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* ' a . * CARLTON & CO. DEVOTED TO OUR POLITICAL, EDUCATIONAL AGRICULTURAL, AND INDUSTRIAL INTERESTS. |^Two Dollars per annum, in advance. VOL.'4. NO. 22. ATHENS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1876. OLD SERIES, TOE 55. C|c ^tjjtus itorgian. II. H. CARLTON & CO., Proprietors. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: —jo:— ONE COPY, One Year,..™— S 2 00 FIVE COPIES, Oim Year,-™.— -— 8 70 TEN COPIES. Ona Year, 10 OO RATES OF ADVERTISING. Transient Advertisements $1.50 per square first insertion and 75 cents per squnre for each continuance. „ . Local notices 20 cents per line. No local notice inserted for less than $1.00. Contracts as follows: 1 Column 12 months $1.00.00 J Column 12 months 120.00 4 Column 12 months Oo.OO 1 Column « months 120 00 t Colama 6 months 70.00 { Column 6 months 4000 LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. Cluilon tor latter* or Guardianship IS 00 (lui on f»r Letters of Administration 4 00 Application lor Letters of Dlamlulon Administrator. 5 00 Ajiplic.iiuo lor Letter* ot DI.iui.ilon Guardian .. 5 25 Application for Leave to Sell Land* - 5 00 Notice to Debtor* and Creditor* 5 00 Sale, of Land, Ac., per *qa*r*— SSm lvriihabl. Property, 10 day., per sq Krtrij Notices, SO days 3 00 .betid Sale*, per square — 3 50 Sheriff Mortcajo ft. Is talc* per equate. 5 00 Tax Collector'. Salt*, par square.—. 5 00 Forecloiure Mortgage, per squire, each time 1 00 Exemption Notice* (In adranee) - 2 JS Kola Sid's, per equare. each time 1 M Business and Professional Cards. Lamar Cobb. IIowell Cobb. L. & II. COBB, At tor neys at Lair, Athens, Ga. Office in Deupree Building. iVI.22.ly. A. X. CHILD*. R. NICKERSON. 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. lVli22.lv. 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. janSS-tf , 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. 26-tf 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 febS.tf. 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. - - - - :