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Ilie Gainesville Eagle. Published Every Ftiday Morning. BY J . E. 11 EL>WI TV K • Rates of Subscription : One copy one year - ~ One copy six months 1 " ’ One copy three months oU 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.’’ - ♦ 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. A-dvortiwins Rates. L©"*l advertisement* charged seventy-five oenta per hundred words or fraction thereof each inser tion for the first four insertions, and thirty-five cents for each subsequent insertion. Transient advertising will be charged 81 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 l.beral 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 fr m unknown parties must be paid for in advance. NO. 12 BROWN BRO’S BANKERS, BROKERS ANO COLLECTION 4GEI S GAINESVILLE, GA References —Hanover National Bank, N. Y., Moore, Jenkins & Co. N. Y., G. A Williams A Co., Charleston. S. o..—m OF TFT An ANT A P.ANKS 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. nov7ly 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 G-KUNT’SS *HIRT- MADE IN THE BEST STYLE. Gcod Shirts, material included, for $1 and upwards. jan2 2m 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 ENGAGED. SATISFACTION IS GUARANTEED IN EVERY DEPARTMENT. For full particulars as to board and tuition apply to the president. (jan2 Im Agents Wanted 850 Pages, HFW WITH 16 Full-Page QCQLSfiIIQ Engr axzinsH, for only $2.50. 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 uneqnaled; Outfit SI.OO. Send at once for this and begin the canvass, or address for circular, H. S. GOODSPEED 4 CO., feb2o 4t New Yc»k or Cincinnati. IT. W. J. HAM, Attorney at Law, GAINESVILLE, HA. Office in Henderson <£• Candler Building, East Side Public Square F. NEWMAN, Physician and Surgeon, LF’lO'wrei'y Branoli, Ga. Office, first door above Barrett’s store. Will attend calls at a distance from relia ble parties. (febl3 6m 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