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THE DAILY TIMES.
JOHN H. MAHTIN, - - - Mil*!-.
Col uin lr>un. CH
SATURDAY APRIL 14. 1877.
LARGEST CIRCULATION
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Oov. Pnxsßtmr, of Minnesota, has
issued a proclamation setting apart
Thursday, April 26th, as a special day
for piayer throughout the State, for
the annihilation of tbo grasshopper
scourge this season,
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The Montgomery Advertiser of yes
terday gives publication to a rumor
that Erianger & Cos., of Paris, have
purchased the Alabama & Chatta
nooga Bail load, and that all the
great troubles, whloh have so long
environed the ‘ elephant,” are about
to be settled in a manner satisfactory
to all.
A bill has passed the Hlcholls
Legislature of Louisiana to incorpo
rate the Barataria Ship Canal Com
pany. This is a project started by
those who do not believe ih the efll
cacy of Eads’ jetties, and who pro
pose to improve the navigation up to
New Orleans by a canal to Barataria
bay on the Gulf.
Mb. Kimball, in an interview with
a reporter of the Constitution on
Wednesday, stated that it would re
quire about $250,000 to finish and
start the Atlanta Cotton Factory,
and that if he should be elected
President ip May, he would under
take to raise the money, with no
doubt of success if he could have the
cordial support of a first-class direc
tory.
Gov. Colquitt has granted ttiree
weeks respite to Win. Meeks, who
was sentenced to be huug in Polk
county yesterday. The application
was backed by the statement that a
Mr. Wilkes, who has heretofore been
suspected as an accomplice, will
swear that he killed the man for
whose murder Meeks was convicted.
Wilkes is now absent from the State,
and will have to be produced to pro
cure Meeks’ pardon or acquittal.
A man named Sterling, who was
sentenced to be hung at Youngstown,
Ohio, on the 28th of March, was res
pited by the Governor until the 2lst
inst. And now his counsel interpose
the plea that because the reprieve
was not requested by the prisoner,
he being ready to abide by the sen
tence of the Court, that it can have
no legal effect, and consequently the
sentence must be regarded as having
been executed.
The LaGrange Reporter says that
a farmer of Heard county carrying
home guano, was caught in a hard
rain, and the water from the guano
saturated some shucks in the bottom
of his wagon. After his arrival at
home, those shucks were eaten by
three cows, all of which were made
very sick, and ono of them died. A
jhjsl mortem examination showed that
the inner coating of the stomach had
been entirely eaten away, most prob
ably by the ammonia in the guano.
A call, started by the Western
Georgia Co-Operative Grange, has
been made for a meeting at La-
Grange, on the Ist Tuesday in May,
to organize a Fair Association. Mr.
James H. Fannin, in a communica
tion addressed to the Mayor and
Council of LaGrange, asking their
co-operation, states that Columbus
and other named cities of the State
have annual fairs. We regret that
this is a mistake as to Columbus, but
hope that we can soon make the as
sertion good.
The only statement which we have
seen in regard to any difference be
tween the several members ofc the
Louisiana Commission, is made by
the New Orleans Dnnocrat of Thurs
day, which says; “There is consid
erable difference of opinion about the
standing of the Commission on 2he
adjustment question. Gov. Brown’s
stand is supposed to be one entirely
in keeping with Hayes’ inaugural,
but Kellogg has had his friends to
surround him in order to neutralize
his opinions, if possible, and render
them more consonant with Billy
Pitt’s ideas—as yet without success,
however. It looks now very much
like a four to one suggestion of com
promise.”
The Jacksonville (Fla.) Union of
the 10th, noticing the presence in its
city of the Postal Commission, says:
“After leaving here, the Commission
will visit Columbus, Macon, Augusta,
Montgomery, and other places, and
meetings will be held, giving citizens
an opportunity to present their views
on the questions under considera
tion.”
We have already stated the object
which this Commission has In view—
the Improvement of the mall sendee.
We hope that when it, reaches Colum
bus our citizens will be prepared to
suggest and explain any improve
ments that would be beneficial to
this section.
This Commission was appointed by
an act of Congress, and consists of
Gardiner G. Hubbard, of Boston,
Mass., chairman; Dan’l M. Fox of
Philadelphia, George A. Bassett of
New York, and H. P. Rice secretary.
Hon. H. Marshall, far many years
First Assistant Postmaster General
and now General Superintendent of
the Railway Mail Service for the
Southern States, accompanies the
Commission as the representative of
the Postoffice Department. Gen, L.
M. Terrell, Superintendent of the
Railway Mail Service, attends to give
the Commission the benefit of his
great experience. The whole party
is traveling with R. R. Bridges, Eeq.,
of the Wilmington and Weldon Rail
road.
LOUISIANA.
We have somewhat variant ver
sions of tho report made by the
Louisiana Commission to the Presi
dent. But they concur in saying
that the Commission have not. been
able to effect any adjustment, and
are not likely to effect any under
present instructions. They also agree
that the Nicholls government is
established and in peaceful operation
all over the State except in the
building held by Packard and the
United States troops as a State House.
This last named fact ought to be
sufficient to determine the Presi
dent’s courso. It is made manifest
to him that tho government must
either boa “republican” one under
Nicholls—such a one as the Federal
constitution guarantees to each State
of the Union; ora military one un
der Federal mle—such a one as the
constitution never contemplated or
intended. If the Nicholls jiarty stand
firm—and we hope that they will—
they will force the President to
choose between these two alterna
tives, and they prefer either to Pack
ard ; so they can at least avert the di
rest evil by resolutely maintaining
their ground. If they go into any
compromise or arbitration, they may
have Packard imposed upon them,
and under such circcmstances
that they cannot in good faith resist
the outrage. Their hands will be
tied, just aB the hands of the Demo
crats in Congress were tied by their
acceptance of the Electoral Commis
sion,
Packard wants the President to de
cide it! He would rather have it de
cided by any authority than that of
tho people of Louisiana. Govern
ment "by the consent of the govern
ed” is nq part of his political creed.
If tho would-be Governor is willing,
he wants the peoi>le to be made to
submit. This is true carpet-bag
polity. It was practiced for a long
time in some of the Southern States
under Grant, and Hayes finds it so
deeply rooted as to be difficult to
extirpate. He actually hesitates or
negotiates about withdrawing his
troops from tho only half acre ot
ground in a State which a pretended
Executive holds solely by the sup
port of those troops, while all the
remainder of the great State is held
without Federal aid by the govern
ment chosen by tho people! The
One asks for an army to put him in
possession and enable him to run
the Government. The other simply
asks the President to withdraw ids
troops and let the people of Louis
iana run their own local government.
Let him be made to choose between
the two propositions!
OEttRUA TORSAIIOE4,
The terrible tornadoes Or cyclones
that baVe made their their desolat
ing tracts through southern and
middle Georgia during tho last two
or three years (we have nad reports
of two of them this BpriDg, a little
south of those of 1875 and ’76) were
something novel, as well as appall
ing, to our people. Nothing like
them was known within their pre
vious experience, and we trust that
they may never experience them
again. Bnt we find that this part of
Georgia had a reputation for storms
ot this kind more than a century
ago. In Goldsmith’s “Deserted Vil
lage” wo read:
“Through torrid tracts, with fainting slept they
go,
While sitftd Altama* murmurs to their woe—* *
Where at each ttep the stranger fears to wake
The rattling terrore of the vengeful auake;
Where crouching tigers wait their helpless
pray,
And savajemen, wore murderous than they ;
While oft in whirl* the mad tornado Jlies,
Mingling the ravaged landscape With the ikies.**
*A foot-note informs the reader
that “Altama or Altamaha Is a river
in the province Of Georgia.”
This extract furnishes a vivid pic
ture of the wildness and psrils of a
portion of Georgia a century and a
quarter ago-in popular Imagination
at least.
It is stated in dispatches from
Washington that ex-Gov. Kellogg is
to be married soon to a Northern
lady of large fortune, and that he ex
pects a foreign mission ; also that he
will abandon his claim to a scat in
the United States Senate.
It is probable that some conference
or arrangement in reference to
freights was going on at Montgom
ery, Ala., on Thursday, as the follow
ing railroad officers were in the city :
W. M. Wadley, of the Georgia Cen
tral ; J. S. Hamilton and J. W.
Davies, of the Georgia Railroad; W.
L. Lanier, of the Alabama Central;
F. B. Clark, of the Alabama Grand
Trunk; Robert Meek, of the South
& North, and Thos. T. Eckert, of the
A. & P. Telegraph Company.
The decision of the Supreme Court
of the United States, reported the
other day on the claims of the Cen
tennial Commissioners to the $1,500,-
000 lent by Congress, stops a clear
swindle. The money was appropriat
ed on condition that it was to be re
paid before any dividends were de
clared from the “profits 1 ,” und ns the
receipts did not quite meet the ex
penditures, counting the capital
stock as expenditures, the Centennial
Treasurer declares that there were no
profits, and the money must be used
to repay the stockholders. In other
words, tne whole loss was to fall on
the Government, while the stock
holders (city of Philadelphia, &c.)
reaped all the profits. But the de
cision of the Supreme Court stops
this grab.
The Japanese are advancing in civ
ilization. They usually favor con
demned felons with the choice or
mode of death. An interesting mur
derer having bean recently asked
how he would like to be executed,
promptly replied: “By proxy.”
The rumor seems well founded
that a number of prominent citizens
of Baltimore have resolved to erect
a monument to the memory of the
late Dr. J. W. Bull, discoverer of
that wonderful remedy, Dr. Bull’s
Cough Syrup.
RI MNKLL county, ala.
Tho Circuit Court will open at
Seale on Monday next. The criminal
case of Menlka and Mrs. Lyon,
charged with the murder of the hus
band of tho latter, will be called, and
may lie tried. The Register says
that there are some ten criminal
cases and forty-four on the civil
docket, sot for trial.
The Commissioners’ Court will
meet at the same time, when the tax
collector’s books and acts are to be
passed upon.
Mr. Thos. B. Howard, one of the
County Commissioners, died of con
sumption, at his home near Seale, on
Thursday of last week.
The Register says that the Probate
office has been for some time doing a
lively business, in recording mort
gages and advance liens for our
county merchants. There are but
few farmers comparatively in the
county now who do not have to give
collaterals of some sort to make their
crop.
The tax collector sold about two
hundred tracts of land for taxes, last
week. The taxes on these lands ag
gregated about $1,700.
The National Republican, of Wash
ington, which Is considered the organ
of the Administration, gives the
Southern carpet-baggers this parting
shot:
It will thus be seen that the race of
carpet-baggers is rapidly passing
away, that they are losing their hold
upon the South, and that tho people
or that section arc rapidly regaining
the control of their own States. This
is as it should be. The people of the
Sout.h want population uud capital,
and they invite it from the crowded
States of the North. A man who
goes there for the purpose of con
tributing to the prosperity of the
community will be welcome, and will
not be thwarted in a laudable ambi
tion for political preferment at the
proper time. They are not carpet
baggers, and will not be denominated
as such. But the mere political ad
venturer has no business there, and
in repudiating him the people of the
South are doing no more nor less
than any other community would do.
Every man likes to direct the affairs
of his own household.
Why Oukey Hull Left—“ All Ounce of
Prevention." .
N tsvi York Tribune.l
What, is expected ot Mr. Tweed in
the matter ot evidence of the corrup
tion of legislators is principally cor
roborative of the testimony of John
Garvey, Ingersoll and Woodward,
as to the disposal of money to those
whoso votes were necessary to carry
the Tweed charter of 1870. Each ot
these men was at different times a
messenger bearing large sums from
this city to Tweed at Albany. Gar
vey swears to carrying SIOO,OOO at,
one trip. There was certainly a sum
of $250,000 paid to five Senators lor
the passage of the charter, and the
proofs of these payments ure said to
De in the safe keeping of Harper &
Bros., who contemplate publishing
them at an early date.
The payments to Senator Wood
through the Bowliug Green Savings
Bank and the exposure retired him
to private life. It is understood that
the curious story comes out now for
tho first time that the $27,000 inten
ded for Oliver S. Wiuans was stolen
by a mnu who is now Editor of the
Republican paper in another city,
after it had b-ieu deposited in a cer
tain room in the Delavun House,
there to be found by Winans as soon
as he had voted properly. The man
alluded to took the; money, was de
tected, accused of the abstraction,,
nud coolly admitted it, saying he
"might as well have it hs that other
thief.” The King had to set its best
poker-players to work to win the
money back again.
It is asserted by the Ring men that
Oakey Hall never signed any of the
fraudulent warrants until he had
been paid his percentage in green
backs, by Watson only wuenjulivo.aud
by Woodward subsequently. Wood
ward says Hall would never take a
check, Tweed says Hall was perfect
ly aware of the frauds from the first,
and he personally drew up the laws
passed preliminary to the audit for
the purpose of niuking that audit,
and Unit he manufactured the Board
of Audit resolution, sigued by him
self, Tweed and (Jonnoly, when it be
came necessary for his legal defense.
This was fully a year after the date
which the document bore. Evidence
is also to be given that Hall, while
Mayor, was personally interested iu
the profits of the John L. Brown
street-cleaning contract, but Hull’s
former partners say that no such in
terest existed, and that they can dis
prove any such assertions.
The only interview had between
Hall and Peter B. Sweeny after the
later’s return was when the two men
met for a brief time only in a private
coach. Sweeny was very severe on
Hall. He accused him (us the other
ring men do) of faithlessness. He
reminded Hall that ail the others
who were implicated except Tweed
had left the country early after the
exposures with the understanding
thut he (Hall) was to endeavor to
make settlements for all. He accused
Hail of seeking his own safety, of
securing his own acquittal by politi
cal intrigue, by which ho enabled
the prosecution the more effectually
to combiue the suits against Tweed,
Connolly and Sweeny ; and declared
that after acquittal he had been
afraid to resume efforts to compro
mise for the übseut ones and for
Tweed lest suspicion should again
attach to him. In the couise of the
conversation, which had been re
peated since to others iu Hall’s con
fidence, Mr. Sweeny uttered the
threat which finally made Hail re
solve to quit the eouutry--“Mr. Hall,
I have returned to close up this set
tlement for myself, and I do not
warn any assistance from you.”
After his acquittal. Hall made no
further efforts, the Ring men claim,
to effect a settlement iu their inter
est, and tlie most of them were left
wanderers abroad, while Tweed
stayed to do all the fighting alone.
When finally Woodward, wearied of
exile, came back, and Tweed was
brought from Spain a captive, both
returned with the purpose of makiug
peace for themselves. Mr. Sweeny
has returned with the same purpose,
notwithstanding his protests to the
contrary.
A far Load.
As shippers frequently obtain spe
cial rates on goods shipped by the
car load it is important to know just
what a ear load is. Nominally a ear
load is 20,000 pounds. It is also 70
barrels of salt, 60 barrels of lime, 90
barrels of flour, 60 barrels of whisky.
200 sacks of flour, 6 cords of wood, 18
to 20 Dead of cattle, 50 to 60 head of
hogs, 80 to 100 head of sheep, 9,000
feet of solid boards, 17,000 feet of sid
ing, 13,000 feetof flooring, 40,000 shi
ngles, one-half less of hard lumber,
one-fourth less of green lumber, one
tenth of joists, 349 bushels of wheat,
400 of corn, 580 of oats, 400 of barley,
360 of flax seed, 300 of apples, 340 of
Irish potatoes, 380 of sweet potatoes,
1,000 bushels of bran.
The OulliMk In the United male* Hutted
hy a UorelKU Heviewer.
After reviewing the state of
trade in Great Britain and Germany,
the London Telegraph says, with ref
erence to the United Slates : In 1876
thirty American railways, covering
3,840 miles in length, and represent
ing $217,848,000 of invested capital,
were sold under foreclosure of mort
gages; receivers iu bankruptcy were
appointed or foreclosures determined
upon in the case of 46 other lines, ex
tending over 7,576 miles, and involv
ing a total expenditure in construc
tion and maintenance of $536,000,000;
ten railway companies figure in the
list of defaulters for the same year,
whose aggregate lines measure 2.757
miles, and show $156,661,000 to have
been invested iu them, making a
total of eighty-six mil ways, con
sisting of 14,179 mileage, and
exhibiting a loss to the
shareholders of $912,509,000. The
list, therefore, as far as it has been
made up, discloses the painful fact
that during the past year one-fifth of
the entire railway mileage of the
United States, representing a similar
proportion of the total railway capi
lal of the country, was brought, from
various causes, into a state of insol
vency. But this melancholy revela
tion naturally awakens our curiosity
to learn how far tho busiuess classes
proper shared in the general finan
cial vitiation. Out of 630,099 firms
in the Union reported to be engaged
iu busiuess in 1876, no fewer than
9,092 became bunkrupt, and the gross
amount of ttieir liabilities reached
the sum of $191,117,786, The increase
in t,he number of failures, compared
with 1875, was 1,350, while the latter
year showed the number to be 2,000
more than in 1874. The total
indebtedness of insolvents, in 1876,
however, notwithstanding tho aug
mented number of failures, was less
than in 1875, by nearly $10,000,000;
but the description of firms which
collapsed last year, combined with
the reduced average liabilities charge
able upon the previous year, plainly
indicates that the wave of financial
embarrassment is not yet speut, and
that after engulfiug the mammoth
houses, it has been gradually swal
lowing up the smaller traders. It is,
moreover, significant of the manner
in which business has been conduct
ed in the several divisions of the
Union, that the failures in the Mid
dle States are one in every fifty-seven
tradiug firms, and iu the Western
States one in every seventy-two. In
the Eastern States, notwithstanding
their reputation for wealth and sta
bility, one in every fifty-nine firms
has suocumbed; while iu the South
ern States, which have been depopu
lated aud exhausted by the civil war,
and are still laboring under heavy
political disabilities, the percentage
of failures is only one in every sixty
four. Were the facts we have
adduced to constitute the sole basis
or our calculations in estimating the
prospects of American trade, the out
look must be deemed eminently dis
couraging. But there is an obverse
side of the picture. Many of the fail
ures we have enumerated are be
lieved to have been caused by a de
parture from'the principles of a le
gitimate trading. During a period
of prosperity, not a few merchants
invested their surplus earnings in
speculative operations. They bought
land, or became interested iu mining
or railway undertakings, without
forecasting the probability of com
mercial reverses ; and wheu the crisis
came and strained their resources,
they fouud the additional capital
they reuuired to meet urgent obli
gations Jockod up in investments
which they were unable to re
alize. It is to be presumed, there
fore, that the bitter experience they
have undergone in the past may im
pose a check upon reckless tenden
cies iu the future. Agaiu.iu proof that
trade is returning to a normal state,
production has of late beeu more
strictly limited than before to the
requirements of regular consumption,
and a universal disposition prevails
in the community to economize ex
penditure to the utmost. Happily,
too, the potential riches lyiug in the
soil of the American continent ure
practically boundless, and every year
the profits derived from the cultiva
tion of cotton, grain, sugar and to
bacco steadily increase. Gold, silver
and petroleum also will continue for
an indefinite period to be an exhaust
less source of profit to the Uuited
States.
An old citizen of Alabama was re
cently murdered in Texas. The Troy
Enquirer of the 11th inst. gives the
following particulars of the murder:
Mr. Alex. Menke, late of Troy, who
is now in Texas, writes to Mr. L. M.
Bashinsky that a horrible fate has
lately befallen our former townsman.
Rev. W. H. Biggs. He moved from
Chanel Hill last year to the frontier
of Texas, where he proposed to en
gage in stock-raising. From some
cause certain roughs conceived a dis
like for him and determined to get
rid of his presence. Accordingly they
visited his house, carrying wine with
them, which they insisted on his
drinking. Ha refused; but being
pressed, thought, to be rid of them,
he would taste it, to be a corpse in a
few minutes. The wine was drugged
with a deadly poison. Some days
previous to this, some unseen party
shot at one of Mr. Biggs sons who
was standing before a mirror comb
ing his hair. The charge missed its
aim, but shattered the glass.
It is needless to say thut the intelli
gence of Mr. Biggs’ tragic death is
received with the deepest regret in
Troy and this entire section, where
he has long been esteemed as a good
citizen and a devout Christian.
Three Deaf and Dumb Ladies Join
tub Church. —Avery interesting and
impressive incident was witnessed at the
Eden ton street Methodist Church yester
day morning—the reception into the com
munion ol that church of tnree young
ladies, deaf mutes, from the Deaf, Dumb
and the Blind Institution of this city. The
names of the young ladies are Martha
Henrietta Austin, of Bakhvell County;
Nancy Ellen Poovey, of Catawba, and
Sarah Peddy, of Guiliord. To the last
named was administered the ordinance
of baptism, the others having been bapt
ised in infancy. At the close of the morn
ing sermon, preached bv the presiding
elder, Rev. Dr. YVilson, the young ladies
took their position at the altar, Mr. David
Dudley, a teacher in the Institution, act
ing as interperter. The baptismal service
of the church was impressively read by
the pastor, Dr. Burkhead, and interpreted
to the young ladies by Mr. Dudley, he re
ceiving their responses aud communicat
ing them to Dr. Burkhead. Tbewhole scene
was one of impressive solemnity, espec
ially as the yoimg ladies seemed fully to
understand and appreciate the position
they occupied and the vows they were
taking upon themselves. —Raleigh News
'2nd inst.
Mr. Harry Erskine, who succeeded
Mr. Heury'Dundas, afterward Lord
Melville, as Lord Advocate of Scot
land, happening to have a female
client of the name of Tickle, de
fendant in an action, commenced his
speech in the following humorous
strain: “Tickle, my client, the de
fendant, my Lord.” The auditors,
amused with the oddity of the speech,
were almost driven into hysterics by
the Judge replying; “Tickle her
yourself, Harry, you are as able to do
it as I.”
An Aquarium of shark*.
BROTHKBTALMAGE’S DESCRIPTION OF THE
WALL STREET BULLS AND BEARS.
The Brooklyn Tabernacle was
thronged in every part yesterday
morning. The “bulls” ana “bears”
were preached to.
“Across the island of New York,”
said Dr. Talmage, “in 1765, a wail of
stone and earth, cannon-mounted,
was erected to keep off the savages.
A street was laid along by that wall,
and as the street took the line of it
as first, it was appropriately called
Wall street. Short, narrow, unarch
itectural, but unique. In history
next to Lombard street, Loudon—
the mightiest street in the world. It
is the larger part of the history of
this country, financially, agricul
turally, religiously. There you will
find unswerving integrity and tip-top
scoundrelism. [Laughter.) Men have
been engaged In thut furnace of ex
citement, seven times heated, and
have come out unsigned, while
others have been burned into a black
moral cinder. If you want integrity
bombproof, seek it among the Wail
street brokers aud bankers and mer
chants. Many have imagined that
fraud and lyiug and subterfuge have
had unlimited sway there, and that
it is ah aquarium of sharks. [Laugh
ter.] But since 1794, when the Board
of Brokers was organized, only cue
man has beeu found guilty of fraud.
It has always been the friend of dis
tress, and never been appealed to in
vain in the hour of trial. But still
there are to be found iu it spiders
that are waiting for innoceut flies,
crocodiles that are crawling up
through the slime, ready to pouace
on the unwary calf, and anacondas
ready to seize the first victim. I do
not own a dollar iu Panama or
Pacific Mail, or stock of auvthing
else, but I think God that he disap
pointed those men who tried to ruin
American commerce during the past
week. I pray that he will put a yoke
into the noose of those financial
monsters, and jerk them back into
the Connecticut or Hudson—the
former for choice, as it is furthest
off. [Laughter.] If you are unsound
in business principles, do not go near
Wait street. You cannot stand its
temptations and remain upright.
Remember James Fisk, whose splen
did steamboats and opera houses
could not atone for iiis adulterous
rides through Central Park in view
of decent New York, and by his Wall
street examples blasted ten thousand
young meg in this generation,
l’here are heroes in Wall street
whose names will live in history.
There is legitimate speculation iu
which you may gain or lose greatly,
Every man in business is a specula
tor. He buys groceries or drygoods
at so much aud sells for so much.
There is no barm in that. And it is
just as honest to deal in Wabash,
New York Central, or Western Union
as in iron or coal. The man who
denounces stock dealers displays his
own ignorance, and would stop fac
tories, aud banks, and railroads, and
all the great financial prosperities of
the country. The stock broker is
only a commission merchant, and
his dollar is as fairly earned as that
of the day labor. But here we must
draw a line detween lawful specula
tion and ruinous stock gambling.
You put up a margiu and
sell a hundred thousand dollars
worth of nothing and get
paid for it. The stock is to be
delivered in thirty days. By the fluctua
tions of the market you may lose or gain
a thousand dollars.’ That is a bit ot
chance, and makes you as certainly a gam
bler as the man who makes or loses his
fortune iu one of the gambling hells of
John Morrissey, that great reformer and
Christian philanlbtopist. [Great laugh
ter.] This ruinous stock gamblig has
brought upon the country three-fourths
of Hs woes, and is turning it into a vast
lunatic asylum. Against this insane pas
sion I protest in the game of the Lord
Jesus Christ. In Holland they had tuli
pomania, in 1838, and by gambling in this
flower the nation was financially ruined.
[Laughter.] Don’t laugh at the Dutch.
I-* am a descendant from the Dutch.
Paris. England, and America have buc
oestively been afflicted with the vice of
gimbling. Stand off from the uugodly
ihing. Though elders and deacons may
be presidents and directors of gambliug
schemes,and investing in theirpiojects may
seem as good as joining the church, the
poor fools don’t know that when profes
sors of religion go into stock gambling
they all lie like sin. [Laughter.]
County Board of Education
WILL meet at Ordinary's Office promtly at 10
o'clock a. m., Saturday ÜBtn, lust. The re
tiring Secretary is requested to be present with
Records, Funds, Ac., to be turned over to hiß
successor, Mr. Bamuel Jessup, who has been
duly elected to fill vacancy occasioned by the re
signation of the Hon. N. G. Oattis.
This April 10, 1877 T. J. WATT,
aprl* ditAw President.
FINE SHOES!
Ladies’ & Misses’ Newport*
plain and with buckles.
SAYIIU S AXB SLIPPERS,
in new and tasty styles.
BURTS’ Fine BUTTON BOOTS
/'TENTS’ BROWN |Bl
■■(fife It CLOTH-TOP.Bat- f w.l
ton OXFORDS, {the* Whr
handsomest SHOe; out.)
Also, a full line of Spring work in sll popular
styles ; ALL at reduced prices,
A heavy Stock of
Brogans, Plow Shoes, and
Staple Goods for Whole
sale Trade.
For anything iu the Shoe or Leather line, Call at
“THE OLD SHOE STORE.”
Wells & Curtis,
73 BROAD STREET.
Sign of the Big Boot.
NOTICE.
THE undersigned having heretofore held stock
in the Merchants It Mechanics Bank iu the
city ofColumbus.G*., hereby gives notice that he
has sold his stoek in said Company, and had the
same transferaed, and claims in conformity with
section 1496 of the Code of Georgia, that he is ex
empt from any liabilities of said Bank,
mhll lam6t A. ILLGES.
WM, SCHOBER.
Dealer In Onni aud Ammunition.
Guns, Locks, &c„ Repaired.
Scp3o-tf 89 Randolph 8t„ near Times office,
DRY GOODS.
NEW STOCK! LOW PRICES !!
SPRING 1877!
See My Prices!
Maltese suitinos, ioc. best London cords, ioc.
SUMMER SILKS, 65c. to $1.25. VICTORIA LAWNS, lsc.
Good HEMMED STITCHED HANDKERCHIEFS, 12qo.
Large Stock SILK SCARFS at 25c, Large Stock SILK HANDKERCHIEFS at 26c.
Good LINKS DAMABK TOWELS, 30c,
TWO BUTTON Uudreaaed KID GLOVES, 50c. TWO BUTTON KID GLOVES worth $1 only 50c.
MISSES TWO BUTTON KID GLOVES, 50c.
Good STOCK of FINER GRADES.
CHILDREN COLORED HOSE, 15c. to 50c. ALL LINEN COLLARS, 10c.
tsr YOU ARE ASK'FI) TO CALL AND SEE THESE GOQPS. BjrNo Trouble to
SHOW THEM.
J. ALBERT KIRVEN,
IVO. IHI HltOAl> STRFJX
GROCERIES.
J. J. Whittle. Geo. M. Yarbrough. Jno. T. Mcl#s° d
J. J. Whittle & Cos.
HAVE OPENED A. NEW
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL GROCERY HOUSE,
Undor Central Hotel,
WHERE WE WILL KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND A LARGE AND COMPLETE STOCK OF
and FANCY GROCERIES, Consisting in psrt of
Boots, Shoes anti Staple Dry Goods, Bacon, Lard, Su
gar, Coffee, Cheese, Flour, Syrup, Bagging & Ties,
r'BACCO, WHISKEY, BRANDY and WINES, of all grades, SALT, CORN. TEAS ol ail Brands,
MAKER EL and SOAP; together with a full line of all other goods kept in a first-claas Grocery
House.
g®-OUR 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,
4E#-We solicit the patronage of the City and surrounding country,
J. J. WHITTLE & CO.
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WAREHOUSEMEN.
Planters Warehouse
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GEO. P. SWIFT. GEO. P. SWIFT, Jr.
GEO. P. SWIFT & SON,
SUCCESSORS TO SWIFT. MLRPHY S- CO.
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
Columbus, Georgia.
Liberal Advances on CoiisisniiiieiitH of Cotlon, and Special
Attention given to Sale mid (Storage of Same.
prl (U-wtf ....
The Great Fertilizer
FOR COTTON, FOR CORN AND AIL CROPS!!
WHANN’H
Raw Bone Super-Phosphate!
FOR SALE FOR CASH OH COTTON OPTION
BY
W. A. SWIFT,
Centennial Wagon Yard, Columbus. Ga.
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Grand Opening of Patterns!
HATS AND NOVELTIES,
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OUST THURSDAY, APRIL IQTH.
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3VE Jbc S. Hi JEC JhU,
rpAKES pleasure in Informing her Customers and the Ladies generally that ahe will open on the
JL 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 m E A PER than ever.
aprßtf^
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,
mid which are offered at extremely low figures l
HATS, BONNETS, RIBBONS, kc., of the latest and most Fashionabla Styles, and guaranteed io
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 lna
Hirsch Hecht,
AUCTIONEERS AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
100 15road St„ Opposite Itaukin House, Columbus, Ga.
solicited of every diseription and liberal Cash Advances made and settled prompt
Corrospondonco Solicited.
Refereßoes, toy Permission:
Ghattahoochee National Bank, ... National Bank of Columbus, Ga.
Eagle and Phenix Manufacturing Company.