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vVKD.VESDAY.. OCTOBER 20, 1875.
MINOR TOPICS.
kUiwaukeaau* are not aU bad. About on* in
v*ry 9,000 trie* to So right. A Milwaukeean
of the good sort ha* Just returned a borrowed
book after keeping it twenty-seven years.
An Ohio man hae invented anew method of
engraving on metal. He covers the plates
with grease, and eats out the lines with Cin
cinnati whisky, instead of aquafortis. He has
to stand by with a club to keep that whisky
from eating right through.
The grasshopper plague in Nebraska diln’t
eliminate all the possessions of the afflicted
region. An emigrant wagon from Nebraska
passed Hokah, Minn., recently which contain
ed, besides the family, two jack rabbita, two
prairie dogs, a buffalo calf and a banjo.
Oabkoeb now comes to the froqt with a hor
rible murder. There is no resisting tbe subtle
influences of the name upon tbe inhabitants of
a town w.th such a title as Oshkosh ; it broods
over everything like a dismal nightmare, and
gradually Impel* tbe meekest to desperate
deeds of blood.
A returned Enoch Arden was tearing around
and railing at a Christian community that
wonbl allow a woman to starve nearly to doatli
in the absuuce of her husband. The truth is.
he left her in the dayß of boopskirts looking
like this O, and on h s return found her pinned
hack and looking like this I. The impression
that she had starved was natural.
The Hundaystatu e of Vermont provides that
"no person shall travel on Sunday, except
from necessity or charity." And the Supreme
Court of the State lias accordingly decided
that one traveling upon the Sabbath without
excuse cannot maintain an action against a
town for any damage he may suffer through
defects in its highways.
The telegraphic service of France, which is
under Oovernment control, has never been
worked at a profit until the present year
Down to 1373 the cost always exceeded the
receipts, the deficit varying from SOU,OOO to
4,000,000 francs. In 1874 the income just
balanced the expenditures; while for the
present year the estimates show a surplus of
2,200,000 francs.
Eufaula. Alabama, a city of four or live thou
sand people ami situated in one of the richest
sections of the South, is in a had way. A
Montgomery paper says "sevoral families are
suffering for the common necessaries of life,
and some are on the verge of starvation." In
the house of one family there was not a morsel
of bread and three children lying sick.
At the funeral of his favorite daughter the
Khedive distributed among tbe crowd 450,000
pieces of silver coin, from one to five piastres
each. Upon the lid of the coffln the jewelry
of the deceased, valued at 3,000 000 florins,
was exhibited. Twenty-four buffaloes were
killed by the pricets before the Mosque Itilah
at Cairo, roasted and oaten, and then 3,000
priests said prayers by the tomb for seven
days.
Five yoars ago Conductor McKinney, of the
Hartford and New Haven Railroad, was given a
thousand dollar kill by a sleepy passenger for
fare. Ho took it into the baggage car to
chango it, and upon returning the passenger
denied having given it to him. claiming to have
banded him a ticket. McKinney put the money
in a savings bank, where it still remains. The
story lias often been told in the newspapers,
yet no claimant has been discovered.
A country postmaster recently sent a postal
card to the Dead Letter Office because the
writer had written about fifteen thousand
words upon one side. The wise postmaster
thought that if a man could write so much on
a postal card it should pay letter postago. The
card was sent hack to him. The Fostmaster-
Oeneral should secure men with a fair amount
of intelligence for such positions.
Nan Francisco's great Palace Hotel is to be
formally opened on the 1 tit 1 1 instant. Mrs
Wm. 0. Ralston, widow of the late money king,
already occupies a magnificent suite of apart
ments in the great caravansary, and Mr. Ral
ton'e former country residence, Belmont, is to
he used as a rustic branch of the house. Bel
mont has over 100 rooms and is splendidly fur
nished, and visitors who wish a change of air
can go out there at their pleasure.
Sometimes an item gets into the newspapers
which digs a pair of rowels into the sides of
the imagination, so to s eak. Here is an in
stance from the New York Sun: "A Hartford
mau recently got a piece of tough meat lodged
In the lower part of the esopliagus, making
breathing difficult and threatening inflamma
tion. and was treated by Dr. Ellisworth, of that
city, who killed a number of doge, and, with
the gastric juice of their stomach coatings,
succeeded in dissolving the pieces in the course
of the day.”
It is thought that au era of reform may be
effected in the political aud social life of the
United States, but the absurdity of the hope
will he self-evident until a constitutional
amendment is adopted authorizing citizens to
shoot on sight any mau who writes "Prof."
before his name aud isn't attached to a col
lege, any man who parts both his hair and his
name in the middle, any man who wears a
green uocktie. and any one who calls ' 'Tues
day" “Chewsday."
A curious statement has been made and pub
lished iu a French paper in regard to hens. It
reckons the number of hens in France at 40,-
000,000, valued at #20,000,000. Of these about
one-fifth are killed annually for the market.
There is an annual net production of 80,000,000
chickens, which in market yield #24.000,000.
The extra Talue to be added for capons, fat
tened hens, and the like, is put at #1.000,000.
The production of eggs per hen, worth #48,-
000.000. In all, it is reckoned that the value
of heus. chickens and eggs sold in the markets
of France is #50,000,000.
In 18t>5 a young English actor named Walter
Hastings, at a club meeting, made the remark
that dose confinement was not a very terrible
punishment, upon which Lord 8. offered him
£ 10,000 if he would try it ten years. Ho ac
cepted the offer, and retired from the stage to
a dark cell fifteen by ten. He wae allowed
plenty of food, light, books and writing mate
rials. He has emerged from his prison, and is
spending his hard earned coin in Paris, intend
ing to return to the stage. He began his fool
hardy experiment at twenty-five, bat left his
dungeon looking like a man of three score.
A ball in Marysville, Cal., was attended by
an average of about ten men to every woman:
but the women s >em to have made up in viva
city what they lacked in numbers. Miss Lotta
Sohnman. attired in blue silk en train, ala
pull back, six-button kids, and a lace over
dree*. was the prettiest and sprightliest. She
had a quarrel with her escort, late in the
evening, and in her dashing way said. "Jest
look a'bere ! I aim no slouch I'm a lady, and
knows how to behave like one." Then ehe
drew a revolver from a pocket among the folds
of lies dress at her hip, and shot the beau
ko that he 1* likely to die.
Old beliefs and superstitions die hard in
England. It is not so very long ago sines an
ignorant Yorkshire yokel would offer up, along
w.th hi* ordinary prayer, the following peti
tion : "From witches and vrizxards, and iong
tailed buzzards, and creeping things that run
in hedge-bottoms, good Lord deliver ns." A
coroner s jury have returned a verdict of will
ful murder against one Haywood, a laborer,
of Little Compton. South Warwickshire, who,
a few days ago, attacked an old woman, aged
eighty, named Ann Tennant sad stuck a two
pronged fork into her, because, as he told the
Court, she "was the propereei witch I ever
knowd." The aged portion of the female
population of Little Compton have every rea
son to congratulate themselves on Mr. Hay
wood s temporary removal to a more circum
scribed theatre of action ; for he confided to
the coroner that “there were sixteen more in
the parish who should be doue away with."
and that there were also a good many villagers
quite aa influential and intelligent aa himself
who shared his somewhat uncompromising
•pnuoa* on the subject.
THE COLORED CONVENTION.
Commenting upon the telegraphic
synopsis of the first day’s proceedings
at the Colored Convention which recent
ly jtfse mtiled in this city, the New York
Tribune says : “ Good temper was mani
fested yesterday in the deliberations of
'the colored citizens of Georgia who are
holding a Convention in Angnsta. The
dispatches do not tell ns, however,
whether either or ail of the resolutions
offered were adopted as the sense of the
Convention. Those recognizing the im
partiality of Jndge Herscuel V. John
son in the recent insurrection trials, and
pleading for amicable relations between
the races as the only basis of permanent
prosperity, deserve special commenda
tion, and we have no donbt that they ex
press the sentiments of the respectable
citizens of Georgia without distinction
of color. It is to be hoped that the
Convention will not be so silly as to ap
prove of the wild emigration projects
under consideration.”
It is a little unfortunate that the “ad
dress" issued by this Convention is not
as worthy of commendation as its repu
diation of Turner’s swindling African
emigration scheme.
SOUTHERN MAIL CLAIMS.
The Atlanta Constitution, under the
usual heading, “a big bonanza,” informs
ns that Governor Smith has recently re
ceived “a letter from Samuel C. White,
of Portsmouth, Va., a former United
States mail contractor, which is of con
siderable importance to the mail con- !
tractors of this State during the years
1860-1, as it sets forth that these con
tractors, nnder a late act of Congress,
are entitled to the balance due them for
mail service during the quarter inter
rupted by the secession of Georgia from
the Union.”
The Constitution further says, that
“Mr. White desires the name and resi
dence of every mail contractor of this
State who was doiDg mail service at that
time, as he is prepared to put all suoh
in a way to speedily secure the balance
due them under the recent provisions of
Congress. As this is a matter of great
public interest, and if successful, as Mr.
W. claims it will be, promises to brings
large amount of money into our State,
we trust that the press generally will
call attention to the subject and request
all mail contractors in their vicinity to
send their names to Mr. Samuel C.
White, Portsmouth, Va.”
We do not see why Southern mail con
tractors will have to communicate with
Mr. White before they can obtain the
money to which they are entitled nnder
act of Congress, especially as the Con
stitution assures us that “there is no de
ception in this matter, as we took the
trouble, after tbe letter to Governor
Smith was placed in our hands, to inter
view a United States claim agent stop
ping at the National Hotel, and he as
sured us that all claims for mail service
for the quarters interrupted by the se
cession of the State would be, by act of
Congress, paid to the proper parties
whenever they make due application to
the proper authorities.”
We think Southern mail contractors,
who are entitled to compensation under
this act, had better attend to tbe collec
tion of their claims. Mr. White will
scaroely collect them for nothing, and
the commission to be paid him might as
well be saved.
BLODGETT “THREATENS.”
We have an idea that our Atlanta cor
respondent “builded wiser than he
knew” when he wrote the other day that
Fosteh Blodgett “threatens to return
to Georgia.” The phrase is apt. We
have always thought that there were
parties in Georgia who did not wish
Bullock or Blodgett arrested, fearing
the rovelations which these distinguish
ed developers might make when in the
clutches of the Courts. It has been
often intimated that both of them were
able to tell stories which would impli
cate prominent Georgia Democrats in
all the offenses which they are charged
with having committed. It has been
freely hinted that their arrest was not
desirable, and that it was better to let
them remain out of the State and un
tried. It certainly seems to us that
either or both of these fugitives could
easily be brought to justice. Bulloch
is living in the State of New York, the
place of his residence is perfectly well
known, he makes no attempt at conceal
ment, and is often met by Georgians
traveling at the North. Governor Hoff
man, Gov. Dix, or Gov. Tildkn would
have promptly honored any requisition
made for the body of Bullock by the
Governor of Georgia. Why has he not
been arrested ? When Blodgett ran
away from Georgia he went to Newber
ry, South Carolina, where he has since
resided. Has any attempt been made
to bring him to justice ? It has been
said that on account of a certain corrupt j
oompact existing between himself and j
Moses that the latter would not give him :
up. Is there any evidence of the truth of !
this assertion ? Was a proper requisition 1
made upon Mosks, and, if there was, how .
was it treated ? Moses was put out of
office last November, and his successor ;
is a man pledged to an honest adminis- ;
tration of the government. Has a re- !
quisition for Blodgett ever been made
upon Governor Chamberlain, and how
was it received ? Several months ago it j
was extensively advertised over the State j
that Mr. Blodgett had contracted with
the proprietor of the Greenville (South |
Carolina) Neu> to furnish a series of
papers for publication, giving a true 1
and complete history of his reconstruc- j
tion career in Georgia, and it was equal- \
Iy as extensively announced that the
articles would make some “ astounding I
revelations” concerning Democrats
who stood high in Georgia. The |
promised papers never appeared in I
print. How was the author induced to !
postpone their publication ? These are ;
questions in which the whole people of
the State are interested. They are
qnestions which should be answered.
Messrs. Bullock and Blodgett are I
charged with the commission of several
grave offenses against the State and her '
citizens. Both of them are charged with
the commission of heavy peculations.
Blodgett is said to have been detected
in defrauding the State Road alone of
more than one hundred thonsand dol
lars. There are now pending in Fulton
Superior Court, and have been pending
there for more than three years, six" or
seven indictments against Bullock and
Blodgett charging cheating and swind
ling, larceny after a trust, embezzle
ment and felony. Theee men are either
innocent or guilty. If innocent, in jus
tice to them, they should be acquitted.
If they are guilty, in justice to the citiz
ens of Georgia, they should be punished.
‘ No matter how “high” the Democrats
are who may have been partners in their
crimes they shonld be brought to
Georgia and to trial- Aud now, Blod
gett “threatens” to deliver himself up
to justice. “Threatens !" Yerilv, the
phrase is apt.
The unkindest cut of aIL The Co
lumbia Union-Herald, noticing the
number of tax sales advertised iu the
Atlanta papers,says that Atlanta is not a
Radical city and has for many years en
joyed Democratic government.
When nothing need be said, say
aothing.
WARREN COUNTY.
Editorial Correspondence Chronicle
Sentinel.
Wabkenton, October 8, 1875.
Superior Court.
The October term of Warren Superior
Court, Judge E. H. Pottle, presiding,
commenced Monday and continued
throughout the week. The following
members of the bar were in attendance :
Messrs. C. S. Dußose, A. S. Morgan,
James Whitehead, R. T. Barksdale
and James Battle, of Warrenton. Mr.
Battle was admitted at the present
term. The visiting members in attend
ance were Gen. Toombs, Geo. Dußose,
Judge Reese and M. P. Reese, of
Washington; Messrs. George F. Pierce
and C. W. Dußose, from Sparta; W.
D. Tutt, Paul C. Hudson and H. C.
Roney, from Thomson; Col. J. D.
Mathews and Samuel Lumkin, Esq.,
Solicitor-General, from Lexington, and
Samuel F. Webe, of Augusta. Judge
Gebson was also present and presided
during the trial of certain cases in
which Jndge Pottle was engaged be
fore his elevation to the bench. Tbe
civil and oriminal dockets were full,
but the business before the Court wag
rapidly disposed of by Judge Pottle,
who is expeditious and impartial in the
conduct of cases before the Court. He
makes au excellent Judge. The law is
intelligently construed and vigorously
enforced by him. He is a terror to evil
doers and has done much to suppress
crime in his Circuit since his appoint
ment. The State is well represented by
Mr. Lumpkin, who is a young lawyer of
decided legal attainments.
Among the important civil oases dis
posed of are the following: E. S. Lati
mer vs. Martha Mayes—ejectment: ver
dict for plaintiff and anew trial grant
ed; James M. Wellborn vs. Shields &
Smith—illegality: verdict for defend
ants; Sam’l Hart vs. L. M. Rhodes—
complaint: verdict for plaintiffs; Wil
cox, Gibbs & Cos. vs. Isaac B. Hall—
complaint on note for guano: verdict
for defendant, and a motion for anew
trial; Caroline Wheeler vs. Maoon and
Augusta Railroad— complaint for dam
ages for killing two oxen: verdiot for
plaintiff for 875. A large number of
judgments were taken in unlitigated
cases.
The State docket is large. Besides
several old cases, fourteen new true bills
were returned, including two for assault
with intent to murder and two for bur
glary in the night. Franklin Johnson,
colored, aud David Pullum, white, were
sent to the penitentiary for ten years for
burglary in the night. Sterling G.
Culpepper was sent to jail for six
days for using abusive and obscene
language to ladies. Tho language was
so indecent that the Court refused to
allow defendant to pay a fine. Abohy
Aldred, colored, was sent up for six
months for receiving stolen corn, know
ing the same to have been stolen. Sever
al other cases of a heavier grade of de
pravity than those embraced in the
“eighteenth section” were disposed of
by fine and imprisonment. The last
case taken up Friday was that of the
State against Wellborn Anderson, col
ored, oharged with assault with intent
to murder. The prisoner is aocused of
shooting Mr. Heath, Deputy Sheriff.
The Court was oocupied until ten o’olock
Friday night taking evidence, at which
hour it adjourned until Saturday morn
ing. The evidenoo will take up most of
the day, and it is thought the case will
not go to the jury until Saturday night.
This case excites a great deal of interest
and some feeling is manifested.
Warrenton
Is a thriving, progressive town,pleasant
ly situated and surrounded by what was
onoe and will be agaiu a highly produc
tive and prosperous agriculture commu
nity. There are many goods stores and
live merchants in Warrenton, some of
whom sell 880,000 worth of goods in
a year. The Clipper, in its trade review
of the amount of business for the year
ending August, ’75, puts the aggregate
amount at 8275,000, but it is probably
larger than this, as two houses refused
to state the amount of business done by
them. The aggregate trade will ap
proximate near 8100,000. Business, for
the most part, is conducted on the cash
plan, some houses refusing absolutely
to sell got)ds on credit. The merchants
are doing a safe and fair business,
though the prospect for making money
is not as encouraging as it might be,
owing to the straightened condition of
the planters, who, as a class, are not
much better off in Warren than in other
counties. Among the principal mer
chants in the place are Messrs. N. Gal-
LAHEB, J. M. W. CODY & Cos., W. H.
Barnes, Heath & Bro. , Allen & Far
mer, Webbeb & Thompson, A. Lesser,
J. N. Stanton, C. W. Cason, Adam
Jones, Wright, Smith & Cos., and D. C.
Flynn. Mr. John D. Wright and
Mr. D. 0. Flynn have but re
cently removed to Warrenton, and
they speak encouragingly of the busi
ness outlook. Messrs. Pilcher & Lati
mer deal in drugs and medicines, Mr. J.
T. Lee in jewelry, Mr. John R. Spence
in furniture, and Mr. D. R. Howell in
the manufacture of wagons and car
riages. Warrenton has about one thou
sand population. It has two schools,
two churches ( Baptist and Methodist),
three doctors, five lawyers, one livery
stable, one bar room, oce barber shop,
three shoemakers, no tailor, one drug
store, one temperance lodge with a full
membership, a working branch of the
Young Men’s Christian Association and
two Sunday schools. There statistics
were compiled, after laborious research,
by Professor Ham, whose indefatigable
labors in behalf of Warren county and
the Clipper Me substantially appreciated
by an intelligent community. The
Clipper is to Warrenton what the New
York Herald is to New York. Mr. Ham
has made the Clipper a sprightly, in
teresting paper, and his industry and
talent are displayed in the originality
and piquancy of his writings and the
care evidenced in the make up of his
paper.
The Crops.
I have been informed by a reliable
planter that Warren will produce this
year about five-eighths of a crop of cot
ton and folly as much, if not more, corn
than last year. The cotton yield as
compared with that of last year is off
folly three-eighths, but the yield of corn
will be larger. There are some planters
in the county who never buy a bushel
of corn nor a pound of meat, and these
are the only men in the county as a mle
who are independent They never have
i to purchase bread and meat, and, there
i fore, they are never in debt. They raise
their own wheat and corn and hay and
stock, and vegetables and fruits. And
why not ? There is nothing to prevent
them. As Mr. T. N. Poole, who was a
i member of the last Legislature, said to
me, while speaking on this subject, “I
have never bought a pound of bacon or a
; bushel of com in my life. I raise my
own wheat and plenty of corn and bacon
for household and plantation purposes,
j This first, and what cotton I can after
wards.” There are other men jnst like
Mr. Poole in Warren, and if all our
planters were like him they would in a
few years become independent, and the
State would be one of the most prosper
ous in the Union.
Speeches and Knsie by the Band,
Warrenton has a good brass band, and
AUGUSTA, GA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 20, 1875.
the tjpwn was enlivened Thursday night
by the harmonions strains of its musio.
In response to serenades, speeches were
made by a number of gentlemen. Gen.
Toombs, Col. Mathews, Gen. Dußoss
and Major McGregor discussed the po
litical question. Col. Mathews ad
dressed himself to the industrial condi
tion of our people, and gave some very
timely advice as to the necessity of onr
people going to work aud keeping at it,
in order to prize out of onr impoverished
condition. Gen. Dußose is very hope
ful of the political prospects of the
South, and feels confident of the re
election of Gov. Allen and the triumph
of the Democratic party in 1876. Col.
Ham delivered a speech on the novel
subject “Woman,” in the treatment of
which he displayed wit and humor.
Judge Pottle and Messrs. Lumkin and
S. F. Webb returned thanks for the
compliment. W.
THE ELECTION IN OHIO.
One of the most memorable political
contests that has been waged in this
country since 1860 terminated in Ohio
last Tuesday. It was generally under
stood that it was not a oonfljpt to deter
mine tbe mere control of a State. It was
known that the future policy of a great
party was involved in the struggle. The
Democrats of Ohio, able, aggressive and
determined; led by such statesmen as
Pendleton, Allen and Ewing; aided by
such men as Hendricks, Thurman,
Vorhees and Curtin— made a platform
which was a gage of battle to the whole
country. It was accepted as such. If
the Democrats had been successful in
Ohio the effect would have been imme
diate and certain upon the national
politics of the Democratic party. The
National Convention would have adopted
the Ohio platform, and the controlling
issue iuthe Presidential campaign would
have been hard money vs. soft money—
the West and South against New Eng
land and the Middle States. Thi3 was
the issue. It has been decided. The
inflation goose is cooked, and will not
again be brought upon the table. Gov
ernor Allen and his friends made a
gallant fight. They have lost, and they
must in good faith abide the result. No
matter what may be the verdict in Penn
sylvania the decision cannot and will
not be changed. Ohio was the chosen
battle ground. The greenback men were
commanded by their greatest captains,
and marshaled with consummate ability.
Not a blunder was committed. They
made the fight, and they were disastrously
defeated. From this decision there is no
appeal, and we may as well prepare to
number the Ohio platform and the Ohio
leaders with the things of the past. It
is too plain a case to admit of argument.
A State which gave in 1873 a Democrat
ic majority of 817 and in 1874 a Demo
cratic majority of 17,000, now gives a
heavy Republican majority. Tne only
issue involved was one of finance. The
South was not thought of in the strug
gle; the bloody shirt was not waved;
reconstruction was forgotten; local self
government was abandoned; free trade
was not mentioned; official corruption
was unnoticed; the only question was
hard money against soft; greenbacks
versus gold. Gold has won the day and
greenbacks may no longer find a place
in the Democratic confession of faith.
Now that the fight has been fought and
lost, it is easy enough to give reasons
for the defeat; still there are somethings
which should be remembered in connect
tion with the rout in Ohio:
1. The Demoerats in Ohio—or rather
a majority of the Democrats in Ohio—
adopted a platform which alienated
many of their own party in the State.
They made the issue financial and not
political. They antagonized every Dem
ocratic bondholder every Democrat
who conscientiously believed that the
interests of the country demanded a re
turn to specie payments. These men
voted for Hayes, not as the representa
tive of Radicalism but as the exponent
of an “honest” currency.
2. Democrats outside of the State of
Ohio, moved by the same considera
tions, worked for the election of Hayes
and the defeat of Allen. The bond
holders all over the country were alarm
ed by the turn which the canvass had
taken. The pocket nerve was touched,
and they preferred a Republican
triumph to what they thought would
prove Democratic repudiation. Tho
sympathy of the Democrats of New
York and the New England States was
with Hayes and against Allen; and if
the truth were known it would be dis
covered that as much Democratic as
Republican money was contributed to
the defeat of the Ohio Democracy. The
leading Democratic presses of the North
assailed Allen and his platform from
the inception of the struggle and fought
vigorously to secure the triumph of his
rival. These papers made every exer
tion to defeat the party in Ohio and
will crow as lustily over the result as any
Radical organ in the country.
3. The temperance question, which
had formerly been used to such advant
age by the Democrats, was practcially
eliminated from the contest. By show
ing how friendly the poljcy of a Demo
cratic Legislature had been to the
cause of “free liquor,” as well as by a
vigorous application of the party lash,
the Prohibitionists were whipped into
the traces and generally voted with the
Republicans.
4. The men who had generally voted
with the Democrats on the temperance
issue voted against them this year on
the school qnestion. The Germans had
hitherto voted with the Democrats on
account of their opposition to sumptna
ry laws. But the Germans in Ohio are
principally Protestants, and the Repub
licans were adroit enough to force an
issue with the Democrats upon the
school qnestion which alieniated a large
number of German votes.
These causes conspired to defeat
Governor Allen. It now* remains for
the Democracy of the Union to harmo
nize npon a platform and a policy which
will compel success in the campaign of
1876. _
The Presidential conundrum has been
answered. Governor Smith is to be
President Smith. The Columbus En
quirer has been conversing with a cul
tivated lady, who attended the same
primary school at Culloden, Munroe
county, that Governor Smith did. She
tells that the teacher used to prophecy
that “Milt” would be President of the
United States, becanse he stood head in
his spelling class. We suppose that
Old Bill Allen, Hendricks, Pendle
ton, Tilden, Batabd and the balance
might as well retire from the field or
else improve their spelling. However,
Andrew Jackson was President once,
and Bill Allen, to whom Jackson
went to school, says he was “a mon
strous poor speller.”
A large sale of Southern bonds was
made in New York a few days ago.
Georgia sixes—3s and 4 years to run—
sold for 94}; sevens—W. & A. R. R.
mortgage—for 100}; and Nutting bonds
at 102. They are getting a little shy of
Bullock in Wall street now. Perfectly
; good W. A A. R. R. mortgage bonds
: which were endorsed by him brought
98}, while the same bonds, endorsed by
other Governors brought 100}.
Waste nothing—neither time, money
er talent.
LEVERU TOOMBS.
HIB YIEWS Ol| PHE CURRENCY
Editorial ondence of the
Chrontdar* and Sentinel.
October 8,1875.
In response to fin invitation from the
people, km discussed the
currency quesfßjjlg* the Court House
Thursday
thing more than a >ther that this dis
tinguished Georgia understands it is
the currency n. Ha is emphat
ically a hartj||fij§ sy man. General
Toombs mainUjffijgp at the clause of the
Constitution which nakee gold and sil
ver coin a tender ;|i payment of debts
has never been, rep aled, and therefore
the act of Congress making greenbacks
a legal tender is den iy unconstitutional.
A proper standard >f values is as im
portant to the as a just
standard of weight* and measures.
False weights and felse measures are
an abomination in lie sight of the
Lord. If there is a wise standard of
values there should %e punishment for
it. There Hon
est weights, honriairWiasures and IfT
honest standard of values are essential
to honest government 1 Yon can fix a
standard of weights anf measures, and
you can fix a staudrsd of values. An
inch in Franoe is an |ach all the world
over. Weights are ijia same. Gold iB
valuable all over the world, and its
value is easily fixed. Then a man sells
his cotton at Liverpool; for 7}d. every
body knows what it &eans. It means
so much in gold. In England gold is
the standard of values. From the revo
lutionary war to 1811 (there was not a
bank in Georgia, and yd the people got
along very well withoit them. They
exchanged their prodiets, and some
times used coon skins a currency. All
the greenbacks and national bank bills
are unconstitutional, mil and void, and
the aot of Congress making greenbacks
a legal tender is unconstitutional.
The Bank of England never did sus
pend specie payment an hour. England
never did make anything a legal tender
but gold and silver, from the Norman
conquest down to the present day.
Gold is valuable in itself, and God has
so distributed it that it is about all that
it is worth to dig it out pf the ground.
It is the least variable in value. It is
convenient, and its mallability enables
its subdivision into convenient forms for
currenoy. Asa medium of exchange
there never has aud never will be any
thing to eqnal gold. Geld is really our
standard of value, and I am for making
all paper redeemable in gold and silver.
I am in favor of a gold standard and
the resumption of cash payments. I
am what is called a hard monfiy man ;
but nothing would be more destructive
than the resumption of specie payments
at this time. People who owed money
and made contracts payable in current
funds would be ruined if they had to
pay in gold. He was opposed to re
sumption embracing any past con
tracts. It was in violation of
tho Constitution. The poor would
be oppressed by the resumption
of specie payments. God nowhere iu
tho Bible says take care of the rich, but
He everywhere says take care of the
poor. Contraction of the currency and
resumption would rob them. Seven
hundred million of currenoy is more
than, we ?C ed
stances. Inflation cheats the poor man
all the time, and it is a delusion for the
poor to suppose that beoause money is
cheap they are better off. Paper money
is a delusion. The Ohio and Pennsyl
vania platforms are opposed to contrac
tion. lam opposed to resumption as to
old debts; but as to future contracts I
think resumption would be wise. I
would resume at an early day as to fu
ture contracts, but I would never resume
as to past contracts. The law making
greenbacks a legal tender should be re
pealed at once. It never was law, aud
if I was on the Supreme Bench I should
so decide. It is a delusion to talk of
more currency, and our public men do
not know what they are talking about
when they talk of more currency.—
Values must be graded. We do not want
more currency in this State. Every pound
of our four million bales of cotton oan
be sold for gold. Coin is carried out.
Greenbacks have driven gold out of the
country. It goes to England, France
and China. It takes one hundred and
eighty to two hundred million to pay
interest to the bondholders. Duties on
imports and exports must be paid in
gold. This is an outrage'on the honest,
hard working people of the country.
The wealthy and powerful are oppress
ing the poor. The bondholders and the
rich corporations are the oppressors of
the people, and they rob them out of
their honest gains. The bondholders
want resumption to rob the hard work
ing people of this oountry. No time
will ever come for the honest tax payers
to pay debts contracted in greenbacks in
gold and silver. I am opposed to re
sumption as advocated by Gen. Grant
and the Bepublican party. When they
make currenoy the issue, scout them;
when they make the tariff qnestion the
issue, scout them; when they make in
ternal revenue the issue, scont them.
Stand up to Democratic principles and
a sonnd enrrenoy, and we will overthrow
them.
The South is more injured by a bad
currency than anything else, for onr cot
ton and everything we produce will bring
gold and silver in the markets of the
world. lam willing to depart a little
from my confirmed opinions on the cur
rency question to defeat the Bepublican
party. lam with old Bill Allen in
Ohio, and I say God speed him in his
fight against Radicalism. Gen. Toombs
closed with an earnest appeal for a State
Convention.
I am confident of the meagerness and
imperfection of this condensation of
Gen. Toombs, speech, but it is the best
that I could do under the circumstances.
In a few days we hope to be able to lay
before our readers a full aud correct
synopsis of his speech. W.
THE STATE FAIR.
The indications are that the State Fair
at Macon, which will open next week,
will be one of the most successful and
brilliant exhibitions which has been
given by the Georgia Agricultural So
ciety since the war. Every branch of
agricultural and manufacturing industry
promises to be well represented. Many
distinguished gentlemen from the North
ern, Western and Eastern States will be
present, among them Senator Thurman,
Hon. George H. Pendleton, , Mr. F.
Hassaurek, of Ohio; Hendricks and
Vorhees, of Indiana; Bayard, of Dela
ware; Kelley, of Pennsylvania ; Fer
nando Wood, of New York ; Poland, of
Vermont; Christian err and Willard, of
Michigan ; Dr. Gbobge B. Losing, of
Boston; General Hawley, President of
the United States Centennial Commis
sion, and a full delegation from the Cen
tennial Board. Several, of the above
named gentlemen will deliver addresses
on different days of the Fair. The ex
hibition of live stock, such as cattle,
horses, sheep, hogs, eta, will be the
finest ever witnessed in the Southern
country. Arrangements are also in pro
gress to render the speed trials unu
sually interesting. We hope that all the
Circuit Judges of the State will aid the
exhibition by adjourning such Courts aa
may meet next week, and give an op
portunity to all the people to attend.
COLUMBIA COUNTY,
The Baptist Association— I The Meeting
at Bethel—What Was Done—A Suc
cessful Assemblage Dr. Mell A
Oood Man—False Ideas Corrected.
[Spatial Correspondence Chronicle and Sentinel]
Eubanks P. 0., Columbia Cos., {
October 11, 1873. \
For the past few days our quiet little
community has been thrown into quite
( an excitemeut on acoount of a Baptist
Association to be held at Bethel Church,
in District No. 3, Republic of Colum
bia. The lowing of beef cattle, the
bleating of lambs, the squealing of hogs,
with the rattling of sewing machines,
couriers mounted on mules dashing fran
tically across the country, borrowing the
latest style of dress patterns, etc., forced
one pf my contemplative mind to foresee
something unusual was stirring the waves
of the calm sea of pleasant quietuae that
usually obtains in our neighborhood.
Fox hounds and the much abused by
your contemporary of the Constitution
alist, “pinter dorgs,” the necessaty ad
juncts of’the Southern planter, licked
their chaps in anticipation of the savory
morsels that they knew from the aroma
of roasting meats must fall to their
share—they too longed for the “fleah
pots” of DistriotNo. 3; and but for the
dread of the cook’s poker would have bad
of the various “messengers,” from the
different churches iu this territory, and
by ten and a half, a. m., business com
menced by the Rev. C. H. Strickland,
pastor of Greensboro Church, preaching
the introductory sermon. Election of of
ficers next in order—all former officers
unanimously re-elected : Rev. P. H.
Mell, D. D., L.L.D., of University of
Athens, Moderator; T. W. Callaway, of
Washington, Clerk. Letters were read
from lortv-seven churches, claiming all
to be iu nourishing condition, six hun
dred accessions by baptism to their al
ready numerous congregations. Three
new churches in the last year were
organized and admitted to membership,
showing that they now have fifty church
es iu this the maternal territory of the
State (for it was at Kiokee, the first
church of the Baptist denomination, was
erected in the State of Georgia, A. D.
1773, Levy Marshall being pastor, I
think), all improving yearly in number
of members, and from interest mani
fested, greater results are anticipated in
the future. Dr. W. H. Molutosh, new
ly appointed Secretary of the Home
Mission Board, was introduced and
made a most happy effort, which was re
ceived most enthusiastically by the mem
bers of this Association, and the mis
sionary cause has reoeived. au impetus
whose effects will soon be apparent over
our whole State. The name of Mclntosh
of itself will cause many of your readers
to wonder if he is a relative of the Mc-
Intosh who accompanied Oglethorpe
and afterwards held various offices, as
recorded in the early history of Colonial
times. I am glad to be able to state
that he is a scion of that family, a most
elegant, courteous gentleman, speaks
fluently, showing the result of hard
study, as well as his manners verifying
tbe old adage that “ blood will tell.”
Not being one of the elect, I was not so
fortunate as to hear his Friday’s appeal,
but, judging from the delivery of the
sermon on Sunday morning, am safe in
lavishing any encomiums upon— the
man. The result, in a pecuniary point
of view, was also quite satisfactory,
some 8730 in cash and pledges collected
immediately at his conclusion—a large
amount considering the condition of
crops and how seriously we have been
effected by the failure of the California
Bank, etc. Sermons were also delivered by
various other members of this Associa
tion, amongst whom Dr. P. H. Mell
seemed to be the general favorite, a flue
gentleman of the “good old time sehool”
who does not strain at gnats, etc.,” but
who can enjoy a joke without drea i of its
affecting his christiauess. This ser
mon evinced high order of culture and
that years had iu nowise effected his
vigorous attacks upon “sin, the flesh
and the devil;” and that he was truly a
soldier of the eross that was proud of
the banner that he fought under.
Athens has cause to be proud of him.
Dr. J. H. Killpatrick, of White Plains,
Greene county, is spoken of in the
highest terms by all whose good fortune
it was hear him. I am his debtor for
some pleasant moments passed in gen
eral conversation. He is spoken of as
the rising man of this territory. The
next session is to be held at Union,
McDuffie oounty. It was ascertained
that there were more Sabbath schools
than ohurches. Fourteen delegates or
messengers (I am not conversant with
all their terms), were elected to repre
sent this territory during the Southern
Baptist Convention to be held in Rich
mond, Va., May, 1876. All members
of this Association speak in highest
terms of the enthusiasm, harmony, etc.,
manifested during the meeting. For
further particulars those interested are
respectfully referred to the columns of
the Christian Index, whose reporter
was present, I understand. I am al
so happy to state, that our character as
a community is soon to be vindicated,
as some of our guests informed me that
they were glad to find that we were
not the “blood thirsty hoosiers” that
they imagined peopled our Republic,
but modesty forbade them compliment
ing us farther, as they gazed upon our
mud-chinked log walls. Having twisted
the point of my “Bowie” picking my
teeth, I smiled benignly upon the youths,
wondering if they had made their wills
ere they had left the more civilized re
gion from which they hailed; it being
uncertain, and not being in a killing
mood, walked down to the vice, straight
ened it to tickle the ribs of the next
youth who displayed too much knowl
edge of our old county. Powder and
ball are so high we have eschewed the
revolver—knives don’t cost so muoh.
Yours, &c., District No. 3.
Ootober 11th, 1875,12, p. m.
P. B.—Association adjourned to-day,
after a purely business session, at 11,
a. m. Nothing of importance as report
ed by the clerk to the general reader.
BAPTIST MINISTERS* SAVINGS
FUND.
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel:
I do not grudge you a single subscrib
er, but only wish that every Baptist sub
scriber took the Index, and I am, there
fore, compelled, as Chairman of the
Board of Trustees of the Baptist Minis
ters’ Saving Fund, to ask the the aid of
the secular press in making known the
objects and wants of our Board. The
Board was constituted bv the Conven
tion at Macon in 1872, and the duty laid
upon it was to provide for the aged and
needy Baptist ministers in Georgia. To
do this it must have money, and to whom
else but to the Baptist brotherhood
should it look ? At present the Board
is located at Eatooton, and consists of
las. A. Etheridge, Jas. T. Davis, and
the undersigned. No member of tbe
Board is a salaried officer, so that all the
money contributed is applied to the re
lief of actual want. The venerable men
for whom this help is asked are scatter
ed throughout the State, and their
names are household words.
Baptists of Georgia, dear brethren 1
The men who preached the Gospel to
your fathers and grandfathers, and by
whom they were baptized and welcomed
into the household of God, these men
who can say with Paul, “I have fought a
good fight, I have finished my course, I
have kept the faith;” these men, so near
Heaven, are in want. In their stead,
yea, in Christ’s stead, we beseech yon
send ns of your substance that we may
give to them. They will be with you but
a few days longer, and then the Lord of
Glory will crown them and make them
sit on thrones. While yet they are with
you, do yourselves the honor to enter
tain well these royal men of Christ’s
Kingdom. Address your contributions
to Jas. T. Davis, Treasurer, Eatonton,
Ga. Thanking you, Messrs. Editors,
for the use of your columns, and know
ing that this cup of cold water given to
His aged servants will not be forgotten
by the Master,
I am, very respectfully yours,
Hugh F. Oliver, Chairman.
The grandson of the Czar, Prince
Alexander Vladimirovich, who recently
conferred upon the Russian Empire the
distinguished honor of being born in it,
has been appointed commander of the
137th Regiment of infantry. But he
has been granted a furlough, and is now
at Brest.
The Prince of Wales has taken with him
to India six carriage horses besides a
number of hunters from his stables.
During the voyage on ihe Serapis the
Prince’s table will be supplied with
milk from two cows belonging to His
Royal Highness. The Serapis has taken
two Orkney heifers, thirteen sheep and
three pigs, designed as presents for the
King of Greece.
A BOLD LETTER.
SENATOR BAYARD CONDEMNS
THE RADICALS.
Wilmington, Del., September 1.
Dear Sir— l have just reoeived the
letter of the Demoeratio Executive Com
mittee of the State of Maine of the 30th
ultimo, asking me to address a meeting
at Bangor, on the evening of that 11th
instant.
The invitation you tell me was ad
dressed to me at Cape May I never re
ceived. My duties and engagements
now are suoh as will not permit toe to
take from them the week’s time-it would
require to make the journey to and from
Bangor and deliver the desired'adjdress
to your people. Although you ane en
gaged in a canvass to fill State (jfficea
only, I. recognize fully how issues of a
national character must enter into your
Trie crying need of. a wise and judi
cious management of our finances; and
the restoration of a stable currency
whioh shall be the standard value ip the
dealings of our people, and be qf in
trinsic value in itself, is almost univer
sally admitted, and it would seen* im
possible that any honest, earnest aijd in
telligent advooate of a Sound currency
on the basis of gold and silver uoiu,
shall be now -willing to rely longer on
the empty promises of S'poiitkSl party
'wbiiar bits Tg-eteiSted' and sustained
Grant and his administration, and who
at the end of sevenyears of uncontrolled
power and ample opportnnity find the
country in a more embarrassed condi
tion in every respect than it was ia
March 4, 1869.
The credit of the oountry and the
business interests of the people are, in
my opinion, exceedingly unsafe in the
hands of an administration which amid
loud trumpetings of regard for the pub
lic honor have never taken one resolute
step for its protection; but on the con
trary, without warrant of law, and
against law, reissued, in 1875, 828,000,-
000 of “legal tender” Treasury notes,
whioh, under law and a wise policy
looking to a return to specie payment,
had been “returned cancelled” by the
preceding administration.
The bigoted and short-sigted folly of
Mr. Boutwell’s administration of the
Treasury Department lost golden op
portunities for resumption, afforded by
an overflowing Treasury and aotive busi
ness operations all over the country,
and threw away a fair ohance of specie
payment in 1872.
The insubordinate and revolutionary
action of the same party, led on by At
torney-General Hoar, resulted in tho
overthow of its first deliberately adverse
decision to the legality of legal tender
in paper by the Supreme Court of the
United States, at a time when the pub
lio was preparing to accommodate its
transactions to the just and beueficient
results of such a deoision.
Still later, witness the utterly false,
unworthy, and fraudulent measure, the
fruit of a oaueus of trioky politicians,
passed last Winter into law under the
title of “an act to resume speoie pay
ments in 1879,” over whioh Morton, the
rampant inflationist, and Sherman the
pseudo oontraotionist, chuckled and
winked unblushingly in open Senate.
# Must not all this oonviuoe any one,not
disposed to self deception, that a return
to specie payment and a sound system
of finance under the rule of a party led
by Butler, Morton, Kelley, Logan, and
Sherman will be "ad kalcndas Orasoas,"
and not sooner ? It would seem in
credible that a party with suoh a record
and a history should have the effrontery
to present themselves to the Amt-rioan
people as the champions of sound finance
and honest money.
We also now witness sadly all over
the country a paralysis of commerce,
manufactures, and all branches of in
dustry, whioh in my belief is in a great
measure caused by the unwise, unjust,
and destructive polioy pursued towards
the Southern States of the Union by
President Grant and his associates, un
der whose influence the political con
trol of many of those States has been
handed over to a elaas of profligate, ad
venturers whose many wrong doings
have never been rebuked, but who, on
the contrary, have had the aid and
countenance of the President and his
party, even to the extent of revolution
ary and lawless usurpation, civil and
military. The forcible overthrow of the
Legislature of Louisiana by Sheridan’s
dragoons having been substantialyy ap
proved by a Senate resolution.
At the last session of Congress meas
ures were concooted, in joint cauous of
the Republicans of both Houses, and
proposed by them for passage into laws,
which, but for the vigorous and vigilant
opposition of the minority, would have
become laws, and which must have de
stroyed the very form of republican gov
ernment under which we live. On the
part of some of the leaders of that party I
believe this result was fully intended,
and can interpret suoh measures as the
“force bill” and the propositions con
tained in the President’s message on
Arkansas and the other “reconstructed”
States as having no less fatal and crimi
nal an object.
Foremost among those who pursued
the Southern people most vindictively,
and who would reduce them to political
and moral slavery at the feet of his par
ty, is Senator Morton, of Indiana, who,
you now tell me, is making a political
tour in your State.
In opposition to Mr. Morton, I hold
the people of the Southern States are
our fellow-countrymen and citizens, who
must either assist us to govern the ooun
try, or be subjected to methods and
forms involuntary as to them, and for
bidden by our present form of govern
ment to us. I wish to treat them, and
I wish them to feel as our friends,
brothers and fellow-countrymen, having
as much pride, interest, and right in
our Federal Union as ail others of us
have; and if this is to be brought about,
then the tirades of Mr. Morton and his
school must cease. They can be made
to cease by being unpopular. He and
his party are willing to be unjust so long
as they can also be successful; but suc
cess so brought about is fatal to the
happinesss and best interest of the en
tire oountry.
I once said in the Senate that “ just
tice to the South was self-protection to
the North.” Let me again repeat it, and
appeal to the kind hearts and cool minds
of the people of Maine to respond to the
sentiment.
The dear country of ours is young and
strong in all the elements of truly na
tional strength, and a restoration of free
intercourse and free trade between the
States, and above all friendly feelings
between the people of all its sections,
will soon retrieve all the errors and mis
fortunes of the past and present; but I
know the present Republican party
stands in the path of this restoration of
good feeling aud consequent prosperity,
and that until it is dislodged from power
it will be vain to look for that peace and
prosperity we all so long for.
And should the people of this coun
try, from aDy cause, ignorantly or pas
sionately, again grant a renewal of po
litical power to those hands which have
proved so incompetent, unfit and un
worthy to exercise it, and to comprehend
its responsibilities, I shall indeed feel
almost hopeless of the cause of honest
and free government in this land.
Respectfully, yours,
T. F. Bayard.
To Mabcellus Emery, Esq.
The influence of civilization in the
Fiji Islands do not seem to be benefi
cent in their physical manifestations.
The distemper that came upon the Fiji
ans after British dominion first extend
ed ever the islands has produced the
most serious consequences, as the death
rate of 10,000 a month for-the last four
months shows. The scourge assumed
the form of a plague, for which the pre
valence of the measles afforded the
foundation. All work was suspended
for two months during the worst of
it, the streets of the town were complete
ly covered with grass, and many persons
died of starvation, there being so few to
perform tbe service of providing and
nursing. In one village all the women
died; in another all tbe men. All were
tumbled indiscriminately into graves
made in the first spot that could be found
large enough to receive the bodies. The
stronger ones attempted suicide; those
who had embraced the Christian faith,
thinking the disease conveyed by their
teachers, abandoned their new religion,
and some were in favor of killing their
teachers. Even under ordinary condi
tions the population of Fiji has been di
minishing, and probably half of what
was left has been swept away. If Eng
land values her new subjects the islands
have proved a poor investment, for at
the present rate they will soon be noth
ing but a grand cemetery. Extermi
nation seems to work better than among
the American Indians.
The Holman English Opera Trompe
are playing in Michigan.
SELF DESTRUCTION.
ONE MORE UNFORTUNATE.
J. T. Heard, Convicted of Assault and
Sentenced. Commits Suicide—Tlie Re
mains Brought to Angnsta.
Last Sunday information was reoeived
here that James T. Heard, whose family
reside near this oity, had committed sui
cide. The circumstances connected with
the arrest of Heard, at Conyers, are well
known to all the readers of the Chroni
cle and Sentinel. On the evening of
Monday, September 6th, 1875, Heard
was in Conyers, at the Whitehead
House. During the evening tbe two
little girls of Mrs. Chamberlain, pro
prietress of the house, who had been
playing with Heard, went to their
mother and complained to her in refer
ence to Heard. The latter, When
charged with the crime, denied it. He
was then attacked by Mr. George Cham
berlain and severely beaten. He was
afterwards taken in charge by an officer
and
Plaoed In Jail.
The citizens of Conyers were much
excited, and at one time the life of the
accused was iu considerable danger.
The populape were restrained by the
officers, however, aud no violenoe was
offered. On the succeeding Wednesday
Heard .gave boud in the sum of four
thousand dollars for his appearanfie nt
the next term of Rockdale Superior
Court, and was released. After his re
lease he had an interview with the re
porters of the Atlanta papers, and de
clared in the most emphatio terms
that he was innocent of the charge
made against him. To his counsel,
Judge Hook and General Gartrell, he
also protested his innooenoe. He had
beau playing with the little girls, he
said, as he had often done before when
stopping at the house, but had taken no
improper liberties. Public opinion was
divided in regard to the matter. While
many believed that tho charge was true,
a great number did not, and all seemed
disposed to withhold any harsh judg
ment until after a judicial investigation
should be had. Last Saturday
The Trial
Took place at Conyers, before Judge
John I. Hall, of tho Flint Circuit. Soli
oitor-General Cabaniss, Jndge Floyd
and four looal attorneys represented the
State, and J udge Hook and General
Gartrell the prisoner. The indictment
charged the prisoner with assault with
intent to commit a rape. The prosecu
tion and defense were both ably con
ducted. The jury retired at 0, p. m.,
and returned at twelve with a verdict
finding the defendant guilty of an assault,
but reoommending him to the mercy of
the Court. Judge Hall immediately sen
tenced Heard to six months’ imprison
ment in the county jail and one thou
sand dollars fine, the
Full Penalty
Of the law. Notice of a motion for a
new trial was at once given. Heard was
taken in charge by the Sheriff aud car
ried to jail. On his way he requested
the Sheriff to let him stop at his room,
at the house where had been staying,
and get some pauers he had iu his pock
ets. The Sheriff consented, Heard stop
ped at the room, procured what he want
ed, and also took a drink of water. It
is supposed that he emptied into this,
unobserved, a largo quantity of mor
phine, as a paper to which a few par
ticles of the drug were adhering was
afterwards found on the floor. A few
minutes afterwards Heard was locked up
in a oell in the jail. Shortly before 1
o’clock Gen. Gartrell, who had succeed
ed in obtaining bail for tho prisoner,
went to the jail, in company with the
Sheriff, to inform Heard and release him.
They found him in a state of
stupor and collapse. They instantly
came to the conclusion that he had
taken poison aud charged him with it.
Heard denied it and these were the
last words he ever uttered. Dr. Stew
art was sent for at once. He declared,
as soon as he saw Heard, that he had
swallowed
Poison
And made every effort to counteract its
effects, but all in vain. The unfortun
ate man expired about four o’clock. It
was supposed that he had taken from
six to eight grains of morphine. He
had evidently procured the drug in or
der to be prepared for the event of lus
conviction. We understand that he
stated some days ago that if he was
found guilty of the charge he did not
see how he could stand it, thus inti
mating very clearly an iutention to take
bis own life in such an event. His
counsel endeavored to pursuade him to
allow them to continue the case until
the next term of the Court, but he re
fused and declared that he preferred to
have the trial as soon as possible. Act
ing upon this determination no effort
was made to postpone the case. The
suicide created a profound sensation in
Conyers. Many persons who had bitter
feelings towards the unfortunate man
accompanied
The Body
To the depot. Over seventy-five peo
ple were at the latter place when the
train arrived. The body was placed on
the train and brought to the late resi
dence of the deceased, four miles from
this city. The meeting of the family
with the corpse is said to have been
heartrending in the extreme. The fun
eral of the deceased took place from St.
John’s M. E. Church in this city yester
day afternoon.
Heard leaves a wife, two children,
mother and two sisters, all of whom
were dependent upon him for a sup
port.
PLAYING FOR LARGE STAKES.
An Attempt to Take Possession of Valu
able Property la Chicago, Under
Revolutionary Claims.
( Washington Special to the A r . Y. Times.]
The attempted entry at the Spring
fleld( 111.,) Land Office by. a Mr. Middle
ton, of Washington, of certificates of
the Porterfield scrip upon lands in the
center of Chicago, including the Pal
mer House, has been made known to tbe
General Land Office through Mr. Mid
dleton himself. He has made applica
tion at different times to ascertain
whether his appeal has arrived. This
Porterfield scrip is similar in character
to the Valentine scrip, which Drum
mond, ex-Oommissioner of the Land
Office, is seeking to locate upon the
lands of the Illinois Central Company
in Chicago. The Porterfield scrip, how
ever, has less value than the other inas
much as it can not be located upon un
surveyed lands. The Porterfield scrip
is properly a revolutionary land warrant,
and not a scrip in the same sense as tbe
Valentine scrip. The former is muoh
older than tbe Valentine, having been
issued under a special act of Congress
in April, 1860. The whole amount of it
is for 6,133 acres. It was issued to the
heirs of Charles Porterfield, a captain
of the Virginia line in the Revolu
tionary war, who had neglected to
take out his land until debarred by
the general act of 1852, and for whose
felief this subsequent legislation was
had. The warrant for the entire 6,000
acres went to the heirs, who very speed
ily sohi it for one dollar per acre. Of
the 6,000 acres nearly one-half has al
ready been located upon lands some of
which are of great value. The remain
ing half is owned by tne law firm of
Chipman, Hosmer A Cos., of this city,
who bought it for twelve dollars per
acre. They are holding it for the pur
pose of speculation, and it is presumed
that Middleton obtained his warrant
through them, if he has not acted direct
ly for them. Chipman was a delegate in
the last Congress from this district. The
Commissioner of the General Land
Office will recommend some legislation
which may help to prevent raids upon
innocent owners of land by speculators
who hold letters of marque in the shape
of floating scrip, and he will especially
recommend that no further issues for
any purposes whatever may be made.
No proceedings Lave been taken relative
to the entry of the Valentine scrip upon
the Illinois Central lands by ex-Com
missioner Drummond, except to regu
larly enter them upon the books. Drum
mond has as yet made no motion in the
matter. The Valentine scrip is issned
upon the commonest of paper, without
the seal of office, and could be counter
feited in any country printing office.
Gen. Grant and his male companions
must have had an uproarious time on
the night of the Des Moines banquet.—
A female correspondent of the Chicago
Inter-Ocean writing of the affair says :
“At 2 o’clock the banquet proper ended.
Of the ‘orgies’ I know not, but for once
in a lifetime I believe it’s a good thing
to make merry in snob a cause. God
bless our Boys in Blue wherever they
may go.” It is better to draw the vail
at 2, a. m. There was doubtless a regu
lar old Tiro Island affair altar that.
NUMBER 42
THE STATE.
THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS.
Atlanta has 57 public school teach*
era.
001. 0. B Wooten has moved from
Macon to Albany.
The Lat Grange Female College is in a
very flourishing condition.
R. H Sims, of Orifflii, was stricken
wjth paralysis, Sunday, the 10th.
The Southern Watchman says Athens
has from 40 to 50 mil. s of streets.
Wanted—a good proof reader in the
office of “the trained journalist.”
M'. G. C. Looney has resigned the
Presidency of the Gainesville College.
Statistics for the year endiug August
31st give Atlanta a population of 32,000.
Two young men named Elrodd are in
Dahlonega jail, charged with corn steal
ing.
A little son of Mr. John Saye, of
Athens, broke his arm by a fall from a
tree.
William Warwick, of Atlanta, will be
be Assistant Superintendent at the State
Fair.
. Ex-Governor Brown favors the con
tinuation of the high school system in
Atlanta.
tt. R. Blocker, of Bluffton, was recent
ly admitted to the bar in Calhoun
oounty.
W. J. Goss has been appointed Post
master at Harmony Grove, Jackson
county.
Mr. R. W. Jones, from Covington, has
taken charge of the Sims House, in La-
Grange.
The store of Capt. J, W. Woodward,
of Dahlonega, was burglarized the night
of the Ist.
Rev. Mr. Hallom, rector of Calvary
Church, Americus, has accepted a call
to Athens.
Phil/P Williams seriously cut James
McGuire at the Rome Fair Grounds the
Bth instant.
The October number of the Kenneaw
lioute Gazette is a beautiful and enter
taining sheet.
The Rome Commercial learns that
001. Cohen lost about SI,OOO by the
Fair at Rome.
Willis Whatley, of Taylor county, re
cently had hishand and arm severely
cut by a gin.
The Mr. Sanders who fell from the
Selma Railroad bridge, inFloyd county,
is fast improving.
J. D. Harlan, a stranger from Ala
bama, died in the Atlanta station house
yesterday morning.
. “The,' Every Evening" is the latest
journalistic venture in Savannah. Car
ter & Sneed, publishers.
Mrs. S. E. Adams, of Opelika, Ala.,
will move to Atlanta in December and
take the Cannon House.
John C., son of Brinkley Chanoey, of
Early county, had his left hand and arm
severely cut in a gin recently.
A oopper mine has been found on a
Paulding county lot belonging to Cols.
Forsyth and Reese, of Rome.
Mr. J. M. Webster is conductor on
the Atlanta and West Point train, for
merly run by Mr. J. A. MeOool.
Miss Alla, daughter of Dr. G. W.
Holmes, exhibited a number of fine
crayon pictures at the Rome Eair.
The Atlanta public schools receipts
for the year ending August 31st were
$49,788 84 ; expenditures, $49,458 10.
There is to be a big singing conven
tion at Cleveland, White county, Friday
before the first Sunday in November.
Judge Pullum has withdrawn from
the lesseeship of the National Hotel, in
Atlanta, on account of the serious ill
ness of his wife.
In the case of Christian against Rau
sone, for libel, in Early Superior Court,
a verdict for $3,000 for the plaintiff was
returned, #
Mrs. Knight, of Talbot, attempted to
commit suicide by shooting herself
in the left side with a pistol. She is
supposed to be insane.
The Morgan Rangers is the name of a
new cavalry company, composed of men
from Baldwin, Putnam and Jones. Dr.
C. W. Snead, Captain.
The gin house, dwelling and out
buildings on the place formerly owned
by Mr. Charlie Whitehead, in Miller
county, were consumed by fire recently.
Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Bird were pain
fully hurt in Early county the 6th inst.
by being thrown from a buggy. Though
painful,their wounds are pronounced not
dangerous.
.General Longstreet has purchased a
half interest in a hotel at Gainesville,
and he is having built a beautiful resi
dence, a frame building, with ten rooms
and a basement, on a spot commanding
a magnificent view.
Ex-Gov. Brown says there is no posi
tion in Washington ho would have.
Stop, Joseph, and think again, before
you so utterly and remorselessly blast
the hopes of the many constituents
whose admiration for your course since
the war makes them long to place you
again in public life.
The Athens Georgian says the cause
of Dr. Broun’s resignation “war an act
on the part of the Board of Trustees to
wards Dr. Broun as unjust as it was
ruinous, both to the prospective interest
of the University and the State College
of Agriculture, and which wo will at an
other time give in full, that the curious
and inquiring public may know the true
cause of the resiguation of Dr. W. Lerov
Broun. ”
It seems to have taken nearly the
whole of Lumpkin county to capture and
poor devil named Gaddis. He had al
ready been shot through the face by one
of two brave (?) fellows who had cap
tured him and were marching him to
Dahlonega. He escaped from these
men, and soon the county was alive with
armed men hunting for him. They
found him in the woods, with his wife
feeding him and dressing his wounds.
He attempted to run. “Mr. Woody”
shot him in the back and he
fell. “Mr. Millwood” then ran and
jumped on him, and he and Mr. Woody
tied him and with the aid of about six
teen guards, they carried him to jail.
Marriages.
In Newnan, sth, Wm. Delaney to Mrs.
Sarah Burks.
Near Lutherville, 3d, H. C. Davis to
Allie Lasseter.
In Monroe, recently, R. J. Paxon to
Augie Robinson.
In Columbus, recently, Wm. Bond to
Amanda Mehaffey.
In LaGrange, 6th, Wm. T. Stovall to
MaryF. Ragsdale.
In Griffin, 7th, Robert A. Hardee to
Mary U. Dickinson.
In Vienna, Bt.h, J. F. Bailey, of Ameri
cus, to Julia Skipper.
In Gainesvi le, 6th, John Tolbert, of
Atlanta, to Oarrie Hope.
In Duluth, recently, J. R. Brantly, of
Senoia, to Dora Howell.
In Sewanee, Tenn., sth, John J. Seay,
of Rome, to Flora Bayard.
In Washington county, recently,
Horace Adams to Nonie Wells.
In Washington connty, September 30,
S. T. McAfee to Mary A. D. Wood.
In Carrollton, September 23 1, Samuel
J. Bagwell to Eugenia A. Harrison.
In Elbert county, September 22d,
Thomas A. Edmuuds to Hattie Nelms.
In Americus, 7th, H. N. Campbell, of
Nachitoches, Louisiana, to Mrs. E. M.
Reviere.
Deaths.
In Macon, 12th, Joseph Railey.
In Macon, Bth, Wm. R. Pendl y.
In Savannah, recently, John Walsh.
In Rome, 11th, Mrs. Hall, aged 85.
In Warren county, 2d, Jimmie Pilcher.
In Barnesville, recenty, Talbot David
son.
In Savannah, recently, Mrs. M. E.
Trawell.
Near Porter Springs, 3d, Mrs. M.
Thomas.
In Upson county, 3d, Mrs. W. W.
Hartsfield.
In Atlanta, recently, Mrs. Moriah L.
McDaniel.
In Gainesville, recently, Major John
E. Caldwell.
In Crawford, recently, Willie McMa
han, aged 5.
In Warren county, Sherman Arm
trong, aged 73.
In Oglethorpe county, 6th, Mrs. P,
W. Hutcheson.
At Eatonton, recently, Swann, infant
•on of B. H. Sanders.
At Lithonia, 11th, Henry Mann, a
veteran of the war of 1812, aged 97.
