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EDITORIAL. EAGLETS.
The Mexicans came very near sea
ting up a revolution in honor of Gen.
Grant.
The friends of Hugh J. Jewett are
pushing him forward for the nomina
tion at Cincinnati.
The legislature of Mississippi has
imposed a tax of three dollars on
bachelors over 25 years of age.
Gladstone is on the right line when
he tells Europe that the plough
share mirst take the place of the
sword.
* The English parliament having
been dissolved, writs of election for a
parliament have been issued for the
23rd instant.
♦
Texas gives up. the bell-punch in
despair. It put a premium on dis
honesty and made an Indian auent
appear virtuous.
-
x The orgun of John Kelly considers
Sherman a dead duck, and that
Elaine will soon be sunstruck again.
The managers <f the third term
boom are masters ot the situation.
The lawyeress, Mrs. Lockwood,
has published an open letter, charg
mg Senator Hill with numerous im
moralities, which charges he has
promptly denied and pronounced
falsehoods.
Jefferr.cn in 1821:—“The federal
judiciary is advancing its noiseless
step like a thief over the field of ju
risdiction until all shall be usurped
from the States and the governments
of ail bo consolidated into one.’’
The Richmond Dispatch decisively
says: “There can be no fair elections
under the laws just pronounced con
stitutional by the Supreme court of
x the United States.” It was not in-
* tend, d, we will add, that there should
be.
Senator Bruce, colored, of Missis
sippi, who will be succeeded by
Judge George next year, proposes to
make a living by lecturing, and an
exchange cruelly suggests as his sub
ject, “What I know of the freedman’s
bank swindle.’’
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In the possibility that there may
be need for the inteiference of the
* federal authority at San Francisco
for the maintenance of law and or
der, Gen. McDowell has been direc
ted to get bis available troops into
position for service.
♦ -onw*
Rusian advices state that General
Mtlikoffisin bad health, owing io
> long-continued and suppressed ex
citement. His life wag undoubtedly
saved when the attack was recently
made on him by a shirt of chain mail
worn under his uniform.
It is contemplated that the South
ern Pacific railroad of California will
form part of a through line to El
Paso, where meeting with other
roads projected to this point, an
outlet to the Gulf of Mexico and to
* the Atlantic seaboard may be cb
u tained.
Tne turbulent and pestiferous
Dennis Kearney has been arrests d
for uttering incendiary language at
Iho sand lot meetings. It is fortunate
for the workingmen of California
that this blatant demagogue and agi
tator is in a fairway of being effect
ually squelched.
We publish on this page a con-
* densed synopsis of the rates of
charges f r the transportation of
passengers and freight established by
the railroad commission. These
fates take effect on the 4th of April,
and we think are reasonable and
both to the people and the rail
roads.
While we believe Dennis Kearney
to be a fraud of- the first water, at
rhe same time we are satisfied that
the cat-eyed Mcngalian is a bliting
curse to California. This mixing
f and mingling of taces upon terms of
equality will not work, and the soon
er this immutable truth is recognized
and acted upon the better for the
people of this country. Man’s puny
efforts can never change the laws of
God.
Tho Virginia iegisla ore is much
excited over the action of the United
States Supreme court over their ju
ries. Tho State senate has declare d,
,in a proamblo and resolutions, that
the recent Supreme court decision
threatens the very existence of State
governments as distinct sovereign
ties, and it places the judiciary of the
States completely under the control
of the United States, and, if followed
to the logical results, will enable the
United States congress to coerce the
State judiciary, as well as the State
executive and legislative departments
in all matters, thus destroying every
vestige of State sovereignty, a most
alarming doctrine to all who value
the blessings of liberty, for the secu
rity oi which the United States con
stitution itself was established and
ordained.
The Gainesville Eagle
VOL. XIV.
Washington Correspondence.
[Special Correspondence of the Eagle.]
Washikgto n, DC.March 16,1880.
In tne senate yesterday there was
a lively debate among prominent
senators over the question whether a
proposed measure concerning the
Indian territory should be referred
to the committee on territories or the
judiciary committee. Senators Voor
hees, Vest, Conkling, Edmunds and
Thurn.au participated. I mention
this only as showing the great inter
est felt in the senate on this subject.
This territory was so long ago set
apart as a homo for Indians, and its
occupancy by them has seemed to do
so much for the benefit of the rem
nants of tribes residing there, that
no one likes to see the treaty de
stroyed which created it; y<t, all
recognize the fact that the question
is only one of time. As the white
population increases around it, ana
the necessity for communications
east, west, north and south through
tho territory becomes greater, the
territory will inevitably cease to be
the home of the Indians alone. The
only point is to make the change as
little injurious as possible to the In
dians.
M. De Lesseps has come and gone,
after an extended interview with the
house committee having isthmus
matters in charge. He made an ex
cellent impression on the committee
and on people generally in this city,
but I do not think ho made it plain
to any one that a canal should be
built by a French company. In fact,
James B. Eide , who followed M.
Do Lesseps in an argument in favor
of a marine railway in place of a
canal, excited more interest than the
Frenchman Captain Eades says the
railway will do better and more than
a canal, will be safer, can be kept in
repair more cheaply, and, most im
portant of all, can be built in one
fourth the t'me and for one fourth
the expense of a canal.
The Count De Lesseps came here
as the representative of the foreign
capitalists, with u great flourish of
trumpets, and impressed simple peo
ple with the plan that he was going
to carry out his idea of a Panama
canal without delay. But the presi
dent first checked his ardor by re
affirming the Monroe doctrine of
American control over works of that
nature, and Captain James B, Eades
followed this, showing the congres
sional committee that De Lesseps’
scheme was impracticable from engi
neering difficulties and the enormous
expense it would involve. He then
read io tho committee a paper in
advocacy of his plan of a ship railway.
He demonstrated that a substantial
and durable ship railway can be built
for half the cost of a canal with locks
and for-one-fourth that of a canal at
tide level; that such a ship railway
can bo built in one-third or one-fourth
of the time needed for the construc
tion of a canal; that, when built,
ships of the maximum tonnage can
be moved with safety at four or five
times greater speed than in a canal;
that a greater number of vessels per
day can be transported by the rail
way than can possibly be transported
by the canal; that the capacity of a
ship railway can be easily increased
to meet the demands cf commerce;
that the cost of maintenance of the
roadway and rolling stock would be
much less than that of tho canal, and
that a railway can be constructed and
operated in localities wherj it is not
practicable to construct a canal.
The supreme court has decided the
United States election laws to be
con: tilutional. It remains only for
the conservative people of the coun
try, who do nut believe in the cen
tralizing lendineits of radicalism as
shown in this decision, to elect a con
gress and a president v.ho will unite
in repealing these laws. In doing so
they will incidentally defeat that
embodiment of centralization, Gen
et al Grant, who seems assured of the
radical nomination.
There ought to be a “boom’’ stared
for Representative Mouse, of Ten
nessee, who on Tuesday so exhaus
tively exposed the civil service reform
humbug in the present administra
tion that all the Hayts men in the
house want to answer him. Rex.
The Bailroad Commission.
It will be remembered that the
last legislature passed .in act pro
viding for a railroad commission, to
consist of three members, appointed
by the governor, who were c arged
with the duty of preparing and pub
lishing a schedule of just and reasona
ble rates for the transportirtion of
passengers and freights, to be ob
st-rved by the railroad companies in
this State, with ample power to en
i force the regulations adopted by
| them. Under this act the governor
appointed J. M. Smith, Campbell
W allace and Samuel Barnett, com
missioners, who have prepared and
i published a scnedule of rates. The
regulations go into effect April 4th.
As tnis is a matter in which every
i body is interested either directly or
I indirectly, we summarize as briefly
as possible the most important
i changes made.
The passenger tariff is as follows:
For passengers with not exceeding
100 lbs. baggage, over 12 years old,
I 4 cents per mile, when they have
procured ticket?, and when they have
not, then | cent extra per mile may
be charged. Under twelve two cents
per mile. If the ticket office has not
been open a reasonable length of
time before the departure of the
train from stations then the extra
charge cannot be made. Sleeping
car berths shall not charge exceeding
sl.per hundred miles or less.
The tariff on freights adopted, fol
lows the usual classification and as
separate rates cannot conveniently be
given for every possible distance, the
commission has adopted ten miles as
the basis of charges, and provide
that stations not over ten miles apart
may be grouped and the same rates
collected from each. When a frac
tion of a mile occurs, charges may be
made for the next greater number of
miles.
The following rules have been
adopted in reference to freights:
Less than car loads and per one
hundred pounds, first class freight—
30c for 50 miles; 45c for 100 miles;
GGe for 150 miles; 70e for 200 miles;
75c for 250 miles; 80c for 300 miles;
85c for 350 miles.
Seqond Class Freight—27c for 50
miles; 40c for 100 miles; 50c for 150
60c for 200 miles; 70c for 250 miles;
73c for 300 miles; 55c for 350 miles.
Third Class Freight—2sc for 50
miles; 35c for 100 miles; 45c for 150
miles; 50c for 200 miles; 55c for 250
miles; 58c for 300 miles; 60c for 350
miles.
Fourth Class Freight—22c for 50
miles; 30c for 100 miles; 35c for 150
mi[es; 40c for 200 miles; 45c for 250
miles; 48c for 300 miles; 50c for 350
1 ifth Class Freight—lßc for 50
miles; 23c for 100 miles; 28c for 150
32c for 200 miles; 35c for 250 milei;
38c for 300 miles; 40c for 350 miles
Sixth Class Freight—l3c for 50
miles; 18c for 100 miles; 23e for 150
miles; 27c for 200 miles; 30c for 250
miles; 33c for 300 miles; 35c for 350
miles
Class C—Flour—loc for 50 miles;
15c for 100 miles; 20c for 150 miles;
23c for 200 miles; 25c for 250 miles;
26c for 300 miles; 28c for 350 miles
Class D—Grain, hay, etc. —9c for
50 miles; 14c for 100 miles; 18c for
150 miles; 20c for 200 miles; 22c for
250 miles; 23c for 300 miles; 24c for
350 miles.
Class J—Cotton—2oc for 50 miles;
25c for 100 miles; 30c for 150 miles;
35c for 200 miles; 40c for 250 miles;
43c for 300 miles; 45c for 350 miles
Class K—Fertilizers—6e for 50
miles; 8e for 100 miles; 10c for 150
miles; 12c for 200 miles; 13c for 250
miles; 15c for 300 miles; 16c for 350
miles.
CARLOADS.
Class L—Coal, coke, ice, etc., per
ton —90c for 50 miles; $1.20 for 100
miles; $1 50 for 150 miles, and thence
19c per mile on all distances.
Class M—lron, per ton —$1.20 for
30 miles; $1.70 for 100 miles; $2 20
for 150 miles; $2 40 for 200 miles;
$2 50 for 250 miles; $2 60 for 300
miles; $2.70 for 350 miles.
Class N—Live stock, per carload—
s2o for 50 miles; S3O for 100 miles;
S4O for 150 miles; $45 for 209 miles;
SSO for 250 miles; $55 for 300 miles;
S6O for 350 miles.
Class O—Salt, lime, cement, etc ,
per carload—sl3 for 50 miles; sl7
for 100 miles; S2O for 150 miles; $22
for 200 miles; $24 for 250 miles; $26
for 300 miles; $27 for 350 miles
Class P—Ores, sand, clay, rough
stone, brick, etc., per carload—slo
for 50 miles; sl4 for 100 miles; sl7
for 150 miles; S2O for 200 miles; $22
for 250 miles; $24 for 300 miles; $25
for 350 miles.
It will be seen that under the reg
ulations, which the commissioners
have power to enforce, the passenger
rates have been reduced 1 cent per
mile upon all disrances. We are un
able, on account of the great length
of the freight tariff, to publish it in
full, but give a synopsis of its main
features?
6 Regulations Concerning Rates.
The rates prescribed by the commis
sion are maximum rates, which shall
not be transcended by the railroads
They may carry, however, at less
than the prescribed rates, provided
that if they carry for less for one
person they shall for tho like service
carry for the same lessened rate for
all persons; and if they adopt less
rati s from one station, they shall
make a reduction of the same per
cent at all stations, so as to make no
unjust discrimination as against any
person or locality.
7. For distances under 20 or over
250 miles, a reduction may be made
without making a change of rates at a'l
stations short of 250 miles; provided,
however, that when any railroad
shall make a reduction on rates for
distances ov<r 250 miles, the same
shall apply to similar distances on
nil the roads controlled by the same
company, and in no case shall more
be charged for a lees than for a great
er distance.
8 When any reduction of rates is
made, immediate notice of the same
shall be given to the railroad com
mission; and the reduced rates shall
also be posted, conspicuously, near
the “freight tariff.”
Note I.—Rates specified for ores,
sand, clay, rough stone, common
brick, rough lumber, straw, shucks,
turpentine, rosin, tar and household
good?, are maximum, but the rail
roads arc left free, without violation
of any rule, to make lesser rates by
special contract. This provision
shall apply also to articles manufac
tured on or near the Hue of road,
and for material used in such manu
facture.
9. There shall be no secret reduc
tion of rates; nor shall any bonus be
given or any rebate paid to any per
son, but the rates shall be uniform
to all, and public
10. The rates charged by express
companies may be double that for
similar service by ordinary freight
trans. Both railroad and expre s
companies may charge 25 cents as a
minimum rate, notwithstanding the
rate by the table may be less than
that sum.
11. No railroad company shall, by
reason of any contract with any ex
press company, or other company,
decline or refuse to act as common
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 19, 1880.
carrier, to transport any article prop
er for transportation by the train for
which it is offered.
There has been great complaint
against some of the railroads of the
state on account of an unjust dis
crimination between different depots.
There has come up from southern
Gorgia a perfect clamor against the
Central railroad for what the people
along the line claim is intentional
discrimination against certain towns,
and depots. What justice there was
in these complaints we are not pre
pared to say, but there was evidently
something wrong. Under the regu
lations now adopted, there will be no
further ground of complaint, at least
to the legislature, as a tribunal au
thorized to fully investigate and ap
ply the remedy has been legally es
tablished. The country at large feels
more interest in the general reduc
tion of freights. Not having the
schedule of the former charges, we are
unable to say exactly what the reduc
tion will asaount to, yet we see it
stated, and coming from gentlemen
well posted, that the general reduc
tion will be from ten to twenty per
cent.
This Is Leap Year—Why I
When the number of the year is
divisible by four it is Leap Year,
and such is the ease with 1880.
“ Leap Year,’’ we have been told,
“is anodifyear;” but it hasjustbeen
shown that it is aftogethei even.
Why r is it odd ? we may ask, and the
reply comes, “It is the year when
the boys are girls and the girls are
boys, and everything is turned
around.’’ Olyes, we begin to see I
They have “ leap year parties,” and
“leap year rides,’’and “leap year
this and that,” and the girls do the in
viting, and driving, and managing,
and many of the “company” things
which the boys claim for their own
on other and ordinary years. It is
said that such matters are sometimes
even carried so far that the young la
dy proposes to the young gentleman
of her choice, and he has the privi
lege of accepting or refusing as he
sees fit. Well! we will admit it is
an odd year, though it is even all the
same. But why do we have leap
years ? There must be some good
reason for adding one day to every
fourth year as it comes around to us.
What is it? The earth moves around
the sun once a year, as you all have
learned from your geograph . The
time required for the earth to pass
around and return to the place from
which it started is called a solar or
sun year—the year made by the
heavenly bodies. In olden times, men
did not know that the earth revolved
around the sun. If there was any
moving it was done by the sun they
thought; and it did seem to move.
To this day we all say the sunrises
and sets. Knowing so little about
tne revolution of the earth, it was
very hard for men to arrange the di
visions of time so that they would
correspond with the solar year. The
civil year is the one made by man,
and, like many human things, it was
at first very imperfect—that is, the
civil year and solar year did not cor
respond very closely. In the time of
Julius Ctcsar, the two kinds of years
had got so out of place that the
spring of the civil year came in mid
summer. To use an illustration, we
will have two cog wheels that work
into each other. If both wheels are
in all respects alike, the same places
will always come together at each
revolution; but suppose one wheel is
a trifle smaller than the other, the
wheel representing the civil year
smaller than the one of the solar
year, then any points once together
will keep getting farther apart
This was just the trouble between
man’s year and the natural year.
Ciesar rearranged the civil year in
46 Before Christ, and introduced the
system cf having three years of 365
days and then one of 366—the ad
ditional day being given to Feb
ruary. The solar year is 365 days, 5
hours, 48 minutes and 49| seconds,
so that Ciesar’s year of 365| days,
averaging the four, is about 11 min
utes too long. The point is to get
these two years; the year of the
heavens which we can not alter, and
the year of the almanacs to agree
Matters went on as they had been
started by Julius Caesar, with a loss
of 11 minutes a year until 1582, over
sixteen hundred years, when it be
came evident that the little yearly
loss was too great and must be rem
edied. How could this be done was
the quest.on. At this time a Pope
took the matter up—it was a time
when Popes had great temporal pow
er —and decreed that the fifth of
October be called the 15th, and all
the interi ening days to be cancelled.
This only set matters right for the
time being; but the same Pope,
Gregory XIII, made it a rule that
the century years not divisible by
eight ba not leap years. Thus 1700,
1800, and 1900 are not leap years,
according to the new rule. This
omits three leap years in every 400
years. With this arrangement the
civil and solar years almost coincide,
the solar, exceeding by only 22J se
conds, or a day in about 4,000 years
—a matter, too small to need atten
tion. Those who have followed us
through, and we fear it has been
rather dry for the younger readers,
will see that it has been quite a hard
matter to bring things around
straight. Thejeap year comes from
the fact that there is a fraction of a
day in the solar year which it would
not be convenient to have in the ci
vil, so we put enough of the fractions
together to make a dhy and have the
extra one on the leap year, or every
fourth year.
Our Inward Selves.
This extract from one of Lydia
Maria Childs’ beautiful and admired
‘ Letters from New York,” written in
1841, nearly forty years ago, pre
sents a fact and a question which
may be as profitably pondered to-day
as then. There are a great many
such cases as this one which Mrs.
Childs relates of her friend; and
there must be, behind them all, a
great law—nn important irutb, close-
ly concerned, it may be, with the
greatest of all human interests, and
which our accepted religious sys
terns have failed to discern. Here
is the quotation from Mrs. Childs: '
I am reminded of a singular cir
cumstance which happened to a
friend of mine. I had it from her
own lips. She was taken suddenly
ill one day and swooned. To all ap
pearance she was entirely lifeless; in
somuch that her friends feared she
was really dead. A physician was
sent for and a variety of experiments
were tried, before there were any
symptons of returning animation.
She herself was merely aware of n
dizzy and peculiar sensation, and
then she found herself standing by
her own lifeless body watching all
their efforts to resuscitate. It seemed
to her strange, and she was too con
fused to know whether she were in
the body, or out of it. In the mean
time her anxious friends could not
make the slightest impression on the
rigid form, either by sight, hearing,
touch, taste or smell; it was to all
appearance dead. The five outward
gates of entrance to the soul were
shut and barred. Yet when the body
revived she told of everything that
had been done in the room, every
word that had been said, and very
expression of their count/ nances.
The soul had stood by all the while
and observed what was done to the
body.
How did it see when the eyes were
closed like a corpse? Answer that,
before yon disbelieve a thing because
you cannot understand it. Could I
comprehend how the simplest violet
came into existence, I too would
urge that plea. It were as wise for
a child of four years old to deny that
the planets mote around the sun, be
cause its infant mind cannot receive
the explanation, as for you and me
to ridicule the arcana of the soul’s
connection with the body, because
we cannot comprehend them in this
imperfect state of existence Being
so ignorant, we should be more hum
ble and reverential This frame of
mind bad no affinity whatever with
the greedy superstition that is eager
to believe everything merely because
it is wonderful
I is deemed incredible that people
in magnet’c skep can describe ob
jects at a distance and scenes which
they never looked upon while wak
ing; yet nobody doubts the common
form of somnambulism called sleep
walking. You may sinae the eye
lashes of a sleep-walker with a can
dle, and he will perceive neither you
or the light. His eyes have no ex
pression; they are like those of a
corpse. Yet he will walk out in the
dense darkness, avoiding chairs, ta
bles and all other obstructions; ha
will tread the ridge-pole of a roof
far more securely tha ho could in a
natural state at mid-day; he will
harness horses, pack wood, make 1
shoes, etc, all in the darkness of
midnight. Can you tell me with
what eyes he sees to do these things?
and what light directs him? If you
cannot be humble enough to ac
knowledge that God governs the
universe by many laws incomprehen
sible to you; and be wise enough to
conclude that these pbenomenas are
not deviations from the divine order
of things, but occasional manifesta
tions of principles always at work
in the great scale of being, made visi
ble at times, by causes as yet unre
vealed.
The Tributes of Great Men to
Mothers.
Know you what especially impels
me to industry ? My mother. I
shall endeavor to sweeten a part of
her life, that otherwise has been so
unfortunate, and lessen by my help
and sympathy the great sorrows sher
has suffered. To her alone I owe the
foundation of my mind and heart.—
[Jean Paul Richter.
.George Herbert said: One good
mother is worth a hundred school
masters. In the home she is load
stone to all hearts, and loadstar to
all eyes.
De Maistre, in his writing, speaks
of his mother with immense love and
reverence. He described her as his
“sublime mother,’’ “an angel, to
whom God had lent a body for a
brief season.” To her he attributed
the bent of his character, and her
precepts were the ruling influence of
his life.
One charming feature in the char
acter of Samuel Johnson (notwith
etand his rough exterior) was the
tenderness with which he invariably
spoke of his mother, who implanted
in his mind his first impressions of
religion. In the time of his greatest
difficulties he contributed out cf his
slender means to her comfort.
Cromwell’s mother was a woman
of spirit and energy, equal to her
mildness and patience; whose pride
was honesty, and whose passion w r as
love, and whose only care, amidst all
her splendor, was for the safety of
tier son in his dangerous eminence.
Curran speaks with great affection
of his mother, to whose counsel, pie
ty and ambition be attributed his
success in life. He used to say, “if
I possess anything more valuable
than face, or person, or wealth, it is
that a dear parent gave her child
a portion from the treasure of her
mind.’’
It was Ary .Scheffer’s mother whose
beautiful features the painter so
loved to reproduce in his pictures,
that by great self-denial provided
him with the means of pursuing the
study of art.
Michelet writes: “I lost my mother
thirty years ago, nevertheless she
follows mo from age to age. She
suffered with me in my poverty and
was not allowed to share my better
fortune.
Napoleon Bonaparte was accus
! tomed ta say that “the future good
. or bad conduct of the child depended
t entirely on the mother.” Nobody had
r any command over him except his
r mother, who found means, by a mix
ture of tenderness, severity and jus
l tice, to make him love, respect and
L obey her.
Goethe owed the bias of his mind
and character to his mother, who
possessed in a high degree the art of
stimulating young and active minds.
“She was worthy of life 1” ones said
Goethe, and when hs visited Frank
fort he sought out every individual
who had bean kind to her, and
thanked them all.
John Randolph said: “I should
have been an atheist if it had not
been for one recollection, and that
was the memory of the time when
my mother used to take my little
hand in hers, and cause me on my
knees to say, ’Our Father who art in
Heaven.’ ”
Religion Always Beautiful.
Religion is always beautiful. It is
beautiful in the young—in the chfld,
the youth choosing the good part,
sitting at the Master’s feet, taking
the vows of the Christian profession,
walking in the ordinances and com
mandments of the Lord, patterning
after Jesus in heart and life. An
gels must look upon such beauty
with delighted admiration, and
swell the song of joy in the presence
of God. But this is the beauty of
the blade, the blossoming tree, and
not the full corn on the grandly
proportioned boughs bending with
golden fruit. They will reach this
higher beauty if they go on to matu
rity. If they do. And does not
this doubt detract from the bright
vision? Is every blossom, every
incipient fruit set, a prophecy to be
fulfilled ? As time passes on look at
the plants and trees; how many have
failed or fallen off! Wetrust it will
not be so with any of the dear young
disciples of Christ whom our words
may reach: but rather, that every
one may go on to perfection; and be
not discouraged if you have not
the gifts and graces, experiences and
attainments of those long in service.
The blade shows the work of grace
begun; the ear shows it progressing;
and by growth in grace and knowl
edge your fidelity shall at length be
crowned with the golden beauty of
the full corn. Early piety is like s
tree in bloom. We love it: we hope
much from it. Matured religion is
like the rich, yellow fruit in perfec
tion. It is also like a splendid tem
ple for Chrictian service. How firm
its foundation; how ample its pro
portions; how rich its adoruings;
how heavenward its aspirations! Il
seems vital with worship, vocal with
praise, spiritual in its I eauty, and fit
to be taken up and sit down amid the
architectural magnificence of the
New Jerusalem.—
The Best of All Schools.
The fireside is a seminary of infi
nite importance because it is univer
sal, and because the education it be
stows, being woven in with the woof
ot childhood, gives form and color
to the whole texture of life. There
are few who can receive the honors
of a college, but all are graduates ot
the hearth. The learning of the
university may fade from the recol
lection, its classic lore may moulder
in the halls cf memory, but the sim
ple lessons of home, enameled upon
the heart of childhood, defy the
rust of years, and out live the more
mature but less vivid pictures of
after years.
So deep, so lasting, indeed, are
the impressions of early life, that
sou often see a man in the imbecili
ty of age hold fresh in his recollec
tion the events of childhood, while
all the wide space between that and
the present hour is a blasted and
forgotten waste. You have, per
chance, seen an old obliterated por
trait, and in the attempt to have it
cleaned and restored, you may have
seen it fade away, while a brighter
and more perfect picture painted be
neath is revealed to view. This por
troit, first drawn upon the canvass,
is no faint illustration of youth; and
though it may be concealed by some
after design, still the original traits
will shine through ttie outward pic
ture, giving its tone while fresh and
surviving it in decay. Such is the
fireside —the great institution of
Providence for the education of man,
A Safer Plan.
A gentleman who’s face had a look
anything but pleasant yesterday pur
chased a postal card at the postoffice,
and took up a pen and wrote for
about two minutes with a determined
hand. Then, as he blotted the card,
lie asked the stamp clerk:
“Is it against postal rules to call a
man a liar on a postal card ?”
The clerk thought it was, and
the man tore up the card, bought an
other, and after writing a few lines
inquired:
“It can’t be against the rules to
call him a villain, can it ?’’
The clerk again decided it was,
and a third card was purchased.
This time the man pondered over his
lines, signed his name and said:
“I have written here that he ought
to be in jail for hie conduct. Is that
against the postal rules?’’
The clerk said he wouldn't dare
run the risk himself and the indig
nant citizen tore the card into a do
zer pieces and exclaimed:
“Go to Halifax with your old post
office 1 I won’t send any card at all,
but I’ll waylay the fellow and knock
the top of his bead off I’’
A bill has been reported in the
Senate from the Committee on Ter
ritories, for the organization of a ter
rit »rial government of Alaska. The
bill provides that the male Indians
over twenty-one years of age who
speak the English language intel
ligently and adopt civilized habits
shall be qualified to vote, if they have
resided in the Territory six months
prior to an election,
Speaker Randall lives in an un
fashionable quarter of Washington,
on the hill, two squares from the
capitol, occuyying a house that would
not rent for more than S3O a month.
Mr. Randall is a tee*otaler, and at
his receptions his friends have to put
up with cold water and temperance
drinks.
SMALL BITS
Os Various Kinds Carelessly Thrown
Together.
The Ohio Republican Sta‘e Com
mittee is divided in its allegiance as
between Blaine and Sherman.
A circui never runs too long for
spectators, but let a sermon rnn over
forty minutes and a congregation
can’t sit still.
The Boston Post has discovered a
humane butcher, who whistles “P.n
afore” airs to the animals and makes
them want to be killed.
When a politician pnts himself in
the hands of his friends, he should
make no insulting inquires as to
whether their hands are clean.
•
An exchange says the young lady
who can peel a potato in five seconds
is as useful as the young woman who
speaks five languages is ornamental
The Chinese Government has de
termined to establish consulates in
Boston, Philadelphia, and New York,
for the better protection of its sub
jects.
Sitting Bull merely intimates, as
an Indian opinion, that there are
some people connected with the Uni
ted States government who are ad
dicted to lying.
David Burns is the oldest living
boatman on the Kentucky river, hav
ing been born in 1791. He has
walked from New Orleans to Frank
fort, 1.500 miles, six times.
Ex-Senator Clingman, of North
Carolina, has it is said, found upon
his farm the mineral zircon in great
quantities. It is opaque,-of greenish
hue and of great hardness.
The New Orleans Picayune learns
that the youngest twins of the Hood
orphans have been taken by a gentle
man and his wife residing in New
York, who have adopted them.
The reason why the ancients took
the owl for an emblem of wisdom
was because he saved his talk and
filled bis stomach. Remember this
when you are invited to a banquet.
The Cincinnati Enquirer, discussing
the political situation of Samu 1 J.
Tilden, says: “It is probably in his
power to give the next presidency to
the democratic part-, but it is not in
his power to give it to him?e’f ”
A Columbus gentleman had a tele
phene connection made between his
house and the Presbyterian church
of that city last Sunday, a d his wife,
at home, was able to hear every word
of the sermon preached on that occa
sion.
The Indianapolis Sentinel waggish
ly pretends that William H. Vander
bilt, in an address before an agricul
tural club, lately, advised the farmers,
if they would become suddenly rich
and own $31,590,000 in i per cents.,
to water their stock regularly.
There will shortly be presented to
the Royal College of Surgeons in
London a rare collection of skulls
and skeletons gathered during the
last forty years by Dr. Bernard Davis
of Staffordshire; it comprises all the
varieties of the human species found
on earth.
Bishop Simpson says that the four
great powers of the earth are the
United States, Great Britain, Ger
many and Russia, for the reason that
Jesus Christ is recognized as an au
thority in their jurisprudence, their
legislation, their education and their
social and domestic organization.
It is reported that T. P. Osborne,
of New Haven, Conn., a member < f
the junior class of Yale college, has
invented and patent'd a machine for
bolting flour by the application of
frictional electricity. It is said fur
ther that he has already been offered
fifty thousand dollars for his patent.
Professor Benjamin Pierce, the em
inent astronomer of Harvard Uni
versity, writes to state his conviction
that the comet lately seen by Pro
fessor Gould at Cordoba Observato
ry, South America, is the great comet
of 1843, in some respects the most
interesting and wonderful of anv of
the orbits which are known. This
comet is supposed to have an average
period of thirty-seven years. Its
first appearance is noted in the
chronicles of the Chinese astrono
mers 1770 years before Christ. Its
last appearance was in 1843. when its
splendor and long-continued visibility
made it very noticeable. Amongst
its recorded returns those of 1702,
IG6B, 1511 and 1491 are recollected.
Strange stories come from India
of the feats performed by a native
mesmerizer nam' d Buui, ma ;-
metic pewer would appear to be
found quite irresistiole by the lower
animals, upon which he exclusively
exerts it. He gives seances, to which
the public are invited to bring ail
manner of ferocious and untamable
wild beasts, and holds them wiuh his
glittering eye. In a few seconds
they subside into a condition of cat
aleptic stiffness, from which they can
only be revived by certain passes
which he solemnly executes with his
right hand. A snake io a state of
violent irritation was brought to
Buni by a menagerie proprietor, en
closed in a wooden cage. When de
posited on the platform it was writh
ing and hissing fiercely. Buni bent
over the cage and fixed his eye upon
its occupant, gently waving his hand
over the serpent’s restless head. In
less than a minute the snake stretched
itself out, stiffened, and lay appar
ently dead. Buni took it up and
thrust several needles into its body,
but it gave no signs of life. A few
passes then restored it to its former
angry activity. Subsequently a sav
age dog, held in leash by its owner,
was brought in, and, at Buni’s com
mand, let loose upon him. As it was
rushing toward him, bristling with
fury, be raised his hand, and in a
second the firce brute dropped upon
its belly as though stricken by light
ning. It seemed absolutely para
lyzed by some unknown agency, and
was unable to move a muscle until
released from the mesmerizer’s spell
by a majestic wave of his hand.
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BANKERS, BROKERS
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MILLINERY GOOD.- !
Mrs. 11. IN. Ware
Begs leave to inform her friend* aid
public generally tha’t she has opened < r
store in her dwelling house on Main stre
next door to the college, on the right ha id
as you go from the square. She hopes to
receive a liberal patronage, and to merit tue
same by a desi e to please and the low’ prices
at which she will sell goods. Look for t u
fancy hat as a sign, lad house as you go
down Main street to the college.
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MRS. VARNER.
FASHIONABLE DRESSMAKUI
Room in rear 01 L. H Johnson’s store
DRESSES MADE, CUT AM) iRIMMs'.D
in any style desired.
Washed Dresses and Children’s Clothing
at your own prices !
Also
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La!latte’s Select School,
Male and Female,
Rev. C B LaHatie, President,
Spring Term Opens January 19, 1880;
Closes July 2—Six Months.
A FULL CORPS OF COMPETENT
TEACHERS HAS BEEN
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EVERY DEPARTMENT.
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Northeastern It ail road.
Cliange of Sclieclule.
Superintendent’s Office, i
Athens, Ga., Oct. 11, 1879.1
On and alter Monday, Octob'r 6, 1879, trains on
the Northeastern Railroad will run as follow-. All
trains daily except Sunday:
Leave Athens 3 50 p m
Arrive at Lula . .. 6 20
Arrive at Atlanta, via Air-Line K. R ...10 30 “
Leave Atlanta, via Air-Line R. R...... 330 ••
Leave I ula 746 **
Arrive at Athens 10 00 "
The above trains also connect closely at Lula v- i;h
northern bound trains ol A. L R. R. On Wednes.
day - and Ssturda b the fallowing additional trains
will be run:
Leave Athena 6 <5 t m
Arrive at Lula 845 *•
Leave Lula 920 “
Arrive at Athens US' ••
This train connects cloeely at Lula for Atla ta,
making the trip to At ant» only four hours and
forty-five minutes. J. 1. ED WARDS, Sup
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
On and after December 20th double daily trims
will run on this road as follows:
MORNING TRAIN.
Leave Atlanta.. 4 00 am
Arrive Charlotte " j 0 p m
•• Air-Line Junction.. 330 *•
“ Danville 951 “ f
Lynchburg 1- 37 ai’t
“ Washington 750.. m
Baltimore 930 "
•• Philadelphia 130 and 1 4,5 p m
“ New York 345 and 445 “
•« Wilmington, N. C. (nrxt day) 9 s<> a m
•• Richmond 743 “
EVENING TRAIN.
Leave Atlanta ? m
Arrive Charlotte . • • 3 2” a m
•• Air-Line Junction 330
•• Danville....— ••• 10 22 “
•• Lynchburg 153 pm
“ Rchmond..... 443 “
“ Wa hington 955 ••
“ Baltimore H 55 **
“ Philadelphia 3 35am
«« New York 645 •*
GOING EAST,
Night Mail and Passenger train.
Arrive Gainesville 5:50 p in
Leave *• .... 5:51 *•
Day Passenger train
Arrive “ ........................... 6:l3am
Leave “ •••• ................ 6:15 M
Local Freight and Accommodation train.
Arrive Gainesville 11:10am
Leive “ 11:25 ”
GOING WEST.
Night Mail and Passenger train.
Arrive Gainesville 9:20 a m
Leave “ • 9:21 "
Day Passsnger train.
Arrive “ . B;lsp.m
Local Freight and Accommodation uaiu.
Arrive Gainesville —.............. 1:45 a m
Leave •* 2:00 “
Close connection at Atlanta for all points West,
and at Charlotte for all points East.
G. J. FOREAORE, G. M.
W. J. HOUSTON, Gen. Pas. and Tkt Agt.
p altentsT
F. A. Lehmann, Solicitor of American
and Foreign Patents, Wa-hington, D. C.
All business connected with Patents, whether
before the Patent Office or the Courts,
promptly attended to. No charge mad»
unless a patent is secured. Send tor circu
lar. (nov22 ts