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13, 1877.: UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA LIBRARY
OLD SERIES, VOL. 56
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ATTORNEY AT LAW, j
Cnruesville, Ga. t i
anl8-18?S-tf
JACKSON A TIIOMAS,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Athene, Ga.
OfUca South West Comer of C'olk-ge Avenue
::n<i Ciavtoa Street, aba at tiie Court lionse.
All parties deMT'ngS'riiniiiul Warrnnts, can pot
them a*, any time hy applying to, the Comity
Solicitor at tills office. doclti-lfC-1-tf
HILL,
ATTORNEY AT
LAW,
Athens, Ga. fT
Prompt. attention given to all hhsincaa and
the same respectfully solicited. jnnll-ly
POl’K UaUTcOW. I>. C. Babiiow, Jk.
TKuh’oxv j j .. n | ’
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Aiiciir, Ga.
Olfloc over Tulu .idga, Hojgsou & Co.
jan4-1y
]j 33. TlfltAHHEU,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Wutkinsville, Ga. ', i
Office in former Ordinary a Office.
jan25-1876-’y
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Serenading tbe wrong Party
C. Claude t Culpepper, came down
from Dayton, Wedffeiday evening
witlMW wimtiop. 11 D/tringi^Vo Ipig 1 *t
Lexington, of youth he had met a
Baymiller street belle, who smote him
heart and soul. Mr. Culpepper’s in
tention in coining to Ciucinuali was to
serenade his love. So, gathering a
qu: r.ette of his tuneful friends, he
started for the house of his heart’s
idol. It was twelve o’clock when the
boys anchored under the window of
what C. Claude believed was the shel
tering fold of his dear lamb. He
made a mistake of 100 in numbering
the houses, and it was John Sanscript’s
humble abode that was about to be
honored with a serenade. John,
however, is uiie ef those misanthropic
The American Comnutne.
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A Tlllftr COHHUXITY IX PENNSYLVANIA.
I [From the Philadelphia Pres*.]
Darby, Pa., October 20—In a
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woodland on Darby road, in one of
the moi-t picturesque sections cf
country in the vicinity of Philadcl-
pliia, there is a curious little commu
nity or settlement of t raiups. During
tin day the lounge around , fires of
brushwood, made in a little stony
hollow, sometimes singing, sometimes
cooking or mending, or washing,
sometimes drinking. Occasionally
some of them, spurred by appetite,
or tired of idleness, go out into the
fields and gather herbs or flowers,
and bring them into the city to sell,
and with tlie money received buy
whisky, upon which they all get
drunk, and make the woods ring
‘ i i • . i i.i men who never seems to recognize a
with songs and boisterous laughter °
favor when they meet one and when
he was awakened from his slumber
of standard
es, coal, liair
old man, thrusting his j York, a Republican iu politics, np-
fot the window. It took j pointed to arrest crime aadadvocating
Jv ten seconds
j; pitch boots, shoes,
•jf books, toilet sets, ottoman,
lies and all upon the heads of
or-stricken serenaders below.
Ho quartette realized the sit-
he storm was over. They
Ived, bat were unmercifully
sd. And when a voice
ni above, articulated in the
the one word “git," they
"Pulpit Diatribe.
p a. THOJimsoTf,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Speciul attention paid to crir.ii-.el practice.
For reference apply to Ex-Gov. T. ll. Watts
and Hon. Huvla Olopton, Montgomery, Ala.
i iffioe over P.xtUfllea Atheiu, Ga.
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JOHN' XV. OWEN,
ATTOUXF.Y AX LAW,
Toeon City, Ga.
Will practice in all tlie counties of the We;t-
••rn Circuit. Hart and Madison of tlw Northern
' '.".cult. Till give special attenion to all claims
eutre t'o .o liis care. oct20-lS75-ly.
Lamar Cobb. Howell Cobb.
<fc II. COBB,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Athens, Gr.J
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Office in Denpree building,
ftr-tS-ISIO-lv
Alev S. Erwin. Asprkw J. Cobb.
yRwiN & conn.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
Athens, Ga
i tffico on Corner of Bioad and Thomas streets,
over Childs, Nickerson & Co. •
fek22-1870-]y
M. COCIIHAN,
ATTORITEY .&T LAW,
Gainesville, Go.
^Reul Estate and General Land Agent for the
n.irebtise and sale of Mineral and Farming
Lands in Hall, and the other conntiesof Nortli-
oart Georgia. Mineral ores tested and titles to
property investigated. Special attention given
totlio purchase and sale of city property,
may2—lim J. N. DORSEY. Attorney
^SIHJHYG. MoCUURY,
Attorney act X.aTT,
ii.UITWKLI., GcOROIA,
Will practice in the Superior Courts of North
east Geoigia and Supreme Court nt Atlanta.
Aug 8. 187fi tf
James K. Lyle, Alex. S. Ekwin,
Watkinsvllle. Athens.
| YI.i: .t ERWIN,
A TTORNEY'S A T LA TF.
Wall practice in partnership in the Superior
Court of Oconee County, and attend promptly
to all business intrusted to their care.
j&sd-Sin.
sttshtesss clqjrds.
fjl A. 1LKR,
evtcLurraiaJ.-Enr St Jewalor,
At Michaei’storCj next doorto Reave; «fc Nich
olson's, Broad street, Athens, Georgia. All
work warranted 12 months.
septlS-tf.
£ SCIIAKPER,
GOTTOZT
BTTVER,
Toeoa City, Ga.
price paid for cotton. Agent
na and Pre*a. oeSO-1876-tf
It. LITTLE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Carncsville, Ga.
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CUAS. C. JONES, JIL
joistss
T. a EV1.
«sc avii,
ATTORXEVS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW
SIBLEY’S NEW BUILDING,
241 BROAD STREET, ACGl'STA, GEORGIA.
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J^IVERY AND SALE STABLE.
Carriages, Bugglea «fc Mosses
for hire. Terms reasonable.
E. M. WHITEHEAD,
Washington, Wilkes county, Ga.
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or savage cries.
The size of this motley gatering
varies the • ;me and the seasons. It
hardly ever numbers less than twen
ty, and has reached to eiglity. There
are men and women, old and young.
Nearly all day long, as I have said,
they linger around the fires in the
wood, and when the weather is not
unpleasantly told they also sleep out.
imd<-r the trees; hut in i"he winter,
and when storms ol great violence
occur, they take refuge in barns in
the neighborhood. Upon a beautiful
wooden knoll they liavo set up a
little cabin made of logs and the bark
of treess. In the stony hollow in the
side of a hill, where they pass much
of their time, they have kettles and
pans and other household utensils,
and a wooden tripod upon which to
hang a kettle over, a fire, and strung
from tree :<> tree, lines upon which
to hang their clothes to dry. They
fare well. They beg from the farm
ers in the neighborhood, who dare
not reluse them, and fear even to
murmur at their demands. Any
offence to them might result in the
burning of the liarn or home of the
helpless offender. It is no wonder
that a man should live ; n dread with
a gang of lawless vagabonds about
his door, and no protection near him
for himself or his wife or daughters.
This community seems to be gov
erned by a master and mistress—the
latter an old, white-haired wretch,
who has been known in the vicinity
for years. They receive the allegi
ance of all the others, and refuse
admittance into the circle to such
applicants as do not for any reason
please their fancy. Of course their
authority is not always submitted to,
but to a great extent they are rulers
of the colony. The society generally
is not inviting, and individually it is
repulsive. So many low-browed,
scowling, savage human beings one
seldom meets with in the same day.
If an honest laborer looks contemp
tuously at them, they scowl in return
or mutter threateningly; if a curious
stranger go too near their residence,
they warn him off, or if he laugh at
their patched garments flapping in
the breeze, they curse him; if he al
ludes to them as bummers, they rise
in their majesty and pour forth their
indignation. Now, to break up this
settlement is a question which has
agitated the minds of the fanners
round about for a long time. Win
ter does not destroy it. All last
winter the tramps could be tracked
by the footprints on the snow from
the barn where" they slept to the
hollow in the wools, where they had
gathered together an immense mound
of leaves and withered brush. No
one is willing to order them off. It
is not safe. They have been toler
ated until patience has given way,
and how to get rid of them is a
problem yet to be solved.
by “ Don’t you remember sweet
Alice, Ben Bolt?” snug in one treble,
ope tenor, two basses and four keys,
he was, to draw it mild, ruffled in his
temper. Mrs. Sanscript heard the
melody, too, and whispered, “ Them’s
serenaders.”
“I’ll serenade them,” snarled John,
getting up, opening the Minds shyly
and looking down upon the choirisiers
below.
“ What in the name of the Nuuii-
dian lion are you going to do?’>
asked Mrs. S., rather uneasily.
“ Just wait and see,” said he, gath
oring up an armful of boots and
laying them do\\*n handy near the
window,
Just then the boys tuned up—
Thou art so nsar, and yet so tkr!
“Not so' far as you imaghit-,^
growled Sanscript, as lie dumped the
coal front the scuttle conveniently
near the window. Then he tugged
the brimming slop-bucket across the
room and added it to his armory
just as the gay gamboliers switched
off into—
AVhat lias a poor girl
Bat her unme tc oeteud licr?
“She sometimes find her father
does that pleasant duty,’’ muttered
the desperate man. The boys were
singing a medley, and while Sanscript
was gathin the tongs and shovels,
they began to warble:
My heart is broke, God knows it is!
“ And your head will be in the
sa ne condition when I get through
with you,” panted the avenger. Then
he added the Bible, Webster’s una
bridged dictionary to the pile ol mis
siles by the window at the very mo
ment there floated up from below—
•• I shall lit er forget the day ?
“ Nor will you ever forget the
night when you came to serenade iny
Ionise,” smiled the old innu, reaching
for the oil can.
Oh! my heart is gone !
sang the boys under the window.
“ Yes, and if you saw me pilling up
these bricks from the fire-place you’d
fellow your heart mighty quick.”
Thou art sleeping, ray^love,
Thou art sleeping!
chimed the quartette.
“I’ll be if I ain,’’declared
Sanscript, as he scooped up the hair
brushes and the toilet set from the
dressing case. While he was toting
tie ottoman across the room, the
boys pitched into—
Don’t forget your little darling!
“ Oil, I’ll never forget you, never
fear, and you won’t forget mo either,
after I am through with you.’’
Open the windew, my dearest one,
“ Damme if I don’t,” grinned San
script, as he added a pailful of ashes
to the pile of destruction by tie
window.
Come, birdie,
“I’m coming, you yelping hound, 1
On ffiday night last Rev. Do Wilt
Tahnadge thus poured out the vials
of his^rulh upon the head of John
Morrisgfcy;
AN O AVION FOR JOHN MORRISSEY.
Our natural politeness leads ns
first to mention the politics on the
ether _ jde. Talk of the height of
Trinitj Church steeple? There’s
somet| ng higher than that in New
Yorkv* [Talk of $16,000,000 spent in
buildiu | their new court house 1
There® a wose infamy that. It is
the o^rstopping, overtowering fact
most notorious gambler of
lited States could get. the
for the high office of
lioator and that many Dnmo-
many Republicans arc now
g for his election. John
y, the reformer! (Laugh
! Ha 1 I wonder if Herod
the Gi ?at won’t open an infant school!
to beh If of all the respectable homes
of Bro klyn and New York I protest
againe .the elevation of that jailbird,
indictc l for burglary, .indicted for
nmgjMqgff battery with iutent to
kill, inflicted eighteen times, his
gambling lieHs scattered in different
parts of this country. I think it is
high time that the pulpits of the
land spokeout. (Applause.) Where
are the New York pulpits, the
guardians of the morals of the peo
ple ? Are they dumb dogs that
cannot bark ? There is no one man
in the United States who is doing so
much to debauch young men as that
public villian. He is fast making
gambling respectable. There .s no
man from ocean to ocean the repre
sentative of so much sin as John Mor
rissey. Tweed trafficked in contracts,
Morrissey traffics in the bodies and
souls of men. lie is, in his gambling
hells, breaking up a home every hour
of every day of every year. He is
covered with the blood of his victims.
I was very much blamed, some six
months ago, for saying that I wished
this man was oft* the face of the
earth. I will go fnrther to-night and
say I wish he had never been born.
(Laughter.) You say lie keeps only
the better class of gaining bouses—
none of these low places behind
rough screens, where men shuffle
their greasy cards and chuckle, with
rings in their ears instead of their
noses. His places are palatial, mir-
rored, silver-pitchered, bronze-statu-
etted, upholstered, the carpets and
curtains as crimson as though dipped
in the red carnage of his victims, the
fountains tossing in sheaves of crystal
to drop in rain of pearl. All the
more dangerous for that! If you
are going to lead men to destruction
don’t cover up the tracks with rose
leaves; give them at least one chance
for life. One brilliant gambling
saloon will do more harm than one
hundred vulgar of appearance. New
York is not so rich in shipping and
commercial palaces that it can afford
this outrage. Let Wall street and
Water street and Front street and
Broadway shut up their stores and
offices for two days and band to
gether to fight back this plague.
The Attorney General of New
Morrisey, and prominent Democrats
speaking: themselves hoarse from
night to night in behalf of him! If
that be Republicanism let it go into
everlasting demolition ; and if tlat
be Democracy let the red lightnings
of God’s wrath-split it to flinders*
(Applause.) It is amazing that any
party influence, that any working of
political machinery, that, any possible
combination of circumstances, should
bring decent men to bow before this
hero of fisticuff, this universal hater,
this champion cf nose-pounders, this
lowest rinsing of the political sewer,
this king of bruisers, this smasher of
the human visage, this foul, execrable,
unmitigated outrage which the slums
of New York are trying to spew into
into the State Senate. (Great ap
plause.)
How John will shake hra sides over
this outburst.
“The Dance of Death.”
A ROOK THAT HAS 3 IDF. A SF.XSA ITOX OX THE
Pacific co as r.
San Francisco, October 2.—A
ripple of excitement has agitated the
society circles of San Francisco for
the last two months, the subject of
discussion being the morality of mod
ern dancing and its moving factor,
the appearance of a little book with
the ominous title of “The Dance of
Death,” by William Herman, a iiom
de plume assumed by one W. II.
Rulofson, a photographer of this city.
Among the other surprises and flut-
terings caused by the appearance of
the little volume was the claim of Mr.
Forrest’s Challenge to Kil
patrick.
In a sketch of the late Gen. Fori est
the New York "Worldsays:
Gen. Forrest was not an educated
soldier, but he had that within him—
energy, dash and pluck—which goes
to make a successful cavalryman.
Flint he was successful, his remark
able marches and numerous victories
fully attest. More than one ttuw^ary
federal General went into camp in
fancied security thinking the enemy
an hundred miles away, and before
morning, was awakened by an attack
in force, against which he was power
less. His excuse at headquarters
would be that it was Forrest who
had made the attack. The cavalry
man's movements were as rapid and
eccentric as those of a guerilla, yet
ho carried with him always a large
and well-organized force. Some-one
asked him just before the close of the
war, when his victories made him par
ticularly conspicuous, what was the
secret of his success. In his own
homely way lie said that it was by
“gitting the most men thar fust.”
Summer before last, when Genera!
Judson Kilpatrick was canvassing
Indiana for the Republicans, lie spoke
of Gen. Forrest iu such a way that
the latter challenged him to fight a
duel. As soon as the challenge was
sent, Forrest, wrote to Gen. Basil
Duke, of Kentucky, that, in case his
invitation was accepted—which he
did not doubt for a moment—he
would call on Duke to bo his second,
The letter further said that in the
uecessaiy arrangement, he would
like Gen. Duke to insist that the duep
be fought on horseback with sabres,
a scholar, and people who know the
putative author kuow him to be inca
pable of any higher literary flight
than an advertisement setting forth
the superior excellence of his photo-
gi aplis.
It now appears that " The Dance”
was really written by a son-in-law of
Mr. Ilulolson’s, a Mr. Harcourt, a
Cambridge (England) man, who is
assisting Mr. Hubert Bancroft in the
preparation of his historical works on
the “Native Races of the Pacific
Coast ” and the early history of Cali
fornia. The book itself is an extra
ordinary production to emanate from
a decent man or to circulate among
decent people. If one-half its charges
against, the votaries of the waltz, the
German and the Boston are worthy
of belief, the current morality of our
day and generation has reached a
disgustingly low standand. It is to
he hoped that few of his readers will
accept the conclusions of the author,
as it is obvious that whatever judg
ment of morals lie may possess is
overborne by the exuberance of a
prurient imagination.
Report says that Rulofson hns
made $10,000 by the sale of the pub
lication ; and as his financial success
has aroused the envy of all the cheap
literateurs of the town, we stand in
fear of a whole brood of nasty publi
cations.
Luckily, an antidote has appeared
under the title of “The Dance of
Life,” by “ Mrs. Dr. J. Milton Brow
ers.” I give her cognomen in full,
though it leaves one in the dark as
to whether she is a doctress or only
the wife of a doctor. Whichever she
may be, she is obviously an adept in
the art of concocting quack advertise
ments, of which there is a strong
flavor in her otherwise vapid and dull
pages. The book is so fearfully and
intolerably stupid that it is likely to
deter its readers from ever again
opening a volume with “Dance”
upon its cover or title page.
cavalryman to meet. Gen. Dube at
once engaged for his principal a steed
for the encounter—a horse recom
mended by his owner to go over a
church steeple, if necessary—and
awaited Gen. Kilpatrick’s reply.
Kilpatrick, however, declined to
fight, on the ground that he and
Forrest “did not move iu the same
social sphere.’’ Had this duel taken
place, it doubtless would have been
conducted in a style delightfully
dramatic.
Astonishing Success.—It i« the
duty of every person who has used
Boschee’s German Syrup to let its
wonderful qualities he known to their
friends in curing Consumption, severe-
Coughs, Croup, Asthma, Pneumonia,
and in fact all throat and lung diseases.
No person can use it without immediate
relief. Three doses will relieve any
case, and we consider it the duty of
all Druggists to recommend it to the
poor dying consumptive, at least to try
one bottle, as 40,000 dozen bottles
were sold last year, and no one case
where it failed was reported. Such a
medicine as the German Syrup can
not be too widely known. Ask your
Druggists about It. Sample Bottles 16
try sold at 10 cents. Regular size 75
ce>’ts. For sale by
R. T. Brumby & Co
Now and Then.—It is only now
and then that such men as Hon. Alex.
H. Stephens, Ex-Gov, Smith ard*
Ex Gov. Brown of Ga., endorse a
medicine for the throat and lungs, and
when they doit is pretty good evidence
that the remedy must be good for the
cure of coughs, colds and lung affec
tions. They recommend the Globe
Flower Couon Syrup, and their
testimonials are to be seen round the
teu cent sample bottles of the Globe
Flower Syrup, for sale by
Dr. C. W. Long & Co.,
Athens, Ga.
A sample bottle relieves the worst
cough and will cure sore throat.
Regular size bottles, fifty doses, $1.