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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.