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Address WALSH ft WRIGHT,
Chbosiou ft Ssstissl. Angasta. Ga.
Ctjronule attb Sentinel.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1877.
TO Ot/K HUBBCRIBKRN.
We reqneet oar subscribers who owe
tlfi to pay their aubacriptions. It ia im
portant to ua that every man on oar
books should pay at once. Let each
subscriber bear in mind that while one
or two dollars may appear to be a tri
fling amount, the aggregate amounts to
a large sum. We hope our friends will
respond promptly. wtf
Mr. Hewitt bases his hope on in
eligible electors. It is a slender thread,
bat will do to hang a hope upon.
At the imperative command of the
President the indictment against Bel
knap for bribe taking has been dismiss
ed. Let no guilty man escape.
A writer in the Brunswick Record
recommends ex-Governor Jos. E. Brown
as a suitable Secretary of the Treasury
in the event of Tilden’s inauguration.
Judge Frank Little, of Sparta, has
been re-appointed Judge of the County
Court of Hanoook county. Judge Little
has made a capital Judge and his ap
pointment will give general satisfaction.
Bradley thinks it would be a great
wrong if a “legal technicality ahould
■deprive the people of Oregon of their
vote.” It la a pity Bradley did not
think it a great wrong that a legal tech
nicality should deprive the people of
Florida of their vote.
Mr. Stephens was sixty-five years old
last Sunday. His condition is so much
improved that, for the first time since
his recent sickneas, he acknowledges
himself better. It is the fervent wish of
his people that he be soon restored to
health.
The “ dog law” has failed again in
Oeorgia. An amendment to the Tax
Act taxing the owners of dogs one dol
lar on each dog owned was voted down
in the Honso by a large majority. The
million mangy cars that infest the State
are much more valnable than sheep—in
the opinion of the Georgia Legislature.
It is somewhat comforting to know
tfeaA in his usual Sunday talk day before
yesterday the President declared himself
“aomewhat uncertain as to the result.”
He fears that the vote of Louisiana will
not be counted, and that the election for
President will be thrown into the
House. Half a loaf is better than no
bread, and if we cannot get Tilden and
Hendricks we will try and bear np un
der Tilden and Wheeler.
Mr. Smith, of Oglethorpe, is making
an effort to have the Federal tax on
liquors distilled from fruit repealed. A
resolution, introduced by himself, re
questing the Georgia delegation in Con
gress to use their infinenoe to accom
plish this result, has been reported on
favorably by the oommittee, and will
-doubtless pass both Houses of the Gen
eral Assembly.
Mr. Tilbb* is not discouraged be
cause of the action of the Commission
on the Florida oase. He is reported as
■eying to a personal friend who went to
\yuubiagton at his request :
Say to our friends that they have no
“ reas' on b® depressed if the Com
“ misaii'u decides against the Democra
<Cy j n th e Florida ease. I expeot the
denuion w*Ul be adverse, but do not
“ enoonrage d^P°nd en °y- The loss of
•• Florida will vot surprise me, but
there are other points upon which I
- am confident the democracy will suc
“ need. lam a fatalist in eo far aa I
• believe, aa the representative of the
Democrats, the final decision will be
■“ in our favor.”
Abother indication of the importance
of recent ohauges iu the channels of por
tions of the trade of the West is furnish
ed by a paragraph in the report of the
Illinois Central Railroad, issued a few
days Bgo- I 1 assigns as one of the causes
of the decline in the revenue of that
road the B*°wth of anew practice
of the true * ttmas of seeking produce as
near its orig>> convenient, instead of
waiting until accumulates it for
eastern shipment. This movement has
already had a influence in
promoting the remaik’*ble increase in
the exports of Phiiadelph ** *
more, and it may affect the .*YMUMmtions
of the future more peroeptibly
operations of last year.
It is related of Jndge Davis that in
his cirenit at Indianapolis a lawyer
named Ketohum was ready when his
case was called, bnt his opponent had
sent word that he could not arrive for
u hour or two. Ketchum insisted on
proceeding at once. Jndge Davis re
monstrated in favor of the absent law
yer, but to no purpose. “Well," said
he, finally, “if you insist upon going on,
Mr. Krtchum, you have, of course, the
technical right to do so; but if I were
you, I wouldn’t urge the matter. Over
at Springfield, the other day, there was
just such a case. The lawyer would in
sist upon going on with the trial, and so
I had to look after the interest of the
other party myself; and do you know,
curiously enough, Mr. Krchum, we
beat him 1” Mr. Kwtchum decided to
wait.
Ora of the curious bits of statistics in
in the report of the Pennsylvania Board
of Centennial Managers relates to the
careful observations made of the tem
perature during the famously hot “Cen- j
tennial Summer" at the State building
on the Centennial grounds. The aver
age temperature during which the ob
nervations were made— namely,from June 1
21 to September 30 (both inolnaive) —is
Tt{ degrees. Thursday, July 20, is
shown to have had the highest average
(91f degrees), and Saturday, July 8,
the next highest (90 1-3 degrees),
though the mercury at one time rose
higher on the Bth than on the 201 h. On
the last named day, at 3, p. m., it reg
istered 95 degrees, whereas on the Bth,
at the same hoar, it registered 96 de
grees. However, these observations
were not taken at all on Sundays and it
so happens that Sunday, July 9, was
-the hottest day, the thermometer regis
tering 103 degrees in the shade on that
<lay.
PITTING A MOOTED QUESTION AT
RENT.
For yean there has been a dispute be
tween Maryland and Virginia concern
ing the true boundary line between the
two States. The contest was embitter
ed because of certain riparian rights be
i ing involved, inclndiDg the title to sev
. eral valnable oyster beds. Conflicts had
become so frequent and serious between
the rival oyater claimants that it was
felt necessary some settlement of the
dispute should be made that wonld pnt
an end to the difficulties. Accordingly,
one arbiter waa chosen to act for each
State, and ex-Governor Chas. J. Jesk
ins, of Georgia, made the third. The
commissioner for Maryland and Gover
nor Jenkins made a decision in favor of
Maryland, giving that State sovereignty
over the whole of the Potomac to its
sonthern bank, and to Virginia domin
ion over the soil on her side to low
water mark, and a certain stipulated use
of the river beyond low water, such as
to facilitate the fall enjoyment of the
riparian rights, without interfering with
navigation. The terms were accepted
by both Maryland and Virginia.
AN AMERICAN ‘-JARNDYCB AND JAUN
DICE” CAME.
A case has recently been settled in
New York which is as bad as that of
Dickens’ “Jabndyce andjJARNDYCE.” A
rag picker, J. B. Taylor, died, leaving
a fortune of $300,000 and five distinct
families. Ail of these had lawyers,
guardians, executors, commissioners,
and the Lord knows what else, to look
after their interests. Litigation has
been going on since 1870, and the other
day the relatives abandoned the oase,
the estate being swallowed np in fees.
One daughter, the most plausible
claimant, was cheated oat of her share
by snch allowances as $20,000 to her
lawyers, $3,000 to her guardian, $2,000
to her guardian’s lawyer, $5,000 to an
other lawyer for argning the oase, $4,000
to Senator Conklins for preparing to
try the will oase before a jury and SB,OOO
to counsel for banks. Congressman
Mattison charged $15,000 for selling
the estate’s stock in the Times Com
pany. The receiver charged SIO,OOO for
his expenses and SIO,OOO for his fees.
When the heirs abandoned the estate
the lawyers oommenoed a wrangle about
its division, and this is still going on.
Some think others got more than their
share. If they conld only make it a
Kilkenny eat fight and clean each other
ont as effectually as they have Taylor’s
heirs, it would compensate to some ex
tent for the outrage done the legatees of
the New York rag picker.
MACON AND BRUNSWICK BONDS.
A bill is now pending before the Gen
eral Assembly to fnnd the recognized
bonds of the Macon and Brunswick
Railroad endorsed by the State in bonds
of the State of Georgia bearing a re
duced rate of interest. The Joint
Fiuanee Committee have given the bill
mature consideration and report in
favor of its passage. We see no reason
why this bill ehonld not become a law;
there are some good reasons why it
should. So long as there was any rea
son to suppose that the State might de
cline to reoognize her endorsement or
that any taint of fraud attached to the
bonds we opposed changing the nature
of the oontract and plaoing the State in
such a position that she conld not well
disown what might prove to be a fraud
ulent indebtedness. But the class of
bonds whioh will be affected by the bill
have run the gauntlet of every Legisla
ture that has assembled in Georgia since
the flight of Bcllook. They have
been repeatedly recognized and in vari
ous ways. When the company made de
fault, the Governor seized the road in
accordance with the terms of the stat
ute that provided for the endorsement,
and sinoe that time it has been in the
possession of, and has been operated by,
the State. At the last session of the
General Assembly an appropriation was
made to pay the interest whioh had ac
crued and whioh might accrue during
the year 1876. The holders of these
bonds now propose to fnnd them in six
per cent, bonds of the State. This will
save to the State annually one per oent.
in the rate of interest alone, and great
ly simplify the condition of our bonded
debt. The saving to the tax payers
will amount to a very handsome sum be
fore the matnrity of the bonds, and the
bill is a measure of practical economy.
SENATOR CAMERON'S PREACH OF
PROMISE.
Revenge is sweet. Before, during and
after the war, Senator Cameron, of
Pennsylvania, was the active and per
sistent enemy of the South. A Southern
woman—a girl from Georgia—is now
suing Senator Cameron to recover fifty
thousand dollars damages for breach of
promise of marriage. If she wins her
oase Georgia will be even with Pennsyl
vania. We do not know who the fair
plaintiff is, but all the Washington cor
respondents, and Senator Cameron as
well, Aoncede that she is a widow
from Georgia, and that her husband
was killed or died of disease while
in the Confederate army. The
New Tork Sun says that the woman in
the ease—Mrs. Mart L. Oliver —is
“about thirty-fife years old, and very
vivacious and attractive. Though not
precisely pretty, she still ltf£ charms
enough left in the way of blue eyas,
brown hair, round, full fsoe, and
plump figure to challenge the admira
tion of Senators when they reach the
romantic age of sevaatfy-eight She was
e*pf the sufferers by tup late rebel
,'*oß ; and, feeling that she had a claim
U p o u the Government, came to Wash
ington about throe years ago and but
toned the Senator from Pennsylvania.”
She next saw the hoary CosypoN in New
Orleans, aod, she says, earn* again to
Washington At his solicitation—the
Senator furnit'hlog her the following let
ter to the Secretary tti the Treasury;
Harrisburg. Aeptamber 25, 1875.
Deas Mb. Secretaby : Hie hearer, Mrs.
Outer, ie the d>nghter of an office* of the
Cnitrd States Navy in ante-war times, and the
wife of another officer of the Navy, who wae
killed or died on the other side during the re
bellion. She haa come to Washington in search
of employment, with letters to me from friends
of mine in New Orleans. I knew her father,
and aha is highly recommended as a good wo
man. She ie very poor, and thinka a letter
from me to Colonel Bristow will procure her
employment. If yo think so, it will make her
happy, and I have of ton found happiness in
making others happy. Truly yap re,
lotos Camebos.
Hon. B. H. Bbistsw.
This recommendation was sufficient
and Mr. Bristow, the great civil ser
vice reformer, gave her a situation in
the Treasury Department. A few
; months later the Senator wooed and
won her and she promised to become
bis bride. The Sun continues : “As
the language of the complaint chargee
that the marriage contract was formed
on the 7th of Deoember, 1875, it seems
that Simon was determined to begin the
Forty-fourth Congress with virtuous
resolutions, and lost no time in commu
nicating his views to the widow on his
arrival at the opening of the sesaaon.
She returned his young and ardent af
fections, and aaid she was ready to take
his name. Then she waited for him to
name the day, but he would interpose
delays ef one kind or another until she
became disgusted. It will be claimed
by the widow when the case
comes to trial, which will probably be
dnring the May term of the District
Court, that Simon told her once there
was jnst one objection he was trying to
remove to the marriage. He had a niece
who was violently opposed to the match,
and he had not been able by all his en
treaties to overcome her prejudices
against Mrs. Oliver, and he thought
j it- might be a good thing for the widow
herself to call and join him in the pe
tition. She did so, as she avers, bnt
found the alleged neice a most persist
ent opponent, and she now suspects
Simon was patting np some game on
her, and does not believe in the neice
business at all. She asserts that Simon
continned trifling with her until for
bearance ceased to be a virtue. Accord
ingly she called in the law to help her
out.”
Let us hope that the gentle Georgian
w'll win, and that the Senatorial deceiver
will have to ante for fifty thousand
dollars worth of withered hopes and
blighted affections.
RELIGIOUS DISCUSSIONS.
We have received a well written arti
cle, publication of which we are com
pelled to decline for two reasons. The
first is that the article is written on both
sides of the pages of paper. The second
is that it wonld give rise to adisonssion
purely sectarian in its character to the
purposes of which we are unwilling to
lend the colnmns of the Chronicle and
Sentinel. The first objection might be
obviated ; the latter cannot be removed.
It has been a rale in the management of
this paper not to publish anything in
the interest of one religious denomina
tion which would give offense to another
or provoke reply, and this rnle will not
be violated. The Chronicle and Sen
tinel is a secular journal —a newspaper.
It is published for all people—Jews,
Catholics, Presbyterians, Methodists,
Baptists, Lutherans, Christians, Episco
palians and Reformed Episcopalians.
We do not desire to offend the members
of aoy of these denominations ; on the
contrary, we wish to please them all.
Any matter of interest connected with
their churches, any religious informa
tion, we most cheerfully publish; any
attempt to aid one of these churches we
most cordially assist ; any effort to
bring about a controversy between mem
bers of different denominations we shall
always discourage. If gentlemen wish
to discuss questions of theology they
must carry their articles to religious
journals. We will have none of them.
HON. JOHN W. WOFFORD.
A lew days since it was announced
that Hoi:, John W. Wofford, of Car
tersville, had mov and to Kar.sas City,
Missouri. Tr e Atlanta Constitution of
Sun lay supplements this information
with the statement that Mr. Wofford
left Ge >rgia under a very -heavy cloul.
Tiie Constitution says:
Professional bad conduct is charged against
Col. Wofford, because of the fact stated that
he has made collections for clients in many
oases, and wholly failed to render any account
for the same or return the money to
those to whom it rightfully belonged. The
sums thus alleged to hive been withheld are
variously stated from $5,000 to SIO,OOO. In
this connection it is stated that a Bum of
$1 500 was culleotel by him for the Western
and Atlantic Railroad Company, which ia yet
to be accounted for. Governor Bbown was
swamped also, it is said, personally, as securi
ty upon a note of Col. Wofford’s for an
amount in the neighborhood of $4,700. Gov
ernor Bbown is said to be very much chagrin
ed at the manner in which Col. W. has trea'ed
b> , T a were told last night it was pretty
certain that Governor Bbown would ask a
requisition upon the Governor of Missouri for
the return of Col. Wofford to this State to
answer a prosecution.
This paragraph conveys astonishing
information to the people of Georgia—
to most of whom Mr. Wofford is known
either personally or by reputation.—
Since the war Mr. Wofford has been
prominent in Georgia politios, and was
regarded as a man of decided talent and
brilliant promise. In 1870, he was a
member of the House of Representatives
and in 1872 was elected to the State Sen
ate. He resigned, however, before his
term expired. In 1874, he was elected
Chairman of the Democratic Executive
Oommittee of theßeventh Congressional
District, and in that capacity waged
vigorous, though unsuccessful, war
against Dr. Felton, the independent
candidate for Congress, and in favor of
the regular nominee. In 1876, his name
was mentioned in connection with the
Governorship, but he declined to enter
the field. He was sent as a delegate
from the State at large to the St. Lonis
Convention, and was, we believe, one of
the five original Tilden delegates from
Georgia. WJ)en the State Convention
assembled he was elected an elector
from the State at large, and served in
that capacity daring the campaign. If
the statements made of him are trne he
is indoed a ruined m&u—* man whose
life has been blasted by his own deeds,
ANOTHER STATESMAN IN TROUBLE.
It seems that Senator Chbistianot and
Senator Cameron are not the only states
men of three score years and over who
plav the fool about worn- n. Mr. Glad
stone, late Prime Minister of Great
Britian, is also m a scrape which has a
woman at the bottom These three old
gentlemen—the sum oi whose ages is
two hundred and seventeen—have dis
t nguished themselves in different ways
with the fair sex. Mr. Chbistianot
thonghjt with St. Paul that it was bet
ter to marry than to bnrn, and made his
lady love the wife of bis Mr. !
Cameron, we presume, had not extended
his reading in that direction, and either
had not heard of St. Paul or else was ad
yised by Matt Carpenter that the pre
cept vm in oonfiiot with the well establish
ed rules ot ttm Senate. At all events the
Senator did not marry, and the Lothario
of eighty-seven is the defendant in a
breach of promise suit. The English■
cause has more striking features than the
American casq&. There the web woven for
the heart of man inyolyetf tpn destinies
of a nation in ita meshes. This vs# no
vulgar liason, but auintrigue that might
have changed the map of Europe
just as the loves of Paris and
Helen swept Troy from the face
of the earth. The story appeared
first iu a Paris journal, the Jiepublique
Francaise— the organ of Gambera spd
the French Radicals. It is published as
an explanation of the position Mr.
Gladstone has taken on the Eastern
question,* which has excited 60 much
comment. The ex-Premier is said to be
under the control of a Russian Princess,
beautiful of coarse, to whom the tortu
ous diplomacy of that country entrusted
the task ot enslaving the aged states
man. She was sent to London by
Prince Gobtschaeoff as a diplomatic
agent ot the Russian Government, and
boasts that she soon accomplished the
object of her mission. Now that the
play is over the actors are not unwilling
to appear in their real characters. Mr.
Gladstone was extremely assiduous in
his attentions to her, and it is charged
that it is owing to her influence that he
turned against the Turks after having
fought for them twenty-two years ago.
“Between the two there have certainly
been frequent exchanges of letters, and
the report is that the lady has some which
do more honor to his heart than to his
prad<Doe.” The statement first ap
peared in an English journal, and was of
confse met withs denial, but denials do
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 21, 1877.
i not stop scandals. Let Mr. Gladstone
! congratulate himself that he does not
! live in America. The articles of the
French and English journals are child’s
play to what he wonld encounter in this
centre of civilization.
THE MOUNT VERNON SSOCIATION.
We pnblish in the Chronicle and Sen
tinel this morning an address to the
Georgia members of the Monnt Vernon
Association from Mrs. Philoclea Edge
wcrth Eve, Vice-Regent of the Associa
tion for this State. We commend it not
only to the members of the Association,
bnt to the attention of onr readers gen
erally. Mrs. Eve’s suggestions are emi
nently practical, and shonld be adopted
and carried out in every town and city
of Georgia. Before the war, as Mrs,
Eve bears testimony, the women of
Georgia did their full share in the noble
work of placing the tomb and the home of
the Father of his Country in the hands
of those who wonld guard the one and
beautify the other. Since the war they
have not been able to do mnch; the
cruel ravages of war left them little to
give. Now that the country is free from
the shock of battle and the torch of in
vasion they are invited to renew their
offerings—to aid in the formation of an
endowment fnnd that will place the As
sociation on a permanent basis. Well
directed efforts throughout the State
will enable Georgia to make an offering
of whioh she need not be ashamed.
Great praise is due Mrs. Eve for the
long and efficient service which she has
rendered the Association, and for the
manner in which she has represented the
State. Her enthusiasm has not died with
the years, bnt glows as brightly now as
when the great work was first commenc
ed. We trast that her appeal will meet
with the • generous response it so well
merits.
A SPECIMEN CASE.
Every person who has a grievance, no
matter how petty or how personal it
may be, rushes to the nearest newspaper
office to obtain redress gratis. If for
any purely private reason a man be
comes displeased with an individual, an
official or a corporation, he expects, as a
matter of course, that the newspaper
shall make a public question of an in
dividual issue and fight his battles to
the bitter end. Ho declines to take any
responsibility himself; the newspaper
must assume it all. He is willing to
furnish “facts,” and nothing more. He
does not care to write a communication,
even over an anonymous signature, for
he does not wish “to be brought before
the public.” He would not for the
world publish a statement with his own
name attached, beoause ho does not de
sire “to be known in the matter.” Very
often the editor is furnished “important
information” in an anonymous letter and
urged to “attack” somebody or some
thing upon the strength of such com
municati >n. Asa case in point we have
a letter lying before us now, making
charges of the gravest nature against the
management of a certain corporation of
which the writer desires “some notice giv
en in vour (our) colnmns.”lf the charges,
which are detailed at length, be true
a very aggravated act of swindling has
been perpetrated. If they are not true
the man that made and the paper that
published them would deserve the
severest punishment. The best proof
we have that they are false is the failure
of the writer to sign his name to the ar
ticle. He call himself “Pro Bono Pub
lico.” The letter is the letter of an
educated man; the handwriting that of
one accustomed to the use of a pen.
He knows what would probably be the
result if we were silly enough to ac
cede to his request and yet he asks us
to lay the foundation of a libel case
with as much coolness as if he were ex
tending an invitation to a Sun
day school pic-nic. This is not,
by any means, an exceptional
case, as every newspaper editor will
testify. There are plenty of “Pro Bono
Publicos” and kindred cattle in every
community who wish newspapers to at
tack individuals and corporations upon
whiph they kindly communicate.
MR. TURNER, Uf BROOKS.
While the bill to extend help (not aid) to
the Marietta and North Georgia Railroad was
under discussion in the House, Turner, of
Brooks, indulged in some bitter, acrimonious
and inopportune remarks, which were entirely
out of place and uncalled for. The gentle
man may be courting popularity at home, but
we think he would have received the endorse
ment of his constituents had he favored the
bill, as it hurts nobody, and would greatly
benefit the State as well as the people along
the line.— Gainesville Southron.
Qur contemporary does Mr. Turner,
of Brooks, great injustice in the above
paragraph. We think, ourselves, that
the Legislature should have granted to
the Marietta and North Georgia Rail
road the assistance which it asked. We
believe that the bil amply secured the
State against loss; we believe that the
section of country which the road would
traverse needs development ; and we
regret the defeat of the bill in the
House. But while these were our views
and onr wishes, we do not charge that
the opponents of the measure were in
fluenced in their opposition by
any unworthy motives. We are quite
sure that Mr. Turner’s opposition
was the result of a conscientious
oonviction that the scheme was
wrong. Those who know that gentle
man, or who have watched his course in
the Legislature—where he has served
for three spggion3—would never dream
of charging him with “courting popu
larity." There is not the slightest trace
of the demagogue in his character— |
demagogueism is utterly foreign to his
nature. Mr. Turner is a man of well
I balarced brain and great ability; when
i eysr be speaks (it is not often that he
I does) he commands the undivided at
tention of the House, is always forcible
| and often eloquent. He is modest and 1
! retiring in a day when brass too often
nsqrps the place of brains; is a man of
the ntuiOjjt polity of thought and deed;
has the respect and confidence of all
who know him, nd the loye of those
with whom he is more intimately asso
! dated. We regret the defeat of the
: bill; we think hia speech had much to
, do with that defeat; bnt we do not be
! lipve task ppy word he uttered was actuat
ed by an unworthy meiiye. He be
; Ueved he was right and he did not hesi
tate to express his ci nvictions.
It is considered impossible for the
Legislature to adjourn before the 22d
inst. Adjournment at that date will
give very nearly a constitutional session
of forty days.
The only morsel of consolation with
which we can regale ourselves now is
found in knowing that the old ruffian
Wells is getting tired of his confine
ment in the Gapitol building. Would
it were the Black Hole'of Calcutta, for
his sweet sake.
It is intimated from Washington thit
the Democracy have only to wait pa
tiently and they are certain of success
four years hence. The sharpest travel
er who has his breakfast snatched away
from him at seyen, just as he sits down
at table, derives derilish little comfort
from the announcement that dinner will
be served promptly at two.
WASHINGTON’S TOHB.
AN APPEAL FOR AN ENDOWMENT
FUND.
Address of the Recent for Georgia, to the
M embers of the Mt. Vernon Association In
This State.
To the Members of the Mt. Vernon As
sociation in the State of Georgia :
It is perhaps due that 1 apologize for
not coming before you earlier in this
year, but some business perplexities and
the constant renewal of welcomes to old
friends—some long parted—has so en
grossed my time and thoughts, that I
awoke to the fact of the rapidly ap
proaching 22d only within the last two
days. It may not be known to many of
you that, at the request of your Regent,
the last Congress made the 22d of Feb
ruary a legal holiday, and this holiday
the Grand Council, held at Mt. Vernon,
in Jnne, 1876, determined to present
to the people of these United States
as a day to be not only held sacred
to the memory of Washington, but one
to be devoted to what is now the great
aim of your officers—the raising of the
“ Mt. Vernon Endowment Fund.”
This fund is to place the estate, of
which this Association is the owner, be
yond the reach of poverty and rnin. It
is now paid for and its title secured ; is
repaired and beautified and %spt in or
der. It is out of debt; but it is de
pendent for its support upon a limited
share of the profits of “ The Arrow”
the boat that daily visits it from Wash
ington City. A few months without
visitors would not only empty onr treas
ury, bnt plunge us into debt, perhaps
obliging ns to relinquish our beautiful
possession, which we have proudly held
as a precious bequeathment to our chil
dren and our children's children, to the
State of Virginia, for by our charter
whenever this Association finds itself
unable to maintain it the estate reverts
to that grand old mother of Presidents.
We honor and love Virginia, but we
would fain keep our hard won and be
loved “House and Grave” as the sacred
trust of the representatives of the differ
ent States in whioh this Association has
its members.
At the close of the war some stock in
the Central Railroad of the State of
Georgia was all of an endowment fund
that we had, and the small dividend
upon that the only money—and we were
in debt to the officials then in charge.
A few years after some money collected
in. New York State by Mrs. Hasbrouok
and placed at interest, to the credit of
the Mount Vernon Association, thus
making the whole sum about SBOO, was
torwarded to the Grand Council. Then the
father of our gifted Vice-Regent for
Maine, Mr. Mussev, presented us with
SSOO iu 1872 or ’73; not long afterward
Mr. Charles Macalster, of Philadelphia,
the honored father of our present Regent,
gave $l,lOO, and Madamoßerghman her
self gave SSOO in 1875; Miss E. L. Harp
er Vice-Regent for Maryland, gave S2OO.
This brought our invested money in the
neighborhood of $5,000. The Centen
nial year brought us better prospects; a
“Lady Washington Tea Party” in Bal
timore presented us with $600; a Cen
tennial party in Newark, February 22d,
gave us $1,000; the beautiful Colo
nial ball at Richmond, Va., of
which many of you must have seen au
account from the papers of that city,
gave SBOO, and our beautiful and accom
plished Vice Regent of Ohio sent us, as her
first fruits, within a year of her appoint
ment, $2,000, the results of the Centen
nial ball at Cincinnati. Our energetic
Vice Regent of New Jersey has collect
ed a thousand dollars in addition to the
proceeds of the party given on the 22d.
New Jersey has never ceased to respond
to the calls made npon her; she has
nobly shown her devotion to the memory
of Washington.
I make no appeal forg fts. I gratefully
remember how my beh> *d State rallied
to my call and laid the! offerings upon
the tomb of our comns father, even
when they thought it u re than doubt
ful that our project L'uould then be
brought to completion. Would that every
one of you could see how nobly we have
responded to your trust. “The mansion
on the Potomac,” then in a decaying
state, has been renovated and repaired;
the colonnades, one prostrate,the other,
trembling to its base whenever touched,
are now made new; the south portico,
crumbled into dust, again rears its col
umns in their old place; the balustrade
broken and defaced, the roof leaking,
the foundation rotting, the old drainage
pipes, placed there by Washington, fill
ed; the greep houses burned—all have
been restored as they were, and all with
out appeal to the South, suffering as we
were from many calamities.
Our people must have amusement. We
read with surprise of the many thou
sands carried off by circus companies,
by theatricals, expended iu fireworks,
&o. We, therefore, suggest that this be
utilized in a measure for the endowment
fnnd. In this Lenten season there are
restrictions in two churches of our
Christian religion. To them we would
recommend concerts—sacred concerts,
if they prefer. It is for the dead father
of their country. Children can have
their share in this common cause. Any
thing in which the expenditure will be
small, so that tjie yield will be but
slightly felt, and these efforts
oopld be repeated at intervals be
tween this and the IQth of May, as the
next Council is held near the middle of
that month. There oouid thus be a sum
raised whioh would not discredit our
beloved State, although the grim shadow
of poverty has for so long thrown a
gloom upon its sons and daughters.
Philoclea Edgeworth Eve,
Vice Regent for State of Georgia.
February 12, 1877.
STRIPES FOR A SLANDERER.
A Hoosier Defainer of Women Receives a
Merited Castigation—His Abject Apology.
[From the Kokoma (Ind.) Tribune, Jan. 20.]
For three moßths the air in this oity
has been filled with slanderous stories.
To our knowledge five excellent yonng
ladies have had their names dragged in
to whisperings connecting them with
base action. One of these had been tra
duced before, and she had sworn sol
emnly, not wickedly, that if scandalous
stories were again put afloat abont her
she would have sweet revenge. The
scandals were uttered. Quietly she went
to work until she was sure of their au
thor. He was a man of whom it may
truthfully be said, “He is not above
suspicion.” The writer hereof heard
his name mentioned a year ago in con
nection with that of an unmarried wo
man (he is married) and an abortion.
It is also said of him that he loves to
lie; that no respectable woman can pass
him on the street withont getting a
searching look from kim if alone, or be
ing remarked about in an ugly way if he
bag company.
We have Up room lor all the detac
her meeting with him at a party—her
delicate flirtation on the street—a return
of his sweet smile of cautions recogni
tion. Her blandishments caught him
badly. She decided yesterday that the
fruit was ripe, that the harvest was at
hand. She had met him the evening
before, on a quiet street, and, as she
Easeed him, without turning her head or
siting, whispered, “Post Office to-mor
row morning—Oornile,” On yesterday,
with her own band, she dropped into the
outside post office letter box a perfum
ed billet deux in these words:
Dear Friend— Call this evening at 8.
My husband is and will be absent. If
light in room, tap gently at front
door. If light in front room, depart.
Lovingly, Cornile.
He r ceived the pretty little note
which we have seen, at 11, a. m. He
1 was in high glee the rest of the day.
Last night ne “ n bis nobbiest suit,
and was shaved, powdered, shampooed,
perfnmed, and made pretty. Daring
the day the husband was not visible.
Promptly at 8 o’clock "he was on the
ground. The sign was right—he tapped
gently as a child—the door opened
noiselessly—he was inside.
Here the lady came near spoilling
everything. A playful effort on his part
to kiss her came near eliciting a scream.
She remembered her business, and with
her sweet voice said, “Wait a minute,
please, I am all unstrung with fright.”
She gave him a chair and took one her
self near him. She chatted pleasantly
for a whole minute. Gracefully she
arose, stepped two paces, offered him a
glass of water, which he declines with
thanks, took a sip, placed the glass back
to its position, stooped, and, as she
raised, with one hand, the left, she turn
ed up a large, very bright lamp, and
with the other drew from under a sofa a
large, old-fashioned, well-worn rawhide.
Her placid face and benignant smile
were gone, and in their places a hundred
little devils danced. Her’s was then a
face that would have made a stouter
heart than that of a vile slanderer thump.
He stood appalled, bnt before he had
time to gasp she uttered these words
slowly; “You vile slanderer, now I’ll
have my revenge,” and struck. That
stroke started the blood from the left
side of his head, above the ear, so that
it trickled down behind that organ and
dropped upon his snowy collar. She
followed this with fearful foroe about
his legs and body.
He recovered his senses and exclaim
ed : “Madam, you are in my power; this
is too mnch ; allow me to depart; give
me that whip. ” She threw a door open,
when the light, ss bright as the sun, fell
on the persons of three men, each wear
ing a false face—one representing a
Johnny Bnll, one a Turk, and the other
u Yankee. As the door opened, she
said, in the most contemptuous voice,
“I’m in your power, am I ? Upon
your knees, sir.”. He went down. Again
the rawhide was applied. “Do yon ac
knowledge, in the hearing of those
you’ve seen, that you are a tile slanderer
of women? Do yon swear you will
never speak wrongfully of any lady
again ? Do yon agree to tell your wife
what a liar you have been ? Do you
promise never to take my name upon
your lying lips ?” To all of these ques
tions he promptly answered, “I do,”
except that next to the last—at that he
hesitated, but the cowhide prompted
him to a satisfactory response. Having
satiated her desire for revenge, she de
manded her note, received it from him,
opened the door, and bade him depart.
He went out as if he were shot from a
gun.
FOUR YEARS HENCE.
The Democracy Will Bide Tbelf Time-
Afraid ot Hayes’ Southern Policy—No
Fears of Feltoo—Candler’s Consolation —
Soothing Syrup—The Electoral Bill—Uncer
tainty of Both Parties.
[Special Dispatch to the Atlanta Constitution.]
Washington, February 12.—1 t may
be definitely said now that the Demo
crats will submit to the decision of the
Commission, no matter what it may be.
They will protest for four years, but
won’t fight a minute. The reading of
the Democratic objections to the Louis
iana vote give little hope. It is gener
ally believed that the Commission will
walk right over them. A decision is
looked for Wednesday. Already the
politicians are discussing what will be
the result of the eleotiou four years
from now, if Hayes is inaugurated.—
That the Democrats will organize at
once, and go straight to glory, seems to
be the universal opinion. The one
danger is, that Hayes will offer some
very tempting bait to Southern leaders,
and try and disintegrate the Democratic
party in that section, It has already
been suggested that Congressman Fel
ton, of Georgia, might have al
most anything he desired, if he
would only consent to try to organize
the independents of Georgia on a lib
eral platform, and hold them ready for a
oonti genoy. It is needless to say that
Mr. Felton would utterly put away from
him anything that looked like acquies
cence iu the abominable Hayes usnrpa
tion. It is suggested, also, that the
Hon. Henry W. Hilliard, who is quite
well and favorably known in ante helium
political oircles, will probably “be sent
for” if Hayes goes in. The Hon. H. W.
certainly lives on missionary ground if
th '. vote of the Fourth District of last
Winter is any sign.
I had a long talk with the Hon. Mil
ton Candler, who bids fair to become
one of the best and most reliant of our
Southern members, as he is now one of
the shrewdest observers at the National
Capital. He says “a oertain and splen
did victory awaits the Democratic party
four years hence, eyen if it meets de
feat now It can very well afford to wait.
Hayes will take his sent under suspicion
of fraud. Our committees will see to
it that all the frauds and wickeness of
the three contested States are put be
fore the people. Hayes wi}l thus enter
office under the suspicion of having
been fraudulently counted in. Now,
we have the House, and will hold it. In
two years we will have the Senate also.
The Senate now stands 36 to 39. There
are five oarpet-baggers who will go out
in the next two years. Each one of
these will be replaced by a Democrat.
Our party will then enter the next cam
paign with a Democratic House and a
Democratic Senate, a white popular
majority of 850,000, and a general senti
ment that we have been cheated ont of
our rights in 1876. We will sweep the
country like a tidal wave.”
“The only danger that we'shall en
counter will be the conservative course
that Hayes will adopt towards tfoe
South. He will do his very best to dis
organize our party by quasi-trades and
alliances. Our duty is plain. There is
bat one thing to do. We must suffer all
things before we acquiesce in the mis
erable fraud that is about to be
put upon the country. The back of
our hand must be turned steadily
to Hayes and his coadjutors. If we do
this, I don’t believe there is any power on
earth that can prevent our achieving a
complete and splendid victory in the
next campaign.”
1 asked Mr. Oandier if he thought the
passage of the Electoral bill was a mis
take. “4 do not,” he replied. “We
could have dope nqthing better. The
Republicans have been "determined all
along to inaugurate Hayes ip spite of
anything. Qur only mistake was in
hoping that the Supreme Court qould be
honest end partial.” Jt js a ourious
thing, by the way, to notice how near
the Electoral bill came to be defeated.
Neither party desired it. and the majori
ty of either House were undetermined
as to how to vote up to a night or two
before the final issue. Hartridge, of
Georgia, announced his determination
to make a speech on the question, but
oouldn’t decide which side he would
speak on until the very night before he
spoke.
Mr. Blount said that he came here
thinking that the cue of tfce Southern
members yyas to ehoourage a show of
resistance, and let the Northern Demo
crats understand that the Southern peo
p'e would stand by them in any emer
gency. He says he very soon discover
ed, however, that there was no possi
bility of any resistance being offered by
the Northern Democrats. He then be
come satisfied the Republicans were de
termined to trot Hayes through any
how, and grew indifferent as to how it
should be done. Still, he could not get
his consent to vote for the Electoral bill,
until he was oertain it would pass any
how, and he then went with his party.
INACGBBAI, CEREMONIES.
A Foolixh ProDunclamento—What Organiza
tion. are to Prepare and How Can Such
Organization* Send Word Until the Count
is Settled.
Washington, February 15J. The
Youug Men’s Republican Club of this
city, of which Arthur Sheph'erd is' Pre
sident, and Frank T. Rowa is Corres
ponding Secretary, desire notice from
organizations wishing to participate in
the inauguration ceremonies, so that
they may be properly placed in the
procession and comfortably quartered.
This is preliminary to a meeting of citi
zens, without regard to politics, or who
may be chosen ChieJ Magistrate. Com
munications should be addressed : Dr,
Frank T. Howe, Corresponding Secre
tary y. M. R. C., Washington, R. 0.
The Railroad Fanding Bill.
Atlanta, February 13* —The House
of Representatives passed a bill this
morning to fund the railroad bonds en
dorsed ty the State. The bill authorizes
the issue of bonds of the State of Geor
gia, amounting tj $2,298,397, for the
purpose of retiring by exchange, or pay
ing off the recognized bonds of the Ma
con and Brunswick Railroad to the
amount of $1,950,000; bonds of the
North and South Railroad to the amount
of $240,000, and bonds of the Memphis
Branch Railroad to the Amount of
$34,000; also, to fnnd the interest on
these bonds to the l’t day of January,
1877, to the amount of s7The
object of this bill is to fund all the re
cognized, endorsed railroad bonds in
six por cent, straight bonds of the State.
The new bonds shall be sold for not
less than par, and the proceeds shall
applied to redeem at n r a jj endorsed
railroad bonds. These bonds have twelve
years to run, with interest, payable
semj-annnallj. The bill will pass the
Senate. Holders of endorsed bonds, it
has been reported here, will prefer new
sixes to the endorsed railroad sevens.
The “Ceckalornm” of the Tribunal.
[From a Letter From “Oath."\
At present, old Senior Clifford is the
cockalorum of the Court. He thinks the
sngel Gabriel merely hiß crier. He sees
clouds and thunderbolts all around him,
acd a pair of scales let down from
Heaven. Serene, supreme old' man.
None ever felt more the station and
snpremity of a Justine,
THE LEGISLATURE.
WHAT IS GOING ON IN ATLANTA.
Senate Bills Passed—The Clerical Force-
Governor Smith’s Counsel—A Minority He
port—The Convention Bill—The Capital
Amendment Put On in the Honso—The Bill
Will Pass—Local Laws—The Tax on Peach
and Apple Brandy.
[Special Dispatch to the Chronicle and Sentinel.]
Atlanta, Ga, February 12.—1n the
Senate, the following bills were passed:
To incorporate the Covington Savings
Bank; to incorporate the Milledgeville
Manufacturing Company; to oreate a
Board of Commissioners in Greene
county; to reduce the compensation of
the Treasurer of Greene county, to
gether with a large number of local bills.
In the House, the appropriation act
was read a second time. The following
bills were passed: To incorporate the
Augusta and Knoxville Railroad Com
pany; to regulate the pay of the Clerk
of the House and the Seoretary of the
Senate—the former to receive $l2O per
day aud the latter S6O, they to employ
all the clerical force needed, and the
bill to take effect at the next session. A
bill to repeal the act to create a State
Board of Health was also passed.
The special committee to whom was
referred the message of Governor Col
quitt in relation to the employment of
attorneys by the preceding administra
tion report that ex-Governor Smith was
authorized to employ oounsel in oertain
oases. Major Moses dissents from a
majority of the oommittee, and submit
ted a minority report, in whioh he says
that there was no authority for employ
ing oonnsel in the oases for whioh fees
were paid out.
The Convention bill was takeu up in
the Honse this afternoon. The Senate
amendment, whioh submits the question
to the people, was further amended by
submitting the Capital question of At
lanta and Milledgeville to be voted upon
at the same time. The bill as amended
was then passed by yeas 85, nays 72.
An effort will be made to strike out the
amendments to-morrow, bnt it will fail,
and the bill wijl go back to the Senate
or concurrence in the House amend
ment submitting Atlanta or Milledge
ville to the people. W.
Punitihnier t for Arson In the Country*
The following bill has been offered by
Mr. Smith, of Oglethorpe, in the House,
the object of which is to make the pun
ishment for arson in the country more
severe. The law, as it now stands,
makes the punishment for breaking and
entering an out house in the night time,
with intent to commit 8 felony or lar
ceny a greater crime than the setting
fire to the same and burning up the
house and all it oontains. See section
4379 and 4388 Code of 1873. The burn
ing of gin houses and other houses of
value in the country has beoome a very
oommon crime and the people demand
that the punishment for suoh shall be
more severe.
A Bill to be entitled an act to amend
seotion 437$ of the Cpde of 1873.
Mr. Smith, of Oglethorpe, has also
offered a resolution in the House, which
reads as follows;
Whereas, The Internal Revenue laws
of the United States in relation to li
cense and taxes upon the distillation of
fruit are bearing heavily upon the peo
ple; whereas, the pay of officers connect
ed with the Internal Revenue Depart
ment in relation to the same is often
more than the tax collected and paid in
to the Treasury of the United States
Government, so that no revenue is real
ly realized by the Government of the
United States, and thereby imposing an
unjust burden upon the people which is
impolitic and unwise; therefore,
Resolved, By the Senate and House
of Representatives of the State of Geor
gia in General ffssembly, met that our
members in Congress be requested to
urge upon the Congress of the United
States the repeal or modification of so
much of the Internal Revenue laws of
the United States as imposes a tax and
license upon the distillation of fruit.
Resolved, That a oopy of these resolu
tions be transmitted by the Governor
of this State to our Senators and Repre
sentatives in Congress.
The committee to whom was referred
the foregoing bill and resolutions have
reported favorably on both, and no
doubt they will, as they ought, pass
when they come up for a third reading.
Siitardav’y Proceeding*.
In tbp Senate Mr. Reese moved to
reconsider so much of the journal as re
lated to the passage of a bill to exempt
all produce of the previous year held on
April Ist for sale, and that the bill be
set for a special order for Monday.
Mr. Black made a speech in opposi
tion to reconsideration.
Mr. Reese favored the motion in a
speech in reply to Mr. Black.
Upon the motion of reoonsider the
yeas and nays were called. The ye <s
were 22 and the nays 19s, and the bill
was reconsidered.
By Mr. MoLeod : To incorporate the
Herndou and Swains.boi;o Railroad Com
pany.
In the Rovisp Mr. Oloud offered an
amendment to seotion 2 of the tax act
to be known as paragraph 18, “upon the
owners of dog or dogs the sum of SI for
each dog owned.” Rejected by a large
vote,
Mr. Carlton moved to suspend the
rules and read the bill relative to the
olaims of Washington and other coun
ties for expenses during the insurrec
tion. The motion was advocated by
Messrs. Phillips, of Cobb, Robson,
Corker, Bloodworth, Whittle, and op
posed by Mr. Fry. The motion to sus
pend the rules prevailed, and the bill
was read Rie sn?t time.
Iteclncinjg Judicial C'lrclu,tn.
The b,ili intfoffuped by the special
committee on a reduction of the judicial
circuits was read and referred to the
Judioiary Committee. The bill abol
ishes the Augusta, Albany, Ooonee and
Rome Circuits, and provides for sixteen
Circuits, viz:
Atlanta—composed of the oounties
of Campbell, Clayton, DeKalb and Ful
ton.
Blue Ridge to be composed of the
counties of Cherokee, Cobb, Dawson,
Fannin, Forsyth, Gilmer, Lumpkin,
Milton, Paulding, Pickens,'' and
Union. ° ‘ ■
RrUUswick composed of the oounties
of Appling, Camden, Charlton, Coffee,
Genn, Montgomery, Pierce, Telfair,
Ware and Wayne.
Chattahoochee to be composed of the
counties of Chattahoochee, Harris, Ma
rion, Muscogee, Quitman, Stewart, Tal
bot and Taylor.
Coweta to be composed of the coun
ties of Coweta, parroll,' Fayette, Doug
lass, Haralson, Heard, Merriwether,
Polk, Troupe
Cherokee to he composed of the
counties of Bartow, Catoosa, Chattooga,
Dade, Gordon, Murray, Walker, Whit
field.
Eastern to be composed of the coun
ties of Bryan, Bullock, Chatham, Effing
ham, Liberty, Mclntosh, Tatnall.
Flint to be composed of the counties
of Batts, Henry, Monroe, Newton, Pike,
Rockdale, Spalding, Upsan and Wal
ton. * 3
Macon to be composed of. the counties
of Bibb, Crkwfdrd, Dodge, Pulaski,
Twiggs, Wilcox.
Middle to be composed of the coun
ties of Burke, Ema Dael, Glascock, Jef
fersofl, Johnson, Laurens, Screven,
Washington,
Northern to be composed of the conn
ties of Colombia, Elbert, Hancock, Lin
coln, Madison, McDuffie, Bichmond,
Warren.
Ocmulgee to be composed of the coun
ties of Baldwin, Greene, Jaspet, Jfones
Morgan, Oglethorpe, putnaml Taliafer
ro, Wilkiuaop, Vfiflf'eß. !
. Rataulato be composed of thp coun
ties of Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Decatur,
Te t, gnf rty ’ Randolph,
. Southern to be composed of the eonn
tiesof Brooks, Berrien, Colquitt, Clinch,
Echols, Lowndes, Mitchell, Thomas
10 h* composed of the
counties o Houston, Lee, Ma
con, Schley, Sumter, Webster, Worth.
Western to be composed of the coun
ties of Rapka, Clarke, Franklin, Gwin
nett, ffabmsbam, Hall, Hart, Jackson,
Oconee, Babon, White.
Messrs. Dews, Freeman and Mcßae
gave notice that they would submit, a
minority report.
Tke Funding Bill PumA-TI. Appropriate
Art—The Statu, .f Butaew-AIpHUHit
It— lMe Till Tharadg?
[Speciai JJitfatch, to ifce Chroifrl* and Bentm*\
Atlanta, February 13.—1n the Sen
ate the following bills were passed 5 To
incorporate the Trustees of the Masonic
Hall of Adnata; to authorize Judge* of
the Superior Courts to appoint report
ers to take testimony in criminal oases;
to change the time of holding the Supe-
*2 A YEAR-POSTAGE PAID
rior Court of Burke; to prohibit the
sal of liqnors to minors.
In the House, the bill to fund the en
dorsed bonds of the Macon and Bruns
wick Road in six per cent. State bonds
passed.. The whole day was spent in
discussing the appropriation act. The
oommittee appointed to examine into
the status of business before the Legis
lature report that the business cannot
be disposed of before Thursday week.
P. W.
Local Leglslutioo Monday.
In the_ Senate, a bill to prohibit the
sale of liquor within one mile of Berze-
Ua Station, in this State, was passed.
Iu the House, the following bills were
read a third time :
To prohibit the sale of liquor within
three miles of Monnt Ziod, in Hanoook
oounty. Passed.
To empower the Board of Education
to submit the question of a tax for
school purposes to the freeholders of
Jefferson oounty. Passed.
To repeal an aot to fix the compensa
tion of Tax Receiver and Oolleotor aud
Treasurer iu Washington oouuty. Ta
bled.
To change the line between the coun
ties of Madison and Clarke. Passed.
To oreate a Board of Commissioners
for Columbia county. Passed.
To change the place of sheriff sales in
MoDuffie oounty. Passed.
Bills Passed—The Augusta Circuit—Mem
bers’ Mileage aud Per Diem—The City
Wards and Districts of Augusta.
[impede! Dispatch to the Chronicle and Sentinel.]
Senate.
Atlanta, Ga., February 14 — The fol
lowing bills passed : To prescribe the
mode of granting liquor lioenses in the
counties of Burke and Jefferson; to pro
vide for the manner of eleoting a Treas
urer of Burke oounty; to define the ju
risdiction of the County Court of Elbert
county; to define the oAth to be admin
istered to voters in the city of Augusta.
The House Appropriation act is still
under consideration.
There will be no ohauge in the per
diem and mileage of members.
The Garnishment law will not be re
enaoted; the bill to reduce the judicial
cironits will not pass; the bill to make
the militia districts conform to the wards
in the oity of Augusta will not pass, for
the reason that the Ordinary of the
county has the power to make the
changes contemplated by the bill.
P. W.
Tuesday’s Proceedings.
In the Senate, the following bills were
read a third time :
A bill {or the relief of Gilbert L. Mat
thews, of the oounty of Washington.
Passed.
A bill to reduce the number of jurors
in the oounty of Jasper to seven. Passed.
A bill to reduce the sheriff’s bond in
the counties of Warren, Pierce and oth
ers. Tabled.
A bill to give the Chairman of the
Board of County Commissioners the
power to imprison all delinquent par
ties who refuse to work the road, or pay
the regular road tax. Passed.
A bill to ohange the line between the
oounties of Taliaferro and Greene. The
bill was recommitted with an amend
ment offered by Mr. Dußose.
A bill to establish a Board of Com
missioners in the oonnty of Habersham.
Passed.
In the House : A bill to organise a
County Criminal Court for the county
of Washington. Amended and passed.
A bill to repeal the act to define the
per diem pay of grand and petit jurors
of Emanuel county. Passed.
A bill to amend the aot creating a
Board of Commissioners far Emanuel
oounty. Passed,
Mr. Hood moved to reoonsider the
action on the bill to repeal the aot to
create the late Board of Health, and
supported the motion in a cogent and
earnest speech.
Mr. Turnbull moved to lay the motion
to reoonsider on the table, which mo
tion prevailed.
STATE SUPREME COURT.
DECISIONS RENDERED IN ATLAN
TA LAST TUESDAY.
[Atlanta Constitution.]
Bairds vs. Evans, et al. Ejectment,
from Terrell,
Wabnws, C. J,
The plaintiff brought his action against
the defendants to recover the possession
of a lot of land described in his declara
tion. On the trial of the case, the jury
found a verdict in favor of the plaintiff.
The defendants made a motion for anew
trial, on the several grounds therein set
forth, whioh was overruled by the
Court, and the defendants excepted.
There was no error in admitting in evi
dence the deed from Alexander Holmes
I toF. O. Welch. That deed purported
to have been executed in the State of
Florida, on the 4th of May, 1855, and
had been recorded. The objection to
its admission in evidence, was for the
want of a proper probate, The deed ap
pears to have been signed, sealed and
delivered in the presence of Moses Cur
ry end Francis J, Wheaton, the sub
scribing witnesses thereto. Although
Wheaton, when he subscribed his name
to the deed as a witness, did not
add thereto that he was a Com
missioner of Deeds for the State
of Georgia, but his certificate is
attached to the deed, in \&kfeh his
official character is fully set forth,
and the Courts §f this State are bound
to recognise the official acts of its own
commissioners appointed under the
laws thereof to. take the probate and ac
knowledgment of deeds m other States.
The deed in this ease was attested by
two one of wham was a Com
missioner of Reeds for the State of
Georgia, aa appears by hia oertifioate
on the deed itself, and therefore comes
within the ruling of this Court in Walls
et al, vs. Smith et al., 19th Geo. Rep.,
8. There was no error in striking the
defendants equitable plea, in view of the
allegations contained therein. The plea
did not allege that the deed executed by
Henrietta Y. Hart to Hart was
made with the lqtonUop, to delay or de
fraud tha of the plaintiff, or
that he fmd any knowledge of it, nor
did the ple% allege that suoh intention
was kmowh to Eugene Hart, the party
| taking the conveyance.—Code 1952.
There was no error in ruling out the
execution offered in evidenoe in favor
of Isabelle Smith against Henrietta V.
Hart, as oolor of <*r for the pur
pose of showing title out of her. It is
true that there is ap eptry on, the execu
tion that the 1 nd was levied, on by the
sheriff on the 2d of August, 1858, as the
property of the defendant, H. Y. Hart,
and was sojd op the $d of November,
1858; bqt who, was the pnrehaaer, does
not appear, or that any deed under that
sale waa ever made to any person for the
land. There was no error in rating ont
the parol evidence of Walker as to who
purchased the land at the sheriff’s sale,
so as to make the execution admissible
in evidenoe as oolor of title oq which to
base a prescriptive title by possession
thereof must bp under written evidence
of title, not part ip writing pnd part
parol. Tj'ae equitable pfea having been
properly stricken the evVWce °f Gill,
offered jn support of it, was properly
rejected. Ret the judgment pi the Court
below bp affinped.
Robertaop vs, Pharr. Traverse, from
Sumter.
Wabneb, C. J.
It appears from the record and bill of
exceptions in this case that the defend
ant m a judgment, which had been ob
tained against him in the Superior
Court of Sumter county, made a motion
in writing to traverse the sheriff’s re
turn of servioe of the writ upon him in
the origiuaf suit, in which he alleged,
after Mating the case; '‘And now comes
the defendant, and daring the first term
after knowledge that any entry of ser
vice was made serving him, defendant,
by Matthew Kemp with a copy of the
declaration, and traverses said return,
and says the same is untrue and false,
and he avers that no furvfee of any kind,
personally or pfherwise. was ever per
fected oh him. and of this he prays
judgment," which was sworn to by ‘lie
defendant in open Court* It having
been made appear to the Court that
Matthew Kemp, one oi the parties to the
motion, was dead, it was ordered that
leave be granted to make parties by the
next term of the Court, or so soon there
after administration can be bad on
hia estate. The plaintiff in the judg
ment demurred to the motion and
moved the Court to dismiss it, which
wss overruled by the Court, and the
plaintiff exoeptod. Assuming the alle
gations in the defendant’s motion to be
true, as the demurrer does, there was
no erroi in overrating it. Let the jndg
ment of the Court below be affirmed.
Haynes, et al„ vs. Battle. Ejeotment,
from Schley.
Warner, C. J.
The plaintiff brought his action to re
cover from the defendant eighty acres
of land described in his declaration. On
the trial of the ease .in equitable plea
having been filed by the defendantalleg
ing a mistake in the description of the
number of the lot of laud iu the deeds
found the following verdict:
*‘We, the jury, find the seventy acres of
land off of the last survey for the de
fendant, an decree that the deeds, one
from C. B Hudson, assiguee of Smith
and one from Jasper Havnes to C R*
Battle, and one from C. R. Battle to J*.
R. Battle, be reformed so as to make
them read as follows, to-wit: The north
west corner and side of lot number 234
instead of number 233, the same being
a mutual mistake of the parties.” The
plaintiff made a motion to set aside the
verdict, and for anew trial, on the
grounds therein set forth, whioh was
overruled by the Court and the plaintiff
excepted.
The principal ground of error insisted
on here was that the verdict did not
cover the issues made bv the pleadings
inasmuch as it did not find the balance
of the land sued for over and above the
seventy acres for either the plaintiff or
defendant. It appears from the evi
dence in the record that the parties had
submitted the matter in oontroversv be
tween them respecting the laud to the
decision of arbitrators, and that their
award was road in evidence to the jury
but what the award of the arbitrators
was, „he record does not disolose. The
verdict of the jury, under our practice,
was in the nature of a decree in equity]
and it may have been rendered in award*
and with their views of the equitable
rights of the parties as settled by the
award of the arbitrators. If the award
of the arbitrators did not authorize the
verdict, as found and decreed by the*
jury, it was incumberent on the plaintiff
in error to have showed it by the pro
duction of the award. The burden of
showing that the verdict and decree of
the jury was inequitable and unjust and
unauthorized by the pleadings and evi
dence was upon the plaintiff in error,
and that not being made affirmatively to
nppear in the record, we affirm the
judgment of the Court below. Judg
ment affirmed.
Flewellen et al., vs. Fontaine et al.
Equity, from Quitman.
Wabner, C. J.
The complainants filed their bill
against the defendants with a prayer for
relief and injunction upon the allega
tions contained therein. On the trial of
the case the jury under the charge of
the Court found a verdict in favor of the
defendants. A motion was made for a
new trial on the various grounds of er
ror alleged therein, which was overruled
by the Court and the defendants ex
cepted. The ease, as made by the com
plainants’ bill and the evidence in the
reoord, is in substance as follows: That
in January, 1871, James T. Flewellen.
the husband and father of complainants,
obtained a homestead exemption in cer
tain described lands, known as the
Shorter place in Quitman county, for
the benefit of his wife and children; that
prior to obtaining said homestead ex
emption the said Flewellen had exeont
ed a mortgage upon said Shorter planta
tion, to-wit: On the Ist of February, 1868,
to secure the payment of a promissory
note of that date due one day thereafter
for the sum of $11,805 50, payable to the
executors of J. Fontaine, deceased; that
there was a judgment in favor of Bald
win Sc Cos., against said Flewellen for
the sum of $18,238 93 principal, and
$1,788 80, for interest up to the 3d of
May, 1867, the date of that judgment,
which constituted a prior lien on thfe
Shorter plantation than the mortgage to,
the executors of Fontaine; that on the
Ist Tuesday in April, 1874, all of the
Shorter plantation was sold by the
sheriff, except the homestead exemption,
and the proceeds thereof applied to the
payment of said judgment lien, leaving
a balance due thereon of upwards of
SB,OOO, whioh land was purohnsed at
said sheriff’s sale by T. S. Fontaine,
who has the sheriffs deed therefor. It
also appears in the reoord, that on the
3d of November, 1871, Flewellen and T.
S. Fantaine, one of the executors, en
tered into an agreement in writing, by
which it was stipulated that Flewellen.
for himself and wife, should convey to*
T. S. For.laine the entire interest of the.
homestead in said shorter plantation,
for the consideration of $3,000, to be
paid by the said T. 8. Fontaine, and
that the said TANARUS, S, Fontaine should pro
ceed to foreclose said mortgage on alls
the lanfl covered by it, sell and bid off
the same at the mortgage sale, and the
said Fontaine further agreed then to
sell and convey all of said land so pur
chased to said Flewellen, as trustee for
his wife, provided he the said Flewellen
should pay to him, the said Fontaine,
SIO,OOO punctually on the Ist of Decem
ber, 1873, but if the said SIO,OOO should
not be paid on the Ist day of December,
1873, or tendered in payment by the
said Flewellen, then the said Fontamo
may keep the said possession o£ said
lands, and be at liberty to sell '„ij e same
to any other person. It appr arß from t j JO
evidence of Flewellen ‘.nat after this
written agreement vias made, that Fon
tame and himself entered into a parol
agreement toat if he should at any time
sell sai(\ Shorter plantation before De
cerp’um, 1873, for any sum over and
above SIO,OOO, the said Fontaine agreed
to pay him the excess as trustee for his
wife, and that be did sell the same as
agent of Foniaine to Green & Malthrop
for $15,000, and the complainant in her
bill olaims that excess as cestui que
trust under her homestead claim in the
land. The consideration mentioned in
the deed conveying the homestead to-
Fontaine is $3,000, with a covenant of
warranty as to title. The complainant
alleges in her bill that this $3,000 for
the homestead was never paid by Fon
taine. Upon this material point in the
case the evidence is conflicting. The
three notes for SI,OOO each attached to
tb© defendant’s answer, signed by Fon
taine, payahle to the order of Flewellen,
and which were shown to have been en
dorsed and negotiated by him., were
proved to have been given for the home
stead, and paid by Fontaine when due.
Flewellen does not deny in his testi
mony that he got the $3,000 from Fon
taine, but says it was advanced to him
to obtain supplies to run the Shorter
plantation, and that he expended
nearly all of it in taking up liens and
advances made in the year 1871, to
enable him to open anew acconnt
with the merchants for the year 1872,
and that none of it went to his wife
and children in payment for the home
stead land. It also appears from, the
evidence in the record that tb* reasoci
the land was not sold under the mort
gage, as agreed to be done,, was because*
Flewellen fieled a bill ip his own name
enjoining said sale; and when that bill
was dismissed, he procured the present
bill to bp tiled by the complainant en
joining the sale, so that Fontaine, the
defendant, has never had the opportuni
ty to sell said lands under the agree
ment* It is quite apparent, we think,
on the race of this transaction, as dis
closed in the record, that the main ob
ject and purpose of the parties in mak
i ittg the alleged agreements set forth,
was to secure Fontaine’s mortgage lien
on the Shorter plantat on as well as tc
protect the homestead exemption thereon
from the prior lieu of the judgment credi
tors c>f Flewellen under the Baldwin &
Cos. judgment, which had been obtained
against him, and. then to secure the en
tire propertvtothe complainant in trust,
as against the existing judgment credi
tors of her husband. In such cases, as
a general rule. Courts of equity will
not be active in granting relief to either
P a fty but will leave them where it find.-,
them, as the jury did in this case. There
being no substantial error in the charge
of the Court in view of the facts dis
closed in the record, and the presiding
Judge before whom the case was tried
being satisfied with the verdict, we will
not interfere with the exercise of his
discretion in overruling the motion for
a hew trial. Let the judgment of the
Court below be affirmed.
The Comproiui*e llluxiralcd.
[Burlington Bawkeye.]
“Hold up a bit,” exclaimed the under
man in a Front street fight yesterday af
ternoon, trying to pull hfe thumb out of
the top man’s mouth, and vainly strug
gling to disentangle tha top man’s hand
from his hair, and glr.noing with consid
erable apprehension at the top man’s
other hand, which was doubled up into a
formidable fist, and coming down toward
his face a thousand miles a minute,
“Hold up a bit !> Let’s refer the rest of
this fight to an arbitration committe and
have a compromise oount, and agree be
forehand to submit to the committee’s
decision who licked
Pleasonton’s theory can be parried:
ont at Hammond’s.