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GEN llli A L DIRECTORY.
JUDICIARY. *
Hon. George D. Rice, Judge 8. 0. Western Circuit.
A. L. Mitchell, Solicitor, Athens, Ga.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
J. B. M. Wluburu, Ordinary; John L. Gaines,
HharllT; J. F. Duckett, Deputy Sheriff; J. J. Mayno,
Clark Haperior Court; W. S. Plckreil, Deputy Clor-
Mnperior Court ; N. B. Clark, Tax Collector ; -J It.
H. Luck, Tax Receiver; Gideon Harrison. Sur
veyor ; Edward Lowry, Coroner ; It. 0. Young,
Treasurer.
CITY GOVERNMENT.
Dr. 11. 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. C. Dorsey, Clerk; J. R. Boono, Trreasuror; T.
N.Uaulo, Marshal) Henry Perry, City Attorney.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
Prehbttkrian Church—ltev. T. P. Cleveland.
Pastor. Preaching every Sabbath—morn ig and
night, except the second Sabbath. Bu> day School,
at 9 a. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at 4
o’clock.
Methodist Church— Kcv. IV. W. Wadsworth, Pas
tor. Preaching every Sunday morning and night.
Sunday School at 9a. in. Prayer meeting Wednes
day night.
Baptist Church Rev. AY. O. Wilkes, raster,
broaching Sunday morning and night. Sunday
School at'J a. in Prayer meeting Thursday evening
at 4 o'clock.
GAINESVILLE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.
•B. Kates, President; Henry Perry, Librarian.
YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.
A. M. Jackson, President; R. C. Maddox, Vice
President; W. B. Clkmknts, Secretary.
Regular services every Sabbath evening at one
of the Churches. Cottage prayer meetings every
Tuesday night in "Old Town,” and Friday night
noar the depot
FRATERNAL RECORD.
Flowery Branch Lodou No. 79, I. 0. O. TANARUS.,
meets every Monday night, Joel Laseter, N. G.
. B. F. Htkdham, Hoc.
Aiabuhant Royal Arch Chaptsr meets on the
Beeend and Fourth Tuesday evenings in each
monlh.
H. S. Bb\dlky, Sec.’y. A. W. Caldwell, H. P.
(Jainesvillh Lodoe, No. 219, A.-. F.-. M.\,
neats in the First a nd Third Tuesday evening in
the mouth
R. Palmour, Seo’y. It. E Green, AV. M.
Air-Linb Lodge, No. 64 ,1. O. O. JF., meets
every Friday evening.
C. A. Lillt, Sec. W. H. Harrison, N. G.
GAINESVILLE POST OFFICE.
Owing to recent change of schedule on tha Atlan
ta and Charlotte Air Line Railroad, the following
will be the schedule from date:
train No. 1, going east, leaves 7:47 p. m.^
'Mail for this train closos at 7:00 “
Mail train No. 2. going c-rt, leaves 8:35 a. m.
•So mail (//“tlilß train.
Mall train No. 1‘ going west, leaves (s:sl*a. m.
Mail for ill’s train closes at 9:30 p. in.
Mail train No. 2, going wost, 1ewe5....9:05 p. m.
Mall for this train closes at 7.30 •
Offlob hours from 7 a. m. to 5:30 p m.
General delivery open on Sundays from 814 to9>£.
Departure of malls from this office:
Dahlonega and Gilmer county, daily 8 o. m
Dahlonega, via Tftixoo and Ethel, Saturday...a. m
Jnfferaon A jbekson county, Tuesday, Thurs
day and Saturday ;. 7 a. m
Cleveland, White, Union, Towns and Hayes
ville, N. 0., Tuesdays and Fridays 7 a. m
Dawsonville aud Dawson county,, Tuesday
and Saturday 8 a. m.
Homer, Banks county, Saturday 1 p. m
Pleasant Grove, Forsyth county, Saturday. .1 p.tn
M. K. ARCHER, P.ltl.
Atlanta and Charlotte
AIH-JLINE,
Trains will run as follows on and after
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29,1878,
MAIL TRAIN, DAILY,
GOING EAST.
Leave Atlanta.... 2:40 p. m-
Leave Gainesville 4:56 p. in.
Arrive Charlotte *2:20 a. m.
GOING WEST.
Leave Charlotte 1:18 a.m.
Leave Gainesville 9:55 a. m.
Arrive Atlanta 1*2:00 m.
Through Freight Train.
(Daily except Sunday.)
GOING EAST.
Leave Atlanta 8:37 a.m.
Arrive Gainesville 12:28 p. m
Leave Gainesville 1:10 p. in'
Arrive Central. 7:12 p. m
GOING WEST.
Leave Central 2:55 a. m*
Arrive Gainesville 8:25 a.m.
Leave Gainesville 8:37 a. m.
Arrive Atlanta 12:25p. nr
Local Freight and Accommodation
Train.
(Daily except Sunday.)
GOING EAST.
Leave Atlanta 5:45 a.m.
Arrive Gainesville 10:54 a. m.
Leave 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 Gaiuesville 1:40 p. in.
Arrive Atlanta 6:45 p. m.
Close connection at Atlanta for all points
Wet, and at Charlotte for all points East.
G. J. Fokeacke, General Manager
W. J. Houston, Gen. P. & T. A’gt,
Northeastern Railroad of Georgia.
TIME TABLE.
Taking effect Monday, June 10, 1878. All
trains run daily except Sunday.
TI*A li\ IVo. I.
STATIONS. AEEIVE. LEAVE.
. v A * M -
Athens 7 qq
Center • • #% # 721 7
Nicholson 73 0 739
Harmony Grove, 7 51) gQ7
MaysviHe....:... 827 832
p'' lsTllle 849 850
Lal 9 15
THAI IN NO. %£.
STATIONS. ARRIVE. LEAVE.
T P. M.
Lula 5 25
Gihsville 542 5
Maysville 602 608
Harmony Grove 630 g4O
Nieholson 701 707
9® ut9r ** * 7 22 " 7 25
A.thens 7 45
WOOL! WOOL]
The Wool Carder at Brown’s Mill having
been thoroughly* repaired) is Tow doing
Wt 11. 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. CL A UK.
sepl3-6t.
The Gainesville Eagle.
VOL. XII,
LANDS FOR SALE,
—RY
>V. W. Habersham & Cos., Gainesville,Ga.
550 acrefl mineral and agricnltnral land,
two and a half miles from Flowery Branch,
on the Air-Line Railroad, and nine miles
from Gainesville, Hall county, Ga. On
the premises are to be found 2 gold quartz
leads and a good water power. The ag
ricultural portion is suitable for raisin* eoc
ton, grains aud fruits. This is one of the
most desirable tracts of mining property in
Georgia. Titles perfect.
A splendid farm of 373 acres, on the Ath
ens oad leading to .Jefferson, seven mUee
from Gainesville, Hall County, Ga., at
Hopewell Baptist Church. On the premises
are a dwelling Louse of five rooms, two leg
houses, a barn and all necessary out-buiid
iugs, two wells of fine water, and numerous
living springs.
A fine orchard and good pasturage. 200
acres are tinder cultivation, about 125 acres
are in timber, consisting principally of oak
and che.-tnut. The soil is red clay, aud
produces cotton, corn and wheat abundant
ly. Nearly all the above premises are unu.u
fence. Terms easy.
A farm of 225 acres, embracing 140 r.cres
in timber, beautifully located 6,} miles of
from Gainesuille on Little River, with all
the necessary modern improvements and a
fine orchard. Pcstoffice located on the
place, and with church and school privi
leges. The land is peculiarly adapted to
ruining cotton, corn, wheat and grapes.
Gold has been discovered on the premises
A most valuable place containing 2,101
acres of land, lying in the fork of the Soquee
and Chattahoochee rivers, in Habersham
eonnty, within five miles of the Air-Line
Railroad. An abundant supply of excellent
pine and post-oak timber. It has the finest
water powt r in this section, the water front
being about three miles of successive shoals
on the two rivers. To manufacturing cap
italists it offers extraordinary advantages:.
It is in the center of the mining belt, aud
borders the cotton region of Georgia. For
the culture of fruits and grapes, it excels.
Its altitude is not less than 1,500 feet, and
its salubrity unsurpassed. There are seve
al small settlements on it, and altogether
about 200 acres of cleared land.
A place in same oounty, containing 270
acres, nearly all woodland, and very heavily
timbered; in four miles of Clarksville, and
about the same distance from the Air-Line
Railroad. On it is a Lime Kiln in fine order,
lime excellent; capacity 900 bushels. There
is a dwelling with eight rooms, and necessa
ry out-buildings; also a fine orchard. The
place is well watered.
Batiks Sheriff’s Sale.
GEORGIA, BANKS COUNTY.—WiII be
sold on the first 'Tuesday in December
next,before the court house door in the town
of Homer, Banks county, Georgia, between
the lawful hours ol sale, the following prop
erty, to-wit:
The tract of land adjoining lands of I S
Furr, G W Bowden, and others; the same
being more fully described in a deed from
A J West, former Sheriff, to Octavia J Say,
recorded in Clerk’s office, Superior court of
Banks county, in book B, pago 435;'contiiin
ing one hundred and fifty acres, more or
less, lying rn the waters of Hickory Level
creek, in said county. Levied on as the
property of Jordan Lecroy, to satisfy the
purchase money, and a fi fa issued from the
Justice court of tho 812th district, GM,
Franklin county, Octavia J Say vs Jordan
Lecroy. Levy marie and returned to me by
A A Turk, LC. This October 17. 1878.
0c.t23 B. F. SUDDATH, Sheriff.
Georgia, Dawson County.
By virtue of an order granted by the
Court of Ordinary of said county, I will sell
as administrator, before the ‘court house
door, of said county, on the first Tuesday
in December 1878, between the*usual hours
of sale at public auction, the following lands
belonging to ihe eslatc of Daniel Brice, de
ceased, to wit: , , ,
Lots of land numbers 200, 201, 217, 26Q,
and 261. in the 13th district, Ist section,
south lull of said district, in said county.
This laud is all in one body, well watered,
and has cos 1 irtabie dwelling and outbuild
ings on it. Ab uit 75 acres are in cultiva
tion on the p'hice, about 40 of which are
bottom. This is a valuable farm. Terms
Cash. This October 7, 1878.
WILLIAM W. BRICE.
■act-18 td Adtnr of Daniel Brice, dec’d.
Union Sheriff’a Sales.
Georgia, Union County.
Will be sold before the court house door
in the town - t Bluirsville, Uniou county,
Ga., on the fir’ fc i id s i y in December next,
within the k‘j<nl - It- lours, the following
property, to wit;
Parts of lots of hind N"S 25 and 48 in the
10th district and hist section of said county.
Levied on as the property of March Adding,
ton, W. S. Logan, and N. L. Logan, by vir
tue of a fi fa issued from the Justice court
of the lß'2d district, G M, of said county,
in favor of James C Gillespie and Alexan
der Bailey vs said March Addington, W S
Logan and N L Logan, the same being their
interests iu said tots of land. Property
pointed out by plaintiff. LevJ- made and
returned to me by G W Oarnev. L C.
octlß-td ‘ N. B. HILL, Sheriff.
Admiiiisti*;Uoi*’s Sale.
Georgia, Banks County.
By virtue of an order of the court of. Or
dinary of Banks county, will be sold before
the court house door in the town of Homer,
oa the first Tuesday in December next, the
following properly, to-wit:
One tract ot land lying in said county, on-
Hudson river, adjoining lands of G S Mar
tin, Wm J Mize, Allen Watson and others,
containing three hundred and fifty-five acres.
The same will be sold in two separate par
cels, as lot No 1, containing one hundred
and sixty-eight and one-half acres, more
or less, with about four or five acres of bot
tom land, balance upland. Lot No 2 con
taining two hundred aud sixteen and oue
half acres, more or less, known as the home
place, it being the place whereon Clackston
Mizo resided at ;he time of his death; with
about six acres ot bottom land on the same,
balance fai- upland, all tolerably well im
proved. Sold as the property of Clackston
Mize, deceased. Sold for the benefit of the
heirs and creditors of Clackston Mize, de
ceased, late of said countv. Terms Cash.
This October 9, 1878. JOHN MIZE,
octl 8 ids Administrator.
Executors Sale.
Georgia, Banks County.
By virtue of an order of the court of Or
dinary of Banks county, will be sold before
the court house door in.the town of Homer,
on the first Tuesday in December next, the
following property, to-wit:
One tract of land belonging to the estate
of James 11. David, deceased. Said land
lying in Banks county, adjoining lands of
T. Y. Brazeitou, James Ellison, M. P. Alex
ander and others, containing one hundred
acres, more or less; said laud is unimproved,
ail in original forest, woli timbered,situated
within one mile of Mavsville depot, oa the
Northeastern Raihoad. Sold as the prop
erty of James 11. David, deceased, and sold
for the benefit of the heirs of James H Da
vid, late of said county, deceased. Terms
Cash. This October 9, 1878.
octlß-td 11. J. DAVID, Executor, &c.
Georgia, Banks County.
Banks Superior court, October Term, 1878.
By virtue of an order of the Honorable
George D. llice, Judge of the Superior
Courts of the Western Judicial Circuit, and
o! the statutes in such cases made aud pro
vided, notice is hereby given that the Supe
rior Court of Banks county at the present
term was by me adjourned to the April term
1879, of said court. Parties, jurors aud
witnesses, will take due notice thereof, and
govern themselves accordingly.
Oct 17, 1878. 11. J. DYAR, C. S. C.
Georgia, Towns County.
M. M. Burrell applies to me for exernp.
tion of personalty and valuation of home
stead, and I vc ill pass upon the same on the
19th of October next, 1878, at 10 o'clock a.
in., at my office in Hiwassee.
J. W. HOLMES, Ordinary.
Sept. 30, 1878. octll-td
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER i; 1878.
Was it Political Persecution?
Mr. Speer and his strikers have
been makffig savage assaults on the
Grand Jury of Gwinnett eonnty, be
cause that body, in the discharge of
its duty, called attention to the fact
that Mr. Speer had failed to account
for money collected by him while
Solicitor General. The charge made
is that this whole matter was tramped
up as a political trick to injure Speer,
because they say it had never been
heard of until ho became a candidate,
and would never have been heard of
but for his candidacy.
Where the gentlemen who com
posed that Grand Jury are known,
no defense is needed. Their charac
ter as honorable, high-toned men is
sufficient to protect them from any
insinuation that they violated their
oaths in order to trump up charges
against Speer.
In their justification it is proper
that the facts should be known to
the public.
For several years there has been
complaint in the county in reference
to the money brought into court and
paid out to insolvent lists. These
complaint were brought to the atten
tion of Judge Rice two or three years
ago, and he appointed a commit
tee, consisting of Col. S. J. Winn
and Col. N. L. Hutchins, to investi
gate tho whoio matter and report.
The committee, after a full investiga
tion, made their report.
There was still some dissatisfaction,
and the matter was brought before
the Grand Jury, which assembled at
the adjourned term in November fol
lowing. At the adjourned term,
1877, before Mr. Speer was a candi
date or any body knew r he would be
a candidate, the Grand Jury investi
gated this matter. The following ex
tracts from the general presentments
of that term will show what action
was taken;
EXTRACT FROM PRESENTMENTS OF THE
GRAND JURY NOV. ADJOURNED TERM 1877.
“We have been informed by a com
mittee appointed by the last Grand
Jury, that there had been money col
lected from fines aud forfeited bonds,
which had not been paid over to the
county Treasurer, and they had not
had time to give it a thorough inves
tigation, and request that our body
look after it, and that other county
funds 'have been paid over to the
County Treasurer that should have
been applied otherwise, and having
had some information before us
showing that said complaint was not
wholly groundless, and knowing that
much dissatisfaction still exists
among many of our citizens as to
hew the large amount of money that
has been collected from fines and
forfeitures in the last three or four
yeßcs has been applied and that com
plaint has been made thereof, we
have unanimously agreed to appoint
a committee to give the matter a
thorough examination and correct
any error they may find in any cal
culation cr report heretofore made,
and make their report at the next
regular term of the court, believing
that it could not be done with any
degree of accuracy at the present
term. We have appointed as that
committee, Madison L. Adair, John
E. Craig and William J. Born, and
do most respectfully ask his Honor
Judge Rico to recognize said com
mit e-e, aud give them such instruc
tions as he may think best.”
Signed by Eli J. McDaniel, Fore
man( and twenty-two jurors.”
In accordance with the request of
the Jury, Judge Rice passed the fol
lowing order:
“It appearing to the court that the
Grand Jury of this term have ap
pointed M. L. Adair, John E. Craig
aud William J. Born a committee
for the purpose indicated in the
general presentments of the Grand
Jury.
Ordered by the court, that said
committee are authorized and direc
ted to perform the service indicated
in said presentments.
Geo. D. Rice, Judge S. C.”
A. L. Mitchell, Sol. Gen’l.
A true extract from the minutes of
Gwinnett Superior court, Nov. ad
journed term, 1877.
Frank T. Pentecost,
Dep’tv Ci’k S. C.
Oat. 21, 1878.
This committee made their repori
the last March term, but too late for
any action to be taken by the Grand
Jury, and Judge Rice, bv order, di
rected it filed, subject to any objec
tion which might be made.
By referring to the report made
by this committee, it will be seen
that Mr. Speer’s entire insolvent list
for his own services had been paid
off and that he had received $445,
including the Fraser money, more
than he was entitled to for his own
services. And that any amount
which might be due him was on the
old lists ot Markr and Thurman.
This report came properly before
the Grand Jury at the September
erni for investigation, and as bon
iest men, looking into the finances of
the county, they did what they re
garded as their duty. Could they,
under their oatha shield Muj, Speer
because he was a candidate? Is if
true that there is anything so sacred
about a candidate for' that a
Grand Jury can’t look into tire finan
ces of the county and report the
facts? Mr. Speer admits all they
charge, that he received the money
and has not paid it over it.
But our object was simply to sub
mit the facts in vindication of the
Grand Jury. who are being abused
by Mr. Speer and his organs. And
it will be seen that instead of this
matter being tramped up for politi
cal effect, that it is tha legitimate
fruit of Rn investigation into the fi
nances of the county begun over a
year ago. These facts are from the
minutes of our Superior court and
cannot be controverted. —Gwinnett
Herald.
Speer opened his campaign by
charging that Billups was rich and
he was poor. Finding he made
nothing out of that, he now says he
i3 rich and Billups is insolvent. But
Col. Billups does not owe over $2,000
to one mercantile house as Speer
does.
U. S. Dietrict Attorney “Potash”
Farrow, under instructions from the
W ashington Radicals, supports Speer
with all his influence. Let every
Democrat defeat the Radicals by vo
ting for Billups.
Now and Then.
The following is an address, says
the Athens Chronicle, to the Demo
cratic voters of Clarke county, writ
ten by Emory Speer, President of the
Democratic Club, in June 1872. It
was at the time when Mr. R. H.
Lampkin, an Independent, was run
ning for the legislature, against M.
H. Durham, regular nominee. It
was, true in 1872. It is true also in
1878. Let Mr. Speer be judged by
the words out of his own mouth.
The address was so admirable that,
on motion it was unanimously ap
proved, and 300 copies ordered to
be printed for distribution. The
original address is to te found in
the Southern Watchman, of June 26,
1872: ' ' "
“The Democratic Club of Athens,
in view of the fact that they-are an
organized body of Democrats, deem
it proper that they express their oar
nee, t wish that no man who claims to
be a Democrat will cast his vote in
the coming election for any man
save the nominee of the party. Spch
ill-advised voting has defeated the
Democracy of the county heretofore;
and that man who contrary to the
wishes of the people, will insist on
opposing the nominee, is. a disorgan
izer and no,friend to the success of
Democratic principles. There are
but two parties—the Democrats and
the Radicals —and one who opposes
the Democrats furthers the cause of
Radicalism. It does not matter
whether this be intentional or not,
the disastrous result is none the less
certain. ' We would most respectfully
beg that the Democracy will, on the
day of the election, come to the polls
en masse, and by a solid vote for
Durham the nominee, eject a Repre
sentative of the people’s choice, and
rebuke the presumption of those
who, while they call ' themselves
Democrats, act against our evory in
terest ”
Speer said in 1875, “the mountain
boys shot their corn into the hill
sides out of shot-guns.”' Let them
shoot Billups tickets into the ballot
boxes next Tuesday.
Who May Vote Next Tuesday,
The following are the provisions
of the new Constitution in relation
to elections and voters. It will be
seen that no man can vote outside of
the county of his residence:
Article 2, Par. 2.
Every male citizen of the United
States, except as hereafter provided,
twenty-one years of age, who shall
nave resided in this State one year
next preceding the election and shall
have resided six months in the coun
ty in which he offers to vote, and
shall have paid all taxes which may
hereafter bo required of him and
which he may have had an opportu
nity to pay, agreeably to law, except
for the year of the election, shall be
deemed an elector.
Provided, That no soldier, sailor
or mariner in the military or naval
service of the United States shall
acquire the rights of an elector by
reason of being stationed on duty in
this State, and no person shall vote
who, if challenged, shall refuse to
take the following oath or affirma
tion: “I do swear (or affirm) that I
am tweuty-on9 years of age, have re
sided in this State one j ear and in
this county six months next preced
ing this election. I have paid all
taxes which, since the adoption of
the present Constitution of this State,
have been required of me previous
to this year, and which I have had
an opportunity to pay, and that I
have not voted at this election.”
Sec. 2nd, Paragraph lst.-The Gen
eral Assembly may provide, from time
to time,forihe registration of all elec
tors, but the following class of per
sons shall not be : permitted to vote
or hold any office or appointment of
honor or £i ust in this State, to-wit:
Those who shall have been con
victed in any Court of competent
jurisdiction of treason against the
State, of embezzlement of public
funds, malfeasance in office, bribery
or larceny, or of any crime involving
moral turpitude, punishable by the
laws of this S.ate with imprisonment
in the penitentiary, unless such per
sons shall have baeu pardoned. 2ud,
Idiots and insane persons.
! An ‘■'independent” Denn and,
Hon. B H. Hill, in his letter to the
Democrats of Franklin, thus speaks
of ring men and Independents: ‘ The
ring man seeks to promote his per
sonal ends and ambition by getting
artful control of the party organizi
tion. The independent seeks to pro
mote his personal ends and ambition
by fighting the organization. In
their motives and ends they are pre
cisely tha same, and differ only in the
means they employ. Both are the
children of that mammoth prolific
parent of many evils and growing
corruptions—self-seeking. The only
real remedy for both these evils is
that which was so familiar to our fa
thers, and which is so unfamiliar to
us: that* high congressional, judicia
and executive positions are places ol
service and responsibility, and must
be ‘neither sought uor declined.’ ”
Col. B>]laps is surely not an Inde
pendent, and he is certainly not a
ring man- He is that true Democrat
who, to use again Mr. Hill’s language,
“is willing to sacrifice his personal
ends and ambition for the success of
bis party, and which success he be
lieves is the good of the country*
He neither wires nor begs, nor pushes
himself into the high places of re
sponsibility. He sticks to his party
and waits to be called higher. He
regards the offices as places of ser
vice, and not as occasions of pleasure
or profit, or for the gratification of
personal vanity. In a word, he nei
ther seeks these high offices nor
declines them, if he is in condition
to discharge their duties.” This is
a correct picture of Col. Billups as
drawn by Mr. Hill, that good judge
for many years of men and politi
cians; but in what light does it place
the Independent candidate ?
Mr. Speer, leaving out of discus
sion his Radical supporters and the
interest of Northern Radicals in his
success, is the Independent who
“seeks to promote his personal ends
and ambition by fighting the organ
ization.” He makes divers com
plaints against the Democratic or
ganization of this district. He says
the conventions of 1875 and 1877
were packed and filled with fraudu
lent proxies. He deno.unoes the nom
ination of (501. Billups, though made
with no dissenting voice. He charges
all and all manner of corruptions to
the leaders of the Democratic party.
But for them all, he has only one
remedy—elect him to congress. He
will cure all the ills we as a party
have fallen heir to, if we will only
advance his ends and farther his
ambition. That is all he cares for
He will offer no objection to a re
stored Grantißm in Washington and
Georgia, if he can only go to con
gress. Are Democrats ready to sell
themselves to this Independent who
seeks to use them for his own selfish
ends alone? If not, vote for Joel
A. Billups, the Democratic candi
date.
Speer says Billups is an aristocrat.
The farmers have seen Billups and
know better. Speer has more of an
aristocratic swagger than any other
man in the ninth district. Vote for
Billups,
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Speer in Union.
Gaddistown, Union Cos., Oct. 24, ’7B.
Editors Eagle: The great and inde
pendent candidate, Emory Speer,
arrived here Wednesday night, 23d
inst., at dark, with his negro driver.
They drove up to a gentleman’s house
and stopped. Speer got out of the
buggy and stood silently some min
utes. A boy came out, and noticing
the stranger, asked if he wished to
stay all night. He said be did, and
was invited in. He sat by the fire
without speaking lo anybody, and
then turned his back to the tire and
people, his head nodding all the while
like a bob on a fish line. The serv
ant asked him to tea. He said noth
ing. The lady of the house walked
in. He neither looked at nor spoke
to her, He soon called for a bed,
and upon being asked what ailed
him, replied “toothache.” He went
to sleep immediately, rather unusual
for one with tin toothache,
Haying failed to keep his appoint
ment that night, he mad© another for
next day at 9 a. m. Nine o'clock
came. Speer was in bed. Ten o’clock
still found him taking his rest. Elev
en o’clock put in an appearance, and
Emory got up, day or no day. He
told some of his friends he was very
sick and must go for a doctor. The
boys, not knowing what the matter
was, said there were two doctors in
the. settlement. He finally got up,
made a few remarks, and turned half
his supoorters in the audience to
Billups and the other half are likely
to tarn.
The negro, being asked how long
Mr. Speer had had [the toothache,
laughed and said he never had it
until the last night. The boys would
not mind his taking a dram, if it
did’nt take him so long to get over
it. They say it is likely, if he was to
get elected and take about two such
spells as this, that congress would
adjourn before he could get sober.
Gaddistown,
Speer’s negro strikers are adminis
tering the “Loyal League” oath to
their followers and swearing them io
vote for Speer. Let every Democrat
vote for Billups.
Billups is the only Democratic
candidate.
Speer as a Superintendent of an
Election.
We judge a tree by its fruit, A
man may, be vehement ic proclaim
ing bimeelf a Democrat, yet that fact
does not make him one. His works
bear the best evidence of his true
politics. Suppose we try-Mr. Speer
by this standard.
In Clarka county—Mr. Speer’s
home—the Radicals have a majority,
and the Democrats cAu Only succeed
there by thorough organization. In
1870 two Radical negroes represented
that county in the legislature. Ia
December, 1877, an election for mem
bers of the legislature w s held
throughout the State, under the new
constitution. The Democrats ;of
Clark nominated Col., Huggins, a
good and true man, to represent that
county. One B. 0. Yancey was run
by the independent Radical party
against tha nominee. Speer, at that
election, was an earnest and zealous
supporter of Yancey, and in.,order to
“put himself where he could do tho
most good,” he had himself made
one of of said
election, at the Athens precinct,
where most of the votes in that coun
ty are polled. Previous, to the elec
tion, Speer and a negro by the name
of Win. A. Pledger—who is a violent
Radical—went to the tax digests of
the county, and made a list of all the
white voters who had not paid their
taxes. When the day of election ar
rived, Speer appeared in his place as
Superintendent, and his negro ally
“Pledger” was present with the list
of white defaulters, to help him ‘run
the machine.’ Speer challenged ev
ery white Democratic voter whom he
did not know had paid his taxes,
and also every negro who offered to
vote the Democratic ticket; and let
every Radical, white and black, vote
without question. When ha chal
lenged a white voter, he would call
upon Pledger to examine his list,
and announce whether or not such
voter was entitled to vote. Late in
the evening, thirty-two poor white
men, who were operatives in the
Georgia Factory, went to the polls,
in a body, to vote for Col. Huggins.
Speer challenged them all, in a body,
and called upon his confederate, Mr.
Pledger to examine the list, aud to
announce whether they were entitled
to vote. All of them had paid their
taxes and were allowed to vote, bat
their indignation was almost uncon
trollable, especially .a$ the .negroes
and Radicals were all the time vpting
without hindrance from Speer. Well,
what was the result bf that election ?
Yancey defeated Col. Huggins, and
yet only one hundred and sixty white
men voted for him in the whole coup
ty, out of the sixteen hundred votes
cast at that election.
Judging the tree by iis fruit, would
you say Mr. Speer bore Democratic
fruit that season? Will a good
Democrat.unite with and solidify the
Radical party to defeat a Democrat ?
—Gwinnett Herald.
Speer’s organs say that Mr. Billups
has never alluded to anything that
savored o? peraonalifcv, in conduct
ing the present campaign. They say
he is too honorable to speak dispar
agingly of Mr. Speer’s private char
acter. Sorry we can’t " say the same
for his opponent, who has taken ad
vantage of the most despicable means
to defeat our nominee.— Madison
Home Journal.
Speer said in 1872, “there are but
two parties, the Democrats and the
Radicals.” Billups belongs to the
Democratic party, What_party does
Speer belong to ? ...a,
The steamship General Barnes,
from Savannah for New York, found
ered off Cape Hatteras last Wednes
day week and proved a total loss.
Her passengers and crew were picked
up by the schooner H. W. Drew, and
carried to St. John’s, Fla. The
General Barnes was built in New
York in 18G4, and has been running
between that port and Savannah ever
since the war.
Vote for Billups, who represents
the Democratic party, while Speer
does not.
Next Tuesday,, congressmen will
be elected in Alabama, Arkansas,
Connecticut, Delaware, Florida,
Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky,
Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts,
Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi,
Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New
Hampshire, New Jersey, New York,
North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rnode
Island, South Carolina, Tennessee,
Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin, and the
third district of Vermont.
Speer is a Democrat in the moun
tains, but a good enough Radical for
the negroes in the lower counties.
Vote for Billups.
Last week Tuesday there was a
tremendous storm all along the At
lantic coast. Dwellings, Btores and
other buildings were uuroofed and
damaged in Baltimore, Philadelphia,
Harrisburg, Wilkesbarre, Wilming
ton, Djl., and other places. Several
vessels and steamers on the coast
were wrecked, and -there were very
considerable losses, of life and prop
erty. _
Speer has every leading Radical
negro in the district, working for him.
Vote for Billups.
The case of King et al vs. Banks
et al. involving the legality of the
charter of Bellton in Hall county, in
which Judge Rice decided adversely
to the charter, has been affirmed by
the Supreme courr. Bellton will
have to start over •again.
Hall county is one of the twenty
three in Georgia - showing an in
creased valuation this year over 1877.
Tne others, one hundred and twenty
four in number, show a decrease
ranging from SB, in Irwin to $1,001,-
490 in Chatham.
ISTews in General.
Voters in Glynn county have to
register.
The matrimonial market is dull in
Dougherty.
The Richmond county fair was a
fine exhibition.
Great Lester gains reported in
Cherokee county.
Georgia State Fair opens at Ma
con next Monday.
The Baldwin Blues of Miiledgeville
hare anew armory.
Paulding connty has anew brick
jail with iron cages.
Savannah is receiving over 7,000
bales of cotton a day.
Prairie fires are r v ging in lowa,
Kansas, and Nebraska.
Last week Brunswick shipped by
steamers 1,410 bales of cotton.
In Wilmington, N. C , they hav<-
two floating cotton compresses.
Tammany Hall will probably be
beaten very badiy next Tuesday.
Mr. James Story, an aged citizen
of Jackson county, died last week.
The heaviest snow ever known in
October, fell last week in Nebraska.
Up to October 18tb, there had
been 9,931 deaths from yellow fe
ver. 1
Speer is seeking to divide and con
quer the Democratic party. Vote
for Billups.
Even bets on 5,000 majority for
Hammond are beiog made in At
lanta.
Prof. Edison had a severe attack
of neuralgia last week. He has im
proved.
An attempt was made last Friday
to assassinate King Alfonso of Spain
at Madrid.
The Marietta Riflemen have re
ceived their guns and will soon have
their uniforms.
There was a great Lester barbecue
yesterday, right under Feltcn’s nose,
at Cartersville.
Mr. Wylie Howard, of Merriwether,
while at work in his field last week,
dropped dead.
The Young Men’s Christian Asso
ciation of Augusta dedicated anew
hall last week.
It is expected the Democrats will
gain two, if not four congressmen iu
Massachusetts.
Speer is the worst enemy, of the
Democratic party in this district.
Vote for Billups.
Rents in Aiken, S. C , the famous
winter resort, are lower th a winter
than since the war.
The Columbia Slraightout wants
Governor Hampton’s salary raised to
SIO,OOO per annum.
Gov. Colquitt was yesterday in Au
gusta at the unveiling of the Con
federate Monument.
Barrels are worth more than ap
ples in New Hampshire. It doesn’t
pay to pick the apples.
The Industrial University of Ark.,
of which Gen. D. H. Hill is Presi
dent, has 230 students.
A negro woman in Christian coau
ty, Ky., recently gave birth to a
twenty-one pound baby.
Returning Board Hayes is sti 1 at
tending agricultural fairs aud other
harmless entertainments.
The last Savannah Weekly News
has a fine portrait of Lieutenant-
General Joseph Wheeler.
Rough Rice, formerly editor and
proprietor of Rough Rice's Reporter,
died in Rutledge last week.
Speer said the mountain boys were
not entitled to representation. They
will surely vote for Billups.
The Douglass Infantry of Augusta
won the prize for colored companies
last week, at the Atlanta fair.
Billings, indicted for the murder
of his wife at Ballston, N. Y., has
been released on $30,000 bail.
A man in California aud a woman
in Ohio, over 3,000 miles apart, were
married by telegraph recently.
Personal abase is the strong card
of the Independents and Greenback-
Communists all over the State.
The Albany Advertiser favors W.
A. Harris of Worth, for Secretary
of the Senate. Next week will tell
Speaker Randall says he cannot be
defeated for re-electioD, but will go in
this time by an increased majority.
Dodd, Brown & Cos., of St. Louis,
the second largest jobbing house in
the United States, failed last week.
City of Savannah bonds to the
amount of SI,OOO sold in Charleston
last week at 58£ cents on the dollar.
Speer bolts the Democratic party
without any resonable excuse. Let
Democrats bolt Spoer and vote for
Billups.
One district in Paulding county
carried by Felton in 1876 now snows
only 40 for him to 138 for Les
ter.
Gen. James S. Whitney of Boston,
a prominent Democratic leader,
dropped dead in that city last Fri
day.
A jury summons stopped a festive
Albanian as he was taking the train
last Monday week for the Atlanta
fair.
General John Pope declines to ap
pear as a witness in the Fitz-John
Porter case unless regularly subpoe
naed.
The Democrats of Baltimore elec
ted their candidate for first branch
of city c juacil, in every ward last
week.
Filthy localities in New Or ear s
seem to have had no more fatal yel
low fever cises than the most cleanly
streets.
The shareholders of the broken
City of Glasgow Bank are to be as
sessed three thousand dollars per
share.
The 18th U. S Infantry, tor some
time stationed at Atlanta has been or
dered out west to operate against the
Indians.
lowa Democrats unanimously con
clude that next Tuesday is the legal
day for bolding their congressional
elections.
The insurrectionary spirit is re
ported alive in Santa Cruz, though
over one hundred negroes have been
executed.
The Grand Masouic Lodge of the
State met last Tuesday at the Ma
sonic Temple in the city of Macon m
annual session.
Hon. A. H. Stephens says “Billups
is the man whom the people should
support.’’ Vote for Billups.
Fifty more convicts for the Augus
ta, Knoxville and Greenwood Rail
road went into camp near Augusta,
last Saturday.
The Government has recently pur
chased golcfKullion at Charlotte, N.
C., aud Denver, Col. at its coin value
iu greenbacks.
Robert Smills (colored) will be
defeated for congress in the fifth
South Carolina district by George D.
Tillmau, Democrat.
Ctrdiual Cullen, Archbishop of
Dublin, is dead. He was born in
Eugland in 1803, and wa3 nominated
as cardinal in 1866.
The Monroe Advei'tiser has failed,
after diligent enquiry, to find a dozen
men in Monroe county who will vote
for “Farmer" Arnold.
Illinois Republicans think the
Greenbackers will hold tne balance
of power in the next legislature as
they did iu the last.
Rear Admiral Hiram Paulding, U.
S Navy, died recently, aged 81 years.
He was a son of John Paulding one
of the captors of Major Andre.
Hon. Robert Toombs says Billups
ought to be elected. Vote for Bil
lups.
The colored Radicals of Dougherty
county have, so far, declined to en
dorse E. C. Wade, the Radical candi
date for congress, against Smith.
This month the United States Su
preme court will hear argument in
volving the constitutionality of all
laws relating to polygamy in Utah.
Augusta raised the quarantine last
week, which has been established
against the inflicted districts since
the breaking out of the yellow fever.
R v. W H. H. Murray bad his
arm shattered by the bursting of a
gun, whiie duck shooting last week,
near his residence on Long Island
Sound.
NO. 43
There will be a colored people’s
fair at LiGrange on tha Bth and 9ih
of November. White people will be
admitted to witness the fair, but they
cannot compete.
Edward Cooper, Domocrat, a son
of Peter Cooper, will be supported
for Mayor of New York City by every
body opposed to John Kelly’s close
corporation,Tammany Hill.
A special treasury agent seizid
last Friday in Chicago, a small pack
age containing nine hundred and
twenty-three precioas stones mailed
from Ceylon to Keokuk, lowa.
Radicals all over the country will
consider Speer’s election a Demo
cratic defeat Vote for Billups.
The St. L >uis Cadets won the first
prize at the Atlanta fair. Their
captain, trank B. McCoy,is a native
of Augusta, and was formerly a mem
ber of the Oglethorpe Infantry.
Mr. Hayes and his associate
usurpers have taken away the arms
of the New Orleans State troops till
after election; and still there are
“Hayes Democrats” in the South.
The slaughter house and pork
packing establishment of Christian
Klinch, East Buffalo, N. Y., was
burned last Saturday. Loss SIGO,-
000. Nearly 400 hogs were burned
alive.
Government employes in Wash
ington will be allowed leave of ab
sence to go home and vote, but they
are expected to vote the Ridical
ticket; otherwise, off goes their offi
cial heads.
The interest on the bonds of the
Northeastern Railroad Company of
Georgia, due November 1, will be
paid at the Mechanics’ National Bank,
New York,or the First National Bank
of Athens.
Vote for Billups, who is in every
way qualified for a congressman,
while Speer is not.
Mrs. Felton doesn’t seem to think
she deceived anybody when she
wrote letters advocating her hus
band’s election from North Georgia
and signed herself “Wool Hat,” and
other pet names.
A Republican paper in Ohio nomi
nates John Sherman as the Republi
can candidate for the Presidency,
and the Cincinnati Enquirer, on be
half of the Democracy, kindly sec
onds tha nomination.
James F. Collins, white, was run
over and killed last Friday night, by
a State Road train, near the cotton
factory in Atlanta. He was a mem
ber of Captain John Iveely’s Jackson
Guards during the late war.
A fund for the late Lieutenant
Hiram L. Benner, U S. A., who died
at Vicksburg of yellow fever, is being
raised in Augusta. Hon. Patrick
Walsh is the treasurer. Contribu
tions from all over the South are so
licited.
Sixteen citizens of Williamsburg
county, S. C., were arrested last
week for violating . the enforcement
acts. Returning Board Hayes’ U. S.
District Attorney was on the ground
and the arrests were made by hia
direction.