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The Gainesville Eagle. Published Every Fiidav Morning OFFICE * pstalra in Candler Ilall liuililiitg, Northwest Corner of Public Square. The Official Organ ot Hall, lianks, White, Towns, Kabuu, liuion ami Dawson counties, ami the city or Uainesville. Has a large general circulation in twelve other counties In Northeast Georgia, and two counties in Western North Carolina. SUBSCRIPTION. One Ye an $2,00. Six Months SI,OO. Turks Months 50c. IN ADVANCE. DELIVERED BY CARRIER OR PREPAID RY MAIL. All papers are stopped at the expiration of the time paid for without further notice. Mail sub scribers will please observe the dates on their wrappers. Persons wishing the paper will have their orders Uromptly attended to by remmitiiug the amount tor the time desired. ADVERTISING. SEVEN WORDS MAKE A LINE. Ordinary advertisements, per Nonpareil line. 10 cents. Legal Official Auction and Amusement advertise ments and Special Notices, per Nonpa reil line. 15 cents. Heading notices per line. Nonpareil typo 15 cent! Local notices, per line, Brevier type, 15 cents. A discount zuade on advertisements continued lor longer than one weet REMITTANCES For subscriptions or advertising can be made by Post Office order, Registered Letter or Express, at our risk. All letters should be addressd, J. E. REDWINE, Gainesville, Ga. 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. Tud O- \ iVFQVH T V TT \m Id i JtlJcj vJAJINJciid V IJj!.jJi' JUiAuLL. 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.