The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-02-07
MATTERS IN GEORGIA.

TIE POLITICAL. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF THE
CArpET-BAG GovERNOR-GIST OF HIS MES
SAGE.
It ia said that Governor Bullock and his CO.
conspirators have gone to Washington toinduce
CONGRESS to take such action as will secure a
thorough overhauling of oil the Georgia State
officers, and another election for United States
senators.
Our Georgia exchanges areIaden with long
and dull message from Bullock to the Legisla-
ture. 1t is made up mainly of extracts from
the Reconstruction acts, and military orders
promulgated for the enforcement of those
acts. He does not fail 70 utter the stereotyped
ISLANDERS against those who, through force,
fraud and corruption, he claims to represent.
The milk In this seven column cocoanut Is
found in the paragraph relating to the tenure
of the officers of the State government, and
the members of the Legislature and senator's
Bullock wants to throw Angler and some of
his own Judges out of Office, and retain his
present subSeryient lacqneys in the Legisa-
lure, 10 carry out, without hesitation or ques-
tIon, his illegal and corrupt schemes. Hill and
Miller, Joe Brown and Warner. are in his way,
and he insists upon their removal.
SALES OF REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY.
The Augusta, Columbus and Savannah pa
pers report the usual monthly sales in those
cities, on Tuesday. In Savannah, th:rty-scvcn
shares of the Schoiicld Rolling Mill Company,
Atlanta, par value Sl00 each, sold for $75. Ten
shares Atianta and Gulf Railroad, Banbridgc
Extension bonds, par value 800 each. sold for
SD 25 ccnis.' Thirty shares Georgia Home In
sllrancc Company, Columbus, Ga, par value
SEQ per share, sold for s32 per share. Central
Railroad shares, Sis; Southwestern Railroad
shares, 500 50. Six and three-quartcr acres OF
land, four miles from the city, brought 50 %
per acre. In Columbus one hundred and thir-
- NToi,;t nnt1 Dnil
old issue, 500 shares sold for SIT IS per share.
Several lots of land were sold at prices ranging
from s. to S35 per acrc-the latter price be-
ing paid for LOG acres, two and a-half miles
from the city, with q ten room house on It.
The Dalton hotel. worth $25, 600, was sold on
Tuesday, for 81 900, much less than IT would
have brought six months ago: In Augusta
drawn on sale day. Richmond County lands-a
few lots-sold for from So to S. per acre. The
car factory in Augusta, brought $1,000. Horses
and mules brought from sl9to SITS.
ALL ABOUT TIE STATE.
The exodus from Northern Georgia is still
going on.
There will soon be four factories in Cobb
County, the fourth being almost ready to COM
mence operations.
Thirteen hundred tons Of guano were ship
ned from Savannah on Saturday last, via the
Central Railroad, lOr dlstrlDullon among pail
tcrs.
Mr.. Levy has disposed of his entire colec-
ton of oil paintings in Atlanta. two gentlemen
alone purchasing $4,000 worth for their private
parlors.
a Protestant gentleman in Savannah, whose
name Is not given, recently made a donation
of $4,000 to the Sisters of Mercy for the benefit
of the orphan girls under their care,
The Savannah papers mention that con-
tractor of the Gulf Railroad, by the name of
George +. Mercer, was thrown from the cars
near Station No. !, and run over He was
horribly manglcd, and must have died in
stantly. The Republican gives q rumor that
Mercer was murdered Short distance from
the railroad, and the body placed on The track.
The reason for this suppositon is said to be
that pool of blood was discovered near the
place where his body was found, and the infer
ence is that the murdererS placed The body on
the track for the purpose Of conccallng the
crime.