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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (March 29, 1876)
OLD SERIES —VOL- IC! NEW SERIES—TOL. XL. TERMS. TffE DAILY CHROMITE* SENTINEL, the olden! newspaper m the South, is jpnbhsbta daily, except Monday. Terme: Per year, 9 10 . six months. 95 ; three months, 12 50. THE WEEKLY oHRONICLE A SENTINEL is published every Wednesday. Terms : One year, 92: six months. 11. THE TRI-WEEKLY i HKONICLE A BENTI-! NEL is published every Toesday, Thursday I and Saturday Tetma : One year, 95; six | months, 92 50. SUBSCRIPTIONS in all cases in advance, and j no paper continued after the expiration of j the time paid for. BATES OF ADVERTISING IN DAILY.—AII transient advertisements will be charged at the rate of ft per square each insertion "for the first week. Advertisements in Tri-Week ly, 91 per square: in Weekly. 91 per square. Marriage and Funeral Notices. 91 each. Special Notices, ti per square. Special rates will be made for advertisements running for one month or longer. ILL COMMUNICATIONS announcing candi dates for office—from County Constable to members of Congress—will be charged at the rate of twenty cents per line. All announce ments must be paid for in advance. Address WALSH A WRIGHT, Chbosict.e A Srvti.vki.. AngnMa Ga. j Ctjromcle and .Sentinel. WEDNESDAY MARCH 29, 1876. Babcock says crooked whisky isn’t any worse than crooked mules. Mb. Waterman, of the LaGrange Re porter, will accept our thanks for his very kind and complimentary notice. Nobody seems inclined to start a new paper in Boston. At the sale of Wins i/ow's paper—the News —the entire out fit did not briDg more than three thou sand dollars. A double cylinder Tai lor press, which cost seventy-five hun dred dollars, sold for less than six hun dred. ’ Governor Smith has been censured a great dial in Coweta county for re spiting Brinkley, the condemned wife murderer. It now appears that sv.fficient newly discovered evidence _ has been produced to warrant the Superior Court in granting the prisoner anew trial. Better let ten guilty men escape than bang one man wrongfully. Ik. It seems that Senator Conklino will have the vote of his State, New York, in the Republican National Convention, even though th e Herald could not find a rhyme for his name. Well, there’s some comfort in the reflection that Conklino is a better man than either Morton or Blaine, if he 'does wear ringlets anu wrestle with dumb bells. The Democrats in Southwestern Geor gia dp not seem to be very .harmonious. The Chairman of the Executive Com mittee of the Secoad District, Judge D. A. Vahon, says that “finding it imprac ticable to harmonize the committee ou any one plaoo for the assembling of the Convention," he follows custom and names Albany as the place of meeting. General Grant has expressed a de termination to veto the Senate bill cut ting down the President’s salary to twenty-five thousand dollars per an num. When General Quant was firßt inaugurated he said that the will of Congress should be the will of the President; that the way to get rid of bad laws was not to veto, but to execute them. Now the smoky Sphynx sings a different song. The suffragists in Massachusetts do uot abandon the field. A resolution has been introduced in the House of Repre sentatives providing for an amendment of the Constitution to secure the elective franchise and the right to hold office to women. The amendment proposed gives to female citizens of the age of twenty-one and upwards, who are tax payers, the right to vote aud hold office upon substantially the same conditions as male oitizens. Mr. Lamar, of Mississippi, is serious ly ill, aud is threatened with paralysis. Ho has gone to New York to consult a physician, and will afterward go to his home ill Mississippi, to remain for the present. It is doubtful whether he will be able to woutinue his labors as a mem ber of the House. His absenoe will be a serious loss to the Democratic aide of the House. He has been unwell all Winter, aud having onoe had a shock of paralysis, his physioal condition is a itical one. Hon. Thomas Hardeman has no idea of allowing himself to be counted out of the raoe at this early hour. The Macon telegraph, noticing the Albany New*' statement t 0 effect ‘that Col. Thos. Harde.man did not wish to be considered a oaudid.de for Governor, says : “We feel authorised in saying that when Col. Hardeman want.'' such an announcement as the above mad. 1 , he will give it the authority of his signature.” We are con fident ourselves that CoL Hardeman’s opponents need not expect to see him drop out of the race until the last ballot has been couuted. The Dahlonega Signal gives a hint to Gubernatorial candidates that they will do well to heed. That paper says Northeast Georgia “is now a splendid missionary ground, and au aspiraut who might deem the game worth the candle and come up aud see the wants of the •ooantry and laud a helping hand in its development would gain au accession to hie strength that might tell in the ap proaching Convention.” Hear ye this Messrs. Colquitt aud Hardeman and James aud Gautkell? Hitch up your special trains, gentlemen, and start at once to this spleudid missionary ground in the cnountains. The Courts have given the Direct Trade Union a black eye. Wm. Lamp kin, an agent af the Luion, was in dicted in Monro'S Superior Court for larceuy alter a trust la appropriating : the proceeds of cotton strid by him- The , defendant’s counsel moved to quash tfee indictment upon the ground that the act of incorporation was unaoustitu- j tioaal, the Legislature having no power under the Constitution to grant oorpor- ; ate power to any private company, ex- j eept to Banking, Insurance, Railroad, Canal, Navigation, Mining, Express, 1 Lumber, Manufacturing and Telegraph , Companies; the object for which this corporation was created being neither of those mentioned. The Judge granting the motion deciding that the act in corporating the Direct Trade Union was Te Atlanta Courier has suspended. The Commonwealth says that the suspension waa caused by the course of Mr. A. P. Woodward, one of the late proprietors of the Courier; that the money to start the paper, after tho clos ing up. of the Herald, had been loaned by friends,' Mr. Woodward giving his note and a mortgage on the material to secure the payment of the loan; that af terwards Woodward went into the Con stitution office as book-keeper, selling bis interest in the Courier to hia brother-in-law, Mr. A.E. Erwin, the lat ter giving Woodward his note and mort gage; that ou Wednesday the sheriff made a levy under the mortgage given by Erwin to Woodward, and carried off the subscription book. Per con tra, Mr. Woodward says the Courier had already been levied upon with laborers’ liens issued in favor ol the printers, and that he foreclosed the mortgage which he held only to protect himaelL THE CAPTIVE OF CORDOVA. Colonel Albert B. Lamar, the elo quent orator of Bt. Patrick’s day, made use of one illustration that is especially worthy of mention. A cymic statesman, he said, had asserted that the Constitu tion of the United States would uot last longer than the paper upon which it is written. The orator said that in the city of Cordova in Spain there now stands a building which was once a Moorish temple, and in which the Moors formerly kept their Christian captives. On one of the pillars may be seen the marks the chain that held a Christian martyr had worn into the marble. Upon the marble slab at the base of the column is the sign of the cross traced in the stone through long and weary years of suffering by the 1 captive’s finger nail. The captive died i many hundred of years ago, and bis bones repose beneath the scene of bis goffering. The Moors have passed away, Empires have crumbled and dy- j nasties have been overthrown, bat the : holy sign which the captive traced in stone remains a witness of his martyr dom and of the faith which never died. The paper npon which our Constitution is written may become dust; but if the prihciples of free government are in scribed upon the hearts of men they will survive all the mutations of time, and defy all the assaults of tyranny. These are indeed golden words. They teach a lesson which con* veys its own appropriate moral. They instruct us that patience and fortitude under adverse circumstances will in the end compel a better fortune. A politi cal party ran mad with power, made drunken by victory, may run riot over the land and pervert, defile and destroy the Constitution of oar fathers—the glorious heritage of the first revolution. But the triumph of evil will be but temporary if we remain firm in our adherence to the true faith. So long as the people cherish within their breasts the great trnths of constitutional liberty, so long is the safety of republican government assured. Our enemies may do serious mischief, may do as they have done grievous wrong. They may tear the Con stitution to tatters, and violate every principle which was bequeathed to us, bathed with the life’s blood of the fathers. But if we despair not of the Republic; if we lose not the hope that is born of conscious right; if we adhere to principle and scorn all coalition with fraud, the Supreme Ruler will, in His own* good time, bring about our de liverance, and the eyes of the weary watcher in this night of misrule and oppression will surely be gladdened by the golden dawn of constitutional liberty. Let us heed the lesson: Leaders and parties may pass away, statesmen and demagogues may dissolve into dust, but the sacred sign, traced by a people’s finger upon a nation’s heart, will remain to attest an abiding faith re warded by a glorious victory. THE WORK OF THE SESSION. Among other laws of public interest passed at the last session of the General Assembly was a statute of limitations with regard to proceedings to set aside any judgment or decree of a Court. Any motion of this kind must be made within three years of the rendering of the judgment or decree. A departure from Snnday laws is made in the act permitting freight trains running over the Georgia Railroad on Saturday night to run through to their destination, pro vided they arrive not later than half past nine o’clock .Sunday ‘morning. The trouble caused by the decision of the Supreme Court that the act of the Legislature permitting the sale of home steads in certain cases was unconstitu tional called for additional legislation on the subject. The act to provide for the adjustment of the rights of parties in oases where the homestead has been sold has been published before in full in the columns of the Chronicle and Sentinel. We hope it may do all that its framers intended it to accomplish ; but we have grave doubts on the sub ject. The immense homestead allowed by the Constitution has been a blight upon the State, and will always be a a cause of trouble add confusion so long aa the constitutional provision stands. The only effectual remedy is a Convention, which will reduce the homestead within legitimate bounds. The.administration of county affairs is sought to be protect ed by the passage of an act compelling Ordinaries, County Treasurers, Clerks of the Superior Court and Sheriffs to make a return under oath to the grand jury of their respective counties on the first day of each term of the amount of money received by them belong ing to the county, the source from which the same was received, and their expenditures, accompanied with proper vouchers. The administration of jus tice is further protected by making it unlawful for a Solicitor-General to ad vise or suggest to a party under indict ment to plead guilty, or to promise any person uuder indictment in considera tion of a plea of guilty to intercede with the Court in his behalf. A doubt hav ing arisen in legal minds whether a per son who set fire to his own house oould be convioted ol arson under existing laws, the Legislature has passed a special statute declaring that such an act shall be considered and punished as arson. This seems to have been a novel doubt, but as it had arisen the Legislature very wisely cured it by legislation. An act to amend the homestead laws of the State makes some important changes ! which are designed to prevent much of ; the fraud that has often been practiced heretofore in the exemption of realty and personalty. A party making appli cation for such exemption is required to give the full name and age of the wife or children for whose benefit the exemp (t;nn is desired. The schedule must be ! accompanied with a list of the party’s creditors, sworn ij and their post office iiddress, if known. 'Rh* applicant is compelled to give notice of the applica tion and of the day of hearing to each | creditor residing in th? county at least fiveday* before the hearing, audio notify creditors residing out ol the county fif teen days before the hearing. The bearing of the petition is to be not leas than twenty nor more thirty days from the date of application. The property set apart for the benefit of a wife alone : shall revert to the debtor’s estate upon i her death or marriage; if set apart for ! the benefit of minor children it shall re vert when the children die, when they marry,being minors, or wben they become of age. Whenever a change of in vestment i is desired application must be made to the j Jndge of the Superior Court, all the , pmucadings recorded and the proceeds of the sale be Reinvested in the same kind of property, read w# personal, as that which was sold. When all parties j jntecaebad consent the homestead estate and fee simple estate may be both sold at the same time, and tfcfi Judge shall provide fully for the protection of the parties. If this law stands the test of the Courts the process of obtaining a homestead will be mach mow lengthy and difficult in the future than it has been in the past, and many of the in ducements to defraud contained in the ! old law will be done away*with. Still the radical remedy can only be found in a Convention whioh will make the home stead so small that creditors will not be likely to complain of the exemption. To prevent the State from losing the hire of convicts, it is enacted that where les sees fail to pay what they owe, the Comptroller General is authorized, af ter thirty days written notice to the lessees, to issue executions against the lessees and the security on their bond, which shall be collected in the same way as ft fa*, against defaulting tax collec tors. The act passed by the Legislature empowering Judges ol the Superior Court to employ a stenographic reporter in each Judicial Circuit will, in all the important circuits, save time and money to the tax payers of the counties. The stenographer is a sworn officer of the Court and is employed to takedown the testimony of witnesses in all felony cases. His compensation, not to exceed fifteen dollars per day, is fixed by the presiding Jndge and is to be paid out of the County Treasury. In cases of con viction the fee allowed the reporter is i taxed, with the other costs of the trial, against the accused. Where the report er is employed in important civil causes his compensation is fixed by agreement of opposing counsel. In circuits like the Augusta, the Atlanta, the Eastern, the Muscogee, the Ocmulgee and the Northern the system, if given a fair trial, will work well and save money to the tax payers. Good reporters will enable business to be dispatched so rapidly that criminal trials which now consume two and three days can be finished in a few hours. In addition the record will be made more full and complete and disagreements of counsels as to the facts be prevented. An at tempt to better protect human life is found in the act making it a mis demeanor for any person to lend, give or sell to a minor pistol, dirk, bowie knife or sword cane, except under cir cumstar fs justifying their use in de fending life, limb or property. A con sirable portion ol the homicides that occnr in this State are committed by minors, and this law may prevent reckless or drunken youths from endangering the lives of others. The great difficulty, we apprehend, will be found in its enforcement. Until grand juries are made different from what they are at present the act is apt to remain— like the laws against carrying concealed weapons and selling liquor to drunken men—a dead letter upon the statute books. The Legislature declined to al low Mr. Peterson Thweatt to sne the State, though the justice of his claim was certified to by a number of the lead ing lawyers of Georgia ; but it passed an act permitting parties to sue the State for claims against the Macon and Brunswick Railroad, where the cause of action lias originated since June Ist, 1875—the day on which Governor Smith took possession of the property of the company. So much of the general school law is repealed as required the County Commissioner to make an ap portionment of the school fund of the county, both that which may be derived from the State and that which may be raised by general taxation upon the property of the county, on the basis of the number of children of school age in the several sub-districts, and to disburse the fund in accordance with this appor tionment after reporting to the County Board of Education. Another law—the object of which is not very patent— allows sworn weighers of cotton, corn, rice, etc., to make such deductions from wet or other cause as may be reasonable, when the seller or his agent shall con sent to such reduction. A general act— not allowed to conflict with local legisla tion—requires the officers of the differ ent Courts, including Solicitors, to pay all the money arising from fines and forfeitures into the County Treasurer. The Treasurer is required to keep the fund of each Court separate, and to pay the different officers upon the order of the Judge. The jury fee for each ver dict or decree in the Superior Court is fixed at three dollars, and for each confession of judgment or award one dollar—the same to be paid into the county treasury and added to the jury fund. A law to regulate the sale of poisons in this State names a long list of poisonous substances which druggists and others are forbidden to furnish by retail unless labeled “poison.” Druggists are required to keep a book in which shall be registered the name of -the poison sold, the name of the purchaser and address, the date of the delivery, the purpose for which it is represented to be required and the name of the salesman. This book is to be preserved for reference at least five years,- and shall always be open to the inspection of the proper authorities. The penalty for a violation of this law is a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding six months, or both, at the discretion of the Judge trying the case. This is a very stringent statute, and druggists will do well to give it their attention. Judges of the Superior Court are au thorized to strike criminal cases from the docket when there has been no ap pearance of the defendant and. where they have reason to believe there will be no appearanoe. These oases mast then be put on a docket for criminal cases that have been standing for five years, and witnesses are released from farther attendance until again subpoenaed. Any person harboring, secreting or employ ing escaped convicts from the chain gang or penitentiary are to be punished, if the convict had been guilty of a felony, by imprisonment not exceeding four years nor less than one year in the penitentiary; if the convict has been guilty of a misdemeanor, the punish ment shall be as for a misdemeanor. For several years efforts have been made to reduce the compensation of Tax Col lectors and Receivers in this State. The last act passed fixes their compensation at . ten per cent, on all digests of SI,OOO j and under; nine per cent, on all over SI,OOO and under $2,000; seven per cent. | on all over $2,000 and under $3,000; six i per cent, on all over $3,000 and under five per cent, on all over $4,000 and under $6,000; four per cent, on all over $6,000 and under $8,000; three and j a half per cent, on all oyer SB,OOO and ! 'under $12,000; three per cent, on all | over $12,000 and under $15,000; two and a half per cent, on all over $15,000 and j under $18,000; two and a .quarter per ; cent, on all over SIB,OOO and under• ! $20,000; two per cent, on all of $20,000 asd over. Tax Receivers are allowed one-half of the commissions given Tax Collectors for the collection of county taxes. Collectors and Receivers in the counties of Bibb, Chatham, Fulton and Richmond we allowed three per cent, upon the amount of the digests. We hope that Qentleman Geoboe is not getting into deep water. We have an abiding faith in his honor and integ rity, snd cannot believe that there is any truth in the dispatch I concerning him, which was published in the Chbosiclb asd Sestdtel yesterday ; morning. ’ ’ Asp the Macon Telegraph will not tell ns who has been sneering at and starring Senator Gordon. Gome now, what is the matter 1 The man who knows, “an he wonld tell,” naughty things about Mr. Ptespur tos is Bknjakln F. Bctlkb, the New Orleans spoon thief. AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 29, 1876. GRANT, BOUTWELLAND CLEWS. Our dispatches published yesterday morning stated that Senator Bout well “calls for a copy of his letter to Henry “Clews asking for sixty thousand dol lars for the Pennsylvania campaign on “corrupt conditions.” The origin of this demand was a story which has gain ed currency in Albany, New York, dar ing the past few days, and which is quoted as follows : “Governor Tilden and Lieutenant-Governor Dobshbimeb, of New York, are reported, on good au thority, to have recently repeatedly de clared that they hold in their hands an original letter of George S. Boutwell to Henry Clews which affords ground for the impeachment of President Ulys ses S. Grant, and they describe this letter as t written to Clews by Bout well, as Secretary ol the Treasury, in September, 1872, directing Clews to send 860,000 to the Republican State Committee of Pennsylvania for the pur pose of securing the success of the Re publican ticket in that State at the elec tion which was to occur in October, and promising, on the authority of the Presi dent, to reimburse him by early secret information of pales of gold to be made by the Treasury Department by means of which information he could gamble securely and successfully in the gold and stock markets in Wall street.” A reporter of the New York Herald was instructed to follow up the rumor, and he went to the fountain head by in terviewing Gov. TildeN and Lieutenant- Governor Dorsheimer. According to the statement of this reporter, the Gov ernor when questioned as to the correct ness of the report was silent for some moments. Then he said that the report was not well founded. When asked if he could give an idea as to where the report originated, he said the reporter had better wait and see him again. The Governor said that the Lieutenant- Governor knew a little less about the matter than he did. The reporter said that on questioning the Lieutenant- Governor he told him that he had no letter like the one referred to in his pos session, but said, “there is a statement that there is such a letter.” Another dispatch asserts that Gov. Tilden said he had no suoh letter, and that Lieu tenant-Governor Dorsheimer said“there was not a word of truth” in the report. BRISTOW AND HIS CROOKED MULE CLAIM. The claim upon which those twin scamp Senators, Spencer and West, are pursuing Secretary Bristow, the Her cules of the Whisky Ring, was first al luded to we believe by a correspondent of the New York Herald. The corres pondent who writes from Louisville, Kentucky, and who is evidently the per sonal enemy of the Secretary of the Treasury, gives what he pretends is a history of the crooked mule claim which is to break the power and disgrace the name of the great revenue reformer. The statement of the informer is, in substance, as follows: At Nashville, Tennessee, March 9, 1865, Captain How land, a quartermaster in the United States army, gave a memorandum to T. T. Taylor, agent, agreeing to take one thousand mules, to be delivered by April 20th of that year, and to pay for the same prices ranging from 8150 to 8175, according to size. This contract was all on the side of the Government, as Taylor did not bind himself to deliver a single mule. Taylor actually deliver ed twenty-four before General Lee sur rendered, and said he had several hun dred more at different points in Ken tucky, but the quartermaster who suc ceeded Howland refused to receive them as they were not needed. Nine years afterwards Mr. Bristow, represent ing the principals of Taylor—Thomp son, et al. —sued the Government in the Court of Claims for the full value of all the mules ordered and not delivered. By a bare majority the Court awarded the full-amount claimed—Bloß,ooo. It was confidently expected that the Su preme Court, on appeal, would make short work of the case, but strange to say no appeal was taken, and the judg ment was paid thirty days after it was entered, and just before Mr. Bristow became Secretary of the Treasury. The correspondent charges that Mr. Bristow received one-half of the judgment, and 810,000 additional to prevent an appeal bung taken. Attorney-General Wil liams prevented the appeal, and it is in timated that he received the additional 810,000. The correspondent further says it is believed in Kentucky that the claim was manufactured—that Thomp son et al. never had the mules, and never sold them at the loss they reported. Mr. Bristow swears that it was a very inno cent transaction and that he only re- a small retainer and a fee of ten per cent, upon the amount recovered. Well, admitting the truth of his state ment, a retainer and 810,000 made a very good fee for a lawyer who only made a speech and introduced his client to At torney-General Williams as a “gentle man of character and standing.” ECONOMY IN THE NAVY. Just about this time, when the air is filled with reports of stupendons frauds in the Navy Department; when the Sec retary of the Navy is daily charged with corruption in office; when his adminis tration is undergoing a rigid examina tion by a Congressional Investigating Committee; when peculation and mis management run riot in every dock yard; when every contract is obtained by bribery, and when every contractor re imburses himself for the bribe he has had to give by charging the Govern ment enormous prices for the articles he furnishes; when it costs twice as mnch to repair a vessel as to construct one; when extravagance characterizes the ! management of every branch of the ser ! vice; when in spite of the vast sums of | money expended our navy is a fleet of ; rotten hulks that the smallest maritime power in Europe could sweep from the face of the water; it is curious and in structive to turn to the administration of naval affairs in the Olden Time and note the vast difference between Then and Now. We have been shown by Mr. M. P. of this city, a letter written by Commodore David Bobter, the father ol the present Admiral Pob- I ter, of the United States Navy, to Lieu ! tenant Commander Michael P. Carroll, the grand-father of Mr. Carroll, which shows how solicitous the sailors of seventy years ago were to make the navy efficient and to manage it economi cally. It must be remembered, too, j that at that time when a spirit of rigid ; economy pervaded every department of : the service our navy was able to oope | with and to defeat the navy of the great ’ est maritime power on the globe. To j day, with Robeson and the Seoor frauds at the fore, the ships of Spain j would drive our vessels under the guns I of Sumter and Fortress Monroe for ’ shelter. The letter is as follows: Ke<f Orleans, January 17.1609. Sib—l am proceeding down the Biver for a few days; vou will daring my absence take Command of the Squadron, observing the rules and regulations thereof, and Report to me on my return its state, behayour of Offi cers, Ac. Al} Indents taf Articles wanted far the use of the Naval establishment must be countersigned by you before they are handed to the Navy Agent. You have full power to Countersign all Requisitions of any kind given in by the proper Officers, to approve or disap prove of all accounts presented to the Agent for payment, and in general everything for the good Government of the Squadron that I my self could have done if personally present. You will cause the Marines of the Squadron to be disembarked as often as Lieut. RkynoiLs, their Commanding Officer, may wish. On the arrival of the three new Gnn Vessels expected down you will use every poeslble ex ertion to have them compleatlv equiped for service excepting their crews. The one built at Cincinnati I have contract ed with Mr. Ffiotr to coxnpleat her Carpen ters Work in every respect for 1800 $. You will, therefore, deliver hex to him ou her at riTiil. One of the others you will also put out on the best terms. I presume she can be compleated for much less, owing to the dif ference of construction, tme, and her being calculated for One Oun Only—the third you will equip in the Arsenal. Let me impress on your mind the utmost re gard to economy lam efficient that no un necessary expenses will be incurred by you,* but in those that are necessary pray be rigidly economical. You will endeavour to have the Squadron in perfect readiness for Service at a moment’s warning, with the exception of crews for No. 24, and the new Vessels expected down—have the Sheer Hulk in Order for Service without delay, and compleat such arrangements in the Arsenal as I have plreadyJffiintoA out. to you, and when yon have no further calls for the Joiners now employed you will please to dis charge them as well aa all other men whose services are not absolutely wanting in the Ar senal. You will observe the most rigid discipline and Report to me On my return. I have the Honor to be, With Great Respect, Yoar Obedient Servant, D. Poeteb. Lieutenant-Commander Michael P. Cabboll. If they succeed in tanglißg Bristow up in a mule claim the innooents of the whisky ring will be avenged. The woman in the case against Mr. Pendleton is “Mrs. General” Roddy, a prostitute who was recently before a New York police court for blackmailing or stealing, or both. An effort is being made in Missouri to nominate James O. Brodhead for the Presidency. The only notable aot of Mr. Bbodhead’s life was the reception, eight years ago, of a letter from Frank Blair. The Democracy can do better. They can nominate a man who once wrote a letter. We hope that the Executive Commit tee will not select Augusta as the place of meeting for the Distiiot Convention which will be held neit month. An- 1 gusta has had the honoi long enough, and it is only proper thai the claims of other places should }e recognized. Either Thomson, or Sparta, or Greenes boro, or Warrenton, would be a suitable selection. “Mrs. L. J. Wasson,* who writes let ters to the President concerning the cruel treatment of Gtorgia convicts, dates her correspondeioe “Southern Publishing Company, book publishers, Atlanta, Ga.” If Senator Gordon is still President of the Southern Publish ing Company, had he not better look into the matter a little ? General Grant will have to try again before he can fill the English mission. General Sohenoe had to be retired be cause he put up a swindling mining job ou our English cousins ; tnd Mr. Dana’s nomination cannot be confirmed because of an aet of literary pimoy. But the President need not feel disheartened. He can easily flndTnoWtsoamp willing to serve his country at the court of St. James. General Rioe charged Evans, the post trader, one thousand dollars for an introduction to Belknap. Secretary Bristow, according to lis own state ment, received a retainerand ten thou sand dollars for arguing a case in the Court of Claims and iitroducing his olient to Attorney-Gentral Williams as a “ gentleman of character and standing.” Good fees both ; but the charges show a difference in the price of introductions which shoild be regulated by the Government. The deeper the Denooratic Investi gating Committees dig the more fraud they unearth. A few days ago Mr. Barlow, the head of a firm of mail contractors, testified thit in 1872, when a Republican Congressional Committee was investigating the mail routes, he paid a Washington lawyer named Farreb forty thousand dollars with the understanding that noinquiries should be made about his rottes. “He didn’t know and he didn’t wait to know” what was dona with the mppey.; but he did know that the Congresaonal Committee didn’t interfere with: cr inquire into his contracts. ” So Scrugos will notget his silver ink stand after all. Scruigs was formerly of Atlanta and editorof the New Era, but for two years ptst he has been United States Ministe* to Bogota. The Queen of Great Britan presented him with a silver inkstandin appreciation of his services as arbitritor between some English subjects and a South American State. The Senate pissed a resolution authorizing his acceptance of the present, but the Houst has rejected the resolution on the grouid that before the war Congress refused suoh re quests. Scruggs wi)/’ probably go for the silver anyhow anl the action of the House will not amotnt to mnch. Daniel Drew was juite successful as .a drover, but in the ring run the bulls and bears of Wall stfiet have proved too much for him. He wis for a long time very Conspicuous as a speculator, but during the last ten fears he has been particularly distingiished as an easy subject to bleed. Ha has been no match for the younger opeiators who have re peatedly got him into a • corner and forced him to unloal at a loss. At one time his wealth wai estimated all the way from $5,000,00( to $15,000,000; now his liabilities are 9,074,131 83, and his assets meagre an< uncertain. He is supposed, however, to have secured pro vision for his famik as well as been gen erous to the Methdlist Church. The Presidents candidates on both sides of the Hoise are getting somfe savage slaps bebre the assembling of the Nominaing Conventions.— The last one aaaijed is the IJard Money, Home Bile, Free Trade and Reform Governoj of New York.— A bill in equity aas been filed in the United States. Ofcoit Court for the Sonthern Districtaf New York against Samuel J. TiLDENa nd other defendants, who, as is olaimed by the oomplainant, the St. Louis, Albn and Terre Haute Railroad Company were stockholders in the company, by their associates elected and chosm as a committee to dispose of bonds rad stocks, and to re organize the road,'and also constituted a purchasing comaittee. This was in April, 186 L Snlseqnent to this, and after settling the pressing accounts Of the company, Mr! Tilden and the other defendants, as it is alleged by the com plainant, still had large sums of. money belonging to thefcom£a°y in their pos session, and fro ; this money they ap propriated to tip lselvea large sums for the services wlch they professed to have performed. In this way Samuel J. Tilden receive $20,000. The com pUifit farther al ges (bat Hr. Tilden and his apsooiat) have never rendered an account of th trust reposed in them, nor of the moi >ya committed to their care. MINOR TOPICS. A French money lender complained to Baron Rothschild that a nobleman, to whom he had loaned 10.000 franca, had gone off and left no acknowledgement of the debt. “Write to him and esk him to send you immediately the 70,000 francs." “But he only owes me 10,000 francs,” said the money lender. “Precisely,” rejoined .the Baron ; “and he will write and tell yon so, and you will thus get his acknowledgement.” Mr. Hallet Kilboprne is a plucky conspira tor, or else is well paid for his contemn oy. He again declined yesterday to respond to the questions of the special committee on the real estate frands of the District of Columbia, and when brought to the bar of the House still de clined. An order for his imprisonment was voted, and the elegant gentleman of the ring new abides in the District J ail among common felons. He evidently makes it pay by remain ing silent; if not, the country may expect some developments,from Mr. Kilboubnk. And now woman has risen to push man from his eminence in respect to one of the accom plishments which he has always considered peculiarly his own—that of after dinner speak ing. At the twentieth annual festival of the London Dramatic Fund, the most brilliant and by all odds the best and happiest after dinner speech made by Mrs. Stirling, the actress. And the most remarkable feature of the occur rence is the fact that she didn't have to loosen her tongue with champagne before making her speeeh. The Stoats-Zietung, one of the most influen tial German papers in the country, finds many particulars in which an analogy holds between the Belknap soandal and that which precipi ta'ed the fate of the Tammany Ring. In both instances the rogues were so sure of their partisan strength that they took little care to cover the traces of their transgressions. In the case of Tweed the Democrats rose in revolt and subordinated all party feeling to aa effort to Secure an honest administration ; the Staats-Zietung suggests that the Republicans take a lesson from them, and apply it in the present emergency. The Baron de Lesseps, though seventy years old, is still young, and contemplates grand designs. With black eyebrows and moustache, but white beard, he is a most notioeable man. He brings his children up in the most Spartan way. They go about barefooted, and although madame only half likes this, he is able to boast that their young ones, of whom they have a small regiment, are never ill. His house is full of royal gifts and ribbons presented him on the occasion of the opening of the Suez canal. One of these is a gold oup given by the Empress, worth $40,000. It is net muoh wonder that naval expendi tures should be large nnder the administration of Robeson, who has given the country many illustrations of his ability to expend more money on repairs to vessels than the vessels originally oost. Thus the Kearsarge, a vessel which -during the war cost the Government $182,000 at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, when material and muoh higher than they are to-day. was repaired during the present administration, just before an eleotion, at a cost of $496,122 66, or nearly 175 per cent, more than the original oost. “Is Belknap a victim of his wife’s deceit?" asks the Hartford Courant —the same paper which complains that the wicked Democrats have “hounded him down.” It is sufficiently disgraceful to the Radical press, that it tries by every twist and subterfuge to shield Belk nap and let him down easy, without adding to its bod conduct the oowardioe and shame of seeking to shift his crimes on to the shoulders of his wife. As to the “fallen war minister” himself, he would very likely be quite ready to acquiesce in sueh a disgraceful trick. B has sunk to a position in which no new shame or dishonor can “touoh him further.” Minister Washbubne is talked of as the Re publican candidate for Governor of Illinois. It is said that' he has declared that he would rather be Governor of that State for the next four years'than hold any other offioe whatever, and it is proposed by his friends, in order to win the support of Looan and Oolesby, to agree that he Bhall not be a candidate for the United states Senate. On the top of this, it is stated that his nomination will carry his name to the Oincinnati Convention with increased prestige. Why should they want to spoil him for a candidate for Governor by talking of him ■for the Presidency ? The price of admission to the Centennial Ex hibition will be fifty cents for each person, payable in one note. The receivers at the re cording turnstiles will have nothing to do with the notes, except to deoide whether they are good or bad, and to drop them in the boxes, where each one will register itself. An ex change office of the Centennial National Bank will be established near entrance, to change money for visitors not having fifty oent notes. This money changer is expected to have no more nor no less money when his work is done than when he began. The Centennial Com mission, after much inquiry and careful con sideration, concluded that the whole system— absence of season tickets and all—was oheaper and more secure against fraud than any other known. In erder that the cash in the boxes may correspond with the indicators, a dollar note will not be received at any gate for the admission of two persons, nor two twenty-five cent notes for that of one person. The Washington gossips tell of a Con gressman who proclaimed that a rigid system of economy must by practiced, as the various failures here, there and everywhere had dwarfed the amount of his annual income. “But what am Ito do for party dresses,” asks the anxious wife. “Leave that matter to me, my dear, and I will arrange it to your satis faction, "soothingly replied the legislator. Calling in a reporter, he sat before him a tempting array of edibles, with wine enough to send warmth through his veins, and generous throbs to his heart strings. “Now, my friend,” said theM. 0., “I want to employ you to describe my wife’s dresses this Winter, or rather she will describe them, and you can in sert the descriptions in your various pa pers. Here’s ten dollars for your trouble and a seat at our table when you’re hungry.” After this, Mrs. M. C. ap peared clothed in such gorgeousness as was only known to Solomon in all his glory. Yet her wardrobe was exceeding ly circumscribed. Of course, persons present at the various parties, likewise attended by Mrs. M. C., were amazed at the reportorial skill whioh could, ohame leon-like, change her dresses, so con stantly worn, to such varying hues, but the madam’s far-distant friends and her husband's constituents read the descrip tions and thought how rich their Repre sentative had grown and what a very queen of fashion and elegance his wife had become! And the M. C. gloried in the coup d'etat, which had provided his wife an elegant outfit for $lO and a din ner ! The only absurd feature of this story is the notion that a Jenkins is ca pable of being persuaded to tell an un truth for such trifles as ten dollar notes, wines, edibles, etc. Jenkins isn’t that kind of a hairpin. : m m —— t Release Asked Fob.— The following petition has been numerously signed in this city : To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of. the United States in Congress assembled: We, your petitioners, respectfully rep resent to your honorable body; That whereas one Edward O’Meagher Condon, a citizen of the United States and a late captain jn the United States, army, is now and has been for eight years past immured in a British dun geon under life sentence of imprison ment; and whereas the most satisfactory proofs exist to show that the conviction of said Edward O’Meagher Condon was procured by the testimony of perjured witnesses— • Therefore, we, your petitioners, re spectfully ask your honorable body to take such action in the premises as to your honorable body shall seem best, to the end that said Edward O’Meagher Condon may be speedily released from unjust imprisonment. Buffalo Bill on the Tbiooeb.— Our readers will remember Buffalo Bill (W. F. Cody), who appeared in Augusta in a border drama several months since. Me is a noted Western scout, %s we stated during his and after he finishes his Winter engagements returns to the prairies. A few weeks ago he went to Texas, and after being there a while the sheriff f Young county attempted to ar rest him, when he resisted. The sheriff and he drew their weapons at the same moment and fired together. The sheriffs shot took effect, but Buffalo Bill missed his mark. He grasped a rifle, however, and fired, the shot pierc ing the heart of the killing him instantly. Buffalo Bill, though badly wounded, made his escape. The above particulars are gathered from a Texas paper. THE STATE. THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS. Tuesday’s Items. The Atlanta Courier has been sus pended. The Good Templars are increasing in Dahlonega. Col. M. L. Merahon has moved from Brunswick to Waycross. Alderman Muuroe has moved from Griffin to his farm near there. O. A. Bull, Esq., has been appointed Solicitor of the County Court of Troup county. Mr. S. W. Small has been appointed stenographic reporter for the Atlanta Circuit. The Henry County Ledger says there is not a young man in Hampton addicted to intemperate habits. George Cox, mail oarrier from West Point to Wedowee, has been arrested on suspicion of robbing the mail. The remains of Mr. J. A. MoNeill have beeu disinterred at Columbus and taken to bis old hpme in North Carolina. The Mountain Signal says the mining business is increasing in North Georgia, and its proapeots are better than ever before. A Griffin colored woman had her pocket picked at a funeral the other day. Your Griffin thief improves eaoh shining moment. The negro boy Ed Sally, who was con victed of the murder of his step-father, was sentenced to be hung on Friday, April 28th at Talbotton. A sixteen year old boy was sentenoed to the penitentiary at the late term of Gwinnett Superior Court. He pleaded guilty of horse stealing. A reward of fifty dollars is offered by the eitizenk of Fannin county, for the apprehension of Jasper I. Thompson and his delivery to the Sheriff of Fan nin county. The Mountain Signal (Dahlonega) says several skilled mechanics from the Northwest, who come South for tempo rary employment while frozen up at their homes, are so much pleased with that section and its prospective im provement that they have determined to bring out their families and remaiu. West Point Press: “Mrs. DeGraffen reid, the grandmother of Mr. John T. Graves, the accomplished Principal of our Male High School, has arrived and will make our city her home. Mrs. D.’s father was the eldest brother of the dis tinguished John 0. Calhoun, and this lady is said to bear a striking resem blance to the great Commoner.” A man named Martin shot W, T. Fer ree, of Atlanta, in the right arm, dis locating it. It seems that Ferree had been trying very hard for some time to get up a row with Martin, and at last succeeded. Martin was loth to have a difficulty and slow to take offense, but when he did make up his miud to go in he made things remarkably lively for a brief space. As for Ferree—well, they do say the like hasn’t been seen sinpe the policeman Brazelton climbed over the barrels the night Chisholm killed Bedell. There are nearly BQQ students at the North Georgia Agricultural College, in Dahlonega. The Signal says; “It is to be regretted that tbe last Legislature failed to see the opportunity they had of. conferring a great good to the risiug generation by a small appropriation, but the retrenchment epidemic, like others, must need run its oourse, and we must struggle on, confident that it will eventually come. Though the in stitution is heavily taxed and the facul ty severely work, and, they have nobly de termined to still continue to receive students; and though every moment of their time is consumed, none who apply will be deuied the blessings they ask.” Newnan Herald,' “Forseveral months past it has bee n painfully evident to the friends and of"E.'Douglass, Esq., of this place, that his mind was from some cause'seriously affected. Last week upon consultation of his friends it was thought advisable that some ac tion should be taken that would afford him suoh attention as would probably restore his mind to its former health and vigor. Accordingly a warrant of lunacy was sued out and a jury was em panelled for the purpose of examining into his mental condition. After a care ful consideration of the case and the examination of witnesses they adjudged him a lunatic. His friends now have charge of him and he will receive all needed attentions. When, apprised of the action of the jury he manifested much concern and was deeply affected, the fate of his family especially seeming to weigh upon his mind. Mr.* Douglass has been for a number of years a promi nent member of the Newnan bar, and at one time enjoyed quite a lucrative prac tice. He was onoe the junior of the law firm of Wright k Douglass, Hon. W. F. Wright, now of Atlanta, beiDg the senior member of the firm. More recently he was the senior of the firm of Douglass & Turner, Wm. A. Turner, Esq., being his partner. Mr. Douglass is yet a young man and has a small family. He and his family have the heartfelt sympa thies and the earnest prayers of this whole community for his speedy restora tion. At last aooounts he was somewhat improved.” Marriages. In Brunswick, W>. B. Dart to Delia Gray. In Oglethorpe county, F. G. Glenn to Alice Watson. In Savannah, Henry Weil, of Darien, to Leah Stern. In Franklin, Dr. J. W. Daniel to Pernina Boyd. In Laurens connty, B. F. Mason to Miss A. F. Walker. In Greene county, Marion Baughoum to Miss P. F. Lynch. In Washington oounty, S.’S. Walters to Miss H. V. Josey. * At Maryville, Tenn., R. A. Heath, of Warrenton, Ga,, to Annie Vernon, of Bryan, Texas. Deaths. In Dawson, Fannie P. Corley. In Columbus,' Mrs. Ann Clegg. In Barnesville, E. M. Murphey. In Tronp connty, James. Oliver. In Mahon, Dr. C. B. Nottingham. In Pe’nfleld, Mrs. Emma Beasley. In Floyd county, Ula King, child. In Harris county, W. J. Cranford. In Savannah, Nathaniel Wilson, Jr. In Heard county, Mrs. Davy Daniel. In Atlanta, Mrs. James H. Callaway. In Greene county, James D. Williams. In Johnson county, Jacob L. Maddox. In Walker county, Wm, Robbs, aged 88. In Washington county, Geo. Round tree. In Warren county, Mrs. Fannie John son, aged over 80. Thursday’s Items. Four oocupants of Heard oounty jail. How about the Spring time now, gen tle Annie? Dalton had a fifteen inoh snow Sun day night. Athens had the beautiful snow Sun day night. Mr. Job Rogers has left Home for Waco, Texas. Deputy Sheriff Colbert, of Colnmbns, is dangerously ill. Snow, sleet and rain fell in Augusta last Sunday night. The Sunday Mirror (Athens) is a bright looking sheet. Mr. B. M. Polhiil, of Maeon, has had a severe paralytic stroke. A “ colored ” ball near Athens wonnd np with a stabbing affray. A wind and rain storm did consider able damage aronnd Gainesville last week. Rev. T. B. Gurney and family have left Rome for Central ,Falls, Rhode Island. The residence of Dr. M. G. 'Williams, of Cartersville, was burned last Satur day night. - An attempt was made recently to bam the residence of Mr. James Wilkerson, of Cartersville. The house of Mr. Frank Anderson, in Banks county, was destroyed by a storm the 16th instant. The heaviest snow of the season at Home fell last Sunday night. It was shoe-month deep. Mr. B. F. Alderman, formerly of Co lumbus, was married in Marianna, Fla., recently, to Miss Estelle Edrio. The dwelling of 3heriff Roberts, in Dalton, was burned last Snnday night by a prisoner escaped from the jail. Here’s the way the Borne Courier fells Murray and Goold Brown: “Snoh a snow fell as had not fall before this Win ter.” $2 A YEAR-POSTAGE PAID We like the way “Quidlibet” writes to the Savannah News concerning the gushers at the excursionists’ ovation in Atlanta. A young man named Woodhall has been sent from Chattooga county to the penitentiary. He was oonvioted of burglary. Mr. Thomas Wallace, sou of Colonel ’Campbell Wallace, is in Themasville, in failing health. His father and mother are with him. We have received the first number of the Franklin News, printed in Franklin, Heard county. It is a surprisingly good-looking sheet. Mr. Joseph Chapman, Sr., of Gaines ville, broke his right arm recently and was otherwise injured by falling through the cellar door of his residence. The Franklin News says the farmers in Heard county are making good head way in farmiug. Oats make a good ap pearanoe and wheat is looking splen didly. We suppose Harris will now be saying that if the Hon. Geo. H. Pendleton had not gone up the Augusta canal he would not now be gone up the spout, as far, at any rate, as a Presidential nomination is ooncerned. In Panlding county a house occupied by a negro family on the plantation of Mr. Benson was burned on the 14th and two ohildren, aged three and vne years, respectively, were burned in it. The mother was at work in the plantation. Every effort was made to resoue the children, but it was too late when the fire was discovered. Macon Telegraph, 21st : “No one doubts that we had a spell of weather Sunday night. We had wind, snow, rain, hail, sleet, thunder and lightning, and everything else in the way of weath er that was disagreeable. We very rare ly ever have snoh a night. Young vege tation suffered severely, and where not oovered was killed.” The Gainesville Eagle says: “Hall oounty can boast of many who have passed their three saore years and ten upon earth; but we also have some octo genarians, nonagenarians, and one near Gainesville that can almost say she is a centarian, being ninety and nine. She was born during the second year of "the epoch that ‘tried men’s souls,’ ” The Macon Telegraph mentions the death of Charlie Craft, a worthy oolored man, in Vineville. He was a blacksmith by trade, and when a slave hired his own time and made money, which he Raved. When the war ended and freedom came it found him in possession of a moderate competence, Subsequently his posses sions were materially increased by be quest, and so a number of years he has keen in the enjoyment of a eompetenoe. ?e owned a very comfortable home in meyiile, a farm in the oountry near the city, and also some good property in the North. The deoeased had the re speot of all the white people in the com munity who knew. him. He won it by his faithfulness and his gentlemanly de meanor, and there are many who will regret to read the announcement of his death. Wwrtwa. In Brunswick, Wm. Bnnkley to Carrie Wilder; Ip Franklin, Dr. John W. Daniel to Nina Boyd. In Lumpkin county, Jas. Robinson to Mattie Harris. At Stone Mountain, J. Claude Mackin to Ellen T. Jones, Near Gainesville, John 0. Mason, of S. 0., to Sallie E. Smith. Death*. In Maoon, John Donahue, In Lumpkin county, R. Cain. In Maoon, Mrs. Sarah A. Weed. In Atlanta, Mrs. C. B. Blacker. In Sparta, Mrs. Ann L. Sharpe. In Oarnesville, Mrs. Lizzie Bryan. In Spalding county, J. M. Barfield. In White comity, Julia A. Pitohford. In Lumpkin oounty, Mrs. MoOlure. In Maoon, infant son of L. Yannucki. In Meriwether county, Amoffi Chunn, aged 75. In New York, M. Waitzfelder, of Mil ledgeville. In Rome, George, infant son of Rev. D. B. Hamilton. COTTON MANUFACTURING. What Shall Be The Policy of Auffnata f Editors Chronicle and Sentinel: The question of building cotton mills, it appears, is already engaging the at tention of some of our most prominent business men aud capitalists, and very properly so, for there is no subject which so much concerns the welfare of Augusta as this one. Indeed, I might say that the future prosperity of our city largely depends upon its citizens turning their attention to this branch of business. Apart from the manufacture of cotton, there remains but little else from whioh to gather hope of future wealth and prosperity for our city, and the sooner we realize this fact the better will it be for us. Railroads have al ready spent their force in the way of in crease of business and population. Our cotton trade we can hardly expect to be as large in the' future as it has been in the past, or as it is at present; neither is there anything flattering in the pros pect of an increased business in bacon, corn, flour, &o. Augusta must go down or at best can only hope to remain at a “ stand still,” unless its oitizens will all pat their shoulders to the wheel and oommenoe the building of cotton mills. We have a water power unequalled by that of any city in the South, and our location is such as gives us great advan ’ tages over other towns. When we come to really consider the snbjeot, no city in the Sooth offers so many advantages for manufacturing purposes as Augusta. And, better still, there is nothing in which we could invest onr means that would pay better profits than cotton manufacture. This is fully demon strated in the reports of the Augusta, Graniteville and Langley Mills for the past eight or ten years; ’tis trne that for the past few months there has been a very heavy falling off of profits, but the question oould very pertinently be put, in what business has there not been a heavy decline ? But again, as to competing with Northern mills. Here we have again every advantage. Our climate is more favorable; our rivers never freez over, as they frequently do in the North,' thereby compelling them to resort to steam as motive power; the raw mate rial is grown right at our doors, and we have a home market for the ready sale of a large portion of the manufactured goods. Now, Messrs. Editors, I am well aware that the means of onr citizens are lim ited, and that it is out of onr power to build as many as a half dozen mills, say of 20,000 spindles each, along our canal. But let us all be a little public-spirited -and engage in this enterprise as far as our means will allow, and it will not be long before capital from other towns and States will seek investment here in our midst in just suoh enterprises. I am yet to meet the mao who does not believe that cotton manufacture yvill pay here in Augusta. Let us, then, be gin and put the ball in motion, prove onr faith by our works, and ere long ontaide help will be abundant. What we want is, within the next few years, to hear the busy hum of the loom along our canal, from the Powder Works down to the present Angnsta Faotory, and then will dawn upon onr oity an era of prosperity that wonld gladden the hoarts of both the capitalist and the la- boring man. It has been suggested in a recent edi torial of the Constitutionalist, and by several communications to that paper, that our City Council assist the enter prise by subscribing as mbcfc as $50,000 to every new mill toi fee erected. Such a plan meets my approval It would at once tone and dignity to the under taking, and nothing we could do would so quickly attract capital from other parts of the country, la conclusion, let me say that ] advocate the building of ootton mills because I am fully per suaded that money so invested would yield a handsome profit. I advocate the city’s subscribing (not,however, as a per manent investment) because such a plan would insure the building of several mills, and under no circumstances could the city lose a dollar by the investment. I have no axe to grind in this matter. Tis true that I own property in the city, but unfortunately too remote from the oanal to share in any advantage that would arise from the erection of facto ries. I would only expeet to share in the general prosperity that wonld flow from snoh enterprise. Po Bono Publico, The rush of Black Hillers is nndimin iahed and trains are overcrowded daily with them, an route via Cheyenne. SOUTH CAROLINA. NEWS FROM THE PALMETTO STA i E. Hail storm in York oounty last week. Rook Hill is organizing a brass band. Many new cottages building in Wal naila. Edgefield has had a merry leap year Two droves of horses in Marion last week. i re was quite a freeze iu Sumter last Sunday. Qaite a heavy snow in Lexington last Sunday night. The Barnwell Sentinel has entered on its twenty-fifth volume. Mr. Neville, of Walhalla, was severe ly injured by a fall recently. The pantry of 001. D. W. Jordan, of Camden, was burglarized recently. Rev. W..H. Johnson, late of Sumter has accepted a oall to Middleburg, Va. The smoke house of Mr. T. C. Moody in Marion, was burglarized some nights ago. . Jesse Arthur, a native of Camden is doing well at the bar in Newport. Kentucky. Mrs. J. G. Law, of Walhalla, expeots to make a trip to Europe this Spring for her health. Mr. J. S. Dickinson, of Abbeville, is visiting his father in Florida, who is se riously ill, Several cows have died in Columbia reoently from eating the leaves of the mook orange. No Court in Horry last week in conse quence of sickness in the family of Judge Townsend. J u J* B, M. Crosson, formerly of j “? r °l 1 ° a > has been elected Judge of the First District, in Texas. Next Sunday (26th) the newMethodist Church is to be dedicated at Niuety-Six. Bishop Wightman will preach. Mr. Barker, of Pulaski, had his arm amputated recently. Dr. Sloan, of Walhalla, performed the operation. Miss Lou Assman, of Lexington, was thrown from a horse a few days since and badly, but not dangerously hurt. Gtepowl E. W. Ferris has appointed Mr. S. 0. Whitehearte Deputy United States Marshal for the Marion District. The Johnston High School is flourish ing. Miss Sallie Carwile has recently become assistant teacher, in the school. The Marion Star, of the 15th, says the peach orop, it is thought, was seri ously injured by the frost week before last. The State apportionment of the school fund for Sumter couuty is an nounced in the Union-Herald as $6,- 979 65. Two Laurensville freedmen, Irwin Jaokson and Felix Irby, fell out about a woman, and Jackson stabbed Felix, in flicting a dangerous wound. A movement has been made in Ches ter looking to the buildiDg of a bouse on the Academy lot for the teacher, and otherwise improving the grounds. Mr. Columbus Haile, a native and former citizen of Camden, was acci dentally shot and dangerously wounded ■at Staunton, Va., a short time since. On the evening of the 24th Laurens ville will have an entertainment of music and select readings in aid of the Monumental Association of Columbia. Abbeville Medium: “A colored woman at Hodges’ gave birth to two children last week—one white and the other black. This is vouched for upon good authority.” The case of Engineer Fetner has been continued till the next term of Edgefield Court. He is to be tried for oausiug the railroad calamity at Baoou’s Turn- Out last Fall. Col. Larkeu Griffin, of Nifiety-Six, and Mrs. Jemima Griffin, his wife, have been married 66 years. He is 88 and she is 81. They are perhaps the oldest couple in the State. The Abbeville Press and Banner learns that Mr. James A. Richardson, formerly of Ninety-Six, but now sheriff of Edgefield, will return to his former home at Ninety-Six. The concert given in the Court House at Lexington, on Wednesday night of last week, by some of the ladies and gentlemen of the village, for the benefit of the St. Stephens’ Lutheran Church, was a brilliant success. The Columbia Register learns that tlte store of A. M. Murphy, at Lynch burg, Sumter county, was destroyed by fire recently with its contents. Mr. Murphy was murdered and the body consumed in the conflagration. Mr. John Bragden, of Marion county, who is now living on the plantation of Dr. F. J. Bethea, near Reedy creek, is 89 years of age. He is the father of 23 children—7 sons and 16 daughters. The youngest son is only 7 years of age. Willie, son of Mr. Ransom Chaney, near Ninety-Six, fell from a tree which he was topping, about two weeks ago, and broke a leg, running the bone through flesh and clothing. Dr. Stuart was called and reset the broken bones. The amount apportioned to York county for the purpose of public schools, for the school year ending the 80th of last June, is $10,215 65. The attendance of pupils at those schools during the year was 4,530, on whioh the apportion ment was based. Yorkville Enquirer : “Our informa tipn from the planting community is to the effeot-that larger crops of wheat and oats have been sown in York county since last Fall than any year since the war, and at present the small grain, crops are in a promising condition.” It is Baid that Mr. W. T. Head, of Ninety-Six, some time ago turne-a an old sore backed horse oat to dia, and the animal had been forgotten until it re turned a few days ago with 8 small oak growing out of its baok. It is thought an acorn fell into it, from which the bush grew. The WinDsboro News learns that them will soon be another change in tbe sohedule on the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad. The Northern bound train will pass Winnsboro about nine o’olock at night, and the Southern abont five in the morning. Last week at a Democratic meeting held in Hnmter, a large number of col ored men enrolled their names in the Club. Robert Rose, colored, who ia said to have been a former leading Re publican in that county, was chosen First Vice-President of the Club. The Catholic Association has pur chased the Virginia house on Plain street, east of the Central Hotel, in Columbia, for $3,000, from the proceeds of the late Fair. It will be used as a school under the direction of the nuns for some time, instead of a pastoral reaidenoe, as first intended. Sumter Watchman, 22d : “March came in fact * like a lion ’ on Friday last—the roaring among the forest trees ‘midst the cracking brandies was ter rific indeed, while in open places the clouds of dust that arose aDd constantly prevailed were such as to obscure the faoe of nature. A number of persons who*came into town in the morning would not venture to return home until next day.” , Union Herald: “During a lull in the proceedings yesterday in the House of Representatives, the reporter of the Union-Herald took the sense of the members on tho question of the choice of each member for the Presidency. All who had a preference gave it with out hesitation, except Mr. Leslie, who was unnecessarily rude in his reply: Republicans—For Blaine, 18; Grant, 15; Chamberlain, 7; Morton, 2; Conk ling, 1; Phil Sheridan, 1; no choice, 9. Democrats—For Pendleton, 7; Hen dricks, 4; Allen, of Ohio, 1; Charles Franoia Adams, 1; no choice, 3.” Alarried. In Marion, Cornelius Berry to Cherry Tart. S. G. Porter, of Marion, to Mollie Saw yer, of Marlboro. In Kershaw county, Samuel Jackson to Miss Brannam. , In Colombia, M. E, Hodge, of Claren don, to Miss A. Marks. At Etta Jane, Elijah .Elders, of York county, to Mrs. Sallie Coyle, of Union oounty. Died. At Book Hill, Manse! Hall. In Charleston, Job Dawson. In York county, Robert Whitesides. In Yorkville, Mrs. Margaret McClain. In York county, Mrs. Mary W. Knox. In York county, Jnlia Ann Robinson, child. In York county, Ida Amanda Nichols, infant. ’
