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THE DAILY TIMES.
in M. BAUTIN, ■ - -
Coluiubuv. 0-
THUKBDAY
wasps*——
LARGEST CIRCULATION
la the Oeaatle. AU**t t® mm* Trading
at C'olnmhn..
Judge Underwood has Issued an
ordef forbiikll ng the sale of liquor at
Cedaltown* Bn the 13th Inst., when
Win. Meetartrto bo hung there. The
Augusta Ghronioie denies his author
ity to do so.
Ir there is a law against common
scolds in Massachusetts, why is it
not enforced upon Wenddll Phillips?
And if there Is no such law, ought
not one to be enacted at once to meet
bis case?
•‘Stickl" This is tbo advice which
the Democrats of the whole country
should send to their allies in Lou
isiana who are insisting on govern
ment by the people, and no returning
board frauds.
m op a ■■
An advance of the gold quotation
will be noticed in our New York re
ports. It has advanced fully 1 per
cent, this week. Are the big garnb
blers beginning to tinload?
The Alabama river at Montgomery,
was very high on Tuesday, overflow
ing much of the low land In the bend
opposite the city. The high points
were the refuge of rubbita, many of
which were captured.
The Griffin News Bays: “We are
credibly informed that an anti-Oon
vention ticket will be run in this
county, headed by Col. Thurman and
some other equally prominent man.
The race will bo lively, for the
opposition will strive to concentrate
everything against it.”
Papers generally in the “cotton
belt” report the prospect of the
peach and other fruit crops still fair.
Above the belt the peaches have in
many places been killed. We are in
clined to think that it will “pay”
this summer to dry fruit In this
latitude.
We are requested to mention the
death on the 81st of February, at
Calvert, Robertson county, Texas, of
Mrs. Victoria, wife of Hon. Scott
Field, and daughter of O. A. Lookett.
But we are not informed that the de
ceased lady or any of her family were
from this section.
And now we are told that the legal
tenders received in exchange for sil
ver will be used in the redemption of
the fractional currency. This will
simply be substituting larger green
backs fertile fractional currency, and
the effect must be to make change
still scarcer. _
The President has appointed Prof,
Riley, State Entomologist of Missou
ri, Prof. Cyrus Thomas, State Ento
mologist of Illinois, and Dr. A. 8.
Packard of Massachusetts, a com
mission to investigate the grasshop
per plague. The commission will
start for the West in a few days. It
is authorized by an act of Congress.
The great walking match at Lon
don between Edway Payson Weston,
of New York, and Daniel O’Leary, of
Chicago, was concluded on the 7th
Inst. Thoy walked six days; O’Leary
made 520, and Weston 510 miles.
The wager was SIO,OOO in gold, the
backers of both men being noblemen
of England.
The Galveston News says that the
grasshoppers havo not done much
damage in the interior of Texas yet,
but “thoy are everywhere and are at
tacking everything green and tender.
There are still hopes that they will
take flight before doing any serious
harm. There is great probability,
however, that a second planting will
be necessary whenever they are
hatched out.”
“Bridges Smith’s Paper” has been
removed from Atlanta to Macon, and
we are glad to learn that it bos been
very well received in the last named
city. It is brimfull of spicy and en
tertaining reading, and merits a lib
eral support. E. W. Douglass is pro
prietor; Bridges Smith chief editor,
and Herbert C. Hill city editor. It
has also an Atlanta Department,
edited by Marctdlus E. Thornton.
The name of Samuel J. Tilden is
mentioned as a candidate for the
United States Senate, to succeed
Boscoe Conkiing, whose term will
expire on the third of Maroh, 1879.
Why not? Mr. Tiiden wouldn’t be
beaten by Returning Boards and
Commissions in New York.—Cincin
nati Enquirer.
Wouldn’t it be safer to elect a man
who was never beaten by returning
boards any where? '
Attorney General Devest Las by
circular Issued Instructions to Dis
trict Attorneys, which, il observed,
will go far towards putting a stop to
the malicious prosecutions of South
ern men for petty offenses, and sum
moning of hosts of witnesses on trivial
cases. Such proceedings greatly dis
graced Grant’s. administration. The
circular instructs the District Attor
neys to practice discretion and econ
omy in subpcenlng those witnesses
only who are important and neces
sary to a case; in holding them only
so long as they are needed; in setting
for trial none but important cases;
those which the course of justice and
the interests of Government abso
lutely require to be tried: in dismiss
ing, by advice of the court, the petit
juries at an early day, and in urging
upon the grand juries but a short
sessidb; select very few cases for
trial, those only best supported by
evidence, aod in -which all legal
questions are likely to arise.
It is said that yiwge lier,” the
homestead or President Madison, at
Lexington, Ya., has been sold to a
land company, and is to be occupied
by a colony of Germans.
mtupiuity on stiltm.
The querulous presumption dis
played by the carpet-baggers in re
luctantly giving up their ill-gotten
power in South Carolina and Louisi
ana, is proof sufficient of the great
moral evils resulting front Radical
"|iecootruotion”of the South. These
political adventurers had persuaded
themselves that they had only to
claim, office and power in the South
ern States, and it was the duty of the
Federal Government to uphold them
and their claims by military power.
Ohamberlain complains of “the ac
tion of the President” us compelling
him to surrender his claim. Patter
son says that the Federal Govern
ment has “deserted” the Republican
party of South Carolina. The address
of his Radical State-house officers to
Chamberlain talksof the “moral aid”
at the hands of the Federal Adminis
tration to which their Government
was “entitled.” Packard, in his let
ter to Hayes, complains that the lat
ter does not "recognize and sustain”
his government.
All these claims and complaints go
to show that the carpet-baggers im
agined that the government of the
Southern States by Federal military
power, for their benefit, was to be a
perpetual thing. They and their ig
norant following had the conceit that
they were to be forever political
“wards of the nation,” and our form
of government was to be subverted
for the purpose of keeping them for
ever in power. In what respect is
any action of the President, perform
ed or anticipated, damaging to the
claims of Chamberlain and Packard?
The President has merely directed
tbo withdrawal of the Federal troops
from tlje State-house in one of these
States, and contemplates doing no
more in the other. All tho rights of
Chamberluin and Packard, posses
sory or legal, remain unimpaired and
unprejudiced. If they were Govern
ors by the will and election of their
people, let them go on, sustained by
their people, and run their State gov
ernments as they were intended to be
run, independent of Federal interfer
ence. Hayes has not “recognized”'
Hampton and Nlcholls—does not pro
pose to “recognize” them. They ask
no recognition at his hands. Their
asking of it would be a confession of
their own weakness and lack of pop
ular support, just as Chamberlutn’s
and Packard’s silly demands are proof
that they are not supported by the
people of their States and know that
they are not. Chamberlain only stul
tifies himself by claiming to be the
rightful Governor and blaming Hayes
for not sustaining him, when he will
make no effort to sustain himself.
If the pernicious notions and pre
posterous claims above referred to
were confined to the carpet-baggers,
the evil would not be so great, for we
shall soon be rid of most of that gen
try. The South, without offloo, has
no particular charms for them. But
they have indoctrinated the ignorant
negro population with the same po
litical heresies, and it may take them
some time to unlearn what the car
pet-baggers have taught them.
As pertinent to this subject, and
fully sustaining the views which we
have above presented, we copy from
the New York Tribune, one of the
oldest abolition papers in the coun
try, an advocate of the Reconstruc
tion measures, and a supporter of
Hayes in the late election. The Tri
bune says:
“Everybody knows that the negro,
left to himself, would not get the
mactery until he had acquired some
of the qualifications for it. Even
where he had a numerical majority
of the population and was perfectly
free to vote as he pleased, he would
naturally take a subordinate position
so long as ho had neither money, nor
education, nor habits of thrift and
foresight, nor comprehension of the
art of government. And it is proper
that he should. Universal suffrage
would bo an absurdity, except upon
the theory that it generally results in
the advancement of the Intelligent
and respectable. A majority of the
voters, whether virtuous or not, are
supposed to understand that self
interest requires them to entrust the
Government only to those who are
able to control it. But the Grant pol
icy was based upon a different princi
ple. It assumed that the great secret
of reconstruction was to take the ne
gro out of the cotton-lleld and put
him in the State-house, send him a
company of soldiers to hold him fast
in his scat, and trust to luck for the
rest. The natural results have fol
lowed. The negro has learned noth
ing good in his elevation, and is no
better able to carry ou a State Gov
ernment to-day than ho was six years
ago.
“The only way to reform Southern
society is to stand aside and leave the
voters free and unembarrassed. Then
if these communities are not utterly
corrupt, all t hings will soon find their
natural level, and the rule of the ma
jority will act as it acts elsewhere.”
I.aytna for Him.
It having come to the ears of the United
State officials at this point that Big Eng
lish, a hoot-black, had a handful of lead
nickles in his possession, the boy was yes
terday Interviewed on the subject.
“Yas; I’ve got nineteen bad nickles in
my trousers pocket," was his prompt re
ply.
“And what are you doing with them?’’
"Holding right to ’em. You needn’t
think you’ve got a case again me, for you
haven’t.”
“How did you get those bad piecee ?
“liich man, who shall be nameless
black his boots every morning—hands me
out a lead nickel- thinks lie’s got soft
thing on me, but I’m layin’ for him !
"How?”
"Why he’s got a daughter ’bout my
age. I’ll be thinking of vnarying in two
or three years more, and I’ll shoulder a
bag of his nickels, walk into the parlor,
and gently say: ‘Mister man. 1 love thy
fair daughter, aud 1 demand her hand in
marriage. Behold the proofs of your vile
perfidy, and come up to the rack or go to
the jug!’ Y'ou just keep still and let him
shower out his bogus coins. I ain’t band
some, hut I’m a terror to plan!” —Detroit
Free Press.
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our Indian Alt airs.
Burling tua Hawk-Eye.)
Professor Marsh broke upon a very
solemn and impreasive Indian council the
other .day. He tried to smoke the p ipe of
peace when ft came around to him and
he got it up his nose, and sneezed and
coughed and choked, and swallowed
smoke, and became, so to speak, “ill,” and
made such a scene that the peace makers
broke up the council, bounced on their
ponies and went chasing over the plains
after a distant emigrant train.
From tho Macon Telegraph, 10th.]
Tlti* Haln nf (iraaaliopprra and Btrda.
We mentioned in Sunday morning's
Telegraph and Messenger a remark
able visitation from grasshoppers
which the city received during a wind
aud ruin storm the night before. So
fur we have been unable to Mod any
one who can satisfactorily account
for the presence of the insects. It le
very generally believed that they are
not identical with what is known as
the "hateful”grasshopper which was
so destructive to the West. The
bodies of these are from an inch and
a half to three Inches long, and of
brownish color. The wings are of u
delicate gauzy appearance and beuu
tifully marked with brown. They
are good liyers, reaching the tops ol
buildings easily, and apparently able
to sustiin a continuous flight foi
a considerable distance.
Only a few of these insects remained
in the city Sunday, and on yesterday
hardly one was to be seen anywhere
It is posiblo that they were migra
ting, and being overtaken by the
wind were thrown into the city, where
they were too much dazzled by the
light to proceed upon their journey.
They were thickest arouud the street
lamps, and dashed against every win
dow that was lighted up and Into the
open doors of lighted buildings.
There was no exaggeration in our
statement in regard to their number.
While they were distributed all over
the city, they were thicker In some
seotlonn than they were in others.
They were gathered along Bridge
Row, by the basketful, by fishermen,
who wanted them for bait, and in
the neighborhood of the City Hall
and on the hill they were equally
thick.
Another remarkable occurrence
during the storm was a shower of
sea birds. Of these we heard nothing
Saturday night, but Sunday morn
ing they were found in almost every
part of the city. They were picked up
without difficulty wherever found,
and many persons had them in their
possession yesterday.
There was a great diversity of
opinion as to what speoies of bird it
was. Some insisted that it was the
common didapper, others that it was
the marsh hen known to the ponds
along the coast, while others had still
other names for it. An examination
of Audubon, however, satisfies us
that the proper common name of the
bird is Pied-biiled Dobchick, neuriy
allied to the grebe family, to which
the dtdapper, black diver, etc., be
long. It is a migratory bird, winter
ing on the Southern Atlantic and
Gulf coasts, and when warmer
weather sets in seeking summer re
sorts as do the wild geese aud other
migratory fowls.
The dobchick is perfectly at home
in water and ilies rapidly when once
in the air; but on laud it is entirely
helpless and, not only UDahle to
move about with any degree of ala
crity, but is also unable to rise in the
air and resume its Might.
This brings ustothe most plausible
speculation as to their presence in
the city. These birds were possibly
making their annual Might north
ward, and, being overtaken by the
storm ofSaturday night, were thrown
into the city. Wheuever they fell
upon the ground they were easily
caught, as, by their nature, they
were wholly unable to continue their
Might. Great numbers of them light
ed in the river aud in the swamps
below the city, and hundreds were
shot and hawked about the streets for
sale yesterday. A few live ones
have been put in the lake at the
park, and there are three in the basin
of tile fountain in the court of the
Brown House.
A I rlrml of Muck I’Tuihliuw.
Here is another of Murk Twain’s
monstrosities. The hero is said to
have been a Newarker: “Now that
coriwe,” said the undertaker, “was
a brick. So modest-like and simple
in his lust movements. Friends
wanted metalic burial ease. Corpse
said never mind; shake him up some
kind of a box he could stretch out iu
comfortable; he wan’t particular.
Said he went more on room than
style. Friends wanted a silver door
plato on the coffin, signifying who
he was and whar he was from.
Corpse said jist whitewash his old
canoe and dob his address audgineral
destination onto it and pint him for
the tomb. Ho warn’t distressed any
more than you be. Said he guessed
a body would be judged more by a
picturesque moral character than a
natty burial case with a swell door
plate onto it. Splendid man, he was.
There’s some satisfaction in buryiu’
a man like that. You tell that what
you’re doin’ is appreciated. You
never saw sich a clear head as what
ho had; he was the most down on
stylo of any remains I ever struck.
He had me measure him and take a
whole craft of directions; then he
had the minister stand up behind a
long box with a table-cloth over it to
represent the coffin, and read his
fuueral sermon saying “angkore?”
“angkore?” at the good places, and
making him scratch out every bit of
brag about him. And then he made
them trot out the choir, so’s he could
help them to pick out the tunes for
the occasion, and he got them to
sing “Pop goes tlie Weasel,” because
he had always liked that tune when
he was downhearted. I never see a
man snuffed out so sudden. Ah !it
was a great loss to this town. Well,
well, got to nail on the lid and mosey
along with him; and if voti’ll jist
give me a lift we’ll skeet' him into
the hearse and meander along.”
Awful EtTi'cts uf Hesldcnee Abroad,
Philadelphia Press.]
Once on the other side of the water a
young Americen lady said she would be
much obliged if we spoke French with
her, for really she had been “so long
abroad” (slie had been away for nearly
two yoars) and had talked French so con
stantly that it was with difficulty she now
spoke English. We suggested the advisa
bility of practice in the English tongue if
she intended ever to go home again. The
young American who so soon forgot her
own language is distanced by another
young American, who in a shorter time,
forgot the very appearance ot her papa
anil mama. It was on an incoming Amer
ican steamer, when she said to a young
fentlcman near her: “You know Mr. and
Irs. by sight?" [Mr. and Mrs. are
are her father and mother, but her digni
ty would not allow her to call them "so.]
“Yes,” he answered. “Well, they will
probably be ou the wharf when we get in.
It is a whole year since I saw them.
Will you kindly point them out? I would
not like them to think I didn’t recognize
them.” “It is a wise child," etc., but" this
is not a wise child "by a large majority.”
“It’s all very well,” remarked a red
nosed man in a had hat and au ulster of
the vintage of ’7(5; “it’s all very well” to
say: “Let busiiness revive; bu twhat we
want, sir, is confidence, public confidence,
sir. Each of us must be willing to bring
outour hoarded dollars and pnt lhcm once
more iu circulation. Then the stars will
brighten then —by the way, I changed my
vest this vuqrniug—tend me fifty cents,
will you?”
Two Great Men.—ln the genuine
Boston-bred boy there is always
something Bostonian. A proud father
inquired of his sob, a young modern
Athenian who was in the Latin school
and had begun to read Cicero’s oru
tious. what he thought ot Cicero.
“I regard him,” replied the scholar,
“as the Edward Everett of Rome.”—
Boston Traveller.
HI KNINCi OP HWCKUAI.K COUNTY
J Ilk
TWO PIUBONEUS ROASTED TO DEATH IN
THE PRESENCE OF THE MULTITUDE.
From tbo Atlanta Constitution, 10th. j
At about four o’clock on yesterday
morning a great vivid flame poured
loto the windows of the sleeping
town of Oonyers and awakened the
Inhabitants. The jail was on Mre.
The affrighted people hurried to the
scene of the Mre, and found that the
Haines hail gone beyond their power
to check them. Thera was no Mrs
cnglue in the town.
The eutranee to the jail was from
the second story, aud the steps had
burned away. The roof bad nearly
fallen in, and the flames were licking
downward over the solid, impenetra
ble Mrst story, which made the dun
geon. About this .time the crowd
began to inquire whether or not there
were any prisoners confined in the
dungeon. It transpired that there
were two men locked up by tho Mre
in this fatal cage-both negroes.
It was apparent at once, that noth
ing less than a miracle oould save
them from a horrible death. The
steps to the entrance were burned
away. The doorway and the whole
top of the house was a mass of flames.
The heat was so intense that no one
oould approach the building. Some
how or other, an axe was thrown
over into tho dungeon aud the ne
groes began to try aud cut t heir way
out of the stifling den in which they
were caged. Only a lew moments
were lett, as the Are was already be
ginning to burn through the solid
upper Moor, when it would send a
shower of blazing logs aud embers
down on the poor wretches. The
dungeon, as is usual with country
jails, was made of a layer of nuge
mgs, Heavily weatherbourded on
eaeb side. The negroes speedily cm
through the Mrst weatherboarding
and had pushed several pieces of the
outer plank off. They could now
be plainly seen by the crowd, who
encouraged them with shouts and ad
vioe. It remained for them to cut
through two or three of the heavy
logs, that they might cut themselves
through.
They recommenced their work,and
Mew at it wltn desperation. The in
exorable Hamea drew nearer, aud the
poor wretches, frantic with panic
and fear, shrieked, aud prayed, aud
cursed as they tugged like madmen
at the stubborn and unyielding logs.
It looked at one time us if they might
escape, but the Hames suddenly
burst downward through the upper
Moor aud swept down the outside of
ibe walls, literally enveloping the
fated men in a net of Mames. The
norrid illumination rendered their
parching todies intensely conspieu
ous. They capered aud sprang up
and down, aud flung themselves
agaiost the walls. The blistering
Haines maddened'them, and in their
efforts to out through they lost all di
rection or intelligence. They hacked
and pulled incoherently at the log
bars, and seemed literally crazed.
Most of the spectators, unable to
look upon the sickening scene
longer, turned off and run beyond
the reaeli of tho piercing screams or
the imprisoned men.
But the end was very near. Tho
.dungeon was now filled with blazing
Mre, aud ttie very logs that held them
prisoners began to burn. Oue or the
uegroes seem to give up the struggle
at this point. Leaping off the door,
he clutched the bars and wound his
hands about, them, and was soon, let
us hope, put out of pain. The other
one, holding the nx, continued to
struggle in an aimless way, but Anal
ly dropped the ax, and clutching tiie
burning bars, as his fellow-victim
had done, was aliflost instantly lost
in a gust of Maine. And then the
hungry blaze covered the whole dun
geon, and the tortured wretches were
seen no more.
HOW THE FIRE ORIGINATED.
The origin of the fire was certainly
incendiary. It is equally as certain
that it came from the outside of the
building. There wusnooue living iu
the jail.
It was believed at first that the
prisoners themselves had fired the
building iu the hope of effecting their
escape. This they denied while talk
ing with the crowd through the
burning bars. They said that an
hour before they saw the lire they
heard a match struck ou the upper
floor and supposed it was the jailor
who had called at the jail to see that
everything was all right. They
knew nothing more till they saw the
tlaines.
It was then believed that the out
side friends of the prisoners had
poured kerosene oil through the key
hole and fired the door for the pur
pose of attempting a rescue of their
friends. Tnis is still accepted as
the most reasonable theory of the
lire.
Of the negroes, ono had been
sentenced to the penitentiary for
five years, and the other for twelve
months. They had both been put in
the jail on Saturday last, and only a
day and a half before they lost their
lives.
The jail was worth about s2,oooand
is a total 10-^s.
Jnni'* Parton* ltaby.
Pittsburg Chronicle.l
It is stated that “Mr. James Parton is
rejoicing over his first baby.” Parton?
Parton? j Yes, we remember, now. Mr.
Parton married Fanuv Pern. Was her
third husband. And when she died he
married her daughter- his Stepdaughter.
But he could not endure the idea of being
a stepfather. It was repugnant to his feel
ings. So he married her, aud then discov
ered the laws of the State did not recog
nize such marriages, and asked the law
makers to make a little law lor him, but
they refused, uud lie moved off the prem
ises without notifying the landlord, since
which time we had not heard of him uu
lil this baby reminded us of these things.
But what "bothers us now is to fix Air.
Parion’s relationship—or rather Ids num
erous relationships—to that baby. In Uie
first place, ought we to call him a fa her
or grandlatber? Because it is his child,
and.bis grandchild, and Parton is its father,
bless us, Parton must be brother to bim
sell! That is quite clear. And if Parton is
his own brother, why, then lie must be
unde to the baby. That follows, of course.
And if he is uncle to tlmt baby his wife
must lie tiis aunt. Why there is no end to
this confusion. Ot course, Mrs. Parton
can’t bo aunt and mother at the same
time. The idea is absurd. We see uow
where we were in error. The exact rela
tionship may be stated thus: Parton is a
father and —is it a half or fourth grand
father? No matter; call it a half. Conse
quently that baby is—is .Now, Fanny
Fern took him as her third husband, and
Parton’s present wife being her daughter,
and not his, that daughter’s baby is no kin
to him. That sounds absurd, too, very.
Allowing it is Parton’s child, to begin
with. Parton is its lather, and he is just
as much its grandfather, unless it is the
intention not to permit the poor thing to
have any grandfather at ail. Now-, if it is
bis grandchild and he was Fanny Fern’s
third husband, and this baoy is the child
of her daughter, every time he takes
it on his knee—it could’nt possibly be
twins, could it? No, that isn’t it. Yet
there does appear to be two generations
in that uaby somehow. The idea of dand
ling two generations bn one knee! That
is ine most ridiculous idea of all. Why, if
that child were really Fanny Fern’s
daughter’s child, and Parton was third
husband to Fanny, and father to her
daughter, now, it ain’t possible Pari on
could pick himself up and dandle himself
on his own knee! This is the most serious
matrimonial complication we ever tried
to solve. We are unuble to do more than
crack the shell; the real kernel appears
to he shrouded in complications as nu
merour as the iolds enwrapping an Egyp
tian mummy. We are afraid to pursue
ihe subject any further, lest the horrible
suspicion that dawns upon us that the
baby should prove to be Barton's lather
should be verified. As It Is, we think it
ought not to be Barton's father.
' ftlJoil's Queer Customer.
A funny old man—a peddler of notions
po|>ed out as 'Bijak opened the corridor
door.
“You acknowledge that you got drunk,
do vou?” asked the Court.
“Yes: I own right up,"
“You fell in the mud, lost your stock in
trade and bit the policeman who arrested
you?”
“That’s just what I did, Y'our Honor,
and.l believe I ought to be sent up for
three months. J believe I’ve got down to
s mean point, and it necdg something to
bring me up standing. Send me up ami
it will prove a great moral lesson to me."
“Why don’t you go to Florida and
plant ah orange grove?” asked His Honor,
ns he looKcd down benignly on the old
pioneer.
’'Florida-orange grove! Why I couldn’t
plant string-beaus, Your Honor 1 I can't
tear up the soil and root around like a
Joung man with muscle and backbone.
m over seventy years old, all shrunk up,
ugly-tempered, and I want a check pul
upon my mad career.”
“I don’t want to send an old man like
you to the bars,” observed the Court
“Why can't you emulate the example of
Socrates, and behave yoursell?”
"I don’t care for Socrates, and lam
liable to go out of here and kill a man !”
exclaimed the pcdler.
“Well, you’ll have to kill somebody,
then,” sighed His Honor. “If I send you
up you’d eat twice as much as you could
earn, and I also believe that you are a
real nice old man when you are sober.”
“No I ain’t—l’m a regular old cocoanut,
with ail the peeling left on! Won’t you
send me up, and give me to understand
liial I’ve got to behave myself or suffer
the consequences?”
“No, I can't do it; one old man mnkes
more fuss up there than forty young men.
You’ll have to go on snuffing the pure air
of lilieriy and dodging April showers.”
“Now do I thirst lor blood!” whispered
the old man as be went out. He saw it
sailor across the street, and lie rushed
over to wallop him aud thus prove hit
desperate character in the very eyes of
tue Court.
“Who’s this sailing across my bows?”
growled the Jack Tar, as the pedler hump
ed against him, and he dropped the old
man in a melting snow bank as easily as a
boy gets away with a jaw-breaker.—De
troit Free Press.
i
On the way to his execution, John
D. Lee was asked to alight from the
stage, yjjjhioh was stuck in the mud.
He refused, saying: "A man would
be a d—n fool to wade through mud
to his own place of execution.”
Cemetery Lot Cleaning.
PARTIES desiring to clean their lota before
the 26iuttaut (Decoration Day) are requeu
ed to do ao on or before Saturday the 21 instaut,
for afrer that date the throwing of trash or lot
cleanings into the streets of the Cemetery is pro
hibited.
By order of Council.
M. M. MOORE,
oprl2ti!2fl Clerk Council.
IMBMARDM!,
COLtTMBITS. OA., March 9. 1877.
AT A MEETING OP THE BOARD OP DItOCC
TOKS held thin day, it waa,
“RESOLVED, That the Stockholder* of the
MOBILE & GIRARD RAILROAD COMPANY be
called to meet in Gleard, Ala., on Thursday,
the 19th day of April next, to take into consider
ation the acceptance of the act of the General As
sembly of the State of Alabama, approved Febru
ary Bth, 1877, entitled, “An act to authorise the
Mobile & Girard fi&ilroad Company to i&aue
Bonds aud execute mortgages or deeds of trust
tesecure the same"; and also, to take such tur
tber action as shall then be deemed proper, as to
issuing the bonds of this Company under said
Act.”
In pursuance of said resolution a called meet
ing of the Stockholders of the Mobile k Girard
Railroad Company will be held at the depot Gir
ard, Ala., on Thursday, April 19th at 9 o'clock a.
m. Stockholders with their families will be
passed free on that day to and from the meeting.
By order of the Board.
J. M. FRAZER,
mb 10 td Secretary.
EXECUTOR’S SALK.
By 0, S. HARRISON, Auctioneer,
ON the first Tuesday in May next, within the
legal hours of sale. I will sell at Abbott A
Newsom's corner iu the city of Columbus.a TWO
KOOMtD HOUSE, and the lot on which it stands,
situated on west side ot Oglethorpe St., nearly
opposite Perry House, and two doors below the
Steam Cotton Factory. Said premises belonging
to th estate of the late Griittn Pinckard aud
kuswn as his late residence. TERMS CASH.
Purchaser to pay tax oi 1871.
THOS. K. WYNNE
apr3 tds Executor,
1)R. J. W. CAMERON
HAS PERMANENTLY LOCATED NEAR MT.
ZION Church, Muscogee county, and re
spectfully tenders his professional services to tbs
citizens of that neighborhood and the public gen
erally.
JiyrCalls promptly attended at all hours day
or night. ja6 d&w3m
JOHN BLACKMAR,
Broltorngc,
REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE,
St. Clair Street,
GEORGIA HOME BUILDING,
NEXT TO WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH OFFICE.
LAND WARRANTS BOUGHT
REFER, BY PE MISSION,
To Banks of this city.
Something New.
WOODEN CASES AND CASKETS.
SELF-SEALING, AIR TIGHT,
At the same Prioes as Ordinary Coffins,
and One-Fourth cost of Metalic
Oases-
They are a necessity which has long
been felt in cur hot clhnat6. and obviate
unpleasant, and oftentimes dangerous associa
tions. 1 commend them to the inspection of the
community generally.
Former style® of Cases and Caskets at
Reduced Prices.
MrKigßt and Sunday Bell at front door
L. ROOKEI ,
83 AND S3 BROAD ST., TIP.BTAIKB.
febll-eedfcwSm
GROCERIES.
J. J. Whittle. Geo. M. Yahbuouoh. Jmo, T. McLeod
J. J. Whittle Sc Cos.
HAVE OPENED A NEW
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL GROCERY HOUSE,
XTn.c3Lor Central Hotel,
-\XT HERE WE WILL KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND A LARGE AND COMPLETE STOCK OF
W STAPLE and FANCY GROCERIES, Consisting in pert of
Boots, Shoes and Staple Dry Hoods* Bacon, Lard, Su
gar, Coffee, Cheese, Flour, Syrup, Bagging & Tics,
r)BACCO, WHISKEY. BRANDY soil WINES, of all grades, BALT, CORN, TEAS of all Brands.
MAKKKEL and SOAP; together with a full line of all Other goods kept in a first-class Grocery
Boose.
JWOCR GOODS arc all NEW and FRESH, and were bought for the CASH, and w# will he able to
SELL THEM AS LOW AS THE LOWEST.
M* We solicit the patronage of the City and surrounding country,
J. J. WHITTLE & CO.
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WAREHOUSEMEN.
Planters Wareh.ou.se
GEO. P. SWIFT. GEO. P. SWIFT, Jr.
GEO. P. SWIFT Sc SON,
SUCCESSORS TO SWIFT, MhRPHY Jt CO.
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
Columliiis, Georgia.
Liberal Advances on f'oiisigmncittM ol’ Colton, and Special
Attention given to Male and storage of Maine.
Grand Opening of Patterns!
HATS AND NOVELTIES,
O
OJST THURSDAY, APRIL 12TR.
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UVE IR,S. 3L.E3E3,
TAKES pleasure in informing her Customers and the Ladies generally that she will open on the
above day an immense stock of
Straw Hats and Bonnets with a large Variety of Fancy
Articles;
Suited to the present season, which she intends to sell CHE A PER than ever.
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Millinery! Millinery!!
At 100 Broad Street.
Grand Opening on Thursday, 12th inst.,
OF THE
Handsomest Line of Millinery and Fancy Goods
EVER BROUGHT TO THIS CITY, AT
Mrs. Colvin & Miss Donnelly’s,
anil which arc offered at extremely low ligures!
HATS. BONNETS, RIBBONS, 4<j., of the l.tc.t incl most Fsbloubl Styles, .ml (fnmruiteed to
please the most fastidious. lT _ .
These goods were selected by Mrs. Colvin in person—who has just returned from New York,
and can be relied on a* the best. *P rd lm
Hirsch <&, Heclit,
AUCTIONEERS ANI) COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
109 Broad SI.. Opposite ltankiu House. Columbus. C.
/Consignments solicited of every diseriptton nd liberal Cash Advances made and settled prompt
ly.
Corrospondcnco Solicited.
References, by PormisMion:
Chattahoochee National Bank, ... National Bank of Columbus, Gs-
Eagle and Phenix Manufacturing Company.
The Great Fertilizer
FOR COTTON, FOR CORN AND ALL CROPS!!
WIIANN’S
Raw Bone Super-Phosphate!
FOR SALE FOR CASH OR COTTON OPTION
BY
W. A. SWIFT,
Centennial Wagon Yard, Columbus, Ga.
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DRY GOODS.
NEW STOCK! LOW PRICES !!
SPRING 1877!
O
See My Prices!
Maltese suitings, ioc. best London coeds, ioc.
SUMMER SILKS, 65c to $1.25. VICTORIA LAWNS. 16c.
Good HEMMED STITCHED HANDKERCHIEFS 12*c.
I-arge Stock SILK SCARFS at 28c. Large Stock SILK HANDKERCHIEFS at 28c.
Good LINEN DAMASK TOWELS. 20c. . , „„
TWO BUTTON Undressed KID GLOVES, 50c. TWO BUTTON KID GLOVES worth $1 only 60c.
MISSES TWO BUTTON KID GLOVES. 80c.
Good STOCK of FINER GRADES.
CHILDREN COLORED HOSE. 15c. to 60c. ALL LINEN COLLARS, 10c.
YOU ARE ASKED TO CALL AND SEE THESE GOODS. *B-No Trouble to
SHOW THEM. •
J. ALBERT KIRVEN,
XO. 90 BROAD STREET.