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THE E AGL E.
Friday Morning* September <>, 1878.
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION
FOR CONGRESS:
JOEL A. BILLUPS.
of Morgan County.
Col. itil hips' Appoint inputs.
Dawsonville, Dawson county, Mon
day September ‘Jth.
Lawrenceville, Gwinnett county,
Thursday September 12th.
Cleaveland, White county, Satur
day September 21st.
Jasper, Dickens county "Wednes
day September 25th.
Ellijay, Gilmer county, Saturday
September 28th.
Morganton, Fannin county, Tues
day October Ist.
lilairsville, Union county, Friday
October 4th.
lliwassee, Towns county, Tuesday
October Bth.
Clayton, Rabun county, Friday
October 11th.
Speer’s last convert, Potash Far
row.
Has Mr. Speer “tore up” anybody
in debate lately ?
Will Democrats follow Potash
Farrow’s lead into the Speer camp?
♦ ;
W r o have anew Botany Bay in this
land of tho free and homo of the
brave and her narno is Massachusetts
Col. T. J. Haralson of Union coun
ty is only one of many who know
that Mr. Speer exerted Ilia utmost
efforts to secure a nomination for
himself in tho Bell-Hill convention
Tho Speer organs announce that
Speer and Potash Farrow have set
tled their little differences and that
tho latter will now help Speer with
all his little might. Birds of a foath.
or will flock together.
In answer to the enquiries of nu
merous friends, we tako occasion to
say that Mr. Spoor is not sure of
carrying a single county in this dis
trict and that thorc aro not more
than six at all doubtful.
In addition to free whisky Mr.
Speer now proposes if elected to pay
off tho National debt in Confederate
money. Mr. Speer’s platform is easily
understood—a never failing supply
of freo whiskey and an unlimited re
pudiation of debt.
At tho request of many friends
Dr. H. H. Carlton, resumes tho edi
torial charge of the Athens Manner
for the campaign at least. We con
gratulate the Democracy of tho dis
trict upon Dr. Carlton’s return to ed
itorial duties at this important junc
tion.
Tho Independents can offer no
reason why any Democrat should
not vote for Billups, but they can
show with ease why every Radical,
Independent, and No-party man, to
gether with all haters of tho Demo
cratic party should voto for Spoor.
He is their man.
Tho Speer men now admit that tho
seven to live story was not true and
that the conference committee of tho
'ate convention was unanimously in
favor of Billups, None of their
yarns seem to stick but they tell ’em
all the same just to have tho pleasure
of taking them back.
Speer’s friends claim every county
in tho district except Gwinnett*
They ought not to slight Gwinnett.
It will ouly give about a thousand
majority for Billups and can boas
easily claimed for the Independents,
as a dozen other counties in this
neighborhood until tho olection.
Col. Bell’s sou was polite enough
to introduce Mr. Speer to a Forsyth
county audience and on the strength
of it was claimod, with all of Bell’s
friends to favor tho election of Speer.
Has it come to pass that no one can
say good morning to Mr. Speer with
out being compelled to vote for him
Tho Watchman predicts that Speer
will not be tho last man in the pro
cession when the votes of Clarke,
Franklin, Habersham,Hall and Jack
son are counted. Do the Independ
ents intend at this late day to bring
out Smith Clayton to divide the In
dependent vote with Speer and run
behind him ?
Emory Speer may have a rival in
the person of the gentleman not a
thousand miles away from thie dis
trict who is “opposed to the pre
sumption bill and in favor of infla
tion of current money.” Mix a little
of this platform with a double quan
tity of free whisky and repudiation
and Mr. Speer can elect himself
without any votes.
The junior editor of this paper was
appointed a judge by the authority
that appointed the present Chief
Justico of Georgia to a place on tho
Supreme Court. We never supposed
it was a secret to anybody. So far
the Watchman is right. That he ev
er aililiated with the Radicals or poll
e l a Radical vote is a lie out of whole
cloth, the assertion of which is owing
Bolely to the fact that the Eagle is
doing good work for Billuns in this
, canvass.
Hilliips la I lie Mountains.
As will be seen from the list of Col.
Billups’ appointments published
elsewhere, he will begin his canvass
of the upper counties by addressing
the people at Cleveland, White
county, on September 21st. His
speeches so far have been a series of
triumphs and we hope our friends in
the mountains will rally in their
strength wherever he appears.
Not Intentionally Radical,
Certain supporters of the Independ
ent candidate for Congress in this
district, complain that the Democrats
charge them with being Radicals, be
cause of their advocacy of Mr. Speei\
No such charge has been made nor
has any of like character so far as
we know been in contemplation by
thoughtful Democrats. Whenever a
Democratic supporter of Mr. Speer
alleges he has always been a Demo
crat, has rendered material aid to the
party in times past and is now as
good a Democrat as anybody, we are
bound to believe that ho speaks hon
estly and candidly. If he is not lion
est and candid he belongs to a class
which cannot be reached by any ap
peals creditable to either party con
cerned. , " ' 4 )
But we do say to the honest, can
did, earnest, Democratic supporter of
Mr. Speer, in Mr. Speer’s own lan
guage; “there are but two parties
the Democrats and the Radicals
and ono who opposes the Democrats
furthers the cause of Radicalism.
It does not matter whether this be
intentional or not, the disastrous re
sults is none tho less certain.” Wo
adopt Mr. Speer’s words because
they aro apt and to the point and also
for tho reason that his opinions ought
to have some weight wi'h his fol
lowers. But they attempt to parry
them by claiming that there is now
no organized Radical party in Geor
gia and therefore no chance for a
Radical success, and that in any
event no Radical could be elected
from this district to Congress even
with the Democratic voto divided be
tween two candidates
It is true that the Radicals could
not elect a simon-pure Radical in tho
ninth district but it is not true that
they are unorganized. They have a
State Committee, of which John E
Bryaut is chairman, soon to meet at
Macon, to take advantage of the sit
uation in this State in the best way
possible. In the condition of things
in the seventh and ninth districts,
the Radical leaders see but a precur
sor of that soon to prevail all over
the State and they know that in ev
ery other district of this State, ex
cept these two, a Radical can beat a
Democrat with an Independent in
tho field claiming Democratic votes.
Already Independents are crop
ping out all over tho State and point
ing to this and the seventh districts
for their justification. Tho failure of
the Democrats to stamp out tho In
dependent movement in this district
is very likely to be the direct cause
of Radical successes in others. In
tho fifth district especially there is
every likelihood of an Independent
candidate. Should there bo one and
a Republican runs, tho latter will bo
elected for which result Emory
Speer and Dr. Felton will lie as
much responsible as if they lived in
Atlanta and voted for the Radical.
Every supporter of Felton and Speer
will have to share the responsibility;
and “it does not matter whether
this bo intentional or not,” as Mr.
Speer says.
Again if wo are all good Democrats
we are a part of tho great Democrat
ic party of tho country, and should
act und be in accord with it. As be
tween Billups and Speer, Lester and
Felton, can a Democratic newspaper
or leader be found outside tho State
of Georgia, we ask tho Democratic
supporters of Speer in all candor, op
posed to Billups or Lester and in
favor of Felton or Speer? On the
other hand the leading Republicans,
Hayes, Sherman, Ivey, Charles Fos
ter, Matthews and others with the
entire Republican press send their
choicest greetings and double-breast
ed respects,if not more solid compli
ments, to every Independent candi
date in tho Southern States and wish
him success from the bottom of their
hearts.
Here we have on the one side Bil
lups, able and competent, the candi
date of his party, enjoying the confi
dence and support of the State De
mocracy and the cordial sympathy of
the National organization, and on
the other we have Speer, equally able
and competent, if you please, but not
the candidate of his party, not pos
sessing the confidence and support of
the Democracy of Georgia and the
cordial sympathy of our great party
all over the land, but on the contra
ry, aided and abetted, encouraged
and sustained by the Radical party
everywhere and all the enemies open
aud secret of the National Democra
cy
We do not charge the Democratic
supporters of Speer aud Felton to be
Radicals, but they are, whether aware
of it or not, the most eflicient allies
the Radicals uow have in the South
ern States and as Mr. Speer says, “it
does not matter whether this be in
tentional or not, the disastrous re
sult is none tho less certain. ’ Is it
not better then for all Democrats to
support Billups and furnish aid and
comfort to Democrats alone. Re
sults in that case whether “inten
tional” or otherwise, will certainly
not be “disastrous.”
Tote Fair, Mr. Speer.
We publish in another column the
1 card of Dr. H. H. Carlton taken from
the Athens Banner of last week and
also a card sent us by George L.
Bell the son of our present Con
gressman. Both refer to a late in
terview of the Independent candidate
with a reporter of the Chronicle &
Constitutionalist, and Mr. Bell ex
presses the hope that the reporter
was mistaken in the language used
by Mr. Speer. The Chronicle how
ever says there was no mistake about
it, that Mr. Speer saw and approved
it before it appeared it print.
These statements of Carlton and
Beil show a style of campaigning
adopted by Speer not at all credita
ble to him. He knew, when inter
viewed by the reporter of our Au
gusta contemporary, that Messrs.
Carlton and Bell, late candidates for
the nomination, were supporting the
Democratic nominee and urging
their friends to do the same, and
that there had never been any doubt
as to their position, yet while not
saying so directly ho purposely con
veys the impression that both these
gentlemen desire his election and
that their friends all over the dis
district are cordially supporting him.
This little game lie plays
tion. When addressing an audience
in the lower counties or talking to
promiscuous crowds thereabouts, he
dwells upon the tremendous majori
ties ho will get Nortli of the Air-Line
Railroad. “All of Bell’s friends aro
for me,” says this candid and
straightforward friend of tho people,
“they know he was cheated out of
tho nomination and Billups will not
get tho voto of a singlo one of them;
even Bell's son introduced me to the
audience at Camming; ho’s all right
-I’ll como down to the Air-Lino Rail
road with 2000 majority.” But
when he gets to the mountains he
knows this sort of talk will not go
down with the people who know bet
ter, so he tells them that Carlton
and his friends believe he was justly
entitled to the nomination and that
they will not support Billups on any
terms; that he, Emory Speer, will
come up to the Railroad with 2000
majority which cannot be overcome.
Now Mr. Speer knows better than
all this. He knows that no man in
this district could have been nomina
ted who could make a better race
than Col. Billups and he knew all the
time that Messrs. Bell and Carlton
were both good Democrats and hon
orable gentlemen who would not be
guilty of the gross indecency in poli
tics, of offering their names to a con
vention and then repudiating its
action beeauso not nominated by it.
He knew that Dr. Carlton’s paper
supported Mr. Billups in its JirsFis"
sue after the convention. Ho was
told by Mr. Geo. L. Bell that his
family were for Billups. He knew
Hon. Hiram P. Bell introduced the
resolution, at the Forsyth county
mass-meeting addressed by Billups,
pledging the entire Democracy of
that county to him; and yet in spite
of all this, such is the desperate
straits to which this seif-nominated
candidate for congress is reduced,
that ho will probably continue to
misrepresent Bell, Carlton and their
friends to the end of the chapter.
Let him keep on. He will not get
votes enough to hurt any way and
three-fourths of them he will secure
by just such tricky arts generally
practiced only by double-distilled
and fully developed demagogues -f
which Mr. Speer is fast getting to be
a successful imitator.
'fhe Maine Kleetion.
Next Monday occurs the election for
Governor, Congressmen and members
of the Legislature in the State of
Maine, and for the first time in twen
ty two years, a general interest in the
result is manifested throughout the
country. In old times Maine was a
Democratic Stato but she early sur
rended to the Republicans. In 1855
there was no election for Governor
by tho people, but the legislature
chose a Democrat 1 Since then the
Republicans have each year elected
a Governor by a majority ranging
from 3,872 in 1575 to 27,087 in ISGG.
Now tho Greenbackers are disturb
ing their calculations to a very great
extent so much so that they are sure
of nothing. In Maine as in some
other of the New England States, it
requires a majority of the votes cast
to elect any officer, so that it is very
probable there will be no election by
the people for Governor.
But tho matter in which we in this
section are particularly interested is
the election for Congressmen. There
are five districts in the State, in all
of which except the fourth, there are
three candidates for Congress, Dem
ocratic, Republican and National.
The second and third will probably
elect Republicans. In the first and
fifth, it is very likely that neither
candidate will have a majority. In
the fourth, Powers the present Re
publican member is a candidate for
re-election while the Democrats and
Greenbackers have united upon Dr.
Geo. W. Ladd an old Democrat of
the straightest sect, who will proba
bly elected. Should the result
next week in the first and fifth dis
tricts be as above surmised, another
election will be held in November at
which time the Democrats and Na
tionals united will be very likely to
carry both districts.
The is no chance for a Dem ocratic
loss and a fine opportunity for very
material gains. '
The Convention Did Its I)uty.
For want of a better argument
against the Democratic party, the
Speer candidate insists that as the
delegates to the late Democratic
convention were instructed for Bell
or Carlton they could not under any
circumstances nominate another.
We will take two cases that actually
did happen last month and to them
we invite the attention of every
Democrat in the ninth. The Demo
cratic convention of the fifteenth
Ohio district met in August. Four
of the five counties composing the
district had candidates and conse
quently for some three liuudred bal
lots no one had a majority. They
adjourned to another place and a la
ter day when the twelve hundred
and fifty-fourth ballot showed the
same result. Neither county feeling
disposed to give way, Judge George
W. Geddes, an outsider and no can
didate was nominated unanimously
on the twelve hundred and fifty-fifth,
ballot. Tho Democratic State Con
vention of Tennessee after a dead
lock of considerable duration lastiug
three days last month, brushed away,
all the candidates before it and j
unanimously chose Chancellor Al- 5
hei-t S- Marks the Denioeraticcag^jd
A eco r and in
both these conventions went beyona
the limit of their powers by selecting
candidates other than those for whom
the delegates were instructed; and
that to obey orders they ought to
have adjourned leaving the Tennes
see Democrats without a candidate
for Governor and these Ohioans with
no Congressman. Being sensible
men and good Democrats however,
they did nothing of the kind but
having the whole State to pick from
iu the one case and an entire district
in the other, they made their selec
tions and no Democrat complains.
In doing the same thing our conven
tion lias acted as every Democratic
convention in the United States
would have done under similar cir
cumstances and the Speer men know
it.
Their objection is not to the con
vention or its candidate or the man
ner of his nominal ion but to the
Democratic party which has the im
pudenco to breathe the breath of life
in this district without obligating
itself to Mr. Speer for the privilege.
The Kiuqitnii Case.
As might have been expected,-the
Governor of Massachusetts refuses to
honor Gov. Hampton’s requisition
and return to South Carolina one Hi
ram H. Kimpton late financial agent of
that State, now under indictment
therein for high crimes. Ho was a
classmate of tho robber Chambcrlaiii’
at Yale and for that reason was given
the best opening for stealing in the
gift of the thieves He has been a fu
gitive ever since the advent of Hamp
ton’s administration and has been
run out of New York, New Jersey
and Connecticut for fear of the ac
tion of their Democratic Governors.
Naturally he chose Massachusetts as
his asylum relying upon the Radical
Governor to protect him, Ho
builded well and wisely as Governor
Rice will not send him to Carolina
for trial.
Asa basis for such unconstitution
al action, soma roasons must be as
signed and they are weak indeed. One
is that it is not intended to try him
if he should bo brought back. How
does the sapient Attorney General
of Massachusetts know such to be
tho case in the face of assertion to
tho contrary by tho South Carolina
officials? Can he pry open their
hearts and ascertain their intentions ?
The other reason is that the offence
was committed in April 1572 and no
attempt was made to prosecute him
till August 1577, and that there is
no reason for the delay. The facts
are that the Radicals were in posses
sion of every branch of tlio- South
Carolina State Government from
April 1872 to Hampton’s inaugura
tion and that Ivimpton and the other
scoundrels were indicted as soon af
ter the Hampton administration nr
fixed in power as the evidenc¥iL J!s
be gathered.
But all this goes for nothing with
the Radical Governor and Radical
Attorney General of Massachusetts.
Kimpton is one of the same happy
family and must be by them protec
ted from South Carolina laws. In
their eyes Radicalism hides a multi
tude of minor sins.
“Resolved, By the Democracy of
Forsyth county in mass meet
ing assembled, that the people of
said county will give to the Hon.
Joel A. Billups a cordial and hearty
support for ropresentative of the
ninth district to the Congress of the
United States,” is the resolution in
troduced by Hou. H. P. Bell at the
conclusion of Col. Billups’ speech at
Camming last week. It was adopted
with only one dissenting vote. Still
Col. Bell, his son, his friends and all
their wives’ relation are for Speer ac
cording to S; eer.
Ben Butler the champion Indepen
dent, obtained the signatures of 50,-
000 men who promise to vote for
him before ho announces himself a
candidate for Governor of Massachu
setts. Had you started out Mr.
Speer in search of one' tenth of that
number cf voters who would own you
as their candidate for Congress by a
writiug within the Statute of Frauds,
you would never have had occasion
to hang a sign out in this district.
A Mistake, 1 Hope.
[Athens Banner.]
Mr. Emory Speer, in an interview
with a reporter of the Augusta
Chronicle on the 22d inst., is reported
as follows:
Reporter—How do Mr. Bell’s
friends stand in this campaign ?
Mr. Speer—Nearly all of Mr. Bell’s
friends are for me. I was introduced
to an audience at Camming, Forsyth
county, by Mr. Bell’s son. His
friends are very indignant at the way
in which lie was treated in the con
vention and are independently in
clined any way.
Reporter—How will Dr. Carlton’s
friends vote.
M-'. .Speer—A great many of Dr. I
Carlton s friends are for me. He had
a strong following among the work
ingfrnen of Clarke county and they
aruall for me.
is for Mr. Bell’s friends I cannot
sptak, but do not believe they in
cliie politically as Mr. Speer thinks
anl asserts. As for my friends, I
thuk lean, and have aright to
speak, While, doubtless, some were |
induced to my support from strong ,
personal friendship, yet this friend
ship was of that true, genuine kind!
which could and will be rea
n b' iu .1 io 1 lu'
yea, even the fact
tjhat I was a time, organized Demo
crat. That I had spent the past five
ad- six years of my life in advocacy of |
time Democratic principles and the
maintenance of thorough party or
ganization, and would cheerfully pa
triotically and as a true Democrat,
abide tho action of those representa
tives of the Democratic party in
whose hands 1 had entrusted my
interest, and not like Mr. Speer, after
having served a time in this noble
work, witnessing on all hands tho
good results thereof, desert tho
Democratic household merely be
cause my political aspirations may
have been disappointed. 111 this
they mistook not their man. And I
believe, yes, in justice to such true,
patriotic and Democratic friends, I
will say, I know, they, to a man,
stand with me to-day in tho support
of the nominee of the Gainesville
Convention, and will, on the sth of
November next, vote solidly with mo
for Col. Joel Abbott Billups.
As to the friends of Col. Bell I
have already said I did not believe
they were inclined to bo untrue to
their party faith. If in this I should
be mistaken and Mr. Speer right,
then I would most earnestly entreat
them, in behalf of true Democracy
and the country’s best interest, that
notwithstanding their 'disappoint
ment in not obtaining the nomina
tion tlieir chosen oamliJate, tliat
they unito solidly with my friends in
achieving a glorious and overwhelm
ing victory for the grand old Demo
cratic p irty, by the election cf Col.
Billups, tho regular nominee, on the
sth of November next.
H. H. Carlton.
A Canl.
Editors Eagle: I notice an inter
view in the Chronicle. <f; Constitution
alist between a reporter of that paper
and Mr. Emory Speer, tho indepen
dent candidate for Congress in this
the 9th Congressional district, in
which Mr. Speer used tho following
language, to wit:
“Nearly all of Mr. Bell’s friends
are for me. I was introduced to an
audience at Gumming, Forsyth coun
ty, by Mr. Bell’s son. His friends are
very indignant at tho way in which
ho was treated in the convention,
and are independently inclined any
way.”
I hope the reporter was mistaken
in the language used by Mr. Speer
in tho interview to which I have re
ferred. It hardly seems reasonable
that Mr. Speer should construe an
act of courtesy into an endorsement
of him for Congress, for he well
knows that I told him in tho presence
of his friends that I opposed him,
and advocated the claims of Col. Bil
lups, and he so stated in tho opening
of his speech.
It is unfair, unjust, untrue and un-
I _l v in Mr. Speer thus to place me
-J.vlalse position by intimating that I
was for him simply because I intro
duced him to the people of Forsyth
county.
I have written the above in justice
to myself and to correct the impres
sion that either I or my father’s
friends will support him, or are “in
dependently inclined anyway.”
Geo. L. Bell.
Capt. B. J. Davis who now writes
a letter iu lavor of Speer was one of
the Secretaries of the late Democrat
ic convention. After its adjourn
ment he announced himself for Bil
lups and wrote that gentleman a let
ter tendering his services during the
campaign to him at Gainesville and
offering, in the event this should be
Col. Billups’ headquarters, to attend
to his political correspondence at
this point. He also solicited the iu
ffuence of the editors of this paper
and desired they should say a good
word in his behalf to Col. Billups j
which would have been done had
Col. Billups desired the services of
Capt. Davis. We have heard no
reasons for his sudden conversion.
Since 1870 the debt of Massachu
setts has increased from $7,000,000
to $33,000,000 while the rate of taxa
tion has increased seventeen times
in seventeen years. No wonder
Governor Rice sympathizes with
Kimnton the thieving agent of South
Carolina. He and his party in the
Bay State know how it is themselves. 1
A Hero Indeed.
Peace liatb her heroes, as well as
victories, no less than war. Last
Sunday there died at Grenada, Mis
sissippi, the telegraph operator, Wyatt
M. Redding by name, as courageous a
warrior, as true a hero, as noble a
man as ever met death in any of its
various forms.
When the yellow fever broke out
at Grenada, Mr. Redding, a young
man of twenty-three, was in charge
of the Western Union ollice at that
point, with his family 7 consisting of
his wife, child, mother and two sis
ters. He not only stayed at his post
but his little family refusing to desert
him, remained also. As to his duty
in the premises he never had a doubt,
telegraphing tke Cincinnati Enquirer
at the start, that the fever threat
ened to give them a fierce tussle, but
ho would stay and might be relied
upon for the new’s. Bravely did he
stand to his instrument by day and
night, apologizing only a few days
ago for his dispatches saying he
feared he could not write coherently
as he wrote con
-11 with the fever,
hs wife,
i
-i.; K i v
from
Grenada that “Bill Redding had
at last been attacked with the fever.
He struggled against the fearful dis
ease as best he could, but on Sunday
morniug he gave up the fight and
surrendered, as sooner or later all of
us will to the grim destroyer.
The muse of history may not dweP
upon his heroism as a text for future
generations; his name may 7 not bo
emblazoned on lofty columns, but tho
Recording Angel has carried it to
heaven and w'ashed away his faults
with a tear.
Progress of the Fever.
Tho fearful epidemic now raging
increases in force all the time-
Whenever it attacks a locality there
is no cessation of yellow fever cases
until the material to work upon is
exhausted. It now prevails in Mem
phis, New Orleans and Baton Rouge,
Louisiana; Vicksburg, Grenada, Oav
ka, Port Hudson, Greenville and
Hclly Springs, Mississippi; Browns
ville and Paris, Tennessee; Hickman,
Kentucky; and Huntsville and Mo
bile, Alabama, lu addition deaths
from yellow fever have occurred in
New York, Cincinnati,
Franklin, Ohio; and cases have been
been reported at Gallipolis, Ohio
Madison, Indiana; and Nashville.
The deaths from yellow fever last
week reported in Memphis were 411
and 84 on last Tuesday. In New
Orleans,the total number of deaths
tiT "iflo i XtCbsvl y at C p. m., wiva 1171,
and a large increase is reported. In
Grenada nearly everybody is dead or
has left the town. In Vicksburg there
were 250 new cases last Monday 7 and
the number is increasing rapidly.
Money contributions have been
sent in largo amounts to tho stricken
cities and villages. New York City’s
contributions amount to $47,242.50;
Philadelphia’s $20,907; Baltimore’s
$14,854; Chicago's $29,750; Pitts
burg’s $11,022; and numberless oth
er cities give in proportion. Physi
cians and nurses are fast hurrying to
Mississippi and Louisiana but no
faster than they are needed. Tho sit
uation is appalling and heart-rending
and growing worse hourly.
ANNUAL MIR A RACES
OF
The North Georgia
Stock agd Fair Association
VVill bo held in Atlanta, Georgia, October
21, 22, 23, 21, 25 and 20, 1878.
$14,500 Offered in Premiums.
$4,500 Oll'eretl in Racing' Purses.
$1,300 in Military prizes ! Over 20 military
comnauies outside of the Stato already de
cided to come.
THE FASTEST HOUSES
ill the country are coming.
Open-air Concert
every day by one of the
Finest brass bands in the United Slates,
A M USEMEN'TS
Of all kinds may be expected.
MINSTIIEL PERFORMANCES!
CIRCUS 1 MENAGERIE !
MULE RACES ! FOOT RACES !
WHEEL BARROW RACES !
SACK RACES!
VELOCIPEDE RACES !
His Excellency, Samuel -J. Tilden, has
been invited to be present.
THE MYSTIC BROTHERHOOD' of
Atlanta will appear upo-h the streets, Oct
-25, in more grandeur than ever before.
£-?f“ Send for Premium List:
Don’t fail to come.
B. W. WREXN, Sec’y,
W. B. COX, Pres. Atlanta, Ga,
sepG-toct2l
Administrator’s £ale.
Agreeably to an order of the court of Or
dinary of Banks county, Ga., will be sold
before the court house door iu the town of
Homer, Banks county, within the lawful
hours of sale, on the tirst Tuesday iu Octo
ber next, all the lands belonging to the es
tate of Wm Dodd, deceased, to-wit:
The place known as the Home Place, con
taining 148 acres, more or less; 13 acres of
bottom in cultivation, about 25 acres in old
field, balance in ouginal forest—with a re
serve of one acre around the graveyard..
Also, one tract known as the Buncomb tract,
containing 118 acres, more or less—lo
acres in bottom, six acres in cultivation, 15
acres iu old field, balance iu original forest.
Adjoining lands of Ira Carter and others,
sold as the property of Wm Dodd, deceased,
for the benefit of heirs and creditors. Terms
-one-calf cash, balance due in twelve
months, with note and good security.
ROBERT J. _DYAR, Admr.
FOR SALE.
The one third in the Gainesville Street
Railroad (03 Shares stock) apply to
Wm. W. Habersham.
1878. 1878.
: GAINESVILLE COLLEGE.
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G-AINESVILLE- OA.
REV. C. B. LaHATTE, President.
®®The Teachers in the different Schools of tho College will be carefully selected.' - J
This School, under tho fostering care of .the City Council, is devoted to the
Thorough Co-Education of the Sexes,
On the plan of the best modem Schools of Europe and America. Tho intention is to make
it one ot the leading Schools of Georgia, and the President ot the Institution earnestly so
licits the co-operation ot his friends throughout the State, and of the citizens geueially.
THE FAI TERM
Commences Monday, September ‘2, and closes Friday, December 20—sixteen weeks.
Students should enter promptly on the first day of each term.
Tuition is charged from the first of the scholastic month on which the student enters
to the end of the term—oue-half due in advance, the remainder at the close of the session.
No deduction for lost time or occasional absence, except in cases of sickness protracted
over one month.
DISCIPLINE.
The Discipline will be kind, impartial and strict. Faithful study aud thoroughness
in recitation MUST be attained by each student to retain connection with the-College.
PENALTIES : 1. Reproof; 2, The Rod; 3, Suspension; 4, Expulsion.
EXPENSES.
TUITION'. PER MONTH. SPRING TERM. FAI.t TERM .
Primary School $ 100 $ GOO $ 400
Common School 200 12 00 • .'. ..i. 800
High School 4 00 24 00 1G 00
College Classes 500 . •.... 30 00 20 00
Music 3 00 18 00 12 00
Rent of Instrument 50 3 00 2 00
Board ten to twelve dollars per Mouth.
INCIDENTAL FEE ONE DOLLAR PER TERM, IN ADVANCE.
ang23-Gm
NACOOCHEE HIGH SCHOOL..
1878. MULE AND FEMALE. 1878.
Situated in the Beautiful and Historic
VALLEY OF NACOOCHEE, GA.
FALL TERM OPENS FIRST MONDAY IN SEPTEMBER,
FACULTY:
Iter. J. J. Metkvin , - - - - Principal.
Miss Amelia Starr , - - Assistant.
Music Teacher to he employed.
EXPENSES.
BOARD EIGHT TO TEN DOLLARS PER MONTH.
TUITION ONE TO THREE DOLLARS PER MONTH.
INCIDENTAL FEE FIFTY CENTS PER TERM.
lly messing together, expenses of pupils may not exceed four dollars per month; and
at small cost, rooms near Academy furnished pupils wishing to form messes. A most
thorough education at the smallest cost can be obtained here. For full particulars
address J. .1. METHVIN, Nacoochee, Ga.
aug3o 2 m
FURNITURE! FURNITURE!
THERE is NO HOUSE in THE STATE
THAT CAN
COMPETE WITH US IN LOW PRICES.
THE LARGEST AND REST ASSORTED STOCK TO SELECT FROM.
8
The following prices will satisfy any purchaser:
Good Common Bedstea s, only $ 2 00
Maple Panel “ “ * so
Walnut " *■•.-, " .... 6 00
“ Bureau with glass 10 00
“ 1-4 Marble Bureau 12 00
“ Marble Top Dressing Case Suits 50 00
“ “ “ “ “ “ handsome GO 00
Cotton and Straw Mattresses $2 sffto 3 00
“ “ Shuck “ .. 3 50 to 4 00
All other goods in proportion Send in your orders. We sell only for cash. The
best parlor goods in the market for the money. Call and see us.
IVES & THOMAS,
aug3o 42 aud 44 Whitehall street, Atlanta, Ga.
NO MONEY 282,812
Mach inks Sold in T&77 -
COUNTERFEIT Juf
Ml SHE MAUESfojJ) i) Si^er c ° -
Prices of the Genuine J Than in any previous year
Greatly reduced Notwitlrstaudign the greatde
*7 pression in business.
No “Singer” Machine is genuine with n the a wv> T Me Mark on the Arm of Machine.
ioV*i Tl*® SIILL! During the ni >*'a -j l f auary, February, March and April,
18,8, the sales ot our Genuine Singer Sewing M i.-hine were Sixty per Cent, greater than
uurmg the coiresponding mouths ot last year. Could there be stronger evidence of the
hold these unequaled machines have taken upon the public esteem 'i Waste no moneti on
itii'tor counterfeits. Send for Circular.
THE SINGER MANUFACTURING CO.,
Principal Office, !I4 Union Square, New York.
CENTRAL OFFICE FOR GEORGIA, SOUTH CAROLINA , ALABAMA
AND FLO RIDA, 42 MARIETTA ST., ATLANTA, GA.
PPiwnn offtppu ( Augusta, Ga.; Macon, Ga.; Savannah, Ga,; Columbus, Ga. ;
bRANGII OFi IC ES -j ihomasville, Ga.; Gainesville, Ga.; Rome, Ga.; Charleston S C
aug3o-3m | Jacksonville, Fla. ’ ‘ '
GEORGIA STATE FAIR.
1878,
At MACON, Ga., from October 28tli to November 2d.
$9,000 in MONEY PREMIUMS !
An interesting RACING PROGRAMME each day. for Premiums covering $‘2500.
Tl bJffrl r^ ngC , a ’- Ul £ st commodious and most beautiful Fair Grounds, and the
best Mde 1 rack in the South- Liberal Premiums for every' department of
Husbandry, Manufactures, Machinery, and Works of Art. Send for Catalogue
of complete list ci J remiums, Rules and Regulations, which will be mailed
postage paid, on application to the Secretary. mailed,
COUNTY PREMIUMB.
To the Oounty’w iich (thiougli the Societies or Clubs) shall furnish the
largest an 1 liucst display in merit and variety of products and results
Ss e oonrtl ' ’ ( “ Cept ’ WbiCh excluded > raised or produced in
Second Prt u iuru 00
''TnbMASHAEDEMAN.'j,.;'p, e ;iaMl MW
H2!±i asKatr'
Georgia, White Cou.viy.
Whereas, John N Smith, administrator of
the estate of James II Smith, deceased, has
filed iu my office his petition stating that he
has fully discharged all his duties as such
administrator, and pra\ing that an order be
passed discharging aim from his said trust
as administrator:
Therefore, all persons concerned are re
quired to show cause, if any they have, why
letters should not be granted, discharging
him from his said administration, at the
regular term of the court of Ordinary to be
held in said county on the first Tuesday in
January next. Given under my hand and
official signature, this September 2, 1878.
sen7-td ISAAC OAKES, Ordinary.
FOR SALE !
A B AEG AIN,
Avery desirable house and lot, with ser
vants’ house, stables, necessary out-build
ings, and an excellent well of water; located
on Green street, within a hundred feet of
the street railroad. Will be sold at a bar
gain to au early applicant. Offered for no
lault, but to change the investment. In
quire at the Eagle office.
sep C-4t
A Week to Agents. Samples free.
< 4 I*. O. VIOKKRY k GO., AngusU
Maine* ang26 ly.
United States Internal Revenue,
Dep’y Collector’s Ofeice, 2nd Dist. Ga.,
x- . . , Gainesville, Sept. 4, 1878
.Nottce is hereby given of the following
seizures made by me for violation of United
Stfltes Internal Revenue Laws
. Four packages peach brandy, containing
gallons; onecoppe?
still, cap and worm, one a Xe , one bucket
tin measures and funnels, and one chair* as
the property of John L. Cruse ’
Any person or persons having any inter
saul property must make claim and
give bond as required by law Within th;,f
days, else the same will be soid and the net
proceeds deposited to the credit of u !
Treasurer of the United States ° f tb&
send 3t W ‘ B A WHITMORE,
P ° dt Deputy Collector.
Notice to Debtors anti Creditors.
YAEORGIA, WHITE COUNTY —Noting •
, {‘ ereb >’ given to all persons having d*
rnands against the estate of p I® f®*
ate of said county,deceased, to present them
to us, properly made out, within the l;
prescribed by W AU perTais
the estate of said deceased are reamired £
make immediate payment. 1 ■ ta
JOHN LOGAN,
sep7-7t W : H ‘