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THE ATHENS GEORGIAN: NOVEMBER 6, 1877.
Political Divisions.
Wliy It I* Absnnl to RcIIpt* that the Republican
l’arty Hast Survive.
] csts’’ againts the “ uneducated or self-
educated classes of the country?’’ If
this be so—and we really see no rea
son to doubt it.—well may we para-
[From the New York World.] j phrase Mme. Roland’s exclamation,
SlR - Th “ ..TZTT. ■P°Ii 1 “ ! *! ! *'Oh, phitalhropy! phita.thropy!
how many crimes are committed in
thy name!’’
The need of the Democratic party
becomes only the more apparent to
i „ , , save all classes of citizens—the educa-
denco oftbcNew York Tribune ^ u , e uneducate( l, the foreign
t.ie t) lust.. j born and native, the men of property
A sense of danger will bring Re - and the children of daily toil, the White
Puai isaism which finds its fullest and
most striking development within
the ranks of the Republican party, is
well illustrated by the following clip,
ping from the Washingto correspon-
pubiicans closer together, and cause
them to drop all their quarrels; and
finally, the traditional incompetency
and unwisdom of the Democrats may
bo counted upon to show itself in
Congress in many ways that will
disgust the country. Among a num
ber of thoughtful and clear-headed
men who take this view of the future.
I may mention Vice Piesident Wheel
er, Senator Hoar, Senator Edmunds,
General Garfield and General Cox.
I might also quote the well known
opinion of President Hayes, who is a
close student of the philosophy of
and the black—from the continued
nomination of a political organization
which boasts intentions so fatal to the
welfare of all.
Washington, D. C., October 21.
Early Rising.
Bob Ingersoll, the sinner, occasion
ally takes a shot at old adages. In a
speech, lately delivered before the
Illinois fanners, lie thus attacks the
adage, “ Early to bed and early to
rise:” ....... ... .j
“ It is not necessary in this age. of
par:v act on,' and”who"think*'tbit i \ he ^ f ° r the ^er to rise in
' the middle of the night and begin If is
work. This getting up sa early in
the morning is,a relic of barbarism.
It has made hundreds and thousands
of young men curse the business.
There is no need of getting up at
three or four o’clock in the winter
morning. The farmer who persists
in doing it and who persists iu drag
ging his wife and children fropi their
beds, ought to be visited, l»y a fppw
si.>:iary. It is time ehpiigh to rise
after the sun has set the example.
For what purpose do you get up?
To feed the cattle? Why not feed
them more the night before? It is a
waste of life. In tho old times they
used to get up about three o’clock in
the morning, and go to work long
before the sun had risen with * heal
ing upon his wings;’ and, ns a just
punishment, they all had the ague.”
Blaine Tells a Little Story.
whatever new phenomena may np-
:x.ai- from time to time in the field of
poli tics the permanent division of the
American people will be into two
organizations with substantially the
same ideas and characteristics as are
now seen in the Republican and Deni-
ocv tic pnviies n' the North. The
men of education, superior intelli
gence aud of property interests, for
which the protection of the laws are
needed, will be or. one side and the
uneducated, or unified ncated, includ
ing a large part oftheforiign element
and all the men who are discontented
because they have nothing, will make
up '.lie hulk of the opposing party %
T1 u unnatural condition of atTuirs
nor, the President thinks, is that
these divisions do not extend to the
ith, and the changes Qf the future
rju e Vikely to be not in the direction S.
the decay of i n! It pulwan organiz'-
.tion, but in the extension of the ideas
'which underlie it, to the classes in the
South of like interests and grade of
Senator Biaiue said to-day that so
r a • as ',!;v ;i’"e Alexander H. Stephens
bi"ieiii"ence with the Republicans of j * Hi ? es is concerned, the
the North j simile is pccnliar. “Mr. Stephens,”
. . ,, . r said he, “says Mr. Hayes bolds bis
’ unliesitatmi. Relf arrogruion of > ’
“ all the cduc:.tion amt superior in
telligence” is characteristic of a mem
ber'of the party of “ great mo>a1
ideas,” whose control had led the
people of the United States to a
lower grade of morality and political
character than it had ever before
reached, until our affairs had drifted
so mar an abyss ot destruction that
nothing but a sudden and alarmed
recoil from '.he methods and ways of
Republican administration and a par
tial adoption of Democratic doctrines j
lias relieved the nation from hopeless i
bankruptcy and utter vain. _ j
if the close study “of the philoso
phy of party action ” has, indeed, led
President Haves to the “ well-known
opinion ” ascribed to him in tnc
IVibune, and it is true that he really
looks forward “hopefully” to the
extension throughout the Southern
States of an organization of public
opinion, as it is alleged exists in the
Northern States, into two parties,
with “ the men of education, superior
intelligence and property interests for
which the protection of laws are
needed *’ on one side, and “ the un
educated or half educated, including
a large part of the foreign element
and all the men who are discontented
because they have nothing and for
■whom the protection of the laws is
■not needed ” on the other side—what,
we ask, is to become of the “ poor
colored man ” for whom the Presi
dential heart and that of his party was
said in other days to bleed so freely ?
Is it intended to drive the citizen
of African extraction into the
ranks of those detestable Naz-
offico by a better title than George
Washington did, because Mr. Hayes
was put there by the highest judicial
tribunal ever formed in this country.’*
“ That renruds me,” said Mr. Blaine,
“ of an old fellow up in Maine who
ran for office, and they charged on
the stump that he had been indicted
for villainy ofisome kind. The candi
date answered in his own behalf that
the other candidate made a great
blunder in making the charge. He
admitted the indictment, aud pointed
to the fact that he had ihu verdict of
twelve jurymen to the effect that he
was an honest mail, while his oppo
nent had never even been indicted,
aud consequently could not have
such a recommendation for the suf
frages of the people.”
How Sampson Slew the Philis
tines.—When I traveled in Palestine
ae old servant from the monastery of
Ranileli, about fifty miles we3t from
Jerusalem, showed me the supposed
place where Sampson killed 1,000
Philistines with tho jaw bone of an
ass. When I expressed my doubt as
to the length and «trength of a jaw
bone, considering the great number
of surrounding enemies, the good man
explained tho case in the following
manner: “Well, he took hold of the
a«s by the tail and swung the snirria!
against the Philistines in such a man
ner that only bis head, and of this
especially the jaw-bone, struck the
Philistines, keeping off in tl is way
the surrounding warriors, and giving
the blow the necessary force to kill.
I
the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments would seem to have been
merely political boomerangs, returning
to bruise the shine of the unhappy war
riors who were armed with them. Is
this really the view of the “clear bea
ded’’ statesmen enumerated by the cor
respondent, and were all their argu
ments and efforts for the past ten years
intended only to array “education, su
perior intelligence and property inter-
affirm that in this manner Sampson
could have slain a million Philistines,
arencs, the Democrats? If provided the; tail of the ass did not
break.”
President Hayes doesn’t find
Washington life so expensive as some
ot his predecessors have. He is re
ported as saying that during.tl e imt
six months of his term lie has spent
only $4,000 of the $25,000 which ho
has drawn, and that he thinks of rec
ommending Congress to reduce the
Executive’s yearly salary from $50,-
000 to the old figure of $*25,000.
In Men’s Clothes.
Ihe loan? Woman who Dressed, Smoked and
Shaved “ Like A Ban.”
[From the Bangor (Me.) Commercial.]
In the early part of July Mr. Jesse
Hinks, a farmer on Main.j$tjeet, hear
the Brewer Brick Company works, in
Brewer, Was called upou by a good-
looking young man who desired to
assist in haying. Mr. Ilinks engaged
the person, and Charles Works, as he
gave his name, commenced -to do all
the work of a common laborer on the
farm. Haying was in operation, and
he took hold with readiness and was a
thorough and efficient farm hand.
After remaining with Mr. Hinks till
the busy season was over, about a
month, and being out of \vorl^,he went
to Orrington, where be engaged board
with Mr. Louis Bolton, about a mile
below Orrington Corner. He re
mained there some little fntae, and
about the first week in September was
taken sick. ! ,‘
Several physicians were called at
different times during the sickness.
Dr. Buber, of Hampton; Dr. Wood
cock, of Brewer Village; Dr. Walton,
of this city, and Dr. Thomas, of
Brewer, all visited the patient. The
disease was pronounced infiamation of
the bowels, and in two r r three weeks
the sick person was up and around
all right. He told the Doctors who
had been to the trouble of visiting him
that he hud a brwthcf, a physician in
Aroostook county, who owed him some
-300. lie had,a friend in -Bangor,
howpver, who would settle the bill
The gentleman when seen told them
something that let a strange light on
the affair. The aforesaid Charles
Works, although the semblance ot a
man, was in reality a woman. This
soon spread, and the person of whom
a feminine pronoun must now be used,
soon found herself the subject of a
deal ot gossip. The surprise was very
great, and many could not believe the
report, but various suspicious things
were taken into account, aud last week
it became a settled fact that stw-twas a
woman, agd site acknowledged IjMtfter
some time.
She had, howevej, succeeded in dis
guising herself very perfectly, and none
mistrusted she was other than a man.
She wore men’s clothing and assumed
most of the habits of young men.
She smoked and chewed with the rest
of them, and Matdcy Rankin, the
wielder of the shears in Brewer, has
shaved her several times. She has
been around with the beys most of
the time, and spent one week on the
blueberry plains with them. Or all
these occasions no accident occurred
which would lead anyone to suppose
that she was other than her dress in
ti cated
She is spoken of as a person of a
free, open countenance, possessing by
r.o means coarse or masculine features,
and is of dark complexion, wearing
her hair, which is curly, cut close.
Nothing but down grew* on her face,
but since being shaved, the skin has
become rough and the growth of hair
encouraged. She has been in com
pany considerably during the season,
and has seemed to be much inclined to
flirt with the girls, thus inducing the
jealousy of some young fellows. She
has been especially attentive to ayoung
lady of Orrington, and has called on
her several evenings, doing the “ court
ing ” in good shape.
The reason given by her for her
strange conduct is that her mother,
who, according to the girl’s report,
lives in Dixmont, told her as her
father was dead they would have to
look to her for support, and thinking
she could get belter wages by assuming
the garb of a man 3he did so. She is
about twenty years of age, stout and
strong, and as a farm laborer gave
good satisfaction to her employer.
Saturday night she left Oningtou
without telling where she was going.
Warning to tea drinkers.— “ Haven’:
been well; what’s been the matter then
Betty?”
Betty—“ Well, I donno whether i.’s
cos I’m fond of u.av tay, but the doc
tor he do say I’m a suffering from a
bronze kettle affection.’’—Fun.
The Man Eater’s Meal.
away from him, until finally it was
entirely withdrawn. The crowd
{ San Fran cisco Chronicle]
t. C. Tapp, the celebrated shouted to Tapp to jump for his life,
Joseph has hardly a wrinkle. How
ard gave him so very little trouble.
American horse tamer, commenced a
week ago to tame the Petaluma Man-
eater, as described in last Sunday’s
issue, and has every day since given
public exhibitions of his process and-
progress in a temporary amphitheatre
in the rear of the Record stables on
Market, opposite Seventh. Yesterday
the Man-eater changed the programme
and tried to tame Tapp in so effective
a way that Tapp emerged sorelv woun
ded, and only by a miracle with his
life. 'The Man-eater, whose other
name is Coniac, is a dark dapple gray
Norman stallion, seven years old,
weighing in fighting trim 1,800
pounds, foaled in Normandy, France ;
imported two' years ago to Illinois,
and subsequently bought by Joseph
Wooden, the Norman horse-breeder,
of Petaluma, and brought to this State
and declared by horsemen to he the
finest horse of the breed ever brought
to America. Until brought to Illinois
lie had been an exceptionally gentle
animal, but, having indiscreetly, and
probably playfully, bitten out a couple
of pounds of an Illinois groom, he was
so injudiciously and brutally beaten
that, as Deacon Duncan would say, he
experienced a change of heart, all his
latent deviltry was developed, and he
has ever since been the terror of all
whom necessity has thrown into his
company. With, tj.e exception of oc
casionally eating a hostler he is an in
valuable brute, and; Mr. Wooden con
signed'him to Mr.' Tapp to haye r him
curled of this sole little foible. Yester
day at 2 o’clock the exhibition com
menced in the presence of about 200
spectators, and progressed till half past
three ,during which time the horse had
been handled by the Professor, and
even driven to a buggy, and appeared
perfelly tractable and to have kind of
lost his appetite for stablemen. After
being unhitched, he was cross-hobbled
by making a stout rope fast from the
fetlock of his nigh foreleg to that of
his off hind leg, an arrangement which
permitted him to trot, but prevented
his galloping, as also his kneeling
down, and which is why Tapp still
lives to again try conclusions with
him. The horse stood ner.r the center
of the inclosed circle, and the Profes
sor about midway between him and
the enclosed barricade, the horse per
fectly subdued under the eye of the
commander. Some person on a seat
in the rear of Tapp asked him a ques
tion, and for one instant Tapp removed
his eye and half turned his head to
answer. In that instant the crafty
brute sprang upon him like a tiger.
There was a yell of horror Irom the
spectators as the horse caught the man
up by the clothes at the small of his
baek, shook him as a terrier does a
rat, and flung him through the air
against the inclosing planking. Be
fore Tapp could regain his feet, the
ferocious monster was again upon him,
seizing him with his teeth by the left
shoulder and endeavoring to kneel
down upon him j which is bis last 8nd
most approved manner of killing his
keepers. This the cross-hobble pre
vented him from doing, and the cool
Professor, with his shoulder still in the
cruel grip of tin monster’s jaws, strug
gled to his feet, and with his right
hand so held the bit as to prevent as
far as possible, the successful working
cf the horse’s jaws. The crowd was
intensely excited.
Mr. Wooden seized a long pole and
poked it between the halier and the
horse’s lower jaw, and still further re
tarded the biting. The friends of
Tapp called for a gun, but there was
no gun, and what is remarkable in a
collection of two hundred Californians,
no one had a revolver, or the mur
derous brute would have been shot
dead instantly. The horse and Tapp
continued fighting half way around
the ring. Wooden, on the seats out
side, still hampering the former’s
efforts with the pole. The spectators
on’the front‘seats also did all they
could to distract the man eater’s at
tention; ouo lady seizing the ciutch of
a man sitting next her, and beating
the horse over the head with it. By
the aid of these distractions, Tapp was
enabled by degress to dra w his arm
through the horse’s jaws, the horse
chewing it impartially as it slipped
but the plucky trainer called for his
whip, and with his mangled left arm
dangling by his side so tickled the
fetlocks of Cogniac that that enter
prising animal was again in what Tapp
fondly calls subjection. Last evening
the trainer was in the stable office with
a friend pouring an odorous liniment
over his bandaged arm, and the Man-
eater with all his evil passions enflamed
with the taste of blood, was romping
around his prison and .eagerly reach
ing up for a mouthfp] of any timid
spectator that ventured near enough to
look down at him. The people will
continue to look forward with interest
to the solution of the problem of
whether Tapp wilt tame the Man-
eater or the Man-eater tame Tapp.
Senator Gordon.
[Washington Nations! Union.j
In an “interview” given in one of
the New York papers, Robert
Toombs (who didn’t call the roll ot
his slaves at the foot of Bunker Hill
monument) is reported as saying that
General Gordon wonld not be re
turned to the Senate, on account of
his “ eccentric” career.” What there
may have been in the conduct of ihe
Georgia Senator that should seem so
eccentric to Mr. Toombs wc cannot
divine. When so eccentric? Be.
fore or since his election to the Sen
ate ? He was indeejin the Confed-
crate army, which we adnntyriut. all
wrong—worse than eeceitlric—crimi
nal even, it Mr. Tnnmba wishes its to
so consider it. But he was a gallant
officer, never violating, as )vo have
heard, the strictest proprieties of civ
ilized warfare. That;,Gen. Gordon
was brave, his wounds attest—and he
wears them all on his front. Sin.'f
his election tc the Senate General
Gordon has been an active and
thorough paced Democrat, when he
should, in our opinion, have been as
active on the Republican side. His
frank and generaus nature would
have tbuml Republican allegiance a
congenial' service. *But he lias been
an honorable opponent. Fair, just
and liberal, leaving the confederacy
and its issues behind,'and accepting
the situation evidently in good faith,
he has acted the part of a courteous
and high-minded American Senator.
Mr. Robert Toombs calls this eccen
tricity, and says Mr. Gordon will not
be returned. Perhaps not. But the
country will commend the Senaioi’s
“ eccentricity,” and regret that one
from whom so much was hoped in the
work of re uniting the hearts of our
people should be remanded to private
life. But it may bo that Toombs is
no prophet.
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Hayes* Order.
That all may understand the rock
upon which the republican parly is
now stranded, wo give below the
famous order of the President:
Eyecutive Mansion, >
Washington, June 22, 1877. \
Sir : I desire to call your atten
tion to the following paragraph in a
letter addressed by me to the Secre
tary of the Treasury, on the conduct
to bo observed by the officers of the
general government in relation to the
elections: N.o officer should be re
quired or permitted to take part in
the management of political organi
zations, caucusses, conventions or
election campaigns Their right to
vote or express their views on ptiblio
questions, cither orally or through
the press, is not denied, provided it
does not interfere with the discharge
of their official duties. No assess
ment for political purposes on officers
or subordinates should he allowed.
This rule is applicable to every de
partment of the civil service. It
should lie understood by every offi
cer of the general government that
lie is expected to conform his con
duct to its requirements.
Very respectfully, R B. IIayes.
Public opinion in Iowa is begi li
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tho death penalty for murder; io
states the Burlington HawJceye.
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Faculty, Athens, Ga. oct2-lm.
To the Tax Payers of Clarke Co.
My books are now open for the collection of
State and County Tax lor the year 1377. Office
No. 1, Broad Street, over Mntnews & Jacksons’
Store. F. B. LUCAS.
oct28.6t Tax Collector Clarke GV.
WOOL CARDING.
Tho undersigned, having newly fitted up his
Carder, near Harmony Grove, is now prepared
to card Wool in a very superior manner. He
will fhratth oil, eta, and card at 10 ceur.i per
pound. Wocl left anywhere at Harmony
Grove will be taken to the carder and returned
free of charge. Country produce taken in pay
ment for carding. R. C. WILHITE.
octlO-lm.
pot
MEDICAL NOTICE.
At the solicitation of many „f my former
rons, I resume the
3Practi.ee of Medicine
from this date. 1 will pay especial attention to
the disease of Infants and Children, and tho
Chronic Diseases ot Females.
WM. KINO. M. D.
’une 16. 1375—83-ly
Notice to Tax Payers!
I will be found at the following places, npon
dates given:
ATHENS, until November 9th.
BRADBURY SHOP November 10th.
SAYE’S MILL ..November lStu.
WINTERV1LLE November 11*2..
GEORGIA FACTORY...November 15th.
F. B. LUCAS,
fcTax Collector Clarke Connly.