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The Gainesville Eagle
Published Every Fridav~ Morning
BY II EI)\Y 4N E & 11 A M
• Tho Official Organ of Hall, Banks, Towns,
■ Kabun, Union and Dawson counties, and the city
•f Gainesville. Has a large general circulation in
twelve other counties in Northeast Georgia, and
two counties in Western North Caroling
E DITORI A L EAGLETS.
Have we resumed ?
All this talk about “anti-fat’’ is
bosh. Any fat man or woman can
become a leaner. Find a wall and
fall against it at angle of forty-five
degrees.
Small-pox sufferers should be
cheerful because they are pitted.
This was a good joke when we bought
it but it was damaged in luggiDg in
it up stairs.
When a man feels funny it is an
easy matter to be funny, but this
thing of growing periodically funny
at the same time every week is a
powerful strain.
Impassioned political orator on
the hustings—“ Are we dogs to bay
the moon ?’’
Enthusiastic admirers —We are;
we are, we are 1
An Athens street man has patented
anew billy goat. The invention
consists in making him reversible so
he can jump the neighbors’ fences
going and coming.
A man named Carbine registered
at the Kimball House, Atlanta, last
week. Ed Callaway was in a tremor
all the time for fear he would go oil'
and sure enough he did.
“A Torpid Liver” is receiving many
flattering notices through the press.
We never saw a man who parted his
name in the middle that amounted
to much. Where does Mr. Liver live
anyhow ?
Do not worry yourself about how
other people do things. There were
smart people in the world before you
were born, and the sun will shine
just as bright as it does now when
you arr* dead.
It is intimated that the investiga
tion of Commissioner Le Due’s de
partment will bring a hornet’s nest
about the ears of Gen. P. M. B,
Young, a former congressman from
the seventh district.
There’s a little mountain bird
called a quitit. There must be some
about town for as we passed a vine
‘covered porch last night, we heard
something tear, and heard the bird’s
name called by a girlish voice.
• We endorse most heartily the ar
ticle of tip Barneaville V/ipef/e
the Press Association. 'For one we
do not care to be placed iu the atti
tude of a periodical deab beat going
around seeking whem we may de
vour.
A newly patented bell buoy will
soon bo placed in tbo Charleston
harbor. If it is any improvement on
the old fashioned bell boy who never
comes in less than a half hour after
you ring, the hotels should at once
adopt it.
At Auburn, N. Y., on Tuesday,
Colonel Sellers Raymond got into
a row in a hotel. He Hung two
Bpittoons at the landlord, but the
latter, evidently a clever ball player,
caught them both on the fly Then
Raymond got a cane and thrashed
him.
There is never a time from the
day a boy gets big enough to make
frog-houses by packing the damp
sand on his baro foot, to the hour
when the preliminary arrangements
are being made for his funeral, that
the desire to outshine his neighbor
does not form the biggest moter in
the machinery of his life.
The man who will take a newspa
per for years and then get mad and
order it stopped when he is dunned
for subscription without settling the
the balance due has a pleasant job in
waiting for him when he dies- He
will be employed in polishing the
points on old Kick's tail with a red
hot file, and every time he strikes the
quick two able-bodied imps will
pluuge him in a vat of boiling prin
ter’s ink.
A North Carolina man got tired
of life, and went out in the stable
and hung himself with a blind bri
dle. Just as he was about bringing
his last gasp, a neighbor opportune
ly passed, and seeing his peril
promptly cut him down.
“Ah,” said the would-be suicide,
“why didn’t you let me alone, in two
minutes I’d a been in heaven.’’
“Yes,” dryly remarked the other,
“You’d play thunder in heaven with
a blind bridle on.”
H. W. J. Ham, of the Gainesville
Eaole, returned from the Press Con
vention barely in time to accept the
Superintendance of the Baptist Sun
day school. Ham turns out to be a
missionary as well as a civilizer in
the mountains. —Augusta Ghron. &
Con. We have no aspirations in
either direction. Our people are as
civilized as any of the editors of the
Chron. & Con., and have fully as
much of that old solid sort of religion
that makes a man pay his honest
debts. We do not take much stock
in any other kind, either.
The Gainesville Eagle
VOL. XIII.
THE WAY OP TIIE WORLD.
There are beautiful songs that we never sing,
And names that are never spoken;
There are treasures guarded with jealous care,
And kept as a sacred token.
There are faded flowers, and letters dim
Willi tears that have rained above them,
Tor the tickle words and the faithless hearts
Th t taught us how to love them.
There are sighs that come in our joyous hours
To chasten our gleams of gladness;
And tears that spring to our aching eyes
In hours of thoughtless sadness.
For the blithest birds that si g in spring
Will flit the waning summer;
And lips that we kissed in fondest love
Will smile on the first new comer.
Over the breast whero lilies rest
In white hands stilled forever,
The roses of June will nod and bloom,
Unhoediug the hearts that sever;
And iips that quiver in silent grief,
All words of hope refusing,
Will lightly turn to the fleeting joys
That perish with the using.
Summer blossoms aud winter snows
Love and its sweet elysian ;
Hope, like a syren dim and fair,
Quickening our fainting vision;
Drooping spirit and fading pulse.
Where untold memories hover,
Eyelids touched with the seal of death—
Aud the fitful dream is over.
A Travel in a Desert.
After the fifth dtiy of my journey,
Ino longer travelled over shifting
hills, but came upon a dead level —a
dead level bed of sand, quite hard,
and studded with small shining peb
bles. The heat grew .fierce; there
was no valley nor hollow, no hill, no
mound, no shadow of hill nor of
mound, by which I could mark the
way I was making. Hour by hour I
advanced, and saw no change. I was
still in the very centre of a round
horison; hour by hour I advanced,
and still there was the same, and the
same, and the same —the same circle
of filming sky—the same circle of
sand still glaring with light and fire
Over all the heaven above —over all
the earth beneath, there was no visi
ble power that could balk the fierce
will of the sun; “he rejoiced as a
strong man to iun a race; his going
forth was from the end of the heaven
and his circuit unto the ends of it,
and there was nothing hid from the
heat thereof,” From pole to pole,
arid from the east to the west, he
brandished his fiery sceptre as though
he had usurped all heaven and earth.
As he bid the soft Persian in ancient
times, so now, and fiercely too, he
bid me bow down and worship him;
so now iu his pride he seemed to
command me and say: “Thou shalt
have none other Gods but me.” I
was all alone before him. There
were these two pitted together, and
face to face—the mighty suu for one
and for the other—this poor, pale,
solitary self of mine, that I always
carry about with me. But on the
7th day, and before L had yet turned
away from Jehovah for the glittering
god of the Persians, there appeared
a dark line upon the edge of the for
ward horison, aud soi>u the line
deepened into a delicate fringe that
sparkled here and there, as though
it were sown with diamonds. There
then, before me were the gardens
and the minarets of Egypt, aud the
mighty works of thu Nile tnd JCfie
era 1 : wn: ~ .TsrttrP WTFfr—z
to see, and I saw them.
When evening came I was still
within tho confines of the desert,
and my tent was pitched as usual,
but one of my Arabs stalked away
rapidly towards the west without
telling me of the erraud on which he
was bent. After awhile he returned
he had toiled on a grateful service;
he had traveled all the way on to the
bolder of tho living world, and
brought me back for token an ear of
rice, full fresh and green.
The next day I entered upon
Egypt, and lloated along (for the de
light was as the delight of bathing)
through green, wavy fields of rice,
and pastures fresh and plentiful, and
dived into the cold verdure of groves
aid gardens, and quenched my hot
eyes in shade, as though in deep
rushing waters,
lintiiing.
Cleanliness is surely next to God
liness. Ido not think an individual
can bo physically unclean and moral
ly pure. One of the greatest causes
of skin diseases is the lack of the use
of water. There is all times and un
der all circumstances a shedding of
the epithelium of the skin. It comes
off in scales, which if not removed,
will close the pores of the skin and
prevent free respiration that is con
stantly taking place. One of natures
modes of disposing of her surplus
heat and waste matter is by sending
them out through the pores of the
skin. In fact so essential is this to
the physical economy that if the body
be covered with a coat of varnish for
even a short time dctith will occur.
From this you will observe how im
portant it is for us to keep every
pore open. To do this wo must
bathe i will not stop to speak of
the benefits to be derived from the
employment of Turkish or other
baths, but bathe regularly and often.
Every man, woman and child should
batho t wice a week at least, and of
teuer when the employment is such
as to render it necessary. Now it
may seem strange but most people
don’t bathe once a month on an aver
age, and one half of those who do, do
it in such a way that no good comes
from it. While sponging one’s self
off is better than not bathing at all
yet it is not as beneficial as it should
be. It is not necessary that you have
a bath room, with oil the modern
conveniences. Ail you need is a
warm room and a few gallons of wa
ter, some soap and a sponge. It re
quires no skill to use them. Use the
bath if you would preserve your
health. I remember of hearing a
doctor tell a patient to take a warm
bath. The patient afterward said:
‘Thats the first water that has
touched my back iu sixteen years.”
I'lio man that will not wash himself
oftener than that is a brute.
Physically we are a nation of inva
lids. We can never be aught else
as loug as we antagonize all the laws
of hygiene by our daily lives. The
neglect of cleanliness i9 ono of the
most flagrant causes of disease.
Then keep your body clean, and my
word for it you will instinctively
loathe and abhor all that is vile and
filthy. A physically impure man or
woman is an object of aversion to
everybody. Regard cleanliness as a
1 cardinal virtue.
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING. MAY 30, 1879.
Do the Dying Suffer Pain.
People do not like to think of death
It is an unpleasant subject; but it
constantly obtrudes itself, and there
has been much speculation as to
whether mental or physical pain at
tends the final act. Observation
teaches us that there is little pain of
either kind in dying. Experience
will come to us all one of these days,
but it will come too late to benefit
those who remain. It 6eetns to be a
kind provision of nature that, as we
approach the dread event, our terrors
diminish, aud the coward and the
hero die alike—fearless, indifferent
or resigned. As to physical pain Dr
Edwaid H. Clark, in “Visions,” says:
“The rule is that unconsciousness,
not pain, at* ends the final act. To
the subject of it death is no more
painful than birth. Painlessly wo
come; whence we know not. Pain-
lessly go; whither we know not.
Nature kindly provides an anaesthet
ic for the body when the spirit leaves
it. Previous to that moment, and ia
preparation for it, respiration be
comes feeble, generally slow and
short, sudden expirations, so that
the blood is steadily less and less
oxygenated. At the same time the
heart acts with corresponding debil
ity, producing a slow, feeble and of
ten irregular pulse. As this process
goes on, the blood is not only driven
to the head with diminished force
and iu less and less quantity, but
what Hows there is loaded more and
more with carbonic acid gas, a pow
erful aiiSeAhetic, the same as that
derived from charcoal. * Subject to
its influence the nerve centers lose
consciousness and sensibility, appar
ent sleep creeps over the sytam; then
comes stupor, then the end.”
Sympathy vs. Justice.
Recently a suit was tried before an
Indiana justice of the peace wherein
a lady was plaintiff, and a bank de
fendant The evidence showed con
clusively that the fair plaintiff had
no right to recover; of this no one
could have the shadow of a doubt.
Her learned counsel kuew well that
unless he could get the sympathy of
the judge, his client would have a
lost cause. He therefore’ labored
hard in applying the sympathetic
process. He gushed with eloquence
of great warmth in referring to his
client’s rights, until finally gre it tears
came trickling down his cheeks, at
the sight of which the justice (who
was a very tender-hearted individual)
was also moved to tears. This satis
fied the attorney that th.- sympathy
of the court was in beha f ->f the lady
and he closed the argum at by say
ing: “It does my heart good lobe
lieve that this- honorable court, in
the exercise of sound discretion,
will not allow- the rights of a pure
and noble lady to be trampled be
neath the cloven faahaii u soulless
,) A. ■'
confident that he would get a judg
ment ever poor Miss Flite was.
Thereupon the squire rendered the
following comprehensive and satis
factory decision: “The plaintiff in
this case is a woman, and her coun
sel has for the last hour touched the
the sympathy of the court in her be
half, and I am glad of it; but I think,
under the law, that the justice is on
the side of the bank. I therefore
find in favor of the bank, and let the
record show that Mrs. . has the
full sympathy of the court.”
Words and Acts.
Au honest man may fairly scoff at
all philosophers and religions which
are proud, ambitious, intemperate,
and contradictory. It is the business
of the philosophical to seok truth; it
is the office of tho religious to wor
ship her. The falsehood that the
tongue commits is slight in compari
son with what is conceived by the
heart and executed by the whole
man. If, professing love and charity
to the human race at large, I quarrel
day after day with my next neighbor;
if professing that the rich can never
see God, I spend in the luxuries or
my household a talent monthly; if,
professing to place so much confi
dence in his word, that, in regard to
wordly weal, I need take no care for
to morrow, I accumulate stores even
beyond what would be necessary, as
though I quite distrusted both his
providence and his veracity; if, pro
fessing that, “He who giveth to the
lendeth to tho Lord,” I ques
tion the Lord’s security, and haggle
with him about the amount of the
loan; if, professing that I am their
steward, I keep ninety-nine parts in
tho hundred as the emolument of my
stewardship—how, when God hates
liars and punishes defrauders, shall I
and other such thieves and hypocrites
fare hereafter ?
At a college, in the President's,
rooms.
“Well, Mr. President, are you
pleased with the progress my son is
making ?” *
“Alas ! alas !” repiled the president
“I am grieved to tell you that he is
not making any progress at all. It
is too bad.” *
The father, radiant and joyful, as
if he had fouud the solution of th
problem—
“ Well, there must always be some
body at the bottom of the class Mr.
President.
Anybody who has assisted at a
battle knows how joyous tho survi
vors are after the danger is all over,
how unconscionably good-natured
they all are, and how glibly every
tongue will wag. Now we have no
ticed a very like condition of things
among the survivors—we beg pardon
hearers—at the conclusion of a long
sermon. Readers of a phychological
turn may be able to trace a connec
tion between the two situations,—
Boston Transcript.
The following testimonial of a cer
tain patent medicine speaks’ for itself:
“Dear sir: Two months ago my
wife could scarcely speak. She has
taken two bottles of your “Life lle
newer” and now she can’t speak at
I all. Please sen Ime two more bot
tles. I wouldn’t be without it.”
SMALL BITS
Of Vi' ious Hinds Carelessly Tc.
{-ether.
The core of Christianity is kind
ness
Criminals should come tohalt
or halter. "***
Drains on the public need
retrenching.
Living on excitement is very ex
pensive living. ’“*•
The stamp of civilization —Toe
postage stamp.
Self-sacrifice is theonly
can plant or build.
It is enough for one thing at a
time to happen, especially twins,
Many opinions go for nothing—it
costs nothing to “ex-press the^a.’
To the soul that cannot live, [(lo
om, Christ, Christ comes wititibom
fort.
A Colorado Law and Order league
lynched a horse thief, in spite of its
name.
Love is the king power of ttrthfonl,
the only principle in man winch is
eternal.
Thomasville is making an effort to
secure a free college similar to the
one at Dahlonega.
It is better to be alono in,, the
world than to bring up a boy tirplay
on the accordeon.
A girl baby in Moore county,
Teno., has a double tongue; lyli§f we
don’t know that that’s news.
Men who travel barefooted around
a newly carpeted bedroom ofterfftud
themselves on the wrong tack.
There is nothing more hazardous
than to be bothering an irritable wo
mau with foolish questions on i^asu
day.
in t happiness of the tender heart
is increased by what it can take
away from the wretchedness of
others.
The Santa Cruz Sentinel compares
that town to “the dimple on body’s
cheek,”. More cheek than dimple,
probably.
Fifteen communists who liarßej
cuped from New Calidonia iu an
open boat have reached Queensland,
Australia.
The foremen of the Cincinnati
breweries get about SIO,OOO pe- an
uum, which is more than a ci-euit
j i.ige gets.
it >"d Baaconsfield and the Duke
■R N u-thumberland are the only
members of the English cabinet
much past middle life.
In the dark we are most apt to be
frightened; the clearer sight we br.ve
the sovereignty and power of Hv-is
,v ’ • the ins* v. . JyQj
lties of this e&rtttT v
The Missouri Legislature is con-
proposal to punish voters
who stay away from the polls three
elections in succession with forfeiture
of their right to hold any office in
the State.
Major Little and his wife quarreled
while out riding at Easton, Me., the
other day, and in the excitement
Mrs. Little let her baby roll off her
lap to be killed under the wheels of
the wagon.
It is when our budding hopes are
u pped beyond recovery by some
rough wihd that we are the most dis
posed to picture to ourselves what
flowers they might have borne if they
had flourished.
A dear old friend of mine used to
say, with the truest Christian charity
when he heard any one being con
demned for some fault: “Ah, well,
yes, it seems, very bad to me,because
that is not my way of sinning.”
Times of greatest calamity and
confusion have ever been productive
of great minds. The purest ore is
produced from the hottest furnace,
and tho brightest thunderbolt is elic
ited from the darkest storm.
Wo can easily manage if we will
only take each day the burden ap
pointed for it. But the load will be
too heavy for us if we add to its
weight the burden of to-morrow be
fore we are called to bear it.
God loves things because they are
lovely more than we can imagine;
but he has the alternative quality of
loving things that are not lovely.
Inconceivable is the strength of that
faculty and the development of it in
tho divine nature,
A crazy woman, wrapped in the
American flag, created a lively ex
citement in a Bridgeport Metho<fi*fc
meeting, the other evening, by
ing up to the pulpit and crying out,
“I want to tell you the Holy One
will soon appear. The Master will
soon be here. His name is Bar-ar-
Barnum.”
Trouble must have great possibil
ities of blessing in it, or it would not
be so common iu God’s world. Sure
3we need not dread it so, when it
brings in one hand the peaceable
fruits of righteousness, and in the
other the joys of consolation for so
many sorrowing souls.
We are to bless them that curse us,
do good to them that hate us, and
pray for them that despitefully use
us, We are to return good for evil,
that we may be perfect in the same
way in which God is perfect, who
mades the sun to shine on the evil
and the good, and sends rain on the
just and on the unjust, alike.
ho breathes upon the icy rivers
and they dissolve? Who raises to life
the sleeping vegetation and clothes
all nature in anew dress ? Look up
to the bended heavens above you;
see that exhaustless fountain of light
and heat as luminous, as abundant
in its supply as when first it came
from the plastic hand of God. The
same moon, and the same myriad of
stars, bestud the firmament, as those
that decked the evening of the first
hallowed Sabbath.
A Word to the Inquisitive.
There were some mad men in a
certain Kentucky postoffice ft few
days ago A postal card was drop
! pel into the letter-box addressed to
[“Rev. John Penobscot, ,
llt was an ordinary card, and the
Postmaster wa3 an ordinary Post
master. He took it up, glanced at
the address, turned it leisurely over
and read: “ , , May 2,1879
—“You, to whom this card is not
addretstd, and who, nevertheless,
have the cheek to read it, are a con
temptible, unprincipled sneak and a
prying pusilanimous coward. George
F. Dugan.” The Postmaster laid the
card tj-nily down and lounged
to tile o.her eud cf the house, softly
whistling *'‘Nancy Lee.” Iu due
time the clerk came upon the card,
persued it threw his hat upon the
floor, stamped it, and made the
nieghborhuod lidequs with the liowls
of his pet dog, which Le kicked in the
ribs. How the card fared with the
various route ag-ols through whom
it passed it is impossible to say; nor
do we know whether it was read by
the woman who is Postmistress at
the office where the Rev. John Pe
nobscot is supposed to get his mail;
but the report is that on the day i:
reached there she smashed a bottle
of ink ui her husband’s head, spank
ed the children all round, and chew
ed up ninety-five cents worth of wax
We cannot bo too careful never to
write on postal cards anything in the
leant calculated to wound the sensi
tive delicacy of the postoffice people’s
feelings. --Louisville Courier Journal.
Grandeur uflhc Universe.
Though the earth were to bo
bunted; wi’h though the trumpet of its
dissolution were sounded, though
yon sky weft* to pass away as a scroll
and every visible glory which the fin
ger of t e Divinity has inscribed on
it, were extinguished forever—an
event so awful to us and to every
world iii our vicinity, by which so
many suns would bo 1 extinguished,
aud so many varied scenes of life and
population would rush into forget
fulness—what is it in the high scale
of the Almighty’s workmanship ? A
mere shred, which though scattered
into nothing, would leave the Uni
verse of God one entire scene of
greatness and of m ijesty. Though
the earth and Hie heavens were to
disappear, there are other worlds
which roll afar; the light of other
Jims shines upon them; and the sky
which mantles them is garnished
with other stars. Is it presumption
to say that i lie moral world extends
to these distant and unknown region
that they are occupied with people ?
that the charities of home aud of
neighborhood flourish there ? that
the praises of God are there lifted up
and his goodness rejoiced iu ? that
there piety has its temples and its
ff&erlags ? .ip-I iijlmipfi a ~*j
mired Dy intelligent worshippers.
A young man of a distinguished
family was disinherited on account
of his bad conduct. The President
of a civil court was taking testimony
in the matter, and asked a game
keeper, an old soldier, what kind of
language the marchioness used to the
scrapegrace, her sou, iu his pres
ence.
“Oh, nothing out of the way,
Judge, I assure you on my sacred
honor. She merely said, ‘Oh you in
fernal ass; you soldier of misery and
conscript of woe; your face is that of
a murderer.’ Those were the only
somewhat disparaging remarks I
heard pass on the part of his
mother.”
Young Fernand has a very hand
somely furnished house containing a
wonderful collection of arms, old pic
tures, etc. Ho recently called upon
one of his friends and said:—
“I am very unhappy. I cannot
survive these troubles. I think too
much of that woman. I shall kill
myself. You will innerit all I pos
sess.”
Yesterday Fernand was seen smok
ing a cigar in a dreamy manner by
bis legatee, and who timidly but re
proachfully asked, him:—
“Well, are you not th nking any
more about that woman ?”
A gentleman was passing along
the Boulevard, whereupon two gen
tlemen walking together spoke as
follows, one to the other:—
“Why did you not return his bow;
that would have been but common
politeness ?”
“He has a bad reputation,” replied
the friend who was thus hauled over
the coals for-not having bowed.
“You are wrong. He is a respec
table fellow, and what is more, he
has a cousin, about whom nobody yet
has been able to eay au evil word,”
retorted his friend.
A lawyer was making a brilliant
harrangue in court in behalf of his
client, a street arab, depicting his
sorrows and misfortunes, but .main
taining that he had good qualities
still left in him.
The subject of these compliments
was beginning to move about restless
ly, as if he were going io make a
dash of some kind.
“Don’t let go of aim,” said the law
yer quickly to the policemen who
were in charge of th : lad, “or you
will spoil my case !”
“Joseph you have been sampling
my rum again, and you have put
water into it.’’
“Excuse me Count, but I swear
that I did Dot drink any more of it.”
The Count (shrugging his shoul
ders) —“There you are again Joseph
—always exaggerating. I do not
say that you may not take a little
rum if you feel you really need it,
but this Ido say, that it is not fir
that you should drink pure rum and
I, your master, rum and water.’
A Frenchman having heard the
phrase “I’ve got other iish to fry,”
very readily learned its application.
One evening, after escorting ajoung
lady home and being invited to walk
lin, he excused himself by saying,
“I thank you—l must go cook some
other fish.”
CURRENT OPINION.
Will Congress Help Us I
Memphis Appeal.
We want free quinine. Will congress
give it to us ? It is as neccessary as
national quarantine
Sow Is Tile Time.
Washington Past.
Mr. Hayes should work off his entiro
stock of vetoes, even on a glutted ma
ket. There is no earthly chunce for a
rise. *
mu
Zueli’s nation.
AtlanH Constitution.
Z. Chandler’s nation is indignation.
They say that Zachary can get madder
on two snifters than any statesman in
the business.
W u>- Doesn’t lie !
Koine Courier.
Why does: : Dr. Felton call on Ferry
and other “prominent republicans” for
“assistance” in passing the army bill
over Mr. Hayes’ veto ?
One result of it.
lrwiniou Southerner.
The Georgia “devils” held fnfff.sway
lasi, week, and now that the editci i.-ve
all returned from the press association
meeting the devil’s to pay “all around
the circle.”
Too tlncli SUoulil not he Expected-
Burlington Hawkeye.
After all, the Hon. Roy. Mr. Do La
Matyr knows about as muck as any man
who spells his name by platoons can bo
expected to know. It isn’t very much
but it is enough for that kind of a man,
The Next Best Tiling.
New York Star.
The Tribune, which has been butting
at. Bon Hill’s speech ever since it was de
livered, retires with a sore head, and
concludes that the next best thing to try
is a personal defamation of the doughty
Georgian.
Tile solitl South*
Indianapolis News, rep.
The “solid south” will send 206 dele
gates to the next republican national
convention, which is very refreshing.
But it is mournful to think it cau’t send
a singla republican delegate to the elec
toral college.
Hive us :i rest.
Sparta, Islimaolite.
We prefer that Speer would not exert
himself too much in saving the Demo
cratic party at this session. Consider
ing the number of saviors this party has
survived already, wo think it is entitled
to a short rest.
Ilow can He.
Augusta Chronicle
Grant rides an Arabian horse, and
Zaeli Chandler rides an ass.— Exchange.
How a man —even though he be a Sena
tor—can saddle, bridle, mount and ride
himself, ia one of those things no fellow
can find out.
While lliaiiufiras Speaking.
Baltimore Gazette.
Whille Mr. Blaine was fuming and de
nouncing the southern system of educa
tion in the senate last Monday, a lot of
talented and cultivated schoolboys at
Somerville, Massachusetts, were stoning
a little girl to death.
* JVciJt J.I
> IV* Y. otic.
We are not solid against the North,
said Senator Hill; we are only solid
against the Eepublicaiu party. That is
a distinction with a big difference. The
North and the Republican party are not
by any means identical.
A Plethora of Opportunities.
Sparta Iphmaelite.
Mr, Hayes has vetoed the army bill
again, and now Hon. Emory Speer, as
sisted by Mr. Stephens and Dr Felton,
will have another chance to save the
country from “revolution.” How op
portunities do crowd upon some men !
Clause tor hovers,
ttsburg Telegraph, rep.
Th 0 substance of a three-column de
ci - hlu, i a the Virginia miscegenation
c- Judge Hughes is that the cou
er lion will protect a mania politics,
when in love he must look out for
himself. Unfortunately that is when he
most needs a guardian.
Tlic People Did Not.
Washington Post.
The Boston Post inadvertently remarks
that “Grant elected Hajes.” The gener
al impression has been that Mr. Justice
Bradley performed the task which the
Post charges against Grant. But it
dosen’t make much difference so long as
nobody pretends that the people elected
him.
What Congress should remember.
Atlanta Contitution.
Congress should not fail to remember
that the constitution makes no provision
for the maintenance of an army. The
army is the creation and the creature of
congress, to be provided for or not in
the discretion of that body, and even
then for a period not longer than two
years.
Plenty of Vetoes.
Denver Tribune, rep.
The president has anew and fresh line
of spring vetoes in stock, and the dem
ocratic caucus should call and examine
the display before going elsewhere. If
it doesn’t see what it wants in the win
dow it has only to experiment with an
other bill to find that all shades and
grades can be matched.
The Press Convention.
Barnesville Gazette.
There are some members of the Asso
eiation who say there is no business
for the Convention to attend to. Then
the Convention is a farce and should be
abolished. There are vital questions,
which might be considered. Neither
the communities which entertain the
Conventions, nor the press, nor the pub
lic generally are benefited, by these
conventions, if their ouly mission is to
receive free rides on the railroads, and
dead head the ho els and generous fam
ilies of. he towns in which they art
held.
One of Jobu Brown’sJlen.
Rochester Union,
An aged man, with a strange, event
ful history, was this morning discharged
from the Monroe County jail, in which
lie had been confined two mon hs on a
charge preferred by his sister of embez
zling' money owned by her. His name
is Thomas H. Taylor, and he is about G 5
years old. In his youth he studied law
'iu this city with Judge Hastings, and
was regarded as a man of uncommon
ability as a lawyer, speaker, and essay
ist. He was one of John Brown’s fol
lowers when ii| v latter made his memo
rable rahhq ""arper’s Ferry. Tay-
I lor is said to ,jtt ol.e survivor of old
“ Ossa watto m i-Li Fmpanions. Du
ring the war he Federal army,
and was twice < ® ' 1 Vmer. passing
some of his time ini Vrisou. Of
late years his mind is have be
come impaired, and the action which
resulted in his being arrested is attrib
uted to that fact. He now makes Mace
dou his home.
AUSTELL & MANCrUM.
Grand Opening of New and beautiful Spring Goods
s
A MAMMOTH DRY HOODS ESTABLISHMENT
Silks. Black Iron Prama Grenadines. Buntings. Bast Stock of Dress Goods iti Georgia
Silks. Black Seaside Grenadines. Buntings. Best Stock of Dross Goods in Georgia
Silks. Black Damasse Grenadines. Buntings. Best Stock of Dress Goods in Georgia
Silks. Old Gold Stripe Grenadines. Buntings. Best Stock of Dress Goods in Georgia
Ary roods, fancy roods, notions.
DRY ROODS. FANCY ROODS. NOTIONS.
<s
X9S&RY, GLOVES, CORSETS. RISES ON
HOSiERY GLOVES. CORSETS. RIB B SON
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TIES. RUOHINGB. LACES. VELVETS.
TIES. RUSHINGS. . LACES. VELVETS.
Parasols. Umbrellas. Pans. Huttons.
Parasols. Umbrellas. Pans. Huttons.
Parasols. Umbrellas. Pans. 1 SutLoiis.
Parasols. Umbrellas. Pans. HnttOns.
On to-morrow morning, at our new and nuguiiiaent salesrooms, till ami 2S MurioUii
Street, we will have our Spring Stock ready 'or inspection. Our stock is, beyond ques
tion, the largest and most elegant over brought to Atlanta, and embraces tnuiy new an 1
beautiful goods never before introduced into this mirkot. In our
DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT
CAN BE FOUND MANY CHOICE NOVELTIES IN
Brociilc ami Satin Stripe Grenadines ; Check, Plain and Lattic 1 Stripe Buntings ;
Colored and Pekin Silks, in all the New ami Fashionable Shades ; also, an
Elegant Stock or Black Bros Grain Silks, from 75c to $ 1 per yard :
s(M) pieces of Anicri a i and Foreign Dress Goods, from
(> 1-2 cents to $2.50 per yard. Beautiful Summer
silks, 50c.
MOURNING DKKSS GOODS DEI*ARTMENT
In those good; can hr found many desirable styles not nsuilly k ■;>. in any other Dry
Goods store in this city, including Afghan Crepe Cloth, Black English Grope Cloth, Black
French Tammaiso Cloth, Black Silk Warp, Henrietta Cloth, Eugiish Crepo Maretto, etc.
WHITE GOODS DEPARTMENT.
Iu this department can be found many new styles, Organdies, Linen Lawns, Litlioo
Stripe, Pique, Linen Cambrics, etc., just out this season.
HOSIERY AND GLOVES.
.Jin this department wo are selling many goods that barely cover the cost of importa
tiotdP’fTnsl think of it! Misses’ French Kid Gloves, 15c; Ladies’German Kid Gloves, 25
cents; Ladies Genuine Alexander Kid Gloves, 50 cants, in all the new shades.
500 dozen Ladies’ real Germ an full regular made Hose at 20 cants, worth Mf to s.)its.
300 dozen Men’s real Balbriggau Silk docket half hoo at 25 cants, worth 50 to 65 its.
A'so, a complete line of Ladies’ and Misses’ tins silk amoriidire-1 h >se very low.
ISTOTIOTn DEPARTMENT.
Beautiful .Silk Fringes, io n'.l the now shades, 25 cents, worth fifty cents at any oilier
places. French woven OoisoLs, in all sizes, 25 cents. Best stock of ribbons in the State.
Our ;|tock is not mule up of goods which hd-- been ' lug in auction h ye ars,
but is composed of fresh, *oas.,liable goods, uiteAi. trom the in luufaclurerft and importers,
and having bought this iinmaase stock for cash, just as the tim9 when goods were very
cheap and when freights were do.v i to the very lowest rate possible, bnug twauty cents
per hundred from New York to Atlanta. These au l 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 meee with prompt and polite attention. Terms cash.
AUSTELL & MANGUM,
& 28 Marietta Street, cm*. Broad, Atlanta, Ga.
apll-2ta
WAGONS AND BUGGIES.
The undersigned, thankful for pist patronage, desires to announce to Ins friends and
the nubile generally that lie is now prepared, at his
WAGrO > MA rv UFACTO UY,
Six miles west ut Gainesville, to tutu out: 11 ly and all work iu his line promptly, and as
good as the best, and cheap as the cheapest. I also supply wagon, buggv and carriage
harness. With
IMPROVED FACILITIES AND MACHINERY,
And using none but the best materials, T warrant all my work, and guarantee s itisfastion
in every instance. Repairing of all kinds promptly and neatly executed, at the lowest
prices, and
NONE BUT THE BEST MATERIALS USED.
Vehicles of all kinds put up to order. Orders by mail will receive prompt attention.
ai.lß-Gm JOHN J>. BAGWELL, Gainesville, Ga.
FANCY FAMILY GROCERIES.
W. A. SHANNON,
94 Whitehall Street, Atlanta, Georgia.
Wholesale and Retail dealer in
FANCYFAMILYGROCERIES
Including everything usually found in iirst-class establishments. My goods are all
Now and Fresh,
Bought from first hands for cash, and are sold low down.
SQUARE DEALING, LOW PRICES
Orders from the country promptly and c irefully filled. marl t-3m
BRADLEYS DRUG STORE
A FULL LINE OF
DRUGS, MEDICINES
TOX I . JES T .V 11 T 1 oXL J±2 JS.
Physicians’ Pr scriptioits carefully Compounded.
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SOLE AGENT FOR THE CELEBRATED
HVEE3FLOTS- IE 3 -AJ.L' TH IST T TB.USS
To whom all orders should be addressed. aplß-ly
NATIONAL HOTEL,
ATLANTA, GA.
Mates, $2 per Bay;
S\* ECUL WAT ES
For louder' Time
The NATIONAL, being renovated and
refurnished, offers superior inducements to
the traveling public. E. T. WHITE,
i mar 7 Agent, Proprietor.
RATES OF ADVERTISING
Transient advertisements will be inserted a
SI.OO per square for first, and 50 cents for subse
quent insertions. Large space and long time will
receive liberal deduction,
Legal advertisements at established rates and
rules.
Bills due upon first appearance of advertisement
unless otherwise contracted for.
NO. 21
W. S. Williams & Cos.
Commission Merchants
KEEP constantly on hand a good assort
ment of mixed merchandise, suited to the
wants of the country. Buy and sell coun
try produce of all kinds.
Orders and Consignments Solicited.
Next door to Boone & Rudolph, east aide
public square, Gainesville, Ga.