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An act was passed by the Legislature authorizing the Mus- cogee and the Opelika Branch Railroads to connect their roads by extending them through the City Commons and streets of Columbus, with the assent of the people of the city. Council in March passed an ordinance authorizing the Muscogee Railroad to connect with the Opelika Branch, by extending its road across the North Commons; also to con- nect with the Mobile and Girard Railroad by extending its road through Thomas street and building a bridge across the river at the foot of Thomas street; the Muscogee Railroad Company to pay into the city treasury for this privilege $2,000 the first year after the making of the connection and $3,000 for every year thereafter. This proposition was sub-
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mitted to the people at an election held on the 27th of Feb- ruary, and ratified by a vote of 350 to 91. The Muscogee Railroad accepted the proposition, and a contract embodying its terms was approved by Council on the 8th of March.
The following were officers of the Fire Department this year: Chief Engineer, J. L. Morton; Assistant Engineer, J. B. Strupper ; Columbus Fire Company No. 1-R. A. Ware, President, J. D. Johnson, Foreman; Vigilant No. 2-Jos. A. Roberts, President, James Vernoy, Foreman ; Muscogee No. 3-I. G. Strupper, Foreman, Samuel Lawhon, Assistant.
C. C. Cody was in January elected an Alderman of the 4th Ward, vice Joseph C. Smith resigned.
The Financial Committee in a report made to Council on the 15th of March, estimated the expenditures necessary for the year at $51,970. Of this amount $21,000 was for interest on bonds to the Mobile and Girard Railroad, $3,500 for the Ope- lika Branch Road, and $10,000 for the Gas Company; the bal- ance for ordinary expenses. The receipts were estimated at $19,820, including $2,500 from bonds of the Montgomery and West Point Railroad Company. This estimated income was exclusive of the taxes for 1858, to adjust which to the wants of the city treasury the committee recommended a scale of taxes, as follows : On real estate, 15 cents on the $100 val- ue; on sales of all goods merchandise or other articles not specifically taxed, 15 cents on the $100-this for city purposes; additional tax for railroad purposes, real estate 70 cents on the $100; sales as above 30 cents on the $100. The report of the commitee was adopted with an amendment taxing some other property. Council also resolved to redeem the tax for railroad purposes, when scrip for the same to the amount of $100 should be presented, in stock of the Mobile and Girard Railroad when transferred to the city. Many tax-payers resisted payment of the railroad tax, and a case was carried to the courts by Col. S. Jones and others. Council employed Messrs. Wellborn, Johnson & Sloan as counsel for the city. The collection of the tax being thus suspended, Council bor-
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rowed $22,444 from the banks, wherewith to pay the bonds given to the Muscogee Railroad Company. The Supreme Court sustained Col. Jones and others in their resistance to the tax, and Council then asked of the Legislature the pas- sage of an act authorizing a similar tax.
There were four military companies in the city this year, viz: Columbus Guards, Capt. Semmes ; City Light Guards, Capt. Colquitt ; United Rifles, Capt. Wilkins; and Georgia True Greys, Capt. Andrews.
The new or upper bridge over the river was completed in July, but Council and the company who built it could not agree upon the terms of its acceptance-the company at first asking Council to make a bond to keep it in repair. In No- vember the company threw it open to public use, and Coun- cil, in turn, declared the lower bridge free of toll. A com- mittee of Council had reported that the upper bridge was not built in a substantial and satisfactory manner.
John S. Allen was in October elected an Alderman of the 2d Ward, vice Alderman Preer, resigned.
H. P. Robinson having resigned the office of Deputy Mar- shal, on account of bad health, Henry Riley was elected on the 13th of November.
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The river was very high on the 13th and 14th of January, and for a time much apprehension was felt for the bridges, but they were not injured. The bank on the Girard side caved greatly, whole acres falling into the river, taking one or two houses with them. No lives were lost. The Palace Mills sustained considerable damage.
Michael Tracy was shot in the breast and killed by a man named Hinch, on the 7th of February. The affray between them occurred between Bridge and Crawford streets. Hinch was a comparative stranger, having been in the city but a short time. He was arrested and committed.
"Suspension" was this year the terminus of the Mobile and Girard Railroad, and a postoffice was established there in April.
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At the Spring Term of Muscogee Superior Court, Samuel Hinch was found guilty of the murder of Michael Tracy, and sentenced to be hung on the 2d of July. James Thompson was re-sentenced to be hung on the same day. Thompson made a speech exonerating Guilford, who, after obtaining a new trial, had plead guilty of involuntary manslaughter and been re-sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. Thomp- son was hung on the 2d of July, according to sentence. Hinch by appeal, secured a postponement of his execution. He was re-sentenced and he and Dozier were hung on the 17th of December.
A great revival of religion was experienced in Columbus in May and June. On the last Sunday in May about sixty new converts joined the M. E. Church, and a number joined the other churches of the city. On the first Sunday in June about seventy joined the Presbyterian Church. The esti- mate up to that time was that 170 had joined the Methodist church, 70 the Presbyterian, 60 the Baptist, and 26 the Epis- copalian. Many more accessions were afterwards made to each of these churches, making the whole number of con- verts during the revival over 500.
The M. E. Church in Girard, now in use, was dedicated on the 18th of July by Rev. W. G. Conner, of LaGrange. The same gentleman dedicated a new M. E. Church "in the lower part of the city" (Columbus) on the 1st of August.
The first bale of new cotton was received from the planta- tion of Mrs. A. E. Shepherd, in Stewart county, on the 30th of July, and sold for 14} cents.
A new Baptist Church, for the negroes of that denomina- tion, was dedicated on the 22d of August, by Rev. J. H. De- Votie. Its location was the northwest corner of St. Clair and Front streets.
The Enquirer commenced the publication of a daily paper on the 24th of September.
A white woman, Mrs. Minchin, was burnt to death by a fire in her house in the southern part of the city on the night
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of the 13th of November. The fire was extinguished before burning the house.
The Georgia Conference of the M. E. Church was held in Columbus in November-Bishop Pierce presiding.
George D. Prentice of Louisville, Kentucky, lectured in Columbus on the 20th of December, to a good audience.
A terrible railroad disaster, which greatly agitated the city, occurred on the morning of the 31st of December, at the crossing of Randall's creek, about sixteen miles east of Columbus. Heavy rains had fallen, and the creek was very full, washing out some of the foundations of the bridge. The train which left Columbus broke through and was pre- cipitated into the swollen stream. The passenger car was overturned and borne down stream. There were about forty passengers on the train, and twelve or fourteen of them were killed either by the fall or by drowning. Among those lost were Mr. Bouche and Mr. W. H. Snell, train hands, of Co- lumbus ; Henry Miller, engineer, of Columbus; two Misses Guise, of Salem, Ala .; a negro man belonging to R. E. Dixon, another belonging to Mr. Mustian, and another belonging to J. M. Russell. Some of the passengers were carried down stream half a mile. Some, after floating or swimming a dis- tance, caught to trees, where they remained for some time before they could be rescued. The person who first brought the news to Columbus was a negro, who thought that he was the only person saved, and his report greatly alarmed the citizens. On the train was Mr. Pryor's noted race horse, Moidore, who was lost.
Another accident occurred about the same hour, in the im- mediate neighborhood of the city, to the train coming from Macon, and was caused by the sinking down of the track over a culvert, when the engine ran on it. Mr. Jno. Walker, the fireman, was instantly killed; a negro man was caught in the wreck and scalded to death; Mr. George Smith, the engineer, had his jaw broken. The accident blocked up the track and prevented the sending of succor to the sufferers at
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The county officers this year were- F. M. Brooks, Sheriff; A. S. Rutherford, Clerk of the Superior Court; A. P. Jones, Clerk of the Inferior Court; J. B. Hicks, Tax Receiver ; Thos. Chaffin, Sr., Tax Collector; Edward Birdsong, Treas- urer ; J. B. Wright, Coroner ; John G. Bethune, Public Ad- ministrator ; J. E. Lamar, Surveyor.
R. C. Forsyth having resigned the postmastership of Colum- bus, Dr. H. M. Jeter was in November appointed his successor.
The M. E. appointments for Columbus, for this year, were as follows: For St. Luke, Rev. A. M. Wynn, assisted by Rev. J. M. Austin; Factory Mission, Rev. W. W. Tidwell and Rev. C. L. Hays; Girard Colored Charge, Rev. W. D. Shew.
MARRIAGES.
January 1-John Kingsley and Mary A. Robinson ; 5, Joseph Galvan and Mary Ann Bold ; 6, Moses H. Phillips and Harriet E. Mims, John Davis and Mary Sperlin ; 7, Thomas H. Burch and Charlotte C. Gray, George R. Hays and Mary F. Wood, Joseph Springer and Emily Gettinger, Thomas Bankston and Elizabeth Roberts, Aaron L. Harrison and Mary J. Owen; 10, William Clarida and Sarah W. Kelly; 13, George W. Dawson and Annie J. Sankey; 14, Wesley T. Harm and Mary E. Roland, Wiley S. Green and Eleanor A. Tillman; 20, Willis Spivey and Rachel Shirrer, Jacob G. Burrus and Anna R. Buckler; 21, William H. Hollman and Georgia R. Champion; 24, Ed- mund B. Ginn and Alley Jane Taff ; 26, David I. Britt and Salina A. Wells ; 27, Beverly A. Harris and Elizabeth Renfroe; 29, Charles Sinclair and Bar. bara A. Plymade.
February 2-John G. Jones and Elizabeth A. Plumb; 3, George W. King and Caroline M. English ; 4, William B. Watkins and Mary Jones, Lewis S. Jenkins and Sarah R. Pope ; 9, Peter T. Bugg, jr., and Elizabeth Wagner ; 10, William L. Clark and Anna P. Ridgway ; 18, Bird B. Forsyth and Char- lotte Creamer; 21, William P. Duncan and Adaline Hackney, James Belcher and Elizabeth Magraff, Jonathan Ward and Mary H. Gilbert; 25, William Dukes and Permelia Walker.
March 5-Lawrence A. Sturgis and Mary D. Forsyth; 7, Charles Cherry and Mary Thompson ; 10, Malcolm McNeil and Permelia Edwards ; 14, John Flemming and Susan Scroggins ; 15, Edward McLesky and Elizabeth Barnes ; 22, John K. Moon and Lezina Murphy ; John Kirkland and Susan Skates; 30, Jonathan Harralson and Martha E. Thompson; 31, William G. Brown and Frances C. Kent.
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April 1-Moses H. Hall and Mary A. Simmons; 6, Barney Veasy and Narsissa Williams; 8, Bartley Smith and Mary Holstead, George R. Clark and Martha A. Johnson ; 14, Fielding W. Acee and Martha J. Kirvin ; 15, James T. Robison and Susan J Bugg, William Graham, jr., and Mary Davis, Calvin F. Miller and Mary P. Systrythe, James M. Skinner and Martha L. Coleman ; 17, David Tunrey and Jane Cobb ; 18, Telfair W. Moore and Mary O. Conner ; 23, David Perry and Cordelia R. Odom ; 24, James Newsom and Martha Thompson ; 25, Seaborn Dowdy and Leonora Harris.
May 9-Benjamin Lane and Margaret Holley ; 11, Joseph S. Garrett and Virginia E. Heard ; 12, Samuel Anthony and Mary A. F. Motley ; 13, Wiley G. Roper and Virginia A. Beland ; Benjamin Yarborough and Eliza Lacy ; 17, Francis I. Fagg and Martha E. Smith; 24, George W. Nicholson and Celia A. Haddock ; 31, Samuel H. Hill and Rebecca C. Kookogee.
June 3-William H. Smith and Mary A. R. Barnes ; 8, William H. Pace and Susan A. Foster ; 10, Joseph W. Baker and Arran Coleman ; 16, Martin W. Beck and Catharine M. Calhoun ; 17, James L. Ware and Susan I. Ware; 18, George W. Jones and Adaline Whitten; 19, Robert Statum and Elvira Abney.
July 1-Horace H. Taft and Sarah A. Bardwell; 4, Stephen B. Freeman and Mary A. Duffel ; 8, Hiram A. Gibson and Frances S. Rogers; 15, William I. Davis and Eliza F. Miller ; 22, James T. Phillips and Frances Wilkinson ; 26, Giles Ivey and Elizabeth Currie.
August 3-Nathaniel A. Nuckolls and Elizabeth P. Kyle ; 4, James F. Cooper and Ann Murphy ; 6, Hiram F. Williams and Martha A. Harrell ; 8, Jesse Lightfoot and Martha Littleton; 9, Archibald M. Kimbrough and Nancy M. Hamer ; 10, Jarred L. Reed and Eugenia McDonald ; 12, Richard L. Ellison and Lucinda E. Helmes; 22, William Hammock and Sarah A. Davidson ; John H. B. Shippey and Georgia A. Askew ; 27, William H. Har- vey and Mary Gammell.
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September 9-Theodore Ewing and Elizabeth Matthison; 15,James M. Duffee and Hetty E. Stringer ; Cullen C. Hardison and Fredonia N. Harp; 16, Rice B. Pierce and Martha M. Cowan; 17, William Parish and Caroline Seaborn ; 23, Appleton Haygood and Elizabeth C. Martin; James P. Floyd and Martha A. Lloyd; 30, Alfred Hataling and Catharine Cone ; Josiah Boland and Susan Hammock ; John Hartis and Susan Smith; James Collins and Elizabeth Scott.
October 3-Simeon Smith and Alvania George; 7, Johnson E. T. Stoltz and Mary Davie ; 9, John Ingram and Nancy A. Goulding ; 12, Lewis Harri- son and Rosalie Branch ; 14, Samuel C. Rogers and Susan W. Pool; Eothieb N. Aenchbacker and Martha I. Crouch; 17, John W. Skinner and Sarah A. E. Brooks ; 20, James M. Crouch and Margaret Clardy ; 20, Charles Dudley and Henrietta Jackson ; 27, Alexander C. Kirvin and Susan E. Andrews; 28, John Gardner and L. Anna McGinty ; James W. Massey and Sarah Yates; 31, Millenton D. Henderson and Sarah D. Green.
November 2-James H. Toole and Mary A. McRea; 11, John F. Ellison and Mary I. Robinson ; Floyd Alford and Mary I. Culbreth ; 29, John Tread- away and Emily Justice,
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December 12-Hillery G. Guy and Elizabeth Turville ; 15, John T. Wright and Sarah Hethcock ; 16, Thomas R. Jones and Mary J. Hargraves ; 17, Per- ry W. Dalton and Nancy M. M. Jordan; 21, George H. Smith and Mary V. Collins ; 22, Samuel E. Smith and Elizabeth Hammonds ; 26, William Smith and Mary Davidson; 28, Robert Garvin and Mary A. Wynne ; 30, Leighton W. Hatcher and Caroline Davis; Henry T. Morris and Sarah E. Camran ; Bryant Barnes and Leviney Marler ; Joseph M. I. Tally and Elizabeth A. Jones ; George B. Mansel and Jane Creamer; 31, James C. Brooks and Elizabeth Mote.
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(FROM THE SEXTON'S REPORTS.)
January 3-Louisa Lawrence ; 4, child of Mr. Warner; 6, James Ivey; 10, Jane Hall; 11, John Hunley; 15, Leverett Norris ; 24, child of Mr. Lit- tle ; 26, child of Mr. Langford.
February 3-Child of Joseph Oswalt; 7, Mr. Tracy (killed); 12, Mrs. Paul Long; 13, John Harnett; 14, Micajah Bennett; 17, child of Wm. A. Beach, Mrs. Roswell Ellis; 28, Miss Rowell (killed by accident.)
March-No deaths.
April 16-John Traywick ; 17, child of D. T. Lunney ; 22, McDonald Brooks, child of Samuel Lewis ; 28, Elizabeth Worsham.
May 17-Child of Mr. Wornum, Wm. E. Love ; 20, Abraham Brown; 27, James Harris.
June 2-Child of Amanda Rogers; 7, George L. McGehee; 9, child of Mr. Salay ; 16, child of Charles Crichton ; 24, child of J. P. Murray ; 29, Mrs. M. Nance.
July 3-Samuel Brannon, A. K. Ayer; 9, child of Samuel Lewis ; 13, James B. Jones ; 22, Mr. Henley ; 25, child of Mr. Gilbert.
August 1-E. H. Calhoun ; 3, child of John Jones ; 5, Mr. Pitts ; 6, Wil- liam Douglass ; 9, Ellen Grimsley ; 23, Francis Wilhelm; 26, Miss Noble ; 27, child of James Fryer.
September 2-Child of Felix McArdle; 4, child of James Welsh; 12, Thomas G. Moffett, child of Seaborn J. Smith ; 25, Michael N. Clark ; 27, child of Joseph Pranglin ; 28, Daniel M. Barber.
(FROM THE NEWSPAPERS.)
September 28-Hon. S. A. Wales, late Scnator, and a Judge of the Infe- rior Court.
Oct. 11-Patrick McCarthy ; 7, Mrs. Elizabeth Bright Lindsay ; 16, Mrs. Olivia M. Harris ; 17, Samuel D. Clarke; 25, (in Girard) Miss Flora Phillips.
Dec. 25-William B. Moore; 29, (at Apalachicola) John E. Clark, of Columbus.
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1859.
Destructive Warehouse Fires-Railroads-Market Ordinance.
The election for municipal officers of this year was held under an amendment of the charter, which required the elec- tion of Aldermen by general ticket, but Ward representation was still preserved by the requirement that two Aldermen should live in each Ward. This is the mode of election still maintained. It met with strong opposition when first pro- posed, and the Council of 1858 protested against it. The act passed only a few days before the election on the second Sat- urday in December, 1858.
A leading question in the election of a city government for this year was that of the new bridge. The candidates nominated on the "People's Ticket" were opposed to the Council's receiving the bridge on the terms and conditions proposed by the company that had it built; and this ticket was successful in the election.
The candidates for Mayor were F. G. Wilkins and W. H. Holstead, and the vote between them stood-Wilkins 388, Holstead 353. The following gentlemen were elected Alder- men : 1st Ward, J. J. McKendree, Edward Croft ; 2d, J. W. King, J. A. Urquhart; 3d, T. O. Douglass, A. C. Kivlin ; 4th, M. Barschall, C. C. Cody; 5th, D. B. Thompson, John Quin; 6th, S. Ogletree, John Durkin. Dr. Urquhart's name was on both tickets. The vote for the "People's Ticket" ranged from 406 to 476; that for the "New Bridge Ticket" from 214 to 323. J. M. Hughes was elected Marshal; G. W. Haynes, Deputy Marshal; R. G. Mitchell, Treasurer ; Calvin Stratton, Clerk; and Thos. Nix, Sexton. oun le 2 th TE peli
Council elected John Peabody, City Attorney ; Dr. Ellison, City Physician; W. Tilley, Clerk of the Market; John Bun- nell, Bridge Keeper; Mrs. Isabella McGehee, Hospital Keep- er ; J. Bradford, Magazine Keeper; James N. Bethune, City
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rinter ; Health Officers-M. A. Doney, D. McArthur, A. F. rannon, Dr. Ware, Jos. Daniel, Thos. Sloan, John White- des, John Ligon, W. Daniel, J. T. Walker, Theo. Ewing; ort Wardens-J. R. Eastham, Jas. Everett, W. J. Chaffin, F. Howard, Wm. L. Salisbury.
One of the first subjects that necessarily engaged the atten- on of the new Council was that of the bridges. A commit- e was appointed to report some arrangement to adjust the ifficulty. This committee reported that it had not succeeded making any satisfactory arrangement with the owners of le new bridge, and offered a resolution re-establishing tolls n the lower bridge. This resolution was rejected. Council solved to allow the bridge-keeper house rent free tempo- arily, as compensation for his taking care of the bridge, and March voted him one dollar per day, up to that time, in adition. No arrangement having been effected with the wners of the new bridge, both bridges remained free of toll. Thomas M. Hogan was in March elected an Alderman of e 2d Ward, vice Alderman Urquhart, resigned.
In March, the Muscogee Railroad Company petitioned ouncil to release it from the prohibition to connect the Mus- ogee and Opelika Railraads within the city limits previous a connection with the Mobile and Girard Railroad, also, ad proposed to pay a tax of $1,000 annually for the privi- ge of connecting the two first-named roads alone-this to clude the tax previously levied on the Muscogee Railroad. ouncil having given consent, the Company advertised on he 26th of March for proposals for the grading and masonry f the connecting section.
The friends of the Opelika and Talladega Railroad and the pelika and Oxford Railroad, respectively, were quite active is year in urging the claims of these two projects. Colum- us was interested in both. A meeting of the citizens, called y the Mayor, was held in the Council Chamber on the 17th f May, at which prominent gentlemen of Tallapoosa and
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Chambers counties, Alabama, representing the two enter- prises, made interesting addresses. The meeting manifested approbation of both schemes, but did not recommend any im- mediate aid from Columbus, regarding the progress so far made in obtaining subscriptions as not sufficient to justify a subscription by the city.
The proposition for building a Railroad from Columbus to LaGrange, via Hamilton, was also engaging attention this. year. Meetings were held, delegates appointed to railroad conventions, &c., but no progress was made in building the road.
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Some of the citizens were greatly opposed to a "Market Ordinance" passed by Council, compelling vendors of country produce to carry their "truck" to the Market House only for sale up to a fixed hour of the day. Gen. Bethune took the lead in opposition to this ordinance, and disregarded it, for which Council undertook to punish him. He carried a case to the Supreme Court, argued it himself, and obtained a judgment that the ordinance was illegal and the action of Council unwarranted. [An amendment of the charter has since given Council the powers then exercised.]
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The Georgia Baptist Convention met in Columbus in April, and was largely attended.
A young man named Pittman was shot in the thigh, on the of 5th of May, by the accidental discharge of a pistol which he was carrying in his pocket. The accident occurred on War-kof ren street. The ball ranged downward towards the knee, to and the wound produced lockjaw, which ended fatally about two weeks after the accident.
An old man named Paradise, a fisherman, was run upon and badly mangled by a train on the Mobile and Girard Rail- road, as it was coming in on the 3d of June. He was deaf, and did not hear the train approaching, which could not be checked up entirely until the cow-catcher struck him.
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The house of Mr. R. P. Spencer, on Front street near Ran- dolph, was destroyed by fire on the 7th of June.
On the night of the 8th of June, a little after 9 o'clock, one of the most destructive fires that the city ever sustained broke out among the cotton stored in the Alabama Ware- house, then kept by Messrs. King, Allen & Camak. It spread with astonishing rapidity and soon enveloped the whole warehouse, which was well stored with cotton. The heat in a few minutes became too great for the firemen and others to operate inside. The flames soon communicated to the Fon- taine Warehouse, kept by Messrs. Hughes, Daniel & Co. Both warehouses were consumed with about eight thousand bales of cotton. A considerable quantity of bagging, bacon, four, grain, &c., was also burned. The total loss amounted to $500,000 or $600,000, of which the larger portion was not insured. The fire was grand and terrible in its proportions, and the heat was so intense that it could be felt across the river. The origin of the fire was a mystery, and it was by many believed to be the work of an incendiary. It was un- controllable from the start.
The Israelites of Columbus consecrated a temporary place of worship in June of this year, and were then making an effort to build a Synagogue. There were then about twenty families of Israelites in Columbus, as we learn from a letter of Rev. L. Z. Sternheimer.
Joseph Malone, a sculptor, who worked in the marble yard of T. Kenny, was drowned in the river, into which he went to bathe, on the 7th of August.
The first bale of new cotton was received on the 19th of August, and was sold at 12} cents. It was from the planta- tion of W. S. Shepherd, of Stewart County. Another bale was received later in the same day, from the plantation of John M. Sapp, of Chattahoochee county, and sold at 12} cts.
The Second Methodist Church in Columbus (now called St. Paul's) was dedicated on the 9th of October. Rev. Dr. Lovick
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Pierce preached the sermon for the occasion, and was a .; isted in the exercises by Rev. Alfred Mann. Dr. Pierce was the first pastor.
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J. W. Hinton was presiding Elder of Columbus District and the following were stationed M. E. Preachers in Colum- bus and Girard: 1st Church, Alfred Mann; 2d Church. Lovick Pierce ; Pierce Chapel and Colored charge, O. Dris coll ; Factory Mission, W. K. Wardlaw; Girard and Colored Mission, O. W. Landreth.
County officers elected in January : J. L. Howell, Tax Col lector ; I. T. Brooks, Tax Receiver; E. Birdsong, County Treasurer ; T. D. West, a Justice of the Inferior Court.
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