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THE ATHENS . GEORGIAN; SEPTEMBER 11, 1877.
The Figllt at Schipka Pass, j oi a pausing Union officer she was j
j imprisoned for six months. Tins int-
\ SkVKS WAVS’ BATTI.K tVlTHOlT. IlKSl LTS. p r J^ so)t|1 , eQ ^ j 8 t J |0 8u l,jeet off
she has to tell. Now for the seql
Finding it Hn&>^blj|f /ffit ohtaii
Astounding Precocity.
TMrtWe sunghur OB Both Sl.lc,-1‘lcToa Ass
ure As and Wra**®*- .
London, August 80. -Ai#Adrii
nlo^diu^tch, dated o^Iock
morning, says the troops are pom
the front at the rate of 5,000 a day
These battalions come from Batoum.
Large numbers of Albanian volun
teers arc arming to join Suleiman
p„J in . Tliev have exchanged then*
Pasi.a. They
okLguus —
. No decisive action will take place
at tho Schipka Pass until the arrival
of,,reinforcements on one or both
s des. The Standard’s correspondent
at the Russian headquarters, tele
graphs under date of Monday, as fol
lows : The losses up to the present
time are no less than 1*2,000 men on
both sides. Gabrova is full of wound
ed, and it is rumored that Generals
Rodetsky and Demerosky arc wound
ed. Prince Mirsky seems still to be
between Selvi and Lcftsha, but com
munication is so difficult that the fact
is uncertain Bebrova has been burned
by irregulars from Rasgrad.
Tho Vienna correspondent of the
Times, remarking on tho recent re
placement of Mahmond Damad Pasha
at the Turkish war office where he
has been supreme since the fall of
Redif Pasha, says it is believed at
Constantinople that Mahmond Damad
is responsible for ordering the waste
ful attack on the Schipka Pass. The
heavy losses there incurred, without
a corresponding success, seems to
have made the Sultan accessible to
the advice of those who represented
to him the forcing of the Schipka
Pass as a great fault. I >
The Times’ military correspondent
at Bucharest telegraphs, that for tho
moment, interest concentrates itself
again on Plevna, where Osman Pasha
is strongly reinforced by men from
Suleiman Pasha and guns from W id-
din. He is now credited with two
hundred gmiS, and ought to make a
good defense, but if defeated, the
Turkish kta» will » be irreparable, in
tjie face oj? an* immensely siljptior
Rnssial cavalry. Osman Pasha’s de
feat'would, moreover, immediately
give the Russian forces enough, even
without the coming guards, to push
again over the Balkans.
Advices from Athens say that two
thousand Italians have offered their
services to the Greek army. In
Crete the agitation continues. Five
hundred Christian families have asked
permission to leave the Island, but
the Governor lias refused the request.
London, August 30.—A dispatch
from Constantinople says, during a
raid made by the Turkish troops,
they succeeded in destroying an im
mense amount of Russian stores near
Gabova. A dispatch from Bucharest
says, the Imperial Guard recently
ordered to the front from St. Peters
burg were rapidly passing through
Bucharest on their way to join the
Grand Duke Nicholas’ forces.
ig it ttftfroCMbitf ’ to obtain a
ilcct .wlicnqbibcn’e whnffi srfe could
late her prifiop - cxpcrlenccj tjnder
’the immaculate tBcii, shosmnmoncd
he ladies from the parlor to the ball
room. They came iu force and ao
companied by male escorts. When
all had entered the lady ordered all
the gentlemen to withdraw, as her
revelations were such as could not he
made in the presence of both sixes.
Among trhc not
ties which arp-eem
up by
the outjgBir
Fagan.^S!
TJie gdritfutliiil thrfcn '\iith<ird\v hiiitl:
the revelations began. What the
nature of thee# were cannot be ascer
tained, blit certain it is that \vh^n
they had reached a certain point, an
allusion being made to the relative of
a lady present, the am.ience broke
up and the ladies fled precipitately.
. Perhaps Gen. Butler can rise and
explain. Certain it is that those here
who would cannot, and those that
can will not. The matter remains
an impenetrable mystery, and sin-e
it occurred has been the chief topic
of conversation among all the male
and female gossips at the springs.”
A Female Sensation at the
White Sulphur.
A correspondent of the New York
Herald, writing fn m tho Greenbrier
White Sulphur Springs under date
of August 24, makes the following
. mention of a sensation at this place:
“Thursday famished somewhat of
a female sensation, the details of
which have uot yet fully transpired.
It appears that a certain lady visitor
from Washington lias for some time
£ast been endeavoring to make a
little notoriety by a recital of her
experience in New Orleans Under
the adminisi ration of Gen. B. F.
Bdiler. The lady formerly lived in
Savannah, Gn., but moved t<» Wash
ington some time previous to the
war When hostilities began this
•iivly took occasion to display tier
aorcsKUin proclivities by words and
acts, and made herself considerably
obnoxious tt» the authorities there.
As a consequence of this Mr. Seward,
ip order to rid hims.-lf of a trouble
some customer, sent the lady South
tc New Or’earn—where she was
when it wax taken
General Butler. Here
The Death of Amirnl Sexnmes
Mobile, Ala., August 30.—Ad
miral Seinmes died at ten minutes
past seven o’clock this morning, at
Point Clear.
Admiral Raphael Statutes
was bora in Maryland, and entered
the United States Navy in 1846. He
s rapidly promoted, and in 1855
but a debt of honor.’’ The prince
bowed, and handed over tho money
curioM-
■ picked
Wley
■tv is little Mi
is a uomjvjfully
of Seven years.
poIicemanTWlb found, her wandering
as if she was innocently lost in the
streets of Njnrr'Yorkifiitmgl.t she
looked precocious and cunning be
yond licr, vyhar?j rbiitK'H ; efo%i,’ hJiIo
imagined he knew everytrick of the
street Arab was thrown offlns guard
V-iov•* 'r*l Km: au.l ... Ml **, I «
anct had to confess' tlurt^iie had not
ah inkling of the rascality that was
ripening in that. chtjZfs^qaind. The
lost child said that she had gone with
her mother to Coney-.island from
Newark ivlieic they lived, had got
lost in the crowd on the beach, and,
by mistake, look the boat for New
f rond begins
en the .Jew
prince flew
hard namefc,
a revolver, mado him
if hand. A fewuayfc
later the Jew received his money
with a thousand franc bill thrown in
for interest. Shortly afterward the
Jew received a letter from the prince
noticing) hi Si ; {halt bfe W& Sajgiitf .iu
want of money, and telling him to
present himself with ten'Thousand
attained the 'rank of commander.
When the war between the States
commenced' Admiral Sentmes, who
was well grounded in politics, and a
States Rights and anti-consolidation
man, earnestly cast his lot with that
of his friends and compatriots of the
South, aud the gallant services he
rendered to Hie Confederate cause,
soon won for ldiii the admiration of
his countrytrion, as well as the plant!
its of his enemies. As early in the
war as the snmrt-.er of 1861 he took
command df theConfederate steamer
Sumter, t^hich played such liavqp
with the ^merchant marine of the
United States’. It was as the com
mander of the “ 20,” or, as she was
better known, the Alabama, a ship
built in England for the Confederate
States, that lie won his highest fame
Bold, fearless and zealous, his vessel
became, for a time, absolute monarch
of the seas, inflicting immense dant-
agas upon tho mercantile marine of
the enemies of his country.
On the 19th of June, 1864, the
Alabama was sunk near Cherbourg,
France, after a desperate battle with
the Federal war steamer Kearsage,
commanded by Admiral Winslow, a
native of Carolina. Nine of the crew
of the Alabama were killed and twen
ty-one wounded. Admiral Semmes,
after the destruction of his vessel,
was rescued by the English yacht
Deerhound.
Since the war he has resided in
Alabama, among bis kindred and
York instead of that -f<>7 Newark.
Tho seven-year-old got tite names
and boats confusrd and that was
quite probable. So s|i* had been
brought to New York mid landed in
the great city where she o dn’t know
a soul, and was completely “ stump
ed.” She gave her natne as Mary
Fagan and her age is seven. Efforts
wot e made to ascertain, the address
of her parents in Newark, hut were
unsuccessful. In the meantime Mary
was placedjin charge of Matron Webb
of the lost children’s- department of
the )H>licc headquarters. She asked
for a hook, like a good little girl, to
amuse herself and a bsilk was fur
nished her. As^soon as she was left
alone Mary put on her hat and started
down stairs. The entrances were
guarded by patrolmen. One of them
asked Mary where she was goiug
The child quickly and artlessly replied
that Mrs. Webb had sent heron an
errand; thon she started, gave
little laugh, and added: “But,
guess I’ve forgot ten part of what she
asked me to do.” Saying this she
ran up stairs., Soon she came down
again, and the officer- thinking that
such a wee thing could not dissimu
late that way allowed!jp^do pass,
anaMnifr iritgan Tn five
minutes her escape was, discovered,
but the lost child could udl be found.
A day or two afterwards a gentleman
called at the police station and re
ported that on the previous Thursday
—the day of Mary’s arrest—while
his little daughter of eight years was
playing on the beach at Coney island,
a little girl darted at her; robbed her
of her hat and shawl and a gold
brooch, and as suddenly disappeared.
While the gentleman was telling his
story of the highway robbery by a
child, an officer cantc in with a little
girl bedraggled and footsore. The
gentleman took a sudden interest in
the child, and glancing at the hat and
shawl exclaimed : “ Why, these are
my little daughter’s things.” It was
little Mary Fagan. Finding she was
caught, she acknowledged that she
had taken a hat and shawl and brooch
friends, loved and respected by all- on Thursday. So young, and yet so
men who knew him, leaving a volume
of admirable interest concerning his
adventures and services in the Con
federate cause.
Alligator Skins.—New York han-
d'es about five thousand alligator
skins per annum. The business is
entirely irr the fianfls of a single firm,
«.■ ! i to ►fjil < tt s "iv.u 5fi
who employ men to pursue the rep
tile in the bayous of the Mississippi
River, aud the work is usUatly done
are too' too ybriiv’jttm fohihit
nit ion used on ftieln Is thrown away,
for in such cates the skin is either too.
horny or too small. A good size is
eight or nine feet, counting nothing
beyond the thick part of tho tail.
Florida is a great place for alligators.
direction
objections by the animal against part
ing with his natural integuujeiit.
. „ ~ . sinner who liuerallv pair
P ‘ s ’ ' | beny and ice-cream fesi
hi ‘ r rebellions j ot t | le church, be
sent ments go the better of her dV by the ret timing hoard? Or
cretion, and for jeering at the funer. 1 b« uounud in? ’
—A country debating club is on
the eve ot bankruptcy, aud the only
cause given is that the members
couldn’t decide the momentous ques
tion : “ Will, or will uot a common
sinner who liberally patronizes straw-
festivals for the
thrown out
will he
[DSUL FOR 1877,
francs, 1 and
d 1 stamped paper 1 tip’rti
which to write lils infernal notes of
hand. Tfio Jfoiv canto with till* money.
“ Where is your paper for the note?”
money.
“ Here
he said, taking the
it is, priuce,” said the J ew, drawing
a large cake of gingerbread from liis
pocket. 'Tho priuce laughed at the
joke, and shortly afterward paid the
debt with interest.—Paris Corres
pondent of the Xao York Times.
The Federal City.
The Sitting Bull CommW»lon—The Alabama Office
holders.
Washington, September 1.—The-
ophilus Gaines, recently appointed
attorney-general for Montana, has
complied with the request to resign.
Secretary Thompson leaves Monday
for a couple of weeks.
Hon. A. G. Lawrence, of Rhode
Island, has accepted the civilian
position of the Sitting Bull commis
sion, .
Kaum is preparing a circular to the
revenue agents to riiakc quarterly ins
spectionsof the character and effi
ciency of internal revenue collectors
and other employees in each collec
tion district in the respective divis
ions assigned to the revenue agents,
Major Ely McClellan, surgeon, has
been relieved from duty in the de
partment of the South.
&hcrtnau telcgaplis from Deer
Lodge that the coming of the third
•infantry gives great satisfaction to
the people there.
Sheridan, telegraphing from Chi
Cage, giving''the situation of tho
various forces, and saying Howard
should be there also, concludes:
“ We should hear of a fight in a few
days. There is not much danger of
these Indians going to Sitting Bull,
The Nez Pcrces and Sioux are not
friendly. They have always fought
each other.”
The state department has advices
of the death of United States Vice
Consul Harrison, at Guaymas.
Appointments Thos. W. Hunt,
marshal southern Mississippi, vice
Lake resigned. Louis E. Parsons,
Attorney Northern and middle dis
trict Alabamo, vice Mayer suspended.
Samuel G. Reed, marshal middle and
southern district Alabama, vice
Turner suspended.
The pressure to retain the present
incumbents in office in Alabama,
comes from Wisconsin instead of
from a child on Coney island beach
accomplished in wicked ways, and
cunniug, too. Mary Fagan was
locked up on a charge of highway
robbery, She is doubtless the
youngest highwaywoman that has
ever received a nptice in the annals
of crime. The New York police
have picked up something new in
m
their line.
An Anecdote of a Russian
Pripce. j
It is the fishion noW tote'll Rits-
have just lipri pttblWhfed that are
worth repeating. The RuBsionpriu-
ees in Paris are all men of la-ge
incomes, bat generally i-p mdtbrifts.
One of theiit borrowed t ie stira of
but skins from - that direction are lo 0 oo francs from a- mo.ey-leitder,
badly mangled, indicating strong 3
giving his note tor the sam£. On the
day it fell due the 'holder presented
it for payment, and was told by the
prince that he had no nionekr to waste
in paying debts. At that moment
a gentleman entered, and the Prince
handed him 20,000 francs to meet the
losses of the night before at the club.
The Jew tore up his note of band,
.md said, when going out: “Now,
,M .07.
.1(7
Witlfi ’hicWasedVttciiitiis^fol' on the^uBlicaSoii of oiirjpaper
for the New Year, the Georgian will be found, as heretofo
fore,
Strictly Democratic,
And will endeavor to supply its readers with the most careful, com
plete and trustworthy accounts of current events. It will
remain its usual size, eight pages, and has
More ffieadina Matter Ir Its
Than any two 'weekly papers in the State. We nave the largest
bona fide subscription list in Northeast Georgia, and we
intend to make it, as heretofore, an interesting
Connected with ocr newspaper, we have a
C^ttrell^ & Babcock Press,
with the best selection
The finest Book and Job Press, together
of Job Type, all uew, and ordered within the last six month,,
and are prepared to do all kinds of
Pennsylvania. Each State has a
Cameron in the Senate—one a very
light weight, the other notorious.
The Wisconsin Cameron had passed
out of mind, hence the blunder. The
best opinion is that Cornell will be al
lowed to hold both civil and political
office and that the famous order will
degenerate into advice.
The uo.nmission on Indian affairs
has received a telegram from the
agent of the. Shoshone Indians at
camp Bro wn, Wyi)m:ng, which says
the. hostile Nez’ Perees are reported
coining toward this pofoy. The
perfectly
the
lT i ll .. 1Blir , -rcruMSi kim'
a change to mount his warriors'when
they come he can whip them in less
than a day.
With a new supply ot Rules and Figures, we are prepared to turn
out all and every kind c*
Railroad Blanks, Abstracts, Tags,
WAY BILLS, ETC., TOGETHER! WITH
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ell
: ri.
mu sto»40.
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S0»4s* 3iAiem«>nts,
Half the fools in the United States
think they can beat the doctors cub
ing the sick; two-thirds of them are
sure they can boat the ministers
preaching the gospel;» and all of
them know they can beat the editors
running the newspapers.
Not long ago, in an English court,
a female witness, on the oath being
administered, repeatedly kissed the
clerk' instead ot the book. It was
some time before she was made to
. underst nd the proper—or at least
prince, there is nothing between us ’ the legal—thing to do.
Tag**
As Cheap as they can be done in any city iu tho South. Tho Work
men iu our Job Department cannot be surpassed in
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