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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.