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EDITORIAL EAGLETS.
Senator Beet, of Kentucky, thinks
the republican ticket will be Grant
and Blaine.
♦—
The grand jury of Madison county,
Ky., at its recent setting found forty
eight indictments against one indi
vidual.
If half of what Grant’s friends say
of Blaine, and Blaine’s friends say
of Grant, be true, neither of them is
fit to be chief magistrate of this un
ion.
The republican convention de
clared in favor of Senator Edmunds,
but passed a resolution to support
the nominee of the Chicago conven
tion.
The lowa republican convention
met on Wednesday of last week, and
appointed a Btaine delegation to
Chicago, with instructions to support
iiim as a unit.
t ♦—
The Missouri republican state con
vention met at Sedalia on Thursday
of last week, elected delegates to
Chicago, and instructed them to vote
as a unit for Grant.
It is stated by those who are in
positions io know, that very large
numbers of European emigrants are
preparing to come to the United
States during the year.
The Greenville and Columbia rail
road of South Carolina, was sold at
public outcry on Thursday of last
week to W. A. Courtney & Co., of
Charleston, for $2,963,400.
Mr. Carlisle, of Kentucky, is classed
as the ablest and wisest member of
the house from the south, if not
from the whole country, but is said
to be a little too modest and retiring
for a leader. •
Just so sure as General Grant is
nominated at Chicago, so certainly
will an independent republican can
didate be put into the field. This
moans, men and brethren, the defeat
of a third term by the election of the
democratic candidate.— Springfield 1
Republican.
Judging from the tone of the press I
und from the action of the demo
cratic state conventions already held, 1
the two-thirds rule will be continued j
:n force bj the Cincinnati conven
tion. The rule places alt on an ;
equality and we think it is wise to ;
let it stand.
General Merritt, collector of cus
toms at New York, says that the re- I
’’■ports about Mr. Tilden’s physical
condition are well founded; that
those who are intimate with him say '
that while he retains his mental vig- .
•r. his nervous system is undermined I
and he will not live long.
The Augusta Aeifs says: “The
policy of silence seems best fitted
for Senator Gordon’s health.” Well,
after the few broken remarks which
the senator recently placed on paper,
supported as they are by the wit
nesses called to the stand, and the
results of the controversy, we should
think he can very well afford to be
silent.
We are not surprised to see some
of those who have been acting with
the independents calling a halt.
They are beginning to find out that
the leaders area set of unscrupulous,
self-nominated, office-seeking politi
cians, whose burning thirst for pro
motion will carry them and all who
will follow into strange pastures and
uncongenial associations.
The Washington correspondent of
the Richmond Dispatch says the
"Field managers are in good spirits,
and are working systematically. The
ablest of them declare that either
Field or Seymour will be nominated.
No man there of either party says
Seymour would be a weaker candi
date than any 7 named, but content
themselves with asserting that he
will not accept, because bis health
will not permit him.
The wiser portion of the rcpubli
can press concede that in the debate
# on the army 7 bill, the democrats, by
judicious silence, made their more
vociferous opponents ridiculous. The
whole thing was a farce from begin
ning to end, and Cox wound it up
appropriately with llansey Sniffle.
.Gen. Ewing’s closing speech was
apparently in good taste and a
crushing exposure of the hypocriti
cal inconsistency of the republicans.
A writer in the Randolph county,
Ala., News, suggests this novel plan
for selecting delegates county con
vention: “Let the delegates to the
convention be st cured in the same
way that jurors are obtained. Let
the names of all who are known to
be democratic voters, in each beat,
be put in a box and thoroughly
mixed. Then let the requisite num
ber of names be drawn to represent
the beat in the convention, the draw
ing to be in the presence of the beat
meeting.
111E GAINESVILLE EAGLE
VOL. XIV.
POPULA R SCIENCE NOTES.
The 100th anniversary of the
American Academy of Arts and Sci
| ences, will take place on the 26th of
i May next.
Prof. A. Schacchi, of the academy
iof sciences at Naples, has diebvered
a new metal in some Vesuvius lavas
which he gives the name of Ves
bium, the ancient name of Vesu
vius.
The next total eclipse visible near
! the United States will be that of May
28, 1900, at 3 o’clock in the after
noon 1 The central line of totality
will pass through Mexico, the Agons
and Egypt.
Through the efforts of his Excel
lency, Li Hung Chang, the Chinese
gover; ment has decided to establish
! a complete system of telephones
I throughout that part of China north
of Yang Tee Kiang.
Over 1,000,000 feet of the flooring
timber of the East River bridge, New
I York, will be saturated with Creosate
as a preservative of the wood. The
contract for the creosating has been
awarded Mr. C. R. Andrews, of New
York City.
The village of Villard de’Arrenne,
in the department of the Hautes
Alpes, in Southern France, is said to
be slipping down hill, causing great
alarm to the inhabitants. The entire
side of the mountain seems to be giv
ing away and an immense land-slide
is expected at any time.
The eminent English scientist, Dr.
Richardson, says of coffee drinking:
“Coffee can rot be taken in excess
without producing dispepsia and
irritation, but moderately used it is
an invigorating, healthful, and whole
some drink, bringing a man’s best
energies into play. The quantity ta
ken, however, must not be large, and
should be good.
A large finback whale was captured
last month, two miles oft' Frincetown
Harbor, Capo Cod, by five fishermen
armed with bomb-lapce and gun.
The monster fish was 65 feet in
length, 15 feet in greatest diameter,
and weighed 70 tons. It was pur
chased by Swift & Co., of Prince
town, for S6OO and towed to New
York City where it attracted greaf
interest.
A now factory is being set up at
Chicago, 111., for the manufacture of
Glucose from corn, with a capacity
foi working 20,000 bushels a day.
A bushel of corn will produce 30
pounds of Glucose or three gallons
of syrup. Thus when corn is selling
at 40 cants a bushel, sugar can be
made from it at 2 cents a pound and
leave a respectable profit to the
manufacturer.
Miniature railways, on which di
minutive locomotives circulate, elec
tricity being used as the motive
power, are being introduced in Paris
as a substitute for the pneumatic
tubes, used for the bodily transmis
sion of telegrams and small pack
ages, over that distances. The enginea
now in use in this way, it is said,
have run at the rate of fifteen miles
an hour, with a load of from fifteen
to twenty pounds of messages and
packages,
A new and novel process for pro
ducing photo-printing plates is as
follows: A layer of gelatine is made
insoluble by the following solution:
Water. 100 cubic centums; Iron Per
chloride, 3 grammes; Tartaric Acid,
1 gramme. Gelatine with which this
solution is incorporated is insoluble,
but ceases to be so in those parts
where light is able to act by reduc
ing to its naturil state, the iron
compound. The action of the light
just the opposite upon this mode, to
that of the process, given in these
columns recently, where bichromate
is used. To operate with this pro
cess successfully, proceed as in the
bichromate process, substituting tne
foregoing solution for the bichromate
of potash, leaving tho latter entirely
out. The results from this process
are said to be very satisfactory, and
those but with ordinary skill can with
a little practice produce fine itchings
and engravings for the printing press
at a nominal expense.
From recent important discover
ies made in the exploration of mounds
and old ruins along the western
shore of the lower Euphrates, scien
tists and explorers, are of the belief
that they have found in that region,
the long-lost seat of empire of the
ancient Hittites, so frequently men
tioned in the Bible as a people occu
pying Candab. This has been opened
up to us in these discoveries, an
extinct civilization that existed be
fore Rome or Athens was founded, cf
which nearly every trace and memo
rial had been lost until now. Stones
with quaint inscriptions upon them
which are neither in the Assyrian or
Egyptian language have been found
and forwarded to the British muse
um, which it is thought when prop
erly translated, will open a new and
earliear page in the history of man-
I kind, in that of religion, science, and
* of the arts, as practiced and observed
in the days of Abraham and in the
land of his nativity,
VILLE, q A., FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 23, 1880.
[ Washington Correspondence. I
[Special Correspondence of the Eagl.J
Washington, D. C. April 15, 1880. I
Our Indians are not more savage '
in time, of war than the Grant and
' Blaine men at this time. Up to this
■ writing Grant has pledged to him in
Convention the States of Pepngvlya
nia,New York, Kentucky and- Mis
souri, and there is no doubt of the
full vote of Virginia. Throughout
the Southern States, indeed, he
seems to have almost a certainty of
convention support. Edmunds, who
is a Grant man, is counted upon,
when he withdraws, to turn over
whatever he can of his to
Grant and this is considerable in
New England. Illinois will prob
ably instruct for Grant. .This en
umerated support in an ordinary
campaign, would ensure nomination,
and just here is where the war com
mences. Many think Blaine has no
chance of success without breaking
the “instretions” given to Grant, and
Blaine’s friends are saying they will
break them, and Grant’s friends that
such a course would be dishonorable.
If it were not for the frightful result's
the party brought upon itself by ta
king up a “new man” in 1876, should
expect both Grant and Blaine to be
withdrawn, and a less prominent
candidate chosen. But that is im
possible. Alter these two there is no
one to fall back on but Sherman.
The fight is lively, and there are
many here who don’t think it will
stop the convention.
Kellogg will keep his seat, not on
the merits of his case, but because in
a moment of weakness, or magna- '
nimnity, to c emocrats of the senate
allowed him to be seated. There are
many democrats who will not vote to
unseat a man so seated. Kellogg
will stay-
Army and Navy and Indian appro
priation bills will be in the senate 1
within a week.
Among the schemes to reform the
tariff and Indians is to appoint com
missions of eminent gentlemen, out ;
side of congress, to inquire into these
subjects and report, A bill of Sen- '
ator Eaton, providing for such in- '
quiry into tariff matters, pass.d the ■
senate on Tuesday. So far as the
Indians are concerned, I don’t doubt
that a commission of five, seven or (
nine gentlemen who have the confi
dence of the counti y, and would have (
that of the Indians, could, in a year i
of intercourse with the various tribes i
prepare a system of Indian adminis
tration preferable in everyway to 3
that we now have. i
Senator Voorhees yesterday spoke
eloquently in favor of pensioning ‘
survivors of the Mexican war. There j
is a great probability that the bill t
will pass at this session. <
Race Aptitudes.
Os all the magnificent speculations
and gorgeous drcams of Earl Bea
consfield, none have awakened a
deeper interest in tho minds of the
thoughtful or been more frequent!)
jeered at by the frivolous than his
forecastings of the future of Oriental
races. His thoughts on this subject,
while clothed and clouded in a sort
of Turnerdsque atmosphere, are un
doubtedly deed and sincere. The
visions of his Tancred and other no
vels havj been realized in the ac
quisition of Cyprus and the corona
tion of the Empress of India, and the
control of the Suez canal may easily
be adjusted to some yet undeveloped
scheme for the accomplishment of
the dream which restores the focal
point of empire of Syria. Beconsfield
sees in the Oriental mind aptitudes
and tendencies restoring to it all
its ancient control in the domain of
conquest, of speculation and of art, —
More practical thinkers fancy that
they discover in some of the Oriental
races peculiar aptitudes for the con
duct of business and the accumula
tion of property and wealth, which
are strong enough to put the West
ern and other races at a continually
greater disadvantage as the compe
tition for the trade of the world gets
to be more severe and exigent. In
Africa and amongst the Malays the
Arabs from Muscat and Zanzibar
have secured almost an entire con
trol of business. They reap all the
profits of the trade in cloths, in
pearls, spices, ivories, gold dust and
slaves. In the farther east, in Siam,
Burmah, the Phillippines, Oceanica,
on the Pacific coast everywhere, in
Australia and California, Chinese la
bor and, Chinese traders are press
ing, witn their untiring competition
and their remarkable thrift, "all the
other races, and tho end of that strug
gle is yet afar oft'. In Europe and
in this country, on the other hand,
the Hebrew race, still essentially
Oriental in tradatiou and habit of
thought, is competing very actjveiv
and successfully in* every branch of
trade and traffic with the other ra
ces. In Germany there is to-day a
race excitement based upon the con
sciousness that in many lines of bus
iness the Teuton cannot sustain a
successful competition with the He
brew. In banking especially the He
brews have such a grasp upon the
money power that Germany is, as
Bismarck has phrased it, “financial
ly strangled.” Probably some of Bis
marck’s sense of strangulation pro
ceeds from the fact that the Hebrews
are opposed to the irmrtinnn ht
and taxation for t
ment of the “war pot INDISTIN
persistent friends of
peaceful pursuits by'v e>*--
richer and more free. This is the
case the world over. Bismarck's or
gans in Germany are discussing tbd
“Jewish question,” and his magazine,
the Grenzboten, has given some inter
esting facts about the distribution of
I the Hebrew race throughout the
: world and the proportion of busi
! ness which they control. They do
not number more than seven or eight
million's, all told, only about a fifth
or sixth of tfie whole residing out
side of Europe In Germany there
are not more than 600,000, yet they
monopolize many of the most im
portflfit and lucrative lines of busi
ness, furnishing 85 per cent, of the
Jankers. In this country our He
brew fellow-citizens control and di
rect many of the most valuable fields
of trade and enterprise, and the
sphere of their influence and opera
tions is constantly widening. This
growing preponderance is easy to ex
plain, and the solution is much more
to the credit of the Jewish race than
th If of their competitor in business.
Natural and acquired aptitude and
race instinct have much to do with it
of couise.' The Jew’s business hab
its are the results of immemorial in
heritance—of a procees of natural se
lection and survival of the fittest.
The Anglo-Saxon who makes money
usually leaves it to a son whose cheif
ambition is to spend it; the grand
children of our rich men are nearly
always poor. But the rich Jew’s son
gets richer; his grandson is apt to be
come a millionaire. The Anglo Sax
on races waste much in their home* s .
The Jew, their equal in enterprise,
industry and business scope, prac
tices economic habits which keep his
expenses always within his income.
He is liberal, but not extravagant.
He repudiates asceticism as heartily
as unthrift, enjoys himself always
and in many ways without letting
such things intoxicate him, and is the
snly real cosmopolite, whether regar
ded in his pleasures and aesthetic as
pirations or in his business combina
tions and economies. Business with
the Hebrew is a science, like every
other science, is founded upon a ra
tional application of the economies
of nature.
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Railroad Tax Suits.
A's a matter of very great concern
and importance to all the people of
the State, I write the following con
cerning the great tax suits against
the* railroads and present their pres
ent status, and how much the State
has gained by them The matter is
now made of interest because of the
payment into the State Treasury last
Friday afternoon the sum of $96,
833,36, by Gen, A. B. Lawton, attor
ney in behalf of the Central and Au
gusta and Savannah Railroads. Os
this amount, $86,750,48 was paid bj
the Central, and $10,834,56 by the
Augusta and Savannah. This was
the result of a compromise of the tax
suits against the two roads.
The Georgia Railroad compromis
ed the suit against it some time ago,
and at once paid over to the State
about $30,000.
Judgments have been obtained
against the Atlantic and Gulf Rail
road for over SIOO,OOO, but no settle
ments have as yet been made.
Judgments were obtained against
the Macon and Augusta Railroad for
$40,000 taxes, and $120,000 penalties,
but the Legislature g! 1879 very jus
tly remitted all penalties under the
circumstances and a portion of the
taxes.
The case against the Atlanta and
Charlotte Air Line is now pending
i before the U. S. Supreme Court.
The case against the Southwestern
Railroad is to be tried in Bibb Su
» perior Court this week. However,
the State Suprem > Court has held
; that this road is liable to taxation on
I all its outside property, and also on
, several of its branches that have
, heretofore been supposed to be ex
empt from taxation. The cases
■ against the Western and Atlantic
Railroad Company, and also the Fort
Valley < and Hav fdnsville Railroad
are still pending. The State will
eventually recover in the aggregate
something near $300,000 in taxes
from these railroads, which hereto-
: fore bjen pay ing nothing to the
State, and the principle has been es-
[ tablishcd which will add annually for
; all time to come a large amount to
the revenue of the State by taxation
: on these large corporations
It is believed that as a result of
; these litigations successful on the
I part of the State, several hundred
■ thousand dollars will bo turned into
the treasury of the State annually,
s which will be of vast benefit to the
■ people of the State in distributing
■ the burdens of the government equal
• ly, and will enable the rate of taxa
! tion to be still father reduced.
i The people of tne'State cannot but
> congratulate themselves on having an
able Attorney General, who has so
- manfully and successfully gained
i these great railroad suits in their in
terest, and thus lessened the burdens
i of general taxation. There is hardly
, the least doubt that if the present At
, torney General, Colonel Robb N.
t Ely, is re-elected that all of the pen
ding railroad cases will be brought
■ to a successful conclusion, satisfacto
ry to the State and people. A com-
) mittee of the Legislature of 1879
■ complimented Attorney-General Ely
in the highest terms for his untiring
, eneigy, zeal and fidelity in re-ope
’ uing these cases, and bringing them
E to a successful issue. He has fought
’ them from Fulton county Superior
f Court to the Supreme Court of the
United StAfes, and has been univer
i sally successful. He has not only
- recowrad Lxes due for the years
1876 and ’77, but also for the years
i 1871 and '75, which had already
■ been tried and it was supposed that
- the cases had been irretrievably lost,
5 In all of these contests between the
5 State and these great corporations
- the commonwealth of Georgia has
- had the benefit of the able co-opera-
- tion of that splendid lawyer and
s statesman Gen. Robt. Toombs, while
Uthe raj IrrinAi hive been represented
of legal talent in
WT PRINT Jackson, Lawton
'fxnes and Cum
- -S. Hook, Henry
i Hillyer, and Judge Lyon, McCay
- and Trippe.
j The printed arguments in these
, cases of the Attorney General have
more the appearance of a volume
written upon the science of railroad
law than simple briefs presented in
particular cases. They show the
great amount of labor, learning and
research bestowed upon the investi
gation of these cases. M. E. T.
Proper Names.
Proper names are so generally ac
cepted simply as such, without any
inquiry as to whether they may not
have a significance beyond the mere
present identifications of a man or a
town, that the study of their deri
vation sometimes throws unexpect
ed light on the subject in hand. The
curiosities of this branch of etymol
ogy have frequently been commented
upon as to English names, and a
book recently published in France
gives much information about names
which have their origin there, but
which are familiar everywhere. The
writer, M. Loredan Larchey, goes
very far of the mark in one case at
least. Albani’s (Mrs. Gye’a) name,
in the last analysis, may mean white,
but it was adopted because she first
sang in an unpretentious choir at
Albany, N. Y., her own name then
being Lajeunesse, and with no refer
ence whatever to Languedoc. Her
rival’s name comes, we are told,
from patre, (shepherd), and not from
the more familiar but less poetic pate,
it would seem, Abelard, the world’s
personification of a lover, means a
keeper of bees. Arago, the name of
the philosopher who looked so steadi
ly at scientific truth, means good
eagle. Aubert is the same as Albert.
Bernheim and our own Barnum are
said to be derived from Berinhim,
the village of the warrior. Biron,
the original form of Byron, means
quint. Boucicault, the dramatist,
puts himself down “fatman” when
ever he writes his name, Brequet,
whose watches many people carry,
signifies boatman. Capoul, the name
of the celebrated tenor, being inter
preted, means little head. Carey is
the equivalent|of carrier. “The chest
nut,” a name frequently given to
country houses, is the translation of
Cassagnac. Daudet, the novelist’s
name, is a form of David. Denter,
and the English Dent, have no near
er origin than Curius Dentatus, who
got his name from being born with
teeth. Eilisson, Ellison, and Eliot,
are turned to Elias. Erckmann, the
novelist, the first half of the literary
partnership which always suggests
the Siamese twins is both by name
and nature a sincere man. Fano is
a f >rm of Stephens. Gambettft
means little leg, Garibaldi brave
spear, and Goupil, fox. Gounod,
who put “Faust” into music, derives
his name appropriately from “galan,”
to sing. Halevy, another composer,
prefixed to Levy the initials of his
other names, Henry Aron. Hugo
may be rendered intelligence; Victor
Hugo would then mean victorious in
telligence. MacMahcm scarcely seems
to be the same as the Italian Origin,
but both are said to mean son of the
bear. Millicent loses none of its
charm when analyzed into mille
sanclis. Mortimer and Mortemart
are names brought home by the Cru
saders from the Dead Sea. There
seems to be doubt whether Murray
means mulberry {mure) or marsh
marais.) Napoleon was written Na
polione in 1199 and comes from Na
poli, or Naples. Nathalie is the
French form of our pretty Puritan
name of Christmas, and is derived
from Noel. Pothuan, the name borne
by the French Ambassador at London
signifies thick lips in the patois of
Languedoc. Renan means friend. —
For Rothchild several equivalents
are g'ven. It may mean red shield
or glorious hero, but as it is more
common for Israeliiish family names
to be taken from places than from
personal peculiarities, it is more like
ly that it was derived from a town in
Denmark. Sarcey means switch, a
fit name for a circle, and Surdou, the
playwigh, with less appropriateness,
as some will think, traces his name
to sacerdos, a priest, Simson, even
when spelled with a “p,” is the same
as Samson; Dumas is the same as
Thomas; Thiers comes from Theo
dorse. Finally, Zola means grass.
Religious Knowledge.
And now observe, the first inpor
tant consequence of our fully under
standing this pre-eminence of the
soul will be the pure understanding
of th?t subordination of knowledge
respecting which so much has been
said. For it must be felt at onoe,
that the increase of knowledge,
merely as such, does not make the
soul larger or smaller; that, in the
sight of God, all the knowledge man
can gain is as nothing; but that the
soul, for which the great scheme of
redemption was laid, be it ignorant
or be it wise, is all in all; and in the
activity, strength, health and well
being of this soul lies the main dif
ference, in His sight, between one
man and another. And that which
is all in all in God’s estimate is also,
be assured, all in all in man’s labor;
and to have the heart open and eyes
clear, and the emotions and
thoughts warm and quick, and not
the knowing of this or the other fact,
is the state needed for all mighty do
ingin this world. And therefore,
finally, for this, the weightiest of all
reasons, let us take no pride in our
knowledge. We may, >n a certain
sense, be proud of being immortal;
we may be proud of being God’s chil
dren; we maybe proud of loving,
thinking, feeing, and all that we are
by no means teaching; but not of
what we have been taught by rote;
not of the ballast and freight of the
ship of the spirit, but only of the
pilotage, without which all the
freight will only sink it faster and
strew the sea more richly with its
ruins.— Ruskin.
The Chinese philosopher Ching
Chang Chung (B.C) in his famous
treaties upon “The Variabillity of
Human Nature,” says: “Let me
make the fashions for the women and
I care not who makes laws for the
men.
Had a Choice.
The tight at Blackburn’s Ford,
just to the left of Bull Run, was
opend by the Second Massachusetts
Infantry. Supported by a New York
and two Michigan regiments, they
advanced into the woods until they
heard something drop. The regi
ment bumbed up against intrench
ments and were subjected to a tre
mendous fire. Before going into the
woods the regiment was “dressed as
on parade, and the colonel rode °ut
and exclaimed:
“Men of Massachusetts!’’ the eyes
of your country are upon you!”
There was a grand yell, and they
went in to conquer or die. After fif
teen minutes’ desperate fighting
they retired from the woods to re
form behind the supports. Among
the last was an old man. He had
thrown away coat, hat, gun and all
accoutrements, and he was badly
demoralized As he passed the left
flank of a Michigan regiment in line
of battle, a wag called cut:
“Only 800 miles to Boston!’’
The old man halted for a moment,
and another joker observed :
“The eyes of your country are up
on you !”
“You blamed Wolverines, go to
grass !” growled the old warrior. “I’ve
got a choice about this thing, and I
druther stand the eyes of my country
all day long than the fire of them
cussed rebels for five minutes.—De
troit Free Press.
Position of Women in China.
Moung Edwin, a Burmese, who
has been educated in this country
with the view of sending him as a
Baptist missionary to Burmah,
lectured last week in Baltimore.
Speaking of the deplorable con
dition of women in the East owirg
mainly to peculiar religious leach
ings, he says: “Girls in China
are believed to have no soul,
and to kill them is not murder, and
and therefore not to be punished.
Where parents are too poor to sup
port the girl children, they are dis
posed of in the following way: At
regular intervals an appointed officer
goes through a village and collects
from poor parents all the girl chil
dren they cannot care for, when they
are about eight days old. He has
two large baskets attached to the
ends of a bamboo pole and slung
over his shoulder. Six infants are
placed in each basket, and he carries
them to some neighboring village
and exposes them for sale. Mothers
who desire to raise wives for their
sons buy such as they may select.
The others are taken to the Govern
ment asylum, of which there are
many ail through the country. If
there is room there they are taken in,
if not they are drowned.
A Young Giri Marries Her Fath
er’s Choice anil Becomes
Insane
Kale Boas is a banker’s daughter,
in Reading, Pa. Nature gave her
good looks, and her father’s million
enabled her to add such accomplish
ments end adornments as made her
one of the foremost young women in
the mining districts of Pennsylvania.
She was modest and quiet, did no*
make a display of fine dress, and in
no way seemed to be spoiled by
wealth or flattery. It was thought
that she mistrusted the sincerity of
her admirers, and was f arful of for
tune hunters, for she avoided asso
ciation with gentlemen us far as she
could politely. The fact is now pub
lic that she never gave up the love of
lite sweetheart of -her school days,
when she was a comparatively poor
girl, and he was too heedlessly boy
ish to couple love and money in his
calculations. Her choice, however,
was not that of her father’s, and she
obediently married a man whom she
did not love. That was seven years
ago. Now she is in an asylum for
the insane, and her husband sued for
a divorce and obtained it yesterday
The Czar’s Terror.
The Czar emulates the example of
the elderly dames of most nations of
regularly looking under every possi
ble piece of furniture for the deadly
burglar or assassin. No nourish
ment, either solid or liquid, that has
not been tasted in his presence by
some official personage, ever passes
his lips. His bath is examined every
morning by the medical officers of
his household before he ventures to
use it, and he seldom approaches a
stove or fireplace, lest some explo
sive material, concealed among the
fuel, should Live been secretly intro
duced into it. He appears extreme
ly nervous, takes no interest in State
business, and exhibits total indiffer
ence even to the military details
which Lave heretofore constituted
his favorite occupation
Nearly all nations and tribes of
men bury their dead lying and ex
tended from east to west. Some,
however, bury them sitting, and some
lay their dead north and south..
The Bongos, a people in Central
Africa, bury men with the face to the
north and women with the face to
the south. If one of the Wanyam
weri, in Africa, happens to die abroad,
he is buried facing his native vil
lage. The custom of laying the bo
dy east and west is originally due to
solar symbolism, and the head is
turned to the east or the west accor
ding as the dead are thought of in
connection with the sunrise, tho re
puted home of diety, or with the
sunset, the reputed region of the
dead.
The new pair of shoes came home
for little five-years old. He tried
them on, and finding that his feet
were in very close quarters, exclaim
ed: ‘‘o my! they are so tight I can’t
wink my toes.”
A little poem entitled,*My Heart,
I Cannot Still It,” is going the
rounds. It must be done. If there
is anything in the world that society
demands it is a still heart. Put a
brick on it, tie a rope around, or get
somebody to stand on it. If that’
doesn’t do the business try tho new
puzzle. It never fails.
SMALL BITS
Os Various Kinds Carelessly Thrown
Togethei.
Gen Joseph Lane is a democratic
candidate for the senate of Oregon.
There are, it is said, 150,00 u Ger
man Protestants in Brazil, the ma
jority Lutherans.
Moody and Sankey have started,
by the way of New Orleans, on atrip
through Texas, New Mexico and the
mining regions.
Questions for amateur debating
clubs—which causes the most misery
—ten nights in a bar room or ten
bar rooms in a night?
The only survivor of the bloody
struggle at the Texan fortress of the
Alamo is Colonel Frank W. Johnson,
who in writing a history of the Lone
Star State.
In order to encourage his young
warriors, Sitting Bull has announced
that each one of them may have a
wife for every white person’s scalp
be brings in.
Dr. G. B. Thornton, President of
the local Board of Health, positively
denies the truth of the report that
yellow fever occurred in Memphis in
March.
Now is the time for a political en
thusiast to go through a train to
count votes for the next president,
and wonder who will treat at the
next station.
Mr. Goschen, who is spr ken of for
viceroy of India, is an Israelite, a
great financier and extremely rich.
The practical business man will suc
ceed the poetical peer.
When a man is startled at some
thing, and says, “I hear a noise,”
it probably never occurs to him that
there is nothing else in this wide
world that anybody can hear but a
noise.
A Russian corps of observation
will shortly be stationed in Turkes
tan, on the Chinese frontier, and
from ten to fifteen vessels will go to
Chinese waters instead of five as at
first reported.
The Princess of Vicovaro Cenci,
daughter of Mr. Lorillard Spencer,
of New York, has been appointed
Lady of Honor to Queen Margaret
of Italy. This is the first American
lady who has received this distinc
tion.
A young wife, with one child, liv
ing at Jamestown, N. Y , was sold
to another man by her husband for
SSO. She is now at the home of her
prospective father-in-law, waiting
for the son to earn money to close
the contract.
The advance in the value of real
estate in New York city during the
past - ear, particularly during the
few monlhs, has been in some cases
as high as one hundred per cent.
Rents also have increased, but not in
the same proportion.
Florence Sey mark’s father, of
Elizabeth City, N. C., shot her lover
in the shoulder the night before he
was to elope with her. She tied from
her room in her night clothes, joined
her intended, and was married be
fore the father discovered her ab
sence.
A New York letter mentions a ru
mor that at least one hundred Chi
namen in that city, following the re
cent example of one of their number
at Fond du Lac, Wis., are preparing
to take out naturalization papers,
with a view of becoming American
citizens.
Some one put a wooden Indian
under the bed of a Detroit old maid
and of course she saw it and yelled,
ard a policeman came in and crawled
under the bed to bring the burglar
out, and fought the Indian for thirty
minutes before he found out it was
wooden.
The Russian Government has de
livered to the Porte its bill of ex
penses for the maintenance of Turk
ish prisoners during the last war.
The sum to be reimbursed amounts
to $4,700,000. Immediate payment
is asked; whence the money is to
come no one knows.
The business failures in this coun
try for the first quarter of the year,
as shown by the reports of Dun A
Go’s mercantile agency, are 1,400 in
number, with liabilities of $12,000,-
000 against 2,500 with liabilities of
$48,000,000 for the same period in
1879 The decrease since 1878 is in
much larger proportion.
Twenty-seven lawsuits are to be
brought against the French Govern
ment by the Jesuits, in the names of
of tho twenty seven establish
ments which they possess in France,
and each of the directors of the edu
cational houses kept by the Jesuits
will address a protest to the Superi
or Council of Public Instruction.
New steel works are to be erected
in Chicago at a cost, including sev
enty-five acres of land, $2,000,000.
They are to be completed within a
year, and will consist of four blast
furnaces, Bessemer converting works,
and steel rail mills. They will em
ploy 2,000 men, consume 250.000 tons
of ore yearly, and turn out 90,000
tons of rails.
A while ago the wife of a farmer
in New York sold to a tin peddler a
bag of rags, containing, among other
things, her husband’s old coat. When
the husband came borne and she in
formed him of the trade, he dashed
after the peddler, overtook him, got
back the old coat, and in its pockets
found S2OO m bills, which he had put
there for safety.
The famine in Ireland has not of
late been as fully reported as it was
a few weeks ago, and there is reason
to believe that the systematic relief
organized has been sufficient to
mitigate its worst features. The let
ters of correspondents, however,
continue to show great distress and
deprivation, and it may be there will
be renewed appeals to the world at
large.
A.ci voi’ti asiiijLS Katos.
Legal advertisements charged seveuty-five cents
per hundred words or fractioH thereof each inser
tion for the first four insertions, and thirty-five
cents for each subsequent insertion.
Transient advertising will be charged $1 per inch
for the first, ard fifty cents for < sch subsequent
insertion. Advertisers desiring larger spar- lor a
longer time than one month will receive a liberal
deduction from regular rates.
All bills due upon She first appearance of the ad
vertisement, and will bo presented at the. pleasure
of the proprietor. Transient advertisements from
unknown parties must be paid for in advance.
NO. 17
BROWN BRO’S
BANKERS, BROKERS
AND COLLECTION AGENTS
GAINESVILLE, GA.
References—Hanover National Bank, N.
Y., Moore. Jenkins & Co. N. Y., G. W
Williams & Co., Charleston, S. C., —anv
oe the Atlanta Banks. warls-tf.
MILLINERY GOODS!
Mrs. 11. IN. Ware
Begs leave to inform her friends and the
public generally that she has opened her
store in her dwelling house on Main street,
next door to the college, on the right hand
as you go from the square. She hopes to
receive a liberal patronage, and 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
n. w. .1. ham,
Attorney at Law.
GAINESVILLE, GA.
Office in Henderson <fc Candler Building,
East Side Public Square
F*. M . IS EWM .K IX,
Physician and Surgeon,
dPlo wery O-.-t.
Office, first door above Barrett’s sieve.
Will attend calls at a distance from relia
ble parties. (febl3 Gm
THE CLINARD IIOVSE,
-AJT’ZEiZEJXTS, O.'X
To the Public—l take this niiti...d of
returning thanks to my numerous customers
for their liberal patronage during my long
proprietorship of the Newton House, ip
Athens. On the 31st of December my pro
prietorship of the Newton House will t ease,
at which time I will open the Clinnrd House,
pleasantly located on Clayton streel, one of
the principal business streets in Athens,
where I hope and expect my former pat
rons, and the traveling public genera'ty, to
stop when visiting Athens, pledging myself
to do all in my power for their comfort, etc.
A D. CLIN ARD
Athens, Ga., Dec. 9, 1879. —l2 tl
NATIONAL HOTEL,
ATLANTA, GA.
Rates, 82 per Dai/;
SPECIAL. KATES
For loiig’ei* Tinic
The NATIONAL, being renovated and
refurnished, offers superior inducements to
the traveling public. E. T. WHITE.
mar7 Agent, Proprietor.
E. T. BROWN,
Attorney at laaw,
ATHENS, GA.
OFFICE IN HUNNICUT BLOCK,
OVER CHAS. STERN A CO.
References by Permission:
Anderson, Starr & Co., New Yorl; Citi
zens’ Bank of Georgia, Atlanta; Judge H.
K. McKay, Atlanta; F. Phinizy, Athens.
nov2Bly
Northeastern na i I road.
Cliiti'xge of Schedule.
SUFERINTKNI>FNT'S OFFICE. 1
Athens, Ga.. Oct. 11, 1579.)
On and alter Monday, October f>, 1X79, trains on
the Northeastern Railroad will run as follows. Ail
trains daily except Sunday:
Leave Athens 3 st> p m
Arrive at Lula ; 620 “
Arrive at Atlanta, via Air-Line K. li 10 3d “
Leave Atlanta, via Air-Line K. R :: 30 “
Leave Lula 7 4t; “
Arrive at Athens io oo «
The above trains also connect closely ;;i Lula with
northern bound trains on A. L. li.lt.' On Wednes
days and Saturdays the following additional trains
will be run:
Leave Athens C 45 a in
Arrive at Lula & <.-, «
Leave Lula 900 “
Arrive at Athens 11 3 1 “
This train connects closely at Lula for Atlanta,
making the trip to Atlanta only four hours and
forty-live minutes. J. M. EDWARDS, Supt.
ATLSMA i CHiIILIITIt 1 L. li. li.
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
Ou and alter December 20th double daily trains
will run on this road as follows:
MORNING TRAIN.
Leave Atlanta. 4 00am
Arrive Charlotte 3 20 p m
“ Air-Line Junction 330 “
“ Danville 951 “
“ Lynchburg 12 37 ni’t
" Washington 7 50 a nr
“ Baltimore 930 ••
" Philadelphia 130 and 145 pm
“ New York 345 and 445 “
“ Wilmington, N. C. (nrxt day) 9 50 a tn
“ Richmond 7 43 *■
EVENING TRAIN. •
Leave Atlanta 3 30 pm
Arrive Charlotte 3 20 a m
•• Air-Line Junction 33j '•
«< Danville 10 22 “
“ Lynchburg 153 pin
•• Richmond 443 “
Wallington , 55 “
“ Baltimore 11 55 “
“ Philadelphia. 335 am
•• New York 645 “
GOING E AST,
Night Mail and Passenger train.
Arrive Gainesville . 5:30 p m
Leave •• -......... 5:51 “
Day Passenger train
Arrive " 6:13 a m
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 9:20 a m
Leave *• 9:21 “
Day Passsuger train.
Arrive “ . - B;lspm
Leave • “ 8:16 “
Local Freight and Accommodation uaiu.
Arrive Gainesville 1:45 a m
Leave “ ~.....-............2:00“
Close connection at Atlanta for al! p ’i».tj W< st,
and at Charlotte for all potms East.
G. J. FOREACRE, G.- M.
W. J. HOUSTON, Gen. Pas. and Pkt Ayi
PATENTS.
F. A. Lehmann, Solicitor of American
and Foreign Patents, Wa-hington, D. C.
All business connected with Patents, whether
before the Patent Oftice or the Courts,
promptly attended to. No charge mad»
unless a patent is secured. Send lor c rcu
lar. <uov22 ts
One of our most estimable citizens may
be thankful for the introduction of Dr.
Bull’s Cough Syrup, for its timely use has
vad his life.
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