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VOL.'4. NO. 22.
ATHENS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1876.
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Business and Professional Cards.
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L. & II. COBB,
At tor neys at Lair,
Athens, Ga.
Office in Deupree Building.
iVI.22.ly.
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CHILDS, NICKERSON & CO.
PEALEKSIN
Hardware, Iron, Steel, Nails,
FAIRBANKS’ SCALES,
RUBBER BELTING,
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS,
Mill Findings,
AGENTS TOR
Winship and Sawyers Cotton Gins,
&c., &c., Ac.
ATHENS, GEORGIA.
GINS DELIVERED IN ATHENS AT MANUFAC
TURERS PRICES.
Sept. 50—1-tf,
O YE TEARS.
•OH BT SB. MACZAT.
O ye tear* l O y* fears! that havo long refused to flow,
Yoaro welcome to mjr heart, thaariaf, thawing like the
The ice-bound clod haa yielded, and the early snow-
drops spring,
And the healing fountains gush and the wilderness
shall sing.
O ye tears! O ye tears!
O ye tear* I O ye tears! 1 am thankful that ye run,
Tbo’ ye come from cold and dark, ye shall glitter in
theajin;
The rain-bow cannot cheer ns if the showers reftme
to 1*11,
And tba eyes that cannot weep, are the saddest eyes
of all.
0 ye tears! O ye tears!
O ye tears!
1 was self *
Ye have
erect and free,
And know that 1 am human, by the light of sympathy.
Oyetcan! O ye tears!
O ye tears! 0 ye tears! ye relieve me of my pain,
The barren rock of pride, has been stricken ouce again;
Like the rock tost Moses smote amid Uoreb’s burning
tears! O ye tesro! ’till I feltye on my cheeks,
i selfish in my sorrow, 1 wss stubborn, 1 was weak;
have given me strength to conquer, and 1 stand
■and,
ALEX. S. ERWIN,
Attorney at Lair,
Athens, Ga.
Office on Broad Street, between Center &
Reaves and Orr & Co., up stairs.
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Jl. E. THRASHER,
A22 OLtNEY A2 LA W,
WATKINBV1LLE, ga.
Office in former Ordinary’s Office. j*n25-ly
REMOVAL!
2. A. SALE, LEJV2IS2,
HAS REMOVED to the office lately occupied by Dr. J.
W. Morrell.
Satisfaction guaranteed in both Work and Prioea.
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3P. S’. tAL»ADC2,
—DEALER IN—
Amman and Imported Watches, Clocks, Jewelry,
SILVER AND PLATED WARE,
Musical Instruments, Guns, Pistols, Etc.
WATCHES, CLOCKS AND JtWKLtrV BEFAIKEO IX A SEAT,
WOKKBASLIKE MANNER,
And warranted to give entire satisfaction.
Ornammtul and Plain LctUr Engraving a Spteidltg.
COLLMZ ATUnn, oiiw troa B::l Stera Ccrntr, ATEX32, QA.
feb.lStC _
**• WSU,
Boot and Shoe Manufacturer,
COLLEGE AVENUE,
Next Boor to Post Office.
O N hand, Uppers for making Low Quartei.-, Con
gress, Alexis-Ties, and Prince ^Alberts. Repair
ing promptly executed. *
bend ten dollnrs, per mail or express and yon shall re
eeivc s first class pair of boots.
Jane SO, 1875. ’ 35-1 f.
Great Reduction in Prices
F or the nest thirty davs. Brackets, Wall
Fccketa, and all kinds of Ornamental Wood Work,
will be sold at
GREATLY REDUCED PRICES.
Now is the time to make your bouses beautiful at low
figures.
Great bargains given in everything at
BURK
‘ TTyields the flowing -wiser,-tomskc-glad nessin Urn
land. v
O ye team 1 0 ye tens!
There is light open my path; there ia sunshine in my
heart,
And the leaf and iVuit of life shall not ntterly depart.
Ye restore to me the freshness and the bloom of long
ago,
O ye tear*! O happy tears I 1 am thankful that ye flow.
O ye team 1 happy tears!
CROUP.
MARK TWAIN’S BABY.
That’s a good idea, but who trill help
You can help mo all I want, I wouldn’t
allow anybody to do anything but, myself,
anyhow, at sqcb a time as this.”
I said I would feel mean to lie abed and
sleep, and leave her to watefi and toil over
our little patient all the weary night. But
she reconciled mo to it. So old'Mima de
parted and took up her ancient quarters in
the nursery.
Penelope coughed twice in her sleep.
“ Oh, why don’t the doctor come? Mor
timer, this room ia too warm. This room
is cet taiuly too warm. Turn off the register
—quick!”
I shut it off glancing at the thermometer
at the same time, and wondering to myseh
if 70 was too warn for a sick child
“ The coachman arrived from down town
with the news that - the physician was ill
nd confined to his bed. Mrs. McWilliams
turned a.dead eve upon me, and said in a
dead voice: “TheYe is prcvidenoujjj"
It is foreordained. He never was rick
fbre. Never. We have not been-living as
we ought to . live. Mortimer, time and
time again I have told you so. Now, you
see the result. Out child will never get
well. Be thankful if you can forgive your
self. I never can forgive myself’*
I said, without intent to hurt, but with
heedless choice of words, that I could not
sec that we had been living such an aban
doned life.
C. D. HILL, t
ATTOHNEY AT LAW,
ATHENS, GEORGIA.
Prompt attention given to all business and the sen
respectfully solicted. jtnll-ly.
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LJUKE’S Bookstore.
BANKRUPT BLANKS.
P hilip asoloman’s authorized edition,
_ the only complete edition published. Sent by
Mark Twain, referring to himself as Mr.
McWilliams, describes his experience with
his wife during a supposed case of croup in
the family. Only a married man cou.d
have written the sketeli—it is too true to
the life:
Well, to go back to where I was before,
I digressed to explain to you how that
frightful and incurable disease, membranous
croup, was ravaging tbc town and driving
all mothers mad with terror, I called Mrs.
McWilliams’ attention to little Penelope,
and said: “ Darling, I wouldn’t let that
child be chewing that pine stick, if 1 were
you.”
“ Precious, where is the barm in it ?” site
said, but at the same time preparing to
take away the stick—for women cannot re
ceive even the most palpably judicious sug
gestion without arguing it; that is, mar
ried women.
“ Love, it is notorious that pine is the
least nutritious wood that a child can eat.”
My wife’s hand paused in the act of taking
the stick and returned itself to her lap;
she bridled perceptibly and said: “ Hubby,
you know better than that. You know you
do. Doctors all say that tur entinc in pine
kid-
mail at $1
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T. A,
■ale by
.. BURKE,
Bookseller and Stationer.
POPE BARROW,
ATTORNEY A2 LAW,
ATHENS, GA.
Office in Mr. J. II. Newton’smw hnilding.
.ian4.lv.
AUG UST DORR,-
ME It CHANT TAIL OB,.
luroBTXK or Fixe Cloths akd Doeskins,
HATS, READY-MADE CLOTHING, AND GENTS’
FURNISHING GOODS,
febl5.}m, 823 Broad Street, Aognata, Ga.
IF. R. LITTLE,
Attorney at Lair,
CARNRSVILLE, GA.
J. S. DORTCH,
Attorney at Lair,
CARNB9V1LLB, GA.
CalSH M OII WOOL,
—OR—
CLOTH FOR WOOL.
Tbe Athens Manufacturing Company are now making a
much larger variety of Woolen Goods than ever before,
and propose 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 Sample* and Terms ot
Exchange. It. L. BLOOMFIELD, Agent.
May 19,1875—29-tf.
Miss C. Potts,
fashionable Dressmaker
(Over University Hank.)
Broad Street, - - - Athens.
Would respectfully inform tbe Ladies and her friends
generally, of Athens and viemfty, that she ia now pre
pared to do Dress making in the Neatest and most
F ASH ION ABLE STYLES.
With her e(|
giving sal
' experience in the business, she feels ante ot
itis (action. May 14, 1875—28-tf.
A. O. MeCURRY,
*« TTO RATE r T JL At IF,
nARTWELL, GEORGIA.
WILL give strict personal attention to all buxines* en
trusted to his caw. Aug. 4—40—ly.
Asa M. Jackson. L. W. Thomas.
JACKSON <t- THOMAS,
■ A ttorneys at Law.
Athens, Georgia. _
JOHN W. OWEN,
Attorney at* Law.
TOCOOA CITT, OA.
Will practice in all the counties of the Western Cir
cuit, llart add Madison of the Northern Circuit. Will
give apodal attenion to all claims entrusted to his care,
octsowly.. _
P.G. THOMPSON,
Attorney at Law,
Special attention paid to criminal practice. For refer
ence apply to Ex. Gov. T. if. Watts and Hon. David
Clopton, Montgomery Ala. Offioe over Barry’s Store,
Athens, Gs. Feb. 5-tt
V. S. Internal Revenue.
Dtmr Collxctok's On tor, 1
Fourth District, Georgia, V
Athejs, Jan. 15, 1876.)
A LL PARTIES DESIRING INFOR-
mation as to TAX imposed by the United States
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. janlS-tf
CEHERAL TICKET AGENCY.
RAILROAD TICKETS
Far sale, by «U route*, anil to all principal points in
the
UNITED STATES.
Boy your Tickets before leaving Athens, and get all
information from
Capt. WM. WILLIAMS,
Agent Southern Express Co., Athens, Ga.
r 18, —
May 18, ’75
28.tf.
FRANK HARRALSON,
ATTORNEY AT AW,
CLEVELAND, GA.
Will practice In the conntlee of White, Union, Lorn-
rkm. Towns, and Fanning, end the Supreme Court at
Atlanta. Will give apodal attention to ell slmims en-
Aog. 11187S-—41—
R” R« BAULTER)
DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF
WINES, WHISKIES ami LAGER BEER,
ALE, GIN, CIGARS, A., A.,
CALL AT SAULTERS EXCHANGE,
Jackson Street, Aitif e, Gcorom.
Oct. 8—d-tt.
trusted to his
E. SCHAEFER,
COTTON BUYER,
TOCOOA CITT, OA.
. Highest Ceah Price peid fur Cotton. Agent for Win
’hip’s Gins and Press. octSOsrti.
E. A. WILLIAMSON,
PRACTICAL
watchmaker and jeweller,
At Dr. King’s Drugstore, Broad Street, Athens, Ga.
All work dona ia a superior manner and warranted to
give satisfaction. Jan- S—tr.
A. A. WINN,
—With—
GROOVER, STUBBS & CO.,
Cbttozx Kao tors,
—And—
General Commission Merchants,
Savannah,' Ga-_
Bagging, Ties, Rope and other supplies famkbed.
Also, liberal ca*h..advaneee made on consignments for
sale or shipment to Liverpool or Northern porte.^^
LIVERY AND iALE STABLE
- Carriage, Buggies and Hone* for Hire.
Terms reasonable.
£ M. WHITEHEAD, Washington, Wilks, Cm Ga.
EortStfrr.
Livery, feed and Sale Stable,
ATHENS OA.
GANN & REAVES PROPRIETORS
Will be found at their old atand, rear Franklin Honae
building, Thomas street. Keep always on hand good
Turnouts and careful driver*. Stock we'.t cored for
when entreated to our care. Stock on hand for sale at
all times. declttf.
BOOTS . AND SHOES
TO ORDER.
N W. HAUDRUP,
ARTIST,
Has removed
to the
Letter
guaranteed.
Jane 16,1875—AS-tf
Blasting and Digging Wells!
Alt, ITH AN EXPERIENCE OF TWENTY YEARS,
I TV I hereby tender mj eerviees to tbe cMsene o I
Athena nd vicinity. Tint elaaa work guaranteed.
Residence at the Talmadge House, between the nppal
IfltaMMAABHrtkHBBlIhreeem
bridge end Check Factory.
All orders will
EDWIN W. PORTER.
Planters’ Hotel* Augusta, Ga.
Sommer of 1875,1* now opened, whh increased focili-
tlee for the accommodation of the travelling public,
febl-ly B. P. CHATFIELD, Proprietor.
MEDICAL N01ICE.
At the solicitation of many of my former patrons, I
fosnmo the
Practice of* IVCecLicine
i this date. I will pay especial attention to the d>*-
^f Infaati and Chudren, and the Chronic Diseaec*
W M. KING, M. D
875—w-ly.
Blacksmith Shop.
FEW A MERIWEATHER.
XT ILL FEW AND WESLEY MERIWEATHER,
It having formed a copartnership for 1875, respect-
iHllSnS of AtMQO 1
folly annonneo to the cldten* of Athens and surround,
ing country, that thev are prepared to do all manner of
work in the Blacksmith Line, and at reasonable charges.
They lisvc the best workmen and nse nothing but tbe
best material. Carriage work, plantation .work, horse
elKMlng and any difficult jobs a specialty. Shop ep
postte Msssrt Gann A Reaves’ Livery Stable..
Jaolly.
wood is good for we k back mid the
tieys.”
44 Ah! I was under a misapprehension.
I did not know that the child’s kidneys aud
spine were affected, and that the family
physician had recommended”—
“ Who said that the child’s spine and
kindneys were affected ?”
44 My love, you iutimated it.”
44 The idea l I never intimated anything
of the kind.”
44 Why, my dear, it has’nt been two min
utes since you said”—
44 Bother what I said! I don’t care what
I did say. There isn’t any harm in the
child’s chewing a bit of pine stick if she
wants to, and you know it perfectly welL
And she shall chew it, too! So there,
now!”
“Say no more, tny dear. I now see the
force of your reasoning, and I will go and
order tw o or three cords of the best pine
wood to-day. No child of mine shall want
wliil • I”—
“ Oh, please go along to your office, and
let me have some peace. A body can uever
make the simplest remark but you must
take it np and go to arguing, aud arguing,
and arguing, till you don’t know what you
are talking about, and you never do.”
44 Vcry well, it shall be as you say. But
there is *a want of logic in your last remark
which”-
However, she was gone with a flourish
before I could finish, and had taken the
child with her. That night, at dinner, she
confronted me with a face as white as a
B.'.eet.
“Oh, Mortimer, there’s another! Little
Georgie Gordon is taken.”
‘'Membranous croup?”
“ Membranous croup.”
44 Is there no hope for him ?”
44 None in the wide world. Oh, what is
to become of us?”
By and by our nurse brought in our
Penelope to say good-night, and offer the
customary prayer at the mother’s knee. In
the midst of “ Now I lay me down to sleep,”
she gave a slight cough. My wife fell
back like one stricken with death But
the next moment, she was up and running
away with the activeness which terror in
spires.
She commanded that the child’s crib he
removed from the nursery to our bed-room;
and she w, nt along to see the order exe
cuted. She took me with her, of course.
We got matters arranged with speed. A
cot-bed was put up in my wife’s dressing*
room for the nurse. But now, M-s.
McWilliams said we were too far away
from the other baby, and what if he were
to have the symptoms in the night ?—and
she blanched again, poor thing.
We then restored the crib and the nurse
to the nursery, and put np a bed for our
selves in a room adjoining.
“Presently, however, Mrs. McWilliams
said: 44 Suppose the baby should catch it
from Penelope?” This thought struck a
new panic to her heart, and the tribe of us
could not get the crib ont of the nursery
again fast enough to satisfy my wife,
though she a$si.-ted in her own person, and
well-nigh pulled the crib to pieces in her
frantichurry.
We moved down stairs, but there was
no place to stow the nurse, and Mrs.
McWilliams said the nurse’s experience
would be an iifestimable help. So we re
turned, hag and baggage, to our own bed
room once more, and felt a great gladness,
like storm-buffeted birds that have found
their nests again.
Mrs. McWilliams sped to the nursery to
see how things were going on them. She
was hack in a moment with a new dread.
She arid: “What can make the baby
sleep so?”
“I said: 44 Why, ray darling, baby als
ways sleeps like a graven image.”
“I know, I know; but there’s something
pecn.iar about his sleep now. He seems
—he Kcems to breathe so regularly,
this is dreadful 1”
“'But, my dear, lie always breathes regu-
larly.’- ___ ' J ___
44 Oh, I know it, hut there’s something
dreadful about it now. His nurse is too
young and inexperienced. Maria shall stay
44 Mortimer! Do you want to bring the
judgment upon baby too?”
Then she began to cry, but suddenly ex
claimed : “The doctor must have sent med
icines !”
I said, “ Certainly, they are here. I was
only wait'ng for you to give me a chance.”
“Well, do give them.to me! Don’t
you know that every moment is precious
now ? But what was the use in sending medi
cines when he knows that the disease is.
incurable ?”
I said that while there was life, there was
liojie.
“Hope! Mortimer, you know no more
what you are talking about than the child
unborn. If you would As I live, the
directions say give one teaspoonful once an
hour! Once an hour! as if we had a whole
year before us to save the child in! Morti
mer, please hurry. Give the poor, perish
ing thing a tablespoonful aud try to be
quick.” 44 What, my dear, a tablespoonful
might’’— “ Don’t drive me frantic! * *
There, there, there! mv precious, my own;
it’s nasty, hitter stuff, but it’s good for
Nelly—good for mother’s preious darling';
and it will make her well. There, there,
there, pnt the little head on mamma’s
breast and go to sleep, and pretty soon—
Oh, I know she can’t live till morning!
Mortimer, a tablespoonful every half hour
will—Oh, tho child needs belladoua, too!
I know she does—and aconite. Get them,
Mortimer. Now, do let me have’my V»y’.
You know'nothing about time things.’*
We now went to bed, placing the crib
close to my wife’s pillow. AU this turmoil
had worn upon me, and within two minutes,
I was something more than half asleei
Mrs. McWilliams roused me:
that register turned-on?”
“No.”
“I thought ns much. Please turn it on
at once. This room irtoo cold.”
I turned it on, and presently fell asleep
again. I was aroused once more
“Dearie, would you mind moving the
crib to your side of the bed? It is nearer
the register.”
I moved it, but had a collision with the
rug, and woke. up the child. I dozed off
once more, while my wife quieted the suf
ferer. But in a little while these words'
came murmuring through the fog of my
drowsiness:
44 Mortimer, if. we only l»d some goose
grease—will you ring?”
1 climbed drearily out, and stepped on a
cat, which responded with a protest, and
would have got ..^-convincing kick tor it if
a chair had not got it instead.
“Now, Mortimer, why do you want to
turn up the gas- and wake up the child
again?”
44 Because I want to see how much I am
hurt, Caroline.”
44 Well, look at the chair, too—I have no
doubt it is ruined. Poor cat, suppose you
had ”
“ Now, I am uot going to suppose any*
thing about the cat. It never would have
occurred if Maria had been allowed to re
main here and attend to these duties, which
are in her line, and are not in mine.”
44 Now, Mortimer, I should think you
would be ashamed to make a remark like
that. It is a pity if you cannot do the few
little things that 1 ask of you at such an aw
ful time as this, when our child •"
44 There, there, I will do anything you
want. But I can’t raise anybody with this
bell. They’re gone to bed! Where is tbe
goose grease?”
44 Ou the mantlepiece in the nursery. If
you’ll step in there and speak to Maria—’’
I fetched the gooce grease and went to
sleep again. Once more I was called.
“ Mortimer, I so bate to disturb you, but
the room is too cold for ise to try to apply
this stuff. Would you mind lighting the
fire? It’s all ready to touch a match to.”
I dragged myself out and lit the fire, end
then sat down,* disconsolate.
Mortimer, don’t set there and catch your
death of cold. Come to bed.”
As I was stepping in, she said: “But
wait a moment. Please give the child
more of the medicine.”
Which I did. ; It was medicine which
made a child more or lees lively; eo my
wife made use of its waking interval to strip
it and grease it all over with the goose oil
I was soon asleep once more, butoooe more
I had to get up.
Mortimer, 1 feel a draft, I fed it distinct
ly. There is nothingso bad for this disease
as a draft. Please move tbe crib in front of
thefirer
I did it, end collided with the. rug again,
which I threw into tbe fire. Mrs..
McWilliams sprang out of bed and rescued
i), and we had some words. I. bad another
trifling interval of sleep, and then got up,
by request, and constructed a flax-seed poul
tice. This was placed upon the child’s
breast, and left there .to do its healing work.
A wood fire is not a permanent thing. I
got up every twenty minutes and renewed
ours, and this gave Mrs McWilliams an op
portunity to shorten the times of gfying the
medicines by ten minutes, which was a great
satisfaction to her. Now and then,' between
times, I reorganized the flaxseed poultices,
and applied sinapisms! and other blisters
where unoccupied places could bo found
upon the child..
, Well, towards morning the wood gave out.
and m,. wife wanted me to go dowu in the
cellar and get some more. I said: “My
Now, mightn’t we put on another
layer ot poultices and—^
I did not finish, became I was interrupt
ed. I legged wood up from below for stmia
little time, and then turned in and fell to
noting as only a man can whan .strength k
all gone and whose soul is worn out
Last, at broad daylight, I felt a grip on
my shoulders that brought me to my senses
suddenly. My wife waa glaring down on me
and gasping. As soon as she could com
mand her tongue she said, “It is all over.
AU over! The child perspiring! What
shall we do?”
“Mercy, how you terrify me. I don’t
know what we ought to do. Maybe if we
scrape her and put her in tbe draft again—*
“Oh, idiot! There is not a moment to
lose. Go for tho doctor. Go yourself.
Tell him be must come, dead or alive.”
I dragged that poor rick man from his
bed and brought him. He looked at the
child, and said she was not dying. This
waajqy unspeakable to me, but it made ray
wife as mad a?lf he htiaBendirpiMw
affront. Then he said the child’s cough
was only caused by some trifling irritation or
other in the throat At this I thought my
wife had mind to show him the door. Now,
the doctor said be would make the child
cough harder and dislodge the trouble. So
he gave her something that sent her into
spasm of coughing, and presently up came a
little wood splinter or so.
“This child has no membranous croup,'
said he. “She has been chewing a bit of
pina shingle or something ot the kind, and
got some little slivers in her throat. They
won’t do her any hurt.”
“No," said I. “I can well believe that.
Indeed, the turpentiue that is in them Ik
very good for certain diseases that are pecu
liar to children. My wife will tell you so.”
But she did not. She turned away in
disdain and left the room; and since that
time there is one episode in our life which
we never refer to. Hence the tide of our
days flows by in d-tep and untrt-ubled sereni
ty.
Major B. E. Crane. President or the Allanta
Chamber of Commerce-. Ufa Address of
into existence, and haa caused a land late a
wilderness, to bloom and blossom as the
rose, noisy with the hum of a busy people,
I hail yon as h nored guests in behalf of
the chamber of commerce and the business
men of Atlanta, I bid you wlcome, t rice
welcome, to our hospitality—our hem sand
our homes—[Long continued applause.]
—Constitution
Uone Mad from Religion.
From the Savannah Nines we extract tho
following:
Tho New York Herald notices the fact
that several persons have gone insane from
religious excitement, induced by the 44 ex
hortations and zealous and fervid appeals ”
of Moody and Sankey during their Hippo
drome meetings in that city. The Herald
says there has been since the beginning of
the revivals, many cases of religious mania,
and mentions the fact that numbers of men
aud women are brought to the station
houses at night by the police, supposed from
their cnatinet to-^be-under. riroinfbj^ope of
liquor, but who prove to be laboring"under
religious frenzy or monomania, and are sent
to the asylums or taken charge of by their
friends. The Herald gives tho following
case of a colored boy by the name of
Williams:
The most violent case yet made public is
that of tho colored boy, Edward Williams,
who was arrested by the police while making
a charge on Henry Bergh’s office with a
rusty Revolutionary cavalry sabre, as he
charged in, waving his sabre over his hear
with a ■rightful etiergy, and shouting at the
top of his voice: “Git out quick! I am
God! Mr. Moody has sent me from Jesus!
Look out for your skulls 1” Edward Wil
liams was secured after a hard struggle and
lakeu to Bellevue Hospital, where ne was
strapped down on an iron bed in a cell He
became less violent. Here Edward stated
he saw 44 150,001 angels standing around
the lamb, and that good Mr. Moody was
the old angel ” “ Oh, God!” said Edward,
who is a handsome looking mulatto lad oi
19 years of age, with an intelligent face,
“if I only had a celestial banjo for to kinder
thrum alongside of the
just get in an
Welcome tothe Northwestern Excursionists, divine Mr.Sankcy, wouldn’t that be heaven,
With no small degree of pride and grati-! eh ?” Here the poor boy frothed at his
' mouth, and tried to tear his face and
strangle himself. This is as sad a case as
ns to
Off
fication have the numerous Athenian friends
of our former townsman, Maj. B. E. Crane,
witnessed the position which lie lias steadi'y
occupied in the esteem and confidence of
the people of Atlanta. Maj. Crane, posses
sing in a high degree those intrinsic merits
which never fail to make the good and
worthy citizen, has gradually risen in
popular favor and the appreciation of the
people of his adopted city, until he is now
claimed as one of her leading and most in
fluential citizens. As President of the
Chamber of Commerce, it became his
duty, in behalf of the Commercial interest
of Atlanta, to welcome the Northwestern
excursionists to their city. His address,
on the occasion of the “Grand Reception”
of these visitors at the Opera Honse,
though brief! is so replete with sound,
practical sense, and so aMy <imd happily
expressed, that we take pleasure in pre-
g it to his many friends in this com-
yaud^o-lhe numerous readers of tho
Gboroian.
MR. CRANK’S ADDRESS.
Ladies and Gentlemen : As the Pres
ident of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce,
the pleasant duty devolves on me to extend
to you, in their behalf, a welcome to our
city.
Commerce is the life-blood of a nation.
Nay* more. It is the creator of nations.
Its spirit of enterprise whitens every sea
with the sail* of its vessels, discovering new
worlds—civilizing the barbarian—.christian
izing the heathen. Its spirit is catholic. Its
votaries are cosmopolitan, knowing no
north, no south, no cast, no west. [Ap
plause.]
The call which originated this excursion
states that the representative people of the
south desire to become acquainted with
the people of the great northwest—a peo
ple so noted for theirenergy, intelligence,
liberality and patriotism. This country of
ours—not my country—not yonr country,
bat oar country, [groat applause] contains
all tiie elements of material greatness-
great in the wide extent of her territory—
great in the immense productions of her
soil, mines and manufactories—groat in the
vast volume of her commerce—but greater
still in the energy, enterprise, courage and
heroism with which her sons have illus
trated every page of her history. [Ap
plause.]
Great as this country is, tho people of
the different sections have never properly
known or appreciated each other, ana the
want of this knowledge and of this appre
ciation was the prime cause of the hue civil
war. [Cheer.] This war with all its hor-
rers jfas passed, and God grant it may
never' return. [Loud cheers.] Whatever
else it taught, it certainly caused the people
of either section to more highly appreciate
the fighting qualities of the other. [Laugh
ter and applause.] The heroism which en
abled the southern soldier to bear the
southern standard, unstained and without
dishonor against collosal power, taught yon
people of the north that we were not an
Ciinervated or enfeebled people; the self-
sacrificing devotion which caused the
fathers, sons and brothers, of the north, to
leave home and family ties and to fight in
behalf of tiie Union thev loved so well,
taught ns of the south that
for vour convictions and that you could
handle the musket as well the plowshare.
^ 'fhe'waHias passed and passed forever—
let the dead past bury its dead—let us for
get he sad scene* and only remember those
actions which makes all of us, from every
section, feel prouder of being American
citizens—[Great cheers.], Let us learn the
habits of thought and the distinctive ele
ments of wealth of each section—let each
of ns be proud of his own section and state
and as the varied colors blend and form the
white ljght of the sun, so let our devoUon
to ouf several sections unite in harmonious
devotion to our common country. [Loud
applause. ] , Our people have felt gratified
and honored by the hearty manner in which
you have responded to our invitation to
come among us.. .We feel that yonr com
ing is the-harbinger of an enduring peace,
and as sucTi,'from our very hearts we bid
you welcome. [Applause.] I shall not
detain you longer, 1 had only intended
to’express to you in language, uot apt or
rich euough to portray its heartiness, s
Georgia welcome. [Cheers.] Fellowrcit
PHACTS AND PHUiC
A patient lot of men—the Job printers.
San Francisco has had 120 days of min on
the just and on the unjust.
Chicago Inter- Ocean:—“Marsh came on
like a lion, but went away like a latnb.”
The 8t. Louis Republican says'-' that
Grant’s friends are true as steal.
A rush-light— a hea’d-light on an express
train. ..
Edwin Booth cleared 052,000 by. hie
Southern starring tour.
“Have you heard my last song ?” asked a
music writer of a gruff critic, “I hope so,”
was the reply.
could be known. Young Williams was a
irter in the employment of the Domestic
wing Machine Company at the corner of
Fourteenth street and Broadway, and ua-
universally liked and noted for his honesty
and fidelity. He became an attendant at
the Moody and Sankey meetings, and after
visiting there for a few evenings he came
home to his mother’s house on Fifty-third
street completely crazy and frothing at the
mouth from sheer madness, caused by the
excitement of the several meetings. A few
days since the poor lad was taken from
Bellevue Hospital to the Lunatic Asylum on
Blackwell’s Island, and while on the boat
;oing over he had a lucid interval, but on
is arrival at the asylum he became more
crazy than ever and had to be tied up, in
which state he makes night and day mourn
ful with his heart-piercing cries.
Buying a Cow.
Deacon Smith’s wagon stopped one morn
ing-before Widow Jones’ door, and he gave
the, usual country sign tiiat he wante i
somebody in the house by dropping the
reins and sitting double with his elbows on
his knees. Out tripped the widow, lively
as a cricket, with a. tremendous black rib
bon on her snow-white cap. “ Good morn
ing’’ was said on both sides, and toe
widow waited for what was further to be
said.
“ Well, Ma’am Jones, perhaps you don’t
wan’t to sell one of your cows, uo\v, for
nothing, any way, do you ?”
44 Well, there,Mister Smith,yon couldn’t
have spoken my inind better. A poor lone
woman like me does not know what to do
with so many Cretan, and should be glad
to trade if we can fix it.”
So they adjourned to the m adow.
Deacon Smith looked at Roan—then at h
widow—at Briudle—then at the widow—at
the Downing cow—then at the widow
again—and so through the whole forty.
'Die same call was made every day for a
week, bnt the deacon could not decide
which cow he wanted. At length, .on
Saturday, when the Widow Jones was in a
hurry to get through her baking for Sun
day—and had “ i ver so much to do in the
house,” as all farmers’ wives and widows
have on Saturday—she was a little impa
tient. Deacon Smith was as irresolute as
Profanity and plug tobacco are the crutcht s
i which many a boy walks to a loafer’s
grave.
Senator Matt. Carpenter says that this
government must be run more economically,
and so he has given up wearing suspenders.
You cannot expect a man to stand correc
ted when he has beeu knocked down for
making an erroneous statement.
The Reveille says there ia a gentleman in
Austin who is so noted for his reserved
manners that nobody ever saw him display
any.
A man advertises for a competent person
to undertake the sale of a new medicine—
and adds that “it will prove highly lucra
tive to the undertaker 1”
A Southern bookbinder bound up eighteen
dime novels between Bible covers, and a
preacher carried the book seven miles under
his arm to read some consoling passages to a
dying woman.
Mr. Marrowfat threw out a fine thought
at the table last evening. He remarked
that a mm with’ much honaity abmt him in
these ti.nvM must feel a good deal like tying
it up in a rag for safety.
“Will you take a wing?” gushed a yonng
swell, extending his bent arm to a sensible
young lady, just out of church. “Not of a
gander,” she quietly replied, and walked
home with her mother. ,
Frances I., being desirous to raise one of
the most learned men of the time to the
highest dignities of the noble descent. “Your
majesty,” answered the abbot, “there were
three brothars in Noah’s ark. but I cannot
tell positively from which of them I am de
scended.” He obtained the post.
Please, sur, what’s the fare from Dublin
to Glasgow?” inquired a son of the Emerald
Isl one day of the clerk of a shipping office.
' Eighteen shillings.” replied tbo other. “An’
what d’ye charge for a pig or a cow ?” “Oh.
6d. for a pig, and 3s. fora cow.” “Well,”
replied Pat, “book me as a pig.’’
She waltzed like Juno at the hop; I vow*,
ed the question I would pop; -and as her
nrtuer tendered her a seat, my throbbing
leart with anxious pang did beat. I trip
ped beside my Icvely charm; I bowed and
gently touched her arm. “Engaged for
next?” I said, “my darling Kate?*’ “Go
way.’’ said she, “You hit my vaccinate.”
Mr. Horace Bingham, a carpenter, recent
ly of Massachusetts, but for some.time since
of Faribault, Minn., recently had removed
from his stomach u dark brown water snake
four feet long. He remembers while drink-
ng frmftdfcjqream sixteen years ago that
something of a “ foreign nature” passed down
his throat, but ho only found out the nature
of it seven years ago. *
A telagraph messenger boy got his dis
patches mixed the other day, and handed a
ogjieya telegram which read: “Can you
supply our pulpit next Sunday ?” and to~a
well-known clergyman a dispatch which
«aid: “The race will be postponed until
Monday. Can’t you come dowu and spend
Sunday? Plenty of cards, gin and brandy."
“Bet half a dollar I shall fall down 1 Bet
half a dollar I shall fall!" murmured an old
chap as, loaded to the muzzle with forty-rod
whisky, he was reeling his way down the
street “Bet half a doll ”" Just here
the old boy’s heels flew so high into the air
that his head and shoulders beat them back
to tbe ground. Rising to a sitting posture
he took up his hat, rubbed the back of his
head, ana then said: “Won the money 1
And it is the first bet I’ve won this year.”
44 That ’ere Downing cow is a pretty fair
cretur,” said he, “but”—he stopped to
glance at tho widow’s face, and then walk
ed around her—not the widow —but the
cow.
“ Tlio Downing cow I knew before the
late Mr. Jones bought her.” Here he
sighed at the allusion to the late Mr. Jones;
she sighed, and both looked at each other.
It waa a highly interesting moment.
“Old Roan is a faithful old milch, and so
is Brindle - but I have known better.”
long stare succeeded his speech—tho pause
was getting awkward—and at lost Mrs.
Jones broke out:
“Law! Mr. Smith, If I'm. the cow you
want, do sag so P
Tho intentions of the deacon and the
widow were published the next day.
An exchange, combats with considerable
vigor the argument that tiie city wteklies
are cheaper and better than the country
papers, because they give more columns of
reading for the money.. Do the city papers,
it asks, ever give you any home news?
Never. -Do they ever say anything in ef
gard to your own county? Nothing. Do
they contain notices for your schools,churches,
meetings, improvements and » hundred of
other local matters of interest, which your
country papers publish without pay? Not
an item. Do they ever say a word calcuia
ted to draw attention to your county and its
numerous thriving towns, and aid in their
progress and enterprise ? Not a word. And
yet there are. rneu .who take contracted views
of this matter that unless they are getting as
many square inches of reading matter in their
Crooked Cigars as Well as Crooked
Whisky.—Hardly a steamer reaches any
of our ports from Havana that does not
carry cigars smuggled by the officers, crew,
or passengers. Small seizures of these
crooked importations are made from time
to time, but they constitute only a very
petty ' part of what might be found by the
proper supervision of competent men, faith
ful to their duties. This is a serious mat
ter for the enstonu revenue, and Secretary
Bristow might find it worth while to give
a little time to it. We apprehend ffiso that
facts of importance,' which have a bearing
upon the internal revenue, might be brought
to light about crooked operations in the
manufacture and sale of domestic cigars.
A million a year is a small estimate of the
losses to the Treasury through dishonesty
in the matter of cigars, foreign and home
made ; and this is a sum worth looking af
ter in these times. Whisky and tobacco
are things which ought to bo held strictly
to their account.—N. Y. S in.
H
wn paper as they do in a city paper, they
link they are not getting the worth of their
loney. It reminds us of tbe person who
rok the largest uair of boots in the bos. be
think
money.
trok the largest pai
cause they cost the "same as a pair much
smaller, that fit him.—North Georgia Her*
cUL
Grant lets Belknap, go “ with regret,”
and then turns arouud anil hands over the
charge of his defiled office to Sec. Robeson.
There is" an old motto that you may set a
thief to catch a thief; but wo never heard
that when one thief s rascality has been ex
posed, you should put another in his place.
It may be desirable to do it, however, when
. 'A
there with her and bo on hand it anything dear, it is a laborious job, and the child izeo* of the northwest—you whose magic I your object is to cover up thievery.—N. Y.
’ 'j must be nearly warm enough with her extra I power has caused towns and cities to spring 1 Sun.
Household Words. - Along about bed
time the Detroit wife says shefll go to bed,
aud her husband yawns and goes down the
hall. After half an hour he joins her up
stain, and ah* sleepily inquires:
“Did you bolt the «dn door?”
“Yea. 6
“And you fastened that cellar door ?”
“Yes.”
“And did you put a brace under the knob
of the hall door?”
“Yes.”
“Sure that all the windows are nailed
down ?’’ v
“Yes.”
“Ill bet the window in the spare bed-room
is up.”
“No it isn’t.”
“Did you see if the blinds to the pantry
windows were fastened T
“Yes.”
“Well, put your revolver on - the chair,
leave a bright.light, and if you hear s bur
glar in the room, for heaven’s sake don't
wake me up, for I know I should scream
right out.”—Detroit. Free Press.
Deau .Stanley was not equal to his oppor
tunities in conducting the marriage ceremo
ny of Prob Tyndall The dean might have
asked the bride if she would take that au-
thropoid to be her co-ordinal, to love with
her nerve-centers and :o cherish with her
whole cellular tissue, until a final molecular
disturbance should resolve his organism to
its primitive atoms. But he didn’t.— Detroit
Post.
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