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The Gainesville Eagle Published Every Friday 1/lorning O IF 1 IF 1 I G E Upstairs in Camllcr Hall Building, Northwest Corner of Public Bquare. ‘ — : ■ - ~~T —; K'imn° n Clal ° rgan or Ua - BaukH ' White, Towns, Um “ n anJ Dawson counties, and the city twelve Ua !, a largo B onpral circulation in ot i* er counties in Northeast Georgia, and two counties in Western North Carolina. SUBSCRIPTION. CsR YEa lin Months t ,Q r l Hjreu. Months IN ADVANCE, DKHVEUED BY CAIUUEB OB PBEPAID BY MAIL. Ail papers are stopped at the expiration of the time paid for without further notice. Mail sub scribe™ will please observe the dates on their wrappers. fersona wishing the paper will have their orders dromptly attended to by remmitiiug the amount for the time desired. ADVERTISING. SEVEN WOBDS MAKE A LINE. Ordinary advertisements, per Nonpareil line, 10 cents. Legal Official Auction and Amusement advertise munts aud Special Notices, per. Nonpa reil line, 16 cents. Reading notices per line. Nonpareil type 15 cents Local notices, per line, Brevier type, 15 cents. A discount made on advertisements continued for longer than one week. 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. 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. m 37 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