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CHURCH DIRECTOR*.
Pbehbttkriax Church— Rev. T. P. Cleveland,
Pastor. Preaching every Sabbath—morning and
night, exoept the seupnd Sabbath. Sunday Sch 'oJ,
at ha.m.P. ay Ing Wednesday evening 4
o’clock.
Methodist Church —Rev. W. W. Wadsworth, Par
lor. Preaching every Sunday morning and night.
Sunday School at 9a. m. Prayer meeting Wednes
day night.
Baptist Chubch Rev. W. C. Wilkes, Pastor.
Preaohing Sunday morning and night. Sunday
School at 9a. m Prayer meeting Thursday evening
at 4 o’clock.
GAINESVILLE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.
.1. B. Estes, President; Wrir. W. Habersham, Secre
i tary.
YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.— -
W. L. Gordon, President; F. M. Pickrell, Vice-
President; Claud Estes, Secretary. Service iu oue
of tho churches every Sabbath aiteruoon at three
o’clock. Service for young men In tiie Methodist
church overy Tuesday evening'. Cottage prayer
meetings every Friday evening.
FRATERNAL RECORD.
Flowery Branch Lodob No. 79, I. O. O. TANARUS.,
meets every Monday night, Joel Laseter, N. G.
B. F. Stedham, Sec.
Alleghany Arch Chapter meets on the
Second and Fourth Tuesday evenings iu each
month.
H. S. Bradley, Seo’y. A. W. Caldwell, H. r.
Gainesville Lodok, No. 219, A.-. F.-. M.\,
meets on the First a nd Third Tuesday evening in
the month
R. Palmoub, Sec’y. R. E. Green, W. M.
Air-Link Lodge, No. 64 ,1. Q, O. IF,, meets
every Friday evening.
0. A. Lilly, Sec. W. H. Habbibon, N. G.
GAINESVILLE POST OFFIOE.
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, leavee 7:47 p. m.
Mall for this train closes at 7:00 **
Mail train No. 2s going eaßt, leaves 8:35 a. m.
No mail by this train.
Mail train No. 1‘ going west, 1eave5....6:51 a: m.
Mail for this train closes at 9:30 p, m.
Mail train No. 2, going west, 1eave5..,,9:05 p. m.
Mail for this train closes at 7.30 “
Office hours from 7 a. m. to 5:30 p. m.
General delivery open on Sundays from BJ£ to D;L
Departure of mails from this office:
Dablouega an,d Gilmer.gounty, daily. —..S], a. m
Dahlonega, via Wahoo and Ethel, Saturday...B>s a.m
Jefferson k Jackson county, Tuesday, Thurs
day and Saturday 7 a.m
Cleveland, White, Union, Towns and Hayes
,U, N C , ’Puosdavs and Fridays 7 a. m
Dawsonville and uawsou county,, Tuesday
and Saturday 8 a. m.
Homer, Banks county, Saturday 1 p. m
Pleasant Grovo, Forsyth county. Saturday. .1 p.m
M. R. ARCHER, P.M.
Atlanta and Charlotte
.1 IK- lil N 11,
Trains will run as follows on and after
SUNDAY, NOVEMBEH 10, 1878.
NIGIIT MAIL TRAIN.
GOING EAST.
Leave Atlanta 3:15 p.m.
Arrive Gainesville 5:31 p. in.
Leave Gainesville 5:32 p. m.
Arrive Charlotte 3:03 a. m.
GOING WEST.
Leave Charlotte 12:00 m dnt
Arrive Gainesville '9:41 a. nr.
Leave Gainesvillo 9:42 a. m.
Arrive Atlanta 12:00 m.
I> VY PASS IS NGr IT ifc TC” IN' .
GOING EAST.
Leave Atlanta 6:00 a. m.
Arrive Gainesville 8:32 a. m.
Leave Gainesville 8:33 a. m.
Arrivo Charlotto.... 6:22 p.m.
GOING WEST.
Leave Charlotte... 10:20 a. m
Arrive Giinesvi 110 8:14 p. m
Gtiuesvill e 8:15 p.m
fts.rrivo Atlanta 10:30 p. m
Through Freight Train.
(Daily except Sunday.)
GOING EAST.
Leave Atlanta 9:25 a.m.’
Arrive Gainesville 1:28 p.m.-
Leave Gainesville 1:35 p.m.’
Arrive Central 7:10 p.m.
GOING WEST.
Leave Central 1:40 a. m
Arrivo 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 EAST.
Leave Atlanta 5:25 a. m.
Arrive Gainesville 10:42 a. m.
Leave Gainesville 11:00 a. ra.
Arrive Central 5:45 p. m.
GOING WEST.
Leave Central 4:37 a. m.
Arrive Gainesville 1:28 p.m.
Leave Gainesville 1:35 p. m.
Arrive Atlanta 7:10 p. m.
Close connection at Atlanta for ail points
West, and at Charlotte for all points East.
G. J. Foreacre, General Manager
W. J. Houston, Gen. P. & T. A’gt.
Northeastern Hail road of Georgia.
TIME TABLE.
Taking effect Monday, November 11, 1878.
Ttraius 1 and 2 rim daily except Sunday; 3
• and lon Wednesdays and Saturdays only.
TKAIfT NO. 1.
STATIONS. ARRIVE. LEAVE.
f > A. M.
Athens 6 30
Center 655 657
Nicholson V 712 717
Harmony Grove, 740 745
Maysville 805 810
Gillsville 828 830
Lula 8 55
TRAIN INO. 2.
STATIONS. ARRIVE. LEAVE.
A. M.
Lula 9 45
Gillsville 10 10 10 12
Maysville 10 29 10 34
Harmony Grove 10 54 11 00
Nicholson 11 20 11 23
Center * 11 38 11 40
Athens. 13 00
TRAIN 3VO. 3.
STATIONS. ARRIVE. LEAVE.
P. M.
Athens ! 840
Center 403 405
Nicholson 4 20, 423
Harmony Grove 4 46j 4 51
Maysville 511 j 13
Gillsville 5 33j 5 35
Lula 6 °°l
TKAIIV no. I
STATIONS. '.ARRIVE. LEAVE.
P. M.
TjU la .... # ............... i4o
-••Gillsville 810 812
Maysville 829 834
„ Harmony Grove 854 900
Nicholson 920 923
Center 038 940
Athens 10 00 •
Trains will wait thirty minutes at Lula
for delayed passenger trains on the Air-Line
Railroad. JAMES M. EDWAEDfcJ, Snpt.
The Gainesville Eagle.
VOL. XII.
Hall Countv Sheriff Sales.
\A7ILL BE SOLD, on the first Tuesday in
January, 1879, before the courthouse
door, in the city of Gainesville, Hall coun
ty, Ga., within the legal hours of sale, the
following property, to-wit:
One house and lot in the city of Gaines
ville, Hall county. Ga., east of A & It A L
railroad, said lot fronting eighty feet and
running back two hundred feet. Levied on
its the property of II N Seay by virtue of a
fi fa issued from the 4111 h district, G M, in
favor of J A Suddeth vs M N Seay.
Also, at thu same time and place, fifty
acres of land, more ur Jess, in the Bth dis
trict of Kali county, Ga., adjoining land of
Calvin Spencer, W E Canning and others.
Levied-tin the property of Joseph Thomas
by virtue of two Justice court fi f,is—one in
favor of Absalom Martin vs Joseph Thomas,
the other in favor of J M Chamblee vs Jo
seph Thomas and John Thomas. ,
Also, at the same time and place, a tract
or parcel of land in Half county, Ga.,
known as part of the R B Davis place,
bounded by John Merritt on the north and
wes f , Richard Hancock and others on the
othi r side, it being tho traot of land de
scribed in a deed of conveyance made by H
P Strickland to John C Bennett, on the
14th day of November 1878, and recorded
in Clerk’s office Hall Superior, court, Book
M, Pago 322. Levied on a3 the property of
Job i C Bennett, by virtue of two Hall Fn
ppzfot court fi fas—one in L*vor of Willis
Beavers vs John C Bennett, the other in fa
vor of Samuel Bailey vs John C Bennett, ~
Also, at the game time and place, a tract
of land granted to Absalom Thompson, sit
uate in the four-mile purchase, in said coun
ty, containing fifty acres, more or less, ex
cept a strip of land three hundred feet wide
across the same, adjoining the Harris Gold
mine tract, sold by H. L. Lowman to the
Lowmau Gold and Silver Mining Cos. Also
one other tract of land containing one hun
dred, and. aixty-five acres, more or less, being
the whole of the Harris Gold mine tract,
containing three hundred and six acres,
more or less, except one hundred and forty
one acres. Sold by Harvey L Lowman to
the Lowman Gold and Silver Mining Com
pany. Sold as the property of Harvev L
Lowman, under and by virtue of an attach
ment fi fa issued from the 411th district G
M, of said county, iu favor of Samuel C
Dunlap vs Harvty L Lowman. And also
sold to satisfy a fi fa issued from the 411th
district G M, of said county, iu favor of Asa
Reeder vs Harvey L Lowman. Property
pointed out in the attachment fi fa and by
plaintiff’s attorney.
Also, at the same time and place, one
hundred acr;:s of land, being parts of lots
Nos 114 and 121 iu the 10th district of Hall
county, Ga., adjoining lands of J P Eley on
the west, Thompson and Newton on the
north-,-Johnson on the east, and the lands
of O B Thompson on the couth, and known
as the tract of land sold by O B Thompson
to S L Caiaer and A H Whitlock, and for
which they hold bond for titles, with only a
part of the purchase money paid. Hold as
property of S L Carter and A H Whitlock,
under and by virtue of afi fa issued from
the 403d district G M, of said county of
Hall, in favor of O B Thompson vs S L Car
ter and A H Whitlock. Levy made and re
turned to me by E M Holland, L 0.
Also at the same time and place, lots of
land Nos 99, 100, 101, 111 in the Bth district
of Hall county, Ga., and 75 acres, more or
less, in the southwest corner of 1 >t No 376
in the 7th distiic; of originally Gwinnett
now Hall, all levied upon as the property of
Benjamin E Porter, by virtue of two Hall
Superior court fi fits--one in favor of WA
Ransom & Cos., the other in favor of L B
Hutchins vs said B F Porter.
Also, at the same time and place, a parcel
of land lying iu the city of Gainesville, in
said county, and known as lot forty-eight
(48) in the ultra of : aid city, cornering on
Sycamore and Spring streets, and contain
ing oue. ..acre, more or less. Sold as the
property of Jane Cochran, to satisfy afi fa
from the 411th district, G M, iu favor of
the Ala,.jo auii Goum-ii of the city of Gaines
ville vs A M Cochran and June Cochran.
Levied and returned 'ey Obed Smith, the
property being pointed outbv defendant.
dcc6-tds. JOHN L. GAINES, Sh’ff
Marshal Sales.
Will be sold before the court house door
in the city of Gainesville on the first Tues
day m January 1879, the following proper
ty for unpaid city taxes for 1878:
Also, at the eamo time and place one
wooden store on west side of Main street,
adjoining store of J B Estes on the south,
vacant lot of H A Brown on the north, lev
ied on as the property of Charles E Richey,
by virtue of a fi fa in favor of Mayor and
Council ot the city of Gainesville vs Charles
It Richey, for unpaid city tax for 1878.
Also, ru the same time and place one un
divided half interest in a vacant lot on east
side of Bradford street, adjoining D Alex
ander on the south, mid vacant lot of David
Tanner on li e,north, levied on as.tlie prop
erty of Charles P Day mond, by virtue of a
fi fa in favo of May r and Council of the
city -of Gainesville vs Charles P Daymond
for unpaid city tax for 1878.
Also, at the same time and place one
house and lot on west side of Athens street
fronting street south o! Air Line railroad on
the north, and iot of D G Candler on the
west, and corporate lines of the city ou
tha south, levied on as tire property of Al
len Corbin, by virtue of fi fa in favor of
Mayor "and Council of the city of Gaines
ville vs Allen Corbin for unpaid city fax for
1878.
Also, at the same and time place oue vacant
lot on the east side of Athens street, adjoin
ing Daniel .Fowler on the south, and vacant
lot of A D Candler on the north, levied on
as the property of Young Cole, by virtue of
a fi fa in favor of the Mayor and Council of
city of Gainesville vs Young Cole for unpaid
city tax for 1878.
Also, at the same time and place one house
and lot ou east side of Athens street, adjoin
ing lot of A C Moss on the north, lot of W
F Hooker on the south, levied on as the
property of James Booth, by virtue of a fi
fa in favor of the Mayor and Council of the
city of Gainesville vs James Booth for un
paid city tax for 1878.
Also at the same time and place, one
house and lot on east side north Bradford
street, North street on the north on the east
and on the west lands ot E. N. Gower, as
the property of the estate ot Henry King by
virtue of a fi fa in favor of the Mayor aud
Council vs estate of Henry King for unpaid
city tax for 1878.
Also at the same time, one house and lot
ou east side of Main street adjoining Mrs
E W Merritt on the south- Miss Ellen Brad
ford on the east, as the property of Joseph
T King by virtue of afi fa iu favor of the
Mayor and Council of the city of Gainesville
vs Jos T King for unpaid city tax lor 1878.
deefi tds T NIIANTE, Marshal.
SherifiPs Mortgage Sale.
Georgia, Hall County.
Will be sold before the court house door
in Gainesville, Hall county, Ga., within the
legal hours of sale on the first Tuesday iu
February, 1879, the following property, to
wit;
A tract or parcel of iaud in Hall county,
Ga,, beginning at Cooper’s Beech corner on
Lots Creek, thence along said creek south
to the mouth of the Goldmine branch,
thence up said branch to Susannah' Harri
son’s back line, thence along said line north
to Cooper’s stake corner, thence with Coop
er’s line to the beginning, the same being a
part ot Susannah Harrison’s homestead con
taining sixty acres, more or less. Levied
ou as the property of Gideon Harrison, by
virtue of a Hall Superior court fi fa iu favor
of the Sieger Manufacturing Company vs
Gideon Harrison. J. L. GAINES.
decfitds. Sheriff.
United States Internal Revenue
Deputy Collector’s Office, 2d Dist. Ga. ,
Gainesville, Ga., Dec. 2, IS7B.
Notice is hereby given of the following
seizures made by me for violations of Inter
nal Revenue laws:
Oue copper still, c *p aud worm, oue axe,
and one double-barreled shot-gun, as the
property of James McNeal and others.
All persons having any iuterest therein
are hereby notified to come forward and
file their claims and give bond within 30
days as required by law, else the same will
be sold and the net proceeds deposited to
the credit of the Secretary of the Treasury
iff the United States.
‘ dt6-3t W. T. B. WILSON, Dep. Col.
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 20, 1878.
The Dahlonega Railroad.
Hall county is deeply interested
in the completion of a railroad from
Gainesville to Dahlonega. So of
course is Lumpkin and in a less de
gree Gilmer, Fannin and Union,
brought nearer to a market by it.
Townß like Gainesville which have
been built up and maintained by the
wagon trade only, find themselves
gradually losing ground by the in
roads of railways which bear away
from them the products of the coun
try to markets, comparatively re
mote, if distance be measured, but
rendered nearer and more conven
ient through the quickness and fa
cilities of railroad transportation.
Augusta is a notable example of this
fact. Long before the war she en
joyed a wagon trade extending to
Tennessee, The completion of the
State road clio Oil i/truA it., i
Since .the war the Air-Line road has
'taken to Atlanta all the busifless
from the headwaters of the Savannah
which formerly went to Augusta
Athens, long dependent upon Augus
ta, lately freed herself by means of
the Northeastern railroad and now
proposes to rival her late superior
as a wholesale market. Very re
cently the Elberton Air-Line was
completed from Toccoa to Elberton.
In consequence thereof the entire
trade of Franklin, Hart and .Elbert
which from time immemorial had
sought a market in Augusta, is now
diverted to Athens or Atlanta. See
ing these results and feeling that her
large manufacturing interests, though
capable by reason of her immense
water power, of indefinite extension,
could hardly keep her abreast of the
times, Augusta has put forth all her
strength and energy in building an
other western connection, the Au
gusta, Knoxville and Greenwood
railroad, through which she confi
dently expects to regain more than
the trade she has lost. Let Gaines
ville profit by another’s experience.
Tho Elberton people are desirous of
extending their road up into Rabun,
and the Athens papers are calling
upon the owners of the Northeastern
to cross the Air-Line at Lula, build
up to the line of the State and thus
secure a trade which they say be
longs to their city. Then if the Ma
rietta and North Georgia railroad
shall have proceeded to the moun
tains, Gainesville will wake up and
find her entire upper country trade,
to which slie is legitimately entitled,
taken away from her by these several
roads, and herself a way station
merely, on the Air-Line railroad,
with not a dollar’s worth of whole
sale trade, and forced to depend up
on the revenue derived from a few
summer boarders (which the mere:-b
accident may take away any year) to
keep body and soul together till the
next season.
This is not an agreeable view of
the subject but not in the slightest
degree an exaggerated one. It has
been aud will continue to be the his
tory of all cities and towns, with no
large manufactures, aud therefore
entirely dependent upon outside
trade, which sleep and dream whilst
others alive and awake are continual
ly carrying into practical effect all
those things which the changes of
modern times have rendered impera
tively necessary not only for their
growth, but their very life.
There is no reason why Gainesville
should sleep the sleep of death. She
has in her midst active, energetic
and prosperous citizens ever alive to
her best interests and welfare. They
know that while we are poor and
money is for poor men to get,
still enterprise, perseverance and
above all a determination to succeed
will build railroads, as it will accom
plish most every thing else.
Reese of the Macon Telegraph, its
solid and reliable Washington corre
spondent also, during the session of
congress, has this to say anent the
causes of democratic defeat last
month; Democratic prospects two
years hence are not so bright
as they ought to be. The
more I talk with men from all parts
of the country the more I am con
firmed in my conviction that the last
campaign was made disastrous for us
by our own folly. ’We went off after
strange gods and they led u-i into
bogs and swamps. The greenback
lunacy was the devil that betrayed
us. We had in the old traditions
and faith of the democratic party on
th. 9 money question, a safe and sure
citadel that had baffled and beaten
the enemy’s assaults ou many glori
ous occasions. We could have held
it against the world but we deliber
ately abandoned it and let the Radi
cals occupy it. Whether we can re
gain it and put them out to figlu in
the open field which proved so disas
trous to us this year remains to be
seen. I don’t see victory in any
other direction, but others may. But
may the Lord spare the party any
more such criminally stupid perform
ances as was witnessed this year of
grace in the campaign just closed.
The Princess Louise is % two years
younger than her husband
wugress.
Peculiarities of Great Men.
The Duke of Wellington was not
1 remarkably sedulous of dress, al
j ihough on grand occasions he made
! a sufficient display, when he wore
j his principal orders and decorations
I blazing on a coat more gorgeous
than the celebrated habit of Prinoe
Esterhazy, which, it was said, cost
him £2OO in repairs and damage*
every time it was put on. The Duke
had a custom of wearing a whit*
neckcloth in uniform, which gave
him rather a slovenly look; and a
flippant French Duchess once called
him “Le Due Yiilainton,” beoause
he appeared at a full-dress party in
something less than grand tenue. He
was also familiarly called in the ar
my “the beau,” from his usual plain
attire and apparent negligence of
outward splendor. That vanity is
an inherent compound or attendant
of greatness if,a wide position, which
of raffish argument and end
less demonstration. Many distin
• grG 1 -- 1 iz.‘ tv or adopt eccen
tricities, e: which vailfty may be the
mating cause.
Lord Nelson was fond of exhibit
ing his and delighted in having
his horses taken out, and his car
riage drawn by the mob.
The celebrated Lord Peterbor
ough, though light and vain and
proud, had no weakness of this kind.
Once, the populace taking him for
the Duke of Marlborough, insisted
on dragging him through the streets
in triumph.
“Gentlemen,” said he, “I can as
sure you by two reasons that I am
not the Duke of Marlborough. In
the first place, I have only five guin
eas in my pocket; and, in the sec
ond place, they are heartily at your
service.’’
So, throwing his puree among
them, he got out of their hands, with
loud huzzas and exclamations. The
Earl of Peterborough, who had much
sense, much wit and much whim,
leaped out of his chariot one day on
seeing a dancing-master with pearl
colored silk stockings, lightly step
ping over the broad stones and pick
ing his way in extremely dirty
weather, aud ran after him (who
soon took to his heels) with his sword
drawn, in order to drive him into the
mud, into which he, of course, fol
lowed himself.
All singularities may be traced
home to a certain degree of vanity,
of which prevailing weakness the
old leather brooches of Frederick the
Great, the coarse coat and brass
buttons of Charles XII, the small
cocked hat and gray capote of Napo
leon, the blanket and tub of Diogenes,
and even the pious beaver and mod
est drab of the Quaker, ncuty be in
cluded as samples,
Philosophy itself has no objeotion
to an occasional flourish of trumpets.
The ancient sages taught in the
schools, and modern philomaths
lecture at public institutions, but
who shall say that they are not as
much incited by the vanity of show
ing their acquirements as by tho de
sire of instructing their fellow-citi
zens? Even Seneca declared that if
knowledge was bestowed on him on
condition that he snouid not impart
it, he would decline the gift.
French Toilets.
On our way, writes a French cor
respondent, we indulged in a brown
study as to why Parisians have a
reputation above every other nation
in matters of the toilet. It ie not
because they are extravagant in the
choice of materials, as a people.
The Americans and English, proba
bly, spend twice as much in this res
pect. Therefore, we have come to
the conclusion that the secret of
their success lies in these two points:
taste in selection and combination
and extreme attention to those nice
ties other nations consider unimpor
tant Then, too, a thorough Paria
ian lady is so excessively careful of
her wardrobe. She bestows on it
nearly as much care as on her chil
dren. One who can afford to buy
only two or three costumes in the
year will make as good an appearance
as an American who runs through
half a dozen. The French woman’s
bonnet may be simple and cheap,
but never out of keeping with the
rest of her toilet, and however she
manages in the matter of dresses,
shabby boots are never reckoned
among her shortcomings. The gloves
may be of an inferior quality, but
they fit well, and never lack a button.
The color of her costumes may be
trying, but she lightens it with
bunches of lace and pieces of ribbon,
she loaves nothing to bo desired in
the way of effect. What she wears
on the street she does not wear in
the house, for eager little hands and
climbing little feet soon tarnish its
freshness. Each article is carefully
brushed, mended or folded, as occa
sion may require, and brought out as
good as new when next to be worn.
One sees no sweeping dresses on the
streets of Paris. That filtny specta
cle of petticoat pavement-sweeping is
reserved for our own sublime Ameri
can cities. French women have been
reproached with untidiness in their
homes. “Yes,' 1 says Mrs. Grundy,
•‘they live for the world.” Perhaps
the reproach ha3 some foundation;
but this is aiso true: An American,
when she Marries, unless moving in
the best (we should say the moneyed)
circles, becomes negligent of those
little womanly coquetries in matters
of dress that helped to win her a
husband. The Parisienne never
does. She is as anxious her husband,
and evey one else, should think her
“jolie femme” at sixty as at sixteen.
A little of this spirit is very good. A
woman neatly and becomingly dressed
is certainly a preferable companion to
one indifferent to such affairs.
From January, 1876, till May last
twenty-three dead bodies have been
cremated in the city of Milan, one of
them that of a woman. Four bodies
ascertained to be of the weight of
sixty-three, sixtv-two, forty-one and
fifty-nine kilogrammes, have yielded
ashes to the weight of between two
and three kilogrammes. A kilo
gramme is about two and one-fifth
pounds.
Ibis prayer brought down, remain
An Actress’ Dilemma
Visitors to the Standard Theater
last night were disappointed to find
that, although Miss Alice Harrison’s
name appeared on the programme,
that charming little dramatic cock
tail failed to present herself on the
boards. A rumor that she was se
riously indisposed at the Palace Ho
tel was generally accepted as an ex
explanation. The cold facts of the
ease, however, are these: While the
oiever young actress was descending
from her room in th 9 elevator, on
her way to the theater that evening,
the man who runs this machine
thoughtlessly stepped off for a sec
ond at one of the landings without
completely stopping its movement.
The result was that it continued to
descend, with Miss H. as the sole oc
cupant. It is supposed that she be
came alarmed and endeavored to
stop the machinery in some way.
At all events it became motionless
between • two of floors.
restrains there stationary u§t we go to
PrdSS
The machinery has got out of gear
somehow, and the only mechanic
who understands it lives in New
York; he has been telegraphed for,
and passed Omaha yesterday, com
ing out on a special Express train.
Meanwhile, no communication can
be had with the imprisoned car, and
her only sustenance has, since Tues
day, been pea soup and other liquids,
forced through the rubber tube that
supplies the elevator with gas The
whole affair cast a gloom over the
hotel. Telegrams and other expres
sions of concern are pouring in from
all quarters, Wd hope Mias Harri
son will come out all right in the end,
but confess it looks rather doubtful.
After this we suggest that the eleva
tors be provided with six months’
canned provisions and a life-preaerver
apiece. —San Francisco News Letter.
The American “Aristocracy.’’
In all the larger cities of the Uni
ted States there is a class which
openly calls itself—aud is openly
called by others—the aristocracy;
end the more modern members of it
are endeavoring, as much as possi
ble, to adopt the manners and cus
toms of aristocracies in other coun
tries, and to contract matrimonial alli
ances with them. They put their
servants into livery, and emblazon
the panels of their carriages with
heraldic devices, in which coronets
and other insignia of nobility, and
even of royalty, are visible.
Some have purchased property
abroad, and call themssivea by its
well-sounding foreign name; others
hare adopted the names of noble
families, and some have even gone
so far as to assume foreign titles,
which they use when abroad, and
with the crests and armorial bear
ings of which even at home they
Istamp their note paper and' decorate
their dinner menu. The demand
has become so extended in this di
rection that two heralds’ offices have
actually been opened in a fashionable
part of New York to meet it, where
coats-of-arma, crests and mottoes
may be obtained to suit the name,
taste, rank and pedigree of the pur
chaser.
Actors and Prayers,
It is related that when Warde, the
actor, came to this city with his wife
and three little children he waited
long for an engagement. At last he
was employed to play “Othello” to
Edwin Booth’s “lago,” in Baltimore.
He was nervously anxious about his
part, as he had never played it. At
last he set off, leaving his wife and
children'for the first time since their
arrival in America. At night his
boy, five years old. knelt to say his
prayers —first came, “Now I lay me,”
and then he said, as usual: “O God,
bless papa and mamma and dear
grandma in England;” and then, af
ter a little stop: “O dear Lord, please
help papa through Othello!” Mr.
Warde was told of the incident, and
he wrote to a friend afterward: “I
have been more successful th in I
hoped to be, and I believe that Ar •
thur’s prayer has been answered.”
This story Was told at a dinner tab’e,
where the wife of a clergyms-n was
present. After she had hsaid it she
exclaimed with wonder: “Why, I
didn’t know that actors’ chil ireu
ever said their prayers 1”
Great Britain’s Railroad Speed.
The following facts, taken from the
London Week, will give those of our
readers not acquainted with English
travelling an idea of the high rate of
speed maintained by some of the
British railroads: The fastest train
run by the Northwestern Railroad
does the distance from Euston to
Rugby in one hour and fifty minutes
—bat this speed is equaled by the
Southeastern mail, which runs to
Dover, seventy-six and a half miles,
in 102 minutes. Both these are far
exceeded by the Great Northern
Scotch express, which only takes 129
minutes to run 105| miles to Gan
tham from London; and by the
Great Western “Flying Dutchman,”
which reaches Swindon, seventy-sev
en miles, in eighty-seven minutes.
These trains run at fifty and fifty
three miles an hoar respectively
and the last-named remains, as for
many years past, the fastest train in
the world.
The Russian army is being con
siderably increased. Thß iorty-eight
battalions of the first four reserve
divisions, formed in 1877, have not
been disbanded, but have had forty
eight more battalions added to them
Measures having been taken to quin
tuple these ninety six new battalions in
time of war by reserves called in, the
increase for field purposes amounts
to 480 battalions. Beside this, all of
the old infantry regiments are raised
from fifteen to sixteen companies
each, the increase from this measure
amounting to 152 battalions. Ac
cordingly, 632 new battalions are ad
ded to the 648 battalions Russia
possessed when crossing the Pruth 1
in 1876. There is however, no
adequate number of officers to be
had.
is die within a year.
California Extravagance.
The evidences of California extrav
agance are to be seen on every side.
The dwellings, furniture, tables and
dress of the peoDle indicate very lib
eral expenditures. San Francisco
has the reputation of buying the
most costly wines, cigars and silks.
A saying, not deserving to be digni
fied as a proverb, declares that “New
York dresses better than Paris, and
San Francisco better than New
York,” The magnificent hotels and
the palaces of a dozen millionaires
are unsurpassed, if equalled, by any
thing short of royalty in the luxury
of their appointments. There is a
large demand for the best that can
be had. California consumes 2,000
dozen of genuine sparkling wine an
nually, and the Atlantic slope, with
fifty times as many people, does not
consume seven times as much cham
pagne. California uses 60 pounds of
sugar to the person in a year, the
Atl%£tje elope 26, Great Britain 40,
Fiance and Holland each 20, and
Italy 7. Coffee is sold to the extent
of one pound each for the inhabitant
in Great Britain and Italy, three in
France, seven in Holland, ten in this
State and seven in other States. Of
tea, the average Californian drinks
six pounds in a twelvemonth, the
other American two, tho Britain four,
the Frenchman and Italian less than
a quarter of a pound. Tne figures
for the consumption of many other
articles of comfort aud luxury are
incomplete, a large proporition of
our imports coming through New
York and paying duty there, and
being forwarded to California under
circumstances that leave no opportu
nity to ascertain their value or
amount. Though it consumes large
ly of foreign goods imported at New
York, with one-fiiftieth of the popu
lation it pays one-thirtieth of the
customs of San Francisco; and the
average consumption of foreign pro
ducts is at least twice as great here
us on the Atlantic slope. The ex
travagance of whicn we have spoken
is not confined to a few; it is charac
teristic or the community generally,
and it’s worse relatively, among the
poor than the rich. Many of the
wealthy families owe their wealth to
simplicity of life more than to large
gains.— San Francisco AUa,
Confidence men are carrying on
with a high hand in Augusta. From
yesterday’s Chronicle we learn that
among the many visistors in the city
Saturday was Mr. T. Anderson, of
Abbeville, S. C , who, as he was walk
ing along Broad street, was accosted
by two men who looked like country
men, nnd who informed him that
they represented the Great American
Tea Company. By paying a small
initiation fee they said he could be
come a member of this company,
with the privilege of drawing for a
prize, which might be something
considerable. They imaily gained
Mr. Anderson’s confidence to such an
extent that they induced him to ac
company them to their room, in a
private hoarding house, on Broad
street. After getting into the room
they told Mr. Anderson that he could
now draw for the prize, and bade
him make a selection, which he did.
When the envelope was opened, it
was found to contain the number 11.
“Whh,” said one of theaharpers, “that
is a lucky number. You have drawn
fifty dollars.” He then asked Mr.
Anderson if he could change a hun
dred dollar bill. Mr Anderson an
swered in the affermative, and at
once produced fifty dollars. He no
sooner showed the money than it
was grasped by one of the ras
cals, who then drew a revolver and
ordered the victim to leave instanter.
Mr. Anderson obeyed immediately,
and went down into the street, fol
lowed by the thieves, who then de
camped and were seen no more. A
policeman was at the corner below,
bat Mr. Anderson was so ,disturbed
by the threats the robbers had made,
if he said anything about the affair,
that he told tho officer nothing about
it, and did not even mention it to
his Ron until some time afterwards.
The son at once lodged information
at the police office, and every effort
was made to detect the thieves, but
without avail, as too long a time had
elapsed since the transaction occur
red. It was ascertained that one of
the men shaved off his beard and
changed his clothes soon after the
robbery iu order to escape detection.
The race of sailors, as W 9 used to
know it, has well nigh disappeare i.
The men who live ia the forecastle
of an ocean steamer are no more
sailors than the deck hands of a
North River ferry boat. They are
the stokers and “roustabouts” of a
great machine. The introduction of
steam, it is complained, has taken
away not only the romance of the
sea, but tile manliness of ihe sea
men. On board of a great ocean
steamship, even the hoisting is done
by steam, and much of the work for
merly requiring the exercise of hu
man muscle is accomplished by la
bor-saving machinery. The men in
the forecastle are sooty, greasy fel
lows, drafted from many nationali
ties, poorly paid as a rule, knocked
and kicked about like dogs, aud des
titute of the intelligent pride in one’s
vocation which springs from a high
state of discipline. Is it any wonder
that they are selfish and inefficient,
and that each man io intent on shirk
ing his duty in time of safety, and
looking out for himself when danger
comes ?—New York Tunes.
Of late the skill of our cheese
makers has so much improved that
we can make any of the cheeses of
the word. Much of the Swiss cheese
of various brands which is eaten in
this country is make in New Jersey,
aud tbs Stiltou, long the pride of Old
England, is successfully imitated
within a few miles of this city. Even
the far-famed and odorous Limberger
ia said to be produced somewhere
near New York in all the strength of
the native and genuine article. —
Philadelphia Tunes.
An effort is being made to prohibit
—t i: t
News in General.
Augusta has had its first shad.
Did you ever see an Indian Paw
nees overcoat.
One thousand and fifty-three white
votes in Houston county.
Avery successful Catholic fair was
held in Augusta last week.
Augusta has a shooting club which
does some tall glass ball shooting.
A boy of 18 and a girl of 11 were
lately married in Rochester, New
York.
Pulaski county has a democratic
primary election for county officers
tomarrow.
The members of the South Caroli
na legislature receive five dollars a
day for thirty days.
Rome’s cotton receipts up to De
cember 6th, 36,291 as against 21,454
same time last year.
Hamp Gibson fatally shot his
brother-in-law Styles in a Milledge
ville bar-room last Friday.
There are fifty besf markets in
Atlanta all doing a good business
according to the Constitution.
Amy Berry was killed by Caroline
Hearn Saturday week three miles
from Newnan. Both colored.
One Weigle, proprietor of a beer
garden in Hamilton, Ohio, kiiled
himself and then his wife last week.
The National Council of the Union
League met in Philadelphia last
week and resolved that they knew it
all.
The South Carolina legislature
met November 25th and has deter
mined to adjourn sine die December
23d.
There are now three casos of lep
rosy, two very severe, at the charity
hospital on Blackwell’s Island, New
York.
The republican United States sen
ate, as usual, is busily engaged in in
creasing the house appropriation
bills.
It is stated by the Hawkinsville
Dispatch that seventy-three men have
been killed since the war, in Jasper
county.
Two hundred minors were lately
thrown out of employment by a strike
in Buck Ridge colliery, near Potts
ville, Pa.
The Edmunds bill to regulate the
counting of the electoral vote passed
the senate last Friday by a vote of
35 to 26.
Herbert, republican candidate for
congress last month in the third
Louisiana district, will contest Ack
len’s seat.
Senator James G. Blaine said
about all he could on the southern
outrage question last week and that
was not much.
C. R. Pennock, of Cochran, Ga.
committed suicide last Friday by
shooting himself through the heart.
No cause is assigned.
The question of building the new
capitol m Atlanta will not be deter
mined aud probably not again dis
cussed by this legislature,
Louis A. Godey’s will, admitted to
probate, provides that Godey’s La
dy’s Book shall not be sold, but con
tinued and published by his sous.
The number of hogs slaughtered
and fattening in Sumter and adjoin
ing counties is now about twenty per
eent. iu excess of any year since the
war.
The Boston democrats have the
mayor, street aud school commis
sioners, nine of twelve aldermen and
thirty-nine of seventy-two council
men.
Dalton has a steam sausage factory
which ships on an average one thous
and pounds a day. These are the
enterprises which tend to build up a
town.
Heavy storms and distructive
floods last week in Pennsylvrnia,
New York and New England, inter
fering very seriously with mills and
railroads.
Senator Hudson did just the right
thing in offering a resolution requir
ing the Governor to remove the sign
“Kimball’s Opera House” from the
State Capitol.
The Savannah News says that Hull,
democrat is certainly elected to con
gress over Bisbee republican from
the second Florida district by at least
eighty-three votes.
A goodly crowd of passengers is
passing through Macon every day ac
cording to the Telegraph on their way
to Feruandina, Jacksonville and
other parts of Flo rida.
Revenue officers Post and Wilson
lately destroyed 6,000 gallons of
mash and beer iu Cherokee county
and brought five captured stills and
other property to Marietta.
Ex-Governor Andrew G. Curtin,
democrat, of Pennsylvania, served a
formal notice of contest on Seth G.
Yocum, republican and national, for
a seat iu the next congress.
The Atlanta police found a drun
ken man lying iu front of the Kim
ball House ouo day last week, in
whose overcoat pocket, after a search
was found the sum of $2,015.
Many a timid, shrinking maiden,
who last summer swung upon the
gate with her lover iu all parts of
Georgia is now engaged in half-sol
ing the same individual’s pants.
Hampton had every vote iu the
legislature for United States senator,
except two of the three republican
negroes from Beaufort. The other
negro from that county voted for
him.
A direct steamship line has just
been established between Jackson
ville, Fla., aud Nassau and Havana,
carrying United States mails. Toe
firs' steamer will leave about Decem-
Cotton pickers get a dollar a day
and board in north Ttsi A th r 1
of the crop is yet to be gathered
A London dispatch says E l ward
O’Kelly, the last Fenian prisoner, will
be released before Christmas. His
friends are endeavoring to secure
permission for him to reside in Great
Britain.
The grain elevator of the Hanni
bal and St. Joseph railroad at Kan
sas city, Mo. gave way one day last
week from the pressure on its sides
of 75,000 bushels of grain. Damage
$45,000.
The Franklin (Macon county, N,
C ) Reporter says there is some talk
of the Air Line railroad building a
narrow gauge road to this place, con
necting with the road near Toccoa
Georgia.
The cotton shipments from Ameri
cus over the Southwestern railroad
for September, October and Novem
ber amounted to 15,972 bales; re
ceived at Americus up to December
12th 19,458.
Macon registered for her last week’s
city election 1,451 white voters and
1,264 colored, making a total of
2,715; the-largest registry by about a
thousand, according to the Telegraph
and Messenger.
The Brooklyn Bridge spanning the
East R,ver at New York was to cost
$8,000,000, but $10,000,000 has al
ready been expended, and several
more millions will be absorbed before
it is completed.
Corbin will make another attempt
this session to obtain the seat of Sen
ator Butler, of South Carolina. It is
supposed his only motive is to obtain
the appropriation of a good round
sum for his expenses.
James S. Sypher was arrested in
New Haven last week for a supposed
connection with the stealing of Stew
art’,- body. The affair appears to be
a joke played on the police. Sypher,
of course, was discharged.
We hope the Cartersville Free
Press will cease its attacks on Gordon.
It is no light thing to attempt to pull
down the good which a
man has built by long years of blame
less life. —LaGrange Reporter.
SO, 50
Montgomery county is ahead
again. One of her citizens, it is re
ported; has lost two wives this year,
and has just married the third time.
There are some brave women iu this
world. —Hawkinsville Dispatch.
Col. McClure, of the Philadelphia
Times, is in Washington, and has
formed the opinion that while there
are many in congress who would like
to see resumption fail, there are few
if any who dare to oppose giving it a
fair trial.
Harvey G. Brown, convicted of
manslaughter iu having -
wrecked a train near Claymont, Del.,
June 19th, in which four lives were
lost, was recently sentenced to pay a
fine of $4,000 and to be imprisoned
for five years.
The South Georgia Conference of
the Methodist Church mat in Thom
asviile last week Thursday. The
presiding elders are J. W Hinton,
A M. Wynn. A. T. Maun, E. H. Mc-
Ghee, J. W. Burke J. O A. Clarke, J.
E. Lentel and Thomas Lanier.
A trial took place the other day at
a justice court m this county about a
hog, which was claimed by two per
sons. They compromised the suit
by killing and dividing the hog, and
giving the magistrate the head and
jowl for costs. —Sumter Republican.
It is reported that one Marie Ja
nette Bell, born in France, but now
of Chicago, is aged 108 years, and
that she has seen Benjamin Franklin,
Napoleon 1., Ney, Cambronne,
Robespierre, and that she saw Louis
XVI and Marie Antoinette executed
Col. Charles C. Jones Jr. of Augus
ta, was, on November 19, 1878 elect
ed a member of the Royal Society of
Northern antequities of Copenhagen,
of which Christian IX, King of Den
mark is president. This is the most
famous society of its sort in Europe.
Song of the medical student:
If a body find a body
Iu a grassy dell,
If a body hook a body
Need a body tell ?
I’m the caddy hauls the body
To the picklin’ shop,
And all the doc’s they envy me
A carving of him up.
“Mr. and Mrs. D , Boston, U.
S. A. Best and most prosperous
country under the sun. Thank God!
Just arrived from Cnamouny on
mules; pleased with the mountains.”
This is an inscription on a Swiss
hotel register. Tho mules could not
write.
The board of directors of the Geor
gia railroad last week in Augusta de
clared a semi-annual dividend of
three per cant, payable to-day the
20th inst. The Augusta Chronicle
says the condition of the road is very
fine, the business safe and prospects
cannot be but pleasing.
An explosion of nitro glycerine
and gunpowder occurred last week in
the St. Barnard coal mine at Ear
lington, Ky. A train of mining cars,
mules and drivers wero blown to
atoms. There is a panic among the
miners and their families. The shock
of the explosion was felt for miles.
Since the democrats have had con
trol of the house of representatives
the net ordinary expeases of the
government has been as follows 1875
(republican house) $171,529,818 57;
1876, sl6l 857, 8133 G; 1877, slll,-
209,96328; 1878, $134,473,152 15.
Reduction since 1775,537.056,396 12.
It ia now currently believed iu New
York that Stewart’s body is making
an extended tour through Europe in
company with its daring abductors.
How the expense of such a trip must
worry the old man, who used to walk
down to his store to save car-fare,
when he knows that he will have to
settle the bill at the end!— Cin. Eaq.
Franklin Pierce did not change
his cabinet during his term. Lika
Hayes, he was afraid to trv a change
for fear of faring worse. —Atlanta Con
stitution. Gen P.erce did not change
his cabinet, because he could not
better it in any way. With William
L. Marcy iu the state department.
James Guthrie in the treasury. Jeffer
son Davis in the war, and Caleb
Cushing as attorney-general, he had
the best talent in the
jo., c<*ssau, N. x.