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JACKSON & THOMAS,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
‘ ^cot Comer of 1 College Avenue
oloo at the Court Roue,
imlnol Warrants, can get
. applying to the County
office. dccl6-1674-tf
J
(j D. HILL,
. ATTOR^Y AT LflW,
Athens, Ga.
Prompt attention given to all business and
the same respectfully solicited. janll^
gsamaiaii “ r ‘
ATTORNEY^ Al* LAW,
( WHAT THE jForarH omgp' w $
vr.fi.: j
A Swsii.llke n*ad, a Forked and a Snppostltloos
Sittaqoeoas Steatw h..
[From the New Y«& World.]
It!.came to the ea§j of a World
* isea serpent,
id, bad
seen
reporter yesterday
more or-less long
recently been
.several officep of
land, without the
which magnifies i
which distorts!'
•iTJdfft !. ;}J fV. it.<i
P er PW as well I
;sidered ishisidiity
id-ocean by
'><t Umiuvsal ATicjitofiK
Watkinsville, Ga. A
pG. THOMPSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,*
Office over Post-Office Athene, Go.
l'ebS 187Mf
JOHNW ^WIJN,)^ O O
* ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Tocoa City, Ga. ■ -
Will pnetlce in ali.the connUeaPf j^e West
ern Circuit, Hart and Madison of the Northern
Circuit. Will give specie] attenion to all ohdma
entrusted to his cere. octS0-1876-ly
Lamar Cobb.
;<5oa
Howell Cobb.
- "‘i
1 ‘ Office in Denpreb Building,
febSa-U7f.ly -« ""1
Sirs.'
Alex S. Erwin. ' Andrew J. Cobb.
JtRWIN A COBB,
ATTORNEY:' AT LAW,
Athens, Ga
Offioe on Conier of Biud and Thomas sheets,
* over Childs, Nickerson <S? Cd.* *
feb22-1876-ly %
1- : u_l_
^ COCHRAN,
*-a.TToxti7Err at baakt,
Gainesville, Ga.
jKeul Estate and General Land Agent for the
purchase and sale of Mineral ana Fanning
Lands in Hall, and the other counties of North
east Georgia. Mineral ores tested and tltlfes to
property Investigated. Special attention given
to the purchase and sale of cityproperty.
may»—On 1 . J. N. DORSBY. jgtomev.
^8RURYG. MoCURRY,..
Attomojr a-fc Law,
Willpractice inThe Si^rior^nirts
east Gcoigia and Supreme Court flt Atlanta.
Aug 8. 1876 tf ' .
Alex. S. KrtwiN,
ip Hoi
spyvglASs
Wine-glass
truthful
item
igatetho
rwild asser-
"mst
jgy
steam&fc Holland, MMpd *t
the’ National tin* d«ok,-h6 liobtsined
permission to board bet*; air'd totohed
found,b«ye|f f tfce'_ c<?ptfi y qf aeircle
of courteous yellow-bearded drip's
officers, who, learning t Iho <
his ,visit, closed their lips veiy tij
tW*.mo* nl *.
“» jw#wCW
} { m ^irtp^8 r ^, of
thesnake^n their pockety tyieyin-
tended to . keep it to themselves, “I
dou’t s^e wbythere need bo this lack
of confidence. between us, , .You
happened to discover, the sea ser
pent j if, the serpent had jdiscoyered
you tfcrt would have been another
affair, and I should have interviewed
the serpent.” j
This argument appeared to have
some effect, but there was evidently
a strong reluctance on the part of opy
one to father the important discov
ery. At juncture, however,
.there .prune strolling'dqwp the deck a
handsome man, whose' uniform and
bearing proclaimed him to be chief
officer, and who, learning what was
wanted, turned with considerable
austeritey to one of the group, sav
ing^ “Why, Mr. Downer,. I am
quiU^urprised at you; ’pon my soul,
now, yon know this isn't right. Tliis
(turning to the reporter) is. Mr.
Downer,, fourth officer; he discov
ered the angle-worm of the sea off
the banks of Newfoundland. Come,
TV f | . *J f I ‘ 1*1 # ( 1 *
Downer^ let's have all about it; what
was tlfe color of tiio beast’s eyes?
Vi... Mr. ’Downer is a little fo-
v *0^ hdii^ it; ! al);W bvoke in Tbe
ship's diictor,' {jLfog Ills' long beard
an impatient pull, •* whht’s the n$£6f
dragging in pay name, I ain't a seaman,
and! dori’iknow about such things',
but the Captain told me”-—- '
“ Is the Captain on board ?” hastily
interrupted the reporter. “ For pity’s
sake letme see the Captain.”
“ Donl go-near him, shnn him, if
fefUfibr W™
snake to nim. n •_ , .;
U'tVIV ■»»
U.l
ocean sn
the old theory of
whale. .‘‘Whei
>W Gen. J.'-Mi'L
serpent, said lie, ^ he pditeljr. coriJ *<9* agbthsb <
da^e.d the vo l ) ^tfit‘.. to .the gang- Ljgabdrkksj of luduma, and General
plapk, “ remember *
says:'
Thethre^er
And has a <
With which,
t He often wl
were crosswg^a^^ot
^diyard. Mr.I>owner
1 '. f r3t V O he ( pi^fed^p
.to..havea,l9oKa>
Jakes R. Ltlx,
WatkinsviUc.
T^te n %C
J^TLE A ERWIN)
A TTQUJSETSA f fA. W ta ,
Will praolioe in partnership in the Superior J OUt
Court of Ooonoo County, and attend promptly *,*
to all business intrusted to theif (Sub. - , •,
juMu.
° f th ® ^ beau-1 »n w?plriflg nioeferj because of its - d ^ W0 ulibe for^ot-
am soriw to n8 olffigeH to sav, the roc"o®™™® 0 ® wRoove. pdMhrimwfeMi;ariw—tt^kmdtuUs 1 >»nwwin' CT —that. tb;a man.ahauU gYQni<|>,t?e torgot-
'iov *i> JTttMi.t-uu:« -:ttlj‘i . . i. “ Rehftld’tfii’VhnWn^i. son RoWiont.”
. I nr ,t vli* f-w.f
like the propeller wheels?”
propeller whqejs. Mr.
o*" yoa tel\,this geutfe-
*Hfjp mich atrodoas stotifp^ and the
chief officer, who had approached,
looked sternly at his. subordinate.
“Here,’’ he oontinoed, holding oat a
piece of paper, “is an.a^urate draw
ing of the creature, made on thp spot
by his able discoverer, Mr. Downer.’’
“O come, now, this is too bad,
now, you know, I didn’t draw that
picture, for publication;" and Mr.
Downer attempted to securi
sketefi^*^^
“ Never you mind, Mr. Downer,"
continued the chief officer, “ it’s
good picture; though how the devil
you ever managed to draw that por
tion of the creature which appears
here below the water line I’m blessed
if I know.’’ So saying, Mr. Robinson
handed to'Oie reporter a neatly exe
cuted pen and ink Sketch, in which
the plain of the sen was represented
with a huge forked tail rising twenty
feet (as was indicated in figures)
above it at one point, and a long
swan like neck appended to a seal
like head, in which was a large, ex
pressive, melancholy eye, elevated'to
about the same height, at a proper
interval' from the tail. Between the
two was depicted, below the surface
of the' Water, the long snake body
p t<) 1 I '-*"'" :i‘.‘ ‘ iW“ - t., hWPSI?
explainable upon ^yeatffeavens, Ifffll ;
the thr^sher^andj buamry*
•Leach told
weeks ogb that* Governor TKomad A.
ilfpU
seaman knows,
■whale.”
emento.,
the poet [ Matt. W. Raiufom, of North Carolina,
were his .ohoioefbri President arid
Vice-President. on the Democratic
side in 1880. A stronger ticket it
would be difficult to select.—Golds
boro Messenger. :•
All right, if they can get a chance,
•1 v. i-ri^jiHtinku niL i: (l •»»'■ 1 amounts to much. Hayes hhd Hamp-
:\ ,t v-rfi •.? ..uhq*. [ton will probaW^be nthe ticket—
<Jt will be remembered byi t^e peo- r&Aadotte JDemodraL ^ i ]■- *> <!
pto-jof r.Caiplif aj that, the Jadies yf Really) we. can hardly make bur
Colombia, in ^htriotip-vocogriitjoix of minds, that the above from the Denuh
tkri noble services vendeTodbyr^ena-^ erat is notapMce ofdwlierithaisony-4-
tor J. B. Gordon, of Georgia, at a | a-refined -piece -of. sarcasm,;ifl “the
time when the liberty of South-Caro- [mope, poignant and i catting When
Iris was. trembling ip . ithe- balance, I coming from Onmdd^reliable, literal,
djsriepnir.ed present 1 his infant saber-sided, but maiah esteemed con-
daughter “Cri^ri^a” with some token temporary at Charlotte, t.Tfbt
of thAr high sense, of. grati-1 . 'Wheb the day comes on which the
tude and affection. With this lauda- Democratic party can: bwinduced to
W» ead-iiii view an association was J.put4he nameofRutherfiMid B. Hayes
famed and a committee appointed Upon ita ticket, then we want to see
ho Select a teffirioonial and to devise a that Very hour seal the -destruction
plan fos Hs execution. After consul- of the Democratic partyifor all time
triUon thh oemmittec decided upon to come. It will be unworthy to lrye
procuring a massive silver vessel, through-tmbther campaign; St A will
which it was tlieir iatention to pre- be ntterly, fidse to its history, iteprin-
sent as a baptismal font. The style ciples; its adherents-r-ridse to the
was fixed upon and the execution of American people, whom it alone, of
the work was placed in the hands of all factions and party organizations
Mr. Jas. Allan, a prominent jeweler that have had an existence since the
of this city. 1* T foundation of the government, has
On Saturday last the : work was been capable of representing. .When
completed and the font Was exhibited the Democracy took up Horace
to a few frienrtL at the store of Mr. Greeley in. >1872 they merited the
ilatrin ‘‘Last evening failure which followed the move-
it was shined to Columbia, by ex- ments, along with ridicule and com
press. It is one of the handsomest passion for their short-sightedness.
a pieces of silver ever exhibited in Should they be drawn into an advo-
Charleston, and is certainly & fit caoy of Hayes they will deserve the
testimonial ‘tp the dipitareated pah l defeat • «md ruin which will inevitably
triotism of the gallant Georgian. It overtake them, along with the scorn,
is wrought of solid sterling silver and I destination and contempt of every
stands from base to rim twelve man who Jays claim to a fair, share of
inches in height, and measures in [ honor and integrity. That this man
diameter, across the top, ten inches, [rr-who, wherever he goes, carries the
The interior is heavily lined with .[brand of fraud with him; who holds
gold, which is highly and beautifully the. office of President of the United
ornamented with engraved patterns States by the patience and forbear
showing the' bright silver beneath, ance of an outraged people, and not
The shape of the front is novel and by any shadow of right of his own
exquisitely beantifnL From a solid who comes from the shedding of
square base rises a column upon tears and. pious osculations at the
Which the bowl proper rests grace-1 bedside of Morton, and the kjssing
folly, j The exterior is satin finished,, of thp bloody shirt in the Northern
ornamented,'on the shank, with deli- j districts to indulge in.;sentimental
cately engraved tracery.
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land during "the last forty years^ .and
that the pape? mouey of the banks
daring that time has been equal to
;cld.' In. regard, to fire insurance
companies; .there is no such thing as
failure on reoord, and while the
rate! of insurance does not average
more than half of one percent., the
companies are in the most flourishing
condition, realizing twelve to sixteen
per cent per annum.
First class railroad travel is only
one cent, per mileyand yet the roads
pay igood'dividends. Pilfering offi
cials are scarcely ever heard of; when
they, shock'the nation by 1 turning up
they are 1 very severely punished and
forever disgraced! No. free passes
granted,mod. managers and di
rectors have no power to pass any
body Over the' -roads free. All-must
| lay'thfr £ubfW : rates! Dishonesty of
icy kind or failure in business‘mfeans
public dishonor, and ntterly bars the
dishonest - Tfroih' any future public
confidence or tolerations Four mil
lions of peSple live within an area of
2<y,000 square miles, ’a feet unpre
cedented in. any other country, and
all appear to 'bo Jiappy;.^prosperous
and . contented. The secret of this
prosperity liee in the feet that 411 live
within -their income, and * that indus*
try arid hqnesty are principles so
firmly establisbed. that their violation
is looked upon as an outrage on the
national characteristics.
M '
Behold liib’Dbwh^r sea serpent,'
smd ?0i8^. TAHW
BtrSZSTSSS CARDS.
rjl A. JLEU,
Wa
At Micliacl’at^rg,' nlkt fiuiOTt^Reavaa & Nich-
oUou’a, Broad str^ctj Athene, Georgia,, AH
work warranted 13 months. '• TVT" ;
■e;.tl2-tf. ''”' ***
p SCUACFER, ...X6':,.cl.
* COTTOIT BETTER,
Tocoa City, Ga.
Hiirliest cash price paid for cotton. Agent
s ‘ —ns ana Press. oc20-1875-tf
With Sitting Ball.
the Savage Warrior Rejecting the Comulnlon’e
Oflfcr of Peace.
Chicago, October 22.—A Times*
special from the Sitting Bull Com-
mWsion, dated Fort. Walsh, British
Northwest Territory, Oct 17th, via.
Fort Benton, Oct. 21st, received
early this morning, says the Commis
sion has met Sitting Bull and has ut
terly feiled to obtain any satisfaction
or terms of settlement from him.
he>, correspondent describes Sitting
all as a swarthy, beardless, pure-
blooded savage, with an air of judi
cial gravity and intelligence. Ho
continually fears treachery on the
E art of the_Americans, and distrusts
is own tribe when they are near.
He refused to shako hands with the
CohUnistioners, and said he wanted
them to sit out in full view and behind
tables. They complied, and General
Teiry addressed them, stating the
object of the visit, namely, that the
President wished' hostilities to cease
forever for the sake of all parties. If
the.Indians would return and refrain
frpfl 1 l»9 s tile acts aga|nst, the United
States Government, a free pardon
On one | gus]i among tips people, to whom it, would bejjiven ^foi* all nast acts; no
A —ade-to
ior VVinahip’s Gins
It. LITTLE,
«plS-1878-tf
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Carnoaville, Ga.
TRTeua.'fcecL-
EMPLOYMENT eitUer^s * Tanner, Eugi-
Athens Georgian, Athena. G* if myVa-tf
TIVERT AND 8ALE STABLE.
Otrrlasos, Xtusslos & Dorses
for Lire. T.™.r*TjKwH iTEHju:D ,
Washington, Wttksa county, Ga.
-xovSS-iaJS-tl
V-> ILL HEADS AtyD I^ITKIV;
Q Heads done on short not|ce.
T nm ^
bid country‘'&onV.a^reciate' these
things, and they have a'Hva^of run-,
f nake
# O/jjWlpmw.yiiu^^outdn’^^r-
rupted .Mr. Rpbinspn; ;t was quite
P5Jr 8bo I u ?tj 8e ®
deed, sir^ttejhave named hiin the
Downer serpent.” At this, there was
a general laugh, which seemed to
inspire Mr. Downer with confidence,
and, arising with considerable dignity,
ho said: “Egad* 1 it’s all very fine
for you to laugh now, we’re in sport,
yon know, but there ain’t one of you
but swore to seeing the fish at the
time. And yon, Mr. Lindsey, you
said his head was as high as a ’ousc.”
It was now Chief Engineer Lindsey’s
turn to look very serious, as the re
porter quickly turned upon him.
“ So you saw the serpent, too ?” said
the Tatted “ tVell,” begun Mr.
Lindsey, “I must confess I did sec
something queer-looking which the
second officer, Mr. FairfulL'(Mr.
Fail-foil at once stopped laughing,) it, beo&me very serious, and admitted
‘saw as well as L” ' ' *' ^ ^ *' 1 “* "
punish
forgot-
romised.
say, tnat all other
Indians had now
attempt ■ Would be nn
• rl I ffimtMH H'.giift JWIJ thft
tifully engraved tho Coat of^Arms of j hypocrisy—that this man^should.ybe ten., This, the i'n
South CaroUna, and on’’the opposite. tolera^qd| Ri..iift Southern - town is' He'went on To'sa;
side the coat of arrtfl' of Georgia. l strange, and offers a T®o.pd,erful proof hostife- tribes of IV ^
Aroubd the rim’^ire ’’iiisCribed the ! thaVthe people whom,bqand his once ■u|' r ®|fdfi i edto-thoUnited'StateSAu-
-woMfflotHampton’is dispitch'to-Gof: attempted,to., ejstQrrainato as. ; rebels me ut whatever, 1 but hjfdbeenm 0 ^
j can never be forgetftlof as friends. They bad jeceurefl. or
► ■ *iM.-tTrTJhftHBn •Tf.hfiwnT' ttlffif^SfibiR’UBgT&tall^I^MB [foe demands of hospitality and cour* of the
troori3 flWBL ,,i, matter liotv f of their horse, and arms, had
be Ids characto aud how & M
jfil^L-ffiifi! 1 'UrtHabtoAtip »«Wmoat of arms of Democratic side-aWjSLa^ie sava ^ «^ed broa^ily-atthe
maire de snakol’ which lie pretented
to say was the French for sea ser-.
pent.’*
“ Mr. Downer is right,’’ said one of
the officers, “ Captain White certain
ly did see the serpent, and if you
could find him, I don’t doubt you
would be able to learn the color of
his eye, which Downer neglected to
observe.”
! i •'.< 1 • i f. f 1 ' i ■ • ' : l
The reporter being still somewhat
uneasy in mind-, managed to get the
chief officer to one side, and appealed
to him asa : man and a brother to
clear up this mystery if he were able
to do so. Mr. Robinson, thus put to
fat
pursued the rfeportej^^ ^
that he was below at the time of the
diicovery, and didn’t see anything;
*hitit"he r 'thbhght this and all bther
Ow the *■
tide beneath the ‘coat of aims- of j gest the name of tho fraudulent, Pres-
Georgia, are inscribed ■ the" wbfds: I ident as a nominee of the party—•
“TtaTwomiBti to
Ua Gordon.” princely gentleman, illustrious patriot
The untimely death of Gen. Gor-1 and heroic soldier, Wade Hampton—
don’s Infent daughter defeats in a ^ a m{lrve i w hiclv passes onr compre-
measure the purpose of the Columbia, hension.
ladies, but tbe testimonial will never
theless be presented to General Gor
don, and will be doubly dear to him,
The Thrifty Dutch.
linking, as it does, the sacrod mem-1 A P " pI# W,i0w C °" IU,n,M
oriesof domestic affliction with'the J . ’ ~-'t~
noble pride of successful patriotic Was^ngton, October 20.—The
zeal in "behalf of a doyru-ti'odden Department of fjtat'e IkU received a
State;— 2 Charleston Heics and Cou- report on the social and political con-
tier, vi ' n-< f ■-:'!•! : 'H ditiOn of the Dutch] from the 1 Minis
ter of' the United States to the
. Atianta hasw-street car mule so Hague. As an inustratibn of the
cash-box, he .nearly kicks out of the Dutctr, the MiVnster sajs that there
I bas not been a Wik failure in Hot-
£ir atnwv Mh Pi I
barncsb.
in*ri.ot torn tved fit
mention of suiteuder, The’ speech
produced no effect, and the offer of
peace was rejected. .The council
broke 1 up, and the Commissioners
fumed their faces homeward
Ottawa, Out., October 22.—OflL
deal information received by the
Government to-day fully confirms tho
statement iii the press dispatches this
morning, of the meeting of the United
States Commissioners and Sitting
Bull at Fort Walsh, and tho con
temptuous rejection by the Sioux
Chief .of tbe terms offered.
The receut victories of the Turks
have put a quietus on the war move
ment in the East. . The Russians be
gin to comprehend thqf the cooking
of the Turkeys is not a mere break
fast spell. , : ’’
l- ffi" ' iV^ t&mrnm
General Sheridan is reported to
have : said, “ When^it comes to a race
for life, tbe fellow who is being
pursued can, always go a jiltle the
