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BY D. B. FREEMAN. ~r fr— ~ ' A MAID EX'S THOUGHT. BY ISO A VOROING. A maiden young, and lithe, and fan*, Before her mirror Blands; And swiftly braids her silken hair, In smooth and glistening bands; Then sudden stops, with earnest gaze, She scans the answering face, As if she’d read some secret there “And her own future trace. In mu rnnirsjsoft, and sweet, and low, These questions of herself she aslts: “Is it true, that bright dreams fade, Still the brightest e’er the fleetest? That loving hearts Hre oft betrayed, By those whose words been the sweetest ? “Oh ! can it be that I’ll grow old, Ugly, wrinkled and forlorn? Oh ! mil it be that hearts grow cold Whicb seem so fond in youth’s bright morn ? “Will I, too, brush the silvered hair Back from a sad and furrowed brow. Which in my youth is smooth and fair, And a bears^novttrace of sorrow' now? “Oh ! can it be ? I cannot think Of sucb a fate as this for me ; That I of such a*cup must drink,^ And yet —and yet—oh !it may be. _____ ••If then, ’tie true, and come they must These sad, sad changes unto me; Tkuow in w horn to put my trust, He’ll make m.r life what it should be. AN ARKANSAS DUEL. The Legislature of Arkansas held a session shortly after the organization of the Blate government. Everything ot course, waß in a condition of halt-cha otic transition. The “loaves and fishes" of office had not yet been fully divided, and monopoly was knocking noisily at the door of the “public crib,” clamor ous to be admitted. Intense was the fury of partizans within the house, and as fierce the excitement raging in the community without. The members mostly went to their places armed to the teeth, and, besides the choice of weapons, worn in their bosoms, or pro truding from their pockets, each kept an ample supply of revolving pistols in the writing desk before him. There were munitions of war enough in the hall to have answered the purposes of a small army. Every evening after adjournment, there was a general firing off and re loading in order to have their “tools” of death in prime condition for the emer gencies of the morrow. [ was fre quently startled from sleep at the hour of midnight, by the roar of incessant explosions, heard' fit different points in the city. Many legislators also during the day would be out practicing to learn the difficult ait of cutting a tape string at ten paces, or ot driving the center out of a silver quarter, at twelve The* used as their pisdol gallery a little grove of tine trees, immediately on the south bank of the Arkansas river, and and not more than fifty yards from the State house, where every report was fearfully audible; and admonished cer tain independent members of the doom they might expect, provided their votes were not cast in favor of the banks ! The derringer pistol and the bowie* knife governed. Power resided in gun powder ; and popular.ty hovered around the points of naked daggers. Among the most agitating measures, calling into exercise the wisdom of the western sages, was the institution of the real estate bank. Its establishment was strongly and steadily, but ineffect ually opposed by a slender minority All the wealthiest men in the State, all the leading legislators took shares of its capital stock ; and John Wilson, Speak er of the lower House, was elected President. As this person was one of the chief actors in the tragedy, soon to be recorded, a brief designation of his appearance and character becomes nec essary. Every public man in the backwoods had a sobriquet, bestowed on account of some real or fancied peculiarity, by the whimsical humors of his constituents. Speaker Wilson was called “Horse Ears,” from his possessing an accident never before heard of in the natural history of the species. When excited by any violent emotion, his ears worked up and down flexibly, like those of a horse. A man of extraordinary looks, nothing in his features of countenance denoted the desperado, save a strange, wild, twinkling expression of his infan tile grey eyes, always in motion with cold, keeu glances, as if watching out for some secret enemy. He had fought half a dozen duels with uniform suc cess, and had been engaged in several more off-hand affrays, in none of which he had received even the honor of a scar. Hence, as may be well supposed,) his prowess inspired aim ist universal fear ; and few were the dead shots to be found in Arkansas, who would vol untarily seek a quarrel with “old Horse Ears.” As to the rest, ho was the owner of a large cotton farm, rich and influential, honest, liberal, and courte ous in his manners; exceedingly amia ble in his domestic relations, beloved by his family and alored by bis slaves. Such are often the inconsistencies of human nature, which seems utterly in* capable of producing unalloyed types of either good or ev ; l—angels or devils ! During the session, previously, speci fied, there was a member of the lower house, by the naqie of Abel Anthony, in no way remarkable except for his opjMfriuou to tb<e .banks and his sly, quiet wit, addicted to practical jokes. In the parlance of frontier technics, he belonged to the category of “peaceable CaUjoun men,” having never in all his life be-* fore had a moral recounter. He was even deemed a coward, for be had been known to pocket open insults without so much as showing a sign of resent ment. One day the bill to provide 'for the more effectual rewarding of wolf-slay., ers, denominated, in short, “the wolf scalp bill,” came up for discussion.— This had been a standing reform meas ure from the earliest settlemect of Ar‘ kansas, and will probably continue to be so long as the Ozark mountains shall rear their black, bristling crests in the western divisions of the State, or the Mississippi swamps shall occupy so large an area in the east. According ly, whenever the wolf-scalp bill is taken up, a tremendous debate ensues. The contest then is no longer between the ins and outs of power. Whigs and Democrats alike overleap the iron* lines of party demarkation, and begin a general massacre of chancemedley.— It is a battle—war to the knife, and the knife to the handle—of every member against every other, the object being, as to who shall urge the most annihilating statutes against their com. mon foes, the wolves, because that is the great pivot question on which hinges the popularity of each and all. The present occasion was the more arousing, as there had happened lately a laughable, but most annoying in stance in fraud of the previous territo ■ rial law. It seems that a cunning yankee, fresh from the land growing “wooden nutmegs” had conceived a no table scheme of rearing wolves of his own; so that by butchering a hairy whelp, at his option, and taking its ears to a Justice of the Peace, he could ob tain a certificate of “wolf scalp,” enti tling him to ten dollars out of the county treasury. It was said that this enterprising genius had already in his pe us a number of fine locking breeders and expressed sanguine hopes of soon realizing a handsome fortune ! Numerous were the provisions advo" cated to prevent such scandalous eva* sions in future. Among others. Brown C. Roberts, of Marion, moved “that each certificate of a genuine wolf-scalp be based on not less than four affida vits, and be signed by at least four Justices, and one Judge of the Circuit Court. Abel Anthony moved to amend by adding, “and by the Pres’dent of the real state bank.” This was intended by the mover merely as a jest, to tbrw.w ridicule on the complicated machinery of Roberts’ bill, and accordingly it excited a gen,, eral smile. But very different was the effect op Mr. Speaker Wilson, Presi dent of the r< al estate bank. He saw fit to interpret tho amendment as the deadliest insult! I glanced towards tho honorable Chairman, expecting to see him enjoy ing the joke ; but the moment I beheld his countenance, I was absolutely horn rified at its savage expression. His face was of ashy paleness ; and there on those thin, white lips, as if in dev ilish mockery of malice, sat that grim, snake-like, writhing smile, which mere ly moved the curled mouth, spreading no further, nor effecting any other fea ture —that significant smile of murder, so peculiar to almost the whole class of desperadoes, when about to do some deed of death. There was, however, brief space for speculation as to physi ognomic signs ; for hardly had the of fensive words loft Anthony’s lips, when Wilson sprang to his feet and imperi ously ordered the other to sit down. Anthony, manifesting no token of either surprise or alarm, replied.mildly, that he was entitled to the floor. “Sit down !” Wilson repeated, and this time in a voice like thunder. “I am entitled to the floor and will not resign it,” said Anthony, appa rently without anger, but. giving back a look of calm, immovable resolu tion. Speaker Wilson then left the chair, drew his bowie-knife, descended the steps of the platform, and slowly and deliberately advanced through the hall some forty feet, in the direction of his foe—all the while that ghastly, horrid smile, coiling up his pallid lips, and his ears moving backwards and forwards, with those strange, short, sharp vibra tions which had won for him long before the nick name of “Horse Ears.” As Anthony was commonly consid ered a coward, when the spectators be held the far-famed and all°dreaded duelist advancing upon him with upi lilted blade, glancing aloft in the air, as ready for the fatal blow, all supposed the reputed craven would flee in terror from his place. No one believed that he was armed, or that he would fight under any circumstances, or with any odds of position or weapons. But in this opinion everybody was mistaken, and no one, perhaps, more than his in furiate adversary- While that ferocious man was coming towards him, he stood calm aud motionless as a pillar of mar ble. His color did not change one shade. All his limbs were rigid as iron. His only evidence of unusual emotion was a copiou* efflux of tears ! At the sight of this we all shuddered, for we knew ttie weeper would conquer or pe isb. lu the backwoods experi ence has demonstrated two unmistaka ble tokens of thorough desperation frozen smiles and hoUgushed tears ; and tears may always be regarded as far the most dangerous. Such a conclusion was verified fully in the present in stance ; for as soon as the Speaker ap proached within’ten feet qt his weep ing enemy, tho latter suddenly un sheathed a bowie-knife from his bosom, aud stepped boldly forward to the prof- CALHOUN, GA„ SATURDAY, JANUARY 27. 1877, fered battle. And then commenced a struggle for life and death, the most obstinate, bloody and frightfully pro„ traded ever witnessed in the south west. Wilson’s knife was long, and keen, and so highly polished that you might see yourself in the reflection of its smooth, bright surface, as in the most perfect looking-glass The image bo-* ing an extremely small miniature, so symmetrical was the rounding of the fine glittering steel. On each side of the flashing blade was a picture, the fac simile of the other, wrought in exo quisite gold enamel, of two Indians in their wild, native oostume engaged in mortal combat mek bewie knives. The weapon of Anthony was ono of the largest size of the c’ass, called in that country, “Arkansas tooth-picks,” the most murderous implement of de struction, before which a human foe ever quailed. Oq one side of its broad gleaming blade was the picture of a fight betwixt a hunter and a black bear. The bear seemed to be squeezing the man to death in its iron hug, while he was fiercely digging at the monster’s heart with the point of his knife. Such devices are common on the arms of the most notorious desperadoes on the frontiers, and are the object of as intense a pride co their owners, as were the insignia of the most exalted chiv alrv to the knights of the heroic ages. For all men are poets; and the idea seeks forevermore to render himself in carnate in the material form—to speak in knowing signs to the senses. De structiveness will have its image as well as its devotion. Wilson made the first pass, a dbter mined thrust aimed at the pit of his antagonist’s stomach, while the other dexterously parried. For a time both parties fought with admirable coolness, and with such consumate skill, that only slight wouhds were inflicted, and those in the head and face, whence blood began to trickle freely. And still— minous and awful visions—while the contest raged, the opposite and charac teristic signs of desperation remained fixed, sculptured by the hand of horri ble vengeance in either countenance. — The cold smile, now converted into a fiendish grin of immeasurable malice, still lingered on Wilson’s livid lips; and the tears still flowed, mingling now with warm bloed from Anthony’s black blaz'ng eyes ! The clatter of the knives, thrusting and fending off, and sharply ringing against each other was hideous to hear, aud alone broke the silence that reigned throughout the hall. At length, both foes, maddened at the prolonged -obstinacy of the strug\ gle, and blinded by the gore from the red gashes about their eyes, lost all caution, coolness and equanimity, and battled wildly more like devils than living men. Each one more intent on taking the life of his enemy than in guarding his own, exerted every nerve and muscle with a truculent fury that struck the very beholdeis with icy fear. Both parties were soon severely wound ed in different parts of the body ; but still there came no pause in the com bat, till Anthony, striking a heavy, overhanded blow, cut his adversary’s arm half off at tli3 wrist S Wilson changed his bowie-knife into his left hand, and, for an instant, ran several steps backwards, as if to decline any further contest. He then stopped, aud smiling more frightfully than ever—a fearless infernal 100k —again rushed forward. Previously, at this crisis, when certain victory was within his grasp, Anthony committed the folly of flinging his knife at the other’s bosom, which, missing its aim, fell with a loud ringing on the floor, more than thirty feet distant This error decided the tremendous combat. Anthony was en> tirely disarmed and at the mercy of the tiger-man. Wilson darted upon him with a hoarse cry of anger and hellish joy—there, powerless to resist, aD*i yet too brave to fly. One sharp thrust ripped open the victim’s bowels, and he caught them as they were falling, in his hands ! Another stroke, directed at the neck, severed the main artery, aud the blood spouted out with a gurg ling noise, sprinkling th ll robes, and even the faces, of some members who sat nearest the horrid scene. The last act of the tragedy was closed and the curtain of death drop ped on the stage. Anthony without a groan or a sigh, fell in his place, a corpse, and Wilson, fainting from loss of blood, sunk down beside him. Up to this moment, although sixty legislators were in their seats, and more than a hundred lookers on in the lobby, and jeweled bevies of bright-eyed la dies in ihe gallery, still no one, save those raging mad men, had moved; no sound had disturbed the whisperless si lence, but the clangors of their coucus sive steel. But then, as both tumbled on the floor, like lumps of lead, a single wild, wailing heart shivering shriek as if some other soul was parting with its mortal clay, arose in the crowd of fe males, and all was again still ; but whether that deep cry of an orphaned spirit was uttered by the maiden of poor Anthony’s bosom, who had hoped to-morrow to be his bride, or by the beautiful little daughter of W ilsou, or by some pitying stranger could never be ascertained. Wilson recovered, and is yet alive ; and there is scarcely an inch square on his face that docs not show its deep scar, as a memento of the matchless combat. He was expelled from the house; bailed by a merciful Judge, brought to trial, and acquitted. There was never a jury yet in the backwoods that would couvicta por&ou for slaying another in a fair fight! For the de<. perado is the backwoods’ hero whom all men worship. BLACK HILLS ATROCITIES. A Volley Fired iuto a Tent inll of Sleeping Men—A Plucky Mail Carriers Gallant Fight. Custer Citv, (Black Hills),Dec. 25, 1876 —The past week has been prolific of Indian demonstrations,the first since the 9th qf September last, when four men were surprised while asleep upon the very spot where your correspondent’s tent now stands, murdered, and their bodies horribly mutilated. Tuesday night last a freight train, consisting of four fourhorse teams and five men, on their way from Cheyenne to Custer with flour and grain, encamped on Indian Creek, a little stream noted for its dangerous surroundings, twenty-five miles south of here. The wagons were corralled, the mules turned out to graze, and the men, grown reckless by the months of quie tude that had prevailed,went to sleep in their tent without posting a guard. The night was bitter cold, and as the last ray of light from the young moon disappeared, a dozen Cheyennes, return ing from their defeat at the hands of Gen McKenzie,and embittered thereby, silently crawled upon the sleepers, and when in a distance of five feet from the tent, poured a volley of pistol shots into the canvas. Thus suddenly aroused fiom slumber, the men were completely at the mercy of their vindictive foes.— Volley after volley rained upon thejteam ster&;two of them were killed at the first fire. The other three miraculously es caped, and by making a wide detour, succeeded in reaching Hot Creek, dis tant six miles at midnight. A squad of soldiers, augmented by civilians, at once hastened to the locality, and found the corpses of B. 0. Stephens of Salt Lake and a German Darned “Fritz’’ of Color ado lying in the tent, their bodies liter ally chopped to pieces with a butcher’s cleaver which had been taken from a wagon. The contents of the wagons lay in piles upon the ground,having been emp tied from the sacks,which were missing The wagon boxes had been riddled with bullets,and a large quantity of cartridge shells were scattered over the giound. The Indians and six horses were not to be found. The following day Frank Eclastadt, a pony rider, started from Hot Creek for lied Cloud Agency, with .• heavy mail, and when a short distance out was at_ tacked by probably the same party of Indians, as it numbered eleven warriors with led 1.0 s:s. He galloped to the top of a bluff and at once assumed the ag gressive by opening a well directed fire upon the savages, who circled around him, and with yell and whoop gradually hemmed him in.gnot, however, uutil he had unseated two of the devils. The situation becoming critical,he remount ed his pony and made a dash to break the line, but his horse fell with a fata! bullet wound ere he had half made the distance. Quickly recovering himself, and with a revolver in each hand, the plucky mail can it r continued the charge on foot, and succeeded in breaking through the cordon and escaped to a clump of cottonw od that stood near, strange to relate, unharmed. The In dians did not pursue. The heroic mail carrier continued his trip on foot, and arrived in safety the following evening. Large numbers of Indians were seen on the bluffs around Indian and Hot creeks throughout Wednesday,and late in the afternoon they made a most de termined attempt to stampede the stage stock, which was enclosed in a large corral. The men were well fortified how,* ever, in a “dog fort,’’and repolled every assault, but without inflicting loss upon their assailants, who finally wearied of the sport withdrew. Later in the day the telegraph line w r as cut in several pla ces. Numerous Indian trails have been discovered in various localities since then but no hostile act has been reported The resumption of Indian attacks at this ear'y and urreasonable time ol the year indicates much trouble for miners and freighters the coming spring nd summer, unless the tide ol emigration shall set in strong enough to intimidate the savages. The latter will run no risks if they can help it But driven to the wall, the Indian is desperation personi fied ; he knows no surrender ; he never gives or expects mercy. This trait was well ijlustrated near Deadwood la t sum mer. A couple of prospecters were fired at from the mountains. They started ia pursuit, and while climbing the hill one was killed His companion sighted ti e Indian and fite ’/nflicting as ho;sup posed, a mortal wouud, but to make a sure thing of it fired again, when the savage tumbled over, and the miner re turned to camp. Ihe next day, accom panied by a Methodist minister,be went out to see the ‘'dead Injun. As they were clambering up the acclivity the re port of a rifle was heard, and the minis ter fell a corpse. The miner hastened forward, but ere he could reach his com panion a second report reverberated through the pines, aud the miner also pas ed to his long home. The Indian was subsequently found by miners, with a bullet hoic through both thighs, and another through his right arni; yet, dis abled as he was. he fought to the bitter end, and was passive ouly alter a bullet had traversed his brain. The Cheyenne route was the most dangerous of last vear, it being infested constantly with Uostiles Irom Laramie to Red Canon. Three young men just from the States were passing through Red Canon, when the bluffs on either side suddenly cropped out with Indians. The boys sought alljthe cover they could find, a small rock, it afforded no shelter,and one of the number fell dead, while a second was badly wounded in the shoul der. The third, making a breastwork of his two companions, kept up a fire that the reds could not check. His wounded mate saw a conspicuous spot in the person of a sub-chief.standiug about fifty yards away ; raising himself to his elbow he drew a bead and fired with ef fect, the Indian falling to the ground, writhing in agony. The wounded white boy, interested in the gyrations, raisec, himself still higher, and while watching the dying throes of his enemy reoeived a bullet in his head, and fell back dead. The surviving member of the heroic trio placed one corpse above the other, and thus fortified, maintained his position unharmed 'or five long, weary hours, when a freight wagon arriving the In dians soampered away,leaving sixteen of their number on the field. As it is well known that Indians remove their dead, the number necessarily left behind indi cates that their loss must have been very heavy.—• Correspondence New York Sun. Fritz's Troubles. Fritz has had some trouble with his neighbor. This time he determined to apply to his majesty of the law, and ac cordingly consulted a legal gentleman. “How vas dose tings ?” he said,“Veil a valler’s got a garden, and der odder vallare got some chickens eat ’em up.— Don’t you got some law for dot I” “Some one’s chickens have been de# stroying your garden ?” asked the law yer. “Straw in mine garden ? Nein, it was vegetables.” “And the chickens committed depre. dations on them ?” •‘lsh dot so ?” asked Fritz in astuu ishment. “And you waut to sue him for dani„ age* ?” continued the lawyer. “Yas Gott lor tamages, uod der gab bages and lettuce !” “Did you notify him to keep his chick ens up ?” “Yaas, I did nodify him.” “And what did he say V* “lie nodify me to wipe mino shin off down mine vest,” “Iley ?” Ml chickens, to run at luge ?” “Yaas,some vas large und s-me leedle vallars,but dey bos sgratch mine garden more as der safon dimes idch V' “Well you want to sue him ?” “Yass,l vant to sue hm to make von blank fence up sixteen feed his house all aroundt.vot der chickens don’t got ofer.” The lawyer informed him that he could not compel him to build such a fence, and Fritz left in a rage exclaim 1 io g : “Next summer dime I raise me shick ens too, you bate I raise Aden shickens, by hafens ! Wipe off your vest down.” How the Shrewd Business Mail Tides Over the Hard Times. Times are hard, indeed, and money is scarce ; but merchants and dealers make them a great deal harder and money much scarcer, so far, at least, as they are concerned, by secluding themselves from public gazs, as it were, and failing to use every means within their reach for doing at least a share of what busi ness there is to be done. No matter how hard the times may be,a certain amount of purchasing must be done daily by al most every family; aod the hard er the times the more sharply are buyers looking out for bar gains. Aud a peculiarity of the case is that in period* of great depression a large portion of the 6inall trade is for cash. Business men who fail to adver. tise and thus make known what special inducements they have to offer are there fore certain to be passed by, while their energetic and enterprising competitors are picking up what money there is in circulation. What, would be thought of a former, who, having bought or rented his place, ploughed his fields and sowed his seed, would sullenly re fuse to gather his crop because the yield happened to be lighter than usual, when, indeed, there was all the more necessity for gathering what there might be ? Yet that is precisely the attitude in which a business man places himself when he fails to advertise be cause uiony is scarce and business dull. Washington Star. Ills One Bequest. —Brother Gard oet, the colored philosopher, got into a row at the market yesterday, he not on ly had the worst end of tho fight, but was walked io the station. “Can’t dis yere truble be settled for a million dollars?” he anxiously inquired cf the Captain. “No ; you will have to be locked up,” was the answer. “Dere is no escape for me eh ?” “None. Those who enter here must leave a’l hope behind ” “Well sah,’’sighed the old man“dere’s one favor dat I want to request of you. If dat Jones,who got up the tight,comes down heah to gloat over my misfortunes as he will,doan’ you let him io. It’s bad nuff to be kicked in the stummick and hit ou de ear widout de victorious par ty cornin' down heah, lookin’ through the burs, an’ cablin’ out, “Behold the mangled remans of Brudder Gardner.” Just keep dat man away.'— Detroit Free Press. Western & Atlantic Railroad. AND ITS CONNECTIONS. ‘ * KENNESA W RO VTE.” The following takes effect may 23d, 1875 Northward. No.i. Leave Atlanta 4.10 p.m Arrive Cartersviile 6.14 4 ‘ •* Kingston 6.42 “ “ Dalton 8.24 “ “ Chattanooga 10.25 “ No. 3 Leave Atlanta 7.00 a.m Arrive Cartersviile 9.22 ~ “ Kingston 9.56 •* “ Dalton 11.54 “ Chattanooga 1.56 p.m No. 11. Leave Atlanta 3,30 p.m Arrive Cartersviile 7.19 “ “ Kingston 8.21 “ “ Dalton 11.18 “ SOUTHWARD. No. 2. .eave Chattanooga 4.00 p.m \rrive Dalton 5.41 “ “ Kingston 7,28 “ “ Cartersviile 8.12 “ “ Atlanta 10.15 “ No. 4. I enve Chattanooga 5.00 a.m ri ive Dalton 7.01 " “ Kingston..... 9.0', ‘ “ Cartersviile 9.42 “ “ Atlanta 12 0G *\m No. 17. I .'ate Dalton 1.00 a.m Ari e Kingston 4.19 *• Cartersviile 5.18 “ '* Atlanta 9.20 “ ull nan Palace Oars run o:i Nos. 1 and 2 oci vee i New Orleans and Faltimore. 1 ullman Palace Cars run en Nos. 1 and 4 .et\.een Atlanta and Nashvilic. 1 ullm m Palace Cars run on Nos. 2 and 3 itweer Louisville and Atlanta. No change of cars between New Or lears, A ibile, Montgomery, Atlanta and Baltimore, and only one change to New York. P i sseng irs leaving .Atlanta at 4 10 p. m., arri\e in New York the second afternoon ther after at 4.00. Excursicn tickets to the Virginia springs and various summer resorts will be on sale in N w Orleans, Mobile, Montgomery, Co lumbus, Macon, Savannah, Augusta and At lanta, at gieatly reduced rates, first of June. Parties desiring a whole car through fo he \ irgima Springs or Baltimore, should address the undersigned. Pa' ties contemplating travel should send for a copy of the Kennesaw Route Gazette, conta ning schedules, etc. Ask for Tickets via “ Kennesaw outc.” B. W. WRENN, G. P. & T. A., Atlanta, Ga. Rome Railroad — Schedule . ON AND AFTER MARCH Ist, the evening train (except Saturday evening), on this road will be discontinued. The trains will run as follows: MORNING TRAIN. Leaves Rome dailj at 7:00 a. m. Return to Rome at 12 in. SATURDAY ACCOMMODATION. Leaves Rome (Saturday only) at 6:45 p. m. Return to Rome at ...9:00 p. m. The evening train at Rome will make elope connection with S. R- & D. R. R. train North and South, and at Kingston with W. & A. R. R. train South and East. C. M. PENNINGTON, CenT Sup’t. JNO. E. STILLWELL, Ticket Agent. THE SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS For 1877. On the first of January, 1877, the Morn ing News enters upon its twenty-seventh volume, and, it is hoped by the conductors, upon a prosperous year. 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