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The Gainesville Eagle Published Every Fodav Morning ITy RE Dvvl N E & II A M 9 Tho Official Organ of Hall, Banka, Towns, fcabun, Union and Dawson counties, and the city ot' Gainesville. Has a large general circulation in twelve other counties iu Northeast Georgia, and twe counties in Western North Carolina. -A-cLvertislixg .Elates. From »ud including this date the rates of adver tising in the Eagle will be as follows: Sheritt’g sales, for each levy of one inch $2 50 Each additional inch or fraction 2 50 Mortgage sales[6o days! one inch 500 Each additional inch or fraction 3 10 Executors’ administrators’ and guardians sales, •net, ch 4 00 Each addition al inch 1 50 Notice to debtors and creditors 4 00 Citation for letters of administration or guar- i . dianship i 00 Notice of application for leave to sell land 4 00 Letters of dismission—executor, administrator or guardian 6 00 Estray notices 4 0 Citations of unrepresented estates 4 00 Homestead notices 2 00 Rule Ni. Si. to foreclose, once a month for four months, per inch 4 CO The Jaw authorizes county officers to collect advertising fees in advance, and we hold the officers responsible for all advertising sent us. ts- Notices of ordinaries calling attention of ad ministrators, executors and guardians to making their annual returns; and of sheri'Ts calling atten '*• tion to section 3649 of the Cod", published free tor ; officers who patronize the Eagle. »* Transient advertising, other than legal uo- K tices, will be charged $1 per inch for the first, and ’ fifty cents for each subsequent insertion. Adver- HE. tisors desiring largo space for a longer time than one month, will receive a liberal deduction from Er regular rates. fiSf- All bills are due upon the first appearance of the advertisement, unless there is a special con tract io ths contrary, and wili bo presented at the * pleasure of the proprietors. Advertisements sent fp without instructions will be published uutilor .dered out, afid charged for accordingly. Transient advertisements from unknown parties must be paid d'Orin advance. . * JDW- Address all orders and remittances to < „ HEDWINF. & HAM, Gainesville, Ga. Hie ~M¥sterF of' fnE MOUNTAINS. “All along the mountain 1 impossi ble !’• “Jack, you see those deer skins ly ing there on the ground ?’’ “That’s what I should call them without further examination.” “Just as distinctly as you see those, I see footprints all along the mountain side, and up the very fountain bead of a little stream that Hows down through yonder valley.” “A woman’s foot-prints, did you eay?" “Yes, u woman’s, small and beau tifully formed.” “Some of those lowland berry girls in search of blackberries.’’ , “That is good logic, Jack, but 1 / don't see it in that light. In the first place there are no blueberriess within three miles of the mountain; in the second, no girl, unless lost, would venture into the dense for- “Very strange, indeed ! ’ “To-morrow, if you have no ob jections, I’ll go up, and we will in- j vestigaffi this mountain nymph’s i /pot-prints. And who knows but i we l may catch the fairy creature by j some of those little .cascades, her i dainty feet buried in the white | foam, combing down her long dark tresses.” “Now, Harry, to tell the truth, Id j »ooner expect to find a meeting- . house up there than a woman. Were I the tracks newly made?” “Yes; it had ruiaod very hard on- | iy yesterday, and the swollen stream had washed the sand over the ground in many placet;. They were made after the rain.” “Now, Harry, ain’t you mistaken? were not deer tracks? “Perhaps; if she is as beautiful as her foot prints she must certainly be Homebody’s dear. “Have it your own way, Harry, i only give us a light tor this Havana, and call it even. The two speakers in the above ' conversation were Jack D inforth and [ ! Harry Littleton, two college stu dents spending their vacation in the quiet town of Jjindsdale, long noted for its wild romantic scenery, and ■ ! rich bunting grounds. The beauti ful level surlace of the town, from a distance, resembled a pretty green ’ foot stool for the proud old mountain (towering above it. i . Hany's hand s ime face of late was I marred with ft sad expression, a look of inquiry that none could read. . Perhaps ho was not feeling well; ead news from home, or likely | enough he had repealed all he had j seen on the mountain. Jack was all life and jollity, ready to find or , j! to make fun out of eve?’'thing that came along. Hunting and fishing hold an end- : lens charm f< w cun understand so well as Lie young idiidud. just from the school-room. With the additional excitement thia last excursion was doubly inter ©sting. They took an early start next morning, with knapsacks, guns, and three days' rations. Long ere the aun had withdiawn its long golden fingers that pointed in here and there, through toe heavy tree tops, dropping bits of gold and sap phire over the beautiful mossy sur face beneath, Jack was fully con vinced o( the truthfulness of Harry’s i statement. They even found pieces I of fabric clinging to the underbrush : in several places. Once where the ; earth had been removed in search of | ground nut© they saw distinctly the print of a woman’s hand. Through all the pleasant mouth oi October, Jack and Harry fished the fountain atreams, trapped the care- i ifc.as bruin, shot the gentle deer, but could never solvo the mystery of tl © mountain, The last daj came, and a lovelier one none need ever ask for. Indian summer bad bound with a spell, and emptied her vials of beauty del earth and sky, blending together in one great whole. A day when flow ers nod and smile at every passer-by when basting brooks te’l tales and laugh, and all the leaf spirits silently commune with one another, and the heart of man is filled with j;y and love and praise to the God of pature for hie and all its surround ingb. Jack and Harry were not blind to ail this loveliness, and concluded to leave the mountain early in the day and enjoy open field scenery. They were to separate and leave the mouu tain in two different directions. Just befoie starting they built afire at t! e foot of a very high ledge, ro isted 4beir fish, eat their hard biscuit, lighted their cigars, and sprawled out boy fashion on the ground. The smoke soon wreathed about their heads, curled, and rolled off and up among the trees. Harry gave an extra puff, raised bis eyes to watch it mount the air, when he caught a glimpse of the moat beautiful face be had ever sten, gazing down upon them from the The Gainesville Eagle VOL. X 11. perpendicular r<ck some forty feet directly above them. “By Jove, Jack, look up !” “Good heavens, Hairy, who, and what, and where did she come from?” “We must know, we must find her Nymph or maiden, that was too fair a face for this wild place.” The clambered up the ragged rocks with all possible speed until they reached the summit. No one I:'.ere, no trace—yes, hero across a b-t of fine damp moss are the self s me footprints. That and no more. A I the afternoon, until nightfall, they traversed the mountain far and near, all their efforts, as before, prov ing fruitless. The next day Jack and Harry willed their hunting ap parel to‘the farmer’s two growing sone, and returned to school four weeks older, if not wiser. Fou teen’ years previous to the commencement of this nArrgdive, in a quiet Quaker village in the town of M— —, might be seen a pretty white cottage, with plain white cur tains, an open woik porch oyer the front door, covered with, woodbine <rcct Ftrartei- ntmrenr. t?rr «* rustic seat'beneath the old elm th the ya»J, might oftep be seen two youthful parents conveisiag’ together and looking very happy, while their little fuur-year-old, blue-eyed and golden haired, chased the butterflies oer the green, or gathered bouciuets of bluebells and honeysuckles, all steip lass, and tightly pressed in dimple 1 baby hands, for papa and mamma. Baby Lottie, as she was called, was a child of great prom se, aid the pet of the village. .Every Sunday found Baby Lottie seated with her parents ut. church, dressed in her little plain drab gown and tiny Quaker bonnet. In the seat just back sat another family with a black-eyed rogui-h lit tle feiiow, two years older than Lot tie, who often grieved his parents and jarred equilibrium of those si lent meetings by reaching his foot through under the seat in front and kicking the little slipper shod foot just peeping in sight, causing the little Quaker bonnet to bob around, and reproachful, glances from beneath bonnets eta larger size. Nevertheless the Sundays came and went, with them Willie Land seer and Lottie Danvers, to the old brown church and home again. The months gathered fend numbered The years were tilled and counted oft, while tho little Quaker maid, slowly and sweetly blossomed into womanhood. William was a hand some, promising young man, with the exception of one great phreno logical firmness failing, a lack of firmness, which often put all his, good resolutions to rout, and left! him to drift down the stream help less and alone He often wish ’d to break from the restraint that held him withip the lines of the calm and peaceful Quaker .di. cipline. From hie childhood he had loved the fair Charlotte and now that they were betrothed, she was dearer to him than ever. He would leave his home for her, the Lome of hjs childhood, and seek his fortune. Ha would go j to Vermont, purchase a large£ Ira.ct of unclean land, fell the heavy tim , ocr, build a long cabin, tbeu return to his native State, and claim his beautiful bride. With these resolutions be repassed to the heme of Charlotte, where he found her singing and spinning, seated at the little flax wheel out us * del the old elm. It was nigh the close of day. The rays of the setting sun tinged with gold the soft brown tresses that fell in heavy ringlets over shoulders oi lily whiteness; ‘ •ne small slippered foot worked the busy wheel, while the silken flax yielded to the magic toucn of fairy ling, rs and filled the flyers with shining thread. “Lottie, I’ve been thinking of thee all day.” “Well, William, what were thy thoughts? surely good ones, if from thine heart.” ‘ I will leave that for thee to say, Lottie I have been thinking, a year will soon pass away, when our wed ding day will find us without a home --a little home of our own, I mean. Brother John, up in Vermont, writes mo to come and purchase a lot oi land beside him, and settle on it. What does thee say to th «t, dear est ?’’ “William, I believe thee will do what is right and for the best. If thou dost, it will be well with us.” They bade each other farewell. William came to Vermont, bought his farm and prepared his home for the little Quaker maid, I would nave the remainder of this life picture foievtr veiled. But no, it must be held up as an awful warn ing a proof that “the way of the transgressor is bard. Within six months Charlotte received a letter informing her of h< r false lover’s marriage. No word of mine can express the anguish of that poor broken heart No word of complaint, no bitter thoughts escaped her lips, she only said: : “I hope William will be pros ' pered, but I know he never will? After the lapse of a few weeks, : Charlotte one day came to her moth i er and said, “Mother my heart aches I to-day. I wvb thee c uid spare me ■ from Lome a we kor two; 1 would , like t > go oyer the mount dn and vis ; it at Uncle John’s. i “Ws, child, thee can go. Thy I cousins will welcome thee gladly, but hadn’t thee belter allow thy father to take old Banc, and carry thee ov r? Thou art not- feeling en ceedmgly stt 'Bg, child, and ten i miles walk over such a mountain i may weary thee over much. 1 “Take no thought for me, dear mother, I will return to thee in two weeks, our Father willing. Two weeks passed, three and four, still Charlotte came not. “Father, thee must saddle ole Banu, and go for cur daughter. 1 i have a strange foreboding that ail is nut well.’ The father w-nt, only to learn the - startling news, that she never hud I reached there. Search was imme diately made, bat no trace of her GAINESVILLE. GA.. FRIDA r sfuRAINOCTOBER 10, 1879 could be found. The pleasant autumn passed by and the chilling snows of winter came, and found the grief stricken parents still childless. The long winter woie slowly away, leaving the earth bare and cheerless for the younger, fresher hands to array again in robes of beauty. One day in May there came to this saddened home a young man faint and weary, begging a morsel of bread and a night’s lodging, wliica was most willingly granted. The morrow found him wild, and unable to rise from his bed. A physician was immediately called, who pro nounc-d it brain fever. His name and residence were unknown; but those kind-hearted, hospitable peo ple said, “This young man must have care. If the good Lord has directed his footsteps to our door, he must remain We will be father and mother to him in the hour of need.’’ After long weeks of severd illness nature 'and kind atfcudaoce restored the waqderjng mind to rea son, He gave bis nam< -.is Hairy and ssSfil the Lai. -he re- J AID bored he left, his stpdy room, with & <evere pain in bis head, and directed his footsteps toward his boarding house some twenty miles from this place, quite a long walk to take before breakfast. His host and hostess bade him remain with them Until he was fully recovered and able t'o return to bis studies, which kind ness he accepted with tears and a thankful heart. As soon ns ho became strong enough to con verse freely, the kind matron in qu red if he remembered any of his strange conversation while ill. He had no remembrance, and requested her to repeat some of it. She told him he had talked incessantly of the mountain’s mysterious footprints, beautiful faces, and so on, Me then related to her the strange story of tho previous autumn, and said it was no idle fancy; that he could bring his churn Jack Danforth, who would affirm his assertions. When Im had finished the staid Quaker turned to his wife and said: “Wife thy thoughts are my thoughts. I will go.” As soon as Hairy was strong enough to travel ho guided the sor i owing father to tho Ipdge where he saw the beautiful face, and there within a few rods of the rock, beside the roots of $n upturned tree, lay bleaching a little heap of bones, a few shreds of checked linen, pieces of the very dress she wore away or. that fatal day. That was all that was left on earth of poor Charlotte Whether she was killed by the wolyes or lest her way und died from starvation will foreyef x*.ezjxain a mys tery. Jack and Harry saw the footprints and thought they saw a face, which proved to be a guide to the remains of the once beautiful Charlotte. Whal of ths faithless William? He labored early and late on his farm beside his brother, and, true as the words of the sweet Quader maid, he could not bo prospered. While his brother be came rich and happy, ho grew poor and miserable. At last his farm was mortgaged and sold, his family scat tered f and after a long and miserable life he died alone in ft small log hnt in a distant State. A Substitute for Boilers. The beauty of steam yacht and all small pleasure steamboats, says the New Haven Palladiurn , has always been marred by the cumbrous boiler an engine necessary to furnish the propelling power, while small steam boats could never be made practical for business purposes, owing to the large amount of room occupied by the same apparatus. An invention, recently perfe ited, and which is in control of two New Haven gentle men, both of whom have occupied the position of adjutant general of Connecticut, viz: Hon. Collin M. In gereol and Prof. Wm.P. Trowbridge, has proved a complete success, and undoubtedly will completely super sede ths boiler in all steamboats re quiring a comparatively small degree of power. A little cylinder contain ing a coil of piye, in which the steam is generated, takes the place of the boiler. The fuel is poured into th*? cylinder at the top, and the entire affair is very similar to a base burn ing stove. It is necessary to carry very little water to feed the boiler, four or live gallons being sufficient, the waste water running back to the tank and being utilized, and a small pump feeding the coiled pipe. A very small engine is sufficient to give power. One of the West pat ent, an English invention was used in the boat in which the owners of the right made a trial trip last Sat urday in the harbor, and similar en gines will hereafter be made at the Colt armory in Harford. The yacht is of very graceful model, is made a life boat by means of air chambers, and weighs little more than three quarters of a ton. A l.»O Pound Ghost. G-. o. Tomes and frit nd from Pitts burg named F. A. Tremain, went to see a spiruiu d seance in a w< 11 f ur mshed brown stone house in Chica go the other evening. They paid $1 e ich far entrance. Tomes rel ties his experience as follows: “When the spirit Mary came out into the room about eight feet from the cabi net, the passage was clear in front of me, and I went for her like a streak of lightning and threw my arms around her. She screamed and Aruggltd and several of the men ran t » her assistance. My friend started to he p me but he fell over the seats, and the spirit got away from me The ghost weighed 150 pounds if she weighed an ounce, and I fully identi i tied her as the medium. A woman who had been sitting behind where I stood cried out, you nearly killed my daughter, and you ought to be shot w th a pistol; and I’ve a good mind to shoot you for treating a spirit in i that way. The spirit had very little clothes on, and her face was whiten ed to give her a ghastly look." u The Rock of Ages.” From Frank Leslie’s Sunday Magazine The Southern coast of England hat been the birthplace of the grandest hymns in our language. Within that belt of land, sacred to devout poesy Charles Wesley caught the inspira tion of bis hymns; and there we be lieve, he composed that delicious love-lay of the heart. “Jesus :over of tny soul.” Oil the shores of Hampshire mused and sang good Isaac Watts; and iu the same county the modest Anne Steel breathed forth her tender songs .of consolation. In old Kent lived Edward Peironett, who struck that thrilling note, “All luil the power of Jgsub’ name !” In beautiful Devonshire the Bev. Henry L. Lyte chanted his last swept melody, “AEido with me; fast fails he eventide." A few miles from him dwelt Char lotte Elliot, the sLter of a clergyman, who wen| about doing good; but the grandest work God ever put into her hxuds. was to write. “Just as I am, without «ne plea.” Devonshire' nF ct : Mainlv bonore'J bbcvd ftirrhe Yhiies < Britain, for on that poetic soil Augustus TdpUdiy gave birth to the most giorioips'hymu of modern times—-the ‘Rock of Ages ’ —The ‘D es Ifte’ is the king of me li evat hymns; but of modern songs of Zion, the ‘Rock of Ages’ wears the crown T is a curious fact that the spirit ual birthplace of the heart which fashioned the hymn was a barn! Au gustus Topladly was the son a Brit ish officer, After Major Topladly’s death, his widow took the lad Augus tus on a .visit to Ireland. While at Colmian, the boy of sixtee n found his way into a barn, inhere an earnest but uneducated layman was preach ing on the text, “Ye, who sometimes were afar off, are made nigh by the blood of CJrrist.” The homespun preacher “b'ud<h‘d better than he knew,” for bis sermon converted the soul which gave to tho Church of God the ‘Rock of Ages.’ Probably that obscure iriah preacher hag over heard ten thousand echoes of hi.i simple sermon in the heavenly world. Topladly was ordained to the min istry m 1762, and began to preach on the banks of the Otter. His career was a short one, for he died at the age thirty-eight'. He worked hard. James Hamilton says of him, that “like a race horse, all nerve and fire, his life v/ftS tiptoe, and hia delig.L was to get oyer tjio ground.” Ho composed in lot haste. Certainly some of his sharp eontroyeisiftl pa pers were thrown off as from a fur nace, for they scorched terribly. Even when he wrote his magnifi cent masterpiece, the ‘Rock of Agee,’ he could not Resist the temptation to given thrust at those who he said were believers in ‘Perfection.’ So he entitled his hymu, when he printed it, “a living and dying prayer of the holiest believer in the world.” This is as much as if he had said: “The most sanctified soul in the world must come down on his knees, and cons ss, ‘Nothing in my hands I bring,’ and, ‘Vile Ito this fountain 4y- ; ” Glorious child of song I he has gone where tfie strife of tongiies has ceased and controversies are for ever ; bushed, perhaps he and Wesley have sung each other’s hymns in gio- . ry, and been puzzled to find out how it was they ever seemed to disagree. , Tophtdly’s hymn is as universally popular as the sunshine or the ver nal flowers. It has bepu translated into almost every tongue. Dr. Pom eroy went into a church in Constan tinople, where a cupipapy of Ameri cans wore singing a hymn which so moved them that the tears were trick ling down their cheeks. He inquir ed what they were singing. A man present translated the words, and 10l they were the dear old lines of “Kock of Ages !” When Prince Albert was dying, wo are told, hjs lips feebly murmured the sweet words of To piadly’s hymn. And so it came about that the dying Prince laid hold of those precious thoughts which had their original root in the rude dis course oi an obscure layman in an Irish barn I We do not dare io attempt any critical analysis of Topladly’s won derful hymn. Just as soon would we pull a rose to pieces to find ou where the delicious odor was lurking. The hymn itself is absolute perfec tion. Os all it lines, wo think the two finest are these ! “Nothing in my hands I bring, Simply to tby cross I cling/’ No other words can express more beautifully the entire empty-handed ness with which a poor, weak, sinful soul comes to grasp the Divine Re deemer is its only hope. The es sence of the Gospel is in this match loss couplet. It has wrought itself •nto ten thousand prayers for par don pit has been the ‘confession of ‘faith for ten thousand penitents. Two slight changes have Lem made to Topladly’s hymn. The v.ord ‘tracts’ has been superseded by ‘words’ in the last verse. In the same verse the author also wrote: “When my eye-strings break in death.’’ Perhaps he had learned the medi cal fact that, at the moment of disso lution, a delicate tendon near the eye sometimes break, and causes a flow of tears. But the allusion was more anatomical than poetic, and the word “heart string” is substituted in our common version. This glorious hymn yet waits for a tuuc worthy of it. The one in ordi nary use is by no means of the high est order. Some master of music ought to compose an ‘air’ which shall describe the climax. The whole hymn is a fervent outcry of a broken heart to Jesus. It begins in the plaintive confession; “Not the labor of my hands. Then the suppliant owns that he is naked, empty-handed, and helpless and vile, and calls, out imploringly: “Wash me, Savior or I die !” Then his bursting heart begins to yearn and stretch onward. It reach es on to the dread hour when the i heartstrings snap at the touch of I death. It sweeps oul into eternity— lit soars to the judgment sea 1 .. It be- 'olds the great white throne! And casing itself down before that throne, it pours forth its last pierc ing but triumphant cry: “Bock of ages, cleft for me. I Let me hide myself in Thee!” Not Smith’s Cmv. v is i: certain m.»a in Water ford w :on> —e will c 11 R, whois quite a man for practical jokes. He pa his cow together with sever al of Lis neighbors, in a pasture about half a mile above his house. There is a man we will call Smith, a namo perhaps familiar to all, who about a quarter of a mile below who pastures his cow there. R’s and Smith’s cow resemble each other very much both being red and about the same size. One day last June ab ut six o’clock, R. went up and i-or his cow, and it beingrather early bi -et her feed a little in front of the hcHase. Pretty soon Smith came by, and seeing his cow, as he supposed, standing in front of the house, he said, “Isn't that cow intruding a littlifc neighbor ?” “Oh, no,” said R. “not'at all-Het her eat. Sit down | -hod NG I ’/ '. you Lhimi' i el< elfpu.” Smnd sat down and' quite a while, then he started to go, but R wouldn’t hear of it, and made him talk on, and so lie kept him until about dark. Soon Smifli jumped up and said hu must go, and started, driving tho cow d wn the street. He got her down a few ro 's, when she dodged him and back she came. Smith swore a little at hir and again headed her down the sti< ei. This time he got her down a little way further, 'when she again wheeled past him and came lushing back to the house. Again ho came back, pretty mad this time, and by be help of a club and some well assorted profanity, got her consider ably further toward home; but in an unguarded moment sffe got past him and camo prancing back. This time Smith was in a white heat, and as he reached the house almost in tears, R , who had been calmly wit king his operations, stopped him and said he had a civil question io ask him, ' which was this: “What in thunder * are you trying to do with my cow?” ( Smith took in the situation at once, and handed out tho cigars, borrowed ' a lantern and went up to the pasture after his own beast, which had been ‘ patiently waiting at the ban. for two hours or more. If you want to see i bitu get on hiu muscle, just aek 1 im , if he wasn't the mm who tried to steal R’s cow. + .. .._ A DeligHti'snl SjegcMd. There is a beautiful legend connec ted with the site on which the Tem ple of Solomon was erected. It G said to have been occupied in com mon by two brothers, one of whom 1 had a family, but ths other had none. On the opot was a fi -ld of wheat. On the evening succeeding the harvest, the whedt having be.-n gathered in shocka, the ekUr brother said to his wife, “Aly younger brother is unable to bear the burden and heat of the day. I will rise, take off my shocks, and place th- m with his, without his knowledge.” The - younger brother being actua ted by the same benevolent motive, said to himself, - “Aly elder brother has a family and I have none. I will contribute to their support. I will arise take off my shocks, and place them with his without his knowledge? Judge of their astonishment when on the following morning they found that their respective shocks were un diminished. This course of events transpired for several nights, when each resolved in his own mind to stand guard, and if possible solve the mystery. They did so, and on the following night they met each other half way between their respective shocks with their arms full. Upon ground hallowed by such associations as this, was the Temple of Solomon built —so spacious, so magnificent, the wonder and admira tion of the world. Alas I in these days how many would sooner steal their brother’s whole shock than add to it a single sheaf! A Site Gambler. Educated, pretiy and fashionably uressed women were not common hi Nevada city, Cal, in 1851. Therefore the arrival of Madame Dumont in that mining town caused! considerable excitement, for she was attractive in the three mentioned particulars. Besides she was not more than twen ty years old. She at- once hired a corner in a large saloon and opened a faro game. The noie’ty of awo man dealing the cards drew many gamblers to her table, and her suc cess was so gaeatthat she soon open ed a large establishment, where a dezen games were k , t going night and day. She gained the reputation of dealing honestly, was always smilingly polite, and the miners liked her—even held her in considerable respect. But tier luck changed from good to bad, and she lost all oi her money. - She spent a few years in other business in San Francisco, but could not rec >v. r into prosperity A few weeks ago she borrowed five hundred dollars from an old friend and started for the mining region ol Nevada, contempt sting a new career as a gambler, She opened a faro game in Bodie; but it lasted only a few hours, when the bank wrs broken She paid her losses in the old smiling manner, retired to an ante-room, swallowed poison and died. An h veiling Struggle. Visitors to the Scarborough aqua riums were treated to a struggle be tween a man and a large devilfish. The keeper, while cleaning cut the tank occupied by the octopods, was seized by the largest of the creatures, which fastened four tentacles round the leg of his Loot, and with the other four held firmly on to the rocks forming the back of the tank. A struggle took place, during which the man found that he could not dis engage himself without killing the animal, and finally hit upon the ex pedient of slipping his leg out, leav ing the boot in the water. l A rilll I LIANG STORY. I iiow a Kuna way Locomotive was Stop ped in Hit Nick of Time. After all, we way station telegraph opsrators are not without our little ; bit of romance occasionally, and I ; think I can show that we are not eu- Itirely without a certain responsibilty but it is seldom if ever recognized unless one of our number by careless ness suddi nly plunges a train to de struction by failing .o deliver or un derstand orders. The time of which I speak was one pleasant afternoon in autumn, the 22d day of September 1876, and as the occurrence has made a deep impression on my mind, I cannot forget the day, which was Friday. At that time I had been an agent and operator on the railroad a little while over two months. The line was directly through parts of Indiana and Illinois and some of the stations had no tele graph office consequently the order distance was somewhat lengthy, and there warn but one office between ! mine and Cdwans twelve miles west ! day I wasjqnietly puffing my bpip-' in the little oayVTindow of my office, and wishing for something to relieve the monotony, when the ope rator at Cowans called the train dis patcher and said an engine had sprung her throttle with 140 pounds of steam and gone east while the fireman Lad gone to dinner and the engineer who was oiling around had no time to get on. All was still as 1 death for a minute when they began to call G , the only office be tween mine and Cowans; for full five 1 minutes he called him, using the signal 23 which means death, but I still no answer, and still the mnodto- t nous click of the armature; present- I ly he answered in a dazed hurried i manner, and when asked about the engine, said it hid passed there at a fearful rate of speed at 4:14 with no j person vi able. It was only six miles more to mo, and an excursion was , on its way west with a heavy load oi tired picnieeifl, and has actually lefi a station only eight miles east of me, I the first telegraph office, at two min- i utes past four. The dispatcher call- t ed me furiously, and being at hand 1 and expectant, J answered him im- 1 mediately, when he said, “Turn your switch and wreck engine No. II | going esst wild,” I replied quickly, | “1 caning, without indemnity orders” ami after a hasty consultation with ’ tiiG superintendent, as I afterwards | learned, he went fthead with an order whose unusual form and wording aroused many a lazj “brass sounder” e from Lie doze. It was worded like i this: i To <.per...tor: Wreck wild engine 1 No 11 at jvqr eqsteiq switch gate to 1 save collision. Company will defend and uphold you. D B. R. I immediately returned my 13 or understanding, received my correct at 4:18 p. m , and turned to look for the engme, when although the con versation between myself and the dispatcher had consumed but four minutes I saw hey coming at the greatest rate of speed I ever witness ed, and snatching my order I ran t the switch gate, about 150 feet, and when I had unlocked and thrown the rail, the roaring monster was on ly about 100 feet away. I had mj watch in my baud and stepped quickly back out of harms way, she went over, and such an unearthly crash I hope I may never see or hear again. The dirt and stones flew fifty feet in the air, the engine turned clear over and stopped on her side; pushing a splinter of the cab on the whistle valve, and there she lay a seething, hissing, screeching mass of rubbish. But above thudin and rat tle I heard one wild, despairing shriek for help, and when 1 could get close enough to sec anything 1 found what, had it not been for the face, would never have been recog ni zed as a man in the crushed and bleeding mass of flesh that lay under one huge driver; but the face was without a scar and by that was re cognized as an escaped madman, who, it seems had climbed on the engine at Cowans unobserved, and puding the throttle open bad started on a wild, awful ride to the gates of death. When the excursion train came up ten minutes later they said they found me standing by the en gine gazing alternately at the bloody driver and my written order, still tightly clasped in my hand. I was conscious of everything save the fact that I had obeyed orders, and had thereby taken a life. They say 1 fainted, but I knew nothing from the instant I discovered that white, bloodless face until four days after, when I awakened appa rently out of a ?raam. My first question was, “Did the excursion get in safely ?” The coion r held an in quest as soon as I could be examined and the verdict was: “We the jury find that Albert Long came to his death by being crushed beneath a locomotive which was wrecked by J L. 8., an operator on the rail- road according to the order of D. R. 8., his superintendent and superior officer. And we find further that no blame can be attached to said J. L B, D. R. 8., or the said railroad company, as the engine was wrecked to save a heavily loaded excursion, and said Albert Long being a mad man was on the engine in direct op position to the company’s orders.” 1 have tnat order and a copy of the verdict side by side in my diary where they shall always remain. Chien in my dreams I see an unre cognizable mass of quivering flesh and broken bines beneath the Luge driver, and a white unscarred face presents itself to my gaze. A sud den shriek will almost craze me, and I am tempted to go where railroads are unknown, where the hissing and screeching cannot reach me. A colored man appeared before a magistrate, charged with some trivial offense. The latter said to the man: “You can go now; but let me warn you never to appear here again? The man replied, with a broad grin: •‘I wouldn’t be here this time, only de onslable fotch me.” SMALL BITS Os Vo. lous Kiiuli l tirelessly throw 11 To. gether. The children of God have much in hand, ami more in hope. Man wants but little here below, and he can get that quickest by ad vertising. The Princess Louise will sail fron Quebec for England on the 18th oi October by the steamship Sarmatian. Anton Lamotti, of Chicago, hanged himself on Monday night, and James T. Hankinson, of the same place, took morphine and died. Henry A. Hall, a well known rub ber manufacturer, committed suicide at Bridgewater, Ct., Tuesday, cutting his throat in a bath tub. A man was hit in the leg while on his knees in a prayer meeting at Boyd Station, Ky., by a stray bullet from the pistol of a drunken rowdy. Kansas school teacher—“ When does our grain go to ?” “Into th hopper.’- hopper Gri*-. hopper,” :Y.outud the sm'air U i Umphantly. ,In New York, Tuesday morning, Geo. Smith, under arrest for drunk enn.ss ami disorderly conduct, com mi e suicide by hanging himself with a handkerchief in bis cell. . C uno to think of it, George Fran cis Train is not only still alive, ba bas again embarked in the newspa per business. He is, however, , ’>ndei control and perfectly harmless. If Christians must contend, let i; be like the olive and the vine, which shall boar most and best fruit; not like the aspen and elm, which shal' make the most noise in the wind. We should act with as much ener gy as those who expect everythin® from themselves; and wo should pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God. Dio Lewis, who has been supposed to be m tne Sandwich Islands bv most people, is to no farther away than Washington, but, he is wonder fully quiet on the subject u s cheap If I have not a broken and contrite heart, God’s mercy will never be mine; but if God had not manifested his mercy in Christ, infinite and free 1 could never have a broken, contrik heart. luat California shooting cast seems to gpropoand :he quen;’ ‘ls it any worse to insult a man’s mother in print than iiis fathe r?” When this is settled they can begin shooting again. A mud-turtle Can neither fly, sing, gallop, laugh, cry or g o blackberry ing, and yet it they are let alone they get along just as well as the young man who tries lo be funny at a lawn party. Man proposes but a mob disposes. A tramp who threatened to burn the 1 own of Chi rry Valley, Idaho, was never more “off* in his life. In twenty minutes he was plumb uu and down from a limb. When great big watermelons sell in New York for ten cents each the restaurants charge fifteen cents for a slice comprising one tenth of the melon. Ban Kers and druggists dont pocket all the profits. A Boston druggist sold an ounce of laudanum io a boy who brought a written order for tincture of rhubarb, and the widow of the man killed bi i he blunder has obtained a verdict ol $5,208 dollars damages. About toe lime that peaches are the ripest and cheapest and merchant 'ailors are cutting into each other along comes a solemn-faced old cur mudgeon and solemnly exclaims: “The end of all is death.” It was in the sixteenth century that woodyard men first discovered how to pile the slicks crossways in the box, and larrup a customer out of one eight on every cord. Don’t look upon it us a new thing. A man who has the cheek to put up bitters containing ninety parts cheap whisky and the remainder dog button, and then, advertise the stuff as “friend of temptrance,” would think nothing of stealing a red-hot lime kiln. The tusk sent by Cetawayo toLmd Chelmsford to intimate his wish for peace, is now at the Colonial office. It is seven feet in length and about half a yard thick at the broadest part. It is pronounced the finest ever seen in England. Malt AV hitman writes from the Rocky Mountains that he absorbs the grandest scenery in the world, feasts on antelope and mountain trout, fraternizes wth emigrant ■ camps, miners and cowboys, an.i stands the travel pretty well for a half paralytic. A new temserance movement has been organized in Great Britain. It takes the form of a joint stock com pany, with a capital of $5,000,000 in shares of $5 each. It proposes to open temperauc i houses ail over the kingdom. The Archbishop of Can terbury heads the list in the prospec tus of the enterprise. An English professor and a young lady from Baltimore were recently wrecked in a rocky cave near Mt. Desert at nightfall, t hey had gone into the cavo in a small boat and were sitting on the rocks talking about mineralogy. Suddenly a big wave broke into the cavern and the boat was swamped. The English man plunged into the boiling surf endeavoring wi'h the frenzy of de spair to collect the remnants of the frail bark. Useless for the purposes of navigation, the shattered craft might serve for fuel, for the cave was cool and night was coming on. The prefessor built a fire and there they remained until morning, when some [fishermen ventured in to the rescue of the imprisoned couple, and with the aid of ropes drew them from their perilous position. Let ltis A-iliiO ti 11C.111.1 i i , Hosse aud Lot ou Sninmit street, 11 acre land, 4 rooms, youne; orchard, stable, crib buggy house and wash honse. Apply \ B C Dorsey A Co, Real Es ate Agents. Vacant lot containing 2 acres, Athens street; uiee building lots. Apply to \B (! Dorsey <t Co, Real Estate Agents. Vacant lot on Spring street, corner lot fronting 110 feet and running back 150 f, et ; beautiful building lot and n.-.v-the pub.ie square. Apply to AB C Dorsey Ai’>, Ral Estate Agents. Six v -acres, partly iu :m t partly out of city limits; good dwelling and <>nt-h > about ball in cultivation; chc-ico inf i tr. s —apples, peaches, pears, pliuas.orapes, etc; as pretty a place as any in Nortiieas Geor gia. Apply to ABO Dc-r.sey A (1», Real Estate Agents. F-mr and a half acre-lot, just outside city linm in good stale of cultivation; lionse eontaming 3 rooms,with upstairs -aulinishvd Apply to A B (.’• Dorsey ,t Co, R al Estat j Agents. A ;;Gt acre farm, about 6 mil ’s from jainesville; 126 acr s of bottom ■au l, with >ver 5,000 young apple trees, ..11 b ung iuit, with house and 5 settleaiei ts on the NO. 40 • place. This is a place that lor a fiiime iu- I vestment cannot be excelled. Apply to A B C Dorsey <fc Co, Real Eitate Agents. i 1 building lot on west side of Alain street, fronting 22 feet by 100 back. Willbe .s .l l cheap tor cash by ABC Dorsey and Co. 25 or 50 seres of land just outside of the oity limits, enclosed; beautiful place for building; 10 or 12 acres woodland, S or 10 I’.eres branch bottom; balance in old field, and lies well; fine view of the mountains. For sale by ABC Dorsey & Co. 1 wool carder, double cylinder, one break er, .] burr machines; been us-d e,ght year.;. For sale by A B C Dorsey A Co. House and lot corner Spring and Syca more streets; 7 rooms, good baseui-ut, well arranged . and convenient; also a small house atljoining, with 4 rooms F-»r "file Lji ’. B C Dorsey A (.3. - o of land,-"i-ie-half outside the city limits; a new three-room house, stables, etc. inside the city limits; nil the land cleared and fenced, and in cultivation. For sale by ABC Dorsey A Co. 464 acres of land at Lula, 50 acres having been laid off into business and building lots, each alternate lot of the 50 acres be- to the Noithcnstern Railroad: the Air -Line Railroad runs for one mile through the above tract jof land; the Northeastern Railroad abiut three-fourths of a mile; the right of way of both roads off the 461 acres; the traces of land lies well; 60 acres of old field; 15 acres of branch bottom, not cleared plenty of wood anti good timber. This is the place lor you to make your money on, as we will sell with the tract of land the business and building lots; all goes together A B C Dorsey A Co. These, with other city property end farms, are in our hands for sale. VZe also rent property, and will look after wild lands, or sell lands anywhere. We adv- rti.e at our own expense —no sale, no charge. Ail letters promptly answered when stamp : s enclosed. A. B. BRUMBY’S School for Boys, Prince Avenue, - Alliens. Ga. RE-OPENS MONDAY, SEPT. 1, 1879. Tuition $1 to $6 per month, according to age, grade, etc. Board $lO a month, in ad vance. “ref. W. H. Waddeii writes: “I do not hesitate to recommend Dr. Brumby as tli > most successful teacher > mong those who. during my professorship of twenty yea: ■’ duration, prepared students lor tho Univer sity of Georgia.” For further information send for circular to or confer with A B. BRUMBY, A. M.. Al. D. se2G P. O. Drawer 287, Athens, Ga. WALTER I. MCARTHUR. JOHN W. GRIFFIN. McArthur <fc Griffin, DEALERS IN Lind and Ileal Estate HASTM 1 V, G MOIIGIA. Offer for sale or lease in lots to suit parch t sers, some of the choices’ Timber and Tur pentine Lan Is in the Sauthern Stat- s. UKf.’Klt BY PKIi iISSIOX TO I. C. PL ANT, Prest First National Bank of Macon, Ga. Capt. JOHN AIcMAIION, Vice Prest. Sou thern Bank of the State of Ga. Savannah, Ba. sep26-tf Lucy J Dover I Libel for Divorce in Daw vs V son Superior Court, April Eari W Dover. ) Terms, 18H9. It appearing to the court by the return of the Sheriff in this case that the defendant' Earl W Dover, does not reside in said coun ty, aud it further appealing that he floes not reside in the State of Georgia; it is or dered by the court that said defendant ap pear and answer said case at the next term of the court, aud in default plaintiff be al lowed to proceed. Aud it is further ordered that service be perfected on the oefendant in said case by the publication of this rule in the Gainesvlllk Eagle, a public gazette «. ol this State, once a mouth for font’ months before the next term of this court. April 21, 1879. Geo. N. Lester, J. S. C., ii. R. C. Georgia, Dawson Cub-m. 1 hereby eertily shat the above tnd fore going is a true extract from tin; minut -s of Dawson Superior court, April T am, 1579. This April 30,1879. John W Hug us, m .y 9-4 m o. 8. C, Alfred J Batson | Libel for divorce in Union vs. > Superior Court, Alay Lizzie Batson. J term, 1879. Rule to perfect service, etc. It appearing to the Court by the return ot the sheriff that the defendant does not reside in this county, and it fuither appearing that she docs not reside in this State, it is on motion of C J Wellborn, counsel for plaintiff, ordered by the court that said defendant appear and answer at the next term of this courr, else that the case be considered in default and the plaintiff allowed to proceed. It is further ordered that tais rule be pub lished in the Gainesville Eagle once a month for lour months. GEO. N. LESTER, I S C. A true extract from the minutes of Union Superior Court, This May 29th, 1879. jnl4-4m C E FOSTER, CSC. Rare Business Chance. On account of continued ill health and a desire superinduced thereby to retire from busings, the undersigned offers, on most Advantageous Terms HIS ENTIRE STOCK of MERCHANDISE now approximating $2,500, at and below first cost. He will al o rent to the purciias er a FIRST-CLASS STOREROOM • with basement and sleeping room attached, most eligibly located ou the public square in the citv ot Gainesville, and will rent a residence on College avenue iusfidcity, containing six rooms at’' a garret, pleasant ly located, on most advantageous terms. As I am forced by the cause above n lined to close out business, a cash pureh.is r who means business can get a barxaia by calling s on or addressing A. WHELCHEL, ( sepl2-3t Gainesville Ga. i , Cheap for l ash. r Twenty acres of iand one-half inside city J limits, a new threa-room cottage well flu j ished, and good outbuildings; one hundred young fruit trees of choice varieties; good well of wat r, etc. All the land cleared and 1 under good fence. For further portion ars apply at tbit office. se!9.