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(. EN ERAL 1)1 RECTORY.
lion. George D. Kice, Judge S. 0. Western Circuit.
A. L. Mitchel, Solicitor, Athens, Ga.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
J. B. M. Winburn, Ordinary.
John L. Gaines, Sheriff.
J. F. Duckett, Deputy Sheriff.
J. J. hfayno, Clerk Superior Court.
N. 1). Clark, Tax Collector.
J. It. H. Luck, Tax Receiver.
Gideon Harrison, Surveyor.
Edward Lowry, Coroner,
it. r Young, Treasurer.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
Pm; ißVfKiu tv Church-Rev. T. P. Cleveland, Pas
tor. lV -aohlng every Sabbath—morning and niglit,
i :.e pi ib. -ccond Sabbath. Sunday School at 1) a. m.
Pi *>or meeting Wednesday evening at 4 o’clock.
.’,le i hodist Church ltev. 1). D. Cox, Pastor.
Preaching every Sunday morning andnight. Sunday
School at 3a. m. Prayer mooting Wednesday night.
uurch —Rev. w. O. Wilkes, Pastor.
Proaci i.ig Sunday morning. Sunday School at a.
ui. Italy* r meeting Thursday evening at 4 o’clock.
YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.
A. M. Jaokhon, President,
it. C. .Maddox, Vice President.
W. B. Clements, Secretary.
Regular services every Sabbath eveuing at onb of
the Churches. Cottage prayer meetings ovory Tues
day night in ‘‘Old Town,” and Friday night near the
depot.
FRATERNAL RECORD.
Flowery Branch Lodge No. 79, I. (). O. TANARUS„ moots
every Monday night, Joel Lasethr, N. G.
li. F. Steditam, Sec.
ali.m'ih.cw Rotai. Arch Chaptkr meets on the Sec
ond and Fourth Tuesday evenings in each month.
W. M. Pi hi TT, S< o’y, A. W. Caldwell, H. P.
Gainesville Lodob, No. 219, A.-. F.\ M.-„ meets
on tbe First and Third Tuosday eveuing in the month
It. Palmoub, Sec’y. R. E Green, W. M.
Aiii-Liv l/un, No. 64,1. O. O. F., meets every
Friday e\,-ning.
C. A- Lilly, Bee. W. H. Harrison, N. G.
,M (iilvinu Star Lodge, No. 313, I. O. G.T., meets ev
ery Thursday evening.
Claud Estes, W. S. • J. P. Caldwell, W. C. T.
North-Eastern Star Lodge, No. 385 I. O. G. TANARUS.,
moots every list and 3d Saturday evenings, at Antioch
Church. F. S. Hudson, W. C. T.
11. W. Rhodes, Secretary.
GAINESVILLE POST OFFICE.
Owing to recent change of schedule on the Atlanta
and Richmond Air Line ltailrood, the following will
lie the schedule from date:
Mail from Atlanta [fast] 7.59 p. m.
Mail for Atlanta [fast] 7.30 a. m.
Office hours: From 7 a. in. to 12 m., and from
1 K p. in. to 7 p. m.
U< ■ oral delivery open on Sundays from 8>; to 9>j.
Dep * rot mails from this office:
Osh So. Gilmer county, daily....— Rif*
JetTersii lackson county, Tuesday, Tliurs
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Cleveland, White, Union, Towns ami Rabun,
Tuesdays and Fridays 7 a. m
Dawsunville and Dawson county, Saturday 8 a. rn
Homer, Ranks comity, Saturday 1 p. m
Pleasant Grove, Forsyth county, Saturday .. .1 p. ni
M. K. ARCHER, P M.
Professional and Business Cards.
A. C. MOSS,
Attorney at Law,
Homer, Banks County, Georgia.
TTTI IjL ATTEND PROMPTLY to all busi
ness intrusted to liis care. mar9-ly
Mzvattaic.lt Ac PERRY
i TTuItNKYS AT LAW, GAINESVILLE, GA,
}\ Ollico in tlio Court llouso. Ono or the other of
tli firm always present. Will practice iu Hall and
adjoining counties. au2s-lj
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AND
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Gaiufjsville, Ga,
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jau2l-ly
I IN FIRM A It Y,
FOR THE TREATMENT OF' DISEASES OF WOMEN,
AND OPERATIVE SURGERY,
At tho Gaines’ Hotel, Gainesville, Ga, by
jaiilS tf A. J. SHAFFER, M. D.
V. IX LOCKHART, M~. D.,
I’olkt llle, Ga.,
Wllgfj PRACTICE MEDICINE in all its brauches.
Special attention giveu to Chronic Diseases of
v, omen and children. feblß-6m
1)11. 11. . ADAIR,
i>KiNT.ie r r,
Gainesville, Ga.
janU ly
MARSHAL, L. SMITH,
i TTORNUY AND COUNSELLOR AX LAW,
2\. Dawwnoille, Dawson county, Ga.
U!1 I \ tf
JOHN If. ESTES,
TTORN KY-AT-LAW, Gainesville, Hall county,
j. L Georgia.
J. WELLBORN^
4 TTOKVBY-AT-LAW, Blairsville, Union county,
j\. Georgia.
SAMUEL C. D( NEAP,
4 TTORNMY AT LAW, GaincsviUe, Ga.
f\ Gdii'e u the Handler building, iu tlio room
occupiad by the Eagle in 1875, aprstf.
W. Iv. WILLIAMS.
V TTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
V . i/i ’. White Cos., Ga., will practice in the
Courts of th*> Western Circuit, and give prompt atten
tion to all business entrusted to his care.
J une 12, J874-tf
WIER BOY D,
4 TTORNKY AT I.AW. PaMonega, Ga.
jTjL 1 will Prnotico In (ho oountifs of Lumpkin,
Dawson. Gilmer. Fun lin. I'iiion and Townscounties
n the Hlue Ridge Circuit; and Hall, White and
R*lmn in tl'.‘> Wostora Circuit.
May 1, 1574-tf.
BEY, A. MARTIN,
VTTOI \ XKV AT LAW. Z)aWo tteca, Ga.
S. K. CHRISTOPHER,
1 TTORSEY AT LAW, lliuiassee, Ga.
. V Will i x-cute promptly ail busiuosa ontrußtrd to
his care. novlCtf
THOMAS F. GREER,
VTTORNEY \T I.A'.V, AND SOLICITOR IN
K,|iiiiy (fid Bankrujitoy, Kllijau. Ga. Will prac
•- if* in I ho Si, lo Couria, and in the District and Cir
r. nit C-MirtH of the IJ. 8., in Atlanta, Ga.
•lituc 20,1573-U'
ML W. Rll)E\,
\TTORNEY AT LAW, QumesvilU, Georgia.
. Jnti. 1,1876-ly
JAMES >l. TOWER Y,
i TTOKXFY AT LAW,
XX. QainearUli', G.
J. J. TI RMUJCE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Homer , Ga. — Will practice
in .ill the counties composing the Western Cir
cuit. Prompt attention given to all claims entrusted
to his caro.
fan. 1. XH7ft-ly.
JAMES A. BUTT,
\ TTORNEY AT LAW* LAND AGENT, Blairsvilte
IX Ga. Prompt attention given to all business
entrusted to his care. June 2,1871-tl
The Gainesville Eagle
Devoted to Polities, News of tlie Day, The Farm Interests, Home Matters, a.al Choiee Misoellaixy.
VOL XI,
ONLY A BOY.
ODly a boy, with his noise and fun,
The veriest mystery under the sun;
As brimful of mischief, and wit and glee,
As ever a human frame can be,
And as hard to manage as—ah ! ah, me !
’Tis hard to tell,
Yet we love him well.
j Only a boy, with his fearful tread,
Who cannot be driven, but must be led:
Who troubles the neighbors’ dogs and cats,
And tears more clothes and spoils more bats,
Loses more tops and kites and bats,
Thau would stock a store
For a year or more.
Only a boy, with his wild, strange ways;
With his idle hours on busy days;
With bis queer remarks and his odd replies,
Sometimes foolish and sometimes wise,
Often brilliant for one of his size,
Asa meteor hurl'd
From the pleasant world.
Only a boy, who will be a man
If Nature goes on with her first great plan—
If water, or fire, or some fatal snare,
Conspire not to rob us of this our heir.
Our blessing, our trouble, our rest, our care,
Our torment, our joy,
“Only a boy.”
AN’ OLD HOUSE.
There is something in an old house
that there never can be in anew one.
The new one may be handsomer, it
may have higher ceilings and broader
panes of glass, a medieval mantle-piece,
ar.d French paper on the walls, and
Persian rugs. You may be proud'of
it, but you loved the old house—the
dear old place, almost as old as the
great trees at the door. A tall man
could touch the ceilings with his palm,
and the great mantel-pieceß were stiff
and ugly; but there, in the firelight,
used to sit, once upon a time, the old
grand-mother with her knitting, while
the children climbed her knee and she
told them stories of her youth.
Out of that window—the little win
dow with the diamond panes—she had
looked to see her young husband
coming home after a long day’s hunt,
flushed with exercise, bright and hand
some. There lay the great red deer
he shot; yonder the dogs were ken
nelled—the great, brown-eyed dogs.
One of their race, then unborn, some
times stands beside her as she tells
these tales, old and blind and tooth
less, and there are no deer now. Yes,
that road she had ridden a
gay young bride,’coining for the first
time to the husband’s house, full of
hope and joy. Thero her babes had
been born, grown to men and women,
and gone forth.
Out of that door went, at last, her
husband’s funeral train, and nothing
was left her of her life but its memo
ries. Thore she sat, thinking and
knitting, telling the old stories. How
could she be so content V the young
people often thought.
The tall clock stood in the hall and
ticked as it had done for seventy years.
In the glass cupboard were stored a
sacred tea service with gilt edges, and
silver tea-pot that had beon a wedding
present.
Fox’s Martyrs and the Pilgrim’s
Progress were in the book case, and
the big Bible on the staud; and there
were bright profiles of chokod-look
ing gentlemen and ladies, with won
derous puff’s on their heads, on the
walls; up in the bed-rooms were rag
carpets and high-post beds, and chests
of drawers, and long presses. How
many heads had rested on those pil
lows! What happy dreams have been
dreamt, what bitter tears shed!
And down in the parlor, with its
hard upright sofa, guests with strange
dullness of which no one ever dreamt,
had been entertained; and lovers had
wooed and won, and doubtless there
had been little tragedies, such as go
on between lovers through all the
generations. Story after story has told
itself in the old house.
They are not all happy ones, but
they make the old house different,
from anew one. Memories lurk in the
very walls; aud who shall say that the
spirits of those who lie at rest in the
old church-yard yonder, under tomb
stones on which moss has grown do
not sometimes flit through it—unseen
but felt—bringing softened emotions
and tender recollections as they pass?
The very trees in the garden are
not as other tre s. They have their
stories. Under this a first kiss was
taken; under that hands met in an
eternal parting.
Down in the orchards is a baby’s
grave—the baby would be fifty years
old if he lived to-day—but only a little
while ago his mother sat there and
shed a tear over it.
The new house is fine, and costly,
and modern, but there is no poetry in
it, and there will not be until at least
two generations have made it an old
house, and haunted it with sweet
ghosts, as the} did the old one.—Mary
Lyle Dallas, in N. Y. Ledger.
Owls are of immense service as ver
min destroyers. An English game
keeper found an owl’s nest with one
youDg bird in it. He visited it for
thirty consecutive mornings, and in
that time removed from it 105 rats, 19
mice, 11 shrew mice, 2 robins, and 1
sparrow. This was, and well it might
have been, over and above what the
owl’s consumption demanded.
ALTITUDE.
Ihe Air Line Looks Down Upon the
Western ana Atlantic, and Northeast
Georgia Smiles Adown the Yales
of Atlanta and the Lowlands
of Griffin.
Interesting Statistics.
[From the Homeward Star.
The neat volume recently published
by Thomas P. Janes, Commissioner of
Agriculture of the State of Georgia,
styled “Hand-book of the State of
Georgia,” abounds in interesting mat
ter, bat especially will the information
it presents concerning the altitude of
different localities in the State be
found interesting. It presents the al
titude of almost every point of interest
in Georgia, and from it the following
facts are mostly gleaned:
The altitude of Savannah, taken at
the C. 11. depot, is 32 feet above sea
leval, (estimating from high tide,) that
of Macon 332 feet, and that of the
towns and stations on the Central
Railroad,l92 miles long, between those
cities is, on an average, 181 feet; that
of Griswold being the greatest of any
point on the road, it being 404 feet.
I ort Gaines, on the Chattahoochee
river, is the Southern terminus of the
Southwestern Railroad, and is 150
miles from tho city of Macon, and has
an altitude of 103 feet. The altitude
of the towns and stations on that road,
150 miles long, is, on an average, 360
feet. That of Fort Valley is 528 feet,
being the highest point on that road.
That of Amaricus is 300 feet only.
Taking the Macon and Augusta Road,
running across the center of the State,
from Macon to Camak, 74 miles, the
average altitude is 411 feet, that of
Sparta, which is one of the highest
points in the line, being 545 feet. Mil-
Jedgeville, the former Capitol of the
State, is on that road and has an alti
tude of only 204 feet.
Passing to Atlanta, the Capitol of
the State, we find that it rises up to
the height of 1050 feet, four times as
high as Milledgeville, and higher than
Kansas City, Missouri,Omaha, Nebras
ka or St. Paul, Minnesota. And then.
H rn i£" Ha camtsaTng-ixu
Atlanta, we find, on the (veorgia Road,
from Atlanta to Augusta, 171 miles,
that the average altitude is 624 feet,
that of Augusta being only 147 feet.
On the Macon and Western Road, from
Atlanta to Macon, 103 miles, the aver
age is 701 feet, Macon being only 332
feet. (The “Hand-book” puts the
Macon depot of the M. & W. R. R. at
414 feet, but by following the original
survey of the road, it gave the altitude
of the original depot on the bluff, long
ago superseded by the present Union
depot, the altitude of which is 332 feet.)
On the Atlanta and West Point Rail
road, 80 miles long, the average is 865
feet. East Point, Fairburn and Pal
metto are each over one thousand feet.
LaGrange is only 778 feet. There are
still two great railways leading from
Atlanta, to-wit: The Western and At
lantic Road and the Air Line Railway,
both penetrating North Georgia, but
there is a surprising difference in the
altitude of the cities and towns on the
two lines. On the Western and Atlan
tic Road the average altitude is only
757 feet, which is lower average than
that of the Macon and Western or the
Atlanta and West Point Road, while
that of the Air Line Railway from At
lanta, Georgia, to Charlotte, North
Carolina, 2G5 miles, (but of which there
are only 100 miles in Georgia, and,
therefore, we speak only of the 100
miles in Georgia,) has an average alti
tude of 1,227 feet; the average on the
Air Line being nearly twice that on the
Western and Atlantic, Ihere being no
point on the latter, possessing an alti
tude equal to the average altitude on
the former. Marietta has an altitude
of 1,132 feet, (82 feet above Atlanta);
Cartersville only 771 feet; Kingston
only 721 feet; Calhoun only 653 feet;
and Chattanooga, Tennessee, only 663
feet, while on the Air Line Road, Nor
cross has an altitude of 1,050 feet,
(same as Atlanta,) Buford 1,207 feet;
Gainesville 1,222 feet; Bellton 1,342;
Mount Airy 1,610, and Toccoa 1,040
feet. A railroad train, standing at the
depot at Mount Airy, is at an elevation
within 76 feet of that of the top of
Stone Mountain, which is 1,686 feet
high.
The altitude of the Okefeenokee
Swamp is, on an average, about 125
feet. The general surface of the earth
from Augusta across to Columbus has
an altitude of about 400 feet. The gen
eral surface ou the Chattahoochee
ridge across the State, as traversed by
the Air Line Railway and the Atlanta
and West Point Road from Toccoa to
West Point, is 1,050 feet, about the
same as that of the city of Atlanta.
This ridge, the Chattahoochee ridge,
separates the waters of the Chattahoo
chee river flowing into the Gulf from
the headwaters of the Oconee, Gcmul
gee and other streams that flow South
through Georgia into the Atlantic. It
is the great dividing ridge of the State,
and when its altitude becomes gener
ally known and properly appreciated
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, MAY I], 1877.
in its relations to climate, it will be
come the most populous portion of
Georgia. The altitude of the Blue
Ridge, running through the Northern
tier of counties in the Siate, is, on an
average, about 3,000 feet, though sev
eral peaks rise higher. Enota, in
Towns county, is 4,796 feet high; Bald,
iu Rabun, is 4,718 feet high; Blood,six
miles Northwest of Porter Springs, on
the line of Lumpkin and Union coun
ties, is 4,670 feet high; Black, three
miles Northeast of Porter Springs, on
the line of Lumpkin and Union coun
ties, is 4,481 feet high; Tray, in Haber
sham, is 4,435 feet high, and Yonah,
fifteen miles east of Porter Spring, is
3,168 feet high.
The altitude of the town of Clarkes
ville is about .1,600 feet, that of Dah
lonega 2,237 feet, and that of Porter
Springs is about 2,800 f6et. The effect
upon the climate by latitude and alti
tude is easily calculated by the rules
laid down by scientific men; a degree
of latitude making a difference of two
degrees in temperature, and 300 feet
of altitude making a difference of one
degree in temperatue. Apply this rule
to two given points, say Savannah and
Porter Springs, and there being a dif
ference of four degrees in latitude and
2,800 feet in altitude, the difference in
temperature would be seventeen de
grees. Therefore the thermometer
would stand at 96 degrees in Savan
nah while it stood at 80 degrees at
Porter Springs.
And, in addition to the change in
temperature, there is another agency
brought into play by altitude, to wit:
atmospheric pressure. The weight of
the atmosphere at the ordinary surface
of the earth, or, as it is termed by Sci
entific men, at the sea-leveJ, is equal to
fifteen pounds to the square inch.
There are about 2,000 square inches of
surface on a man of ordinary size, and
therefore there is, at the sea-level, an
atmospheric pressure of about 30,000
pounds on a common person. And at
an elevation of 3,000 feet there are
three thousand pounds less of atmos
pheric pressure than at the sea-level.
Thus a citizen of Charleston, Savan
nah, Mobile or New Orleans, on as--,
cending to Porter Springs would be
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pounds less than when at home. The
great removal of atmospheric pressure
by ascending to an altitude of 12,000
feet, gives pain unless a person exer
cises very cautiously. That change of
atmospheric pressure thought to be
most beneficial to health, is accom
plished by passing from the sea-level
to the mountain regions with an alti
tude ranging from two to five thou
sand feet. Therefore, considering all
the influences on climate caused by the
latitude and altitude of the mountains
in North Georgia, that portion of our
State has bright future ahead of it.
THE MAN WHO STOPS HIS PAPER.
Phillip Gilbert Hamerton, in his ad
mirable papers on ‘lntellectual Life,’
thus talks to the man who ‘stopped
his paper:’
“Newspapers are to the civilized
world what the daily house talk is to
the members of the family—they keep
our daily interest in each other; they
save us from the evils of isolation. To
live as a member of the great white
race that has filled Europe and Ameri
ca, and colonized or conquered what
ever territory it has been pleased to
occupy; to share from day to day its
thoughts, its cares, its inspirations, it
is necessary that every man should
read his paper. Why are the French
peasants so bewildered and at sea ? It
is because they never read a newspaper.
And why are the inhabitants of the
United States, though scattered over a
territory fourteen times the area of
France, so much more capable of con
cert of action, so much more alive ami
modern, so much more interested in
new discoveries of all kinds, and more
capable of selecting and utilizing the
best of them ? It is because the news
papers penetrate everywhere, and even
the lonely dwelling on the prairie or in
the forest is not intellectually isolated
from the great currents of public life
which flow through telegraph and
press.”
FEMALE LOVELINESS.
Do not think you make a girl lovely
if you do not make her happy. There
is not one restraint you put on a good
girl’s nature—there is not one check
you give to her instincts of affection
or of effort—which will not be indeli
bly written on her features with a
hardness which is all the more painful
because it takes away the brightness
from the eyes of innocence, and the
charm from the brow of virtue. The
perfect loveliness of a woman’s counte
nance can only consist in the majestic
peace which is found in the memory
of happy and useful years, full of sweet
records; and from the joining of this
with that yet more majestic childish
ness, which is still full of change and
promise, opening always, modest at
once and bright with hope of better
things to be won and to be bestowed.
There is no old age where there is still
that promise—it is eternal youth.
HISTORY OF A LAWSUIT.
Involving Part or New Orleans Mrs.
Gaines’ $85,000,000.
Av
A uispatch from New Orleans an
nounces that Judge Bi'lings, of the
Unit, and States District Court at that
placx has rendered a decision in the
case ji Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines vs.
the rJy of New Orleans and others, in
whicji the court sustains the claims of
the iaintift, and recognizes the pro
the will of Daniel Clark of
1813.
x i ’ decree of the court commands
to account to a master
iu cfpoScry for all the income from
this property during their long pos
sessfm. They are ousted from their
title! and from all the accumulation
therprom. This decision involves also
heap claims against, the city, which
has sold a large amount of the property
in question, with a full warranty of title.
Thir/ is a phase of one of the longest
and most interesting lawsuits in the
annuals of American jurisprudence.
The history of the case, as stated by
tneßaltimore Sun, is briefly as follows:
Mvs. Gaines is the widow of Gen.
Edixund Pendleton Gaines, and was
borij in New Orleans in 1805 Her
fathf.r, Daniel Clark, was born in the
county Siigo, Ireland, in 17C6, and
emi. rating to New Orleans, inherited
a considerable property from his uncle
in i 1 98. Before the acquisition of
Loi* siana he was American consul
thei|a and represented the territory in
CoY/ress in 1806. In August, 1813,*
Dailei Clark died, and his property
watl disposed of under a will dated
Ma,i 20, 1811, which gave the bulk of
his estate to his mother, Mary Clark,
whq was then living in Germantown,
Pa. He was also supposed to be a
bachelor, but was known to have had
a litson with a very beautiful Creole,
des Granges, and two daugh
ter* were born of this connection, one
at Philadelphia in April, 1802, and the
oth. r, Myra, at New Orleans, in 1805.
latter was taken to the house of
Cci ( Davis, a friend of Clark’s, nursed
by L Mrs. Harper, and grew up in
Phladelpliia, where she was known as
Mvra Davis. In 1830 Mr. Davis,
van;a Legislature, sent home for cer
tain papers, and in searching for these
Myra discovered some letters which
partially revealed the secret of her
birth, and laid the foundation of the
lawsuit which has since become fa
mous.
In 1832 she married W. W Whit
ney, of New York, who, in following up
the discovery made by his wife, secured
from Col. Davis an old letter which
gave an account of a will made by
Clark in 1813, just before his death,
giving all his large estate to Myra, and
acknowledging her as his legitimate
daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Whitney went
immediately to Cuba, and there, after
a long search, discovered the writer of
the letter, and with the aid of evidence
given by him, began suit iu New Or
leans for the property of Daniel Clark,
which had in the meantime become im
mensely valuable, and included a great
part of the present business quarter of
the city. On the trial of this suit the
Mrs. Harper above mentioned testified
that four weeks before his death Clark
showed her the will he had made in
favor of Myra, and acknowledged the
child’s legitimacy.
Baron de Boistontaiue testified that
Clark had made the same statements
to him. On this and other corrobora
tive evidence the lost will was received
by the Supreme Court of Louisiana on
February 18,1856, as the last will and
testament of Daniel Clark, though the
document itself could not be found.
The objection was then interposed
that by the laws of Louisiana a testa
tor coujld not make devises to his adul
terine Jfiastard. On this point, howev
er, two sisters of Myra’s mother testi
fied that Zuliine des Granges was pri
vately married to Clark in their pres
ence in Philadelphia in 1803 by a
Catholic priest, it having been learned
that Zulime’s reputed husband, Des
Granges, had another wife living, and
was therefore not legally married. In
another suit growing out of this diffi
culty the United States Court decided
that the marriage and legitimacy of
Myra were established.
In the meanwhile Mr. Whitney died,
and his widow married Gen. Gaines,
whom she has also outlived. Assisted by
the general, Mrs. Gaines continued her
litigation, and in the Supreme Court
of the United States, filled a bill in
equality to recover valuable real estate
then in the possession of the city of
New Orleans, and a decision in her
favor was rendered in 1867. The value
of the property claimed was estimated
in 1861, at $35,000,000 of which Mrs.
Ganes had obtained possession of
some $6,000,000. Numerous actions
of ejectment against individual parties
have followed, and it is no doubt one
of these that Judge Billings has now
decided m Mrs. Gaines’ favor.
The heroine of this romantic story
is a little, black-eyed lady of over
seventy, who still retains traces of for
mer uncommon beauty. She is well
educated, quick and courageous. Her
long and varied experience in the law
courts has given her a legal education
of no mean character. On several oc
casions, and notably in the Supreme
Court of the United States in 1861,
she has pleaded her own cause person
ally and with remarkable success.
Though at the time of Gen. Gaines’
death a wealthy woman, she has often
been in financial straits, for she has
spent several large fortunes in prose
cuting her claims. The property now
known as the Honnos Plantations and
belonging to Mr. John Burnside, of
New Orleans, was at one tune part of
the Gaines estate, and was sold, with
the slaves on it, to Gen. Wade Hamp
ton, of South Carolina, in 1812, for
$500,000. When Mrs. Gaines succeeds
in getting possession of the property
awarded her she will be the wealthiest
person iu New Orleans, and perhaps
the richest woman in the world.
PUBLIC EDUCATION.
The following from a Texas paper,
will inform the public as to the provi
sions that State has made in behalf of
public education:
The present permanent public school
fund of Texas is about $3,000,000, be
sides sales of school lands, which will
largely add to the above. Tbe school
lands now aggregate about 20,000,000
acres, worth about $30,000,000. The
interest on the permanent fund, to
gether with one-fourth of the occupa
tion and ad valorem taxes assessed
since March 30, 1870, exclusive of the
cost of collection; one-fourth of all the
ad valorem and occupation taxes that
may hereafter be collected, exclusive
of the cost of collection; all taxes due
since March 30, 1870, uncollected and
which may be collected, exclusive of
the costs of collection; all poll taxes
hereafter to be collected, exclusive of
the costs of collection; the interest
arising on any bonds and funds, and
all the interest derivable from the sale
of lands herein before set apart, for
the permanent school fund, belonging
to the permanent school fund, and
which now are or may hereafter come
into the State Treasury, shall consti
x-*- xt-. —x x utK i
shall be appropriated for the esiSo
lishment, support and maintenance of
public free schools, says our latest
legislation with regard to the public
schools. Iu 1876 the legislative ap
propriation for free schools was $550,-
000; for 1877 it is $650,000, and for
1878, $870,000.
THE CRY FOR REST.
A physician says that the cry for
rest has always been louder than the
cry for food. Not that it is more im
portant, but it is often harder to ob
tain. The best rest comes from sound
sleep. Of two men or women other
wise equal, the one who sleep the bet
ter will be the more healthy and effi
cient. Sleep will do much to cure
irritability of temper, peevishness and
uneasiness. It will restore vigor to an
overworked brain. It will build up
and make strong a weak body. It will
cure a headache. It will cure a broken
spirit. It will cure sorrow. Indeed,
we might make a long list of nervous
and other maladies that sleep will
cure. The cure of sleeplessness re
quires a clean, good bed, sufficient ex
ercise to promote weariness, pleasant
occupation; good air,and not too warm
a room, a clear conscience and avoid
ance of stimulants and narcotics. For
those who are pverworked, haggard,
nervous, who pass sleepless nights, we
commend the adoption of such habits
as will secure sleep; otherwise life will
be short, and what there is of it sadly
imperfect.
A SCOTCH STORY.
A certain minister Laving become
addicted to drink, his presbytery had
to interfere, and get the minister to
sign the temperance pledge. The
result was that the sudden reaction
was too much for him, he became so
ill that the doctor was sent for. The
doctor said he must begin to take his
toddy again. This the minister said
he could not do, as he had taken the
pledge. The doctor replied that he
might get a bottle or two quietly,
and nobody but their own selves and
the housekeeper would know it.
‘Man,’ said the minister, ‘my house
keeper is worse than all the presbytery
put together, so that would not do.’
However, it was arranged that the
doctor should bring in the whisky and
sugar, and . that the minister was to
make up the toddy in the bedroom
with the hot water he got for shaving
purposes in the morning. The result
was the minister got speedily well, and
one day on going out, the doctor said
to the minister’s house-keeper: ‘Well,
Margaret, your minister is quite him
self again.’ ‘There’s nae doubt of that,
sir,’ she replied, ‘he’s quite well in the
body, but there is something gane
wrong wi’ his upper story.’ ‘What's
there, Margaret 1 ?’ asked the dotor. 1
j ‘Weel, sir, I dinna ken, but be asks for
1 shaviu’ water six or seven times a day.’
LETTER FROM MRS. STONEWALL
JACKSON.
Charlotte, April 20, 1877.
(From tho Southern Home.]
Mi/ Dear Sir: About two weeks ago
au article appeared in the Atlanta
Constitution giving an account of an
interview with me, by a reporter of
the Philadelphia Times; and the Times
itself published a description of the
same interview, which was quite differ
ent, being considerable modified and
in better taste; but both articles were
written in a way that was exceedingly
mortifying to me, and were full of
missepresent'tbon.. So great is my
shrinking from publicity, that my first
impulse was to let it die a natural
death, consoling myself with the
thought that those who know me
would understand how much of it to
believe. But I have since received
from friends, letters of advice and
kindly warning, saying it is a duty 1
►'owe to myself to make a candid and
firm vindication of these misrepresen
tations, specially where I am reported
as having made disparaging remarks
between my husband and other Con
federate officers. A few weeks since
the editor of the Philadelphia Times
solicited me to write some .-ketches for
his paper, whose columns he had
thrown open to southern writers, for
contributions for ‘annals of the war.’
In view of this liberal offer, and tho
advantage the south might gain lor it,
some of my friends urged me !o engage
in the work. It has long been my in
tention to write out my personal re
collections of my husband’s life for the
sake of his child, and after full con
sultation with judicious friends, it was
decided that there could be no im
propriety in furnishing a suitable
sketch to the Times. However, my
promise was only a conditional one,
that, if 1 succeeded in doing the work
satisfactorily to myself and friends,
then only, would I consent to the pub
lication
The Times reporter came unexpect
edly to me, sought an interview, and
being a southern mail of kind and
pleasant manners, and professing to
have come for the purpose of encour
aging and assisting me in the selection
e *t V—- • •• i
led into answering too freely the mul
titude of questions with which I was
plied. I hadn’t the most distant idea
that I was talking for the public, al
though I must do him the justice to
say, he told mo ho intended to publish
an account of the interview. Still, his
kindness and gentlemanly manners
disarmed me of all that fear that I
would say anything inappropriate. I
told him expressly that I did not in
tend to publish a depreciatory word of
any other public officer, that my hus
band was a model of prudence, and
never disparaged those even of whose
policy he disapproved, and it would be
extremely i indelicate for me to do so.
I did say that General Jackson be
lieved in bold, swift, untiring action,
for he felt that the south could afford
no delay, but it was no reflection upon
others to say this, and the expression
that he wanted to press on, ‘blindly,
furiously, madly,’ never came from my
lips, and such words are totally at va
riance with his clear-sighted, calm,and
resolute mode of action. lam also
represented as ‘being fully impressed
with the belief, that if General Jack
son had lived, or if his policy had
been vigorously pursued, the war
might have had a different end
ing.’ Tho gentleman certainly forgot
that this expression of opinion came
from himself, and my reply was, that
the same remark was very frequently
made to me by others. No man was
ever more free from petty joa'ousy and
detraction of Iris fellow officers, or
more submissive to superior authority,
than Gen. Jackson was, and even a
shadow of an imputation of this kind,
would bo great to bis unsel
fish, patriotic slirit and consistent
Christian chancier, and certainly I
would be the iasljaperson to make such
an impression, oiljdraw an unfavorable
comparison between him and our no
ble Generals Loefciml Johnson, or any
other brave conftflerato oilicer.
The discussion* n the article, of my
private allairs, r*’eals an indelicacy
that is too painful for me to dwell
upon, but I would fain throw the veil
of charity over the whole publication,
which was clothed in language entirely
different from my own, believing the
reporter’s zeal in the interest of The
Times, carried him beyond his own
discretion, and even betrayed him to
publish, without my knowledge or con
sent, a letter to my young daughter,
which was shown him simply as a
specimen of the impertiuencies of the
kind to which she had been subjected.
I respectfully request that all those
newspapers, which copied the repor
ter’s account of his interview with me,
will do me the justice to publish mine.
Yours truly,
M. A nna Jackson.
Queen Victoria has issued a procla
mation stating she is determined to
maintain English neutrality in the war
between Russia and Turkey.
feathers.
Thomasville, Ga., is trying silk cul
ture as an experiment.
Many a man has ruined his eyesight
by sitting in a bar-room looking for
work.
Governor Nieholls, of Louisiana, lost
an arm and a leg in the Confederate
service.
‘Mama, what are twins made for?’
Precocious older brother, quickly—‘So
that cauuibals may eat philopenas?’
The American navy has cost about
NO. 19
five hundred million dollars since the
war, and is said to be absolutely worth
less.
A young lady says that ‘if a cart
wheel has nine fellows attached to it,
it’s a pitty that a girl like her can’t
have one!’
Five thousand Poles of the North
west are to emigrate to the South.
There are indications that they will
settle in Arkansas.
The Western confectioner, who, a
tew months ago, taught bis parrot to
say ‘pretty creature’ to every lady who
entered his store, is now a millionaire
Any work, no matter how humble,
that, a man honors by efficient labor will
be found important enough to secure
respect for himself and credit for his
name.
Biographies are delitesome reading.
We kumpare all the virtews of the
person’s karacter with our own, and
all his failing with our nabor,—Josh
Billings.
Mr. Hayes’ Southern policy has
made South Carolina and Louisiana
peaceful. Those States are no longer
Republican and disorderly; they are
Democratic and tranquil.
When Chinamen part they say ‘Chin
chin,’ which means good bye. That is
just the way with our girls—they chin
chin about half an hour before they
can get apart.
Lawyers’ fees have come down in
the West. They used to want the
whole of an estate for selling it, bur,
now they allow the widow enough to
cover funeral expenses.
Don’t think when you have gone to
church ou Sunday that entitles you to
do as you please the balance of the
week. The upright man lives through
the six as he does the seventh day.
The good eilect resulting from wind
ing up carpet-bag rule in Louisiana is
illustrated in the sale of a piece of
property on Magazine street for $14,-
000 which was offered at SB,OOO one
month ago.
The latest sensation ground out in
Washington is that Grant is going to
Turkey to take command of the Otto
man forces. The St. Louis Republi-
LtlU tliUihiN LlilO liOVArt i imtjvrgolUJi (jyy
good to be true.
It is said that the Radicals of Mis
sissippi, in most of the counties, will
try the strategy in the coming cam
paign of running weak-kneed Demo
crats for office under the name of
independents.
Jonesville (N. Y.) has a girl worth
courting. She was sitting with her
lover when she heard a mysterious
noise iu the house, excused herself,
found burglars up-stairs, got the old
guu and blazed away —and not till
then did the lover suspect anything
unusual was going on.
Small boy, on tip-toe to his compan
ions: ‘Stop your noise, all of you!’
Companions: ‘Hallo Tommy; what's
the matter?’ Small bo} 7 : ‘We’ve got a
new baby; it’s very weak and tired;
walked all the way from heaven last
night; mustn’t be kicking up a row
round here now.’
An old lady once said that her idea
of a great man was ‘A man who is
keeilni of his clothes, don’t drink
spirits, kin read the Bible without
spelling the words, and kin eat a cold
dinner ou washing day, to save the
women folks the trouble oi cooking.’
Mrs. Mary Livermore says that girls
are not particular enough about the
men they marry; but an exchange tells
of a woman who is so particular about
the man she married, that she takes
her sewing to liis office and sits there
all day till he is ready to go home.
A St. Louis man set out last week to
eat thirty partridges in thirty days on
a wager. He ate the first one without
any trouble, but the grocer refused to
give him any further credit the very
next day, and he is hopelessly stuck on
the other twenty-nine.
‘Well,’ he complained, pulling off his
pants, ‘I shan’t go poking about cold
mornings building fires when I die!’
‘No,’ was her cruel reply from beneath
the warm coverlids, ‘for if you get
your just deserts you’ll find the fire all
burning red hot for you every morning.’
Well may it be called ‘The Christian
Gallows.’ Another man who was
hung in Georgia yesterday expressed
his confidence that he was on the line
and was going through to salvation.
But it will discourage attendance at
hangings if they make a regular prac
tice of taking up collections, as he did,
for his family.—Cincinnati Enquirer.
An old pioneer, who believed ‘that
what was to be would be,’ lived in a
region infested by Indians. He always
took his gun with him; and once, find
ing that some of his family had bor
rowed it, he would not go out without
it. His friends rallied him, saying that
there was no danger of the Indians, as
anyhow he would not die till his time
came. ‘Yes,’ said old Leatherstock
ing; but suppose I was to meet an In
dian and his time was come, it wouldn’t
j do not to have my gun.’