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EDITORIAL EAGLETS.
The Macon & Brunswick railroad
lease is distressingly quiet. We fear
there is a hitch somewhere.
The reported withdrawal of Gen.
Grant as a presidential candidate is
looked upon with a good deal of sus
picion in political circles.
Senator Beck’s speech, a few days
ago, in opposition to Bayard’s reso
lution, was a conclusive argument
and a manly defense of the people.
• 1
Ths railroad excitement which has
temporarily subsided, is liable to
break out at any time. Through
lines from the Northwest to the At
lantic sea-board is only a question of
time.
An enthusiastic celebration of
Washington’s birthday, as suggested
by several of our exchanges, would
be eminently appropriate and prop
er. The old hero was not a third term
er and his patriotism and devotion to
human rights and liberty should not
be forgotten.
The Mormons have turned to a
now field for converts. Their apos
tles have entared Mexico and are do
ing a thriving business in that coun
try in the proselyting line. The na
tives take to the new faith as a duck
does to water, and if the apostles
continue as they have begun, a large
section of the country may soon be
depopulated.
In answer to the question, “How
do the people of Tennessee receive
Northern men and women ?” the
Tennessee Commissioner of Agricul
ture says: “As kindly as they de
serve. If they come to live by their
wits, and by making false represen
tations to the government to secure
a fat office, they will not, as they
should not, be respected.”
Indiana opens up the elections of
the presidential year on the first
Monday in April, when seven consti
tutional amendments are put to the
vote, one of which, if adopted, will
defer the fall State election from
October till the date of the general
election in November. The repub
licans generally favor the amend
ments and the democrats oppose
them.
Intense excitement is reported in
Shenandoah county, Virginia, over a
oollisiou between white and colored
laborers at Columbia furnace. Gov
ernor Holliday ordered out troops to
suppress the riot and preserve the
peace. The trouble grew out of the
substitution of colored for white
laborers at the furnace. All was
quiet at last Accounts, but farther
trouble is apprehended.
An act to prevent and punish the
intermarrying of races, passed at the
last session of the South Carolina
legislature, provides that any person
so offending shall be subject to a
fine of not less than five hundred
dollars, or imprisonment for not less
than one year, or both, at the dis
cretion of the court. Any clergy
man or magistrate who shall unite
in the bonds of matrimony persons
of diflerent races is subject to the
same penalty.
It is estimated that not less than
one hundred thousand cattle were
sent to Europe from this country
last year. It costs about twenty-five
dollars per head to transport them
across the Atlantic by steamer.
Nearly all the steamers running to
New York, outside the, three princi
pal lines, are chartered by one cattle
exporter for this business. It is
hardly necessary to say that he is
the largest dealer in live cattle for
exporting in this country.
Now, says the Washington Post,
Mr. Sherman’s boom will roll on ex
ultantly. His candidacy has been
made the subject of prayer at a meet
ing of good young men in Boston.
These ardent brethren have devoutly
supplicated of Mr. Sherman a rich
endowment of “that high moral cour
age which ehone so conspicuously in
the official career of Mr. Bristow.”
Mr. Blaine will find that Bangor
mobs and Gatling guns at Augusta
are no match for a Sherman prayer
meeting in Boston.
The house committee on coinage,
weights and measures have agreed
to report favorably a bill creating
three new coins. Specimens of these
coins have been struck off at the
mint- They are the ‘-'Stella,’’ the 25
gramme silver dollar, and the gold
metric dollar. The “atelia” is a four
dollar coin, of six grammes of go
loid, three-tenth of a gramme silver,
and seven-tenths gramme copper. It
is larger than the five-dollar gold
piece, and very bright looking. The
25 gramme dollar contains the same
amount of silver as two silver halves,
and also six cents’ worth of gold. It
looks much like the standard silver
dollar, though it is smaller. The go
loid dollar is well known.
The Gainesville Eagle
VOL. XIV.
Washington Correspondence.
[Special Correspondence of the Eagle.]
Washington, D. C.. Feb. 3,1880.
Except that Senator Bayard has
made a speech in favor of his green
back resolution, and eulogies have
been pronounced upon the late Sen
ator Chandler, the proceedings in
the senate have been extremely dull
during the week.
Mr. Bayard told yesterday ail that
was good about the deceased senator,
charitably referring his political
course to the keeping of posterity.
Various republican senators spoke in
the highest terms not only of Sena
tor Chandler’s personal but of his
political qualities.
The speech of Senator Bayard in
favor of his resolution withdrawing
the legal tender quality of greenbacks
hurt rather than helped his cause.
It was a purely constitutional argu
ment, not addressed to the present
condition of affiira. Very many
senators and representatives were
disappointed with the speech. Not
only the Bayard resolution, but every
proposition to make any change in
the currency, will unquestionably be
defeated if pressed to a vote. The
bouse has been as dull as the sea ate,
being engaged wholly in the attempt
to adopt the amended rules.
Senator Blaine and his friends, and
General Grant and his friends, will
be relieved of a great deal of anxiety
on the 4th inst. On that day the
republican state convention meets at
Harris burgh, and, although it is now
thought the delegates to Chicago
will not be instructed to vote for any
particular candidate, there will be
means of finding out how the con
vention stands. The friends of sen
ator Blaine have a growing confi
dence in Pennsylvania.
Mies Meeker was on Tuesday be
fore the house committee which is
investigating the Ute outbreak. She
said, in effect, that inefficiency in the
Indian bureau, and the natural per
versity of the savages, brought on
the late trouble. All the witnesses,
so far, have found fault with the ad
ministration of Indian affairs by the
present secretary of the interior. A
complaint will be made by all the
people of the country if the secretary
does not soon adopt effectual meas
ures for the punishment of Meeker’s
murderers.
The last advices from Maine show
that several members of the fusion
legislature will hereafter meet with
the republican legislature recognized
by the supreme court, but it is cer
tain that others will consider them
selves members of a regular legisla
ture. The formal vote in the final
meeting of the fusionists was to ad
journ until August. Rsx
Causes of Poverty.
It must ba remembered that many
are dependent and suffering from
causes entirely beyond their control;
by tho mistakes or wrong-doings of
others, or by general causes effecting
communities. They have been made
poor and helpless without a taint
upon their moral character. Mis
placed confidence in endorsement,
mistakes in business, followed hy
heavy losses, widespread financial
reverses, the decline of particular
branches of business, or the displace
ment of manual labor by machinery,
may bring destitution and suffering.
The community may recover, and
the changes which brought suffering
to many may, in the end, be for the
general benefit; but some families go
down to the ranks of poverty.
Much of the existing poverty is to
be traced to inherited circumstances
and traits of character. Multitudes
are born poor. Their inheritance is
adversity. Their shoulders are bowed
from childhood with the burden of
life. They have been shut into the
narrowest limits by hedges planted
by their fathers, which are growing
thicker and thornier every year.
When to this we add the enfeeb ed
vital force, the defective or poorly
balanced mental constitution, the
debasement of the moral faculties
and tendency to vicious habits so
often inherited, and the vicious sur
roundings of early life, we may see
how much of the prevailing poverty
we owe to the generations before us,
and how vast the inheritance of pov
erty and crime we are accumulating
for the generations to follow us.
A fruitful source of poverty is
found in the defective training of
early life, or tbe neglect of all train
ing for the conditions and duties of
later life. Passing by those who are
utterly neglected and grow up in
grossest ignorance, the Arabs and
the hoodlums of our cities, multitudes
come to the responsibilities of ma
ture life without any real preparation
for them. Young men enter into
business without any qualifications
or training for it, and having wasted
the capital given them sink into
helpless poverty. Young womm re
ceive a “finished education,” and
have not the slightest conception of
the stern realities of life or fitness
for the service required in them.
The pride in which so many families
are bred, the contempt of honest la
bor in which they grow up, is gener
ally followed by ruin and wretched
ness.
Some of our social customs have
much of the same effect. Customs
requiring an expensive styk of liv
ing, which families of small means
can illy bear, involves a weary strug
gle which weakens the high motives,
and often entails the worst effect of
poverty. The public sentiment that
tolerates manifest extravagance and
honors lavish living, even when it is
known that tffe bankruptcy is hasten-
ing, is an armed enemy to prosperity;
the custom that demands wine to
graca the banquet gives sanction to
drinking habits and nourishes intem
perance. The legalization of liquor
selling under the name of license
gives the support of law and public
sentiment to one of the most prolific
source! of want.
The present unsettled and unhap
py relation of capital and labor ma
terially interferes with’ habits of econ
omy and thrift. With often-recurring
periods in which there is no employ
ment, the habits growing out of
steady work and fair wages are broken
up, the small savings are consumed,
and wasteful and demoralizing habits
are fermed, resulting ultimately in
morbid discontent and indifference
alike to public and to personal wel
fare.
The results of intemperance and
vice are so well known that it is suf
ficient to simply refer to them in this
connection. The daily earnings go
to the saloon, and the home daily
becomes more desolate and wretched.
All vital and moral forces are un
dermined, until at length they fall
in utter ruin. Ignorance darkens
the mind; squalor bars the entrance
of better companionship; vice takes
up its abode in the house, and crime
hides itself there. The home where
life should be nourished in purity to
usefulness and happiness, becomes
the nursery of crime and the training
school for the poor-house and the
penitentiary.
And back of these, as a power
gathering them all up, as into a
mighty force to hurl man down from
prosperity and virtue to the lowest
depths of poverty and vice, is the
spirit of unbelief, which rejects all
divine teaching, the supremacy of
all law higher than the personal will,
all obligation to virtue more than
selfishness may dictate or pleasure
command, all aims higher and better
chan the world’s low standard, and
limits the reign of the passion only
by public sentiment and fear of the
immediate and manifest penalties of
vice. We are only beginning to real
ize how much of our poverty and
vice we owe to the teachings of men
who reject the authority and so iff at
the revelations of the Bible, who
would destroy in men all sense of
obligation to God, ail faith in the
gospel, and all hope of heaven. Self
ishness, disregard of moral restraints,
vice, crime and pauperism, are the
legitimate and inevitable results.
All these causes combined give us
the appalling sight of misery we
daily meet and force on us the neces
sity of more thought of the dangers
that threaten us and more devotion
in all the work needed to avert them,
A Weather-Talker Wlio Got
Left.
[From the Detroit Free Free.
There is one Detroiter who will
never refer to the state of the weath
er again as long as he lives. The
condition of the weather has been a
hobby of his for years, and he has
fairly reveled in the rains and fogs
whid have been ours since New
Year. On meeting an acquaintance
he has invariably said:
“Ever see such a winter before ?
Curious country, this. Who’d have
looked for a spring in January?
This mud is killing business, but we
can’t help it Ever know of such a
succession of fogs?
Yesterday morning he was coming
up town by the fort street line. His
umbrella fell from hand as he en
tered the car. a stranger picked it
up, moved along, and the citizen sat
down beside him and said:
“Thankee. Terrible weather, isn’t,
it? Ever see such weather before?
we’ll all -be sick unless there’s a
change. Can you account for this
mild wether at this season?”
“I’d like to speake a few words to
you in private. Please get off the
car with me ?”
The two got off together, the
citizen greatly puzzled, and when
they reached the walk the stranger
continued:
“You remarked that this was ter
rible weather. I quite agree with you.
You seem to be a well educated and
observing man, and l am glad to have
met you. I hadn’t taken any notice
at all of the weather until you spoke,
but I quite agree with you—quite - ’’
The citizen cleared bis throat, but
did not reply, and presently the man
went on:
“You asked me if I had ever seen
such weather before. lam satisfied
that I have at some time of my lite,
but I cannot just now recall the date.
Let’s see? Let’s see? Was it in
1857? No. Let’s see? Well, I can
not recall it now, but on reaching
home I will look up my old diaries
If I can do anything to oblige you I
shall only be too glad.”
They walked a block in silence, the
citizen amazed and astounded, and
then the stranger suddenly said:
“You said we would all be sick un
less there was a change. The re
mark shows your interest in your
tellow-men. I quite agree with you
quite. Yes, we shall be ill, and many
of us may never recover. I hope you
are prepared to die.”
The citizen now began to get mad,
and after hrofing it for another long
block growled:
“What did you want to say to me
in private ?’’
“You asked me,” replied the other,
as he gestured with his clenched
hand, "if I could account for this
mild weather at this season of the
year?” Yes, sir I can; but I didn’t
want to give it away to all the car.
My theory regarding this warm spell
can be explained in just two hours,
and I’ll go to your office and do it.”
“No you won’t,’’was the blunt an
swer.
“But I will! When I set out to
oblige a man, I'm willing to spend
four hours if necessary.”
The citizen crossed the street hop
ing to shake the man off, but he also
crossed and went on;
‘‘Having been appealed to by you
to explain the cause of this mild—”
“See herel said the other as he (
halted, “ I dont want any more of
you!”
“But you asked me to explain.”
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 6, 1880.
“I didn’t.”
“You are a liar—you did!’’
“What ?”
“Don’t bristle up io me with any
of your whatsl” warned the stranger,
“or I’ll knock your nose off I I never
allow anybody to trifle with me! We
will either go to your office and de
vote two hours to an explanation of
my theory, or I’ll lick you for asking
me useless questions and taking up
my valuable time !”
The citizen turned pale, looked all
around, and then rushed into the
nearest house. The stranger waited
around awhile and then started off
with the remark:
“Never yon mind, sir! 11l hunt
this whole city over but I’ll find your
office! No man can get me all
worked up on a mild spell of weather
and then snub me like a heathen!”
The Real Danger of Tyranny is
in the Judiciary-
[From the Philadelphia Record.]
In monarchical governments the
main, if not the sole peril of oppres
sion is in the power of the executive,
and constitutional provisions limit
ing the royal prerogative and estab
lishing Parliaments and courts as in
dependent sources of authority are
concessions to popular liberty. Un
der autocracy, in which the will of
sovereign is supreme and final, all
departments of rule are, of course,
combined in the one man power. In
the republican system, as embodied
in our polity of separate States, con
stituting a single Union, the execu
tive authority is almost entirely nom
inal, The extreme jealousy of this
particular branch of authority has
robbed it of all the potency for harm
Our president and governors are,
for nearly all practical purposes, mere
figure-heads to our different ships of
state—alike to the Federal Great
Eastern and the thirty-eight other
craft of various sizes, built upon her
model. Al though the executive,
legislative and judicial departments
of our national and state governments
are theoretically coordinate, the ex
ecutive is certainly in time of peace
of but small weight in any pressure
it brings to bear upon the people.
The heavy hand of the so-called chief
magistrate is rarely if ever felt by
any citizen. He is a mere shadow
of the king,
Congress and the state legislatures
have never exhibited the slightest
tendency toward the arrogation of
despotic powers. There is no dan
ger of the assumption or exercise on
their part of any . authority which
may prove hostile to the rights of
tho community and to the security
of the individual citizen. The fre
quency of elections, which enables
the people to change their represent
atives at short intervals, renders
those who are intrusted with the
legislative function exceeding sensi
tive to the praise or blame of their
constituonces; and so far from ever
even thinking of such a thing as
abridging popular privileges, they
are too likely to err on the other ex
treme, and fail in the performance
of known duty through fear of popu
lar disapprobation.
The real danger of tyrany at this
day is in the judiciary. The holders
of judicial office are, as far as possi
ble under a democratic government,
removed from the reach of the peo
ple. The independence of the bench
is a fundamental principle in our sys
tem, and every resource of states
manship has been invoked to make
and keep the judges free from fear
of public censorship. They are given
long terms of office—frequently for
life or during good behavior—
and they are usually paid ample sal
aries. They represent, in fact, the
aristocratic element in our polity, as
the legislative department represents
the democratic, and as the exec
utive is supposed to represent the re
gal element. Immense, and in a
measure irresponsible, power is placed
in their hands—no less, indeed, than
the power of life and death. To a
greht extent our liberty and property
are subject to their arbitrament.
Since judges are only men, with all
the frailties of men, is it to be won
dered at that they should some
times abuse their great power and
play the part of tyrants ?
Saying “Hateful Things.”
What a strange disposition is that
which leads people to say “hateful’’
things for the mere pleasure of say
ing them I You are never safe with
such a person. 'When you have done
your best to please, and are feeling
very kindly and pleasantly, out will
pop some underhand stab, which
you alone can understand—a sneer
which is masked, but which is too
well aimed to be misunderstood. It
may be at your person or your men
tal feeling, your foolish hab t of
thought on some little secret opinion
confessed in a moment of genuine
confidence. It ma ters not how sa
cred it may be to you, he will have
his fling at it, and since toe wbh is
to make you suffer, be is all the hap
pier the nearer he touches your heart
just half a dozen words, only for the
pleasure of seeing a cheek flush or
an eye loose its brightness, only spo
ken because he is afraid you are too
happy or too conceited. Yet they
are worse than so many blows. How
many sleepless nights have such
mean attacks caused tender-hearted
men ! How, after them, one awakes
with aching eyes and heart, to re
member that speech before every
thing—that bright, well aimed needle
of a speech that robbed the very
centre of your soul!
Despite.the fact that the English
government has a regular board of
inspection for its coal mines, the
number of deaths from accidents in
the mines shows little decrease; in
deed,' last year there were more
deaths than any year since 1848
Since 1861, there have.been no less
than 15,900 lives lost in the English
mines, an average of nearly 1,000 a
year. For so many tons of coal so
many lives are paid The estimate
in Great Britain is that every 100,000
tons of coal costs a human life, and
that cne miner out of every 336 is
annually killed by accident.
The Irish Question.
Stripped of all side issues, the ques
tion in Ireland is, not whether the
Irish have the right to rule Ireland,
but whether they have the right to
live on Irish soil. Living means
something more than mere existence.
It means the possession and enjoy
ment of all the necessities and some
of the comforts of life. It means
food, clothing and shelter: not be
stowed by charity, but coming as the
regular reward of patient industry.
It means a fair chance of bettering
one’s condition through hard work,
strict economy and judicious man
agement. It means, in short, an op
portunity for men and women to de
velop their manhood and womanhood
by gradual emancipation from hered
itary serfdom, gradual elevation to
pecuniary and political independence.
Landlords own the land, but in this
age of the world they do not and
cannot own the people who cultivate
it. Law may and should protect the
rights of property, but in Ireland the
law does not protect the rights of hu
manity; and humanity is as much
above property as the soul is above
the trodden clod. English landlords
wring from their Irish estates $60,-
000,000 every year in r» nts Yet in
the last twenty years 2,500,000 of
the Irish people have been driven
across the sea to avoid absolute
pauperism. Ireland is capable of sup
porting, and comfortably supporting,
a population of 10,000,000 It has
only a population of 5,000,000, liter
ally “living from hand to mouth,”
and a large and rapidly incr asing
proportion actually threatened with
starvation. Do not these facts and
figures speak for themselves ? Is an
elaborate argument needed to prove
that a system which produces such
results, not occasionally, but gener
ally, is rotten to the core, and should
either be reconstructe d from top to
bottom, or utterly destroyed ? Is an
annual rental of $60,000,000 of
more consequence than the prosper
ity of 5,000,000 human beings ? Must
a monstrous wrong go o* forever be- 1
cause it has gone on so long ? Is .
there nothing sacred but “time-hon
ored custom” and “immemorial
usage?” Has any government a di- 1
vine right to beggar its subjects gen
eration after generation ? Has the
weak nation no rights which the 1
strong nation is bound to respect ? 1
The plan of Irish reform which Mr.
Parnell and his friends are advocating
may not be altogether the beet, but
that there should be a reform that
will fully cover the case—not tempo- '
rarily, but permanently—is a self-evi
dent proposition. Ireland needs ,
money to buy bread, and it shoud be
freely given; but she needs much '
more such a change of administration
as will enable her to buy her own 1
bread. And those who think that
this change will come sooner if the j
Irish people sit down with folded (
arms and wait England’s pleasure, .
know little of English character and '
English, policy. England never 1
lightens the yoke until the neck ob- '
jects to bearing it longer. The stoop- '
ing shoulders invite the burden '
Agitation, when there is no grievance
demanding redress, is a crime. Ag- !
itation when grievances abound is a
solemn duty. Americans can easily
decide the right or wrong of Irish ag
itation by asking themselves a single '
simple question: “If we were Irish- *
men living in Ireland, would we agi
tate ?” It is only by thus bringing 1
the matter home to ourselves that we |
can from an impartial opinion of the .
enterprise in which Mr Parnell and
his friends are engaged. That en
terprise may lack some elements in- ?
dispensable to success, but the prin- .
ciples on which it rests are linked
with eternal justice, and therefore ,
must sooner or later triumph. No
one supposes that Ireland is always ’
to be what she is now, and what she
has been to a greater or less extent
for centuries. The atubbornest op- r
ponent of agitation is willing to ad
mit the probability of a vast im
provement some time in the near or *
far future. To all who believe in ’
agitation as a heaven-appointed
means for the accomplishment of su- (
premely important ends, that im- J
provement is a certainty—to be has
tened dr hindered by the wisdom or
the folly of those most interested. .
“God helps those who help them- .
selves,’’ is as true of nations as of in- .
dividuals; and all thatlrish agitators ,
are doing now is trying to help Ire .
land to help herself. To condemn ,
them, or harshly criticise their es- ’
forts, is virtually indorsing and de
fending the worst misgovernment in ■
Christendom.
Meier’s Astronomical Clock.
Mr. Felix Meier, of Detroit, Mich.,
has devoted ten years to the con
struction of an American national
and astronomical clock. It is eighteen
feet high, eight broad, and weighs
two tons. It has a great variety of
automatic devices, but the most re
markable are those connected with
the striking of the time. At the end
of every quarter-hour an infant in a
carved niche strikes with a tiny ham
mer upon the bell which he holds in
bis hand. At the end of each half
hour a youth stikes, at the end of
three-quarters of an hour a man,
and at the end of each hour a gray
beard Death then follows to toil
the hour. At the same time a large
music box begins to play, and a
scene is enacted upon a platform.
Washington slowly rises from a chair
to his feet, extending nis right hand
presenting the declaration of inde
pendence. The door on the left is
opened by a servant, admitting all
the presidents from Washington’s
time. Each is dressed in the costume
of his time, and the likenesses are
good. Passing in file before Wash
ington, they face, raise their hands
as they approach him, and, walking
naturally across the platform, disap
pear through the opposite door, which
is promptly closed behind them by a
second servant.
The astronomical and mathemati
cal calculation, if kept up, would
show the correct movement of th**
planets for 200 years, leap years in
cluded.
When the clock is in operation it
shows the time at Detroit in hours,
minutes and seconds; the difference
in time in Nev York, Washington,
San Tranciseo, Melbourne, Pskin,
Cairo, Constantinople, St Paters
burg, Vienna, Lcmdoa, Berlin and
Paris, the day es the veek, calendar
day of tho month, month of Üba year
and seasons of the year; signs of the
zodiac, the revolutions of tho earth
on its own axis and also around tho
sun; the revolution of tho moon
around the earth, and with it around
the sun; also ths moon’s changes
from the quarter to the half, throe
quarters and full.
A Pretty Solid Muldoon.
The Cincinnati Commercial reports
at length a visit by a correspondent
of that paoer, i company with eev
and the editor cf the
Manchester (Ohio) Independent, to a
subterranean mausoleum of the an
cient mound builders, found on the
farm of Samuel Grooms, in Tifflin
township, Adams county, Ohio. They
found in a cave long known to exist,
but never before explored, a chamber
110 feet vide, 225 feet long and 24
feet high, with roof and valla nicely
finished. A sarcophagus and mauso
leum of simple and wonderful design
was in the centre of the apartment,
carved out of the solid rock, with
panelled sides and emblems in bas
relief sculpture, and full of written
characters resembling the Hebraic.
Upon thia reposed a sculptured fig
ure, with an Israelitish face, nine
feet four inches in length, partially
nude but adorned with graceful dra
pery. On the two sides of this hall
were humbler tombs composed of
slabs of stone, gracefully ornamented
and united by a cement harder than
the stone.
These contain numerous mummies
in splendid preservation, over nine
fcet in height. In this oate were also
found copper spearheads, chisels,
lances, cups and urns, and also a
copper book of one hundred pages
of thin plates, which were crowded
with finely engraved characters. This
book, with a description of the dis
coveries, has been forwarded to the
Smithsonian Institute.
It is obvious that tho Cincinnati
Commercial must have got on a bend
er, or is it planning a new revelation
a la Mormon ?
Marriage.
The foundation of every good gov
ernment is the family. The best and
most prosperous country is that
which has the greatest number of
happy firesides. The holiest institu
tion among men is marriage. It has
taken the race countless ages to come
np to the condition of marriage
Without it there would be no civil
ization, no human advancement, no
life worth living. Life is a failure
to any woman who has not secured
the love and adoration of some grand
and magnificent man. Life is a
mockery to any man, no matter
whether he be mendicant or monarch,
who has not won the heart of somi
worthy woman. Without love and
marriage, all the priclees joys of this
life would be as ashes on the lips of
the children of men.
“You bad better be the emperor
of one loving and tender heart, and
she the empress of yours, than to be
the king of the world. The man
who has really won the love of one
good woman in this world, it mat
ters not though he die in the ditch a
beggar, his life has been a success.
There is a heathen book which
says: “Man is strength, woman is
beauty; man is courage, woman is
love. When the one man loves the
one woman, and the ona woman
loves the one man, the very angels
leave heaven and come and pit in
that house and sing for joy.”
Tight Skirts and Their Effect.
We hesitate to say it, but every
careful observer—and what man is
not a careful observer?—knows that
there is imminent danger that the
enforced knock-kneedness of the
present generation almost inevitably
fastens the knockknee upon the next
generation as an inherited detect es
form. The consequences can easily
be foreseen. A generation of knock
kneed people will, of course, abandon
the compression of dresses on the
knee, which has impressed that de
fect; but in the effort to cure the
knock knee means will be found to
turn the knee outward and the op
posite evil will be embraced. Pigeon
toed and splay footed people will
oume into fashion and, as a result of
the present fashsrn, in fifty years,
through intermarriage of knock-kneed
and pigeon-toed people, we shall be a
nation of knock Kneed, bow legged,
splay-footed, pigeon-toed, bandy
shanked people, a byeword and a re
proach of the face of earth.
Washington as a Voter.
Washington voted at all the Fair
fax elections until the close of his
life, uniformly supporting th • federal
candidates. Although living some
distance from the court house at the
Alexandria market, be generally
voted early. The polls were reached
by a flight of steps outside, which in
1799 had become old and shaky.
When the general reached the steps,
he placed one foot upon them and
shook the crazy aecent as if to try
its strength. Instantly twenty brawny
arms, one above the other, grasped
the stairway, and a dorm men’s
shoulders braced it. Nor did a man
move until the venerable chief de
posited bis vote and returned. “I
saw his last bow,” said one of them
half a century afterward; “it was
more than kingly.”
The Baltimore Gageite suggests that
if Rev, Mr. Hayden, as a leatnrer,
should draw large houses in New
England—or any houses at all—it
would be about time for stalwart
editors to pause in their work ©f
writing up southern barbarism. Why
fore? Do not Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher and Tilton and Shotgun
Conkling draw large audiences wben-
I ever they hold forth in New England ?
SMALL BITS
Os Various Kinds Carelessly Ttarrwn
TogattMK.
The dießoluiion of the OHocdbb
Empire must certain? be a maMer of
the vary sear hrtura.
The l«<iclaUre of Mianuinpi hoe
been petitioned for the eetabueheaeßt
of a state female
The ex Khedive has tried in vata
to get a Neapolitan bonk to advance
1140,100 on some jewels.
The report that General Kabona,
senator elect from Virginia, bad goae
over to the radicals, io dooiad.
There is jast enosgh of a Blaine
boom in Ohio to compel the Bh®rm«n
managers to sleep with one eye open.
Spargeon, George Elliot and Ctrl
Boea have been forbidden by Weir
physicians to do any work at pret
est.
The telegraph line along the Cin
cinnati! Southern has been eonplo
feed, and is now in regular working
order.
A national greenback convention
has been called to meet at Qnicago
June 10th, seven days after M»* re
publican convention.
Society belles in Washington dow
effect the banjo, which they are Warn
ing to play There are nanny costly
ones with ebony handles and silver
mountings.
The latest news from Borne reports
the condition of the Pope’s health as
very critical. It is not unlikely that
a new pope will have bo be selected
in the no great distant future.
The Bishops of the Southern Math
odist church are growing old. Bish
op Pain* is 90; Kavanaugh, 78;
Pierce, 69; Wightman, 72; Doggett,
69; Keener, 59, and McTyeire, 56.
The New Orieas Picayune says that
“mere than one rough ouatocaer has
never known how good he was until
be killed somebody and heard the
lawyers in charge sum up hie vir
tues.’’
Charles Drummond, of Accomac
county, Va., is 19 years old, 7 feet
high, weighs 215 pounds; each foot
is 16 inches long; bis skin is as black
as coal, and he eats S pounds of meat
each day.
While a collection was being taken
in a church at Heath, Maes., the
pastor remarked that he would rather
have buttons dropped into the box
than lead coin, because good buttons
had some value.
When Mr. Parnell visited Lynn,
Mass., he was taken through the
shoe shops by the mayor, and a pair
of shoes were made for him. The
mayor himself, once a shoemaker,
finished off the shoos.
A man of 70 married a woman of
60 Brimingham, Mich., and finds
himself sued for breach of promise
by a w imanof 60. “The gid ?y yong
things are all in a tangle,” says the
Brimingham newspaper.
Governor Wiltz, of Louisiana, has
so far made only two appointments
of any importance—General Beau
regard to be adjutant-general, and
Mr. Joseph Collins to be adminis
trator of improvements.
Josh Billings (Henry W. Bhaw) is '
69 years old, and in early life had <
varied fortunes, from those of a ‘
school teacher to those of au auc- ■
tioneer. He has made from his
writings something like SIOO,OOO. ;
Ger er al Grant has written to Ad- !
miral Ammen that ; fter a brief so- ;
journ in Mexico, he will go to Denver j
and Leadville for the purpose of ,
examining the silver fields of Colo
rado. He expects to reach Galena j
oy the middle of April.
Gov. Roberts, of Texas, is past
seventy, yet he leads the German, i
and at the leap year ball, dressed in
his homespun jeans, be danced so
divinely into the hearts of the Austin '
girls that seven of them proposed to :
him, only to be rejected.
Three hundred people were killed '
in Lima during the turn in politics '
that made Pierola dictator. Taking (
any ten years together, Peru always
expends fewer lives in fighting her !
foreign enemies than in home con- ’
sumption on her revolution®. i
A California boy stood an umbrel- (
i« in a public doorway during a re- j
ligious meeting. To this umbrella- 1
was attached a strong cord, an end
of which the boy held iu his band j
Eleven different people are said to 1
have carried the umbrella to the :
length of the string.
Elizabeth Hammond, a pretty white ■
girl, 18 years old, passed through 1
Lynchburg, Va, on Wednesday, on
her way to the penitentiary, under ;
sentence of three years for stealing a
-iu Bussell county. Hhe is said
to have bean of good family. It is
the first case of the kind i* the state. '
A sick woman at Westford, Wis.,
believed she was bewitched by an old
bag who lived near by, and a number
of superstitious women were of the
same mmd. They took the supposed
witch to the invalid’s bouse, read the
Bible to her, and pounded her cruel
ly, one of them using a club. They
are to ba tried for their assault.
The estimated numbers of religious
denominations among the English
speaking communities throughout
the world are. Episcopalians, 18,-
000.000; Methodist, 16,000,000; Bo
man Catholics, 13,5000,000; Presby
terians, 10,250,000; Baptiate. 8,000,-
000; Congregationalism, 6,000,000;
Unitarian, 1,000,000; minor religious
sects, 1,500,000; no particular relig
ion, 8.500,000. Total, 83,000,000.
An Indianapolis dispatch says there
is no abatement of the exodus of
Carolina negroes. They continue to
arrive in large and small lots. Since
November 27th over 2,300 have ar
rived, and not one is making money
enough to provide for the neecesarie*
of life. Os the 250 families in the
city, fully one-third are sick ffith
contagious diseases. The city dis
pensaries furnish an average of twen
ty prescriptions per
A.dvertiwiu.6 Ratos.
Legal edvertleemMrts charged seventy-five cents
per hundred wvrd. er fraction thereof each inser
tion for ths test four insertions, snd thlriy-flve
cents fer eaeh mhesqsent Insertion.
Trsneiest edventteiag will be charged $1 per inch
for tbs tret, snd tfty sente for each subsequent
tnserMn. Advertteere desiring larger space for a
longer ttsM than one month will receive a liberal
dsdnetien from regular sates.
AU bills das w>oa the Aset appeassnee of the *d
' ▼ertieemaat, and vtll be presented st the pleasure
' of the proprietor. transient sdrertlsemente fr«n
I unknown parties mart be paid for in advance.
NO. 6
NOTICE!
1 I taka much pleasure in informing my
Mandi and the peblie generally that I base
pa rebated th* entie stoek, business, good
' wfll and tettm of Mr. E. L. Boone, and
' eonaoeting the ttete formerly occupied by
hUB My <eoda ertabhshment next
does, wBD horaamr eeawpy both otorea.
* ** ate* eoeen lately occupied by Mr.
i Boone wfll be devoted reel naively to Gro
eerise and Cotnny Brodnee, while my Dry
Goode and Clothing department will be
i kent fell and complete.
( f hope to netaia all the patrons of Mr.
Boone, and assues them that no effort will
bo spared on »y part to merit a continuance
of their Avon, with a larpe and oommo
diene eetabliehment, a frill and complete
’ assortment of goods of every description,
ißoreaaed dsoilittoH, and a corps of polite,
experienced and eficient salesmen, I flatter
myself that I can give entire satisfaction.
Thanking all soy friends lor their kind
patronage in the past, and assuring them I
shall spaae ao pains to merit their favors in
future, I cordially invite nil to come and
see me.
C. W. DuPRE.
janM 41
MRS. VARNER.
FASHIONABLE BRESBMAKER
Room in rear oi L. R. Johnson’s store.
DREmSES made, cut and trimmed
in any style desired.
Washed Presses and Children's Clothing
at oven prices !
Also
GENT’R Will RT.M
MADE IN THE BIST STYLE. Good
Shirts, material included, for $1
and upwards.
ian2 2m
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
On SB* after December 20th double daily trama
will ren on this road as follow.:
MOHMTFG TRAIN.
Leave A Mata 4 (Ml a m
Arrive Chari*He 320 pm
•' Atr-Liße JOEOCttda .ISO ••
•• Danville. 9 51 ..
•• Lyachbvfl u3V m’t
“ Wasktngeen.. T 60 a m
Baltimore t SI) “
*• Phllaaelphts .IM) and 144 pin
" Wow York >46 and 445 -
•• Wilmington, M. 0. (ant day). 954a ni
'• WohmCnS.. Tas •-
WTEWTWG TBAIX.
Leave Agents 3 80 p m
AWlve ObarleWe .. >»>■
'• Air-Ltne Junction SMi “
•' nCB-rtlle 10 23 ••
•' Lynehbury 163 p in
•• M.ehmond, '■
” Wethington 9 s', “
" Baltimore 11 ss ••
•• FtulsAelphia Itti m
o B«V Yert 645 “
GOntS BAST,
Ki<ht Mall an* Psuaengor train.
Arrive Galaaovnie p in
Leere " *4l “
Day PMaanger tretw
Avrtro "
Leave « S:ls “
Local Freight and Accommodation train
Arrive GelnoeviUe 11: it am
Leave «• 11:25 <•
GOCTG WHY.
Might Msu an* Paeeenger train.
Arrive Gatseavillo 9:10 a m
Leave “ 9:21 <■
Day FVaa’nfer train.
Zjtlvo “ B;lspm
Leave ’• S:18 “
Local Freight an* Accommodation tutu.
Arrive Gatnaevllle 1:45 a m
Leave •' 2:00 “
Close connection at Atlanta for all pointe West,
snd at Charlotte for all potnre East.
». J. FOREACRE, G. M.
W. J. HOUSTON. Gon. Pae. and Tkt Agt.
northeastern lAailroad.
Olxbtiige of Solaedule.
SuvesrevsarDiKiA Om< r, 1
Anm, Ga., Oct. 11, 1879.)
Os and after Monday, October 5, 1879, trains on
the Northeastern Railroad will run as follows. All
trains daily except Sunday:
Athens 8 50 p m
Arrive ct Lula S2O •-
Arrive a’ Attants, via Air-Line B. B 10 80 ■<
Leave AttenW, via Alr-Xdne B. R 830 “
Leave »la T <r. ••
Ajrlve at Athena 10 00 ••
The above trails elec connect cioeoly at Lula with
nerittern bcun* trains os A. L R. B. On Wednes
day- as* Ratnrdavg the following additional trains
Will be nun:
Leave Athene r. 45 a in
Awive s> Lsla 8 45 ••
Leave Lula 920 “
Arrive at Athena 118 ) ><
This train connects closely at Luia for Atlanta,
making the trip to AtAnta only four hours and
forty-five ratnntee. J. M. EDWAHDS, Supt.
the
ATLANTA CONSTITUTION.
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witeasa the progress and culmi-'Stion of the
most interesting political contest that has
evsr taken pise* in this eeuntry—every cit
igeu and every thoughtful person wiil be
compelled to roly upon the newspapers for
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and qnotep as rhe leading southern journal
—as the organ and vehicle of the best
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matter* of epeeiai and current interest.
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telegraphic sews than any other Georgia
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larged ana supplemented. Ths Con*titu
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