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3fee Gainesville Eagle ** yWdfohed Every F.idav Mormrtg OPPia E Upstair* In Candler Hall Building, North went Corner of Public Square. JThe OffloUl Organ or Hall. Banka, White, Town*, “•* Dawson counties, and the cite atßainoardla. Has a large general circulation in tweire other counties in Northeast Georgia. and two counties in Western North Carolina. SUBSCRIPTION. Ona Ykab..„ $2,00. •rx Months . si,oo. Tukx Months... .' se (: . ADTAKCE, DELIVBBBD BT CABBIES OB I’BEPAID bt hail. papers are stopped at the expiration of the time paid for without further notice. Mail *ul>- I ocrlbers will please observe the dates on tncir wrappers. Persons wishing the paper will have their orders dromptlp attended to by reramitiing the amount for tha time desired. ADVERTISING. SXVXN WOBDS HAKE A LINE. Ordinary advertisements, per Nonpareil line, 10 eents. 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 settees, per line, Brevier type, 15 cents. A discount made on advertisements continued for longer than ono week. REMITTANCES For subscriptions or advertising can be made by Post Oifice order. Registered Letter or Express, at our risk. All letters should be addressd, J. E. REDWINE, Gainesville, Ga. 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 VOL. XilL YOI K ( HOICK. TW£ BftEAT OFFERS to Subscribers to the l*jirenoloy;ical Journal. ANIL SCIENCE OF HEALTH. This publication is widely known, having been before the reading world forty years, and occupying a place in literature exclu sively its own, viz.: The study of HUMAN NATURE in all its phases, including Phre nology, Physiognomy, Ethnology, Physiol ogy, etc., together with the Science of Health, and no expense will be spared to make it the best publication for general circulation, tending always to make men better physically, mentally and moraiiy. OUR PREMIUMS. Ist. THE PHRENOLOGICAL BUST. This is made of plaster of Paris, and so lettered as to show the exact location of each of the phrenological organs. The head is nearly life-size, and very ornament al, and until recently has sold for $2. This with the illustrated key which accompanies each bust, and the series of articles now be ing published in the Journal on “Brain and Mind,” will enablo the reader to become a successful student of human nature. Sfccl. A NEW BOOK PREMIUM. THE TEMPERAMENTS; or Varieties of Physical Copstitutio i in Man, considered in their re'ation to Mental Character and Practical affairs of Life. $1.50, Anew work; the only-one on the subject of Temperaments now before the public, and treats of this important subject in a most comprehensive manner, showing its bearings on maniage, education and train ing of children, occupation, health and di sease, etc. The book contains about 250 pages, and 150 portraits and other illustra tions; is handsomely printed and bound in extra fine muslin, and cannot bo procured at less than 51.50 retail, except when taken as a premium. TERMS .—The Journal i3 now pub- 1 lished at $2 a year, (having been reduced from $3, for 187 g,) single numbers, twenty cents. 25c. extra must be received with each subscription to pay postage on the Journal and the expense of boxing add packing the bust, which will then ba sent by express;or No. 2, the small bust or the Premium Book, which will be sent by mail, post-paid. Agents wanted. Send 10 cents for speci men number and terms. S. R. Wells & Cos., Publishers, 737 Broadway, Yew York. 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.