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UENEH tl. DIHECTOUV.
JUDICIARY.
Uou. George 1). Uu-e, Judge S. 0. Western Circuit.
A. L. Mitchell, Solicitor, Athens, Ga.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
J. it. M. Wlliburn, Ordinary ; John L. Gaines,
Sheriff: J. F. Duckett, Deputy Sheriff; J. J. Mayor,
Clerk Superior Hour,; W 8. Pickrcll, Deputy tiler,
Superior Court ; N. It. Clark, Tax Collector'; J R.
H- Luck, fax Receiver; Gideon Harrison, .Sur
veyor ; Edward i.owry, Coroner ; R. u. Young,
Treasurer.
CITY GOVERNMENT.
,Dr. 11. S. Bradley, Mayor.
Aldermen Dr. H. J. Long, W. 11. Clements, T.
A. Panel, W. 11. Henderson,W. U. Henderson,
T. K. Merck.
A. B. C. Dorsey, Clerk;.l. R. Boone, Trroasmer; T.
N.Hattie, Marshal; Henry Perry, City Attorney.
onoiicu nittKinoßY.
I'KK'iHyrkuian Uhuhcii Ruv. T. I'. I lovelaml,
' Pastor. Proaoliini' every Halihath - morning ami
nlglit, exc|>l tho second SaMiutli. Su day school,
at tl a. m. Prayer lueetiin; Wednesday eveiiiiieati
o’clock.
MKTUoi>iHT(!niri<ctl -Rev. W. W. Wadsworth. Baa
tor. Preaching every Sunday morning and night.
'Sunday School at !l a. m. l’rayer ludetin;' Wednes
day night.
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I Pruauhlng Sunday inorniiu; and nighi. Sunday
* School at*J a. ni Prayer luoeltno Thursday ovenis;*
at 4 o’clock.
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77IJVEE TABLE.
Taking effect Monday, June 10, 1878. All
trains ran daily except Sunday.
TK AI !N TVO. I.
STATIONS. jAUKIVK. jI.I’.AVK.
i I A. M.
Athens j 700
Center 7 '2l 722
Nicholson 7 80[ 7 30
Harmony Grove, 750 807
Maysvillo. 827 832
Gillsvillo &40 850
Lula | 015
TH AI IN ML t.*,
STATIONS. | ARRIVE jI.EAVIC.
r. M
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Gillsville | 5 421 545
Maysvillo (> 02 008
Harmony Grove (i 30 <V 40
Nicholson 7 011 707
Center 7 22j 725
Athens j 7 45|
LAW CARD.
CAREY W. STYLES. JAMES U. VINCENT.
STYLKS & VINCENT,
Attorneys anil Counselors at Law,
Canton, Cherokee County, Oeoryia,
Will practice in the Superior Courts of the
Blue llidpe circuit, and of Bartow. Gordon
and Hall; iu all the courts of Cherokee
county; in the United States District and
Circuit courts for the Northern District ot
Georgia, and in the Supreme Court of Geor
gia. Land cases and criminal law made
specialties, id and alt business entrusted hy
mail or at office, will be promptly attended
to. April 10, 1878-tf
\V. E. STHVKNB,
Attorney nt Law,
Gainesville, Ga.
Will practice in Hall and surrounding
counties. Prompt attniitiou given to all
business entrusted to him.
Thesgainesville Eagle.
VOL X]L
rut ED.
Dear God, I rim so weiuv of it all,
I fain would rr-st me lor a little space,
Are there 110 great rooks Where, the shadows
fail
That I may cast lue dpwtt and hide my
facpV
l work and strive, sore Imrdeiied and afittid,
The rdad is flinty and the way is long.
And the weak stuff wLereby my s eps are
stayed.
Dfci.ds like a ret and when bitter winds are
strong. •
ibn lofty thought proves fjnitless in the
(!• a nd;
ihe prize I toil lor seems a glittering lie !
ihere is no comtort tor mv present need,
Nogtierdoa promised for tuturi’y.
1 shrink in terror from the endless task,
f look with liorior on the barren land,
And ask, as only hopeless hearts can ask,
The meaning of my days to understand!
iVasliiimlim Letter.
Washington, I). C., July 27, 1878.
Thursday was the second day of
Mr. Pol tor's Committee at Atlantic
City and the last day of'the sub-com
mittee at New Orleans. It was the
most memorable day since the com
mittee was organized. At New Or
leans Major Burke testified that in
the time preceding March 4, 1877, he
was tho authorized agent at Wash
ington of Gov. Nicholls, of Louisiana
Ife gives in detail the bargaining he
had with Matthew's, Foster, Sher
man and Dennison, four Ohio friends
of Hayes and the endorsement of
bargaining prior to March 4, by
Hayes himself, by which Packard
was to be abandoned and two Demo
cratic Senators from Louisiana to bo
secured in consideration of Burke
and his friends using their influence
to secure the inauguration of flayts
Important as this is, in that it is
indisputable proof of a’corrnpt bar
gain on the paitbf Hayes for tho
Presidency, I consider tho develop
ments at Atlantic City of greater real
moment. The Republican Visiting
Statesmen, including Sherman, Kel
ley and''Garfield, used up Wednesday
in swearing to their pious and suc
cessful c Aorta to bo virtuous in New
Orleans. Ou Thursday morning
Sherman took the Gaud again, and
repeated the same sickening story of
virgin purity in his and his associ
ates’conduct.' But during bis testi
mony there came out two of the
most remarkable letters never writ
ten. The first is from Sherman to
Hayes, the former being in New Or
leans aud the latter at bis boiuc im
OiliF--- They wore written while (be
■’lrtnrnuL *p u
votes. Up to that time Sherman
had not written Hayes, as nothing
ho did not feel competent to uudtr
take had so far occurred. But when
tho count bad proceeded far enough
and 1 Democratic votes enough had
been thrown out, as was supposed,
to elect the Hayes electors, it was
discovered that two of those electors
had been lift off the ticket in vari
ous parishes aud inn fur behind
the rest of the ticket. Further
throwing out, altogether unprovided
for, would be necessary if those two
electors were to be counted iu. It
was then that Sherman, the coldest
blooded man living, the most un
scrupulous and the b ddest of politi
cians, became frightened and wrote
to his principal. The previous job,
wicked as it. was, had been foreseen
and provided for. The calculations
had been made and the work com
pleted. The letter of Sherman was
written immediately on discovering
the new danger, aud is at once an
argument to quiet his own conscience
and that of Hayes in tho perpetra
tion of the new villainy, and a whin
ing suggestion that Hayes’ approval
is needed before the work is com
menced. That approval came
promptly and may be summarized as
follows: “I appreciate the situation
and the work you have to do. On a
fair vote I should have had 40 elec
toral votes in the South. Go on
with the job. Be honest.”
These are the letters of an un
scrupulous but frightened rogue,
and an unscrupulous, ambitious aud
weak man. They are more eloquent
of fraud than all tho positive testi
mony that could bo piled in the
space between Louisiana and Ohio.
Senator Burnside is over in West
Virginia at one of the delightful
summer resorts in that unconstitu
tional State, figuring away at army
re-organiz ition. If he and those
who sympathize wi ii him wished to
reduce the army, what a proper man
he would be for a leader. How
whole brigades would melt out at
sight, and the army become a “skele
ton” army in a sense not thought of
by those who now call it so. But
happily Burnside can barm the gal
lant body now only by adding to the
confusion that exists within it. He
cannot hurl it as of old against other
troops imprcguably intrenched and
just as brave.
By an unhappy oversight during
the last days of Congress, a bill was
passed which practically removes ail
restrictions as to fees of claim agents
iu pension cases, and turns over to
the tender mercies of unscrupulous
men the di abled soldiers and their
widows aud orphans who seek the
benefit of the pension laws. This
shows the folly of attempting legisla
tion in the hurry of a closing session.
Congress intend, and the exact opposite
of what it did. The first work of the
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING. AUGUST b. 1878.
j next session sbould'be to restore tl o
old law, which was entirely safe and
was satisfactory’ to all parties*-
<, Don.
>acoocliee Valley.
M e clip the following from the
Chronicle and: Constitutionalist, of a re
cent date: “The graphic letter from
Clarkesville, Ga ,to the Boston Ad
or User, signed “G. R. 5.,” and re
produced in the Chronicle & Constitu
tionalist, was read, I am sure, with
much pleasure by the mass of your
readers. As containing the impres
sions of an intelligent and traveled
Northern gentleman in regard to the
climate, soil aud scenery of the
mountain stefiou of our Statf, it pos
sesses uuusual interest.. Mr. S.
characterizes the climate as superior
to that of the Adirondaeks or tho
White Mountains; some of the moun
tain views, he says, are finer than
anil he has beheld elsewhere in this
country; whilst in ‘grandeur and
picturesque wildness” the gra'nd
chasm at Tallulah ‘surpasses any
thing he has ever before seen.’ That
‘there is nothing in Swifz aland, the
Tyrol or New Hampshire of the pe
culitr character of this Fall.’ Tuis
is certainly high praise; but any one
who has visited Tallulah, and looked
upon its titauie scenery will readily
believe that it is deserved. There is
one feature of the scenery of North
east Georgia, however, that Mr. S
says ‘has au extensive local roputa
lion,’ which he thinks, ‘unlike Tal
lid .h, is not particularly well deser
ved.’ He is evidently somewhat dis
appointed in Nacoochee Valley. The
writer, who has spent days at a time
in this valley, with a delighted appre
ciation of its charms, can but think
that lie must have seen it under un
favorable conditions. If, for instance
he saw it under the glare and blaze
of a mid-day sun with no floating
clouds to soften and mitigate its rays;
or if, as is not improbable, he visited
it when the grain was matured arid
harvested, and the grass aud clover
mown, I can understand how he
might not have particularly admired
Nacoochee. Few landscapes, indeed
are so beautiful as not to suffer se
riously under such severe tests. I
have myself seen Nacoochee under
circumstances such as described,
when it appeared almost common
place. Bub I have looked upon it
again, in certain conditions of the at
mosphere, with clouds casting their
lights and shadows over the val|ey
and the surrounding mountains,
when to my eye, it was surpassingly
lovely. But Nacoochee is seen at its
best, as the sun is setting with clouds
of brilliant and ever changing hues
crowniDg the western mountains;
'•nd as tbo mellowing, softening in
fluenco of approachiug twilight de-
valley.
1 TTTtoy * uf\Rr Vr ou , CJ? * l v
S. (who, I believe, is still * 'fi/' au. up
county), the writer would recom
mend him to visit tho ‘Evening Star’
again; and should he have the good
fortune to see her as I have S9eu her,
arrayed ami surrounded by Nature’s
brightest and fairest adornments, it
is believed he will pronounce her
scarce inferior, if not quite equal to
the most famous Mohawk and Con
necticut Valleys.”'
Solid Thunks ol‘ I’liilosophy.
“Gem len,” said Brother Gardner,
as he rose up and placed his hands
on a copy of “Tne Great Orators of
Madagascar”—“gem’len, de ole wo
man war out to deliber de washin’ de
odder night, and I drapped over to
sec do Widder Johnsing for’a few
miuits. I sat down on the frunt
steps in de deepnin’ twilight, an’
while de skeetars sailed a roun’ frew
de sleepy atmosfere, I axed de wid
der why it was dat de man who
does de moas’ blowiti aboui ds hard
times htz de leas’ to lose by a panic;
an’ siie showed de gold filin’ kt her
teef ez she sweetly replied:
“Misser Gardner, dar will be tatar
bugs jes’ ez long ez da - am taturs.”
“De sof’cioivls saile l acrois the
azure surface of the bevfiiful moon,
and I axed de widder why da church
preachers stood up in deir pulpits an’
wept ober th i heathens in China, but
forget to even heave a sigh ez day
passed base ball, and >g fiffGs, jumping
matches, an’ nayborhood rows ou
dair way home; mil de widder she
shined up her brass rings wi l her
apron and’ replied:
“Misser Gardner, all butchers may
be honest, but all butcher scales may
not weigh sixteen ounces to the ponn.
It am powerful easy fur ns, to fin’
fault wid odd *r people's uoses, an’
jes’ like us t > forgit dat deeudi of
our own turn up.”
“I sat dar, in de increasin' dark
ness, feelin’ a goneness for de want
of a sweet turnip to eat, au’ I axed
de widder why de man who doan’
mean to squar up wid his grocer
am jis de chap who finds fault wid
de size of a quart measure au’ she
dodged a pinch-beetle an’ replied:
“Misser Gardner, dis wornlii am so
constitooted dat de dog which barks
de loudest gits ds moas’ baaes.
Money am powerful good, ole man,
but de nex’ bes’ling to it am a pTr
o. lungs an, plenty of surface between
and e eye an’ de chin ! ’
“ Gem’len, iz soon ez de ice gojs
outen de river an' I git a little time
to link, I’ze gwine to dwell on sech
fobs ez do above an’ figger up coneiu
shuns wid a soft pencil.”
Obituary I’m-try.
In marked contrast to the ridicu
lous obituary versos, sometimes gen
uine and sometimes spurious, that go
the rounds of the press, is the follow
ing really touching little poem,
which we clip from the Detroit Frea
Press:
A lily broken by the rain,
Before a single e wthly stain
Has on its velvet whiteness lain;
A snowy bird that close caressed
By the soft, brooding mother breast,
Dares yet forsake the sheltering rest,
And straight, before its silver wings
Have ever stoop and to baser things,
Flies up to heaven, and Hying sings.
These and all other pure and mild
And lovely objects umletUed,
Are types of wuat thou my child !
,Tho ‘‘Organ;/ d.” .
Wo call the especial attention of
those of our Democratic friends who
do not readily see the dangers o the
Independent movement and its cer
tain results to the subjoined ringing
editorial, from that sound and solid
Democratic journal, the Savannah
News. ■ Our c mtemporary might also
have added that in Memphis, Tenn ,
the last one of the Independents has
formally joined the National Party*
Here is the article:
“It is not uncommon to sea iu the
Independent organs of this and oth
er States remarks in the nature of
sneers at “the organizid.” Snch re
marks are not ouly ungrateful, but
ip very bad taste.
What is it that is meant by the
term “the oiganized?” Simply the
Democratic party, and we would in
fer from the remarks of these or
gans that they considered it unpatri
otic and blameworthy 10 be c’iaieflel
with the only organization to which
we are this day indebted for freedom
of speech and the blessings of home
rule in the South.
Suppose that, in the days of carpet
bag rule iu Georgia, when alien en
emies and political adventurers with
United States bayonets aud venal
United Stales Marshals at their
backs carried matters with a high
baud, the Democratic party had not
been “organized Y” Suppose when
these men plundered the Treasury
and recklessly involved the tax-pay
ers of our State in debt in order that
they might fill their carpet-bags with
iil-gotteu gains and retire to the.'r
Northern homes flushed with wealth
wrung from the h ml earnings of our
people, there had not baa l union and
harmony in Democratic ranks?
Suppose that then tho disorganize
tion and independence, falsely so
called, which these organs now so
strenuously advocate, bad prevailed
in the ranks of the people of the
State, and continued to the present
day; \vhat would Lie our condition
now ? The answer is plain. Oar
enemies aud plunderers would still
bo holding high carnival amongst us.
Our people would still be hopelessly
involved in the toils of poverty and
debt, our State would still be, in all
probability, the plaything and prey
of unprincipled Radical adventurers
and thieves. Instead of having en
joyed for rnauy years the blessings of
freedom and prosperity, we would be
even now ground down to the dust,
and instead of our State bonds com
manding a premium, we would be
bankrupt and our credit would be
hopelessly destroyed. Yet it is the'
Democratic party which checked and
effectually warded off these curses,
and in has given us
. I t ..,
•‘independent/ sutler? A.;ly^ia ; I
ludo to as “the “organised-*, 5,
In the dark days of carpet-bag;
plunder and l ..yonet rule, to which
we hive alluded, p/rty organization
was not only recognized, but was ac
knowledged to be a necessity as a
moans of self-preservation. Those
who imagine that because Georgia is
now strongly Democratic that neces
sit.y no longer exists, are greatly mis
taken. A great deal* depends upon
the political complexion of the next
House. Tho Radicals are making
strenuous efforts to capture it, and if
they should succeed, it will be their
hirst step towards establishing a one
man power under Grant. Tney
know that Grant, as a Presidential
candidate, cannot bo elected by the
people. They trust, however, that
with three tickets in the field-—the
Democrats, the Radicals, and the
Nationals—tho election will be thrown
into the House, and i } that House be
Radical, Grant will bo the next and
in all probability the last President
the social system by producing nure
of one class of laborers than is called
for, and diminishing the production
of another, the consequence is disor
der, disappointment and misery.
Tho State itself trains its children
for a department of service in which
only a small part of them c m be em
ployed. It disqualifies a large part
of its children for that service in
which they are largely required.
This makes misery.
There is no sphere of honest labor
that is not re-pectable. And if the
children of the people are not forced
by hot-house education in o seeking
employment iu spheres which are
thought to be more genteel than
such as are called menial, thousands
who are now struggling or starving
for want of adequate employment
would be earning a sure and respec
tab:' support iu an honest employ
ment.
Grant In Fit rope.
John Russell Young, whom Gree
ley discharged from the 'Tribune for
dishonesty, is in Europe with Grant
—employed to travel with him—to
aid in grooming him for a Presiden
tial candidate for a third term —to
write Ins speeches for him, and then
send them to the New York Herald
The Pennsylvania Rings are support
ing this job, and they are fitting
Grant for 1880. The investment will
pay them richly if they can make
it successful, and the United States
Treasury will bear the burden.
Grant made a speech at Hamburg
ou the 4th of July, where he was en
tertained. Young has sent the
speech to the Herald. Everybody in
this couutry knows that Grant never
wrote aDV such speech. In it Young,
for Grant, states that he (Grant)
takes no credit for saving the Union
—that if he had fallen there were
10,000 others as cvpable of carrying
tho armies to victory. Ha gives
| credit to the young men of tho couu
-1 try w r ho fought the battles. All this
!is true enough. Grant was by no
means the ablest General. He
seemed to c ire no more for 10,000
human lives than if the men were so
many leaves of the forest. His vic
tories were dearly won, and with an
abler commander-in-chief they could
have bee,n won with much less losi of
life.
Labor Liberia.
News and Courier pt the 27th, its Li
berian correspondent, Mr. A. B. Wil
liams, describes the labor situation
there as follows:
It may be more of ;he “sarcasm of
fat -,” but exactly the state of affairs
exists here now as I imagine made
slave labor necessaj/ iu America.
That is, every mm js a landholder,
an owner and an- --qwil. No lower
classes have yet come in to do the
manual work. There servants,
and servants are a except
in an imaginative jujJPliss’ Utopia
A few of the poorer I< beriaus hire
out, but they are, a* good as their
hirers, and consi' ( t' ie utly matters
don’t work smooth!/ ' All such “ser
vants” are addr. JB3,, and l*y everybody
as “Mr” and “M It sounds fun
ny to hearlihe Duster of the house
say, “Miss e a glass of wat?r,
please ” When* I called on the
President, I ask: “Mr.
RoSh, will you the wine?’’
This is, of course.-a igiV-Lhiadrancs
to the cultivation of iand ou any ex
tensive scale, especipN when there
are no horses. It if amps fearfully
the sugar much anil
cheap labor is sable at times.
So, disguise it as Lpqy will the Libe-
rians nave 10 ucpauu ou siave lauor,
at last, for it c irnff) to that. They
hire from a native king a certain
number of his superstition-bound
slaves for so muifi rum, so many
brass kettles, iron * bars and guns,
and so much calieonaid to him. The
“hands” work well and are faithful
anil obedient until the king, through
caprice or having j beeu paid, aud
wanting them to cult rice, semis or
ders *0 them to v me back. Then
they leave'in a body, just maybe, as
the planter them most, and
the Lbiriau gpUrnment is too
weak to enforce tin) performance of
contracts made vuth its citizens.
One secret of my friend Sharp's sue
cess I was told isythat lie makes au
excellent quality of rum, with which
he pays a king A>r“iielp,” and is
shrewd enough fe> keep on good
terms with the potentate by sending
him au extra caskjlow and then. In
this way lie anil a others manage
to secure labor A-Dhen they want it
for their 50, 10,T tuffi 150 acre farm '.
One of a 1,000 though, it
would bo difiuulfr to work here.
There are some comparatively free
natives who hire cheaply, but they
are unreliable and ft-pt to “knock off’’
and go at any time- You can pick
up a few always, enough to man your
canoe or do odd Dbq and if you
treat them kindly, juey will hire out
.to you again, and do any kind of
work They cannot bo depended
upon in any numbar,
however. aii££ J al ’ e abjectly
afraid of maa > having an
quaed tb^ ea from the
. . . .i|not only an it*-*.
x -’U.vA rti on'
'tfcfoajp-; 1; "!*'•■ •j'&JKwil months*’
*pL acquaintance fh%aff■
reconciled to the Caucasian.' The 11
util ss he b3 a b istard to the time
who doth not smack of observation,
they like him ab ivo all and will give
him the preference in hiring. These
natives will take anything, and the Li
berians (who “fhd here from the
slaveholder’s lash’) do not scruple
to administer unto them a thrashing
when provoked thereto. The native
frequently discerns’ the auger in his
employer’s face and the st'ek in his
hand, au 1 precipitately takes to
flight., leaving,j if necessary, like Jo
seph, his garUvAiit in the hands of the
pursuer. AU the revenge he ever
takes is to quit aud go homo. It
must be an mspirating spectacle to.
see what was described to me in au
incidental way by the chief actor
himself, a free black nativeffaan with
a stick, while tWo more free black
native men were flying over the
neighboring hedges to avoid similar
instigation, the three free black na
tives having bean caught in the act
of dragging abig of rice through
the mu 1. Such things make me
weep when I think that Wendell
Phillips was not there.
The Gay Gondoliers.
Poets and romancers have given
the gondolier the character of a gay
aud airy specimen of humanity, w T ho
does nothing but laugh and sing and
overlliw with animal spirits, a kind
of a troubadour, who keeps time with
his oar, and plays with it as if it were
the strings of a guitar. But they
are in reality the hack drivers of
Venice, aud they are generally just
about as jovial and good-natured as
the gentleman who can be found on
Barnum’s corner. They are by law
only allowed to charge twenty cents
for the use of their vehicles, unless
there are two gondoliers, and then it
is forty cents per hour. The price is
so shamefully low that visitors, espe
cially Amermans, cheerfully give
double these rates, and they make
themselves very obliging and accom
modating to strangers for this reason.
There are thousands of gondolas
constantly in motion for business or
pleasure, and they have their regular
stand- 1 , the same as the hackmeu
have with us. There are a great
miny private families that keep their
own gondolas, which cau be seen em
erging from some of the small canals
as soon as the sun goes below the
Grand Canal, with the ladies and
children iu them, and a gayly attired
gondolier plying the oar. The law
requires all these craft to bs painted
black, but the private ones are richly
ornamented with gay curtains and
plaited standards. The dress of the
private gondolier is usually white,
trimmed with green, blue or yellow,
wearing silk sashes, and a straw hat
with fl iwing ribbon. The dress of
the regular gondolier is also pre
scribed by law—white, with blue sash
ane trimmings, but most of them
disregard thi-> requirement, and ap
pear in ordinary attire.
There are also omnibus gondolas,
carrying from six to twelve p -rsons,
with three or four gondoliers. Tho
price upon these is about five cents
per hour for each person. Small
steamers run hourly to tho outer is
lands, at which bathing establish
ments are located.— Halt. American,
Educating: too Much.
Prof. Monier Williams, in his book
on “Modem India aud the Indians,’’
gives a hint in regard to popular
education that we iu the United
States might take, if it not be too
late. He cautions against too much
education, as tending -to reuder
young men unwilling, if not unfit, to
pursue the trades of their fathers.
He holds that offering to all children
au a Lanced education tempts them
to seek their livelihood by some
other tbau manual employments,
and so disturbs the working of the
natural law of supply and demand.
You enforce upon the labor market
a host of educated men for whom
there is uothiug to do, and von de
prive the country of workmen greally
needed.
In this country we see the influ
ence of this sytara in such results.
Our public schools now give to the
children of the poor, and to the
great middle class, an education that
includes ornamental and many other
branches. Children who have had
a course of lessons in these studies
are not willing to go from school to
making baskets or brogans. And
they can find nothing to do in the
line of business for which they r are
now fitted. They want situations in
stores, banks, or professions. These
places are tilled. There is no de
maud for clerks or lawyers. The
supply is greater than the demand.
If an advertisement calls for a yonng
man to fill a situation in an office
or store, a troop answers the call.
But in vain is the search for ap
prentices to a trade. No one wants
to work who can get his living by his
wits. If parents educate children at
1 heir own expense, and then cannot
find congenial employment for them,
the fault is with tfie parents. But
if the State, at the expense of the
tax payers, supports a system of edn
oation that destroys tho balance of
of the United States.
It does not require a mind of very
deep research to appreciate the ne
cessity of party unity and harmony
under these circumstances. There
will bo needed in the lower House of
the f n ty-sixth Congress, to be chosen
this fall, of pure, uncompromising
Democrats —men under no obliga
tion to Radicals for their election,
and who can, therefore, under all
circumstances, bo relied ou to vote
for and uphold Democratic meas
ures. Now, as much as ever, there
fore, party unity, which means uarty
strength, should be the one thing to
be determined on. Let tho voters of
this State and the South at large,
whenever they read sneers and jeers
at “tbe organized’’ or “the Bourbon
Democracy,” ponder seriously over
these things. Your “Independent’’
would in reality- sacrifice the best in
terests of State ahd party to his sel
fish aud ambitiou's ends and aims.
,ludependentisrn L nothing more
.id, di£-
Times ad Is to :
criminal record an account of pet
baps the ryost audacious crime ever
perpetrated in this country. It ap
pears that tome mouths since a mar
ried lady of Boston, of great refine
ment and beauty, and occupying a
prominent social position, had been,
visiting friends in tile inte
rior of this State, and when leaving
took a drawing room car ou the New
York Central Railroad for Albany.
There her husband awrfiffed her.
Two villians followed. iut<> the car,
probably attracted by tifff .valuable
jewelry she wore, and when the con
ductor approached the lady for tick
ets informed him that they were
her friends, that she was deranged,
and that thev had unfortunately been
selected to convey her to the Utica
Asylum. In spite ot her protesta
tions and appeals for protection, the
scoundrels succeeded iu convincing
the conductor and passengers of the
truth of their story and removed the
lady from the cars at Utica, she
swooning as the train moved away.
She was then lifted into a coach,
chloroformed, takeu to a house of ill
repute, outraged, and robbed of jew
elry and clothing. Tne husband
learned of his wife’s alleged insanity
when the train arrived at Alb my,
and procuring a special engine, star
ted for Utica without delay. Upon
arriving, a few inquiries enabled him
to find the disreputable house where
his wife had been taken, aud there he
found her lying-upon a bed, aluipst
stripped of clothing and her tmnd se
riously injured by her terrible expe
rience. No names are given, from
considerations of delicacy. Tne hus
band has made overy effirt consis
tent with privacy to discover the
fiends, but so far without avail.
The I'ps aud Downs of Life.
A Florida traveler has recently in
terviewed J ahn Tyler, the son of the
ex-iLesident, aud who, when Execu
tive Secretary, was called junior. He
is now an old man and iu great pov
erty. His brother Robert is dead,
bat the survivor stated that his sis
ter, a maiden ladv, was the inmate
of a home founded at Washington by
George Corona. Tne ex-Presi
dent’s namesake retains all the court
ly manners which so distinguished
toe successor of General Harrison,
and the father who gave to his party
as much trouble as H lyes is now
giving to his. Tus Florida inter
viewer emphasizsd this new and re
markable instance of the ups and
downs of mortality. Toe grand
father of the present John Tyler aud
of his sister was a Revolutionary pa
triot and Virginia ’statesman of re
nown. There ip a large county iu
Virginia bearing the family name.
His own father was President and
himself rather a haughty inmate of
the White Heuse family, yet he has
at many times during the past ten
years scarcely known where to ob
tain to-morrow’s bread and his sister
is the pensionaire of a home.
A gentleman has introduced the
Japanese persimmon into California.
It is said to baa very fine fruit,
weighing a pound.
Hatile Caused by lira >Ve k*s Washii'g.
Hostilities have been resumed at
Adrianople, this tithe by the women.
The cause of war was the week s
washing. A.Russian officer and his
wife were quartered in the house of
a Greek merchant named Youannou.
One day the Greek’s wile entered the
room occupied by the Russian lady,
and was about removing a white ta
ble-cloth for the purpose of having it
washed. The officer's wife objected
to the table-cloth being laken away.
Thereupon they quarreled, one speak
ing in Greek the other in Russian,
neither understanding a word ol the
other’s language. There was a strug
gle for the possession of the table
cloth, and the Greek lady was about
gaining the day, when the Russian
lady rushed from the laoru and com
plained to her husband that sUe had
been assaulted. The cffi v'r remon
strated with the Greek lady .'*> strong
language, aud she replied th.'t he
was not a gentleman. Tub inspect w
arrived, and the Greek lad, - was re
quested to go quie’ly to the police
station. She refused to obey, but
ultimately was led away by the po
lice. The women of the quarter be
cam i so enraged that they rushed
up. u the gendarmes, rescued her,
and carried her in triumph to her
house. In the skirmish the lady
fainted. The gendarmes followed
her back to the house, and contented
themselves with gu mling the door
of the room. Meanwhile her bus
band had been summoned, but on
his arrival the soldiers refused to al
low him to enter the room. Ho was
told that his wife had insulted the
Russian lady, but that if an ;• oology
were offered it would be accepted.
The apology was at once given by
Youannou, who wisely lhought.it, was
the best course he could adopt to re
store tranquility to his household.
The Autocrat of (he Sanctum.
There is nothing like being a bloat
od autocrat of the sanctum, while
next door one hears the poor labor
ing man toiling at nine-pins in a
bowling alley. The editor toils not,
and neither does lie spin, and yet
Mrs. Jenks in all her glory is not ar
rayed like one of these. ' While all
humanity is sweltering and swearing
—and wondering where thev can
hang up the bar tender for a glass of
beer—the editor has nothing to do.
Two or three columns of editorial to
write, and no pitch hot; two or three
hundredtof exchanges to read through;
as many bores to bouuee, letters to
answer, manuscripts t > rwad till one
can not tell Baglish from- ,S inset it—
this is mere bagatelle, wheu the
thermometer is on the ragged edge
of the nineties As we sai l before,
the editor heartily despises m ui
who works for a living, ami listens
with sardonic satisfaction to the
sound from the bowling alley next
•’ ” -man slaves and
rug ■=_ a. ,
aßyjrast to
A 'mot ~ fc... —. k
A. Douglas never lived'.
ity for both work and play was"
boundless. An illustrative story,
beariugyppon this point, is told of
his eeati&g himself in the lap of Bev
erly Tucker on a certain occasion and
exclaiming in his impulsive way,
“Bev, old boy,-1 love you ’ “Doug
las,” says Tucker, “will you always
love me?” “Yes,” says Douglas, “1
will.’’ “Bu-t,” persisted Tucker, “will
yon love me when y>u get to be
President?’•’ “[f I don’t, may I> e
damned!’ says Dougins “Whit
do youtwant me to do for von?’
“Well,”'says Tucker, “wheu you get
to be President .all I want, yon to do
for me is to pick som public place
ted put your arm irronnd mv neck,
just as you are doing how, and call
me Bov! ” Cos a r'u :r-Journal:
Caarles Rsade is (11 years old; Ja
cob Abbott, 75; Edmond About, JO;
William T. Adams (Oliver Optic),
SG; A. B. Alcott, 78; T. B. Aldrich, 42;
Berthold Auerbach, 00; George
Bmcroft, 78; Robert Browning, GG;
Carlyle, 83; S. L Clemens (Mark
Twaiu), 43; G. W. Curtis, 54; R. H.
Diua, 91; Hepvvorth Dixon, 57;
Emerson, 75; J. A. Fronde, GO; W.
E. Gladstone, 69; Bret Aarte. 39; J.
G. Holland, 59; Dr. Holmes, G 9; Ju
lia Ward Ilowe, 59; Tuomas Hughes,
55; 11.l 1 . H. Huxlev, 53; George Eliot,
58; Longfellow, 71; Benson J. Dos
sing, Go; Donald G. Mitchell, 58;
Max Muller, 55; James Parton, SG;
Mayoe Ried, GO; Renan, 55; Raskin,
59; John G. Saxe, G 2; Mrs. Stowe,
GG;Tennyson, 69; Authonv Trollope,
G3; Whittier, 71; Wilkie Collins, 53;
Swinburn, 41; Wm. Black, 37; M. F.
Tapper, G 8; C. D. Warner, 49; W. D.
Howells, 41.
Independent candidates are an in
vention of the enemy. Their first
act is to turn against their own po
litical household. They profess al
legiance to the principles of the dem
ocratic party and rely upon radicals
for support. Tney are for self. Like
the Ishmaelite V heir hands are raised
ag linst . other men. Tney have no
right to f xpsct the support of either
party. They can not be friends to
the democratic party, because they
are trying to break down organiza
tion, one of its main pillars of sup
port. They cauuot be friends to the
radical party, because they denounce
the principles of that party.— 1157.50n
{N. C.) Advance.
A practical joker, a prudent man
withal, has gone to a cafe and order
ed a three-masted schooner of beer,
when a friend appears at the door
aud beckons to him to go out for a
minute. The intending drinker is
afraid that in his absence someone
may get way with the liquid, when a
happy thought strikes him, and he
wraps round the handle of the mug
a scrap of paper inscribed: “I have
spit in this!’’ With a light heart he
hastens to the door, communicates
with bis friend, and returns to Had
written in another hand beneath his
warning: “S > have I!” —New York
World.
Floating Feathers.
♦ • ♦
Of the 5,000 voters iu Lvtin, Mass.,
about 3 sbo are shoemaketn
“Will you love me whsu I mould ?’
as the loaf of bread said to the
housekeeper.
Subscriptions to the four per cent,
loan for the four months ending July
31st vote $39,839,950.
The S nth Ciroliua Democrats on
Thursday renominated Gov. Hamp
ton and the entire S,ate ticket. The
platform of 1870 was adopted.
L neoln, Eiber\ Greene, and Ogle
thorpe counties, send Stephens dele
gates to tha Eighth District Conven
tion, lnakiug eleven couuties in all.
The rema’kab e solicitude display
ed by the supporttrs of the Speer
candidate, lest the late Democratic
C’oiiveil ion iu this district should
ngre < to disigrte, was sourn thing
mui velous to behold.
“What we want, is work and pay
for doiug it,” said the tramp. “What
kind of w:.rk ?" asked a bystander.
“Unloading schooners,’’ replied the
incipient, Communist —“beer schoon
ers.”— t'hicaqo Journal.
flO 31
St oh. wall Jackson’s cape of Con
federate cloth, which has several bul
let holes through it, is now among
the relics in the armory of New
York’s Old Gnatd. Col Williams, of
s’aff, having preserved the
garth‘-‘at meanwhile.
O ! Hotness, wbv art thou so much V
What have VS done, stuck oa this mun
dane i?pear,
That thou sbouicLt uso us such,
At this lime o’ the year? Urn?
Why shine at all? Why not let up awhile.
Aud not narbiil a man right through his tile?
7 Wiiton Gazelle.
It was a great shock to the Rev.
De Golver G irheld’s delicate nerves
t<> read, opposite his name in the ho
lt 1 register at Atlantic City, the fol
lowing lead pencil memorandum.
“There is more brass in this mans
cheek than will ever ba needed for
his monument ”
The latest sentimental agony in
songs is a tender ballad beginning:
“Who will come above me sighing
When the grass grows over me ?"
Wo can’t say positively who, but if
the cemetery fence is in the usual re
pair it will probably be the cow.‘—
Hawkeye:
Most of the Independents iu the
Southern end of this district need
considerable more white-wash on
their fvees before they can have
much to say about their Democratic
record. The Speer men ought to
continue to apply the wash until the
black fails to <show through.
Dr. McAlister, of Mississippi, has
invented anew gun which shoots foi;r,;i
thousand bullets per minute, 'slaw
shall now keep a close eye on Ib a J
telegraph news to see whether it w
rake the government over thij
weeks to arm all the Ind ians with lhS||
excellent weapon —Breakfast Tal)le.. Jjp
We learn from the Macon Tele
graph that, a very daring robbery of a
ko “ am uit of in the mails
oi G lorgia, has just been discovered.
The post-, ffiea officials and the de
tectives are actively engaged in their
investigations, aud in a few days will
develope the fall particulars to the^
üblic - -s'i 7 ; * *...
' renraitiing • -s— *- r ~
Bfc. ; sv'jSavauuab, Ahg'Mi’Ssth
i RtV; sf,-Camilla, September
5zE ; f*Disfri%t,
ber T iißfAurth District, B lEcesville,
September 12th; Sixth District, Mill-.
edgeville, September 4th-, Eightl\
District, Thomson, August 15th. ,
There is but one Democratic pa*,
ty in the State of Georgia, aud that*.
is the plain Democratic party. Thera
are two Republican parties, viz: The
Radical R party aud the
Independent Democratic (?) party
(so called). No use to gloss it over,
for without the Radical vote no In
dependent can be elected to Con
gress.—Montezuma Weeldy.
He was a C tzsoovia man aud ati
entire stranger to the girls present,
and the boys were mean and would
not introduce him. He finally pluck
ed up courage, and, stepping up to a
young lady, requested the pleasure of
her company for the next dance. Sho
looked at him in surprise, and in
formed him she had not the pleasure
of his acquaintance. “Weli,” remark
ed Cazenovia, “you don’t take any
more chances than I do.”
It is not in South Carolina alone
that the Federal and State authori
ties are in collison. In Missouri, last
week, a Sheriff arrested a Uaited
States Deputy Marshal on a warrant
issued by one of the Circuit Judges
of the State, only to be himself arres
ted by another Deputy Marshal on a
warrant issued by the United States
Commissioner in St Louis. He is
now at large on bail, and the Missour
ians are wondering who will be ar
rested next.
“Have you a card, sir?” asked the
door-keeper of the house. The man
looked a little suprised, and answer
ed: “Card? No! I don’t carry a
pack.” “Where are you from ?’’in
quired the door-keeper. “Nothe Car
liny’’ was the reply. “What do you
do down in North Caroliua when you
go visiting? Don’t you send a card
to the man you want to see ?” The
“tar-heel” laughed outright. “Lors
a-Massy! he exclaimed. “W’y, we
ride up to a feller s fence and holler
to him tie his dog; and then we
light and go in.’’
Keely’s motor has a rival in New
York, where Francis Winters, Jr.,
has invented a machine with two
chambers, a few pumps and valves,
into one cylinder of which water is
poured aud appears in another cylin
der as a gas, in whose odorless Game
the hand can be held without burn
ing it,which neither explodes nor gen
erates frictioD, heat or moisture, and,
while costing only half as much as
steam, it is claimed will do every
thing that steam can accompli-h. Its
inventor has organized a company,
with a capital of §19,030,000, one
eighth of which is already subscribed,
to manufacture the motor in New
York, and it is proposed to store it
in huge central reservoirs and conduct
it in pipes wherever it is wanted. If
it accomplishes half that is claimed for
it, it will be as much an improvement
on steam as that was on horse and
waterpower, but the public will be
incredulous till it sees the proof.—
Augusta Chronicle & Constitutionalist ,