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The Gainesville Eagle. Published Every Friday Morning. + B Y J . E. REO WI IN 15. Rates cf Subscription : One copy one year f 2 00 One copy six months 1 00 One copy three months 50 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.