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The Gainesville Eagle
Published Every Friday Morning
BY RED WINE & HAM.
2® cUl ° rBM ot *HU, Banks, Towns,
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Qbobqia, 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 Goo W Savall should
not be discharged as administrator of the
entate of William Savall, dec’d, at the May
term, 2879, of said court. T. F. HILL,
janlo-3m Ordinary.
Administrators 7 Sale.
Geoboia, Towns County.
By virtue of an order from the court of
Ordinary of Towns county, Ga., will be sold
befoie the court house door in said county,
on the first Tuesday in March next, the fol
lowing land, to-wit:
40 aores more or less of lot of land No. 309
V 0 308
130 * “ “ 298
202 “ “ “ “ •• 3l()
All in the 18th district and first section of
originally Union county, now Towns. Sold
for the benefit of the heirs and creditors.
Terms of the sale made known 'on day of
tale. JOSIAH GARTER,'
P. M. H. ENGLAND,
j*n3l-td Administrators.
Georgia, Rabun County.
Whereas, William J Nicholson, adminis
trator of Olarisa Nicholson, deceased, has
filed in my office his petition stating mat he
has fully discharged all his duties as such
administrator, and praying that an order be
passed discharging him from his said trust
aa 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 Ordiuary to be
held in said oonSty on the first Monday in
May next. Given under my hand and offi
eial signature, this Jauuary 17, 1879.
jan24-3m J. W. GREEN, Ordinary.
Notice.
All persons indebted to the estato 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, 1871).
jan!7-7t B. S. KERLEE, Executor.
GOOD NEWS FOll ALL !
M. Menko Sd Bro.
have just received an immense stock of
READY-MADE CLOTHING,
Gents’ I nrnishing 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.
fiOBKHT NOKRIB. LYMAN A. BEDWINE.
Norris & Redwine.
WHOLESALE
Fancy Goods and Notions
hi North Pryor St., over Mnßride & Cos.
ATLANTA, - - - GEORGI A
■ McAFEE HOUSE,
Cleveland, White County, (la.
,35 Miles North of Gainesville.
Mails Arrive Every Day.
Scenery Unsurpassed.
The subscriber takes pleasure in announc
ing.to the’publio that he is prepared to ac
commodate a limited number of sumtne
visitors, in 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 substantial 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 summite. Parties desiring to
Secure Rooms in Advance
may address me, for prices, etc., at Cleve
and. may3l-tf T. Y. McAFEE.
OFFICE CITY COUNCIL,
Gainesville, Ga., Jan. 21, 1879.
Notice is hereby given to merchant, ko
tjl and boarding Loose 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
iasue A. fas. for the same. All who want to
save costs had better come to the office and
tke oat their license. A. B. C. Dousey,
Clerk of Council.
The Gainesville Eagle
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VOL. X*II.
The following views of Lhe presen 1
status of Memphis, as regards her
debts, is from the Charleston News &
Courier :
Memphis, though disincorporated,
la apparently not yet out of the 1
woods. The holders of the $5,000
000 indebtedness of the late city
seem to think that they have an equi
table remedy against something or
somebody, and they are busily con
sulting bo find out what that remedy
is. The State of Tennessee created
a body corporate, with power to raise
money by taxation and to ran into
debt. This creature of the State at
once exercised its power to run in
debt to the extent of five millions,
and then, declining use its co-or
dinate power to rciae money by taxes
and pay the debt, or effect a compro
mise with its creditors chose rather
to get the State to extinguish its cor
porate existence. On this view of the
case the bondholders are inclined to
believe: First that the act repealing
the charter of Memphis is void, be
cause impairing the obligation of con
tracts; or, second, the State itself, in
vacating the charter of Memphis, as
sumed that city’s debt3, and is bound
to provide for them by taxation; or,
lastly, the debt of the defunct city
adheres to all the property within its
former limits, “and United States
courts can, by appointment of receiv
er and the imposition of special taxes
upon such property, enforce the col
lection of debts for the protection of
non-resident creditors.’’
Deeply impressed with the eternal
fitness of things, the New Orleans
Times playfully remarks that spring,
sweet spring, will soon be here. The
green grass will sprout; the keno
player and the lambkin will gambol;
the turtle dove will turtle to its mate;
the young man’s fancy will lightly
turn to thoughts of love; the bumble
bee will bumble bis first bumble! the
festive yellow jacket and the small
boy will renew relations; straw
hats will come out; so will dusters,
white pants, strawberry festivals,
boils and campaign papers; and tho
spring poet will mount the editorial
stair with cheerful face and ten
pounds of manuscript. Spring is at
hand. We cheerfully recognize the
fact, and appeal to ail true-hearted
paragraphers to pass the hat around
as usual.
A large number of representative
colored met in Washington last week
for the purpose of considering the
propriety of calling a national con
vention of colored men, to discuss
and lay before the American people
the present status of the colored
race* Ex-Gov. Pinchback, of Louis
iana, was chairman. James B. De
vaux represented Georgia. The con
vention is to meet in Louisville in
May, and a committee of fifteen was
appointed to make preparations for
it.
In a debate on war claims in the
House the other day, Ben Butler de
clared himself in favor of paying pen
sions to Confederate soldiers. He
said he could see no more reason why
a Confederate soldier, maimed and
crippled in the honest discharge of
what he believed to be his duty,
should not be pensioned, than why
a Confederate general who honestly
believed he was doing his duty,
should be put into the republican
cabinet.
The massacre of the English forces
by the Zulus on the ‘22d of January,
has aroused England to the neces
sities of the occasion, and she will
supply the men and means for a vig
orous prosecution of the war hence
forth. There is hardly a question
but sbe will be victorious in the end,
but it will require great skill and
judgment to keep this affair from
costing her more than Zulu is
worth.
At Tiffin, Ohio, a singular case is
in progress in court, being a suit for
SIO,OOO damages by one woman
against another for seduction. Mrs.
Auna Senoy is plaintiff, and a Miss
Walker defendant. The former al
leges that she had lived happily with
her husband, Judge George E. Seeev,
until Mi3s Walker seduced his affec
tions from her. The question is,
Can one woman sue another for se
duction ?
Dr. Thomas F. Green, the super
intendent of the State insane asylum
at Milledgeviile, died on the 13ib,
after a short illness. Dr. Green had
held the position of superintendent
for over thirty years, and was always
a faithful and efficient officer He
was a splendid physician, and it will
be difficult to get another to fill his
place.
The bill of senator Jones, author
izing railroads to construct and
maintain telegraph Hues, is exciting
a good deal of discussion in congress.
We hope it will pass, as it will break
up to soma extent the monopoly of
the Western Union company.
The New Jersey legislature has
passed a bill authorizing an investi
tigation of any city, county, town or
village, on the application of twenty
five free-holders, when it i3 believed
that the taxes are being unlawfully
or curruptly expended.
Lome and Louise are giving ern
nent satisfaction to the Canadians.
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 21, 1879.
I Obituary.
"The memory tg VTT eise?.'
George D. Rice was .born, rear
Greenville, Tenm, July 13th, 1805,
and died at his home in Gainesville,
Hail county, Ga , Dec. 11th, 1878
He was married to Miss Ann
Eliza Rogers the sth of October, j
1830. He was the father cf nine
children, six of whom —four daugh
ters and two sons—lived to b.o grown.
Both of the sons died in defeftaa Of
their country. Judge Rice was lib
erally educated, being most of the
time under the instruction of Dr.
Samuel i/oak, a noted educator of
Tennessee. He received diplomas
from several colleges in his native
State, and took a thorough course of
law under Judge Peck, an eminent
jurist; came to Georgia in 1818, and
studied Georgia laws with Walter T.
Colquitt; began the practice of law,
and finally settled in Marietta, where
he resided for thirty years. The re
sults of the war leaving him homeless,
he removed in 1866 to Northeast
Georgia, where he began life anew>
and was soon engaged in a lucrative
practice. Asa lawyer, he was re
markable for the careful, pains-taking
preparation of his cases in ail their
details, both of law and of fact. He
had a special talent for summing up
a case, and applying the law to it;
and on this account usually had to
make the closing speech on his side.
He was at all times a friend to the
widow and orphaD, and it was per
haps a pardonable boast with him
that he had attonde 1 to more cases
for widows than fell to the lot of most
lawyers* and had never charged one
From 1857 until tho close of 1865,
he was judge of the Blue Ridge cir
cuit; and if he had completed the
term for which he was elected to the
Western circuit, would have served
his country in a judicial capacity for
a period of seventeen years. Asa
lawyer and Judge his record was pure
and stainless. From early manhood
he was a Mason; for eight years was
Master of Kennesaw lodge, in Mari
etta, and for many years Deputy
Grand Master cf the 3rd Masonic
district. Being of Presbyterian pa
rentage and ancestry, he was brought
up according to the strict views of
the old-time Presbyterians, and, no
doubt, on account of that training,
he felt it his duty to hold family
prayer even f- r live yearns before his
conversion, and carefully taught his
older children th-a Shorter catechism
he had learned in his youth. In
1838 ho was converted to God under
tho preaching of Rev. John W.
Glenn, and joined the Methodist
Episcopal Church, of which ’ is wife
was already a member.
Such briefly was his public life. He
was a model as to his perfect knowl
edge of law and his clear, incisive
and able exposition of it; as to
promptness and assiduity in the dis
charge of his official duties; as to his
circumspect walk and conversation
among his fellow-men, and as to his
patriotic interest in the common
wealth and the communities where he
resided. A prac:ica!, patient and
earnest Christian, he carried religion
into the minutest details of his life.
It was a matter of consequence then
that the life of such a man would
shine more resplendenily at home;
that the excellencies of his character
would be most beautifully and im
pressively illustrated at the table, iho
family altar and in the family circle-
A fond and faithful husband, a
tender, loving father, he was devoted
to his family. His rule was never to
carry any of his cares and anxieties
beyond the threshold of that home>
but with a cheerful smile and win
ning words and ways sweetly beguiled
the hearts of those who listened for
his step and gladly r awaited his com
ing. But we must not enter too far
within the precincts of that happy
Christian home, now darkened by the
departure of so much which contri
buted life and light. He loved to
read the Bible and prayerfully study
its sacred pages. He loved to hear
the Gospel songs of our day which
tell of Jesus and his love. It is
enough to say that he died as he had
for many years lived—leaning upon
the arm of his omnipotent Saviour.
After *a lingering sickness, which was
borne with remarkable patience, he
fell asleep in Jesus. His record is on
high. We sorrow not as those who
have no hope, but as those who firm
ly believe that when the Great Judge
of all shall discern between the right
eous and the wicked, he will be
found among those to whom it will
be said: “Well done thou good and :
faithful servant; enter thou into the
joys of thy Lord !” * *
The English sparrow is giving
much trouble in some portions of the
State. They were introduced to de
stroy insects, but have increased so
rapidly that they have run off other
birds, and are a nuisance generally.
There is talk of an extra session of
congress, in order to dispose of cer
tain business which cannot be reached
before the close of this session in
[March.
The senate has passed the bill to
restrict Chinese immigration.
"Ttie Bapi'st Church. and (he Siiudiq
Laws.'’
Under the heading, “Tho Baptist
church and the Sunday laws,-” in the
Southron of the 11th inst., there are
some strictures by the editor upon
the action of the church in passing a
i ore amble-and resolution against Sab
bath breaking. The editor were he
familiar with the faith of the strict
est member of the Baptist church
would know that they are not op
posed to pulling the ox out of the
ditch or leading him to water on the
Sabbath day. Not opposed to sell
ing physic or doing any other im
portant necessary duty on the Sab-
Lath day which could not have been
on the previous day, but every right
.thinkieg man is obliged to know j
that £b& business of carrying the"
midland keeping open post offices]
on the Sabbath unless ig times oi
insurrection or invasion, the public?!
safety may require it is a violation of]
God’s law. There would be no run
ning of railroad trains were it a con
tinual money loosing business, then
as it is the money they are after
would it not be well to allow the.
farmer to work on Sunday and turn
loose every other business and do
away with the Sabbath entirely ?
What use for barber shops on the
Sabbath day or livery stables. Did
you ever know a livery stable in the
country where the people had to ride
to church ? Did you ever know a
church member to object to waiting
on the sick or hiring a horse or car
riage to take any one to church on
Sunday when it was impracticable to
walk ? Did you not know when you
penned that article that you were
misrepresenting the intention of the
tho church in passing those resolu
tions when you attributed to her an
intention to try to put a stop to do
ing on the Sabbath that which was
necessary to be done and which
could not have been conveniently
done the day previous. The whole
truth of your position can be seen at
a glance. Wnenevor the church
takes her stand on the platform laid
down by the Saviour and It's apos
tles and attempts to carry out their
doctrine as it should be done, perse
cution and bloodshed may be ex
pected. She is only at peace with
the world now by her conformity
thereto, and whenever she rises to
her true dignity of being God-like,
you may look out for a tornado of
persecution. Did not John the
Baptist lose his head because he
told Herod it was wrong for him to
tike bis brother’s wife? Could any
preacher in this place keep his posi
tion six months, who should de
nounce from the pulpit; every indi
vidual act of wickedness in the
church as well as out of it ? lam
of opinion that any minister who
should do so woffid do well to escape
with his head and if be did he might
expect to lose half of his hide.
W. L Gordon.
Tlie Stale University.
Athens, Ga., Feb’y. 16, 1870.
Mr. Editor: Thinking that the read
ers of your valuable journal would
not object to hearing of the prosper*
ous condition of Georgia’s great in
stitution of learning, I beg space in
the same to apprise such as may not
be fully posted on the subject, that
she is in a flourishing condition. The
Chancelor, Dr. Mel!, is a man too
well known throughout the State for
it to be asked whether or not the
duties of that office are faithfully dis
charged. Asa disciplinarian he has
few equals and no superiors. He
has a natural turn for controlling by
kindness, and tho esteem in which he
is held by the students is no less than
the obedience rendered by them.
Prof, Woodfin, the present incum
bent of the chair vacated by the
death of the loved and lamented
Prof. Waddell is a complete success
as a professor; indeed, we are willing
to venture the assertion that he is
the most proficient Professor of An
cient Languages in the State, and his
kindness of disposition haa already
won for him many friends among the
citizens of Athens, to say nothing of
the unanimity with which he is en
dorsed bv the students. Though
Mercer University has our generous
sympathy while they mourn the loss
taey have sustained, we are selfish
enough to rejoice that their loss has
been our inestimable gain. Students
are coming in every day to increase
our catalogue, and, no doubt, the
catalogue will show at the end of this
year a steady increase. The institu
tion is a success, and has been for
three-quarters of a century. No op
position can wound her prosperity.
Alpha Tau Omega.
James Hall was recently convicted
of murder in Muscogee county and
sentenced to be hung in March. He
protested his innocence, saying that
he was in the penitentiary when the
crime was committed. An investi
gation by some who took an interest
in him, proved his statement correct.
He was sent to the peuitentiary in
1872, for 15 years. The murder was
committed in 1876, aud Hall es
caped from prison in 1877, so that he
could not h%ve been the murderer.
He will have anew trial
The Sitn-hMie of Religion.
The Rev. T. DeWitfc Talmage se
tested for the subject of the sermon
recently delivered to his immense
congregation, “The Sunshine of Re
ligion,” from which we make this
extract:
I find much sunshine in the cli
macteric joys of the next life. A
man who rises and leaves the build
ing after the opening voluntary of a
concert has been played, and before
the prima donna takes the platform,
or the full orchestra has begun, has
as good an idea of the whole concert
as that man has of the pleasures of
religion who thinks that they stop at
the end of this life. We only here
have the first note of the eternal
oratorio. In that blessed laud we
shall have the pleasures of discovery,
j In five minutes we will catch up with
I all the geographers and philosophers
and scientists and mathematicians
who so far distanced us in this
] world. I adjourn for the most part
I astronomy and geology and matke
fmatics and architecture to the next
world. We will have better appa
ratua there; we will have more op
portunity. I must study these arts
and sciences so as to be qualified for
my work, but I shall toil on in my
work, trying to save my own soul,
find to save the sonls of others, with
the supreme satisfaction that in one
flash of eternity I will get it ail. Oh,
"What an observatory heaven will be
from which to study astronomy ! No
telescope but a natural vision, com
promising every thing, and if some
thing be doubtful 10,000,000 miles
away, sweeping there and back quick
er than I can tell you. Gtoogy—
what a place to study geology wnen
world is being picked apaio as ea
sily as- a school-girl in botanical
studies pulls the leaf from the boral
la! We sometimes wish we knew
more about architecture. But oh 1
what a place heaven will bo in which
t<- : study architecture ! ’Mid thrones
palaces and temples and cathe-*
drals; where St. Mark’s and St.
Eaul's would be only mockeries. We
envy the man who has the tioiß and
means to travel ail around the world.
We haven’t the time; we haven’t the
means. But we will make all that
trip during the musical pause be
tween an eternal anthem. Disco v
edp I I shall know every thing that
is worth knowing. You will, too. I
say this for the encouragement of a’l
those people who are living what
tbpy call a hum drum life, who have
a passion for knowledge and yet
hare no means of satisfying it, who
work and toil and work and toil for
a 1 ivelihood, and say, “Oh I I wish I
hai the opportunities there men
hare. Then I would fill my mind
wi ii knowledge.’’ My friend, the day
jli come when you will go to the
University. Death will matriculate
you into the royal University of
Heaven.
In addition to the pleasures of
discovery in that world, wo will have
the pleasures of association. We
will go right up in front of God,
without any fright, because our sins
wi l ! all be goue, and there will be
nothing to be frightened about.
God will iook upon us a radiant
benediction. Then our oid friends
will gather around us, just as some
times our sick friends go to Florida,
the Land of Flowers, or to the
south of France, and then after a
while we meet them, and the hollows
under the eyes are filled up, and the
crutch has been thrown away, and
the appetite has come back, and the
man is entireiy changed, and we say
to him, “How you have changed ! I
never saw you looking so well.”
“Oh,” he says, “in this calm clime I
could not help but get well. I have
been ranging these hills, and that
has given me this elasticity. I could
not help but get well.” And so our
departed Christian friends are only
away for their health in a better
clime, and you will meet them after
a while, and they will be so changed
for the better that perhaps we will
hardly know them, and when we
find out who they are we say, “Where
is that cough ? Where is that pneu
monia ? Where is that paralysis ?
Where is that consumption And
they will say, “Since we came to this
beautiful clime we have got W6ll.
We have been ranging ever these
eternal hills, and they have given
us elacticity. We are all well now
I have been here five years, and I
have not heard a cough, nor heard a
man say I am tired.’'
And then I will take my place at
the celestial gate to watch the nu
merous processions coming out of
the gate of that city, and I see great
processions coming, processions of
children with their arms full of flow
ers, processions of Kings and Queens
passing in celestial pageantry; long
processions, but not one black
plumed vehicle, not one weeping
group, and I say: What a strange
sight is this ! Where is your Green
wood ? Where is your Laurel Hill ?
Where is your Mount Auburn ?
Where is your Westminster Abbey ?
Then I listened to the tolling of the
old belfries. After a while lam lis
tening to hear them toll for the dead.
They strike up a silvery chime from
tower to tower, from east gate to
west gate, ringing forth the music.
They shall hunger no more; neither
thirst any more; neither shall the
sun light on theta nor any heat, but
the lamb which is in the midst of the
throne shall lead them to the liviug
fountains of water, and God shall
wipe away all tears from their eyes.
Unglove your hand and take miae in
congratulation of that scene 1 feel
as if I could shout. I will shou%
Hallelujah U Dear Lord, forgive me
that I have ever complained about
any thing. If all that is coming
who cares for any thing but God
and heaven ? Take the crape off
your door be’l! Tour departed are
only away for their health in the
land ambrosial. Come on, Thomas
Hastings and Isaac Watts and Chas.
Wesley and pick out your be3t
hymns about joys celestial. There
is no need that we postpone you
heaven any longer. Let us begin
now. Whoever hath a harp, let him
thrum it. Whoever hath a trumpet,
ioi him blow it. Whoever hath an
Organ, let him give full diapason.
They crowd down the air—spirits
departed ! They ride through close
by in cavalcades of triumph. Then
chariot-wheels whirl in this Sabbath
sunlight. They come so near they
must mean some of us to join the
procession. Hail, armies of God,
till we are ready to join the battalion
of pleasures that never die. Oh, it
would take as long as eternity tp
tell the pleasures of religion. I set
the sunshiny door open. Come in,
ye who have found that the pleas
ures of the world are a mockery.
You disciples of the dance, look at
the bounding feet of the eternal
gladness. Oh, ye disciples of sinful
amusements, behold this stage on
which Kings are the actors, and a
burning world the foot-lights, and
thrones the spectacular. Oh, ye
dead in sin, it is resurrection, I
pull out the trumpet-stop. “In Thy
presence there is fullness of joy, and
at Thy right hand there are pleasures
for ever more.” This is everlasting
sunshine.
Golden Winter Krntingt.
The pleasant winter evenings are
hero, with their opportunities of im
provement: and if the proper fa
cilities are afforded, thousands of
children can make a great advance
in learning before the short evenings
come. A winter’s evening is almost
equivalent to a good half-day work
ing time, and when it is possible,
this time ought to be the children’s
very own.
The first requisite is a warm, pleas
ant, well-lighted room. Where there
is a room you can spare for the pur
pose, it i? wise to fit it up especially
for a children’s study. A good fire,
a table with- chairs, a few book
shelves, and some pictures on the
walls, with simple frames of autumn
leaves or plaited cigar-lighters, or
yellow straws laid orderly together
and caught with a stitch at the cor
ners, will make sufficient furniture.
Do not grudge the added lights and
mei, for they will pay you back bet
ter interest than the money put into
your blooded stock. The improve
ment of your children ought to lie
nearer your haart than the improve
ment of your cattle. And bear this
ever in miud iu ail your dealings
with your’ children —they can never
grow up but once, and there will
be no coming back to rectify mis
takes.
Guide and instruct them well with
regard to the right improvement of
these evening hours. Let the boy
who has a taste for reading have a
share iu a reading-room, where he
can obtain books, and buy the best
books your means will allow to help
him develop his powers. Let the
boy who is interested in bee-culture
msvka fairaseff the best lit-
erature of that subject. Let the
farmer-boy have his abundant farm
ers’ journals, and discuss with him
tho subjects he becomes interested
in. Let one child at least be a good
accountant, and learn the rudiments
of book- keepiug, so that he or she
may take charge intelligently of that
department. Let someone be the
family letter-writer, and keep up a
correspondence with all absent
friends who are dear to you—there
is something so sad in the separa
tions which take place in families
simply from neglect! A good let
ter-writer can remedy all this, and
add largely to the family happiness
as well as her own improvement.
The pleasure is extended also to all
the other families into which her let
ters go.
A family which spends the winter
in this manner will be known every
where as a household of superior in -
teliigence and thriftiness. They will
be well started on the road to true
prosperity, and will have their en
joyments and employments on a
higher plane than those who have no
pains taken with their intellectual
culture.
Miscarried Notes.
A young lady gave “her young
man” a beautifully worked pair of
slippers, and he acknowledged the
present by sending her his picture in
cased in a handsome frame.
Ha wrote a note to send with it,and
at the same time replied angrily to an
oft-repeated dun for an unpaid-for
suit of clothes. He gave a boy ten
cents to deliver the package and
notes, giving explicit directions as to
the destination of each. It was a
boy with a freckled face, and he dis
charged his errand in a manner that
should give him a niche in the temple
of fame.
The young lady received a note in
her adored one's handwriting, and
flew ro her room to devour its con
tents. She opened the missive with
eager finger?, and read.
“I’m getting tired of your ever
lasting attentions The suit is about
worn out already. It never amount
ed to much any way. Please go to
thunder.”
And the tailor wa3 struck utterly
dumb when be opened a parcel and
discovered the picture of his delin
quent customer, with a note that
said:
“When you gaze upon the features,
think how much I owe you.”
When the unfortunate young man
called around that evening to receive
the happy acknowledgement of his
sweet, he was very ostentatiously
shoved off the steps and over the
fence by the young lady’s father, and
in the morn ng he was waited upon
by his tailor’s lawyer, and impera
tively ordered to settle or suffer.
The Americus Republican says that
a most distressing accident occurred
on the farm of Hon. Jno. N. Hudson,
of Schley county, on Saturday after
noon last. Two little girls, about
five years of age, children of laborers
on Mr. Hudson’s farm, were together
when Jhe clothing of one of them
caught fire, and before the arrival of
assistance she was literally roasted to
cleath. The little child’s father, An
| drew Cheney, was off on the farm at
work, and was seemingly stupefied
with horror at the sight of his un
fortunate child.
A dispatch received at department
headquarters ''■'on Fort Robinson
states that Indians, who murdered
Morehead and three others, on
January 9th, and Little Wolf,s band
of Cheyennes, in all about one
hundred bucks well armed with
guns and pistols, a__d having plenty
of ammunition, recently surrounded a
wagon irain took all the provisions but
killed no one. They gave one of the
men of the train a silver watch they
had taken from Morehead. There
were no squaws or children with the
party. Captain Harris telegraphs from
the camp on Snake river that he has
discovered a large trail, 10 days or 2
week's old leading southeast from
Boardman’s Fork. There were evident
ly between there and four hundred
head of cattle, and many squaws
and children in the party. Cap
tain Ferries will follow the trail.
The Cheyenne prisoners from Fort
Robinson, en route to Leavenworth,
22 in number,including Wild Hog and
Old Crow arrived to day. They left for
their destination to night.
We don’t know who is responsible
for the following: The other night,
during the performance of “Hamlet”
at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, the
graveyard scene was in progress aud
everyone was wrapped in melancholy.
Hamlet and Horatio stood in the
gloomy churchyard where the grave
diggers were at work. The first grave
digger threw* up a shovelful of bones.
“Whose skull is that ?” said Hamlet
in a sepulchral voice. “Stewart’s ! I
claim the reward !” said the gravedig
ger in an aside. The reply was so
uaexspected that Mr. Booth, old stag
er as he is, came very near laughing.
Horatio, who had not so much self
control, had to go up the stage, and
the second gravedigger hid behind the
pile of earth till he could recover from
the effects. But Owen Fawcett never
smiled. He is too good a humorist to
laugh at his own jokes.
General George Washington Park
Custis Lee who is plaintiff in the
Arlington case is about forty-live
years old tall, handsome, and remarks
ably like his father, General R. E.
Lee. He is President of Washington
and Lee University, at Lexington,
Virginia, where he lives with his two
si :ters, Misses Mary and Mildred Lee,
in the house where their father, moth
er and sister died. He is- an old
bachelor, and very shy of the gentler
sex. He was graduated first in his
class at West Point, and, like his
father, came out of the four years’
course without a single demerit mark.
Miss Mary Lee was A few dSys ago
entertained by Lord and Lady
Napier at Gibraltar, and a few weeks
before was within the Russian
lines in Turkey.
Jennie Smith has been telling the
Green Street Methodist congregation,
Philadelphia, that she was cured of a
chronic spinal disease by a miracle,
She was bedridden for sixteen years,
A few months ago, when she was in
the Homoeopathic Hospital, she aek
ed Dr. John C. Morgan to pray with
her, as she felt that she was going to
sit up. He did so, and in a few min
utes afterward she sat up in her
chair. From this time she began to
have a strong belief that she would
be able to walk again, and at length
she appointed a certain time for a
miraculous cure. Some of her friends
were invited. To others she wrote
asking them to offer up specific pray
er on he; behalf on that day. After
waiting until nearly midnight, she
asked two persons present, to take her
by the arms, as she felt that the time
had come. They complied, and with
barely any effort on their part, she
rose to her feet and walked. Since
that time she has had complete use
of her legs. Dr. Morgan declares
the truth of her story.
A woman in a Kansas Pacific rail
road car sat facing a man who, with
one eye at least, seemed to be staring
fixedly at her. She became indig
nant, and said, “Why do you look at
me so, sir ?” He said he was not
aware of having done so, but she in
sisted. “I beg your pardon, Madam,
but it i3 this eye, is it not?” lifting
his finger to his left optic. “Yes, sir,
it i3 that eye.” Well, Madam, that
eye won’t do you any harm. It is a
glass eye, Madam —only a glass eye.
I hope you’ll excuse it. But, upon
my soul, lam not surprised that
even a glass eye should feel interest
ed in so pretty a woman.” The ex
planation and the compliment com
bined to put the woman in a good
jumor.
A vessel at sea has a crew of
fifteen white and fifteen black men.
A storm comes up and it is found to
be necessary that fifteen of the crew
must be thrown overboard. Now, the
question is how to arrange the thirty
men in a straight line so that every
ninth man will be a negro. When
thrown overboard, of course, the ne
gro is not to be counted any more.
Will some ofourpuzAe loving friends
please send us the answer.
The following letter was recently
written by a boy of Augusta seven
years of age,to his uncle in Savannah:
dear uncle george please get me a
newfoundland dog. i want a puppy, i
hope you are well i am. igo
to school now and have recess i am bad
oil for a dog. send him as soon as you
can i send my love to you for christ
sake amen, send me a boy dog.
Robert S. ’H—.”
A gentleman, having occasion to
praise a kind-hearteu Irishwoman for
her good deeds, said to her: Well,
well, Kate, if there is a heaven in
the next world you will get to it. As
quick as lightning came the reply,
with all heartiness of the race: God
bless ye Mr. P—, an sure if Ido I’ll
lave the gate open for you.
I
News in Gdii-i ■;
iimUuqr.s., ini, t. ,
000 fire.
Cochran has enjoyed a masquerade
ball of huge proportions.
Mrs. Jane M. Eve, 77 years old,
ai d in Augusta last week.
Meriwether county has a negro
v\ >man who says she is 131 years
018.
In the Cathedral at Bristol, En
gland, the electric has proved a daz
zling success.
Nebraska has now forty-two Pres
terian churches, four of which were
ouilt last year.
There are in the whole world, ac
cording to a careful estimate, only
6,503,000 Jews.
In London, England, the Sunday
schools number 814, with 19,861
teachers aud 230,084 scholars.
Mrs. Morgan of Meriwether coun
ty recently committed suicide by
hanging herself. No cause is known.
The Methodist school of Theology
at Evanston, 111, will graduate its
first lady student this coming spring.
Mr. Alfred T. Luekie, formerly of
Athens, died the other day in Flori
da. He was a splendid business
man.
NO. 8.
On a recent Sabbath all the sa
loons and rumshops in Richmond,
Va., were closed for the first time iu
the history of the city.
Milledgeville has just had her
eighth annual masquerade ball, aud
a brilliant affair it was fro,m the ac
counts of it as published.
The Signal reports the attendance
at the North Georgia Agricultural
College as already larger than it has
ever been aud steadily increasing.
As was predicted old Zack Chand
ler has been nominated by the repub
licans of the Michigan legislature for
senator. Thi3 virtually amounts to
his election.
A courtly negro recently sent a
reply to an invitation, in which ho
“regretted that circumstances re
pugnant to the requiescence would
prevent his acceptance of the in
v te.”
Macon is waking up to the impor
tance of retaining its claims to the
State Fair and now wants it as a
permanent institution. Augusta also
ie moving in the matter and will try
to get it this year.
Dr. Vincent will start a Pullman
train from Chicago, Juno 2d, for his
new camp-meeting grounds in the
Yosemite Valley, to be absent thirty
days, Bishop Simpson and Joseph
Cook to beat his company.
Mrs. Anderson walked 2700 quar
ter miles in as many quarter hours.
And now a Minnesota girl offers to
grind 2700 quarters of wheat in 2700
quarters of wheat in 2700 quarter
hours. This shows that not every
woman has her brains iu her feet.
Mrs, Kate Wright, a milliner of
Macon, died very suddenly on Sa' -
ar< leju Sgit. had an l;p}ir before
been buying dye-stuffs and strych
nine. She may have swallowed the
latter, though the Telegraph and
Messenger says nothing of it.
General Gordon neither dodged
nor paired on the female lawyer bill,
but voted for the girls like a little
man. Mr. Hill was ungallaut enough
to vote the other way. Cannot the
Georgia Senators agree even on the
woman question ?— Ghron. & Con.
Jerrold one day said he would
make a pun upon anything his
friends would put to him. Thinking
to give him a poser, a friend asked
him whether he could pun upon the
signs of the zodiac; to which he
promptly replied. “By Gemini I
Cancer.”
The LaGrange Reporter has this
sensible item : When you have work
to be done, see if you cannot get it
done at home, when you have any
thing to buy, see if you cannot buy
it from home dealers. This way of
going abroad simply because you can
save a few dimes by doing it, is un
neighborly and unbusinesslike.
The Cartersville Free Press says
that the good people of that city
will soon begin to make preparation
for entertaining the press conven
tion, which meets on the first
Wednesday in May. It says too,
that mqgt of the papers have signi
fied their intention to have a repre
sentative present. It will be a pleas
ant occasion.
President Hayes has written a
letter to General Merritt, the lately
confirmed Collector of the Port of
New York. He congratulates Mer
ritt on his success, and hopes that he
will permit no political influence to
sway him in running the office.
This is very good civil service reform
but we should like to see it given
wider range —all over the country
for instance.
The Rome Courier says that the
matter of the contested election for
sheriff of that county has been satis
factorily arranged by both candidates,
Magruder and Quinn, agreeing to
drop the matter and let the Govern
r commission whichever one he
thinks entitled to the place under
the returns. Then the lucky man is
to resign and the election is to bo held
over again.
On the 11th inst., the warehouse
of Messrs. Hatcher & Baldwin, with
its entire contents, consisting of
about 325 bales of cotton, several
tons of guano, a considerable lot of
meat, bagging and ties and ten or
twelve barrels of syrup, was con
sumed by fire. It was the work of
an incendiary and the total loss was
about $14,000, divided between the
firm and those who had cotton stored
with them. There was some insur
ance.
An ugly accident occurred at the
Dahlonega mine on Wednesday
morning. While young John Pur
dy, of New York, was feeding the
batteries a car on the tram-way
from the mine got beyond the con
trol of the brakes, and under high
speed jumped into the mill aud tell
on him, with its load of half a ton of
rocks, c: ushing him to the floor.
How severe or dangerous his hurta
are we have not learned. Dr. How
ard went to his assistance. — Dah'one
ga Signal.