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E DITORI A L§'E AG LETS.
New York City is being stirred up
by the “salvation army,” but not b >
fore it was needed
The New York Herald, although a
free-booter in politics, is strenuous??
opposing a third term.
Mr. Edison has sold his electro
motograph telegraph to the Western
Union Telegraph company for SIOO,-
000.
Both wings of the democratic party
of New York are preparing to send
> delegations to the Cincinnati con
vention.
The rebellion in the republican
party against the third term, is at
Burning, it wotJd seem, somewhat
formidable proportions.
Mr. Justice Field and Hugh J.
Jewett would make a ticket’ to which
all lovers of liberty and constitution
al government would rally with en
thusiasm.
Diplomatic relations between
France and Russia are about to be
broken off on account of the refusal :
of the former to surrender Hartmann,
the nihilist.
Hon. Horatio Seymour docs not
believe that Grant will be nominated
at Chicago. He also thinks that the
democratic convention will bo con
trolled largely be the result of the .
republican convention.
♦
It is passing at a time I
when the despotisms of the old world i
are tottering and almost in the ;
throes of dissolution, any considera-1
ble number of the people of this '
country should be clamoring fcr a
strong government.
The friends of Justice Field, of the |
United States Supreme court, have
perfected an organization and estab
lished headquarters- in Washington
City in the interest of his nomination
for the presidency by the democratic
national convention.
The Springfield Republican, chief'
organ of ths Edmunds boom, and
supposed to express the senator’s |
views, says General Grant’s nomina- |
tion, with the expectation that he I
will usurp the presidency if not elec- •
ted to it, “is the greatest danger of
the hour.’’
The Cincinnati Commercial has n
special from Catlettsburg, Kentucky, j
announcing that about twenty con- ’
\ verts to Mormonism have passed i
-
through that place on their way to i.
Utah. Among these was a young
find handsome married woman, who
left her husband behind. *
If Mr. Washburn can successfully i
bribe his way into congress—and ,
stay there after conviction—why
wouldn’t it be the easiest and moth
sensible way to put congressional
seats up at auction ?—lFas7ii?igdon;
Post. Give it up. Ask Mr. Speer.—
Augusta Chronicle.
It now looks as if law and order !
would be maintained in San Fran
cisco. The citizens’ protective union
has triumphed over Kearney and hi’-
deluded followers. It is announced. 1
however, that no further arrests can .
now be made, as the iails are so full ,
there is no place to keep the prison
ers.
- ...
A Washington gentleman, who is a i
shrewd observer of political events, 1
writes the Boston Post a prediction
that neither of the republicans now
prominently mentioned for the presi
dential nomination will secure it,
- and that the democratic nomination
will fall to some man little if any :
talked of at the present tim >.
Mr. Speer announces that he will
not vote to unseat Washburn, of
Minnesota, who obtained bis seat, as
has been shown, by bribery and
frauds of almost every kind. The
democratic majority in the house is
small yet from some cause Mr.
Speer’s independence carries him
into the radical camp on all vital <
questions.
After Gen. P. M. B. Young had
succeeded in getting Gen. Bennett
of the ordinance office to order
shipped to the Cherokee artillery, of
Rome, the guns for that company,
it was an exceedingly small business i
on the part of Dr. Felton to object ■
and try to have the order counter
manded on the ground that it was a
_ move by his political enemies.
The republican anti-third term
• committee has adopted a call for a
national mass meeting, to meet in
St. Louis, May 6, to perfect a na
tional organization. The call recites
the example of Washington, and the
dangers portrayed by Jefferson, of a
long-continued occupancy of the
presidential chair by any one citizen,
and deprecates the effort being
made by a fraction of the republi
can party to secure the nomination i
> of Grant.
The Gainesville Eagle
VOL. XiV.
Washington Correspondence.
[Special Correspondence of the Eagi.. ]
Washington, D.C . March 27,1880.
The best half of this week has been
consumed, or worse, wasted, in a
fruitless wrangle between the Free
Traders and Protectionists. There
has been much fillibustering, and a
dcvelopement of bad feeling between
the two parties, and even between
individual members of the same par
iy. The contending factions were
led respectively by Messrs. Black
burn and Garfield. The deadlock
was broken on .Thursday by a sort of
compromise, which will enable both
the belligerents to claim a victory,
but which, to the unbiased looker on,
seems simply a draw battle. The
Protectionists and Free Trailers, as
was shown by r. test vote, do not di
vide on paity lines. Discussion has
been silenced for thia session, but it
will doubtless be a burning question
in the future. The. House, as at
present constituted, is a protection
House. The sama may be said of
the Senate. The speaker of the
House is a high tariff man. But how
will it be in two years, when a new
census has given the West an over
whelming preponderance in the Na
tional legislature?
During the controversy in the
House over-Mr. Townshend’s Tariff
bill, Speaker Randall has been the
recipient of many uncomplimentary
criticisms by his free trade democrat
ic colleagues. Notably among those
who denounce him was Mr. Black
burn, of Kentucky. During Wednes
day’ ■ nignt session, while Mr. Black
burn was denouncing the Speaker,
and declaring him a traitor to the
Democratic party, which would be
benefited by Randall’s removal, bag
and baggage, into the Republican
party, he was confronted by Mr,
Cofforth, of Pennsylvania, who defen
ded his colleague and declared that
the language of Mr. Biackburn would
justify him (Cofforth) in striking
him. Blackburn, much enraged,
said : “Well, you have beard what
I have, said, and if you mean to say
it is not true you are a liar.” By
standers prevented a collision and ae
Mr. Cofforth moved away be said to
Blackburn: “There is one charge
you cannot impute to him- He nev
er was a traitor to his country.”
The long debate in Congress over
the election laws has ended more
satssfactorily than seemed possible a
year ago. The decision of ths Su
preme court has bad much to do in
settling the question. The Demo
crats in the House have now passed
an amendment to the law, giving the
appointment of these deputies to the
United States circuit judges, and pro
viding that, instead of being all of
one political party, they shall be se
lected in equal numbers from both
parties, and shall be persons of good
moral character, and well-known res
idents of the voting precinct in which
their duties are to be ' performed.
There is some talk of this being op
posed by the Republicans in the
Senate, as it was opposed by come
of the republicans in the House, on
the ground that it is a “rider” to tie
appropriation bib, hut the President,
it is announced very positively, will
Approve it if passed.
The present Commissioner of Pa'-
ents, like all his predecessors, has
handed in his resignation after a
very brief tenure cd office. He ex
pects, like till the Commissioners who
have gone before him, to go into the
practice of patent law. His resigna
tion ishailf i with delight by the em
ployes of the patent office, as well as
by inventors and their attorneys.
Many new and confusing changes
have been introduced in the rules
and practice during his incumbency,
and it in predicted that his successor
will have a great deal to undo.
Burdette's Advice to a Young
Man.
My son, enjoy yourself. Hare a
good time; pleasure is eminently
right and proper, but a good time
isn’t secured by a headache that
lasts all the next day. The simplest
pleasures are the most lasting.
After you have spent two years in
Europe, you will come back and sit
down by your own fireside and
rhink of a picnic you went to down
at the Cascade one afternoon in
June, that cost you just sixty-five
cents. The “good times’’ that you
daren’t take your wife to, my son,
that you would lie about rather than
have your sister know about them,
the “goodness” of them, never comes
back to refresh you and gladden
your heart as does the memory cf
that sixty-five cent picnic, when you
chattered nonsense with the girl you
loved, and laughed just as the leaves
rustled, because you couldn t help it.
The “good time” that wakes in the
morning and wonders where it was
and who saw it and where all its
money is gone; the good time that
tails it self off with a headache,
there’s precious little fun in that.
And it only takes a little bitterness
of that kind to poison and cloud the
memories of the past. It doesn’t take
many such “good times,” my boy, to
mingle tears with your bread and
gall with your drink. The sting is
the smallest part of the bee, but
when you pick him up by it, though
the rest of the bee where as large as
an omnibus horse, yet would” the
sting outweigh all the good, aweet,
harmless honey-laden portion of the
i bee, and you would think about it
: cflener and longer.
TEE CHINESE.
What They Are as a Nation.
Speaker Randall laid before the
house a few days since, state depart
ment documents upon the subject c,f
slavery in China. In alluding to
these papers Consul General Bailey
says it is now settled that slavery
exists, and ever has existed, as an
essential feature of the Chinese polit
ical and social system, and perhaps
it is worth while to query whether
Chinesse emigration to the United
States is not thus shown to have in
its every lineament the taint of hu
man slavery. The elder member of
the family, he says, ths pater-famili
as, has almost unlimited control and
power over every member of the
family, and he is held to a close ac
countability for the actions of all
members of his family. The conclu
sions to be drawn from the evidence
are as follows .-
First. That slavery does now
prevail and has prevailed extensively
in China through her whole historic
period.
Second. That the present slavery
of China has grown out of the patri
archal family organization.
Third. That the law of the Chinese
family gives the pater fami'iias abso
lute power and control over the mem
hers of the family.
Fourth. That this power and au
thority, is transferable by mortgage
and sale, and can be exercised when
so transferred as by the original
head of the family.
Fifth. That the slaves of China are
divided into four classes, and that
these four classes comprise one-sixth
of the whole population of the em
pire.
Sixth. That judging from the re
sult of thirty-seven years’ experience
by the British authorities in Hong
Kong there is vitality and strength
enough in the Chinese slavery to en
able them to defy foreign laws and
courts even in foreign com tries.
The consul general adds : If Chi
nese immigration into the United
States is to continue and increase
with slavery or quasi-slayery and con
cubinage, imb.red and permeating its
every feature and organization, so
that they may be said fobs indisso
luble part of its present system, is it
not a subject to which American
statesman should turn their at tentiou
with some degree of anxiety? Is
not this Chinese system of concubin
age which is now being introduced
into America t hrough Chinese immi
gration, but a twin sister of polygamy
that other “relic of barbarism,” now
so firmly rooted in the heart of the
American continent, and toward the
extermination of which the govern
ment is now bending its energies?
He then gives a special report, upon
which his observations as above are
based
It sets forth that slavery existed in
the earliest period of Chinese history
either arising from war and conquest
or springing entirely from the organ
ization of the Chinese family system. •
The patriarchal family system gives i
the head of a family absolute power
over every member, and makes him.
the arbiter of the liberty ancj lives of
al! the members. He may chastise,
mortgage, sell, and evt n kill any or
all of them. The maxim is that “as ;
the emperor should have the care of |
a father for his people, the father f
sbopld have the power of a sovereign ■
over his family.” It has become the
custom for the poor to mortgag < or
sell their children to the rich in great
numbers. Vdn Moltendrof, in an es- i
say on Chinese family law, states i
that E. H. Barker, of the British cor.- '
sular service, e-timates that fifty trr i
cent, of all the families of China have j
children that have been acquired '
from other families by adoption or
purchase. Mr. Bailey is inclined to
believe that, though the origin of
Chinese slavery may have been cap
ture in war, it owes its existence and
character to this patriarchal family
system. A man sometimes sells his
son, and xaven himself aud his wife,
at a moderate price, but if he can, ht
chooses to pawn his family only ’
There are four distinct classes of'
slaves in China. First, the slaves of i
the imperial household; second, con-1
cubines; third, slaves held for labor ;.
fourth, slaves held for the purpose of 1
prostitution The first class are t u-;
nuchs, and are used exclusively in the |
imperial families - The emperor has
3,000 in his service. The second
class is a numerous one, every man
who is able to buy or maintain them
having one or more concubines. A
writer in the Chinese Review, volume
2, June, 1873, estimates that of the
emire number of female children
born in certain provinces, 25 per
cent. are thus disposed of. The third
class—general slaves—is also numer
ous, females predominating. Section
327 of the code provides that a slave
guilty of addressing abusive lan
guage to his master shall suffer death
by being strangled* and a slave solic
iting and obtaining the daughter of
a free man shall be punished in the
same manner. The fourth class —
prostitutes—is a large one, forming a
considerable per cent, of the whole
population.
In another dispatch the consul gen
eral transmits to the state department
the following translation of section
255 of the penal code of China, trans
lated by Sr George Thomas Stanton,
baronet, of the R. S„ relative to re
nunciation of allegiance:
All persons renouncing their coun
try and allegiance, or devising the
means thereof, shall be beheaded, and
in the same punishment of this of
fense no distinction shall be made
between principals and accessorial'. I
The property of such criminals shall 1
be confiscated, and their wives and
children distributed as slaves to the
great officers of the state. Those fe
males, however, with whom a marri
age had not been completed though
adjusted by contract, shall not suffer
under this law. From, the penalties
of this law exceptions shall also be
made in favor of all such daughters
of crminals as shall, have married in
to other families. The parents,
grandparents, brothers and grand-1
children of such criminals, whether ]
habitually living with thorn untki’ tL .• ’
9’Ahiq roof or uot, mi an 100 porpoturisT-
GAINESVILLE. GA., FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 2, 1880.
ly banished to the distance of 2,000
lee. All those who purposely con
ceal or connive at this crime shall be
strangled. Those who inform
against and bring to justice crimi
nals of this class shall be rewarded
with the whole of their property.
Lesser degrees of punishment are
provided for those who are privy to
the crime and give no information of
it. If the crime is contrived but not
executed, the principals shall be
strangled and the accessories punish
ed with blows and banishment
These who are privy to such ineffect
ual contrivance, if they do not give
information shall be punished with
blows and three years’ banishment
Those who refute to surrender them
selves to the magistrates when re
quired, and seek concealment, shall
bo deemed guilty of intent to rebel,
and shall suffer the prescribed pun
ishment.
Under date March 1, Secretary
Evarts inclosed to Yung Wing, the
Chinese minister at Washington, a
copy of the foregoing translation, and
inquired whether it correctly repre
sented the law and if it was under
stood to be now in force in ail or any
part of the dominions of his imperial
majesty. In reply to Mr. Evarts,
Mr. Yung Wing r * under date March
3, says that section 255 of the Chi
nese penal code referred to has no
reference whatever to Chinese emi
gration as contemplated in and sanc
tioned by the Burlingame treaty.
Under the general head of “Renun
ciation of Allegiance,’’ the specific
acts so carefully defined, with their
corresponding punishments, point to
Ihe presumptive existence of a lesser
or greater degree of treasonable in
tent against sequence of renunciation
of allegiance which anteceds them
both in time and existence, hence
their classification under that head
or section. Emigration as sanction
ed by foreign treaties is taken out of
the category of treasonable acts, and
is therefore boyound the scope of the
section.
Mental Energy in Old Age.
To die a Plato died, with pen. in
hmd, is the ideal close of lite to
every lover and follower of the intel
lectual work. The thought of a sec
ond childhood is intolerable. A
man’s intellectual life wiil be paral
yzed and his thirst for knowledge
qienched, and his usefulness con
sequently diminished, if he have
thu conviction that a decline of
mental vigor inevitably awaits him
as he verges toward the seventies.
On the other hand, it is not easy
to overestimate the inspiration and
progressive spirit which will be
wrought into the very life of the in
tellect by the controlling idea that
the power thought shall move as
deeply, as vigorously, and with keen
er and nicer discrimination at its set
ting than at its meridian. Both ideas
have been discussed, and both are
influential in the minds of men, now
as ever. '
In point of fact there is no necessi
ty for a loss of mental energy with
the advance of years. God has pro
vided for ceaseless growth here as
elsewhere among the higher forces
of nature. No Christian thinker is
bold enough to affirm that men of
right purposes can not, do not and
are not bound to grow in purity
and strength of character to any
age.
‘Under certain conditions, then,
there need not be any decline of
menial vigor with advance in years
in the ordinary professions of life.
The distinction between hard work
and suicidal work must nev rbe
lost sight of here. Exceptions are
also to be cleared out of our way—
such as those who are ireightened
with inherited disease, and those
who in youth or through out life seri
ously sin against the laws of health
With these limitations, there are
three things obedience to which will
accuse in all ordinary crises, a con
tinuance of intellectual growth.
The first is obedience to the laws
of health. Sleep, air, exercise, ap
propriate food, and careful appro
priation of the food, are necessities
Here. In these days we hear a great
• leal about the “sleepless mind.” A
fine phrase, but if taken liter ally pre
cisely equivalent to the “thoughtless
mind.” So also with the matter of
food. How can a man’s blood be at
his brain when it is driving the di
gestive organs which are endeavor
ing to dispose of the square inches
of roast beef .tying in their imme
diate vicinity. Everybody knows
this, but he must be doers of the
word and not bearers only, if the
idea of mental growth is to be real
ized.
The Second thing to be observed
is regular, systematic brain-work.
Storms of thought, or doing up the
thinking of a year in a few excited
hours, may seem vary grand, tut it
does not contain the law of progress.
Wecnever we hear any one in rap
tares over this method we are always
reminde.t of Lyman Beecher’s com
parison us spasmodic charity with a
servant girl’s attempt t? boil the
kettle with ablaze of straw. The
law of muscular dovelopiaeut is the
law of mental; systematic and ade
quate exercise. Every time the
blacksmith swings his hammer he
either increases the strength of his
arm or preserves what lie has ac
quired. And the man who dues his
thinking with the sumo industry and
conscientiousness wiil experience
mure surprising results in the same
direction. This law will not tram
mel him, ae he may think it will his
brother at the anvil, as ago advances.
The parallel of mental and muscu
lar development under the law of
systematic and adequate exercise
is not complete, because of the di
versity of the subjects on which it
acts.
A third element which makes for
intellectual growth is a high moral
purpose behind the faculty of
thought. This keepa the mind in
harmony with itself, and gives it
a balance and an inspiration which
can be derived from no other source.
A few illustrations may serve to
point the moral. Webster replied
to Htiyne at -18, to Calhoun on
Nullification at 51, and mide his
7th of March speech when 68 years
old.
Franklin, as his biographer tells
us died in the 84th year of his age;
his mental faculties playing with un
limited energy.
Dr. Chalmers was found by Denn i
Stanley only a few weeks before his <
death (67) hard work on the “Rise .
and Fall of the Roman Empire.’’
Thomas Reid, the Scottish philoso
pher, wrote some of the most vaiua- .
ble of his works
and Dr. Pond, of Bangor, in his 90th
year, is still a vigorous and fruitful
writer.
The public policies of Europe have
been for the past decade in the baffds
of men whose ripe age has undoubt
edly been an important factor in
the success of their administrations,
and whose bold and aggressive
movements Lave displayed none oi
the conservatism usually associated
with advanced years.— Christian Un
ion.
—
The Army.”
The advance guard of the “army •
of salvation,” seven women and one !
man, arrived at New York, on the
steamship Australia. The party con
sists of Gen. G. S. Railton, who is
stj led the “commissioner for Amer
en,” and Sisters Capt. Westbrook
and Lieuts. Coleman, Graus, Morris,
Pearson, Shaw and Price. The la
dies are all very plain in features,
and are rising thirty years each.
Their costume consists of a loose pa
irol cloak, trimmed with red, bearing
on the collar the letter “S, ’ worked
in gold on the collar of the captain
and in red on those of the lieuten
ants. About their hats are red
bands, on which the words “The
Salvation Army” are inscribed in gilt
letters. They carry a banner, having
a red ground and blue border, in
one corner of which is a small
American flag, while in the centre is
a sun bearing the words, ‘Blood and
Fire.’
According to the New York pa
pers, the American wing of the sal
vutiug army has come to this coun
try lor the professed purpose of
routing Satan and his followers, who
are supposed to have many strong
holds here. The present organiza
tion is the outgrowth of the efforts of
Rev. Wm. Booth, a Methodist min
ister, began fourteen years ago in
the streets of London. He was ap
plied to by what ha calls “Heathen
England,” and. determined to do some
thing for the regeneration of the low
er classes, whom the efforts of the
laborers for Christ in the churches
did not seem to reach. He was aided
by his wife, and their earnest efforts
soon gathered about them a little
band of workers, who went steadily
ahead in the course marked out by
their leader. The name of the or
ganization was selected in the fol
lowing manner: There was much talk
at the time of a general armament.
One of tne workers said, “W e are a
volunteer-army.' “No,” replied the
leader, “We are a salvation army.’’
And from that the name grew. And
they organiz u tnemselves as an
army, Mr. Booth taking tne rank of
general, and being assisted by sub
commanders, lieutenant’, etc. They
went forth to conquer, and were
victorious in nearly all their cam
paigns.
The work progressed steadily,
their ranks were tilled up with vol
unteers, and at the close of last year
they had enlitied 122 corps, which
were commanded by 195 officers. In
their weekly services they used 148
theatres, music halls and other build
ings. Last year they held 45,9U0
open-air services and 60.000 in-door
st rvices. The active members em
ployed as officers, ministers, mission
aries, Bible women, etc., amounted
to 257, and over 3,000 others were
ready at any time to enter the ser
vice. The work, it is claimed, is in
no way sectarian, although, as to
devotion and principles, it conforms
nearly to those of the early Meth
odist, The services consist of a re
lation of experiences. There are no
preachers, but each convert is called
upon to tell his own experience.
Their songs consist of new words
arranged for some of the moat stir
ring of the popular tunes, ancient
and modern. Some of the Moody
and Sanky tunes are pressed into
service, and, in fact, any good
melody that seems to suit their pur
poses.
Last year the army made success
ful campaigns in England and Wales,
particularly in South Wales, Corn
wall, Lancashire, and among the
collieries of Dipton, Wellington,
Kingswood and Wednesbury. Alter
these victories at home it was deter
mined to send n portion of the army
across the sea, to conquer the heath
en lands of America, and an order
was issued from the headquarters at
Whitechapel, London, directing Gen.
Railton, with an efficient force of
seven women, to move upon the
United States. He accordingly em
barked with his little band, and after
a*prosperous voyage effected at land
ing at Castle Garden, where religious
services were held immediately upon,
landing.
His Telephone.
“I guess I has to gif up my dele
phone already,” said an old citizen
of Gratiot avenue yesterday, as he
entered the office of the company
with a very long face.
“Why, what’s the matter now ?”
“Oh! eferytings. I got dot dele
phone in mine bouse so as I could
spheak mit der poys in der saloon
down town, and mit my relations in
Springwelle, but I has to gif it up. I
liefer have so much droubles.”
“How?”
“Vhell, my poy Shon. in der saloon
he rings der pel! und calls me oop
und says an old front of mine vhants
to see how she works. Dot is all
right. I say:‘Hello! und he says:
‘Come closer.’ I goes closer und hel
loes again. Den he says: “Shtaud a
little off und yells vunce more, und
he says: ‘Shpcak louder.’ I yells
loader. It goes dot vhay for ton
minutes, und den he says : ‘Go to
Texas, you old Dutchman? You
s-e?
‘Yes.”
“Ard den mein brudder in Spring
wells, be rings de pell und calls me
cop und says how I vhasdiscafnings?
I Buys I vhas feeling like some colts,
und be says : ‘Who vhants to puy
some goals? I says: “Colts—colts—
colts !’ und ho answers: ‘Oh! coats.
I thought you saidt goats!’ When
I goes to ask him of he feels petter F
hear a voioa crying oudt, ‘Vhat
Dutchmans ish dot on dis line!’ Den
somepods answers, ‘I doan’ know,
but I likes to punch bis headt!' You
see ?”
“Yes.”
“Vhell, somedimes my vise vhants
to ehpeiik mit me vhen I am down in
der solonn. She rings mein pell und
I says, ‘Hello!’ Nopody shpeaks to
me. She rings again, und I says
Hello !’ Lke dunder ! Dt>u der Cen
tra! Office tells me go aheadt, und
den tel's meholdt on, und den tells
mein vise dot I am gone avbay. I
yells oudt dut ish not so, und some
pody says, ‘How can I talk if dot old
Dutchmans doan’ keep sthill!’ You
see ?”
“Yes.”
And when I gits in bed at night,
somepody rings der pell like der
house vas on fire, und vhen I shumps
ou.it and s tys hello, I hear somepody
saying : ‘Kaiser, doan’ you vhant to
puy a dog ?’ I vhants no dog, und
vhen I tells 'em so, I hear some peo
pies laughing: ‘Haw! haw! haw!
You see?’’
“Yes.”
“Und so you dake it oudt, und
vhen eomepody likes to abpeak mit
ma dey ehall eome right avay vunce
to mem aaloon. Oof my brudder ish
sick be shall get petter, und if some
body vhants to puy me a dog, he
shall come vhere I can punch him
mit a glub!”— Detroit Free Press.
\\ Who Tipple.
I would not go so far as to say that ,
New York ladies drink to excess,
supposing that public drinking is
impossible in a lady at all. But I
do say and see that ladies here are
•drinking a great deal of both wine
and spirits. Young ladies—not fast
gills —when out shopping go into
Bigot’s, or Purcell’s, or Delmonico’s
and order a “hot Scotch’’ with as lit
tle hesitation as a Grand Rapids la
dy would order a pound of tea. 1
have noticed this habit for several
vears, aud written about it in New
Yu.k and' Buston papers. I have
read what others have said concern
ing the mailer, and I believe observ- -
ing men g morally will agree that the
custom is growing. Yet every time
the subject is raised in the papers
there is a great hue and cry, and the
tiling is denied very persistently.
Notwithstanding the rows a public
mention of the evil has already caused
I affirm of my own knowledge, it is
true’ I don’t know that I have of
ten seen ladies intoxicated here, save
at Liederkrai z ur Arion balls, but I
have seed hundreds of them drink
freely. lam not writing of drunk
ards now, but of women who drink
wine or sometbink stronger every
day of their lives, at home or abroad.
Teat there are hundreds of women
here, in good society, too, who are
drunkards, there can be no denying.
A lady whom I have known for ten
years has died since I was here last
summer, from the effects of bard
drink. Sue was a beautiful Woman,
and as brilliant as she was bid
Nevertheless, society in the metropo
lis has not ceased m lurniag for her
yet. I know whereof I affirm when
1 say that b&er is the most popular
beverage in New York to day. A
glance at the tables in Koster &
Biai’s Thiess', or any of the public or
private places here, wiil convince the
most credulous. You will see as
many women as men enjoying the
foaming cup. At the hotels or in
private houses, unless wine is com
monly used, you will find b er to be
the ordinary drink Yesterday af
ternjoi I satin the saloon ol a little
German hotel on Fourteenth street
talking with an actor whom Grund
Rapids know.-’, and to whom it de
lights i. ■ give big houses, when a
very nice looking middle aged lady,
dressed in widow’s weeds, entered
the hotel, sat down at a table, and
drank a glass ' f boer with evident
relish. 1 should not have noticed
the circumstance particularly if she
had becu one (>f a party, but drink
ing her beer in suoii a solitary way
seemed a lit*le cut of the usual
course
Ail / mnnunitioii That May Be
’Troublesome.
General Ruggles, of Virginia, has
a ol tn for producing a fall of rain at
will. His proposition is to send up
cartridges of dynamite in cheap bal
loons and explode them among the
clouds. If this theory out to be
correct it may lead to some alarming
complications. By and by every
farmer in the land will have his rain
apparalus and will be bringing on
ebowors at pleasure. Smith, whose
root crops need a shower, will make
wet -weather, while Brown, who is
taking in hay, wants a dry spell.
Tnis will lead to endless trouble in
the country, and the new plan will
not work much batter in the city.
Some malicious person belonging to
a rival Sunday school will shoot off a
v.’tl day on the other school when it
goes off an excursion. One political
party will throw cold water on the
out door meetings of the other po
litical party, and as there is always
some person who has a spite at some
other p- rson, wa will have a continu
ous period ol wet weather. Congress
ought to see to the matter. General
Ruggles should not be allowed to
proceed any further. Send him eff to
the great desert or some place where
he will do the most good.
The first temperance lodge has
just been formed among the Indians
on the Onondaga reservation.
Some of our best statisticians think
the next census will show a popula
tion of 17,000,000.
Buston Sugar refiners are negotia
ting fur the purchase of all the crude
sugar made in Georgia.
SMALL BITS
Os Various Kinds Carelessly Thrown
Together.
The main thing to do this sum
mer, Murat Halstead thinks, is to
rid the country of third term dan
gers.
The Legislature of lowa has pass
ed a law prohibiting the manufacture
and sale of alcoholic or malt liquors
within its limit.
A society for the promotion of
Jewish studies has just been founded
in Paris under the presidency of
Baron J hops de Rothschild.
Gilbert Budd, of Clarenden, Micb.,
died at the close of morning family
prayers, before he had risen from his
knees. He was 60 years old.
How any man can rack bis head
over the-e new puzzles when ho can
sit on a log an I fish all day without
a bite is past compehension.
America imported 30,000,000 gal
lons of wine last year, and almost
paid for it in butter, and yet whis
key is the favorite drink.
. The first attempt to manufacture
woollen material by machinery in In
dia is to be made by the Egerton
Woollen Mills Company in the Pun
jaub.
The Gainesville Florida Bee says
that General Loring states he has re
turned to claim his residenca in
Florida, and will remain in the State
the rest of his days.
Littlefield, who was nominted for
governor of Rhode Island by the re
publicans last week, is charged by
the Providence Star with paying $5,
000 for the honor, to the machine
managers
One hundred thousand dollars is
the estimated loss of mules and other
stock in the Ouachita valley' section
of Louisiana, from a disease produc
ed by the bite of gnats that have late
ly invaded that section.
John P. Smith was sent to the
Indiana state prison for whipping
his wife, who at once set about get
ting him pardone I. While making
a long journey afoot., in cold weather,
to get signatures to the petition her
baby froze to death in her arms
David Davis is a great reader, and
as n circuit in his early days
used to carry his saddlebags full of
historical and biographical works.
His favorite novel is “David Copper
field,” though he has a fondness for
.Thackeray and Walter Scott.
A woman has been surprising Pa
risians by the performance cf four
birds? trained to such a degree that
they select from a series of curds re
plies to almost any question from the
audience. “Five crowned beads”
have been pleased to be pleased with
the feathered performers.
The city of Algiers is French in
every respect and of comparitively
little interest to the traveller just
from Europe. One of the curious
sights, however, is the arrival of long
trains of camels laden with the fruits
and products of the southern coun
try beyond the desert.
The New York Herald spates that
an order has been received by the
Winchester arms company to meke
from fifteen to twenty million of car
tridges for the Chinese government.
This is the first order, it is said, ever
given by the Chinese government to
foreingers for the manufacture of
cartridges.
R. A. Ranney and Richard Jolly
of Brunswick county, Virginia,
fought a duel on account of a politi
cal wrangle, last w'*ek, Jolly at
the first shot had his arm wounded.
He insisted on a second shot, but
the sheriff and posse arrived in time
to prevent it and arrested all parties,
who were held in bail for trial.
Os the 577 British Peers. 478 have
seats in the House of Lords, 434 bv
personal right and 44 by election, 16
by the Peers of Scotland and 28 by
the Peers of Ireland; while the 143
peerages of which the holders are
not legislators at present are distrib
uted among the Peeresses and Peers
of Scotland and Ireland.
Albert Sage is n ar to death at
New Albany, Ind., and there is an
insurance of $2,000 on his life. His
wife guarded him closely, because he
had bequeathed her the policy, and
she feared that he might change his
mind. Notwithstanding her watch
fulness, he has disappeared, and she
has had his brother arrested on a
charge of stealing him.
Both houses of the lowa State leg
islature have passed ? constitutional
amendment which will now go to the
next legislature for ratification, pro
hibiting the manufacture and sale of
intoxicating liquors, including ale,
wine and beer, and authorizing an
enactment of Sunday regulations and
penalties for lhe enforcement of pro
hibition.
It has been discovered that the
climate of California an J northern
Georgia and Alabama is just suited
to the cultivation of the cinchona
tree, from which quinine is made,
and it is proposed to intro luced the
cultivation of these trees into this
country, so as to save the expense it
incurs every tear in sending to South
America for Peruvian bark.
The Richmond (Ya) Common
wealth reports that the liquor sellers
of that city purpose celebrating by a
banquet the day on which the law in
place of the Moffet syttem goes into
force, and they intend, further, to
buy up all the old Moffet registers
and have them cast into a cannon, to
herald forth the dawn of any new
freedom they may acquire in the
conduct of their business.
Mary Malhaney hanged herself
from a tree at Coshocton, Ohio, be
cause she had been desorted by her
lover, Henry Moors. That was fif
teen years ago. Lately Moore was
killed by the accidental discharge of
a gun under the same tree. The
people of the neighborhood not only
believe this was a just retribution,
some of them declare that the ghosts
of the pair maybe seen walking there
every night.
Advortimlng Ratos.
I,ec>il advertisement charged seventy-five certs
per hundred words or fraction thereof each inser
tion for the first four insertions, and thirty-five
cents for each subsequent insertion.
Transient advertisinj wil’ v e charge'’ • l per inch
for the first, and fifty c is let each subrr ,r ut
insertion. Advertisers decin. i-rtfei pace 1, • a
longer time than oue mouth will recc.'.e al Lial
deduction from regular rates.
All bills due upon the first appeeranco of the ad
vertisement, and will be presented at the pleaau re
of the proprietor. Transient advertisements fr. m
unknown parties must be paid for in advance.
NO. 14
BROWN BRO’S
BANKERS, BROKETS
RD COLLECTION AGiriTS
GAINESVILLE, GA.
References—Hanoveb National Bank, N.
Y., Moobe, Jenkins & Co. N. Y., G. W
Williams & Co., Charleston, S. 0., — ant
of the Atlanta Banks. war!s-t£
MILLINERY GOODS!
Nirs. 11. IN. are
Begs leave to inform her friends and tho
public generally that she has opened her
store in her dwelling house on Main street,
next door to the college, on the right band
as you go from the square. She hopes to
receive a liberal patronage, aud to merit the
same by a desiie to please and the low prices
at which she will sell goods. Look for the
fancy hat as a sign, last house as you go
down Main street to the college.
nov7ly
JET. W. J. HAM,
Attorney at Law,
GAINESVILLE, GA.
Office in Henderson <£ Candler Building,
East Side Public Square-
F. JME. NEWMAN,
Physician and Surgeon,
Flowery Branoli, G;t.
Offiee, first door above Barrett’s store.
Will attend calls at a distance from relia
ble parties. (feb!3 6m
THE CLINARD HOUSE,
a.thents,
To the Public— l take this method of
returning thanks to my numerous customers
for their liberal patronage during my long
proprietorship of the Newton Hous a, in
Athens. On the 31st of December my pro
prietorship of the Newton House will cease,
at which time I will open the Clinard Be use,
pleasantly located ou Clayton street, one of
the principal business streets in Athens,
where I hope and expect my former pit
rons, and the traveling public generally, to
stop when visiting Athens, pidgin? myself
to do all in my power for their comfort, etc.
A. D. CLINARD-
Athens, Ga., Dec. 9, 1879. —l2 fl
NATIONAL HOTEL,
ATLANTA, GA.
Rates , $2 per Day;
SPECIAL. HATES
For longer Time
The NATIONAL, being renovated and
refurnished, offers superior inducements to
the traveling public. E. T. WHITE.
mar7 Agent, Proprietor.
E. T. BROWN,
Attorney at Ijhw,
ATHENS, GA.
OFFICE IN HUNNICUT BLOCK,
OVER CHAS. STERN & CO.
References by Permission:
Anderson, Starr & Co., New York; Citi
zens’ Bank of Georgia, Atlanta; Judge H.
K. McKay, Atlanta; F. Pbinizy, Athens,
nov2B ly
Northeastern IX al I road.
Change of SoliedAilc.
Superintendent's Office. |
Athens, Ga., Oct. 11, 1879. J
On and after Monday, Octobers, 1879, trains on
the Northeastern Kailroad will run as follows. All
trains daily except Sunday:
Leave Athens 3 50 pm
Arrive at Lula 620 «•
Arrive at Atlanta, via Air-Lion K R 10 30 ••
Leave Atlanta, via Air-Line it. It ...... 330 “
Leave Lula 746 •«
Arrive at Athens 10 00 “
The above trains also connect ciose'j at Lula w?h
northern bound trains on A. L. R. i . un Wednes
days and Saturdays the following addl.ioual trains
will be run:
Leave Athens .' f, 45 a m
Arrive at Lula 845 ••
Leave Lula. 920 “
Arrive at Athens 118) •*
This train connects closely at Lula for Atlanta,
making the trip to At'.anta only four hours and
forty-five minutes. J. M. EDWARDS, Supt.
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
On and after December 20th double daily trains
will run on this road as follows:
MORNING TRAIN.
Leave Atlanta 4 00 a m
Arrive Charlotte 3 20pm
Air-Line Junction 380 ■ ■
•• Danville 951 “
“ Lynchburg 12 37 ni"t
“ Washington 7SO a m
Baltimore 930 ••
•’ Philadelphia 130 and 145 pm
“ New York 345 and 445 “
“ Wilmington, N. C. (nrxt day) 9 5 * a in
•• Richmond 7 48 •*
EVENING TRAIN.
Leave Atlanta 3 30 pm
Arrive Charlotte 3 20 am
•• Air-Line Junction 33J ••
•* Danville 10 22 »*
•• Lynchburg 153 pm
•• R chmond 443 •*
«• Wa hington —..... 955 *•
“ Baltimore 1155 “
■* Philadelphia 335a m
“ New York 645 ••
GOING EAST,
Night Mail and Passenger train.
Arrive Gainesville 5:50 p m
Leave “ “
Day Passenger train
Arrive “ 6:13 am
Leave •• .... 6:15"
Local Freight and Accommodation train.
Arrive Gainesville 11:10 am
Leave “ 11:25 "
GOING WEST.
Night Mail and Passenger train.
Arrive Gainesville m
Leave *• 9:21 “ 1
Day Pass anger train.
Arrive •• B;'spm
Leave “ 8:16 ”
Local Freight and Accommodation uaiu.
Arrive Gainesville...... 1:45 a m
Leave •• “
Close connection at Atlanta for all points West,
and at Charlotte for all potnts East.
G. J. FOREACRE, G. XT.
W. J. HOUSTON, Gen. Pas. and Tkt Agt.
PATEN T S.
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 mads
unless a patent is seoured. Send for circa,
lar. (nov22 ts
One of our most estimable citizens may
be thankful for the introduction of Dr
■ Bull’s Cough Syrup, for its timely ns * hai
ved his life.