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THE ATHENS GEORGIAN : JULY ‘{I, 1877. I <oca1 llleudlnuv —The Juniors to d iv —Cucumbers are strikin*;. Hates of Local Advertising <£ JobWork 1 I .coal Notice* 15 cents j>cr line, 10 cents for i ■each additional publication, no display allowed ! in the local columns of tins paper. Marriage and death notices arc published I free of charge. t Ibituarics nrc charged lor at the rates of ten • .euts per line. Announcements of candidates and commnni- ! ) (l . (>ll j to-lliorrow cations favoring individual candidates, must bo paid for in ndvance. Advertisements not marked lor any specified time, will be charged fir until ordered out. All .lob work must be paid for upon delivery. Kleetion tickets, cash upon delivery. Laws Relating to Newspaper Subscrip tions and Arrearages. OKCI-IOS or TUS CNITKI) STATE* SIFKKVK COCItT. 1. Subscribers who do not give expressnotiee to the contrary, are considered wishing to con tinue their subseption. •J. If subscribers order the discontinuance of their periodicals, the publishers may continue to send them until all arrcnrages are paid. 3. If subscribers neglect or refuse totaketheir periodicals from the office to which they are direclod, they are held responsible until they have settled their bills and ordered them dis continued. 4. If subscribers move toother places without notifying publishers, and the papers arc sent to the former direction, they arc held respon sible. 5. The courts have decided that “refusing to take periodicals from the office, or removing and leaving them uncalled for is prima tncia ex ideuce of intentional fraud.” 6. Any person who receives a newspaper and makes use of it whether lie 1ms ordered it or uyt, is held ill law to lie a subscriber. 7. If subscribers pay in advance, they are bound .to give notice to the publisher, at the »nd of their time; if they do not wish to con tinue taking it; otherwise the publisher is tuthurixed to send it on; uiul the subscribers will be responsible until an expressnotiee. with payment of all arrearages, is sent to the publisher. IVrtwtmil. | lion. A- O. Bacon, of Macon, it* in j the city with his two charming ! daughters, ami is the guest of Hon. —The Commercial Reporter "ill j H. H. Carlton. Judge D. A. Vason, of Albany, -Vn Old Hottilcr Dccciiscil. (rOOD News.—No tttOTC dulls aild f ' TJur I’ootal Itelegntlon. LOCAL DEPARTMENT. Our Agenth. Mr. Win. J. G-»ss is our agent at Harmony Grove, Jackson eounty. J. T. Adams, Esq., is authorized to receipt subscriptions lor this paper at Morgantown, Fannin county, Ga. Mr. S. 1*. Flemming is our agent at Fugle Grove, ami is authorized to receipt for money due this office. T. C. Hays is our authourized aguet at Oceola, Barbers Creek and Mc Nutts,Oconee County, Ga. KHlliiu *n Morgun. From a gentleman from Morgan i ounty, we learn that a negro man by the name of Ben Hardy broke into the house of Mr. J. W. Payne on two occasions. Both times be went into the room where his daughters were sleeping, but was frightened off by them. Th-y informed their father, and he prepared tor his next \isit. The night following he again appear* ed, and raised the window, and as he was in the act of stepping in, Mr. Payne fired, shooting him through the heart and killing him instantly. University I.lbrary. Citizens of Athens would confer a great favor on the Librarian of the University, if they would examine ilieir libraries to see if there max not be among their books some volumes belonging to the University, which ■through mistake or forgetfulness have been left in their houses and have been since overlooked. Alderman from the First. Mr. Prince Hodgson was elected Alderman from the First Ward, last Friday, to fill the^-atSviicy pccgelpped by the resignation of Mr. Jas. O’Far- rell. A very good selection. Death of Mr. McMullen. Mr. Peter McMullen, of Jackson O'unity, died last week at an advanced age. He represented bis eounty in the Legislature for a number of years, H*ui was highly esteemed. Sudden Dentil. The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Wells, died ' suddenly,’ Thursday miming, ot congestion of the lungs at he residence of Dr. K. M. Smith,’on ( laylott street, and was buried yester- ■ lay evening. The sympathy of the <> •mmunity is extended to the ho** i .-uved father and mother. touHVlu T'encliers’ Associa tion. The Tooooa Herald reminds its brethren of the press that, during the - •■wion of tlie Georgia Teachers’ As- v>cialiou, ..they are specially invited t*« make its sanctum their headquar- -*n», and hopes to be able to provide lor tlctri a special room in the build ing, of which they may avail them- * ’ve« for quiet at any time. A delicate complexion is best com pared to a blooming fofo; but when the countenance is disfigured with Blotches and Pimples, like weeds in a rose-bed, the sufferer should promptly use Ur. Bull’s Blood Mixture, which quickly and effectually eradicates such unsightly eyideupea of impure bloqd. — Said a tramp, “ it isn’t work, it is wages I want.’’ —The Mayor of Dead wood i* snp- posed to lie a blockhead. —The warm weather has tinned out the flies. —The Seniors will depart to morrow. —All of our country cousins will be in town to-morrow. —Two trains on the Northeast ern. —Canadians get their beer for three edits. —There will be an abundant yield of peaches and figs. —Tlie city is crowded with beauty and talent—we haw plenty of both. —R. H. Lumpkin, Esq., has over* hauled his entire saloon, and now has the finest saloon in the city. —The sermon of Bishop Pierce, list Sunday, was listened to by a huge audience at the College Chapel. —The Bergen girl who tried to pour kerosine on the fire danced the cancan. —C. G. and John Talmadge wants to get upn running match with some Pennsylvania regiment. — A planter near Savannah, Ga , j sold his cucumbers on three acres of vines for $1,250. —Clinard is so busy that lie charges two dollars to say good morning. —Tho policemen in Atlanta, Ga., are to be mounted on horses. In case of a street fight they can go fifteen miles in less than an hour. —Every one of our visitors should go to the ferro-lithic early in the morning’s t*> test the healing quality of its note; s. —Just about now the Convention is receiving about as much cussing to the square inch from the people ns that body can stand. —It is stated that no fewer than twenty-live hoys have been drowned in the river Thames while bathing since June 1. —The wood of the white birch is now exported Iron) Massachusetts to t > England, to be made into thread spools. A million feet were thus con sumed Inst year. —John Maguire, an Irish pauper, aged 86, committed suicide at Drogheda, lately, on account of un founded jealousy of his wife, who was less than half his age. —Tlie house that Gen. Grant oc cupied in St. Louis before the war filill st.qpdF on Barton .street, in. that city. It is a wooden structure, a story .and a half high, and contains two rooms. —It required all the material of the three printing offices in our town, and one, we believe, in Atlanta, to fill an order, for a elub in this city, for two hundred invitation tickets to a grand ball. —In the race Inst Thursday alter a thief, Mayor and John Talmadge made the fastest mile and a quarter on record ; beating the time of the celebrated Kentucky gelding, Ten Broeck, two seconds. COJMJt’KROR.” It satisfactory preparation sold for the Ga., can be found at tlie Newton House. Bishop Beckwith has arrived in the city and is stopping with Prof. White* Col. Samuel Hall, of Macon, can he found at Clinard’s. Harry Jackson, of Atlanta, Ga., pays Athens a visit, and can he found at Mrs. Cobb’s. Col. J. J. Gresham, of Macon, is registered at the Newton House. Bishop Pierce is also among ns, and is the guest of F. Pliinizv. Col. A. T. McIntyre ami la*ly, ami -Mrs. W. O. Jones, of Tlmniasville, Ga, are making themselves comfort* able at the Newton House. Boykin Wright, Esq., of Augusta, Ga., is in t he city in search of pleas ure. Dr. Little, Slate Geologist, can be found with our friend Clinard. Col. James Jackson and J. A. Barclay, of M aeon, ate stopping at the Newton House. S. Barrett, Jr., of Washington, is ir. the city to hear the lmys and see the girls. 1*. J. Carravvay .and A. B. Murks :ire at. the Xev.fo:: House. Tlie following complimentary notice j Ague in this section, of the death of Mr. David Tweedy, j is selling an article called of Wilmington, Delaware, and father of Mr. Jacob Tweedy, of our city, we clip from a Delaware exchange: •* David Tweedy, aged 88, an old soldier of the war of'1812, and resid ing at Seventh street and the Rail road, died on the Fourth of July. Aouk is aboot the only 'file Atlanta postal delegation left tor Point Comfort, Virginia, for at tendance on the Postal Convention, on Moudav, via the Western and Atlantic Railroad. They are Mayor Angier, Postmaster Benjamin Con* ley, Colonel John T. Grant, General William Mcliae, W. C. Morrill, Dr. cure of Fever and Ague, Dumb Chills, Iutermittant or Billions Fevers. The Proprietor of the Ague Conqueror has used hut little energy to make ! this medicine known, and yet, its I J- F. Logan, Mr. William M. Lowry, There are now, we tniders’and, but j sales is immense in Ague Districts, j J- W. Culpepper, two more of the soldiers of that war It purifies the Blood, Liver, and 1 living in this city. Mr. Tweedy be-j other secretory organs so effect ually longed to the Delaware Regi neat in j that the Chills do not return even when fiersons have had them for years. Entirely vegetable prepara tion. Priec, 50 cents and $1 per bottle. Two doses will stop the chills. inn co. that war, ami was so correct in the manual of arms that he was often placed before the regiment to tench it.* He is said to have fired the first gun when.the British General Ross lauded at North Point with his 5,000 men. He had charge of a gun in that How rr ps Done —The first object battle, and a. the commencement he i in ,ifc "} x] ' ,,K ‘ Amer '" :m l*®!* 1 * to saw an ohl log house in which lie thought 5pme British soldiers might lie lurking. Aiming his gmi he put a cannon hall through the house, when everybody who saw it was amused to sue. the red coats scamper out of it. Mr. Tweedy was married in 1817, ami has lived in uninterrupt ed peace ami harmony with his wifi; ever since. 'Hie fuiivr.il of Mr. Tweedy will take place to-morrow (Sunday) afternoon at 8 o’clock. ItallroiKl Aveldunt. Front. passengers on the Athens Branch ro-ul Tuesday evening, we l**arn that a fearful railroad disaster j occurred on the Georgia Railroad Frank E. Taylor, of Charleston, I about half past one o’clock on that S. C., is also at the Newton House, i Jay, whereby the engineer, Mr. Zaoh get richthe second, how to regain good health. The fi»»t can he obtained by energy, honesty and saving; the second, (good health,) by using Green's August Flowed. Should you he a despondent sufferer from any of the effe. ls of Dyspepsia, Liver Complaint, Indigestion, etc., such as Sick Headache, Palpitation of the Heart, Sour Stomach, Habit ual Costiveness, Dizziness of the Head, Nervous Prostration, Low Spirits, etc., ym need not suffer another day. Two doses of August Flower will relieve you at once. Sample bottles, 10 cents. Regular size, 75 cents. Positively so'd by all His;-class Druggists in the United States. junc5. Iteiusof Intvres Itow to Get Alonis. —It you have a place of business, lie there when wanted. —Have order system, regularity, and also promptness. Col. W. P. Price, of Dahlonega, arrived in the city Saturday, and is the guest of Major Clinard. R. A. Grappcl, of Baltimore, i* it; the city and stopping at the Newton House. Col. W. H. Hull is at Prof. Wad dell’s, and will remain until after commencement. Col. J. A. Billups, of Madison, Ga., arrived Saturday. Judge J. Crawford, and Col. B. C. Yancey are among the visitors. Miss Pierce, of Augusta, is stop ping at Prof. Melt’s. Miss Erwin, of Atlanta, is spend- Armstead, the driver of the up tiain, lost his life. As the train was pass ing Mr. Hart’s residence at a brisk pace, on. its way to Atlanta, ami about three miles above Union Point, the engineer discovered some cattle on the track, but all his efforts to reverse his engine and stop the train were futile. As the engine passed over a cow, she jumped the track ami turned upside down, the engineer being caught underneath in tlie ma chinery,, .and w:*s sup|M>sed io have been instantly killed. When our In formant Juft, his remains had not liqon taTen out from underneath the 7 engine. The passenger coaches, and inga pleasant time with the family ofj«'» fret, «•«« "hole ’train was a com* Prof. Rutherford. | plete wreck. A fire broke out among Misses Cozart and Reese, of Wash- tl,e ru5ns « :,, “ l il VV:IS rt T” r ^ on onr ington, arrived Saturday, and are the gue.sls of Mr. Sidney Reese. Miss Horton, of Augusta, can lie found at Mrs. Dcloney’s. Miss Simpkins, from Washington, is on Hancock avenue, and can he found at the residence of Mrs. Noble’s. Miss Norma Clayton, of Augusta, is the guest of Dr. Win. King. Miss Webb, o*f Covington, pays our chy a visit, and is at West End with the family of Henry Brittain. Miss Toombs, of Washington, is at Prof. Sjicer’s. Misses Phitlizy, Nisbct and Hall, are at Major John Thomas’. The Misses Green, from Fort Val ley, are at Mr. A. M. Scudder’s. Miss Julia Gurley’, of Augusta, is at the residence of Mr. Janies Gal loway's. Miss l<la Bearden, of Madison, Ga , can he found at Air. James Rhodes’. Misses St urges and Gresham are at Dr. Henry Hull's. The Misses Sillinans, from Monroe, I are at I)r. Caiuak’s. streets’that everything, baggage, mail matter and express were con sumed by the fiery element. Some passengers from our city were on the train, but were not injured. Besides a few slight bruises, we did not learn of any other serious accid -tit, save the death of poor Zarh Armstead. —The public linrarv of Boston now . contains 314,265 volumes. —The dogs of New York city have |taid $20,(l00 for liceuses this year. —A chunk ot the Giant’s Causeway three feet high and twenty inches thick, cost- $10 delivered at Glasgow. —Wrap a sheet of foolscap around the neck of mineral water bottle, and you have the latest style of gent’s collar. — Over four million sewing ma chines have been sold since they were first introduced in 1853. —In Wales in 18*>7 about a million tones of pig iron were turned out ; it) 1875 only 600,066 tons. —Northern capitalists have invested over $150,000 in the Hail county mines within a recent period. —More than fifty men have been hung in the United States this year, and yet crime increases. —Joe Coburn, the pugilist, has been denied a new — Do* jut meddle with business you know nut' of. — IK> not kick every „one in your path. —More miles can be made in a day hv going steadily than stopping. —Pay as you go —The following ‘ sayings' by poor Richard are worthy of place here: —The eye of the master will do more work than both hands. — Diligence is the mother .of good luck. —Now I have a sheep and a cow, every bxly bids me a good morrow. —He that hath a calling hath an office of trust and honor. —A plowman mi his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees. The young ladies take degrees at Cornell University. The Sewing Machine. BKCKST KKMJCTHM OP MKKK-MMIS 8K t. Tl.KII, ETC. Tho elaborate and very complete review of the sewing machine business, which we hav- just read in a copy of the “ Sowing Machine News,” aottlcs the following points: 1. There has never bceu any combination among sewing machine manufacturers to fix the prices of sewing machine* for tlie public. In deed, there baa ever been an unusually heated competition between the maker*, and each baa been at liberty to sell u such prices us he could jet. 2. Ample provision was ma in for licensing •Otluv iuvet,tor*, so that the public lias bad tbs 'advantagu of awry meritorious invention and improvement in sewing mechanist! that genius lias devised. 3. Sitgje the expiration of Wilson’s feed pat ent in 13?3, no eif-irts have been made by the combination for its extension, the many pulj- lisluvl statements to the emit ran notwithstan,!* HundayHohool < lolitton, 'Hje State Sunday S bool Conven tion mectsTp Athens, August 24th to ‘Jtith.* Ti'c; convention sermon will iTc preached by Rev. W. P. H unison, D. D, hnd the music led by J. W. Wallace, of Augusta. The pro gramme will he an Mite resting one. Delegates will lie transported over any railroad in the State at half fare rates—paying full fare going and re turning free. • 4. The lupshijr, May S, of a license fee of $8 per machine, did not cause the reduction in prices of machines. It also corrects an erroneous impression which has been produced by the recently auiipnoced reduction in prices of sewing machine?, from which the public seem to have inferred that the trial, and must' manufacturers are anxious to almost give away VitlGtnrl**(iiia Jt«-llit«*4l- JX>t Vuljpir.—Money makus th* boil. Refined. -Thu pifciou* metals cause t^e,cauldron to effervesce. Vulgar.—Money make* the mare S°- serve out hi* ten years in Bing Sing. —It is said that deer are so numer ous at the head of Alligator river, in North Carolina, that they destroy (he crops. —The St. Louis banks are ltuving a hard time of it* Several failures are reported iti our dispatches. their machines. Such is not tlie case,. Good standard sowing machine* ’.are but; a trifle- cheaper for cash than thoy have bean for the- post six months. The machine* advertised for the lowest,-price, are not such as the public want# ox will goper*. ally buy. The most popular style, the machine with cover, drawers and drop leaf, varies in. price for cash from $40 to $50, according toits. system and finish and the locality of its sale. An addition of about $5 is made to/he price if. • n . , . , ,i lithe delivered at some distant point, and in.- —The w ar between the Iroti Motm- ... struction given there, and shout $10 is added, tain and Memphis and Little Rock railways goes on with unabated vigor. —The lowlands along the lower Missi&ifipi and other Southwestern to the price if it be sold QQ tiipe. Formerly, a larger addition was made, far time anil install, ment sales, when greater risk$„vrere taken, and-, large allowances made for,old machines in ex change. The lack of ea*h or credit- wifi prevent waters. — One r*f tlie late Commodore —A nabob in thin city, "hose taste is | VickJMurray, salesman at Snead & ; Refined.—The circulating medium rather excellent, ordered all the shoe J Co’s shoe house, Atlanta, arrived in | con| p l .| s tltL . f 1>|||S| i e to absqnatu- makers in town to build him a pair of shoes suitable lor commencement week, and was rather surprised, when lie called on the Crispins, to find out that neither one of them had filled his ordet. This has a moral which some of the simpletons of our town may bo able to see. The Stone Hill Copper Mite, in this State, now employs three hundred hands. We call tlie attention to the No Brand cigars, which we offer at 91 80 per 100. Tho best cigars that has ever been sold in this or in any other city for the money. .. KaI.VARIN.SKY & I EHI.ER-. the city Friday, and can be found at Mr. J./. Cooper’s. Vulgar.—A fool and his money is A. A. McDuffie, ihe belle ol Au- ; soon parted, gusta, displayed liis handsome face Refined.—The partnership existing on our streets Biinday, and can lie found at the residence of Mrs. Dorsey’s. Miss Anni? Calvin, of Augusta, can be found at Mr. Beusae’s. between a siiqpiet.on an<( his small cliange is speedily dissolved. Vnlgar.^-Tril the truth and shame the devil. R fined.—Proclaim what is vera- Mr. Eugene ftwrkuMuud nil. un i I “T - J.K.MeCle.ky, .ill ^end ,l» week ' j*'’ L '. J.*h-b,. d.J. Rehiico. —k,.ch masculine of the at tbeir father's, on the Georgia Rail road. D. W. Lewis, and daughter, Presi dent of North Georgia Agricultural i . . . a . , ,. . ! many purchasing, even at. the. nominally re-, rivers, are being overflowed by high i , ,* . ’ s • 6 ; dueeil rates, since the .*urup.i)v of,reipoiu>ilnlitci I will be more rigorous. Another erroneous iuinreseion prevails, too k , tliat priees of good inachinea will be nmturiaUy Vaoder-hilt’d grandsons "as arrested j reduced. Such cannot be the case nnd the bus* in New Y ork the Other flay for theft, j iness remain healthy. The present, cheapness ; of labor and material favors tow. price*. AVltti New Jersey is said to ofler stmtl- I increased activity ill Pu-ineH.*, and thp ennse- gers a better shake of the ague than j qnent advance in the price of labor nnd miiteriul, Arkansas coin ever hope to turn out. [ ,he f ices of ^ win « " , * chiner> aro likel > 1 J to advance. Thoy must ,over a fine profit on ! , , i > the cost of muon foci ure and the comm«reiul j A .tdy in resjsinse to a niessage j j <ni . c 0 f putting tiiem into.tha hoiufo of pm- ' from her lover who had been cruelly j chasers, giving instruction, guaranty, etc. maimed and disfigured in battle, j Fro,n 6ics« tw.o points, the iatercaec is clew said. ‘‘Tell him that while he has l^^timafo’tii.tthapd^ofgooti.muihine* • ,, 1T ! cannot go lower, hxtraordtnary ogera should body euough left to hold hts soul, I: Pg carefoiiy scrutinized, (fold dollars cannot am his.’’ Noble woman. W j be bad for fifty cents apiece.. Many who pros> — i is* most perform least. Peal with the standard Why is a Paguerreotyphst like a i wliable ooncome, whichl aro likely to coatino* theatrical (lerformer ? Because hia i *»d be able to make good their guaranty, aucceas in securing the countenance of ! * ° f 'T“ U “ nd ™ ... middle men to havo tho same discount or com- the people depews upon making fa* j mission as horatefota allowed for salsa. Sash vocable and enduring impressions ! oannot ha thacaaa. It la well understood that sewing machine manufacturers have not re- Texas wheat is so high hat giase „ _ t hoppers have to walk on s t.«. I Kentucky blue grass seed. _ canine sjwcies is entitled to the pos- neasion of one diurnal revolution of the earth . Vulgar. —Does your anxious moth- Collegc, Dahlonega, is on a visit to j er know VOM are put ? | ol,r c ’ t ^‘ Refined.—Is your solicitous nia- i Germany is the principal buyer of j ternal guardian aware that her i offi»nrin«f is nb-<> * 1. The combined weight of five dele gates to the recent Lancaster (Pa.) Democratic County Convention was one thousand and forty-hree pounds. cantiydon* a profitable business. How then can they materially reduce their prices to the trade! Every one has now a days to work for lass pay or profit than heretofore, and why not sewing machine men ? Torn of thousand* now . stand idle with literally nothing to do. Thank- A Scotch paper states that a hot* j fnl should those be who find employment now tie of whiskv one hundred and thirty- I at 1Tlf 'derat« pay, W# must all work harder two vears old was sold at Winbur" > “ d liv * ohe * Fr ’ Bnd ^for “thegmsltltr,a for forte o « i coming."