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The Gainesville Eagle
Published Every Fiidav Morning
B Y gKI) WIN E ic II A M
* h ° Organ ol ; Hall, Banlia, Towns,
f <l°’ Uuion an<l Oawaon counties, anil the city
or Gainesville. Has a large general circulation in
twelve other counties in Northeast Georgia, an i
two counties in Western North Carolina.
Hark to the blithe buzz ot' the busy
bumble bee !
Deuteronomy as you'd have ono
my deuter you.
Figure this out. Is a man un-14-8
when his affairs are at (I’s and 7V?
Fashionable women are not rioted
for beauty. Each one has a pan-ear.
Paradoxical though it may seem,
it isn’t policy for a man to play poli
cy.
When a man stares intently at a
good-looking female, there is a wo
man in the gaze.
“There is no place like home’
when your mother-in-law is-around.
Other places are cooler.
Female seminaries do not flourish
in Utah. The principals not unf're
quently elope with the whole school.
A fifty dollar seal skin sack looks
powerful lonesome when tho mer
cury swings corners in the nineties.
Can a man whose chair breaks
down with him while asking a bless
ing at table bo said to have fallen
from grace ?
A poet in the Hackensack Republi
can opens up anew field for llora
culturists. He talks about his girl’s
budded lips—tulips, of course.
If resurrectionists should tamper
with Brigham Young’s remains, and
oach widow should offer a reward,
what a bonanza they would strike.
We are fo .and of vocal music
Or instrument played upon,
Except the vile hand organ,
And the wild accnideon.
—Marathon Independent.
By the sweet aroma that exhales
‘from handkerchiefs during Sabbath
morning services, one is reminded
that there are many muskular Chris
tians Whitehall Times.
A-Greeu street man has what lie
calls a beau catcher. It is made of
hide and brindlo hair, and has good
teeth above and below. None of hig
girls have eyer eloped.
A boy can hear a small bell half a
mile when there is custard pie for
dinner, but when it rings for school
V cannot hear it across a board
fence twenty feet away.
.is V w r wva iust the
same,” he said to her, languidly:
“and yet I always fiad some new
beauty in it.’’ Ho goes to prayer
meeting every moonlight night with a
different gici.
An exchange says Nu-hemiah was
the shortest mm mentioned in the.
Bible. A contemporary says tho
other is not up in his readings, and
quotes Shu-hites. Til ay are both
wrong. To-i is not to be sneezed at.
Tho people of Ceylon bake and
eat bees. If wo were going to in
dulge in this kind of provender we
should want to know that the baker
understood his business, for if a bee
should revive after he had been swai.
lowed 1
A boy was asked by his father to
read some poetry. The boy com
menced to read: “Abou Ben Adhem
—” “There, that’ll do !” yelled the
father. “We don’t want any poetry
in this house about a fellow who had
jim jams.”
lie was calling upon his girl, and
a happy thought struck him. Just
hs she was entering the room, ho
dashed his head against the door.
“Why, Harry, what did you do that
for?’ He idiotically exclaimed: “1
can but a door !” She, sarcastically:
“Yes; I see you can.”
One day last week a North Hill
man made a wager that he could eat
thirty eggs in thirty minutes. He
lost the money. The first egg did
the business for him. It was no
young, giddy, inexperienced egg . It
was a venerable old sage, and it did
it with its little hatek’t. —llawkeye
Lovo of home is the strongest sen
timent that God has implanted in
the human heart. For instance:—
The German loves his lager,
For it makes him think of foam;
The honey bee flies to his hive,
[Singing:]
“There is no place like comb.”
A writer in the British Medical
Journal says that it is well known
that the habit of kissing pets of any
kinds, including terriers, puppy dog-s
and kittens, is apt to cause sore lips.
“Such mistaken sympathy is exceed
ingly daugerous, and kissing these
animals often leads to a sore throat.”
Girls, beware of kissing puppies; you
may giv9 them a sore throat.
Some men are such constitutional
jokers that they will make a pun at
the most critical or painful periods
in their lives, A certain young lawyer
furnishes an illustration in point. A
few days ago he accidentally fell into
a cistern on the public square. He
was fished out by the neighbors,
not much hurt. Spluttering and
gasping, bo smiled and said: “Never
mind, friends; it was only a drop in
the backet l’’
The Gainesville Eagle
vol. X- n.
SARAH’S YOUNG MEN.
Sarah Blake was neither vary
young nor very beautiful, but her
father owned the best and biggest
farm in Horley, and being an only
child she was accounted au eligible
match in thrifty circles.
Dick Sanders and Ted Brant were
rival suitors for her hand. She had
but to say the word which of them
she’d have; but it was just that that
made her hesitate —there was so lit
tle choice between them.
Such delays are always dangerous.
While Sarah wavered, uncertain
which to hold and which to let go,
both at once her captives slipped the
leash
They might have pleaded that
they had done no worse than others.
For, when Jenny Alien’s father came
with Lis beautiful daughter to dwell
in Horley, there was a general flock
ing of trie •toraivd' the Shj*lßC cf
the new idol, and Ted and Dick only
followed the n st
But Sarah Blako was not a woman
to view a lover’s defection lightly.
Nor did it weaken her resentment to
divide it between two. She had
quite enough for both; and it being
uncert .in which of them she would
have chosen, in meting out her au
ger, she gave each the disadvantage
of the doubt,
Jenny Allen was civil and polite
to all without showing preference to
any. Dick Sanders aud Ted Brant
were foremost among her admirers.
Indeed, the others stood a
good deal in awe of them and hung
back, for they were a pair of churl
ish, brawny chaps, little inclined to
brook competition and whose ill-will
few cared to court. Between them
selves the question of which should
yield was fast reaching a point where
its settlement by “wager of battle”
seemed inevitable, when things took
a turn which put anew face on af
fairs.
Will Harvey came from town to
spend his Summer vacation at an
aunt’s in Horley.
One day while sauntering rod in
hand, along the charming little river
that wound through the valley, Will
unexpectedly came on something
that drove fishing completely out of
his head.
On a bank, shaded by ower
iiangiag boughs, sat a young girl
deep in the pages of a book. Her
profile, which was towards him, pre
sented a contour so - perfect that it
would have defied the sculptor’s art
to reproduce it. The shower of
glossy ringlets which fell upon the
m denies? neck and shoulders stole a
new tinge from every shifting glim •
rner of light sifted through the un
dulating leaves. Her choek would
pals and flush and her eyes flash and
melt by turns with the varied emo
called up. by what she read.
Win jtrarvei
mained a silent spectator of a sight
so lovely, but he felt he had no right
to do so.
Advancing in a manner to attract
the girl’s attention he raised his hat
and asked some commonplace ques
tions about certain localities iu the
neighborhood. These answered, in
a voice no rich and musical mat
every tone made his heart flutter, he
found more thiugs to ask about, till
by degrees a conversation sprung up
which lasted till the young lady,
suddenly remembering how long it
had continued, with a blush caugh
up her gypsy hat, bade him a pleas
ant good day and tripped away
lightly.
Thus began tho acquaintance of
Will Harvey and Jenny Allen. But
it was not likely to end thero. For
if Will Harvey’s first stolen glimpse
of Jenny settled her title, in his eyes,
to be called the loveliest creature in
the world, it is quite as certain that
her first impressions of the hand
some stranger wore hardly less
exalted. „
A formal introduction followed,
and in a little time Will and Jenny
were so constantly together that
the rural gossips began to talk ol
their engagement as a thing quite
settled.
This was wormwood to Dick Sau
ders and Ted Brant. They began to
look askance at Will Harvey, and
were only restrained from picking an
open quarrel with him by reflecting
that he was a trim-built, wiry fel
low who mighn’t be so easily, han
dled, to say nothing of the plucky
look there was in his keen, daik
eyes.
One day Dick, at a turn of the
lane down which he was strolling,
sulking as usual over his bad fortune,
was met by S irah Blake.
He felt awkward and confused,
Sarah had a valorous tongue and he
had no ground to expect merev. To
his surprise, however, she met his
clumsy greeting graciously, for tho
time disposed, apparently, to forget
past grievances.
“I’ve news,” she said; “news you’d
give a deal to know.”
“What is it, Sally?'’ he asked
coaxiogly.
“Ob, never mind,”
“Come, Sally, for old acquaintance
sake ?"’
Was it a smile or a scowl she
gave him then? Dick wasn’t sure
and was beginning to tremble again
when Sarah resumed her gracious
mieu.
“Well, seeing it’s you,” she said,
“I don’t mind telling. Jenny Allen
is going to elope with Will Harvey
to-night. He’s to be at her father’s
back garden gate at 12 o’clock, his
face covered with a black mask.
When he gives a low whistle, thrice
repeated, she’s to come out aud then
they’ll Hit together. Here are ail the
details in a note in her own hand,
which i picked up after seeing it
drop from Will Harvey’s pocket as
he cantered down the road half an
hour since. Head for yourself.”
Dick ground his teeth as his eye
ran over the lines which confirmed
every work of S irah’s statement.
“What are you going to do?” asked
Sarah w■ h a provoking coolness that
roused Dick’s fury,
“Do?” he growled. “I’d pommel
the viiiaiu if 1 could only lay hands
on him l”
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING. JUNE 13, 1879,
“I can put you on a better plan.’’
“What is it ?”
“Disguise yourself as the letter in
dicates. Be there a little before
the time. Give the concerted signal
and when the lady comes flit with
her yourself. Ten to one, when she
sees the trap she’s in, she’ll marry
you to avoid exposure. At any rate
you’ll earn her father’s gratitude by
thwarting Harvey’s plot.’’
“But suppose Harvey, too, comes
before the time and we meet at the
gate?’’
“Knock him down, beat him sense
less, give the signal and get away
with the prize before he comes to.”
“I’ll do it!’ cried Dick, his eyes
Hashing fiercely. “Good-by, Sally;
I’ll have news for you when we next
meet!”
It lacked a quarter to twelve when
Dick Sanders, his face masked, stole
up to Mr. Allen’s garden gate. At
the same moment a man similary
di-guised approached by another
path. For an instant the pair con
fronted each other. They both
sprang forward, striking out with
might and vain. Blows raiued thick
and fast. The combatants were well
matched After a mutual hammer
ing for ten minutes, without advan
tage to either side, they grappled aud
went down together. Then they
scuffled and bit and scratched till
they rolled apart from sheer exhaus
tion and lay glaring at each other in
helpless rage. Both their masks
were torn to tatters, and a9 the bright
moonlight beamed down upon their
battered faces oach uttered an excla
mation of surprise: ,
“Ted Brant!” panted the one.
“Dick Sanders!” gasped the oth
er.
“I thought it was. that scoundrel
Harvey!” replied Dick.
“So did I!” rejoined Ted.
A brief comparison of notes dis
closed that Sarah Blake, after her
interview with Dick, had had a simi
lar one with Ted; the rusult being as
above narrated, a desperate encoun
ter, in which each thought he was
pommeling away at Will Harvey. The
letter we need hardly say, was amia
ble Sarah’s own production.
Before Dick and Ted were pre
sentable again, Will Harvey and Jen
ny Allen were happily married witk
the full consent of the latter’s father,
who, indeed, had never opposed the
match.
Sarah Blake is still a maiden.
VVliat “Old Times” Meant.
A half a century ago a largo part
of the people of the -United States
lived in houses unpainted, unplaster
ed and utterly devoid of adornment.
A well-fed fire in the yawning chusm
of a huge chimney gav paryul
warmth to a single room .. and H
like
were roasting one side v\hile A fug
the other; *in contrast, a tuajNwi?' of
the people of the older States n6w
live in houses that are clapboarfied,
painted, blinded and comfortably
warmed. Then the household fur
niture consisted of a few plain chairs
a plain table, a bed-stead made by
the village carpenter. Carpets, there
were none. To-day, few are the
homes in city or country that do not
contain a carpet of some sort, while
the average laborer by a week’s work
may earn enough to enable him to
repose at night upon a spring bed.
Fifty years ago the kitchen “dres
sers” were set forth with a shining
row of pewter plates. The farmer
ate with a buck-handled knife and
an iron or pewter spoon, but the ad
vancing civilization has sent the
plate and spoons to the melting pot
while knives and forks have given
place to nickle or silver-plated cutle
ry-
In those days the utensils for
cooking were a dinner pot, tea-kettle
skillet, Dutch oven and frying pan;
to-day tnere is no rnd of kitchen fur
niture.
The people of IS3O sat in tho eve
ning in the glowitg light of a pitch
knot fire, or read their weekly news
paper by the flickering light of a
“tallow dip;” now, in city and village
their apartments are bright with the
flame of the gas-jet or the softer radi
ance of kerosene. Then if the fire
went out upon the hearth it was re
kindled by a coal from a neighboring
hearth, or*by flint, steel and tinder.
Those who indulged in pipes and ci
gars could light them ouly by some
hearth-stone; to-day we light fire aud
pipes by the dormant fireworks in the
match safe, at a cost of oua-huudred
th of a cent.
In those dayswa guessed the hour
of noou, or ascertained it by the
creeping of tho sunlight up to the
“noon mark” drawn upon the floor;
only the well to-do could afford a
clock. To-day, who does not carry a
watch? And as for clocks, you may
purchase them at wholesale, by the
cartload at sixtv-tvvo cents apiece.
Fifty years ago, how many dwell
ings were adorned with pictures ?
How many are thero now that do not
display a print, engraving, chromo
or lithograph ? How many pianos
or parlor organs were there then ?
Read organs were not invented until
1810, and now thov are in every vill
age.
Some who may read this article
will remember that in 1830 the Bible
the almanac and the few text-books
used iu school were almost the ouly
volumes of the household. The
dictionary was a volume four inches
square and an inch and a half iu
thickness. In some of the country
villages a few public spirited men
had gathered libraries containing
from three to five hundred volumes;
in contrast, the public libraries of the
present, containing more than ten
thousand volumes, have an aggregate
of 10,050,000 volumes, not including
the Sunday school and private libra
ries of the country. It is estimated
that altogether the number of vol
umes accessible to the public is not
less than 20,000,000! Of Webster’s
aud Worcester’s dictionaries, it may
be said that enough have been pub
lished to supply oue to every oue
hundred inhabitants of the United
States. —Atlantic Monthly.
STRANGER THAN FICTION.
A Strange Story of Crime in tire South
—The Keeovery of a Lost Danghter
After a Search of Fourteen Years.
[Correspondence News & Courier.]
We read a great deal in the news
papers about the abductioa of Char
ley Ross, and of the hitherto fruit
less efforts made to ascertain his
whereabouts. The story of the loss
and final recovery of a daughter, af
ter fourteen years of constant search,
has recently come to our knowledge,
which, for thrilling interest, exceeds
anything we have read about Char
ley Ross.
During the late war there lived at
Waynesboro, the county seat of Burke
county, Georgia, a Mr. and Mrs, Hol
land, the happy parents of two little
children, a boy and a girl. Mr. Hol
land fas a practicing lawyer and a
man of intelligence and standing in
the community. Mrs. Holland was
of a respectable family, and a lady of
education and of good social stand
ing.
During the war Mr. Holland vol
unteered and was a good soldier till
the surrender. About the year
1801 65 a man by the name of Laud
Haithcock appeared in that part of
Georgia. Hh passed himself off as a
horse trader and a gentleman of
wealth, but in reality was a horse
thief. He appeared to have plenty
of money, drove lino horses, smoked
fine cigars, dressed well, and was
received into tho bast society. Dar
ing Mr, Holland’s absence iu the
war bo ingratiated himself into the
good graces of Mrs. Holland. A
criminal intimacy sprang up between
them, and when Mr. Holland return
ed home in April, 1805, the fruits ot
that intimacy could no longer be
concealed. Iu a few days after Mr.
Holland’s return, and while waiting
an opportunity to take summary
vengeance on Haithcock, his wife
suddenly left with Haithcock, carry
ing with her his little daughter,three
years old. From that time to this
they have never been seen in that
part of the State. About the time of
their sudden departure a horse aud
buggy mysteriously disappeared, and
which is supposed to have been sto
len by Haithcock, with which they
made their way to Brownsville, Marl
boro county, in South Carolina,
where Haithcock was born aud
brought up. From that time til!
three weeks ago Mr. Holland never
heard anything of the whereabouts
of his wife and child. During the
past fourteen years he has been con
stantly engaged, whenever he could
spare the time from his business, in
prosecuting the search for his child.
He traveled over the greater part of
Georgia, and portions of M.F :! saippi,
Alabama, Florida and !$/-
lina, but could never , e
• slightest eln* as To" wher -y
Wieu auiei toting ia -
papers, offering targe rewaryp for her
recovery, but nothing
heavy bills and grievous L'lt
ment, H > finally concluded'' to stay
at homo and write to the county offi
cials of every county throughout th ■■
country'. After pursuing this pom
for a long time, ho was iiu liv m
formed by one of the county ofli naK
of Marlboro county that Laud Haith
cock lived in the Brownsville section
of that county with a woman who
answered to the description of Mr.
Holland’s wife. That this woman
had a young girl with her, not Haith
cock’s child, whose age and general
appearance pointed to her as the
long lost daughter.
It was first proposed that the girl
should run away from her mother
and go to Georgia; but to make as
surance doubly sure, Mr. Holland
was advised to come himself, as he
alone could identify the woman as
his former wife. He accordingly
came by rail to Pee-Dee B.idge on
the Wilmington,-Columbia and Au
gusta Railroad Leaving that point,
he walked to Mr. James D Hasel
den’s. who lived a few miles from the
station, arriving there about dark on
the 4th inst. He remained with Mr.
Haselden that night. After making
known liis errand Mr. Hasejden’s
sympathies were so aroused that he
carried him in his buggy, the next
day, to where Haithcock lives. For
tunately, perhaps, Haithcock, who is
said to be dodging from the revenue
officers for retailing whisky contrary
to law, was not at home. On arriv
ing at his cabin Mr. Holland pushed
open the door, which was partly ajar,
and there sat his former wife, sur
rounded by her three Haithcock chil
dren and his own daughter, lie
spoke to his wife familiarly, saying,
“Howdy, Polly Ann.” In great sur
prise she replied, “Why Howdy,
Will !” After shaking hands with
her, he asked, pointtng to a hand
some young girl, if that was Emma?
She said it was. He took the girl's
hand, and with tears in his eyes, told
her he was her father; that she had
been taken from him when she was
only three years old; that he had
been searching for her for the
last fourteen years; that, thank
God! he had found her at last, and
that he had come to take her to a
comfortable home, and from the pov
erty and misery in which she had
been raised. He asked her if she
was willing to go with him. She re
plied that she was. Upon this, the
old woman and the other children
set up a great lamentatiou, aud said
she should never go, They seized
hold of her, but by some exertion
Holland, with her assistance, suc
ceeded iu releasing her and getting
her away from the house. They
went to a neighbor’s where the girl
was hired out as an ordinary field
hand, and got the few articles of
wearing apparel which she possessed.
After purchasing for her a pair of
shoes and other articles at a store
hard by, they returned that night
with Mr. Haselden to his house,
where they were cordially received,
aud sent next morning rejoicing on
their way to the statiou at Pee-Dee,
and, we suppose, arrived at home the
next day. The girl had been inform
ed by some sympathizing neighbor
wbo and what she was, and that her
father was coming for her, which
accounts for ths readiness with which
she consented to go with him. She
was seventeen years old the 3d day
of April last, and is a girl of good
address and fine appearance. She is
of course somewhat sunburnt, with
rough hands and large feet, having
been accustomed to labor in the
fields for her daily bread. She is
very illiterate, never having attended
school a day in her life. She can
neither read nor write. Her neigh
bots all say she is a clever, virtuous
girl, which is no doubt very gratify
ing to her father. Her brother, two
years her senior, of whom she says
she has a faint recollection, is a
young man of fair education, and
is now engaged in teaching school
in Georgia, Her father, Mr. Hol
land, is a practicing lawyer and a
man of education and refinement.
He has been legally divorced from
hie first wife, a*Ld is now married art fi
lms a family.
Now, Mr. Editor, these are the
facts. If some of the numerous nov
el writers, whom the News and Courier
is endeavoriug to encourage, would
take them up and spin them out, a
tale might be woven which would be
of thrilling interest. At any rate
the above demonstrates the truth of
tho oid adage, that “Truth is stranger
than fiction.” Marion.
The Virginia Miscegenation
Case.
Our readers are already aware of
the fact that a case involving the le
gality of marriages between blacks
and whites was decided in the United
States District Court held at Rich
mond, Virginia, by Judge Hughes,
on Thursday last. It seems that a
negro man and white woman had
contracted matrimony in that negro
paradise, the District of Columbia,
and afterward determined to carry
out their new relations in Virginia
where the State laws prohibit such
marriages. There they were arrest
ed, tried and sentenced to States
prison for violation of law, and, after
conviction, petitioned the United
States Judge for release on a writ of
habeas corpus basedpn two grounds:
(1) that their conviction was in viola
tion of the 14th amendment of the
Uoited States Constitution; and (2)
that the contract was entered into in
tha District of Columbia, and there
fore they were not amendable to
Virginia laws. As heretofore pub
lished, Judge Hughes, in a carefully
prepared and well digested opinion,
decided adversely to these petition
ers cn overy point, and his decision
deserves more than a passing notice
on account of the important poiuts
invoked therein.
In the first place, Judge Hughes
decides that neither the fourteenth
amendment, nor any other section of
the Uoitafl States Constitution, can
-id marriage in any State.
•” s . "mch contracts must be govern
ou by the local laws of
tjfaufc as passed oj it<S s Ldgio.u
turt. for the well being of its society,
and the protection of its citizens.
And in making this decision he draws
a clear and distinct line between citi
zens of the United States and of the
different individual States. He holds
that the rights of a citizen of the
United States are those which result
only from the fact that his State is
one of the United States, while the
rights of a citizen of a State are
those which belong to him as a dis
tinct member of society. Hence he
plainly concludes that upon the
State alone devolves the duty of pro
tecting its citizens and its own socie
ty, or that, in other words, there is
no such thing, strictly speaking, as a
citizen of the United States. Tuis
is a reaffirming of the principle here
tofore decided in the United States
Supreme Court, and it is at this time
a rnoßt important one, for upon it
h#s hung the gist of all the debates
in Congress, on the democratic side,
over the appropriation bills. This
decision of Judge Hughes adds an
influence to the position there taken
by the majority, which must make it
self felt despite the sophistries and
repeated vetoes of Mr. Hayes
In the next place, the Judge deci
cides that an unlawful marriage in a
State is unlawful undbr all circum
stances, no matter where contracted.
A man cannot form such a marriage
in one S.ate where it may be allowed
and then claim immunity from law if
he should attempt to force his unlaw
ful act upon the people of any other
State where his act would be illegal.
And the Judge not only fortifies him
self in this position by citing the
fact above stated, viz: that marriage
must be governed and controlled by
the laws of States themselves relating
thereto; but he makes his position
doubly clear by showing that if a
contrary principle was allowed, a
marriage regarded as incestuous in a
certain State might have to be endur
ed, while a Mormon might bring a
whoio tribe of wives from Salt Lake
City, and quarter them among peo
ple who hold decent and civilized
ideas on the subject of polygamy,
and he could not be legally molested.
This argument we regard as unan
swerable, and it is important in that
it v ill forever determine the fate of
miseegen'ition in the South. Of
course no white man or woman pos
sessed of a grain of self respect in the
South would ever consent to such a
union; still there are many negro
phdists in other sections who would
rejoice to see the d’sgusting practice
of miscegenation established in our
miidst if possible. Such as these
would be only too glad of the oppor
tunity to carry out their levelling
add demoralizing schemes by means
of mixed marriages in tha District of
Columbia and elsewhere, and suose
quent removals within the limits of
Southern States, and then if popular
indignation resented the insult, to
raise aloud the cry of oppression of
the poor African. This decision ef
fectually disposes of all such hopes.
Judge Hughes’ decision, therefore,
it one of great importance to the
country, whether reviewed from a
political or social standpoint. The
case will be carried to the United
States Supreme court, but the decis
ion is so logically expressed and so
plainly established upon the law and
the Constitution, that wo have no
tear that it will not be folly sustained,
First-Class Americaus!
New York Sun. .
The Rev Dr. Bellows, in his speech
at the dinner of the Chamber of
Commerce, on Tuesday, remarked
that he had observed among cultiva
ted Americans a certain dist ust of
American institutions. He added
that in a conversation he had had
with Lord Napier, the Englishman
told him that he had never met a
first-clas3 American man whp had
any confidence in the permanency of
American institutions. Dr. Bel-lows
said he told Lord Napier that he
had never talked with the American
farmers. t
Hi might have told him that his
intercourse must have been wi'h
American snobs and fools, a class of
our ssPfety which is as greedy of as
sociation with a lord as any English
shop-keeper. These men think to
snow their aristocratio tastes by a
display of contempt for the republi
can and democratic institutions
through which alone they have been
enabled to get to such positions as
they have, aud converse with a lord
at all. Their ancestors, like the an
cestors of most of us, were people of
the middle or yeomen class in the
Old World, or perhaps held even
lower stations in the cast iron social
system of an aristocratic country;
and they immigrated hither to bet
ter their condition, or get freedom to
hold religious opinions which were
regarded contemptuously at home.,
Some of them even left their native
country for their country’s good, and
won hero for their descend mts a
place to which they could never have
attained in the older and less flexi
ble society..
The snobs who distrust our insti
tutions because they have to vote
alongside of men who do not wear so
good clothes as they, and who take
pride iu neglecting the duties of citi
ship because they are outnumbered
by sturdier meD, are themselves the
sons of fathers or grandfathers who
worked hard for their liviug, the
majority of them laboring with then
own hands, and so honestly gather
ing the fortunes which their progeny
enjoy. They are the descendants of
the tillers of the soil who cleared
away the virgin forests, aud the tra
ders who bartered with the farmers,
a few generations ago. If they are
rich, their wealth is due to the sweat
of their fathers aud to the benign in
stitutions under which they live, and
whose working, so imcomparably
successful, drew hither millions of
other toilers, who left indigence in
Europe to earn their bread under
the freer conditions of the great re
public.
First-class American men ! Lord
Napier, though doubtless ciuick
euought to detect aud shun an En
glish snob and toady, is evidently of
not so keen a scent for the American
varieties of those pests. He
has also met, of course, many of tho
men who mistake pretension for cul
ture, or who are trained so finely
that their strength and earnestness
are gone; or else they are imitators
of these, who fancy there is a won
derful gentility in distrust of the peo
ple.
In the first place, there are no
classes in this country, in the En
glish sense, though we have both our
fools and our wise men, our upstarts
and snobs, and our sonsible folks,
who are content to let foreigners
take them as they are—busy people
who are trying to make their living,
or to keep what they have, as their
fathers did before them. The insti
tutions of the conntry suit them, and
they mean that they shall be perma
nent. If the snobs do not a like re
public, let them emigrate to a mon
archy or an aristocracy and try to
work their way up there.
There is, however, one movement
which really argues a distrust of our
institutions, so far as it does not
argue a desire for public plunder. It
is the Grant movement, which ruDS
counter to all our traditions, aud
has at its head some of the most
odious of our snobs and treasury
leeches. Bub the people will take
care of that.
First-class Americans! Bah!
Russian Nihilism.
A distinguished agent of the Ni
hilists, now in New York, has given
the Herald of that city a very in
teresting account of the origin and
objects of that society. As ho is
thoroughly posted as to the plans
and aspirations of the revolutionists,
his statement is entitled to more
weight than the empty assertion of
the average exile. Ho says the so
ciety is the organ of a national fer
mentation, but unconnected with and
of later or'gin than the lifeless
project of 1825, which was simply an
attempt to transfer the power of the
Czar into the hands of an aristocracy.
Nihilism is purely democratic. It
had its rise in the reign of Nicholas
1., who introduced the system of
driving large gangs of rebels to Si
beria; who inaugurated the fashion
of filling offices of State with the
dregs of the needy descendants of
officials, thus creating a hereditary
official class and alienating the well
to do and the educated; who ex
hausted the treasury for the army,
recruiting the latter from the worst
element of the rural population and
supporting it by the sale of whisky,
and who declared the land of the
empire to bo the absolute property
of the Czar. The germ of Nihilism
was planted then, and it was an out
growth of Sclavonic instincts. The
Crimean war opened to the Russians
a full view of the wide gulf separa
ting them from their highly civilized
foes. The reforms of Alexander 11.
were a delusion. The serfs passed
out of the control of despotic gentle
men to go under the control of des
potic ruffians. A brutal and venal
policy was substituted for the nobili
ty in their management. They have
the right of migration, but if they
use it they are paupered. The en
dowment of laud, in its present
sh ipo, is a curse rather than a bless
ing, and they are being slowly but
surely driven into Nihilism. ” The
party first became active during the
civil war in the United States, livery
social problem in Russian life was
discussed by the liberal press under
assumed American names, It was
not till Tourganieff had christened the
movement by its present name iu his
novel, “Fathers and Sons,’’ in 1866,
that the police discovered the course
events were takiug. Suppression
ana banishment followed, but they
came too late. Nihilism was a power
in the laud, Tchernechefski’s novel,
“What to do,” became its gospel.
The first phase of. Nihilism included
Communism, free love and material
ism. The second has largely grown
beyond these. A chaos is not pro
posed; a limited monarchy would
not be accepted; a republic based on
universal suffrage, equality,
religious and the abolition
of large landed estates, is clesired.
To annihilate the E&manoffs aufi de
prive their beloved Germans of their
influence in the government is the
aim of th^ 1 society. The prsposa to
assimilate all the nations which have
been annexed to Russia. The order
is growing rapidly; traitors are very
few; the army, the clergy, the learned
professions are all infected by it.
Its membership is said to be more
than five hundred thousand. The
members devote their whole fortune
aud their lives, if necessary, to the
work. The justify assassination on
the ground that startling examples
temper the lmrshuess of the all pow
erful.
Exactly So.
Athens Watchman.
We were conversing tha other day
with one of our most public-spirited
and best posted citizens in reference
to the development of our vast mine
ral resources of Northeast Georgia
and what is needed to hasteu the
good work.
“I will tell you in a few words,”
said he, “what I consider to be the
principal and almost only obstacle
iu the way of a speedy development,
of the untold mineral wealth of
Northeast Georgia. At frequent in
tervals ever since the first discovery
of the precious metal in our section,
parties have applied to the legisla
ture to be chartered as mining com
panies and to be granted certain wa
ter and other privileges for a term of
years. In most cases these charters
were granted, but hardly one in ten
of the companies thus chartered ever
went to work. The result is that a
company can scarcely go to work in
any of the gold fields now without
encroaching iu some way upon the
chartered rights of some of these old
corporations, and becoming involved
in endless trouble and expense. As
'% natural consequence men who
would otherwise gladly invest their
money in mining operations are
scared off and will have nothing to do
with it.
“Well,” we inquired, “what reme
dy would yon saggesfe for this evil ?”
“There is a remedy,” he replied,
“which I think would prove effective,
and one which it is nothing but right
and proper should be applied. That
is, let the legislature at the ensuing
July session pass an act repealing
the charters of all mining companies
who did not after a reasonable length
of time begin active operations un
der such charter. This would en
courage 3 the immediate for
mation of new companies; and in my
opinion is the only way this can be
done; because knowing the almost
eer.amty of being involved in long
and tedious lawsuits and the wast
ing of much time aud money, they
will not take hold so long as the
present charters are iu force.
Although we had never thought of
the matter in that light before, we
are satisfied our friend is entirely
correct in his opinion, and vva trust
our legislators will bear the matter
in mind and afford the necessary re
lief at the July session.
Bear with each other’s faults.
Love one another, and help one
another. Pity each other. Bear
each others burdens. We are all
moving on a great —a vaster assem
bly than ever moved through the
wilderness of old—and when we
stand revealed to him and he to us
and we to each other, we shall look
black with unspeakable sorrow at the
jars and the discords and the unchar
ties of this mortal life; and for everv
sweet kindness, for every loving help
fulness for every patience, and for
every Half-denial or self-sacrifice we
shall lift up thanks to the Almighty
God.
Providence looks a great way for
ward and has a long reach. God
sees his work from the beginning to
the end, but we do not. How ad
mirable are the projects of provi
dence ! How remote its tendencies
What wheels there are within wheels
and yet all directed by the eyes in
the wheels, and by the spirit of the
living creatures! Let us therefore
judge nothing before the time.— M.
Henry.
In the deepest night of trouble and
anxiety and sorrow God gives ns so
much to be thankful for that we need
never cease our singing. With all
our wisdom and prudence, and fore
sight, we need never refuse to take a
lesson in gladness and gratitude
from the happy bird that sang all
night, as if the day were not long
enough to tell its joy.
The spirit of self-sacrifice is one of
the great beauties of holiness. It is
a spirit that will sweeten happiness
and lighten troubles; and when the
soul is ready to wing its flight to its
eternal home, it will have the un
speakable consolation of knowing
that it has not lived for itself, and
that it has left the world happier
and better in some degree than it
found it.
No man can be brave who consid
ers pain to be the greatest evil of
life; nor temperate who considers
pleasure to be the highest good.
In all circumstances let faith and
patience have their perfect work and
they will bring forth celestial fruits.
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Of Vai ious Kinds t'ai-elessly thrown To.
getlicr.
Tne professional balloonist has a
soar head.
‘ Perspiration is the cheapest lux
ury of the pore.”— N. O, Tunes
Man leads woman to the altar—in
that acl his Padeship begins and
ends.
We generally prefer new articles
to old cnes—the new madus to the
old maids.
The sieve through which the man
strained every nerve is for sale at
less then first cost.
“We’-l let the subject, drop,” as the
grave robbers said when the pblice
man chafed them.
A witty lady being asked her opin
ion of moustaches, replied:“l always
set my face against them.”
The fat boarder called the mould
on the pie an oasis—a green spot on
the desert.— Boston Transcript.
A celebrated wag was asked if he
knew Theodore Hook. Yes he re
plied, “Hook and aye are old associ
ates ”
Tha foundation for the meanest
man is laid when a small boy turns
the worm-hole in an apple for his
companion to bite from.
The Englsli never got hold of a
Zululogieal garden which bothered
them half as much as that chap down
iu Africa. — Detroit Free Press
We think it more than right that
men should seize time by the fore
lock for tha rude old fellow, sooner
or later, pulls all their hair ou'
Voltaire said of Mademoiselle
Livry: “She was so beautiful that I
raised my long thin body aud stood
before her like a point of admira
tion.”
NO. 23
The females of some of the Indian
tribes in order to keep silence, fill
their mouths with water. Oar wo
men fill theirs with tea, and gossip
more than ever.
“Shall I cut this loin of mutton
saddlewise?” said a gentleman.
“No,” said one of his f■ ■ ; “cut '5
bridlewise, for then lin > . lance no
get a bib in my mouth.
A Texas chap >. ; am and
no attention was pa . *1 > , but one
day he stole a mule ai ii eB3 than
an hour the infuriat. ' ' is hang
ed him. —Oil City Deer b.
“Isn-t my photograph excellent ?” -
said a young wife tc her husband.
“Well my dear,” replied he, “there’s
a little too much repose about Uie
fhouth for it to be natural.’’
About the guiltiest looking person
in this world are a man accused of a
crime of which he is innocent and a
newly mrrried coup'o trying to p .as
for veterans, —N. Y. Cammc-eml.
He ran three squares after wlrwhe
thought was a street car, and afKr
he got out of breath, he laid down
on the doorstep disgusted to fiud out
t iatit was only a lightning bug on
his spectacles.
A great physician observes it is his
opinion that the brain is not injured
by intemperate drinking, as is gener
ally supposed; for, he adds, a man
given to intemperance in tuat way,
cannot have any brains.
Faith may be able to remove a
mountain, but when a woman takes
her knit ting and patchwork and vis
its Imr next door neighbor, it will
tako derrick as well as faith to re
move her to her own house in time to
prepare her husband’s dinner.
A gentleman, having occasion to
call on an author, found him at home
in his study. He remaiked the great
heat of the apartment, and said it
was “as hot as an oven.” “So it
cught to be,” replied the author, “for
it is hero I make my bread.”
“I wish I were yon about two
hours,” she said with great tender
ness. “And why, dear ?” he asked,
with considerable interest. “Be
cause,” she said, toying affectionate
ly with his watch chain—“because
then I would buy my wife anew bon
net.’’
The latest conundrum, and we
don’t know who is responsible for it,
is, “Which is the hardest, to kiss a
girl leaning from you, or climb a
fence leaning to you ?” There is no
answer, as only one side of the prob
lem has ever been tested. — Hawlceye.
Anxious mothers are not in so
much fear as they used to be about
their children getting gowned while
in swimming, but they have to keep
a bright lookout to prevent their do
ing themse ves to death in wA’fing
matches. —Cincinnati Saturday Niyul.
A country youth came to town to
see his intended wite, au<l fur a long
time could think of nothing to say
At last, a great snow falling, he took
occasion to tell her that his father’s
sheep would be all undone. “Well,”
said she, taking him by the hand,
“I’ll keep one of them,”
A colored child had a fail from a
second story window the other day,
and his mother, in relating the inci
dent at a grocery store, said . ADere
dat child was a coming down feet
fast, wid every chance of being killed
when de Lawd He turned him over,
de chile struck on his head, and dere
wasn’t so much as a button flew off.”
As several neighbors of a rather
dishonest man who kept a turner’s
shop were discussing his wonderful
skill in his art, one of them remarked
that skillful as ho "was there was one
thing he couldn’t turn “What i3
that?” was the general inquiry.
“An honest penny/ was the satisfac
tory reply.
“Why don’t you fire at those par
triges ?” exclaimed a gentleman to a
Cockney sportsman; “don’t you see
you have the whole covey before
you?” “I know I have,” sail Tom
kins; “but when I have a good aim at
one two or three others will fly up
right betwixt me and the one I aim
at.”