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The Gainesville Eagle. Published Every Friday Morning OFFICE I'putain in Candler Hall Building, Northwest Corner of Puftie Square. i he Official Organ or Hall, Banks, White, Towns, Rabun, Union and Dawson counties, and the city of (iiineevilie. Hiis a large general circulation in twelve other counties in Northeast Georgia, and two counties in Western North Carolina. BUBSO RIPTION. On* Yzab $2,(0. Six Months 1 - SI,CO. Tusbh Months - Wc. IN ABYAMCK, DEUIVXKKD BY CABKIEB OB pbepaid BT MAIL. All papers are stopped at the expiration of the time paid for without further notice. Mail sub scribers will please observe the dates on tbeir wrappers. Persons wishing the paper will have their orders dramptlj attended to by rommitiing the amount for the time desired. ADVERTISING. SEVEN words make a link. Ordinary advertisements, per Nonpareil line, 10 oenta. Legal Official Auction and Amusement advertise ments and Special Notices, per. Nonpa reil line, 15 cents. Reading notices per line, Nonpareil type 15 cents Local notices, per line, Brevier type, 15 cents. A discount made on advertisements continued for longer than one week. REMITTANCES For subscriptions or advertising can be made by Post Office order. Registered Letter or Express, at our risk. All letters should be addressd, J. E. BEDWISK, Gainesville, Ga. <; E N Eft A L DIR ECTOR V. 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*