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editorial eaglets.
Senator Thurman and Judge
Church would make about as strong
a team as could be selected.
The congressional investigation of
of the “star route” postal service is
likely to bring somebody to grief.
Simmons’ letter to Hayei for the
supervisorship and Felton’s endorse
ment, should send both to political
perdition,— Central Georgia Weekly.
We have had all along reasonable
hopes of the editor of the Cumming
Clarion, but since he has dropped
’'into poetry—well, we have not yet
given him up altogether.
.<■ <o»-
‘•Let us get our fingers in a crack,
and we’ll rip off the whole board,’’ is
the elegant and forcible remark at
tributed to one of the justices of the
Supreme court in Maine.
For the delectation of those who
"'are urging Grant for a third term
the New York Sun publishes a full
and detailed history of black Fri
day September 24th, 1869.
It is very pleasant to the holders
for railroad stock to bounce from 79
95 but when it drops to 80 in oae
day, they realize the uncertainty
and instability of all sublunary as
fairs.
/ In addition to two legislatures and
two governors, Maine is afflicted
w th a political Supreme court and
political associated press agents.
Everything seems to be out of joint
or badly warped.
It appears from the proceedings
of a conference of the anti-Tildon
men held at Albany, New York, one
day last week, that the war between
Kelly and Tilden is to be continued
4 for a time at last.
During the year 1879 there ware
eighty-six failures in Georgia, with
liabilities aggregating $574,323
against one hundred and nineteen
failures in 1878, with liabilites
amounting to $3,738,134.
The Mississippi legislature after a
het contest did a neat thing in elect
ing Gen. J. Z. George to Bruce’s seat
in the United States senate. To
Gen George more than almost any
other person, is due the credit of
Mississippi’s redemption from carpet
bag and negro rule.
Col. Cole may be superceded but
the time is not distant when his plans
will be carried out. Cincinnati has
*• her way open to the sea and St.
Louie will bo forced to have the fa
cilities offered by Cole’s plan, or its
equivalent, to keep pace with her
rival.
Mr. Voorhees, the member of con
gress from New Jersey, who is now
under indictment by the grand jury
of his county for embezzlement, con
spiracy and forgery, has been polite
ly invited and demanded by the leg
islature of his state to step down
and out. Another stalwart seat va
cant.
■<--«- ♦—
It is evident that the greenbackers
are preparing to nominate General
Ben. Butler as their candidate for
the presidency. Mr. Weaver, green
back member of the house from
Wisconsin, says that he is very
prominent, and has the best chance
of being nominated of anybody
named.
The purpose of the republican
managers of New York has become
too plain to be longer do.ubted. They
are now feeling the public pulse and
if they decide that it will not react
■* upon their party, they will steal the
electoral vote of that State without
consulting the voters. The question
is will the country stand it.
The jury in the memorable Hay
den case has been discharged. They
stood on the last ballot eleven for
acquittal and one for murder in the
second degree. Hayden’s counsel
will move for his release on bail at
the first opportunity. It is reported
that there is scarcely a probability
of another trial. Hajden was warm
ly congratulated over the result by
his friends.
Col. Cole’s directors, who sold him
and the city o’ Nashville out to New
I York and Louisville, have excited I
intense indignation throughout Ten- j
iiessee. In Nashville they are char- ;
actcrized as Judas Iscariots, and in- I
dignation meetings for the purpose
of hanging them in effigy are freely
talked of. V. K. Stevenson and his
nephew, G. M. Fogg, the latter being
attorney for Col. Cole’s road, are spe
cial objects of the people’s wrath, j
The citizens of Nashville say they do
not object to these men selling their
stock. They had a perfect right to
do that. But their treachery to
wards Col. Cole and their disposal of
the stock in New York instead of in
Nashville, are what has caused the
excitement.
The Gainesville Eagle
VOL. XIV.
The Political Status of St. Au
gustine.
Sr. Augustine, Fla , Jan. 20,1880.
Editor Eagle—The present politi
cal outlook in Augustine is ominous
of an exciting chase for office at our
next election. For several years I
have been a resident of this city, but
as a general thing have taken but
little part in colitics. But the dullest
observer could not fail to note one of
the leading features in the workings
of partyism.
While the state has been carried,
under carpet-bag rule, for the repub
licans, St. Augustine has been demo
cratic—a few years was largely so.
In city and county elections they
run, in opposition to the organized
democratic ticket, what they termed
the “people’s ticket.” This ticket
corresponds, in a great measure, with
what is styled in some portions of
Georgia the “independent ticket.’’
While tbs republican party in this
county was in a hopeless minority,
they were always the engineers of
this party—always loudest in the
praises of its candidates, and always
foremost in discovering the faults
and inconsistencies of the organized.
For several years it was interest
ing to observe who voted with the
“people’s party.’’ Heading the list
were the undisguised white republi
cans; next came the negroes; then
came in those aspirants who failed
to get the nomination in the demo
cratic meetings, together with all
their friends they coulJ influence;
now comes those democrats who dis
like the choice of the party (but who
are ‘ ‘good democrats as anybo ly,
and will whip the man that says
they’re not,”) and who are going to
vote against the nominee for spite;
then comes in what is known as the
“floating vote.” This the straight
out republicans labor very hard to
control by bartering in exchange
“good jokes,’’ tobacco, whisky, and
various other equivalents satisfactory
to this class of our voting population.
Owing to the continued influx of
northern republicans to our mild
and genial climate, the accumulation
of negroes, and the great effort upon
those who are paid by government
to work for the party, the demo
cratic majority has been fearfully re
duced, while the “people’s ticket’’
has been proportionately increased.
At our last election for senator and
representative for state legislature
the “people’s” candidate for senator
came in a very few votes of being
elected, and in the last city election
the “people’s ticket” threw off all
disguise, declared their principles,
printed their ticket, headed “Repub
lican,” and elected half the aidermen,
the mayor and collector.
In the next fall’s election, the
probabilities are that the county
will go republican. The vote in the
city controls the election in the
county, and owing to the increase of
negroes, and added to this number
many of those who could “whip any
body that said they were not good
democrats,’’ and the powerful lever
of government at work to carry the
county for the republicans, make the
issue doubtful.
There seems to be one great, un
avoidable difficulty that the democ
racy has to submit to, or rather a
defect in the system of franchise.
The young “nig,” seventeen years old
and upwards, in hie great anxiety to
vote, in this great zeal for the suc
cess of the republican party, will
come up and swear that he is twen
ty-one, and his parents will swear it
for him, in order to swell the vote
one more.
Now, Mr. Editor, in looking at the
metamorphosis that has taken place
in the last seven or eight years in
our city and county politics, I have
to look at principles, and not at men,
to see what party I first acted with.
I can lay my finger on many men
who claimed, six or seven years ago,
to be staunch democrats, who are
acting and voting with the republi
cans to-day, and who have been
“roped in” this way,
The “people’s party ’ here and the
independents remind me of the old
snake story I used to hear of the two
snakes that got to fighting and
commenced swallowing at the other’s
tail, and they kept on swallowing
till there was no snake left. But in
this case it seems that the republi
cans swallowed them all.
In our recent great Grant boom
and his triumphal welcome into our
city, this was the only class of demo
crats, with the exception of one or
two, that turned out to welcome him
—the newspapers to the contrary
notwithstanding. Observer.
If there is a Lord in Israel let
Him be Found.
Lumpkin Co., Ga , Jan. 26, 1880.
Editor Eagle:—With your per
mission we would for the enlighten
ment and instruction of the honest
yeomanry of the country, have an
swered through the columns of the
Eagle by some of the advocates of
the hard money, specie basis, and
intrinsic value theory, a few questions
upon which many of our people do
not seem to be well informed.
1st —Whether at any time since
the first legal tender greenbacks were
issued in 1862; if John Doe owed
Richard Roe one hundred dollars,
could he pay that amount under the
law with less than one hundred dol
lars in coined gold, only by special
agreement and contract with Richard
Roe or whether one hu dred d illars
in gold possessed any more debt
paying power than one hundred dol
lars in coined greenback dollars ?
2d—lf when gold coin was selling
in New York one dollar of gold for
two dollars and eighty-five cents in
greenback, could an importer pay
more than one hundred cents of ac
count or import duties with the
standard gold dollar of 25 8-10
grains ?
Could a person under any circum
stance pay more than one dollar of
account under the law with a dollar
of coined gold ?
3d—Has gold or greenback dollars
been the standard or unit upon
which accounts have been kept and
settled between business men since
1862?
4th —Is it not a fact that during
the war when gold was selling at a
premium that its price was always
measured by a greenback standard,
instead of greenbacks by a gold stand
ard ?
sth—lf John Doe contracted or
made a debt of five hundred dollars in
’65, payable in five years time, would
it make any difference to John Doe
whether he paid that debt with
greenbacks or specie provided either
would discharge or cancel the debt?
6ih—Could John Doe pay off a
debt of five hundred dollars since
1853 with one thousand silver half
dollars; only with the consent of the
creditor or at a shave or discount ?
7th —Which possesses the most
■ntrinsic value, ths coined trade dol
lar of 420 grains of standard silver
which passes current only for ninety
cents; a Spanish milled dollar con
taining 412 grains of pure silver which
passes only for eighty cents, or the
standard dollar of 412£ grains which
passes current for debt paying pur
poses for one hundred cents, where
does the intrinsic part come, in that
game?
Bth—Was there more greenback
money and treasury notes in circula
tion when gold was selling one dol
lar of gold for two dollars and sixty
five cents in greenback in 1864 than
when gold sold for only sixty five
cents premium in 1865 ?
9th—Did the government ever
borrow from the capitalist* for the
purpose of prosecuting the war more
than eighty million dollars ?
10th—Is it not a fact that the gov
ernment created and issued green
backs and paid with them its debts
to the soldiers and contractors who
furnished supplies and munitions of
war, and after this money through
the regular channels of business came
into the hands of capitalists, was by
them carried to the govarnmeat and
exchanged (not bonds) for interest
bearing bonds and the greenback
money, then burned or otherwise
destroyed by the government to the
amount of nearly $2,000,000,000 ?
11th —Are the United States bonds
any advantage in auy instance to the
industrial classes, but on the contra
ry are they not an unjust bur
then ?
12th—Have the bondholders ever
produced anything in this country
except human suffering, crime pau
pers and bankruptcy ?.
Inquisitively Thine, Verdant.
THE NATIOiVSCAPITAL.
[Special Correspondence of the Eagle.]
Washington, D.C., Jan. 27,1880.
No cne knows better what a good
speech is than Senator Thurman,
and he gives high praise to that of
Senator Beck, delivered yesterday.
He thinks it unanswerable, and com
pares it favorably with the most cele
brated speeches ever made in the
senate. There will not be the amount
of debate propesied by some on the
subject of this speech—the Bayard
resolution. There is happy accord
among a sufficient number of demo
crats and republicans on the subject
of an early adjournment.
The evidence before the epecial
committee of Senator Voorhees upon
the negro emigration north has not
so far shown any connection of the
movement with politics. The senator
expects to prove that the emigration
was suggested and fostered for po
litical purposes, but, whether that
shall be established or not, he ap
preciates the fact that the emigra
tion is sure to result in evil, and only
evil, to the misguided i migrants.
Prominent citizens of Indiana, North
Carolina and other States will be
Bummoned; yet to this time only
Washington people, connected with
the movement from North Carolina,
have been summoned. They were
of the class, generally, who would
make commercial matter of anything
on earth.
The case of Senator-elect Gorman,
of Maryland, is a notable reversal of
what has often excited remark. Mr.
Gorman, when a boy, was a senate
page, and is the first person who
has had the same promotion. One
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 30. 1880.
member of the present house was
formerly employed in some small
capacity around that body. But for
each of these there are numerous
cases where membersof either house,
after exhausting their home support,
ask their former congressional asso
ciates for insignificant places at the
capitol.
It seems to be understood that the
committee investigating the case of
Senator Ingalls have found no con
clusive evidence of bribery, and that
the report exonerating him will be
unanimous.
It was said some time since that
General Garfield would vigorously
oppose favorable action in congress
in the case of General Fitz John
Porter. He has so far given no in
dication of such opposition. But, as
he was a member of the court mar
tial which originally tried and sen
tenced General Porter—from which
sentence relief is asked at the hands
of congress—it is believed Mr. Gar
field will have put upon the record
a statement concerning the first trial
and his connection with it. He does
not now express any doubt of the
innocence of Porter of any of the
offences charged. ‘ Rex.
Woman’s Rights.
BY DILBY DIMPLE.
Is there a brazen face specimen of
male trash here to-night who will
raise his hideous proboscis in this
august presence and say that the
original anatomical construction of
the anti-bilious properties of the bill
of rights did design that woman
should occupy an inconsequential
sphere under the fundamental law ?
Can any one be so short-sighted, so
ignorant, as not to understand that
when the declaration of independ
ence said that all men were born free
and equal, it meant women as well
as mon ! If so, let him speak out,
that we may gaze upon the unpar
donable wretch. No one speaks, no
one dares to speak, for it is now uni
versally admitted that men and wo
men were created equal—only that
the woman was made vastly superior
to the man; and it is also unani
mously admitted on all hands that
man has had charge of affairs long
enough. As a success man is a plum
dead failure, and must retire into
the background and give woman a
chance to retrieve the world from the
confused, disorganized, helter-skelter
condition into which he has gotten
it. It may take time io do it, for
things are in a bad fix; but the only
hope of ever getting things straight
again is in woman. Yes, you poor,
short-sighted simpletons, we have
been telling you for years that you
would run things aground. You
have run the ship of state upon the
quick-sands; she has unshipped her
rudder, and were it not that woman
is coming to the rescue the rickety
old craft would go down in the vasty
deep to rise no more. The cry now
is, Help us, women, or we perish 1
But we’re coming—we shall soon
accompany you to the ballot-box and
deposit our votes; shall soon take
our seats in the halls of congress and
state legislatures; shall soon have a
female woman in the White House as
president of these United States, and
female ambassadors at all foreign
courts; we shal’ soon have a majority
of females in our state legislatures;
and the best lawyers at our bars, the
best railroad conductors, the best
omnibus drivers, the best doctors,
preachers, merchants, etc., will be
females. And when that glorious
era shall come, which will not be
long, then you male trash must look
out for shelter.
It would be well for you to recog
nize the fact at once that woman can
fill any and all places that a man
can fill, even to a pair of pantaloons,
and she is bound to do it. Her ene
mies and oppressors will soon find
out that she can manage something
else besides bread trays, grid-irons,
scouring mops and sewing machines.
The day of deliverance is nigh at
hand; so look up, dear sisters, and
rejoice at the coming jubilee I
know you are tired of supporting
lazy husbands, darning old socks,
patching and sewing on buttons; I
know you are tired of nursing babies,
and this duty must now be turned
over to men, and we’ll hear them sing
Barbara Allen and Rock-a-by-baby;
we know you are tired of waiting for
some one to come and court you; I
know you are tired of being penned
up all day like convicts in your pri
vate dwellings and following after
lazy free negroes; but courage, my
dear fellow sisterhood, for a moral
earthquake is shaking things around,
and all these drudgeries will be
turned over to the other sex.
Talk about woman occupying an
inferior place! You might as well
talk of the sun and moon changing
places, or the waters of the Missis
sippi flowing backward. No, indeed;
her inevitable destiny is to rule this
mundane sphere nolens nolens; and
those who would oppose this mani
fest destiny will be crushed like pig
mies under the car of Juggernaut.
With steaks of blue lightning for her
messengers and thunder bolts for her
magic wands, she will capsize, revo
lutionize and utterly demoralize all
the works and plans of man, and out
of impenetrable chaos bring law,
order and beauty. Oh, how much
better would the world be to day if
man had never been created! He’s
always got his finger in everything.
But that little affair in the Garden
of Eden is often thrown into our
faces with a triumphant and insult
ing air, as though the man had no
thing to do with it. Now, every
candid and unselfish person, be he
man or be he woman, knows that the
man was ten times more guilty in all
that matter than the woman. If all
the facts were known, it would, no
doubt, come to light that he helped
the woman up the tree—l have no
doubt of it myself—and when she
handed it down to him you all know
his gree-gormandizing disposition too
well not to know that he gobbled it
up instantly and on the spot; possi
bly he may have given her the core
after she scrambled down the boat
she could. Reasoning from analogy,
how can any sane person who ever
saw a man eat believe otherwise ?
You know the man was present all
the time, according to the Scriptural
account, for it says, in these words:
“She took of the fruit thereof and
did eat, and gave unto her busband
with her; and he did eat.” Yes, any
one who has seen one of the gluttons
where there was anything to eat
about knows he did eat. As to the
woman’s partaking thereof, you all
know how she did. Now, when she
pulled that apple, just like the dear,
sweet, self-sacrificing creature that
she was, and like all her descendants
are to this day—foolish simpletons—
she just stuck one tooth in it to see
if it was ripe, and then handed it to
the man that was “with her.’’ Then
it was that it disappeared in a jiffey;
and then, after all this, for the poor,
cowardly gormandizer to skulk from
the face of God, and try to throw all
the blame upon woman. O, that the
Almighty did not obliterate him and
his whole sex right there.
But this is not all. There is no
account given of the woman having
ever been ordered not to eat of that
tree. The command was given to
the man. and that, too, even before
the woman had been made. How,
then, could she know anything of
it ? The only evidence on record of
her ever having heard of it is that
the devil, or serpent, told her so;
and do you blame her for not be
lieving what the devil said ? Who is
expected to believe the devil ? Oh 1
you infamous, gluttonous generation,
how have you ever dared to look a
woman in the face since I We beg
our self-inflated lords to put these
facts into your pipes and smoke them
—they will do them good. O, what
a glorious world we would have if
none but women had been put in
the garden ! Yes, that heaven-blessed
bower would still be standing in all
its original loveliness. She would
have kept it clean and nice, and with
the sunlight of Jehovah’s benign
face ever resting upon its clustering
flowers and creeping vines, it would
ow be the fit abode of innocence,
purity and beauty. But that is all
past, and it now devolves upon wo
man to bring the world back to its
original purity, and establish an
other Eden; and when wo get con
trol of things, that, will be our pro
gramme. Soon as we get control of
the ballot-box we’ll revolutionize
things in short earnest. Taere’ll be
no more election frauds then; no
more monopolies; no more money
and whisky rings (no, the only kind
of rings that will be tolerated will be
rings for the fingers and ears); no
guzzling in bar-rooms (every fellow
who drinks will be headed up in a
barrel of whisky and pickled for the
Indians); no more street loafers; no
idle free negroes; no poor folks and
no poor kin; no more jails and peni
tentiaries—for when a fellow does
wrong he will be taken to Alaska and
sold for diamonds; no more cheating,
Ijing and robbing—for everybo y
will have a plenty and some to spare
for the preacher; no more rubbing
of snuff—for when a woman is found
who can’t do without tobacco, she
will be put in a Virginia tobacco
factory for life; no more slandering
and back-biting among the women—
for the men will all be in the corn
fields, and the women will be so
happy they will have no time for
envy and jealousy- Who of you
gentlemen does not say amen to this
coming millenial season ? and who
among you is not ready to cry out,
“Hail! ye coming sheroes —come
quickly and possess the land ?”
Billings’ Almanac for 1880.
Good examples among the rulers
are the best laws they kan enakt.
A man who is good company for
himself iz olwus good company for
others.
The man who dies the richest iz
the one who leaves the least here,
and takes the most with him.
I have seen men who have worn
their vices, and suppoze, of course
that they wus lying on their virtues.
What a man iz most afrade ov he
sez he don’t beleive in; this may ac
count for some men’s unbeleaf ia
hell.
Some people won’t believe enny
thing they can’t prove; the things I
can’t prove are the very things I be
leave the most. Canning iz very apt
to outwit itself. The man who turn
ed the boat over and got under it
tew keep out of the rain waz one ov
this kind.
The world owes all its energys and
refinement to luxury, digging roots
for breakfast and going naked for
cloths; iz 'the virtewous innocence of
a lazy savage. A man with a very
small head on him iz like a pin with
out enny; very apt to get into things
beyond hiz depth.
An is a party who be
le&ves about 4 times az much az he
can prove and who can prove about
5 times az much az ennybody else be
leaves.
How can you expect to find two
people in the world who are alike
when yu can’t even find one who iz
alike half the time ?
Whenever yu cum across a man
who distrusts everybody, yu hav
found one whom it is safe for every
body to distrust. The man whd
never makes enny blunders iz a very
nice piece of machinery, that’s all.
Loveliness of Sweet Laughter.
A woman has no natural grace more
bewitching than a sweet laugh. It
is like the sound of flutes on the wa
ter. It leaps from her heart in a
clear, sparkling rill, and the soul that
hears it feels as if it had bathed in
the cool exhilarating spring. Many
have pursued an unseen fugitive
through the trees, led on by her fairy
laugh—now here, now lost, now
found. If so, he pursues that wan
dering voice till the pale shadows of
death glimmer on the eyes. Some
times it comes in the midst of care or
sorrow, or irksome business; and thea
we turn away, and listen and hear it
ringing through the room life* a sil
ver bell with power to scar* away all
the svil spirits of the soul. How
much is owed a sweat laugh—bright,
merry and musieal. It turn* fk*
prose of lift into powWy, fliwga afcow
ers of sanshine over the darksome
wood in which we are traveling. It
mingles with our visions, loathes
with light our sleep, whieh is no more
the image of death, bet gemmed with
dreams that are shadow* of immor
tality. It is a glory and a joy for aver,
fresh and glowing a* image* of peren
nial happineea. Like eladiome
chimes, it float* on memory"* wave*,
and gently with it* harmonious
sounds banishes gloom to the realm
of nothingness. A cherry laugh from
a graceful woman ia the aweeteet mel
ody that ever raviahed ear with de
light. It is a thing to keep among
that which is cheriehed. >ver at in
tervals it rings its fall coaled jolly
chimes and dies away like a strain of
perfect melody.
Why Gambetta Brake His
Entagemeat.
Gambetta is a bachelor; bat he has
not lived so long without haviag at
least contemplated marriage. The
story of hi* ang a«emeat to an heiress
in western Franee, and rt* sadden
breaking of, givegis * fresh glimpse
of hi* character. From the time of
his leaving hi*' hamble homehat
Cahors, till his rise to the highest
rank of public personagee, Gameefata
lived with a faithful, loving, devoted
aunt, who had followed him to Paris,
and who made, everywhere be west, a
pleasant homejfor him. She wwJat
once his maid-of-all-work and his
congenial companion; and he was as
deeply attached to her as she to him.
His engagement to a handsome and
accomplished girl, with a dot ofjscven
millions, was a shock ho the good
aunt; but ehe yielded gracefully to
the inevitable. Whan the arrange
ments for the marriage were being
diseaseed, however, the yoangUady
took it into her head to make it a
condition of their union, that the
aunt should be excluded from the
new establishment. She was
scarcely elegant enough to adorn gil
ded salon*. Gambttta explained
how much bis aunt had been to him;
the rich beauty was only the more
obdurate. Gambetta hook up his
hat, and jWith 2a | profound bow,
“Adieu,” said he; “we weae not made
to anderetand etch other.” And
the marriage was pni of forever.
* eg >
Washington as a-Ftresaaa.
In 1774 the Friendship Giro Com
pany, which still exists, was organ
ized. It at first consisted of oilmens
who, out of “mutual friendship,’’
agreed to carry to every flre “two
leathern backets and one great bag
of oznabnrg or .wider linen.”
Washington was made an honorary
member, and when he went as a del
egate to the congress of 1774, at
Philadelphia, he examined the fire
engines in use there. On his return
from Philadelphia to the Continental
Congress of 1775, he bought from
one Gibbs a small fourth class en
gine for £BO 10s, and just before he
set out for Bostain Heights to be
come commander-in-chief he dis
patched this little engine to the
Friendship Company. When in Al
exandria daring his younger days he
always attended fires and aseisttd
to extinguish them. In the last year
of his life a fire occurred near the
market. He was riding down King
street, followed by his servant, also
on horseback, and he saw the Friend
ship engine poorly manned. Riding
up to a group of well-dressed gentle
men near by, he called out: “Why
are you idle there gentlemen ? It is
your business to lead in these mat
ters.” And throwing the bridle of
his horse to his servant, he leaped
off and seized the brakes, followed
by a crowd that gave the engine
such a “ehaking up” as it never knew
afterwards.
Evenings at Home.
If parents would introduce into
their families the practice of reading
aloud a certain portion of every even
ing, they would soon observe an im
provement in the younger members
of the home circle. A book which
will not be found at all interesting if
read to one’s self, will prove a source
of great enjoyment if read aloud and
commented upon in the family circle,
and much more instruction will be
gleaned from it. The taste of the
whole family will be elevated and re
fined, and the ties of love between
parents and children, brothers and
tisters, will be firmly riveted by the
common interest in the book, as well
as by the greater enjoyment of th*
evenings at home And reading
aloud also helps to develop the lungs,
as well as rendering sonorous, a
weak and piping voice. As a means
of health, of being social and enter
taining, of improving half a dozen
minds al one and the same time, the
practice of reading aloud in the fam
ily circle should be generally adop
ted; and the accomplishment of be
ing a good reader should be consid
ered of more value than a smattering
of foreign languages, or a knowledge
of the latest step in the waltz.
Lnck and Labor.
Don’t charge your failure to “bad
luck.” my boy. I’ll tell you what
your trouble is. You are lazy.
Learn Mr. Cobden’s proverbs about
“Luck and Labor”:
Luck is waiting for something to
turn up.
Labor, with keen eyes and strong
will, will turn up something.
Luck lies in bed and wishes the
postman would bring him news of a
legacy, . , , ,
Labor turns out at six o clock, and
with busy pen or ringing hammer
lays the foundation of a competence.
Luck whines.
Labor whistles.
Luck reli*s on chances.
Labor ou character.
Luck slips down to indigence.
Labor strides upward to independ-
I ence.
SMALL BITS
<Jr Various Kindi CarrlrMly Thrown
Together.
There ia one officer to every ten
toldiers itftbe army.
Arkaaaas ranks next to Texas oa a
cotton-prodncing state.
Peter Goetet who recently died in
New York worth $20,000,000, al
ways sied he was too poor to mar
ry-
The Cwar has three American de
tectives at his capital, and low it it
sure that he will some day ba aas»-
inated.
The voice of a political speaker
could be heard a mile in the Arctic
regions, and why they dou’t go there
is an awful myatery.
A hundred years ago the marovi
ans baptized the first negro convert
in Dutch Guina. Now the mission
has 23,301 members.
There were no Indian agents whan
Columbus discovered America, nor
was there any trouble between the
white man and the red.
Switzerland is this winter almoit
one mountain of raow; trains, steam
boats end telegraphs have been in a
chronic stats of interruption.
“With all thy false, I love the still,’’
murmured a young man as he calm
ly haaded his girl the artificial Heth
that she had sneezed into his lap.
Colonel Fred Grant, A. D. 0., who
is swinging round with “Pa,” caught
the orange fever while in Florida
and invested in the golden spheres.
“Ave-Ciesar’’ is the head line over
an article in La France predicting
the election of Grant to a third term
The French know how it is them
selves.
Turkey’s territorial loss is estima
ted by a German authority as a ter
ritory almost as large as Prussia
proper, with a population of elevon
millions.
Pinchback has been nominated by
Mr. Hayes for the office of Naval Of
ficer at New Orleans. A fight will
be made in the senate over u his con
firmation.
A Chicago man has a woman’s
tooth grafted into his jaw. and now
every time he passes a millinery
store that tooth fairly aches to'drag
him up to the window.
Aon M alike, the veteran com
mander of the German armies, al
though past eighty, rises early and
retires late, and regularly performs a
large amount of official work.
Public meetings are held at Ober
lin, Ohio, for the purpose of driving
the tobacco dealers out of town.
Liquor sellers and billiard soloon
keepers have already been expelled.
If the young man who parts his
hair in the center and carries a pen
over his ear were to pasi away, the
vacancy could not be filled by any
thing in this world, unless it was a
sick cat.
A gentleman in Hooker, Nebraska,
dug a well four years ago to the depth
of one hundred feet. When first
dug the water of the well was warm;
it has since been growing hotter and
hotter and it now boils.
A German philosopher has said
that, a man is what he eats, meaning
that his body and his brains are
built up out of his food, and are,
therefore, coarse or fine, according to
what he takes into his alimentary
canal.
Colorado emigrants from Arkansas
continue to reach Kansas in greet
numbers on the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas railway. Some of them
are living in tents and wagons in the
woods. Some deaths have occurred
and many are suffering from pover
ty
There are about 60,000 Monnonites
in America. They have 500 meeting
houses, one-eighth of that number
being in Canada They abstain from
taking the oath, do not inflict pun
ishment, do no! accept public office
and never go to law. They are nearly
all farmers.
The New York Herald has inter
viewed a large number of members
of the New York senate on the pro
posed change in method of appoint
ing Tresidential electors. The dem
ocrats are all against it, and many
republicans are equally pronounced
in opposition.
The Commercial Advertiser, which
has experience in such matters, says
that your moderate drinker hurts
his constitution more and grows old
sooner than your man who goes off
on a periodical spree, and then
swears off for several weeks or
months at a time,
A girl of sanguine temperament
and fastidious taste will take a con
niption fit if she happens to get a
single hair in her mouth out of the
butter, but the same girl will browse
around on a silky mustache attached
to a good looking young man’s lip
and never say a word.
In the Savannah river, about two
miles above Bowman’s ferry, is a reg
ular floating bar-room, anchored in
the middle of the river. It is kept
by a man from the Georgia side,
is reached »nly by the owner’s ba
teau, which comes to either bank in
answer to a shout.
A Little Rock paper says there is
a woman now living in Arkansas who
has been married fourteen times
Thirteen times has she listened to
the clods rattling on the last house of
a dear departed, and thirteen times
has she dried her eyes and looked
about her for a comforter.
The Sibley cotton manufacturing
company of Augusta, Ga., has just
been organized, with Mr Josiah Sib
ley, one of the wealthiest men in
Georgia, as president. The capital
stock of the company is $500,000,
and the work of erecting a mill to
accommodate 24,000 spindles is to be
commenced at an early day. Augusta
lis fast becoming a second Lowell.
A.cLvortls.tng Ratos.
Legal advertt»«n«Bt« charged eeventy-five cents
per hundred word* or fraelio* thereof each inser
tion for the first four insertion*, and thirty-five
cent* for each subsequent insertion.
Transient advertising will be charged $1 per in-h
for the first, and fifty cents for each subsequent
insertion. Advertisers desiring larger space for a
longer time than one month will receive a liberal
deduction from regular rates.
All bills due upon the first appearance of the ad
vertisement, and will be presented at the pleasure
of ihe proprietor. Transient advertisements from
unknown parties must be paid for in advance.
NO. 5
TH E
ATLANTA CONSTITUTION.
Dwriag ths eomtnf year—• year that will
jwftaon ths progrws nf Ufllmißatioa of the
mart tatenattag •alitissl soataet that has
•vw tabs* >!ass t» this tenVy-«vcry cit
tern tad sverv fhoaghtfa! person will be
eotnpsllei to »sfy npsn ths newspapers for
information. Why aot get ths bast • Abroad
T«« Co»BTrrVTK>» is resognised, referred ta
and quofep as the leading southern journal
—as ths ongaa and vshisis of the best
aonthewi thought and opinion—and at home
its columns ars oonswlted for ths latent
news, ths freshsat comment, and for all
mattsrs of spaeial and current interest.
Tn Cosarrnmog contains more and later
te'egraphie new than any other Georgia,
{taper, and thia particular feature will be
argely ftdded to taring the coming year.
All its facilities for gathering ths latest news
from all parts of the country will be en
larged and supplemented. The Constitu
tion is both chronicler and commt ntator.
Its editorial opinions, its contributions to
the drift of carrent discussion, its humorous
and satirical paragraphs, are copied from
* one end of the country to the other. It
aims always to he the brightest and the beet
—newsy, original and pigoant. It nims
particularly to give the news impartially
and fully, and to keep its venders informed
of the drift of current discussion by liberal
but concise quotations from all its centetn
poraries. It aims, in short, to more than
•ver deserve to bs known *» “the leading
southern newspaper.” Bill Arp will con
tinue to contribute hie unique letters, which
grow in savory humor week by week. “Old
Bi” will add his quaint fun to the collection
of goad things, and “Unele Bemus” hes in
preparation a series of negro myth legends,
illustrating the folk-lore of the old plants
tion. In every respect Tnn Combtitution
ior 1880 will be better than ever.
Tme Wmut Constitution is a carefully
edited compendium of the news of tho week
and contains the boat and freshest matter to
be found in any other weekly from a daily
office. Its news and miscellaneous contents
are the freshest and its market reports the
latest
THE SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR.
This, the best, the most reliable and most
popular of southern agricultural journals, is
issued from the printing establishment of
The Constitution. It ia still edited by Mr.
W. L. Jones, and is devoted to the best in
terests of the farmers of the south. It s
sent at reduced rates with the Weekly edi
tion of Tub Constitution.
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION:
Daily Constitution $lO 00 a year
“ ** 5 00 6 m’s
“ “ 2 50 3 m’s
Weekly Constitution 1 50 a year
“ “ ......... 100 6 m’s
*• Clubs of 10, 12 50 a year
“ “ Clnbsot'2o, 20 00 “
Southern Cultivator 150 “
" “ Clubs of 10, 12 20 “
“ " Clubs of 20, 20 00 “
Weekly Constitution and Cul-
tivator to same address. 250 “
Address Till CONSTITUTION,
Atlanta, Ga.
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
On and after December 20th double daily trains
will run on thia road aa follows:
MOBNING TRAIN.
Laave Atlanta.. 4 (Mt a m
Arrive Charlotte 3 20 pm
“ Alr-Llne Junction 3 30
“ Danville 951 «
“ Lynchburg 12 37 mq
“ Washington 7 50 a 111
“ Baltimore 9 30
‘ Philadelphia 130 and 145 p m
“ Mew York 345 and 445 “
“ Wilmtagton, N. O. (nrxt day) 950a tn
“ gichmund 7 43 “
IVENIgG TRAIN.
Leave Atlanta 3 30pm
Arrive Charlotte 3 20 a m
" Air-Line Junction 380 “
•• Danville 1022 «•
" Lynchburg .... 153 pm
“ Richmond 443 ••
“ Wa*hington 955 “
“ Baltimore 11 55 “
•• Philadelphia 3 35 a m
“ New York 645 “
GOING BAST.
Night Mail and PaMongor train.
Arrive Gainesville 5:50 y m
Leave ” 5:51 “
Day Passenger train
Arrive “ 8:13 am
Leave *• .... ~................. 8:15“
Local Freight and Accommodation train.
Arrive Gainesville 11H a in
Leave •• 11:25 “
GOING WEST.
Night Mail and Passenger train.
Arrive Gainesville 9:20 a in
Leave •• 9:21 “
Day Passvnger train.
Arrive “ __ B;lspm
Leave “ 8:18 "
Local Freight and Accommodation train.
Arrive Gainesville 1:45 a m
Leave •• 2:00 “
Close connection at Atlanta for all pointe West,
and at Charlotte for all potnts East.
G. J. FOREAORE, G. M.
W. J. HOUSTON, Gen. Pas. and Tkt Agt.
Wortlieastern 1\ a lire a rt.
Cliange of Schedule.
SUPERINTENDENT'S OjTVICE, I
Athens, Ga., Oct. 11, 1879. j
On and after Monday, October 6, 1879, trains on
the Northeastern Railroad will run as follows. All
trains daily except Sunday:
Leave Athens 3 50 pm
Arrive at Lula 620 “
Arrive at Atlanta, via Air-Line R. R 10 30 “
Leave Atlanta, via Alr-Llne R. E.„ 330 “
Leave Lula T 46 “
Arrive at Athens 10 00 “
The above trains also connect closely at Lula with
northern bound trains on A. L. R. B. On Wednes
days and Saturdays the following additional trains
Will be run: •
Leave Athens 6 45 a m
Arrive at Lula 845 “
Leave Lnla. 920 “
Arrive at Athens 1130 “
This train connect! closely at Lula for Atlanta,
making the trip to Atlanta only four hours and
forty-five minutes. J. M. EDWARDS, Bupt.
PIAWQB A ORGANS
FROI TACTORT TO FURCBASgR.
EVERYMAN HH OWN AGENT
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Ludden & Baths’ Grand Introduction
Sale continued until Nov. 1, 1880. Only
sale of the kind ever successfully carried
out in America. 5,000 superb instruments
factory rates for Introduction and Adver
tisement. New plan of selling: No Agents !
No Commissions ? Instruments shipped
direct from Factory to purchasers. Middle
men’s profits saved. Agent’s rates to all.
Only house South selling on this plan.
PIANOS, 7 oct. $125, 7i oct. $155; Square
Grands $227. ORGANS, 9 stops $57; 13
stops s7l; 13 stops, Mirror Top Case, SB6.
New, handsome, durable. 6 years’ guaran
tee. IS days’ test trial. Purchasers choice
from ten leading makers and 200 different
styles. Join this gigantic club of 5,000 pur
chasers and secure an instrument «t whole
sale rates. Special terms to Music Teach
ers, Churches and Pastors. Address for
Introduction Sale circulars
LUDDEN & BATES, Savannah, (Lu
deci© It
MILLINERY GOODS!
Mrs. 11. IV. Ware
Begs leave to inform her friends and the
public generally that she has opened her
store in her dwelling house on Main street,
next door to the college, on the right hand
as yon go from the square. She hopes to
receive a liberal patronage, and to merit the
same by a desire to please and the low prices
at which shs will sell goods. Look for tho
fancy hat as a sign, last house as you go
down Main street to the college.
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