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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.