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THE ATHENS GEORGIAN NOVEMBER 27, 1877.
Detroit’s Pretty Barber.
Mow the Urn. K. l’erkln* (ant Siiav. d and tlu-n I
Misteil a Train. * |
Detroit, Nov. 5.—This morning,
on a street hero, a gentleman hand
ed me this card
Emma Willard,
BARBERESS,
Shaving, Shampooning, and Hair*
dressing,
8 Woodbridgo street.
“ Do von mean to say you have a
woman barber in Detroit ?” I asked.
“Yes, sir—two of ’em—and two as
pretty girls as there are in the city,
too.'
How Silver Coin Was De
monetized.
The Xetr York Press and the lliidiioldl-ig Aria*
tocrary.
Editors Constitution: If there is
any truth in the old and familiar
adage, that “ whom the god3 would
destroy they first make mad,” the
majority of the New York press, un
der the influence of the money power,
are on the high way to destruction.
The New York Herald, Times, Tri
bune, World, Journal of Commerce
and 1 he South, (God save the mark,)
are rampant and indulge in all man-
In a few moments I w :.'.*e.i up ner of slan K a »d ridicule against the
Woodbridge street, and sure enough,
there was the sign ami a pretty girl
■standing by the .window honing a
■razor. E wanted to go in and get
shaved, and still I conld not make up
any mind to do it. Three times I
■walked bv, and finally I formed a
courageous resolution, and, hanging
mv head as a member of the Young
Men’s Christian Association does
when be goes into the Mabile or
Harry Hill’s, I plunged in. I trem
bled from bead to foot as soon as I
entered the door. I could’t look the
pretty barberess in the face. I
couldn’t summon up courage enough
to speak to her. In lact, had noth
ing to say. So I stood and looked
very sheepish.
“Have a shave, sir?’’ said the
pivlt) barberess, advancing with a
mz:>; in one hand, and with the otV.or
pointing to the chair.
Y *, shaved! I gasped and llnng
myself into a chair.
“Why, you’r just been shaved!’’
she said, drawing her silky palm
across my face.
“ Have I ?” I said, and then re
collecting, I stammered, “ Ah, yes,
shaved this morning, early. I always
shave twice a day.”
“Shave close?” asked the pretty
girl.
“ Yes, the closer the better.”
“ Hair cut, too ?”
“Yes, everything!”
And then she commenced. With
a little camel’s hair brush she painted
* niv face with white soap suds. T^enfj
she put her little fingers plump
against niy face and rubbed it all
over. She stood behind me, and put
her arms around my neck. I saw
her in the glass in front. I never
felt so in iny life. “ What would
my wife say to this?’’ I thought.
“ Still, everybody in Detroit does it,
and why not I ?’’ so I shut my eyes
and let her go on. After rubbing
her velvet fingers over my cheeks
a <i chin till the beard was softened,
she took out a razor, honed it, and
placing one arm clear around my
head and her hand against my face
to steady it, commenced the down
ward movement of the blade Once
oi twice I tried to look tlio pretty
barberess in the face, but 1 couldn’t.
So I sat and took it with iny eyes
shut. I don’t think I enjoyed it.
And still I let her go on. She shaved
me, drew her silky hand all over
my face to see if it was closely shav
en, and then combed iny hair.
“ Shall I wax your moustache, sir
she asked.
“Yes, wax away!’’
44 Then she leaned over me till *
could hear her breathe ami feel her
heart beat, placed her little fingers
under iny moustache and waxed the
ends. Now I never wear my mous
tach waxed, but I couldn’t ask her to
stop.
“ There! does it suit ?** she said as
she dusted off neck and removed the
apron.
“ Yes, it's just right—lovely!’’ I
said, " too sweet for anything!” and
ban strode down to tho depot to
find the train just gone, and that
this Detroit barberess had caused
me to miss a lecture engagement and
a hundred dollar fee.
No more pretty girl barberesses
for me.
Eli Perkins.
“ dollar of our daddyites *’ and the
“ rag baby,” as they are pleased to
designate silver coin and greenbacks.
There are some noble exceptions,
however, among them the Irish World,
the Irish Democrat and perhaps the
Sun.
The Herald, especially, frets in its
toils like a blind adder made mad,
and its every issue has a tirade of
vituperation and spleen. It calls
those members of congress, who favor
the remonetization of silver, 44 schem
ers and intriguers” who are guilty of
a “ piece of swindling scoundrelism,”
and says that their project was “ con
ceived in sin and born in iniquity.’’
It further says that the 44 rag baby ”
has beeu flung into the “ rubbish
heap.” The wish, no doubt, is father
to the thought, and the Herald, in its
blindness, mistakes a soft downy bed
lor a rubbish heap.” The
baby
rest.
strong and kicks livelier and crows
more fusiily than ever before.
But to return to the text. Those
eastern boudholding journals have so
long served the interest of the money
power and bondholders that they have
become perfectly indifferent to the
interests of Uucle Sam and the peo
ple. Why do they not tell their
readers of the schemers and intriguers
who demonetized silver in 1872 ?
When that great fraud was enacted,
for the_ purpose of compelling the
people to pay taxes and ^interest iu Can a, W^fe H,
Thrasii's Consumptive Cure.—
•Sure cure for consumption, bronchi
tis,coughs, croup, colds, and all lung
affections. . Restores lost voice; etc.
Call at Dr. Ed. Smith’s drug store,
Dr. King’s old stand, and get a trial
bottle for 50 amts. Large size $1 50
can prosper without a domestic cur
rency which cannot be drained from
the country .by the balance of trade.
Therefore, it is ouly a question of time,
and it will not he Irngat that, until
greenbacks are restored to what thev
were originally intended—a full legal
tender for all purposes. They will
then immediately spring, to par with
gold. The man who opposes the re
peal of the resumption, act, and ridi
cules at and stigmatizes greenbacks, is
a repudiationist, and ought to hang his
head with shame.
The great founder of democracy,
Thomas Jefferson, was a greenback
man and said that ^treasury notes
founded on taxes, thrown^ into circula
tion, will take the place of so much
gold and silver.’! John C. Calhoun
entertained a.id expressed similar
views. .The democracy of Ohio have
spoken in no uncertain tones on the
subject. The national democratic
party, in convention, in 18G8, endorsed
the same views, but the southern
question was upon them and blind
fanaticism ruled they tfere beaten, as
was the gallant Allen of Ohio in his
memorable fight with Hayes. Now,
that the southern question is past, let
the west and the south^Dnite and by
one herculean effort, undo all the
fraudulent legislation which has been
enacted in the interestjuf the bullion-
ists and bondholders, to the detri
ment of the best interests of the
people, and start our country, who-c
territory and resources are alike
inexhaustible, on the high road of
improvement hud prosperity, inde-
S indent of balliouisLvntf England,
ermany or any other monarchy.
The talk about over production is
all ridiculously absurd.- Tnero has
been an over production of but one
article in this country and that is
interest, gold bearing,^ non-taxable
The Minerals of Georgia.
rag j
iby ” is only taking a quiet, healthy !»fc#ijrthe bonds with their
.1, U U , ;i U .live, && 'oU
gold cgjn, they were either as dumb as
oysters on the subject, or else approved
the nefarious swindle.
The bill demonetizing silver was
pushed through congress at midnight,
when but few members were present,
without any demand for it from the
people, and in fact was not generally
known until after congress adjourned.
According to the Congressional Re
cord, of April 9th, 1872 page 2032,
“one Ernest Seyd, of London, a
writer and bullionist, was present with
the committee, examined the draft of
the bill and made various suggestions
which the committee adopted and
embodied in the bill.*’ Now, who was
this man Seyd, and what right hud he
to be with the committee on coinage?
Let the Banker’s Magazine, of August
1873, answer. It says that a capital
of one hundred thousand pounds
(500,000) was raised and Ernest Seyd,
of London, was sent to this- country
with this fund as the agent of the
foreign bondholders and capitalists, to
effect the object of demonetizing silver,
which was successful.” Here is
scheming indeed!
Dark as it is, it is only in keeping
with almost eveiy action of the party
in power, upon the money question,
since 1862 ! Is it any wonder, then,
that the people are awaking all over
the country, especially in the west and
south, and demanding that these nefa
rious anu iniquitious acts of schemers
in power be repealed ? Have not the
people and the material interests of
this great country suffered enough
already? Have there not been enough
of failures, financial disasters, misery
and suicidism already to satiate the
appetite of the golden god ? Ouly last
month there were sixty-one failures
reported in New York city, involving
liabilities to the extent of $9,000,000,
to say nothing of the numerous small
er failures not reported! One of the
New York dailies states that the aver
age number of suicides in that city per
day is five! Cause, generally financial
embarrassment and inability to obtain
work.
The people are fast, learning that
“hard money and hard times’’are
synonymous terms, and that no nation
tract, which a scheming congress
changed. Wo have buard enough
twaddle about the plighted faith of
the goveonincut to the money power
and bondholders. It 4s time that
plighted faith o'f the government to
tile people was respected.'
Make the greenbacks a' full legal
tender, and let the government issue
them direct.
When Congress docs these tilings,
and not tilt then, will woJiave better
time. Yours tor truth,
Dani£iJPittman.
Atlanta, Ga, Nov. 14, lb77.
Hus-
baw
A novel question came up before
Judge Schenck, at Asheville, N. C.,
the other day. At the spring term of
Buncombe court, Judge Furches sen
tenced one Shaft to imprisonment in
the county jail for a month, the coun
ty commissioners, having seen the
recent acts of the assembly allowing
them to hire out convicts to the public
works or individuals, proceeded to hire
Shaft out to his wife for five dollars
per month, and Shaft moved his head
quarters to the old domicil as the pris
oner and hireling of his wife. "The
matter being now presented by the
Solicitor to the Court, his Honor or
dered that Shaft be committed to
prison a3 an escaped convict, holding
that, though the letter of the law had
been complied with, it was a violation
of its spirit and meaning, and a virtu
al nullification of the sentence of the
court. Captain McLoud, the pris
oner’s counsel, has appealed to the
Supreme Court.
Senator Patterson.
There is a member of the United
States Senate, enjoying daily the
association of its members, who is a
disgrace to that body. He answers
at roll-call to the name of John Pat
terson—John Patterson, of South
Carolina. lie is under indictment at
home for bribery. Some twenty-four
colored ex-members have sworn that
he bribed them with money. A re
quisition for him from the Governor
of his State is in Washington, where
ho is seeking the aid of the local
conrts to prevent his being returned
to the bosom of his constituents. He
may succeed by some sharp “ quillet
of the law,” very likely he will. But
to make sure, our Washington dis
patches inform us that he wants his
case referred to a committee f«»r in
vestigation. That would consume, if
needs be, the whole session, as liis
That the readers of the “ Geor
gian’\ may have some idea of the
mineral wealth of Georgia which the
Geological Bureau, tinder the super
vision of Dr. Little, is doing so much
to develop, we copy from the '‘Pros
pectus, or Georgia Life and Guide,”
a paper recently started by Col. E.
Y. Clarke, of Atlanta, the following
account of the mineral exhibit made
at the recent State Fair:
In visiting the fair grounds otir at
tention was attracted to a huge lump
of coal of Centennial dimensions,
which, <>n inquiry, we learned was
from the Castle lloek mine in Dade
county, where the Black Diamonds
had been mined by Mark E. Cooper,
years ago, and where our Senator of
national renown, John B. Gordon, had
brought light out of darkness by the
exhuming of this wonderful concen
tration of heat and energy from be
neath the Sandstone Cap of Lookout
Mountain, and furnishing the fuel to
melt the fossiliferous ores of the Dade
Valley and the Liminito ores of the
Etowah.
While this honored citizen of Geor
gia left the hills of Dade and the
miner’s pick to handle the musket
and wield the swor<|, these mines
were turned over to the bats for sev
eral years. When reconstruction be
gan, Atlanta enterprise, in the persons
of cx Gov. Jos.jij. Brown and Joint
T. Grant, united with Maine sagaci-
| ty, as represente'd by W. C. Morril,
tli their and Boston capital furnished by Jacob
Seaver, ‘o develop anew ibis mighty
poirer in modern civilization, and
to-day the furnaces and rolling mills
of Chattanooga and the engines of
the Statu Road arc furnished with
fuel and motive power from this 4x5
feet adit in the side of Sand Moun
tain, which the engineering skill of
B. C. Well has connected with.the
Memphis & Charleston Railroad at
Shell Mound.
Car load after car load brings daily
the coal and the coke equal to the
best of Penn iylvania, not only to the
furnaces and rolling mills of Chatta
nooga, but to the itomes and firesides
of mnuy families in Atlanta who take
a pride in warming themselves by the
fuel from their own State, stored
away centuries and ages ago by a
wise Providence tor their comfort.
Entering tlio Art Building, we
found that this sign board was but
the invitation to the feast. Here we
found lime and cement and hydraulic
cement from the Bartow quarics of
Ladd, and the Catoosa kilns of Gray,
and the Kingston .rills of Waring,
equal to any wo have seen from any
State.
Passing on further, we found mar
bles from Walker, and Whitfield, and
Pickens, and Floyd, and Polk coun
ties, pure white and flesh colored,
dark red, blue, variegated and black.
Then came granites from DeKalb,
and Oglethorpe, and Newton, and
Douglas counties; serpentine from
Rabun and soap-tone from Hall and
Habersham, and other counties.
Asbestos followed from Troup and
Fulton and a half dozen other locali
ties, which we learned was being
shipped to New York at the rate of
forty tons a month by Senator As-
bury, of White county, and was worth
iu the North $50 a ton.
Alongside of this wo found mica
from Cherokee, and Pickens, and
Union, which is equal tothat in North
Carolina, worked by the mound
builders, and from which, in the last
seven years, Mr. Hecp, of Bakers-
ville, North Carolina has heaped up a
fortune ot a quarter of a million dol
lars.
Then followed the ferro-manganese
RcpuL
lican majority in that body is becom
ing small by degrees and beautifully
less, and the morally rotten, in th*e
growing party decreptitude, may not
be so offensive as under other circum
stances. But for the countenance
Republican senators give Patterson
he would not appear in the Senate
chamber. The self-respect, so to
E k, of such a body as the Senate,
ild hold a loftier head, and not
be forgetful or unmindful of the
proverb of the dead fly in the pot of
ointment.— Cincinnati Enquirer.
Kerosine oil at J JJH. (Huggins’ at
25 cents per gallon.
Atlanta holds its own alongside of
Macon in this mining enterprise, as is
shown by the rich yellow sulphurate
trom the mine of James Banks, and
Dr. Hell, and Mr. Sawtell in Pauld
ing county. Near these we found
huge blocks of iron Pyrites or Fool’s
Gold, which Professor Loughbridge,
who was iu charge of the collection
of the Geological Survey informed us,
would he better called the Gold of
Wise Men, if our farmers only knew
that it furnishes half of the actual
weight of the fertilizers for which
they pay three million dollars every
year, while it only costs ten dollars a
ton to deliver : t in Atlanta, a>’d they
could get the Charleston Phosphates
at $66.50 a ton and manufacture the
fei tilizers for a dollar more a ton,
making 817.50 a ton foi material for
which the lowest cash price now is
thirty-five dollars a ton. Passing on
from this mine of wealth we found a
glass case containing big lumps of
gold the 44 White Path ” mines of
Gilmer and the “ Sixes ” in Cherokee,
and the “ Nacoochee ’’ mine in White
county. Hurrying on from these
temptir.g metals and the precious
stones, beryl!, and ruby, and sap
phire, and opal, and amethyst, which
were lying around them, we passed to
blocks of marl from Early and Wash
ington, and many other counties, and
the Greensand from Houston, and
Twiggs, and Stewart, which we were
told contained as much as 8 per qent.
of potash, which, yro now import, from
Germany to fertilize the ifields above
these beds of tlpp material provided
ready at our .hands. When we
looked at these. neglected mines pi
wealth, and saw the beautiful speci
mens of polished wood of every kind
—pine, and liicory, and walnut, and
cheery, and a hundred others, and
saw the maps on which were indi
cated the hundreds and thousands of
fine water powers which now .run to
waste in opr State, we could but feel
that Georgia, had its full share of
everything calculated to produce
wealth and stimulate industry, and
that beyond the present mists which
dim the ( .vision aud dampen the order
of our people, there was a bright and
dazzling future for ouv Empire State,
and we felt grateful for the inaugu
ration of the Geological Survey of
Georgia by the Legislature of 1874,
and especially to Dr. Henry II. Carl
ton, ol Clarke, who introduced the
bill for its establishment, and to our
honored ex-Governor James M.
Smith, who did so much to make it a
success.
vote in the Senate, on party questions, from Ward’s Diamond lurnaco in
is becoming valuable. Thu RcpuL- Bartow, which excels any made in
this country or in Europe, aud which
pours out at the rate of $300 a day
from the little furnace on Stamp
Creek. Copper ores came next in
order, from the belt on which, in
Pennsylvania, Julius Raht has made
a million dollars, and from which our
Middle Georgia frionds, C. A. Nut
ting, and Da rid E. Butler, aud Dr.
James Hamilton, will reap a rich
reward for the labor and expense of
of opening the mines in Haralson
county. ,
Trailing Skirts.—It is stated that
the municipal authorities of Leipsic,
Germany, have proclaimed a fine of
ten marks on any woman who wears
trailing dresses on the streets of that
city. The proclamation also orders
the police to arrest such offenders,
and their names are to be published
in the local papers. It is difficult to
believe that any government is des
potic enough to thus interfere with
any feminine prerogative in the mat
ter of dress, bnt perhaps the inter
ference in this case is as a sanitary
measure, which American ladies
would do well to observe without
lagal compulsion.
The President has appointed Thurs
day, the 29ih inst., as a day of Na-
t : onal Thanksgiving. The -people of
the South have great reason to be
grateful to the Supreme being, that
He lias overruled • a most infamous
fraud iu seating a Radical in the
Presidential chair, to the liberating of
three Southern States from an equal
ly fraudulent tyranny.
The Athens Georgian gives some
excellent advice ns to the folly of di
visions in the democratic camp, and
the general disposition t o encourage
scrub races and independent candi
dates. Iu union only is there
strength.—Covington Enterprise.
A Marion comity man will make
one thousand dollars this season on
the sale of apples of his own raising,
and in addition to this, he has manu
factured three thousand gallons of
wine. His name is Hollis Belk.
25
Kerosine oil at J. H. Huggins* at
cents per gallon.
Ahead of Alf
COMPETITION
CL 0. ROBINSON
H as just returned from a visit
among tho Principal PIANO and ORGAN
factories iu New York, Boston and other cities-
having arranged for the Largest and most com
plcto assortment ever offered South, at prices ’
ABSOLUTELY
BEYOND COMPETITION!
Low P Q„k, S.,„
Musical instruments
OF EVERY VARIETY'.
Sheet Music anil Music Bools,
TIIE LATEST PUBLICATIONS.
Musical Merchandise,
A .d everything pi-ituiuiug to a
First Class Music House.
TUNING AND REPAIRING, PIANOS,
Church, Pipe and Reed Orguus, and all kinds of
Musical Instruments Tuned aud Repaired by
Mr. C. II. Taylor, the best skilled and one of
the most thorough workmei South. Mr. Taylor
devoted nearly fifteen yearn in the construction
of instruments in some of the best factories in
this country, and is the only authorized Tuner
for the AUGUSTA MUSIC HOUSE.
G. O. ROBINSON & CO.,
263 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga.
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- DStTTGaiSTS,
ATHENS, GEORGIA.
YVc offer a Urge and well selected stock of
Drugs, Medicines,
Paints, Varnishes,
Oils, Anilines, Dyes,
Patent Medicines,
Hair and Tooth Brushes,
Perfumery, Lily white
Rouges, Colognes,
Extracts, etc.,
For Sale Very Cheap
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Either at Wholesale or Retail,
We call your ntttcution to cur
COLOGNES, BAY RUM, HAIR OIL, ETC
sepll-Iy
Medical College of Georgia
Tits Medical Department of the University
Or Georgia.
Tho Forty-sixth Session of this Institution
ill commence at Augusta on the FlllST MON
DAY IN NOVEMBER. Applv tor Circular to
DESAU8SURE FORD, Denu.*
For Catalogues of Academic Department,
apply to Wii. Henry Waddell, Secretary of
faculty, Athens, Ga. oct2-lm.
To the Tm Payers of Clarke Co.
My books nre now open foT the collection of
State and County Tax lor the year 1877. Office
No. 1, Broad Street, over Mathews & Jacksons'
Store. F. B. LUCAS,
oct23.6t Tax Collector Clarke Co.
WOOL CARDING.
The undersigned, having newly fitted up his
Carder, near Harmony Grove, is now prepared
to card Wool in a very superior manner. He
will furnish oil. etc., and card at 10 cents per
pound. Wool 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,
octlfi-lin.
MEDICAL NOTICE.
At the solicitation of many -f my former pat
rons, I resume the
^Practice of Medicine
from this date. 1 will pay especial attention to
tho disease of Infants and Children, and the
Chronic Diseases ot Females.
WM. KTNG. M. D.
lane 16.1975—83-ly
Notice to Tax Payers!
I will be found at the following places, upon
dates riven:
ATHENS, until November 9th.
BRADBURY SHOP November 10th.
SAYE’S MILL November I2th.
WINTERV1LLE November 14th.
GEORGIA FACTORY...November 15th.
F. B. LUCAS,
Tax Collector Clarko County