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The Gainesville Eagle
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rpatulrs Candler Hall Building,
Northwest Corner of l'ublic Square.
The Official Organ of Hall, Banks, White, Towns,
Kaoun, Union and Dawson counties, and the City
o* Gainesville. Has a large general circulation in
twelve other counties in Northeast Georgia, and
two counties in Western North Carolina.
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GENERAL DIRECTORY.
JUDICIARY.
Hon. George D. Rice, Judge 8. C. Western Circuit.
A. L. Mitchoil, Solicitor, Athens, Ga.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
J. B. M. Winburn, Ordinary;; John L. Gaines,
Sheriff; J. F. Duckett, Deputy Sheriff; J. J. Mayne,
Olerk Superior Court; W. 8. Pickreli, Deputy Oleri.
Superior Court ; S. B. Clark, Tax Collector ; -J B.
U. Luck, Tax Receiver; Gideon Harrison, Sur
veyor ; Edward Lowry, Coroner ; It. C. Young,
Treasurer.
CITY GOVERNMENT.
Dr. H. 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. Boone, Trreasurer; T.
N.Hanis, Marshal; Henry Perry, City Attorney.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
Presbyterian Church—Rev. T. X’. Cleveland,
Pastor. Preaching every Sabbath—morning and
Bight, except the second Sabbath. Su day School,
at 9 a. m. Prayer mooting Wednesday evening at 4
o’clock.
Methodist Church—Rev. W. W. Wadsworth, Pas
tor. Preaching every Sunday morning and night.
Sunday School at 9a. m. Prayer meeting Wednes
day night.
Baptist Church Rev. W. 0. Wiikes, Pastor.
Preaching Sunday morning and night. Sunday
School at 9a. in Prayer meeting Thursday evening
at 4 o’clock.
GAINESVILLE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.
B. Estes, President; Wm. W. Habersham, Libra
rian.
YOUNG M EN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.
A. M. Jackson, President; R. C. Maddox, Vice
President; W. B. Clements, Secretary.
Regular services every Sabbath evening at one
of the Churches. Cottage prayer meetings every
Tuesday night iu “Old Town,” and Friday night
near the depot'
FRATERNAL RECORD.
Flowery Branch Lodge No. 79, I. O. O. TANARUS.,
assets every Monday night, Joel Lasetee, N. G.
B. F. Stkdham, Sec.
Allbshany Royal Akcu Chapter meets on the
Second and Fourth Tuesday evenings in each
month.
A. S. Bradley, Seo’y. A. W. Caldwell, H. P.
Gainesville Lodge, No. 219, A. - . F.-. M,-.,
meets on the First a nd Third Tuesday evening in
the month
ft. Palmodk, Seo’y. R. E. Green, W’. H.
Air-Link Loduk, No. 04 ,1. O. O. jF., meets
every Friday evening.
0. A. Lilly, Sec. W. H. Harrison, N. G.
GAINESVILLE POST OFFICE.
Owing to recent change of schedule on the Atlan
ta and Charlotte Air Line Railroad, the following
will ho the schedule from date:
Mail train No. 1, going east, loaves 7:47 p. m.
Mail for ihis train closes at 7:00 “
Mail train No. 2, going east, loaves 8:35 a. m.
So mail by this train.
Mai: train No. 1‘ going west, 10ave5....6:51 a. m.
Kail for this train closes st. 9:30 p. m.
IX-U traiuNc. 2, g:Mcj w- t. 1<! ;ves...-05 I>- ui.
Mail for this train closes at 7.39 “
Offica hours from 7 a. m. to 5:30 p m.
General delivery open on Sundays from Syi to9}j.
Departure of mails from this office:
Dahlouega and Gilmer county, daily B>i a. ru
Dablonoga, via Walioo and Ethel, Saturday...B H a. ni
Jefferson k Jackson county, Tuesday, Thurs
day and Saturday 7 a. ni
Cleveland, White, Union, Towns aud Hayes
▼ille, N. C., Tuesdays and Fridays 7 a. m
Dawsonville and Dawson county,, Tuesday
arid Saturday 8 a. m.
Homer, Banka county, Saturday 1 p. ni
Pleasant Grove, Forsyth county, Saturday. .1 p.m
M. R. ARCHER, P.M.
Atlanta and Charlotte
AIIi-IdINE,
Trains will run as follows on and after
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20,1878.
MAIL, TBAIN, 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.
irrive Atlanta 12:00 in.
Through Freight Train.
(Daily except Sunday.)
GOING EAST.
Leave Atlanta 8:37 a.m.
Arrive Gainesville 12:28 p. ta_
Leave Gainesville 1:10 p. m'
Arrive Central 7:12 jl in'
GOING WEST.
Leave Central 2:55 a.
Arrive Gainesviilo 8:25 a. m.
Leave Gainesville 8:37 a. in.
Arrive Atlanta 12:25 p. in.
Local Freight and Accommodation
Train.
(Daily except Sunday.)
GOING EAST.
Leav# Atlanta 5:45 a. m.
Arrive Gainesville 10:54 a. m.
Lmti Gainesville 11:23 a. in.
Arrive Central 6:35 p. m.
GOING WEST.
Leave Central 4:45 a. in.
Arrins Gainesville 1:10 p. ID.
Leave Gainesville 1:40 p. in.
Arrive Atlanta 6:45 p. in.
Close connection at Atlanta for all points
West, and at Charlotte for all points East.
G. J. Foreacre, General Mmager
W. J. Houston, Gen. P. & T. A’gt.
Northeastern Railroad of Georgia.
Tiivrie TABLE.
Taking effect Mornlay, Jaue 10, 1878. All
trains ran daily except Sunday.
THAI?r IN' O- 1.
STATIONS. ARRIVE. REAVE.
A. M.
Athens 7 00
Center 721 j 722
Nicholson 736 739
Harmony Grove, 759 807
Maysvi He 827 832
Gill3vills • 849 850
Lnla 9 15
1
STATIONS. ARRIVE. LEAVE.
P. M.
Lnla 5 25
Gillsville 542 545
Maysville 602 608
Harmony Grove 630 640
Nicholson 701 707
Oent3r 722 725
Athens 7 45
WOOL ! WOOL !
The Wool Carder at Brown’s Mill having
been thoroughly repaired, is now doing
w. 11. All wool left at K. L Boone’s store
■will be taken away the name week, and re
turned carded the next week. Satisfaction
guaranteed. O. CLARK.
sepl3-6t.
The Gainesville Eagle.
VOL XII.
LANDS FOK SALE,
—RY —
W. Habersham &('., Gainesville,Ga.
550 acres mineral and agricultural land,
two aud 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 raising cot
ton, grains aud fruits. This is one of the
most desirable tracts of mining property in
Georgia. Titles perfect.
A farm of 225 acres, embracing 140 acres
in timber, beautifully located miles of
from Gainesuille on Little River, with all
the necessary modern improvements and a
fine orchard. Postoffice located on the
place, and with church and school privi
leges. The land is peculiarly adapted to
raising 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 Soqnee
and Chattahoochee rivers, in Habersham
county, within five miles of the Air-Line
Railroad. An abundant supply of excellent
pine and post-oak timber. It has the finest
water powi r in this section, the water front
being about three miles ol successive shoals
on the two rivers. To manufacturing cap
italists it offers extraordinary advantages.
It is in the center of the mining belt, and
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 iu 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.
Runyon Ac Co"s
Celebrated
HOG CHOLERA
Cure and Preventive.
It is known by all that hog cholera has
cau-sed more loss among the fanners than
any other disease that stock is subject to.
Many worthless and irritable remedies are
used which have a tendency to inflame aud
aggravate instead of healing, and regulating
the system of all impurities. In a disease
so fatal, it is of great importance that farm
ers should have medicine that they could
rely upon; therefore, Runyou & Cos. having
spent several years ia the study and practice
upon this disease iu its several forms, have
at last produced a composition which will
cure and effectually prevent that disease in
every, form, and has gained the confidence
of the people, aud won for itself the title of
the “Never-Failing Remedy.”
We warrant this compound to cure in all
cases where inflammation is not too far gone
to be stopped when the medicine is admin
istered strictly according to directions; then
it is important tb it every farmer should
hare a supply of it. it acts as a healing aud
strengthening remedy for the general sys
tem, and the animal thrives as fast as if it
had never beou sick, on far less grain. The
rapid sales and wonderful cures of this med
icine induces as to believe that no person
can use it without recommending it to his
friends. Having such great success in other
States, we now offer it to the people of
Georgia, knowing that its virtues must be
acknowledged by an intelligent and pro-
e-people. We might publish mapy
flattering letters from other States, but \Ve
prefer to insert merely a few home certifi
cates from actual us , that all may try it and
judge for themselves; and if auy one doubt-j
the genuineness of the following certificates,
they are requested ro write and ascertain,
for every man’s postoffice address is annexed
to Lis certificate.
READ WHAT THE FARMERS SAY.
Black’s Mims, Dixon, Ga., Oct. 7, 1878.
This is to certify that the disease com
monly known as hog cholera broke out
among my hogs, aud I had lost one and my
neighbors had lost a great many’, when W.
M. Runyon, prourietor of Runyon & Co’s
Hog*Cholera Cure, came io my house, pro
posing to cure all I had sick, and prevent it
iti the balance, tree of charge, iu order to
get home evidence that he had what ha
recommended. Owing to the fair proposi
tion made by him, I,deemed it but courtesy
to give him a trial. We selected five head,
the worst affected, two of which were past
eating, and during the tsu days he has bean
treating them there has none died; but, on
the contrary, they’ are thriving aud doing
well; and I feel that I can with confidence,
after seeing the effect, recommend it as do
ing all that Runyon & Cos. claim for it, and
would advise alt farmers to use it.
J. M. Black.
This is to certify that we witnessed
the above test on Mr Black’s hogs, and it
did for hi:; hogs nil that was claimed for it,
and we recommend it to ail farmers that
wish:to save their hogs from she disease.
Gideon H. Smith,
H. M. Charles,
H. D. Black.
Dixon, Dawson Cos , Ga.
This is to certify that the s choiera broke
out among my hogs, and I iost one of my
best; in a day or two there ivere two more
that refused to eat anything. I called on
W. M, Runyon, then at Mr. Black’s, dem
onstrating on his hogs, and procured some
medicine and gave it promptly according to
directions; my hogs are well and
hearty, and I cheerfully recommend it to all
interested in raising hogs andjprevent them
of this destructive.disease. Eli Martin.
Dixon, Ga.
This is to certify that one of my best hogs
was affected with the cholera, and I pur
chased some of Runyon & Co’s medical
cofcMmmd, and gave promptly according to
and now it is well, and thriving
bad never been sick, reeom-
t all hog raisers as what
we haTO long peeded. John Bolton.
State, couuty and farm rights may be ob
tained of W. Runyon, at , Dr. Long’s
Drug Store, Gainesville, Ga., where he will
remain a few days, or until the surrounding
territory is disposed of. Orders may be left
at Dr. Long’s Drug Store. All persons using
or selling these reiaedits without purchas
ing a right to do so will be punished to the
tail extent of the lavr. Parties must* not
forget that this"coinpouud i> is, > patented, aud
the peuafties of the patent law are extreme
ly severe on those who violate it. We will
take good horses, mules or cotton in ex
change for c unty or State rights. A good
chance for an energetic man to make from
five to twenty dollars per day.
RUNYON & CO.
Georgia, Dawson County.
Ordinary’s Office, October 22d, 1878.
Richard L. Green, of said county, applies
to me for letters of administration, with the
Will annexed, on the estate of Josiah Dil
beck, deceased. Therefore, all persons con
cerned are hereby notified, that the letters
will be granted the applicant, or some other
fit and proper person, on the first Monday,
2d day of December next, unless good cause
to the contrary shall be then shown.
H. B. SMI L’H, Ordinary.
nov l-30d
Georgia, Dawson County.
Ordinary’s Office, Oct. 221, 1878.—Rich
ard L. Green, of said county, applies to me
for letters of administration on the estate of
Caroline Dtibeck, deceased. Therefore, all
persons concerned are hereby notified, that
the letters will be granted the applicant, or
some other fit aud proper person, on the
first Monday, 2d day, of December next,
uutess good cause to the contrary shall be
then shown.
H. B. SMITH, Ordinary.
nov l-30d
O%L Fancy Cards Snowflake Damask- As
fcil sorted m 2-> styieb, witu usme, locts. Nassau
Card Go., Nassau, N. Y.
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 8, 1878.
The Fall Trade and Prices.
Ia all our large cities there are
pleasant evidences of returning con
fidence. In Baltimore old indus
tries are visibly reviving. The shops
and factories are more active, and
although the rate of wages among
mechauice and operatives is lower,
in correspondence with the lower
prices of various commodities, we
begin to hear rather less of the want
of employment on the part of the
working classes. Our merchants
and dry goods dealers are doing
better, and trade wears a healthier
aspect. A similar report, comes to
us from Philadelphia and New York.
In the latter city the principals of
the two great houses of A. T. Stew
art & Cos. and Claflin & Cos., have
expressed the opinion that not only
is there a marked improvement in
general trade, but that a still more
decided change may be looked for in
the early future. Prices have reached
what is believed to b 9 their lowest
point, and the goods that find the
readiest sale are those that enter
into general consumption. As an
evidence of the decline in prices.
Judge Hilton, representing the house
of A. T. Stewart & Cos., gives the fol
lowing figures as showing the cost
per yard in 1877 and 1878 of leading
lines of dry goods:
‘ Cashmeres, 1877, from 90 cents
to sl-25; 1878, from 70 cents to sl.
Dress goods novelties, 1877, from $2
to $3.50; 1878, from $1 to $2 50.
Camel’s hair goods, 1877, from $1.50
to $2 50; 1877, from $1 to $1.75.
Prints, 1877, from 10 cents to 12
cents; 1878, from 6 cents to 8 cents.”
Ths above articles, as Judge Hil
ton remarks, cover the necessities of
the average buyer. For silks the
competition between the home and
foreign manufacturer makes it diffi
cult to get at a standard of value.
Hosiery is said to have declined
about thirty per cent., the exception
being fancy silk hose, which vary in
price according to the tints in fash
ion. Carpet goods have also de
clined in price from thirty to forty
per cent. Mr. H. B. Ciafim, on be
ing approached on the subject, ex
pressed views similar to those held
by Judge Hilton He stated that the
plainer kinds of goods were ia better
demand; that the principal sales
were of goods that are absolutely
needed, and that merchants, whilst
limiting their purchases of expensive
goods, are usually careful in select
ing them. All this is in exact ac
cordance with the experience of our
Baltimore merchants. It shows that
we have passed what in mechanics is
called “the dead point.” Of course
the activity in all branches of trade
and business is as yet only compara
tive. But, as the movement pro
gresses, it will gather impetus. It is
one of the best signs of the times
that we are getting to be more de
pendent on our own resources and
less upon those of foreiwn .rno-kets.
We arc now manufacturing in any
things that we used to buy abroad.
The finer sorts of woolen goods, bro
cades and velvets, articles of luxury,
and especially those calling for the
highest refinement of taste and the
rarest artistic skill, we continue to
import, but more cautiously and in
lesser quantities than we did in the
flush times that succeeded the war.
In consequence of this improvement
in our domestic manufactures, and
also because of the economies that
hard times have forced upon us, we
are repairing gradually the losses
and dieasters of the last four years
and also much of the old waste of
war. The lesson has not been with
out its value, although it entailed
great suffering upon many in the
learning of it. Perhaps for that rea
son it will be the longer before it is
forgotten. —Baltimore Sun.
A First Class Photograph.
This greenback craze is the inven
tion of scurvy politicians, who, like
gamblers, are ever indeed contriving
deceptions to delude those who play
at their games. They lead the
dupes to believe that by hazarding
money they will win a great deal,
when trhe result shows that they are
only fools who lose all they have by
the delusion. Tho rascally politician
and partisan promises great things
for the benefit of the voter, and thus,
aa does the gambler, the trickster
deceives the voter and captures his
vote. That is what the scurvy fel
low is playing for—just aa the gam
bler is playing for the money of his
dupe. The political trickster gets
votes, and the votes elevate him to
the place where money is gotten —
where per diem or salary—in Con
gress $5,000, good people (as you
should remember,) is gotten. And
that’s the game. That is what the
trickster goes for; and when he wins,
where are tho voters ? Ah 1 this is
the point, good voters. Who of you
all are benefitted ? The trickster
promises freely. It costs him noth
ing. He has no principle. He will
promise things that no honest man
would promise, and thus it is his
policy to make such promises be
cause he diminishes opposition, and
has the field more to himself. Loon
at the greenback gamblers. Do
they believe that there is any earthly
possibility of an issue of irredeema
ble paper money by any government,
and least of ail, the National Gov
ernment? Not one of them. The
truth should never be expected of
any man who says he does so be
lieve. This greenback absurdity is a
trick of the scurvy political hack
who seeks a place for which he has
no merit. Elect such a maD, oh peo
ple, and you will find yoursolvessold.
You will profit nothing, while he goes
to the Treasury and lives upon the
revenue which the taxes you pay
provide. It will disgrace any people
Ito be represented by such a political
gambler and trickster. In such a
iand as that we live in it is a disgrace
to tolerate those monstrous scemes.
Even the discussion of them is dis
creditable to the country.— Richmond
Dispatch.
♦ ,
Rev. S. B. Sawyer, of S. C., ac
cepts a call to the Kollock street
Baptist church of Augusta.
The Judicial Election,
The pressure of other matters up
on our columns has prevented us
from referring, until now, to two
very interesting and valuable politi
cal tables recently appearing in the
Chronicle & Constitutionalist. One
gives the dates of appointment, com
mission and expiration of term re
spectively of the several judges of
the Superior court, and the other
furnishes the same information in
reference to the Solicitors-Gen
eral.
In publishing these interesting ex
hibits our contemporary gives the
credit of their compilation to Col. I.
W. Avery, on© of the executive sec
retaries, a gentlemao whose accuracy
of research and minute and extensive
acquaintance with the archives of the
State are so wide and favorably
known. We may add that in their
publication the Chronicle & Constitu
tionalist also exhibits another proof
of that foresight and enterprise
which have placed it iu the front
rank of Georgia journalism. One of
the most important duties devolving
on the general assembly, soon to
convene, i3 the election of judges in
the circuits indicated by the consti
tution, namely, in the ten where the
incumbent* are oldest in commis
sion, aud any information bearing on
this subject is of special interest.
As yet we are not in posssession of
sufficient dates as respects the other
circuits for which elections are to be
had to forecast the situation, but in
our contemporary’s, or the Augnsta
circuit, it seems pretty clear that
Hon. Claiborne Snead, of Richmond,
will be the choice of the legislature.
Certainly it could not be more
worthily bestowed nor could a better
selection for experience, integrity
and ability be made. Asa live, ac
tive man, a son of the State who has
served the commonwealth with zeal
and fidelity on all occasions as both
soldier and civilian, Col, Snead is
abreast of any o i our public men,
while an extended term of five year*’
constant service as judge of Rich
mond county court has not only won
him the commendation of each suc
ceeding grand jury in that county,
but has developed his naturally great
judicial abilities into powers of the
first order. Like our own city court,
the county court of Richmond is a
tribunal oi extended jurisdiction, be
ing in a fact a Superior court in all
but equity aud felony cases, and the
manner in which Judge fcjnead has
administered its functions and his
acceptability to the bar, not only of
Richmond, but of the other counties
of the Augusta circuit, are best evi
denced by the remarkable unanimity
ot the bar of that circuit iu his favor
when it was supposed some time
since that J udge Gibson would re
sign and that Gov. Colquitt would
be called on to fill the place by ap-
Doiniment. On that occasion five
sixths the far favored Judge
and- from ail
our iSfroriaation, Liia * cnoice by tUe
general assembly, at its next session,
will not be less unanimous. —Atlanta
Constitution.
Gas from Water.
On seeing the application made to
the city council by Messrs. Murphy,
Quinn & Be'que for permission to
cross Sherbrooke street with a three
inch pipe, for the purpose of heating
with gas tho Montreal Seminary and
College, our reporter considered that
the matter interested our readers
and the public in general; for if
heating can be done with gas on an
economical scale an immense amount
of labor, expanse and trouble will be
spared our citizens. Consequently
our reporter determined in their in-*
terest to learn something aboffc tl\ei
scheme and with the following re
sult: It is well known
and heating can be done* with gas
much more conveniently # ana effec
tively than with amm other fuel; if,
then, an economicaußßde of making
the gas can be inveuflßl
is solved. This, the above named
gentlemen claim to have done. They
make the gas from water by passing
steam through red-hot coals con
tained in a hermetically sealed ves
sel, and by certain special devices re
lating to the heating property of the
coal, steam is decomposed into hy
drogen. carbonic oxide and carbonic
acid, the last is removed by purifica
tion, and the other two gases, pass
ing into the holder are ready for irn
mediate use. These gases, it is
known to all scientists, give more
heat than auy r fuei ever yet used. As
to tho economy of their pr cess; the
proprietors assert that with the use
of one ton of coal they can make
60,000 cubic feet of gas, while by the
old system only 8,000, could be pro
duced; that with the same apparatus
they can make gas, twice every hour,
while by the old system it takes
from four to eight hours for each
operation; that their gas will not
cost mere than fifteen cents per 1,000
feet, a quantity for which ordinary
gas companies charge from $2.50 to
$4. These gentlemen have spent
over two y ars and much money in
experimenting, and having finally
succeeded in their efforts, made ap
plications in different quarters to
use their gas. Tne reverend gentle
men of the Seminary, with their
usual foresightedness. gave them ev
ery facility, and they have now a
contract for the heating of the Cos -
lege and Seminary—not for the
lighting of the buildings, as these
gases give little or no light. The
company is now formed and almost
ail the capital subscribed. It is
hoped that the members of the coun
cil will give every facility to this en
terprise, as it concerns the welfare
of all our citizens—the poor even
more thaa the rich, as we are in
formed that the gas can be delivered
much cheaper than any othjr fuel.—
Montreal Witness,
Robert A. Pedrick admits he de
frauded his employer*, Binkard and
Hutton, importers of cloths and
silks, of New York, out of SIOO,OOO
and in addition, by means of forger
ies, swindled the custom-house au
thorities out of duties amounting to
$120,000,
How the London “Times” is Con
ducted,
Y correspondent of the Philadel
phia Times writes as follows from
London: Before I left Paris the
Times correspondent in the East, an
American by the by, gave me a
strong letter to the managing editor,
Mr. MacDonald. The day before I
left London J went to Printing
House Square—which is not a square
—and without difficulty found the
porter, who barred the ascent of the
stairs. I handed him my card and
the letter, and in a few minutes he
came down with a polite invitation
to walk up. I was bowed into a
pleasant room, where sat a canny
looking Scotchman, who received me
with great civility. After exchang
ing a few words he remarked : “You
would like to look through the of
fice?’’ and I answered: “Yes.” He
then said: “Come right along,” and
he left his business and conducted
me in person, instead of turning me
over to a subordinate, as is too often
the case. It is an immense estab
lishment—without its equal as a
newspaper office. I cannot pretend
to givo in detail the different parts I
was shown, but can only mention its
leading features. It employs over
tbre hundred material men, as they
are called, which includes com
positors, pressmen and all others
who labor in any way with the
hands.
There are a large dining-room and
restaurant in the building, where all
the men get their meals who wish at
cost, except a trifle above, which
goes into a Bick fund for the benefit
of the employes- In the basement is
a large machine shop, where I saw
at least twenty hands at work and
where a large number of the Waiter
printing machines have been built,
besides those employed in the office.
In the press room are eight of these
machines in daily use, each one
printing twelve thousand five hun
dred newspapers in an hour, in al!
one hundred thousand in every sixty
minutes they are in motion. In the
paper room was a considerable store
of paper in reals, weighing eight
hundred pounds each, and forty of
these reels are used in every issue of
the Times. They go to press about one
a, m., and get off before three, and I
was told by Mr. MacDonald that
#ithin iw’enty minutes after the last
form is locked np the matter has
been stereotyped and six presses are
running. I was shown into a room
where are the wires connecting with
all parts of the continent, and within
arm’s reach stand-, a type-setting ma
chine, managed by two boys, to
whom the telegraph slips are passed.
They can set up and correct in an
evening as much aa six columns of
matter, which is sent down through
a pneumatic tube, by which channel
all the matter reaches the stone. In
are two set© of wins
jfeiiament, from which
IVi u7~pa ° received wjpjf^he
l|9f in session, a
room connected with the machine
shop are two type-making machines,
which are kept constantly at work
and Mr. MacD. told me he had
found it cheaper to make type than
to distribute it. The business room
is on the first floor, and then there is
an “inquiry room,” where informa
tion is furnished to those outside
who have the right to ask it; several
rooms that are devoted to the adver
tising department, and others for
the staff, which is large. The es
tablishment is complete in all its
parts, and the employes find beneath
the Times roof every necessary com
fort and convenience to be had iu a
good hotel. The new building is not
[Bite completed. I found, as fcjcotch-
Hffi ’i say, that Mr. McDonald's
head is screwed on the right way,
and in manners he is warm and ge
nial.
Ess and Esses,
have finished your studies
at HE seminary ? I was much
with the closing exercises.
of that poem—Miss
you called her —bids
known as a poet.’’
the authoress will be-
as a poetess,’’ re
iflHHELe young lady pertly with
words of
gentle
over
h c 11
a 4
quite a
irrita
ted^^HH^
-“Tllrseminary,” continued the old
gentleman, with imperturbable gravi
ty; “is fortunate in having an effi
cient bdard of manageresses. From
the Presidentess down to the hum
blest teacheress unusual talent i3
shown. There is Miss Harper who
aR a chemistress, is unequaled, and
Mrs. Knowles has already a reputa
tion as an astronomeress. And in
the department of music, few can
equal Miss Kellog as a singeress.”
The young lady did not aopear to
like the chair she was sitting on.
She took the sofa at the other end of
the room.
“Yes,” continued the old gentle
man as if talking to himself, “those
White sisters are very talented. Ma
ry, I understand, has turned her at
tention to printing and the drama,
and will surely become famous as an
actress and painteress and even as a
lecturess—
A loud slamming of the door caused
the old gentleman to look up, and
the criticess and grammarianess was
gone !
State debts are being gradually
reduced and wiped out. Colorado,
Delaware, Kentucky, West Virginia
and Wisconsin have nono at all
while those of California, Illinois,
lowa, Kansas, Michigan, Nebraska,
Nevada, New Jersey, Oregon and
Vermont are merely nominal. Mas
sachusetts has the largest, $33,200,-
000, at the beginning of this year.
New York has paid off all but her
canal debt of $9,000,000.
A London Five Points.
The Pollards proper, says Social
Notes, are a cluster of courts lying
in the immediate neighborhood of
the Waterloo road. A wretched and
not very reputable thoroughfare
called Oakley street bounds them to
the one h&nd, a still dingier and more
disreputable thoroughfare called
Tower street to the other. Vice aud
misery have impressed their charac
teristics pretty legibly everywhere
throughout this district, but in the
rookery known to local iufamy as the
Pollards civilization would seem to
have reached its lowest. The more
respectable portion of the dwellers
there are drunken costermonger©.
After these come sharpers, loose wo
men and a variety of individuals
whose pursuits are difficult to arrive
at, but in all probability range from
pocket-picking to a little occasional
burglary. Last, and worst of all,are
the ruffians who live on the shameful
earnings of the females alluded to.
London has no inhabitants more de
testable. In the Pollards such hu
man vampires are frequent, and their
presence, above ali, renders this
rookery after nightfall dangerous to
penetrate. A pick-pocket or a card
sharper may have gleams of some
thing resembling virtue, but one of
these wretches never. They are des
pised and disliked even by men whom
all other classes of ths community
hate and desire.
The shadow of night once cast
upon the place, the condition of the
Pollards becomes hideous. Till daj
light returns the inhabitants are de
livered from all fear of their enemy,
the law, and they make use of such
license to hold a carnival of drunken
ness and violence. Daring robberies
are frequently committed in the ad
joining streets, and the thief, escap
ing with his booty into these courts,
feels himself secure. Policeman ask
ed to follow him there at once refuse.
To attempt capturing any such eul
prit would be as dangerous as use
less The various courts and houses
are united by a perfect net-work of
passages, and the tenants support
each other through the instinct of a
common lawlessness. Altogether,
public order seems to regard the dis
order of the Pollards as a thing with
which it has no concern. The screams
and riot issuing from this Inferno
may be never so loud, policemen pass
ing through the adjoining streets
walk forward and are deaf. Drunk
en men have been decoyed here at
late night and sent forth strpped of
money and clothing, or, if trouble
some, have sometimes been thrown
from windows; but the law takes lit
tle notice, and contents itself with
conveying such unfortunates to the
police-station or the hospital. And
so this world of drunkenness, crimin
ality and sanitary neglect wags on,
and its^condition continues a dis
grace To’ 'Lon'clou
The gathered into no
schools; and, Leer days spent
gutter, may occasionally be seen, as
the writer has seen them, sleeping
bare-headed aDd bare-footed in the
doorways of neighboring streets,
whither they have fled from the
sights and sounds of that which it
would be a mockery to call their
home. The Catholic institutions of
the neighborhood from time to time
send visitors into these courts—in
truders whose presence is tolerated
because of the money and food they
bring; and some High Churchmen
have of late joined in the work.
Their efforts are like drops of rain
falling ia the ocean, and are lost, as
that black speck, the Pollards, is it
self lost in our London sea.
Gloomy Figures for John Bull.
Iu the list of exports from Great
Britain to this country the great ma
jority of the items show a falling oft
this year compared with last. Out
of thirty seven classes of articles,
raw and manufactured, only seven
have increased and most of these
slightly, while of the remaining thir
ty that decreased, several show a
heavy reduction. Thus we have
bought from that country, of cotton
goods fourteen million yards fewer;
of jute goods, five million yards; of
silk broadstuffs, twenty-five million
yards, and of worsted staff?, five
million yards. In hardware and
cutlery the failing off iu value is sev
enty thousand dollars and in earthen
and china ware a quarter of a mill
ion dollars. —Philadelphia Times.
Iu San Augustine Cos., Texas,
when a gentleman desires to escort
a lady to church, he writes her as
follows:
“Compliments of Mr. to Miss
pleasure of escorting your corporeal
system across the alluvial landscape
that liea between your father’s hos
pitable domicil and the sanctuary of
God, there to hear the expounding
of the Scriptures.’’
“The maiden replies: “I will with
pleasure allow you the exquisite be
atitude of escorting my corporeal
system over t.he space of ground in
tervening between my parental domi
cil and the edifice of divine worship
when the diurnal orb of day shall
have sought his last restiagqfface
behind the occidental bills.’’
By a vote of 37 to 15, the Presby
terian Synod at Atlanta last Friday
sustained Deacon Block’s appeal and
restored him to church membership.
Dr. Leftwich gave notice that he
would prosecute the matter in the
form of an appeal or a complaint.
This will be determined at th? gen
eral assembly of tbe Southern Pres
byterian church, which will meet in
Louisville, Ivy ,on the third Thurs
day of next May. Ia the meantime
Mr. Black is suspended from the
privileges of church membership.
The Synod adjourned to meet at
Gainesville on the Wednesday be
fore the fourth Sabbath in October
1879.
The local elections November Ist,
in England and Wales were mostly
contested on political rather than l(u
cal issues. The London News
that on the whole the balance
I changes favor the liberals.
News in General.
Tea deaths in Augusta last week.
The Memphis theatre opens next
week.
The State Fair at Macon was a
grand success.
The University of Virginia has
325 students.
Bumora of more failures are still
rife at Glasgow.
Sixty-seven deaths in Atlanta for
month of October.
Alabama State Grange Fair at
Mobile, December 3.
Gen. Joseph Wheeler was in Atlan
ta the first of this week.
One colored member in the legisla
ture, Rogers of Mclntosh.
Nashville contributed to the yellow
fever sufferers $20,026 90.
Peter Cooper is 88 vears old, and
ready to run for Pres dentin 1880.
The negroes of Rockingham conn
ty, N. C., are having tournaments.
The sugar houses of Louisiana are
all in full blast, and the yield a good
one.
Dean Stanley preacht dat Trinity
Church, New York, on All Saints
Day.
Professor Edison’s wife presented
him with a twelve-pound baby last
week.
The Baptist church at Van Wert,
Georgia, will be removed to Rock
mart.
The first Methodist society in
America was formed in New York in
1766.
Returning Board Hayes is still at
tending the innocent agricultural
fairs.
A Willißton, South Carolina,
planter has invented a “chufa gath
erer.”
The grand lodge of Masons of
North Carolina in Raleigh Decem
ber 3.
Harvard has accepted Yale’s chal
lenge to row an eight oared four
mile race.
Net earnings of Alabama peniten
tiary for the year ending September
30, $35,649 99.
About $20,000 a day is paid out in
Baltimore for shucking oysters from
October to March.
A large number of suicides and at
tempts are reported ia the Russian
army in Bulgaria.
Deaths from yellow fever occurred
this week in New Orleans, Vicksburg,
Memphis and Cairo.
Miss Mary Ann Buie, widely known
as the Friend” died in Ai
ken, S. C., October 29.
The McEjllopp and Sprague o©m
mei’oiai af Jucy of Now York stopped
business November 13.
“We must stand in a solid line un
til a great victory is achieved in
1880.” —Thomas A. Hendricks.
A four-acre orange grove in Or
ange county, Fla., has realized $4,-
200 for three successive years.
All bar rooms in Alabama are
closed for thirty-six hours before
the polls are opened for elections.
Moses Allen, colored, was hanged
last Friday at Gibson, Giascock
county, for the murder of Benjamin
Ivy.
Mr. Elbert S. Carman recommends
protecting trees from mice during
winter by means of lah tied on with
twine.
Ninety-one county judges in Texas
report an average atte? dance of six
ty-five per cent, of the scholastic
population.
Fountains have been ereoted in the
public squares of San Antonio, Tex
as, and the citizens have pure water
in their milk.
Mrs. Stonewall Jackson and her
daughter, Miss Julia, left Augusta
last Saturday morning for their home
in Charlotte.
The Planter’s Hotel, of Augusta
with all the furniture, etc., will be
sold at auction for cash, on Wednes
day, December 4.
Mr. Arshowe is a Chinese tea
dealer in Boston, who in the past
thirty years has made a fortune and
educated two daughters.
The Port Royal Railr ( oad bridge,
over the Savannah river, near Au
gusta has been repaired and trains
are now running as usual.
Four mouths imprisonment in the
work-house and SIOO fine, seems to
be the punishment for body-snatch
ing and grave robbing in Ohio.
Mrs. Augusta Evans Wilson, the
novelist, whose home is at Mobile,
has recently been visiting Mrs. Com
modore Vanderbilt in New York.
No business this week in any of
the departments at Washington in
consequence of the clean sweep made
for voters >n the Northern States.
Mr. Juriah H. Dugas, eldest sou of
Dr. L. A. Dugas, of Augusta, died
last Saturday. He was a member
of the Clinch Rifles during the war.
Twelve out of fourteen notorious
gambling houses in St. Louis closed
doors last week after having been
raided on by the police for a fort
night.
A drunken man recently jumped
into the Mississippi river from a
bridge sixty feet high, near St. PauL
Minnesota, and escaped
bruises.
The
tiou, corner
street, N 1 - /a.
week of
$2,717
An esiiangemeat between
tress, Clara Morris and .
F. C Harriott,is
contradicted aad AMll
your choice.
Thomas Wb i ! *
residing in h'o cSMBp',,.
miles north of Albany
one night last week j i •
going to bed
When an artist climbs
to get 5 nearer view of
buii-dog, he must take '
of his sketching the
ketching him.
The committee of the New
Chamber of Commerce have
in band $4,006.99 as a fund for tho
relief of the late Lieutenant Hiram J
H. Benner, U. S. A.
The Earl of Beaconsfield ia re- )
ported to be suffering from gout.
Lord Palmerston, who was a martyr
to it, lived to be eighty-one. Bea
consfield is seventy three.
Bishop Pierce, of Georgia, will
preside over tho Virginia annual
conference of the Methodist Episco
pal church, South, which meets in
Petersburg, November 13th.
T- a Piedmont Air-Line puts ou
double daily mail trains next Sun
day, leaving Atlanta at 615 a. m.,
and 315 p. m., and arriving in At
lanta at 12 m. and 10 30 p. m.
“These magnolias is improvin’,” as
a Gild Hill miner thoughtfully re
marked the other day, when a Chi
naman blew a hole through a white
loafer who had spit in his face.
Gen. Robert Toombs may have
done some foolish things in the
course of his long political life but he
is not likely to cap the climax by
supporting Gen. Grant in 1880.
The case of Dr. R. U. Palmer,
pending iu Russell county, Ala., has
been continued till next term. He
is indicted for the murder of Col. W.
L. Salisbury, of Columbus, Ga.
Secretary Sherman and Senator
Blaine wound up the Pennsylvania
campaign, one at Harrisburg and
the other at Philadelphia, with vig
orous vvavings of the bloody shirt.
There cometh to this office no
more interesting weekly newspaper
than The Old Capitol and we Hatter
ourselves enough to say, that we
know a good paper when we see
it.
Mr. Gladstone still keeps up hia
war upon Beaconefield and his par
ty, He defends the motives of the
Ameer of Afghanistan aad declares
that Great Britain is really the ag
gressor.
A company has lately been formed
to explore the northern coast of Ow
en Stanley Peninsula, New Guinea,
with special reference to the gold de
posits said to have been recently dis
covered there.
The Old Capitol last week wanted
to bet on the Independent candidate
in the ninth district and then hedge.
It is now ready to elip off the fence
ami bet its money all on one side
like a little man.
At a recent election for Justice of
the Peace in Rome, Floyd county,
the Felton can idate had a majority
..of* two votes overfonr Lester Deoio
crata. in 1876 Felton’a majority
over Dabn *y in the Rome district .
was 407.
The congregation of St. Philip’s
Episcopai church Atlanta have de
termined to build anew church to
cost about $25,000. They have al
ready raised about $4,000 and pro
pose to raise the rest during the
next year.
Mr. George E. Ratcliff e, formerly
of Augusta, died in Los Angelos, Cal
ifornia, October Btb. He was one of
the priucipa s in the Tilly-Ratcliffe
duel, at S ind Bar ferry, in Decem
ber, 1875, which resulted in the death
of Mr. Tilly.
NO. 44
Ex Governor Brown is a member
of the adult Suuday school of the
Second Baptist church of Atlanta.
“Hell” was the subject a few Sundays
ago and the Governor having inyesti
ted the matter thoroughly, was able
to pass judgme/if upon it.
The quarantine has been raised in
all the yellow fever districts, and it is
considered safe for all persons to re
turn home except to New Orioaua.
The president of the board of health
of that city advises refugees to re
main away a short time longer.
The convention of stone cutters of
the United States and Canada, held
in New York last week, adopted
resolutions denouncing the contract
of convict labor and requesting all
workingmen to unite and defeat the
persons favoiing convict labor.
The colors borne by the Ogle
thorpe Infantiy, of Augusta, in the
memofial procession last week, was
the battle flag of the Stephens Light
Infantry, Eighth Georgia Regiment
at the first battle of Manassas and
Gen. Bartow was shot down with this
flag in his hand.
Tbe New Orleans Times said lately
that the yellow fever there originated
from 4,000 loads of kitchen garbage
—which had been hauled to the
dumping grounds by the city carts
and then brought back again by
contractors and used to fill up streets
in the front of the city.
The military board of the State of
Georgia, to revise the laW3 governing
the volunteer companies of the Stat ?
and make ether changes in the gov
ernment of the military, met at the
Kimball House, Atlanta last Tues
day. Colonel Clifford W. Anderson
of Savannah is the president of the
board.
The jury iu the case of Jeremiah
Kennedy, on trial in Chicago, for the
murder of his wife last August,
found him guilty and fixed the pun
ishment at death by hanging, but
they also found that since the mur
der he has
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