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The Gainesville Eagle
F’ublished Every Friday Morning
BY REDWINE & iTaM
Office Organ of k Hall, Banks, Towns,
2&25?" a ° d D wson counties, and the city
Has . a large general circulation in
w lit other counties in Northeast Georgia, and
two counties in Western North Carolina.
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editorial, eaglets.
C'an a doctor be said to enjoy bad
health?
Woman’s sphere—that she will
never get married.
••• ■ S
Henry Ward Beecher is to lecture
in Atlanta on the 15th.
A woman cannot be called a black*
smith, merely because she “shoos”
hens.
Not many girls dye for love—it is
generally to change the color of
their hair.
In these piping times of resump
tion parents find it extremely diffi
cult to payrent,
A little acorn planted
Grows to a mighty tree—
A little ache corn makes a man
As mad as mad can be t
You can buy strawberries in
Charleston for three cents a quart,
and get cured of the colic for five
dollars.
We are 'espe
cially about pay day, but we can
stand a slight pressure on dogs and
pistols.
There is one thing in which the
whole people on the face of the earth
are always engaged. They are grow
ing older.
The Waynesboro Expositor alludes
to “Allen G. Thurman, President of
the United States senator,” Waynes
boro booze must be bad.
A tax collector is about the only
*oaan who can sit or step on tax with
out hopping around and swearing
like an Irishman at a fair.
Sitting bull is extremely hard on
Dr. Mary Walker when ho says:
“There is no American who wears
trousers who is not a rascal.”
Dresses for ladies will be worn
much shorter this year than last;
but the husband’s faces when they
see the bill will baas long as usual.
An Ohio man broke his neck try
ing to break a colt. It is always well
to know what you want to break be
fore you commence, so as to avoid
mistakes.
A correspondent asks: “Are there
any natural laws regulating the mo
tion of the wind and air currents ?”
None that we know of, except, possi
bly, the “blew” laws.
In view of the many recent “mys
terious” murders that have baffled
the detectives, doesn’t it look a little
as though the old proverb, “Murder
will out,” needs overhauling for re
pairs ?
When, blown from your head
By the boistrems wind,
Your hat in a dirty
Mud puddle you find,
01 swear not, nor curse,
But smile with the rest
Of the crowd—rnurnur gently:
“It’s all for the best 1"
In New Haven county, Conn., the
other day, they had a storm, and the
heavens rained down angle worms in
large quantities. The Danbury News
suggests that dame Nature must have
taken a dose of vermifuge.
A one-armed tramp masticated
pies and all that sort of thing in a
Western town the other day till he
got his fill, aud then took the other
one out from under his coat and
walked out of town, swinging it as
liveey as a cricket.
It is suggested that the Com mu*
nists who make so many unsuccess
ful attempts to kill off the crowned
heads of Eui’ope. belong to target
companies or the militia. Their
wretched marksmanship can be ac
counted for in no other way.
The United States Engineering
Corps engaged in surveying the
Chattahoochee river, state that the
river can easily be made navigable
from West Point as far up as Atlan
ta, at a small expense compared with
the great benefits that will result.
About three locks and dams will
probably be required The distance
from Atlanta to W.est Point is about
108 miles.
While turning the corner of Wash,
xngton and Green streets the otbe
day, a lady came into rather violent
contact with an Irishman who was
coming from opposite direction.
Smiling sweetly, the lady remarked:
“Sir, I hope you won’t take offence
at the accident.” “Take a fence,, iz
it?” replied Pat; “and fhat wild I be
afther takin’ a fence fur ? D’ye
think I’m a thafe?”
There is no republican whiskey
thief or corruptionist of any descrip
tion, defrauder of the revenue, bribe
taker or bribe giver, worthless or la
zy Custom House or other officer ras
cally blackmail editor, knavish con
tractor or rinmaster; no jobbers in
offices or perquisites, no drunken
loafer or gambler, no enemy of im
provement in any branch of the gov
ernment, who is not a heaty and vo
ciferous Grant man, and who is not
now rubbing his hands over the
chance of Beeing “the old man’ back
in the White House. —The Natwii.
The Gainesville Eagle
YOL. Xill.
DUELS AROUND AUGUSTA.
The Onle’s Campus Martins Six
ty Years Ago.
It may not be generally known
that opposite the old Arsenal, on the
other side of the river—the site of
Campbellton—scores of hostile meet
ings used to take place. It was the
Sand Bar Ferry of sixty years ago,
and is rough guileys are said to have
echoed as often with the dual snap of
the pistol and the twin crack of the
rifle as the phantom ten-pin balls
once reverberated through the ra
vines of the Catskills. It was at a
time when Southern gentry flourish
ed in the finely-strung age of wealth
and ease, and the Codo of Honor,
unmolested by law and tolerated in
public opinion, operated as a coroll
ary to the highly organized state of
society. It was then that every gen
tleman owned his horses, his dogs
and his brace of pistols, and with an
inherent love of sport and worship of
courage, preserved a keen wiry sense
of honor. The duel existed, not as a
relic of barbarism, but as a martial
landmark; for, let it be remembered,
that the wild ardor of the Revolution
had scarcely cooled ur. .n L~ -i
*£•!•' . l. Vue e:ur, of the
war of 1812 was still Vpon the people.
To be sure, laws were enacted against
duelling; the Church and State were
its nominal enemies, but our forefa
thers seemed to have cherished an in
stinct which prompted to the field of
honor, rather than impelled to pri
vate broil or sped to village vendetta
“To this custom,” said a venerable
naan the other day, “may have bean
due the infrequency of the bloodshed
and murder which now checker every
locality with the rouge et noire of
crime and fill even our high places
with deadly strife.” “The Code,”
said he, “was a real conservator of
society; for men met like men, face
to face, under the sky in open com
bat.’’ Here, then, on the banks of
the quiet Savannah, in the secluded
nooks, more fit to welcome the trap
per with his bag or the angler with
his rod, iay the old battle ground,
and on these grassy knolls, guarded
by stately pines and skited with wil
low bushes, many a form sank down
in blood.
Very few persons now living recol
lect the duel between Thomas Pace,
of Columbia county, and Columbus
Dent. It was sixty seven years ago
sprang from a political quarrel and
was fought at Campbellton. Dent is
said to have challenged Pace and
upon the latter’s refusing to meet
him, published him. Subsequently,
Dent remarked that if Pace would
now challenge, the duel might up
This reached Pace’s ears, who con
cluded to Bend the bantered billet,
and a bloody meeting resulted.
Dent who is remembered to have
been a cripple, stood nia grouud in a
bad position and was kiiied at the
first fire.
Pace the survivor of this affair,
subsequently made some remark
at out Lieut. Bee, United Slates
Army, who took it up and cbailong-*
ed the fomior. Pace was. likewise
successful in this meeting, shooting
his antagonist through the knee.
Bee recovered, however, and receiv
ed, many years later, the rank of
Captain. The next meeting was be
tween Dr. Milledge Golphm and Dr
Saxton, of Abbeville. These gentle
men, while medical stud nts, enga
ged in a boxing match, in the course
of which Golphin knocked Saxton
down, whereupon Saxton challenged
Golphin accepted, and shot his ad
versary in the shouidei’, wounding
him painfully, though not mortally.
This was in 1815. The year follow
ing, Mr. James Steward, a resident
of Columbia county, and Mr. Good
win—a Virginian—came to Augusta
to fight, Goodwin, who was about to
engage in business, was offended by
some letters derogatory to his finan
cial standing, and challenged Stew
ard as their author. The utmost
coolness prevailed among the com
batants, Goodwin walking to the
battle ground with a dressing gown
on, and Stewart deliberately puiling
off his coat, and hanging it upon a
limb preparatory to taking position.
He was wounded in the shoulder on
the first lire. In 1819 another duel
was fought in Campbellton, between
John Howard, of Milledgeville and
Richard I. Easter, of this city. The
difficulty originated from some re
marks by one concerning a lady to
whom the other was engaged to be
married. The duel was fought at
twenty paces, and the agreement was
that each person should fire as quick
and as rapidly as possible, but were
allowed to manoeuvre in the field as
they pleased. Easter was dropped
at the first fire a ball perforating his
hip. Sinking upon the ground, he
lost his pistol from the jar, but, quick
ly recovered his weapon, he took de
liberate aim and snapped. With the
utmost intrepidity he then lowered
his arm and shouted to Howard:
“Proceed, a snap is a fire.” Seeing
that his adversary was wounded,
however, Howard fired into the air,
and each antagonist overcome by the
fairness of the other, shook hands
and ended the duel. Sometime dur
ing the next y ar a bloodless meet
ing also took place between Seaton
Grantland, Sr., a Milledgville editor,
and Chas. Abercrombie, a citizen of
Hancock county. This dispute was
of a political nature, and each ball
found bloodless pads. Two Augusta
carpenters, Middleton and Handley,
were the next to forsake the handsaw
and jack plane for the derringer.
One of them tried to undermine the
other in business, and after arriving
on the field, to which their quarrel
drove them, they fired off their pis
tols and jovially reloaded for the, fray
in whice Handley was slightly woun
ded.
The unfortunate meeting between
Mitchell, of Twiggs county Georgia,
and Dr. Woolridge, of Abbeville, S.
C., showed upon what trival causes
serious matters may rest. A ques
tion arose in a game of whist as to
whether a player failing to follow
suit lost three tricks by default, or
forfeited the entire hand. A quarrel
arose; a challenge followed; a fight
ensued, and Mitchell fell dead at the
GAINESVILLE, GA.,' FRIDAY HORNING. MAY 9, L 879.
first fire, shot through the heart. So
complete was the execution that he
never closed the eye with which he
was taking aim.
Many and oft were efforts made to
settle these differences. Boards of
Honor were formed, matters fre
quently submitted to full and fair ar
bitration, and generally, were adjust
ed. Sometimes, however, from the
mystery of an offense complications
of the injury or stuoborness of the
principals, no interference could avail
Of some such species of casus belli
was the fatal fray between Dr Babel
and a Mr. Mitchell, citizens of Bald
win county. They came to Augusta
determined to fight and refusing to
disclose the merits of their quarrel
went into immediate and deadly
preparation. Hearing of the des
perate nature of affairs, a large crowd
of spectators assembled at Campbell
ton and the Savannah banks were
lined with turnouts and pedestrians.
The weapons used iu the duel were
rifles, and upon a renewal of offers
for meditation on the ground, one of
them relentlessly cried, “No, there
can be no settlement until this pouch
of bullets is exhausted.” The firs’*
lire, at the w<?ftl of command, rang
oat clear and sharp, but each man
stood erect untouched yet uncompro
mising. The next round, however,
ended the fight, for Mitchell fell
dead upon the ground. This was in
1821. Gus Kenian, of Milledgeville,
and the elder Augustus S. Clayton
shortly afterward exchanged two
bloodless shots at the same place.
it was about this time, or shortly
thereafter, that General Blair, of
Camden, a noted character of Caroli
na, large, tall, manly and brave, hav
ing demanded satisfaction of Mr.
Tom Evans, also of Camden, wound
ed the latter in the shoulder. The
parties met this time very near the
terry and Evans fired immediately at
the word. Biair took fine aim, and
as “two,” “three,” “four,” “five,” were
sonuded, fired accurately, hitting
Evans, who had missed him, in the
arm. While the latter was down and
bleeding, Gen Blair approached him
and said he was glad that the wound
was no worse, and Evans, after thank
ing the General, stated that he was
glad to have been able to give him
satisfaction. Evans ultimately re
covered, and used to say that while
standing with his own empty pistol
m hand waiting to receive his assail
ant s ball the count seemed to last
five years instead of five seconds.
It was not long after this that
Hamilton Wigfall, of Edgefield, was
killed by Cogdell, of Charleston.
The fight is said to have resulted
from a college quarrel; rifles were
used to settle the matter ai Camp
bellton, and Wigfall received his
death wound at tiie first fire. Both
were young men, and the affair was
deeply regretted by all, and by no
one more deeply than Cogdell him
self.jlt was often the,case as in this one
that the surviving principal ot a fatal
duel was regretful. It sometimes
happened though, that his remorse
was temporary. Recognizing the fact
that their adversaries enjoved equal
o .portuuities, the matter, disturbing
them at first did not continue with
much depth or intensity. A veteran
observer of duels remarked to the
writer the other day that the success
ful duelist would, in some instances,
be so perturbed as to be unable to
enjoy the reception which their
friends might give them at the con
clusion of the fight. A case was re
collected in which the haggard face
of a dead enemy’s widow haunted the
other party ever after. The recol
lection of the fight had ceased to be
of much moment until he chanced to
meet ike lonely companion of his fal
len foe, and all the bitter memo
rier of the feud came trooping back,
hoary and frightful from a prisoned
past.
It was not long after this that
Hamilton Wigfall, of Edgefield, was
killed by Cogdeli, of Charleston. The
fight is said to have resulted from a
college quarrel; rifles were used to
settle the matter at Campbellton,
and Wigfall received his death wound
at the first fire. Both were young
men, and the affair was deeply re
gretted by all, and by no one more
deeply than Cogdeli himself. It was
often the case, as in this one, that
the surviving principal of a duel was
regretful. It sometimes happened,
though, that his remorse was tempo
rary. Recognizing the fact that
their adversaries had enjoyed equal
opportunities, the matter, disturbing
them atjfirst, did not continue with
much depth or intensity. A veteran
observer of duels remarked to the
writer the other day that the suc
cessful duelist would, in some in
stances, be so perturbed as to be un
able to enjoy the reception which
their friends might give them at the
conclusion of the fight. A case was
recollected in which the haggard face
of a dead enemy’s widow haunted
the other party ever after. The rec
ollection of the fight had ceased to
be of much moment until he chanced
to meet the lonely companion of his
fallen foe, and all the bitter memo
ries of the feud came trooping back,
frightful from a prisoned past.
It has not been the intention of
the writer to rake over these old
feuds or to revive bitter memories of
a troubled past. As far as possible
the causes of the quarrels have been
omitted, and the particulars of these
hostile meetings—necessarily mea
gre at this late day —have alone been
given. Hot blood may have been
aroused, but it pulsed in noble veins
and whatever doubtful deeds it may
have instigated, did not clot in cra
ven arteries; wounds may have been
opened, but not to the assassin’s
blow; lives may have been taken, but
tender memories sleep in sweeter
beds than on the field of honor;
wrongs may have been done, but
they have been righted by higher
statutes than by the code of men.
This account of “unwritten strife” is
published simply as it falls from the
lips of a venerable man who has wit
nessed every fight here recounted;
and the narratives are not used to
rear a stilted moral or adorn sensa
tional story-
SMALL BITS.
Of Vai ious Kinds carelessly thrown To.
fietlier.
Georgia has 460,000 sheep and
150,000 dogs.
It turns out now that Grant was
born in Ohio.
He that cannot bear with ot er
people’s passions, cannot govern lis
own.
Religious men are designed .by
God to be the model men of tie
world.
Ba temperate. Liquor has rm-de
more paupers than all other vices
combined.
Our greatest glory consists not jn
never failing, but in rising evtiy
time we fall.
A contemporary says: “For ‘spring
pests’ in our issue of yesterday, re:,d
‘spring poet3.’” j.
Byron, the dramatist, says that tie
best way to make an army fly is to
break both its wings.
a singular thing that na rafl
-:ZaS man has ever applied fooa
patent on the day-break.
“This country is just full of cli
mate,” proudly remarks the patriot
of the Burlington Hawkeye.
Anew species of the tea shrub
has been found near Trebizond, in
Armenia. A demand for it has
sprung up in Persia.
A religious Bavarian journal de
declares that Sz9gedin was the So
dom aud Gomorrah of Hungary,
and says that the flood was retribu
tion.
Over four thousand dollars was
lately paid at an art sale in London
for an old Chelsea tea set of 22 piecis.
It had a deep blue band and rich
gilding.
The manufacture of beet sugar is
to be tried in earnest at Northamp
ton, Mass. A factory is to be built,
and 400 acres of beets planted this
season.
We should learn not to t interpret
duty by success. The opposition
which assails us in the course of obe
dience is no evidence that we are
mistaken.
Once they started a female semi
nary in Utah. It flourished well,
but just iu the hight of its prosperi
ty the principal eloped with the
whole school!
The Philadelphia Times says that
because Clubber Williams remains a
Police Captain “people who go to
New York will have to carry shotguns
to protect themselves.”
The editor of a paper recently in
sisted that poets must be brief. The
next day he rec ived a composition
entitled “The Ballad of the Mer
chant:” “Trust —Bust!”
A boy, at m recent examination in
an English school, was asked who
discovered America. “I wish I may
die,’’ says a British editor, “if he
didn’t answer Yankee Doodle!”
A crazy woman in Lawrence,
Mass., believing that she was divine
ly commissioned to assassinate Fatb
er Coleman, sprang over the chancel
rail, in St. ?4ary’s Church, and lunged
at him with a knife.
The Rev. Stephen Rasco, Baptist
pastor and Postmaster at Mattewan,
Mich., is said to be insane. There
has been nothing erratic in his pul
pit conduct, bet in the post office he
stole money from letters.
An elephant died recently in Cal
cutta which is said to have been rid
den by Warren Hasting when Gov
ernor General of India, a hundred
years ago. He may probably have
been 50 years old at that time.
John C. Cheney is, according to his
advertisement, “Vermont’s gifted
young temperance orator;” but his
labor in Northampton, Mass., has
been interrupted by his arrest for
bigamy. He has three wives.
The New Testament company of
the American revision committee
at New York at its last meeting
made a second revision of the acts,
and sent the final suggestions on
the Gospels to the British commit
tee.
A dreamy writer says it would be
curious to follow a pound of silk
from its spinning until it becomes
a lady’s dress. No doubt; but most
men would prefer to follow it after it
become a dress, and while the lady
was in it.
Establishmets for the refining of
petroleum are increasing fast in Ja
pan. Tne existence of petroleum in
several of the provinces has been
known for twelve centuries, but it
was only six years ago that in Japa
nese learned how to refine it.
Mahmoud Bey, a Captain of in
fantry in the Turkish army, lately
killed his wife in Constanstinople,
with a revolver, for unfaithfulness.
Although the act was sactioned by
previous custom, it created a great
sensation in Stamboul, on account of
its rarity.
A spoilt child, aged seven, was be
moaning the want of attention re
ceived from her far too indulgent
family, and finished her list of griev
ances by saying, “Nobody ever cared
for me, for even when I was born,
my mother and all my sisters were
way at the seaside.
Don Carlos and his wife have ar
rived at Rome, whence they will
proceed to visit Archduchess Beat
rice, his mother, and the Comte de
Chambord. The Pope has consented
personally to confirm the pretender’s
children, whom he has brought for
that purpose to Rome.
A man in Portland, Me., intends
to publish a book entitled “American
Peerage.” His circular says there
are many descendants of titled per
sons in the United States, and he
begs that families of such die inction
will send him information, particu
larly as to the lives of two or three
of the great men the family has pro
duced in America.
The Geological Survey.
In the Constitution of the 23a I
notice a long article on the progress
of the survey, in which it says: “Dr
Little has developed the gold mines
of Northeast Georgia iu the last five
years, so as to increase their value
forty millions of dollars. Five years
ago there were only four mills in op
eration; now there are forty, yielding
$500,000 annually.” I beg to differ
with the editor,and say that he is al
together mistaken in his assertion
that the geological survey has had
any effect on the developments and
increased value and productions of
the mines. The survey under Prof
Bradley, Dr. Little’s assistant, was
a perfect failure. Col. N. H, Hand,
with a few others, have expended
half a million dollars in developing a
grand system of mining, which will
result in the moat brilliant success;
but they are under no obligation to
the State for aid. Being practical
miners, and having the necessary
capital, they are self-sustaining and
self-creating. The geologist has de
voted nearly all his time iu surveying
Norwest, Middle and Southwest
Georgia; which is natural, as he is
expected to pander to his benefactors
I have no desire to injure Dr. Lit
tle, or obstruct the progress of the
survey, which, if completed, would
place Georgia in the front rank of
States in point of wealth and pros
perity. The last legislature was in
fluenced by the same motives. The
members were anxious for the com
pletion, but they do not consider the
different professors qualified to do
justice to the tax-payers. I am
accused of “fishing for the office,’
which is wholly without truth. I
have expended over one thousand
dollars to get the State Road bail t,
inaugurating our present magnificent
system of railroads; and as much
more to procure a geological survey;
and no one questions the facPthat I
have done quite as muoh to develop
the vast mineral wealth ot Northeast
Georgia. I have induced foreign
capitalists to come here and invest
large sums for thirty years past; yet
all these efforts were made pureiy
for the public good, not from any
selfish motives, as some contend; the
charge is false. I have never sought
the office of State geologist; but I do
insist that the legislature pas3 a bill
taking the appointing power from
the Governor, and place it in the
legislature, where it rightfully be
longs —as that of Judges of tiie Su
perior courts, and the commissioners
of agriculture and common schools,
that body certainly can do more jus
tice to the tax-payers of the State, as
they are acquainted with their wants.
M. S.
Given away on his own Dodge.
The old man Bendigo keeps a
pretty sharp eye on his daughter
Mary, and many a would-be lover
has taken a walk after a few min
utes’ conversation with the hard
hearted parent. The old chap is
stuck this time, however, and out for
a wedding. Alter the lucky young
man had been sparking Mary for six
months the old gentleman stepped in
as usual, requested a private confab,
and led off with :
“You seem like a nice young man,
and perhaps you aro in love witu
Mary ?”
“Yes, I am,’’ was the honed; re
ply-
“ Haven’t said anything to her yet,
have you ?”
“Well, no; but I think she recip
rocates my affection!”
“Does, eh? Well, let me tell you
something. He mother died a luna
tic, and there’s no doubt that Mary
has inherited her insanity,”
“I’m willing to take the chances,”
replied the lover.
“Yes, but you see Mary has a
terrible temper. She has twice
drawn a knife on mo with intent to
commit murder.”
“I’m used to that—got a sister
just like her,” was the answer
“Aud you should kuow that I’ve
sworn a solemn oath not to give Ma
ry a cent of my property,” continued
the father.
Well, I’d rather start poor and
bu.ld up. There’s more romance in
it.’
The old man had one more shot in
his carbine, and he said.
“Perhaps I ought to tell you that
Mary’s mother ran away from my
home with a butcher and that all
her relations died in the poor house.
These things might be thrown up
in after years, and I now warn
you.”
“Mr. Bendigo,” replied the lover,
“I’ve heard all this before, and also
that you were on trial for forgery,
had to jump Chicago for bigamy,
and served a year in State prison for
cattle-stealing. I’m going to marry
into your family to give you a decent
reputation ! There—no thanks—
good-bye!”
Mr. Bendigo looked after the young
man with his mouth wide open, and
when he could get his jaws together
he said:
“Some infernal hyena has went
and given me away on my own
dodge!”
There is no small art in taking
things easy, so long as we must suffer
annoyances in this breathing world
saying as little as possible about
them, and making no parade of oar
martyrdom. If making a fuss and
rendering every one else about us
uncomfortable ever abated the ills
that flesh and spirit are heir to, there
would be some slight excuse for the
folly and selfishness; but since we
cannot escape tribulations of one
kind or another, fretting only aggra
vates them.
CITR REN T OPINIOI 4 .
Davis and Bayard.
New York Express.
The two names which are pronounced
with the most confidence and hope to
day by the conservative and patriotic
citizens of the country are Davit Davis
and Thomas F. Bayard. They have
millions of votes iu them—these names
have.
Dogs are Property.
Spirta Jslimaelite.
If dogs are not property how can
they be said to belong to anybody ?
The plea of ownership is an admission
that they are property. If dogs can
either be given away, bought, or stolen
they aro property. It what a man buys
doesn’t belong to him, to whom does it
belong ?
Wortli Being Remembered.
Savannah News.
A fact now called to mind and worthy
of being remembered, is that in 1867,
among the most prominent advocates of
the process of tacking special legislation
on appropriation bills—not to repeal
obnoxious laws, but to secure the enact
ment of the most oppressive measures—
was Rutherford B. Hayes and James A.
Garfield, of Ohio.
Protection lor the Ration.
Philadelphia Times, ind.
Mr. Hayes giveu an interpretation of
the constitution that makes the repeal
‘A the clause repealed by the political
rider to the army bill an imperative
necessity, for now congress must face
the question as the executive declares
it, and it must protect the nation, the
laws, aud the elections in the various
States from the arbitrary revolutionary
military policy avowed by the president
in a time of profound peace.
No Wonder.
New York Sun.
The army was the essential part of
the machinery employed to execute the
decrees of the conspiracy which seated
Hayes, and never did guards or legions
play a more important part in the ele
vation of a Roman Emperor. Being
partisans, not patriots, and seeing no
hope of success but iu the practice of
fraud, protected by force, it is not won
derful that the republicans should cling
to the use of the army “to keep the
peace at the polls” with the energy of
despair.
Let tiie Democrats Teach Him.
Marietta Journal.
Hayes veto makes an issue with con
gress that we hope the democrat mem
ber will have the manliness to meet
with courage aud unswerving determi
nation to stand by their convictions.
If Hayes in trying to further the trea
sonable schemes of his republican co
adjutors, is willing to be a pliant tool,
then let the democratic members teach
him that the president cannot thwart
both branches of congress, defy the
constitution, and deny to the people un
trammelled exercise of the rights of
freemen at the ballot box.
bet’s Stop It.
Lumpkin Independent.
While the country is clamoring for
the enforcement of the law against car
rying concealed weapons we suggest
that our members iu congress be peti
ticm-tl V* f law 1 +r> nrevent
the transmission of any dead weapon
through the mails. These cheap, much
advertised, two and three dollar pistols,
made in the North aud sold to fools all
over the land are just as dangerous at
close quarters as a fine deringer. Let
the sale of them be prohibited if it can
be done, but in any event they ought
not to ba allowed transportation in the
mails.
The Only Mail.
Marietta Journal.
Some of the papers have put the Ma
rietta Journal down for Tilden. We
don’t know as we are wedded to Tilden
any more than any other good demo
crat, but there is this much abou>i it,
Tildeu is the only man that can carry
New York, and without the electoral
vote of New York, Connecticut and In
diana, the next president will not be a
democrat. A solid South and those
three States are necessary for democrat
ic success. If Hancock, Thurman, or
Hendricks are as acceptable to the vo
ters of New York as Tilden, then we
would be perfectly satisfied, but New
York is a doubtful State, both branches
of its legislature are republican, and to
carry the State for a democratic presi
dent, an available and acceptable man
must be nominated or defeat stares us
in the face.
Georgia Aliea.il.
Philadelphia Times.
Georgia has just disposed of a large
four per cent loan to her own citizens
without the expenditure oi a penny in
the way of advertising or commissions,
and is quite justified iu feeling rather
proud about it. The State Treasurer
simply gave notice that the bonds were
to be had, and they have all been sold
over his counter, without any expense
to the State, the great bulk being taken
by small investors, and scarcely any
going outside of Georgia, while orders
for $150,000 more were on hand when
the last had been disposed of. There
could be no more convincing proof of
the State’s financial soundness, and
good judges already predict that the
whole indebtedness, which now pays
oeven aud eight per cent, interest, will
soon be refunded in fours, thus reduc
ing the burden of the interest charge
nearly one-half.
A Very Tall Oak from a Very Small
Acorn.
Gwinnett Herald.
The Watchman and Southron publish,
with a good deal of gusto, a petition
signed by Stephens, Speer and Felton
to congress, asking for some modifica
tion of the internal revenue laws. The
editor says, “we cannot foretell the
consequence which may follow this
movement.” We are in the same un
fortunate condition. It strikes us as
rather a small acorn to make such a
fuss about.
Are you not aware that for session
after session, bills have been intro
duced, not humble petitions, to wipe
out the entire system, and they have
been defeated as often as introduced ?
"We do not suppose there has been a
single session in ten years but what
Southern democrats have urged and
struggled for the r- peal of those bur
densome laws and rulings without
avail.
We hope that some practical measure
may be adopted to relieve the people
from this unjust excise system, but if it
is done, the countiy will have to thank
the great democratic party, which has
at last got into power for their relief.
With all the sneers at organized democ
racy, it is only from the organized that
any relief can be obtained from any
oppression, and while we are willing to
do Mr. Speer and Mr. Felton, that full
measure of justice which their services
either in aid of the organized democ
racy 01 otherwise may merit, this effort
to manufacture a very tall oak of a
very small acorn is, to say the least,
funny.
AUSTELL. & MANd-UM,
Grand Opening of New and beautiful Spring Goods
A MAMMOTH DRY GOODS ESTABLISHMENT
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gilks. Black Iron Frame Grenadines. Buntings. Best Stock of Dress Goods in Georgia
Silks. Black Seaside Grenadines. Buntings. Best Stock of Dress Goods in Georgia
Silks. Black Damasse Grenadines. Bantings. BeR Stock of Dress Goods in Georgia
Silks. Old Gold Stripe ' Grenadines. Buntings. Best Stock of Dress Goods in Georgia
BUY 0001)8. FANCY 0001)8. NOTIONS.
DKY 0001)8. FANCY 0001)8. NOTIONS.
HOSIERY, GLOVES, CORSETS. RIBBONS
HOSiERY GLOVES. CORSETS. RIBBONS
! TIES. RUGHINGS. LACES. VELVETS
TIES. RUGHINGS. LACES. VELVETS.
Umbrellas. Pans. Buttons.
Parasols. Umbrellas. Fans. Button,.
Parasols, Umbrellas. Pans. Buttons.
Parasols. UnYbi’ellas. Pans. Buttons.
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On to-morrow morning, at our new and mtguilicent salesrooms, 26 ami 2S Marietta
k treet, we will have our Spring Stock; ready inspection. Our stock is, beyond ques
tron, the largest and most elegant ever brought to aud embraces many now and
beautiful goods never before introduced into this market, in 0111 .
DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT
CAN BE FOUND MANY CHOICE NOVELTIES IN
Brocade and Satin Stripe Grenadines ; Check, Plain and Lattice Stripe Bunting’s ;
Colored und Pekin Silks, in ail the New and Fashionable Shades ; also, an
Elegant Stock of Black Gros Grain Silks, from 75c to $1 per yard :
SOO pieces of Ameri* an and Foreign Ureas Goods, from
6 1-2 cents to $2.50 per yard. Beautiful Summer
Silks, 50c.
MOURNING DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT
In these good : can bo found many desirable styles not usu illy kept in any other Dry
Goods store in this city, including Afghan Crepe Cloth, Black English Crepe Cloth, Biack
French Tammaise Cloth, Black Silk Warp, Henrietta Cloth, English Crepe Marecte, etc.
WHITE GOODS DEPARTMENT.
Iu this department can be found many new styles, Organdies, Linen Lawns, Littice
Stripe, Pique, Linen Cambrics, etc., just out this season.
HOSIERY vvivX> GLOVES.
In this department wo are selling many goods that barely cover the cost, of ■ importa
tion. Just think of it! Misses’French Kid Gloves, 15a; Ladies’German Kid Gloves, 25
cents; Ladies Genuine Alexander Kid Gloves, 50 cents, in ill the new shades.
500 dozen Ladies’real German full regular made Hose at 20 cents, worth 40 > edits
300 dozen Men’s real Balbriggan Silk clocked half hose at 25 cs us, woe aSO > 65: s
Also, a complete line of Ladies’ and Misses’ fine silk embroidered hose very low
zrsroTioisr dk p A-Rtmeustt.
Beautiful Silk Fringes, in all the new shades, 25 cents, worth titty cents tat auy other
places. French woven Coisets, in all sizes, 25 cents. Bast stock of ribbons in the State.
Our stock is not made up of goods which have been lying in auction houses for years,
but is composed of fresh, seasonable goods, direct irorn the m uaufacturers and importers,
and having bought this immense stock for Ousii, just at che time Wa.i . .. <j.<* very
cheap and when freights were down to the very lowest rate possible, being twenty cents
per hundred from New York to Atlanta. These and other advantages which we possess
enable us to sell our goods at such prices as will be entirely satisfactory to everybody.
Strangers visiting Atlanta should call and examine this immense stock of goods, where
they will meet with prompt and polite attention. Terms cash.
AUSTELL & MANGUM,
26 & 28 Marietta Street, cor. Broad, Atlanta, Ga.
apll-2m
BUGGIES AND WAGONS.
The undersigned, thankful for past patronage, desires to announce to his friends aud
the oublfc generally that he is now prepared, at his
MAxNUFACTORY,
Six miles west of Gainesville, to turn out any and all work in his line promptly, aud as
good as the best, and cheap as the cheapest. I also manufacture all kinds of wagon, buggy
and carriage harness. With
IMPROVE 1) FACILITIES AND MACHINERY,
And using none but the best materials, I warrant all my work, and guarantee satisfaction
in every instance. Repairing of all kinds promptly and neatly executed, at the iowes f
prices, and
NONE BUT THE BEST MATERIALS USED.
Vehicles of all kinds put up to order. Orders by mail will receive prompt attentiou.
aplß-6m JOHN D. BAGWELL, Gainesville, a.
FANCY FAMILY GROCERIES.
w. a. oH Ann on,
94 Whitehall Street, Atlanta, G-eorgia.
Wholesale and Retail dealer in
FANCY FAMILY €r ROC ERIES
Including everything usually found in first-class establishments. My goods are all
New and Fresh ,
Bought from first hands for cash, and are sold low down.
SQUARE DEALING, LOW PRICES
Orders from the country promptly and carefully filled. marJ4-3m
DRUG FTORE
A FULL LINE OF
DRUGS, MEDICINES,
AND
TOILET A R T I C L E N.
Physicians’ Proscriptions carefully Comp minded.
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SOLE AGENT FOR THE CELEBRATED
MERCK PATENT TRUSS-^
To whom all orders should be addressed. aplß-ly
TIIE SEASON 18 NOW OPEN
FOR
Steam Engines, Threshers, Fan Mills,
HORSE POWERS. GRAIN CRADLES, SCYTHES, Etc,,
At our Mammoth Seed Establishment. Send for circular or call on
MARK W. JOHNSON & Cos.,
27 Marietta street, Atlanta, Ga
Btate what paper you saw this advertisement in. apll-lnj
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receive liberal ..eduction,
Legal adver isements at established rates and
rules.
Bills due upon first appearance of advertisement
unless otherwise contracted for.
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