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THE ATHENS GEORGIAN: MAY 15, 1877.
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U. h. CAill'TON, - Editor.
Col. S C. Williams, appointed l»y
the Governor to investigate the rev*
jenue troubles in North Georgia,
•* n.-ikes a lengthy report of the results
"o! his invesUg-xtioii, which is published
.in kill] the Atlanta Constitution of
♦file Sill inst. The report shows the
people t*f this section of the State to
have been greatly outraged by cor
rupt and deigning revenue officials,
mid it i' greatly to be hoped that ihe
faithful discharge of duty on the part
ofCul. Williams, in examining into
and publishing the true state of affairs
in North Georgia, will result in the
speedy relief of this much wronged
and oppressed people.
There is nothing which contributes
more towards stimulating needed en
terprises in any community, than the
advocacy thereof through a readable
and well circulated newspaper.
The New York Herald thinks that
England is “between the devil and
the deep sea.” It holds that it she
becomes the ally ot 1 urkcj for tlic
protection ol her interests i-< the
East, she will lose her commercial
supremacy, her shipping interest
passing into the hands ot neutral
nations. The Herald further main
tains that England’s parlicipan'cy in
this war will greatly benefit America
by tnuisfering her commercial supre
macy to the United States, and
thinks that if Congress will only have
the good sense to permit the sale ot
British ships to our citizens, Ameri
can commerce might recover during
this war a great deal more than it
lost in the disastrous period between
1801 and 1865.
There is nothing which contributes
inore towards disparaging the claims
of a place to anything like commer
cial, social, educational, religious and
■general local advantages and attrac-
tiven .sp, than a failure to cheerfully
support and liberally sustain its own
local newspaper.
The solid organized democray has
enabled every southern state to
throw off the yoke of oppression and
ngain establish the right of local self-
government, and yet there are those
who oppose party organization and
tavor independents. It has routed
carpetbagisiu and scalawagism from
our midst and enabled the solid south
to so demoralize and break the
strength of radicalism as to make
-democratic, victory an inevitable re
sult four years hence, and yet there
sire those who favor the formation of
si republican-whig party. Oh, ye
independents, ye reformers, ye re-
pnbhcar-whig sensationalists, the po
litical necessities of the country hav
ing been well met by the organized
democracy, and the country, feeling j
yet safe under its solid power, ealleth
«iot for your services, nor is itjikely
to swallow your sugar coated ideas o_
reform.
There is nothing which contributes
.more towards inducing capital and
{population to a place, than a live in
terest manifested by its people in all
its local enterprises, especially in the
support of its newspaper.
Athens needs one or two large
vegetable gardens to supply public
demand.
Our Atlanta Column.
Thanks to our Atlanta friends for
their material appreciation of the Tri-
Weekly Georgian. We shall en
deavor to make our tri-weekly issue
an acceptable ’paper and a value me
dium through which to present your
commercial claims to the public.
Assist us in our enterprise and we
will seek to help you in your business.
Those who feel an interest in our suc
cess will always find a reciprocal
interest in the Tri-Weekly Geor
gian.
Notwithstanding the proclamations of
neutrality, the prospect of any con
tinued European peace is growing
hourly less and less hopeful. England
is already beginning to show her teeth,
and in the event the Russians should
advance upon Constantinople, she will
defend it. In doing so, it is believed
she will be supported by the whole of
Western Europe. The government of
France is in full accord with that of
England.
What has become of the corpora
tors < f the Athens, Madison and
Eatonton Railroad ? This enterprise,
So important to these three towns as
well as the section of country through
which the road would run, should
not bo allowed to die out. It is true
that the stringency of the times is a
great barrier to such projects, but let
it be remembered that there is no
better way of relieving the pressure
of hard times than by opening up
new channels of trade and travel.
Let the friends ot the enterprise keep
peging away at it, and it will finally
be built.
In and around Athens there are
twelve as good water powers as can
he found in any country. If these
were utiliz' d for various manufactur
ing purposes, Athens would become
the largest manufacturing city in the
South. All that is necessary to bring
this about, is the exercise of sufficient
enterprise on the part of onr people
to attract attention te the-c natural
facilities, thereby inducing cap'l.al and
labor adequate for their thorough and
successful development.
We hear a rumor to the effect that
the Northeastern Railroad has been
purchased by the Atlanta and Char
lotte Air-I.ine Company.— Gaines
ville Eagle.
We take pleasure in informing our
most worthy contemporary that the
rumor is untrue. The Northeastern
Railroad is in a flourishing condition,
has not been sold, is not for sale, and
will not be sold. The Air-Line Rail
road Company regarding tlic North
eastern Railroad ns a most valuable
feeder to their road, there now exists
the most friendly interchange and
advantageous business relations be
tween the two roads, which may have
given rise to the rumor.
How to Ponoua ce Them.
General D. H. Hill of the Southern
Home gives the following excellent
rule for pionouncing the very difficult
Russian names which we sec so much
of.
“ Sonic of our readers ask for the
proper pronunciation of the Russian
names of officers and places. The
following rule is very simple and inay
bo correct: Pronounce the first
syllable as in English and sneeze once
for every subsequent syllable. The
only other difficulty is in telling what
a syllable is. The rule for that also
is easy. Allow three letters for a
syllable. Then it the name has
twelve letters after the first syllable,
take a pinch of snuff andjustaslhe
tit illation is beginning, pronounce
boldly the first syllable and sneeze
four times exactly neither rnoro nor
less.”
The Telegraph «(? Messenger says:
Elbers, the well known German
Egyptologist, gives a different ex
planation of the meaning of the name
Moses than that commonly received.
He says that instead of being derived
from two words which signify “ rescu
ed from the water,’’ it is the very
common Egyptian word mes or mesu,
meaning “ child” or “ boy.’’
There is nothing which contributes
more towards fostering public chari
ties and bencvolcut associationa for
the gratuitous relief of every species
of distress as a newspaper.
Important to Farmers.
The Albany Nines publishes a let
ter from the commissioner of internal
revenue at Washington to Hon. Win.
E. Smith, on the subject of making
farmers pay a tax on tobacco fur
nished their hands, which says:
“ A farmer or planter, who simply
supplies his employes with what
manufactured tobacco they nced for
their ou r n personal -^se, and for their
special accommodation, and not with
a view to gain, or profit to himself,
is not to he regarded as engaged in
the business of selling inanufatured
tobacco, and would not be requred
to pay special tax for thus supplying
his hired laborers with tobacco.”
Hon. A. H. Stephens gained the
case which he recently argued in the
Supreme Court of the United States.
The facts in the case, as well as the
argument, are of great legal interest.
A Good Thing for the Tax-
Payers of Georgia.
In finally securing.from the United
States Government the handsome sum
of §199,000 on the account of the
Western & Atlantic Railroad, Gov
ernor Colquitt has performed one of
those achievements which the pcop’e
somehow confidently looked fov from
his administration.
The fees, as regulated by contract
with Governor Bullock and Governor
Smith, was 25 per cent, w* the
amount. This reduces the amount
netted to the State to the fine sum of
$150,°00, a gracious and happy lessen
ing of the burdens of taxation.
The acquisition of this sum is one
of tluve windfalls, that seem to be
matters of pure good luck The
State paid the United States too
much for rolling stock, etc., of the
State Road at the close of the war.
The money now obtained is the
restitution of the exorbitant payment.
The recovery of such a claim would
not happen once in a thousand years,
and would seem to he an indication
that a spirit of good fortune is dis
posed to smile upon (the new Admin
istration. The aggregate sum is
equivalent to one fifth of the net
tax realized in the State, and is there
fore a material relief to the tax
payers of Georgia It ’will help
largely to supplement the deficiency
in the floating debt that has to be
raised by temporary loans. It will
pay the interest on over two millions
ofelhe public-debt, or it mil I
expenses of the entire civil catiblish-
ment and the cost of the printing
and contingent funds. It is a good
thing for Georgia.
In the matter of the fees, since it
has been intimated or insinuated that
Governor Colquitt had no right to
allow sucli a large per vent, of the
amount as commission to the attor
neys managing the olaim, we h ve
troubled ourselves to ascertain the
facts in the case, which we herewith
present.
The original contract was between
Governor Bullock and Colonel Baugh,
in 186(5. A retainer of $3,000 was
paid by Bullock to Baugh, and a con
tingent fee guaranteed of 124 per
cent., out of which the $3,000 was to
be deducted. General Garlington
was Baugh’s partner. Baugh after-,
wards employed General Henry R.
Jackson to help him and Governor
Smith approved the contract.
Governor Smith also admitted Colouel
R. A Alston into the contract, and
enlarged the commission allowed to
25 per cent.
Governor Colquitt finding this con
tract on the records, had no alterna
tive bnt to allow the 25 per cent, of
commissions to be divided equally
between the parties. Nobody ever
thought the money could be recov
ered, and Governor Smith is reported
as having remarked that he would as
readily have allowed 50 per cent, as
25 per cent, as the collection seemed
improbable, and if anything was re?
covered, it was so much gained that
no one expected.
It has been a good thing all
around—good for the fortnnate gens
tleraen who had it in charge, and
good for the State thtu unexpectedly
helped in the time of her great need.
The New York Herald claims that
the European war offers a fine oppor
tunity to the United States for the
resumption of specie or gold pay
ment. It says, “ Our increased ex
ports will enable us to meet all onr
foreign obligations and there will be
left a surplus on our side of the
account. There will never come a
time in this generation when we maiy
ven’urc so boldly on the experiineht
of specie payments as during this war.
The uew Congress will be a set of
iucapables if they do not see and
seize this splendid opportunity to put
our currency on a sound basis with
out shock or convulsion; without
derangement of business or percepti
ble effect on prices; without danger
of having the experiment thwarted
in its early stages by a drain of gold
to foreign countries.” Now this
seems all very nice, but how will the
HeraliVs position stand against the
fact, that, the American exports of
specie for the past week exceed the
imports nearly two millions?
There has been quite a stormy
session of the Georgia Railroad Con
vention.
The presort, is the fortieth annual
convention of the Stockholders of the
Georgia Railroad and Banking Com
pany.
Wong Chin Foo, a Buddhist mis
sionary has been trying to establish
his heathen worship in the city of
New Yo’k. It seems Ins “ ways
that are dark, and tricks that are
vain ” are not much taken to by the
people of Gotham and that the
American man wont Budd-worth a
cent ’noath the Chin music of the
hcathenist Foo,
The Greeks having tlieir Spartan
courage fully aroused over a memo
rial celebration in honor of one of
their General’s who was killed during
the war of independence shout aloud,
“ war, war,’’ and enter their solemn
protest against the release of certain
Turkish brigands who had been
imprisoned for disturbing the Greek
frontier.
The three acts of the last Legisla
ture amendatory of the chartered
powers of tile Georgia Railroad,
authorizing the purchase or lease of
the Macon <fc Augusta and the Port
Royal Railroads, also the issuing of
bonds to pay outstanding bonds and
obligations of this company, have
been accepted by the Convention of
Stockholders and the whole matter
referred to the Board of Directors
for such nctiofi ns tliey may deem
bust for .the trne interest of the com-
*
pnny.
The Augusta A Knoxville Rail
road Convention met in the city of
Augusta on the 10th inst., and
adopted the following as thu line of
this proposed road: From Augusta
to connect with the Elberton &
Toccoa Railroad at Elberton, via
Walton’s Island. From thence, via
Thompson’s Factory, on Broad river,
to Toccoa City, and from thence, the
most practicable and feasible route
to Rabun Gap. The distances he
tween these points are as follows:
From Augusta to Toccoa City, 125
miles; from Toccoa City to Clayton,
27 miles; frein Clayton to North
Carolina litre, 9 miles; tot 4, 161
miles.
The war between Russia and Tur
key has up to this time developed
quite a stir among the different Euro
pean powers. There has not been as
yet, any actual participancy or even
very positive stand taken, on the part
of the supposed allies of the contend-
iug powers, yet the indications
strongly are, that England and Aus
tria will give their aid to Turkey
should it become necessary while
Russia may expect an alliance on
the paitof Germany. France has
officially announced her neutrality
which doubtless is for the purpose of
putting herself in a position where
she can defend and at the proper
time force a compliance with the
Treaty of Paris.
Athens hss as fine female schools
as can be found in all this Southern
land.
Atlanta Advertisements.
CARPETS ! CARPETST
WM. A. Haygood,
38 and 42 Marietta Street,
ATLANTA, G-EORG-T s\ i
o
HAYING moved across the street from my old stand, 21 Marietta
street, to the new and handsome double stores, Nos. 38 and 42 iii
the Grant Building, (between Broad street and the Capitol,) I take
pleasure in saying that I shall keep a larger and more attractive stock of
CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, MATTINGS, CURTAINS,
WALL PAPER and UPHOLSTERY GOODS, than ever before
and at the Lowest Market Prices. Letters answered promptly.
m8-w&triw3m WM. A. HAYGOOD.
IF’TXZR.jDsTTTTTIRIE: I
A splendid new stock
Parlor and Chamber Suits
From Twenty-five to Five Hundred Dollars complete.
DINING ROOM AND LIBRARY FURNITURE OF ALL KINDS.
Prices as cheap as any Fird-class House in the South.
E. S. KENDRICK & CO.,
21 Marietta street, Atlanta, Ga.
Cottage Suits $25 to $80. Send orders or letters of inquiry.
ESTABLISHED 1865.
THE CHEAPEST BOOK AND STATIONERY STORE
X3$r QEOKGIA.
ORDER EVERYTHING IN THIS LINE DIRECT TO
gtllips cfc Crew, Atlanta, Ga.
PIANOS AND ORGANS
^-OF EVERY GRADE. SEND FOR FltK'E-.JFl
PHILLIPS, CREW & FREYElt.
mSs&triw-Hm
ATLANTA, GA.
IvT. POTTS,
Atlanta* Georgia*
Wholesale Liquor Dealer,
m8wAtrlw-3m 19 Alabama. Street.
MARKHAM EEOTJSE
Atlanta, Georgia.
The proprietor of the MARKHAM HOUSE takes this method of
informing the traveling public, that notwithstanding the great Euro
pean war, his hotel will continue to entertain with its usual hospitali
ties and first-class accommodations, such as he flatters himself has
given-great popularity and success to his house, and general satisfac
tion to those who have honored him by becoming his guests. Board
reasonable and accommodations first-class.
D. Oweap, X*c©par£aiQx , „
Mo-bboes—Bools Maries.
PERFORATED MOTTOES-New style.
PERFORATED BOOK MARKS—New and
cheap.
PERFORATED SLIPPERS.
THE LORD’S PRAYER and DOXOLOGY.
FRUITS and FLOWERS.
SILVER and GOLD PERFORATED PAPER
SPLINTS for BASKETS, WALL POCK
ETS, etc.
For sale'at BURKE’S Bookstore.
may8-wltri2.
Croquet, Base Balls, Etc.
CROQUET SETS at $2, $2 50, $6 and $7
BASE BALLS nt 15c., 20c., 25., *1, *125
and *1 50.
BASE BALL BATS nt 30c. and 35c.
FOOT BALLS at $2 25, $3 and $3 50, and
SOLID and HOLLOW RUBBER BALLS at all
prices.
TEN PEN GAMES nt 30c. and $1.
THE CENTENNIAL BELL TOP-the new
est and best top made—nt 25c. each.
For sale at BURKE’S Bookstore.
may8-wltri2.
The War in Turkey.
MAPS OF THE SEAT OF WAR—Beauti
fully colored. Prieo 25c. and 75c. each.
For sale ut BURKE’S Bookstore.
mny8-wltri2.
LIVERY, FEED NO SHE STABLE,
iL-fcHoas, Gaorgia.
GANN & REAVES, PROPRIETORS.
Will be found at their old stand, rear Frank
lin House building, Thomas street. Keep al
ways on hand good Turnouts and careful dri
vers. Stock well cared for when entrusted to
our care. Stock on hand for sale at all times.
dec!3tf.
NOTICE.
Dissolution of Partnership.
The j nrtnership existing between LONGS A
BILLUPS in the Drug Business for the last ten
yean, has becu this day ui -solved by mutual
consent. The business will be still carried on
at the old stand by C. W. LONG A CO
Athens, April 2, 1877. apIO-lt
tor We announce the name of Capt. Pope
Barrow as a suitable person to represent the people
of Clarke county in the Constitutional Convention,
to be held in Atlanta, in July next, nubject to
ratification of the County Convention.
Mast Votbb.
GRAND SPRING OPENING
OF
Charlie Stem’s
CLOTHING EMPORIUM!
I would call the attention of my patrous and
tlie public generally to my line stock of Clothing
For Men Youths’ and Boys’.
Consisting of French Diagonals, Worsteds,
Cheviots, Cloths, Melton’s Scotch and Navy
Blue Flannel Suits, all of the Finest Material
and the most fashionable styles. Also, a first'
class stock of Gents’Furnishing Goods in all
branches complete. Hnts, Caps, Straw Goods,
Umbrellas in Sillc Alpaca nnd Scotch Gingham,
Trunks, etc., to whica I invite the inspection ol
the public, guaranteeing my prices to compete
with any house in the State. Augusta or Atlanta
Prices Duplicated.
OUR SPECIALTY — Unlaundcred Shirt«,
made complete, fine Linen Bosom and Cuffs tor
$]. A call is all we nsk to convince one and an-
diaries Stem,
Popular Clothing Emporium,
Broad street, Athens, Ga.
Next door to Long & Billups Drug Store
ap3
W. B. COX. w. B. HIIL. JOS. THOMPSON, Jr.
COX, HILL & THOMPSON,
WllOLESAlS DEALEES IK
Foreign and Domestic liquors ac,,
No 2# PEACHTREE ST., ATLANTA, GA.
And Distillers of tl s Stone Mountain Corn
Whiskey.
oct.3I.ly.