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ATHENS, GEORGIA, OGTTOBEB 10, 1876.
SELL GATE
i .ia'08 ;
Norcross, 530. „ . • . . .
Quitman county.—Colquitt’s ma
jority, 350.
Rockdale^ county.—Colquitt, 660;
Norcross, 163.
Richmond county.—Colquitt, 2,-
134; Norcross, 751. V
• Uamlplph T county^—- lr*s
243;Norcross, 249;
Spalding county 1 .—Colquitt, 1,028;
Norcross, 428.
Schley county.—Gives Colquitt 200
majority.
Sumter county.-
500 majority.
Troup county.—i
Norcross, 199.
Taliaferro comity.
Norcross, 179.
Thomas county.—Gives Colquitt
226 majority.
Upson county.—Colquitt, 1,048;
Norcross, 491.
Washington county.—Colquitt, I,»
727; Norcross, 931.
Wilkes conAty.—This county gives
Colquitt 420 majority.
Warren county.—Gives 300 major
J8@“The steamer, with the usual
enterprise of her owners, will go
nearer the blast than any other boat,
her anchorage being directly over the
excavation. Survivors admitted to
, Booth’s Theatre any evening, and at
the Saturday Matinees, to witness
the peerless spectacle of
ATTORNHY AT LAW,
Carnoeville, Ga,
COLQUITT’S CARNIVAL
AND GEORGIA’S
r A iSk GLORY.
Sardana-
palurf’ with its grand Italian ballet,
upon payment of the usual rates. Ad*
to time to the second. It was 2:51.
A cheer went up from the multitude,
and the whistles of half a thousand
steamers re-echoed the refrain.
About six billions (so Hank said) of
little row boats shot out from shoro
for the spot where Hallett’s reef had
been the minute before,. and about
two-thirds of them got run oyer by
steamers following in their wake. No
one hurt. The little boats expected
to pick up an immensity of fish sup
posed to he stunned by the blast.
Don’t know whether they were suc-
Hell Gate’s explosion was
TTO BNEYS AT LAW,
Athens, Ga.
Ass M. Jackson. L. W. Thomas.
decl6-1874-tf
and How He Fluttered
Out.
■Gives Colquitt
HILL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Athens, Ga.
Prompt attention given to all business and
the samo respectfully solicited. janll-ly
Colqnitt’s Majority Running
Up to 80,000.
•Colquitt, 1,023:
’.—Colquitt, 438
off on tip 24th inst., and allof Hallett’s
reef and part of East river go up
about fprty feet in the air.
correspondent and Hauk had
down
eighte
Tour
gone
Newburgh, on the Hudson,
miles below Poughkeepsie,
Washington’s headquarters,
i, more anon. This was on
r morning. Hank wasn’t in
hnnior, for he had been think*
he Athens girls and the Ferro-
nd last summer, and was
wishing himself back in Georgia and
out of Yankeedom and all Yankee*
dom in -, some nameless locality
sqiellfpg of sulphur. Discovering his
dejected state, a remedy that never
fails iras applied. We stepped into
—- a place way down in the boat
and Rank came up looking all right,
oheerfal'Oa a cricket, and wiping bis
^nouth. 'We hoarded another boat
After loafing around Newburgh for
some, hours, iu order to go to West
jniles below, and., thou
heardjlor the first'time, ihat the- ■*
expected explosion would take place,
without fail, at 2:51 p. in., Sunday.
We therefore, postponed onr trip to
West Point, and kept on down to
Gotham.
We went to Booth’s Theatre that
night to see Bangs play “ Sardanapa-
lns.” They pronounce it Sardana-
pay*lus up here. Mrs. Agnes Booth
plays “ Myrohu,” and old Bangs does
sufficient hugging to suit even Byron
himself. . If Edwin don’t want to get
jealous, he’d better remain in Califor
nia until “ Sardanapalns” is taken off
the. boards, for he’d go for Bangs
certain as a whistle, ifhe saw. it, and
then sue for divorce.
pOPE BAKBOW,
ATTORNEY AT LA,W,
Athens, Ga.
Office in John II. Newton’s new building.
jan4-ly
Bibbcountv.
cross, 806.
Baldwin county.—Colquitt, 1233
Norcross, 300.
Colquitt,1718; Nor-
vests, stepped into a side door of the ce88 ^'
Stnrtevant House for an instant, ver V P rett l/i aod to nervous people
came out, (Hank remarking, ‘‘That rathe f soare y> befo,e went off.\
wasn’t as good as the other,”) and wasn’t grand, or sublime, or
loafed through the rtun down to terrific or anything of that kind. Not
Madison Avenue, took a car and ab it°fft» It flung water .and rocks .•*-
went up to 93d St, where we secured around considerably, but there was
an excellent position on a kind of no sbocb > 1,0 concussion at all. The .
bluff about a mile from Hell Gate “ fuss” wasnt near so loud as the x
and directly opposite. Such a crowd 04,1000 shots proceeding it. Every
as was assembled there, is seldom l ’ onc was d ,8a PP 00, ted. This is the \
seen. There must have been at least universal verdict - And yet. what a_‘
one hundred and fifty or two hundred triumph for Gen. Newton! Ho prc-V.
thousand hitman beings, either assem- dl °ted, even assured the citizens of
bled and: waiting, or flocking in. Astoria and vicinity that the shock
wouldn’t be felt 500 yards off. No
Were in for the trip,-, most varied variety- ooe beheved hP». » keiencoi^a grand
On the ground yon could hear every lingo in thing! And Americans have abont
vogue,_ _ ., T . , perfected all its branches. Hank
The sweet German accent, the rich Irish f ,
. brogue” Zf. happened to take a ; chew of fiqe-cut
l n . 1*', . . . T tobacco just-before the WasLABonfc*.
The former predominated, how- „ , .7 , :
ever, felly twMbbri. ot the crowd <f. “»»• prorido.1 felke, la. been
being composed of Dutch. They °“fn . OT ° ag ' “ “
.. j it i *i u i match-box to preserve it, he savs, as
were scattered all along the bank . . * ,.
oftl , . inn ,, , an Iier-loom for his grandchildren.
Irom 80th to 100th Sts., and were m . , x , , . , p „ , .
... , . ’tt v. 11 Tbat match-box might find its way
as thick as hops at that. Umbrellas 4 ° 0 J
. , , . to Athens. Who knows? The gen-
were in urgent demand, and we being , . . . . , , ,
° prnl nntntnn liorn ic thet tlin nvnln.
} E. THRA8H32R,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Watkins viUe, Ga.
Office in former Ordinary’s Office.
jan25-1876-ly
Burke county.—Colquitt, 1,053;
Norcross, 1,163.
Bartow county.— Colquitt, 1,620
Norcross, 496.
Clarke county.—Colquitt, 728;
Norcross, 500.
Cohb county.—Colquitt, 1,342;
Norcross, 2o6.
Clayton county.—Colquitt, 707 ;
Norcross, 307.
Chattahoochee county.—Gives Col
quitt 300 majority.
Chatham county.
Norcross, 334.
Campbell county.—Colquitt, 901;
Norcross, 316.
Clay ;eatnit/.—©Ives Colquitt<*4Si
majority. ’
Catoosa county.—Colquitt, 949 ;
Norcross, 12.
Coweta county.—Colquitt, 1,300;
Norcross, 780.
Carroll county.—Colquitt, 1,475;
Norcross, 91.
Crawford county.—Gives Colquitt
p G. THOMPSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Special attention paid to caiminal practice.
For reference apply to Ex-Gov. T. II. Watts
und lion. David Cloptou, Montgomery, Ala.
Office over Barn ’s Store, Athens, Go.
feb3-1876-tf
■Colquitt, 561
300 majority in this county.
Tlx© Majority.
The Democratic majority in ninety-
two conntiesis sixty thousand. Forty-
five counties to hear from will make
the majority eighty thousand at least,
Tlx© liCghilaturc.
The Senate stands 43 Democrats
and one Republican. The House is’
all Demociats except six Republicans;
including three - colored.
Senators Elect.
Second District.—J II Clifton,
Democrat, of Tatnall.
Fourth District.—
Sixth District.—J W Slaten, Dem
ocratic, of Echols.
Eighth District.—I A Bush, Dem
ocrat, of Miller.
Tenth DistricL-—C Wessalowski,
Republican. . t
Twelfth District.—W H Harrisom
Democrat, of Quittman.
Fourteenth Districts.—Drury Reid
Democrat, of Wilcox,(. probably.)
Sixteenth District—Neill McLeod,
Democrait, of Emanuel.
Eighteenth District*—J. T. Shew?
make, Democrat, of Richmond.
.. Twentieth District—F C Furman,
'Democrat, of Bald win.
;; Twenty-seeonit AgDistrict. — T B
Cabanis, Deniodratipf Monroe..
. 'fwenty-fouipi ^trS^-D C Cody,
pRANK HARRALSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Cleveland, Ga.
Will practice in the counties of White, Union,
Lumpkin, Towns, and Fanning, and the Su
preme Court at Atlanta. Will give special at-
t entiop to all claims enusted to hia oareitx _ ,
1875-11-tf.
■Colquitt, 1263
JOHN W. OWEN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Tocoa City, Ga.
Will practico iu all tho counties of the West
ern Circuit, Hart und Madison of the Northern
Circuit. Will give special ultenion to nil claims
entrusted to his cere. oct20-ljjj75-ly.«.
Lamar Cobb. Howell Cobb.
& II. COBB,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Athens, Ga
Norcross, 196.
Dooly county,
majority.
El&rt count
Norcross, 10<}.*'
Fulton oounty.—Colquitt, 2,636,
Norcross, 975.
Gwinnett county.—Colquitt, 1,653
Greene county.—Colquitt. 1.495
Office in Deupree Building,
■Gives Colquitt 600
How he was going to the
Centennial.
Those colored residents of Raleigh
who were talking of an excursion to
the Centennial have about given up
the subject. The idea originated
with gray-haired“ undle’’ who didn’t
expect to live another hundred years,
and whQj it turned put, bad a pri
vate axe to grind- He planned the
.excursion pn the corjiperatiypprinci
ple, X?, a ^rowd. jQf; , bj», friends ,he
^xpbppe^: ,,f,..
*“I Veckon de expenses at 850.
Fifty of us: will frow Jtt 81 each, an’ I
Witt go dowtvb .thar. When I :git
ALpI. a ERWIN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW*,
Athens, Ga. ’
Office on Broad Street, between Center & Nich-
olson and Orr & Co., iap-ftairs. ,
The Italian 1
ballet introduced in the play, is also •
rather toQ piucb ofi.a- muchness all ,
round, and .dancers, in their
abandon^ appears to. be a cross be
tween tjie. danseuses and
tJip fluteplayera of Periples,. iii .thq
days-of Athenian splendor.. ;f - .
,- Suoday Tpeniing-you could: hear
nothing J hTit spcoukitioRS’in regard <tp
th® explosion, onfall sid^s. No one
. .was alarmed; except,;- tbp ,ministers,
Sgth Distriet.Bj^D;Uod - and they were certain something
srat, of Morgan. ; ; dreadful would happen on account of
.district.—R H Biillock^* the operation taking place on ,the‘
Lord’s day- It was noticeable, how>
ever, that nearly all of the complaints
made were by Brooklyn ministers.
“ Conscience doth malce cowards, <fcc.”
Gen. Newton (no relation to the
Doctor) explained that it was impos
sible to delay the explosion until'
Monday, as. great risk would ensue,
and the work was not completed
until late Saturday night. Poor
jokes were going tho rounds at all
the hotels on the general subject, and
the Theatre managers were enter
prising enough to have cards struck
i off somewhat similar to the following:
“Go to'Hell Gate, Sunday next,
Sept. 24th, 1876! Grand- Dynamite
, and Nitro-GlycerincExcursion!! ;By
of; thet*.sea, -the hotel
steamer, Plymouth Rock, Doth! Jos.
Hh!iGooker,*<to iHtiiesj tbq>destructi6n
of.Hallett’s Point Reef!!! No return
tickets ’necessary 1!! I Mothers-in-
law; fceekH!! ..... . .
U1DU1I Mliu
M8-4tW-^ypf' f
Gainesville, Gal
tBwsw, P-i
ittomev.
2,000 majority.
, : Joneaebuniy.—Colquitt, 597; Nor-'
cross, 126.
Jeflfefson county.-Colquitt, ^10;
Norcros?, 1. •
* JRsBoiPcbiillty.-^Bolqnai, 1,168;
Norcross, 397. *
Lowndes county.—Colquitt carries
this county by 200 majority. .
Lee county.—Norcross carries this
county by 783.
Macon county.—Gives Colquitt 524
majority.
Muscogee county.—Colquitt 1,008;
Norcross, 341.
Merriwether c o u u ty.—Colquitt,
Thirtieth District.—]
Democrat, of Madison.
Thirty-second district—
Thirty-fourth D i s t r i* c
Bryan, Democrat, of Ilenri
Thirtyssixth District.—]
ster, Democrat, of Coweta.
Thirty-eighth District.—!
Democrat, of Paulding.
Fortieth District.—YV 1
nell, Democrat, of Towns.
Forty-second District.—J G Gam
ble, Democrat, of Chattooga.
Forty-fourth District.—J W Cure-
ton, Democrat, of Dade.
Tho most fashionable ear-rings are
arrows of .small diamonds. How
’arrowing to poor folks.
Nothing pleases a . conscicntous
bachelor so much as to dine with ■&’
married friend and See-the baqy pnt
Colton Factor* and Orncral Commission Merchant*,
on the head at ,a second meeting, by
a brother asking:
“Uncle Ike, how long do-.s you
expect to be gone?” ,,
“Only two weeks,” be replied.;
“each one will be gone just -two
weeks.’’ *
“ If dar’s fifty of us an’ each on*' is
gone two weeks, what part of do
show will de last man sec ?” was the
blunt query.
Uncle Ike tried to convince them
that dates and figures were made for
mere convenience sake, hut the crowd
thinned out so .rapidly that he was
soon left alone. When he had seen
the last -man turn the corner, he
sighed a sad sigh and muttered
“I guess HI have to go wifdout
dot razor for anqther year. Dose
hero niggers seem - like dey hadn’t
any genius.’’ -
Bamring, Tics, Rope and other supplies fur
nished. Also, liberal'£aah advances made on
consignments for sale or shipment to Liverpool
or Nortl/cm ports. may 80-1875-tf
——-——♦
'tPBrcw
pa CO 5 ]
(Successor to C. H. Phinizy & Co.)
COTTOXT FACTOR,
Augusta, Ga. v
Liberal advances made on -consignments.
jnne6-4m
intense. Pale feces, anxious eyes,
and greedy ears, awaited the sound
of the 3d gun, half a minute before
Bang! You could have heard
time.
a pin drop. Two 1 hundred thousand
people held their breaths in awed and
awful silence. Two hundred thousand
necks outstretched their wonted
’engths in eager anticipation. Four
hundred thousand eyes converged on
a single 1 point. That point was Hell
Gate. A moment of ‘profound silence.
Tho very air seemed ritod. “ There
she goes,” and a white lake- rose
majestically fn tho : air; broke into
COLLEGE AVENUE,
NEXT DOOB TO TUE FOST OF
y v» w It : «vR •. f
On hand, Uppers for making Low (
oagnu, Alexia-Ties, and Prince Alhei
dring prompUy executed. tei
' T mail or express and vou shafl reod
Monroe countiy.—Colquitt’s major-
7/650. i f i ; :
Madison ■ couf ty.4-‘CDlquilt, 687;
orcross, 95. ' ip j
Newton county.—Colquitt, ; 962;
iiliy—Colquitt, 969;
COTTON bttster,
u*i .’E^Gitl.Ga.
|*3i,®f 8 *',P rio ®,»Jd'fo |r «4ton. Agent
inship’s Gins and Press. oc20-187?tf
Oglethorpe <
Norcross, 286.