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GENERA la DIRECTORY^
da UKOjT DIRECTOR V. ~ '
Prrsbttkiiian Church—Rev. T. P. Cleveland,
Pastor. Preaching every Sabbath—morning and
bight, except the second Sabbath. Sunday-School,
at 8 a. m. Prsyer meeting Wednesday evening at 4
o’clock. ►
Methodist Chubch—Rev. W. W. Wadsworth, Pas
tor. Preaching every Sunday morning and night.
Sunday School at 9a. m. Prayer meeting Wednes
day night.
Baptist Chueoh Rev. W. 0. Wilkes, Pastor,
•“reaching Sunday morning and night. Sunday
School at 9 a. m Prayer meeting Thursday evening
at 4 o’clock.
GAINESVILLE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.
1. 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. Sorvice in one
of the churches every Sabbath afternoon at three
o’olock. Service for young men in the Methodist
church every Tuesday evening. Cottage prayer
msettngs every Friday evening.
FRATERNAL RECORD.
Flowebt Branch Lodge No. 79, I. 0. O. TANARUS.,
meets every Monday night, Joel Laseter, N. G.
B. F. Stedham, Sec.
Allishant Royal Arch Chapter meets on the
Second and Fourth Tuesday evenings in each
month.
H. 8. Bradley, Sec’y. A. W. Caldwell, H. P.
Gainesville Lodge, No. 219, A. 1 . F.\ M.\,
meets an the First a nd Third Tuesday evening in
the month
B. Palmoub, Sec’y. W. G. Henderson ,W. M.
Air-Lini Lodge, No. 64 ,1. O. O. F., meets
every Friday evening.
A. B. 0. Dobsey, Sec. H. S. Bbadley, N. G.
GAINESVILLE POST OFFICE.
Owing to recent change of schedule on the Atlan
ta and Charlotte Air Lino Railroad, the following
will ha the schedule from date:
Mall train No. 1, going east, leaves 7:47 p. m.
Mall 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, leavog... .6:51 a. m.
Mail for this train closes at 9:30 p. m.
Mail 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 5:30 p. m.
General delivery open on Sundays from Bj* to9>£.
Departure of mails from this office:
Dahlonega and Oilrner oounty, daily a. m
Bahlonega, via Waboo and Ethel, Saturday.,.BX a. m
Jefferson & Jackson county, Tuesday, Thurs
day and Saturday 7 a. m
Cleveland, White, Union, Towns and Hayes
ville, N. C., Tuesdays and Fridays 7 a. m
Dawsonville and Dawson county, t Tuesday
and Saturday 8 a. m.
Homer, Banks oounty, Saturday 1 p. m
Pleasant Grove, Forsyth county, Saturday. .1 p.m
M. K. ARCHER, P.M.
Atlanta and Charlotte
AIR-LINK,
Trains will run as follows on and after
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1878.
NIGHT 3IAIL TRAIN.
GOING EAST.
Leave Atlanta 3:15 p. m.
Arrive Gainesville 5:31 p. m.
Leave Gainesville 5:32 p. m.
Arrive Charlotte 3:03 a. m.
GOING WEST.
Leave Charlotte 12:00 m dnt
Arrive Gainesville 9:41 a. m.
Leave Gainesville 9:42 a. in.
Arrive Atlanta 12:00 m.
DAY PASSENGERT’N .
GOING EAST.
Leave Atlanta 6:00 a. m.
Arrive Gainesville 8:32 a. m.
Leave Gainesville 8:33 a. in.
Arrive Charlotte 6:22 p. m.
GOING WEST.
Lsave Charlotte.... 10:20 a. m
Arrive Gainesvi lie 8:14 p. m
Leave Gaines vill e' 8:15 p. in
Arrive Atlanta 10:30 p. m
Through Freight Train.
(Daily except Sunday.)
GOING EAST.
Leave Atlanta 9:25 a. in. •
Arrive Gainesville 1:28 p. m.-
Leave Gainesville 1:35 p. m.-
Arrive Central 7:10 p. m.
GOING WEST.
Leave Central 1:40 a. m
Arrive Gainesville 7:23 a.m.
Leave Gainesville 7:22 a. m.
Arrive Atlanta 11:20 p. m.
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 poiuts East.
G. J. Foreacre, General Manager
W. J. Houston, Gen. P. & T. A’gt.
Northeastern Railroad of Georgia.
TIIMIIE TABLE.
Taking effect Monday, November 11, 1878.
Ttrains 1 and 2 run daily except Sunday; 3
and 4on Wednesdays and Saturdays only.
TRAIN IVO. 1.
STATIONS. All HIVE. LEAVE.
A. M.
Athens 6 30
Center 655 657
Nicholson 712 717
Hsrmony Grove 710 745
Maysville.. 805 810
Gillsville 828 830
Luis 8 55
TRAIN INO.Yi.
STATIONS. ARRIVE. LEAVE.
A. M.
Lais 9 45
Gillsville •••• 1010 10 12
Maysville 10 29 10 34
Harmony Grove.... 10 54 11 00
Nicholson 11 20 11 23
Center 11 38 11 40
Athens 12 00
TRAIN NO. 3.
STATIONS. ARRIVE. LEAVE.
P. M.
Athens ! 940
Center 4 031 4 05
Nicholson 4 20, 4 23
Harmony Grove 446 451
Maysville 511 515
Gillsville 533 535
Lola 6 00
TRAIN NO. 4.
STATIONS. ARRIVE. LEAVE.
P. M.
Lula 7 45
Gillsville 810 812
Maysville 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
Railroad. JAMBS M. EDWARDS, Supt.
The Gainesville Eagle
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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 Saval l , dec’d, at the May
term, 2879, of said court. T. F. HILL,
janlo-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 house door in said county,
on the first Tuesday in March next, the fol
lowing land, to-wit:
40 acres more or less of lot of laud No. 309
70 “ “ •< “ “ “ 308
130 “ “ <> <• *. 298
202 “ “ “
All in the 18th district and first section ot
originally Union connty, now Towns. Sold
for the benefit of the heirs and creditors.
Terms of the sale made knowu ’on day of
salt. JOSf AH CARTER,’
P. M. H. ENGLAND,
jau3l td Administrators.
Georgia, Rabun County.
Whereas, William o Nicholson, 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 praying 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 be granted, discharging
him from his said administration, at the
regular term of the court of Ordinary to be
held iu said county on the first Monday in
May next. Given under my hand and offi
cial signature, this January 17, 1879.
jan24-3m J. W. GREEN, Ordinary.
Notice.
All persons indebted to the estate of Bird
Kerlee, late of Towns county, deceased, will
please settle; and all persons having de
mands against said estate will present them
in terms of the law. This January 8, 1879.
janl7-7t It. S. KERLEE, Executor.
GOOD NEWS FOlt ALL !
M, Menko At
have just received an immense stock of
HK A DY-MADE CLOTH IN G,
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 & Red wine.
WHOLESALE
Fancy Goods and Notions
111 North Pryor St., over Mcßride & Cos.
ATLANTA. - - - GEORGIA
IcAFEE HOUSE,
Cleveland, White County, (ia.
25 Miles North of Gainesville.
Mails Arrive Every Day,
Scenery Unsurpassed.
The subscriber takes pleasure in anuounc
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 wilt be supplied withal
the substantials and luxuries the country
and Gainesville markets afford. The Blue
Ridge 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, guauo
agents, auctioneers, real estate, sewing ma
chine, and insurance agents, butchers, aud
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, Dorsey,
Clerk of Council.
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 14, 1879.
Pelton and two or three other
democrats who were Witne ?es be
fore the Potter subcommittee in
New York made some curious devel
opments in regard to their conduct
daring the period when the presi
dential count wafe going on in ib7o.
They acknowledged that they did
make some negotiations for buying
electoral votes for Tilden, in South
Carolina. We are glad to say how
ever, that none of them connect Mr.
Tilden with the matter in any way
but prove beyond question that he
was bitterly opposed to any such
scheme and denounced it violently
as soon as he heard of it. The con
duct of these men is only less dark
and criminal than that of the radi
cals, because they were not success
ful.
The Augusta News prints four col
umns descriptive of a wedding which
it says is the grandest West Virginia
ever knew. The parties to this bril
liant affair were Miss Birdie Pendle
ton, of Bethany, W, V., and Mr. Jo
seph R. Lamar, of Louisville. The
groom is a eon of Rev. J. S. Lamar
of Augusta, Ga., and is a cousin of
of Senator Lamar. The bride is de
scribed as gifted and accomplished,
loved and admired by all who know
her. There were many distinguished
guests present and the list of rich
bridal presents fills a column of the
paper. Everything connected with
it is said to have been of the most
elegant character.
United States Senator elect J. D.
Walker, of Arkansas, is a native of
Kentucky, about forty-five, years of
age, and resides in northwest Arkan
sas, where he ranks as a leading
lawyer. The Senator is a nephew
and eon-in-law of Judge J. I).
Walker, who, on account of age and
ill-health, recently resigned his po
sition as onts of the Supreme Judges
of tha State. The newly-elected
Senator is said to be a fluent speaker,
and a scholar of more than ordinary
attainments.
Gov. Vance has pardoned the only
Hebrew in the North Carolina pent
tentiary. He was under a ten years’
sentence for manslaughter. The
Governor endorsed upon tii9 paper:
“I take pleasure iu saying that I sign
the pardon in part recognition of the
good and law-abiding character of
our Jewish citizens, this being the
first serious case ever brought to
my notice on the part of any of that i
people.”
Gov. Tilden’s testimony before the
Potter sub-committee was very ex
plicit and straight-forward, convinc
ing all of its truth and his honesty.
He denied not only all complicity in
the electoral frauds or the attempt
to purchase votes, but says that be
condemned the whole scheme in
strongest terms as soon as he heard
of it.
A correspondent writing from New
York that resumption has already
done much for the revival of busi
ness in that city, and mentions, as
evidence of it, the fact that many fine
business houses are going up. .Let
us hope that when a year or so hesace
we turn to those fine houses that are
going up wo may not- find that their
occupants have ‘gone up.’
Conlding says some of his brother
republicans went back on him in vo
ting for the confirmation of Hayes ’
New York appointments after prom
ising to support him in his opposi
tion. He threatens to get even with
them. He also charges. that they
were bought with money by Sher
man.
Atlanta has declined the State
Fair for thi3 fall, having now a local
association which she is fostering to
the extent of her ability. This ac
tion will perhaps give Augusta the
next State Fair.
Hon. G. J. Orr, our State school
commissioner, has been attending'
the session of the national educa
tional society, at Washington where
he read a fine paper on the “Needs
of Education in the South.’’
Senator Butler has received per
sonal assurances from several repub
lican senators that they will stand by
him in his contest with Corbin, and
there is no prospect of Corbin getting
the place.
In another place will be found an
article explaining the law of appeals
in Justices courts by Judge John I.
HaJl,of Griffin. It will interest mag
istrates, lawyers and litigants.
The national executive committee
of the democratic party has already
begun to fix up the programme for
the next campaign.
Owen Meredith, Lord Lyttou, au
thor of Lucille, has just been made a
happy father of a bouncing boy.
Ex-Gov. Hartrauft, of Pennsylva
nia, has been appointed postmaster
at Philadelphia.
Prayers in the Alabama legisla
ture are said gratis by a colored
[chaplain.
Jodge >olin I. Hall Explains tlie Provi
sions of the IVew Jury Law.
DiuAK Sms—Yours, making inqui
ries about the new jury law, as appli
cable to Justice courts, was handed
to me yesterday, and iu reply I will
simply set out the provisions of the
. -ate law, which will, in my opinion,
be an answer to the several queries.
In any civil case, without regard to
the. amount involved, either party
mav, as a matter of right, appeal
from the decision of the justice of the
peace to a jury. Si the amount in
volved is over fifty dollars, either
party may appeal from the decision
of the justice of the peace to the Su
perior court. If the appeal, iu cases
where the amount is over fifty dol
lars, is to the Superior court, there
can be no appeal to a jury in the
Justice court, and if the appeal is to
a jury in a Justice court, there can
be no appeal to the Superior court.
If the amount involved is not oyer
fifty dollars there can be no appeal
to the Superior court, but there may
be to a jury in the Justice Court.
“The justice of the peace in each
district shall once in every two years
make out a list of all persons liable
to seive as jurors in the Superior
court who may reside in their respec
tive'districts, etc.”’ I have given the
language of the act on the point of
inquiry as to who is liable to serve as
a juror in the Justice courts, and
that you may see that all jurors are
required to serve. You make your
list up from the names of residents
of your district who are selected by
the jury commissioners as grind and
traverse jurors, and pat the names in
a box which you will provide for that
purpose. The box shall have two de
partments, marked No. 1 and No. 2,
and the names of the jurors shall be
placed in apartment No. 1. When a
jury is demanded you and the con
stable draw five names from apart
ment No. 1, and, after recording the
names in a book you are to keep for
that purpose, you place the tickets in
apartment No. 2 Iu this way you
will proceed until apartment No. 1 is
exhausted, and then you will in like
manner, “after shaking the box weli,”
proceed to draw from apartment No.
2. The five jurors so drawn can try
all appeal cases of the term for which
they are drawn. They are to be
served by the constable, who will no
tify them of the time they are to
serve. No strikes are allowed. The
pay of all jurors is to be fixed by the
grand jury at the spring term of the
Superior court.
I arn, very truly, etc.,
John I. Hall.
Does it Pay to Pay Cash;
This question has doubtless been ,
asked at least once per week fori
years, by every man in the country i
who pays as he goes, and the answer
to it has never been satisfactory. A
man who hay a horse to sell will sac- j
rifice from $lO to SSO on him for cash,’
in hand A wagon-maker Nvno asks
$l5O for a vehicle where the buyer
pays only a small amount down and
gets credit for the rest, will let it go
at once when you shake $l3O cash at
him. It is so in buying a house and
lot and many other things, but it is
not so in buying what we eat and
wear. If Mr. Blank the dry
goods trade he can secure better
terms in New York with cash than
without it, and so can grocers, choth
iers and boot and shoe men. But
when you come to buy at retail this
principle is lost sight of. While all
dealers claim to sell for cash, all of
them give credit to such men as are
supposed to be “solid.” The family
have a pass-book, and settlements
are made once a month or once a
quarter.
“Not one family “ut of five is ready
to settle with me on time,” said a
grocer, when talking the matter over.
“The ninety days which I allow are
spun out to six months, and even to
twelve, and sometimes they jump the
whole bill. I lose ten dollars by
one of these ‘solid’ families for every
two shillings lost by laboring men.
when they beat me it is for hundreds
of dollars.’’
It is the same with the dry-goods
men. They give short credits, and
they charge hundreds of dollars to
the dead loss account every year.
When they say thirty days, the cus
tomer says sixty. They must bill
him, send a collector in chase, and
are lucky if they get the sum total in
a year.
Now, how is it with the man who
puts his money on the counter ? He
gets no reduction. The dealer sellfj
just the same to a dead-beat as for
cash down. A cash order for meat
aud groceries is not dispatched any
sooner than a“charge to my account.”
The goods are no better, and the
price the same. Wherein, then, does
it pay to pay cash ? If it is no ad
vantage to the dealer to have his
money down, why should any one
pay it over ? It it is auy advantage,
why doesn’t he allow the cash-buyer
tha*- advantage? If the man who
settles once in three montha, which
always means four or five, is to have
the same price and treatment
throughout as the man with the
greenbacks, why not buy on three
months’ lime ?
Q,uiniue.
We see a bill has been introduced
into congress for the admission of
this all-important medicine free of
duty. This is one question, it is to
be hoped, upon which there will not
be a dissenting voice. Whatever
may be the needs of the government,
certainly the life and health of the
people should not be taxed. And
quinine is an almost indispensable
remedy for many of the diseases of
all portions of the U niou. In mala
rial fevers it is deemed very nearly a
specific, and nothing can be substi
tuted for it. But the price of this in
valuable drug at present is enor
mous, and the poor cannot afford to
use it. All obstructions whatever,
therefore, in the way of its free intro
duction into the country should be
removed at once, as a sanitary meas
ure of the very highest utility.
Keep vinegar in wood or glass.
Tile Price c-f Success.
It is no longer possible to know
■pr-erything. A universal scholar will
be no more seen among men. The
rsjnge of human knowledge has in
creased so vastly, has swept out and
away so far and so fast, that no brain,
its quantity or quality what it
tway, can, in the years commonly giv
efe to man, even survey the field. A
man, therefore, if he proposes to
Earn anything, must make up his
mind to be content with profound
ignorance of a great many other
things. It is a bitter thing, perhaps,
but it is a fact, that a man who
tvould know anything in this century
tnust purchase his knowledge with
1 voluntary and chosen ignorance of a
j hundred other things. One must
! choose |his specialty, and devotion
i and diligence ia that is the price he
jfsijs for success.
lt is with doing as it is with know
ing. There is only a certain amount
Of work in any case. He cannot do
j kverything. Nevertheless, every
i thing needs doing. All about him is
! undone work clamoring for hands.
[There are two courses before us.
To undertake everything, to fret
! and grieve because one finds this and
J that undone, and to make spasmodic
. plforts to do it—this is tdie way of
failure. Resolutely to make up one’s
L£ . : "d to let, as far as he is concerned,
i the most that should be done stay
: undone still, to steel one’s heart
| against demands and necessities, to
| resist all inducements to put forth a
! single effort, to close one's eyes to it
| all, and to stick, heart and hand, life
y.nd love, to the thing a man nnder
akes and calls his own—that is the
May of success. Life is very short,
*nd the single brain and hand very
'weak at best, and there are thousands
,of things to know and to do. One
must choose and be content with his
choice. And so it comes to pass that
the measure of a man’s learning will
be the amount of his voluntary ig
norance, the measure of his practical
effectiveness the amount that he is
willing to leave unattempted.
The Pu chase of Palestine.
The project proposed some time
since in Great Britain by leading
Jews of the country to buy Palestine
is said to have been completed. The
Rothschilds, Montefiores, anti other
prominent and wealthy financiers
have entire confidence, it is reported,
in the success of the undertaking,
arid are moving energetically toward
its early achievement. The secretary
of the association for the purpose,
who is, by the way, a Christian in
creed, says the Jews of the whole
world seem to be in sympathy with
the plan, and will do their utmost,
individually and collectively, to fur
ther it. Those familiar with Pales
tine will not regard it as specially de
sirable, for its main features are not
very attractive. It is not an extensive
country—not more than 14.5 mile3
long and iorcy-five miles broad, on
an average—and ought to be bought
cheap. The plain of Philistia is its
best part, the soil being of rich brown
loam, without a stone. It is now, as
has always been, a vast grain field—
an ocean of wheat without a break or
a fence. Its extraordinary fertility is
shown by the fact that it has pro
duced the same succession of crops
year after year for forty centuries?
much without artificial aid. Many
tourists have numberless associations
with Palestine that they have ideal
ized it prodigiously; but to a man
who views Tt without bjas it is a
dreary, disagreeable land, its undula
ting surface, rounded hills, separated
by narrow glens, and its crevasses
striking the eye monotously and un
pleasantly. So much had been said
for generations of the Jews regaining
possession of Jerusalem that it is
agreeable to think that they are like
ly to do so at last. They certainly
deserve Jerusalem.
Rich, Rare ami Racy.
For the especial benefit of the gen
tlemen of the bar, we publish the fol
lowing without further comment:
High Point, N. C., Sept. 22, ’7B.
Messrs. John Smith J Go.:
Gents: —Replying to yours of the
18th inst., I have to say, that for the
prospect of having claims placed in
my hands to collect, in this vicinity,
and nothing more, I do not feel will
ing to report the “standing” of the
party mentioned, or of any one else.
I do not wish to be misunderstood as
saying that Ido not want a paying
business, but I do know that a law
yer would starve as quick on commis
sions and fees on collections, as he
would on corn cob soup in January.
I have had some experienco'm col
lection since the war, or rather in
trying to collect. I have offered to
comp, claims by taking old clothes,
frozen cabbage, circus tickets, patent
medicine, whet-stones, powder horns,
old flour barrels, gourds, coon skins,
jay birds, owls, or almost anything,
and yet I have a number of those old
claims on hand unsettled. If I were
to depend on collecting claims for
my living my bean broth would get
so thin that it would rattle in me like
pot liquor in a poor dog.
I don’t like to shoot at long taw,
but if you are inclined to pay any
thing certain for the desired reports,
I’m your man; say ten dollars cash,
then I’m in, or, if money is scarce, I
would take shoes, large Nos., say 10s,
11s end 12s, to the amount of ten
dollars at wholesale prices.
It’s hard times here—the niggers
and the democrats have pulled and
worried each other till this country
smells like cheese. How in the world
would you collect money out of a
people who plough little speckled
bulls on hill sides? If you were to
see a nigger ploughing his gurden
with a sow, you would not wonder
why I don’t want claims to collect in
this vicinity. Your sincere friend,
J. R. Bulla.
Fort Y T alley Mirror: We learn from
Drs. Jones and Hobbs that a negro
woman brought to them for treatment
Iher young child, which she had dosed
with kerosene oil. It was too far
gone to render any relief, and died
soon after.
Au Important Step.
The wholesale dealers and jobbers
I of the city met yesterday at the room
of the board of trade, and resolved
that hereafter they will not accept
from a customer less than he has
contracted to pay, unless indeed it is
plain that he cannot pay his debts in
full. This rule puts an end to com
promises, which have become alarm
ingly numerous—so numerous that
all our trade is in danger of a degree
of demoralization that even the vi
cious bankrupt act could not usher
in. These compromises not only
strike the wholesale dealer under the
ribs, but they give the party benefited
an undue, unjust and pernicious ad
vantage over his rivals. It is plain
that the man who buys goods at
thirty-three cents on the dollar can
undersell, and therefore outsell, his
rival who pays one hundred cents.
Tue scheming, dishonest trader is
thus enable 1 to ruin his straightfor
ward, hoiiesu neighbor. The mar
chants of this city have, therefore,
determined to stop, as far as in them
lies, t-u; : ystem by which a man casts
off ;■ part of his indebted tiers as he
would a con'-, that had become bur
densome. With the help of the law
and public sentiment, they propose
to hold their customers to their con
tracts. This is right, and it sounds
business like. It is best for all con
cerned and for the country. The peo
ple of the State are solvent, and the
retail dealers have nothing to fear.
We hope the action of our merchants
will be adopted at every other trade
center iu the South, until the evil iu
question is fully abated. We hope,
too, that the papers of the State will,
uphold and sustain the movement iu
favor of the honest dealer. By giv
ing publicity to the action of the At
lanta board of trade, they will at
least give notice that one city has ta
ken steps to check the prevailing ep
idem sc.— Constitution.
Mdllui-iiil .y.
There is difference of opinion on
this subject. There are those who
hold an editor personally responsible
for all shat, appears in his paper,
whether editorial, communications
written by others, or selections.
This opinion is not correct. An
editor m order to come up to the
full measure of his duty must not
conceive that his own views of pub
lic questions are right and set up
his judgment against others. The
editor is no more than other men.
He may be ever so honest and yet
his judgment and views may be in
error. ;
The federal constitution guarantee
the freedom of speech and the liber
ty of the press. This is the line
upon which an editor should run his
piper. To refuse to publish discus
sions of public matters written by
others because they may not agree'
with himself, would be a violation of
one of the great principles of consti
tutional liberty. Iu an experience
of thirty years in journalism we have
published man}' articles with which
we did not agree. We could not re
fuse to do so according to our views of
the duty of journalists in such mat
ters. But, at the same time, and by
■so doing, we did not become person
ally responsible for what waß written
by others for our columns.
A free press must give utterance
to free speech and freedom of
thought, or it cannot be truly the
palladium of public liberty. It re
quires a vast deal of egotism for an
editor to set up his judgement on
public questions above all others and
to refuse to give any expression to
the yiews of those who may differ
with him. According to these views
of what we conceive to be correct Id
journalism, we do not consider an
editor responsible for what may be
written by his correspondents or con
tributors. He is responsible for on
ly what he writes himself.
He Didn’t Pass.
Last week was examination week
in most of the schools, and the boy
who “passed 1 ’ can easily be selected
from the boy who didn’t. One of
these who didn’t was on Saturday in
trenching himself on Ledyard street
behind a snow-bank, seemingly wait
ing for some one’s arrival, and a man
who had observed his preparations
inquired:
“Making ready to have some fun,
bub?’’
“Well, it may bo fun for me, but it
will be tough on the other feller,”
was the reply.
“Then you are expecting to have a
fight?”
“I just am that! The school teach
er marked me down to fifty-seven be
cause I said llussia bounded Lake
Erie on the west, and now when her
brother comes along I’m going to
bound him on all four sides with the
biggest licking a white-headed boy
ever got.”
What She Wanted.
At the last meeting of Brother
Gardner's Lime Kiln club, the com
mittee appointed to expend the sum
of sls in purchasing holiday sup
plies for d(serving colored people
reported that the money had been laid
out in articles of clothing and pro
visions, which had been distributed
and welcomed. The chairman of the
committee added: “Dis committee
foun’ one ole woman widout a ’tater in
de house or a stick of wood in de
yard. She foie dis committe to
come in an’ sit down, De committee
went in an’ sot. She said she didn’t
keer for food or fire, but demanded
dat dis committee buy her anew
bonnet wid a stuffed bird roostin’ on
de upper story. Dis committee
looked mighty unsarting as she
reached for a dipper full o’ hot wa
ter. De committee a jourued by way
or de only winder in de room, an’ it
would respectively advise de club to
de effect dat ingratitood in de hu
man heart am not confined to da
white folks alone.” —Detroit Free
Press.
Brunswick Seaport Appeal: Another
large whale was captured off the
Brunswick bar on Monday afternoon
last, valued at about four thousand
dollars.
Possessed by Devils.
A letter from Rome to the Pall Mall
Gazette says:
la a little village away up in the
province of Udine, on the borders of
Italia Irrendenta, there is a great
alarm and commotion, for the young
girls of the place one after another are
showing ouiwaard and visible signs
of being possesed by a devil. According
to all accounts there are now about
thirty young women in this unhappy
condition. Why the evil one should
have selected so obsure a village for
his operations does not seem quite
clear. Indeed, the blame is not
on him, but on the priests. Inquiries
made by the authorities have elicited
the fact that in Lent last year a series
of discourses were delivered by a
priest’ in which he described at great
length and with much detail the
pains of hell, thereby terrifying weak
young women with the idea that they
were already lost and that the devil
had entered into them. The priests
who were at first rather pleased with
the impression their brother made
have since found that though they had
raised the spirit they had no power to
lay it again. Holy water produced no
affect the most searching exorcism
failed, and even such practical meas
ures as beating the person affected
have been foiMcl useless
While the fit of madness is on the
persons 44 they crow like cocks or mew
like cats or bark and howl like dogs
and wolves. What is worse they shock
their neighbor by blashemous and ob
ience language being especially violent
against the priests cursing them for
their inability to relieve suffering by
casting out the devil. The prefect
of the province has sent a commission
to Verzegnis, the name of the vil
lage, to see what can be doue. The
people of the district cannot be per
suaded but the devil is really at large
among them.
'l’Hc Century Ulsgruced.
Do you recollect the terribly cold
weather we had on this continent the
middle of this month? Do you
remember how your little ones were
clinging closely to red-hot stoves in
comfortable and well-protected houses?
Now, just during this very cold
period, there were huddled together
over a hundred men, women and
children (babies, too) in a long shed
in one of your North-western
Territories. They were more than
half naked, and as they refused go to
a many, death that had occurred
during their stay there, and which
place they had only left when star
vation of all of them stareb them in
the face, the commanding officer gave
order to deprive them, prisoners as
they we :e of fuel and food. For five
days they were thus without food and
fuel and they broke out of their pen
and the United Stages killed them
indiscriminately —men, women and
babies; while this was being done a
Committee of Congress was traveling
through the country for the purpose
of ascertaining whether some neg - ocs.
belonging to a far inferior race than
those Indains, had been interfered
witli at the last election in casting
their votes. What a satire!
In Her Storking.
A gentleman conductor was col
lecting tickets from his passengers.
All handed over their tickets prompt
ly except one fat old lady who sat
next the door, and who seemed to be
reaching down to get something she
had dropped on the floor. When
her time came she raised her head
and thus addressed the blushing
conductor: “I allurs, when I travels
carry my money in my stockin’, for
you sees nothin’ can get at it thar,
and I’d just thankyouyouagman, just
to reach it to me, as I am so jammed
in I can’t get at it. I forgot to get a
ticket at the depot.’’ The conductor
glanced at the other passengers,
some of whom were laughing at his
plight; one or two young ladies
among them blushed scarlet, and he
beat a hasty retreat muttering some
thing about not charging old ladies,
etc. His cash was short that trip
the fare of one passenger. .
An old gentleman named Coker,
with a large family, arrived in At
lanta one day last week on his re
turn from Texas, He and his whole
family were in a sad plight and had
not a cent of money. The station
house keeper took them in and gave
them a place to stay and something
to eat. They left Williamsburg, S.
C. three years ago for Texas and
from Mr. Coker’s account they have
had a most bitter experience in their
struggles with poverty and disease.
He gives a most gloomy report of
Texas and says there are hundreds
in the State would like to get away.
He had just money enough to bring
him back to Chattanooga on his re
turn. There the Mayor and the W.
&A. R. R. provided for his trans
portation to Atlanta and from the
latter place Mayor Calhoun made ar
rangements to get him to Augusta.
He is doubtless back at his old
home now and is willing to stay
there.
Three or four young men in Ma
con of most respectable connections
committed some indignities on an
other young gentleman and a lady
the other day, for which they will be
called on to answer in the courts.
The young man was a student of
Mercer and had escorted a young
lady to an entertainment. While
there and on the way homo the
young bloods made uncouth remarks
to them and threw rocks at them.
They made him drop his umbrella
and were guilty of various other un
gentlemanly conduct. They were
arrested next day and will be tried
for it,
Sam Ettinger, a clerk of Mr. Isaac’s
of Hawkinsville, robbed him of S2OO
lately, and skipped the town.
News in General.
The State Agricultural Society will
meet in Hawkinsvilie, February 18th.
A gentleman living below Geneva
has caught eighty-nine beavers since
last fall.
The Wilkins Cavaliers of Waynes
boro have had a grand tournament
and ball.
Mr. Peyton E. Moore and Miss
Adelia Dill worth of Union Point
have been married.
Mr. Joseph R. Glover and Miss
Jennie Northcutt were married in
Marietta last week.
The LaGrangc Reporter is on the
go again in its new dress. We con
gratulate Brother Waterman.
Mr. W. A. Zabriekie, of New Jer
sey, and Miss M. E Ackerman, of
Madison, were married last week.
Mrs. Mary V. Pottle, wife of Judga
E. H. Pottle, is dead. Her infant, a
day or two old, died just before its
mother.
Mr. James Jordan, of Marion
county, lost his house by fire and his
neighbors assembled and built him a
new one.
Brunswick like Gainesville is trou
bled with the loose hogs in her streets
and is discussing the propriety of a
hog ordinance.
Policeman O’Connor of Macon,
who killed the negro, Sam Franklin,
while arresting him, has been bound
over in a $1,500 bond.
A fellow named Bostick who killed
a man in Barnwell, S. C , last fall
was overhauled in Atlanta last week.
He confessed the crime.
Hampton has had the burglars in
her midst. Two stores were broken
into and four or five hundred dollars
in goods and money stolen.
The Central Railroad was sued by
a Mr. Brinson in Burke county for
damages, and last week a verdict
for SIO,OOO was given against the
road
Master Jesse O’Brien, son of Mr.
Matt O’Brien, of Columbus, a bright
boy of 17 years of age died last week
from the effects of an accidental shot
in the arm received while out hunt
ing-
NO. 7.
The court house at Isabella, Worth
county, was destroyed by fire last
week. It was the work of incendiary
and the entire records and papers
of the county were completely
burned.
Again the Bible is wrong. It was
John Wilkes Booth, and not Cain,
that killed Abe L —Yale News You
needn’t tell everything yon know. It
is only helping Bob lugersoll.—Bos
ton Post.
At the burial of Ashburton Web
ster, at Marshfield, last week, the lid
of the casket containing the remains
of bis grandfather, Daniel Webster,
was opened, and his iace was perfect
ly recognizable.
A young lady recently presented
her lover with an elaborately con
structed pen wiper, and was aston
ished last Sunday to see him come
into church wearing it as a cravat. —
North Georgia Citizen.
Stonewall Jackson’s old sorrel
’war-horse, which bore his master un
der the moon on the fatal night at
Chancellorsviile, is still living in the
Morrison homestead, in Lincoln
county, North Carolina.
A negro on Mclntosh str< r' ms’
terday was thus soliloquizing o a
trade dollar that he held in hi ! l:
“My Ood, I can’t understand ; . A
dollar ain’t wuff but eights c !
Wusser’n cotton. Muster 1 a
bustin’ crap ob money made i;
—Elberton Gazette.
Little Laura was tired and i < ! eepy
when she prepared for bed, anu for
got to say “Now I lay me,” and in an
apology to her mother for her neg
lect said, as she tugged away at her
little stockings: “I touldn’t go to
heaven to-night, mamma, any way in
the world, tos I’m too tired.’’
In Rome, last Monday, a negro
woman named Mollie Slaughter, in a
dispute about a small amount due her
by Jordan Walker, also colored,
struck him on the head with a billet
of wood as he sat drunk before the
fire and unconscious of any coming
violence. Morning found him a
corpse.
“Luckiest man I ever knew; every
thing succeeds with him. He had
only to say what ho wanted, and he
got it. Why, confound it, I was
walking with him one day—the very
last day of his life—and he said to
me: “When I die I want to die sud
denly.’ Got run over that very
night, by hokey! Ever see such
luck?”
A Peter Funk visited Hawkinsville
and with some pinchbeck jewelry
and two little boxes he “took in”
some of the best citizens of the place
for ten dollars each, realizing oovoral
hundrod dollars in an hour or two,
whereupon he suddenly left, and the
aforesaid citizens are now very sore
on the subject.
At Goliad, Texas, two men quar
relled. Both drew revolvers. Lock
hart caught Henderson’s arm and
fired six shots into him, killing him
instantly. Henderson’s brother
rushed at Lockhart with a pistol.
They closed iu a struggle and Hen
derson emptied six chambers of his
revolver into Lockhart’s body caus
ing instant death.
Columbus continues to be annoyed
with tramps. Recently one of them
knocked at a window of the Female
College and alarmed the young
ladies. One of them, however, re
ported to be as brave as she is pretty,
quickly procured a bucket of hot
water and emptied jit prone upon the
head of the intruder. They retired
in haste —hot haste.
The newsboys of Macon got on a
strike last week. They had been in
the habit of buying the city papers
at two and a half cents and selling
them for five cents. A Mr." Royal
went to Macon to establish a news
depot and bought up all the sales
copies of city papers, thus gaining the
exclusive right to sell them. He of
fered the newsboys a cent profit on
their sales but they couldn’t soe it
and refused to sell at all. The result
was that Mr. Royal had to give in
and the newsboys came off victorious.