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VOL. 5. NO. 52.
correspondent, verily their lines have
falleu in pleasant places. 1 never have
been very lucky, except going to the
very best places, on occasions like
the preseiit. I need only say I mu
Morjmonfem.
Letter from Dalton.
late elections in California
.hat State solid in the demo-
Dalton, Ua., Sept. 12,11577.
A certain friend of mine in your
fair city superintended a Sunday.
Plevna has actually fallen 'not-
ithstanding- Osman Pacha is said tc
e C d. It. Clay Crawford, a renegadt
J H. DORTCH,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CarnesviHe, Ga.
»t>lK-i37a-tf _ i
jACKHON & TUOMAH,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
Athens, Ga.
Office South Weat Corner of College Avenue
ami Clavtou Street, also at the Court House.
All parties desiring Criminal Warrants, can get
them a*, any time by applying to the County
Solicitor at this office. ' decl'Lls“4-tf
^Tl>. HILL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Athens, Go.
Prompt attention given to all business and
the same respectfully solicited. janll-ly
Port Barrow. D. C. Barrow, Jr.
garrou ltros.,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Athens, Ga.
Otfloo over Taltn idgc, Hodgson & Co.
jant-iy _
g K. TUU.VHI1EH.
ATTORNEY *-T LAW,
Watfcinsvillr, Gn.
OfSt-e in former Ordinary’s Office.
jno2R-1876-ly
placed 1
cratic r
1
l
East.
is Kim to
renegade
In Parts there was a splendid tri
bute paid to the memory of the great
Froach statesman, Ex-President Lou
is Adolphe Thiers.
Sitting Bull seems to have hceomc
thoroughly Canadianizcd—and sitting,
down in his now home intends to
remain there. Lei him sit, that sit
ting, he may no longer ho a roving-
hull. ‘ ' , 1
=■=% ■ ' '
President Diaz has ordered fifteen
hr..idl ed regular Mexican troops to
the uioulh of the Bio Grande. This
begins to look like he was going to
disdiagre his international obligation.
A severe battle lias been fongli. at
Ablava. The loss on both sides was
great and an armistice was a greet!
upon the next day, for . the • jmrpose
of burying the dead.
The New York TFcsaul is right
square after the pr.duiory lawyers
known as Shysters who s > intest the
northern courts. It would not be
amiss to give this intestuous class in
our own midst, who. create such a
discredit to the legal, profession, the
benefit of public indignation as well
as the condemnation of our -courts.
School in days gone by. Iu the pros
ecution of his labors, he asked as a
question for the school to answer:
“ Now. children, can any of you tell
me where Jesus Christ was born ?”
Many a little knotty pale was scratch
ed so as to develope an idea on the
subject. But the historical case of
the children was sadly at fault, and
no answer came until a lifie inchin
slipped from his Witch and with a
most knowing* look said, “ In At-
lanty.” That child had at the very
least, some relatives at the city named.
In fact, Atlanta has a most capacious
maw. Your readers will remember a
certain diameter immortalised in
Mother Goose, who ate a church and
steeple, ete., and vet made certain
complaints as to the slimness of his
diet. Atlanta absorbs most graeionsly
all in her neighborhood. In laet, in
P'O. THOMPSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Special ulteution paid to criminal practice.
Kor rvforcnue ...ply to Ex-Gov. T. H. Watts
•.uJ Ilttn. l)iivi<\ Oloptoti, Montgomery, Ala.
Office ov.r Pmt-OfflcB Athene, Ga.
tVsM’.sT.-ii
JOHN W. OWEN,
ATniRNKI AT LAW,
Toeoa Citj', Ga.
Will practice in all tlic comities of the West*
i-ru Circuit, Hart mid Madison of tlic Northern
Circuit. Will give epecial nttenion to all elaima
entraated to his cure. oct20-lS75-ly.
Lam ak Cobb. Howf.lt, Cobb.
HI. COBB,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Athena, Ga
Office in Deiirw* Building,
febS-.’-lSTe-ly
Am 8. Kmur. Akmww ,1. Cose.
pnWIN A COBB,
* ATTURXKYS AT LAW, J
Athens, Gn. ,
. sue wunu j, ami ii> n "iviiin iu uc i • . , . .
OtBoo on Corner of Broad and Thoma. street., ^ d that ils deliberations will prove " '® Ra " ,C ' e, " S aS ,f l,e waR *
... „ .. , . . | Full of business.
at Mr. C. B. Lyle’s, and all Athens
will know that mortal man could de
sire no more of earth’s comfort and
pleasure. This whole country, for
years, lias had my unqualified admi
ration. I see no reason why any
farmer should go anywhere on earth
for fairer lands. Surely they are not
lo he tinpid. They are Just suffi
ciently'(^delating to JjiiLSgtount to
the eye,,' but filled whfjg&U&s and
caves, whose land teem|||S5fcflftness.
And .the backgrounds^^ dotted
with spurs or filled wiili r;iyges of
mountains, presenting a most-pleas-
mg effect I wish yourself and read
ers would read all I could write, but
I know the weakness pf the public,
and from pure consideration for that
resjiectable body, yourself and your
handsome foreman, I close. But,
one word. Did yon ever notice the
look of the latter when he receives ah
WAR NOTES.
The Convention c£Auicricf.n Bank
ers, wlAtjh assembled m Nov* York
City ofi-lust Wednesday, have quite
' an extensive programme for its «oii-
siderafion. This progi amine covers I .. . . . , - , „ ,
* J . e- 1 - spirit participated in by all her cm
the opinion of the average Athntise, | artice for publication ? When I, with
the boy was right—as Bethlehem, t trembling hands present one, and
and indeed, the whole of Judea. I do "’t #*-»irly claim to have written it
would be very readily swallowed; I “JjjM* 1 1
ami yet, like tbe II«>r<e Lecehcr’s j Very truly. Shew.
daughter, site would still erv, “give, *
Only the strong arm of the
over Chillis, Nicke»»ou A G>.
feb2S-187S-!y
give.
Legislature lias prevented the absorp
tion of the whole Slate. The acts of
incorporation of the different cities
and towns have been bones in her
throat for some years. I have no
doubt that but for this, the Capital
question would be summarily settled
by swallowing Milledgeville, State
House, Asylum, and filtT Yon oau
imagine what a bitter bolus this would
be, bnt there is nothing Atlanta wil*
| not do for Atlanta. It is this very
qiut<*n number of important issues |
pertaining to the financial interest of
ih£ country, and it is greatly to be
zeiis that keeps her in prosperity. If
an Atlanta man has nothing to do, he
^ M. COCIIRAN,
’.S.XTORXTBT LAW,
Gaiuesvllli', Ga. ,
lio.il E.-uaic an.l General Land Ageut forlhe |
pnrchusc and s.ilc of Mineral and Faratfiijr
Lands in Ilall, and the other counties of Nortli-
ji.it Georgia. Mineral ores tested and titles to
prope.lv investigated. Special attention given
:ot!io purchase and »• lo of citv property.
ni»y2—t!m J N. DOKSKr. Attornev. __
yWHUIlYO. McOUHHY,
Attomoy a-fc I^aw,
Haf.twei.l, Grokuls,
W ill practice in the Snissrior Courts of North
east Geotgiu and Supreme Court ul Atlanta.
Aug 9. 137ti ti
ll valuable means of enlightening the
* nnblie mind on these que tions which
so deeply concern the public pros
peril y.
The Atlanta f.’cinstitution of the
13:11 inst. publish vs nil interesting
account ol the arrest of Enright,
James K. Lyle,
Watkinsvillc.
Alex. 8. Erwin,
Athen«.
| YLK A KltWIN,
ATTORNEY'S AT LAW.
Will practlco In partnership in the Superior
Court of Ooonce County, ana attend promptly
to all huslness intrusted to their care.
jonO-Sni.
A. J
swszsrsss
WINN,
—WITH-
mm, stubbs & co.,
fottoa ractora awl Ueaeral CoouaUaloa Herrkaata,
Savannah, Ga.
Biunting, Ties, Rope and other anpplics fur-
oiahed. Also, liberal cash advances made on
-loaaiffnrocnta for sale or shipment to Liver|ioo!
or NortLern porta. may 30-137o-U
^T"a. tUB,
W«.-fcoixTn.niK er Sc CTowolor,
At Miohaei’store, nest door to Reaves & Nicb-
olaon’s, Broad stroet, Athens, Georgia. *"
work warranted IS months.
*■• stta j.;:
All
fiCHAEPEB,
OOTTOSr BtmiH,
Toeoa City, Ga. , .
Highest cosh price paid fur cotton. Agra
far .wlnahip'a Glue ana Pres*. oc2i*-t»7o-tf
«pt8-1878-tf
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Curnusvillc, Ga.
Wanted-
chtiim-d to he an importnut witm ss
in the Rnzier murder case, tried hi
Sparta some time since, and resulting
in the conviction of Griggs, ihe town
iiini-shal of Sparta, and Lovett, a
soloon keeper there on the charge of
mt’.rder. If Enright’s reported story
be a true one the verdict of the petit
jury and the judgment of the 8uperi-
or ar.d Supreme Courts should of
course be overthrown and the con
victed men acquitted and set free at
once. But Enright seems to be a
strange fellow. Alter being arrested
somewhere in the northwest by
detective E. C. Murphy of Atlaiita,
and returning without resistance to
Augusta, lie suddenly gives the offi-
cst-s the dodge in that city, and- up
to last accounts had eludud all en
deavor to discover him. And this,
too, after his reported vohintarialy
expressed willingness, some months
age to tell what he knew about the
murder whenever his testimony- was
wanted.
To detective Murphy belongs the
credit' due for the* original capture of
Enright, and if ho is recaptured and his
story turns cut to be a true one, to
Opt Murphy v ill be due tlic cicdit
of having saved from an ignominious
^ death two innocent men. We hope
i and believe Enright will be recap-
J lured, and the truth or falsity of his
j story fully established. If the o- n-
! denied men are guilty, let them die
,, .n v . the death iiiMxiscd bv law:if they
BMPL»)YlIBNT«Stth«r a# a f*uuer, tuju- ! - ; ’
nsor, nr Cirpentcr. Goad refereneesjiven, and are mini* -nl let nothing be left mi-
vm-Na r*viounWo. Ad lra-s, J. JI. c ire y,"
Athens Georgian. Athcar. Ga my«3- tf
1 know of only one
thing that will stop him, and that is
a train at the Whitehall crossing. If
you see any one :i| jia ently loqfing,
he must lie a visitor or a new comer
who has not yet learned the ways of
the place. A visitor from the rural
districts must be struck by this un
easy motion, which, like tin* waves
of ihe sea, is never quiet. Nmv, the
topic—all-absorbing in its nature—is
the removal of the Capital. It would
net do to discuss it in a letter, hut I
am for Atlanta forever. A stranger
would judge the State by the Capital,
ami surely Georgia would be better
illustrated by the thrift, energy and
earnestness of Atlanta, than by any
sleepy hollow in the State.
A trip on the State Road would
do your heart good, and body too,
by-the-way, altera few hours’ travel
on tin* Georgia Road. The company
who leased the road ceitaiuly keep it
in most creditable order. Some
other roads of the State might be
based to great advantage..
T-is little city (Dalton) is charm
ing. No tied in a beautiful valley,
between John’s mountain oil the
we>L and Gohutta on the east, it ia
almost a plaint*. - It canuot at alf be
fairly estimated from the depot. But
abovo the slight, rise from the rail
road, it is uearly level, and John’s
mountain forms a most beautiful
background'to 'a picture attractive m
eveiry feature:. Very great improve
ments have taken place within the
pasjj, year, aud every sign betokens
increasing prosperity. It now has
about three tliousand inhabitants.
The Grand Lodge of Good Tem
plars is now in session at this p!.*u?e.
The Lodges are uol very fully repre
sented, but the meeting promises to
be one of interest If ail the dele-
Salt Lake, Utah, September 6.—
Nine of the twelve apostles who con
trol the destinies of the Church of
Latter Day Saints, and who, unlike
their predecessors of old, have a very
keen eye for temporal as well as spir
itual matters, have been engaged
during the past two or three days in
lookin'; over the deceased President's
accounts. The great seer and
prophet seemed to have had much
difficulty in making any distinction
between the personal and official
character of Brigham Young, and
now that the important trusts he held
have lapsed by death the apostles
want to know what property is left
to the church. , ‘
Tliis particular weakness of Brigh
am in his lifetime is likely to be fol
■ lowed, now that he is dead, by some
very interesting developments. The
estate of the Prophet will be sworn
nnder two nrllion dollars, and it is
currently reported that extensive liti
gations are likely to grow out of its
settlemerft; The duties of the head
of the church, as interrupted by him-
j self, were varied and striking, and
i among other things involved the
holding of titles to real estate as such
head, while, by sonic arrangement or
understand ng growing out of the
Church government or discipline the
real ownership remaind. elsewhere.
Now, unfortunately, the law does not
know snch a person as the head of
the Clilircli, and considers the owner-
to .follow the title. Therein, as
in many other prospects. Mormonism
has a way to its own. Nevertheless
it is probable Brigham’s heirs will
have recourse to the law iu the mat
ter, and lay Claim to all the property
the title of which was in their father,
whether as citizens or seor.
This is likely to lead to endless
Bljah Reads Slmkspearc.
A copy of Shakspcare had been
picked up on the street by one of the
officers, and left at the statiou for i’a
owner. After sweeping out, arrang
ing the chairs and giving each prison
er a drink of water, Bijah $it down
and opened the volume. He read a
few lines here and there for about
five minutes, and then closed, the
bookoHMl muttered:
I 4 Well, that Shakspeare wasted a
heap of time on this hook. There
isn’t a single ariveutuie ’with the
Indiana—nothing aliout a. man Wing
carried over Niagara Falls—no ghost
stories, aud nothing about the last
war. I’<1 give just four cents a pound
for this hook.”
He put it away with a disappoint
ted look, and when the boys came in
and one of them started to look ; s „j ts j,y p art } es thinking themselves
through it the o d man called out: * . , . , ? ,
‘ Let that right alone! It’s allj a ^ r,eved ’ and b - v t,R * t,me the col,l ta
about a feller named Romeo some- j through with them it is probable
body or other, and there isn’t a pie- j the estate will be
tur.* iu it.” j down.
“ Lemine ses* if I can’t find a picture ...
of a bear chasing a boy,” plea *ed tlie 1 Ie boliel is becoming general
vo' tli. * here that there will be no election of
“ I know you can’t. It’s all full of President of the Church at the Con-
big words and poetry. I looked it all j fej-i-nco, which meets on the 6th of
through, hoping lo find the picture i A . . . .. ,
ot a steamboat blowing up, but there’s 0oW,,er n “ xt ’ as ,m bue,t » Uc, P ated -
nothing there ’cept trash.’’
•‘Lots of big Folks buy such books,”
protested the boy.
“Well, let’em buy’em. When I
sit down to read a book I like to find
out aliout- snakes, and Siltinj; Bull,
and prize fights, and tigers eating up
folks, and husbands murdering their
wive.-, and how Jay.Geuld got licked,
and bow James Gordon Bennett is
coming home. Goan sit down and
behave * yourself.”—Detroit Free.
Press.
d-me to prove their iunoceuce.
isls.
gates have been as fortunate as your 1 had a crew of twenty-one men.
A Channel Horror. *
Two Shlpa Collide la the KafitKIi 1 haaael—Jflaely-
Ux Uvea l«l.
IiONDONj*' Septeniber 12. —A terri
ble collision occurred in the English
Channel, off Pailland, at half-past ft
o’clock last night, between the British
ship Avalanche, Captain Williams,
from Londou for New Z-'nlaml, and
the British ship Forest, Captain Lock
hart, from London for New York,
resulting in the loss of 96 lives. The
Fore?t struck the 'Avalanche between
main and mizzen mast, nearly chltjng
her in two, and sinking iher almost
immediately.- Tue. Forest, was. also
utterly wrecked, but .kept afloat an
hour or two. . ; ; : * , * :
Thrpe. boats': were launched from
her, "only one of which ‘has as yet
been' saved. This boat contained
Captain Lockhart, the chief mate and
sevon seamen of tlie Forest, and tlie
third officer aud. two seamen of the
AVidauch. Oue of the other boats
has washed ashore; also, several
bodies. It is feared that the! third
boat is lost. The 'Avalanche had
sixly-three passengers, mostly colon-
Tlie Forest was in balla-1 and
lXTKBKSriMl PROS PLKV.NA.
London, SepteinKer 12 —The
Alias’ Bucharest correspondent tele
graphs that the change of weather is
exceedingly trying. The thermome
ter has fallen thirty-five de-Tees du
ring tlie pa< five day«, with a sharp
frost, at night.
Th3 Netos’ Vienna correspondent
says: ‘* It is aniionn- ed from Galatz
that from August 24th to Septcinlier
7th, forty* thousand men and sixty-
thousand horses, to ruuforce the
Russian armies, passed Burboscoi
bridge. Of the fifteen batteries in
cluded in the above reinforcements,
one-half arc alreadv at P'cvnn.”
The JBteutsche Zeitung, of Beilin,
states that Prince Goilschakoft* has,
by anticipation, declined all media*
tio'i.
The Times’ Belgrade dispat c!i say.-*
fiftv thousand Russians are about en
tering Turkey through Servi.i.
There is no news from Plevna,
although at Vienna the wildest re
ports are current of its capture and
of the prodigons slaughter of the
Turks One of these represents and
even says that Osman Pasha is si
prisoner.
The Times' 1 Vienna correspondent,
telegraphing Tuesday, says: 4 *Tin-
reports about the fall of Plevna,
which aretraced'oRoinnaiiian source \
have not been cmifirnvd -f.om any
-ide. It is variously sprinise I that
the Russians, having nppron lied
within striking distance, are waiting
for movements of their turning col
umns, which are supposed to have'
been sent to the think and. rear ot
Plevna, or that the Turks may have
fortified Plevna so strongly that it i-
only to lie' taken by gradual ap
proaches The whole p!an of attack
may thus have to be changed ”
-It is stated from Bucharest that
the- Russians diare-Hnnoved the
bridge at Pirgos and taken it to
Petroscan, higher up the river.
The Times' Vienna specials say the
departure of Meheniet All fr.cu tlic
centre of his army for the left wing
looks as though an advance from
Lorn is again to be made from,that
side. A dispatch from Vienna to
another paper confirms the above,
and says that Meheniet Ali has gone
to Gorrazoudlar, and that an action
is impending to the west of Eski
d’Juma.
Tlie following Russian bulletins
largely pared j cffectua'ly dispose of the wild stories.
aliout the capture of Plevna, afloat in
Vienna and Bucharest since Saturday:
“ Russian He dquawt.oi h, Pore-
din, September 10, 10:40 a. in —Our
batteries cannonaded Plevna all Sun
day.' The Turks made a consider
able. sortie against our left, wing
but were repulsed, losing heavily.
The Roumanians made a hold recon-
noisancc of the enemy’s redoubts,
which opened a heavy fire, but were
silenced by a concentrated fire from
our batteries. The i osition of one ot'
our siege ha* terms was changed on
-Sunday evening to enable it to can
nonade the fortified Turkish encamps
ment. Heavy canvonading contin
ued through the night, and has
increased in extent and activity from
five o’clock this morning. All ie
quiet at other points of the theatre
of J war. At the capture of Loral*
we took two Turkish siandnrda^and a
quantity of arms and '’ammunition,.
WeJwrird two thousand, TiirkisJ
dead, and h large number were sabred
by our cavalry during the pursuit
Our loss was one lit msaud.
“ Russian Head^uartkus, Por*-
din, Septemlier 11th. fi:20.—O- t
siege batteries cannonaded Plevnt'i
With all of their profound respect
tor and subserviency to Brigham
Young, it is evident ihe Church au
thorities have lind enough of the
despotism which he exercised, and
have no disposition to place it iu the
liandsof another. While it is diffi
cult to undersUUffethe theory of the
Church goveriilheut, which Brigham
was in the* habit of interpreting for
himself and for liis own purposes, it
is certain thajt the twelve have power
to exercise supreme control; and,
with all their love for the methods of
ancient; - times, .there'remains among
them sufficient of tlio leaven of self-
government to prevent entire submis
sion to another nutoorat.
As the Church has, during all its .. .
the .coneeiftration ef power hi the
hands of one man, there are these
-who see in this proposed diffusion of
it, dii'isions likely to 'te-ult hi the
downfall of this great 7 modern tlieoc-
racy, wlnfch constitutes so-foul a'blot
opoo the country.' -
—TnE marked decline of 108.000,
000* pounds tn. the importation ot East
Indian cotton. into Great Britain dur
ing the years of 1875 and. 1876 res
pectively, shows clearly t hat all hope of
successful rivalry with the South must
be abandoned. Since 1806 Hindus
tan has ceased to lie a dangerous
' competitor.
al Skolieloff, csiptnrej another of the
neighboring-heights, which will ena
ble iis' to bombard the enemy’s
iicsirioiiK and ilia town of Plevna
itself., The enemy opposed General
8kobeh»ft very teeldy. Our cavalry
on the Sopliia rdnd has
detaeh/neut of Circiuwiiine .from
Plevna. 0qr losses to the present.
tiihc are itiHigiiificant.’’ *’ ***'
Constantinople, September 12.—
It is'reported again, this time from
8hiunl.% 'that Suleiman P.isha hn v
m-uswd the Biikatis.
It is estimated that the beer licit
punch system to be adopted among
the Virginia b:i> keepers wi'l bring in
a revenue t«• jhe t'oa uryof three-
quarters <>t atiiill’o*! dnllais* Aright
' good punch this.