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The Gainesville Eagle.
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two counties in Western North Carolina.
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JUDIGIABT.
Hon. George D. Rice, Judge S. C. Western Circuit.
A. L. Mitchell, Solicitor, Athens, Ga.
COCNTY OFFICERS.
J. B. M. Wlnburn, Ordinary; John L. Gaines,
Sheriff; J. F. Duckett, Deputy Sheriff; J. J. Mavtie,
Clerk Saperior Court ; W. 8. Pickrcll, Deputy Clera
Superior Court ; N. B. Clark. Tax Collector ; -J R.
H. Luck, Tax Receiver; Gideon Harrison. Sur
veyor ; Edward Lowry, Coroner ; R. 0. Young,
Treasurer.
CITY GOVERNMENT.
Dr. H. S. Bradle* Mayor.
Aldermen— Dr. H- J. Long, W. B. Clements,!'.
A. Panel. W. 11. Henderson,W T . G. Henderson,
T. M. Merck.
A- B. O. Dorsey. Clerk; J. R. Boone. Trroasmer; T.
N.Haule, Marshal; Usury Perry, City Attorney.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
PBKMBrrKKiAN Ohuech—Rev. T. P. Cleveland.
Pastor. Preaching every Sabbath—morning and
night, exoept the second Sabbath. Su-.day School,
at 9 a. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at 4
o’clock.
MicthodihtChurch—Rev. W. W. Wadsworth, Pas
tor. Preaching every Sunday morning and night.
Snnday School at 9a. m. Prayer meeting Wednes
day mght.
Baptist Church Rev. W. C. Wilkes, Pastor.
Preaching Sunday morning and uight. Sunday
School at a. m Prayer meeting Thursday evening
at 4 o'clock.
GAINESVILLE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.
.B. Estes, President; Henry Perry, Librarian.
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.
A. M. Jackson. President; R. O. Maddox, Vice
President; W. B. Clements, Secretary.
Regular services every Sabbath evening at oue
of the Churches. Cottage prayer meeting* every
Tuesday night in “Old Town," and Friday night
near the depot
FRATERNAL RECORD.
Flowkbt Branch Lodok Nr. 79, I. O. O. TANARUS.,
meets every Mouday night, Jokl Lasetek, N. G.
B. F. Stedham. Sec.
Alleghany Rotal Arch Chapter meet.* on the
Second and Fourth Tuesday evenings iu each
month.
H. 8. Bhadlky, Sec’y. A. W. Caldwell, H. P.
Gaikksvills Lodge, No. 219, A.’. F.-. M.*.,
meets >n the First a nd Third Tuesday evening iu
the mouth
R. Palmook, Bec’y. R. K Gbekn, W. M.
Aik-Linb Lodge, No. 64 ,I. O. O. |F., meets
every Friday evening.
O. A. Lilly, Sec. W. H. H ami son, N. G.
GAINESVILLE POST OFFICE.
Owing to recent change of schedule on the Atlan
ta and Charlotte Air Hue Railroad, the following
will be the schedule from date:
Mall train No. I,going east, leaves 7:47 p. in.
Mail for Ibis train closes at 7:00 "
Mall train No. 2, going oast, leaves... .8:115 a. m.
No mall by this train.
Mail train No. 1‘ going west, leave*... .0.51 a. m.
Mail for this train closes at :3<‘ p. m.
Mail train No. 2. going west, lowes 9:05 |>. in.
Mail for this train closes at 7.30 *•
Offica hours from 7 a. m. to 5:30 p m.
General delivery open on Sundays from 8 >„ to 9>£.
Departure of mails from tbit office:
Dahlouega and Gilmer county, daily.... 8 X . m
Dahlonega, via Waboo aud Ethel. Baturday...Hj4 a. m
Jeffersou A Jackson county, Tuesday, Thurs
day and Saturday 7 a. m
Cleveland, White, Union, Towns and Hayes
▼tile, N. C., Tuesdays and Fridays 7 a. m
Dawsonville and Dawson county,, Tuesday
and Saturday 8 a. m.
Homer, Banks county, Saturday 1 p. m
Pleasant Grove, Forsyth county, Saturday.. 1 p.rn
M. R. ARCHER, P.M.
Atlanta and Charlotte
AIK-LIN E,
Trains will ran as follows on anil after
SUNDA Y, SEPTEMBER 29,1878.
MAIL TRAIN, DAILY.
GOING EAST.
Leave Atlanta... 2.40 p. m-
Leave Gainesville 4:56 p. m.
Arrive Charlotte 2:20 a. m.
* GOING WEST.
Leave Charlotte 1:18 a. m.
Leave Gainesville 9:55 a. m.
Arrive Atlanta 12:00 in.
Through Freight Train.
(Daily except Sunday.)
GOING EAST.
Leave Atlanta 8:37 a. m.
Arrive Gainesville 12:28 p. u>
Leave Gainesville 1:10 p. m
Arrive Central 7:12 p. m,
GOING WEST.
Leave Central 2:55 a. m}
Arrive Gainesville 8:25 a. in.
Leave Gainesville 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.
Arrive Gainesville 10:54 a. m.
Laave Gainesville 11:23 a. m.
Arrive Central 6:35 p. m.
GOING WEST.
Leave Central 4:45 a.m.
Arrive Gainesville 1:10 p. m.
Leave Gainesville 1:40 p. m.
Arrive Atlanta 6:45 p. m
Close connection at Atlanta for all points
Weat, and at Charlotte for all [joints East.
G. J. Foreacbe, General M inagtr
W. J. Houston, Gen. P. & T. A’gt.
Northeastern Railroad of Georgia.
TIME TABLE.
Taking effect Monday, June 10, 1878. All
trains ran daily except Sunday.
STATIONS. | ARBIVE. ; LEAVE.
! A. M.
Athens j 7 00
Center j 721 722
Nicholson ...I 7 36| 739
Harmony Grove, j 759 807
Maysville j 827 832
Gillsville : 849 850
Lula ...j 915 j
TKAIJN NO. a,
STATIONS. j ARRIVE, j LEAVE.
j P. M.
Lula j 5 25
Gillsville 542 545
Mays ville 6 02j 608
Harmony Grove C3O 640
Nicholson 7 011 7 07
Center ] 7 22j 725
Athens | 7 45j
WOOL! WOOL!
The Wool Carder at Brown's Mill having
been thoroughly repaired, is now doing
w 1L All wool left at K. L Boone’s store
will be taken away the same week, and re
turned carded the rext week. Satisfaction
guaranteed. O. CLARK.
Mpia-Oi.
The Gainesville Eagle.
VOL XJI,
The Speer Canvass,
With mock deprecatiou, Mr. Speer
and his organs regret the personal
character of the canvass in this con
gressional district, though knowing
full well that he and they are
responsible for every particle of the
personality written or spoken. Mr.
Speer is especially culpable. He is
twenty years the junior of Col. Billnps
and has been acquainted with him
personally and by reputation ever
since he knew anybody. He knows
that Col. Billups is a Christian gen
tleman of the highest character; that
nothing can be r aid tfhly, in any de
gree hurtful to his private, public or
professional reputation. He knows
that Col. Billups has all the qualifi
cations necessary for an honest and
capable representative of the people
of this congressional district.
Yet, to lower Col. Billups in the
popular estimation and at the same
time secure votes for himself he will
fully makes charges against his op
ponent which he knows to be false,
and he insinuates others which he
does not make directly. Since the
nomination on the second of August,
he has devoted himself exclusively to
personal attacks upon Col. Billups,
and his organs have yelped in uni
son. If a tithe of their charges were
true, the penitentiary aud not a seat
iu Congress would bo the most suita
ble locality for the Democratic candi
date.
Neither Speer nor any of his re
taiuers, however, believe the first one
of the charges so industriously circu
lated, but they would not hesitate to
accuse Col. Billups of murdering his
mother, if they could thereby gain
one vote, just one, for the Indepen
dent candidate. A policy of this
kind so recklessly pursued will react,
and it has reacted. The voters of
this district are tired aud sick of the
loathsome mass of lies and slanders
relating to Col. Billups, with which
they have been gorged by Spier and
his organs.
The Independent candidate and
his friends, after they shall have lost
the fight, will have the pleasure of
dividing with Felton aud Eack Har
grove, iho well won honor of hav
ing conducted the vilest and most
dishonorable canvass ever made iu
Georgia
Questionable Friendship
Mr. Speer and his friends are mak
ing much to do about Col. 801 l and
Dr. Carlton being so badly treated
in the late Gaiuesviiie Convention.
Indeed, these Independents seem to
he really grieved that these gentle
meii were so ruthlessly treated.
Apropos this questionable sort ot
friendship, we quote the following
incident of ex-President Abraham
Lincoln, the inimitable “joker/' On
one occasion, when he had been de
feated iD some political contest, his
friends were making quite a fuss
over it, and declaring him to have
been shamefully treated, Mr. Lin
coln, not regarding the defeat in the
same light as did his friends, re
marked: “I)—n the friend that
thinks more of a man than be does
of himself.’’ —Athens Manner.
There will be a desperate attempt
made to capture members of congress
in tho South for the Republican par
ty. When tho Republican party
moves the Federal Government
north of the Ohio to carry elections,
and takes it into Pennsylvania to de
feat Democrats, we can imagine what
will be done in tho South if the Ad
ministration will countenance the
business. To prepare the country
for the necessary outrages, to “fire
the Northern heal t,” reports areal
ready industriously circulated con
cerning “violence’’ and “disorder’’
and “intimidation.” A vehement ef
fort wili be made to reinstate the
bayonet rule. The people of the
South may be prepared for anything.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Every Independent, Communistic
Greenbacker and sore-head Demo
crat is playing directly into the hands
of those who are anxiously looking
forward to the reinstatement of
bayonet rule, and “it does not matter
whether this be intentional or not,
| the disastrous result is the none the
I less certain” as Emory Speer said in
11872.
At the late elections, the authori-
I ties at Washington directed the Re
publicans at Cincinnati to station
Deputy United States Marshals at
every polling place in the city and
county. With their help, two Ee
i publican members of congress were
i elected in place of two Democrats.
Do the voters of the ninth district
want United States Marshals in
every militia district at the election
of 1880 ? If not, vote for Joel A.
Billups the only Democratic candi
date for congress.
The Atlanta Phonograph tells Gen
Gordon plainly that he is now driv
ing nails in his own political coffin
by taking the stump for the Demo
cratic party. This settles it, as it is
admitted on all hands that the Pho
nograph has the ear of a large ma
jority of the next General Assem
bly.
GAINESVILLE. GA.. KKH>AV MOIIMNG. OCTOBER 25. 1878.
Fight with the Party.
United States Senator James B.
Beck of Kentucky, for many years a
leader in the House of Representa
tives, and long an infiuenlial mem
ber of the Democratic party, had this
to say in a recent speech in Cincin
nati:
lam a party man, aud believe iu
party organization. Nothing can be
accomplished without it. We com
bine to accomplish all groat purpo
ses, and pledge ourselves each to the
other that we will sustain the action
of the majority when it is announced.
Thero will always be parties iu free
governments, aud there never will
be more than two controlling party
organizations at the same time.
Restless, discontented men may car
ry on a guerrilla warfare outside of
the regular lilies, doing damage here
aud there, to first one side and then
the other, but the contest must he
decided by the victory of one or the
other of the regular organized par
ties of the country. You are com
pelled to commit the legislation of
the country to a Democratic or
Republican Congress. You are sim
ply deluding yourselves if any of yon
are looking to any third party call it
by what name you may—as likely to
mold, control, or even influence leg
islation in that body.
What is true in Ohio is equally
true in Georgia. The legislation of
this country will be committed to Dem
ocrats or Republicans; Independents,
Greenbackers and all other outsiders
are but guerrillas on the outposts.
If the Democrats of tho ninth desire
representation by a regular soldier
in the Democratic army aud not a
guerrilla who is as likely to fight
Democrats os Republicans, let them
vote for Joel A. Billups tho only
Democratic candidate for CoDgrees
in this district.
Speer as a Democrat
In a speech lately delivered at
Lawrenceville, Mr. Speer, the inde
pendent “Democrat’’, stated, accord
ing to tho Herald, that “if ho was
elected to Congress, ho would vote
for a Radical measure or a Demo
cratic one, as ho saw fit.’’
He is a pretty subject to scud to
Congress as a Democrat. Ho is tru
ly a modest gentlomau to ask the
support of Democrats, while telling
them that he will vote with Radicals
for Radical canons measures, when
ever he pleases. We want no such
sslf-stylod Democrat to represent ns in
Congress. As Democrats, wo intend
to send to Congress from the ninth
district, a Representative who will
vote for Democratic principles al
ways, and never, at any time, for
Radical measures or men. Such a
man is Joel A. Billups, tho exact
opposite in politics of Emory Speer.
The Columbus Enquirer, says of
the address of the State Democratic
Executive Committee:
“We give it to our reader. It is
terse and strong. We agree with it,
but we must except the 7th District,
where Felton, the nomineo of the
people twice, is opposing the nomi
nee of Iho packed Convention. With
this < xccption wo heartily endorse
the address.
That is, tho Enquirer thinks the
harmony and devotion to organiza
tion so strongly urged hv the ad
dress’, ought to prevail in every dis
trict in tlhv State except in the ’one
where it is most'needod.— Ladrange
Reporter.
The surviving members of tho Third
Georgia Regiment will hold a reun
ion during tho Stato Fair at Macon.
Hon. Claiborne Snead of Augusta,
who has just resigned tho Judgeship
of Richmond county court and who
is the most prominent candidate for
the Judgeship of tho Augusta Circuit,
was its last Colonel and surrendered
it at Appomattox. The Second
Georgia Battalion, also of Wright’s
Brigade, will extend to the veterans
tho hospitalities of Macon.
Returning Board Hayes’Attorney-
General has instructed United States
District Attorneys in Georgia and
Alabama to use the United States
laws iu behalf of Republicans. Do
the voters of the ninth district de
sire the repeal of the most obnoxious
statutes, tho enforcement acts. If
so, vote for Joel A. Billups, the
only Democratic candidate for con
gress
The Democratic party when in full
power at Washington, will make im
portant changes in the internal reve
nue laws and Simplify the manner of
collection. Do the voters of the
ninth district desire such changes
and modifications ? If so, vote for
Joel A. Biiiupe, the Democratic can
didate for congress.
Are the voters of the ninth district
willing to listen to the Democratic
State Committee, Governor Colquitt,
Senators Gordon and Hill and such
national Democrats as Bayard, Thur
man, Pendleton and Voorhees? If
so, vote for Joel A. Billups, the
Democratic candidate for congress.
Will Democrats extend aid and
corqfort to Returning Board
Hayes, John Sherman, Eugene Hale,
James G. Blaine and Boscoe Conk
ling ? If not, vote for Joel A. Bil
lups, the Democratic candidate for
congress.
Wonders of tlie Electric Light.
Tho electric light which has >eeu
iu use at the Maryland Institute
since the beginning of the fair, and
by means of which the building has
been nightly illuminated, is one of
the most interesting features of the
exhibition. The lamp which has
been placed nightly during the week
on tho tower of the Institute, has
served also to bring out the full
strength of the light when thrown
upon the City Hall and various dis
tant buildings on Baltimore street.
Even when the moon has been st‘n
iug, its radiance has been completely
eclipsed by the luminous light whioh
flashed from the tower, and the City
Hall especially has looked like a
sterooßcaped picture. There are six
“electro-magneto” machines in the
hall, which generate the electricity.
To the unscientific eye the process
by which the light is obtained seem 1 !
mysterious. The lookor-ou
nothing but a bar of bard irog,
around which coils of copper wire
are wound. Placed parallel with
theso are a set of spindles of soft iron
around which there are coils of wiry,
These spindles revolve on an axis,
but do not come in contact with the
permanent magnet In tbeir revolua
tions the copper wire oilers a certain
amount of what is technically termed
residuum resistance, and thus, al
though why it is hard to determine,
geueratos or induces eleotricity. Tlie*
process may be illustrated by pla
cing a steel pen on a sheet of paper
and placing a magnet under it. The
revolution of the armatures on the
face of the magneto of tho generating
machinery produces electricity,
which is thus conveyed by means oi
copper wire to the carbon candles.
The eleetrioal current which is sent
out is iu reality not a continuous one
but so near to it that the image of
each recurriug flash is letained on
the retina of tho eye until the next
ono appears. A portable Pago on
giue, which supplies the power, is of
forty-horse power, aud the machine
makes eight hundred revolutions |
per minute. From six machines an ,
illuminating power equal to twelve j
thousand caudles can be obtained.
With this light objects at the distance
of three or four miles, such as men
or animals, can be clearly seen at
night through Cimmerian darkness.
At two miles distanca any oue pos
sessed of good eyesight could easily
read the Run or tell the time from
the face of a watch in rays of this
light. The machine differs from
others which are iu use in that in
stead of there being a circuit from
each machine there is only ono for
all, two wires only being run to all of
the lamps. Thero are many practi
cal purpoees to which the light can
be turned to account, such as the
lightning of factories, warehouses
aud largo buildings already furnish
ed with steam power. Nor is there
any doubt but that soma inventive
genius like Edison will so perfect it
that it will supersede the lighting
of streets by gas. At present tho
discovery may bo said to be in the
same condition as coal gas was in
England when first used as an
illuminator, and when so many dilfi
culties were met with-in controlling
its force. Even those who have
studied the workings of the preHont
machine are at a loss to understand
the principle which operates so suc
cessfully, aud simply know that the
power is transformed into light.
Tho gramme machine is now in use
at Cherbourg lighthouse, aud results
have been very satisfactory. In 18G8
the Lighthouse Board of the United
States had under consideration the
feasibility of using the electric light
in American lighthouses. But thero
were several obstacles iu the way,
such ns tho labor of transporting fu
el, tho increased cost of machinery,
and the difficulty of finding electri
cians to not as lighthouse koopers,
and the project was abandoned. The
advance, however, which has been
made in electric discoveries since
that time has been,so rapid that it is
safe to presume all these questions
will before many years receive a
practical solution The machines in
use in the institute are from the fan
tory of Messrs. Wallace <fc Sous, An
conia, Conn , and tho representative
of the firm in charge of them states
that the tests made here have been
very gratifying. The light which
flames nightly from the tower of the
Institute, although intensely lumi
nous, has a softuess which allows of
its being steadily watched, and it is
interesting to note the prismatic
rays which shoot out from it like
long spefirs, and seem lo melt away
against the back ground of the sky
aud to taper downwards until they
mingle with the crowd on the bnsy
streets and vanish in the darkness.—
Rallimore Sun.
What the Democratic Party has
Done.
A speaker iu Ohio recently paid
the following splendid and deserved
tribute io the Democratic parfy:
“The Democratic party has exis
ted for eighty years. It held the
reins of authority almost constantly
for sixty years. It tripled the territo
rial extent of the Federal Republic.
It preserved the Constitution and the
Uniou as the sacred heritage of the
fathers. It made the Government
the shield of the people’s rights at
home, and the sword of their de
fense abroad. It opposed and crush
ed all monopolies falling within the
circle of its powers. It preserved in
tact the sacred rights of the States.
It freed the nation of every dollar of
debt. It struck down the old money
power of the United States Bank,
and gave the people an independent
Treasury. It abrogated that infa
mous tariff system, which fattened
the manufacturer on the labor of the
operative, and levied tribute on ev
ery other industry, and in its place
laid customs duties for revenues
alone. It found the Republic a fee
ble little Confederacy, skirting the
Atlantic and struggling over the
mountains westward; it left it a
mighty nation, girded by the oceaus,
the lakes and the gulf.
The last ten years o( its power
were tho brightest in tho annals of
Americau prosperity. Aud now for
seventeen years it has been driven
from the high places of power, and
has battled on as of old for the consti
tutional rights of States and people.
Out of power as when in, it has been
the stoadfast, inflexible foe of monied
monopolies, high taxes, robbing tar
,iffs, corrupting subsidies. There it
stands, its old garments weather
beaten and tattered by the long cam
paign; its foot upon the watch-tow
ers of popular rights, aud its firm
hand still grasping the sword of
freedom, turning every way like the
flaming sword at the gate of Para
dise, with its eagle eye flashing in
defiance upon (he foes of constitu
tional Union and the monopolists of
moneyed power, aud still ready in
adversity, as it was in prosperity,
to do battle for tho people, for popu
lar liberty, for industrial rights.”
The Nights in the Moon’
Dr. Klein, a German astronomer,
lias recently called the attention of
astronomers to a lunar crater, some
)&hrew miles wide, which had not been
before observed, aud which, ho feels
sure, was not in existence two years
ago. Astronomers have long since
given up all hope of tracing cither
the signs of actual life upon tne
moon or traces of the past existence
of living creatures there. But there
are still among tffin those who be
lieve that by sedulous aud careful
scrutiny processes of material change
may be recognized iu that seemiugly
inert, mass. In reality, perhaps the
wonder rather is that signs of change
should not he often recognized, than
that from time to time anew crater
should appear or the walls of old
craters fall in. The moon’s surface
is exposod to variations of tempera
ture compared with which those af
fecting the surface of our earth
are altogether trifling. It is true
there is no summer or winter in the
moou.
Sir W. Ilorschel has spoken of the
lunar soasons as though they rosein
ilo our own, but in reality they are
very different. The sun’s midday
height at any lunar station is only
about three degrees greater in sum
mer than in winter; whereas our
summer sun m forty-seven degrees
higher iu tho sky at noon than our
winter sun. In fact, a midsummer's
day on the moou does not differ
more from a midwinter’s day, as far
ns tho sun's actual path on the sky is
concerned, than with uW the 17th
of March differs from the 25th, or
the 11) th of September from the 27th.
It is change from day to night which
chiefly affeots the moon's surface,
la the lunar year of seasons, lasting
34(1 2 3 of our days, each lasts
twenty-nine and three-quarters of
ours. Thus day lasts more than a
tort night, and is followed by night
of equal length. Nor is this all.
There is neither air nor moisture to
produce such effects us are pro
duced by our air and the moisture it
contains in mitigating the heat of
day and cold of night. Under the
sun’s rays the moon’s surface be
comes hotter and hotter as long as lu
nar day proceeds,until at last its heat
exceeds that of boiling water; but ho
soon as tho Bun has set the heat thus
received is rapidly radiated away
into space (no screen of moisture
laden air checking its escape,) and
long before lunar midnight a cold
exists compared with which the bit
terest weather experienced by Arctic
voyagers would be oppressively hot.
Those are not merely theoretical con
elusions, though even as such, they
could be thoroughly relied upon.
The moon’s heat has been measured
by the present Lord Rosse (using
his fathor’s splendid Bix-foot mirror.)
He separated tho heat which the
moon simply reflects to us from that
which her heated service herself
gives out (or technically, he separa
ted the reflected from the radiated
heat) by using a glass scroon, which
allowed the former heat tc oass while
it intercepted tho latter. He thus
found about six-sevenths of tho heat
wo receive from the moon is due to
tho heating of her own substance.
From the entire series of observa
tions it appeared that the change of
temperature during the entire lunar
day—that is, from near midnight to
near midday on the moon—amounts
to fully 500 degrees Fahrenheit. If
we assumed that tho cold at lunar
midnight corresponds with about 250
degrees below zero (thegreatest cold
exyerienced in Arctic traveling has
never exceeded 140 degrees below
zero,) it would follow that the mid
day heat was considerably greater
than that of boiling water on the
earth at the sea level. But the range
of change is not a matter of specula
tion. It certainly amounts to about
500 degrees, and in whatever way we
distribute it, we must admit, first,
that no such life as wo aro familiar
with could possibly exist on the
moon; und secondly, that the moon’s
crust must possess a life of its own,
so to speak, expending and contract
ing unceasingly and energetically.—
London Times.
It is plainly the Republican hope
that the Potter Committee will hold
no more sessions. The Bridgeport
Farmer thinks that the committee
will reassemble and call on the Trib
une's editor to state how and where
he obtained the “cipher dispatches,”
as a short and easy way of finding
Each. Chandler’s secret dispatches,
which were smuggled away from the
telegraph offices by Morton and Or
ton and successfully concealed.
Edison’s recent invention, by
which it is expected that electricity
will take the place of gas, is material
ly reducing the price of gas stock.
The New York City Gas Company
stock, which sold at 95 two months
ago, brought only 78 last week.
Montreal gas stock, from the same
cause fell from 9to 13 per cent, the
other day.
A correspondent writing the For
est News savs ten different kinds of
newspapers are taken at the new
post office, Hosoh’s Store, all Detno
oratic and not a bit “Independent. ”
News in General.
Russia wants anew loan.
Georgia fairs are now in full blast
It's mournful to see a man more’n
full.
The Albany Fair was a grand suc
cess.
Macon is getting ready for the
State Fair.
Peanut oil from North Carolina
sells in Italy.
The Journal says the health of Ma
rietta is good.
Central Railroad stock has ad
vanced to 70.
No fever or suspicious cases at Lit
tle Reck, Ark.
Frost last Saturday morning all
over the State.
Over 1,000 prisoners iu the Ken
tucky pententiary.
Grant, at last accounts, was free
lunching iu Spain.
Forty-eight paupers in Richmond
county poor house.
Only two stores for rent on Ham
ilton street, Dalton.
Hon. B. 11. Hill made a good
speech at the Albany fair.
Macon built her first church in
1828, just fifty years ago.
The Cartorsvillo Express estimates
Lester’s majority at 1,700.
Six deaths last week in Augusta’
three white and three colored.
Hon. Amos TANARUS, Akerman will not
take sides in the seventh district.
Savannah has contributed to the
yellow fever sufferers over $15,000.
Lots of new buildings going up in
Athens, according to the Chronicle.
Gen. Pops has been summoned as
a witness in the Fitz-John Porter
case.
A man named Language kicked his
mother to death, last week, in De
troit.
Buffalo Bill has cancelled all his
Southern engagements and gone
North.
James Gordon Bennett gave his
sister $500,000 cash us a wedding
present.
Hon. Henry R. Harris is making
an effective canvass iu the fourth
district.
Tho Dahlonega Signal says Daw
son county will give 200 majoritv for
Billups.
Work is rapidly progjessfng on
the Marietta JL nd Not Up. Georgia
Railroad. w t •
E. A. Cranio, sf* U&grtv, th Til
den elector certified by Gov. Grover,
died recently.
Major W. E. Evans, an old aud
highly esteemed citizen of Angusta,
died last week.
Anew company of Columbus men
has taken hold of tho North and
South Railroad.
Cotton is arriving at Hawkinsville
at the r ite of from two to four hun
dred halos a day.
A mule chewed a boy to death last
week in the Empire Mines near
Wilkesburre, Pa.
Tho Reporter says there is a man in
LaGrauge who can make his nose
and oliiu meet.
The white vote in one district in
Floyd county shows 130 for Lester
and 15 for Felton .
The Augusta Evening Neivs now
claims the largest daily circulation
of any Augusta paper,
Citizens of Atlanta offer to give
SSOO to the first case of yellow fever
originating in that city.
The Louisville Courier-Journal
says Greenbackers will soon be as
source as old-lino Whigs.
Tho matrimonial market is im
proving wonderfully in Cartorsville,
acoording to the Express.
Sheriff Satterfield of Lumpkin coun
ty lately had his arm fractured by
being thrown from a horse.
Four ocean steamships, six river
steamers and lots of other craft, pay
regular visits to Brunswick.
Jefferson Davis, Jr., the only son
of ex-President Davis, died in Mem
phis last week of yellow fever.
Mr. S. D. Worton, of Floyd coun
ty, made 370 gallons of syrup this
year from one aud a half acres.
Tom O'Sullivan, a Savannah prin
ter while in a fit of delirium tremens,
shot and killed his wife last week.
Kerosene will soften boots or shoes
which have been hardened by water,
and render them as pliable as new.
J. J. Kinchen of Pulaski county
made over GO bales of cotton and
2,000 bushels of corn with six mules.
As both candidates in the fourth
district are Independents, the La-
Grange Reporter will support neith
er.
Mr. Hugh Hancock and Mies An
nie Johnson of Jackson county were
marritd last week, by Rev. C. C. Ca
ry.
Gen. Joseph Finegan is running
for the State Senate on the Demo
cratic ticket in Orange county, Flori
da.
The Marietta Journal says a negro
preacher was taken out of jail at Ac
worth the other day to work for Fel
ton.
The Roswell factory has been run
ning on half time only, for several
days recently, on account of low wa
ter.
The fourteenth annual convention
of tho Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers met last week in Indianap
olis.
Clarkson N. Potter has declined
the Democratic nomination for the
12th New York congressional dis
trict.
Some wag says “Bobby Burns’’
would be a suitable inscription for
one side of Bob Ingersoll’s tomb
stone.
It is the season of fairs and there,
are several young men in this vi
cinity who hold one every Sunday
night.
The citizens of Lyons, France,
have subscribed and forwarded to
this country $1,200 for the fever suff
erers.
The Chronicle & Constitutionalist
wants the next State Fair in Augus
ta. There is no better place in the
State.
It is reported that Hon. Alexan
der H. Stephens realized $35,000
profit from his war between the
States.
Hon. Samuel Lumpkin and Miss
Kate Richardson were married in
Lexington last week by Rev. J G
Gibson.
The divorced wife of a Boston
bowling-saloon-keeper is suing to get
some alley-money from her former
husband.
Augusta’s cotton receipts week be
fore last amounted to 7,900, larger
than those of any inland city except
St. Louis.
The Montreal Orangemen have
been acquitted on the charge of form
ing an illegal assembly on the 12th of
July last.
Sunset Cox want to bo Speaker of
the next House. No go, Sammy; it
is written that no Tammany man
need apply.
The tournament at the Thomas
ville Fair is to be contested with sa
bres. The old lance will be dis
pensed with.
Count Von Bismarck, nephew of
the German Chancellor, committed
suicide at Venice last week by shoot
ing himself.
The Post Office Department is
making vigorous efforts to bring va
rious bands of mail robbers in Tex
as to justice.
R. Lyman Parker arrived in San
Francisco last week, having walked
across the continent trundling a
wheel-barrow.
The Sultan of Turkey is trying to
make the Ameer of Afghanistan some
to an amicable arrangement with
Great Britain.
Jußtin S. Morrill, Republican has
been re-elected United States Sena
tor from Vermont for six years from
March 4, 1878.
The Dahlonega Signal says it is a
notable fact that the rankest Radi
cals of Lumpkin county are active in
Speer’s support.
Tbjs Republicans Claim ,lfc-<v
carry the eighth Kentucky uismot,
now represented by Milton J Dur
ban, Democrat,
The Rome Tribune, Felton organ,
is glad the Republicans elected their
State ticket in Ohio. So are most
of the Independents.
For the first time in many years
the Treasu-er has this year carried
the State through the summer with
out a temporary loan.
From September Ist to October
18t,h, Savannah reoe ved 210,581
bales of cotton as against 94,282
same time last year.
TheSivaunah News office was
scented up last week with an onion,
weighing one pound and nine ounces
all the way from Portugal.
A panic exists in the iron trade of
Glasgow, Scotland, onaicouut of a
reported heavy failure and various
rumors of suspensions.
Mr. J. S. Davis, Superintendent of
the Enterprise Factory of Augusta,
was the first manufacturer of fine
muslins in the United States.
The International Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers has paid out,
since its formation, $1,010,144 to
widows and fatherless children.
A fall of plastering in a colored
Baptist church at Lynchburg laßt
week, caused the death of ten peo
ple in the panic which followed.
It is reported that A. M. Diokey 1
Democrat, will contest the seat of A.
H. Tyler, Republican from the sec
ond Vermont congressional district.
The question whether the late
election for congressmen in lowa was
illegal will be referred to congress.
Many think Nov. sth is the proper
day.
Mr. Speer ought to get him anew
speech. He has worn out his old
one until his reporters have beoome
tired of writing it out —Mountain
Signal.
Howell C. Jackson, formerly one of
the clerks in the Executive Depart
ment, has resigned to accept a posi
tion in the State Agricultural De
partment.
Augustus Schell, chairman of the
Democratic National Committee da
ring the Greeley foolishness, is Tam
many’s cindidate for Mayor of New
York City.
Bud Smith, charged with the mur
der of James J. Skinner at Silver
Springs, was found guilty, with a re
commendation to murder, at Atlanta
iast Friday.
James George, while attempting
last week to oil William Arnold’s gin,
in Gwinnett county, fell against the
saws, catting two large gashes in hiß
hip and thigh.
Thomas Rupert, cook on the Brit
ish ship Price Rupert, lying at Sa
vannah, last week fell through the
forward hatch into the lower hold
and broke his neck,
Hon. J. C. C. Black has been ap
pointed Marshal of the Day at the
unveiling of the Confederate Monu
ment in Augusta on the 31st inst.,
vice Gov, Colquitt, declined.
A squad of Savannah policemen
last week raised about one thousand
dollars for the city by enforcing the
ordin moo in reference to badges o n
drays, wagons and other vehicles.
Rev. J. S. Lamar, pastor of the
Christian Church of Augusta, who
with Liu wife and daughter has been
spending the last four months in '
Europe, returned home last Satur- :
day. -
George Littleton now in jail at
Whiteaville, N- C , has confessed that
he killed, last fall, near Brinkley’s
N. C., Peter Randall of Union
Point, Ga., who was traveling with
him.
Hon. Julian Hartridge made a
glorious speech last Friday night at |
Democratic meeting in Savannah.
Georgia lost a first-class congress
man when he declined a renomina
tion.
The Augusta News has been oblig
ed to put iu operation an additional
new fine steapi engine to run its
presses. Tp.s is most encouraging
evidence of its well deserved suc
cess.
In Billston, N. Y., the jury, in the
case of Billings charged with the mur
der of his wife, made a mis-trial last
week and were discharged. They
stoo I eleven for acquitted to one for
conviction.
OunrLswis, colored, last Satur
day, fell from the scaffolding of Win
ter's ne.v building, thirty feet on a
oilo of bricks. The bricks were in
jured, but Lewis is all right.—Mari
etta Journal.
A steamboat with an eight horse
power engine will be run on the Tu
galo and Seneca rivers in upper
South Carolina. It will draw two
feet of water and carry about fifty
passengers.
180. U
The third installment of $40,000 in
gold received at the Paris house of
John Munroe & Cos., from French
subscriptions to the yellow fever suf
ferers, was paid to Secretary Evarta
last week.
The United States Supreme Court
decided recently, in a case that went
up from Charleston, that a munici
pal corporation cannot tax the bonds
whioh it issues. Justices Miller and
Hunt dissented.
The Albany Advertiser states that
the Radicals of the second district
have put out E. C. Wade for con
gress, Ho is Collector of Internal
Revenue and pretends to live in
Brooks county.
The Rome Tribune wants Hen
dricks for President. Isn’t there
some mistake ? Hendricks is a Dem
ocrat, never bolts Democratic nomi
nations and if in the seventh district
would vote for Lester.
Smithy Clayton and Henry Grady
have instituted a mutual admiration
and “you-tickle-me-and-I’ll-tickle
you” society. “Smithy” compliments
Grady and Grady compliments
Smith. —Oglethorpe Echo.
Hon. Thomas M. Norwood, on
Monday of last week, delivered an
address before the Charleston Cham
ber of Guo meroe, against Tom Scott’s
Texas-Pacific. Railroad, and urging
the completion of a true Southern
road.
One whole span, about fifty feet in
length, cf the Port Royal Railroad
br jJ,|r oer the Savannah fiver near
August"' €■ 5 hsawyiagj'
down an . iiVe*. flit-aft*^-~
Three men on the engine escaped
with (light braises. *
The subscription books for the
Lawrenoeville Branch Railroad are
now open. No work is to be begun
until $40,000 have been subscribed
and no more than fifty per cent, of
the stock is to be called for until the
road is ready for the track.
An excursion train from Augusta
lust week carried 350 ladies and gen
tlemen to 8 ivaunak who took a short
trip out to Ha on the new steamship
City of Savannah. President Wad
ley of the Central Railroad extended
the invitations some time since.
General Humpherys, Chief of En
gineers, m his annual report to the
Secretary of War, submitted last
week, recommends among other
amounts, that $500,000 be expended
on Charleston Harbor, and $150,000
on Savannah River and Harbor.
An electric light company has been
formed in New York with a capital
of $400,000 to produce light, heat
and power by electricity. Among
the incorporators are Norvin Green,
President of the Western Union
Telegraph Cos., and Thomas A. Edi
son. K
The Athens Chronicle says that
the gross earnings of the Northeast
ern Railroad for the past year were
$48,000 and the expenses only 53 per
cent of the receipts, the best exhibit
of any road in the State. It is pro
posed to extend the road to Clarkes
ville.
Mr. Frank Ridley accidentally ex
ploded half a pound of powder in a
bureau drawer several days ago,
which blew off his moustache and
eyebrows and bnrnt his face quite
badly. The explosion took off the
top of the bureau also. —LaOrange
Reporter.
The official voti of Ohio for Secre
tary of State at the election this
month is as follows: Barnes, Repub
lican, 274,120; Paige, Democrat,
270,966; Roy, National, 38,332; Rob
inson, Prohibition, 5,674; Barnes
over Paige, 3,154; all others over
Barnes, 40,852.
The Charleston News & Courier,
late Chamberlain organ, abuses Til
den without stint, and then winds up
by saying he “is far ahead of a Thur
man or a Voorhees.’’ It ought to
print the average Democratic opin
ion of the merits of the late Cham
berlain organ as a Democratic jour
nal.
Dr. O'Donnell loaded a wagon
with Chinese lepers, in San Francis
co, and exhibited them in the streets
as proof of his previous assertions
that the leprosy wai common in that
city. He was arrested, but a Justice
discharged him. He declared that ha
could fill the court room with lepers
in two hours.
Commodore Cornelius K. Garri
son, a New York millionaire, aged 70
bought a young wife last week. She
was Miss Letitia W. Rind ill, agjfl
25, of St Louis, and has been thjs
season the belle at Saratoga. The
Commodore paid between two and
three hundred thousand dollars cash,
aid no doubt promised more iu ttih
future*