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The Gainesville Eagle Every FtidaTlviorning OFFICE Upstairs in Candler Hall Building, Northwest Corner of Public Squaro. °® cl * l Organ ot Ball, Banks, White, Towns, ? a *S and Daw *° n counties, and the city - Hm a general circulation in twelve other counties in Northeast Georgia, and two counties in Western North Carolina. SUBSCRIPTION. ° Srx Months t , o _ Xkmk Months ABVAKOE, DBUVEEBD BY CA.HBIER OB PREPAID BY MAH,. papers are stopped at the expiration of the time paid for without further notice. Mail sub seribers will please observe the dates on their wrappers. Persons wishing the paper will have their orders dremptly attended to by remmltilng the amount fr the time desired. ADVERTISING. SEVEN WOBM MAKE A LINE. •tJlnary advertisements, per Nonpareil line, 10 •eats. Legal Official Auction and Amusement Mvertlse meats and Special Notices, per. Nonpa reil ltee. 15 cents. hetlces per line, Nonpareil type 15 cents Leeal notices, per line, Brevier type, 15 cents. A Slsovnat made on advertisements continued tot longer than one week. REMITTANCES T#r subscriptions or advertising can be made by Post Office order. Registered Letter or Express, at eur risk. All letters should b addressd, J. E. REDWINE, Gainesville, Ga. eRaL lyntuiTOKY."** Pbesbytxbian Church—Rev. T. P. Cleveland, Pastor. Proaching every Sabbath—morning and night, except the second Sabbath. Suoday School, at 9 a. m. Brsyer meeting Wednesday evening at 4 •’clock. Methodist Church—Rev. W. W. Wadsworth, Pas tor. Preaching every Sunday morning and night. Sunday School at 9a. m. Prayer meeting Wednes day night. Baptist Church Rev. W. 0. Wilkes, Pastor. Preaching Sunday morning and night. Sunday School att a. m Prayer meeting Thursday evening at i o’clock. GAINESVILLE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION. J. B. Bates, President; Wm. W. Habersham, Secre tary. TOUNG MEN’S OITRIBTIAN ASSOCIATION. W. L. Borden, President; F. M. Pickrell, Vice- President; Claud Estes, Secrotary. Service in ou o •f the churohea every Sabbath aiternoon at three •’clock. Service for young men ,ln the Methodist church every Teesday avenlag. Cottage prayer meetlng* every Friday evening. FRATERNAL RECORD. FnowßfiT Bsanoh Lodgh No. 79, I. O. O. TANARUS., meets every Monday night, Joel Labkteh, N. G. B. F. Bttoham, Sec. ALLaenAitT Royal Arch Chaptbs meets on the Second and Fourth Tuesday evenings in each month. t. S. Bradley, Sec’y. A. W. Caldwell,H. P. GainbSvillb Lodob, No. 219, A.'. F.-. M,\, meets en the First a nd Third Tuesday evening in the month B. Palmoub, Sec’y. W. G. Hbndeeson, W. M. Air-Line Lodoh, No. 64 ,X. 0. O. F., meets •vary Friday evening. A. B. O. Doneuv, Sec. H. S. Bbadley, N. G. GAINESVILLE POST OFFICE. Owing to recent change of schedule on the Atlan ta and Charlotte Air Line Railroad, the following Will be the schedule from date: Mail train No. 1, going east, loaves 7:47 p. m. Katl for this train oloses at 7:00 “ Mall train No. 2, going east, leaves 8:35 a. m. He raaM by this train. Mail train *o. 1* going west, leaves....G:sl a. m. Mall for this train doses at —. 9:30 p. m. Mall tralnNe. 2, going west, 1eav05....9:05 p. m. Mail for this train oloses at 7.30 “ Office honrs from 7 a. m. to 5:30 p. m. General delivery open on Sundays from to9>£. Departure of malls from this office: Bbhlonsga and Gilmer county, daily 8g r. m Bahlonega, via Wahoo and Ethel, Saturday...B>£ a. m Jefferson A Jaokson county, Tuesday, Thurs ’ day and Saturday 7 a. m Cleveland, White, Union, Towns and Hayes ville, N. 0., Tuesdays and Fridays 7 a. m •awsonvllle and Dawson county,, Tuesday and Saturday 8 a. m. Memer, Banks county, Saturday 1 p. m Pleasant Grove, Forsyth county, Saturday. .1 p.m M. R. ARCHER, P.M. Atlanta and Cliariotte aik-mm:, Trains will rnn as follows on find after SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1878, ISTIOIIT MA.TI.( GOING EAST. o Atlnma 3:15 p. ru. Arrive Gainesville 5:31 p. m. Leave Gainesville..., 5:32 p. m. Arriv# Charlotte 3:03 a. m. GOING WEST. Leave Charlotte 12:00 m dnt Arrive Gainesville 9:41 a. in. Leave Gainesville 9:42 a. m. Arrive Atlanta 12:00 m. DAT I?A.P4PSLIGr I-C r’IS . GOING HAST. Leave Atlanta 6:00 a. m. Arrive Gainesville 8:32 a. m. Leave Gainesville 8:33 a. m. Arrive Charlotte 6:22 p. m. GOING WEST. Leave Charlotte 10:20 a. m Arrive Gainesvi lie 8:14 p. m LeaveGatnesvlll e 8:15 p. in Arrive Atlanta 10:30 p. in Through Freight Train. (Dally except Sunday.) •OINO HAST. Lev*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 Arrive Gainesville 7:23 a. m. Leave Gainesville 7:22 a. m. Arrive Atlanta 11:20 p. m. Looal Freight and Accommodation Train. (Daily except Sunday.) GOING BAST. (Leave Atlanta 5:25 a.m. Arrive Gainesville 10:42 a.m. Leave Gainesville 11:00 a. m. 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. 01#se connection at Atlanta for all points West, and at Charlotte for all points East. G. J. Foreacek, General Manager W. J. Houston, Gen. P. & T. A’gt. Northeastern Kail road of Georgia. TIME TABLE. Taking effect Monday, November 11, 1878. Ttrains 1 and 2 ran daily except Sunday; 3 and i on Wednesdays and Saturdays only. TRAIN~ NO. 1. STATIONS. ARRIVE. LEAVE. A. M. Athens 6 30 Center . 665 657 Nloholson 712 717 Harmony Grove 740 745 Maysville 805 810 Gillsville 828 830 Lnla 8 55 trAlnlvo. a. ~ STATIONS. ARRIVE. jLEAVE. 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 12 00 TRAIN NO. G. STATIONS. ARRIVE. LEAVE. P. 31. Athens 340 Center 403 405 Nicholson 420 423 Harmony Grove 446 451 Maysville 511 515 Gillsville 533 535 Lula 6 00 TRAIN IN O. 4. STATIONS. ARRIVE. LEAVE. P. M. Lnla - 745 Gillsville 810 812 Maysville 829 834 Harmony Grove 854 900 Nieholßon 920 923 Center 938 940 Athens 10 00 Trains will wait thirty minutes at Lula fat delayed passenger trains onjlie Air-Line fttiiread. JAMBS M. EDWARDS, Supt. The Gainesville Eagle. YOL. XilL Georgia, White County. Whereas, Benjamin F Nix, administrator of the estate of Jonas Nix, deceased, has filed in my office his petition stating thut he has fully discharged all his duties as each administrator, and prays that an ordr b passed discharging him from his said trust: Therefore, all persons concerned are hereby required to show cause, if any, against the granting of said discharge, at the regular term of the court of Ordinary to be held in and for said county on the first Monday in March next. Witness my hand and official signature, this November 18, 1878. ISAAC OAKES, nov29-td Ordinary. Georgia, White County. William Morris, guardian of Mary Craven, having applied to the Ordinary of said coun ty for a discharge from nis guardianship of Mory Craven's person and property; this is thetefore to cite ali persons concerned to show cause, by filing objections in my office, why the said William Morris should not b dismissed Jfrom his guardianship of Mary Craven, and receive letters of dismission from his said trust, on or before the first Monday in April next, at the regular term of the court of Ordinary of said county. Given under my hand and official signature, this December 11, 1878. dec2o-td ISAAC OAKES, Ordinary. Georgia, White County: Whereas, James Catbev, administrator of W C Nix, represents to the court, in his pe tition, duly filed and entered on record, that he has fully administered W C Nix’s estate: This is, therefore, to cite all persons con cerned, and creditors, to show cause, if they can, why said administrator should not be discharged from his administration aud receive letters of dismission on the first Monday in April, 1879. dec2o-td ISAAC OAKES, Ordinary. TOWNS COUNTY. Georgia, Rabun County. Rabun Superior Court, Oct. Term, 1878 By virtue of an order of the Honorable Geo. D. Rice, Judge of the Superior courts of the Western Judicial circuit, and of the statutes in such cases made and provided, notice is hereby given that the Superior court of Rabun county at the present term was by me adjourned to the April term, 1879, of said court. Parties, jurors and witnesses will take due .noiice thereof and govern themselves accordingly. October 28, 1878. W. M. HUNNICUTT, uovls 4t C. S. C. Executor’s Sale. Georgia, Towns County. By virtue of and in accordance with the last will and testament of Bird Kerlee, late of said county, deceased, I will offer for sale at public outcry, before the court house door in the town of Hiwassee, said county, on the first Tuesday in February next with in the legal hours of sale, ail the land be longing to said Bird Kerlee at the time of his death, not otinrwise bequeathed con sisting of the following lots of land, to-wit: lot nos, 125, 128, 124, 163, all of said lots in the 17th district and first section. Said lands lie on the great mineral belt in said county, is well watered and well improved. Terms of sale: one-fourth oash, the re mainder in one and two years with Dote and approved security with interest from date. Titles perfected when the last payment is made. This December 20, 1878. ROBERT 8. KERLEE, dec27-30d Executor. DAWSON COUNTY. Georgia, Rabun County. Martha F McConnell wife of Thomas N McConnell of said county has applied to me for exemption and setting apart of a home stead out of toe real and personal property of LUe 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 am. This December 23, 1878. J. W. GREEN, dec27 30d Ordinary. Georgia, Dawson County. Ordinary’s Office, December 20, 1878. Pollard Kelley, administrator of the estate of Henry Talley, deceased, has filed in my office his petition stating that he has fully discharged all his duties as such adminis trator aud prays that an order be passed discharging him from his said trust. There fore all persons concerned 'are required to Rhow cause against the granting of said discharge at the regular term of the court of ordinary for said county, on the first Monday in April 1879. H, B. SMITH, dec27-30d Ordinary. Georgia, Dawson County. Ordinary’s Office.—Whereas Jacob Padget administrator of Nancy Deusmore, de ceased, has filed in my office his petition stating that he has fully discharged all the duties as such administrator and prays that an order be passed discharging him from his said trust. Therefore all persons concerned are required to show cause against the granting of said discharge at the regular term of the court of ordinary for said county on the first Monday in April 1879. This December 20, 1878. H. B. SMITH, Ordinary. Georgia, Dawson County. Richard L Green administrator with the will annexed of the estate of Josiah Dilbeck deceased applies for leave to sell the land of sain estate. Therefore all persons concerned are hereby notified that the leave prayed for will be granted the applicant on the first Monday in February 1879, unless good cause to the contrary, shall be then shown. dec2o-1878. H. B. SMITH, Ordinary. looi l itUIIOLPH, PUBLIC SQUARE, GAINESVILLE, GA DEALERS IN General Merchandise. We keep the best staple Goods, BUY GOODS, GROCERIES, HARDWARE, Etc., Etc. THE CELEBRATED Bay State Screw Bottom Shoes, FOR Ladies, Children & Men. They are the best, most comfortable, dur able, and the cheapest Shoes made in the Whole Country, Wear a pair NIX 3IONTHS, AND BE CONVINCED. WE WARRANT MATERIAL AND WORKMANSHIP. apr26-tf Dropsy Cured. I will guarantee a cure in every variety and form of Dropsy, after examining pa nts. V f A O Giiassville Query: “Why will men smoke common tobacco, when they can buy Marburg Bros. Seal of North Carolina at the same price? febl-Iy GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 0, 1879. I In a recent interview Mr. Hayes expressed the opinion that the fin -n --| cial-commercial outlook was especially encouraging; that the people wffl prefer greenbacks to gold; that the national banks should not be abol-1 ished, and that the sectional issue oj southern question would never be prominent in politics again. On this latter point he said he thought it nearly dead already and that Blaine’s outrage resolutions and investigating committee would prove utter fail ures. Of the election for county officers for Fulton, the Constitution says: The election is past and good men have been chosen. The following is a list of the elected with the plurali ty of each: Sheriff—W. A. Wilson, 408; clerk —J. S. Holliday, 63; tax collector—S. R. Hoyle,* 1,642; tax receiver—William Ezzard,* 258; treasurer—O. M. Payne,* 1,990; Sur veyor—B. F. Walker,* 2,438; coroner —W. G. Drake, 479. Those marked with an asterisk are re-elected. There is a Mrs. Anderson, a for eigner, in New York, who is jnst now performing o*e of the most wonder ful feats of pedeatrianism of the age. She commenced about three weeks ago to walk a quarter of a mile every quarter of an hour for about a month. She has come to time every fifteen minutes up to this time and the probability is good for her to accom plish the task. This may seem very foolish to most people but it shows wonderful powers of endurance. That was truly a terrible state of affairs reported by some of the radi cal officials as existing in Louisana during the fall elections, but nobody with good sense and impartial feel ings believes them, and it is likely that the outrage mill of Mr. Blaine will soon cease to grind. Senator Thurman rather scotched the Maine snake the other day by a letter in which he showed that greater frauds took place in the Northern elections than any reported from the South. Investigating committees and sub committees are becoming so numer ous that it is almost impossible to keep up with them or get heads or tails of what they are doing. We greatly fear that some of them will turn out to be as great frauds as the frauds they are proposing to bring to light. Tht> £ ‘dollarßi,of oar daddies’'are be ing paid out at all the banka now to all who want them. Only a few who have not seen many of the “jai ler” beauties in years care anything more for gold than for greenbacks. All the people desire to know is, that the paper is as good as gold. Uncle Billy Evarts thinks we may have to send a few troops into Mexi co to break up the robber bands that infest the frontier whether that gov ernment likes it or not. Well, we think Uncle Billy is right, but we rather saspect he is trying to make a little cheap fame. From all over the country come reports of the coldest weather for years. Old inhabitants in this section thinks that last Thursday night was as cold as it has been since the cold Saturday of 1835. George Reed, a hard-working man of Hart county, has according to the Hartwell Sun, married off seven chil dren in the year past, and has seven more who will be eligible for matri mony in the year to come. Mrs. Rebecca Osborn, living near Crawfish Spring, Walker county, is now 92 years old. She is in good health and quite active, and can go anywhere about the place without assistance. A most diststrous fire occurred in Columbus on the 3rd inst, destroying the Rankin house and several stores, the loss was over SIOO,OOO. Insur ance not known. Some of our exchanges still come to us in half-sheets. They made Christmas and New Year both ex cuses for lightening up expenses. Quite convenient. Mr. A. A. Wright of Griffin, has applied for a patent of a method he has devised whereby a lint room tak ing fire from a gin can be put out by the same gin. An unknown man froze to death near Macon, Saturday morning.— He had been intoxicated. The ther mometer was reports and ° above zero. Numerous contested elections are reported over the State. Atlanta is to enjoy two between the candidates for Clerk and Sheriff. The cold wave has made a univer sal strike and much damage to prop erty and some loss of life is re ported . It is now thought that the demo crat Garcelon will be elected Gover nor of Maine by the legislature. The Garrard bonds take like hot cakes, with the people of the State. A Tribute To Genius. I On the 39th ult., the New York Historical Society held a meeting in the Academy of music, the occasion I beiDg the Bryant Commemoration, and the discourse to be delivered by Geo. Wm Curtis, on the “life, char acter, and writings of William Cullen Bryant.” A distinguished audience was in attendance.—On the platform were seated President Hayes and Mrs. Hayes, Attorney General Bv arts, Edwards, Pierpont, ex-Secre tary Bristow, General Sherman, John Say, Cyrus W. Field, Park Godwin, ex-Governor Tilden, and other dis tinguished gentlemen and elegant ladies. Mr. Curtis’ eulogy was a beautiful tribute to the deceased, whose genius and long years of intel lectual labor had made him a partri arch of literature, but who had at last to “Join the innumerable caravan. And lie down to pleasant dreams.” We have read the proceedings of this* meeting with peculiar inter est, because, the first poem we re member to have read was Bryant s Thanatopsis, one of the most beauti ful, solemn, and touching poems in the English language; and which, on on its publication, took its place, at once, high in rank in the literature of the world. It was in that poem he uttered the sublime saying which we quote from memory: “Truth crushed to earth, shall rise again; The eternal years of Gd are hen, But error, wounded, writhe* ia pain, And dies amidst her worshipers." We cannot express our admiration of this first of American poets in stronger terms, than, by quoting the conclusion of Mr, Curtis' address re ferred to: During all these busy years he had become a man of three score and ten. The pleasant city that he knew when he came to New York was now the chief city of the Western Continent, one of the great cities of the world; and the poet whose immortal dis tinction it was to have written the first memorable American poem, and whose fame was part of the national glory, the editor who, with perfeot unselfishness and unswerving fidelity, had expounded and defended great fundamental principles of national progress and prosperity, became our patriarch, our mentor, our most con spicuous citizeD, Every movement of art and literature, of benevolence and good citizenship, sought the decoration of his name. His pres ence was the grace of every festival, and although he had always instinct ively shrunk from personal publicity, he yielded to a fate, benignant for the community, and to his other dis tinctions added that of the occasion al orator. It is more than time that my voice were still, but I linger and linger, for when these words are spoken, the last formal commemoration of our poet will bjAve and we shall leave trial To nisvLfy ana good fame. 1 The whole earth, said Perioles, is the tomb of illustrious men. But how especially the characteristic aspects of American nature become to the imagination and memory memorials of Bryant. The primeval words, “God’s first temples,” breath the sol emn benediction of his versa. The rosy splendor of orchards in the bright June sunshine recall the singer of the planting of the apple tree—the kindly eye, the manly heart. “Whose part in all the pomp that fills The cirenit of the summer hills, Is that his grave is green." The water fowl at evening high in the depths of heaven, “lone wandering but not lost,” figures his lofty, pure, and solitary strain, And poured round all Old Ocean’s gray and melaneholy waste,” murmurs his name forever along the shores we love. Here, then, we leave, him, with tender reverence for the father of our song, with grateful homage to the spotless faithful citizen, with af fectionate admiration for the simple and upright man. Here we leave him, and we—we go forward re freshed, strengthened, inspired by the light of the life which, like a star serene and inextinguishable. “Flames in the forehead of our morning sky.” Hampton’s Farewell Address. The following parting words from Governor Hampton were read in the House of Representatives last even ing: To the Honorable Senate and House of Bepresentativee. Gentlemen: I had hoped to be able to see and thank each of my. friends of the General Assembly in person for the many acts of personal and official kindness of whioh I hav** been the constant recipient at their hands. Providence, while denying me this great pleasure, has vouchsated me to the reasonable hope that I may in the future have the opportunity so to do. But on this eve of your adjourn ment, which will be the severance of my intimate official connection with you, I feel impelled to address to you a word of farewell. Your flattering selection of me as Senator in the Congress of the United States is only one more mark of con fidence and esteem which I have so constantly experienced at your hands, and which has been a never ceasing comfort and support to me in every hour of succes or of trouble. That I may be able in the future to merit it as I have in the past receiv ed it is my highest hope. Asking that God in his mercy may bestow his choicest blessings on each and every one of you, I am, sincerely and affectionately, your friend and fellow citizen, Wade Hampton. [Columbia Register — Dee . 24 th. “Billy how did you lose your fin ger?” “Easy enough,” said Billy, “I suppose you did bat how?” “I guess you’d lost yourn if it had been where mine was.” “That dosen’t answer my question.” “Well if you must know, I had to cut it off, or steal the trap.” I Resumption of Specie Payment On and after this date the legal tender notes of the United States will be "redeemable, dollar for dollar, in gold and silver coin, the law provid ing that suck shall be the case on and after January Ist, 1879. We have so frequently discussed this forced specie resumption law, and the disastrous effects it has had upon American industry and prosperity ia the past, that it is entirely useless to do so again. A fortunate condi tion of affairs, showing the balance °* trade to be in our favor, has, most an expeciedly to the orignators of the m easure —who, to avoid discussion thereon, sneakingly passed it in an overwhelmingly radical Congress under the operation of the gag law— enabled the law to be executed. The mischief and misery produced by it upon the country are now things of the past. They have been suffered and endured, and now all that re mains is to see whether or not the law will be a failure, and whether with $130,000,000 of coin injthe Trea sury about $340,000,000 of legal ten ters can be maintained at par. ' Should the present condition of affairs continue, ana the balance of &ade remain in our favor, instead of coin being drawn out of the- country, it will come in and remain with us. In that case it is easy to see that vpecie resumption may readily be maintained. But should there be a change in onr commercial status, and should trade turn against us in the near future, then the specie resump tkm problem will bs one not so easy of solution Happily, however, there ia no immediate prospect of any such misfortane. Should the law succeed, Mr. Hayes, his administration and the radical party generally will no doubt en deavor to take great credit to thorn selvas and strive to make much po litical capital therefrom. For the reasons stated, it is plai that they will deserve none. All credit will be due to fortuitous circumstancees alone, over which they have never exercised the slightest controlling in fluence, and under similar circum stances resumption would have come of itself without the shock to busi ness or paralyzation of industry which this piece of radical legisla tion for the benefit of the rich at the expense of the poor has entailed. On the other hand, should it prove a failure, it will be but one more of the many monuments to radical blunder ing and misrule. Whether, there fore, it succeeds or fails, to radical ism will be due only the resposibility of having, by it, well nigh destroyed the country, a destruction which would have been completed had not the wonderfnl resources of the land prevented its accomplishment. Further comment on this subject at this time is unnecessary. A very little while now will determine whether or not gold and silver will ’rvsnftiri the ouvrepoy o f this,country, or whether the effort of ro imapfci ~nr will result either in a farce, or in a continued depression of industry and consequent hard times. —Savannah Mem. Good Breeding. Speaking of the good breeding of the present generation, a writer in the Sunday Afternoon has this to say: Much as we hope for from the future, what just now jeopards our public and social welfare is not old, but young America. Half a century ago there was among us a real res pect for aged people, outside of the circle of near kinship. Boys and girls on the roadside were not aßhamed “to make their manners” to their eiders, who, in turn had the politeness to return their courteous thanks for this youthful civility. That was a good symptom of the so cial sentiment. But the movement of the spirit of the age has left this mostly behind; and with this respect ful feeling for those whose years and position entitle them to an honor able regard has gone, to a perilous extent, the parental rule, for the au thority also of the State and statute book. It is very difficult to break down a proper habit of esteem for one object, and not involve a weak ening of respect for others. It ia very difficult to bring up that lad into a trusty, law abiding citizen, who has cultivated the vice of a con temptuous disregard for hia Odors. Sometimes there has been a osrriie deference to these, which is the lean ing over of a virtue to the other side That is not our danger. Now and then a passion for the antique is the fashion, and the hunt Lncjmss ludicrous in its eagerness after almost anything which has an ancient iook and odor. That is not to be laugh ed at as a folly, except in its excess. But if, while we are polishing up and restoring these relics of our fathers’ furniture and wardrobes with so much zest, we would revive at the same time, and re-enthrone, some of their sound and righteous principles of honor to whom honor is due, our dwellings and persons would not only receive adornments, but our land would be toned up with a return of stable, healthful public sentiment much needed to allay the fever and purge off the impureness of our gen eral social and civil life. Good Times. The following shows the progress made by American trotting horses in the last half century: In the year 1820 the best mile time was about 3.30. In 1830 the record was 2.40. In 1840 the best time, made by Dutchman, was 2.28, In 1850 the best record, made by Lady Suffolk, was, 2.26. In 1860, th 9 best record, made by Flora Temple, was 2.18f. In 1870 the best record, made by Dexter, was 2,17|. In 1876 the best record, made by Goldsmith Maid, was 2.14. In 1878 the best record, made by Earns was 2.13£. Edwin Forest has made his half mile in 1.05. Do Children Read Too Much With the great development of in terest in literature, the marvelous in | crease of books and periodicals, the I improvements in the arts of printing ! and illustration and all the other in fluences that have so greatly extend :ed the circle of readers and swollen the total of reading, one result is reached beyond the limit of what is to be desired. This is that a good many children have come to read too much. The boys, now, who have ac cess to libraries —and there are very few, except in sparsely settled coun try localities, who are not within the reach of one —run through “story books” and tales of adventure at a most reckless and unprofitable rate of speed! In a report of the Hartford Library Association of recent date, it is mentioned that in six months one boy had taken out, and presumably read, 102 story books, while in the same time a girl had taken out 112 novels. This was at the rate of four a week, which, with school studies, must be considered very rapid and doubtless very injurious work. A large part of the “series” books for vouug folks are of the class that en courage this rapid perusal, and, frou personal observation of the way in which they are read in our circulating libraries, we are quite convinced that most of the boys who run through them derive no advantage whatever from the excursion. So long as he selects books of value, the person who reads too little will be much bet ter off at the end of the year than the one who reads too much, and in tiio case of children, the volumes sup plied them ought to be something more than narratives of travel and adventure, easily and quickly skimmed over, and incapable of leav ing any valuable impression. As we have said above, we repeat it with emphasis, the present tendency with children, is to read too much and the literature supplied them is, to a large degree, utterly worthless.—Philadel phia Times. The Country Newspaper. It is customary at this season of the year for some of the city papers to poke fun at these weekly papers that omit an issue during the holi days. They don’t understand the work of the man who edits a local weekly paper, and who has abun dant reason to be very thankful for the brief respite, not from labor probably, but from care and anxiety, during the week of Christmas. Coun try journalism has wonderfully im proved of late years. The average editor of a weekly paper is in much better circumstances than was the case before the wmr; he lives more on his own resources and allows himself greater liberty in most re spects; but, for all this, the life of the country editor is anything but a life of luxury. He does not have a staff of editors, with special quali ties fitting into the various depart ments, studying the movements of men and the drift of events; he rare ly has any assistance, and, while he doesn’t get out a newspaper every day, ho is liable to write as many columns during the week as will be turned out by the average editor on the staff of a city daily. In addition to this the country editor has got to go about himself over a considerable local territory in search of facts; to look after the business of his office; to bother with all sorts of folks who rarely trouble the city editor, but who seem born to worry the country editor to within an inch or two of his grave; to help out with job work during the holiday rush; to read his own books; to do a hundred and one things which never come to bother the city editor, who fancies it’s cunning to say something sarcas tic about suspending a weekly'news paper on account of Christmas The editor who thus suspends his paper does not always get his holiday, be cause he is almost invariably driven to employ the time drumming up delinquent subscribers and collecting bills. If people who subscribe for the local papers aud read them with so much profit would pay for their entertainment more promptly there would be little trouble about print ing the paper every week in the year, and the editors would like to do it.— Philadelphia Times. Throwing tho Shoe. A writer in All the Year Round, al luding to the custom of throwing the shoe after a wedding party, on their way from church or elsewhere, says it is a relic of Anglo-Saxon usages, along with many other wedding usa ges of ancient origin. The Lanca shire custom is to throw an old shoe on leaving the house to be married, as a preventive of future unhappiness and an omen of good luck and pros perity. In Norfolk, it is also the cus tom to throw tho shoe after the wed ding party on proceeding to church. In Yorkshire, according to a writer in Hone’s Table Book, in 1827, there was a custom called “trashing,” which signified people with old shoes on their return from church, on the wed ding day. “Trashing” had at first some raison d'etre, but as time went on this became forgotten, and the custom was indiscriminately prac ticed among the lower orders. Tne Kentish custom is for one of the groomsmen to throw the shoe, after which the bridesmaids run, she who gets it believing she will be married first. She in turn throws it at the men, the man who receives the blow being also first destined for marriage before the others. A writer in an old number of Notes and Queries suggests that it was a symbol of renunciation of dominion authority over the bride by her father or guardian, and the receipt of tho shoe by the bridegroom even if accidental, an omen that that authority was transferred to him. Five hundred barrels of pork were shipped from Chicago last Wednes day "to San Francisco by way of New York and the sea, instead of the di rect route by the Union and Central Pacific Railroads, on account of the exhorbitant charges of those roads. Pensions, Washington D. 0. Dac. 14th 1878. Editor Eagle: The enclosed com munication contains information, im portant to applicants for pension. You will doubtless obkge them, as well as myself by its publication. Yerv Respectfully, H. P. Bell. Sir.—Tnero have already come for ward upwards of 46,000 claims for pension for service in the war of 1812, under the act of March 9,1578, nearly 19,000 of which were filed previous to July 1. It has been impossible to adjust these claims as rapidly as they ap peared, and several thousand have accumulated and are awaiting action. Every effort has been and will con tinue to be put forth to secure an early settlement of these claims, as well as of all others, and it is believed that, at the present rate of disposals, the accumulation of 1812 claims will be settled by the end of May or June next. I have addressed you this letter in explanation of the seeming delay in the adjustment of some of the claims —hoping that the information will serve the double purpose of enabling you to answer frequent inquire promptly, without adding to the de lay by correspondence with the office regarding tne cause thereof in par ticular cases. Very respectfully, J. A. Bentley. Commissioner of pensions. The Dead ef a Year. Under this head the Constitution says: The mournful record of 1878 em braces many well spent lives, taken from almost every walk of life, j a our own state not a few have been ta ken whose places it will be h ird to fill. Among these may be mentioned Miss Maria Mclntosh, of Savannah, whose stories for children and pkil anthropy endeared her to a wide cir cle; M'ss Louisa W. King, ef Augus ta, whose devotion to the ameliora tion of suffering will keep her memo ry green; Colonel Miller Grieve, of Milledgeville; Judge Barney Hill, of Macon; Judge George D. Rice, of Gainesville; Judge John T. Clark, of Americus; Colonel William McKin ley, of Milledgeville; Professor Wil liam Henry Waddell, of Athens, Hon. J. J. Collier, of Dooiy; Hon. Absalom H. Chappell of Columbus; Col. James D. Matthews, of Ogle thorpe; Colonel Win. Henry Stiles, of Cartersville; Colonel W. L Salisbury, of Columbus; Col. Thomas J Perry, of Rome; Henry Williams. Esq., of Savannah, and Dr. R. L. Roddy, of Monroe. The Constitution then gives a long li3t of the illustrious persons who died during the year outside of the State, both in this country and in others. There are names from all departments of life and some of the brightest lights in each department were extinguished The list is too long for us to publish. A Gambler’S Confession. “I want to ask you something on a delicate subject—gambling,’’ said a Milwaukee reporter to Russ Wheeler, a veteran gambler of the West, ,vho had just bsen convected of man slaughter, having shot and killed an other gambler. “It’s not delicate, I have nothing to hide.’’ “You know all about gambling, its fascination and results.” “I’ve got a boy, the only one I have, and I would sooner to-morrow follow him to the grave than see him touch a card or gamble in any shape,” “Is it hard to stop after a man gels into it ?’’ “I have found it so. I never in tends itogo a second time. If it had not been for gambling I would to-day be in as good condition, soci ciaily and financially, as any man in Milwaukee.” “A gentleman told me the other day that you said to him that you would never touch another card. ” That is my honest intention. I have been successful at cards, but I never have been successful in business since I commenced playing. When you go into the business world they say you are a thief and a robber and will have nothing to do with yon. Twice before I have de termined that I would stop. From experience what you get over the de vil’s back passes under his belly and does no good. A Great Pigeon Roost. Such a scene as is presented at the great wild pigeon roost in the Indian Territory fifty miles southwest of this city, is very uncommon and has no equal anywhere in America. The ‘roost’ includes a space of about forty acres in the timber, and when they return to the roost in the evening the trees are perfectly black with them. The Indians who own the lands will not permit other par ties to take advantage of the game, but hire men who sit at the roots of trees and shoot and throw clubs all night, and the next morning the ground is literally covered with pig eons, and they are gathered up, loaded into wagons and hauled to this city, where the Indians realize from 10 to 25 cents per dozen for them. During the day only now and then a pigeon can be seen in the vi cinity of the roo3t, but they invaria bly return at night. Those who own the land say they have killed dozens of wagon loads this fall and still the number does not seem to diminish in the least, nor does the nightly slaughter seem to intimidate them. —-Joplin [Mo ) News. Hawkinsville is rejoicing in the completion of a U9W steamboat which is to ply the Ocmulgee for the trans portation of freight and passen gers. The boat will have a side wheel, with a capacity for carrying five hundred bales of cotton,"and with a full cargo will draw about four feet of water. When not heavi ly loaded, the depth will be from twelve to sixteen inches. News in General. Mrs. Joseph Gilmer of Albany died'bn the 30th ult. There were forty-eight marriages in Chatham county in December. On the 23d ult., Mr. William E. Puckett and Miss Ella A. Poole wore married in Cartersville. I Americus has received twenty-ono thousand four hundred and seventy bales of cotton this season. George King broke the os frontis of George Morrow with an iron bar near Cartersville about Christmas. Married, on the 26th ult., by the Rev. Win Seymour, Mr. John H. Yearwood and Miss Jennie Thur mond, of Jackson county. “Why are the m9n of genius so often bachelors?” asks Miss Kate San born. Is it possible that it is be cause they are men of genius. Thomas C. Sullivan, Esq., aged 75 years, died on the 28th ult., in Ma con, Ga. He was formerly one of the old residents of Hawkinsville. A convict who was sent to the Michigan State prison in 1859 for iiie is seeking a pardon. Ha has earned over $1,200 by working over time. Jefferson Davis’ book of memoirs is to be published next spring si multaneously in New York and London, with a French edition in Paris. An Englishman writes to the Hart ford Times that Blaine’s speech was ssfoneL almost bod O ' from >, nu of Daniel O’Connell’s in parliament* in 1832 on the Cork election. Married, on the 24th of last month, at the residence of the bride’s lather, by the Rev. Wm. Seymour, Mr. John Millican and Miss Martha Hsnderson, all of Jackson county. Scene, Yale Campus: “Did you see Dean Stanley in chapel this mor ning?” “No. Who’s Dean Stanley?’’ “Why, the great African explorer.’ “Is that so ! I wish I’d seen him.” NO. 2. Brumby & My e rs’ chair factory, at Marietta, was destroyed by fire Christ mas w©ek. It was a brick building with new machinery valued at 15,000. Insurance $5,000. "it will be rebuilt. Hon. C. C. Kibbee, formerly State senator and who was beaten in the 3d congressional district nomination by Hon. Phil. Cook last fall, is now a candidate for mayor of Hawkins viiie, On the 24th of December, Mr. Cor nelius F. Halton and Miss Susie E. Taylor were married at the residence of the bride’s father in Pulaski coun ty. In the same county, on the 29th ult, Mr. David McAually was mar ried to Mrs. Amelia Haskins. In an interview with the Washing ton correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer, Hon. Allen G. Thurman emphatically declined to be the democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio next fall. Mr. Jarboe, ex-mayor of LaGrange was recently knocked down and robbed of $40.00 while returning home from his store. He was ren dered insensible and had to be car ried to his house. Mr. William E. Strange, of Atlan ta, suicided on. the 2nd mat, by tak ing ten grains of morphine. He had been out of work for sometime and became tired of life. He was drunk when he committed the fatal deed. A daily paper has been started in Augusta, Maine, called the National Democrat, to be conducted in the joint interest of the national and democratic parties who will this win ter .control the legislature of that State. Quinton Stephens, a young man employed as a clerk in the store of Murphy, Bsddenfield & Cos. at VVad ley, was discovered last Saturday week lying on the floor in the store with his head nearly severed from his body. A Chicago publisher has issued a a book entitled “How to Become Plump.” The old way, you remem ber, was to lean out of a third-story window and come down plump. The new method is less dangerous, but not so certain, The following are the recently elec ted officers of Jackson county: clerk Superior court, Thomas A. Niblack; sheriff, Thomas A Elhannon; tax receiver, W. C. Appleby; tax collec tor, James L. Wiiliamson; county surveyor, James L Johnson. The majority of Olin Wellborn, democratic member of congress from the Dallas, Texas district, foot3 up 30,708 with some back counties yet to hear from. There are mora northern people in that district than in any other two in the southern states. Turn the knob gently;there’s paint on the door.—Joaquin Miller. Walk along softly; we’ve just washed the floor.—Owen Meredith. Set on tha sofa we bought at the store.—Julia A. Moore. And don’t say a word till you hear daddy snore.—Sidney Lanier. A negro man with an iron jaw is making money oat of tho unwary about town. Yesterday he proposed to bite a ten-penny nail in two, and a young gentleman on Broughton street offered him two dollars to do it. He bit the nail in twain twice, pocketed the money and pranced off n a hilarious mood, —Savannah News. Philadelphia has a marvel iu a double headed woman. She is known as the “Nightingale,” is twenty-seven years old, and is a negress. The Times says: “The other heads sit on her shoulders at angles to each other, so that the net which keeps up the hair of one touches the net which keeps up the hair of the other, and, if, the owner wills it, the two heads maj pump against each other like playing-bones in the hands of an ex pert. The singular part is her con versation. One tongue begins to talk, the eyes brighten, the face be comes animated. At this point the ' observer catches sight of tho other fac9 looking over the other shoulder with a sort of grin on it, and the other eyes with a leer in them. Pres ently the second tongue begins to talk too, and there is a sort of race between them.”