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Kon.Geiuge O. iUcc, Judgeß. C.Welfcorn Circuit.
A. L. Mitcneii/Bohe: .or, Athens, Ga. .
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COUNTY OFFICERS.
-I. B. M.. Vt inburn, Ordinary; John L. Gaines,
(abend; J. 1. Imckoti, Deputy Sheriff; J. J. Mayiw’
Clerk Hnperfcj flour.; W S. Pickrell, Deputy Cler.'
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CHOIR ill DIRECTORY.
PBMBTOttUAtt onuaeff -Rev. T. I>. Cleveland,
Pastor. Preaching every Sabbath —morning and
night, except the second Sabbath, bu day School,
at 9 a. m. l-rayer mooting Wednesday evening at 4
o’clock.
MktiumhstCHtmdnfffeev. W. \V. Wadsworth, Pas
tor. Preaching every Sunday morning and night.
Sunday School at i* a. m. Prayer meeting Wednes
day night.
Baptist Chobcu Rev. W. C. Wilkes, Pastor.
Preaching Sumlay morning and night. Sunday
School at;) a. 11l Prayer njc< ting Thursday evoning
at 4 o’clock.
GAINESVILLE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.
B. Estes, President; Wm.W. Habersham, Libra
rian.
YOUNG MEN’S 05UU3TIAN ASSOCIATION.
A. M. Jackson, President; It. C. Maddox, Vico
President; W. B. Clements, Secretary.
Regular services every Sabbath evening at one
•f the Churches. Cottage prayer mooting i every
Tuesday night in “Old Town,” and Friday night
near the depot
FRATERNAL RECORD.
Floweky Branch Lodok No. 79, I. O. O. TANARUS.,
moots every Monday night, Join Lasktkb, N. G.
is. F. Studham, Sec.
Alleuhanv Rofai.AP.cn Cuaptea meets on tlie
Secaiut and Fourth Tuesday evenings in each
menth.
)i. S. BhaDDKV, Soc’y. A. W. CiLmVELT,. H. P.
•AINESVH.I.B L0B(?1K, No. Slid Ad. F.*. 11.*.,
■mots sn the First a ml Third Tuesday evening in
the uientb
R. Palmoob, Sec’y. R. E Queen, W. M.
Aif.-i.iNK Lo dos, No. 64 ,J. O. O. ,F., meets
every Friday evening.
O. A. Linux, Sec. W. I. Habbieon, N. G.
GAINLSYILLE POST OFFICE.
Owing to recent change of scliodulo on the Atlan
ta and Charlotte Air Lino Railroad, tho following
will be the schedule from da to:
Mad train No. 1,-going cast, leaves 7:47 p. m.
Mail for this train closes ar 7:0(1 “
Mail train No. 2, going east, leaves... .8:35 a. m.
No mail by this train.
Mall train No. 1* going wost, 1eave5....6:51 a. m.
Mail for til's train closes at 9:30 p. m.
Mail train Ns. *2, g, log west, 10.vc5... .9:05 p. m.
Mail for this train closes at 7.30 “
Office hoars from 7 a. m. to 5:30 p m.
General delivery opou oft Sundays from BVf to9>i.
Departure of mails from this office:
Dahlouega and Gilmer county-, daily Blf ?. m
Dahlouega \la '.Yahoo and El.b-1. Saturday,.. 8 „a, m
Jefferson A Jackson county, Tuesday, Thurs
day and Saturday 7 a. m
Cleveland, White, Union, Towns and Haycs
ville, N. 0., Tuesdays and Fridays 7 m
Dawsonvillo and Dawson county,, Tuesday
and Saturday i.,.,8 a. m.
Homer, Banks county, Saturday ~ ..1 p. m
Pleasant Grove, Forsyth county, Saturday. .1 p.m
M. R. ARCHER, P.M.
Q'TZr 7 '?'?** ... ......
At! anta aud Charlotte
A* ii- £. SN K,
Trains will run as follows on and after
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1878.
N IGHT MA.I Xu r .E'i* AI .V.
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GOING WEST.
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Leave Gainesville 8:15 p. m
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Through Freight Train.
(Daily except Sunday.)
GOING EAST.
Leave Atlanta 9:25 a. in. ‘
Arrive Gainesville 1:28 p. to.'
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Leave Central 1:40,-,. ra
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Train,
(Daily except Sunday.)
GOING EAST.
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Arrive Gainesville 10:42 a. m.
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West, and at Charlotte for all points East.
G. J. Foueacke, General Muiager
W. J. Houston, Gen. P. & T. A’gt.
Northeastern II ail road of Georgia,
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Taking eflect Monday, June 10, 1878. All
trains run daily except Sunday.
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Nicb.tem ??!•”?
Harmony Grove, 7 f 8 0
Gillsville 8 ' io 850
Lula ;••• 15
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STATIONS. AIUiIVE. LEAVE.
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Mavsville .°
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The Gainesville Eagle
3
VOL. XII
An Axiom of Toombs.
General Robert Toombe is a great
man, great in his ideas, bir- knowl
edge and speech. He knows a sham
when ho sees it and is apt to lot oth
ere know it. He addressed the as
sembled wisdom known as the ge-n.r
al assembly the other day and he
throw them among other things a
solid chunk u the fi.ua oca. “There
never was a government on the face
of the earth that coma make money’'
said tho distinguished gentleman,
“there never war, a government on
earth that- could make a fig-leaf to
cover ilio nakedness of cur mother
Evo. They could draw money from
the treasury and appropriate it to
their own use, but .hay can’t make a
dollar of money."
Nothing cau be plainer than this
and the quicker it.,is universally ac
knowledged, tiie Hett-er win it b for
the finances of this coun ry. Tho
United States cau neither rnak-s a
dollar in money or an oak treo grow
in the forest. They can stamp gold
and silver so that people may know
tho intrinsic value ol tk dollars
coined but they cau do no more.
They can make any words, signs or
figures they choose upon paper but
that paper is only a form of credit and
good only so far as it is supposed to
lie redeemable. How mueh of it can
safely be ilostsd is a question of
practical experience but every dollar
of it should be redeemable in gold
and silver. Every other doctrine
looking to an issue of irredeemable
paper money to be kept in circulation
by law is more of a fraud, if the
thing can be possible than the ad
ministration of Returning Board
Hayes.
A Good Bill.
A bill has been introduced into the
general assembly which certainly
ought to become a law. It provides
,hat every voter at al! elections shall
cast his ballot in the militia or elec
tion district in which he and
at no other place
la old times before the reconstruc
tion deviltries were practiced .upon
us, when it made no particular dif
ference where a man voted eo long
as ne exercised the r ghfc for tho same
office or measure lie could at home,
and when there was little if ®nv at
tempt at illegal voting the then exist
ing cou&kiiation and laws yoro ad
sufficient; but now with a vast lum
ber of negroes entitled to suffrage,
who know little of and care nothing
for illegal voting or its consequences,
there is great uee ssity for a change.
K <’ gniziug this, our present con
stitution lot bids a citizen of Georgia
bring an eket-or for any purpose un
til ho has resided six months in a
county. Let. the u moral assembly
carry ou. this idea still farther and
compel ev' r man to veto in his own
district and if possible fix it so that
not moreH-a.* ;hroe hundred voters
shall have ;l- rqdd to vote at one
prccicc-. lo b 1 veur. every voter
will bo personals.? i-. -w: to some
one of the manage: sof the election
or the active cauv&SM-rs on either
side. Oor.scqasntly there caa be no
' iionizii irul h< votes
illegally wfi-t-t u. bm g caught, will
have to be old in the business and
experience ’ in the art.
Some of Lie Stiff o papers are find
ing fault, with ihe new law requiring
notices i f .; rivate and special bills to
b-- viublihli'd i: tbs of -g ;■ is filing
the legal adverti:ff. a They should
not allow their feelings to car. 7 away
t’neir judgment. 7'T. ; revision was
inserted in the preen.t constitution
so that localities to bo affected by
private bills sbi uld not have a decree
taken agT.ius.t th* m by dtifiult In
other words that no private bill
should be passed without an oppor
tunity was filler U ! to those opposed
to appear be fori, the legislature and
present their objections. But it
was necessary that people should
know precisely in what newspapers
to look for such notices. Uis obvi
ous to us that the natural plco far
the insertion of any such noticss af
i< ding any county, is the newspaper
to which tho public look for all legal
advertisements in that conntv.
Springer of Illinois wants to drop
Connecticut,New Yrk and Now J*. r
sey, arid roly for success in 18S0 upon
the South, Ohio, Indiana,lllinois, and
Oregon, casting 191) electoral votes.
Auybody familiar with federal poli
tics will readily see the absurdity oi
any such plan. I? it is the best the
democratic party can off er the con
test of ISBO is already decided.
The Ohio idea, you count green
backers and democrats together, may
oe a most br’liii
save Oaio i loci u CJiiimcticnt,
New York and Nt-w Jen y quicker
than a cat can wink h r eye.
Samuel 2 Tildeu id .hn Kelly
should his. and be friends. Nobody
has made r>vtbing cut cf the fight
but Roscoe C likb'-g
Hill, t!i Hon 1) n has col -.- nded
not to ' his morgxg-; ou
Roscoe Coukling’s sea' in the Sen
ate. Hill may nut :<rve as long as
Mr. Cos: kliug.
G UNESTILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 22, 1878.
Doubling Cape Horn
About midnight, when the star
board watch to which I belonged
waa below, !ho boatswain’s whistle
was hor rd, followed by tbo shrill cry,
for “All hands take in sail? Jump,
men, end savo ship ?”
Springing from our hammocks, we
found the frigate leaning over so
steeply that it was with difficulty we
could climb the ladders leading to
the upper deck. Here the scene was
awful. The main deck guns had sev
eral days previously been run in and
housed, and the port holes closed;
but the Ice carronades on the quar
ter-deck aud forecastle plunged
through the sea, which undulated
over them in milk-white billows of
foam. With every lurch to leeward
the yard-arm ends seemed to dip in
the sop, while forward the spray
dashed over the bows in cataracts
and drenched the mom who were on
the foreyard.
By this time the deck was alive
with tffhVbole- rrongth of the ship’s
company, 500 me?\ officers and ail,
mostly clinging to the weather bul
wr>.rks. The occasional phosphores
cence of the yeasty sea cast a glare
upon their uplifted faces, as a night
fire in a populous city lights up the
panic-stricken crowd,
In a sudden gale, or when a large
quantity of sail is suddenly to be
furled, it is customary for the First
Lieutenant to take the trumpet from
whoever then hap;, us to bo officer
of the deck. But Mad Jack, the
Second Lieutenant, had the trumpet
that watch, nor did tho Firs! Lieu
tenant now seek to wrest it from his
hands. Every eye was upon him, as
if we had chosen him from among us
all to decide this battle with the ele
ments by single combat with the
Spirit of the Cape—for Mad Jack
was tho saving genius of the ship,
and so proved himself that night. I
owe this right hand that is this mo
ment flying over my sheet, and all
my present being, to Mad Jack.
The ship’s bows were now butting,
battering, ramming and thundering
over and upon the head seas, and
with a terrible wallowing sound our
whole hull was rolling in the trough
of the foam. The gale came athwart
the deck, and every one seemed
bursting with its wild breath. Al!
the quartermasters and several of the
forcasfcie men were swarming around
the double wheel on the quarter
deck, some jumping up and down
with their hands upon the spokes;
for the whole helm and galvanized
keel were fiercely feverish with the
life imparted to them by the temp
0.
It, blew a hurricane. Tho spray
flew over the ship in floods. The gi
gantic masts seemed about to snap
under the world-wide strain of the
three entire topsails.
1 Clew down ! clew and; wrt!-” choated
Mad Jack, husky with excitement,
and in a frenzy beating his trumpet
against one of the shrouds; but ow
ing to the slant of the ship, the thing
could not be done. It was obvious
that before many minutes some
thing must go—either sails, rigging
or sticks; perhaps the hull itself, and
all hands.
Presently a. voice from the top ex
claimed that there was a rent in the
main topsail, and instantly we heard
a report like two or three muskets
discharged together; the vast sail
was rent tip and down. This saved
the mainmast, for the yard was now
clewed down with comparative ease,
and the topmen laid out to stow the
shattered canvas. Soon the two re
maining topsails were also clewed
down aud c’o :e-reefed.
Above all the roar of the tempest
and the shouts of the crew was heard
the dismal lolling of the ship’s bel!
(almost as large as that of a village
church.) which the violent rolling of
the ship was occasioning. Imagina
tion can not conceive the terror of
such a sound in the night tempest at
sea.
“Stop that ghost l” roared Mad
Jack; “away, one of you. and wrench
off the clapper.”
But no sooner was this ghost
gagged than a still more appalling
sound was heard—the rolling too
and fro of the heavy allot, which on
the gun-deck had broken loose from
the gun-racks, and converted that
part of the ship into an immense
bow in g alley. Some hands were
sect down to secure them, but it was
as much as their lives wre worth.
Sevi.r-.il were maimed, aud the. mid
shipmen who were ordered to see
the duty performed reported it im
possible until the storm abated.
The most terrific job of all was to
furl the mainsail, which at the com
mencement of the squalls had been
clew hi up, coaxed aud quieted as
much as possible with the bunt-lines
aud slab lines. Mad Jack waited
some time for a lull ore ho gave an
order so perilous to bo executed; for
to far* this enormous sail in such a
gale required at least fifty men on
the yard, whose weight, superadued
to the weight of the ponderous stick
itself, etili further jeopardized their
lives But there was uc- prospect of
a cessation of the gale, and the order
was at last given.
At this time a hurricane of slant
ing sleet and hail was descending
upon us; the rigging was coated with
a thin glare of ice, formed within the
hour.
“Aloft, main-yard men, and ail you
maintop, an 1 furl the mainsail!’
cried Mad Jack.
I das bed down my hat, slipped out
of my quilted jacket in an instant,
kicked the shoes from my feet, and,
v, itbac.’owd of others, sprang for
ike jigging. Above the bulwarks
(which m a frigate are so high as to
afford much protection to those on
deck) the gate was terrib’e. The
sheer force of the wind flattened us
to tl rigging as wo • ascended, and
('very hand seemed congealed to the
icy" shroud by which we held.
“Up, up, my brave hearties!'*
shouted Mad Jack; aud up we got,
some way or other, ail of us, aud
groped our way out on the yard
arms
•‘Hold on, every mother’s son ! ’
cried an old quarter gunner at my
tide; he was bawiing at the top of
his compass; but, in thi gale, h-*
seemed to be whispering, aud I only
heard him from his being right to
windward of me. But his hint was
unnecessary. I dug my nails into
the jack-stays, and swore that noth
ing but death should part me aud
them, until I was able to turn around
and look to wiudward. As yet this
was impossible; I could scarcely hear
the man to Howard at our elbow; the
wmd seemed to snatch the words,
from bis mouth and fly away with
them to the South Pole.
All this time the sail itself was fly
ing about, sometimes catching over
our head, and threatening to tear us
from the yard in spite of all our hug
ging. For about three-quarters of
an hour we thus hung, suspended
over the rampant billows, which
curled their very crests under the
feet of some four or five of us cling
ing to the lee yard-arm, as if to float
us from our place. Presently the
word passed along the yard frouq
windward t iat we were ordered to
come dcTwn And leave the saifto
blow since it could not be furled. A
midshipman, it seemed, had been
seat up by an officer of the deck to
give the order, as no trumpet could
bs heard where we were. Those on
tho weather yard-arm managed to
crawl upon the spar and scramble
down tho ripgiDg; but with us, on
the extreme leeward side, this feat
was out of the question; it was, lit
erally, like * climbing a precpice to
get to the windward, in order to
reach the shrouds; besides, the en
tire yard was now incased in ice, and
our hands and feet were eo numb
that we dared not trust our lives to
them. Nevertheless, by assisting
each other, we contrived to throw
ourselves prostrate along the yard,
and embrace it with our arms and
legs. In this position, the stun’ sail
booms greatly assisted in securing
our hold.
Strange as it may appear, Ido
not suppose that, at this moment, the
slightest sensation of fear was felt by
one man on that yard. We c ung to
it with might and main; but this
was instinct. The truth is, that in
ciicumstances like these, the sense of
fear is annihilated in the unutterable
sights that li!l all the eye, and the
sounds that fill the ear. You be
come identified with the tempest;
your insignificance is lost in the riot
of the stormy universe around. Be
low us our noble frigate seemed thrice
its real length—a vast black wedge,
opposing its widest end to the com
bined fury of the sea and wind.
At length the first fury of the gale
began to abate, aud we at once fell
to pounding our hands, as a prelimi
nary operation to going to work, for
a gang cf men had now ascended to
help secure what was left of the sail.
We somehow packed it away at last,
and came down.
About noon the next day the gala
so moderated that we shook two
reefs out of the topsai’s, set new
courses and stood due east, with the
wind astern.
Natural History.
“Is this a pig ?”
“Yes, this is a pig.”
“What is a hog ?”
“A hog spits all over the floor of a
street car; he also wants the ptarnp
clerk at the post-office to wait on him
first. That’s the way you can tell a
hog from a pig.”
“Does a pig root with his feet ?”
“No—he roots with his nose A
pig’s nose is called a snout. A cheer
fui-minded pig will turn over more
ground in search of one small potato
than the average boy, would dig up
in hunting for a gold watch.”
“What gait does the pig take ?”
“He likes an open gate the best.’
“More so about some things. A
dog most always jumps over a fence,
straining his muscles and running
the risk o? breaking his back, while
a pig dives under it and runs no risk.
A pig can tell a hill of potatoes from
a hill of cucumbers, but a dog can’t.
You lead a dog, but the pig will lead
you ’’
“Can a pig see iu the night ?”
“He can see by night as well as by
day. In driving one out of the gar
den he won’t appear to see the hole
he camß in at, but he does see it all
the time.”
“Why is it- that two pigs eating at
a trough six feet long, w ill still crowd
each other?”
“We will answer that when you
explain why it is that every one in
the crowd around a fallen horse
wants to boss the job of getting the
animal up.”
“Do pigs have eyebrows?”
“Yes, until old enough to root;
then they wear ’em off against fence
rails.”
“Are there pigs of lead ?’’
“Yes; bu* you can’t find any one
who ever led a pig ”
“What food do pigs prefer?”
“Well, quail on toast is their first
choice, but when they can’t get it
they wi ; l take up with grass, frozen
potatoes, moldy corn or apple-cores.
He never goes hungry because tk.
hired girl happens to grind the pep
per with the coffee.”
“The cackling of geese, you said
once, saved Roma. Did the grunt
ing of pigs ever save any thing ?”
‘ Not that we know of, but a pig’s
h els have often sav and his bacon.”
“Do pigs ever attack children ? ’
“Once in a great while. If a pig
had gone into politics and got beaten,
and other pigs were shoving him
around aud calling him an idiot and
so forth, he might be tempted to b:te
a small boy who was sticking ker
nels of corn oa a cist-irou cob to
deceive him and break off his teitk.”
“Can pigs climb ?”
“Yes. Let four or five dogs get
after one sma‘l pig and he’ll climb
for all he’s worth. He may not go
up a tree, but it will be because he
hasn’t time to stop.”— Detroit Free
Press.
Ac the late term of the State Cir
cuit court at Columbia, S. C , ex-Gov.
Daniel H. Chamberlain, Hiram H.
Kimpston, Charles P. Leslie, Nihs
G. Parker and J. L. Neagle were in
dicted for conspiracy to defraud the
State.
Germany and the Vatican.
A good deal of light is thrown by
a recent publication on the nego
tiations which for some months have
been periling between Bismarck
aud the Vatican. A letter written
in August by the Pope to his Sec
retary of State was giveu to the
worli in October, and this document,
with the statements which it has
drawn from the other side, will as
sist us to discern the attitude of the
two powers and to gauge the proba
bility of a final compromiso.
Soon after the accession of Leo
XIII signs were not wanting that
the policy of the Vat’can would un
dergo a chauge. The first authentic
utterance of the naw Pontiff, deliv
ered in Consistory, was noteworthy,
as we pc iuted out at the time, not only
for its p sitive averments, tut for
its discreet reticence. It was evi
dent that the" new Pope would not
be an instrument in tho hands of
Cardinal Secretaries, but that his
pwn will would dictate the manage
ment of affairs. Especially the con
duct of the difficult relations with
Germany and Italy was apparently
reserved to his individual judgment.
In a word, the new Pope had a for
eign policy, and we are now able to
determine with tolerable precision
wbat that policy is. Nor have wo
any need to insist on the importance
not only to the Roman Church, but
to all nations which include Catholic
elements iu their populations, of
le rning the temper, spirit, and pur
poses which animate and control the
Pontiff’s mind.
From the tone of the first speech
pronounced in Consistory, we in
ferred that the new Pope would pres
ently evince a willingness to come to
terms with Germany. Until pacific
relations were brought about between
the Catholic subjects of the Kaiser
and the civil law, it was vain to hope
for the moral and diplomatic support
of the German empire in the vital
disputes which might at any time
arise between the Vatican and Italy.
The more resolute and implacable
might be the attitude which the
Pontiff should hold himself con
strained to take in the affairs of the
Peninsula, the more necessary was
it to waive impracticable conditions,
#,nd favor conciliatory movements
in dealing with a Protestant sover
eign beyond tbe Alps. In a word,
there would seem to be as much wis
dom as Z9al in the present policy of
the Vatican. Tbe Pope declines to
challenge tbe whole world at once,
and means, by dieting to conclude
an armistice with Germany, to have
bis hands free to pursue the most
vigorous anti-Italian tactics.
Oa the other hand, in the present
political condition of the empire,
there are reasons why Bismarck
should yield something in orde r
iq compass an understanding with
the Papacy. In the Reichstag, Herr
Windhorst controls about a hundred
members, and when we consider the
recent drift of the Chancellor’s Gov
ernment toward centralization and
repression, there can be no doubt
that the Ultramontanists are his nafc
ural allies. Could he have gained
their cordial support in the recant
debate upon the Socialist bill, that
measure would not have lost so many
of its arbitrary feature?, or have
been subjected to the troublesome
restrictions imposed by Liberal coad
jutors. How then did it happen,
with such a favorable state of things
on both sides, that the negotiations
begun between Bismarck and Mon
signor Masella at Kiesingen have so
far had no tangible result? It now
appears that Bismarck was disposed
to make substantial concessions and
to materially modify the ecclesiasti
cal laws. But this the Crown Prince
refused to do, unless the binding au
thority of the statutes was first overt
ly recognized by the priests. There
upon the Pope indited the letter to
Cardinal Nma, first published some
weeks ago, in which the German em
pire is referred to in the most suave
and respectful tono, Instead of pre
dicting like his predecessor the
speedy ruin of that State, the new
Pope offers to confirm the loyally of
its Catholic subjects, and blandly
hopes for the removal of existing
difficulties. It is Eaid that a copy
of this letter was sent ia August to
Berlin, but the Crown Prince per
sisted in rejecting ail propositions
while the law of the land was ig
nored by the Catholic clergy. There
was some reason to believ* that the
missive had never met the eye of the
Emperor and Empress; at all events,
the recent publication of it has called
forth from tho Kaiser a prompt and
very friendly reply. Prince Bis
marck has been instructed to assure
his holiness of the earnest desire of
the German court to come to terms.
The sole condition now prescribed is
that nominees for livings shall be
merely proposed to the secular au
horities as a mark of submission to
the law, it being understood and
agreed lhat induction into office
shall follow as a matter of cour-ie.
It is hard to seo how the concessions
of a self-respecting government could
go any further, and there have been
many times in the history of the
Papacy when Catheiic sovereigns,
shielding themselves behind prag
matic sanctions, have granted a greit
deal less.
Whether a durable compromise
between the conflicting claims of the
Papacy aud the civil power iu Ger
many can be arranged on this basis
stili remains uncertain; but it is said
that Leo XIII. might consent to sub
scribe to the above-named formality
if the Cardinals could be persuaded
to approve. Possibly the new mem
bers of the college, to be created
during the present month, may be
open to argument upon the subject:
but their older colleagues, who were
mostly chosen by PioNono, are like
ly to show themselves intractable.—
New York Sun.
The Columbia Register says the
new legislature will send Governor
Hampton to the United States sen
ate, in place of John J. Patterson. If
so, Lieutenant-Governor William D.
Simpson will become Governor for
the next two years.
The Future Battle
Sharp contests are had and victo
ries won iu advance of the main bat
tle. Such victories are apt to inspire
a confidence in the victors that begets
carelessness, which leads to final
defeat. The habits of ’.he shrewd
operator in Wall street, who looks
under the surface excitement for the
true situation, are carried into the
editorials of the Tribune, where may
be found notes of warning to its
party leaders and followers not to
lot temporary success blind the judg
ment or relax untiring vigilance.
That journal is pleased to say: “An
illusion likely to do great harm is
one about the real strength shown by
the republicans in the late elect ods
The result does not prove that the
country is safe from the money tink
ers and financial luaatics. In fact, it
proves just the reverse. The repub
lican party was able to beat the demo
crats and graenbackers separated.
The next question it will have to face
is whether it cau beat them united.’’
The warning shows a correct ap
preciation of the political situation as
it actually is, and the position the
republicans occupy in regard to it.
A single reference will illustrate the
case very clearly. Michigan has in
the present coagress eight members,
every one of whom was elected by a
decided majority vote. She will have
in the next oongress nine members,
not one of whom was elected by a
majority, but by a minority, vote.
They were elected because those who
wanted currency reform acted sepa
rately and not together. Had they
acted iu unison not one republican
candidate for congress would have
been elected. There is hardly a
State in which an election has beeu
held tbi3 year, and in which the re
publican party was successful, that it
was not in an actual minority, and
was victorious only because those
who had a great common object in
view, instead of being united, sepa
rated, and ran two tickets instead of
one. The question of the future is,
Wiii the two parties who seDarated
this year be united in 1880? They
can not b3 defeated if united—sin
cerely, honesty united. The contest
of 1880 will, we have no question, be
one of the fiercest in the party history
of the country, and in which but two
parties will participate—the demo
cratic and republican. A third party
could oniy throw its votes away. To
which will the national greenbackers
incline, and finally attach themselves?
That is the important question.— Cin.
Enq.
Efficient Lightning Conductors
At the recent meeting of the Brit
ish Association, Ander
son, of the Society of Telegraphic
Engineers, read a paper on lightning
eOuduoL-Vo, which contained some
advice as to the prevention of casual
ties in thunder-storms. “First of
all,” he said, “it is desirable that
public accommondation should be
made by local and other authorities,
to place lightning conductors on all
exposed or high lying buildings,
whether public or private, as well as
those standing near the woods and
on moist ground. It might be well
worth the trifling expense to place
simple conductors also against trees
m parks, under which there are
benches, are where persons are likely
to gather . during a than - er-storm,
they forming a prolific source of fatal
accidents. Above all, no church,
chapel, school, prison, or other large
public, building, ought to be without
one or more lightning conductors.
But if it is necessary to multiply
greatly lightning conductors, it is
equally so that they should be
planned, erected, and also periodi
cally tested by competent persons,
with scientific as well as practical
knowledge of the work. The testing
should take place at regular inter
vais, perhaps b°bt in the spring, be
fore the advent of the summer thun
der-storms, and it should likewise bo
made whenever a building has been
undergoing repairs which may have
damaged the conductor. A well or
ganized system of inspection of light
ning conductors would be most inex
pensive. The galvanometer used for
the purpose has been latterly much
improved in Germany, and email
portable instruments, of the size of a
diminutive carpet-bag, are now made,
which leave nothing to be desired in
the shape both of effectiveness and
durability. Already such a system
of inspection and testing of conduc
tors exists in Paris and several other
French towns.”
God Bless th.B North!
God bless the North for sustaining
us iu our great trial! Her contribu
tions saved lives and our city. Now
it behooves us to prove our gratitude
by providing against a return of the
heart-breaking, life-destroying poison
aud provide againt taxing the benev
olence of our brethren. From the
feverish demand which suddenly
sprung up for calomel and castor-oil,
there was but one conclusion—that
many of our sitizem had been suffer
ing from constipation bince 1868.
Now, may not our city have been in
the same condition? It needs a dose
of something very strong and clean
sing, aud we submit that our citizens
can not commence too early the
preparation of the pn seriptiou. We
can better afford to bury politics than
good citizens. Memphis is elastic,
and has been blessed geographically
and climatically, and it looks like
paganism to not show ourselves
grateful by protection. There is a
remedy. What is it? Don't sit down,
but stand up and think. Scattering
lime, carbolic acid, wearing asafetida
amulets, buckling ou maguetic belts,
swallowing quinine, whisky toddies,
sugar-coated piils, castor-oil cocktails
and calomel punches, may do for a
small circle of mutual acquaintances,
but is a failure when applied to a
large population. Lock the stable
now while the horse is caged, be
cause this horse tramples the life out
of bodies, happiness out of homes,
and fearfully bruises the soul. Piace
Memphis in a safe condition. — Mem
phis Appeal.
News in General.
Mai dog shot in Macon last week
Congress meets next Monday week
Augusta wants the next State
Fair.
Louiee Pomeroy was in C arleston
last week.
Richmond county has a poultry
association.
They have aa eleven pouud potato
in Augusta. #
Is Hendricks a hard or .-oft money
man ? or which ?
Mr. Hayes says next Thursday
will be thanksgiving day.
Senator Thurman says he has en
tirely recovered his health.
Georgia is said to 1 ave furnished
the best yellow fever nurses.
A commercial convention will meet
in New Orleans December 3.
Returning, Board Hayes is about
deciding to join the stalwarts.
Memphis has entirely resumed
business in all its departments.
Only ten candidates for the sol cit
orship of the Oemulgee circuit.
The Georgia railroad will soon
build a grain elevator m Augusta.
It is said Russia has ordered the
construction of several new ironclads.
Pearson’s mill in Tatuall county
was burned last week. Loss $3,000.
Memphis wants an elevator for
the prompt handling of river freights.
Nat Hammond’s native county,
Monroe, gave him a majority of 882.
The colored people’s fair at La
Grange last week was highly success
ful.
Judge Erskine has goDe to Savan
nah to hold the United States circuit
court.
Our Superior court circuits are
hereafter to be numbered, not
named.
Only three feet of water in tho
channel of the Ocmulgee ri/er at
Macon.
The First Baptist Church of Au
gusta is having a most interesting
revival.
Only one county in South Carolina,
Beaufort, went republican at the last
election.
Col. Forney’s new paper, The Prog
ress, appeared in Philadelp ia No
vember 14.
Henry Wattersoo thinks Captain
Jenks, not Agnes, wrote that letter
to Ben Hill.
General Featherstone, of Missis
sippi. has entirely gotten over the
yellow fever.
Milton Saylor will not contest th*
election of Butterworth in the firs
Ohio district.
Rev. “Adirondack” Murray, by the
recent bursting of his gun, lost
three fingers.
The plans for Augusta’s new union
depot have been made. It will have
five tracks within it.
Col. R. A. Alston, member from
Dekalb, wants the Moffett liquor reg
ister tried in Georgia.
The American Pharmacentic.il as
sociation meets in Atlanta he las
Tuesday in this mouth.
Col. John W. R. Pope, associate
e iitor of Speights’ Spartanburg Daily
has retired from that paper.
An old ring printing suit in New
York city for $2,000,010 was com
promised the other day for S4O 000.
Fine bananas have been this year
raised in Liberty cq®ty, equal to
any imported from
Ben Butler doesn’t like the Massa
chusetts democrats who voted for
the republican, Talbot, for Governor.
Vessels ia Charleston were pre
vented from going to sea the latter
part of last week by a strong easterly
gale.
Tho greenbackers were going to
sweep Michigan clean. They did—
of the only democrat we had in con
gress.
Gov. Hampton’s broken leg is
somewhat better. Meanwhile Lieu
tenant-Governor Simpson, is acting
Governor.
W. M. Mitchell, treasurer of
SpaldiDg t ounty, has copyrighted a
system of keeping accounts for coun
ty officers.
Ben Butler siys he will show the
republican papers that he is the live
liest corpse at a funeral they have
ever heard of.
The Chicago Inter-Ocean, the most
malignant radical paper in the West,
vociferously applauds the election of
Felton and Speer.
The defeated candidates for city
offices in New Orleans hive served
notice of contest upon their success
ful democratic opponents.
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, con
gressman-elect from the Richmond
district, has declared himself unal
terably in favor of hard money.
Adolph Muller was scalded to
death last week by falling into a vat
of boiling cream of tartar, in Smith’s
Salaratus Works, in J'-rsey city.
The United States government wili
pay the amount of the Halifax fish
ing award, $5,500,000, to the Biitish
government, one week from to- dav
The Philadelphia Chronicle says:
“The circuses have all gone into win
ter quarters, but as congress will soon
be in session, they will not be
missed.”
George Johnston, the Atlanta bill
poster, was carried before the lie
corder’s court the other day, on th<
charge of posting obscene litera'un
-—the llmz show bills. Recordo
Milledg • want to see the bills, and
discharged Johnston.
The Marquis of Lorre-, Canada’s
new G vernor Genera', with his wife,
Queen Victoria’s daughter, and their
suites, sailed from L verpooi Novem
ber 14.
Senator Vorbees, in an interview,
states that one < f his first acts uj on
the reassembling of congress will he
a movement to make the trade dollar
legal tender.
Fires last week in Bradford, Pa.,
ind Atlantic City, N. J. L *saes be
tween SIOO,OOO and $200,000 by tho
former and between $40,000 and SSO
- by the latter.
Gen. C. C Augur has accepted the
trusteeship of the fund for the family
)f Lieutenant Banner, of the 18th
United States Infantry, who died at
Vicksburg of yellow fever.
It is wonderful hew, since the elec
tion, the “independent and manly’
journals have taken to the Republi
can sid a . It is much easier to lloat
with the current, you know.
The following county judges have
been confirmed by the senate: R B.
Frippe, of Bartow; T. G. Holt, of
B bb; Win. M. Weaver, of Greene,
and W F. Eve, of R chmond
The B-ooklyn Bridge is short of
m'ln-v. Judge Barrett of New York
•ity recently refused to mandamus
the city c >m droller to pay another
mi lion dollars to the directors.
The municipal election in Augusta
th-* first Weduesday in next month,
will determine whether the lower
market-house, last winter destroyed
by the cycioae, shall be rebuilt.
Woodlawn Cemetery, near Cincin
nati, wis robbed last week of four
bodies which had been buried less
than a week. The bodies wero re
covered, but the robbers escaped.
The aggregate yellow fever sub
scriptions of cities aud committees,
exclusive of private, religious or so
ciety subscriptions, amounted to $(.!,-
325,(!00. New York citv sent $395,-
000.
Rev. J O. A. Clark, Presiding El
der of the M. E. Church South, ar
rived last week in New York from
England, where he had been in the
interest of the Wesleyan Monument
al church.
NO 46
D Pike Hill is the greenback can
didate, regularly nominated, for
mayor of Atlanta. As tbe “organized
democrats’’ have no organization,
Col. Hill would appear to have the
inside track.
The Howard association of New
Orleans claims that there were in
that city during the epidemic fully
forty thousand cases of yellow fever,
and of that number le3s than four
thousand died.
A hard-money Maine democrat
reoorted last week at Washington
that Ladd and Murch, the two green
backers from that State, are demo
crats, aud certain to go into the dem
ocratic caucus.
The vote of New Hampshire for
Governor is as follows; Head, repub
lican, 38,085; McKean, democrat, 31,-
083; Brown, greenbacker, 0,385;
prohibitory and scattering, 129.
Head’s majority, 488.
Forged railroad tickets from Bos
ton to St Louis by way of the Erie
and Atlantic aud Great Western
Roads tmvM been discovered in New
York, aud it is thought that they
have been placed elsewhere.
There are now 1,239 convicts in
the Georgia penitentiary, or leased
from that institution. Bibb contrib
utes 118, the greatest number. There
are fourteen camps for convicts iu
and ffereut portions of the State.
Hoc Fredrick O. Prince, Secretary
oi the dt m icratic national committee
nas eeii nominated for Mayor of
Boston by b.otii the Butler and Abbott
wings of the democracy. He stands
a lair chance tor election next month.
The U vm- commission appointed
oy tire gowrument is ready to report,
it iccomm nds a system of national
quarantine, and is convinced that tho
i ii.L is nut, in the atmosphere m any
part of the United States, and iiiat
in Aew Orleans it was caused by im
portation.
Tbe oid Bacon mansion iu Edge
field was burned ou November 13.
It was built eighty years ago by the
eminent lawyer, Edmund Bacon,
(“Nad Brace,” or the “Georgia
Scenes,”) aud belonged, when burnt,
to James T. Bacon, of thu Edgefield
Advertiser.
Dr. Da La Matyr the greenback rep
re entative from the seventh Indiana
district, who holds tho baiauoj of
power in his congressional delegation
nas no ehoico oat ween a hard money
democrat and hard money republican
but he inclines to Hendricks over
every body else.
Robert Bridge Jr., oi Paterson N.
J. lately attempting to walk over
tbe trestle work and bridge, on the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
railroad, over the Passaic liver, was
blown twenty feet into the river,
which was sixty feet deep. He es
caped with severe bruises
Numerous prominent citizens of
Amencu3 have issued a call for a
meeting of all persons interested to
cake action upon tile propriety of
connecting Auiencm by rail witn the
Bruoswicx, Albany and Eufaula
Railroad, which his lately passed into
the hands of an English company.
Ex Governor Houston, ex con
gressmen James L. Pugh and Paul
Bradlord, ex-confederate secretary of
war Leroy P Walker, are candidates
tor the United States senate from
Alabama, to succeed George E.
Spencer, republican. The voting in
the legislature began last Tuesday.
Ex-United Slates senator Kelly, of
Oregon, has been appoiut. and by Gov.
Thayer a Judge of the Supreme
court of that State. Kelly and
Thayer both appeared before Gov.
Grover aud maintained he had the
powi r and it was his duty to issue a
certificate to Cronin, the Tildeu elec
tor.
The Albany Advertiser learns that
on Thurday morning a desperate as
sault was made by a negro man
named Rufus Alien, alias Campbell
m t ie employ of Mr. W. H. Bennett’,
at one of the English company’s
olaces, in Dougherty county, on Mr
D. W. Kitchens, one of the
nv’s agents. 4
luo sutibo. i.l toe f.j Slinwo .