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THE DAILY TIMES.
JOHN H. HABTI’I, ... Kdltor.
Columbia **'*•
FRIDAY ■■■ Ai>H IM. 187 T.
LARGEST CIRCULATION
la (he buUM A<|eet to and Tra.lln*
t C#lumha.
Gen. Toombs has consented to de
liver an address at Macon, sometime
during week after next.Qn the sub
ject of a Constitutional Convention.
The -projectors and friends of- the
“Augusta and Knoxville Railroad’
are agitating that proposed work.
They will hold a meeting of Direc
tors at Augusta on the Bth of May.
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THEartlcioon carpet-baggers and
the mistake which the Republican
party made in "running a political
poor-houso” for their benefit,, which
we copied yesterday, should have
been credited to the New York
Tribune, a Republican paper.
A Richmond, Va., dispatch says
there is a plan on foot among the
Republicans of that city to submit
the claims L 1 the various
applicants 'tor the Richmond post
offloe to a primary election, at which
all persons of both parties may par
ticipate.
Tbb Monroe Advertiser reports the
return from Texas of Mr. James M.
Simmons, with his children. Ilis
wife died in Texas, and he returns to
Georgia utterly disheartened. A dis
appointment similar to his is the sad
fate of many who leave bid (feofgta
for the West.
The Ordinary of Stewart county has
ordered an election in that county on
Tuesday the Ist of May, fora Sheriff,
in place of John 0. Herndon, re
signed; also at the same time, an
election for Coroner of the county—
the Coroner elect having failed to
qnaitfy.
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The Lumpkin Independent under
stands that the grain crops of Stew
art county are looking decidedly bet
ter sinoe the middle of last month;
the wheat has improved greatly, and
oats are coming out better than was
expected. We may yet see harvested
a fair crop of each'.
Communications in the Charleston
New* and Courier urge a recognition
by South Carolinians of the valuable
services rendered by Gen. John B.
Gordon, Georgia’s able and gallant
Senator, in redeeming their State
from the -rule of carpet-baggers. ■lt
is proposotl to raise a fund for the
purpose of procuring a silver service
or some other suitable testimonial of
tbe services of Gen. Gordon.
A New Orleans dispatch of the !)th
inst. to the Charleston Journal of
Commerce says that as soon as Gov
ernor Nicholls is established, the
Hon. W. R. Whitaker, Judge of the
Superior Criminal Court, will charge
the grand jury to present all mem
bers of the Returning Board for for
gery, peiiftry and the altering of
public records. Thoy will be Indicted
and tried, and it is expected that con
viction and imprisonment will fol
low.
Soobteen of the Oglethorpe negro
rlflfbers, including the leader, Luke
Johnson, h'swre been arrested and
committed to jail at Athens—the
Oglethorpe jflff not being considered
secure. A oorrespondeaOfthe Au
gusta Chroixiaie eaya
quite a young man—uolP’biofe than
twenty, apparently-and Is by no
means an intelligent negro. He ac
quired his influChca with the negroes
simply by preaching and ability to
read. It is probable tbit these riot
ers will be trSoiS next week dt Ogle
thorpe Superior Court.
James Davis, of Salisbury, N.
C,, makes a pretty well-substantiated
clhim to the invention bf the Tele
phone, or rather the transmission of
sound by electricity, for he gave it
the name of “Phonetic 'Telegraph.’’
He says that more than ten years ago
he made.pen and ink drawings of bis
: instrument'and sent them'to the Sci
entific but he did not take
out a pateut. Ho refers to several
gentlemeb now living, tcTWhom he
exhibited and explained it. He says:
"My apparatus was even more per
fect than that of MessrA Gray and
Jlell, inasmuch as jt could write or
register the aonilils in a distinct lan
guage, a thing which they have not
yet accomplished. My invention
covers the Changing of air vibrations
into electrical, and the restoring of
them again into air vibrations or
waves, as is done by these inventors.
I have overcome some of the difficul
ties which thencountered. My
apparatus ia mote perfect than that
whioh they exhibit-’ 1
Thk Atlanta Cons&lhtion say that
apprehensions are expressed at the
Comptroller's ofiiue that the total
amount of taxable property in the
State will be smaller tfiiS year than
formerly—that the shrinkage in
values will not more than wipe out
the amount of improvements. i Q
view of this pri&ubte lulling off,
Comptroller Goldsmith has Issued a
circular of special instructions—ln
which he calls attention to the fact
that the receiver’s oath of office re
quires him to return property at its
“true value,” and not at the value
put upon it by the otf her. He then
remarks that it has been estimated
that the property of Georgia does
not appear (or more than oue-half of
its real value on the tax books, and
eDjolos the receivers to correct their
former estimates.
The books show that the circle of
exemptions has been narrowed this
year, watches Mid jewelry having
been placed once more in the taxable
list. There is nothing exempt now
save church property.
THE CI'RHKNCY,
Possibly the rise in gold (which
means rather a depredation of the
currency) tbht has been reported
within the last few days, may be
j checked at or neat tbe point now
, reached. If fo, we may reasonably
ooncludo that the appreciation of the
currency to near par value in gold is
a permanent advance, which the op
erations of speculators in money can
not materially affect. If this should
be the case, cannot the Government
manage to overcome the slight differ
ence still existing, and make the cur
rency fully as good as gold ? It can
not do it by arbitrary laws command
ing It to be done. Such laws
would be as ineffectual as the
commands of the old English mon
arch who ordered tho rising tide
to stop at the foot of his' chair
placed upon the beach. Butperliaps
it might do ii by lessening the de
mand for gold and increasing the de
mand for greenbacks and National
Bank notes. How oan this be done?
Simply by discontinuing the dispar
aging (if not dishonest) policy of re
fusing to receive ite own notes for im
post taxes and requiring gold there
for. It annually collects some two
hundred millions of dollars in gold
in this way—not only making a dis
crimination between Its own paper
and gold to that amount, but keep
ing from active business circulation
so vast a proportion of all the coin in
the country. So long as there is a
difference of even one or two per
cent, between gold and the currency,
the coin collected in this way by the
Government will continue to follow
its regular round. It will bo paid
out by the Government to the bond
holders, be sold by them to the bro
kers, and by the brokers to the im
porting merchants, to be paid ty the
latter into the Federal Treasury, and
then commence again its accustom
ed round. There Is little chance for
it to enter into the business opera
tions or genetal circulation of the
country while this is continued. But
if the Government should abandon
this demand for gold exclusively, and
receive the greenback and National
Bank paper (for every dollar of which
it is bound) in puyment of imposts,
gold in commercial and buaiues cir
culation would become more plenti
ful, and the paper money, more in
demand. Can any proposition be
plainer than this,'or any expectation
be more reasonably than that this
change of financial policy would
makefile paper currency of the coun
trytequal to gold in value?
It may be urged that the Govern
ment has to demand gold for impost
duties,because it needs it to pay inter
est on tbe bonds. But if by honoring
its own currency it can make it as
good as gold, the bondholders cannot
object to taking it; or if they do the
Government can soon convert the
greenbacks into gold. The green
backs would doubtless be at par now,
but for the policy of the Government,
wbioh makes them unavailable for
payment of duties, and which affords
speculators such an opportunity for
trafficking in most of the coin of the
country. If Government bonds draw-
ing only 6 per cent, interest com
mand ‘23 tier cent, premium in the
market, there is no good reason why
the currency, for which the Gbvern
ment isequally bound, should not
be at par. The bad reason is that
the policy of the Government throws
the gold coin of the country into the
hands of the speculators, and they
will make out of it all that they can.
Now that the “Southern question,’’
is apparently about to be taken out
of politics, the currency question
must soon come to the front. Those
who suppose that the "Greenback
party” is dead, or that the financial
measures for which it contended are
not popular with the people, will
find themselves greatly mistaken. It
is a question that directly concerns
the business interests of the whole
people, and cannot be shoved aside
at the bidding of those who prefer
sectional agitation. And when it
assumes this prominence the Ad
ministration will find It a difficult
matter to satisfy the people with a
policy which imposes on them a de
preciated currency simply for the
profit of bondholders and specula
tors.
The Cloven Foot.— Hayes’ Louisi
ana Commission have, uccortling to
telegraphio report, sustained the sus
picion expressed at the time of their
appointment, that their object was
to effect a compromise by whioh the
Radical party would get one or both
of the United States Senators. It
turns out tbut Packard is the “cat in
the meal tub." The proposition is
to make him Senator in considera
tion of his abandoning his claim to
be Governor. It should be indig
nantly rejected. The question for
the Administration at Washing
ton to decide is whether it
will with draw* the troops, without
making anybody Governor or Sen
ator, and let the people of Louisiana
decide these matters for themselves.
They alone have the right to decide
them, end tho Admiulstration has
no right to fix a price upon the with
drawal of the troops. It is simply a
question of constitutional authority,
not one of party gain or loss. Let
the Democrats of Louisiana stand
firm—make no concessions—accept
no conipromises-and thus compel
the Administration to squarely re
pudiate or continue the Southern
policy of Grant.
The Way Geo. SiiAßr Went —The
Charleston New* and Courier, of Tues
day says: George Sharp, alias George Hite,
who committed the diamoud robbery in
Georgia some weeks ago. passed through
this city on the 31st ol March, and took
th* steamer for Philadelphia. Capt. Hen
dricks received telegrams from the chief of
police of Atlanta, asking that the accused
be apptehended, but it was too late. If
tbe Atlanta authorities had communicat
ed with the chief of police soon enough
the thief would hstte been arrested on
his arrival. Capt. Hendricks telegraphed
asearly as possible to Philadelphia, but
it is feared that no good will result there
from.
THE CONVENTION.
Mlnrrprarmatlon and llumbiiKgrry.
Editors of the Columbus Times :
A correspondent of yours, signing
himself "W. D. T.” in the Times of
tho7thinßt., needs a “return to the
house that his father built’’— -if there
be a school-house and church near
by—before writing for the news
papers, and assuming to enlighten
others.
The securement of the property of
a wife, beforo marriage, to herself
and children, free from the debts of
the husband, W. D. T. represents
as having been ilrst done in our pre
sent Constitution by the Radicals in
1868; when the truth is, it was first
done by the Legislature 1n1866-[see
pamphlet Acts 1860, p. 146.]
He represents the Boor and Com
mon Bchool systems as tho offspring
of this Radical Constitution; when
T. R. R. Cobb’s Digest of 1850, and
various acts of the Legislature, and
the Code of 1861, show that there is
not a word of truth In this statement.
He also attributes a Homestead
exemption (or so wants others to un
derstand it) to the piesent Radical
Constitution ; when the truth is, T.
R. R. Cobb’s Digest, and various acts
of our Legislature, and the Codo of
1861, will show that we have had a
homestead exemption for thirty or
forty years, for any wife or children
who might choose to claim it, if the
head of a family’s proporty was about
to be sold —fifty acres of land, and
five acres for each child, or real
estate in a town or city to thoamount
of SSOO, and other exemptions
amounting to from S2OO to SSOO or
more. And what is better still, the
father or mother could not deprive
the children of the homestead, &c.,
by any contract they might make.
But, under the presont Constitution,
it is understood that, under decisions
of the Supreme Court, heads of fam
ilies cau deprive their children of/my
homestead at all. Tho “capitalists,
provision merchants, and big plan
ters,” alluded to by W. D. TANARUS., can
protect themselves, about this matter
under the present Constitution, be
fore they trade with or credit others.
“W. D. T.” seems to think that the
Constitution of 1865 did a terrible
thing when it permitted a fellow to
be imprisoned if ho refused to give
up his property, according to law, to
pay his debts, after ho had got credit
on that property. That is to say, if
a man got credit on property, and
then sold it, and put the money in
his pocket, and shook it at his cred
itor, and told his creditor that he
“had him sure,” and that he "could
not help himself,” &c., W. D. T.
thinks it was a great crime for any
Constitution to permit a law to be
passed to put such a man in jail until
he gave up this money to pay tbe
man or m*n he had thu3 swindled.
He calls such a law “imprisonment
for debt.” I call it imprisonment for
rascality. Ho thinks the Radical Con
stitution did a great thing to prevent
such rascality being thus “headed.”
I differ with him. But, as nobody is
bound to credit another, under our
laws, and as I am opposed to the
credit system generally, and there
are so many rascals in the land at
the present time who can deceive
such “good, well-meaning, but un
informed men” as W. D. TANARUS., who, I
guess, is a kind, good-hearted man,
rather than have tho opposition and
lose the votes of such men to our
Constitution hereafter formed, I am
not for our delegates to the Conven
tion having anything to do with this
matter.
“W. D. T.”aieo attributes the Me
chanics’ lien to the Radical Constitu
tion; when, if auy one will refer to
T. R. R. Cobb’s Digest and the Digest
of 1861, they will see that these things
were fixed up thirty or forty years
ago.
But W. D. T. shows either great
prejudice or ignorance when he utters
the following: “The object of the
Convention called by the last Legis
lature is to abolish the Public Schools
and the Homestead,” How any sane
man, having any regard for truth,
can make such an assertion as this, I
can’t imagine. For I have heard
much talking, and have seeu much
writing in the newspapers about the
Convention, but I have never heard
or read of the first intimation of a
desire on the part of any one to abol
ish the Public Schools, nud but very
few who eveu talk about abolishing
the Homestead ; and nil sensible men
who know anything, know that those
who thus talk are meu like W. D. T.
—they meddle with a thing they
know nothing about.
If a Convention is hold, I venture
the opinion that the Homestead ex
emption will be so fixed that "capi
talists, and provision merchants, and
big planters” can’t take it away from
a man’s family, like it is said the
present one can be taken from them
by these men.
“W. D. T.” must be a genuine
Radical (judgiftgalone from the char
acter of his writing), sighing for the
return of Bullock and Radical rule.
Old Schoolmaster.
WIM Counsels to Urriniin Workmen-
Herr Krupp, of Essen, has issued a
memorandum to his workmen, di
lating on the preseut stagnation of
busiuess, and the short hours neces
sitated by the restriction of the
market. Herr Krupp exhorts his
men to submit with patience to the
passing slackness and reduced wa
ges, aud points to the couduct of the
laboring classes in Eugtaud, under
like eircuinstances, as an example
not to be followed. England has bad
its period of industrial activity and
prosvxirity. "Euglaud has srown
great and powerful bv her industry.
There her working men have formed
trades’ unions, and struck work for
the puyiose of enforcing higher
wages. The consequence has been
that the work of Eugiand has, to a
great extent, been carried abroad,
German industry has been benefited
by this mistake of tbe English work
ing men. That ought to be a warn
ing to us. Were we to follow their
bad example our industry would, like
theirs, be transferred to other coun-
I tries.
THE PKNITEIXTIAHY CONVICTS.
THE QUOTA Of THE NORTH GEORGIA RAIL
ROAD.
From til ft A Hants Constitution.)
It was said yesterday that Attor
ney General Ely had prepared an
opinion on the question between the
lessees of the couvicts and the Mari
etta & North Georgia Railroad.
It was Impossible to get the text of
the decision, but we have good rea
son for saying that it is against the
railroad.
Ttre Attorney General will hold
that unless the two hundred and
fifty convicts can be used on the rail
road, they must revert to the leasees;
in other words, that tho act of tbe
Legislature will not allow the con
victs to be hired out for the benefit
of the road. This decision will vir
tually deprive the road of the benefit
ot the act, as the management is un
able to put them to work upon the
road.
THE PRICE OF CONVICTS RISING.
In this connection it may be stated
that General Phillips has had an
offer of S6O apiece per annum for
fifty of the convicts, and could easily
place 150 at those rates. This would
give the road an income of $750 a
month, which would enable it to
properly work the other hundred on
the road-bed and lay up a surplus.
This income it has lost thus far by
delay, and will lose permanently if
Mr. Ely’s decision is as it is reported.
The offer of s6u a year for fifty con
victs comes from General Gordon,
who is one of the lessees. It will be
remarked when this offer Is contrast
ed with the pitiful sll a year that the
State is receiving for each of its con
victs, that the price lias either risen
very rapidly or that tho State made a
bad trade In its general lease. It lias
been a inatf.tr of comment that,
when a common uegro laborer com
mands $l2O a year for his services,
that tho Hi ate convicts giving one
third more service than a free negro
could only be made to bring sll a
head. —*
But the State made even a worse
trade than this. In the lease con
cluded for thirty years, twelve
months since, the State agreed to
take $25,000 a year for the whole
force of convicts. It is probable that
by 1879, when the lease begins, there
will not be less thau two thousand
convicts at work, with the number
steadily swelling. This immense
force will be permanently leased for
$25,000 a year.
This increase in the force of con
victs has been something remarkable.
Four years ago there were only 350 in
the penitentiary. When Captain
Nelms took charge there were about
1,150, sinoe Captain Nelms has been
in charge (hardly three months,)
there has been an Increase of over
sixty. At this rate of increase it will
not be long before the number has
run over 3,000.
Napoleon on nuutlay
London Examiner.)
The Revue Hisloriwte publishes a
minute by the Emperor Napoleon I. con
cerning the observance of Sunday. It is so
curiously characteristic of the man, and
also has so direct a bearing oh the Sab
batarian question, as to be worib repro
ducing. "It is conyary lo the Divine
law,” writes the Emperor, "to prevent a
man, who has wants on Sunday as much
as other days of the week, from working
on Sunday to gain his bread. Government
could not impose such a law unless it gave
bread gratis to those who have none. God
lias imposed on men an obligation to
lalior. He lias not allowed them to gather
any of the fruits of tbe cartli. lie lias
willed that they should work every day,
since He has given them wants which
every day make themselves felt afresh.
We must distinguish, in what the clergy
prescribes, between laws Hint obligation
which have been imagined only with the
view of extending the authority of minis
ters of religion. The observance of fast
ing on Friday and resting on Sunday are
only secondary and iusignificant rules.
What essentially couccrns the command
ments oftheCliurcli is, not to injure social
orders, not to do evil to one’s neighbor,
not to abuse liberty. * * * *I am the
authority, and 1 graut to my people once
for all permission not to interrupt their
work. The more work the less vice there
will he *** If 1 had to meddle with
these matters, I would be rather disposed
to order that on Sunday, except duriug the
hours of divine service, the shops should
be open and the workmen at their work.
When one casts a glance over the various
classes which compose society, one feels
that Sunday’s rest is harmful rather than
uselul; one sees in how many arts aigl how
many trades this interruption of labor pro
duces troublesome results. Society does
not make up a comtempiative order. Some
legislators have wished to make it a con
vent of monks, and apply to it nil s which
only suit a cloister. Sisco men eat every
day, they ought to be allowed to work
every day.”
Testimony in Bkiiaue of the Blue
Light Theory. —Dr. James C. Jackson,
the head of the extensive and popular
health institution at Dansville, N. Y.,
known ns "Our Home on ihe Hillside,”
writes to the Rochester Express that he
has been trying the efficacy of blue light,
in an unostentatious hut laitlilui way, for
nearly a'year. They obtained the blue glass
with care, classified their paiiems mid ex
perimented with great care, applying blue
light to over two hundred invalids, suffer
ing from a great variety of long standing
ailments, such as emotional diseases, (lis
ordered circulation, derangement of cerebo
spinal system, eic. The result of the blue
glass treatment Dr. Jackson states as fol
lows:
1. In a moderate number of cases, re
markable, almost marvellous effect.
3. In a majority oi cases, clearly observa
ble benefits.
3. In a minority of cases, no very note
worthy improvements, and in a small
minority of instances, no obvious change
for the better. In no case whatever was
injury received.
Dr. Jackson thinks there are some illu
sions in regard to the effect of blue light
and he regards itschief value as a preven
tive of disease, although it has, in many in
stances, excellent adaption toremediul re
lief.
Renewal of the Franking Privi
lege.-—The members of tne Forty
fourth Congress voted themselves the
franking privilege just before ad
journing, and from now until the Ist
of next December tons of matter in
tbe shape of public documents will
be forwarded from Washington to all
parts of the country. They went fur
ther and very properly restored to
the Executive Departments the right
to transmit official communications
through the mails free. No frank
will be used, but every letter or pack
age to pass free must bear over the
words “Official Business” an indorse
ment showing the name of the bureau
and department, from which trans
mitted. In addition to this indorse
ment, the penalty for unlawfully
using such envelopes must be stated
thereon. The penalty prescribed is
S3OO fine for each offence. This does
away with the official postage stamps
which have been manufactured by
the Governmentat greatexpense aDd
sold bv the Postoffice Department to
the other department for several
years past. The genius who invented
this absurd system ought to be pre
sented with ' a leather medal. But
then Uncle Sam’s loss was the post
age stamp manufacturer’s gain af
,ter nil.
SPECIAL CIRCULAR.
To Tax Receivers of Muscogee Ga.:
THE folUowing BdcUoiih of the Code,to be found
on pages 20 and 21 ol your Pamphlet of In*
■tractions, are so very important that 1 gi v* them
In this special form lor your careful attention.
I will expect every Tsx Receiver to do wbat the
law sad his oath requires, and gee that every tsx
payer returns hls or her property st its tbub
value ; not whst said property would bring st
public out-cry, but whst ths property is worth.
It hss been estimated thst the property of
Georgia is not returned st one-half its true vslus.
This is wrong and should not be allowed. The
honest men pay nearly all the tax and many pay
but little because they return hot little of what
they have. Many men return only about one
fourth or one-fifth of what they own. Make am.
return their property at its tbub value and
then tbe burden of TAXATION will fall on all
equally.
FROM THE CODE OF GEORGIA.
8812 • (836.) In cate of *alse return, Tax Meceiver
to attest value. Each return shall be scruti
nised carefully by tbe Tax Receiver, and If in his
Judgment he shail hud the property embraced in
the return, or any portion of it, returned below
Us value, he shall assess the value st once, or
within thirty days therealter.
|B4O. (8*30.) Subsequent proceeding*. If such Sf -
sessmeut is not madw by tuo Receiver iustauter,
he shall give the tax payer notice of his sssess
msut, and ia either caae it shall be the tax pay
er’s privilege to have it left to three disinteres
ted persons, one of whom he shall select, tbe
other shall be selected by the Receiver ;aud th se
two shall select a third; it they disagree, a major
ity of whom shall hx the assessment.
§Bil. (837.) Property returned, below itt value.
It is the privilege ot any tax payer of the coanty
where a return Is made to complain to the Re
ceiver at any time before the Digest is completed
that any return is below the true value of tho
sfVroperty; ih which case be shall notify the person
who made the return complained of if practica
ble, verbally ir by writing, giving him the name
of complainant and the ground of complaint, aud
■hall proceed to nave anew assessment iu the
terms of the preceding section.
8812. (338.) Oath of atsesort. Whonever such
assessors are called in, they shall take an oath
before the Receiver to do justice between the
parties at variance, touching the true assessment
of the tax return.
§843. (839 ) Defaulting tax payer, how relieved.
Wheu a tax payer tun been returned as a defsu.t
er and double taxed, either by tho Receiver or
Collector, the Ordinary ia authorized to relieve
the defaulter of tbe penalty for default at the time
said Ordinary allows the Collector his insolvent
lists: Provided, That said tax payer shows to
such Ordinary by satisfactory evidence, that
either providential or other good cause he had
not an opportunity to make his return to the Re
ceiver of tax returns, and at the time ol such re
lease promptly pays hia proper tax. and one dol
lar to the collector as his fee, the Collector shall
promptly inform the Comptroller General of such
release, and the amount oi taxes paid.
§844. (840.) Defaulters, how relieved from double
tax. All delaulters may at auy time, and fer the
same causes, before the Digest IS made up and
ready to be tent to the Comptroller, save the
double tax by likewise giving in to the Ordinary,
aud paying him one dollar, who shall give a copy
of such returns instanter to the Receiver,aud he
shall enter It in the several Digests.
8845. (841.) Defaulter's Oath. The Ordinary,
in tbe cases set f .rtU in sections 843 and 844.
■h til require the tax payer to swear to thd cause
of his delay, and shail tbe same in the cop
ies furnished the Comptroller or Receiver.
Hoping and believing you will do your full
duty in this important matter,
I am yours respectfully,
W.L. GOLDSMITH,
Comptroller General.
April Bih, 1877. aprl3 d3tAwlt._
Cemetery Lot Cleaning.
T)ARTIES desiring to clean their lots before
X the ’26 instant (Decoration Day) are request
ed to do so on or before Saturday the 21 insUnt.
for after 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,
opr!2til26 Clerk Council.
MOBILE & GIRARD R.R.
COLUMBUB, GA., Msrch 9, 1877.
AT A MEETING OF THE BOARD OF DIREC
TORS held this day, it was, r
“RESOLVED, That tbe Stockholders of the
MOBILE k GIRARD RAILROAD COMPANY be
called to meet in Glkakd, kjn., 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, 18T7, entitled, “An act to authorize the
Mobile & Girard Railroad Company to issue
Bonds and execute mortgages or deeds of trust
to secure the same’*; and also, to take such fur
ther 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 tlieir 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.
EXECUTORY SALE.
By C, S. HARRISON, Auctioneer.
ON the first Tuesday in May next, within the
legal hours of sale, I will sell at Abbott k
Newsom's corner in the city of Columbus,a TWO
ROOMED HOUSE, and tbe lot on whioh it stands,
situated on west side o! Oglethorpe St., nearly
opposite Perry House, and two doors beTow the
Hteem Cotton Factory. Said premises belonging
to the estate of the late Grithn Pinckard. aud
knswn as his late residence. TERMS CASH.
Purchaser to pay tax of 1877.
THOS. K. WYNNE,
apr.S tds Executor,
DR. J. W. C AMERON
HAS PERMANENTLY LOCATED NEAR MT.
ZION Church, Muscogee comity, and re
spectfully tenders his professional services to the
citizens of that neighbor! ood and the public gen
erally.
promptly attended at all hours day
or night. ja6 d&w3m
JOHN BLACKMAK;
Broltoragc,
REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE,
St. Clair Street,
GEORGIA HOME BUILDING.
NEXT TO WEBTKBN UNION TELEGRAPH OFFICE.
LAND WARRANTS BOUGHT
REFER, BY PXMIBBI6N,
To Banks of this city.
NOTICE.
rpHE undersigned having heretofore held stock
A in the Merchants & Mechanics Bank in the
city of Columbus. Ga., hereby gives notice that he
has sold his stock in said Company, and had the
same transft raed. and claims in conformity with
section 1496 of the Code of Georgia, that he is ex
empt from any liabilities of said Bank,
mhll lamfit A, ILLGEB.
DRY GOODS.
NEW STOCK! LOW PRICES !!
SPRING 1877!
See My Priees!
Maltese suitings, ioc. best London cords, ioc. . ..
SUMMER SILKS, BSc to *I.BB. VICTORIA LAWNB. Me.
0004 HEMMED STITCHED HANDKERCHIEFS HWo.
Large Stock SILK SCARES ftt 25c. Large Btock SILK HANDKERCHIEFS at *6c.
Good LINEN DAMASK TOWELS. 30e.
TWO BUTTON Undretaed KID GLOVES. Site. TWO BUTTON KID GLOVES worth tt only BOc.
MISSES TWO BUTTON KID GLOVES, 60c.
Good STOCK of FINER GRADES. , ,
CHILDREN COLORED HOBK, 16c. to 600. ALL Li NEB COLLARS, 10c,
ETTOU ARE ASK 4 DTO TALL AND HEM THESE GOODS. SET*No Trouble to
SHOW THEM.
J. ALBERT KIRVEN,
NO. (M> IIHOID STREET.
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GROCERIES.
J. J. Whittle. Geo. M. Yarbrough. * Jno. T. McLkod
J. J. Whittle Sc Cos.
HAVE OPENED A NEW
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL GROCERY HOUSE,
Under Central Hotel,
M THERE WE WILL KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND A LARGE AND COMPLETE STOCK OF
STAI’LE niidl FANCY OHOCEBIEH Cousi.ting In part of
Boots, Shoes and Staple Dry Goods, Bacon, Lard, Su
gar, Coffee, Cheese, Flour, Syrup, Bagging & Ties,
rJBACCO, WHISKEY. BRANDY and WINES, of all grades, SALT. CORN. TIAB of all Brands,
MAKEKEL and 80AP; together with a full line of all other goods kept in a first-class Grocery
House.
ayOTTR GOODS are all NEW and FRESH, and were bought for the CASH, and we will be able to
SELL THEM AS LOW AS THE LOWEST,
gyrWe solicit tbe patronage of the City and surrounding country,
J. J. WHITTLE & CO.
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WAREHOUSEMEN.
Planters Wareliouse
GEO. P. SWIFT. GEO. P. SWIFT, Jr.
GEO. P. SWIFT & SON,
SUCCESSORS TO SWIFT, MtRPIIT & CO.
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
Columbus, Georgia.
Liberal Advances on Uoiisisininenti-i of Cotton, and Special
Attention given to Sale anil Storage of Same.
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The Great Fertilizer
• FOR COTTON, FOR CORN AND ALL CROPS!!
WHANN’S
Raw Bone Super-Phosphate!
FOR SALE FOR CASH OR COTTON OPTION
BY
W. A. SWIFT,
Centennial Wagon Yard, Columbus, Ga,
declfieodJkly
Grand Opening of Patterns!
HATS AND NOVELTIES,
0
ON THURSDAY, APRIL 12TH.
o
UVE IR,S. J_i E3 33,
TAKES pleasure in informing her Customers and the Ladies generally that ahe will open cn the
above day au immense stuck of
Straw Hats and Bonnets with a large Variety of Fancy
Articles;
Suited to the present season, which she intends to sell C liL ti'LK than ever.
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- J L''! . L JIT-. ..L L l .. .if ‘..l 1 ,1 ■ ---
Millinery! Millinery!!
At 100 Broad Street.
.;o: a-
Grand Opening on Thursday, 12th inst.,
OF THE
Handsomest Line of Millinery and Fancy Goods
EVER RROI'GHT TO THIS CITY, AT
Mrs. Colvin & Miss Donnelly’s,
mid which arc offered at extremely low figures 1
HATS. BONNETS, RIBBONS, &c., of the latest and most Fashionable Styles, and guaranteed to
please the most fastidious.
These goods were selected by Mrs. Colvin in person—who has just returned from New York,
and can be relied on as the best. aprß lm
Hirsch &, Heolit,
AUCTIONEERS AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
109 ISrond St., Opposite Rankin House, Columbus, Ga.
Consignments solicited of every dlseription and liberal Cash Advances made and settled prompt
iy.
Correspondence Solicited.
References, by Permission:
Chattahoochee National Bank, • National Bank of Columbus, Ga.
Eagle and Fhenix Manufacturing Company.