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<i i: \eh a e mit ector y.
Hon, George D. Rico, Judge 8. 0. Western Circuit.
A. L. Mitchell, Solicitor, Athens, Ga.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
J. 15. M. Winburn, Ordinary.
John L. Gaines, sheriff.
J. F. Duckett, Deputy Sheriff.
J. J. Mayue, Clerk Superior Court.
N. li. Clark, Tax Collector.
J. It. H. Luck, Tax Receiver.
Gideon Harrison, Surveyor.
Edward Lowry, Corouer.
It. C. Young, Treasurer.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
ITtusityrEitiAPt Church—Rev. T. P. Cleveland, Pas
tor. Preaching every Sabbath—morning and night,
except the second Sabbath. Sunday School at 9a. m.
Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at 4 o’clock.
Methodist Church Rev. I). D. Cox, Pastor.
Preaching every Sunday morning and night. Sunday
School at :t a. m. l’rayor meeting Wednesday night.
Baptist Church Rev. W. C. Wilkes, Pastor.
Preaching Sunday morning. Sunday School at 9 a.
m. prayer meeting Thursday evening at 4 o’clock.
YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.
A. 11. Jackson, Preuideut.
R. C. Maddox, Vico President.
W. li. Clements, Secretary.
Regular services every Sabbath evening at one of
the Churches. Cottage prayer meetings every Tues
day night in “Old Town,” and Friday night near the
depot.
FRATERNAL RECORD.
Flowery llsanch Lodoe No. 79. I. O. O. TANARUS., meets
every Monday night, Joel Laseter, N. G.
Ji. F. Stidham, Hoc.
Alleuiunv Hi it At, Arcic Chapter meets on the See
on.l and Fourth Tuesday evenings in each month.
W. At. Puckett, Sec’y. A. w. Caldwkll, H. P.
Gainesville Lodoe, No. 219. A.-. I’.-. M.\, meets
on the First and Third Tuesday evening in the month
R. Palmour, Soo’y. It. E Green, W. M.
Air-Link Lodui. No. 61 J. <). t). K., meets every
Friday evening.
•!. A. Lilly, Sec. W. H. Harrison, N. G.
Mormnu Star Lodge, No. 313, 1, 0. G.T., meets ev
ery Thursday evening.
Claud Estes, VV. S. J. P. Caldwell, W. 0. T.
Nortli-Eastern Star Lodge, No. 385 I. O. G. TANARUS.,
moots every Ist and 3d Saturday evenings, at Antioch
Church. V. S. Hudson, W. C. T.
JI. W. Rhodes, Secretary.
GAINESVILLE POST OFFICE.
Owing to recent change of schedule on the Atlanta
and Charlotte Air Line Railroad, the following will
lie the schedule from date;
Mail fro a Atlanta [fast] fi.24 p. m.
Mail for Atlanta [fasti 5.43 a. m.
otfico hours: From 7 a. in. to 12 m., and from
1 p. tn. to 7p. m.
General delivery open on Sundays from 8)4 to 9>L
Departure of malls from this office:
Dahlouega and Gilmer county, daily B>i . m
Dahlouega, via Wahoo and Ethel. Saturday 8X a. in
Jefferson A Jackson county, Tuesday, Thurs
day and Saturday 7 a. m
Cleveland, White, Union, Towns and Ilayos
ville, N. C., Tuesdays and Fridays 7 a. in
Dawsonville and Dawson county, Saturday 8 a. m
Homer, Banks county, Saturday I p. in
Pleasant Grove, Forsyth county, Saturday... .1 p. in
M. R. ARCHER, P.AI.
Professional and Business Cards.
mam hotel,
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* A. M. SL*KI(iHTS, Proprietor.
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New Furniture.
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At Inn(n, Gii.
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A. .1. WIIAFFEK, M I>.,
Physician and Surgeon.
Special 1 Attention Given to Oistaus
(’oiniitoii to Woinrii. -
Oilin' near Northeast corner I’ublic Square.
Always in office when not professionally
engaged.
Gainesville, Ga., May 25, 1877. ly
MARKHAM HOUSE,
itv .j. i<:. ow 10inw,
At the Hast End of the Union Depot,
A.tlantA, Gra.
Attention by W. 1). WILEY and T. A. HAMMOND,
inayll-tf
A. C. MOSS.
Attorney at Law,
Homer, Banks County, Georgia.
VTTILL ATTEND PROMPTLY to all busi
ness intrusted to his care. mart! ly
M Vlt LF. l( A PEItRY.
x TTOKNEYS AT LAW, GAINESVILLE, GA,
J\_ Oflice in the Court House. Ouo or the other of
the firm always present. Will practice iu Hall and
adjoining counties. aua'2s-ly
I) 11. R. B. A D AIR,
DENTIST,
Gainesville, Ga.
janlt ly
MAKSII Ala 1.. SMITH,
VTTORNRY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
Piiiosonoitle, Ihiwson county, (ia .
idiiU tf
JOHN 11. I'.SIT.S,
VTTOKNKY-AT-LAW, Uainoßvilie, Hall county,
Georgia.
J. WELLBORN,
V ITOKNKY.aT-IAW, Ulairavillo, Union county,
Georgia.
SAMUEL < . I)t NLAF,
\ TTORNEY AT LAW, Gainesville , Ga.
Ortiee m tin l Oanillar building, in the room
occupied by tho Eagle iu 1875. aprstf.
VVIER BOY D,
A TToKNEI IT LAW. Hahloneija, Ga.
J\. I will Practice in (lie counties of Lumpkin,
Dawson. Gilmer. Fannin, Union and Townseounties
u the Blue Ridge Circuit; and Hail, White and
Rabun in tho Western Circuit.
May 1, 1874-tf.
M. W. RIDEN,
4 TTORNEY AT LAW, Gainesville , Georgia.
Jail 1,1876-ly
.1. T. TURNBULL,
A TTORNEY AT LAW’, Homer. Ga. —Will practice
xlin all the counties composing the Western Cir
cuit. Prompt attention given to all claims entrusted
to his care.
lan. 1. 1875-Iy.
JAMES A. BUTT,
Attorney at law a land agent, Btairsvuu
Ga. Prompt attention given to all business
entrusted to his care. iune 2,1871-tt
The Gainesville Eagle.
Devoted to Politic**, New* of tlte I>v, The F.m(lntere%t*, Home Matters, and Cl.oiee Mhwellany.
VOL. XI.
VEGETINE
Purifies the Blood, Reno
vates and Invigorates
the Whole System.
ITS MEDICAL PROPERTIES ARE
Alterative, Tonic, Solvent
AND DIURETIC.
Reliable Evidence.
> egetine j
~ j Mr. H. K. Stevens:
V egetilie ! Dear Sir--1 will most cheerfully
j add my testimony to the great
VomHimn number you have already received
it(,Clßlt j„ f avor 4> f your great anil good
! medicine, Vkoetini:, for i do not
VCKetillO enough can be said in its
° ; praise, for i was troubled over
V0,.0f;,.,, 1 u,irl y Willi that dreadfHl
vegeilllc disease, Outarrli.aiul had such had
j coughing spells thal it would seem
Vpimlim, as though I never could breathe
ie s t!llllb' uy more, and Vkgetine lias
. I cured me; and 1 do feel to thank
Yegetilie God all the time that there is so
: good a medicine as Vecjetine,
Vntmiino and i also think it one of the best
medicines for coughs and weak,
j sinking feelings at the stomach,
Ve f -etilie and advise everybody to take the
n i Vegetixk, for I can assure them
\r „ it is one of the best medicines
egetilie that ever was.
Mrs. L. GORE,
Vmrni ino For. Magazine and Walnut sts.,
ibfcbliue Cambridge, Mass.
Yegetine
GIV K S
Yegetine Health, Strength
Yegetine AND APPETITE.
Yegetine My daughter has received great
benefit from the use of Yegetine.
Her declining health was a source
t UfcjGLiiiD „f great anxiety to all her friends.
A few bottles of Vkgetine re-
T Cgetilie stored Iter health, strength and
appetite.
Vmraiiim N. 11. TILDEN,
* UgtJllllO Insurance and Real Estate Agt.,
No. 49 Sears’ Building,
Yegetine _ Boston, Mass.
Vegetine cannot be
v , ~ EXCELLED,
Vegetine
• _ Charlestown, Mar. 19, 1869.
Vegetine h.r. Stevens:
Dear Sir—This is to certify that
VfiffefillA I have used your “Blood I’rcpara-
M D tion” in my family for several
-.r ■ ~ years, and think that, for Scrofu-
V egetilie la or Cankerous Humors or Rheu
matic affections, it cannot be ex-
Vmrpfiinr celled; and as a blood purifier or
* si>ring medicine, it is the best
1r thing I have ever used, and i have
Vegetine " 8<:<1 almost everything. 1 can
cheerfully recommend it to any
Vmntinn 0,19 in H ee<l of such a medicine.
egeillie Yours respectfully,
M its. A. -A. DIN,SMOKE,
Vegetine No ’ l9 Busseii street.
Vegetine recommend it
Vegetine Iteartily,
Yegetine South Boston, Feb. 7, 1870.
° Mr. Stevens:
\Tntrai It!,, , V 9ar Sir—l have taken several
t exeunt, bottles of your Vegetine, and am
b convinced it is a valuable remedy
VoiTotillo for -Dyspepsia, Kidney Complaint
° and general debility of the system.
I can heartily recommend it to
f CJSGIIIIO all suffering from the above com
plaints. Yours respectfully,
VfllTPltillA Mks * MUNKOE PARKER,
f GfeUMUe 86 Athens street.
PREPARED BY H. R. STEVENS, BOSTON, MASS.
Vegetine is Sold by All Druggists.
YUTPSJILLS
A Noted Divine says
They are worth their
weight in gold .
READ WHAT HE SAYS:
Dr. Tutt:—Dear Sir: For ten years I have been
a martyr to Dyspepsia, Constipation, and Piles. Last
spring your pills were recommended to me ; i used
them (but with little faith). lam now a well man,
have good appetite, digestion perfect, regularstools,
piles gone, and I have gained forty pounds solid flesh.
They are worth their weight in gold.
Rev. R. L. SIMPSON, Louisville, Ky.
l)r. Tutt has been en
gaged in the practice of
medicine thirty years, and
for a long time was demon*
strator of anatomy in the
Medical College of Geor
gia, hence persons using
his Pills have the guaran
tee that they are prepared
on scientific principles,
ami arc free from all
quackery.
lie has succeeded in
combining in them the
licrelolore antagonistic
qualities of a strengthen-
anaa fur
if yntg tonic.
Their first apparent ef
fect is to increase the ap
petite by causing the food
to properly assimilate.
Thus the system is nour
ished, and by their tonic
action on the digestive or
gans, regular and healthy
evacuations arc produced.
The rapidity with which
persons take on flesh,
w liile under the influence
of these pills, of itself in
dicates their adaptability
to nourish the body, and
hence their efficacy in cur
ing nervous debility,mel
ancholy, dyspepsia, wast
ing of the muscles, slug
gishness of the liver,
chronic constipation, and
TUTTS PILLS
CURE SICK HEAD
ACHE.
TUTPSIILLS
CURE DYSPEPSIA.
TUTUS - 'ILLS
CURE CONSTIPATION
tutpsTills
CURE PILES.
TUTfs“P!LLS
CURE FEVER AND
AGUE.
TUTPSIILLS
CURE BILIOUS COLIC
tutpsT ills
CURE KIDNEY COM
PLAINT.
TUTPS“ILLS
CURE TORPID LIVER
imparting health and strength to the system. Sold
everywhere. Office, 35 Murray Street, New York.
ITmumph" OF SCIENCE. I
Gray Hair can be changed to a H
glossy black by a single application of H
Dr.TuTT’sHairDye. it acts like magic, H
and is warranted as harmless as water. H
Price li.oo. Office 35 Murray St., N. Y. J
What is Queen’s Delight?
Read the Answer
It is a plant that grows in the South, and is spe
cially adapted to the cure of diseases of that climate.
NATURE’S OWN REMEDY,
Entering at once into the blood, expelling all scrof
ulous, syphilitic, and rheumatic affections. Alone,
it it a searching alterative, but when combined with
Sarsaparilla, Yellow Dock, and other herbs, it forms
Sr. Tutt’s Sarsaparilla
and Queen’s Delight,
The most powerful blood purifier known to medical
science for the cure of old ulcers, diseased joints, foul
discharges from the ears and nostrils, abscesses, skin
diseases, dropsy, kidney complaint, evil effects of
secret disordered liver and spleen. Its use
strengthens the nervous system, imparts a lair com
plexion, and builds up the body with
HEALTHY, SOLID FLESH.
As an antidote to syphilitic poison it is strongly
recommended. Hundreds of cases of the worst type
have been radically cured by it. Being purely veg
etable its continued use will do no harm. The best
time to take it is during the summer and fall; and
instead of debility, headache, fever and ague, you
will enjoy robust health. Sold by all druggists.
Price, SI.OO. Office, 35 Murray Street, New York.
Southern Mail.
/’TONTRACTQItS who carried the Mail in
1859, 1800 and 1801, can now get their
pay without proof ot loyalty.
Address, M. W. KIDEX,
mar 23 Claim Agent, Gainesville, Ga.
Notice ] Notice ! !
A LL PARTIES WANTING FIRST-CLaSS LUMBER
/V at low houses, will call on Pernio G. Boone,
who ia our only agent. Lumber warranted first-class.
septß-tf CAMP & BAIiRETT.
A MAX WITH AN AIM.
Give me a man with au aim,
Whatever that aim may be,
. Whether it’s wealth or whether it’s fame,
It matters not to me.
Let him walk in the path of right,
And keep his aim in sight,
And work and pray in faith away,
With his eye on the glittering height.
Give me a man who says,
“I will do something well,
And make the fleeting days
A story of labor tell.”
Though the aim he has be small,
It is better than none all;
With something to do the whole year through,
He will not stumble or fall.
But Satan weaves a snare
For the feet of those who stray,
With never a thought or a care
. Where the path may lead away.
The man who hath no aim
Not only leaves no name
When this life’s done, but ten to one
He leaves a record of shame.
Give me a man whose heart
Is filled with ambition’s fire;
Who sets his mark in the start,
And moves it higher and higher.
Better to die in the strife,
The hands with labor rife,
Than to glide with the stream in an idle dream,
And live a purposeless life.
LETTER FROM CARXESVILLE.
Religious Matters.
Carnesville, June 18, 1877.
Editor Eagle: Doubtless you will
be somewhat surprised upon receiving
a communication from our little town;
but as we do not propose to have a
word to say in this letter expressive of
our views, either politically or conven
tionally, we trust that you will give
your subscribers in this section a short
space in your valuable paper, to say
something of our people from a relig
ious standpoint, including the progress
of the Young Mens’ Christian Associa
tion in our town. One year ago there
was organized here, by a little band of
the devoted followers of the ‘meek and
lowly Nazarine,’ a Y. M. C. A., and its
course during that period has been
slowly but steadily upon the increase,
though met oftentimes by seemingly
formidable opposition. The aurora of
the IGth inst. ushered in its natal day,
and proclaiming its anniversary, which
I trust may prove of lasting benefit to
the entire community.
The exercises of the day were opened
at U a. m. Here we met Rev. W. P.
Smith, of Harwell, and Rev. W. C.
Wilkes, of Gainesville. After friendly
greetings the exercises began. They
were conducted by Vice President B.
E. Camp, Esq.; after which an election
of officers for the ensuing quarter was
had, the result of which was as follows:
President, J. C. Legrand.
Vice President, Rev. J. R. Ivie.
Secretary, T. W. Ayers.
Treasurer, B. F. Camp.
After an intermission of half an
hour, the Association, with many of its
friends, returned to listen to the anni
versary address by Rev. W. P. Smith.
To say that the address was good, well
timed and abounded with appropriate
admonitions to young men, would be
but faint praise. To sum it up, it
ought to be heard to be appreciated.
After dinner a meeting of inquiry
was held, in which some of the active
and associate members participated. I
trust that the resolutions there formed
will grow and ripen until the ‘full corn’
in the ear is harvested.
Now, it only remaius for me, Mr.
Editor, to speak of the discourses of
our dear brother Wilkes. And how
shall I speak of the man and his
‘words ol wisdom.’ Never before have
wo listened to such thrilling, eloquent,
soul-searching discourses. His dis
c >urse on Saturday evening was full of
thought, and genuine love for God and
his fellow man. Early on Sabbath
morning, as little groups would form
themselves around the square, as it is
their wont t.o do, the preacher and his
discourse was tho all-absorbing topic;
and at an early hour tho citizens from
the adjacent country could be seen
wending their way to the church to
catch a word from this man of God.
And, oh ! what a sermon! The groups
of young meu and ladies that crowded
the front seats, and the shouts of the
continued saint, plainly showed that
God was present.
But I will not weary your readers
further, for language would fail me to
tell you of the impression made upon
our entire citizenship by the preaching
of brother Wilkes. We could listen to
his admonitions and counsels for days,
but as we are d-bared from this happy
privilege, we trust that the good he
has done our community, by his recent
visit, may be ‘like bread cast upon the
waters.’ J. C. Leg rand.
If you have something to attend to,
go about it coolly and thoughtfully,
and do it just as well as you can. Do
it as though it were the only thing you
had ever to do iu your life, and as if
every thiug depended upon it. Then
your work will be well done, and it
wdl afford you genuine satisfaction.
Often much more does depends upon
the manner in which things, seemingly
trivial, are performed than one would
suppose, or than it is possible to fore
see. Do everything well, and you will
find it conducive to your happiness,
and that of those with whom you come
in contact.
True meu make more opportunities
than they find.
Zeal without knowledge is lire with
out light.
The boughs that bear most hang
lowest.
\ irtue and happiness are near kin.
j You never lose by doing a good turn.
GAINESVILLE, GrA., FKLDJY MOBKLNXx, JUNE 29, 1877.
COLO KAVO—KANSAS--TEXAS.
Georgia Bitter than All—Stay at Home.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger:
Having just returned from a somewhat
extended trip through some of the
Southwestern and Western States, and
thinking that a few items regarding
crops, and the condition of affairs
generally, might not prove uninterest
ing to the people of Central Georgia,
and believing your paper the best
medium through which to give them,
I have concluded to address them
to you.
April Ist, I left Atlanta via Nash
ville, Louisville, Indianapolis and St.
Louis for Colorado. The first damper
cast over my cheerful spirits was given
at St. Louis, where I heard that the
immortal Butler (he of spoon fame)
contemplated making his home in that
youthful State. However, I continued
westward until I reached Topeka, Kan
sas. There, all the brilliant dreams of
future joys and greatness were dis
pelled. There I met some of the warm-
est friends of boyhood man
hood’s days, citizens of Colorado,
and all joined in one chorus, “Go back
to Georgia.’’ With one-half the ener
gy there that you will be compelled
to apply here, or in Colorado, you can
make yourself happy and independent.
There you have land, climate, society
and morals. Go back to Georgia.
“But have you'not th se in Colorado?”
I asked. “We have land, such as it is;
we have a climate, though unhealthy,
that gives us nine months winter and
three months cold weather each year;
we have a cosmopolitan society—every
thing is represented from the elegant
and eloquent divine, down to the fifth
rate gambler and dingy courtesan, all
mixed. You can guess the state of
morals there. For God’s sake, and
for the sake of your wife and children,
stay in Georgia. You can travel from
the gulf to the Canadas, and you will
find no country equal to that.” To
another inquiry, one said: “I stay
West because, for the present, lam
compelled to. I came here with some
capital; I invested it and I am com
pelled to remain until I can put it in
shape to leave with it. I tell you, sir,
you may travel through Texas, Kansas,
and all this Western and Southwestern
section, and bad as you think Georgia
is, you will find this worse.”
Well, such a pressure was brought
to bear upon me, that I abandoned all
idea of going to Colorado. I visited
several points in Kansas, and found
affairs much as my friends had said
The towns were full to overflowing with
men of every avocation, all anxious for
employment; and many were more
than anxious to return to their former
homes, but unable to do so. Farmers
were daily plagued with applicants for
employment. Tramps were thick
worthy and unworthy. Ail in all, i
concluded that Kansas was not the
State for me, at least, for the present.
I next turned my steps Texasward.
I visited Sherman, Bonham, Paris,
McKinney, Waco, Waxahatchie, Dal
las, Weatherford, Bellton, Cleburne,
and several other places, all of which
were highly recommended. In the
towns I found everything crowded.
There are lawyers, doctors, mechanics,
of different kinds, and general laboring
men, unemployed, in Texas and Kansas,
sufficient to wipe out the royal forces
in Cuba within ninety days. Some
towns have grown into mam
moth proportions rapidly sprung
from hamlets to cities with' mushroom
growth. And hence the stagnancy of
business now. The extension of rail
roads carried out people and capital;
the old settlers—those who owned the
land—made money. They sold town
lots at fabulous prices; and lots that,
three years ago, commanded SI,OOO to
$2,000, can now be bought, together
with improvements thereon, at a slight
advance upon the same price. The
fact is, people spent all their surplus
upon arrival, and, as is the case in
Georgia, they find that there is “no ex
cellence without labor,” and that the
land does not “flow with milk and
honey,’ nor money grow upon trees.
Leaving Texas, I wended my way to
Arkansas. I stopped at Arkadelphia;
went to Camden, Calhoun, Monti
cello, Pine Bluff, Little Rock, Russell
ville, Clarksville, Ozark, Yau Buren,
Fort Smith, thence back to the ‘City
Roses,’ as Little Rock is sometimes
called At all the towns enumerated,
I found bus ness much as it is in our
own State. Notwithstanding the im
mense influx of people into the vicinity
of some of them, general business was
not in the least affected. The truth is,
they had no money to spend; nor will
they have any surplus soon. Little
Rock is a beautiful city, and being the
capital, and a changing point on the
route to Hot Springs, Texas, etc., it
necessarily exhibits greater evidence of
life and financial prosperity. But
leading business men informed me
that at was ‘dull, very dull.’ As else
where, the trades and professions are
crowded, and many are suffering for
want of employment.
I paid a flying visit to Searcy, Jack
sonport, Newport, Batesville, Cornell
and Pocahontas, but finding nothiug
to entice me, returned to Little Ilockq
where I spent another week ‘looking
around.’ And after a calm delibera
tion, I concluded that the best thing I
could do would be to follow the advice
of my friend and return to the good
old Empire State of the South.
Every section visited promised fair
crops. The acreage planted is greater
than any previous year. The seasons
have been very favorable for the most
part, though in Arkansas the weather
has been cool and dry.
From a careful observation, togeth
er with urgent inquiry into affairs, and
future prospects, in the portions of
country visited, I am led to the conclu
sion that it is best to “let well enough
alone,” and advise all sober and indus
trious men in Georgia to remain where
they are. All others can be spared,
and it makes but little difference where
they go. They won’t prosper much,
anywhere.
Taking advantage of climate, general
healthfulness—of Boil, advancement in
Se-vi [national and manufacturing facili
jjj | Georgia is far in the advance.
Tl le, some of the land is worn and
but, in the language of my Colo
friend, “with one-half the energy
people are compelled to exert in
Zest and Southwest, in Georgia,
e can be happy and independent.”
lands can not be purchased for
eg” in the West any more than
in jGeorgia, and speculators have
graphed them all up. Besides, where
the|jest lands are, there also is siek
nasi in abundance. And when the
crojf is sold and current expenses, to
gether with physic and physician’s
bills-, are paid, there is but little left to
laiLli over. The school systems are,
fef the most part, a farce, and general
intelligence is at a discount in the
rim) districts.
Leaving Little Rock, I stopped at
Dua ill’s Bluff, a town situated on the
Mon,phis & Little Rock Railroad and
c‘ "At* o- bank of White river. Seven
a go I was at the same place.
Tbeii everything appeared to promise
a -.arge and flourishing commercial
point; then there were 2,500 inhabi
tants, Now, it is a little, dingy, dried
up nothing, with scarcely three hun
dred souls, white and black. In its
palmiest days but little could be said
for its morals, as it had but one church
(and that but seldom used), no school,
and Some twenty rum mills, an 1 gam
bling was openly and notoriously prac
ticed, I next stopped at Lonoke, a
pretty’*, village. Thence I went to
Forrest City, where I found business
much as at Lonoke. In both places
looked “blue.” My next move
was to Mempkis, which point I reached
just in time io avoid detention in Ar
kansas by high water. And I passed
over the Memphis & Charleston Rail
road in time to avoid the flood men
tioned in the /Associated Press dis
patches.
On the M. and C. train I witnessed
the death of one whom I am told was
a truly good man, and an able and
zealous worker in Christian Kingdoms,
the Rev. J. S. Ewell, D. D. He was a
Presbyterian minister, and a resident
of Middle Tennessee, but had been on
a visit to friends in the West, hoping
thereby tp recruit his shattered health.
I occupied a section of sleeping coach
with him*, and found him to be a
pleasant genteman and one of rare
erudition. He died suddenly, of an
affection of the heart, with which, he
previously informed me he had been
troubled for years. Evidently be was
a man of rare parts, and of deep affec
tion: and feelings. In conversation be
informed me that he had just paid a
visit to the grave of a beloved daugh
ter, (the wife of an editor), who died
of yellow fever, in 1873. When speak
ing of her, his emotions were great and
to me painful. He spoke of his son
in V'SiA'S oae possessing all the traits
oilwtK•.'.ff.nhood, and IWug pJI that a
husband ought to be, but seemed to
feel that he (himself) had grievously
qrred in permitting his darling to be
tsken to a section subject to such fear
ful epidemics. He was feeble, and be
wept bitterly when speaking of her
whose memory he adored; and I wept
with him. His remains were enclosed
in a splendid case at Courtland, Ala
bama, and forwarded to his late home
in Tennessee. From all that I was
able to glean from conversation with
himself, and from others, he was a
pure and noble man, and doubtless has
received the reward of the righteous.
But I fear I will weary your patience,
so I will bring this to a close. And I
will repeat the advice already given.
Let all Georgians remain in Georgia,
and strive to build her up. Let them
encourage immigration from other
States to fill up her waste places,
build up her agricultural and mechani
cal and manufacturing interests, and
they will have the greatest State in
the Union. Her soil, climate, and
general facilities for advancement are
not surpassed anywhere. And this is
the opinion of hundreds of Georgians
who have sought homes, wealth and
happiness in the Eldorades of the
west. More too, many of whom I met
requested me to exert any influence in
my power to prevent further emigra
tion in that direction. Men from
Bibb, Monroe, Crawford, Upson, Spal
ding, and neighboring couuties, re
quested me to impress upon others
the beauties of their ‘native heath,’ and
with the fallacy of the idea of better
ing themselves, financially or other
wise, in the greatly overrated west.
In the language of them all: “Geor
gia is good enough for any man to live
in; and he that can not do well there,
cannot anywhere.” Georgian.
Fulton County, Ga., June li.
Don’t.— Don’t sit on the fence and
whittle the hours away while you pass
through life. Shavings bring but
little profit here and probably will not
be needed to light the lire where you
go to.
Don’t cavort and turn a back som
ersault because your industrious chick
ens scratch up your squashes. They
have as much right to the bugs as you
to the squashes.
Don’t leave your gates open and
then blame your pigs for rooting in the
garden. They have a perfect right to
go through where they can, and to root
is their nature.
Don’t loaf time away and ex
pect the grass to quit growing while
you are loafing. Grass don’t like loaf
ers well enough for that.
Don’t expect your plants to thrive if
you starve them to death. Plants that
are not fed will not feed you.
Don’t starve and rob tho land you
live on, if you do in tho long * run it
will show its appreciation by starving
you.
Don’t expect water to run up hill to
get out of your lands after you have
filled the ditches with rubbish. Water
is lazy and would rather stay any
where than climb a hill.
I have known folks who have never
committed a blunder whose hearts are
, as dry as dust; and others, who have
constantly transgressed, whose sympa
thies are as warm and quick as an
I angeL—Celia Burleigh.
HIE METALLURGY OF GOLD.
[Written for the Atlanta Independent.)
What is metallurgy ? It is the
science of separating metals from their
mattrix and gangue, and must combine
a knowledge of chemistry, mineralogy
and mechanics. The process of sep
aration is chemical and mechanical,
and, as all ores are minerals, a knowl
edge of mineralogy is necessary, as
the character of the mineral must be
known to the metallurgist before he
can know how to treat it chemically.
Be he ever so good a chemist, and no
mechanic, he will make a failure in
producing the separation of the ore,
because a part of the work is necessar
ily mechanical, and the condition of
the ores not always being the same,
the mechanical treatment cannot al
ways be the same, and to make the
proper changes to suit the altered con
dition of the ore, mechanical skill must
be employed.
A man may be a chemist, mineralo
gist and geologist, and know nothing
of metallurgy. He may be able to an
alyze a piece of quartz, and tell all
about it, but that does not make him
a metallurgist, or prove that he is com
petent to superintend the working
of a gold, silver or copper mine.
Gold is a subtile metal, as the reader
may have guessed from the fact that it
was hard to get and hard to keep.
You may judge of the fineness of
gold, and the smallness of a single
atom, when you remember the fact of
its being beaten out so very t.iin that
200,000 leaves laid on top of each
other, will not make a pile an inch
high. An ounce of gold may be
spread over a surface of one hundred
square feet. Iu the manufacture of
gold lace, tho division of gold is car
ried still farther, as you can see by
looking in any hand-book of chem
istry.
A silver wire is covered with gold
to the amount of one sixtieth of its
weight; it is then drawn through holes
in iron plates till it is reduced to a
wire as thin as a hair. Six ounces of
gold in this way will extend over a
wire above two hundred miles in
length, and yet if this be dipped in
nitric acid, the silver is dissolved out,
and a hollow cylinder of gold remains.
Gold is so fine that it takes thousands
of single atoms of it to make one par
ticle large enough to be seen with the
naked eye. It is easily carried off in
the smoke of a chimney where the ore
is being roasted.
A few years ago the superintendent
of the mint in San Francisco was ar
rested on a charge of stealing the gold,
which was afterwards proved to have
been stolen by the draft of the smoke
stack, and found on the roofs of the
building and in the brick. Gold will
hide itseLf in the bricks of a furnace
where it is being roasted, and where
copper plates are used to save it, gold
,is found all through the plates. I have
stated the above facts, well known to
every student of chemistry, that the
people may better understand why a
great many gold mines have failed to
pay, where assay has proved the ore to
be rick. Water is the greut thief of
gold in Georgia, where only the free
ores are worked.
The richest ores contain sulphur,
and are not worked here for want of
skill and capital. Ores are roasted in
piles to desulphurize them, but it is
only imperfectly done, as heat alone
will not accomplish the desired effect.
To get rid of the sulphur, it must be
changed into a sulphurous acid gas,
which can be done only by bringing it
in contact with hcaf and oxygen.
To do this the ore must be first pul
verized, or the oxygen cannot reach it.
The ore may be melted into a liquid
and not be desulphurized. The ore
must be reduced to a powder, and
then, by roasting it in suspension, the
sulphur readily passes off in shape of
a sulphurous acid gas. The conditions
necessary for the chemical change
complied with, the change is instanta
neous.
The difficulty Ims heretofore been in
getting the ore sized, so that it would
all receive just the necessary amount
of heat, and no more. A recent me
chanical invention, I believe, accom
plishes this, or, rather, produces the
desired result, by passing the sand
through a flame in such a way that
the large particles remain under the
influence of the heat the longest, and
become as thoroughly desulphurized
as the finest dust. But any particle of
sand as large as a grain of wheat will
not be freed from sulphur, and a per
fect desulphurization is absolutely
necessary for the saving of the gold.
By the above means of roasting, the
antimoy and bismuth pass off with the
sulphurous acid gas, leaving the ores
free for amalgamation.
In Georgia, copper plates are used
almost exclusively, and, as a conse
quence, the amalgamation is far from
being perfect. Too much water, or
too little, is always the mfllman’s
trouble: too little water, and the plates
do not clear themselves, and the sand
banks up on I hem; too much water,
and the gold and amalgum go over
with it, and all the devices for saving
fail to prevent a groat loss.
A thorough amalgamation can only
be accomplished by bringing every
particle of the sand, or pulp, in direct
contact with the mercury. This can
not be done by any rapid process, but
must necessarily be slow to be perfect.
Two hundred pounds an hour for each
large amalgama'or would be about the
full capacity. Two amalgamators to
each battery of five heavy stamps
would make very perfect work, and
would save within five per cent, of the
fire assay value of the ore, if it was
free from sulphur. Millmen often
flatter - themselves that they have saved
nearly all the gold, because they can
not find much, if any, in the tailings
from free ores. But they can never
account for the difference between the
assay value of the ores and the result
from working. Because gold has a
specific gravity nineteen times greater
than water, they presume that it must
settle instantly. But "the fact is, the
millmau gets none, or hardly any, of
the fine gold; for, notwithstanding its
{ density, the most of it is a very line
dust, and is carried in suspension in
the water just as far as you see the
water the least muddy. The water
used iu a battery should not be al
lowed to run oft' at all but be used
over and over again. The pulps should
be run into setting tanks, and the
water pumped back into a reservoir,to
be used iu the battery again as re
quired. By this means the water is
prevented from stealing the gold, and
can he used more liberally. Mill men
have always endeavored to make sepa
rating apparatus come up to the
capacity of the mill, and believed that
they had a surplus of copper plates,
because there was only a narrow streak
of gold at the head, and all the rest
covered with a green deposit, that
effectually prevented any gold or
amalgam sticking to it. But the truth
is, that the whole system was defec
tive, and the gold stuck to the head of
the plate because it struck there with
sufficient force to break through the
coating and form an amalgam with the
amalgamated plate. This is why some
mill men fix their copper plates in a
series of steps, so that t he pulp falling
from one to the other, will cut awav
the coating and stick to the copper
plates. But if the copper plates were
a mile long, with a continuous succes
sion of steps, it would not save the
gold.
The machinery for the amalgama
tion of gold is inexpensive, and will
save more than its entire cost in one
month. By using- the amalgamator,
mines can be worked which without
them must lie forever idle. Mines that
now do not pay for working, would be
made profitable to the owner and
lessee.
In many cases, mills that are now
paying one dvvt. to the ton would pay
ten dwts. In the use of the amalga
mator, there is no loss of quicksilver,
and although a liberal supply should
be used at first, it will not need to be
often replenished.
At this time, when iron is very
cheap, and iu this country, where it is
plenty, there is no excuse for not
using the amalgamator. A mixture of
hydrochloric acid and biuoxide of
manganese (aqua regia) will dissolve
gold into the form of chloride. It is
converted into a vapor when held in
the focus of a powerful burning glass,
or iu the oxyhydrogen blowpipe flame,
or placed betweeu the charcoal points
of a galvanic battery. A. H M.
FLOUWINU IjTpUBLIU SCHOOLS.
The question of corporal punish
ment iu the public schools has lately
been revived iu New York. It seems
that there is a law in that State pro
hibiting such punishment, providing
for expulsion instead, and, since its
adoption, the youthful culprit, freed
from fear of birch to back or rule to
hand, has be. ome so incorrigible as to
be well nigli unbearable. Hence, a
party has beeu formed favoring the
adoption of the old-time system of
flagellation, and the matter was refer
red by the Board of Education to a
commission to consider and report
upon. This was done, and the report
submitted brought no solace to the
youthful miud. It strongly advocated
a repeal of the law, and a readoption
of the flogging system. It claimed
that statistics show that where flog
ging is inflicted, discipline is better
kept up, the attendance of pupils is
much more regular, and, in every way,
better results have been attained.
Moreover, the commissioners claim
that legislation of the nature com
plained of is illegal; that no Superin
tendent has a right to expel a child
from a public school, to the privileges
of which every one is entitled, and,
further, that every teacher stands to
wards the pupils, in loco parentis, -and
possesses the inherent legal right to
whip just as much as he or she
pleases. All which goes to prove that
Solomon was a very wise man, and
was perfectly correct iu his views re
garding the sparing of the rod, as also
in his assertion that “there is nothing
now under the sun.”—Savannah News.
“There is but one thing to do with
greenbacks. They represent a current
debt. Pay the debt.”—Republican
Exchange.
One of the objects in extinguishing
a debt is to avoid the payment of in
terest, which is an annual drain which
has dragged down many a merchant
and business man to financial ruin.
We are paying about one hundred
millions a year as interest. It is a
heavy, ceaseless draft upon our tax
payers. Will our Republican friend
who is in such a deuce of a hurry to
“pay the debt” inquire among the
holders of the greenbacks, who are
very numerous, whether or not they
would like to have that portion of the
public debt which they hold paid
that is, redeemed and burned- before
that portion of tne debt that bears in
terest is paid. (Bet, a little vote be
taken. The bond is a leech, suckiug
the blood of the merchant, the farmer,
the manufacturer, the miner—of all
tax-payers. The greenback is the ma
chinery of commerce, the mechanism
of enterprise, the reward of industry.
It enables the mills to run, the mines
to be musical, the furnaces to glow,the
merchant to trade, the laborer to re
ceive his hire, the farmer to plow and
reap, and, unlike the bonds, which
cost $100,000,000 a year, they do not
cost the people one cent. Let the
people vote whether they would have
the greenback burned or retained.
Burn the greenback and you cripple,
if you do not destroy, the ability of
the people to pay the bonds.—Cincin
nati Enquirer.
Unto the good little boy shall be
given the picnic ticket, but the wicked
son shall recliuo on his mother’s knee.
Verily, in the day when she waxeth it
to him with her slipper, his heart will
be full of repentance, and his howling
shall disturb the neighbors.— Rome
Sentinel.
About 700,000 of Bessemer steel
were made in England last year, and
about 525,000 tons were made in the
i United States in the same period.
Till’ TUKK AN INVERTED FREAK OF
NATURE.
His Frogonitor (Jot Up on the First
Morning Wrong End Foremost.
A “({near Fish" and an “Intruder in
Europe.”
‘<V A. CV a remarkably well informed
and ffighly cultivated war correspon
dent of the Cincinnati Enquirer, in a
letter from Constantinople, gives us
au interesting account of the habits,
customs, official follies and vain h:.pes
of the Turk, from which we extract the
following pen picture:
“The Turk in his natural state is a
queer fish to contemplate. An in
truder in Europe, he buries his dead
in Asia, rearing there cities of crumb
ling tomb-stones more silent than
those in which he lives, for there the
voice of the street vender is never
heard. His religion is not an effort to
suppress nature, but a move in the di
rection of toning it down. Instead of
removing liis hat when he enters a
house he keeps on his head-covering
and takes off his shoes. He washes
his hands after eating and not before,
and when he sleeps he covers his head
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and leaves his feet exposed to the at
mosphere. He begins his day at. sun
set instead of daylight. He goes to
bis affairs with slow and measured
tread, and hurries his dead to the
cemetery at a double-quick upon the
theory that every moment spent out
side the grave after death is a moment
of extreme torture. Where other
races bedeck their women and send
them forth to be admired of men, he
covers bis jewel with a repulsive ferjee
and bides her face iu a yashmac. His
life is sensual, but bis religion denies
him that luxury of most abstemious
nations, generous wine. His religion
is one of bigotry, and yet the Jew and
the Gentile, the giaour and tbe hooded
monk jostle the faithful in his narrow
streets. The land which he inhabits
is fertile, and yet it gives forth no ade
quate increase. He curls up and sleeps
amid the riches of his bazaars and only
seems disturbed when men come to
traffic. His capital sits upon the ruin
of Roman Empire, in the most beauti
ful spot of all tbe world, and it is beau
tiful in spite of his efforts to render re
pulsive. He has no eye for the ass
thetic, lie enriches no canvas, and yet
he lies along tho hills of the Bosphorus
in artistic rapture, smoking his norghili
while contemplating the beauties of
blue waters and still bluer mountains.
He is cruel at times, but never treach
erous; he is insolent, because he feels
his power, but seldom inhospitable.
His government is weak and selfish
and oppressive, because his religion
and customs breed for ruler-s sensual
ists and weaklings instead of men.
Because he has declined to carry out
“reforms” which his nature and bis
inbred beliefs prohibit, he finds himself
at war to-day with a nation which sets
at defiance every natural right of man;
which suppresses intelligence; which
sends men of spirit in exile to Siberia,
and sets up the knout-post iu tho pub
lic place. Russia, a nation of semi
barbarians, with a King absolute at
the head of its church, has essayed the
task of upholding the banner of Chris
tianity and chastising tbe Moslem,
whoso chief fault is that he lies at the
water gateway of this most brutal and
debasing of nations. The Turk, secure
in the belief that England, with her
great navy, stands at his back, has
welcomed the war as a bride might
welcome a groom. He will set down
and cast up hia accounts ruefully at
the end of the game. He will find that
his population has been materially
decreased, his glory tarnished and his
debt quadrupled, while bis esteemed
friend from the Britannic Isles will
own the Suez Canal and a couple of
fine forts at each eud of the classic
Hellespont. In another half century
he may be sent to join his dead on the
Asiatic side, for fate has decreed that
the pale light of the Crescent can nev
er make headway against the robust,
religious pole-star of Europe. The
banner of the Osmanli waved once
under the walls of Vienna, but from
the day that Sobieski was proclaimed
victor it “has been slowly, but none the
less surely, retreating toward the
tomb of the Prophet.
Christian reid.
[Wasbingt n Cor. of Cincinnati Commercial.]
Let me sketch for you the pretty
face of Christian Reid, whose pleasant
books ‘Valerie Aylmer,’ ‘Morton
House,’ and her last novel, ‘After
Many Days,’ are well known to you. I
saw r her at the race in Baltimore, and
afterwards had the pleasure of dining
with her. She is Miss Fisher, of North
Carolina, and spends her winter in
Baltimore with her aunt and uncle,
Judge and Mrs. Hairstone, who before
the war, were reckoned the richest
people in the Tar State, and even now
enjoy the income from a million. Miss
Fisher is poor, and deserves more
credit and praise than my pen can
carry. She aids in every way her
father’s family, which is large. In
deed, I understand she is their main
stay. She is about twenty-two, medi
um height, with a slight, graceful
figure, which she dresses with exquisite
taste. Her small.shapely head is cov
ered by a profusion of wavy, rippling
brown hair, done up after a carelessly
artistic fashion. Her features are
regular, small and very pretty. Her
eyes are large, lustrous and of a very
uncertain color. At the race when I
saw her in the stables and watched her
as with her uncle she passed among the
horses, caressing and patting them,
her eyes looked of a lustrous black. At
dinner she was talking with a well
meaning but silly man, and her eyes
were of a dead gray. Later on she
found a congenial spirit and her eyes
were of the most tender blue. She is
gentle, extremely graceful and very
shy; cannot bear the least reference to
her writings, on which subject she is
painfully sensitive. Her voice is like
that of all Southern women low toned
and musical. She talks well and when
warmed up to her subject, grows posi
tively eloquent. She makes but little
from her books. There is quite'a de
mand for them, but a friend told me
the Apple-tons bought out the copy
right of each for a low figure, and that
was the end of it. She spends her'
summers at home and her winters with
her uncle aud aunt, who are devoted
to her new book, which is spoken of as
the happiest of all her efforts, and I am
told the first edition is already ex
hausted. God speed this brave woman,
and grant her every success.
Victor Emanuel now receives a sala
ry of $2,850,000. The Parliament had
to raise it in order to pay off his debts.