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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 14, 1877)
Cfironicie anD jpenfiral WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14. 1877. BUSS’ LAST HYMN. I The lM*t Verses Written by the Evangelist who Perished at the A shuunda Bridge ] l know not what awaits me, God kndly veil* mine eyes. And o'er each step en my onward way He makes new scenes arise ; And every joy He sends me comes A sweet and g’ad surprise. Cftorus—Where He may lead Til follow, My trust in Him repose. And every hour in perfect peace Til sing, “He knows, He knows. One step I see before me; Tis all I need to see; The light of Heaven more brightly shines When earth's illusions flee. And sweetly through the silence came His loving "Follow Me, O blissful lack of wisdom, 'Pis blessed not to know; He holds me with His own right hand. And will not let me go. And lulls mv troubled soul to rest In Him who loves me so. Bo on I go, not knowing, I would not if I mizht; Id rather walk in the dark with God Than go alone in the light; I'd rather walk by faith with Him Than go alone by sight. king oft the old, ring in the new. Bing out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The fly ng cloud, the frosty ight; Tbe year is dying in the night; Bing out, wild bells, and let him die. Bing out the old, ring in the new, King, happy bells, across the enow; Tbe year is going, let him go ; Bing out the false, ring in the true. Bing out the grief tl at saps the mind, For those that here we see no more ; King out the feud of rich and poor, Ring m redress to all mankind. Bing out a slowly dying cause. And ancient forms of party strife ; Bing in tbe nobler modee of life, With sweeter manners, purer laws. Bing out the want, the care, the sin, The faithless coldness of the times ; Bing ont. ring out my mournful rhymes. But ring the fuller minstrel in. Bing out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite ; Bing in the love of truth and right, Bing m the common love of good. ynsg out old shapes of foul disease; Bing out the narrowing lust of gold; Bing out the thousand wars of old, Bing in the thousand years of peace. Bing in the valiant man and free. The larger heart the kindlier hand ; Ring out the darkness of the land, Bing in the Christ that is to be. .MONU OF TIIE HIIEARN. Weary and not very stout, The victim of heartless quizzers, A news editor sat, with elbows out, Plying liis pencil and scissors, Clip ! Clip! Clip! In mucilage, tatters and tears. And still, with a voice of dolorous dip, He sang the “Hong of the shears." Clip! Clip! Clip! While the foremau calls for more! And clip-clip-clip. * Till the “devil” looks in at the door! It’s oh'. to be a councilman, Or even a school trustee, A Mayor, policeman, or anything, Or anything else but me! Clip! Clip! Clip! Till tho jaws drop open wide ; Till the elbow croaks like an old barn door, And von take that “stich"—in the side! Enquirers, Tribunes, Gazettes, And Stars that make you doze, Till over the Herald you fall asleep, And clip off the end of yonr nose ! Oh! women with paper curls ! With bustles that rattle and quiver! It is not paper you're weariug out But a human editoi's liver! Clip! Clip! Clip! Hunting for something new, Which the managing editor swears after *ll Is as old as the Wandering Jew! UESFEI'T THE BURDEN. By the author of "John Ulaifax, Gentleman.” Great Gabibaldi, through the streets one A triumphant, while admiring throngs, With acclamations and exultant songs, For the uncrowned kingly man made way, Met one poor knave 'neath heavy burden bowed, Indifferent to the hero and the crowd. His zealous followers would have driven aside, The sorry creature, but that good man said. Stretching a kind hand o’er the suffering head, “Respect the burden.” Then niajostic-eyed, He paused, and passed on, no one saying him nay; The heavy ladon also went his way. Thon happy soul, who travelest like a king Along the rose-strewn pathway of thy lot, Respect the burden. Thou may’st see it or not, For one heart is to another a sealed thing, Laughter there is that bidet h Bobs or moans ; Firm footsteps eau leave blood prints on the stonea. eepei t the burden, whatsoe’er it be ; Whether loud outcries vexed tho startled air, Or iu dumb agony of loss, Despair Lifts her still faoe. so like tranquility— Though each stralued heartstring quivers, never shrinks ; "Let this cup pass from me!” then stoops and drinks. O ! heavy burden ! Why 'tis borne and how None know save those who bear; and Him whose hand . Has laid it on the shoulder and said "Stand— Stand upright. Take this chrism upon thy brow. My own anointed. Sore thy load may be ; But know—beneath it thou art carrying Me." AFTER I.ONL YEARS. WILLIAM WINTER. l. Dear heart and tme, in the seasons fled. Hah tho world swept by a* and left me dead ? Have the pansies withered I need to know ? Are the roses faded of Long Ago ? Do the taperß glimmer that lit the feast ? Has the pageant passed? has the music ceased ? And. musing here on the sea-beat coast. Am I living man, or a wandering ghost ? n. Still, in the scent of the Autumn air I feel a rapture that's like despair ; Hie starlight pale on the sleeping aea Is nameless, sorrowful joy to me ; And, lit by orb or crescent of night, Meadow and woodland are brave to sight. Still I bend to the mystic power Of the strange sea-breeze and the breath of flower ; And the face of beauty wakes the wraith Of holy passion and knightly faith ! m. But ever 1 hear an undertone— A subtle, sorrowful, wordless moan ; The dving note of a funeral bell; The faltering sigh of a last farewell ; And ever I see, through lnrid haze, The sombre phantom of other days— In light that's sad as the ruin it frets, The solemn light of a snn that sets. IV. Ah, never again can youth dream on As it used to dream in the Summers gone ! Tor round it dashes the tide of years ; Its eyes are darkened with oust of tears ; Its hopes are sere as the fad ng grass. And nothing it wishes has come to pass. But oh. it i< wild in his heart, this day, ■Who breathes a blessing and speeds away— In trust, when the flags of triumph wave, V'hsre his soul is moored he may And his grave. FAILURES AND FRAUDS. Aa Absconding I'nshier—A Treasurer is Faaau' Wanting—A Sharp Triek af Jay tionld’s t oafldeace Brokers. Indianafoiis, February 7. —Richard T Taylor. Cashier of the National Bank of Franklin, is short one hundred thou sand dollars. Taylor absconded, and the bank has suspended. Hartford, February 7.—The failure of M R Bragos, Agent and Treasurer of the Hartford and New York Towmg and Freight Company’s reported liabili ties $117,000, and he is said to be $20,- 000 short on the company’s fnnds. New York, February 7*—lt is report ed that Jay Gould has discovered that bis former confidential brokers, S, M. .Mi"*- A Cos., knowing that he was short of Wee tern Union stock, formed a pool and forced Gould to cover. Gould is about to bring suit for conspiracy to re cover $300,000. Washington, February 7.—Tbe opera tion of all offers of pecuniary reward hitherto made for the detection and pun ishment of persons employed in the il licit distillation of spirits, is hereby sus pended uutil further notice, so far as re gards the States of North Carolina. South Carolina and Georgia, the second district of Tenuessee and the second district of Alabama. Other and more effective methods for the suppression of illicit distillation in those localities are now being put in operation. Green B. Baum. Commissioner. Approved January 30tb, Charles F. Conant. lockjaw from a Ilo*-BU. {From (As Boston Her aid.] Miss Li-’lie A. Chadwick, a young ladv of New Bedford, about 18 years of nge was bitteu by a dog about a year ago in the right fore arm. The bite was not the cause of any great discomfort until recently, when it began to feel painful, and Miss Chadwick was seized with lockjaw. For four days her jaws •were fast set, and it was impossible for her to take any nourishment, bnt now she is able to eat to some extent. Rig idity of the jaw is usual in cases of hy drophobia, but the young lady hu shown no other symptoms of that dis ease. THE SUPREME COURT. DKCUKONH RKSDKRgn Hi ATLAN TA, A , JAN UABY 30.1877. \Atlanta Constitution.] Hooper vs. Sells, trustee. Lien, fro to Fulton. Warner, C. J. It appears from tbe record and bill of exceptions in this case that Hooper, as a manufacturer of furniture, obtained a jndgment lien on certain described prop erty mentioned therein as being tb: property of Holmes hells, trustee tl Amy H. and John D. Sells* in tbe Supe rior Court at Fnlton oonnty, upder the 1879th section of the Code, At a subse quent term of the Court to that at which the jndgment was rendered, a motion was made by the defendant to set aside on various grounds, which was granted by the Court and the plamtiff excepted. It appears on the face of tbe plaintiff's declaration and proceedings had to ob tain the lien claimed on the property, that one Willis furnished the mat- rials charged in the account for the perma nent improvement of the property, but □ever made any declaration of his lien, or had the same recorded hs required bv the 1980’h section of the Code. On the 6th of March, 1874, Willis made the following assignment, in writing: “For value received, I hereby sell, assign and transfer unto E. M. Hooper tbe withiu sud foregoing aocount for permanent improvement put on the Rondeau Ac Cos. Furniture Factory property by myself, by consent of W, R Ham mond. attorney and agent of George ,J. Murray, together with all the rights and liens that I have against said property.” On the 7th of March, 1874, Hooper declared his lien on tbe property as a manufacturer of furniture, and had the same recorded on that day, and it was upon that state ment of tacts, substantially, that the judgment was obtained against Sells, as trustee, declaring a manufacturer’s lien on his property, as such trustee, for tbe payment of 51,175 76 principal, besides interest. Hooper had no lien on the property, because it is apparent on the face of the proceedings that he did not inrnish any of the materials charged in the account for the improvement of the property. Nor did he acquire any lieD by the assignment of Willis to him, for the simple reason that Willis bad no lien on the property to assign him, he not having declared his lien fhr the mate rials furnished by him for the benefit of the property, and had the same record ed. * Besides, it is difficult to pereeive how the property of Sells, held by him as trustee, could be charged with a lien for materials furnished by Willis, by the consent of Hammond, as attorney aDd agent of Murray. Willis assigned all the liens he had against the property to Hooper, which was jtfst none at all, for the reason a before stated. There was no error in setting the judgment aside on the statement of faots disclosed i the record. Let the judgment of the Court be’ow be affirmed. Dorsey vo. Mumford. Illegality, from Lowndes. Wabnbb, C. J. This case came before the Court be low oil au affidavit of illegality to an ex ecution issued against the defendant, which was, by agreement of the parties, submitted to the consideration end jndgment of the Court without the in tervention of a jury. The Court over ruled the. grounds of illegality taken by the defendant in his aflldavit. Whereupon the defendant|excepted, Tbe grounds of illegality alleged by the de fendant in his affidavit were: That on the 2d of December, 1873, he entered into an agreement, in writing, with tbe plaintiff’s attorney, which was entered ou the execution and signed by the par ties, as follows: “It is agreed between the parties that upon the payment of one hundred dollars on or before the first, day of January, 1875, this./?, fa. and the jndgment upon which is issued shall he eousidered as settled, paid off and discharged!" that atterwards,. on the lfitb day of December, JS73. the defend ant was adjudicated a bankrupt, and that on the tenth of November, 1874, lit obtained his final discharge in bank ruptcy from all his debts aud liabilities; that the laud levied on was set apart to him aa ,a homestead exemption undt-i the provisions of law of force in this State in 1864, and thflt lie is entitled to seventy acres of the lands levied on, to gether with the dwelling house god im provemeuta tutl exceeding two hundred dollars iu value, as 8 homestead for himself and minor children, end tha' the judgment on which said execution issued was dormant. Tbe judgment on which the execution issued was obtain ed 30th of December, 1860, and was therefc re a Ben on the defendant’s prop erty, and .although he promised to dis charge that lien by the payment of the two hundred dollar* ae specified in his ftgreeineufc, itiii tje &\<i HOpsc f bjjr tlie payment of the money, and i k -V s ? P ot discharged by his going into banjtrnpt ey, the plaintiff not having proved his judgment debt in theßmkrupt Court. The execution was levied on two lots of land as the property of the de fendant, on the 6th of April, 1876, and it is not alleged tjhat tbe seventy acres of land levied ou, iududipif the dwelling house, to wbiflb be claims to be entitled to as a homestead e*emp tion, has ever been laid off and desig nated as his homestead exemption. The statute of limitations having been sns pended uutj) the 21st of July, 1868, it did not commcufiii running against the plaintiff’s jndgment fcefore that date, and seven years had not eisgsed from that time to the date of the agreement entered os the execution aud signed by I the parties, as before mentioned. As between the parties tmemselves, that agreement, entered on the efepjjtiou and signed by them, was such a r.ecog-, nition of the validity of tbe execution as would prevent it from being ns dormant by the Court. If the parities —plaintiff and defendant—recognised the execution as a valid subsisting exe cution, on the 2d of December, 1873, surely the Cenrt ought to have decreed so. We find no error in overruling the defendant's affidavit of illegality. Let the judgment of ,tfc Cort below be af firmed. [Jackson, J , did not preside in the fol lowing case.] Flournoy vs. Hood, executor. Injunc tion, from Ciarke. Bleckley, J. The Judge below did not abuse his discretion iu denying an injunction and refusing to appoint 3 .receiver. Jndg ment affirmed. Kimball vs. Nicol & Davidson, Attach ment, from Fulton. JBpEimLRT, J. Id attachment founded on contract, where there has not been notice, replevy or appearance, to give the Court juris diction over the defendant's person, and the plaintiff has, nevertheless, procured the Court, without the intervention of a jury, tp render a general judgment, such judgftfce.pt is so far prima facie void as that thn defendant may, at a subsequent term, file aft issuable plea, ou oath, to the action, without first moving to set the judgment aside. And while such plea is undisposed of, the ; plaintiff cannot ignore the appearance and pleading p{ the defendant, and have the judgmeut fthgiigpd. hy amend ment, into a special judgment against the property attached. Defendant, by the express terms of tbe Code, section 3310, av ap jear and make his deteuse at any fiftift before final judgment is rendered agains# him; aud so long as a judgment, obtained in his absence aud without notice to him, is that a sale under a/?, fa conforming, to it would be void (52 Ga. 389), it cannot be regarded a* absolutely for all purposes. Judgment reversed.’ Thweatt r* Kid Jo, Judge, MaLdamus Bleckley, J. When, on a fnll bearing in a remedial proceeding for contempt, imprisonment has been ordered unless certain terms are complied with, aud, on writ of error, the order baa been affirmed, the parties in contempt cannot, before the impris onment has commenced, have the terms changed by urging their inability to comply, and by offering compliance with wholly different terms, unless the facts causing such inability arose after the order was passed. As to all matters which were, or might have been adjudicated, the order is final and con elusive. 2. After certain matters have been before the Supreme Court by writ of error on the question of contempt or no contempt, and have been held in sufficient as a defense to the proceeding, if the same matters, in subs tan oe, are again presented to the Court below in tbe same case on a motion to purge the contempt, the motion being trade before imprisonment has commenced, the Judge of that Court should not only dis regard them, but. should refuse to sign and certify a bill of* exceptions which seeks to bring them up again for review. 3. What would be cause for terminating, after a reasonable time, imprisonment employed as a remedy without prodne iug remedial retolte, not now in question. Judgment affirmed. S. G. Dorsay ps. W. T. Sims. Claim on appeal, from (Clayton. Jac**on, J. . s. t 1. This Court will not interfere witir the sound discretion of the presiding Judge in granting anew trial, on the groand that the verdict is strongly and. decidedly against the weight o< evidence, unless such discretion has been abused. Judgment affirmed. - • E. E. Philips v. Madison Bullard. Suit on bank check, from Pulaski. I Jackson J J 1. Evidence of general reputation of insolvency is not admissible. 12 Ga., 417. 2. The receipt of a bank check is not payment of an antecedent debt un til it is itself paid. The Code but podi fies the old tow ie Georgia on this point. Code 2867. 3. When the verdict is right and the errors in charge, if any, wonld not affect the result, this Court will not grant anew trial. Jndgment affirmed. W. H. Bonner, trustee, vs. E. H. Met calf. Claim, from Hancock. JACK3ON, J. 1. A note nnder Beal is not debarred until twenty years after date. 2. While, in a deed from defendant in ft. fa, _ to claimant, the receipt or re cital of the payment of purchase money may be eundemte of Its payment, when the deed was made before the suit, on which the judgment was obtained, was commenced, yet it is bnt prttna facie evidence and a charge that it is not evi dence will not necessitate the grant of a new trial, if the other facts of the case required the verdict as founds, Jndg ment affirmed. HANCOCK AND WARREN. The Crp Prospect—Entail Grain Injured— Lea rain# Wiser Management—The Ap pointment of ladle Pottle—Mr. Hill’s Elec tion. [From An Occasional Correspondent.] Mayfield, Ga., February 4.—1 do not know that I can write anything to edify or interest the readers of the dear old Chronicle, bnt in renewing my sub scription I will just make “a few re marks.” The almost unprecedented cold Winter has very materially injured tbe small grain crops, oats especially. I hear of some that are sowing tbe same land over agaiD. I do hope that onr farmers will not become discouraged, bnt in my hntable judgment the only way for Georgia to assume her old origi nal, ante helium stand in agriculture, is to use less guano, plant less cotton and more grain. During the Christmas holi days I passed through a portion of Wilkes ana Lincoln counties, and I noticed that they have at least twice as much grain sown as we have in this section, and the conse quence is, they are in a'great deal more prosperous condition, which is very evi dent to a casual observer. At almost every farm I saw there were bales of cotton stacked at the gin-honse and screw, showing they were not pressed for gnano debts and debts for Western corn and bacon. They raise it at home, and from what I could learn they pay less for labor in those counties than we pay in Hanoock aud Warren. In my opinion, at the present prices of cotton and provisions—taking into considera tion the way most free negroes work—the best of them are not worth more than $75 for a year. I cannot think that the farmers in this section are less indus trious and persevering than they are in other counties, but we have gotten into the habit of trying to make money raising cotton until that habit has almost become second nature. I have reason to hope, however, that there will be a change with the operations of this year; 'if so, when I renew one year hence 1 will apprise yon of the fant, and let yon proclaim to the world, Hanoock and Warren have seen their error ! We are highly pleased at one of the first official acts of our new Governor, viz: the appointment of Jndge Pottle to the Judgeship of his old circuit; 1 think it can be truly said he is the ‘fright man in the right place.” To speak personally, Messrs- Editors, I am delighted at another thing that your paper modestly opposed, and your Mr. Walsh did all that he honorably could, against—l refer to the election of Hon. B H. Hill to the Senate. Now despite the shafts and darts that have been hurled against that man, I have always .admired him, and believe he will make an efficient representative, of whom we will all be proud. N. L. T. TWO SENATORS. Fen Pictures of Bnyaril and Lamar. [Philadelphia Tpnj \s.] The Chevalier Bayard. Thomas Francis Bayard inherited one of the Delaware Senatorships from Ins father in 1869. The little pocket State is practically an aristocracy, ruled by the Bayards and the Saulsburys. The head pf each family goes to tho Senate', and the State offices are parceled out among the juniprs and the collate; al branches. Politicly t)je Bayards have greatly outweighed the Saulsburys for the last two generations, The latter family seems to have run to seed, I re member James A. Bayard, the father ol the present Senator—a charming, old school gentleman, with manners fall ol sweet and stately courtesy, and, in his prime, a man of strong intellect and fine oratorical powers. Thomas. F, is the subtlest roasoner on theyDamocratio side of the S/enafo. pis counterpart on the Republican side Js “ds. In per son he is shaped like his’ Stftth—long and narrow—and his intellect is built a good deal on the same order. It reaches down to a solid basis of fact and logic, aud towers up a long way, but does not broaden out much. He is the tallest man jn jth.e Ujenade, his rather slender shape if deceptive and adds ap parently tft hi® refl height. His face is thin, angular, fqrrowpd with deep lines fully revealed by the absence pf beard. A large nose, a firm month and heavy projecting brows, shading deep set, gray eyes give him a look of sternness and thoughtfulness. He does not appear like A good natured man, but in this respect his oonutjwifppe is not a true fo dex, for few of his associates aya 8® uni formly courteous and obliging. His hapr if fif' an iron gray color and reveals no begi.n’jaipg gt badness. In his dress he appears fo study piaipf/pss even at the expense of taste, weeing a .dark, gray su]t without even the usual orna ment of a gold ph a i n : Pi® style of speaking is direct, clear, forcible and argumentative, ami his manner of pre senting bis ideas is better adapted to a legal tribunal or a small deliberative as sembly than to a popular audience. He employs none of the tricks of oratory and seldom departs from the straight path at theip'- to gather any flowers of illustration. ' Tfce classical Laws?. A face that might have come out of one of Vandyke’s pictures, and needs only the setting off of wide-brimmed, plumed hat and velvet doubtlet to make the vraisemblance complete; strongly emphasized features, a heavy, dark moustache, yhieh would be fierce if it had an upward eurt, tyfp sloping downward is gravely romantic; panted beard on chin, large hazel eyes, straight hair, between brown and blaok, worn so long fhat )t fells down over the coat collar; a lofty foreffead; form of medium height and veil-shaped f>W f°F. the , stooping shoulders; a softer spit of brown broadcloth —tpe pare with which the coat is buttoned and its yplvet collar revealing a temperate love or dress in its owner. This is Lucius Quintins Curtins Lamar, of Mississippi, Repre sentative now and Senator to be after the 4th of He is the finest orator in the House, and yot he very rarely speaks. He is of Fremiti ancestry, as one plainly see, for his face never came to him from English parentage. Intensely Southern in his political in stincts, ‘Lamar i? nevertheless broad, lib. ral and aatipnal jin hi# yievs. In all the Southern delegation no ope is jess a Bourbon—no one is more sensible and progressive. Very few men in Congress arw as well educated or as well read in standard and current literature. Finally he has good quality that conies with his Rrecefa tiiovdacd is4oo rarely found ia Ametmaas ol jpi'dTfiehges-lie is gal lant toward women and fond of thei* so oietv. Among the tobacco-eating, whis ky drinking, uncultured, boorish crowd that the Booth h £g sent to Congress since the war,Lamar stands pQfispicuous as one of the few representatives pt tbe now almost extinct class of high-minded Southern gentlemen. Calculating the Sun’s Distance. The problem of finding the distance of the snn is one of tbe most important and difficult presented by astronomy. Its importance lies in this, that thia dis tance—the radios of the earth’s orbit— is the base line by means of which we measure every other celestial distance, excepting only that of the moon; so that error in this base propagates itself in *ll directions, through ail space, effecting with a corresponding proportion of falsehood every measured line—the dis tance of every star, the radius of every orbit, the distance of every planet. Our estimates of the masses of the heavenly bodies also depend upon a knowledge of the sun’s distance from the earth. The quantity of mgtter in a star or pianei.ia determined by a .loala tions whose fundamental data include the distance between the investigated body and some other b">dy whose mo tion is controlled or modified by it; and this distanoe generally enters into the computation by its cube, so than any error in it. involves a more than three fold error ’in the resulting mass. An uncertainty of one per oent. in the sun's distanoe implies an uncertainty of more than three per oent in every celestial mass and eyery cosmical force.—Profes sor ¥?**(/■ W. Bailey Thbmas, Esq., has been re appointed - Judge of the Clark County Court. This is a deserved recognition of the usefulness aud ability of Judge Thomas, upon whose young shoulders the Irmine again gracefully falls. ~ GEORGIA LEGISLATURE. RETRENCHMENT' AND REFORM IN earnest. Reducing the Per Diem end Cutting Dm Clerical Salaries—Seeking State Aid The Augusta and Knexville Railroad. [Special Dispatch to the Chronicle and Sentinel] Atlanta, February 5.—A number of local bills were considered in both honsea to-day. The Joint Finance Committee have agreed to reduce the per diems of mem bers to aix dollars and twelve and a half cents mileage, which is half the amount allowed by law. The salaries of clerks in the different departments are reduced from one hundred to three hundred dol lars on tbe salaries of last year. Mayor Wheaton, of Savannah, was before the committee for the purpose of getting fifty thousand dollars from the State for the purpose of draining lands adjacent to Savannah. Henry Woods, of Bavannah addressed the committee and urged the State to issne six per cent, straight bonds for seven per cent, gold bonds of the North and Sonth Road, whioh are endorsed by the State, and amount to two hun dred and forty thousand dollars. Mr. Woods agrees to take six per cents at par. Hon. Robert H. May is here in the interest of the Angnsta and Knoxville Railroad. W. Saturday’s Proceedings. In the Senate the following bills were considered : A bill to make it Dot unlawful to sell by retail or otherwise any domestic wines by the manufacturers in this state, and to exolnde the same from the opera tions of the various license and penal laws and reported adversely by the ju diciary committee. On motion of Mr. Black, the report was disagreed to Mr. Fnrman opposed an amendment to insert after the word “wholesale” in first section the words “in quantities not less than one quart,” which amend ment was agreed to and the bill, as amended, was passed. A bill to better protect creditors of estates in proceedings to assign dower was reported favorably by the judiciary committee. Report was agreed to and the bill was read the third time and passed. The committee on the judiciary re commended the passage of a bill regu lating fees of solicitors general. Report was agreed to and the bill passed. By Mr. McLeod : To repeal an aot to create a board of commissioners of roads and revenues for Emanuel county. Also, to repeal an act to authorize justices of the peace to aot as road commissioners for Emanuel county. Referred to Com mittee of the Whole. The following bills were considered in the House : For the relief of Gideon L. Matthews, of Washington county. Passed. To authorize the Treasurer of Oconee county to pay out the money arising from fines and forfeitures in the County Court. Passed. To amend section 2040 of the Code by. adding to the list of articles exempt from levy; “50 bushels of corn, I,OOQ pounds of fodder, and one l-horse wa gon. Passed. To reduce the bond of the sheriff of Columbia county to $5,000. Amended by adding the counties of Pieroe, Mc- Duffie, Warren and Chattooga. Passed. To prohibit the sale of liquor within one mile of Berzeliu, iu Columbia county. Passed. | To amend the aot creating a board of commissioners in Greenecounty. Passed. To reduce the compensation of the Treasurer of Greene county. Passed. To repeal the act creating a board of commissioners for Habersham oounty. Passed. To regulate the pay of jurors in Oco nee county. Passed. To provide for the election of a Treas urer in Burke county. Passed. Dividends Thar Are Not Dividends. By Mr. Northern, of Hancock: A bill to be entitled an act to prevent joint stock companies, corporations and other associations from declaring dividends when they have not realized an income on their investment, and for other pur posefl. Section I. Be it enacted by the Sen ate and House of Representatives in General Assembly met, That from and after the passage of this act no joint stock company, corporation, body cor porate or other association shall declare anv dividend or dividends, or distribute any money among its members, as profits, when such dividend or dividends or money are not the legitimate proceeds of its investment. Seo. 11. Be it forther enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any stock company, corporation, body corporate or other association, through its Presi dent, Directors, or other agents, violat ing the provisions of this aot shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on con viction, shall pay a fine, not less than one-balf of one per cent., nor more than three per cent, of its capital stock. Seo. 111. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that should the President, directors or other agent of any corporation, deolarh a tjividend or dividends in violation of the provisions of this aot, they shall, in addition to the punishment prescribed in Section II of this act, be liable to be sued for double the amount of damages that aßy person or persons may sustain, in con sequence of declaring such jliyidend or dividends. , , . Sup. iy. Be it further ppapteii by the authority of tbe aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this aot are hereby repealed. The Question of State Aid—Strong Argu Kliments For and Agalnst-The Augusta and Knoxvlfte. [Special Dispatch to the Chronicle and Sentinel] House. Atlanta, February 6.—The House was occupied in (he iporuitig and after noon sessions on the bjll to lpnd the credit of tfie State to the amount of $5,000 per mile to the Marietta and North Georgia Railroad. Turner, of Brooks, made a powerful speech against the bill and tbe whole policy of State al Carlton, of Clarke, Phillips, of Carrol, and Moses, of Muscogee, made strong and earnest speeches in favor of the bill. The House adjourned without *dis posing drthfe question, ft js thought the bul wjll pafes to-morrow. Mr. May and others wi" appear be fore the Hppse finance Committee to night in favor of State aid to the Au gusta and Knoxville Railroad. W. Monday’s Proceedings. In the Senate the following bills were considered : , By Mr. Rrewater : A bill to amend section 3759 of the Code of Wfi. By Mr. Cody : To change the time of the meeting of the Legislature. A bill to amend and extend an act to incorporate the Cherokee Copper Com pany of Georgia was pead tife first time and referred to the Committee on inter nal Improvements. The following bills were read the sec- ond time: To repeal the act to authorize the Justices of the Peace of Emanuel county to aet as road commissioners. Committee on the whole recommend ed the passage of a bill to incorporate the Georgia Chemical and Mining Com pany. Report was agreed to and R 1 ** was passed. The House bill to exempt from taxa tion the cotton, corn aDd other produce of'the past year i thp hands of the pro ducer on the first day of April and held for sale, was read for the first time aDd referred to the Committee on Agricul ture. The following House bills were read the first time and referred to the Judi ciary Committee : . . To create A board of commissioners of roads, public buildings, etc. s in the counties of Warren, Taliaferro, and for other purposes. Also, a bill to amend the law regulat ing bafl actions of personalty, and for other purposes. : ~ Also, a bilf to ratify and confirm the orders or decrees of the Superior Pourts of this State, granting or renewing the existence of corporations, and for other Pn luoTa bill to amend section 2000 of the revised Code relating to the reproval and recording of applications for fiogMt The following bills reported adversely by the several committees were read the second time and lost: . , To amend an act empowering J ndges of the Superior Court to appoint steno graphers for their Courts. To amend an act to amend the home stead laws of the State approved Feb ruary 26, 1876, to regulate the sale of spiritons liquors in the State add * or other purposes. ... . , The hour of 11 o’clock having arrived, the Senate took up the special order for the day, viz : A bill to prohibit the giv ing or furnishing intpjioating liquors on the days of election in this State. Mr Ashbury offered the following amendments, which were agreed ; Amend by striking out 4510 of the Cod® in the 2d section and insert section 5470 of the Code, Also, strike out the words “within three miles of an election preoinet, and insert “within one mile of any city, town, or election precincts where elec tions may be held in any county in the McDaniel moved to amend by in serting in the 14th line of the Ist sec tion affer the word “quantity,” the words “for the purpose of influencing votes,” which was agreed to. The bill as amended was then passed. A bill to provide for the taking of testimony by commission, to be used in criminal cases, was lead the second time and recommitted to the Judiciary Committee. A bill to prohibit Judges. Ordinaries and Justices of the Peace from presid ing in cases in which their sons are in terested as counsel was reported ad versely by the Committee on Internal Im provements. Report was agreed to and the bill was lost. Tbe following bills were introduced in the House: Mr. James : To authorize the Geor gia Railroad Company to lease or buy the Port Royal Railroad—referred to the Finance Committee. Also, to authorize the Georgia Rail road Company to issue bonds not ex ceeding sl,ooo,ooo—referred to the Fi nance Committee. Also, to authorize the Georgia Rail read Company to buy or lease the Ma con and Angnsta Railroad—referred to the Finance Committee. Mr. Simms : To chanee the lines be tween the counties of Jasper and New ton—referred to the Committee on New Counties and County Lines. Also, to incorporate the Grand Lodge, Knights of Honor—referred to the Com mittee on Corporations. Mr. Wade: To allow the firing of woods on turpentine farms in Screven and Bnllock counties—referred to the Judiciary Committee. Also, to make it a felony to carry off cotton, corn or other produce on the farm of another, in the night time—re feared to the Judiciary Committee. Mr. Cox, of Troup : To make it law ful for treasurers to pay insolvent costs of Solioitors-General, Clerks and Sher iffs ont of any funds Dot specially ap propriated—referred to Judiciary Com mittee. Mr. Pilcher : To amend the laws rel ative to liability of railroads for killing stock—referred to the Jtfdieiary Com mittee. Mr. Walton, of Burke : To repeal the act providing for the payment of in solvent costs in the Augusta Circuit referred to the Judiciary Committee. Mr. Fortner : To repeal the act cre ating the Board of Commissioners of Johnson county—referred to Judiciary Committee. To ameod the aot creating a Board of Commissioners in Johnson county. Ju diciary Committee reported adverse to the passage of the bill— report agreed to and the bill lost. To fix the compensation of the Tax Receiver of Richmond county. Passed. To exempt from taxation home made aod home manufactured household and kitchen furniture to the amount of S2OO. The Finance Committee reported ad verse to the passage of the bill. Mr. McDonald moved to disagree to the re port of the committee. The report was agreed to and the bill lost. The exempt from taxation all maimed, crippled, disabled or wounded soldiers, or their widows and orphans, or the widows and orphans of those killed iu the war, or who died in the service of the Confederate States, to the amount of SSOO. The Finance Committee reported adverse to the passage of the bill. Mr. McDonald moved to disagree to the re port of the committee. The report of the committee was agreed to and the bill was lost. To fix the per diem pay of jurors in Washington county. Finance commit tee reported adverse to the passage of the bill. Report agreed to and bill lost. To prevent fraud in the ballot. Judi ciary committee reported adverse to the passage of the bill. Report agreed to and bill lost. No State Aid to the Marietta and North Geor gia Railroad—Watering Dividends—Au gusta Circuit—Board of Health. [Special Dispatch to the Chronicle and Sentinel.] Atlanta, February 7.—The bill to lend the credit of the State to the Ma rietta and North Georgia Railroad was lost—yeas, 71; nays, 89. An eflort Will be made for a reconsideration- to moirow. The committee to whom was referred the redaction of judicial circuits made a report favoring the abolition of the last four created, including the Augusta Circuit, and reported a bill for that pnr pqse. The motion to suspend the rules to read the bill the first time was opposed by Mr. Black, and the motion did not prevail. Mr. Walsh introduced a bill for the relief of James McAndrew —to reinstate his case before the Supreme Court. Re ferred to Judiciary Committee. Mr. Northern’s bill to prevent joint stock companies from paying dividends, unless the same aye mpde from earn ings or surplus, was passed. Mr. Hood, of Randolph, introduced a bill to provide a normal school for the colored people. The bill to organize a Board of Health for Augusta, as amended by Council, was reported favorably by the Finance Committee. The bill to reduce the bond of the Tax Collector of Richmond was reported fa vorably. The appropriation bill will be report ed to-morrow. W. 'l'uesday’s J’roqee<Ung. Tbe following bills were before the Senate : A bill to repeal an act authorizing the Justices of the Peace of Emanuel coun ty to act as Road Commissioners, was read the third time anfi passec}. By Ml Perry; 'Tq establish a depart ment of insurance in Qeorgia. Referred to the Finance Committee. The following biUs relating tq the Constitution of tbe State were read the first time and referred to the Judiciary Committee: To amend second section of article second of the C .nstitution. To amend the Constitution of the State. Qn motion, the rules were suspended for the purpose of introducing tbe fol lowing bill; whion Was offered By Mr. Brewster, and referred to the Committee on tbe Judipiary; To provide fqr the taking qf testimony to be used ae eyidenpe on trial of oivil cases, etc. Rules were suspended, aud Mr. Wil son, Chairman of the Committee on the Military, offered a resolution that the Board appointed by the Governor to re vise that part of the Constitution relat ing to volunteers, be allowed to make their report at the next session. Seve;al Rouse bill ß lyere read the second time and passed to a third read ing. A bill tq fjl'flW H WUtijev qf homestead in the State was reported adversely by the Committee on tbe Judiciary. It was moved that the report bo" dis agreed to. Upon this motion there was a discussion, in which Messrs. Harrison, Bryan and Sbewmake favored the adop tion of the committee’s adverse report, and Messrs. Rowell and McDaniel op posed it. The Souse was occupied during the day, the special order being the bill to amend the act to loan the credit of the State tq the Marita and North Georgia Railroad. FERTILISERS. What tlie Department ot Agriculture Han Accomplished. One of the leading manufacturers of fertilizers in the South writes to Com missioner James as follows: “ The result of your labors is now that in the year 1877, nine years after the first chemical works were built south of the Potomac river, no fertilizer of less than 22 per cent, phosphate of lime can enter” ~yonr lines. Jor does any manufacturer of the United States now turn out or sell to planters in Georgia any goods which do not come up to the grade established by your department. “The absolute gain to the farmer and planter can scarcely be estimated in fig ures The increased crops and saving of labor, and especially the reduced cost of raising cotton, which, in 1869, was by good'judges estimated at'fourteen cents, and to-day put at eight cents, is a practical demonstration that some at least of the benefits anticipated from your department have been secured, and to-day every manufacturer iuthe United States who hopes tq sell his goods to the Georgia faripCr Jsends t(j yoqr market his best goods, and reserves his low est grades for home consumption. * * * J see bnt little chants for improvement in the average grade of fertilisers now sold here. One company alone now guarantees by analy ses from 30 to 35 per cent, of soluble bone phosphate has been driven to the extreme of the possibilities manufactur ing and their guarantee is now from 5 to 12 times the quality of the most popular articles sold in your State previous and up to 1868. * * * * * “Public, literary and even agricultural schools cannot and do not convey the information which your bulletins con tain, and "but for your department the information conveyed could never reach the farmer and plaptwr for whom it was intended, v ? In the season of 1867-68 the State of Georgia bought and paid for foreign fertilizers, 80lQ0Q tons at an average of Iff at 11,800,- 000. These contained, say an average of five per oent. of phosphoric acid avail able for vegetable life. In subsequent years the State received the same num ber of tons at the same price con taining 10 to 15 per cent, of phosphoric acid or two or three times the com mercial value. All this for the same outlay in money. This $3,200,000 of expenditure supplies now to the far mer goods worth -wice as much as those bought by him in 1867. If expressed in dollars and cents the amount saved wtmld appear so large as to tie absolute ly almost incredible. * * * I have no hesitation in saying that the average quality of all the fertilizers sold in Geor gia is fully 25 per cent, better than the average of all manufactured in the United Kingdom.” This is an important showing, and should be pondered carefully. LEGAL POINTS IN POLITICS. OMendorff Sustained and Cardnao Restrain ed—Continuation of General Cenner>s Ar gament. [,Special Dispatch to the News and Courier. J Columbia, February 6. —The Supreme Court has decidid, in the oase of Willi man vs. Ostendorff, that the election of the 7th of November was valid. The decision has not been publioly announc ed, and no opinion has as yet been filed, or been prepared, but the result is as stated. Judge Carpenter has filed his decision in the injunction case against the State depositories and Cardozo claiming to be Treasurer. The order, until final de cree is made, restrains depositories from paying out any funds or checks drawn by Cardozo, and farther restrains Car dozo from making any such checks. It also requires complainants in the case to file such bond as may be approved by the Clerk of the Court. Ihe Court decides : Ist. That by law the Treasurer enters upon his official duties when the incoming Governor is installed, and not till then. 2d. The constitution requires the presence of both Houses to open and publish the returns for Governor, and for his instal lation. 3fi. That the Mackey House was illegal and revolutionary, and its acts void, and therefore no legal publication of ‘,he returns had been made and no lawful installation had taken place. This decision is, of courpe, the logiiM se quence of that in ex parte Smith, filed a few days ago, and accords with Judge Carpenter’s views, as expressed in that case. In the Supreme Court to-day, in the case of Sims, et al., vs. Hayne, ex ret., General Conner resumed this morning and commented on the return from the precinct Abbeville No. 2, contending that under the old law the Commission ers of Election designated the preoinGts; that this was productive of so much fraud and complaint that the Legisla ture, by act of 1875, 15 Stat., 981, took this power from the commissioners and prescribed by act the number and loca tion of the precincts in each county; that it provided for 17 precincts in Ab beville dounty, but designated only one at Abbeville court House, where the Re publican commissioners designated two and held the election at two; the Demo cratic manager protesting that they did exactly what the act forbade, and exer cised the very power which the act was intended to take away. It was therefore an illegal precinot, and the returns were not valid and should not be counted. At this point General Conner was stopped by the Court intimating that they did not wish to hear him further on that head. General Conner then continued, to the effect that the duty which the act imposed upon the State canvassers was to canvass the votes, and ascertain and declare who had received the highest number of votes for the several offices. If they had done that then they had per formed their duty according to law. If they had not, then that duty was still to be performed; that mandamus was the proper remedy to obtain what was now sought—the official declaration of the true result of the election. That in every election there were two interests— the public and the private; first, the right of the electors to have a fair count and result; second, the right of the individ ual elected to the possession of the office. Quo warranto could reach the latter, but not the former, and if the individual did not choose to bring his quo warran to, but only a private action, then the public right could not be protected. The Chief Justice here stated that they conceded that the board could be re-convened, and some discussion then ensued as to whether the power to re convene extended to Purvis and Stone, who had resigned. Mr. Stone opened for tke Board of State Canvassers, and cqptended, first, that the Court could not re-convene the Board, and certainly not the members who had resigned (Boutwell’s case, 17 Wallace); second, that mandamus was not the proper remedy, but quo warranto. Mr. Stone then argued that the Board had discharged their duties legally; that all they had to do was to aggregate the statements. Justice Willard asked wfiy, if that was their duty, had tfipy thrown out Laurens and sdgefield for members of the legislature and then counted them fpr State officers, then again thrown out Edgefield on the coqut for Solicitor ? Some sharp and trenchant criticism fell from Justice Willard, and considerable nervousness and uneasi ness was manifested on the part of Mr. Stone at the sharp questioning. Mr. Stone argued that the Robbins’ box, although not forwarded by the County Canvassers as counted by them or the State Canvassers, should be now count ed. At this point the Court rose, Jnot before it adjourned, the Qfiiff Justice, after conference on bench, said to Mr, Cqnnor; "You can move for leave to answer the record by striking out ‘Mr. Stone and Purvis,’ and inserting ‘Elliott and Kennedy.’ If you you can consider it, and Uj R 8 in the Ojtofrijng. ”• tse p ( ld Board of State Canvassers consisted of three candi date's, apd this amendment will #alfe it consist entirely q| candidates, it is just possible counsel may hot avail themselves of the leave of the Court, Judge Mackey’s repent deoision in Chester will probable come up on appeal before the Supreme Court to morrow on a motion to docket. Nine thousand dollars of the Hampton tax haß been received since the last re port. THE GUARDS, In the course of an artiole on British regiments, a writer in Chambers' Maga zine tells us that the Coldstream Guards was raised in the year 1650; but it was m 1660 that it marched from the little town of Coldstream (from whenoe it de rives its name), near Berwick on Tweed, to London, under command of its first colonel, George Monk (afterward Duke of Albemarle), tire express purpose of restoring the monarchy by placing Charles II on the throne. Monk was a general in the Parliamentary forces as4 an admiral of the Beet, and tP. this latter fact (he regiment is permitted to bear upon its Queen’s color a small Union jack, in honor of its first oolonei’s nayal rank; a proud privilege, not ap pertaining to any other regiment in the service. The gallant Coldstreamers, as they were called, materially assisted in the happy restoration of the English mon archy; and while marching to London they met with an enthusiastic reception in the tokens and villages through which they passed.' In the meantime Colonel Russell, an old Loyalist officer, had raised a corps which he oalled the Ring’s Kegimeut of Guards; and on the arrival of Charles it was united with the Royal Regiment of Guards, which came with him. After the Restoration, the three regiments which now form the brigade of Guards were assembled on Tower Hill to take the oath of allegi ance to the King, and as a sign that they repudiated the Commonwealth, they were ordered .to lay down their arms. Having obeyed this order with the utmost alacrity, they were command ed to take them fip again in their King’s servipe as the First, Second and Third Regiments of Foot' Guards. The First and Third Regiment did so with cheers; but the Coldstreamers, to the astonish ment of the King, who was present, stood firm. “ Why does yonr regiment hesitate inquired Charles of General Monk. “ May it please your Majesty,” said the stern old soldier, lowering tfie point of his sword, “ the Coldstreamers are yoar Majesty s devoted servants; but after the servioe they have had the hon or of rendering your Highness, they can not consent to be second to any corps in your Majesty’s service.” “ And they are right,” said the “ they shall be sepopd fa nope. Ret them take up tfieir arm's as my Cold stream Regiment of Foot Guards. ” Monk rode Dack to the line and com municated the King’s decision to the reg iment, It had a magical effect. The arms were instantly raised amid frantic cries of “ Long live the King 1” Since this event the motto of the Coldstream Guards has been “ Nulli secundua" —• Second to none. The Fusion of Races. [From ike Truckee Brpubhcan.} 'h few days ago a couple visited Truckee on their wedding tour. They were married in Virginia pity. The husband was a large, good looking white man; the wife a delicate, fragile looking Japanese woman. The advent of this strangrdy assorted couple produced con siderable comment, The man, being interviewed, stated that he was legally married, and that it was a love match. The couple seemed to be very fond of each other, and did not seem in the least to mind the carious stare of the crowd that watched their movements as they passed along Front street. She had discarded the pecnliar costume of her nation, and was arrayed after the manner of a white woman. After re maining a few days in Trnckee, the hap py oonple departed for their home in Virginia City. Every other member of the Griffin Reform Club is covered with boils, fact bears jta own moral. A NON SEQUITUR. Because He Cleaned Out a School Teacher She Built Great Expectations On Him. [From the Detroit Free Press.] At half-past 11 o’clock yesterday fore noon a span of half starved horses, at tached to a covered wagon, halted at the ourb-stone on Gratiot Btreet, and the driver bought some oats at a feed store and placed them before the animals, while he and his wife proceeded to make a cold lnuch. They had a stove in the wagon, and were moving themselves and a few articles of value to some other clime. At noon three or four journey men blacksmiths, working in a shop near the wagon, came out and began poking fun at the old woman, who was the only one in sight in the vehicle. She kept her temper for a while, but when a snow ball struck her on the ear she called out, “If you want De Soto to come down there and break a few heads, you’d bet ter keep this thing up ! ” “Who’s De Soto ? Show us the man who discovered the Mississippi river ! ” yelled the men. De Soto got down over the end board. He looked to be about forty years old, and it was plain that he had fight in him. He leaned on one of the wheels, and chewed crackers and looked the crowd in the eyes, while his wife stuck her head out and remarked, “We don’t want to pick a fight, but we cant be imposed on ! ” “ Is that your youDgest child ? ” call ed out one of the journeymen. “Be keerful !” she replied. “ He’s the man who has made the wilderness .howl, and you’d better move on 1” Seeing fun ahead, someone in the back ground tossed up and old tin pan, which came down fair and square on De Soto’s head. He spit out his cracker, pulled off his big comforter, and the wife leaned out of the wagon and said : “Wade right into the crowd, hubby!” He waded. One of the journeymen met him at the curb-stone, and in about a minute the man who had made the wil derness howl had crawled under his wagon for safety. The woman jumped down and saw him under there, and was satisfied that he was a licked maD. His nose banged around, one eye closing, and his upper lip was as big as an apple core. “What’s the matter ?” she asked, as she peered at him between the spokes of the hind wheel. “Licked !” he softly replied. She felt that some explanation was de manded, and turning to the crowd said ; “I’d have bet our hull outfit on him, but I own up that he’s walloped. You see, we lived up in the woods, and be cause he cleaned out a school-master we kinder thought he could stand up to anything smaller’n a hurricane. Get into tho wagon, hubby, and let me rub you with cimphire.” He crawled in without a word, and the smell of camphor and the tearing up of an old shirt into bandages convinced the crowd tb&t the show was over. Fifty pages—3oo Illustrations, with Descrip tions of thousands of the best j lowers and Vegetables in the world, and the way to grow them—all for a Two Cent postage stamp.— Printed in German and English. Vick’s Floral Guide, Quarterly, 25 cents a year. Vick's Flower and Vegetable Garden, 50 cents in paper ; in elegant cloth covers, sl. Address, JAMES VICK, deo22-w2-16 Bochester, N. V. SUCCESS 18 THE Test of Merit. VEGETINE I TRE great suooesss of Vegetine In curing such diseases as Sorofula, inherited in the blood, together with the increasing de mand of the medicine, is Conclusive evidence of its actual merit, tv > medicine was ever placed before the public with so much positive proof cf its real value as the Vegetine, whioh has cured many cases of Scrofula of five, ten and twenty years’ standing, where the patient' has had many gbydieiapa, tiied many of the known remedies; a' and after tiymg the Vege- TINg, file cowman remark is, ‘Tt aots different ly, w°fis differently, from any medicine I have ever taken.” Veqetkne will oleanse Scrofula from the system. T.yit, Unprecedented Merit. Boston, January 1, 1876. R. B. Stevens, 1 sq —Dear Sir : For many years I have been afflioted with a humor in the blood whioh finally developed into Scald Head, and only those whi are similarly afflicted can realize the disagreeable suffering one ie com pelled to endure with this complaint. For a long time my head was in a dreadful condition. 1 used various kinds of remedies and medi cines, some of which was es eofally prepared for me. I got no beftpv— fudged, constantly grew worse, the surface of my head being en tirely qoymvd with Bores of the most aggra vated nature. This was my condition when I commenced taking the Vegetine, "hick lam pleased to inform you and the public (if you choose to make it public) has made a com plete and satisfactory cure of my disease; and I shall always deem it a great pleasure to meprion fhe Vmprecedented merit of Vegetine. ' I remain, very thankfully, CHARM2S R. SMITH, 3,38 Fourth street, South Boston. Ail Diseases of the Blood. 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It strengthens and invigorates the whole system. Many of my acquaintances have taken it, and I believe it to be good for all the complaints for which it is reoommended. Yours truly* JOSEPH A. SHERMAN. Reliable evidence. Mr. H. R. Stevens— Dear Sir: I will most cheerfully add my testimony to the great num ber you have already received in favor of your great and good medicine, Vegetine, for I do not tbiuk enough can be said in its praise, for I was troubled ovc r 30 yearn with that dread ul disease. Catarrh, and had su h had cooghing spells that it would seem as though I never could breathe any more, and Vegetine has cured me, and I do feel to thank God all the time that there is so good a medicine as Veve- Tine, and I also think it one of the best medi cines fop coughs and weak, sinking feelings at the stomach, and advise everybody to take the Vetoetine, for I can assure them ic is one of the best medioines that ever was. Mbs. li. GORE, Cor. Magaine and Walnut sts., Cambridge, Mass. 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A large line of White and Black Blonde Laces, Black and White Brussels Met, Cashmere and Embroidered Scarf Laces, &c. 1,000 Prize Medal Quilts, tbe greatest bargain ever offered in the city of Augusta. 5,000 Pairs Corsets, best value ever offered for the money. .-bn. c. gray & co. L. RICHARDS' Augusta Dry Goods Store IS TBE PLACE TO REAL BARR ALTS IS DRY ROODS THIS WEEK ! THE CLEARANCE SALE ! AND THE BARGAIN COUNTERS WILL CONTINUE. Dress goods,black cashmeres, black alpacas, white goods buchings Hamburg Edgings, Table Damasks, Doylies, Hosiery, Neck Ties, Jet Jewelrv,Neck Laca and thousands of little articles will be offered on the Bargain Counters. THIS WEEK NEW SPRI.YR ROODS JUST RECEIVED ! Prints, Cambrics, Picquea; one Case Corded Pioques Bill be sold out at 10c. nor vard—a Croat bargain. r • b 0 , . Heal Lonsdale 4-4 Shirting, Beal Fruit of the Loom -1-4 Shirting, Real Semper Idem 4-4 Shirting, Real Wamsutta 4-4 Shirting just received. To secure bargains in Goods now is tho time. L. RICHARDS, ~ , t 209 Broad Street, Augusta, Georgia. feb4-d&wtf ° NEW SPRING GOODS, NOW OPENING, A t The Old Fredericksburg DRY G-OODS STOEE, Corner by the Planters’ Hotel. T -INCLUDING White Coeds of all descriptions, beautiful Printed Piques, Hamburg Edgings, and InsoTtings in great variety and very low. Choice .Spring Cambrics at 81 and 10o.; yard wide dfi'to at 12£c. All the leading brands of Bleached Sheetings and Shirtings, and at the lowest prices, includ ing the imitation 4-4 Lonsdale Bleached Cotton at 9c. Also, 150 pieces Black Alpaca, imported direct for our retail Bales, of pure and beautiful blaok, and at less prices for the q ality of the goods than we have ever been ab'e to sell them befoie. We will also receive this week some choice styles Drees Goods, suitablo for early Spring wear. Also, Black and Colored Silks, to which we respectfully invite the attention of purchasers. We will also receive full lines of all the low and medium grades of Goods, such as large cakes Toilet Soaps at 30c. per dozen, or two cakes for sc; Pius at 2c. per paper, 280 pins to the paper; good Needles, 2?c. per paper: Hooks and Eyes, lc. per card; good Pencils, lc. each; rubber end ditto at 2Jc ; Envelopes at 6c. I er pack; Note 1 ‘a; <-r. sc. per quire; Twill Tape at 2c. per roll; Gents’ Silk Bows at to., recently sold for 25c, Good Suspenders at 15 and 20c. per pair. Good Elastic Garter-at sc. per pair. Ladies’ Hemstitched Handkerchiefs, sc. each;-Gents’ large ditto, at 10. each. Gentlemen’s imitation Wamsutta Cotton Shirts at 50e. each. Good Under shirts and Drawers, at 35c. each, and hundreds of other articles at equally low prices, to which we call the attention of all who are in need of such goods. V. RICHARDS & BRO., feb4-d&wtf CORNER ISY THE PLANTERS’ HOTEL MI7JLLARK.Y BROS. Are Now Offering the Rreatest Bargains Ever Seen in this City in Black Silk, Blaok Cashmere, AND ALSO, BLACK ALPACAK, C) K/Y PIECtS of which we will sell at 25c. per yard. These goods must be seen to be *-) able to find out their full value. No redu tiou will be allowed to parties purchasing large quantities, as they have already been marked at the lowest prices. 100 pieces each, at 40c ar and 50c per yard, which for quality and finish cannot be equalled in the city. These goods are what we advertise llicm to be—a bargain—and we would ask all who wish to purchase such goods to call and EXAMINE THEM. We have just received 25 cases Ladies’ HOSE—and also. 25 cases Gents’ HALF HOSE, from an auction sale in New York, which wo will sell at 25; per cent, less than the same goods were offered a week ago. MULLARKY BROTHERS’, m IIKiIIII TItKCT. janlO-dtw&w FINE BLANKETS, VERY_CHEAP. We desire to close out about fifty pair of FINE BLANKETS, which are slightly soiled from carrying over. We offer Blankets sold last Sea son at sl£ for $7 50, and those sold at $lO for $6. Parties desiring good Blankets Cheap will find them in this lot. JAMES A. GRAY & GO. Feed Your Laid aad the Land will Food You! Soluble Pacific Guano ! AND COMPOUND ACID PHOSPHATE ~ FOR COMPOSING WITH COTTON SEED! The Most Popular Fertilizers In Use. LAST YEAR. 187 fl there were 112 different brands sold in the Btate of Gaorgia, the sales aggregating tbo’ut 70,000 tons, and of that quantity the Pacific Guano Company sold 13,000 tons. HOLD BY UH EVERY REASON SINCE 18651 PRICES IN AUGUSTA, GEORGIA: Co™pon?dVcld I phofp l t£te e ,' wiih 13c. Cotton Option 43 Op DELIVERED AT ANY BOAT OR DEPOT IN THE CITY FREE OF CHARGE. Time Sales payable by the Ist of NOVEMBER, 1877, without interest, with options of pay ing in Cotton of a grade not below Middling, at 13 cents, delivered at your Railroad Depot, or any Warehouse of Augusta, Savannah or Charleston. J. O. MATHEWSON &. CO., lanl3—2m GF.NF.RAL AGENTS. AUGUSTA. GEORGIA. FLftebTloab InAi&s bank, 1 fT 223 Broad Street, CAPITAL, - - - SIOO,OOO, WITH STOCKHOLDERS LIABILITY. . Interest Allowed on Deposits, T. F. BRANCH, President. DIRECTORS S ** IrEWBKRT ’ GmhißT ~ THOS W OOSKERY, GEN. M. W. GARY, G. VOLGER. JUDGE WM. GIBSON, E. H. ROGERS, JAMES L. GOW„ jan2o-tf
