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editorial, eaglets.
There seems to be an uprising all
over the country to put down the re
tail of ardent rpirits.
The railway time between New
York and Philadelphia is to be re
duced to one hour and forty-five
minutes.
The New York Tribune insists that
Blaine is the choice of a very large
majority of the republicans in that
State for the presidency.
They do Bay that as the time for
holding the democratic national con
vention approaches Mr. Tilden’s
health becomes more and more ro
bust.
It now looks as if the element in
the republican party opposed to a
third term will make itself felt before
the meeting of the Chicago conven
tion.
In the republican convention which
met at Utica, New York, a few days
ago, a row was raised between the
Grant and anti-Grant factions and
several old-fashioned knock-downs
followed.
Mr. Blaine is not willing to take
the second place on the presidential
ticket. He will not play second fid
dle for Grant or any body else All
or nothing is the way his friends put
him down.
The amount of silver dollars in
the treasury on Rk Ist of this month
was $34,961,611, and was about sl,-
800,000 greater than the month
before. Those coins accumulate in
the treasury nearly as fast as coined.
The senate committee on territo
rics have decided to recommend the
passage of a bill extending the juris
diction of United States civil and
criminal courts over the Indian ter
ritory, and providing for the ac
quirement of citizenship by the In
dians.
Ex-Senator B. Gratz Brown writes
to the Kansas City Times that he
regards the coming struggle as one
of life or death to free government
in this country. Ho urges that the
democracy may attain perfect har
mony by nominating Seymour and
Hendricks.
Dennis Kearney charges the atti
tude of the New York Herald toward
the question of Ireland’s political
wrongs to Mr. Bennnett’s desire to
marry the Princess Beatrice, daugh
ter of Queen Victoria Kearney says
that Bennett is uow in England
pressing his suit.
The evidence before the exodus
committee continues to show that
the whole scheme of negro emigra
tion from North Carolina was and is
political, being nothing less than a
base partisan effort to succeed by
abusing the credulity of an ignorant
and ‘gullable” race
The Rev. Edward Cowley, who was
in charge of the home for orphan
children in New York known as the
Shepherd’s Fold and who was re
cently indicted for cruelty to the in
flates, has been tried and found
guilty. He gets one year in the
penitentiary and is to pay a fine of
$250 —the highest penalty allowed
by the law. The details are abso
lutely sickening.
The growing popularity of the pos
tal card as a means of correspondence
is something wonderful. The entire
number manufactured and used dur
ing tbe first year of their introauc
tion was 100,000,500, and during the
year which has just closed the aggre
gate number sent out was 246,063,-
060. The latter number is an in
crease over the number issued in
1878 of 36,879,060.
The gentler sex is rapidly secur
ing the rights of citizenship. The
New York legislature has passed a
bill allowing them to vote for and be
elected school trustees. The Cali
fornia Supreme court has decided
that women cannot be excluded sole
ly on account of sex from the college
of law in the State University. Ken
tucky allows women to vote at elec
tions for school trustees.
The Czar of all the Russias is hav
ing a hard scuffle for life. The late
attempt to blow him up was as au
dacious as it was diabolical. The
conspirators u‘ed dynamite which
was in some way secreted under the
dining-room at the Winter Palace.
Six o’clock is the dinner hour.
Promptly on time the explosive was
fired with the aid of electric wires.
On account of some little delay on
the part of the Czar and his family
the explosion took place just as they
were preparing to enter the dining
room. The emperial family escaped,
but of the servants and soldieis ten
were killed and forty wounded. This
isthelhird attempt recently made
to destroy the emperor. He is said
to be greatly alarmed and depressed
and it is stated will probably abdi
cate, as it is given out that nothing
short of this will satisfy the demands
of the nihilists.
The Gainesville Eagle
VOL. XIV.
Washington Correspondence.
[Special Correspondence of ftie Ea<x*.]
Washington, D. C . Feb. 24,1850.
There is something amusing in the
course the New York Tribune and
like republican journals take in re
gard to presidential candidates of
the two parties, They are all anx
ious about the democratic candidate
and see prospective quarrels in the
party. In view of the fact that the
democracy generally is waiting for
public sentiment to declare a candi
date, ninety nine democrats out of
every hundred being willing to sup
port any of tbe eminent gentlemen
named for the office, and of the other
fact that the republicans are having
in their own party the fiercest fight
they huve known since 1864, repub
lican solicitude for democratic welfare
is, to say the least, amusing. I be
lieve there is an altogether hopeless
split in the republican party. It
may not reveal itself plainly before
the time of the Chicago convention,
or may become apparent when the
New York convention meets. Be
tween Grant, who moves irresistibly
towards thejnomin&tion, and B aine,
with real or imaginary enthusiasm
among the masses behind him, there
is an “irrepressible conflict.’’ The
friends of Blaine in this city say that
the nomination of Grant means de
feat. The friends of Grant say
Blaine shall not be nominated. This
is cot an ordinary political quarrel,
but one that means permanent mis
chief to the party; and the sooner
the New York Tribune and the other
radical papers realize the fact and
turn their attention to it, and permit
the democrats to make their own
nomination in peace and qoietDess, as
they intend to do, the better those
journals will feel when observing the
funeral rites at the burial of Grant
or Biaine, whichever one may bo
selected as a victim.
There is a clear majority of men
in the house who wish the govern
ment to be carried on economically
and within strictly constitutional
lines. Those men are striving now
to put the “new rules” in such shape
that there will b 6 no open invitatior
in them to bankrupt the government
or to enact unconstitutional laws. In
their efforts they are deserving of
all credit, and, much as I would like
to see an early adjournment, and as
much as the legislation of the session
is behind, I hope those will “stick’ ’
who now have it in their power to
influence legislation for years to come
in the interest of good and economi
cal government.
Debate in the house committee on
elections yesterday showed that a
mej irity of the committee will stand
by the report unseating Wash bur ne,
of Minnesota, and seating Donnelly.
The house will sustain the commit
tee. Rex.
Daunt Famine in Ireland.
A correspondent of the Freemans
Journal, writing from Rosmnck, on
the Galway coast, on the 18th of
January, says: “After visiting the
townlands upon the Rosmuck prom
ontory, where all that is not stone is
quivering bog, I traversed Rosmuck
Bay by boat for twelve miles, past
Lettermore, Lettercalbagh and Illaa
uoeragh islands to tbs group of stony
islands and semi-peninsula called
Lattermullen. Having rammnged
the unspeakable nests of shielings
upon Diunn Island, wa penetrated
the townland of Carraroe; then,
across eight miles of water, through
the narrow pass of Belaudengain,
coasting on either side the wretched
townlands of Toween, Camus and
Snanobo, until we found ourselves
picking our way in tbe darkness up
the enormous rocks of the little nat
ural cove of Garrcfin. I found not
one single field in all that stretch of
country unencumbered with bowl
ders, but everywhere patches of
starved cultivation scooped cut of
corners of the rocky plains, or built
up iu high beds of bog stuff, with
deep streams rolling in the furrows
between. I found these starveling
plots loaded with stock rents which
would be esteemed merciless in Tip
perary. But let that pass. I found
that stock of any sort havi disap
peared from hundreds of holdings,
even to the very hens, and that what
ever little famished mountain cows
are left are not only absolutely val
ueless for sale, but are literally starv
ing, like their owners, for want of
food. I found that the seed oats are
in many cases gone, and the seed
potatoes in all places going. I found
that the kelp trade, which was as
vital to these people as agriculture,
has within two years declined three
fonrtbs in amount and two thirds in
i rice—is, in fact, utterly and hope
les3ly rumed; that their fishing has
been of the rudest, and that that,
too, has been unfortunate; that the
very oyster dredging which used to
give the people employment has been
three-fourths destroyed by the cu
pidity of the rich proprietor of the
fishery, I reckon that six hundred
families at the least will in a month
have exhausted their last ounce of
food and their last chance of raising
any, and that at least one hundred
familiei are already in that terrible
strait. I saw numbers of men, wo
mou and children who were slowly
wasting for want of food —upon two
meals a day, upon one meal a day,
and that a handful of Indian meal
‘lent’ by some les3 wretched neigh
bor, and eaten without a drop of
milk. I saw a man prowling over
dug potatoe fields and digging them
again for a couple of forgotten roots.
I saw an infant gnawing a turnip,
and eight little brothers and sisters
about her without a rag of under
clothing. I saw ‘beds’ of stone and
sawdust that, if they were in any
other country of the wjrld, would
raise humanity in revolt. I saw a
sick old woman who could not stand
up without pulling the roof off the
little circular shielding made of soda
of bog mould which she herself had
constructed between three huge
bowlders that answered as walls. I
saw more than one hovel in the
depthe of the bogs actually built
over with dripping bog mould,
thatched with h< atbgrass. I saw a
family of nine who had nothing in
tbe world to keep life in them except
such periwinkles as they could gather
on the neighboring strand. And
withal their peacefumess, their pa
tience, their resignation, even their
cheerfulness, is one of tbe most as
tounding things in the world. I
have had to make journey close to
midnight alone through one of the
most necessitous regions of Conne
mara, and the only persons leDCOuu
tered in a distance of nineteen miles
were two policemen on patrol and a
water bailiff watching the rivers. As
for their cheerfulness, Father Keane
questioned a widow with five chil
dren, who had only two meals more
of potatoes, and traveled to Galway
in vain for credit, how they were to
live when the potatoes were gone. I
will never forget the expression of
sweet trustfulness with which she
said in Irish, looking into the priest’s
face, ‘Neither God nor you will let
the little orphans starve, Aher
Shemus !’ A poor old hag, clad in a
short and ragged red petticoat, and
nothing more, met ns on the road
near Carraroe, and, putting out her
withered, skinny hand, said, always
in Irish, ‘I expect you’ll stretch out
somr- hand to me, Aher Shemus.’ The
ptiest, with that mixture of pathos
and good humor which it seems to
me alone keeps the people from going
mad, put out his right hand frankly
and said: ‘There it is; it is as empty
as your own.’ The poor old thing, as
if cheered by the sense of suffering
shared, shook her old gray curls with
laughing as she said, with a bless
ing: ‘Why, then, more is the pity.
That it mightn’t be so long.’ Amen.”
Mrs. Caudle’s Curtain Lectures.
“Now Mr Caudle, —Mr. Caudle,
I say; oh ! you can't be asleep al
ready, I know—now what I mean to
say is this: there’s no use, none at all,
in our having a disturbance about
the matter; but at last my mind’s
made up. Mr. Caudle, I shall leave
you. Either I kuow all you have
been doing to night, or to-morrow
morning I quit the house. No, no;
there’s an end to the marriage state,
I think—an end of all confidence be
tween man and wife—if a husband's
to have secrets and keep them all to
himself. Pretty secrets they must
be, when his own wife can’t know
’em! Not fit for any decent person
to know, I’m sure, if thats the case.
Now, Caudle, Caudle, don’t let us
quarrel, there’s a good soul, ted
me what’s it all about ? A pack of
nonesense, I dare say; still—not that
I care much about it— still I should
like to know. There’s a dear. Eh ?
Oh, don’t tell me there’s nothing
in it; I know batter. I’m not a fool,
Mr, Candle; I know there’s a good
deal in it. Now, Caudle, just tell
me a little bit of it. I’m sure I’d tell
you auvthing. You know I would.
Well ?
“Candle, you’re enough to vex a
saint! Now, don’t you think you’re
going to sleep; because you’re not,
Do you suppose I’d ever suffer you
to go and be made a mason, if I
didn’t suppose 1 were to know the
secrets too? Not that it’s anything
to know, I dare say; and that’s why
I’m determined to know it.
“But I kuow what it is; oh yes,
there can be no doubt. The secret
is to ill use poor women; to tyranize
over ’em; to make ’em your slaves;
especially your wives. It must, be
something of the sort, or you would
not be ashamed to have it known.
What’s right and proper never need
be done in secret. It’s an insult to a
woman for a man to be a freemason
and let his wife know uothiug of it.
But, poor sou)! she’s sure to
know it somehow —for nice hus
baude they all make. Yes, yes;
a part of the secret is to think
better of all the world than their
own wives aud families. I’m sure
men have quite enough to care for—
that is if they act properly—to care
for them they have at home. They
can't have much care to spare for the
world besides.
“And I suppose they call you bro
iher Caudle? A pretty biother in
deed! Going aud dressing j ourself
up in an apron like a turnpike man
—for teat's what you look like. And
I should like to know what’s the
apron for ? There must bo some
thing in it not very respectable I’m
sure. Well, I only wish I was
queen for a day or two I’d put an end
to freemasonry, aud all such trumpe
ry, I know.
“Now, come, Caudle, don’t let’s
quarrel Eh! you’re not iu pain dear?
What’s it all about ? What are you
lying there laughing about? But
I’m a fool to trouble my head about
you.
“And you’e not goiDg to let me
know the secret, eh ? You mean to
say-you’re not ? Now, Caudle, you
know it’s a hard matter to put me
in a passion—not that I care about
the secret itself; I wouldn’t give a
button to know, for it’s all nonsense,
I’m sure It isn’t the secret I care
about, it’s the slight, Mr Caudle; it’s
the studied insult that a man pays to
his wife, when he thinks of going
through the world keeping some
thing to himself which he won’t let
her know. Man and wife one, in
deed ! I should like to know how
that can be when the man’s a mracn —
when he keeps a secret that sets him
and his wife apart ? Ha, you men
make the laws, and so you take good
care to have the best of ’em to your
selves; otherwise a woman ought to
be allowed a divorce when a man
becomes a mason; when he’s got a
Bort of corner-cupboard in his heart
—a secret place in his mind—that
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY’MORNING, FEBRUARY 27, 1880.
his poor wife allowed to rum
mage !
“Caudle, you sha’n’t close your
eyes for a week—no, you sha’n’t—un
less you tell me some of it. Come,
that’s a good creature: that’s a
love. I’m sure, Caudle I wouldn’t
refuse you anything—and you know
it, or ought to know it by this time.
I only wish I bad a secret! To
whom should I think of confiding it,
but to my dear husband ? I should
be miserable to keep it to myself, and
you know it. Now, Caudle ?
“Was there ever such a man ? A
man, indeed! A brute!—Yes Mr.
Caudle, and unfeeling, brutal crea
ture, when you might oblige me,
and you won’t. I’m sure I don’t ob
ject to your being a mason; not at
all, Caudle; I dare say, it’s a very
good thing; I daresay it is—it’s only
your making a secret of it that vexes
me. But you’ll tell me—you’ll tell
your own Margaret? You wont!
Your’e a wretch, Mr, Caudle.
“But I know why; oh, yes, I can
tell. Ttie fact is, you’re ashamed to
let me kuow what a fool they’ve been
making of yon. That’s it. You, at
your time of life—the father of a
family 1 I should be ashamed of my
self, Caudle.
“And I suppose you’ll be going to
what you call lodge every night,
now ? Lodge indeed ! Pretty place
it must be, where they don’t admit
women. Nice goings on, I dare say.
Then you call one another brethren.
Brethren 1 I’m sure you had relatives
enough, you didn’t want any more.
“But I know what all the mason
ry’s about. I’ts only an excuse to
get away from your wives and fami
lies, that you may ferst and drink
together; that’s all. That’s the se
cret. And to abuse women—as if
they were inferior animals, and not
to be trusted. That’s the secret, and
nothing else.
“Now, C udle, don’t let us quarrel.
Yes, I know you’re in pain. Still,
Caudle, my love; Caudle! Dearest, I
say—Caudle!”
“I recollect nothing more,” says
Caudle “for I had eaten a hearty sup
per, aud, somehow, became oblivi
ous.’’
Charles Dickens’ Religion,
Dickens preached—not in a
church nor from a pulpit, but a gos
pel which the people understood, the
gospel of kindness, sympathy—in a
word, humanity. His creed may be
found in the beautiful extracts on the
subject of death:
Eveu when golden hair lay in a
halo, on a pillow, round the worn
face of a little boy he said with a
radiant smile: “Dear papa and
mamma, I am very sorry to leave my
pretty sister, but I am called and I
must go - ” Thus the rustling of an
angel’s wing got blended with the
other echoes and had in them th i
breath of Hoav n.—[Tale of Two
Cdies, book ii„ chapter 21.
The dying look made no answer, I
shall soon ba there. He spoke of
beautiful gar Jens stretched out be
fore him, and which were fillea with
figures of men, and many children,
all with light upon their faces; theD
whispered that it was EJen, and so
died.— [Nicholas Nickleby, chapter
68.
“It’s turned very dark, sir Is
there any light a coming? The cart
is shaken all to pieces, and the rug
ged road is very uear its end. I’m a
gropin’—a gropin—let me catch hold
of your hand. Hallowed be Thy
name.
Dead ! my lords and gentlemen.
De..d ! men and women, borr with
heavenly compassion in yonr hearts
And, dying thus around us every
day —! Black House, chapter 47.
He slowly laid his face down upon
her bosom, drew his arm closer
around her neck, and with one par
ting sob began the world. Not ibis
woriJ. Oh, not this! The world
that sets this right.—[lbid., chapter
65.
“If this is sleep, sit by me while I
sleep. Turn me to you, for your
i’ace is going far off and I want it to
be near.” And she died like a child
that had gone to sleep.—[David Cop
perfield, chapter 9
“Don’t crv. Is my chair there, iu
its old place?’’ * * That face,
so full of pity aud grief that would
appeal to me, that solemn hand up
raised toward Heaven! It is over. —
[lbid., chapter 53.
One new monud was there, which
bad not been there last night. Time,
burrowing ‘ike a mole below the
ground, had marked his track by
throwing up another heap of earth.
[Martin Chuazlewit, chapter 19.
She was dead No sleep so beauti
ful and calm, so free from trace of
pain, so fair to look upon. She
seemed a creature fresh from the
hand of God, amt waiting for the
breath of life ; not one who had lived
and suffered death. She was paaf all
help, or need of it. We will not
wake her.—[Old Cariosity Shop,
chapter 71.
The hand soon stopped in the
midst of them, the light that had al
ways been feeble and dim behind the
weak transparency went out.—[ Hard
Times, chapter 9.
For a moment the closed eyelids
trembled, and the faintest shadow of
a smile was seen. Thus clinging to
a slight spar within her arms, the
mother drifted out upon the dark and
unknown sea that rolls rouud all the
world —[Dombey & Son, vol. 1,
chap. 1.
“It’s very near the sea; I hear the
waves! The light about the head is
shiniDg on me as I go!” Tbe old,
old fashion that cameinwi’h our
gar .ients, and will last unchanged
until our race has run its course aud
t'ue wide firmament is rolled c.p like
a scroll. Oh! thank God for that
older fashion yet of immortality'!
and look upon ns, angels of young
children, when the swift river bears
us to the ocean. —[Ibid., chapter 17
In this round world of many cir
cles within circles do we make a wea
ry journey from the high grade to
the low to find at last that they lie
close together, that the two extremes
touch, and that our journey’s end is
but our startingplace?—[lbid, chap
ter 34.
A cricket sings upon the hearth; a
broken child’s toy lies upon the
ground aud nothing else remains.—
[Cricket on the Hearth, chapter 3 -
“I 8m going to Heaven, the sunset
is very near 1” and the child who
went to Heaven rose in the golden
air and vanished.— [The Child’s Sto
ry-
“Make tlie Best of Things”
The Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, of
the Brooklyn Tabernacle, lectured
last night at Stapleton, Staten Isl
and, for a charity connected with
the First Presbyterian church at
Edgwater. The title of the lecture
was, “How to Make the Best of
things,” a subject with which the
Brooklyn divine is so familiar. The
audience was very large and tbe fre
quent humoroushite of the preacher
kept them in one continued roar of
laughter throughout the lecture,
which was two hours long. Starting
with the premise that, “there is no
exemption from misfortune,” Dr.
Talmage went on to show how some
men were born crabbed, hard and
full of obstinacy and opposition. Af
ter citing a number of instances of
great men who had experienced
misfortunes, he continued:—“There
is not, iu all this house, an eye that
has never wept or a heart that has
not been broken. Bat there are al
leviations in every trouble. We ex
cuse a man for occasional depres
sion just aB we endure a rainy day.
But who could endure a 365 days of
cold drizzle ? Yet there are men
who are without cessation sombre
and charged with evil prognostica
tions, We may be born with a mel
ancholy temperament, but that is no
reason why we Hbeuld yield to it.
There is away of shuffling the bur
den. iu the lottery of lifii there are
more prizes drawn than blanks, and
to one misfortune there are fifty ad
vantages. Despondency is the most
unprofitable feeling a man can have
One good, hearty laugh is a bomb
shell exploding in the right place,
while spleen and discontent are a
gun that kicks over the man who
shoots it off. Some men are born
opposed to everything. They must
have to get into heaven backward.
[Laughter.] Let us stand off from
despondences. Listen for sweet
notes rather than discords. In a
world where God hath put exquisite
tinge upon the shell washed in the
surf and painted a Paradise of bloom
in a child’s cheek, let ns leave it to
the owl to hoot and the frog to croak
and the fault-finder to complain
Take out door exercise and avoid
late suppers if you would have a
cheerful disposition. The habit of
complaint finally dorps into peev
ishness and people become waspish
and unapproachable. ’
Dr. Talmage here drew a full
leugtbed portrait of a man afflicted
with a fretful and desponding dispo
sition, o!‘ a fop and of a boar, giving
characteristic tonclies to each. No
mau, he said, respected a fop, all
curls aud watch chain, jingle aud
squirm, and strut and pocket hand
kerchief and namby-pambyism. On
the other band just ns little regard
was felt for the mau who, through
recklessness of demeanor, broke
through all the proprieties of life as
a drove of swine breaks through a
blossoming hedge that surrounds a
flower garden. But in these res
pects such individuals were thinning
out and the world was getting bright
er every day. There was no more
pleasing art than that of saying
pleasant things in pleasant ways, and
nothing more distasteful and offen
sive than a man who always had
something uettlescme to mention.
Some men had a faculty of lia ing
out everything weak in people’s na
ture and watching to see if it would
become carrion. The most vigor
ous and energetic minds might bacon
ducted with gentleness. A June morn
iug will bring out more flower-! than
all the blustering Jannarys ever cre
ated No man was well behaved who
had no regard for times or circum
stances.
Bro. Gardner’s Liiue-Kiiu Club
“Las’ nite as I was toastin’ my
heels an’gwiue to sleep by do cook
stove,” began the old man as the
notes of the triangle died away, “de
ole woman axed me if I didn’t fink
dis world was growia awful wicked
Dat put me iu mind of de sack dat
almos’ ebery day I hear people say
in’ dat dey can t believe nobody nor
trust nobody any more, an’ dat it am
harder to find an honest man dan it
is to diskiver water runnin’ up hill
Gem’len, Ize been pokin’ ’round dis
world about sixty y ars, an’ it am my
experience :
“1. Dat de man who groans obor
de general wickedness of da world
will steal a wheelbarrow ebery time
he gits a chauce.
“2. Dat de mau who goes ’round
lamentin dat he can’t trust nobody
is de wn’y chap who’ll gin you away
ebery time.
“3 dat de pusson who finks de
worid am fall o’ cheats an’ liars will
trade you a blind boss an’ den sneak
into the barn at midnight an’ steal
all de shoes off his feet.
“Dar’s wicked folks on y’artb, of
course, but do man who does do
squar’ thing will nebber run amiss of
squar’ people, Ize got along so fur
as well as could be ’spected, an’ de
look ahead am all sereue. De only
man I shell look out fur am de man
who was bo'ii fur an angel but grow
ed up to w’ar pant 3 an’ butes.”—De
troit Free Press.
Thom is Jefferson on third terrn
iam: “Gen. Washington set the ex
ample of voluntary retirement after
eight years I shall follow it. and a
few more precedents will oppose the
obstacle of habit of any term. Per
haps it may beget a disposition toes
tablisb it by an amendment to the
eonrtitution. I believe I am doing
right, therefore, in pursuing my
principles. The service for eight
years, with the power to remove at
the end of the - firet four, comes near
ly to my principles, as corrected by!
experience, and it is in adherance to
that that I determine to withdraw at
the end of my second term
Lynclt Law in Virginia.
Page Wallace, colored, who com
mit ed a brutal outrage ou January
28th on the person of a white woman
named Mary Marmon, forty years of
age, living m Loudon county, Va.,
near the Potomac river, while she
was returning from Point of Rocks,
Md., was on Tuesday taken from the
officers of the law, at the point where
he committed the outrage, by a body
of armed men and hanged. Wallace
was arrested uear Shepardstown, on
February 2d, and committed to Ha
gerstown jail. On Monday, Sheriff
Caruthers and Deputy Sheriff Nixon,
of Leesburg, Va.. arrived in Hagers
town with a requisition for Wallace
from the Virginia authorities, and
left with him by the 3:10 p. m. train.
Wallace seemed rather nervous when
he boarded the train, but afterwards
aecovered his composure aud smoked
a cigar.
Caruthers and Nixon arrived at
Washington Junction, one mile from
the Point of Rocks, at 5 36 o’clock,
with Wallace, Jailer Nixon being
handcuffed to the prisoner, and on
the way from the depot to the ferry
they were followed by a large crowd.
On arriviug at the ferry (he officers
and prisoner were rowed to the Vir
ginia shore, followed by a half dozen
boats containing about thirty or forty
persons. As the officers stepped on
shore they were met by about thirty
or more men with handkerchiefs tied
over their faces. The crowd then
seized the officers and disarmed
them, procured the key and unlocked
Nixon from the prisoner. The offi
cers did everything in their power
to protect their prisoner, but it was
of no avail He was seized and taken
to the spot where the outrage ou
Mrs. Marmon was committed. A
rope was put around his neck. He
was allowed to get on his knees, and
made a short prayer. The rope was
then thrown over a limb of a small
sycamore tree, and in the twinkling
of an eye he was launched into eter
nity. Just at this moment a woman
rushed through tbe crowd, pistol iu
hand, and fired three or four shots
into his body. This was the signal
for the crowd to commence fir mg in
rapid succession, and his body was
filled with bullets. The crowd then
quietly dispersed. Sheriff* Caruthers
and Jailer Nixou soon after were re
leased, aud departed in a hack for
Leesburg.
Intrinsic Value.
There is no such thing as “intrinsic’’
value of gold or silver. What is er
roneously known as sutriusie value
is only a relative commercial value.
Gold has no more intrinsic value
than potatoes—not so much ; since a
man might easily be, and often is, in
a situation where potatoes would
save aud sustain life ; whereas gold
is not necessary under any circum
stances. Nevertheless, gold has a
commercial value the s.<me as paper
for the amount of necessaries it is
exchangeable for. This is the case
of any other metal or any other sub
stance. That thing is of the most
commercial (or iustriusic, as you call
it,( value which is most needed. If
a man were shipwrecked on a desert
island which turned out to be spark
ling with diamonds they would have
no intrinsic value to him. A cap of
fresh water or a sea biscuit were
worth more—iu finitely more. So the
value of gold aud silver fluctuates as
they are most needed, or plentiful or
scarce. A gold dollar is called 900
fine —that is, it contains 900 parts of
pure gold to 100 of alioy. It weighs
25.8 grains. The silver, or ’’Annie
Williams,’’ or “ buzzird ” dollar con
fains grains aud is also 900 fine
The trade dollar contains 420 grains
and is of the same fineness. The
above coins are, commercially, worth
their fineness. The additional value
is given by law. Thus, the buzz ird
dollar of 412| grains is worth more
as a means of exchange than the
trade dollar wit h 420 grains, because
the former is a legal tender for debt
to a small amount, while the latter
is not at all. The gold coin is worth
more than 25 8 grains of pure gold
because it is lo pi! tender for debt.in
any amount So is a greenback. It
is worth as much as a gold duilar—a
little more, in fact, on account of its
convenience. As money they are,
with tha* exception, intrinsically the
same, because they possess the same
commercial qualifications.
A correspondent writing to the
New York Herald gives a graphic
picture of the famine iu Persia. He
says: “An item or two in regard to
tbe famine in Oroomiah. Persia, has
reached me this week, and may be of
interest. Tbe members of the Mis
sion have opened a soup depot in the
city of Oroomiah and are daily issu
ing bread and soup to the famishing,
trusting that funds will beseut them
so that they can continue their oper
ations on a scale commensurate with
the increasing needs. As far as pos
sibie the needy will be employed.
Cotton aud wool will be purchased
and given to the poor women to spin.
Others will weave the fabric, and
this in turn will cloth some of the
poor wretches, who are nearly naked.
Some of the men will be employed
iu building roads, which will be of
a permanent benefit to the country
Hundreds of families of refugees
from the mountains of Koordistau
were pouring into Oioomiah ragged,
aud hungry. Prices were advanc
ing every day and the outlook was
a8 the Orientals sav, blackness of
darkness.’ ’’
“Uucle Dick,” the biggest locomo
tive in the world, weighs 65 tons,
and is 60 feet long from headlight to
rear of tender. His boiler is 21 feet
long, cylinders 20x26 inches,and he
moves upon eight 42 inch driving
wheels, against which a brake pres
sure of 75 tons can be applied. The
grades of the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe road which he climbs are
so heavy in som« places that one end
of “Uncle Dick’’ will often stand
three feet higher than the other.
And yet this monster, rejoicing in
his strength, will rush up the Rocky
Mountains with ten loaded cars be
hind him.
SMALL BITS
Various Kinds Carelessly Thrown
Together.
Steam aud borse railroads iu this
country require 100,000 men to la
bor on Sunday.
Justice Hunt has made up bis mind
not to resign, and thus Mr. Edmunds’
game will be blocked.
The Miiledgeville Recorder says
Dr. Felton should be known here
after as Simmons’ Regulator.
Ariz >na has produced a quality of
cottoutqual to the Sea Island c >tton
from seed brought from China.
The fifteen car manufacturing es
tablishments in this country turn
ed out 37,350 cars in eleven months.
Clov. Miller, of Arkansas, claims
that that slate is in better corn'ition
now than for twenty live years past.
A young man at Canton, Ohio, has
sued his cwn mother for SIO,OOO for
slauder. She circulated a report
that he was drunken and thievish.
When Mrs. Astor wore her SBOO,
000 diamonds at the President’s re
ception Tuesday night, she was at
tended by two private detectives,
“ dressed as gentlemen.’’
The Supreme Court of Ohio has
decided that it is illegal to dun a
debtor on a postal card, a< such is
liable to injure the credit or reputa
tion of the debtor elsewhere.
An Englishman writes to the Lon
don Times that there was not a total
abstainer from strong drink among
the American Episcopal bishops who
attended the Pan-Anglican congress.
In the poorest quarter of Rome,
three weeks ago, a crowd of famish
ing workmen stopped a cart load of
bread, and in a twinkling carried all
off. There is terrible destitution
there.
A locomotive on the Pennsylvania
railroad made the fastest run on
record a few eveuiugs ago. It was
ordered from the roundhouse to
the scene of an accident, and ran
GO miles iu 45 minutes and 8 sec
onds.
It is estimated by the Duchess of
Mar borough, in a letter to the lord
mayor of Loudon, that the necessi
ties of Ireland’s poor will require
the expenditure of at least £40,000
a week between now and the first of
April.
Lees thau fifty years ago one man
could not make over 14 pius a min
ute; now he can make more than
1,400. Then one girl could stick on
papers about 10,000 pins a day; now
a fair day’s work ip from 800,000 to
1,000,000.
The effect of the proposed new
law in South Carolina requiring ev
ery voter to write his own name oi
th 3 registr. list will be to disfranchise
70,830 colored voters and 12,490
white voters, a majority of ilie pres
ent voting population.
The New Jersey leg stature stands
as follows on the presidential ques
tion: Joel Parker, 12; Tilden, 5;
Bayard, (5; Seymour, 4; Hancock, 1;
McClellan, 1; Jewett, 1; Randall, 1;
Biaine, 38; Grant, 5; Washburn, 5;
Sherman, 3; Conkiiug, 1; Edmunds,
1; nominee, 7.
A mean man pul sixteen hornets in
a whisky bottle aud gave it to a Texas
man, in the dark, to take a drink out
of, and though the horue.ts got in
their work as they went down the
Texan remarked that it wasn't real
Texas whisky, ns it lacked fire.
“A smoke consuming dev ce” has
been made successful by Dtvid Stil -
ton, of Cincinnati. Three arches
placed under the boiler arrest the
smoke, which before it passes the
third and lowest arch becomes in
candescent. There is a saving of 20
per cent, of the fuel.
The Billmyer & Small company,
of York, Pennsylvania, have suc
ceeded in obtaining a contract for
furnishing cars for a railroad in Ja
pan. If is said this will be the first
railroad iu that far-off’ eastern coun
try ever equipped with American
rolling stock. The cars are to be
delivered next May.
The Cincinnati Commercial states
that a contract was signed in that
city last Saturday granting the Amer
ican Union Telegraph company per
mission to extend their lines over
the recently completed Cincinnati
Southern railroad, and that within
thirty days four new wires will be
stretched between Cincinnati and
Chattanooga.
A new industry has been started
in Flushing, L. 1., that of con:druct
mg houses in sections which can
readily be put together with mova
ble pins. No plaster is used, and
the build mgs are neatly finished in
side, the bo rds and beams being
headed aud polished. The houses
range in price from eight hundred
dollars upwards, and are chiefly
shipped to the West Indies.
Investigation iuto the Blackwell’s
Island lunatic asylum, iu New York
harbor, shows a condition of affairs
nearly as bad as that which existed
iu the Kentucky penitentiary The
prisoners were not only roughly
treated, but refused sufficient food,
improperly and thinly clothed, and
often compelled to sleep on the bare
etoue floors of their cells without
any covering. The matter is to he
thoroughly investigated.
The cast of the Franco German
war has at last been footed up by
skilled staticianß and experts, aud is
found to amount to 13,909,000,000
francs, or reduced to dollars and
cents in xound numbers to two bil
lion, seveu hundred aud eighty seven
million eight hundred thousand dol
lars. This does not include the
damage to the material interest of ihe
country, by the stagnation of manu
factures, nor its loss in the young
life of its yeomanry, who yielded up
their lives to their country, nor in
deed a thousand incidental losesc-8
indirectly entailed by the war. War
in all instances is an expensive luxu
ry, and France to-da\ fully realizes
the fact. •
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Transient advertising will be charged SI per inch
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Insertion. Advertisers desiring larger apace lor a
longer time thau one month will receive a liberal
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All bills due upon ths first appearance of the ad
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unknown parties must be paid for in advance.
NO. 9
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 your own prices !
Also
GENT’S SHIRTS
MADE IN THE BEST STYLE. Good
Shirts, material included, for $1
and upwards.
jan2 2m
NOTICE!
I take much pleasure in informing my
friends and the publio generally that I have
purchased the entiie 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 store room lately oconpied by Mr.
Boone will be devoted exclusively to*Gro
ceries aud Country Produce, while my Dry
Goods aud Clothing department will be
kept toll and complete.
I hope to retain all the patrons of Mr.
Boone, and assure them that no effort will
be spared on my part to merit a continuance
of their Savors. With a large and commo
dious establishment, a foil 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 my 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. DiiPRE,
jan23 4t
Atlanta & Charlotte A- L R. R
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
*
On and after December 20th double dally trains
will run on this road as follows:
MORNING TRAIN.
Leave Atlanta.. 4 00am
Arrive Charlotte.... 3 20 p m
“ Air-Line Junction 330 «•
“ Danville 951 **
“ Lynchburg 12 37 nl’t
“ Washington .' 7 50 a m
•* Baltimore 930 *«
“ Philadelphia .......1 80 and 145 pm
“ New York 345 and 446 *«
“ Wilmington, N. C. (nrxt day) 9S» a m
“ Richmond 7 4# “
EVENING TRAIN.
Leave Atlanta 8 30 pm
Arrive Charlotte 8 20am
“ Air-Lino Junction 330 “
•* Danville 10 22 “
“ Lynchburg 153 pm
“ Richmond 443 “
“ Wa hington 965 “
•• Baltimore 11 55 "
“ Phi1ade1phia................... 3 35am
“ New York 645 *•
GOING EAST,
Night Hall and Passenger train.
Arrive Gainesville 6:50 p m
Leave •• 6:51 “
Day Passenger train
Arrive •• ...... 6:13 a m
Leave “ 6:l6**
Local Freight and Accommodation train.
Arrive Gainesville 11:10 am
Leave « 11:26 ««
GOING WEST.
Night Mall and Passenger train.
Arrive Gainesville 9:20a m
Leave “ 9:21 •*
Day Passenger train.
Arrive •• 3,15 pm
Leave “ ....B:l6'*
Local Freight and Accommodation tiaiu.
Arrive Gainesville 1:45 a m
Leave •• 2:00 “
Close connection at Atlanta for all points West,
and at Charlotte for all pom s East.
G. J. FORE AO RE, G. M.
W. J. HOUSTON, Gen. Pae. and Tkt Agt.
NovtUeasleru Uallroafl.
Cliang© of SclieciuJ w.
SCPKBI)iTZBDi.NT'a Ozfiob, 1
Aram, Ga., Oct. 11, 1879. |
On and alter Monday, October 6, 1R79, trains ou
the Northeastern Railroad will run as follows. All
trains daily except Sunday:
Leave Athens 8 50 pm
Arrive at Lula... A2O "
Arrive at Atlanta, via Air-Ltae K. R loan “
Leave Atlanta, \rta AivJAne R. It— 881 “
Leave Lula T 46 “
Arrive at Athens...... ....16 00 «
The above trains als 1 connect closely at Lula with
northern bonnd trains nn A. L R. R. Ob Wednes
days aud Saturdays the following additional trains
will be run:
Leave Athene 6 45 a m
Arrive a* Lula 845 “
Leave Lula 9 20 "
Arrive at Athens 11 81 “
This tram connects closely at Lula for Atlanta,
making the trip to At«nta only four hours and
forty-five minutes. J. M. EDWARDS, Bupt-
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