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WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 6, 1875.
MINOR TOPICS.
Oh, give us & rest! The case of T nv.
11*— y has been postponed to next term of
the Brooklyn Court. It was No. 19 on the
calendar. Let it be No. 19,999 on the next.
An impressionable Indiana journalist has
"seen swaying lily-like above the chnru a
beauty more perfect than that which bloomed
full-grown from the bright focus of the sea's
ecstatic travail.”
“Aren’t you a little ‘off cdllar' " was what
Jones remarked to his wife one night when
she appeared arrayed for a party in an ex
tremely low necked dress. She convinced him
she wasn’t "off choler,” anyhow.
Luring the first month the Hoosac Tunnel
line, which cost between $15,000,000 and $20,-
000,000, earned the Htate of Massachusetts,
net, $1,403 18, which iB one-forty-fifth of the
interest on the investment.
Compact expression of wisdom from the
astute Milwaukee Netrs: "The biggest fool was
a girl in New York who poisoned herself for a
dry goods clerk who parted liis liair in the mid
dle and wore an oriode watch and chain."
The experiment of publishing a daily re
ligious newspaper in New York has failed, and
the tell;/ Witness, that has assumed to repre
sent the religions element of the metropolis
for several years, announces that its publica
tion will be discontinued from to-day.
“ I haven't eaten a monthful in two days,'
said a tramp, “and my wife and three children
are starving at home." I would give you some
thing," tho philanthropist replied, “but I have
nothing smaller than a five dollar note." “I
will change it for you.” said the tramp.
A baby without a spine has just been bom at
East Haven, Conn. Its mother for some
months previous to its birth hail been obliged
to reail to her bed-ridden husband, who took a
passionate interest in politics, the speeches on
the currency question of soveral Western can
didates for the Presidency.
The story comes from Cleveland that a wo
man weut down there lately knowing just what
she wanted, went into a store and called for
the article, not asking to be shown anything
else, and then paid for it and went home with
out waste of time! Cable the news t j Europe.
Brigham Young, who lias, or had, a son at
West Point, has also a son or two studying in
Europe. Brigham Young is a good deal like
the British Queen, on whose dominions, some
where, tho sun is always shining, only in
Brigham's caso it is tho son instead of the
dominions.
The Grand Lama, tlio ecclesiastical head of
Buddhism, is said to have lately died. The
Buddhists number three hnndred millions.
Tho heaven of Buddhism is annihilation. It
was latoly mentioned as a remarkable illustra
tion of wudoni progress that (he second sou
of iha gone - i J Qs*or hts
education. ’' /T-,. -•
An innocent bit of Tennesseo news bas be
gun to go the rounds in this shape: "A Ten
nessee murderer solected his victim at a spoil
ing bee and ballasted him witli buckshot while
lie was climbing over a live barrel word. The
people have givon the murderer a pair of
mules and a farm, and will send him to tho
Legislature.”
He was a deacon in a church in Tennessee,
and a detective, while in negotiation with him
for counterfeit money, took supper with him,
and the deacon said grace before eating. They
retired to a corn field and the deacon sold the
detective $5) in bogus notes for sl7 50 in
good money. 1 lie deacon iB now in jail.
The Chattanooga Time* lioadlines as follows:
Bankrupt—Tho City Lebt—Over Ouo Hundred
Thousand Dollars of Scrip Debt—Expenses
Twelve Thousand Dollars a month—lllogal
Scrip Dobt Increasing at the rate of Ton Thou
sand Dollars a month—With an Annual Income
of $79,000, and Animal Expenditures of $144 -
000, liow many Years will be Required to Bring
Scrip to Par ?
The Chicago Tribune says: “We have a
suspicion that General Grant thinks Chicago
would tie a good place to live in when he shall
have retired from the Presidency." If the
President has thrown out such a hint, he
means very decidedly that he will go to
Chicago if somebody will present him with a
house and lot, a carriage and horses and a few
spooimeus of tho latest improvod breed of bull
pups.
The London Times announces that the
Greek Government, mindful of the services of
Ism! Bvrou to Greece, and desirous of seeing
them commemorated, has offered to supply
whatever quantity of Pontolie marble the com
mittee may require for the monument free of
all cost, and that the expenses of its transit
will be paid out of the Greek Exchequer. The
Times believes that a site on the Thames Em
bankment will lie offered to tho committeo.
A man in Boston has discovered anew
remedy for bald heads. It is to go barehead
ed. He has tried the remedy for two years,
and whereas he was bald, his head is now
covered with hair. He claims that tho heat of
the sun not only promotes the growth of hair,
but strengthens the brain. He says to any
and all who are troubled with a lack of hair or
weak brain—and there are many in Boston —
try it—it costs nothing and saves tho expense
of a hat.
The number of marriages celebrated in
Paris during the last five years shows a
marked increase for 1874 1873 and 1874. In
1870 aud 1871 the war naturally caused a dim
inution. In the former year the number dur
ing the twelve months was 12.298. In 1873,
however, despite the fact that the war and the
Commune hail reduced the population by 250,-
000 inhabitants, the marriage total rose to
21.374 1873, 19.520 unions occurred, and last
year. 18,827.*
A French girl of great beanty has taken the
veil under romantic circumstances. During
the Priissiau invasion Mademoiselle Ue la Tour
was insnlted by a German officer at her
father's chateau, whereupon she killed him
with a knife. She was surrendered to the
German authorities, court martialed, and con
demned to be shot. but. through the interces
sion of the Crown Prince, was pardoned. She
now euds the story by shutting herself for
ever from the world in a convent.
The death is reported of a man who. the
French think, may have been the involuntary
cause of their defeat at Waterloo. Pierre
Cock*, a naturalized Belgian, was arrested by
the army of Blucher. tied to a horse's tail and
made to serve as guide during the terrible days
of June 15 and 15. 1815; at least, so the French
obituary says. Pierre has just died at Nogent
at the age of seventy-five. The papers say
that he never forgot the horse's tail, and
dreamt nightly ef the pistols that were held
over him while in that uncomfortable posi
tion.
Bishop Adolph dc Bothschild pays no less
than £6,000 for the oarringe of the Hotel Bre
tonvilliers. an antique palace of the lie Saint
Louie. His kinsman. Baron Gustave, even
outdoes this extravagance. For the adorn
ment of his new residence, between the Ave
nue d'Autin and the Rue da Cirqne. he bays
the wainscoting and cornices of the Hotel du
Sac re Cceur, Rue de Varennus, at £7,000. This
famous mansion was once occupied by the
Biron-Lauzans. It had three grand apart
ments lined with oak and other woods, superb
ly carved. Tho lining of the principal room
fetched £2,800.
In June last, Cora Fisher, a little girl of six
years, living at Butherford Park. N. J., was
bitten on the upper lip by a little dog. The
wound was dressed, but not cauterized, as the
dog was not thought to be diseased. A few
days ago the little girl was thrown into vio
lent convulsions by the sound of pumping
water in the kitchen. She could not swallow
water at dinner, and in the evening the doctor
told little Cora that she could not live much
longer. She received the message of her
doom very calmly, repeated the Lord's prayer
alond, and added, “ God bless father and
mother.” Soon after she went into convul
sions. and in three hoars she was dead.
IDLE RUMORS.
The Elberton Gazette says “the county
“of Hart is excited over another
“threatened Cobday Harris explosion.
“A letter baa been fonnd, as before, in
structing some brethren to collect arms
“in adjoining counties, and to prepare
“for an outbreak at some early day.”
We hope that the good people of Hart
county will pay no attention to snch re
porta, as an investigation will certainly
show that they are without foundation.
Especially do we advise them to dis
regard all sanguinary letters which may
be discovered. The colored people of
Qeorgia have no more idea of “raising
an insurrection” than they, have of
bnilding a bridge across the Atlantic
Ocean. In the first place they are per
fectly well aware of the impossibility of
successful revolt, and of the bloody con
sequences which would surely follow an
attempt at insurrection. They know
that they would have to encounter the
whole military power of the State and
National Government, and they are not
mad enough to provoke such a hopeless
conflict. In the second place' the
colored people of Georgia have no desire
to “rise;” no intention of “rising.” In
this State the white and colored
people are living peaceably and
pleasantly together—both races ac
tively engaged in working to
make a living. They both see
that their interests lie in the same
direction—that each is dependent upon
the other. The colored men are given
by Georgia law all the rights enjoyed by
white men, and daily proofs are pre
sented that Georgia judges and Georgia
jnries protect them in the enjoyment of
those rights. The two races are per
fectly friendly in this State, aud will
continue to be despite all the efforts of
designing men to bring about bitterness
and bloodshed. These reports of “ris
ings” and “insurrections” are not to be
relied upon and should not bo noticed.
They are calculated to do serious mis
chief, and should be rigidly suppressed.
Their foundation is usually in the fears
of nervous men or the schemes of bad
men.
SPECIE PAYMENTS.
The St. Louis Republican evidently
does not think that the quickest way to
resume is to resume, but it does favor
resumption on the first day of January,
1879 - the time fixed by act of Congress
for a return to a specie basis. In its ar
ticle it exposes the popular fallacy that
our imports exceed our exports, and
soys : “ During the extravagant era
that followed the issue of paper money
by the Government, our imports largely
exceeded our exports ; we bought more
than we sold, and tho annual excess had
to be made good in gold and silver.—
Since the collapse of 1873 we have been
correcting this evil habit, and have made
some very satisfactory progress. Dur
ing the year ending June 30 last, our
imports of foreign goods amounted to
8553,000,000, and our exports to $620,-
000,000, showing a balance in our favor
of $67,000,000. Iu the preceding year
our imports were $395,000,000 and our
exports $670,000,000, showing a balancft
in our favor of $75,000,000. We, there
fore, sold $67,000,000 more than we
bought in 1874, and $75,000,000 more
than wejiought in 1875. When it is re
niembejed that for many ybWs previous-,
ly we had been buying about $50,000,000
annually more than we sold, it will be
perceived that wo have already effected
a material change. We are preparing
to pay our suspended debt; that is, we
are strengthening ourselves for resump
tion. As long as we imported more than
we exported, we were drained of our an
nual gold aud silver product, which
is about $74,000,000; but when
we begin to export more than
we import, we are. at least, preparing
to save onr gold aud silver. It will be
three years from the first of next Jan
uary before tho day of resumption ar
rives, aud if we continue to maintain
our present rate of excess of exports
over imports we shall be sufficiently for
tified for the occasion, wheu it comes.
There are those who say wo cannot re
sume specie payment without specie to
resume with, aud Mr. Jefferson Davis,
in his speeches in this State, twice iter
ated this statement, and added that re
sumption cannot cume till our exports
exoeed our imports. But Mr. Davis
overlooked the facts that our exports
are exceeding our imports already, and
that we are complying with the very
conditions of successful resumption laid
down by himself. No one can fail to
see that we have abandoned the extrava
gant habits of four years ago; all classes
of the people are living economically,
and a great deal lies been done in the
way of reducing the extravagant expen
ditures of public bodies, States, coun
ties and cities. Railroad building,
which wo expended $250,000,000 a year,
almost entirely suspended.—
We have for ten years been involuntarily
preparing for resumption, and if we
mnintaiu tho preparation for three years
longer, and reduce the national expen
ditures to the standard which the occa
sion requires, we shall be able to re
sume specie payment on the first of
January, 1879, without effort; all the
effort required will have been made be
fore the day arrives.”
The persistence with which papers
which should be better informed publish
false statements concerning the public
debt of Georgia, is a little remarkable.
Iu the last issue of the Nashville
American we find an article taken from
the New York Financier, and adopted
editorially by the American, which
makes the public debt of this State
nineteen million and six hundred
thousand dollars. The editor of the
Financier, a journal which, as its
name implies, pays special attention
to the collection and publication of
tianancial information, should have
known better than to publish such a
palpable error. The editor of the
American, a Southern paper published
iu an adjoining State, should have
known better than to republish such a
glaring mistatement. The editor of the
American has had every opportunity to j
ascertain the debt of Georgia and has j
given more than once the correct figures
in his paper. On the first day of Jan
uary of the present year the pnblic
debt of Georgia amounted to eight
million one hundred and jive
thousand Jive hundred dollars. It has
been reduced this year, or will be re
duced very soon, one hundred thousand
dollars—making the debt in round num
bers eight millions of dollars. The edi
tor of the American will not make a
mistake of this character again if he
will remember that the public debt of
Georgia is not quite one-third of the
public debt of Tennessee. He might
also tax his memory with the fact that
Georgia bonds are worth more than
double the promises to pay issued bv
Tennessee.
That is a whole speech in itself,
crowded into two sentences, uttered by
Cassius M. Clay to the New York Sim*
“I am against inflation, but still more
against Grantism. / should hardly
have turned Tory in 1776 because of
Continental money." A great many
people of both parties will commit that
speech to memory, and many votes will
be cast to vindicate it.
BADLY MIXED.
The Philadelphia Times says that
things are getting pretty badly mixed.
Here are the Democrats in Massachu
setts getting up a Republican for Lieu
tenant-Governor, a soldier who fonght
heroically for the Union throughout th 6
civil war, and on the very same day the
Republicans in Maryland nominate, for
the second place on their ticket, a
“copperhead,” whom the Government
thought necessary to incarcerate as a
treasonable disnnionist* while the Mas
sachusetts Democratic candidate was in
the field. In New York we see the
Democratic ticket headed by an old Re
publican, one of Mr. Lincoln’s Minis
ters, and the two original Republican
organs, the Post and Tribune, urging
his election, while the leading Republi
can candidates were both officers under
Johnson, and one of them is- not known
even to have voted for Grant, while the
other left Grant’s administration on
account of incompatibility. In Penn
sylvania the Republicans nominate can
didates who were Democrats not many
years ago, and the Democrats give their
highest honors to a man who was elected
to his present office in opposition to the
straight Democratic candidate. And
all this intermingling and turning up
side down is quite independent of the
tangle on the currency question, which
has become so intricate as to defy de
scription. With the Democrats in half
the States denouncing the Republican
policy of paper money, and in other
States demanding to have more of it;
with an old hard money Democrat as
the candidate of the inflationists in
Ohio, and Morton, the boldest of paper
money men, opposing him; witliScHUßz,
who most vehemently denounced the
Sherman bill of last Winter, uniting
with Sherman now to defend it, and
Thurman, who supported Schurz then,
speaking now on thfi opposite side;
with all this confusion, and more than
we can describe, a modest student of
politics may well hesitate to wrestle
with the financial policy of either party.
There is trouble enough to straighten
them out, and tell which is which, with
out going west of the Alleghanies, and
and whether we ever get Judge Kel
ley’s interconvertible bonds, or not, we
seem to be rapidly getting onr parties
into an interconvertible shape.
CHARLESTON POLITICS.
The News and Courier answers,
though not fully, some inquiries made
by the Chronicle and Sentinel concern
ing the Charleston municipal election.
It says, in substance, that the Conserva
tives cannot, and will not, run a straight
ticket, because a wing of the Conserva
tives, headed by Gen. John A. Waoenkk,
has formed a coalition with Bowen and
the Bowen Republicans. It says that
the friends of General Wagener made
up their minds, months ago, that there
shonld be a Conservative nomination,
and that General Wagener should be
the nominee. This was their policy in
1871 and 1873. With the help of Bow
en’s negroes and white dependents they
packed tho ward meetings, and organized
them in the Wagener interest, and af
terward, in the same way, elected the
delegates to the Nominating Convention.
This oondne*-predetermined the whole
matter. It left tho Conservatives in the
position that they must ngree to the
policy, and accept the nominations, of
the Wageneii-Bowen combination, or
make the best terms they could with the
Independent Republicans. Two classes
of Conservatives chose the latter alter
native : those who are convinced that
co-operation with the Independents is
the true and wise policy in the city and
county contests, and those who, under
no conceivable circumstances, will sup
port or acquiesce in any movement
which is countenanced and abetted by
the Bowen party.
The News and Courier says the “very
Conservatives who would have been
bound by the action of the majority in a
truly representative Conservative Con
vention, flatly refused to submit to the
dictation of a clique of office seekers
and the friends of office seekers; aud
these dissatisfied Conservatives form a
majority of the party in Charleston.” It
was not practicable to call another Con
vention, and a straight ticket, with the
Independent ticket and the Wagener
ticket against it, would not have a ghost
of a chance of succeeding.
These are the statements made by the
News and Courier. It is easy to see
that a breach has been made, which
cannot be closed, between the Charles
ton Conservatives led by Gen. Wagener
and the Charleston Conservatives led by
the Notes and Courier. It is charged
that Gen. Wagener has applied to C. C.
Bowen for assistance, and that the
News and Courier has sought the aid of
E. W. M. Mackey. Nothing speaks
stronger of the straits to which our
Charleston friends are reduced than that
they have been compelled to seek the help
of such men as Mackey and Bowen in
their warfare with each other. We can
not but continue to think that bad man
agement, petty jealousies aud waut of
patriotism have combined to deprive the
citizens of Charleston of a glorious op
portunity to redeem their city from the
rule of ignorance and corruption, and to
reduce them to a humiliating alliance'
with men at whose hands they have
suffered deep and grievous wrong.—
If General Wageneb's friends deter
mined to secure for him at any cost the
Conservative nomination for Mayor,
they determined very unwisely and very
unpatriotically. If the Conservatives
represented by the News and Courier
determined at any cost to prevent Gen.
Wagener from receiving the nomina
tion for Mayor, such determination was
equally unwise and unpatriotic. It is well
known that Bowen and Mackey are
bitter and irreconcilable enemies. It
would have beeu impossible for these
men to join in the selection of a
ticket. Through their divisions the
Conservatives would have been en
abled to triumph. If they had
remained united the power of the
Republican party could have been and
would have been effectually broken in
Charleston and the city would have had
a good riddance of both the Republican
leaders. Instead of making the most of
an opportunity which may never be pre
sented again, the Conservatives have
divided ss widely and quareled as
fiercely as their opponents, and the
pitiable and strange spectable is pre
sented of Wagener and Bowen fighting
on one side against the News and
Courier and Cunningham on the other.
Below is given the vote of the State
of Ohio at the Presidential elections of
1864 and 1868, and at other elections
since then. The highest vote polled in
the State was in 1872, which was 98,000
greater than 1873, when Allen was elect
ed by 817 majority;
Whole
Year Bep. Dem vote.
1864—President 264.918 205.956 470,874
1867 Governor 243.605 240.622 494.227
1868— President 280.222 239 032 518.254
1869 Governor 236.082 -228.581 454 683
1871— Governor 238.273 218.105 456.373
1872 Secretary Staie.36s.9So '251.780 517.710
1872—President 281.852 244:321 526.173
1873 —Governor 213.837 214.654 428.491
1874—Secretary 5tate.221.204 238 404 459.610
It is probable that this year the vote
will be a full one, in which case it ought
to reach 540,00(1, requiring the victori
ous party to have over 270,000 votes.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 6, 1875.
THE “ÜBURY LAW.”
The Augusta newspapers bring us the infor
mation that there are more new buildings go
ing up in Augusta now than ever before, since
the war. We are gratified to hear tiiis. Simi
lar reports have reached us from many Geor
gia towns and cities. They confirm what the
Herald said when it advocated the passzge of
the usury law. It has not been twelve months
since the law passed, and yet the State is fair
■ly humming with the music of the saw and
hammer. It will be remembered that the Hon.
Fottphab Peaqbeen opposed the law, when it
was before the Legislature. An explanation
from the Hon. Potiphab whuld be read just
now with avidity.—Atlanta Herald.
The Hon. Potiphab Peagreen (which
name, by the way, was given to the op
ponents of free money by Harris, of
the Savannah News), would not find a
reply to the Herald a very difficult per
formance. The Hon. Potiphab would
doubtless say that there is not much
usury in a law which allows a charge
of twelve per cent.—often a higher
charge than the regular bank rate—for
the use of money ; which can be easily
evaded ; and for the violation of which
the only penalty provided is a forfeiture
of the interest in excess of twelve per
cent. If the advocates of a usury law
are satisfied with this statute the friends
of free money have little reason to com
plain. If we are not mistaken, the
Herald denounced this very usury law
at the time of its passage as totally in
adequate.
THE TOWN OF BELLTON.
The Bellton Courier is anew paper
published at a station on the Air Line
Railroad. The Courier is very proud
of Bellton and its surroundings, and is
confident that though the village is now
unknown to fame it will soon become
an important point in the geography of
Georgia. Bellton proposes to advertise
itself extensively next Summer. Its
enterprising citizens will adopt the plan
so successfully practiced by the owner
of the hotel in the White Mountains and
the proprietors of other famous Sum
mer resorts. As the Twin Mountain
House secured Beecher for the purpose
of drawing a crowd, Bellton will offer
the* presence of journalists and states
men as an inducement to visitors next
season. The Courier says:
We are making preparations to entertain the
elite of the State next Summer, and if the Con
stitution (or any other paper as for that mat
ter) will send up its editors we will venture to
say our hotel men will give them “a good
square meal” on short notice and at as little
expense as can be afforded by Bellton, Nor
cross or aiiy other town.
Other journalists will perhaps feel a
little pique that the editors of* the Con
stitution are invited so particularly
while the remainder of the craft are
mentioned in parenthesis, but they will
probably not decline on account of what
is possibly an unintentional slight. The
“good square meal” is an inducement
which Georgia editors can ill afford to
neglect, especially wheu the reasonable
ness of the price as well as the quality
of the fare is guaranteed by a brother
quill-driver. The hotel men of Bellton
may rest assured that the journalists,
trained and untrained, humorous and
grave, will all be there and that the
praises of Bellton will be spread afar
over the land. The Courier thus recites
the claims of its town upon the states
men.of Georgia :
We hope to see among the guests at our
hotels next Summer a few such men as Hon.
Ben.t. H. Hill, Gen. Gordon, Hon. A. H.
Stephens. Hon. John H. James, Gen. Bober r
Toombs and all of those who have the good of
the whole State at heart, for Georgia’s interests
are our interests and on our success at feast
depends a portion of her prosperity. Come up
gentlemen and thus by the influence of your
presence induce others to follow your exam
ple. You will thus contribute perhaps a very
important item towards the building up of onr
little town. Hon. B. H. Hill will not forget
us we are sure. He will certainly remember
how Bellton voted at the last Congressional
election in this District. 0
We do not see how the distinguished
gentlemen above mentioned can resist
such an invitation or fail to recognize
the force of the reasoning which'com
pels them to advertise the town of Bell
ton, and yet its acceptance may put
some or all of them to serious inconve
nience. The water may not agree with
Gen. Gordon or the climate with Mr.
James. It is with difficulty the
State of Georgia has hitherto been able
to contain Messrs. Hill and Stephens;
how will they both manage to enjoy
themselves within the narrow limits of
the town of Bellton ? It is as unreason
able to suppose that Mr. Stephens
would find Bellton a pleasant place for a
Summer residence because of the es
teem in which the people of that town
hold Mr. Hill as it would be to expect Mr.
Hill to sing the praises of Taliaferro
county because it always “hoops ’em
up” for the Sage of Liberty Hall. Per
haps, however, in view of the magnitude
of the interests involved Georgia notables
may sink- their differences, and next
Summer present the touching spectacle
of a happy family of statesmen grouped
around the hash tables of Bellton, where
“good square meals” will be served on
short notice and at “little expense.”
The statement by telegraph that Gen.
Jubal A. Early favored the proposed new
party movement attempted to be in
augurated at Boston, with General
Banks for President, it turns out was
incorrect. The General says : “I am
firmly convinced that the Democratic
party, as at present organized, is the
only one whose principles and policy
can give any hope of a restoration of the
rights of the States and a return of the
Federal Government to its ancient in
tegrity; and, therefore, standing with
the white people of my State, I will
give my support, in my humble way, to
that party in the coming contest for the
control of the Government, and cannot
give my countenance to any movement
designed to supplant it.”
The .attempt to swindle the Indians
into giving np the Black Hills country
for a nominal consideration has, so far,
proved unsuccessful. The red men are
not disposed to take twenty-five thou
sand dollars for lands which the whites
proclaim to be exceedingly rich in the
precious metals, and have refused to ac
ceed to the terms proposed by the
Government. That they will eventually
yield we have little doubt. They have
every reason to believe that if they do
not yield and leave the country peace
ably the Government will permit the
Black Hills to be overrun by white men
who will soon drive them away with
Winchester rifles and revolvers. There
is no reason to believe, however, that at
the recent council the Indians intended
doing any harm to the Commissioners.
It is stated by the Washington cor
respondent of the Cincinnati Commer
j ciat that the Secretary of War will, in
I his next report to Congress, recommend
; that all claims for’ quartermaster and
i commissary stores alleged to have been
taken away for the army shall be
transferred from the War Department to
I the Southern Claims Commission. The
i latter body has the authority and facili
ties for obtaining proper evidences of
the justness, equitableness or legality
of such claims which the War Depart
ment has not, and besides the Depart
ment would be relieved of an immense
amount of unnecessary labor.
“How we done it” is the heading of
a Duluth newspaper editorials. Send
up some grammars there, quick.
Hart county is evidently a good coun
ty to live in. The Elberton Gazette
says that once it was a good joke to ask
what were the feceipts of cotton at
Hartwell. The Gazette well says “it
may have been a~good joke then, but
the receipts at this point now is no in
significant One firm there ships
more cotton than jsny house in Elberton,
and as much cotton goes to market from
this town as from cur own village, if not
more, and they have no warehouse
either. The trade of Hartwell would
surprise one not acquainted with the
vast improvements in the past few years.
Thousands of dollars worth of all kinds
of merchandise aroi yearly disposed of,
and many of them fsr the cash. All the
people have some nney, and all the ne
cessaries of life are|made at home, so
that a man with a 4 ollar in his pocket
has a title to thaF dollar, and is not
afraid that the first man he meets will
ask for it. There ialess money owing
in Hart than any pl&se we know of.—
Every man does n# owe every other
man, consequently itgrtKjaj. free, inde
pendent bearing aboMkWfts I?i(!T£eSs"tliat
vastly differs from tip conduct of those
enslaved by commissiion merchants, and
every other merchantiyou can think of.
With the use of fertilzers and hard la
bor, a largo quantity*)! cotton is pro
duced, where formerly hardly any grew.
This is sold for the! money, and the
farmer buys upon better terms and the
merchants never breat”
Last week a meetig of the colored
people of Pike was had for the purpose
of “taking into consideration the re
ported insurrectionaryhiovement in that
county.” The Griffin pVeias states that
the “tenor of the speeches was highly
conciliatory, hat the colored
race wanted to live or the best terms
with the white people, and that there
was no cause for app ehension.” We
are glad that this meetii g has been held
and we think it evident; hat the colored
people who attended jitl spoke not only
their own sentiments bit also the senti
ments entertained by tfei colored
of the whole State. fjjft- white people
need have no fear wlfflMeer of an “in
surrection” and may pisaiss all appre
hension of “revolts” Mpj their minds.
The absurd rumors *firfrjbh are being
circulated in many lociwities are un
worthy of attentmMflnj shonld be
treated with the which their
absurdity deservesT* 'E|j|v white race
and the colored rac ySsW never go tb
war in Georgia. The ' artfjboth too hard
at work to have any t mowr war.
The gratifying intelliajjllse is derived
from the Columbia UiwgmHerald that
D. E. Walker, Senatcftmm Chester,
and Henry Blake, SchJwSßominission
er of tho same been con
victed of a conßpiraplo||jefraad and
sentenced to the penitetSHjSfy—the Sena
tor for one year, the Mmutirniw v for.
three months. The omneere color
ed men and Republicans! jWe are glad
to know from our cceMmamfrary that
they were tried in a Ifapd|i§can county,
before a were
found guilty by a in*K|ipfc!ch were
eleven colored mop, is-va good
sign, and if the * ‘ ItdfSE&i Govern or ”
will allow the
tli“ir full trt \\.
shall begin to think there is some hope
that justice will be doeftrto thieves in
South Carolina. Heretofore there has
been little evidence that honesty was at
a premium in that rogue ridden State.
About one-third of the wheat grown
in the United States is produced in the
three States of Minnesota, lowa, and
Wisconsin, and this one-third is in
round numbers a hundred million
bushels. The heavy rains have damaged
this crop somewhat in those States this
year. The St. Paul Dispatch says that
from the most trustworthy information
that it has been able to obtain it would
seem that in Minnesota five per cent, .of
the entire production for the year has
been totally destroyed, while the dam
aged condition of a large proportion of
the crops is equivalent to a further loss
of about ten per cent. The continued
rains have delayed of the
farmers, and the crop State will
not reach the market until several weeks
later than usual.
“The Jacksonville Lnion is of the
opinion that Mr. Peter Papin’s steam
ship line between New York and Jack
sonville is something of a fraud.” If
Mr. Peter Papin, of Jacksonville, is
the same Mr. Peter Papin who under
took to build up Port Royal a year or
two ago the Union may back its opinion
with an affidavit and not incur the
slightest risk of an indictment for
perjury.
The St. Louis Republican praises the
determination of the Atlanta negroes to
discountenance excursions. The excur
sions cost them a great deal of money,
which might be devoted to better pur
poses, and benefit only a few railway
companies.
A GREAT ENTERPRISE;
St. Louis to Have the Biggest Hotel-
One of the Largest Structures of the
Kind In the World to Be Erected in
That City.
[St Louis Jtepublican.]
If Chicago does not turn green with
envy now, it will be because t>he has set
tled into the placidity of hopelessness,
as far as the result of any rivalry with
St. Louis goes. It is now proposed by
Eastern gentlemen, who have shrewdly
fixed in their mind the location of the
future metropolis of the country, to
build here a hotel which will, in its way,
be absolutely without a rival in the
country in point of magnitude and ele
gance of finish. The details of the en
terprise the Republican is not yet at
liberty to give, but it may be here
stated that the information obtained is
from a source trustworthy in every re
spect. The general outline of the pro
ject is as follows;
Boston capital is abont to be invested
in St. Louis in the shape of a twelve
story “Flat,” containing 2,000 rooms.
The building, which will be erected on
the Edinburgh model for that descrip
tion of establihment, will be entirely of
brick, 300 feet square and 170 feet in
height, that elevation being two-thirds
higher than the Lindell Hotel and abont
four times as large. As designed, it will
be the largest building of the descrip
tion in the world.
It will comfortably hold from 3,500 to
4,000 persons, and have connected with
it a table d’hote. The interior will have
a court with flower beds and jeta-d’eau,
covering 20,000 square feet of ground
i for the guests. There will be four ele
| vators in operation to convey the guests
to the various stories. The partition
walls will be of brick, and the floors di
vided by mortar so as to smother the
noise.
The originators of the plan have two
sites in view for the proposed structure,
but they have not yet decided which to
take. That the undertaking even on so
grand a scale will prove a wise one in
; St. Louis seems altogether likely. The
demand for more hotel accommodation
! here is constantly increasing; but what
! is of greater importance under the cir
! cumstances is that the flat system here
has already proved exceptionally popu
i lar. Our people appear to have a pre
; dilection in favor of flats, and those al
ready built are well patronized. With
I the gigantic structure contemplated, in
: addition to those already existing, St.
Louis will excel any other city in the
country in its hotel accommodations of
this desirable class.
Mr. Sharon has tendered to Mrs. Ral
ston a suite of seven rooms in the Palace
Hotel, with private servants, a private
coach and coachman, so long as she may
see fit to use them.
HART COUNTY.
The Superior Court—The County and
the People.
[Special Correspondence Chronicle and Sentinel.]
Hartwell, Ga., Sept. 25, 1875.
The Superior Court of this county ad
journed this morning, leaving unfinish
ed a large amount of business. Judge
Pottle would have continued the Court
another week but for an engagement to
hold Washington Court next week for
Judge Johnson. Several important
cases were tried and several unimport
aut ones, none of them of such a nature
as would be likely to interest the read
ers of your paper. All the cases ready
for trial on the State docket were dis
posed of, including several forfeitures of
bonds. It is very common for criminals
to flee from this county to South Caro
lina, but occasionally an executive re
quisition is sued out and they are
brought to trial. We heard Colonel
Samuel Lumpkin, Solicitor-General, say
that he had been in office nearly four
years, and that while be had sent several
convicts from each of the other counties
of the Northern Circuit to the peniten
tiary, be had not yet sent one from Hart.
This speaks well for .our people. .* i Most
ofythu violations of the law are misde
meanors, and there are more prosecu
tions for using opprobious language
than for any other offense. A high
spirited people will sometimes “cuss.”
The resident attorneys of Hartwell
were all present, including the perse
vering Hodges, the genial Skelton, the
eloquent McCurry, the rapid writing
Seidel, the dignified Richardson and the
modest Proffit.
From Elberton, we noticed Senator
Hester, Hon. E. P. Edwards, Capt. Jno.
P. Shannon and Col. John T. Osborn.
Prom Lexington, Col. J. D. Mathews
and the Solicitor-General.
Prom Danielsville, the venerable Mr.
Nash.
The health of our county is generally
good. The crops are not very promis
ing. Some of our best planters esti
mate that about three-fourths of a yield
may be expected. Our little town pre
sents a neat appearance, there being
several new and newly painted houses
in it. The completion of the Elberton
Railroad would greatly benefit us, and
we are looking for big results from the
energy of its President, the indefatiga
ble Dr. Mathews. Respectfully, yours,
E. B. B.
BARNWELL COUNTY.
[Special Correspondence of the Chronicle and
Sentinel.]
Barnwell C. H., S. C., Sept. 25, 1875.
The first week of Court has ended,
and rape, murder, bastardy, assault and
battery, in which the colored troops
figured inevitably, filled the programme
from day to day. The colored trooper
in the witness stand is allowed on all
sides to be the most elastic thing in na
ture. By comparison, India rubber is
simply nowhere. The colored trooper
for the defense will get up and swear
positively that the defendant was with
him away when the rape was trans
piring; the colored trooper for the State
swears that the defendant imparted to
him his intention to commit the crime
and he saw him do it. A vain and am
bitious • young legal sprig will some
times endeavor to confuse the sable 15th
amendment by means of subtle cross
questioning, but as.ye ward of the na
tion can neither blush nor in any man
ner change color, shame and ignominy
only rfteult to the questioner from any
attempt to excite those sensations in the
witness.
, The festive George E. Osborn, Chair
man of the Board of County Commis
sioners, who according to the reporter
(editorially) of the Blackville Sun, not
only was quite willing' tb have his deeds
ventilated, but “courted investigation,”
has continuously fled before the consta
ble to escape arrest, and even scorns
to.halt (.when ho hears the “View halloa”
of the custodian of a bench warrant.
His accomplices, Caesar Cave and Billy
Brabham, are said to have taken trans-
Savannah sauctuary. The Clerk of Court
and Probate Judge, who left “the land
of steady habits,” to become exemplars
to the benighted Southern heathen
slave holders, were under indictment for
drunkenness by the Tax Union Prose
cuting Committee, and it was hoped
that their trial would have taken place
at this term of Court, but Solicitor Wig
gin—another one of New England’s
specimen bricks—refused to send the
indictment to the grand jury, on the
ground that these officials had promised
him to reform. This may or may not
be entirely satisfactory to the tax pay
ers; but then, as the Hon. Charlie P.
Leslie would say, “Wnat are you going
to do about it ?”
Did I ever tell you who Solicitor Wig
gin is ? My first knowledge of him was
his appointment to the position of So
licitor for this Circuit, and I learned
from one who seemed to be posted that
he filled the position of musical director
in a Temple of Cloacina while in the
land of his nativity. C. P. Leslie was
at the same time a pimp for one of those
temples. With such records, what could
have prevented them from riding to
place, power and pelf upon the shoul
ders of the discerning colored troops ?
Bourbon.
PARTY RECONSTRUCTION.
Is There a Conspiracy Between the
.Democratic and Republican Hard-
Money Leaders?—The Contraction
Programme for 1876.
[New York Correspondence of the Cincinnati
Enquirer.]
The hard money leaders, headed by
Gov. Tilden, who is himself worth
several millions, are the men of money
in the Democratic party. They are
shrewd, as such men usually are. Here
tofore all they really cared for was, that
the platforms of the two parties should
be conservative od the money question,
whatever its particular shape at the
time. Their money interests were then
safe, no matter which party got in power.
They now see they will have to deal with
anew condition of affairs. They have
no doubt of the election of Allen in Ohio,
and Pershing in Pennsylvania. They
have no doubt of carrying New York on
the Syracuse platform. The tide has
been running strong against the Repub
lican party, which has really become
nothing but Grantism, for a couple of
years now. Their defeat this Fall in the
three great States of Ohio, Pennsylvania
and New York, will virtually be the end
of the Republican party. The question
with Republicans will be, Where shall
we go ? The Tilden managers of the
Syracuse Convention are not the only
ones who see what is coming. Leading
Republicans acknowledge that the end
of their party is drawing nigh. The
' fight that is now making, particularly in
Ohio, is one of despair. It is the dying
struggle. They admit that their defeat
in those three leading States is an end
of the party, and they have no hopes of
carrying either. What then ?
Ohio and Pennsylvania, with other
Western States, and all or nearly all
(Delaware and Maryland out) the South
ern States will be able to control the
Democratic National Convention of 1876,
and will put their popular money plank
into the platform. The Tilden mana
gers see that. Now will come in their
strategy. The Republican party is de
moralized and ready to fall to pieces,
and its members ready to go wherever
their affinities shall attract them. Not
a third party, but anew party, will be
formed by the “hard money seceders”
from the Democratic National Conven
tion, headed by Gov. Tilden, which will
draw to it all the Republican party that
is in accord with the Tilden leaders on
the money question; the balance—mi
nority or majority—will gravitate to
ward the regular Democracy. The Re
publican party will thus disappear, as
did the Whig party, its members going
some to the Republicans, some to the
Democratic party. The new party will
be called, very likely, Democratic Re
publican, and it will assume to be the
party of property, of conservatism, of
reform, of respectability, of strong gov
ernment. It will seek to array on its
side the wealth, the aristocracy, the ar
my and navy, and all who want to be
ranked among the distinguished of the
country. The regular Democratic
party will be what the snobs have always
called it, the party of the common
people, and will be denounced as in the
days of Jefferson, as the party Jacobins,
sans-culottes, Agrarians, Communists,
Repudiationists. The new party’s un
derlying idea will be: More government
and less liberty, shot and slaughter and
less coaxing and fewer words. The Re
publican leaders looked to Grant as the
person to lead the new party, of which
they hoped the Republicans would be
the basis. They had hoped that the
New York Democratic State Convention
would take the Ohio platform. In that
event there could be no division of the
Democratic party, and the Republican
party would try to rally to its support,
under Grant as its candidate, the “Hard
Money” and wealthy Democrats, and
claim for itself the name of the party of
property, respectability and strong gov
ernment. That will be its programme
if, by some unlooked-for luck. Ohio
shall go Republican. As things now
look, however, the Tilden leaders and
Republican leaders here look for a gen
eral shaking-up and readjustment of
affairs in 1876; that the Republican party
will disappear, the body of which will
unite with the new Democratic-Republi
can party, headed by Gov. Tilden.
That is the outline of the programme
of the fnture, as I learned it at Syra
cuse, and since my return from there I
have no doubt whatever of its correct
ness in the general outline.
RADICAL RASCALITY.
A Specimen Brick From Edgefield.
[j Edgejield Advertiser.]
On Thursday of last week a colored
man by the name of William Sinkfield
came up from Augusta to attend the
Court of Reference, now in session at
this place, for the purpose a
The claun presented was a small one,
884, and no doubt was a just one, as
claims go in these days. The cream of
Sinkfield’s little joke, however, is not
yet. Some days previous to the appear
ance of Sinkfield, Paris Simkins had
presented a cheek, before the Referee,
for S7OO, payable to this same William
Sinkfield with his name—“ William
Sinkfield” written across the back, pur
porting to have been issued for repair
ing the Court House and jail, and dated
Ist August, 1871. The SB4 check pre
sented by Sinkfield in person was also
for balance due on repairing Court
House and jail, and was dated 26th July
of the same year. The attention of
Sinkfield was called to the fact that a
S7OO check payable to himself had al
ready been presented; he at once dis
claimed any knowledge of such check.—
Paris Simkins was immediately sent for,
the check produced and shown to Sink
field, with his name written across the
back. He at once pronounced it a clear
forgery, for says he : I cannot write my
name, never saw that S7OO check before
in all my life, and it could never have
been given to me, for John Wooley paid
me on the 26th of July, 1871, all that the
county owed me, exoept SB4, and gave
me a cheek for that amount, and the
S7OO is dated five days after tho county
had paid me up in full, with the excep
tion of SB4. Paris Simpkins now jump
ed up and said : “I bought that check
from J. H. Johuson. ” Sinkfield, in an
interview, after leaving the Court House,
told us that when he went to James F.
Harling, Chairman County Commission
ers, who was to allow and fix the amount
to be paid for the work on Court House
and jail, Harling said : “Make out a big
account and I will allow it, and we will
divide ” Sinkfield says he refused to
do this, but subsequently, and after he
had received his pay except SB4, Sink
field at Harling’s solicitation agreed to
give him, Harling, an old wardrobe to
get the SB4 check cashed. Harling re
ceived the wardrobe, “but, as you see,”
said Sinkfield, “1 still hold the SB4
check, not cashed.” Sinkfield’s last
words to us were : “Bring Harling up
here, and I will faoe him in all I have
said.”
SHODDY BOILER MAKING.
Life Imperiled by Unscrupulous Con
tractors and Lazy Foremen—A Start
ling Story that is Told by a Practi
cal Mechanic.
[New York Sun.]
“In 1863 the boilers of the United
States gunboat, anchored off tho Battery,
exploded and twenty-seven of her erew
were made in a.
Every man that struck them with a ham
mer knows that they were not strong
enough to take the vessel to Sandy
Hook. The foreman was a ‘driver,’ and
he said he didn’t care a damn whether
they lasted; that he wanted to get them
out of the shop as soon as possible, and
that he supposed anything was good
enough for the navy. Although the
men knew it was equal to committing
murder in the first degree, they let the
flange go out in an utterly unserviceable
condition, because they feared that if
they spoke about it they might be dis
charged. The inspector tested the boil
ers, the foreman assured him that they
had been carefully made, although he
knew that they were bad work and worse
iron, and the boss saved a few dollars
through the foreman’s lack of principle.
Twenty-seven lives, however, were the
cost of this economy. Soon afterward
two boilers were constructed for the
steamship Empire State, in the same
shop. Two months afterward they
burst, and killed three men. When I
think of the Westfield explosion I am
disheartened. In course of the long in
quest that followed, not one boiler
maker was called to the witness chair.
There were a great many boiler makers
eager to testify, and any one of them
could have shown Messrs. Haswell,
Copeland, Sightail, and the other great
experts of the day, inside of ten min
utes, where the fault lay. ‘The explo
sion is due to bad iron, bad work, and
an unscrupulous foreman,’ should have
been the verdict. When the Dean Rich
mond burst her flange head a year or so
ago her passengers, though they did
not know it, were on the brink of a wa
tery grave. The cause of the disaster
was a ‘soft patch’ unskillfully put on.
“What is a soft patch? (Is that what
you asked, sir—my mate and I are kind
of deaf, sir, along of working so long
among boilers, and I don’t hear as well
as I would like to.) A soft patch is a bit
of iron fastened with cement or bolts.
It does not last long, and has to be re
newed at the end of every trip. Some
times it rots out sooner, and then it be
comes necessary to renew it at sea. If
the ship has only one boiler, she must
lay to; but if she has two boilers, she can
use one while the other is being patch
ed. Three-fourths of the steamships
that go out of this port hold boilers that
can scarcely contain water on account of
the number of soft patches that are on
them. A law forbidding the use of soft
patches near fire is in existence, but
they are even put in the bottom of the
boiler, over the furnace, and in the
steam chimney. When any part of a
boiler is found to be weak the entire
section to which it belongs ought to be
taken out and replaced with anew one.
This operation engages several compe
tent men for two or three days, but al
most any man can put on a soft patch in
a few hours. Of course the first job is
more costly than the second, hut the
former insures safety for a time, while
the latter is a pitiable makeshift that
may occasion an explosion at any mo
ment.
“The Crescent City was near going to
the bottom a few months ago on ac
count of bad work and bad materials in
the construction of her engines. Last
month the boiler of the Silas O. Pierce,
a tugboat, exploded in the North river,
and one of her erew was killed and two
others were disfigured for life. In the
last two instances the engineers were
not blamable; they rarely are. If a
boiler is properly constructed, that is to
say, if it is of good iron, put to
gether by skilled men working under a
scrupulous and capable foreman, all the
engineers in the United States could not
explode it. Even Mr. Copeland, with
the aid of $50,000 of the people’s money
to use in the experiment, and the expe
rience that he acquired on the Jersey
coast, could hot do it. Nine boilers,
though, out of every ten are shoddy
boilers. I could name new ships into
whose boilers soft patches were pat af
ter the trial trip. A well made and
carefully watched boiler ought to serve
at least two years before requiring re
pairs. If the testimony of boiler
makers is sought when a coroner is in
vestigating an explosion, the verdict
will not be a complete whitewashing.”
The serenade to the President at Long
Branch the other night is justly de
scribed by Jenkins as “a most notice
able affair.” When the band played,
“Coming through the Bye,” Murphy
urged his Excellency to go out on the
stoop and acknowledge it. “It’s no
more than right,” said Tom, gravely,
“and they’ll expect it of you.” Then all
hands got around Ulysses and tried to
persuade him; but he wouldn’t stir, and
remarked, rather impatiently, “Well
well, wait a little. I can’t go while they
are playing that tune. It might be in
terpreted as a reflection upon my prefer
ence for iced co ßee.”—Brooklyn Argus.
The Knoxville Chronicle says “the
Republicans are better organized than
their opponents.” As thieves and plun
derers of the Government, we do not
know but the Chronicle is eminently
correct. j
GEN. SPINNER ON THE NATIONAL
BANKS.
A Lively Letter from the Ex-Treasurer
—He Advises the Banks Not to Pro
voke an Issue with the People.
Mohawk, September 17,1875.
Dear Sib— Your letter of the 13th in
stant reached me on the day before yes
terday. The letter and papers that you
speak of have not yet come to hand.' A
week or more ago I received a fetter
from Mr. Treasurer New, enclosing slip
cut from the New York Evening Post of
the 4th instant, bearing your signature.
He asked me to answer the article. This
I declined to do, as I do not wish to be
drawn into a newspaper controversy. I,
however, wrote him, sustaining him in
his action in regard to the assessment
made upon the National Banks for the
expenses incurred by the people for the
redemption of their circulating notes.
You say: “There seems to be a gen
eral indignation throughout the coun
try against it.” I was not aware before
that the banks had. got quite so far as to
claim to be the country. “I am the
State,” said the King of France. “We
.are the country,” ka/'-the banks. Let
Them beware. History repeats itself.
For more than twenty years I was the
executive officerof a bank. Most of what
little I possess in this world is invested
in National Banks. My interest, there
fore, is entirely on that side, but I hope
that that fact will never warp my judg
ment to that degree that I would be un
able to see what would be fair and just
to both the banks and the people. In
the introduction to your article in the
Evening Post I see that a bank officer,
professipg to speak for the banks, says:
“What else can we do than relinquish
our circulation?” In answer to this
I wrote to the Treasurer of the
United States : “ Tnis is a good
one, and decidedly rich. It reminds me
of the story of a boy who said to his
mother, who had refused him money for
a circus ticket. ‘Now, mammy, if you
don’t give me that quarter I’ll just go
right off and ketch the measles; I
knows a boy what’s got ’em prime.’ ”
If the banks know what’s good for
them and when they are well off they
had better “hold their horses” and keep
quiet. The privilege of retaining their
circulation depends upon this. Bank
officers seem to have no idea of the deep
feeling among the masses of the people
in favor of a currency of coin and paper
that shall be issued exclusively by the
United States. The action of the Demo
cratic party, through their delegated
Conventions in the States of Ohio and
Pennsylvania} should admonish the
banks not to provoke an issue and a con
flict between themselves and the people.
Such a course dan end only in one way—
it would be suicidal on the part of the
banks. But nqMng in this world is so
blind as the tmlhasoiiable self-interest,
of corporations;yhhd it is just possible
that they may refuse to seo the right,
and their true interest as well, until it
may be eternally too late.
When I was a bank officer the redemp
tion that was enforced by State and by
bank law oost afore than double the
amount now fairly assessed by the
Treasurer of the United States for a
much greater service. In those days
the redemption agenoy banks charged
discount of at least one-quarter of one
per cent. They required the deposit of
au amount the interest upon which was
equal to at least an equal amount, and
then the banks were compelled to pay
all charges for, and run the risk oi,
transportation to and from the city
agencies. Now a charge of less than
one-fifth of one percent, for moro and
better service, assessed by the people’s
government, excites “general indigna
tion.”
lam a little ourious to see what the
banks intend to do about it. The threat
is made in the article in the Post that
“Congress at its next session, in De
cember next, wilbbecalUid .upon by the
country to modi'fytheTbank taxes/’ Is
it not likely that a majority of the mem
bers will consider themselves instructed
by the action of their State Conventions
and shape their course in the directly
opposite direction ? When a boy I was
advised “never to kick a sleeping dog.”
I have remembered and profited by it
ever since. I commend the observance
of the old law to the serious and prayer
ful consideration of the dissatisfied
banks now. I am, very respectfully,
yours, F. E. Spinner.
John C. Hopper, Esq., Secretary, New
York.
A MARVEL IN BILLIARDS.
An Expert Who Uses His Fingers for
Cues—Adrian Izar’s Exhititlon.
[V. Y. Sun, 21st.]
Monsieur Adrian Izar, the champion
“finger billiard player” of the world,
made his first public appearance in New
York last night at Albert Garnier’s,l293
Broadway. The billiard parlor was
crowded at an early hour, and by the
time the exercises began it was impos
sible to gain admittance.
At eight o’clock M. Izar and Joe Dion
opened a game of caroms, 300 points*
and in less than twenty minutes Joe
was tbo worst beaten expert that ever
leaned over the cloth of green. Joe
played with the cue, but the stranger
used his fingers, mainly the thumb, the
forefinger and the middle finger. Joe
made 21, and slipped up on a draw shot.
Izar made a small break, and was fol
lowed by Joe with another. Then the
Frenchman gave the spectators the first
specimen of his wonderful skill. Up
the table and down the table he sent his
ball, counting at every stroke, until he
had scored about 40 ; when by coaxing
the red and white into the upper right
hand corner he ran up a total score of
105, amid tumultuous applause. Dion’s
next .effort was a weak one, as was also
Izar’s.
Then Joe made a few points, and Izar
went on to close the contest. His play
from the start was marvelous. He made
all kinds of shots with the greatest ease,
showing that whatever could be done
with the cue he could do without it.
Again running the object balls into a
corner and keeping them generally about
a foot apart, he continued his play, and
without changing his position rolled up
165, and might easily have made ten
times as many had he not been stopped
by the call of game. The 300 points
were made in the five innings, giving an
average of 60.
At the close Mons. Izar gave an ex
hibition of some of his fancy shots,
which should be seen to be appreciated.
Simple caroms and short draw shots,
follows, cushion kisses, and round-the
table snots, requiring the most accurate
calculations, were executed without the
slightest apparent effort. But his unap
proachable skill was best manifested in
the execution of shots of a more difficult
nature. He would twist his ball from
the lower end of the table, take the red
in the upper left hand corner and draw
it straight back down to the lower left
hand corner and carom on the white.
He would carom from the red in the
center of the table, take the cushion at
the right, and draw to the white ball in
the right hand upper corner. He would
chalk figures upon.the cloth, and play
ing on one ball, would make his ball
follow the lines of the figure
and make the carom upon the other.
Having one ball held at one
end of the table on the wood
work, he threw his ball into the air and
brought the two into contact, his % own
ball running the full length of the rail
without even touching the cushion
cloth, as could be told at the further end
of the room by the sound. He next
made a figure 4 carom with four balls,
and the “W” carom, which was a shotas
curious as wonderful.
Arranging ten balls in a line parallel
with the cushion, he sent his ball spin
ning down upon the first. It took the
cushion and caught the second. Then
driving off to the cushion again it re
bounded to the third, and so it went
down the line, touching first a ball and
then the cushion, until the last ball was
touched. The same shot was made with
twelve and afterward with fifteen balls.
His “snake carom” was made by run
ning his ball down the table with great
force between lines of decanters and
glasses, sixteen in number. Then he
made his “Dollymonnt” stroke with the
cue. This is made by driving the balls
twice around the table from the right
hand upper corner, and bringing them
together in the lower right baud corner.
In their rapid tour around the table no
two balls come in contact. Mons. Izar’s
last trick was to drive twelve small
balls into the mouth of a wicker bot
tle held a foot above the table.
A sketch in plaster, together with
large drawings for the Oakes Ames
monument, are now on exhibition in
Boston. This is a queer country and
things are wrinkled, somehow. Oakes
Ames will get his monument before
Washington is thus fortunate.
NUMBER 40
THE STATE.
THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS:
Burglars are disporting themselves in
Savannah again.
Dr. Lipscomb has left Athens.for Van
derbilt University.
Atlanta is going largely into the di
vorce business.
Wanted—A good proof reader in the
office of the Griffin News.
The Covington Baptist Church will
elect a pastor next Sunday.
A letter for J. M. Martin, Augusta, is
held for postage in Savannah.
Carroll county claims a man who is
the father of thirty living children.
Templeton is to appear at
in Atlanta, the 4th and sth of October.
And now the Southern Watchman has
commenced about the “trained jour
nalist.”
Mr. James C. Wright is still lying in
a very critical condition at his
residence in Oxford.
ililledgeville has had another fire.
Judge N. B. Brooks, Mr. Joel and Cox
A Collins were the sufferers.
The Mary Carter was snagged and
sunk in Coosawattee river the other day,
about 15 miles above Resaca/
A Mr. Johnson, from Montgomery,
Ala., is going to establish a poultry and
fruit farm on the Barnard place, in La-
Grange.
One R. P. Tatum, of Atlanta, indulg
ed in a little pistol practice the other
day, choosing Mr W. A. Fuller for liis
target. Nobody shot.
The carriage house and stable of Col.
H. J. Lamar, at Vinevillt), wore ilostroy
ed by fire the 25th. The carriage aud
horses were absent at the time.
Atlauta Constitution , 29th : General
DeTrobriand, U. S. A , was registered
at the H. 1. Kimball House yesterday.
He goes to Athens to-day to visit some
of his relations residing near that place.
Griffin News: Eusebius Slaton, of
Fayette county, lias had thirty children,
eighteen by his first wife and twelve by
his second. He lives in a healthy set
tlement, and is now a stoat, vigorous old
man.
The Griffin News says: “While it may
be true that the Georgia press has no
‘trained journalist,’ there is one tiling
certain, that in many respects it has
more trained damphools th .11 any other
State.”
The Commonwealth Herald auuounces
that the co-partnership heretofore exist
ing between the Iferald Publishing
Company and B. F. Sawyer, in the pub
lication of the Commonwealth-Herald,
is dissolved.
An attempt was recently made to as
sassinate Seab HalJ, in Butts county. A
negro has been arrested who confesses
he is the guilty party, but says he was
incited to the deed by white men. Hall
was wounded in the arm with small shot.
A knot of citizens that met by chance
in Gainesville the other day were aged,
respectively, 77, 76, 75, 74, and 69. All
farmers, healthy, cheerful, and vigor
ous. Asa distinguished contemporary
would express it, “we dare say” they are
all blessed with “fine stomachs.” Eh,
Col?
Mr. John A. Winn, of Floyd county,
says he began farming in 1845, on a
small scale, and since that time he has
not bought a peck of corn or wheat, or
a pound of meat, except that he bought
a little corn the year of the surrender.
Of course, Mr. Winn is now comfortable,
as any man will be who will farm on that
plan.
The following is from the Atlanta
Constitution —arranged, we suppose, by
the “editor who has a talent for humor
ous paragraphing “An ex-Judge of
the Supreme Court propounds this
conundrum, which has tripped several
rslW^^^WjnioiHe?!TowTraßycßwr
will it take to catch fifty rats in fifty
minutes ?
A man passed through LaGrango the
other day on the way to his home, near
Atlanta, who said he had been a prison
er of the Sioux Indians since 1867, hav
ing been captured with a party of whom
all but himself were killed. He is deaf
and dumb, and a feeling of superstition
on this account on the part of the In
dians kept them from killing him, though
he had twenty-live wounds from their
hands. He had walked all the way to
LaGrange.
The Columbus Enquirer intimates
that we will “catch thunder” for copy
ing a “funny paragraph” from the At
lanta Con -titution without giving credit.
The fact is, we find it impossible to tell
which paragraphs in the Constitution
are intended to be funny unless the
“editor who has a talent for humorous
paragraphing” will mark them so that
that they can be readily identified. We
solemnly disclaim any knowledge of
ever having copied a “funny paragraph”
from the Constitution.
The Athens Georgian asks, “ Who is
Nabuchadonasor ?” We don’t think it
falls to our lot to answer that question.
The Georgian is becoming too inquisi
tive, anyhow. We suppose it will next
be inquiring about the “ Emperor Au
gustine” referred to in a paper printed
in this city, and also as to “ MulliDS,
the architect,” mentioned in the same
paper as having been kicked out of of
fice by Secretary Bristow. We confess
that our historical researches have not
enabted us to “ spot ” either “Mullins”
or the “ Emperor.”
We find the following card in the Co
lumbus Enquirer of Friday:
Local Editor Enquirer : '
Not wishing to wear unmerited hon
ors, permit me to say that 1 was neither
formally tendered nor formally declined
the Supreme Court bench. What, passed
between the Governor and myself was
after Judge Jackson was appointed, and
between the times of Judgo Bleckley’s
declination aud withdrawal of the same.
The Governor and myfelf understood
each other perfectly,' and the matter
was disposed of agreeably to both of us
and the public. Yours, &e.
Martin J. Crawford.
Sandersville Herald and Georgian :
While in the Court Room on last Mon
day we heard the charge of Judge
Johnson to the Grand Jury, Panel No.
I. Without indulging in fulsome affil
iation or undue panegyric, we affirm
that it was the most comprehensive,
conservative and powerful address ever
delivered to a grand jury in this coun
ty. With ungloved hands, he dissected
and exposed to light every species of
vice known to the statutes. The red
lightning of his invective shivered and
shattered where it fell. Like a thunder
bolt launched from the hand of a Titan,
every word dealt death and damnation
to crime. His breath was, at times, the
the hot blast of the simoon, withering
and wilting and blackening wherever
the tempest of his wrath prevailed.
Who can estimate the scope and power
of such a man’s influence ? Let him
who doubts look around and see the
wonderful advance in public morals—
the progress of social virtue and good
order—the elevation of public senti
ment and opinion, and then bless the
man whose mission it has been, in the
Providence of God, to effect this “ de
voutly to be desired consummation.”
The Hon. Alexander H. Stephens is
announced by the managers of the
“Star Lecture Course,” Chicago, as one
of the lecturers in that city during the
coming season. The Star Magazine, in
announcing his engagement, says:'
“The patrons of the Star Course will
have another marked illustration of the
desire of the managers to procure the
greatest attractions for Chicago in the
appearance of this celebrated man. For
two years we have written to Mr. Ste
phens in vain, desiring him to lecture
in the Star Course. He admitted the
offered fee was large and tempting, but
said his feeble health would not permit
him to attempt so long a journey or so
arduous an enterprise. We had’ almost
despaired of ever seeing the intellectual
giant of the South in this city, and when,
after urgent pressing from ourselves,
backed by the strongest influence we
could secure to strengthen our suit, he
at last consented to accept SI,OOO and
appear in our Course, it was as welcome
a surprise to us as this announcement
will be to our patrons. ”
Marriages.
In Carrollton, 15th, B. E. Bass to
Bettie Benson.
In Gainesville, 21st, F.‘ A. Moor to
Mrs. A. J. McCarty.
In West Point, recently, C. 0. Heard
to Emma D. Holden.
Deaths.
In De Soto, 23d, Lula, child of John
A. Franks.
In Harris county, recently, Mrs. Har
rison, aged 90.
At Lewiston, Utah, Ist, Taylor Kenne
dy, formerly of Hall county.