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The Gainesville Published Every Friday Morning. BY J. 13. B E W INF. Rates of Subscription : One copy one year 2? One copy six months -• • 1 ““ One copy three months 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. Daring the coming year—a year that will 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 information. Why not got th* best? Abroad Tax CoNSTirrnok is recognized, referred to and qnotep as rhe leading southern journal —as the organ and vehicle of the best oouthemi thought acd opinion—and at home its eolumne are eonsslted for the latest news, the freshest comment, and for ail matter* of epeeiai and current interest. T>« Cow»titvtion contains more and later telegraphic sews than any other Georgia paper, and this particular f store win be largely added to d»nng the •omiug year. All it* facilities for gathering the latest news from all p*rts of the country will be en larged ana supplemented. Ths Con*titu *ON is both enronicler and comm* tn a tor. Its editorial opinion*, its contributions to the drift of current digcnsiion, its humorous and satirical paragraphs, are copied from one and of the oountry to the other. It aims always to be the brightest and the best —newsy, original and piquant. It uims particularly to give the news impartially and fully, and to keep its readers informed of the drift of current disengsion by liberal but eon ci sc quotations ftom all its eontem poraries. It aims, in shnrt, to more thaa ever deserve to be known as “the leading southern newspaper ” Bid Arp will con tinue to contribute hi* unique letters, which grow in savory humor week by week. “Old Bi” will add his quaint fun to the collection of goad things, and “Uncle Jtemns” h»s in preparation a series of negro myth legends, illustrating the folk-lore ot the old planta tion. Io every respect Tar Constitution for 1860 will be better than ever. Tgn Wbexly ConpriTUTiON is a carefully edited compendium of the news of the week and eon tains the best and freshest matter to be fo*nd in any other weekly from a daily oflee. Its news and miscellaneous contents are the freshest pud its market reports the , latest THE SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. This, the besf, the most reliable and mo-t popular of southern agricultural journals, is isaned from the printing establishment of Tbb Constitution. It is still edited by Mr. I W. L. Jor.ee, ard ia devoted to toe best in- f tereets of *th» farmers of the south. It s * eent at reduced rates with the Weekly edi tion of Ths Constitution. TERMS Off SUBSCRIPTION: Daily Constitution $lO 00 a year •• •• 5 00 6 in’s •• •• 2 50 3 m’s Weeklv Constitution 1 50 a year ’ •’ 1 00 fl m’s •• “ Crabs of 10, 12 50 a year •• “ Clubs of 20, 20 00 “ Southern Cultivator 150 “ “ “ OlnbecflO, 12 20 “ “ •• Chibs of >O, 20 00 Weakly Constitution and Oul rivator to same address.... 250 “ Address THE CONSTITUTION, Atlanta, Ga.