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WIT AMD HIJIOK
A Brooklin clergyman, just return
ed from his vacation, forestalled all
possible disappointment as to his
choice of subjects hy announcing
from the pulpit: As I have not been
to Europe, nor to the Centennial, nor
to any other place worth mention
ing, I shall preach the Gospel.”
“By Jove,’’said a man, dashing into
the railroad station the other day,
“an express train has gone off the big
bridge!” “Many killed ?” screamed
the bystanders. “Not one,” replied
the other. “She just went on at one
end and went off at the other—just as
usual.”
Kentucky editors have commenoed
to quote Scripture in favor of their
respective Presidential candidates,
and since the nominations the book
sellers of that State have sold in the
aggregate live Bibles, making a
grand total of elven disposed of since
the war.
They wore walking along canal
street, and oue of them was saying,
“X courted her for two years, ami
now that lam married at last,l con
fidently anticipate u life of per
dition,'’ he crieu, as he stubbed his
toe against the raised edge of a flag
stone. His friends thought so too.
Odd Jobber: “I wish 1 had got my
brother on this heer job with me.” In
quiring Employer; “Why my man,
your brother specially?” Odd Job
ber: “Why, ye see, sir, he’s got a
rare cheek on him, my brother has.
Why he’d think no more of asking
for a quart over a job like this—than
nothink.”
Mama (who has been quietly watch
ing certain surreptitious proceed
ings!: “Willy, who helped you to
thatcake?” Willy (promptly): "Heb
ben, mamma.” (Mamina sternly):
“Sh-sh-sh, you naughty boy, how
dare you tell such stories?” Willy:
“ ’Taint my fault if it’s a ’tory, ma.
Didn’t pa tell beggar man zat hebben
helped zhoae zat helped themselves?”
Cost too Much.—lt was a pungent
answer give by a Free Kirk member
who had deserted his colors and re
turned to the old faith. The minis
ter bluntly accosted him, "Ay man,
John, and ye’ve left us; what tniebt
be your reason for that? Did you
think it was na a guid road we was
gawn.” “Ou I dawrsay it was a guid
eneuch road and a braw road; but
O minister, the toils were unco
high.”
Avery modest young lady, who
wanted a pair of gaiters, addressed
the shopman thus: “It is my desire
to obtain a pair of circular elastic ap
pendages, capable of being contrac
ted or expanded by means of oscil
lating burnished steel appliances,
that sparkle like particles of gold
leaf set with Alaska diamonds, and
which are utilized for retaining in
jwoper position the habiliments of
the lower extremeties, which innate
delicacy fobids me to mention.”
Vanity Fair says: A certain wait
er recently left the Athenmum Club
to enter the army aud navy, and be
ing a grave person, as became his
origin, he was at once assured by his
new commander that he would never
be able to stay in his new place, “be
cause,” said he, "we have such a
rowdy lot of members.” “Lord bless
you,’’ saidhe, “you should go to the
Athenaeum aDd hear them Bishops
swear. When their chops isn’t
done right their langwidge is awful.”
A married couple were attacked in
the street by a dog. The wife scream
ed and tried to ruti, but her husband
caught her by the shoulders and
held her firmly between the infuria
ted tleast and his person, while he
whispered in a hoarse voice: Don’t
you dare let go of me, darling. I’ll
stand by you, even if ha does bite.”
Never losing his presence of mind for
an instant, the daring man baffled
every attempt of the fierce brute to
get at him. The owner of the dog in
terfered, and, as the couple moved
off, the husband was heard to say:
“It you had only let that dog bite
you, Matilda, I might have sued the
city for SIO,OOO damages. But you
never did have much sense.”
Castor All.
She had her mind made up for two
or three days that the boy needed
some castor oil, but she knew that
she must approach him gently. She
placed the bottle where he could see
it, and when he turned up his nose,
she said, “It’s just like honey, my
darling/’ Ho seemed to doubt her
word, and she continued, “If you’ll
take some. I’ll let you go to the cir
cus.” “How much?” ho cautiously
inquired. “Oh, only a spoonful—just
one spoonful,” she replied, as she
uncorked the bottle. “And you will
give me some sugar besides?” he
usked. “Of course I will-a big lump.
He waited until she began pouring
from the bottle, and then asked,
“And you’ll give me six pence, too?
“Yes, of course.” And you’ll buy
me a kite?” he went on, see
ing his advance. “No.” “No kite
no tie,” he said, as he drew back
“Well I’ll buy you the kite,” she
replied, filling the spoon clear up.
“And a velocipede?” “I’ll think of
It ” “You can’t no castor-ile down
me?” he exclaimed, looking around
for his hat. “Here —I will, or teas
your father to, and I know he will.
Come now, swallow it down. And
you’ll buy me a goat?” “Yes. ‘And
two hundred marbles?/ Yes. Now
take it right down.” “And a coach
dog?” “I can’t promise that.” “All
right, no dog, no ile.” “Weil, I’ll
ask your father.” “And you’ll buy
buy me a pony?” “Oh, I couldn’t
do that. Now, be a good boy, and
swallow it <}own.” “Oh yes, I’ll
swallow that stuff, he said, as he
clapped on his hat. “You may fool
some other boy with a circus ticket
and a lump of brown sugar, ibut 1 ’ll
take a pony to trot that castor-110
down my threat!” And he went
out to see if the neighbor’s cat had
beea caught in the trap he had set
for her.
THE DAILY TIMES.
MIXiHiG NEW*.
The Hand Gold Mining Company
have been running for the last three
months with remarkably uniform re
sult, crushing a quality of oreof which
the mine yields an inexhaustible
supply, paying more than three dol
lars In gold for ono dollar expended
in labor. Showing that with increas
ed machiuery for erushisng ore this
company is bound to pay Targe divi
dends.
THE FINDLEY MINE,
is running regularly with constantly
improving results at the mill.
lu the tunnel they are stripping
the “old rich Findley lead” and will
soon take out more of the shining
metal. The ore taken from this lead
last week was suid to be “good for
sore eyes.’’
AT THE BENNING MINE
the quantity of good ore now in sight
is simply enormous, and we predict a
fine run for the next six months.
AT THE LAWRENCE MINE.
The large sulphuret vein ten or
twelve feet wide and ttvo feet thick
seems to be pitching down, which is
a good indication of continuance. It
is believed that the present process
of milling and saving gold from ores
that contain mostly free gold is prob
ably about as good as can be devised
within reasonable limits of economy.
But for sulphuret ores, like those
from the Lawrence, the simple cop
per plate with quicksilver, will not
save over one-fourth the gold con
tained iu the ore. The owners are
satisfied of this, and arc now think
ing of introducing some farther pro
cess, which has been successful else
where.
THE JONES MINE,
we are informed, continues to meet
the high expectations of Us owners,
although we are not furnished with
any particular “dots.”
We have information of some furth
er developments In the vicinity, but
are not permitted to give particulars.
We will only say that the interest
now taken in the mines and the pros
pecting being done, is bound to as
tonish somebody.— Dahlonega Signal.
liitlnildntlnar Xmroeii In LmiliUnnn.
Correspondence of the N. O. Democrat,
Cypbemont, Sept. 23, 1876.
Editor Democrat:-An there Is much
being said on the subject of Intimi
dation iu the South. by the Radical
press of the North, 1 will give an in
stance of the kind of intimidation
practiced here upon negroes who do
sire to join t lie Democrats. Some time
since a prominent colored man join
ed a Conservative Reform club in this
parish. On several occasions he was
threatened with violence if he did
not withdraw from the organization;
butas the threats were made private
ly no notioe could be taken of them.
Last Wednesday he was “churched”
and given the alternative of leaving
tlie Conservatives and receiving par
don for pust offenses, or being ex
pelled from tlie church society and
deprived of tlie consolation of relig
ion. Although a prominent church
member and strongly attached to re
ligious duties, he refused to quit the
Conservative ranks and was igno
miniously expelled. Exempt i gratia.
This Is but one instance among
many that have come under tny per
sonal observation, and well illustrates
the kind of influence that is brought
to bear upon colored men to deter
them from joining the
The negroes are strongly attached to
their religion, and the Radicals know
how to make religion subservient to
their political schemes.
J. H. P. Wise, M. D.
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BSTTLKU HUMBLE-BEES.
No man can tell when a boy of nine or
ten years is going to break out in anew
spot. A Cass farm lad, who has been noted
for his quiet demeanor and steady ways, all
at once took a notion to hunt bumble-bees.
He armed himself with a wide mouthed bot
tle and tramped over lots and fields and
entrapped many a luckless stinger. After
securing them he had no further pleasure
except to see them crawl up and down the
sides of the bottle and w hack their stingers
into each other. He was out early yester
day morning, gathering in the bees while
they were benumbed, and when he entered
the house for breakfast he had about thirty
great, overgrown, wicked-looking bum
blebees. They were packed into the bottle
heads an t tails and other ways, and the father
catching sight of them, spoke up:
“Nee here, hoy, 1 don’t want any more of
this fooling around after bees. After break
fast you heave that bottle out doors, and
don’t bring another bee around this house.”
The boy placed the bottle behind the din
ing-roorn stove. There was a gentle fire, and
the bottle had no cork. The family had
got through the lirst cup of coffee when
they heard something going:
“Jing—ring—ding —ong —long—rung g!”
The fire warmed the bees up, and they
left the bottle to warm the family up. it
was a business affair, and the bees went in
to do their best. The boy slid out at the
first alarm, but the old folks flourished their
napkins until sliding out would have done
no good. The old gent got a sting on his
left ear and another on his head at the same
second, while the old lady was punctured in
theshoulder, and yelled “Murder!” with all
her might.
“Maul—maul ’em!” shouted the old gent,
waving the butter dish around, and getting
another needle into his neck.
“Police! Police!” squealed the old ]ady,div
ing under the table as a big bee settled on
the lobe of her ear.
It was a very even fight for a while, but
then the old man got down cellar, and the
woman flew for a bed-room, the ones deep
bass voice shouting, “Gimme the camphor,
Betty!" and the other squeaking, “If you
love me go for a doctor!”
No one knows what became of the boy.
He is reported as missing. Sitting under
the swaying head of some stunted thorn tree
on the commons, he looks longingly towards
home, but he realizes that his reception will
be red hot.— Detroit Free Press.
The Indiana Hattie.
Indianapolis Special to the Chicago Times. I
The real battle will commence
about ten (lays before the election.
That battle will be one on the part of
the Democracy to hold their own,
and on the part of the Republicans
to overcome the present majority
against them. That fight, when it
opens, will be a financial one. For
the present I will only say with ref
erence to it, that it will be one in
which the biggest barrel of money
wins*
Death of Savannlana
Savannah, Sept, 28.—Edward O.
Anderson and Jno. A. Banker, of this
city, died last nightat Quitman Ga.
“Does our constant chatter disturb
you?” asked one of three talkative
ladies of a sober looking fellow-pas
senger. “No, ma’am; I’ve been mar
ried nigh 80 years,” was the reply.
COLUMBUS, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 29, 187(5.
home facts Ahnut the Forests of tlie
World.
Tho forests of Europe are estimated
as being 5(H),000,000 acres in extent,
or about 20 per ceut. of the whole
area of the continent. In North
America it is reckoned that 1,460,000,-
000 acres are covered with trees, of
which 900,000,000 aro in the British
North America. In South America
the forests occupy 700,000,000 acres.
The total amount for the two conti
nents of the New World aud Europe
gives 6,600,000 geographical miles.
The proportion of forest land to the
whole area of Europe, as above
stated, is computed at 20 per cent.;
in America, 21 per oent.
Supposing, therefore, 20 per cont.
to be the proportion in Asia, Africa
and Australia, the grand total of the
forests of the world would cover a
space of over 7,734,000 geographical
miles. The areas of State forests and
woodlands are estimated at the fol
lowing figures in the following Euro
pean countries: Prussia, 6,200,000
ucres; Bavaria, 3,294,000 acres;
France, 2,700,000 aores; Austria, 2,-
230,000 acres; Hanover, 900,000 ucres;
Wurtemburg, 469,007 acres; Saxony,
394,000 acres; England, 112,376 acres.
The range in the height of trees
varies from the miniature alpine
willows of a few inches in height to
the stupendous Welliugtonia, which
grows 350 feet, although it is stated
that oue of the eucalpyti often reach
es a height of 460 feet In Victoria. Iu
Sclavotla a tree called the sapitt at
tains a height of 275 feet, and the
umbrella pines of Italy 200 feet. The
California big tree is said to girth 96
feet. The destruction of woods and
forests, however, is very enormous,
aud in the majority of Instances no
attempts are being made for the re
production. In South Africa, we are
told, countless numbers of beautiful
forest trees are destroyed and laid
waste annually. In New Zeland the
30 per cent of tho forest existing in
1830 had sunk to 28 in 1867, aud to 18
in 1873, which rate of reduction, if
continues, would result in the total
destruction of New Zeland forests by
1879. In America, in the United
States especially, the consumption of
timber is enormous, aud although
public attention has been called to
the matter, and the United States
statute of March, 1875, imposes a fine
of SSOO or a year’s imprisonment for
wanton injury or destruction of trees,
and also a fine of S2OO or six months’
imprisonment for allowing eattle to
injure trees “on national grounds,”
the yearly consumption and improvi
dent use of timber is almost incredi
ble.
Although, says the Scientific Amer
ican, there are no available statistics
to show the exact rate of speed with
which they are using up the wood
supply, it is easy to see that it is be
ing done with great rapidity. Tak
ing the legitimate use of lumber, in
dustries based on its manufacture
constitute tho second in point of
magnitude in America, and are only
exceeded by the iron interest. About
150,000 persons are stated to be em
ployed in producing sawed lumber
alone ; $143,500,000 are invested there
in, “and 1,395,000 lath, 2,265,000,000
shingles and 12,756,000,000 feet of
timber are yearly manufactured.”
Ou the secondary interests based
on the use of lumber as a raw mate
rial, carpentery, cabinet-making,
shipbuilding, etc,, millions of people
are employed. According to Profes
sor Brewer’s assertion, wood forms
the fuel of two-thirds of the popula
tion, and the partial fuel of nine
tenths of the remaining third. Add
this to the former estimate, and
some idea will be obtained of the
enormous drain upon tho Americun
forests that is constantly in progress.
Asa fact, it is well known that in
1871 as many as 10,000 acres of forest
were stripped of their timber to sup
ply Chicago with fuel, and yet no at
tempt is made to ru-prodqce. Land
and Water.
Griffin New*: Cotton is coming in
fast, and tho receipts this week have
approximated one thousand bales.
Fanners have cultivated their crops
with extraordinary skill and indus
try, and gathered it almost as fast as
it opened, and yet of the cotton re
ceived this week, almost half was of
a very inferior class, owing to the
storm of a month ago. Much of this
last week’s receipts sold for less than
seven cents. It actually costs at
least a cent a pound to pick it out
and gin it, alone, to say nothing
about the cost of cultivation. Now it
took at least two acres of ground to
produce a bale of this cotton, and
three hundred pounds of fertilizer,
costing about twelve dollars. Let tis
see how a bale of this cotton
pans out. Five hundred pounds,
at six cents per pound, amounts
to S3O. Deduct, for picking and
ginning $5, for fertilizers sl2, total
sl7, which leaves sl3 for cultivating
two acres of ground, or $6 50 per acre.
Who doos not see that a yield of six
bushels and one-half of corn per
acre is an infinitely better crop ? But
this Is not half a crop of corn, with
no fertilizer; while a bale of cotton
to two acres is a big crop of cotton,
with fertilizer; and everybody knows
it is twice the expense to cultivate
cotton that it is to cultivate corn.
The truth is, farmers can afford to
sell corn this year at twenty-five
cents per bushel better than they cau
cotton at six cents? Will farmers
take heed ? Of course not.
Mr. Nordhoff’s paper, read to the
Social Science Congress, treats of tho
negro in the South. In 1865 the ne
gro actually owned only tlie clothes
he wore. For eleven years these peo
ple have had freedom. In Georgia
the authorities have taken pains to
inquire into the condition aud pro
gress of the freedmen. The State has
been Democratic for five years, and
the negro has had little opportunity
to play the statesman. In Georgia
the colored voters number about 80,-
000, and according to returns of 1874,
thefreedmeD, who by the census of
1870 numbered 545,000, were possessed
of 338,769 acres of farming real es
tate, $1,200,145 worth of city and
town real estate, and paid taxes on
a valuation of $6,157,798. So far ns
ascertained from dilligent inquiry,
the negroes of Georgia own more
real estate per head than those of
any other of the States. The negroes
prefer to buy uncleared land near
cities and villages, and clear it for
themselves. The planters do not
like to sell these small lots, as a ne
gro settlement deteriorates the rest
of the estate. Thus we hear of plan
ters refusing to sell land to the freed
men. The system of leasing cotton
lands Is such that the freedman will
have a surplus at the end of the sea
son of from $250 to S4OO. This he
sells at his leisure. The negro dis
trusts savings banks. Once pinched
by the philanthropists of the General
Howard school, he cannot be pinched
again.
THE YELLOW FEVER.
Yellow Fever Heller.
Baltimore, Sept. 28.—Tho Acade
my of Musio was orovvded at the vol
untary entertainment for the Savan
nah sufferers and Fireman’s Benevo
lent Association. Col. Cbas. LoDg, a
Maryland soldier of the Khedive, lec
tured. Several pieces by the Russian
Prlmu Donna, Balloca, captured Bal
timore.
Memphis, Sept. 28.—Four thousand
dollars collected to-day. The Commit
tee sent a thousand to the mayor of
Brunswick.
From the Bavaunah Nows of Wednesday.
Tlie Fever Yesterday.
The mortuary report for the twenty
four hours ending yesterday at six
o’clock exhibits a total of interments
of thirty-four, of which number
twonty-elght were attributed to yel
low fever aud six to other onuses.
The mortality among the colored
population shows a large increase.
Out of the twelve cases among that
class, ten were from yellow fever.
The condition of tho city, judging
by the mortuary, is no worse than on
Hie praVious day among tho whites;
but the disease has apparently taken
hold of tho colored population, and
as their well known want of care and
sanitary caution are notorious, it Is
feared a large per cent, of mortality
will prevail among them.
INTERMENTS FOR THE DAY ENDING SEP
TEMBER 26, 1876.
Laurel Grove Cemetery.—Ferdi
nand Franz, aged 47 years, yellow
fever; Isaac E. Loewenstein, aged 26
years, yellow fever; Leonard Fuister,
aged 65 years, yellow fever; George
A. Bruton, aged 28 years, yellow
fever; Charles Raetz, aged 35 years,
congestion of brain; Thomas M.
Jackson, aged 26 years, 5 months and
I day, yellow fever; Sarah Carter,
aged 35 years, yellow fever; Rev. Ed
ward H. Myers, aged 63 years, yellow
fever; Wallace W. Pollard, aged 38
years, 7 months, yellow fever; Lewis
Fried, aged 43 years, yellow fever;
William H. Greenshaw.’aged 8 years,
II months and 14 days, yellow fever;
Eliza Wylly, aged 69 years, 10 months,
acuto gastritis.
Colored—Clara Evans, aged 60
years, dropsy; Grace Ward, aged 20
years, congestive fover; George
Washington, aged 19 years, yellow
fover; Fannio Williams, aged 11
years, Win. Small, aged—years-
Grant Mitehnor, aged 39 years,
Florence Greyan, aged 20 years, Uly
ses Carter, aged 4 years, yellow fever;
Walter Barnwell, aged 8 months,
billious fever; Charlos Jones, aged 6
yoars three months, convulsions;
Francis Joiner, aged 38 years, Ellen
Bailey, aged 61 years yellow fever.
Whites, 12; colored 12; total, 24,
(yellow fevor 18).
CATHEDRAL CEMETERY.
Sister Mary Martha, ageil 22 years,
William ,T. Furlong, aged 41 years,
Thomas McDermott, aged 7 years, 6
months, Nicholas Peters, aged 35
years. Ellie Reynold, aged 6 years, 10
months, John Connors, aged 4 years
—yellow fever; fMargaret Popham,
aged 36 years, miscarriage and yel
low fever ; C. H. Wiehrs, aged 28
years, James O’Driscoll, aged 30
years, Mary Jane Cordy, nged 6
months, yellow fever.
Whites, 10; colored, o; total, 10-
yellow fover 10.
RECAPITULATION.
Laurel Grove Cemetery- Whites,
12; colored, 12; total, 24—yellow fe
ver, 18.
Cathedral Cemetery—Whites, 10;
colored, 0; total, 10—yellow fever, 10.
Grand total, 34. Yellow fover, 28.
Norfolk, Va., Sept. 27.—Twelve
hundred dollars havo been raised in
this city by private subscription for
Savannah. This makes twenty-live
hundred sent from here.
Award, to Mouther,, Fxhllil tor*.
Philadelphia, Sept. 28.—Centen
nial awards have been made to John
F. Tuylor, Charleston, S. C., strain of
hydraulic cotton press; Tappan &
Steele, Petersburg, BurTey’s power
bailing press; D. A. Anderson, Rich
mond* Photographer ;Knoxville Mar
ble Cos,, colored marbles; Jno. C.
Meyer, New Orleans, jewelry and
gold work; F. H. Burk &Son, Madi
son County Pottery “(Wallace Bros.,
Statesville, N. C., indigeneous plants
used in medicine.
(•rent Hrllaln'* Frnlun Prisoner*.
London, Sept. 28.— The daily Tele
graph says during the last fow days
the sentinels at Charlotte prison have
been strengthened to prevent any
surprise. The Fenian convicts are
carefully watched and not allowed to
mix with other persons. Their ac
tual place of confinement is known
only to a few wardens.
llii.mlh Hlorklnic Peace.
London, Sept. 28. —A Time*’ dis
patch says there is much reason to
fear that Prince Milan and his minis
try are no loDger their own masters
on the question of peaco. It contin
ues: “Every thing points in that
direction. The only chance for
peace lies in the prompt acceptance
of ail the conditions of powers—hun
dreds arriving daily. The situation
is most alarming for peaco. Rus
sia’s delay of a single day may prove
fatal to Turkey and peace.”
Pennsylvania’* Day.
Philadelphia, Sept. 28.— T0-day
having been set apart by Gov. Hart
ranft as Pennsylvania’s day at the
Centennial Exhibition, all business
houses have been closed, and the
down town streets are nearly desert
ed. Places of business are draped in
bunting, and the city wears the same
appearance that it did on the 10th of
May, the day on which the Exhibition
was opened. There were 180,000 cash
admissions to-day.
Tlie Czar and the Emperor.
Vienna, Sept. 28.-Count S. Erwar
off, aid-de-camp to the Czar, arrived
here, and has had an interview with
Francis Joseph.
E.tRI, DERBY ON NPANINH INTOL
ERANCE.
IIE PROMISES TO LOOK INTO IT.
London, Sept. 28.—A deputation
representing tho Protestant Mission
ary and Bible societies had an inter
view with Earl Derby to-day, in re
lation to the intolerant regulations
of tho Spanisn government. Earl
Derby, after pointing out tho difficul
ties in which tho Spanish govern
ment was placed by the strength of
tho clerical party and vagueness of
the working of the article of the Con
stitution relative to religious tolera
tion, said: Nothing in tho article,
however, justifies the closingof Prot
estant schools, and I do not think
the Government will so interpret it.
Probably many oases of hard
ships are due to the over zeal of sub
ordinate officials. I think with re
gard to acts of intolerance whioh are
clearly not sactioned by tho tolera
tion clause of tho Constution, that
when the Cortes has formally pro
claimed freedom and friendship, sub
ject to limitations, there can be no
question that we have a right to inter
fere if theirpromise is violated; but a
more difioult case is where the ques
tion at issue is the proper constretion
of the law. I personally havo no
doubt that it an exceedingly
forced and strained Constitution
of tlie law to prohibit as an external
manifestation singing in church or
worshipping with the door open, so
that passers by may look iu. I think
wo havo a right to claim that tho law
should not be construed unfavorably
to tho rights of foreigners in Spain,
because they undoubtedly have been
encouraged to settle there upon the
understanding that they should be
free from this kind of annoyance. I
suggest that when those affected
think it worth while to remonstrate
they should send mo their coinplaint,
and inquiry shall be made.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
Eighty thousand Pacific Railroad
bonds held to secure notes withdrawn
—four-and-a-hulfs substituted.
Eight hundred and thirty-eight
thousand legal tenders destroyed.
Total amount of National Bank
notes issued from January 14th, 1875,
(time of tho passage of the Resump
tion act) to September 28, 1876, is
nearly seventeen millions of dollars;
and legal tender notes destroyed,
nearly thirteen and a half millions.
Secretary Robeson hus returned.
Milner, Irish team, 107; Menzies,
Scotch, 103; Slade, Australian, 103.
Highest of respective teams in two
days shooting.
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.
Ernest Bendeil, the German sculp
tor, is dead.
Twenty thousand pounds of North
American eagles wore drawn from
tho Bank of England on Wednesday,
for shipment to the United Suites.
The Vienna correspondent of the
London Time* declares that the de
cision of peace or war is in Tcher
nayeff’s hands.
Max Stadfler & Cos., clothiers, New
York, settled at 75 cts. in the dollar.
The Weather To-Day.
Washington, Sept. 28.— For tho
South Atlantic States, southeast
winds, warmer, partly cloudy weath
er, and falling barometer, will pre
vail, with possibly local rains.
Hunt uiitl Wands.
Vioo, Sept. 28.—Hunt and Sands,
who were with Tweed, sailed for
Souhampton.
A TEXAS SCHUENFEST.
THREE OF ONE PARTY KILLED OUTRIGHT,
AND THE FOURTH MORTALLY
WOUNDED.
The Waco Examiner gives the fol
lowing particulars of a terrible duel
which took place on the bunks of the
Brazos river, opposite Kimball, in
Bosque county, Texas: A party com
posed of Walter Turner. Ed. Brown
and Thompson, had been in that
locality with race horses. Frank and
Lacy Robinson, Taylor Campbell and
Wiley Norman, all of Hill county,
went to the camp of tho Kaufman
county men and got into a dispute
with them about a pony race, which
resulted in a fist-fight. The parties
agreed to meet the next day and set
tle the thing in a satisfactory man
ner. Ho at ten o’clock on the uext
morning indicated the Hill county
men took a stand at the place agreed
upon, in readiness for action. Thoy
had not waited long when the other
party rode toward them. The men
were all armed with six-shooters, ex
cept Turner, who carried a needle
carbine. Wnon tho parties had ap
proached within twenty yards of
each other, Taylor Campbell fired at
Turner and the battle commenced.
Turner leaped from his horse and
fired three shots with his terrible
carbine. The first shot went crash
ing through Campbell’s brain, the
second caused the instant death of
Frank Robinson, aud the last mor
tally wounded Lacy Robinson. By
this time a ball from Thompson’s re
volver had passed through poor Nor
man’s breast, a boy aged seventeen
years, and all of tho Hill county par
ty lay weltering in their blood. Some
twentv shots were fired altogether.
More'than half the shots were by
the Hill county party, hut,strange to
say, none of the Kaufman county
men were in the least tiurt. The sur
viving party mounted horses and
fled the eountry. A hundred men
started in pursuit.
Choice Ten*
from 90c. to $2.00 per pound.
Roasted and Green Java and Rio Coffee.
Coffee roasted twice each week. By
G. W. Brown.
Notice.
The Rankin House will bo open for the
reception of boarders October Ist.
sop 29 3t
THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
We, tho delegates of tho Democratic party of
the United Status iu Natioual Convention assem
bled, do hereby declare the administration of
tho Federal Government to be iu urgent need of
immediate Deform; do hereby enjoin upon the
nominee* of thin Convention, aud of the Demo
cratic party in each State, a zealous effort and
co-operation to thin end; and do hereby appeal to
our fellow-citizens of every former political
connection, to uudertako with ub this first and
molt pressing prtriotic duty.
For the Democracy of the wholo country, we
do hero reai&rxu our faith iu tho permanence of
tlie Foderal Union, our devotion to the Constitu
tion of the United State* with its amendments
universally accopted as a final settlement of the
controversies that engendered civil war, aud do
here record our steadfast confidence iu the per
petuity of Republican Self-Government.
Iu absolute acquiescence in the will of tho ma
jority—the vital principle of tho republic; iu the
supremacy of the civil over the military authority;
in the total separation of Church aud State, lor
the sake alike of civil aud religious freedom;
in the oquality of all citizeus before just laws of
their owu enactment; in the liberty of individ
ual conduct, uuvuxed by sumptuary laws; in the
faithful education of the rising generation, that
they may preserve, enjoy, aud transmit these
best conditions of human happiness and hope, we
behold tho noblest products of a hundred years
of changeful history ; but while upholding the
bond of our Union aud great Charter oi these
our rights, it behooves a free people to practise
also that eternal vigilance which is the price of
liberty.
Reform is necessary ta rebuild and establish
in tho hearts of tho whole people, the Uniou,
eleven years ago happily rescued from the
danger of a Secession of States; but now to be
saved from a corrupt Centralism wnich, after
inflicting upon ten States the rapacity of carpet
bag tyrannies, lias honeycombed tho offices of
tho Federal Government itself with incapacity,
waste and fraud; infected States aud municipal
ities with the contagion of misrule, aud locked
fast the prosperity of an industrious people in
the paralysis of ‘Hard Times.'
Reform is necessary to establish a sound cur
rency, restore the public credit, and maintain
the national honor.
We denounce the failure for all these eleven
J’carH of peace to make good the promise of tho
egal-tender notes, which are a changing stand
ard of value in the hands of the people, and the
aou-payment of which is a disregard of the
plighted faith of the nation.
We denounce the improvidence which in
oleven years of peace has taken from the people
in Federal taxes thirteen times the wholo amount
of tho legal-tender notes and squandered four
times their sum in useless expense without ac
cumulating any resosye for their redemption.
Wo denounce tho financial imbecility aud im
morality of that party which, during eleven
years of peace, has made no advance toward
resumption, no preparation for resumption, but
instead has obstructed resumption, by wasting
our resources aud exhausting all our surplus
Income;aud, while annually proiessing to in
tend a speedy return to specie payments, has
annually enacted fresh hindrances thereto. As
such a hindrance we denounce the Resumption
day clause of the act of 1875 and demand its re
peal.
We demand a judicious system of preparation
by public economies, by official retrenchments,
aud by wise finance, which shall enable the
nation soon to assure tho whole world of its
perfect ability aud its perfect readiness to meet
any of its promises at the call of the creditor en
titled to paymont.
We believe such a system, well devised, and,
above all, entrutsed to competent hands foi
execution, creating at no time an artificial scar
city of currency and at no time alarming the
public mind into a withdrawal of that v astei
machinery of credit by which 95 per cent, of all
business transactions are performed,—a system
open, public, and inspiring general confidence,
would from the day of fts adoption bring healing
on its wings to all our liarrassed industries, sot
iu motion the wheels of commerce, manufac
tures, and the mechanic arts, restore employ
ment to labor, and renew in all its natural
sources tho prosperity of the people.
Reform is necessary in the sum and modes of
Federal Taxation, ; <to the end that capital may
be set free from distrust, aud labor lightly bur
dened.
We ‘UMguuce the present Tariff, lovied upon
nearly articles, as a masterpiece of injus
tice, in equality, and false pretense. It yields a
dwindling, not a yearly rising revenue. It has
impoverished many industries to subsidize a
few. It prohibits imports that might purchase
th products of American labor. It has degraded
American commerce from the first to an inferior
rank on the high seas. It has cut down the
sides ol Americun manufactures at home und
abroad, and depicted tho returns of American
agriculture—an industry followed by half our
people. It costs the peoplo five times more
than it produces to the treasury, obstructs the
processes of production, and wastes the fruits of
labor. It promotes fraud, fosters smuggling,
enriches dishonest officials, andbanrupts honest
merchants. Wo demand that all the Custom-
House taxation shall be only for Revenue.
Reform Is necessary, in the scalo of Public
Expeuse—Federal, Btate aud Municipal. Our
Fedoral taxation has swolun from 60 millions
gold, in 1860, to 460 millions currency, in 1870;
our aggregate taxation from 154 millions gold in
1860, to 730 millions currency in 1870; or iu one de
cade, from less than $5 per head to more than
$lB per head. Since tho peace, the people have
paid to their tax gatherers more than thrice the
sum of the national debt, and more than twice
that sum for the Federal Government alone. We
demand a religious frugality in every depart
ment, aud from every officer of the Government.
Reform is necessary to put a stop to the
profligate waste of public lands and their diver
sion from actual settlers by the party in power,
which has squandered 200 millions of acres upon
railroads alone, and out of more than thrice that
aggregate has disposed of less than a sixth direct
ly to tillers of the soil.
Reform is necessary to correct the omissions
of a Republican Congress and the errors of our
treaties aud our diplomacy which have stripped
our follow-citizens of foreign birth aud kindred
race rocrossing the Atlantic, of the shield of
American citizenship, aud have exposed our
brethren of tho Pacific coast to the incursions of
a race not sprung from the same great parent
stock, and iu fact now by law denied citizenship
through naturalization*** being neither accus
tomed to the traditions of a progressive civiliza
tion nor exercised in liberty under equal laws.
We denounce the policy which thus discards the
liberty-loving German aud tolerates the revival
of tho coolie trade in Mongolian women import
ed for immoral purposes, and Mongolian men
hired to perform servile labor contracts.
Reform is necessary and can never be effected
but by making it the controlling issue of the
elections, and lifting it above the two false issues
with which the offlce-holdiug class and the party
in power seek to smother it—
1. The false issue with which they would en
kindle sectarian strife in respect to the public
schools, of which the establishment and support
belong exclusively to tho several States, aud
which tho Democratic party has cherished from
their foundation, and is resolved to maintain
without prejudice or prelorence for any class,
sect or creed, aud without largesses from the
Treasury to any.
2. Tho false issue by which they seek to light
anew tho dying embers of sectional hate between
kindred peoplo once estranged, but now re
united in one indivisible republic and a common
destiny.
Rkform is necessary in the Civil Service. Ex
perience proves that efficient, economical con
duct of the governmental business is not possiblo
if its civil service bo subject to change at every
election, Vie a prize fought for at the ballot-box,
be a brief reward of party zeal, instead of posts of
honor assigned for proved competency, and held
for fidelity in the public employ; that the dis
pensing of patronage should neither boa tax up
on tho time of our public men, nor the instru
ment of their ambition. Here again promises
falsified in the performance, attest that the party
in power can work out no practical or salutary
reform.
Reform is necessary even more in tho higher
grades of the public service. President, Vice-
President. Judges, Senators, Representatives,
Cabinet officers, these and all others in authority
are the people’s servants. Their offices aro not
a private perquisite; they are a public trust.
When the annals of this Republic show the dis
grace and censure of a Vice-President; a late
Hpeaker of the House of Representatives market
ing his rulings as a presiding officer; three Sen
ators profiting secretly by their votes as law-ma
kers ; five chairmen of tho leading committees of
tho House of Representatives exposed iu Jobbery;
a late Secretary of the Treasury forcing balances
in the public accounts : a late Attorney-G<VPral
misappropriating public funds; a Secretary of
the Navy enriched or enriching friends, by per
ccntages levied off the profits of contractors with
his department; an Embassador to England cen
sured in a dishonorable speculation; tho Presi
dent’s Private Becretary barely escaping convic
tion upon trial for guilty complicity in frauds
upon the revenue; a Becretary of War impeached
# or high crimes and misdemeanors—the demon
stration is complete, that the first step in Re
form must be the people’s choice of honest men
from another party, lest the disease of one po
litical organization infect the body politic, and
lest by making no change of men or parties we
get no change of measures aud no real Reform.
All these abuses, wrongs and crimes, the pro
duct of sixteen years’ ascendancy of the Republi
can party, create a necessity for Reform confess
ed by Republicans themselves; but their reform
ers are voted down In convention and displaced
from tho Cabinet. The party's mass of honest
voters is powerless to resist the 80,000 office
holders, Its leaders and guides.
Reform can only be had by a peaceful Civil
Revolution. We demand a change of system, a
change of administration, a change of parties,
that we may have a change of measures and of
mer.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
BY TELEGRAPH TO THE DAILY TIMES.
MOXEY AND NTOCK.H.
LONDON, Sept. 28.—Noon—Consols 9Ga4.
LONDON, Sopt. 28.—Noon—Specie decreased
190,000 pounds.
PARIS, Sept. 28.—Noon—Routes lOGf. 52*4?.
Specie increased Bft million francs.
NEW YORK, Sept. 28.-Noon-Stocks active
and weak; money 1 ft ; gold 9ft; exchange, long,
4.83; short 4.84)*; State bonds quiet.
NEW YORK. Sept. Evening—Money 2a ft ;
sterling 3; gold 10; Governments dull and
steady, news's 14 ft ;States quiet,Tennessee (fa
44j*. uew 43.
COTTON.
LIVERPOOL, Sept. 28. Noon—Cotton steady;
middling uplands 5 15-10d; Orleans Oftd.', sales
8,000; speculation and exports 1,000; receipts
4,300; American 4,300. Futures weak, l-32d.
cheaper, middling uplands, low middling clause,
September delivery 6ftd.; September and Octo
ber 5 27-32d.; October aud November 5 27-82d.;
November aud December Bft; new crop, shipped
October and November per sail. 5%d.; uew crop,
shipped November, Gd.; November und Decem
ber 6T;d„ do, per sail, 5 29-32d.
1 i*. m.—Middling uplands, low middling
clause, uew crop, September aud October deliv
ery 5 29-82d.
2 p. m.—Sales American 4.200.
3 p. m.—Uplands, low middling clause, shipped
Nov. aud Deo. Bftd.
4:30. p. m.— Futures flat; middling up
lands, low middling clause, October and Novem
ber delivery 518-l6d,i January aud February de
livery now crop, shipped November aud
December, per sail, 6jj|d.
NEW YORK, Sept. 28.—Noon—Cotton dull;
uplands 11*,'; Orleans 11 5-16; sales 218. Fu
tures quiet aud easy; October 11 3-32*4, Novem
ber 113-32**4, December 11 3-32*7-32, January 11
5-1 Gal 1-32; February 11 >3*9-10.
NEW YORK. Bept, 28.—Evening—Cotton—Net
receips 521; gross 3,427. Futures closed unset
tle.!; sales 25,500; September 11 1-16*3-32; Oc
tober 11 1-82; November 11 1-10*3-32; December
11 5-32; January 11 9-82; February 11 15-32;
March 11 21-32; April 11 13-16; May 12 3-32;
June 12 5-32*3-16; July 12 5-16*11-32; August 12a
>4*l7-32.
GALVESTON, Sept. 28.—Evening Cotton
dull and heavy; middling 10*,'; net receipts 1,9‘9;
sales 325.
NORFOLK, Sept. 28.—Evening—Cotton dull;
middling 10*4c.; net receipts 1,808; exports
coastwise 1,875; sales 214.
BALTIMORE,Sept. 28.—Evening-Cotton dull;
middling 11; gross receipts 244; sales 195; sales
spinners 80; exports coastwise 60.
BOSTON, Sept. 28.—Evening—Cotton steady;
middling 11%; net receipts 415; exports Great
Britain 1,084.
WILMINGTON, Sept. 28.—Evening—Cottou
quiet: middling 10>; not receipts 464; sales
125.
PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 28.—Evening—Holi
day; net receipts 50; gross 78.
SAVANNAH, Sept. 28. Evening Cottou
steady; middling 1034; not receipts 2,945; gross
3,020; sales 1,334; exports Great Britain 2,102;
coastwise 2,946.
NEW ORLEANS. Sopt. 28.—Evening—Cotton
easy; middling 10} a '; low middling 10ft ; good
ordinary Oft; net receipts 3,513; gross receipts
6,006; Bales 4,800; exports coastwise 4,991.
MOBILE, Sept. 28.—Evening—Cotton quiet and
firm; middling 10},';net receipts 703; sales GOO;
exports France 1,224; coastwise 762.
MEMPHIS, Sept. 28.—Evening—Cottou weak ;
middling 10},aV, receipts 808; shipments 125;
sales 850.
AUGUSTA, Sept. 28.—Evening—Cotton easy;
middling 10},'; receipts 1.461; sales 1,027.
CHARLESTON, Sept. 28.—Evening—Cotton
easy; middling 10*4; not receipts 2,354; salts
1,000.
PKOVIMOXB. ScV.
NEW YORK, Sept. 27.—Noon—Flour dull and
unchanged; wheat quiet and heavy; corn steady;
pork steady, $16.75*90; lard is scarcely so firm,
steam $10. 60; spirits turpentine firm; rosin firm,
$1.96; freights heavy.
BALTIMORE. Sept. 28.—Noon—Flour quiet
and steady, demand moderate,unchanged; wheat
firm aud unchanged; corn. Southern, quiet and
steady, weak aud lower, closing steady.
ST. LOUIS, Wept. 28.—Evening—Flour steady
and firm, for sound medium extras, $1.50a56.60.
Wheat, No. 2 red fall $1.1734*18; No. 3, do.
$1.08a&. Corn steady aud firm, No. 2, mixed,
4014*41. Oats firm, No. 2, 86 >4*8734. Rye 59.
Burley steady, Whiskey steady, 96. Pork quiet,
$17.26. Lard quiet aud nominal. Bulk meats
nominal for car lots of winter; meats ottered at
7ft, 9 and 9ft*ft for shoulders, clear rib and
clear sides. Bacon easier, for sides; shoulders
7ft; clear rib and clear sides 10ft*ft.
BALTIMORE, Sept. 28.—Evening—OAts firm,
scarce, good demand; rye dull, heavy, 6Ua62;
provisions firm; coffee strong and higher, car
gora 1534*19; job lots lGal9' 4 ; whiskey quiet, 12;
sugar quiet, 10*4*34.
CINCINNATI, Sept. 28.—Evening—Flour firm;
fair demand, family $5.30*60. Wheat steady
aud firm; red $1.06a51.09. Corn dull 48. Oats
quiet and Bteady, 35a42. Rye firmer, 68. Barley
firm, $1 00a51.05. Pork lu fair demand, $16.26.
Lard quiet, steam rendered 10>4, kettle lla>4,
summer lu. Bulk meats steady and demand fair,
7ft*ft, $8.70a58.75 aud 9ft for shoulders, clear
rib and clear sides. Bacon steady and demand
lair, 7ft*ft,9ft*ft and 10a}4, for shoulders, clear
rib and clear sides. Whiskey steady 10a9. But
ter easier and not quotably lower.
LOUISVILLE, Sept. 28.—Flour quiet and weak;
•xtra $3.50@54.00; family $4.25a54.60. Wheat
iu good demand; red $1.06; amber sl.o6ft; white
$1.05a51.15. Corn dull; white 43, mixed 42.
Rye steady and firm. Oats quiet and flrffi; white
36, mixed 33. Pork quiet aud steady $16.60.
Bulk meats scarce and firm at 7*B ft, 9 for shoul
ders, clear rib and clear sides. Bacon quiet aud
firm, at 7ft, 9ft aud 10>* for shoulders, clear rib
and clear sides, Sugar cured bams quiet. 16a ft.
Lard iu good demand; tierces 12; kegs 12 ft.
Whiskey in fair demand, 8. Baggfng in good de
mand lift* ft
NEW YORK, Sopt. 28.—Flour lower; decline
in low grades; only very moderate export und
home trade demand; super Western and State
$4.20a54.76; Southern quiet and heavy. Corn
to fair extra $5.00a56.25; good to choice $6.30a
$8.50. Wheat slightly in business favor; light ex
port and milling demand; $1.05 for inferior
winter red Western; $1.15 for new mixed winter
red. Corn >4 lower; moderate export aud
home trade demand; 66*4*9 for ungrad
ed Western, mixed; 02 for white Southern. Oats
1 better ; active trade; 33a49 for mixed Western
and State 37, 52 for white, do. State. Coffee, Rio,
?uiet, owing to scarcity, 16ft*18ft t gold cargoes
634*20, gold job lots do. Sugar very quiet and
nominal, Bfta9, fair to good, refining and refined,
lower, 10}4, standard A 10>4 granulated and
powdered lift, crushed do.; molasses dull and
unchanged; rice firm, fairJy active; rosin firm, at
$1.95u52.00; turpentine firm; pork dull, uew
$16.75; whiskey firmer, 12; freights dull; cotton
sail 9-32*5-16; stem 11-32d.
Sew "York I>ry Oo>ds Market.
NEW YOIIK, Sept. 26.~Bu8iues8 was moderate
with commission houses and jobbers, aud the
jobbing trade fairly activo. Prints continue ac
tive and strong, with an upward tendency. Mer
rimac fancy aud staple prints and Oriental shirt
ings advanced k per cent., and mourning prints
are now 7#. Ginghams are jobbing freely at low
figures. Dress goods active. Woolen goods In
steady demand.
HIIIP NEW*.
New York, Sept. 28.—Disabled steam
ship England, towed into St. John's, has
arrived here.
London, Sept. 28.~Bark Maria Kado,
from Belfast to Wilmington, ashore in
Belfast lough, in a dangerous position.
Norfolk, Sept. 28.—Put in here for coal
steamer San Jacinto, for Savannah; Gal
yeston, for Liverpool.
Newport, E. X., Sept. 28.~Schooner Nel
lie Langdon, of Darien, Ua., for Bridge
port, arrived here, reports that in a gale
on tho 17lh, she lost her sails ami 10,000
feet cargo lumber; also lost the steward.
John Blackmar,
BROKERAGE, REAL ESTATES, INSURANCE.
St. Clair Street, Georgia-Home Building,
next to western Union Tele
graph Office.
Land Warrants Bought.
REITF.B, JBT PKMIWSIOK,
To Banks of this city.
feb‘26 tf
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