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VMORY SPEER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ATHENS, GA. dlSMy Office Nos. 4 sod 5 Court-House. ^R. littleT B. Ltlx, Watkinsville. YLE <& ERWIN, ft attorneys at law. Will practice in partnership in the Superior Court or Oconee County, ana attend promptly to f. ... ATTORNEY AT LAW, : £ •18-1878-tf Carncsville, Ga. B. DORTCH, ; ; Fw THE HOUDAYS. : Great Reduction in Prices. ATTORNEY AT IA.W, Caruesvillc, Qa. il8-1878-tf [ACKSON & THOMAS, > h ' T TTCBNEYS AT LAW,- Asa M. Jackson. decie-1874-tf Athens, Ga. L. W. Thomas. trimmed HATS 75, SI and upwards. DNTRIMMED HATS 95, SO,’ 75o. and upwards. NECKTIES AT lO, 15, 90, 95c. and upwards. A large assortment of goods suitable for ,1 D. HILIi, >• > ATTORNEY AT LAW, Athens, Ga. ntion given to,all business and *‘ f “"y soiicitadi janll-ly K)PE]BARROW, ATTORNEY AT Athens, Ga. Offioe 'MJohn II. Newton’s ue jan4-l iW, • building. HRA6HER, TTORNEY AT LAW, Watkinsville, Ga. in former Ordinary’* Office. a w, EY AT LAW, n paid to caiminal practice. uu pi to Ex-Gov. T. H. Watts JloptOD, Montgomery, Ala. >RNEY AT LAW, Cleveland, Ga. - i in the counties of Whit*, Union, owns, and Fanning, and the Bu- t at Atlanta. Will give special at- claims ennsted to his care. 1875-41-tf. W. OWEN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Tocoa City, Ga.' practice in all the counties of the Weat- rcuit. Hart and Madison of the Northern . will give special attenion to all claims Mi to his care. oct20-1875-ly. mar Cobb. Howell Cobb, II. COBB, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Athens, Ga friwstLssi l at Mixxe wall.” all business intrusted to their care. jan9-Sm. [From the German.] * Sweetheart of mine, farewell! A Only oar hearts can tell . Ohr wce.‘- Only onr memories, fraught 1 With sorrow’s load of thought Can knew Onr grief and woe. Sweetheart of mine, good-by 1 - . The past for you and I Is dead; f The future blank and drear, . Hath naught for ns of cheer; Instead, Sorrow and fear. Ciaxistmas IPresexrbs, at ;remarkably low prices. Call early before they are picked over at MISS C. JAMES, decl2-tf Broad street, Athens. 3P- F-TALMASE, —DEALER IN— Sweetheart of mine, adien i Still os of old he trne And trust; Till at our journeys end Onr souls again shall blend— Our dost As one ascend. •Ed. Abbot. i THE ELECTORAL COUNT. Report of the Joint Commit tee of Both Houses. THE BILL. A bill to provide for and regulate the counting of the votes tor President and Vice President, and the decision of questions arising thereon, for the term oommeneing March 4th, A. D. 1877: . The modern cookstoveis approach- • Aerica ud Imported Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, | fag a degree of perfection which will require a competent engineer at a stated, salary to run it. Water, though well warmed, would SILVER AND PLATED WARE; Mnmosul .Ixzmiaraxaaxxkm, Gtaxus, Fiarbols, Sfco. WATCHES, CLOCKS AND JEWELRY RE- PAIRED IN A NEAT, WORKMAN- • LIKE MANNER, And wafamted to give' entire satisfaction. a*4 r&ain Letttr Engraving quench, nevertheless, the fire that warmed it. Thns may the character of a treacherous person be decribed The southern people need expect [ no fairness. From Main come? the voice of Frye: “ Sizzle ’em I” j From Illinois shrieks the terrible Jane: ** Swizzle ’em.” i Be it enacted, etc., That the Senate and House of Representatives shall meet in the hall of the House of Re presentatives at the hour of one o’clock, past meridiau, on the first Thursday. in February, A. D., 1877, and the President of the Senate shall be there as presiding officer. Two tellers shall be previously appointed on the part of the Senate and two on the part of the House of Represen- tives, to whom shall be handed, as ey are opened by the President o^ title Senate, all the certificates and pers purporting to be-certificates electoral votes, which certificates d papers shall be opened, present- and acted upon in alphabetical oWer of the States beginning with th e letter A; and said Ellers having tl{en read the same in the*presence 'd hearing of the two houses, shall ;e a list of the votes as they shall r from said certificates; and the haying been ascertained and counted as in this aet provided, the The Washington policemen have andau j.been provided with helmets, greatly rtbttirdTsgust. The Star mentions I soli * eW * l3r * yi CASH.,. - • Tone small guardian who waamtsfctiketr 1 for a hitching post. COTTOXT BUTTER. ' I - i Probably the sickest man on the Toco** City, Ga. I face of the earth is the paragrapher “<!SS:ie7 A «S nt I who > rcadin s hU 0 '' n colum “> du ' covers that a’joke isn’t half as smart J^tVEBY AND SALE STABLE. .- % Carriages, Buggies & horses for hire. Terms reasonable. ‘. E. M. WHITEHEAD. . Washington, Wilkes county, Ga. nov26-1875-tf j^SBURYG. MoCURRY, Attesasy a-b Law, Hartwell, Georgia, Will practice in the Superior Courts of North east Geoigis and Suprenie Court at Atlanta. Ang 8.1876 tf preceding the first Thursday in Feb ruary, 1877, each house shall by a viva voce vote appoint five of its members, who, with the five Asso ciate Justices of .the Supreme Court of the United States, to be ascertain ed as hereinafter provided, shall con stitute a commission for the decision of all questions upon, or in respect of of such double returns, named in this section. On the Tuesday next preceding the first Thursday in Feb ruary, A* D. 1877, or as soon there after as may be, the Associate Jus tices of the Supreme Court of the United States, now assigned to the First, Third, Eighth and Ninth cir cuits, shall select in such manners as a majority of them shall deem fit another of the Associate Justices of said court, which five persons shall be members of said commission, and the person longest in commission of saidfiye Justices shall he the Presi dent of said commission. The mem bers of said commission shall respect ively take and subscribe the follow ing oath: “ I,-———, do solemnly result of the same shall he delivered tojthe President of the Senate, who sh th shall therepuon announce the state of A. lLEli, TOTa'boluaaa2xc & vT owelor, Office in Deupree Building, 1876-1^ .HtX. ERWIN, i. ATTORNEY A* LAW, Athens, t®® 1 - At the New Drug Store, All work warranted 121 septl2-tf. Broad St., Athens. Ga nthe. ce on Broad Street, between Center & Nich olson and Ori & Co., up-stairs. I feb22-1876-ly Stern c& *yyh-1aen»la Si&ulter. Dealers in Wines, Wliia Gin and < Lager, Beer, Ale, are. M. COCHRAN, Sign of tlie 33i AfTORITBTr AT LAW, Gainesville, Ga. BROAD STREET, i oct.81.ly. Barrel 1ENS, GA.£ itate and General Land Agent ftor the and sale of Mineral and Farming Hall, and the other counties of North- la. Mineral ores tested and titles to ivestigoted. Special attention given and sale of city property. 3EY. Att< J. N. DORS! Ltternev. For the Bfnefit of ATHENS And Northeast Trade of EDWHT ID- SALESMAN FOI :OST; as he thought it was when he wrote it. It is asserted that the chief mana ger of a private London bank re ceives a salary of $150,000 a year. His two assistants each get $50,000 annually for their valuable services. “ Ah,” said a father to his son William, “ hearty breakfasts kill one- half of-the world, and tremendous suppers the other half.’’ u I suppose then,” retorted William, “that the true livers are only those who die of hunger.’’ - When a tramp asks you for ten cents of a Sunday it is the best kind of evidence that the gin mills are accessible. If he asks for only five you can make up your mind that lager is on tap somewhere in the vicinity. \ No, hub, wc can’t remember the name of the father who first invented the art of leading his son to expect a pair of skates at Christmas and then filled his stocking with five cents’ worth of pop-corn. In New Orleans, the Republican reports, “ Hamlet put on a peculiar Messrs. Opdycke, Terry j and Em- GROOVES, ».uuu„ - 1Cotton Factors and General Commission HerfeUsnt*, I While Goods, Notions, Linen*. I ! I hroldoHos. V 1 Savannah, Ga. • ^ ing, Ties, Rope and othar supplies fbr-1 —AND- 1 ,unu. Also, liberal. cash advances mode on InsigumentB for Bole or shipment to Liverpool General MercfraildiSUl.BlOKer. I Nortl^m Tinrtfl. may 80-1876-tf |1 ( OFFICES: _B. Phlhlzy, (SuccoBsor to C. H. Phinizy|& Co.) C30TT01T PACTOB, Augusta, Ga. ihaiial advances made on consignments. m Srcad.wa.jr, XTe —AND WITH- | Mt^srs. Thomas & Toxic, Leming, ipEfUPREE BLOCK, ATflEl , 4 GA - f. if" In 'mi Sht ".COLLEGE AVENUE, DOOR TO THE PQST OFFICE, On hid, Uppers for making Low Quarteio, l Alexis-Tiet, and Prince Alberts. .Bo- .. 9 i n V x. _ jAllnva ’ ring \romptly executed. Send ten dollars, saailor express and you shall receive a firat | Tof boots. . june 801875-85*tf. Notic©! There ijjl bo a meeting of the • of the Otfoee Fair Association January 1th at Court House Business vty important. jan9-lt. H. R. J. LONG, holders lesday I Athens. iident. tion OF ALL Ul done at this o* vote and the names of the if any, elected; which ati- neBRRaot shall he deemed a suffi cient declaration of the persons elects ed Preside nt and Vice President of the United, States, and who, together with a list of the votes, shall be en tered on : the journals of the two houses. Upon such reading oi any such certificates or paper, when there shall be only one return from a State, the President of the Senate shall call for objections if any. Every objection shall be made in writing, and shall state cleai'ly and concisely, and with ut argument, the ground thereof, ncl shall be signed by at least one Senator and one’ member of the House of Representatives before the same shall be received. When all the objections so made to any vote or paper fijom a State shall have been received and read, the Senate shall thereupon withdraw; and such ob jections .isiiall be submitted to the Senate for im decision; and the Speaker i>f the House of .Representa tives shall, in like manner, submit such objections t<u the House of Re presentatives for its decision, and no electoral vote or ystes from any State from which but one return lias been received shall be rejected except by the affirmative vote of the two houses, When the two houses have voted they-shall immediately again 'meet, arid the presiding officer shall then expression, and said, There .is somes . , , , 5 . t. . , . „ announce thevlecision of the question thing rotten in Denmark.’ A snjall v V7. j 1 hoy in the gallery exclaimed, ‘ Look behind the scenes; perhaps the gas^p escaping.’” , A" Ulster overcoats are all the rage in Paris now; even lad its wear them. A gentleman asi&cl^ a janitor the other day: “ Is jttons. Tribout' at home?” Janitcf answered: *fl really can’t &&/. I saw his ulster pass by just nv.v ; but who was in it is raeie than I know.” Th evert latest and most ridicu lous case the “ insanity plea” has occured i S in Francisco, where a member of a ,gapg of professional bondsnen, indicted and tried for furnisling “straw bail,” pleaded in- samV as a reason for signing a $1,000 boni and swearing that he was worth 000. submitted. : Section 2. That if more than one return or paper purporting to he return from a State shall have been received l>y the President of the Senate^ purporting to be certificates of the electoral votes ^ven at the ldst prec|ediug election for President and Vied; President in siicfi States, unless thjere shall be duplicates of the same retjirn, all such returns and papers shall l> e opened by him, in the presence of the houses, when met as aforesaid, and read by the tellers, and all such returns and papers shall thereupon he submitted to the judg ment and decision as to which is the true and lawfnl electoral vote of such State of a commission constituted as follows, namely: During the session of each honse on the Tuesday next swear [or affirm as the case may be,J that I will impartially examine and consider all questions submitted to the commission of which I am a member, and a true judgment given thereon agreahly to the Constitution and laws, so help me God,” which oath shall be filed with the Secreta ry of the Senate. When the com» mission shall have been thus organiz ed, it shall uot he in the power of «ithairhoix8eto-d^sc4vj^.the-aamc. to withdraw any of its members, but if any such Senator or members shall die or become physically unable to perform the duties required by tills act, the fact of such death or physi cal inability shall be by said com mission, before it shall proceed fur ther, communicated to the Senate or Honse of Representatives, as the case may be, which botty shall immediate ly and without debate proceed by viva voce vote to fill the place so va cated,, and the person so appointed shall take and subscribe the oath hereinbefore prescribed, and become a member of said commission; and in like manner if any of said Justices of the Supreme Court die or become physically incapable of performing the duties required by this act, the other of said justices, members of the commission, shall immediately ap pointanother Justice of said com-/ mission, and in such appointment re gard shall he had to the impartiality and freedom from bias, sought by the original appointment of said comnrssion, who shall there upon immediately .take' and sub scribe the oath hereinbefore pre scribed and becanm a member of said commission to- fill the vacancy oc- cassioned. All the certificates and papers purporting to be certificates of the electoral votes of each State, shall be opened in the alphabetical order ofthe States as provided in section first of this act, and when there shall he more than one such certificate or paper as certificates and papers from such State, shall be opetied, excepting duplicates of the same return, they shall be read by the tellers, and thereupon the Presi dent of the Senate shall call for ob jections, if any. Every objection stmll be mkde in writing, and shall state clearlV and concisely, and witLout argument, "the ground thereof, \incl shall lie signed by at least one j tor ana one member of the House Representatives, before the same ie received. When all such ns so made to any certificate, paperfrom a State shall.have lived and read, all such cer- votes and papers so objected same, together with such objections, shall be forthwith submitted to said commission which shall proceed to consider the same with tho same pow ers, if any, now possessed for that purpose by the two houses, acting separately or together, and by a ma jority of votes, decide whether any and what votes from sneli State are the votes provided for by the Consti tution of the United States, and how many and what persons were duly appointed electors in such State; and may therein take into view such peti tions, depositions, and gather papers, if any, as by the Constitution and now existing laws may be competent and pertinent in such consideration, which decision shall be made in writing, stating briefly the ground thereof and signed by the members of said’ commission agreeing therein: whereupon the two houses shall again meet and such decision shall he read and entered upon the. journal of each hquse, and the counting - of votes shall proceed in conformity therewith, unless upon objection made thereto in writing by at least five Senators ‘and five members of the I-Iousa of Representatives, the tw6> houses shall separately concur in ordering otherwise, in which case such con current order shall’ govern. No votes or papers from any other State shall be acted upon until the abjec tions previously made-to the votes or from been finally disposed t>f. -^-5peTiqsfes#Krrfrba*~ white- the two Houses shall be in meeting os pro- videarlm-this act, no debate shall be allowed and no question shall be pat by the presiding officer, except to either House on motion to withdraw, papers from nny State shall^have ' * ‘ionnand nf ■ ^ shall to, and all papers accompanying the and he shall have no power to pre* serve order. Section 4. That when the two Houses separate to decide upon aiw ; objection that may lyiVe been made' to the counting of au^ electoral vote . or votes from any Sfftte, or an objec tion to a report ofjfsaid commission, or other questlion arising under this act, each SenatmTand Representative may speak to swh object idb or ques tion ton mifuftes, and not oftener than'once; hut after such debate shall have listed two hours, it shall be tlie dutypf each House to put the main questin without further debate, SectiIdn"jr. That at each joint meeting off*the two Houses, seats shall be plovided as follows: For the President of the Senate, in the Speaker’s etair; for the Speaker, im mediately upon his left; the Senators, in the bo<3F_of the hall upon the right of the prcl&iug officer; for the Rep resentatives, in the body of the hall not prptidecl for the Senators; for the Tejlfjw, Secretary of the Senate, Clerk pf^the House of Re present as tives, at lhe Clerk’s desk; lor other officers .4? the two Houses, in front of the Clbrk’s desk and upon each side of tl|? Speaker’s platform. Such joint meeting shall not be dissolved until the count of the electoral votes shall be ^completed, and the result declared and no recess shall be taken unless a juestion shall haye arisen in regard ; S;the counting of such vote,s or othei rise, under this act, in winch case it hall be competent for either House, ding, separately in the man ner hei linbefore provided, to direct a reces of such House, not beyond ‘ the ncx day (Sunday excepted), at the hoir of ten o^clpck in the tovei noon; aid while any question is being considc ed by said commission; either \. House may proceed with the legisla- V tive 1 or dtlier business. Section (3. That nothing in this be held to impair’of'affect •any right now existing ’under the Constitute or laws to question by Proceeding L\. the judicial courts of the United Suites the right or title of the personytho shall be declai'ed elected, or woo shall claim to bo President and Vice-President ofthe United Slates, if any such right exists. Section 7. That said commission shall nuke its Own rules, keep a record of its proceedings, and shall have power to/eniploy such persons as nay be necessary for the transac- “ioi of its business, and the exeou- ons of its powers,