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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. SUBSCRIPTION. On* Year $2,00. Six Montes SI,OO. Three Months 6Cc. advance, delivered by carries os prepaid BY MAIL. papers are stopped at the expiration of the time paid for without further notice. Mail sub scribers will please observe the dates on their wrappers. Persons wishing the paper will have their orders dromptly attended to by remmitiing the amount for the time desired. ADVERTISING. beven words make a line. Ordinary advertisements, per Nonpareil lino, 10 cents. Legal Official Auction and Amusement advertise ments and Special Notices, per. Nonpa reil line. 15 cents. Reading notices per line, Nonpareil type 15 cents Local notices, per line, Brevier type, 15 cents. A discount made on advertisements continued for longer than one week. REMITTANCES For subscriptions or advertising can be made by Post Office order, Registered Letter or Express, at our risk. All letters should be addressd, J. E. REDWINE, Gainesville, Ga. ?■■■■■■ GENERAL DIRECTORY. r~—r::: - ■; , 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.