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W.EDNBSD AY ...JULY 80,1870.
R. L. HICKS,
EDITOR ANI) PROPRIETOR.
Atlanta's Promise.
11 seems that the courage which
prompted Atlanta lo promise to build
a capital for the [icopie of the shite
is oozing out at her finger*!’ ends.
The 11 a wk insyillo Dispatch flas tins
jta aav about it;
“We never expected Atlanta to
build Georgia a now capital. Wo
did not think the city was able to
fulfill the promise made to the peo
ple of the state if they would vote to
locate the capito) in Atlanta. We
are satisfied now that Athtnfu never
will carry out the proposition made.
We observe in the proceedings of
■the Legislature that Mr. Shannon, of
Franklin county, has introduced a
bill to author!/,o the Governor to ac
£0pt from the cjty of Atlanta a
.building site for a capital and sixty-
/lvo thousand dollars U) bonds—city
bonds wo presume—and that upon
.compliance ,w/th tJioso conditions
Atlanta shall tlion bo relieved of the
.obligalppn made to furoisli. the State
a capital building.
The bill farther provides that as
pmny as two hundred of the,convicts
,ot tho Shite shall then be employed
by t he state in hewing stone ut Stone
mountain, and that four hundred
thousand dollars shall bo appropriat
ed by tho legislature to build the
gapitol. Just bo. And wo have no
/louht tho authorities of Atlanta arc
/idvopating tho passago of this hill.
ft is to the interest of Atlanta, and
At lap fa is always alive to hor inter
ests.
But we hope the bill may receive
the opposition of every mombor of
the legislature from this section. If
Atlanta cannot build the capital, the
slate can do without it bettor than it
pan afford to pay for it at. this time.'
Wo will never consent to the ap
propriation by the stato of one dollar
for t)io orection of a cupitol as long
/w the Opera House stunds in Atlan-
fn, or tho old building remains at
Millodgevillo. So far as tho e niviet
jahor is concerned, Georgia can do
pate pnough of it to Atlanta to pro
pure tho stpno for a capital. Wo are
filling Ip ‘1° Unit much for Atlanta.
Some of tho hiuTon little counties
flf North and Noitheast Georgia hpiuI
/licit to tho legislature with very ex
travagant viows. Tlioy are over
yoady to vote away tho people's
ptonoy, and yet some of these little
counties hardly pay enough tax into
tho State treasury to defray (lie per
diem and mileage expenses of their
mem hors in the General Assembly.”
It is reported from Berlin that the
Asiatic cholera has made its appear
ance at smolepsk, Uussia, on the
Dnieper river, about. 850 miles south-
jvest of Moscow, with which it has
direct, railroad oomiqnnioqtiqn, and
plan vyitlj Higtf, a Baltic seaport,
The spqnrgo Ipia doubtless been
brought from Persia by the usual
/•onto, tho Caspian sea and the Volga
river, and thence by rail into the
jntenor. Tho Russian Government,
p’ill now have to exorcise its ingenu
ity anew and hedge in tho infected
town as oarofu||y as it did tljo black
plague a few months ago, for Ger-
fnany will bo directly exposed from
{Smolensk. It is sincerely to be
)|oped t hat the cholera will bo kept
from spread!pg westward. If it
reaches the sea it wilt not l)e long
grossing tho Atlantic.
The Yellow Fever.
A week ago tho yellow fever scare
subsided m Memphis, and the refu
ges were returning, Hup quiet had
hardly been restored when tho start
ling fact beeamo apparent that that
gloomy epideipio had set tled upon tho
Ill-staved oily in earnest. It is in
almost ©very part of tho city, though
the death rota, as yet, is very slow.
A Boston investigator law predict
ed cotton wijl prohabjv bring 80 cts.
|his fall.
MiTS. Pptts, -thp female jKHlest rian,
jvl/9 is fijv a wager ti'pmping from
Pbjlfjdelphia to New Orleans end
paeje, reached Now Orleans mi the
30th iniit.
The English have defeated the
Zulus iii a great battle apd it is now
tbought the war is about over.
A FELINE SCENE.
Twenty Cain Eating the Itody of
a Dead Man.
New York, July 19.—An old
German bachelor named Ferdinand
Annricd lived alone, with twenty
pet cats, in a back room on the first
floor of the tenement No. 139 For
syth street. He had resided there
in that peculiar companionship for
so many years that the residents of
the neighborhood long since ceased
to give any heed to his oddities, and
allowed him to go on in his queer
way unmolested. Ho was known as
the “old bachelor,” and had no asso
ciates hut his pot cats, of which lm
took the best of care. lie mode a
living by acting as agent for a tea
company. During the greater part
of Tuesday night the miseries of the
sleepless neighbors, who lay tossing
about in the sweltering heat, were
greatly aggravated by the unusual
cries of Armried’* cats, which, kept
up a dismal and diabolical howling
all through tho night and morning
and until 3 o’clock in the afternoon;
As their savage noises seemed to grow
more furious every moment, Mr.
August Scheslan, a resident of the
tanemont, lost all patience and wont
up to Armried’s door to tell him that
ho must either keep his cats quiet or
move out of tho house. .Scheslan
rapped vigorously at Arm raid's door,
but he got no answer except from the
cats, which howled at him fiercely.
After some reflection the idea dawned
upon Scheslan that tho trouble
among tho cats was caused by the
thoughtlessness of Armried, who, ho
conjectured, had gone away and
locking his oats up in the room with
out food and wator. Impressed with
this idea, Schoslan’s heart softened
toward the imprisoned felines, and
ho determined to climb tip and open
the transom over the door and liber
ate thorn, lie opened tho transom,
peeped into the room, and then foil
suddenly to tho hull floor. Picking
himself up he ran as fast as ho could
to tho Tontli precinct police station,
whore ho criod out to Captain Al
laire: “Old Bachelor Armried is
lay in’ dead in his room and his
twenty pet cat’s arc oatin’ his body
all up!” Tho captain at once sent
two policeman to tho placo. They
broke in t he door of Armried’s room
and woro mot by a stanch that for a
moment drove them back into the
hallway. Returning, they found
Arm raid’s dead body lying on tho
floor much decomposed and covered
with great holes, which the cats had
eaten out, having evidently lived up
on the remains for many hours. At,
t he approach of the oilicors tho cats
crept close to the body, and while
some of them set up a most dismal
moan, others actually ate of the
ilosh. Tho beasts could only, bo
driven from the body with clubs,
and tho officers Imd great ditficulty
in heating thorn from tho room, as
many of them fought savagely, and
oven then they secreted themselves
in the dark earners of the hallways
and oontinuod their blood-curdling
screeching. It was found that Arm
ried lunl been dead for over twenty-
four hours, that ho died in tho clos
ed room, surrounded by his pots,
and, that, there being nothing else
in the room for them to eat, the cats,
when they became hungry, fell upon
their master’s corpse, tearing from it
great, quantities of flesh, whioh they
devoured.
Tli© Proposed Impeachment.
The wild land committee, after
carefully investigating tho attempt
to bribe two of their mom boro to sign
a certain paper, oxhonomting Comp
troller-general Goldsmith from par
ticipation in the wild land frauds by
II. P. Wright, unanimously recom
mend that tlio House of Representa
tives prefer articles of impeachment
against Goldsmith for high crimes
and misdemeanors. Goldsmith and
Wright both swear positively that
the attempt to bribe was wholly
without tho knowledge or oonsout of
t he Com ptrofior general- 11 oertain«
ly looks rather ugly for Mr, Qold*
sinitj). But wo shall see.
Wants a Good C hance,
Indianapolis Journal.
David Davis—If you will just
inoye that boom up cjosototho fence
1 wijl straddle it.
What Is it conics on sllonl wings
And o’er our slumbering bodies sings
And plants its busy little stings?
Dad ding tho trifling, peskev things!
Mosquitoes!
Kills His Step-Father.
Wo And the following in the Mil
ler county Department of the Early
county News:
“Mr. Willis Quick, who lived a
few miles south of Clifton’s mill, hut
in Decatur comity, was shot and in
stantly killed a few days ago by his
step-son, a lad of about 14 or 15
years of age. The circumstances as
I gather them, are these : It seems
that Quick agreed in the beginning
of the year to allow the boy to work
for hirnself the last six months of the
year, if the hoy wonld work on hi§
farm with him during the first six
months. At tho expiration of the
first six months, the boy left home
for the purpose of obtaining work on
his own account, and went to the
house of his annt. Quick followed
him and beat him severely, threaten
ing to beat him to death if he did
not return. The boy immediately
returned and reached home ahead of
his stop-father. When his mother
asked him, ‘Where is your father?’
he answered, ‘Ho is coining, and says
lie is going to whip me to death.”
At that time Quick was seen ap
proaching tho house, and the boy
said, ‘yonder ho comes now,’ and
picking up his hat and the gun
started to leave. His mother direct
ed him to put the gun down, but he
rafiisqd. Quick then ordered him to
put tho gun down, threatening at
tho same time to boat; him to death.
Tho boy refused to discard tho gun
and ho continued his course across
tho field. Quick followed, and the
boy finding hiinsolf closely pursued,
turned and warned his step-father to
keep off, saying, ‘I’ll kill you if you
como to me.’ Quick advanced—-the
boy leveled It is gun and fired, killing
hint instantly. I have not learned
wluit bcoanto of tho boy.
Gen. Jog Johnston’s Views.—
In a recent conversation with tho
Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Enquirer Gen. Joseph E.
Johnston expressed the opinion that
as the Democratic party luitl lost
nothing by tho extra session it must
have made a gain, and said it« most
important work was its persistent
action to defoat tho pmpluymopt of
marshals and deputy marshals at the.
polls. While they Imd not got tho
statu to repealed, they had dealt It
such a blow that it could not long
survive. The Gonorul declared that
ho had seen moro of the working
politics during tho last three months
than in tho sixty years of his life.
Some things which ho forebore to
name disgusted him very much.
Ho hud no taste for heated political
debate, and proforrodgpi military or
civil life. Although ho was glad ho
had seen what ho had, and thought
it an iiumenso benefit to him, he did
not care for its continuance. As to
renewing tho struggle next winter,
ho said ho know no reason why they
should not keep it up, and from
present appearances ho did not see
how the Democratic party could Imlp
winning in 1880.—Savannah News.
Johnson Items.
Mr. Oscar Rodgers, deputy sheriff
of Washington county, was in
Wrightsvillo last, Friday.
Mr. Win. Christian and Miss Liz
zie Ronfroo woro married last Thurs
day evening.
.-Mr. W. C. Smith, of Bartow, was
in town last. Friday hunting work
men to build tho Methodist church
at that plaee.
Capt. Kent pulled six water
melons last Friday, tho smallest
weighing forty-two, the largest fifty
three pounds.
Mr. Henry Snell, of MeVille, is
in town.
Dr. C. J. Hicks, of Mt. Vernon,
wos in town last Friday.
Mr. J. E. Hicks and family, of
Mt. Vernon, are visiting relatives in
this county.
Largo loads of fine melons come
in town nearly every day.
Thera is very little sickness in tho
oounty at this time.
Mary leads her iittlo lamb
Around by silken lether.
She calls tho little hnnpkiu “Hot,*
Because it is a wether.
Wives of great men oft remind ns.
We should pick our wives with care.
So we may not leave behind ns
Half onr natural crop of hair.
He who drinks and goes away
Will live to drink auothcr day.
But he who drinks between liis drinks
Right quickly in the gutter sinks. „
Rather Mixed.
Written for tjus Port by P.
Some years ago a large concourse
of people assembled at Ferry, Hous
ton county, Ga., principally for the
purpose of attending Court. His
Honor had not yet arrived, and the
huge crowd of men, in and about the
court house, divided into,a great
many small groups, each one carrying
on its own, separate conversation.
Feeling a desire to know something
of thc.Biibject each small party talked
about, I sauntered slowly from one
group to another, noting dowu such
remarks as reached my car, with the
following as the result of my curi
osity:
First: She’s been sick a long time,
and it was doubtful whether she’d
get over it or not. We couldn’t get
her to cut anything scarcely. But
her appetite is returning now, and
yesterday she ate....
Second: Two hundred pounds of
guano, fifteen bushels of cotton seed
and all the ashes I could find on the
place. I think it will pay me well;
my wheat looks well, and 'if tho rust
will let it alone, will make
Third: Major Drumright marry
widow Harvey. She is doing a good
business. The Major is very old and
very rich. He owns a....
Fourth: Fine little baby, little
girl; just three days old. Old lady
Till is very proud of it, and says the
baby
Fifth: Weighed 400 pounds; the
biggest hog I ever killed in my life,
and if I could have kept him till
Fall, ho wonld have
Sixth: Run for tax collector and
got beat. I knew ho would get beat
for preacher Horn told mo
Seventh: Darn his ^everlasting
hide; if ho over crosses me again I’ll
give him the worst whipping he ever
toted in his life. Tharo ain’t a jury
m the county but will go against
him, and he’d better settle tho ease
before lie’ll find....
Eighth: Sperm whales in the Arc
tic Ocean. They arc dangerous cus
tomers and many a man lost, his life
by them. The only way to kill
them is to....
Ninth: Put them in a frying-pan
with plenty of salt and butter, and
ifry slowly till you get
Tenth: Plenty of chills and fever.
Hate to take hi no mass and quinine;
heap rather take
Eleventh: Three grown girls and
a young widow all in a buggy. As
soon ns they got to my house the
widow said....
Twelfth: Jurors, come into Court.
This last came from the bailiff,
and cut short tnv notes.
Oti, ibis torrid, July weather,
With no breeze to stir a feather!
Memphis, July 31.—Throughout
all of the last two days a steady
stream of people have been mov
ing by every street, avenue, and
railway out of this fever-stricken
city. It is stated that two thousand
went by the Louisville road alone,
their baggage being piled in high
tiers extending from Main to beyond
Second street on the company’s plat
form. There was no excitement nor
stampede, such as prevailed when the
people were startled by tho first an
nouncement that the yellow fever
had broken out, hut tho crush was
immense. On Sunday vehicles of
every imaginable description lined
the highways, carrying people, bag
gage, household effects and camp
oquippago into the country. Within
forty-eight hours the only remaining
inhabitants will be poverty-stricken
pcoplo, nnablo for lack of means, to
loavo, negroes and men occupying
places imperatively demanding their
presence. Tho exodus is in resiamse
to tho announcement of the press
and authorities that they cannot be
fed or nursed hero if taken sick, and
that their lives depend on removal
front the city. Many have lied who
went through the seourgo of 1878,
and who sire doomed safo from
another attack. Tlioy say they have
no desiro to witness a repetition of
the trials and hardships, and death
scenes of last year. Although the
authorities urge the evacuation of
tho city, it is thought it will ho im
possible: to redneo tho population
bolow tan thousand. All property
owners, and nearly all the leading
officials have gone, or arc going
away. Some twenty of the heaviest
merchants are moving their stocks
to St. Louis and Cincinnati, there to
reopen and contiuue business until
November. Many ’ business houses
closed on Saturday night and will
not. open again until cold weather.
Atlanta wants the Memphis mer
chants to remove to that city.
The best digging in Leadville ap
pears to be digging for home,
A bad little boy calls himself Com
pass, because he is boxed so often.
The number of booms now in cir
culation is largely in excess of the
demand.
The “funny man” of the Cincin
nati Commercial is said to be Miss
Ad die Boyd.
Sarah Bernhart is said to be thin
enough to make a first-class tooth
pick for David Davis.
They say Vassal* girls are never so
happy as when they are allowed to go
dowu and paddle around the buoys.
No Hottentot is permitted to marry
more than eight sisters out of one
family. That is right. Somebody
else might want a chance.
The heart of Lord Byron rests in
the mausoleum at Missolonghi,
Greece, and there the heart of Deli-
georgis, the Greek statesman, is to
be placed. Missolonghi was his
birthplace.
Have the. people who arc continu
ally signing petitions to do away
with capital punishment ever thought
of addressing an appeal to murderers
to coaso killing their fellow beings?
.—Cincinnati Saturday Night.
Alexander St. Martin, who.was a
great and valuable curiosity, to phy
sicians forty years ago, by reason of
a hole in his stomach, through which
the process of digestion could be
studied, is still living at Oakdale,
Mass., but in deep poverty.
Bring the Mills to the Cotton.
Charleston News ami Courier.
There is certainly no reason why
the south should not look forward
to the time when manufacturing
capital will largely seek employment
in the cotton states, where the raw
material can be had at the doors of
tho factories. Tho cotton mills
which have been started in the south
have been very successful, and the
number is increasing every year.
We repeat the watchword first given,
in these columns—bring the mills to
the cotton.
If fcvery one who’s played the fool
Ilad died and turned to clay,
How many people would be left
Alive and well to-day/
Oil, a life on the yatch Jeannette/
A home on the frozen deep!
With the mercury down, you bet,
Where butter has got to keep/
Fording the Oeniulgee.
[Eastman Times.] *
It is a remarkable fact that people
have been fording the Ocmulgee river
for several weeks, constant and regu
lar trips to the grist mills on tho
opposite side of the river having been
made. This river, we are told sel
dom admits of <Hch indiscriminate
crossing.
David Davis weighs 380 pounds,
not including his boom.
Application for Dismission.
Laurens Court op Ordinary,
July Term, 1879.
WnEUAS, W. B. F. Daniel, guardian
for J. M. and J. J. Daniel, lias filed his
application for letters of dismission from
said guardianship.
These are therefore to cite and admonish
all persons concerned to show cause, if
any they have, why letters of dismission
should not be granted the applicant on the
first Monday in September next.
Given under my Official signature. •
John T. Duncan,
jy30-80d Ordinary.
B. L. Willing-ham,
COTTON FACTOR,
SECOND ST. - - MACON, GA.
BRING ME YOUR COTTON
AND I WILL PLEASE YOU.
t5f~Opposite J. W. Burke & Co.’s Book
Store.jan23, ’79, ly
A EE YOU DRY?
If so, go tc see Wash Baker, at his
first-class Saloon on Beech St., where he
keeps constantly on hand, and for sale,
Wiues, Whiskeys,
Brandies Beer,
Cider, Champagne,
Aud in fact, everything in the shape of
Liquors and Drinks to be found in a first-
class Saloon.
ALSO
TOBACCO. CIGARS ETC.
Give me a call aud you shall be cqnvino
ed. WASH BAKER
Sept. 18-tf. Cochran Ga.
Undersold by Nobody J
<3-0 TO
J.
W. PEACOCK & CO
AND EXAMINE THEIR STOCK OP
Flavoring Extracts.
Gelatine,
Cream Tartar,
Machine Oil,
Stove Polish,
Jamaica Ginger,
Hops,
Stock Feed,
Castile Soap,
Nutmegs,
Glass Cutters,
Pepper,
Spice,
Ginger.
Mr
ustard,
Magnolia Balm,
Tutt’s Hair Dye,
Hair Oil.
Mitcliel’s Eye Salve,
Thompson’s Eye Water,
~ rbolic f
Cart
Salve,
Oxalic Acid,
Pain Killer,
Pain Kill It,
Opodeldoc,
Mustang Liniment,
Gurgling Oil Liniment,
McLane’s Volcanic Linim’t,
Rankin’s N. & B. Liniment,
C. C. Arnica Liniment,
Brown’s Bronchial Troches,
Pierce’s Golden Discovery,
Syrup of Tar,
Cherry Pectoral,
Tutt’s Expectorant,
Jayne’s Expectorant,
ltadway’s Resolvent,
German Syrup,
Malt, Globe Flower,
Cod Liver Oil and Lime,
Ayer’s Hair Vigor,
Rer
Hall’s Hair Rencwer,
Simmons’ Liver Regulator
Fever & Ague Tonic,
Wright’s Pills,
Mc~
Strong’s Pills, Jayne’s Pills,
” ' Bth’sPl
cLane’s Pills,
Harter’s Pills,
Ayer’s Pills,
Radway’s Pills,
Brandreth’s Pills. Tutt’s Pills
Cook’s Pills, May Apple Pills,
Harter’s Iron Tonic,
Darby’s Prophylactic Fluid,
August Flower,
Kutliairou for Hair,
Seltzer Aperient,
Injection Brou,
Pond’s extract,
Bradfield’s Female Regulator,
Female’s Friend,
Vermifuge, IVorm Candy,
Starch, Rat Poison,
Tricoplieros,
Godfrey’s Cordial,
Soothing Syrup,
Jackson’s Magic Balsam,
British Oil, Bateman’s Drops,
Sage’s Catarrh Remedy,
Heiskell’s Ointment,
Pigman's Asthma Remedy,
And so on to the end of the chapter.
WE HAVE AT.80 A LARGE LOT OF
TOBACCO, CIGARS, SNUFF,
CONFECTIONARIES,
&c., &c\,
Which we will sell low down for the
CASH.
2-3’/“Please do not ash for credit.
We never do that f ind of
business. not even
hardly ever.
J. W. PEACOCK & CO.-
july 2, 2t
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