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Jfdvct[tiser and jjggg/. Tlmrlow Weed, of,New York, the greai journalist, is dead. The re-districting of the State will he postponed until July. A liill has been introduced in the Legislature, making it a crime to bet on elections. \ Judge Hillyer, of the AtLnta cir cuit, will resign bis position in a few days, it is thought. » — It cost the ConMution $2,000 to collect the returns from the Ninth District in a single night. - ■ ■ Gen. Fitzhugh Leo lectured in Sa vannah on Wednesday night, on the “Battle of Chnncellorville.” Pierce comity is moving to have her liq nor lice nse increased from $1,500 to $li',LKJ0 per annum. Pierce has tiicl lestriction, and is so pleased sh wants more of it. Dear the inven Chattanooga has had several case: of smallpox, but compulsory vaccina lion is being enforced, and it is to be hoped thnt a spreading of the disease may be prevented. The following postof!ice8 have re cently been eaublished in the state: Humphries, Clinch county; Friend ship, in Sumpter country; Itoopville, in Curroll county; Drunesville,Marion county; Reddish, in Wayne county; Wynne, in Douglass county. The semi-centennial of the first locomotive turned oat of Baldwin’s works at Philadelphia will be cele brated by tho workmen's association >■( the establishment on the 23d instant. The locomotive in question was built by Mr. M. W. Baldwin, and on its trial trip ran at the rate of a mile an hour. After every stoppage it had to bo started by pushing. The trial of Cupt. Howard, com mander at the Pensacola navy yard, charged with deserting his post at the appearance of yellow fever at Pensacola, is progressing at the navy yard. Howard claims that he left before the fever broke out beenuse of tho illness which prevented his doing tho duties of the office. He bns a physician's certificate of disability givon him three weeks belore tho fever broko out. Tho calender of tho present ses sion of tho Legislature shows many railroad hills. There are bills to pro hibit tho running of excursion trains on Sunday; to require companies to provide a depot and agent at each station; to compel roads to return for taxation their property in each coun ty through which their route lies; to place tho selection of railroad commi*- sioners into tho bauds of the Legisla ture, instead of the Governor ne ut present, and various measures to pro vide for tho more effective settlement of disputed questions by the commis sion. -»•»■w—■—■ Murder in Wayne County. lllacknhear Newa and Signal. Wo learned from persons on Wednesday that Dave Williams had shot and killed one Major Honstan, near Dales mill in Wayne county. Major Houstan had beeu to Jesnp after his‘wife and wns returning with tier on the freight train. Dave Wil liams wns on the same train, but rill ing on an open car. When the freight arrived tit Dales’ mill, Wil liams went from the open car to tho coach and shot Honstnn two or three times. Williams escaped and is yet at large, so far as we know. Within a little over six mouths more than one liumlred persons have joined tlie churches in the Presbytery of Athens, in Georgia, nu a profession of faith; four new clmi dies have oeon •>tgnuiZeil, and several communities i.ie asking fur organization. Mr. Alfred Barksdale, of Early county, has s itisfactorily demons trated the (liidilem of rai.-ing meat. He | IH s thiity-M-vvn fine hogs to kill tuts ivtuti*i*, ami has not lint a single one during the jeur. EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE. Valdosta, Ga,, Not. 20,1882. •: What a blessing is the steam horse, that not only distance bnt weather 1 Think of it 1 id in Brunswick this morning, spent three hours at Way- cross, and to-night sapped in this thriving little city 1 How oar grand fathers would have enjoyed snch a luxury, and yet we take it as a matter of course, and worry that we do not move a little faster still. 'At nine o’clock this morning, the writer, in company with several mem bers of the bar, bound for Charlton court, took the B. & A. train and glided out of Brunswick for Way- cross, tho initial point on tho S., F. it W. Railway. We were scarcely out of the "city by the sea” when tho ed itor began, as usual, to look for “dots,” knowing thnt we lmd to write this very identical letter. At the first crossing with the M. & B. Railroad wo mnde our first dot, which was thnt the B. & A. road 1 was pnttiDg in n switch, oimecting its track with the M. & B. extension above our city, so that its lumber nml rther trains can bn shifted to tbut line and thence down to their wharves. We noticed, further, thnt some improvements were going on in that vicinity, and, further more, we learned thnt lots on the Day lands, adjacent to the extension and wharves, were being bought, and houses would soon bo erected—all of which would seem to declare thnt somebody had an idea that there would be a little business doue over said wharves in the near future. Jnst here we would say that a few hundred dollars invested in cottages at this point would prove remunerative, for operatives at these wharves must have homes, and jnst there is where they need thorn. At the second crossing our pnrty was joined by Judge Morsbon uud his charming daughter, Miss Leek, who, by the way, is said to be an excellent marksman. She had hor trusty breach-loading rifle along, and, no doubt, would have put to sbauie nny of the party who should dare to pit bis skill agaiost hers at a mark a hun dred yards away. At Waynesville the traveler is greeted with a sight he is not pre pared to meet. Emerging suddenly from the low, flat ground, he sees on the right a rolling country, and on the crest of an adjacent bill the ele gant homo nud grounds of Mr. S. Mutnford—all so unliko tho scenes of the twenty miles just passed over.— Besides tho station house, we noticed hero three stores and n turpentine distillery. And just hero we would say that tho forest from this point to Waycross seemed cue mighty turpen tine farm, which leads ns to ask the question, when these trees have yield ed up their gum, wUuttbeu? Why e.m i this whole section be turned in to farms that will yield a suppart to hundreds of people. Ten acres of that pine land, with twenty head of cattle, wo believo would yield a handsome support to any farmer's! a mily. At tho thirty-sixth mile post Mr. J. J. McDonough bus erected a sawmill, which will still further swell tho ship ments from our port, already the largest ou the Atlantic. Sells’ big circus i t ached Waycross we saw evidences of what can be done by energy, backed by capital. The S., SV & W. Railway is a monument to tbeitbility of its management. ByJls fast trains i perfect tfihod tide of trat- el bas been induced this way. With in the last week a fast schedule bos been pot on from Waycross to Alba ny. Over this route wo were hurled this afternoon at tne rate of a mile in ono and one-half minutes, or forty miles an hour, not including stop pages. The people of this section now no longer feel that they ore out of the world, but that they have been brought into close relationship with tbe rest of mankind. Valdosta is a live, wide-awake little town, located about 140 miles from Savannah, and jnst on tbe edge, we may say, of tho cotton belt. Evi dences of thrift arn visible on every hand. Stores nnd warehouses are mostly of brick, and a spirit of prog ress seems to characterize the people. Arriving here this evening, we were taken in charge by “the committee,” and assigned quarters with a Libcrty- conntian, Mr. Lamartine Varnedoe, who refugeed hither during the war, and, being satisfied, has remained, and is doing well, as are several oth ers from the same section. Tho Savannah Presbytery, to which we were sent ns a delegate, is in session here. The meeting is not ns full ns it should he, many being ab sent from various causes. From here we go to Quitman, the next station, to attend a meeting of the Synod of Sontb Georgia nnd Florida, which convenes on Thursday. From that point we may drop yon a few lines more. T. G. S. CH J' V v ; fi li _ circus a few days uhcad of us, anil we under stand it was patronized by over 5,000 people. They enmo from all direc tions within a radius of fifty miles.— Some Came by rail, some by carts, and scores of others came horseback or on foot. They came all the way from tho jangles of the Okefenokeo swamp. The crowd began arriving tbe day before, nnd at night their campfires were visible in < very direc tion. Many staid until the day after, loth to leave the spot where they had, for the first time in their lives, seen the gcw-giiw and glitter of a circus riog. With them, tin y Itud “seen the end of all perfects GKOROIA'S El SHERI EH. The Census Commission has issued a bulletin relative to tbe fishery in dustry of the United States, and from it we extract tbe following in regard to tbe FISHERIES OF GEORGIA: The sea fisheries of Georgia are as yet almost wholly undeveloped, and tbe state comes, next to eastern Florida, lowest on the list of the At- lantio-bordering states. Immense numbers of edible fish of various kinds gather in the numerous sounds and bays and along the outer shore, but comparatively few are taken, and the people are largely dependent up on the fisheries of westery Florida for their supply. In 1880 tbe value of all sea products, exclusive of oysters, was only $19,225. The oysters taken were vnlued at $35,000, making the total value of the sea products $54, 225. The river fisheries are more fully developed, and the Savannah, Ogcecbee, and Altamaha yield consid- able quantities of fresh water and nn- adromous species. The principal fish taken are shad and sturgeon. Of the former 252,000 pounds, mul of the lat- tor 343,000 pounds, "' re caught in 18S0. Tho fol.owing is a summary of the fishery interests of tho state: Person** employed ' pit h di'pmitlont on fishery JndUHtrie*... $78,770 >s of ni*aproductm (including oyster*... V82.nuo value of same. ’. $r>4,’2‘25 pounds ot river product* taken Value of name $»m,7»>8 Total valuo of product* to tho lUherweu.. Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 22.—The St. Louis Limited Express East, leaving litre at 12:05 this morning, on tho Dittslmrg, Cincinnati and St. Louis Road was wri cked noarUuion station, twenty-six miles east, bv a rail which had been placed across the track. The incident happened shortly after ono o’clock. .The engine was pitched down an embankment over thirty feet, turning twice over nnd landed inn tie'll. Two postal and the baggage and passenger cars were thrown to the bottom of the hill a confused wreck. No persons was fatally injured, but a great many persons suffered broken bones and bruises. THE UNDERSIGNED, HAVING BOUGHT OUT THE ENTIRE INTEREST OF D*. J. u. MADDEN DRlfG BUSINESS, CORNER NEWCASTLE & GLOUCESTER STS., Brunswick, Georgia, Griffin Daily iVciw; “It wns antic ipated that the building of the Macon nnd Brunswick Extension would injure Griffin, but thus far it appears to have had no effect. Our merchants have better and larger stocks than ev er, and trade is lively.” There are fully seventy-live thous and white men iu Georgia who never vote, and recent political events are calculated to increase the iniuiber. EXTENDS TO THE 1'UllLIO AN INVITATION TO EXAMINE A FULL AND COMI'LETE STOCK OF BJitTCrS, CHEMICALS, • Proprietary and Domestic Supplies such as DYE STUFFS. Paints, Oils, Glass, Putty, TOILET O-OOIDS, Etc., Landreth’s Fresh and Reliable Garden Seed, AND EVERYTHING PERTAINING TO A FIRST-CLASS DRUG STORE. OUR PRESCRIPTION DEPUtT. MENT IS UNDER THE DIRECTION OF Mr. L. J. D. PERSSE, An experienced nnd registered Pharmacist Especial attention given to compounding phyficlan*' prescriptions. I t. U IJliEORD, jVI. d. aprl5-6m s Main's Drug More Newcastle and Grant Streets, GhA- (OFFICE PORT PHYSICIAN & HEALTH OFFICER) Where will be fonnd % LARGE STOCK DRUGS, CHEMICALS, -AND- Hair, Nail and Tooth Brushes, Perfumery and Toilet Aticlee; IN GREAT VARIETY. Keene’s colt Fox hull is for sale for $35,000. Sumter, S. O., No*. 10, 1874. Mr. IV. If. Barrett, Augusta, Ga., Dear Sir—It gives me great pleas ure to attest to the efficiency of Gild er’s Pills reeiveil from yon a few days ag". They have accomplished eveiy- Poor deluded | thing that I di-sired of them, and I creatures, how little they know of ,mve iJ'un several to my neighbors. mt was behind the scenes ! j PkllsL ‘ 10 ,uo two do2eu u " >re for .. j use on in v farm. At \\ ayeross we beheld evidences of life that enthused everyone. There Yours respectfuly, J no. C. Tisdale. Soda and Mineral Waters. FROM MY SPLENDID FOUNTAIN. (Liquors prohibted). Trusses & Abdominal Supporters, THE VERY BEST CIGARS AND TOBACCOS, BUST'S and FERRY'S HARDEN SEEDS LAMPS AND LAMP FIXTURES. FINE GREEN AND BLACK TEAS, And oth«*r artides, too numerous to meution, usually kept in a find-da** Drug Ht^k. Physicians’ Prescriptions uarefully Compounded. eny calls for medicines, If mailed st in, reeidence. cirner JAMES T. BLAIN. licensed druggist.