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THE ATLANTA W^^TY SUN, FOB THE WEEK ENDING APBIL 3, 1672.
THE ATLANTA SUN.
FROM THE DAILY EDITION' OF
Wednesday, March 2/7tli, 1872.
The New Tlump»hlre and Connecticut
Elections.
The “lights,” which the result of the
late election in New Hampshire, and the
one soon to come oil in Connecticut, are
expected to throw npon the pathway of
Mr. Belmont and the Executive Com
mittee of the Democratic party, are al
ready sending forth a few straggling rays
of their infernal glare, through the
cracks and crevices of the walls in which
the conspirators against tho Democracy
have been holding tlieir secret councils
in darkened conclave.
Let any one, who wishes to see some
of these gleams, read the article we re
produce to-day from the New York
World, of tho 22d instant.
Who npon reading this can fail to see
how the New York World has been acting,
and the part it has been performing in
its attempts to “crush out the life and
soul of the Democracy,” both in New
Hampshire and Connecticut, in order to
get them in condition to support for the
Presidency any Radical that may be
“dictated” to them?
The “conspiracy,” however,'does not
seem to be working ns harmoniously as
the World man hoped for. The man of
tho Hartford Post, a “Provincial” paper,
is surfeited of playing false. At this the
Cosmos organ becomes justly indignant,
and openly declares that if this is to be
the course of his allies in Connecticut,
the “jig is up.”
Tho most characteristic part of this
ont-burstof passion on the part of tho
World against what he considers the
treachery of his co-conspirator, is where
he says:
“The Democratic party is ready for analllancoVith
patriots, but not with poltroons. " !
This is decidedly rich, and must have
caused something more than a smile on
the part of the man at the head of a “lo
cal paper” published “in a small town.”
It seems that tho grounds of the dis
pute between the conspiratois, which is
leading to the premature giviugs-forth of
“light,” such as it is, upon what is go
ing on, is that the Radical wing of the
junto insisted that not only the principles
of the Democracy were to be hilled and
buried, but that even the name was
to be dropped, and its organization must
be abandoned. Tho Post man, like tlic
old woman by the gun, could not stand
were erased by hundreds, and others
substituted. Money was free, and any
price was paid for a voter, so long.as he
“went the Grant ticket”
I will give one illustration which is
only one of many. The small town of
Gosport had been Republican for many
years. This year the Democrats found
they had a majority of four. The oppo
sition saw their only hope was in buying
up that number. Sums from one hun
dred to three hundred dollars were of
fered, but to no purpose. They were
foiled. A conp de etat was their only
salvation. When the lime of election
came, no officers of the election could be
found. The warrant had been torn
down. The people waited nearly all
dav, .but no one came to open the meet
ing; and finally the Selectmen were found,
having locked themselves into a room,
and stayed there till too late for the elec
tion.
This is only one case of many, but it
shows the lawlessness of our rulers when
their power is fast failing them. If there
is honor in such an election, TJ. S. Grant
is the man to receive the honor.
A great hae and cry is made that the
people of this State favor the Adminis
tration. Out of a vote of 76,000 cast, E.
A. Straw, the Republican candidate, had
1,200 majority, which, considering the
superhuman exertions of their party, is
bringing forth a very minute mouse for
so large a mountain. We are firm in our
principles yet. There is no discourage
ment, but a firmer and more derter
mined zeal to wrest the Government
from the hands of its enemies; and if
onr sister States will stand as
firm as their New Hampshire sons in the
fight for State rights, making them the
live issue of the day, and adopting for
our motto the words of the noble Jeffer
son, “The safety of our liberties lie in
preserving our State Governments,” the
victory is ours, and the country saved.
There is no grouna for a passive argu
ment from the result of our election, but
ample proof that our success lies only in
an aggressive fight with true honest men
at the head, to lead us on to a complete
rout of Gr^nt and his Centralizers.
much given to ridiculing the farmers for
their close observation of the moon’s
place in prognosticating the weather; yet
facts and experience have generally made
them better prognosticators of the
weather than many who watch faithfully
the barometer, the thermometer and the
rain gauge. All of which indicates that
meteorology as a science is still in its ia-
fanev.
Communicated.
Weather Changes in the Spring n ml Fall
The following observations in regard
to weather changes about the time of the
equinoxes are worthy of consideration.
They are founded upon well-known facts
and science, and have often proven of
value to agriculturists:
During the lunation preceding the equi
nox, those of the paschal moon, and the
two moons succeeding the paschal moon,
we generally experience almost similar
weather at the change, the full and quar
ters. Thus, about the last quarter of the
two moons proceeding the present;- we
had very cold weather, accompanied with
even thc'barrel, though without load or I a fall of snow. About the full of the
breeching. He even trembles in his boots present moon we had a cold snap, so we
if the name be preserved.
It is 'at this stupendous folly the
World grows indignant! What is there
in a name or organization, if its princi
ples are all Radical.
Would not the rose of Centralism
Radicalism—smell just as s »v6et with the
name dl Democracy as that of Radical
ism? Where is the difference?
You get tho substance; we keep on|y
the name and organization.
This is the reasoning of the “trusted
organ” of the Democracy.
The cauldron is boiling, and we shall,
ere long, have some moro “lights” of this
sort.
In the meantime, it is cheering to know
that the unconquered Democracy of New
Hampshire, who made so gallant a fight
in the late election, are neither crushed
nor destroyed at the result; but are ready
to enter the contest for the Presidency
with their brothers in all the other States
under the same banner which the World
helped to lay in the dust in the late elec
tion.
Read our New Hanipshire letter in to
day’s paper. We commend it to our read
ers in connection .with the article from
the World.
had about the full of the last moon. As
we had cold weather about the time of
the last quarter of the last moon, we may
expect a similar change about the last
quarter of the present moon.
During the next moon we may expect
cool weather about the time of the full
and last quarter. So the farmers may
with reason fear'a frost about the last of
April, and even in May, this year.
Many as are the ridiculous notions
prevalent about the influence of the moon
upon the weather, upon crops, etc., etc,
yet these observations are corroborated
by well known facts in physical science,
which we will endeavor to so express that
even the unscientific reader shall com
prehend them.
The ebb and flow of the ocean tides
twice every twenty-four hours are due to
the attraction of the water by the sun
and moon, and the diurnal motion
the earth on its axis. At the change
and fall of the moon, when the sun
and its satellite are in conjunction and
opposition, the tides are the highest; in
other words, when we have spring tides,
tho ocean waters are most power
fully uplifted by the joint attraction of the
sun and moon. When the sun and moon
From taeNcw York World, D2d March.
THE CONNECTICUT ELECTION.
What a glorious reflection it is ttot U e ia quadrature, or, as commonly ex-
with the combined forces of both wings 1
of the Imperialists—the Grant forces,
and all that the World’s clique could
muster against the noble “patriots” of
the Granite State, to crush out their plat
form—these bold and intrepid sons of
Liberty—no poltroons they—were de
feated by only about 1,200 majority; and
are ready to re-enter the fight on the
same ever-living principles against the
same combination to destroy and extin
guish them.
A. H. S.
NEW HAMPSHIRE CORRESPON
DENCE.
pressed, when the moon is in its first or
last quarter, we have low or neap tides,
owing to the counteracting influence of
the two attracting bodies when they are
ninety degrees apart.
Now, !if the waters of the ocean are
uplifted by the ‘attraction of the sun
and moon, it must be remem
bered* that the atmosphere which sur
rounds the earth is also uplifted by their
attraction, and is more sensitive to its in
fluence than water. There is a tide in
the atmosphere *twice every 24 hours.
The peak of the uplifted .atmosphere
points iu different directions, according
to the places of the sun and moon.
Now, when the sun is at or near the
equinox, so far as his attractive power
is exerted, he holds the atmosphere north
FEW PLAIN WOBDS TO THE “LIBERAL
REPUBLICANS.”
Everybody who wants Grant re-elected
will favor the success of the Republican
ticket in the ensuing Connecticut elec
tion; everybody who really desires Grant’s
defeat must prefer to have that State car
ried by the Democrats, especially since
they have adopted a platform which cuts
loose from dead issues and 'entangling
connection with an effete past. Since the
New Hampshire election, Grant’s nomin
ation at Philadelphia is as certain as any
thing can be which still lies in the future;
and if his partisans also carry Connecti
cut, the Cincinnati Convention will not
‘be worth a row of pins.” All the Re
publican waverers, who have reform as
pirations but still wish to be on the
strongest side, will immediately jump
down from the feuce and try to make it
appear that they have always been among
the most loyal supporters of a President
whom, in their innermost hearts, they
cordially despise.
But if, on the other hand, Grant should
be defeated iu Connecticut, the Cincin
nati Convention will be one of the most
formidable and controlling bodies of men
that ever assembled in this republic. It
will dictate the policy and shape the ad
ministration of the Federal Government
for the next feur years. This great pos
sibility may be forfeited and flung away
by the political cowardice of men who
dislike Grant, but hesitate to adopt the
means which would certainly remand him
to private life at the close of his present
term.
We cannot dissemble our misgivings as
to the moral intrepidity of Grant’s Re
publican enemies iu Connecticut. We
fear they will prove, after all, only a set
of time-servers, who “let I dare not
wait npon I would.” Instead of the
stirring bugle blast which we had a right
to expect from the Hartford Post, that
anti-Grant Republican journal counsels a
timid coarse which would cut the ham
strings of the Cincinnati Convention.
We insert the followinglong extract from
au elaborate article on the pending polit
ical contest in Connecticut:
From the Hartford Post.
As to the Presidential canvass which is so long
taking shape, there are three or four possibilities to
be considered.
First, the renoniinanon of President Grant at
Philadelphia, and the division of the Republican
party by the nomination of Senator Trumbull,
Churles Francis Adams, or some other candidate in
opposition to Grant, and the adoption of that candi
date by the Democrats.
Second, the renominatiou of Grant and an op
posing Republican candidate, and a subsequent in
dependent nomination by the Democrats.
Third, the nomination of some other candidate
than Grant at Philadelphia, with the consequent
harmonizing of the Republicans, leaving the Demo
crats, after having disclosed their weakness, to make
a nomination by themselves and die gracefully as
the Whig party did in 1852. To one of these three
combinations events are to-day shaping themselves.
How will the Connecticut election affect Vic result ?
Had it been possible for Vie Democrats to carry boVi
New Hampshire and Connecticut, the resuU might have
been received as a warning by the Republicans, and led
to a wiser course than Vie renomination of Grant. -The
danger would have been that tho Democrats would
have recovered so much prestige and strength tbf tin-
stead of taking:the New Departure, they woul
come at us again in the told shape and made very
formidable, perhaps successful, antagonists if. No
vember—an event which could not bo cousi/aerecf
other than as a calamity.
But Vie New Hampshire victory insured the nomina
tion of President Grant. Nothing that Connecticut can
do now can hinder it. President Grant will be renomi
nated at Philadelphia. As in New Hampshire so in
Connecticut, a larger number of Republicans than the
gentlemen who hold Vie offices and crack the whip in con
ventions have any idea of, do not favor his renomina
tion. Upon their action the result of the State depends.
When it is considered that the Republican ma
jority last year was only 100, and that there are two
additional parties in the field this year, it will be
seen that we are not over-estimating tho anti-Grant
element in saying they hold "at leasts balance of
power. What is their duty then under the circum
stances ? Let us see.
Suppose either by voting for, or refusing to vote
against, the Democratic ticket they contribute to the
success of that party. What will be Vie effect f Not
to defeat the nomination of Grant; that is so much a
foregone conclusion, as we have said, Viat no
result in Connecticut can change it. * * * Not to
contribute to the success of a possible coalition at
Cincinnati against Grant. The only road to that is
through the utter defeat and dissolution of the pres
ent Democratic organization, which their success
in this State would tend to galvanize into new life.
No; notin any reasonable view can Democratic suc
cess in Connecticut be other than damaging to all
hopes of political reform.
There is but one course open for reform in na
tional as well as in State politics, and that is to first
put a question to the Democratic party as an organi
zation. Whether there shall come out of it any ele
ments of strength to reinforce a party of reform is a
question to be determined later. From it as an or
ganization nothing can be hoped. Anything done
now to continue its life or preserve its organization
will only retard the great reforms for which good
men are looking.
In this view of the situation it is Vie duty of all
citizens, Democrats as well as Republicans, who de
sire political reform, to contribute in this election to Vie
success of the Republican ticket, and to the disappear
ance from political life ot the party which in the past
twenty years has done such infinite mischief, and
whose only excuse for prolonging its existence is
that it has seen the error of its ways and changed in
everything but name.
party, the Liberal Republicans would be
nowhere. They woixld be outvoted in
every caucus and every political conven
tion, and be bound by the decison of the
Democratic majonty. They would es
cape nothing but the danger of being
called Democrats; whereas, if the Demo
cratic party maintains its organization
intact, and the Cincinnati Convention
acts with independence, the Liberal Re
publicans, instead of being powerless, as
they would be if merged in a new or
ganization of which they were a minority,
would be in the proud position of hold
ing the balance of power and controlling
the politics of the country.
As a separate, independent organiza
tion, the Liberal Republicans would be
free from Democratic dictation. At Cin
cinnati, they can select their ticket and
make their platform without being
swamped by Democratic votes, with
strong probability that the Democratic
party wonld feel constrained to indorse
their ticket, and perhaps accept their
platform. In a dissolution and reorgani
zation of parties, they would be au insig
nificant aud impotent minority, con
stantly overruled by a preponderant ma
jority of former Democrats. Instead of
courting and humoring them, as the Dem
ocratic party is now inclined to do, it
would merely outvote them and reduce
them to insignificance.
Moreover, a dissolution of the Demo
cratic organization would bring chaos
into our politics, and insure the re-elec
tion of Grant. If the Democratic party
were declared dissolved, a month would
not elapse before the Bourbon elements
of the party would attempt to reorganize
it, and bring a ticket into the field
pledged to the old issues. Under these
circumstances, such a ticket would com
mand at least two-sevenths, and perhaps
two-fifths, of the Democratic vote. The
opposition to Grant would he thus divi
ded and weakened, and his re-election
made certain. Whereas, if the Demo
cratic organization is maintained, and its
regular National Convention held, the
party can be kept in hand, and wielded
as a unit against General Grant. To ask
us to dissolve our organization, abandon
the control which party discipline gives
us over our voters, aud leave the Ste-
phens-Toombs impracticables to admin
ister the assets of the Democratic party,
wonld be au act of folly worthy of polit
ical simpletons.
Every person with a grain of political
sense ought to see that the readiest way
to defeat Grant is to make the Cincinna
ti Convention strong and influential. If
that gathering is well backed by Repub
lican public sentiment, it will decide who
is to be our next President. If it acts
wisely, it can dictate the candidates of
the Democratic party. But if the Libe
ral Republicans permit Grant to be in
dorsed in Connecticut, the Cincinnati
Convention will be of as little account as
the Fremont Cleveland Convention was
in 186-4; and the Democratic party will
nominate Charles Francis Adams or judge
Davis, and fight an independent battle.
If the Liberal Republicans will defeat
Grant in Connecticut, they can select the
opposition candidates aud count upon
zealous, united Domocratic support in
electing them. But it, having the power
to turn Connecticut against Grant, they
do not choose to exert if the Democratic
party (whose organization will not be
dissolved in any event) will turn its back
upon Cincinnati, and, as a sailor would
say, “steer by its own compass.” If the
Liberal Republicans let Grant carry Con
necticut, the Cincinnati Convention will
noty-foe worth a pinch of snuff. The
Democratic party is ready for an alliance
with patriots, but not with poltroons.
If Messrs. Sumner, Greeley, Bowles,
and our respectable friends of the Hart
ford Post, prefer a Grant triumph in Con
necticut, we tell them plainly that “the
jig is up,” and they may as well consign
the Cincinnati Convention to the limbo
of lost opportunities.
Fire in "Valdosta.
The Savannah News of the 27th, has a
full telegraphic account of a fiye which
occurred in YaldosU the previous day.
Several buildings were burned, occasion
ing the following losses: ‘Willis Allen,
$2,000, not insured; M. Nelson, $2,000.
not insured; S. A. Smith, Jr., $3,000,
not insuiedj S. D. Love, $1,000, in
sured; Dr. Slaten, $1,500, partly insured;
Geo. W. Roberts $800, not insured; J. B.
Wither, $300, insured; W. Joyce $1G0,
insured. Tho fire was the work of an
incindiary.
>-«—<
.Commencement President.—By a pri
vate letter from Athens we learn that Mr.
B. S. Walker, of the Senior Class, of
Monroe, Georgia, lias been elected to
preside at Commencement on the occa
sion of the delivery of the Commence
ment Oration of Mr. 4 W. B. Walker, re
cently elected by the Demosthezriau So
ciety.
SUN-STROK.ES.
Nashua, N. H., March 16,1S72.
Editors Sun—Defeated but not con
quered, is the word that goes forth from
fl-iis State; and the friends of Democracy
throughout the country, who have looked I south of the equator about equally
to New Hampshire for “the first sign in
the Heavens” as a token of the speedy
dissolution of the mongrel party, need
not feel discouraged at the report of tho
election last Tuesday.
The party has nobly done its duty in
the face of Federal influence. Bribery
grid the most barefaced intimidation,
which none but the Radical party know
so well howto use or apply, were resorted
to to accomplish their unholy purposes
In many cases, where the check lists were
in the hands of the opposition, only the
most determined efforts prevented the
election in those places from being a
farce.
The issue was of a National character,
balanced. Not so the attractive power
of the moon. If at any of its four im
portant phases, it is so situated as to at
tract towards it much more air from one
hemisphere than from another, the change
of temperature will correspond to that of
the air of the hemisphere from which
most of the attracted air is drawn.
This accounts for the Variable
weather when “winter lingers upon
the lap of spring,” and 4b “ summer seems
loth to depart,
Daring the spring and fall months it is
proper that the farmer shall note the
and had a direct influence on the Repub- changes of temperature that occur at the
lican Convention, to be holden at Pliila- different phases (indeed at all times) of
delpliia. It being the opening gun for
1S72, President Grant considered it es
sential to fan wiOBSUifnl re-nomination,,
that tho first State should pledge itself changes of temperature will take place
♦a hia w A1 i h A Al» A »«n i T» /-* n C I C+ t llA 4tt»A r.n/inA/« 1 i •
the equinoctial moon, and he will, of-
tener than otherwise, find that similar
to his policy, and be the turning point of
his fortune and his re-election.
Taking that view of the case, it was
absolutely necessary to carry the State
at all hazards, regardless of the means
to be used so long as the end was brought
about. In the cities Democrats’ names
during the two succeeding lunations,
when the moon is in corresponding places
in the Zodiac.
Most experienced farmers have an eye
to this in their spring operations. Many
claiming to be scientific men are too
A most lame and impotent conclusion!
If this advice of the leading Republican
anti-Grant drgan iu Connecticut is to be
taken as a specimen of the courage,
vigor and sagacity of the promoters of
the Cincinnati Convention, the Demo
cratic party ought to turn from them
with scorn of their prudish imbecility.-
With the dead certainty of Grant’s nomi
nation at Philadelphia, with the prestige
of regularity and Federal patronage ‘ by
which he will be strengthened as a candi
date, does any man out of a lunatic asy
lum believe that the Cincinnati Conven
tion will be anything more than a frail
bubble on the surface of politics without
Democratic support ?
The Hartford Post would like the three
millions and upwards of Democratic
votes, but will not smell the rose unless
we consent to call it by some other name.
It graciously permits us to give 90 per
cent, of the votes by which a Republican
opponent of Grant might be elected, but
asks us to take an alias, like a thief. The
Democratic party scouts such a sugges
tion. The great body of anti-Grant
voters remaining the Same, a mere change
of name would be a shallow, ridiculous,
foolish, cowardly sham. Down with all
skulking, false pretences! If you call _
herd of honest oxen sheep, does that
make them sheep? Suppose we dissolve
the Democratic organization, and the
very same men go into a new party bap
tized as “reformers,” or what you will,
if^nine-tenths of the new party consist of
old Democrats, they will of course con
trol its policy.
It is ridiculous fatuity for the Liberal
Republicans to insist that the Demo
cratic organization shall be dissolved and
its members merge into a new party
with, some cowardly name, whose adop
tion wonld be merely au unsuccessful at-
' tempt to conceal the truth. In such a new
Rain Down the Country.
The rains, which in this section of the
State have been very wet, have been ex
ceedingly so down the country. The
Macon Telegraph of Tuesday presents its
report of the weather, as follows:
Sunday night at 11 o’clock commenced
one of the most serious rains we have had
for a month or two ; and for about four
teen hours tho fall was incessant and
heavy. About two o’clock Monday after
noon a halt was called, apparently to take
breath for a new start. “We shall see.
There has been rain enough to swell the
streams very high and wash the railroads
more or less. A telegram just received
and dated at Fort Valley 4p. m., an
nounces the detention of the Southwes
tern train there by a wash near that place.
The- ground is thoroughly saturated
with this and the previous heavy rain of
last Friday, and none but uplands and hill
sides wilTbe in working condition for a
week or two. Bottom lands will be un
manageable with the most favorable
weather for three weeks. Some report
the corn already planted as rotten and
worthless from coid and wet, and this is
not improbably true on low lands and level
clayey soil. It will be a long time before
full corn crops can De seeded. Probably
not much more than half the corn crop is
planted, and much of that must be plant
ed again. The excessive wet, if it ceases
now, will seriously delay the planting of
the remainder, and this will defer the
seeding of cotton to a late period. But
as all the signs indicate more wet, prog
nostications are of little value.
A Gopher Race.
Highly Interesting News Letter from
Norcross.
THIS TOWN AND THE COAST SURVEY.
Norcross, March 27, 1872.
Editors of the Sun: A word or so from
this young and flourishing place may not
be amiss to your young and flourishing
journal. Of course Cousin John Thrasher,
the central figure, is full of life, and as
good-natured as ever; and his excellent
.adyis perfectly at home as the hostess
of the Thrasher Hotel, and will be stills
more so when they get the new Thrasher
county. ”
They have here a flourishing academy,
under the old regime, instead of the new
school system, a Masonic lodge, a Bap
tist and a Methodist church, all of which
organizations use, ‘ as yet, a large and
comfortable two-story building for their
services.
Manufacturing enterprises are taking
root,and from the beauty and healthiness
of the location, and I may add, from the
liberality of the Air-Line Railroad com
pany, the place seems destined to be
come the most inviting rural village with
in easy reach of Atlanta. You can judge
of the moral and religious character of
the place from the fact that its inhabi
tants have voted whisky a nuisance, and
not a retail liquor shop is allowed within
their limits.
Our old friend, Thomas U. Jcnes, now
over seventy, a life-long tetotaler, is a
citizen of Norcross and seems to. be en
joying in anticipation that happy home
where no drunkard can enter, and where,
of course, no brawls are to occur.
I unexpectedly met here a scientific
corps, consisting of Messrs. Thomas O
Bontelle, J. A. Sullivan and Henry W.
Blair, comprising a branch of the United
States Coast Survey Service, which work
has been going on for the past forty years.
They, this party, have been at work near
this place for about six weeks, with the
aim of establishing here what is termed
a Base Line, which, if I rightly appre
hend, consists of an exactly measured
line, some five or six miles long, at each
one of which a heavy block or pillar of
granite is planted, and npon the top of
which, right-angular lines are to be cut,
the intersection of which lines are to
stand as geographical centers or points,
from which departing lines or measure
ments or triangulations are tobe had to the
sea coast and to other interior points. If
this coast line is established in Georgia,
which doubtless will be, judging from
conversation with these gentlemen, in
addition ft) the perfecting of the coast
survey, it will be of great value to the
State in perfecting its geographical sci
ence.
The acknowledged liberality of the At
lanta & Richmond Air-Line Railroad Co.
and the complete regularity and success
of its management are giving new life to
all Northeastern Georgia.
An Old Citizen.
A Florida correspondent plays npon
the credulity of the readers of tho Savan
nah Nems, to the extent of the following
paragraph:
Just give him the wink, and he will get
you up the national amusement down
there, which consists in a gopher trot
ting match. Did you ever see one ? If
you havn’t, you ought to before you
“shuffle off this mortal coiL” For instance,
two gophers are caught and fed on fresh
hen eggs two days before the race. This
is done in order to make them long-wind
ed. A quater of a mile is as great a
distance as the race-tracjk; should be. The
deeper the sand on the‘ ’track the better
for gopher. Just before making them
run, pat them on the head (if you can
find mules enough to pull it out) so as to
let them know what you are “up to,” but
don’t put your finger anywhere near
their mouths, for they are not responsi
ble for “consequential damages” until a
thunder storm blows over. The next
step to get up this interesting amuse
ment, is to put a bag of “Bradley’s super
phosphate of lime,” on the back of each,
to answer as a balancing power, then
twist their tails, halloa “time 1” and
quicker than a cat can lick its ear the
racers are letting down to it faster by far
than the fastest snail that you ever saw
run away from the smell of an ounce of
salt. The race is intensely interesting,
and I never saw it fail yet that the fastest
gopher did not win the race. A man will
never have travelled much until he has
seen a “gopher trotting mutch.”
—A wisconsiness committed suicide be.
cause she had warts on her hands. I a i/
case a little aquafortis wonld have been 61
real aqua vitso. a
— California is getting up among th 0
fig-gers. She proposes, in two years in
furnish the United States all the fi« s «,
are needed. ° ***
— A California lawyer sued a &
Francisco editor for $50,000, for ealW
him a “shyster.” Ho failed to recover
anything, therefore the inference is that
in the judgment of the court he L
“Shyster.” *
— It is now intimated that it is posi
bla that Queen Victoria may visit the
United States next summer. All Ameri
ca would no doubt go mad over a visit
from the British Lioness.
— “Louisa Muhlback has gone into
libel suit.” She has abandoned thenovel
business for the present, and gone into
a moro noTel one.
The Radical wing of the Itepubli.
cans call Sumner, Schurz, c t al
“ bolters;” but it is the Radicals who are
the “bolters” since they holt Grant with
out a giimace.
The New York Star says: “Charles
Sumner, Horace Greeley and Heniv
Ward Beecher, were father, mother^
elder brother to the Republican party"
Whereupon the Boston Post irreverently
adds: “but brothers-in-law are the lucky
fellows now-a-days.”
— The Radicals deny that thereHsanv
war in their camp. However, tho Demo
crats mean to carry the war there before
the campaign is ended.
— Forney refers to Oliver Wendell
Holmes as “that delicious literaiy cana
ry.” Dr. Holmes may return the com
pliment orn ithologically by speaking of
Forney as that rapacious political cor
morant.
— The Boston Post says “it is thought
that General William A. Quarles will be
the next Governor of Tennessee.” No
doubt there will be some quarrels about
that office.
— A very handsome compliment to an
accomplished “female editress” is going
the rounds of the press. "Why don’t
some of the papers find a good word to
say about some male editress ?
— Conkling asks to have justice done
him. Then let the Warden of Sing Sing
get a room in readiness for him.
— The Herald correspondent, over
whom a dismal fate seemed Lowery-ing
has unswamped himself and flown to
New York, laden with the biggest yam
that ever bourgeoned the brain of a block
head.
The Trial of Or. Huston.
A Baltimore dispatch of the 25th says:
Ecclesiastical investigation of the charges
against the Rev. Dr. Auston, for alleged
immoralities, will begin this week. The
examining committee are, Rev. Mr. Wil
son, of the Washington District; Gard
ner, of Fredericksburg, and Register, of
the Maryland Aggicultural College. No
Baltimoreans being among them. The
investigation will probabily continue a
month. The proceedings will be private.
The charges include almost all grades of
immorality. Letters are being received
from Kentucky, Ohio and Georgia rela
tive to Dr. Huston’s previous career.
GEORGIA MATTERS.
The heaviest snow storm Athens lias
had for many years fell last Friday.
Bishop Pierce preached two sermons
in Athens last Sunday.
Col. B. F. Hardeman died in Athens
Monday night.
Hart county has provided itself with
an Agricultural Society, with F. B.
Hodges as President, and C. W. Seidel,
Secretary.
Columbus merchants could not brook
the frowns of beauty, consequently prints
have gone back to fifteen cents a yard.
The Purim ball netted the Columbus
Israelites $300.
The Columbusters have organized a
“R. E. Lee Literary Society.”
George Elkins and Tom Pitts, two
negro desparadoes, whose principal
amusement was shooting a Columbns
policeman, have been arrested and sta-
tionhoused.
The Cartersville Express learns that
York’s Hotel, iu Van Wert, was burned
last week.
Fort Valley levies a street tax of §3.00
per head, and has assessed each male
$2.00, in order to raise a fund to build a
guard house.
The Macon Hibernian Society will
give its annual ball on the first of April
Col. J. J. Kiddoo died at.Cuthbert
Sunday night.
Air-Liue Railroad.
The Athens Watchman of Wednesday
has the following:
Availing of the courtesy of the Chief
Engineer, we took a ride over this road,
from Atlanta to Gainesville on Monday
evening last. The track is very smooth,
the rolling stock new and good, conduc
tor obliging, and everything quite pleas
ant. We were struck with the rapid
growth of villages along this line—of
which there are several—Norcross, Du
luth, Buford, etc.—Norcross being the
largest. It is growing up rapidly, and
is well located.
Another Negro Killed.
We learn, says the last number of the
Athens Watchman, that the old man tried
at onr Superior Court for killing his son
in-law, and acquitted for lack of evidence
to convict, was found dead Monday
morning on Mrs. King’s plantation, four
miles from town. It is said that marks
of violence were on Uis person, and that
several freedmen nad threatened to kill
him in case ne escaped hanging.
— The Committee appointed to inves
tigate the sale of arms to France is likely
to find “more guns for Grant” than Grant
wants 4o have banging about his ears
npon the very eve of opening a cam
paign.
Frightful Accident.—Thursday even
inglastMr. Reuben Arnold,, of this city
had his carriage rudely tom in two fro-
the hind wheels striking a crossing <*
foundry cinders on Hunter street, jn*
beyond the City Hall. The carriage
new, and made to order; but without t-
ordinary coupling.
He was violently thrown to the
seriously cutting his face and fo:
on the fragments of wood and iron, &
rocks and cinders. Strange to say, “
little son Reuben, caught in his arms s- ;
they fell, was not injured in the lea^-
He was driving out to see young
ris Broyles, who was so seriously, and 1
is greatly feared, fatally wounded by 3
Georgia Railroad train running over bim.
as stated in The Sun this morning-
Brilliant Wedding.—The occo 2 -
plished daughter of one of George-
most distinguished former Govern^
will be married at an early day to a
euted and promising young lawyer^
Athens. The nuptials will he celebr- 1 *-
iu Athens ou the 3d April.
Five thousand nine hundred and 0
two dollars of Talbot county money ^
destroyed by fire the other day. ^"
' * nding 1 *
new way
debt.
that county has oi fur