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EDITORIA L LAG LETS.
it is rather hard on Grant that
Blaine should have beaten him in
his own State.
The wind is being taken out of the
speculative bubble and business will
soon be on solid foundations.
The radical convention of Vir
ginia was about as rantankerous and
disorderly as the Georgia piebald
convention.
The North Georgia Citizen hoists
the name of Gen. L. J. Gartrell for
governor, subject to the action of
the democratic convention.
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Gen. A. R. Lawton, as attorney
for the Central railroad, has recently
paid into the State treasury the sum
of SGO,OOO tax s due from- the road
to the State.
The negroes are very wisely dis
carding and repudiating the political
missionaries and adventurers from
the north, as aliens and strangers.
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The name of Horatio Seymour
was greeted with wild applause in
the Syracuse convention. There is
little doubt but that Seymour is the
favorite of New York democrats.
A fresh disaster of serious pro
portions has overtaken the English
navy. The training ship Atlanta,
with hundreds of the sons of the bast
1 English families on board, is given
up for lost.
Gen. Joseph E. Johnson has never
liked congressional life and has declin
ed a renomination on the ground that
he is not adapted to the position.
The republican anti-third termers
of New York, held a convention at
Albany last week, decided to send a
delegation to Chicago to represent
them in the national convention
The democratic convention of Ver
mont, held on Thursday of last week,
appointed delegates to Cincinnati
understood to be for Gen, Hancock.
They were instructed to vote for the
two-thirds rule and to vote as a
unit.
One of the sagacious democrats in
the house of representatives says: “J
am for Seymour, believe he can cer
tainly win. The fact is that if New
York presents him at Cincinnati he
■* will go through almost by acclama
tion, and then he will not decline.”
On Lis return from his southern
tour, Dr. Talmage had the manliness
to do the southern people justice.
How different his utterances from
those of many of the gospel lights of
>tho north, who seem to take a delight
in misrepresenting and slandering
everything southern.
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It would be a curious spectacle if
the people of the United States
should make a great stride toward
centralization and imperialism at a
time when France is becoming more
republican and when England has
just given such signal evidence of a
powerful reaction against imperial
tendencies.
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Lord Beaconsfield’s resignation ,
has been accepted and the Queen (
having sent for Lord Hartington as i
his successor, that gentleman advised I
Her Majesty to summon Mr. Glad-:
stone to form the cabinet. A mes-1
senger was sent to Earl Granville ?
but it is uncertain whether be also
has been summoned to Windsor or
not.
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The New England method of co
ercing voters into voting against
their own views and convictions is
called the civilized method of “bull
dozing;” in contradistinction, we
suppose to the rough and tumble
method attributed to the Southern
democrats. Are we to understand
from this that it is better to threat
en to starve a man and his family
than to threaten to shoot the man |
himself?
A Frenchman, M. Sibeilot, claims
• to have discovered a method for ex ;
tracting the metal from the most re-1
factory ores so cheaply that even the '
working of mines abroad, that
have have been abandoned, may be
resumed and carried on at a profit
The agent employed by him for re- 1
ducing the ores is said to be sulphu-1
x ric acid, and it is also alleged that |
the manner of its application is such 1
that machines can be constructed
that would be capable of treating I
' one hundred tons of ore per day.
The New York Times, commenting
on the railway speed between that
city and Philadelphia, says some of
the trains are already the fastest in
the world—making the distance of
ninety miles in two hours; but the
Baldwin locomotive works, at Read
ing, Penn., have just completed a
passenger engine des gned especially
for speed. It is to be run over the
I Bound Brook route between New
York and Philadelphia, and it is ex
pected that it will do the trip in an
I and a half, or ninety miles in
ninety minoiee, which is altogether
faster than any v.rne yet made in Eu-
S rope or America.
The Gainesville Eagle
VOL. XIV.
POPULAR SCIENCE NOTES.
No little anxiety is being mani
fested in this country, to see that
grand example of Egyptian monu
mental ait, “Cleopatra’s Needle,”
which was presented some time ago
to the United States, by the Khe
dive of Egypt. The work of taking
down and transporting the great
Obelisk io this country is under the
supervision of Lieut.-Commander
Gorring, of the U. S. navy, who is
backed by the splendid liberality of
Mr. W. H. Vanderbilt, of New York,
who has agreed to bear the entire
expense of the undertaking, which it
is calculated will reach near SIOO,-
000. This Obelisk is from Alexan
dria, is 70 feet in height and is 7
feet 7 inches by 8 feet 2 inches at the
base. It is of pink granite, sup
posed to have been taken from the
quarries of Syene and from the
Greek inscriptions upon it, it was
erected and dedicated to King
Thothmes 111, in the days of Moses.
If no accident occurs “Cleopatra's
Needle, ’ will arrive in New York, in
the early part of the summer and be
erected in some suitable place in
that city, when doubtless, thousands
of persons will be attracted thither
to see the great curiosity and behold
its h ieroglyphics, which were proba
bly seen and read by the Jews at the
time of Moses, or when the Savior
was taken by his parents to Egypt as
a place of refuge from Herod’s rage.
Mr. J. Ballantine Hannay, of Glas
cow, Scotland, fellow of the Chemical
society of London, is meeting with
great success in the manufacture of
artificial diamonds. A writer from
the mineral department of the Brit
ish museum declares that specimens
of this gentleman’s work have been
thoroughly tested and found equal
in every respect to the genuine. Like
the diamonds, they are nearly inert
in polarized light, and their hard
ness is such that they easily score
deep groves in a polished surface of
sapphire, which the diamond alone
can do. Many other chemists and
experts have thoroughly tested speci
mens and give a like report, that
they are so near the genuine as to
make it almost impossible to detect
the difference.
The American exhibits at the in
ternational fish exhibition, to be held
at Berlin, begun April 20th, were
numerous and valuable. The com
mission to represent the United
States sailed from New York on the
20th of March, with Prof. G. Brown
Goode, curator of the National mu
seum, at the head. The exhibits in
possession of the commission it is
said, comprised fully 7,500 speci
mens, having an aggregate bulk of
175 tone.
An international exhibition of
steam thrashing machinery will be
held at Perugia, in Tmbria, Italy,
beginning July 1, 1880, under an
arrangement of the Italian minister
of agriculture, industry and com
merce. Four prizes of gold, silver
and bronze, each of great value, will
be bestowed by the government. Ap
plications should be made before
May 31st, to Signor Alessandro Ras
pi, secretary of the Agrarian commit
tee, at Umbria, Italy.
A thorough examination of the
character and resources of the Alaska
sealand fisheries has been directed
by the commissioner of fisheries, and
Mr. Tarleton H. Bean has been ap
pointed to superintend the company
selected for the purpose. The party
will sail on the United States coast
survey schooner Tukan, from San
Francisco, some time next month.
The annual shipment of palm oil
from that portion of the west coast
of Africa which lies couth of the
river Volta, it is said, will amount in
value to $7,500,000, its principal use
being in the manufacture of soaps,
perfumery, candles and other similar
articles. It is highly valued among
the natives as food (taking the place
of butter) and is extensively us;d for
fuel and lighting.
Speaking upon the subject of “in
sanity,” at a recent meeting of the
Medico L°gal society, in New York,
Dr. Geo. M. Beard remarked: “In
sanity is a barometer of civilization,
and as we advance higher in the arts
and sciences, so will insanity become
more prevalent among us. Intense
application, brain work and indoor
life are the agencies which most fre
quently bring it about. Among sav
ages or barbarians there is little or
none of it. The intellectual activity
of the women of to-day is another
great cause of insanity. What the
mother is, so will the child be in
an intcuscr degree. * * * An
improved system of education, with
less ‘cramming,’ would tend to re
duce the increase of insanity.” While
. the doctor may be somewhat abroad
in his assertions, there is much in his
remarks that should at least interest
| teachers and parents of the present
day in the bringing up of the “rising
i generation.”
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Senator Conkling still bets all his
money on Grant’s nomination and
I election.
Washington Correspondence.
[Special Correspondence of the Eagls.J
Washington, D. C. April 22, 1880.
, All the numerous suggested |vay%
’ of dividing up the nine or fen
1 balance of the Geneva award came
to grief in the senate yesterday. By
a vote of 38 to 19 MMfe(e
’ companies were declared noHntitled
to any of the money. Then by a
vote of 38 to 28, it was practical! y de-
' cided” that nobody was entitled. The
bill was indeflinitely postponed.
Much feeling has been shown during
the debate by several senators, in
eluding Messrs. Thurman, Carpen
ter and Blaine. The last named
senator has successfully championed
the cause of the ship owners, as
against the Insurance Companies.
Blaine is a hard man to buck against.
Carpenter tried to “go for his scalp”
in the interest of Grant, but got such
a lashing that he. hauled off from tlif
conflict badly demoralized, and won't
try again to make capital for Grant
by ridiculing Blaine.
Finding the radicals would not al
low a vote yesterday on the immedi
ate deficiency bill, Mr. McMahon,
who had charge of it, withdrew the
bilk There was never a more shame
ful abuse of a minorities power to
prevent legislation than has been ex
hibited by the radicals on this sub
ject for two days past. The money
provided in the bill is absolutely nec
essary at onee.
It was rumored here yesterday by
a gentleman connected with the War
Department that the “cadet Nb. 8”
whose hand writing resemblers that
of the original letter of warning to
Whittaker, was Whittaker himself.
Ths order of General Schofield, com
manding at West Point, issued yes
terday, is conclusive as to his belief
that none of the cadets, unless Whit
taker himself, committed the out
rage now being investigated. But
before the public formes an opinion !
it is only fair to await publication of
all that shall be developed by the jn
vestigation.
Even Mr. Tilden’s enemies give
him and his friends credit for the <
manner in which the Syracuse Con
vention, having an unquestioned ma- ‘
jority of his suporters, was conduct- r
ed. There was nothing in tbe pro- i
ceedings at which any democrat can
find fault, and I doubt not Mr. Til- ’
den’s position before the country ,
was materially strengthened by what j
was done and what was left undone.
Rex. 1
Names of a Few of the MiVimi
aires.
Probably no city in the world out
side of London and Paris can show
as much private wealth as the City
of New York. The richest man. in
England at present is the duke of
Westminster, whose income from
London property alone is estimated
at =£400,000. His rural land estate
yields some £IOO,OOO more. Hie
total income from real and personal
estate aggregates about $3,500,000.
Grand as is this income it does nut
come up to the income enjoyed by
John Jacob Astor and William H.
Vanderbilt, New York’s chief million
aires. The Astor fortune, at present
real estate values, is estimated at not
less than $100,000,000, while Mr.
Vanderbilt represents the largest act
cumulation of private wealth in
America. Mr. Vanderbilt’s yearly
income exceeds $5,000,000. The late
Rothschild, of Paris, left a fortune
of 1,000,000,000 francs ($200,000,
000). It must, however, be remem
bered that the enormous wealth of
the Rothschilds belongs to different
members of a house or firm, while
William H. Vanderbilt is practically
sole owner of the great properties
and vast estates baqueathed him by
his father. Jay Gould now ranks
high among New York millionaires.
He is estimated at $25,000,000. and
bids fair, if he lives ten or fifteen
years longer, to double his present
fortune. Taken all in all Jay Gould
is probably to-day the shrewdest
railroad manager and the boldest
speculative operator in these United
States.
Edward H. Green represents an
other great railroad fortune, estima
ted at over $20,000,000. He is the
chief owner of the great Louisville &
Nashville combination, and is said
to practically control that road
Henry Hilton can be safely put down
at $20,000,000. In April, 1876, Cor
nelia M. Stewart, widow of the late
A. T. Stewart, transferred to Mr.
Hilton all her interest in the firm of
A. T. Stewart & Co. Wise invest
ments made during the period of de
pression ha vie, it is said, greatly fcwol
len Mr. Hilton’s wealth. Besides
the well-known men of wealth It the
head of the New York Knickerbocker
families, such as the Rhinelanders,
Hamereleys, Schemerhorns, Steven
ses, Lenoxes, etc., all represention
vast landed estates in that city; there
are a great number of minor million
aires, worth from one to-two mil
lions, who live and die without at
tracting any particular attention, un
less they have something besides
money to signalize them. Crossing
the Atlantic again, Frankfort-on tbe-
Main, with a population of about
100,000, is reputed to be the richest
city of its size in the whole world.
It is asserted that there are one hun
dred Frankforters worth from $4,000,
000 to $5,000,000 each, and two hun
dred and fifty who are worth SI,OOO,
000 and upward. The city is one of
the great banking centers of the
globe. Its aggregate banking capi
tal is estimated at $200,000,000 —
more than one-fourth of which the
Rothschilds, whose orginaL and par
ent house is there, own and control.
Y MORNING. APRIL 30. 1880.
SCIENCE AND SCRIPTURE.
Interesting Sermon by the Rev.
Joseph Cook.
Boston Advertiser.
j After prayer by the Rev. De>u
? Grh,. of Cambridge, Mr. Cook Pro
ceeded with nis lectures, the subject
of which was “The Scientific Tri
r uph ot <he Views of
) World.” It is a felicity, he said,thbt
| I to present to twß audience
. this morning an account of certain
‘
’ one knows how shy I am of quack,
1 1 and of all quacks the theological
. quack and the quack who stands be
r tween Heaven and earth and wbx>
trades iu men’s fears of hell and
hopes of Heaven have had the most
of my loathing, and therefore I nevsx
! went to a so-called medium, and per
i haps I never shall unless forced to
i do so by the exigency of scientific re
search. Ou the occasion lam about
to describe I didn’t go to a medium’s
rooms, for ; .f I had done so I should
feel like making an apology to the
audience [laughter]; but I went to
the rooms of one of your oldest citi
zens, ft man whb, as editor and au
thor, has earned and commands the
respect of the United States. In the
library of Mr. Epes Sargent I con
sented to meet a psychic, of whom I
had heard various things, some of
them not altogether reassuring. I
took with me my family physician
[laughter] and my wife [laughter
and applause]. In the company of
nine persons who assembled in the
library, there were four believers and
five unbelievers in spiritualism. Mr.
Cocfk then gave the details of the ex
periments, which are summed up in
the following report, signed by F.
E. Bundy, M. D., Epes Sargent, Jno.
C Kinney, Henry G. White and
Joseph Cook.
“At the house of Epes Sargent, on
the evening of Saturday, March 13,
the undersigned saw two clean slates
placed face to face, with a bit of
slate pencil betwen them. We all
held pur hands clasped around the
edges of the two slates. Mr. Wat
kins’ hands also clasped the slates.
In this position we all distinctly
heard the pencil moving, and on
opening the slates found an intelli
gent message in a strong musculine
hand, in answer to a question asked
by one of the company. Afterward,
two slates were clamped together
with strong brass fixtures, and hek’
at arm’s length by Mr, Cook, while
the rest of the company and the
psychic had their hands in full view
on the table. After a moment of
waiting the slates were opened, and
a message in a feminine hand was <
found on one of the inner surfaces.— <
There was five lighted gas bur- i
tiers in the room at the time, i
We cannot apply to these facts any j
theory of fraud, aud we do not see I
how the writing can be explained 1
unless matter in the slate pencil was i
moved without contact.”
Mr. Cook, however, called atten- i
tion to some unsatisfactory points in i
the experiments, saying: My atten- i
tion was several times diverted from ’
watching the psyobic by his requir- ;
ing me to put my jJ&ncii on the pel- ■
lets and pass it slowly from one to .
another of them. Two or three times 1
the psychic and friend whom he had 1
brought to the room left the com- ’
pany and went into the hall together i
and I did not know what they con- t
ferred about. The psychic was easily i
offended by any test conditions sag- ’
gested by the company, although he I
finally adopted the brass clamps ]
which be at first refused to use. The ’
psychic’s fi knd brought to the room
the slates which were used, and my i
slate were not employed at all in the <
experiments. In these experiments i
theie is nothing to decide whether i
the force which moved the pencil was !
exercised by the will of the psychic i
or by a spirit, or by both, but, in
spite of the unsatisfactory point, the i
observers agree in professing iuabili ;
ty io explain the writing, unless ;
there was here motion of matter <
without contact. Os course the lat- <
ter fact, if established, and even in <
the absence of knowledged as to
whether the force proceeds from the
psychic or pure spirits, overturns
utterly the mechanical theory of mat
ter, explodes nil materialistic hy
potheses, and lays the basis for trans
cendental physics, or a new world
in philosophy.
GENERAL DRAWN.
We are parting, and pardon me
now if, as a final question, I ask
what are the general conclusions of
the discussion of spiritualism is
an'V. ? ?
The evils of spiritualism arise not
from the admission cf the reality of
spiritualistic communication, but
from assuming their trustworthi
ness. The most mischievous popular
misconception as to spiritualism is
that the alleged phenomena, if real
are supernatural, and so may authen
ticate a revelation and place spirit
ualistic communications on the same
basis with Christianity. The most
imnoitant duty of the pulpit in re
gard to spiritualism is to insist on
the distinction between the merely
superhuman and the strictly super
natural, and Itoj show that spiritual
istic communications, even if real, are
merely superhuman, not strictly su
pernatural,, and so cannot come into
rivalry with those Christians mira
i clcs which imply creative power. —
More than a quarter of a century of
study of 'the modern physical mani
festations has shown that in religion
and theology spiritualism has noth
ing new to say, however new many
of its philosophical propositions may
be to materialism. It has a divided
voice, and touches in many portions
every form of doctrine held among
men. It is a mirror for everything.
It reflects back from the so-called
spirits your own opinions, or the
opinions cf those spirits who may
have been in your circles when they
lived on earth. Nothing like a revela
tion, except to mole-eyed material
ism, has come from spiritualism into
modern history. But spiritualism
has been especially effective in stim
ulating, in half educated minds and
coarse natures, infidelity in faith and
libertinism in morals. Give me a
coarse set of men and women, and I
had rather they should be seized by
the Asiatic cholera er the Memphis
plague than by a belief in the trust
worthyness of spiritualistic manifes
i tations. [Applause] The great
■ fact of experience is that average
; spiritualism, when accepted as a
• aource of religious knowledge, leads
I its votaries into practical mischief,
» and often into moral ruin. While a
> very few psychics are persons of
• trustworthy character, seven out of
ten of them are untrustworthy, if not
, immoral, and need guardians for
their own good and that of society.
It is generally conceeded by the better
class of spiritualists that a large pro
portion of mediums are imposters,
and that not infrequently psychics
who have real power to produce
strange phenomena have been de
tected in fraud.
It follows inexorably from the fact
that the trustworthiness of the com
munications cannot be proved, that
even if their reality be admitted, all
that is established is the existence
and agency of evil spirits. Such
being the moral dangers of spiritual
ism, its investigation may well ba
left in general to experts in physi
cal and mental science. It is great
ly to be desired that its investiga
tion should be undertaken by a high
er class of experimenters, who are
above suspicion of fraud, or mercena
ry motives, or scientific incompeten
cy, or the prejudices of narrow spe
cialists is merely physical research.
Materialism is overthrown utterly by
the modern facts proving the exis
tence of a psychic force. So far as
anti-supernaturalism is dependent on
materialism, it is already overthrown
bv the same facts. The biblical view
sos the world as to both good and evil
spirits is to be pushed to the front by
>the pulpit, if the wants of the times
are to be met. The existence in man
of the spiritual faculties and suscepti
jbilities assumed by Christianity is
proved. The background of Chris
iianity, which rationalistic criticism
has caused to be overlooked, is made
vivid by modern psychical phe
nomena.
If both evil and good spirits are
around us in modern times, we can
not understand why they were di
rected of old to believe not every
spirit, but to try the spirits, and to
regard not those who have familiar
Spirits. If evil spirits may now move
the tongues of speaking psychic, we
can understand how it was that the
serpent said unto the woman, “Thou
shalt not surely die!” If there is
ntodern experience of seeing and
even of photographing spirits, we
can understand how it was the eyes
of a young man were once opened
so that he saw a mountain full of
horses of fire and chariots oi fire
round about Elisha. If the hand ot
the psychic Home burned not in the
fife, we can understand how three
men once came out of a furnace; nor
was a hair of their heads injured,
nbr the smell of fire on their gar
ments. If hands appear among
modern psychial phenomena we can
understand how it was that the fin
gers of a man’s hand wrote on the
walls of Belshazzar’s palace, “Mene,
Mene, Tekel, Upharsiu. ’ If levita
tion has indeed occurred in modern
times, we can unders'and how Peter
was found not, for he was as Azotus,
and how one of old walked on the
sea. If matter can pass through
matter, we can understand how one
who was raised again passed through
the doors that were shut—and was
present with His disciples when they
were in an inner room.
If there have been faces which have
shone in modern times so as to pro
duce a shadow against the light ,we can
understand what was meant when
it was written that when thine eye is
single thy whole body is full of light,
and when it was written also that
Moses’ face shown, and that angels
have appeared with faces like light
ning, and that one who was transfi
gured was like the sun when he shiu
eth in his strength. If the followers
of Edward Irving and others in mod
ern times have spoken with foreign
tongues, then we can understand
how at Pentecost every man heard
from the apostles the tongue in which
he was born. If prayers art> in mod
ern times besought by spirits in a
purgatorial state in the next life, we
can understand what was meant
by preaching to spirits in prison.—
If bad spirits are near us in modern
times, we can understand how it is
that we wrestle not with flesh and
blood, but against principalities and
powers, against the rulers of the
darkness of this world, and against
wicked spirits in heavenly places. If
modern evidences proves that the
soul of man may communicate with
the souls of the departed, we can un
derstand that we are compassed
about by a great cloud of witnesses,
and are come unto the city of the
living God, and to an innumerable
company of angels, and to the gener
al assembly and church of the bom,
and to the spirits of just men made
perfect, and to God the judge of all.
When the proper distinction is
made betwien the merely superhu
man and the strictly supernatural,
the use of modern physical phenome
na to illustrate the laws of the com
munion of spirits with spirits does
not destroy the evidential value of
miracles, for the latter contains, as
the former do not, evidences of crea
tive power which can be exercised by
only that One Being who is above
nature. The highest form of spiritual
influence is that which the Scriptures
call communion with the Holy Spirit.
This is open to all men on the con
dition of total affectionate and irre
versible self surrender to God.
Once under the torrent of Niagara
I was reminded of the torrent of na
tional causes flowing through the
universe. Five years we have faced
this deluge of the Niagara of second
causes, and now I part from you
with the prayer that God will deliver
us from the idolatry of second causes.
I study all the torrents of Niaga
ra of God’s Work, and I would re
member that they are all formed
from God’s palm. Lying one Sum
mer day, under the sheets of the cat
aract which hushes the baeath of
men’s souls at Niagara "■■■"* '***■••-
ing of a cataract of second causes
which may continue to flow through
i eternity and will always flow from
God’s right hand and have no power
which He does not give it, it was
my fortune to address both the cata
i ract from the depths of my own
. spirit:
When Rome fell, where wert thou, colossal
fall ?
In slow reocession thou hast wondered
back:
These leagues of seething chasm were thy
track.
When lost Atlantis sank, where didst thou
call
To thy vexed preciyioe ? Aud what if al!
Thy dates were written, from the fiery
sack
Os Troy up to the deluge green and black 1 ,
How eloquent were then thy storied wall !
What wert thou in thy youth, when man
was not?
When though and he first met hast thou
forgot ?
When first in thee was dipped the swallow’s
wing.
When didst thou hear the first brown wood
thrush sing ?
Speak, dateless roar, for thou art old and
wise; "i
Thy memories are unsounded majesties.
I hear the thunderous thud, the muffiMl
roar.
I see the blinding, wheeling, smiling
mists,
The greens, the grays, purples and ame
thysts,
From Heaven’s wide palm thy frightened
cataracts pour,
And I look up beneath them and adore.
Above mo hang chain lightning on the
wrists
Os Summer tempests. In the awesome
lists J
Os contest are the thunders and thy shore.
Beneath thy quivering, riven cliffs I lie
And gaze into the lightning and the sky.
But I hear only thee, and touch and see
A hand which undergirds immensity.
Thon speakest much, but most thou
speakest of Him—
God, God; God walks on thy- watery rim.
—Boston Advertiser.
A Millionaire Dies of Starva
tion.
That a millionaire should die of
starvation is surely a strange freak
of desty. About a fortniught ago an
elderly gentleman, notorious for his
miserable habits, was found dead on
the floor of his garret in a cheap
lodging house of Dunai,a small town
in Podolia. He had occupied the at
tic iu question for many years, du
ring which time he had never been
known to light a fire in his stove, de
spite the terrible cold of Russian
winteis. His cheif food was bread,
which he purchased once a week at a
village several versts distant from
Dunai, in order to save a few copecks
upon its price; and at long intervals
he would regale himself with a few
ounces of bog’s liver, the cheapest
meat in the markets, beef or mutton
being as he was wont to deciare,
quite beyond bis means. Nor even
during the long winter evenings did
he ever burn candles or oil; as he
“could not afford such luxuries.” On
searching his room after his death,
the police autborites found hidden
away under heaps of old rags and
valueless rubbish over a ball a mil
lion of loublis in coined gold, aud se
curities to an even larger amount.
The post-mortem examination to
which his body was submitted proved
conclusively that he had perished of
sheer hunger, dissolution having been
hastened on by extreme cold. The
attenuated corpse was frozen hard,
and no trace of nourishment could
be discovered in the stomach or in
testines. Surronded by treasures
that could’ have procured for him
every imaginable comfort and enjoy
ment, this strange being chose to die
a painful and lingering death rather
than spend a single coin of his vast
hoards in the commonest necessaries
of life. It would require almost su
perhuman efforts, even on the part
of the most tender-hearted philan- (
thopist, to drop a tear upon the 1
grave <f so monstrous an anomal as
this famishing Harpagon.— Geneva
(Switzerland) Continent.
VVliat It Costs Us to Smoke.
The New York correspondent of
the Troy Times says: The amount
spent in smoking by some of our cit
izens is surprising. New York pays
more for cigars than for bread, and
this is easily seen when individual ci
gar bills run up to S3OO per annum
I know one man who was unable to
save anything on an income of sl2,
000 a year, and who gave among the
reasons that is cost him $lO per week
for cigars. If all his expenses were
at such a rate there could be little
chance at accumulation. There are
many smokers who average 100 ci
gars a week. These are the men
vho buildup such fortunes as the
Gilsey’s and others have made. Pe
ter Gilsey landed in this city a poor
emigrant. He was a piano-maker,
but opened a cigar shop in the Bowe
ry, which bis wife tended while he
wrought at his trade. From this
humble begining Gilsey became one
of tbe most extensive dealers in the
city. He had at one time nearly a
dozen cigar shops, and he left an es
tate worth $2,000,1KK). The Gilsey
House is one of his creations, and
the splendid establishment known as
the Gilsey building, corner of Broad
way and Cortlandt street, is another
The first Broadway cigar store that
reached distinction w’as John Ander
son’s. Tbe unfortunate Mary Rog
ers, better known as “the pretty ci
gar girl,” was in his service, and her
tragic end will always be one of the
mysteries of New York crime
The largest cathedral in the world,
that of Cologne, is fast approaching
completion Its first stone was laid
on August 15, 1248. The six hun
dred and thirty-first year of its build
ing was completed on the 15th of
August last, and it is hoped that the
next anniversary will really see the
finishing of the great minster. Tbe
two towers have now reached their
stage, and have only to be fitted
with their massive caps of solid stone
work. For this purpose two great
scaffolding have to be erected at a
dizzy height; uno of them, however,
approaches completion. When the
caps have been finished, then a still
higher story will have to be added to
tbe scaffolding, in order to fix on the
tops of the caps the gigantic foliated
crosses, almost thirty feet high/
which are to crown the towers. This
operation will, it is expected, be per
fn—rti nfi-fn
SMAL.L. BITS
Os Vtilotii Kinds CarelcMly- Thmwn
Togctbci.
Two camels raised in Texas were
sold in San AntohiJ last week.
The present wheat crop in Texas
will probably be the largest ever
grown in that, State.
What’s the use of giving a short note
unless your purse is long enough to
meet it.
Mrs. Emma C. Bowser, of Lonis
viil, Ky., will be awarded $l9O for
the best cent eno ial poem.
If a man’s religion compels him to
pay his debts, you may be sure it is
genuine.
It is said that the late cold snap in
Northwest Texas killed from 15 to 20
per cent, of the cattle.
The latest discovered way of smug
gling liquor into Lewiston, Me., is in
barrels outwardly resembling kero
sene casks.
“I dess," mill little siss yesterday,
“if Dod was here now he’d make a
lot o'folks. Tw awful dusty to-day.
—/Vtuv Haven. liegitiler.
Day by day science advances; an
erudite German professor has dis
covered that a cut can be made to
have the whooping cough.
An average of about one hundred
and fifty immigrants per month,
mostly from Havana and Nassau,
have been arriving recently in Key
West, Florida.
The comet that was so plainly vis
ible in 1843 is hearing onr planet
again and can be seen now by the
aid of a powerful telescope. So says
a German astronomer.
A lady, once the daughter of the
wealthiest man in Steward county is
now begging for means to support
herself and live fatherless children.
What sudden reverses befall ns in
this eventful life.
Courting is an irregular, active,
transitive verb, indicative mood,
present tense, third person, singular
number and agrees with all the girls
in the city.
Thirty-eight thousand, eight hun
dred and twenty-five emigrants ar
rived at New York during the first
three months of this year against 11,-
114 for the same period in 1879.
“Why, Hans, you have the most
feminine cast of countenance 1 have
ever seen.’’ “O, yaw," was the reply,
“I’ know de reason for dal; mine
modder was a woman*
The Irish people can’t eat the
speeches made in this country over
their woes, nor yet make soup of
the resolutions passed at mass meet
ings. What they want is pork and
potatoes.
The Danbury News .says * that vil
lage has several old ladies who are
90 years of age and older who do not
use glasses. This will do to ofifeot
tae old gentlemen who use about six
glasses per day.
Congressman Randall Lee Gibson,
of Loui.'-iana, already elected to a
seat in the United States senate in
18G3, and in the foremast rank of
southern congressmen, has been com
inaled for another term in the house.
Y. M. Eckle, a Knoxville tinner,
struck his mother on the head with a
bed slat, Tues lay, causing instant
death. He was drunk at the time.
The murder created great excitement
in Knoxville. Eckle is in jail.
Senator Beck made a sudden ap
pearance in Kentucky last week, and
Watterson charged him with having
come home to set up the pins against
Tilden, an accusation which the sen
ator only faintly denies.
In bis new work on metallurgy,
Dr. Percy, F. R. S , puts the value
of silver produced annually of late
years as averaging somewhere about
$80,000,000, and the gold at $140,-
000,000. The author was lecturer on
metallurgy in the Royal School of
Mines.
What is called “tbe grand style’’
may belong to life as well as to art
and literature, noris it by any means
tbe monopoly of rank or genius. He
is divinely great who can fill a small
space worthily and do many little
things without pettiness ol spirit.
Is not the true master known by the
vuality of his picture rather than by
the size of bis canvas?
As a million shadows drifting over
it cannot wear away the tiniest peb
ble—because they are shadow and it
is substance—so the atmostbere, fil
led with the ck nds of negative spec
ulations, cannot destroy a single
grain of such knowledge, whice Gud
hemself imparts in pledge of the time
when we “shall know even as we are
known.’’
If you want the milk of human
kindness thickened into the cream of
benevolence, or the cream of benevo
lence tiansferred into the butter of
beautitude, all you have to do is to ily
around anddogood. As Dobbs very
justly says, there is more sunshine
in one act of kindness than in all
July.
Prince Bismarck is more than six
feet three inches high, and by no
means thin. He wears a uniform,
and tbe lapels of his coat, of a bright
yellow, overspread his immense chest.
He writes at his desk nearly all night
long, and then he sleeps until about
noon. He likes to sleep with street
noises about him. He has in his
study portraits of Moltke, Beacons
field and King Humbert.
Now a man has recovered $45 000
for being thrown against a hot stove
on a railroad car. Queer how things
go in this world. We know lots of
fellows that have sought the seclu
sion which a hot stove grate when
Maria or Matilda has commenced an
argument with a broom stick, and
I then had to pay for the damages
1 themselves.
ertising Hates .
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peWkiindred wards or fraction thereof each inser
tionNw the first four insertions, and thirty-five
cents lekeach subsequent insertion.
TransiWt advertisin will be cliargmi f i p, r inch
for the firek and fifty wilts tor each subsequent
insertion. Advertisers desiring large, space for a
longer time tukn one month will receive a liberal
deduction from regular rates.
All bills due upon the first appearance of the ad
vertisement, and will Im- presented at the pleasure
ol the proprietor. Transient advertisoments from
unknown parties must be paullor in advance.
B
BROWN BIIO’S
BANK EUS, BHOKI'IiS
AND COLLECTION AGENTS
GAINESVILLE, GA.
References Hanover National Bank, N.
Y., Mookk, Jenkins & Co. N. Y., G. W
Williams A Co., Charleston, S. C., ant
or the Atianta Banks. marlß-tt.
MILLINERY GOODS!
Mrs. 11. IN- Ware
Begs leave to inform her friends and the
public generally that she has opened her
store in her dwelling house on Main street,
next door to the college, on the right hand
as you go from the square. She hopes to
receive a liberal patronage, and to merit the
same by a desiie to pfoa-e and the low pricea
at which she will sell goods. Look for tho
fancy hat as a sign, last house as you go
down Main street to the college.
nov7ly
11. w. -I. HAM.
Attorney at. Law,
UALXESVILLE, GA.
Office in Henderson it - Candler Building,
Rist Side Public Square
F*. M. IN EW M Ain,
Physician and Surgeon,
Flowery Hraiifli, Ott.
Office, first door above Barrett’s store.
Will attend calls at a distance from relia
ble-parties. (fel»l3 6m
THE ( LINARD HODSE,
O.A
To ths Public—l take this m< H..»d ot
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 co.ise,
at which time I will open the CHtmrd House,
pleasantly located on Clayton street, one of
the principal business streets in Athens,
where I hope and expect my former pat
rous, and the traveling public generally, to
stop when visiting Athens, pledging myself
to do all in my pow er for their comfort, etc.
A. D CLIN RD
Athens, Ga., Dec. 9. 1879. —l2 II
NO. 18
NATIONAL HOTEL,
ATLANTA. GA.
Rates, $2 per Ray;
SPFAIXIi UATKS
For longer
The NATIONAL, being renovated and
refurnish* d, offers superior inducements to
the traveling public. E. T. WHITE,
mar? Agent, Proprietor.
E. T. BROWN,
yVtl ornev sir, ILaJi-w,
ATHENS, GA.
OFFICE IN HUNNICUT BLOCK,
OVER CHAS. STERN & CO.
References by Permission :
Anderson, Starr A Co., New York;*Citi
zens* Rank of Georgia, Atlanta; Judge H.
K. McKay, Atlanta; F. Pbinizy. Athens.
nov‘2Bly
Northeastern Kail road.
Ciiange of S< dieciu Les.
SllP. KINTENUF.NT’h OFFICE, I
Athens, Ga., Oct. 11, 1879. J
On and alter Monday, October 6, 1879, trains on
the Northeastern Kailroad will run as follows. All
trains daily except Sunday:
Leave Athens 50 p m
Arrive at Lula 620 <•
Arrive at Atlanta, via Air-Liue K it 10 30 “
Leave Atlanta, via Air-Line It. R . ... 330 ••
Leave Lula . . 74G “
Arrive at Athene 1000 ••
The above trama also connect close!' it t ula with
northern bound trains on A. L It. It. on Wednes
days amt Saturday a the following additional trama
will be run;
Leave Athene 6 45 a m
Arrive at Lula 845 “
Leave Lula 9.1> “
Arrive at Athene 11 3> <■
this traiu connects closely at Lula for Atlanta,
making the trip to Atlanta only four hours and
forty-five minutes. J. M. EDWARDS. Snpt.
ATLAXTA it CHimiini: A. L. 11. 11.
CHANGE OF SCHEIHII.E.
On and alter December 20th double daily trains
will muon thia road aa follows:
MORNING TRAIN.
Igtave Atlanta 4 00 a tn
Arrive Charlotte 3 20 p in
•* Air-Line Junction 3 30
“ Danville 951 “
*• Lynchburg 12 37 ni't
“ Washington 750 am
Baltimore 9 30 “
“ Philadelphia 130 and 145 pm
“ New York 345 and 4 45 “
“ Wilmington, N. C. (nrxt day) 9 50 a in
•• Richmond 7 43
EVENING TRAIN.
Leave Atlanta 3 30 p m
Arrive Charlotte 3 20 a m
“ Air-Line Junction 330 •-
•• Danville 10 22 “
<* Lynchburg 153 p m
“ Richmond 4 43 “
«• Wa-bington 95* ••
*• Baltimore 11 55 “
“ Philadelphia 3 35am
“ New York 645 “
GOING EAST,
Night Mail and Passenger train.
Arrive Gainesville 5:50 p m
I .eave •• 5:51 “
Day Passenger train
Arrive “ 6:13 a ra
Leave “ .... 6:15“
Local Freight and Accommodation train.
Arrive Gainesville 11:10 am
GOING WEST.
Night Mail and Passenger train.
Arrive Gainesville 9:20 a m
Leave “ 9:21 “
Day Pass.'uger train.
Arrive B;lspm
Leave " 8:16 '•
Local Freight and Accommodation uaii.
Arrive Gaitieaville 1:45 a m
Leave •* 2:i»l “
Close connection at Atlanta for all points West,
and at Charlotte for all potms East.
G. J. FOKEACRE, G M.
W. J. HOUSTON. Gen. Pas. an t !kt Agt
PATENTS.
F. A. Lehmann, Solicitor of American
aud Foreign Patents, Washington, D. C.
All business connected with Patents, whether
before the Patent Office or the
promptly attended to. No
unless a patent is secured. Send —'
l ftr - xfitizeD* may
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