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The Gainesville Eagle. Published Every Friday Morning. BY .J . E. RE 1* WINE. Hates of Subscription s • o pn One copy one year i no One copy six months 1 Ona copy three months EDITORIAL. EAGLETS. Edison is preparing to light New York City, below Grand street, with his electric light. There is out-cropping all along the line, a strong feeling in favor of Joseph E Brown for governor. Some say that Pendleton and Pot ter, Ohio and New York, represent the dark horses on the democratic side. The Chinese are leaving Califor nia by the car-load, but instead of going west, are making for Pbiladel * phia and New York. Cherokee Georgia is threatening to furnish two independent candi dates for governor in the Iversons of W. T. Wofford and A R. Wright. Rev. Samuel Anthony, one of the oldest and most devoted ministers of the Methodist church in Georgia, died at his home in Americus on the 3rd instant, The Denver News, the leading democratic paper of Colorado, says that on a sound platform that State can be carried by the democrats with a majority of 3.000. All the news shows that Russia is in a volcanic state. Apparently there can bo but one outcome—that which has happened to all the European despotisms—revolution. Trout, the most beautiful of fish, are deceived by the flies that are most artificially made; but there is no reason why a girl should fall in love with a more mustache. The national greenback convention which met at St. Louis on the 4th instant, nominated Stephen B. Dil lay, of New Hampshire, for presi dent, and B. G. Chambers, of Texas, for vice-president. <+■ Macon and Brunswick both, are supremely happy over the sale o< their railroad, but without an exten sion and the right connections with other lines they will soon find they have caught a shadow only. If Mr. R. T. Wilson, the purchaser of the Macon and Brunswick road, should decide to extend direct to Knoxville, Tenn., his road will pass within less than one mile of the place where he was born and reared. The railroad commission has about completed its schedules of fare and freights. Passenger fare on all rail roads in Georgia is placed at four cents a mile. A great reduction in freights has been made and al! dis criminations utterly abolished. Both houses of the Virginia legis lature have passed a bill repealing the Moffett bell punch liquor law, and re establishing the license sys tem, to go into operation on the first of May. So this fanciful and visionary scheme dies where it was born. For instance, Pendleton and Pot ter, Palmer and Parker, Hendricks and Hancock, Thurmond and Church, Fields and Randall—yes, certainly the democrats have an abundance of the very best kind of presidential material and some of it will be util ized before long. We are getting tired of this talk about selecting a democratic candi date for the presidency who will suit John Kelly. If Kelly will not sup port any ticket which the constituted ! authorities of the party, in conven tion assembled may nominate, he is no democrat and the sooner he is y told so and sent adrift the better. As an illustration of the diffusion of Nihi’ism in high quarters in Rus sia it is stated that in the apartments of one of the Empress” ladies of the Palace, Countess Panie, Nihilist pub lications were recently found con cealed in hei bedclothes. She has been banished to Archangelsk, but doubtless Nihilism has not been ex pelled with her from the palace. —♦ ■ - The Sunday Gazette is in error when it states that Mr. R. T. Wilson, the purchaser of the Macon and Brunswick railroad, was born in Forsyth county. Mr. Wilson was born and reared five miles southwest of Gainesville, Hall county. The Marietta Journal also has an article on the early history of Mr. Wilson which is almost wholly apocryphal. Great excitement exists in the re gion bordering on the Indian terri tory in relation to the proclamation of Mr. Hayes warning those who propose to enter on the lands be longing to the Indians to abandon that purpose. There is loud talk of “going in all the same,” and of a conflict with the federal troops. It is asserted that the people are bound to go into the territory at all hazards, and say they can put two thousand men on the march on three days’ nc tice. The Gainesville Eagle VOL. XIV. Washington Correspondence. [Special Correspondence of the Eagle.] Washington, D. C.. March 9,1880. The house rules adopted on Tues day are simple in comparison with the old, and will greatly facilitate the transaction of business. They go into effect next Monday, and the house cannot do better than to then illustrate the excellence of its work by showing to the country how rap idly business can be pushed under them. Everybody is amused when Senator John A. Logan discusses law ques tions. The senate has bad two days of it this week, and is promised more. What is refreshing for a while, however, may become a bore if kept up too long. Changes in the form of our district government have led to some curious results. For instance, one govern ment assessed a tax amounting to SIOO on John Smith’s property; a succeeding government abates S9O of it; then congress grants a “draw back” amounting to S6O or S7O. John Smith not only escapes taxation, but receives SSO or S6O from ihe district simply because ho owns taxable property. Quite a number of these cases, and others of an equally dam aging character, are being brought to light by an investigation now go ing on in congress. While it is not certain that mate rial changes will be made at the present session in the government of the Indian Territory, inquiry is being made in both houses as to the neces sity and propriety of radical changes There is no question except of time in the matter. We might as well try to keep an Ohio man out of office under this administration as to keep civilization out of a territory which lies exactly in the line of westward settlement. Hon. Edward McPherson, of Penn sylvania, has been made secretary of the republican congressional execu five committee. This is a salve for Mr. Blaine’s wounded feelings. But the question arises whether Mr. Me Pherson, who, as editor of the Phil adelphia Press, has bitterly denounced the unit rule and the Pennsylvania instructions for Grant, is just the man to promote harmony in the par ty ? Don Cameron is chairman of ihe committee, and it has been whis pered that he is for Grant “by a large majority,” Rex. Ancient Tiiebes. The Nile seems to have run through the midst of one vast and now im measurable city called Thebes. The Arabian mountains on the east and the Lybian mountains on the west, inclosing a great plain, were her mighty wall , with a hundred gates, mentioned in the Illiad. The antithesis of Thebes is the compaiatively modern Alexandria, six hundred miles down the river, founded three hundred years B. C., whose lighthouse was one of the wonders of the world; whose library of seven hundred thousand volumes was the attraction of ail scholars, but of which the Turkish vandal, Omar, said: “If these writings agree with the Koran, they are useless and need not ba preserved; if they disagree, they are pernicious and ought to be destroyed,” and so had them annihi lated; and whose lively students and thinkers furnished the world with the thousand and one Arabian nights’ entertainment. The insignificant mud-built villa ges, Luxor, Karnak, etc., which have squatted on the site and over the ruins of old Thebes, have nothing under the hot sun to boast of but the colossal ruins of the ancient city, which had a population at one time of upward of 5,000,000. Os nearly a score of famous obe lisks only four remain standing in Egypt; seven have gone to Rome, one to Paris, one to London, and one is to go to New York. The obelisk of Heliopolis, near Cairo, is 66 feet 6 inches high; that at Paris 75 feet; St. Peter’s, Rome, 82 feet 9 inches; St, John’s, Rome, 105 feet 6 inches, and the one erected oy the daughter, Hatasso, in honor of her father, in the great temple to Thebes, is 108 feet 6 inches; each of its 4 sides is 8 feet. They are al! of granite and one stone. This devoted daughter erected a twin of the one towering over the ruins of the temple, but it has fallen and broken in several places. The first of the hieroglyphics on the one side and those on the other may be put into English as follows: The mistress of both c.-owns, The good and the great. The fems'e Hor, The godhead of the di dems, The queen and mistress of both worlds, The beloved »f Amen Ra, Her majesty has caused to be set The name of her father Ou this monument, Which is the greater because it bears the praise of the king, the lord of the two lands Ra cheper-Ka. This temple is the most magnifi cent ruin in the world. From wall to wall it is 1,200 feet, but with por ticoes and adjuncts is 1,970 feet, and with the Hall of Sphynxes over a third of a mile in length. No pen has ever yet conveyed a conception of it. In the Hall of Columns alone are 134 columns; 12 are 62 feet high and 12 feet in diameter; the thresh old of the door is 41 feet, and is made of one solid stone. Some of the chambers are lined with red granite, some of the door jambs are made of black granite. It is orna mented here and there with statutes of giant form, but the Nile now every year overflows the foundations in six feet of water, and the whole is drift ing into further ruin and obliteration. It was commenced by the conqueror Seth I, of the 19th dvnasty, 1340 B. C. The two colossi, one the vocal Memnon, stand at the entrance of a temple which has quite disappeared. Around them now are the level green fields. It touches the heart to be hold them in solemn grandeur sitting out the strong centuries wailing for their temple to return. They are on the west side of the river, and many tombs are in the limestone mountain just back of them. Many of these are in a fine state of preservation, but dozens of temples have passed en tirely away. Much of the history, biography, philosophy and religious systems of the ancient Egyptians is written and preserved on the rock chamber walls of these limestone mountain tombs. After thousands of years of spolia tion from robbers and vandals, enough remains to make us better acquainted with their habits and customs to the minutest detail than we can know in the general of our own ancestors of two or three hundred years ago. It is very interesting to examine the quarries whence they took their building material. Long wide tun nels or avenues .lead in past the infe rior stone into the heart of the moun tain to the clear, hard, solid rock. These enormous quarry caverns would prove that they were the most industrious and extensive of builders, if the pyramids, temples, tombs and statues had wholly disappeared. The most extensive are the alabaster, breccia, granite, gypsum, porphyry, limestone and sandstone. The sand stone quarry is particularly interest ing. The mountain for an extent of several miles is cut into yawning chasms and high threatening preci pices that, in their dimensions and variety of forms, mimic the sublime workmrnship of nature. Far into the heart of the moun tains many large masses remain as they were left by the workmen, and all the processes of quarrying are plainly exhibited. A little further up, just by the first cataract, are the granite quarries, from which, among other materials, were taken the obe lisks, the largest stones man has ever handled. One partially cut re mains. Indeed, the innumerable tombs excavated out of ihe bmestone mountains, sometimes for miles in extent a thousand feet high, reminds one of an immense quarry more than anything else. The city of the dead seems an internal city, and on its walls are immortal biographies, re ligious and philosophical systems, in ventories of national, official and personal stock and effects, and it is always founded where the land rock or space was best adapted to this but useless for any other purpose. What Shall We Read ? A more important topic seldom arises in any home than that of household reading. Here is one of the most subtle, and yet potent, ed ucation forces. That Christian par ents are so often indifferent to it, is simply amazing. We are scrupulous respecting the company our children keep; we want them to hear only sound orthodox preaching; we ob ject to their being taught in the sab bath-school by any but conscientious Christian persons; and yet, we allow the devil to sow the tares of a dis sipating and corrupting literature among our children while we sleep. And the children of this world, be ing wiser in their generation than the children of light—oftentimes— have away of so sugar-coating, and falsely labelling, anil speciously ad vertising their poisonous and trashy publications, that even good parents must be wide-awake, or they will unwittingly admit an infection or a curse into their homes. None can doubt that the daily habits of read ing go far toward the formation of character good or bad. None can doubt that corrupt literature is at once a broad and flowery road that “leadeth to destruction.” “Many there be that go in thereat.” W T hen parents decide what litera ry companionship, what books and papers they will choose for their children, they decide whether the mental and moral development of children shall be good or bad; whether solid or sandy foundations shall be laid for their future; wheth er home discipline and home life shall be a sucoss or a failure; wheth er the forces of good or of evil shall probably mould their future life and destiny. For reading matter in the home operates constantly, like an at mospheric influence, almost inpalpj,- ble but wholly real, interfusing the character with good or bad quali ties. Can the evil of unwise and perni cious reading be overcome? Largely it can. Parents have in their pos session the instrument of overcom ing it. But too often they grasp that instrument by the blade instead of the handle. Many parents underestimate the importance of providing ample read ing matter for the household. Oth ers heedlessly let the children select, or outside advisers and intruders se lect or suggest for them, and an un fit choice is quite apt to be made. Others will buy the cheapest books and papers, deeming tiffs to ba safe economy; and still others insist that the dryest, dullest, prosiest reading mortal ever saw, is good enough for their families, if so be it is orthodox beyond disp ite, and re ligious in the most dreadful sense in to which that word can be tortured. “Get the best!’’ the gifted, the brilliant, and even fascinating books and papers; radiant, sparkling, forceful, stirring, engaging-—the market abounds in such—that are also high in moral tone, pure, stim ulating, and instructive; and let the falsehood, that only evil books are charming, be thus practically refu ted. What heroism of patience in Mor rison, the pioneer missionary to China, who worked and waited seven years before he baptized his first convert, but never lost heart in ulti mate success. ♦ Venice has had so severe a winter that the wells have dried and the canals have been full of ice. GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 12, 1880. Life. Whence came it ? and what is its design ? Did it come at the call or beckon of man, far away back in olden time ? Or was it brought about by the science of man ? or the scientist of the age ? Here it is, in more forms than you can think of, or mention. Raise your eyes and behold that sun as it rides through the heavens, on the power of God’s word, whose brilliance is beyond the capacity of your eyes to endure to stare it in the face for any length of time, yet it is busy diffusing life, light and health to almost all things on earth. There, too, floats the murky clouds, from which often leaps the glaring lightning, accompanied by the loud pealing thunder, by which the sturdy old tree which, perhaps, has stood the storm for hundreds of years, is suddenly shat tered to splinters, yet the refreshing rain descends from this gloomy mass and satiates the burning thirst of the fevered earth. Look out and see that tiny blade of grass, which has just sprung up, warmed by the sun and nourished by the rain, it points its slender leaf upward, as if in praise of a higher power that gives it these blessings in bringing it into life, but they only assisted in burst ing the seed pod, and letting its con tents escape into life. That stately old oak, that has been so long com ing to its magnificent stature, had in like manner its life let loose from the acorn, that held it enclosed with in the shell, but that acorn had hid the life, as commanded, and carried it over from the parent tree, which now has gone back to mother earth. Behold yonder orchard with its de licious fruit banging from every branch; every tree but a few short months ago. when winter held its sway, looked forsaken, barren and dead, but when spring came, the bright rays of the sun, together with congenial showers of rain, revived the apparently dead tree to action and to life, and the branches were covered with beautiful flowers, from which this luscious fruit came. The fish of the waters, the fowls of the air, and the beasts of the field, together with every living thing, ail have life and action, and bow or when did it come? Was man or anything else consulted before it was bestowed upon them ? Then life is here, we have it, and so the best possible use should be mads of it while we can control it well, we may suffer severe loss in the consequence. The sun has never been known to darken any place on earth, elsewhere but is shedding a bright light upon ail things within its sight, so this life should never cause trouble to any while we control it. There is plenty of work to do in trying to brighten our own and the paths of others, and make them as pl lasant as possible, as well as praiseworthy and profitable to all around. As sweet music never sends rough or unpleasant sounds, so it should be the study never to send out unpleas ant ways or words or even unpleas ant looks. While this harmony is conducive to health and long lif°. it swells chords of love, peace and joy, which ascend and give praises to the author of life, for his every good and perfect work. And while this great Creator has given everything, eave man, to be under the control of man, he certainly should be at work io do his part as well as the maker, and have everything done decently and in order, and nothing done in a rough or bungling manner. So life cannot be thrown to the winds or lost, eo that man is not accountable for the manner be uses it. All should go to work to make it a suc cess in as good a manner as the sun, by diffusing light and help all around. There is a sublimity in hu man life, beyond the power of words to describe. The invisible connec tions that are so interwoven with it cannot be explained bv the philoso pher or sage. The main thing, how ever, is to learn to control and use it in such a manner as will be useful to ths holder, and honorable to the giver Life produces action, from which springs works, and works show what the producer is, and where he stands, telling his character and disposition more plainly than anything else can. A Local Editor’s Dream. Once upon a time a local editor dreamed that he was dead and in another world , He approached a city before him and knocked for ad mittance, but no one answered his summons. The gate remained clos ed against him. Then he cried aloud for an entrance, but the only response was scorse of heads appear ing above the wall on the other side of the gate. At sight of him the owners of the heads set up a dismal howl, aud one of them cried: “Why didn’t you notice that big egg I gave you?’’ At this horrid and most unex pected interrogation the poor local turned in the direction of the voice to learn its owner, when another voice shrieked. “Where’s that piece you were going to write about my soda fountain ?” and close upon this was the awful demand: “Why did you write a piece abeut old Tomlin son’s hens, and never speak of my new gate?” "Whatever answer he was going to frame to this appeal was cut short by the astonishing query: “Why did you spell my name wrons in the programme?” The miserable man turned to flee, when he was rooted to the ground by these terri ble demands: “Why did you put my marriage among the deaths?” He was on the point of saying the fore man did it, when a shrill voice mad ly cried: “You spoilt the sale of my horse by publishing that runaway 1” and another: “If I catc you alone I’ll lick you for what you said about me when I was before the Police Court.” Another:"Why didn’t you show up the school question when I told you to ?” And this was followed by the voice of a female hysterically exclaiming: “This is the brute that botched my poetry and made me ridiculous!” Whereupon hundreds of voices screamed; “Where is my article? Give me back my article!” And in the midst of the horrid din the poor wretch awoke, perspiring at every pore and screaming for help. She Knew All About It. Just about midnight the other night, four men in a Detroit saloon sat looking at a fifth. The fifth one was drunker than the other four. While all men were created equal, some men get drunk twice as fast as others. “It will never do to send him home in this condition,’’ said one of the four, after a long silence. “No, it would break his wife’s heart,” added a second. “But wo can’t leave him here, and if wo turn him out the police will run him in,” observed the third. “I have been thinking,” mused the’ fourth, “He has a telephone in his house. Here is one here. I will make it my painful duty to inform his waiting and anxious wife that he won’t be home to-night.’’ He went to the telephone, got her call, and began: “Mrs. Blank, I desire to commu nicate with you regarding your hus bam ’’ “Well, go ahead.” “He is down town here.’’ “I know that much.” “In descending the stairs leading from the lodge-room he fell and sprained his ankle*’' “Are you sure it wasn’t his neck ?’’ she asked. “It is not a serious sprain, but we think it better to let him lie on the sofa in the ante-room until morning Rest assured that he will have the best of care. We are doing ev—” “Say!” broke in a sharp voice. “You bundle him in'o a wagon and drive him up here, where I can keep him hidden until ‘that drunk goes off! He won’t be sober before to morrow night!” “Mj dear mad— ’’ “Get out! If he’s sleepy drunk put water on his head ! That’s the way I always do.” “Will you let me inform you that— ’’ “No, sir, I won’t! Throw water on his head, get him into some vehi cle and rattle him up here, for it’s most midnight now, and it will take me half an hour to get his boots off and push him upstairs ! Remember —pour water on his head and yell ‘fire’ in his ear !” A u Expensive Household. His majesty, the emperor of Chi na, is just now in a serious difficulty. Young though he is, he has already to maintain some seventy women on his establishment in various capaci ties, and, like every other gentleman who has ladies under his protection, the duty devolves upon him of cloth ing them. This would be a com paratively easy task were the seventy fair ones of a reasonable turn of mind. But, unhappily for the peace of the brother of the sun and moon, their extravagance is pronounced to be beyond all bounds. Two hun dred and fifty thousand taels, which is more than one-half of the land tax of the empire, were expended last year in silk, satin, gauze, velvet, red and gilt paper, and pearls. It is said that one dress which is in pos session of an empress was covered last year with seed pearls worked in so peculiar a fashion as to have cost a fabulous sum. With respect to this robe there are great searchings of the heart. The empress is aged, though the dress is new. If she dies, according to custom, it must be . burned, supposing it to be in her possession at the time of her demise. 1 She refuses to part with it, and the ' idea of this wastefulness, coupled ' with the prospect of increased ex travagance in the coming year, trou- ‘ bles the vermilion pencil exceedingly. 1 Contemplating the position of this illustrious personage, and remem- 1 bering that, as yet, he is too young ; to be practically married, it is curi ous to speculate as to what his position will be when he arrives at man’s estate, and finds himself the lord of seventy additional wives. An Indian Turkish Bath. If cleanliness is next to godliness, I the foulness of the Indian is his greatest sin. A peculiar and disa ; greeab'e odor pervades everthing • that belongs to them, although much of it is due to other causes than per- ( sonal filth. The tanning, drying of i beef or buffalo, cooking, etc., simul taneously in progress in and about < the lodge, produce a variety of un- < pleasant scents, which permea'e their i clothing and impregnate the atmos- 1 phere. The unfrequent change of I the former is also a fruitful source ] of physical impurity. The Turco- Russian bath is, however, of very common application among them. It 1 is their panacea. | The manner of its preparation is ; necessarily primitive. Willow* wands j are sharpened and thrust into the ] ground, and their smaller ends are ] interlaced so as to form a bower lit- f tie more than a yard in height, and | eight or en in circumference. Over < this is stretched and secured a piece . of canvas or skin, under which, after j several large stones have been , brought to a red heat and rolled to its centre, a dozen or more Arrapa hoes crowtl and crouch. Water is slowly poured upon the stones, from , which arise hot air and vapor. After profuse perspiration, the inmates leap into an adjoining stream or wal low naked in the snow. This bathing establishment is called a “Wickeyup,” and they dot the banks of water ccurses in all Indian countries. The emperor of Austria has lately been the recipient of a unique pres ent. It consists of a suit of clothes made from the wool of an alpaca sheep that eleven hours previous to their delivery was still alive. The animal, a superb specimen of its kind, was slain at 6:11 a. m. Four hours and thirty-three minutes were employed in reducing the wool to cloth. In two hours and twenty-five minutes the latter was ready for the tailor, who employed the remaining four hours in making the suit. The Gem Puzzle. Judging from the space devoted to the subject by our exchangee, the people of New York, Boston, Phila delphia and other northern cities have been for some weeks past per fectly infatuated with a new game called “Fifteen Solitaire” or the “Gem Puzzle.” As the infection is rapidly spreading over the country we may expect it to reach us in due time. A brief description of the game will be interesting to our read ers. The “puzzle,” says the Phila delphia Record, is simple, apparently idiotically simple, and that is just what agonizes the slave who gives himself up to its solution. In its ordinary form sixteen small blocks— generally cubes—are made to fit rather tightly, side by si e, into a shadow box. These blocks are num bered on their upper surface from 1 to 16. The 16 block is removed, the remaining blocks disarranged, and the “puzzle” consists in then so ma nipulating them, without jumping, that they shall finally be placed in regular order from 1 to 15, coun ing from left to right. It is the last three numbers that cause all the trouble. The most common arrange ment into which they persist in fall ing is 13,15, 14, and to most people it is a hopeless task to attempt to work the 14 into its proper place without seriously disarranging the other blocks. When, by any acci dent, the blocks do take the correct order, the chances are about a thou sand to one that the mover cannot for the life of him tell how it hap pened. A home made set is as good for a headache as any purchased outfit. In Bavaria a quaint custom ob tains, rendering it obligatory upon every prince of the reigning house to perform at least one day’s active duty as private soldier in the royal army. On the 24th of January, Priece Alphoneo of Bavaria, first cousin to the musical King, comple ted his 18th year and attained his majority. Greatly to the entertain meat of the Munich public, which crowded the Marienplatz to conttm plate his performance, he celebrated his birthday by doing duty as sentry in front of the principal guard house of the capital. Being an uncommon ly good-looking youth, he was gazed at with admiration and epproval, during his “spell” on guard, by great numbers of Munich dames and damsels, who gave utterance to their feelings by plaudits when he was re lieved from his post in the usual manner, and marched off to the bar racks, rifle on shoulder, with the re lief party. Once there was a man—or a myth —named Milo. It is told of him that be was wont daily to carry a calf in his arms. He kept on doing this, we are informed, until the calf grew to be an ox. The story stops there, so far. at least, as the bovine quadruped is concerned—although something verj sad is said to have afterwards happened to Milo. It is not related that he continu d to tote the ox. The American people have been stagger ing for a good many years under the weight of several very large sized calves in the shape of sundry “pro tected” monopolies. Now that they have gotten to be cows, is it not about time to drop some of them ? Cetewayo’s three daughters are now on exhibition in London, Their names are Unolala, Unoma Hoza and Uoczandaba. The London Nezes says these names are musical. The dusky maids are described as de cently attired and possessing a taste for personal adornment. Although passing much of their time seated on a divan they come down from time to time to welcome their visitors, shaking hands with friendliness and addressing to each a Zulu salutation. Their manners are gentle and pre possessing, and their demeanor is in marked contrast with that of the ex uberantly gay and noisy masculine members of the troupe. Eli Perkins thus talks about young ladies who are trying to catch a beau: The fact is. men fall in love with women on account of their neatness. No gent eman ever loved a soiled woman. So, young ladies, wash young greasy hair until it lo iks as light and fleecy as God made it, throw away the rouge and powder, let the skin have the shine and glow of health, throw away your old soil ed silks, and dress yourself up in a sweet white muslin, and then the beaux will swarm around you as the bees swarm around the fragrant honeysuckle. The Williamsport Banner says: “Mr. George Rose, better known as the ice cream man, about a month ago accidentally ran a large brass pin through the thumb of his right hand, and ever since that time he has suffered terrible pain, so much so that it has been impossible for him to sleep. It finally produced conges tion of the brain, from which he died yesterday forenoon. For several days before his death he was entirely de ranged.” A carpenter who was always prog nosticating evil to himself was one day upon the roof of a five-story building upon which rain had fallen. The roof being slippery, he lost his footing, and as he was descending towards the eves he exclaimed, “Just as I told you I” Catching, however, in an iron spout, he kicked off his shoes and regained a place of safety, when he thus delivered himself: “I know’d it; there’s a pair of shoes gone.” Personals a la mode—Wales chews fine-cut. John Smith sports an eye glass. The emperor of Russia wears a liver pad. Princess Beatrice likes “15.” Beaconsfield sleeps with his head to the north. President Hayes cannot bear the sight of cockroaches. Dr. Mary Walker makes her owni suspenders. David Davis snores with his mouth open. Queen Vic toria likes cheese. SMALL BITS Os Various Kinds Carelessly Thrown Together. Wm H Vanderbilt has $31,500,000 worth of United States registered bonds. There are strawberry plantations near Norfolk, Va, that cover five hundred acres. The University of Brussels has for the first time admitted a lady as a science student. The Arabs and the Turks do not hate each other, but they both hate the Turkish government. Diamonds will be a drug in the market before a year if the Scotch man carries out his plans. Schuyler Colfax spent three weeks in figuring out that the top of a wag on wheel moves the fastest. The bangs on a lady’s brow are better than a barometer. In wet weather they straighten down; in dry weather (hey frizzle-up. Ail the leading theatrical mana gers of New York city have deter mined to give matinees on St. Pat rick's Day for the benefit of the Irish famine fund. A Kansas boy earned a nice Bible by committing 300 verses to memo ry, and then he traded his Bible for a shot-gun and accidentally shot his aunt in the leg A Leadville woman who attempted to drive a cat from under the bed with a broom had her face frightful ly scratched and one eye put out by the enraged animal. Mark Summer, a minister, has been sentenced, in the United States district com t, to confinement for six years at the Albany, N Y, prison for forging pension papers. Clarinda Moore, a temperance revival! it of note in lowa, has closed a bargain with her hu-<b tn cl by w hich, in consideration of SIO,OOO, she per mits a formal separation. An ingenious republican represen tative at Washington calculates that at least fifty of his party would be supplanted in the bouse by democrats in case of Grant’s nomination. An Isle of Jersey lady was lately sent to prison fur a month (in default of SSO bail) for persistently coughing and blowing her nose close to the pulpit in order to worry the parson. A Mr. Richards delivered a lecture in Cleveland the other ev ning, enti tled “Will you be my wife and ev ery spinster in the audience put her handkerchief up to her lips and mut tered, “Oh, Dick I” • The Kansas City Post and Tribune, leadii g German organ of the west, comes out flat-footed against the nomination of Grant. It will sup port any democrat in opposition to a third term candidate. One of the grounds on which Mr. Say demands a divorce, at Lafayette, Ind , is that his wife although well knowing that the plaintiff was a Democrat, refused him the privilege of bringing Democratic papers to his house.” The recent trial of the Rev. H. H Hyden for murder, at New Haven, Conn., cost the State $30,000, and even with that there was a hung jury. It is said the third trial will be briefer and will not embrace all sciences and arts. She had never visited the city, and ice cream was a revelation to her. “Sally,” said her cousin, “how do you like the cream ?’’ “The cream it self,” said she, “seems to be very good, but it appears to be a little tetched with frost/’ Christ will come and themillenium begin in September, 1881, according to the calculations of the Rev. Mr. Rounds, an Adventist of ports mounth, N. H-, who has devoted sev en years to figuring out the matter on a chart 260 feet long. Quite a discussion Las risen over the pronunciation of Arkansas. The State was discovered and settled by the French, and they pronounced it Arkansaw. Mr. Calhoun, when sena tor, pronounced it both ways, to suit the divergent tastes of the two sena- . tors from that commonwealth. Some sanitary reforms are really being effected in Memphis. All the rotten wood pavement, which is le lieved to hold the germs of yellow fever, is being replaced by stone; a new system of sewerage will be com pleted before hot weather, and the health board possesses greater pow ers than heretofore, In a work on the principles of light and color, the author, Dr. Bab bitt, contends that if a yellow or am ber colored bottle of water be ex posed to the Funlight a while, the water within will become medicated, so that it will act as a laxative and animating principle generally, while the water exposed in a blue bottle will act as a nervine, astringent, and narcotic. The experiment can easily be tried. At a spiritual seance in Chicago, an editor was told that a departed friend desired to speak to him. The connection was made, and the friend proved to be a former country editor who desired to say a few words. He said he desired to inform bis old de linquent subscribers who had prom ised to bring in wood on subscrip tion, that they needn’t do it, as the management where he was furnished the fuel. He said they might send ice, however. A olumes could not say more. The celebrated botanist, Nicholas de Nasakine, in an article in the Cor respondance Scientijique, claims that the flavor of fruits increases in pro portion as they recede from the equator, while it decreases as the equator is approached. The leaves and flowers of nearly all northern plants contain also a larger quantity of oil than those of southern Europe. He believes that the phenomenon is explained by the longer presence of the sun above the horizon during the summers of the north. Advertising Ratos. Legal advertisements charged seventy-five cents per hundred words or fraction thereof each inser tion for the first four insertions, and thirty-rive cents for each subsequent insertion. Transient advertising will be charge.! $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 tho first appearance of th ad : vertisement, and will be presented at the pleasure of the proprietor. Transient advertisen ent> :r in unknown parties must be paid for in advance. I . INI. I\EWM a IV. Physician and Surgeon, ! Floweiry Branch, Office, first door above Barrett’s store. Will attend calls at a distance rrom relia ble parties. (febl3 6u. BROWN BRO’S. BANKERS, BROKERS AND COLLECTION AGENTS GAINESVILLE, GA References—Hanover National Bank, N. Y., Moore, Jenkins <k Co. N. Y., G. W Williams & Co., Charleston, 8. C., — ant of the Ati anta Banks. marls-ts MILLINERY GOODS! Mrs. 11. 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 low 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 01 L. H. Johnson’s store. DRESSES made, cut and trimmed in any style desired. Washed Dresses and Children’s Clothing at your own prices 1 Also GENT'S SHIRT* MADE IN THE BEST STYLE. Good Shirts, material included, for $1 and upwards. jan2 2m LaHatte’s Select School, Male and Female, Rev. C. B. LaHatte, President. Spring Tenn Opens January 19, 1880; Closes July 2—Six Months. A FULL CORPS OF COMPETENT TEACHERS HAS BEEN ENGAGED. SATISFACTION IS GUARANTEED IN EVERY DEPARTMENT. For full particulars as to board and tui*ioa apply to the president. ( jan2 luc Agents Wanted SELL 850 Larged Pages, |J r UJ WITH Hi— 16 Full-Piige SIMONS This grand volume embraces Mr. MOO DY’S best Sermons, as delivered in CLEVELAND and ST. LOUIS, the result of two years’ had study. They can be Obtained Nowhere Else. Agents will find a rapid sale everywhere for this Work. Our terms are unequaled; Outfit SI.OO. Send at once for this and begin the canvass, or address for circular, H. S. GOODSPEED & CO., feb2o At New York or Cincinnati. 11. W. J. HAM. Attorney at Law, GAINESVILLE, GA. Office in Henderson &■ Candler Building, East Side Public Square. Northeastern Railroad. Change of Sola.eclu.leb. Superintendent's Office, I Athens, Oa., Oct. 11,1879. J On and after Monday, October 6, 1879, trains on the Northeastern Railroad will run as follows. All trains daily except Sunday: Leave Athens 3 50 pm Arrive at Lula.... 620 •• Arrive at Atlanta, via Air-Line R. B 10 30 *« Leave Atlanta, via Air-Line R. R............... 330 *• Leave I ula 746 “ Arrive at Athens....... ..........10 00 “ Tho above trains also connect closely at Lula with northern bound trains on A. L. R. B. On Wednes days and Saturdays the following additional trains will be run: Leave Athens. 6 45 a m Arrive at Lula 845 •• Leave Lula 920 ** Arrive at Athens 11 3J «• This train connects closely at Lula for Atlanta, making the trip to Atlanta only four hours and forty-five minutes. J. M. EDWABDS, Supt. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. On and after December 20th double daily trains will run on this road as follows: MORNING TRAIN. Leave Atlanta.. 400 am Arrive Charlotte 3 20 p m “ Air-Line Junction.. 330 •• •’ Danville 951 “ “ Lynchburg 12 37 ni’t “ Washington 750 am Baltimore 930 *• •• Philadelphia 130 and 145 pm •• New York 345 and 445 “ *• Wilmington, N. C. (nrxt day) 950 a m •• Richmond 748 •• EVENING TRAIN. Leave Atlanta.... .. 3 30pm Arrive Charlotte • • 3 20am •« Air-Line Junction 330 “ « Danville 10 22 “ •• Lynchburg 153 pm •• Richmond. **3 •• “ Wa hington 955 •• Baltimore It 55 “ Philadelphia 3 35am •• New York 6*5 •• GOING EAST, Night Mail and Passenger train. Arrive Gainesville 5:50 p m Leave " 5:51 “ Day Passenger train Arrive ** - Local Freight and Accommodation train. Arrive Gainesville 11:10 am Leave •• 11=25 " GOING WEST. Night Mail and Passenger train. Arrive Gainesville m Leave “ 9:21 Day Pass auger train. Arrive “ —— B;lsptn Leave “ 3=16" Local Freight aud Accommodation uaiu. Arrive Gainesville....... 1:45 a m Leave •* ... 2:00 •• Close connection at Atlanta for all points Wost, and at Charlotte for all potnvs East. 3. J. FOREACRE, G. M. W. J. HOUSTON, Gen. Pag. and Tkt Agt. PATENTS? F. A. Lehmann, Solicitor of Amc/"an and Foreign Patents, Wa-hington, D. C. All business connected with Patents, whether before the Patent Office or the Courts, promptly attended to. 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