Newspaper Page Text
aJ. ? i'i-ltJSx'J,.: * j ,J| :®ji L . ••" ' . ■ ’'p'
VOL. 111.
T. K. WYNNE, W. •. MC WOLF,
JQHN 11. MAKTIN, JOHN . STEWART.
Wynne, DeWolf & Cos.
PubllMliem and ProiirieJOp*,
GAILY, (In BdvftniM)) per aomum <>7 00
•• six rapuths, .. ........ 400
•• tbr<*e mouths...... J 00
* ona mouth 75
HKKKLY, one ju*r. ...4 4 00
i terms in proportion.)
ft 4TKM P AIIVKUTIKIMj.
One Square, one week $ 3 00
Ouo Square, one mouth 8 fM
One Square, six month*.
Transient advertisements fl (Hi n square for
each insertion.
Fitly per ctfut. additi >o*l in Local colntuu.
Liberal rat on to larger advertisements
Washington nkws.
THE INTERMINABLE SCRABBLE.
‘‘Nothing Sticks in tin Tar State.”:
IMIIW MTCMMSI TIlKtrKMi\C.
Wabhimotoh, July 7.—Some one,
who appears to have misunderstood
or misrepresented the wishes of the
Secretary of the Treasury, directed
Gen. Smith, the Appointment Clerk,
to make out papers to Gen. Hender
son as Collector of the Fifth North
Carolina District. They were pre
pared, but a halt has been called.
Nothing seems to stick in the Tar
State.
The Fresident does not see that it
will become to interfere between the
laws of Louisiana and the criminals
whom the laws pursue.
Frank P. liichardson, telegraphing
to the Baltimore Sun, says the only
sure salvation for Wells and Ander
son is.for them to jump their bail
and get, the President to givo them
some safe position abroad.
The President did not reach the
White House until afternoon.
No work done.
Schurz has gone to New Jersey ror
a few days.
Dr. William M. Gooding succeeds
Nicholls as Superintendent of the
Insane Asylum.
A dispatch from Gen. McDowell
encloses some dispatches from the
vicinity of Gen. Howard’s command.
The situation is represented as most
threatening. It seems there is ample
ground for Gen. Howard’s applica
tion for more troops. General Mc-
Dowell will send the Second Infantry
to Howard direct by rail to San Fran
cisco; thence by vessels to the scene
of vrar. McDowell has sent troops
from Fort Yuma to the scene, arid has
broken up Camp Independence,
sending a company to the same des
tination.
TH KOKHS* OF THK KKTIUHVi;
UOAKII INBICtME.tTK.
IS IT AN ANTI-NICHOLLB MOVEMENT ?
New York, July 7. —The Time, s’ New
Orleans special says the indictment
of the late returning board has been
set on foot by the anti-Nicholls
party, and proceeds on tho assump
tion that Nioholls is iu someway
bound to protect Wells, Anderson &
Cos. The Idea is therefore to push
the prosecution vigorously, make the
accused as odious as possible, aud
then, in case of an executive pardon,
to impeach the Governor.
The Tribune’s Washington dispatch
says the indictment of members of
the returning board is looked upon
here a3 an affair of a great deal of
political importance. The friends of
the administration are highly indig
nant.
TKI.KfcItAPIIIC NI MtllHV.
Washington. July 7.—A postal card
has beeu received from the Louis
ianan, J. F. Margridge, tho missing
man, saying he was in Philadelphia.
San Francisco—The sectional dock
at Marie Island navy yard, broke
down while raising the French cor
vette Linnie. The ship was uninjut
ed, but repair of the dock will in
volve a large outlay.
Whitehall. N. Y.—The First Na
tional Bank of Keeseviile was rob
bed last night by burglars, wUo took
the entire contents of tho safe.
Jeffersonville, Ind.—The saw
mill of D. S. Barmore burned last
night. Loss $30,000.
New York—Minister Kasson has
sailed for Europe.
Charles L. Richards, a wealthy re
tired manufacturer, died on Thurs
day from an overdose of Munn’s
elixir of opium.
A Washington telegram says Sec
retary Schurz has ordered an investi
gation to be made by one of the
Government Directors of the Union
Pacific Railroad, concerning the cel
ebrated lost bonds.
London—John Ald ray and, carpet
manufacturer of Huddersfield and
Newburg, trading under the style of
Aldrayd Bro.’s & Cos., failed. Liabil
ities reported $1,350,000.
Robbery of a Rank.
Whitehall, N, Y., July 7.—The
Keeseviile National Bank wa9 robbed
last night by seven or eight masked
burglars. The watchman was bound
and gagged. The vault and Mar-
Yin’s Spherical Sai'B was blown open,
and the contents carried away. The
bank losses $15,000. The parties who
left packages in the bank for safe
keeping, have lost to the amount of
from $50,000 to $60,000.
; THK WAR IN KUKOPK.
Situation* of the Opposing; Armies,
l Estimated Streagtli-Probable Movement*
I.OUTSriMKoI!' > THK I*U<>V
I'l l'ts Ot' THK M AH.
Hr KVnrs that the Turk, will llrtlrr lo
■ lip Balkans without n Fit; lit,
London, July 7.—A Bucharest eor-
I respondent of the Time# telegraphs :
! According to Information received
from the Dobrudscha, 1 have no faith
!in onv effectual resistance being
| made by the Turks on tld-. line pf
1 Trajar’s Wail. The correspondent
then summarizes the military sltua
j lion, showing lliut the Turks are
threatened iu front by tho Russian
army utSistova, and iu the rear by
the corps advancing through the Ro
bntdseha.
Russian officers of rank at tin
front believe the campaign will soon
be decided.
The Turl- s are eouccuiratir.g about
Shmnla, in order lo take the Rus
sian advance to the Balkans'on the
flank. The Russians will probably
go forward until the Turks come out.
of Shumla, and then face abon*. and
give them battle in the open coun
try.
It is stated t hut all rep resell tat ivea i
of the pret-s have been ordered to '
leave the Russian hrmicjuartets.
It is rumored that by the advice of
Austria, u kind of informal armistice
will be established in Montenegro,
botti sidoß ma,iutaininst the defensive.
London, July 7.— Tito Time*' Riteli
arest dispatch says the military sit
uation now appears to be as follows:
The Turks have changed front nnd
faced to the westward since the
Russian entranee into Bulgaria. The
Russians are deploying, with their
left flank resting on tho Danube, to
meet the Turkish line from Rustehuk
to Shumla. When this movement is
completed a genera! battle may be
expected, unless the Turks tall back
to the Balkans, or the Russians mask
the whole quadrilateral an I turn it !
by passing. The Russian force coming j
through the Dobrudscha are ap- i
I preaching the rear of the Rustchuk
and Shumla lines. This line is too
strong to be opposed by any force
detached from the Turkish main
body, while the main body itself can
not turn upon it without exposing
its rear to the Russian main force.
Note.—Tiie Timex’ correspondent
seems to entirely ignore the existence
of Silistria, Varna and Kustendje.
The latest information fixes the gar
risons at these places respectively at
32,000, 20,000 and 10,000, which opera
ting on the flunksor rear of the Rus
sian Dobrudseha force, would para
lyze its efforts to co-operate with the
arinv in central Bulgaria. Besides
thegarrisocsof these fortified places,
Suleiman Pasha’s army, which is now
stated to be embarking at Autivari,
could bo landed at Varna, which
would make the number of Turks on
the Russian left dank alone over 50,-
000. The Russian Dobrudseha corps
is stated to number only 30,000.
Vienna, July 7.- The Fresse says:
Prince Gortschakoff, in an interview
with a distinguished statesman,
stated that only the Servian question
induced him to accompany the Czar
to the seat of war. He had prevented
Servian co-operation, although ur
gently offered, in order to avoid Eu-
ropean complication. Russia had
acted on two principles: First, to
avoid all cool interference with the
internal affairs of Servia and Rou
mania, and not encourage them to
warfare against Turkey; and to de
cline as the war lasted any interven
tion by the Powers, who at the con
clusion of peace would have an op
portunity of protecting all their in
terests. The Russians ware prepared
for greater resistance by Turkey than
has hitherto been'experieneed.
He concluded as follows: If we
succeed in a decisive battle in Bulga
ria, our task will be completed in a
short tirno. If the Turks retire to
the Balkans—and I have reason to
believe they will —we shall have an
noying delays, because of their ex
cellent positions for defence. Then
will commence our difficulty in pro
visioning the army.
THE WARDIN' CIJBA.
Shooting Insurgent Prlsomru-Xo .\cw
of t'amiioK.
Havana, (via Key West) July 7.
The Insurgent Chief Morezon, who
was wounded anti taken prisoner,
has been shot in Rente bps. More
than 160 Insurgents are said to have
bean shot after being taken prisoners
in various actions.
Nothing has been heard of Gen.
Martinez Campos. His operations
are apparently paralyzed. The cor
respondents of Havana newspapers
at his headquarters are quite silent,
Kansas City, July 2: There are /Up wards
of 1(X),000 head of cat tle in the immediate
vicinity of Dodge City, Kansas, some of
the herds running high in the thousands.
There is a single herd numbering 40.000*
another of 21,000 and one 17,000. The
Texas drive into Dodge City this year will
run close to two hundred thousand.
The beauty of the ladles of Balti
more has become the standard com
parison the world over. They tijnin
taia that peculiar clearness and rich
ness of cemplexion by the occasion
al use (as required) of Dr. Bull’s
Blood Mixture.
COLUMBUS, GA., SUNDAY MOIINING, JULY 8, 1877.
THK HOSTILE INDIANS.
SKIRMISHES ANO FIGHTS REPORTED.
Movements aud Numbers of the Indians.
THK Al.t.iaXeK t'OKHIIUUI.t:.
San Francis,' V, July 7. A preen
dispatoit dated Portland, Oregon
gives the followiug special:
Lewiston, Idaho, July 4— (via Wal
la Walla, July ).—On the second
lust., Col. Whipple’s comma id, with
volunteers under N. R. Randall,came
across Looking Gins*’ band at Clear
creek, tit 7o’ clock m. Tim Indians
told Col. Wltlpplethey were prepared
to fight, and it is said opened the af
fray by tiring the first shot, when
1 he order was given to the soldiers to
lire. The Indians soon broke for rite
hills and places of shelter. It is not
known how many were killed or
wounded, as they scampered off in
all directions. The command cap
tured the Indian camp, burned all
their provisions and plunder, and
took about 1,000 head of Indian
horses, which they brought here.
No volunteers or soldiers were killed
or wounded. The command return
ed last night.
Capt. Elliott, of tlie Idaho Ran
gers, captured 7. r > of chief Joseph's
camp and 4(1 horses. They had a
sltii mish on the Minnaha. The cap
tain sajs lie does not. know how
many were killed, as they had to re
treat.
The Indians are mostly between
the Snake and Salmon livers, and
are now reported 900 strong and well
armed. Capt. Booth will go to Wal
la Walla with 70 men from the cave.
There are twenty-one men from
Union county, Oregon, now in the
Walla-Walla Valley.
News lias been received at depart
; rnent headquarters here from Gen.
| Alfred Sully, commanding at Lewis
ton, Idaho, that Colonel Perry, with
thirty men, on his way to theCotton
j wood, was attacked by tin- hostiles.
Lieut. Rains, ten soldiers and two
citizens were killed. Col. Whipple
joined Col. Perry and drove tho In
dians off. The fight is still going on,
Maj. Jackson’s company, First Cav
alry, which left Fort Vancouver yes
terday morning, will arrive at Lewis
ton to-morrow at noon.
The following dispatch comes
from Walla Walla. It probably
reached there by t lie steamer Tenius,
which arrived at 9:15 on Thursday
night. It is said that Chief Joseph
decoyed Gen. Howard across the
Salmon river, and that then Joseph
re-crossed the river and got in the
Cottonwood between Gen. Howard
and Ltipwai, within thirty miles of
Lewiston.
A special received from John A.
Farrell, of San Francisco, who has
just returned from Callville, dated
Palonse Landing, July 3d, (via
Walla Walla, Gt h ,) says:
Joseph Oppenheirner and myself
atrived here this evening, where we
crossed the Shekel) bridge. Yester
day we noticed between three and
four hundred buck Indians, Who
were said to be in council. They
were all well armed and equipped.
They consisted of Yaktomss, under
Moses Baiouse, Samppenilles, Spo
kones, Calieshalis and renegade
young men from other tribes, whose
names are not known.
The outlook for this country is
bad. The settlers on Pine creek and
the Baiouse plains, except five men,
have left. The country is in the
hands of the savages.
THE WAR IN ASIA.
The Russians Stilt Pushing Operations.
Battles Expected Soon-
DIFFICULTY OF PROVISIONING.
Euzekoum, July 7. -The following
is the actual position of the forces iu
Armenia.
The Turkish right wing confronts
the Russians’ left at Utsch-Kilissa.
Faick Pasha has a fresh body of 12,-
(XX) Russians opposed to him near
I’ayazid. Another Russian division
of 20,000 men is marching towards
Ardahan. Mukhtar Pasha’s advance
guard is within fourteen miles of
Kars. Battles are expected at Utsch-
Killissa and Bayazid. It is also be
lieved Muhktar Pasha will be en
caged soon. The provisioning of the
belligerent armies is now a matter of
great difficulty.
In ,lfSrhlfpaii.
Detroit, July 7.—A dispatch says
swarms of grasshoppers have recent
ly made their appearrnce in portions
of Oakland and lonia counties, and
are ravaging all manner of growing
crops. About 4,000 acres of growing
grain ruined.
WF.ATHEU INDICATION*.
War Department, 1
Off u;k of Chief Sion al Officer. [
Washington, July 7, 1877. I
For the South Atlantic and Gulf
States, stationery, or higher pressure
and temperature, variable winds
mostly from the South, and clearly
or partially cloudy weather.
560 Mosquito Bars at New York Store
cheap. tf
From tbe N. Y. Hub.}
KILLING A t GBEAT SAWFISH.
On Satin-tiny, Fei>. ID, 1H77, I wan a* Fori
Oapion, Fla* with Commafftm; Thomas J.
Fails til Shanghai, We had made th<* run
j down the Indian river in the Louise, a trim
! little sail-boat, against a still head wind.
Our guide was Edwin. Snow of Fort Orange.
Falls is an enthusiastic fisherman, ami Inn
boat was filled with- the most costly tackle.
Several lily irons or grains ol chitted steel
particularly attracted my attention. They
were of the most approved pattern. The
points were rounding like the point of an
oyster knife, and as sharp as a razor. The
flukes, which were hidden in little grooves
at the sides. Ilevv out like an arrow head,
and never failed to hold alter a fish had been
struck. The iron was fastened to a wooden
handle ten or twelve feet long, ami the lino
was reeved so that the handle would come
out alVr being throtvii. The spud Would
thus be jjfifl in the body of the fish, and the
line paid out over the how until the fish was
played out ami secured. Falls told me he
brought down these miniature harpoons to
catch rnenatee, sharks, and sawfish. He
also hojnd to pick up an occasional alliga-
j tor.
The day was bright, with a fair breeze,
j The roar of the ocean was audible, bur the
view was hanked by the vivid green of the
mangrove islands nestled along the beach
I’he water was clear, and the half submerged
sand bars were covered with terns and shear
waters. Falls proposed that we should go
out and try to strike a sawfish. Shipping
Tom Paine as pilot, full sail was hoisted,
and we headed for Barker’s cut, one of the
dozen channels leading to Indian river inlet.
The river here is about three miles wide,
its bottom ridged with oyster beds. Many
of them are so near the surface of the water
as to be dangerous. They would take the
bottom out of a boat if it should strike at
full speed. The oysters however, are the
largest and fattest south of the Chesapeake
They grow in great clumps or bunches. A
Prince’s bay oystsrman would find his tongs
of little use. The natives stand on the boils,
in water up to their knees, and load their
boats with the bivalves.
As we neared Barker's cut the oyster beds
disappeared, and the water became shallow
The bottom was sand, and the channel very
narrow. Tom Paine resigned the tiller to
the Commodore, and went forward and rig
ged Lis lily iron. The anchor was stowed
under deck, ami everything cleared away
“Keep her oft a little, ’ whispered Tom ,
“Heie's a big fellow bearing right down on
us. Don't move. lie hasn’t seen us yet.’’
The blood began to jump in our veins. Off
the leeward bow I saw a rolling swell, as
though a big fish was surging along in shoal
water. The tide had just turned, and the
waves were crawling over the sand flats, i
The fish showed a disposition lo leave the j
channel, then turned, as though dissatisfied i
with the depth of wafer, and the rolling swell [
again mov4l toward the Louise. Torn stood I
beneath the jib, all life and animation. His j
black eyes sparkled as he crouched iu wait
for bis prey.
“Luff a liftle. Commodore. Steady, stead- !
a-ay,” be whispered, as the lulling swell
came within reaching distance.
Suddenly he arose, poising himrelt on his
tip-toes, and brandished bis lance. The great
lish saw' him, and swerved, hut too late. Tom
sent tiie iron spud into his back twelve feet
from the boat. It took him under the dor
sal fin, where the hide is tough, aud there
was no possibility of its pulling our. The
monster never broke water, in tact, nobody
but Tom bail seen him. We could tel! where
be was only by the swell Alter he was
struck, however, the swell rolled away like
a tidal wave, and the line hummed in the
hawse hole.
‘ Slack the jib sheet!” yelled the Commo
dore; and we came about with a rush.
Apprehensive that the line might foul, we
took iri the jib, and some confusion followed,
as the Louise worked badly under a main
sail alone; but Tom paid off his royal high
ness w ith excellent judgment, testing the full
trength of the line, and plaving him like an
old fisherman. The fish began to tow the
boat, w hereupon down went the mainsail,
aud we prepared to close. Within three
minutes the monster began to sulk. He had
run out into shoal w ; ater two or three times,
and had again reached the main channel.
■‘Quick, Edwin, my rifle!” shouted the
Commodore, now thoroughly warmed to his
work. Arid as Tom slowly pulled up to the
fish, hand over hand, the Commodore tore
to the bow with a forty-six bore Remington
VV'e could see tiie great fish lying on the san
dv bottom, awaiting further developments
He was at least seventeen teet long, and as
big around as a whiskey barrel. At the
crack of the rifle the water flew. The saw
fish broke, but for a second only, and another
tidal wave rolled away as smoothly as the
boom of a gun. Once more the monster ran
into shallow water, and began his tremen
dous floundcrings. His long saw flashed in
the sunlight, and the surrounding waves
were tinged with blood. Beyond this there
was no sign of his weakness. He did not
retaliate nor show any temper. All his ef
forts were bent tow'ards escape. A second
time he sulked, and a second time the Com
modore tickled him with a bullet. The
blood began to flow more copiously, but the
circling, lunging, rushing, end floundering
did not cease under an hour.
Right, rifle shots exhausted, hut did not
kill the great fish. He turned on his side
and began to blow like a porpoise. His
struggles at length became so feeble that we
held him at the stern of the boat, and the
rudder was red with the blood that gushed
Irom his throat. A cloud of gulls had been
witnesses of the fight, and were dashing
around us with wild screams. For some
minutes tire monster had lain without a
movement. We fancied him dead, and used
the peak halliard blocks to raise him from
the water, so as to secure his saw’ as a tro
phy. In a short time half his bulk lay
across our stern, bringing the gunwales well
down to trie water. VVe were grouped
- round the Commodore and just as he had
raised a hatchet to chop off the saw. the
great fish made his final struggle. He raked
the. Louise with his saw from gitnu" le to
gunwale, barely missing the Commodore’s
head and Snow's legs.
In a twinkling every man was under
cover. We had a narrow escape, for the
saw was five feet long, a foot wide, and ser
rated with teeth that would have done good
service in a saw-mill. While we were
crouched near the bow hearing the splinters
fly, the sail rip, and the Commodore swear,
Tom Paine stunned the monster by striking
the point of the saw with an axe, producing
concussion of the brain. The saw is the
most sensitive part of the fish. Nostrils
seem to run its whole length, and the saw
itself looks like an extension of the back
bone. We chopped off the saw, arid rolled
the mass of flesh back into the water, With
in ten minutes a school of sharks were snap
ping their jaws and fighting fur the pieces.
This sawfish would have weighed eight
hundred pounds. The fish is not good to
eat. The liver is very large, and is yalua
ble for its oil. Se.-n lumbesmg along be
neath the water, sweeping the bottom with
its saw, the fish resembles a submarine man
of-war. On shoals, both bark fins cat the
I water, and look like one shark in another's
wake. The shark gives way to the sow*
1 fish
1 haae seen n dozen sharks ami a sawfish
j shut iu a narrow creek at low tide. A sin
| gle shot would terrify the whole body, nnd
! the sharks wop Id take the shore ItoforV they
j would lace the sawfish
Turtle fishermen look upon Ike sawfish
as a mortal foe. When caught in tbe ; r n'ts
lie causes great damage in a few minutes
A year ago last winter a very large one
struck a two hundred-yard net near Turtle
Mound, llis saw being fust, he made
n systematic effort to get. away and began
rolling over ami over like tin alligator in
in a death struggle. The whole net wiw
twisted into a rope not in/icri l arger than
ft clothesline.
Without its saw the ff-ll would starve.
On meeting ii school ot mullet it creates
great havoc, strinkiag viciously right and
left, and, scattering their dead bodies
over the Water. Afterward it gorges at
its leisure. Small sawfish occasionally
take a bass hook, and .are said to be gamy.
■Major Benjamin Jones of Trenton has fa- ,
ken two weighing twenty pounds each,]
near New Smyrna.
The most inveterate saw lidieinmu on
Indian river is a member ol the firm ot
Abbey, Sturdevaut A Cos. of this city. ITis !
pilot is Capt, Jim Russell, one of the
most daring and best informed of the In
dian river guides. He and Mr. Abbey
have spent weeks harpooning sawfish, al
ligators, and sea cows. Tin; old gentle
mans lily irons are said to to be the best
in the country.
ZIBKA.
l Tiie Inn: It cat tun- nt Erzerititiu.
| From the Russian Invalids,J
Erzeroum lias a population of 60,-
I 000 souls. Its defeases consist of de
tached forts, the so-called fortress
proper and the citadel. The forts
are situated on the neights of Kap-
Dagh, both well adapted for defense,
and sonic of these forts have arched
casemates. The so-called fortress
proper consists of au enceinte inelos
mg; tho town, being lit versts in
length. It has eleven oastions, con
nected with each other by curtuins.
The rampart is from fifteen to twen
ty-one feet high, and from uveuty
flve to thirty feot thick. The moat is
seventy-seven feet wide and from ten
to twenty-four feet deep. The citadel
is in tiie center of the place, and
though surrounded by an old wall,
and covered by thirteen small towers,
cannot oppose strong resistance.
Thedereuseof the town requires 101 l
guns and a garrison of 20,000. In
1829, after having defeated two Turk
ish corps near Lagan lug, Field Mar
shal Prince Paskevvitch took posses
sion of Erzeroutn, with very little op
position, and it is worthy of remark
that even at. this time, the town is
| very poorly fortified.
Ncieuce anil ilic stniiincli.
Tiie Loudon Truth has the follow
ing interesting note from one of its
contributors: “A friend of mine, who
has just returned from Germany, in
vited mo to a dinner party last week,
aud at the close of the dinner—which
was a singularly good one—an un
known liquor was handed round,
which was particularly recommend
ed to tho host, and which no one
could name. It turned out to be a
new ‘German notion’ of applied
science to gourmatidizo. The liquor
wtrs a ‘pepsin essenz,’ invented hv
Prof. Oscar Luhtuck, of Berlin,
capable of digesting cast iron, and
wit.li which the epioweauß of the
German Empire propose to insure
that, good digestion shall wait upon
appetite. On this occasion it did so;
but whether the cook or the Profes
sor must bear the palm I cannot de
cide. f have seen tin Alderman in
clude dinner pills among his dessert,
uini over tiiis the pepsin essenz,
which had the flavor of a delicate
hock, had some obvious advan
tages.”
• •
A New York Republican who is a
friend of A r ice President Wheeler
represents that gentleman as disap,
proving of the recent order of the
President, forbidding the participa
tion of office-holders in political con
ventions, etc. It is said that Mr.
Wheeler looks upon tiie order as not
only inexpedient, but impracticable.
It is a fact worthy of note that Mr.
Wheeler, with the exception of one
brief visit, has not been in Washing
ton since the adjournment of the
Senate, and has had nothing at all to
do witti the shaping of the policy of
the Administration in .any respect.
In fact he has just been the same
noneuity that a Vice President bus
always been. This is regarded as
somewhat curious after tho authori
tative announcement, made immedi
ately on the accession of President.
Hayes to office that a radical change
was to be inuagurated iu this par
ticular, and the Vice President was
to he admitted to the counsels of the
Administration on the same footing
as a Cabinet officer.
— • -o- .
V I illlllMt* f , InT .
From tlio Hurramento Record Unlotjj.
A veritable giant is on exhibition on J
street, between third and Fourth. The
giant is a shrewd, good-natured and rath
er dignified Chinaman, who has donned
u mandarin's costume, and sits iu a chair
large enough for a summer house. He
is the most massive man ever seen in this
city. A large-handed man cannot encir
cle his wrists with one hand, ami ttvo of
the giant’s fingers make an ordinary hand
to encircle them. A man five feet eight
inches can stand erect; under his
outstretched arm and not touch it with
his head. Ordinary men have to tilt their
hats and took upward to his face. lie
stands seven feet nine inches ‘high, and
claims that he weighs 412 pounds. He is
a finely proportioned mart, not at all cor
pulent—is, indeed, hard muscled and com
pact in frame, and moves with the ease of
ordinary men,
SHI I* NEWS.
New York, July 7.— Arrived : Wiscon
sin.
Arrived out: Heinrich Van Schvader,
Savannah, PranSet, Balden Taltasso,
Herman Hszehurg, W. J. Whitney, Ilpar
ter, Algeria, Perurte, Fremnd, Winona,
Brave Latirmell.
X Well Known Man Commits Satclile.
Special di-pa ch to the Constitution.t
Albany, Ga , July s, — Wm. J. Ford,
late ordinary of Worth county and broth
in-law of Hon. W. A. Harris’ committed
suicide at Isabella, by shooting himself
with a nUtol. Financial embarrassment
and oilier troubles arc supposed to
be the cause. Deceased will be remem
bered by many as one of the clerks of
the Senate.
Frank V. Evans.
FINANCIAL ANO COMMERCIAL.
|BY TELEGRAPH TO THE DAILY TIMES.
MO\ K Y VX U MTOr.Kfft.
LONDON, July 7.—-Noon Consols 91 9-lrt.
2:110 p. m,—Consols 94 11-lti. Erie 7. Street
rate l?*, win oil is \ below bank,*
PARIS, July 7.—2:00 p. M.—Rentes 107f. ami
40c.
NEW YORK, July 7. Noon— Gold opened
mi*.
NEW YORK, July 7. Noon Stocks lower at
the opening, firmer otter first board ; money lf<
I,‘si gold 6 l 4<#?; exchange, long, 4 88; rhort
4 90; Governments steady and fair business;
State bonds quiet.
NEW YORK. July 6. Evening Money easy
at IS($2; sterling dull and fliju at 8: gold quiet
at 5 Vi; Government* firmer—rtew ft’* 11 * ; state*
quiet.
in I’TOX.
LIVERPOOL, July 7. Noon Cotton quiet;
middling uplands ti‘^d; middling Orleans ti'jd,
sales 4 uOO; speculation and export 1GH); receipts
I 0,700, American 5800.
Futures l-32d better; uptauds low middling
clause, July and August delivery, fi 7 82fa)Sd;
August and September 0 Clfid; September and
October 6'jidJJ Oetcber nnd November IJ-liQd;
new crop shipped November and December per
sail C 5-ltid.
2:30 P. m.—Futures Arm; uplands,low middling
clause, July and August delivery, Sit'd, Septem
ber aud October 6 11-B’Jd, October and Novem
ber U 18-32d, November and December 6Vb
Halos of American 5400.
8:00 p. m.— Futures quiet; uplands, low mid
dling clause, July aud August delivery, 6 7-32d;
August aud September G 9-3‘2d, new crop ship
ped October and November per sail 0 fi-ltid.
NEW YORK, July 7.—Noon—Cotton Exchange
closed.
GALVESTON, July 7.—Cotton quiet; middling
11 A „; receipts 11; gross—; sales 35;expoits to
Gr*<at Britain—; Franco —; to channel —; to j
continent—; coastwise —.
NORFOLK, July 7. Evening Cotton quiet, j
nothing doing; middling 11 4 ; net receipt* 93; |
gross —; sales—; exports to Great Britain —;j
coaßtwißO 27.
BALTIMORE, July 7. Evening Cotton j
firm: middlings 12‘ t ;net receipts gross—; sales
156; spinners 25; exports to Great Britain—; con
tinent —, coastwise GU.
BOSTON, July 7.—Evening—Cotton quiet; mid
dling 12 J e ; net receipts 181; gross 181; sales —;
exports to Great Britain —. coastwise —.
WILMINGTON, July 7. —Eveumg Cotton
quiet and nominal; middling 11 *4 ; not receipts
—; sales 9; spinners —; exports to Great Britain
—; coastwise 98.
PHILADELPHIA, July 7. Evening Cotton j
quiet: middling r 2‘ a ; net receipts 77; gross 68;
sales 382, to spinners 284, exports to Great Bri-j
tain 10.
BAVANNAH, July 7. Evening Cotton
quiet; middling 11 Y % ; net receipts J 50; gross —;
sales 'ill; exports to Great Britain—; to continent
—; to channel —; coastwise —.
NEW ORLEANS, July 7. Evening Cotton
steady; middling 11 a „; low middling 11; good
ordi ary 10 3 *; net receipts 16: gross 1C: sales
2,500; exports to Great Britain 25,561; to France
—; to continent 1,250; channel —; coastwise—.
MOBILE. July 7.—Cotton nominal; middling
11'4; net receipts 1; gross 1 ; sales —; exports
to Great Britain—; to France—; continent —;
to channel—; coastwise 103.
MEMPHIS, July 7.—Evening—Cotton quiet:
middling 11• receipts -U shipments 56; sales
300.
AUGUSTA, July 7. Cotton quiet and firm;
11; 3 4 '; net receipts 63; sales 834.
CHARLESTON, July 7. Evening— Cotton
middling net receipts 121; gross—;
sales 125; exports to Great Britain—; toFrauco—;
to continent —: coastwise 313.
FOR SARF.
Pure Bred Merino Sheep.
Flock Belonging to the HOWARD Estate,
near Rising Fawn, Dade Cos., 6a.
8 Pure Bred MERINO BUCKET (2 years old) flO
each.
25 Pure Bred MERINO EWES (frfin 1 to C
years old) $5 each.
19 Grade MERINO EWES, (from J to 7 years
old) $3 each.
20 Grade SOUTHDOWN and MERINO EWES,
(from 1 to 5 years) $3 each.
jfipFor information, terms, Ac., Address,
G. H. WARING,
KINGSTON, r.ATOW CO., GA.
Loo McLostor,
A TTORNEY AT LA W,
tTtMKTJ, GA.
Iu Superior Courts and Courts of Ordinary, will
be assisted by Joseph F. Pou, Esq., without extra
charge 10 my clients.
SurPKOMPT ATTENTION TO COLLECTIONS.
Groat reductions in Towels and Table
Linens at the New York Store,
tf G judjn & Cargill.
A lard.
To all who are suffering from the er
rors and indiscretions of youth, nervous
weakness, early decay, loss of manhood,
&e., I will send a rooeipo that will cure
you, FREE OF CHARGE. This great
remedy was discovered by a missionary
in South America. Send a self-addressed
envelope to tho Rev. Joseph T. Inman,
Station D, Bible House, New York City.
feb'Jflm
Just lipreltnl.
Fresh Gloucester Checso.
New Pickles in Vinegar, by the gallon
at 50c.
Unrivalled Cider Vinegar.
Choicest canvassed Sugar-Cured Hams
at 14c. J. 11. Hamilton.
my2s tf
The very lx;at remedy for the Piles at the
Eagle Drug Store.
myl2dlm M.D. Hood & Cos.
Just Deceived.
A large stock of Flour, Bulk Meats, Fer
ris’ Sugar cured Hams and Shoulders,
Corn, Bran, Meal, Ac., Ac. at lowest prices
jafi tf J. 11. Hamilton.
August Flower.
The most miserable beings in the world
are tlioso suffering from Dyspepsia and
liver cor™plaklt. More than seventy-five
per cont. of the people in the United
Stutes are afflicted with these two disea
ses and their effects: such as sour stom
ach, sick headache, habitual costiveness,
palpitation of the heart, heart-burn, wa
ter-brash, gnawing and burning pains at
the pit of the stomach, yellow skin, coated
tongue and disagreeable taste in the
mouth, coming up of food after eating,
low spirits, Ac. Go to your druggists
Gilbert A Thornton and get a 75 cent bot
tle of August Flower or a Sample Bottle
for 10 cents. Try it. Two doses will re
lieve you.
mys t,Awlf
Springer’s Opera House.
u , V;t
Second Grand Concert.
L ,
Columbus Choral Union.
TUESDAY, JULY 10TH, 1877
ON this occasion will be presented tor the
first time iu Columbus the rharmimg little
Op retta for Soprano and Tetm? , entithd,
\
Diamond Cut Diamond.
I
Also a choice selection of beautiful
BALLADS, AND OTHEB SONGS, CHO
RUSES, DUETS AND ORCHES
TRA PIECES
j Admission 80c.
Reserved Heats without extra charge at Pease A
Norman’s.
FINE SHOES !
Ladies’ & Misses’ New ports
plain and with buckles.
SANDALS AND SLJPPKUN,
in new and tasty styles.
BURTS’ Fine BUTTON BOOTS
fMjfv 5k r 1 ENTS* BROWN
vX CLOTH-TOP,But- fWt
OXFORDS, (the*
liandsomeat SHOE oat.)
Also, a full line of Spring work lit all popular
stylas; ALL t reduced prices.
A heavy Stock of
Brogans, Plow Shoes, and
Staple Goods for Whole
sale Trade.
For anything In the Shoe or Leather line, Call at
“THE OLD SHOE STORE.”
Wells <fc Curtis,
73 BROAD STREET.
Sign of the Big Boot.
Carolina M. Lockwood 1
vs. j Libel for Divorce.
George B. Lockwood, j
IT being shown to the Court that the plaintiff
resides iu the county of Muscogee aud by the
return of the Sheriff that the defendant, George
B. Lockwood ie not to be found in the oountv of
Muscogee, and it being further Bhown to the
Court that said defendant resides without the
jurisdiction of thia State. It ia therefore on
motion of Counsel for libellant ordered that aer
vice of said libel be perfected upon the defen
dant by the publication of this order in the Co
lumbus Timer a Public Gazette of this State,once
a-month for four (4) months immediately pre
ceding the next term of thia Court.
BLANDFORD ft GARRARD,
Attorneys for LiabeUant.
A true extret from the minutes of Muscogee
Superior Court at its May term 1877, the sth
day of July, 1877.
GEORGE Y. POND, Clerk.
jly6 lam6m
NOTICE!
U. S. Internal Revenue
SPECIAL TAXES,
MAY 1 1877, to APRIL 80, 1878.
Office of Internal Revenue, \
Washington, D. 0., January 20th, 1877, j
THE REVISED STATUTES of the United
btatea, sections 3232, 3337. 3238, and 8239,
requires every person engaged in any business,
avocation or employment which redera him li*.
ble to a SPECIAL TAX,
TO PROCURE AND PLACE CON.
SPICU9UBLY IN HlB EaTAH*
l IMIMFuVr OK PLACE OF
BIUMEBB.
a STAMP denoting the payment of said SPECIAL
TAX, for the SpocuH-Tax Year beginning May 1.
1877, before commencing or continuing business
alter April 30 1877.
A return, as prescribed on Form 11, is alee re*
qnired by law of every person liable to Special
Tax as above.
The Taxes embraced within the provisions of
the law above quoted are the following, viz:
Rectifiers S2OO
Dealers, retai 1 liquors 25
Dealer b, wholesale liquors 100
Dealers in mah liquors, wholesale 60
Dealers in iualt liquors, retail 20
Dealers in leaf tobacco 25
Retail dealers in leaf tobacco 500
Aud on sales of over SI,OOO, fifty cents for
everydollar in excess of SI,OOO.
Dealer sin manufactured tobacco $ 5
Manufactures of still 50
And for each still manufactured 20
And for each worm manufactured 20
Manufacturers of tobacco.... 10
Manufacturers of cigars.... 18
Peddlers of tobacco first class (more than
two horses or other anima15).............$ 50
Peddlerß of tobacco, second class (two horses
or other a nixnals) $ 26
Peddlers oftobacco, 3d class (1 hone or other
auimal $ 15
Peddlers of tobaooo, fourth class <on foot or
public conveyance).*..*, $ 10
Brewers of less than 600 barrels . 50
Brewers of 500 barrels or more 100
Any person so liable, who shall fail to comply
with the loregoing requirements, will be subject
to severe penalties.
Persons or Arms liable to pay any of the Special
Taxes named above muat apply to Andrew Clark,
Collector of Internal Revenue at Atlanta, or to
the Deputy Collector of their Division, and pay
for and procure tbe Special Tax Stamp or Stamps
they neod, prior to May the Ist, 1877, and
WITHOUT FURTHER NOTICE
Spec al-Tax stamp* will be transmitted by mall
only on receipt from the person or firm order
ing tbe same ot specific directions so to do to
gether with tbe necessary postage stamp*, or the
amouut required to pay the postage. The post
age on one stamp is three cents and on two stamp#
six cents. If it is desired that they be transmit
ted by registered mail ten cents additional
should accompany the application.
GREEN B. BAUM,
Commissioner lot*! Revenue.
NO. 161