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Newspaper Page Text) '■ i "M' **<r y ,*T t *n jjg>■ s afrcu90fZ0dMfyftt 1 -; '■.* -.._ ■* «,+ UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA LIBRARY . /* iOM fH'f } '., ••■■'■ V ; '• jgfcSs.^- :«r« * ■ * J * • - * .W^iTfJEWD YOL. 6. NO. 28. Y7T?i,;: v ier?'A.■ fei- ■■■ : - : . r7 , “ r : AT1TRNS, GEOEGIA, APfi% 3, 1877, OLD'SERIES, YOL. 5(L LAW 2TORCES. £MOHY HPEER) ATTORNEY AT LAW, ATHENS, GA. dl9-ly Office Noe. 4 and 5 Court-House. J # 8. ROHTCH, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Jakes K. Lyle, Watkinsvilic. A “5&lr- J YLE «fc ERWIN, ATTORNEYS AT I*AW. Will practice inpaitnersbip in the Superior Court of Oconee County, and attend promptly to all business intrusted to their care. jand-Sm. * ep!8-1878-tf Carneavilie, Ga. JACKSON «& THOMAS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Athens, Ga. \ Office South West Corner of College Avenue and Clayton Street, also at the Court House. All parties desiring Criminal Warrants, can get them at any time by applying to the County at this office. decl6-1874-tf Sing Marios* Exchange Saloon, COLLEGE AVEN UE. The heat Cincinnati} Lager Beer, Cigars and all kinds of Liquors sold cheap deeply. FOB CASH. Solicitor at D-HIlili, C. 3 ATTORNEY AT LAW, Athens, Ga Prompt attention given to all business and the same respectfully solicited. janll-ly pope Harrow. C. I>. Harrow. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Athens, Ga. Office over Talmadge, Hodgson & Co. jan4~ly T A. ILEB, WatnhmiiVar 8b «T«*osralsacy At Miclisel’store, next door to Reaves A Nich olson’s, Brood street, Athens, Georgia. A11 work Warranted IS months. septl2<4f. J} E. THRASHER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Watkinsville, Ga. Office in former Ordinary’s Office. jan88-1876-ly ., , p G. THOMPSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, 8pecial attention paid to caiminal practice. For reference apply to Ex-Gov. .T. H. Watts and -Hon. David Clopton, Montgomery, Ala. Office over Post-Office Athens, Ga. febS-1878-tf pitANK IIARRALSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Cleveland, Ga Will practice-ia tWconuflesofWMtle.lHfetrl Lumpkin, Towns, and Fanning,'and the Su- pTome Court at AtlantA Will give special at tention to all claims ennsted to his care. aug-11 1875-41-tf. JOHN W. OWEN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Tocoa City, Ga.' Will practice in all the counties of the West ern Circuit, Hart and Madison of the Northern Cironit. Will give special attenion to all claims entrusted to his care. oct20-1875-ly. SCHAEFER, . COTTOSt BUYLR, Tocos City, Ga Highest cash price paid for cotton. Agent for Winship’s Gina ana Press. ocSO-1875-tf Stem eft Saulter- Wiiol—la auad Ro-fcaal. • Dealers in Wines, Whiskies, Lager Beer, Ale, Gin and Cigars. Sign of the JBig Barrel BROAD STREET, ATHENS, GA. oct.81.ly. F. F. TAlAffAPE, . -DEALER IN— Antrim and Imported Wattles, Clocks, Jewelry, SILVER AND PLATED WARE, Ti/Tvtnvual Ixasrfcrusxj.4ra.-fce, Gfruxie, » FSatol*, WATCHES, CLOCKS AND JEWELRY RE PAIRED IN A NEAT, WOBKMAX- ' ' *UKK , MANNJtR I r ‘ And warranted to give entire satisfaction. Ornamental and Plain Letter Etfgraving Specialty. B20AB STBEZT, ess dew from Laeu k Wirt, Lamar Cobb. Howell Cobb. £ & H. COBB, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, | Athens, Ga fOfflce in Dcnpree Building, fe\>22-1876-ly ^LEx.aeuyvDV, * ‘ ATTORNEY AT LAW, C- JL J Athana, Office on Broad Street, between Center & Nich olson and Orr & Qo.. up-stairs, fell 22-187 6-1 y ■ ^ M. COCIIRAN, A.TTOBSTE'Sr AT LAW, . Gainesville, Ga. Real Estate mid i General Land Agent for the purchase and aale of Mineral and Fnrming Lands in Hall, and the other counties of North east Georgia. Mineral ores tested and titles to property investigated. Special attention given to the purchase' and sal's of city property. tnay2—6m J. N. DORSEY. Attorney. U. S. MAIL LINE, The undersigned is now running a splendid new Mail and Passenger Coach BETWEEN THE * and Northeastern and would be pleased to carry passengers (who have such baggage us thev can handle them selves) to and lrom the Depots and all other powrta on their route. The coach will call at the iiOtc»witl» all outgoing lriaHs;- No drumming for passengers. mch27-lm Fare 25 cents. J. S. WILLIFORD. ^SBURYG. McCURRY, Attorney at;' Lavw, Hartwell, Geoboia, Willpractice in the Superior Courts of North east Gcoigia and Supreme Court at Atlanta. Aug 8. 1876 tf T11E 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, Marblo or Granite Box Toombs, Cradle Toombs, Vases or Statuary. Marblo or Granite Vaults for Cemetarv and other purposes, designs and prices furnis'hed at the Marble Yard. june20.tf. GEORGIA Hp v*' : Is It tlia Tim _ . . Port Royal, Augusta and Baton Railroads. Mr. Editor :—Rcgulus in the' 'Chronicle & Constitutionalist of v the 24th of March/recommends W. L. High, for director of the Georgia Railroad Company. There are mats ters of ranch more importance to the stockholders of the Georgia Railroad Compaq}* than the. election of any one man refill the vacancy of Dr. E. E. Jones. At the last legislature two acts were passed, if I am not mistaken, one to authorize the Georgia Railroad Company to purchase the Macon and Augusta. Railroad, and the other to purchase the Port Rojjal Railroad These are important questions to the stockholders of the Georgia Rail road Company, and I take the position that neither of -these roads should be purchased by the Georgia Railroad. will first discuss the Macon and Augusta Railroad. That road was built at a time when Macon had no outlet for freight hot the Central Railroad and the Ocmulgee River. In the fall of the year the wafers of the river were low, and the boats could not be run, and the Central Railroad had a monopoly of the freights, and henoe charged their own prices, and very high one’s at that, that fact in duced- the people of Macon, the ’ia, and the South Carolina roads and the citn&ns'of Au Charleston, to = believe that Macon and Auguifta Railroad sbo be built, that a large quantity of the cotton and other freights and travel would be directed from the Central Road and Savannah, to the Macon and Augusta, the Georgia and South Carolina Railroads, and the city of Augusta and Charleston, and hence, the road was built, mainly by all of these corporations and cities; but what has been the result ? . It has been just what every sensi ble man, it seems to me, might have seen before, as soon as the Macon mul Augusta, and Macon and Bruns wick Railroads w ere completed, and become competitors to the Central Railroad, the tariff of; freights were utr'down,. and'Ufbe result has been st -the cottolfl and'^bther freights harVe gone to jSavannah, over the Central Railroad, the shortest and most direct route to the sep- coast. It 1 wrought a good' tlfilg for the Now let us look into the business of the' road and see how much and d it ia. By the same report, tl freight was $29,655, down munication with the sea, except over the Savannah & Augusta and the South Carolina Railroads, and ifitbey were in the hand* of the Central, the » way freight $21,878, Georgia Road would be at the mercy llaneous $858, total $74,479; passengers $26,812, through ngers $3,849. Now It is a noticeable feet that the through pas sengers paid only $3,349, and uo through freights are put down, and we ire^left to infer that the jnnall sunrfof $858 called “ miscellaneous” is the sum total of the through freight* on the Macon and Augusta Railroad for inwilfrcal year endingon the 1st of April 1876. And that is'the kind of Railroad that thd Georgia Railroad Corapjtny is requested to purchase. Wot any sensible.man take the road to«.day, as a gift; and bind Mm- selVtokeep it op for twenty year*? I think not! What the debt of the company is, we cfb hot know, but who ever buys the road wilj have to pay its bonded debit. Bat what the value of the road is wo can only judge from its incofne.- The road is and will be a benefit to Warren, Hancock, Bald win nnd Jones counties, through which it runs, btit all of these counties lie between the Georgia Railroad on the’^North and the Central on the South, and are within a short distance of railroad communication, and the necessity for its construction was very great; se being the facts, the question is it that the Georgia Rail W. T get Ktrppiti 0*TST» Lfcw, J. ->4dRA>«fal4*i4** * a|>18-1673-tf A. bttshtsss cazuds. A. WINN*, : ” ~ —WITH— ' GROOVER. ST1BS 4 CO, Catton Factors and (Irncral Commteioi Merchuts, Savannah, Ga. Ba^eiiijr, Ties, Bope and other supplies fur nished. Also, libera! <nsh advance* made on eonsiimnentd fdrsalt of sMpmdntft* Liverpool or Nortl.cnr ports. may 80-1875-tf A.R. BOBERTSON, Athens, Ga. < ^ ^ For the Bfhefit of the Trade of ATHE1TS \\v> merchants nnd people of Macon in breaking the shackles of, a! hnge monopoly. But what benefit did it do to the Georgia and South Carolina Railroads, aud to the commerce of Augusta abid Charleston ? , Why none at all! The Macon * and Augusta Railroad is now- rah by the Georgia Railroad Company, aud Tn proof of y 'assertion let as examine t^e report of 8. K. Johnson, siiperintendant, mm**. Georgia. ££.£££& ££ BDWfflr X). STBWTOIT, ti oV'-ALEBaLs^rf-x sj&T. Messrs. t)fuljL$e,J«r]f White Goods, Notions, Linens, Laces nnd Em broideries. ARTHTO EVANS, Practical Watchmaker. H AS removed to 14s old stand at the Xew Dreg Store, where he will bo glad to see liis customers, old and new, who wish fine Illwo^MnUd*^ Ci0C ^’ JpVeliy ‘ feb20-6m. ARTHUR EVANS. j^ivkry and Sale stable. ^ I ‘ CarrInBccs, Hup^-ics & lxorses for hire. Terms reasonable. « E. M. WHITEHEAD, ^0Y26-187W$ Ungt0n, WHkM C0Dnt y> Ga - General -Ml*- ^ e' BroiteA OFFICES. S7S Broadway, Hew Tork, ’A It .'Av4a*ND tarrfH-4T/«t ; vll m^xTho^i&Merme, DEUPEEE BLOCK, ATHENS, GA. ,:tVM fe.;' ',fe :>nK, All persons are forbidden fo linnt, or other wise trespass on iny land. Said property being near Farmington, Ga., and adjoining the load of J. J. Branch, Esq. feb20-2t. JOHN WHITLOW 1S76. Tlie gross earnings of the Macon nnd*» Augusta Road for the ri^jeacavas 8108.090. (I use ftd'Klilmt^fs), expenses $74,254 ; upt e#iiiing8 $13.836.. It further ap pears from said report, page 26, that the Geojjgia Railroad Comiiagy owns to the amount of 8195.869, and in the same report, page 27, the Georgia ^•.P3Vi ur ! n e. Wpnscarj^em^tt^complqte^ie Macon 000. i In other words the Georgia -Railroad t Company, has stock in bompaying and wortbletsjN&d to thc ftis j|jd«« during pl^yetu^ 18^5 and 1876^ sum of $71,000 to complet 1 *!* road which has netted the handsome sum of 813,836 ita road ? Is it because the Georgia road owns some stock in the Macon & Augusta road? Then, it is fer better that the road should throw it away than to increase further loss. Is it because the Georgia road fears it will lose through freight from Macon and points beyond ? Then, it can lose none, for it has precious lit tle to lose. Is it because the city of Augusta- is afraid of losing trade'in that direction ? Then, let them bny the road and pay for it, who expects to reap the benefits of it. But, a better reason than those named, can be guessed at. It is that the' stock of the Macon & Augusta Railroad has been very low, and could have been purchased very cheap, and some sharp, far-sighted ring master may ’ have purchased heavily of the stock of said railroad company, and now, if the ring can get the Georgia Railroad Company to purchase the Macon & Augusta t’oad and incorpo rate it* with the stock of the Georgia Company, the stock will soon rise to the value of the Georgia Railroad stock, and the manipulators of this project will real'ze a handsome profit on their investment in Macon & Augusta stock. 1 '* The next question' which will come before the Con Ventibd of the Stock- holders of the Georgia Railroad is the purchasing of the Port Royal Railroad. Some three or four years ago, the Write! 1 of this article was at the Convention of the Stockholders of the Georgia Railroad; and Mayor Ektes and some other gentlemen of . -- -j - ? — of the Central—and such a scare was rarely ever known, and trader that excitement, got up by interested parties, the Georgia Railroad i n dorsed the bonds of the Port Royal Railroad Company to the amount of $500,000. And now, what is the re» suit? It is 'just what might have been foreseen by any good business man—the company has failed to pay the interest on its bonds, and the road and all of its property will soon be sold under a decree of the United States Courts of South Carolina to pay the first mortgage bondholders t» the amount of $2,500,000, and the Georgia Railroad wiil have the exquisite pleasure of paying the $500,000 of bonds endorsed by the company. ~ AU of this coaid have been avoided,- if the company had pursued the proper course,-;and let other raUroads alone. There never was any neces sity, except, in the fervid imagination of some gentlemcu for the Port Royal Railroad. Augusta had one inlet to its branch, to-wit: the Georgia Rail-* road, and had four outlets to its trade, to-wit: the Charlotte, Colum bia & Augusta, the South Carolina, and the Savaunah and Augusta Rail roads and the Savannah River, and hence, the Georgia Railroad never could have been embarrassed or ham- Mseop A pored by the'Central iq -its trade. Bilt It effected, its purpose, as a bca^e crow, and the endorsement of the Port Royal bonds was secured, and the control of the South Carolina Railroad by the Central was .never again heard of Now, it will be urged at the next Convention, that we must purchase this worthless railroad to save the company from its liabUity on the $500,000 of endorsed bonds. But who is to pay off the $2,500,600 ,to the mortgage bondholders? The read is uot worth half of the money. am opposed to buying-any more insolvent roads. If the company have the $500,000 to pay, let them lose it, and keep out of such complications in the future. < ' Hence, acts of the Legislature were passed at the late session for the purpose of authorizing the Georgia Railroad Company to purchase the Macon and Augusta and the , Port Royal Railroads, and at the next Convention of the stockholders, a resolution will, no doubt, be intro duced fo that effect. It will be dis cussed warmly for a time, and finally, after every- one has been worn out, some generous soul, who will be ac tuated qierely in the interest of peace, and for the best interest of the Geor gia Railroad, will rise np in some N* ZL tltil Augusta were pressing on tiie Con '{<$[ 7 the Endorsement of the Bonds-of the Pbrt ( f Royal.' Railroad Company.’* The question was tten defeated. Soon after that, it was reported that’ the Central Railroad Was' trying to purchase the Sotith Garolina Rail-* road, that certain parties connected with the Centrab .was purchasing the stack of the South Carolina Railroad for -thB-rpirpose bf contrqllidg said road"tOrthe injury: of Augusta arid the Georgia Railroad; v Hi lt was argued that the Georgia Railroad would be cut off from coin- distant corner of the Masonic Hall and moye that the wholes matter be referred to the directors, arid the job- will be done. The suggestidn will be jumprid i at - by the unthinking mass of the stockholders, and that-question wiU be just where the movers of the prqject want it, and just where all of the present embarrassments of tbSt Georgia Railroad comefrom. • I mean in going security on the jbqnd of the lessees of .the Western & Atlantic Railroad, {he endorsement of the Port Royal' Railroad io the amount of $500,000, which will prove a clear loss, the endorsement pf the bonds of tlip .Western .& Atlantic Railroad Cortipany to the extent of 81,200,000; and finally, the purchase of said road, (with the Central,V Ao save them* selves,, at a cost of $2,000,0Q0 more. These are some‘of'the results of trusting matters ‘td-fhb Board of Di- rectors. "These are stubborn facts, an d I warn the stockholders to arrest this, movement at. tfye slj^rt^ Settle your own business in Convention be fore you leave, arid 'trust nothing of that kind to your Boarfl of Directors. Clarke. News Items. —The applicants for. foreign con sulships are busy figuring 'out this problem : How many limes will 3,000 go in 2? —Within the past four w§eks no less than seventeen dead infants have been picked up by the police in the. streets and alleys of New York. —Cardinal red parasols will be used this summer, and it will be diffi» cult for a near sighted man to distin guish a woman from a meteor three, squares away. —Orders have been given by the- Russian government to the manager of the Imperial Iron. Foundry at Tula,. to construct withont delay, 40,000 - iron huts for the accommodation of. troops. . . , . .. —-The Greenbackers of Rhode r Island have nominated William Fos ter, Jr., for Governor, and Jason PT- Hazard for Lieutenant-Governor. They have stopped here, bat" intend to complete the ticket. ' —On Sunday,- 25th, the New York Herald contained two tllonsartd eight. hundred new advertisements.' This- would seem to indicate that adver tising payes in the wealthy North... The Herald, however, is not au* ephemeral journal. - —--Baltimore has suffered from the * , ravages of scarlet fever to an unprece dented degree since November last, and the disease has not been confined to any localities or classes. Over 340 dcalh&.of pronounced catjes lu! ve - occnrred vjjbm !h«iWmefl|pri£d. —An Armstrong breeci: gun, weighing a little over 39 tons,., and which is by far the largest ■ breech-loader hitherto constructed in. that country, was recently completed in England. The gun is constructed upon the coil system, is of. 12-inch calibre, and the breech mechanism follows, generally the French pat tern. —The Turkish raval force is at. present composed of i two. imperial. yachts, six iron-clad frigates, nine iron-cladcorvetts, two iron-clad mon itors, five iron-clad gunboats, four ■ ships of the line, four frigates, seven coyettes, fifteen coast-guard vessels, five schooners, four cannon sloops,. and fifty-three other vessels; tin all 116, With 1 ' 759 guns, and 116,038 men. n> *>: *•: • _ v - •• ! : >. .... ■' —The Boroness Mayer dfe Roth schild’lately died on board her yacht at Nice. She had been sailing about the Mediterranean all winter in the hope of benefitting her health. She was the widow of the youngest son of Baron Nathan Mayer de Rothschild. Her only child, Mile. Hannah de Bothschild, ‘inherits the estate. —Delegations of native Americans, colored Americans, German Ameri cans, Irish Americans, and assorted Americans of othor varieties, have already paid their respects to Presi- - dent Hayes, usually with an incident - tal allusion to some office of trust and; emolument. The aboriginal Ameri can has so far only been heard from through dispatches addressed to the. War Department. —The students of Columbia Col lege are ^dppting the black robe, big • sleeves and flat cup of the English .- ijniy.cp’sitras, The Faculty and Pres- - ident Bernard approve the new de- - parture. The sleeves are larger and ’ mpro convenient to laugh in. The-? students in th^ii; new, old-fashionecti garb do Rot ■ venture on the street. The risk, is top great. Neither the gamin of New York, the average policeman or the; dogs comprehend the meaning, for'd^e or antiquity of this* costume.

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