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BY J. E. REOWIINE.
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EDITORIAL. EAGLETS.
Emperor William, of Germany, is
83 years old.
Louisiana is said to be solid for
’’Gen. Hancock for president.
It is said only a few locomotives
can make fifty miles an hour.
The workingmen of San Francisco
have acted wisely in repudiating
Dennis Kearney.
Two presidential “dark horses,’’
David Davis and Hugh J. Jewett,
** are Maryland men by birth.
The southern excursionists to Cin
cinnati were royally entertained. The
festival is said to have been the
grandest on record.
Ex-Senator Christiancy’s marriage
with a young treasury girl a few
years since is not turning out happi
ly. She wants a divorce.
Ex-Gov. Palmer, of Illinois, said
speech a few days ago that state
sovereignty was the great bulwark
of safety in this country.
Vanderbilts restoration of 10 per
1 cent, to the salaries of the employes
on his several railroads adds $500,-
000 to the annual expenses of these
lines.
Some of our northern exchanges
are begjnning to fear that the price
'of liberating the southern slaves may
be the enslavement of their own
people.
The Central Georgia Weekly pro
poses to harmonize on associate Jus
tice Field, of California, for president,
and Senator David Davis, of Illinois,
for vice-president.
Mr. Edison has a rival it is stated
in the person of Mr. W. E. Sawyer,
x of New York City, who is exhibiting
nn electric light, using lamps a little
different from those of Edison.
The statement that if Gen. Grant
is nominatad at Chicago, his repub
lican opponents or at least a portion
of them will hold a convention
and nominate another candidate,
should be received with caution.
The floodgates of scandal seem to
have been turned loosed in Wash
ington, which city is either most ter
ribly belied, or is one of the vilest
sinks of iniquity, of official, political
end social corruption, in the civilized
world.
•> ♦
Senator Hill’s two days speech,
favoring the confii mation of Sim
mons as census cupervisor for the
frst Georgia district, was rather
barren of reeults, as the nomina
tion was rejected by a vote of 10
to 29.
—OB>
Connecticut proposes to give the
women a voice on the liquor ques
tion—the lower house of the legisla
ture having passed a bill allowing
women to vote under the same re
strictions as men, upon all questions
involving the liquor traffic.
Judge Field is the son of Rev. Da
vid Dudley Field, of Stockbridge,
Mass., and is brother to David Dud
ley Field, the eminent lawyer, to
Cyrus W. Field, of trans-Atlantic
cable fame, and to Rev. Henry M.
Field, D. D,, publisher of the New
York Evangelist— all three of New
York.
Since the decision of the Supreme
court in the Cox and Hill cases, it
_ has been demonstrated that of the
journalists in Georgia, there are
scores of modern Blackstoges. It
must be amusing to the learned
Judges of that court to read the es
fusions of s >me of the writers as to
what should or should not have been
done in those cases.
The Bridgeport Farmer thinks that
“in the event of the nomination of
either Grant or Blaine there will be
a strong pressure by independent
republicans upon the Cincinnati con
, vention for the nomination of Senator
Bayard. If Grant is the nominee,
there will also be a strong pressure
from the south for the nomination of
General Hancock.’’
The Washington Post believes, as
many other people do, that the re
publican party will not yield power,
if it can be helped. We are confi
dently told, however, that “the man
who is lawfully elected next Novem
ber will be duly inaugurated next
"March. And any man or set of men
who undertake forcible resistance
will be eliminated from the trouble
some scenes of this mortal sphere.”
-> .
The Supreme court of Indiana, in
a recent decision, declares that the
legal name of a person consists of one
Christian name and a surname. Any
one may haveasmamy middle names
or initials as are given to him or as
he chooses to take. They do not af
fect his legal name and may be in
serted or not in a deed or contract
without affecting its validity. Nor
does a mistake in the middle ini
tial.
The Gainesville Eagle
VOL. XIV.
OFF CAPE HATTEBAS IN A STORM.
[The following touching lines were
written by Dr. M. F. Stephenson in
1838, while on a ship off Cape Hat
teras, during a storm, when all on
board were looking to be wrecked:]
With deep and doleful sound.
Midnight strikes upon my ear;
Darkness shrouds all nature round,
And entombs the dying year.
Thus will man, with all his power,
His wealth, his love, his pride,
R-ach his tomb; the awful hour
Will come, with death, his bride.
How many pine on beds es death
In every country, every clime;
Vet always with their dying breath
They pray for help Divine.
Why not turn at once to God,
While reason holds his sway,
And kiss his chastening rod
Before we’re called away?
Lord, in mercy give us grace
To see our need of Thee;
Forgive the sins of all our race,
And save us in Eternity.
M. F. Stephenson.
Washington Correspondence.
[Special Correspondence of the Eagle, j
Washington, D.C., March 18,1880.
We shall have music whenever a
political subject comes up for dis*
cuseion in the House or Senate, or
any subject which can be tortured
into one. Even that old neat of rad
ical corruption, the Government
Printing office, managed by a run
down political hack who confesses
his inability to give its affairs per
sonal attention, is defended by rad
icals when attacked by Democrats,
and the bloody shirt elevated over
it by men as able as Hawley and
Garfield. The same shirt is eleva
ted over the election of Marshals—
special Deputy Marshals. It seems
that republicans continue to believe
victory will follow that emblem
wherever it appears. Senator Blaine
is credited with an intention of en
larging upon a new subject, and giv- |
ing only slight attention to the shirt.;
But he seems to be alone.
I mentioned the special Deputies
above. They will not be paid by
any act of this congress. It is held
that although they may be constitu
tional officers under the recent Su
preme Court decision—that is, that
there is power to appoint them—yet
that congress may or may nc t appropri
ate money for their payment, thus in
dicating its opinion that it is improper
or inexpedient to appoint them at this
time. The democratic idea is, in short
that there may possibly, at some
time be a necessity for the exercise
of the oppointing power in thia re
spect, but that there is not, and has
not lately been such necessity or
even propriety in doing so, and, there
fore, no appropriation will be made.
This only applies to special Deputy
Marshals, there being a willingness
to provide for the Marshals and
their Deputies.
Speculation as to tho prospective
radical candidate for the Presidency
is an amusement much indulged in
by the Solons here while laboriously
neglecting the public business.
There is now going on among rad
ical politicians what seems to be a
general change of heart. There are
dozens of them who, a month ago,
shook their heads at the idea of a
“third term,” and who are now as
good Grant men as any. We may
as well understand at once that the
man we have to fight is Grant, and
wo must nominate that man who can
rally the most votes against him.
Rex.
Temperance and Temperance
Orders.
Editor Eagle—We wish to say a
few things, and only a few, in con
nection with the very valuable arti
cles of Bro. M. P. C.
It is the deep interest in the tem
perance reform which impels us to
write.
The writer has taken some pains
to investigate toe subject in its va
rious phases. He has had some op
portunities of study in its physiolog
ical as well as moral efft-c's, and he
would beg of those who are di posed
to think lightly of these things to
open their eyes and look round, and
for one time in their with an
unprejudiced mind, and with an eye
to the future welfare of their coun
try, their families and themselves, to
seriously, soberly and carefully con
sider.
It is with profound gratitude that
we witness the onward motion of
the grand temperance wave, which
is deepening and widening through
out our whole country, and driving
before it the lake of liquid fire, which
only a few years ago threatened the
destruction of our nation.
The great fountains of this poison
ous stream, as well as the smaller
ones, are now being broken up, and
instead of confusion, riot and blood
shed, we now have peace, order and
prosperity. This is especially noted
in some of our smaller towns, where
these little fountains of damnation
have been dried up. Scientific men
are speaking out more decidedly and
boldly than ever before. The churches
are waking up to their fearful re
sponsibility.
We are glad that Bro. C. has
brought before your readers the
Drew, Washingtonian and other
movements. He cannot say too
much in commendation of the grand
men who are leading in these move
ments or of their work. They are
a power which is felt throughout the
whole land; bat these ’ movements
are more transient than we would
like for them to be, and their opera
tions have been principally in the
cities. So we need other institutions
to aid in the advancement of our no
ble cause. This we have in our secret
orders—secret whiah means only
private—secret only to protect from
intruders. We can’t think that Bro.
C. undervalues these orders, for he
has been known as an active worker
in some of them. These orders are
thoroughly organized. They give
permanency to the cause. They af
ford opportunity for combined and.
corcentrated effort. Their only ob
ject is the elevation of mankind and
to save our people from the ruinous
consequences of intemperance. Thou
sands of men have been saved who
would have been utterly lost had
they not been brought into these
orders, where they conld be watched
over, supported and comforted. We
will say nothing of the influence over
the young. We could say much in
behalf of these orders, but will for
bear. We know that they have done,
and are still doing, great good.
There are some who object to all
secret, orders. We have no quarrel
with them, but must confess that wo
are too dull to see the point in their
argument. There are others who
object on acconnt-of the dues. Well,
we who are members can very well
afford to save five cents in each
month (which is all the dues we have
to pay) from some needless luxury.
Every institution must have officers,
and must have intelligent work and
some money. Yet, there are some
who will persist in talking about the
pitiable amount which our two or
three officers in the state receive as
wages for the which they are actually
at work, who, no doubt, were it not
for their duty to themselves and
their families, would fully and freely
give their whole time and talents to
the noble cause; in which they live
and labor.
May every friend of humanity
arise in his mighty power to drive
intemperance from our land and eave
our bodies from a premature grave
and our souls from everlasting pun
ishment. H. P. Q.
Gillsville, Ga.
The Legend of the Ivy.
It is an old legend—a German one
I think —and it runs in this wise:
Once upon a time there lived, be
side the Rhine, a beautiful young
lady. She had a lover who loved
her and whom she loved in re; urn,
but after he had woed her-—not one
year but three—he asked her to
marry him, and she, anxious to show
her power, merely answered “wait!”
“I have waited three years,” he
said, “but at your bidding I will
wait one more—just one more, I
will go away from you and return
when the year is over to ask your
hand.”
Then he went away and became a
soldier, and praise of his bravery fill
ed the land, but the lady waa piqued
by the thought that he had been able
to leave her for even a year, and
when he returned, she determined to
punish him, though all the while she
loved him well.
He knelt at her feet, and took her
hands in bis and said:
“Lady, I have come back so claim
you for my wife.”
But her answer was:
“Wait longer; a patient waiter is
not a loser.”
The soldier arose. He sighed, but
he said no word of remojistrance.
“I will wait for two ye; tre longer,”
he said, calmly. “If I c*o not lose,
all well.”
Then he left her again. She had
hoped that he would plead with her,
ard that she should be forced to
change her mind; but now he was
gone—gone for two loaig years
How she lived through tnem she
could not tell, but they passed, and
again her lover was before her,
“I have waited patiently,” was all
he said.
The lady yearned to east herself
into his arms, but pride was strong
within her.
“Wait longer,’’ she sftid
“No,” he answered. “This is the
last time. If I wait now I will wait
forever.’’
At this her blood boiled; her eyes
flashed, she arose and drew back
haughtily.
“Then wait forever,” she said, cold
ly-
Surely, she thought, he would sink
to her feet and beseech her forgive
ness, but he did no such thing. He
left her without a word. And now
her heart sunk in her bosom. She
wept bitter tears and repented in
dust and ashes. When a year had
gone by she could bear her woe no
longer, and she sent her little foot
page to her old lover, bidding him ,
bear this message:
“Come back to me.’’
“But the message the little foot*-
page brought back was just this:
“Wait.”
Again she was left to her sorrow,
and two years glided by; then once
more she bade her pago ride oyer the
mauntains to her lover s castle.
“Tell him I am waiting,” she said.
The page rode away and rode
back. He stood before his lady and <
doffed his cap, and repeated the mes- |
sage that had been given him:
“The patient waiter is not a loser.”
“He is punishing me,’ thought the
lady, and for two years longer she
remained in her castle. ]Jer htqprt
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 26, 1880.
was breaking. Her health failed.
She knew that death was near.
A longing .to see him seized her
soul. Again bhe sent her cruel lover
a message.
“Tell him,*” she said, “that Xam
near my end, and that if I wait long
er before I see him I shall wait for
ever.”
But nothing softened the heart her
own craelty had turned to stone.
The page returned and stood be
side his lady’s couch. His eyes were
full of tears, his head was bent upon
his breast; he sighed and hid his face
in bis plumed cap. The lady lifted
her wan face.
“Speak,” she said. “The message.”
“Alas!” sighed the page, “I would
it were a more tender one.’’
“Whatever it may be,speak,” gasp
ed the lady.
“The only massage that I have,”
replied the page, “is: ‘Wait forever!”
“I am well paid in my own coin,’’
said the lady. “At last I have re
ceived all my own answers back.” *
From that moment she faded fast.
In a little while she died, and they
buried her in the old church yard,,
with a stone at her head and a stone
at her feet.
When spring came there was gass
upon the grave, and there also was a
new plant strange to tho-e who
looked upon it; a plant with dark
glossy leaves, that crept slowly but
surely along, clutching fast to ev r ry
rough surface it met, There had
never been a plant like that on ea~th
before. Now we call ittheivy;but
this is what those who saw it for the
first time said of it:
“It is the lady whom her lover
bade to wait forever. In this from
she is creeping toward his castle
slowly but surely. So she will creep
on until she reaches the heart she
threw away.”
Generations have passed from earth.
The castle is a ruin, covered with ivy,
and the peasants will tell you that it
has crept therefrom the lady's grave,
point by point, over stone and rock,
through the grave yard and over
gates and fences. You can trace it,
if you choose, they say; but do you
not try it.
A Strange Dream Story
There is an explicable story—
which I believe has never been pub
lished —among the traditions of the
fertile hill country of western Penn
sylvania, the most unlikely quarter
in the world to serve as a breeding
place of mystery. It was settled
almost wholly by well-to-do farmers
from the north of Ireland, economi
cal, hard-working folk—God fearing
too, after the exact manner described
I y John Knox, and having little pa
tience with any other manner. Not
a likely people, assuredly, to give
credence to any fanciful supersti
tions, and still less to originate them.
This story indeed has a bold, mat
ter-of-fact character in every detail
which quite sets it apart from re
lations of the supernatural. I have
nover heard it explained, and it is,
the best authenticated mystery in my
knowledge.
Here it is in brief: Among the
Scotch-Irish settlers in Washington
county in 1812 was a family named
Pylmire, who occupied a comfortable
farm and house. Rachel, the daugh
ter, was engaged to a young farmer
of the neighborhood. On a Saturday
evening in July, having finished her
week’s work, she dressed herself tidi
ly ami started to visit her married
sister, who lived on a farm about live
miles distant, intending to return
Monday morning. Sho tied up her
Sunday gown and hat in a checkered
handkerchief, and carried her shoes
and stockings in the other hand,
meaning to walk in her bare feet and
to put them on. when she came in
sight of her destination, after the
canny Scotch fashion. She left home
about 7 o’clock in order to have the
cool evening for her walk. The road
to tho farm was lonely and unfre
quented. The girl did not return
home on Monday, but no alarm was
felt, as the family thought her sister
would probably wish to detain her
for a few days; and it was not until
tho latter part of the week that it
was found that she had never been
at her sisters. The country was
scoured, but in vain; the alarm
spread, and excited a degree of ter
ror in the peaceable, domestic com
munity, which would seem inexplica
ble to city people, to whom the
newspaper has brought a budget of
crime every morning since their child
hood. To children raised in those
lonely hamlets and hill farms murder
was a far off, unreal horror; usually
all that ihey knew of it was from
tho doings of Cain and Jael, set off
with hideous wood cuts in the family
Bible.
The girl had left home on Satur
day at 7 o’clock. That night long
before 10 o’clock (farmers go to bed
with the chickens,) a woman living
in Green county, about forty miles
from the Pylmire farm, awoke her
husband in great terror, declaring
that she had just seen a murder
done, and went on to describe a
place she had never seen before—a
hill country with a wagon road run
ning through it, and a girl with a
bundle lied in a checkered handker
chief, her shoes and white stockings
in the other hand, walking briskly
down the grassy side of the road.
She was met by a young man—
the woman judged from their man
ner the meeting was by appointment;
they eat down on the log and talked
for some time.
The man at last rose, stepped bo
btod her and drawing out a hatchet
struck her twice on tho head. She
fell backward on the wet, rotten
leaves dead. Presently the man was
joined by another, also young, who
asked: “Is it done?” He nodded,
and together they lifted the body
and carried it away out of her sight.
After a while they came back, found
the bundle of Sunday finery and the
shoes and stockings, all of which
were stained with blood. Theie was
a ruined old mill near the road; they
went into it, lifted a loose board in
the flooring, put the bundle, shoes,
etc., with the hatchet, underneath,
i and replaced the board. Then they
separated and went through the
woods in different directions. The
farmer’s wife told her dream to her
husband that night; the next day
(Sunday,) going to a little country
church she remained during the in
termission between the morning and
afternoon services. The neighbors
who had come from a circuit of twen
ty miles to church, gathered, accord
ing to their homely habit, in the
churchyard to eat their lunch and
exchange the news. Our dreamer
told her story again and again, for
sbe was impressed by it as if it had
been reality. After the afternoon
service the congregation
separated, going to their widely
acatten d homes. There were thus
many witnesses ready to certify to
the fact that the woman had told the
dream the morning after the murder
was committed at a distance of forty
miles, when it was absolutely impos
sible that the news should have
reached her. There were no tele
graphs, we must remember, and
no railways in those days, not even
mail-carriers in those secluded dis
tricts.
When the story of the girl’s dis
appearance was told over the country
at the end of the next week, the peo
ple to whom the dream had been
repeated recalled it. Nowadays the
matter would only serve as good ma
terial for the reporters, but the men
of those days still believed that God
took an oversight even of their
dreams. Might not this be a hint
from him ? The Rev. Charles Wheel
er, a Baptist clergyman of Washing
ton, well-known in western Pennsyl
sylvania and Virginia generation
ago, and Ephraim Blaine, Esq., a
magistrate, father of the present Sen
ator from Maine, and as popular a
man m his narrower circle, drove
over to see the woman who had told
the dream. Without stating their
purpose, they took her and her
husband, on pretence of business, to
the Plimire farm. It was the first
time in her life that she had left her
own country, and she was greatly
amused and interested. They drove
over the whole of the road down
which Rachel Ply mire had gone.
“Have you ever seen this neigh
borhood? ’ one of them asked.
“Never,” she.replied.
That ended the matter, and they
turned back, taking a little used
cross-road to save time, presently
the woman started up in great agita
tion, crying: “This is the place I
dreamed of! ’ They assured her that
Rachel Plymire had not been upon
that road at all. “I know nothing
about her,” she said, “but the girl I
saw in my dream came along here;
there is the patch through which the
man came, and beyond that turning
you will find the log on which he
killed her.” They did find the log,
and on the ground the stains of
blood. The woman, walking swiftly,
led him to the old mill and so the
board under which lay the stained
clothes and the hatchet. The girl e
body was found afterward, buried by
a creek near at hand. Rachel’s lover
had already been arrested on suspi
cion. It was hinted that he had
grown tired of the girl, and for many
reasons found her hard to shake off
The woman recognized him in a
crowd of other men, and startled
her companions still more by poin
ting out another young fellow from
the West as his companion in her
dream. The young man was tried in
the town of Washington for murder
The dreamer was brought into court,
an effort was actually made to put
her on the witness stand, but even
then men could not be hung on .he
evidence of a dream. Without it
there was not proof enough for con
viction, and the jury, unwilling
enough, we may be sure, allowed the
prisoner to escape. It was held as
positive proof of his guilt that he
immediately married the sister of the
other accused man and removed to
Ohio, then the wilderness of the
West.
The Coming Campaign.
Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of
the national democratic committee:
The undersigned, to whom, as a sub
committee, at the last meeting of
your body, was refeired the resoiu
t’on in reference to a more efficient
organ zation of the democratic party,
beg leave to report:
Your committee has recognized at
the outset in the consideration of the
subject, the fact that there has hith
erto been wanting a proper channel
of communication between the na
tional committee and the various
committees established by the party,
in each campaign, in nearly every
county or subdivision thereof through
out the country, and through these
organizations with the masses of the
party. This want has dot been felt
in the same degree in those states
where a thorough, system of organi
zation has existed. But in many of
the states scarcely any system of or
ganization exists at all. The nation
al committee of the republican party,
through its vast army of officehold
ers, is enabled to reach the people
in every locality, in every state of
the union. We have no such agency,
and we must supply the deficiency as
best we can.
At one time we thought of recom
mending that tlie member of the na
tional committee from each state
should be made the chairman of the
state executive committee; that the
member from each congressional dis
trict of the state committee should
be made tho chairman of tho con
gressional district committee, and in
like manner the representatives of
each large political division should
be made the chairman of its political
sub-division, and thus establish a
communication between tho national
committee and all the political or
ganizations of the party throughout
the country. But reflection satisfied
us that this plan would be likely to
engender jealousies, which ought by
all means to be avoided. There are
features in this plan, however, which
the committee think ought, if possi
ble, to be adopted. The national
committee, of course, has no power
to enforce this or any other plan.
We have corresponded with a num-
ber of leading democrats throughout
the country, and all have approved
the plan, so far as it establishes a
connecting link between the national
committee and the state district,
county and sub-county committees
One correßpoadent only has sugges
ted that we should leave to our suc
cessors the adoption of any plan.
But our successors, constituted as we
have been, will have no more power
than we have had to establish a gen
eral system of party organization
We, however, can i ecommend to the
different state conventions, soon to
assemble, to select delegates to the
next national convention, a system
which, if adopted, would create agen
cies for our succesors, through which
tney may mature, for the coming na
tional canvass, all the details of a
thorough and efficient organization
We therefore recommend the pass
age of a resolution requesting each
state convention to adopt a system of
organization by which the member
of the national committee from each
state shall be made ex officio a mem
oer of the state executive committee;
the member of the state committee
from each congressional district com
mittee; the member from each coun
ty or other sub-division constituting
the congressional district ex offkio a
member of the county committee, or
of such political sub-division, and in
like manner the member of the com
mittee of each larger political divis
ion ex-officio a member of the com
mittee of the smaller sub-division
which he represents in the committee
of the political division cf which such
sub-division is a part.
Your committee has been obliged
to use these terms of division and
sub-division from the fact that these
divisions and sub-divisions of coun
ties are known by very different
names in the different states, but
there will be no difficulty in applying
the principle of this plan to these di
visions by whatever name they may
be known in each state of the union.
By the adoption of this plan, a n t
work connection would be established
between the national committee and
every organization of the party,
large or small, in every state. Our
successors should have agencies
through which they might arrange
all the details of the coming canvass.
Through these agencies the national
committee could ascertain the wants
of the party in every section of the
country, and also learn the means by
which these wants could be supplied.
The very nature of the orgauißation
would inspire the confidence which
the soldier derives in battle from the
touch of his adjoining comrade, and
would, when matured by experience,
enable the party to move forward,
we trust, in solid phalai x to vic
tory
Actuated, therefore, by the desire
of securing a more efficient organize
tion, we recommend the passage of
the following resolutions:
George T. Barnes, Georgia.
Isaac E Eaton, Kansas.
Fred O. Prince, Massachusetts.
Henry D McHenry, Kentucky.
William L Scott, Pennsylvania.
Resolved, that this committee rec
ommend to the next democratic con
vention in each state the adoption
of a system of party organization by
which the member of the national
committee from each state shall be
made ex-officio a member of the
state executive committee; the mem
ber of the state executive committee
from each congressional district ex
officio a member of the congressional
district executive committee; the
member from each county or other
political division constituting the
congressional district ex officio a
member of the executive committee
of such county or political division,
and in like manner the member of
the committee of each political di
vision ox-offlcio a member of the
committee of the sub division of
which he is the representative in the
political division of which such sub
division is a part.
Resolved, That a copy of this re
port and n solutions be furnished by
the secretary of the national com
mittee to each member of the com
mittee, with directions that fie place
the same before the next state con
vention of the party in bis state, and
secure such action thereon as will
bring the committee of the party in
the state, and every division thereof,
in harmonious relations with the na
tional democratic committee.
Washington’s Example.
Third termers generally, and
whoopers-up of the Grant boom in
particular, will scarcely appreciate to
-he extent of its merits the following
extract from Washington’s farewell
address:
“The period for a new election of
a citizen to administer the executive
government of the United States
being not far distant, and the time
actually arrived when your thoughts
must be employed in designating the
person who is to be clothed with that
important trust, it appears to mo
proper, especially as it may conduce
to a more dis inct expression of the
public voice, that I should now ap
prize you of the resolution I have
formed, to decline being considered
among the number of those out of
whom the choice is to be made.
“I beg you at the same time to do
me the justice to be assured, that
this resolution has not been taken
without a strict regard to all the con
siderations appeitaining to the rela
tion which binds a dutiful citizen to
his country; and that in withdraw
ing the tender of service, which
silence in my situation might imply,
I am influenced by no dimunition of
zeal for your future interest; no defi
ciency of grateful respect for your
past kindness; but am supported by
a full conviction that the step is
compatible with both.”
Young Japanese children scarcely
ever cry, becuase great care is taken
to keep out of their way every pos
sible cause of irritation. It is prob
ably in consequence of this that the
Japs are, as a race, almost exaspera
tingly good humored, so that a ser
vant severely scolded will often mere
ly reply by a beaming smile.
SMALL BITS
Os Various Kinds Carelessly Thrown
Together.
The salaries paid to federal office
holders in the whole country amount
to $31,252,107.
A critic says that the more brutal
a crime is the greater is the interest
taken in the criminal.
Professor Proctor says the earth
is 420,100,000 years behind the moon
in developement. We must hurry
up.
The Chinese government have de
cided on establishing a complete sys
tem of telegraphing throughout Chi
na.
It isn’t the swallowing of food and
the reading of books that make
stong men, but the digestion of
them.
“I cast this, my last vote for de
mocracy and right,” said Micheal
Ryan, of Fonda, New Yortf, at the
last town meeting. He is 99.
The fight between the piana-ma
kers and manufacturers in New York
promises to be a long struggle, as
neither party is disposed to yield.
It is said that $350,000 has been
offered for the New York World, and
that it will require SIOO,OOO more to
knock down this journalistic persim
mon.
When you can hardly say enough
for a man, say he is one of a thous
and. It will be true as long as
there are 999 other men in the
world.
Four of the widows of Brigham
Young have found rest and consola
tion with second husbands. The
rest are so homely they are waiting
to die.
The human race is divided into
two classes—those who go ahead and
do Something, and those who sit still
and inquire, “Why wasn't it done the
other way ?”
The French government has deci
ded to expel prohibited religious cor
porations, and the Jesuits, in conse
quence, are preparing to emigrate to
Spain and Belgium.
Jeffirson Davis has been invited
to lecture at Newberry college by
two hundred young ladies He de
clined the invitation on account of
more pressing engagements.
Gen. Todlebt-n is reported to have
said that ten pounds more of dyna
mite would have sent the whole su
perstruetive above the cellar in the
Czir’s Winter Palace into the air.
In Zululand the tables are turned.
The women are led instead of leading
their husbands by the nose. This
happens by the feminine habit of
wearing a ring through the nose.
The Cincinnati Enquirer, which
has a far larger circulation than any
Democratic paper in the northwest,
uas a very able leader favoring the
Domiuution’of Judge Field for the
presidency.
A little girl went into a drug store
the other day and said to the pro
prietor in a half whisper, “If a little
girl haint got no money, how mnch
chewing gum do you give her for
nothing? ’
An old lady walked out of a car on
the Union Railroad while she was
fast asleep, stepped oft the platform,
and was not much hurt, though the
train was going twenty-five mile an
hour.
There are 60,000 locomotives in
the United States, and each contains
2,800 pieces, requiring renewal every
ten or twelve years. This conveys a
notion of the industries which rail
roads foster.
During the eight years in which
Thomas Jtfferson practiced law he
was employed in 948 cases. The re
volution, however, turned him from
law to statesmanship, and he never
resumed the practice.
According to the last census, Ja
pan has a population of 34,308,514
inhabitants. The captital of the
Empire. Tokia, or, as it is otherwise
called, Yeddo, had at the end of 1879
a population 1.036,771.
Bald-headed persons are recom
mended, by one who knows how it is
himself, to have a spider painted on
the top of their heads as a prepara
tion for the fast approaching fly
time.-—Cincinnati Advertiser.
President Bussey, of the New Or
leans Chamber of Commerce, tele
graphs to San Francisco that any
number of Chinamen in the latter
city may find employment in the su
gar, cotton and rice fields of Louis
iana.
When a woman is so very tired
that she “can hardly hold her head
up,” she goes cut shopping and
walks about ten miles ; when a man
is very tired he plays billiards, say
eight or ten games, and walks about
fifteen miles.
A boy of 17 married a woman of
70 at Jasper, Ala., but his parents
captured him immediately after the
ceremony and banished him to a dis
taut school. The bride was wealthy,
and the husband claimed to know
what he was about.
Mr. Vennoi, the Canadian weath
er prophet, stakes his reputation on
the prediction that “there will be
snow falls in different parts of the
United States and Europe during
April, and extremely bickward
in the fore part of May. The finest
part of the year 1880 will be its lat
ter half.”
The strongest man in the world is
an Italian named Angelo Cardela,
who lives at Reno, Nevada. He is
five feet ten inches high, weighs
190 pounds, is a day laborer, of tem
perate habits, has a broad, heavy,
good natured face, an extraordinary
eevelopment of chest, and large,
i fleshy hands. When stripped, his
most remarkable feature is his spi
nal column, which seems double, and
is twice the usual width, while all
his bones are very large.
A-cLvortißins Rntea.
Legal advertisements charged seventy-five cent*
per hundred wofd« nr fradio* thereof each it.Ber
tiou for the first four insertions, and thirty-five
cents for each subsequent Insertion.
Transient advertising will be charged $1 per inch
for the first, and fifty cents for each subsequent
insertion Advertisers desiring larger space for a
longer time than ose month will receive a liberal
deduction from regular rates.
All bills due upon the first appearance of the ad
vertisement, and wilt be presented at the pleasure
of the proprietor. Transient advertisements from
unknown parties must be paid for in advance.
NO. 13
BROWN BRO’S
BANKERS, BROKERS
AND COLLECTION AGENTS
GAINESVILLE, GA.
Refkkknces—Hamoteb National Bank. N.
Y., Moo be, J enkins & Co. N. Y., G. W
Williams A Co., Chabliston, S. C., — any
of tbs Atlanta Eaiu. n>arls-tt
MILLINERY GOODS!
Mrs. 11. IN. 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 yon 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
a- which she will sell goods. Look for the
fan y hat as a sign, last house as you go
down Main street to the college.
nov7ly
MRS. VARNER.
FASHIONABLE DRESSMAKER
Room in rear oi L. H. Johnson's store.
DRESSES MADE, CUT AND TRIMMED
in any style desired.
Washed Dresses and Children’s Clothing
at your own prices !
Also
GENT’S SHIRTS
MADE IN THE BEST STYLE. Good
Shirts, material included, for SI
and upwards.
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LaHatte’s Select School,
Mule and Female,
Rev. C B. LaHatte, 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 lull particulars as to board and tuition
apply to the president. (jan‘2 Iru
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850 ui V 9ot Pages.
NFW WITH
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QCRMniIQ Engraviugis,
FOH only $2.50.
This grand volume embraces Mr. MOO
DY’S best Sermons, as delivered in
CLEVELAND t»d 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. Onr terms are unequaled;
Outfit SI.OO. Send at once for this and
begin the canvass, or address for circular,
11. S. GOODSPEED & CO.,
feb‘2o At New York or Cincinnati.
H. W. J. HAM,
Attorney at Law,
GAINESVILLE, GA.
Office in Henderson & Candler Building,
East Side Public Square
I?. Al. NEWMAN.
Physician and Surgeon,
Flowery Branch, G-n.
Office, first door above Barrett’s store.
Will attend calls at a distance from relia
ble parties. (febl3 Gm
Northeastern Rail ro a «l.
Glia nge of ScliecluJ e--.
SUPRB.'K I k.NIiaNT'H OFFICE, 1
ATBCErt, Ga„ Oct. 11, 1879. )
On and after Monday, October 6, 1879, trains on
the Northeastern Railroad will ruu as follows. AH
trains daily except Sunday:
Leave Athens 3 50 pm
Arrive at Lula 6 20
Arrive at Atlanta, via Air-Line K. li 10 30 “
Leave Atlanta, via Air-Line R. R 330 “
Leave Lula 746 *•
Arrive at Athens....... 10(8) ••
The above trains also connect closely at I.ula with
northern bound trains on A. L. R. R. On Wednes
days and Saturda: 8 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 fsr Atlanta,
making the trip to Atlanta only four hours and
forty-five minutes. J. M. EDWARDS, Supt.
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
On and after December 20th double dally traiim
will run on this road as follows:
MORNING TRAIN.
Leave Atlanta.. ... 4 00 a tn
Arrive Charlotte 3 20 p m
“ Air-Line Junction 380 *•
“ Danville 951 “
“ Lynchburg 12 37 ni’t
Washington 7 50 a in
Baltimore 930 ••
•• Philadelphia 130 and 145 ptn
•• New York... .............3 45 and 445 **
“ Wilmington, N. C. (nrxt day) 9 50 am
•• Richmond 7 48 "
EVENING TRAIN.
Leave Atlanta 3 30 pm
Arrive Charlotte 3 20 a m
“ Air-Line Junction 330 “
“ Danville 10 22 *•
•• Lynchburg 153 pm
•• Richmond 443 ■*
Wa'hington 955 ••
** Baltimore .....1155 “
•• Philadelphia 335 a m
“ New York 6<5 '*
GOING EABT,
Night Mail and Passenger train.
Arrive Gainesville 5:50 p tn
Leave " 6:51 •*
Day Passenger train
Arrive “ «:W a m
Leave “ • t> ; ls **
Local Freight and Accommodation train.
Arrive Gainesville 11:10 am
Le-ve *• 11:25 “
GOING WEST.
Night Mail and Passenger train.
Arrive Gainesville 9:20 a m
Leave *• 9=31 “
Day Paassnger train.
Arrive •• B;lspm
Leave “ 8:16"
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 potnts East.
G. J. FOREACRE, G. M.
W. J. HOUSTON, Gen. Pae. and Tkt Agt.
PATENTS.
F. A. Lehmann, Solicitor of American
and Foreign Patents, Washington, D. C.
All business connected with Patents, whether
before the Patent Office or the Courts,
promptly attended to. No charge iuad»
unless a patent is secured. Send for circu
lar. (nov2‘2 ts