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ROBERT'S. HOWARD, i Editor and Publisher. ( VOLUME YI. £egnt' ildoettiseineiits. Jackson Sheriff’s Sale. WILL be sold, at public out-cry, to the highest bidder, on the first Tuesday in January next, before the Court House door in the town of Jefferson, Jackson county, Ga., within the legal hours of sale, the following property, to-wit: One-sixth interest in a tract of land, situate, lying and being in said county-of Jackson, containing three hundred acres, nrore dt less, and known as the Widow Holliday place, on the road from Athens to fcawrcncevilfe, and adjoining lands of £he estate of CrawforiTW. Long, llale and others, on the South Oconee river. On said place there is & good dwelling and out-houses, and one tenant house, orchards, &c. About sixty or seventy acres in cultivation, tWent}' of which is good bot tom land on the creek and river, the remainder is in old field and forest. Levied on and sold as the property of John W. Holliday, to satisfy a fi. fa. issued from Jackson Superior Court, at the Feb ruary term, 1875, in favor of Wm. Haguewood vs. the said John W. Ilollidav. Said fi. fa. now con trolled by Charles F. Holliday, administrator of Francis M. Holliday, deceased. Written notice servod- ®u4>roff Wills, G#**ant in possession,-as the law directs. T. A. McELIIANNON, Sh’ff. 1 llOIKiilA, Jackson County. Whereas. 1. T. Austin has applied to me, in proper form, fa* Lplterisrof GityrdfcutShip of the fiersons and pfopertV of L. I*'. House and Mattie louse, minors of 1. H. House, dec’d— This is to cite all persons concerned, next of kin. etc., to show cause, if any they can, on the first Monday in January, 1881, at the regular term of the Court of Ordinary of said county, why said Letters of Guaidfansnip should not be granted the applicant. , Given under my official signature. Dec. Ist. ISBO. 11. W. BELL, Ord’y. JacJtKOu County. Whereas, J. W. Strickland and John 1. Pittman has applied to me, in proper Jorm, for Letters of Administration upon the estate of Cynthia Parks, late of said' county, dec’d— This is to cite all persons concerned, kindred and creditors, to show cause, if any, at the regu ular term of tlreCohrt'of Ordinary of said county, on the lirst Monday in January, 1881, .why said letters should not be granted the applicants. ' Given under my official signature, December Ist* 1880. ■ „ \ H. W. BELL, Ord’y. _ T i r >-~ -v* / -- r H —- BY virtue of an order of the Superior Court of Jackson county, passed December 9th, 1880, will be sold, on the first Tuesday in January next, during tltc legal hours of before the Court blouse door, ip. said eQunty, a track of land situ ated in said county, on the Northeastern Railroad, about a half a mile north of Nicholson, known as the John A. Strickland tract, the place on which Martha A. Strickland resided at the time of her death, and containing one hundred acres, more or lest*. (in there is a dwelling house, a well fmd softie OiH-bnildings. About twenty-five acres in cultivation, remainder in old field and original forest. Sold for benefit of destributecs. Terms cash. J. B. SILMAN, W. C. HOWARD, , W. I, PIKE, Dec. 9th, 1880. Receivers. CLOSING OUT SALE; OF ~ C y "{% * w; v 9 i,,. • . U *s~ /g N h 2c rH CLOTHING AT COST I ?"e|2?g ■ 5 Jwi —! ‘ jr. ? - :j A. T T H ES 0 . I UNIVERSITY CLOTHING EMPORIUM. "• ... .?’+ (■_ 7 I•-• ■ -i ■) fa, ■ : ’3* l **** -' i* l ** 5 v -I f“N Cents in Silver will pay for the .“Georgia Post- Alpol* , printed on Tuesday, to February Ist, Isß|. Tne Georgia, PostcAppeal is made up from tlia choicest editorials, "news, miscellany, etc., contained in the Atlanta Daily Post-Appeal, winch is Conceded by everybody to he the best, nergiest 4i sniciest and most entertaining newspa per in tine South, Tfcis eminently a Georgia news pajierj and fills the need ofagdoa paperata cheap rata. This otter of the paper for two months at 10 canU is to introduce the paper to the public ; it fo be to oe. appreciated. The regular rate of subscription is To cts. per year; clubsof *2O, 60 cts.; clubs of 50 or more, 50 ets. Sami-Weekly Georgia Post-Appeal. $1.50 per vear. Atlanta 1 >aily Post-Appeals $6.00 per year. Postage prepaid in all eases. Address remit tanccsio D. E. Caldwell, Atlanta, Ga. Send 10 cents ft silver for the Tuesday Georgia Post-Ap peal. as ottered above, and it will be sent to you till February Ist. 1881. D. E. CARDWELL, Publisher, dec If Atlanta, Ga. THE FOREST NEWS. fkofessianaf & business (Sauk JOIIA .1. STRKkLAAI), Atl ornej *a l-Isnv, DANIELSVILLE, GA. Will promptly attend to all business entrusted to him. dec 17-’SO DR. A'. 11. CASH, NICHOLSON, GA., Tenders his professional services to the surround ing country. Rheumatism, Neuralgia and the dis eases of women a specialty^ Feb.l3th, 1880. , ly WILEY C. HOWARD, Attorney and Counselor at I,aw, JFA FERSON, GA. 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A resolution to return the thanks of the people of Georgia to R. N. Ely, for the able discharge of his duties in pressing the claims of the State in railroad tax eases. 2. A resolution to instruct the Secretary of State to communicate with Gen. Walker, Superentendent of the census, and request that he furnish the Legislature with an offi cial statement of the population of each coun ty in the State. 3. A resolution to appoint a committee of five from the House and three from the Sen ate to investigate and inquire into the own ership and condition of the lease of the Wes tern and Atlantic Railroad. 4. A resolution to appoint a joint commit tee from the city of Atlanta relative to the early erection of a Capitol on the lot donated by the city. 5. A resolution relative to publication of public acts. 6. A resolution to require the State School Commissioner to report amount due public school officers for 1871. 7. A resolution providing for the exami nation of a proposed new edition of the Code. 8. A resolution authorizing the sale of the old post-office fixtures. 9. A resolution to accept the surrender of the Athens bank charter. 10. A resolution to appoint a joint com mittee to ascertain the most feasible mode of furnishing accommodations to colored luna tics in Georgia. 11. A resolution appointing a joint com inittce to examine the hand book of forms prepared by Sihn&n & Thompson. 12. A resolution providing for investiga tion into the subject of building a Capitol by the Finance Committees of both Houses. BILLS. 1. An act to change the time of holding the Superior Court of Henry county. 2. An act to amend an act requiring con stables and bailiffs to sell only on sale days and only between the legal hours of sale. 3. An act establishing a Board of Commis sioners of Roads and Revenue for Fulton count}'. 4. An act to amend the charter of the city of Griffin, so as to establish a City Com therefor, and to define its jurisdiction. 5. An act to change charter of Jonesboro. G. An act to authorize the Ordinary ul Clarke count}' to issue bonds to refund the debt of the county. 7. An act to amend several acts incorpo rating the town of Cochran in Pulaski coun ty. 8. An act to provide a penalty for buying and selling votes. 9. An act to amend an act incorporating the town of Hawkinsville, in the county of Pulaski, to define the limits of the same, etc, 10. An act to repeal an act consolidating the offices of Sheritr and Tax Receiver of Green county. 11. An act to permit the City Court of At lanta t.o try civil cases at the criminal term of the Court, with consent of parties. 12. An act to extend the corporate limits of Ncwnan. 13. An act to change the time of holding the Superior Court of Washington county. 14. An act to transfer the county of Stew art from the Chattahoochee Circuit to tin* Southwestern Circuit. 15. An act to relieve the sureties on the bond of E. A. Leonard. 16. An act to repeal an act to consolidate the offices of Clerk and Treasurer in Doug las county. 17. An act to change the time of holding the Superior Court of Schley county. 18. An act to repeal an act to provide for the payment of certain insolvent costs of the Augusta Circuit. 19. An act to amend section 3976 of the Code, so that no order of foreclosure upon personal property shall be necessary to post pone the sale of mortgaged property. 20. An act to repeal an act con fori ng ad ditionul power on Tax Collectors. 21. An act to extend the limits of Waynes boro. 22. An act to amend the charter of Macon. 23. An act to amend the charter of the town of Camilla. 24. An act to authorize the Governor to furnish arms and accoutrements to colleges which are or may be established as branches of the State University. 25. An act to change the time of holding Mitchell Superior Court. 26. An act to amend the garnishment law of this State. 27. An act to provide for judgment for plaintiffs in foreclosing liens on personalty. 28. An act to amend section 3972 of the Code relating to the sale of mortgaged per sonalty. 29. An act to amend section 5161 of the Code relative to answers to garnishments in Justices Courts. 30. An act to render more efficient inspec tion of fertilizers in this State. 31. An act to repeal an act organizing a County Courts for Muscogee county. 32. An act to provide for trials of cases in County Courts where the Judge is disquali fied. 33. An act to provide for serving sum mons on co-obligors joint contractors, etc., in Justices’ Courts in this State. 84. An act to establish a City Court in the county of Hall. 35. The general appropriation* act. 36. An act to repeal an act incorporating the town of Tallapoosa and to adopt anew charter for said town. 37. The general tax act. 38. An act to incorparate The Citizens’ Bank of Augusta. 39. An act to amend section 4066 of the Code. 40. An act to amend an act authorizing the City Council of Augusta to create a Board of Health for said city. 41. An act to incorporate Etowah City in the county of Floyd. FOR THE PEOPLE. RAILROAD BILLS. The railroad acts of the recent Assembly were very important. Only three were pass ed. One was to ebarter the Atlanta and Alabama Railroad, with A. Austell, S. M. Inman, E. P. Howell, W. 1\ Inman, Antho ny Murphy, J. W. English, E. W. Marsh and other prominent men as incorporators. The bill provides for the construction of a road from Atlanta to some point on the Alabama line in the direction of the coal fields, and also prescribes that the capital stock of the company shall be $2,000,000, with the priv ilege of raising it to $5,000,000 in shares of SIOO each. So far as Atlanta is concerned this is the most impoatant bill of the session. The bill to charter the Rome and Chatta nooga Railroad provides for its management bjj,J. W. Maddox, D. B. Hamilton, H. M. Smith and others, and that its stock shall be of the value of SIOO a share and that the to tal amount shall not exceed $1,500,000. As this road will connect Rome and Chattanoo ga, it will become an important factor in the great railroad problem of the South and West. It is possible that its construction will be begun at once and pushed to a speedy completion, as capital is already promised in amounts amply sufficient to secure the speedy success of the new road. The Buena Vista Railroad also received a charter, and will develop a country very much in need of a railroad. Its incorporators are F. W. Miller, T. L. Rogers, Edgar M. Butt, James M. Lowe. J. 11. Dunham and other men in whom the public have confidence. The capital stock is limited to $500,000 at SIOO per share. It is probable that the work of building the road will be begun at once. A SINGLE VETO. The Governor has vetoed but one act pass ed by the General Assembly and that is an act to incorporate the Commercial Bank of •Savannah. This bill is vetoed because the Governor declares that he believes it opposed to true public policy. The bill declares that stockholders shall he liable only to the amount of their unpaid stock, and the Governor de clares that as the amount of deposits the bank may receive is unlimited he does not think the liability of the stockholders should be limited, or that they should be awarded the advantage over those engaged in ordinary business transactions. A Merry Mourner. IIIS ORATION OVER THE BURIAL OF DEMO CRATIC HOPES. The Republicans of Clarinda. Rage coun ty, lowa, bud a jollification meeting on Fri day night, the sth instant. After several Re publican orators had given vent to their feel ings with spread eagle speeches, the crowd called loudly for Lou. B. Cake. Cake is a Democrat and he looked too depressed to speak out the crowd wouldn't be put off, so he nounted a box and made the following unique speech : Fellow-citizens : A man usually attends his own funeral, but it is not expected that he should talk a great deal. [Laughter.] I knew the funeral ceremony would goon with out me, so 1 concluded I bad better bring in the body. [Laughter.] But it takes a great deal ol'grace to sustain a man who helps furnish the corpse for an occasion like this. (Laughter.] Nobody but a Democrat could do it. [Ap plause.] It is certain that no one save the Democrats have had a chance to try it for the last twenty years. [Shouts of applause.] Disappointment is the modern Democrat’s birthright, and mourning his normal condi tion. They took out a patent on disaster twenty years ago and it has never been in fringed. The patent run out in 1876 and they have just got it renewed. Looking over the landscape of the last twenty years, I be hold acres and acres of busted hopes, cords and cords of disgruntled ambitions, barrels of unavailing tears, oceans and oeeans strewn with the wrecks of phantom ships once bur dened with Democratic delusions. [Great applause.] Disappointment is an anchor to the Democratic soul, both sure and steadfast. Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind’s breath, And stars to set; but all, Oh, Democrat, Thou hast all times for thine own death. I might say with Shylock, “ Sufferance — yea, suffer- ance is the badge of our tribe.” I could give you 329 reasons for this. [Laugh ter.] A lawyer offered a Judge sixteen rea sons why his client was not present in Court. First, he was dead. The Judge told him that he might omit the other fifteen. The first reason of the 329 is. we lacked the voters. You will allow me to omit the other 328. [Applausive consent.] But I could give you more than 329 reasons. Then— ’Tis tlie South that can supply Solid comforts while we die. In some States the Greenback party fell through a crack in their platform and crip- 1 pled us. [Laughter.] But Democracy still lives. [Great applause.] It’s like the mule —it never dies. But unfortunately, like the mule, while it lives it is forever throwing its riders. It bucked Greeley off and killed him in 1872. Tilden stuck on till he passed under the wire. [Applause.] But there was so much daylight between him and this Demo cratic quadruped the Judge counted him off. although he had his foot in the stirrups. This year we got a splendid send off, and might have won, but the donkey was stricken down in Indiana with (g) Landers. [Applause.] We close this chapter of history with the hope that the story will not be continued in our next. [Cheers.] We accept defeat the more cheerfully because of the magnanimous man ner with which you take the victory. We take it every four years. It is a standing prescription. It might well be called the quadrennial ipecac. [Groans.] It works up before the election and works down when the returns come in which you have turned out to our funeral. [Applause.] We con gratulate you on the magnificent and impo sing character of the obsequies. [Here the speaker's feelings overcame him, and he re. tired amid encouraging earthquake and ap plausive avalanches.] The first American city to light its streets i wholly by electricity is Ogden, Utah. [From the Atlanta Constitution. ! William Arp, on the Georgia Legislature. The Georgia Legislature has adjourned— | gome home in undignified haste. They com menced going about a week ago—slipping I off on the night trains with their jaws tied up. (Some said they had important business that I had to be attended to. Some said they would I have to come back next summer to fix up the new census ; and someone thing and some 1 another, but I found out yesterday what was , the matter. The whole concern had the mumps. It got to be a regular panic, and when they did adjourn there wasn't a quorum left to do it legally. Ido hope the boys will get over it without any unpleasant conse quences. John Branson seemed to be very much disgusted. Says he was having a good time and was perfectly happy. Never eat such good vittels in his life as he got at the Markham, and had gained ten pounds since he got there—was about the first one to the dinin-room and the last to leave it. Says lie : “ I took the little hand bill at the top and went through it all alymode and biled and fry-cased. I like the Markham splendid. They haven't asked me for a dollar since I have been here and I aint shore they ever will, considering how kind and polite they are to me. I stayed at a soup house once in Cincinnati and the waiter went round with a pitcher and poured soup in every man’s plate, and the landlord followed right along after him with a big syringe and if a feller diden’t lay down a quarter he just sucked up the soup in the syringe and went on to the next one. He said there were so tnanv dead beats in that country he was obliged to pro tect himself. But the Markham don't keep nary syringe. “Now I've got to go home and live on my fut and a little bacon and greens until next J July. I like legislation splendid. For the | first two or three days I was powerful skeerd, and thought 1 was about the only fool in the concern, but I soon found out I had mighty ; nigh as much sense as any of em except | Bacon. He knows it all and more too. Never saw such a man in rny life. He's a regular book and lie’s a man of splendid dis cernment. I know he is, for he called me to i the chair yesterday and give me his little maul, and I never felt so big in rny life. I rapped around there smartly to keep order, and got Hardin to read a bill or two to pass away the time, for the ladies in the gallery j were a looking at me with their little douhle i barreled spectacles, and 1 conic mighty nigh ! suspending the rules and sending for a pho j tograph gallery to stand at the door and take ; a shoot at me and the whole concern. 1 | thought it would be a splendid thing to hand down to my posterity. I'd give five dollars for the picture right now, for I never expect 'to feel so proud again. Bacon is a splendid j man, and has got judgMENT. 11 is puttin’ me up there will send me back here world without end. I'm going home to my con stituents and let’em know that I presided and kept the stale all safe. Whenever a feller goes back he mp.3t have something to swell on. I’ve got the inside track now. Four dollars a day and mileage. The mile age ain’t much for me ; I wish I lived further off. Them wire grass fellers -come three hundred miles and get sixty dollars for it and don’t pay nary cent. Free passes over, the whole lino, and they bring vittles enough in their coat pockets to do ’em all the way. It ain’t fair. My mileage ain’t but twelve dollars. I had a good notion to introduce a resolution to abolish mileage where a feller had a free pass, and I would have done it but I was afeerd the dogon thing might pass. But I'll do something brilliant next session, see if I dont. A few jmars ago I got tired of work and come down here and got a bill ° j through fora county court, and I got the inside track for the office before the bill was passed and I made every little ticky-head lawyer in this county mad and they clubbed together and had the office abolished at the next session and I never got to set on the bench but one time. But I made good use of that. I tried a feller for carry Til concealed weepins ami I just everlastingly went for him. It was a case of self-defense for I al ways was afraid of these baby shot-guns that a feller carries under his coattail and just whirl round and round and shoot before and behind and every other way. lam radically agin etn, and whenever I see a feller no around with his hat on one side and his left eye sorter cocked, I step clean away from him. I don't like cm. They have got a pistol in their hip pocket and a . streak of cowardice running down their backbone as big as a fence rail. I fined that feller a thousand dollars, and it had a good moral effect upon the whole community. I made him pay it. and it’s the only fine money that ever got into our county treasury ; for when the superior court fines a man the clerk and | the sheriff and the solicitor general gobbles | it up on the insolvent costs before they ever record the judgment.” I noticed a resolution we passed to invite plans and specifications for anew capital. That’s right—we are now on the up grade to prosperity, and it’s high time we were build ing a capitol that will do honor to the State. If its costs a million of dollars it will take a tax of only one-tenth of one per cent, for four years to pay it, even if there is no increase of taxable property —we have $240,000,000 of property now, add ten cents on a hundred dollars will raise $’?40,000 a year. Let’s build it out of our own granite and marble and iron and slate and our own beautiful pine and walnut, and cherry, and elm, and sweet gum. Let’s put the convicts to quarrying the granite and stop all this fuss about the chain gang. Georgia is all right, Mr. Sie phens to the contrary nevertheless notwith standing. At least they are coming out rap idly in my neighborhood, and that’s what's the people tell me everywhere I go. Yours. Bill Alp. The editor of the London Times paid £],- 000 for the privilege of publishing selected chapters from Lord Beaconsfiekl’s new ro mance a few days before the work appeared. Athens, Ga., has the only bobbin mill in tbe South, and cannot supply the demand for J bobbins. S TERMS, $1.50 PER ANNUM. ) SI.OO For Six Months. Christmas. Customs. THE ORIGIN OF CHRISTMAS AS A HOLIDAY— TUB MANNER OF ITS CELEBRATION IN DIF* J FLUENT COUNTRIES. The 25U.1 of December is the day on which, the son is near the most southern point in its apparent annual journey, and for so long as we have historical record, it has been cele brated by ceremonies and rejoicings. The Hindoos on this day decorate their | homes with garlands of flowers and papers of goid and tinsel, and the custom of making presents to relatives and friends is univer sally observed. The Egyptians recognized it by their fes tival in honor of the birth of their god Horus. In China it is a general holiday, the Bjiops are shut and the courts closed. No journey would under any circumstances bo com menced on this day. The Persians kept, it ns the birthday of Mithras the Mediator, a spirit of the sun, with ceremonies of uncommon splendor. The old Romans held high festival in hon or of Bacchus, rejoicing with him that the sun was about to return and revivify the vineyards. They designated the day tho birthday of the invincible sun. There is no record that the birthday of Jesus the Christ, was observed till the second century. At the suggestion of Pope Teles phorus some of the Eastern churches recog nized the Gth of January as the day, while those of the West added it to other celebra tions in the last week of December. in the fourth century Pope Julius raado an order assembling the chief theologians of the time, for the purpose of examining fill evidence bearing upon the date of the birth of Jesus, that they should, if possible, fix tho day, in order that its observance might be universal. After due deliberation they de cided that it was on December the 2bth. This decision was. at the time, believed by many of the fathers in the church to be er roneous, and they went so far as to assert that the examiners had been biased in their decision by the desire to please the public, to whom this day had already become to be a noted one. Popular feeling, however, sus tained the council in their decision, whioh was finally universally accepted and com memorated, although it is now generally believed to be wrong. On the publication of the decision the Roman Church decreed and instituted special prayers to priests, to be said on that day, which are known as Christ masses. But we find another, derivation for the name. The old Saxons had a word Moessa, by which they designated all days freed ffoin labor, whether holidays or fast days. The holidays kept in remembrance of the birth of Christ, were Christ moessa. The spread of the Christian religion carried with it the observance of Christmas as a re ligious festival with which became drtnnected other observances varying with the customs and habits of different nations. With the Germans, Christmas is esteemed the “Children’s Festival,” and with them originated the world famous myth of "Sainti Nicholas,” alias “Santa Claus,” alias “Kri® Kringle,” the patron of Yule-tide and th* friend of all proper boys and prettily behaved girls. Happily the reforms in the observance of the da}', which began in Germany, reached and was copied in other portions of Europe. Christmas is also now “Children’s Day” in England and France, In toys and confec tions for the period the children are distinctly remembered in Itaty, and in America the Christmas Tree, the “stockings hung by the chimney with care,” and the harmless merry games and innocent glee of childhood sup plant mnch of the boisterous carousal which once tended to render the day rollicking and riotous. It was formerly the ou3tom. and is still the practice in some of the small villages in North Germany, to commission the per sonage of “Knercht Rupert,” corresponding with our “Santa Claus.” to distribute all the presents made by parents and friends to children. Disguised by a mask, wearing an enormous flaxen beard, clad in a long white robe, and shod in tall buckskins, “Knccht Rupert” went from bouse to house, was re ceived by the parents with great ceremony, called for the children, and after the strictest investigation into their deserving, dispensed gifts accordingly. “Santa Claus,” we all know, reports himself differently. Since the. beginning of the sixteenth cen tury more than 800,000 acres have been won frorf> the water in Holland, and reclamation still goes on at the rate of about eight acres a day. Since 18f>0, the Lake of Haarlem has been converted into a region of farms and villages, and the pumping out of the Zuvdcr Zee, now to be done, will surpass in magni tude all previous endeavors, and give fresh force to Zeeland’s motto, Luclor. et emerrjo^ Leopold von ftanke, the historian of the Popes of Home, not satisfied with having given to the world nearly as many volumes as he has years—and the illustrious chroni cler is" older than the German Emperor—is busily engaged with anew work on univer sal history, the first two volumes of which aro expected to appear before Christmas, dealing with the oldest historical group of peoples, including the Greeks. The most costly building in the country when completed will be the great Mormon temple at Salt Lake City, the cost of which is estimated at $27,000,000. The next in cost is the capitol at Washington. The third the capitol of New York, still incomplete; and after that, the new city court house. A curious new club is about to be estab lished in Albert terrace. Knightsburg, Lon don. It is to be founded by bachelors, who are to be allowed to ladies at dinner. When a member marries he is to be permit ted to retain his membership on payment of a fine of twenty-five guineas. The fird. successful porcelain factory in the United States has been established in New Orleans under the management of enterprise ing Frenchmen. The koalin from which the ware is manufactured is found in Louisan* and Texas. Large beds of this white day also exists in South Carolina. NUMBER 29,