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T ke Gainesville Eagle
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nrrl Xl ?' Uuion a, :d Dawson counties, and the city
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twelve other counties in Northeast Georgia, and
two counties in Western North Carolina.
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GKN ERAL DIRECTQKY.
CITiU UCHDIREOfoRY.
Pbshbttkbian Church—Rev. T. P. Cleveland,
Pastor. Preaching evory Sabbath—morning and
night, except the second Sabbath. Su day School,
at 9 a. m. Prayer meeting Wodnesday evening at 4
o’clock.
Methodist Ghubch—Rev. W. W. Wadsworth, Pas
lor. Preaching every Sunday morning and night.
Sunday School at 9a. m. Prayer meeting Wednes
day night.
Baptist Church Rev. W. 0. Wllkos, Pastor.
Preaching Sunday morning and night. Sunday
School at!) a. m Prayer meeting Thursday evening
at 4 o'clock.
GAINESVILLE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.
3. B. Estes, President; Win. W. Habersham, Secre
tary.
YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.
W. L. Gordon, President; F. M. Pickrell, Vice-
President; Claud Estes, Secretary. Service iu o.i c
of the churches every Sabbath a ternoon at three
o’clock. Service for young men In the Methodist
church every Tuesday evening, cottage prayer
meetings every Friday evening.
FRATERNAL RECORD.
Flowery Branch Lodge No. 79, I. O. O. TANARUS.,
meets every Monday night, Joel Laseteb, N. G.
B. F. Stedham, Sec.
Alleohant Royal Akch Chaptjl meets on the
Second and Fourth Tuesday evenings in each
month.
H. 8. Bbadley, Sec’y. A. W. Caldwell, H. P,
Gainesville Lodge, No. 219, A.-. F.-. M.-.,
meets in the First a nd Third Tuesday evening in
the month
R. Palmour, Soc’y. W. G. Henderson, W. M.
Air-Link Lodob, No. 64,1. O. O. F., meets
every Friday evening.
A. B. O. Dorsey, Sec. H. S. Bradley, N. G.
GAINESVILLE POST OFFICE.
Owiug to recent change of schedule on tho Atlan
ta and Charlotte Air Line Railroad, the following
Will ba the schedule from date:
Mall train No. 1, going east, leaves 7:47 p. m.
Mail for this train closes at 7:00 “
Mail train No. 2, going east, leaves... .8:'!5 a. m.
No mail by this train.
Mail train No. V going west, 1eave5....6:31 a. m.
Mail for this train closes at 9:30 p. m.
Mail train No. 2, going west, leaves.... 9:05 p. m.
Mail for this train closes at 7.30 “
Office hours from 7 a. in. to 5:30 p. m.
General delivery open on Sundays from to9,q.
Departure of mails from this office:
Dahlonega and Gilmer county, daily BJf a. rn
Dahlonega, via Walioo and Ethel, Saturday...B % a. in
Jsfferson & Jackson county, Tuesday, Thurs
day and Saturday 7 a. m
Clsveland, White, Union, Towns and Hayes
ville, N. C., Tuesdays and Fridays 7 a. m
Dawson villa and Dawson county,, Tuesday
and Saturday 8 a. m.
Earner, Banks county, Saturday 1 p. m
Pleasant Grove, Forsyth county, Saturday.. 1 p.m
M. R. ARCHER, P.M.
Atlanta and Charlotte
AIU-L1 n ja *
Trains will run as follows on and after
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1878.
NIGHT M4IL '.CJL*. A I.CS .
GOING EAST.
Leave Atlanta 3:15 p. m
Arrive Gainesville 5:31 p. in.
Leave Gainesville 5:33 p. m.
Arrive Charlotte 3:03 a. m.
GOING WEST.
Leave Charlotte 12:00 mdnt
Ai-riva Gainesville 9:41 a. m.
Leave Gainesville 9:42 a. m.
Arrive Atlanta..... 12:00 m.
jl> at* jl> ags?* til a- k ±-t r’is .
GOING EAST.
Leave Atlauta 6:00 a. m.
Arrivo Gainesville 8:32 a. in.
Leave Gaiuesvillo 8:33 a. in.
Arrive Charlotte 6:22 p. m.
GOING WEST.
Leave Charlotte 10:20 a. m
Arrive G*tnesvi lie 8:11 p. in
Leave Gninesvill e 8:15 p. m
Arrive Atlanta 10:30 p. m
Through Freight Train.
(Daily * vent. Sunday.)
’ GOING BAST.
Lear* Atlanta 9:25 a.m.’
Arrive Gainesville 1:28 p. in.’
Leave Gainesville 1:35 p.m.-
Arrive Central 7:10 p.m.
GOING WEST.
Leave Central 1:40 a. m
A'rive Gainosviile 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 Atlauta 5:25 a. in.
Arrive Gainesville 1 0:'2 a. m.
Leave Gainesville 11:00 a, m.
Arrive Central 5:15 p. m.
GOING WEST.
Leave Central 4:37 ft. m.
Arrive Gainesville 1:2*1 p. m.
Leave Gainesville 1:35 p. in.
Arrive Atlanta 7:10 p. m
Close connection at Atlanta for all points
West, and at Charlotte for all points East.
G. J. Foreacbe, General Manager
W. J. Houston, Gen. P. & T. A’gt.
Northeastern linilroatl of tieorghi.
TIME
Taking elieet Monday, November 11, 1678
Ttrains 1 and 2 run daily except Sunday; 3
and ion Wednesdays ud Saturdays only.
THAI rv >7 0. 1.
STATIONS. ARRIVE. j LEAVE.
I A. M.
Athens • ! 6 30
Center 6 55i 057
Nicholson 7 12 J 7 17
Harmony Grove, 740 745
Maysville SOS 810
Gillsville 828 830
Lula 8 55]
‘ ' th ,\.lrs 'iNor, ’
STATIONS. AEIiiVE. LEAVE.
A. M.
Lula 9 45
Gillsville 10 10 1 10 12
Maysville 10 29i 10 34
Harmonv Grove.... Id oil 11 00
Nicholson H 20j 11 23
Center 11 38i 11 40
Athens 12 00 j.. j.
' 'xil/virv x\o. ;s.
STATIONS. ARRIVE. LEAVE.
P. XL
Athens •• • i 9
Center 403 405
Nicholson 1 20! 4 2:
Harmony Grove 4 40; 4 51
Maysville 511 -5 15
Gillsville 5 3 U 5 35
Lula. 6 °°l
“ TKAiNjjK). 4.
” STATIONS. ARRIVE. I LEAVE.
i P. M.
Lula J,
Gillsville 810 812
Maysville ° *<> °
Harmony Grove 861 900
Nicholson 9 “9 23
Genter 9 38 940
Athens 10 uo
Trains will wait thirty minutes at Lula
for deiaved passenger trains on tne Arr-Liue
BMlrwO. JAMES M. EDWABDSL Snn
The Gainesville Eagle.
YOL. XIII.
Gal nesville College—Circular.
Having leased the Gainesville Col
lege for five jears, from Jan. 1, 1879,
I announce to the public that the
school will be continued on the same
plan as heretofore: the thorough co
education of the sexes.
The President feels grateful for
the generous patronage he has re
ceived, and desires to manifest that
gratitude by redoubling his ener
gies, if possible, to give still greater
eatisfaclion. to those who patronize
him again the ensuing year. The
prospects of the institution are
brightening; the success of ’ast term
bas greatly encouraged its mends,
and preparations are being made for
a large increase during the ensuing
year.
Prof. J. T. Wilson, whose reputa
tion as a teacher is already estab
lished, will have charge of the High
School Department.
Mrs. Fannie Brock, one of the
most “growing” Indy teachers of my
acquaintance will continue in the
Primary department.
Tuition charged from beginning of
the mouth in which the student
enters to end of term, with nodeduc
tion tor lost time except in case of
sickness protracted over one month.
RATES OF TUITION.
Primary Sch< il per month SI.OO
Gomuio r School 2.00
Gru -Aimer School 3.00
High School 4 00
College Classes 5.00
Music 4.00
Incidental Fee, per Term, In advance, 1.00
Tuition payable monthly, in ad
vance; or one half in advance—bal
ance at the end of the term
Spring term opens Janu >-ry 20,
nd closes July 4, 1879.
C. 13. LaHatte, President.
Administrator’s sals.
Georgia, Fulton County.
By virtue of au order of the Court of Or
dinary of Laid county, passed at its Dscera
ber Term, 1878, will bo sold at the Court
house door in Atlanta, in said county, oa
til- first Tuesday in January next, within
the lawful hours of public sales, for cash,
the following lands belonging to the estate
of Thomas Alexander, late of said county,
deceased, to-wit:
A'so, one unimproved lot in the town of
Gainesville, Hall county, Georgia, subdivi
ded by “Johnson Survey” into lots Nos.
51, 52, 05, GO, containing four acres (city
acres); bounded on the north by West llroad
street, on the east by Mill street, on the
south by Railroad avenue street, and on the
west by au unnamed street.
Also, a half interest (other half being own
by Larkin Smith) in an unimproved lot
west of the lot above described and bounded
as foil ws: On the north by West Br ad
street: c ist by unnamed street; south by
Railroad avenue and by unnamed street.
Also, the “Frost” tract, containing 625
acres, partly improved and embracing lands
deeded by P. O Conner and Alexander Deal
to George W Frost, bounded north by
Deal and Het.ry Clarke; east by road run
ning from Gainesville to Hopewell church;
south lands of Moses Simpson, Henry Clarke
and Berij. Reed, and west by lends of Mrs.
Webster and Mrs. L. Morrow.
Also, one hundred acres of Timber lands,
bounded by tho Dividing Ridge, “Ste
phens’” land, Head’s land and by Brow
ning’s land; more partlculary described in
plat and grant of James M. Smith, Gover
nor, etc., dated April 30th, 1872. The Air-
Line Railway crosses the northern portion
of this lot.
LANDS IN GWINNETT COUNTY.
Land lot No. 2(18 iuthe 6th dirtrict of said
county, containing two hundred and nine
(209) acres, besides the land occupied by
the right of-way of the A. & R. A-L. Rail
way, which pass through said lot, and a
reservation of four (4) acres on the west side
of said lot to Mrs. M.| A. Mclierley. This
lost is unimproved timber lands.
Sold as the property of said deceased for
distribution among his heirs. This Decem
ber 6th, 1878.
B. H. BROOMHEAD.
Admiuistartor of Thos. Alexander, de
ceased.
Any one desiring to see the “City Lots”
the “Frost Tract” will call upon A. B. 0.
Dorsey, City Clerk.
Admmistrafors’ Sale.
Georgia, Union County.
By virtue of an order of the court of Or
dinary of Union county, will be sold before
the court house doo; in Blairsville, said
county, between the legal hours of sale on
the first Tuesday in January next, the
following property, to-wit:
The northwest "half of lot of laud No 46,
in the 16th district # aad first section of
Union county; also, the northwest half of
lot No 63, ia the 16th district of said county
cont.na'og 80 ac - es, more or less, each.
Lot No 64 in the 16th district of said coun
ty, containing 160 acres, more or less,
ou which tnere is a good corn mill. Also,
the . outheast half of lot No 27, iu the 16th
district, containing 80 4cres, more or less;
also, the northeast half of lot No 45 in the
16th district, containing 80 acres, more or
less. A portion of all the above lots of land
atv in cultivation. All sold as the property
of Josiah Daniel, deceased, for the benefit
of his heirs and creditors. Terms: One
balf iu twelve months, the remainder in
two years, with note and approved security,
waiving the homestead, with interest from
date. Bond will be executed and delivered
to the purchacor for titles.
JOHN J. SELF,
DAVID DANIEL
nov29-td Administrators.
Georgia, Rabun County.
Martha F McConnell wife of Thomas N
McConnell of said county has applied to me
for exemption and set ing apart of a home
stead cut of the real and personal property
of the said T N McConnell and I will pas -i
upon the same at my office in Clayton on
the 22nd day of January next at 11 o’clock
a in. This December 23, 1878.
J. W. GREEN,
dec27 30d Ordinary.
Geokgjv, XT''un County.
Catherine Ellar, wife of James Eliar of
said county, has applied to me for exemp
tion, and setting '.part a homestead of per
sonalty out ol the estate of said James Ellar
and I will pass upon it at 11 o’clock a m on
the 31st of December 1878 at my office in
Clayton. This December 10, 1878.
2d J. W. GREEN, Ordinary.
ii JiS. JOHN W. WHITE,
Fashionable Dressmaker.
Will cut and lit garments or patterns
from any figure in any Fashion Book, and
will teach any lady to cut and fit by Gar
ley’s Chart in three lessons, and furnish the
chart, for $2.50. Takes several Fashion
Books. Call and see her at the King house,
octll-3in Main street, Gainesville, Ga.
Dropsy Cured.
I will guarantee a cure in eveiy variety
and form of Dropey, after examinin'’ pa-
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 3, 1878.
Mr. Bell in Congress
We referred last we*k to several
bills offered by Hon. H. P. Bell in
the house of representatives Decem
ber 3d. As they are short we give
them entire. The first is a bill “to
abolish certain internal-revenue offi
cers” and is as follows: “Be it enact
ed by the senate and house of repre
sentatives of the United States of
America in congress assembled, that
the offices of ‘inspector of tobacco
and cigars.’ ‘internal-revenua store
keeper, ‘gangers,’ and ‘supervisors
of internal revenue,’ ba, and the same
are hereby, abolished.” The next is
a bill .“to authorize the producers of
tobftiw) to dispose of tha aamo with
out the payment of any tax thereon,”
and reads as follows “be it enacted by
the senate and house of representa
tives of the United States of America
in congress assembled, that from and
after the passage of this act the pro
ducers of tobacco may sell tliß same
in the leaf, hand-twist, or in any form
whatever, to any consumer or pur
chaser, without the payment of any
tax whatever, sec. 2. That all laws
in conflict with this act be, and the
same are hereby, repealed.’’
The last is a bill “to repeal an act
entitled ‘an act to provide for the re
sumption of specie payments,’’ and
is as follows; “Be it enacted by the
senate and house of representatives
of the United States of America in
congress assembled, that an act en
titled ‘an act to provide for the re
sumption of specie payments,’ ap
proved January fourteenth, eigh
teen hundred and saventy-five, be,
and the same is hereby, repealed.’’
The first three were referred to the
committee of ways and moans and
the last to the banking and currency
committee
Mr. Bell also introduced a
bill for the relief of the fi
nancial embarrassments of the peo
ple, which is too long for insertion
here but we give the main points.
He proposes to issue legal tender
bills to bear upon their face the
words “this bill is legal tender for all
dues to the United States govern
ment;” this to include import duties
and "principal and interest of
the public debt when not other-;
wis provided f Jr by law, and all:
debts pubiio and private. These
bills are to be issued to take up all
such greenbacks,national bank notes
and United States bonds as may be
voluntarily surrendered by the hol
ders. These bills are to be inter
changeable for gold and silver provid
ed there is any in the treasury over
the amount required to pay the in
terest on the public debt. State
banks to do business with these legal
tender bills are not to be hindered
by the United States and no more
national banks are to be chartered.
Blaine’s Bloody Shirt Revival.
Senator Blaine, by his recent at
tempt in the senate to hoist the
sanguinary garment commonly called
the bloody shirt, admits, better than
cou’d an open confession, that upon
every federal issue essential to the
peace, happiness and prosperity of
the whole people, the organization,
of which he is a conspicuous le der,
has no hold upon the country. Re
alizing, as so adroit a politician most
assuredly does, that his party, shown
by the late elections to be in a mi
nority in thirty of the thirty-eight
States of this Union, is in a most
precarious situation, he endeavors to
restore its prestige by renewing the
issues which gave these Southern
States, a foretaste of hell and made
Grantism possible throughout the
country.
It is doutful if he succeeds in the
attempt, but certain defeat awaits
him if he does. It will most effect
ually solidify the South. Every man
therein, not altogether lost in char
acter and morals, will vigorously
oppose a party whose every move
ment tends to centralism and despot
ism, Tfie stannch democrats of the
North will do their utmost as they
have ever done, while thousands of
voters who do not cling closely to
any party organization will unite
heartily with the democracy to re
store peace, a real peace, to all sec
tions of our country.
Politically speaking we need not
dread a bloody shirt campaign, but
the man who attempts to inaugurate
it is not only a bitter and malignant
foe to us, but as much an enemy of
his own State and section and should
be considered beyond the pale of civ
ilized warfare.
Hon. Allen Fort, of Sumter, the
great leader in the railroad tariff
movement, has wisely held over his
plans and purposes to the July ses
sion. He is a young man of eminent
ability, and is giving the subject a
most searching investigation. His
people are pushing him in the matter,
but he does not believe that hasty
and injudicious action would give
them the desired relief. In July he
will come back fully prepared to take
up the matter in all its bearings.
Not less than two weeks will be
needed to dispose oftthe question.—
Georgia’s Prosperity.
It was with feelings of genuine
satisfaction that we read in the New
York Herald a few days ago a letter
from a correspondent of that paper,
who has evidently made the present
prosperous condition of the South a
subject of careful inves *• igation, giv
ing a satisfactory and detailed ac
count of the affairs in this State
The writer notes the facts that the
people of Georgia are better off to
day than they have been since the
war, for although there ie some
grumbling still, both in city and
country, over hard times and low
prices of cotton, the truth is that a
day’s labor now will purchase more
of the necessaries of life than it would
a few years ago iu the times of infla
ted prices, and although eotton is
low, a pound of it will buy more meat
or calico now than has ever been the
case since the staple has been grown.
The correspondent attributes these
complainings of hard times here al
luded to, in face of the increased
purchasing power of money, almost
entirely to the misrepresentations of
politicians, who, he says, call the
laborer’s attention to the decline in
his wages, but lead him away from
the compensating fact that he can,
with his wages purchase so much
more than formerly. This may be a
leading cause of grumbling. There
is no doubt that many things are fre
quently stated by unscrupulous poli
ticians for their own advancement,
while the truth, likely to tell against
them, is carefully suppressed; but it
i3 not, by any means, the prime cause
of discontent among oar farmers and
citizens generally. The trne reason
is to be found in the fact that though
money may have advanced even one
hundred per cent, in value in the last
few years, and therefore low prices
now may not really mean, of them
selves, less of wealth, still a vast
number of people contracted debts in
tho day of inflated values when cot
ton was fifteen cents a pound, and to
have to pay these debts dollar for
dollar now, with the staple at eight
cents, is where the trouble lies. It
is indeed paying a fearful interest on
debts, which is well calculated to
keep “a man’s nose down to the
grindstone” in spite of all other and
favorable circumstances. It is this
class of men at the South, men who
are struggling with debts contracted
in the time of the inflated values,
that the Herald’s correspondent has
heard grumbling. Let their debts
be once paid, or let them be adjasted
on an equitable basis, and should
present prosperity continue (of which
there is Jittie doubt) neither low
prices nor political misrepresenta
tions will cause our people to grum
ble longer over hard times.
The writer of the letter under con
sideration, Jjowever, presnts a very
truthful statement of Georgias condi
tion. He says:
“The merchants are without excep
tion buoyant and hopeful beyond
what I have known since the crazy
days of inflated values. Their trade
has been larger than in several years,
the surplus being more than large
enough to account for the early move
ment of the cotton crop. The buai
ness of the railroad and steamship
lines lias been heavy beyond prece
dent. The Central line, via Savan
nah to New York, reported a surplus
of $85,000 net profits over the same
month of 1877, and the stock of the
road has advanced in three months
from 48 to 71. It is indicative of
the increased briskness and confi
dence that the stock and the earn
ings of every road in the State of
Georgia have advanced heavily and
steadily within the past year. The
Central has gone within that time
from 33 to its present figures. With
in that time four ocean steamers,cos
ting together over $1,000,000, have
been purchased by a Georgia compa
ny from Roach’s shipyard, and are
playing between Savannah and New
York. The Northeastern Railroad
and the Eiberton Railroad, both de
veloping new sections of country,
have been finished, and the Marietta
and North Georgia Railroad is rapid
ly approaching completion. Within
about one year over $500,000 has
been invested in cotton factories in
the State, There has been a falling
off in the total values of the tax books,
bntthe percentage of decline has been
only about one-third of the general
decline in values. ’
The secret of the revival of busi
ness and enteprise is largely attribu
table to the general adoption of the
diversified system of farming as op
posed to the exclusive culture of cot
ton. Under the old system of rais
ing cotton almost entirely, cultiva
ting enormous plantations, and
pledging the crops in advance at high
rates of interest, the amounts of
money lost by the planter were enor
mous. It is stated that in this way,
Senator Ben Hill lost ever SIOO,OOO
in three years, and other heavy plan
ters did even worse. Now, however
under the system of diversity,
of crops, small * farms carefully
cultivated, the raising of corn,
meat, stock, etc., at home, together
with a repeal of the lien law—by
which a farmer could mortgage his
crops in advance—and turning the
attention to orchards, vineyards,
cereals, sheep-raising and such bran
ches of farm industry as have hereto
fore been overlooked by our farmers,
the result has been splendid, and
our State is “almost entirely inde
pendent of the West, which means
independence of factors, of high
prices, of heavy interest, ruinous dis
counts and loose expenditures.”
A point is made by the Herald's
correspondent relative to the colored
population of Georgia, which is wor
thy of special mention. He says:
“The negroes in most cases prove
to be good tenants, and generally
make their wives and children hoe
and plough. In this way they man
age to make good rental for the
farm and a living for themselves.
The negroes have shown a wonder
ful capacity for sawing and acquiring
land, the accession of the Demo
crats to power they had noth
ing. They now own over $6,000,000
worth of property, as shown by the
imense amount of laud, as at its re
duced price it sold for nominal fig
ures. The property owned by the
negroes is almost entirely land.
Every properly oivning negro is a demo
crat, almost without exception. There
is no sort of prejudice against selling
Jiandß to negroes.”
To this point we specially direct
the attention of Blaine, Paige and
that clasß of unscrupulous politicians
&ow so industriously engaged in the
United States congress in manufact
uring and circulating stories of bull
dozings and intimidations of South
ern blacks by Southern white demo
crats. The publication of the above
statement in the New York Herald
sfteaks- volumes in refuting their
sli nderous misrepresentations.
similar condition of affairs is re
pijrted by the Herald correspondent
gratifying evidences of prosper
ity,' now and hereafter. We have not
spt,ce to review at further length the
remarks of the writer. Suffice it to
saj that he shows that the South has
every encouragement to hope for a
brilliant future, all that is necessary
t&Yiccomplish it being for our people
to be true to themselves politically
and materially. Asa summing up
of the whole matter we present the
following extract from the concluding
paragraph of the letter alluded to:
“Interviews with the merenants of
Atlanta, Montgomery and Savannah
show no variance from the general
cheerful and hopeful outlook. Mer
chants in the various cities
and in various kinds of business
report the increase of the busi
ness of this season over the cor
responding season of last year from
twenty to forty per cant. I do not
say ofer the same month of last year,
for the business is fully two weeks
earlier this year than last, but the
comparison is made over the same
period of last year. The merchants
noted almost invariably that the
Northern and Eastern merchants are
much more anxious to sell to the
South this year than for the last two
or thrpe years, and are disposed to
give more liberal credit. Lass year
and the year before the question
was: “How much do you need?” It
now is, ‘How much can you take?’
The purchases have been much hea
vies than before for years, and hun
dreds of merchants who had bought
for the season have had to make a
second trip North already to replen
ish stock. There is complaint at the
closeness of competition this year
and the narrow margin of profit, but
this is compensated by the fact that
the trade is mostly cash, and there
fore safe. The repeal of the bank
rupt lawssnd the reduction pr
blOil or {fee homestead and exemp
tion laws in the Southern States
have done much to restore confidence
and have unlocked much money that
was hoarded and let it into business
circulation.’ ’ —Savannah News.
Northern Lawlessness.
A dispatch from Omaha, Neb., to
the Chicago Tribune says a jury at
Nebraska City found Henry Jackson,
Henry Martin and Wm. S. Givens
guilty of murder in the second de
gree for killing Charles Slocum and
outraging his wife. The evidence
seemed to warrant a verdict of mur
der in the first degree, and Judge
Gaslin so stated in his sentence of
penitentiary for life, which he passed
on the murderers. About 2 o’clock
the next morning a crowd assembled
at the jail, broke in the door, over
powered the jailer, seized Martin and
Jackson, and taking them half a mile
soatiTtJf the court house, hung them
to a tree. We have had frequent
occasion of late to call attention to
the spirit of lawlessness which is
abroad in the north and west, but
this i3 by far the worst caso that has
fallen under observation. Thera
may be some faint shadow of an ex
cuse for the mob who, in the heat of
blood, hang a criminal who has just
been daught in the act, and thus
cheat the courts of juetice of their func-
tions. But what excuse can there
be for men who make themselves a
supreme tribunal for the correction
of errors and deliberately set to work
to reverse the judgment of a court?
These men had been arrested and
tried; a jury had defined their crime;
a judge had passed that verdict into
a sentence; and still, after all these
solemn formalities had been ob-
a mob murdered the prison
ers, oif uhe ground that tho finding
of the jury was wrong. Yet, not
withstanding these facts, a leading
republican journal of the northwest
—the Minneapolis and St. Paul Pio
neer Press—commends the deed and
says the murdered men were “served
right.” A great deal has been said
of “Southern lawlessness, ” but no
such crime as this was over commit
ted in the South. It is time that
something should be done to put a
stop to Northern lawlessness. — Ghron.
<£ Con.
The following colloquy took place the
other day in the United States sen
ate between two distinguished demo
crats; Mr. Jones, of Florida: “I
would ask the senator if it was not
a contemporaneous construction of
the constitution that the time of
electing electors shall be uniform
throughout the United States ? Has
there ever been a different rule on
the subject from the formation of
the government to the present
day?”
Mr. Merrimon: Not with my
knowledge; but it is not within my
knowledge any question has ever
been raised about it.”
As there was no law requiring a
uniforurtime for electing electors until
the act of January 23d, 1845, and as
before that time they had been elec
ted in different States on different
days, it would seem as if even grave
and reverend senators can learn
something of the political history of
What the Recent Legislature Ac
complished.
We give below a full list of all the
bills Y/hich passed both branches of
the general assembly at its recent
session in our city. There were in
all thirty-three bills passed. Four
teen of these originated in the senate
and nineteen iu the house. Six
resolutions were passed. All the
bills and resolutions have been
duly signed by the governor, and the
work of the legislature so far is fin
ished.
BILLS PASSED.
An act to authorize ih? j iuicipal
authorities of towns and cities to
compromise their bonded debt; to
provide for the issue and exchange
:,f now bends for outstanding bonds,’
etc.
Au act to confer additional pow
ers on purchasers of railroads under
provisions of au act to enable pur
chasers of railroads to form corpora
tions and to exercise corporate pow
ers, etc.
Au act to prescribe the manuer
of giving notice of an intention
to apply for local and special legisla
tion.
An act to amend section 4692 of
the revised code relative to the trial
of joint defendants.
An act to prevent any coroner from
receiving from the county treasury
as fees an amount per annum exceed
ing $1,500.
An act to authorize the issue of
bonds of the State of Georgia for the
redemption of certain bonds of the
State falling due in the next three
years, and to reduce the interest on
the same.
An act to authorize incorporated
cities in this State to permit the in
closure of alleys where owners of lots
abutting consent, etc.
An act to amend section 2971 of
the revised code of 1873.
An act to carry into effect para
graph 2 of section 2d, of article 7, of
the constitution of this State, in ref
erence to the exemption of certain
property from taxation as therein de
scribed.
An act to provide for the probate
of foreign wills, and for appointment
oiid qualification cf administrators in
tais State, etc.
An act to keep open, remove and
prevent obstructions to the free
passage of fish in the waters of all
rivers and mouths of creeks in this
State.
An act to enforce paragraph Ist,
section 9, article 7th, of the constitu
tion.
An act to increase and fix the
amount of the bond to be given by
the treasurer of the State i mafic
asylum.
An act to provide for holding the
superior courts in certain counties
and for drawing juries in certain ca
ses, and for other purposes.
An act to repeal section 4323 of
the revised coda of 1873, and to
prescribe punishment for persons
convicted of murder, and for other
purposes.
An act to authorize the sale by
common carriers of all freight un
claimed and the deposit in bank
of the net proceeds of sale to await
the claim of owners, and for other
purposes.
An act to regulate the striking of
juries in civil cases and in cases of
misdemeanor in the Superior courts
of this State.
An act to change tho fiscal year so
that it shall begin on the first day of
October and end on the thirtieth day
of September.
An act to provide that the people
be better supplied with the public
laws of this State.
An act for the establishing of
branches of the State University at
Cuthberi and Thomasvilie, etc.
An act to allow certain liens of
landlords to be foreclosed before due
in certain cases.
Au act to change the beginning of
the terms of tho Supreme court to
the second Monday in February
and the first Monday in Septem
ber.
Au act to allow persons against
whom warrants are sued out as in
truders, or as tenants holding over,
three days within which to file count
er affidavits to such warrants, and
for other purposes.
Au act to amend section 4379 of
the code cf 1873 in reference to burn
ing out-houses by specifically includ
ing gin-houses in said section, and
increasing the penalty prescribed in
said section.
An act to require transferees of
tax executions issued pror to Febru
ary 20th, 1875, to have their execu
tions recorded, and fixing the time
when they must be placed on record,
etc.
An act to repeal section 1G77 of
she code, and in lieu thereof to pro
vide for tho granting and amending
of charters for schools, academies,
colleges and churches.
An act to carry into effect para
graph 2, section 18, article 16, of tho
constitution of 1877, so as to provide
for the selection of the most experi
enced, intelligent and upright men
to serve as grand jurors, and of
intelligent' and upright men to serve
as traverse jurors, and for the draw
ing of juries.
An act to provide for the setting
apart of homesteads and exemptions
of property, for the sale thereof, and
therein vestment of the proceeds.
An act to carry into effect article
6, section 7, paragraph 2, of the
constitution of this State as to
appeals in justices courts and there
from.
An act to carry into effect para
graph 2, section 18, article 6.
The appropriation act.
The tax act.
THE RESOLUTIONS.
The following is a list of the reso
lutions which passed both branches
of the assembly and were approved
by the governor:
A resolution requesting the gov
ernor to correspond with the au
thorities of the State of Alabama
with a view to the adjustment of a
claim for treatment of certain pauper
patients iu the State lunatic asylum
A resolution appointing a com
mittee to investigate wiki land
sales.
A resolution authorizing the gov
ernor to inquire whether any penal
ties or forfeitures have been incurred
by any lessees of penitentiary con
victs, and for other purposes.
A resolution approving legislation
by the national congress for dis
tributing. the proceeds of public
lands to public echo’ols in the several
States.
A resolution instructing the comp
troller to suspend sales of wild lands
and transfer executions.
A resolution in regard to Governor
Colquitt’s indorsement of the bonds
of the Northeastern railroad compa
ny. —Atlanta Constitution .
The following is a tabulated state
| ment of sums appropriated as salar
ies to the several officers of, the State
government.
Governor’s salary $-1,000.
Salary Secretary of State, $2,000.
Salary Comptroller General, $2,-
000.
Salary Treasurer, $2,000.
Salary Attorney-General, $2,000.
Salary State Librarian, SI,OOO.
Salaries clerical \i force, secretaries
and messenger of executive depart
ment SO,OOO. '
Clerk Secretary of State, SI,OOO.
Clerical expenses comptroller’s of
fice, including insurance and wild
land departments, $4,000
Clerk State Treasurer, SI,OOO.
President of Senate and Speaker
of House, $7 per diem, and 10 cents
per mile mileage.
Members of general assembly, $4
per day and 10 cents per mile mileage.
Secretary of Senate, SOO per diem
to pay all clerical expenses of Sen
ate.
Clerk of House, S7O per diem, to
pay all clerical expenses of House.
Door-keepers and Messengers, 6-1
per diem.
Assistant Door-keepers and Gal
lery-Keepers, $3 per diem.
Page of Senate, $1.50 per diem.
Three pages of House, $1.50 per
diem.
Chaplain of House, SIOO per session
Keepers of closets, $1 50 per
diem.
Judges of Supreme court, $3,500
per annum.
Future Judges of Supreme court,
$3,000 per annum.
Judges of Superior court whose
terms do not expire until 1860, $2,500
per annum.
Other Judges of Superior courts,
$2,000 per annum.
Solicitor-Generals, $250 per an
num.
Baporki'ai Supreme cu.m-6, *I,OOO
per annum.
Clerk Supreme court for station
ery, etc., SSOO.
Trustees Lunatic Asylum, S3OO
Keeper penitentiary, $2,000
Academy for the Blind, $12,000.
Deaf and Dumb Asylum, $15,000.
State Lunatic Asylum for 1870,
$49,625, in addition to overdrawn
balance of $50,375.
For Lunatic Asylum, 1880, SIOO,-
000.
Resident physician of Lunatic
Asylum, $2,500.
For repairs to public buildings
in Atlanta and Milledgeville, SB,-
500.
For work on vault in Comptroller-
General’ b office, S2OO.
Payment of interest of State debt
and eight per cent, bonds failing
due, $803,000.
Contingent fund, SIO,OOO.
Printing fond, SB,OOO.
Incidental expenses of assembly,
SIOO,
The republican party made a fatal
mistake in enfranchising the negro,
if by that means it expected to retain
power in the Southern States pro
portioned to the voting strength of
the negro population. It was a very
erroneous estimate of the white man;
and it is a most fortunate thing for
the country that its political power
has been practically retained in the
hands of white men. Mr. Blaine has
made great mistake for himself and
his party. The white men of the
North will never be able to control
the negro vote as against the white
men of the South. The true policy
of the republicans is to divide the
South and not to solidify it by array
ing the governing race on one side
and the incapable and ignorant ne
groes on the ochar. — Philadelphia.
Record. *
"The proposition to renominate
Grant for the Presidency has re
ceived a serious set back, which will
serve to discourage his third term
supporters. The London astrologer,
Raphael, in his prophetic almanac
for 1878: “The most important birth
furnished ua is that of ex-President
Grant. Like the other rulers given
in last year’s almanac, he was born
with five planets near the vernal
equinox. He is spoken of for elec
tion in 1880, but as the sun will not
then be free from the beams of
Saturn and Uranus, it is very doubt
ful if he will be elected,” Bully for
Saturn and Uranus! —Savannah News.
■ ♦
A singular dilemma’is reported in
life insurance business. At Memphis
this summer died Peter A. Tigue. So
did the doctor who attended h:m. Sj
did the undertaker who laid him out.
So did the clergyman who officiated
at his funeral. The company in which
Mr. Tigue’s life was insured declines
to pay the amount of the policy for
want of the regular evidences of his
death.
Bayard Taylor, United States Min
ister to the German Empire who
died recently, was temporarily hur
ried in receiving vault at the ceme
tery of Jerusalem church, Berlin last
Sunday week. His remains will be
shsrtly re moved to Cedar Crofi, near
Philadelphia. Mr. Taylor left very
little property, his widow having
very little excepting his life insurance
of $10,050.
A big baboon in;tho Great London
circus, recognized Bill Moore, at Au
gusta, after a year’s absence, at which
Among Our Exchanges.
The Valdosta Times is for sale or
lease.
.Congress meets again next Tues
; January 7th.
Thomas A. Edison is only thirfcy
a years of age.
Bleakley, an old and well
i known citizen of Augusta, died last
week.
The Oil city Derrick nominates
Rev. Mr. Talmage for Akoond of
Smut.
West Broad street Savannah, is
having anew pavement of Belgian
blocks.
The grand jury of Rockdale recom
mend the abolishment of their coun
ty court.
Thomas Andrews, of Walton coun
ty has been adjudged a lunatic and
sent to the asylum.
Atlanta is said to do the largest
pork packing business of any city
south of Louisville.
- nor Nrcholla ha*/ appointed
General Beauregard, adjutant-gen
eral of Louisiana.
Thomas E. Screven, aged 23, for
merly of Savannah was lately found
dead near Charleston.
NO. L
Anew carriage manufactory was
to have been established in Thomas
viile about January Ist.
Mrs. Biddie Moye, an old resident
of* Monroe county, died recently, in
her eighty-seventh year.
Charleston, S. C., has anew even
ing paper called the Evening Herald.
It sells for one cant a copy.
“Thero she goes,” they say in St.
Louis. “Who?” “Why, the young
lady that wasn’t engaged to Tildea.”
The Goodrich machine shops at
Augusta were recently destroyed
by fire. Loss $3,000/ No insur
ance.
The Florida State Canvassing
Board make the majority for Hull,
democrat, in the second district,
thirteen.
John W. Garrett has been elected
president of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad for the twenty-first consecu
tive year.
Jack Mclver, colored, was recently
murdered near Newnan. Jim Hop
kins, also colored, was arrested for
the offense.
Kansas wants $300,000 from Con
gress for property destroyed during
the fresoil agitation of 1854. Anoth
er southern claim!
Dougherty jail was recently cleared
of prisoners for the first time since
the war. New recruits, however,
soon began to arrive.
Jackson Sellers was recently con
victed in Lee county of the murder
of T. H. Whitsett. The jury was out
nearly thirty-six Lours.
boaswe Jerrolu: “1 knew a
man who could speak five and twenty
languages, and he never said anything
worth hearing in any of them/
Shark’s skin now serves for Pari
sian purse-3, and was thought partic
ularly appropriate for the inn-keep
ers, Ac., during the Exposition.
Gen, Joe Hooker is 61 years old,
well, hearty, and possessed of a su
premo aversion for his army associ
ates, Gans. Grant and Sherman.
The city council of Milledgevilie,
taxes boarding houses which aclion
compels gentlemen in search of quar
ters to betake themselves to Macon.
Augusta wants the United States
court to hold regular sessions in that
city. Which Judge would it prefer,
Bond of Maryland or Rives of Vir
ginia?
Tho Female Orphan Asylum at
Savannah was partially destroyed by
fire last Monday week. Forty little
children were forced to abandon
their cheerful home.
The negro murderer, Cooper, after
being carried back to Bainbridgo
jail was a clay or two after dragged
from his ceil by a mob and shot to
death in tho hallway.
Exports of Greafc-Britain to tho
United States have decreased from
£37,000,000 in 1873 to little over
£20,000,000 in 1877, and are still
slowly deciiniug.
The Chicago Times calls attention
to the fact that with all their sympa
thy for the negro, the northern re
publicans have never sent a rep
resentation of that race to congress.
Archbishop Purcell, who has been
head of the Roman Catholic Church
in Cincinnati for many years, has
written to the Pope asking to be re
lieved on account of the infirmities
of old age.
Judge Grice dissolved the injunction,
recently granted by him restraining'
the newly elected mayor and aider
man of Macon from qualifying, and
they have entered upon the discharge
of their duties. The contested elec
tion case, however, is still going on.
If there is an old maid in this
broad land who never ha3 been
hugged, but would like to be let
her dress in men’s clothes and meet a
Gilmer county candidate. If ho fails
to embrace her, then she will have to
retire to the shades of private life.—
Eliijay Courier.
“Get right out of this,’’.shouted an
irritated merchant to a mendacious
clerk, “this is the third lie I have
caught you in since 10 o’clock this
morning.” “Oh, well,’’ said tho new
man, “don’t be too hard on me. Give
a fellow time to learn the rules of the
house,” — Hawkeye.
It is not true that Bertha Von
Hiilern has paralysis of the 1
Now, before on and say ’ e o-g ”
some awfully particular folks will
3top the subscriptions, and if we
say”—irnbs” the other crowd will
accuse us of mock modesty. Guess
we won t finish the sentence. Any
how, she hasn’t got paralysis.— Boston
Traveller.
j-iie United Btr.i,Qs senate commit
tee to investigate so-called southern
outrages under the Blaine resolu
tion, consists of Teller of Colorado
Cameron of V isconsin, Kirkwood of
lowa, Hear of Massachusetts, Mc-
Mijlan of Minnesota, republicans,
a f U Tj ßayar , d °. f Delaware, Wallace
m Pennsylvania, Bailey of Tennes
: t nd Garland of Arkansas. fUmo,