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The Gainesville Eagle Published Every Friday Morning BY RED WINE & HAM. 2® cUl ° rBM ot *HU, Banks, Towns, Union and Dawson counties, and the city w Gain at yllle. Has a large general circulation in twelve other counties in Northeast Georgia, and two oonnties In Western North Carolina. YOUR CHOICE. TWO GREAT OFFERS to Subscribers to the Phrenological Journal. AND SCIENCE OF HEALTH. This publication is widsly known, having boon before the reading world forty years, and oconpying a place in literature erclu tiyely ita own, viz.: The study of HUMAN NATUBE in all its phases, inclnding Phre nology, Physiognomy, Ethnology, Physiol ogy, etc., together with the Science of Hzamh, and no expense will be spared to make it the best publication for general circulation, tedding always to make men better physically, mentally and morally. OUR PREMIUMS. let. 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 nntil recently lias sold for $2. This with the illustrated key which accompanies aaeh bast, and the series of articles now be ing published in the Joubnal on “Brain and Mind,” will enable the reauer to beoome a successful student of b iman nature. ad. A NEW BOOK PREMIUM. THE TEMPERAMENTS; or Varieties of Physioal Cos itution in Man, considered in their relation Mental Oharacte : and Piaotlcal affaiu of Life. $1.50, Anew wo A; the only one on the subject of Temperaments now before the public, and treats of this important subject in a most oomnrehensive manner, showing its bearings on marriage, education and train ing of childre i, occupation, health and di aease, etc. The book contains about 250 pagee, and 150 portraits and other illustra tions; is handsomely printed and bound in •xtia fine muslin, and cannot be procured at less than $1.50 retail, except when taken as a premium. TERMS. —The Joubnal is now pub lished at $2 a year, (having been reduced from $3, for 1878,) single numbers, twenty cents. 26c. extra must be received with each subscription to pay postage on the Joubnal and the expense of boxing and packing the bast, which will then be 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. 8. R. Wells & Cos., Publishers, T3T Broadway, Nvr York. 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 . - E 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.