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The Gainesville Eagle.
vol. m
Sound Doctrine.
Judge Buckner, of Missouri, chair
man of the house committee on
banking and currency, (re-elected,
by the way) has just written a letter
upon the finances to his constituents,
which we can consistently and do
cordiaMy endorse.
He lays down the proposition
that, under the constitution, congress
has no power to make anything but
golu and silver coin legal tender in
the discharge of obligations and con
tracts between individuals. H 9 says
that opinion has been held by “every
jurist, statesman, commentator and
lawyer that has lived in this country
from 1787 to 1862,’’ and proceeds to
argue that position at great length-
He bolds that, if the entire field of
circulation is occupied by treasury
notes, to the exclusion of State and
national bank paper, and the volume
of paper circulation is not in excess
of the legitimate demands of business,
no necessity can exist for endowing
these notes with the legal tender
quality, nor need there be any fear
that tho currency which will dis
charge all dues to the general gov
ernment will be erafused by States
and corporations ia payment of local
taxation, or by individuals in pay
ment of debts.
This is good, square-toed, old
fashioned democratic doctrine, and
fills the meas re of democratic princi
ples as to the currency. No good
democrat believes that the general
government has the right to make
Anything but gold and silver a legal
tender. But let the government issue
its treasury notes good to pay all
government dues, customs included*
and those uotes will be at par with
gold and silver if the volume is not
too large. This was the opinion of
■Calhoun, and it was the gist of sena
tor Wallace’s campaign speech in
Pennsylvania last fall, and it can be
and ought to be a financial platform,
so far as it goes, acceptable to every
voter reared in the wholesome truths
of old fashioned democracy.
H Well Deserved Compliment.
The Atlanta Constitution of last i
Saturday, speaks of Hon. Allen I).
Candler iu a manner particularly
agreeable to his friends in this sec
tion. We quote with pleasure:
, ‘There la Seiralor Candler, who
lias a most admirable combination of
common sense, experience and po
litical culture, and Mr. Candler iB
thoroughly well known to the people
of Georgia, having been a foremost
and distinct figure in State legisla
tion for the past ten years. He rep
resented Hall county in the lower
house term after term, and always
with satisfaction to his constituents.
He was always distinguished as an
advocate of economy in the pub
lic expenditures—of integrity in all
perfor nGiice—and as an utter and
absolute enemy of rings and corrup
tion Hi aii shapes. Mr. Candler does
not often ask h r the lloor, but when
he does speak his sentences fall like
the blows of a sledge-hammer. He
always carefully considers the situa
tion, prepares his argument careful
ly, and then stands by his utter
ances. Ha has been the foremost
advocate of many very important
measures, and may fairly be called
the author of the late constitutional
convention. His speech on the call
ing of this convention was one
oi the most notable and ablest
speeches that has been made
in the Georgia legislature since
the war. Mr. Candler was promoted
to the senate one year ago, beating a
popular opponent in tho face of the
fiercest opposition, by the most
overwhelming majority. He has
been frequently balloted for in the
congress,ional conventions, and al
ways went to the highest mark. It
is thought by many that he is the
strongest man available to the or
ganized democracy and their banner
may be placed in his hands. He
would bear it gallantly and worthi
lv.”
There it? no more popular gentle
man in Hall county and this sena
torial district than Allen D. Candler,
and few, if any in the ninth dis
trict.
Mr. Hayes says the executive de
partment will inquire into and
punish violations of the laws
ofj the United States. An
intelligent public would like to
know what Mr. Hayes and his execu
tive department have to do with try
ing and punishing offenders against
the laws of the land. In old demo
cratic times the courts used to at
tend to that branch of the business.
It is believed that McCabe, demo
crat, wili successfully contest the
sear, of Orth, republican, from the
ninth Indiana district. If so, In
diana, will have seven democratic
congressmen out of thirteen, giving
DeLaMatyr, national to the republi
cans.
The republican minority in tbe
Northern States, as shown by the
late elections, is over 230,000--about
the majority of flayes over Tilden; in
GAINESVILLE, GA,, FRIDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 13, 1878.
What Georgians say as to the next
Democratic Candidate fer Presi
dent.
{Special correspondence of the Cincinnati
Enquirer.]
Atlanta, November 28, 1878.
No State in the South is a more
important factor in Presidential
nominations than Georgia. Her
central position—the number of no
ted and vigorous statesmen that
march under her flag, her heavy
democratic majority, the exceptional
strength of her press, all these things
combine to make her potential in na
tional conventions.
This very strength, with conscious
ness of it, has made her politicians
shy about expressing their opinions.
But your correspondent has suc
ceeded in hooking the most of the
important ones, and here they are:
Senator Gordon, who is probably
the strongest man in the State, says:
“At present Hendricks has the ‘go’
on all aspirants. Tilden and Thur
man have been hurt, though to what
extent I can not say by untoward
events. The cipher dispatches have
weakened Tilden with some thought
less persons, and the loss of Ohio
has weakened Thurman. Hendricks
saved Indiana, and himself. Both of
his opponents, however, will have a
chance to redeem themselves. If
Thurman can recover Ohio in next
fall’s elections, and Tilden can re
cover New York, I think one of the
two would be nominated. If Thur
man should lose Ohio, and Tilden
recapture New York, than it would
be Tilden, and vice versa. If they
should both fail, then Hendricks
would be hard to beat. There is
one thing that would work against
him. Tilden and Hendricks were
elected, but didn’t take thoir seats.
To now throw Tilden aside, and
nominate Hendricks would be to put
a mortal insult upon Tilden—an in
salt that I doubt if his friends would
submit to. Of course, the future
may change aspects very much, but
it looks to me now as if Tilden proba
bly bad the chances on the others.
I think there is little doubt that
Grant will be the republican candi
date.”
“Will the South remain solid in
the campaign of 1880 ?
“It must be so. The North has
continually forced sectional views
upon us, and it is simply a question
of self-preservation with us. As long
as the politicians of the North wave
‘the bloody shirt,’ the South will re
main solid—and properly, too.”
“Should a western or eastern man
be nominated ?’’
“Of course, the future must settle
that. If we carry New York next
fall and lose Ohio, or only catch it
by a scratch, then it _ would look like
an,eastern man woFid. be hast. If
we lose New York a western man
will probably be chosen. As to the
currency issue that will amount to
nothing. It will be subordinated to
the struggle for the mastery of the
government.”
Senator Ben Hill, it is an open se
cret, will favor Tilden. He said to a
friend the other day: “I’m for Til
den,” and then quietly laughed and
Baid: “Don’t tell that.” It is known,
however, that he will make in the
senate a speech on the electoral
fraud, reviewing the whole case and
Hayes’ subsequent conduct. This
speech will probably be made, and
will be intended as a key-note to the
democratic campaign of ’BO. It is
known that Mr. Hill beliaves that the
inevitable sequence of this Bort of
campaign is Tilden—most probably
“Tilden and Hendricks.”
Ex-Governor Brown said: “I have
but little to say. I think, however,
that Tilden should be his own suc
cessor. The sentiment against more
than one term should not apply to
where the President is not allowed to
serve out his first term. I should
think, then, that Tilden should be
Darned unanimously by the democrat
ic party as his own successor.”
Governor Colquitt is not sure as
to which is the road to success. He
does not think that the cipher-dis
patch matter has hurt Tilden at all,
but is not sure that Tilden would be
the most available candidate. If
Thurman had carried Ohio he
thought he would have be6n the
nominee. Bayard is a great favorite
with Governor Colquitt (as indeed
he is with all Southerners) but he
has not shown many points of popu
lar strength, and his ultra-hard-mon
ey views might force the greenback
ers to put a candidate in the field.
“It makes no difference,” said the
Governor, “what issues are made as
long as the republican leaders keep
up the sectional cry. That will so
lidify the Sooth as long as its echo
can be heard.”
Emory Speer, the newly elected
independent congressman, who cap
tured Ben Hill’s old district, and,
though only twenty-eight years of
age, is the idol of the large independ
ent party of Georgia, says: “You
may put me down for Tilden. The
republican papers say he is dead,
but I notice they devote much space
to keep on killing him. The cipher
dispatch slanders have made no im
pression, and he stands to-day the
victim of the most infamous fraud of
American politics. It is due no less
to justice than to honorable senti
ment that that fraud should be
aveDged and rebukod in his person.
The loss of New York to the demo
crats last month was due to the un
popularity of the anti-Tilden lead
ers. lam confident that Tilden will
bring it out all right next fall. Sup
pose he should himself be the candi
date for Governor ? He’d carry the
State beyond peradventure. And
when Tilden restores New York to
the column of democratic States he
wins the nomination and the Presi
dency in my opinion.”
“About the South. It will go sol
idly for the democratic candidate, no
matter who he is, nor on what plat
form he stands. The democratic
party of the South will divide in lo
cal, and even congressional elections,
but on all national issues it will be
so’. .—certainly until after the next
champion of Tilden in the St. Louis
convention, being the head of the
Georgia delegation. It is said by
his friends that he is still for Tilden.
He certainly was up to the time of
the cipher-dispatch publications,
which seem to have made literally no
impression in the South.
Mr. James Banks, a successful po
li'ical manager, and one of Tilden’s
prominent champions at St. Louis,
is doubtful about the man, but thinks
no serious concessions need be made
to the greenbackers of the South.
While they are strong in local and
congressional elections, they can not
throw a single Southern State out of
democratic line, and would not try
to do so. He, therefore, thinks it
best to take the most available man,
without reference to his location or
currency views. Mr. Banks was
warmly for Tilden at St. Louis, and
is inclined to believe that “the old
man’ ’ has still the best chance.
General P. M. B. Young, who was
a strong Tilden man at St. Louis, is
afraid that Tilden will not be able
to control New York, and is there
fore very much weakened. “If Til
den can come to the convention with
a full New York delegation, it will
be almost impossible for his oppo
nents to get around him. As it
looks now though, I think Hendricks
will be the foremost man. His
friends are tenacious and imperious,
and hard to compromise with. The
chances are, however, that the con
vention will ballot over Tilden,
Thurman and Hendricks for a while,
and then take up Bayard or McClel
lan. If Clarkson N. Potter is elected
Governor of New York next year, he
can carry the New York delegation
to the convention for himself if he
desires to do so.”
Southern Solidity.
The best Southern men very fre
quently are men of the North who
cast their fortunes with us. What
champions of this section were the
eloquent Prentiss and the valorous
Quitman ! And, coming down to
iater days, the record of the bloody
Confederate drama is filled with the
heroic constancy and intrepidity of
men who were born in colder climates.
Just now, one of the most intensely
Southern politicians is ax-Governor
Gilbert Walker, of Virginia, a Nor
thern born and raised gentleman,
who is as handsome as he is intelli
gent. A Philadelphia reporter hav
ing met this distinguished person
and informed him that Mr. Hayes’
message would please the most stal
warts, was surprised to hear an ex
clamation of delight from the ex-
Governor,who explained that it would
solidify us at the South, nip in tho
bud any inclination toward a break
up in the democratic party at the
South, anr'strengthen the "party at
the North fey solidifying the Itapub
lican party against us and showing
us what we have to expect from
them. Laughing at the idea that the
cry of “Solid South” would hurt the
democratic party, Mr. Walker said:
“Is it anything to be ashamed? In
fact it is in my judgment, something
to boast of rather than to be ashamed
of; and I think it is a mistake either
to try to conceal the fact, which is
impossible, or to be frightened at
the hullabaloo which Republican or
gans raise about it. Of course, they
don’t like it, because there stands
the one hundred and thirty-eight
electoral votes which they cannot get
round, or over. But the people "of
this country are not fools, and it
does not hurt our party for the peo
ple to know that we are within forty
seven votes of victory at the start ”
As to Mr. Hayes “chauging his
policy,” ex-Governor Walker very
properly showed that he never
had any policy. His position in re
lation to the withdrawal of the troops
from interference with the State
governments of Louisiana and South
Carolina was no policy at all. It
was simply an attitude of acquiesence
in the inevitable, He acquiesced
gracefully in what he could not help;
that wa3 ail there was in it. The ex-
Governor admitted, however, that
Hayes had. changed his “attitude,’’
but was not alarmed thereby.
The fact is the Radicals, from the
President and Jay Gould down to
the whippers-in and ward-bummers,
are engaged in the attempt to break
the solidarity of the South by me
naces, having failed to accomplish
their purpose by soft-solder. But it
is all a waste of time. The South
will remain comfortably solid, all the
same, because it is her interest to be
so, and because she rightfully sus
pects the propriety of a disintegra
tion which would so enormously
please the Jacobin leaders. What is
good for them must be bad for us.
Therefore, while we are sane and
Radicalism survives, the solidity will
continue.— Chron. & Con.
Gen. Marcy, the father-in law of
Gen. McClellan, and himself one of
the most upright and accomplished
men in the service, favors the return
of the Indian Bureau to the War
Department. He takes the ground
that the conduct of Indian affairs
under the existing system, after a
practical working of twenty-three
years, has proved immensely expen
sive, highly conducive to fraud and
unsatisfactory to the Indians, where
as the management while controlled
by the War Department was judi
cious, firm and economical.
Criticising flfie Monument. Elegy
in an Irish country church yard
overheard last week. Sorrowing
“widow man” has just erected the
invariable draped urn in memory of
the late placens uxor; to him criti
cal old lady, having duly inspected
the same: “An iligant monement, so
it is, sor; as nate a paterned water
jug as iver I see, and a clane white
towel reposin’ peaceful like on the
top av it. Well, well, it’s herself was
the orderly woman, the heavens be
her bed!”
The California constitutional con
vention lately tabled a resolution re
questing their senators and repre
sentatives in congress to support
cu.-. i > l:ii ..I.
The Men in the Movement to Put
Grant Upon the Bulgarian
Throne.
I tried on Saturday to find Mr.
Childs in order to ascertain what
truth there i? in the report connect
ing General Grant with tne Bulgarit
an throno, but Mr. Childs had gon
to New York with Mr. T odj Drexe
not to return till late at night. Yesie
terday I had better luck. I called al,
his house in tne evening and sent in
my card. Word came back that Mr.
Chiids was busy entertaining a large
party o” guests at dinner, but that he
would be happy to see me on Mon
day morning at qu rter p.ast ten in
his private office in the Ledger Build
ing.
* * been waiting not more the’'
two iWufces when the proprietor of
the Ledger came in, goodnatared
and rosy after a brisk walk down
Chestfiut street. He placed his drip
ping umbrella in a great cylinder
vase of Satsuma ware, and threw his
overcoat over the back of a carved
ebony chair of the Louis Quatorze
period,
“You have seen,” I said, “the dis
patch from Philippoiis to the Lon
don Standard, asserting that Gener
al Grant has been proposed as a
candidate for King of Bulgaria?”
“Certainly, ’ said Mr. Childs, with
a queer expression on his face.
(•Ytm smile, Mr, Childs,” said I
‘‘You think that lie story is absurd?”
"By no manner of means,” ho re
plied. “On the contrary, I have
every reason to believe that the re
port is strictly true.”
Mr. Childs’ smile broadened until
it quite overspread his countenance,
ana alter a few preparatory chuckles
he broxe into a hearty laugh,
“Perhaps I ought not to let it out,”
he continued; “but the iact is, this
idea of establishing General Grant
on the Bulgarian throne origi
nated with a few of # hi? intim tie
friends in this country and Europe,
among whom I may mention myself.
Coionei Forney, Genera: Badeau,
Mr. Maekay, the Nevada millionaire,
and Dr. Eyans, oi Paris. The Im
mense popularity of General Grant
with ah classes, in all parts of Eu
rope, from the titled nobility down
to the peasantry, as attested by the
enthusiastic welcome given him where
ever he went, and by the beautiful
an a expensive presents which are now
intrusted to my keeping, indicated
to us the reception which such a pro
posal would be sure to meet. You
see that the idea has taken like wiid
tire, both here and abroad. Dr
Evans predicted that it would months
ago.
But has General Grant known oi
the plan? How does he like it?”
Lyle has known of it onlv ia a
g-en&rai way, through Badeau I
think he likes it. X think he has al
ways been reluctant to come buck to
America to settle down in the capac
ity of a private citizen. He is nft* -
uually ambitious. He wants to be
doing something an H u .line Hjs
energy and genius would nmX a splen
did employment m buiicjing up the
new kingdom and making the Bul
garian Kingdom respected the world
over”
“May I ask how it all has oeen
brought about? who first proposed
Grant’s name? Who worked up
public opinion iu Bulgaria m favor of
his candidacy?” .
Mr. Childs hesitated. “I dou t
think it judicious,” said lie. “to give
the secret history of the campaign
just at present. I will toll you, how
ever, what you probably know alrea
dy, that this matter of a Bulgarian
King wifi be settled, noi in Bulgaria,
but at the great capitals at Europe—
at Paris, London, Berlin and St.
Petersburg. Badeau has made in
fluential acquaintances in England,
and Dr. Evans, as you are aware, is
a power at Paris. Maekay is im
mensely rich, and willing to spend
almost any sum for legitimate ex
penses, and at Berlin there ia the
Rev. Dr. Thompson, formerly of your
city. Perhaps I may add that I my
self have been able to do something
toward forwarding General Grant’s
interests ”
“You think General Grant would
make a good King, Mr. Childs?”
“I am sure oi it, sir,’’ answered he
“General Grant is the most remark
able man of the country. He would
make an admirable King.’ ’
“Should you be inclined to accept
any position of dignity or trust in
his Court if he should offer it to
you?”
Mr. Childs looked searchingly -it
the writer’s face for a few seconds.
He saw nothing there but candor
and perfect good faith, and and re
plied: “Oh, no! I shall not leave
Philadelphia in any event. If Gen
eral Grant accepts the Bulgarian
crown I should like very much to
visit him amid his new surroundings
I don’t know but it would tempt me
to undertake a sea voyage to which I
am naturally and physiologically
strongly disinclined. But I shouldn’t
accept any office or tibia in Bulgaria.”
“I may announce that determina
tion, then, Mr. Childs?”
“Yes, sir,” said he, “and you may
put it as strongly as you please.”—
Philadelphia Correspondence New York
Snn.
“Supper is now ready in the smo
king car,” shouted the brakesman,
and a young man from Hartford
who was on his way to San Francis
co, got up and went forward to see
what the brakesman meant. He
went into the smoking car and found
a party of Bavarian emigrants cook
ing two kinds of cheese and three
denominations of sausages on the
stove. He came out very pale and
gave the brakesman half a dollar to
stand on the platform and burn
matches under his noso. “'Was it
very bad?” an old gentleman asked
him, when he returned to the coach,
“Sir,” said the young man of Hart
iord, “you’ll never smell any thing
like it until you have been dead
about six months.” —Burlingtou
Hawlceye.
k Queer Southern Outrage.
Among the victims of Attorney
General Devens’ bloody shirt cru
sade is Mrs. John Simms, of Wilson,
North Carolina. Mrs. Simms is a
female bulldozer—if that be aD ad
missible expression. Her offense is
that of committing a Southern out
rage, of a political nature, upon the
person of her husband, John Simms.
It appears that Mrs. Simms, who is a
female of color, and stalwart both aa
to her radicalism and her muscle,
commanded her husband to vote for
O’Hara, the colored candidate for
congress. Simms promised to do
so, but on his the polls was
met or overtaken by a couple of
white men on horseback. These
miscreants, not having the fear of
tho fifteenth amendment before their
6yas, shot John Simms in the month
with a bottle of apple-jack. In fact,
they fairly riddled him, so that by
the time John arrived at the polls he
was too badly wounded to remember
his promise to Mrs. Simms. He was
indeed so badly intimidated that he
voted a democratic ticket which the
two white men put into his hands,
and for ths rest of the day John
Simms slept and slumbered in the
kindly shade of a wood shed. Toward
night he awoke and sauntered forth
with a headache. He soon met a
colored acquaintance,who advised him
that Mrs. Simms had bean appri
sed of his voting the democratic tick
et, and was looking for him. There
upon John Simms, probably believ
ing himself to be at the Hardshell
Baptist forks of the road, leading to
perdition iu one direction and to
damnation iu the other, incontinent
ly took to the woods. And he re
matned in the woods until the 12th
inat., a period of seven days, when,
being nearly starved, he was forced
to show himself again in town. For
the rest, let us quota ths local chroni
eier, who says: “Simms’ wife met
him on the street, and having provi
ded herself with a heavy hickory
stick, she administered a severe beat
ing on her lord for failing to vote for
her choice The woman was arrested,
not, however, until she had laid
about thirty lashes on the baok of
her husband.’’ Later advices say
that after John’s personal safety had
beau assured by the lodgment of his
stalwart better half in the jail of the
vicinage, some of his democratic
friends escorted him to the office of
the United States Commissioner,
where he made a complaint in due
form against Mrs. Simms on the
charge of “abridging his rights on
account of race, color or previous
condition, contrary to law and the
constitution of the United States.”
Mrs, Simms was thereupon bound
over to keep ths jxaoa and await the
action of the United States grand
jury. All kxl accounts agree
tnat the cfiklr is the eraetast piece of
peroration, on political grounds
that any negro has ever been sub
jected to in North Carolina. In
view of the peculiar gravity of the
case, we suggest to Attorney Gen
eral Devens the propriety of employ
ing special government counsel to
assist the District Attorney in the
prosecution of Mrs. Simms. We
think it perfectly safe to promise
him that the democratic house will
cheerfully appropriate the money re
quired to pay the fees of special
c unsel in this remarkable case. As
we understand it, Mr. Hayes’ inten
tion is to enforce the laws with
strict impartiality. Washington
Post.
Self-Improvement
A want of thoroughness in what
ever study is undertaken is, perhaps,
one great cause of most failures. A
practical writer gives the following
directions: ‘Never leave what you
undertake to learn, until you can
reach your arms around it, and clench
your hands on the other side.’ It is
not the amount of reading you run
over that makes you learned; it is
the amount you consolidate with
your previously acquired knowledge.
Dr. Abernethy maintained that ‘there
was a point of saturation in the mind’
beyond which it was not capable of
taking more, and that whatever was
pressed upon it afterward crowded
out something else. r
Every teacher should endeavor to
perfect himself in the science of the
business he has chosen. Without
ttiis, he must always content himself
in the lower walks of his calling.
The cost of things he can spare will
buy all the books he requires, and
his own diligence sm*y be made to
supply the rest. Bat steady labor is
iisoeesAry; without it the best and
greatest libraries in the world cannot
manufacture him into a scholar. If
one going over a point will not mas
ter it, he must tackle it again. Bet
ter give a week’s study to a page
th*n to conclude that you cannot
comprehend it.
But though it is wise to give your
main strength to your own specialty
you should not confiae yourself to
such studies exclusively. The per
fection of all your powers should be
your aspiration. Those who can
only think and talk on one subject
may be efficient in their line; but
they are not agreeable members of
society in any of its departments.
Neither have they made the mo3t of
themselves. They become one-sided
and narrow in their views, and are
reduced to a humiliating dependence
on one branch of industry. It costs
nothing to carry knowledge; and in
times like these, to be able to put his
hand to more than one branch of in
dustry often serves a man a good
turn.
Mr Longfellow, in his character
of poet, has some curious guests.
There was the man who went to
thank him for writing “Break, Break,
Break," the woman who had read his
poems in her girlhood and hadn’t
seen them since, the man who “ was
one of the few who had read “The
Pendulum.’ ’’ The Frenchman who
wanted to know if tnat was the house
where Shakespeare was born, and
the Englishman who “thought that
nn ’*> A mortAl|
News in General.
Next year’s Methodist conference
will meet in Augusta.
A young man died cf yellow fever
in Osyka, Miss., last week.
It is stated that Mr. T. E. Hanburj
will soon start the Dalton Enterprise
again.
The Cartersville Express says both
the Dalton hotels are doing a good
business.
Commodore William F. Spicer,
commandant at the Charlestown navy
yard, is dead.
W. H. Wilder was re elected may
or of Albany last week by a nearly
unanimous vote.
The Central railroad pays a -divi
dend of $2,50 a share, on and after
December 19th.
Col. John S. Mosby’a name has
been sent to the senate as minister
to Hong Kong.
The cotton spindles at the North
are estimated at 9,900,000 and in the
South at 600,000.
The Macon Telegraph complains of
the bad conduct of certain theatre
goers in that city.
We are sorry to learn from the
Mountain Signal that Col. W. P. Price
was quite ill last week.
Tbs number of oyster catchers,
boatmen and openers in Virginia, is
put down at 10,000 men.
The Jefferson Forest News has
moved its office to the Webb build
ing, on the public square.
The Albany News says Mr Early
Billups of Worth county made this
year with one mule twenty-one bales
of cotton.
The city council of Atlanta has
fixed the salary of the mayor at sl,-
000 and each alderman and council
man at S2OO.
Augusta voted last week by over
500 majority to rebuild the market
upon the old site, on Broad street,
below Centre.
The Western Nail association
which met in Pittsburg last week,
advanced the price of nails from ten
to twenty cents.
The New Orleans mint will start
operations about the middle of this
month, and will coin about a million
dollars a month.
Murch, greenback congressman
from Maine, expresses himself strong
ly in favor of a union of the green
backers and democrats.
W. L. Calhoun was last week
elected mayor of Atlanta. He de
feated James W. Engiisu and D. Pike
Hill. carrying every ward.
Mr. Jonathan Yarbrough an old
gentleman of Jackson county, living
with Mr. J. M. Wilhites, Jr., was
found dead in bed one morning last
week.
The most of the oleomargarine ex
ported from this country goes, to
Holland, so James Wilson, the lar
gest manufacturer in the United
States, says.
Wm. McDaniel, of Chandler’s dis
trict, Jackson county, aged 72 years,
committed suicide last Sunday week
by shooting himself through the head
with a pistol.
The New York Tribune says Geor
gia is solid for Tilden and that ex-
Governor Brown, Governor Colquitt,
Senators Gordon and Hill all favor
his renominatiou.
The remains of Bishop J. P. B.
Wilmer, Episcopal bishop ot Louisi
ana, who died recently were interred
last Saturday at Greenmount ceme
tery, Baltimore.
One day last week Aleck Stephens
tried to walk up the capitol steps in
Washington unattended. He fell
down and hurt his knee-cap, and is
temporarily laid up.
There have been heavy shipments
of arms for Russia from Springfield
and Providence, within the last few
weeks, including Gatling guns of the
latest improved style.
There was a large strike last week
at the Chicago stock yards, and busi
ness consequently was for a time at
a stand still. There were 75,000
hogs on sale at the yards.
It is a noticeable fact that since,
Persons was elected, the river trade
of Columbus has materially increased,
and the boats have been running
regularly. —Talbotton Register,
Tammany Hail is getting anew
coat of paint. War paint seem3 to
be the kind it needs, as the old stock
was all used up last month in a little
argument with uncle Sam Tilden.
Virginia’s total debt amounts to
$29, 367,958, held as follows: by citi
zens and corporations in Virginia,
$8,000,000; in other States, $13,000,-
000, and the remainder in Europe.
The social problem at Washington.
Can Mrs. R B Haves force Postmas
ter General Key to take the dusky-col
ored Mrs. Senator Bruce in to dinner
on a state occasion ? We hope so.
Mr. Tilden has not been heard of
since he raised up his coffin-lid,
poked out his fist and knocked John
Kelly down. Information concern
ing Mr. Kelly is also scarce. —Buffalo
News.
How long since Henry S. Foote
was an old line whig? Saems to us
he is about as much of an old line
whig as Key, but Foote has been a
good black republican ever since the
war.
A Brooklyn Presbyterian pastor,
according to the Philadelphia Times,
plays the violin for the young people
of bis Church to dance by. He is
not a candidate for the vacant pulpit
in Atlanta.
Jay Gould’s New York Tribune
still keeps pegging away at the ci
pher dispatches. It begins to look
as if uncle Sammy has opened hi3
harr’i to the Tribune and paid it for
ist of Augusta, is dead. w I r ,
Parties who expect to make a inn
on holiday goods would do well to
use some printer’s ink. It draws
like a blister. Try it. We charge
only for the blister—nothing for
the prescription. —Cartersville Ex
press.
The finance committee of the city
council of Columbus report that
nearly half of the bondholders have
accepted the proposed compromise
and settlement of the city debt
which was endorsed last summer by
council.
Mr. John Russell Young or soma
other fellow, reports that General
Grant has been offered the throne of
Bulgaria. If so he’ll take it, as he
was never known to refuse any thing
from a patent boot jack to the presi
dency.
The following legislative committee
has been appointed to confer with
the authorities of Atlanta concerning
the buildins of anew capitol; Sena
tors J. W. Preston and E. P. Howell;
Representatives B. C. Yancey, P. L.
Mynatt John I. Hall and R. C.
Hu liber.
Why shouldn’t he? It is insisted
by The Detroit Free Press that the
mau who comes from Europe and
sa's -Paree” shall not be ducked or
rid leu on a rail. Why, whv, sir!
would you have him shot?— Buffalo
Express
Breathett county, Ky , has lately
been the scene of a terrible disturb
ance. Several persons, including the
county Judge, have been killed, and
others wounded. Lots of people in
consequence have moved out of the
county.
The new railroad track laid in this
country during the year ending Sep
tember 10, 1878, was 1,160 miles.
During the six preceding years the
number of miles of track laid was:
In 1872, 4.498; 1873, 2,455; 1874,
1,066; 1875, 702; 1876, 1,467; 1877,
1,176
Colonel Forney describes the Duke
of Cambridge, Commander-in chief
of the British forces, as a heavy,
stolid mau with an apoplectic face,
who makes an apoplectic speech;
and the Duke, as a little man with a
big nose, who makes a very poor and
little speech.
The indepen ents in this and the
seventh district have not yet suc
ceeded in suspending the issue of
the Athens Banner or the Carters
villc Express. They have put in cir
culation all sorts of rumors but those
two sound democratic papers go on
just the same.
The Savannah News has received
printed copies of two petitions, one
to be signed by the officers, the other
by the private soldiers, asking con
gress to increase the force o? the
regular army to 105,451 men. The
News thinks the empire is in order
before such an imperial army.
NO 49
Mr. F. Mather has just returned
to New York from Germany, having
safelv' delivered in Bremen some
250,000 eggs of the California sal
mon. In addition to the eggs sent
to Germany, 100,000 were taken by
the Netherlands, the same number
by France, and 18,000 by England.
The speed of trotters has been re
duced nearly sixteen seconds in the
mile in the last thirty-eight years.
In 1840 Dutchman’s record was 2:38;
in 1850 Lady Suffolk’s was 2:26: in
1860 Flora Temple’s was 2:19f; in
1870 Dexter’s was in 1876
Goldsmith Maid’s was 2:14, and this
year Raru3 reduced it to 2:13£
All the Southern republicans, ac
cording to the Cincinnati Enquirer
correspondence, are for Grant in
1880. Grant certainly ought to be
nominated. He embodies the principle
(or lack of principle) of the republican
party. The voters of this country
have expressed their disapproval of
Grantism once, and they will readily
do it again.
A cipher dispatch addressed to
Eli Perkins has been discovered, ac
cording to which the St. Louis edi
tors are to pay him $5,000 a year to
write exclusively to Chicago papers,
whose circulation the St. Louis men
want to break down. We always
suspected there would sooner or
later be a demand for Eli's writings.
Oalveston News.
Since the formation of the govern
ment, it has spent in the District of
Columbia, $92,112,395.87. It owns
all the streets, avenues, alleys, parks
and public grounds ia Washington,
and is proprietor of about one half
the acreage of the city. In iieu of
taxes it annually provides one-half
of the money required to support the
district government.
The aggregates of the estimates of
appropriations required for the Fed
eral government for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1880,is $129,197,813.
This is exclusive of permanent annual
appropriations, for which the esti
mates are placed at $145,939,438.
These two'items make the aggregate
estimates $275,137,251,which is about
$5,500,000 below the aggregate esti
mate presented lasi December for
the current fiscal year.
Returning Board Hayes lately ap
pointed Henry S. Foote, commonly
known as Hangman Foote, euperin
tendentof the United States mint at
New Orleans, lie is seventy-eight
years old, has figured in the politics
of Alabama, California, Mississippi,
Tennessee and the District of Colum
bia. He has been a United States
senator and a Confederate States
representative, and once beat Jeffer
son Davis for governor of Mississippi.
The Sheriff of Quitman county
had in charge a prisoner, a young
man whom he was taking to Cuthbert
charged with obtaining goods by false
pretences The sheriff kept close
guard over his prisoner, until near
Morris Station, when, a3 the case
was not a very bad one, and the
young man very clever, he stepped
into another car to see a friend. The
prisoner did the same thing, going
forward to the baggage car.
When the train started the sheriff
returned, and finding no prisoner,
stopped the train to go back to re
capture him. The train rolled off
when the accused came back, and
finding the sheriff; gone, stopped the
train to deliver himself up to him
again. Just as he was about to dis
embark the sheriff came in sight,
was called by the prisoner and made
for the train, reaching it in such an
exhausted condition that the arres
ted man helped him aboard. —Macon
rate, he soon turns her back.”