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$im|citst4§cijrgtaa. PUBLISHED ON WEDNESDAY MORNING PUBLICATION OFFICE: W 'b. 7, GHAJVITJ? &07f * (LiKStnire,) ATHENS* GEORGIA. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION j March 24, 1878. \ OLD SERTES—Volume LIIJ. NEW SERIES—Volume III Important to Bank Officers— The New Stamp Law. The Coqpftiseiouer of Internal Rev enue has replied to oertaiu questions propounded to tome of the Bank offi cers of NetoXgrk atv, in reference to the meaning of certain parts of Section 15 of the "Act to annul cxisting.cus- tom and Literal Revenue laws," etc,, approved February 8th, 1875. He »>»: Ak Fint—II there be any understand ing between the Bank and the maker of the notes or acceptor of the checks, drafts or <|rder* payable at Bank, all such notes and acceptances shall be paid by the Bank and charged in the account cjf the maker, drawer or ac ceptor, in, t'.ie same manner as ordi nary e!:ecl« would be; such notes and acceptances are considered liable to the two cent stamp tax as “ vouchers” Business & Frofes’nl Cards, x> G. TSWWfWfcl-r' * man’s calmer. Good day.” lam going to ask him towrite it but. I am anxious to know 'what that hone did down at the creek.— Max Aider. Court-room Ventilation. As a matter of special interest and importance to the Court attendants of our country in these our days of ex cessive, onerous and unending ligitiga- tion, are publish the following sensible article from the 27it Trade Journal: “ Whether the lives of lawyers be of sufficient importance to the communi ty to warrant any particular efforts to prolong them, is a question which it is not our present purpose to 'discuss, in dividual opinions on the subject being *-Uttle oiU* loth* n«*t. r ' Fret pot that the children’* heart* «r*W. ’ That <ho rcsil&M foot s Ui run; , .There majooae a tine; lathe bye-aml-bje. When yontl alt tn your hinely rooaa and *%h Foraaoundof ctUld|»b fun.. When you’ll long for therepeUUon irut, That aonnded throojh each room, OT •• mother, toother,” the dear lore cell* That viU echo long In thuilant halls, And add to t half .lately,gloom. There may. ram* time vhen you’U long to hear The eager boyish tread, , ‘ The tuneloia whl-lle, the clear thrill shout, j The busy bursting in and out. And the pattering overhead. JACKSON & THOMAS Attorneys at Law Athens, Georgia. •' ' P C Vur rufitnee to aperlal penuMla • •5.'—“L. W.Thomaaraiaiu't* WUUum 1 Yearly all tl*»«n originate from ladigeetlon ad Torgldltj of the Liter, and relief ia always nstoumly sought »A*r. If the l.lrrr la Kegalatrd a Ua action, JrnalU* ii almost 1 amiably ir—red. Sant of action to the hi vor causes lleadarfce. (hi- Attorneys at haw, ATHENS, OA. •T Oflco in tha Deupree Building. R. LITTLE, Attorney al Z,aw, CATtNESVILLE, QA. JOHN T. OSBORN, Attorney-at-Law ELBERTON, GA. Will practice tn the counUaa of tha Northarn Circuit, Bank*. Franklin and Habersham of the Western Circuit; will giro *pe«lal attention to all claim* •□trusted to lilt care. Jan. 10, 1374—lyi* T S. DORTCH, ^ * Attorney al I,an>, CARNESVILLE, GA. E. V. WILLIAMSON, PRACTICAL WtlCHMUER and JEWELLER At I>r. King's Drug Store, BROAD STREET ATHENS, GA. All work done in a superior wanner, and warranted to givo satisfaction. jan.T-tf WILEY CHILDERS, L OCATED in this city, is prepared to do all kind* of Carpenter*' Work in th« )i.*i *tylu. and at rca-onmldc rate*, with dispatch. Shop in the rear o; tha City Clerk'a Office. Jane 3. 1374. M V. GURLEY, SUJtGBO.Y DJZsYTIST, r PARKS pleasure in announcing to -i- tha riiUtniof Franklin and and adjoining conntiea, that he is now located on the Athriis atre .'t. «rio milt* south of rarnesville, wher* h« is l*rcp.iretl to practice DonlUtry in all Ita different ranches. l*ric«s low t«> suit the times, but poai- ively no inferior work. #ctl9-tf GEO. W. COOPER, Carriage and Buggy Timm** Slrtet. opposite Cooper’. Llrery Stable. P ARTICULAR attention given to KKFAUl JOBS. Order, left with A. A. Bell, a! Summer A Nevrtoa’a, will receive promptat- tioo. June 17 tf heart, dcprutulan of spirit*. Mut«. and hundred other syiupicr.i*. for which SllMONK LIVER ItKIiMdTOU is ;ne Lost remedy that hai ever been diarorered. it a'”!.* mildly, effectually, and beluga simple see* ! *•».!•< nmpoimri. can dono injury in any qualities that it may be taken. It ia liartnlrvt in every way ; it has been used for 40 year*, and hundreds of thegood and irreat from all part* of the country will vouch for iu being the puraat ami beat. Simmons Liter Cogolator, cr Medicine, la harmless, Isnodras’ic violent medicine, la sure, to cure if taken regularly, Ta no intoxicating beverage, la a faultless family medicine, la the cheapest medicine in the world, la Riven with safety and the happiest results to the most delicate infant, Doea not interfere with husineaa, IHhts not disarrange the system. Take* the place ot Quinine and Bitters of every kind. Contains the simplest an.l beat remedies. For Sale By All Druggists. When the boys and girl* are all grown up. And scattered far and wide. Or gone to that beautiful gulden shore Where sickness and death come never more, You will miss them from your side. Then gather them close to your loving heart— Cradle them on your breast; They will soon enough leave your br>odfngcaro— Soon enough mount youth's topmost r.tair— Little ones in the nest. k&YlE ILS Of Choice Reading. T HE Missing Bride; or, Miriam, the Avenger. Victor’s Triumph. Sequel to ** A Beautiful Wiend.** A Beautiful Fiend; or, Between tiro Fires. The Artist’s Iaivc. /*’»/ Mr*. Suiithirorth. A Noble Lord. Sequel to ** Lost Heir Linlithqoir. 1 * Lost Heir Linlithgow ; or. The Brothers; or, The Karl and the Onto*?. By Mrs. Southwortk. Tried For Her Lite. rie juwl to 11 Cruel as the Ore re.” By Mrs. Emma J). K. X. South worth. Cruel a* the <» rave ; or J/nlloic Ere Mystery. Belle ood and Bondage; or, Bought with A Price. By Mrs. A mm S. Stephens. The old Ounless. Sequel •• Jxtrd Hope's Choice.'* Lord I Iope% Choice ; or, More Secret Than One. The Reigning Belle. By Mrs. Ann S. Stephens. Linda. By Mrs. Caroline Lee Hentz. Robert Gn*b:>ni. By Mrs. Caroline /we Hentz. Ernest Linwnod. By Mrs. Caroline Lee I/ents. Misccl! ancons Selccit ons. AN EXTRAORDINARY HORSE. A nALF-TOLD TALE. Cooloy and I went nut the other af ternoon to son Mr. Kevser about hnv- . . ing a horse he bad. He asked ns into i w >> ’• a j ! 7 «'J« «*'] ,he sli - h,est kno . wl apt to vary widely, according as the in dividual happens to lie plaintiff or de fendant. nr, if a witness, under direct or cross examination. The average public worth of the intelligent juror is a thing which needs no discussion, and we inay therefore be spared the uncomplimentary task of expressing it. But besides bench and bar and jury, there are many persons whom business calls into the Court-moms and ntnnv others who throng thither ill pursuit of what they vainly imagine to l>c en tertainment, and it is scarcely in rc- cordance with justice—to say nothing of humanity—to treat all of these a« if they had collectively been tried anil found guilty, and sentenced to slow asphyxia. And yet, the con dition of most Court-rooms entail* A.. A.. W N" >T WITH GROOVER, STUBBS & CO. Cotton Kactors, —AND— General Commission Merchants Savannah, Ga. n*tain(. Tl««, Rape, an* oth.r Supplir, for- nl-hcd. Al»«, Literal Ca.h Advance, mad. on .ooiignmenti for *al. or ahlpmont to Llrcr|>ool Northarn ports. mySO-lf Livery. Feed and Sale Stable, A.THBNT S f <3■ A.. GANN & REAVES....PROPRIETORS "VATILL BE FOUND AT THEIR \ V .Id .t.o I, roar Franklin HoaxhtriMIng, Thoinai ltrcet. iCccp always on hand good Turn out. and careful drier*. Snick well cared for whan ealru.Ud to our rare. Stock on band for sale at all Uauu. dec!3-tf FALL I WINTER MILL1HERY GOODS, '\TRS. T. A. ADAMS would most 1YL rwapectfully inform tha Ladle, of Athens aad of cuaatie* adjacent, that ehe ha. now recelT- ed and opened a moat choice and aalact aaaortment of FUI and Winter Millinery Goods, com- , prlstpg hi part th* lateat stylea and foahions of HATS, BONNETS, ■/t rrrno.A s, zaces, Flowers, Gloves, <fcc.. which the will Mil at rMiontbli price*. Give her m call hffiJbrt purchasing cUawhciw- Ordtn flruM a dliUnct carefully fill oil. Store loentod on Broad •troci, ono door aloao Natolnal Bank, octid-tf. Autobiography of Edward Wort ey Monlagu, With Preface by Dr. Mackenzie. The Initials. The Great Love Story. Count of Monte Crialo. By Alexander Dumas. Camille; or The Fate of a i'nqurtte. The Dead Secret. By Wilkie Coilin*. TheCro**ed l*uth. hit Wilkie (V/ivu. Memoirs of Yidocq. Jlis Life and Adventures. Cousin llarry. By Mrs Urey. Th® Little Boautv. By Mrs. Grey. Cvrilla. By Author of “ The Initials.'* Modern Chivalry. By II. II. Breckenridge. Maior Jones* 1’oartih‘p and Travels. Major Jones’ Scent s -n Georgia. Siuion Suggs* Adventure and Travel*. Col. Thorpe’s Scenes in A rkansaw. Big Bear’s Adventures nnd Travels. Don Quixotte. li’i/A His Life and Adventures. Frank Fairlcgh. By Frank K Smrdley. Lewis Arundel. By Frank K. Smedlry. Tom Uaequc t. By Frank E Smrdley. TheTowerof London. By !!'. //. Ai»*irorth. Count of Monte-CrlMo. By Alexander Dumas. The Countess of Mont e-Crist o. The Three Gnnrdsmen. By Alexander Pumas. Twenty Years After. By Alexawter Dumas. Bragelonno. By Alexander Dumas. The Iron Mask. By Alexander Dumas. Edmond Dante*, sequel to Count of Monfe-Crisfo. Forty-Five <*ttnrJ«ntc:t. By Alexander Dumas. The Iron Hand. By Alexander Dumas. Charles O'Malley. By Charles Lever. Harry !.*»rre.|uer. By Charles Lever. Jack'lliuton. the Guitrdsmau. By Lever Tom Burke of Our*. By Charles 7x«vr. Valentine Vox, the Veutriloquist. ByCoekton. Basil: or. The Crowed Tath. By Collins. The Brigand ; «*r the Demon oi the North. By Vlrtor Huao, author of ” Les Mi treaties.'* The Queen's Revenue By Il'i/Bf Collins. Hide and Seek. By Wilkie Collins. After I>ark. By Wilkie Collins. Cruising in I^ist War. A Capital Sea Sfory. TrapiK*r*s Daughter. By Gustave A Hoard. Guy Fawkes. Bu Ainsworth. Illustrated. The Star Chamber. By H'm. Harrison Ainsworth. Holidav Stories. By Charles Dickens. The Fie-Nic Fajmrs. By Charles Dickens. Dickens’ Short Stories. By Charles Dickens. Windsor Castle. By W. Harrison Ainsworth. Charles O’Malley. Harry Lorrednor. The Three Guardsmen. Twenty Years After. The Iron Mask. Louise I*a Vallicre. The Ir**n Hand. Jack Hinton. Tom Burke of Ours. Edmond Dantes. Bragelonno. Forty-five Guardsmen. Love at Pint Sight. By Captain C ml in a. Sunshine and Shadow. By Mrs. C.J. AetrF»y. Miss or Mrs. ? By Wilkie Collins. The Dead Secret. By Wilkie Collins. Mad!Monktou, and o( her Tales. By Wilkis Collins. Sight* Afoot. By Wilkis Collins. The Corsican Biot hers. By Alexander Dunuit. Father Tom and the l*ope. Illustrated. The Marriage Verdict. By Alexander Dumas. The Flirt. By Mrs Grey. Salathicl; or the Wandering Jew. By Bev. G. Crol»/. Good Society. By Mrs Grey. The Reb-1 Chief. By Gustare Aimard. The Border Rifles. By Gustare Aimard. Sol. Smith’s Theatrical Apprenticeship. /I/us- trated. „ _ ff Sol. Smith’s Theatrical Journey-Work. JUus- (rated. The Indian Chief. By Gustave Aimard. The tiold-sSeekcra. By Gustare Aimard. The Tiger-Slayer. By Gustare A’mart!. The L»>et Back Note. By Mrs. Henry Wood. Lion-Hearted. A SorcL By Mrs Grey. The - Jl».»d Track. By Gustare Aimard. rosslon and Principle. By Mrs Grey. Mary Seahatn. By Mrs Grey. For Sale at Nov. 2.1 BU KK E*S BOOK STORE. the parlor, anti while we were pitting | there we heanl Mrs. Kevser in the <lininir*roof?j .*t<)joiiiH><r 9 busy preparing for supper. Kevser would not sell his horse, but he was quite sociable, and after some conversation, he said: 4 Gentlemen, in 1847 I owned » boss that never seen his equal in this State. And that boss once did the most ex traordinary thin? that was ever done bv an animal. One dnv I had him out, down yer by the creek—” Here Mrs. Kevser opened the door .and exclaimed, shrilly: 4 Kevser, if you want nnv supper you’d better pet me some kin'liu wood pretty quick.” Then Kevser t urned to us and said : 44 Excuse me for a few moments, gentlemen, if you please.” A moment Inter we heard him splitting wood in the cellar beneath, and indulging in some very hard swearing, with his soft pedal down— Mrs. Keyscr being the object of his After awhile he came objurgations. into the parlor again, took his seat, wiped the moisture from his brow, put! . . - , , his handkerchief in his hat, his hnt on ■ ^.irce <" to increase the latter. Cil^p of hygienic laws, must rejptrd a« a worse punishment than is indicted intentionally on convi-ted criminals. Double doors and double sashes to shut out what little pure air mi<;!it find in gress by these means; several hundred for the payment of money by the Bank. This applies to notes, drafts, etc., made, drawn or accepted prior to February 8, 1875, when paid by the Bank on after that date. Second—This tax applies to checks drawn hv a Bank upon itself for the purpose of paying its own dividends, coupons or interest of other corpora tion*. or for other payments. Third—Checks drawn by State, county or city officers in their official opacity upon public bonds deposited in a Rank are exempt, if said bonds are kept separate from any private accounts, it not being within the in tent of the law to tax a public treas ury. Orders for dividends are subject to the tax if drawn for a definite and certain sum, but not otherwise. An ordinary certificate of deposit used in the ordinary manner is not liable. Interest coupons are considered ex empt. Bills of exchange, foreign ns pairs of lunirs exhaling carbonic acid | as hdand, when drawn upon a enough to vitiate some half million . Bank, B ulker or Trust Company, are cubic feet of atmosphere an hour, and 1 he subject to the tax, whether with an equal number of not always payable at sight or otherwise. scrupulously clean bodies, giving out a still more injurious admixture of organic matter; no efficient apparatus for forced ventilation, hut in a few instances an ingenious arrangement to introduce more foul gases from cellars l tenon th ; such are the places in which human beings are herded together for many hours of the day, and a jaded counsel must exert their utmost powers in spite of blood poisoning. The factors of the respiration prob lem are easy of statement. The fa cilities for introducing fresh air into a room and the cubic space to he allot ted to each inmate of such a room, stand in inverse ratio to each other. If the former ho inadequate, the only In the floor, and resumed : °! her wor d*. »‘ ‘ he of suffi “ As I was savin’, Mr. Adeler, one . ^ ent ^ans changing the air of a dav I had that hoss down ver by the Court room, fewer people should lie creek; it was in ’47 or’48. I most, admitted to it. Unless m one way or forgot which. But, howsomedever, I! ‘ “ e °» ,er ’ st(, P? betaken to remedy took him down ver bv the creek, and j ‘V*’ evil of crowd poisoning, there is a I was jest about to”- j «' , > a " ce ,n ,hp?0 , ™' ,SC3 eelehres Mrs. Kevser (opening the door sud-1 protracted trials, that we shall denlv)—You, Kevser ! there’s not a ! I,avfi *° revcr f to the oh ) drop of water in the kitchen, and un- t,,m °f strewing aromatic in Court t Acres of Skeletons Unearthed.. Says the Chattanooga Times of Sun day: The high water of the recent flood washed about four fe?t of earth from ten or fifteen acres of land lying along the Tennessee river on the farm of Mr. Janies Prater, near Louisville,, in Blount county. About two feet of soil, was removed from the same ground by the high tide of 1867. When the waters subsided, after the last flood, a strange sjiectacle was pre sented. The whole of the denuded area was covered with skeletons. Some were straight, some redintng, some doubled up aiid some in a sitting posture. There were the osseous forms of infants, of children and of full grown persons. Mr. Prater hns counted over a thousand forms. The steamer City of Knoxville, on her last trip, brought some of these bones to Chattanooga, and Mr. Craw ford. the clerk of the Knoxville, pre sented us with it skull. Persons who have lived in the vi- THE CENTENNIAL ACTION OF THE GEO. LEGISLATURE* The General Assembly passed the following resolutions on the subject of the approaching Cen tennial : Resolved, that his Excellency the Governor be and he is herehy authorised and requested to cause thtf 4yoper steps to lie taken un der fbe direction and control of Hie Commissioners of Agriculture, for aflteding the necessary facili ties to the people of this State for forwarding and exhibiting pro ducts of the soil and Anines* me chanics aud other roaources' of the State at the approaching Centen nial Exposition to bo held in the City of Philadelphia in the year 1876, and in visiting the smite: Provided, That persons receiving the benefit of such facilities and ciuity of this mysterious cemetery for organization be first required to sixty five years, never heard of any I pay snch 8um as w| „ Cov V r n ]| cx _ human bones being discovered there . .l., i, • before. i P°" SP8 5 tnc otate to he in no way The skeletons, we understand, are > ^ a ^ e ,^ wr _ e *P cn ?° ” r ros ^ s ***• not found iu a mound, nor in what j ® tt .V kind, but tho sumo appears to bean artificial formation of) 10 l»orne exclusively by the the earth. | persons taking the lienctits as We understand one or more mounds , aforesaid, under sueh rides and were partially washed away in Meigs 1 regulations as the Governor may county, disclosing skeletons, stone 1 l. i.t_u J . , . . , . skeletons, stone prescribe, by which, with com- hatchets, and pipw, and implements bined action, exhibitors mav obtain common among the Indians. 1 The skeleton probalily occupy which perhaps centuries ago was onv ered up by the fame agency which has now exposed its occupants to view. Duplicates of hills, orders, etc., are liable the same as originals. Receipts not relating to Banking business, for instance for r-’nt.s, are exempt. -- 2el. <£• Mess. IVe are Nearer IVar Now than Before Hu* Election of IS60. There is much better reason for Mr. B. F. Butler’s lugubrious forelaidings than people generally suppose. Civil war is not only possible within the next two years, hut Mr. Butler is en tirely warranted in saying that the reasons for anticipating it are much greater now ("twenty months before the election of 1876), than they were twenty months before the election of 1869. Not a man in America, in the beginning of March, 1859, dreamed or saw cause to dream that ore two years should pass the country would hear the call to arms. The reasons to antici pate civil war within two years are n thousand times greater now than they were then. Then the heat o! political centered in a sectional [From the Wilmington tDel) u«£ett**.] A Walk Around the World. ^Mr. Mark Grayson, of Richmond, Va.. is now in this city training for the prodigious and hitherto uuatteinpted feat of walking around the. world. Several weeks ago Mr. Grayson, hacked by Leon Macarthy, entered into a wager of $25,000 with J. P. Wilkinson and Thomas L. Murdock, (the parties being all from Richmond, Va..) that he could walk around the world in six hundred days. The dis tance to be included in the entire route is 19,226 miles, which will make a daily average of a little over 82 miles. Under the terms of the agreement, which Itave been accepted and signed, Grayson is to start from the city hall. New York, on Saturday, April 8, 1875, and to return to the same place Thursday, November 23, 1876. Part of his trip will be on the ocean steam ers, during which time he will make up his daily average by walking on ship hoard. He will he accompanied by Mr. McCarthy and some persons to he sent out by the other parties to the wager. The exceptions included in the agreement arc delays occasioned by assault or unavoidable accidents. Blount county jitlvantoafcs in reduction hurrving ground. °‘ am > passage, order and safety in the exhibition and care of the property. Resolved further. That the State University be requested to furnish the proper datn for the Bureau of History and Statistics in the approaching Centennial Ex position, and for this purpose the officers of the University, or per sons charged by it. with the work, have access to the archives and public library of the State, and the State Geologist lie requested to furnish the necessary surveys, geological information and speci mens front his office; Provided, that this work lie accomplished with no expense to tho State, be yond the actual cost of freight and hauling of the articles and pack ages sent by said University and the State Geologist as aforesaid, a schedule and estimate of which shall be made and filed in the ex ecutive office and approved by the Governor before the articles aro sent. r v t, rrrjf PVT/OUT Rates of Advertising: Trsn-ipnt »dvorli-.Mnon!«..,lone« 1 u.H' □rmorc, SI 00 per sqaan: for the lnllnntlMi,w* TJeents f u- rack lowrtfon. ■ OS. All advertisement. eoiuW^pd^trtnfilcat. except where special contract* arc made. TwcItc lints spue* of this type one Inch) make one square. ' J ’ r canlrict prices, see *cheaule. Vsssitutssdts Information W anted. Josh Billings says, Will some benign Being explane, tonic— Wtiy a dog alwus tyrns jound 3 times before ho lies down.' Why a horse alwus gits up oph from the ground on his forward feet fust. ' Why n coav alwus gits tip oph from the ground ou her behind feet fust. ■•*’ WhvJ when a man gitv lost in the woods or on the pinias, hc alwus walks jn a cirkle-ftj , Why « goose stands .fust'one leg and then on timber. Why, rabbits bav a sliort^alo and knats hsv a long owttor’,^ .. ,.v • < - Why most' alt the birds bild their nests out of different mato- riul-. Why a hen alwus knows her little ones from another’s, and why she will hatch out 12 duck’s eggs and then think they are her own chickens. Why a liear will alwus climb down a tree backward-. Why a tr rkey’s eggs is speckled and a duck's blue. Whether a log floats faster in river than the current rubs or not. * ■ Why an oyster and a klam are the only things 1 kno ov witU ani mal life that don't bav to ipove out ov their places to get a living. Why • a mule’s bones aro all solid, and their cars twice as .long as a horse’s. Why a pig gathers straws in his mouth and runs almut with them just before a rain storm. Why litening never was known to strike a beech tree. Why the males aimttig the fctliercd nice do all the singing. Mule, land lit J. W- COLLINS IIss now In Star* a Full Stock of IfSW (GOOJDS* SUITABLE FOB THE SPRING AND SUMMER Distil ution of Partnership. T HE partnership heretofore existing between the subscriber* under the firm name of BURKE & HODGSON, I* thi* dar dissolved hr mutual eonient. The business will l»e continued by T. A. BURKE, who will collect all of the accounts due the firm, and settle its Indebtedness. Parties Indebted are re quested to make immediate payment, as the books of the Into firm must be closed. T. A. Burke, W. H. Hodgson. rienda 7 ’ sincere thanks for their !il»ertl p.itrnu:ige. and icitof them a continuance of ihe same to my Consisting, ip part, of DRY GOODS GROCERIES HATS, SHOES * NOTIONS Of AH Kinds, wfctck he offers CHEAP FOR CASH Or in Exchange for Countiy Produce. •r Th. highMi msjkst pries paid in 1 ?** 1 ’ '* * BRACKETS. The Largest Stock of Brackets, Clock Shelves, Book Shelves* , Wall Pockets, ‘ •Hatch Safe*. Hanging Baskets, Ac., Ac. Bver Brought to Athens, p w sale at .. miVi BOOK STORE. b<iv.25.tf. luccrsaor. Nov.4.tf. W. II. HOmiSON. GEORGIA, HARTCOUYTY. v7 OnuiMABV’sOPKIC*. Dec. 28tli, 1874. Whereas, June I lower., Guardian of Xsnre Bowers, K. A. E. Bowers, J. D. Bowerr, L. tf. Bowers, Jane Bowers, Mary Bowers, Martha Bowers and l. li. Bowers, minor heirs of E.ly Bowers. d>WMsed, represents to the Gmrt tlut she has folly aettl.sl with the said lieira in terms of the Lew, *’ . This is, therefore, to cito alt eoneernod, to shew esnseif anethey ran. why raid OuartUn shool not he dismissed at tbs April term, li.o, of the Court of Ordinary foraaid Couuty. FRED. C. STEPtffcNcON, Ord’y. Dec. 20th, It. TO RENT, TpROM 1st October, 1874, to Dec’r J? Slat, 1S7S, The Best Business Stand, knd boat arraajsd Store tn Athena. J uly 1 tf Apply W k, P, BlSHOr. WANTED! d(' LADIES to work iu the Athens /O' ^jndry. Apply to C, C. Csrro’l In tho Athonafueoi^iaf" N 'A CHSAT JfUSJC. S3.00 for lO Conte! fflHREE back nuaaber.orCHtJBCH’S MES1CAL mg ss»i5 i ius.«ssr John Church &Co., March 10,-21. Cn.ciiri.ATi, O*io less some’s drawn tlic.re’ll be no sup|>cr in this house this night, now mind me. Kevser (with a look of pain upon his face.)—“ Well, well! this is too bad ! too bad! Gentlemen, just wait half a minute. I’ll lie right back, j The old woman’s rarin’ ’round, and she won’t wait." Then we heard Kerrer at work at the well-bucket, and* looking out the back witidow we saw him bringing in a pail of water. On hi* way he en countered a liver-colored dog, and in order to give his pent-up feelings ade quate expression, he kicked the ani mal clear over the fence. Presently he came into Vlie parlor, mopped his forehead, and liegan again : Keyser—“ AsT was a sayin’, that hoss was perfectly astouishin’. On the day of which I was speakin’, I was riditi’ him down yer by the creek, dost by the corn-field, and I was just about to wade him in, when, all of a suddent like, he— Mrs. Keyser (at the door, and with her voice pitched ot a high key) “ Are you poin’ to fetch that ham from the smoke house, or are vou goin’ to set there jabberin’, and go without your supper? If that hnm isn’t here in short order, I’ll know the reason whv. You hear me 1 Keyser (his face red and his manner excited)—“ Gra-shusI If this isn’t —well, well, this just lays over all the —Pshaw! Mr. Cooley, if you’ll hold on for a second. I’ll liqwith you again. I’ll he fight back.” Then wc heard Keyser slam oprn the smoke-house door, and presently lie emerged with n hnm which he car ried in one hand, while with the other he made a fi-t. which he shiiok threateningly at the kitchen door, as if to menace Mrs. Keyser, who couldn't sec him. Again he entered the parlor, smell ing of smoke and ham, and, crossin his legs, he continued : Keyser—“Excuse those little infer ruptions, the old woman’s kinde sing’ler and you’ve got to humor her to live in peace with her. Well, sir. a I said, I n»de that ext’rordiuary i«»s down ver by the creek on that day t which I am referrin’, ami after passin the corn field I was goin’ to wade hin iuto (he creek, just then, all of a sud dent, w hat should that boss do but- Mrs. Keyser (at the door again)— " Keyser 1 you lazv vagahone! Why don’t you’tend to milkin’ them cows? Not one morsel of supper dh you put in your mouth this night unless you do •he milkin’ right off. You shan’t touch a crust, or my name’s not Erne- line Keyser." Then Keyser leaped to hi* feet in a perfect frenzy of rage and hurled the chair at Mr*. Keyser; whereupon she Mixed the poker and came toward him with savage earnestness. Then we pave the bench and bar from typhus, ns there is present certainty that the health of Judges and lawyers is gravely endangered by the foul atmosphere which they are forced to breathe d:ty alter day. controversy question that did not involve any ques-1 ...Augusta Chronicle: Scene iti a tion of right fundamental to the whole Broad street clothing store; time, people. Now everything tends-to eleven o’clock yesterday morning, show that the central issue in the next Enter colored troop from the rural THE DEL.UT4KK ICF.-NOIKiE. The ice gorge on the Delaware must be a beautiful, although a terrible sbht. and the people at Port Jervis are watch ing it with feverish anxiety. A corres pondent front that town writes that its formation is very irregular. In some plsces great blocks of ice have evidently itecome firmly planted in the bed of the river, and these have served as piers front one to another, of which arches have formed, several feet above the water, up-bearing the great dome- shaped mass. Since the ice has settled deeper into the bed of the river, the lo cality of these arches is marked hy great huinmocka on the surface of the glaeier. It is very dangerous walking on the crlacicr, since the deep coverin'.’ of snow hides from view the manv rifts and holes l>etween the cakes of ice, some of which extend twenty feet or more downward. The surface is very irre gular. being intersected in every diree- tirtn bv slmrp ridges with deep depres sions between them, in the bottom of which surface water has collected in considerable quantities. The bed of the river is full of rock* and shoals, and these have served ns shoulders to hold the ice more firmly, as the pres sure from above drives it down. Science is endeavoring to avert the calamity to the peaceful town that ap pears so inevitable. On Wednesday experiments were made with glycerihe and giant powder, and the main mass, a block one hun dred feet square, was blown out and «ent floating down the river, amid the enthusiasm of the spectators. Pieces of solid‘ice twelve inches thick were thrown more than one hundred feet into the nir bv the explosion. Strenu mis efforts are l*cing made to protect the suspension bridge from harm, great iron piers being built in front of it to enable it to withstand the terrible pres sure it must endure. Science, how ever, will find a dangerous antagonist in nature, aud it is sad to reflect upon the loss of property, and perhaps life, that must result from the severity of the past winter. ...Three Chicago girl* are about opening n barber’s shop in that city. One is to do the lathering, another the shaving, while a third, a beautiful blonde, is to sit on a sort of a throne, and play on a harp and sing. The outfit of this establishment, it is said, will cast 812,000. choice of an Olympiad monarch will he one touching the very vitals of our po litical system, one involving, not any question of terrifond integrity hut in volving the far deeper question of popu lar government. An attempt, in 1876, to proclaim a new Executive hv suspension of the habeas corpus, or by any other arbitra ry assertion of the kingly prerogative over the decision of the electnrinl lw>die«, will he resisted by the sword a« sorely as aov sueh attempt is made. And vet, hv such exercise of the pro- is* the only j>ossihle way in rogative whieh the present dynasty can hope to enough to pay for what you want I’ll g its existence. Mr. Butler’s have to lend it to you, though I hope regions. Storc-krepor walks hurried ly up to troop and says: “Well, my colored friend, the civil rights hill has passed, and I nm compelled to sell you anything yon want, just the same, as to a white innn.” Colored troop (pnmp- onsly) “I know dnt." “Well, now, ju<t say what you want, I will have to sell it to you, a 1 1 hough I don’t care to do so." “I don’t want nuffin.” “Now just look arouud the store and if there is anything you want to buy. say so. I’ll have to sell it to you, as I am not able to pay the five hundred dollars fine. If you haven’t got monev An Act To be entitled an Act to Amend Section 3554 of the Code o f 1873. Section 1. Be it enacted hv the What Happened to a A had little hoy in Portland lit a pack of shooting crackers and threw them into the street te> sec them go off. One of Ike Battrlnn’s mule* canto siting and swallowed them before they went off. The mule walked about fifteen feet and stopped. Things wasn’t acting right inside. He ltcgau to tasto the* smoke of tho fire-crackers. He laid his left ear around against his ribs, and heard something.' It was them crackers having fun. The mule picked out nlw»ut flfiree and a half miles of straight fond and started. A negro met him about a mile the other side of the alms-house going south, white with perspiration, with streams of General Assemble of the State of sn ‘°^ sho V l, "« out ' il Gcoragia, That fmnm nd after the j ,no ” h t n "! } . W, " :C passage of this set. section 3554 "tuck straight up, and a stream of of the Code of 1873 be, and the S mc is, hereby amended by nd- ng to the proviso of said section the following words, to wit: “Or when the consideration of said debt is services rendered by any physician, or surgeon, to the employe or Iris family, or medi cine furnished by any physician, surgeon, druggist, or apothecary, to said employe or his family.” Sec. 2. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 24th, 1875. prolong intimation tlmt the prerogative will he thus exercised can have no other possi ble'meaning than civil war. S?o he it. To lie forewarned is to lie forearmed. The fight between the monarch and the republic, in which one or the other must fall, is certain to come, sooner or later. Perhaps the war may as well open in 1876 ns at nnv other tun®.—From the Chicago Times, March 4th. The Work of the Session. The Legislature has attempted to put an end to the charge* that the contracts given out for county work are unfairly awarded. The new law require* that whenever it becomes the duly of a proper officer of a county (whether Ordinary, Commissioner, or County Judge.) to let to the lowest bidder the building or repairing of anv Court-house, jail, bridge, or other public work, notice of the same shall he advertised for at least four weeks for bids, in a newspaper published in the county. Complete specifications of the work are also required to be deposited with the officer who awards the contract, subject to inspection hy any citizen. These sp?cifications must he advertised at the same time with the published notice. Any letting done without a compliance with the provisions of the Act, is declared ille gal ; the persons doing the work can not recover for their services, and the vou don’t want much, a* I haven’t got hut a little.” “Wliats de price o’ dem pants J” pointing to a pair of cordu roys. “Seven dollar*.” (Cost aliou” three.) “I aint got hut five.t “Well “I’ll have to lend you the other two.” And so the trade was con summated. The darkey took the pints, paid five and went off, owing the storekeeper two dollars borrowed money, with the firm conviction that he had made “dat white man" sell him a pair of pants and lend him two dol lars to boot. adjourned to the front yard suddenly, and as Cooley and I got into foe car riage to go home, Keyser, with an humble expression in hie eyes, said: “Gentlemen, I’ll tdl you that boss rgy he saw a snake forty feet long and big around as a barrel of whisky. A pretty good sized insect that. We have no doubt that be law it, but he unques tionably saw the barrel ot whisky be fore he saw foe snake. It seems more reasonable, some bow* From and after the passage of this act, whenever any person seeks process of garnishment against any journeyman mechanic ov day laborer, such person shall, in addition to the oath now re quired ire law, make affidavit setting forth spceifieally the ac tual consideration of the debt, or judgment sued on, r, so much thereof, as he may claim the law authorizes the garnishment of wages for. Approved March 2d, 1875. county officer who violates the law is made guilty of malpractice, and sub- ject to the punishment prescribed for j ,hj 8 advice, and you mav well disp that offense. This ia a good law. It w ,(|j ro y n i,]. Living, t could do makes fraudulent contracts an impos- .... , * • ability, and will save money to the tax-payers of every county.—Chroni cle & Sentinel. B9~The Marietta Journal says that Waresbort claims a very remarkable woman, and she belongs to a remarka ble and. we may add, a very danger ous family to marry into. She gave birth to five chi!Iren in one year— triplets in January and twins in De cember. Her mother had previously giveu birth to triplets, her sister ia the mother of three pair of twins, and each of her daughters have given birth to triplets. The times are really too bard for such foolishness. Thkke Eminent Physicians.—As the celebrated French physician, Des- motdjn*, lay on his death bed, he was visited and almost constantly sur rounded hv the most distinguished medical mou of Paris, as well as other prominent citizens of the metropolis. Great were the lamentations of all at the loss about to be sustained by the profession, in the death of one they regarded as its greatest ornament; but Desmoulins speke cheerfully to his practitioners, assuring them that he had left behind three physicians much greater than himself. Each of the doctors hoping that his own name would be called, inquired anxiously who was sufficiently illustrious to sur pass the immortal Desmoulins. With great distinctness the dying man an swered. “they are Water, Exercise, and Diet. Call in the service of the first freely, of the second regularly, aad the third moderately. Follow “ dispense no thing without them; and dying, I shall not be missed, if yon make friends of these, my faithful coadjutors.” A very religious old lady being asked her opinion of the organ of a church, the first time she had ever heard one, replied: “It is a very pret ty box ot whistles, but, oh ! it’s an aw ful way to spend the Sabbath. ' The “ Phomenadk.” Mistress of the ant letters I want taken to the post. Progmore. Have you -finished dinner down stairs yeti” Botler—“Not yet, mum; the ’ongtrays la just agon’ in.” High Hie below stairs, house—‘Tve some import* . Prog 5^*Thc San Francisco School Board have been discussing the Lord’s Prayer. Here is the way they disposed of it; Mr. Spaulding offered the fol lowing resolution. Resolved, That in the opinion of this hoard the reading or chant ing of the Lord’s Prayer is neither partisan, denotninatiomal, nor sectarian in character, and is not in violation of the school law or the rules of this department. Mr. Donovan hoped the reso lution would not prevail The Constitution of the United States guaranteed to all its citi zens the right to worship God as they pleased. It surely would be very unpleasant to the children of Jewish parents to have the Lord’s Prayer drummed into their ears day after day. The Lord’s Pray er was partisan and sectarian, and contrary to the laws of the land and of the United States. Mr. Davis (iu the chair)—Gen tleman, I will end this discussion by ruling that the Lord’s Prayer is partisan and sectarian, and that the use of it in our schools is con trary to the spirit of the school law. Mr. Spaudling—Then I appeal from the decision of the chair. The Tote was then taken on the appeal and the decision of the chair was sustained. blue and green smoke about-ten feet long, followed in the rear. Ike found his mule sticking half way through a farm-house near Paddy's Run, still smoking, ^’he man got his family out and put ’em up into a lot of trees. Ike hauled his mule home when he got cool enough on a dray. Tho man is going to remove his house further back oft the road, and Iris wife and oldest daughter will Ihj baptized when the water gets warm.—Conrir- Journal. Takln? a Practical View of It. There is a plain, ninttqr-of-fact, business-like air about tbc charge to the jury of the English judge in a recent breach of promise ot marriage case. A cockney, sued the girl who jilted him, laying his damages at £3,000. The Jttd^c reminded the jury "tlmt a man is not injured much by « breach of faith of this kind, while a woman is. lie went on to say about the man: “He can get a living just as well as before, and has .suffered noth ing that money can repair. More over, a man is none the worse for being kissed for u series of years, as happened in this csw , while the woman, after being a long time a subject of oscillatory ex ercises, is not so actively, in de- nrml by other men afterward." The jury evidently coin idrd with the soundness of this opinion, for they gave the blighted coeknev only £4 damages. ...Gold gives a ready I gate except the gate of r —’Marry a widower! not IF said Matilda. 'Babies are like sport at any! tooth-brushes- Everybody wants van. t their own.’ —An Irishman went into a gin- mill in Louisville, took a drink, cum j out. He stood a few min utes, when 'things commenced workin.’ He grahlted his stomach, twisted his face out of shape, rushed back into the gin-mill and shouted to tho ImMender; * Say, I axed ye for whiskey, an* ye gave me the wrong bottlo; Itand me a barrel o’ water, until I pour it down an’ drown the torchlight procession that’s goin’ through me this blissed minit. Och 1 murthcr. I’m on fire !* and they * put him out.’ —Hundreds of people through out the country have siilwcrH**? for the New Orleans Times, under the impression that it was printing a biography of Beecher. The mistake grew «»nt of tho fact that its agrtcimttral department is en titled ’The Rake.’— Sav. Nuss. ' ...It is a fact, of some significance, that of the 135 Radicalswho voted for the force bill only 3D have been re elected—the other 69 were “scooped " last feK