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1 THE ATHENS GEORGIAN: OCTOBER 9, 1877. GirantVTongue Let Loose. > Rat c Tallin? on a Srotrh Railway at Ih? Rale or Sixty Mile* an Hoar. [From the Herald.] I must tell you nri incident about Mr. Stunner. The first time lever raw George William Cuitis he called upon roe to request on behalf aof num> ber of influential Republicans the reinstati-ment of Air. Sumner as Chair man of the Comqji^tee op . Foreign Affairs. I told him that, if 1 should guio the Senate and dictate the or ganization of the committees, I would be apt to hear something aoout the fellow who made a fortune by mind ing his own business I said I cer- not easily be abolished, and the more the thorists quarrel among themselves the further practical civil service re form seems to recede.’’ *“ Wbat dp you think of the dissolu tion of Republican State organizations in the South ?’’ “ That is one of the usual violent effects of wise government after & scene of turmoil like we had last fall. For myself, I do not care for party. Yon cau always depend upPn the good sense of the pepple of the United States. They believe fn-the Repubfie. Their flag is ts the fore, with strong arms behind it 'always, and they are sentimental, loyal, and brave. They . will never elect a high official except tainly should suggest the idea to any I upon a common sense basis. For that jwrt of the legislative branch that | reason I believe - the Republican and should undertake to construct tnv ; Democratic parties' of late being so Cabinet. I gave him distinctly to j evenly divided'—that the people will understand, that I did not propose to j be compelled to vote in large majority interfere in the matter nt all, even by j f„ r the Republican candidate, no mat- of cutting oft’ the supply at once in advice to personal friends among the ter who he may be, because the Dem- tho treatment of both opium eatin Obscure Men Happiest in Wedlock. firm in liis reformation, and an up right, good citizen. Dr. C.W. Eark, of Chicago, read a paper in which he opposed the idea that alcoholism is a disease. To so term it, was to de stroy the whole responsibility of the individual.' Dr. Wilson - advocated that il'was''better to treat the opium habit bv a gradual reduction of tliej P rou< k But give her love, appro- dose. He bad tried bclladona, but! cia t* 0l1 i kindness, and tiiere is no sac No woman* will love a man the better for being renowned or promi nent.; Though he be the first among men, she . will be prouder, not fonder; as is often the case, she will not even was not satisfied with it. “ In too many cases the s -called substitutes or remedies consisted in opium in another-form.-The immediate -with drawal of the drag usually caused diarrlroea, insomnia and restlessness, sometimes going so far as to endanger the life of the patient.” The doctor found that more of those who were treated gradually, recovered, than of those subjected, tefthe heroic treat ment contended for by Dr. Earle and Dr. Brothers, who favored the plan Senators, and that I thought Mr. , ocrats will do some silly thing that Sumner h id not done his duty as [ wili drive the thinking people from Chairman of the committee, because j their ranks at the last moment. The he had hampered t..c businees of the State Department by pigeonholing treaties for months. Mr. Curtis said that was impossible, for- Mr. Sumner bad only a short time before told him that his successor would find a clean docket , and made special Claims for the modern Democracy always doe3 it. It has made me smile frequently as I have thought of it; but there is some fatality at work in the premises. New Converts. I believe,” said the President at execution of the work of the commit- j Atlanta, “ it is the duty of the Gener- tec. Knowing, as I did, the adroit a j Government to regard equally all arguments used among Mr. Sumner’s the interests and rights cf all sections friends, 1 determined to test the mnt- «f the country.” This sounds very ter of a clean docket. 1 told Mr.'j familiar to Democratic ears. It is Curtis that I had proposed to prove to ! precisely the doctrine which Demo him that his friend, i\ir. Sumner had cratic President and statesmen have not told him the facts, and that he made these statements knowing them to be falsehoods. Mr: Curtis was amazed at m\ offer, but I assured him that iie had been frequently caught in simijar misrepresentations. I told Mr. Curiis that there were tibia or eleven treaties before the Senate from the State Department that hud been there several months, and had been in Mr. been constantly inculcating through out our entire past history. But the Republican organization was based upon sectionalism, the very opposite of the policy which the President,is now commending wherever he goes. The occasion and his utterances are a public confession that the Democratic policy hitherto was right and patriotic, and a strong condemnation of the Sumner's hands, but had never been principle* aml nttion of the President’s laid before the committee. I }vroie j.uwn party ever since its Girth. It is a from the spot, Lnrg Branch, to the j dear admission.* that had Democratic and alcoholism. Three New York Suicides. State Department, ;tncl to my own sunwise three proved Hylic inoi^; trea ties Than I had said there had wen in' Mr- Sumner’s own hands for a longer time than I expected. That was the “clean docket.” When 1 told Mr. Curtis about it and gave him the re cord, he was rather disappoint ed. He d it was remarkax I told him counsels ptavailed the civil war would have ^een avoided, nnd/all‘its dire consequences averted. Had the na tion in good fait acted up to the sen timents which the President is now re-uscitating the war whould have been impossible, the country neither Niirth nor South would have been desolated and impoverished, the itn- was to show him that Mr. Sumner was not a truthful man, as others found, out before me, and ns I iny object in having tl;**’record searched j ntense national debt and its entail- meat of unprecedented burdens had i u i‘ oil public industry would l, a j not have been heard of, a sound discovered on frequent occasions. The and stable currency would have been woik of that committee when Mr. ! preserved, and the people would have Cameron took charge was in a most ’ remained where General Jackson said deplorable state, due entirely to Mr. The New York World, of Tuesday, gives the particulars of three suicides in that city. At ten o’clock Monday morning a grave digger of Union Cemetary, in the sububs of the Edstern District of Brooklyn, found the body of a man hanging from a tree tty a short piece of rope. Life was quite extinct. Il proved to be the body of Sebastian Trinkhaus, seventy-three years of age, who resided with hisjun-in-law, Philip Haus, at 431 Bush wick avenue, Re port says that the old man was ill- treated and over worked by his son-in- Iafr, who is u tinsmith. The son-in- law snvs thaf Trinkhaus had long con- templated suicide, and had often told his grandchildren that he was soon going away forever; A few weeks ago a daughter of Trinkhaus found a piece of rope in his bedroom and hid it. Trinkhaus, who had been drinking for a few days past, rccbvmd the pitot of roj e yesterday mornhig, and it is sup posed wandered away to find the grave of his wife, who .was buried nineteen! yenr^ajgo incite Cemetery, He lost his way, and, 'mistaking the Union Cemetery for the Lutheran, hanged himself in a spot which closely resembles the otic- where his wife was buried. Henry Geyer, aged sixty, a cook, drowned himself yesterday in the East liefer, at the foot .of Sixth : t»eet. rificc she w ill not make for his content and comfort. The man who loves ber well is her hero and lief king. No less a hero to her, though he is not to any other; no less a king though his only kingdom is her heart aud home. It is a man’s own fault if he is unhap py with his wife, in nine cases out of ten. It is a very exceptional woman who will not be all -she can lo an at tentive husband, a.nl a very, excep tional one who-will not be very disa greeable if she finds herself wilfully neglected. It. would be easy to bate a man who, having bound a woman to him, made no effort to make her happy ; hard not to love one who is constant and tender, and when a wo man loves she always strives to please. Ti e great men of this world have al ways been wretched in their domes tic relations, while mean and common men have been exceedingly happy. The reason is very plain. Absorbed in themselves, those who desire the world’s applause were careless to the little world at home, while those who had none of this egotism strove to keep the hearts that were their own, and were happy in their tender ness. it is to cross their thresholds! VVliat harbors of refuge they are to weary wanderers! What sweet reminis cences they bring to the lonely and homeless! —— 0 . m A Tragic Test. A singular bstructivcr ruunurs persist an 1 dilaturincss. i had nothing to do with bis <’is- uiis.-ul from the chairmanship of the Foreign Filiations Commit tee, but I was glad when 1 heard that ne was put off’, because lie stood in the way of even routine business, like ordinary treaties with small countries. I may be blamed for my opposition m Mr. Pumner’s tactics, but I was not guided to much by reason of bis personal hatrtd of myself as I was by a desire to protect our national interests in diplomatic affairs. It was a sai tight to find a Senate with the large majori ty of its members in sympathy with the Administration, and with its chairman of'he Foreign Committee in direct opposition to the foreign policy of the Administration, in theory and detail. So I was glad when I heard of his successor’s nomination as chair man of the committee. “ General, they are ruuning civil service reform very strong just now?” “So I see; but it will not work, because the theorists have disagreed among themselves as to its practical application. I do not attach much importance to that matter I do not believe it will succeed, though 1 wish it could, in some practical way. Take Schurz, for instance. lie is making a business of civil service reform. Bat he is a humbug, and Mr. Hayes will find him out before long. It is a good thing, but it is bard to apply in our country. It is all very well to say' that the business office seeking shall te abolished, but the office seeker can* he left the country—peaceable, pros perous and happy. So, then, the Southern speeches of the President are more than a public confession. They are an implied arraignment of those who elevated him to office for having produced all the mischief the country- has experienced since the Democratic parly went out of power. It adds something, also, to the force of all this that the President, as he saVs, has taken the course he lias from compulsion by a sense of duty under his oath of office. This is high moral ground, and is eminently proper for the authoritative exponent of “a party of high moral ideas.”—Boston. Discussing a Cure for Inebriety Tiic American Association for the Cure of Inebriates has just held a session in Chicago. At the outset, they discussed the question whether drunkenness is a disease. Dr. C. T. Widney, Superintendent of the St. Louis Sanitarium, told an incident to show that it was difficult - often im possible—for a man to give up the habit of drinking, to stop without the assistance of medical treatment The case was that of a man who tried so earnestly through years to quit drink by bis own volition, that lie beggared himself, cansed separation from his family, and, in his abject wretchedness, came to a pass where lie had but one desire and one care— for drink. At this stage the case was treated as one of disease, and in a short time the man was cured. Two years have passed aud he is still Geyer had suffered from consumption for some time, and was greatly worried about the failure of the Continental Life Insurance Company, which swept away the premiums on a policy of one tho'usnud dollars. Monday morning he left his home about 8 o'clock. Shortly afterwards his wife missed him and, suspecting his intention, dressed herself and went to look for him. Mean .vhile Geyer had gone to the foot of Sixth strpet and thrown himself into the water. He was so emanciatcd that his clothes floated him, and, while a number of persone were en deavoring n save him, he deliberately put his head under the water and held it there unfit he. became tioconscious. When taken ashore lie was alive, but died before an attempt was made to revive him. Some time Sunday night Charles Martin, aged forty-fivei a native of Germany, and a gutta percha toy manufacturer by occupation, commit ted suicide inn bedroom on the fourth floor of No. 15H Forsyth street by shooting himself through the head. Martin was a bachelor and did a good business. He was not very so ciable, but appeared to be prosperous and contented and at the time of his death had large orders for goods to fill. murder casq awaiting trial in India has given rise to much legal discussion as to whether the cir cumstances justified the charge. A juggler, who alleged that he possessed some power which rendered him “bullet-proof,” invited the prisoner in tlie case to aim at him with a loaded musket, assuring him that lie might do so without the slightest fear of producing any painful results. The prisoner accepted the kind invi tation, and, with a loaded musket, presented to him by the juggler, im mediately sent a bullet through ids bead. It is urged that, as there was no intention on the part of the pris oner to kill the deceased, the charge of mnrdtr can not be maintained. The juggler was thoroughly confident of his own invulnerability, and several of his relations who were to bn called as witnesses for the defense, were prepared to prove that although sev eral times shot at before, be was never hurt. A similar case occurred A Tribute to a Consistent YFrieff d off tile Sout [3. Tekyl Wallis, in Baltimore Bulletin ] The late Mr. Hiram Cranston, whose sudden death has been so gen erally noticed and lamented, was, in many regards, a very remarkable man,. Ilis personal moral courage, which were of tlie highest- order, were tempered by great tact and modera tion ami were associated with a most affectionate disposition and a kind and delicate courtesy. His intellect was vigorous and his convictions were decided and unflinching, as might have been expected from the whole bent of bis nature, which was con spicuously independent arid manly. With these characteristics he natu rally exercised great influence over other men, and he was so quick in his sympathies, so true in his friend ships, so prompt to help the needy, and so firm to stand by those in trouble, that what otherwise might have been influence only, was height ened and strengthened constantly by devoted personal attachment. And this was not only or even chiefly the case in regard to the ordinary inen about him. His closest relations, on the contrary, were for the most part with the best of those lie knew, and few merely private gentlemen had a larger intimate acquaintance w’th men of ability, influence and culture, throughout the land. For years before the war, bis house was the favorite resort of leading Southern men. Indeed, there wtis no place in New York where anything like so lar. c and favorable a representation could be seen of the most refined and cultivated Southern society. When the war broke out Mr. Cranston’s sympathy with the South was strong, unqualified and undisguised, and there was certainly no man north of Mason arid Dixon’s line .who con- tribt t*d one-half so largely, out of h‘s private fortune,’to the needs of Southern men and women in exile, imprisonment and poverty. It is safe to say that his door was never for a moment closed, to any of them in their distress. Down to 18G7, "when Mr. Cranston retired from the hotel with ample me'ancs, he never ceased to succor those of Ins Southern friends who needed and dseerved it. It was gratifying to see with what m England a few Years ago. A wizard at one of the theaters begged one of th ■ audience, as a favor, to fire a gun at him. The spectator, thus invited, loaded the gun with a UU'g Eighty thousand pounds is the esti mated value of diamonds bn one suit of clothing worn by the Duke of Buckingham. The damage by the strike is esti mated by competent experts at $100,- 000,000; including loss of business to the Railroads. There are fifty-two manufactories in Chattanooga run by steam, thirteen of which have been erected within the past year. The total number of deaths in New Orleans for the week ending 9th inst. was 105, of which 16 were from malarial fever. charge of shot,he had brought with him for the express purpose of test ing crucially the alleged invulnera bility of the wizard. The result was namful in the extreme—tlie wizard’s face'was peppered w ith shot, and the spectator who fired the gun was given into the custody of the police. Both narrowly escaped death—one by the gun, and the other by the gallows. Company, Wbat a ceremonious affa r we make of entertaining company! Too many of us lose all sense of being nt home the moment a stranger crosses our threshold, and he instantly feels him self to be a mere visitor—nothing more—and acts accordingly The man who know's how to “ drop in” of an evening, draw up his chair to your hearth as if it were his own, and fall into the usual evening routine o f the household as if he were a member of it—bow welcome he always is! The man who comes to stay under your roof for a season, and who, without being intrusive or familiar, makes yon feel that he is “ at home’’ with you, and is content in his usual fashion of occupation—how delightful a guest he is! And the bouses—ah, how few of them—into which one can go for a day or a week and feel sure that the family routine is in no wise altered, the family comfort in no wise lessened, but, cn the contrary, in creased by one’s presence—what joy Ahead of All COMPETITION G. 0. ROBINSON H as just returned from a visit among the Principal PIANO an,l ORGAN factories* in 1 New York, Boston and other citics- tiaving arranged for the Largest mid most com plcte assortment ever offered South, at prices ’ ABSOLUTELY BEYOND COMPETITION L Rices Q Musical instruments OF EVERY’ VARIETY’. Sheet Music and Music Booh THE LATEST PUBLICATIONS. Musical Merchandise, And everything pertaining to a First Class Music House. TUNING AND REPAIRING, PIANOS, Church, Pipe and Reed Organa, and all kinds of Musical Instruments Tuned and Repaired bv Mr. C. II. Taylor, the best skilled and one of the most thorough workmen South. Mr. Tavlor devoted nearly fifteen years in the construction of instruments in some of the best factories in this country, and is the onlv authorized‘J line r for the AUGUSTA MUSIC'HOUSE. G. O. ROBINSON & CO., 265 Broad Street, Augusta, Cn. IMi-AJRZBTjIEI A. SI. ROBSEITSOW, Dealers Monuments 4 ND TOMB STONES, CRADLE TOOMBS A. Marble and Granite Pox Toombs. ft Great Reduction in Prices, Specimens of Work always on hand and for Prices and designs furnished on npp!i> i.timi the Marble Yard, adjoining Reave.* & N" Olson’s cotton warehouse, Athens, Ga. junc-20-tf. Moil I cal Col legs of 0 e g rg i n Tnr. M>DTAr. DurvETiraxT of th Oir Geo'ioia. The Forty-sixth Ses.-ion of t! will commence at Augusta on the FIRST>! prompt ami grateful recognition they ior; ,w "athero l m ound him in 1876, when his broken fortunes compelled him to resume las labors.’ If, would really be a misfortune if the hotel, so long the favorite ro»mt of the people of that section an l so closely connected with his memory, were to lose its old associations and prestige. We are satisfied that these will not be lo«t so long ns the new proprietor, bis favor ite nephew and business associate, continuing to o-clmw the gilded os tentation fur‘.which Southern people care so little, shall continue to give them in its place the home-like luxu ry, the quite, admirable service, tlie the cordial sympathy and. general refinement so characteristic of the days of Hiram Cranston. very polite young man, wishing to ask a young lady if he might speak to her for a moment or so, asked if he would be allowed to roll the wheel of conversation round the axletree of her understanding. The result was a row. Tlie Chicago Times thinks that General Howard “seems to have scooped the Indians almost as badly as be did the freedmen.’’ Not so— they are stealing away from him A case of undoubted yellow-fever was reported in New York City on the 4th. The patient died, were taken to prevent its spread. —What’ color is a small boy’s apt to turn when he goes to the dentist’s? A loud yeller. Governor Hampton promises to be at tbe State Fair in Atlanta. Beautiful new style calicoes just received atHIood & Stephens. For Catalogues or Academic apply to \\’n. Ukjjjsy Wakdell, F acuity’, Athens C. YV. LONG. ng & Sc* ATHENS' GEOiv( We offer a Ir.r’e ami well: Drugs, Medicines. Paints, Varnishes, Oils, Anilines, Dyes, Patent Medicines, Ilair and Tooth Brushes, Perfumery, Lily white, Rouges. Colognes, Extracts, etc., For Sals "'tf’ery Ch-oap, FOR CASH, Either al Wholesale or Retail, YVe call your ntttcntiou COLOGNES, BAY RUM, HAIR OIL, ETC sepll-ly H. ©. DCCTG&ASS, 2k.-blan.-ba., Ga. Bargains in Dress Goods. S-feoclss X.^Eurrfe bo Sod-vaoed- As I shall be compelled to vacate my pre cr store on the 15th of July, to allow tlie owner to build a new one, I shall commence on Mon day to reduce my entire stock, and will one goods at great reduction. Everything will t> marked down and will be sold cheap, as tr stock must be reduced by the 15th of July, th time I shall move to new store. No use J qwote prices, as everything will be sold mud under the market price*. K. O. DOUGLASS Fuels FOR SALE. O NE GOOD PHAETON, WITH POLE AN. Shafts complete, in perfect order. Also onj gemd Boggy, new •gpWfoggg it ofrorit. ©8-tf No. 7 Broad street