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PsmrarrKMAN OnnacH—Rev. T. \ Cleveland,
raster. Preaching every •Sabbath-"jornifig acd
night, except the second Sabbath. Sunday School,
at 0 a. lb. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at 4
o’clock.
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lor. Preachtfig every Sunday rtlornlng and night.
unday School at 9a, m. Prayer meeting Wednes
day night.
Baptist Ohubch Rev. W. C. Wilkes, Pastor,
Sunday morning and night. Sunday
Behoolat9 a. m Prayer meeting i’bqrsday evening
at 4 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. Piekrell, Vice-
President; Claud Estes, Secretary. Service in on o
•f the churches every Sabbath aitornoon at three
o’eioek. Service for young men ,ln the Methodist
church every Tuesday evening. Cottage prayer
meetings every Friday evening.
FRATERNAL RECORD.
Fdowebt Branch Lodge No. 79, I. 0. O. TANARUS.,
meets every Monday night, Joed Laseteii, N. G.
B. F. Stidham, Sec.
AU.EOHANY Koval Arch Chapter meets on the
Second and Fourth Tuesday evenings in each
month.
H. 8. Bradley, Bec’y. A. W. Caldwell, H. P.
Gainesville Lodge, No. 219, A.-. Fu. M.\,
meets n the First a nd Third Tuesday evening in
the month
R. Palmour, Sec’y. W. G. Henderson ,W. M.
Atr-Lix* Lodge, No. 64 ,1. O. O. F., meets
•rorr Friday evening.
A. B. 0. Dobskv, 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:
Kail train No. 1, going oast, leaves 7:47 p. in.
Mall for this train closes at 7:00 “
Mail train No. 2, going east, leaves... .8:35 a. m.
No uiaM by this train.
Mail train No. 1* going west, 1eave5....6:51 a. m.
Mall for thiß train closes at 9:30 p. m.
Mall train No. 2, going west, leaves. ...9:05 p. m.
Mall 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 >i.
Departure of mails from this office:
Dahlouega and Gilmer county, daily 8K 8. m
Bahlonega, via Wahoo and Ethel, Saturday... Ba. m
Jefferson A Jackson county, Tuesday, Thurs
day and Saturday 7 a.m
Cleveland, White, Union, Towns and Hayes
ville, N. 0., Tuesdays and Fridays 7 a. m
Dawsonvllle and Dawson county,, Tuesday
and Saturday 8 a. m.
Homer, Banks county, Saturday 1 p. m
Pleasant Grove, Forsyth oounty, Saturday. .1 p.m
M. R. ARCHES, P.M.
Atlanta and Charlotte
AIK-LINK,
Trains will run as follows on and after
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10. 1878,
NIGHT MAIL TUAIN.
GOING EAST.
Lave Atlanta 3:15 p. m.
Arrive Gainesville 5:31 p. m.
Leave Gainesville 5:32 p. m.
Arrive Charlotte 3:03 a. in.
GOING WEST.
Leave Charlotte 12:0() m dnt
Arrive Gainesville 9:41 a. m.
Leave Gainesville 9:42 a. m.
Arrive Atlanta 12:00 m.
DAY PABSIO N- E tit T' N .
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Leave Atlanta 6:00 a. m.
Arrive Gainesville 8:32 a. In.
Leave Gainesville 8:33 a. in.
Arrive Charlotte 6:22 p. in.
GOING WEST.
Leave Charlotte 10:20 a. m
Arrivo Grinesvi lie 8:14 p. m
Leave Gainesvill e 8:15 p. in
Arrive Atlanta 10:30 p. in
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. m.-
Arrive Central 7:10 p.m,
GOING WF.ST.
Leave Central 1:40 a. m
Arrive Gainesville 7:23 a., m.
Leave Gainesville 7:22 a. in.
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
West, and at Charlotte for all points East.
G. J. Fobeacre, General Manager
W. J. Houston, Gen. P. & T. A’gt.
Northeastern Railroad of Georgia.
TIIIVEZE TABLE.
Taking effect Monday, November 11, 1878.
l’trains 1 and 2 run daily except Sunday; 3
and 4on Wednesdays and Saturdays only.
TRAIfT IVO. I.
STATIONS. ARRIVE. LEAVE.
A. M.
Athens 6 30
Center 655 657
Nicholson 712 717
Harmony Grove, 740 745
Maysville 805 810
Gillsville 828 830
Lola 8 55
’Jig, AIJN .Si o.A>.
STATIONS. ARRIVE. LEAVE.
A. M.
Lnla 9 45
Gillsville 10 10 10 12
Maysville 10 29 10 34
Harmony Grove 10 54 11 00
Nioholson 11 20 11 23
Center 11 38 11 40
Athens 12 00
TRAIN INTO. 3.
STATIONS. ARRIVE. LEAVE.
P. M.
Athens i 340
Center 403 405
Nicholson 420 423
Harmony Grove 446 451
Maysville 511 515
Gillsville 533 535
Lula 6 00
TKAINNO. 4.
STATIONS. ARRIVE. LEAVE.
P. M.
Lola 7 45
Gillsville 810 812
Maysville 829 834
Harmony Grove 854 900
Niebolson 920 923
Center 9 38 j 940
Athens 10 00[
Trains will wait thirty minutes at Lula
>(br delayed passenger trains on the Air-Liue
Railroad. JAMES M. EDWARDS. Supt.
The Gainesville Eagle
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Georgia, Banks County.
Ordinary’s office, a.
t Whereas, Geo W Savali, admin. of
William Savali, deceased, makes apu-ica
t'on to this court for discharge from said
administratio i. This is to cite and admon
ish all persons concerned to show cause, if
any they can, why said Geo W Savali should
not ba discharged as administrator of the
estate of William Saval 1 , dec’d, at tbe May
term, 2879, of said court. T. F. HILL,
jaulo-3m Ordinary.
Administrators’ Sale.
Georgia, Towns County. -
By virtue of an order from the court of
Ordinary of Towns county, Ga., will be sold
before the court bouse door in said county,
on the first Tuesday in March next, tii3 fol
lowing land, to-wit:
40 acres more or less of lot of land No. 309
70 “ “ - .. 308
130 “ • “ “ “ 298
202 “ “ “ “ < 3io
All in the 18ih district and first section ot
'■'■eginally Union county, now Towns. .Sold
for the benefit of tbe heir's and creditors."’
Terms of the sale made known ! ou day of
sale. JOSIAH CARTER,
P. M. H. ENGLAND,
jati3l td Administrators.
Georgia, Rabun County.
Whereas, William J Nioholson, adminis
trator of Clarisa Nicholson, deceased, has
filed in my office his petition stating that he
has fully discharged all his duties as such
administrator, and praving that an order be
passed discharging him from his said trust
as administrator:
Therefore, all persons concerned are re
quired to show cause, if any they have, why
letters should not bo granted, discharging
him from his said administration, at' the
regular term of the coart of Ordinary to be
held in said county on the first Monday in
May next. Given under my hand and offi
cii signature, this January 17, 1879.
jau24-3m J. W. GREEN, Ordinary.
Notice.
__ All persons indebted to the estate of Bird
Kerlee, late of Towns county, deceased, will
please settle; and ail persons having de
mands against said estate will present them
in terms of tbe law. This January 8, 1879.
janl7-7t R. S. KERLEE, Executor.
GOOD NEWS FOB ALL !
•VI. Vl.mUo At t !•>.
have just received an immense stock of
HEADY-MADE CLOTHING,
Gents’ Furnishing Goods, Boots, Shoes and
Hats, all of which they are selling at the
Lowest Cash Prices.
They still occupy their old stand, corner
of Whitehall and Alabama streets, Atlanta.
octlß-tf.
ROBERT NORRIS. LYMAN A. REDWINE.
Norris & lied wine*
WHOLESALE
Fancy Goods and Notions
1H North Pryor St., over Mcßride & Cos.
ATLANTA. - - - GEORGIA
McAFEE HOUSE,
Cleveland, White County, (la.
25 Miles North of Gainesville.
Mails Arrive Every Day.
Scenery Unsurpassed.
The subscriber takes pleasure in announc
ing to the’public that he is prepared to ac
commodate a limited number of summe
visitors, iu good style and at reasonabl
figures. His rooms are large and airy, hi
halls and piazzas are spacious and comfort
able. His table will be supplied withal
the substantials and luxuries the country
and Gainesville markets afi'ord. The Bloc
lvidge mountains are in plain view of his
house, while the Yonah and neighboring
mountains are only from two to four miles
away, and easily ascended by parties desir
ing to see the grand scenery to be viewed
from their summits. Parties "desiring to
Secure Rooms in Advance
may address me, for prices, etc., at Cleve
and. may3l tf T. V. McAFEE.
OFFICE CITY COUNCIL,
Gainesville, Ga., Jan. 21, 1879.
Notice is hereby given to merchants, ho
tel and boarding house keepers, guano
agents, auctioneers, real estate, sewing ma
chine, and insurance agents, butchers, and
all who are doing a business of any kind
within the city limits for which a license is
required, that if the same is not paid by
Monday, the 27th inst., I will immediately
issue fi. fas. for the same. All who want to
save costs had better come to the office and
take out their license. A. B. C. Dorses,
Clerk of Council.
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 7, 1879.
Mr. N. Dumont, the jue&idenfc of
the late convention of northern eel
tiers, at Charlotte, has issued a call
for conventions of northern born
residents of the south in each count}
in all the Southern States, to be held
on the loth of February. The object
is to get the views ol all upon the
subject of publishing a newspaper
which shall have for its object the
setting forth the soil, climate, prices,
ease of making a living and sociai
treatment of the individual Northern
man in the Southern States. These
county conventions are further ex
pectea to select delegates to a State
convention to be held at the capitals
on the Ist of March. Politics are to
he excluded and we hope these con
ventions will be productive of much
good.
Ther"-is at lei : e golf exiled ex>
Confederate who is living in clover,
lion. Judah P. Benjamin, according
to a London correspondent, occupies
an elegant suit of law chambers and
has a practice which yields him §150,-
000 annually, for which reason he
would decline a judgeship, which
only pays $25,000. Mr. Benjamin is
represented as saying that he could
easily secure a seat in the House of
Commons, several constituencies hav
ing given him very flattering invita
tions to represent them, but he has
no desire to go into Parliament for
the same reason that he would de
cline a judgeship—it involves too
many sacrifices. Mr. Benjamin has
a house in Paris and always spends
his summer vacations there.
The Augusta News prints a special
telegram from C.,to this
effect: Gov. Hampton’s condition is
not as good as we could wish. In
fact, his most intimate friends are
alarmed at the prospects of the ne
cessity of another amputation, as the
bone of the leg protrudes nearly
three inches from the point of am
putation. The Governor is in bed,
and feels gloomy over his condi
tion.”
We hope the case is not so bad as
represented. A physician of this
city who is a first-class surgeon says
that the mere fact that the bone pro
trudes from the Governor’s leg need
not cause any alarm as ho has often
seen’such cases and never knew one
to result fatally.
Pat;arson, the oarpet-ljag setter
of South Carolina, whose term of of- 1
ties expires on the 4th of March, has
threatened to make a speech when
ike Butler-Corbia case comes up, in
which he intends to rasp Hayes and
Ms administration without fear or re
morse. His previous assault on the
administration was no more than a
drop of sulphuric acid as compared
to the ton of dynamite which he
would now hurl upon it,
President McMahon, of France
resigned on the 30th uh., because the
assembly would not come to his terms
in relation to the laws for the regula
tion of the army. M. Grevy, a vet
eran politician and statesman, was
elected in his stead, and is said to be
in entire accord with the ruling pa rty,
the republicans,
The jury in the case of the heirs of
Gen. Lee against the government for
the recovery of the Arlington estates
has returned a verdict for the plain
tiffs, giving them the whole property
in fee. This should meet the ap
proval of every honest man and we
rejoice that justice has been done
though long delayed.
The Warren Mitchell claim for
cotton, taken by the military at
Savannah during the war, was defeat
ed in the senate by a vote of 17 ayes
and 30 nays. Mr. Hill’s speech on
the subject did the work. This vote
will kill all other war claims before
this congress.
Gen. Sherman stayed two day3 in
Atlanta, but that city did not “slop
over” much on account of the distin
guished honor. The truth is, there
are a few big men in this country
that Atlanta has more regard for
than Win. Tecumseh.
If there is a paper in the State that
has not yet expressed an opinion
about this Hill'. Murphy business, we
hope it will hurry up and give us its
views. We are dying to read a few
more comments on this subject.
The Teller committeeo is still in
vestigating at Charleston and they
are eliciting some delightful testimo
ny of democratic fraud and rascality
from the persecuted negroes and
radicals of that State.
After a long and stubborn contest
the Louisiana legislature succeeded
on Friday last in electing a United
States Senator in the person of Mr.
B. F Jonas. He succeeds Senator
Eustis.
The legislature of Tennessee has
passed a bill repealing the charter of
Memphis and remanding it to the
territory of Tennessee and providing
for its local government as a taxing
district.
Senator Ingalls, of Arkansas, has
been re-elected for another ;jix years.
About Pretty Women.
i must confess to an extreme liking
for pretty women; most men, espe
cially homely men, might, I think,
admit themselves possessors of a
:: irniiar feeling. That pretty women,
however, are universal admirers of
homely men is not quite an certain;
and yet it has been very genernlly
observed that homely men oftenest
secure pretty women as wives. I
don’t pretend to understand what the
philosophy of the thing may be. It is
possible, however, that it comes of a
dislike most men, as well as women,
have for what have been called “dou
bles” or repetitions of self; and,
further, the universal partiality ex
isting for contrasts. Avery big man
always likes to see a man something
smaller than himself, and an extreme
ly small man forever envies him who
has the muscles of a giant. May it
not be, then, that homely men are
sometimes chosen by women with
pretensions to good looks, simply on
ac count of the extreme opportunity
thus secured for contrast —for r.howr
ing themselves off, as it were, to the
best advantage. Who ever saw even
an ordinarily pretty woman leaning
on the arm of an ugly man, without
exclaiming mentally: “How fine she
is, and what a beast of a husbaadfe”
The same pretty woman, walking with
a tolerably good looking man, would
not be noticed. It must be for some
similar reason that picture amateurs
often leave the brilliant-colored paint
ing of the masters hanging in old,
rusty, and even crickety frames. For
my own part I never enter a room
containing paintings, where one sin
gle picture happens to be situated as
I have described, without its attract
ing my immediate observation. Cer
tain'it is, that a single rose, blooming
amid the briers of the field, lures the
eye sooner than the same rose blush
ing on the velvety lawn.
There have not been so very many
pretty women, after all, I mean wo
men of extraordinary beauty, as ones
would at first imagine. Whole gen
erations sometimes pass without one
appearing. Some countries have not
possessed one in a century; at least,
not one who from her extreme beau
ty, or from fortuitous circumstances,
has fixed her name in history. Great
beauty is as rare, indeed, as great
genius; and great beauty combined
with great wit, even rarer. Bat com
paratively few of the beautiful women
of the poets ever existed beyond the
poet’s fancy; the immortal Beatrice,
even, being known rather for Dante's
love and for Dante’s versa than for
any wonderful beauty. Byron’s ‘Maid
of Athens was as much the child of
his sympathy as she was the inspira
tion of his pen. Her mother was
a widow with whom Byron lodged.
She was poor, and her two daughters
interested the poet. He described
them in tne plainest prose afterward,
.f.ud; though they were beautiful,
• here w'Ve 'druv hitch
Athens. Shakspeare’s fair “Rosalind”
certainly never lived in the flesh and
blood, and “Sweet Margaret” was the
creation of a Goethe, only after he
had deserted a beauty more real. It
has always been a fashion among the
poets to create in their minds the
beautiful forms of which nature
seems so u.ggardly; and, as in fancy,
they dwelt in palaces, while their
bodies languished in garrets, so they
lived with the houris, though married
to the plainest of women. The pleas
ures of their imaginings, however,
were far superior to the enjoyments
of those who possessed real houris,
and who lived in real palaces, yet
lacked in the appreciation of the
good fortune which nature had be
stowed on them. Still, most poets
have had one. love that was real, one
beauty that was supreme. It has, in
deed, been asserted, and with a very
great degree of enthusiasm, too, that
no great poet ever existed, whose
genius had not been lighted into a
burning flame at the altar of some
fair face. “Give me a man,” said a
philosopher once, “endowed with or
dinary genius, and make him mad in
eve with a beautiful woman, and I
will return a poet to you.” It re
quires but little reflection to recall
what many of the loves of the poets
have been. What bright, voluptuous,
yet half evanescent beings they were.
Commencing away back with Horace,
whose odes made a Lydia immortal—
Dante and. Beatrice, Tasso and Leon
ore, Alfieri and his Princess, Pe
trarch and Laura, Goethe and Fred
ericke. Some names that are en
graven aa if in brass, some hearts in
I whose warmth genius had its birth.
The love stimulus has been no less
j inspiring to female genius than to
; that of men. Sappho only penned
verses when in love. When she could
j find no mortal handsome enough to
i lire her muse, she fell in with Phaon,
whom Yenus had transformed from
an ugly old dwarf into tbe fairest of
youths; and when Sappho found her
love unrequited she threw herself
into the sea. Poor, sweet Angelica
Kaufman, the pride of Germany, the
adored of England, never painted so
well as when the eyes of that hand
some villain, Horne, were upon her,
and the poor Elizabeth Barrett Brown
mg’s genius leaped into higher life
under the transforming wand of love.
All women of great beauty have had
their history, and the triumphs and
fate of a woman of exceeding beauty
are not of less interest than is the
life of a man of genius. From Eve,
whose beauty must have been su
premo, down, beautiful women have
exercised the most tremendous influ
ence on the destinies of the world.
Helen, for whose charms hosts bat
tled and Troy fell; Cleopatra, mad
dening Kings to desert empires for
her love; Honoria, for whom whole
hecatombs of Huns perished, that
Attiia might win her hand; Eugenie,
dictating the manners, dress and
habits of civilized society; Carlotta,
forcing a husband to assume the pur
ple at the sacrifice of a people’s free
dom; each and all point to the ma
jesty of the power of a woman of
beauty. It has sometimes been as
serted that beautiful women and men
of genius have come up in crowds to
gether, and that there is an Augustan
age of fair women in the lives of
nations just as there is au Augustan
age of literature. Certain it is that
when England and France had the
greatest poets, they had also the
greatest number of women ce’ebrated
lor their beauty, as was the case in
the times of Henry VII f, and Eliza
beth, Louis XIY, and the Consulate
Scarcely a great poet, or, it might be
added, a great painter, has come up
on the scene, who has not brought
with him at least one woman of al
most supreme beauty. Of course, in
judging them, allowance must be
made for the distinction given these
women by the geniuses who adored
them. Yet the spirits of the dead
fair might answer: “At our altars
were their lamps lighted. We piped
.to them, and they did dance.” A
German writer once intimated that
had Goethe never seen the face of the
fair F.edericke, it is doubtful if the
world had not lost him as a poet.
How thankless, too, this man, this
poet, whom Emerson has pronounced
“The soul of his century.” How sel
fish even a poet can be, to pour gall
into the wine-cup thaj: cheered hiry —
’Jo coldly desert the true heart tnafc
gave wings to his genius. Fair
Fredericke was but a village pastor’s*
daughter—her lover was a society
king. It was sad, though, that he
should have forsaken her. Bt she
was not alone; it was a habit the
great men had. Fredericke was a
bsautifni, sweet, German flower, fit
for a poet to crush, that Lie might be
intoxicated with its perfumes. Tasso
declared that, for Leonore, he could
write a world of poems, and Alfieri’s
genius soared highest when the fair
Countess of Albany encouraged his
love. Indeed, he would not write at
all, if she frowned; and his constant
prayer was that ha might not outlive
her. Of course she was a married
woman—most of the lovers of poets
were married women. This seemed
to be a part of the stimulant, the ne
cessity,as it were, to make real poets,
in the old days of France, especially.
Married, unfortunate, beautiful, and
a poet to adore her, this was the
maximum of female glory—the. dis
tinction which great beauties held
dear.
A Bit of History.
The recent death of Mrs. Ann Ilin
man Kellogg, of Far field Conn., in the
93d year of her age, recalls an unrecor
ded incident of the war of Revolution
Mrs. Kellogg was the daughter of Capt
Elisha Hinman, of the United States
navy, and her mother was the only
American who remained in New Lon
don when the town was destroyed the
traitor, Benedict Arnold, in 1781. At
that time Capt. Hinman‘s ship was
hourly expected to arrive at New Lon
don and it was hoped that he might
come in time to save the town. Mrs
Hinman was well acquainted with
Arnold, as he had often dined at her
house, and been a friend of her hus-
Uiud. Induced by anxiety for. her is.
band's safety, she remaimed after all
others had fled, and watched the
British from the doorway of her
house. As Arnold rode up he saw and
saluted her and said that if she would
point out her own property it should
be spared. She pointed out the houses
of several of her neighbors as her own
and thus saved them from destruction
Arnold remained on horsback near
her house nearly all day, noting the
battle that was raging at Fort
Griswold on the Croton side of the
river, where the tall monument
commemorating the event now stands.
Three times were the British driven
down the hill by the deadly fire till
the ammunition of its defenders be
came exhausted, and they were obliged
to surrender. The British officer in
command of the storming party was
so enraged at the desperate defence
of the fort that, as he entered it, lie
asked: “Who commands here;/ 4
Colonel Ladyard replied:“ I did but
you do now,” at the same time
surrendering his sword.'The officer re
ceived the sword and instantly 'plun
ged it into the heart of the gallant
Colonel. An American officer, stand
ing beside his Colonel, snatched his
own sword from its scabbard and in a.
momert the cowardly Briton lay dead
beside bis victim. An indiscriminate
massacre of all within the fort fol
io .ved, and thirty of the wounded
Americans were piled into a wagon
that was rolled down a steep hillside
to the bottom, where it was dashed in
pieces against a tree. Then hurried
preparations -were made to evacuate
their positions by the British, Arnold
having learned of the expected arri
val of Capt. Hinman. Mrs. Hin
man, having witnessed these ontrages
from her housetop, became so in
censed against the traitor that she
hurriedly descended from the roof,
took a musket from a closet where it
had been left the day before by an
American soldier, and leveled it at
Arnold as he sat on his horse in
front of the house. Taking a long,
steady aim, she pulled the trigger,
but the piece missed fire. Hearing
the snap of the lock, Arnold turned
and asked her what that noise was.
With great presence of mind she had
dropped the gun, so that he did not
see it, and she answered that it was
the breaking of a chair.
The energetic team of the Macon
Evening Ledger can't be outdone for
want of local news. "When they
have none they make it. List week
they published the details of a raid
by the police on a notorious gambling
den, and the capture of many of the
first young bloods of that city. Also
their subsequent arraignment before
the police court where each was fined
SIOO. At the end of the article it
was statedfihat this was not an actual
occurrence, but was published as a
warning. This feat of the Ledger is
equal to an advertisement of the
New Yoik Weekly or Saturday Night,
where they publish half a chapter of
a serial story and then disappoint the
reader by referring to future num
bers of their periodical. Speer, Smith
& Seifert should be brought up and
made to ante a clean s|loo apiece.
A Ringing Speech.
Hon. Geo. G. Vest, the newly elec
ted Senator from Missouri, made a
short speech at the banquet ten
dered him at Jefft-rsou City, from
which we take the following on the
finances. It will be perceived that
they have the true ring:
WHAT CENTRALIZATION MEANS.
Centralization means force, as an
tithetic to popular will, and must al
ways be associated with monarchy
and here iitary rank. State govern
ment, upon the other hand, next to
that of tbe family, will al
ways be dear to the American naart.
The one is ol foreign, the other of
domestic growth, &ud while a great
centralized government may dazzle
for a time, like the sun, with its
garish light at noonday, it is at lust
in the States, and by the unpre
tending bat steady light of that
lamp which Jefferson fixed as a bea
con for post ri'ity, that our liberties
mast ba preserved,
O ntr iizitinu means force, nut it
does not a.-.vqs coma in Uu shape
of standing armies, or the mailed
hand of a military despjt. L iok
around, and you will see in every
portion of this vast country, with its
varied products and almost unlimited
resources, the blighting influence of
financial centralization.
Pitiless as the ocean, unheeding
as the storm, cold and remorseless as
death, financial centralization is to
day crushing out the life of the
country. The dream of Alexander
Hamilton’s ambition when he led the
old Federalists, has been realized in
the financial system of the republi
can party. Under this system New
Eadgiand and Wall street own and
control the Union. The republican
leaders determined to crystalize their
power and make it perpetual, by
erecting a centralized financial des
potism around which shoul rally the
janizaries of the National Banks, and
the pretorian cohorts of the bond
holders. Every interest was subor
dinated tc- the giant infamy.
The bonds of the government, in
terest-bearing and non-taxable, were
sold at ruinous prices, and more
than two thousand National Banks
were permitted to deposit these
oonds, with the government, draw
the accruing -interest, issue bank
notes to ac amount only one-tenth
less than the bonds deposited, and
then ioan these notes to the people
for 10 per cent interest, payable in
advance.
The same spirit of centralization,
always looking to the same end, made
the five-twenty bonds payable, prin
eipai and interest, in coin, when by
their terms the principal was paya
ble in legal-tender notes. The same
spirit afterward made these bonds
convertible into coin bonds so as to
destroy the identity of the original
issue. The same spirit, in order to
make the bonds more valuable de
moneiizsd Silver, and finally, struck
down with the ax of resumption the
energies and industries of the entire
country.
WHO DEMANDED RESUMPTION ?
The National Banks and bondhold
ers. It has come J)y operation of
law, and ruin has come with it
Business is paralized, values de
stroyed, the country full of tramps,
the cities full of thieves, while the
people of the West are staring bank
ruptcy squarely in the face. Honest
money, shouts the bondholder ! The
credit of the government must be
preserved ! Yes, so says every hon
est man; but to preserve the credit
of the government it is not necessary
to ruin and bankrupt the people.
•The credit of the government and the
welfare of the people should go hand
in hand.
The government is not the master
of the people. It is their property,
their creature, and its only use is to
subserve their interests With the
republican party the government has
an existence separate and apart from
the people. The greenbacks which
the people were compelled to take as
legal tender were refused by the gov
ernment for import duties and in
terest on the public debt. In other
words, in accordance with the mon
archical system, based upon cen
tralization, there has been one mon
ey for the peeple, another for the
government.
In 1874 the democratic party of
Missouri demanded in its platform,
which I had the honor of reporting
from this stand, that greenbacks
should be made equal to gold, by
making them receivable for import
duties" and interest on the public
debt. In the name of the people wo
demand now that the ruinous system
of the republican party shall be re
versed, and that instead of contrac
tion and congestion, we shall have
expansion and healthy enterprise.
Lot the volume of currency be in
creased, its value enhanced by milk
ing it receivable for ail debts, public
and private; the National banking
system abolished; and instead of a
bank circulation let there be legal
tender notes issued directly by the
government.
“Bronco Pat,“ finding that he could
not get married at Pioche. secured the
services of a Mormon Bishop, by the
name of Allen, who lived down in the
valley, and proceeded to the Utah line
some five miles distant. On arriving at
the line the good Bishop proceeded to
business,and married the couple When
the marriage ceremony was being per
formed, Pat stood on the east side of
the line, in the Territory of Utah, and
the blushing bride stood on
the west side, in the State of Nevada
while Bishop Allen straddled the line
standing on both Utah and Nevada
soil, and in this position the couple
were united. This is probably the first
couple ever united in holy bonds of
matrimony with the groom standing in
a Territory and bride in a State, while
the old fellow who tied the knot stood
in both.
From the Athens Chronicle we
(learn that Judge Erwin has made a
I splendid start as a judge and is win
ning golden opinions from all the
* pe >ple.
An Anti-Dead Head Conscience.
The Washington correspondent of
the Baltimore Gazette tells the follo
wing on Senator L. Q. C. Lamar
“I cannot save any of my salary,“
said Senator Lamar to-day to your
correspondent. “It is impossible. I
never paid a cent beyond livery hire
and a few little kindred items of
electon expenses in my life, and I
have been in politics a long time. I
could save §I,OOO a year if I did
certain things, but I do not think my
conscience would be satisfied if I did.
For instance, I pay about §3OO a year
for newspapers; I like to read them,l
have passes over railroads. I could
travel all over the United States free,
but I pay my fare. It costs me §57
for each member o? my family every
time I come and go between here and
home. I have telegraph passes, but
I never use them. I do not think it
Avould be right I can send anything I
please over the express lines yet I pay
my express bills. I spend my salary
and never have any money. Some
Senators use all these privileges of
dead-heading and they say it is right.
I think otherwise. But there is one
thing I shall propose as soon as I
get a chance. Every Senator should
have a private secretary. He
has more correspondence, committee
work, etc., than he can do The Sena
tor gets §5,000 a year, and cannot
support his family in keeping with
his position and employ a private
secretary on that the conscience of
Senator Lamar should be embalmed.
The dead-heading business is carried
to such extremes that it is nothing
unusual to see a street car filled
with congressmen about the time the
House adjourns, all presenting
passes to the conductor to save the
paltry sum of five cents.
A female was hanging out some
Cloths in a yard on Green street when
a boy looked over the fence and called
out:
“Have you seen any mad dogs go
by here, just now ?,,
“Mad dogs mercy!,, gasped the
woman, and she threw four wet shirts
on the ground in a heap, and got into
the house with four bounds.
The boy maintained his position.
After a few minutes the woman put
her head out of the door, and asked:
“Have you?”
“No!,, was the calm reply;“ I guess
the season for them has drawn to a
close. “
“You are a miserable boy! why did
you alarm me so?“ she exclaimed, as
she opened the door and stood on the
step.
“Who‘s been alarmed? I guess if
I want to find a mad dog I‘vo got a
right to impart' if any one ha," gone
by, haven’t I? You don,t expect me
togo’ngit out full sheet posters and
leave ’em at houses, do you? Humph
the idea that a boy can’t jist inquire
about mad dogs! “
+. .jga* >.
Colonel A. L. Harris,
known a3 Phatty, has sold the Atlan
ta Independent to Mr. Geo. W. Fech
ner. The latter introduces himself in
this unique style: “In assuming con
trol of the Independent, I am not al
together without experience in my
new vocation, having always been a
liberal subscriber to all the free al
manacs, at the nearest drug store,
and occasionally taking a paper ‘from
my neighbor’s door,’ I have been in
the same town with the immortal J.
N., have heard Col. Susan B. lecture
on the use and abuse of man, and I
claim the authorship of Beautiful
Snow. la days gone by I worked a
self acting press ‘with my girl,’ but I
had to give that up, I am married
now. Certainly with such varied ex
perience I am confident that I can
stand it. if my readers can. F.”
Sitting Bull prays the Great Fath
er for permission to live. He says:
“My people are cold and hungry; my
women are sick, and my children are
freezing. I wiil do as the Great
Father wishes. I will give my guns
and ponies into his hands. My ar
rows are broken, and my war paint
thrown to the winds.” Sitting Bull
clearly gives up. He sees the inevi
table, and throws down his arms.
Now for a royal old slaughter—a
massacree that will eclipse our late
exploits with the red man. The ar
my can approach without fear of dan
ger. Some military reputations can
easily be made.
When the train conveying Gen.
Sherman to the South stopped at
Kettle Hollow, Montgomery county,
Va., says the sidewalk man of the
News, Tecumseh walked out to view
the sterile aspect of the country.
Seeing an old residenter standing
near, the General inquired, “What
do they raise in this country any
how?” The aforesaid Kettle Hollow
man replied: “They raise h—ll here
about as quick as any place you ever
saw.” The General tucked his feath
ers and sought refuge in the car in
stanter.
Oglethorpe Echo: Mrs. liootie Dove,
of the laud of hoop-poles and huckai
berries, last week gave birth to trip
lets. Both mother and children are
doing well. This, we think, fairly
entitles Madison to the next senator.
P. S.—From a telegram just received
from Danielsville, we learu that this
enterprising lady has just given birth
to Dove No. 4. Our columns will bo
kept open to the latest hour for fur
ther returns.
“I have often pitied those poor
mothers who cannot afford nurses
and who are kept from church because
of the baby. Suppose they do cry we
don £ t mind it at home. I don‘t see
why it should be so awful here. There
are some fidgety people who don‘t
like babies but then I think they are
the ones who ought to stay at home. I
hope the times is coming when it will
be the fashion to bring babis to church
D. L. Moody
News in General.
Columbus is infested with tramps.
Er-ker-cher. Er-ker-cher.— Sea-
Port Appeal.
Governor Hampton will not go to
Florida next month.
The wife of Rev. J. R L. Jennings,
of Crawfordville, is dead.
The Signal says Dahlonega is be
coming famous for her pretty young
ladle 8.
Dr. U. O. Robinson, of Bartow
county, has moved to Atlanta to
practice medicine.
Mr. W. S. Fleming, of Albany, and
Miss Lizzie Jones, of Baker, were
married on tae 29th ult.
Mr. John M. Dorsey, of Ilinesville*
had forty sheep killed by a dog re
cently and the dog still lives.
Covington girls think it a waste of
time to “look out for number one”
when they go to buy a pair of shoes.
Anew brand of cigars is called
“The lottery ticket,” * because only
one iu a thousand draws.—Hans
berger.
NO. 6
From all over the State the cry
comes up from the farmers, “We
will not be ruled by the guano mo
nopoly.”
Ordinary Pittman, of Fulton conn
fcv, has purchased a city lot on which
the new court house of that comity
will bo erected.
A woman named llosa Fuller tried
to drown herself iu the pond of the
Atlanta water works, last week. She
was drunk at the time.
The man who can’t catch cold now
and then, and who never has pains
or aches, was intended originally for
a rhinoceros.— Glascock Mayes.
Mr. Charles Porter, a young man,
of Lee county, aad a negro boy were
scnflliug when a pistol they had was
accidentally discharged and the negro
was killo i.
Mr. Wolfe Gillespie, an okl soldier
of Napoleon Bonaparte, died iu
Americus last Saturday. Ho was
nearly ninety-one years old and a
learned linguist.
Fashion demands that gloves shall
be still longer, the buttons being too
numerous to mention. By and by
we shall have gloves and stockings
all in one piece.— W. T. Anderson.
No great man or woman has ever
been reared*to great usefulness and
lasting distinction who was unschool
ed by adversity. Noble deeds are
never done in the calm sunshine of
summer light.
Mscon is about to have a receiver
appointed to fix up her municipal
debt. Some of the citizens feel that
they are unfairly taxed and are seek
ing an injunction and the appoint
ment of a receiver.
One Montgomery, of Killinchev,
County Down, dropped dead the oth
er day; his wife fell dead on seeing
him fall, and her sister expired of
heart disease on receiving news of
the double catastrophe.
Senator Conover, of Florida, sat
in the senate for four years without
beiug known to any ono. For a,
moment he exhibit- TANARUS" tsla painful 'it
tleness to the country and wa3 sus
pended.—New York Herald.
Anew senator has come ont of the West,
He lives in Missouvee, his name it is Vest;
When hung on his Washington n • they
will find
That he’s one of the old-fashioned, <i >-
breasted, low-necked, shad-be • ’ • i
ocratic kind. —August.: >
Alabama slings are dange; ■
pons and a number of calar ’ ■
reported from their use in C ■; ■> , ;
and Albany. In the former < last
week, a little boy had his eyt ; . out
by a buckshot from one o. L hese
slings.
The seating capacity of the church
es of the State of New York is suffi
cient for 2,000,000 persons. The
number of church members of all
denominations is 1,300,000. The ag
gregate value of churches and church
property is $117,010,000.
The day approaches on which the
freckled boy will send to the cross
eyed girl over the way a picture of a
flat heart stuck through the middle
with a barbed stick. He will call
it a valentine, and the Btick shows
how he is stuck ou the gal.— A. F.
Pendleton.
Brother Waterman, of the La-
Grange Reporter, is having a trouble
some time about getting his new
presses and nis paper in running or
der. However, ne will soon be all
right now and we look for even a
better paper than he published before
the fire.
Griffin is having more trouble with
i her municipal debts, though it was
understood that a satisfactory com
promise wfts made last year and there
would be no further objection to their
payment. This time an injunction
has been granted stopping the col
lection of taxes.
The North Georgia (Dalton) Citi
zen has this item: It is astonishing
how soon a man can get into his
garments these cold mornings; but
a lady—well, some of them don’t
get into their’s until about nine
o’clock.
We wonder how Whitman knows.
A man named Winant and his wife
were arrested last week in Atlanta
for kidnapping a girl of thirteen,
named Oilie Gunnell, but when all
the parties were brought into court
for trial, the case was dismissed, be
cause the judge said she was too old
to come under the provisions of the
statute on kidnapping. Mis3 Oilie
was no longer a “kid.”
The two following items are from
the Marietta Journal:
Capt. Joseph Glover hired fifty ne
gro men, for a railroad firm in Ten
nessee, and shipped them last Sun
day evening. He is coming back this
week to make another shipment. This
is carrying Senator Windom’s plan
into execution with a vim.
It is reported that a colored school
teacher, who has been reading law
1 for the last three years, will make ap
plication for admitt <nce to the bar at
the next term oi’ Cobb Superior
Court. It is said that he has per
fected himself so thoroughly that his
admission will be inevitable. He will
indeed be a true disciple of Black
stone.