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The Gainesville Eagle
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, n ’ Union * nd Dawson counties, and the city
of Ctainoaville. H*b a largo general circulation in
twelve other counties iu Northeast Georgia, and
two counties In Western North Carolina
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*jSjKfV KRAV IK I* j^oFiL" *
rr " ciUCitoti MkIMTFrs
Pbrhbvtebian Church—Eev. T. P. Cleveland.
Pastor. Preaching every Sabbath-morning ami
night, except the second Sabbath. Sunday School,
at 9 a. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday oveaiu, at 4
o’clock.
MethodistChubcm—Rev. W. W. Wad .worth, Pas
tor. Preaching every Sunday m<
Sunday School at 9a. m. Prayer meeti. £ Wedims
day night.
Baptist Chuboh Rev. W. C. Wilkes, Pastor.
Preaching Sunday morning and night. Sunday
School at? a. m Prayer meeting Thursday evening
at i o’clock.
GAINESVILLE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.
J. B. Estes, President; Wm. W. Habersham, Secre
tary.
YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.
W.L. Gordon, President ; F. M. Pickrell, Vice-
President; Claud Estes, .Secretary. Servioo in on e
• f the churches every Sabbath artornoou at thri
•’•lock. Service for young men in the Methodist
ehuroh evory Tuesday evening. Cottage praycr
ueetings every Friday evening.
FRATERNAL RECORD.
FiiOWKBT Branch Lodge No. 79, I. O. O. TANARUS.,
meets every Monday night, Joel Laseteb, N. G.
B. Ft Stbdham, Sec.
Aluqhart Royal Anon Ciiaptba meets on the.
Second and Fourth Tuesday evenings iu each
month.
S. S. BnADLKY, Sec’y. A. W. Caldwell, H. P.
Gainesville Lodge, No. 219, A.-. F.-. M.-.,
meets n the Firsts ml Third Tuosday evening in
the month
R. Palmouk, Sec’y. W. G. Hendebso.; ,W. iif.
Aib-Lins Lodoe, No. 64 ,1. O. O. F., meet -
•verr Friday evening.
A. fa. O. Dorset, Sec. H. S. Bradley, N. G.
GAINESVILLE POST OFFICE.
Owing to recent change of scUedulo on the Allan -
ta and Oha-rlotto Air Line Railroad, the following
Will be tho schedule from dato:
Mall train No. 1, going east, leaves 7:17 p. m.
Mail for this train closes at 7:00 “
Mail train No. 2, going east, 1eave5....8:35 a. in.
No makl by this train.
Mall train No. 1‘ going west, 1eave5....6:51 a. rn.
Mail for this train closes at .. 9:30 p. m.
Mall train No. 2, going west, 1eave5....!):05 p. m.
Mail for this train closes at 7.30 “
Offloe hours from 7 a. m. to 5:30 p. m.
General delivery open on Sundays from Byi to9d.
Departure of mails from this office:
Dahlonega and Gilmer county, daily. 8% rn
Bkhlonega, via Wahoo and Ethel, Saturday.... 8.-? a. m
Jefferson & Jackson county, Tuesday, Thnrn
day and Saturday 7 a. m
Cleveland, White, Union, Towns and Hayes-
Vllle, N. 0., Tuesdays and Fridays. ...7 a. m
Bawsonville and Dawson county,, Tuesday
and Saturday 8 a. m.
Homer, Banks county, Saturday 1 p. in
Pleasant Grove, Forsyth count . Saturday..l p.m
M. K. ARCHER, P.M.
Atlanta and Charlotte
AiK-LINK,
Trains will run as follows on and ai .r
§UNf) AY, NOVEMBER JO, lb7o,
NIGHT MCaTiX* TB. v. IN .
GOING EAST.
liave Atlanta 3:15 p. m
Arrive Gainesville 5:31 p. m.
Leave Gainesville 5;315 p, ra.
Arrive Charlotte 3:03 a. in.
GOING WEST.
Leave Charlotte 12:00 m dnt
Arrive Gainesville 9:11 a. m.
Leave Gainesville 9:12 a. m.
Arrivo Atlanta 12:00 m.
DAY P4J99E2NGIBI
GOING EAST.
Leave Atlanta (1:00 a. m.
An’ive Gainesville 8:32 a. in.
Leave Gaines villa 8:33 a. in
Arrive Charlotte 6:22 p. m.
GOING WEST.
Leave Charlotte 10:20 a. m
Arrive Gainesvi lie 8:11 p. m
Leave Gainesvill o 8:15 p. m
Arrivo Atlanta 10:30 p. ui
Througli Freight Train.
(Daily except Monday.)
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. in
Arrive Gainesville 7:23 a ni.
Leave Gainesville 7:22 u. m.
Arrive Atlanta 11:20 p. in.
Local Freight and Accommodation
Train.
(Daily except Sunday.)’
GOING EAST.
Leave Atlanta 5:25 a.m.
Arrive Gainesville 10:42 u. 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.
Arrive Atlanta 7:10 p.m.
Close connection at Atlanta for all [ jls
West, and at Charlotte for all points
G. J. Foreacbe, General M-nmgr
W. J. Houston, Gen. P. & T. A’gt.
Northeastern Raihoui of Georgia,
TIHVEjE TABLE.
Taking effect Monday, November 11, 1878 |
Ttrains 1 and 2 run daily except Sunday; 3
and 4on Wednesdays and Saturdays only.
STATIONS. ARRIVE. LEAVE.
A. M.
Athens 6 30
Center 655 65<
Nioholson 712 717
Harmony Grove, 7 40; 745
Maysville . 805 810
Gillsville 828 830
Lula 8
TRAIN 3Si O. '
STATIONS. ARRIVE. LEAVE.
A. M.
Lula ‘>l ‘i-3
Gillsville 10 10 10 12
Maysville. 10 29 10 3 ±
Harmony Grove 10 54 11 00
Nicholson H2O 11 23
Center 11 38 11 40
Athens 12 00
train no.
STATIONS. 1 ARRIVE LEAVE.
I P. M.
Athens 340
Center 403 405
Nicholson . 420 428
Harmony Grove 146 451
Maysville 511 515
Gillsville 533 500
Hula b 00
TKAIN NO. i
' STATIONS ARRIVE. LEAVE.
P. SI.
Lula 7 45
Gillsville ®4O J 2
Maysville 829 831
Harmony Grove 851 900
Nicholson 20 923
Center 938 940
Athens 10 00
Trains will wait thirty minutes at Lula
for delayed passenger trains on the Air-Line
JAMES M. EDWARDS, Supt.
The Gainesville Eagle.
VOL. X I!.
Georgia, White County.
Whereas, Benjamin F Nix, administrator
of the estate of Jonas Nix, deceased, has
filed iu my office his petition stating thut be
has fully discharged all his duties as such
administrator, and pray.-: that an order b*
pa—.ed discharging him from his said trust:
Therefore, all persons concerned are
hereby required to sh cause, if any,
against the pi anting of said discharge, at
the regular term of the court of Ordinary to
M held is. and for said county on the first
Monday in March next. V itness iny hand
and official signature, this November 18,
1878, ISAAC OAKES,
nov29-td Ordinary.
Georgia, White Oounty.
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; tlii* is
thetefore to cite all persons concerned to
show cause, by filing objections in my office,
why the said William Morris should not be
dismissed [from his guardianship of Mary
Craven, and receive letters of dismission
from bis said trust, on or before the first
Monday i April xt. at tne regular term
of the court of f ary oi said county.
Given un h t my T .a;■.: , ud official signature,
this December 11, 1878,
dec2o-ul ISAAC OAKES, Ordinary.
Georgia, White County:
W: 3 i Cathey, administrator of
W C Nix, repr :sents to the coart, iu his pe
tition, duly filed and entered on record, that
he has fully administered W C Nix’s estate:
This is, therefore, to cite ail persons con
cerned, and creditors, to show cause,
if they can, why said administrator should
not be discharged from his administration
and receive letters of dismission on tho first
Monday in April, 1879.
dec2l)-td ISAAC OAKES, Ordinary,
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Georgia, Rabun County.
Rabun Superior Court, Oct. Term, 1878
By virtue of an order of tho Honorable
Gio. 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 oi Rabun county at the present term
wav by mo adjourned i > the April term,
1879, of said court. Parties, jurors and
v'itu*' will duo lit nice thereof and
gov.-ru thorn solves accordingly. October
28, 1878. W. M. IIUNNICUTT,
novls 4t C. S. O.
Esecutev’s Sale.
Georgia, Towns Counts’.
By virtue of and in accordance with the
last will and testament of Bird Kerlee, late
of said county, deceased, 1 will offer for
sale at public outcry, before the courthouse
. ounty,
on the first Tuesday ia February next with
in the legal hours of .sale, all the land be
longing to said Bird Kerlee at the time of
hie death, not otherwise bequeathed con
sisting of the following lots of land, to-wit:
lot nos. 125, 128, 124, 163, all of said lots iu
the 17th ti on, aid
lands lie on the -treat mineral belt in said
county, i v, 1! v, head . nd well improved.
ns of : oue-foufih
mainder in one and two s ears with note and
approved security with interest from date.
lyj ii nt is
made. This Decomb r 20, 1878.
ROBERT S. KERLEE,
dec27-30d Executor.
DA i j T:>\ . OOLN TY.
Georgia, Rabun County.
Martha J -1 MoCoutmll wife of. yboioas Ni
McOounttl of said county has applied to me
for exemption and settiug apart of a home
stead out of the real nd personal property
of tho saidTN McOoi'ueU and I. will pass
upon the same at my oftico in Clayton on
the 22nd day of J. . , ivy no: t . c li o’clock
am. This D
J. 87. GREEN,
dec27 30d Ordinary.
Georgia, Dawson County,
rnbor 20, 1878.
Pollard KB; v, !',dministr.vor of the. estate
o’ Henry Talley, dee-'a ,ad. has filed in my
office his petition si ding that he has fully
such adminis
trator and prays that an order be passed
1 1 ■ - ■ ■ There
f>r ' all p oi are required to
of said
the court
the first
Monday in April 1879. H, B. SMITH,
dec2 7-30.1 Ordinary.
Georgia, Dawson County.
Ordinary’s Office.-—Whereas Jacob Padget
administrator of Nancy Densmore, de
c ised, has file : i i- ffi ee hi. pi titioa
staling that he has fully discharged all the
duties as sm h administrator and prays
that an order be passed discharging him
from his said trust. Therefore all persons
concerned arc required to show cause
against the granting of s. id discharge at
the regular term of the court of ordinary
for said count ; on the first Monday iu April
1879. This December 20, 1878.
H, B. SMITH, ordinary.
Georgia, Dawson County.
Richard L Green administrator with the
will annexed of um estate :■! Josiah Diibcck
deceased applies for leave to sell the land of
said estate. ’Therefore all persons concerned
are hereby notili -d tha the leave pvavud for
will bo granted the applicant on tho first
Monday in February 1879, unless good
cans .... >e then shown,
dec 20-1878. H. B. SMITH, Ordinary.
Ap-sig is ee 7 s Sale.
Georgia, Towns County.
Will bo sold before the court house door
in Hiwassee, Towns county, Georgia be
tween the legal hours of sale, on the first
Tuesday in February, 1879, the following
property belonging to the estate of John 2.1
From an, bnukr.tyt. to-vit: The ne-half
undivided half interest in two town iois,
sii x xt3, lying and being in tho town of Hi.
wassee, iu the county of Towns, in said
Suite of Georgia, being designated in tho
plan of said town by numbers forty-seven
[No 47] and forty- Hit [No 48] each with
a lront of iiiiy fc-1 and running back two
buudi’ and feet. rjA’.d p*. -.perty sold aa the
property of said bankrupt, Tr the purpose
of distribution among the creditors of said
bankrupt. Terms .' . ) mary
.
Georgia, Banks County.
Ordinary’s --flice, Jan. 6, 1879.
V. hereas, 3 M Oliver applies to me for
otters ot guardianship of the person and
property of Malissa Smith, minor daughter
of EM Smith, deceased. These are there
fore to require all perrons concerned to file
in my office, on or before the first Monday
in February next, their bjactions, if any
they have tc said app ii ent, oth rwi a
letters of guardianship wdl be granted the
applicant. T. F. HILL,
janlo-td Ordinary.
Georgia, Banks County.
100, Jan. 6, 28 79.
Wherea . G :> W S vail, administrator of
Wi m Sai , and 1, makes a ica
tion to this court ; v discharge from said
.
i;-ii all pet c .m '• to show cause, if
any they . . ,v . id Ge •• W Bavall should
not be discharged :.s administrator of the
es ; : ,ie of Wiidani Saval , dec’d, at the May
term, 2879, ot said court. T. F. HILL,
jar 10.3 m Ordinary.
United States Internal Revenue
Deputy Collector’s Office, 2d Dist. la..
Gainesville, Ga., Jan, 9, 1879,
Ten days after drt 1 will sell before the
court house door in the ciiy of Gainesville,
Hail county, Georg!:, wi.hia the usual
hours of sale:
One copper still, c i> and worm, one axe,
an i one double-barreled shot-gun, as the
prop rty of James McNeal and others.
Seized by rue lor vi ilatiou of internal
revenue laws; no t am having beau filed
nor bond given, as required bv law.
jaulo-3t W. T. B. WILSON, Dep. Cob
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING. JANUARY 7. 1879.
A great deal of noise was made by
a few members of the legislature at
the recent session in reference to
changing the system of disposing of
the convicts of the State, and urg
ing the return to the old way of con
fining them in' the penitentiary.
This was insisted on because it was
said that the convicts were badly
treated by the lessees. Now while we
are as much opposed to these unfor
tunates being harshly and inhumanly
treated as any one can be, yet we
believe that this can be effectually
prevented without resorting to the
method suggested. If the lessees
are made to give bond and are close
ly watched they can easily be kept
from using the convicts badly. Ifc
would never do to change the pres
ent system for two good reasons.
One is, that instead of the convicts be
ing a source of revenue to the State
they would become an enormous ex
pense, and the other is that the lea
ses were made to last for twenty
years and the State should stand by
them in good faith.
Of the Prince of Wales and Dr.
Lyon Playfair it is told that they
were once standing near a cauldron
containing lead, which was boiling
at white heat. ‘-'Has your Royal
Highness any faith in science? ’’ said
the Doctor. ‘"Certainly,” replied the
Prince. “Will you, then, place your
hand in the boiling metal and ladle
out a portion of it ? ’ “Do you tell
me to do this?’ asked the Prince. “I
do,’’ replied the Doctor. The Prince
then ladled out some of the boiling
lead with this hand, without sustain
ing any injury. It is a well known
scieutilie fact that the human hand
may be placed uninjured in. lead
boiling at ivhite heat, being protected
from any harm by the moisture of
the skin. Should the lead be at a
perceptibly lower temperature, the
exlect need not be described. After
this, let no one underrate the courage
of the Prince of Wales.
The funeral of Hon. Julian Hart
ridge took place in the capitol at
Washington and was attended by the
President and his Cabinet, the Su
preme court, and the senate and
house of representatives.
Rev. Dr. \V. P. Harrison delivered
a fine eulogy ou the character of the
deceased. Tho,delegation, appointed
to accompany the remains to Savan
nah were Senators, Gordon, Booth,
and Beek, and representatives Cook
of Georgia; Frye of Maine, Cox of
New York; Cabell of Virginia; Stone
of Iowa; Davidson of Florida and
Hanna of Indiana. The deceased
congressman was cna of the leading
spirits among his confreres and his
death was deeply and sincerely re
gretted.
Congressman Acklen yesterday
nan the cheek to ask the house to
appoint a committee to investigate
his morals and report thereon—a
tiling which the house declined to do.
It would cost (p 20,000 to send a com
mittee to New Orleans for the pur
pose of whitewashing Acklen, and
the game is not worth the candle.
Besides, it would establish an unde
sirable censorship over the private
conduct of members, few of whom
could stand ibis sort of thing. It is
cheaper and safer to let Acklen go
unvindicated.— Chicago Tribune.
e have arrived at an era which
endeavors to overthrow princes, in
tee fallacious hope of arriving at a
better state of things. As far as con
cerns me, I can, according to all hu
man probability, expect to live but a
short time longer. I commend my
Lie to Providence; and the crimi
nal tendencies of the age will
not prevent me from accomplishing
my duties as a sovereign, as I have
always heretofore done.” —Emperor
William .
Ifc is thought that Justice Ward
Hunt, of the U. S. Supreme court
will not go on the bench again, even
if ho recovers from his present ill
ness. It is like)y he will retire on a
pension and Attorney General De
vens or Stanley Matthews will take
his place.
Judge Yv. 0. Howard Las severed
his connection with the Forest News ;
as one of tha ousiness managers, and
Robert S. Howard, Esq., has sole
control of it, as manager and edi
tor.
Somebody advertises “Good men
wanted.” So many “good men”
have gone wrong recently that ifc
seems almost worth while to try the
other kind.— Boston■ Transcript.
—
Gen. Bob Toombs has one virtue —
he don’t chew tobacco. —Augusta ■
News. No, but he can chew up mere
cigars and smoke less than any man
we know.
Georgia is said to have twenty
thousand colored democratic voters
—New York Bun. Yes, and she’ll
have three times as many iu 1880.
Gov. Colquitt has ordered an elec
tor February 10th to fill the unex
pired fi:-rm of lion. Julian Hartridge,
in the-Tdfch congress.
Confluent Prayer
The prayer made to-day is instant
ly heard, and will never be forgotten.
The prayer made yesterday was in
stantly heard and is not now, and
will never be, forgotten. The same
may be said of the prayer that was
offere i a year ago, or ten, or twen
ty, or fifty, or any other number of
years ago. Separated they are in
our minds by intervening time, bat
they are synchronous with God.
With Him there are no intervals.
Thus the prayers of a life-time are
virtually confluent; iu the mind of
God they all exist together, and con
stitute one undivided whole, as the
drops in a stream, and as a reser
voir into which many streams have
emptied themselves. Thus, it is not
so much a man’s prayers, that are
heard in heaven; it is rather his
prayer, for his life is his prayer, and
fie has but one. This saint of four
score about to die, has enough of
mental power left, to be able to lift
his heart to God; perhaps unable to
formulate distinct petitions, but able
undefinediy to recognise his need,
and also the readiness of God to
bless. That is prayer, and is bat the
continuation of the first prayer of
faith that his early lips ever uttered.
Thousands upon thousands of his
prayers, as he called them, he has
forgotten; of many of them ha was
scarcely conscious, for they were
unuttered, and being the habit of
his life, were as unnoticed as his
pulse-beats. But God hss not for
gotten one word of all those that
were uttered ; and as to those that
were not uttered in syllables loud
enough to resound through all space.
Iu His ears the sound of them has
not died away. The first prayerful
breath, and also the last, and every
such breath of a Christian’s life, ring
iu His ears to eternity. With every
one of them He is pleased, and His
nature. If He will never forget
them,neither did they take Him by
surprise when they were offered. A
thousand years are with Him as one
day, and one day is as a thousand
years. The term one day does
not mean a period of twenty-four
hours; it means a point of time which,
iike a mathematical point, has no
extension; and the term a thousand
years, simply means indefinite—eter
nal duration past and present. Hence
in ail eternity past as well as in all
eternity to come, the prayers, rather
let us say the prayer, of one of his
saints, was and will be, rather let us
say is a Divine joy. With God,
there is no distinction of tense, and
hence when pleased with prayer, the
pleasure reaches backward aud for
ward to eternity, and prevades the
whole Divine existence. Having of
fered Him now, or ever, one prayer
of faith in his own appointed way,
du*t is, through the mediation of
Jesus Christ, His Sou, how perfectly
sure we may be of the unending
blessing of the Infinite!
But more. Suppose a pious father
to have died many years ago, full of
faith and of the Holy Ghost, invok
tho blessing of God on his children.
God beared that prayer. Heard?
Hears ! Perhaps two score years
have elapsed with us; but there has
been no lapse with Him. That prayer
made long forgotten years ago, is as
fresh as when it trembled on the lips
of the dying saint. At this moment
we may enjoy heavenly mercies in
answer to prayers long since made
by those whose bones have gone to
dust; prayers long since made as to
God. The dying ejaculation of a
mother ior her new-born babe, may
bring blessing on the head of her son
a century later —a century with us;
but God has no centuries. We know
not what a heritage we have derived
from the prayers of our ancestors.
Fifty five years ago, a man of God,
Henry Holcombe by name, took his
little grandson in his arms, a boy of
four, with whom he was parting as
he supposed for years, but as the re
suit proved the parting waß for life,
and Laving caressed the lad, he gave
him back to his mother’s arms, ex
claiming with moistened 6yes, “God
bless the child!” He never spoke to
his daughter and grandson again.
But the writer has always had an
abiding faith, that his grandfather’s,
“Godbless the child!” was a draft
in his favor, for unspeakable riches,
which was accepted, and will be for
ever honored by the Almighty. In
his darkest hours, and when at times
he has felt cast-down aud almost des
troyed, he has held fast to this ac
cepted draft on the Treasury of
Heaven, with a firm conviction that
God bad not forgotten it, and would
not forget it, and would be sura in
His own time, and in His own way,
to “bless the child.” Of blessed
memory be tho holy man ! He being
dead, yet prayeth!
But why stop with our parents,
and proximate ancestors? A thousand
y ears ago, one of God’s elect may
have prayed for his posterity. It is
just as if he had done it to-day—were
doing it now. Blessings come unex
pectedly, in strange ways, and at
strange times, unconnected with oth
er events —sporadic and unaccounta
ble. The nexus between cause and
effect is unseen by us, and if seen,
would seem attenuated to nothing
ness; but ten or twenty centuries
ago, God heard what he nears now in
all its freshness and firstness, the
prayer of one whose prayer He has
promised to answer; His set time has
come and the inexorable laws of his
moral nature execute His will iu ben
efaction.
In prayer life we are contempora
ries with the patriarchs, and with all
of God’s elect from the beginning.—
Abraham’s prayers are not of the
past: they are simultaneous with
ours; and so are Isaac’s and Jacob’s.
The offering of Abel lies on the altar
at this moment; the blood is warm,
and so is the prayer that goes with
it; the heart of the victim still quiv
ers, and Abel’s still swells with devo
tion, aud the affections of the Eternal
whose name is Love, respond. All is
of the present. The first altar was
never cast down; ifc stands to-day;
its corner stone was laid on God’s*
eternal purpose. Enoch has passed
from earth, bufc the blessing which
his prayer brought down, remains
with us to this day. Elijah and Eli
sha are still the benefactors of our
race. The prayers of David, the son
of Jesse, are not ended. Isaiih and
Jeremiah and Ezekiel and Daniel—
the beloved of God, are still ours, as
if freshly made. All the prophets j
from Moses,all the saints from Adam,
the Apostles, the martyrs, the wom
en, the children, millions of the ob
scure, but whose humble cry is migh
ty in heaven—all these are praying
now! O, glorious meeting of prayers!
O,great ocean,fed by myriad streams,
pouring forever forth from devout
hearts of all ages! We are invited to
mingle our prayers with these! O
Lord God Almighty, thou God of our
Lord Jesus Christ, through whom
alone prayer is possible, how wonder
ful are thy ways! The prayers of Je
sus Christ himself are mingled with,
those of his saints; His prayers are
always heard, are heard now, and
ours may flow iu with His into iho
infinite depths of the bosom of God!
Oh, the privilege! Oh, the glory!
Shout ye angels at the wonders of
grace!
But what is said of the past applies
as well to the future. All the prayers
that will be made until the end of
time, are as if they had been mad 9
already, or rather, as if they were
one with ours. If the saints are all
one, even as their father in heaven is
one, so also their prayers are one;
from the first prayer that ever was
breathed, to the last that ever shall
stir a zephyr; yea, from the first un
uttered aspiration to the last, all are
one, and Christ will carry them ail
to God.
If those who have gone before ua
have left us a priceless heritage, it is
ours to add to it and bequeath ifc to
coming generations. We pray not
for ourselves alone, bufc for our chil
dren aud our children’s children for
ever; not for our friends and neigh
bors, but for the world and all that
dwell therein; not for the world as it
is, but as it will be henceforth, until
the trump of the archangel shall
wake the dead.
Blessed be the God of Abraham,
and of Isaac, and of Jacob. Blessed
be the God of our fathers. Blessed
be the God and Father of our Lord
and Savior Jesus Christ, and blessed
be He whose blood has bought for us
the privilege of prayer. —Christian In
dex.
The National Senate.
Your correspondent, after the last
senator had left the chamber, went
there, and for a while gazed upon
its loneliness. It looked to him as
desolate as the White Sulphur in
January, or a Virginia county court
house the day after the circus. Sil
ver-haired Captain Bassett, whom
neither a democratic nor republic?.
senate will ever remove from iris
post as one of the doorkeepers, gazed
upon the vacant seats, as Marius did
on the ruins of Carthage, and recall
ed the fact that where Web-ster, Win
throp, Silas Wright and Lewis Cass
once sat, pigmies now burlesque tho
exalted position of senator. Your
correspondent, from his standpoint,
only thought of them as they are,
and made no disparaging compari
sons. He recalled Blaine as the most
unscrupulous bufc the most brilliant
and unlucky demagogue this genera
tion has produced; Conkliug as a
senator, with the head of A.poilo and
the walk—well, I won’t describe it;
Dawes and Hoar, who were never
more like aged spinsters than when
Blaine took them at a disadvantage
ia presenting the statute of Mr.
King to congress, and inflicted upon
them cruel and unusual punishment;
Plumb, of Kansas, whose record, by
contrast, makes that of a credit
mobilier statesman look immaculate ;
Ingalls, of the same state, who is for
all the world like a leanglecfcurer on
biology, or the man who plays the
big fiddle in burlesque opera; Davis,
of Illinois, one of Dixon
H. Lewis when at light weight, and
who is as honest as he is good Ma
tured; Edmunds, whose Darwinian
face would entitle him to be chief
justice in the gorilla country, bufc
whose admirers say resembles the
apostle Paul; Teller, of Colorado,
who, if the senate were a pack of
cards, would be a tray of spades
when clubs are trumps, and yet
whom the republicans were forced in
their extremity to put at the head of
the Blaine committee; Thurman, the
best specimen of an American state -
man in either body, who does aot ;
hesitate to take part in any debate, i
and who is always ready to answer j
successfully the prepared speeches of
the radical leaders; Eaton, as an hon
est bourbon who refuses to learn any
thing under the new dispensation;
McCreary, in apuearance and oratory
like the late big-hearted and accom
plished Judge Brockenborough; Bay
ard, as the polished, incorruptible
and accomplished senator; Lamar,
who adds to oratory and culture a
a broad statesmanship; Ransom, who
is as powerful in debate as he was
brave in war; Merrimon, his collea
gue, who knows enough law to be on
the supreme bench of the United
States, and who never speaks with
out speaking well and to the point;
Butler, who is worthy of the honored
name he bears, who is cool when
others are excited, and who is not
only a strong debater, bufc can be as
eloquent as Demosthenes when he
pleases; Gordon who is the soul of
gallantry and honor, and whose sen
atorial career has shown that he is as
successful a etatesman as he was gal
lant as a general; Voorhees, who is
the most brilliant orator in eifciier
body, and who never fails to come to
the aid of the South when his servi
ces are needed; Randolph, whose
political faith is as fixed as the cree i
of a conyenanter, and who never
speaks without giving the senate ac
curate information and a strong pre
sentation of his side of the question;
Hill, of Georgia, who is one of the
most brilliant men in either body—
who is often immense and who at
other times makes striking failures.
The forty-fifth congress has been
a heavy loser by the death of its
members, there having been nine to
die within a year.
Promised Revival of Sodom and
Gomorrah
The Scientific American says: “It
is reported that French capitalists
have secured a grant for a railway
line from Jaffa to the interior of
Palestine, which will open up the
Jordan valley and the whole region
north of the Suez canal. In certain
contingencies this road might be
come of great military usefulness,
but it appears further that the pro
ductive resources of the country are
considerable, and, what is more sur
prising, that the Dead So i itself can
bo turned to commercial account.
Chief of these at present are the
stores of natural combustibles for
which that region is noted,
“Hitherto tho main obstacle to the
development of steam traffic in tU-:-'
Levant has been the loiH absence of
combustible material. Not only
Egypt, but the shores of Syria and
the Red Sea are completely stripped
of wood, and the coal imported from
the west commands a price ranging
from ten to twenty-four dollars a ton.
Now the masses of asphalt continual
ly thrown up by the Dead Sea attest
the presence of vast subterranean
layers of fossil vegetable matter, and
these signs were not long overlooked
by the enterprising men attracted to
Suez by the opening of the canal and
the movement of commerce in that
direction. Recently numerous sound
ings have been made between Jaffa
and the Dead Sea, which, so far, have
not disclosed, any deposits of coal
proper, bur, on the other hand,
have laid bare inexhaustible beds of
lignite.
“Of * itself this store of lignite is
likely to prove an inestimable gain
to tho industries and commerce of
the Levant; but we should add that
the juxtaposition of asphalt in groat
quantities furnishes the elements of
a mixture of lignite and asphaltum
in the form of bricks, which is equal
in heating capacity to tho richest bi
tuminous coal, while its cost on the
ground is only two dollars and fifty
cents a ton. It is known that simi
lar bricks, made up of coal dust and
bituminous debris from gas works,
are much sought after by French
railways, since, beside?? their heating
power, they greatly facilitate stow
age, owing to their regular shape.
Of course the bitumen of lower
Palestine haw been known from im
memorial times, and was used to im
part solidity to the structures of un
baked clay in Assy- ia and Egypt;
but it may be sail! that the discovery
of the subterranean combustible'has
lifted once for all the curse which
has so long rested upon Sodom anti
Gomorrah, and will transform the
wasted shore a of the Dead Sea into a
foe as o i id a m jazin< hi
wealth.”
Duelling in France.
The recent grotesque duel between
Gambetta and Fourtoa has brought
to mind other queer duels fought by
Frenchmen, some of which are re
hearsed in the Paris journals One
of the queerest was fongkfc between
Cazales and Barnave. In the assem
bly the former, iu eloquent speech,
called the left “brigands.” The lat
ter replied that ho could take no no
tice of a collective insult, but if ifc
were personally applied he would
feel bound to notice it. Of course
Cazales gratified Barnave; but the
in a tier was arranged by common
friends. The next morning, how
ever, Cazales called with Saint Si
mon upon Barnave, saying: “I am
, aid n
_
expected as much, was the laconic
reply. “When, where aud how?”
“At the Bois, iu an hour, wi h pis
tols.” Cazales insisted that his an
tagonist should fire first. Barnave
,
mentioned by Cazales had not been
intentional. They threw dice, at
which Cazales : id he had no luck.
Barnave won; lived at thirteen paces
and missed. Twice Cazales’ pistol
missed fire. “Pardon me for keep
ing you waiting,” fie said, and his
adversary rejoined, “I am here to
wait.” When ho h.d missed his man
the third time his second, Chas. de
Lambeth, wanted the affair stopped,
but B infc Simon was unwilling.
Meanwhile the combatants were
walking- about arm-in-arm, talking
pleasantly together. “I should be
very sorry to kill you,’’ remarked
Cazales; “but you are greatly ia my
way iu the assembly. Let me disa
ble you from debating for the pres
ent.” “You are more generous than
I am,” responded Barnave, “in wish
iug to let me off easily. You are
the main support of your party; my
party would hardly feel my loss.”
Again Barnave won tha toss, and his
adversary fell, shot iu the forehead,
with the words, “This is what I came
here for.” hi’., cocked hat had, how
ever, broken the force of the bullet;
the surgeon soon pronounced the
wound not serious, which Cazales
corroborated, adding: “And 10, the
ass opened his mouth and spake.”
He went home in Lambeth’s carri
age, pre ffered as . ml ...
than Saint Simon’s and iu a few
weeks the combatants dined togei-h
er, and spoke of their duel as ado
lightful little reel -.-.cion.
.
A Boston Medium, who was ma
terializing some spirits and banging
around among a Pittsburg audience
the other night, -.va : seized by a skep
tical bufc mus cular young m in, who
held on till tin-, lights were brought.
: aud the fine art of materializing was
exposed for the hundreth time.
Nevertheless, enough people who
delight to be humbugged can Ln got
together anywhere m the United
States to make tha business of the
materializing medium very profitable.
Ifc is said that black-eyed ladies
are most apt to be passionate and
jealous, B ue-eyed,
affectionate and confiding Gray-ay. and
| philosophical, literary, resolute, cold
I hearted. Hazel-eyed, quick temper
ed and fickle. Whab kind of. eye:
' have you got?
Placed at P ar.
New York; January 3—Tho pro. ■
event of resumption was celebrated
at 10 o’clock by a salute of the navy
yard, and as the ihyna sounded,
the American flag was Aims' to tho
breeze from all the governm-. -it buil
dings.
At the sub-treasury the men who
presented gold ciriifica .. s answer* :
the clerics question, “Gold or green
back v?” with “Greenbacks are good
enough for me,’’ or “Give me bilk ;
what do I want with gold'?' 5 On*
German said, Bills, bills; do you.
want me to lug coin around?” The
clerk said two hours ait., r he hr. 1 b.
gun paying gold out, “Nobody \v ants
it. We have received enormous
quantities of gold certificate. •
every one of the messengers do ami
dec! either notes of larger denomiaa
tions or clearing-house evGfieu
There was little division of o; lu
ion on the subject of gold as ■- work
ing medium of exchange at par, and
several bankers iuw eu that ih
treasury gold balances would im; la
tely increase in ead ol
One national bank sent SIOO,OOO it
gold to the sub-treasury. Some of
the men about the gold-room, most
of whose business lives have been
identified with the traffic,looked w ~y
much discouraged. The scene w,i
almost laughable as the men wh<
had entertained the hope that tiler
might be a small speculative, or a f
lest a loan market after to-day, sat
and gazed at the word “par,” which
stood on the black-1 in the larg
est letters that . hat t lit!Til eouv
of information could hold. Rev-fix
Mersereau sao behind ;i desk vine
he has occupied for fourteen years in
the gold exchange and gold room
jointly, but his day’s work \v sum
med up in the line, “Gold, 10 a. m.,
100, flat,” fir nothing bad been ad
ded to it. There was not a sale an 1
not a question. At twenty minutes
to 12 o’clock he said: “I have or
ders from the governing committee
to shut up the shop, and here gov-.”
He dictated to a reporter: “Gold flat
at par and no sales.” Then be
thumped the yellow ivory keys of his
'
pulled a sliding over them, shut hie
desk, and, as he slipped the key in
his pocket, added: “There, you’v;
seen the end of it. Nobody wants
gold, and those who want to sell it
can get cash at il- s banks or tr. .*. *.■
ry,’’
A Fiddle Against a Carpet-Bag.
Robert L. Taylor, congressman
elect of a Tennessee district, not : and
won his election, but also a bride.
The fair creature who-a he wooed be
fore he won the caucus registered an
oath that tniiesK he .v. :;x ofix
tion auo would none of him. It w
a, discouraging out look, foi Ta.yloi
was nominated by the democrats in a
district famishing usually a ILoubii
can majority of 2,500. He was a
mere boy,, while his opponent was a
skilled politician who had carpet
bagged into the country. Besides,
Tayloy had but $5 for a camp
fund—ljj
of the latter spring eim ributed i
- election. His opponent was not
popular, and Taylor, whoi 1
acterized as a “beardless boy that fid
dles,” won some republican support.
His cause was taken up wiki so muon
warmth that ho was not under the
necessity of drawing upon ids ah vlv
pile. He talked and Addle i his way
through the district, the violin figur
ing as an incident of the strife !>•
cause of the opponent’s gratuiton
sneer at the musical accomplishment -
of the young man. In opening hi
campaign Taylor approached ILx
speaker’s stand with a violin in one
hand and a carpet-bag in toe other,
saying that the serious charge had
ben made against him that no was a
fiddler. Laying fiddle and carpet
bag side by side he iv .■ ! bis audi
ence to choose. The boys took the
music, the opposition majority was
overcome, a victory of fifteen hun
dred was achieved for Taylor, •! x
soon as he received his certificate he
secured his b> ide, o niece of Govern
or Vance, of N. rth Carolina.—Chica
go Times.
Polygamy Proscribe;!.
The Supreme court of the Unit*. ,1
States has emphahicftVy declared ia
the case of Reynolds, the muchly
married mau who mads the issue,
that religious freedom “was not in
tended to prohibit legislation ia re
spect to marriage.” It is a travt sfcie
upon religion for a sensual brute
calling him ma t to
and trample under foot that law ol
Jehovah which creates the sex*
equal in number, obviously de signing
that one woman should be the help
meet, and only one, for each man.
When it is otherwise, the gentle sox
degenerates into mere slaves and
playthings for their masculine lords,
and every principle of right virtue
and propriety is violated.
Polygamy means the utter de
thronement and degradation of wo
man. It is just and proper, there
fore, that it should be visited with
the severest pan allies. But the ques
tion obtains how, iu a
country like that of the Mormons,
where society, and like as not the
majority of the jury and and counsel
on both sides in every legal case, hove
more or less a half dozen wives, can
the United States law La enforce !?
It is simply impossible unices a
change ox venue is ordered and ; in
parties are all transported i,u old set
tlements of tho Union for Inal. This
could hardly be Ime iu the case oi
every lecherous Mormon, whore there
are thousands of taut ilk who are not
content to worship at a single wifely
le, bub
a harem like a Turk. We only wish
this iniquity coui 1 be . moked out ul
tarly eradicated, but the way is not
plain to do it. But at least it is well
for the highest tribunal of the land
to denounce and condemn this great
est of Crimea against society, and tin
mothers, wives and sweethearts of s
virtuous people. —Macon Telegraph &
Messenger.
Dr. F- A. Beall, a well known drag
gist of Augusta, is dead.
News.in General.
Mr. Hartridge was insured in the
“New York Life’’ for ten thousand
dollars.
Columbus will soon have new
houses in place of those recently
burned
Mr. H. W. J. Hnr . is now on the
staff of the Sunday Phonograph, pub
lished in Atlanta.
Old citizens of Ocmmbos say the
late Arctic s *ll is the severest over
felt in that latitude..
Macon is still enjoying a lively
strug k* between the contestants for
the mavorality of that city.
Dr. Bright Miller, aged 68, and an
■ i citizen t of Stewart county, died
h.sfc week in Lumokiu, Ga.
Jmlg .W. Montgomery, ex-Jus
tice of fu9 Supreme court, will soon
become a citizen of Atlanta.
Mr Zichariah Felton and Miss
L hi v, two w t eiLzens of
Bukov county, died lash week.
Besik at fever has been raging in
New York, and as many as 180
de tths arc recorded in one week.
Miss Jeuness, of Pembroke, N. H.
is the right kind of an anut. Christ
ve two i $25,-
000 apiece.
Dr. Barlow, a big hearted, liberal
gentleman and an old citizen of
Americas has recently died, to tho
great sorrow of ail who know him.
Gov. Robinson's recent message
to the. Now York 'legislature shows
that State in a belter financial con
dition than it has enjoyed for years.
Tho Savannah News come to us
clad in mourning for the loss of its
follow citizen., onr distinguished rep
rex illative in too lower branch of
congress from the First District of
Georgia.
Dab!-, nega is , nag to re-erect her
agricultural college, ana Professor
Beck he- gone north after a now set
a: arat n . Tinf aiming of the old
budding nped the exercises of tho
college only one day.
AUant” ’n Mortality.—The Constitu
tion dates -..‘tat the numb sr of inter
ments in Atlanta for 1878 was eight
huudi :d an nineto-'.u, of whom there
were 377 powers, 322 of whom wore
negroes and 55 whites.
The following are the new county
officers of Gwumett county: clerk,
Havgood; sheriff, Wheeler; tax col
k'ct.uy Garner; tax receiver, Cham
: ?r, King; Coroner, Pe
ter,-; surveyor, Suddeth.
Novel Bifid .i Present —Columbus
Tim is: '■ /■: wei jat a funny wedding
t’n ;of her nigh- The groom was a
prominent member of u neighboring
I very ex. bio, and the only bri
dal present was a young mule.
State T;ex ur ■ Renfros -as been
in New Y-hxc : i has made a con
v fi ; bin American bank note
con.. •iu ■;-*■* . . .do new 4 per
cent. cn..iu3 It is : nought they will
be i xdy to be issued by the Ist of
February.
Congre,- sm-in Gustave Schleicher
of the 6th Texas district died iu
Washington on Friday last, three
days after Hon. Julian Hartridge’s
death. He is said to said to have
h : : a splendid man and a faithful
representative.
A preacher-lawyer, Rev. Joan G.
: on the S.
G. AN. A. R. R. and B. F. McCol
ium, Esq., of Hampton, had a diffi
culty at the former place last week,
in Widen Cue first gentleman was
badly used up.
“Why does lightning bo rarely
ice?” Prof.
Worfcmau as.red the now boy in the
class in na | >hy. “Why,”
said the new boy, “it never needs
to.” Ac iil 3r. little singular that
nobody had thought of that reason
before.
A Chinaman in. California, whose
If a aount,
was s-xioirfiy hurt by falling from a
wagon ifiiera was some doubt of
his aver get ling better, and at length
o >e of nio dieods wrote to the insur
ance company, "Charlee naif dead,
liken half money.”
This is a story of what happened
not ag fine :• in tli Pi oe Tree Stato.
Anew Baptist conve.- wished very
much to be baptised by one minister
•
went to the first an 1 asked him if it
could be done. “Yes,” he replied, “I
could to it, but I don’t take in wash
ing.”
The ofivr any an Irishman was
pa Gog • grave yard, where be saw
two men, friends of a countryman
) V :ju-j and 1. -Th y were seek
in for a burial lot.
“Who’s deal?” fin asked.
“John O'Leary,” was the reply.
“When did ho die?”
“Yesterday.”
“Weil, bedad he had a foiae day
for it.’’
Recently Prof Simon Newcomb, of
t n N tval Observatory, attended a
wedding. Aider the ceremony ho ad
vanced, with others, to pay uis re
spects to Ike bri i ■). 11-. xaook hands
x h the bride and groom, but never
- I A iafk( and: “Why
Ji n't. you say something to the
bride?” “Why, responded the scien
tist, “I did not' Lii:il; I had any new
facts to impart.”
There were over fifty women, rep
res. ni g almost every class of socie
ty, at tho Jefferson Market Police
Court yesterday, charged with druu-
L.-nxc-es or disorderly conduct. The
apology, in every case, was “Ladies’
Day: we were making cal*3.” “Ladies’
would re
peat; “I am gi M ;i t imoa only once
a year, for such exhibitions a.-, this
are by no m- :-is entertaining,”— N.
Y. Tribune, 4 Lh.
.
“Ju Gt or Prawu ~ has a horse,
‘Bob L ie,” whhih twice every day
drives his cow along Main street to
the Big Skiing Be inch, to water, and
returns with L r as \,i omptiy and
cirefully as a man or boy could do
the same service All that is utseas
sary is to put a br.dlo on Bob Lee
■ when he starts, if the cow shows a
iiipcvidon to turn mom the ain
route, he soon turns her back.”
NO. 3.