which is sure.
Through this (company a new era has
opined up ana tlie Empire State is des
tined to be the" France and Italy of
America. The State at large will eventu
ally feel its importance as classed among
other enterprises, which will stimulate
other sections to take steps in the same
line of march. It will increase our reve
nues and grapes will always find ready sale
at a good market value. A large area is
now under cultivation in this county, and
young vineyards are springing up in every
direction, which is indicative that it is a
pi ofitable business. Randolph has set the
ball in motion on a sound footing, and if
people will persist in imbibing stimula
ting drinks, let them consume those of
home manufacture, which are mild and
harmless.
Plant your vineyards, build wine fac
tories, and drive the fiery serpent from
the market. Then, in the distant future,
the Southern States will recognize no
country as their superior in the manufac
ture of that beverage, and other nations
will have to draw on us for tlieir sup
plies. C.
A Bequest to Explain.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger:
In your issue of Wednesday last you state
that Col. Joseph W. Preston, of Jasper
county, has consented (?) to become a
candidate for Congress from tlie sixth dis
trict before the Democratic convention,
which meets on the 22d of this month.
Now, Col. Preston doubtless is “a good
lawyer and clever gentleman” as you
state, but I think it due the good people
of the sixth district, whom he aspires to
represent in the Congress of the United
States, that he should explain to them his
vote in the Renfroe impeachment during
the last session of the legislature.
Before the house of representatives J;
W. Renfroe admitted lie was guilty and
offered to resign and disgorge the money
he had illegally appropriated. Mr. Pres
ton, during the trial of the case in the
Senate, voted “not guilty,” although in
his speech before the Senate he admitted
that Renfroe had committed the act
charged against him and that the consti
tution of the State prohibited the acts so
charged, and yet he, as a Senator, by his
vote declared that Renfroe had not vio
lated any law.
The constitution and laws of the State
prohibit certain acts. Renfroe attempted,
and was proved to have committed, those
acts. Colonel Preston acknowledged this
in his speech; but he voted not guilty, be
cause he says Renfroe did not “intend” to
violate the law. When Colonel Preston
was solicitor general of his circuit, and
before a jury produced evidence which
showed that a prisoner had committed
certain acts which were positively prohib
ited by the laws of the State, did he think
it made any difference whether the pris
oner “intended” to violate the law or
not?
Will Colonel Preston please explain his
vote In tlio the Renfroe impeachment
trial to the . j ..
Democrats of the Sixth District?
—The arrangements for a fast mail
from New York to New Orleans and the
Southern seaboard and Gulf cities will not
be completed until some time in October.
Unlike the North, where negotiations for
athonsand or fifteen hundred miles of
route may be made with a single indi
vidual, many interests must be consulted
in the South. When tlie arrangement is
completed, trains leaving New York at
4:35 a. m. will reach Washington not later
than 11 a. m. Mails will reach Jackson
ville in less than thirty-six hours from
New York, and one day will be saved on
tlie turn-out at the Valdosta depot next
year. Cottou has yet another month or
more before its fate is decided. At pres-
sent the outlook is good. Peace, happi
ness and plenty in sight.
A correspondent of the Thomasvillo
Post says: The crops are being rapidly
laid by, and are looking fine. The corn
will no doubt turn out ana “hand over”
a heavier yield than was anticipated,
Cotton is well up to the mark in blooms
and squares. Cbufas, pinders, field peas
and sugar cane are especially fine. Why
do not some of our farmers try the Afri
can cane ? It comes off at the time when
money is scarce and would • help them
greatly iu getting through with their
crops.
The Washington Gazette says: A worm
that eats out or rather cuts corn tops just
before tasseling lin3 ruined many acres of
tlie cereal, j. M. Gilbert and Aleck
Wolfe are among the unfortunate oues.
Mr. John C. Burdett has the finest up
land com and sugar cane in these parts.
There will probably be enough peaches
around to make a full grown pie.
The fruit crops in the 174th and 179th
districts are unexceptionably good. In
this it is a fa'lure.
AmericusRecorder: Mr.J.A.Walker,
of Schley, brought to our office Friday
two stalks of com surpassing anything in
its line weliaveyet seen. They held seven
and nine well developed ears. It is one of
the early varieties which Mr. Walker
obtained from the department of agricul
ture.
Conyers Weekly: A member of one of
our agricultural clubs decided to take the
premiums on oats, and particularly pre
pared an acre of his best land, manuring
heavily with cotton seed and 200 pounds
of guano. Tlie oats were of the black
species and took rust, and the other day
when they were threshed he gathered 1$
bushels. Soch is fate.
Albany Advertiser: The caterpillars
have began their work of destruction at
Dr. T. J. I. Pattillo’s plantation, about
twenty, miles south of the city. It will
not be very long before they will be num
erous throughout the country, and will,
in all probability, damage the cotton crop
very much, unless the dry weather holds
on a while longer, and so hardens the
plant that they will be unable to eat it.
A great many farmers were in the city
Friday, and all are anxious for rain.
The winds and hot sun that we have been
having lately have dried off the little rain
that has fallen, and the com is burning
up. The rust in the cotton has shown
itself to a vsry considerable extent; other
wise the crop is doing very well.
Quitman Free Press: The largest
rice “patch” in the county, fifteen acres,
belongs to Dr. Battle. Those who have
seen it think he will average not less than
thirty bushels to the acre. ~
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FAEM AND HOUSEHOLD.
A correspondent of the Country Gen
tleman, who made the experiment, says
when unground shelled corn is fed to cat
tle, twenty percent., orone-fiftli, is voided
without digestion. If whole corn is mixed
With cut hay, it is better masticated, and
only tea per cent, passes undigested.
Coarsely ground com loses ten per cent,
by indigestion, while there is scarcely a
trace found where com is ground to fine
meal.
Broom corn, as many of our readers
may know, was introduced to this country
by Dr. Franklin. He saw a seed on a
broom, planted it, and the seeds from this
single plant were the beginning of broom
corn as an American agricultural product.
The credit for the broom-making indus
try is due to the Shakers, who, raising the
plants in their gardens, manufactured the
brooms and sold them for 60 cents, or
more, apiece. Immediately after the war,
so great was the profit from its cultiva
tion, that it was soon overdone, and the
many who had rushed iuto the business
were soon discouraged and abandoned it.
Now it is cultivated in all parts of the
country. The stalks grow very tali; the
seeds, if left to mature and ground with
com or oats, are deemed excellent for fat
tening cattle. But as the straw is brighter
and more desirable if cut while the seeds
are in milk or dough state, the seeds are
not gathered. These should be planted
on good soil, in drills three feet apart, tlie
seeds one f-iot in the drill.
Ducklings are great eaters, and will
eat almost anything in the shape of food.
Feed cooked food with plenty of green
food, until they are old enough to give
free range. Almost any kind of food that
you would give chicks and young turkeys
is good for ducklings.
A horse’s hoof is of the same nature
as horn. If you desire to know the ef
fects of applying a hot shoe to a horse’s
hoof, place your comb on a hot stove for a
minute or two, then let it cool, and see
how easily it will break. A hot shoe
makes the hoof brittle instead of tough.
The ox-eye daisy has become a great
pest in some sections of the country.
Those wlio are troubled with this weed
should bear in mind that it is propagated
by seed, and not by root, aud that to rid
themselves of it, they have only to mow
before the seed is ripe. It may take two
or even three seasons to rid a field of this
innocent-looking flower.
Chickens in Gardens.—By chickens
we do not mean fowls generally, but the
newly-hatched broods, which will flourish
famously if allowed the range of your
flower and vegetable .beds. Shut the
mother liens in roomy coops near the gar-
deh walks; see that they are shaded by
trees or shrubs, both as protection from
the noonday heat, and the possible inva
sion of hawks, who are fearless if the
ground is entirely exposed to view, but
who are shy of the swaying limbs and
fluttering leaves of trees. The chickens,
eagerly searching for worms and insects,
are within the mother’s call, and can
easily hide, at a warning note,
among the leaves and grass. The
exercise, the fresh air, and the sturdy in
dependence gained at an early age in this ii
way, are as healthful and growth-pro*,
inoting as is the natural insect food which
they gather for themselves; aI^^ 1 '‘tbii ,
added to the rations furnishedqfby'thd'
owner of the flock, they wiljLjMtaBisli you
by their rapid and healtlifill development.
The first six weeks of a chicken’s life will
settle the question of early or late matu
rity more effectually than any after care
and pampering can possibly do. Give the
young ones a good start and half the battle
oflife is already won.—American Poultry
Yard.
understood lhaf three will sup-
nort Colquitt, with one not, committed. tbe pre3 0 n t schedule time to New Orleans.
S&MttSKS this count™— —The alarming peculiarity of certain
counterfeit bills on the Exchange Nation-
—The census returns of New Orleans,
worms. A few doses of Slirincr’s Indian “atatai population of
Vermifuge will destroy them, and giv a against 197)911 1# 1870.
bright aud healthy complexion. 1
counterfeit bills — -
al Bank of Baltimore is that they differ
from the genuine article chiefly by rea
son of artistic superiority. They are be
lieved to bail from the far West;
The Germantown Telegraph gives the
following sensible hints on the sharpen
ing of tools: “Too often these things arc
not thought of until the articles are wanted,
when much valuable time is lost in put
ting in order wbac might as well have
been done during the dull winter days.
It has been computed tbat the same man
can do as much in two days with a sharp
scythe as iu three days with one compara
tively dull, and the same expenditure in
force. And it is just tho same in regard
to all other tools or implements, whether
operated by hand, steam or horse power.
The engineer continually oils the
machinery, and a good saw or
file is oil to hand implements. We
know one who has a great deal of hand
hoeing to do by hired labor, and lie be
lieves that the continued use of the file on
the lioes makes a difference of nearly onc-
lialf in the labor. His calculation is that
every ten-cqnt file he.buys. saves him $10
in his laborers’ bills. Now is the time to
look ailerthc spades, scythes, lioes, chisels',
saws, etc. A good grindstone and a set
of : files are among tlie best of farm in
vestments, especially at this season. Tho
best of all forehaniledncss is that which
prepares in advance a full set of good aiid
well-repaired tools to work with.
A Never-failing Remedy to Keep
Vershn out of Poultry Houses.—
Scatter sassafras bark freely around the
chicken nest, and have sassafras poles for
roosts. It will effectually destroy all ver
min.
Hay From Field Peas, Crowsfoot
and Crab Grass.—Editor Southern
Farmer's Monthly: I saw in your March
number an article by S. A. C., and
thought I would write and fill out at least
two of the blanks he left in his list of
forage-plants, by adding crowsfoot and
crab grass, two of our native grasses, and,
by the way, two of the Iiest forage plants
known, but, like many otlicrgrasses, must
be managad properly. I have cut eight
thousand pounds per acre at one cutting,
of as good hay as I wish, of crab grass
But I was so busy last montb I did not
write; and in the April number of your
jourual, I saw the inquiries of W- O. H.,
who claimed to be a young farmer, and
wished to know more of the field pea, and
you, it seems could not well answer him,
and a3 I have experience in raising hay
from them, I have thought it proper to
give your readers the benefit of my expe
rience. After cutting oats, I broadcast
some thirty loads of barnyard or stable
manure per acre on the stubble land; turn
it under; then sow two bushels of peas
(on the plowed land); then use a har
row previously made out of a stick of
timber twelve inches square and six feet
long, by inserting a pole square through
the center (crosswise); hitch a yoke of
steers to the end of the pole and drag it
sidewise over the land, which puts the
peas in and levels the land for tlie mow
ing machine. Then I wait on the peas
until they commence to run and bloom,
and bavo an occasional small pea, but
not until they tangle together so much as
not to be separated by the machine. Then
I mow and let remain on the ground all
day, and cock up in small heaps. I use a
horse rake of my own construction to put
it into winrows, and then a fork for cock
ing up. After that, let remain a day or
two and scatter out; let dry aud haul
iuto tlie house. Do not put away
while stems are much green. If cut
early, the leaves do not fall off,
and the stems will all be eaten, being
soft; and if cut four or five inches high, will
immediately sprout out and make more
aftermath than you can turn under with
a plow. I never have cut a second time,
but let my stock graze it so that I can
turn under with an Excelsior plow, and
in the fall I turn uuder and sow in oats
just as I did the peas. By this means I
have brought my lauds up to producing
fifty bushels of oats per acre, and I get
three tons of hay per acre annually.
L. C. Mattox, M. D.
Homerville, Ga., April 17,1880.
Ten Miles of Green Turtles.
Captain J. B. Rodgers, owner of the
schooner James Andrews, that left Luf
kin’s slip on the 20th instant for Calca
sieu, encountered a squall off Sabine on
the 21st, in which the vessel lost her jib
aud broke tlie center board. The squall
seemed to extend in a circle of about five
miles and was very severe. Vessels a few
miles away were entirely out of reach of
the wind that was pitching the James An
drews about. For one-half hour the ves
sel was in considerable danger, but good
seamanship and cool judgment carried her
through safely, and with only the damage
mentioned.
On the Tuesday following, when be
tween Sabine and Calcasieu, the vessel
again encountered bad weather. The
sea became very lumpy, and a blow was
eminent, when the schooner suadenly
entered a field of green turtles, some of
them being as largo as an ordinary-sized
round table. Strange to say, they were
all on their backs. The schooner was ly
ing on aud off, and from observation it
wase stimated that the water covered by
these turtles formed an area of eight
miles in width and ten miles iu length.
They were of all sizes, and not one being
seen m a natural position. During the
passage among the turtles, Spanish mack
erel were leaping high in the air in every
direction, as if determined to escape from
the sea, giving evidence that either the
water underneath was in a dreadful com
motion or sea monsters had come down
on them from some strange sea.
Capt. Rodgers is anxious to have nauti
cal men explain these odd phenomena of
the turtles on their backs, and tbe ex
citement among the mackerel. During
his nautical career he never saw anything
similar to it, nor did he ever before lay
eyes on as many turtles and Spanish
mackerel. The storm that appeared im
minent did not come, and fair weather
and a good sea presented themselves after
the vessel passed through the field of tur
tles.—Galreston Hews.
Col. Hardeman and Radicalism.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger:
During the dark days of reconstruction,
when public men were timid and too pol
itic to express their views upon public is
sues and the policy best to. be pursued;
when aspirants who expected political
preferment were afraid to let their posi
tions be known, what true statesman and
devoted, patriotic son of Georgia almost
alone stumped the State, devoting his
time and talents to the Democratic party,
and to tlie best interests of his native
State in aiding by bis almost magical elo
quence to defeat the radical hosts
that were in power, feeding upon the life
blood of his State and oppressing her
citizens. Honest Tom Hardeman! Who
was it nelcctected his business and sacri
ficed bis interests to go where the ma
jorities were the greatest and the minor
ities the most discouraged, and the Radi
cals the best organized, to aid by his
work and talents to relieve his State and
county from such gross misrepresentation?
nonest Tom Hardeman! Who was it
that heedqd almost every invitation from
all portions of the State to come and help
them, and at his own expense did-all he
could? Honest Tom Hardeman! Wlio
made more speeches, donated more of his
time and talents to the best interests of
the Democratic party than all the aspir
ants and public men in the State, in those
dark days, combined? Honest Tom
Hardeman!
Will southwest Georgia so soon forget
him? Will Houston, Macon and Taylor
soon forget his great work for
them? Will Perry and Fort Val
ley, Reynolds and Butler, Monte
zuma and Marsballville, forget his
valued services, his active work, his neg
lect of self-interest, his strong appeals, his
stirring eloquence and his logical advice
to .the colored voters, and the effect it had?
Have they, or will they, over forget what
majorities thgy had to contend with, and
how they weroremjesqjited. ip the State’s
councils? “will“they OTer forget that
were almost
'dryLughakrtiiLiffariiTelief and aid, who it
Tjhjnsf .QpTTir turned a. deaf car to their
jwpe,. but always, answered their ciy for
help? It was honest Tom Hardeman!
Will those- generous, high-toned, patriotic
people fail to remember him when he
asks to be complimented with their vote,
knowing that he is the peer of every as
pirant Iu every particular, and their su
perior in intellect? I trust not.
Macon County.
• Monroe, Ga., March 23,1SS0.
S. S. S.—We have, for a year, been pre
scribing Swift’s S. Specific for the diseases
for which it is recommended, and are
frank to say that the results have been
most satisfactory, not having been' disap
pointed in a single instance. We think,
for all tlie diseases for which it is recom
mended,' it stands without a peer, and
that, sooner or later, the medical profes
sion will be forced to recognize it a sine
qua non. ' N. L. Galloway, Md.
july4-2w. I. T. Robinson, Md.
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A Good Hotel to Stop at.
notel accommodations for travelers are
of the greatest importance to persons who
have to move about the country on busi
ness or pleasure. Just where to go is
what every man wants to know when he
leaves heme. The Grand Union Hotel,
opposite the Grand Central depot, New
York city, is a very popular resort, be
cause the attendance there is prompt and
satisfactory, the charges are reasonable
and the menage complete. Persons arriv
ing a or leaving New York city by the
Grand Central depot will find the Grand
Union Hotel very convenient.—N. Y.
Telegram. juneS-Sm.
Wllbor’s lomiionnd ol Fare Cod Liver
Oil and lime
The advantage ot tills compound over
the plajn oil is, that the-nauseating taste
of tho oil is entirely removed, and the
whole rendered entirely palatable. Tbe
offensive taste of the oil has long acted as
an objection to its use; but in this form
the trouble is entirely obviated. A host
of certificates might be given here to testi
fy to the excellence aud success of “Trt7-
bor’s Cod-Liver Oil and Lbnebut the
fact that is prescribed by the medical fao-
ulty is sufficient. For sale by A. B. Wil- ;
bor, chemist, Boston, and by all drug
gists. 1
A DABING MEXICAN.
With Nothing bat a Batcher-Knife
He Kills a Big Puna.
William H. Edwards, of Tempe, called
on us Monday, and from him we learn of
a piece of reckless daring, performed a few
days previous, which, for downright fool- i ’l
ishness, puts to flight any of the daring
performances of the heroes of dime nov
els. It appears that a Mexican, accom
panied by his dog, was on his way to
Tempe to do some trading, when the dog
treed a large California lion. The man
was unarmed, save with a large butcher-
knife; but nothing daunted, and knowing
where he cqulil sell the skin for a dollar,
he whipped out his knife and started up
the tree after the specimen of the king of
beasts. Slipping up within reach
ing distance, ho coolly plunged the
knife into the animal just behind
the shoulder, which so startled him
that he leaped to the ground aud was in
stantly bounced by the dog, when the
man hastened from the tree, sprang upon
the. beast and planted a home thrust
through his heart without further damage
to himself than having his hat tom in
pieces. Tbe lion measured about eight
feet from the tip of his nose to the tip of
hi3 tall, and had he got one good blow at
tbe man he would have mashed him into
a jelly. Mr. Edwards informed us that
this same Mexican killed one of these
beasts about three months ago that meas-
over nine feet from tip to tip, using no
other weapon than a small pistol and
knife, and that he came near losing bis
life in that encouuter. Mr. Edwards pays
him $1 each for the bides, and is tanning
them for boot leather.—Phnccix (A. T.)
Expositor.
At Their Wits’ End.
General Hancock Disloyal.
The Radicals,unable even to invent any
slander which could tarnish the unsullied
escutcheon cf Gen. Hancock’s life-long
record, have at length started the prepos
terous story that he showed his disloyalty
to the Union by announcing,soon after the
high commission had made known its de
cision that if Congress declared that
Mr. Tilden had been duly elected Presi
dent of the United States and he took tho
oath of office at Washington or elsewhere,
he would, after the expiration of General
Grant’s term of office, which would be at
midnight on the third day of March, deem
it his duty to obey any orders received
from the new executive.
This is indeed “straining at a gnat and
swallowing a camel.” To us the real
disloyalty was exhibited by the Radicals
and their chief, who, long before the issue
had been decided- by the “commission,”
had made every arrangement to mass
a large military Ibrce at the capital to resist
the inauguration of the rightfully elected
chief magistrate of. the country. But the
Baltimore Suit thus summarily disposes
of this canard:
A story, attributed to Mr. Hiram At
kins, a delegate to the Cincinnati conven
tion from Vermont, and editor of the
Montpelier Argus and Patriot, has been
going the rounds of the newspapers for a
day or two past, impugning the loyalty of
General Hancock. Mr. Atkins is made to
shy that “soon after the electoral commis
sion had promulgated its decision” Gener
al Hancock wrote to General Sheridan—
other accounts say General Sherman—
stating “that he believed that Governor
Tilden had been elected President of tho
United States, and, being so elected,
he had a right to take the oath of office
elsewhere than at Washington, wherever
he might be; that General Grant’s term of
office expired at midnight on the 3d of
March, and if, after that hour, he received
any orders from Mr. Tilden as President
of the United States, he should obey
them.” Mr. Atkins, being called upon to
“stand up” and explain, does so in the
following statement to the Boston Globe:
“It will be remembered, says Mr. At
kins, that during the controversy it was
claimed by tbe Republicans that Senator
Ferrv, of Michigan, the acting Vice Presi
dent, had a right to connt the votes inde
pendent of the direction of the Senate and
House; that they should be mere specta
tors of the count. On the other hand, the
Democrats claimed that Congress alone
had the right of counting the votes, and
the Vice President could only open the
envelopes. .It was also claimed by Repub
licans tbat General Grant’s term of office
dia not expire until a new President
should be inaugurated. While these ques
tions were pending, and prior to (not after)
the establishment of the electoral commis
sion, General Hancock informed General
Sherman (not Sheridan) that it was duo
to him [Sherman] to bo apprised of what
his [General Hancock’s] position was in
the matter. He, therefore, would say
that he considered that Mr. Tilden had
been elected President of the United
States, find Gen. Grant’s term of office
expired at midnight on the 3d of March;
that, regardless of anything Mr. Ferry
might do, if Congress declared that Mr.
Tilden was elected President, he (Gen.
Hancock) believed he had a right to take
the oath'of office wherever he might be;
and that if Mr. Tilden did take the oath
of office, and he should receive any or
ders from Mr. Tilden, as President of the
United States, after midnight on the 3d
of March, he should obey them. That is
the story. During the processes of tele
graphic transmission and composition, the
name of Sherman was changed to Sheri
dan, and by some means or other I was
made to say that the letter was written
after the 'decision instead of before
the establishment of the electoral
commission. General Hancock, like
Mr. Tilden and all patriotic Ameri
cans, acquiesced in the decision of that
tribunal, unconstitutional as it undoubt
edly was. As to the source whence I ob
tained the story,, it is such that no one can
help giving it credence* I first heard it at
a dinner which I gave at my house in
Montpelier last April to Gen.’William F.
Smith (old Baldy) and several other gen
tlemen, and Gen. Smith afterward re
peated it at Waterbury publicly in the
iresence of over sixty of the prominent
. Democrats of the State.”
And in this way one by. one the charges
fabricated against Gen. Hancock fall to
the ground.
Hon.D.N. Speer.—Under a call of the
Democratic executive committee, the
citizens of Troup county assembled in
mass meeting at LaGrange, Ga., on the
first Tuesday in July, when Hon. F. M.
Longley offered the following:
“The citizens of Troup county, in mass
meeting assembled, uuder call of the
Democratic executive committee, hereby
present to the Democratic convention of
Georgia, Hon. D. N. Speer, of the county
of Troup, as a candidate for State treas
urer. Maj. Speer was bom in this county
and his life has been spent among
us. His character is without spot
blemish; his superior* judgment,
his integrity, his financial ability,
his energy and business qualifications, aro '
all of the very highest order; ami we, his
fellow citizens, who have known him from,
childhood, do thus publicly commend him
to the people of Georgia as a gentleman
peculiarly fitted for the office.
“Should Major Speer be nominated and
elected he will have no trouble in making
a bond of undoubted solvency. He is
pledged to the doctrine that the public
purse should b3 used for public purposes
only.’ ”
The above was enthusiastically carried
by a rising vote.—Exchange.
-A backman at Niagara bargained to
carry two men to the falls and back to the
depot in time for a certain train for one
dollar. He so timed tho job as to return
just three minutes before the train started,
and then charged them $8, taking it out
of a bill which was handed him. He sup
posed they would submit to the swindle
rather than be dolayed. But they, being
lawyers, coolly took rooms at a hotel,
prosecuted him vigorously for a week, and
made him pay $100 in the end.
—Dr. Farrar, of Brooklyn, says that
not less than half a ton of pure gold,
worth half a million dollars, is annually
packed into people’s teeth in the United
States, and at this rate all the gold in cir
culation will be buried in tbe earth iu.
800 years, '
