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The Gainesville Eagle. Published Every Fnday Morning. 13 Y «J . >2. BL, D W INE. Rates of Subscription I One copy one year ?2 00 One copy six months x ou One copy thrae months 50 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 Cole may be superceded but the time is not distant when his plans will be carried out.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 aaBKanMBnaaHBBBMaBHnaMHHiMMaaBMMMaHaBMMMt 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. nov7ly