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The Gainesville Eagle.
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GENERA L 1)1 RECTOR V.
JUDICIARY.
Uon. George D. Rice, Judge H. C. Western Circuit.
A. L. Mitchell, Solicitor, Athens, Ga.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
J. B. M. Wlnburn, Ordinary; John L. Gaines,
Sheriff; J. F. Duckett, Deputy Sheriff ; J. J. Mayne,
Clerk Superior Court; W. 8. Pickrell, Deputy Ctera
Wuperior Court ; N. B. Clark, Tax Collector ; -J R.
H. Luck, Tax Receiver; Gideon Harrison, Sur
veyor ; Edward Lowry, Coroner ; K. C. Young,
Treasurer.
CITY GOVERNMENT.
Dr. H. S. Bradley, Mayor.
Aldermen—Dr. H. J. Long, W. B. Clements, T.
A. Panel, W. H. Henderson,W. G. Henderson,
T. M. Merck.
A. B. O. Dorsey, Clerk; J. R. Boone, Trreasurer; T.
N.Uauie, Marshal; Henry Perry, City Attorney.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
Presbyterian Church— Rev. T. P. Cleveland,
Pastor. Preaching every Sabbath—morning and
night, except the second Sabbath. Sunday School,
at 9 a. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evoning at 4
o'clock.
MkthodistChurch—Rev. W. W. Wadsworth,Pas
tor. Preaching every Sunday morning and night.
Sunday School at ya. m. Prayer meeting Wednes
day night.
Baptist Church Rev. W. C. Wilkes, Pastor.
Preaching Sunday morning and night. Sunday
School aty a. m Prayer meeting Thursday evening
at 4 o’clock.
GAINESVILLE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.
,B. Estes, President; Henry Perry, Librarian.
YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.
A. M. Jackson, President; R. C. Maddox, Vice
President; W. B. Clements, Secretary.
Regular seryices every Sabbath evening at one
of the Churches. Cottage prayer meetings evory
Tuesday night iu “Old Town,” and Friday night
near the depot
FRATERNAL RECORD.
Flowery Branch Lodok No. 7U, I. O. O. TANARUS.,
meets every Monday night, Joel Lahetkr, N. G.
B. F. Hteduam, Sec.
Alleahany Royal Arch CHAPTER meets on the
Second and Fourth Tuesday evenings iu each
mouth.
H. 8. Bradley, See.’y. A. W. Caldwell, H. P.
Gainesville Lodok, No. 21>J, A. - . F.-. M.\,
meets m the First a ml Third Tuesday eveuing in
the mouth
U. Palmour, Sec’y. R. E Green, W. M.
Am-Lins Lodge, No. G 4 ,I. O. O. [F., meets
every Friday ovening.
0. A. Lilly, Sec. W. H. Harrison, N. G.
GAINESVILLE POST OFFICE.
Owing to recent change of schedule on tlie Atlan
ta amt Charlotte Air Line Railroad, the following
will be the schedule from date:
Mall train No. 1, going east, loaves 7:47 p. m.
"U“**closes at 7:00 “
Mail train N'cast, leaves R:35 a.••
No mail by this tram.
Mail train No. 1* going west, loaves (1:51 a. m.
Mail for this train closes at. 9:30 p. m.
Mail train No. 2, going west, lo .ves... .9:05 p. m.
Mail for this train doses at 7.30 “
Ottlco hours from 7 a. iu. to 5:30 p ni.
General delivery open on Sundays from B‘j to 0 '4.
Departure of mails from this office:
Dahlouega aud Giluier county, daily 8 q p. m
Dalilouega, via Wahoo and Ethel, Saturday...B qa. m
Jefferson & Jackson county, Tuesday, Thurs
day aud Saturday 7 a . m
Cleveland, White, Union, Towns aud Hayes
ville, N. C., Tuesdays and Fridays 7 a. m
Dawsonville aud Dawson county, ( Tuesday
aud Saturday 8 nl .
Homer, Banks county, Saturday 1 p. m
Pleasant Grove, Forsyth county, Saturday.. t p.m
M. R. ARCHER, P.M.
Atlanta and Charlotte
AIK-liIJN Jhi,
Passenger Trains will run as follows on ami
after
SUNDAY, JUNE !>, 187S.
MAIL TRAIN, DAILY.
GOING EAST.
Leave Atlanta ‘2.40 p. ni;
I.eavo (iaiuesville 4:st> p. m.
Arrive Charlotte 2:20 a. m.
GOING WEST.
Leave Charlotte 1:18 a. ni.
Leave Gainesville 0:55 a. in.
Arrive Atlanta 12:00 m.
ACCOM'N TR A I IN.
(Daily except Sunday.)
GOING EAST.
Leave Atlanta 5:00 p. ni.
Leave Gainesville 7:52 p. ni.
Arrive Belltou 8:35 p. in.
GOING WEST.
Leave Bellton 5:00 a.m.
Leave Gainesville 5:41 a. m.
Arrive Atlanta 8:30 a. in.
Local Freight and Accommodation
Train.
(Daily except Sunday.)
GOING EAST.
Leave Atlanta 7:00 a. ni.
Leave Gainesville 12:17 p. in.
Arrive Central 7:10 p. m.
GOING WEST.
Leave Central 4:40 a. ni.
Leave Gainesville 11:50 a. ni.
Arrive Atlanta 4:30 p. ni.
Close connection at Atlanta for all points
West, and at Charlotte for all points East.
G. J. Fobeacre, General Mtnager
W. J. Houston, Gen. P. & T. A’gt.
Northeastern Railroad of Georgia.
TIME TABLE.
Taking effect Monday, June 10, 1878. All
trains run daily except Sunday.
TRAirT IVO. 1.
STATIONS. ARRIVE. LEAVE.
A. M.
Athens j 7 (X)
Center 721 j 7 2‘2
Nicholson 7 3(>| 730
Harmony Grove 750 807
Maysville 827 832
Gillsville 840 850
Lola I 915
TRAIN NO. '%*.
STATIONS. ARRIVE. LEAVE.
T. M.
Lula 25
Gillsville 542 545
Maysville 002 GOS
Harmony Grove 030 ti 40
Nicholson 701 707
Center 722 725
Athens 7 4o|
A Snug Little Farm for Sale.
Forty-eight acres, with 12 or 15 in cultiya
tion; a large branch running through it.
Upon the lot area lime-kiln and lime-quarry
Good lime has been burnt at this quarry.
Most of this land is within the city limits.
Inquire of J. B. Estes A Son, Attorneys,
Gainesville, Ga. juy26-tl.
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VOL. XII.
WASHING H-X I LIT EH.
Washington, D 0., Aug. 31, 1878.
Three-fourths of the candidates so
far Dominated for members of the
House of Representatives are new
men. Probably changes were never
so general before as they will be in
the membership of the next House,
unless when one of the two parties
from having a minority of the mem
bers, has secured a majority. The
Democrats have gone further than
the Republicans, and will suffer for
it in the next House. Immense
numbers of documents are being
sent from here by the Congressional
committees of the two parties. Those
of the Democratic committee have
been prepared with great care, arid
will no doubt do good. But the
best way to benefit any party is to
give a liberal support to its papers.
The weekly or daily paper which the
voter reads at all seasons of the year
does more for the success of the par
ty, if intelligently and honestly con
ducted, than all the speeches and
Biatistics that can be forced into
circulation during the campaign.
One reason is that these documents
are never sent out until the cam
paign is opened and men’s minds
are pretty well made up, while the
paper comes to him all the year
around. It appeals to him when he
is open to conviction. Your corres
pondent sees from week to week
some six hundred Democratic papers,
which are read, no doubt, by mil
lions of voters and young man who
will become voters, and cannot help
seeing in them the real means of
building up the party they repre
sent. It is clearly improper to sup
port papers by unnecessary govern
ment advertising or any other use of
government money, but. the individu
al citizen can and should by subscrip
tions and advertisements, help his
party and himself by helping its pa
pers.
Major Burke finished yesterday
telliug what he chose to tell of the
trade ho helped to make with the
representatives of Mr. Hayes, by
which trade or “bargain” Louisiana
was restored to her rights and
Messrs. Tilden and Hendricks wero
deprived of theirs and the country of
its rightful rulers. Unquestionably
Gov. Nicholls and those who acted
with him did wind; ilifsyr did ti’om tho
best of motives, but one canuot help
regretting that a different policy
was not pursued. A Mr. Home, who
was a Washington telegraphic cor
respondent of Hayes and his friends
during the bargaining, is now under
examination.
The people of this city, though
themselves poor, are contributing
very liberally to the cities suffering
from yellow fever. The movement
originated with our Jewish fellow
citizens, and is general. The masons
met last night, and all (lie lodges
subscribed and many individuals.
It has been proposed that the contri
butions of the various churches on
next Sunday, to-mnrrow, be given to
tho same. No case of the fever has
appeared here, and little alarm is
now l’elt. Don.
The Man Willi ail ! loin.
“Wan-an-item, mizzerv ’porter?”
Mr. J laporter was much astonished
to hear this remark issue from a
boozy individual whose whole ener
gies seemed to be concentrated in
holding up the corner drug store, and
thus preventing the awful calamity
of its falling over in the street and
killing hundreds of unsuspecting peo
ple.
“Gotta bully item. Gourd butch
ered awfully bv ’uox. Oh, awful 1"
and he slowly opened wide his sleepy
eyes in token of the awfuluess.
“Never heard of such a thing,” an
swered the skeptical scribe.
“Never heard of 'nox getting butch
ered by a gourd, eh? Well it-beats
all!” Then he gently shilted the
drug store around to his other shoul
der, and softly permitted his eyelids
to close again.
“Where did it happen, anyhow?”
queried the follower of Faber, scent*
iug an item afar off.
“Happen door yauner. Ri-tover
yauner.' Saying which the weary
man returned to support the build
ing with one hand, while he feebly
raised the other and points indefi
nitely.
“Hope may die ’n-a-minnte if I
ever saw such ’nox as that gourd
give that butcher,” and then he went
on rambling incoherently, tumbling
the ox over the gourd, and the
butcher over the ox, until the repor
ter was forced to shako him up to
clear his mind.
“Come, now, if you’ve got an item
let’s have it. What kind of knocks
did the butcher givo the gourd, any
how ?”
The boozy individual straightened
himself up with an air of injured dig
nity, and scowled upon His question
er:
“Whose item’s this anyhow? If
you can t take my word, go down to
Butcher Nolan, on Front street, ’n
ask him ’bout that ox that gored him.
You’re a pretty reporter, you are.
Go’n eafc-a-little fish,” and, assuming
a sickly smile of supremest contempt,
he again devoted his efforts to sup
porting the drug store, while tae
news gatherer went in search of the
butcher who had been gored by an
ox. —Cincinnati Star.
♦ ♦
The Marquis of Lome and the
Princess Louise are visiting their
German cousins prior to their depart
ure for Canada.
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER (J, 1878.
(ireiisHla’s Terrible Condition.
A letter written from Memphis on
the 19th of August gives a vivid de
scription of the condition of Grenada.
The writer fays that twelve houses
to the right and seven to the left of
his home were deserted, and four
hours together not a person was
stirring iu a once happy neigh
borhood. The groceries were closed,
nearly all of their proprietorshaving
fallen victims to the scourge. Being
assured by physicians that one who
has recovered from yellow fever is
ever exempt afterward, the writer
tried to find his acquaintances and
assist them. He Eays: “I saw at
least ten of them dead, and scores of
them dying, or slowly awaiting the
crisis of the epidemic. It was ap
palling to behold young and old wo
men huddled iu some
bling7 praying, sobbisjttue of the j en '
despairing g'ances in, 1
not know . 1 -r -j - -i
.((owing account*. laMic. s
]
iiiictr G, 6 i;LJ;’yt a qf.q’,:';
kindred seemed to have been too
frail to withstand the pressure of
fear and despair. The loved ones
were left in strange hands. Negroes
and negresses who had had the fever
proved very useful in some instances;
hut many of them took advantage ot
the situation, and asked exorbitant
compensation lor their services on
account of the scarcity of the How
ard nurses. I saw as many as three
white nurses seized with the ‘shakes,’
and even with vomiting while in the
discharge of their duties. Three
days ago I saw a man resting against
a wooden fence. I was about to pass
on, thinking he was only under the
iullueuce of drink, but hearing him
moan aud say, ‘Oh my God!’ I ap
proached him aud found that it was
unmistakably a case of yellow fever.
I assisted him to one of tho tents
near the police station, where I fear
he is to bo among the list of the vic
tims. Ido not believe that one-third
of the cases of fever in its most ma
lignant type among the negroes have
been reported. I thought it my duty
to report to Dr. Becks, who, I sup
posed, would refer tho matter to tho
authorities, the many horrible sights
I had witnessed in some negro cab
ins, wilt re, iu some cases whole fami
lies were prostrated by the fever—
even three in a bed in two ins ances,
and dying children sprawling on the
lloor.
“I cannot omit mentioning the he
roism of the Sisters of Charity.
Their ministrations are tireless; their
temper is never ruffled in the least
by sleepless nights, spare diet, and
constantly attending (o the pettish
demands of the sick and witnessing
the agonies of tho dying. Where
they sleep or eat I could not divine
Ttsaw the sume laces’ around 'ilßyTTOii
night, and again at dawn. They
carry medicines about with them,
work like bees in disinfecting houses,
and a magical faculty of raking up
clean linen and bedclothes in out-of
the-way places. I also saw several
clergymen who were behaving in a
very disinterested way, one of whom
had not removed his clothes for three
consecutive nights. It is not possi
ble to describe tho harrowing inci
dents of the fatal pestilence at Gre
nada. It is a blighted, forsaken, and
doomed town.”
John F. Heaberg, a telegraph op
erator from Winona, volunteered his
services to come here and help Bill
Redding, who was nearly worn out
from having worked since the break
ing out of the plague from eighteen
to twenty hours a day. He, in com
pany with Redding, made the rounds
of the town. At the Court House,
which has been turned into a hospi
tal, containing sixty-five persons, a
horrible sight was presented to tho
gaze. Men dying aud begging pite
ously for food—-a single mouthful of
which administered would prove fa
tal- —were seen on all sides. Both
operators pronounced it tho most
horrible spectacle they had ever
gazed upon. On one side were two
coltius containing the black-yellow
remains of two ot the latest victims,
while another square box was receiv
ing a mass of putrifled flesh that a
few hours before was known as one
of God’s noblest creatures. At the
Chamberlain House, one of the most
popular hotels iu the city 7, another
sad scene was exhibited. The voices
of twelve sick and dying patients
tilled the air with groans and piteous
appeals to God aud man to have
mercy upon them. At the Waltham
House a similar scene was presented.
This spot is looked upon a3 the most
deadly and contagious iu the village,
owing to many of the dead being
buried in the lots adjoining this
building.
Five Lives Saved by a Wonderful Acci
dent.
Five Italian rag-pickers plied their
vocation in the neighborhood of the
Naugatuck Freight-house yesterday,
and when night came, all laid down
on a track in the Housatouic yard to
get a sleep before starting to New
York on the boat. While they were
lviDg there wrapped in slumber a
Housatonic switch-engine came along
on the same track, and, drawing
nearer and nearer to the apparently
doomed slepers, was just about to
roll its ponderous weight upon them,
when from some cause it jurnoed the
rails and cleared them. Tho rear of
the engine swung around and stop
ped with its hind truck over the fore
most sleeper’s head. A narrower es
cape could not be imagined. The
Italians did not realize tho danger
until it was all over but when they 7
understood what had happened, and
what might have happened, they be
came panic-stricken, and ran off as
if a deadly peril were still pursuing
them. Probably such an opportune
jumping of the track by an engine
never occurred before. —Bridgeport
Farmer.
In the case of the State vs. Brewer
Smith, of Gwinnett county, charged
with the murder of W. S. Sharpton
of Walton county, on the 4th of July
last at a barbecue near Perry’s mill
in Walton county, tho defendant was
honorably acquitted.
The New Geometry.
Question —What is a point?
Answer—The smallest concep
tion of a purely imaginary thing.
Q. —Give an example of a point.
A.—Hayes’s conscience.
Q. —What is a line?
A. —Something that has length
without breadth or consistency.
Q —Give an example of a line.
A. — William M. Evarts, or one oi
William M. Evarts’s speeches.
Q —What is a plane ?
A. —A flat.
Q. —Illustrate what yon mean ?
A.—Carl Schurz is a plane.
Q —What is a solid ?
A. —The evidence of the fraudulent
bargain with Nicholls and Hamp
ton.
Q —What is a square ?
A. —Something you cannot get
, Ga. 1.
iarß-Gm -tq.nce ?
IJTilde ,
nd Sitt’pil for lheumatGm,
lieutenant uommaiiuer lvelis, a na
al officer at New Orleans, who
friftio an open to the Senator, f
Q.--U nat is a ngut augie i {
A.—Fishing for facts to prove the
Fraud.
Q. —What is an obtuse angle ?
A.—Fishing in the wrong pond.
Q. —What is an acute angle ?
A —One of Gen. Butler’s cross ex
aminations.
Q —Define an axiom.
A.—A truth that is disputed only
by knaves and fools.
Q —Recite some of the leading
axioms.
A.—l. Ten thousand lies don’t
make one truth. 2. Fraud vitiates
everything it touches. 3. There are
only two sides to every question—
the right side and the wrong side.
4. Eight to seven don’t make a title.
5. There’s a judgment day for
thieves and forgers. The receiver is
as bad as the thief.
Q. —Very good. Now take any
one of those axioms. Can you prove
it ?
A.—Not mathematically. You
can’t prove an axiom. You must
keep hammering it in.
Q —What is a lemma ?
A. —A put up job to help out a bad
case.
Q —Can you name any lemmas?
A.—Yes. Eliza Pinkston and Ag
nes Jenks.
Q. —What is a postulate ?
A. —Senator Thurman’s financial
attitude.
Q —Not so fast! Why do you call
Senator Thurman’s financial attitude
a postulate!
A.—A postulate is something as
sumed for au occasion.
Q —Define a proposition.
A.—A truth not quite as funda
mental or obvious as an axiom, but
amply demonstrated by the sequel.
a specimen proposition.
A.—The shortest distance front
Congress to private life is by way of
a vote for a resolution declaring
Fraud sacred.
Q. —What is a sphere?
A.—lt’s what Mr. Hewitt is out of.
Q. —What is a scalene triangle?
A.—Au irregular, disreputable fig
ure. that there’s nothing square
about.
Q Well ?
A.—Stauley Matthews is a scalene
triangle.
Q —What is your idea of tho pons
asi norum ?
A.—The platform that the third
termers stand on.
Q —What is the reduclio ad absur
dum ?
A.—Hayes’ civil service reform. —
New York Sun.
Funeral of a White Elephant.
A curious ceremony has recently
taken place at Siam on tho occasion
of tho death of the eldest of thewhite
elephants—one of tho idols of the
Siamese. He was born in 1770 and
died in his temple at Bangkok. A
whole people bow down before this
famous Albino divinity. It is the
emblem of the King of Siam. The
most beautiful presen ts are given to
these animals, because, influenced by
a belief in the metempsychosis, the
Indians believe, even at the present
day, that so majestic an animal can
not bat bo animated by the spirit of
a god or an emperor. Every white
elephant possesses its own palace, gold
dishes and harness studded with
precious stones. Several Mandarins
are appointed to wait upon “it, and
teed it with cakes and sugar-canes.
The King of Siam is the only
before whom it bends its knee, and ■
the monarch returns this salutation.
Magnificent obsequies were prepared
for the defunct idol. Some hundred
Buddhist priests ofliciated at the
funeral ceremony. The three surviv
ing white elephants, preceded by
trumpeters, and followed by an im
mense concourse of people, accompa
nied tlie funeral-car to the banks of
the Menam, whither tho King and the
great dignitaries of State had come
to receive the mortal remains. They
were then transported to the other
side of the river, and there buried.
A procession of thirty vessels,
decked with flags, formed a part of
this curious ceremony. All the
floating houses, which are ranged in a
double line, on the Menam, num
bering upward of sixty thousand,
were ornamented with flags of all
colors and other symbolic attributes.
— Galignani's Messenger.
Just So !
Horatio Seymour said, iu one of
his late speeches that tho communist
is only a protective tariff man in a
high state of development. There is
a good deal iu that idea. The tariff
man looks to the government to find
him sale for his goods at more than
they are worth, by forcibly shutting
out foreign competition. He is the
employer. His workmen are only a
little more radical in demanding that
the government shall not employ the
boss to divide the gains from govern
ment interfererence between himself
and them—they don’t believe he will
divide fairly. They insist, therefore
that tli9 government shall take the
factory, and all other factories and
workshops, and run them on its own
account and then divide squarely all
round. —Macon Telegraph.
. Not a Good Witness.
A lawyer who was defending a case
of assault and battery in the Police
Court the other day was given to un
derstand that he conkl secure a valu
able witness in tii9 person of a wo
man near where the “battery” had
occurred, and he therefore mide a
call at the honse and requested her
to detail all the circumstances.
“Well, sir,” she began, “I sot right
here, holding this ’ere baby on my
lap, aud I was singing: ‘Darling, I
am Growing Old.’ The baby he
was squalling great guns, my boy
\\ illiam was making up faces at his
self in the glass, and the man what
owas the house was trying to get in
to \ell us that if we didn’t pay up
we’l be bounced ”
“Yes,” remarked the lawyer.
‘Well, sir, all of a sudden I heard
a rumpus on the street, and I pitch
ed i‘kis ’ere young ’un on the bed,
give William a cuff on the oar, and
Cfto to the winder. Sech a sights as I
At a recent meeting oi r ., nq-vihe
Society of Physics and N^inc*^ 6 * 1
QJ... *"*•* J
- ..’vell, sir, there was Mrs. Perkins,
wlp never had half the husbands nor
edjecashun I’ve had, sailing right by
mndorewith a calica train four feet
lofe, and never as much as looking
attuy house, though I lent her a
summer squash and two onions only
night at dark!”
I And the fight ?” queried the law-
J‘ Was there a fight, sir? If there
vis I’m not to blame, sir. I did
tlijnk at first I’d go out and put a
usw brow on the old jade for putting
oi style over her betters, but Wil
lian he got the tack hammer fast iu
!i)s mouth just then, the baby kicked
himself off the bed, and she sailed out
of sight around the corner. I’m an
ianocont woman, sir and if I’m took
an up I’ll sue for damages —the
yorst kind of damages, sir !”—Detroit
Free Dress.
Mr. Grant’s “Strong Government.”
The “strong government’’ that the
advocates of a third term for Grant
hanker after is thus described by a
correspondent of the Philadelphia
Times, writing from the land ruled
by Bismarck:
j “The poor policed people don’t
know what freedom means. No one
of them dares lift his voice, in the
presence of a witness, to utter any
thing against the idol (?) of the na
tion. The Gefaugniss would be the
result of his rashness. All officials
are bound by their bread and .butter
interests and dare not say what they
believe. All the rest live in fear of
the police. And yet we are asked
to look upon Germany as a land
whose institutions are worthy of imi
tation ! A poverty-stricken empire,
without a constitution, and depend
ing on the will of one man, who can
not afford to have honest criticism
I attended the other evening a meet
ing to listen to an address on politi
cal subjects delivered before the Par
ty of Progress. Iu the front row of
spectators, directly in front of the
speaker, sat a police and his secreta
ry, who took notes of the speaker’s
utterances, and these were forwarded
to Berlin for the Ministers’ reading.
And the speaker was obliged to give
four-and-twenty hours’ notice to the
police, who had the power at any
time to dissolve tho meeting.”
Yet Bismarck’s government has
been quoted by at least one organ of
the tilird-term movement as the
ideal of what our government ought
to be. and what Grant would make
it. —New York Sun.
Wliat is Done with Buttermilk.
A voung lady from the city, board
ing i>i the summer at a farm house
on the borders of Delaware County,
visited the dair y attached and watched
the country maid in her toil with
marked attention.
“Your task is a laborious one ?”
she remarked to tho maid.
“Somewhat, ma’am,” was the re
ply.
“Nature is indeed wonderful in
her workings,” continued the lady.
“Observe the green grass in the fields,
and in a short time it is converted
iuto milk, and from milk to but
ter.”
“Yes, ma’am.”
“Honey is a strange anomaly also.
Observe the little bee wandering
from flower to flower, extracting the
4*, w pGtoess therefrom, and deposit
globular form into the
Vulli'./."
“Yes, ma’am.”
“After the formation of butter I
have been told the milk is termed
buttermilk.’’
“Yes, main.”
“Is there sufticient nutriment in
it to be of any practical use ?”
“Yes, ma’m.”
“If lam not exhausting your pa
tience, may I ask you what use is
made of the buttermilk?’’
“We feed some of it to the hogs,
and what’s left we feed to the board
ers.”— Camden Post .
The Cedartown Express makes this
strong point on Felton: “Dr. Felton
knew six years ago all that he knows
now about George Lester, and yet
during all these years he sits with
him in all the conferences of his
church, kneels with him around the
same altar, and graciously honors
him with the highest eulogies. He
sees this corrupt man. (as he now
terms him,) for two years lilling the
high and responsible office of Judge
of the Superior Court for the Blue
Ridge Circuit, and never a word do
we hear from him in disapprobation
thereof. He is good enough for a
Judge, good enough for the highest
honors conferred by the Methodist
Church upon laymen, Rut for a Con
grtssman, great heavens ! he will
never do for a Congressman !
The Athens Watchman is fighting
Bidups with a desperation that shows
lies hurting its pet badly. Time was,
and since the war, too, when he was
one of its prime favorites. Not a
word then of his being a gentleman
and wearing a clean shirt.- -Macon
Telegraph.
A Lively Time for John Sherman.
Toledo, August 26.—John Sher
man, in his speech iu the Opera
House to-night, was constantly in
terrupted by jeers and insults from
the audience—something that never
before happened to any other public
man lu this citv. “Eliza Pinkston, ’
“Mrs. Jenks,” “Jim Anderson," were
howled at him from all parts of the
house. When Hayes’ name was
mentione 1, a tremendous yell of
“Fraud! ’ went up, competing Sher
man to cease speaking. The inter
ruptions were so constant that he
delivered his proposed speech only
in part, but lost his temper aud
went into a personal explanation of his
official conduct.
The audience was made up of
Democrats, Republicans and work
ingmen iu about equal parts.
The crowd, which was immense,
packing tho house, would not hear
Sherman’s defence of the Louisiana
steal, hooted him down with cries of
J’raiut.’ qaT “Eight by Seven,” min
git . r l ;.':tail Aalls for ‘“swee* * Eliza” and
“Mrs. Pinkston.” Tho Secretary’s
meeting closed with shouts and
cheers for the National candidate
and platform. His humiliating treat
ment was the greater because wit
nessed by many distinguished men
including ex Speaker Grosvenor of the
Ohio House, Gen. Robinson of the
State Republican Committee, Con
gressman Willets of Michigan, aud
others. It was one of the most re
markable demonstrations known in
the history of Ohio politics. —New
York Sua.
Wendell Phillips says all nations
take to irredeemable paper money
when they get into trouble, and he
argues from that that they should
use that kind of money all the time
and so avoid the trouble. That has
given anew idea to Micawber Simp
kins. He says that when he is
“strapped ’ he gets his groceries “on
tick,’’ and he is satisfied now that he
ought to get his groceries “on tick”
all the time and never pay to keep
from getting “strapped.” Micawber
says that if he had known this finan
cial secret twenty years ago he could
have been a rich man now if anybody
would have trusted him. —Boston
Herald.
We bad fondly hoped that Sidney
Lanier would not drop into poetry
again. We regret to say that the
hope has not been realized. In the
current New York Independent he
publishes a threnody “To Our Mock
ing Bird,’’ which “died of a cat.” In
it ho speaks of “trillets of humor,”
“shrewdest whistle-wit,” “smdal
odored flames that split about the
slitn young widow,” “bright drops of
tune slipped oft the thin-edged wave
:futr~rrifLmig down the beak,” etc.,
etc. We understand that there is at
present a splendid opening in Mem
phis for a fine poet. Mr, Lanier
should go to Memphis immediately.
Chronicle & Constitutionalist.
Representative Blackburn, of Ken
tucky, has collated with care and will
shortly promulgate a reply to the
misstatements contained in Senator
Windom’s review of the appropria
tions made by the last Congress,
which is being extensively printed at
the request of the Republican Con
gressional Committee by the cam
paign organizers. Blackburn's re
joinder will riddle Windom’s figures,
and from the records of the last Con
gress he will show that Windotn de
signedly misrepresented tho facts to
supply his party with a campaign
document.
A wonderful discovery of gold is
reported to have been made iu Mon
tana Territory, which, if it should
prove genuine, will bo likely to cre
ate another gold fever like that
which sent so many visionaries to
California in the early days of the
gold-digging there. The gold is said
to have been found there in the
snow range, or Shoshones Mountains
where three men alone have taken
over three hundred pounds of gold
out in less than three months, using
a hollow log for a sluice-box. It is
known as the Whitmore discovery.
Tae returns are all in from the re
cent election in North Carolina, and
show the following composition of
the Legislature: In the Senate there
are 29 Democrats, 17 Republicans
and 4 Independents. In tha Hou?o,
72 Democrats, 40 Republicans, 7 In
dependents aud 1 National—giving
the Democrats a majority over all iu
the Senate of 8, and in the House of
24, or a majority over all on joint
ballot of 82.
There is good reason to believe
that at its next session Congress will
repeal that section of the National
Bank, Act which imposes a tax on
the circulation of State banking in
stitutions. Persons who desire to
organize State Banks should apply
for charters when the General As
sembly meets in November, as there
will not be another session of that
body for two years alter adjourn
ment. — Chronicle & Constitutionalist.
Felton and Speer will hear some
thing “drap” on the sth of Novem
ber. Off will go their heads. Since
we come to think of it, they may not
hear them fall, though we have read
of criminals beiDg beheaded who re
tained consciousness after the head
was severed from the body. If their
sense of hearing is not deadened too
much, they’ll hear their heads fall
into the basket. —Thomasville Times
The heat was recently so intense
in Arizona that a thermometor failed
to register it on the sandy trail, it
being 120 in the shade. A mail car
rier seeing that bis horse became res
tive and was apparently in much
pain, on examination found the flesh
around the upper part of the hoof
thoroughly roasted. In a few min
utes the beast dropped exhausted and
died.
“Put it where it will do the most
good,” is what Postmaster General
Key said when he contributed SIOO
to the Republican campaign fund.
News in General.
Macon is to have anew baud.
Sneak thieves are prowling around
in Savannah.
A lively tournament in Milledge
villn last week.
Crop prospects along the Central
Railroad are very flattering.
The fall term of Martin Institute at
Jefferson commenced last week.
The failures all over the country
do not in the least diminish in num
ber.
The canvass in South Carolina
opens formally the tenth of this
month.
The Brunswick Appeal says the
health of that city leaves nothing to
be desired.
The national debt of England now
stands, by the most r cent return, at
$3,888,007,980.
“Ifm a yard wide and all wo.ul. is
a Kentucky way of describing a high
state of hilarity.
The Athens Banner is now in its
sixty-second year and is better man
aged than ever.
Augusta will use about three thou
sand pounds of copperas in disinfec
ting her sewers.
The Albany News thinks the Ca
milla convention will nominate Smith
on the first ballot.
Butler is going to get a wig, so that
he can be “white plumed.” At pres
ent he is plumeless.
“J. W. Nicholson,” the new en
gine for the Northeastern Railroad
went on the road last week.
It is generally admitted that Com
rnuuist Kearney’s tour in Massachu
setts has been a dead failure.
Gen. P. M. B. Young, though in
Paris takes the trouble to declare
himself unqualifiedly for Lester.
In the opinion of the Anti-Fat
Contributor, “The cucumber does
its best lighting after it is down.”
The Macon Telegraph, has a good
and well deserved word for the Air-
Line Railroad and its management
Three quarters of the yellow fever
deaths in New Orleans are of children
under ten years of age and foreign
ers.
The business' difficulty s between
the Georgia and M icon A Augusta
Railroads are in process of settle
ment.
William Niblo, the founder of.Nib
lo’s Garden, died last week 'at his
home in New York City aged ninety
years.
-■f
Plant your garden with German
kale, if you want nice greens this
winter and next spring.- —Planter <('•
Grange.
Thomasville has four military com
panies, Guards and Cadets, white,
and the Independents and Blues,
colored.
Mr. Richard Bassett an old resi
dent of Bibb county, was in Macon
the other day after an absence of
twenty years.
The Enterprise Cotton Factory oj
Augusta will increase the capacity ol
the mill to 13,800 spindles in less
than sixty days.
Dr. B ico ( , Secretary of the Charles
ton Boar! a' Health inspected Si
vanuah the other day and reports it
perfectly healthy.
A wedding in his ninety-third year
is the uncommon experience of Judge
William Thomas of J icksonville, 111.,
the bride beiug 75.
Daring the past month the Treas
ury has paid out 1,000,000 standard
silver dollars and has hid orders for
about a million more.
The Priuce of Wales has accepted
the honorary membership recently
preferred him by the Ancient and
Honorable Artillery of Boston.
An old lady thinks the Bonds
must be a family of strong religions
instincts, because she hears of so
many of them being converted.
The New York Elevated Railroad
is now running l’egular trains on
the east side of the city from the Bat
tery to the Grand Central Depot in
twenty minutes.
Are the germs of yellow fever ever
conveyed and transplanted through
the mails?—is a question much moot
ed about this time. In this as all
others doctors disagree.
After a two days session at Rich
mond, the Democratic Convention
for the third Virginia district, nomi
nated Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, for
Congress on the 28th ulto.
W r hen someone told Keai’ney that
the Chinese had learned ‘‘Sweet By
and By,” and were howling it in their
native tongue, he declared that his
“cup of vengeance was full.’’
A correspondent of the Augusta
Neics suggests that the unveiling of
the Confederate Monument in that
city be postponed from November
till the next memorial day in April.
The Board of Aldermen of Nash
ville have extended a cordial invita
tion to all refugees from yellow fever
stricken cities to make Nashville their
home so long as they may desire to
stay.
The Rev. Jasper still insists: “De
sun do move, for in de morniu’ it
shines on dis side oh de house, while
in de ebenin’ on dat sid j oh de house.
Now, ef he don’t move, how cum he
dar ?”
Road dust is invaluable to a farm
er in the saving of hen manure,
while nothing is better for absorb
ing gases and neutralizing odors
from vaults, cesspools, pigstys and
the like.
The biggest thing of the season at
Newnan according to the Herald, was
a fight last week between two little
pigs near the Court House lasting
about an hour. It doesn’t appear
which whipped.
The Democratic can h late for
governor of Tennessee, Cb .ncellor
Marks, is 42 years old and left a leg
in the Confederate service. He is a
wincing speaker and popular man,
and his election is expected.
11. nest John Sherman says If ives
got the vote of Louisiana as lawfully
and honestly as that of Oaux This
is the first time that a Republican
has admitted that Ohio was en>n 1
for the Republicans by fraud.
A revenue officer broke down an
old lady’s door iu Hart county the
other night, in search of illicit dis
tillers, which so enraged the good
dame that she be-labored him well
with a chair so says the Sun.
The list of signatures to the re
quest to Gen. Butler to ruu for Gov
ernor of Massachusetts now amounts
to fifty thousand. An exchange
hopes he will be elected so as to get
the nuisance out of federal politics.
The North Georgia Fair Associa
tion has just issued the first num
ber of a monthly paper called “The
North Georgia Fair Journal.’ It is
published at Atlanta and mostly !e
--vot.-d to fair matters. Price 50 cents
a jt itr.
If is proposed in Washington to
increase the tax on beer from $1 to
$1 50 or $1 07 a gallon, in order to
make up the falling off in internal
revenue receipts, which, it is estima
ted, will be not less than twelve ,
lions this year.
Colonel Joel A. Billups is making
a stir in the Ninth District of Geor
gia. He has bills up for Congress.
We trust that Joel will make it. We
like his novel and highly original
name. Can it be possible that the A
stands for Agamemnon? —Balliniorr
Gazelle.
NO. 35
The railroad running to the sum
mit of Mt. Washington has been in
operation eleven seasons and has
carried over 100,000 passengers, not
one of whom has been injured. Tho
incline iu some places is one foot in
three and the engines have cogged
wheels,
A ghost has frightened the super
stitious for some time near a bridge
in Macon over the Macon and Wes
tern Railroad. Some young men
last week discovered it was a gown
filled with dry moss and a head
stuffed with the same material sus
pended from a cord.
Atlanta’s treatment of the yellow
fever patient who recently died there
has given the city a very unenviable
reputation for humanity. (Jhronich
<f; Constitutionalist. But Dr. J. G.
Westmoreland’s treatment of the
poor unfortunate will set off the ac
tion of Atlanta and leave a large bal
ance.
The Supreme Court has refused to
grant anew trial to George Brown,
who was sentenced to be hung for
killing Daniel Jenkins. Brown, who
has been iu Cobb county j lil for tho
last nine months, will be re-sen
tenced at the November term of Cobb
Superior Court Rollins was also re
fused anew trial —Marietta Journal
r From 800 to 1000 bales,> of eoi i
will be produced this year on ine
“Olcttowu” plantation in Jefferson
couuty, owned by Grant, Alexander
& Co s, and worked by convicts, all
>f which will be sold in Augusta.
Thirty six bales have already been
sold in tiiat city of this years crop.
The firm work 205 hands, all con
victs.
A California paper says: “Among
the peculiarities of courting iu Texas
is that the ‘young feller’ is occasion
ally asked to step outside the house
and hoi lan apple or potato for the
girl’s brothers to shoot at, and it is
considered highly unsociable not to
comply'. It is equally noteworthy
that the well-to-do suitors never
get hit.”
“Fob de L xrd,” said an old colored
woman, yesterday, “I nebber heard
of dese yer niggahs habbin’ the yello’
fevah befo.” One of the new school
explained, Why not? Wese all de
rights and privilijums of citizens, and
wese jest a goin’ to hab everything
like white folks.” That seemed to
settle the question. —New Orleans
Picayune.
Faron Potts of Berks county Pa.,
recently swellowed, while asleep a
snake nineteen inches long. His
friends tied him up by the legs and
let his head hang down. A pan of
boiling milk was brought so that he
could inhale the steam. This fetched
his snakeship up, or rather down to
the man’s mouth from which he was
pulled in a hurry.
It is the prevailing opinion among
merchants in the dry goods trade
that business this Fall will be batter
than it has been for ye trs. The no
tion that trade is stagnant is laughed
at in the leading commission and
jobbing houses, and it is the univer
sal testimony that it was never better
at this season of the year than it is
now. —New York Herald.
The Augusta Chronicle has lately
an interesting article on the contest
in the seventh district but it is mis
taken in supposing the Republican
vote therein to be only about two
thousand. Hayes iu 187 G received
521(1 votes in the seventh district
and had it not been for these Repub
lican votes, Parson Felton would
have been defeated over two thou
sand.
You may write seventeen million
words on the blank side of a
card, and Uncle Sam’s mails will car
ry it to California without extra
charge. But if you put two words
other than the address on the other
side, and leave the blank side clean
the Government won’t carry it one
mile for less than three cents. It is
such rulings as this that lead some
persons to believe that the men who
make and constro our postal laws aro
escaped lunatics.— J). M. Key's lie
j>ort.
S ; r Garnet Wolseley recently took
six million pounds sterling to Cy
prus to pay for the construction of
harbors and other Government work.
The influx of adventurers is already
large, and rents and provisions have
risen enormously iu price. A cor
respondent says that for a suite of
dirty, dilapidated, and unfragrant
rooms, which would be beneath no
tice elsewhere in the civilized world
$1,500 a year is charge. Sickness al
ready exists among the British troops
owing to miasma, and many have
been sent to Malta for cure.