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    VOL. 5.
ATHENS, GEORGIA, AUGUST 14,1877.
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UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA LIBRARY
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OLD SERIES, VOL. 56
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LAW aTOTICES.
J 8. DOHTCII,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
HOlS-lSTC-tf
Carnesvillc, Ga.
JAC'KKOX & TIIOMA8,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Athene, Gn.
Office South West Comer of College Avenue
»n<l Clayton Street, also nt the Court House.
All parlies desiring Criminal Warrants, can get
them at any time by applying to the County
Solicitor nt this office. deel6-1874-tf
HILL.,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Athens, G«.
Prompt attention given to all business and
the same respectfully solicited. janll-ly
Poru Barrow. D. C. Harr.uv, Jb.
Jgnrrow ItroM.,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Athens, Ga.
Office over Tuhnndgc, Hodgson & Co.
janl-ly
j3 # E. THIt AMIIEH,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Watkinsville, Gn.
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Office in former Ordinary's Office.
jan8fi-1876-ly
p^G. Til OM SOX,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,;
Sjs;cUd ateentimi paid to criminal practice.
For reference apply to Ex-Oov. T. H. Watts
and lion". David Clopton, Montgomery, Ala.
Office over Post-Olllee Athens, Gn.
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Z£ ’SToxa a
There’s a jolly Saxon proverb
That ia pretty mud like this,
That a man is half in Heaven
When he has a woman’s kins.
But there’s danger in delaying,
And the sweetness may forsake it:
So 1 tel) yon, hashfal lover,
If you want a kiss, why tske it.
Never let snotlier fellow
Steal a march on yon in this:
Never let a laughing maiden
See you spoiling for a kiss
There’s a royal wi^, !-' iwiug ,
And the jolly ones who make it
liav^g motto that is winning:
If you want a kiss, why take it.
And fool nay luce a cannon—
And booby wear a crown;
But a man must win a woman
If he’d have her for his own.
Would you htvo tEo ; ; apple
You must find the tree and shake it:
If the thing is worth the having,
And yon want a kiss, why take it.
Who would hum upon a desert
With a forest smiling by t
Who would give his sunny summer
For a bleak and winter sky !
Oh, I tell you there is magic,
And you cannot, cannot break it,
For the sweetest part of living
Is to want a kiss and—take it'
Four juror* at once—IIow’s dat ?
The witness—It was a sequence
flush.
! The four jurors at once—Oh !
j A juror—Did you make atiy ’greti-
! meut ’bout a sequence flush before ye
! started in to continence on de game
! at de onset ?
| Witness—No. We wasn’t playin’
a chile’s game.
The juror sank back, antiil the
laughter of his companions. The case
finally went to the jury, who, after
settling the relatives values of a
“ sequence flush” and a “ full,” gave
a verdict of acquittal.
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JOII> AV. OWEN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
'Ttwoit City, Ga.
Will practice iu all the counti«s of the West
ern Circuit, Hart sad Madison of the Northern
Clroult. Will give apecio) uttuni >n to all claims
entrusted to his care. oct 20-1*75-1 v.
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Howell Cobb.
NETS AT LAW,
Athens, Ga
Office in Deuprec Building,
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^LEX. 8. EltWIX,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
At liens, Ga.
Office on llroad Street, between (’eiitei it Nich
olson and Orr & Co., up-stuirs.
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^>r. C'OCII It.VX,
ATTOR1TEY AT LAW,
Gainesville, Ga.
purchase ami sale of Mineral and Fanning
ljaiula in Hall, and tin* other counties of Nortli-
uu-t Georgia. Mineral ore* tested and titles to
property investigated. Special attention givon
to the purchase and side of city property.
may2—6m J. N. DORSEY. Attorney.
^HHI UY O. SlcCUBttY,
Attorney a.-fc X*a.w r
Hartwell, Georoia,
Will practice in the Superior Courts of North - ,
east Georgia and Supreme Court at Atlanta.
Aug 8. 1876 tf
Jambs E. I.tle, Albi. 8. Erwin,
Watkinsville. Athens.
J^YLE A- ERWIN,
ATTORNE VS A T LA IF.
Will practice in partnership in the Superior
Court of Ooonec County, aud attend promptly
to all business intrusted to their care,
j an 0-8 m.
BTT3HTESS CARCS.
A. WINN,
—WITH—
GROOVER, STUBBS & GO,,
Cot ton Factor* *n<! tienrral CoumUalon Merchants,
Savannah, Ga.
Bagging, Ties, Rope and other supplies fur'
dished. Also, liberal cash advances made on
consignments for sale or shipment to Liverpool
or Northern ports. may 80-1875-tf
rjt^ A. ILK*,
Watahmilw> Sc >7awalwr,
At Michacl’store, next door to Reaves A Nich
olson’s, Broad street, Athons, Georgia. Ail
work warranted 12 months.
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Rjj SCIIAKFKK,
COTTOXT BTTKBR,
Tocoa City, Ga.
Highest eisli price p»>d for cotton. Aget
*>r winship’s Gina tin i l’ress. oe20-lt?fc-tf
yy R. LITTL E,
ATTORNEY at law.
C ir icsviMe, Gn.
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^Tan.-bod.
KMPI.GYMKN T either as a Tenner, Kngi-
uacr, or C irpent r. Good refcivnees .-iven, and
v.'^gna reasulinb' - . Ad-ires-, .). il. R., care of
Athene Georgian, A'bens, C-i aiy22-tf
I'OKERdN NEVADA.
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Six llollar* in the I’nl, nail a Krqnrttrr Flash Out
Against a Full Kami.
[From the Virginia Chronicle.]
A large crowd gathered at Judge
Moses’ court yesterday afternoon to
witness the trial of an assault and bat
tery case. The trouble had originated
between two negroes at a poker game,
and the jury and witnesses were all of
the colored, iiersuaiionf^rJoim Bennett
and Joe Redman were the defendants,
and the latter, being tried by the
court, was convicted and fined forty
dollars. This decision had its effect
on Bennett, who remarked: “Guess
I’ll have a jury. Dis court am too
much for me.”
A jury of colored men was accord-
inglj summoned and the fun began.
It was charged that Bennett, while
playing a game of poker with Red
man, had drawn a knife and threat
ened to make trouble. Bennett took
the stand and made the following
explanation:
Yes, Jedge, we was playin’poker
down in de saloon, and we got six
dollars in de pot, and I had a full hand
—free aces and two queens, Jedge,
sure’s you set thar.
A juror (rising in his place)—Was
dish ver straight poker or draw ?
The witness—Draw.
The juror—I thought so.
The witness—Well, ye sec,
Jedge i ** ' 1 ^
Judge Moses—Turn around and
address the jury, sir.
The witness—Yissali. Ye see, I
held a full, and Joe, he held a flush.
When I called, he said, “ I’sc got a
flush,’’ and he readied for de pile.
Hole on dar,” said I, “ a full beats
a flush.” Says he, “You lie!” 1
jes’ pulled out my pipe to take a
smoke and argy thu pint, and he
jumped up and grabbed a char—and
dat’s how de row started in.
A juror—Did he start fur you wid
dat char ?
The witness—Well, he sorter did
for a spi ll, aud den he porter let up
and stood standiu’ for ir to eonie.
Redman next took the stand and
testified as follows: Ye ‘•ce, Jedge,
I had a fl'ish and John sai^ he had a
full baud. Mine was a flush, shuah,
J«-dge, and - > I reached for the stakes;
and John, he pulled a knife, as I
s’jiose'i, :n.n I jumped up and grab->
be i a «••».':i l»il' him over de head.
W lien I s ed de knife was only a
pipe, 1 w *s so ’shamed o’ myself, I
j.-s’ didn’t -i.inv ivhat to do.
Juror- -D>>
beats a t - '■
’i’ll" wit lie-'
The Pittsburg Riot.
A Catholic Bishop’* Appeal to the Rioter*.
A Pittsburg (Pa.) correspondent of
j the New York Herald states that in
'an interview with Bishop Tiagg on
j Monday he expressed much regret
j that so many men whom he recognized
! as Catholics took part in the riotous
i proceedings to Sunday. He had been
out among them and had succeeded in
prevailing on many to return to work
or to their homes. lie is a man of
strong determination and warm im
pulses. On Sunday he begged and
pleaded for an interruption of the war
and pillage. Standing or. a steaming
locomotive, his face blackened with
the smoke and soot of the fire, while
great beads of sweat dropped from his
forehead, he asked in God’s name,
those belonging to his flock then among
the mob to go to their homes. He
yyts frequently interrupted shyrories of
“ Who commenced this riot T* to which
he replied, “ We are not here to in
dulge iu crimination or recrimination
or to condemn this party and uphold
that. There doubtless have been faults
on both sides. Certainly we all de-
Worse Than Slavery.
We haveTJrom time to time stated
that the Abolition agitation which
finally proflaged war between the States
is mainly responsible for freeing ne
groes in orag^that white men might
be enslaved^ It is very certain that
no more horrible calamity thnp that
war could have overtaken this Union,
and, in the deag run, the chief suffer
ers will be -the sections which claim !
the conqueror’s laurels. It is not nec
essary, at this time, to show, in every
particular, btf? the North killed the
Southern goose that laid the golden
eggs. Suffice it that we establish the
proposition .that the emancipation of
Southern nesntoes has ended in the en
slavement of Northern white men.
Without even-a glance at the hordes
Fast and West called ** tramps,” who
were unknown before the war, let us
look at the coal miners of Pennsyl
vania and, from home testimony, prove
the truth ofouj assertion. The Penn
sylvania and other railways of the
Keystone State largely own all the
coal mines of that Commonwealth, and
details of thefeondition of the workmen
No wonder, confronted with such
spectacles, that wise men in tbe North
confess that the infamous legislation
directed against the South foiled be
cause it war an effort to circumvent
God. The failure, so far as throttling
the South is concerned, was dismal;
but the experiment has ended in the
worse than enslavement of the bodies
of Northern white men and a crucifix
ion of their souls. No wonder skilled
•rerkmen who cotn'e from Europe are
going back while they have a chance
to do so. But what a commentary
upon the political management of the
past decade that America has ceased
to be “ the land of the free and the
home of the oppressed!"—Chronicle
and Constitutionalist.
ex
plore that any lives have been sacri
ficed ”
A Voice—“ What did the Phila
delphia soldiers begin shooting for and
why did they kill innocent women and
! children ?”
Bishop Tiagg replied—“ I come be-
| fore you as a citizen at the request of
j citizens meeting in interest of law and
j order. I do not want to talk of what
is past. Lives that have been sacri
ficed and property that has been de
stroyed cannot be restored. What I
want to talk to you about concerns
employed by them demonstrate that
the negro slaves of the South were
infinitely better off, and that only the
serfs of Russia in old days could be
remotely compared to these miners.
They have not bear so much liberty as
the slaves had? and their cares are for
beyond theconcoption of negroes upon
plantation#* , ®^$elicjpqf the mi
ovnet&w*
workmen so poor that theV cannot
even strike, and so miserable that all
courage shall be plucked out of them.
These task-masters have done what the
Bible expressly condemns—they have
quenched, or attempted to do so, the
spirits of men subordinated to them.
A reporter of the New York press,
who has investigated the condition of
the miners, relates some appalling cases
of sufiering. A miner of the Dela
ware, Lackawanna and Western com-,
pany earned on un average seventeen
to eighteen dollars a month. With this
pittance he had to support a family of
eight persons and to pay six dollars a
month rent. They had to live entirely
upon mush. Meat they never tasted.
Another preceding the strike earned
nineteen dollars a month, and out of
your welfare for the future.’’
A Voice—“Goon, sir. We’ll lis
ten **
The Bishop continued—“ I am
authorized to say to you that you will
obtain redress of your grievances if .it
is in the power of the citizens of Pilts-
hurge to bring that result alxiut.”
A Voice—“What has Tom Scott
got to say alr.ut k ?”
Bishop—“ The committee has not
yet conierred with the railroad officials,
but intend to do so as soon as we have
your assistance. 1 • s* «ay to you, on
the authority of the citizens whom I
represent, that your wages will be
raised to the old standard. I know
that the citizens will do everything in
their power to get you back your old
wagers.” [Apple ise and shouts,
“ That is all we want! Give us a
chance to live !’*]
• Bishop—“ Give us twenty-four
hours to consult with the railroad
company and for God’s sake stop these
fires.’’
At this juncture the roar of flames
became almost deafen it j, aud the cries
of the mob were iu keeping with the
raging element. The crowd stood and
looked at the reverened gentleman, but
soon tiring of t'd* they started belter
skelter to burn more- freight cars and
renew the work of piih.ge and destruc-
this had to pay an equal share with his
> j>n ivati to say a flush
— Course I do.
tion.
The ceiii.c
taker’s nose.
gravity —An under-
fellow-workmen of over nine dollars for
powder to blast with, and oil, paper
and soap toed in his work, thus hav
ing left but about thirteen dollars and
fifty cents a month to live and suppoit
his family upon, and oat of that rent
and fuel had to be deducted. The
food of his family was simply mush
and potatoes. The average wages of
another for twelve months did not ex
ceed fourteen dollars a month. The
miners and their families generally are
clothed in rags. So poor are they that
doctors refuse them attendance and
druggists medicines except they get
the cash in advance. Miserable as the
pittance of wages is which these poor
people get when at work, the conipa
nies keep « part back, and then charge
five per cent for paying any order
given by the men upon their wages.
The Lackawanna Iron and Coal Com
pany went even into the coffin business
and squeezed '.he poor people in un
dertakers’ charges. It keeps stores
also and makes in this way profits out
of the scanty earnings of its employes,
This company employs betweeu two
thousand aud three thousand men aud
boys. Three great corporations, name
ly: 1 he Delaware and Hudson Canal
Company, the Pennsylvania Coal
Company and the Delaware, Lacka
wanna and Western Compauy, work
about seventy mines and employ in the
aggregate over thirty-one thousand
men aud bovs.
A Legend of Los Angeles.
How a Band of Brigands, Led by I New York Law
yer, Perished.
[From tbe L09 Angeles Herald.]
Away back in 1850 or 1851 a young
man named Irwin made bis appear
ance in the old city of the angeles.
He was full of oaths, and was accom
panied by fifteen or sixteen young
blades like himself. One of his virtues
was frankness. He announced that he
and his followers were c:: route for
Mexico, and that their errand was to
rob. Don Benito Wilson was at that
time in business in Los Angeles. He
witnessed the advent of this lawless
hand with considerable disquiet as he
had a large stock of goods in his store,
and .was not entirely resigned io its
loss. ^Jxwin, the leader of the hand,
htowevcif sought
The brigand proved to be a young
lawyer, of a good New York family,
and a very accomplished and fascinating
| fellow withal. He told Don Benito
| that he need not be alarmed ; that he
intended to reserve his lawless opera
tions for the Mexican people; on these
terms his intimacy could not well be
rejected. At this time the mining
excitement had called most of the male
Los Angelenos away, and the polished
and handsome Irwin had everything
his own) way.
Irwin and his confederates conclu
ded, after some yveeks, that the time :
had come for their departure on their
'marauding expedition. On their pas
sage to San Bernadino the Menda of
Lugo attracted their attention. They
coveted a number of his fine horses,
and summarily appropriated them.
This act yvas destined to cut short
what might have proved to be a long
and prosperous career of crime. Lugo
was a man fertile in resources. The
Dieguino or Cahuilla tribe of Indians
were at that time pretty numerous
about San Bernardino. They were
approached by Lugo, proposed to them
that they should lie in ambush for tl.e
robbers as they rode through the San
Timoteo Canon. The Indians con
sented
The la«t day of the band’s stay in
Bernardino had arrived. They cele
brated it by an orgie of unexampled
abandon duriug the night. With brain
^upefied with aguardiente, they foiled
to pay heed to the dusky aborigines
who were scattered around the town.
The adventurers’ road lay along
wlmt is now one of the mo*t charming
regions of Southern California, aligned
as it is by the peach trees and orange
groves of the Van Leuvens and other
prosperous proprietors. Out through
where old Sau Barnardiuo stands they
made their way, striking the San
Tiinoteo Canon, through which now
dash the trains of the Southern Pacific!
Without a thought of earthly til they
rode, under the guidance of an Italian.
They soon reached a narrow portion
of the roadyvav, overgrown with chap
para!, sage brush and caetus. Many
a brain was throbbing in the cavalcade
with memories of the orgies of the
night before. Twentv shots rang out
on the air from the rifles of the Indians
who were ntnhii-hed The tew who
escaped in-tunt d<*atli were accorded
short shrift The knife or the clubiicd
rifle did the rest.
NEWS HUMMinY.
—Pmchback, Packard and Kel
logg, of Louisiana, are ?ttending the
races at Saratoga.
—Chief Justice Waite and famify
are the guests of Hon. George Ban
croft, who, on Tuesday, (7th in*t.,)
will give a grand dinner in honor of
the visitors.
—Nearly every prominent Republi
can in the State is willing to indorse
Preside*;* - Hayes’ Southern policy,
civil service referm and all, if he can
only he made holder of a noblo office.
—Sun., , t .
—The debt of the City of New York,
less the sinking fund, is about $125,-
000,000. The debt of the United
States July 1st, less cash in the Treas
ury, was $2,060,158,224 26. The
total debt of all the cities and towns in
the United 8tates is less than half the
national debt.
—The fruit season in the South wa»
never more abundant. The Missis
sippi boats bring great quantities of
new apples to the city, and the peache>
are ripening rapidly, with larger bear
ings than have been known for years.
Plums, pears and all other fruits art-
alike abundant on the high lands.—
Sugar Boxcl.
—Bristol, England, which sometime
ago began to import dead meat from
this country, is now importing live
stock also. On the 18th instant the
Acadie landed 300 sheep. They ar-
condition, but, in conr ■: ’
of thsye phrte-^
ririoUfor the reception of foreign
stock, the whole cargo had to be
slaughtered either on board or close
alongside the steamer.
—H. II. Honore. the father-in-law
of Fred. Grant and Potter Palmer,
will he one of the big bankrupts of t he
vear, his debts exceeding $2,000,000
in amount, $1,500,000 of the suin be
ing secured. It is not known how
much the creditors will receive, hut in
the state of the real estate and mining
j stocks markets their dividends are not
likely to lie large.
—The London correspondent of the
Liverpool Daily Post states that the
homceopathists have discovered a cer
tain remedy for sea-sickness. It is
npoinorphia, aud a very small dose of
it taken once an hour in water wilt
remove the qualms. They arc so cer-
tain'of its success that they are going
to procure a gratuitous circulation of
it among vessels that carry passengers.
It is also useful for beasts, whose suf
ferings are often extreme.
—Commodoie Jonathan W. Swift,
United States Navy, died at his home
in Genova. N. Y., on Monday last.
He had been on the retired list for sev
eral years, and his health had lately
failed very fast Commodore Swift
wa» horn in Massachusetts, and was
appointed from North Carolina iu
August, 1823, and was promoted to
l>assed midshipman* in May, 1829.
He became a lieutenant in 1831. He
was enmmias-oned a commodore July
10, 1862. Commodore Swift was in
his seventieth year.
—Cardinal Antonelli’s friend say
that it isn’t so ; that it couldn’t hi that
a man who could pray so devoutly -
could be guilty of such a thing; that
his alleged confession of it resulted
from his sensitive conscience and his
tropical luxuriousness of language and
doesn’t mean anything; that the C«uu-
tees Loreta was a fool for te.ling of it*
likewise a lunatic; and that Mr. A.
sat upon the ragged cave of gloom,
anxiety, remorse and despair because
he urged her not to marry a lionethit-f
and tmrglur Here the case stands at
present. Old Loreta himself will. Inc
tore.