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J - ATTORNEY AT UW, ■:> 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.