Newspaper Page Text
The Gainesville Ejtgle.
Published Every Friday Morning
OFFICE
Upstairs in Candler Hall Building*
Northwest Corner of Public'Square.
The Official Organ of Hall, Banks, Wbito, Towns,
Rabun, Union anil Dawson counties, anil the city
of Gaiuesville. Has a large general circulation in
twelve other counties in Northeast Georgia, and
two counties in Western North Carolina.
SUBSCRIPTION.
One Year $2,00.
Six Months. .. SI,CO.
Thbkb Months.. 60c.
IN ADVANCE, DELIVERED BY CAIUHEB OP. PREPAID
BY MAIL.
All papers are stopped at the expiration of tho
time paid for without further notice. Mail sub
scribers will please observe the dates on their
wrappers.
Persons wishing the paper will have their orders
droinptly attended to by remmitiiug the amount
for the time desired.
ADVERTISING.
SEVEN WORDS MAKE A LINE.
Ordinary-advertisements, per Nonpareil line, 10
cents. Legal Official Auction and Amusement
advertise ments and Special Notices, por, Nonpa
reil line, 15 cents.
Reading notices per lino, Nonpareil type 15 cent!
Local notices, per line, Brevier type, 15 cents.
A discount made on advtjrJtewßeEts 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 I>3 addroasd,
J. E. liEDWIXE,
Gainesville, Ga.
GENKUA L. DIRECTORY.
JUDICIARY.
Hon. Georgs D. liice, Judge S. O. Western Circuit.
A. L. Mitchell, Solicitor, Athens, Ga.
COUNTT OFFICERS.
J. B. M. Winburn, Ordinary; John L. Gaines,
Sheriff; J. F. Duckett, Deputy Sheriff ; J. J. Mavne,
Clerk Superior Court; W. S. Pickrell, Deputy (Her..
Superior Court ; X. B. Clark, Tax Collector ; -J R.
H. Luck, Tax Receiver; Gideon Harrison, Sur
veyor ; Kdward Lowry, Coroner ; R. C. Young,
Treasurer.
CITY GOVERNMENT.
Dr. H. S. Bradley, Mayor.
Aldermen—Dr. H. J. Long, W. B. Clements, T.
A. Panel, W. H. Henderson,W. G. Uuudorson,
T. M. Merck.
A. B. C. Dursey, Clerk; J. R. Boone, Trreasuror; T.
N.Hauie, Marshal; Henry Perry, City Attorney.
CHURCH DIRECTORY. •
Prksbytkbian Church—Rev. T. P. Cleveland.
Pantor. Preaching every Sabbath-morning ami
night, except tho second Sabbath. Sn day School,
at 9 a. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at 4
o’clock.
MethodistHhubch—Rev. W. W. Wadsworth, I’iis
|or. Preacbiag every Sunday morning and night.
Sunday SclumC at ya. in. Prayer mooting Wodrsvs
day night.
Baptist Church Rev. W. C. Wilkes, Pastor.
Preaehiug Sunday morning and ntgbf. 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 ASS'DCIATJON.
A. M. Jackson, President; R. C. Maddox, Vice
President; W. B. Clements, Secretary.
Regular aervi.es every Sabbath evening at one
of the Ohurche*. Cottage prayer meeting-* every
Tuesday night in “Old Town,” and Friday night
near the depot
FRATERNAL RECORD.
Flowery Branch Lodge No. 71), I. O. 0. TANARUS.,
meets every Monday night, Joel La.sktku, N. G.
IJ. F. Stedham. Sec.
Allewhant Rotal Arch Chapter meets on the
Second and Fourth Tuesday evenings in each
monlh.
H. 8. Bradley, Sec’y. A. W. Caldwkli., H. P.
Gainesville Lodge, No. 219, A.-. F.\ M.\,
meets on the First a nd Third Tuesday evening in
the mouth
R. Palmour, Bec’y. It. E. Green, W. M.
Aia-Link Loikie, No. 64 ,1. O. O. JF., meet-'
ever/ Friday evening.
C. A. Lilly, Sec. W. H. Harrison, N. G.
GAINESVILLE POST OFFICE.
Owing to recent change ofschedule on the Atlan
ta aud Charlotte Air Line Railroad, the following
will be tho schedule from date :
Mail train No. 1, going east, leaves 7:47 p. w.
Mail for Ibis train closes at 7:00 “
Mail train No. 2, going east, leaves 8:35 a. ni.
No mil by this train.
Mail train No.'l* going west, 1eave5....6:51 n. in.
Mail for this train closes at 9:30 p. m.
Mail train No. 2, going west, leaves. ...9:05 p. ni.
Mail for this train closes at 7.30 “
Olfioa hours from 7 a. m. to 5:30 p. m.
General delivery open on Sundays from 8 toOkj.
Departure of mails from this office;
Dahlonega and Gilmer county, daily 8 V e. m
Dahlonega, via Wahoo and Ethel, Saturday... 8 a. m
Jefferson & Jackson county, Tuesday, Thurs
day and Saturday 7 a. m
Cleveland, White, Union, Towns and llayes
ville, N. C., Tuesdays and Fridays 7 a. m
Dawsonville ami Dawson county, j Tuesday
and Saturday 8 a. ni.
Homer, Banks county, Saturday .1 p. in
Pleasant Grove, Forsyth county, Saturday. .1 p.tn
M. R. ARCHER, P.M.
At! anta and Charlotte
vi k-l i \ i:,
Trainß will run as follows on ainl after
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 2!MS7B,
MAIL TRAIN, DAILY.
GOING EAST.
Leavo Atlanta 2:10 j>. ru-
Leave Gainesville 4: ">(5 p. m.
Arrive Charlotte 2:20 a. m.
GOING WEST.
Leave Charlotte 1:18 a. in.
Leave Gainesville 0:55 a. m.
Arrive Atlanta 12:00 m.
Through Freight Train.
(Daily except Sunday.)
GOING EAST.
Leave Atlanta 8:37 a. m #
Arrive Gainesville 12:28 p. m
Leave Gainesville 1:10 p. m
Arrive Ceptral.. 7:12 p. m
GOING WEST.
Leave Central 2:55 a.
Arrive Gainesville 8:25 a.m.
Leave Gainesvillo 8:37 a. m.
Arrive Atlanta 12:25 p. m.
Local Freight and Accommodation
Train.
(Daily except Sunday.)
GOING EAST.
Leave Atlanta 5:45 a. m.
Leave Gainesville 11:23 a. m.
Arrive Central G:35 p. m.
GOING WEST.
Leave Central 4:45 a.m.
Leave Gainesville 1:40 p. m.
Arrive Atlanta 6:15 p. m.
Close connection at Atlanta for all points
West, and at Charlotte for all points East.
G. J. Foreacre, General M inager
W. J. Houston, Gen. P. A; T. A’gt.
Northeastern Railroad of Georgia.
TIME
Taking effect Monday, June 10, 1878. All
trains run daily except Sunday.
train" XV O. 1.
stations. j arrive.'leave.
I I A. M.
Athene ! 700
Center 7 21 7 22
Nicholson 7 30j 730
Harmony Grove, 1 759 807
Maysville 827 832
Gillsville | 849 850
Lula j 915
TRAIN JNO. ai ~
stations. arrive, leave.
P. M.
Lula 5 25
Gillsville 542 545
Maysville 602 GOB
Harmony Grove - C3O 640
Nicholson 701 707
Center 7 2*2j 725
Athens 7 45j
! WOOL !
The Wool Carder at Brown’s Mill having
beeu thoroughly repaired, is now doing
well. All wool left atK. L Boone’s store
will be taken away the name week, and re
turned carded the next week. Satisfaction
gnaranteed. O. CLAKK.
The Gainesville Eagle.
VOL. XIL
Col. Hell’s Appointments.
I will address the people of the
Ninth District upon questions of vi
tal public interest, as follows:
At Jasper, Tuesday, October 15.
At Ellijay, Thursday, October 11.
At Morganton,Monday.October 27.
At Blairsville, Monday, October 2S
The people arc respectfully invited
to attend these appointments, and
the Democratic papers are requested
to give them publicity.
H. P. Bl i.r,.
Carpet Bag Rule and Butler s,
The Boston Herald, aa indepen
dent paper, but rather inclined to the
Democratic party, being much con
cerned over Beast Butler’s candidacy
moralizes as follows:
“The respectable Republican or
Democrat of Massachusetts who con
templates, with a shudder, the bars ,
possibility that Ben. Butler may se
cure tb. Governorship, can imiginej
to some ex; put the feelings of tho
white people of the South when they
saw State govern ments erected over
them by the colored-vote, marshaled
by the" ‘tearpet-baggers’’' find their
own native “scalawags.” Thqso “car
pet-bag" governments were, Without
doubt, based on the voi.ni* of tho
most ignorant of the community.
Brains, w til , all tie elements of
natural leadership, were sent to the
rear. The men who made the laws
and enforced them wi re of ono class;
the men who paid the taxes wore of
another.’ ,
It is true that Butler is about as
disreputable a public character as
can well be brought, forward, but the
“respectable tiblicans ’ can ne t
shift tho responsibility upon others’
shoulders. Without their help ire
never would have been prominent : s
a Republican and time was when
they were only too grad to acknowl
edge his leadership. But bad as is
the spoon thief and demoralizing
and corrupt as h:s admistrntion of
the State government of Massachu
setts may soon be, it will not assist
the imagination of any Citizen of that
Commonwealth, in an attempt/to un
derstand and analyze the feelings of
tho white people of tho South when
the usurping power of tho Federal
Government turned their Staler, over
to carpet-baggers an! “ alawaye.
Butler is not. charged with eleva
ting to the right of suffrage for his
own bent fit, a class of people for
generations in bondage and entirely
ignorant of every relation of life and
all the functions of government.
Nobody accuses b ; m of m: oiling
from South Carolina, Georgia and
T xan a set, of worthless adventurers
without influence in their own coun
try who arc alone to control these re
cently i maneipated voters and by
their ai-u at the harlot box, secure the
chief places in the Stale, and it is not
alleged against him, that-, fearing
defeat in spite of these foreign mer
cenaries and ignorant voters, he
makes assuranco doubly sure by call
ing upon the authorities at Washing
ton for United States soldiers to do
their part in subjugating tho intelli
gence, and worth of Massachusetts;
and appropriating without their
consent, the money of tho tax pay
ers.
It must be admitted that Massa
chusetts is not to be envied should
Butler be elected Governor, but such
a misfortune is as a flea bite to an at
tack of hydrophobia, compared with
reconstruction revels in the Southern
States, South Carolina for instance
during ten long years, upon which
all New England looked with great
complacency.
What Calliouii Bid Say.
Kearney, Butler and the other
hoodlums, who assert that the Gov
ernment can stamp pieces of paper
with the motto, “Erin go Unum, E
Pluribus Bragh—This is One Thous
and Dollars,” arid keep afloat as ab
solute money so much of the stuft as
it sees fit, have been insisting that
John C. Calhoun, South Carolina’s
greatest statesman, believed that
the United States has the right as
well as the ability to make absolute
money the best currency in the coun
try merely by the forco of law.
Here is what Mr. Calhoun actually
said:
“I now undertake to cflirm, and
without the least fear than I can be
answered, that a paper issued by
government, with the simple promise
to receive it, for ail its dues, leaving
its creditors to take it, or gold or
silver, at their option, would, to the
extent it could circulate, form a per
fect paper circulation, which could
not be abused by the government;
that it would be as uniform in value
as tho metals themselves; and I
shall be able to prove that it is with
in the Constitution and powers of
congress to use such a paper in the
management of its finances, accord
ing to the most rigid rule of constru
ing the Constitution.”
This, as far as it goes, is good
Democratic-Greenback doctrine, but
Mr. Calhoun didn't even propose
that ‘his currency should be a legal
tender by law. He was of the opin
ion, as Senator Wallace now is, that
the promise of the Gavernment to
take its own paper currency in pay
ment of all its dues, would make it
the favorite money of the people,
even without a legal tender clause.
Let the Government cease discredit
ing its-own greenback issues; then
the slight premium on gold will dis
appear and experience will soon
enable us to tell how much currency
can be safely issued without undue
inflation.
GAINESVILLE, GA., FELD AY HUBRNING. OCTOBER 1!, 1878.
The Democrats and Fiat Green
backers.
Benjamin F. Butler, a Greenback
leader and candidate for Governor
of Massachusetts, has no views upon
any subject in common with Demo
crats and least of all upon the finan
ces. Nor is there any sympathy be
tween Democrats and that class of
Greenbackers who endorse Butler’s
financial views and fiat money doc
trines. To the Massachusetts Demo
cratic convention in Fanenil Hall
the other day, Gen. James 8. Whit
ney of Boston, a Democrat of the
strictest sect thus spake:
“Men of Massachusetts! think you
that our ancient, and honorable Com
monwealth has reached a pass where
a man who preaches such a doctrine
of infamy as the way to dicharge the
honest indebtedness of the united'
States Government can foist himself
by a self appointed nomination, into
the gubernatorial chair of Massachu
setts? No! emphatically, no! Mass
achusetts intelligence and integrity
have sunk to no such depth of in
famy. Talk about tho Greenback
ism of Democratic Statesmen,and tho
Greenb’ackism of BenjaminF. Bqtler.
They differ as light differs from
darkness; as honesty from villainy;
as religion from irreligion; as
tho greenbacks proposed by Thur
man of Ohio, always redeemable in
gold and silver, differ from the green
backs of Benjamin F. Butler,•which
aro not rodeyniahle in anything.”
Here is t.he difference. The
greenbacks of Thurman and tho
Democrats are always to ho redeem"
able in gold and silver. Tho green
backs of Butler and his coinrhunists
arc not redeemable at. all,but are to be
absolute money by the force of) stat
ute law. This last cannot be done
and the Doinoeratic party will iills.
courage any attempt in that direc
tion. The Democratic party* is the
true greenbackjparty. It wants tho
Government to; issue all the paper
mone y in circulation throughout tho
country, and as much of it as c.ru be
kept at par with gold and silver, but-,
no! one <i'6llar wore.
Make greenbacks receivable for
customs and they will at once be at
par with gold and silver. Then let
the Government issue as many as
tho business interests of the country
require, so long as they are equal
to'and convertible with gold and sil
ver dollar for dollar.
Two Connecticut Horrors.
There have recently come to light
in tho State of Connecticut, three
murders, almost unparalleled in tho
annals of crime. Two of the victims
were Charles M. Cobb, Jr., and Hat
tie Bishop of Norwich, the husband
and wife of Kate Cobb and Wesley
M. Bishop. The two latter had been
criminally intimate for a long lime
and desiring to marry each other,
they poisoned Mr. Cobh and Mrs.
Bishop in order to remove the legal
obstacles in tho way. Tho other
terrible deed was (he murder of a
drunken sailor named Frank Wein
beeker, by a man and woman solely
for tho money to he gained by sell
ing his dead body to a medical col
lege.
Had these atrocious deeds been
committed in tho South, it would
havo been immediately' charged to
tho disorder and lawlessness prevail
ing in this section, according to the
bloody-shirt organs. But no crimes
like these have occurred, or are likely
to, in this section, and their perpe
tration, in so well governed a State
as Connecticut, shows that no com
munity can count with certainty up
on an exemption from felonies t.he
most outrageous, and that such are
more likely to happen in the densely
populated North than the compara
tively thinly settled South. Human
nature, however, is pretty much the
same all over the country.
The Independent Defeat in Burke,
Last Friday, at a special election
held in Burke county for a member
of the legislature in place of Hon
Stephen A. Corker, resigned, Capt.
•J. P. Thomas, Democratic nominee,
was elected over Palmer, Indepen
dent, by a majority of 293. In 187(5
Capt. Corker, and two other Inde
pendents beat the three Democratic
nominees about IGuO votes and they,
or at least Corker and two Independ
ents, were again victorious in 1877
by a large majority. When Corker
a short. time ago announced himself
as an Independent Greenback candi
dale for congress, he resigned his
seat in the legislature and anew
election was iordered. Mr. Palmer,
was Corker’s candidate. Capt.
Thomas, the Democratic nominee,
was a delegate to the Democratic
Congressional Convention which
nominated Nieholls and was so bit
ter against Corker that the latter re
plied in a communication to the Sa
vannah News. Now Thomas beats
Corker’s man in the Independent
stronghold of the first district, in
Corker’s own county of Burke. This
gratifying result is not only a death
blow to the chances of the Indepen
dent congressional candidate in the
first district, but it is an omen of
good import to the Democracy all
over the Stale. j
Only four Republicans in the next
Alabama legislature.
Insanity and its Causes.
Want of nutritious food, stimula
ting drinks, a dreary monotony qf
toil, muscular exhaustion, domestic
distress, misery and anxiety, account',
largely, not only for the number of
the poor who become insane-in adult’
life, but who, from hereditary pre
disposition, are born weak-minded
or actually idiotic; among the mid
dle classes, stress of business, oxcosr
sive competition, failures, and also
in many cases, reckless and intern;
perate living occasion the attack;-
whilo in the upper classes intemper
ance still works woo—-and under this
hea l must.be comprised dipsomani
acs, who are. not confined in asylums.
Whilo multiplicity of subjects of
study in youth and excessive brain
work in after life do exert a certain
amount of injurious influence; under
work, luxurious habits, undisciplined
wills, desultory life, produce a crop
of norvotia disorders, terminating
hot unfreqnfrntly in insanity. Chil
dren of feeble intellect who ar'o deli
cately reared are apt to become im
becile when brought in contact with
the cares of adult life. A considera
ble number of insane persons have
never boon whole minded people;
there has, it will be found on inquiry
been always something a little pecu
liar about them, and when their past
life is interpreted by the attack which
has rendered > restraint necessary, it
is seen that there had been a smoul
dering tiro iy the constitution for a
lifetime, tPongh now for tho first
timo’bnrst.ing' forth into actual confla
gration Lastly, modern society com
prises ft numerous class of persons,
well-meaning, excitable and morbid
ly sensitive. Some of these are al
ways on tha. borderland between
siimty and insanity, and their friends
are sometimes tempted to wish that
they would actually cros.s the line
and save them from constant harass.
When they do, it is easy to make al
lowance for them and their vagaries.
Oftentimes the line between sanity
and insanity is no broader than a
hair.'
The Girl’s Ideal.
Grown-up peoplo may smile at
such absurdities, but girls are very
impressionable, and when once they
havo adopted such an idea it is not
easy to expel it from their minds.
Tho person hardly exists in real life,
the nearest approach to it being any
or every unprincipled man who is
ready to make lovo to any fool he
meets. Obviously this is not a con
dition of things favorable to marriage;
for while it makes girls more prompt,
indeed eager, to flirt, it indisposes
them to appreciate attentions of a
rnoro delicate but moro practical
kind. So much for the change pro
duced in the idealsof.woni.ejjby vyha_t_
il. v ~ HI. 7: • transformation is
completed by what they' see. While
silly novols tell them that a lover, to
ho worth anything, must rail against
heaven and bite the grass with his
teeth, the whole arrangement of so
ciety keeps daily telling them that a
husband is worthless unless he has a
great deal of money. During the
last twenty years the practice of lux
urious self-indulgence has crept on
apace. Wo are assured that trade is
bad, and that everybody is poor.
Splendor and spending are still the
order of the day, aud households vie
with each other in the race of osten
tation. People whose home is in the
country must have a house in town.
People who live in town must be able
to take a house in the country, or at
the seaside, whenever they feel in
clined to havo a change. Extrava
gance, not economy, is tho standard
of domestic happiness at present in
fashion. It is not a girl’s idea), when
she marries, that she should stay at
home; but, on the contrary, that she
should leave it continually. In a
word, if you get at, the heart of many
girls, you discover that their ideal of
life is that it should be one continual
“spree.”
Power of a Sweet Voice,
There is no power of love so hard
to gtt ar.d keep us a kind voice. A
kind heart is deaf and dumb. It
ruav bn rough in flesh aud blood, yet
do the work of a .soft heart, and do it
with a soft touch. But there is no
one thing that love so much needs
as a sweet voice to tell what it means
anil feels; aud it is hard to get and
keep it in the right tone. One must
start iu youth, arid be on the watch
night and day, at work and play, to
get and keep a voice that shall speak
at all times the thoughts of a kind
heart. But this is tho time when a
sharp voice is most apt to be got.
You often bear boys and girls say
words at play with a quick, sharp
tone, as if it were the snap of a whip.
When one of them gets vexed you
will hear n voice that sounds as if it
were made up of a snarl, a whine,
and a bark. Such a voice often
speaks worse than the heart feels. It,
shows more ill-will in the tone than
in the words. It is often in mirth
that ono gets a voice or a tone that
is sharp, and sticks to him through
life, and stirs up ill-will and grief,
and falls !tke a drop of gall on tho
sweet joys at home. Such as these
get a sharp bomt-voice for use. and
keep their best voice for those they
meet elsewhere, just as they would
save their best cakes and pies for
guests and all their sour food for
their own board. 1 would say to al.
boys and girls: “Use your own guert
voies at home. Watch it day by
day, a3 a pearl of great price, for it
wiii be worth more to you in days to
come than the best pearl hid in the
sea. A kind voice is a joy like a
lai k’s song to hearth and home. It
is to the heart what light is to the
ey e. It is a light that sings as well
as shines Tram it to sweet tones
now, aud it will keep in tuna through
life.
Orson Brooks, of Denver, Col., aud
Mrs. Nancy Michael were engaged
lovers forty-five yoars ago, but were
separated by cruel fate or hard
hearted parents, or both. They were
married September 9th last, each, in
the meantime, having buried two
“pardners.’ ‘
";i 0 Value of Soup,
}!PTaH|J{fo hundreds of families in
comroMaffe circumstances who am , r
have aHP for dinner, which, without
aanpt'Jnlways a failure unless it bo
a sortabiagoat, tho product of what
fnrtneSpiall a boiled dinner. They
are inaßiways aware how easy it is
to,-pr®jre ordinary soup, and how
eheapfK is, too. It can he made of
■almojjpny thing, aud a pot of water
placeqfelr tiie stove may bo tho re
eipiehlwf divers odds aud ends of
nfeat mf.il vegetables to excellent ad
vnntaJlp. After these havo been
boilodl% few hours thoro will be found
in thejtet, a very good soup, whole
some,Spurishing, appetizing, and its
costx® be nominal. If the experi
ment ®re triedjkinuny families would
be saftfised and pleased at the re
sult, .jjibey would have a much bet
tegfßer for almost nothiug than
theyW.o hitherto had any idea of,
and erica occustomed to soup, they
oonld hot bo persuaded to relinquish
it. A simple soup benefits at o:reo
health;., appetite and the purse. -~N.
Y. Times.
Wails.
Many peoplo are puzzled to under
stand what tho terms “four penny,"
“six penny,” aud ‘Ten penny” mean
as applied to nails. Four-penny
moans four pounds to the thousand
nails, eix-penuy six pounds to the
thousand, and so ou. It is an old
English term, and meant at, first ten
pound nails (tho thousand being nn
derstoud;) but tho old Englishman
clipped it to “ten-pun,’ 1 and from
that it degenerated until penny was
substituted for pounds. So when you
ask for, four-penny nails now-n-da; s.
you want those a thousand of which
will weigh four pounds. When a
thousand nails weigh less than one
pound they are called tacks, brads,
&c., and are reckoned by ounces.
Religious Teachings from Boston.
In one of Boston's moat sanctified
religious papers, tho Golden Hide, we
notice the last page is occupied as
follows: Three columns of Garfield’s
Boston; speech, two columns of an
illustrated rifle, shotgun, revolver,
etc., advertisement, seven inches of
“corsets” illustrated; five inches of
liver pads, and about eight inches of
small miscellaneous advertisements.
It seems from this that our religious
contemporary believes in teaching
the /oung idea how to shoot, to lace,
aud also how to keep your liver in
good order. —Dayton Democrat.
If Mr. Speer wants to go to con
gress to take tho revenue off of
whisky and tobacco, why is it that
Col. Farrow is for him? Wo have
been told that nearly all the revenue
- are -far Kpae*,
and are anxious to havo him oleetel.
How is it possible for these revenue
ofiicors to ho in favor of Speer when
he is an enemy to the department of
Government which gives them em
ployment? There is “something
rotten in Denmark” about this treaty
of peaco with Col. Farrow. Col.
Farrow is long-headed and shrewd;
ho knows how to rope in any Inde
pendent candidate for the interest of
the Republican party. Would Cos!.
Farrow, tha prosecuting officer for
the United States in tho revenue
courts of this State, support Emory
Speer or advise anybody else to sup
port him, if ho thought Emory would
tear up the foundation of lire Repub
lican party ?—Dahlonega Signal.
Robert Milligan McLane, candidate
for congress from Baltimore iu
Swann’s district, is a Delawarean by
birth aud now seventy-three joins
old. Ho was a graduate at West
Point, and served in the United
States army from 1537 to 1842, when
he studied law. He was in Congress
from 1847 to 1851, Minister to China
from 1853 to 1855 and to Mexico
during the last five months of Buch
anan’s administration. His father,
Hon. Louis McLane, who was Secre
tary of the Treasury aud Secretary
of State under Jackson, and twice
Minister to Great Britain, was one
of the most distinguished sons Dela
ware ever had.
The Chicago Tribune says: “There
is, in the first place, no longer an
Italian opera. The so called Italian
opera is no more Italian than the
operas given by tho Hess troupe.
There are not a dozen important
Italian singers on the stage in the
world. Tho repertoiro i3 no longer
distinctly Italian. Tho German has
broken into it on all sides. Mean
while, English opera, which is cheap,
has the field, although by the same
anomaly it is no more English than
Italian is Italian.”
George Schnell, a well digger, was
bnried by the caving in of a sewer
excavation that he was digging in
Market street, Patterson, N. J., the
other day. He was under the sand,
head and all, for fully twenty min
utes, and although apparently dead
when dug out he revived on the ad
ministration of restoratives, and
seems to have suffered no ill effects
from his subterranean experience.
That Henry Ward Beecher should
be a Grant man is in perfect ac
cordance with the fitness of things.
It is eminently fitting that the most
corrupt preacher who was ever in an
American pulpit should he found ad
vocating the re-election of the most
corrupt. President who ever sat in
the chair of Washington. —New York
Sun.
In speaking of Gen, Toonrbr’ Fel
ton letter the Augusta Chronicle well
says, “there is odb truth that no
sophistry can get around —-if organi
zation is to be maintained aud party
unity and party strength are to be
preserved, there must be party con
ventions, tho action of which shall ho
conolusivo and binding upon every
member of the party ”
A whole business block, including
court house and market houses, in
Easton, Md., was burned last week.
Loss between soveuty and one hun
dred thousand dollars.
News in Genera,l.
The Lumpkin Independent is for
sale.
Only five deaths in Augusta last
week.
The Connecticut, apple crop is very
large.
Brunswick organized anew band
last week.
Agnes Jenks was at Washington
last week.
Richmond county fair October
22d aud 23d.
Augusta is clamoring for anew
Union Depot.
Oyriile Dion ths celebrated billiard
player is dead.
Fifty-eight deaths in Atlanta dur
ing September.
Colorado went Republican last
Wednesday week.
Georgia and Central Railroad
stocks keep risiDg.
Tho Di’lcalli County News is now
published at Decatur.
Savannah’s cotton receipts for
September, 101,400 bales.
Trnuell & Carter, of Cocliran,
have made an assignment.
Mary Anderson, the actress, feeds
her genius with beef-steak.
Col. Bel! is doing noble work for
Billups and the Democracy.
Tho fever was increasing in Chat
tanooga tho first of the week.
W. W. Cole’s groat London circus
is circulating around Virginia.
A block in Pensacola, Fla., was
hurried last week. Loss $50,000.
Dr. Burwell A. Bobo of Georgia,
a volunteer at New Orleans is dead.
Work is to begin at once on a rail
road to the top of Mount Vesuvius.
The mills in Columbus will this
year use about 20,00 0 bales of cot
ton.
It is O Tempora, ! O Moses 1 in
the fourth district now.— Chron. <&
Con.
The Atlanta Cadets have reorgan
ized with E. S. McCaudless as cap
tain.
H. C. Roney was elected represen
tative from McDuffie county last
week.
Two Indians from Indian Territory
are iu Union College’s freshman
class.
Memphis’ population has been re
duced to 2,500 whites and 0,000
blacks.
'The last lot of mutilated Macon
city currency $21,250 in all, has beon
burned.
The Block-Leftwich dancing case
is soon to come before the Synod of
Georgia.
All the foreign legations iu Wash
ington havo called on the Chinese
minister.
Cotton is coming to market all
over the State with extraordinary
rapidity.
General Sherman has written a
letter favoring the Southern Pacific
Railroad.
Gen. Halbert E. Paine of Wiscon
sin Inis been appointed Commissioner
of Patents.
The yellow fever has reached Me
ridian Miss., iu spite of a most rigid
quarantine.
Tho Fitz John "Porter case was
again commenced October Ist in New
York City.
The public schools of New York
city will cost, the present school vear,
$4,448,000.
Bishop Beckwith was to preach at
St. Marks Episcopal church Dalton
last Sunday.
The British steamship Athens
loading at Savannah, is longer than
a city block.
Wm. Bivins has been agent of the
Central Railroad at Millodgevillo for
thirty years.
There have been cases of yellow
fever in Louisville, Ky., lately, origi
nating there.
Newburg, N- Y. and vicinity expe
rienced several shocks of an earth
quake recontly.
Valentine B iker Paslia now holds
the command of eighty battalions in
tho Turkish army.
It is reported in Boston that
Kinipton will go to South Carolina
of his own acoerd.
A large colony of Cuban refugees
iu Europe has decided to return to
Cuba this month.
There is said to be more body
snatching in Ohio, than any other
State in the Union.
Bob Ingereoll lectured ou Robert
Burns last Monday night at Chicker
iug Hall, New York.
Smith, Fleming & Cos., East. India
merchants of Loudon, failed last
week for $10,000,000.
Horace King,colored, of LaGrange,
is said to be a candidate for congress
in tho fourth district.
Ex-Gov. Moses of South Carolina
is reported begging money from daj
to day in New York.
Weather reports from tho Signal
office in Atlanta were sent out for
the first time last Friday.
Twocanneiies at Frederick, Md.,
will put up nine ipmdred thousand
cau3 of tomatoes this fall.
Fisher’s steam road engine made
in If,ni ton county, will ho exhibited
at the fair in that county;,
The Confederate Monument of
Richmond county will bo unveiled
in Augusta October 31st.
Gate City Fire Company No. 5 of
Atlanta has received a aew thir l
class steamer costing $3,709.
If is believed iu sporting circles
that Courtney sold the boat race be
tween Hanlon and himself.
Ben Butler claims 70,000 Demo
cratic votes in Massachusetts. Hu
will not get half the number.
A train on tho Long Island Rail
road ran into a funeral procession
lately and killed two persons.
The widow of Daniel Webster, now
quite aged aud iu feeble health, is
living nfc New Rochelle, N. Y.
According to tho News, the colored
schools in Augusta are if possible,
more crowded than the white.
The actors want to know why
Edwin Forrest's home for aged aud
needy actors is not iu full blast.
If Secor Robeson gets to congress,
Binder Colfax should consider him
self invited to re-enter public life.
Hanlon won the five mile boat race
against Courtney, s.t Rachine Can
ada iu 3G minutes Jind 22 seconds.
Total coinage at tbe United States
mints for September' $8,340,500 of
which $2,704,000 were silver dollars.
The work on the now life-saving
stations ou the coasts of Virginia aud
North Carolina is rapidly progress
ing.
A fresh Russian loan will soon be
forthcoming tor redeem ionic of the
paper currency issued during the late
war.
“There wasn’t a saloon keeper in
tho State that didn’t ache to trust
him,” was a tribute to a dead Nevada
man.
Brunswick sportsmen took advan
tage of the recent spring tides and
got away with tots of marsh hens and
eoons.
American aud Mexican officers are
in good accord upon the Mexican
border, according to the latest ad
vices.
The Athens Advertiser, by E. E
Jones, devoted to the mercantile
interests of Athens appeared last
week.
The Republicans of Texas hare
nominated A. T. Morton for Gover
nor, and of Nebraska, Aibinius
Vance.
One hundred and six out of two
hundred and six Odd Fellows in
Memphis have died since the plague
began.
The Georgia Railx-oad depot in
Augusta and the bank on Broad
street are now connected by a tele
phone.
Bill Jones instantly killed Bill
Grimslty last week at No 14 Macon
A Brunswick R. R., by cutting his
throat.
The Atlanta Sunday Gazelle started
last Sunday with Harris, Small and
Grady of the Constitution ns contrib
utors.
Samuel Earle, near Anderson, S
C., caught his arm in a cotton gin
week before last and bled to death
from it.
The Republicans of Beast Butler’s
district have, in convention, demand
ed his resignation from the present
congress.
There are three correspondents iu
Cartorsville furnishing to northern
papers, letters upon Georgia's re
sources.
The def and ration of Calder, cashier
of the Grocers’ and Producers’
Bank of Providence, R. 1., reached
SBO,OOO.
Mr. \V. F. Herring, formerly a
cotton merchant of Augusta, is now
residing with his family at Bremen,
Germany.
“Honest John” Patterson was jun
keting last, month with George Q
Cannon and the other saints at Salt
Lake City.
The bronze state of Kamehameha,
conqueror and organizer of the
Sandwich Islands, has been ordered
in Boston.
The workingmen’s (Kearneyites)
candidates for offices of tho Califor
nia Constitutional Convention were
all defeated.
Dr. Easton Yonge of Savannah
has been elected Second Vice Presi
dent of the Howard Medical Society
of Memphis.
The entire business portion of Pal
estine Texas was destroyed by fire
last week. Loss $115,000. Insur
ance slight.
John S. Hager, Democrat and ex-
Unitod States Senator is the presi
dent of the constitutional convention
of California.
Last Friday six of the Atlanta Ri
fle Association made a score of 295
points out of a possible 300, at 900
yards distance.
David Watkins an old citizen of
Franklin county was found dead last
week about one and a half miles from
Jenkins’ Ferry.
Marbury Johnson, Edward Solo
mon and Thomas 11. Gigilliat of
Georgia havo been appointed to tho
Naval Academy.
The Cartorsville Free Press wants
the legal advertising of Bartow coun
ty. It devotes too mneh space to
Felton advertising.
Major August Rullman, who fol
lowed Napoleon from Ulm to ’Wa
terloo, died in Newark N. J., Sept.
29th aged 97 years.
In Newberry couuty, S. C. the ne
gro Republicans call themselves tho
“National Labor Party.” Asafetida
by any other name will smell as
sweet.
Tho Democrats of Charleston
I county, S. 0., propose to scud a sol
id Democratic delegation to the leg
islature, and Connor, Democrat, to
j congress
.£. s. J.
This world's a sc-jne as dark as Styx
Where liopo is scarce worth 2 6
Our joys arc borne so Hooting lienee.
That they are dear at 18
And yo, t > r.iy here army aru witting
Althoagh they may not have 1
An Augusta Chronicle, correspond
ent with four initials, seems to
think - the earth revolves around
Aleck Stephens.
James Wright, having been nomi
nated for County Judge by tho
Greenbackers of Chemung county,
N. Y, concluded to apply for admis
sion to citizenship.
O. H. Irish is now chief of the Bu
reau of Engraving and Printing of
the Treasury jjepartmeut, vire Mc-
Pherson, resigned.
Two women lately attempted to set
tle a difficulty in N w York by an old
fashioned boxing match. Both
fought till exhausted.
Thirteen locks of cotton were pick
ed from one boll, which grew ou tho
plantation of Mrs. Nancy Mussel
white, of Dooly county.
M. A. Herndon receives the Carnes
vilie Register for one year, having
brought to the office a watermelon
weighing 321 pounds.
To read the Georgia Republican
one would think thrt Holtzolaw was
a sure-enough candidate for congress
in the seventh district.
A carbino dropped in the Potomac
bj L reman, one of John Brown’s
captains, dur ng the Harper’s Ferry
raid, has just been found.
Fourth district papers all say that
with Persons and Moses both in the
field, Harris is sure of an election
unless a Republican runs.
Gen. Gordon spoke for Lester last
week at Silver Creek in Floyd countv.
He will stump the seventh, fifth and
first districts in succession.
The United States Steamship Ply
mouth sailed last week from Port
land, Me., for Santa Crnz to protect
the American citizens there.
Wm. Ililey and John Fellows were
sentenced last week, in Troy N. Y.,
to fifteen years in tho State prison
for a $3,100 car robbery Juiy 13.
A movement is being made for a
new county in South Carolina to be
called “Cross Anchor’’ cut of portions
of Laurens, Spartanburg aud Union.
The American Sunday School Un
ion says it is abundantly able to
meet promptly all its obligations
and is in no financial embarrass
ment.
NO 40
Charles Freeman, a brakeman on
the State road, was severely l injured
last Friday by coming in contact
with a low bridge on Jones avenue,
Atlanta.
No fines are to be imposed on mail
contractors, or deductions made from
their pay because of inequality of
service on account of quarantine reg
ulations.
Col. W. T. Thompson editor-in
chief of the Savannah News, returned
home last week from New York,
greatly improved in health and
strength.
The walking mutch in New York
last week between O’Leary aud
Hurrhes, was won by the former, who
made 403 miles iu a little less than
142 hours.
Father P. Ryan of St. Peters’ and
St. Paul’s church died at Chattanoo
ga of yellow fever aud not Father A.
J. Ryan rhe celebrated and beloved
t oct-priest.
The Dahlonega Signal calls Parson
Felton’s j iivate secretary, “Mr. Sec
retary.” The Signal is not posted, it
should he “Mrs. Secretary,” as it is
Mrs. Felton.
It is ex-Judge aud congressman
limbi/, not Bighrv, as some of the
papers have it, who is spoken of as a
Republican candidate tor congress
iu the fourth district.
Barlow, G rvotihacker, in tire third
Vermont district lacked only 121
votes of an th etion according to tho
official ret in n- He will probably bo
elected in N \. mber.
Messi - P li McMahon of Savan
nah and M J Rico of Augusta were
lust Sunday in Savannah, advanced
to the dignity of the priesthood by
Rt. Rev. iJ.saop Gross.
The net earnings of the Ceutral
Railroad aud Banking Company
were $1,123,309.07 for the year end
ing August 31st being $281,821.22
more than for the previous year.
Whether the cotton receipts will
hold up to the end of the season as
they havo begun or drop to last
years figures iu a short while, is a
question upon which opinions dif
fer.
The Bank of the city of Glasgow,
Scotland, suspended payment Octo
ber Ist. It had a paid up capital
of one million pounds. The failure
ia tho largest in Scotland sinco
1851.
Society in Crawfordville according
to the Democrat; first class, top bug
gy owners; second class, no-top-bug
gy owners; third class, sporters (not
spoutere) of gold watches; plebeians,
all others.
Warren Paper mills at Sacearap
pa, Me., contain $1,000,000 worth of
machinery, and it is the intention of
the proprietors to still further enlarge
them, until they shall be the largest
in the world.
An exchange says: American hams
sent to Europe, it is claimed, are
largely repacked as Westphalian
hams and sold in other countries at
an enormous advance on the first
cost in this market.
The Surrogate of New York has
admitted evideuce in the Vanderbilt
will case, tending to show that Com
modore Vanderbilt believed in spirit
ualism. The contestants regard it
as a great point gained.
Nothing disturbs the incessaut
good humor of Iteturniug Board
Hayes. No shock cau chill his cheer
ful marrow but a lack of funds to pay
President Tildon’s salary, which ho
steals with unvarying regularity.
“You have not seen muck service
in the field, I believe, Colonel,” re
marked a Chicago woman to Fred
Graut. “No,” replied Fred, “but
whenever I put on a pair of pas
spurs I feel just as good as if I had.”
Tho machinery of Perkins V Bros,
at their placs in Hapeville was totul
lv consumed by tiro last Monday
week. Loss unknown but large.
No insurance. Fire caught from a
match in the gin. This is the second
time they have been burned 'out
within two years.