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1 Railroad Building in <879.
The JliHrmy Aye, >f the date of the 24th,
shows that the year just closing has been
an extraordinary one in respect to the re
vival of railway building in the United
States. The returns are not yet all in, but
enough have been received to show that more
miles of track have been laid than in any
year since 1873, and probably more than In
that year. The total n umber of miles of liroad
guage railroad constructed in all the States
and Territories is 3,010; of narrow-guage.
guage building Kansas leads with 498 miles;
Minnesota following wilh39-i miles, and lowa
with 325. In narrowguage road Ohio leads
with 108 miles, Idaho following with 94, and
Texas with 67. The principal development
of the railway interest has been in the West
and South, the old States of tho East showing
very little progress, this being probably due
to the fact that most of them are already cov
ored with a net-work of iron lines. New
York built but 73 miles, Pennsylvania 19 and
Massachusetts only 11. .All the Eastern
States combined constructed 134 miles out
of the total of 3,738. The Southern States
built 819 miles, Missouri leading with 188.
Texas following with 137, and South Carolina
bringing up the rear with 2. Mississippi,
Florida and Alabama do not appear on the
list. Arkansas built 9 miles of narrow guage ;
Georgia, 10 of broad, and 25 of narrow;
Kentucky and Louisiana, 75, each, of broad ;
Maryland. 18 of broad; Missouri, 161 of
broad and 27 of narrow ; North Carolina, 25
of broad ; South Carolina, 2 of narrow;
Tennessee, 119 of broad and 57 of narrow ;
Texas, 120 of L*fa<\ and 67 of narrow;
Virginia, 29 of broad ; West Virginia, 20 of
narrow. According to the figures of the Aye,
MPi.Hr one-fourth of the miles constructed
was of narrow-guage. The general revival of
business has stimulated the building of rail
roads, and it is probable that work will be
commenced on a number of new’ lines during
the next year. The main field of operations
will continue to be in the Westand Southwest,
but it is-probable that a good many miles of
track will be laid in the South, and in the
Northwest the third road to the Pacific will
be pushed rapidly forward to completion.
A Big Chance.
The day was hot at Frisco, Utah, and the
throe drank beer and. talked. It appeared
from their conversation that they had all had
more or less experience in prospecting. One
said :
“The biggest thing I ever struck w T as once
when me and,Newt Ilowden was prospectin’.
One day wo felt the earth kinder tremblin’
an’ saw a smoke on till; top of a mountain.
Wc climbed up to the top —’twas a long pull.
When we got there we foun* it was a volcano.
'Twas all bibu’in the crater. One place
in the crater was lower than t’other parts,
an’ a cliff struck right down from this low
place—it went right down ’bout 700 feet.—
The earth kept tremblin’ an’ a scream ’bout
twenty feet wide by five deep run oaten the
crater or gap an’ made a clear jump of 700
feet down.”
“Water ?” interrupted one of the listeners ;
“pooty hot, wasn’t it ?”
“Water ? ’Twa9 quicksilver 1”
“Quicksilver ?”
“You bet. We went down lo the foot of
the fall. The stream of quicksilver from the
fall run a few hundred yards an’ sunk. It
hep’ tremblin’.”
“Wliat made the tremblin’ P”
“The quicksilver strikin’ below; heavy,
you know. Me an' Newt botli got sick; lie
sicker than mo. lie kep’ gittin’ worse, an’
died before I could get him to a camp. I
got to a camp an’ was sick for months ; was
salervated. My teeth all came out. I hain’t
ho teeth now, nor toe-nails, nuther ?”
“Why didn’t you go back to the quicksil
ver ?”
“ ’Fraid er gittin’ salervated agin. Killed
Newt, you know.”— Salt Luke Tribune.
Edison’s Electric Light.
A New York dispatch says: “The great
demand for shares in the Edison Electric
Light, Company continues, and the extraor
dinary priee at which the shares are selling
astonishes evory one. The history of specs
ulation in this country probably furnishes no
parallel for the remarkable rise in the spec
ulation value of the stock. The fact that
there are plenty of capitalists that arc willing
to venture many thousands of dollars upon
the success of the Edison system, shows con
clusively that they have the fullest faith that
Edison has triumphantly solved the problem
of electric illumination. If the lucky holders
of the stock do not share this confidence, they
sit least feel sure that the public furore will
■continue until they have disposed of all their
stock at princely figures. They don’t seem
to care whether they sell or not, and they
refuse to tranfer a particle of the stock for
less than $5,000 a share. One of the largest
stockholders was offered to-day SOO,OOO, cash
for two hundred shares. He declined the offer
and says he will not sell under $1,000,000.
I his stock, for which he demands a fortune,
cost him, twelve months ago, $8,600, or $33
a share. Several small lots of the shares
were sold to-day for $5,000 a share. A good
many investors are picking them up in five
and. ten share lots. There are only 3,000
abates altogether.
“Mr. Edison is making a bedroom lamp.
This will take three horseshoe shaped pieces
of charred paper within its globe, and there
will be an apparatus by which the electric
current can he sent through any otic of them
at will. One of them will furnish as much
light as an ordinary lamp, but the other two
will furnish less. There is also in process i
of construction a cylindrical shade, which, j
on being placed over the lamp, may be raised
or lowered so ns to regulate the degree of
light. Edisou is now experimenting on a
lamp which gives about five times as much
light as a gas jet, or as cite of his ordinary
lamps with only double the cost of an ordi- ,
nary lamp. In this lamp the loop of charred
paper is .shorter. The gross resistance at •
tun particular point remains the same. The!
resuit is that a greater amount of electricity !
is driven through the strip of charcoal, and :
tae strip is heated to an intensity' that the
eye can hardly boar.”
His Sentiments.
On a Grand River car theother day, a lady
suddenly discovered that she had lost her
purse. The other passengers consisted of an
old man and six women. Three of the women
chuclked at the loss, two whispered to each
other that they didn’t believe it and the sixth
looked around ou the floor with eager eyes.
The old man’s sympathies were aroused from
the first, and he asked :
“ Did your wallet contain any money?”
“Of course it did !” she sharply replied.
“ Did it also contain a photograph of your
deceased husband and other relics of no value
to any but the owner?”
“No, sir! My husband is not dead 1 I
had over $8 in the purse.”
“ Over $8 and winter right at your door 1”
he mused. “ Were you carrying this wallet
in your—in your pocket?”
“ Yes, sir.”
“ Bid you stop in any tobacco store down
town?”
She gave him a blast with her eyes and re
fused to answer.
“ Because,” he went on, “ I alius lost my
wallet in a tobacco store, if anywhere. I
don t think you’ll ever sec your lost wealth
again. Have L your permission to take up
a collection on this car for your benefit?”
“No, sir; will 3’ou please attend to your
own business!”
“ Very well—l will. My sentiments, how
ever, force me to sa}*: I sympathize with
the bereaved in her loss. That’s all.”
Then he sat down. —Free Press.
Tha Man on the Tower.
HE IS INTERVIEWED —lIE FEELS LONELY, AND
WHY.
Extending the examination of heroes in
high places, which breaks out in Augusta
once every year, we took accasion yesterday
to commune with the man on the Bell Tow
er. We found him engaged “brushing cob
webs down from the sky,” and playing soli
taire on an old beer barrel.
“Hello!” lie said, as we completed .the
110th step, “What’s going on below ?”
“Going on ; why look around and sec.”
He threw his cards into his breast pocket,
platted the cobwebs about his hair, and turn-
I ing a lonely look upon us, said :
“It s sad, but so ; I haven’t scon the town
in- five days.”
“Been drunk ?”
“No.”
“Star gazing ?”
“Not much; truth i9,” said he, wiping his
red eyes, “you all have been so completely
enveloped in dust that 1 can’t distinguish
an object. Happily, l can escape it here,
but occasionally a stray midget floats un and
festers in my eye.”
“Suppose a fire were to break out, how
would you locate it ?”
“I wouldn't try ; fire will out you know,
and when I iieard the hollering, I would jerk
the lever, give the boys what Sam Taut calls
a ‘boss racket,’ ami trust the rest to Provi
dence and t!ie plugs.”
“Going to the races ?” we asked, as we
showed him our pool ticket.
He answered that he had not board of them,
was completely cut off from the world : but
funerals and fire alarms were the only thin<r
that could make him join in with his gong.
“Seen Grant ?”
He replied that he had not. The man on
the monument had whispered over that the
ex-President had been in town ; but the man
on the monument had become so unreliable
lately, first saying one tiling and then repu
diating himself, that he had not believed this
statement. Continuing, he said :
“Well, I guess if I’d a known it, I'd rung
Grant up ; I pealed some notes when Geor
gia seceded, and I ’spose the old thing would
stand a few taps now that we’re all in tho
Union and at home again.”
“But how is it that you are so cut off from
your brethren below.”
“Pardner,” lie answered, “I’ll tell you. I
want wire. I need a telephone ; not only for
my own information and improvement, but
for the safety of the city. In case of fire or
freshet, funerals or secessions, give me a
transmitter and a battery, and I will be
happy and you secure. For with such a
prompt and accurate means of communica
tion, you may cover the town with ‘smoke,
dust or water, clear away my staircase and
burn the elevators, yet so long as the current
runs and wires are" up. I will be ‘with the
people, for the people aiul the people’* and
don’t 3'ou recollect it !”
Vfe were impressed with his earnest, lone
ly words, and descended, hoping that the
lightning from the Central OHioe would soon
strike him.
Won't somebody give him a telephone ?
Braney’s Ceremony.
Chief Justice Charles Barney Kogan joined
together, one night last week, the destinies
of two dusky individuals. James Gardner
and Bottie I uruer, with tho following cere
mony :
“ I his is one of the awful and heart-rending
epochs of human life which should bo ap
proached with no indecorum or lcvit3’, hut
should be cogitated upon profoundly. It is
a step which should he taken with careful
consideration, and with mature and prayerful
reflection. 11 there be any’ person present
to-night, who knows of an3 r potent or lawful
reason why these two parties should not now
be joined together in the indissoluble bonds
of holy matrimony, let him dance to the front,
without an}' hesitation or mental reservation
and shoot o!f his fty-trap, or forever hereafter
hold his peace.
As no one comes forward forbidding the bans,
• iiin, you and Bettic will please join hands,
dim, with firm resolution and without a regret.
By this institution, do you marry Bet?
Bet, with all the affection you have for Jim,
Forsaking all others, do you marry him ?
Then for better, for worse, and during life,
I pronounce you to beman and wife.
Now up the hill and down the level.
Salute your bride, you ugly devil.”
Wearing a Shell in Her Ear for Thirty
Years.
Mrs.. Jennie Lewis, a well known resident
of Reno. Nevada, has just returned from a
trip to Europe. During her absence she re
moved from her ear a shell which had been
lodged there for over thirty year 3. Mrs.
Lewis says that when a child she was hold
ing a smalt shell to her ear and trying to
hear it “roar.’’ While so doing, the shell
which is hardly a quarter of an inch in diam
eter, slipped into the passage of the ear.
Eflots to dislodge it were unsuccessful and
only drove it farther in. It remained there
fox thirty years, causing occasional pains,!
when a surgical operation for its removal was
attempted. The operation was performed
in Illinois, where Mrs. L°wis’ parents were
then living. It, was extremely painful and
induced excessive bleeding, but was unsuc
cessful. For twenty years more the shell
remained in the ear, completely obstructing
the passage. This summer, while on her
homeward voyage across the Atlantic, Mrs.
Lewis was one day seated on deck, engaged
in picking witji a pin the ear which harbored
the shell. To her great joy and surprise,
she found that the shell which had so long
been firmly fixed was loosened, and that it
movod under the pressure of the pin. She
worked away at it in great excitement for a
few minutes, and at last the long-imprisoned
shell was extracted. A surgeon on board
the steamer was greatiy interested in the
case, and declared ho had novor in his life
heard of such an experience. Mrs. Lewis
still keeps the shell, and shows it to her ac
quaintances when telling the story.
Vanderbilt and His Income.
There seems to be no limit to his ambition.
He has an income of nearly $4,000,000 a
year, or nearly SII,OOO a day, or $7.50 a
minute, and yet he works as hard as tho
worst-paid of his clrks, and expects his sons
to do the same. If he pursues the same plan
as liis father, and leaves nine-tenths of his
fortune to one son, tbc results of long years
of such accumulations will be startling. He
has ten children, however, and may take a
different course. At present he is buiding
a house on Fith avenue, which is to be the
finest private residence in America, and en
courages his sons to do likewise which is
very different from the old Cornelius Van
derbilt’s practices. He never spent extrav
agant sums of money on himself, and not
much on his chilbren. Of course, William
11. Vanderbilt’s power lies largely in the
fact that he knows in advance of all outsid
ers the exact condition of his roads, their
earnings and their dividends. With this
knowledge he may be said to play in the
stock market with loaded dice. He knows
positively whether certain stocks will go up
or down during the next few months; there
is no gambling about it for him. I used to
know a broker who ofton said that he would
pay SIOO,OOO a cay to see the quotations
of the stock exchange one minute ahead of
any one else; that was all ho required.
Vanderbilt lias this power, for he to a large
degree causes the fluctuations in prices by
which he profits.
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Address THE CONSTITUTION,
d ec l9 Atlanta, Ga.
WHEN you get ready to buy your Christmas
tricks; when you want sweet things ; when
you want the best ®f sour things, and when 3'ou
want anything, come and see what I have got be
fore 3'ou buy.
I HAVE A FULL STOCK OF
PLAIN and FANCY CANDY,
PLAIN AND SWEET CRACKERS,
3XTITTS,
Raisins, Cheese, Oysters,
&LAJEUDX ZKTES
Canned Pine Apple ,
TOMATOES and
Northern Cider,
A FULL LINE OF
Cl CARS and TOBACCO .
I KEEP THE
:: Lucy Hinton" Tobacco at Fifteen Cents a Plug.
A FULL LINE OF FIRST-CLASS
FAMILY GROCERIES,
PATE3MT MEDICINTES,
DRUGS, &e.
All of which T will soil cheap. Give inc a call
J. C. WHITEHEAD, ’ ;
COME ON, EVERYBODY!
AND BUY A COOK-STOVE/
And We Intend to Sell Cheaper Than Ever!
A. K. CHILDS & CO.,
Athens, Ga.
Don’t Forget to Look for the BIG RED STOVE.
f)tofcßsi(innf & business Sards.
T W. EWING,
X • Practical Watchmaker & Jeweler,
Northwest Corner Public Square, Jefferson, Ca.
All work done in his line at short notice, and
perfect satisfaction guaranteed. declO-79
ROSBBIKT S. MOWAiCO,
Attorney and Counselor sit I^aw,
JEFFERSON, GA.
Office in the “ Webb Building.” feb2l 79
WILEY <. HOWARD,
Attorney and Counselor at I,a\v,
JEFFERSON, GA.
Will attend faithfully to all business entrusted
to his care. Office—Col. Thurmond’s old office,
near Randolph's corner. feb2l, 79
WII. SIMPHLAS,
• Attorney at Law,
Harmony Grove, Jackson Cos., Ga.
Faithful attention given to collections and all
other business. Clients’ money never spent, hut
promptly forwarded. January oth, 187S.
J. J. FLOYD, I J. B. SILMAN,
Covington, Ga. | Jefferson, Ga.
Floyd &
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW.
Will practice together in the Superior Courts oi
the counties of Jacksou and Walton.
iunel2 —ly
WILL. I. PIKE. W. S. M’CARTY.
PIKE & NIcCARTY,
Attorneys at Law,
JEFFERSON, JACKSON CO., GA.
Will give prompt and thorough attention to all
kinds of legal business m Jackson and adjoining
counties. One or both, always in the office, ex
cept when professionally absent. fel>2
Dr. W. 8. Alexander,
SURGEON DENTIST,
Harmony Grove, Jackson Cos., Ga.
WILL be at Jefferson on the first Monday and
Tuesday in each month, and will continue
his stay Irom time to time as circumstances may
justify. Terms LOW, FOR CASH, and work
done in a superior manner.
July 10th,* 1875.
N. W. Carltliers, M. 1)., D. I). S.
OFFERS his professional services to the citizens
of Jefferson and the surrounding community.
He can always be found at his office, in the Billy
Thompson store, unless professionally absent.
March 14th, 1879. . •
Stoves ! Stoves !
Larger Stock than Ever!
Prices as Low as the Lowest!
The improved iron kinG
IS THE ACKNOWLEDGED
Monarch of all Cooking Stoves!
All that 1 ask is a careful inspection of its me
rits, Mfhich cannot fail tc convince any one in
of a FIRST-CLASS COOK STOVE, beau
tifully FINISHED AND SUBSTANTIALLY MADE,
that the
I]'Oii King Juts no Superior!
I have now on hand the largest assortment of
Cooking and Heating Stoves in Northeast Geor
gia. Examine my stock and prices, and be con
vinced.
J. C. WILKINS,
Broad Street, Athens, G-a.
sept 26
Works : Christiana, Lancaster Cos., Pa.
Office : 23 S. Beaver St., York. Pa.
LIGHT JOB WORK j
Executed promptly, at this oilice.
BUGGIES and WAGONS! WAGONS and HUGGIM
D. C. HURLEY,
WITH TWENTY YEARS EXPERIENCE IN THE BEST SHOPS NORTH AND SOUTH
Now Located on Clayton Street and College Avenue, Athens, Ga.,
WHERE I WILL MAKE AND REPAIR
Carriages,' Buggies and Wagons.
Horse Shoeing. Horse Shoeing.
THE BEST THE CHEAPEST!
YvOBK, PLOWS, MILL. PICKS, &C.
T use the best material and employ the most expert workmen. My work all guaranteed, orit
ncy returned. Save money by seeing me. . 121'RI.IIY',
Cor. Clayton St. and College Av., (Opposite Talmadgc, Hodgson & Cos.)
octlO-ffm ATHENS, GA.
Special Inducements to ,Merchants by Crate or Small Loti.
— — : o :
Tlie Richest Assortment tmd Lowest Prices in N. E. Georgia.
China, Crochery, Lamps, Glassware.
AND EVERYTHING FOR THE HOUSE.
WHIPS THONGS _A_ SPECIALTY.
db 2?’ i X£a,:ra ig^en,
Broad Street, opposite Campus, Ath.eilß, G&-
THEFEOPLE OF JACKSOIT
CAN BUY BETTER BARGAINS AT
PENDERGRASS RROS. & CO'S
IN JEFFERSON, CA.,
T&an Tiiey Gan Anywhere Els*-
CALL AND SEE THEIR NEW STOCK OF
BOOTS, SHOES AND MENS’ HATS,
Mens’ Ready-Made Clothing,
PRINTS, JEANS, OSNABURGS, SHIRTING?
Sheetings, Bleachings, Flannels, Worsteds, Linseys,
LADIES’ CLOAKS & ZEPHYR SHAWLS
BOX T? AN. PER, OK n O Ivl OS 3
Mustache Cnps, Motto Cups, Fancy Candy, Stick CaiW."
Perfumes 3 Handkerchiefs, Hair Oil, SfC.
Hardware, Glassware, Tinware, Horse and Mule Shoes, Nails^
UPPER SOLE LEATHER,
And many other articles too tedious to mention. Call and see them, they mean whirt^ 1
say—they will sell yon goods as CHEAP as ANYBODY.
Jefferson, Ga., Nov. 7th, 1879.
£& \ A MONTH guaranteed. sl2 a
AY) f 8 a day at home made by the indus
trious. Capital not required ; we
will start you. Men women, boys and girls make
money faster at work for us than at anything else.
The work is light and pleasant, and such as any
one can go right at. 1 hose who are wise who see
this notice will send us their addresses at once and
see for themselves. Costly Outfit and terms free.
Now is the time. Those already at work are lav
ing up large sums of money. Address TRUE &
CO., \ugusta. Maine. junelJ
Wotice to
IDES TOES S' CREDITOR
ALL persons indebted to the estate of 'l
Hunter, late of Jackson county, Oa..
are hereby required to come forward * n
;immediate payment, and those having
■ against said estate are requested to presen
'to the undersigned in terms of the law. .
JAMES L. WILLIAMSON
MARTHA A. HUNTER* •
Ex’r and Ex’x of the will of J. S. lluntcL
January 2d, ISSO.
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