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THE EAGLE.
J. E. REDWISE 4k H. VA ESTES,
Editors and Proprietors.
Friday Morning, May 14, 1875.
Mrs. Elixa Aycock, of Wilkinson coun
ty, has been adjudged a lunatic.
Chattanooga is building a street
railroad. The fare is to be five cents.
Rust has made its appearance on
the wheat in the lower part of this
county.
A considerable portion of the revised
statutes of Colorado are printed in
Spanish.
Six of the oldest citizens of Ogle
thorpe county died within ten days of
each other recently.
Gen. Garibaldi does not think it
will be in his power to attend the cen
tennial celebration at Philadelphia
next year.
Hon. A. H. Stephens has recently
been spending several days in Atlanta.
As usual, nearly everybody called to
see him.
A Constitutional Convention is now
in session in Missouri. It is composed
of sixty-three Democrats, two Liber
als, and four Republicans.
A severe hail storm passed near
Subligna, in Chattooga county, last
week. It is reported to have been the
heaviest ever witnessed in that sec
tion.
It is stated that corn is selling at
$1.30 to $1.35 at Hawkinsville, cash—
on time till November Ist, $1.75 to $2,
and yet some people wonder why it is
that Georgia farmers are getting poor
er every day.
Last Monday was a pretty lively day
for the “old “corpse.” At Shelbyville,
New Albany and Jeffersonville, Indi
ana, the municipal elections all went
Democratic by rousing majorities. At
the first named place a Democratic
mayor was elected, the first in forty
five years.
The Southern Baptist Convention
has just finished a harmonious session
at Charleston, S. C. That numerous
and popular denomination is reported
as being in a very prosperous condi
tion, and gradually gaining ground.
The Convention meets next at Rich
mond, Ya.
Senator Matt. Ransom, North Caro
lina’s favorite representative, will read
the Mecklenburg declaration at the ap
proaching centennial celebration in
Charlotte. A vast concourse of people
will be present, but the preparations
for their reception are on a correspond
ing scale.
All the papers North speak of Ben
Hill .as a rebel General. They don’t
seem to have heard of his brilliant ca
reer in the Confederate Senate. They
get the name D. H. and B. H. Hill
confounded, the former of whom many
people North heard of daring the war,
despite the blockade.
The issues of postage stamps of 411
kinds by the Postoffice Department du
ring the month of April last amounted
to a little in excess of $3,000,000. This
is an average of about twenty per cent,
on the issues for the • corresponding
month of last year, and is by far the
largest amount ever issued in any one
month by the department.
The wreck of the steamship Schiller,
an account of which we publish in an
other column, was one of the most
frightful disasters which it has been
our province to record for a long time.
Late accounts place the loss of life at
a much higher figure than was at first
reported. It is now stated that 342
lives were lost.
The whole western part of Missour 1
is alive with grasshoppers, and the far
merr of that rich agricultural section
are greatly discouraged. If ine ravages
of the grasshopper becc me extensive,
and they certainly promise to be, the
men in Georgia who have full cribs of
corn next winter will be the men who
have a right to congratulate themselves
on their good sense and foresight.
Columbus experienced the heaviest
hail storm, on last Monday night, that
has been known in that section for
many years. Stones as large as par
tridge eggs fell with such force that in
many houses the window panes were
completely shattered. According to
the Times, a stoat and healthy calf,
four months old, was so injured by the
falling of the hail that it died next
day.
The Chicago Times says of the new
Attorney General: “He is a man of
wealth, and would not nse the office
for his own personal benefit, but there
i reason to believe that he will nse it
for political purposes almost as un
scrugulously as his predecessor has
done. Personally and intellectually,
however, he is a considerable improve
ment over Williams, and we may ex
pect that his decisions will at least
agree with each other.”
The college of bishops of the Metho
dist Episcopal church, south, have com
pleted their plan of episcopal visita
tions for the ensuing twelve months.
Bishop Keener will preside over the
north Georgia conference, which meets
at Griffin, December 1; and Bishop
Doggett over the south Georgia con
ference, that meets at Americus, De
cember 15. Bishop Pierce’s appoint
ments are all in Texas but one, and
that is in the Indian territory.
Pruf. 1 ittle’s Report.
We are in receipt of the report of
our distinguished Geologist, Prof. Lit
tle, which we have examined with
much interest. He shows clearly to
the Legislature and the people the
vast importance of rapidly bringing
the work to a conclusion, by a triple
corps of surveyors, instead of one,
thereby completing the work in four
years, instead, as was first arranged,
in . ten. In his report he gives a
graphic account of the great losses, by
the land owners, from a want of know
ledge of the mineral wealth on their
lands. Frequently speculators from
the North will pay geologists enough
for their opinion to pay the expenses
of the wiiole corps, and then make
fortunes themselves, at the expense of
our land owners. This the Legisla
ture ought to remedy.
The Professor is an untiring worker,
and will do all within his power to ex
pedite the work, not only in geology
and mineralogy, but, out of his speci
fied field, he embraces botany, cou
chology, hydrography, and the chemi
cal analysis of soils, so as to enable
the farmers to knowingly select their
fertilizers, and adapt the required
plant food to their crops, with a cer
tainty of succes-
We do hope the corps will visit
North-East Georgia soon, as we are
greatly interested in £he development
of our vast and varied resources;
which, if made available, would pay
off the national debt in five years.
The Rome Bonds.
There was an election held in Rome
last Saturday, for the purpose of rati
fying a compromise that the city seems
intent on making with her creditors.
The job of repudiation was undertaken
a j;ear or so ago, but the Supreme
Court could not quite see it. That
august body in their wisdom decided
that Rome, like all other corporations
and individuals, should pay her honest
debts. Now, in the face of this deci
sion, the Romans go to work on a com
promise, and have finally consummated
the thing so far as the city—one of the
contracting parties—is concerned. As
a matter of course, the creditors of this
corporation will pay no attention to
this child’s play, and will at the proper
time collect the face of their bonds.
When people make debts, it is only
simple justice that they should be re
quired to pay them.
Rot Happy.
There iB a gentleman over in Griffin
by the name of Alexander Murray,
who is not altogether as happy as Fed
eral office holders usually are. Some
time ago he so far forgot himself as to
write e pamphlet, in which he strongly
advocated the removal of the negroes
from this country to Africa. For this
crime he is now having his scalp lifted
by the politicians, the newspapers and
philanthropists. The red-hot Demo
crats point scornfully at him and ask
him why he belongs to the Radical
party. The Radicals favor shipping
him to Gaucassia, while the philanthro
pists mildly intimate that he is a luna
tic, and should be assigned quarters
in the asylum at once. We are in
clined to side with the latter class.
The “Imperial Bank of Germany”
has been charted, with a capital of
$30,000,000, and no limit placed up
on its circulation, it being distinctly
expressed that it may be expanded to
any extent required by business. The
reasons which have prompted this
course are briefly stated in a German
paper, the principal one given is that
the.limitation placed upon the circu
lation of the Bank of England inten
sifies panics by compelling the bank to
refuse merchants accommodations at
the time they need them most.
In a recent trip to Dawson and
White counties, we noticed that the
farmers were busily engaged in their
farm operations, and seemed to be
making fine progress, notwithstanding
the wet and late spring. The stand
of wheat is generally good, and the
prospect for au abundant harvest as
promising as it has been for several
years at this season. The fruit in a
great many localities was killed by the
late frosts—in others there is enough
left for ordinary use.
“For Sale—Six tar backets and
twelve brushes. Apply to the office of
the Gainesville Eagle Extra.”—Atlan
ta Herald, 7th inst.
Oar supply of tar has been shipped
to Mr. Moon, of Athens, who will use
it in bringing Bob Alston to the
“stickin” point in the Durham Bull
transaction with the Constitution.
A $5,000 Fire in Marietta.
Mariett had a first class sensation
Sunday morning, about three o’clock.
The residence of Mr. John A. G. An
derson was totally consumed by fire.
It seems that Mr. Anderson had been
burning out his chimney, and some of
the sparks must have settled in the
roof
When the fire was discovered it had
madd such progress that Mr. Anderson
and his family, cosisting of his wife,
mother in-law and sister-in-law, barely
had time to escape intheirnight clothes.
All of the furniture, smoke house and
outbuildings were destroyed. In a
trunk which was burnt up Mr. An
derson had $2,500 in currency, and
S9OO in gold and silver. The green
backs are gone, but the specie was
found in a melted state. Through the
exertions ofThe citizens, the adjoining
houses were saved.
Mr. Anderson’s loss in furniture and
money will fully reach $5,000. The
house was in the hands of A. M. Simp
son, agent, and was insured for $1,500.
Charlie 'Willingham, of the Rome
Courier, is engaged just now in a re
organization of the Democratic party,
on a Jeffersonian platform. After he
gets matters straightened out in his
own Congressional district, he will
probably stump the State in the inter
est of his movement. J’e has been
getting out the timber, several days
for a platform that he proposes to put
together in a short time at the resi
dence of J. O. Waddell, over in Cedar
town.
A SensibleYlew.
The following well-timed and unbi
ased view of the situation in the Ninth
District, we plip from an editorial in
the last issue of the Athens Watch
man, which supported Mr. Hill in the
late campaign. If Col. Christy had
only included Mr. Hill’s statements to
the Atlanta Herald correspondent, in
regard to the political tricksters and
traders, in this distriot, which state
ments were made three days before
the Gainesville convention adjourned,
he would have included all the ground
of opposition to his nomination and
election;
“We hope that no one will take of
fence when we give it as our deliberate
opinion that there would nave been no
opposition to Mr. Hill if outsiders had
not intemperately pressed his claims
upon the people of the Ninth District.
And the people believed he was not a
citizen—it being understood by all,
that ha had permanently located in
Atlanta.
It is claimed by outsiders who inter
fered that they had a right to do so.—
We shall not discuss this point. Ad
mit it to be true—it was certainly very
imprudent to exercise that right be
fore the people of the district had
time to move in the matter. As soon
as the death of McMillan was announ
ced, and before our people had time
to pass the usual resolutions of res
pect to his memory, numbers of well
meaning friends of Col. Hill outside
the district commenced urging our
people to send him to Congress. Like
all other people, they had an idea that
they were capable of attending to this
matter without outside dictation,
which they considered an insult to
their understanding. Any one who
knows anything of human nature
knows that such interference will be al
ways resented, whether such conduct
is wise or not. Nor is this feeling
confined to communities alone. Its
outcroppings are always visible when
ever an individual attempts to inter
fere in family broils.
This, and the belief that Mr. Hill
was a non-resident, caused all, or near
ly all, the opposition that was mani
fested to his nomination and election.
On the question of citizenship, Col.
Hill claims that he himself ought to be
the best judge, and assured the people
on the stump that he considers him
self a citizen of the Ninth District.
Col. Hill’s competitor in the conven
tion, the Hon. H. P. Bell, our late Rep
resentative in Congress, is a gentleman
for whom we entertain high regard,
and the same is true of his competitors
before tke people, Messrs. Estes and
Price—both of whom, so far as we
have learned, bore themselves like gen
tlemen during the canvass; and we
hope the election has left no stings be
hind. Whatever differences existed
among Democrats for the time being
we hope to see healed at once. Let
us have no heart-burnings or bicker
ings—nothing to mar the future har
mony of the party. Its success is worth
more to the country than the success
of any man.”
It looks now as if the “beginning of
the end” could be seen in Cuba. Yal
maseda’s offer of a free pardon to all
insurgents laying down their arms is
significant of the impending exhaus
tion of the Spanish power. The pa
triots have all the eastern and central
portions of the island as a source of
supply, and are pushing the royal for
ces rapidly to the westward, till a'siege
of Havana itself is talked of as a poss
ible thing. The staunchest friends of
Spain are beginning to waver in their
loyalty, and are said to be restrained
from proclaiming the Republic only by
afc ar for the safety of slavery, to
which they are fanatically attached.
The Rhode Island doctors recently
took cognizance of the tribulations of
school children in the public schools,
and in a set of resolutions very sensibly
declared that scholars in the public
schools should not maintain the same
position more than half an hour at a
time; that no child should be admitted
to the schools, as now conducted, un
der seven years of age; that under
twelve years of age, three hours a day,
and for twelve and over, four hours a
day, is sufficiently long confinement;
that study out of school should not
usually be permitted; and that all in
centives to emulation should be used
cautiously, especially with girls.
The Nashville Union and American
declares that the Rev. Dr. Augustine
T. Smythe, a distinguished Presbyte
rian divine of Charleston, S. C., in a
pamphlet issued in 1847, gave an in
teresting dissertation to prove that
both the Mecklenburg Declaration of
Independence and Jefferson’s were
suggested by or taken from “A Gener
al Confession or General Bond, for the
maintenance of True Religion and the
King’s Person and Estate,” put forth
to be signed by the f>f the
Presbyterian Church \
more than a century before American
independence was resolved upon.
The Election.
counties Hill. Estes. Price
Banks 110 32i. 13
Forsyth 137 120 251
Union 111 132 - 46
Fannin 00 62 42
Hall 513 476 56
White 79 375 9
Jackson 894 152 7
Clarke 1005 64 4
Oconee 209 35 0
Gwinnett 1135 31 76
Morgan ('39 1
Madison 291 1
Habersham 290 40
Lumpkin tij M'* — _ 341
Rabun 112 66 40
Towns 10 46 50
Dawson 59 106 148
Pickens 152 8 19
Franklin 372 103 t 19
Gilmer
Total 6241 2957* 1162
r
Mountain Scene, Ga., Muy 7, ’75.
Editors Eagle: Below yoiAwill find a
statement of the vote polled in this
county on the sth inst,, for "Congress
man:
Estes - *i 46
Price ... so
Hill 10
Findley . - - 1
My district was almost unanimous
for Estes, but the town district voted
mostly for Price. They are the only
districts that the polls were opened at.
The balance of t’u- c vmty dioMtat take
any interest in the election at all. The
people seemed to bo discouraged on
account of the failure of the' conven
tion to make a regular nomination. I
do hope Estes will -be elected*?"'
Respectfully,
M. J. B.
Blairsville, Ga., May 7, 1875.
Editors Eagle : The vote in this coun
ty, consolidated returns, stands:
Estes ... 133
Hill 11l
Price - - - - 45
Findley - - * 4
No turn out, as you will see. With
a full turn out we would have given
Estes a handsome majority, as the op
position was about all out. r
* * *
Morqanton, Ga., May 6, 1875.
Editors Eagle: The election yesterday
passed off quietly, the vote being
small. The Morganton precinct gave
Estes 51, Price 27, Hill none,"Findley
2. The consolidated vote of the coun
ty is as follows:
Estes ... 62
Price ..... 42
Hill 0
Findley - - - 7
A good vote is expected for Estes in
Union and G'lmor; results 'jj^*sown.
The vote of Fannin county
above. A remarkably small voB on ly
three districts out of eleven holding
any election at all.
Respectfully,
J.
Tiie Hostile Indians.
A special dispatch to the St.
Louis Globe, of May 12, from Topeka,
Kansas, says the Indians continue to
be troublesome along the Kansas fron
tier. The troops have had several
light skirmishes with small bands of
them during the past week. Arrange
ments are making to send out a strong
force from Fort Hays, which will pur
sue them until they surrender or are
captured.
The Republican’s Kansas City spec
ial says:
Seventy Indian prisoners from Fort
Sill passed through this afternoon for
Fort Leavenworth, in charge of two
companies of troops under command
of Lieut. Kyle. Medicine Water, who
led the party that assisted in the Ger
man massacre, is with them; also Lone
Wolf, the celebrated Kiowa chief, who
has been leader in the war for several
years, and who was once captured by
Gen. Sherman; White Horse, murder
er of the Rosier' and Lee families;
Hurrahuee, murderer of Osborn at the
Wichita Agency; Woman’s Heart,
Heap o’ Birds, and many others equal
ly noted. The party is comprised of
the principal chiefs who have caused
all the trouble in the last five years,
and their capture is considered as the
finale to Indian outrages.
Kicking Bird, who delivered them
to the troops, was poisoned by a
squaw, and died at Fort Sill, May 3.
It is not known what the government
will do with them.
A correspondent who signs himself
“Free Seats,” in noticing the fact that
church property in New York and
Brooklyn is valued at $360*000,000, on
which taxes are not paid, suggests that
the laws should be so amended as to
exempt from taxation all churches
whero one-half or more of all seats,
pews, and benches are free to the pub
lic, and taxing at half rates all others.
His theory is that if the public exempt
churches from taxation on tbe ground
of “Public Worship” they haye a right
to require churches to have public and
not private worship.
The largest sailing Vessel on the
gieat lakes was launched at Toledo on
Wednerday last. She is 232 feet in
length on her keel, and bears four
masts, each over 100 feet One
of the prettiest incidents of the cere
monies must have been when, ‘Jat a
signal from the foreman, the great
black hull started waterward, and al
most in a twinkling kissed the waters
of the Maumee and received its bap
tismal blessing amid the screech of
tug and railroad whistles, the waving
of bunting, and the plaudits of the
multitude assembled.”
TEIUUBLK MARINE DISASTER,
• we Hundred Lives L<>3.
Six Passenger* rroiiJ Georgia on : onrd.
London, May B.—lntelligence has
jut lunched this city of of a shocking
murine disaster. The Eagle line
steamship Schiller, Ca.pt. Thomas,
which sailed from New York, April 28,
for Hamburg, by way of Plymouth and
Glierboug, has been wrecked off the
Sicily Isles. It is believed that two
hundred persons have perished. At
12:30 p. in, additional particulars thus
far received of the wreck of the steam
er Schiller, show that the disaster is
fully as terrible as at first reported.
The accident occurred at 10 o’clock
last night, at which hour the steamer
struck on dangerous Retarrere ledges,
near Bishop’s Rock. A fog prevailed
at the time. A boat belonging to St.
Agues, south of Sicily Isles, has land
ed. Some of the survivors of the
wreck are at St. Mary’s Island, ano
ther at Scilly’s. These survivors were
picked up while swimming with the
tide. They had several narrow escapes
from drowning, and were a number of
times washed off a rock. They declare
the number of the lives lost by the dis
aster to be 200. A fearful’sea is rag
ing, and it is scarcely possible for the
boats engaged in searching to reach
the wreck.
Plymouth, May B.— The agent of
the Eagle line, at this place, has pro
ceeded to Scilly, as a gun was heard
at 1 o’clock this morning, near the
scene of the disaster.
London, May 8, 1 p. in.—Up to this
hour, five passengers and two of the
crew of the Schiller are known to have
been saved. It is known that the cap
tain and second mate of the steamer
were drowned, and she is now lying
broadside on the rocks. She is under
water, and her mainmast is gone. A
steamer and reveral boats are cruising
about the wreck, searching for survi
vors.
London, May 8, 2 p. m.—The wreck
of the steamer Schiller has caused a
great deal of excitement in this city.
Extras, containing all the particulars
at hand, of the disaster, have been is
sued by several of the newspapers.
New York, May 8. —The agents of
the Eagle line say that Captain Thom
as, of the Schiller, was the oldest com
mander in the line He was fur many
years in the employ of the Peninsular
& Oriental Company, and occupied a
high place among British sailors. He
was with great difficulty induced to
leave the British service to enter that
of the Eagle line.
The Schiller was one of the newest
and best boats in the trans-continental
service; was large and strong, and
constructed on the latest pattern. She
was built on the Clyde, by Robert
Napier & Sons. Hor sister ship is the
Lessing. These two vessels left this
port for home seriously crowded, being
the first to take advantage of the open
ing of spring travel to Europe. They
were the last two steamers that sailed
under the flag of the Eagle line, that
line having been consolidated with the
Hamburg American line. Previous to
the departure of the Schiller the com
pany's vessels had gone out with light
passenger lists.
Washington, May B.—Among the
passengers on board of the steamship
Schiller, from Georgia, were Mr. W.
Harrison and A. Waterman, of Haw
kinsville, Mac Cohn of Montezuma,
Mr. Herne Spitz of Macon, Mr. G. G.
Leonhardt, Mrs. Mary W. Leonhardt,
and Miss Jennie Loonhardt, all of Au
gusta.
Latest. —Since the above was put
in type, we have received the following
additional particulars: Three hun
dred and forty-two lives were lost, and
among them the following Georgians:
M. Harrison, Hawkinsville, M. W.
Leonhardt, Miss Jennie Leonhardt,
Herman Spritz, and A. Waterman.
In an address to the grand jury of
the United Stater Court for the Eastern
District of North Carolina, at Elizabeth,
last week, Judge Brooks charged the
jury that the criminal features of the
civil rights law, in which they, as a
grand jury alone, were alone interested,
were unconstitutional. During the
same week Judge Dick charged the
grand jury of the Western District of
North Carolina, at Statesville, in which
he declared that “a citizen of the
United States, under the broad Con
stitution of this country, can go to any
portion of it and exercise all the immu
nities which by his freedom he pos
sesses, but no law, human or divine,
can compel a hotch-potch of citizens; all
that is necessary are suitable comforts,
and every innkeeper has a right to
exercise his privilege as to where he
shall place his guests, convenience and
comfort being all that is required, and
no law can say all men shall be equal
socially.”
A “bond funder” is wanted in Rich
mond, Ya. The Dispatch says his
name is “J. S. McKinnon, ‘agent of the
American Bond-funding and Banking
Association of London (limited),’
whose first public appearance here
abouts was at the Bondholders’ Con
vention last fall, and who spent the
winter agreeably entertaining finance
committees, members of the Legisla
ture, and State officers. A gentleman
to whom he passed a number of spu
rious drafts has procured a warrant
for his arrest; a detective has tracked
him to Illinois, and yesterday Gov.
Kemper was asked to issue a requisi
tion upon the Govenor of Illinois to
insure Mac’s return here.”
LATEST.
By Lem AUreik’i Telegraph.
Blairsville, Ga., May 13, 1875.
Alston telegraphed to Washington
this morning that Ben Hill was elected.
Grant ran away—Butler gathered up
his spoons—Mortou hung himself—
and the balance of the Radical family
dispersed. Louisiana ceased to bleed
—Arkansas is contented—Mississippi
is rejoicing—South Carolina is happy
—the north star moved up south about
four degrees—and the milleuium sets
in when Bon Hill pays hi! next poll
tax in Clarke.
Leader.
Dahlonega, Ga., May 8, 1875.
Editors Eagle : There exists no lon
ger any good reason why the press of
the district should be closed against
me. Although the election is over, I
think it due to myself and to truth
that I be allowed to ask sufficient
space in your paper to deny the cor
rectness of the statements made in the
letters of O’Neal and Findley, and
which w a re extensively published in
the Democratic papers of the district
on the eve of the election. I did not
see them in time to make any refuta
tion whatever, except on the day be
fore the election, then too late to reach
the masses of the people.
The men alluded to charge that I
had formed a “regular league with H.
P. Farrow to defeat Findley and elect
myself.” I can only say that such
was not the case. I never correspond
ed with Col. Farrow, or had any ver
bal conversation with him in reference
to securing the Republican vote of.the
district; nor was any friend author
ized by me to do this thing. Col. Far
row doubtless preferred myself to
either of the other gentlemen in the
field, and doubtless wrote letters to
friends to that effect, just as John A.
Wimpy and other Radicals did, in a
number of letters, urging Mr. Hill. I
know there were a number of Repub
licans who preferred Mr. Estes. I did
not, by speech, letter, or any other
way, attempt to get the Republic aa
vote as a party vote. Members of
that party who voted for me did so
from personal preference alone; this
they had a right to do.
Findley and O’Neal knew that I
would not receive the Republican vote
of the district. Neither could Findley
get it. Their object was to drive my
Democratic friends from me to the
support of one or the other of my
Democratic opponents. This they
succeeded in doing, for which I sup
pose they are to be rewarded.
But, Messrs. Editors, my object in
craving your indulgence was solely to
put upon record in the plainest and
fewest words my denial of the truth of
the charge made by Findley and
O’Neal, in their letter, to-wit: That
there was a political league between
H. P. Farrow and myself, to secure
the Republican vote of the district.—
The vote was never promised me, by
any person or set of men. If led to
believe that any considerable number
of them would vote for me, it was be
cause I had not been before the
Gainesville convention, but was run
ning as an independent candidate.—
All the candidates were Democrats,
and all expected to receive Republican
votes, and both the other candidates,
as the returns show, received more
Republican votes than myself.
Yours respectfully,
W. P. Price.
For the Eagle.
Human Confidence.
Editors Eagle : Allow me, through
your columns, to call attention to this
great moral cement of civil society—
the loss of which works ruin upon our
country in every social department
thereof. Now, don’t call me “fogy,”
for I have seen its leavening effects in
every branch of enterprise. Mere
play of words and deceitful professions
of friendship have run their hottest
guantlets into all life’s enterprise, from
the highest to the very lowest vocation
of life. The rage for show, peculation,
popularity and earth’s good name, has
induced some to stoop to this game of
flattery and false professions and de
ceives us-—makes us more suspicious
of the more worthy portion of society—
until sometimes we begin to lose the
grasp of confidence upon the worthy,
reliable portion of the world.
In short, there seems in some a
strong disposition to pass for more
than they are worth, and if they can’t
succeed in this direct cloak of charac
ter, they will engage in the puff of
some vile nostrum, guano, sewing ma
chine, or some like enterprise; if the
thing itself is no humbug, the price is.
Their programme (first or last) is, “I
wont work—l must peddle—sell some
thing by subscription—some catch
penny show”-—or some like enterprise,
to cheat the honest laborer out of his
hard earnings. Now, here is the great
trouble: Should any one present to us
a scheme that would be profitable, we
are afraid of another patent medicine
humbug. And this has run into poli
tics and religion, until we are consti
tutionally opposed to anything that is
not presented in a tangible form.
Fellow-citizens, let us, as farmers,
mechanics, tradesmen—in short, as all
honest, industrious citizens—enter in
to an eternal league, never to patron
ize these lazy, strolling vagrants—nev
er to be ashamed of the plow handle,
the plane or the counting room, or any
other way of procuring the blessings
of life, and exhibit to the world one
solid phalanx of high-minded, enter
prising citizens, and let the world
know that we are too high-minded to
to stoop to deceive a man fur moneyj
or engage in anything unworthy our
high nature.
One word to the leading youth:
Stick up your stakes to be firm; work
in farm, or shop, rather than degrade
your race to any low calling, that
would injure any one. If the devil
tells you to sell whisky to poison the
world, and make money or character,
tell him he is a liar. If he rays gam
ble, spurn bis demon offer—point him
to his children, hanging at the end of
the rope—spurn his every off-r of dis
grace—establish a character for p*i
bity and honor, and the world will re
ward you. Never stilt, in eouversa
tion, in dress, or false professions of
friendship for unalloyed Tiuth will
staud when this old world is on lire.—
Character alone will be the grand test
in the great day of final accounts.
Again: Good manners is a cheap
commodity, and one can invest in it.
It is just as easy to be polite as rude.
Truth is powerful and needs no props,
while falsehood will fall with a score
of props attached, and not succeed.—
The government'will soon be iu your
bands; prciiare, therefore to figure in
the grand fetes of our world, and we
are anxious for your success.
Citizen.
An interesting case has been decided
in the Maine courts in which the ques
tion of spiritualism is involved. A Top
sham woman left a will doing up her
estate in trusteeship, and giving only
small annuities to her daughter, who
was married to a]man whom she be
lieved to be possessed by malignant
spirits. The will was made, as she
said, in accordance with the advice of
her dead husband, and her daughter
tried to set it aside as having been
made undur undue influence while the
testatrix was of unsound mind. The
jury, however, allowed the will to
stand.
On this day, (Thursday, May 13th,
1875,) one hundred years ago, Dr. Ly
man Hall presented his credentials to
the Continental Congress, as a member
elect of that body. He was received,
and afterwards became one of the sign
ers of iho Declaration of Independence.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS,
Grand Rope Walking
and
EXCII liS JO N,
PROF. HALWSCK.
I TAKE great pleasure in announcing to my many
friends of Gainesville and vicinity that I will b*ve
one of the most pleasant and interesting excursions
FROM ATLANTA TO TOCCOI FALLS,
fn Saturday, May 29th, 1875,
and give one of the grandest
ROPE ASCENSIONS
ever giv*n in this country, over the Falla of Toccoa.
I will carry a stove to the centre of the rope and serve
A FItEK LTJNCJU
to all oi my friends and visitors who will come up and
partake of the same. Will wheel a wheelbarrow, and
many other feats too numerous to mention. There
will be no pains spared on my ;art to make it a pleas
ant and interesting trip for nil ladies and children.
Hope to meet all my old excursion friends and many
others. Faro from Gainesville., for the
IFLOTTIKriD I'm.!!?, SIOO-
From Atl&nta, $2.00
mijli-St PROF. IULWICK.
J. C. S. TIMBERLAKE,
Merchant Tailor,
Takes pleasure in announcing to the citizens of
Gainesville and the surrounding country that he has
opened a merchant tailoring business up stairs iu the
Candler building, over the Btore of K. L. Boono A: Cos.,
where he will be pleased to serve all dosiring any
thing in his line.
GARMENTS or SUITS cut and made at short notice.
*S“CUTTING MADE A
mayl4-tf
NOTICE !
Clerk’s Office, City of Gainesville, )
May 10th. 1875. )
I AM now ready to receive TAX RETURNS for tlio
City of Gainesville. All persons interested will
call at ray office and make their return*.
myl4-2t W. H. HARRISON, C. T. C. k R.
Synopsis of Sheriff’s Snips.
On Ihe first Tuesday in Jun, thirty and one-third
acres of land near the town of Bellton wili be sold at
Hamer, as the property of H. P. Terrell, to satisfy a
fi. fa. in favor of Larkin Williams vs. H. P. Tyrrell.
Also, eighty acres of land near Bellton, as the srop.
erty of J. p. Echols, to satiety a fi. fa. in favor of D
G. Candler vh. Echols.
Georgia, union county.— mcg. caidweii ha 7
ing applied to be appointed Guardian of the per
son and property o Stonewall J. Spurlin, an ino
under fourteen yetrs of ago, resident of said county
This is to c to all persons concerned to be and appear
at the torm of the Court of Ordinary to be held next
af er the terra of thirty days from the first publication
oi this notice, and show range* i any they can, why
said McG. Caldwell should not he intrusted with the
Guardianship of the person and property of the said
Stonewall J. Spurltu. Witness my official signature.
may!4 W. R. LOGAN, Ordinary.
County Surveyor’s Notice.
MP. CALDWELL is my legal deputy, and wil
• do the surveying of the county.
VALENTINE WHELOHEL,
mayl4-tf County Surveyor.
oo to xiif:
CITY FEED STORE
OF
Miller & McCamy’s, Agents,
To Buy Your Horse And Cow Food.
ALSO,
BUTTER, CHICKENS, EGGS, Etc.
They are going to feed the people of Gainesville, and
do not Intend to ship abroad w at this market affo ds,
and deprive our citizens of the necessaries of life.
A*“Th*y also pay the highest cash prices for all
kinds of country produce. may 7
NOTICE OF SALE.
UNITED STATES INTERNAL REVENUE )
Deputy Collcotob’s Office, 4th Dist. Ga., J
Gainesville, May 7th, 1875.)
liriLL be sold in the city of Gainesville, Monday,
V? May 17,1875, the following property, fjr vio
lation of Internal Revenue laws;
One copper still cap and worm, as the property of
John Savage.
Ono copper still cap and worm, aa the property of
Reuben Bnrgias.
A. M. CROWDER,
may72t Dep. Col. 4th Diet. Ga-
GEORGIA, HALL COUNTY.—W. J. Thurmond ap
plies for exemption of personally and setting
apart and valuation of homestead, ami I will pass up
on the same at 10 o’clock a. m. on Saturday, the 15th
Inst., at my office.
J. B. M. WINBCRN,
May 7-2 t. Ordinary.
13. F. JVlorton,
Boot and Slice Maker,
North Side Public Square.
CAiNESVILLE CA.
ALL WORK. WARRANTED,
.a-iswp
Satlsfactur*, fvantet‘d.
ORDERS SOLIGITKI>.t J
Feb. 6 tf.
BYERS’ COLUMN.
The Eclectic Drug Store
BY THE
Byers’ Manufacturing Cos.,
KEEPS on hand and is constantly receiving <w
complete Stock of all goods usually kept in a
fir*t class ELECTIC DRUG STORE, and makes a
speciality of ORDERING FOR YOU anything you
want, w hich happens not to be iu Stock.
Be
Sire ano buy
At
Byers'
Your Garden Seeds.
HE
HAS
The largest Fresh Stock
Ever
Brouglit
To
Gniucsvill o,
AND SELLS FRESH SEEDS
AT
5 CENTS
A
PAPER,
Or Six Papers Tor 25 Cents.
ONCE,
TWICE,
THREE TIMES,
And Going Without any By-Bidders
At
Only
85 Cents
F or
Six Papers
or
Fresh
Gai'(t<>n
Seeds.
The fact is, Byers fcuows what you want, and is
always on hand to please you.
BYERS’
SHOO FLY BITTERS.
A delightful Panacea for all ills, (mental or physical)
if Judiciously used. Try from one to three table
spoonfuls, three or four times a-day, 111 a little water
Prepared and put up only by
THE BYERS’ MAIFACTERIYG CO
GAINESVILLE, GA.,
J. STOP BYEKS, President.
March 13th, l7*-ly.