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The Gainesville Eagle Published Every Friday Mcning OFFICE ( pHt’nlrg In Candler Hall Building. J'JortlpeF'.t Corner of Public Square. Tho Official Organ of Hall, Banks, White* Towns, fi? 1 ’ *' n i on an( l Dawson counties, and the city ot Gainesville. Has a large general circulation in v*elve other counties in [Northeast Georgia, and two counties in Western North Carolina. SUBSCRIPTION. * Onk Year S2> CO. Six Months $1 CO. Three Months ...1.. V’c. : ** XDTANCE, DELIVERED DY carhi eh OH PREPAID BY MAIL. All papers are stopped at the expiration of tho ti*iepaid for without further notice. Maipsub scribers will ploaae observe the dates on their wrappers. Persons wishing tho paper will have their orders dromptly attended to by renimltiing the amount for the time desired. ADVERTISING. SEVEN WOJBDB MAKE A LINE. Ordinary advertisements, per Nonpareil line, 10 cents. Legal Official Auction and Amusement advertise ments and Special Notices, per , Nonpa reil line, 15 cents. 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YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. W. L. Gordon, President; b\, M. Pmkrell, Vice- President; Claud Estes, Secretary. Service in- one of the churches every Sabbath aiternoon at' three o’clock. Service lor young men In the Methodist church ovory Tuesday evening. Cottage prayer meetings every Friday evening. FRATERNAL RECORD. Flowery Branch Lodgh No. 79, I. O. O. TANARUS., meets every Monday night, Joel Basktkk, N. G. B. F. Htkdiiam, Hoc. Allsonany Royal Arch Chapter meets oh the Second and Fourth Tuesday evenings in each month.. - H. S. Bradley, See’y. A. W. CAtMWt.i., H. P. Gainehvili.k Lodge, No. 2X9, A.-. F.-. Me., meets in the Fit’sta rid Third Tuesday evening in the month R. Palmouu, Sec’y. R. E. Gref.n, W. H. Air-Line Lodge, No. 64 ,1. l>, o. |F., meets every Friday evening. C. A. Lilly, Sec. W. n. IlAßr.iof)N,*N. Of. GAINESVILLE PQST OFFICE. Owing to recent change of schedule on the Atlan ta and Charlotte Air Line Railroad, the following will be the schedule from date: Mall train No. 1, going oast, leaves 7:47 p. m. Mali for thin train closes at 7:01) “ Mail train No. 2, going east, leaves 8:35 a. m. No mall by this train. Mail train No. 1‘ going west, leaves... .6:51 n. m. Mail for this train closes at 9:30 p. in. Mall train No. 2, going’whet, leTyhSi...o:os h. m. Mall for this train closes at 7.30 “ Office hours from 7 a. m. to 5:30 p m. General delivery opinion Sundays fcoui B>4 to 9. Departure‘of mails from this office: Dahlonega and Gilmer county, daily S>£ r. m Dahlonega, via Walioo and litifel, Saturday.m Jefferson A Jackson county, Tuesday, Thurs day and Saturday 7 a. m Cleveland, White, Union, Towns and j^ayiu villo, N. C., Tuesdays and Fridays...... 1 a, m Dawsonville and Dawson county,, Tuesday and Saturday v. 8 a. in. Homer, Banks oouuty, Saturday.. 1 p. m Pleasant Grovo, Forsyth county, Saturday. .1 p.ih M. R. ARCHER, P.M. Atlanta and Char lotte Al K- bIXK, Train o rui a° jfftflowv-i on and after SUNDAY, NOYEMLSSUR 10, ’DUNS, NIGHT MilIL TRAIN. GOING EAST. Leave Atlanta 3:15 p. m. Arrive Gainesville 5:31 p. m. Leave Gainesville 5:3:1 p. m. Arrive Charlotte 3:03 a. m. GOING WEST. Leave Charlotte 12:()i) tn dnt Arrive Gainesville 9:11 a. in. Leave Gaiuesville 9:42 a. m. Arrive Atlanta.. 12:00 m. D VA I* **4 KTV G E i Z. E N . GOING EAST. Leave Atlanta 6:00 ft. in. Arrive Gainesville 8:32 a. m. Leave Gainesville ...... ...... . 8538 a. in. Arrive Charlotte 0:22 p. m. G4)INO WEST. Leave Charlott 0.. lt):20 a. m Arrive Gtinesvi lie 8:14 p. m Leave GUineivill o 8:15 p. m Arrive Atlauta 10:30 p. m Through Freight Train. (Daily except Sunday.) GOING EAST. Leave Atlanta 9:25 a. in. • Arrive Gainesville. ~ 1:28 p. m.- Leave Gaiuesville 1:35 p. m.- Arrive Central 7:10 p. in. GOING WEST. Leave Central . v 1:40 a. m Arrive Gainesville . 7:23 a. ,m. Leave Gainesville 7:22 a. m. Arrive Atlanta 11:20 p. m. Local Freight and Accommodation Train. (Daily except Sunday.) GOING EAS^. Leave Atlanta 5:25 ni. Arrive Gainesville 10:13 a. m. Leave Gainesville..... 11:00 a. ni. Arrive Central —. 5:45 p. in. GOING WEST. Leave Central 4:37 a, m. Arrive Gainesville 1:28 p. m. Leave Gainesville 1:35 p. in. Arrive At1anta................ 7:10 p. m. Close connection at Atlanta for all points Wost, and at Charlotte tor all points East. G. T. Foueacbe, General M inager W. J. Houston, Gen. P. & T. A’gt, Northeastern Railroad of Georgia. TIdVEIE Taking effect Monday, November 11, 1878. Ttrains 1 and 2 ran daily except Sunday; 3 and 4 on Wednesdays and Saturdays only. __ Tl.fr Am NO. 1. STATIONS. lAERIVE. LEAVE. A. M. Athens 6 30 Center G 55 657 Nicholson 712 717 Harmony Grove, 740 745 Maysville 805 810 Gillsville ....... 828 830 Lula 8 55 TBAIN NU. iS.'"" STATIONS. [aRKIVE. | LEAVE. 4 - A. M. Lula ' 9 45 Gillsville 1010 10 12 Maysville 10 29 10 34 Harmony Grove 10 54 11 00 Nicholson 11 20 11 23 Center.. 1138 1140 Athens 12 00 j 'TRAIN O. 3. STATIONS. ARRIVE. LEAVE. p. it. Athens ...... -3 40 Center 403 405 Nicholson 1 20| 4 28 Harmony Grove I 44G 451 Maysville 5 11; 5 15 Gillsville 5 331 5 35 Lula 6 CO j ' TWAIN ISO. 4, STATIONS. j ARRIVE. LEAVE. P. M. Lula 15 Gillsville 810 812 Maysville 829 834 Harmony Grove: 854 9 I*o Nicholson 920 023 Center 938 940 Athens 1C 00 Trains will wait thirtv minutes at, Lula. 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.”