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fTHE MACON WEEKLY TELEOEAPH: TUESDAY DECEMBER 20, 1885.-TWELVE PACES. THE TELEGRAPH, f COLISII1D KVELT DAT IK THK TCAB AXD WEEKLY, bT TDB Telegraph and Messenger Publishing Co., #7 Mulberry Stmt. Macon, Oa. The Daily ta deltTered by rarrlera in the city or mailed portage (no to oubsertbon, for $1 per month, $2.50 for three montha, for alz montha, or $10 a year. The Wf.eklt la mailed to enhaertben, poatage free, at $1.S5 a year and 75 centa for alt montha. Tranalent adrertlaemento will be taken for the Dally at $1 per aquare of 10 Unee or leaa for the Aral Inaertion. and 00 centa for each anbeequent ln< •action, and for the Weekly at $1 for each inaertion. l.otlceaotdeatha, funerals, marriage, and blithe, *1. Rejected communication, will not be returned. Correepondedce containing important newa and dtaruaaiona of living toplca ta solicited, but moat be brief and written upon but one aide of tbe paper to hare attenton. Remittance, ahould be made by express, postal bote, money order or registered letter. Atlanta Bureau 17}$ Peachtree street All communications ahould be addreeaed to TBE TELEGRAPH, Macon, Oa. Mossy ordera. cbecka, etc., should be made paya ble to u. C. Hasaox, Manager. B. F. McCollum, the man who claimed to have aimed tho cannon that killed Gen eral Leonidaa Folk, has just been kieked to death by a horse. Tbe gentleman who aimed the bon e has not been beard from. It is understood that tbe gold men have three propositions which they will present; First, the repeal of tbe Bland act; second, the suspension of silver coinage for a speci fic period, and third, if no suspension can he secured, to limit the coinage of the sil ver dollar to $500,000 per month insteodjof $2,(’0i),000, as is now required. This from tho Coweta Advertiser would indicate tho imminent need of that county for a free school, at which the great jour nalist might lie taught grammar nnd man ners: “Of all the old sorc-headcd, chronic kickers we ever heard tell on, is that old ‘fuss nnd feathers' who indicts the heavy editorial matter of the Macon Teleobaph. He has surely fell into a pickle jar and can't get out." JuooiClabkk presents the Atlanta drys with a Christinas present in the shape of a decision upholding the late, election. We fear this will he the cause of undue hilarity. It is more than suspected that Colonel Avery will brew a hncket of artillery punch down in the coal cellar of tbe Capitol, and will invite Judge Lochrone to attend and bring his sub-marine cable in his traveling toilet case. Then there will be eloquence. Brows Uxivebtitt has an nominally large number of students who support themselves wholly or in part, daring tho college course. A few of tho best do private tutoring, and one teaches shorthand. Six correspond for news]wpen, seven sing in chnrch choirs, three are elocutionists, one keep* a book- store, one is a real estate broker, two hold agencies for steam laundries, one manages the “student*’ discount agency,” and one distribute* letters to the student* at trifling cost Statesman Neece, of Blinoi*, has intro duced the following hill: “A hill granting land* to aid in the establishment of an en dowment for sayings by which thrift may bo promoted and citizen* assisted to pre serve themselves from the economio impo tence snd dependence involved in their lick of tbe material factors necessary to make available their personal productive capabilities.” It should he passed on next hill day nnder a suspension of the rules. While Arthur, who was guilty of tho in effable meanness of vetoing a bill for the relief of Fitz-Johu Forter, has fade! from public attention, General Porter and his wrong* appeal more strongly to the justice of the American people. Tbe Philadelphia Herald truly lays: “Tbe only enemy of any acconnt whom Fitz-John Porter has left is Logan. His powerful jaws will, of course, bray out against the bill for the wronged general's restoration to his rights.” There is no resson why at this period any Southern Itepresenistive should not actively engage in the effort to right a cruelly wronged man, bnt as a matter of prudenoe and wisdom, it might be better that some Northern soldier should cham pion the hill in place of General Joe Wheeler. “The cause of cold waves, Lientenant Woodruff, of the Signal Service Bnreso, says, is not yet understood. He explains that in various investigations snd studies it bos been shown that ‘a fait of tempera ture succeeds or follows an area of lower barometer and a rise precedes snch an area,’ and asks the following question: ‘It the cold the effect of an areaof high barom eter, or is the area of high barometer due to d-ierease oi temperature?' The prediction of the approach or progress of cold waves is as yet apt to go wrong nines times out of ten. The most intense cold waves follow severe storms.” It is to he regretted that Mr. Stephens, who had exclusive charge of weather, did not make this point clear. The Iowa oonrts have made an important d fusion regarding the civil righta of col ored people. A negre who was refused ad mission to a place of amusement because of his color appealed to the law, when the Circuit Court held that it did not appear from the averments that the plaintiff had any legal right to enter tbe place of amuse ment. The Supreme Court affirms this rul ing snd says: “The act complained off by the plaintiff was the withdrawal by the de fendants, as to him, of the offer which they hsd made to admit him, or to contract with him for admission. They had the right to do this, as to him or any other member of tbe public. This right is not based upon the fact that be belongs to a particular mce, hut arisen from tbe consideration that Neither he uor any other person could de- end as a right, under the law, that the '■(lege of entering the place he accorded Death In the Mine. Those who go down to the bca in ships, it would appear, are exposed to dangers hardly more deadly than those who go down into coal mines. Tbe frequency of mining catastrophes, and the loss of life resulting therefrom, raises the question whether, indeed, the danger is not greater to the miners in proportion to the number engaged than to the sailors. Certainly the horror of mine accidents is more frightful to consider, and the situa tions involve more mental suffering to friends who survive. We are informed, and it is the general belief, that death by drowning is comparatively easy. Some times, it is true, human beings are exppsed at sea to days of suffering throngh thirst, hunger and exposure, bnt generally, the ac cidents there which bring destruction, are quick in action, and the sea engulfs its vic tims. But the mine has horrors far more im pressive. Cut off from the light of heaven, far away underground, the miner meets his death by slow degrees. He straggles with suffocating fames, he perishes by slowly increasing heat, by rushing flames and deadly winds, or it may be, he is ent off by idling debris, and starves to death in the darkness, while loving friends, conscious oi his condition, strive with the energy of agony to reach him. The recent catastrophe in the Xanti coke mine, near* Wilkesbarre, Pa., furnishes a terrible illustration of the uncertainties of mining life, and of the misery a moment may inflict upon a community. At the point named, a few days since, s vast em bankment of cnlmjsnd waste, after shsotb- ing for months the surface drainage, cud denly crashed into the mine far Mow, cutting off twenty-four workmen. Those who escaped si ouoe begun a frantic fight against time and ever- whelming difficulties for the relief of theii imprisoned friends. Business in the neigh borhood for miles around waa suspended, while wi,es, mothers and sisters gathered about the mine and for days kept unceas ing vigil, waiting in an agony of suspense for favorable news. The noble resellers sought to reach their comrades by drilling a manhole straight through the debris for hundreds of yards. Lying upon their faces, passing ont by the backet- ful the loosened earth, breathing fonl gases and constantly expoaed to instant death themselves, they strove like demigods. The result is told in a brief dispatch. There occurred a second crush in, and the rescuers were forced out of the mine. “The effort to save tbe.lives of the im prisoned is abandoned, after another ex ploration and consultation. The officials, finding the whole of the mine where it was hoped that the men were was packed full of calm and sand, and that the men must therefore be dead, decided to abandon the work from the air-shaft. The presence of fire-damp also rendered it impossible to continno the work there. Operations will be continued from the slope, bnt as 3,000 feet of tightly packed calm has to be ent throngh and cleared ont, it will be weeks before the bodies are recovored.” What a Christmas morning for the poor women who walk over tho tombs of their dear ones! circumstances Alter cases. A few dsys since tho Troy, N. Y., news papers published tbe following advertise ment: Wanted—Accommodation f ir the Flak University Jubilee Hlugeiu, thirteen Christian men anil women. Tbe principal hotels hare refused to entertain those people on account of their color. The Jubilee Bingen are traveling about the country giving cntertvnmonti to ac cumulate fnnda for the Unironity. Their enterprise is, therefore, purely an educa tional scheme and ought to command the sympathy of the negrophilists who are as thi, k in world as leaves in Vallambrosa. But this sympathy has not been largely forthcoming. If we may believe a member o( the company who recently testified as follows; ‘AtCblUicothe, 111., we rsvs our drat paid con cert snd the proceeds wan (Ivan to the anffenis by the great Chicago Ore, hot wa were refused ac commodations In two hotels, and obtained shelter in the third only on condiUon (hat we would hide tmiselvee from the other guests. At Springfield, the home of Abraham Lincoln, wa wen aleo ostra cised, but the people, resenting the outrage, gave magnificent welcome, nnd ei-Oovernor Palmer received nans guests Into his own hones. At Zanesville, O, six of our girts had to sleep one night In n single room, over n shed, with nothing bnt water-proofs for covering, and at Fremont, the home of ei-PresIdent Itayes, we wen subjected to Sloes iodiguttiea." Here's a pretty come to paa*, indeed! Bnt recently every Republican journal in the North howled with indignation over the fact that the people of Qnitman, Ga., cx- pressed themselves an glad because they were rid of a negro college which the spite and weitlth of s fool in Massachusetts had located in the heart of their little city. Why are these journals so silent now over the outrages committed npon the intelligent jubilee singen who are travel- ing to get fnnd* to educate the negro race? From the profeneiona mad* by these journals for two decades we had been almost persuaded to believe that the honor of placing guest chamben at the disposal of these wandering moke* wonld be sold to the highest bidden in every community they visited. It seems they ere not even allowed in respectable hotel*. Well, well; then are many knave* and hypocrites in this poor old world. shall be liable in doable tbe amount of damage when stock is killed or injured in cobseqnence of failure to btuld snch fences. In a case against the Missouri Pacific the company contended that tho statute was in violation of the fourteenth amendment of the federal constitution in that it deprived corporations of their property ‘without due process of law' and denied to them 'the equal protection of the laws.' “The Supreme Courtv us tains the statute It holds that tbe legislation was a proper exercise of the police power to protect life and property against accident. 'In few instances.' says Justice Field, ‘coaid the power be more wisely or beneficently ex ercised than in compelling railroad corpora tions to enclose their roads with fences, having gates at crossings and cattle gnards.' The failure of tho roa 1 to comply with the law may justly be deemed gross negligence, and when injmy is done by such negli gence the Legislature has the power to increase the amount of recoverable damages as a punishment of the of fender. ‘The statutes of nearly every State of the Union provide for the increase of damages where the injury complained of resnlt* from tbe neglect of duties imposed for the better security of life and property, and male that increase in many cases dou ble, in some cases treble and even quadru ple the actual damages.’ “This division is of far-reaching impor tance. It affirms the right of every State Legislature to require railroads to be fenced in and to subject the companies to heavy damages for any injury dae to failure to comply with the law." lalaskaUai ltevensces. This country is not alone exercised at the evils produced by alcoholic drinks. France is dii voting earnest inquiries to the sub ject, and proceeds about the work patient ly, seeking always to develop the safest and best ideas on the subject. M- Lancemux has presented before the Academic de Medicine (session of Novem ber IT, 1385) an analysis of the “alcoholic ” cases at present in the hospitals and shows that they come chfefly from the dspart- rnerUs in which wine is not produced. He would arrange the alcoholio beverages in the following order of increasing toxicity: Cider, beer, wine, the liqnors derived from grain, from potatoes and from beet root. He proposes the national adoption of the following measures. 1. Absolute liberty in the sale of cider, beer and wine on condition that they are of good quality and unadulterated. If. Government supervision of the mann- factnre of spirit* of all kinds and the grant ing of prizes for methods of diminishing their ill-effects. 3. The imposition of the highest practi cable tax npon spirituous drinks and an in sistence upon both good moral character and a severe license in the cose of liqnor dealers. 4. The punishment of those found in a state of intoxication and the establishment of refuges for these who cannot refrain from the abnso of strong liqnors. Why Not? . ‘-I “It to painful to observe that Secretory Lamar to growing careless and neglectful of bis opportunities. Ha allowed Robert Toomba' death to peas unnoticed, not even recognising It by placing a flag at half mart over the Interior Department.” 8o says the Detroit Tribane. Well, Sec retary Lamar might very gracefully have placed the flag at halt mart when. General Toombs died. The old statesman, it is true, did not occupy a position which enti tled him to snch public recognition, bnt when we consider the number of lies told about him, the unrelenting hatred express ed, and the sneers of the Tribnne snd other {•artisan journals, it does seem that the country could well afford to go into monre- Ing. A Hint. The comments of the Teleoiufb npon a recent special from Washington, to the At lanta Capitol, detailing the shtmefal facta with reference to Mr. Blount's recent strad dle, seem to have demoralized the Editor of the Irwinton Southerner and Appeal. Without calling in question a single feet that was stated, he imitates tbe example of his master, and attempts to break the fieri e of truth by blackguarding tbe Tei vobaph. In charging corruption npon the Tele- oeafh tbe editor of the Appeal has placed himself in position where he mast either submit the proofs to substantiate the charge or stand convicted as a willful and malicious liar. Fob a territory, in this enlightened age, to express sympathy with the principle* ot the Republican party and then seek admit tance into tbe Union, ie certainly cheeky. Let ns first get rid of the Republicans we have, by reform or otherwise, before we fly to tackle Republicans we know not of. Be- sidos it is bad policy to nee up ell onr terri tories. The country may some day need one of theee, say Dakota for instance, for penal colonies, and it would be nice to have already out there a nucleus of Repub licans to keep the convicts from feeling homesick. A 8t. Jobss' (Newfoundland) correspon dent of the Montreal Gazette baa been calling attention recently to a most dis graceful state of things connected with the Labrador fishery. It may be remembered that daring the late disastrous gale on tbe Labrador coast a singularly large number of women and children were reported a* lost. At th* time it waa not possible to ac- count for this, but the correspondence re ferred to makes the whole matter plain. It has, for many years, been the custom to transport, at the opening of the fishing season, several thousand women anil chil dren to Labrador, where they remain months, engaged in caring the fish caught by the men. They are car lo the scene of their labors, packed in the holds of small women and children, but animals of several kinds, dogs, sheep, goats, etc., are stowed in the close and filthy hold, and as the weather is generally rough, the hatches are usually kept down all the time. The pas sage takes from ten days to two weeks. On reaching Labrador the passengers are ex hausted and hall poisoned by foul air and filth. They are, however, forced to go on shore at once and clean ont the turf hut* which have been filled with ico and snow all the winter. In these wretched hovels, which are always damp and dirty, the poor creatures most livo throughout the sea son. The curing of the fluh iaa laborious and incoutant task, and at (he end of tbe Beason, having meanwhile been ill-fed, worse lodged, and worn out by hard work, tbe wbito slaves aro once moro pack ed into the noisome lipid* of the sehoouers AS TO CIVIL RIGHTS. An Kdltorlnl Which Places tlie Mutter In the Bight Light. Referring to the recent refusal of s land lord at Troy, N. Y., to admit os guests the Fiske Jubilee Singers, n negro company, tho New York Times rays: “Nobody will dony that the exclusion of a colored concert company from a hotel in Troy is an ontrage, and that the excluded singers are entitled to feel tho resentment and indignntim which they expreas. But it is also true that the outrage is one of n kind against which the victims seem to he absolutely without remedy. Neither in leg islation nor in public opinion is there any. hope of effectual redress. “The trouble is that the case is one which almost everybody judges in one way whon it is presented to liim a* an abstract question and in n very different way when it confronts him in the concrete. Tho guests of the Troy hotel would havo do- son nouncod the guesls of any other hotel who and consigned to another hideous voyage. SSubJSrt* As storms are frequent towurd the close of the season, and us it is almost impossible for the inmates of the hold to get out in tho event of an emergency, the wrecks which arc numerous in the fall of the year too of ten include the drowning of whole families like rats in a trap. This is how it came to pass that so many women and children were lost in the late severe gale cn the coast of Labrador. Shred* and Patches. M. snd Mme. de Lessopa have once more become tPk'o'l us.—Minneapolis Tribune. Atlanta men do not wear e&r-mnffa. The slde- w»lk* are too narrow.—CouriereJoumal. Tbe rumor that Miguel Service Hszen wonld re. tiro la Incorrect. The country should neither flatter nor deceive ltAclf.—Philadelphia Times. Atlanta need not despair. Leavenworth, Kan., la a prohibition town, and jet them are orar two hundred ealooua there.—Courier-Journal. In hU hut poem a Baron Tennyaon apeaka of •■poor orphans of nothing,” who aro ‘‘born of hralnleaa nature.* This la a very hard alap at tho dude*.—Baltimore American. The Preaident and lita cabinet have been photo graphed. If John Mher-uan faila to make an laaue out of that, the bnalneaa end of hia Cbrlatmaa ana- pendent has given out, that's all.—Wllkeabarre Leader. Cotton Statement. From the Chronicle’s cotton article of December 24, the following facts arc gath ered relative to the movement of the crop for the past week: For the week ending this evening (De cember 24), tho total receipts havcjrenched 208,981 bales, against 238,011 balea last week, 248,134 balea the previous week and 242,797 hales three weeks since, making the total receipts since the first of September, 1885, 3,386,205 bales, against 3,537,441 bales for the samo period of 1884, showing a de crease Mince September 1, 1885, of 151,205 bales. The receipts of all the interior towns for this week have been 149,614 hales. Last year the receipts of the same week were 106,360 hales. The old interior stocks have other hotels doubtless denounced them when the roports of tho cose were canvassed at tho tables of the other hotels. “It is especially unjust to blame tho landlord of this Troy hotoi for refusing to entertain colored guests. A man no tuuru engages in the business of keeping a hotel than in any other business for the purpose of vindicating the rights of man. He en gages in it for the purpose of mukiDg money, and it is his right, ns it is his in terest, to tnsko his hotel attractive by keeping out of it persons who, for any reason or for no reason, are offensive to the classes npon whoso favor ho mast rely for his living. There are very few landlords— it msy he doubted whether there are any in this State—who would turn away colored gnests on account of their personal prejudices against the Afri can race. They dislike to rece< ;e such gnests simply because they believe that by entertaining them they will Iobb more than they will gain. Even supposing the calcu lation to be erroneous, n hotel keeper is no more to be blamed for making it than any merchant is to be blamed for acting npon an opinion with regard to the markot for his goods, which turns ont to be mistaken and by which be loses money. And no reasonable persons will bo apt to say that this particular calculation is erroneous. “There is a dispute abont the facts in this case, as appears by our dispatches, but there can be no dispute about the publio feeling. A hotel or a theatre in this city to which it was generally understood that ne groes were admitted on the same terms with whiles wonld be in dnnger of being aban doned to th-v nugi .ies. This fact shows the folly of attempting to legislate against so impalpable and irresponsible a thing aa a race projifdico. You may pans laws to pre vent a hotel keeper or a theatrical manager from discriminating against colored persona, but yon cannot bring the law to bear on their while easterners. That being the case, it is on obvious injustice to coerae tho landlord or the manager into defying a prejudice which ho may not himself share, bnt whicu be assuredlv cannot overthrow. The lot of on educated and refined colored man or woman in thi* country is very hard. It cannot be ameliorated by legislation, being a subject ameliorated by legislation, being a subject j appropriate for sermons. Appeals to hu mane and Christian feeling aro entirely in order. They may not be effectual, but they increased daring the week 37,294 bales, and willila^iuite as much good a* penal laws, are to-night 132,008 boles more than at the, TOOMBS'S LAST WILL. The <• rancors and the Hallromla. The Supreme Court of the United States, ha* just delivered an opinion upon a carried np from Missouri. Bat the law as Isid down by the court affects the farmers and railroads of all the States. And aaa matter of interest to these parties, ws rs- preduce, from the New York Herald, the tied statement of the case and the decision: “A statute of Missouri require* every {sals, snd the horror* of this passage, railroad company in the State to fence its | aa described by those familiar with the truck through cultivated fields and nnen-facta, rival those of the dreadful “middle dosed lands, and provides that the company passage” in the old slave trade. Not only same period lost year. The receipts at the same towns have been 32,336 bales moro than the sumo week last year, and since September 1 the receipts at all the towns are 375,176 bales more than for the some time in 1884. Among tho interior towns, the receipts at Macon for tbe week have been 2,031 bales. Last year the receipts for the week were 755 bale*. These figure* show an increase for the week of 1,280 bales. The total receipt* from the plantations since September 1, 1885, aro 3,891,674 lisle*; in 1884 were 3,883,746 hales; in 1883 were 3,789,501 bales. Although the receipts at tbe ontporti the put week were 298,981 hales, the actual movement from plantations was 249,061 bales, the balance going to increaso the stocks at the interior towns. Last year the receipts from the plantations for the same week were 207,647 boles, and for 1883 they were 200,419 bales. Thu imports into continental ports this wsek have been 79,000 bales. The figures indicate a decrease In the cotton in sight to-night of 191,205 bales as ompared with tho same date of 1884, a de crease of 159,698 balea as compared with the corresponding date of 1883, and a de crease of 144,859 balea as compared with 1882. The Chronicle has the following to say cf the market fluctuations for the week nnder review: The ■peculation in cotton for fatare delivery st this market ahowtd sun strength during Setnrday and Monday, but toward tho clooo of Tueaday. whra an important advance In starting exchange waa reported, and early ahipmento of gold become probable, thara wa* a turn of prtcea douvranL which on Wednesday became a sharp decline, a ferturo of which wae the evident weakening of confldenco in values for the erring month*, to which operator* for the rise had before been directing their atten. Uon. Yesterday there waa a further decline In which the lowed Agorae of the eeaaon were reached In option* under weak foreign advleee and a general movement of the bulla to "unload.” Cotton on tbe .pot IU quoted at 1-Ms. advance on Monday, and 1-He. decline on Wodneeday. Tho demand has conUnuod very moderate and atocka on tbto markot - - r. g, .Lu* some accumulation. To-day the market wae dull and weak, but without quotable decline, and middling upland* oloecd *t »Ve. A Little liny Fatally llurned. Colombo* Enquirer-Sun. Martin Reynold*, a Utile son of Mr. James Reynolds, who live* near tho west end of the lower wagon bridge, was fatally burned Ust night. He was playing around tbe fireplace with a kerosene can. snd wonld throw small quantities in the fire to S*e it blaze up. Finally he threw too mnch in and tbe flame reached the can and homed the little fellow so badly that be cannot possibly recover. The nnfortnnate little boy was only twelve years of age and was alone in the room when the fatal accident occurred. IBs clothing waa burned almost entirely from him, and it is said that not a piece of skin mnch larger thus a hand waa left on hia body. PERSONAL remarks. I Cario. ame ° Gordon Be “ nett i*Ul at Mont* [ Arab furnilaro. m°J^^ oaenumea nof "«Ml —Mi. Henna, at 37, is the youngest 1 her of the United States 8enato. g —Mrs. Bancroft, famous in London .. uctress, has become a Roman Catholic*" ** —Miss Murfree, the novelist, is skidd, ing nature in the Tennesaeo mountains.^’ General O. 0. Howard finds that i*J taring in Western towns pays him —Mr. Bentley, tho ex-commissioner nr ponsions, has opened a law office in Deni —Captain Ericsson, of monitor fame I. cnnously described as “an educated Raj! —Mi- Park, the sculptor, is still st T„ driek8 0l “° tW0rk0nn bMt ° £ “ r - Hem —Clara Morris in said to have died Ume^hUtrionicMly, thanlV^eS —George Francis Train is almut to afflict n weary world with a book about the Vun. clerbilts. Mrs. . Kate Chaso (formerly Mrs. daugLT')' ** *° Umbe 1111 ae k°s» of her eldest —Mmc Mario Rose magically sang a dia- mom! loekot out of the jewel-box of tho Queen at Balmoral, the other day. —Alexander Harrison, of mnch note in American art, has u bathing scene at the British Artists' Exhibition in Loudon. —Mrs. CuBter, whose pen is getting to be mightier than waa her husband’s sword, is the guest of Mrs. Lawrence Barrett in Boston. —HcrrZelt, tbe American comedian, who died recently, left among his effects 5,000 love letters, 440 photographs and countless locks of feminine hair. —Mr. St. John, of prohibition fame, speaking in Chicago tho other night re ferred to the recent debate in the United States Sonate on the sale of liquor in the Senate restaurant, and branded that debate as a disgrace to the nation. —Mr. Howells writes in his “Editor’s Stndy''intlfe January “Harper:” M\Ve shall probably never have a great American novel, as fancied by the fondness of critics, and for our own port we care no moro to have it than to have ‘a literary centre.' ” —Sir Henry Alfred Doughty Tichborne will come of age and enter into possession of bis estate next May, and in spite of tlio $600,000 spent in opposing “tho Claimant," he will be n rich man, his rent roll amount ing to more than $140,000 a year. —Oscar Wilde, nt nn artists' exhibition in London, wore n coat daintily conspicuons for its “wonderful plaits in the luick.” Mrs. Oscar, unmindful of the ornithologi cal outcry against the wearing of birds, bod several of them nestling in the brim ot her terra cotta lint. Interesting Experience. llinun Cameron. Furniture Dealer of Columl.u*. lie tell* hi* expectance, tin*: -For three y*an have tried evofy remedy on tha market fur Ntomarh and Kidney Dtoordm. bat *nt no relief. urtil I IMl Hartrir hitter*. Took nva bottles and rm BOW cored, and think Etoettle Hitler* the Brel Mood rurifler In the world.” Malor A. B. Brad, of Sat Liberty. Ky.. treed Electric Bitter* for an old .tending Kidney totoetton and he* rear don* me to much good a* Kkrtric Bu ev*.-—Mold at any rent* a bottle by Lamar. Rankin a Lamar. Synopal* of Its Various Household (looilsnml Landed latato. Washington, Oa., Gazette. Tho will of the lamented General Robert Toombs was filed in the ordinary’s office Ust Monday. Item 1 says: By reason of the death of hU wife, Martha Julia Ann Toombs, to whom he willed tho greater portion of his estate in foe simple, snd of the other changes in both his family and property, ho revokes all the wilU and codicil* heretofore mode. Item 2 will* hU brother, G. Toombs, $1,000 in lien of tbe sections of land given in former wills; said Und lying in Texas, as moat of Texas lands have been sold, or con tracted to be sold. He give* his nephow, William II. Toombs, and his wife and chil dren the sum of $5,000. Item 3 wills to his neice, Eva Jones, $500. Item 4 mentions advancements to his grandson, It. Toomba DoBose. Item 5 wills to his niece, Clara Julia Anthony and her children hia Frenoh Mills K lantation in this county. He also wills er and her children six hundred dollars in cash to her Individually ; also a th nwsnd doilarbond ot the Nashville book concern. Item C give* to his nephew Dr. Robert E. Toomba in trust for bU daughter Julia, all the balance of a three thousand dollar note dne by Buchanan, of Early county. Item 7 give* to hU two grandsons It. Toomba anil Dudley DuBose, bis Uw snd political library, and hU books on govern ment and political economy. Item 8 gives to hU grandson, Ii. Too ml* Dubose, the portrait* of himself and wifo painted by llealy. These portraits are in tended a* heirlooms. And also the por traits of hU daughters Lou and Bailie, painted by lleaddcn. Item 9 wilU to Dudley DuBose, Camille Colley, Hoillie Lon DuBose and Mrs. Hat tie Hunter other painting*, naming them. AU other pictures to be divided among grandchildren. Item 10 gives the bust in marble of A. H. Stephens, with pedestal, to Alexander Stephens, the only son of his old friend, L nton .Stephens. Item 11 gives privilege of come Unds to G. Toombs. Item 12 sUtes that hU grandchildren, Dudley and Bailie Lon Dnltoso, shall not be charged with advancements as long aa they are nnder the parental roof, except snch aa are made to set them ont in life. Item 13 mentions advancements to Ca mille Colley. We qnote from will; “The object of this will, snd it must be so con strued, is to make all my grandchildren equal in the final distribution of my prop erty.” Item 14 gives to his faithful servant, Bil ly, the use of a room, privilege of wood, annuity aa long as he fives. Thera is a be quest to each one of the family servants, and the desire is expressed that they be re tained aa long as they wish to stay, on same terms as heretofore. Item 15: “AU the rest and residue of my estate I give to my grandchildren, Robert Toombs DuBose, Camille CoUey, Dudley DuBose and Bailie Lou DuBose, share snd share alike.’ The property to go to the grandchildren and their descendant*. If they die proper ty is to revert to brother or sister or their lineal descendant Property is subject to usnsgement of grsndchil Jren. Item 16 ststea that he wishes to be buried at old ToomL* burying ground. “This item subject to any change I msy make.” Item 17 leaves $5,000 to hia brother Oabriel Toomba. Item 18 appoints as executors O. Toonl*i, W. W. Kimpson, R. Toombs DuBose and Dudley Do Rose. This will is in the handwriting of Mr. Samuel Barnett, and he, George W. Terry, and H. P. Quinn are the witnesses. It is written on letter paper and each page is signed with the familiar signature ot It. I Toombs. —John W. D.niel gets two Christmas gifts. Virginia, as the wires have told, put a United States senatorsbip into his stock- ;, and now his good wife adds thereto a natty boy. Mr. Daniel has but one stock ing, by tho way, for he lost a leg that time great Father Abraham's boys in blue, went down to count the rattles at the tip of slavery's tail. rrovUlon*— III* —The late Mrs. Fillmore * library at Buf falo has in it n scrap-book mado by Airs. Fill more with much painstaking. Tho covers of green Russian leather contain all the newspaper articles that she could find to clip, telling of tbe last lllnes and death of her husband, the President of the United Almost k Compliment Wall Street New*."'*'- “Banner!" ho exclaimed, aa he returned from the post-office with an open newspaper in his hand, “What do you think?" "Is there going to be another war, Wil liam?" “Wurs'n that" ' “Mercy! Bnt what can it be?" “Jay Gould is to retire from Wall street.” “Nor "Ye*, he is; and dried apple* will jump two cent* a pound in lcrs’n a week. I told S ou we wa* fools for selling out to that pod- ler the other day." Henry’s Carbolic Salvo. Tha Lest (sirs B*ad th* world for Cut*. Drill***, Pile*. Horn Uken. Halt Uhenm. Tetter. Chapped hand*, Chilblain*, Cone end all kinds of •kin eruptions, freckle* and plmplee. The halve to guaranteed to girt perfect mUrtneUon In every cam. De sore yon get Henry'eOuhotlc ,1*1 re, ne *U other* nn but 1* iiteilon* snd counterfeit*. MONEY LOANED On Improrod Turns end ;Cltj Property. For term* ■ppljto R. F. LAWTON, Banker, Becond BtrMt, Macon, Oft.) >pr*&frwly THE PAIR, MCE NE\F CHRISTMAS GOODS. The largest line of Dolls in Macon, Tea Beta for Children, New patterns Glassware, Lamps, Tinware, Crockery, Vases, Mugs, Chins Cups snd Bsneera, Work lloxe* and Notions of all descriptions at bottom price* One price. R. F. SMITH, Proprietor. Dorrmur—dr. a. b. Barfield. Ho. Hulls-rry street, M*con, Ooorgto, Offlc* honra—l». m. to « p. tn. MUCK 1.A If NOTICE. OBDIXARYH OFFICE, JOSES COCSTT, OA. December 24th. port.—Notice to hereby given to *11 yenona concerned that *p.tit|.,t,*ecordlns to tow oM been fll*d In tbto nfltoe *>ktngnn order for £tuS?d2!55 e i. , f h , L lB Buh * n »'*t^« »‘tthOeontU militia district ot tbto roiatjr, ssl mom le- ■» “‘Scfllco on antnrdny. th. trill day of Juvnary next, at II o'clock a. to... *u. b oeder will be greeted. Wltnev* tar haodofflcbUly. ^ 111 T tiSS. 7 Or.llDiry. PILES In *■«*!»I relief. Fliul con Id 10 * dljfl.ind Bi ttfri tnrni Viiniim* lUjff.ftml neverr$ turn*. No j sanJva ry. .hnOm* will tei£°5!5> tkhllOARD f. rthree live tonne j’.'.R** °v ledk* In each county. Adilna P. W ZlEGLk.lt k CO., Philadelphia. wntcwrowltt* DYKE'S Ilkilili KIJXlIi '—I——;»—», —- — ^iawlraSS: