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~ JBL i. JL_ „ The Gainesville Eagle. Huolished Every Friday Morning. BY J . K . BKDWI NI; . Rates of Subscription: One copy one year >2 00 One copy six months ..... <•••. 100 One copy three months 50 EDITORIAL, EAGLETS. Kearney and his hoodlum crowd are B‘irring up trouble in California. u Some are now supposing that it will be Grant and Tilden, but no cue can tell. The “brass band bill” died quietly in committee. No parade or flourish of trumpets. The national democratic conven tion, which meets in Cincinnati June 22nd, will be composed of 738 dele gates. The mutilation of coin by clipping seems to be established as a regular business in some of the Northern cities. Mr. Conkling did carry his New York convention for Grant, but it was an up-hill tug and by the skin of his teeth. And it came to pass that the Washington Republican lavished its fulsome praises upon a democratic (!) congressman. Merchants from several of the leading cities are petitioning con gress for the re-enactment of a uni form bankrupt law. The Kansas City Times whispers as a great secret that Seymour and Hendricks will be unanimously nomi nated at Cincinnati. The Madisonian nominates Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks for president, subject to the decision of the nation al democratic convention. The Valdosta Times would be sat isfied with either Col. Mclntyre, Judge Hansell or Hon. W. E. Smith for governor. This looks a little selfish. <. The United States is preparing to quietly settle the Monroe doctrine question in reference to the Inter- Oceanic canal scheme, by purchasing the land at each end of the proposed route. The southern congressman said to be involved in a scandal with a fe male connected with one of the de partments in Washington, it is now stated, is a prominent South Caroli rian. The democratic State committee, of Alabama, has got into a snarl by issuing a call for a State convention cn June 22nd, the same day the na tional contention is to meet. They will have to movo up a notch or two. ■■■ "♦ > One enthusiastic Grant brother, in Philadelphia, states as the conclusive ’reason why he insists upon Grant and a third term is that he wants to make the southern rebels shrink down into their boots and curse the day they were born. ♦— A company with a capital of five million dollars and including among the list of trustees the names of many men of wide renown and repu tation both east and west, has been formed in New York for the purpose of promoting mining interests. A correspondent of the Rome Trib une nominates Judge J. W. H. Un derwood for governor. The contin ued silence on this subject had become a little oppressive, but now we suppose the machinery will again work and other favorites trotted out. The selection of Cincinnati as the place for the meeting of the national democratic convention seems to give general satisfaction. The friends of Mr. Tilden and those of Mr. Thur man each contend that the selection is a victory for their respective pref erences. Os the States of the union, four elect their governors every year, six teen once in two years, two once in three years, and sixteen once in four years. Three elect their senators annually, eleven once in two years, one once in three years, and twenty ti ree once in four years. — The people who are crying out for a “strong” government have proba bly no very e’ear idea of what they , mean. A “strong” government can only be a government of fraud, force and parah sis cf the popular will— the exact opposite, in a word, of the theory of republican institutions. Apparently the recent threat of the nihilist conspirators in Russia has created as great an excitement rs resulted from either the explosion at Moscow or that in the Winter Palace, and the population of the Czar’s capital is in a panic. The gravest apprehension and doubt per vades everywhere and many are leav ing the city, The secrecy, resolution -.nd desperate spirit, which have hitherto characterized all the projects of the nihilists and the failure of the government to detect and deal with the conspirators, leads the people to believe that they can accomplish whatever they undertake. The Gainesville Eagle VOL. XIV. Washington Correspondence. [Special Correspondence of the Eagle.] Washington, D. C.. Feb. 29,1880. The senate yesterday defeated the bill dividing up five or six millions among the States in which military land warrants have been located. Ohio suffers most. Mr. Hayes and Senator Edmunds are both quoted this morning as say ing that the action of the New York republicans yesterday settle all ques tions as to the nomination at Chica go. But there will be a fight first, if Blaine’s friends are to be believed. The war of 1861-5 was renewed in the senate yesterday. The occasion was a request for removal of politi cal disabilities from a resident of Maryland. It will be sound policy for the republicans, if they wish to retain control in the country, to put an end to such debates as that of vestei day. The “plain people” of the United States desire general am nesty. The postmaster-general, who hon estly desires to give all possible mail facilities to the people, should use his best endeavors to free his depart ment of the man who has that branch known as the “star’’ service in charge. I have no doubt Gen. Brady was justified by the needs of the ser vice in making all or nearly all the extensions and increases in the ser vice that he has made during the last year, and I don’t think he made money by reason of the changes, but he is simply a servant of the people, and a subordinate of General Key, and should not indulge in loose abuse of a congress which does not approve all he does or wishes to do. It is stated, almost officially, that there has been a change in the In dian affairs committee of the house cn the subject of transferring the Indian bureau to the war depart ment, and that the committee will report the transfer bill. I know of no reason why the bill should not be reported and passed. The bureau, beyond doubt, has been a discredit to every administration during the last thirty years. It has been also a damage to the Indians. More In dian children were in school in 1846 in Ohio than are at school in the whole country now. The Indians are not fed or clothed as treaties re quire. There is nothing good in the system. A change can do no harm, and may do do much good. After the Spofford-Kellogg case is decided in the senate the brief of Spofford’s attorney will be printed as a campaign document. It gives in the clearest manner a statement of the condition of Louisiana poli tics. Rex. Tire True Method of Electing a President. What is known as “The True Method of Electing a Pr< Bident,” devised by Augustus D. Jones, a journeyman printer of Arkansas, j which is now being considered by , Congress, is certainly a clever and, apparently, an impartial means of choosing achief magistrate. It has, moreover, the advantage of keeping the State vote distinct, and of retaining, in form at least, the electoral college. The scheme, in brief, is as follows: Take, for example, two president ial candidates, A and B. The for mer receives in Massachusetts 150, 000 votes; the latter, 100 000; the to tal vote being 250,000. The vote of each is multiplied by the number of electors to which the State is entitled and divided by the total vote. Thus, ’n practice, A, indicated in the vote above, w’ould be entitled to 7 8 10 of the electoral vote, and B to 5 2 10 of it; the two together making the total of 13 vates. The system would also apply where ther i where more than two candi dates, though, of course, the chances of none of the candidates receiving a majority of the electoral vote would be somewhat greater than they are by the plan we now have in use. But the obvious gain would be that it would allow a free expression of public opinion,and permit of a mi nority representation in all of the States. Another advantage in it is that it would sanction a wider scope in the choice of presidential candidates than dow seems possible, or, at least politic. This year both parties are restricted in their nominations by the wishes of the inhabitants of three States, to wit.: New’ York, Ohio and Indiana. If a man is decidedly unpopular in either of these States his nomination would be looked upon as’a fatal po litical blunder. The fact that he could roll up an overwhelming vote in other commonwealths counts for nothing in his favor, if he is weak in either of these critical States. It is this circumstance that gives Boss Kelly of New York, his power m shaping the course of the coming Democratic campaign. Mr. Tilden’s opposition to him and to Tammany Hall would draw to the latter, in the c< untry at large, more than five times the number cf votes that Kelly can throw against him, and if Mr. Jones’ plan was in use, it would put Tilden, to day, in the position of the uncontested candidate of his party. But. by our present method, the opposition that Kelly has been able to raise, unimportant relatively, is sufficient to make Mr- Tilden an ex ceedingly weak candidate. [Herald. Ruskin says that European wars would not last a week if their effect was to break all the china in the houses of the governing classes. "ALL OF SELF, SOVE OF THEE.” Oh. the hitter shame and sorrow That a time could ever be, When Het the Savior’s pity Plead in vain, and proudly answered: •‘All of self, and none of Thee I” But He found me. I beheld him Bleeding on the accursed tree, Heard Him pray, “Forgive them, Father I” And my vistfui heart said, faintly: “Some of self, and some of Thee I” Day by day His tender mercy, Healing, helping, full and free, Sweet and strong, and ah 1 so patient. Brought me lower, while I whispered: “Less of self, and mora of Thee I” Higher than the highest heavens, Deeper than the deepest sea, Lord, Thy love at last hath conquered, Grant me now my soul’s desire: “None of self, and all cf Thee t” —Pasior Theodore Monad. uS A Crapping Mortgage.” “And what is that ?” asked the stranger. “Why,” said the old man, “do you pretend to tell us that you don’t know what a crapping mort gage is ?” Such were his pretensions. “Then you are no southerner,” the old man continued, “so I’ll tell you something about it. A crapping mortgage—well, I gin one of them durned things once myself. The way of it was just this: You see I allers managed to keep a little money ahead to buy a few little things we needed on the plantation and I gen erally went down to our little town to buy them about once a week. Well as I was down there trading one week the storekeeper he said to me, sez he: What’s the use of your bothering along this way every week paying out your small change—why don’t you give me a crapping mortgage and then send down when you want any thing and let me put it on the books, without bothering about the change, and then when your crap comes in you can send down a bag o’ cotton and pay off all at one swoop.” “Well, it didn’t look like a bad idea —sounded sorter easy like, as I told him I thought I’d do it. So he filled out a crapping mortgage which he had already printed, and as I couldn’t read very well I signed it on his word that it was all right. “Well, sir, them crapping mort gages is cuiious things 1 Before I got half way home with my load I got to studying about it. As soon as I’d signed it to the storekeeper ho told me that my name was good in his store for anything I wanted, and to send right along as I pleased. That was what I was studying about, and then pretty soon I got to study ing up what I wanted and what I needed, and that infernal crapping mortgage, or something else, made me think of things that I never wanted before. You see, 1 had al ways fought shy of debt all my life, but all the neighbore was trying their hands on crapping mortgages and I thought I would go in a little too. Well I did. “I kept on wanting things. We all got along fine, and our storekeep er sold lots of good things that we never wanted before but that we was bound to have after I signed the crapping mortgage. They breed wants, they do. “At last the crop came in and I sent a bale of cotton down to the store to pay the crapping mortgage off. It didn’t do it. Then I sent down another bale—that wasn’t enough. Next I sent down all the cotton I had, and finally all my corn and fodder, end, as it wasn’t still paid, the old woman got up all her chickens and ducks and turkeys, and sent them down —still that miserable crapping mortgage wasn’t satisfied. So I went down to see about it. The storekeeper said it was ail right—all paid up but S2OO, and that didn’t make any difference; I could still have whatever I wanted. “But, sir, somehow or other I didn’t like how things was going, so I took out my wallet and paid the balance on that crapping mortgage, and took the blamed thing home with me, though I could not help thanking the storekeeper for offering to still let mo have goods after my crap was all gone. When I got home, me and the old woman wo put on our specks and took a look at that crapping mortgage, and what do you think ? Why, I’ll be dad burned if that crapping mortgage hadn’t been spread over all my land, my horses, my mules, my stock, my farming utensils, my house hold and kitchen furniture—every thing I had in the world was flung into it, and if it had stayed there an other year I’ll bet high every thing I had would have gone through it. Well, let me tell you—don’t never sign one. You never will get through paying it, and when them store fel lows tell you how easy it is to get things now and pay for them in the fall, you remember wb.at I tell you about a crapping mortgage.” And having finished his descrip tion of these little engines of oppres sion, he pulled out a twist of home made tobacco, that looked as rich and brown as walnut wood, cut off a chew with his horn-handled knife, put it in his mouth, pnt the knife and tobacco back into his breeches’ pocket, and walked away. He turned round after walking a little way, and said reflectively: “Don’t you never eign one in the world; if you do you will never get through paying it off.” He might have added: “For the reason that you will be sure to buy hundreds of things that you would get along without buying did you have to pay the “cash down ” That thing called “good credit” is a remarkable thing.” —Exchange. Projected Colonization of Pal estine. A correspondent of the Jewish Chronicle, in the confidence of Mr. Lawrence Oliphant, writes that the Sultan’s firman will soon be given to the colonization of Palestine by the Jews, and that the scheme has re ceived the sanction of Lords Bea consfield and Salisbury. The tract it is proposed to colonize consists of the land of Gideon and a portion of the plains of Moab, and is said to be GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 5, 1880. superior in productive capacity to the remainder of Palestine, it being heavily timbered, well watered, rich and arable. The whole tract belongs to the government, which receives no benefit from it beyond an insignifi cant sheep tax levied on the wander ing Arabs. It is expected that the colonists will not be exclusively Jew ish, but in part Moslem refugee fam ilies from Bulgaria and Roumania, who are said to be excellent farm hands, and the inhabitants of west ern Palestine, who are in extreme poverty, and likely to flock over for employment. It is supposed—though the supposition may be more fanciful than well founded—that out of the millions of Jews in Europe enough men and capital can be found to take up the land, giving employment to the Moslem farm laborers, and prac tically bringing the country of David and Solomon under the dominion of the remote posterity of its former il lustrious possessors. Should the Sulran carry his design into effect, it will prove that Mohammedan Asia is more tolerant than some Christian countries. A few years ago the Bul garian and Roumanian Christians excited ihe sympathy of the civilized world. Now the tables are turned, and the Bulgarian and Roumanian Turk and Jew have become the ob jects for sympathy. Sympathy at a nation’s or individual’s misfortune should not be circumscribed by bias of religion or prejudice of race, and in reviewing the history of the Jews from this standpoint of comprehen sive philanthropy it is impossible to assign the continuous persecution to which they have been subjected in some countries to other causes than those arising from the continuous predominance of ignorance, super stition, fanaticism and barbarous fe rocity. Burned in thousands by the Crusaders, butchered by mobs, tor mented by ridicule, sold as serfs, forced to reside in dark and dismal precincts, plundered by lawless bar ons, excluded from all honorable oc cupations, and compelled to subsist solely by petty traffic and usury, their history presents a picture of gloom and horror that almost beggars the power of imagination. It is not surprising that in their lowly retreats in certain portions of Europe they should present some indigestible traits of character, the imprints of persecution, proscription and ostra cism. If the Sultan’s scheme should be carried into effect and the coun iryless Jews again find a country through the generous impulses of a Mohammedan, the Christian should be the last to raise objections to such a consummation. «- <■*> • Women Doctors. The movement in fayor of women doctors to minister to women’s ail ments goes on apace. Two ladies have recently received doctors’ di plomas from the Faculty of Medicine in Paris. One of them, Mrs. Chap lin Ayrton, came from Japan, where her husband held an important post under the government, to study med icine, and has passed her examina tion with high honor. The other is Mrs. Marshall, sister-in-law to Mrs. Garrett Anderson, the premier of the movement among English wo men, and now properly acknowledged by male physicians, as well as the public, to deserve the place she has won in the front rank of her profes sion. Mrs. Marshall gave final proof of her fitness by a thesis that she wrote cn obscure diseases, more dangerous to women than men. On handing her her diploma, the Paris president said: “You, madam, have helped to vindicate for all women their right to study medicine You reply, in your person, to all the ob jections of your adversaries. I have seen you and watched your works for years—in the hospital, in my wards, by the bedside of the patients—l have seen the earnest work you have done. 1 congratulate you, and I thank you.” It should be remem bered that Mrs. Marshall is one of the ladies who began to study medi cine at Edinburgh, but was driven thence by the trades union violence and ungentlemanly behavior of its medical students. Fortunately there is now a prosperous and an. efficient medical school for women in London, which, if it has not yet all the pres tige of the older schools for men. grows every session in numbers and reputation. The latest claim advocated by the advocates of women’s rights is made by a lady correspondent of the Tunes, who reminds us that, though many thousands cf women earn their Dread in factories and are subjected to the arbitrary provisions of the factory act, no such official exists as a female inspector of factories. The writer argues that since women had been found to make useful members of school boards, they would be equally qualified to look after the in terest of women and children em ployed in factories. Will He Succeed ? In nine cases out of ten, a man’s life will not be a success if he does not bear burdens in childhood. If the fondness or the vanity of father or mother has kept him from hard work; if another always helped him out at the end of his row; if instead of taking his turn at pitching off he stowed away all the time—in short, if what was light fell to him, and what was heavy about the work to some one else; if he has been per mitted to shirk, until shirking has become a habit, unless a miracle has been wrought, his life will be a fail ure, and the blame will not be half so much his as that of his weak and foolish parents. On the other hand, if a boy has been brought up to do his part, nev er allowed to shirk his responsibility, or to dodge work whether or not it made his headache, or soiled his hands, until bearing burdens has be come a matter of pride, the heavy end of the wood his choice, parents as they bid him good-by may dismiss their fear. The elements of success are his, and at some time and in some way the world will recognize bis capacity. An Humble Printer. Seldom, says an exchange, does a live Dutchman get credit for more smart things than are set down to him in this catechism that he put to a journeyman printer: A Dutchman, sitting in the door of his tavern in the far west, is ap proach by a tall, thin Yankee, who is emigrftting westward on foot, with a bundle hung on a cane over his shoulder. “Yell, Mister Talking Stick, vat you vant ?” inquired the Dutchman. “Rest and refreshments, ’ replied the printer. “Supper and lotchin’, I reckon ?’’ “Yes; supper and lodging, if you please.” “Pe ye a Yankee peddler, mit chewelry in your pack to sheat der gal ?” “No, sir; I am no Yankee peddler.” “A singin’ master, too lazy to vork.” ‘ No, rir.’’ “A sheeted shoemaker, vat loves to measure der gal’s feet and hankies better tan to make der shoes?” “No, sir; or I should have mended my own shoes.” “A book achent vot bodders der school committees till dey do vot you wish, chocst to get rid of you?” “Guess again, sir. lam no book agent.” “Te tyefels I A dentist, preaking der people’s jaw at a dollar a schnag, and runnin’ off mit a daughter ?” “No, sir; I am no tooth-puller.” “Phenologus, den, feeling der young folk s heads like co many cab bitch ?” “No. lam no phrenologist.’’ “Veil, den, vat der teyfels can you be ? Choost tell, and you shall have der best sassage for supper, and stay all night free gratis, mitout a cent, and a chill of whiskey to start mit in der morn in’. ’’ “I am an humble disciple of Faust —a professor of the art that pre serves all arts —a typographer at your service.’’ “Votsch dat?’’ “A printer, sir; a man that prints books and newspapers.” “A man vot printsch noospapers ! Oh, yaw, yaw, ay, dat ish it, A man vot printsh noospapers 1 yaw, yaw 1 Valk up ! A man dot printsh noos papers 1 I vish I may be shot if I did not link you vas a poor teyful of a dishtrick schoolmaster who vorks for nottin and boards round. I tought you vas him.’’ ft Washington Society in 1825. The circle of what was termed “good society’’at Washington had been, and was then, very limited in its extent and simple in its habits. Few senators or representatives crought their wives to cheer their congressional labors, and a parlor of ordinary size would contain all of chose who were accustomed to at tend social gatherings. A few diplo mats, with the officers of the army and navy stationed at headquarters, were accompanied by their wives, and there were generally a few visi tors of social distinction. The most friendly and cordial intercourse pre vailed, and those who met at dinner parties and at evening entertainments were like members of one family, in general sympathy. The costume of the ladies was classic in its scantiness, especially at balls and parties. The fashionable ball dress was of white India crape, and five breaths, each a quarter of a yard wide, were all that was asked for to make a skirt, which only came down to the ankles, and was elabo rately trimmed with a dozen or more rows of narrow flounces. Silk or cotton stockings were adorned with embroidered “clocks,” ami thin slip pers were ornamented with silk ro settes and tiny buckles. Those gentlemen who dressed fashionably wore “Boiivar’’ frock coats of some gay-colored cloth, blue, or green, or claret, with Urge lapels and gilded buttons. Their linen was ruffled; their “Cossack” trousers were voluminous in. size, and were tusked into high “Hessian boots with gold tassels. They wore two and sometimes three waist-coats each, of different colors, and from their watch-pocket s dangled a ribbon with a bunch of large seals. When in full dress, gentlemen wore dress coats with enormous collars and short waists, well-stuffed white cam bric cravats, small-clothes, or tight fitting pantaloons, silk stockings and pumps. Live Within Yonr Means. We don’t like stingyness. We don’t like economy whan it comes down to rags and starvation. We have no sympathy with the notion that the poor man sh mid hitch him self to a post and stand sti'l, while the rest of the world moves forward. It is no man’s duty to deny himself every amusement, every luxury, ev ery recreation, every comfort that he may get rich. It is no man’s duty to make an iceberg of himself, to shut his eyes and ears to the suffer ings of his fellows, and to deny him self the enjoyment that results from generous actions, merely that he may hoard wealth for his heirs to quarrel about. But there is an economy which is every man’s duty, and which is especially commenda ble in the man struggles with poverty —an economy whica is consistent with happiness, and which must be practiced if the poor would secure independence. Il is almost every man’s privilege, and it becomes bis duty to live within bis means; not to, but within them. Wealth does not make the man, we admit, and should never be taken, into the ac count in our judgment of men; but competence should always be fie cured, when it can be, by the prac tice of economy and self-denial tc only a tolerable extent. It should he secured, not so much for others t< look upon or to raise us in the esti mation of others, as to secure th( consciousness of independence and the constant satisfaction which is de rived from its acquirement aud pos session. Never Forget Any tiling. Charge your mind with your duty. That is largely the true definition of faithfulness. Bad m mory and mis takes are used as apologies a great deal oftener than necessary. A boy beginning business life will generally lose his place who pleads such an ex cuse more than once or twice A successful business man says the re were two things he learned be fore he was eighteen, which were afterwards of great use to him, namely, “Never to lose anything, and never forget anything.’’ An old lawyer sent him with an important paper, with certain instructions what to do with it. “But,” inquired the young man, “suppose I lose it; what shall Ido then ?” The answer war, with the utmost emphasis, “You must not lose it!” “I don’t mean to,” said the young man, “but suppose I should happen to ?” “But I say you must not happen to! I shall make no provision for any such occurrence. You must not lose it!” This pnt a new train of thought into the young man’s mind, and he found that if he was determined to do a thing he could do it. He made such provision against every contin gency that he never lost anything. He found this equally true about for getting, If a certain matter of im portance was to be remembered he pinned it down on his mind, fastened it there, and made it stay. The Effect of the Southern and Western Railroad Combina tion. Alluding to the recent Southern railroad combinations and their influ ence on existing railroad monopolies in the North, the Boston Commercial says: “A capital example of the rule that oven the closest monopolies will finally Le broken by competition is afforded by what is now going on in the South. A long series of wisely planned consolidations is about clos ing with the formation of a strong through line from Chicago and St. Louis to Savannah and Charleston, and through bills of lading are to be given from the former cities to the Northern ports and Liverpool. A demand will at once be made on the Northern pool lines for a share of the Eastern and Western business. If this is refused, rates will be cut, and • the whole fabric of carefully devised pools will fall to the ground, Even if the claims of the new Southern trunk line are conceded, some new competing line to the seaboard will doubtless spring up within six months. The city that will be most benefited by the new line is Louis ville, whose merchants are straining every nerre to become the middle men for the bulk of the business be tween the West and the South. In the struggle they have the vigorous competition of Baltimore, Richmond, Cincinnati, Nashville and St. Louis.” What Caused the Rise. A stranger loaded down with a big satchel halted at the poetcffice corner yesterday, says ihe Detroit Free Press, to have his boots shined, and when the j<?b had been completed he felt for a nickel with the remark: “I suppose that five cents pays the bill?” “Not much !” replied the shiner. “That used to be the figure, but it is seven cents now.’’ “Don’t try to cheat me, boy ! Five cents is the regular price here, and I know it?” “See here, mister,” said shiner, as be packed his brushes away, “do you read the papers ? ’ “Os course I do.” “And you don’t know that white paper has gone up fifty per cent ?” “Yes, I’ve read that it had.” “Well how d’ye’spose we kin black butes at five cents any more ? The jigger is seven, and if we e&n’t bust the monopoly we ll have to raise on that.’ The man came down with seven cents, but very slowiv and thought fully, as if he couldn’t exactly un derstand all about it Shephar Torah. There took place a few days since at one of the synagogues of Balti more the solemn reception of a copy of the “ Shephar Torah,” a parch ment containing the five books of Moses. This sacred scroll is a pres ent from Sir Moses Montefiore, of England. It was written i n Wilna, Russia, and the penmanship is of rare excellence, requiring a long pe riod of tkne for its execution. The utmost care was taken in the trans cription, and at every recurrence of the name of God or Jehovah, the hands of the scribe were washed. The scroll is covered with a mantle of crimson silk velvet, richly embroid ered with gold, ornamental gold fringe and surmounted with silver bells. The sacred scrolls are regar ded with great reverence by orthedox Israelites, who have a tradition that a manuscript copy of the five books has never been destroyed. In seizing a secret printing pres i in St. Petersburg, on January 30, the police arrested two women and two men. A fifth inmate committed suicide in an upper room. On opening a door leading to the front staircase the police were fired upon. They returned the fire, and after capturing the garrison ransacked the house. The search led to the discovery of a printing press and a large number of copies of the newspaper, Will of the People, which had just been printed Some type, false stamps, several falsified documents, a quantity of poison and explosive substances were also found. A comparative philologist says: In England young gentlemen speak of their fathers as “the governor,’ “pa ter,’’ “the overseer,” etc. Here we ( are more civilized. We say “dad,’ “the boss,” or the “old man.” In heathen countries they say “father;” but they are away behind the age. SMALL BITS Os Various Kinds Carelessly Thrown Together. The famous Russian female Nihi list, Vera Sussuhiitcb, has been ar rested. The woman convicts in the Ken tucky penitentiary wear men’s clothes. The Detroit Free Press say’ that Blaine wants to submit Don Comer on’s actions to the supreme court of Maine. The Princess Beatrice of England is being engaged by the Continental newspaper folk to King Humbert’s cousin, Prince Thomas, Duke of Genoa. Bess Shepherd, of Washington, has a silver mine at Chihuahua, Mexico, that yields $3,000,000 a year, with no apparatus except the old time arastras and mule. It is remarked that a woman who takes all the fashion magazines gen erally 7 goes to a dressmaker to learn what is new in the fashions, and never makes her own dresses. The New Orleans Picayune has figured out the startling fact that Bismark is entitled to wear 4G6 dec orations, and when he is dressed for ceremony, looks like a speckled hen. Jesse James, the outlaw, several times reported killed, was in St. Louis a few days since, in cog., and left a note expressing his contempt for the detectives who were hunting him. The gymnastic societies of Eastern Roumelia have ordered the Bulgar ian priests in that country to impose an oath on their congregations to neither buy nor sell of the Greek inhabitants. Two young women of Bungalore, India, have been admitted as proba tioners into the post office in that place. They are the first women who have been able to get govern ment employment in Asia. Irrigation works are receiving great attention in France. The French are vexed at the idea of hav ing to depend on foreign countries for grain, and this has given an im petus to agricultural improiements. A recent visitor to Jeffer-oti Davis, on hisfaim at Beauvoir, says that he is hard at work on his memoirs, his cotton crop for next season will reach 1,000 bdes, and his wife and nephew, Ghu. Joseph Davis, are with him. Hayes decides, as he was expected to, that the abusive language used byTrenornl W. T, Sherman about Mr. H V. Boynton, the newspaper correspondent, does not call for a court martial, and refers Mr. Boynton to the civil courts for his remedy. The B iston newspapers tell of a stage-struck woman who got a di vorce from her husband in order to become an actress, failed dismally behind the footlights, returned to her home, and begged to be made a wife agtin, which was done by a remarriage. The daughter of Spotted Tail, a lank and awkward Indian maiden of eighteen summers, is a student in the Government school for Indians at Carlisle Barracks, Pa. Sho began her education by marrying the half breed interpreter employed at the barracks. Hon. Thomas Ewing says the Ohio delegation in the democratic national convention will probably go for Sey mour after Thurman, but the Cin cinnati Enquirer regards -Mr. Til en as the second choice of the Ohio democrats, providing his friends can give assurance of carrying New York. During the past year the com mercial banks of San Francisco were drained of no less than eleven and a quarter million dollars, while the de posits in the savings banks of that city decreased nine millions and a half—all of which is attributed to the pernicious influence of the sand lot orators. The South Carolina Senators and Representatives in Congress have written a letter to the authorities of Charleston and Spart .nburg, S. C., cordially endorsing the plans instil u ted for the observance of the one hundredth at niversar . of Gen. Mor gan’s great victory at Cowpens,ap pointed for the 17th of January, 1881 The Rev. Dr. Justin D. Folton, of Brooklyn, preached on Sunday upon the career of George Washington. In the course of his sermon he said: “Remember, that to nominate Grant is not to elect him. The machine may control the caucuses, the con ventions and probably the ballot boxes, but it cannot compel a man to vote. God is behind the repub lic ” A young mother in Cincinnati was giving to her son, aged five years, a touching description of the misery into which the pro Hgal son had fal len.“ Far away from home and his kind father, obliged to take care of swine, with nothing to eat but husks of corn left by them.” “ Then why didn’t he eat the pig?” was the practical reply of the young Pork opolitan. The bar’l is a very essential thing in the politics of these days, and the announcement that Senator Blaine has recently made two millions in mining stocks is a significant and important one. General Grant has no bar’l himself, but he knows a great many people who have, while Secre tary Sherman, with decided sk’ll, has filled two or three bar’ls with special treasury agents. A negro at Wallace, Tenn., told his wife that he must kill somebody be fore he went to bed. She begged him not to select her, and he oblig ingly said that he would go down to a ball in the village for a victim. He loaded a pistol, went to the ball, and shot a young negro girl whom he did not even know; but he failed of his object after all, for she was only slightly wounded. -A.dverti«ln.s FL'ates. Legal advertisements charged seventy-five cents per hundred words or fraction thereof each inst-- tion for the first four insertions, and thirty-fit e cents for each subsequent insertion. Transient advertising will be charged $1 per inch for the first, and fifty cents for each subsequent insertion. Advertisers desiring larger space for a longer time than one month will receive a liberal deduction from regular rates. All bills due upon the 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. 10 IJE. W. J. HAM Attorney at Law, GAINESVILLE, GA. i» • .. 9 { - - •* 4 Office in Henderson & Candler Building, East Side Public Square F. M. NEWMAN, Physician and Surgeon, Flowery Brancli, G-a. Office, first door above Barrett’s store. Will attend calls at a distance from relia ble parties. (febl3 6m BROWN BRO’S. BANKERS, BROKERS AND COLLECTION AGENTS GAINESVILLE, GA References— Hanoveb National Bank, N. Y., Moore, Jenkins <fc Co. N. Y., G. W Williams A Co., Charleston, 8. O., —any op thk Atlanta Banks. marlo-tf. MILLINERY GOODS! Mrs. H. IV. Ware Begs leave to inform her friends and the public generally that she has opened her store in her dwelling house on Main street, next door to the college, on the right hand as you go from the square. She hopes to receive a liberal patronage, and to merit the same by a desi e to please and the iow prices at which she will sell goods. Look for tho fancy hat as a sign, last house as you go down Main street to the college. nov7ly 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 MUKTS MADE IN THE BEST STYLE. Good Shirts, material included, for $1 and upwards. jan2 2m Lallatte’s Select School, Male and Female, Rev. C. B. LaHatte, President. Spring Tenn Opens January 19, 18S0; Closes July 2—Six Months. A FULL CORPS OF COMPETENT TEACHERS HAS BEEN ENGAGED. SATISFACTION IS GUARANTEED IN E VER Y DEPAR TMENT. 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