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EDITORIAL EAGLETS.
The Athens Banner proposes to
get up a business directory of that
city.
It is stated and doubtless truly
too, that Mr Conkling would not
spurn a presidential nomination,
The New York Herald has sub
scribed one hundred thousand dol
lars to the fund for the relief of Irish
sufferers.
It is stated that the systematic
robbery by cotton samplers in the
city of New York, amounts to two
hundred thousand dollars a year.
Kentucky has established the whip
ping post as a punishment for petty
crimes, and now Illinois wants it as
an addition to her own means of cor
rection.
♦ ♦
Mr. Randall the Washington cor
respondent of the Augusta Chronicle.
v A Constitutionalist is one of the most
graceful and accomplished wtiters at
the capital.
'l’he total coinage of the United
States Mint and branches for the
last month was $9,576,500. Os this
amount $2,450,000 was in standard
silver dollars.
A'l but four of the New York re
publican State committee announce
themselves in favor of Grant for
their first choice as the republican
presidential candidate.
The Cartersville Free, Press is get
ting to be more malignant and bitter
in its opposition to the democratic
party, than the Atlanta liepublican
or any other radical organ that we
know of.
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The influx of Chinese in California
appears to have been effectually
checked, rnd statistics published at
San Francisco show that the outgo
ing tide of the Celestials far exceeds
the incoming one.
Two hundred of the most influen
tial republicans in the city of Phila
delphia, addressed a letter to the
republican State convention which
met at Harrisburg last week, protest
ing against the nomination of Gen.
Grant for a third term.
The old Morth Slate threatens to
have two sets of delegates to the na
tional republican convention. A
solid delegation for Sherman having
been appointed, the Grunt brethren
are kicking out of the traces and pre
paring to elect a second.
ww
Mr. Speer’s brass band bill is—not
to put too fine a point upon it—an
arrant humbug. It was gotten up
for a little cheap popularity—to
make favor with certain people who ;
are opposed Io hearing music on ■
Sunday.—zlugusto Chronicle.
A special from Topeka, Kansas,
says the officers ot the Kansas Freed
man’s Aid association have been in
structed to devise some means of put
ting a stop to the immigration of
negroes to that State, and to endeav
or to turn the tide of travel in some
other direction.
On Saturday the Supreme court
delivered its decision in the Cox case
refusing to grant a new trial and ,
affirming the judgment of the Supe
rior court. The attorneys for the
defendant are talking of carrying the j
case to the Supreme court of the '
United States.
An Indian maiden has been driven
out by her tribe, in Oregon, because
she married a Chinaman. A San
Francisco Chinaman has lost the re
spect of hie countrymen by marrying
a negro woman. A Virginia mob
whipped a negro for marrying a
white woman. So we go. Better
not mix races.
The New York World does not
think that the republican tidal wave
of 1879 amounted to much after all.
Taking the sixteen States that held
elections last year, it finds that the
republicans have fallen off 323,421
in votes, and the- republican per
ccntage of the total vote cast is only
49 per cent., against 51 per cent, in
1876.
Judge John I. Hall, in a letter
which we publish this week, explains
why and to what extent he and oth- '
er democrats endorsed the applica- |
tion of Mr. Charles R. Johnson for |
census supervisor. As will be seen
there is a vast difference between
this and Dr. Felton’s endorsement of
Simmons as well as there is also be
tween the applicants themselves.
— < <M»> ♦
A special telegram from Atlanta
to the Augusta News announces the ■
report that the republicans and in- |
dependents of Georgia will coalesce :
Em send half and half delegations
to the Chicago convention, favoring !
Grant for presidents It is stated *
that everything but the delegation
has been arranged, and it is thought
Judge Lochrane will head the dele
gation.
The Gainesville Eagle
VOL. XIV.
Washington Correspondence.
[Special Correspondence of the Eaole.J
Washington, D. C . Feb. 10,1880.
Congress has done during the
present week what it did during the
past week—nothing.
The proceedings of M. De Lc seers
in connection with his Isthmus canal
project have an appearance of earn
est nets that few expected they would
ever have. Very cool headed mem
bers of congress have an idea that a
foreign company doing business with
foreign money and under the coun
tenance of a foreign government has
gone quite far enough. This is what
Senator Gordon thinks, and, so far
as the senators have expressed an
opinion, they nearly ell agree that
the government should at least, re
spect its disapproval of the construc
tion of any canal across the lAbmus
except under the inspicea of the
Unit id States. There fi; no intention
of committing the government finan
cially io any olan or to any company
or individual, but that it should have
such supervision of tho work as will
pi event the interference hereafter of
any foreign power.
It is a point to bo noted that dur
ing the present congress contested
cases in the housj have been treated
by the committee on elections in an
entirely unpartisan manner. I think
the present committee is, in this re
spect, not only a vast improvement
upon any republican committee that
sat from 1856 io 1874, but a fairer
committee than any that ever before
I sat.
On Monday next a sub committee
of the house judiciary committee
will give a public hearing to those
who wish to advocate or oppose a
general bankrupt law. The law re
pealed a few years ago was so op
pressive in many of its features, so
unjust to the creditor and to the
debtor, so expensive and cumbersome
in its operation, that hardly any one
objected to its repeal. Yet it appears
that business men generally believe
that government should should have
control of the matter—that a uniform
law should govern in all
bankruptcy cases. Senator Conk
ling, it is said, has prepared a bill
which he thinks, and commercial
men think, is a great improvement
on the former one. By all means he
should present it. If any such
measure is to be adopted, the people
should have early information of it
The house of representatives, if it
continues to fear to pieces tho recess
work of the. committee on rules, will
soon have nothing recognizable, The
contest so far has teen against the
absorption of business and power by
the committee on appropi iations, and
that committee seems likely to lose
rather than gain in the discussion.
The country loses by it, certainly in
the delay of the public business.
Rex.
Heavy Arm aments.
Germany and Austria have formed I
a close alliance, and tho former has
increased her army twenty thousand
men. Russia, not to be outdone,
sees Germany's number and goes
seventy thousand better. These ad
ditions to the military forces cause
uneasiness and apprehension. It is
stated that Krupp, the great sted
cannon manufacturer, has so many
orders ahead that he has advanced
his prices'eno third, Every Euro
pean state seems to occupy a posi
tion of armed neutrality. The posi ’
tion does not indicate anything of a ;
warlike character for the present,,
but theso immense preparations i
have a look for the future, when th-. j
German and Muscovite may clash. I
England, too, is to have a grand I
parade of her volunteer force to the
number of two hundred thousand
men. The continental powers may
rather sneer at the display of British
yeomanry, but they have never
laughed yet when they encountered
Britons on the field. Great Britain
has abundance of that most powerful
element in modern waif.ire—money,
and she can get plemy more from
her own people who aie glad to lend
their means to the government.
The others must pay a much heav
ier per cent, and Lunt every
ceivable mode of takation to realize
means The lack of “filthy lucre,’’
and a two heavy burden to support
what is now incurred has a most sa
lutatory effect in preserving the
peace and keeping ambitious nations
quiet. As long as Germany’s great
prime minister, B ; s mark, lives, oth
er rulers arc fearful of t eing over
reached. He has accomplished won
ders within a quarter of a century,
and placed the empire, which he vir
tually control?, the first in the old
world. All tho rest kno~< disability,
and that though audacious, he never
moves until be is reedy, and hss pro
vided every means to win. When
prepared he strikes quickly and with
decisive blows.
♦
Young Stephen A. Douglas, son
of the old man, announced him
self as a stalwart republican and a
Grant man at Mattoon. Illinois, last
week. He says if Grant is elected
the force bill will bo brought to bear
upon the southern people with ter
rible toughness, and yet he says:
“ The people of the south want
Grant.” Tho young Stephen has not
the luminous brains of his departed
father.
French missionaries in Mosul give
a painful account of famine in Meso
potamia and Kurdistan, where
Christians, Jews and Mohammedans
are .ail suffering.
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 13, 1880.
SLIPPING AWAY.
They mo slipping away—these swift. »wist years,
Lite a leaf on the currant cast;
With never a break in the rapid flow,
We wa.ch them a« one by cae they go
Into tho beautiful j ast.
As silent end swift ae a weaver’s thread.
Or an arrow's flying j’eam;
As soft as the lavguorcns breezes hid,
Thrt lilt the willow’s long golden lid,
And rlrple the gias«y stream.
As light as the breath of thistle down;
As fond as a lover’s dream;
As nure as the flush of the eea-shell’s threat.
As sweet as the food-bird's wooing note,
So tender and sweet they seem.
One after another we see them pass
Down the dim-lit sta’rs;
We hear the sound of their heavy treid,
In th’ step of the centuries long since dead.
As bewtiiul and as fair.
There are only a few years left to love;
Shall we waste them ‘n the strife ?
Sba’l we trample them under our ruthless feet,
These beautiful blossoms rare aad swest,
By tho dusty way of life ?
There are only a few swift years—ah ! let
No envious taunts be heard;
Make life’s fair pattern of rare design.
And till up the measure with love’s sweet wine,
But never an angry word.
Intolerance of Churches
Dr. Talmage preache I in the
Brooklyn tabernacle Sunday morn
ing a sermon in which he emphati
cally disclaims having any reference
to the Brooklyn Presbytery. The
subject was •‘Thumbscrews or Tole
ration ?” and the remarks of the
preacher were a vigorous attack upon
kinds of ecclesiastical tyranny,
whether in individuals or synods.
Those who could read between the
lines enjoyed the satiracal sallies of
the pastor immensely, while the hu
mor running through the wlic-le ser
mon kept the audience in convulsions
of laughter from beginning to end.
The text was taken from Luke, IX.,
55: “Ye know not what manner of
spirit j e are of."
Christ, Dr Talmage began, said
this to John and James, who were
very mad and wanted the Samaritans
struck wi h lightning because they
differed of some religious matters.
There have boon blundering instru
ments of torture in ail ages, but the
thumbscrew is comparatively delicate
and belongs to the fine art of perse
cution You could carry it in your
pocket all unobserved. Put upon
the thumb it sometimes changed a
ftiau’s opinion. The screw was
turned once and the man begins to
think, “After all I may be wrong.”
At the second turn he thought, “Per
haps my antagonist may be right,”
But at tho third he would cry out,
“Stop ! S op! I think just as you
do.’’ [laughter.] This instrument
belongs to all ages and to all de
nominations—Protestants and Cath
olics, Mothodists, Baptists, Luther
ans, Congregation ali ts, Episcopali
ans [hesitating] Presbyterians.
[Laughter.] In other words, there
is abroad iu tho church of God a
spirit which seems to say, “Do as I
do or 3ou will have to suffer.’’ The
Presbyterian church says, “Believe
us I du against woman’s preach ng—
against ail new styles of Christian
work.’’ A Presbyterian looks up and
save, “I don’t see any particular
harm in woman’s preaching, and I
think sometimes it may be salutato
ry.” On with tie Presbyterian
thumscrew. [Laughter.] In all coun
cils, in ali conferences, in all associ
ations, in all presbyteries, ali the
world over, there are men who, fig
uratively speaking, believe in the
thumbscrew. I know men why
would make splendid Herods or Ne
ros. They have all the spirit of
social, political and ecclesiastical ty
ranny. and are only waiting for some
opportunity to display it Now,
you, lam net speaking of anybody
m tho Presbytery of Brooklyn.
[Laughter.] Some people are all
the time disposed to apply things to
themselves. [Laughter. | I make
no such application. [Great laugh
ter.] I disclaim that idea, I am
talking on general principles this
morning. [Uproar.] There are in
ali the denominations of Christians
ministers who are by authority held
in terrorem, That’s Latin. [Laugh
ter.] We sometimes use in the pul
pit Latin to show how much we
know. [Laughter.] You seem to
speak e.v cathedra Moro Lattin—
[and more laughter]—but as I like
uiy mother tongue better, I w'lll say
that in all denominations Protestant
inquisitors, and if a minister has
any idiosincrasy or halts in his obe
dience, off goes his head ecclesiasti
cally. If he bo in the Methodist
church bis antagonists will try and
get the Bishop to sit down on him.
[Laughter.] If in tha Congregation
al church, they will call a council and
won’t invite him. [Laughter.] If it
be in the Presbyterian church, they
will try to grind him up between the
“Book of Discipline’’ and the
Westminister Catechism. [Laugh
ter. ] Thumbscrews ! Thumb- .
screws,
I have been waiting for yaars for
some minister to preach a sermon of
emacipation. There are some ready
for the rallying word, but they are so
situated that if they move they are
in danger of being squelched. To
day, in the name of God, I sound the
knell of ecclesiastical tyranny, and
bid all who are attempting to be free
to rejoice. Stay where you are, and
do not cross over from one denomi
nation to another. In all there are
men antagonistic to religious freedom.
I stayed in the Presbyterian church
among other good reasons, because
I received many letters from clergy
man saying “Stand firmly where you
are. You represent thousands of us
who are tired of painful espionage
and ecclesiastic; J tyranny.” And I
felt that I was fighting not only my j
battle, but the battle of nine tenths
of the ministry of the Presbyterian
church, who are tired of the tutelage
and tne bombardment and the lum
berous interpretation of an overbear
ing one-tenth. What we want is a
Stonewall Jackson’s raid through the
heart of popedom. lam not so op
nosed to one pope, if he be a good
man, r»s lam opposed to these Lun
dreds of little popes—[laughter]
ali over Protestantism, two or three
cr four of them in every ecclesiasti
cal court —Methodist popes, Congre
gational popes, Presbyterian popes,
—[laughter] —and I will say that in (
this country it takes less material to
make a pope than in any other.
[Laughter.] Let us have a grand
and glorius equality of the clergy.
Nearly all the ecclesiastical battles
of this day are the wars which eccle
siastical sticklers are making to keep
their own power. They have haa
it so long that they cannot bear to
give it up. It is too late in the his
tory of the world to turn the wheel
of progress backward. The state
free, let the church be free. The
great cry all ever Christendom is.
“Down with tyrants, whether on
throne or palpit.” St. John counted
twelve gates into Heaven, but there
are small scaled ecclesiastics who
want ns to go in through an auger
hole, and that of their own boring
[Laughter ] There are ecclesiastics
who decide everything about a min
ister. Now, my young minister,l?do
as you please, if your cravat be black
white striped or brindled. Part your
hair on north side or south side or at
equator. [Laughter.] There ought
to be enough room in all our denom
inations to let a man turn round and
exercise his own individual taste,
though it be natural to him to in
dulge a few eccentricities. Let m.-n
of large charity advance. Because
you are young that is nothing against
you. You will get over that if you
live long enough. There are ecclesi
astics in this day who are trying to
atop the ego, saying it is going too
fast. You can’t stop the age. The
only way to do is to keep up with it
and get on the box beside the driver
and help him control his ten gallop
ing coursers. In the harness of the
church there is too much breeching
strap and not enough traces —too
much provision for holding back,
not enough to pull ahead. More
liberty in the Christian church. Some
one says, “Would you not curb fan
aticism ?’’ Why,my dear brother,
fanaticism dies of itself. It never
lasts long. If a thing be not wisely
Christian it has tha elements of des
truction. But if it be of God, cari
cature it, denounce it, legislate
against it, but. you might us well try
to ebolish the eternities.
Intolerance never puts anything
down. It puts it up. What has
intolerance done in the Presbytrian
church? What has it done foFtho
Methodist church? Persecuted ev
ery where she has her men in places
of religious and secular trust. The
mayor of our city, a Methodist; R.
B. Hayes, the president, a Metho
dist; his predecessor, a Methodist;
and some say his successor will be a
Methodist [Great laughter. ] In
*olerance against Methodism lifted it
up. Let us have a division of work.
Let Satan do all tho work of perse
cution. He is lively and active and
industrious, and understands all ec
clesiastical law. [Laughter.] He
will attend to that. If you find any
thing in ecclesiastical matters that are
wrong argue against them, reason
against them, but don’t bring threat
or violence or anything that can be
mistaken for the thumbscrew. lam
not afraid to trust the people. Put
into their hands a free Bible, a free
ballot, a free church, ft free conscience
and a free heaven. Here we are in
the evening oi the nineteenth centu
ry, in a laud where religious liberty
ought to correspond with civil liber
ty Between these two oceans, in
our day, or the day of our children,
is to be demonstrated what a man
may be if his religion is unmolested.
Tha cradle of the human race was
the Tigre Euphrates basin. The
cradle of its regeneration will be this
continent, I think. Great Britain
and Ireland are too email. The Eu
ropean Continent has too many na
tions to unify. The climates of Asia
and Africa are unpropituous. Here
in America I believe the work is to
begin. Plenty of room. Enough
rigors in our clime to energize the
people and enough of the balsamic to
make everything genial. No earth
quakes. No famine. A. stalwart
race made out of all other races.
There are many Christian people who
think that Cnrist is going to come
on earth again and reign personally.
If He does come I believe He will sit
up His throne between the Allegha
nies and the Rocky mountains, and
that He will walk the streets of our
great cities. Would that the heav
ens would open to-day and that our
Lord would descend to take posses
sion of this continent! How we
would rush out and greet Him I But
whether He comas in person or by
His spirit, as I am rather disposed to
think, this is to be Immanual’s land
—the mountains, the vallies, the
lakes, the rivers, the cities. In that
milleuial day there will be one de
nomination of Christians far ahead
of all others if not having swallowed
them all up, Would you like to know
what denomination it will be ? I
will tell you. It will be that denom
ination which has worked the hard
est, trusted the fullest, loved the
mightiest and eclipsed all others in
the spirit of Christian toleration.
No thumbscrews in the millenium ?
Letter From Judge Hall—Why
He Endorsed Mr. Johnson.
G biffin, Ga , January 27, 1880
Hon. Henry Persons, Washington, D.
C.
My Dear Sir—A correspondent of
the Augusta Chronicle and Constitu
tionalist charges that I “stand spon
sor for Charles R Johnson,” Census
Supervisor for this district, although
he is a “iona fide republican,’’ and
bases the charge upon information
derived from a telegram in your pos
session with ray name thereto. It is
due to myself that the following state
ment in reference to that should be
made. Your telegram reached here
during my absence, and Robert T.
Daniel, Esq , a young lawyer, who
occupies a desk in our office, broke
the enclosure and seeing that it re
lated to the appointment of Johnson
as supervisor of censu?, he carried it
to Johnson’s office, and, not finding
him, handed it to John J. Hunt,
Johnson’s law partner. Mr Hunt
was anxious that no fight should be
made on Johnson’s appointment, and
he took the responsibility of using
my name in answering your telegram
supposing that you would feel more
assured by representations in my
name than in his, as he was a stran-
ger to you. When I returned home
and found your telegram on my desk,
Mr. Daniel informed that Mr. Hunt
had answered it, but did not tell me
that he had used my name, nor did
I know this fact for several days af
ter my return,
That no injustice may be done Mr.
Hunt, I will say that he was doubt
less authorized to make the statement
contained iu the telegram, and he
informs me the assurance willl be
carried out, but he used my name
simply for tha reason above stated.
So much for the telegram.
As the same correspondent says
that both General Gordon and my
self bad endorsed Johnson, and inti
mated that if Felton is given a back
seat by the democrats because of his
endorsement of Simmons, we should
be sent to keep company with him,
I will make the following statement
as to democratic endorsements of
Johnson: Last Summer Mr. John
son applied to me to endorse him con
ditionally, and to procure other dem
ocrats to do so. I was then satisfied
that a republican would ba appoint
ed for this terrritory, whether it
would be thrown with Macon or At
lanta, for iu either event it would in
elude prominent republicans, who
would likely be preferred by the pres
ident iu preferenece to a democrat,
and nothing has since transpired to
change that opinion. Mr. Johnson
assured me that he would make his
appointments—should he be mude
supervisor—without reference to po
litical affiliations, and without refer
ence to promoting or crippling the
interest of any aspirant for position,
either state or federal, and in all
things he would endeavor to promote
the general good. I know Mr. John
son to be an honorable, upright gen
tleman, whose asurances could be re
lied ou; and in the event a republican
should be appointed in thia section I
greatly prefer him to others who
who were applying for the place, and
I endorsed him to the following ex
tent: “To the president: In the
event a democrat is not appointed
supervisor of census for this section
of Georgia, we recommend Charles
R Johnson, of Griffin, Ga., as a fit
man for the place.” I give you the
substance, though probably not the
exact words of the endorsement.
The original paper is ou file at Wash
ington with his application for ap
pointed, and the correspondent allu
ded to can call there and see if I
properly represent the substance of
it. This paper was signed by Gov
ernor Colquitt, General Gordon,
General Phil Cook, Speaker Bacon.
Senator Grantiand (state senator,)
and others, whose names I do not
now remember, and lam informed
Judge Speer signed it. Mr. Johnson
desired this paper to show that he
was respected by democrats who
knew him, and to be used in the sen
ate, should his name be sent there
The signers of this paprr believed
then, as I did, that no democrat
would be appointed for this section.
I heartily endorsed the application
of a democrat in this section—a
worthy man—but I soon became sat
isfied, for the reason before given,
that he could not succeed, and I
gave Johnson the conditional en
dorsement quoted above. The im
pression has gone abroad that Gon.
Gerdon and myself endorsed John
son unqualifiedly, which is gtossly
unjust to us, and as the impression
—in part, at least—has grown out of
the fact that you have allowed pub
lic use of a telegram that the receiv
er—Mr. Hunt—thought was private.
L hope you will do us the justice to
have the matter set right. Show
this to general Gordon.
I am, very truly, etc.,
John I. Hall.
.Edison Explains It.
Be it known that I, Thomas Alva
Edison, of Menlo Park, Now Jersey,
United States of America, have in
vented an improvement in electric
lamps aad in the method of manu
facturing the same (case No. 186),
of which the following is a specifica
tion: The object of this invention is
to produce electric lamps giving
light by incandescence, which lamps
have high resistance so as to allow
of the practical subdivision of the
electric light. The invention consists
in a light-giving carbon wire coiled
or arranged in such a manner as to
offer great resistance to the passage
of the electric current, and at the
same time present but a slight sur
face from which radiations can take
place. The invention further con
sists in placing such burner of greater
resistance in a nearly perfect vacuum,
to prevent oxidation and injury to
the conductor by the atmosphere.
Heretofore light by incandescence
has been obtained from rods of car
bon of one to four ohms resistance,
placed in closed vessels, in which the
atmospheric air has been replaced by
gases that do not combine chemically
with the carbon. * * The leading
wires have always been large, so that
their resistance shall be many times
loss than the burner, and, in general,
the attempts of previous workers
have been to reduce the resistance
of the carbon rod. The disadvan
tages of following this practice are
that a lamp having but one to four
ohms resistance cannot be worked in
great numbers in multiple arc with
out the employment of main con
ductors of enormous dimensions;
that, owing to the low resistance of
the lamp, the leading wires must be
4>f large dimensions and good con
ductors, and a glass globe cannot be
kept tight at the place where the
wires pass in and are cemented;
hence the carbon is consumed, be
cause there must always be a perfect
vacuum to render the carbon stable,
especially when such carbon is small
in mass and high in electrical resis
tance.
The use of gas in the receiver at
the atmospheric pressure, although
not attacking the carbon, serves to
destroy it in time by air-washing, or
the attrition produced by the lapid
passage of tha air [gas ?] over the
slightly coherent, highly heated sur
face of the carbon. I have reversed
this practice. 1 have discovered that
even a cotton thread, properly car-
bonized and placed iq a sealed glass
bulb exhausted to one-millionth of
an atmosphere, offers from 100 to
500 ohms resistance to the passage
of the current, and then is absolutely
stable at very high temperatures;
that if the thread be coiled as a
spiral and carbonized, or if any
fibrous vegetable substance which
will have a carbon residue after heat
ing in a closed chamber be so coiled,
as much as 2,000 ohms resistance
can be obtained without presenting
a radiating surface greater than
three-sixteenths of an inch. I have
carbonized and used cotton and linen
thread, wood-splints, papers coiled
in various ways, also ’am.black,
plumbago and carbon in various
forms mixed with tar and rolled out
into wires of various lengths and
din meters. From. Edisons patent
office application.
Bro. Gardner’s Lime-Kiln Club.
There was a buzz of excitement as
the members of the club gathered to
gether for the opening of the meet
ing. A dastardly attempt had been
made on the life of Pickles Smith,
one of the most energetic and re
spected members of the club, and now
acting as janitor ad interim. It is a
well known fact that Mr. Smith loves
peanuts. Also, that he shucks them
with his teeth to save time. Some
unfeeling wretch having a knowledge
of this fact, sent a pint of large pea
nuts to Paradise Hall, marking the
box for the janitor. He was going
about, broom in hand, and his teeth
shucking fodder for his gullet, when
an explosion occurred among his
molars. He was lifted up, flung into
a heap, and was in a semi-uncon
scious state when Elder Toots, Lini
ment Johnson and other early comers
entered the hall. Au examination
showed that his mouth had been
“sprung’’ over two inches out of
true, his tongue driven back over an
inch, aad a new pair of two-shilling
suspenders broken square iu two by
the shock of his fall. It was fully
fifteen minutes before he stopped
spitting peanut shucks, gun-powder,
gum boils and other articles belong
ing to the trade, and for nearly half
an hour after tha catastrophe smoke
could be seen ascending through the
roots of his hair.
moral. «
“De moral of all dis,” said Brother
Gardner after he had opened the
meeting, “am plain ’fluff to us all.
Be keerful in de fust place what you
bite off. Be keerful in de nex’ place
what you chaw on. People who go
’round dis wale of tears bitin’ off an’
chawin’ away am just as apt to hit a
railroad spike as a stick of tflffy. De
bereaved hez de full sympathy of dis
club on dis occasion, but de advice of
de club to him jest de same am to de
effect dat he shell either swallow his
peanuts whole arter dis or else git de
shuckin’ done outside bis mouf. We
will now condense to de reg’lar pur
ceedin’s.’’—Detroit Free Press.
“Just His Luck.”
“I’m hungry and ragged and half
sick and dead-broke,” muttered a
tramp yesterday, as he sat down for
a sun-bath on the wharf at the foot
of Griswold street; “but it’s just my
luck. Last fall I got into Detroit
just two hours too late to sell my vote.
Nobody to blame. Found a big wal
let on the street in December, and
four police come up before I could
hide it. Luck again. Got knocked
down by a street-car, but there was
no opening for a suit and damages,
because I was drunk. Just the way.
Last fall nails were way down. I
knew there’d be a rise, but I didn’t
buy and hold for the advance. Lost
ten thousand dollars out and out
Alius that way with me. Glass
went up twenty-five per cent., but I
hadn’t a pane on hand, excepting the
pain in my back. Never knew it to
fail. Now lumber’s gone up, and I
don’t even own a fencepicket to rea
lize on. Just me again. Fell into
the river ’tother day, but instead of
pulling me out and giving me a hot
whisky they pulled me out and told
me to leave town oit I’d get the
bounce. That’s me aglin. Now I’ve
got settled down here for a bit of a
rest and a snooze, but I’ll be routed
out in less than fifteen minutes and I
know it. It’ll be just my behanged
luck!’
He settled down, slid his hat over
his face, and was just beginning to
feel sleepy when a hundred pounds
of coal rattled down on him. “I
knew it—l knew iu!” shouted the
tramp as he sprang up and rubbed
the dust off his head—“l said so all
the time, and I just wish the durned
old hogshead had come down along
with the coal and jammed me
through the wharf.’’
The strangest news coming to us
from Germany—even stranger than
that the effeminate Viennese should
welcome the man who conquered
them at Koniggratz—is that a 1< arned
doctor has discovered a means of
dying human eyes any color he likes,
not only without injury to the deli
cate orbs, but, as ho asserts, with
positive advantage to the powers of
sight. He cannot only give fair ladies
eyes black as night or blue as orient
skies by day, but ho can turn them
out in hue of silver or gold. He says
golden eyes are extremely becoming.
Nothing goes down without a grand
name; therefore, the German doctor
calls his discovery “Occular Trans
mutation.” He deciares himself
quite ready to guarantee success and
harmlessness in the operation,
—
The Sultan has ten servants whose
special duty it is to unfold the car
pets for him when he is going to
pray, ten to take care of his pipes
and cigarettes, two to dress his royal
hair and twenty to attend to his most
noble clean shirts There are a mul
titude of other attendants about tha
palace; indeed, it is Rated that about
eight hundred families and about
four thousand persons live at his
majesty’s expense. He is an extrav
agant house-keeper; the annual ex
penditures of the palace are men
tioned as nearly sl4 000,000.
SMALL BITS
Os Various Kinds Carelessly Thrown
Togel het.
xl French ehemiti*. asserts that if
tea be ground like coffee, immediate
ly before Lot water is poured upon it,
its exhilarating qualities will be dou
bled.
Tho militia .force of the United
States consists of 8,869 commission
ed officers, 117,037 nou-commiesion
ed officers and 6,516,758 men availa
ble fur duty.
The remains of a mastodon, said
to be in a remarkable state of pres
ervation, have been found near Green
field, Ind., by some men engaged in
digging a ditch on a farm.
The Evangelist says that 40,000 of
our 292,000 Indians can write, and
30,000 are members of churches.
The fact is proved beyond a doubt
that the Indian is capable of being
civilized.
A radical journal of Berlin, the
Berliner Zeitung, has been confiscat
ed for publishing a shaip attack up
on the government. Tais is the first
instance for many years of a non
socialistic paper being suppressed.
The Burlington Hawkeye says that
a man never feels more forcibly how
true it is that “kind words never die”
than when his love letters are read
out, to the absorbing interest of all
present, in a breach of promise suit.
A petition is being widely circu
lated at the north, and will be sent
to r very congressional district in the
United States, asking for the passage
of the bill introduced by Mr. Reagan,
of Texas, for an inter-state railroad
law to prohibit unjust discriminations
in freights.
The Mexican government has
granted a subsidy to the Atchison,
Topeka acd Santa Fe railroad com
pany for an extension of their road
from some po<ut in Arizona through
the Mexican state of Sonora to
Guaymas or Topolovampo, on the
Gulf of California.
The use of narcotics is attaining
alarming dimensions in England,
and the papers are beginning to
make war upon the practice. Hy
drate of chloral, of which something
is known in th's country, is now said
to be sold in England at the rate if
two tons a week.
Ex-Governor Joel Parker, of New
Jersey, and Samuel B. L iwrey, of
Huntsville, Ala., one cf the blackest
of Blackstone’s disciples, were ad
mitted to practice in the United
States supreme court at Washington
the other day, and were sworn in
side by side.
A nervous man had a tooth pulled
the other day, and, as he came
bounding out of the dentist’s chair
into the room where half a dozen
other patients sat, he inspired them
with terror by anxiously howling:
“Am I al! here ? Will some one
please take a census for me ? ’
Rev Edward Cowley, of New York,
entered a plea of not guiity to the
twenty five indictments charging him
with starving and ill-treating the
children under his care in the Shep
herd’s Feld. The trial was set down
for Monday next, peremptorily, and
Cuwley was sent back to prison.
A justice at Albia, Ohio, performed
a marriage ceremony, and was asked
how mucn he charged for the service.
“The law of this state allows me two
dollars,” he replied. “Well, here’s
fifty cents,” said tho bridegroom,
“and that, with what the state allows,
will make two dollars and a half.’’
The presiding bishop of the North
Mississippi conference of the M. E.
church, south, decided that a woman
could not serve. He said both the
discipline and the Bible excluded
women from holding church offices.
She had acted as steward and Sun
day school superintendent at home.
The Shanghai Courier says that
marriages in China between persons
of the same surname are not only
null and void, but render the con
tracting parties, as well as the go
between who arranged the match,
liable to a punishment of sixty blows.
The marriage presents are moreover
forfeited to the state.
“Does be know anything?” anx
iously inquired a friend, bending
over the body of an ex-justice of the
peace who had fallen from the roof
of a house near White Plains.
’Don’t know, I’m sure, the physician
replied. “He never did know any
thing, but you can’t tell what effect
the fall may have upon him until he
regains consciousness.”
An attempt was recently made in
Dundee to ascertain where the bodies
of the victims of the Tay bridge di
saster were lying. A lady was taken
out in a yacht and mesmerized. She
pointed out a place where a body
was lying deeply imbedded in the
sand, and when grapnels were used,
the collar of an overcoat was brought
up. Tho clairvoyant afterwards de
clared that twenty bodies lay under
neath the girders.
Richmond, Va., has a new daily
paper called the Commonwealth, which
starts out with the assertion that
that part of Virginia, which claims
it as a right of their own to pay back
money they have borrowed, had
rather go naked in this world, and
beg the bread on which to eke out a
precarious subsistence, than to admit
under any pressure of circumstances
whatever that Senator-elect Wm.
Mahone can represent them any
where on this earth.
The New Orleans Democrat says an
estimable and well known young lady
of that city is about to lose her
right arm as a result of the boister
ous and rude conduct of one of her
boy friends. In exhibition of his
superior strength, dur.ng a recent
visit, he twisted her arm in such a
manner that one of the large blood
vessels near the elbow was ruptured.
Two days after the arm began to
swell, and, as mortification is now
rapidly setting in, amputation ha?
been declared necessary.
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per hundred werds or fraction thereof eacn inser
tion for the first four insertions, and thirty-five
cents for each subsequent insertion.
Transient advertising will be charged $1 per inch
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
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All bills doe upon the first appearance of the ad
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NOTICE !
I take much pleasure in informing my
friends and the public generally that I have
purchased the entire stock, business, good
will and fixtures of Mr. K. L. Boone, and
connecting the store formerly occupied by
him with my Dry Goods establishment next
door, will hereafter occupy both stores.
The stare room lately occupied by Mr.
Boone will he devoted exclusively to Gro
ceries and Country Produce, while my Dry
Goods and Clothing department will be
kept tall and complete.
I hope to retain all the patrons of Mr.
Boone, and assure them that no effort will
be >pared on my part to merit a continuance
of their favors. With a large and commo
dious establishment, a full and complete
assortment of goods of every description
increased facilities, and a corps of polite,
experienced and efficient salesmen, I flatter
myself that I can give entire satisfaction.
Thanking all roy friends for their kind
patronage in the past, and assuring them I
shall spare no pains to merit their favors in
future, I cordially invite all to come and
see me.
C. W. DuPRE.
jan23 4t
MRS. VARNER.
FASHIONABLE DRESSMAKER
Room in rear oi L. H. Johnson’s store.
DRESSES MADE, CUT AND TRIMMED
in any style desired.
Washed Dresses and Children’s Clothing
at yow own prices !
Also
GENT’S S»IIl «TfS
MADE IN THE BEST STYLE. Good
Shirts, material included, for $1
and upwards.
jan2 2m
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
On and after December 20th double dally trains
will run on thia road as follows:
MOBNING TRAIN.
Leave Atlanta. 4 00 a tn
Arrive Charlotte 3 20 p to
“ Air-Line Junction.. 830 “
“ Danville. 951 “
“ Lynchburg 12 37 ni’t
** Washington 7 50 a ta
Baltimore 930 “
■* Pniladelphla 130 and 145 m
“ New York 345 and 445 “
" Wilmington, N. O. (urxt day) 950 a m
“ Richmond 743 “
EVENING TBAIN.
Leave Atlanta 3 30pm
Arrive Charlotte 3 20 a m
“ Air-Line Junction 330 “
“ Danville 10 22 “
“ Lynchburg 153 pm
“ Richmond 443 “
“ Wa hington 955 “
“ Baltimore 1155 “
" Philad.lphia. 335 am
New York 645 “
GOING EAST,
Nlgbt Mail and Passenger train.
Arrive Gainesville 5:50 p m
Leave •• 6:51 “
Day Passenger train
Arrive “ .. 6:13 a m
Leave •• .....> 6:15“
Local Freight and Accommodation train.
Arrive Gainesville 11:10 a m
Leave “ 11:25 “
GOING WEBT.
Night Mail and Passenger train.
Arrive Gainesville 9:20 a m
Leave “ ...... 9:21 “
Day Pass anger train.
Arrive “ B;lspm
Leave •• 8:16"
Local Freight and Accommodation iiaiu.
Arrive Gainesville 1:45 a m
Leave •• 2:00“
Close connection at Atlanta for all points West,
and at Charlotte for all potms East.
G. J. FOREACRE, G. M.
W. J. HOUSTON, Gen. Pas. and Tkt Agt.
TOovtlkeastern Railroad.
Cliange of Soh.edviJ.ss.
Suphrintendent’s Office. 1
Athens, Ga., Oct. 11, 1879.)
On and alter Monday, October 6, 1879, trains on
the Northeastern Railroad will run as follows. All
trains daily except Bunday:
Leave Athens 3 50 p m
Arrive at Lula 620 ••
Arrive at Atlanta, via Air-Line It. R 10 30 “
Leave Atlanta, via Air-Line B. B 330 “
Leave Lula 746 “
Arrive at Athens 10 00 “
The above trains also connect closely at Lula with
northern bound trains on A. L. B. R. On Wednes
day-. and Saturdays the following additional trains
will be run:
Leave Athens. _ .. 6 45 a m
Arrive at Lula 845 "
Leave Lula 920 “
Arrive at Athens 11 3J *
This train connects closely at Lula for Atlanta
making the trip to Atlanta only four hours and
forty-five minntee. J. M. EDWARDS, Supt.
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