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JUDICIARY. 5 a
Hon. George D. Rico, Judge S. 0. Western Circuf
A. L. Mitchell, Solicitor, Athens, Ga.
COUNTY OEEICER3.
J. B. M. Winburn, Ordinary; John L. Gaines,
Sheriff; J. F. Duckett, Deputy Sheriff; J. J. Mayne,
Clerk Superior Court; W. 8. Pickrell, Deputy Cier*
Superior Court ; N. B. Clark, Tax Collector ; -J R.
H. Luck, Tax Receiver; Gideon Harrison, Sur
veyor ; Edward Lowry, Coroner; R. C. Young,
Treasurer.
CITY GOVERNMENT.
Dr. n. 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. R. Boone, Trreasurer; T.
N.Hauie, Marshal; Henry Perry, City Attorney.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
Pbehuttkbian Church—Rev. T. P. Cleveland,
Pastor. Preaching every Sabbath—morning and
night, except the second Sabbath. Su day School,
at 9 b. no. Prayer meeting Wednesday ovoning at 4
o'clock.
Mbthodiht Church—Rov. W. W. Wadsworth. Pas
tor. Preaching every Sunday morning and night.
Sunday School at 1) a. m. Prayer meeting Wednes*
day night.
Baptist Ohubch Rev. W. C. Wilkes, Pastor.
Preaching Sunday morning and night. Sunday
Bchool aty a. m Prayer meeting Thursday evening
•t 4 o’clock. e
GAINESVILLE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.
„B. Estes, President; Henry Perry, Librarian.
YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.
A. M. Jackson, President; R. 0. Maddox, Vice
President; W. B. Clements, Secretary.
Regular services every Sabbath evening at one
of th* Churchos. Cottage prayer meetings every
Tuesday night iu “Old Town,” and Friday night
near th* depot
FRATERNAL RECORD.
Flowkuy Buanch Lodge No. 79, I. O. O. TANARUS„
meet* every Monday night, Joel Laseter, N. G.
B. F. Htiiddam, Sec.
Allsohant Royal Arch Chamkr meets on the
Second and Fourth Tuesday evenings iu each
month.
H. 8. Bradley, Sec’y. A. W. Caldwell, H. P.
Gainesville Lodge, No. 219, A.-. F.\ M.\,
insets m the Firsts nd Third Tuesday evening in
the month
R. Palmoub, Soc’y. R. E Green, W. M.
Air-Line Lodge, No. 64 ,1. O. O. JjF., meets
every Friday evening.
0. A. Lilly, Sec. W. H. Harrison, N. G.
GAINESVILLE POST OFFICE.
Owing to recont change of schedule on the Atlan
ta end Charlotte Air Line Railroad, the following
will be the schedule from date:
Mail traiD No. 1, going cast, leaves 7:47 p. m.
Mall for this train closes at 7:00 “
Mall train No. 2, going east, leaves 8:35 a. m.
No mall by this train.
Mall train So. 1‘ going west, 1eav0g....6:51 a. m.
Mali for this train closes at 9:30 p. m.
Mail traiuN >. 2, going west, le-.ves... .9:05 p. m.
Mail for this train closes at 7.30 “
Office hours from 7 a. m. to 5:30 p m.
General delivery open on Sundays from Bto 9>i-
Departure of mails from Ibis office:
Dahlonega and Gilmor county, daily s. m
Dahlonega, via Wahoo and Ethol, Saturday a. m
Jefferson it Jack sou county, Tuesday, Thurs
day and Saturday 7 a. m
Cleveland, White, Union, Towns and Ilayes
ville, N. C., Tuesdays and Fridays 7 a. m
Dawsonville and Dawson county,, Tuosday
and Saturday 8 a. m.
Homer, Banks county, Saturday ..1 p. m
Pleasant Grove, Forsyth county, Saturday. .1 p.m
M. R. ARCHER, P.M.
Atlanta and Charlotte
AIK-LIN 14,
Trains will run as follows on and after
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29,1878.
MAIL TUAIN, DAILY.
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Leave Atlanta 2.40 p. m-
Leave Gainesville 4:50 p. in.
Arrive Charlotte 2:20 a. m.
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Leave Gainesville 0:55 a. ra.
Arrive Atlanta 12:00 m.
Through Freight Train.
(Daily except Sunday.)
GOING EAST.
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Arrive Gainesville 12:28 p. tu
Leave Gainesville 1:10 p. m’
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Leave Central 2:55 a. nil
Arrive Gainesville 8:25 a. m.
Leave Gainesville ;... 8:37 a. in.
Arrive Atlanta 12:25 p. in.
Local Freight and Accommodation
Train.
(Daily except Sunday.)
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Arrive Gainesvillo 10:54 a. m.
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Arrive Gainesville l:lop.ru.
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Close connection at Atlanta for all points
West, aud at Charlotte for all points East.
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W. J. Houston, Gen. P. <fc T. A’gt.
Northeastern Railroad of Georgia.
TIJVEE TLAABXT.EL
Taking effect Monday, June 10, 1878. Al!
trains run daily except Sunday.
TRAIN IVO. 1.
STATIONS. ARRIVE. LEAVE.
A. M.
Athens 7 00
Center 721 722
Nioholson 736 739
Harmony Grove, 759 807
Maysville 827 832
Gilbmlle 849 850
Lula 9 15
TRAI] (j- jyjQ ToT
STATIONS. ARRIVE. [LEAVE.
P. M.
Lula 5 25
Gillsville 542 545
Maysville 602 608
Harmony Grove 630 640
Nioholson 701 707
Center 722 725
* Athena j 7 451
wool! wool!
The Wool Carder at Brown’s Hill having
* been thoroughly repaired, is now doing
well. All wool left at K. L Boone’s store
will be taken away the same week, and re
turned carded the next week. Satisfaction
guaranteed. O. CLARK.
s. sepl3-6L
The Gainesville eagle.
VOL XII.
Col. Bell’s Appointments.
I will address the people of the
Ninth District upon questions of vi
tal public in tercet.; as follows :
At Morgantou,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.
H. P. Bell.
Hill On Hayes.
We regret that we have not the
space to publish the letter of Hon.
B. H. Hill on Hayes and his admin
istration, as every thing from his
pen is exceedingly interesting. It
teshits entirely of Hayes’ conduct
since his inauguration and effectually
disposes of his sham pretense of
hdneet administration and reform in
V : civil service. When Hayes’ in-
became a fixed fact, Mr*
tin like many others, was disposed
t| make the best of it and give credit
f<§r his good deeds in office, if any
should bo due him. But in Mr.
Hill’s opinion, Hayes, in appointing
all the Returning Board scoundrels
and “visiting statesmen” to offic.,
“has thrown away his opportunity
to honor himself and serve his coun
try, by recognizing an obligation to
reward those, who, by frauds most
disgraceful to their country, gave
him this opportunity. He has
thrown away the grandest opportu
nity ever given to a man, only that
he might give offices and rewards to
as worthless a set of rapscallions as
ever disgraced humanity.’’
Premising that -two men only,
Johnson .and' Hayes, became Presi
4etrts by reason of crime, Senator
Hill draws the contrast between the
former, who hanged Mrs. Surratt
while “protesting her innocence with
an honest woman’s tears and a devo
ted mother’s entreaties/' and the lat
ter, rewarding Agues Jonks, who,
“confessing her guilt in brazen gib
berish never before equalled, receives
an office of good pay and little work
at the Treasury.” “In Mr. Johnson’s
case,” says Senator Hill, “all the
criminals, real or suspected, were
specially marked for punishment; in
Mr. Hayes’ case, all the criminals,
real or suspected were specially
marked for reward.’’
This ia all true and in. nothing but
what might have been confidently
expected from a person of the feeble
mental calibre and moral weakness
of Hayes. That, Mr. Hill expected
better this#* of the fraudulent ad
ministration ia more creditable to
bis willingness to be favorably im
pressed, than his accustomed politi
cal sagacity. But as it has turned
out, Hayes is morally as guilty -as
if he had with his own hand, thrown
out Democratic votes, prepared
forged affidavits and falsified actual
returns, and as Mr. Hill well says,
“his administration has persistently
identified its life, it3 power and its
character with the frauds of its ori
gin.”
The letter is drafted ia Mr. Hill’s
inimitable style and expresses the
earnest convictions of Democrats
everywhere. The great fraud of 1870
is one crime that never will be con
doned or repeated.
Speer’s War Record.
Ao the beginning of the late unpleas
antness, Mr. Spoer had attained the
mature age of twelve years. As he
was increasing presumably in wis
dom and stature, the war wa3 draw
ing to an unhappy close. Some few
months before its termination, so
runs the legend, little Emory,, cut
ting the maternal apron strings, de
camped from the parental ro f,
joined a critter company and rode
horseback through Georgia in search
of buttermilk and glory. If he per
formed any martial deeds, history
has failed to chronicle them; if he
was ever in an engagement there
is no mention of it; if he ever
captured anything more formidable
than an old mammy’s fat-gourd, tra
dition is siieut on the subject and if
he ever saw a Federal soldier till
after the surrender, its more than
his kin folks ever heard of. Yet on
tie strength of this record as a “sol
dier,” he now asks the votes of rea*
soldiers; because, when a little fif
teen year old, he ran away from
home on a pleasure trip, as the aver
age small boy plays truant and goes
a fishing, he would induce people to
believe that there is lurking ill him
somewhere, the needful qualifications
for a congressman.
The Independent candidate banks
very heavily on the gullibility of ihe
voters of this district, if he supposes
they aro likely to be influenced by
any such clap-trap as this. They re
spect the soldier; they honor the sol
dier; but they are not to be cheated
by a run away school boy who gallops
a mule up and down, the big road
aud calls it war.
Hon. Wm. E. Smith has written a
letter to the editor of the Cartersvjlle
Free Fressin which he says: “What
ever my valuation and admiration of
Dr. Felton as a man and a legislator,
I prefer the regular nominee
against any Independent.
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 18, 1878
Ihe State Committee's Address.
We publish in close, proximity
hereto, the address of the Democrat
ic State Executive Committee to the
Democrats of Georgia. It is a strong
and pertinent document and merits
the careful perusal of all Democrats
Let the truths it contains, become
familiar to us all and our party rank
will not be broken on the day of No
vember’s election.
The time in which to appeal to
good and true Democrats is most
ovc-r. In a little more than two weeks
the Democratic party of Georgia will
look back upon victory or defeat. If
Corker, Arnold, Felton and Speer be
successful, every Republican iaGeor
gia and the country will claim the
victory and all Democrats will be
obliged to acknowledge a
defeat.
Let no Democrat be deceived as to
the danger and the fact of its exis
tence. Last week in lowa, (the
State which gave Hayes 59,228 ma
jority over Tilden,)the sixth aud sev
enth districts, Republican in T 876 by
4,059 and 7,788 respectively, elected
Democratic-Greenback candidates to
congress by a fusion of all those op
posed to the Republicans. Do Geor
gia Democrats intend that results
like these in lowa are, next month,
to be offset by Democratic defeats in
the first, fifth, seventh and ninth dis
tricts, through combinations of In
dependents, Greenbackers and Re
publicans ? Not by any means.
Our party in Georgia is not disposed
to sacrifice its legitimate majority in
aDy such way and will on the fifth of
November send a unanimous Demo
cratic delegation to congress, from
Nicholls to Billups.
Tlie National Greenback Party,
Thi3 is a bad year for political
prognostications of any kind; but un
less all signs have failed, the October
elections settled the fate of the Na
tional Greenback party. There have
been elections for congressmen in
fifty five districts, not one of which
has been carried by the greenbackers
alone. In throe districts —one each
in lowa, Indiana and Maine—they
have succeeded, aided by the entire
Democratic vote; and in two districts
—one in Maine, the other in lowa—
they have aided Democrats in defeat
ing Republicans.
It is safe to say that without assist
ance they cannot elect a single mem
ber. unless it be in.the Luzerne dis
trict of Pennsylvania; and there their
nominee is the present incumbent —a
Democrat of fifty years’ standing.
Even aided by one or the other old
parties, as the contested district may
be Democratic or Republican, they
will not have over half a dozen repre
sentatives out of two hundred and
ninety-three in the next House.
How idle then for greenback men
in this section to expect to secure
currency reforms in any other way
than in and through the Democratic
party. So far as Democrats agree
with Nationals, so far can Nationals
succeed by acting with them against
Republicans the natural enemies of
both. But as a separate organization
undertaking to control legislation as
agiunst Democrats and Republicans,
the National-Greenback party is a
first-class humbug, drawing a few
votes from both organizations and
injuring neither.
A Correction.
The Atlanta Sunday Gazette in its
last issue speaking of the probable
result iu this district says:
“It is conceded on all sides that
Speer will carry Habersham, Pickens,
Fannin, Union, Franklin, Ilali and
Banks. His friends claim Clarke,
Towns, Oconee, Jackson and Mor
gan, and claim his election by from
500 to 1,500 majority.”
We opine the above was written
by a strong friend of Speer, who
wishes him success, but the truth i3
that no Democrat concedes to the In
dependent, Banks, Hall or Union,
three counties he will certainly not
carry. He will lose Clarke, Jackson,
Morgan and Towns besides. Oconee
and Franklin are doubtful as also
Pickens and Fannin. Spoer has no
chance for an election and this every
Democrat concedes but no more.
It is easy to understand why
Hayes should like to visit cattle fairs j
but it is not easy to understand why
he should have received or accepted
an invilation to visit the grave of
James Madison. James Midison
was a patriot and a statesman. More
over, he was elected President by the
people of the United States, and
would have scorned to hold that or
any other office if there had been
fraud in his title. What has Hayes
to do beside the grave of such a man
r.s this? His presence there is a des
ecration. —V- 1. Sun.
James Buchanan of Indianapolis,
the leader of the Greenbackers of
Indiana, said the other day that his
crowd would swallow the Democratic
party. As the Demociats increased
their majority in Indiana last week
and polled ten times as many votes
as the Greenbackers, the swallowing
process seemed to be reversed.
j ADVICE FROM HEADQUARTERS.
; The Democratic State Committee
On The Situation.
j At a meeting of the Executive
Committee of the Democratic party
: for this State at the capitoi in Atlan
i ta on the Bth, the following commit
j tee was appointed by the chairman
■to prepare an address to the Demo
j cratic party of the State.
James M. Pace, Chairman; J. L.
| Warren, W. A. Harris, M. J. Hateh-
I er, J. T Waterman, W. T. Trammell,
J. A. W. Johnson, M W. Lewis, and
W. E. Simmons. The following is
the address issued by the committee
to the people of the State:
THE address.
To the Democratic Party in Georgia:
The State Democratic Executive
Committee of Georgia, animated by
a sincere regard for the welfare of
the State, and viewing l with undis
guised concern the existing opposi
tion to some of the regularly chosen
candidates of our party deem it time
ly to address Georgia Dsmocrits
upon what it considers the impera
tive duty of the hour—the duty of
true party allegiance and Ihe impor
tance of its discharge. We speak no
mere formal words to you; we ask
you to hear u.3for our common cause.
The peril of party disintegration is
foreshadowed in a personal indepand
entism that professes fealty to Dem
ocratic principle. The large numeri
cal majority of the Democracy of the
State has begotten a feeling of secu
rity, and a disregard of the princi
ples that won success. This sense
of security appears to be drifting us
steadily towards the dissolution of
our party bond, and the ultimate tri
umph of cur political enemies in our
own State. Not only this, but the
great national victory for which
Damosrats have been struggling for
more than a decade of toilsome years,
and now for tha first time within our
grasp, must be inevitably lost to us
if our party unison ceases, if our par
ty zeal wanes, or if our party
strength is weakened by selfish aspi
rants or disorganizing factionists.
It is well for the Democracy of Geor
gia to take soundings of its course,
and in this early hour before the bat
tle of the hallo’s, deliberate what is
beat to be done, and what must be
avoided. All sensible men must ac
knowledge the need of co operation
to secure a common aim, and pre
serve and enforce a common beiief.
In war there there can be no triumph
without organization. In politics it is
equally essential. There must be a
common object, an acknowledged
authority, a harmonious policy and a
united action. These are the indis
pensible conditions of success ap
proved by time and trial, and their
violation will bring revenge iu sure
overthrow.
Locking back over the turbulent
yp.ars.sine.fi 1861. to their stormy eon;
liicts, to their disappointments and
humiliations, tha conscientious
champions of Democratic principles
find cause for congratulation in their
heroic adhesion to duty, and in the
full reward of victory which it has
brought to them. We saw then the
upheaval of all society. We saw
states raped of their sovereignty.
We saw the caprice of conquest made
the law of general government. We
saw the soldier become the arbiter of
private rights, the custodian of pri
vate liberty, the judge of private
property. Worse even than these,
we saw a party in power, seemingly
enthroned, that sought ;o make these
odious and fatal practices the accep
ted and permanent policy of national
rule. The spirit of our free govern
ment was to be forever subverted and
destroyed, and the genius of liberty
and law was to be supplanted by the
demon of force and tyranny. In re
sistance to all this wicked intent, in
undismayed battle with the heresy of
an arbitary centralism, the Demo-'
cratic party did its grandest work.
Vainly it fought for years. It suffer
ed repeated, defeat. It was derided
and overwhelmed, but vanquished
or silenced, never. Sturdily by the
assailed cause of constitutional gov
ernment, if stood like a stone wall
On every battle ground, its forces
were rallied, and its blow was struck.
It resisted force and fraud, misrule,
menance and temptation. Its cour
age grew, nd abated not It won,
at last, small victories, and then lar
ger ones. If red itme 1 predicts,
counties, cities, States One after
another, it took citadel and strong
hold of Republicanism. It carried
its victorious standard into the
Speaker’s chair, it but awaits in as
sailed victory the forms of the Sen
ate’s capitulation. It elected tlie
President, but it lost the prize by the
superior genius of Radicalism for
fraud. In the e hard won and long
delayed triumph?, it restored Pw,
and order and peace. To the con
duct of public affairs, it brought new
virtue, to official corruption it brought
an end. For public extravagance, it
substituted economy, it quickened
the dormant sentiment of private
patriotism, it restored to life and vig
or the spirit of constitutional law
and liberty. But its mission is not
yet fulfilled. It has a President to
seat before it can wholly impress its
pol'cy upon the government and
make the next chapter iu the history
of- he country.
What has not the democratic par
ty done for our beloved State? Its
beneficent work is all to fresh to need
recount. Consider it but a moment,
and let the pleasing reflection as
semble its members in solid pholanx
around its standards on every field
of cocfi ct.
Fellow-citizens of the Democratic
party, the finxl cbnsmumation of tri
umph for our individual and collec
tive good can be accomplished only
by the same united ac’i m wh : ch has
brought us our past successes. What
we have gained can only be preserv
ed to us iu this way. If Democratic
principles are to be maintained, we
must preserve our organization. We
cannot disband our forces and con
tinue to conquer. We can achieve
no further victory if division come to
us. If wo break ranks, we can win
no battle. W e cannot preserve our
party by disintegrating it.
V. e see in Georgia, in several con
gressional districts, aspirants, claim
ing to be Democrats, running out
side of the party nominees. These
aspirants make stout profession of
their party fealty, and yet their hope
of success rests upon the solid vote
of the opposition, the radical party.
From such source comes their suc
coring strength. If their profession
of political faith be true, it must be
seen that a successful candidacy upon
such basis makes the oppositiWtbe
balance of power between contending
Democrats, humiliates our partv,
and, by subjecting it to defeat, makes
toe result a substantial opposition
victory. Will voting Democrats aid
in putting their party to shame ?
We intreat you not to do so. Let
there be no self-delusion in this im
portant matter. Let no man mis
lead you, or deceive you by specious
pretext. The path of duty and in
isreob is plam to ail who will calmly’
consider. Let Democrats refuse to
j|ive their countenance and support
to independent candidates, aud the
danger which threatens the party
shall disappear at once. They have
no claims upon you, they carry not
the party standards, they seek not to
advance the party interest, or pro
mote the public good. They but
Seek to gratify their own personal
ambition and love of office. No ex
isting party abuse invite their reform
ing hands. For selfish purpose they
make profession. Their success
will bring benefit to none but them
selves and the party hostile to us.
. Let them ran if they will, but not
under false colors. The Democratic
party can but disoute their claim to
represent it. It can find no pleasure
it can feel no sense of friendship, in
that success which wounds and en
feebles it, and arrests its conquering
advance. Speaking affectionately
and earnestly for that grand party,
venerable iu patriotic service and ra
diant with its regained strength and
honors, we appeal to every member
of it iu Georgia to stand inilex bly
by its organization, and follow to
joyous and benign victory the men
who hold its commissions, and bear
to battle its accredited standards.
“Ooce more unto tlie breach, dear friends,
once more.”
J. M. Pace, of 6th Dist , Chra’n.
Joseph L, Warren, Ist Dist.
Wm. A Harris, 2d Dist.
M. J. Hatcher. 31 joist.
J T. Waterman, 4th Dist.
W. T. Trammell, sth Dist.
J. A. W. Johnson. 7th Dist.
Miles W. Lewis, Bth Dist.
W. E. Simmons, 9th Dist.
Eruptions of Vesuvius.
This remarkable volcano, which is
now in a state of eruption, stands on
the east shore of th 9 Bay of Naples,
and about ten miles from the city.
IF-Haruls alone on the Plain of Oom
pania upon a base of about thirty
miles in circumference. In its up
per portion it divides into two peaks,
one of which, called tha Somma at
tains the height of 3,747 feet above
the sea; and the other, known
as Vesuvius, reaches an elevation of
3,949 feet, but varies both in the
height and shape in consequence of
the eruptions of the volcano.
Vesuvius is often mentioned by an
cient Roman writers without allusion
to its volcanic character. The first
recorded eruption occurred in Au
gust, A. D. ’79 and it was during
this that the cities of Pompeii
and Herculaneum were buried be
neath the aohes. The materials ejec
ted from the mountain were scoriie
and ashes alone, tha quantities of
which exceeded its own bulk; and
in tha occasional eruptions whie t
succeeded, these were the only vol
canic products until the year 1066,
when the first flow of lava occurred.
The total number of its great erup
tions, down to the present time, ha3
been about sixty, and some of them
have been remarkable for the vast
movements taking place iu a short
time. Between the years 130 G and
IGSI no eruption occurred, except a
slight one in 1500. But throughout
this period Etna was in a state of
unusual activity, and this, perhaps,
gave vent to elastic vapors, and lava
that would otherwise have found a
passage through the cra ers of Vesu
vius.
The eruption in IG3I was accom
panied with great currents of lava,-
which flowed over most of the villa
ges at the base of the mountain, aud
at the same time torrents of boiling
water were sent forth. The eruption
of 1779 is described as among the
grandest and most terrible of these
phenomena. White sulphurous
smoke, like heaps of cotton, rose up
four times as high as the volcano,
and spread about to a proportional
extent. In June, 1794, occurred a
terrible eruption, which destroyed
the town of Torre del Greco. A sin
gle stream of lava was estimated by
Breilak as containing more than 4G,-
000,000 cubic feet. Tne eruption in
1822 broke up the whole top of the
mountain and formed an elliptical
chasm about three miles in circum
ference and supposed to be 2,000
feet deep. In May, 1855, the floods
of lava destroye i the village of Cer
colo.
An eruption of great violence oc
curred iu December, 1861. Tne dis
turbance commenced oa Sunday
morning, the Bth, in tremblings of
the ground. In the afternoon a large
opening was made in the ground a
iittle above Torre del Greco, about
half way up the mountain, which was
soon followed by others, from all of
which proceeded terrific explo
sions and jets of flame. Streams of
lava poured forth, and on the morn
ing of the 9th wire flowing in a cur
rent half a mile broad. The explo
sions, like the sound of heavy artil
lery, continued till toward evening,
and at night were succeeded by tie
most brilliant display of electric
lights, forked lightning and co umns
of fire and smoke continually rising
from* the crater. The convulsions
continued for several days, and even
up to January 1, 1862 the trembling
of the earth had not ceased.
I News in General.
W iicox is to have anew court
house.
j South Carolina State Fair Novern-
I her 12th. •
The Alabama legislature meets
November 12th.
Richmond, Virginia, ha3 a popu
lation of 80,000.
Apple trees in Darlington S. C.
are having a second crop.
The new Eagle and Phenix mill, in
Columbus, cost $900,000.
W. S. O'Brien, the late bonanza
prince, left exactly $9,655,450.
The State University expects two
hundred students this session.
The mortgage debt of tlie South
Carolina Railroad is $6,000,000.
A rmw hof.nl on the Sand Hills
near Augusta, is being agitated.
Billy Morris the well-known negro
minstrel died in Boston last week.
Atlanta is complaining of the
worthless curs that infest the city.
The Tennessee Baptist Convention
meets in Nashville November 22d.
In the late riot at Santa Cruz, two
hundred and fifty rioters were killed
The Northeastern Railroad runs
two trains on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Judge Wright of Dougherty makes
this year, 31 bushels of corn to the
acre.
The great trotter Rarus was fairly
beaten by Hopeful in Chicago last
week.
The Fame Fire Insurance Com
pany, of Philadelphia has closed
doors.
Buffalo Bill and his troupe will not
perform during the fair week in At
lanta. ~
The societies at the State Univer
sity are receiving new members very
rapidly.
Holtzclaw, the Republican candi
date, speaks every day in tha seventh
district.
A negro iu Stewart county caught
a seventy-seven pound turtle the oth
er day.
Phonetic spelling is being intro
duced into the Philadelphia public
schools.
There was a grand rally of tha De
mocracy at Green yille, S. C , last
Tuesday.
New York City i3 getting up cloth
ing contrioutions for the yellow fever
sufferers.
Dr. Eli Geddings, one of the oldest
physicians of Charleston, S. C , died
last week.
Col. Nicholls last week addressed
the largest meeting ever held in Ech
ols county?**
A number of northern people are
thinking of spending the vviuter at
Albany, Ga.
The North Carolina Sunday School
Convention will meet in Raleigh No
vember Ist.
A gas explosion October Bth in a
mine near Wilkesbarre, Pa., killed
four miners.
The Great Eastern will soon be
making regular trips between Gal
veston aud London, carrying cattle
and sheep.
Butler tried in vain last week to
capture the Democratic City Commit
tee of B ston.
Too Catholic Churches of New
Yn k have given $12,000 to yellow
Rvor sufferers.
William P. Langley, the slayer of
eight men, was hanged last week at
Glidings, Texas.
The destruction of giu houses by
fire is an exceedingly common occur
rence this season.
Lesti r is gaining votes very rapid
ly and the chances now are that he
will win the race.
Lieut-Gov. Sims,of Mississippi,was
in Lixiagton last week ou a short
visit to his parents.
The Republicans of the fourth dis
rrict have decided to make no nomi
nation for congress.
In the O'Leary-Hughea walking
iog match, the former received $5,000
and the latter $2,500.
Mr. Gilbert H. Sneed of Savannah,
will be tha office clerk at the new
Brown House, Macon.
Leading Republicans in Fioyd now
assert that Fallon is as “good a
Radical’' as they want.
The colored military companies in
Atlanta are drilling nightly in view
of the approaching fair.
Judge John I. Hall was unanimous
ly elected to the legislature from
Spalding county, last week.
In its issue of yesterday Dr. Tucker
took formal and entire editorial con
trol of the Christian Index.
Since the French Republic has
succeeded, Bismarck wishes he had
left Napoleon on his throne.
The cashier of the Bank of Com
merce of Odessa, Russia, is a default
er to the amount of $115,000.
The Republican party of Arkansas
still lives iu the legislature, having
one senator who holds over.
The Georgia Railroad will proba
bly declare a semi-annual dividend of
three per cent, next January.
Msjor-Gei oral Gideon J. Pillow of
Mexican war and Confederate fame,
died last week at Helena, Ark.
General Grant has gone to Spain
Portugal and Algiers, after which he
will spend the winter in Paris.
Senator Thurman did not have an
attack of paralysis, but biliousness
from which he is fast recovering.
The municipality of Bordeaux,
France.has voted 2,000 francs for the
benefit of our yellow fever sufferers.
Chairman Clarkson N. Pott>r of
the House Investigating Committee
has been renoruiuated for congress.
The Jewish population of New
York City is 80,000 and the Jewish
| wealth is estimated at $150,000,000.
Hugh Balfour &Cos, of Manches
ter, England, have failed for bet ween
one and two millions pounds sterling
Dr. R. T. Brumby, of Athens, re
turned home from North Carolina
last week, much improved in health.
One thousand weavers of Glasgow,
Scotland, have struck against a seven
and a half per cent reduction of wa
ges.
Augusta has adopted anew liquor
ordinance, the price of the license
being regulated by the gross re
ceipts.
There were at the close of the
drst month of the college one hun
dred and sixty students.— Dahloneaa
Mrs. Martha Grant < f Monroe,
aged 76, has 150 living descen
dants, of whom 125 live in that
county.
A Pulaski county farmer sold his
cotton the other day and bought over
thirty pounds of candy to please the
children.
Five Wesleyan missionaries have
been killed and eaten by bush natives
near the Mabcola coast, New
Zealand.
Col. R. E. Lester, late Pres dent
of the Senate, made a stiriug speech
for Col. Nicholls, in Effigham county
last week.
Our soldier statesman, the gal
lant Gordon is doing glorious work
in the seventh, for Lester and the
Democracy.
From September Ist 1877 to Octo
ber Ist 1878, the Moffett Register
liquor tax in Richmond amounted to
$40,364.16.
Diphtheria is almost an epidemic
at Cleveland, Ohio, twenty deaths
from that disease having occurred
within a week.
James Alford was, last week at At
lanta, convicted of murder in the,
first degree, for killing D. R. Shuler
September 7th.
Gov. Colquitt will be Marshal of
the Day at the Confederate Monu
ment unveiling ceremonies October
31st, in Augusta.
The Felton organs allude to Gen
eral Gordon as a “blatherskite ”
This is an excellent way to make
votes for Lester.
Big Democratic barbecue at Coxes
Court ground, Cobb county, h -mor
row. Gen. Gordon and Judge Les
ter will’ be present.
For ten years past the Bible has
been proclaimed in Portugal and hun
dreds now go to hear preaching in
Llfbon and Oporto.
Little Henry Kippitsof Ciuciunati,
aged 7 years, quarrelled with his
mother last week and drowned him
self in the Ohio river.
Returning Board Hayes, who pock
ets annually $50,000 of President
Tilden’s salary, is a nice man to talk
about “honest” money.
An effort is being made to remove
the county site of Franklin from
Carnesville to Martin, on the Elber
ton Air-Line Railroad.
The purchaser of the North and
South Railroad, says it will be open
from Colmnl)U8 to LaGrauge during
the next four months.
All bright colored fruit staius can
be removed by scalding in clear boil
ing water before applying any soap
or wetting in cold water.
A negro woman was crushed to
death last Monday week in a revolv
ing shaft of W. B. Creights’ steam
gin at Winnsboro, S. C.
W. F. Eve, Esq., late county solici
tor has been appointed Judge of
Richmond county court, vice Hon.
Claiborne Snead, resigned.
Peter Fromans, the Bull river
murderer, arrested in London, has
been surrendered by the British au
thorities to South Carolina.
Judge Fleming G. Dußignon now
first Lieutenant, will probably be
promoted Captain of the Baldwin
Blues, vice Htrty, deceased.
The New York State tax in 187-1,
under Republican control was $15,-
727,482.08, under Democratic control
in 1878, it is $7,786,184.14.
Hon. Benjamiu H. Bristow, of Ky.,
ex-Secretary of the Treasury, was ad
mitted to practice in the New York
courts in New York City last week.
It is estimated at Washington that
this year’s cotton crop will be from
five and a quarter to five and a half
million bales, the largest crop ever
grown.
Mr. Wiley Tunstall of Hale coun
ty, Alabama, has ordered one thous
and sparrows, which he hopes will
prove an effectu t! cotton worm de
stroyer.
Bishop W. M. Wightman of the
M. E. Church, South, recently had a
very narrow escape from capture by
the Cheyenne Indians in Montana
Territory.
Two deputies of Collector Clarke,
captured fourteen barrels of illicit
whisky, fine wagons, ten mules, six
horses and one buggy, near Griffin
last week.
The Talbotton Standard, though
favoring the election of Mr Persons
in the fourth district says, “of coursi
no one can attack Mr. Harris’ record
in coDgrese.”
Gov. Colquitt attended yesterday
a meeting of colored people from tin
Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian and
Congregational societies at Midway,
Liberty county.
The newly elected officers of the
Western Union Telegraph Company,
are Norvin Green, President; A. R
Brewster, Secretary and R. H. Roch
ester, Treasurer.
The high school of Portsmouth.
N. ti., has been awardid a, sil\ r
medal at the Pans exhibition for
school work.
The mas H Drew, who died in
Richmond last week, Wednesday,
aged 94, was appointed a deputy mar
shal in 1807, to summon a jury in the
Aaron Burr case.
We learn that Deputy R >binso-i
captured in Towns county last week
four illicit distillers and that the
Clerk of the Court was among the
capiured —Dahlonega Signal.
Clinch, No. 2 of Augusta will have
shortly anew steam tire engine. The
old one has been in active service
siuce 1559 and was the first used in
Georgia, if not in the South.
Alien C. Harben, aged 70, died at
Woodlawn, near Augusta, last Sat
urday of hydrophobia. This is the
first case of the kind known in Au
gusta or Richmond county.
In Irwin county there is neither
lawyer nor doctor nor is there a drop
of liquor sold within its limits. At
the last congressional election, every
vote was cast for Gen. Cook.
M Florelle has, at his museum at
Pompeii twenty one loaves of bread,
rather hard, of course, and black but
per feci !v preserved, which were
baked November 23, A. D. '79
The arrivals of immigrants at Cas
tle Garden, New York City, from*
Jan. Ist to Oct. Ist foots up 62,985
or nearly 12,0t>0 more than during a
corresponding period last year.
Charles E. Hartwell, conductor of
the freight train, has been held for
manslaughter, in causing the late ac
cident to the excursion train on the
Old Colony Railroad near Boston.
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In the United States Circuit Court
in Atlanta last week Thursday, judg
ment went against the city oi' Romo
on some of her repudiated bonds,
for $2,500 and interest since 1873.
Mr. Joseph H. Acklin of the third
Louisiana district is entirely too
unanimous in his attentions to the
ladies, and will not, on that account,
make the race for the next House.
An immense prairie fire in Swift
county, Minn., last week destroyed
many farms, with houses, barns, cat
tle and grain and reduced many
farmers to a condition of destitution.
During a performance at the Co
losseum theatre, Liverpool, last Fri
day, a cry of fire was raised and a
terrible panic ensued. Thirty-five
men and boys and two women were
suffocated.
Gen. Colton, Vice President of the
Southern Pacific Railroad, and Pres
ident of the Occidental and Oriental
Steamship Company, died in San
Francisco last week, leaving an im -
mense estate.
Dennis Kearney is still cursing and
ranting in Massachusetts, but he has
ceased to be a novelty, and nobody
minds him now. He has been found
to be perfectly harmless. “Barking
dogs uever bite.”
Mr. Matthew Sims, of Campbell
county, has a b>y of 7 and a girl of
10 years, who picked repectiveiy 120
ami 160 pounds of cotton in a day.
They ought to be at school instead
of in a cotton field.
Rev. H. 11. Haydtn, of Madison,
Conn , recently acquitted by a Jus
tice of the Peace for the murder of
Mary Stanuard, ha3 been rearrested,
additional evidence against him hav
ing been discovered.
A safe in the First National Oank
of Fishkill, N. Y., was blown open by
burglars last Saturday. The explo
sion carried away the whoie front of
the bank. The noise aroused the
village and the burglars.
Mr. John Hughes, M. P., believes
in marriage with-a deceased wile’s
sister, and tie recently told the elect
ors of Northampton that his wife had
six sisters, and ue should be happy
to marry every one of them.
Col. F. D Curtis, in the Rural New
Yorker, says Webb’s Swedish turnip
nept sound aud hard in the pig
uoi.l3o coil u- until the last of July.
This is the . est vaiiety to keep that
we kueiv or, aud it is aa important
item
Mr. Hayes seems to bo fonder of
traveling about and exhibiting him
self than ever Grant was. He is
rarely off the road, aud should apply
for the position of train conductor
after the 4th of March, 1881.— Macon
Telegraph.
The statement that, “among the
convicts of Auburn prison are lorty
two lawyers, twenty seven clergymen
and thirteen physicians,’ is pro
nounced incorrect by the chaplain.
There are five physicians, three law
yers and no clergyman.
“Jumping sheets” are being intro
duced into the English fire brigades.
Tnev are of stout canvas, with six
teen loops or handies to be held by
as many men, and so break the fall
of any person jumping into them
from a burning building.
Last week, in Posey county, In
diana, four white women wore out
raged by Beven negroes; one of whom
Williams by name, killed a deputy
sheriff while attempting his arrest.
A mob immediately gathered, shot
Williams, hanged two others and at
last accounts were preparing to hang
the rest.
Probate Judge W. G. Field of
Pickens county, S. C., married last
week, the outlaw Rjdmond to Miss
Ladd, eister of Amos Ladd murdered
by revenue officers. A flask of gen
uine Redmond whisky was sent to
the Pickens Sentinel aud another to
Charleston News and Courier, subject
to order.
The late ex-Gov. Sam Bard was a
native of Sing Sing, N. Y.; was first
a druggist, then a dentist, then a
Methodist minister, then a State Su
perintendent of Education, thou a
Confederate quartermaster, tuen a
Territorial Governor, then postmas
ter, and then a State Printer, closing
this varied and industrious career
with journalism.
The Attorney General decides that
the United States Marshal i3 entitled
co full mileage on each writ served
by him, when several writs issued
in behalf of the Government aud
served on diffetent persona, are
served at the same time, only one
travel being necessary to make the
service on all of said persons, provi
ded travel is actually performed.