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E D1TO1? IA L EAG GETS.
The Dupont OkeefenuJ.ean hoistc
the name of Hon. Thoms'’ M. Nor
wood for congress from the first
district.
Ex Marshal Bazaine is reported to
* be living in a secluded street in Mad
rid, and to be preparing his memoirs
f» r publication.
Mr. Morrison, of Illinois, is being
brought forward as a presidential
candidate. He is sail to be a favor
ite with many prominent western
democrats.
* It is claimed that Hugh J. Jewett
can unite the democratic party in
New York and carry Ohio, Connecti
cut, New Jersey and Indiana. It
this be true he is the man we are
hunting.
It is plain that those who favor a
strong government and empire in
the end, are determined to force
Grant’s nomination at Chicago, at
the risk even of splitting the repub
lican party.
It now looks as if the republican
anti-third term convention called to
meet at St. Louis, on May 6th, will
be largely attended, A number of
the leaders of the party are favoring
the movement.
A tariff for revenue only, is a car
dinal tenant of democratic faith, and
if the democratic members of con
ygress wt uid assure success, they
should at once recognize this fact
and act upon it.
«■
At the present rate of preparation
the cotton crop of 1880 is estimated
us high as eight million bales, The
acreage and guano may warrant
these figures, but nobody can tell
how the season will pan out.
—♦►-
One hundred and twenty thousand
*ons of fertilizers will be sold in
■'‘Georgia this season. If the farm
x mis ure not careful they will be
short of coin and bacon another
; ear and have big guano bills to
pay.
<B3O ♦—
You had as well undertake to make
feathers grow on a sheep’s back, as
'o try to make that equal which God
bath made unequal. This great
i cuth has another illustration in
Whitaker, the negro cadet at West
•* Joint.
The Fulton county republican con
vention, held one day last week, was
i'. little inharmonious—so much so
ndeed that knock-down arguments
-/ere resorted to by Mr. Conley to
convince the notorious J. E Bryant,
that he did not run the machine.
Gov. Hendricks reiterates that
under no circumstances would he
take the second place on a ticket will
Mr. Tilden. Ho gives as a reason
that never, during the trying time
of tho electoral dispute, did Mr.
Tilden communicate with him, and
. acted throughout like a dummy.
Senator Gordon’s reply to Mr.
Stephens or the census supervisor
/• controversy with the statements ap
k pended of Senators Morgan and
Harris and General Walker, is a
triumphant vindication and at the
same time shows that Mr Stephen’s
memory is becoming exceedingly
treacherous.
The State of Delaware is about to
be placed under the ban for her fail
ure to make provision for the educ.;-
tion of her negro population, The
only law on the subject is one which
* taxes the negroes themselves to sup
port their own schools This tax
raises but a nominal sum and hem e
the colored man and brother goes
without an education.
John Kelly’s Irish in New York
are opposed to Tilden; Schurz’s
German’s in Ohio are opposed to
Grant; the Chinese are opposed bo
Denis Kearney; Blaine and .Sher
man are opposed to each other;
Bob Ingersoll is against heaven and
heli; neighbors don’t like tbi-ir sur
roundings—and what, in the name
of posterity, are we to say about
“the situation?’’— Washington Ga
zette.
lhe centennial anniversary of the
battle of Yorktown, to occur next
year, is attracting interest among
the 1 tench at home as well as in this
country. A crack regiment of French
troops will probably be sent from
I rance to participate in the celebra
tion and to recall the memories of
the active and valuable assistance
rendered to the American cause in
the siege of Yorktown by the Frem h
navy under Count de Grasse.
It is quite evident that but little
love is lost between Secretary Sher
man and Mr. Blaine. An impression
got abroad some days ago that
.other would support the other against
Grant, but it is now asserted by
Sherman’s friends that his enforced
withdrawal from the race would not
ba to the advantage of Blaine—the
inference being that the Sherman
votes would be cast for Grau'.
Fhe Gainesville Eagle
VOL. XIV.
PCIH! All SCIENCE NOTES.
Pref. Newton, of Yak, college, as
serfs that fully 400,000.000 cF me
teors of ah orders, <ffwn to those
visible only in a tel< sc-4 e. full each
year.
Sand paper is made by coating a
’ good quality of manilla paper with
1 thin glue ar d then dusting over it a
! quantity of finely pulverized glass or
| sand.
From the size of the jaws and a
[ portion of the vertelfra? of a fossil sea
serpent, recently found in a marl pit
ut Marlborough, New Jersey, Prof.
Lockwood estimated the length of
the living seiq .i.L to have been from
50 to 60 feet.
One hundred and thirty miles of
railroad wa ■; constructed in one hun
dred days, under SY Ii Temple, in
the late Afghan campaign, and is pro
bounced to be one of the greatest)
feats in t e way of rapid railway
making on record.
A steam velocipede was recently
i uccessfhlly exhibited by its in- 1
venter, at the Industrial Exhibi
tion, at the Champs Elyses, Paris,
lhe novel veniclo was driven around
the track with its rider at the speed
of eighteen miles per hour.
The King of Belgium has offered a
reward f $5,000 for the best treatise
on rm an.; <>f impr.virg harbors on
low and : andy coasts. Essays for
compvt’tioi;, v&ich isopen to the
world, mn-t be submitted to the
Mini, try of the Interior at Brussels,
before January 1, 1881.
A debate • recegth took place on
the origin of the blonde race of
mankind, at a session of the An
thropological Society of Paris. The
original seat was placed in ‘the re
gion of Tu»k<.stall by some of the
speakers, -vLile others, maintained
that f.' / ■ rigmated 111 Europe.
It is lot one out
of every ten o; uu. Located men ever
■ e edu
cated m n will, oi . verage, be
farther v; need in 1 is career at
. n th( un
-oducal cd I so; tv-five or even fifty—
. sound andj
liberal edn>. >n, if they would sue
CCC.I.
“Bi ware of them/’ says a scien
tist, “for i-'.ives make and keep the
. f.: wounds
from l> Ming, eve-w.-ters do often
mor icj-cy t-m go >d, most hair
ives produce sore eyes, beautifyingj
washes m.e sf. _ poisonous, ditto’
toile; pc-wc nr while scented sours'
sharp by F;_ free al- i
iiau they coatum.
An Englishman has invented what :
he calls a. paint,” which I
he claims will throw off a bright!
light in d rk purees and at night, I
thus r< ndtriag nor. •' h and other ob-1
com
pany has Lttm foiiaed in London for
its unHinfuctiu’e, nnd it is said that
th< re is now an eager demand for
the mysterious il’un inant. We shall
await its iuirouiiuViOii in-this country
with confide - ible anxiety.
As an ineectic de, the juice of the
tom Jo pb-nt ’ said to be of great
value, The leaves and stems are
well bnih. dii water, and when the
liquid is cold it is sprinkled over
plants attacked by insects, when it
nt once deter iyfi cakrpii is, black
;.nd gioen fly, gi. -k- and other ene
mies to v: ge tables, and in no way
impairs tl . growth of the plants.
. <nd prevents
ii sects li ‘t.n r ftffig again for :> long
time.
The substitution of Dynamo ma
chii'c-s hr ■ '•!(:•? of galvanic cells for
genefaliii, ;ht elecffiu current, is
a r-< v, v-b-o 1? telegraphy,
These machines were invented by
StepM? I>. F 1 oi San Francisco,
California, end so complete a revo
lution in the ccoscmic-s in teie
oyuniiy ie boil g mania b- them where
over adopfed, that ii w thought but
a fey months wfil elapse era they
Wil be in g neral use • throughout
the world.
The ‘*D«fnt..fhore,’’ called by some
he “Audiphone, ’ sn invention ol
-recent c-» giai, by means oi which
deal-mutes are enabled to hear
’ through 'be teeth, it; being greatly
impr< ved noon of late, and there is
Ino doubt but that the instrument
I'will woiii revolution in the ways of
tduciiu g inc deaf and dumb. The
mdUi&tfkce of >.he instrument is held
between the t- nth, ?! 1 in this way
human : <cU e.ui. be conveyed
o any iieaf ' erson whose audito
ry nerve has not Deen literally de-
’ stroyed.
1 The bdl refchtly introduced- be
fore congress by Senator Hdl, of
California, picviding ior- an appro
j oriation of £5b,000 to be used in
i sinking arteei •’> wells in the -arid
regions of th iiocky Mountains, has
t been i«.polled upon favorably, by the
committee on pub ic lands. It is es
timated that theie no n6w some five
I hundred millions acres of gov
rnmetot ISndk’in those regions, at
| present unsalable, because ot their
aridity, which could ba converted
i into valu.b’ I-rml'r.g’ lauds by this
'means of irrigation.
x Washing!on Correspondence.
[Special Corre«p<itrdeii :e ■>t the £
Washington, D. 0.. April Bth, 1880.
i To-day, the third in which lhe ar
my appropriation bill has been con
. sidtred in the House, the proposed
‘■rider prohibiting the payment oi
troops for serviced at the oiwß, or for
their transportation to or subsistence
at the poil^ t yyitt come discus
sion. There is a coufmondlble di
position among democrats to let re
publicans do most cf the talking on
the subject.
The naval appropriation bill will
be diaposedgof, probably with little
debate, early next week, no “riders”
are proposed.
The senate passed a profitable aay
yesterday as also the day before in
considering the Scbruz agreement
with the Utes. His agreement is op
posed by many senators, and must
inevitably be modified in . some re
spects b.fore it will receive congres
sional endorsement. sChatof.4
expressed a wish that the whole
management cf our Indian affairs
might bo turned ever to the War
department. While it is not likely
that such a proposition would be suc
cessful at this time, it has many
friends in Congress, and their num
ber has been increased by the fearful
bungling cf Secretary Schurz iu bis
dealings with the different tribes.
There was another disgraceful ex
hibition in tho House yesterday. One
member called another member a
liar. There has been u great deal of
license in the use of words of late,
all of which is to be regretted as ten
ding to lower the public opinion of
law makers, and consequently, to
create disregard for the law itself.
However, in ail cases which have oc
curred lately the usual explantionv
—which have not always explained—
and the proper apologies have been
made.
Oae of those troublesome little tax
es, like that, od matches, which pre
duce little revenue, and ought to be
wiped out, will probably be disposal
of during this session. It is the two
cent tax on bank checks. The bank
ing and currency committee yester
day agreed to a bill repealing ;.i e
law.
The annual plunder bill, otherwise
known as the river and harbor bin,
has been completed by a sub-com
mittee on commerce. The amount
will be further increased by the fuJ
committee and still further by the
House before passing the bill. A l
the title trout streams in the country
are laughing at the happy prospect
before them. Bex
A Brakeisian’s Opinion o* Chur
ches.
Ou the road once more, with Leb
anon fading away . ’.u ths distance-,
the fat passenger drumming idE ■
the window pane, the cross paaseu
ger sound asleep, and the tab, thin
passenger reading “General Grant’s
Tour Around the World,’’ and won
dering why “Green's August Flower”
should be above “A Buddhist Tem
ple at Benars,’’ To me comes the
brakeman, and seating himself on
the arm of the seat, says —
“I went to church yesterday.’’
“Yes,” I said, with that interested
inflection that asks for more. ‘And
what church did you attend?
“Which do you guess?” be asked.
“Some union mission church,” 1
hazarded.
“Naw,’’ he said, “I don’t like to
run on these branch roads very
much. I don’t often go to chursh,
ana when I do, I want, to run un the
main line, where your run is reguh i
and you go on schedule time, and
don’t have to wait on connect ions.
Good enough, but I don’t like it.’
“Episcopal?” I guessed’
“Limited express,” he said' “all
palace cars and $2 extra for a peat;
fast time and only stop at big sta
tions. Nice line, but too exhaustive
to brakeman. Afi train linn in u-s
--so. m, conductor’s punch and lantei
silver plated, and no train Loys al
lowed. Then the passenger’s are al
lowed to talk back at the conductor;
and it makes (hem too free and ea y,
No, I couldn’t stand the palace car.;'
Rich root], though. Don’t often bdar
of a receiver being appointed for that
line. Some mighty nice people trav
el on'it, too.’’
. “Universalist?” I suggested.
“Broad gußge,’’ said the brake
man, “does too much complimentary
busiues. Everybody travels on a
pass. Conductor doesn’t got a fare
once in fifty miles. Stops at all flag
stations, and won t run into anything
but union depots. No smoking car
on the train. Train orders are vo
gue, though, and the trainmen don’t
get along, with the passengers. No
I don’t go to the Universabst, though
I know some awfully good men who
run bn that road.”
‘ ‘Presbyterian ?” I asked,
“Narrow gauge, eb?” said • ihu
brakeman, “pretty track, straight ae
a rule; tunnel right through a moun
tain rather than go around it; spirit
level grade; passengers have to show
their tickets before’ they can get on
the train. Mignty strict road, but
the cars are a little narrow ; haYj to
sit one in a seat and no
aisle to dance. Then t .
over tickets allowed; Lo x -
straight through for
you're ticketed for, or you cant get
uo at all. When the car’s full, no
extra coaches; cars built at the shops
to hold just so many and nobody else
allowed on-. But you don’t hear of
an accident on that road often. Il’s
run right up to the rules.”
‘ Maybe you joined the free- think
ers,” I said.
“Scrub road," said the brakeman,
“dirt road-bed and no ballast; no
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 16. 1880.
tim. <..1-. I aid no train-dispatcher.
All trai ru wild and'ever engineer
i Leo Lis’ 1 cv?n time, just as he
pleas; s. Smoke if you want to; kind
i f go-as-you-please road. Too many
r ie track- and every switch wide
open all the time, with the switch
man sound asleep and the target
lam? dead out, Get on as you please
’nd v.’hon you want to.
Don’t have .0 show your tickets, and
tho cunductor isn’t expected to do
anything but to arouse .the passen
gers. Nd, sir; I was offered a pass,
but I don’t like the road that has no
terminus. Do you know, sir, I asked
a' di vision , superintendent where that
road run to, and he said he hoped to
die if he knew. I asked him if the
g m.:ra, superintendent could tell me,
and h’ said be didu t believe they
bad any general superintendent, and
if they had he didn’t know any more
about the road than the passengers.
I asked him who he reported to and
be said nobody. I asked a conduc
or wi.u h get his orders from, and
ho said be didn’t take orders from
any living man or dead ghost. And
when I asked the engineer who he
got Li.- orders from he said he’d like
to see anybody give him orders; he’d
run that tram to suit himself or he’d
inn it into the ditch. Now you see,
sir, I’m a railroad man, and I don’t
cure to zr.a on a road that has no
time, makes no connections, runs no
where unci nas no superintendent.
It may ’be ml right, but I’ve railroad
ed too long to understand it.”
“Did you try tho Methodist?” I
said.
“Now you’re shouting,” he said,
wi fi some < nthusiasm. “Nice road,
eh ? x’ai t time and plenty of passen
gers. Engines carry a power of
steam, and don’t you forget it; steam
gauge shows a hundred and enough
aUthet’mc. Lively road; when the
conductor shouts ‘all aboard,’ you
can hear him to th« next station
Everj train lamp shines like a head
light. Slop-overchecks given on all
through iickets; passenger can drop
off the train as often as he likes, do
lire bullion two or three days, and
nJp o?; ffie ? next revival train that
comes t.jundcriiig along. Good,
wholc-souLid, companionable conduc
tors; ain’t a road in the country
where the passengers feel more at
imme. No passes; every passenger
p; vc mil ti'.mic rates for his ticket.
W< • -yaa-uouse air-brake on all
tii .ni. too; vvetty safe road; but I
didn’t ride over that road yesterday.
*‘Ma|be yort went to the Congre
g i t><mai church?” said I.
“Pcpaiar road,” said the brake
man, ‘ar old road boo; one of the
oldest in the country.
Good roal-bed comfortable cars.
ad, too; directors
t t/l nte.-.fehe with division
superint idenis and train orders.
R luffs m pfitj popular, but it's pret
ir lepeudJni, too. See, didn’t one
of the ti.vi.'m superintendents down
Es: i. discontinue one of the oldest
s’; lions .. this line two or three
yerrt- .0? But it’s a mighty pleas
uii roa ‘lO •v J on. Always has
such a splexiffd class of passengers.”
“Pi 1 imps you tried the Baptist?’ 5
I guessed once more.
“Ab, ha!” she’s a daisy,” said the
bri.iA.oa River road, beautiful
cnrv-’S sv.'eep around anything to
keep clos., tu i e river, but it’s all
ste.fi ri.i md rock ballast, single
.rack from lhe round-house to the ter
mi.,uc. Taken a heap of water to
in-, it the ugh; double tanks at every
: io?, aufi there isn't an engine in
the shops thai. c m pull a pound or
run 0 mils in less than two gauges.
But it runs through a lovely country;
these river roads always do; river on
one side and hills on the other, and
rob up the grade all
the way till the run ends where the
fountain-head of the river begins.
Yes, sir, 111 take the river road eve
ry time 101 a lovely trip, sure con
ntctions and good time, and no
prairrn ca tbl wing in at the win-
And terdaywhenthecon-
Jr.ctcr eim . around for the tickets
wiihalitth basket punch, laid not
ask him t ...> pass me. but I paid my
faro like 1 Title man—twenty-five
cents for an hour’s run and a little
concern by tho passengers throwed
in. I tell you, , i’grim, you take the
river road wheu you want—”
But justl ?it ifi long whistle from
the engine announced a station, and
the brakeman hurried to the door,
shouting--
“Zin sv lo! This train makes no
• ; and Indianapo
lis I ’ — Burlingtc n Hawkeye.
The Political Position of Geor
gia.
Radiaß.; - from Atlanta, the pub
lic mind is being impressed, east and
west, with the idea that the inde
pendents and republicans can carry
this State. We are told, in the
•e of the New York
d situation has ele
ments of encouragement; that
the independent party is large and
growing; that three congressional
i districts v.-ire carried last tall, and a
j fourth, the Atlanta district, would
: irae way if a good
I e&nd: <ate had been put up against
Mb Hammond. We are further
more t‘. d ii I shrewd republicans
Link the t me for action has arrived,
and that they can obtain “a balance
lof po; er in State politics, and by
i effecting 1 combination with the in
j Icperdei.' ' the regular democ
fracy. The republican State conven-
I tion will be field April 21. It will
• elect t eiegates to Chicago und nomi
nal- nrt idential electors. If it is
■ decided to co-operate with the inde
i p-. n-.lents in Sffate politics, a platform
’ - ’"' a the nomination
open; otherwise
[NCT PRINT u oboson.” It
•om this that the
j ‘’crcbiieanr aravitafe toward the in
i dependents* ana tho independents
1 are counted upi 11 to make this un-
■ m-uural a-lim c= against the regular,
; organized democracy. This may be
‘ only a fict-ior* drawn from a fertile
j Atlanta imagination, but it is, at any
\ rate, a symptom of what broods iu
’ some minds-, and ought to prove an
! eve op.net io such of the independ
-1 onts an scorn to be considered radi-
cals in disguise, and who grow very
indignant when accused of being led,
sensibly or insensibly, to the radical
camp.
The 'Himes correspondent goes on
to say that the independents will
have a full ticket for State officers i
and contest every congressional dis
trict. They hope to carry two more.
We are not told which two, but pre
sume reference is made to the seats
now occupied by Mr. Hammond and
Mr, Nichols. Information is further
vouchsafed that “ex-United States
Senator Miller, Congressman Felton,
Judge Gus Wright, Gen. Wofford,
Judge Pittman and other leading
Georgians are decided in their uppo
sition, and will wave a black flag in
the coming contest.” As it is hardly
presumable that “the waving of the
black flag” means death to organized
democrats individually, the inference
must be that the banner flung to the
breeze will be a negro one, and that
the independents will appeal to the
common enemy for aid and comfort.
If it does not mean this, what does
it mean ?
On one subject the Times corres
pondent is level-headed. He admits
that Georgia connot be carried for
any Republican candidate for the
Presidency. But the Republicans
are consoled with the idea of carry
ing the Congressional districts and
State offices, by an Independent co
alition, and they will be satisfied with
that as an entering wedge.
We believe that the Independent
party in Georgia will hardly make
such an alliance as this correspon
dent suggests, especially after the
olive branch tendered them by the
State Executive Committee. If such
shall be the case, members of that
party must understand that the Re
publicans openly rejoice at it, and
consider it a triumph for themselves
It is well the matter should be made
plain in advance, and it will not be
our fault if the regular democracy
shall not gain as complete a triumph
over any such combination as it gain
ed over Radical Republicanism in its
worst estate.
The Atlanta correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette throws out the same
hints and expresses the same hopes
as the correspondent of the New
York paper. A coalition with Inde
pendents is boldly announced, and
the result expected is a Radical bal
ance of power. We judge, from the
ear-marks, that all the correspon
dence emanates from the same indi
vidual. In the Western paper, how
ever, there are particulars given i
which are only shadowed in the New
York journal, Mr. Stephens and
Hill are confidently claimed to be
the champions of this hybrid faction,
we know not with what assurance.
But the writer to both papers ex
hibits immense joy at the very sugges-1
tion, and then rapturously exclaims :
“These facts being true, here, evi
dently, is the chance for the Repub
lican party to be of some force.
With such a split in the Democratic
ranks, it can assuredly join the so I
called bolters and rout the lines of
the so-called organized. With prop
er management the entire State
Democratic ticket could be defeated,
and nearly every one of the districts
secured by the opposition. The ne
gro vote can be kept well in hand,
especially since it will appear that
the white vote is so badly divided,
and cannot use its combined money
and power to secure the ballots ol
tho colored electors. There will be
capital, and influence, and respecta
bility on both sides, in nearly equal
proportions, and the negro, timid as
he is, will find no sxcuse for not ex
ercising his free choice.’’
We can understand, with such an
ticipations before them, why gigantic
efforts are being made to persuadt
the Republican convention, when it
meets, to decline putting forth a
State ticket. The Republicans rely
upon Independent assistance, and
how far their reliance is of any con
sequence the future must determine.
One thing seems to be certain, and
that is the sole hope of Radicalism
in Georgia is in the Independent,
movement, and the sole hope of
keeping Radicalism in its present
harmless attitude abides with the
regular Democracy. An overwhel
ming majority of the people of Geor
gia will never follow any Indepen
dent leaders into the Republican fold
and Radical dead-fall.— Chronicle &
Constitutixmalist.
Edison’s Discovery in Gold Min
ing.
The Baltimore 6’un gives a more
extended notice of Edison’s new
method of extracting gold from the
spent ore than we were able to do
yesterday. As it promises some im
portant results to the business and
financial situation of the country, we
append the Sun’s article:
“If only partial credence can be
given to the fljrid accounts of a new
discovery by Edison, there is still
sufficient in the statements made l
public to indicate that he has accom
plished a thing that will add con
siderably to the metalic wealth of
the United States, It is said that
while pursuing his researches for
platinum, of which there are small
quantities in the gold-bearing depos
its of the country, he discovered a
means whereby, through the com
bined agency of chemistry ami
electricity, he could extract the
waste gold from the tailings of
mines.
This gold has always heretofore
eluded every method devised by sci
ence to collect it. The quantity of
float gold, and of gold particles so
fine that the quicksilver and other
devices used in the separators, can
not attract or reach, is represented
to be very great. Not only does it
lurk in the tailings of mines, but in
the auriferous sands of rivers, and is
not discernible by the naked eye, and
very often escapes detection under
the microscope. It is this waste
gold, hidden among tailings and
river sands, that Edison, it is said,
has found out away to recover.
Having demonstrated effective
ness, he has organized the Edison
Ore Milling Company to work over
the tailings of mines by his process,
and has made contract by which
mi’ilions of tons of this refuse have
been secured. The story, as it comes i
to us through the New York Herald,
seems almost to surpass belief- It
is that, while in search of platinum,
Edison has been collecting, through
an agent, samples of the tailings of
different mines for many months
past.
“He takes,” we are told, “a quan
tity of tailings, which, so lar as any
known process is concerned, contain
not a trace of gold, and by a wizard
like manipulation of chemicals he
produces therefrom the precious met
al in quantities simply astonioihng.
He states that by his method he has
got out gold from concentrated tail
ings at the enormous ratio, in some
instances, of $1,400 per ton, at an
expense not exceeding $5 per ton.
From the samples sent him, accord
ing to what is said to be his own ac
count, he obtained from the refuse
of the Spring Valley mineau average
of $750 per ton; from the Powers
claim tailings, near Oroville, Califor
nia, at lhe rate of $1,400 to the ton,
and he computes that at the various
mines around Orovihe “there ure at
least $50,000,000 in the tailings,” all
of which he has secured to be treated
by his method.
The first works of the Edison Ore
Milling Company are to be erected
at Oroville, and it is expected that
they will be in practical operation
before August of this year. Edison
does not’ pretend that all the sam
ples of takings sent him yielded the
same results. Tne greatest returns
were from the refuse of the crushed
end triturated auriferous quartz
rocks around Oroville. The black
sand from the lava beds produced
SBO in gold to the ton; sand frem the
bottom of Feather river but $8 per
ton, while the alluvial of the soil
around Oroville yielded only $1.25
per ton.
As it was the hydraulic tailings
that were richest in gold, it would
iieem as if the Georgia gold-placers,
where hydraulic mining is carried on
to a great extent, would offer a fine
field to experiments; but it does not
appear as if Edison had put any
samples from that source to the test.
The process is, at present, a secret
which Edison has only confided to
his associates in the company that
has been formed to work bv it. But,
allowing for the exaggerations that
are common to almost all new dis
coveries, there is evidently enough
of value in this discovery of Edison’s
to tempt capitalists to embark in it,
though, perhaps, quite as much from
the faith that they have in Edison
fiimself as from the practical illustra
tions which he appears to have given
of his ability to extract some gold, at
least, from the refuse of mines which
has generally been regarded as
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Beauty u> Women.
Is there not a beauty and a charm
in that venerable and venerated wo
man, who sits in her ‘majesty of ago’
! besides the fireside of her sou; she
who nursed him in his infancy, ten
ded him in youth, counseled him in
manhood, and who now dwells as
the tutelary goddess of his house
hold? What a host of blessed mem
ories are linked with that mother,
even in her “reverential and arm
chair days!”—what a multitude of
sanctifying associations surround her
and make her lovely, even on the
verge of the grave. Is thfre not a
beauty and a charm in that matronly
woman who sits looking fondly on
the child in her lap? Is there not a
holy influence around her, and does
not the observer at once pronounce
her lovely? What though the lines
and lineaments of youth are fled;
time has given far more than he has
taken away. And is there not a
beauty and a charm in a fair girl who
is kneeling before that matron—her
own womanly sympathies just open
ing into active life, as she folds that
youthful infant to her bosom ? All
are beautiful —tl e opening blossoms,
the mature flower, and tho ripened
fruit; and the callous heart and the
sensual mied chat regards loveliness
as a stimulant for passion only, show
that it has no correct sense of beauty
or refined taste.
Wliicb is the Happiest Season I
At a festal party of old and young,
the question was asked, “Which sea
son of lifj is the most happy?” Af
ter being freely discuss' d by the
guests, it was referred for answer to
the host, upon w’ om was the burden
of fourscore years. He asked if they
had noticed a grove of trees before
the dwelling, and said: “When the
spring comes, and in the soft air the
buds are breaking on the trees, and
they are covered with blossoms, I
think How beautiful is Spring ! And
when the summer comes and covers
rhe trees with its heavy foliage, and
singing birds are among the branches
I think, Hoic beautiful is Summer!
When autumn loads them with frail,
and their 'eaves beer the gorgeous
tint of frost, I think, How beautiful is
Autumn! And when it is sere win
ter, and there is neither foliage nor
fruit, then I look through the leaf
less branches, as I never could till
now, and see the stars shine.”
The superstitions about gems are
various in different countries. In
Russia and Germany, pearls are ob
jected to as promising tears for the
wearer. In France the malachite is
not looked upon with favor, and in
many countries the turquoise is be
lli ved to change color as a prophecy
of sickness for the wearer. The
Poles have a fanciful belief that
each month of the year is under
the influence of a precious stone,
which has a mysterious effect on the
destinv of a person born during the
month.
As a rule-, the more thoroughly dis
ciplined and fit a man may be for
any really great work, the more con
scious will he be of his own unfitness
for it, the more distrustful of himself,
the more anxious not to thrust him
self forward.
‘ Be thankful forth) daily bread.
SMAKL bits
Os Varlows Klsui* Carelessly Thrown
Together.
Blaine’s friends now claim for him
already 359 delegates >n the Chicego
convention.
Vermont is for Hancock. Tilden
had Vermont in 1876, and the most
ol New England.
Beaconsfield asked for a vote of
confidence, and the people gave it—
to the other party.
Dr. A. B. Shirney of Detroit, pres
ident of the Michigan State Society
of Spiritualists and Liberalist?, has
become violently insane.
Never retire at night without be
ing wiser than when you rose in the
morning, by having learned some
thing useful during the day.
There are 34 factories exempted
from taxation in the State of Geor
gia, undar the act approved August
23d, 1872, covering $4, 138,375.
The great fire in Chicago in 1871
left only one church standing in the
city. There are now, according to a
recent enumeration, 213 churches
there.
They say the difference between a
grasshopper ai d a grass widow is—
is—by heavens, there is no differ
ence. They will both jump at the
chance.
Hon Washington C. Whitthorne,
Chairman of the Committee on Naval
Aftairs of the House of Representa
tives, read law r under President
James K. Polk.
Prince Bismarck’s sixty-fifth birth
day was celebratet on the first inetan*
with ail the honors. His palace was
flooded with birthday offerings from
all parts of Europe.
Ex-Gov. David E. Morgan, of New
York, has seen ex-Gov. Brown’s $50,-
000 and gone $50,000 better. He re
cently gave the Union Theological
Seminary SIOO,OOO.
The Cincinnati Gazelle says that it
is queer that so many Bibles live to a
good old age, while not. one pack of
playing cards out of a dozen sees the
second Chridmas.
When we hear a man bragging
that he is a self-made man, we often
wonder why he did not ask a wise
man to help him pick out better tim
ber, before he began to build.
William M. Astor, who owns twen
ty thousand houses in New York
City, and an income of SBOO,OOO a
year, is the smallest man in the New
York senate He shows a studious
devotion to his bu&iness.
The St. Louis- liepublican, credited
with great democratic influence in
the Mississippi Valley, Las come cut
squarely for Tilden, and the Gramer
cy Park boom has received a fresh
push forward.
Sixty telephone wires hang on the
poles on Harrison avenue, in Lead
ville, almost obscuring the sky at
that point. As regards lelepbone
wires, Chicago claims the champion
ship, having 350 on a single pole.
The returns from Indiana show
that all the constitutional amend
ments were adopted. No election
will therefore by held in that state
until November, and Ohio at once
becomes tie great potential October
state.
The Rev. Dr. Hail believes that
newspaper writers if given a text
could often write a better sermon
ihan soma ministers. It would be
bad for the newspaper business if
they couldn’t.
The widow of the late Gen. J. E.
B. Stuart, of Confederate cavalry
fame, has been elected principal oi
the Virginia female institute at
Staunton, Va , Mrs. Stuart is a daugh
ter oi Gen. Philip St. George Cooke,
United States army.
W. H Vanderbilt will own $50,-
000,000 in Government bonds before
next July. He has $26,000,000 of N.
Y. Central Railroad stock. He pos-
I sesses other millions, but, from com
j mon report, does not pay as much
! tax as his coachman.
The temperance society at Dublin,
Ohio, is called Ku Klux, and seems
to deserve the name, for the members
have blown up two bar-rooms with
powder. On the last occasion the
building was totally demolished by
the explosion of a keg of powder in
the cellar.
It is a great mistake for young
people of moderate means to com
mence life by boarding. It fosters
extravagant habits, and leads to
idleness and gossip. Begin house
keeping if you can maintain two
rooms, and. increase your style
as, and no further than, you can af-'
ford it,
The Great Eastern, which has lain
idle at Milford for some four years,
is undergoing extensive alterations.
Her paddle engines are being taken
out of her, and she will in future be
driven by twin screws. She is be
ing fitted for the conveyance of car
goes of live cattle from America, and
her passenger saloons are being
redecorated.
During the last ten years 239
miles of street car rails have been
laid iu England and Wales, at a cost
of nearly $15,000,000, exclusive of the
outlay on horses, engines and cars.
It cost one company in London sl,
600,000 to construct twenty and a
quarter miles, while another expended
nearly double that on thirty-two
and a quarter miles.
The New York Herald prints oral
expressions of opinion made to a
representative of that paper by near
ly all the members of Congress from
the three important States of Virgin
ia, Louisiana and Mississippi as to
the sentiments of their constituencies
respecting the nomination of Mr
Tilden. The pretty uniform tenor of
the statements is that, in the judg
ment of the Democrats oft hese three
Southern States, it would not be
merely impolitic, but fatal to put
Mr. Tilden at the bead of the Dem
ocratic ticket.
Art Vertißins X-l a, 1 cis .
Legal advertisements chargee seveui|-*five cents
per hundred werds or fraction thereof eaoh inser
tion for the first four insert! ns, and thirty--five
cent® for each BUbse<Hient i’jsertior’.
Tran six it advertising will be charged i 1 pw inch
for the first, and fifty cents for each soldnuent
insertion. Advertisers desiring larger for a
longer time than ote mci.tii will receive a liter.-•
deduction frowrogalar rate A.
All bills due upon the first appearance < ‘ t! .... ■
vertisement, and will be presented at the ;dean<e
of the proprietor. Transient advertiseuieute train
unknown parties must be paid for in advance.
NO. 16
BROWN BRO’S
BANKERS, BROKERS
AND COLLECTION AGENTS
GAINESVILLE, GA.
Rkfekences—Hanovba National Bank, N.
Y., Moobe. Jenkins & Co. N. Y., G. W
Williams & Co., Charleston, S. C.,—any
ot the Atlanta Banks.
MILLINERY GOODS!
Mrs. H. TV. AVare
Begs leave to inform her friends and the
public generally that she has opened her
store in her dwelling house*«n Main street,
next door to the college, on the right hand
as you go from the square. She Lopes tt>
receive a liberal patronage, and to unwit the
same by a desite to please and the low prices
at which she will sell goods. Look lor the
fancy hat as a sign, last house as you go
down Main street to the college.
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11. w. .1.1 I VVI
Attorney at Law,
GAINESVILLE, GA.
Office in Henderson <f Candler Building,
East Side Public Square
F. NJBWMAX,
Physician and Surgeon.
Flottvery Braiicli, O■; t.
Office, first door above Barrett's store.
Will attend calls at a distance from relia
ble parties. (lebl3 6iu
HIE CLINAIID UOI SE.
A. r l'Ei2s JSTtS, O A.,
To the Public—l take this uutLod of
returning thanks to niy numerous cubtumers
fir their liberal patronage doling niy P’ng
proprietorship oi the Newtqu IL'ii- , in
Athens. Ontfre 31st of Decembai my pr •
prietorship of the Newton House, wiU teas-',
at which time I will open the Clinard House,
pleasantly located on Clayton Street, one of
the principal business Btreeta in Atliuus,
where I nope and enpect iny fonrmr pat
rons, and the traveling public genenuly, to
stop when visiting Athens, pledging luym.-if
to do all in my power for their cemtort, etc.
A. 1). CLIN ARD
Athens, Ga., Dec. 9, 1879. —l9 if
NATIONALH OT EL,
ATLANTA, GA.
Rates, S 2 per Day;
SPECIAL ttATES
For loiig’ei’ Time
The NATIONAL, being renovated ai d
reiumished, oilers superior inducements to
the traveling public. E. T. WHITE,
mar7 Agent, Proprietor.
E. T. BROWN,
torney at Ijaw,
ATHENS,. GA.
OFFICE IN HUNNICUT BLOCK,
OVER CHAS. STERN & CO.
References by Permission :
Anderson, Starr «fc Co., New York; Citi
zens’Bank of Georgia, Atlanta; Judge H.
K. McKay, Atlanta; F. Phkiizy, Athens.
nov2B ly
Northeastern Ha 11 roa d.
Oil: iiige of SolxecluJ e<
SurEBIKIKNOKST’s Oi l XC: . )
Athens. Ga.. Oct. 11, IsT9. i
On and after Monday, October 6, 187'’. trains on
the Northeastern Railroad will run as follows. All
trains daily except Sunday:
Leave Athens 3 59 p nr
Arrive at Lula 020 “
Arrive at Atlanta, via AiPLiie K R 10 30
Leave Atlanta, via Air-Line it. K ... ;; 30 “
Leave Lnla ...I ? 4<l ••
Arrive at Athene...., in ■ >■
The above trains also connect cio«>? tLu .with
northern bound trains on A. L. R. it. on Wednes
days and Saturda s the following addini.a! trai: a
will be run:
Leave Athene .. 6 45 a in
Arrive at Lula •. 845 <•
Leave Lula y 2U
Arrive at Athens 113 “
Tills trail connects closely at Lula lor Alia-. ,
making the trip to At anta only four hoars and
forty-five minutes. J. M. EDW.VKIiS, bupt.
ATLA.XTA & CHARLIITTE A, L. L 11.
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
On and after December 2uth double daily txa.ua
will run on this road as follows:
MORNING TRAIN.
Leave Atlanta . i.. 7 400 a m
Arrive Charlotte 3 20pxn
«• Air-Line Junction 30
“ Danville 951 “
•* Lynchburg 12 37 ni’t
“ Washington 7 5u a iu
“ Baltimore . 930 “
■< Pinia' elphia 4.1 30 and 145 pm
“ Ne w York 345 and 445 “
, « Wilmington. N. C. (nrxt day) J 01 a m
“ Richmond 7 43 *■
EVENING TRAIN.
Leave Atlanta 3 30 p m
Arrive Charlotte ■ 3 20 a in
•• Air-Line Junction 330 “
*■ Dauville... 10 22 “
“ Lynchburg 153 pm
“ it climoud 4 43 “
“ Wa-hington. I’s “
** Baltimore 11 55 “
•• Philadelphia -3 35 a m
“ New York i>4s “
GOING EAST.
Night Mail and Passenger train.
Arrive Gainesville 5:50 i xu
Leave " 5:51 “
Day Passenger train
Arrive “ 5:13 a m
Leave “ .... 6:15"
Local Freight and Accommodation train.
Arrive Gainesville 11:10am
Le-ve "• 11:25 "
GOING WESI.
Night Mail and Passenger train.
Arrive Gainesville 0:29 a m
Leave 9:21 "
Day Pass mger train.
Arrive " B;lspm
Leave “ ....... . 8:16
Local Freight and Accommodation Maki.
Arrive Gainesville in
Leave •* 23)0“
Close connection at Atlanta for a.l pouts West,
and at Charlotte for all potnts East.
G. J. FOBEACRE, G. M.
W. J. HOUSTON, Gen. Pas. and Tkt Agt.
PATEhSTS.
F. A. Lehmann, Solicitor of American
ami Foreign Patents, Wa-hington, 1). C.
All business connected with Patents, v hetLer
before the Patent Office or the Courts,
promptly attended to. No charge made
unless a patent is secured. Send for circu
lar. (iiov22 ts
One of our most estimable citizens may
thankful for the introduction of Dr.
Bull’s Cough Syrup, for its timely use has
«ad hie life.