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GALLAHERS INDEPENDENT,
PUDUSIIKD EVERY SATURDAY AT
QUITMAN, OA.,
•——BY
J. C. GALLAHER,
TERMS V SUBSCRIPTION I
TWO DOLLARS per Anna* in Aihmcc.
To the Executive Committee of the Demo
eratic Party.
Macon, May 18, 1874.
Desiring, above ull tilings, unity of ac
tion by the Democrats of Georgia in oar
approaching elections, and knowing the
great i-*]>ortaneo of harmony in our ranks,
1 have doterminod, v itii a view to tliuso
dosirablo ends, to call together tho Execu
tive Committee of tho purty on the first
Wednesday in July in Atlanta, for consul
tation. Untill then it is desired that no
action looking to nomination of candidates
■will lio taken by the party. Gentlemen of
tho Convention, the interest of the people
demand your attention.
Taomas Uauiucman, Jr.,
Chairman Dorn. Ex. Com.
a rkmarkToTe cask
Dofore Judge Van Voret. of tlie Supremo
Court in the City of New York, the suit of
James Lorimer Graham against LyttliUm
Gorrettsou and Richard ,T. Garrottson, cx
i-ontors of Symmes Gardner, to recover
$132,600 in shieks and bonds, was dis|iosed
of. It appears that on the Ist of May,
1871. Mr. (Indium, riding homeward in a
(Sixth avenue ear, with tho stocks and
bonds iu a satchel, became engrossed m a
newspaper and passed the street in which
ho lived. On discovering liis mistake, lie
sprang from the ear forgetting his satchel,
ito soon missed it; pursued and overtook
the ear, but tho 'a.lohel had disappeared.'
lie inquired for it in the office of the rail
road company, advertised it in the news
papers, circulated handbills offering a lib
eral reward, and warned banKers and bro
kers not to negotiate tho bonds and stocks.
To bis utter astonishment, one day re
cently. Mr. Lyttloton G. Garrottson, one
of tlie executors of Esquire Gardner’s es
tate, called upon him to ask why ho had !
not transferred the bonds and stocks on j
the back. He said that they hud been 1
found among Mr. Gardner’s assets, but j
that there was nothing !<• show how lie lie- j
came their possessor. Mr. Graham then
told liis story to Mr. (iarrettson, ami as |
the executors could not deliver the prop-]
erty w ithout lcg.il adjudication conobvniug I
tho riglit of ownen hip, it was mutually I
agreed tlmtu frieudly lawsuit should bet
instituted. Mr. Graham having proved I
his title to ttu. Ihiihl . and .•.looks, Judge I
Van Voret gave judgment in his favor, re
ipiiving the exeeuti in; to deliver the bond a i
and stocks to him. Thin is certainly a
very remarkable case, and leave , the mem
ory of Mr. Oardner iu a very awkward
position, to say the least, Shr. A'i-Rrp.
mw wslo w.
The Knoxville CLrouiM publiah. a. l l
ter from Brown low, of which l!iu follow- ,
iug is a synopsi ::
• In no State is tho negro deprived of full
anil equal protection before the law. ltat
ill several Southern State like South
Carolina the white man bn; mirighis which
the negro is hound to reaped. The South
e.rn {tcupic have been ..ullicic.itly piuiishtHl
for p rrticipatio'i in the rebcllt,.’;. and in
stead ofhariMssiu aid farther humiliating
them C mgre-.r ougb. to ex. .. 1 thorn a
helping hand. The result of the passage
of the bill will be that the school system
will be destroyed, war and race prejudices,
which werohein : • rapidly obliterated will
be revived with unwonted fury mid the
present generated will not live to see so
favorable a condition of affairs as exists at
the present tim a A feeling of returning
loyalty which was growing iu tho South
will die out, and one of hostility to the
government will take Hs place. The hill
might- be appropriately termed “A bill for
the encouragement of riot aud chaos in the
Southern States, and for tho humiliation of
widows and the oppression of the orphans
of the Soutli.”
With my view of this question. 1 am
glad to see that the Superintendent of Pub
lic Instruction for T. nneuueo has taken an
initiatory step for the abolition ii| the whole
common school system of the State, so
that if the bill should pasa the system may
be abolished without delay.
In the full'Wt and most emphatic man
ner possible I ■tftsh to see Tennesseo ex
press tho iniliguatiou and disgust of her
people at this palpable invasion of their
purely domestic relations.
THENA TIONA /. S’C’.l VEXGEH.
Four millions of a widely different and
vastly subordinate species of human kind
are forced from tlicir orbit and thrust into
tliat of the white man, and this impious
and loathsome crime ujjou nature and
American civilization results in social di
sease as fatal to the nation as leprosy or
small-pox to the individual. Look at it in
dividualizedA white family harmonizes,
equalizes and affiliates with a negro one.
The negro is corrupted with it, degraded
by it, but the whites thus mating with
them are degraded beyond expression,
and the Mongrel progeny is so abhorrent
to nature that, in three or four generations,
tin; y will rot out utterly frora the earth
polluted by such a sin against the Creator
ippft crime against nature. Aggregates are
Irnari-■ up from individuals, and .therefore
Spliagffiew Nation” becomes as filthy, de-
HHnLd'and lost as the individual. It is
i® tbfthf'eituation” of universal rottenness
tlittitSe New York San dives and brings
ie 6 surface its carrion lioads of Credit
jfdMiier. Sanborn contracts salary grabs,
&c , and though it may be to some extent,
*®Kfut, it is only so as the foul scavenger
is in his calling.— X. l r .'Day-Book.
GOOD, ~LFLIVED UP TO.
If political platforms in these days
meant anything, we should say that the
one adopted by the Democrats of Maine,
who held a con von tie* yesterday, promised
to work towards reform. M e printed it
in our Fourth Edition of Tuesday, and
hope that everybody has read it or will
read it.
The resolution in favor of “hard money”
roileets tho sentiment of all parties in
Maine, as it should that of honest and in
telligent ynen everywhere. That in favor
of free trade is no loss emphatic, and in
dicates by its emphasis what we have long
belioved—tliat freo trade sentiment is
growing with the knowledge tliat any
community is fettered by taxes imposed
in behalf of monopolists. In the rest of
tho resolutions there is a taint of partisan
ship which does not improve them, but, as
a whole they aro good. Now, will the
Democrats of Maine, or of any other state,
live up thorn ? Wo asked tho same ques
tion of tho Republicans of Maine, the
other day. about their excellent platform.
- X. X Post.
VOL. 11.
BREAKING IT GENTLY.
11T MAUK TWAIN.
“Yes, I remember that anecdote, ” tho
Sunday Hcliool Superintendent said, with
the old pathos iu Ins voice, and tho old sml
look in his eyes. “It was about a simple
creature named Higgins, that used to haul
rock for old Maltby. When tho lamented
Judge Bugloy tripped and fell down tho
court house stairs and broke his nook, it
was a great qm'stion how to' break the
liewst to poor Mrs. Bagley. Hut finally
tlm body was put into Iliggius' wagon,
and bo was instructed to take it to Mrs.
8., but to bo very guarded anil discreet
in bis languago. and not break tho news
to her at once, but doit gradually and
gently. When lliggins got there with his
sad freight, lie Hlioutod till Sira. Bagley
enmo to tho door.
Then lie said, “]>oca tire widdor Bagley
live here?”
“The widow Bagley? No, sir."
“I’ll bet she does. But have it your
own way. Well, does Judge Bagley livu
here?”
“Yes, Judge Bagley lives here.”
“I’ll bet lie don’t. But never miml, it
ain't for me to contradict. Is the Judge
iu?”
“No not at present.”
"I just expected ns much. Because,
you know—take hold o’ suthin, mum, for
Pm a-going to make a little communica
tion, and I reckon may bo it’ll jar you
some. There’s been an accident, mum.
I’ve got the old Judge curled up out hero
in the wagon, aud when you see him you’ll
acknowledge yourself that an inquest is
alsmt the only thing that could be a com
fort to him !”
BUTTER 77/1 V WHISKEY.
“Bill Arp” writes: Gentlemen, there is
one thing about drinking, 1 almost wish
every man was a reformed dlluikard. No
muu who ever drank liquor knows what a
luxury cold water is. I have got up iu the
night, after I hud been ..piecing around,
and gone to the pump burning with thirst;
feeling as if the gallows, and the grave
aud infernal regions, were too good for
me, and when 1 took up tho bucket in my
hands, with my eyebrows trembling like I
hud the ague, and put the water to* my
lips, it was tho most delicious draught
that ever went down my throat.
I have stood there uud drank, until 1
could drink no more, and gone back to
lied thanking God for the pure and cool- !
ing beverage, cud cumin." from tho inmost,
for ever touching the wbi ky. In my tor
ment of mind and body, l have made vows
and promises and broken them iu a day.
But if you want to know the luxury of
cold water, get drunk mid keep at it until
you are on lire, and then try the bucket
ful at the pump in tho night. You won't
want a gourd full - you’ll feel lilto a buck
etful! am’t big Albngh, and when you be
gin to drink an earthquake couldn’t step
I yotl. f. know men iviio will swear to the
| truth of what i say; you sec, it is n thing
; they don’t like to bilk about; it is too hti
j mihatiug. ,
DOGS ASD THEIR COST.
Tlu> St. Louis Ulube Ua been making
Home unh-ulaii > . i from ivci ut ntid mticu on
thin question and :-nrns up in reference
tv tbo Slide of lUiiisouri u . follow;.:
Our i 00,(HW ilii/'H furukdionc of the moot
import ant reon'mic cmcmleraUou* now
affecting tlio Slide. In the first place,
they mihtat, ucainst tlu mutton crop nu
liilaUy to (lie extent of id least §5,000,000;
j secondly, they cost id nil average of 25
exults n week eiicli, $,’,500,000 enough to
run nil our common schools mid leave a
large sti'nlidile eiirpliis; thirdly, they day
nnnually through hydrophobia, at least
! 1 tiO'persons, which, at $5,000 each the
| average price paid by railroads for the
! very pool est of brakesmen- amounts to
! the further sum of §600,000. Here is ndi
| rest expenditure of nearly $7,650,000 for
dogs, not to mention the lines, costs and
more remote sentimental damages result
ing from lawsuits about dog lights and
consequent severance of friendship be
tween the owners of the combative curs.
Capitalized, our dogs represented a waste
of ®80,000,000, and invested at compound
interest, their worthlessness would pay oil'
the national debt before 1900.
A Cotton' Case. - A case was recently
tried and determined in Anderson, H. (’.,
which establishes a precedent that will
hereafter bo beneficial to both merchant
and farmer. The case was as follows!
Some months ago a bale of cotton was sold
to a merchant as sound cotton, and judg
ing of the whole bale from the sample
shown, he purchased and shipped it to his
factor. Before shipping, however, the
cotton was discovered to ho considerably
damaged On one side, and notice was given
to the person from whom it was purchas
ed. The cotton was afterward shipped
and sold for a price below what was paid
for it by the lncroliant, whereupon he
brought an action for damages and suc
ceeded iu gaining a sufficient award.
The Civil Rights bill is thought to lie
loft in a condition which will admit of its
being heard from again before Christmas.
If the attempt to take it from tho tablo
and refer it to tho Judiciary Co.gjmitteo
had succeeded, as tliat eommittei. quite
down onJ.be list, it might not have been
reached m the call for reports at tho short
session. While this is bo, tho Springfield
(Mass.) Republican fears that there was as
much truth as boldness in the last clause of
Mr. Eldridge's tittle speech. “It is the
deadest corps you evey saw,” lie said to
the Republican Congressman, “and you
are all glad of it.”
Seizure of Ir.i.iciT DiSTn.LEiiiES. — At
lanta (In., June 29.—1n tho raid just made
by Collector Holtzclnw and United States
Deputy Marshal Findley into Habersham
and Rabun counties, thirteen illicit dis
tilleries and contents-wfere seized and des
troyed, and eight revenue offenders were
arrested, including two of tho bushwhack
ers, who attempted a rescue and made an
attack upon these United States officials.
A lIEAX/rriY Fruit.—A lazy dyspeptic
was bewailing bis own misfortunes, and
speaking with a friend on tho latter’s
hearty appearance. “What do you do to
make you so strong and hearty?” inquir
ed the dyspotie. “Live on fruit alone,”
answered tho friend. “"What kind of
fruit?” “The fruit of industry; and lam
never troubled with indigestion.”
Anything Midas touched was turned to
gold. In these days.’touch a man with
I gold, and he'll turn into anything.
QUITMAN, GA., SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1874.
MISCELLA KKO US AI) VEIiTISXAfXffTS.
BRIGGS, JELKS & GO.,
DEALERS IN
Drugs mid Medicines,
Family Groceries,
Hardware,
Crockery,
Dry Goods, Domestic and Foreign,
Millinery Goods,
Boots and Slioes,
Huts,
Clothing,
Notions, etc.
WHICH WE WILL HELL
STRICTLY FOR CASH
—AND AT—
CASH YAHUE.
K.trmG.' Piodtite, whin l>>
us, considered us CAMII.
lIENItY F. MAHIJHTT
Manager.
JonoM-tf _
if WOULD RESPECTFULLY CALL TIIE AT
| TENTH >N nf Hie citiKiun* or Brisikn nml
tin iiiljoiuiiig isounUua, tu my large aud select
.stuck of
DRY GOGHS,
BOOTS AND SHOES,
lIA IlllWAlt K
GROCERIES, Etc., Etc.,
All of which will ho sold upon REASONABLE
TERMS and at LOWEST PRICES.
o
and Would call the attotition of Planters to mv
LA HUE STOCK OF
FARM IMPLEMENTS,
Such as
PLOWS,
CLEVICEB,
HEEL BOLTS,
GRAIN FANS, etc., oto
Those goods will be sold at
MANUFACTURER S PRICES,
Willi Freight Added.
W GIVE ME A CALL
*
JOHN TILLMAN,
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PROFESSION A L CA RI)S.
~L. F. KdBOCK.
Attorney At Law
QUITMAN, GF.OK GI A.
Will practice in nil tho Oourta of the Bouthern
Circuit, will also practice in tho adjoining coim
tioH iu tho State oi Florida.
• OlHce over Finch’u Store. nmv9-ly
JAS. H. HUNTER
ATTOII NE Y A T EAYV ,
QUITMAN,
121W0KS COUNTY, GEORGIA,
WillpracHoe in the CpunttoH of tlift Southern
Circuit, Echols ami t'ditch of and
Mitchell of Uhu 4ti>”Uilici4at tiro ('unit
lliGisG.'fcn juue2H^l
B I 1 NMTf. bM. KIM,SB,AIRY
BENNETT & KINMERRY,
Attorneys at Law
Q VI 7 M A N,
Brooks County, - - - Georgia.
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EDWARD R. HARDER,
Attorney si.t| Iraw,
(} II 1 T 31 i N ,
BROOKS COUNTY, • - GEORGIA.
Lata nn AwHocintc Justice Supreme Court U.
S. for Utah and TtttjitoiicM; now Jud ;
Comity Court., Brooks
inay2l-12iuo^^a
j. s. m %o w,
i>i:rN r i’iJs r r,
(juiliunn, ,r * - - - Georgia,
f
Offleo Up Stairs, Finch's Corner.
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DG. E. A. JELKS, -
I’KACTLSING PHYSICIAN.
Quitman, (la.
OFFICE Brick building adjoining the store of
Mchhi’s. Briggs, Jclks V id root.
ihayMßf '%r
MISt El. 1,.\ NEO US A It 1 r Eli TISEMENTS.
I). W. I MlI( F,
MERCHANT TAILOR,
QUITMAN, GA.,
Would inform tho citizt ub of Quitman and sur
rounding country, that ho haw Just opened u
FIRST (/LASS
MERCHANT AM) TAILORING
ESTABLISHMENT
IN QUITMAN, AND HAS ON HAND A FINE
LOT OF
CLOTHS AND CASSIMERES,
SUITABLE FOR MAKING
DR SS AND BUSINESS SUITS.
Ho has also on Hand a Select Stock of
READY made clothing,
CUTTING, CLEANING
--AND—
If. EIAI Iff, 1 IV
DONE ON SHORT NOTICE.
I®* PRICES MODERATE. '©a
SA I r A NNA U A /> VKRTISENTS.
hn M. Cooper, G cor go T. Quaufaok
FJ&r* J. 8. F. Lancaster.
JOfflf M. COOPER 4 CO.
Corner Whitaker aud Bt. Julian Btroeta,
Savannah, (La.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
BOOKS AND STATIONERY
OF ALL KINDS.
Copying and Soal Presses, Surveyors' Compassos,
News and Book Printing Pa
per and Ink.
Gold Pons, Pon and Poncil Cases, Desk and
Pocket Knives.
LEDGER, WRITING & COL. PAPERS.
I*liying, Visiting :mtl Printer’* Curds.
Portiiioiia los, ike.
School Furniture and School
Requisites
.1/ Schormahorn &, Co\t ]*ricet* t f(ti' whom ire on
Agriits. Hooks Onlcrid. or hnjtorled
at New York iuUcs.
Wo ftcl coidhlcnt that wo can Roll ah low nw the
lowest, either in Chnrh stoil, AngUßta, Atlanta,
Mnoon, or any other Southern city.
4i>A“ Write or call and ioarn our prices.
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M rSCEI. LA NEO US A1) VJSJI TfSEM ENTS.
BEDELL & CO.,
Ij i<iu o p Dealers;
AND
TOBACCO AGENTS,
140 BROAD STREET
COLUMBUS, OA.
nov2o-tf
E A. DA MONACO.
IMI'OItTEIiS AND
Wholesale Liquor Dealers.
FINE KENTUCKY WHISKIES.
408 & 410 Elm St.,
opposite: southkiiiv hotel,
Hi. I jouls, M<n
ESTABLISHED 1853.
It. L. COWAN, Agent fur Georgia, Alabama and
Florida. apriS - Ijj
J. M. DOROUOIiB. | J. D. WING.
BOROUGHS & WING,
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
TOBACCO,
FIR A ItS, SM FFS, PIPES !*
SMOKER’S ARTICLES,
14 Decatur Strct‘l,
ATLANTA, tiA,
,1. T. JORDAN, Traveling Agent.
Ja3-ly
CURRIER, SHERWOOD & CO.,
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
BOOTS AND SHOES
o
This 1b oho of the Oldest and Largest
llnot and Shoe .lobbing Houses
IN THE CITY.
All their Supplies are obtained from
the Very best manufactories,
And Sold to Customers on the
MOST ACCOMMODATING TEEMS.
478 & 478 Broohie Street, New York,
A. JI. WATKINS, Traveling Agent
iyZi-tt
SA VANNAII ADVERTISEMENTS.
DeWITT, MORGAN &GO.
DEALERS IN DRV GOODS,
139 Congress Street,
SAVANNAH, - l: - GEORGIA.
CHAMPION & FREEMAN.
OBOCEItSAND COMMISSION MERCHANTS
Crimer Bay and Drayton Streets,
SAVANNAH, ----- GEORGIA.
GLAGHORN & CUNNINGHAM,
WIIOL ESA L E G R OCER S,
Corner Bay and Drayton Streets,
SAVANNAH GEORGIA
MARKET SQUARE HOUSE
VALENTINE BASLER,
(SucccEsor to his brothor Antony Easier)
THE YYELL KNOWN
TEN l’irv ALLEY,
At tho Old Stand, 174 Bryan St.,
OPPOSITE THE MARKET,
Continues to koep on hand tho best of
Brandicß, Whiskies, Wines, Ales,
AND ALL OTHER LIQUORS,
My Foreign Liquora are all of my own Impor
tation.
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I^®^ l
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FOR 20 YEARS THE
Standard of Excellence
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
Over 900,000 in Use.
100,000 MORE THAN ANY OF ANY OTHER KIND
TIIE NEW WHEELER A WILSON.
Received in 1573:
Tlio IHgHeat Awards at the Vienna Bxpo.l
- lon.
Tlio Gold Mi ilal of tho Maryland laid
lute Fair.
Tin. FOUR II [GUEST PREMIUMS, (inchiding
two modulo.} at tlie OEOROIA STATE FAIR.
nust OF AI.L:
The WHEELER ft WILSON has tho approval
of millions of Lillies who have lined this well
tried machine. Pliyoioiaiiß certify that it it tlio
only Lock-Stitch Sewing Machine lit for
Family on. , Ito light and easy motion does
not fatigue invalids. Its rapid execution of work
recomnn.mlH it to nil who now for a living. It I.
I 11.- iiiohl economical Im atiH.', th. 1,10.1 .In
rutile.
Onr nhw and popular No. r Machine adapted
for Leather work and '.cnoral Mamifaeturiiig
purpoHeH in now list’d hy tin- leading tailoring i h
tahn sh men tu and ehoe rnctorien.
,Solid for our circulars. Machinofl sold on naav
teruiH, or monthly payments taken. Old umchiuoH
put in order or rocoivod in exchange.
WIIEELEU tt WILKON MF'O CO.’H OFFICES:
W. B. Clkveh, Gen. Agt., Bavanuah, Ga.
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BKESNAN’B
EUROPEAN HOUSE,
Nos. 158, 158, 160 and 162, Bryan St.,
SAVANNAH, CA,
mull PROPRIETOR HAVING COMPLETED
I the necessary additions and improvements,
can new offer to iliH ('nests
ALL THE COMFORTS TO HE OB
TAINED A T OTHER HOTELS
AT LESS THAN
li AL F Til E EXPE NS E.
A Restaurant On tho EUROPEAN PLAN lias
been added, where guests can,
At YYII Hours,
Order whatever can be obtained in the market.
Baonl, $1 50 per day.
Determined to bo
OUT DOME BY NONE
id! I can ask i t a Till VL, conlident that complete
.Gitiiihu tion will lie I'iveti.
octl-tt JOHN LIvJLoNAN, Fioprieto
SA VA NNA H AI) VER TISEMEN TS.
n i : vv
SPRING STOCK I
DeWITT, MORGAN t GO.,
ARE OPENING
Tllinn SPUING STOCK
WHICH THEY OFFEH
FOlt, CASH,
AT—-
NO. 9.
Prices t Suit tlie Times.
DRESS GOODS,
SILKS,
CALICOES,
CASSIMERES,
SHAWLS,
PRINTED MUSLINS,
GRENADINES,
TRIMMINGS,
COLLARS,
RbIFFLING,
EVERYTHING FOK SALE
THAT IS KEPT IN A
FIRST‘CLASS HOUSE.
For sale uY
DeVYITT, MORGAN & €O.
131) Congress St.
SAVANNAH, * x a GEORGIA.
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DR. D. COX, .
4
LIVE STOCK, SLAUGHTERED MEAT*
—Ai
DItODUCIC,
COMMISSION MERCHJJTf
—INO
PURCHASING AGENT
BAVAKSAtt, GEORGIA.
o:o-- —-
Stock Lots*
WILLIAM AND WEST BROAD STEET9
—
Produce Depot
in Easement of city market
CONSIGNMENTS OF
BEEF CATTLE,
MtLCH COWS,
BIIEEP, HOGS,
GAME
DRESSED MEATS, &c„ &o„
—ALSO—
POULTRY, EGGS,
VEGETABLES,
Fruits,
MELONS,
SUGAR,
SYRUP,
HONEY,
HIDES,
TALLOW, &(.
RESPECTFULLY SOLICITED.
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MARSHALL HOUSE,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA
A. li. LUCE, Proprietor,
BOARD, $3 OO Per Dy.
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