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YOL. XXIV. The Cartersville Express. Established Twenty Years, HATES AND TERMS. SUBSCRIPTIONS. One copy one year $1 50 One copy six months 75 One copy three months 50 Payments Invariably in advance; AhVERTBIINO RATES. Advertisements will he inserted at the rates of One Dollar per inch lor the lirst insertion, and Fifty Cents for each additional insertion. Address CORNELIUS WILLINGHAM. BAKTOW COUNTY—OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. Connty Officers. Ordinary—J. A. Howard—Office, courthouse. Sheriff—Jas. Kennedy. Deputy sheriff—A. M. Franklin, Clerk of Superior Court—Thos. A. Word. Treasurer—Humphrey Cobb. Tax Collector—W. W. Rich. Tax Receiver— W. W. Ginn. Commissioners—J. 11. Wikle, secretary; A. Knight; W. I. Benham ; A. C. Trimble; T. C. Moore. CITY OFFICERS—C4RTEKSVILLE. Mayor—R. B. Trippe. Board ol Aldermen—J. C.Woffford, E. Payne; L. A. Chapman, A. L. Barron; Jno. A. Stover, M. U.Gllreath; W. C. Edwards, R. W. Satter field. Clerk—George Cobb. Treasurer—Benjamin F. Mountcastlc. Marshals- John A. Gladden, James D. Wil kerson. CHURCH DIRECTORY. Methodist—Rev. P. M. Rvburn, pastor. Preaching every Sunday at 11 o’clock a. m. and £ o’clock, p. m. Sunday school every Sunday at £ o’clock a. m. Prayer meeting on Wednesday night. Presbyterian--Rev. Theo. E. Smith, pastor. Preaching every Sunday at 11 o’clock, a. m. Sunday school every Sunday at 9 o’clock. Prayer meeting on Wednesday night. Baptist—Rev. K. B. Headen, pastor. Preach ing every Sunday at 11 o’clock, a. m., and Bp. m. Sunday school every Sunday at 9 o’clock, Prayer meeting on Wednesday night. Episcopal—A. W. Rees, Rector. Services oc casionally. SECRET SOCIETIES. A KNIGHTS OF HONOR. iTir Bartow Cos. Lodge, No. 148, meets every Ist and 3rd Monday night wWw i n Curry’s Hall, east side of the * square, Cartersville, Ga. W. L. Kirkpatrick, A. C. Smith, Reporter. Dictator American legion of honor, carters yille Council, No. 152, meets every second and fourth Mouday nights in Curry’s hall. Gico. S. Cobb, J, W. Harris, Jr., Secretary. Commander. POST OFFICE DIRECTORY. Malls North open ...7:30 am 4:52 pm Mails South open 10:10 am 9:04 pm Cherokee R. 14. open 6:55 p m Malls North close 7:00 am 4:00 pm Mails South close 9:45 a m 8:30 p m Jherokee R.R. close 7:30 am Jfijgp*Talking Rock Mail, via Fairmount, leaves Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at 6:00 am. Arrives Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 5:00 p m. jHajy-Alonev Order and Registered Letter Office open from 8:45 a m to 5 p in. General Delivery open from 8 a m to 6 pm. Open on Sunday from 9am to 10:30 am. J. R. WIKLE, P. M, WESTERN & ATLANTIC R. R. ON AND AFTER June 20th, 1880, trains on this road will run as follows: northward] ' STATIONS. No.l. | No. 3, [ No. 1L j *Acc?* Atlanta, 2 50pm 6 20am 7 60am 5 10pm Marietta, 335 “ 606 “ 843 “ 609 “ Carte rsv’e 436 “ 723 “ 949 “ 722 “ Kingston, 500 “ 7 51“ 1018“ 800 “ Dalton, 628 “ 926 “ 12 03pm Chatta’ga. 825 “ 10 56 “ 140 “ ' SOPTIIWAKD. STATIONS. No. 2. No. 4, No. 6. K 2cc. Chatta’ga. 5 25pm I 7 06am 6 45am Dalton, 715 “ 837 “ 1013 “ Kingston, 843 “ 110 16 “ 1 07pm 5 30am Cartersv’e 907“j10 46 “ 202 “ 604 “ Marietta, 1012“ 1161“ 429 “ 733 “ Atlanta, 11 00 “| 12 40pm 615 “ 850 “ CHEROKEE RAILROAD. ON AND AFTER Monday, October, 11, 1880, trains on tbis road will run daily, except Sunday, as follows: westward. STATIONS. NO. 1. NO. 3. Leave Cartersville, 10:00 am 2:05 p m Arrive ac Stilesboro 10:36 am 2:61 p m “ Taylorsville... 10:57 a m 3:17 p m Rockmart 11:30 a m 4:07 p m Cedartown .... 12:35 p m 5:30 p m EASTWARD. STATIONS. NO. 2. NO. 4. Leave Cedartown 3:10 p m 6:40 a m Arrive at Rockmart 4:06 p m 7:58 a m “ Taylorsville... 4:45pm 8:48 am •• Stilesboro 5:06 pm 9:14 am “ Cartersville.... 5:45 pm 10:10 pin ROME RAILROAD COMPANY. On and after Monday, Nov. 17, trains on this Road will run as follows: MORNING TRAIN—EVERY DAY. Leaves Rome 6.30 a m Arrives at Rome 10.00 a m EVENING TRAIN—SUNDAYS EXCEPTED. Leaves Rome 5:00 am Arrives at Rome 8:00 p m Both trains will make connection at Kings ton with trains on the W. and A. Railroad, to and from Atlanta and points South. Eben Hillyer, Pres. J as. A. Smith, G. P. Agt. TANARUS, W. MILNER. J. W. HARRIS, JR. MIMEE A HARRIS ATTORNEYS AT LAW, CARTERSVILLE. GA. Office on West Main street, above Erwin. nT~. JAMES HOT E , (CARTERSVILLE, GI A,) THE UNDERSIGNED HAS RECENTLY taken charge of this elegant new hotel. It has been newly furnished and is first-class in all respects, SAMPLE BOOM FOR COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS. Favorable terms to traveling theatrical coua oompanies. L. C. HOSS, Proprietor. jtatioYall hotel, DALTON, GA. J. Q. A. LEWIS, Proprietor. riIHE ONLY FIRST CLASS HOTEL IN THE I City. Large, well ventilated rooms, splen did sample rooms for commercial travelers, polite waiters and excellent pure water. tig* Rates moderate. sepl9tf "Xw FITE ATTORNEY AT LAW, CARTERSVILLE, GA., Office :—With Col. A. Johnson, West side Bq S?, re - Wh en not at office, can be found at office ot Carterviiie Express, Opera House. 51777 and expenses to agents. Vi ii .Mv tf / ee ’ Address O.VTCK iII, Augusta, Maine. The Cartersville Express. YELLOW FEYEE-Black Vomit. It is too soon to forget the ravages of this terrible disease, which will no doubt return in a more malignant and virulent form in the fall months of 1879. MERRELDB HEPATINE, a Remedy dis covered in Southern Nubia and used with such wonderful results in South America where the most aggravated cases of fever are lound, causes Horn one to two ounces of bile to be fil tered or strained lrom the blood each time It passes through the Liver, as long as an excess of bile exists. By its wonderful action on the Liver and Stomach the Hepatine not only pre vents to a certainty any kind of Fever and Black Vomit, but also cures Headache, Consti pation of the Bowels, Dyspepsia and all Ma larial diseases. No one need fear Yellow Fever who will ex pel the Malarial Poison and excess of bile from the blood by using Mekrell’s Hkpatink,which is sold oy all Druggists in 25 cent and?l-00bot tles, or will be sent by express by the Proprie tors, A. F, MERRELL CO., Philadelphia, Pa, Dr. PemDeron’s itsling ia or Queen’s Eeligl H&T The reports of wonderful cures of Rheu matism, Scrofula, Salt Rheum, Syphilis, Cancer Ulcers and Sores, that come lrom all parts oi the country, are not only remarkable but so miraculous as to be doubted was it not for the abundance ot proof. REMARKABLE CURE OF SCROFULA, &c. Case of Colonel J , C. Branson* Kingston, Ga., September 15,1871. Gents:— For 16 years I have been a great suf ferer irom Scrofula in its most distressing forms. 1 have been confined to my room and bed for 15 years with scrofulous ulcerations. The most approved remedies for such cases had been used, and the most eminent physicians consulted, without any decided benefit. Thus prostrated, distressed, desponding, I was ad vised by Dr. Ayer, of Floyd county, Ga., to commence the use of your Compound Extract Stillingiu. Lanauage is as insufficient to de scribe the relief I stained from the use of the Stillmgia as it is *iHst>nvey an adequate idea of the intensity of my suffering before using your medicine; sufficient to say, I abandoned all other remedies and continued the use of your Extract of Stillingia, until I can say truly, “I am cured of all disease, with nothing to ob struct the active pursuit of my profession. More than eight months have elapsed since this remarkable cure, without any return of the disease. For the truth oi the above statement, I refer to any gentleman in Bartow county, Ga., and to the members of the oar of Cherokee Circuit, who are acquainted with me. I shall ever re main, with the deepest gratstude, Your obedi ent servant, J. C. BRANSON, Att’y at Law. A MIRACLE. Gents:—My daughter was taken on the 25th day ot June, 1863, with what was supposed to bo Acute Rheumatism, and was treated for the same with no success. In March, lollowin*, pieces of bone began to work out of the right arm, and continued to appear till all the bone from the elbow to the shoulder joint came out. Many pieces of bone came out of the right loot and leg. The case was the upro nounced one of White Swelling. After hav ing be§n confined about six years to her bed, and the case considered hopeless, I was in duced to try Dr. Pemberton’s Compound Ex tract of Stillingia, and was so well satisfied with its effects that I have continued use of the it until the present. My daughter was confined to her bed about six years before she sat up or even turned over without help. She now sits up all day, and sews most of her time—has walked across the room. Her general health is now good, and I believe she will, as her limbs gain strength, walk well. I attribute her recovery, with the olessing of God, to the use of your invaluable medicine. With gratitude, I am, yours truly, W. B. BLANTON. West Point, Ga., Sept. 16,1870. Gents:—The above certificate o. Mr. W. B. Blanton we know and certify to as being true. The thing is so; hundreds of the most respected citizens will certify to it. As much reference can be given as may be required. Yours truly, CRAWFORD & WALKER, Drnggists. Hon. H. D. WILLIAMS. SSL. Dr. PEMBERTON’S STILLINGIA is prepared by A. F. MERRELL & v,0., Phila% Pa. Sold by all Druggists in SI.OO bottles, or sent by express. Agents wanted to canvass everywhere. Send for Book—“ Curious Story”—free to all. Medicines sent to poor people, payable in in stallments. For sale by D, W. Curry,Cartersville,Ga. TO THKB I GIVE HEALTH. Adapted in chronic diarrhoea, constipation, and scrofula.—Hy. Latham, M.I). Successfully used in Dyspepsia, Chrouic Diar rlioea and Scrofula. —Prof. S. Jackson, Univer sity, Pa. Efficient in ansemia; excellent appetizer and blood purifier.—ll. Fisher, M. D., Ga. Valuable in nervous prostration, indigestion and chlorosis.—G. E. Mathews, M. D., N. C. A fine tonic and alterative, very valuable in diseases peculiar to females, chronic lever and ague, bronchitis and diseases of the digestive organs.—J. F. Itoughton, M. I)., Ala. Very beneficial in strengthening and improv ing a reduced system.—Rev. Jno. W. Beck with, Bishop of Ga. Invaluable as a nervous tonic. —Hon. I. C. Fowler, Tenn. Recommended as a pryphylactic in Malarial districts.”—D. R. Fairex, M. D. N. O. Restores debilitated systems to health.—T. C. Mercer, M. D., Ind. “Used with great benefit in Malarial Fever and Diptheria.’—S. F. Dupon, M. D.. Ga. Prince of mineral tonics.—Francis Gillam, M. D„N. €. Of great curative virtue.—Thos. F.Rumbold, M. D., St. Louis. Beneficial in uterine derangements and ma larious conditions.--G. M. Vail, M. D., Ohio. Best remedy ever used in diseases of the throat.—P. A. Sifferd, M. D., N. C. Tonic, alterative, diuretic; one of natures greatest remedies.—Medical Association ot Lynchburg, Virginia. Adapted in certain affections of the kidneys and bladder: dyspepsia, lupus, chlorosis, scrofulous and cutaneous affections,—Prof. J. J. J. Moorman, M, D., Va. Relievos headache, promptlv—both sick and nervous.—Rev. E. C. Dodson, Va. Sample supply sent free to any physician de siring to test. Pamphlets sent free. Analysis with each package. Water as it comes from the Springs $4 per case of 6 gallons in glass— s2.so for 5 galons, $4 for 10 galons, $7 for 20 gal lons in casks, Mass 50 cents and $1; $2.50 and $5 for half doz. Pills, pure sugar coated 25c. 50c. and $1 package; $1,25, $2.50 and $5 half doz. Sent postpaid anywhere. This Mass and Pills contains in reduced space all the curative powers of the water,and is convenient,palata ble and soluble. Springs open for visitors June Ist. Board S3O per month. Special rates to families and par ties. Carriages meet visitors at Forest and Lawyer’s depot, each four miles from Springs, upon adwee of arrival, Address A. M. DAVIB, Pres, of the Cos.. 72 Main Bt., Lynchburg, Va. Sold by D. W. Cwrry, druggist, Cartersville, CARTERSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1881. THE WILL. Blame not the times in which we live. Nor fortune frail and fugitive; Blame not yonr parents, nor the rule Of vice or wrong once learned in school; But blame thyself, oh man I Although both heaven and earth combined To mold thy flesh and form thy mind, Though every thought, word, action, will, Was framed by powers beyond thee, still Thou art thyself, oh man ! And self to take or leave is free, Feeling its own sufficiency; In spite of conscience, spite of fate, The judge within thee, soon or late, Will blame but thee, oh man! Bay not, “ I would, but could not—He Should bear the blame who fashioned me — Call you mere change of motive choice? Scorning such pleas, the inner voice Cries, “Thine the deed, oh man ! ” A HEADLIGHT IN VIEW. The Condnctor’s Story of a Night Train on the Union Pacific. Detroit Free Pi ess. “Yes,” said the conductor, biting off the tip of a cigar and slowly scratching a match on his leg, “I’ve seen a good deal of railroad life that’s interesting and exciting in the twenty years that I’ve been twisting brakes and slamming doors for a living. “I’ve seen all kinds of joy and all kinds of sorrow—seen the happy bridal couple starting out on their bridal tour with the bright and hope ful future before them, and the black robed mourner on her way to a new made grave, wherein she must bury the idol of her lonely old heart. “Wealth and pinching poverty ride on the same train, and the merry laugh of the joyous, healthy child is mingled with the despairing sigh of the aged. The great antipodes of life are familiar to the conductor, for every day the extremes of the world are meeting beneath his eye. “I’ve mutilated the ticket of many a black leg and handled the passes of all our most eminent dead-heads. I don’t know what walk of life is more crowded with thrilling inci dents than mine.” “Ever have any smashups?” “Smashups? Oh, yes, several of them. None, however, that couldn’t have been a good deal worse. “There is one incident in my rail road life,” continued the conductor, running his tongue barefully over a broken place in the wrapper of his cierar, “that I never spoke of to any one. It has caused me more misery and wretchedness than any one thing that ever happened to mo in my offi cial career. “Sometimes, even now, after the lapse of many years, I awake in the night with the cold drops of agony standing on my face and the horrible nightmare upon me with its terrible surroundings, as plain as on the mem orable night it occurred. “I was running extra on the Uuion Pacific for a conductor who was an old friend of mine, and who had gone South on a vacation for his health. At about 7:30, as near as 1 can re member, we were sailing all com fortable one evening with a straight stretch of track ahead for ten or fifteen miles, running on time and every body feeling tip-top, as overland trav ellers do who get acquainted with each other and feel congenial. All at once the train suddenly slowed dow, ran in on an old siding and stopped. Of course I got out and ran ahead to the engine to see what the matter was. Old Antifat, the engineer, had got down and wa3 on the main track looking ahead, to where, twinkling along about six or seven miles down the road, apparently, was the head light of an approaching train. It was evidently “wild” for nothing was due that we knew of at that hour. “However, we had been almost miraculously saved from a frightful wreck by the engineer’s watchful ness, and everybody went forward and shook old Antifat by the hand and cried and thanked him till it was the most affecting scene for a while that I ever witnessed. It was as though we had stopped on the very verge of a bottomless chasm, and everybody was laughing and crying at once until it was a kind of a cross between a revival and a picnic. “After we had waited about a half an hour I should say, for the blasted ftain to come up and pass us, and ap parently she was no nearer, a cold, clammy suspicion began to bore it self into the adamantine shell of my intellect. The more 1 thought of it the more unhappy I felt. I almost wished that I was dead. Cold streaks ran up my back fallowed by hot ones. I wanted to go home. I wanted to be where the hungry, prying eyes of the great, throbbing work day world could not see me. “I called Antifat one side and said something to him. He swore solftly to himself aud kicked the ground, and looked at the headlight still glimmering in the Then he got on his engine, and I yelled ‘All aboard.’ In a few moments we were moving again, and the general impression was that the train ahead was sid -tracked and waiting for us, although there wasn’t a side-track within twenty miles, except the one we had just left. “It was never exactly clear to the passengers where we passed that wild train, but I didn’t explain it to them. I was too much engrossed with my surging thoughts.” “I never felt my own inferiority so much as I did that night. I never so fully realized what a mere speck man is upon tho bosom of the uni verse. “When I surveyed the starry vault of heaven and considered its illimita ble space, where, boyond and stretch ing on aud on forever, countless suns are placed as centers, around which solar systems are revolving in their regular orbits, each little world peo pled, perhaps with its teeming mil lions of struggling humanity, and then other and mightier systems, till the mind is dazed and giddy with the mighty thought; and then when I compared all this universal mag nificence, this brilliant aggregation of worlds and systems of worlds with one poor, groveling worm of the dust—only a little insig nificant atom, only a poor, wead, err ing, worthless, fallible, blind, grop ing railroad conductor, with my train peacefully sidetracked in the gathering gloom and patiently wait ing for the planet Venus to pass on the main track, there was something about the wnole somber picture that has overshadowed my whole life, and made me unhappy and wretched, while others were gay. “Sometimes Antifat and myself meet at some liquid restaurant and silently take something ia memory of our great sorrow, but never mention it. We never tear open the old rank ling wound or laugh over the night we politely gave the main track to Venns while we stood patiently on the siding.” THE HOME OF MARK TWAIN. In a recent letter from Hartford, Ct., the Burlington (Iowa) Hawk eye, Mr. It. J. Burdette writes : “The pleasantest view I had of the city was from the cozy fireside in that wonderful home of Mr. S. L. Clements, who was my host duriag my stay in Hartford. I am not suf ficiently ‘British’ to*wander through December and January in a short checked coat and no ulster. I am given to much wrapping up when I do go out in the snow, and to very little going out ia the snow at all. I begin to shiver with the first frost, and I keep it up until the following April. And 30, when I can sit down by a bright wood fire, and burn up cigars, while somebody entertains me, I love the icy winter. I think I have never been in a home more beautifully homelike than this palace of the king of humorists. The surroundings of the house are beautiful, and its quaint architect ture, broad East Indian porticos, the Greek patterns in mosaic in the dark red walls attract and charm the at tention and good taste of the passer by, for the home, inside and out, ia the perfection of exquisito taste and harmony. But with all its architec tural beauty and originality, the ele gance of its interior finish aud deco rations. the greatest chalrm about the house is the atmosphere of ‘home likeness’ that pervades it. Charm ingly as he can entertain thousands of people at a time from the platform, Mr. Clemens is even a more perfect entertainer in his home. The bright est and best sides of his nature shine out at his fireside. The humor and drollery that sparkle in his conver sation is as utterly unaffected and natural as sunlight. Indeed, I don’t believe he knows or thinks that most of his talk before the sparkling fire, up in the pleasant retirement of his billiard room study, is marketable merchandise, worth so much a page to the publishers, but it is. And it is all drollery and humor. He is so earnest that his earnestness charms you fully as much as his brighter flashes, and once in a while there is in his voice an inflection of wonder ful pathos so touched with melan cholly that you look into the kind, earnest eyes to see what thought has touched his voice. And he has a heart as big as his body; I believe there does not live a man more thorouehly unselfish and self-forget ful. Two little girls and a boy baby, bright-eyed, good-tempered,and with a full head of hair as brow T n as his father’s assist Mrs. Clemens to fill the heart of the reigning humorist, and they do it most completely. Person ally, Mr. Clemens is, perhaps, a little above the medium height, of good symmetrical physique, browu hair, scarcely touched with gray, that curls over a high, white forehead; friendship in his eyes, hearty cordi ality in the grasp of a w T ell-shaped white hand, strong enough andlieavy enough to be a manly hand; his age is forty something, and he looks thirty-five; in the evening, after the lamps are lighted his faco has a won derful boyish look, and he loves a good cigar even better than Grant does.” BITS OF INFORMATION. The meaning of the word amen is “so be it.” It was introduced from the Jewish into the Christian church about 390 A. D. The drink knowh as “punch” was introduced into Europe from the East Indies by Anglo-Indians at some date between 1746 and 1760. It is so named from the Hindoo word pantsch (Persian, paiy ,) because it consists of five ingredients, which * when first made, were arrack, tea, water, sugar and lemon-juice. The famous Yauxhall punch was an ad mixture of arrack, brandy, sugar, lemon-juice aud water. The President of the United States cannot be arrested. If he commits any high crime or misdemeanor he can be impeached by the House, tried by the Senate, and if convicted can be removed from office. After removal from office he can be arres ted and tried, the same as any other citizen, for any crime which he had committed while in office. If the President could be arrested on char ges preferred against him, any petty magistrate might endanger the peace of the country. The mammoth trees of California are the largest kaown. The dimen sions of one tree, in the Tulre group were according to the measurements made by members of the state geo logical survey, 276 feet high, 106 feet in circumference at the base, and 76 feet at a point twelve feet above tho ground. The redwood tree frequent ly grows to a height of 300 feet, and a diameter of 15 feet. The bark of a California tree on exhibition is thir ty-five inches thick. The origin or game of philopena is said to have been as follows: The people of Alsace and Lorraine were formerly under German rule, as they now are; but while a part of France they lost in a great measure the use of the German language, and what they retained became corrupt. It was an old custom among them for young couples to engage themselves by eat ing the halves of double almonds, and then to salute each other as “well beloved” each time they met. The word in German wa i vielliebchen , but, having forgotten the meaning of this word, they gradually changed iujo “phiilipo,” which sounds like it, and “phillippina.” The first meteoric shower which attracted attention in modern times was that witnessed by the Moravian missionaries in Greenland, iu 1799. The phenomenon was observed over a wide extent of territory. Hum boldt, then traveling iu South Amer ica, said : “Toward the morning of November 13, a most extraordinary scene of shooting stars was seen. Thousands of bodies and falling stars succeeded each other during four hours. Their direction was very regular from north to south ; from the beginning of the shower there was not a space in the firmament equal in extent to three diameters of the moon which was not filled every instant with bodies of falling stars. All the meteors left luminous traces or phosphorescent bands behind them, which lasted seven or eight seconds.” An English scientist upon hygienne says that fashion and tight shoes have so cramped up and stilted the walk now-a-days that a lady with wooden legs might pass muster on the streets undiscovered. The first conference of the National Land and Industrial League was held ftt the St. James Hotel, New York, recently. Delegates were present from all sections of the Union. NEWS ITEMS. Heavy drift-ice continues to movo down the Mississippi. Nashville has an oyster-club coral* posed of colored persons. Memphis is going to get up a big mardi gras celebration. The original “Old Bob Ridley” is said to be living near Athens, Ga, Anew bank, called the Citizens’, with a capital of $200,000, will soon be opened in Augusta. The State Agricultural Society will meet in Bainbridge on the second Tuesday in February. The Georgia Railroad will be refit ted with an entire outfit of steel rails during the present year. The Garfield administration is puz zled to get a man competent to fill John Sherman’s shoes. A land league was formed and a considerable sum of money sub scribed in aid of the Irish land league, in Augusta, Ga., recently, Seven hundred and fifty thousand peasants are starving in Russia, chiefly because of the monstrous form of government under which they live. The Graphic Is of the opinion that the United States government will buy the whole telegraph system with in a year, and that meantime we will cheap telegraphy and wide fluctua tions in the price of telegraph stocks. The Kearney mob constitution has done much harm in California, One portion of it, on the contrary has done much good—that portion that broke up the monopoly in land. That is just the medicine Ireland and the whole of Great Bailain wants. The Galveston News suggests that the reason Mr. Abbey gave up his “Passion Play” was because he could not find anybody in New York to whom he could intrust the thirty pieces of silver with any expectation of ever seeing them again. The nomination of Nathan Goff, Jr., of West Virginia, to be Secretary of the Navy, was sent to the Senate by Mr. Hays on Thursday. The se lection of Mr. Goff was a great sur prise, as Mr. Hays’ intentions were known to put few. The Commissioners of Ro ads and Revenues of Putnam county have repealed the old order fixing the amount of liquor license for the coun ty at $25, and have ordered that from and after the 18th ult. the amount of such license shall be $3,000 per annum. The attempt of deacons to sit in the same pew with ladies whom they escort to church seems to have been regarded with disfavor on Sunday last by the Bethany congregation in Pulaski county, Ky. A row ensued, knives were freely used and one man fatally cut. The Supreme Court of Georgia has adjourned for the term. It will not meet again until February lGth. The court had disposed of all cases on the docket. It is one of the few apelate courts which keeps up with its busi ness. The Supreme Court of Mis-* souri, for example, is three years be. hind. Here is a telegram to the conduc tor of an embarrassed New Jersey railway train : “ U3e all the fence rails you can lay your hands on if your coal gives out. Throw in a barn or two, if necessary ; and if that fails take all the pork offered at six dol lars a hundred. Keep your steam up and come through at any cost.” Gould is tightening his grip all around. The terms of consolidation between the American Union and Western Union telegraph companies have been agreed upon and the pre liminary papers signed. The Atlantic and Pacific was let into the combina tion at fifty cents on the dollar of its stock, thus forming a monopoly agaip. Says the Columbus Enquirer: J?or a week or two past there have been large numbers of negroes passing through this city en route to Texas. Every afternoon the second class coach of the passenger train from Macon is crowded with them, and frequently to such an extent that a portion are forced to wait for the next train. They say good homes and better wages have been promised them, and this is the only reason as signed for leaving comfortable quar ters in Georgia. The majority of them are from the southwest part of the state. We may well expect to see all, who are able to do so, return ing in the course of a year. NO. 3.