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The Gainesville Sagle. * Published Every Friday Morning. UY J. E. REO'VINE. * Hates of Subscripti' ,n 5 One copy one year CO One copy six months x On a copy three months 50 -- ■' 2 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. * ■» 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. A.dverti»ing Rates. Legal advertisements charged seventy-five cents 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 deduction from regular rates. All bills doe upon the first appearance of the ad v-rtiseruent, and will be presented at the pleasure of the proprietor. Transient advertisements from unknown parties must be paid for in advance. 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. THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION. During the coming year—a year that will witness the progress and culmination of the most interesting political contest that has ever taken place in this country—every cit izen and every thoughtful person will be compelled to rely upon the newspapers for information. Why not get the best ? Abroad The Constitution is recognized, referred to and quotep as the leading southern journal —as the organ and vehicle of the best southern thought and opinion—and at borne its columns are consulted for the latest news, the freshest comment, and for all matters of special and current interest. The Constitution contains more and later telegraphic news than any other Georgia paper, and this particular feature will be largely added to during the coming year. All its facilities for gathering the latest news from all parts of the country will be en larged and supplemented. The Constitu tion is both chronicler aud commentator. Its editorial opinions, its contributions to the drift of current discussion, its humorous and satirical paragraphs, are copied from one end of the country to the other. It aims always to be the brightest and the best —newsy, original and piquant It nims particularly to give the news impartially and fnlly, and to keep its readers informed of the drift of current discussion by lib -ral but concise quotations from all its contem poraries. It aims, in short, to more than ever deserve to be known as “the leading southern newspaper.” Bill Arp will con tinue to contribute his unique letters, which grow in savory humor week by week. “Old Si” will add his quaint fun to the collection of good things, and “Uncle Remus” has in preparation a series of negro myth legends, illustrating the folk-lore of the old planta tion. In every respect The Constitution for 1880 will be better than ever. The Weekly Constitution is a carefully edited compendium of the news of the week and contains the best and freshest matter to be found in any other weekly from a daily office. Its news and miscellaneous contents are the freshest and its market reports tbe latest THE SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. This, the best, the most reliable and most popular of southern agricultural journals, is issued from tbe printing establishment of The Constitution. It is still edited by Mr. W. L. Jones, and is devoted to tbe best in terests of the farmers of the south. It a sent at reduced rates with the Weekly edi tion of The Constitu:?ion. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Daily Constitution $lO 00 a year “ •• 5 00 6 m’s “ “ 2 50 3 m’s Weekly Constitution 1 50 a year “ •« 1 00 6 m’s “ “ Clubs of 10, 12 50 a year “ “ Clubs of 20, 20 00 “ Southern Cultivator 150 “ “ “ Clubs of 10, 12 20 “ “ '• Clubs of 20, 20 00 “ Weekly Constitution and Cul- tivator to same address.... 250 “ Address THE CONSTITUTION, Atlanta, Ga. NO. 7 jan2 2m