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The Gainesville Eagle
Published Every Friday Morning
OFFICE
Upstairs In Candler Hall Building,
Northwest Corner of Public Square.
The Official Organ or Hall, Banks, White, Towns,
Kabun, Onion and Dawson counties, and the city
or Gainesville. Has a large general circulation in
twelve other counties in Northeast Georgia, and
two counties in Western North Carolina.
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GENERAL DIRECTORY.
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CHDRUH DIRECTORY.
Presbyterian Chdrch—Rev. T. P. Cleveland,
Pastor. Preaching every Sabbath—morning and
night, except the second Sabbath. Sir day School,
at 9a. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at &
o'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. C. Wilkes, Pastor.
Preaching Sunday morning and night. Sunday
School at 9 a. m Prayer meeting Thursday evening
at 4 o’clock.
GAINESVILLE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.
3. B. Estes, President; Wm. W. Habersham, Secre
tary.
YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.
W. L. Gordon, President; F. M. Pickrell, Vice-
President; Claud Esteß, Secretary. Service in ou e
of the churches overy Sabbath aiternoon at three
o’clock. Service for young men In the Methodist
ohurch overy Tuesday evening. Cottage prayer
ineetlngs every Friday evening.
FRATERNAL RECORD.
Flowery Branch Lodge No. 79, I. O. O. TANARUS.,
meets every Monday night, Joel Lasetee, N. G.
B. F. Stsdham, Sec.
AuxanANr Royal Arch Chapter meets on the
Second and Fourth Tuesday evenings iu each
month.
H. S. Bradley, Sec’y. A. W. Caldwell, H. P.
Gainesville Lodge, No. 219, A.-. F.\ M.\,
meets on the Firsts nd Third Tuesday evening in
the month
B. Palmour, Sec’y. W. G. Henderson ,W. M.
Air-Lins Lodge, No. 64 ,1. O. O. F., meets
every Friday evening.
A. B. O. Dorsey, Sec. H. 8. Bradley, 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.
Hall for this train closes at 7:00 “
Mail train No. 2, going east, leaves 8:35 a. m.
No mall by this train.
Mail train No. 1‘ going west, loaves... .6:51 a. m.
Mail for this train closes at 9:30 p. m.
Mall train No. 2, going west, leaves.... 9:05 p. m.
Mail for this train closes at 7.30 “
Office hours from 7 a. m. to 6:30 p. m.
General delivery open on Sundays from 8> to 9>£.
Departure of mails from this office:
Dahlonega and Gilmer county, daily B y, a. in
Dahlouega, via Wahoo and Ethel, Saturday... Ba. in
Jefferson k Jackson county, Tuesday, Thurs
day and Saturday 7 a. m
Cleveland, White, Union, Towns and Hayes
vills, N. 0., Tuesdays and Fridays 7 a. m
Dawsonville and Dawson county,, Tuosday
and Saturday 8 a. m.
Homer, Banks county, Saturday 1 p. m
Pleasant Grove, Forßyth county, Saturday. .1 p.m
M. R. ARCHER, P.M,
Atlanta and Charlotte
Trains will run as follows on and after
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1878,
NIGHT MAIL TK,U\,
GOING EAST.
Leave Atlanta 3:15 p. m.
Arrive Gainesville 5:31 p in.
Leava Gainesville 5:32 p. m.
Arrive Charlotte 3:03 a. m.
GOING WEST.
Leave Charlotte 12:00 m dnt
Arrive Gainesville 9:41 a. tn.
Leave Gainesville 9:42 a. m.
Arrive Atlanta 12:00 m.
DAY PASHENGEK, JC’jCV .
GOING EAST.
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. iu
Arrive Gainesvi lie 8:14 p. m
Leave Gainesvill e 8:15 p. m
Arrive Atlanta 10:30 p. m
Through Freight Train
(Daily except Sunday.)
GOING EAST.
Leave Atlanta 9:25 a. m.-
Arrive Gainesville 1:28 p.m.-
Leave Gainesville 1:35 p. in.-
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.
Local Freight and Accommodation
Train.
(Daily except Sunday.)
GOING EAST.
Leave Atlanta 5:25 a. m.
Arrive Gainesville 10:42 a. m.
Leave Gainesville 11:00 a. 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
Close connection at Atlanta for all points
Meat, and at Charlotte for all points East.
G. J. Foreacre, General Manager
W. J. Houston, Gen. P. & T. A’gt.
Northeastern Railroad of Georgia.
TIJVTE TABLE.
Taking effect Monday, November 11, 1878.
Ttrains 1 and 2 run daily except Sunday; 3
•nd 4. on Wednesdays and Saturdays only.
TRAIN NO. 1.
STATIONS. ARRIVE. LEAVE.
A. M.
Athens 6 30
Center 655 657
Nicholson 712 717
Harmony Grove 740 745
Maysvilie 805 810
Gillsville 828 830
Lnla 8 55
TRAIN INOTSL
STATIONS. ARRIVE. LEAVE.
A. M.
Lula 9 45
Gillsville 10 10 10 12
Maysvilie 10 29 10 34
Harmony Grove.... 10 54 11 00
Nicholson 1120 11 23
Center •• • 11 38 11 40
Athens 12 00
TRAIN NO. :t.
STATIONS. ARRIVE. LEAVE.
P. M.
Athens 340
Center.- 403 405
Nicholson 420 423
Harmony Grove 446 451
Maysvilie 511 515
Gillsville 533 535
Lula 6 00
TRAIN NO. -A.
STATIONS. ARRIVE. LEAVE.
P. XI.
Lula - 745
Gillsville 810 812
Maysvilie 829 834
Harmony Grove 854 900
Nicholson 920 923
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.
YOL. XIII.
Geoegia, White County.
Whereas, Benjamin F Nix, administrator
of the estate of Jonas Nix, deceased, has
filed in my office his petition stating thet he
has fully discharged all his duties as such
administrator, and prays that an order be
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 Ordioary.
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 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 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.
Geoegia, White County:
Whereas, James Cathey, 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
and 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 ot Rnbun county at the present term
was by me adjourned to the April term,
1879, of said court. Parties, jurors and
witnesses will take due nolice thereof and
govern themselves accordingly. October
28, 1878. W. M. HUNNICUTT,
novls 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, all the land be
longing to said Bird Kerlee at the time of
his death, not oth. rwise bequeathed con
sisting ot the foliowiug 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 cash, the re
mainder in one and two years with note and
approved security with interest from date.
Titles perfected when the last payment is
made. This December 20, 1878.
ROBERT S. 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 tie real aud person a l property
of the said T N McConnell and I will pass
upon the same at my office in Clayton on
ttie 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 and prays that an order be passed
discharging him from his said trust. There
fore 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. H, B. SMITH,
dec27-30d Ordinary.
Georgia, Dawson County.
Ordinary’s Office.—Whereas Jacob Padget
administrator of Nancy Donsmore, 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 bis 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 ihe estate of Josiah Dilbeek
deceased applies for leave to sell the land of
said 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.
Assignee’s Sale.
Georgia, Towns County.
Will be 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 M
Freeman, bankrupt, to-wit: The one-half
undivided half interest in two town lots,
situate, lying and being in the town of Hi
wassee, in the county of Towns, iu said
State of Georgia, being designated in the
plan of said town by numbers forty.seven
[No 47] and forty-eight [No 48] each with
a iront of fifty feet and running back two
hundred feet. Said property sold as the
property of said bankrupt, for the purpose
of distribution among the creditors of said
bankrupt. Terms of sale cash. January
7, 1879. W. R LITTLE, Assignee.
Georgia, Banks County.
Ordinary’s office, Jan. 6, 1879.
Whereas, J M Oliver applies to me for
etters ot guardianship of the person and
property of Malissa Smith, minor daughter
of E M Smith, deceased. These are there
fore to require all persons concerned to file
in my office, on or before the first Monday
iu February next, their objections, if any
they have to said appointment, otherwise
letters of guardianship will be granted the
applicant. T. F. HILL,
janlO-td Ordinary.
Georgia, Banks County.
Ordinary’s office, Jan. 6, 2879.
Whereas, Geo W Savall, administrator of
William Savall, deceased, makes applica
tion to this court for discharge from said
administration. This is to cite and admon
ish all persons concerned to show cause, if
any they can, why said Geo W Savall should
not be discharged as administrator of the
estate of William Savall, dec’d, at the May
term, 2879, of said court. T. F. HILL,
jaulo-3m Ordinary.
United States Internal Revenue
Deputy Collector’s Office, 2d Dist. Ga.,
Gainesville, Ga., Jan. 9, 1879.
Ten days after date I will sell before the
court house door in the city of Gainesville,
Hall county, Georgia, within the usual
hours of sale:
One copper still, cap and worm, one axe,
and one double-barreled shot-gun, as the
property of James McNeal and others.
Seized by me for violation of internal
revenue laws; no claim having been filed
nor bond given, as required by law.
jaulo-3t W. T. B. WILSON, Dep. Col.
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 24, 1879.
A New Departure.
A Ten-Strike for Immigration to
the Southeast.
Learning that Major W. J. Hous
ton, the untiring and energetic gen
eral ticket and passenger agent of
the Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Line
Railway, had returned from Texas,
after a two weeks’ trip through the
State, a reporter of the Eagle called
on him at his office. He was “up to
his eyes’’ in letters piled up on his
desk, the accumulation of the fort
night previous. With his suave man
ner, Hrjor Houston kindly greeted
the representative of the Eagle and
announced that although pressed
with official business, he was ready
at any time to welcome the press.
Sharpening his stub of pencil, this
reporter commenced the interview.
Reporter— You have just returned
from Texas. What was the object of
your visit?
Maj. H.— To secure return emi
grant rates to the Southeast.
Rep.— What kind of rates?
Maj. H. —Rates equal to those
granted to parties leaving the South
east for Texas.
Rep.— Why did you desire emi
grant rates to the Southeast?
Maj. H.—Because the Atlanta and
Charlotte Air-Line is a line from
which many emigrate to Texas, and
daily my office is besieged by parties
desiring to return to their former
homes, who, in nearly every instance*
have reached here destitute of means.
The frequency of these calls upon my
office led to an inquiry as to the de
sire of others in Texas to return to
their former homes in tne Southeast.
The information received culminated
in an effort in the convention heid in
this city last November to equalize
the rates to and from Texas, On ac
count of the absence of the represen
tatives of the Texas lines, it was
deemed advisable to visit Texas for
the purpose of ascertaining the feel
ings of the Texas lines on the matter.
A convention was held in Houston,
Texas, December 28th, in which all
the Texas lines were represented.
Rep.— Did you ascertain the views
of the Texas lines ?
Maj H— Oh yes. They opposed
offering an inducement to parties en
abling them to leave Texas at redu
ced or emigrant rates.
Rep.—You have failed then to ac
complish the object of your visit.
Maj. H.—Not at &lL .-11. •■, per
fected an arrangement for the trans
portation of immigrants who are to
become actual settlers in the South
East at rates less than the average roles
given to Texas heretofore.
Bep.—ls there any certainty about
this and when will it go into effect ?
Maj. H.—lt is a certainty as all
the Railroads and Steamboat lines
between two important points in Tex
as have given full authority to carry
the same into full effect, and it only
requires time to arrange the prelimi
naries.
Rep.— Do you expect many to avail
themselves of this arrangement?
Maj. U. —The season will be rather
too far advanced to do much until
the coming crop is made. After that
I expect them to come in large num
bers. However, during this winter
and next spring, they will coma in
small detatchments.
Rep.— Has sach an arrangement
ever been made before?
Maj. H.—No, sir. This is the first
time. *
Rep.— Do you blame the Texas
railroads for their opposition to this
arrangement?
Maj. H.—l do not wish to be con
sidered as blaming them. They are
seeking immigration.
Rep. —lt is rumored that you are
looking in other directions for immi
gration on the Air-Line Road?
Maj. H. —That is true, and with
remarkable success. In order to ad
vance the cause of immigration to
this country, the company commen
ced in November 1877 the publication
of an illustrated monthly, the Pied
mont Air-Line Headlight, which has
been devoted intelligently and sys
tematically to the publication of ar
ticles on the advantages of the sec
tion traversed by our line, its soil
climate, productions and resources.
The Headlight, by reason of an ex
tended circulation in the United
States, Canada, and parts of Europe,
has become an important factor in
this work. It is in great demand in
consequence of the information given
in its columns.
Rep.— Are there any special results
attained ?
Maj. H.—The advance guard of a
colony from Switzerland have arrived,
and the remainder will be on soon.
They have located near Toccoa. A
leading citizen of Zurich is taking ac
tive steps to induce immigrants to
settle in North Georgia. .
Rep.— You feel hopeful then?
Maj. H.— l do. With the aid of
an enlightened press, success is as
sured, and I feel confident that they
will render all the aid in their power.
Shere Ali has 360 wives. His affair
with England, therefore, is only a
change of battle field.— Buffalo Com
mercial Adverlisei'.
Hard on the Girl
General Grant was called upon for
a gallant action at a recent Paris re
ception. Mrs. Hooper says that just
as ha was about to depart with Mrs.
Grant leaning on his arm, his hostess
remarked, leading forward her young
daughter, “General,with Mrs. Grant’s
permission, I should like to ask of
you to accord a favor to my daughter.
My grandmother, when a girl of
thirteen, was kissed by Gen. Wash
ington, and I should like my daught
er in after years to be able to say
that she had been kissed by General
Grant.” The young lady blushed*
and the General gravely bestowed
the salute.
If the galoot had indulged in his
usual quantity of whiskey and cigars
that kiss was certainly a bitter dose
for the girl.
Representatives of Northern set
tlers m five States of the South have
held a meeting at Charlotte N, C.
and resolved that they are perfectly
satisfied with, their treatment at the
South, and that in no section of the
country are the rights of citizens
more thoroughly protected. Col. P.
F. Lawshe, of this city, was one of
the delegates.
A dispatch from Detroit, Mich.,
says there is some excitement there
over the number of cases of infanti
cide brought to light recently. Dur
ing the past twenty-four hours the
bodies of live new-born infants were
found in various quarters of the
town in ash barrels and barns. In
one place a dead babe was found on
a principal street.
The Bainbridge Democrat predicts
that there will be some big swindles
developed in the wild land business
before the meeting of the legislature
iu July. Senator Russell is chair
man, and the Democrat says he is
after the land-sharks with a sharp
stick which has a large bug on the
end of it.
According to the statement of two
Mormon ladies who waited upon
Mrs, Hayes yesterday, fifty thousand
of their sisters will be made outcasts
if the anti-polygamy law is enforced.
Their situation is a hard one, and it
s a pity that the burden cannot be
placed upon the shoulders of the
“saints.”
Ex-President Woolsey, of Yale :
College, after a careful investigation
as to the intepretation of the Greek
words aion and aionios, on which de
pends the doctrine of tliß duration
of future punishment, concludes that
the words refer to an unending fu
ture life of happiness or misery.
Mrs. Cobb, the woman whose trial
ha3 been in progress for some time in
Norwich, Connecticut, for poisoning
her husband, was found guilty of
murder in the second degree and
sentenced to imprisonment in the
penitentiary for life.
Miss Rosa Solomon, a beautiful
Jewess of Hopkinsville, Ky., com
mitted suicide in Nashville last week,
because a fellow declined to marry
her. Misguided girl, he was not
worth her thoughts much less her
life.
The $llOO post office that General
Longstreet has received in Georgia
was not given as a reward for his
vote for Tilden, in New Orleans, in
1876. That, at least, is a safe assump
tion.—New Orleans Democrat.
Col, R. W. Jamison, a lawyer and
city attorney of Macon, committed
suicide last Friday. He was an old
citizen, being 60 years of age, and
was a man of considerable note in
that section of the State.
Hon. Henry Watterson, editor g£
the Louisville Courier-Journal is on
a lecturing tour through Georgia.
His subject is the “Comicalities,
Whimsicalities and Realities of
Southern Life.’’
' S
Germany has made a small de
mand on Samoa, which, not being
promptly complied with, is to be en
forced by gunboats and soldiers-
Those European fellows love fighting
The nest biennial convention of the
Young Men’s Christian Associations
of the United States and the British
province has been called to meet in
Baltimore, May 21st.
George G. Vest has been elected
United States Senator from Missouri
for sis years, from March 4th. The
senate can now pull down its Vest.
John A. Logan has been made
senator from Illinois in place of
Senator Oglesby. Logan is a ram
pant radical.
Gov. Hampton has improved so
much that last week he took a
buggy ride some distance into the
country.
Platt defeated Hawley and Jewell
j for the senatorial nomination in Con
i necticut.
| .
Last Sunday was the anniversary
I of Gen. Lee’s birthday.
The Afghan Tiibes.
Perhaps the most lawless of all the
Afghan tribes is the frontier tribes
—the Waziris, who are born warriors
and splendid horsemen. It was these
men who lately lined the sides and
summits of the mountains in the Khy
ber Pass for the purpose of prevent
ing the passage of our friendly mis
sion and its escort.
The head men of the Waziris are it
appears no’; periodically summoned to
Cahul whence they return bearing
handsome presents from the Ameer.
The members of the tribe are however
an astute set of fellows, and it not at
all improbable that they may event
ually desert Shere Ali in suite of his
presents in order to accent regular pay
from the Indam government. For
though essentially fighting men, the
Wazh’is are fond of money, and are
not only dveadedby their neighbors for
their bravery, hut are also envied for
their wealth. They possess a famous
b . eed of horses which they have man
aged wisely to keep to themselves.
These horses are distinguished by a
peculiar curve and twist of the ear and
are remarkable for their wiry hardy
ft>me and high temper. The tradition
is that tie Waziris stole the royal
progenitors of their studs from the sta
bles of the Persian Nadir Shah when
he invaded India. But the Waziris
themselves assert that the conqueror
bestowed the precious animals upon
their ancestors as a mark of his ad
miration of their brilliant horseman
ship. They never shoe their steeds,
but ride them bare-hoofed, and even
at times ba”e-backed, up and down
the dangerous mountain passes as
if they were veritable centaurs ; aud
so highly do they prize their exclu
sive possession of the bn ed they will
never sell a mare, though a market is
held periodically at Thul for the sale
of horses. In some parts of the coun
try so thievish are the propensities
of the inhabitants that while one
man plows in a field another stands
on the watch rifle in hand. Indeed
the Toris of Boghzai, a large hamlet
situated near Saddah, are a 1 ! thieves;
and when a male child is born the
baptismal ceremony consists in put
ting the infant burglar through a hole
in the wall, while his relatives exhort
him to be a thief heart and hand, as
his father and grandfather were before
him. A marline spike, used for
breaking holes through the mud walls
of neighbors’ houses, is part of the
regular furniture of a Tori house, and
is looked upon as a household chattel,
especially in the home of a young
couple about to make a start in life.
A Pleasant Ghost Story
A rather queer story is told and
can be vouched for by over a dozen
persons in Springfield. It appears
that about three years ago a young
man living in Summit got married,
and in due time his wife gave birtb
to a child, which was a girl. When
the child was about one year old its
mother died. About five months
later the young widower became
lonely and took unto himself another
wife. But before doing so he took all
of his first wife’s clothing, packed it
in a trunk, locked it up, and allowed
no one to have charge of the key but
himself. Among the clothing put
away was her wedding shawl and a
pillow his wife had made for her first
born, and also some toys she had
bought, just before she died. Then
he brought home wife No. 2, who, it
is said, made as good a mother as the
average step-mothers do. Things
went on lively till one night last
week, when there was a party at the
next neighbor’s house. So after put
ting the babe in its little bed, the
father and mother No. 2 went over
to spend the evening at the party.
Shortlv after they left, two men came
along on their way to the party also.
They saw a wonderful light in the
house as though it might be on fire.
They also heard the cries of the babe
as though in great pain. They went
to the house, and as soon as they
reached the door the light went out
and all was silent as the grave with
in. They hastened to the house
where the party was and told the man
what they had seen and heard in his
house as they came by. Five or six
men, including the owner of the
house, started to investigate the re
port. When they arrived they found
every door and window fast as they
were when the owner left. On going
inside everything was found to be in
its place, except the child, which,
after a long search, was fouud up
stairs under the bed on which its
mother died, covered up with its
mother’s wedding shawl and its little
head resting on the pillow its mother
made for it, sound asleep. Along
side of it lay its playthings. On ex
amining the trunk it was found to be
locked and nothing missing except
the above mentioned articles. Now,
how the things got out of the trunk
and the key in the owner’s pocket,
and he half a mile from it, and how
the child got up stairs is a mystery.
The above may sound a little dime
novelish, but as we said before, the
facts in the case can and are vouched
for by over a dozen reliable citizens
of Springfield.— Elizabeth ’ {N. J.)
Herald.
The New York Sun of Thursday
says it is stated upon authority so
trustworthy as to leave but little, if
any, doubt of the entire correctness
of the report, that Mrs. A. T. Stewart
has said to at least two persons—a
gentleman and a lady—within the
last six days, that the body of her
husband has been recovered, that it
has been delivered to Judge Hilton,
and that it has been placed by him
in a secure vault, well guarded, there
to remain until the completion of the
crypt in the Stewart Memorial Cathe
dral in Garden City. In the same
way the Sun reports that the body
was recovered at a cost of $50,000
cash.
Proposed Honor to Secretary Sher
man.
At the last meeting of the New
York Chamber of Commerce Mr. A.
A. Low, in offering a series of reso
lutions congratulating the country
upon the resumption of specie pay
ments, eulogized the course of Secre
tary Shermun very highly, and de
clared that the members of the Cham
ber, as a mark of their appreciation
of his services to the country to place
his portrait alongside of that of
Alexander Hamilton, which is now
one of the principal paintings in the
rooms of the Chamber. The Jour
nal of Commerce says the suggestion
has been favorably received by the
members, and it is understood that
Secretary Sherman will be requested
in a few days to sit for his portrait.
Lucky fellows, those Ohio Shermans.
One imagines himself the greatest
Captain of the age, because, like a
corncob floating on the tide of the
mighty Mississippi, he was borne by
an overwhelming force through a de
fenseless country on his “march to
the sea.” And now honest John,
who if he has ever had a steadfast fi
nancial policy was utterly uncon
scious of it, finds himself famous,
having occupied the position of Sec
retary of the Treasury while specie
resumption is brought about by con
ditions and circumstances in which
he had no direction or control. Bat
so it is in this world; some men are
born to greatness, while others have
greatness tarust upon them by acci
dent. Tecumseh’s grand army
reached the sea because there was no
force to oppose its progress; and re
sumption resumed itself because un
der the favoring circumstances re
sumption could no longer be pre
vented by the money monopolists
and stock-jobbers. And yet the
Shermans are t' be awarded ail the
honors.— Savannah News.
K Pleasing Testimonial.
We are glad to learn that the citi
zens of Sumter county have address
ed the following graceful ietter to
Governor Colquitt:
General A. H. Colquitt, Governor of
Georgia. — Dear Sir: We, the under
signed citizens of Sumter county,
Georgia, beg to assure you that in
regard to the investigation of the in
dorsement of the “North-eastern
railroad bonds’’ our confidence iu
you has remained unshaken, feeling
assured that the only result which
could follow would be the complete
and triumphant vindication of the
honor and integrity of our chief mag
istrate. The ordeai through which
you have passed is one by no means
uncommon to men occupying high of
ficial position, and often serves, as we
believe it has in this instance, only to
enhance, if possible, the high esteem
in which they are held. It will doubt
less be gratifying for you to know
that the pain you have suffered was
shared by the people of the State,
who, with a unanimity we believe
without a parallel in our history, call
ed you to the position you now occu
py. With high consideration, etc.
The letter is signed by Honorables
T. M. Furiow, C. B. Hudson, B. B.
Hinton, Judge Crisp, Colonel C. W.
Hancock, and fifty others of the lead
ing citizens aud firms of the city and
county. Th 9 letter gave great satis
faction to the Governor.
The Difference.
There is notable difference, says
the Baltimore Sun, between news
papers which really deserve the con
fidence of the community because
not only of the integrity and honesty
of their opinions, but because of
their means of furnishing accurate
information ana forming correct
judgments, and the class of papers
which simply bring journalism into
disrepute by the ignorance and cre
dulity of their slap-dash
upon all subjects —an ignorance
which is often so dense as to b 9 un
conscious of its own utter absurdity,
and which is accompanied by the
most ludicrous self-conceit. Anima
ted by no higher ambition than tuat
of saying a smart thing or penning a
sharp paragraph, and utterly reck
less of the mischief they may occa
sion, these Bohemians of the press
scatter their opinions with the ut
most facility aud complacency. Fre
quently they make their facts with
the same readiness and glibness with
which they deduce their conclusions,
if deduction can be predicated of
reasoning which set logic and com
mon sense at defiance. The intelli
gent public however, as a rule, is not
slow to discriminate between the two
classes of newspapers, and the differ
ence in the positions they occupy in
the public estimation is illustrated
by the difference in their success,
Country verses City.
An eternal warfare seems to rage
between the country negro and the
town darkey. This was illustrated
at the passenger depot yesterday. A
colored youth from Pike county ap
proached a town negro, and the fol
lowing conversation ensued:
“Whar bouts is de ticket offic ?”
dar ’fo’ yo’ eyes.”
“’Fo’ whose eyes ?”
“Yone.”
“Is yon de ticket office?”
“Look yer, nigger, don’t you gimme
none yo’ slack.’
“I’m a mighty slack man, mon,
w’en I gits stirred up.”
“An’ you’ll git stirred up ef you
stan’ roun’ yer foolin’ longer me.”
“Dai’s de kinder ex’cise w’at I’m a
pinin’ fer.”
And with that they clinched and
had a right lively tussle. They were
separated, however, before a police
man came along, and the Pike coun
ty darkey found the ticket office.
The town negro, it may be well to
mention, was badly used up.— Con
stitution.
Gainesville, Florida, a few days ago
had a beautiful pond thirty-five feet
deep, and covering twelve acres of
ground—but it is gone. It went out
of sight in a single night—sunk,
vanished, disappeared, leaving only,
its bed behind it.
The Seven Wise Men.
Most people have heard of the Seven
Wise Men of Greece, but very few
who know who they were or how
they came to be called so. Here is
the story, and the moral of it is
worth remembering, if their names
are not. The Seven Wise Men of
Greece are supposed to have lived in
the fifth century before Christ.
Their names are Pattacus, Bios, Solon,
Thales, Chilon, Cleobulds and Perian
der. The reason of their beuig called
wise is given dil'ferntly by various
authors but the most approved ac
count states that,as some Corns where
fisl : ng, ce urn s.rangers from Melit
us brought whatever should be in the
nets -without seeing it When the nets
where brought in, they where found
to contain a golden tripod which Hel
en, as she sailed from Troy, is sup
posed to have thrown. A dispute
arose be ween the fishermen as to
whom it belonged, and, as they
could not agree, they took it
to the temple of Apollo and
consulted the ' priestess as to
what should be done the priestess as
to what should be done with it. She
said it must be given to the wise
man in Greece,and it was accordingly
sent to Bias; who declared that
Thales sent it to another one and so
until it had passed through the
hands of all the men distinguished
afterward as the Seven Wise Men
and as each one claimed that the
other was wiser than he, it was
finally sent to the temple of Apollo,
where it long remained to teach the
lesson that the wisest are the most
distrustful of their wisdom.
A Million or Nothing
A good-natured looking young
man of twenty-five, accompanied by
a modest-appearing young woman of
about the same age, evidently his
wife and just made so, yesterday called
upon a Griswold-street insurance
agent to see about insuring her life.
After some preliminary conversation
the agent inquired what sum they
had in mind.
“I want her insured for at least a
million dollars!” promptly replied
the husband, as he reached over and
patted her on the head.
The agent figured up the premium
and stated the amount. The wife
turned pale as death, and the hus
band lost a pound of flesh a minute.
“But take a smaller sum, say five
or ten thousand dollars,” suggested
the agent.
“Not a cent less’n a million !” ex
claimed the husband. “If she ain’t
worth that she ain’t worth nothing,
and as I can’t chalk up for a million
we’il go.”
Building Monuments.
The Montezuma Weekly talks'out
in meeting in this style:
Some “blatherskite” up North ob
jects to the building of monuments
to the confederate dead. Why, you
“blarsted’’ idiot, just so soon as the
financial situation will permit there
will be a monument to the memory
of the confederate dead in every
county in the South, and if we had
our way about it, every monument
should have chiseled into it, “Here
rest heroes, who never failed to
thrash their enemies, when they were
not outnumbered more than three to
one.”
“Y6S, we will build monuments to
their memory, we will strew flowers,
sweet scented Southern flowers, on
their graves, until all the ranting,
howling demagogues in the radical
party are dead and forgotten. Build
as many monuments as you please to
the “boys in blue.” The South will
never object.
As the Supreme court is now con
stituted, four members were appoint
ed by Grant, three by Lincoln, one
by Buchanan, and one by Haves
With the retirement of Judge Hunt,
three of Grant’s appointments will
remain, as will two of Hayes.’ The
South has no representative on the
bench, for Harlan is even more par
tisan and unscrupulous than Miller,
and of an easy virtue that is well
adapted to sit side by side with
Bradley and Strong, who rejected all
testimony by which fraud could be
established and brought home to the
returning board, as aliunde, and the
first of whom, after writing an opin
ion on one side of the Florida case,
voted on the other without the least
hesitation, wnen ordered to contra
dict himself by his owners in New
Jersey and Pennsylvania. —New York
Sun.
There were reported to the New
York board of health last year 7629
marriages in that city, against 7129
in 1877, an increase of 500. Of the
men married 5988 for the first time
led a bride to the altar, and of the
women a still larger number, 6127,
took a husband for the first time.
According to universal experience,
more widoVers than widows again
embark on the sea of matrimony,llo4
men and only 587 women marrying
for the second time, while 71 men
and 33 women entered into wedlock
for the third time. Only two men
I married for the fourth time.
News in G-enerai.
• r * ■?’ > ’ Arlington, of Augusta,
is dead.
Hightower hotel at Calhoun has
been burned.
of Rome, and Miss Bessie Harper of
the former place.
Mr. W. H Dupree and Miss M E.
M illiams, of Griffin, are married.
A negro, named Sam Xiaoe, was
drowned in the Oostanaula river at
Rome last week.
Mr. Mark A. Huson, of Terrell
county, died on the 16th at the resi
dence of his sister, Mrs. W. W.
Woodruff, of Griffin.
Dr. L Pierce is 91 years r f age.
He has not felt sleepy at night in ten
years, and for the last five years has
drunk no water .— Constitution
Two men, Wm. Hines and Chas,
Reilly, had a fight in a Savatiaau bar
room last week and both were shot;
the latter, it was thought, fatally.
Mr. John D. Shockley, of Colum
bia county, was found dead in his
bed a few nights since. He was a
young lawyer .—McDuffie Journal
Mr. Chas. W. Smith, of Atlanta,
and Miss G. Attie Watters were mar
ried in Rome last week.
Cave Springs, Mr. Mark McDonald
An Albany gentleman insulted a
tramp by offering him 50 cents a day
and his dinner if he would work for
him. He was not that kind of a
tramp.
An inhuman mother threw a four
weeks old infant into a sewer ia At
lanta, but it was found before it sus
tained much injury. The child was
a mulatto.
Congress has appropriated to the
widow of the late Julian liartridgo
an amount equal to the remainder of
his salary as a member of the forty
fifth congress.
A curious freak of nature in the
way of a calf whose upper jaw is
divided nearly up to the eyes, is re
ported .as a g-eat curiosity by the
McDuffie Journal.
KO. 4.
Avery lady-like person got drunk
in Atlanta the other night and had to
sleep in the station house. She was
a stranger and pretended to have
swallowed laudanum.
Mr. Sam Bond, of Montezuma, was
thrown from a wagon with which two
mules were running away, last week,
and his skull was fractured, producing
death in a short time.
With regret, we learn that Mr. A,
S. Dorsey who was thrown from his
buggy in Athens, during Christmas,
and badly hurt, is still suffering from
the concussion of his fall.
John Jacobus Flournoy, a some
what notorious old man and who was
well-known in this section of the
State, has just died in Jackson coun
ty at the age of 80 years.
The heavy rains of the 11th were
very damaging to the country about
Dahlonega. It was the largest freshet
ever experienced there, and fences
and other property were wrecked.
Misses Ida D. and Ada D. Colby,
twin sisters, were mairied in New
Hampshire on Christmas eve, and it
is asserted that they looked so exact
ly alike that nobody but the grooms
could tell them apart.
The past year has been a prosper
ous one, spiritually, for Methodism
in Georgia. North Georgia Confer
ence reports 1,500 increase in mem
bership, and South Georgia 731,
making a total in the State of 2,231,
Thomas Massey got out of bed in
Milwaukee on an intensely cold morn
ing to build a fire, instead of making
his wife do it, and was fouud an hour
afterward frozen nearly to death in
the yard, where he had gone for
wood.
Col. W. T. Thompson, of the Savan
nah Morning News, is urged for the
vacancy in congress caused by the
death of Hon. Julian Hartridge.
This is right. None better could be
selected, and we trust the people of
the Ist District wiil sleet him unani
mously.
A grand shooting match between
Bogardus and Dr. Carver has been
agreed upon for SIO,OOO. The match
is to take place between the Ist of
next September and the 31st of De
cember. Twenty thousand glass balls
[are to be broken by the winner in
six days.
I draw upon the blackboard
an interrogation point?” said a teach
er to one of her pupils. “Can’t
make a good one,” replied the boy.
“Draw a boot buttoner,” said the
teacher, “that will answer.” The
boy took the crayon and drew a hair
pin. Sharp rebuke by the teacher.
Other scholars smile.
The little son of President Mayson,
of LaGrange Female College, while
running with an open knife in his
hand fell, the blade or the knife en
tering the left eye and cutting the
ball clean from its socket. Dr. Cal
houn, of Atlanta, was telegraphed
for, and has the little fellow in
charge. He bears his sufferings he
roically.
A bright-eyed stranger girl arrived
at our senior’s home last Sunday
evening. She favors her pa and i3
pronounced a perfect beauty. She
will for the present edit the “nurse
ry’’ department of the Times and
Planter, and don’t care whether sub
scribers even pay up or nqt; but it
makes a' big difference with th 6 edi
tor. So pay up, or look out for
“squalls.” —Timed and Planter.
In Abbeville, South Carolina, the
other day a little negro, two or three
years old, fell into Mr. J. D. Paces
well and was almost miraculously
delivered from a watery death by its
mother. The well was forty feet
deep and the child fell to the bottom.
The mother was some fifty yards dis
tant from the well at the time of the
accident, but rushed to the rescue
and climbed down into the well hold
ing to the wall rock and he piping
of the pump. The childwas found
clinging to the pump up to its mouth
in water and beyond the power of
speech. The woman placed it in a
bucket which had been lowered to her
in the well, and with this load on her
head safely climbed back to the sur
face again. But few such instances
as this of miraculous escapes and
motherly devotion ever occur, and as
such it is worth recording.