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The Gainesville Eagle.
Published Every Friday Morning
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tvabuu, Union and Dawson counties, and the city
ot Gainesville. Has a large general circulation in
twelve other counties in Northeast Georgia, and
two counties in Western North Carolina.
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GKJV Elt A E DIR ECTOR Y.
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JUDICIARY.
Hon. George D. Rice, Judge 8. C. Western Circuit.
A. L. Mitchell, Solicitor, Athens, Ga.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
J, B. M. Wiuburu, Ordinary; John L. Gaines
Sharif?: J. F. Duckett. Deputy Sheriff; J. j. Mavue,
oiork Superior'Jourt: W. 8. Plckrell, Deputy (Hers
Superior Court ; N. B. Clark, Tax Collector ; -J R.
H. Luck, Tax Receiver; Gideou 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. Henderson,
T. M. Merck.
A. B. 0. Dorsey, Clerk; J. It. Boone, Trroasurer; T.
N.Haute, Marshal; Henry Perry, City Attorney.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
Presbyterian Church— Rev. T. P. Cleveland,
Pastor. Preaching every Sabbath—morning amt
night, except the second Sabbath. Sunday School,
at 9 a. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at 4
o'clock,
Methodist Church—Rev. W. W. Wadsworth, Pas
lor. Preaching every Sunday morning and night.
Sunday School at 9a. in. Prayer meeting Wednes
day night.
Baptist Church Rev. W. C. Wilkes, Pastor.
Praachiug Sunday morning and night. Sunday
School at 9 a. m Prayer meeting Thursday evening
at 4 o'clock.
GAINESVILLE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.
•B. Estes, President; Henry Perry, Librarian.
YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.
A. M. Jackson, President; R. 0. Maddox, Vico
President; W. B. Clements, Secretary-
Regular services every Sabbath ovoning at one
of the Churches. Cottage prayer meetings every
Tuesday night iu “Old Town,” and Friday night
near the depot
FRATERNAL RECORD.
Flowery Branch Lodge No. 79, I. O. O. TANARUS.,
meets every Monday night, Joel Laseter, N. G.
B. F. Stedham, Sec.
Allkuhany Royal Arch Chapter meets on the
Second and Fourth Tuesday evenings in each
mouth.
H. 8. 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 month
R. Palmoub, Sec’y. R. E. Green, W. M.
Air-Link Lodge, No. 64 ,1. O. O. {F., meets
every Friday evening.
0. A. Lilly, See. W. H. Harrison, N. G.
GAINESVILLE POST OFFICE,
Owing to recent change of scliedulo on the Atlan
ta and Charlotte Air Line Railroad, the following
will be the schedule from date;
Mail tralu No. 1, going east, leaves 7:47 p. m.
Mall for this train closes at 7:0!) “
Mail train No. 2, going east, leaves 8:35 a. m.
No mail by this train.
Mail train No. 1* going west, 1eave5....0:51 a. m.
Mail for this train closes at 9:30 p. ni.
Mall train No. 2, going west, leives. ...9:05 p. in.
Mai! for this train closes at 7.30 “
Office hours from 7a. in. to iri'lo p. ill.
Geueral delivery open on Sundays from 8g to9>£.
Departure of mails from this office:
Dablonega and Gilmer county, daily a. iu
Dahlonega, via Wahoo and Ethel, Saturday.„B>£ a. in
Jefferson k Jackson county, Tuesday, Thurs
day and Saturday 7 a. m
Cleveland, White, Union, Towns and Hayes
ville, N. C-, Tuesdays and Fridays 7 a. m
Dawsonville and Dawson county, ( 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-LINE,
Passenger Trains will run as follows on and
after
SUNDAY, JUNE 1878.
MAIL TRAIN, ILYIISN.
GOING EAST.
Leave Atlanta 2.40 p. m.
Leave Gaiuesville 4:56 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. m.
Arrive Bellton 8:35 p. m.
GOING WEST.
Leaveßellton 5:00 a. m.
Leave Gainesville 5:41 a. m .
Arrivo 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. m.
Arrive Central 7:10 p. m.
GOING WEST.
Leave Central 4:40 a.m.
Leave Gainesville 11:50 a. in.
Arrive Atlanta 4:30 p. m!
Close connection at Atlanta for all points
West, and at Charlotte for all points East.
G. J. Fokeacke, General Mrnager
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.
THAIN NO. 1.
stations. labbive. leave.
I A. M.
Athens 7 00
Center 721 722
Nicholson 736 739
Harmony Grove, 759 807
Maysville 827 832
Gillsville 849 850
Lula 9 15
TRAIN NO. y.
STATIONS. ARRIVE. LEAVE.
P. M.
Lula 5 25
Gillsville 542 545
Maysville 602 608
Harmony Grove 630 640
Nicholson 701 707
Center 722 725
Athens 7 45
A Snug Little Farm for Sale.
Forty-eight acres, with 12 or 15 in cultiya
tlon; a large branch running through it.
Upon the lot area lime-kiln and lime-quarry
Good lime has been b*nt at this quarry.
Most of this land is within the city limits.
Inquire of J. B. Estes A Son, Attorneys,
Gainesville, Ga. juy26-tl.
The Gainesville Eagle.
VOL. XII.
Col. Boll’s Appointments*.
I will address the people of the
Ninth District upon questioi* of vi*
tal public interest, as follows:
At Toccoa City, Friday, October 4
At Clai ke.sville,Saturday,October 5.
At Clayton, Odfcober^.
At Nacoochee, Wednesday, Octo
ber 9.*
Atr Cleveland, Thursday, October
10.
At Jasper. Tuesday, October 15.
At Ellijay, Thursday*
At Molfc'anton, Monday .October 21.
At Blairsville, Monday, October 28
The people are respectfully invited
to attend these appointments, and
the Democratic papers are requested
to give them publicity.
V H. P. Belt,.
’ The Tuesday'. '
The interest iu the Ohio and In
diana elections %xt week, always
very considerable, lias grown exceed
ingly sine i the result iu Maine last
month. Ohio elects a Secretary, of
State, a Judge of the Supreme Court,
a Member of the Board of Public
Works and twerd v congre. mien 1
The present incumbents of these offi
ces are Republicans while the con
gressional delegation stands eight
Democrats to twelve Republicans.
Indiana elects nearly all her State
officers, except Governor and Lieu
tenant-Governor, half the State Sen
ate, the whole of the House of Rep
resentatives and thirteen congress
men. The State officers are Demo
crats, the legislature on joint ballot
is Republican and that party has
nine out of thirteen congressmen,
making the representation in the
present congress from the two States
twelve Democrats and twenty-one
Republicans..
Since tlie Maine election, the Radi
cals have virtually given up both
States and there is not much doubt
of the success of the Democratic
State ticket, therein. Ohio has been re
districted since the last congression
al election in the iuterest of the
Democrats, who will probably elect
as many as twelve and perhaps four
teen of tho twenty congressmen. In
Indiana we shall carry the first, sec
ond, third and twelfth districts now
represented by Democrats and proba
bly the fourth, as well as the Indian
apolis district (the seventh) in which
there is a Democratic Greenback
combination. The fifth, sixth and
eighth are also doubtful. The legisla
ture, which will choose a United
States Senator to succeed Daniel W.
Voorhees, Democrat, will certainly
not be Republican but the Greenback -
ers may hold the balance of power
therein as they certainly do in half a
dozen congressional districts.
The friends of Senator Thurman
insist that his chances for receiving
the Presidential nomination in 1880
will be much improved, in fact ren
dered almost certain, if Ohio goes
Democratic this fall, but we do not
think so. In our judgmeut it makes
no material difference to Thurman
politically, how Ohio votes next week,
but the election in October 1879 will
settle the question of Mr. Thurman’s
candidacy before the next National
Democratic Convention, as at that
time a Governor and legislature will
be cboseu, the latter body electing
Thurman’s successor in the Senate.
If Oliio then be lost to the Democra
cy, Judge Thurman’s name need not
be mentioned in connection with
the Presidential race of the next year.
If the uhio Democrats elect a Gover
nor and legislature in 1879 the Ohio
Senator will be a candidate with oth
ers for the Presidential nomination.
The Wail of the Banks.
It is idle for the national banks to
cry out that the entire business in
terests of the country are going to
perdition, simply because their exist
ence is threatened by Democrats and
Greenbackers. Wo got along very
well before there were any national
banks, and wo shall without doubt
do equally as well after the last one
of them shall have ceased to issue
notes. Banks are supposed to exist
for the benefit of the business com
munity, and plain people who do
business can see no reason why every
one hundred dollars invested in a na
tional bank should be represented by
a United States bond, upon which
the government not only pays inter
est, but in addition gives the banker
ninety dollars in paper money which
he proceeds to let at as high a rate
of interest as he thinks it prudent to
charge, thus getting a double return
for his money.
There is not the slightest necessity
for a single bank of issue in the
United States. So long as the gov
ernment is deeply in debt, it is wise
statesmanship to put so much of that
debt as can be kept at par with gold
aud silver into greenbacks, and thus
save the interest to the tax-payer.
So long as the government furnishes
any portion of our paper currency, it
should supply the whole of it. This
is going to be done, and the national
banks may as well prepare for it, and
begin now.
The eruption of.Mount Vesuvius is
increasing. The base of the new
cone is covered with lava which is
streaming down the sides of the
mountain.
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 4. 1878.
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Voting Early and Often.
A correspondent of tho Atlanta
Constitution, signing himself “Citizen,"
in last Friday’s issue, lets' a little
light in upodjf arson Felton’s canvass
in 187G,and of official fig
ures, shows how that election was
carried. We have verified his state
ments, and added a little thereto.
According to the Comptroller Gen*
oral’s report in 1870, there were
204,507 polls of white in
the State, and there were cast in No
vember 150,630 v0te5—23,877 less
than the number of polls. In the
counties outside the seventh district
there were 162,013 -polls, and 150,307
votes—*2s,o4o less than the number
of polls—while in the seventh district
24,203 votes xvere cast—l,7o9 more
than the number of polls, which was
22,494. Outside the seventh district
87 couuties, more than two-thirds,
voted less than the number of
while in tho seventh half the counties,
7 in number, ca°t more -votes
than there were polls. Of tho 30
counties outside the seventh dis
trict voting more men than there
were polls, 25 were negro
counties, in which it. is difficult for
the tax receiver to get tho entire
number of polls, while every one of
the 7 couuties in tho seventh
district so voting is a white county,
where it is comparatively easy to in
clude every poll iu the return made
to the Comptroller General.
Of tho 14 counties comprising the
seventh district, Dabney carried 8
and Felton G. In tho 8 counties car
ried by Dabney, there were 9,422
polls and 8,995 votes, 427 less than
the number of polls. Iu tho G coun
ties carried by Felton there were 13,
972 polls, but not only all these were
counted but 219 G more, as 152G8 bal
lots were voted. And as the vote iu
ono county was 203 less than the
polls, the apparent fraudulent vote in
the other counties is 2,399, being that
many more than the polls therein
In Floyd county, •where the Radical
postmaster at Rome managed Fel
ton’s canvass, 801 more votes were
cast than there were voters in the
county’ according to the tax receiver’s
books. Take these 2,399 votes be
longing to nobody from Felton’s ma
jority 2,4G2 and only G3 will be left,
“easily smuggled in in tho other
counties,’’as “Citizen” says.
Hayes’ vote iu the seventh district
was 5,157 white and colored. The
187 votes for Sheats, for Congress
came from these men. It is not
likely that Dabney received the'sup
port of any man who voted for
Hay es, but admitting that he and
Sheats together received 300 Repub
lican votes, this left Felton with
4,744 more Radical votes than Dab
ney. As Felton’s majority’ over Dab
ney was 2,462, this shows 2,282 ma
jority iu tho Democratic party for
Dabney or 4,G81 majority if we
take from Felton tho 2,399 ballots
voted in his five counties by men
who do not appear on the poll lists.
This is an interesting exhibit with
a double showing; first, that in all
probability Dr. Felton was not elec
ted in 187 G by legal votes, and second,
that if he was, it came about by and
through a political alliance between
a decided minority in the Democratic
party and all the Republicans in the
seventh district. The parson is a
healthy subject, he is, to harp upon
fraudulent conventions, tricky poli
ticians and dishonest leaders of the
people.
Butler no Democratic Candidate.
Beast Butler is a candidate for
Governor of Massachusetts, but,
thauk fortune, lie is not the Demo
cratic candidate. That ignominy is
happily spared the party. On
Wednesday of last week the Massa
chusetts Democracy met at Faneuil
Hall, Boston, and nominated Josiah
G. Abbott for Governor, William F.
Plunkett for Lieutenant Governor
and a full State ticket.
Judge Abbott is one of the best
lawyers in the United States, is a
life-long Democrat, was a represen
tative from Boston in the Forty
fourth Congress and a member of
the Electoral Cojnmission. Mr.
Plunkett is a leading business man
of Pittsfield aud a Democrat always
Both gentlemen are of the highest
character and standing, aud every
Massachusetts Democrat should feel
honored in voting for them. If the
leaders of the dying Republican par
ty in that State were possessed of
any grains of common sense, they
would proceed at once to withdraw
their candidates and urge their fol
lowers to cast their ballots in a body
for Abbott and Plunkett.
As the case now stands, however,
Butler has a fair chance of becoming
the next Governor of Massachusetts,
but no part of the disgrace arising
therefrom can be justly charged to
the gallant Democracy of the old
Bay State.
M ess. Walsh and Wright, mana
gers of the Augusta Ghron. <5 Con.,
issued last Monday the first number
of the Evening Sentinel, a daily five
column, four page paper, containing
all the associated press dispatches.
Subscription, $1 00 for three months
English Excursion Steamers.
I went tu the scene of the late dis
aster by an early boat from London
Bridge, immediately north of which
is the principal landing-place of the
company by whom the unfortunate
Princess Alice was owned, and by
whom also the ferry traffic of tho
river is monopolized. The lleet num
bers sixty-two steamers, most of
them marvels of inconvenience; long,
narrow, black and low in the water.
The passenger on deck has no pro
tection from sun, rain or dew, and
and below his only refuge is iu a
dreadful little cock-pit that ’twere on
ly irony to call a cabin, in which “re
freshments,” chiefly spiritual, are sold
by the coekney’est of cockneys. One
feature which illustrates the aston
ishing anachronisms embodied in the
boats is the means of communication
between the captain on the bridge
and the engineer. A bell or speak
ing-tube would certainly be the sa
fest and most economical, but ap
patently because the first ferry-boats
employed an intermediary small boy
to stand under the bridge and vocal
ly repeat the captain’s orders, the
same'method has continued on
the latest additions to the fleet. The
captain motions with his hand:
“Slow her!” call the intermediary,
and the engineer repeats, “Slow her”
suiting the action to the word. Again
the captain motions. “Stop her!”
calls the observant small boy, and
the engineer echoes tho instructions
to show that ho has heard them.
The boats could not be larger than
they are, owing to the bridges across
the river, and as it is they are com
pelled to lower their smoke-stacks in
passing under the arches, which to
an American who sees it for the first
time is a somewhat startling opera
tion,-while to everybody it is disa
greeable. Tho pipe is hinged at the
base, and as it is turned hori
zontally over, tho black, bituminous
smoke beclouds tho passougers seat
ed astern.
These are the vessels by which Lon
don travels to Wesminstor, Batter
sea, Chelsea and Kew. They make
frequent landings on both sides of
the liver, and are extensively used
by business people going east or
west, as they are more expeditious
than tho omnibuses and much cheap
er than either omnibuses or the un
derground railways. At all seasons,
however, they have an air of festivity
derived from a proportion of pleas
ure seekers, who, with that English
fondness for the water which seeks
gratification even if the sea is seven
ty miles away and the tide is as tur
bid as tho Thames at London bridge,
spend twopence or fourpence in the
unexciting passage up the river and
feel like great travelers in disembark
ing. A band of two or three pieces,
a harp :nd a cornet, perhaps, ora
company of the grotesquely-rohed
negro minstrels, so common in the
vagabond entertainments of the
London streets, add to the holiday
element, and while at all times the
boats are crowded, they are often
overcrowded. Their licenses per
mit them to carry between two hun
dred and eighty and four hundred
and fifty passengers, not one-half of
whom can be seated, and when there
is a full completion it is impossible
to move without much crushing. If
at a busy time ono of them should
strike or be struck by a larger object
some of its passengers would inevita
bly be knocked overboard; but the
London Steamboat Company employs
careful men, and until the accident
of yesterday it claims to have carried
more than two hundred million pass
engers without losing one through
the negligence of its servants. More
than six hundred at once brings the
percentage of mortality up to a piti
able figure, however, and as I write
the blame seems to fall upon the lost
captain of the Princess Alice.— W. 11.
Riding in New York Evening Pont.
The Mission of Journalism.
Until recently the American press
has failed alike to appreciate and to
fulfil its responsible mission. In
England it is denominated the
“Fourth Estate,” but iu the New
World the press is second only to the
pulpit in the education and direction
of the people, and the poople are the
sovereign authority of the land. Jour
nalism is to-day tho great teacher of
the masses. It is more potent for
good or for evil than any other
source of power in our free institu
tions. It precedes and follows the
schools; it is the companion of child
hood; the helpmate of manhood; the
solace of age, and its lessons are as
ceaseless as the return of spring and
autumn. It is the preceptor that in
sensibly moulds the convictions and
the actions of all classes, and the
journalism of any community points
unerringly to the tone of the people.
Devoted to evil; to the literature that
saps public and private morality, it is
a crowning curse. Devoted to the
instruction and elevation of its read
ers; to the literature that ennobles
as it instructs, it is the conservator
of sound public and private morals,
and it is constant in its work of ma
king better both Church aDd State.
There has been no great struggle for
the advancement of civil and religious
freedom that did not rely upon the
pulpit and the press as the great in
strumentalities to bo summoned to
the front. They were the authors
and the victors of the Revolution;
they made war and peace in tne sec
ond conflict with the mother country;
and there has not been a change of
political rule in the nation that has
not received its inspiration from the
same omnipotent fountains of en
lightened public opinion. They grap
ple with the wrongs of the age; with
the demoralization of power; with the
abuse of trust; with the insidious
lawlessness that has its ebbs and
flows in popular government, and
they call the halt that recues society
and authority from existing or threat
ening degradation.
That the pow. rof the press has
been sadly prostituted must be con
fessed by all, and it is too commonly
judged solely by such as exercise its
worst influences; but its power is
none the less because it is perverted.
In no country of the world are the
people so generally intelligent as in
ours. They are all readers, as a rule
and the newspaper is their instruc
tor. Many hear the lessons of the
pulpit, but the newspaper is every
where and carries its blessings or its
contagion to almost every household
and to well nigh every wanderer on
the continent'; Their wants change
not —neither with days nor seasons
do they suspend their claim. They
are supplied because they must be
supplied, and the reputable daily
journal owes it to the well-being of
society and to the promotion of the
intelligence that is tho parent of or
der and morality, to accept the high
duty of the press and discharge it
with fidelity. As tho popular con
servator of public aud private integ
rity; as the fearless and effective cen
sor of the faithless iu official authori
ty; as the champion of every step in
material, moral and intellectual pro
gress, and as the great teacher of the
people from the highest statesman to
the humblest citizen, the press must
be recognized, alike by its conductors
and by the country, as an institution
that is inseparably associated with
the e 1 lyation or the decline :of our
beneficent civilization.— Phil. Times.
\ Coming Apart.
The woman who is always falling
to pieces came to the station a little
late and had to make a rush for the
train. When she reached her seat
her hat fell off. She got it on, but it
toppled over to cue side, aud when
she tried to straighten it up her hair
came tumbling down. She lost her
ticket twice before the conductor
reached her, and would have lost it
again if lie hadn’t taken it away
from her. She reached up to put a
bundle in tho rack above her head,
aud burst the collar-button off her
duster, and stuck her fingers on four
pins in her dress before she could
find one that she dared take out to
repair the damage. Then just as
she thought she had got comfortably
settled, her little hand-valise, packed
to bursting with enough things to
load a Saratoga trunk to the muzzle,
exploded, ami she nearly worked
herself into fragments getting it to
gether again. Then by the time she
got the valise shut up her hat tum
bled off again, and by the time she got
the hat straightened back into its
place her liair tumbled down again,
and as soon as she got her hair
twisted up and harpooned in with a
couple of hair pins the valise went,
off’, and when she got off at New Pra
gue she tucked the gasping valise un
der her arm, and she tried to corral
her toppling hat and wandering hair
with one hand, and as she went flut
tering and straggling into the depot
one couldn’t help thinking that it
would be safer and more convenient
to run her in sections and flag her
against everything. I have seen this
woman on several other trains, and
she has never been able io keep her
self together. She keeps you in a
state of agonizing suspense, for you
never know where she is going to
give way next. —Burlington HawJceye.
The Grant Movement.
The Grant movement, much to our
astonishment, exhibits a feebleness
not suspected. It wilts aud is dying
before the early nipping frosts of
Maine. This is lamentable. Can it
be that all this profound study in
Europe of strong Governments; that
all this “high jinks” with Princes aud
potentates iu the royal palaces
abroad; all this woefull expenditure
of money by admiring friends in
Philadelphia and elsewhere are all
for naught? Is it thus that bright
things come to brief conclusions?
May not tho feeble growth be revived
by tears? Let all the admiring
friends, all the ex-officials, all the
blighted bummers aud hungry de
pendents and defaulters and poor
contractors arrange to weep. Let
tears fall like rain upon tho drooping
and dying plant. Warm sighs of
pity will come to drive away the killing
frost from the sympathetic people,
and the Grant movement may yet
live.
We think it an opening for a right
good, strong telling, prayer, Let
Brother Newnan, Right Rev. John P.,
who likened Grant to our saviour, aud
said that upon the third day he rose
again in Philadelphia, partake of a
stiff hot Scotch and lift his powerful
voice. Now is the time to nrove the
efficacy of prayer. Let Brother
Newman get that prayer which he
prepared to bo delivered at the North
Pole; that was a most eloquent ap
peal to D. P. (bear in mind Divine
Providence,) and as the expedition
never reached the pole, it has doubt
been kept on ice since, and must be
as good as new. Throw it up, Broth
er Newman; let it liy; send it roar
ing:
Wave, Conkling, all your linen wave;
Pray, Newman, for the Lord to save,
For dark and deadly is the grave
That Maine has dug so suddenly.
—Don Piatt’s Capitol.
A Stricken Newspaper.
The Avalanche has been stricken
heavily. Since the plague began
seven men have died —Messrs.
Thompson, Cruikshank, Barksmith,
Anderson, Kerr, Landrum aud Cor
rigan. Eight are now on the sick
list: Messrs. Bard, Wheeler* Ros
selle, Bruder, Sullivan, Clayton,
Hunter and Crabb. There are now
neither editors nor reporters.—
Through Mr. R. R Catron, Associa
ted Press Agent, the Avalanche has
received valuable aid in (hat direc
tion. Nearly all of the remainder of
his working force is absent. The
working force in the composing
room has been reduced to one com
positor, Edward J. Snigg, who, with
the assistance of F. S. Nichols, one
of the proprietors, sets all type aud
makes forms ready for press. Down
stairs M. W. Luff, the bookkeeper,
holds the fort, who also assists Mes
srs. Price and Royster in the mailing
department. The press room is run
by that tough citizen, Old Dallas,
who also runs the Ledger press.—
Memphis Avalanche.
The Columbus Enquirer supports
Hon. Henry R. Harris for congress.
News in General.
They make glass coffins at Wooster,
Ohio. '
Lots of sugar cane in tho Macon
market.
Newton county has 3.511 school
children.
Dalton has quarantined against
the fever.
The export trade from Key West
is very fine.
The great trotting horse Earns is
in St. Louis.
Rockdale county fair, October
15th to 18th.
Thirty-one deaths in Charleston,
S. C., last week.
Dougherty county has anew
Methodist church.
The. Pennsylvania State militia has
been reorganized.
The quarantine at Augusta is
strictly observed.
Tlie KepiAdicrins have about given
up New Hampshire.
Florence Nightingale is now sixty
years old and lives in London.
Marshal Fitzsimmons is a strong
Hayes and Aleck. Stephens man.
Butler’s candidates for Treasurer
and Auditor have declined to run.
Tho Atlanta Opera House has
been thoroughly refitted for the win
ter.
Lord Beaconsfield was baptized
July 31, 1817 at the age of thir
teen.
No Democrat can be found iu South
Carolina who will run as an Indepen
dent.
Mr. James T. Kirk ham an old
citizen of Cobb county died last
week.
Volunteer nurses will not be al
lowed to return to Charleston till
frost.
Cartersvillo has only two manu
facturing enterpries, both foun
dries.
The secret of keeping Paris streets
clean is not allowing them to become
dirty.
Over one hundred and twenty
new buildings are going up iu At
lanta.
The South Carolina Presbytery
was in session at Walhalla last
week.
President and Madame MacMahon
have donated SIOOO to the fever suf
ferers.
The *Cherokee Railroad bridge
over the Etowah river is nearly’ com
pleted.
The Magruder silver mine iu Lin
coln county is to be extensively
worked.
Jonathan Miller an old citizen of
Baldwin county died last week aged
90 years.
Ono negro woman bit off another’s
ear last week iu Savannah. Cause,
jealousy.
A fire in East St. Louis last Fri
day destroyed property valued at
SIOO,OOO.
__ Bast Friday was the Jewish New
Year, the 5638t1i according to their
chronology.
Toe Augusta Library has been re
moved to its spacious quarters on
Broad street.
Mr. Conkling whipped Mr. Hayes
in the New York Republican conven
tion last week.
The market value of the 412?, grain
silver dollar in New York is 1004 to
100” currency.
The iron steamer J uan Mir for the
Cuban trade was launched last week
at Chester, Pa.
A Rochester physician opposes to
matoes because he thinks them a
cause of cancers.
A fire in Marion, Ala., last week
destroyed eleven business houses.
Loss over $70,000.
An Episcopal Bishop of Michigan
to succeed MaCoskry will not be cho
sen until next June.
A remarkable revival was iu pro
gress at the Baptist church in
Greensboro last week.
The Tammany Hall Democracy is
a standing reproach and disgrace to
the Democratic party.
The revenue from Pullman’s sleep
ing-cars last year was $2,1G0,829, aud
the exoenses $875,578.
The Emperor of Germany still car
ries his right arm in a sling, but he
can use it when eating.
Tinsley Poweli, of Hart county,
one of its oldest and best citizens
died last week, aged 70.
It will take the Griffin News a
whole calender month to get over the
late Savannah excursion.
The gain of Catholics in India is
only ten per cent, while Protestants
gained sixty-one per cent.
The Washington Post says Agnes
Jenksis goimr to Massachusetts to
take the stump for Butler.
Tho Covington Enterprise says the
present town council will grant no
more retail liquor licenses.
Mrs. Wofford, wife of Gen. W. T.
Wofford died last week Wednesday
at her home near Cassville.
The Democrats are likely to carry
Onio unless the foreign Ministers and
Consuls come home to vote.
Chattanooga is being ra pid.lv de
populated. Every one who can is
running away from the fever.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany turn out 225 car-wheels a day at
their foundry in Altoona, Pa.
The State prison at Albany N.Y.liolds
twenty-seven clergymen, forty-two
lawyers and thirteen doctors".
The good Democrats of Crawford
county refused to waste their time
by hearing “Farmer” Arnold.
The religious Order of Trappists is
about to establish a monastery in tUa
western part of Pennsylvania.
Gan. Joseph Wheeler has formal*
ly accepted the invitation to be pres
ent at the State Fair at Macon.
Since October Ist, third class mat
ter, which includes merchandise can
be registered the same as a letter.
The firm of R. M. Bishop A Cos.
of Cincinnati, of which Gov. Bishop
is the head have resumed business.
Secretary Schurz makes Republi
can speeches at S3OO a night. He
takes trade dollars at ninety cents.
Chief Justice Roberts, of Texas,
Democratic candidate for Governor,
has resigned his place on the Bench’
The regular Democi alie State Con
vention of Massachusetts had 1,204
delegates from 304 cities and towns.
The negro woman Julia who so
brutally murdered old Mrs. Farmer
I in Clayton county has been captured.
One hundred and twenty-seven
people have died at Memphis in
one day this season of yellow fe
ver.
Ex-President. Fillmore’s widow
headed the Buffalo yellow fever sub
scription with one hundred dol
lars.
The narrow gauge iron on the
Marietta and .North Georgia R. R.
weighs twenty-six pounds to the
yard.
Wm. H. McArdle of Mississippi is
spoken of for Secretary of State
vice Falconer who died of yellow
fever.
Bishop Odenheimer, of New Jer
sey, is very ill, from a complication
of diseases which is likely to prove
fatal.
Thomas Jefferson’s scrap-book,
compiled while President., has been
added to the Virginia Historical So
ciety.
There are 345 ministers, 350
churches and 30,000 communicants
of the Lutheran Church in Illi
nois.
An Athens surgeon removed a fif
teen pound tumor from the left side
of a negro man in that city last
week.
Senator Kirkwood of lowa, Repub
lican, says there will be four Green
backers elected to congress from that
Slate.
Hon. James L, Seward, at. i lie re
quest of his friends, retires from the
contest in the second congressional
district.
Five hundred and mm t,y ; niue
Mormon immigrants, mostly Danes,
arrived in'New York last week from
Liverpool.
It is remarked with pleasure just
west of the Alleghanies that the la*e
Queen of the Gypsies was another
Ohio man.
Lewis Fulson a paper hanger of
New York fell down stairs Sept. 15,
and broke his neck. He lived nine
days thereafter.
Beu.j F. Thomas, Ex-Judge of the
Supreme Court of Massachusetts and
ex-member of congress, died in Sa
lem last Friday.
The Board of Trustees of the State
University will meet at Athens Oc
tober 15th on account of the death
of Prof. Waddell.
After a thorough investigation of
the Hoedei and Nobeiing cases in
Germany no traces of a conspiracy
can be discovered.
A New York bigamist named Hoff
man gets eight years in State prison
on two indictments. He married
nine women in all.
Mrs. Martha Hall, of Dahlonega,
died recently at the residence of her
son-in-law, Wm. Whitmire, aged
ninety-three years.
It is rumored that Ex-Congress
man John S. Bigby will be the Re
publican candidate for congress in
the fourth .district.
Scovill, Seldon & Cos., lately pro
prietors of the Markham House, At
lanta, took charge of the Kimball
House, October Ist.
The Massachusetts Democrats have
have nominated Josiah G. Abbott for
Governor and W. E. Plunkett for
Lieutenant-Governor.
The grajfd and special juries for
the last term of court in Gordon
county stood sixty-one for Lester and
thirty-three for Eelton.
Mr. David W. Barrow has been
elected adjunct Professor of Mathe
matics in the State University vice
Samuel Barnett resigned.
Mrs. Anna Maria Rowley eldest
daughter and last surviving child of
Dr. Adam Clarke the commentator,
has just died aged 85 years.
The net earnings of the Northern
Pacific Railroad *or the past year
were $502,073.09 —an increase over
the previous year of $100,381.
Maj. M. T. Phillips of Acworth
who was thrown from a wagon re
cently and had his thigh broken,
died last week aged nearly 80.
A serious strike has occurred in the
colored cotton factories at Radcliffe,
Peekingtou, and Unsworth, England.
Three thousand looms are idle.
Hon. Addison H. Baffin ex-con
gressman and naval officer of New
York under Grant, hanged himself
at Fitchburg, Mass., last week.
The Carnesville Register thinks
there are more politicians in Frank
lin county to the square inch than
at any other place on the globe.
Mrs. Julia C. R. Dorr, of Rutland,
Vt., has received the personal thanks
of King Alfonso, of Spain, for a son
net on the late Queen Mercedes.
Lord Beaconsfield has sent his
check for a thousand guineas—that
re, over fivi thousand dollars—to the
survivors of the Princess Alice disas
ter.
All the leading physicians of At
lanta have stated in a card that they
do not believe it possible for a case
of yellow fever to originate in that
city.
Eugene Halo, chairman of the Re
publican Congressional Committee
has gone to Neiv York to got cam
paign funds from the National
Banks.
In the case of Barton vs. The
Georgia Railroad, for SIO,OOO dam
ages, recently tried in Columbia Su
perior court, the jury found for the
defendant.
Thompson H. March, the Green
backer who beat Eugene Hale was dis
charged from Government work in
September IS7O for voting the IX mo
cratic ticket.
The Cartersvi’le Express thinks the
street force should stop turning up
bad smelling places, and that all
such should be covered with fresh
earth and lime.
Henry Hillyer, S. B. Hoyt and B.
F Abbott are candidates for the leg
ielature in Fulton county to fill tho
VHcmcy caused by the resignation of
N -1 Hammond.
Col. James A. Hamilton, the oldest
of the three surviving sons of Alexan
der Hamilton, died on Tuesday of
last week at Irvington, Ky., aged
ninety-one years.
'viol. Nicholas Smith, son-in-law of
Horace Greeley is the Greenback
candidate for congress in the New*
York district now represented by
Clarkson N. Potter.
Secretary Evarts has a farm in.,
Vermont. Ho keeps seven men ti
work it—ouc to blast out the rock.,
and the other six to haul ’em off on
another man’s land.
James Russell, colored, charged
with an assault with intent to com
mit a rape, was taken from ti .’jail
at Murfreesboro, Tenn., last week,
and hanged by a" mob.
The trustees of the Macon & Bruns
wick Railroad paid last week $20,1)00
into the State treasury; this makes
$40,000 in all. The other $20,000
was paid on the 23d of May. „ _ .
Protection and a retaliatory t ariff
against the United States aro the
party cries of the victors in tho re
cent election for members of the
Canadian House of Commons.
Therdead-Jock existing so long in
Atlanta was broken on Thursday of
liyst week, by re-electing Prof. Mai lon
Superintendent of schools by a vote
of six, to five for Prof. Slaton.
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The Marquis of Lome and wife,
Queen Victoria’s daughter, will leave
England about the middle of this
month for Canada over which the
Marquis is to be Governor General.
Mrs. J. S. Hnttou of Savannah has
presented the Macon Public Library
with the London Index for 18(52, ’(53,
’O4, and 05, which was the recog
nized orgau of the Southern Confed
eracy.
The Macon Telegraph thinks the Ath
ens Watchman didn’t show much en
terprise in reporting the proceedings
of Gwinnett Superior court, as it ne
glected to mention certain important
acts of the grand jury.
Mr. W. F. Parker, of Nashua, N.
H , puzzles the doctors with an an
nual attack of the measles. For
twenty years they have broken out.
upon him, on the same day of the
year and precisely tho same hour.
The letter of the Governor of South
Carolina to the Governor of Massa<
chusetts does not remind one of the
well-known dispatch from the Gover
nor of North Carolina to the Gover
nor of South Carolina. It is a docu
ment of another kind.
Members of the Greenback City
Committee, it is said, must pay their
dues, or they will not be allowed to
sit in that b >dy. There ought to be
no trouble in doing that. They have
only to write on a slip of paper,
“This is a dollar,” and chuck them in
to the hat when they pass it around.
-—Boston Post.
If m. Andrew G. Curtin, the “War
Governor” of Pennsylvania, Demo
cratic candidate for Congress in the
Centre district, is acting now for the
first time with the Democracy, so
some of the papers say. This is not
correct. He supported Greeley in
1872, Pershing, Democrat, for Gov
ernor in 1875 and Tilden in 1870.
Tiiß Portland (Me.) Argus says
that the Democrats of the I lfth dis
trict voted for the Greenbacker,
to defeat Eugene Hale, only for the
reason that Hale was “ono of the
‘visiting statesmen’ who went to
Louisiana to steal the vote of that
State, and seat Hayes in the Presi
dential office by fraud and perjury."
When Mr. Hayes visited the Sol
diers’ Reunion at Willoughby, Ohio,
last week, a gentleman came to him.
and told him that a great many per
sons in the crowd had had their
pockets picked during the day.
“Yes,’’ replied Hayes, “there seems
to be some fatality about this thing.
Everywhere we go there seems to
be a shoal of pickpockets. Up in
Minnesota the other day a number
of thefts were committed. In Brat
tleboro Vermont, while I was there
with the Cabinet over a year ago, a
burglary was committed, which was
the first one ever known there.
There had never been a pocket pick
ed there before, either, and that day
seven cases occurred.” It is thus
that the Federal Administration
poisons the moral atmosphere wher
ever it goes. —Baltimore Gazelle.
The English Journal of Horticul
ture remarks that a bad flavor in eggs
is the result of one or two causes
either the food on which the fowls
are led ore the substauce on which
the eggs are laid, and adds: This
may be easily tested by shutting up
a laying hen and giving her garlic or
malted barley to eat. In a few days
the eggs will taste of tho food. Wo
have tried this ourselves, and know
it to be correct. Another theory is
—but we cannot speak of it with the
same certainty—that an egg laid
on any strong smelling substacno
will contract it. This is explained
by the fact that the shell, when the
egg is first laid, is comparatively soft ?
and impressionable, and only hard
after contact with the atmosphere.
Let your birds be wholesomely fed
on plain food and your nests be
made with clean straw. Hay nests
have a teudency to make eggs
taste.