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The Gainesville Eagle
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GENERAL DIRECTORY.
JUDICIARY.
Ron. George D. Rice, Judge 8. 0. Western Circuit.
A. L. Mitchell, Solicitor, Athens, Ga.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
J. ft. M. Winburn, Ordinary; John L. Gaines,
Sheriff; J. F. Duckett, Deputy Sheriff; J. J. Muyne,
Clerk Superior Court; W. 8. Fickiell, Deputy Clera
Superior Court ; N. B. Clark, Tax Collector ; -J R.
H. Luck, Tax Receiver; Gideon Harrison, Sur
veyor ; Edward Lowry, Coroner ; R. C. Young
Treasurer.
CITY GOVERNMENT.
Dr. H. 8. Bradley, Mayor.
Aldermen—Dr. H. J. Long, W. B. Clements, T.
A. Panel, W. H. Henderson,W. G. Hendersou,
T. M. Merck.
A-B. 0. Dorsey, Clerk; J. R. Boone, Trreasurer; T.
N.Hanie, Marshal; Henry Perry, City Attorney.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
Pbkhbytkhian Church— Rev. T. P. Cleveland,
Pastor. Preaching every Sabbath—morning aud
night, except the second Sabbath. Sui,day School,
at 9 a. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at 4
o’clock.
Methodist Chouch—Rov. W. W. Wadsworth, Pas
tor. Preaching every Sunday morning and night.
Sunday School at 9a. in. Prayer meeting Wednes
day night.
Baptist Ohubch Rev. W. C. Wilkes, Pastor,
Sunday morning aud night. Sunday
School at 9a. m Prayer meeting Thursday evening
*t 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 services every Sabbath evening at oue
of the Churches. Cottage prayer meetings every
Tuesday night iu “Old Town,” and Friday night
near the depot
# 1 FRATERNAL RECORD.
Floweby Bbanch Lodge No. 79, I. O. O. TANARUS.,
meets every Monday night, Joel Lasetkb, N. G.
B. F. Stidham, Sec.
Allkuhany Royal Arch Chapter meets on the
Second and Fourth Tuesday evenings iu each
> mouth.
H. S. Bradley, Sec’y. A. W. Caldwell, H. P,
Gainesville Lodge, No. 219, a.'. F.\ M.\,
meets on the First a nd Third Tuesday evening iu
the mouth
It. Palmouk, Sec’y. It. E. Gbeen, W. M.
Aik-Line Lodge, No. C 4 ,1. O. O. JF., meets
every Friday evening.
0. A. Lilly, Sec. W. H. Habbison, N. G.
GAINESVILLE POST OFFICE.
Owing to recent change of schedule on the Atlan
ta aud Charlotte Air Line Railroad, the following
will he the schedule from date:
Mall train No. 1, going east, leaves 7:47 p. m.
Mall for this train closes ao ~..7:00 “ |
Mail traiu No. 2, going east, 10aV00... .8:35 a. m.
No mail by this train.
Mail train No. 1‘ going west, leaves. ...0:51 a. in.
Mail for this trafn.closes at 9:30 p. m.
Mail traiuNo. 2, going west, le.;vea 9:05 p. m.
Mail for this train closes at 7.30 “
Office hours from 7 a. m. to 5:30 p. m.
General delivery open on Sundays from Bto9>£.
Departure of mails from this office:
Dahlonega and Gilmer county, daily Hbi a. m
Dahlonega, via Wahoo and Ethel, Saturday...>£ a. m
Jefferson k Jackson county, Tuesday, Thurs
day and Saturday 7 a. in
Cleveland, White, Union, Towns and Hayes
ville, N. C., Tuesdays and Fridays 7 a. m
Dawsonville and Dawson county, j Tuesday
and Saturday 8 a. in.
Homer, Banks county, Saturday 1 p. in
Pleasant Grove, Forsyth county, Saturday. .1 p.m
M. R. ARCHER, P.M.
‘^B s ymTm^*3rvunij l f ■,„*<
Atlanta and Charlotte
4k
AIR- LINK,
Passenger Trains will run as follows on and
. after
SUNDAY, JUNE <>, 1878,
MAIL TRAIN, DAILY.
GOING EAST.
Leave Atlanta 2:40 p. m.
Leave Gainesville 4:5(5 p. in.
Arrive Charlotte 2:20 a. m.
GOING WEST.
Leave Charlotte 1:18 a.m.
Leave Gainesville 9:55 a. m.
Arrive Atlanta 12:00 m.
ACCOM'N TRAIN.
(Daily except Sunday.)
GOING EAST.
Leave Atlanta 5:00 p. m.
Leave Gainesville 7:52 p. in.
Arrive Bellton 8:35 p. m.
GOING WEST.
Leave Bellton 5:00 a. m.
Leave Gainesville 5:41 a. m.
Arrive Atlanta 8:30 a. m.
Local Freight and Accommodation
Train,
(Daily except Sunday.)
GOING EAST,
Leave Atlanta 7:00 a.m.
Leave Gainesville 12:17 p. in.
Arrive Central 7:10 p. in.
GOING WEST.
Leave Central 4:40 a.m.
r Leave Gainesville 11:50 a. m.
• Arrive Atlanta 4:30 p.m.
Close connection at Atlanta for all points
West, and at Charlotte for all points East.
G. J. Fokeacre, General M inager :
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.
TRAIN~NO. 1.
STATIONS. ARRIVE. REAVE.
A. M.
Athens 7 00
Center 721 722
Nicholson 73b <33
Harmony Grove, 7 i>9 s W
Saysville... m 832
Gillsville 843 800
Lula 9 15
TRAIN NO.
STATIONS. ARRIVE. LEAVE.
P. M.
L Gillsville f '
kMaysville J cSo
olson HI ?25
ins...
■ A Snug Little Farm for Sale.
■ Forty-eight acres, with 12 or 15 in cultiya
■u- a large branch running through it.
I i'n the lot are a lime-kiln and
lime has been burnt at this qaairy.
I af this land is within the city ‘ ‘
-e of J b. Estes & bon, Attorneys,
aville, G*. JoySte-tf.
The Gainesville Eagle.
VOL. XII.
LE 'SPERIENOE 0U T)E REB'IiENI)
QUACKO STRONG.
Swing dat gale wide, ’Postle Peter,
King de big bell, beat de gong;
Saints and martyrs den will meet dar
Brudder, Reb’rend Quacko Strong.
Sound de bugle, angel Gabrel!
Tell de elders loud and long
Clear out dem high seats ob heaben,
Here comes lteb’reud Quacko Strong !
Turn de guard out, Ginral Michael,
Arms present, de line along;
Let de band play ‘ Conk’rin Hero”
For de Reb’rend Quacko Strong.
Den bid Moses briDg de crown an’
Palms an’ wedding gown along,
Wid procession to de la-em,
Here’s de Keb’rend Quacko Strong.
Joseph, march down wid your bredren,
Tribes an’ banners musterin’ strong;
Speech ob welcome from ole Abram,
Answer, Iteb’reud Quacko Strong,
Tune your harp-strings tight, King David,
Sing your good Ole. Hundred song,
Let de seraphs dance wid cymbals
Round de Keb’rend Quacko Strong.
Angels hear me yell Hosanna !
Hear my dulcem speritool song;
Halleluyer ! I’m a cotmn,’
I’m de Reb’rend Quacko Strong.
Make dat white robe radder spacious,
And de waist belt ’stordin’ry long,
Cause ’twill take some room in glory
For de Reb’rend Quacko Strong.
What ! No one at de landin! ’
’Pears like suiFin ’nudders’s w'roug;
Guess I’ll gib dat sleepy Peter
Fits—from Reb’rend Q acko Strong.
What a narrer little gateway !
My ! Dat gate am hard to move.
“Who am dat?” says ’Postle Peter,
From de parapet above.
Uncle Peter, don’t you know me—
Me, a shining light so long?
Why, de berry niggers call me
Good ole Reb’rend Quacko Strong.
Dun’no me—de shoutin’ preacher,
lteg’lar hull hog Wesleyan, too;
Whar in de woods you’ve been loafin’
Some ole rooster’s bodder’d you,
I reckon. Why ! I’ve convarted
Hundreds ob darkies in a song.
Dun’no me ! nor yet my massa ?
I’m de Reb’rend Quacko Strong.
Hark to dat ar cu’rns roarin’
Far away, but rollin’ nigher;
See de dreille dragon flyin’— •
Head like night and mouf like fire.
Tis de berry king ob debbils,
An’ he am rushin’ right along;
Oh, dear Peter, please to ooen
To class-leader Quacko Strong.
Ole Nick’s cornin’—l can feel it
Getting warmer all about.
Oh, my good, kind, Kurnal Peter,
Let me in, I’m all too stout
To go ’long wid Major Satan
Into dat warm climate, ‘mong
Fire an’ brimstone, Hear me knockin’—
Ole Church member, Quacko Strong.
Dat loud noise am cornin’ nearer,
Dreffle smell like powder smoke;
’Nudder screech ! Good heaben help me,
Lord, forgib dis poor old moke !
Aliens was so berry holy,
Singing an’ prayin’ extra long;
Now de debbil’s gwine to coteh mo,
Poor old nigger, Quacko Strong.
Hi ! dat gate swing back a little,
Mighty squeezin’ to get froo !
Ole Apollyon howlin’ louder,
Eberyting around am blue.
Bang de gate goes ! an’ Belzebub,
Bunch ob wool upon his prong,
Goes along widout de soul ob
Missabul sinner, Quacko Strong.
An Economical Locomotive.
Anew anthracite coal burning lo*
comotive has recently been tried on
the Old Colony (Mass.) Railway,
with very promising results. It is
said that it is constructed with a
largely increased tire surface in order
to remove the difficulties arising from
the consumption of coal in the ordi
nary locomotivo. Rating the con
sumption of fuel in the ordinary lo
comotive at forty to fifty pounds per
hour per square foot of grate surface,
m this engine, when doing its hard
est work, the consumption is said to
be only sixteen pounds per hour.
The fire box is behind and on a line
with, instead of under, the boiler,
and while in the common locomotive
the dimensions are GO and GG by 32
inches, the new design is S feet G
inches long by 7 feet G£ .inches wide.
The heating surface of the fire box is
103 square feet; of the combustion
chamber, 2G feet. The g-ate rest is
between water bars, which prevent
them from burning out, and'the area
is 64 feet. The diameter of the six:
driving wheels is 54 inches, and
above them are placed the boiler and
fire box- The cab is over the rear
end of the boiler, while on top of the
fire box are seats, protected from the
sun by an awning. Toe weight of
the engine is 86,150. At the front
end of the boiler is a revolving regis
ter, which, when open, has an area
of GOO square inches. On account of
the free steaming qualities of the en
gine, it becomes necessary to open
this register in order that the steam
may pass directly to the stack with
out passing through the fire. The
fuel used by this engine can be deliv
ered in Boston at $2.25 per ton, or
$1.50 less than the cost of the fuel
which is now used. As the fuel re
mains perfectly quiet iu the fire box,
the consumption is slow, and though
the engine has no spark arrester, not
a spark escapes from the stack; nor
is there any annoyance from smoke
and gas, which are consumed.—
Scientific American.
What Constitutes a Legal Notary in
Georgia.
We understand that at the Octo
ber term of tfie Superior Court an im
portant question, one which we believe
has never before been presented, will
be brought up for settlement: This
question is in regard to the number
of Notaries Public allowed under the
Constitution. It appears that some
time since a note was protested by
one of the commercial Notaries and
the parties concerned contend that
it was illegal, for the reason that the
Notary was not a Notary in the
meaning of the law. Under the
Constitution it is stated that the
Governor shall appoint one Notary
for each of the militia districts, and
that said Notary shall also be a Jus
tice of the Peace. Iu this case the
Notary was not a Justice of the
Peace, and hence it is .asserted his
action is illegal. To is iu an impor
tant question, and the issue will de
termine whether the Judge of the
Superior Court has tho right to ap
point Notaries Public. —Savannah
Newa.
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 20, 1878.
Row a Check was Cashed.
It wouldn’t do for some of the de
faulting bank cashiers to out iu
Kansas City. Mo. There is a police
man out there known as Long John,
lie belongs to one of the oldpst and
most respectable families,but he was
a wayward youth, and got away with
his share of the estate early in life.
Then with commendable pluck he
got on the force, straightened up,
and has been a faithful and temper
ate man ever since. As often as he
drew his pay he went to a certain
bank and deposited whatever he
could save. He continued his frugal
way of living until he had saved
about S7OO. Not long ago, when
oue of the solid institutions of the
Chicago of the West went down, and
the “bosses” of the institution were
“regretting” in tears to their penni
less depositors, Long John walked
up to the President and said: “Look
here; when I was a wild boy you
used to talk to me about saving mon
ey. You told me to follow your ex
ample, When I run through my
part of the estate you got ms on the
police force. You told to put what
money I could iu the bank. I did it.
I worked hard as a nigger, and
saved all I could. Now lam as poor
as when I commenced. And you
have nothing, you say, to pay me. I
want my money.”
The great bankrupt banker placed
his hands on Long John’s shoulders
and spoke to him sadly: “My
boy, this is a great tribulation. I
have lost everything and I can
not”—
Long John took the hand of the
banker from his shoulder and said: “I
don’t want any crocodile tears from
you. Every cent I put in your hand
I worked for like a nigger, aud you
know it. I would sooner be dead
than lose it. Now, if you don’t pay
me that money I will blow your
brains out here on the spot.’’ Aud
he placed a revolver against the
banker’s head.
In ten minutes Long John had his
S7OO and the great penniless banker
was begging him not to give it away
lest the example might be repeated.
It will do to try in Chicago.— Chica
go Times.
r Jhe Flood of Little Books.
Within a few years this country has
been llooded with a perfect deluge of
little books, the avowed object of
which is the teaching of a science in
the brief space of six or twelve hours.
Iu discussing this subject the Provi
dence Press remarks that it is entire
ly useless to say that knowledge
picked up iu that way possesses very
little or no value. A man might as
well read through a cyclopedia, and
then consider himself a learned man.
True knowledge costs labor, and
there is no knowledge which can pos
sibly hope to cover the whole field of
human interest. Asa rule readers
would do well to confine their atten
tion to any one thing, and to master
that. A man who has not fully mas
tered any oue thing, be it never so un
interesting, is not a scholar, aud he
is in danger either of becoming a
charlatan, or of remaining a novice
through life. To read too much is as
dangerous as it is to read too little;
it is better to read a hundred books
all bearing upon one subject, say the
finances, or the history of the exact
sciences, tfiau to read one book on
each of a hundred different subjects.
The great fault of our schools is that
they undertake too much. It is im
possible for a high school girl to do
justice at the same time to her health
Her needlework,, her domestic duties
and her school work, the latter too
often involving the study of half a
dozen different subjects, including
two or three languages, as many
sciences and some historical branches.
The fault of our age iu matters of
study is that it favor3 encyclopedic
information rather than solid quality
aud real thoroughness. Yet a per
son who is thorough iu any one thing
is a master, while all others remain
mere apprentices.
Continuation ot Generous Eflorts to Aid
the Fever Sufferers.
The following is a revised list of
contributions to date:
New York $141,026 64
Philadelphia 47,708 00
Chicago 37.4G0 00
St. Louis 35,000 00
Boston 26,007 09
Cincinnati....... 20,000 00
Pittsburg 18,000 00
Baltimore 14,854 09
Washington 11,000 00
San Francisco. 8,000 00
Charleston 7,000 00
Savannah 7,471 15
Springfield, Mass 5,385 00
Brooklyn 7,025 63
Lincoln, Neb 5,000 00
Indianapolis 4,500 00
Columbus, Ohio 4,500 00
Santa Barbara, Cal 4,000 00
Elizabeth, N. J 4,000 00
Mobile 4,000 00
Montgomery 3,500 00
Augusta 3,500 00
Evansville, Ind 2,700 00
Hartford, Conn 2,416 20
Little Rock, Ark 2,000 00
Shreveport, La 2.000 00
Newark, N. J 1,773 38
Jacksonville, 111 1,600 00
Selma, Ala 1,100 00
Terra Haute, Ind 1,050 00
Dubuque 1,023 00
Raleigh, N. C ~.. 1,000 00
Lancaster, Penn 1,000 00
Orango, N. Y. 1,000 00
Rochester, N. Y r 1,000 00
Atlanta, Gii.... . 1,000 00
Griffin, Athens, and small towns
Georgia, have also contributed up
wards of of SI,OOO each. —News A
Courier.
The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle wants
a graud “national” display of ex-
Confederates at the dedication of a
Confederate Monument in that city.
We fail to notice any yellow fever
fund in the Augusta papers.—Hart
ford {Conn) Courant. Augusta has
given three thousand dollars to the
yellow fever sufferers and will give as
much more. How much has Hart
ford giveu ?—Chronicle ■& Constitu
tionalist.
The Brazen Kellogg.
While the whole country was sink
ing political and sectional differences
to bind the wounds and comfort the
heart of the stricken South, it was
left for the arch-scoundrel Kellogg,
who misrepresents Louisiana in the
United States Senate, to attempt to
make capital oat of the sorrows of
his people. Kellogg, it seems, has
been working hard to make the citi
zens of New Orleans think that his
great influence with the administra
tion secured the issue of rations from
the War Department, and not satis
fied with that false pretense, is ac
cused of trying to induce Secretary
McCrary to believe that the distribu
tion of the supplies should be en
trusted to the Returning Board
crowd rather than to the noble and
self-denying members of ihe How
ard and Peabody Associations. The
idea is that Anderson and Wells are
to run for Congress against Ellis and
Gibson, and that if they can be made
the almoners of the government it
will be so much electioneering capi
tal in their pockets. Mr. Kellogg is
sharply rapped over the knuckles
and slapped in the face to boot by
Lieutenant Commander Kells, a na
val officer at New Orleans, who
writes an open letter to the Senator,
in which he saya: “You intimated
that dissensions among benevolent
societies here might delay the dis
tribution of government rations, and
I say you lie.” Further on he de
scribes his correspondent as coward
as well as liar. This testimony is no
news, for everybody knows Kellogg;
but it is noteworthy because Lieu
tenant Commander Kells is one of
the few naval officers who has been
heretofore a willing tool of Kellogg
and hand and glove with all the Re
turning Board crowd. —Philadelphia
Times.
Departure of Hie Grasshoppers.
They have come and gone. They
were evidently what was left from
former years. They were hungry
but uot healthy. The swarm was
about three miles wide, and cleaned
up nearly all the gardens, injured
corn very much and trimmed the
potato vines. The wheat and oat
crop was all harvested before they
came. Corn had been more injured
by the grub than it was by the grass
hoppers. The cabbage crop had also
been injured by insects. Drought
had affected the gardens and the po
tato crop, but the wheat and oat
crop was all that could be desired.
The ’hoppers were coupling when
here and yet the ground iu some lo
calities was honeycombed with holes
where they had tried to deposit their
eggs; but one gentleman who was
through the grasshopper troubles in
Southern Minnesota, and his two
boys searched three hours, and,
though they found thousands of
holes, they discovered only four eggs.
They found a deposit filling the egg
sacks, however, which, after laying a
day or two, resembled red granula
ted sugar. The ’hoppers were dis
covered with red parasites, were gen
erally smaller than the ’hoppers of
formers yeare and many of them died
from grief or other causes while
here. The settlements west of Bis
marck on Harte River and east of
Apple Creek were not affected by
them. They covered just a narrow
strip about Bismarck. —Bismarck
Tribune.
Domesticated Eels.
There is a curious case at Rockport
of the singular attachment some
times instituted between man and
the lower animals. A Mr. Hale has
been for a long time accustomed to
throw bits of food for some eels iu a
little brook that runs along the back
of his lot. Latterly he observed that
they seemed to be waiting for his
visit, and with a little training they
were induced to eat food directly
from his hand. Then they learned
to play and fondle about his fingers,
held in the water, and enjoyed his
caresses. More recently the largest
one of the four—a huge old fellow,
over two feet long and very large
around—allows Mr. Hale to take
him entirely out of the water, slide
him about freely, from hand to baud,
apparently enjoying the novel gym
nastics. When Mr. H. goes to the
brook, he calls them with a peculiar
whistle, aud they soon come rushing
briskly from down stream. Not
long ago he brought them the usual
lunch of fish an 1 mackerel, when
only the large one came. The eel
waited a few minutes, then turned
down stream, and soon came back,
bringing his tardy family to supper.
This shows there is no touch of the
human biped in them, for any ordi
nary biped boarder would have
pitched in without waiting, and
cleared the table.— Boston Globe.
Explosion of Powder by Lightning.
The recent explosion of two pow
der magazines by lightning, one at
tended with considerable loss of life,
emphasizes the need of great care in
the placing of such structures and in
providing them with proper light
ning conductors. The first explosion
occurred in Englaud, August 8, the
magazine belonging to the Victoria
Colliery, at Bruntcliff'e, and contain
ing one ton of powder. Several per
sons within rango of the explosion
were severely injured. The maga
zine was situated iu the middle of a
field, 400 yards from the colliery.
The shock was terrific, and but for
the incessant rain which preceeded
the’explosion, and had the effect of
stopping all traffic in the vicinity,
many lives, it is thought, would have
been lost.
The second explosion occurred near
Pottsville, Pa., August 17, the maga
zine containing 1,100 kegs or 25,000
ibs. of powder. There was a picnic
party assembled iu the neighboring
wood, half a mile distant across a
valley. Three were killed instantly
and several injured, some fatally.
Many houses in the neighborhood
were wrecked.
Hon. A. O. Bacon and Col. John
C. Rutherford of Macon arrived home
last week from their European tour.
A Way Passenger.
He a was culle’d tramp,” and ap
proached Capt. Jase Phillips as the
train hauled up at Pewee. “Is you
de captin’ ob de kears ?’’ “Yes,” re
plied Jase. “Don’t want fo’ ter hire
any deck hands, duz ye?” No! I’m
not running a steamboat ’’ “Zae’ly !
Mout I ride straddle ob de cow
snatcher to de next landin’?—l’se
busted an' a long ways from home.’’
“Get on ! All aboard!’’ and the ne
gro straddled the “cow-snatcher. '
Ed. Gilligan pulled out the throttle
wide open, and the train had not
gone more than half a mile before
the engine collided with a cow,
throwing it over a fence into a corn
field, and the negro after the cow.
Next day, coming down, the negro
limped up to Jase at the depot and
said: “Boss, I didn’t ride fur wid you
on dat cow-snatcher. Kase you see
de cow wanted to ride dar too, an’
dar wasn’t room fo’ bofe of us, so we
got off togedder up here in a co’n
field fo’ to rest. De next time I rides
wid you I’ll freeze to de tail-gate ob
de wagon—hit’s safea.’’ —Louisville
Courier-Journal.
The Use of Salt for Museum Purposes.
At a recent meeting of the Geneva
Society of Physics and Natural His
tory, Professor Alph. de Candolle ex-
glass jar contaniug fruits of
the coffee plant, collected before
maturity, in Mexico, preserved in a
liquid which chemical analysis proved
to be salt water. It is fifty years
since the jar thus hermetically sealed,
under the eyes of Aug. Pyr. de Can
dolle, and to-day the coffee beans
which it contains are in a thorough
ly satisfactory state of preservation.
The water contains a solution of
common salt, aud very small quanti
ties of other chlorides or salts. No
gas was found in solution, showing
that the water must have been
boiled, aud introduced while hot
into the jar. This experiment may
prove a valuable hint to curators of
natural history aud medical museums
as to the substitution of salt water
for alcohol (the inconvenieuca of
which every one knows) for the pres
ervation of organic specimens.—Sci
entific American.
•
Coming Prosperity.
The work on the Custom House
Investigating Committee in connec
tion with the various industries of
the country has led its chairman, the
Hon. Fernando Wood, to the opin
ion that the United States are “on
the eve of the greatest prosperity the
American poeple have seen, from the
Revolution down. It will not be fic
titieus, aud based on the stimulant
of c laiapagne and speculation, as af
ter*fiif. war, hnfc on tho strength of
our native constitution and enforced
sobriety. The reaction in 1873 gave
us a terrible headache, for we had
been running riot and were intoxi
cated. Those who survived feel to
day better and stronger than ever be
fore. We have been taught a good
lesson in enforced economy, and the
precept of economy is now practiced
by even our millionaires. It perme
ates the whole social fabric.”
Elks in Harness.
Mr. A. H. Moore’s span of elks at
tracted much attention on the ground
yesterday. Their names are Dexter
and Dasher. Dexter weighs 516
pounds and Dasher 500 pounds.
They are 2 years old each, well broke
to harness, and Mr. Moore says so
well trained that a woman can drive
them.
They were captured on Rice River,
eight miles south of Fargo, Dakota,
when 4or 5 days old. It is an easy
matter for them to travel sixteen
miles an hour and have two men and
a buggy, and it is said they can trav
el 100 miles as easy as a horse team
can fifty. Their antlers are in what
the hunters term the velvety stage.—
St Paul Globe.
The Turn in the Business Tide.
Ever since the panic, five years
ago, everybody has been doing busi
ness on a falling market, and, very
naturally, nothing could have a
more depressing effect. At last a
most unmistakable change is appar
ent.
There is no sort of doubt about it
—the bottom has been reached, and
and the tendency is upward, not
merely as to one or two articles, but
along the entire line of trade. It is
safe to predict that six months from
to-day not a single article of manu
facture will be as cheap as it is to
day.— Chicago Business Article.
Breaking It Gently.
Visitor from the country at the door
of a Southside residence to a Ger
man next door:
“Jane not at home did you say ?’*
German—“Nein, Chane’s nod at
home.”
Visitor—“ Where is she
German—“ She’s gone der ceme
tery down.”
Visitor—“ When will she come
back ?”
German—Oh she vont come back
already any more; she’s gone to
stay; she is det.” —lndianapolis News.
Beecher has gone to join Belknap,
Babcock, Orvil Grant, the whiskey
ring, real estate pool—and all the
nauseous ringsters who clamor for
third term. This man is iu Califor
nia on a lecturing tour, where he
peddles his infamous notoriety at fifty
cents a head. People go to see the
man who more than any of this coun
try has brought foul disgrace upon
church organizations; the man who
serves tho cause of Christianity by
leaving his pulpit and lecturing for
money upon sensational subjects.
This is the man who has joined the
gang of swindlers and flunkeys who
are “for Grant first, last, and all the
time.” If he does not servo the
cause of Grant better than he has
served Christ, morality, and decency,
he will not be a valuable ally.—Balti
more Gazette.
Victor Hugo the great French
p oet and writer is said to be insane.
He is 76 years old.
News in General.
Crops in Gwinnett county are only
fair.
Real estate is advancing in Greens
boro.
Lucy Cobb Institute at Athens
opened last week.
Longfellow pa\s a tax of $2,239 on
property in Cambridge.
The Planters Hotel at Augusta
was re-opened last Monday.
Only four whites, two of them in
fants died in Savannah last week.
Only five announcements so far
for Tax Collector of Jackson county.
It is reported that an evening daily
paper will soon be started in Atlan
ta.
Tho last Felton rally in Rome was
a most disgraceful Radical pow
wow.
Atlanta is very much concerned,
as well sho may be over the sewer
question.
The Athens Watchman continues
to assert every week that tho Pope
of Rome is dead.
The popular prima donna Clara
Louise Kellogg arrived in New York
from Liverpool last week.
The Cartersville Free Press insists
that the management of the State
road is opposed to Felton.
The sugar cane crop in South
west Georgia is most excellent ac
cording to the Albany News.
The Atlanta library has just ad
ded to its collection a superb por
trait of the Into Gon. T. R, R. Cobb.
Every paper in tho second district
supports Captain Smith for congress.
Mr. Seward will have to hire a
hall.
Mr. Outcli, of New York, mention
ed his name to the bystanders as the
car-door jammed his fingers last
week.
There has lately been quite a rise
in the stock of tho Georgia, Central,
and Augusta and Savannah Rail
roads.
Since the Maine election Ben But
ler’s chances to be Governor of
Massachusetts seem to have im
proved.
The Board investigating the Fitz-
John Porter case lately iu session at
West Point has adjourned to Ccto
ber Ist.
From the spire of the congrega
tional church at Pawling Vermont,
over 125 pounds of honey were taken
recently.
Democratic nominee for congress
from the fifth congressional district,
Hon. N, J. Hammond of Fulton
county.
The Marietta and North Georgia
Railroad is now completed as far as
Mr. R. C. Kerr’s about three miles
from Marietta.
A daughter of Gilbert Stuart,
painter of the most familiar portrait
of Washington lives unmarried at
Newport, R. I.
An extra session of the new Con
gress on the fourth of next March is
spoken of. There is at present no
probability of it.
Speaker Randall sent a dispatch
from Washington to Albany con
gratulating Hon. Wm. E. Smith on
his re-nomination.
Both Captain Jenks and Agne3
are said to be on the pay roll of the
New Orleans Custom House as well
as Agnes’ brother.
Judge Jesso A. Holizclaw is the
Republican candidate for congress in
the seventh district and is stumping
the various parts thereof.
Anew company has just been or
ganized in Thomas county called the
Thomas Hussars and Judge Mitchell
has been elected Captain.
Eleven sharks, the longest being
eleven feet, were recently captured by
the East Haven Fishing Company, ig
the bay off New Haven Conn.
Senator David Davis of Illinois, re
fused to accompany Hayes and ex
hibit himself among the other fat
cattle at the Minnesota State Fair.
There is a cotton tie manufactory
in Augusta which expects to manu
facture 10,000 bundles of ties this
season to be sold at $2.15 a bundle.
A little son aged 7 years of Rev. L.
O. Manchester of Mullica Hill, N.
J., was last week stolen by a tramp.
He was recovered the next day all
right.
The New York Times is candid
enough to admit that the Democrat
ic and Greenback coalition in Maine
has seriously injured the Republican
party.
Four hands on Mr. R. Warren’s
plantation in Henry county, picked
005 pounds of cotton, one day last
week. One of them picked 283
pounds.
Miss Josephine Compton, aged 17,
last week accidentally fell over the
Bushkill Falls in Pike county, Pa., a
distance of 120 feet and was fatally
injured.
Judge Kiddoo has resigned the
office of Judge of tiie Pataula circuit
and Gov. Colquitt has appointed
Hon. Arthur Hood of Cathbert to fill
the vacancy.
The recent beheading of Hoedel,
the would-be assassin, at Berlin, was
the first capital sentence which the
Emperor William has allowed to be
executed since 18GG.
The Democrats at Sedalia, Mo.,
have just held a barbecue, at which
eight oxen were roasted whole, and
forty sheep and four thousand loaves
of bread were eaten.
The rate for State and county
taxes in Jackson county, according
to the Northeastern Progress is 75
cents on the hundred dollars, the
lowest since the war.
The Democrats and Greenbaekers
of the second New Jersey district
have united on Hezekiah B. Smith
for Congress, who will be elected.
The present member is a Republi
can.
The Secretary of the State Agri
cultural Society has announced that
Senator Allen G. Thurman of Ohio,
has accepted an.invitation to attend
the State Fair in Macon October
28th.
Ben Butler has captured most of
the delegates to the Massachusetts
Democratic State convention from
Boston, Lowell, Lynn, Salem and the
large towns in the eastern part of
the State.
Judge S. B. Hoyt, President of the
‘'Atlanta Savings Bank of Georgia,”
has resigned that position, and will
be succeeded by Mr. L. M. Hill, a
wealthy planter of Washington,
Wilkes county.
As curious a liquidation of an old
bill as any, is that of a young man of
Shelbyville, Indiana, who has hauled
wood to pay Dr. Robbins for attend
ing his mother when ho was born
twenty years ago.
It is stated that quinine is now
higher than at any time since the
war, owing to malarial disease and
troubles among the South American
Indians who are tiie principal gath
erers of the bark.
Mr. Hubert S. Landrum, city edi
tor of the Memphis Avalanche died in
that city last week of the fever. He
was a brother of Rev. W. W. Land
rum pastor of the First Baptist
church of Augusta.
The forthcoming report of Comp
troller General Goldsmith will show
the total valuation of property in
Georgia for 1878 to be $220,221,718
as against $235,059,530 in 1877, a de
crase of $9,437,812.
Dr. E. M. Wight, of Chattanooga,
was nominated by the Republican
State Central Committoe of Tennes
see for Governor, in place of Ethe
ridge, formerly nominated by the
convention, but declined.
The Republicans and Nationals of
the Third Pennsylvania district have
united upon John Shedden as their
candidate for congress. His oppo
nent will be Speaker Samuel J. Ran
dall who may be defeated.
Hon. James L. Seward of Thomas
county, a member of congress before
tko war,is the Independent candidate
for congress in the second district.
Capt. Smith will beat him so badly
that he will not know what hurt him.
The Maine Senators have simply
to choose whether they wiii take
their crow boiled or fried. It, is con
jectured that the straight-out Demo
crat is less objectionable than
the disguised Republican.— Ghron. &
Con.
The Tammany Aldermen of New
York City were indicted some time
since for permitting the erection of
stands on the sidewalks. They re
cently voted to pay SIO,OOO of. the
people’s money to four lawyers for
defending them.
The New York Republican State
convention meets at Saratoga next
Thursday to nominate a Judge of the
Court of Appeals. The real fight is
between the Conkliug and Hayes
factions and is very bitter, but Conk
ling will probably win.
It is consoling to know that Sam
Small, Esq.. got home in time to do
up the headlines to the Atlanta Con
stitution 6 “Saffron Simoon” dis
patches, otherwise the plague would
have been unbearable iudeed.—
Chronicle A Constitutionalist.
A. desperate fight took place in
Baldwin county last week between
four U. S. Deputy Marshals and
two young men named Ennis who
were charged with illicit distilling.
One deputy marshal was mortally,
and another severely wounded.
Over six hundred bodies have been
recovered of persons drowned by the
disaster to the excursion steamer
Princess Alice, which was run down
and sunk on the evening of the 3d
inst, by the screw collier Bywell
Castle, on the Thames, England.
U. S. Senate Bill No. 300 with
amendments can be obtained ou ap
plication to Mr. W. C. Hill, Clerk of
the Senate Committee on Patents.
It relates entirely to proposed j
changes in the present patent law,
many of them of great, importance.
Prof. Comstock of Cornell Univer
sity, Ithaca, N. Y., Prof. Willett of j
Mercer University and Prof. Riley, U.
S. Entomologist, a commission to
investigate the habits cf caterpillars
and the best way to destroy them,
were in Mitchell county last week.
Judge Claiborne Snead has re
signed the county Judgeship of Rich
mond county. He will be a candi
date before the legislature for Judge
of the Augusta Circuit with every
prospect of success, so his frieuds
say, among them the Atlanta Consti
tution .
During the eight years Grant was
President he was paid $300,000 in j
salaries, besides probably a3 muek
more to cover incidentals. As Gen
eral of the Army for five or six years
previous thereto he received proba
bly SOO,OOO more. Why should he
poor ?
Charges have been made before
Gov. Robinson against Sheriff Reilly,
County Clerk Gumbleton and Regis
ter Loew of New York City, Tamma
ny office holders, for taking illegal
fees. If these charges are proven
Gov. Robinson will be obligc-d to re
move the officials.
Years ago
Maine went
Hell bent
For Governor Kent
And Tippecanoo
And Tyler too.
In seventy-eight
She’s gone again,
The gyascutis has
Slipped his den.
—Louisville Courier-Journal.
Ben Butler, since the M line elec
tion, expresses the opinion that the
Democrats and. Greenbaekers will all
unite before 1880. Nobody ever ac
cused Butler of being a fool.
A Canada cheese factory has turned
out a cheese weighing 7,000 pounds.
It is said to be six feet ten inches in
diameter, or tweuty-one feet in cir
cumference, and required thirty-fivo
tons of milk to make it, the product
of 7,000 cows.
Tildeu isn’t such a mighty £? oncr
ous man, but still ho contributed
$350 to the yellow fever sufferers.
He gave $250 of it out of his own
barrel at home, while Hayes gave
the remaining SIOO from Sammy’s
salary, which he continues to draw.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
We *re authorized by W. W. Price,
Esq., Sheriff of Oconee county, to
state that, upon reflection, he agrees
with Col. Billups as to the time at
which the conversation between
them took place, having reference to
Billups going before tno Gainesville
Convention. —Athens Waachman.
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A tree resembling the cedar, but
with the foliage so full of combusti
ble oil that it goes off like a flash on
the application of a match is one of
the wonders of Nevada. Within
five minutes a beautiful green tree,
with spreading branches, is change!
into a charred and blackened trunk.
At the inquest in Atlanta last Sat
urday, on the body of Leon Silver
man, the boy who died from inju
ries by being run over by a street
car in that city, the jury returned a
verdict relieving the driver of the
car, who had been arrested, from all
blame and he was discharged from
custody.
The increase in the export of live
stock from the United States to Eng
land in the year ending June 30th,
was 30,800 head of cattle, and 4,000
head of sheep. The actual mini bars
exported were 80,040 cattle and 183,-
995 sheep. In addition thereto, 54,-
000,000 lbs. of beef went over, an in
crease of 5,000,000.
Printing was discovered four hun
dred and thirty-four years ago, but
nobody bas yet discovered how to
run a newspaper to suit everybody.—
Yonkers Gazette. Oh, yes, there has.
We have them calling at our ofiice
every day, stop us in the street, or
tell us how to do it in a horse-car. -
Baltimore Bulletin.
The would-be assassin Nobeling
died last week in Berlin from tho
effects of his solf-inflicted wounds.
The Emperer of Germany, as ho
was riding in his carriage, was shot
at by Nobeling from behind a tree
and wounded severely in the face and
shoulders. Nobeling was immediate
ly arrested, and has been in prison
since.
Dr. Geo. W* Ladd, the Democrat
ic Member elect to the next House
of Representatives from the fourth
congressional district of Maine was
the Democratic candidate for the
same office in 1858, in the saniß dis
trict. The majority against him in
the three counlies then was nearly
4964. Now these identical counties
elect him by a majority approaching
3000.
Frank A. McKean is the Demo
cratic and Natt Head tho Republican
candidate for Governor of New
Hampshire which has her first fall
State election next November. The
Greenbaekers have also a full State
ticket in the field. The new legisla
ture will chose a successor to Sena
tor Wadleigk a Republican. The re
sult in Maine makes New Hamp
shire a very doubtful State.
It has been often supposed that
locomotive engines running fast
trains, must necessarily have -
driving wheels of large diameter, say
five and a half or six ieet, but those
ou the fast trains on the Pennsylva
nia Railroad making the run between
Jersey City and West Philadelphia,
89 miles m 1 hour aud 48 minutes
with two stops, have wheels of only
five feet diameter and get along all
right.
The Grand Lodge of the Good
Templars of Georgia convened in
Covlogton ou last Tuesday. One
hundred and twenty-seven delegates
were present. The public exercises
were of a most interesting character.
The speeches were of the highest or
der. Much good will be derived
from this meeting. The body was
composed of representative men. A
more iateligent lookiug body has sel
dom ever met in Georgia.
Republicanism as a form of govern
ment seems growing stronger all the
time in France. The legislatures of
the different departments—Councils
General—were divided when Mar
shal McMahon became President,
into 39 Republican, and 51 opposi
tion of all sorts. The result of the
elections of November 1877 showed
56 Republican to 40 opposition,
while the latest returns iuerease the
50 to 55 and reduce the 40 to 35. It
is thought that the Senate which has
all along b9eu the stronghold of the
combined opposition will bo Repub
lican for the first time next January,
which will give the Republicans com
plete control of France.
The Cologne Gazette, in the first of
a series of articles on the French
army in 1877, remarks that one of the
most striking changes which has ta
ken place in that force of late years
is iLe amount of work required of
officers aud men. The writer quotes
the daily' routine of a company of ar
tillery. The instruction of the men
begins at 6 o’clock in the morning,
and the first hour is devoted to teach
ing the soldiers how to mend, aud
keep in proper repair and order their
arms, clothing and equipment. From
7 a. m.- to 9 a. m. follow riding,
vaulting and gymnastics. Duriug
the next two hours the menjaro either
exercised on foot or drilled in larger
bodies. From 11 to 2 the men dine
aud rest and groom their horses.
From 2 to 5 p. m. the company is ex
ercised in the field, or marches out
into the country. From sto7p. m.
the men again rest aud eat their sup
per. This latter is followed by an
hour’s theorectical instruction, and
at 9 p. m. tattoo is beaten, and tho
barracks are closed. The results of
the increased amount of work thus
performed are already apparent. Tho
infantry march iu a steadier and
moreoidoily manner than of old, and
manoeuvre with incomparably greater
rapidity and ease. In
the progress made of late jears is
equally marked