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ATTORNEY AT UW,
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JACKHON «k TIIOMA8,
ATTORNEYS XT LAW, 1 1
Athene, 6a.
OflBoe South Weit Corner of College Avenue
t-nd Clavtou Street, also at the Court House.
All partita AalHug Criminal 'Warrant*, can get
them at any time by applying to the County
Solicitor at this office. dcolC-1874-tf
Q ». IIlIiL,
ATTORNEY
AT LAW,
Athens, Ga.
Prompt atteution given to all business and
! he samo respectfully solicited. janll-ly
i'ora Damon. D. C. Harrow, Jk.
JJnrrow Itros.,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
.•(];,!! 4**»9fS,Oa.
Office over 'Tclmadge, Hodgson & Co.
f jant-1 y '
JJ 12. TII11.VHHER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
WatMnpville, Ga..
Office in former Ordinary’s Office.
jan«L1676-ly '
pG. THOMPSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
8po<Asl attention paid to criminal practice.
For reference apply to Ex-Gov. T. H. Watts'
and Hon. David Olopton, Montgomery, Ala.
Office over Poit-OOlee Athena, Ga. 1
feb8-1875-tf' , - - . .
JOHN W. OWEN,
ATTORN F.T AT LAW,
Tocos ; Ga. |
Will practice in all tha conntioa of the Weat*
ern Circuit, Hart and Madison of theNorthern
Circuit. Will give apodal atttnf
antruated to hia care.
“ So ypu wiht; to know, Mena,
JioW such a rattle-brninod creature as
I came to gel a Intsba'hd so dignified,
■n* eve-ytlpng, in short, near perfec
tion, and so differetii frorti myself?
Not much ot a story ;' so yon needn’t
put on that self-satisfied look, and
settle yourself back so cozily in your
great arm chair. I always feel like
sticking needles into people’s backs
when I see the particular look on
their faces that yours wears this very
minute. Do stop J* - m
And before I could move tip flew
the little, witch, and shook me till my
teeth chattered.
“There, Wilhelmina Martin,’’ as
she gave me i final settlement. “I’ve
shaken that ont of ypit; and now
yon’Took comfortable, I feel so!’’
And with -face* flushed, and ctirls
flying, down sat Mrs. Frederick
Bond, to give me an account of her
courtship and marriage.
!*• You know, Mena, how I was
dragged about from, pillar to post
every summer, making a living dust.,
heap of myself, converting my throat
and lungs into a raceptible for all
stray, icivders and smoke of cars, and
ai the journey’s end: stowed away iij,
some narrow hole called a room; and
then the tortnre of dressing, and com
pany, and flirting, and -eating. O, it
was dreadful! To he sure the hath
ing was nice. I enjoyed Newport
for that—the only thing in all onr
Bummer’s touring.thatJ really and
reaction took place and .action and
reaction being equal ift opposite d|»
rections—-as pur qatural philosophy
use^'to teach uri-J laughed'in his WrirtI threw down the oars for an- who was counted a l
face at a remark he made concerning other laugh. One fell over the side I never kept his lioys.
tho state of the theiboafet
Athens, Ga
Office in Deqpree Building,
febSS-1876-ly
bju}, ][>§rche^^ disconsonately under
the tree, the ludicronsness of the
wiiole affair struck me so forcibly
A Lesson for Boys.
A boy. went and j
astonished look as at fir>tsprea(j over
his countenance! ending \vith an
amused look deep clown in his eye,
and a slight quiver under tho dark'
mustache. I thought there was fun
in him. I wasn’t mistaken, either;
hut for weeks I labored io get oft'
the frigidity, and dig down to where
the warmth and love of frolic lay.
In vaiuwere my at tempts. Dignity
forever seemed his motto; and
wearied out. I fell, to hoping some
thing would happen to him, to star*
tie him out of that everlasting state
of propriety. J;
I was in despair. ii I wii|||ra : nt*
tlesnake twotdd chase hirii.tbat-he’d
slip down mtheawfialmud they, have
in those region-', and get covered’up
with- : the yellow misfeurfl; that’he
Would burn his month with hot coffee
and drop thq cup—making a splurge
Andrew J. Cobb.
Alex S. Edwin.
•gRWIN A COBB,
ATTOBSKYS AT LAW.
Athens, Ga •••’
Office on Corner of Bread and Thomas streets,
over Childs, Nicfeemm & Co.
feb88-1876-ly
COCHRAN,
ATTOBSTST JAT X*LV,
Gainesville, Ga.
a Real Estate and General Laud Agent for the
purchase and sale of Mineral ana Fanning
Lands in Hall, and the other oountiesof North
east Georgia. Mineral ores tested and titles to
property investigated. Special attention given
to the purchase and sale of city property,
majj— 6m J- N. DORSEY. Attorney.
^SBUItYG. MoCURRY,
Attorney set Law,
Hartwell, Georgia,
Will pnetioe in the Superior Courts of North
east Geoigia and Supreme Court at Atlanta.
Aug 8. 1876 tf
James R. T.vi
Alev. S. Erwin,
Athens.
WatkineviT^’
J^YLE & ERWIN,
A TTORNE JiT LA W.
Will practice in partnership in th'e Snperlor
Coart or Ooonee County, and attend promptly
to all business intrusted to their care.
jan9-8m.T f . . it* i *>,i
BTJSXN3BSS CAJUDS-
j^A.WINN, 1
-WITH-
GROOVER, STUBBS & CO,
Cotton Factors and Ornsrsl Commission Merchants,
"" . Savanush, Ga. . jj-y
Bagging, Ties, Rope and otlior supplies tar
nished. Also, liberal cash advances made on
eousignments for sale or shipment to Liverpool
or Northern ports. rosy 30-1876-tf
r£i' A. Il.ER,
WttbobaaksJsar & Jowslrer,
At Miehael’atorc, next door to Reaves & Ni-.ih-
olson’s, BrosJ street, Athene, Georgia. All
work warranted 18 month*,
septia-tf.
|» SCUAKFFR,
COTTON STJTEZt,
Tocoa City, G».
Highest cash prico paid for cotton,
jor Wloship’s Gins nn
paid Tor cotton. Agent
f Press. oc20-1875-tf
RTCi’X'TLE,
ATTORNEY A T LAW,
upl8-1873-tf
Curnesvillr, Go.
— Wkated. '.
dSMPJiOYMRNT either V a Tanner, £n c 3-
iicor, or Carpe»L-r; ■ G<«-1 .p: irenecs given, and
w*iea ressou-tWe." Address;-J. li. R., cere of
Mason did try to--’make me* belle!
and didn't T astonish her one finfe
morning in Junoby telling her I was
going to Clayt on Hills instead of the
nsunl ronte. I had the plan all made,
and was engaged then to teach the
district school for five dollars per
week. No wonder yon stare; only
don’t look so much like a grasshop
per with those long arms poking out
that way. You don’t know what
Eitie Forester was about that snm-
mor, did yon ? Well, it was all my
own notion. I thought it would he
sonieetn teach ‘the young idea,’
and all that you know. But, dear
me, Mena, theory and practice are
two different things; and while the
school-house looked so romantic five-
hnndred miles di«ti nt and the chil
dren were so sweet and clmrbic, and
the spelling-book possessed attrac
tions I never discerned in my young- I
er days, the romance faded- out, and
led me in a decided matter-of-fact
mood before the door of the little
red shanty, and the rows of snubhy
children in bine checked aprons and
bare feet. However, I suppose. I
shall astonish you still more by saying
I braved it. out and taught my five
months and was made a better girl
by that contact with the world—by
those walks in the solemn woods
among the grand old pines; by—but
mercy, Mena! you needn’t think I’m
go’ng to be sentimental, for I’m net.
I had a nice hoarding-place’ with a
window and her two little girls. I
was glad there was no possibility of
my having any one to flirt with. I
was afraid I could not resist the temp
tation If I had, and I was heartily
sick of it. I imagine my consterna
tion when one morning at the break
fast (able I met Mr. Bond. He liad
come up to see his'Aunt Mary.
What under the sun he wanted to
see her for I can’t tell; for he hadn’t
honored her roof with his presence
beneath it for ►even years ; but there
he was, eating berries and cream as
coolly as it he owned the whole farm.
jin; thatway* anything, bq ttljat
could see jura unbend;Tor hadn’t:he
come in aadijoritiqised >«y school, and
found -me puzzling my brains over a;
hard isura in .fractions? Hadn’t
actually been obliged to ask bis help
in one of those hard things in the
back of the arithmetic; and hadn’t
my very best spelling-class disgraced
themselves and me by their atrocious
murdering of their native tongue?
There was a beautiful stream running
through the village, andin the centre
ie river a little island, no’
larger than a good-sized dinner-plate’,
with one graceful willow drooping
its long branches to the water. It
was a perfect little arbor, and my
favorite resort. A boat fastened to
the shore was the only means of con
veyance to the inland.
“ One night I was walking by the
river thinking of Will Hale, my old
est boy, who had been raising partic
ular Cain that day—noi a very re
fined comparison, but expresses the
idea perfectly; so, please excuse it,
dear. I could decide whether to
give him a sound thrashing, to expel
him from school, or to try more the
effect of moral suasion. '■
“Sinful nature ai d patience tried
to the utmost, leaned decidedly to
the former, w 1 ile reason, and a fellow-
feeling for the boy defended his
case ably. As 1. was sitting in judg
ment upon the ease, and alioutto
pronounce sentence, I was star* led to
see my boat; grandly sailing down
the stream, and looking up beheld
Mr.-Bond onthe island, leaning for
lorn against the willow, and gazing
anxiously after it,
“ Good,” thought I; “now yqu.
are in aWrape.”
with a man
t master. He
They ran away
and reaching ha^Oyi^r I ftQtice .jthjey meant to
it, I was tgtfcsized. I went down I T” 1 ? 80 haThis tinie without
laughing at the horrified expression or “* 8earo * 1 °* a
of Mr. Bond’y’facc. As I was going The work vasnot WJ ^ard—
down the «*cond>ime—sober ‘then J °P cnin " and sweeping qut theghop,
Mena—I felt^ivself grasped in strong < ho PP‘ n S nwnipg errands, and
arms, and drat^red on'shore. It was Mp*”g nround. At last Samuel
some minutes before I reoovered con- Fi8,,er went *? livc with *>« m -
sclonsness; but when I did, I found “Sam’s a good boy,” said his
myself clasped tiirlitly in Frederick n,other ‘
Bond’s strong arms, wliilo he was “ I should like to f ee a boy now-a-
uttering all manner. of. things, ; and da ^ 8 ^ ,at kas 3 °f goodness n
rasing beautifully I’d been crati- fowled tbe new master.
• *■ , , I It IS always bad to begin with a
i ° , » jr 101 ,n asOT! ^P 0 > and I man who lias no confidence in yon,
knew hcSjgjfood me; so I rejoiced his liecause, do your best you are likely t*-
he*rt by letting him know I-was alive, have little credit for it. However.
And just then, who should come Sam ,hoH S 1,th f wouldtry; the
..-ngb-t Wi|.Halchmiselt; iu aboa,
—out ftshine. the naughty hoy in- Sam had been i witb /ones but
stead beii^j at home learning the three days before, io sawing a cos<-
rules for next day’s arithmetifrle'ssbn. g^ned stick of wood, hebroke the
Howcve^, I tbrgave Mm.
moral suasion with fine effect; for he knew he was a pretty good sawyer,
turned out the very best boy iu the too, for a boy or his ace; neverthe-
villa"©. I finished my term, arid l6ss the 8!nv l »roke in his hands,
earn©home,and wasmsrried-greatlyl. And Mr. JmwswillthrMhyou for
. , . ,, .... . ,, it,” said another hoy who was in the
to Aunt Mason s deli R ht, for soveral WO odslicd with him.
reasons, one ot which was that Fred “ Wliy, of course, I didn't mean
was such a good«»natch—she couldn’t ,odo a "d accidents will happen to
have asked for anything )>etter-and ,h - e i best of fo,ks ” **"1 , San - 1 ’ looki "g
t ,t. -p, with a very sorrowful air at the
another, ^fespcct is, that I’m off her j )ro ]. en Raw ’'
hands, and enri’t horrify her by any Mr. Jones never makes allowances,”
more of my daily doings. said-tho other boy; “I never saw
“ And tfru’s how I cam© to marrv an y* hin ff Iikti Tliat Bill migb*
bo ^
me. and I^pVws^knd^hi-re you have ,|ared not tell'of-it; but Mr. J
kept me tellinc this j kept suspecting, and laid everything
vam, and nv4 one of these berries | bC.’ the way tp Bill, whether hr
piokoa for tri. Como and hdp me. |
Mena.**
“Did he tell Mr. Jones about the
[ergs?’.asked Sam.
he
' Debt Rsures. | the o.h,r bo y :
The debt statement for October was afraid; Mr. Jones bas got sueri a
shows that the process of reducting , , ,, . - , ,
M , ... . . ^ ... a | “ I think he’d better owned up at
vhe public debt w ljemg steadily car- once „ ^^
ried on. The reduction for the “I suspect you’ll find it better to
month ofSeptemlier was (3,882,524,1 preach than to practice,” said the
asainrt 82.915.S65 for tho Me W- „“I ,™> awny before
month of loot year. The total w IN«»WAo.l ho tamed on h.e
dcction since October. 1876, has
been 840,679,321 The debt, less
cash in. i ho Treasury, is now $1,092,-
heel and lefi poor Sam alone with
his broken saw.
The poor boy did not feel very
comfortable or happy. He shut up
*7* Tkr. rp | the wood house, walked out into the
r; ™- - , T A h ® ® mn ,n t . he treasury ^en and then went into his little
is $119,152,000, but against this there I chamber under the eaves. He wish-
are coir, certificates outstanding of ed be could tell,Mrs Jones: but she
837,997,500; so that the amount of wasn’t sociable, and he had rather
com in the Treasury actually belong- not ;. “ ° 8aiJ , S: ‘'"
: ^ J ^ on his knees, help me to do the thing
ing to the Government is $81,154,- r j,»ht
543 The legal tenders outstanding I I do not know what time it was,
at present are $356,914.932—a de- hut when Mr. Jones, came into the
crease of $11,579,808, since October l,u, « se ,&m heard Win.' He got up
• r - ' crept downstmrs.and met Mr. Jones
“ At the Rame time, seeing me, be slate,nent
exclaimed: *|pan yoa tell me liow
I can get of? this confounded place?”
Athtna Georviui), Alliens, Ga
niy22-lf
I can get off this confounded place ?’
I laughed. t I threw myself do>vu
upon the grass when I could -tand
rib longer, arid laughed (ill I bad
scarcely strength to breathe. I was
brought to my senses at last by the
gentleman joining iu, my. mirth, with:
“Really, Miss Forrester, this is
vastly amusing, I know. I can sym
pathize with vour feelings in that par
ticular, though. 1 think you have the
advantage of position.”
“ An'* ayain he laughed. If he’d!
kept on Ins dignity, I should have
kept him there :>ll night, as true as
my name w?s Etta Forrester; but he
seemed so jolly about it, I took pity
on him and started to intercept the
boat. The river took a sudden turn
a short distance below the island.
Such dignty I I was awed by his land there, carried by the...current
how, and felt like a breathing iceberg was my lmat, safely lodged between
when he addressed me. Then a * two huge logs. Just as I canie near
tune.
i : 0 49CM1 otc “ What did you ppjt up totrillme
; Octobe«: l ,27,6—an m- L* or 5 ? , asked Mr. I riiduld
raVMjjP d ' * ae- * - *' -
223 over
tbe year ending August. 31, 1875, to
$465,521,645 for^tfie y&ir; ending
August 31, 1877,"and' the ‘exports
have increased frotn $472,169,273 to
$523,998,953 in the same 'iline.—
Chronicle amlComtituiionalwt.
. -Ail—- r ,
Women ara generally very reserved
about their lovers; it has been sarcasr,
tically said “ they never believe them
selves loved: unless they are ill-used.”
We fear that jt js true that most wo
men prefer, violent, selfish, even cruel
demonstrations of love, to the -most
generous, self-denying, silent renuncia
tion -any way it is certain that a
selfish imperious lover gets much better
treated than: a generous one. Women
like to make sacrifices to those they
love, and they like to have them ex-
ictMr kferttta™ »•** ” J *“
might be
am sorry
care!"?.”
boy from
kT qui his
hand. '“There Sain*he saidlieerti-
ly, “give'mu:;your hand. Silake
hands. Tliat’s .right. Go to bed.
boy. Never fear. I’m glad the saw
broke ; ii shows the m»*tl b'-’s in yon.
flifti) bed.’*' v 1! : *■
Mr Jones wiw-tiirly won. Never
were better friends aiior that, than
Sain end be- Sain thinks justice has
not been done' Mr.'" juries. If - the
boys Imp tre*t**d iiim -honestly and
*• alioye board ’’ he would iVave been
a good man to b\«* with. It was
their coi dU' i io;<t s. uivd-and made
him suspic o-is. t do not know h-»vv
that is. I krioA- 'that Sam Fisher
finds in Mr. Jones a kind master and
.faithful liieiid. ■ •
.Mrs. Eva Yeagiey, of Jonestown,
Lebanrdi cmmlv. Pi., was found dead
in her b«d on Friday morning. She
was to have been married' the follow
ing iday. :
Toombs.
Uli Opinion oa the Electoral CommUnlon—Jo*
Bradley, aid Bayen* Cablnrt.
> i* %' • ~ - . « \
Gea Bob Toombs, of Georgia, was
at the New York Hotel. In the course
of a conversation, he said that it was
his opinion that the Electoral Com
mission was made up here in New
York, and that the inspiration which
decided Congress to go into an arbi
tration of the Presidential contest,
came from Graniarcy Park.
“When the House of Represents*
tives had an undisputed majority of
seventy members, and when the
country well knew that Tilden had
been elected Pro-i lent by a large
majority of the popular and the elec
toral vote, and when the country was
«o anxious for a change of administra-
ion—aqd the power lay with tl e
Democracy to execute the people’s
will as expressed at the ballot-box in
effecting the change—1 can but be
lieve that Mr. Tilden not only favort d
the settlement of tho qnest r ou i t
stake by a commission, bat that he
preferred its settlement that way be
cause of the great financial interests,
of the country which would have
been serionsly disturbed in the event
of any trouble. Then, Gn.nt was in
a measure responsible for ihe result.
He quartered troops around Wash
ington—and what for? To intimidate
Congress? No doubt. Tilden, I be--
Iieve, would rather have seen Hayes
inaugurated than to have the credit
and the busiufess interests of the coun
try,injured by. any public revolt.”
Speaking of Aliunde Joe Bradley,'
Gen Toombs said:- “ Judge Bradley
-was in the lobby when placed on the- -
fijtafreine -bench hy Graot Vw He was ’
ptfjBflierev'ori tb» rtiaflumorubujen i>f »
Tom Scott. So v.’hh Judge Strojrg.
Arid soon after tHeir appointment
they ruslie-i in hot hasty to reverse a
certain decision in the interest of a
corporation controlled by Scott.” ;
Gen. Toombs thought that there
was a gi eat deal of mystery about
die way the Electoral Commission
managed the Presidential lottery.
Bnidlev had not sufficiently explained
his connection with life commis
sion, and Judge Field might tell
more aliout the business if lie would.
“ Hayes has a queer set of Cabinet
officers around him.” said Gen.
Toombs “ They all seem to be men
who have no following to speak of and
little influence. nd Key I often
wonder where Hayes picked him up.
He is by no means a repr sentative of
the Tennessee Democracy Nor has
he much ability. As John Randolph
would say; “ He’s a pretty fair twenty-
shilling lawyer.’’.
. Gen. Toombs predicted that Con
gress would have a lively time fis»ht ing
the great corporations. He did not
think that Tom Scott’s Texas-Pu-iic
scheme would or should succeed. Tne
road would uotbe a great beneli to
the South. Corporations were get • -ig
too powerful in this country, arid «e
must see to it that they don’t run t>«-
Government altogether. Indeed, die
question presented to us now is, “ 8 dl
the Government control the corpora
tions Or the" corporations -the Govern
ment?"
Gen. Toombs does not think ilmt
Gen. Gordon of Georgia will be reek o
ted to the Senate “His course hits
been too erratic,’’ he said. As .fur
himself, he had no political aspirat ions,
and under no circumstances would he
ever again accept a public office.
Gen. Toombs is troubled with an
affection in his right eye, and the pur
pose of his visit to New York is io
nave it treated.
Tbeachei-y’.—Injury may wound,
and bq forgiven; insult may sting, and
l*e forgotten; but treachery bewild rs
and chills us; and we know, even
while w«* strnggle to pardon, that for
it there is rio oblivion. A bright no s
and a melody has gone . from our.
lives, when once we feel wc have
been betrayed; an asp has sprn .g
flora amid the flowers of our paradise,
and we can never more tread *h -re
as fearlessly and gladly as before.
Trust, that blessed portion of youth
| and in* xperieiicc, hath been dnv -n
l irtnn its si rong-liold 1; our licai't-,-<i«<l
: a few moments have sufficed to
change us forever.