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The Gainesville Eagle. Published Every Friday Morning O P p I o E Upstair* In Candler Hall Building, Northwest Corner of Public Squaro. The Official Ort-au of Hall, Banks, White, Towns, 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. SUBSCRIPTION. Onk Ykak A..52,00. tiix Months .'..51,00. Three Months IN ABVANCfi, DELIVERED BY CAItUIEH OB PREPAID BY MAIL. All papers are stopped at the expiration of the time paid for without further notice. Mail sub. scribers will please observe the dates on their wrappers. Persona wishing the paper will Lav* their orders dromptl; attended to by reinmitiing\he amount for the time desired. ADVERTISING. SEVEN WORDS MAKE A LINE. Ordinary advertisements, per Nonpareil line, 111 cents. Legal Official Auction and Amusement advertise ments and Special Notices, per Nonpa reil line, ID cents. Beading notices line. Nonpareil typo 15 cent! Local notices, per line, Brevier type, ID 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. RED WINE, Gainesville, Ga. GKJV Elt A E DIR ECTOR Y. t ’ ■ —: - ■■ v 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. t A.-. * - 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. HO. 39 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.