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% 9 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. o2-tf 1 C. W. LONG. E. C. IONQ. Long & 0o., - 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 FOR CASH, 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