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DV-ion;or-tinntatheagotro-au-iL proper, mereioro, lor un omcial ol the Government to sit on a jury in any of theso eases?—In tlio Macon County Court on Monday, tlio easo of tlio Stato vs Augustus Nelms for using profane language in tlio prosonco of females, resulted in lii.s conviction and a nominal fine, which was afterwards remitted. The Stato against Sparks Shorrold, colored, for same oll’onso, found guilty and lined five dollars and costsr Other trivial cases wore nol proBsod.—Kvorgroon Star: A curiosity is ro-■°08 1 ported in tlio Forks of Sepulga, in the 0118 shape of a negro child two years old, yty which is unable to walk or speak, but dua | eoils himself and hisses liko a rattlesnake. Persons not seeing, but liear-wn | ing him, have supposed it was a snake.r that itt of Its parents say that it lias boon that to way ever since it was born, and that its uc- mother was scarod by a rattlesnake •t. previous to its birth.of —Last Friday evening Mr William the Hilliard, who lives near Hell’s store, her- four miles northeast of Troy, came in diet and reported that, the bo.dy of a dead and I infant child had been found in tlio woods near his house. lie stated that age I 1,10 body, °r parts of the body wore ick, found by means of the hogs and dogs that had ravenously torn the same toore- I pieces, and were pulling it around andip’s eating the flesh. A white woman, Bobo Walden, Is suspected, but sho has dis-ioar | ^PPoarocl. the —Troy Messenger: Mayor Wilker-was KOn* who bas boon absent from the son (’ity a few days, for the purpose of in-lit- tcrvicwing the bondholders conccru-ing the recent proposition for tlio com-ibnr Prom*90 °f t,ie eity debt, lias returned, and gives it as his opinion that the pro-‘ posed sottlement will shortly bo eiloct-y jlL ed. Some of the creditors sire in Now I York, anlt;l the proposition lias not yet Vs boon submitted to them, bnt all whom uv 1 ho saw are satisfied with tlio conditions of tlio adjustment. It is now rgia I safe to say that the compromise will iilar bo made.* tln —Thero liavo iioon shipped fromV; Montgomory in the last thirty daysovor ■V”~ I 18,000 quarts of strawberries, for which hamlsoino profits have boon realized, 25 cents per quart having bee;i realizedineo,k- | for them there. Large quantities ofmel vegetables have also boon forwarded, lave I So great was tlio demand Hint a very ess- reliable house in tlio West sent a man nscl to Montgomery to pay cash lor all the Tyo | green peas ho could buy. Ho could not iind lmlf as many as ho wanted, ghts I and says ho will pay 25 per bushel the lirst three weeks in April next, for nato i'll bo can got, and had rather havo in fifty barrels per day than to have one.Ma- —Tuskegoo News, speaking of thesion imprisonment of Mr Turk who has beenreleased and has returned homo, says new I bl8 imprisonment is a notice to the -?eok Democrats of Alabama that if they was should carry an oleclion, somo of their r, L. number may bo imprisoned or punish-Pap- 0lt;l nt the will of tlio Federal Courts bo ‘S of they guilty or innocent, or tlio means employed fair or foul. A greater outrage was never committed than the ,?Y ’ conviction of Mr Turk of a crime of lt;lie- which ho was entirely innocent, and diet retribution will overtake the porpotra-Dcs, torH sooner or later.oral —Tuskegee Mail: A littlo girl by I , ’ I the name of Laura Simms, about si I fw°lvo years of ago, and who was raised in Columbus, Georgia, having lost her parents, and lioaring tliut sho had an®n* uncle living near Tuskegoo by tlio \*1(? 1 name of McQuade. or McWfname of McQuade, or Me Wade, walkedh let aj| the way through last weok in search b.V .ft of him. Arriving at this place somo s liis I one suggested that Mr C B Wade, ofvinK I LaPIaoe, might bo the party for whom mo* she was looking. Sho walked to his °l°w house, a distance of twelve or fourteen ithor miles, and was doomed to disappointment. Ho was not tlio man, and this nlist \ littlo waif, homeless and .wrotchod, id ton and with blistered foot, know not what Will, course to pursue. Mr 10 W .Iordan, lays: whose kindness of heart is well known, inter has taken her to his house f*»r tlm pros-Vr the out, and will provide for her. Any in-bills, formation which would assist her in s aro (biding her relatives will bo thunkful-3d in ly received by him.pupilsruns anose is ibleeds;occasioor throlsecrctiotonguein thesometirscnsatiientirelystomac'ting;abdoinicostively tingiand haoccasionicd b; dry am turbed teeth; irritabhWheDR. C\vi IT DCin any ration, injury iTheMIFUGIMcLajwrappcDLIare not all the aflectio Complcache, o stand vAGNob atory tlt; As ncqualec1)1The Eacli lid, wit Liver Each C. MclInsisC. Mcl Flemin market name j same i
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Columbus Daily Enquirer Sun
Columbus, Georgia, US
Fri, May 23, 1879
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