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EDITORIAL. EAGLETS.
It is stili insisted that the Ger
mans are unanimous in opposition to
the third term.
As an evidence of continued busi
ness activity, all kind of good securi
ties are bringing fancy prices.
In eight days the New York Her
ald's Irish relief fund ran up to one
hundred and forty-four thousand
dollars.
Washington City and Cincinnati
both are working to secure the hold
ing of the national democratic con
vention.
The Richmond Commonwealth says
Gen. Mahone is the only ex-confeder
ate general in Virginia who is in fa
vor of repudiation.
It turns out that at the very last
moment the bottom dropped out of
the Macon and Brunswick railroad
lease. The whole thing is again at
sea.
It seems to ba the general opinion
that the metric system of coinage,
proposed by the house committee on
weights and measures, will be adopted
by congress.
The greenbackers in the house
complain that Speaker Randall does
not give them a fair showing and
treats them badly by refusing to
recognize them.
Between the “brass band bill’’ and
and his proposed amendment to the
rules of the house Mr. Speer has got
himself into hot water all around.
Discretion and judgment are indis
pensable to the statesman.
With Mr. Hill voting with the re
publicans in the senate and Dr.
Felton and Mr. Speer cheek by jowl
with them on vital questions in the
house, the Georgia delegation is not
as solid as some were led to believe.
■<,
We are heartily tired and sick of
this exodus question. If the negroes
want to go, open the door to them
say we, any and everywhere from
the north to the south pole and from
the rising to tho setting sun. The
south may suffer a temporary incon
venience, but will be the gainer in
the end.
Mr. Hili sajs that the Rev. Mr.
S mmons must be confirmed as cen
sus supervisor to save the democratic
party. To a plain person this looks
rather far-fetched. We did not think
that the p.irtya’ tenure was so frail
as that. But then Mr. Hill must
exercise the functions of ft savior
once in a while.
The committe on waysand means,
according to the Washington cor
respondent of the Springfield lle.pub
field, is likely to divide on party
lines over the reduction of the duty
on steel rails, tho democratic mem
bers favoring a new tariff of sl4 a
ton, and the republicans supporting
the exorbitant duty of S2B, which is
now levied.
Democrats will be slow to under
stand the logic which requires con
gressmen to aid bitter radicals in
obtaining office, or to support the
most objectionable radical measures,
to save their party. Joining its
most malignant enemies is a strange
way to carry out the measures of the
democrratic party or to perpetuate
its principles.
It is not stringed instruments Mr.
Speer is after, nor is it Gideon’s
band. It is brass bands pure and
simple. Mr. Speer has baen known
to swing his manly form so as to fit
the echoes of a north Georgia viol,
and on Sunday night at that. The
object of his attack is the tooting
horn and the clashing cymbal.—At
lanta Constitution.
The bill which has been agreed
upon by the senate judiciary commit
tee for the suppression of polygamy
imposes penalties for the future prac
ties of polygamy or bigamy, as it is
defined in the statutes, and disquali
fies any man believing in the practice
from jury service. The children
born of polygmntic marriages prior
to November 1, 1879, are legitimate;
but subsequent births of that kind
will not be recognized by the law.
Power to grant pardons for offenses
of this character is conferred upon
the president.
The indications of a general war
in Europe are becoming daily more
apparent. France is burning for an
opportunity to revenge herself upon
Germany for her humiliation of ten
years ago. She has put her army
upon an effective footing and forti
fied Paris until it is considered im
pregnable. In case of a war France
and Russia would probably be on
one side against Germany, Austria
and England. It would be a con
test of Titans. Foreign capitalists
are already investing money in this
country in anticipation of such a
struggle.
The Gainesville Eagle
VOL. XIV.
Florida Correspondence.
St. Augustine, Fla., 1
Feb. 11, 1880. f
Editor Eagle—On Friday last an
enthusiastic reception was extended
to Gen. William W. Loring, wel
coming him back to his old home in
the “ancient city” after an absence of
twenty-six years.
He was escorted from the depot
by a large concourse of citizens,
forming a large procession, preceded
by the city marshal, followed by the
ancient city cornet band, then the
general, and now the procession.
When opposite the south gate of the
plaza the precession came to a halt,
and moving to the centre of the
plaza, and under the monument
erected to the confederate dead, the
general was received by Hon. B. F.
Olivaros, who, in a few well chosen
remarks, welcomed to bis old home,
and to the hearts and arms of his
friends. The general, well overcome
with enthusiasm, responded in a flat
tering but pathetic manner, well
suited to the occasion, in which he
very touchingly alluded to his former
connection with the people of St.
Augustine—his services with them
in the Florida war, his career in
Mexico, passing over the war be
tween the states, making mention of
his services in Egypt and Africa, and
with expressions of deep emotion
expressed his gratitude for this kind
reception, after long years of absence.
During the remarks of the general
outbursts of applause continuously
rent the air, and a general feeling of
enthusiasm seemed to pervade the
immense crowd that had assembled
to receive him.
At the close of his speech, his path
was strewn with flowers by the little
girls and boys, and he was escorted
out at the north gate of the plaza,
where his carriage was waiting to
carry him to the Florida House.
A large arch had been erected on
each side of the plaza, beautifully
decorated with flowers and ever
greens lavishly bestowed by fair
hands, and inscribed on the first in
letters of evergreen, “Welcome
Home,” and on the other was in
scribed “Mexico and Egypt,’’ The
monument erected by the ladies of
St. Augustine to the confederate
dead was most beautifully decorated
by tho fair hands that designed it.
More enthusiasm was evinced on the
occasion than I have witnessed in
St. Augustine in many years.
The general is looking quite well,
and is seemingly in fine health and
I spirits—looks as though he was good
for two or three wars yet.
The name of Gen. W. W. Loring
is held sacred in the memory of ev
ery admirer of southern chivalry.
He has attained a hight in military
honors that few men ever attain.
Forty-four years ago, a beardless
boy, he enlisted under Capt. Phillips,
who is now a citizen of this place,
and went to the Semisole war. His
sterling worth and deeds of daring
endeared him to the hearts of his
comrades, and at the close of the
war ho returned to St. Augustine a
hero among his fellows.
lu the year 1845, at the beginning
of the Mexican war, he went with a
coptaiu’s commission, and before
twelve months he had been promoted
to the lank of colonel. He served
the confederacy through the entire
struggle, rising to the rank of major
general, and commanding a corps.
At the close of the war between the
states, he was highly recommended
to the Khedive, and was appointed
by him major-general and chief of
artillery in the Egyptian army, and
for bis services in the army of Egypt
he was promoted to the special grade
“Tereek Pasha,” the highest rank
ever bestowed on a foreigner; and
for his services in the Abyssinian
war he received from the Sultan the
decoration of the Modejadah, the
most brilliant honors ever conferred
on an officer of foreign birth.
R. H. G.
Washington Correspondence.
[Special Correspondence of Uie Eaulr.]
Washington, D. C., Feb. 17,1880.
Rumor, probably unfounded, is to
the effect that President Hayes is
less friendly than usual with two of
his cabinet officers—-Secretaries Ev
arts and Sherman. Mr. Hayes, it is
said, is willing to go as far as any
one in efforts to prevent foreign con
trol of any part of the Isthmus canal,
while Mr. Evarts takes more of a
strictly legal than patriotic view of
the subject. The cause of the al
leged quarrel with Sherman is his
often use of his subordinates in aid
ing his presidential aspirations, in
violation of civil service rules; bat
for Mr. Hayes to complain of Sher
man for this is for the political pot
to call the political kettle black. He
has done it himself very openly.
However, the North Carolina case
was so bad a one—so utterly inde
fensible under any circumstances—
that Mr. Hayes may feel compelled
to take notice of it. Here were
subordinates of the secretary, acting
as a republican state convention from
North Carolina, actually selecting
Sherman delegates to Chicago, and
trying to give him the presidency.
If those same officials should present
the secretary with a brass watch or
a fifty cent cane they would be pun
ishable heavily by law.
States which believe in the main
tenance of their constitutional rights
and powers as states are to be con
gratulated on vote in committee
killing Representative Reagan’s “in
ter-state commerce” bill. It had in
it more of centralization than any
radical measure proposed in the last
ten years.
In New York and Pennsylvania,
where one of the senators is demo
cratic and one republican, Mr. Hayes
appointed as census supervisors some
democrats and some republicans,
which, if he followed the letter and
spirit of the law, he would have done
in ail the states. In Ohio, however,
with two democratic senators, the
appointees were all republicans. It
is not strange that tha senate took
adverse action on them. Probably
new names will be sent in at once.
The number of deaths in the Dis
trict of Columbia for the past week
shows the remarkable fact that the
colored people are dying here more
than three times as fast as the whites.
I do not know how many of the col
ored people were North Carolinians
who left that state for Indiana and
were abandoned here by political and
other speculators who had them in
charge. Rex.
Gordon, Stephens, Hill.
Several versions of the late heat
ed discussion between the above
named gentlemen before the senate
democratic census committee, have
been published, some of them, highly
colored and exaggerated. Below we
present a history of the matter as
detailed by a corrospon lent of the
Augusta Chronicle,, which seems to
be about as fair and impartial as any
thing we have seen.
“I deem it but justice to write you
what I know to be the truth in ref
reuco to the Simmons controversy
and the passage-at-arms between
Gen. Gordon and Mr. Stephens.
What I desire to particularly com
ment upon is the Simmons affair, that
has excited so much interest lately
on account of tha peculiar oircum
etaneca connected with it. As al
ready intimated, the controversy be
fore the democratic census committee,
in reference to this matter, was the
most hotly contested, prolonged, dis
agreeable and I may gay, bitter that
it has ever been, probably, the for
tune or the misfortune of the gentle
men present to share.
Gen, Gordon was invited before
the caucus to state his reasons for
opposing Simmons’ confirmation,
Mr. Hill and Mr. Stephens were
thers to insist upon tho confirmation.
Gen Gordon began by stating, in
one sentence, that he based his op
position on the internal evidence of
incapacity and total unfitness for
such an office, furnished by Simmons’
own letter of application. Mr. Ste
phens took the floor and made a long
defense of the independents and of
Simmons himself,in which he sought
to convey the idea that the regular
organization was a ring against which
charges of corruption had been made,
and to force ths whole controversy
into the position of a petty warfare
between Dr. Felton and Gen. Gor
don, He insisted that the ground
upon which Simmons based his ap
plication was no ground for his re
jection by the senate. Gen. Gordon
followed him, taking up each point
he had made and confessing the truth
of hie assertions that had he consult
ed his own interest and not ths pub
lic welfare, which he believed could
only be secured in Georgia by pre
serving the integrity of the demo
cratic party, he would have remained
silent when the organization was as
sailed by a combination of the repub
licans and the so called democratic
independents and democratic hold
upon Georgia was threatened. In
reply to his declaration that Dr. Fel
ton was as good a democrat as Gen.
Gordon, the senator said that de
pended upon what constituted a
democrat; that he would admit the
truth of that statement if he (Mr.
Stephens) would point out to him
one utterance of Dr. Felton,in con
dress or upon the stump, in denun
ciation or even censure of the repub
lican party, its leaders or its repres
sive and oppressive measures or of its
assaults upon the rights of the states,
interference with legislatures or whole
sales landers of the southern people.
He made tho same proposition in re
gard to Dr. Feltons organs and chal
lenged Mr. Stephens to furnish the in
stance. Going through with these,
Gen Gordon took up Simmons himself,
or rather his application. He called
attention to tho inoontrovertable evi
dence of his ignorance, but said that
was a small matter as compared with
tho ground upon which he based his
claim to office. This he dwelt upon
at same length and then closed.
Mr. Hill followed in a long and
most earnest appeal for Simmons’s
confirmation, mainly on the ground
that it would be a great calamity to
the democratic party of the United
States to reject a man because he had
denounced secession as ‘reason, that
it would be made a national issue;
that the republicans would say the
democrats were endorsing secession,
that the ground upon which Gen
Gordon had based his objection, was
untenable. He also agreed with Mr.
Stephens as to Simmons’ fitness for
the office and his estimate of the in
dependents.
Gen. Gordon replied to Mr. Hill
that he did not share his alarm as to
the effect upon national politics; that
such an issue would be puerile and
ridiculous in the face of the fact
that the democrats were daily con
firming republicans for all grades of
official positions—Union soldiers and
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 20, 1880.
and the leading members of the re
publican party of the Union; that if
to confirm Simmons for a responsi
ble position becaua a of his slanders
of the southern people, was essen
tial to the well being of the demo
cratic party then it followed, in or
der to secure the triumph of the
democratic party,it became import
ant that they should ut once hunt up
the vile brood who have spent years
in maligning us and confer office up
on them; that such a proposition was
an insult to the intelligence of the
whole American people, and that he
could maintain the position be as
sumed in reference to this man, be
fore any audience of enlightened re
publicans, even, in any state of this
Union; that it was not a denuncia
tion of secession to which he was
objecting, nor could any such issue
by any possibility be made; that it
was to the malignant spirit of this
man, his denunciation of his people
as traitors and as being corrupt and
to the use of the power which he
sought in order that he might, in a
striatiy non-partisan office, wreak
his vengeance upon the white peo
ple of his district.
At this point Air. Hill interrupted
Gen. Gordon, saying: “My col
league is very rhetorical.’’ “Yes,”
replied Gen. Gordon, "I regret that
I cannot please my colleague in my
style of address, but I apprehend it
is the facts which hurt, rather than
my style of putting them,” or some
thing of that kind. Mr. Hill then
said that Gen. Gordon showed a
good deal of feeling. Gen. Gordon
said yes, he had feeling, bat not per
sonal feeling, except so far as manly
resentment of an insult to our peo
ple, offered by a man who sought ad
vancement at their hands, could be
considered personal feeling; that he
would regard this man’s confirmation,
as our people would, as an outrage
upon them and upon common de
cency, and that he regretted to see
that he had more feeling upon that
subject than his colleague aud Mr.
Stephens.
Many other matters not pertinent
to the issue were brought in, some
of a personal nasture, which made the
controversy, that lasted for nearly
two hours, exceedingly disagreeable.
For instance, Mr, Stephens, in try
ing to justify Simmons’ appointment,
said it was necessary in order to pre
vent the appointment of Smyth.
Geu. Gordon asked if he (Mr. Ste
phens) could suppose that the dem
ocratic senate would confirm Smyth?
He replied in a most offensive man
ner that Gen. Gordon was for Smyth.
The senator demanded the authority
of the statement Air. Stephens de
clined to give it, and Gen. Gordon
then branded it as an infamous false
hood out of whole cloth, and said he
was compelled to hold that Mr. Ste
phens was its author until he would
give him the name of the party,
Gen. Gordon deeply deplored this
necessity, I am sure, but there was
no other way of meeting it. He had
heard this slander of him for days
before, circulated by parties in Mr.
Stephens’ confidence.
During the controversy, Repre
sentative Nat. Hammond, at Gen.
Gordon’s request, came in and sup
ported him very earnestly, in every
position the senator had assumed.
A letter will be addressed to the
committee, signed by ail the Geor
gia representatives, except Air. Ste-
S'ephens, Dr. Felton and Mr. Speer,
opposing, with emphasis, Simmons’
confirmation
I have confidence in the senate,
and do not believe the democrats of
that body will inflict upon Georgia
sueh a wrong as this man’s confima
tion would be.
Woman’s Nerve.
A tall lady with a saturnine coun
tenance came into the Chronicle office
to-day and demanded of one of the
reporters if Virginia offered a good
field for a scries of a dozen lectures
on woman suffrage.
“I don’t think the Comstockers
have thought much about female
suffrage,” replied the reporter, frank
ly.
“Don’t say female," said the tall la
dy, sharply.
“Why not?" asked the reporter, in
innocent surprise.
“Because, sir, a term that is used
to describe sex in animals should not
be applied to woman.”
The reporter admitted, in great
humilation, that the point was well
taken, and looked up in some alarm
at the severe countenance of the la
dy, who was a head taller than him
self and manifestlv able to thrash
him in the interest of progress, if so
disposed. The stern countenance
softened somewhat at the signs of
confessed inferiority, however, and
the lady continued:
“The cause of woman is the cause
of humanity. The cause of human
ity embraces all progross. Why,
then, should the people of Virginia
be indifferent to woman ?”
“They’re not I” cried the small re
porter, hastily. “Far from it. Wo
man is the boss in this camp.
Everything she wants she gets, and
not one in a hundred has to do a
lick of work,’’
“Mere toys,” said the tall one,
with deep scorn. “P.aythings for
an idle hour. You cover woman
with silks and gauds and sink her
soul into insignificance by circum
scribing her sphere and allowing
her no mission in life*”
“Well,” admitted the small repor
ter, ‘that’s about the way we look at
it up here, that’s a fact. Women
haven’t got the nerve to rastle for
themselves like men."
“Ner-r r-ve!”
She uttered this word in a terrific
tone, eo terrific that the small repor
ter half rose from his chair.
“Nerve! What is there requiring
nerve that you do that I am incapable
of?”
“No offense, madam, no offense. I
meant nothing personal, I assure
you.”
“Ami not stronger than you?”
she demanded, scorning the apology.
“Am I not gifted with as great a
brain ? Why do you despise my
sex? We can bear more pain and
are, therefore, your superiors in cour
age.”
The small reporter was gazing
fixedly at a dark corner of the room,
and made no answer. “Nerve, in
deed !” continue the tall lady, “why,
women have infinitely more nerve
than men. Only yesterday I saw a
woman— ’’
“That’s the biggest rat I ever saw
in the office," said the small reporter,
staring intently at the dark corner.
The screams that rent the air
brought in all the printers and sev
eral citizens from the street. When
they arrived the tall one was stand
ing on a chair with one hand cover
ing her eyes and the other convul
sively clutching at her skirts as she
gathered them close around her.
The small reporter wisely took ad
vantage of the crowd to slip out, and
he telegraphed from Gold Hill that
he was going down to Carson to
work up a big item.— Virginia City
Chronicle.
How Hon. S. S Cox Came by
the Name of
The following which appeared in
the Ohio Statesman May 19, 1853, is
the brilliant piece of descriptive writ
ing won for Mr. Cox the immortal
name of “Sunset:”
a great old sunset.
What a stormful sunset was that
of last night. How glorious the
storm and how splend the setting of
the sun. We do not remember ever 1
to have seen the like on our round
globe. The scene opened in the west,
with a whole horrizon full of golden
interpenetrating lustre which covered
the foliage and brigtened every ob
ject into its own rich dyes. The col
ors grew deeper and richer until the
golden lustre was transfused iuto a
storm cloud, full of finest lightning,
which leaped in dazliug zigzags ail
around and over the city. The slen
der wind arose with fury, the slen
der shrubs and giant trees made obe
siance to its majesty. Some even
snapped before it. The strawberry
beds and grass plots “turned up
their whites” to see Zephyrus march
by. As the rain came, and the pools
formed, and the gutters hurried
away, thunder roared grandly, and
the fire bells caught the excitement
and rung with hearty chorus. The
south and east received the copious
showers, and the west all at once
brightened up in a long polished belt
of azure, worthy of a Sicilian sky.
Presently a cloud appeared in the
azure belt, in the form of a castellat
ed city. It became more vivid, re
vealing forms of peerless sanes and
alabaster temples, and glories rare
and grand in this mundane sphere.
It reminds us of Wordsworth’s splen
did verse in his Excursion:
“The appearance instantaneoußly disclosed.
Was of a mighty city, boldly say,
A wilderness of buildings, sinking far.
And self withdrawn into wondrous dapth,
Ear sinking into splendor without end.”
But the city vanished only to give
place to another isle, where the most
beautiful forms of foliage appeared,
imaging a paradise in the distant
and purified air. The sun wearied
with the elemental commotion, sank
behind the green plains of the west.
Tho “great eye of Heaven,” however,
went not down with a dark brow
hanging over its departing light. The
rich flush of the unearthly had
passed, and the rain had ceased,
when the solemn churchbells pealed;
the laughter of children, out and
joyous after the storm, is heard with
the carol of birds, while the forked
and purle weapon of the skies still
darted illumination around the start
ling cottage, trying to rival its angels
and leap into its dark windows.
Candles are lighted, the piano
strikes up, we feel it is good to h -ve
a home; good to be on the earth
when such revelations of beauty and
power may be made, and as we can
not refrain from reminding our read
ers of everything wonderful of our
city, we have begun and ended our
feeble sketching of a sunset which
comes so rarely that its glory should
be committed to immortal type.
The Last VV ords.
Those of great men are recorded
among the things that the world will
not let die. Often they are manufac
tured for them, and if the hero from
another sphere can perceive the ac
tions of our own, he must feel aston
ished and gratified that he left with
such a grand peroration as Las been
attributed to his parting with life.
He would hesitate to try it over
again lest he might make a blunder
and the exit be a failure.
When breath is failing we linger to
catch the faintest whisper of words.
We bend the ear close to listen, and
wonder sometimes why it is the dy
ing never weep. It is very desirable
that each may make a pleasant de
parture, that the subsequent recol
lection may be of peace, not pain.
The face, after the pulse has ceased
to beat, retains no trace of suffering;
all appears calm and serene, and on
many lips dwells a smile of content
that illumines the countenance with
the light of heaven.
While living, last words are not
very desirable save from the bore.
They are generally the most danger
ous of infernal machines. Husband
and wife should no more strive to
get the last word than they should
struggle for the possession of a light
ed bombshell. It is essential to
friendship, and married people es
pecially should study each other,s
weak points, as skaters look for the
weak points in the ice, to keep off
them. Females who marry for love
should remember that the union of
angels with woman has been forbid
den since the flood. The wife is the
sun of the social system. Unless she
attracts, there is nothing to keep
heavy bodies like husbands from fly
ing into space. The wife who would
properly discharge her duties should
never have a soul above buttons
Good temper cannot be trusted when
argument begins. Sugar is the sub
stance most universally diffused
through all natural products. “Taffy”
is more valuable than acidity, but a
little sour now and then renders the
sweet more precious. Nature mixes
them in charming proportions.
Much can be learned from her provi-
sions. The last word is the explo
sion that does the mischief, and the
desire to have it leads to neglect, the
bar room and ruin. People ha > bet
ter let each dangerous wearpons
alone.
Last words that are fitting become
the dying; if not expression* are
made to suit for the maxim, "Noth
ing except good of the dead are ob
served.” Tne last word is often the
death ofhappiness in life.
Tike Weather and the Death
Rate.
As many are discussing the proba
ble effect of the mild winter on tha
public health it may be well to call
attention to a valuable investigation
of the eminent Scottish meteorolog
ist, Buchan, bearing on this point.
This scientist has made a careful
comparison of British meteorology
and mortality, covering a period of
thirty years. The best statistics
show that spells of cold weather,
with dryness in winter and spring
increase the mortality from many
diseases of the nervous system and
skin, while cold snaps, with the ordi
nary amount of humidity, have an
enormously increased fatality from
all bronchial affections and these of
the respiratory organs generally.
The increase of the death rate in
scarlet and typhoid fevers, during
periods of unusual cold, with damp
ness, is equally marked. But the
comparison, though defective as re
spects the positive effect of mild
spells, apparently establishes their
mitigating influence over all the
above named diseases, unless, per
haps, in cases of excessive humidity,
when the element of moisture, so po
tent in producing the decomposition
of localized filth, becomes a control
ling factor in the result. No better
test of the sanitary effect of a mild
winter on pulmonary diseasee can be
found than the mild winter climate
of Egypt, where immunity from the
risks of cold make* consumption ex
tremely rare, as it also is in the mild,
dry air of Algeria. But a meteorolo
gical condition decidedly affecting
health seems to be that of “wind
movement.’’ Glaisher, from a care
ful a .alysis of the weather daring
tho two last cholera visitations in
England, found them attended by
abnormal stagnation of the air, and
similar stillness of the atmosphere
over London during the “Great
Plague” was recorded by several
chroniclers of that dire event. If,
as the Massachusetts Boa.d of
Health investigations show, decom
posing localized filth is the chief
exciting cause of nearly all epidem
ics, the absence of high winds, clear
ing the lower atmospheric strata of
floating impurities, must be regarded
as most prejudicial to the health of
great cities.
The Boy Who Loved His
Teacher.
A school boy about 10 years old
was the other day halted by a benev
olent-minded citizen on Second street
and asked if he liked to go to school.
“No, sir !” was the prompt reply.
“Then you don’t love your teach
er ?”
“N—yes, sir. That is, I didn’t
until yesterday, but now I do. I
think she’s just bully."
“Why have you loved her since
yesterday?”
“Well, you know Jack Gain?
Well, he’s the worst fighter in our
room. He can lick me and two oth
er boys with one hand tied behind
him. Well, he was going to lick me
last night and he was shaking his
fist at me in school aud showing his
teeth and getting me all excited
when the teacher saw him.”
“Did, eh ?”
“You bet she did; and the way she
took him out of that and wolloped
him and humbled him down made
me feel as if she were a mother to
me! "When school was out, Jack
dasn’t touch nobody. He whs wil
ted down, and when I hit him with
a hunk of dirt he never even looked
around ! I guess I’m going to try
and lick him in tho morning, before
ho gets over feeling humble !”
The committee appointed by the
Kentucky legislature to investigate
the management of the peniteuten
tiary of that state report that during
tho year 1879 out of 1,000 prisonere
775 were under medical treatmen for
scurvy produced by bad and insuffi
cient food. A great many other fla
grant abuses of prisoners were also
uiscouered, and the committee say
the condition of affairs is a disgrace
to humanity. They recammed the
immediate discharge of the present
keeper of the prison.
The French Government officially
disavows any intention to set up a
protectorate on this continent, or to
guarantee or protect, or in any way
make itself responsible for or on ac
count of M. de Lesseps in the ne
gotiations for or the building of an
inter-ocean ca al. It regards M, de
Lesseps as an eminent French citi
zen, but his plans on the Isthmus
have no political color or signifi
cance.
mm
Col. Robert Ingersoll was recently
interrogated by a Chicago reporter
as to the presidential outlook for
1880. He declared unhesitatingly
that Blaine would be the republican
nominee, a prediction that is doubt
less colored by Mr. Ingersoll’s per
sonal preference. In response to the
question, What will be the leading
republican issue ? he said with equal
positiveness, “The Bloody Shirt.”
Ohio has a school population of
1,043,320. The number of pupils
enrolled in the public schools is 734,-
657- There are 10,874 schoolhouses
and 23,487 teachers in the state. The
school receipts for the past year
amounted to $11,243,310.38; expen
ditures, $7,711,325 24.
A steamer recently arrived at (
Havre from South America with 10,-
000 sheep, preserved by the frigo
rific process.
SMALL BITS
Os Varioss Kinds Carelessly Thrown
Toget het.
The stnte of Kentucky paid $lO,-
000 bounty for f»x scalps last
year.
During th® year 1879 twenty min
or planets were discovered, and their
number '• now 211.
The Philadelphia merchants pro
pose sending fiom that porta ship
load of provisions to the Irish suffer
ers.
A grandson and namesake of the
statesman John C. Calhoun, is keep
ing a saloon in St Souis. He tends
his own bar.
Cholera sw. pt away over 100,000
Japanese last year, yet in 1878 the
United States were horrified at a
veilow fever mortality of only 14.-
000.
Gov. Foster, of Ohio, being asked
what he thought of the action of the
Harrisburg convention, said he
deemed it “is a gre t mistake on the
part of Grant’s friends.
A young man was recently released
from prison in London, where he
had been c n iim <i for contempt of
court for eloping with a ward in
chancery and marrying her.
Hon Galtish* A. Glow, of Penn
sylvania, looks upon the result of the
late republican convention in that
state as a “demonstration that Grant
will not be nominated at Chicago ’
The Series exports to the United
States in 1879 show an increase of
15,000,000 francas on those cf 1878,
the chief items of increase being cot
ton goods, watches, and embroidery.
Grant ought to be able to pick up
a great many points iuC:v<arism from
Diaz whose guest he will be iu a few
days. The history of M xico is the
recognized textbook and standard
authority on dictatorship.
The foreign legations in Washing
ton have information which leads
them to look for a general war in
Europe at no di-tmt day. The
great powers are ail ready and onlj
waiting for some one to begin,
A widow, who lives in a secluded
part of Mi-bigan, talks very imper
fectly by raason of having lost her
palate, and her two daughters, aged
8 and 12, can only speak the strange
language they have learned of her,
thoughtheir vocal organs are perfect.
Continent*: Europe is arming to
an enormous extent. Germany •/ives
as a pretext that France is assuming
a menacing altitude, while France,
on the other hand, declares that her
military preparations are only pre
cautions against possible German
aggression.
Cardinal Manning’s brother whose
death han ju>t been announced, was
& man of cultivated taste and a
staunch proUstauf, so much so that
he hud provided the money to build
a protestant church- He and his
brother, t he cardinal, had not spoken
for many years.
Capita punishment has been abol
ished in Wisconsin for over twenty
years, but the results on the preva
lence <f crime have not satisfied
every one. A bill is before the pres
ent legislature which proposes the
re-Gstabliehmei’t cf banging as the
penalty for murder in lim first de
gree.
It is annom ced that Mr. James G.
Fair, who is also a millionare resi
dent of Sd'oi will contest
Sharon’s return from Nt v.ida to the
United States senate. The only in
terest that they h>iv in N-v;uie is
the mining pro; ei iy they umi there.
Mr. Fair is to be run by ti e demo
ci ats.
The New York Times has a letter
from Howard Carroll, making inter
esting revelations in regard o the
manner in which Secrciary Sher
man’s treasury agents ecured con
trol of the North Carolina lepublican
state committee. The secretary of
the treasury is I 01-.lly charged with
being a falsifier.
The highest inhabited pl. ca in the
world is Galern, a railway vil’age in
Pern, 15,035 feet above the sea. Near
it a tunnel 3,847 feet long is being
bored through t’:o peak of the moun
tain, 600 feet above the perpetual
snow line. A miner’s habitation on
Mount Lincoln, Col rsdo, is 14,157
feet above the sea.
In the Swiss cantons bordering on
Germany there is much complaint
of the influx of German beggars, who,
even when conducted across the
frontier speedily return. Artisans
and laborers also cross over, though
in Switzerland meetings have been
held to petition for public works to
relieve the unemployed.
Influential ladies of Cincinnati are
signing the following pledge: “Be
lieving that theatrical and operatic
performances on Sunday are preju
dicial to the good ordf-r ind good
morale cf the c mmunity, we h .reby
pledge our? Ives to abstain from pat
ronizing an opera house or public
hall which opens its doors to enter
tainments of this kind on Sunday.
The older t turpentine fields north
of Newbum, North Carolina, are well
nigh abandoned, the iu ustry hav
ing been largely diverted to the
more productive pine forests of
South Georgia. There are, however,
immense tracts of virgin pine forests
in the southern belt of North Caro
lina which will supply Wilmington
with naval stores for a century to
come.
The Nicholson pavement is to be
banished from Memphis, Tennessee,
an order having been issut-d for its
destruction by the legislatve council
of the taxing district. It is to be
replaced with broken stone and Pa
ducah gravel, and the work is to be
completed by the first of April. Emi
nent physicians have given their
opinion that this Nicholson pave
nient, for years in a wretched condi
tion, has been one of the chief pro
moters of yellow fever in Memphis.
A.dvortl«Jja® FL l ato«.
Legsl adverhsem»nta charged seventy-five eeafe
per hundred words or fraction Misreef sash tnseu
tion for the first four insevtlcns, and
cents for each subsequent insert--w.
Transient advertising will be charged $1 per Inch
for the first, and fifty cents for eseh subsequent
insertion. Advertisers desiring larger space for a
longer time than one month will receive a libnal
deduction from regular rates.
All bills due upon ths first appearance of the ad.
vertisement, and will be presented at the pleasure
of the proprietor. Transient advertisements from
unknown parties must be paid for in advance.
NO. 8
MRS. VARNER.
FASHIONABLE DIfSSMAKER
Room iu rear ei L. H. Johnson’s store.
PRESSES MADE, CUT AND TRIMMED
iu any style desired.
JVsstal Dreuee uni Children's Clothing
•t ywr uvn prices!
Also
GENT”* SHIRTS
MADE IN TH® BIST STTLE. Good
Shirts, material included, for SI
and upward*.
jan2 2m
NOTICE!
I take mack pleasure in informing say
friends and the public generally that I have
purchased the entire stock, business, good
will and fiutureu of Mr. I. L. Boone, and
connecting the store formerly acetified by
h;m with my Dry Goods establishment next
door, will hereafter oceupy both store*.
The stoee room lately oecupied by Mr.
Boone will be devoted exclusively io gro
ceries and Country Produce, while my Dry
Goods and Clothing department will be
kept full and complete.
I hope to retain all the patrons of Mr.
Boone, and assure them that no eMort will
be spared on my part to merit a continuance
ot their favors, with a large and oommo
dions establishment, a full and complete
Assortment of goods of every description,
increased facilities, and a eorpe of polite,
experienced and efficient salesmen, I fatter
myself that I can give entire satisfaction.
Thanking all say friends for their kind
patronage in the past, and assuring them I
shall spare no pains to merit their favors in
future, I eosdially invite all to come and
see me.
C. W. DnPRE.
jan2B 4t
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
On and after December 20th double dally train*
will run on this road a* follows:
MORNING TRAIN.
Leave Atlant* 4 00 a in
Arrive Charlotte I 20 p m
“ Air-Line Junctio* 380 ••
“ Danville. 8H «
“ Lynch barg 12 3f ni’t
“ Washington f SO a m
“ Baltimore 9** ••
“ Philadelphia ..1 88 and 145 pm
“ New Tort 846 and 446 “
“ Wilmington, N. O. (n»xt day) •SO a m
Richmond T 43 ••
EVENING TRAIX.
Leave Atlanta 8 80 p m
Arrive Charlotte S 20 a bi
“ Air-Line Junction 330 “
" Danville 10 22 “
“ Lynchburg IS3 p m
“ R chmond 4 43
“ Wahington...., 155 ••
“ Baltimore 11 55 ••
“ Philadelphia 3 35am
“ New York <45 “
GOING EABT,
Night Mail and Passenger train.
Arrive Gainesville. 8:50 pm
Leave " ........................ 8:51 “
Day Passenger train
Arrive “ 6:l3am
Leave “ .... 6:15“
Local Freight and Accommodation train.
Arrive Gainesville 11:10 s an
Le-ive « -1:88 "
•OING WEST.
Night Msll sad Passenger train.
Arrive Gainesville 8:20 a m
Leave “ 8:21
Day Passjnger train.
Arrive •• _ 8:15 pat
Leave “ 8:16"
Local Freight and Accommodation liafu.
Arrive Gainesville. 145 a as
Leave •• 23)0 “
Close connection at Atlanta for all points West,
and at Charlotte for all points East.
G. J. FOREACRJC, G. H.
W. J. HOUSTON, Gen. Pas. and Tkt Agt.
Northeastern Railroad.
Cliange of SolioclxiJw*.
ScFsnrFTEsnsNi’s Omen, 1
Atbkbb, Ga., Oct. 11,1879.)
On and after Monday, October 6, 1879, train* on
the Northeastern Railroad will run as follows. All
trains daily except BUndsy:
Leave Athens 8 50 p m
Arrive at Lui* 620 “
Arrive st Atlanta, via Air-Line R. R 10 80 “
Leave Atlanta, via Ais-Une R. R 838 “
Leave LVla V 46 “
Arrive at Athens 18 00 »
The above trains also connect closely at Lula with
northern bound trains on A. L. R. R. On Vednes
days and Saturdays the following additional trains
will be rtn:
Leave Athena 6 46 a m
Arrive at Lula 845 “
Leave Lula 920 “
Arrive at Athens 11 8J “
This train connect* closely st Lula for Atlanta,
making the trip to At'anta only four hour* and
forty-live minute*. 3. M. EDWARDS, Supt.
Til E
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