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THE ATHENS GEORGIAN: AUGUST 28 1877
The Mountains in Colorado.
«<“• Working In thf Renton* of Eternal Snow—Uld-
den Rlrhex.
[i'rosn the Memphia Appeal.]
Dkl Nobte, July 23.—Left Ouray,
near the western base of the Rocky
mountains, about a week ago... Game,
up the Com'pahgre ricer twelve miles,
•»ver ono of the Worst trails iu the
mountains, and thence up Ponkepin
•reek to its head, thence to the top of
a great snowy range. Saw miner’s
cabins and men at work all along iu
this wild region. Saw men at work
far above timber line, in the region of
oternal snow. Saw one man, evident*
ly prospecting, on the top of a peak,
:ar above the place where the trail
crosses this great range. Climbed
around and above a lake covered with
iee partly melted, and had to walk on
.-now steep as a house roof and so
hard that it required two hard strokes
with the heel to be. sure of a foot
hold.
Ihe scenery Irotu the summit was
terrible in sublimity. The mountain?
on every hand were white with snow
in the peaks, and black and forbid-
This is a beautiful level valley, con
taining four thousand acres, partly
fenced, stud to be some eight thouss
and feet above the sea level, and too
cold for corn, and too dry, unless ir
rigated, for anything except grass,
but ’ eautiful to behold. Thence on
ward to-Aldun’s, where the Lake and
8i!verton roads divide, and thence on
to Wagon wheel gap, a mite from
which is' a magnificent hot mineral
•priug, where you spend part of a
day and night, bathe, preach to
them, catch trout, eat them, and
journey o>»; catch more, roast them
on live coals and eat them; and on
the evening of the fourth day from
Silvcrton see the great range called
the Bangro dc Christo, which termi
nates the ranges to the eastward, and
yet distant nearly a hundred miles.
Now you enter Del Norte at sundown
on the fourth day, having made the
distance of one hundred and fifty
miles, mostly on kot. For the weak
and the wealthy there is a stage to
Lake City, but there is no royal road
to Silvcrton.
What the Idle must Do.
ding trees and rocks on the sides; and | n»n area »,*« • MOng- iiaw it t:«*d io be cot-
woe to him who loses his way on the
summit of a snowy range. Seven
lawyers sot- out from Ouray to Lake
City, and they lost their way and
wandered without food till the night
<>f the second day,' sleeping all night
without fire, far above timber line,
and got back to Ouray nearly per-
The Old Typical Ameriran
[From the Washington (I>. C.) Nation.]
The evil of men hanging around the
cities waiting to be hired is one trans
planted from Europe where men move
in their allotted groves from the cradle
to the grave. The chief characteristic
of the true American has always been
idled, leaving their horses behind, one ; to find work of some kind, whether it
of which was found next day, but j bo the kind he is accustomed to or not.
perished in the attempt to get him Iu nine cases out of ten he has often
Small Things.
More thA a hundred million of
toothpicks are manufactured every
year. Qailla are used for the handles
of small hair-pencils and paint brashes
as well as in the floats for fishing, for
cigarettes containing camphor-or other
flavoring solid?, and for tubes to make
fuses for cannon. At the arsenal at
Toulon, * France, fifty-four- thousand
are required every month, of which
the diSerence is less than the three-
thousandth part of an inch. The
number of geese necessary to furnish
these is appalling, as no goes* can fur
nish more than two. The pieces are
made into writing nibs. Tho smallest
kind comes from Siberia, and is cut in
Paris. The tubular part is mostly
sent to Africa in the form of a small
hair-bru.-h for painting, selling for one
cent, and the upper end goes to Eng
land, from whence the tip returns to
Paris; there it is metamorphosed into
littl windmills, which arc sent to New
York to amuse the American children.
Pretty well U9ed up altogether.
It pays to take care of your ma
chinery ; dirt and ill-usage destroy far
more than hard work.
Mrs. Partington says that just be
fore the war circumstances wero seen
round the moon nightly, shooting stars
perambulated tho earth, the desk of
the sun was covered .with black spots
of ink, and comics swept the horizon
with their operatic talcs. Everybody
GRAND SPRING OPENING!
A. K. CHILDS.
R. NICKERSON.
Y. H. WYNN
CLOTHING EMPORIUM!
would call the attention of my pati
public generally to my line stock of j
For In Ms’d Bm !
».-••• -W.V- »iV. • . V. >1'
Diagonal*, Worsted*,
bkiiad rad Navy
Material
finite
Consist!
Cheviots,
win, Flannel
and the most fitfMonable style*. Also, a first-
class stock of State’Farniahlng Goods in ail
branches com]’* --- - — - -
Umbrellas inoUK Alpaca and Scotch Gingham,
Trunks, etc., to which 1 invite the inspection of
the public, guaranteeing my prices to compete
with any house in the State. Augusta or Atlanta
Prices Duplicated.
OUK SPECIALTY — Unlanndcred Shirts,
made complete, fine linen Bosom and Cuffs for
$1. A call i* nil we ask toconvince one and alt.
Gh.ax3.es S-fcero,
Popular Clothing Emporium,
Brou 1 street, Athens, Ge.
Next door to Long & Billups Drug Store.
hd3-1v
bad.. A month before-this some men
had the hardihood io start to cross
this same summit in n snow storm,
and one of them became snow-blind,
was two or three days without iood,
-ot back to his starting point, and
thought lie had enough of the range
for the season.
This is the wildest mountain region
known to me in Colorado, and right
hero a wise Providence scents to have
hidden away the richest deposits of
-ilver in all this region “f Colorado.
Front the summit there is a gmal trail
down a pleasant valley to Silverton,
from Ouray twcnty*eight miles south
i*r southeast. Silverton Is nearly three
thousand feet higher than Ourary,
taing nearly nine thousand feet above
die level of the sea, or nearly two
miles. Tho location is more beautiful
than any other town in all this region,
being a level and beautiful town site,
-urrounded on overy side with majes
tic peaks.
Tuere is here n large smelter for
inciting the ores and getting then
i"t-> bullion of lead and silver, which
is packed out on asses over the range
ill it van be put on wagons for tin*
railroad. Silverton is a place «>t
much apparent prosperity, being
oider than many of the other towns,
and mining op raVions more con
firmed. Another amejter is being put
up at present. There are only a few
Weeks in the year that they do not
have frost. They have splendid na
tive beef, at about ten -ceuta per
pounl for rotind x-eak, hut flour is
packed in over the range, and is
woith thirteen to fifteen dollars per
hundred.
The trip from Silverton eastward
was over the great continental divide,
or watersliod of the continent. The
ascent of this range is terrible, and
when yon get to the top of it, there
is the water coming out of a snow
bank and falling oft* westward to the
Colorado river and tho Pacific, ar.d
out of the same bank eastward,
forming the very head Waters of the
Kin Grande for tho Gulf of Mexico.
Von stand a moment upon the back
bone of the American continent, and
gaze upon the deathlike stillness of
mil lire, where the stunted bushes arc
j m beginning to put forth their buds
in midrnnnter, and where snow
]' Niks, barren rocks, and wild confu
sion overwhelm the mind with the
awful majesty of creation and crea
tion’s God. 'riiencc downward and
o istward, and along tho little stream
that in a day or two widens and
d ep.-ns to a river, and over spurs of
in "inInins, and around and between
broken ranges, and onward till you
e-on ; down to the wagon road at
Antelope Park.
Tumms
A Noted Divine says
They are worth their
weiffht in fjo?d.
READ WHAT HE SAYS:
D >. Ti’tt:—Dear Sin For ten year* I have
K-- n 5. iiurlyr to Dyrpcpria, Confiscation, rnd
Filer, l.vl rjiring yonrptllswerc ro-emmcndcH
to ne; I u i-iMVam (Hat with lilt!-- faith). I am
now a w.T! won, Save ajmetite, di^ertlon
“ , r.-jd I hare
ar.i ---«r h
CHILDS, NICKERSON & CO.,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IK
HARDWARE, IEOH, STEEL HAILS,
HOUSE AND MULE SHOES,
HORSE SHOE NAILS,
Agricultural Implements,
Leads, (Mis, Glass and Varnish, Harness Leather,
turns
said that it prodigal*d war, and sure !
enough war did come.
turned his hand three or four different
callings dnring his life. If he cannot
find work in making shoes, he will
take to making trousers. If he can
not find patients, as a physician, he
will enter the pulpit and eure those
who arc sick in mind, and so on.
When tho people landed at Ply
mouth they did not wait for some one
to employ them, but took tho initia
tive and became their masters in de
veloping agricultural resources and in
the construction of villages and towns.
When the Dutch came to New Ainster
dam they did unt jdly wait for a pos
sible master, but entered into the
business of trading in peltries and
•rapping for them. Further south
where the cavaliers landed their were
no waiting for employer, but immedi
ate breaking of ground from which
they were to get their livelihood, and
cot only livelihood bat wealth.
Men must get a living out of the
soil and the nearer thev get to it the
better, and this is what they have
oone from the beginning of our hisluiv
until the last few years. There are
unemployed lauds all over the country
which would employ our idle popula
tion fifty times over, and give them a
good living, if they had not lo t their
American habit nl looking out for
themselves and seeking it.
There are men iu New York to-day
who say that they would gladly w^rk
tor a dollar a day, and yet within
thirty miles of that city—a good day’s
walk—farmers are paying two dollars
a day for harvest bands.' which is-per-
hap-> higher for u skilled labor than
is paid elsewhere iu tho whole world.
There is uncultivated land in the
neighborhood of Washington iu every
direction, whjch qnly waits for willing
arms tojurnish. abroad .aud comfort to
a multitude of pgople. .
Thus, it is not work that i« wanting,
hut what is required to bring the hands
and the work together To do this
the man must acquire the ahit ot the
typical Americau, who always a com
mittee ot wavs and means unto him
self in doubling the difficult cape ot
every situation in which he might find
himself. As il is now, he is growing
helpless as the European, who can
only the one thing which he has h*-eu
taught, and who is unable to take a
single stop without a master.-
’ ~ '* # • . ■ r jag,. - . -
Every human being is intended t..
have a character .of . his own, to be
what no other is, to do what no other
can do.
BURPEE & BRQl,
Carriage, Buggy and
Wagon Makers,
At tlic -hop lately occupied by P. Ben?on, near
Gann & Heaves’ stable,
ATHENS, GA-,
Arc prepared to do all kinds of work in tl.fcir
line at .-'hurt notice, in the most SUPERIOR
STYLE, and at a*
REASONABLE RATES
us the same class of work can be dour.
They are prepared to nut up Carriages, Bug
gies au-J Wagon-in -ANY STYLE; nuu'iuvitc 1 CUB*
those having uew work put up, to cull before
its imperfections are covered with paint, and
see that ALL Materials n*ed are of the VERY
BEST QUALITY.
YUTPS PILLS
cuss DravarsiA.
TtnfsllLLS
CORE CON BTIPAXIOX
TurrePiiis
CUBS PHI 3.
tutpFpills
TUTPS PiLLS
CUBS BILIOUS COLIC.
REPAIRING AND PAINTING
A SPECIALTY. A11 work done in this line
warranted to give satisfaction, both ns to style
and price.
Harness Making and
Repairing. .
They arc r.lso prepared to tnakc or repair
Harness. Having secured the services of a
Thoroughly Competent Workman
in this hraucli of the business, all they ask is a
trial, tiiat all may b- convinced of tne bUI’E-
KluKlTY OK TuElR WORK and the Reason
ableness of the.r Cuarges.
J?*”ne sure to cad on them and examine
their work and prices. julySl-Sm.
tutps pills
etnas TORPID XiXVBB
in- health e-ncl strength
♦rvwhcre. Office;
gfj.Locirrmg.yy..,
Dr. Tutt has been eu-
fM~ed fa> the (retries
of medicine thirty
years, and for a long
time was demonstra
tor of anatomy la the
radical College of
G.< rjin. henec, per
iods' criag his Pills
hare the guarantee
that they are prepared
oa scientific principles,
and are tree iron all
quackery.
He him succeeded l.i
combining in them
tiio heretofore antag
onistic qualities of a
strengthening, fsrg:-
tire<£purify tx"lcz:c
Their first apparent
effect is to inc reuse tho
appetito by caucir.jrtbo
food to proper: ymsim-
Hate, thus the rrrtem
U nourished, and by
thehr t>sic action on
the diii<ft!ve organs,
regular A healthy cv-
ce’ontieur arc jurccuced
'I i:e v.-.piiii'r with
which fir. out :akr as
fieri, v.-i iic urdcr the
irJluci'.ce of these pills,
cl ivetf hciicalesajcSr;
:: 1y l. -I(-Uriah
the’bodv,. an I hence
their cilicacy n caring
nervous tleK’ity, niel-
arciiolv, dyspepsia,
wasting of tne mus
cles, slnggis'mcse of
the liver, chior.ic con.
S’.ipation, and impart
to tne system. bolAcv-
rav Sire.-'. New Y.»»k.
Gotten, Manilla & Jute Rope,
CARRIAGE AND SADDLERY HARDWARE,
HUBS, SPOKES, BUGGY WHEELS, AXLES,
SPRINGS, RUBBER AND LEATHER BELTING,
MILL SAWS, MILL FINDINGS, ANVILS, VICES
BELLOWS, HOLLOW WARE; ETC;| ETCv, .
Manufacturer’s Agents for the sale of
Fairbank’s Standard Scales.
WINSHIP AND SAWYER’S CELEBRATED
Cotton Gins, Cider Mills, Syrup Mills and Evaporators, Watt Plow*,
Farmers' Friend Plows, Pumps, Circular Saws, etc.
ISTAny article in onr lino not in stock, will be ordered whcnjdeairol, with^thsj eas
passible delay.
decl9-ly ' Call ami Examine Our Stuck and Prices.
TRIUMPH OF SCIENCE
Gray llair can be changed to a|
glo-sy bl-tcV,by a iin, le application oil
Ur .Turr's Hair Dye. Il acts I ike m:'.gic,|
and is warranted as harmless us wan-r, |
Price ti-OO- Office 35 Murray bt., N. *ri
Broad Street. Over Burke’s Book Store.
THF. StlTlV.
Athens Foundry and Machine Works.
ATHENS, GA.
7 General Founders and Machinists, Pattern
Making, Sinituing and Kcji*iri..g, Mining and
Mill Machinery, Manufacturers of Cirenlar
Saw Mills, Steam Engines, Home Powers,
Threshers, Fan Mill*, Bark Mills, Cane Mill*,
Gin Geariinr, Cotton Preawe*, etc., etc.
Agent for Cook’s Celebrated Evaporating
Pans, Cardwell’* Separators, Turbine Water
Wheel* and Agricultural Engines.
Prices sent upon application to
B. Mt’KKBXOX,
junc26-2m.
’SHFLIGHT
Head the Answer
It Is a plant that prows In the Soul *•-. and h
Fpocially.adapted to the cure of discaM- ->f that
NATURE'S OWN PEMEDY,
Entering at oocelwto the bl.-nl, • xptDing'all
rcrofulous, syphilitic, and rl-'-oiaric :ISections.
Alonc.it is'a searehing al; reri-u, but. when
combined with Sarsaparilla, Veliow Dixk.aoa
other hetba.lt forms •
STOVES I
STOVES! STOVES!
I am now offering for sale at
Low Prices,
The following celebrated Cook Stoves, all of
which are warrant ed eqiml to any offered in
this market.
GATE CITY,
PALMETTO.
BLACKSMITH l NG.
Having renter! the Blacksmith Shop so long
occupied by the late .William P. Talmadge and
employed competent workmen from Urn North,
I am ;>repared to do any and Ml work in tbe)|
Slac]c«uaaitHfZdixie
at the shortest notice and at the lowest prices ot
any' shop in the city. 1 have it
GkiUsdS 2Z*kt»r
and make specially of Axe*, Mill Picks, Mat-
tockf, Picks, Garden Hoc* and tool* of all des
ert tiou and of the finest temper.
WAGONS and buggies
IRON KING,
BEST,
CRICKET, *
Call and see before purchasing.
The matt powerful-blood sorifiw knowntaied-
ical Sefence for the cure of old ulcers, diseased
Joints, foul dischaggestrnni WWW mtSmUml
| abscesses. «hm diseases, dropsy, k|kw CQca-
^^■MliSiimifsecndpcacticesidfaorfiread
' e nervous
tuilda up
plaint, evil eficcts of 1 ,
liverand spleen. IU use strengthenst
system imparts a Uir complexion, an
t “ e ffi&lTHY, SOUO FLESH.
As an antidote to syphilitic poison it is Strong
ly recommended. Hundred* of cases of the worst
type have been radically cured 6y it.; Being
purely vegetable. Its continued use will do. no
harm The best time to lake it is during the
KTfcSfSa
tired. Tiro Slirunk, Etc.
made aud repaired at low
Ironed a d Rep
Plows of all kindi
prices. Al*o
First Class Horse-Shoeing
done by a northern shoer, Trottiug Plates.
Coucavu Shoeing Etc., in a manner uusurpansed
by any. All new wont warranted aud satisfac
tion gnaraut- ed. Guns and Pistols repaired.
John M. Bassett.
_ marchsn-lv-
Tho peculiarity 01 me tly is that he
slwoys returns to the same spot; hut
it is the fharactvristic of the iuosquiiti
that he always roturus to unother -pot.
Thus he differs from the letijwrd which
d<ww not change his -pots. This is au
important fact in nrtural history.
THE UNDERSIGNED IS PREPAREDfcTO
FURNISH
MARBLE OR GRANITE
Cm to any designs they are desired. Plain 01
Elaborate Monuments, Head aud Foot 8tones
with side pieces. Marble or Gnmite Box
Toombs, Cradle Toombs, Vases or Statuary.
Marble or Granite Vaults for Cemetsry and
other purposes, designs and prices furnished at
the Marble -rd.
A.R. ROBERTSON,
juncSO.tf. . Athens. Ga.
J
OB WORK OK ALL DESORIP
tioi» ti.*.atlv dont* at thv office
Weuitod.
1877. NEW YOxtJl. ad*/.
oct.81.6m.
J. C. WILKINS.
mi FEEB ID S1E STABLE,
•GANN fib REAVES, PROPRIETORS.!.
Will be found at their old stand, rear Frank
lin House building, Thorraa street. Keep al
ways on hand good Turnouts and carefol dri-
1. Stock well cared for when entrusted to
our care. Stock on band for sale at all rimes.
declStf.'
A second-hand Wheeler A Wilson Sewing
Machine; has been but little used and is in per-
TO RElfT or buy a small oottage borne, con
aenient^oThe business portion of the city." An
unimproved lot, if desirably located, mUht be
seld.^ App'v st ftepr isn <itflee ayfiS-rt
Mariwsthior * s ew,
BiaA.OECSJsff:ima:’S
TWO SHOPS FOR 1877.
Oue at the old stand in front ol
Messrs. GANN & REAVES,
The other on the road to the upper bridge and
“ op|>eaite
Mr. JOHN Z. I’OOPE-J’S,
Livery Stable. We have first class workmen
SORSS SHOEING
of every description,
Plating and Concave Shoes
Manufactured to order.
WAGONS, BUGGIES, CARRIAGES,
And all kinds of Farming Machine* and Im
plements repaired on short notice.
janfotC
1877. 1877.
Boots and Shoes
TO ORDER.
2T- W. Saudrup,
;Y *-
Artist.
Has removed his shop to the Mellow 11 Build
ing, on College Aven"«. Pricer liberal and
first-class work guarnntevu.
jane 16,1876-8d-ti
Rabun Gap High School.
Located in tho beaut;fill Valley of Head o
Tennessee.
C'Habuaa. Oo-oahy, Ga-
The different editions of Tub Son during tho
next year will bo the same os during the year
that has just passed. The daily edition will on
week days be n sheet of four pages, and on .
Sundays a sheet of eight pages, or 06 broad
column*; while the -weekly edition will be a
sheet of eight pages of the same dimensions
and character that are already familiar to our
friends.
The Son will continue to be the strenuous
advocate of reform and retrenchment, ana of
tbc. substitution of statesmanship, wisdom, aud
ity for hollow pretence, imbecility,- and
in the administration of pnblio affairs. H
contend for the government of the peoole
' “ »ple, as opposed to
>ballot-box.and in
enforced by military
violence. It will endeavor to supply Its readers
—it body now not far from a million' of souls—
with the mont carefol, complete, and trustworthy
aocount* of current events, and will employ for
this purpose a numerous and carefully selected
staff of reporter* and oorraipondentB. It* re
ports from Washington, especially, will be full,
accurate, and fearless; and it will doubtless
continue to deserve and enjoy the hatred ot
there who thrive by plundering the Treasury or
by usurping what the law does not giveYfyem,
while it will endeavor to merit the confidence ot
tb. publioby defending the right* of the people
against the eneirreebiqent* of .unjustified power.
The price of the daily Star will be 66 cent. •
month or $6AO a year, post paid, or with the
Sunday edition $7.70 * year.
Thu Suxdav edition alone, eight pages, $1 AO
* ^ba^Ywvr^CN, eight pages of 66 b.oad
columns, will be fornialied during 1877 ut the
rote of $1 a year, post paid.
The benefit of tliia targe reduction from the
previous rate for the WXlxlt can be enjoyed by
individual -ubwribcrs without the necessity of
treking no club-. At the same time, if any ot
our friend* chw se to aid :n extending our circu
lation, wre shall be grateful to them, and every
snvh pel-on who si-n f* u* ten or more *ub»
ncriber* from one plate will be entitled to one
copy of the paper for himxelf without charge.
At oue dollar a year, postag. paid, the expenses
of paper and printing are barelv repaid; and,
cot sidtrins! the -ire ot- tho *hcet und the quality
of its content*, we are confident the pe ople will
consider The Wbeelt-ck the cheapest new*-
pa erpubh*h*d iu i lie world, and we trust also
one of the very be*t.
Address.
decl9. THESUN, New I'eyk City. N.Y*
Bcription dime at this offioe.
W. A. CURTISS. Principal.
F*The Ninth’Consccutivo Session wRl open on
Monday, July 16th, 1877, and continue, without
iuternussion, for twenty week*.
Tuition—$6, $8, $10, $13 and $15 per session.
Board, '$6 per month;
Beautiful and healthful location, pure water,
salubrious atmosphere, mild climate, and atten
tive and devoted teachers, render the school
fctt-active, pleasant and instructive.
For particulars, address •
If. *. IXKTI'H. Priaelpal.
Head of eanessee P. i). Ha.
jtdylO-tf.
Wool ('iirding Factory.
The undersigned has lib- new Cut-tom \\oil
Cards now in oiH-rution^tt the Factory, ul the
eastern terminus «>f Bioad street, Athens, Ga.
Woik done satisfactorily and with difruitch.
. H. F FOWLER, Agent.
aprilKMgi. .
Belton Hotel,
Situated 66 jnjle* on the Atlanta, Richmond
and Air Line RgUroud from Atlaflta, aud within
one mile oftl:VTui.eti> h of Uie.NorUi,En!t Rail
road of Ga. * Tlih Proprietor is qow,pre|«red
to s-rviiall who caU upon him with meajp.at the
foliowi^r rater? * v .
Single meal 50c. ( Pee week .$6 06
Per dav $1 6>- j I’er month .8ff »
julyis-ly i 8. H. HCGHK1S-