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EDITORIAL EAGLETS.
Nashville, Tenn., has celebrated
her hundredth anniversary.
Only one murderer was hanged
last Friday on this continent.
It now looks as if the divisions in
the democratic party in New York,
were in a fairway for adjustment.
According to the annual report
Commissioner Baum, there are, in
the United States, 165,850 retail
liquor dealers.
The corporators of the Georgia
paint company have accepted the
charter granted them by the Supe*
rior court.
Mr. John H. James, of Atlanta,
recently sold fifteen hundred shares
of Georgia railroad stock, at prices
ranging from 105 to par.
A bill providing that grand fcnd
petit jurors must be able to read and
write has passed the Kentucky sen
ate by a vote of 19 to 12.
The first barrel of Georgia flour
was shipped from Macon on Thurs
day of last week. The wheat was
cut in Lee county, April 10th, four
and a half months after it was sown.
The tariff adopted by the railroad
commission went into operation on
the first instant. Many of those
who opposed the law have changed
their views and are now its strong
advocates.
—
It is plain that Gen. Grant is con
stantly gaining on Blaine, his most
formidable opponent. The indica
tions now point to the ex-president’s
nomination at Chicago by a decided
majority.
♦ ♦
Gen. E. P. Alexander, president
of the Georgia railroad, has been
tendered the position of second vice
president of the Louisville and Nash
ville railroad, with headquarters at
Louisville.
A bill appropriating SIOO,OOO for
the erection of a United States post
office, at Augusta, has been reported
favorable to the house. Augusta is
an, enterprising city, and deserves
the appropriation.
And now the king of Siam is com
ing to America with a great retinue,
to return Gen, Grant’s visit. If
congress will now make a liberal ap
propriation to pay the expenses of the
ceremonial the thing will begin to look
quite kingly. The expense need not
be in the way, for those who toil
and sweat have to pay it any way.
—♦
The late session of the Baptist
State convention was attended by
about 250 delegates. The mission
ary collections of the body for the
past year amounted to SIB,OOO, which
is largely in excess of any former
year. The increase of membership
to the churches was about 5,000.
The body will meet in Athens next
year.
The Naw York Sun insists that
E. B. Washburue is the strongest
man yet proposed for the republican
candidate, but says he cannot bo
nominated, lor the reason that he
assailed Siman Cameron after he
had retired from Lincoln’s cabinet
and that he had a personal quarrel
with Conkling in which they ex
changed extreme insults.
The Sunday law of Kentucky, pro
hibiting labor of any kind, was en
forced at Louisville last Sunday.
The police visited the various news
paper offices and took the names of
all employed therein, and also took
the names of newsboys, hackmen and
saloon keepers for presentation to
the grand jury. The provisions of
the law are much more stringent
than its advocates at first believed.
It seems that all sorts of hob
gobbling stories are afloat in Wash
ington City about resistance to
revenue officials by illicit distillers
in Georgia, and that the radicals are
trying to make capital out of it. It
is stated that the commissioner of
revenue has issued orders declaring
war to the teeth against the illicit
distillers. Four mounted companies
are to be immediately organized to
scour the mountains of north Geor
gia, break up the stills and capture
those engaged in the unlawful traf
fic.
The western papers are beginning
to discuss the question whether the
atmospheric conditions that surround
them are not changing. For two or
three years past in the spring months
terrible storms have visited Missouri
and Illinois, destructive to life and
property. One of the severest hur
ricanes yet known visited Macon,
Mississippi, which killed sixteen peo
ple. Both there and Marshfield,
Missouri, where eighty lives were
lost, the winds were so very strong
as to sweep loaded cars from the
railroad track. In former years
whirlwinds have been noted, but not
these funnel shaped cyclones of wind,
rain and hail that destroy all in their
path.
The Gainesville Eagle
VOL. XIV.
POPULAR SCIENCE NOTES.
Petroleum has been discovered in
large quantities in the vicinity of
Lake Aimsley, Cape Breton, and also
in the State of Alabama.
In order to become a parliamen
tary candidate, Prof. Story Maske
lyne has resigned the keepership of
the mineralogical department of the
British museum.
The Croton water service of New
York City has an extent of distribu
ting pipes over 480 miles in length.
The aqueduct supplies 95,000,000
gallons a day, over a half a million
of which is consumed by the elevated
railroads daily.
It is estimated that the total loss
in the parks, avenues and nurseries
of Paris, sustained by the severe
frosts and cold weather of the past
winter, in the killing of evergreens,
shrubbery and plants, will reach fully
a million francs.
The fastest run on record was
made recently by a locomotive on the
Pennsylvania railroad. The engine
was ordered to the scene of an acci
dent, and ran 60 miles in 45 minutes
and 8 seconds. This is at the rate
of a trifle less than 80 miles an
hour.
It is said that the white perch of
the Ohio river will often follow a
boat for a considerable distance, all
the time making a peculiar humming
noise like that of a telegraph wire in
the wind. The fish have been heard
to make the same sound while im
prisoned in a fish-box to keep them
alive.
During a severe storm recently at
Leek, in the grand duchy of Nassau,
a singular occurrence is reported to
have taken place. A bolt of light
ning was seen to descend into a fish
pond stocked with several species.
The next morning ail the fish were
found dead floating on the top of
the water. Upon examination no
wounds or breaks could be found,
but their appearance was like that
of boiled fish and their meat fell
to pieces when handled just as if
cooked. k
Scientists who have been experi
menting with fish and other animal
life to be found on the deep sea bottom
say that the entire absence of sun
light at great dephts in the sea has
the same effect as the darkness of
caves, in redaction to a rudiamentary
condition the eyes of such of their
inhabitants as ordinarily enjoy vis?
ual power. The most of these fish
and Crustacea are provided with
enormous long and delicate feelers
or hairs, with which they feel their
way about, as a blind man does with
a stick.
By means of a system of irrigation,
it is ascertained that the Algerian
Sahara, heretofore and still a barren
desert, is susceptible of being made
a most fertile region. The ground
thus prepared has been found to
produce wonderful results, and un
der its operation a soil has been
constituted in which the intertropi
ca 1 plants grow with great vigor. So
enthusiastic are those engaged in
experimenting that a writer asserts
that, ‘“henceforth it will be safe to
say that the transformation of the
Sahara into a fertile region is only
a question of time, labor, artesian
wells, means of communication and
security.
The omnibus lines of Paris have
adopted the new invention for sub
duing .savage or restive horses by
electricity. The machine is simple
and consists of an electric apparatus
whiehjis placed under the seat of the
driver. A conducting wire running
through the reins connects the ap
paratus with the bit. Should the
animal become unmanageable or
fractious, a small crank attached to
the battery is turned, when a current
is formed which affects the horses
mouth causing him to stop at once.
The wildest and most fractious horse
is said to be easily subdued in this
manner.
The adulteration of tin with lead
by manufacturers at the present day
is becoming a matter of serious im
portance, since such a vast amount
of that materia! is being used in
making 'cans in which to preserve
fruits, jellies, vegetables, etc., to be
eaten by the human family. Lead
is a well known poison, and to take
it into the stomach, even in small
quantities, is exceedingly dangerous.
To detect lead in tin, rub your hand
hard and briskly over it. If your
hand is blackened, lead predomi
nates. Good tin will blacken the
hand a very little. Good tin aiSO
has bright appearance while the
adulterated has a dull blue look.
Fruits containing acids, put up in
these lead cans will corrode and par
take of the poi?on, and the person
eating such fruit will certainly do so
at the hazard, at least of his health,
if not his life. Manufacturers palm
off this bogus tin on the public be
cause lead is cheaper than tin, and
by its use their profits are greatly
increased. Some legislation is cer
tainly necessary and should be insti»
tilted at an early day to put a stop to
this wholesale poisoning.
Washington Correspondence.
[Special Correspondence of the Eagle.]
Washington, D. C. May 2, 1880.
There are contrary rumors as to
Mr. Hayes’ intensions regarding the
Army apprbpriatibn bifl and tfle im
mediate deficiency bill. Some of bis
party friends say he veto them
both beChftse of their f “riders,” and
others that he will approve them
both. The Utiter opinion gow pre*
vail# here. But; then Mr. Hayes is
an uncertain sort of person.
Ohio radials yoted to endorse
Shearman yesterday. It is not be
lieved by anybody, of course, that
Sherman will be the Radical candi
date, but he is the best kfidwu man
of his party in the State. In fact, he
is the radical “favorite son?' If he
should be run for the Presidency we
could defeat hiih by putting up a
bronze statute of Jackson, or an
old desk of Jefferson’s, or any other
democratic article which has in it the
same amount of blood that Sherman
has in his system. But it was well
for his own State to endorse him.
Ohio radicals are thrifty people, and
by sticking together on Sherman
they can sell out to batter advantage
at Chicago.
The National Republican of this
morning speaks of “compromise ef
forts” among democrats at Harris
burg. Pretty effectual ‘efforts’ they
were, too. The truth is that the
Democracy of Pennsylvania covered
itself alt over with glory yesterday,
and its influence will not only be felt
at once in New York, where also
there is a division, but will be felt in
every State in the Union. It will
promote harmony everywhere, and
give courage everywhere.
Kellogg, of Louisiana, is not worth
the two days lately given him by the
senate, and much less than the many
more days I fear he will have be
tween this time and adjournment.
Especially is the time thrown away
as it is known there is a majority of
senators who will vote against dis
turbing him.
The Indian appropriation bill is
now taking up the time of the sen
ate. The only important changes so
far adopted, from the bill as it came
from the house, is the restoration of
the board of Indian commissioners.
This board may in some mysterious
way benefit the Indians or the In
dian service, but I never could un
derstand how it did so.
House committees are working
steadily, and on the return of Speak
er Randall there is indication that
the house will attack business with
vigor. It being well understood that
the Pennsylvania democratic con
vention’s action means a hot cam
paign, and equally well understood
that prompt transaction of business
will give the country increased con
fidence in the democracy, there will
probably be no more useless delay.
i Rex.
Clement Attachment.
Senoia, Ga., May 3, 1880,
Mit. Editor: Yourself and your nu
merous readers have read and heard
much about the “Clement Attach
ment,” you have also learned that
T. A. Barnes & Co. have one in suc
cessful operation at this place.
Knowing that some of your citizens
have boon seriously thinking of put-'
ting up an Attachment at Gainesville
and that all of your people feel a
deep interest in every improvement
tending to develope and make the
South more independent. I thought
a clear statement of facts in refer
ence to this movement might be of
interest to you and your readers.
Hence this communication.
The Clement Attachment was in
vented by a Tennessean, by the name
of Clement, hence its name. In itself
considered, the Clement Attachment
is a small affair, but in its working
abilities and in what it promises to ac
complish for the South, it is of great
importance. It is simply a small
gin so arranged as to be connected
with the cards of the factory. The
cotton, in the seed, is then put into
this gin just as in an ordinary gin.
A brush, placed between the gin and
the cards, receives the lint cotton
from the gin and throws it upon the
cards. After this, all the machinery
and the process of making the cot
ton into thread is precisely the same
as in the ordinary factories. This is
about all the work done by this At
tachment. In addition to this work,
however, the Attachment saves a
large outlay of cash required in the
old process of making thread. The
actual cost of the machinery neces
sary for making thread with this At
tachment is about one-third less than
the machinery in an ordinary factory
would cost.
The Attachment saves also all the
expense of ginning, packing, etc.,
and over and perhaps above all this
the thread made by this new process
is far stronger and better than the
thread made by the old factories.
One of these attachments, with the
royalty charged therefor, together
with all the machinery, freight, put
ting it into operation, etc., will
cost about four thousand dollars.
This does not include a house and
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 7, 1880.
the power of running. It has one
set of cards and 336 spindles.
The one now in operation in Se
noia is a success beyond all question.
It is meeting the hopes and expecta
tions of the company and their most
sanguine' nTefids. It made 260
pounds of yarn a day. This is an
extra day’s work, It will average
about 200 pbunderof yarn per day.
Barnes & Co. have labored under
grjtat ffieadvantages. They com
menced this enterprise without any
experience and but little information.
With their present information and
experience they see when and how
much time and money could ha»e
been saved. They labored under
another and perhaps greater diffi
culty. They found it impossible to
obtain experienced operatives. They
were forced therefore to employ
those who knew absolutely nothing,
and patiently wait until they could
learn. They found plenty anxious
to work and willing to learn. In
consequence of this difficulty their
progress was slow, perplexing and
discouraging for the first month or
six weeks. This difficulty is now
overcome, they now have hands
enough and those who are willing
and efficient and everything moves
smoothly, pleasantly and, as they be
lieve, profitably.
Some' have thought that there
would not be a ready sale for these
yarns. One single thought will re
move this objection. All the cotton
produced by the farmers will be
spun somewhere and by some per
son or company. It matters though
very little where or by whom the
cotton is spun. There is and will
continue to be a market for all the
yarns. Moreover, Barnes & Co. are
receiving letters almost daily, and
from all parts of the country. Sev
eral houses propose to take all the
thread they can make and even more
than it is possible for them to pro
duce.
This company has secured the
agency for the Clement Attachment
and with their experience and infor
mation they could save much time
and money to any party or parties
desiring to go into this business.
I send you by mail a sample of
the thread. Please call attention to
it. This sample is what is called a
heavy No. 8. It is being made to
fill a special order and for a special
purpose. It is therefore not twisted
quite so much as would be required,
for ordinary use. Any further in -
formation which I or the company
can give will bo done with pleasure.
Please send me the paper in which
this is published.
A. VanHoose.
How He Caught a Hare With a
Hook and Won Forty Dollars.
They had a grand coursing match at
Merced the other day, and one or two
bj es had gone by, the human parti
cipants of the sport were very much
annoyed by the remarks of a lank,
cadaverous specimen, who had been
fishing in the lake near at hand, and
who had left his angling to watch
the work of the hounds. party
amused himself by making sarcastic
and contemptuous remarks regard
ing what he considered the stupidi
ty and folly of going to all that ex
pense and trouble in killing a few
hares.
“What on earth/ he said to the
referee, earnestly, “why on earth
don’t you kill the hares with a club
instead of taking the chances on the
dogs catbing them, when you could
eave ’em al! with half the trouble.”
“Oh, you go to blazes!” said one
of the dog owners, impatiently.
“But just reason about the thing,”
expostulated the lean economist. It’s
a clear loss of two hares out of three
Now, if you must use dogs, why not
put say twenty rabbits into a barrel
with a rat terrier?”
“Oh! dry up and mind your own
t usiness.”
“Yes; but I hate to see you wast
ing so much good meat. Now, how
would it strite you to hitch the next
hare to this trout line before you let
it start. It can’t get away then, and
when the dogs fall behind all you
have to do is to bear on the reel and
kinder slow it off Now—”
“Will nobody put this man off toe
grounds,” yelled an umpire.
“Put your Aunt Middy off,” retor
ted the practical fisherman. “Fact
is, your dogs ain’t worth four bits
ap ece, anyway. Bet forty dollars I
can catch a bare better than they
with this line.”
“What’s that?” said old Sudge
Van Snyder, who had come up just
then.
“I say,” repeated the man, em
phatically, “that I’ll bet forty dollars
I can catch hare by casting this line
every time.’’
“Done,” says the Judge. “Put
up,” and to the surprise of every
body the intruder at once covered
the money the Judge had handed to
a bystander, and then began reeling
out his line and getting his pole
ready for a throw, whde all hands
crowded up to watch the result of
the singular wager.
“Now, then!” shouted the scorer,
as the hare was released, and the
next moment the Judge’s hat flew off
and his wig dangled out in front of
the crowd on the fisherman’s hook.
There was a terrible row after that,
when the latter claimed the coin on
the strength of the “hair” he had
caught, and if it hadn’t been shortly
discovered that the stakeholder had
lit out with the purse, the meeting
would have end eding a free fight all
around.— San Francisco Post.
If ever a man needed to travel for
his health it is the Czar of Russia.
Gov. Colqurtt and the Guberna
torial Contest.
State politics is beginning to as
sume a little activity. The align
ments are not definite - The discus
sion of men is waggin a little. There
is a sort of sporadic activity in spots
about, Local candidates for Gover
nor are beginning to appear There
sjeems some disposition to urge the
geographical question, Southern
Georgia presenting Rufus E. Lester
and Northern Georgia J. W. H.
Underwood, while Middle Georgia
presents Thomas L. Hardeman and
L. J. Gartreli. Gov. Colquitt has the
advantage of a general State follow
ing. They are all good, worthy citi
zens, and would grace the Executive
chair.
A very shrewd and distinguished
public man from another part of the
State was conversing here the other
day, and gave utterance to the fol
lowing comment on ths situation
He said:
“Undoubtedly, the strongest man
for Governor with the masses of the
people to-day is Colquitt. Ido not
enjoy his close friendship. lam im
partial between him and others, But
there is one feature in which bis ad
ministration is the most successful
the State has ever known, and it
alone is enough to put him back in
the Executive chair if he wishes it. I
allude to the management of the
State finances. I have looked into
it thoroughly, and I tell you it is
something astonishing in its merit.
In the three years of his administra
tion, the public credit has risen to
the highest point; a floating debt of
a third of a million of dollars has
been wiped out; the rate of taxation
has been reduced nearly one third,
saving a quarter of a million dollars
in tax burdens; a quarter of a mil
lion of money has been collected
from the United Stites Government
on claims that hung up for years
upoi years, until he had them pushed
through; fully $150,000 has been col
lected of back taxes from railroads,
and half a million from the same
source is expected, relieving the pop
ular burdens; the expenses of every
department of the State government
have been reduced in accordance
with economies suggested by him in
his first message; and, finally, we see
from all these causes the income of
the State so swelled that not only
will the regular installment of the
State debt be paid this year, but the
Governor has funds to redeem an ex
tra quarter of a million of Stat j
bonds, and is now doing it. Talk of
financial success! It is something
wonderful what Colquitt’s adminis
tration has done.
“There is another thing about
Colquitt’s term that is worthy of re
mark It has given him and the
State more character abroad than
any administration in haif a century
Colquitt, to-day, is better and more
favorably known over the Union
Than the Governor of any other State
in the Union. These facts cannot be
ignored, and will have a fearful
weight in the canvass. There is
another practical consideration that
must not be overlooked. Every one
of the other aspirants is a friend of
Colquitt’s. Lester took a manly and
bold stand in the State Senate, in
one of the finest speeches of the ses
ston, for the full exoneration of the
Governor in the vile slander busi
ness. Hardeman retired in his favor
in his last campaign, and has a
brother in the Comptroller-General’s
office. Underwood is a pronounced
and avowed friend, and proclaims his
regard openly; while Gen. Gartreil
declare his kindly feeling.
“It is the merest dictate of ordi
nary sense and plain political man
agement for each of the candidates
to prefer Colquitt to the others.
For if Colquitt is re-elected he will
only hold the one term and then re
tire. But if either of the others are
elected he will wish a second term,
and the chance to be Governor for
the others will be further off than if
Colquitt is the man. And in addi
tion to this, Colquitt and his friends
can defeat any man that violently
antagonizes him.”
I give you this emphaiic talk for
what it is worth. The speaker is one
of the best posted men in the State,
and known to be an uncommonly sa
gacious observer of public events. —
Augusta Chronicle
How to Behave at Table.
Upon taking your seat, your first
duty should be to inspect the cutlery.
If the knives bear Rogers’s stamp, for
instance, sound the praises of the
Meriden manufacture. This will
cause others to examine their knives.
They will marvel at your practical
knowledge. And you will live long
in the memory of your hostess.
When soup is served, opportunity
will present itself to show your supe
rior attachments in gastronomy
Confidentially inform your vis-a vis,
in voice sufficiently loud to be heard
all around the table, that Bouilleboi
is the only person you ever knew who
could make soup fit to eat. Every
eye will be turned toward you in ad
oration. Your hostess will feel a sort
of reflected greatness in having one
so gifted condescend to grace her
humble board.
Then blow into your soup as
though you were under contract to
furnish motive power for a windmill.
Thus you will show your haughty
contempt for conventionalities. For
a similar reason, you will eat from
the point of your spoon. This move
ment will make you look like the
sword swallower. Your appearance
will be picturesque. Your elbow will
threaten your right hand neighbor's
eye. In eating fish, whip as big a
piece as you can into your mouth,
and then pick out the bones one by
one at your leisure. You will resem
ble the sleight-of-hand performer pul
ling ribbons from his mouth. Al
ways eat with your knife, and close
your lips tightly about it when you
withdraw it from your mouth. This
will keep your knife clean during the
whole meal. Cleanliness is next the
godliness, you know. With to
meats comes an excellent opportuni
ty t€
men
INDISTINCT PRINT
more agreeable by watching your op
portunities in conversation. When
a gentleman has transferred a fork
ful of food from his plate to his
mouth, address him suddenly. It is
very instructive to see a gentle
man try to talk with his mouthful.
It is very amusing to see a gentle
man half-choked in his endeavor to
get his mouthful of food out of the
way, that he may answer you. Os
course you will eat all the while you
are talking, and talk while you eat.
Thus will you pay a delicate compli
ment to your hostess’ cook, show
jour social qualities, and prevent
others, possibly, from eating more
than is good for them. If pudding
is served, say it doesn’t agree with
you. But eat of it just the same,
and call for more. And here is an
admirable opportunity to dilate up
on the idiosyncrasies of your diges
tive apparatus. The noblest study
of mankind is man. If pudding is
not forthcoming, remark upon the
singular idea that some people have
that pudding may be omitted from a
dinner without ruining a dinner for
people who understand such things.
When the pie comes, peep under it,
or turn it over like a griddle cake.
This especially where the lady of
the house does her own baking. If
the pie is underdone, it would be the
right thing to mention the fact, If
it be done too brown, say something
appropriate to the occasion. When
the lady makes a slip in her cooking,
she likes to bo told of it publicly
Coffee should be drunk from
the saucer, as though it were an oys
ter in its shell. This gives you a
jaunty air. It at a private table,
never pass anything to your neigh
bor. You may want all there is
yourself. Never hesitate to ask for
what you cannot reb ch. You love to
wait upon yourself. Others must
love to wait on you. Remember the
toothpick.— Boston Transcript.
The Monarch of the sea.
Toe City of Rome, the new steam
er of the Inman line, now being
built at Barrow-in-Furness, Lancan
shire, England, will be a marvel of
marine architecture. The New York
Herald says she will be the largest
and finest vessel in the world. She
will be 2,0'10 tons larger than the
Arizona or the city of Berlin, her sis
ter ship, and 800 tons larger than the
new Cunarder, now being construc
ted on the Clyde. She is to cost
over $1,000,000, it is said, and will be
as near perfection in the way of safe
ty, speed and comfort as it is possi
ble for steamer companies and ship
builders to attain. She will be com
pleted in the spring of 1881, and it is
to be placed in the regular line be
tween New York and Liverpool. The
dimensions of the City of Rome will
be: Length of keel, 546 feet; length
all over, 590 feet, breadth of beam,
22 feet; depth of hold, 38 feet 9 in
ches; depth from top of deck house
to keel, 52 feet. Her measurement
will be 8,300 tons. The hull will be
of the best iron, and will be built
in the best manner, with eleven hor
izontal bulkheads thrugh the en
gine and boiler rooms. The engines
will be of 7,500 horse power, with six
cylinders, three of which will be high
pressure and,three low pressure. It
is promised that the new vessel will
attain the great speed of eighteen
aud one-fourth knots an hour.
Is Mars Inhabited.
There is no other planet of the so
lar system, says Science for All,
which offers so close an analogy to
the earth as Mars. The telescope re
veals to us the figures of broad tracts
of land and expanses of sea upon his
surface. The durations of his day
and night almost coinside with our
own. His exterior experiences the
alternating changes of the seasons.
His nights are illumined by two sat
tellites, which presen all the phenome
na of our own moon, and more fre
quently, owing to their greater ve
locity An atmosphere probably sur
rounds this planet; in fact, the exis
tence of air is indispensable to his
other features. Hence the inference
that Mars is a habitable globe ap
pears a very obvious and fair conclu
sion, and it would be inconsistent to
imagine that this planet, provided
apparently with all the requisite nat
ural facilities to render life a necessa
ry and desirable feature of his sur
face, is a sphere of desolation, a mass
of inert matter, which, though con
forming to the laws of gravitation,
is otherwise serving no useful end,
as the abode and sustenance of ani
mate creatures. It is far more in
accordance with analogy and ration
al speculation to conclude that Mars
is the centre of life and activity, and
that his surface is teeming with liv
ing beings.
Wm. Edwards, from whom Ed
wardsville, in Cleburne county, takes
its name, was killed, one day last
week by lighting. Mrs. Edwards
had a dream on the night previous
■to her husband’s death, in which it
appeared to her that she saw him
dead, and believing that something
would oefall him, so strong, she pro
tested against his leaving the house
that day. But Mr. Edwards would
not give any credit to the dream,
and went fishing with his boys.
Shortly afterward, Mrs. Edwards,
calling her daughter, said: “Come,
let us go and look after your father,
he is dead.” And, sure enough, they
found him dead upon the beach, kil
led by lightning. This is remarka
bly strange, but true. — Coosa River
News.
“How do you pronounce s t i-n-g
--y-?” Professor Stearns asked the
young gentleman nearest the foot of
the class. And the smart bad boy
stood up and said it depended a
great deal whether the woid applied
to a man or bee. The professor
sternly said that it applied to a man.
The smart boy hesitated a moment,
and then said “there was still the
same element of uncertainty. If it
was applied to the man by the bee
the g was hard, but” . But just
here a passing organgrinder paused
under the college windows to play
““'Pinafore,” and nobody could hear
le rest of the sentence.
NO. 19
SMALL BITS
Cf Various Kinds Carelessly Thrown
Togethci.
Confine your tongue lest it confine
you.
Ask thy purse what thou shouldst
buy.
A Wounded reputation is seldom
cured.
Draw not thy bow before thy arrow
is fixed.
Better to be alone than in bad
company.
Confide not in him who has once
deceived you.
Better face a danger once that be
always in fear.
Gum arabic was first discovered
in the mucilage.
Beware to whom you commit the
secrets of your mind.
Be mindful of things past and
provident of things to come.
Beauty without honesty is like
poison kept in a box of gold.
The Chicago Journal says that too
many things in life come out 13-15-
14.
A firm advertises ‘ raw silk stock
ings.’ ’ Good g -acious, who wants
them cooked I
At the present price of paper it
would pay to resurrect the rag-baby
and take him to the pulp mill.
Eighty millions of gold has been
received in the United States from
foreign countries during the past
year.
Some men have so much genius
that they can’t do anything but sit
them down in the shade and think
about it.
A newspaper reporter who died
recently left a large sum of money
behind him. In fact he left all the
money there was in the world.
If obstacles lie in your path, over
leap them, and never forget that a
grain of boldness in everything is an
important requisite of prudence.
Senator Davis, of Virginia, now a
millionaire, used to be a railroad
brakeman. He made his money by
not slamming the loors of the cars.
A little boy came to his mother re
cently and said, “Mamma, I should
think that if I was made of dust I
should get muddy inside when I
drink.”
Fifty girls are studying at Cornell
University, and the wife of the man
who keeps the chewing-gum therea
bouts recently appeared in a camel’s
hair shawl.
It is a time-honored custom in
Quincy, Fla., to salute a newly mar
ried couple by firing a cannon. This
is to remind those present that the
battle of life has fairly begun.
Neighbors not on calling terms are
enjoying themselves just now in com
menting on the extreme homeliness
of each other’s carpets, as they swing
upon the lines.
Housekeepers may be glad to
know that jelly covered with pulveri
zed sugar will keep without mould,
if it is set away on a high shelf where
small boys cannot get at it.
A Colorado girl, only 18 years old
on the death of her father took
charge of his family and farm, and
now manages her mother and broth
er «, and also her sisters, her cousins
and her ranche.
Even in great men restlessness is
the cause of much mischief and bit
ter unhappiness We may depend
upon it that the world does not
love a bustling, all-doing person,
any more than a student loves a blue
bottle.
. There is terrible distress in Asia
Minor, even within fifty miles of Con
stantinople. Cattle, sheep and An
gora goats are carried off in large
numbers by disease. Brigandage,
which is almost necessitated by hun
ger, is on the increase. The country
between Angora and Ismidt is becom
ing a desert. Four thousand people
of the Moussoul district have emi
grated to Bagdad.
In Westfield, Mass., a well known
lawyer recetly changed his office after
more that twenty years’ occupancy.
They say he still continues to go
regularly every morning to the old
office and ascend the stairs untilhis
eyes fall upon the legend in large
display type, “Removed to ,”
when he gives his hat a jerk over his
head and bolts in the direction of his
new quarters, looking around to >ee
if any one has observed him.
At a theatre the other evening a
man at the back of the audience mat
ured between acts that there was a
large fire down town. Immediately
ninety-seven men hastily said to their
ladies, “I will go oat and see wh ther
it is in the direction of oar office.”
They all returned at the beginning
of the next act and reported, “No; it
is in a different direction,’’ One
indiscreet young lady was heard to
remark, “It mast have been a fire
in a clove factory.”
A New Orleans paper thus de
scribes an echo, discovered by two
gentlemen, who had crossed Atcha
falaya Bay from Morgan City to Ber
wick, and had occasion to call for a
friend who had been left behind:
The distance across is less than half
a mile, and the human voice can eas
ily reach it. A prolonged call was
made and the parties listened for a
response. In aboutWieen seconds,
o their surprise, the y -me call came
back with all the peculiar inflections
of voice that were used in the call.
Thinking that some one else was on
the other side and wished to play a
trick on them, the party recited ver
ses in Italian, Latin, and Spanish,
and after a delay, they came back,
the echo repeating as many as twen
ty words distinctly. Unlike most
echoes, this of Morgan City repeats
whole sentences, and not the least
diminished by reverberation.
Advoi’tislns Hates.
—W
Legal advertisenimte charged seventy-five cents
per hundred werde or fraction thereof each inser
tion for the first four insertions, and thirty-five
cents for each subsequent insertion.
Transient advertising W'll be charged $1 per inch
for the first, and fifty cents for each subsequent
insertion. Advertisers desiring larger space for a
longer time than one month will receive a liberal
deduction from regular rates.
All bills due upou the first appearance of the ad
vertisement, and will be presented at the pleasure
ot the proprietor. Transient advertisements frem
unknown parties must be paid for in advance.
BROWN BRO’S
BANKERS, BROKERS
AND COLLECTION AGENTS
GAINESVILLE, GA.
References—H ano vek National Bank, N.
Y., Moobe, Jenkins & Co. N. Y., G. W
Williams <fc Co., Charleston, S. C.,— any
o> the Atlanta Banks. marlC-tf.
:MILLINERY GOODS!
Mrs. 11. rv. w are
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 plea.se 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.
eov7 ly
M. w. J. HAM,
Attorney at Law,
GAINESVILLE, GA.
Office in Henderson & Candler Building,
East Side Public Square
F l . >1- NEWMAN,
Physician and Surgeon,
Flowery ltloll, G-t a .
Office, first door above Barrett’s store.
Will attend calls at a distance from relia
ble parties. (febl3 6m
THE CLINARD HOUSE,
ATHENS, GA.
To the Public—l take this method of
returning thanks to my nnmerous customers
for their liberal patronage during my long
proprietorship of the Newton Bouse, in
Athens. On the 31st of December my pro
prietorship of the Newton House will cease,
at which time I will open the Ciinard Dense,
pleasantly located on Clayton street, one of
the principal business streets in Athens,
where I hope and expect my former pat
rons, and the traveling public guneraily, to
stop when visiting Athens, pledgin g myself
to do all iu my power for their comfort etc.
A. D. CLIN ARD.
Athens, Ga., Dec. 9, 1879. —l2 U
NATIONAL HOTEL,
ATLANTA, GA.
Rates, S 2 per Day;
SVE.CIAA hates
For long'er Time
The NATIONAL, being renovated and
refurnished, offers superior inducements to
the traveling public. E. T. WHITE,
mar7 Agent, Proprietor.
E. T. BROWN,
Attorney at Haw,
ATHENS, GA.
OFFICE IN HUNNICUT BLOCK,
OVER CHAS. STERN & CO.
References by Permission:
Anderson, Starr & Co., New York; Citi
zens’ Bank of Georgia, Atlanta; Judge H.
K. McKay, Atlanta; F. Phinizy, Athens.
nov2Bly
Northeastern 1A ailr oa d.
ClietTxge of SclaecLuJe.
Supkbintendent's Office, 1
Athens, Ga.. Oct. 11, 1879.}
On and after Monday, October C, 1879, trains on
the Northeastern Railroad will run as follows. All
trains daily except Sunday:
Leave Athens 3 59 pm
Arrive at Lula 620 “
Arrive at Atlanta, via Air-Lino K. R 10 30 “
Leave Atlanta, via Air-Line R. R 330 “
Leave Lula.... 746 “
Arrive at Athens 10 00 “
The above trains also connect close!;, at Lnla
northern bound trains on A. L. R. R. On
days and Saturdays the following additional tiaiuMß
will be run: •
Leave Athens 6 45 a m
Arrive at Lula 845 “
Leave Lula 920 ”
Arrive at Athens 11 3J ••
This train connects closely at Lula for Atlanta,
making the trip to Atlanta only four hours and
forty-five minutes. J. M. EDWARDS, Supt.
ATLANTA & CHARLOTTE A. L. R. 11. J
*
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE/ \j
On and alter December 2<lth double flail; trains \
will run on this road as follows: '
MORNING TRAIN.
Leave Atlanta. 4 00am
Arrive Charlotte 3 20pm
“ Air-Line Junction 330 ••
•• Danville 951 “
“ Lynchburg 12 37 ni’t
•• Washington 7 50 a m
Baltimore 930 ••
" Philadelphia 130 and 145 p m
“ New York... 345 and 445 “
•• Wilmington, N. C. (nrxt day) 950 a m
“ Richmond 7 43 '•
EVENING TRAIN.
Leave Atlanta 3 30 pm
Arrive Charlotte 3 20 a m
“ Air-Line Junction 330 “
•• Danville 10 22 “
“ Lynchburg 153 p in
•• Rxhmond 443 “
Wa-hington 9 55
<• Baltimore 11 55 “
“ Philadelphia. 3 35 a m
“ New York 645 "
GOING EAST,
Night Mail and Passenger train.
Arrive Gainesville 5:50 p m
Leave " ........................ 5:51 41
Day Passenger train
Arrive " 6:13 am
Leave •• 6:15“
Local Freight and Accommodation train.
Arrive Gainesville 11:10am
Leave “ 11:25 “
GOING WEST.
Night Mail and Passenger train.
Arrive Gainesville 9:20 a m
Leave “ 9:21 “
Day Pass3nger train.
Arrive “ B;lspni
Leave “ 8:16 '•
Local Freight and Accommodation uaiu.
Arrive Gainesville '. 1:45 a m
Leave “ 2:00“
Close connection at Atlanta for all points West,
and at Charlotte for all potnts East.
G. J. FOREACRE, G. M.
W. J, HOUSTON, Gen. Pas. and Tkt Agt.
PATENT S .
F. A. Lehmann, Solicitor of American
and Foreign Patents, Washington, D. C.
All business connected with Patents, whether
before Patent Office or the Courts,
promptly attended to. No charge mad a
unless a patent is secured. Send for circu
lar. (nov22 ts
One of our most estimable citizens may
be thankful for tho introduction of Dr.
Bull’s Cough Syrup, for its timely use has
vad his lite.