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-'« XL i LW XTOTXCSSL tORTCII* attorney at law, Carnesville, Qa. 78-tf LHOY A THOMAS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Athena, Ga.’ i South West Corner of College Avenue on Street, also at the Court Honse. > desiring Criminal Warrants, can get iiy time by applying to the County ; this office. decl6-1874~tf iiir^is, attorney at law, Athens, Ga. pt attention given to all business and respectfully solicited. janll-ly fn ‘ How Wjw Christ Crucified? The Harrow. O : ■ p. C. Barrow, J*. iw ltros., attorneys at law, Athens, Go. See over Talmadge, Hodgson & Co. Jy THRASHER, attorney at law, Watkinsville, Ga. Office in former Ordinary’s Office. 85-187 *My 1. TH OM f?ON, ATTORNEY At LAW, ecial attention paid to criminal practi [reference apply to Ex-Gov. T. It. Watts lion. 1 Vivid Clapton, Montgomery, Ala. no r i'li t Office Athens, Gil •1*7 '.- f >lt> W. OWEN, ATTORNKY AT LAW, gToeoa City, Ga.’ fill practice in all the counties «f the West- Circuit, Hart and Madison of the Northern buit. Will give special attenion to all claims rusted to his care. octSO-lWB-ly. ia.mar Cobb. -Howell Cobb. A 11. COBB, VTTORNKVS AT LAW, (Athens, Ga the 6real Km* t»ryM*a id a Sorel Way by a Cali feral* Art Ut. [Ban Francisco correspondence of the Baltimore ) t8nn.^1 j >> ‘ Ait admmflifo picture of the crnci- j fixion on Calvary, has been exhibited for criticism and correction taking it abroad. It is full size. The cross differ? frq» a)l. extant pit litres. In height it is but little taller than a man. Mid way?&’*s»rejecting saddle, upon which the. person sits astride IneneuK, Justin and Tertnlliau so de scribe it. Modern artists havcoimt- Jed this, but it. is obvious that the i»itftrett|fei||jy$j)f$uhl tain, nor could the nailed hands have supported the body as usually re|>* resented. All historians say the legs were tied to the cross, and afterward spikes were driWfi through the feet, as through the hands. There is no mention of a foot rest, but the artist has supplied one, because the feet cannot be spiked without. The in scription on the crots, affixed to the top, in purposely and ingeniously il legible, because eachr of fonr gospels ce * gives it differently. There lwing no record of purauital appearance, every Mexican Annexation Intrigue. , man, wno bad returned to Lexing ton, was communicated with, and he was advised to go ahead with the plan of proposing to Diaz, throng) Ricardo, that the Mexican Govern ment should offer to sell a strip of territory on terms likely to be ae- cepteti by the United States. Dr. Bowman entered upon the corres pondence as instructed. His frien ’a claim aii a result of it that Senor Mata, who is now on his way to Washington, is authorized by Diaz t<> treat tor the cession to the United States of the live States of Sinaloa, Durango, Chihuahua, and Coahuila, and the [tortious of. Nuevo Leon and Tainaulipns lying north of a line drawn.due east from the southeaster ly cornet of Coahuila, the considera tion to be $100,000,000, less the amount of' claims due to American citizens on account of tee raids from Mexico, file claims to be heard and audited by an umpire selected from 801110 foreign or the Beasn why Hoyn la Ti PorSrfoDlax; * [From th? Herald.] Cincinnati, July JL 1877.—A de spatch from New Orleans annnnnci^f the arrival there the other day of Senor Mata, the recently appointed Commissioner s°nt by Diaz to treat with the United States < n the subject of . the Rio Grande troubles. _ The significance of Senor Mata’s visit will doubtless prove more important thaii is apparent just now. ■-l.i. In the early part of March last President Hayes tendered to Mr. McCormick, now Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, the position of. Min ister to Mexico. For private reasons Mr. McConnhk declined the appoint ment, and an effort was then made to induce the President to send Senator Christianey. This effort, as we know, did not succeed, and Mr. Foster re mained undisturbed. About the same time the name of Dr. J. 0. Bowman, Chancellor or Regent of the Univer sity of Kentucky, situated at Lexing ton, was submitted to the President lor the appointment. Dr. Bowman jdia showing the numbers kilUnl *n the Debts of Honor. Death m muui num Tigers, Snakes and Things. > [From the London Telegraph.] Returns have reached us from In- one is at lilierty to draw on his im-j went to Waslnugton, and remained V e *** )?)’ wild beasts and snake there quite a while a wailing the re- 0 seems that between the suit of the efforts made in his behalf Just about this fi-h9? ! [Office m Pcupree Bail ding, 876-1 •iy agination. Here the artist exhibits consummate skill. A more spiritual countenance we never saw. The head is reclined, as expiring. The hair is auburn, long, and in ringlets. The person is spare and of short stature. At. thjC^pl.oftlie cross are duly Ifitt No by his many friends, time Senator Morton appeared upon, the scene, and had a series of inter views with the President. The ques tion of a change in the mission to Mexico'was all at once dropped, aud & one is represented as piercing the j fi.r the reason, it is said, that Senator, ^oyed - ~2,oo7 wtul animal side with a spear. Nor are any j Morton asked the retention of Mr. kin ff8,ftnff^70,l ^‘snakes, a connections, as Mary and John, pres- j Foster, who is from Indiana. - to'the government of 120, ! I.EX. H EUWIN, ATTORNKY At LAW, Athens, Ga. neon Broad Street, betweenCenter & Nich olson and Orr &<Po.. up-stairs, feb22-W7«-ly M. COCIIRAN, r . ATTOUlTS^r AT 1AW, Gainesville, Ga. Kc.-il Estate and General Lund Agent for the j:\ri-lik-e. and sale of Mineral and Fanning iidsin Hall, and the other couutics-of North- st (.osnrin. Mineral ores tested and titles to rou-.rty investigated. Sjieeial attention given >the purchase und s -le of city property. inav-2—fiin JL N. DORSE?. Attorney. ^HIHJRYG. MeCURBY, Attcmoy oefc Law, Hartwell, Georgia,] • fill practice in the Superior Courts of North- t Gi-ini;in and Supreme Court at Atlanta. [Aug s. M76 tf Amxx. S. Erwin, Athene. eul, this being a direct eoutradiciion of the th|*ee synoptic gospels. It is usual to show blood flowing from the wounds in the hands and feet. This is omtnitted, because history tells us Meantime the polico of the Admin istration as regards Mexico and the troubles on the border begin to as sume the shape into wlfch it has since developed. In casting about that wrought/ iron* being our best *«f the means of securing immunity James JL Lyle, W utkinuville. J YEEA ERWIN, ATTORNEY'S AT LAW. Will practice in partueraiiip in the Superior j Court of Oconee County, aud attend promptly | to all business intrusted to their can. jau9-3in. \ Ax. WINN, # —WITH— 6R0QVER, STUBBS & CD., < '*1 low Factors and UrHi-ml Commission Merchants, Savannah, Ga. Bagging, Tics, Hope and other supplies fur nished. Also, liberal cash advances made on consignments foreale or shipment to Liverpool or Nortlfwu ports. may 80-1875-t* a. iLtn, ’WTa*fccJaaaalser St «Jowolor, Ai Michael’storo, ni-xt door to Reaves & Nich olson’*, Broad street, Athene, Georgia. Ait work warranted IS months. *eptl2-tf. styptic, instantly stops the flow of blood. It is popularly supposed that the sacrifice eft twisted in the shed- 'ing of blood.- Riti! makes this in dispensable. Yet It is a mistake. A slight cut on a schoolboy’s finger sheds more blood. Death results from exliausiioii, not from bleeding. There are several marginal pictures illustrating various miracles and other scriptural stories. Perhaps the Attest striking, and certainly the most artistic, represents Jesus escorted to tlte place of execution by the lowly multitude exulting in His fide. The central figures is dollied in scarlet, according to Mqtthew, in preference to purple, which Mark and John ray was the color. And the man of Naz areth walks majestically as to a vol untary sacrifice. It is usual, and al most nd spendable to public taste, to show Him bearing His cross and bowed down beneath the burden according to John. But the artist, following the three synoptic gospels, which deny John’s story, shows Si inon carrying the cross, a stout pic- bian, who walks upright with it The art : 8t considers it one great merit of his painting over others, that it is trne to history, according to the plainest and most consistent non see- SCUAEf-KK, COTTON BT7TMBRr Toeoa City, Ga. Highest caali price paid for oottoo. -*r winaUip’a Gina auJ l*r«sa. oriSKI Ajrent ori»dW3-tf w. H. EITTEE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, npl8-1878-tf Cnrni3svil!o r Gs. Wantad^ EMPLOYMENT cither aa a Tanner, Engh ucer, or Carpenter. Good references eiveu, and ■wnafea reasonable. Addreas, J, H. R., care of Athens Georgian, Athene, Ga my22-tf tarian interpretation Scotchman (to an Ehglisli tourist:) Toot awaa, ma am; toot awaa. Diana yc boast sac much about yer aiu oonntrie. Dinna ye ken that it was-only caa’d Bred in till Scotland caraV ye, and then yc became Great Breetin? Aye, an’ ye’ve remained Great ever sirtoe. Ye’d be a puir lot left to yonraels 1”—T^m. —- The man who pu’s on a spring coat with the Hitvrt .^itisfaction is the house- pnintcr. to Texas from further disturbance by the Mexican marauders, the Admin istration was reputed to be disposed to favor the restoration of Lerdo. This solution of the question was en couraged by alleged reports of Mr. Foster to the State Department that the Diaz government was unstable and not likely to last, and by press reports to the same effect, all of which were instigated, it is said, by the Lerdo party in Mexico for the purpose of weakening Diaz. The friends cf Dr. Bowman say that Mr. Foster was anxious to rotain his place as Minister, and that he knew he should not be recalled as long as the United States would not recog nize Diaz. Such countenance, there fore, as the Administration could afford was given to the movement for Lerdo’s restoration During this time the friends of Dr. Bowman had been busy. They saw the anxiety of the Administration to secure peace on the Rio Grande, and they knew that Dr. Bowman sus tained intimate relations with a gen tleman on the persoual staff of Diaz. They conceived the idea of inducing Diaz to propose the sale of a part of Northern Mexico to the United States. Accordingly they made rep resentations to the State Department that the best way to settle the Mexi can question was to bny a strip of Mexiop. The. suggestion was most courteously entertained, especially a» it was proffered by ex-Senator Stew art pf Nevada, aud other.men of iu*. fluence. The price pf the territory to be ceded was discussed at these interviews, and the sum of $100,000,- 000 was'thought to be an equitable consideration, and one which the Government would be Willing to pay. Armed with the authority thus in formally communicated. Dr. Bow- 31st of December, 1874, and the 1st of January, 1870, in otir Indian em pire, no fewer than 21,391 persons and 48.234 h ad of cattle perished from these causes. Sndh was the war of savage nature agaiust man. fhtffjHher lr?pd, there were de- 8tfoyy<TviS2,8o7‘ wi*d’ animals of all at a cost 015 ru pees ; or, without taking into account the depreciation in the value of silver, something like £12,000. We are further told that the losses have been to a great extent tabulated, and that, from the returns, which have been sent in, it has be* n found that ele phants have killed 61 human beings and 6 cattle; tigers respectively 828 and 12,423; leopards, 187 and 16,- 157; b-ars, 84 and 5-9; wolves, 1.- 060 and 9,407 ; hyenas, 68 and 2,116; while to “ other animals ” are as cribed the, totals of 1,446 and 4,401. These other animals are not described with any minuteness, and we are consequently left to conjecture for ourselves what they are, and how they may have inflicted the mischief laid to their charge. The Indian buffalo when roused is a very danger ous antagonist; even the pacific Brahmany . bull will occasionally knock down and trample npon a child; the wi|d goat or. markhor of the Himalayas is an ugly customer to face, and apt to prove suddenly pug nacious ; the mongoose itself lias been known, like the Fnglish ferret, to attack children; and hardly a season passes but beaters are killed or seri ously wounded in the course of. the day’s pig sticking. It is, indeed, somewhat remarkable that, complete as the returns otherwise are, the number of deaths due to “ horn of hart and tusk of boar ” are not dis tinctly recorded among them. At the same time it must be noticed that eighty-four deaths are scored to the credit of the bear. The great ma jority of these victims were most likely native shikarries, or herdsmen, venturing near the haunts of the •* auch rite of the forest.” [From Southern Home. J It is said that, a gamster will pay a loss sustained at the garring table, sooner than he will pay an account to his grocer or dry goods merchant. The first, he considers to be a “debt of honor,” but the second is iiv charge of the law. Subscriptions ttt news papers are debts of honor, for no editor ever thinks of bringing suit against delinquents. Patron* of the press ought to be as honorable as patrons of the gaming table, and-thc-y ought to feel that it was not honora ble to leave unpaid a debt of honor. The Interior tells the story -below of former days in tho H ghHmds of Scotland. A Highlander went to the Lowlands -and there learned about borfowing money and giving notes: *i * “ On returning to his native parish he had need of a sum of money,-and made bold to ask from a gentleman of means named Stewart. This was kindly granted, and Mr. 8., counted out the gold. This done, the farmer wrote a receipt and offered it to Mr. S. “ ‘ What’s thi> man?* cried Mr. S , eyeing the slip of pnjMir “ 1 It’s a receipt, sir, binding me to give ye back yer gold at the right time,’ replied Sandy: . “ 4 Binding ye? Well my man, if ye eanua trust yesel’, I’m sore, I’ll no trust ye! gold.* “ And gathering it up, he pnt it. back ' iirfccr fits desk,' and ' turned key on it - J J 44 4 But, sir, I might die,* replied the canny Scotchman, bringing npan argument in favor of his new wisdom, 4 and perhaps my sons may refuse it ye, but the bit of paper would compel them.” “ 4 Compel them to sustain a dead father’s honor! cried the Celt; ‘they’ll need compelling to do right, if this is the road ye’re leading them. Ye can gang elsewhere for money ; ject from his. mind,. but. just before the hour for the departure of the ship, three natives were seen pulling toward the vessel.. The boat con tained a bundle directed to Col. Harris. The bundle was not opened until the arrival of the ship at Boston, when it was discovered that there were six mammies instead of one. They were unwrapped, and the liest one forwarded to the Tennessee His* torical 8oeiety, of which Col. Harris was and is still a member. When Prof. Huxley was hero he examined the mummy with a great deal of interest, and said that he be lieved it to be the liest preserved specimen either in America or in Europe. • List of Deletfatee. First District—A K Lawton, W TTbonip son, J M Gnerard. John Screven, J It Warren, ■WnrlimTRusseJ], A G Smith. Second District—W Robert GignHliat, Henry F Howe, Wm M Conley. Third District—Seaborn Hall, C C Grace. Fifth District—J S Spence, W A McDonald. Sixth District—B L Stephens j J DKnight. Seventh Districtr—Jarfica L Seward, Augus tus H Hnuseil, Bryant Creech, Henry Gay. Eighth Distrct— J B Twitty, B E Russell John E Donalson, J S Clifton. ;Ninth District— B J Nisbct, J H Hund, P E Boyd. • " - Tenth District—Nelson Tift, John A Davis, W C Gill, R R Jennings. Eleventh District—L C Hoyle, R E KcitiurU, Arthur Hood, H A Crittenden. | . Twelfth District—J L Wimberly, Isaac W Stokes, T L Guerry, D B Harrell. Thirteenth District—George F Cooper, T M - nrlow, Joseph B -Scot V A H Greer, J C Eh- Ye canna have . my •^ i P8 t0ll » J o l , “' H Uespuas. * Fourteenth District— R W Anderson. D P McCnmmon,- David Sapp, to P Swearingen; Hirapi Wiliiama. - ..... -'■Fifteenth District—M ; N McRae. l^sttict^B L/StapIeE..#$»,Mo- . Xepd, J D Meadows. ' Seventeenth District—H A Perry, Justin B Meath, W B Jones J C Dell. W D Branucr. Eighteenth District—Charles J Jeukius Robert Ii May, George R Sibley, Adam John ston, J G Gain, D G Phillips,W G Brady. Nineteenth District—John S Johnston, G F Bristow, M W Jjewis, C N nurd, I) N Sander?, Twentieth District—R L Wartlien, II N HoL lifiutd, Ft? Furman, Thomas Newell, A: M DnBose, Geo P Pierce.- Twenty-first District—E C Grier, A S IIhi-.uI- tou, F Chambers, E.I Coats, P W Edge. Tweuty-scemid IH*tr«<t—\v |£ Rom, -VV A Loften, T J Siimuous A D Uummund, T A but you’ll find nane in the parish, nor' any more faith in a bit o* paper tllftfi in a neighbor’s word of honor arid his fear o* God.’ ** The newbpa|MT business would be vastly more pleasant, if all our sub scribers had been educated with these Ce't'c ideas. v> —Punch is no mean authority on some matter ^in his little sea-girt isle. Here » ■!»«' yimma of thtf weather as it falls upon hitn all the year round: “ Dirty days hath September; ", •;.. April, Jane^Rud November, - And from February until May The rain it rairieth every day. All the rest have thirty-one, . "VVithout a single gleam of sun; Aud if nay should have thirty-two, They’d be dull and dirty too.” The Story of a Mummy, For i?even years, the most curious object in the museum of the Ten nessee Historical Society has been the Egyptian mummy. It has a very singular history. In 1860, Colonel Jeremiah George Harris was a purser on a United States man-of-war in the Egyptian waters. He went on shore, i and was at once nshered into the au gust presence of the Khedive and his numerous household. He was walk ing one day with a member of the khedive’s staff, when the latter was set upon by ruffians. CoL Farris, who is a man of great strength, in terposed, and the ruffians were van quished. ’ “ What can I do,” asked the Egy|v- tian officer, “to show adequate ap probation of the sendees you have rendered me ?” . “Give me a mnmmy,” laughingly suggested Gol. Harris. 44 A mummy ?” repeated the.officcr, holding Ids breath .and. poudering. “‘Did yon know, sir,-; that our laws prohibit the removal of mommies; under penalty of death ? * ever mind; your request shall be fulfilled. Just before your vessel leaves-the harbor; a l»oat will come alongside. It wilf contain that for which you have asked.” Coi. Harris had dismissed the snl> Ponder, W It II Btuh, T J Hunt,-J ,V Barrett. Twenty-third Diatri-M—B F Th<^a-. J M Davis, John Troutnian* W A Wsillaw, • M D Stroud, B W Sanford. Twenty-foanli District—W A l ittle, Potter, Ingram, Francis Fontaine, J J> Howell. J D- Wilson. Iweuty-fifth District— E A FloweiMKfi, John Dickey, J M Mobley, W I Hudson, J T Willis, W R Gonnun. Twenty-Bixtli District—Jno II McC'ulium, F D Disinuku, *J f? Westmoreland, R K Rod gers. Twenty-seventh District -Pope Burrow, An drew Jackson, T A Gibbs, J M ■ Pace, O S Porter, E B Rosser. Twenty-eighth District—Augustas Reese, Joshua Hill, T G Lawson, R R Nisbet, J C ,K«y* , r Twenty-ninth District—Robert Toombs, Wir. M Reese, J N Mercicr, Paul «J. IIudM-n, IJ R \Casey. Thirtieth District—J D Matthews-, W G Johnson, W W Scott^ Win H Mattox. Thirty-first District—Dt Underwood, S H Muscly, J 11 Skelton. Thirty-second District—Wirt Boyd, .'fv Underwood. Thirty-third District—Messrs Sheppard, Ai> dcraon, Owen, Langston. Thirty-fourill District— B F Veal, James Polk, Dr lye, S G Howell, R ]) Wynn. Thirty-fifth. District—J W Robertson, LJ G.,rtrell, N J Hammond, P L Myimtt, John Collier, B E Crane, J T Spenoc. A C Mclutoeb, G W Roberts. Thirty-six* ii District—Julm* J Glover, John T Langino, Hugh Buchanan, L II Fcatherstou, W A J Phillips, R D Reader. Thirty-seventh District—W Q Tuggle. N G Swanson, E L Hardy, Sr.; -S Vt UorrL-, fl L Rowe, T M Awbrey. Tbirty-eigth District—N J Turolin, W 3 Head, Mr Denton. Thirty-ninth District—A W Holcomb, Jaa;^ RRrown, Elias Fields^ Giber Clark, Haw- kina (independent). -- i.- FortleUi District—Mr Wetibcru, Dr fctepheDi. Forty-firat DistHcV-Mr Ihty, D GaiTcn, Hr Henry.-. . s, v * \ ■ Ferty-aceondDistrict—W T Wofford,-John H Fitten, Alida Johnson, A R Wright, RR Hamilton, Nathan Bliss, S. Hawkins. Forty-third District—L N fr.-imnwl! Moore, S M Carter, j C Fain. Forty-fourth D«triet--Mr y rt * Paris, Mr Lowe. o ammeir, Wn K