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UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA LIBRARY
VOL. 5. NO. 23.
ATHENS, GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 27, 1877.
Z^a.W XTOTIC±S.
James R^I.tle,
Watkiuaville.
I Fountain cm spraTt
|jMORY HI'EEU,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, *
ATHENS, GA.
Otttre Nos. 4 and 5 Court-House.
i
dl9-ly
J H. DOHTCII,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Curne»ville, Ga.
niUS-1873-tf
JACK80N & THOMAS,
T1CBNEYS AT LAW,
Athens, Gn.
Asa M. Jackson. L. W. Thomas.
decl6-1874-tf
1>. II 1T.1.*
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Athens, Ga.. #
Prompt attention given to nil business nnd
the same respectfully solicited. janU#ly
JJOPE llAHHOW,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Athens, Gu.
Office in John II. Newton’s new building.
jan4-ly _
E. TIIIIAHIIEU,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Watkinsvillc, Ga.
Office in former Ordinary’s Office.
jan25-1876-ly
[ YEE & ERWIN,
A TTORNEY’S A T LA TP.
Will practice in parttierslpp in tlie Superior
Court of Oconee County, aud attend promptly
to all bu-iues* intrusted to their care.
jan9-3m.
X£ing Marks 7
JE£ x c li a. n g e Saloon, j
COLLEGE AVENUE.
The best Ciucinnat'.i Lager Leer, Cigars and all
kinds of Liquors sold cheap
dceli-lv. FOR CASH.
Howe's Great London Circos-Oestructlve
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Fire—$40,000 Devoured in the
1 Flames.
StTIAKEf.lt
GOTTOXT BUYSn,
Toeoa City, Ga.
Highest easli prico paid for cotton. Agen
for Wiusbip’s Gius und Press. oc2(M87Mf
The Celebration of the 22nd in ingusla—
Grant's Proclamation, and how it was.
Received—Georgia’s Hospitality Ex
tended to the Down Trodden
Sons of Carolina.
IJI A. I LEU,
‘TOa-bcFimnlter Sc Jeweler,
At Micliael’store, next door to Reaves & Nich
olson’s, llroad street, Athens, Georgia. All
work warranted 12 months.
scpt!2-4f.
P.
G. THOMPSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Special attention paid to eairainal practice.
For reference apply to Fx-Gov. T. It. Watts
and Hon. David Clopton, Montgomery, Ala.
< iffice over Post-Office Athens, Ga.
febS-1875-1 f
jlHANK 1IA1UIALHON,
attorney at law,
Cleveland, Ga.
Will practice In the counties of White, Union,
Lumpkin, Towns, and Fanning, and the Su
preme Court ut Atiauta. Will give special at
tention to all claims enuated to his care.
ang-U 1875-41-tf.
JOHN W. OWEN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Toeoa City, Ga.‘
Will practice in all the counties of the West
ern Circuit, Hart and Mudison of the Northern
Circuit. Will give special nttenion to all claims
entrusted to his care. oct20-1875-ly
Lamar Cobb. IIowell Cobb.
& ii. com*.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Athens, Ga
Office in Deuprcc Building,
fob22-1876-ly
Tlio Election of Congressmen
from the llth, nncl tvliat Is
Thongclit of tlio Com
ing Race by Citizens
ol tills District.
Stem <& Saulter.
"WTaolccalo and. I^o-fcail.
Dealers in Wines, Whiskies, Iuigcr Beer, Ale,
Gin mid Cigars.
Sign of the 13 ig Barrel
BROAD STREET, ATHENS, GA.
oet.Sl.ly.
F. P-
—DEALER IN—
American and Imported Watches, Clocks, Jewelry,
SILVER AND PLATED WARE,
luftiacdoal Inatrumonta, Guns,
Fis-fcola, E-fcc.
WATCHES, CLOCKS AND JEWELRY RE
PAIRED IN A NEAT, WORKMAN
LIKE MANNER,
And wanjuRad to give entliw satisfaction.
Ornamental ana Plain letter Engraving
Specialty.
BS9AS 8T2SXT, cat dan fra local A Wue,
^LEX. K EllWIN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Athens, Ga.
Office on Broad Street, between Center & Nich
olson and Orr ,t Co., up-stairs.
feb22-1876-ly
A M. COCIIHAN,
A.
^.TTORirajy -at law,
Gainesville, Ga.
Real Estate and General Land Agent fortbe
purchase anil sale of Mineral and Farming
Lands in Hall, nnd the other counties of North
east Georgia. Mineral ores tested nml titles to
property investigated. Special attention given
to the purchase and sale of city property.
may2—6m J. N. DORSEY. Attornev.
^SllUIlYG. McCURllY, ,
Attcmoy a-fc 2L-a-w,
11APTWELL, GEOKOtA,
Will practice in the Superior Courts of North
east Gcoigia and Supreme Court at Atlanta.
Aug 8. 1876 tf
W 1*. J-ITTLE, |
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Foil the Holidays.
Great Reduction in Prices.
TRIMMED HATS 75, 81 and upwards.
UNTRIMMED HATS 35, 50, 75c. and
upwards.
NECKTIES AT lO. 15. 30, 35c. and
upwards.
A large assortment of goods suitable for
OJarigrfaaieuB 3?reserrfcs,
at} remarkably low prices. Call early before
they are picked over at MISS C. JAMES,
dec!2-tf Broad street, Athens.
THE UNDERSIGNED IS PREPARED
FURNISH
MARBLE OR GRANITE
Cut to any designs they are desired, .Plain or
Elaborate Monuments, Head and Foot Stones
with side pieces. Marble or Granite Box
Toombs, Cradle Toombs, Vases or Statuary.
Marble or Granite Vaults for Cemetarv mid
other purposes, designs and prices furnished at
Mnrlilo. Ynril
the Marble Yard.
jnneSO.tf.
A.R. ROBERTSON,
Athens. Ga.
nplS-1678-tf
Carnesville, Ga.
BTJ3HTESS CARDS.
^ A. WINN,
—WITH—
GROOVER, STODBS & GO.,
Cotton Farters and General Commission Merchants,
Savannah, Ga.
Bogging, Ties. Rope and other supplies fur
nished. Also, liberal cash advances made on
consignments for sale or shipment to Liverpool
or Nortl-om ports. may 80-1875-tf
AS.TSTO EVANS,
Practical Watchmaker.
H AS removed to hia old stand at tho Ke*e
Drug Store, whero ho win bo glad to see
his eustomera, old and new, who wish fine
work done on Watches, Clocks, and Jewelry.
All work warranted.
febSO-Sm. ARTHUR EVANS.
JjlTEBT AND SALE STABLE.
Carriages, Buggies & horses
for bin. Terms reasonable. _
E. M. WHITEHEAD.
Washington, Wilkes county, Ga.
nov*S-1876-tf
For the Bfnefit of the Trade of
ATTESTS
And Northeast Georgia.
EDOTHT D- NEWTOIT, -
SALESMAN FOR
Messrs- Opdjcke, Terry & Steele,
Whlto Goods, Notion., Linen., Laces and. Em
broideries. t
—AND—
General Merchandise Broker.
OFFICES:
375 Broadway 4 , New TTorJs,
—AND WITH—
Messrs. Thomas & Fleming,
* DEUPREE BLOCK, ATHENS, GA.
XToti.ee !
All persona an forbidden to hunt, or other
wise trespass on my land. Said property being
near Farmington, Ga., and adjoining the land
of J. J.-Branch, Esq.
fcb20-2t. JOHN WHITLOW.
[Correspondence Athens Georgian.]
Augusta, Ga., Feb. 24, 1877.
It is with great pleasure that we
find ourselves able once again to
address your sterling journal, which
we have ever regarded as one of the
institutions of Georgia. But lew if
any incidents of a startling or ex
citing nature have occurred in the
past few months to disturb the dull,
monotonous course of every day life
in our staid old city.
The circus sensation still lives, as
after being sold ont by the sheriff it
was determined to go into winter
quarters in Aagasta. The uni
are housed in one of onr largest
warehouses, (many of which are va
cant, and promise to remain so for
some time to come,) where they are
daily visited by all who are so fortu
nate as to gain admission. It will be
fully re-organized and resume its
wanderings in four or five weeks.
Augusta bad a genuine, live, sen
sation, last Monday, in the shape of
one of the most destructive fires that
has occurred within her limits for
many months. Mr. Simmons, a gen
tleman from Connecticut, of vast
pluck and energy, established here
some four years ago a large Factory
or Pickery, where trash and damaged
cotton was repacked. lie had been
very successful in this business, and
was rapidly making money until last
Monday evening, when the fire fiend
ruthlessly destroyed the building
together with some five hundred
bales of cotton, inflicting a loss of
thirty or forty thousand dollars,
which was covered by only ten thou
sand insurance. lie was burnt out
once before, in Savannah ; but hopes,
in a few weeks, to resume operations
in a fire-proof building. Men of his
indomitable energy are much needed
in this section, lor it is ouly through
such Pha*nix-like pluck as theirs,
that we ever attain any degree of
prosperity.
Thursday 22nd, Washington’s
birthday, was celebrated by several
of our military organiza'ions, promi
nent among whom were tlio Rich
mond Hussars, a cavalry company,
than which there is none finer in 4 he
State. They intend parading with
fifty men; that number mounted,
makes an imposing display. Our cit
izens were electrified, astounded and
indignant; this morning, when they
read Grant’s'proclamation forbiding
any military celebration iu South
Carolina of the birthday of the father
of his country, and this, too, after
allowing the negro militia of Charles
ton to celebrate Lincoln’s birthday
on the 12th of the present month.
What a commentary on the u best
government the world ever saw!*
What are we drifting to? Verily,
does it seem as if the high-handed
pations of Cte^aristn are usurping
’divine principles of freedom,
freemen are forbidden by a
partisan President from celebrating
th^ anniversary of the birth of a man
to j.whont, more than any other, qur
country is indebted to for its release
froggt British thraldom! It is sup
posed that this proclamation was
payed more particularly against the
Washington Light Infantry of
Charleston, who haVe ever been in
th^Jiabit of observing the day. This
company is the one which attended
the Bnnker Hill Centennial, and also
represented South Carolina in the
Centennial Legion at Philadelphia,
lost July. Between them and the
Clinch Rifles of this city, (who rep
resented Georgia in the Centennial
Legion,) have existed the warmest
friendship. As soon as the latter
heard of the infamous proclamation,
they telegraphed to the “ W. L. I.”
to come to Augusta and join in our
parade, as, upon Georgia’s soil, we
yet ei^oy the semblance of freedom.
This,*' however, they declined to do,
as Gov. Hampton had ordered
striyi observance of the President’s
proclamation—thus wishing to afford
the hated tyraiit no excuse for tiny
further exercise of an authority
which, in this instance, is as arbitrary
as unpalled for.
The election of a congressman
front your district to the vacancy
which , had been so ably and nobly
he Hon. ,B. H. Hill, excites
Iton seem
OLD SERIES, VOL.. 56.
D0NN PIATT, m
' 9ftr
The Famous Article that ]
Grant Howl.
'
A DOUBLE DISTILLED ESSENCE OF EDI
TORIAL AqA FORT IS—PREPARE
FOR THE BEGINNING OF
THE END. “T '
[Washington Capitol.]
The sickening apprehension felt by
the people, to which we referred last
week, that the Supreme Court would
be found as rotten as the other pow
ers of our unhappy Government, lias
been realized
The swift decay that in the last ten
years has made our self-government a
sham and a mockery, and in the ex
ecutive and legislative btanphes
shamed us before the world, lias been
silently working its way through the
judiciary, until now, in its first trials
it offends with its stench the nostrils
of all honest citizeus.
The appeal made to Judges of the
Supreme Court from , the people,
sorely distressed and perplexed, was
Co-save them from the wicked eon
spiracy of men they lmd repudiated
at the polls. They saw their faithless
agents for years robbing the Treasu
ry of their hard-earned taxes; they
saw thpir highest officials indicted
for the meanest crimes; they saw ji
President, coarse, brutal and
it, appointing sycophantic pi
be decidedly
the favorite, and if we had a vote, it
should certainly be bis, and as many
more as we could influence, for
(meaning no disparagement to any
of his numerous opponents,) no purer
or abler man exists in your district,
and we think that your people could
pay no higher compliment to them
selves than- by selecting one who has
the respect and esteem of all who ar
so fortunate as to have met him.
We have read, and were utterly
astounded by the account of the
Convention held in your county in
the beginning of the week. A more
decided or clearer case of packing,
bull dozing or wire-working, we have
never beard of during the whole
course ofl our experience. Wc look
upon it in the light of a farce, and if
the people of old Clarko allow them
selves to be so duped,'then, they are’
not the men whom wo had supposed
trod the mountain paths of North
Georgia.
Would like to write at greater
length on this subject, but have
already occupied too much of valua
ble space, so more anon.
Yours, Clinch.
Scarcity of Money.—-There is no
donbt but the present condition of all
kinds of business and industry is fear
fully depressed, and it behooves eye*-
ry family 4 to look carefully to their
expenses. Winter is coining on
when children are liable to Croup,
Whooping Cough, etc. Coughs and
Colds will prevail everywhere, aud
Consumption, with other throat and
lung diseases, will carry off many.
These diseases should not be neglected.
Doctors’ bills are expensive, and we
would advise our people to use Bos-
ciiee’s German Syrup. It never
has failed. One bottle at 75 cents
will keep yonr whole family well da
ring the winter. Two doses will re
lieve any case. Sold in all towns in
the United States, and by yonr
Druggist, Dr. R T. Brumby.
dee!2-tf.
the associate of roughs and the com
missioner of thieves; they saw car
pet-baggers sustained by bayonets
manipulating the polls, that igno
rance and rascality might tyrannize
over the South; they saw rings or
ganized iu the lobby control their
Congress; they saw huge monopolies
created by their Government eating
out their substance; they saw them
selves reduced to want, trade paral-
ized and labor without employ, and
they made a desperate effort to
right their wrongs through the bal
lot.
With a subsidized press against
them, with an army of hungry office
holders, that, counting those of the
General Government with those of
the States, make a horde of Treasury-
eaters greater than any standing army
of Europe ; with’all tho accumulated
capital in the hands of monopolies
irrayed on the side of tl'cir oppres
sors they made one despairing
effort, anil came up from the polls
with a majority of over half million
in their behalf.. And of what
avail ?
Through a dishonest Returning
Board, made up of criminals who
have escaped conviction and punish
ment under the protecting arm of a
corrupt Government, enough votes
are thrown out to render all their
confidence in the very foundation of
our political structure, the ballot.
They decide that fraud does not viti
ate, and beyond this, that thtjy have
nothing to decide, and so send the
question to the people.
We have not the patience to argue
wlint the people in their broad com
mon sense will not consider; the fine
spun legal technicalities under which
these aged scoundrels seek to hide
their shame. Their real brief is. to
be fotiud in the utterance of one of
their Commission James A. Garfield,
who Baid, lioastiugly : “You’ll have
to grin and bear it; we hold the
cards and intend to play them.’’
Poor political gambler The stakes
for which he plays are the rights of
forty million of people, the peace and
prosperity of the only Republic
known to humanity. For all that
freemen hold most dear, these hands,
stained with plunder, gamble, as the
soldiers of Pilate severed in division-
tlie garment of the crucified Christ.
As wc said a week since, this is not
law; it is revolution, nnd if the peo
ple tamely 4 submit we may bid a long
farewell to constitutional government.
Fraud no longer vitiates. A corrupt
administration has only, by its bayo
nets, to hold a State usurpation long
enough iu pov/er for a corrupt Re
turning Board to do its vile task, and
the work is done.
If a man thus returned to power
can ride in safety from tho Executive
>n to the capilol, to be inaugu
rated, wo are fitted for the .slay
twillTbilow the inauguration.
.We do not believe the people of tho
United States are of this servile sort.
We do not believe that they are pre
pared, without a blow, to part with
their hartl earned, blood-stained pos
sessions. Notice is now served on
the citizens of Louisiana nnd South
Carolina that they must care for
themselves. How soon lump-posts
will hear fruit is for them to say. To
the people of the North andWest no
tice is given that all tlie toil to which
they arc subjected, that bond-holders
and monopolists may fatten secure, is
repaid by no security for their rights,
and that a shrinkage of values is now
iu order. If there is law for fraud
there is reason tor violence. And to
that wc make our last appeal.
H. T. Huggins, has a choice stock
of cigars, and solicits the patronage
of all smokers. jan30-2t.
efforts vain and saddle upon them the
old corruption and old horde for
another term of years—perhaps for
ever.
From this an appeal was taken to
five justices of the Supreme Court—
for that, no more and no less, was
the commission created. It was be
lieved that by- such process the ques
tion at issue, being a charge cf con
spiracy against certain corrupt men,
conld be lifted from the political
arena to a tribunal of high-toned, im
partial judges, who would dcide in
accordance with law and justice.
To the amazement and disgust of
all thoughtful nrinds, the justices di
vided, as the partisans had, on a po
litical line, and three indecent old
men joined with the enemies
of the fpeople in fixing cor
ruption upon ns, and destroying all
U. I*. M. feS.
Union Prayer .Meetings this week,
are as follows:
Wednesday night, at Mrs. Hop
kins’—Rev. Mr. Coil, Bro’s Jackson,
Reaves and Kroner.
Also at Mrs. Bailey’s—Bro’s Eng
land, Lucas, Black and Comer.
Thursday night, at Mrs. Porterp-
field's—Bro’s Dobbs, Sale, Dr. Lump
kin nnd McGinty.
Friday night, at Mrs. Josiali New
ton’s—Bro’s W. W. Lumpkin, Pitt
man, Reynolds, Hunter and Dr. E.
Smith.
Saturday night, at Mr. Nations’ —
Rev. E. D. Stone, Bro’s Lumpkin
and LeSueur.
Monday night, at Prayer Room—
Rev. C. W. Lane.
Jay O. Gailey, Prcs’t.
A NEW METHOD that cures
Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis and Con
sumption, Dr. J. II. McLean’s Cough
and Lung Healing Globules. As
they dissolve in your mouth, a heal
ing gas is generated and inhalled,
permeates and comes in direct con
tact, will cure Throat aud Lung dis
eases. Trial Boxes, by mail, 25
cents. Dr.' J. H. McLean, 314
Chestnust, street, St. Louis.
—The famine in India is decreas
ing. Tlie prices of grain are falling
in most of the Madras districts, ana
large importations will reduce them
elsewhere." *"•
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