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Newspaper Page TextShe Athens H. II. CARLTON & CO. DEVOTED TO OUR POLITICAL, EDUCATIONAL, AGRICULTURAL, AND INDUSTRIAL INTERESTS. Two Dollars per annum, in advance. VOL. 4. NO. 20. ATHENS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1876. OLD SERIES, VOL 65. Ck afttw A. K. CHILDS. II. H. CARLTON & CO., Proprietors. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: —1«:— ONE COPY, One Year _™ $ 2 OO FIVE COPIES, One Year,'.....™ 8 7B TEN COPIES, One Year,.—™_— 10 OO RATES OF ADVERTISING. Transient Advertisements $1.50 per square tjret insertion and 75 cents per square for each continuance. Local notices 20 cents per lino. No local notice inserted for less than ft 00. Contracts as follows: 1 Column 12 month* $200.00 1 Column 18 months 120.00 1 Column 12 months 65.00 1 Column 6 months 12000 i Column C months...., 70.00 1 Column 0 months 40 00 LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. riutiun for Lettrra or Guardianship -.~....95 00 t itation for Leitera of AdminUtnmon 4 00 Application lor Letters of Di»mi>sion Administrator. 500 *\./plication for Letters ot Dismission Guardian ...... 5 25 Application for Leave to .Sell Lands 5 00 Notice to Debtors and Creditors 5 00 Sales of Land, Ac., per square 6 50 Sales perishable Property, 10 days, per sq.............. 1 50 Kstray Notices, 50 days S 00 Sheriff Sales, per square 2 50 Sheriff Mortgage 5. fa sales per square 5 00 Tax Collector’s Sales, per aquare. 5 00 Foreclosure Mortgage, per square, each time 1 00 Memption Notices (in advance) 2 25 I.nle Nisi’s, |>er square, each time. 1 50 R. NICKERSON. t n. wm. CHILDS, NICKERSON & CO. PEALEKSIN Hardware, Iron, Steel, Nails, FAIRBANKS’ SCALES, RUBBER BELTING, AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, Mill Finding*, AGENT-* JOE Winship and Sawyers Cotton Gins, . &c„ &c„ &c. ATHENS, GEORGIA. GINS DELIVERED IN ATHENS AT MANUFAC TURERS PRICES. Sept. SO—I-tf,” Business and Professional Cards. I.amar Cobb. IIowell Cobb. L. & II. COBH, Attorneys at hair, Athens, Ga. Office in Deupree Building. f«L2'2.1y. ALEX. S. ERWIN, Attorney at Tair^ Athens, Ga. < tffice on Broad Street, between Center & Reaves and Orr Jfc Co., upstairs. IVli22.lv. F. F. TAI.JWAt>GS, —DEALER IN— Aintncu and Imparted WiiAts, (Ms, Jtwtln, SILVER AND PLATED WARE, Mnslcal Instruments, Unns, Pistols, Etc* WATCHES, CLOCKS AND JEWELRY REPAIRED IX A NEAT, WOBKHAKUKE XASSEIt, And warranted to give entire satisfaction. Ornamrnlal and Plain Lrlttr Enyrariny a Sptcialtg. CCLLX3X ITDn es* 4s» (na Bool Stor* Corn IT, ATBXXS, QA. feb.IMf. [From lA« New York 0$4rrrfr.[ THE FAMILY BIBLE. Fall, fifty yean ago, the following poem appeared in the Charleston Caaritr, as the production of Robert Deakin, an Englishman, and I have never seen it ap pear aa claimed oy any one elec. My fklbcr knew him well, and I often saw Uni, bat be appeared to have (alien into evil wiys, and forgotten probably the pre- cepts of that “ Family Bible,” Zor he was the inmate of on hospital, and bora evident marks of intemperate habit*. I aaw him frequently paaa oar boose, walking with a cratch, bat after a coaple of yean, we changed our residence, and some time after, I heard of his death in the hospital. Whether “the prayer* of his air*,” or the precepts of that Bible cheered Id* end, I had no way or ascertaining. M. E. S. THE FAXILT BIBLE. How painfully pleasing the fond recollection Of yonthtm connections and innocent joys, When blessed with parental advice and protection, Surrounded with mercy, with peace from on high, 1 still view the chair* of my sire and my mother. The seats of their of&priug aa ranged on each hand, And that richest of books, which excels every other, The Family Bible which lay on the stand. That Bible, the volume of God's inspiration. At morn and at evening oonld yiefd na delight. And the prayer* of oar sire was a sweet invocation, For mercy by day. und for safety through night, Oar hymns of thanksgiving with harmony swelling, All warm from the hearts of a fkmily band, Half railed ns from earth to that raptnrons dwelling, Described in the Bible that lay on the stand. Ye toeucs of tranquility—long have we parted. My hope* almost gone—my parent* no more; In sorrow and sadness 1 roam broken-hearted, And wander unknown on a far distant shore, Yet how can 1 doubt a dear Saviour’s protection. Forgetful of gifts from his bountiful baud ? Then let me with patience receive his correction, And think of the Bible that lay on the stand. THE CENTENNIAL FACTS FOR THE COMING VISITORS. Boot and Shoe Manufacturer, COLLEGE AVENUE, Next Door to Post Office. Con- Repair- 11. E THRASHER, A12O'/iN-EY A7 ZA W, WATKINSVILLE, GA. office iii former Ordinary’s Office. jau25-ly REMOVAL! 2. A. SALE. DEJY2IS2, 11 AS REMOVED to the office lately occupied by Dr. J. W. Morrell. Satisfaction guaranteed in both Work and Prices. jaii'.Wtf C. D. HILL, ATTORNEY AT LA W, ATHENS, GEORGIA. Prompt attention given to all business and the same Tunpevtfully (toileted. jonll-ly. O N hand, Uppers for making Low Quartet gress, Alexia-Ties, and Prince £Alkerti*. 11 ing promptly executed. &end ten dollars, par mail or express and yon shall re ceivc a first class pair of boots. June 30, 1875. 85-tf. Great Reduction in Prices F or the next thirty days. Brackets, Wall Packets, and all kinds of Ornamental Wood Work, will be sold at GREATLY REDUCED PRICES. Now ia the time to make your houses beautiful at low figures. Great bargains given in everything at 26-tf JUKE’S Bookstore. BANKRUPT BLANKS. P HILIP ASOLOMAN’S AUTHORIZED EDITION, the only complete edition published. Sent by mail at $1. For sale by T. A. BURKE, Bookseller and Stationer. febS.tr. POPE HARROW, ATTORNEY A 2 LA W, ATHENS, GA. office in Mr. J. 11. Newton’s new building. jan4.lv. AUG U ST DORR, MERCHANT TAILOR, lm-oRTXB ov Fixx Clotii* asd Doiskins, HATS, READY-MADE CLOTHING, AND GENTS’ FURNISHING GOOD8, frhl3.Sni. 222 Broad Street, Angnrta, G*. W. R. LITTLE, Attorney at hair, CAKSESVILI.E, GA. J. S. DORTCH, Attorney at Lair, CAKNESV1LLE, 6A. A. a. McCURRY, .f TTO RATE r *tT f-JIP, HARTWELL, GEORGIA. WILL give strict personal attention to all business en- tru-*t«‘d to his care. Ang. 4—40—ly. Aha M. Jackson. L. W. Tiiomas JACKSON 4- THOMAS, Attorneys at Law* Athens, Georgia. JOHN W. OWEN, Attorney at Law. toccoa errr, ox. Will practice in all the ecnntie* of the Weetern Cir cuit, Hart and Madison of tlic Northern Circuit. Ml ill givc jpecial uttenion to all claim* entrusted to hi* care CASH FOR WOOL,, —OR— CLOTH FOR WOOL. e Athens Mannlactnring Company ore now making a modi larger variety of Woolen Good* than ever before, and promise to Exchange them for Wool, believing it to be more to the interest of the Planter to Exchange the Wool for Cloth, rather than have it Card ed and Spun at home. Call for Samples and Terms o! Exchange. R. L. BLOOMFIELD, Agent. May 19, 1875-29-tf. Miss C. Potts, F’astiiona'ble Dressmaker (Over University Dank.) Broad Street, - - - Athens. Won Id respectfully inform the Ladle* and her triend* generally, of Athens and vicinity, that she is now pre pared to do Drea* making in the Neatest and most FASHIONABLE STYLES. With her experience in the business, she feel* sure ol fecC giving satisfaction. May 14,1875—28-tf. U. S. Internal Revenue. DxrcTT Collictok’* Onnr, 1 Fourth District, Georgia, r Athens, Jan. 15, 1876. j LL PARTIES DESIRING INFOR- l motion as to TAX imposed by the United State* Internal Revenue Laws, can obtain the same by apply ing to W. S. MAYFIELD, Deputy Collector. Office over Jacobs & Michael’s Store, Broad Street, Athens, Ga. jtnlMf Iii TICKET AGENCY. RAILROAD TICKETS For sale, by all rentes, and to all principal points in UNITED STATES. Buy your Tickets before leaving Athona, and get all information from Capt. WM. WILLIAMS, Agent Southern Express Co., Athens, Ga. May 12, ’75 28.tf. Athens, Ga. P. G. THOMPSON, Attorney at Law, iii attention paid tocrhninal practice. For refer- ajip v to Ex. Gov. T. II. Watts and Hon. David , Montgomery Ala. Office over Barr^’s^Store, FRANK HARRALSON, ATTORNEY AT AW, CLEVELAND, GA. AV ill practice in the counties of White, Union, Lum- l'kin. Towns, and Fanning, and the 8npreme Court at Atlanta. Will give special attention to all claims en- trusted to hi» care. Aug. 11 1875 61 tf. E. SCHAEFER, COTTON B U YE It, TOCCOA CITY, O*. Highest Cash Price paid for Cotton. Agent for Win slop’. Gin, Slid I‘res*. oct20wti. E. A. WILLIAMSON, PRACTICAL WATCHMAKER AND JEWELLER, •JJ ^ r -King’* Drugstore, Brood Street, Athens, Go. All work done in a superior manner and warranted to eve satisfaction. T “" *—*■ Livery. Feed and Sale Stable, ATHENS QA. GANN & REAVES PROPRIETORS Will he found at their old stand, rear Franklin House building, Thomas street. Ke*p always on hand good Turnouts and careftil drivers. Stock well cared for when entrusted to our cure. Stock on hand for salt at all tiinea. decIStf. Jan. S-tf. A. A. WINN, —With— UltOOVER, STUBBS & CO., Cotton Factors, —And— General Commission Merchants, Savannah, Ga. Xi&fMur, Tie*, Rope and other ■uppliea fomisbed. * lilHTttl cash advance* made on conoignments for * ° r shipment to Liverpool or Northern jgort*.^^ hi VERY AND ULE STABLE ^"'dnges, Buggies and Horses for Hire. TERMS REASONABLE ^.WHITEHEAD, Washington, WUka, Co., Ga Ri R« SAULTERj DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF WINES, WHISKIES and LAGER BEER, ALE, GIN, CIGARS, CALL AT SAULTERS EXCHANGE, Jackson Street, Amr.va, Gxoroia. Oct. 2—d-tf. BOOTS AND SHOES TO ORDER. N W* HATJDRUP, ARTIST, Haa removed Ida Shop from the old Lombard Building to the oppoaiU side of College Avenue, next door to the Lester Building. Prices Liberal, and First Clasa Work JSSSntoed. June 16, 1875-88-tf Blasting and Digging Wells ! YY rrn an experience of twenty years, I hereby tender mj service* to tlie citizens o Athens ml vicinity. First class work guaranteed. Residence at the Talmadge House, between the oppei bridge and Check Factory. All order* will receive prevention. EDWIN W. PORTER. Planters* Hotel, Augusta, Ha ri^IIIS WELL KNOWN HOTEL HAV I ing been Remcdeled, ' ” ovated, Repainted and N Sommer of 1*75, ie now opened, tie* for the accommodation of the travelling public, febl-ly B. P. CHATF1ELD, Proprietor. MEDICAL NOTICE traume th?' ldtat ' lon °* m * n Z n J fcrmer petrous, , Dr a etico of Medicine ftomthU dtte. I will pay eepeeUl attention to the dia- and the CUronlo Diacaae* Blacksmith Shop. FEW St MERIWEATIIER. wwiLL FEW AND WESLEY MERIWEATIIER, They have the heat workmen and aae nothing^but the ^^ririrS^work. pUnUUoojro^^ra. Gann & Kcsvc* 1 Janlly. ADMISSION FEES “ EXTRAS’' ON THE GROUNDS—COMPARISON WITH FORMER EX HIBITIONS PREMIUMS SPECIAL EVENTS DURING THE SEASON. [Philadelphia Times.] Tlic question as to whether the Exhibi tion will l>c o]>en on Sundays, is not yet finally decided by the Centennial authori ties. Others, however, have rendered their verdicts in the matter, declaring that, as the event is to be an interesting one, no rule bearing upon it should be adopted that would respect the customs of one portion of mankind while uncivilly treating those of all the others, it being contended that to close the Exposition ou Sunday would ne cessitate its being closed on every other day also, if the sacred days of non-Christian nations were to be observed. A third party proposes a compromise, by keeping open all the departments of the Exposition, but allowing no machinery to run nor man ufacturing to he carried on. The price of admission will be fifty cents, payable in one note at the entrance gate, and admitting to everything that is to be seen during "the time the visitor remains within the enclosure. No season tickets will be sold, nor will two twenty-five cent notes for a single admission, nor a dollar note for two, be taken at the gate. No matter how often a person leaves the grounds during a day, he must again PAY A FIFTY CENT NOTE each time that he re-enters. The hours of admission will be from 9 a. ro. to 6 p. m., each day. Rolling chairs will lie kept at designated stations within the principal buildings for the conveyance of visitors desiring to use them. With attendants, the charge per hour will not exceed seventy- five cents; without attendants, thirty-five or fifty cents for each class of chairs res spcctively. There will be plenty of ordi nary chairs, which weary sight-seers may use without charge. From soda-water fountains, in pavilions scattered throughout the buildings and grounds, a cooling draught may be had for a dime. A building, en titled the “ House of Pnbli ■ Comfort,” will contain separate parlors for ladies aud gen tlemen, retiring rooms, barber-shops, bag gage-rooms, etc. Retiring rooms are also located at the entrances to all the principal buildings. Near the carriage concourse will be carriage stands, at which checks will be given for vehicles left in charge. The telegraphic system will embrace a cen tral office and numerous sub-offices, located in convenient parts of the buildings and grounds. FACILITIES FOR LOCAL TRANSPORTATION. In addition to the facilities of access of fered by the different passenger railway companies and the steamboat company on the Schuylkill, a number oflight. wagonettes, seating ten passengers each, will he run be tween" the city and the grounds by the Exhibition Transfer Company, the fare to be fifty cents each way. For the present, the carriages will start from the comer of Broad and Chestnut streets every half-hour from 9 a. in. to 4 p. m„ proceeding via Broad and Spring Garden streets, through Fairinount Park, and across Girard Ayenue Bridge to the Centennial grounds, return ing via Lancaster Avenue and Chestnut street. In the branch offices of the Cen tennial National Bank, established on the grounds, every facility will be afforded to visitors for dealing in coins and exchange, having letters of credit cashed, etc. Lo calities in the buildings can be determined by the columns supporting the roofs, which arc both lettered and numbered, those in the main building being lettered from north to south, and numbered from cast to west, aud in Machinery Hall, lettered from north to south, and numbered from east to west. Just above each entrance of the various buildings, will be a numbered banner sur mounted by a small flag. The color of the flag will correspond with the border of the banner, and indicate the class of the build ing. vis: Blue—buildings erected by the Centennial Commission; red—United States and State buildings; white—foreign build- ings; yellow—restaurants, place* of enter tainment, etc.; green—miscellaneous build ings. The sections of the countries exhibiting in the main building arc located geograph ically, running crosswise of the building, from north to south. As the visitor must traverse both sides of each avenue to see all the exhibits, his tour through this build ing alone will be not a foot less than eleven miles. Much of the machinery, of all na tions, that will bo seen in operation in Ma chinery Hall will be constantly engaged in turning out goods which can be purchased and removed if desired. Among these man ufactures will be Persian and Turkish rugs, carpets, cloths, pins, needles, rivets, hinges, confectionery, etc. An annex to this build ir.g, for hydraulic machines will contain a tank one hundred and forty-four feet long, sixty feet wide, with a depth of water of eight feet. HYD2AUUC MACHINERY, in full operation, will hero bo exhibited, and at one end’of the tank will be a water fall of thirty-fi ve feet high and forty feet wide, supplied by pumps. The articles ex hibited in the Agricultural Building will not be arranged by countries, but by classes. All articles of the same class, from all countries, will be together, thus afford ing a very interesting comparison. In each of the State building* a record of viators’ names will be kept, and a copy of each newspaper published in that State found on tile. There are eight great restaurants, ex clusive of those withgi the buildings, and waiters speaking many, languages will be in attendance. In the “Restaurant of the South,” a l«nd of old plantation darkies from “down bv de Stvanee ribber,” will furnish music and illustrate scones from “ dose gvod ole times.” The Empire Trans- poita**jft Company's building will contain a large collection; of models, forms, etc., illustrating the American system of through freight transportation by railroad cars, and by steam propellers on the great lakes; also, uhe transportation of oil, by pipe lines, in the Pensylvania oil fields- G menu freight information will be ^xmisled also. "A prominent feature of the'Exhilition will be, “exact miniature^reprcsexiaiions of the topographical and: other features of the cities of Jerasalem,;ParL°, Mexico and Na ples, and of and Italy. • the ‘system -of awards adopted by the Centennial Commission is original, and appears to be one that will give satisfaction. Two hundred judges, one- half of whom will be foreigners and the other half citizens of the United States, are being selected for known good character and qualification, and each will receive $1,000 for his services during the Exposi tion. The awards will be based upon merit, and will be made by the United States Cen- ten- ial Commission up- n written reports signed by the awarding judges. They will consist of a diploma and a bronze medal, accompanied by a special rejiort of the judges, which exhibitors will have the right to reproduce and publish. Over forty for eign nations and their colonies will exhibit in the main building; most of them also occupy space in the other principal build ings, and many of them have special struc tures. Thirteen of them arc over five thou sand miles distant from Phi adelphia; seven over seventy-five, and two over ten thousand, the latter being about as far as one country can be separated from another. Offices for the foreign commissions are to bo placed along the side aisles of the main building, in close proximity to the exhibits of tiieir respective countries The following special events arc to cccur during the Exposition : Opening ceremonial, May 10th; grand CEREMONIES ON THE FOURTH OF JUYLY ; harvesting display in Bocks county, in June and July; trials of steam plows and tillage implements, in the same place, in September and October; exhibition of horses, mules and asses, September 1 to 15; exhibition of horned cattle, September 20 to Oetober 5; exhibition of sheep, swine, goats and dog*, October 10 to 25, and the exhibition of |Kinltrv, October 28 to November 10. The main Exhibition will close on the 10th of November, and all exhibits must be re moved by the 31st of December. The fol lowing society meetings, parades, regattas, etc., will take place during the Exposition: Anuual conclave of the Knights Teniplar, May 30; grand parade of the Knights Tern- TIGER HUNTING. The Prince or Wales in India. [London Times.] The journey from Moradabad to Nynee Tnl was very agreeable. The carriages were honed by the Royal Artillery from Barelly at six miles stages. There was a guard of honor of the Royal Irish, with band and col ors, at the station. General Payne and staff were on the platform, and an escort of the Sixteenth Bengal Cavalry. At Barhinee the Prince made his firat acquaintance with an In dian hunting camp, of course on a scale of great magnificence, there were nearly 200 ele phants, including those of the Nowab of Karapore and General Ramsay, 550 camels, 120 horses, 526 coolies, 60 ox-carts, about 1.000 native camp followers, 75 of the Third Goorkha Regiment and band, 20 troopers of Probyn’8 Horse, camp police, &c. It was a canvas city complete in itself, clean as a new pin, and beautifully organized. Hav- ( ing breakfhsted in the spacious mess tent, the Pridce continued his route to Nynee Tal iu a carriage to the foot of the hill, where he mounted and rode up. He arrived just in time to see the snow peaks under the roost fa vorable aspect, rose-hued iu the setting sun. It was bitterly cold in the camp at night, and the natives from Southern India suffered severity—indeed, a chorus of coughing was heard all night. Blankets have bwn served out since to all the camp followers, but they are black and give a funeral aspect to them as they sit round camp fires. Next day the snowy range was hidden by a fog. The Prince, on returning from Nynee Tal, was met by the shooting elephants, and i nder General Ramsay’s direction the country was beaten for tigers, which were reported to be near at hand. It needs much patience to plod on the back of an elephant in the sun in marsh and juugle. After several blanks, the Princo ana party were pasted round a patch of deep grass and reeds with water near it. The elephants, formed in line, were sent in to beat. Nothing was seen at first, aud, unfortunately, the Prince was shifted to another place. Immediately after the Prince had moved, out rushed a splendid ti g*- within twenty paces of where the Priuce A Letter by Dr. L. Pierce. The Methodists of North Carolina pro- po; c_ to celebrate the centennial of Method ism in that State, at Raleig commencing on the 12th of March next. Bishop McTyeire is to deliver an address on the founders of Methodism. Dr. Lovick Pierce having been invited to be present, responds in the following characteristic style: “ I take it for granted my North Caro lina friends did not know I had lost my voice so that I am seldom able even to pray in the family. I have made but one out standing appointment in two years; but filled other mens’ p aces nearly every Sab bath. And now, as to North Carolina, how glad I would be to be in it at this centen- nial jubilee. I was bom in Halifax county, N. C, near Roanuku river, March 14th, 1785. So, you see, my 92d birth day will come off the last day of your centennial celebration. I was removed, to South Carolina when a child. Was raised in Barnwell District Heard my first Meth odist sermon in August, 1801, by Jkines Jenkins—-was awakened nuder it, and con verted in August, 1803. Admitted as a traveling preacher in the South Carolina Conference, in Charleston, Christmas week, 1804; aud traveled Great Pee Dec Creek circuit in 1805. That was the nearest I ever got to North Carolina, although half of it was in the con ference. They stuck me down in Georgia as a young presiding elder in 1809. So I have given sixty years out of my 91 in the ministry to the dear old Georgia. South Carolina got 1805 to 1808; Alabama in Moutgoinery, 1842, aud in Mobile, 1843. All the balance here. They still keep me on the effective list— the greatest honor of my life. It is what I have been—and not for what I am now. My dear native state has only got a few picked up sermon*. Raleigh I think, got one or two small efforts in 1840. But 1 can hope, by the time .the second centennial comes round, she will be all Methodists. I am now getting afraid of things that are high. Stand night travelling badly—cannot take care of myself. But I am bent upou THE FAIRY SHELL. One day, when-wandering on the shore That once wae rated by Merinell, I found within a defied rock A atnngely twisted, curious shell With epinl whorls ot pnariy white, And hollow* tinged with roseate light This shell possessed a won Irons power, For, placed against the listener’s ear, He heard, though gentle, (hint and low, The tones of thou he held most dear; V Though parted far by land or wave, The laithfhl shell an echo gave. “ Oh! happy gift to man,” add I; “ More precioafc then the pdnter’s art; How oft alialt thou in distant climes, Console the ever taithfol heart. Bring back the cherished voice again. And take from absence half it* pdn.” “Vdn ore thy thoughts,” a nymph replied; ” For thoee who own it will lament That never through its echoes faint, ■ Can tidings from the love be sent; The distant aomtd is only caught, But never word or message brought “’Twill only woken yearnings vdn; ’Twill only pierce the heart anew. And bring to mind with tenfold pdn The anguish of tha last adieu. When all is lost beyond recdl •Tlsbetter far* veilahonM tat,” ■ s She ceased. I turned end threw the shell Beneath the tossing, foaming tide, Too well can memory wakou grief, That man abould seek for aught beside; Love needs it not, for Love can last When dl things of Time are put. > PHACTS AND PHUN. Olive Logan says that Mias Kellogg’s mouth is a rose and pearl music box. We know a man so lazy that it would be impossible fi>r him to die suddenly. Mr. Hendricks has been invited by tho Legislature of Mississippi to visit that State. It came just now - Poem to the first Blew Bird of Spring. We thought the fools were not all dead yet. , Marriage is happiness, where the people wed to be together; it is misery where they unite only to live apart. Gen. B tier is said to be a Catholic, be* cause his eyes have been seen to cross themselves. The Marquis of Lome doesn’t get along well with his mother-in-law. —Ex. What a pity her daughter was ever all for Lome. “ The Indiana glass works are ntnning had just been stationed, but wlieuce he had ; f u |j;||i n g m y place next May as one of your now removed some fifty yards further, lbe - f ra ternal' messeugers to the M. E. Church night and day,” turning out demijohns for Prince tired, but the grass was high, aud g enerJ | conference, at Baltimore.” the Democratic campaign. plar, Juue t; special gathering of the Order of Good Templars, Jime 13; international regatta in New York harbor, June 22; yacht regatta on the Daiaware river, June; special gathering of the Sons of Temper ance, June ; international series of cricKet- matches, June and September; congress of authors in Independence Hall, July 2; parade of Catholic societies and dedioatian of the T. A. B. Fountain, July 4; parade of military organizations, July 4; parade of the Knights of Pythias, August 22; inter national rowing regatta, August 20 to Sep tember 15; international rifle matches, September; international medical congress, September 4, and September 20 the parade of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Corbin’s Bomb-Shell. Capt. Henry C. Corbin of the Twenty- fouth United States Infantry, now stationed in Texas, rises to contradict the statements made by Gen. Ora before the House Com mittee a few weeks since, in regard to the character and conduct of negro soldiers. According to this account—contained in our Washington specials of yesterday—Gen. Ord did not know what he was talking about. The colored troops were uot only “perfectly orderly,” but “ really better behaved than the white soldiers;” which makes a very plain and pretty issue between Ord and Cor bin, and we leave these gentlemen to settle it. Capt. Corbin, however, raises another question which is likely to vex the War De partment considerably. The present army regulations keep the negro and the white sol diers separate; that, in different regimeuts. No negroes are allowed to eulist in white reg iments, and vice versa. Corbin protests against this arrangement as being in flat vi olation of the civil rights bill, aud asks per mission to enlist a certain “ likely young white man” who has applied for admission into his negro company. Of course if the detriment yields in this instance it concedes the ]ioint involved, and htreafler enlistments will be governed by personal inclination and not by the color of the recruits. We think the gallant Captain has the law cn his side- If negroes have all the rights of white men while simple citizens, they cannot consistent ly be deprived of any of these rights by be coming soldiers. A white man may enlist in nny regiment he pleases, providing he passes inspection. Why not allow a negro the same privilege? It cannot be denied him without nullifying the spirit, if not the letter, of the civil rights bill. If Corbin’s theory prevails—and we don’t see how it can do otherwise—the regular army of the United States will be a wonder ful thing to behold a few years hence. Tlie mixing of two races in the same compa nies and regiments will moke the whole a happy combination of the grotesque and the arabesque, “ Where oil that’s .beat of Jark and bright, Meet in their aspect and their eyes.” A line cf hnttle formed of such variegated heroes would resemble a moving check-board, and might have as much effect upon the en- emv as the hideous masks and {Minted lan terns of tHe Chinese Invincible*. What sort of discipline could be maintained among the military amalgamationists; how much they would be worth in peace and how much in wa r —we leave military authorities to deter mine. Meanwhile,’ Corbin’s bombshell prom ises to explode under Secretary Belknap’s official chair with most exhilarating effect.— St. Lends Republican. If tlie people of the country had not in the autumn of 1874 declared their detesta tion ot Giantism, and elected a House of Representatives unalterably opposed toGrant and all bis works, Belknap would still be selling offices. He would have been as se cure from punishment ns Robeson was when his illegal and corrupt payment of $93,000 to Secor was exposed. We are only beginn ing to gather the wholesome fruits of that moral revolution.—N. Y. Sun. the tiger, which received the fire of others of the party, got off untouched. Subsequently a leopard was started from the jungle, which the Prince wounded, and which was killed only after several balls had been lodged in it. Deer were found ou the way home, and af forded good sport. The novelty of the scen ery and of the life in some measure compen sated for the disappointment in tigers. Around the vast plains aud forests of the Tend the jungle extended as for as eye could reach to the blue Himalayas. At night a great fire is lighted, and the Prince sits, wrapped in his cloak, listening to Geueral Ramsay’s stories of Indian life, and discus sing the arrangements for the next day’s sport. Un the Uth, after having breakfas ted at the camp, the party was divided into two, and beat the country across to a place called Peepup Perow, thirteen miles to the eastward, but, as on the previous day, t.iere was no luck. Tracks of a tigress followed by three cubs were made out at one place, but the most diligent perquisition by ele phants tailed to discover their lair. The country is swarming with other game. Peep- pup Perow will not be found on maps, ex cept those of the local officers. There is uo village there ; indeed, there is no fixed pop ulation visible hereabout nt all, but iu open glades and spaces cleared by fire we burst upon grass sheds which are built by people from the bills, who migrate here in winter to feed their miserable herds on the coarse herbage, paying the Government for the privilege. These people seem quiet, inoffen sive, aud poverty-stricken enough. There are no roads—only tracks through the forest; at all events, the shooting parties do not come upon regular highways. But Kumaon makes great strides and yields an increasing revenue to the Government, though not by any means equal to the amount it yielded in former days under the native princes. On the 12th the camp was again broken up.amd the Prince, under General Ramsay’s direc tion, made a wide sweep through a singular ly wild district, but no tigers could be found in the most likely places. It was dark when the Prince moved into a new camp at Ten- dah ; but. though he had shot no tigers, the elephants were loaded with game, including fifteen varieties. As these lines are being written on Satur day night the Priuce of Wales is seated in front of a blazing catnp fire, listening to the music of the excellent band of the Third Goorkha Regiment. Goorkhas play Verdi, Offenbach, Donizetti, Mozart, with a chorus of jackals and wolves in the distance,, clear moonlight and stars shining, and this in the heart of the Terai, the home of wild beasts, where the Royal Standard was floating till sundown. The camp at Peepup was broken up at 10 this (Saturday) morning, when three parties were formed to shoot on the way to a place nine miles distant, but detours in the juugle are lone and many, and the distance absolutely traversed was considera bly more. There was some appropriate ti ger ground, which General Ramsay heat admirable, but the landlords were not at home, and it is a drawback to a tiger search pure and simple that other game must pass unmolested When the coverts were found void, the Prince and his party shot on their way to the camp, and a great variety ef deer was obtained—deer, several species of wild boar and birds. The two parties in charge of Mr. Colvin and Mr. Prinsep got their fair sh ire of sport, but beat for tiger in vain, and were content with sumbar, cheetah and other large and small deer. This part ot the Terai is composed of pratrie and primeval forests intersected by streams, which in pla ces form deep morasses, in which tall ele phants were buried up to the shoulders. The wilds teem with strange birds, peacocks, (Mitridges, parrakeets, vultures, plover, fal- conidsD, snipes, quails, water-foul and infini ty of reed birds, some very minute and beautiful. There are also wolves, jackals, foxes, porcupines, four species of deer and two of antelopes. The grass is to be tracked only by the waving reeds and the agitation of the elephants. Only tigers are wanting to complete a sportsman’s paradise; but there are plenty of them to come, and it will bo a great disappointment if at last a score are nut killed before lbe Prince turns south wards to Allahabad, were by the by, there are to be a Durbar aod Star ot India investi tures. The people are very anxious that tigers should be killed, as they cause enor mous losses in cattle, and interfere with ag riculture. A Cop; on File. We are indebted to brother Blaine, of Maine, tor a copy of his speech on “Jefferson Davis and amnesty.” We prize it highly, and shall hang it up on a rusty nail behind the door, with a string of red pepper and a bottle ot No. 6. The latter are to the body what Blaine’s is te the spirit—a powerful irritant The red pepper and the No. 6. are said to be specifics for physical torpidity; and so when a man finds his soul too quiet, balmy anil charitable, and sees that he is in danger of a fatal attack of good nature, Blaine’s speech will raise the ancient Adam within hitn in five minutes, and bring him to despise mankind. We do not wonder that the Radicals are circulating it by the millions; for, hatred and civil and social discord being their meat, what would be a fatal dose of this speech to a Democrat, would only flavor a Radical man’s porridge. Brother Blaiue appreciated the necessities of his party when he prepared ihis speech, lie saw that thiugs were getting so quiet that it was dying of inanition and lack of stimulus, and so he borrowed a hint from Spencer, when he wanted to tone up the Autauga county niggers to a proper sense of the party situation, and put spirits of turpen tine and aqua fortes into their whisky. Blaine drew on his resources rf bile, verjuice and choler to the very dregs in compounding this speech, and haa a right to believe that when a Radical gets full of it he will vote for Blaine, of Maine, the bloody shirt, an an other war.—Telegraph and Messenger. How lie IVontid Iris Watch. A day or two since Mr. Shaw, lime keeper of the Consolidated Virginia Maine, found a watch lying in the snow, where it had evi dently been dropped by some one working in or obout the mine. Mr. Shaw wrote a notice to that effect, posting it the side of the window to which the men came to give in their names when going or coming off their shifts. Several raeu called and des cribed what was according to their ideas a “valuable watch,” nearly all making it gold, with a fine chain of the same metal. Some set a number of pieces of gold quartz into the links of the chain. At last a little Frenchman came to tho window and said: “You find one vatch, Mistair Shaw?” “Yes, sir.” said Shaw. “Have you lost a watch ?” “Yes, sare, me have lose me one vatch.’’ “Can you describe it?” “Oh, yes, sare, me can descripe him vet’ perfec'ly.” “Well, what was it like?” “My vatch he vas a silver vatch.” “Very good. What kind of cases?” “Veil, he have he’s face wide open.” “What kind of chain?” “One leetle brass sham.” “What kind of key was on the chain?” “Veil, no key be on ze shain. He have no key at all. I wind him by ze tail.” The watch was a stem-winder, and the Frenchman had given a perfect description of it, even down to “ze tail.”—Virginia (Nev.) Enterprise. Save Dat Pocket Book.—A negro planter came up to Vicksburge, the other day, sold his cotton, put the money in his K>cket-book and started down the river, meaning too for over the guards as the boat backed out he fell over-bnard. His porte- monaie, which was in his pocket, floated out and rode with his hat on the surface of the water, while the current carried the negro away. The yawl was lowered, assistance at once started toward the drowning man, who, perceiving his treasure floating off, raised his voice and shouted: “ Save dat pocket-book.” His head went under and he disappeared. As he rose to the top again he gasped “ Dar’s 8118 in dat pocket book 1" Scarce ly bad he uttered these words, before he sank a second time. The yawl came, within reach just in time to rescue the drowning Atricau as he came to the surface for the last time. As soon as the water was wiped from his nose and mouth so that he could speak be asked: “ Did —did you save dat pocket-book ? “ No!” was the response. “ Well, den,” said the negro regretfully, “ what de debbil was de use of savin’ me ?”— Vidctburg Herald. Mrs John Smith’s baby was bom on the 29th alt., and Mr. John Smith wants to know on what day his baby will be a year old. This question must be considered by our American philosophers. Mr. James Gordon Bennett, of the Sara toga trunk feet and the Herald, will be married to Miss Carrie May, a niece of gallaut Harry May, on the 17th of April. They are calling Thurman a trimmer, Hendricks a hemmer, Blaine a blister, Chandler a filler, Coukliug a pinker, Sher man a ripper, and sew forth. The Duke of Edinburgh takes command of the Sultan, armor-plated frigate, on tho 1st of April. She will make a two-years’ cruise, and his wife returns to Russia. Prince Bismarck rode on horseback Wednesday—the first time in a year. Ho looks well, and it is now reported that he is in satisfactory health. Professor (looking at his watch): “As W’e have a few minutes, I should like to have any questions, if so disposed.” Stu dent : “ What time is it. please ?” When Belknap lived in Iowa, ho was satisfied and honest. His rollicking, swag gering, good nature, adapted to tho prai ries, became swollen pomposity when Gen. Grant took him out of his nati ral sphere. In the Sorosis Sisterhood, of New York, are three women who live happily with their husbands If they cannot bo con verted this season, they arc to be turned ou. ns unfit for the women of the period to associate with. Ont in the Black Hills gold region, when you buy a bowl of bean soup, you take off your coat, dive for a bean, ar.d when you come up with it, the proprietor of the sa loon takes it away from you and says you only paid for soup. Josh Billings writes that “ Philosophers aul agree that the inilk is put into the ko- kernut, and the hole is neatly plugged up; hut who duz it, the philosophers are honest enough, for a wonder, to admit they can’t tell us.” A story is told of a venerable negra in Iowa who was on trial for an offence against tlie State. When the case was announced in the court, “The State of Iowra versus Sampson Ctesar,” the aged African exclaim ed: “What! de whole State of Iowa agin dis chile! Den I surrenders.’’ A magnificent cameo, supposed to be the portrait of Octavia, the second wife of Mark Antony, and the sister of Augustus, has been brought to the notice of the Paris Academic des Inscriptions. The stone is a sardonyx, with a milky surface, the inte rior bviug of a reddish black, and the work manship of the cameo is exquisitely delicate. The face is evidently a portrait, and the head resembles that of the Venus of Milo. The Charlotte (N. C.) Observer tells the following: “A darky in that place ap proached a citizen the other day ani asked if it would be a very great sacrifice on bis part to accept an office. “ Fur,” continued the darky, “ we niggers wants somebody for Mayo'- what’ll let de cows run lose, what’ll let de bar-rooms stay open on Sun day, and what’ll let de gamblers raise hell ebry night if dey wants to, and you is just de man dat we wants.” Our friend uncov ered himself and bowed his grateful ac- knowledgement of tho compliment,” President Grant in the Ring.—Our telegrams ot yesterday dearly implicate Pres ident Grant, It would seem from the. testi mony of a New York banker, telegraphed yesterday, that Scheock’s iniquity was caus ed bv a letter of advice of the president of the United States, for which letter of advice. Grant was paid 820,000. Every step in this development creates the discovery of greater frauds. Belknap, convicted, owned up. Robeson, charged with greater frauds of open-handed stealing, is appointed by the president, himsdf, is charged with bribery aud corruption. The democratic house will be forced to prepare a sweeping charge against the whole radical ring. Hon. A. H. Stephens.—“From Dr. Alfriend, of Albany, who has been in atten dance at Crawfordviile for the past : ten days on Hon. A. H. Stephens we learn the follow- ingfacta: Mr. Stephens is in a more comfortable condition than for some weeks past, with a tendency in his disease to a favorable crisis but leaving tho left long in so feeble a con dition, as to excite the greatest doubt a9 to his recovery. In short.takinginto considera tion the already much prosrated state of his physical system, together with the disadvant* _ " , . „ ages of his age, necessarily makes the progno- Horace Gteelej a advice to Go \V eat „, 8 0 f jj[ 3 case exceedingly unfavorabe.—Ai. glaring swindle. The fact that the Ins dians have been living West all their lives and are still poor, with scarcely enough clothes to hide their nudity, prove this. Const. Leap year is voted a bust in Blackshear, Georgia.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Athens weekly Georgian. (Athens, Ga.) 1875-1877, March 14, 1876, Image 1