Georgia Historic Newspapers

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Address WALSH A WEIGHT,
Chhoxiclk A Seutinel. Angneta Ga.
Chronicle and Sentinel.
W DSEBDAT MAY 31, 1876^
Bullock has a Tin Box, and the
slaves of the Box easily make a bond.
I* there are any Democrats ia Fulton
county it is time they put in an appear
ance.
Tire Superior Court of Fulton oounty
waa in session when Blodgett was ar
rested. What was done with his case ?
The Atlanta Timet wants the Georgia
State Convention held as soon as possi
bio after the adjournment of the St. j
Louis Convention.
Recipe for Ring Rule : Let the peo- \
pteol each couuty attend every politi-,
cal meeting and make office holders and
office seekers take back seats.
Watch office holders and office seek
ers in primary meetings and always go .
the other way. This is a safe rule for j
the people at all times, but especially j
now.
■ ; !
Mb. Bayakd can carry Ohio for the ;
Democracy. Mr. Tildin wonld be as j
badly beaten there in an election as Mr. ;
Thurman was, the other day, in the Con- j
veution.
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It looks very muoh as if in the sale of j
the World Mr. Tilbn has lost the only
Democratic journal in New York city j
that supported him in his candidacy for
the Presidency.
I r Mr. Blount does’nt hasten home j
from Congress we are fearful that, light
ning will not strike him again this year.
Thos. G. Lawson is the unanimous
ohoioe of the people of Putnam county
for Congress.
Iris a little singular, but its so. With
a single exception, every State which
has instructed its delegates to vote for
Tildhn is conceded to the Radicals.
The exception is New York, and New
York will go Radical if Tilden is nomi
nated.
The Valdosta Timet well says: “Among
the numerous wants of the preseut time
is a man tor President, a man for Gov
ernor, a man tor Congressman, a man
for Senator, a man for Ordinary and a
man for Coronor who is not lowering
the dignity of the office by seeking it.”
We are sorry that Tilden’s friends
think it necesary to buy up Southern
journals in the interest of their favorite.
It is simply a waste of money. The
papers which have been purchased are
not worth purchasing, and the friends of
Mr. Tildbn will get absolutely no re
turn for their money,
We have done Col. W. H. Dabney
unintentional injustice. We make haste
to say that Col. Dabney is spoken of
as a “suitable person to be put in the
tield for Governor,” and that “few, if
any, could get a better vote in North
Georgia.” We welcome Col. Dabney to
the field, and do so without by any
means intending to disparage Dr. Fel
ton.
lIoLCJtBCS, Ga., hai shown more substantial j
progress than any other city in the Bauth. j
While Atlanta, Maotn, Augusta, Savannah and |
othar woaJ'hy cities are talking about building ;
one cotton factory, Columbus has erected j
six, and now has another in progress.
The Nashville American is mistakan,
Augusta and vioin tycan show the largest
mill in the South, has more factories and
morespiudlesthan auy placeiu the South.
If the people did not fear too much axe
griuding there would be no trouble in j
starting another factory.
Thurman’s Platform : “Well, you!
won’t get your platform of last year,
either. I think the platform will de
clare for the repeal of the Resumption
Act, but the substitution of another date,
thn making it for hard money ; then it
will be for file retirement of the National
Bank circulation and the issue of Treas
ury uotes, not legal tenders but Treas
ury notes, receivable for customs and
payable in gold on demand.” “Will j
such a platform meet Thurman’s views ?”
“Those are his views.”
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It now turns out that polities had ,
uothing whatever to do with the recent j
troubles in Mississippi. The collision
was provoked by some negroes who fired :
into a sheriff's posse. Prominent color
ed men are with the officer, assisting ;
hint to allay all exoitemeut. The New
York Herald and Philadelphia Times, \
in view uf these facts, had as well cease
their shot-gun editorials, and tell the
truth about s matter which they have so
greatly distorted and magnified.
Cherokee Georgia demands a hear
ing. Hear the Catoosa Courier : “ One
thing, however, is as absolutely certain as
a future event can be: should a Cherokee
man, who may be worthy of the honor,
be proposed, the vote of ‘ the gable
end ’ will be east solidly for him. And
if, as has been predicted. North Geor
gia should chance to hold the controlling
power in the Convention, we believe
that the people of the State of Georgia
may, with absolute confidence, rest as
sured that she will exercise that power
fearlessly, judiciously, and with sole
devotion to harmony and the true inter
ests and welfare of our beloved State.”
How would John W. Wofford suit you
Mr. Courier f
Ax abstract of the contents of the j
note recently .“ent to the American Sec
retary of State by Earl Derby, in rela
tion to the Winslow ease, has been pub
lished. It indicates that an irreconcila
ble difference of opinion exists, and
that the famous Massachusetts forger
will probably escape punishment and j
the extradition treaty between the
Doited States and Oreat Britain be !
annulled. Both nations will suffer con
siderable ineovenience, and be subjected
to greater losses from the depredations
of adroit thieves and forgers if a better
understanding cannot be established ;
bat so many loDg documents have been
exchanged, and so many complicated
doctrines advanced, that the beat reme
dy wilt probably be found in the nego
tiation of anew extradition treaty.
England has made an unanswerable
point. Earl Derby says “suppose when
Kossuth fled to this country Austria had
demanded his extradition on a charge
of forgery or burglary, would the Dnited
States have given him up ?” That’s the
Soeation.
PRECEDENTS.
Objections are made to General Colquitt
stumping Southern Georgia for the Governor
ship. We know nothing of the fact, as stated,
but whether the allegation be true or false, no
reasonable objection can be made to such a
course when we have the notable example of
Hon. H. V. Johnson's canvass in New York
and the Northwest for the exalted position of
Vice-President. Likewise, H. Y. Johnson and
Chaules J. JiNKiss stumped the State of
Georgia, years ago, when rivals for the Gover
norship.
The above is taken from the Constitu
tionalist, of Sunday. We see nothing
wrong, Messrs. Puohe and Randall, in
General Colquitt's stumping the State
for a nomination, if he is really anxions
for one. He has a right to stump, and
his competitors, Colonel Hardeman and
Colonel Jambs, are doing the same thiDg.
Bat, Messrs. Pcghe and Randall, a
precedent is not a precedent unless the
facts in each case be the same. You
doubtless will be surprised to learn,
Messrs. Pughe and Randall, that H.
Y. Johnson and Chables J. Jenkins did
not stump the State for
Mr. Jenkins, was the nominee of the
Whig and Mr. Johnson of the Demo
cratic party. vVhen H. V. Johnson
stumped New York and the Northwest,
Messrs. Pughe arid Randall, he was
not seeking a nomination. He was the
nominee of the Douglas wing of the
Democracy.
THE NEXT GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA.
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Since the retirement of Governor
Smith from the contest, the question as
to who will be the next Governor of
Georgia has been more generally dis
cussed in this section than ever. After
careful inquiry and counting of noses
we believe the several candidates rank
about as follows : First, Hebschel V.
Johnson, who, if he will consent to run,
stands a head and shoulders above all
others; second, A. H. Colquitt, who
has the confidence and esteem of almost
the entire farming community; third,
L. J. Gabtrell, who has a fair follow
ing, that would be increased by a better
knowledge of that gentleman; fourth,
Thos. Hardeman; fifth (or last), John
H. James— for there are a very few here
who believe a man ought to be made
Governor because he has made money,
so great is the power of mammon over
the inclination. The friends of each in
dividual named may think we have not
judged without bias, but our honest
conviction places each one as above. Of
course, the nominee of the Convention
will be endorsed by the people.—Elber
ton Gazette.
THE NEW CIVIL RIGHTS BILL.
The bill reported by Mr. Edmunds,
from the Senate Judiciary Committee,
is, with certain amendments, the mea
sure introduced by Mr. Morton last
month, supplemented to the Civil Rights
law of 1870. As now reported, it pro
vides that if under the authority of the
United States, or aDy State or Territory,
any act is required to be done as a pre
requisite or qualification for voting,
every officer or person charged with the
perfoimance of the duties in furnishing
to citizens an opportunity to qualify as
voters shall give to all citizens equal op
portunities without distinction of race,
color or previous condition of servitude,
on penalty of being fined fqr each of
fense not lees than 8500 or of imprison
ment from one month to one year, or
both, at the discretion of the Court.
Every offender is also to be liable (o for
feit and pay to the person aggrieved the
sum of SSOO, together with costs and
such allowance for counsel fees as the
Court may direct. The second section
of the bill provides that any person or
officer of the United States or of auy
State, who denies or abridges to any
person entitled to vote under Federal or
State laws the right and opportunity so
to vote by reason of race, color or a
previous condition of servitude, shall be
fined a sum not exceeding SI,OOO, and
imprisoned for a term not exceeding two
years. The third section provides that
officers of election shall receive and
count the vote of every person who of
fered to qualify and was denied on ac
count of his race, color, &c., the oppor
tunity to perform the prerequisite act
prescribed, and a failure to receive and
count any such vote will make the elec
tion officer liable to all of the penalties
and forfeitures named in the first sec
tion. The fourth section prescribes
these same forfeitures and penalties
against any person who shall, of himself
or by combination with others, by force,
bribery, intimidation or other unlawful
means, hinder, .obstruct or prevent any
citizen from qualifying to vote on ac
count of his race, color or previous con
dition of servitude. The bill finally
provides a punishment of at least SSOO
fine or imprisonment from one month to
one year, or both, at the discretion of
the Court, for any person who attempts
to hinder, control or prevent any citizen
having the right of suffrage from exer
cising it on account of race, color, &c.,
by means of bribery, force or intimida
tion, or by threats of depriving him of
employment or occupation, or of eject
ing him from any house, land or other
property, or by threats of refusing to re
new leases or contracts for labor, or by
threats of violence to himself or family.
ANTI-COOLIE TYRANNY-
The St. Louis Republican says the
anti-Chinese fever is raging, with in
increasing virulence in San Francisco.
It exhibits itself in some very foolish,
cruel and despotic forms. There are
anti-Coolie clubs organized in the city
that hold regular meetings to discuss
| the absorbing subject of oppressions en
dured by the 200,000 white inhabitants
I of that city at the hands of 30,000 yel
low Mongolians, and these meetings
I have the effect of feeding a fire that
threatens to become uncontrollable. At
one of them, held last week, a commit- j
tee reported a list of persons who were 1
te be '‘black-branded’’ for dealing ill}
vegetables with the Chinese and having
their linen laundried at Chinese wash- .
houses. One speaker said the only way'
to get rid of the offensive Asiatics was
to refuse to patronize them ; there are,
he said, many Chinese in South San
Francisco who are not earning more than
twenty-five cents a week—a fact which
was owing entirely to the efforts of the
| club. “This is the way to ej'ect them,’
said the sententious speaker. A resolu
tion was adopted appointing a special
committee of children to keep jip an
espionage and report the names of all
persons who patronize the Chinese; also
! that tbc secretary of the club request a
! certain slaughter house to discharge
: their Chinese laborers; *]so that an im
’ mease black-board be erected ue a rfon
spinuons place, and the names of all ‘
j black-branded persons who deal with
the Asiatics posted on it. One of the
speakers stated that be bad heard seve
ral young men declare, in a street car,
that they would not escort any young
lady to a pie-nio or other place of amuse
ment who patronized the Chinese wash
ermen. ft will be seen from this that it
is becoming a very dangerous th ng in
San Francisco to disobey the decrees of
the anti-Coolie dubs.
This is a good year for newspapers to
advocate Tildes. He is rich and bleeds
freely. There is an active demand for
“(footed reading matter,”
TILDEN IN NEW YORK.
The Richmond Dispatch having blun
dered into the statement that “the op
position to Tildkn in New York was not
worthy of notice,” is bronght up with a
round turn by the Enquirer. The En
quirer says that the New York Herald,
which is a Tilden worshipper and has
published a hundred columns urging his
nomination, is obliged to make this con
fession in view of recent developments:
There is at present a decided opposition in
this Sta'e to Mr. Tiloen's nomination. It
reaches beyond any local dissensions and em
braces many of the most efficient and reputa
ble politicians in the Democratic party, it
must be removed or the nomination of Mr. Til
des irould be suicidal. Possibly it may be con
ciliated, bat if it should be found impossible to
remove it Governor Tildes has only one wise
coarse open to him. He mnst not force hiß
own nomination, even if he should be enabled
to do so, for that would mean the defeat of his
party, the sacrifice of reform, and the contin
ence of the Republicans in power.
The New York Sun, which prefers ;
Tilden to any other candidate in the I
field, puffs him in one sentence and ad- j
mits the truth in the next as follows:
Governor Tildes wonld almost certainly be i
the next Democratic candidate for President of ;
the United btates. and wonld be elected to that j
office if ,the Democracy of the State of New ;
York were perfectly united in his favor. At
present a very serious division exists. We are
at a lose to understand why the feeling of dis
satisfaction with Governor Tildes should ex
tend to o many influential men in his own
pariy as it now reaches.
And the New York Express, the most
widely circulated Democratic paper in
New York, unhesitatingly declares that |
Tilden is not the choice of New York, j
and may not be able to carry the State.
The New York World, alone of all the
papers of Democratio sympathies in New
York city, supports Tildes, and it has
not found courage to deny the state
ments of the Herald, Sun and Express.
THE SUEZ CANAL.
M. de Lesseps has just returned from
his five months’ trip to the Suez canal,
and on taking his seat in the Academy
of Sciences gave some details concern
ing his observations. He has found that
Port Said is in no danger whatever of
being filled up with sand, and that there
is no need for prolonging the piers as
proposed. The dredgiDg machine made
for the company works regularly and
well, and suffices to keep the channel
clear. During the Winter the excess of
water in the Bitter Lakes runs into the
canal, causing the onrrent to set in to
wards the Mediterranean; bat during
the Summer, when these lakes are low
ed by evaporation, the current runs in
an opposite direction. M. de Lesseps
states one important fact. Formerly
rain was unknown upon the Red Sea,
but since the building of the canal there
are showers about once a fortnight.
This has started vegetation up even on
the Asiatic side, where the infiltration is
only of salt water. The study of the
ancient geography and history of tbat
section has been begun again by order
of the Khedive. Recently pieces of
splendid monuments were found upon
the site of one of the old cities of Rham
ses. The explorer laid two specimens
before the Academy. One was a young
shark with the umbilical cord, which at
tached it to the mother, still intact; the
other some oyster shells taken from a
bed fourteen feet above the level of the
sea. These details appear trifling, but
they are important to the savans.
TAXATION IN GEORGIA.
. The Nashville American publishes a
table showing : 1. The assessed value
of real and personal estate. 2. The as
sessed value of real estate. 3. * The as
sessed value of personal estate. 4. The
true value of real and personal estate.
5. State, county, city and town taxation.
6. Area of each State in square miles.
7. Population of eao i State. It is based
upon the census returns of 1870, and, of
course, allowances must be made for
changes that have tSken place since tbat
time. It will be seen that the burden
of taxation is less in Georgia than in
any other Southern State in the table :
Assessed ' Taxation — \ Tea
STATES. Total Real “nd Real Estate. eE*' True Value. 00ll nty, City ,are Population.
Personal. and Town. m e ‘
Tennessee— 1870 $ 253,782,000 $ 223.635 000$ 30,740,000 $ 498,257.000 8 3,381,574 46,000 1,258,000
Kentucky 409 600,000 4‘ 9 552,000 98 000,000 604.318,000 5,730,000 37.680 1,320,000
Virginia 365,439,000 279.116 000 86,000,000 409 53 J ,OOO 4,613,748 38 348 1,225,000
Georgia 227,219,000 143,948,000 83,271,000 268,169,000 2,627.000 58,000 1,184,000
Ohio 1,167,751,000 707,846.000 460,000 000 2,235,430,000 23,526,546 39.964 2,665,000
Massaohu etts 1,591.985,000 901.037,000 690 000,000 2,132,148,000 24,922,900 7,800 1,457,000
Penns lvania .. 1,313 254,000 1,071,680,000 241,555,000 3,808,000,000 24,531,000 46,000 3,521,000
New York 1,967,000,000 1,532,720,000 434,280,000 6.500,840,000 48,550,000 47,000 4,382 000
South Carolina.. 183 913 000 119 494,000 64.418,000 208.146 000 2,767,000 34 000 705,606
North Carolina.. 130,378,622 53,322, 012 47.056,610 260,757,244 2,352,809 50,704 1,071,361
lowa 302 575 408 226 610,630 75 904 000 717.644,000 9,055,614 55,044 1,194,620
Kansas 92.125.t-61 65 499,000 26,626,494 188,892,000 2,673,992 81,318 364,399
The Savannah News furnishes the de-!
sired information about Mary Walsing-
HAg. The News says: “Alluding to J
the exquisite poem wfiiph prefaces !
cotiimr, the Augusta Cjibonjclk desires
to know something of the author who
oonpeals her identity under the pseu
donym of Walsingham.’ The
lady’s name ia Miss Mar? Walsingham
Crean, a native of South Carolina; bat
now and far several years past a resi
dent cf New Orleans. Miss Crean is the
author of some of the most perfect lyrics
in the language, but because they are
fugitive and she is a Southerner, they
have not won for her any reputation.
Miss Crean was the warm friend—not
to say benefactor—of that impassioned
genius, Joseph Francis Brennan, and
is well known in the Southwest, where
her writings are much sought after. Al
luding to the writings of Miss Gas as, a
distinguished Catholic prelate said to
the writer hereof: ‘lt is one of the
wonders, and yet not one of the myste
ries, that tiyjee hearts which are most
pare and those liy.es which are most
bea&fcUal should be given either to mar
tyrdom or to song. ’ ”
-It is said that both Democrats and
Republicans are anxious that Congress
should a journ June 12th. If the ses
sion continues longer the two political
Conventions will keep most of the mem
bers away and nothing can be done. It
strikes a? that Congressmen are expect
el to stay in Washington and attend to
the public business and not run over the
country after political Conventions.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 31, 1876.
TILDBN’g TACTICS—B ÜBSID IZI N G
SOUTHERN NEWSPAPERS.
It has been freely charged in the North
and West that Mr. Tilden, or Mr. Til
den’s friends, were using money freely
for the purpose of securing his nomina
tion for the Presidency at St. Louis. In
the South, especially, it has been asserted
that money is being used for the crea
tion of public sentiment in favor of the
New York candidate. The object of sneb
a partiality for the South is easily ex
plained. It is known that the South
will present no candidate at St Louis.
It is known that the South has suffered
so long and so keenly from the corrup
tion and tyranny of Radical rule that
her people, throwing aside all predilec
tions and prejudices, will support the
Northern Democrat who appears to
have the. fairest prospect of success.
If then the Southern people can be
persuaded into believing that Tildbn
alone can be elected their delegation
at St Louis will vote solidly for him
though they might prefer the
nomination of Bayard, or Hancock, or
Hendricks, or Thurman, or Black, or
EoTon, or Allen, or Seymour, or
Church, or Palmer. Such a belief
could only be created with the assistance
of the press. Unfortunately there are in
the South some papers of limited circu
lation and waning fortunes that have
not the moral courage to spurn such
overtures as were made by the emissa
ries of Tilden. Unfortunately, too.
there are other papers in the South that
see nothing improper in such transac
tions, and which have fattened on
bribery and corruption. We presume
that it was not difficult for such journals
and the agents of the New York candi
date to strike a bargain. Whether they
did or did not some very suspicious cir
cumstances have been noticed recently.
Papers that a few short months ago were
pronounced in their opposition to the
nomination of Tilden and the dictation
of New York are now loud in their
praise of the former and altogether
silent about the latter.
Yesterday we received a letter from
parties in New York which shows
clearly and indisputably to what
means the Tildenites are resorting in
order to create a public sentiment in the
South favorable to the nomination of
their candidate. The writer sent to the
publishers of the Chboniole and Senti
nel a slip of paper containing extracts
from five “leading” Northern and West
ern newspapers, all favoring the nomina
tion of Gov. Tilden, and attempting to
prove that he is the strongest man in the
field. We were requested to publish
these extracts in our weekly edition as
“quoted reading matter," and to charge
the senders for the We shall be
more liberal to the New York parties
than that. We shall publish the notices
in daily, tri-weekly and weekly editions
free of charge. Notice number one
reads as follows :
We believe now tbat success is impossible
without New York, and we are going to get
New York by nominating Tilden. We don’t
like him as well as a Western man, but tbat is
not the thing. We fear a Western man cannot
carry New York or any other Eastern State, so
we drop the West and go for Tilden. —See
Cincinnati Commercial.
The Cincinnati Commercial is nomin
ally an independent but really a Radical
organ, and has no more right to speak
for the Democracy than the Devil has to
speak for the Christian Religion. If it
ever published the above it did so for
the purpose of inducing the Democrats
to nominate their weakest man. The
second notice comes from Kentucky.
A ticket composed of Tilden and Thubman
would be the most powerful iu America, if the
ambition of friends could make the necessary
concessions. It is clear that New York, with
her five millions of people, is indispensably ne
cessary to a Democratic victory; and if Ohio
should aid with Thubman, or Missouri with
Broadhead, for second place, tho nomination
would strike terror into the disorganized ranks
of the Republicans.— Louisville Courier-Jour
nal—Dem.
The credit is a falsehood. The Cow
rier Journal claims to be independent.
It has made some money by running a
gift enterprise, and is usually for sale to
the highest bidder. It supports Tilden
now because it is to its interest to do so,
just as it would support Allen or Hen
dricks to-morrow. Ihe Pacifio slope is
also called upon in the interest of the
Reform Governor:
Thousands of Republicans would vote for
Tilden as opposed to almost any other promi
nent Republican aspirant than Bristow, and
Democrats all over the country would vo e for
Bristow should their own party nominate a
man less distinctively associated with the
work of reform. The great mass of independ
ent voters would vote for ei'her of these can
didates should but one be placed in nomina
tion.—San Francisco Cali. — Rep.
The Call is professedly a Republican
paper, and there is a maxim, of war
which applies with equal force to roli
tics : “First find out what your adver
sary wants, and then—don’t do it.” If
we desire a Republican candidate we
can obtain one at Cincinnati.
The voice of the South is supposed to
be heard in the following:
The papers both West and South are almost
unanimous in the expression of the opinion
that to carry the election in November, New
York must be secured, and that Governor
Tilden is the only Democrat who can oert&in
ly carry New York. This being the general
feeling. Tilden's nomination appesrs to be a
certainty.— N. O. Sentinel and Guide.
The above looks a good deal like a
case of false pretenses. If there is
such a paper in New Orleans as the
Sentinel and Guide, it is a stranger to
our exchange lists, and we have never
heard its name mentioned before. We
know something of the Picayune, the
Times, the Bee, the Bulletin and the
Republican, but we confess to utter
ignorance of the Sentinel and Guide.
If there is such a paper, however, its
oapacity for lying is something wonder
ful to contemplate. The papers in the
West are nearly all opposed to Mr. Til
den’s nomination, aud only a very few
journals in the South chant his praises.
The Tildenites in New York would
leave the chapter incomplete if they
failed to show that their favorite is the
choice of fiia own State, Thpy accom
plish this faql by publishing the follow
ing extract;
Though there are eeveral Democratic states
men who might bo named whose candidacy
would go f*r to assure the people of the
earnestness of (be party, it seems to us that
only one has been brought prominently for
ward who has been so thoroughly identified
with political reform as to be able to lift the
party np into the confidence of (he people.
That man is Gov. Tiupen. The feeling of the
people is that the oonntry would be safe iu his
bands as the Exeoutive.— Nets York Tribune.
The Tribune j ust now, unfortunately
for Mr. Tilden, does not happen to be
very good Democratic authority. Since
the death of Horace Greeley it has
been a journalistic prostitute, ready to
bestow its favors upon any one who
would pay for tfie same. For some time
past it has been sounding the trumpet
of Mr. Jambs G. Blaine, aud iu the in
tervals of its dalliance with the Man from
Maine makes a raid upon the pocket of
the reform Governor. The Tribune is
wholly destitute of influence, and its
fayors, like those of the class which it so
closely r,es£mbles : <Jo more harm than
good to the recipients.
We presume Mr. TjlLdbn’s friends
will deny that Mr. Tilden himself has
had anything to do with this advertising
dodge, or else will claim that it is an in
vention of his enemies. The truth of the
flrst plea can be easily tested. If the
second is offered some evidence must
be offered in iU support.
GEORGIA VIEWS.
NEWTON COUNTY.
Newton County Sunday School—Annual Cele
bration—A Large Attendance—And a Pleas
ant Day—The Exercises—Laboring in the
Vineyard of the Master—A Murder.
[Special Correspondence Chronicle and Sentinel ]
Oxford, May 20. Of the many rare
privileges and blessings that we so un
worthily partioippte in, there is none
more appreciable; than the meeting of
old friends and forming of new acquaint
ances in a day of delightful sunshine
and of unmarred pleasure, especially if
it be a day of spiritual refreshment as
well as of bodily enlivenment. Indeed 1
there are bnt few pleasures inoident to
this life more intense or nnalloyed than
the cheerful greeting of Christian
friends and brothers. In the height of
prosperity—even in the hour of deepest
joy—this will bring an additional thrill.
Such a day has undoubtedly passed
here, in the first annual celebration of
the “Newton County Sunday School As
sociation. ” At an early hour this morn
ing all kinds of conveyances were seen
approaching the “College Campus,” the
appointed place at general rendezvous
for all the schools. Here each Sabbath
School was formed in a procession and
marched to the cbdroh, led by the Ox
ford School, all the schools marched in
the chnrch between the two facing col
umns of the “O. 8. S.” It was a sub
lime spectacle to witness the little ones,
with their wgvinjf banners and merry
hearts, as they droved along in perfect
harmony. What a flash of prayerful
hope ascended on high from our hearts
that those little feet might be as con
stant and unerring in the church mili
tant as the feeble steps of ' the venerable
Dr. Means, who led them. After all were
comfortably seated the Scriptures were
read aDd prayer made by Rev. J. E. Mar
tin, Chaplain of the Assooiation. “Coro
nation” was sang by ail the schools in
concert, led by the chorister of the As
sociation, Hon. L. F, Livingston. Then,
with the peerless Miss Emma Yar
brough at the organ, the Oxford Sab
bath School sang per se Hosruna, fol
lowed by Master R. C. Tooke, their
orator, who acquitted himself amirably.
Each of the other schools then sang
alternately a piece of their own selec
tion. 1. Covington Baptist, sang “My
Sabbath Home.” 2. Shiloh, sang “The
Kingdom is Coming.” 3. Zion. 4. Pros
pect. 5. Salem. At this interval the
audience was pleasingly surprised by
the introduction of Hon. John H.
James, of Atlanta. He only spoke
twenty-five minutes, - and we r gret very
much that the circumstances would not
permit him to remain with us for the
evening—accordingly he. left on the two
o’clock train for Atlanta. He began by
saying that he didn’t propose to make
a speech—only a talk. He spoke of Mr.
Moody’s great success in the church ;
gave his approval of large Christian
meetings, such as he then witnessed—
“necessity of the work;” our duties to
organize these associations as minor
divisions to demonstrate the Truth ;”
necessity of the union of the churches
for this purpose; the importance of the
Sunday School work; to teach the young
to appropriate their money for good
purposes—for the good of posterity.
His words were measured, impressive
and pointed—commending to us the
importance of going to work right now,
and that every one should resolve and
exclaim that “I! Yes, I—l—l will do
something for the Master.” 6. The
singing was resumed and the Hopewell
Sunday School, sang “The Trinity, Fifth
Psalm.” 7. Gaithers. 8. Covington
Methodist—Speaker, Master Frank Fos
ter. 9. Midway, sang “Only Remember
ed by What I Have Done.” Speaker,
Master Joseph Peek. 10. Mount Tabor,
sang “We are Marching to the King
dom.” 11. Mount Pleasant, sang “Pull
for the Shore.” A recess, to repair to the
sumptuous dinner, was announced, and
you may be sure it was eagerly sought
by all. Afterwards all repaired to the
church,and were eloquently addressed by
Hon. L. F. Livingston, the annual ora
tor. We regret that we have not a copy
of this beautiful oration for publication.
“Anniversary Jubilee” was then sung by
all with the spirit. Rev. J. F. Edens
made a few appropriate remarks. The
installation of officers then took place—
-1-t, Dr. A. Means as President ; J. F.
Edens, Baptist Minister at Covington,
Vice-President ; Dr. Evans, Secretary.
The most touching scene of the day was
the resignation of Mr. Livingston for
Dr. Means. They clasped hands before
the immense crowd, and Dr. Means ad
dressed him about ten minutes with
tearful eyes in ane of his most touching
and eloquent strains. “Beautiful River”
was sung by all the gohools in oonoert,
and dismissed with the benediction by
Dr. Means. We were sorry to hejr it
announced during the exercises tbat
about five hundred Sunday School chil
dren had arrived from Atlanta, because
it was unexpected, and there had been
no provision for their comfort. All was
done in our power to entertain them.
The College Chapel was opened for them
and water supplied, They returned on
the two o’clock train, having comedown
with the expectation of attending a pic
nio in Covington.
We learn that about noon a negro was
mortally wounded from a pistol shot
by a white man, without the slightest
provooation. The place of occurrence
was on the road leading from Covington
depot to Oxford, both parties were from
Atlanta, and the assailant was beastly
drunk. He was arrested and lodged in
Covington jail. The mangled body of
the negro will be oonveyed home to
night, on the np train. F. D. O.
MCDUFFIE COUNTY.
Refreshing Rain—Crops Promising, Bnt
Backward—'The Cotton Question—The Po
litical Situation—James’ Life—Advertising
a Candidate—The “ Great Unknown ”—A
Voice for Johnson—Modesty and IVlsrit De
manded.
[Special Correspondence Chronicle and Sentinel.]
Thomson, May 22.— We were blessed
last night with quite a refreshing show
er of rain. We are inclined to think
that other portions of the county were
more highly favored, as clouds seemed
to be flying about all the evening. We
bad but a slight shower, but the atmos
phere has been cooled, vegetation great
ly refreshed and all nature seems glad.
The crops are promising, though some
two weeks later than last year. There
is some complaint of rußt in wheat, but
we are inelined to think it is confined to
the blade. No very serious damage yet
threatened. Oats are very promising, a
large area planted, and sown early, too,
so that the poor brutes which have
hitherto had a scant allowance of West
ern corn doled ont to them by the* quart
are beginning to pick np their ears in
promise of plenty. This centennial year
seems to be the beginning of indepen
dence to the farmer; and while a large
crop of cotton, with a corresponding
high price may be absolutely necessary
to a depleted exchequer, yet we feel
that a low price of the staple
again this year will prove the
country’s nltimate salvation. 11 cot
ton should range this year from
fi.teen to twenty cents per pound,
per would #* we ow wild oyer
the culture of cotton, and would again
beep theif cop cribs and smoke houses
in Tennessee apid Kentucky. Qh ! that
our people might learn lessons of wis- *
dotn from sad experience. “Fools will
learn in no other school,’’ ’tis said, and
yet they are ever shunning the fqrrule
which brings them to consciousness.
Energy is not wanting with us. All
“have accepted the situation,” and gone
nobly and heroically to work, bqt their
energies have never until flow been di
rected in the proper channel. Let ns
hope tbat this year will prove the dawn
ing of a brighter and happier era for a
people who bqt a little while ago were
the prinoes of the earth; hut who now,
alas, under the bondage of debt and
speculation, have become “the hewers
of wood and drawers of water” to their
former serfs.
The political situation is almost en
tirely unheeded, for aside frpm a small
surface ripple created by a visit from
Hon. John H. .fames, a few weeks since,
the political wat’ers haVe been untroubled.
It is true we had been informed long ago
by a published sketch of his life in the
McDuffie Journal at the rate of— cents
per line,, that he had some designs upon
some office within the gift of the people,
but were not absolutely certain wbat
office he had concluded to take. We
were enlightened, however, by bis late
visit, and We now know tfiat [he great
banker of Atl Wtq —having risen from
the plow-babdles in Henry county to 6e
a banker in Georgia’s' metropolis - hav
ing managed,' by dint of perseverance
and economy, to build np a fortune for
himself—aspires, with this single quali
fication, to take the helmsman’s place in
the government of the Empire State of
the Soath. We wotilfl n6t be'under
stood as depreciating tbs services of the
Hon. John H. James, nor wonld we
deny that be deserves much credit for
building up his own private fortunes,
but we have yet to learn that individual
thrift and industry is the “sine qua non"
of Georgia’s Governor. The honorab'e
gentleman has doubtless done well. He
has bnilt np his own private fortune by
a liberal system of advertising, which
newspaper men tell as are indispensable
antil, like Helmbold, wit(j his bu
oha, bis renown is world-wide,
but to advertise in the banker’s
or the bnohu business is quite
different from the gubernatorial busi
ness. He may be able to sell his wares
to advantage by a long column of ad
vertisement beantifully and aptly illus
trated by wood outs, calculated to arrest
the attention of the careless reader, but
when he sends oat to the newspapers of
the State a wordy nd windy aocount of
his heroic life and distinguished ser
vices, with a -subjoined postscript to
publish onoe and send bill to office of
John H. James, Banker, he is putting it
on a leetle too thick for the modesty of
plain oonntry people. Hold up, Gover
nor. Remember Helmbold and his asy
lum. In the good old days of Roman
virtue candidates were accustomed to
strip themselves in the market plaoes
and point with pride to the wounds they
had received in their country’s service,
but it remains for the enlightenment of
the present age—in the America of free
institutions—to inaugurate anew system
of electioneering, to put upon the boards
the new and spectacular comedy of a
candidate for the highest office within
the gift of the people of a sovereign
State peddling about through the State
as the colporteur does his traets, a ful
some account of the life and distinguish
ed services of the Right Honorable John
H. James, Banker—
‘•Shades of the mighty can it be
That this is all that’s left of thee ?"
Gen. Colquitt seems to be the favorite
in the hurdle race for Governor, yet, we
.would have liked him better if he had
remained at home and not have entered
into such an active canvass. We are
looking out for the Great Unknown.
The cry of our people is “Give us a
modest man who will not canvass the
State months and years before the nomi
nation.” It is just hardly possible in
these days of newspapers, of railroads
and magnetic telegraphs that a man’s
praise may be noised abroad—that his
virtues may be discovered without call
ing him out to act as his own herald,
and we are in hopes that The Great
Unknown may, when discovered,possess,
the refreshing attribute cf such mod
esty. Suoh a man we think wePhave
found in Georgia’s distinguished son,
ex-Goveruor Hersohel V. Johnson—a
statesman of the old school—who with
a modesty born of true greatness de
clines even to create a public sentiment
for himself by an expression of willing
ness to accept the nomination if it is
tendered him. Because he don’t come
out in a five-column letter; filled with
protestations of private business, fco.,
Ac., and closing by “puttiug himself in
the hands of his friends,” as is the usual
custom of men who have for months
been pulling the wires to secure a nomi
nation, there are some who suppose
that he will not accept a nomination,
but we believe if he is given a unani
mous and complimentary nomination by
the sovereign people, he will accept.
He cannot refuse suoh a loving request;
aud when he does, we will not only have
elected a noble old Roman to the Chair
of State, but we will also have admin
istered a withering rebuke to loud
mouthed, blatant politicians which they
will not soon forget. In our next we
may attempt to cast the Congressional
horoscope. McDuffie.
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY.
A Savannah Valley View of the
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel:
Your able correspondent “D ” has
ably vindicated the principle which
heads this article. Ido not propose to
discuss the question, but simply, in
what I have to say, to add one more tes
timony in vindication of its truth, wis
dom and paramount necessity. The con
federated Republiean body, known as
the United States of Amerioa, owes its
existence to the denial of the right of
religious liberty. The historical facts,
on whieh this assertion is founded, are
so familiar to every oitizen of the repub
lic that it becomes only necessary to al
lude to them in order to put e -ery citi
zen on his guard, and in obedience to
duty and his allegiance to the Constitu
tion, to cause him to resist in its incep
tion every encroachment upon the di
vine right accorded to every human
being to worship God, freely and with
out molestation, aooordiog to the dic
tates of his own conscience. Judge Pot
tle, in his late charge to a grand jury,
states the proposition in a nutshell :
“The lay against interference with reli
gious worship is another law to be given
ia charge. This enactment takes its
root deep down in the fundamental laws
of the country. Liberty of conscience,
the right to entertain oreeds and opin
ions, to express them, to worship in ae
cordanoe with them, ought never to be
interfered with. Hera ia this land of
free institutions a person may be
a Protestant or Catholic. Jew or Gentile,
Christian or Pagan, or he may have no
religion, if he chooses, and his right |q
worship his God or his is full and
complete."
This right dates Its existence long an
terior to the time alluded to. In the
year A. D. 34, Peter and John in the
name and by the authority and power
of Christ, healed a lame man. For this
act they were arrested and brought be
fore the Council. They were threatened
that they speak henceforth to no man in
this name, and not to speak at all nor.
teach in the name of Jesus. Then peter
and John enunciated the fol owing bald
declaration of religious liberty i ’ 1 Wheth •
er it ‘be right iu the sight of God to
hearken unto you mure than unto God,
judge ye. For we cannot but speak the
things which we have seen uud heard.”
The doctrine was admitted and they
were released. Eut the question may
be asked, has this right been assailed ?
The formation of any society pledged to
ostracise any citizen or to debar him
from holding any office of honor, profit
or trust, on account of his religious
opinions or creed, is-a direct assailment
of this strong safeguard of Republican
institutions. Jt is not my purpose to
defend any particular sect or creed.
Each has its able and zealous defenders.
My aim is simply to put my fellow-oiti
§eus upou their guard against this dan
gerous sentiment, whenever they are ap
proached to obtain their countenance
and support.
In 1855 its old parent, Know Nothing
ism, born and bred in the North, jour
neyed Southward and, strange to say,
many were induced to join in the cru
sade against our foreign born oitigens
and those who were by oonviotion be
lievers in the Catholio faith..
The signfil rebuke given to the new
and startling doctrines proclaimed by
this dark-lantern party is stUl fresh in
the memory of the people. The evils
accomplished by it are still seen and
felt. Let not history be allowed yQ re
peat itself, though fipqtimeut be
thru?* flßhh hfi il} ueif shape, and its
hideous forig be hid from view behiud a
new masked battery. W# had thought
the days of secret political ;quieties in
this country were numbered- Tp com
i plete the list of follies of this Centen
nial year, Know Nothiugism is agaiD re
vived. With a dark picture before us,
and at a juncture when “there seems to
be np settled purpose, po definite ob
ject o,f hope, bnt an uneasy waiting for
a doubtfql future, 1 ’ it is deeply to be re
gretted tha| this new and dangerous ele
ment of discord shonld be again intro
duced in our midst. Let the honest and
true heed the teachings of the Fathers
of the Republic, and disconnteuance
every attempt to stifle the spirit of re
ligious liberty, and we may then hope to
transmit to posterity unimpaired the in
estimable boon of civil and religious
liberty. Sidney.
A Curious Cask. —On Saturday, Jfndge
Cooke, in Columbia, heard the conclu
sion of thp gnit ftf the Wilmiugtau, Co
laipbiu aud Augusta Railroad against
the Greenville and Colombia Railroad.
The defendant had received 836 bales of
cotton, with instructions to ship it by
the line of the plaintiff to New York.
The cotton was delivered to the con
signees, bat was not shipped by the
roate designated; henoe the olfiintiff en
tered suit for the value of the freight
age oyer their line. The .fudge held
tmit there being no privity of contract
or community of interests between the
plaintiff and defendant, the plaintiff
was not entitled to sne on tfie contract.
Demurrer sustained sad complaint dis
missed. J. H- Rion for plaintiff, S. W.
Melton for defendaht.
A vinegar-hearted old batchelor says
he always looked under the head of
“marriagoa” for the news of the week.
C * ° * *■-
BLALN T E,_OF_ MAINE.
A LIVELY INVESTIGATION OF
BONDS.
A Republican Witness—The .Man Who Car
ried the Bande—Paiaad’s Report—Blaine
and the Witness—A Question of Veracity
—Hearsay Testimony—Blaine vs. Tarbox.
Washington, May 24.—1n the Blaine
bond oase Amos Curry, of Little Rook,
testified that about five weeks ago Mr.
Robinson told him he had carried a
package of bonds of $25,000 from Josiah
Caldwell and delivered them to Blaine.
Robinson told Carry bis understanding
was that these bonds were only an in
stalment to Mr. Blaine. He did not say
that Caldwell told him the object of
sending these bonds to Blaine. Curry
is a member of the Republican party.
The following oolloquy occurred : Mr.
Lawrence :Itis a good'party. Huuton:
Do you want to prove the reputation of
the party under oath ? Blaine : How
have the Repnblicans of Arkansas for
the last year been affected toward me
personally ? Witness : I think a ma
jority feeling but friendly owing to your
oourse in the Poland report concerning
the affairs nf Arkansas. Blaine : Have
you ever heard it declared that they
were going to get even with me ? Wit
ness : I have not. Blaine : Have you
ever heard in connection with the Po
land report that Mr. Poland was paid
money for muking it ? Answer : Yes.
Blaine: That is a part of Arkansas gos
sip, a vast mass of slander dug up from
the depth of corruption in Arkansas. I
want to show by my question that the
witness is acting with a disreputable
gang. Mr. Hunton protested against
Blame’s bringing Poland’s name in
when not present and not pertinent to
investigation. Blaine: I want to show
that the design of this witness is to
smirch and smut me. Witness: That is
false in every particular. Blaine: I can
prove it. Mr. Hunton did not think
such a course of examination according
to rule, but Mr. Blaine had the right cf
proving it. Blaine: I have. The mat
ter is a question of veracity between
Mr. Curry and Mr. Robinson. David
B. Sickles, formerly a Director of the
Little Bock and Fort Smith Road, only
knew what Josiah Caldwell told him.
The question: Wnether hearsay testimo
ny should be taken, was referred to the
whole committee. Mr. Fry, of Maine,pro
tested earnestly against askingquestious
ahout, what others had told the witness.
Mr. Blaine wanted the judgment of the
committee on the $64,0J0 slander. He
wanted judgment on tne point in which
he was charged, namely, he that had an
interest, in the Arkansas bonds that went
to the Union Pacifio Railroad Company.
Mr. Hunon was not willing to made a re
port until he was satisfied on.the points.
Mr. Tarbox, who offered the resolution of
investigation, said his aim was to strike
somebody in New Hamshire. Blaine:
Yes, but it was aimed at me in a cowardly
manner.
EXPLOSIONH A MINE.
TERRIBLE ACCIDENT IN A VIR
GINIA COAL PIT.
Eight miners Killed—Heartreiiding Scene
Upon the Recover? ef the Bodies—Causes
of the Bisaster.
Richmond, May 21.—Intelligence
reached this city this afternoon of a ter
rific explosion at the old Midlothian
coal pit in Chesterfield county, resulting
in the loss of eight lives and two men
severely injured, besides a number of
others. This mine is owned by Mr. B.
A. Burrows, of Albion, N. Y., Mr. Os
wald Heinriok being the mining engi
neer in charge at the time of the disas
ter, whioh occurred preoisely at twenty
two minutes past one, p. m. There
were only eleven men working in the
shaft, the company being about to wind
up their mining preparations preparato
ry to putting in anew fan for the pur
pose of affording neoessary and badly
needed ventilation. These eleven men
were working at a depth of atyout 700
feet and in a tunnelrunning horizontally
about 500 feet in an easterly direction,
it was at the extreme end of this tunnel,
whioh was very poorly ventilated, that
there had accumulated a large quantity
of foul air and gas, which caused the
explosion. From subsequent investiga
tions and indications it is believed that
one of the unfortunate miners, probably
the foreman, must have ventured into
the region of this foql air with an open
lamp which ignited the gas and oaused
the accident, The report of the explo
sian, though so far underneath the sur
face of the earth, was distinctly heard
at a distance of over a mile, attracting
to the scene nearly every person in the
immediate neighborhood. The njining
population, qnick to discover anything
pertaining to an explosion, were soon
at the mouth of the pit.
It was soon surrounded by men, women
and children of every age and color, the
frautio screams and heartrending cries
of the latter ojeating a scene of confu
sion and disorder that was painful to
witness. These poor people almost in
stantly realized the fact that the miners
below must have suffered iuatant death,
and this added to the great excitement
and utter waqt ol the power to do any
thing by those present. Mr. Oswald
Heinriok, the mining engneer in charge,
was so overawed and confused •by the
surroundings that he seemed to lose all
presence of mind, and, like evejyhody
else, was totally indeed, so
terrible and so \sqs the scene that
everybody lost their presence of mind in
the midst of death and disaster. For
tunately at this juncture Col. Q’Rrien,
the manager, and ope of proprietors
of the Blach 3eatfl ooal pits, with Wm.
Marshall and John Kendler, two old and
experienced miners, arrived upon the
scene, and boldly and fearlessly the
latter at c nee descended into tho pit
Immediately upon their arrival at the
bottom they found twa men, who were
apparently Jeud,' but who they at onoe
brought lip and were afterward restored
to consciousness and life. These heroic
men,accompanied by miners from the oth
er pit, again descended and Hi® work of
exploration was vigorously commenced.
They fopnd the tunnel in a fearful con
dition. Wicked timbers, machinery
and doors oi every sort pertaining to a
coal mine, were scattered and piled in
every direction and it required great ex
ertion to reaoh the bodies of the ill-fated
diners. 1 hese were at last found, one
by one, and at long intervals, eight in
number, five being white aud three
oolored. Among the killed, Mr- William
Marshal, of the filaok Meath mine, who
rendered such efficient and signal ser
vice in exploring the disaster, discover
ed the hody of his own Son, John Mar
shall. It was a sad and awful sight for
the poor father. The bodies of the kill
ed presented a terrible appearance, be
ing soorohed perfectly black and other
wise so terribly disfigured as to be bare
ly recognizable.
The body of James Carroll, iore
man of the gang or “shift, working
the tunnel, about forty feet
from lb® place where it is supposed the
explosion'occurred, his watch imbed
ded in his body and thfi hands stopped
at the moment—twenty-two
“'“'llf* past one, p. m. All the bodies
were recovered at various periods from
the time the search began, but the work
of getting them out was pot completed
until four this morping. Throughout
the coal mining region of Chesterfield
the news pf the catastrophe oreated the
wildest excitement, the friends and im
mediate relatives of the dead miners
being overwhelmed with grief. The fol
lowing are the names of the killed $
James Carroll, foreman; Charles Holder,
John Marshall, Thos. Golden, Bobert
Hall, Joseph Hepdly, oolored, William
Morris, colored, Phillip Elliott, colored.
Among experienced and old miners the
accident is attributable to carelessness
and penuriousness oq the part of the
managers in failing to provide proper
means of ventilation for this pit. A
similar acoident occurred at the same
pit a short" time ago, in whioh one man
was killed and another severely injured.
In addition to, the bad ventilation the
pit was not provided with a sufficient
number of experienced miners. There
was bat one, the main shaft, which, to
ÜBe a miner’s expression, was only “bra
ticed” for escaping air, without any np
cast, as there should b,e, tor returning
air. In jastice, however, to the man
agers it W proper to state that it was in
the effort to afford means of ventilation
which should have been given at the be
ginning that the workmen kept their
lives. A little of money
and a little mope ears would have saved
of the men' and the owners ef
the pits a great deal of moqqg, sot to
speak of the grief misery brought
to the home£ and families of the de
ceased.
Since the first of January, 1876, to
May loth, there has been 36,720,304 feet
of timber and 2,989,017 feet of lumber
•hipped from paries to foreign
*2 A YEAR—POSTAGE PAID
THE STATE.
THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS.
Tuesd y s Items
There is a complaint of rust in Mor
gan oounty.
Columbus factories coutinue to run
and make money.
Mr. Wm. Gresham died in Canton on
the 10th, aged 74.
The farmers of Brooks county are
cutting their oats.
Mitchell oounty farmers are selling
bacon in Camilla.
Green peas are selling at five cents a
quart in Savannah.
The Meriwether oat crop promises to
be tbe best in 20 years.
A nnrse made an effort to poison the
ohild of Henry R. Harris, Jr., of Green
ville, last week,
Warren Paulk, of Pulaski county, has
sold thirteen hundred pounds of meat
this year of his own raising.
Mr. 8. D. Coleman, of Cuthbert,-ex
hibits a stalk of corn which measures
thirty-one inches in height.
The Dawson Manufacturing Company
have confirmed a contract for the con
struction of one hundred cars.
The Howe Sewing Machine Company
has commenced a suit against C. C.
Suuder, of Columbus, for $20,000.
Sixty-four thousand dollars worth of
commercial fertilizers have been receiv
ed at Hawkinßviile since January Ist.
Rev. T. R. English, of Columbia,
"South Carolina, bas accepted a call to
the Presbyterian Church in Cuthbert.
The Bap'ist Church of Quitman has
extended a call to Rev. N A. Bailey, of
Talladega, to take charge of their
chnroh.
The Washington Gazette says tnere
is more sickness iu the country than
there has been any season during the
past year.
The United States special agents are
raiding through Wilkes couuty in
search of blockade and illioit whisky.
Some twenty stills were destroyed.
The Brooks Oounty Agricultural So
ciety has invited Governor James M.
,Bmith to deliver an aedress at a grand
mass meeting of farmers, July Ist.
The SandersvillS Herald says: Ex
perienced farmers inform us that there
is at least oue-third more oorn planted
th's year than for several years past,
aud a dimunition of the cotton crop.
The Griffin News learns that a dwelling
bouse situated iu Monroe comity was
burglarized last week, after which the
thieves fired the building, aud burning
in its ruius two helpless infants, who
were the only occupants,
Judge Kiddoo ia after the hog thieves
with a vengeaDoe. At last week’s term
of Randolph Superior Court he seuteno
ed four parties to the penitentiary for
the offense of hog stealing—one party
for three years and the others for four.
The negro Bob Jackson, who killed
another negro named Ed. Clarke iu
Dooly county about a year ago, was
hanged in Vienna on the sth. Re said
on the scaffold that he was guilty, and
freely confessed that he waa going to
Heaven,
The Columbus Times says: We un
derstand there is a negro boy, about
seventeen years old, at work iu the
Lumpkin Independents office. Ho is a
coal black negro, and though he has
been setting type only six mouths, he
sets 8,000 ems par day.
The Maoon Telegraph remarks: A
few days ago a man was brought before
the County Court of a neighboring coun
ty, charged with having stolen goods.
The trial was before a j ury. After the
testimony was heard and argufnent made,
the Judge charged the jury as follows:
“Gentlemen of the jury, the defendant
stands charged with receiving stolen
gooffs. It is your duty, under the tes
timony, to find him guilty, if you oan;
and if you can’t find him guilty, find
him as guilty as you oan." It is need
less, perhaps, to state that the jury
brought in a verdict of guilty.
Thursday’s Items.
Mclntosh county wants an agricuUu
raral society.
A revival is progressing iu the Bap
tist Church iu Rrunswiok.
Flux is prevailing to a certain extent
in various parts of Franklin county.
The new Episcopal Church at Darien
will be completed before many months.
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher passed
through Brunswick one day last week.
Two little boys, scuta of Wesley Ander
son, coloreff, were run over and killed by
the oafs near Scarboro, C. R. R,
In a drunken rqty among negroes in
Savannah, on Sunffay, one named Smith
was shot five times in the back and sides.
Th® v-ote in Macon on the question of
issuing more city bonds was 232 for rati
fication and 254 against. Negroes poll
ed 182 votes,
In Stewart oo.uuty, on Mr. Sam Ever
ett’s pjao& a negro, Diok Rtissau, un
mefoilully beat a negro girl with a horse
block. She may die.
Twelve hundred and sixty barrels and
boxes of vegetables were shipped to
Baltimore Friday by the steamship Sara
gossa, from Savannah.
On the Jfith of May Muscogee county
balanced her books, and found that she
was not only out of debt hut had $14,118
sash in her treasury.
Nine hundred and eighty-five tons of
gqanu was handled at the Hawkinsville
freight agency the past season—the
freight on which amounted to $64,000.
Two.U. S. Sergeants at Atlanta bar
racks, Oottrelf and Terrell, formed a sut
ler partnership Saturday. Cottrell 00l
leered oof the soldiers who owned
the firm and decamped.
Atlanta dog law went into effect Satur
day. Boys lassao them and carry to- the
pound, where, if not oalled fo* it twenty
four hours and a fine of sl, 25 paid, they
are fed with strichuine beef.
Decatur county sent two representa
tives to the penitentiary last week—J. B.
Wooten, ten years for forgery, and
Clarisy Archer (colored),, ten years for an
assault with intent to murder.
Chattooga county boasts of twincalves,
attached together by a ligament ala
Siamese twins. They are grown togeth
er by a strip, at the shoulder, aud Baving
this atrip are perfectly developed.
Dan Griffith, white, shot and killed a
colored man by the name of Paine at an
Atlanta Sunday school pic-nic at CoviDg
tou Saturday. Cause, benzine in Grif
fith, Several other fights occurred.
John H. Powers, an excelent civil en
gineer, has gone to Milledgevillefobuild
the water works of the Lunntio Asylum,
The water is to be forced over a mile by
means of an engine. The entire work
will oast $14,000.
The Oommonwealth says a heavy hail
storm passed within two miles of At
lanta Sunday about noon. A noise re
sembling that of an, approaching train
of ears was distinctly hoard during the
fall of of the b.&U,
r An iuiaut without eyes, or even eye
! halls, was born about a month ago, to
[ the family of Green Brooks, colored, in
I Jefferson county. The child is still liv
ing, but bas not and cannot suck. It
seems to have marks or slits where tho
eyes shonld be, but no eye-balls at aU.
Witnesses are being summoned in the
Kendrick case. This has the appearance
that a trial will be held at this term of
the Court, ft is generally stated that an
endeavor will be made by the defense to
prove previous unchastity in the girl.
A few months over six years ago she was
entered as a pupil in the public schools,
and her age recorded as seven years.
Gainesville Southron: A Mr. Hnskins
has just made sale of one of our up
Georgia gold mines to an English com
pany for $140,0001 The money was paid
in Atlanta last week. The mine compris
es several hundred acres of rich mining
lands. This looks like oar English cous
ins are coming over with some of their
surplus cash to help ns poor fellows get
ont some of the millions pi treasure we
are walking ove* eyery day for lack of
capital dp.wn into the bowels of the
The Atlanta Times state* that on Sat
urday the Daltoq accommodation and
an extra freight train collided near Git
lam’q injuring seriously Jas. Bell,
eujjdneer on the extra, and John W.
Jackson, fireman; also, crashing fireman
Jas. Harris’ ankle, and crushing flag
man E. L. Eddy’s left knee, Oonduc
taia Ransomp aud Rape* aud engiueer
Squires ami others were slightly injured.
Tbe accident, was caused by the over
sight ofConductor Rape, a conductor of
Meat experience. He states that he had
lost sight of the accommodation sched
ule. None of the passengers were hurt.
Both tbe engines are badly damaged,
and both tenders crashed, on*, sitting up
in a box ear and the nth**in a baggage
SOOTH CAROLINA.
NEWS NOTES FROM THE FALMET
*TO Si’ATE.
The oat crop in Anderson oounty is
looking well and promises a very fine
yield.
The county jail at Marlboro is un
tenanted for the first time in several
months.
Mrs. Judy Good wine died at Forte
Motte, on Monday last, in the 27th year
of her age. .
Mr. M. T. Wyatt, a native of Virginia,
but an old resident of Marlboro, died
on the 11th inst.
The Governor has reappointed A F
Browning, E*q., to the offioe of Trial
Justice in Orangeburg.
Millions of brick will be made at the
various yards in the neighborhood of
Greenville during the Summer.
The rust has made a bold attack upon
the wheat in Keowee county, and the
prospects of this crop are not good.
There was a heavy hail storm in Union
near the Tyger river, and the upper part
of the county, on Saturday, the 13th in
staut.
The return of deaths within the city of
Charleston for the week ending May 13
1876, was 37, of whiehll were whites and
26 colored.
The acreage in wheat, oats aud corn
in Union county, is much larger than
any year since the war, and the prospects
for large crops were never finer.
Mr. E. G. Northoutt, of Darlington
county, has beta appointed Oounty Com
missioner to fill the vacancy occasioned
by the resignation of Mr. M. Welsh.
A meeting will be held at Howard’s
Shop, in Easley Township, Pickens
county, on Saturday nest, for the pur
pose of organizing a Democratic Club.
There is not a dollar in the Barnwell
oounty treasury. Not even enough to
pay off the jurymen and witnesses who
are serving at the present term of Court.
The wheat and corn mill of Mr. John
Moor , in York oounty, was I timed
do*n on Friday night last. Loss, $2 500.
Supposed to be the work of au iueen
diary.
Next Monday the ladies of Manning
will take advaut ge of Cos rt wsek and
give a dinne •, with refre hraeufci that
night, for the benefit of th Methodist
Church.
The t aius of the Wilmington, Colum
bia and Augusta Railroad are playing
havoc with the cattle in Marion o >uuty,
having killed three or four within about
four weeks.
The Columbus Enquirer reports that
Mr. 0. Salvo, the well known tinner of
Columbus, had died in LumpkiD, eg and
about sixty years. He was born in
Charleston, 8. O.
Gapi. Jas. J. Nel on, probably the old
est oitiz“n in Clarendon county, died
last-week. He was for many >ears a
• ember of the Presbyteri n Church,
and was a public-spirited citizen.
It is reported that McDevitt, the
Oounty Treasurer of Edgefield, baa gone
to parts unknown iu consequence of an
order of Judge Carpenter, compelling
him to pay out the funds on hand.
The express office at the passenger
depot, at Aiken, was broken into by bur
glars on Thursday night last, the money
drawer rifled, and several packages con
taining wearing apparel carried off.
The skiu of a large rattlesnake was ex
hibited in Sumter, on Tuesday, by a
colored man, who killed the reptile four
miles from town. It measured four feet
four inohes, and had fourteen rattles.
Colonel A. B. Smedley, of lowa, lec
turer of the National Grange, will deliv
er an address to the Patrons of Husban
dry at AndersoD, on June 20th, in the
morning, and at Seneca City in the even
ing.
The turpentine distillery of McKay,
McNeill & Horton, near Cheraw, was
destroyed by fire on the 17th inst., to
gether with some twenty barrels of rosin
aud spirits. One of the distillers was.
severely burned.
The Union Times emphatically denies
the report that “a colored man living in
Union county recently received twenty
five lashes, in accordance with law, for
the crime for which that punishment is
inflicted.”
Mr. Wm. B. Leary, of Greenville,
died at that placS on the 19th instant,
in the eighty-sixth year of his age. Mr.
Leary was au old man and honored pe
dagogue, and numbered at one time
Gen. B. E. Lee among his pupils.
Last Sunday afternoon, while the fami
ly of Mr. William F. Wilks, of Tim
monsville, were at church, the premises
were entered and robbed of a lot of corn,
all the bacon and flour, as well as rifling
the dwelling house of nearly all its con
tents.
The wife of Wesley Brooks, the color
ed murderer, who is now confined in
Barnwell jail, visited him this week, and
while there gave birth to a female child.
Jake, t ie jailer, says the county com
missioners must see to this baby, and
the expenses must be paid, whether
they have any money or not.
Benjamin Mullinax, Hiram Childs,
William Barnett, Lewis Land, John
Norris, Sr., and John Norris, Jr., were
captured and brought to Greenville an
Monday for illicit distilling. Three dis
tilleries were destroyed, and two oopper
stills, caps and worms, besides several
hundred gallons of mash and beer.
Two negroes confined iu jail at Pick
ens, awaiting trial on the charge of bur
glary, made their escape on Sunday, the
14th iustant. They had a fine saw, with
which they sawed the iron bars of the
window in two, aud by tearing their
blankets into Bmal) strips and tying
them together and fastening one end tff
the window in their cell were enabled
to slide to the ground and make their
escape unmolested.
On las Monday two lit'ie oolored
boys, aged about seven and nine y.trs,
wh le in Capt. G lbert’s field at Lucas
Bay, near Horry, where they were em
ployed minding out birds, disputed aa
to the ownership of a gun, wh n t’o©
largest boy caught the gun t>y tbo "muz
zle and tri and to j rk it irom the hands
of the smaller one, who held on to the
breach, wheD the gun was fl.red and the
who e contents entered the body of >he
largest boy. He died Mmos instantly.
Mr. and Mrs. John L. Harmon, who
lived in Edgfitld.ae.ar the Abbevill line,
were murdered their bed room by an
unknown perstvn or persons on Wednes
day night. The dead bodies were dis
cuwred Thursday morning by an em
ployee who went for the stable keys.
After knocking at the door for some
time, and receiving no answer, the door
was broken open an 4 the horrible spec
tacle of the dead bodies of the husband
and wife was discovered. A large club
was left on the floor in the room, near
the bodies, and it is supposed they were
killed with it. A hole was burnt nearly
through tbe floor of the room, end it is
supposed that tbe villain undertook to
cover up the murder by burning the
house over the dead bodies, but in thia
he failed, as the fire failed to do its work.
THE SLEEP OK DEATH.
Mltrange Huiciile of a Man aud Warnuu tn
Wilmington, Delaware.
Wilminoton, May 21.—Two strangers
man and wife, arrived at the Black
H. rse Hotel in this city, five weeks ago
giving no names. They appeared to have
no business, and occupied tbemselvea
walking about, gave no information of
where they came from and were ex
tremely reticent in thefr manner. Satur
day night they appeared to Lein unusu
ally good spirits'and retired to bed
rather early. This meaning a servant
called them at 9 o'clock for breakfast,
but receiving no answer went away and’
concluded net to disturb them. In the
afternoon a policeman was called in,
wbo, upon looking through the lattice
work of the window, discovered the
woman lying upon her back with her
hands across her breast, apparently
deed. The door was then broken open
by the officer, who found the man and
woman side by side, dead, and a bottle
of laudanum upon the stand by the bed
side, and a razor on a chair that was
drawn near the bed. It is the general
supposition that had the laudanum fail
ed to do its deadly work the job
would have been finished with the razor.
They were both Germans, aud came to
Wilmington from the Eist, but what
portion of the East no one knows. The
woman is apparently about twtnty-five
years of age and tbe man thirty-five.
Coroner Groves held an inquest this
evening, and rendered a verdict that
they came to their death by their own
hands from a dose of laudanum.
The Boston clothing house of Beard,
Moulton Jk Daniels, the largest in New
England, has suspended.