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November 6-Winfield Scott, son of Enoch Willett ; 9, Mrs. Flora McKen- . nell; 21, Robert Dawson, son of E. G. Thornton ; 23, Susan Jane, daughter of Wm. H. Grace.
December 24-Mansfield Torrance.
There were 25 interments of whites and 11 of negroes during the month of November, but we cannot find the names.
1855.
Financial Difficulties-Sale of City's Stock in Muscogee R. R.
The municipal election, under the new law, was held on the second Saturday in December, 1854; but we continue to notice the new government in our report of the events of the year of its administration. Wiley Williams was elected Mayor, and the following gentlemen Aldermen: 1st. Ward, John C. Ruse, J. J. McKendree; 2d, Henry T. Hall, Wm. A. Bedell; 3d, Thomas K. Wynne, T. O. Douglass; 4th, S. R. Andrews, D. A. Ridgeway; 5th, F. A. Jepson, Israel F. Brown; 6th, Wm. Daniel, Wm. Matheson. Wm. Mahaffey was elected Marshal; H. P. Robison, Deputy Marshal ; Cal- vin Stratton, Clerk; Isaac Mitchell, Treasurer; Thos. Nix, Sexton.
Council elected Robt. E. Dixon, City Attorney ; Enoch Dudley, Bridge-keeper ; Henry M. Harris, Clerk of the Mar- ket; Dr. R. H. Lockhart, City Physician ; Mrs. Isabella Mc- Gee, Hospital-keeper. Health Officers-William H. Alston, Wm. Y. Barden, A. F. Brannon, Charles E. Mims, Dr. H. M. Cleckley, A. K. Ayer, William Alley, Wm. G. Andrews, H. J. Smith, O. Danforth, Wm. Brooks, M. L. Patterson. Port Wardens-Edward Croft, A. R. Andrews, William E. Love, J. L. Hill, F. G. Wilkins. Fire Wardens-R. H. Greene,
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William Perry, I. G. Strupper, R. R. Goetchius, John A. Frazer, George Hungerford. Magazine-keeper-William G. Andrews.
. The question of raising means to pay $25,000 of bonds issued as subscription to the Muscogee Railroad was a per- plexing one this year. The Finance Committee reported on the 30th of April an ordinance levying a special tax of one- fourth of one per cent. on real estate and one-eighth of one per cent. on slaves ; the tax collector to give each tax payer a certificate of stock (divided into whole and half shares) proportionate to the amount of his special tax; which was amended by giving authority to the Mayor to sell a sufficient amount of the stock to make the payment. As thus amended, the ordinance was adopted. In June Council passed an ordi- nance authorizing the hypothecation of $100,000 of the stock owned by the city in the Muscogee Railroad for the loan of $30,000, for this purpose. On the 25th of June the Finance Committee reported an arrangement with P. J. Semmes, agent of the Bank of the State of Georgia, in ac- cordance with the terms of the ordinance last mentioned ; and Council ratified the agreement.
On the 19th of November, Council ratified a contract for the sale of the city's stock in the Muscogee Railroad to Messrs. Richard Patten and John L. Mustian. It amounted to 1800 shares, and was sold for $151,000-the purchasers assuming the city's liabilities for that amount. There was some opposition to the sale, and P. J. Semmes, Esq., filed a bill of injunction. This injunction was dissolved by the Su- perior Court ; Mr. Semmes appealed, and the Supreme Court affirmed the decision dissolving the injunction. The contest over this question was continued in the next Council.
On the 30th of January the Opelika Branch Road was fin- ished, and the connection of Columbus with Montgomery by railroad was unbroken. The trains did not then cross the river, but stopped at the depot on the Alabama side.
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The assessors appointed to appraise the real estate of the city reported the total valuation at $2,025,000, showing an increase of $140,000 over the previous year.
The river was unusually low during the winter, and steam- boat arrivals before April were rare.
John King, an employee of the Muscogee Railroad, was run over by one of the cars, in January, and so badly injured as to cause his death.
D. A. Garrett, who was run over by a train near Atlanta, died in Girard, of the injuries received, on the 5th of March.
The State Medical Convention was held in Columbus in April.
The Rock Island Factory was sold under mortgage, on the 23d of April, and bought by R. L. Mott for $20,250.
The Montgomery Blues and Montgomery Rifles visited Columbus in April, going into camp and remaining several days. They were cordially received and handsomely enter- tained.
The house of Mrs. Ann Dillon, in the 5th Ward, was burned on the 13th of May.
Among the public entertainments of this spring were well contested races over the Chattahoochee course, and a series of theatrical performances by Mr. W. H. Crisp's Company.
The Daily Sun was established on the 30th of July, by Mr. Thomas De Wolf. It was the first daily paper ever publish- ed in Columbus. The Enquirer and the Times and Sentinel then published tri-weeklies.
David Magouirk was shot and killed on the 1st of October, by Zachariah Rogers-they having a difficulty near the polls on the day of the State election.
On the night of the 4th of December, the depot of the Mobile and Girard Railroad, in Girard, was consumed by fire, with about one hundred bales of cotton and some of the papers of the company.
The Opelika Railroad bridge over the river was finished and trains passed over on the 25th of December.
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The question of the amalgamation of the Muscogee with the Southwestern Railroad was submitted to a vote of the citizens of Columbus (to determine the action of Council in casting the vote at the stockholders' meeting,) and they voted against it-9 for to 371 against-on the 5th of October.
Receipts of cotton up to the 1st of May, 69,876 bales. Prices -January, 5}@7¿c .; March, 6}@8c .; April, 8}@9c .; May, 9}@9&c .; June, 11@12c .; September, 8}@82c .; October, 7}@82c .; December, 72@8c.
PERSONAL.
Rev. S. H. Higgins was installed Pastor of the Presbyte- rian Church on the 31st December, 1854.
On the 1st Monday in January, Harvey W. Nance was elected a Judge of the Inferior Court; Thos. Chaffin, Tax Collector ; Edward Birdsong, Tax Receiver.
P. J. Semmes was Captain of the Columbus Guards, and Peyton H. Colquitt of the City Light Guards.
J. B. Wright and James Lloyd were Constables of the upper district, and R. T. Simons and Jacob Shoup of the lower district.
Dr. Lockhart resigned, and Dr. W. W. Flewellen was elected City Physician, in July.
David J. Barber, Clerk of the Superior Court, died in Sep- tember, and on the 2d of October the Judges of the Inferior Court appointed A. S. Rutherford to the office.
Rev. Mr. Dalzell was Rector of the Episcopal Church.
Hon. Walter T. Colquitt died at Macon on the 7th of May.
MARRIAGES.
January 4-John Berrien Oliver and Virginia A. Shorter ; Thomas I. Gran- berry and Emily V. Ferguson ; 8, Charles P. Morgan and Sarah E. Horne ; 10, Samuel B. Law and Georgia W. Harden ; 11, John Harris and Barbary Gammell ; Absalom McDonald and Mathena Langey; Samuel R. Brannon and Mary A. Williams; 18, Parker Fisher and Juda W. Clark; 23, Henry B. Nicholson and Sarah A. E. Kemp; 25, Augustus A. Dill and Jackobim Wood ; James Phillips and Martha W. Sherwood ; 31, Thomas E. Young and Geor- gia P. Butt.
February 1-David Ennis and Elizabeth Williams ; 4, John W. Phillips and
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Catharine Wiggins; 11, George W. Blow and Martha A. Hoath ; 14, John Coleman and Ellen Lyons ; 27, Wmn. M. Jepson and Cynthia G. Hall ; 28, Win. R. Cobb and Maria R. Hamill.
March 1-Walter S. Clark and Sarepta A. Wood ; 3, Henry M. Hames and Martha Little ; 8, Charles P. Watt and Sarah P. Eley ; Jean B. Beamont and Melvina Moore; 13, Theophilus S. Henry and Sarah I. Edwards; 15, John W. Freeman and Caroline I. Hook ; Thomas F. Watt and Minerva Harrell ; Jas. E. G. McNeal and Amanda C. George ; 19, Joseph Cary and Elizabeth Dukes; 22, John N. Tilley and Mary E. Beauchamp ; Henry R. Sedbury and Margaret A. Roper ; 28, James Hood and Maria M. Clark ; 29, Henry T. Hall and Elizabeth I. Howard; William R. Martin and Jane McCallister ; 22, Jackson Harrison and Susan H. Murrell.
April 5-William I. McMillen and Elizabeth Connolly ; 8, Aaron D. Brown and Amanda McClesky ; 10, William S. Reynolds and Sarah B. Ford ; 11, Exton Tucker and Mary T. Speller; Francis O. Goodale and Martha A. Fincher; 21, George W. Scroggins and Nancy I. Dudley ; 22, Solomon Belcher and Vicey M. Canline ; 23, Joseph B. Ripley and Mary A. Scoon- maker; James Torry and Elizabeth Dickson; 29, George F. Cherry and Mary E. Willingham ; 30, Mathew Kenady and Temperance Hudson.
May 8-Thomas W. Camak and Laura A. Ragland; 13, James W. Well- born and Nancy Davison ; 15, James J. Buford and Sarah Bedell; 16, Oliver P. Tillinghast and Mary Jane Thomas ; 21, Wm. McMichael and Caroline F. Calhoun ; 24, Joseph S. Hood and Caroline Jacobs ; 30, John R. Little and Frances L. Ingram.
June 1-Benjamin F. Crittenden and Elizabeth Owen; 5, John P. Cox and Frances Knight ; 17, Joseph Cartledge and Martha J. Glenn ; 21, William C. Clifton and Clara B. Jones ; 26, Moses Simmons and Catharine Kitchens.
July 2-George L. Granberry and Winifred B. Drew ; 8, Daniel Odom and Eleanora Pattillo ; 19, William C. Bellamy and Fannie H. Lindsey ; 22, Jas. Jimmerson and Harriet E. Burton ; 24, Wiley J. Howard and Cynthia J. Roach.
August 6-Garland M. Barlow and Sophronia A. R. Lester ; James Roe and Jane Wynne ; 7, Samuel A. Billing and Ann E. McDougald ; 8, Alpha Dinkins and Mahala Johnson ; 13, Charles H. Morris and Louisa Olive ; 23, John W. Beakley and Martha I. Hawes; 30, William Nance and Eveline Weddington.
September 3-James Y. Boyd and Frances C. Ivey; 6, John W. Worden and Eudoxy Gunn; 7, Henry Wilson and Naome E. McCarty ; 8, James Mc- Cormack and Angelina R. Seay ; 9, James L. Mane and Sarah L. Perry ; 12, William L. Head and Frances E. Devon ; 15, William H. Radcliff and Matilda Hatcher; 17, Gustavus F. Mertins and Jenny Stahl ; 20, Alexander M. Bran- non and Julia A. Fuller ; Adam J. Livingston and Missouri W. Biggers ; 24, Lovick P. Fann and Mary Duke ; 25, Benjamin P. Jenkins and Mary E. Fer- guson.
October 2 -- Leander F. Ritch and Eliza A. Graham ; 3, David Williams
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and Lucy C. Henry ; 9, George L. Massey and Savannah L. Parkman ; 10, William L. Wornam and Sarah E. Hudson; 14, Asbury Hudson and Mary Y. Champion ; 16, Robert Flournoy and Eugenie Moffett ; 17, Columbus M. Jordan and Mary A. Slack ; Benjamin S. Smith and Elizabeth Milner ; James Waddell and Elizabeth Parker ; 21, Willis Hastings and Martha Lawrence ; James Donelson and Patsy Smith ; 28, David J. Bray and Ann Benson ; 30, Mannering Toles and Elizabeth J. Puckett.
November 4-James V. B. Calhoun and Rachel Hearn ; 14, James M. Chambers, Jr. and Mary F. Threewits; 17, Lee Harkness and Malcy Ander- son ; 28, James Robinson and Eliza Maddox.
December 2-Thomas C. Rees and Martha M. Kimbrough ; 4, Benjamin N. Gafford and Martha Speer ; William B. English and Harriet L. Wedding- ton ; 5, William Davis and Rebecca Walker; 6, James H. Stagg and Eliza- beth R. Simpson ; 11, William A. Stansell and Sarah C. Passmore ; 13, James Sims and Lucretia J. Cross ; John N. Sherdon and Martha A. Rodgers ; 16, Henry Newsom and Mary E. Abney ; 19, George W. Turner and Amanda C. Key ; 20, James M. Hughes and Louisiana E. Blankenship; Thomas C. Sutton and Cordelia Wise ; Christian Land and Martha Bass ; William E. Cropp and Harriet A. Matthews; 27, C. Wyman and Nancy Morris; James A. Granberry and Caroline A. Haynes ; James Anderson and Martha A. Tinsley; 31, Neil Wilkinson and Caroline V. Browning.
DEATHS.
(FROM THE SEXTON'S REPORTS.)
January 1-John Sullivan; 12, child of Mr. Stewart, child of Charles Shirley ; 14, Miss Moore; 15, James Jackson; 19, Mrs. Martin, Clara Ingra- ham; 22, child of Mr. Allen; 26, Arabella Eastwood; 27, Elizabeth Balyeu ; 29, infant of George Jones. (Most of these were children who died of scar- let fever. )
February 7-Mrs. King ; 12, child of Mr. Ford; 15, child of Mr. Biehler; 16, child of Mr. Bailey ; 17, Miss Wilson; 18, Mr. Powell, Mr. Coulter; 19, child of Wm. Carlisle; 22, infant of A. Holmes; 24, Mr. Pratt's child; 25, . Samuel B. Harvell.
March 4-Child of Benj. Rhina; 8, child of Mrs. Gronbeck; 9, infant of J. H. Daniel; 13, H. Noble ; 20, Mitchell Sneed; 21, child of Wm. Deignan ; 30, Jane Clayton.
April 2-Child of Richard Warner; 10, Isaac Thornton; 14, Robert For- syth (child ;) 17, child of Wmn. Hale; 18, Martha Holmes; 21, Elizabeth Counts, Jordan Odom ; 22, child of Mr. Ingrain; 27, child of E. W. Starr.
May 4-Mrs. Stubblefield; 6, child of E. Chatterton; 14, Mr. Cox; /15, Mrs. Wood; 17, Mr. Hackney's child, child of Joseph Pranglin; 29, James Lloyd, jr.
June 26-Child of L. Hopkins; 29, daughter of John Kyle; 30, child of Thos. Stubblefield.
July 6-Child of Francis Ray; 10, child of F. C. Johnson; 14, child of Walter; 18, son of Mr. Meredith; 20, child of Jane Bowers; 21, child
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of Mr. Ward; 22, child of Stephen Adams; 29, child of John Lewis; 31, child of J. W. Pease.
August 5-David Wright ; 9, child of John Trawick ; 13, child of A. Cal- houn ; 23, child of Elisha Jackson.
September 2-J. Magonigal ; 3, George A. Harris; 4, Mrs. Clarady ; 8, Hugh McCall ; 12, child of Mr. Hicks ; Mr. Moore; 17, Mr. Scott ; child of Mr. Bowen ; child of Mr. Pike ; 20, Mrs. Cornelia Daniel ; 23, David J. Barber ; 25, Mrs. Hicks ; Mrs. Townsley.
(FROM THE NEWSPAPERS.)
October 7-Mrs. Mary W., wife of J. Rhodes Browne.
November 12-Leonard Melick.
December 12-Mary Lizzie, infant daughter of R. E. Dixon,
1856.
The City's Indebtedness-Up-Town Bridge-Location.
On the 2d Saturday in December, 1855, the following municipal officers for 1856 were elected: F. G. Wilkins, Mayor. Aldermen-1st Ward, Wm. Y. Barden, J. J. Slade ; 2d, W. F. Plane, H. T. Hall; 3d, J. W. Pease, Foster S. Chapman; 4th, Jas. M. Hughes, R. H. Harris; 5th, D. B. Thompson, Jos. J. Jones; 6th, J. E. Mershon, J. Hunley ; Marshal, Wm. Mahaffey; Deputy Marshal, H. P. Robinson ; Treasurer, Isaac Mitchell; Clerk, Calvin Stratton; Sexton, Thos. Nix.
Council elected Dr. Flewellen, City Physician; John Pea- body, City Attorney; E. Dudley, Bridge-keeper; Isabella McGee, Hospital-keeper ; Jesse Bradford, Magazine-keeper; Richard Robinson, Clerk of the Market; Thos. Ragland & Co., City Printers. Health Officers-J. J. McKendree, John B. Wright, Lewis Livingston, W. E. Love, Jordan L. Howell, James M. Everett, John Kyle, Jerry Terry, N. B. Love, John T. Walker, S. Ogletree, W. P. Carter. Port Wardens- Clayton, Hill, Calhoun, Duck, Arnold. Fire Wardens-R. Goetchius, George Hungerford, C. Wise, J. C. Ruse, J. B. Strupper, T. O. Douglass. .
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THE CITY'S MUSCOGEE R. R. STOCK.
In January, Wm. M. Lee for the 2d, and James Ligon for the 4th Ward, were elected to fill vacancies occasioned by the resignation of Ald. Plane and Hughes. -Ald. Mershon hav- ing resigned, John Bunnell was in February elected an Alderman of the 6th Ward.
According to a report of the City Attorney, made in Feb- ruary, the following was the financial condition of the city at that time :
ASSETS.
1,500 shares Mobile and Girard Railroad stock, at $50 per share, .... $ 75,000
600 shares Opelika Branch Road, at $80 per share, .. 48,000
100 shares City Gas Light Company stock, at $80 per share, 8,000 City Bridge, 100,000
City Wharf, 15,000
7 mules, at $175 each, 1,225
Magazine,
600
$257,825
LIABILITIES.
Bonds for Mobile and Girard Railroad,. $150,000
66 for Opelika Branch,. 50,000
66 Gas Light Company, 10,000
Bills payable to John King, 2,220
$212,220
The estimate of revenue for the year was $30,740.
The vexed question of the sale of the city's stock in. the Muscogee Railroad to Messrs Patten and Mustian continued to perplex Council and distract its deliberations during this year. There were two obstinate parties in the city and in Council, and apparently they were nearly equally divided- a condition that made final agreement and consummation of the sale very difficult. In April Council unanimously passed a resolution to submit to two legal gentlemen, to be chosen by the two parties, the question whether the city was legally bound to consummate the sale, also the sufficiency of the se- curity offered by Patten and Mustian. But at the same meet- ing of Council the Mayor reported a block in the arrange- ment arising from a contention about a dividend due and un- paid on the stock. The matter was finally settled by the con- summation of the original arrangement and the transfer of the stock to Messrs. Patten and Mustian.
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The project of building the "up-town bridge," which had been talked of for some months, was submitted to a vote of the citizens on the 14th of July, and resulted as follows: Bridge 425, No Bridge 282-majority 143. A number of citizens had proposed to build the bridge and give the city control of it-to be tolled or freed just as the lower bridge should be. The location selected was the foot of Bryan street, just above the Howard Factory.
The receipts of cotton this year were very large, being 100,104 bales up to the close of the year, 1st September. Prices-in January, 8@8{c .; in March, 8}@9}c .; in Septem- ber, 10}@11c .; in December, 10}@11}c.
INCIDENTS.
On the 28th of January, a young man named Chisolm, who had occasionally been engaged in the Postoffice as an assistant, was arrested on a charge of abstracting letters from the office. He was examined before Justices and bound over for trial in the sum of $8,000. On the 24th of February, Chisolm, while at large under bond, had a difficulty in the Oglethorpe House with John Wood, the bar-keeper. Wood threw Chisolm to the floor, and Chisolm then drew a pistol and shot Wood, who died the next day. Chisolm fled, but was arrested and committed.
During the last week in January, the steamers Union and Cusseta collided, in a dense fog, on the Apalachicola river, and the Union sunk immediately in fifteen feet water. About fifty bales of cotton was lost. The passengers and crew es- caped.
A number of fine horses of the vicinity and from a dis- tance contested for handsome purses over the Columbus Course in March. Among the racing celebrities engaged were Frank Allen, Carolina, Moidore, Gov. Johnson, Jack Gamble, and Floride.
A charter for the Bank of Columbus was passed by the Legislature early this year, and the Bank was organized in April by the election of William H. Young as President, and
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John McGough, J. T. Hudson, Wm. Rankin, Wm. H. Young, J. Ennis, R. M. Gunby, S. J. Hatcher, J. P. Illges and J. N. Barnett as Directors.
A fire on the night of the first of April burnt a black- smith shop and the negro quarters of Wood & Co., on St. Clair street, between Broad and Oglethorpe.
Major Buford, of Eufaula, passed through Columbus on the 4th of April, with a large company of emigrants for Kansas, to assist the South in the sectional struggle then progressing for supremacy in that territory. Some forty or fifty persons joined the company at Columbus, and liberal material aid was afforded here to the expedition.
A Criminal Court for the city of Columbus having been created by act of the Legislature, the election for Judge and Solicitor was held on the 21st of April. P. H. Colquitt was elected Judge and R. E. Dixon, Solicitor.
The Poor House of Muscogee county, about two miles east of the city, was burned on the 18th of April.
A destructive fire on the night of the 24th of April burned the large brick building on Oglethorpe street, owned by Dr. R. A. Ware, and occupied by Thos. De Wolf; also the three wooden buildings between that house and Temper- ance Hall, two occupied by Mr. Knight and one by Mrs. Aenchbacher. The fire originated in one of the houses oc- cupied by Mr. Knight-cause unknown.
A small boy named William McKay was drowned in the river just below the bridge, on the evening of the 10th of May.
A woman, known as Emma Berry, was shot and killed by'. a young man named Thaddeus Rees, on the 3d of July. Rees made his escape.
A dispute occurred at the polls in Girard on Tuesday, Nov. 4th, the day of the Presidential election, between two young men named Eli Spivey and Wash. Blackburn, which resulted in Blackburn shooting Spivey twice with a pistol. Spivey died in a day or two afterwards,
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The residence of Mr. J. Cole, on Bridge row, was burned on the morning of the 18th of November.
The hull of the steamer Wave, a boat built at Columbus for the navigation of the Chattahoochee, was launched on the 25th of November. It was built under the superintendence of Capt. Charles Blain.
PERSONAL.
Methodist Episcopal appointments for this year: L. Pierce, P. E. Columbus District ; Messrs. E. W. Speer and J. H. Harris stationed at Columbus.
County officers this year: Wm. Lamar, Sheriff; A. S. Rutherford, Clerk of the Superior Court; A. P. Jones, Clerk of the Inferior Court; John Johnson, Ordinary ; Thomas Chaffin, Tax Collector ; I. T. Brooks, Tax Receiver ; John B. Wright, Coroner ; Phillip Lamar, County 'Surveyor.
Rev. J. H. De Votie accepted the pastorship of the Baptist Church in May.
MARRIAGES.
January 3-Stephen Dimon and Lucretia A. Dukes ; 8, John W. Hendrix and Elizabeth Hackney ; 10, Abram H. DeWitt and Sarah A. Phelps ; John F. Pittman and Martha A. George ; 19, John Davidson and Martha E. Ab- ner ; Samuel S. Cook and Sarah S. C. Bears; 21, John Callihan and Augusta McElrath ; 22, Lafayette Martin and Frances Hearn; 24, James S. Tatum and Mary C. Bailey ; 31, Wyche J. Palmer and Amanda Weddington, Wm. Fisher and Martha Smith.
February 6-John I. Cumber and Mary Morris; 10, Robt. S. Sherdon and Isabella Buckler ; 12, James E. Clark and Mary A. E. Konnady ; 13, James T. Taylor and Dorcas M. Hughes ; 17, George M. Renfroe and Virginia C. Burton ; 20, Daniel D. Cox and Emily O. Luckie ; 28, Pleasant S. Shellman and Caroline A. Hoxey.
March 10-Benjamin F. Dalton and Margaret Norris ; 13, John H. Weaver and Sarah F. Norris ; Jesse Carter and Mary W. Meacham ; 16, Enoch Dowdy and Mary E. Mayes ; Sterling T. Smith and Rachel R. Canim ; John Hatley and Nancy D. Parish ; 19, Charles Crichton and Frances Groenbeck ; 27, Seymore R. Bonner and Bethia A. Fort ; Amos C. Ward and Martha V. Redding.
April 1-John B. Fannen and Sarah A. E. Stanley ; Francis A. Byars and Elizabeth W. McMillen ; 27, Francis M. Forsyth and Frances M. McCardle.
May 1-Hugh B. Dawson and Eliza Flewellen ; 6, William B. Burdim and Mary Ann Wood ; 8, Moses Fincher and Martha Easterwood ; 13, Lewis W.
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MARRIAGES.
Isbell and Frances A. Redd ; 15, George W. Smith and Ann Dillon ; Nathan N. Benton and Frances S. Henry ; 18, Joshua S. Roper and Frances A. Bur- rand.
June 5-John Hazleton and Martha V. Lynch ; 8, Silas McGuirk and Mary Frazier ; 15, Henry A. Johnson and Sarah Hearn ; 25, Isaac I. Moses and Hannah M. Moses ; 26, Josiah Mehaffey and Julia Cannon.
July 6-William A. Newsom and Susan E. Stathen ; 9, Benjamin Goolsby and Temperance Hudson ; 12, Riley Newsom and Martha Williams; 14, James Willox and Delilah McCauley ; 24, Washington W. Johnson and Fran- ces E. Gammage.,
August 11-William Knight and Mary Frost ; 25, Isaac Falkner and Lucy Ann Groff ; Vincent D. Tharp and Emily T. Roberts ; 29, John Nobles and Georgia A. Cegarr.
September 13-Hampton C. Seale and Victoria Gafford ; 14, Samuel F. Moon and Eliza Hyatt ; 21, Sidney O. Lloyd and Amanda Upton ; John Mowell and Frances Upton ; 23, Andrew J. McDonald and Dicy Ann Hall ; 25, George W. McGinty and Jane Hinton ; 29, James Harris and Frances A. Boyd.
October 2-Alfred S. Truett and Caroline L. Nicholls ; John Mehaffey and Margaret Hendrix; 12, James A. McClesky and Eliza Baker; 14, William I. Wood and Loah J. Marks; 19, Jean B. Thomas and Nancy McCallister ; 21, Wm. H. Baily and Milly A. Christian ; Henry V. Horton and Courtney I. Jones ; 26, George A: B. Smith and Laura V. Brannon ; 28, William E. Hill and Georgia E. Nix.
November 4-Luther Gaff and Sarah I. Allen ; 5, Albert F. Langford and Christie A. Terry ; 6, Peter Preer and Mattie A. Jones ; Benjamin F. Bedell and Vanney Burford ; John M. Faulkenberry and Adaline West ; Andrew J. Riddle and Ann P. Hunly ; 16, James D. Neal and Louisa R. Lawrence ; Wm. S. O'Bannon and May Lloyd ; Benjamin I. King and Elizabeth Jack- son ; 17, Simeon T. Hall and Missouri E. Deavers ; 20, Jacob W. Cole and Martha A. Lawrence ; David Cannon and Sarah E. Wamock.
December 2-Thomas J. Belcher and Mary A. Allen ; John Keller and Rosa Heiman ; 3, John P. Mealing and Angelina L. Mealing ; 7, John E. W. Henderson and Louisa Murphy ; 10, Alexander Peddy and Ann Flemming ; Thomas G. Whigham and Ann S. Hickey ; 11, Jesse Haddock and Mary A. E. Doles ; Henry Voight and Nancy Duncan ; 15, James Pridgen and Susan Wilson ; 16, Thomas L. Macon and Mary R. Houston ; 17, Beauford T. Yarborough and Louisa Norman ; John G. Bunnell and Martha Hodge ; Jos. L. B. Wells and Permelia C. Stanfield; 18, William A. Hunt and Mary E. Presley ; 21, Joseph P. Morris and Malinda C. Eastwood ; 23, James Shelton and Cinda Milum ; Archibald J. Williams and Elizabeth Stribling ; 25, Marion M. Payne and Catharine Teal; 26, James Kimbrough and Mary Johnson.
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