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70 Rent.

70 Rent.
THREE BRICK STORES, on Assembly
Il street, near tho Market-one fitted ND az
\ Saloon aud Restaurant. Aleo, tho STORE
on Main street, now occupied by T.. M. Ma
than crockery storo. Apply to
Jan 80 X. l. W. @. .SWAFFIELD
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Planting Potatoes.
TOO BARRELS PLANTING POTATOES.
lOC consisting Of EARLY ROSE, GOOD.
htCti and PINK EYE, just received, and for
sale low, by JOHN AGNEW & SON.
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james Jackson, Of Bsnks County, Ga,
died on tue 26.h day of Noycn nber, aged
ll5 years, having been born in ualifh x,
va, IN l75S. He left Il wifo aged ITO.
The Richmond Enquirer says the
Slamese autopsy will bo triumph in
the science of zoology.
afr. D. L. Ddrisoc has sevcrcd his
connection with the EdseGeld -4drer-
iSer.
The hotel a: Union Point, Ga, has
been destroyed by fire.
Mrs Charlotte Hodges. Of Sumter,
died last Saturday.
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Gas Bills for January.
tONSUMERS arc hereby notified that
~ their BILLS for the month of January
arc now ready, and prompt payment is re-
qnired. j. LEVIN.
Febi Sec, Col. Gas.Iipbt Co
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Notice. r"
"A LII persons indebted to, mo, either by
"A note or open account, will please cali
and settle the same by the 18Th mat II not
the hands OF an attorney for collection. I
am compelled to raise money to pay NV
Northern creditors, who are pressing for
payment. Necessity, therefore, compeis me
70 call on all who are indebted to me to come
and settle up. A. PALMER,
Feb )
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Potatoes, Potatoes, Potatoes,
IUST received, lot OF the, above. for
planting and table use; also, fresh
COUNTRY BUTTER always on hand. which
can be had low for cash, at the Columbia Ice
House. u. RATEMAN Ioant
Fob 5
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ACbGuSCS
merican Matters.
DAMAGE by F1ooD-CHURoH CONVENTION
DEATHS OF PROMINENT MRN-THE MA
TIoNAL GRANGE-THE sIAMEsR TWINS
TO BE DIssECTED AT TRIM
DAD-DEsrRUorIyE FIRES, WITH LOSS
OF LIFE-HeAvY DEFALoATroNs, ETC.
NEW York, February 4.-Judge Bone
diet, to-day, held Messrs. Van Worken
and Sanborn to bail in $4,000 in each
OF the alleged frauds on the revenue do
partment. The trial takes place on the
first Wednesday in March.
Captain A. H. W. Gill, ex.depnty tax
collector of Brooklyn, has not nbscond.
ed. He gave bonds in $4,000, to-day,
for his appearanca.
OswEao, N. Y, February 4.-The
Hood at Fulton continues without abate.
! ment. Five houses have been removed
Afrom their foundations, and would have
: loated into the river had it ct been for
he trees. The force Of She current is
Very strong. Taylor Brothers work
shop is inundated. nearly four feet Of
water being in their work rooms, The
paper mills have stopped.
PITTsDURG, Pa, February 4.-Tbe
Annual Convention Of the Nationa, Re.
form Association met at o o'olook, TO-DAY.
in Lincary Church. An immense audi.
ence was present, embracing delegates
from sTosy State in tho Union and rep
resentatives of oil evangelical denomi-
nations. The only Soutbcraor among
the officers arc Joseph lowers, of Flo.
rida-one of tho Vice Presidents.
GUnDFoRD, Me-, February 5.-The
house of j. Wharf was burned last
night. Himself, wife and son wero
burned to death.
MEMPHIS, February 5.-Baker & Bar.
toms oil works were burned to day.
ST. LOUIS, February 5.-The seventh
annual session of the National Grange
OF Patrons of Husbandry, convened in
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For Sale,
GIrY COUPONS. at a discount-re
~ Tor taxes at par. Apl'yt to
Fob II D. QAMBRILL Broker
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,.
dent is reported to hayo occurred on the
Chicago and Northwest Railroad, near
Howard. Ill. No particulars havo been
received.
ST.. Louis. February 5.-Last nights
session OF the National Grange was en-.
tirely taken up with discussion as to
parliamentary rules for the governm mt
of subordinate oranges. It has been
decided by the State agents of the order.
now here, to leave the question of CO.
operation entirely to tho National
Grange, with view to having consti-
tutlonnl provision made for it. This
will defer the matter for another year,
as amendments to the constitution must
bo ratified by two.thirds of the State
Oranges before they take effect.
WASHINGTON. February 5.--The
House spent most OF the days session
on the army appropriation bill, bnt did
not finish it. a bill extending the time
IN which to complete a railroad in Lou
lsiann from the Texas State line to the
Mississippi River, opposite Vicksburg,
was reported by Morey, from tho Com
mlttee on Public Lands, and was sent to
the Committee of the Whole.
In the Senate. Vests bill to improve
the mouth of the Mississippi, as passed
by the Senate, directs the Secretary OF
War to assume full control over the par
ticular channel at the mouth of tho
Mississippi River, in the course OF ex.
cavation or improvement by the Govern.
ment of tue United States, SO far al
may be necessary to the carrying on
and protection of such excavation aud
improvement, and until the same be
completed.
There was long discussion ovor tho
bankrupt bill. Carpenters bill to re-.
store the rights OF the State of Louisi.
ana commences with long preamble,
declaring that there is no Governor.
The Grange advance., 1874-09-23
Child Abduction I'm Vvinona.

A little child ten years of age, named
Lilly Douglas was abducted from Wi
mona Wednesday. The child was q
daughter of David Stillwell. When
two and half years of age, her mother
having died, she was given to Mrs. Asa
Douglas, sister of the mother, Stillwell
agreeing to furnish $75 year for the
first five years, and 800 a year for the
next five years to supply the child with
clothing, ETC., but has only partially
fulfilled his contract. Tuesday last
Stillwell reached Winona with an older
daughter, and called on Mrs. Douglas,
giving her small amount of money.
The next day the older daughter &C.
companied Lilly to school, and in the
afternoon Stillwell called at the school,
,got the two children, went Immediately
to the depot and took the train for
Wisconsin. Mrs. Douglas was inform.
ed ofwhat had taken place by note
from Stillwell, but too late to oppose
legal or other objections. Mrs. Doug
las is represented as,almost frenzied by
her loss, as she had come to look upon
the child s.her' own: Legal steps have
been tlken to secure its return. !
The Grange advance., 1874-09-23
DIED OF 4 BROKEN HEART.
A Revenue Defalcation and an As-
sassfsaati0n...A Receipt Not
SiGued.

Washington Dispatch to the Boston Post.
In an effort of the bondsmen of a de-
faulting Internal Revenue Collector to
obtain q new trial, that the judgment
against them may be set aside, the. de-
tails of one of the most remarkable of
defalcations have been brought to light.
In 1857 Davis B. Bonfeoy was Collector
for the Fourth Texas District, head.
quarters at Marshall. One of his dep.
uties, stationed at Jefferson, an ex-Con-
federate, BY some means got about
$4,000 behind in his accounts. Bon
feoy went in person to jefferson to Sc
cure settlement, and after wrangling
for some time the deputy drew his
revolver (the two were alone in
the deputy's ot1ice), and presenting it
told Bonfeoy he wonld kill him unless
he Bonfeoy) would consent to sign q
receipt in full for the missing $4,000.
To gain time Bonfeoy consented, and
asked the deputy to draw up the re-
ceipt. Before he had written half Of it
Bonfeoy shot him and he died instantly
The civil authorities at once arrested.
Bonfeoy and threw him into jail. That
night Bonfeoy's house was entered and
his wife was murdered. This turned
the tide in Bonfeoy's favor, and after a
delay Of . day or two he was released
onlbail. -. -! L.
On his way home he passed the new
made grave Of his wife, when his emo
ton so overcame him that he fell faint.
ing to the ground: In twenty -four
hours he was = corpse, having died of a
broken heart. Some time subsequent
to his arrest the military authorities
took possession Of his safe, ard break.
ing it open found sos, 600, which was
$4,000 less than there should have
been init. For three years the Internal
Revenue Bureau strove to get matters
straight, and ascertain on whom the re-
sponsibility for the defalcation ought to
rest. NOS. gg.s!. 9sf:s zGfls =. Il
Finally. in 1871, Supervisor Yarvan
was put on the case, and after three
months hard work he solved .it, and
found by indisputable proofs that the
money was allthere when Bpnfeoy died,
andthat It had been stolen ~ Bonfsoy,s
deputies. On this suit was instituted
against Bopfeoy sibondsinen, and by i
l1ecision INsn 4 dsK Ksmolth5 40 . iiudt1s
!! = = & Z - el tl6s &
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amount of the bond, $4,000. This
judgment they now ask to have set
aside. They do not dispute that the
forfeiture is legal, but claim that equity
entities them to relief. 1t is probable
that the solicitor will decline to agree
to new trial, when they will make
their appeal to Congress-.
The Grange advance., 1874-09-23

,,<-..ts,s yyT
toned to amuse herself at Plymouth
Church by taking down in shorthand,
which art she was then studying, the
brighter thoughts Of Beecher as deliv.
cred from the pulpit. After she had
made large collection, some of her
friends suggested to her their
PUBLICATION IN BOOK FORM.
She spoke to Mr.. Beecher on the sub.
ject, and he made no objection. provided
she would confine herself to extracts of
ten lines, arguing that q reprint of his
sermons would injure his publishers,
whereas these extracts from them would
not. Miss Proctor published small
volume, which she entitled "Life
Thoughts, by Henry Ward Beecher.
edited by Edna Dean Proctor.
The book had an unexpected sale, and
Miss Proctor realized several thousand
dollars in a few months. That this
sum was realized is known from the
fact that Gordon L. Fcrd. now one of
her bondsmen in the suit against
Moulton, invested the mo,ey for her in
Brooklyn real estate, which she still
holds. Miss Proctor, gratifed with her
success, spent some time in the next
two or three years in collecting the
thoughts of Beecher as they fell from
his lips in Plymouth pulpit, and was
prepared to
PUBLISH ANOTHER VOLUME
when there suddenly appeared a book
by Miss Augusta Moore, purporting to
give the best thoughts Of Beecher, as
uttered in Plymouth pulpit, and which
had the written endorsement Of Mr..
Beecher as to their correctness. Miss
Proctor at once jumped to the conclu-
sion that Mr.. Beccher had grossly
wronged her. She imagined she had a
claim, from having published previous
book, to issue Mr.. Beecher's "Life
Thoughts from time to time, as occa.
sion or profit induced her, and felt very
much aggrieved that Mr.. Beecher
should indorse anybody else; thereup.
on she
and he replied, in his usual gushing
style, in letter Of nine or ten pages,
in which there was much quotation
from Scripture and a great deal dubious
meaning, but which, taken as whole,
convinced Miss Proctor that she had
been unjust to MIR. Beecher in her first
supposition, and 20 the matter ended.
Years afterward, Mr.. Beecher, wishing
to protect himself at all points, obtained
from Miss Proctor retraction or cer-
tificate of good conduct, which has
already been published in Moulton's
statement. You have plenty of wit
nesses who are sure the facts were rep.
resented directly to Moulton, but the
truth is they were represented to him
through Franklin Woodruff, and he did
not choose to regard them, and hence
the suit.
THE GRAPHIC SUED PoR LIBEL.
A suit for 100000 is brought by
Miss Proctor against the Daily Graph.
&c. Papers in this case have not been
made out, but will Immediately follow
those in Moultoh's case. 1t is not gen.
orally known that in suing the Graphic
Miss Proctor sues Benjamin F. Butler
and B. F. Jayne, formerly special
agent of the Treasury. When the en-
terprise was originally started Butler
and Jayne ag. eed to take two. thirds of
the stock, and the Goodsells represent
tn EN- and their own interests in the
concern. A very lively time is antici-
pated.
The Grange advance., 1874-09-23
Northern Ohio Fair.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 1.-THE d.
rectors Of the Northern Ohio Fair AS
sociation decided to-day to keep the
fair open until next T lesday night, in
consequence of the bad weather Of the
last two days. There will be no races
to-day, the track being too heavy, but
the races will be taken up in regular
order tomorrow and continued from
day to day until Tuesday.
The Grange advance., 1874-09-23

Z, ANEW mail route has been establish
ed between Winnebago City snd st.
James. Four new ss1:ices will be es.
tablished on the route. q:
a crr1zEx of Chatfield, Olmsted coun-
81, = said sto be in need 81. s new new cost.
he foil INTO The clutches 81 j. Jealous.
husband list ,ThursdaY, md doessrnui''t Pr.
E1lHs LsfsssssI
The Grange advance., 1874-09-23

IN 7. Special (Sept. l6) Chicago Tribune. ]
The arrest of Moulton on 4 suit OF
Edna Dean Proctor will probably take
place in day or two The papers
were to have been done to-day, but the
lady's attorneys were unable, from q
press of business, to get them ready.
The suit is based on . law of this State
which allows the plaintiff, although not
named, to bring suit in the event of any
of the facts being sufficiently clear to
indicate the plaintiff as one Of the par
ties implicated. Moultcn took care not
to mention Miss Proctor's name, but in
this matter he mistook the law, and it
is said that this mistake is based on ad-
vice Of Ben. Butler. The facts in dis.
Pute between
BEEcHER AND MISS PROCTOR
are said to have been represented to
Moulton, but this is an error. All the
documentary evidence in the case was
read I'd Franklin Woodruff, who is
Moulton's 8 senior in the firm of Wood.
ruff & Robinson, and he was convinced
thereby, that Moulton's idea of the re.
lations between Beecher and Miss Proc
tor: were enormously stated in the
interview'ofe Henry NJ. Smith, and in
the reports which have been generally
circulated. Woodruff went to Moulton
and told him Whist he had learned, but
Moultoni declinedfto accept that expla-
nation. and said that he was satisfied
from Beecher's 8 own statements that
his own account was the true one.
noulton' g former Attorney Sam. D.
Norris, proposes to bring forward sew.
eral witnesses to whom - ~. .gj.a Il J
|i3oszf BEEcHER CONFESSED ,sas" : ~.
that he had been guilty With Miss Proc.
/ tor precisely 8 Moulton stated, =
Miss Proctor IS ! iady about 48 years
| Of age. Of very considerable talents,
and tof many years vas gEoyertnress s. s.
tie family ~ Henry 81 g. BoNsnn. While
lassy q = II J q s 3 = !.
The Grange advance., 1874-09-23
Moulteaa Sued for Libel.

New YORK, Sept. 18.-Papers have
been filed in the q. S. Circuit Court of
Brooklyn, in the case Of Edna Dean
Proctor against Francis D. Moulton and
q formal order of suit served.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-10-15
The StOrY OF a Trunk.

A trunk was taken through Dallas,
Texas, the other day, among the bag
gage on the Central train going north,
that has travelled some. The owner
left Boston, Mass, a month ago, for the
purpose of going to Charleston, S. c.,
hirecting his trunk to be forwarded to
nm. At Baltimore he changed his
diind, aud started for Cincinnati, tele-
graphing TO Charleston to have his
trunk sent to him at Cincinnati. At tthe
latter place he was called to Louisville.
and sent word when the trank reached
Cincinnati TO "put it through" 70 Lou.
isville. at Louisville he went to st.
Louis, and directed that active lecepta-
Gle to be whacked through to the latter
place. At st. Louis the trunk was so
much behind that he had to leave for
Memphis without it, but told his friends
in st. Louis not to forget to hurry
along that nice young trunk to Mem
phis. Out of Memphis ne went, but
loOp-holed an old pard, and says, " My
covey, don't forget to send my trunk to
Key West" At Key West he had gay
old time, Notwithstanding he was dis
patched to 'sget out of that" sooner than
he expected, and so the trunk was again
behind. Still, says he to an army Off
Ger down there, tive got trunk, cap.
that's been following me around infer
nally lively, but it hasn't caught me yet
Oblige "a high private in the rear ranks,
by sending that Saratoga knapsack to
Mobile" at Mobile the proprietor of
that trunk found carte blanche from
his employer IN Boston to ego west,
young man" Then his trunk didn't
come, and he thought he'd start for
Cheyenne or Eagle Ford (in either of
which places if he had been born he
could have been President of the Uni
ted States or married the queen of the
Sandwich Islands), but after the pro-
foundest reflection he thought best to
get off at the most romantic wOod-pile
In the Indian territory, and hunt the
storied squaw. The trunk that passed
Dallas, yesterday, will reach him there,
perhaps, Ia lavender kids, tie like a
beacon fire, and dressed like DisraeE in
his dandiest days, make the territory
tremble for its safety, and finally force
it to apply to be admitted as a state in
the union.
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Ecclesiastical DRAGONS.

Moncure D. Conway, writing of the
old cathedral of st. Vuifrau at Able
vile, France, says f'There are in the
church two figures Of ST. George slay-
ing the dragon, one of st. Marguerite
with her foot on the dragon, and yet an
other of st. Michael with a sword flash
ing over the PROSTATE arch-fend. / ex-
amined these dragons very carefully
for a special reason. The dragon being
a fabulous beast, some tourists have i'm
agined that it may be a traditional rep
resentation, derived from the earliest
races of men, of some of the extinct
monsters known TO the paleontologist.
Now, NJ. Boucher de Perthes discOv-
cred in this very neighborhood the
fossil man along with the remains of
those very extinct monsters. Nay, he
discovered thirty or forty feet down In
the earth a number of fiints. which had
evidently been rudely carved to repre-
sent such animals rs antediluvian man
saw around him. But ] cannot say /
saw any resemblance between the eocle-
siastical dragons and the sculptures of
the antediluvians, beyond the general
likeness that might be expected between
all monsters designed under the limited
experience of man. There was cne
significant dragon which appeared very
lively and coming mp TO time in the
combat with st. George. This dragon
had three heads, thus recalling the
three headed monster that guarded the
gates of the Greek hell. Another
dragon had with the conventional head
the body of L. an with q tail and claws.
These ancient artists employed by the
medieval church appear to have had
considerable genius for the hideous. A
large bass-relief representing human
forms at the resurrection borne e. Par
adise on one hand, and driven into the
mouth of hell ON the other-said mouth
being that of an enormous dragon
showed two as ingeniously ugly devils
as I ever saw. One of them had a
mouth something like an eagles beak,
with sharp pointed lips, and a nose
curving over like a scythe. He had
hair running along his knotted limbs,
and his belly was a supplementary face,
which with wide mouth seemed to ex-
press delight at the work going on.
\ cit her of this devils faces was lovely.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-10-15
Leech Ponds in Holland.

Among the most singular sources of
Industrial production in the world, are
the leech ponds of Holland. Most of
these are owned by a regularly organ
lied company. The marshes of the
land, (which, If moored to its shore,
are admirably adapted to the unlimited
cultivation of the leech, and the trade
in them Is larger than imagined. A
good fat leech, of powerful suction, is
not a thing to be condemned. Brock
klein Is the town most interested in this
strange trade, and owns stock in the
company mentioned above to the amount
of one million forms, and an immense
reservoir has been constructed in which
to breed millions of Voracious leeches,
fine broWn-black fellows, warranted to
hold on like aquatic bulldogs. The
leech deposits its eggs from May TO Sep
tember in the mud of shallow waters,
from whence they are taken and trans
ferred to artificial ponds, constructed
expressly to hatch them. What viii
make the experiment a profitable one Is
the fact that the demand for leeches has
of late years exceeded the supply. The
marshes and streams of Central and
Southern Europe are nearly exhausted.
The Dutch leech is superior to the
Swedish, which is now most generally
used. The American species used here
comes principally, We believe, from
Pennsylvania, where many hundred
thousands are caught annually.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-10-15
Scott and Bulwer.

Scott painted the external man; he
seldom troubled to seek for "the mo-
tive and the cue for passion" He did
not care to trace the subtle thought
from its germ until it stood forth a
thing. In the novels of Lord Lytton
the physical man is ever subservient to
the mental-the mind of a character is
more prominent than his actions. No
two writers, psychOlogically considered,
were more dissimilar than these great
masters, to whom, as pioneers, prose
fiction is chiefly indebted for its over
whelmiug supremacy IN the literature
of the present day. The excellences
of the one are the weakness of the
other. Much of this similarity must
be ascribed to the diverse influences
under which they began to write. Scott
was forty years old when his first novel
appeared, Bulwer was IN his teens.
The formers more romantic vein of
thought had been already worked out
in poems. He was a member of the
most anti-rGmantic of professions. a
conservative in all things, little inhu-
| eneed by the new school of ideas which
/ had arisen out of the chaos of the
French revolution he was essentially q
man of the pre-rsvolutionary period,
the barriers of which he never seemed,
intellectually, to have crossed. Bull
wer was the brilliant man of fahsion-
restless, errat C, fond of straying out of
the social grooves into the wilderness
Of life now the cynosure of the draw
ing room, now the solitary pedestrian,
wandering amid the widest scenes of
Italy or Switzerland, or the companion
of horde Of gypsies; an enthusiastic
disciple of the new prophets, imbued
= r
the mysticism and metaphysics Of Ger
many. and the eensuous, passionate
poetry of which Byron, Shelley, and
Keats we're the high priests. Scott
half despised the art of novel writing.
He wrote to satisfy no inward sense of
artistic beauty-not to embOdy the
teamiuo forms Of q shadow-haunted
brain, buE to build Abbotsford be
wrote that which would sell best. On
| the other hand, Bulwer held the art of
| the novelist second to none. Writing
was to him q necessity strong as speech
the outpourings of soul overhoWiug
with passion that would have utterance.
| No man was ever more eager for dis
/ tinction-yeaTned more for fame and
| approbation vet to obtain them he
never departed from the zdeal artistic
/ standard which he had fixed in his
mind. While Sir Walter Scott gov
eTned his literary pursuits by the same
/ law that obtains In commercial transae-
/ tions, Lord Lytton-to judge by several
| Of his works which we're written under
/ the full conviction that they would
evoke 8 storm of hostile criticism-be-
| Hsved that art should be amenable only
/ to its own laws; but to those laws he
bowed submissively. Thus each Of bis
great works is like some delicious strain