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The Gainesville Eagle. Published Every Friday Morning. BY .1 .E. 1€ EU W INT E. Rates of Subscription : One copy one year 9? 00 One copy six months 1 yy One copy three months 50 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 ATLANTA CONSTITUTION. During the coming year—a year that will witnesß the progress and culmination of the most interesting political uontest that has ever taken place in thia country—every cit izen and every thoughtful person will bo 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 home 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. Txe Constitu ■on is both chronicler and 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 uims particularly to give the news impartially and fully, and to keep its readers informed of the drift of current discussion by liberal but concise quotations from all its contem poraries. It aims, in short, to more than ever deserve to be known a* “the leading southern newspaper.” Bill Arp will con tinue to contribute his unique letters, which grew 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 Weexly Constitution is a carefully edited compendium of the news of the and contains the bust 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 the latest. THE SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. This, the best, the most reliable and most popular of southern agricultural journals, is issued from the printing establishment of The Constitution. It is still edited by Mr W. L. Jones, and is devoted to the best in terests of the farmers of the south. It s sent at reduced rates with the Weekly edi tion of The Constitution. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Daily Constitution $lO 00 a year “ “ 5 00 6 m's “ “ 2 50 3 m’s Weekly Constitution 1 50 a ye«i “ “ 1 00 • 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.