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THE ATHENS^ GEORGIAN: OCTOBER 23, 1877. A SALUBRIOUS CLIME. ♦ headed persons, who, twenty, thirty and forty years ago, came to it, as feet, are passed. The northwestern portion of Georgia is run through by rtlantiq£road—also, ith accommodations Is cif trSffeleK * ipa it Uaki xT [The following letter is from nr. W. H. White, of Atlanta, Georgia, who vdlt be remembered- by the northern visitors who participated in thtiif southferii excursion ilafetr, year,'ns the projector of the excursion, and TfiSTHie actSve part* he took ipjprb- tor Y sooiitenj. orous health.” This- favored dimate, io many re- spects, day be found throughout the elevated valleys and tablelands of the mountains of North Georgia, north western portion of South Carolina, and the extreme western portion of North Carolina. 'mdtUig the comfort and pleasure of ■ —-Wrr.iii ‘I* j Eu ret a! I haVb feuifd the long sought and much desired climate and ‘ place of resort for consumptives and "those snfferhig from chronic diseases bf the throat and lungs. Wifli ttie ticrt trimy to conveying a blessing u to • maivy a northern and western home, to many a sufferer in body and mind, • t ask f*»r- space to make known n»y-Spairtaoboig, South- Carolina, on the S. and *Al railroad—aT lovely valley about twenty-two hundred feet above observations and the reasons for the same. I simply premise this pleasing duty by stating I have no personal interest to subserVe; I .am not prac- the ocean, some two miles wide, and perhaps teix or -rigb* miles long where tiem- my profession. Though .fi»* froer/hasneYer been felt, where robes s . ■ . . * Li i r j i. i ' are a reaui-^-r-f^ Atlanta, “visit to the wonderful section of country and the particular place to which I call attention was accidental. The medical world has with a uni ty that is remarkable, conceded that this class of patients require an even, dry, moderate or uui.oriu -temporal .lure, a bra-ing and invigorating.cli- . mate, and that high-table lauds,offer ing these advantages, are preferable to low lands within like even, pleas ant aiuuisplUt^, rtNor'&IAitfter reason, because they, are free from malarial influences. , . » ■ *% " » * # ‘ * ‘ They also agree that it will not do for them to go where continuous , damp, rainy or foggy weather will , have to be experienced, or where the . eh in^cs are sudden from excessive heat or marked cold: that the former relaxes tlie whole of tlie vital forces, and thus oanses undue prostration, while the latter .causes an equally un- fhvorable result by causing the 'sur face blood-vessels, to shrink, tlip tTri^fog-the^bloud iawAuH*- miigrro careful inquiry, arid several yehrs 1 personal observation, of the adaptation Of tbiif whole Section for an autumn iirf sjiifl^ tl^»AM0ir ; i4 tients, 1- call prirticulhr attention to what is '-knofan; as the “ Isothermal belt,” or vM£bf equal heat, found in the immediate vicinity, and 6»uth side of Tiyon mountain, iq North Caroli na, sotdO thirty miles northwest of FUN IN CONVENTION. that blinded him. He leaped into his mother’s arms, quivering with de- 1 alsoflne. my north r^to live, I hSd a’Wrong e average heat and cold of the climate of the VftsCfeeOtion of country, and I,have found such to be the case with visitors ■‘ahiT all my northej’q- acquaintances. 4*ho almqst universally believe that our hot weath- WKVWSgcs higher than in any of- lbe bloom and fruit and 'grapes hang on the trees and vines unharmed bften until the middle of January, when they are apt to become chilled,-but do not freeze; where a few flakes of snow occasionally fall, but melt by the time they touch ihe ground : while the luounlaidb ar4 covered with snow and heavy frosts are ol daily occurrence outside r# this Hne. f -Another fact is that thq-ibmpe^ature apparently falls, in this vfdlejr, in the heat of summer, apd rbetlti tfe ^intyv resembling the beet springs of water that are apparent ly warmer-in winter and colder in summer,;but which io reality are-un changed, the' seeming change being 'explained by the change of the^tmos- phere. . !(; .l !»•:•••''> >H The question naturally gill arise, why is tbjs-ao ? I will, give you the exact position and my own suggestion and leave to Uie.soieutist a more satis factory solution. , Just there, the mountains form an angle, the main chain running exactly rth and south, while Tj,y«»o " *oe several spurs forming it, northern Slates.;! It is notjjo by^seve* ral degrees. I give the average for the three past years of each month: Janu ary, 40; February, 4&; March, 53i; April, 57; May, 7ft; June; 76; July, 79; August, 75^? September, 70A; October, 59; November. 53^; De cember, 47^.’ During ttfe summer months it rarely goes higbfcr than 90. The Infest day for severettfarsthat my tbermHSeter has indi^wSTwas 98 degrees. The coldest day'for the last three years, five and a half degrees above zero. It rarely, eve& for a day, gets below twelve or fiftSSh degrees above zero. v\ • I send this letter hoping' many will find it worthy of thought, Sod be bene- fitted by its suggestions . in TaltnageV Tabernacle was marked by more fun than any religious assem blage ever known ’ in Brooklyn. The merriment was introduced byTalmage, who told of the amaziug inaptness of the ’quotations made from Scripture bv those whose conversions came late He knew .in life. He knew of one man who, in a U strain/toM'a congregation it i.ifn* ) : u .wu-fil iv • . ,? i.ry- -rv.-:iTi a prayer meeting hofir — sinner he was.' “ I was an awful sinner,'” said he: ‘‘'a great*sinr.er: I wastlie chief amoug ten thousand, and tbe one altogether lovelySome men 1 never < «op»efl unriff learp how to phrase a prayer. spir- horse was running' attfay with * a The Sand Pear—Wbnderfnl Production^ Says the Tliomasville Fair Bulle tin: Thu» is a species ot/fciit Which will at an early day claim a large s!»are of tin* attention oWitrftieulturid- isls iii this sect ton Itis~A. fruit of exquisite flavor, remarkaWV for its being less subject to inju worms or other insect Other fruit grown here. load already over-worked organs that‘runs directly east for it may be four or require rest, which show this demaqd by the oppressive and increased diffi- • eulty of breathing. In these general and rational opinions intelligent travelers and local observers coin cide. * The vexed problem with.this 1 afflicted class and their friends in the northern and western States has been as to when and where they bad bet tor go to spend the autumn, winter and spring months with the best hope of being relieved or cured. Of late years Florida has, seeming ly, been looked upon ns presenting the greatest inducements. To do justice to this land of oranges, flowers, fine navigable streams and croco diles, I say that during the last ol December and January, and the first half of February, those for whose benefit I am writing wonld find it, no doubt, a pleasant, and in a meas- nre relieving, if not. a cur-live cli mate,as at that season it is generally of a uniform character, while during • tlie autumn and spring months it is very liable to dense fogs, continued rains, hot, suffocating close, as well as unpleasantly cold, dismal days; in deed, often are these changes so disa greeably sudden and marked as to require a change of clothing every day to be comtortable. The past his tory of sufferers, and that of their friends, during the time will, we feel certain, universally indorse this statements t It being conceded that it is best for these sufferers to leave their northern . horafes before the chilly autumn months set in, and not to return until late in the spring, I propose to tell them where they can find, during those seasons, not only a pure, regular, healthful, bracing atmosphere, but where tl\e weather is moderate—bring neither too cold or warm—freo from fogs, continued rainstorms, or fine sand (the. nuisance experienced at certain points,) and where, also, can be found the clearest and purest of spring water, and hundreds of grey- J varying in height from 3,000 to 4,796 j homo again.—Toronto Globe. five miles. Thus this basin is entirely protected from the storms aud winds of north and west. This fact, taken in connection with the meeting and re- turning of t- e eastern and southern movements of the air, possibly a con tinuous heated current of air is created; or the strange phenomena may be upon the principle of the refraction of the sun’s rays from the mountain’s sides, as in “ Mer d-glace,’’ iu Switzerland, shut in by Mt. Blanc and the adjoin ing range of mountains, in the center of whose ice-bound glaciers is a small isolated tract of vegetation which is verdant daring the storms of winter, ander the influence of this principle This belt is never deficent in moisture, as might be supposed, though dew is unknown. Fogs, when seen, hang over the belt, near the mountain's top; they never descend to the ground of this belt, bat either fall in rain, or commingle with the higher doads and paw array. Thu belt seems to be like the gulf stream; it creates, occasion ally, rains that soften and modify the atmosphere.. It seems strange that so favored a spot should be so little known. On inquiring, I was informed that chronic disease of the lungs is unknown there, and that those who had visited the placa with a weakened condition of those organs, during the fall and spring months, express surprise at the ease and comfort with which they respired. This favorable peculiarity of climate, in a general way, pervades the western sections of the Carolinas, and much of northern Georgia. Iu this connection I mention a remarkable fact peculiar to it also—grain, meats and tobacco do not mould. This picturesque country is passed- through from the northeast by the Atlantic^and Charlotte Air-Line railway—an excellent road. The grandeur of the mountain and valley scenery presented to the traveler is probably not surpassed in America— Yonab, Tray; Black Blood, Bold, Enota and many other mountains, mbed into my and said, 4 Hyatt'—she has no respect for the cloth; it’s her mother’s train ing—‘Hyatt,’ she said, 4 was-that story about the onion a truly story ?’ •Yes, my pet,’ l said. 4 Oh,’ she mid. ‘T .thought, yob $Li , eacher ol man, and. every minute promised to be bis last. He grabbed holcf ctf'tKe sides of the wagon as it bounced along after the runaway, aivd’ as he could hot think of any other prayer, he said, 44 Oh, Lord, make us thankful for the mercies we are about to yeceiva-’’ There was a tiring sameness iu fhenex pressions of those Who have experi ences to relate- A young man got up once and said. ** I am on the ship of r Zion, and we are sailing up the hea v enly harbor ; soon we’ll reach the golden gates.” Another man snid;‘‘I, too. pm on the shlfy of 2jjm,'Wd wo are ‘sailing with a good breeze. I of the Fort Gleene* Presbyterian Church’s Sunday School told of the pefeihilal fun of the three-year/olds who were in»hfecarb.** 44 Children” said iiejt'One dhy/ ^ tvho built?-thb ark?** '^1 know,” said 1 ' a bright lit tle bo^.>' “Well, Who?”' “The GoVernment” was hjsomswer. [This story had been going the rounds of newspapers for ait least a year.] He whs trying one day,'he added, to give bis class' an Object lesson. He took ont his watch, and holding it ; up said, 44 Now, look at • mV watfch.” 4 ‘ ’Taint your Watch,” raid one.” “It’s ydur wife’s watch.” ►—OS I gupss we are jibing as fast as , thirty Hl Every man ^ is t at bis •f - !• remarkably hardy at. , of rather rapid growth. It is leas liable, to injury from cold or frost than any other fruit tree. The yield is almost be yond belief. It begins t<> bear at aboat fonr years and whea'betvi-een seyeu and ten years old frequently produces from fifteen to twenty bush els of fruit to the tree! Ten, bushels to the tree at this age is "considered ordinary-yield. These pears sold this year in the market at ten dollars per. bushel. These facts caq bo substantiated by afiiduvit, from .a dozen or more Of ns reliable, men as there are in the comity. ^ fijnrn i -» 1 ! n|r—rr'-'rlr/tii'’, dred of these trees can be; planted with ease on an acre of ground. The ordbary yield of these trees would be ten bushels to the< tree, or one thousand bushels of fruit to the acre. As we have already stated,.tliis fruit brought in the market this season ten dollars per bushel It wa\ sold at this price by Mr. L. L. Variiadoe, of thisequnty. Let’s put the price at just half this sum, and for tlie ordina ry and almost certain yield on one acre y. e wonld get five thousand dol lars. Better than planting cotton cer tainly. This pear originated from a solitary tree in Liberty couigy, which was planted from a cutting Obtained from Maj. LeConte, in Philadelphia. It is the only pear we believe that grows readily from cuttings, and is rapidly spreading all over Southern Georgia, the slips being in great re quest. OO- knots an hoar. gates.’’ ^nq^hpr arose and^ sqid, 44 1, 8 too, amon the ship of Zbn. It’s a steam3mg7-a, 499^°!^ . We are going up the heavenly harbor, and we are going faster’n any other ship. We’re bound to glory,” An old and feeble woman arose and said, 44 I’m seventy years old, and for fifty' years *.’ve been op the road to heavep, but J * v ‘ io A Little Girl’s Long Walk.—A little girl, eleven yeais old, very lightly clad and barefooted,; applied at tbo jail at Goderich, on Wednesday forenoon, to be permitted toi see her father, George May, from iExetcr, who was serving a term of d month for abusing his wife. She wai admit ted at once, and tlie father’s surprise and pleasure were genuine, the more so when he learned that the iitfie one had walked the greater portion of the way on foot. The little girl left her home ip Exetcr on the previous Mon day evening, and walked along the truck towards Cliuton until it got dark, when she laid down ia the grass by tlie way and slept until Corn ing. The journey was resumed on Tuesday and maintained until the vicinity of Clinton was reached, late in the evening. During the day she had nothing to eat but. beech puts which she had gathered in the woods, but she was taken in by n r kindly farmer’* wife in the evening, kept overnight and forwarded to her destination the next morning iu a buggy. She was kept for a short time in the jail, where she made lier- self very useful and proved hiTseif a bright, intelligent little one. Ou Thursday the mother arrived and j took the child, much, against her will, steamships don’t take care, let’ y ou ’il bust, your hilers.” When this aiory-i«PB told the-punyteRation rocked and surged with laughter. A delegate to the Convention irom the Tabernacle Baptist Church amused every one except himself by repeated ly speaking of the “pertinacious” liter ature of which Sunfiay school libra ries are composed. As he blurted the expression out the third time his cleri cal brethremroared with* lanjjhter he could not account for. The Rev. Alfred Taylor, \ifho was assigned to speak on the qualifications of a Sunday School Superintendent, appeared on the platform mid gath ered up the ends of two twine strings, which had been hanging all day on two sides of the great organ. At the proper time in his speech, he ran ont to the edge of the platform, draw ing on these strings. Two long let tered strips of canvas climbed the organ in response. One contained an acrostic, Rowing what a superin tendent should be. The other what he should nCt be. And to each letter there were three descriptive adjec tive^ With spirit, Mr. Taylor turned the whole audience into a class ta recite after. l«m the words describing a good and bad superiu- tendent, and the effect was amusing and exciting.. The Rev. J. Hyatt Smith said that he was once trying to illustrate the difference between Christ’* joy at ihe conversion of a sinner and the joy the converted one experienced. He didn’t know how he was.going to get through, when suddenly a story crept into his mind. His brother Natty, when a, child, was blind. A cloudy film had spread over his t-yes, cutting off his sight. One day he and his brother were playing on the nursery floor, using a large onion lor a ball. They rolled; and tossed it back and. forth, until it became juicy. Natty, in handling it, got his fingers wet with the juice, and when he rubbed his eyes with his hand he uttered a sharp cry of pain Then he jumped to his feet, and screaming with joy, exclaimed: “Oh, I see! I see!’* The delicate snrgery of the onion had cat through and removed the film A Bogus Georgia Lottery. New York, 14.—The announce October Tribune tq-tnorrow t ’will that tlie police hjive discovered a bold aud extensive' scheme by lot Baltimore,' £/iii of v i^aslu ngton, Chicago, ets in a bogus and illegal Georgia lot tery. Judge A. 0. Lochrane, an agent of the State o’f Georgia, is here v lire : .Jut u»m tc to prosecute. Tlie police of other in-/* .wJiof»v*ul. - cutes have been notified that bogus hi T mi--ip-[ <«iru -ittmti. >>]rt” lottery men have appropriated the franchise of a charitable institution known as the , Masonic“ Home for 'Orphans at Atlanta as'(he basij of ibis swindle! ^ w.iv.uMi - »il. tr. H AJbead of All Or, 0. BOMSOSP- H as just ketubned from a visit among the Principal PIANO and ORGAN I ' ABSOLUTELY BEYOND COMPETITION iLoW P BCES QlTICX Sal instruments OF EVERY VAUIETY. Sleet Music anil Music Book THE LATEST PUBLICATIONS. Musical Merchandise, Ae.d everything pqrttiiiiing to a First Class Music House. TUNING AND. REPAIRING, PIANOS. Chnrch, Pipe and'Kaed Organs; and all kind* of Musical Instruments Toned and Repaired Z- Mr. C. It. Taylor, the best skilled end one of the moat thorough workmen South. Mr. Taylor devoted nearly fifteen years in the construction of instruments ini some of the best factories in this country, and ia the only * the only authorised lunsr for the AU&U8TA MUSIC MOUSE. G. O. ROBINSON & CO., { 265 Broad Street, Averts, Ga. The Gall ant St survivvra of tlm StiH gffiarii UNORED.—The arit Six Hundred, about one hundred in qumber, will dine at London, OctobeY- 25, Lady Cardigan’s munificent subscription making it possible to have a private dinner without any speculators ex hibiting tho: heroes at a shilling a liqrd. By the way hero are the fig ures ot the famous charge: Fourth •Light Dragoons lost 79 of 118 men ; Eight Hussars, 66 of 104; Eleventh Hussars, 85 of 110; Thirteenth Light Dragoons, 66 ot 180; Seventh Lan« cers, 110 of 145. Total loss, 409 of 607 men. A Taboo.—One of Senator Pat teraon’s objections to the legality of Governor Hampton’s requisition for his arrest and rendition is that the Governor of one State may cal! npon the Governor of another, but the District of Columbia is no State, and, therefore, thereqqisitionhrsBO force. This quibble, it allowed, would con stitute the District a city of refuge, to which all the scoundrels in the Union may retire, and defy the laws and escape the penalties of the felo nies they have committed.—Charles ton Journal of Commerce. —Two Bears made a very good point, when he inquired of the keeper of the prison whether there were any in there ns punishment for swindling Indians. The keeper might have replied that, he had no Indians iu there, either for slaughtering white men and women or stampeding hors es. Two Bears ought not to claim protection of laws to which he refus es allegiance. Fifteen States have yet to hold elec tions this Full. Louisiana, Massach usetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Ne braska, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas. Virginia, and Wis consin vote on the sixth of November and Georgia on the fifth of December. In addition, Illinois elects county offi cers on November sixth. —Black and gray will be the most stylish for ladies’ fall wraps. MedicajLCpllege of Georgia Tax MEDicii Departkimt of the I’nivebsitv Of Geobou. essio mata on the FIRST MON DAY IN NOVEMBER. Apply tor Circular to DESAUSSURE FORD,''Dean. - ’ For Catalogues of Academic Department, apply to Wir. Hbnbt WaddAjx, Secretary of Faculty, Athens, Ga. ‘ ‘ •— oct2-lm. CIGAR FACTORY. ANTICIPATING to reopen our Cigar Factory on a larger scale than ever before, we offer the following brands of Cigars at 10 per cent, dis count from our usual prices so .as to sell our immense stock— 15,000 Plantations. 16,000 Phi Kappa aud Demos. 8,000 Big Bonanzas. 9,000 Our Favorite brand. 5,000 H. ITpman. 5,000 Flor de Menucl. 5,000 Itey West 9,000 Choice. 5,000 FigaTj. 8,000 Partagas (Conchia.) 5,000 Partagas (5 inch.) 5,000 Ready Relief. 5,000 La Espanola. 10,000 No Brand. KalVarinfiky AUcbler, ATHENS, GEORGIA. THE GREAT CAUSE jm H uman Misery, Price Just Published, m aSealod Envelope, six cents. A Lecture on the Nature. Treatment, and Radical cure of Seminal Wwkness, or Sperma torrhoea, induced by 8elf Abuse, Involuntary Emissions, Impotence, Nervous Debility, and Impediments to Marriage generally; Consump tion, Epilepsy, and Fits; Mental and Physical Incapacity, «o.—By Robebt J. C«n.vMtw*i.E, M. D., author of the “ Green Book,” <tc. The world-rooowued author, in this admirable Lecture, clearly proves from bis own experience that the awful consequences of Self-Abuse may be effectually removed without medicine, and which evi ry aufferer, uo matter what his con dition niuy be, may cure himself cheaply, privately rnd radically. This Lecture will prove a boon to thousands and thousands. Bent, under seal, in a plain envelope, to any address, on receipt of six cents, or two. postage stamps. Address the Publishers, THE CULVEBWELL MEDICAL CO., 41 Ahh 8s.. New Yobk oct.10.ly Post offloe Box, 46S8 MEDICAL NOTICE. At tho solicitation of many cf my former pat rons, I resume the ** Practice of Medicine from this date. I will pay especial attention to the disease of Infante aud Children, and the Chronic Diseases of Females. WM. KING, M. D. tune 10 1S75—33-ly