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JANUARY lOTH, 1881.
Sickness la Worth.
Dr. W. L. Sikes, of Ii-abclla, was in
to see us yesterday, and stated that there
were a good many cates oi pneumonia
and measles in Worth. Continued bad
weather and sudden and frequent
changes generally produce pneumonia.
Plows.
Those enterprising liardwaro mer
chants, Messrs. Sheffield Sc Bell, notify
the readers of the Weekly News and
Advertiser in this issuo that they wiki
receive in a few days n complete as
sortment of the celebrated Watt Plow
Points, Bolts, etc. Thoy keep up with
tho times and nover forget the wants of
the farmers. Thoy koep everything in
the way of machinery slid implements
needed on tho farm in jjiis section, and
sell at the very lowest cash prices.
Death or an Intent.
The infant daughter of Dr. and Mrs.
W. A. Strother, died at their home,
this city, on Tuesday evening last, and
was buried in the City Ccmotory the day
following afternoon at four o'clock. The
disease wu penumonia, with which the
little one had suffered for several days.
This is the second child they have lost
within a few short weeks, and the many
friends of the family deeply sympa
thize with them in tho repeated afflic
tion. _
Buy your Blank Books for the new
year from
WKt.cn ft Mitchell.
Death ot Sir. N. B. Corley,
Several days ago we chronicled the
death of Mrs. Mildred Corley, consort
of Mr. S. B. Corley; and to-day wo
announce the death of Mr. Corley,
which occurred at the residence of
Mr. It. J. Hagan, on Saturday evening
last. Both husband and wife died
within one week, of pneumonia. Mr.
Corley was a deserving and popular
yonng man, a farmer by occupation.
Uo leaves many friends to mourn hia
death. His remains were placed by
those of hia departed wife in the Al
bany Cemetery on Sunday afternoon.
Headquarters for School Books,
largest stock, lowest prices.
WEi.cn & Mitchell.
Some Correction*.
Milner, Ga., Jan. 18th, 1881.
Editor* Ken* and Advertiser :
Tour typos left off an O from my
figures in an article published the 14th
instant I gave Jii'c thousand dollar*
as the estimate made by the engineer of
cost of draining Silver Lake by sower.
We could have easily paid five hun
dred dollars for tho job, but the other
figures were just one too much lot us,
as it was with the printer in "setting
up” .the article I wrote; also, .in the
power of a switch as a divining rod,
instead of driving rod.
Samuel D. Isviko, Jr
Blank Books.
Welch Sc Mitchell.
The Israelite*,
In all my experience among the
poor, extending back over fifty years.
I have never had an application for
charity from an Israelite. Last week,
when wood for the poor was being dis
tributed, and when people of both
races and of all denominations were
damoriog for their share, .the Jews
stood entirely aloof. They sometimes
give me money for tuo poor, bat never
ask charity for themselves. If there
are needy ones among them, they are
prorided for by their own brethem. I
leave it to o’hers to account lor these
facts. They are worthy of serious
consideration, and are highly creditable
to tne Jews—Ret. J., H. Campbell
in Colnmbns Time*.
Elegant Silverware, Elegant Jewel
ry, Watches, Clocks and Fine Fancy
Goods. Welch ft Mitchell.
PERFUMERY.
FANCY GOODS,
TOILET ARTICLES,
DRUGGIST? SUNDRIES,
The best 5 and 10 cent Ci
gars always, on hand. Pipes
and Smokers articles gener
ally.
FRESH TURNIP SEEDS
JUST RECEIVED.
FBESH G00SS& LOW FBICSS
^•Prescriptions filled with care,
day or night.
1.0. GILBERT, Agent, fi CO.
Albany Gr.tepteabcrll.tsm-ly
SEWS AXD GOSSIP
(lathered by Oar Local Reporter.
—Ada Gray next week. The press
speaks favorably of her.
-We understand the Ada Gray
Combination is to appear in Albany.
—Frederick l'aulding, it is said, will
certainly come to Albany early next
month.
—Mr. S. W. Kahn, the Indiana
drover, is again with us. He's a live
one, too.
—Mr. S. W. Kahn advertises 30 fine
Mules for sale at tlie_ Planters’ Ware
house yard.
—Ada Gray la the next show billed
for Albany, and several companies are
to fallow her.
—The Macon Telegraph and Kes-
tenger didn't miss it far in its estimate
of the Berger Company.
—A number of new moles and hones
were carried into the country yester
day. They brought good prices.
—About fifteen mails arrive or de
part from Albany each day. Onr post-
office is growing to bean important one.
—“Meadcrvillo” is the name of a new
station on the B. ft A., in Worth coun
ty. It is the site of Capt Weston’s
now mill.
—The Southern Express Company
now runs the B. ft A. IL R. tri-weekly,
Mitchell Sc Co.'s express having been
discontinued.
—Cotton is not bringing such good
priocR now, and experienced friends are
advising planters to hold for a rise in
the market.
—Tho commissions for all our coun
ty officers have been received from tho
Governor. There was no contest in
any case from Dougherty.
—If you need bill heads for dun
ning purposes, our job offleois turning
out a certain style now that brings the
money every time, without suit Send
in your orders.
■The new host will run up to War
wick during high water, and will thus
prove a great convenience to our friends
in Worth. Oh 1 that the new boat
were finished.
—The mail rider on tho Moultrie
route says he killed and cut open a fine
deer the other day, and found in the
animal a live cat-fish eight inches tong.
This is something remarkable.
—Tho attendance upon tho schools
is not anything like as good as it would
be if it were not for this miserable
weather. Parents do not like to send
their children out throngh the rain.
—We present to-day an interesting
letter from our immediate Representa
tive Hon. Wm. K. Smith. , llis refer
ence to tho work on Flint River will bo
read with special interest by onr local
readers.
—According to the report of the
Census Bureau, Dougherty county has
a total population of 12,622. Of these
6,241 are males, 6,381 females; Natives
12,608. Foreign 114. Whites 1,951,
colored 10,671.
—We rise to ask when tho fire cis
terns commenced by the City Council
some two or three mouths ago arc to
be finishea. The ugly excavations and
the heaps of day around them in the
middle of some of the principal streets
nre getting to be eye-sores and nuis
ances. The holes should either be
filled up again, or the cisterns finish
ed.
—If tho two hundred roosters that
arc expected to engage in the Boston
main, would stay at home and attend to
their legitimate business, eggs would
not be forty cents a dozen.—-Ken
York Mtrerug.
You blarsted idiot; don’t you know
any more about chickens than that?
Who ever heard of roosters laying
eggs before ?
—The shows are always well at
tended by the Albany police, bnt it
seems that they cannot, or will not,
put a stop to the whistling nuisance.
We would like to see them make ex
amples of some of the boys who find
so much delight; in this nerve-j
sport, by promptly ejecting them
the hall and making oat cases
them before the Mayor.
—Every year, about this time, there
is a general howl among business men
of dull times, and each successive year
they all say "It’s worse than lever taw
it.” We never heard yet of one Jnu-
ary being better than the one preced
ing it What’s the use grumbling. It's
the peculiar and inevitable condition of
affairs in a strictly agricultural coun
try. There's a better time sbead and
it isn't far off.
Wore Carp for Georgia.
Dr. H. II. Cary, Superintendent
fisheries for Georgia, says the f'va
tlitulion »f Thursday, left last night
for Washington, D. C, to bring oat sis
hundred more of the German carp for
distribqtiouio ponds in Georgia. Parties
who have ponds suitable for these fish
should make prompt application either
to Dr. Cary at Washington or Com
missioner Henderson at Atlanta.
Valuable Lota for Sale.
By reference to an advertisement
elsewhere, it will be seen that the Ham
ilton plantation, adjoining the western
corporate liquts of this city, has been
divided op into acre lota, which are
now offered for sale upon liberal terms.
There is no more healthy locality
this vicinity, and these lots are not
only desirable for .vineyards, truck
farms, etc., but for residences. We
would be glad to see them improved.
The Shows That are Coming.
Tho following companies are billed
for Georgia this season, and we have
reason to believe most of them will
take in Albany :
Miss Charlotte Thompson, Katie
Pntnam, J. Prescott Eldridge, Robson
and Crane, Katie Putnam (return). Jno.
T. Raymond, Tony Denier’s IIempty
Dumpty, Frederick Paulding, Milton
Nobles, Kate Ciaxton Combination,
Billy Arlington's Minstrels. Rice Evan
geline Company, Lawreofo Barrett,
M iss Mary Anderson.
Oa to Blakely.
Sealed proposals are invited by cer
tain citizens of Early county for fur-
nishing cross-tics for the railroad from
Arlington to Blakely, and for clearing
and repairing the entire road-bed for
the reception of the nils; and.it
stipulated that the work is to be finish
ed by tho first of June next Judging
from this it seems that our Blakely
friends arc soon to be connected srith
the world of rails.
This is a good step, and the exten
sion of the road will build up Blakely
and the rich farming country surround
ing the little town.
Messrs. J. P. Stevens ft Co., the en
terprising jewelers of Atlanta, who
have a new advertisement in this issue
of the News and Advertiser, have
recently enlarged their building so
to accommodate more machinery for
the manufacture of watches. They
have ha<l such demand for watches of
their own manufacture that they found
It necessary,to enlarge their fhdlities
to supply the demand. Their watch
factory is now double the size it was
before, and they have introduced new
machinery and employed more work
men. None but the most skilled work
men that could be found in the large
factories of the North are employed,'
and Messrs. J. P. Stevens ft Co. now
have facilities * for manufacturing
watches second to none in the coun
try. But their business is not confined
to the manufacture of watches. They
carry the largest stock of jewelry, sil
verware, etc., in the State or perhaps
in tho SOuth.
Walking Canes! Walking Canos ! 1
Welch Sc Mitchell.
Why the Farmer Finds U So Hard
to Fay Ont.
Tho Dixie Farmer, under tho head
of “A little Arithmetic," presents
the following startling troths:
Wc learn from tho supplementary re
port just issued by the department of
agriculture that the average cash and
time prices (payable November hi)
of bacon and corn in Southwest Geor
gia last year, were as follows:
Cash. Time.
I±ss?l
Assuming that six months was the
average time (it was probably less) the
per cent of the time price over the cash
price was as follows:
Six mo’*. Per turn urn
-25 par cenu JM) per cent.
Corn, 2» per cent 58 per cent.
Wc cannot account for the larger
per cent charged on com, except on
the supposition that the farmer who is
compelled to bay corn is less likely to
pay promptly than he who buys only
bacon. The same remarks apply with
equal force to other articles of prime
necessity—especially to those which
ought to bo produced by the farmer.
Let us now go with the farmer who
concludes that he will "make a note
bank” and see how he comes ont
He learns that money is worth X per
cent per month. He signs a note
will be approved or accepted for five
hundred dollars due at six months.
The banker makes a few figures on
paper or "in his head,” and hands over
the desk 1455, and the borrower goes
on bis way thinking that he will be
only paying l)f per cent, per month.
But let us see what he really will have
paid when he takes np his note. Di
vide $46, the interest, by 445, the cash
proceeds of the note, and we have 9.9
per cent, nearly, for the six months or
1.65 per cent, per month.
If the lender had charged only 1%
per cent, per month for money actually
paid over, be would have advanced on
the note the sum of $458.71. Ia fact
the banker has loaned the borrower
$500 'at 114 per cent per month, and
required the wholo interest to be paid
cash in advance, taking a note for the
principal only. He has worked it by
the rale of bank discount, which seems
to have been invented because it is
easy to calculate and conceals the true
rate paid on loara.
Diaries 1881,
Welch ft Mitchell.
nbcbalcixe.
The following short letter from Dir J.
D. Mitchell, a member ot the Georgia
Legist.,tare. Us very strong endorsement:
Mien HcTcmxaox ft Boa—I have
used yonr •‘Xruralgine,” dud find it all
you claim, a specific for Neuralgia and
Headache. J. D. Mitchell, M D,
Bcr. Dr J. IL DeVotie ears: ‘‘I Lave
been relieved by “Neandgjn#" of a severe
attack ot Headarhe." Hcrcxtssox ft Bao,
Sole Proprietor* and Manufacturers, 14
Whitehall St, Atlanta G*. Fox aale by
LE A H E. Welch, Albany Ga. oct-79.
It,
It is a great thing to have what ia
called nerve, and nothing contributes
more to the power of physical control
thus named, than Warner’s Safe Ner
vi e. It also relieves all kinds of pain,
• - neuralgia.
Flint River Improvement-.
The letter from Hon. Wm. H- Smith,
published in onr issue of Wednesday
last, furnished some inleresti g figures
concerning the work of improving i
river. Many of our people are under
the impression that these appropriat
will amount to nothing rave the benefit
to be derived by a few from the money
that will be scattered by the workmen,
for a brief period. There is no doubt,
bat that Congress trill henceforth pay
more attention to {these internal
improvements than ever before in the
history of this country. Politics
subsiding, and- there seems to be an
earnest purpose on the part ef Repre
sentatives to push through these im
portant enterprises. Appropriations of
ten or twenty thousand, dollars,
alone, can, of coarse, accomplish
bat little; bat annual appropriations of
these amounts are to be made, and
there ia liulo doubt but that Flint river
will be made navigable from its moutii
up to Montezuma.
Our people should continue to urge
and demand from Congress these ap
propriations.
In order to make Flint river worth
the expenditure of the $100,000 ne
sary to place it in first-class hosting
order, it will be necessary to have the
Apalachicola habor placed in condi
tion to receive the larger vessels,
has been estimated by the Engineers
that this will co«t $100,000, ten thous
and of which amount has already been
appropriated by Congress. The States
of Georgia, Florida and Alabama, being
all interested in that habor should
unite their energies and instruct their
Representatives to push through the
work. We see that a bill or resolu
tion memonlizing Congress on this
subject has passed the Florida Legisla
ture, and the other two States together
with the counties and municipalities in
terested should appeal unanimously.
Easy passage up to the wharfs at
Apalachicola would Induce regular
shipping from Gulf and Atlantic ports,
and the saving iu heavy freights could
not tail to redound very greatly to the
interests of dealers and people all
Ibroagh this country.
WELCti & BACON.) COI ~ TIP™ ItHMC-NATIOX.
Biles Ada Gray I* “Eut Lynne.”
List evening a large number of the
lovers of the drama witnessed, says the
Cincinnati Enquirer, the first appear
ance of Ada Gray in this city. She
may congratulate hersrif upon as
warm a reception as was ever accorded
here to any actress. "East Lynne” in
itself is a strong play for the exercise
of the best talent Miss Gray’s con
ception of the character of "Lady La
bel” is marked by a delicate apprehen
sion of its peculiar quality, she thor
oughly impressed her audience for her
fitness to it In the earlier part of the
play where, ms a young wife and moth
er; she believes her unhappy suspicions
of her husband to be more than justi
fied and in passionate resentment
abandons her better self and allows
half unconsciously an in odious scoun
drcl to drag her away to infamy and
shame, she gave to each movement a
most striking significance. The subse
quent act in which she discovers his
true character and the actual nature of
the step she had taken and its enormi
ty and unnaturalness, was marked by
mingled anger scorn, self abasement
and despair that succeed each other
with the deepest intensity of expres
sion.
She was. perhaps, strongest when dis
guised as “Madame Vine,” she clings as
menial in her hosband’s house
trying vainly to hide the outbursts of
her womanly nature, living in the alter
nate cc-tacy and agony of caressing
her children as a stranger and listening
to the reproaches of the woman who
had superceded her. The passage em
bodying the Jdeath scene of little
“Willie,” her distraction, her frantic
declamation of herself) her recognition
of the dying child and the ensuing
physical and mental collapse were the
occasion of the display of a depth of
emotion and passion by which it ia im-
>ossible not to be .moved. "East
.ynno” gives a wide latitude for the
portrayal of the delicate and sensative
apprehensions of the «*•»'• nature,
and Ada Gray brings tn the character
of “Lady Isabel” and "Madame Vine'
a force and conception that Impresses
an audience at once by its intensity and
perfectness. She certainly lias reason
to congratulate herself upon the mark
ed enthusiasm of her audience last
evening, and the most emphatic ex-
iressions of approval. She was called
teforo the curtain three time*. ant
each time re tamed to her work -with
renewed enthusiasm which marks the
effort of the true srtisL
The planters of thic section had a
very propitious season for early work
on the farm last year, bat it is quite
different with tLem this year. So mnch
rain has fallen daring the past six
weeks that the ground is entirely too
■obby for plowing, and the continued
rains and disagreeable state of the
weather generally, have conspired to re
tard all sorts of out-door work. When
has not been raining; the weather
has been extremely cold for several
weeks past, and one of these conditions
of the weather is about as unwelcome
to the farmer at this season of the year
the other; for n good day’s work
can never be had of a freeman when it
is cold. When it is raining Cuffie will
stay in his cabin; in) when it is cold
be will spent] half of his time warming
his fingers and roasting his shins around
a lightwood-knot fire, to make which is
his first act upon reaching his field of
labor in the morning.
There can be no doubt row that the
farmers of this section will be very late
getting their ground prepared and
their crops planted this season; and,
from all that we can hear, the facts are
very mnch the same all over the conn-
ti7-
Most of the yonng oats were killed
by the severe freeze of New-Year’s
week, and many of the farmers have
had to plow up their crops and sow
again. This important work has been
greatly hindered by the wet weather,
too, and we hear or some who have not
yet been able to plow in the second
planting.
With a late start with farm work
generally, and a short oat crop; the ont-
1 >uk for the planting interests of South
west Georgia is anything but an en-
X Card Prom Col. Tift.
Editor* Albany Mem and Ad
liter-.
Gentlemen :—Tho information as to |
my action and purpose as Assignee of
Messrs. Welch ft Bacon, published in
your paper of yesterday, was incorrect
In my report to the meeting of credi
tors I announced my purpose to resign
my treat to the court I have not
changed my purpose.
Vary respectfully,
Nelson Tint.
January 17, 1881.
In a material or financial piintof
view, we are not very largely interest
ed in the failure and assignment of
Messrs. Welch ft Bacon, but the op-
pot tnnity presented in the above by
Col. Tift is so irresistible that we can
not refrain from asking if Me intention
ia to resign bis “trust to the coart" and
thereby precipitate Welch ft Bi
their estate and their creditors into the
hands of the lawyers—the very thing
that he was prevailed upon to take said
trust to avoid. When we made the
statement which Col. Tift now informs
ns was incorrect, we supposed, after
the action of the creditors at their
meeting on Saturday, that he would
continue ia charge of hia trust until
all the business of the firm of Welch
ft Bacon was settled, thus keeping the
business out of the courts, and saving
to the county, the creditor* and the
estate the \ expense of litigation. We
are sorry if it ia to be otherwise.
Capt« Jno. A. Da«I« Appointed
celver for Welch X Bacon.
CAN COla. TIFT BESIGN *
Albany, Ga, Jan. 18th, 1881.
Editor* Ken* and Advertiser:
I noticed your sensible article on
this subject, in your paper of this
morning, and fully agree with you
u> your co.elusions. I submit the fol
lowing paper on that line :
CAN COL. TOT RESIGN ?
If not, then it must be by reason of
the fact that he is under some legal
obligations to the creditors not to do
Welch ft Bacon are wilting to re
voke the power given him, and they are
tiie only parties to the contract.
The so-called assignment ia but a
power of attorney given by Welch ft
Bacon to Col. Tift to sell the property,
collect their assets and pay their debts.
Why can they not revoke this power,
if Col. Tift desires it ? Did the credi
tors give Col.-Tift anything, or agree to
deeso, for him to acccptit ? Did they
lose any right against Welch ft Bacon
by CoL Tift’s appointment? How is it
that all the creditor!! cannot have all
their rights with the business in the
hands of Welch ft Bacon that they
would have managed by Col. Tift ?
“An agency is revokshle at the will of
the principal. If the power is coupled
with an interest in the agent himself, it
can only be done with his consent" See
Code, Sec. 2183. In the csso of Phil
lips vs. Howell, 60th Ga, 411, Mrs.
Phillips placed n fund in the bands of
Howell, her agent to settle a ease
against her son. She afterwards gave
notice to the agent, revoking his au
thority. Thu agent, fearing that he
might be held liable as a stake-holder
hy tiie other party, as the trust was in
writing, declined to refund the money.
Mrs. P. sued him, and recovered the
money. It is true that Mrs. P. stipu
lated that the settlement “was to be
satisfactory,” bnt, says the Court, “no
body has been hurt. The suit is still
proceeding against the son, and it
seems to us tint Mrs. P. could recover
back from Howell any time before set
tlement at her option, on notice to him,
even if she had not prescribed the
term* of settlement” See also 15th
Ga, 486,489; 55th Ga.. 198, died by
the Court sustaining this view.
Bnt it is said that Col. Tift can re
sign to the court In reply I say that
thj court of chancery has no power
tiros to set in such a case. Coda, 8ec.
2322, gives the court power to appoint
another assignee, in . the case of the
death of the assignee or his removing
beyond the jurisdiction of the State,
upon the petition of two or more
persons interested in the assignment” •
The only chance, then, would be for
ao-ne of ihe creditors to file a bill to
pn: the administration of this trust in a
court of equity, and then the court
could appoint .a Receiver, and this
would be desolation indeed. It is
donbtfui whether this «n he done
against tho protest of Welch ft Bacon
and CoL Tift. There can ha no doubt
but that Col. Tift can reoonvey this
trust to Welch ft Bacon, and upon
settling with them, so far as he baa gone,
or with the cifeiitora, with their con
est, and no one can complain or have
ly just cause so to do.
Justice.*
A Card from Col. Tilt.
Albany, Ga, Jan 18,1881.
Editor* Ken* and Advertiser :
I was surprised by your comment
on my note of yesterday, correcting an
error into which yon had fallen, rela
tive to my intention to resign my trust
as Assignee of Messrs. Welch ft Ba
con.
I accepted the position of As-
Axsignee against my wish, and against
my personal interest*, for a friend, with
the understanding that I might be re
lieved so soon as it could be honor
ably and safely done. That friend,
about the time of the first meeting of
the creditors, believing that ha could
relieve me and benefit the creditors by
taking upon himself the burden of set-
rot, frankly requested me to re
sign.
The large meeting of creditors op the
4th ingt, taking the same view of their
ota, unanimously requested my
resignation, but requested me to con
tinue until the adjourned meeting on
the 15th. This was, I think, sufficient
to relieve me from censure for my res.
oa. The resolution of the credi
tors meeting of the 15th, declaring that
the resolution of the last meeting “was
not in the remotest manner intended to
reflect upon” me, and that I had “the
confidence of the meeting’’ were grate
fully received, because I had faithfully
tried to deserve them.
The request that I shoo'd continue
as Assignee could only have been
plied with at a personal sacrifice of
time, interests and duties which, under
the circumstances, I did not think
proper to accede to.
Capt. John A Davis, who will
ceed me in the administration of
estate, will he able to do quite as mnch
or more than I could do for Ihe benefit
of all parties. Very respectfully,
Nelson Tint.
L Tift has, a* intimated in his re-
| port to the creditors of Welch ft Bacon
at their meeting on Saturday last, ten
dered his resignation as the assignee of
that firm; and his resignation wu
accepted by Judge Fleming yesterday.
An ordei was then passed by the Coart
appointing Capt Jno. A. Davis Receiv
er, with the concurrence, vra under
stand, of a large number of the cred
itors.
Ac BACON.
of ihe Assignee and
the Appointment of a Receiver.
Commercial failures are not gener
ally discussed in detail in the public
prints, the province of the newspaper
usually being limited to tho mere an
nouncement of the failure of business
houses whenerer they take - place; bnt
the failure of the firm of Welch ft Ba
con ia Ja matter in which many of oar
readers are directly intereste and ia
surrounded with such circumstances
as make it a legitimate subject .for
discussion in onr columns. No failure
has ever taken place in Southwest
Georgia in which so many of onr peo
ple of all daises, were interested, either
as creditors or debtors, and,
as all the official . statenx
of the firm and of the Assignee
have been psblished in the News and
Adventists, those interested in the
failure look to onr columns for infor-
of all developments in the
As announced yesterday, Col. Tift
has resigned his trust u the Assignee
of Welch ft Bacon, and the Honorable
Judge of the Saperior Court, to whom
bo resigned, has appointed as his suc
cessor in the settlement of the business
of the firm, a Receiver, Capt Jno. A.
Davis.
Now there are doubtless many of
the creditors of Welch ft Bacon who
do not know the difference between an
assignee and a receiver, and how
they will be affected, if at all, by
the change that has been made
hy the resignation of CoL Tift, as Assi
gnee, and the appointncnt.of Capt Daria,
as Receiver; and for the benefit of such
as these we will state that the manner
in which Capt Davis will proceed with
the settlemen! of the business will, ne
cessarily, be ‘altogether different from
that usually adopted by an assignee.
By the execution of a deed by Welch
ft Bacon, CoL Tift was made their
Assignee, With almost unlimited power
of discretion; bnt with CapL Davis as
Receiver it is quite different CoL Tift
was appointed by Welch ft Bacon, bnt
Capt Davis is appointed by the Court,
andjs, therefore, an officer of the Court,
to do as that Court directs. He has no
discretion whatever as to bow and
when the creditors of Welch ft Bacon
shall be paid, and can pay ont money
only opon tho order ol the Court He
cannot, therefore, be held accoanuble
for any delays that may occur in pay
ing off the creditors, and tho latter will
have to await the order of the Court
Tho Cirtersvillo Express tells of a
fellow in that town named John W.
Hanie, an ex-Constable, who has.
since the death of CoL A. T. Akcrmun,
produced a note of that gentleman for
$1,000. No one believed that Col.
Akcrman owed tho fellow a cent and
Solicitor Watt Harris went for him,
upon the advice of the friends of the
deceased, snd on the production of the
note had Hattie arrested for forgeiy.
The Express says:
Wa give a copy below, printed from
the original, ad literatvm et spella-
tum:
. 1 J-W. Hsa!* *t«fct pw e«». fcr ore
1 la wefc leeed ■*-*> bepeUee
dajtaf Jaaeair isai to tketerer
ltSeZMS Ssjet Mmrrh
dolla-a-value receive'
111* IS*. A. T. AKSSMAS.
We have heard of such freaks of ras
cality before, but never knew of one
quite so near home until now. Noi
will be grieved to bear, after the ad
journment of the next conit for
county of Bartow, that Mr. Hanie has
been sent to the coal mines. Si
men shonld go to the place where fire
can be easily kindled and kept banting
cheaply.
" For a week or two past there have
been a large number of oegroes passing
throngh this city en route to Texas.
Every afternoon the second-class coach
oi the passenger train from Macon ia
crowded with them, and frequently
to such an extent that a portion are
forced to wait for the next train. They
say good homes and better wage* have
promised them, and this ia the
assigned for leaving comforts,
hie quarter* in Gcorgi*. The majority
ef them are from the Southwestern
part of the State. We may well expect
to see all who are able to do so return
ing in the coarse of a year. They will
not take advice, but will go to a new
country jai learn a lesson which will
never be forgotten. Some day they
will try the Louisiana awampa. Of
them we may not sea many ret
There are emigrant agent* at work,
■a the practice h unlawful it would be
well for all the farmer* to keep a good
’ '—* and catch some of them.
To the Editor on the New Y<
Sun—Sib: Id 1862, on a plantation in
South America, where there was great
difficulty in seen ring good medical ad
vice, I saw a whole plantation of blacks,
as well as the white members of a large
family, successfully treated for diph
theria with kerosene oil and salt, used
thus: Every patient was given a lump
of rock salt about the size of a boy’s
marble, and instructed to keep it in his
or her mouth, swallowing the salty
saliver. At the same time, tho throat
was rubbed with kerosene oil, and a
flannel saturated with keroeene kept
around the neck until the symptoms
were abated or entirely gone. If ne
cessary, mild cathartics were given.
Not a case was lost, and there wero
folly 150 in all on the plaotatioo.
Under the head of
marriage, the Home^Journalifbe lead
ing society paper. has tbs following:
Mivs Helen Grant, daughter of Mra.
Henry D. Grant, to Lieutenant Ji
Lveket, of the United State* Army, at
St. Thomas’ Church, Wednesday, Ji
IT.t HIM; KIN LETTER.
Concresffilouat Items—Fltx»Immon»
—Grant—Felton—The Cenan*—Flint
! River, Etc*
Washington Crrr, Jan. 13. 1881.
Editors Ken* and Advertiser:
• The third session of the Forty-Sixth
Congress ia rapidly coming to a dose.
The nonal appropriation bills are being
poshed throngh with great force and
rapidity. Besides these are other
measures of groat importance to the
popple and government Now bring
considered is the
ES-NUXDINO BILL.
Ocr financiers are all at sea again.
The House has agreed to Randall's
amendment to Wood’s bill: that is: that
the Government of the United States
shall issue bonds and sell them at a
rate of 3 per cent per annum, the bonds
to run ten years, arid after the expira
tion of five years, they may or may
not be redeemed at the option of the
Government Also, to issue two hun
dred millions treasury certificates, to
bear same rate of interest, snd to ran
ten years, the Government to have tho
right after one year to redeem them.
The necessity for this loan ia to pay the
bonds now running tomaturiy, and
reduce the rate of interest to S per cent,
per annum. The arguments by men of
information on this subject are very in
teresting. The “rate and time” are the
subjects of and for discussion. Some
contend for a low rate of interest, and
a short time for the life of tho hood.
Others contend for a long period of
time to ran. Some maintain that a
short bond with a low rate of interest
will not selL Others say such bonds
will float; and (till there are others
who say we can pay the maturing bonds
as they severally fall due, and ought to
do so. And some maintain that these
obligations should be paid with silver
as well as gold. Tho bill may bo de
feated, and the Secretary may have to
pnt ont his hundred millions of grid
and silver in lien of bis bonds; in either
event trade will be benefited. If the
Secretary is obliged to redeem, the
volume of money will be increased
millions and will seok private invest
ments ; and if the bill i« passed, the
rate of interest being to low, capital
ists will look shoot for hotter invest
ments, and thus the amount of money
in rircnlation will be increased.
Marshal FitxsiLimons, it ia said, find
ing his dismissal inevitable, has, or will
resign. Stephens, Blonot, Felton and
Smith asked the President to give him
a hearing, bat this will be defeated by
a resignation.
OZNESAL OSANT.
The House military committee re
jected the bil I to retire Grant as a
General
oa. fxltox
proposes to show up the election
frauds in the Seventh District of Geor
gia in a speech. It i* a little remark
able that the DoctJV has been so long
silent on this subject
the weather
is simply awful. Cold, rain, snow, ice,
slush, wind, sleet—everything that con
stitutes bad weather is here. Washing
ton has been covered with snow nearly
two months snd it snows now two or
three times a day. The pavements
are as slippery as ice snd smooth as
glass. Your paper does not come.
Are you frozen up too ?
the tenth census on qeoeqia.
Population 1,538,988
Males 761,162
Females. 777,831
Natives 1,628,678
Foreign 10.810
While 814,218
Blaok 724,765
We have 17 Chinese, 98 Indians snd
half-breeds, and 1 Albino.
njXT SITE*.
Tho River and Harbor hilt has not
yet been reported, hot it is known that
it wilt be almost a duplicate of the last
one. The money account of Flint riv
er is as follows:
Joly L 1879,
Amount available $1(1870.49
Am't sppropt’d June 14, ’80. 20,000.00
Whole amount $30,870.49
July L 1880.
Ain’t expended daring fiscal
year 8,002.49
The Latest About Fitzsimmons.
W. til 114too Correspondent Ai'anU Constitution.
Washington. January 12.—The At-
toracy-General is considering the re
port of Special Agent Newcomb, who
recently came to Atlanta to investigate
the office of Marshal Fitzsimmons.
Senators Brown and Hill and Mr.
Stephens have carefully examined the
report. It is very fu.l and explicit,
covering over sixty pages of closely
written foolscap. It makes serious
charges sgainst Colonel Fitzsimmons,
snd declares that he has misapplied the
funds of the government; that he has
withhold moneys doe his deputies;
that his cash is over five thousand dol
lars short; that he has failed and re
fused to co-operate with the revenae
authorities in Georgia and generally
that there are such irregularities in his
office as demand bis removal. It was
expected that the matter would come
up in the Cabinet meeting yesterday
but it did lot. The report that Fitz
simmons has resigned is very common
here, but I am sure it is not true for he
is very sick and says that but for sick
ness he would have been here before
this. Mr. Stephens has been active io
his behalf and “beared for a petition
not to dismiss him wit tout a hearing
the signatures of both Georgia Senators
and of Messrs. Speer, Felton, Smith
and Blount If seems certain, howev
er, tbst the Marshal will resign. Even
his friends here admit that Hayes
, has act his face against him,
but they claim that his fault a not
Anything in connection with the usual
chances against him. They aay that
the President is unwilling to see the
office of marshal in continual warfare
with that of revenue collector, and
that Hayes will try to reconcile the
matter by signifying to Fitzsimmons
that hia resignation will be very ac
ceptable. They maintain, however,
that if he resigns it will be with an un
derstanding that he does it so that lie
may not embarrass the President hv
causing a crash between the depart
ments in Georgia. The friends of
Captain John Anderson, of Savanna]i.
declare that the investigation of this
matter has procured for him a thor
ough indorsement of his entire official
career as deputy marshal for the South
ern disiricL 1 know that tho special
commuinl* Captain Anderson very
highly for his action as an officer. The
whole matter may be summed up thus:
Fitzsimmons has not resigned, and will
not do so for several days, but he has
lo-it hia bold on the administration and
must go. As toon as he resigns H. I.
Kimball will be put in charge of the
-- -—— from Virginia—
Mr. Ja
Amount available $22,869 52
Expenditures for tho fiscal
year ending June 30,1880;
have not been reported yet
It ia safe to **y that if (ho
expenditures of last year
were $8,002.49, they will
at least be twice as much
this year, say 16,004.98
Which will leave in hand to
commence next fiscal year, $ 6,864.54
With the appropriation, lay
at least 15,00000
Total $21,864.54
We shall have *21,864.54 to
cnee and continue work. It is to be
hoped that Maj. Slaughter will
this work to completion, and let the
money appropriated be profitably ex
pended:- Let the mousy be exhausted.
So long as the amount* appropriated are
not exhausted on the work Congress
will not increase the amount, hot, oa
the contrary, will decrease iL
DoUOBEBTr.
.Vfothers! TIoili. ret! mothers!!S
Are you disturbed at night and
broken of yonr rest by a sick child suf
fering and crying with the excruciating
pain of cutting teeth? If so. go at one*
and get a bottle of Mas. Wnratowa
Soothing 8tbun. It will relievo the
poor little snfferer immediately—de
pend upon it; there is no mistake
about iL There is not a mother on
earth who has ever used it who will net
tell you at once that it will regulate the
bowels, and giro rent, to the mother,
1 relief and health to the child,
operating like magic. It is perfectly
safe to use in all eases, and pleasant to
the taste, and is the prescription of one
of «he oldest and beat female physicians
and nones in the United State*. Sold
everywhere. 25 cents
Answers Io Correspondents.
In reply to the i
we hare received
ry, of the firm of
Peacock ft Oberry, returned on Mon
day last from Virginia, where b - had
been for a month past securing hands
for their turpentine farm below Cocuran.
We are informed by Mr. Oberry that
he employed and brought ont from Vir
ginia thirty-eight colored lahon-rx.
who are to receive one hundred and
seventy-five dollar* and rations, and
at the expiration of the year they are
to be famished transportation beck to
Virginia. Mr. Oberry also informed
oa that it coetjhim eight handed dollars
to bring these colored laborers to
Georgia. Their rations are a peek of
meal and five pounds of bacon, etc.
Messrs. Peacock ft Oberry own a very
extensive turpentine farm below
Cochran on the Macon and Brunswick
Railroad, snd are running two distil
leries. Thoy were among the fiist to
engage in the turpentine business in
this section of Georgia. They left or
ders in Virginia for thirty more hands.
The Virginia and North Carolina dar
kies como to Georgia somewhat upon
the samo terms ns are made with the
Chinese. The Chinaman, wheti ho
loaves bis oriental home for the shores
of America, makes a solemn contract
that, dead or alive, he shall be taken
back to his native soil. Whenever one
of them dies, his body is carefully coffin
ed, and returned to the land regarded
as sacred and celestial by all Chinamen.
The Virginia and North Carolina ne
gro can be induced to come to Georgia
for big wages and the understanding
that he ia to be brought out and return
ed at Ihe expense of his employer. A
week or two before Christmas we wi-re
down at Eastman, sod noticed that a
huge number of these colored laborers
bad assembled at the depot to be takun
by their employer back to their old
homes.
The Georgia negro does not know
how to box snd chip the pine for tur
pentine put poses. The “boxers’’ and
“chippera” of tho Carolines rather eon
aider ihutarelvas profession*!*.
—The most unique New Year* mrd
we have yet seen is in the shape of a
draft on toe Goddess of Fortune, amt
reads as follows:
Jatnuer i, t si.
r upon Hia Lot. Holies Title.
MAURICE BLYTHE.
Columbus, Ga, Jtui. 17.1878
Da. C. J. Moffett—Dear Sib: !.•«:
summer when onr little girl was teet .,-
ing, we tried a great number of pr-»-
criptions hot none or them relieved ht-r.
We finally had brought to oar notice
yo'ar Tee thins (Teething Powder*),
and used them with the happiest t—
salt They gave her a speedy and p.-r-
it relief. I very heartily recom
mend them to others.
Yoara, very truly.
G. K. GLENN
President Columbus Female UoUeg-.
_ It* speedy cure* of Sores snd Ent|»-
tions opon the Skin hare been remark -
’tie. Goldthwaite ft Sox,
Druggists, Troy, Ala.
Orrtca on the “IsDCaxstaL Etta,''/
Aleia. Iowa, May 26, 1880. (
To Whom it mag concern:
I take great pleasure in making the
following statement: I have been af
flicted with a dseasr of the ktdners
for the past two years, and hare trii-1
ns remedies with only parta : i
iporary relief. Warner's 8si-
Kinder Liver Core was recommend d
to me. after taking it the pain and di
tto** left me, and lam to-day strong-
and well. I am perfecly satisfied th.-t
Winer's Safe Kidney and Liver Car*
is the medicine needed, and can chui-r-
fully recommend it to other*.
G. W. STAMM.
A CocflH, Cold o.i Sobs Thtuat'
shonld bu stopped. Neglect freq-i - t-
ly results in an Incurable Lung Dis
ease or Consumption, '(news's Rbon-
CUIAL TiiueCHES are certain to give re-
lief in Asthma, B.onchitis, Couglu, Ca
tarrh, Consumptive and Throat Dis-
For thirty years th» Troches
have tieun recommended by physicians,
always give perfect satisfaction.
They arc not new or untried, but hav
ing been tested by wide and constant
use for nearly an entire generation,
they have attained well-merited rank
among the few staple remedies of the
age. Public Speakers and Singers use
them to clear and strength on the Voice.
Sold At 25 Cents a box everywhere.
X Physician’* Testimony.
I hereby certify that I have been a
practicing physician for twenty-*even
years, and for many chronic ca<*-a In my
practice do •ecommend Warner'.- Ssfu
Kidney and Liver Core, [j wa* >pon
my : dricu that G. W. Stamm -d i- r of
the Industrial Era, Albia Ioica, oh
taino l this invaluab e icmedy.
A. A. RAMSAY, M. 1).