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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.