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The Gainesville Eagle.
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DIRECTORY.
7 JUDICIARY.
/Hon. George D. Klee, Judge 8. 0. Western Circuit,-
_/ A. L. Mitchell, Solicitor, Athens, Ga. * ;
COUNTY OEFXOERB.
J. B. M. Wlubnrn, Ordinary; John L. Gaines,
BUerlll ; AwF. Duckett. Deputy Sheriff; J. J. Mayne,
Clerk Huperior Court; W. 8. Picjtrell, Deputy Clerir
Wuperior Court ; N. B. Clark, Tax Collector ; -J R.
H. Luck, Tax Receiver; Gideon Harrison, Sur
veyor ; Edward Lowry, Coroner ; Hl' o. Young
Treasurer.
CITY GOVERNMENT.
Dr. H. 8. Bradley, Mayor.
Aldsrmeu— Dr. H. J. Long, W. B. Clements, T.
A- Panel, W. H. Henderson,W. G. Henderson,
i . M. Merck.
A. B. 0. Dorsey, Clerk; J. R. Boone, Treasurer; T.
N.Hanle, Marshal; Henry Perry, City Attorney.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
Pbbsbytebian Church— Rev. T. P. Cleveland,
Pastor. Preaching every Sabbath—morning and
night, except the second Sabbath. Sunday School,
at a. in. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at *
o clock.
Methodist Ohubch— Rev. W. W. Wadsworth, Pas
or. Preaching every Sunday morning and night.
Sunday School at 9a. m. Prayer meeting Wednes
day night.
Naptist Ohubch Rev. W. 0. Wilkes, Pastor.
Preaching Sunday morning and night. Sunday
School at 9a. m Prayer meeting Thursday evening
at 4 o’clock.
•GAINESVILLE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.
.B. Estes, President; Henry Perry, Librarian.
YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.
A. M. Jackson, President; B. O. Maddox, Vico
President; W. B. Elements, Secretary.
Regular services every Sabbath evening at one
or the Churches. Cottage prayer meetings every
Tuesday night iu -Old Town,” and Friday uiglit
near UredOpot
FRATERNAL RECORD.
Floweby Bbanch Lodob No. 79, I. O. O. TANARUS.,
meeta every Monday night, Joel Lasetf.b, N. G.
B. F. Stidham, Sec.
Allibbant Royal Aech Chapter meets on the
Second and Fourth Tuesday evenings iu each
mouth. „ ,
H. 8. Bbadley, Sec’y. A, W. Caldwell, H. P.
Gainesville Lodge, No. 219, A.-. F.-. M.-.,
meets on the First a nd Third Tuesday evening in
the month
B. Palmoub, Sec’y. R. E. Gbeen, W. M.
Aib-Line Lodue, No. 64 ,I. O. O. IF., 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
“d Charlotte Air Line Railroad, the following
will be the Ichedule from date:
Mail train No. 1, going east, leaves 7:47 p. m.
Mali tor this train closes ar. 7:00 <<
Mall train No. 2, going east, 1eave5....8:35 a. m.
Mo mail by thii train.
Mail train No. 1* going west, 1eave*....6:51 a. m.
Mail for this train closes st 7.30 “
Office hours from 7 a. m. to 5:3(J p. m.
General delivery open on Sundays from B*4 to£UW
Departure of mails from this office:
Dahlonega and Gilmer county, daily B'4 e. m
Dahlonega, via Wahoo and Ethel, Saturday... Ba. m
Jefferson Sc Jackson county, Tuesday, Thurs
day aud Saturday 7 a. m
Cleveland, White, Union, Towns and Hayes
ville, N. 0., Tuesdays aud Fridays 7 a. m
Dawsonville and Dawson connty,; Tuesday
and Saturday 8 a. m.
Homer, Banks county, Saturday 1 p. m
Pleasant Grove, Forsyth county, Saturday. .1 p.m
M. R. ARCHER, P.M.
Atlanta and Charlotte
AIK- LIN K,
Passenger Trains will run as follows on and
after
SUNDAY, JUNE 0, 1878.
MATH* TIIAIN, DAILY.
GOING EAST.
Leave Atlanta 2:40 p. iu.
Leave Gainesville 4:5(5 p. in.
Arrive Charlotte 2:20 a. m.
GOING WEST.
Leave Charlotte 1:18 a.m.
t--vav Gainesville 9:55 a. in.
iveGlinesj* anta 12:00 “•
ve Gaines,-COML’JV TKAIIN.
ive Central.vily exeept Sunday.)
GOING EAST.
re Conti Atlanta 5:00 p. ni.
ve Guyi. Gainesville 7:52 p.m.
ve iiive Bellton 8:35 p. m.
M 1,,, going west.
igj. ■TVeßellton 5:00a.m.
' ye Gainesville 5:41 a. m.
live Atlanta 8:30 a. m.
oal Freight and Accommodation
'e Gniuesv (D “ i,y eXC6pt Sunday '>
e Gainesv going east.
e Centriktlanta 7:00 a. m.
Gainesville 12:17 p. m.
-Central 7:10 p.m.
Centrr
e Gaine going west.
Gsing; Central § 4:40 a.m.
8 AtJive Gainesville 11:50 a. m.
rsirrive Atlanta 4:30 p.m.
Close connection at Atlanta for all points
West, and at Charlotte for all poiuts East.
G. J. Fobeacue, General M inager
W. -J. Houston, Gen. P. & T. A’gt.
Northeastern Railroad of Georgia.
TIME TABLE.
Taking effect Monday, Jane 10, 1878. All
trains run daily except Sunday.
TRAIN" NO. 1.
stations. arrive, leave.
A. M.
Athens 7 00
.Center 721 722
Nicholson 7 3t> 739
Harmony Grove, 759 807
Maysville 827 832
Gillsville 849 850
Lula 9 15
TKalin phq o,
STATIONS. I ARRIVE. LEAVE.
P. 51.
Lula 5 25
Gillsville 542 545
Maysville (5 02 GOB
Harmony Grove G3O 640
Nicholson 701 707
Center 722 725
▲there. 7 45
A Snug Little Farm for Sale.
Forty-eight acres, with 12 or 15 in cnltiva
tion;alarge branch running through it
Upon the lot area lime-kiln and lime-quarry
Good lime has been burnt at this quarry.
Most of this land is within the city limits.
Inquire of J. B. Estes & Son, Attorneys,
Gainesville, Ga. juy26-tf.
The ,GAiNߧYiffiE Eagle.
VOL. XJI.
Col. Hell’s Api^mtmcnfs.
I will address tlur people of the
Ninth District upon curestious of Vi
tal public interest, atrfollows:
At Mulberry (Lv'sle stnW-J Jackson
county, Friday, September 27. < y
At Jefferson, SatuJfiav, September
28. •
At Harmony Grove, Monday, Sep
tember 30.
At Damelsvifle,Tuesday,October I.*
At Ilomer, Wednesday, October 2.
At Garneevi lie-Thursday, October 3>
At Toccoa City > Friday, October 44
At Clarkesville'fHvtii^lay,October 57
At Clayton, Monday October 7.
At Nacooeheo, Wednesday, Octo
ber 9. * .
At Cleveland, Thursday, October
10 - '* / ' . V-i
At Jasper, Tuesday, October 15. J
At Ellijay, Thursday; October 17.
At Morganton,Mommy .October 21.
At Blairsville, MondM’, October 28.
The people are ljesp&t’tfullv invited
to attend these appointments, and
the Democratic papt-rapa-e requested
to give them publicity?
U. P. Bell.
- -
Greenback anil
With the platform of ttie Green
back-Labor party limits entirety, no
Democrat agrees, neither does many
a man calling himself azQreenbacker.
But there are many tilings in the
Greenback platform which are good
Democratic doctrines. Senator
Thurman made a speech lately .in
Ohio for the Democratic party, (of
which mention has already been
jpiade.in these columns) and Senator
Wallace has done the same thing for
the Democracy iu Pennsylvania.
These leaders agree upon the finan
ces and the entire Democratic
with few exceptions, is in Record with
them. /
These gentlemen are opposed to
national banks. Thev favor the re
.. “ f
tiring of all their currency and the
substitution of United States Treas
ury notes in their stead. They de
sire greenbacks receivable* by the
Government for customs dues and
usable for all purposes t the same as
gold and silver. They oppose also a
further contraction of the currency.
Now 6 this was 'Dim3&Atic, -before it’
was Greenback doctrine and is en
dorsed by every Greenbacker.
But these, distinguished leaders
and all other Democrats insist that
this currency, lie it more or less,
must rest upon a basis of gold and
silver dollars and be convertible at par
with them at all times; that a silver
doMcr, a gold dollar and a greenback
I--
valuable to the nolaer
night here, however, comes m a
principle which divides by a wide
gulf all Democrats aud such Green -
backers as approve the Greenback
platform. These latter especially re
pudiate the idea of a redeemable or
convertible currency of any kind.
They insist upon what is now being
called “Hat” money, that is a piece of
paper of usual bank note size, upon
which the Government has stamped
“This is One Dollar,” or “This is One
Thousand Dollars,” as the case may
be. This currency is to be issued by
law according to population and tp
be based upon nothing but _ what
they call the “national wealth,” and
in this stuff all United States
bonds must be paid as fast as they
mature.
Men who endorso such nroposi
tions as these last aro not Green
hackers, but visionaries of the worst
kind. They are pursuing a course
that will bring individual and nation
al bankruptcy upon us as certainly
as the sun will rise on the morrow,
and they cannot expect sensible men
of any party to act with them. The
Democratic platform as laid down
by Senators Thurman and Wallace
is good enough for all Democrats
and every Greenbacker, especially
every Georgia Greenbacker, who de
sires the success of his cause aud not
the ruin of his couutry.
Butler anil the Massachusetts Democracy.
It is pleasing to note that the
names of but few prominent Demo
crats appear at the head of the howl
ing mob which Beast Butler last
week marshaled at Worcester as the
Marsachusettß Democratic State Con
vention. Taking possession by force
in the dead hours of the night of the
hall designated by the State Commit
tee as the place for holding its ses
sions, the Butler hoodlums refused to
be removed from the convention ex
cept by the shedding of blood. The
State Committee, wisely we think
left the beast and his followers in uu
disturbed possession of the premises
and adjourned the convention to
meet at Fanueil Hall, Boston on
Wednesday the 25th inst. We hope
by this time the Democracy of Mas
sachusetts have placed in nomination
as their candidate for Governor a
man entitled to the respect of all
Democrats in the Union -and for
whom every Democrat in Massachu
setts can vote.
But if the issue iu tho Bay State is
narrowed down to a choice between
Benjamin F. Butler and Thomas
Talbot the Republican nominee,
against whom nothing can be said
except that he is a Republican and a
temperance fanatic, the people of
Massachusetts, without any distinc
tion of party, should see to it that
this most notorious and disreputa
ble politician fails in this, tho one
great desire of his heart.
eAINESYIIXE. GA."
onr Only Hanger. ' i
It is a natural rule of politics for
theminority party in a State/ M
make any sort of a combination to ip
defeat the majority. The Democrats
of Maine combined with.
. b.ickei’R to defeat the
without any regafeUto th| special leJ
sues involved, but only iu/bbedjeuca to
this universal For this
- t-.amo reason evety voter/in Georg
, seerotiy or openjly opposed t/ilup
Democratic party will unite
‘class of voters t$ it. $
iicans,
and sorehead of'
description are makiNgj, ready
in nearly every concessional distl’ict.
in this State to unitlimpori
son .to defeat the /nominee of the
Democratic party. -’ If iu one drstrict
an Independent to HWjr<he
better chance for ha series
their undivided support; if a Green
backer or Republican is^v thought
more available in another, he is the
man to whom they trajjlft’ theyr in
lluence and votes. defeat the
Democratic party oiily.oo
ject and they indifferent, as to
the means. £
The northern are safe.
They gain, instead of logo by Inde
pendent or Greenback diversions*, but
the danger is upon us. AVo lose add
lose heavily by every
here in politics, as it is from our par
ty that the Independents and Green
backers expect to recruit forces*
If we wish to keep securu the Demo
cratic majority in the next House,
if we are desirous of a
solid South in the next electoral
lege, if we hope to elect a Democrat-,,
ic President to conduct the" adminis
tration of this government, with a
Democratic congress at his back, for
four years from March 4, 1881, it is
necessary for us to realize that the
crisis is now upon and act as be
comes the situation.
There is only one course for a
Democrat to pursue aud that is to
go to the polls on the fifth of Novem
ber and vote for the reguUr nomi
nee for Congress. He who votes
another way is no Democrat in fact,
however honest he may be inten
tion?: He but deceives himself and
injures the party to which he pro
fesses to belong.
Mr, Speer In Hall.
Oif Wednesday of iam.
Speer addressed the people of this
county r at the Court House. He con
fined himself strictly to denunciation
of the convention system and abuse
of Col. Billups conceiving these only
to be the issues of this canvass.
Not a word did „he say upon the
great questions now brought home
to every tax-payer and working
man in tho land, nothing about the
courso he would sliouldjiglit
ning striker him and send him to con
gress, except that ho worth! not bo
bound at all by’ tho action of the
Democratic caucus but would al
ways vote for “Democratic princi
ples,” that is “Speer principles, ’ as
interpreted by Speer. Ho dwelt large
ly upon the bill offered by Col. Bell
for Col. Billups, as his father’s ad
ministrator, and made statements re
lating thereto of wMch anybody’
would ho ashamed—always excepting
an independent candidate for con
gress. He said Billups, before he
could derive any benefit from that
bill would have to take the ironclad
oath that ho was a loyal citizen du
ring the war aiid prepared at all
times to aid the United States in
subjugating this section. He knew,
if he has general knowledge enough to
entitle him to go to congress, that
if Col. Billups could take the
ironclad oath, the Court of Claims
was open to him, but as he could not
take the oath, he had to apply by
special bill to congress which body
has aud exercises the power to relievo
both Federals and Confederates
without any oath. He also stated
that Col. Billups wanted to go to
congress to vote for this bill w’hen he
knew that no Senator or Member of
the House of Representatives has
a right by the law and rules of cou
gress to vote upon any measure in
which he is directly or indirectly in
terested. If Mr. Speer is so igno
rant, he is excusable, if he is not, he
wilfully misrepresents Col. Billups
for the sake of getting votes. In
either case he is not fit to go to con
gress.
First Locomotive Trip.
The first locomotive trial trip iu
the United States, and, it is claimed,
in the world, was made at Hones
dale, Pa., 50 years ago, or, more pre
cisely, August 8, 182S. The track
was built by the Delaware and Hud
son company to connect their mines
with their canal. The engine was
the “Stourbridge Lion” and its draw
ings and construction were superin
tended by its driver, Horatio Allen,
at Stourbridge, England. Mr. Allen
is still living at South Orange, N. J.,
77 years of age, and he says that he
made the trial trip on the “Stour
bridge Lion” alone, as it was gener
ally feared that it would leave the
hemlock track at the curves or break
down the trestle work across the
Lackaw xen river. It did neither.
It was more than a year after this
If] me,* October 0, 1829, tl® r . re f, pec , t: *j
I > , ir > - i to the hea/
] son s “Rocket made its tna. *j a
j England. Coi. J. A. Clark, nc-nds \
j employe in the department;
at Washington, has' restored
monster,
on {oar with iron tires
and all drivers. The cylinders are
upright at'the back and each side of
the furnace, with connecting rods to
/the or&hk-pjns in the wheels.
* Uniuu I’omity Jtfttiugs.
jEtlitvrs Eat/ley
. As the readers of your paper may
feel some interest in affairs in this
traus-Tmmntain country, and as you
have heretofore been kind enough to
allow your columns for such
(focal /ftona as might chance to be of
interest. I venture to
with a short letter.
. , Farmers are aud have been for
fome closely engaged in pull
ing fodder and preparing for another
crop. We liavoy had no rain for a
good the weather has been
fine for saving fodder. We havehad,
in some lopalities a slight touch of
tire quite ertol. The corn crop is not
yet matured/and would be injured
by frost, plybably up to first of Oc-
andome even later. The acre
age iu corn ; is greater than usual,
but the yields will be below au aver
age.
Revivals have been pro
gressing in severflfeeighborhoods for
the past few The people
seem to be awake to their social and
moral interests. They have caught
tiue spirit, which, I am pleased to see
is prevalent almost everywhere in
r Georgia oil the subject of Sunday
Schools, and have such
schools in several neighborhoods.
Some of those are largely attended,
>md are doing vtoll. The desire upon
The part of parents to educate their
‘children is very general, and the
cpmmon schools are well attended.
It is a matter of Regret that these
scfiools,are so lived.
In the midst of the varied interests
and pursuits, our people find time to
think of and discuss politics a little.
I mention this, lest- you on the south
side of the mountain should conclude
that you enjoy a monopoly on this
subject, or that there was but one
side to the question here. Differ
ence of opinion you know, is what
provokes discussions on all ques
tions, and this it is too, that stimulates
inquiry. All lovers of truth should
be glad that this is true. The popu-
lation-of these mountains, though
not thoroughly educated, is never
theless essentially, a mentally active
and thinking on,e, notwithstanding it
has occasionally been made sport of
by those who have afterwards found
it necessary to, canvass it fqr votes.
The people here really like to hear
'wilffljgfo blttf
they will form theif own opinion,
and tjjey are not rffer so easily mis
lead Is to what-their interest and
the country’s Interest is, as many
suppose. Error often assumes a Bhape
so plausible as to win, at least tem
porarily, the support of well inform
ed people, buC time and relleetiop
usually I notice some
fptter this and contigu
ous <--oulCSkw 1 ing iu the Southron,
say up hero is all for
Speer for*Congress.
Now, jdiave no authority to say
whq it vote for and-yet I have as
much authority, and pikhahly know
as much about it as.tlrn*writers. I
allijde to these writers, lest it might
be thought that tho Democrats of
these mountains were all dead or had
all moved off. I want to assure you
and your readers, that a good many
of us are still here, and that we don’t
understand the situation to be as re
ported. Ido not pretend to say who
people will vote for. No one has
any authority to say now. Only one
of the lias been heard
here. The desire is wide-spread to
hear the other one. I might give
you some data for estimating proba
bilities: This is a Democratic coun
ty, and has so voted in every election
since 1808, including that year. The
same efforts have been made and re
peated, to divide and disorganize tho
party, that are being so persistently
made now. Year by year, men who
were once Republicans becoming
convinced that it was best for the
country that the government should
change hands, have united with us.
I believe in good faith. Tho efforts
heretofore made, to divide and crip
ple the party have failed. The sel
fishness of those who would ruin it to
aggrandise themselves is very great
indeed, yet in the past, the patriotism
of the people has proved too much
for this selfishness great as it is. 1
may be permitted to say that I have
no "doubt, when the people finally
come to act, their patriotism and
their wisdom will again be vindica
ted, and a rebuke again bo adminis
tered to the lamentable selfishness of
the self constituted candidates for of
fice, who, claiming to be Democrats,
yet seek to divide and disorganize the
party in the face of a watchful enemy
aud that too when the great oppo
sing forces in the government, are
already being marshaled and prepar
ed for "the momentous contest which
is to determine, whether the govern
ment of these states is to continue in
the hands of the Republican party
and be administered in the interest
of bond-holders and money-changers
for another weary term of years, or
to pass into the hands of the Demo
cratic party and be administered fairly
and equitably for the whole people,
and the toiling masses saved from
ruin. The Democratic party is the
only one that any sane man supposes
can confront the party in power, witj.*
any prospect of success. No one cr
suppose that it will be strengthen
by dividing or confusing it in
cality of any State where it has an"
istence. The people
magnitude of the issues involved'ir fc
the importance of preserving Ji for
party organization, and it wi’t e f Q]
very dificult to seduce them in
volving themselves, just becar Billu j
individual has determined Candida
through himself, that he
DAY
SNING. SEPTEMBER 2*, 1878.
•ed ! however elpqi>eutly or
i I |fcey may be importuned to
a I Denial 1, all the circumstances
es" kojfj§ardiy be expected to sur>-
on as|sEa|%us presenting himseiL
Wn., 'la owgd gratitude t-d/ fgr
° ne to whom the ,peo
pltpd the .too obligations, it. would
see/Aoal- irdly hope to succeed-
Sv* ud Sr osing to hold the /fjfcsL
tife t d jßgreßsman, is not regarded
as &f disinterested patriotism,
as sulthiDgs are uuderstoo# in
theseii’s. You will uudersfind
thaLp#inion, as to the ultimate
resujkoased upon the confident I
liav<ftfhe ability of the people to
see lugh shallow devices. 'Mnasry
of tlfciii who failing to be honored
aceoA to their opinion of their
mOj/Urtd wjho are startling" t’aAir
the cry of “giffg,
ring” A’-pjjdhat Filey aro sucGeas
'fully the people, b j they,
are nc P-?iy are fooliug
A majc* l* jf the people understand
just aif|h as you and Ijfdc# ihfit
thosejfl' &re most
ly arajrfiv trying to make a “lijfflo,
ring:*f fleirjßwn, in which
be riijmaster, “only this and> noth
ing ile.’’ Yoii may rest aspired
that 1 people will do ajjJut, „ what
they lieve to Be right stod idlest for
the cfiti’jt. They are / now thinking
aboulwbat they had do.
You i the/ voting p/rople/are/ot
studyl’ hdfw to get ah- offibe them
selves 'i t is their fluty
to country. /While the
be fujro hhlders on the' “litjjy
ring |in’ ; are retailing the verdiclfof
/the jiple before it is rendered, to
sensamal newspapers, in 'Clio hope
of erfing ime sentiment which they
claim 'htists; the jteople/vCio
are intekted more than they are/in
doing lht are stuping, enquiring
and sealingYor truth
hear Ceßillups speak on tl?u4p of
Octohejand time theyjfcll'
make tfft decfiiion kqownit JT
V... CljQ. WaiLLBORN.
,/ r j J 7 m f
Presided White on the Wis, ’Uxhihi
feS
In a |ivate letter yto a Iriend in
Brookly, I'%sid/iq>^Vlii l Cor
nell Unrersi\, sgeaks of
succesfit Paris.in following
terms; * * '
“The really vast
nanial. You will-be glad
that ! oar Americaus arc carrying
muchYior€f than their share of the
great %wards. Only yesterday, in
sitting in the Jury of Appeals, ! was
great!# interested iu seeing how, in
one (Upartment after another, our
peopl/havo made their mark. In
regard'to several exhibits, while the
presidents of the class juries pre
sented! their reports, they’ went into
exclapMtions of surprise over the re
cent jtevelations of American energy
erica “went
on as shpresent is going, in re
gard to the paper manufacture, she
would srton of the Euro
pean markets, instancing more par
ticularly ttfPfindustry iu the United
States. I only wish we could have
had one of those paper boats pres
ent, such as that in which our Cor
nell boys heat Harvard the other
day. That would have completed
the tableau.
“Perhaps the most striking thing
has been the taking of the Great,
Priz9 for artistic gold and silver
work by Tiffany. Splendid as the
Exhibition was iu this respect, Tiffa
ny stood above all his rivals. In ag
ricultural implements and in machi
nery of a certain class we lead evt ry
thing. But this does not surprise
me so much as to find that in vari
ous points where we did not expect
much there are important recompen
ses for skill and ability. With all
the ingenuity which
have given to surgical instruments
aud instruments of precision, I was
especially glad to seo the Uiiitod
States stand at the side of Frauf
such recognition.” ™
Remarkable Agricultural Gains.
Tho United States are far in ad
vance of any other couutry in point
of agriculture, the development of
this departure of industry having
been truly marvelous in late years.
Thus the corn crop increased from
768,330,000 bushels in 18G7 to 1,340,-
000,000 in 1877, or nearly one hun
dred -per cent, in a single decade.
The hog crop, which may be said to
be the product of the corn crop,
reached the enormous total for the
year ending with last month of 9,-
048,566 head, an increase of rising a
hundred per cent, during the last ten
years. The yield of wheat for the
past ten year was 360,000,000 bush
els, or 50,000,000 more than was ever
before produced. Deducting the
amount necessary for home consump
tion and seed, upward of 100,000,000
bushels are left for export. In al
most all other farm products there
has been nearly a corresponding in
crease. As agriculture is generally
conceded to be the foundation of all
prosperity, better times surely ought
not to be far off. Indeed, we believe
the turning-point in the long road of
depression has been reached, and
that every step will now be in the
direction of a normal and healthy
condition of business. Notwith
standing the dullness of trade, there
is an undertone of confidence, with
a better feeling in many branches of
business. It is not based on any
great degree of improvement in any
quarter, but still an improvement is
quite generally noticeable, and how
ever slight, it is welcome as an indi
catinni&the drift of a current which
-ed au|-y Jjjead on to activity.—A\
is this|:>. |W.
i _ ;
News -’in General.
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CiffUbCit has,.a new fire company.
Gov. HauajSfcm has taken tho, stump
again. -
By January, Thomasville will bo
out of i[ebt.
Bine corn crops iu and around Jef
fersqn county.
Aihiiny is to haft) anew two story
school ImiuUag.
Columbus has given nearly $3,500-
tovellow fever sufferers.
djtou. N. J. Hammond has resigned
hia tho legislature. B
papers continue to warn plaht
ejfs against hemp bagging.
fester is whittling away S*elt° u
majority in Cherokee county.
/The latest census shows the poyu
lation of Japan over 34,000,00(1. /
Tho Vanderbilt ■ will contest has
been in New York city. ,
/Harris is entitled to the nomina
tion” says the LaGrange Reporter.
yA jealous colored lass brick-batted
bsv recreant lovyer in Savannah last
faek./V ’ J ■'
r Two b/ouses corner Hall -
3 streets were burned last
week* '/ ' v
Tk@ colored Baptists of
IGalnfes have/ erected a very neaff
churchy / * , „
The Atlanta* Constitution Mias-’ a ‘
gbance now to tfiko hold of Citizen
Arnold.
/ Sitting Bulfis reported well ktip
r>lied/witJi,armsjuid ammunition in
jwanada/ 1 ,
/ The West Point cadets have con
tributed SSOO, to *fGe yellow fever
'suli’erm/
ThytSagle 'and Phenix company of
. UoLnmbiNß has.sent many blankets to
.'Memphis^
• Dr. W, H. Ciftrswoll, of Americas,
as awolunteer physician to
\ ■'-*//> -T
1 Ocorifee 1 has not
beeirtst low s\nga I£>39 as it has
this suiyf%r. w .'
The Talbot ton Standard says tho
corn crop-oftthat county is the lar
gest for y’ea^T
A gang of nogS'Oj burglars in Sa
vannah lias been' broken up and its
leaders jailed. .
* A depraved wretch iu Chicago,
sold his wife’s corpse for five dollars
to get drunk on.
The editor of thfijGriiiin Neius has
returned and tm'neu'bis paper into
the big road again.
You don’t have to tell Bijtler or
ttu.M.g, cS is s.l■< wj ] ix—n —-J—U .Tinii.--
kiio# LeaWi i.’Tr? \At. - '
Mr. Hayes (R. B.) continues to
deliver John Sherman’s speech
throughout tho West.
Numerous conversions iu Lumpkin,
from Speer to Billups, according to
the Dahlonega Sit/nal.
Judge East of Chattanooga has de
clined the Greenback nomination for
Governor of Tennessee.
J‘hn P>. Gorman, of the Talbotton
Re j inter, has just returned homy
from his European tour.
The Wa- Department will distrib
ute 40 ()(Hi rations among the fever
sul'l’ -rors m New Orleans.
Tli ; Augusta Evening News will
e mmmnoe the publication of a week
ly on the first of October.
, A brick yard in Geneva, Ga., turns
out nico pressed brick by machinery
at tho rate of 360 a minute.
Up to last Saturday Augusta had
received 12.276 bales of cotton an in
crease over last year of 9.470.
No Democrat in Cincinnati will
an appointment as a U.S.Dep
uty Marshal on election day.
Win. Richardson, colored, fell
dead in Savannah last Friday while
working on the brig Paquito.
Alfred Harrell and Bill Jones, both
colored, were committed to Pulaski
jail last week for horse stealing.
The credentials of tho Chinese
minister will probably be formally
presented at Washington to-day.
Matt. Carpenter will be a candidate
for United States Senator from Wis
consin, to succeed Timothy O. Howe.
Y T erdi has finished an opera en
titled “Montezuma,” and it will be
given next carnival season iu Milan.
During the last cotton year Mont
gomery, Alabama, received 106,284
bales of cotton, and Mobile 419,071.
Henry Morrison an old citizen of
Augusta and a native of England
died-in that city last week, aged 71.
The Savannah News thinks that the
fourth district Democrats cannot do
better than elect Mr. Harris; so say
we.
The notorious William E. Chan
dler writes that the Republicans are
likely to be defeated iu New Hamp
shire.
Sam Bard, ex-Governor of Idaho,
well known in this State, died last
week of yellow fever, at Baton
Rouge.
A corn-canning factory and a pack
ing company were burned out in
Portland, Me., last Saturday. Loss
$40,000.
Lieut.-Gen. Joseph Wheeler is a
candidate for United States Senator
from Alabama. He is a native of
Augusta.
“Sly, sir, devilish sly, but some
what overdone,” is the Cincinnati
Enquirer's idea of Butler’ coup d'etat
at Worcester.
The Republicans of Massachusetts
have nominated Thomas Talbot for
Governor and John D. Long for
Lieut.-Goveruor.
. Braden, of Indian
;ed off all the honors
'-training ship (the
laid in New York,
jJ/zjkas a gold medal
C presented by the
■•efused a cadetship
jt, which belonged
would not re
3to the United
Hayes, bis Secretaries bf- State*
War ami Navwa'nd the Attorney
.General, are .away from Wash
ington.
/ Tim Charleston artesian well is
no w 1,970 feet deep, ami yields -l>o
gallons of water a minute-, with ,a
head of 102 feet.
The Austrians wavt) captured the
town of Brezka, ✓on S'.vd,
after a desperate resistance by the;
Bosnian insurgents.
t \V. F. Eve, Esq., of AngusAa, now
county solicitor will probably receive
the appointment, of J/idge of Rich
mond county court;
-A decree has' been issued by the
viceroy of Nanking, China ordering a
confiscation of every bouse rented
fpr opium smoking.
Brunswick Adm-liter says
Judge John L. Harris of that circuit
will have no opposition iK the legis
lature for re-election. „•
■ i Gen. Charles B. SpiooY of New York
the first man who wore the uniform
Athe Seventh Reginiftat, died in that
sy last week aged 80.
Most of the State papers outside
the fourth district, ‘are in favor of
Harris’ re-elefcMon, and most of those
iftsida for that matter.
Gen. YVm. Phillips is President, R.
jfyi Maddox Treasurer, if M. Ham
mett Secretary o 1? the Marietta and
North Georgia Railroad.
pijolm H. Fisher, of Now York City,
late receiver of the Air-Line Railroad,
has been appointed receiver of the
South Carolina Railroad. \
Sherman says “there will bo no
letting dowii by t he Executive branch
of the government, as to resumption
on the first day of January.” ?;'jj
The Potomac river steamboat line
connecting .the Richmond, Freder
icksburg and Potomac railroad with
Washington is to be re-established.
Bad Franklin charged with assault
with intent to murder Robert Wilson
colored, was committed to jail in At
lanta last Saturday in default of bail.
The Plug Ugly Judge Bond and
the robber Ex-Gov. Chamberlain
bpive*''succeeded between them in
seizii% the Scjith Carolina Railroad.
“Citizen” will hot reply in the At
lanta Constitution to Mrs. Felton, but
lie gives Mrs. Felton’s husband and
decidedly worser half particular fits.
Edward McPherson, Chief of the
Bureau of Engraving and Priutiug of
the Treasury Department, has become
political editor of the Philadelphia
'Press.
Among the dirty things that Beu
Butler has done was to get Hugh L.
Pond, the Baltimore Plug Ugly, ap
pointed a Circuit Judge of the United
States. | ...
" A special congregation *oT tucT Car :
dinals has just decided that the Pope
should not leave the Vatican unless
under special overruling circum
stances. i
Tile Radicals want United States
Marshals appointed in Cincinnati to
serve on electioa day in order to car
ry both Congressional districts in
that city.
Secor Robeson, Grant’s Secretary
of the Navy, is the Republican candi
date for Congress in the first New
Jersey district. The district is Re
publican.
A branch of the Georgia Society
for the iVev ht.ion of Cruelty to Ani
mals was I;; '■ week organized at Sav
annah with Cd. C. W. Anderson as
President. ,
If any one wants to know who
gets vote in t -e !wfy
entk district, let him read the
merits ef%he Pel ton papers,ou. lioltz
claw’s candidacy. '. A
George Brown, tho murderer un
der sentence of death, who escaped
recently from Cobb county jail, has
been recaptured and is now safe.in
his old quarters.
The Dairyinple farm,near Fargo,
in Dacotah Territory, contains 100,-
000 acres. Of 40,000 acres in the
Gran din division,l3,ooo are this year
under cultivation.
Eugene Hale, like Longfellow (tho
horse, not the poet,) has been taken
off the track. In future old Zack
will only uso him for breeding pur
poses. — (Jin. Eny uirer .
Last Friday the revenue officers
seized the wholesale liquor house of
Francis Kelly & Sous at Wilmington,
Del., for rectifying, though only
paying wholesale dealers tax.
Bill Mitchell (col.) stabbed with a
knife Mark Matthews (col.) to death
in Gwinnett county, last week, Tues
day. The murderer lied and was
last seen near Stono Mountain.
Speights' Spartanburg Dailg pub
lishes live columns of names of viola,-
tors of the revenue laws, who plead
guilty at the last term of the United
States District court at Greenville.
Hale of Maine says his party will not
go out of its way to court the Green
backers. Tue Greenbackers certain
ly did not go out of their way to
court Hale —they rather kicked him.
Returns of the general elections all
over the Dominion of Canada give an
Opposition majority of at least seven
ty-five. In the last House the Gov
ernment had a majority of forty-five.
Four gentlemen rented the Grand
Union Hotel at Saratoga this season
for SGO,OOO. The receipts have been
$300,000 and disbursements $200,000,
leaving about SIO,OOO profit to each
partner.
“Parents have deserted children,
and children parents, and husbands
their wives but not one wife has de
serted her husband'’ says the Mem
phis Avalanche, referring to the fever
in that city.
ludia has lost nearly a million and
a half of people during the past year
by the famine that has prevailed with
in her borders, and the deaths from
starvation in China probably number
| as many more.
The marble statues o? Generals
R. E. Lee, T. J. Jackson, if R. R.z
Cobb and W. H. T. Walker,-To bA
placed near the base of the Confed
erate monument in Augusta, have ar- ■
rived In that city.
A bottle of whiskey with a burning
match behind it ’ stopped a, train on
the Central Railroad of New Jf*rsM
by producing a red light, danger
A commuter. Who hast I.
his usual train invented it. ’ >%?■
The leading men in the ‘‘eonv no
tion” in Atlanta which aommgtrrd
R nbetr Arh-obV for congress ‘were
Thomas W. Tiiurrfiuh a Republic in
and white rnnrrnml George McKA -
nev a negro and RepabHiean. ; i
Prof. Win! tteiiry WalldeTf; -of Hto
State University, died dtidilenly* *i Htb
ThwfflKluy weSk,wu.the -cats at A6i
iford, just before reaching Rip’qiyftqdQ
oil a
torn - , and was returning liOum. >
The lourU* .disjoint J).U4ioerat^c
NO, 38
convention adjourned jinarj
king a nomination but recoupin'udcJ
Hbn. Henry R Harris foFfo-filodtifm.
Hon Henry Persons of TaiOoti' uinw
antii uubed himself a eahUidgte.
The body-of Edwin French of Ch'vF-’
land, Uittu stayed in the*grave Oho
night. Too n-.-xf/day it s whs?loufiit ,
tn a tank at the Cleveland
thic "Medici! College by 'bid ftOh. 'Of
course nobtaly knew how it got there.
Seven hundred delegates to the
New Hampshire State
Convention,contributed $- r >B to the
yellow fever sufferers. The Demo
cratic Convention of three hundred,
and six delegates collected 810t> Jit
C. E. Putnam, of Madison, Conn ,
has a child which has attracted the
attention of Barnum. When the!
child was born he weighed but, sev
enteen ounces, and now that, he is’ a
year old ho weights only forty-eight
ounces.
To call Bob Ingersoll a devout.
ChristiaiT gentleman, Belknap au
honest man, or .Wieneral Grant’s ad
ministration a bitesing to the eon -
try, would hardly be so absurd a- 113
call Ben Butler a lJemocrat. — Sd l
ndh Neios.
Editors like brevity, but a'maiT
who was recently hung in Indian "
suited thorn too well. He made
remarks about heaven, but noddeg „ g
the preacher and said, “I’ll see.
later,” and then the trap fell.-—Pi o
lo Express.
The Spanish frigate Pizarro of 1,'10(’
tons carrying 12 guns and comma !
ed by Capt.' Aguado foundered at sea
on the 10th iust. The crew 15*3 in
all, were brought to the Delaware
Breakwater last week by the Italian
bark Carlo Frugini.
Baron. Emile d’ Erlauger, who
married the eldest daughter of the
late Senator Slidell, has sent by tele
graphic cable transfer, at his own
cost, one thousand dollars to the New
Orleans Howards, for the benefit of
yellow fever sufferers.
The Butler men in the Massachu
setts Democratic State convention
met in Worcester last Tuesday week
-uijU-iilaiw-ol' .
commii,v,eo .and nominated Butler.
The regular convention was held in
Boston day before
Post Master General Key told
Gov. Irwin of California in San Fran
cisco last week that he, Hayes and
the other de facias at Washington
were of opinion that the Burlingame
treaty with China should be modified
in regard to Chinese emigration.
Last Wednesday week, about one
mile west otVMorrow’s station, in
Clayton county,Mrs. Farmer,a widow
lady, aged eighty-six, was murdered,
and her daughter, about sixty, fatally
injured, and the house set on lire.
Tne probable motive was robbery.
When, two years ago, Turkey was
struggling with the revolt in Bosnia
and Herzegovina, Europe looked con
temptuously upon Turkey’s labors
and misfortunes. Now that 2(Ve
of the bust soldiers of Austri "im
ry have failed in trie same u*-
ing, tiie Turk does not appea. ,
ceptionally feeble, after all.
The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows
last week in session at Baltimore, re
duced the salary of grand secretary
from three to two thousand dollars a**
year; assistant grand secretary from
two thousand to eighteen hundred;
grand treasurer from five hundred to
three hundred and fifty, and grand
messenger from one thousand to
eight hundred dollars.
Referring to the Maine election,
Senator Bayard writes to a friend:
“The struggle is in reality for the life
of property in all it3 forms of credit;
and if a promise can be. paid abso
lutely and finally by a promise, there
will never be performance, and so
ends the fabric of credit in all its
forms and in all its result and accu
mulation.
Mr. Hayes ought to run home and
take hold of hi3 Cabinet with both
hands to keep it steady. An alleged
financial policy which doubles on it
self three times in a fortnight, is be
wildering to the people who havo
some interest in knowing what sort
of money they will need to pay their
bills with day after to-morrow. —New
York Tribune.
A funny discovery has been made
as to the origin 5f Kearney’s favorite
expression, “lecherous bondholders.”
The general supposition has been
that the adjective was chosen to de
note that the villains who own bonds
are given to licentiousness But it
turns out that the sand lot orato ’
chose the expression “iecherous’
supposing it to be derived from the
“leech,” and that it indicated the
blood-sucking habits of tho “slimy
imps” who have put their money in
bonds.
Dr. Felton and Dr. Hargrove are
both attending upon the Democratic
party. Dr. Felton says it is corrupt
and he wants to purify it. Dr. Har
grove says it is the.enemy of the Re
public and he wants to kill it. Thus
we have two Doctors attending upon
the same patient—one saying he
wants to purify aud the other he
wauts to kill; and .hev are both ad
ministering tho same physics to ac
complish different results. Com
ment is unnecessary. —North Georgia
Citizen.