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Newspaper Page Texti nr/ir/o i YAK II \\. H. CARLTON & CO. : * DEVOTED TO OUR POLITICAL, EDUCATIONAL, AGRICULTURAL, AND INDUSTRIAL INTERESTS. hxaotZ -xuV Tito Dollars per annum, In advance. TJ3TX *XCJ VOL- 4. NO. 46 ill , Af ♦ ATHENS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1$.76.^ ! -m T» T3 TT T -\T T r/ "V ! fPnMahedLt tMinL nvm* n Sf . OLD SERIES, VOI* 55. pc ^ijmts (icflrgian. Il n. CARLTON & CO., Proprietors. *TKHMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: JoJ .$2 00 1 oo » Year, $ Months,.— r.™ I KATES 'jt ADVERTISING. \ilverliiciacnts will be inserted at ONE I 00,1, VK per square for the first insertion, and FIFTY CENTS per square for each continuance, i,r ,ny lime under one month For longer periods, a liberal deduction will be made. A. L.aare equal to ten lines, solid. Sotiees in local column, less than a square 20 cents a line. legal advertisements. n.,.ion cor u.irn or l iullon for „ of i>i.uii.siou Administrator. 5 00 Ap|, .al:oul. r j-rl ^ i, isul („| on (Ju»rdlan ...„ 5 IS Land. <» Sou IVM'T*M£i«t ( m»oori-.._. ... 5 00 sSr. lVruhnl.lr I’rofwrtr, 10 day., itraq 1 50 >hrri.f Mort*£c li. fr- *ale» por 5 00 Tii t\»lltvlor'*Sii'fi*. P«r •‘iwre- .. 5 00 I’urwlMdW M per »«iuar©, each time. .... ...... 1 00 Karapiw" X.lirr. ilnaJr.nc.) 2 25 IUl*SI»r», |wr •lisrs. each time... 1 50 j.gr The nliove legal fates corrected by Ordinary of Clarke County. Successor to C. H. PhUuzy & Co. *’ j 1 COT2 OJY FA C2 021;\ Augusta, Georgia. Liberal Advance* made on Consignmunt*. jnne6.4m. NOTICE! T he business heretofore carried on j under the name ana style of C. H. Phinizy & Co., trill expire by limitation on the Slst day of Anenst j next. Either partner will sign the firm name in liqui dation. C. H. PHINIZY. | F. B. PHINIZY. ! A Card. I N retiring from the Cotton Commission Business, I j take pleasure in retaining thanks to my friends who i have patronized so liberally the firm of C. H. Phinizy ! & Co., and to ask from them a continuance of the same j to my late partner, Mr. F. B. Phinizy, whom I heartily recommend as worthy of their confidence. His ex perience is ample, and his facilities forthe management I of the Cotton basinets unsurpassed. jnne5.lt. C. II. PHINIZY. Business and Professional Cards. IF. R. LITTLE, Attorney at la OARNESVILLE, GA. erilH.lS7S.tf. n\ Belton Hotel, Sol’fcon. Giooxgia. Situated 66 miles on the Atlanta, Richmond and Air Line Railroad from Atlanta, and within one mile of the junction of the North East Railroad of Ga. The Pro prietor is now prepared to serve all who call upon him with meals at the following rates: Single meal 60c. | Per week $6.00 Per day 91.50 | Per month .920.00 julylS.ly. S. 11. 1IUGHEX. J. S. DORTCH, Attorney at Fair, CARNE8V1LLE. GA. ijiriLH.H7S.tf. j Asa M. Jackson. L. W. TnoMAs. JACKSON & THOMAS, Attorneys at Lawi Athena, Georgia, JrcK.H7I.lf C. D. HILL, AZfO/LYFr AT TAW, ATHENS, GEORGIA. 1'n.im.l attention given to all business and tho same wfccirolly solicted. _ janll-ly. POPE HARROW, A22 021JYFY A2 ZA W, ATHENS, GA. Office in Mr. J. II. Newton** new building. jan4.lv. E. SCHAEFER, CO TTON BUYER, —DEALER IN— American and Imparted Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, SILVER AND PLATED WARE, Idh-inlnrtl tftgiaaaata. Gluna, X’icrfcolo, Sto. WATCHES, CLOCKS ASD JEWELRY RKPA1RED IN A NEAT, WORKMANLIKE MANNER, | And warranted to give entire satisfaction, j Ornamriital oh J Plain Letter Engravinga Specialty. G3UZ0IAY1OTI, eat leaSeek 8tm Ctrntr, ATEU75. GA. i l feb,15tf. THE TRUNDLE BED. At I rummaged through the garret, List’ning to the foiling rain, As it pattered on the shingles, And against the window pane, Peeping over chests and boxes, Which with dust were thickly spTcad, I ssw in the larthcr corner What was once my trundle bed. And I drew it from the recess . Where it remained so long. Hearing all the while the music Of roy mother’s voice in song— As she sung her sweetest accents, What I since have often read— “ flush, my dear, lie still and slumber, Holy angels guard thy bed.” As I listened, recollections That I thought had been forgot Came with all the gush of memory, Rushing, thronging to the spot, As I wandered hack to childhood, To those merry days of yore, Whan I knelt baud* my mother, By that bed upon the floor. There it was with hands so gently Placed upon my infant head, That she taught my lips to utter •. Carefully the words she said; Never can it be forgotten, Deep are they in memory graven— “ Hallowed be Thy name, O Father! Father! Thou who art in Heaven.” This ahe taught me: then she told tfie Of its import great and deep; Alter which I learned to utter: “ Now I lay me down to sleep." Then it was with hand uplifted, And in accents soft and mild, That my nether asked “ Oar Father:” “Father, do Thou bless my child.” Years have passed, and that dear mother Long has mouldered ’ncath the sod, And I trust her sainted spirit Revels in the home of God. But that scene at summer twilight Never has from memory fled; And it comes with all its freshness, When I see my trundle-bed. How tlie Ladies Fisli. I There’s generally about six of them in ! the bunch (says an exchange), with light BOOT UNO SHOE MANUFACTURER **. WSU| •TOCCOA CITY, OA. pi.tHst < ash Price paid for Cotton. , «1ju> and Press. Agent for Win oct20.1875.tf. E. A. WILLIAMSON, PRACTICAL ’.VTCllMAKEU AND JEWELLER, k hr. King’s Drug Store, Broad Street, Athens, Ga. jr!; .iont in a superior manner and warranted to oii-fnelion. Jan. 3.1875.tf. COLLEGE AVENUE, Next Door to Post Office. O N hand, Upper* for making Low Quarter, Con- fereaa, Alexis-Tie*, and Prince t Albert-. He pair ing promptly executed. Send ten dollar*, per mail or express and yon shall re ccivc a Hret class pair of boots. June SO, 1875. 85-tf. Great Reduction in Prices F or the next thirty clays. Brackets, Wall Packets, and all kind* 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 EVER LIVED. [Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.] We have doubts about the followlngstory, which comes tons froth the interior; but the author is responsible for what he says, and his name can be obtained upon appli cation at this office: Last winter, two of my neighbors, Mr. Miller and Mr. Grant, lost their wives upon the same day, aad both of the funerals took place three days afterwards, the interments being made at the cemetery about the same hour. As the two funeral parties were coming out of the buryrag ground, Miller met Grant, and, clasping each other’s hands, they indulged in a sympathetic squeeze, and the following eonversation ensued: Miller—I’m sorry for^on. It’s an un speakable loss, isn't it? v ’ Grant—Awful 1 She was thebest woman that ever lived. ... Miller—She Was, * indeed. ’ I never met her equal. She was a good wife to mo. Grant—I was referring to my wife. There couldn’t be two best, yon know. Miller—Yes, I know. I know well enough thatyour wife couldn't bold a candle to mine. Grant—She couldn’t, hey ? Couldn’t hold a candle. Why, she could dance all around Mrs. Miller every day in the week, including Sundays, and not half try 1 She was an nnmitigated angel, take her any wav you would. Miller—Oh, she was, was she? Well, I don’t want to be personal, hut if I owned a cross-eyed angel with red hair and no teeth, and as bony as an omnibus horse, I’d kill ; her, if she didn’t die of her own accord. : Dance! How could a woman dance that | had feet like candle boxes, and lame at I that? | Graul—Better he cross-eyed, than wear i the kind of a red nose that your wife flour- i ished around this community. I bet it’ll burn a hole through the coffin lid. And you pretend your’e sorry she’s gone. But you can’t impose on me! I know you’re so glad yon can hardly hold in. She was tho chuckle-lioadedest woman that ever dis graced a graveyard; that’s what she was. Miller—If you abuse my wife, I’ll knock you down. Grant—I’d like to sec you try it. Then the two disconsolate widowers en gaged in a hand-to-hand combat, and after as many books and lines among them. As soon as they get to the river, they look for a good place to get down on the . - -. rafts, and the most venturesome one sticks i t us shng a while in tho snow, the mourners her hoot-heels in the bank and makes two 1 l’ 1,llud them apart just as Mr. Miller was careful step-downs; then she suddenly finds ! about to insist upon his wife’s virtues by hersclf at the bottom with both hands in , l iv? off Mr. Grant’s nose. When they got home, Mr. Grant tied crape upon all his window-shutters to show 11. E. THRASIIER, \A2202t.JYBT A2 ZA IP, WATK1NSVILLE, GA. in former Ordinary'* Office. jaii25.1976.ly A. G. McCURRY, LTTOHNEY AT UW, HARTWELL, GEORGIA. |!LL irive strict personal attention to all business eu- lo liis care. Aug.4.1875.1y. 11 EM OVAL! \J.H. ScLLE* 2)UN2IS2, M KF.MOVED to tho ollice lately occupied by Dr. J. j. Morrell. fctU&ction guttVioiteed iu both Work and Price*. So-tf [JUKE’S Bookstore. CASS FOB. WOOZ., —OR— CLOTH FOR WOOL. The 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. Cali for Samples and Terms ol Exchange. R. L. BLOOMFIELD, Agent. May 19, 1875—29-tf. Hi P. G. THOMPSON, Attorney at Li a w, fcul attention paid to criminal practioa. For refor- ’ app’.v to Ex. Gov. T. II. Watt* and Hon. David Soing niK-ry Ala. Office over Barry’s Store, lit Feb. 3.1675.tf. frank harralson, attorney at law, CLEVELAND, GA. ;■ IJMiee in the counties of White, Unloii, Luin- R!: “'1 Fanning, and the Supreme Court at “* " 'll give special attention to all claims cn- cl to hi, can... Ang. 11(1875—41—tt_ JOHN W OWEN, Attorney at Law. TOCOOk CITT, GA. ^fffactfcv in all the counties of the Western Cir- kA*rtauil Madison of the Northern Circuit. Will #u *nion to all claims entrusted to hia care. P*4s7.Uy. c\n Cobb. Howell Cobb. L. & II. COBB, |Attorneys at Za7P, Athens, Ga. Office in Detiprec Building. ALEX. S. EUWIN' [Attorney at Za?r^ Athens, Ga. wi broad Street, between Ceuter «fc aves a,, d On «fc Co., np-stairs. iV ... ’ * Dr. JOHN GERDINE, Late of Mississippi, AVIXG DECIDED TO MAKE ATHENS 1IIS future home, now tenders liie professional services to tho citizens of Athens and its vieinity. Office on Clayton St., is ssw bvildixo or Jons II. Newtos's, where he may be found from 8 o’clock a. «. to 6 r. when not nrolbaslonally engaged. Can be found at night at residence of the late.Mrs. Goldings, march 98.1y. Miss C. Potts, ■Fashionable Dressmaker (Orar University Bank.) Broad Street, - - - Athens. Would respectfully inform the Ladies and her friends generally, of Athens and vicinity, that the i» now pre pared to do Drew making in tho Ncutoit and most FASHIONABLE STYLES. giving satisl ericncc in the business, she feel* sure of May 14, 1875—23-tf. GENERAL TICKET AGENGY. RAILROAD TICKETS For sale, by all routes, and to all principal points in UNITED STATES. Buy yonr Tickets before leaving Athens, and get nil intomiation Horn Capt. WM. WILLIAMS, Agent Southern Express Co., Athens, Ga. May 12,’75 • "S- tf - R? R« SAULTER, DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF WINES, WHISKIES and LAGER BEER. ALE, GIN, CIGARS, &., &., CALL AT SAULTEIIS EXCHANGE, Jacksox Stbezt, Athfxs, Gkoroia. Oct. 2—d-tn g-H7t.lv. UVERY AND SALE STABLE Ruggfa an j j[ orst$ f or JRre. TERMS REASONABLE Washington, Wilk*, Co., Ga. Livery, Feed and Sale Stable, •Athens, Georgia. GANN & REAVES PROPRIETORS Will be found at their old stand, rear Franklin House building, Thomas street. Keep always on hand good Turnouts and oarefiil drivers. Stock xve!l cared for when entrusted to our care. Stock on hand for sale at all times. declStf. A. A. WINN, L ft IV ith— fWVElt, STUBBS & CO., Cotton Factors, —And— iral Commission Merchants, T . txavanuah, Ga. IXrJ '’i? 0 ! 1 * ‘“d other supplies furnished 1 *?»»»««» made on consignments foi ■ i "lent u, Liverpool or Nortliem porta. ^ May 80.1875.tf. f^esii Meats. ’Head & w. f. hood, Btn7** FcCTD * r Oooxxx SrBxxn. BEEF, MUTTON, PORK, AND8AU8AOE, „» o^Vi , Bologna Saaiage). Our Solicitor is f a» of iTi. ;°**t read, to supply the wants of the ytawann.. Pi «“« five ue your orders and we e SSS satisfaction. * 2d lfog[," wktt P’ ic *» P*Bd for Beavas, Sheep, J. J. HEAD * CO. Planters’ Hotel. Augusta, Oa. rpHIS WELL KNOWN HOTEL HAV- A ing been Remodeled, Enlarged, thoroughly Ren ovated, Repainted and Newly Furnished during the Summer of T875, is now opened, with increased foeih- tie* for tho accommodation of the travelling public. febVly B. P. CHATFIELD, Proprietor. MEDICAL NOTICE. At the solioitation of many of my former patron*, I resume the Practice of* Medicine (tom this date. I will pay especial attention to the die ease of Infonts and Chlldr. - ’" ~ ol Females. in. A - -V. COCIIRAN, L, gka~, 1 General Land Agent for thanorehsaa ™i and Farming Lands in HaU, and 1 luiT? * Northtart Oeorfia. Mineral *R8Hy, Attorney. inayj—8ra the water, ami feeling that everybody in this wide world is looking at her, and she never tells anybody bow she got there. The other girls, profiting by her example, turn around and go down the hank on their hands and toes, backwards. Then they scamper over the rafts until they find a’ shallow place where they can see the fish, and shout: “ Oh 1 I see one!” “ Where ?’’ “ There.” “ Oh, my ! so he is!” “Let’s catch hint.” “Who’s got them baits?” “ Yon lazy thing, you’re sitting on my pole.” Show me the wretch that stole my worm.’’ All these exclamations are gotten off in a tone that awakens every echo within a mile around, and sends every fish within throe acres square into galloping hysterics. Then the girls, by superhuman exertions, manage to get a worm on the hook, and “ throw in” with a splash like the launch ing of a wash-tub, and await the result. When a silver fin comes along and nibbles the bait, they pull up with a jerk, that, had an unfortunate fish weighing less than fif teen pounds been on the hook, would have landed it in tlie neighborhood of three or four miles in the country. After awhile a feeble-minded sunfish contrives to get fast ened on the hook of -a timid woman, and sho gives vent to her tongue: “ Oh! something’s got my hook!” “ Pull up, you little idiot!” shouted five excited voices, as poles and hooks arc drop ped, and they rush to the rescue. The girl with the bite gives a spasniodiu jerk, which sends the unfortunate sunny into the air the full length of 40 feet of line, and he comes dow’n on the nearest curly head with a damp flop, that sets the girl to clawing as though there were bumblebees in her hair. “Och! murder! Take it away. Ugh! the nasty thing!” Then they hold up their skirts and gath er about that fish as it skips over the logs, one all the time holding the line in both hands, with her foot on the pole as though she had an evil-disposed goat at the other end. They talk over it. “ How ever will he get off?” “ Ain’t it pretty ?” “ Wonder if it ain’t dry ?” “Poor little thing; let’s put it back.” “ How will we get tlie hook from it ?” “Pick it up,” says a girl who hacks rap idly out of the circle. “ Good gracious, I am afraid of it. There, its opening its month at me.” Just then the sunny wriggles off the hook and disappears between two locjs into the water, and the girls try for another bite. But the sun comes down and fries the backs of their necks, and they get three headaches in tho party, and they all get cross and scold at the fisli like so niatiy magpies. If an umveary clinb dares show himself the water, they spoke at him with poles, much to his disgust. Finally, they get mad all over, and throw their poles away, hunt up the lunch basket, climb up into the woods, where they sit around on the grass and caterpillars, and eat enough of dried beef and rusk and hard-boiled eggs to give a wood-horse the nightmare; after which they compare notes about their beaux until sundown, when they go home and plant envy in the hearts of all their muslin delaine friends by tolling what “ jnst a splendid time” they had. how deeply he mourned, and as Mr. Miller knew that his grief for Mrs. Miller was deeper, he not only decorated his shutters, hut lie fixed five yards of black bombazine ou the bell-pull and dressed his whole fam ily in mourning. Then Grant determined that liis duty to the departed was not to let himself he beaten by a man wlio couldn’t feel any genuine sorrow, so he sewed a black flag on his lightning rod and festooned the front of his house with black alpaca. Then Miller beeame excited, aud lie ex pressed his sense of bereavemeut by paint ing his dwelling black, and by patting up a monument to Mrs. Miller in his front yard. Grant, thereupon, stained his yellow horse with lamp-black, tied crape to his cow’s horn, daubed his dog with ink, and began to wipe his nose on a black handkerchief. As soon as Miller saw these proceedings, he spread a layer of charcoal all over his front yard, ho assumed a black shirt, ho corked the faces of his family when they went to ehurcli, and he birod a colored man to stand on his steps and cry for twelve hours every day. Just as Grant was about to see this and go it one better, he encountered Miss Lang, a young lady from the city, and in a couple of weeks, they were engaged. Then he began to take in the evidences of his grief) and this made Miller so mad that he went around and proposed to Miss Jones, an old maid, who never had an offer before. Sho accepted him on the spot, and they were married the day before' Grant’s wedding, which so disgusted him that he would have given up Ling, if she hadn’t threatened him with a suit for breaoh of promise. There is peaoe between the two families now, hut when Mrs. Miller gets on the rampage sometimes, Mr. Miller mourns for his first wife more than ever. The Crow Scout’s Account of it. The Herald, in u communication from Bismarck, D. T., dated July 14th. from officer High, in esmmand of forces operating against the Indians, says the Crow Indian Curley is believed to lie the only survivor of 250 men who went into action with Custer. He is very clear in his knowledge of the fight and has made a statement He went down with two other Crows and went into action with Custer. The General, he says, kept down the river, on the north bank four miles, after Reno had crossed to the south side above. Custer’s object was to cutoff the Indians. He thought Reno would drive them down the valley and at the same time attack the village on two sides. He believ ing that Reno would take it at the upper end while he (Custer) would go in at the lower end. Custer had to go furthef down the river and further away from Reno than he wished, op account of the steep bunk on the north side; but at last he found a ford and dashed for it. The Indians met him and poured in a heavy fire from across the narrow river. Custer dismounted to fight on foot; but could not get his skirmishers over the stream. Meantime hundreds of Indians on foot and on ponies poured over the river, which wa3 only about three feet deep, and filled ravines on each side of Custer’s men. Custer then fell back to some hilly ground beyond him and seized ravines in this im mediate vicinity. The Indians completely surrounded Custer and poured in a terrible fire from all sides. They charged Custer on foot in vast numbers, but were again driven back. The fight began about 2 o’clock and lasted, Curley says, almost until the sun went down over the hills. The men fought desperately, and after the ammunition in their belts was exhausted, went to their saddle-bags, got more, and continued to fight. Curley says mo.e Indians were killed than Custer had men. He also* says the Big Chief, Custer, lived until nearly his men lmd been killed or wounded, and went about encouraging his soldjers to fight on. He got a shot in the left side and sat down with his pistol in his hand; another shot struck Custer iu the breast and he fell ovor. The last officer killed was Allan, who rode a white horse. He is believed to be Lt. Cook, adjutant of the Seventh, as Lieuten ants Cook and Calhoun were the only officers who rode white horses, and Lieuten ants Calhoun was found dead on the skir mish line near the ford, and probably fell early in the action. Curley says, when he saw Custer was hopelessly surrounded, he watched his op portunity to get a Sioux blanket, put it on and worked up a ravine, and when the Sioux charged, he got among them, and they did not know him from one of their own men. There was some mounted Sioux, and seeing one fall, Curly ran to him, mounted his pony, and galloped down as if going toward the white men, but went up a ravine and got away. He says, as he rode off, he saw, when nearly a mUe from the battle field, a dozen or more soldiers in a ravino fighting with Sioux all around them. He thinks all were killed, as they were outnumbered five Jto one, and appa rently dismounted. These men were no doubt part of the thirty-five missing men reported iu the official dispatches of Gen. Terry. Curly says lie saw one cavalry soldier who had got away. He was well mounted, but shot through both thighs, and Curly thinks he died of his wounds or starved to death in the had lands, or more likely the trail was followed aud he was killed by the Sioux. Curley' did not leave Custer until the battle was nearly over and he desperate in the extreme. He is quite sure the Indians had more killed that Custer had white men with him, and says the soldiers fought until the last men fell. The other Crow Indians in the battle were killed. the Rogues. [From the New York Son.) His opponents, his rivals, and his sup porters being judges, Governor Tilden has, with the possible exception of De Wit Clinton, been more completely the head of the State administration than any man who ever filled the executive chair of New York. Some have complained that he relies too much upon himself. Certaiuly, then, ho deserves the chief credit for all the good that has been achieved in our public affairs since he took control of them. During the past eighteen months Governor Tilden has originated and carried through measures that have reduced our canal ex penditures at the rate of two and a half mil lions of dollars annually. Besides this, he has initiated a line of policy that has ex posed and broken up a chronic system of frauds whereby tho State, for years past, has been robbed of large amounts of its canal revenues. He has set at defiance and driv en out of the field a horde of contractors who had been long accustomed to do work on the canals that was either not needed at all or was performed at rates ruinous to the State. He has carefully watched the proceedings of the Legislature, aad his warning voice lias frightened away many jobbers, while by his veto he has in two sessions reduced the ap propriations for general purposes about a million of dollars. And during his term of office, and mainly because of his measures, the State taxes have been cut down nearly one-half. Here is a kind of reform that everybody can understand and all honest meu will ap preciate and applaud. We need this sort of reform at Washington during the next four years. We don’t want rhetorieans, who deal in sounding phrases about reform ; but practical workers after tho manner of Sam. Tilden, who solve the problem of financial reform by reducing expenditures and dimin-. ishing taxes. Mr Tilden hardly has his match for wading through long colums of complicated figures and discovering extravagances, un covering frauds, and detecting rogues. The old Tammany Ring and the more cunning CanalaRing will bear testimony to this. The National Government will afford wide scope for the display of Gov. Tilden’s genius in a fiield which he has cultivated with so grajiliy. [Boston Traveler.] The readers of the Traveler have been made acquainted with the wonderful inven tions of Professor Bell, by which musical and vocal sounds can be and have been sent over the electric wires; hut few if any are aware of the wonderful results which are sure to follow these improvements in tele graphy. A few nights ago Professor Bell was in New York, aud commenced experi menting with one of his inventions pertain ing to the transmission of musical sounds. He made use of his phonetic organ and played the tune_ of “ America,” and asked the operator in New York what he heard. “ I hear the tune of America,’’ replied New York; “ give us another.” Prof. Bell then played Anld Lang Syne. “ What do you hear now?’’ 41 1 hear the tune of Auld Lang Syne, with the full chords, distinctly, replied New York. ! ■ r i: f Thus, the astounding discovery has been made that a man can play upon musical in struments in New York, New Orleans, or London, or Paris, and be head distinctly in Boston! If this can be done, why cannot dis tinguished performers execute the most ar- tistic and beautiful music in Paris, and an audience assemble in Music Hall, Boston to listen ? Professor Bell’s other improvement, name ly, the transmission of the human voice, has become so far perfected that persons have conversed over one thousand miles of wire with perfect case, although as yet the vocal sounds are not loud enough to be heard by more than one or two persons. But if the human voice can now be sent over tho wire, and so distinctly that when two or three known parties are telegraphing, tho voices of each can be recognized, we may soon have distinguished men belivering speeches in Washington, New York, or London, and audiences assembled iu Music Hall (ir Faneuil Hall to listen! Art Criticism. The Farmers of Georgia. State of Georgia, Dfeartment of Agriculture. Atlanta Ga., July 25,* 1876. Circular No. 27.' “ He’s a Brick.” If it is slang, it is really classical slang. And yet of the thousands who use the term, how few—how very few—know its origin, or Us primitive significance. Truly Jit is a heroic thing to say of a man to call him a brick. The word so used, if not twisted from its original intent, implies all that is brave, patriotic and loyal, j Plutarch, in his life of Agesilaus, King of i Sparta, gives us the origin of the quaint and familiar expression. On a certain occasion an ambassodor from Epirus, ou a diplomatic mission, was shown by the king over his capital. The ambass ador knew of the monarch’s fame—knew that though only nomially king, of Sparta, he was ruler of Greece—and he had look to see massive walls rearing aloft their embat tled towers for the defense of the town; but found nothing of the kind. He marvelled much at this, and spoke of it to the king. “ Sire,” he said, “ I have visited most of the principal towns, and I find no walls rear ed for defence. Why is this?” “ Indeed, 8ir Ambassador,” replied Ageai- laus, “* thou canst not have looked carefully. Come with me to-morrow morning, and I will show yon the walls of Sparta.” Accordingly on the following morning, the king led his guest out upon the plaiu where his army was drawn up iu full battle array, and pointing proudly to the serried hosts, he said: “ There thou beholdest the wall of Sparta —ten thousand men, and every man brick V' Jana 18,1875-33-ly. Iren, and the Cbronlo Diseases WM. KING, M. D PRICES WAY DOWN! Miss O. JAMBS, I 8.SELLING MILLINERY AND FANCY GOODS at price* lower thin ever before: IhU trimmed with Ribbons and flower* at 91-00; Chip Rats at *1.50: PomaU Hat*at 75a; No. 12 and W Ribbon* at 20 and 25 CU.; A beautiful line of KeehUwhBireMry., Silks, kereMm* anamamr other* articles. Plena giya her a call and be convinced at bar store oo Broad fit., between Bmups andSmasra^Sto^ Origin of the “ Printer’s DeviL” When Aldus Manutius set np in business as a printer in Venice, he came into possess ion of a little negro boy. . This boy was soon known all over the city as “ the little black devil,” for at that time, negroes were not often seen in Venice, and some of the most ignorant people believed him to be either an embodiment or an emissaiy of Satan, who aided Aldus in the work of his profession. One day Manutius, desiring to dispel this strange and spreading opinion, displayed the young imp publicly to the poorer classes, making thu short but characteristic speech, “ Be it known to you and all Venion. that I, Aldus Manutius, printer to the holy church and the Doge have this day made exposure to all of the printer’s “devil.” And if any think he is not like us, flesh and blood, they may come and piuch him, and they will find that though he is black be is human.” s £ Vance on the Radical candidate for Lieutenant Governor in his speech at Hal i: ** They tell me,” said Vanoe, “ that Smith charged last night that I ran away from Raleigh on a bare-backed mule. Well, I confess I did leave, but I left on a horse aud retired id good order. Smith was in Johnston and had lost his horn, and couldn’t S t his dogs up, and'what was I do but run rit? There was no one to signal the enemy’s approach." [Roan of laughter, j •’Shall I hit him again, or Jet him alone?” “ Give it to him,” yelled the crowd. “No, I can’t do it, gentlemen. Bill Smith was my right hand man during the war. He was the fiercest officer al conscripts and deserters I had, and-helped ms weed out the red strings. No, I can’t do it. feel like the Irishman when he killed bis pet a and held it up by the tail while his son l the ax to knock it in the head, “Kill ’im aisy, bjazus, he feels uigh to me.’’— Raltigh News. A Mean Advantage. There were a score or more of women gathered together at Mr. Johnson’s house. Mr. Johnson is a good-hearted man and a respectable citizen, though he is rather skeptical about some things. The women had just organized “The Friend’s Benev olent Society,” when Mr. Johnson entered the room. He was at once appealed to to donate a few dollars as a foundation to work on, and Mrs, Graham added j “ It would be so pleasant in after years for you to remember that you gavo this Society its first dollar and its first kind word.” lie slowly opened his wallet, drew out a ten dollar bill, and as the ladies smacked their lips and clapped their hands, he asked: “Is this Society organized to aid the poor of foreign countries ?” “Yes—yes—yes!" they chorused. “And it wants money?” “Yes—yes!” “ Well, now,” said Johnson, as he folded the hill in tempting shape, “there are tweuty married women here. If there are fifteen of you who can make oath that you have combed your children’s hair this morning, washed the dishes, blacked the cook-stove, and made the beds, I’ll donate this ten dollars.” “ I have,” auswered two of the crowd, and the rest said: “Why, now, Mr. Johnson!” “ If fifteen of you can make oath that onr husbands are not wearing socks with ioIes in the heels, this money is yours,’ continued the wretch. “ Just hear him 1” they exclaimed, each o c looking at the other. “If ten of you have hoys without holes in the knees of their pants, this ‘ X’ goes to the Society!” said Johnson. “ Such" a man 1” they whispered. “If there are five pair of stockings in this room that don’t need darning, I’ll hand over the money 1” he went on. “Mr, Johnson,” said Mrs. Graham with great dignity, “the rules of the Society declare that no money shall be contributed except by members; and as you are not a member, I beg that you will withdraw, and let ns proceed with the routine of business.” A Detroit artist has for the past four or five mouths been throwing his whole soul into a landscape which-is now on exhibition in a Woodward avenue window. It is called . a fine painting byfhrt critics, yet what are much of success in New lork. Every real art critics in number the great public, no friend of Administrative reform will hail the j two of whom sec or criticise alike? There day when he goes to work next March upon : was a crowd around the picture yesterday, the statistics and the scoundrels at Washing- aud a boot-black took a square look at the ten. , J painting and said: j “ Purty good river he painted, hut it runs | up-hilT. Wonder if that artist didn’t ever I go fishing V’ \ There was a pause, and an elderly gen- | tleman with spectacles on, remarked: “ What strikes me is that all those six , ,. , , , co "s should be ‘ switching their tails the ihe grasshoppers which have appeared in I same way and at the same time.” many sections of the State are, without j The crowd looked closer, and it was the w . ’ A" 0 . T Grasshoppers of the ; general opinion that the artist should have West—that dreaded pest that hasduriug the ’ switched over some of those tails, last few years, destroyed entire growing! “It’s very nice,” said a young man with a crops, reducing the people to the point of j sore eye, “ but look at that log-house from famine- lhe> arc now m the first and com-! a builder’s point of view. Why, it’s so for paratively helpless stage of their existence. out of plumb that it will fall over and hurt Ihey will grow rapidly, and in the course j some one before night, and the chimney of a tew weeks will be able to fly. They 1 wouldn’t draw if there were forty-fircs be - will then deposit eggs in the earth by mil- low.’’ lions. Next year these eggs will hatch, and there will oe millions where there are only dozens. You are earnestly advised to destroy them note, before they can fly, and before their eggs are deposited. They can be driven into piles of dry and burned. Thousands may be destroyed by active men and boys with the brush. Nets may be made similar to partridge nets of some cheap material, with widely extended wings. The insects can be driven like birds into these nets or snares and de stroyed. By everv nieans iu your power, and that can be devised by your ingenuity, utterly exterminate them and save our State from a plague, such as we have never experi enced. * I respectfully suggest that you lay all oth er business aside, unite together and make common cause and combined agaist the There was a long period of silence as each one of the crowd lined the walls with his eye. Then an old woman cautiously re marked : “ No matter about the house, or the cows they this!” There was a woman Jat her side with a a head of cabbage in a basket, and she put in: “ If I can fiud a nice, smooth board any where, I’ll have roy husband make three or four pictures like that!’’ There was another long silence, and then a sedate man, whose garments were fast going to Time’s hospital for old clothes, elbowed the boys back with a great show of authori ty, and remarked: “ You folks don’t know anything about art. You’d better go and criticize a lamp- ] post or a street sign.. There that painter enemy. . ... ! has used up three yards of good factory, a By concert of action, and persistent ironic-1 w h 0 lo day’s time, and more’n two shillings’ diate efforts, the evil may be averted. , worth of paint, and you ignoramusus come lou are respectfully invited to send to around here and go to abusing his picture!’ 1 this department all valuablo facts as learned »>-*—•< n... » from your observation and experience in re lation to the grasshoppers, the extent of damage, what means of destruction found to be most effective, etc. Very respectfully, Tuos. P. Janes, Commissioner of Agriculture. A Literary Cariosity. The following sentence will attract the at tention of the curious: “ Bator a repo tenet opera rotas.’’ 1. This spells backward and forward the same. 2. Then taking all the first letters of each word spells the first word. 8. Then all the second letters of each wordjspells tho second word. 4. Then all the third and soon through the fourth and fifth. 5. Then commencing with the last letter of each word spells the last word. 6. Then the next to the last of each word, and so on through. A Texas Heroine.—There was a batch of convicts from some interior county seat awaiting the departure of the Great North ern cars to convey them on their tnclan- cholly journey to the prison walls of the penitentiary at Huntsville. Among tho rough, unshaven and crime-steeped physiog nomies that scowled from beneath greasy and tattered slouched hats, amid tho clank ing of their fetters and chains, was a rather handsome face of a young man, whose open features betokened no traces of the branded felon. Near him stood—a strange companion for such a crowd—a fair young girl, scarcely S asscd her fourteenth year, whose long hair owed down over her shoulders that had not yet felt the weight of time, and whose countenance was a living photograph of in nocence and girlish beauty. Upon inquiry, it was ascertained that the young man had received a two yeavs’ sen tence for marrying a girl under the age prescribed by law after swearing she was of legal age, and that with the lofty and sacred derotion of true heroism his youth ful bride, despite the entreaties of friends, was following him to his ignominious prison, to share his captivity aud lighten his pun ishment, provided the officers of the peni tentiary can be prevailed on to permit her entrance.—Houston {Texas) Age. The Griffin News has the following: Ben Briscoe, a well known Atlanta man, is now in Ludlow street jail, New York, under the charge of cheating and swindling. Mr. Briscoe was the silent partner of West, Edwards & Co., and was arrested on chai£[es •connected with that business. It is said to bo the result of a conspiracy to extort money from Briscoe. The concern is a very rotten one, bnt it is hot generally believed that Mr. Briscoe was cognizant of the fraudulent transaction of the house. -Detroit Free Press. Tlie Tricks of the Harem. The new Sultana Valide of Turkey has had a narrow escape. It is the habit at the death of a Sultan to disperse the women of the harem; they are divided among the different Pashas, and any surplus souls are sent to a place on the Bosphorus. This precaution was neglected on the death of Abdul Aziz, perhaps from reasons of econ omy. The ex-favorites saw now women fill their places, which was naturally the cause of so much jealousy, tears, anger and thirst of vengeance. Here is what they deter mined upon: The mother of Mourad had chosen as her favorite seat a divan, above which hung an immense pier-glass. They made up their minds to have it fell upon her head, and in order to accomplish it, they loosened the nails aud weakened the cords to such an extent that the enormous frame was only held by a mere thread. But a secret kept by so many women, was not destined to long remain a secret. There was a traitress iu the camp, and the plot was discovered. Almost all the con spirators were Circassians; they were im mediately conducted out of the palace. There wero no reporters to inform us whether any of them were sewn in hags and thrown into the Bosphorus, which would be no very extraordinary ending of so very Oriential a transaction. Mark Twain says: It is a blessed thing to live in n land of plenty, if you have plenty of land. A correspondent suggests that hereafter the Little Big Horn River should be called the Coster River. The Biggest Hog in* the World.— The famous hog owned by Mr. Wm. Bush, of Monroe, and so celebrated as the largest porker ever known in these parts, passed through the city on Tuesday last, in charge of its owner, on the way to Philadelphia, the seat of the great (Centennial celebration. It is of a black and white color, and ia a cross of the China and Poland; is five years old; was born in .this country on the feral of Mr. Joseph Pond. It measures 7 feet and 4 in*, ches in length, 3 feet and 4 inches in height, full 30 inches across the back, girths 9 feet, and weighs 1,540 pounds. It has been fed principally on milk, with small quantities of corn occasionally to give solidity to the flesh, and shows that no particular pains have been taken to give it an artificial appearance. Its hair is rough, its skin and flesh rough and thick with dandruff, and it is by no means a thing of beauty. Still it is claimed that it is the largest aud heaviest bog on the globe. Mr. Bush proposeseto-exhibit it at the centennial as a’fepecial curiosity of Amer ican production.—Palmyra, Mo",Spectator*

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Athens weekly Georgian. (Athens, Ga.) 1875-1877, August 01, 1876, Image 1