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EDITORIAL EAGLETS.
The Tribune says the spring suits
of Chicago women are mostly for
divorce.
Grant and Stephens on one side
and Tilden and Gordon on the other
is the latest presidential slate.
The Czar of Russia has passed an
order expelling all Jewi from St. Pe
tersburg. Another beauty of a strong
government.
For the sake of economy the Turk
ish government has abolished its
mission to Washington and several
other important places.
Mayor Kallocb, of San Francisco,
is to be impeached by the city coun
cil. He presided at the meeting at
which the resolutions were passed.
The presiential candidate who do
nates the largest quantity of “red
eye” at the Chicago convention will
doubless control the Georgia dele
gates.
The presidency seeking a great
man” is what the most impudent
of the third-term organs call Grant s
desperate stern chase after the nomi
nation. i
One decided step has been taken
toward the world’s fair of 1883, the
secretary of the State having asked
the governors of all the States to ap
point two commistioners each.
It is announced that Ben Butler
has stated that if Justice Field is the
democratic candidate, he will sup
port him and carry Massachusetts
for him in November.
Col. Thomas A. Scott, the great
railroad magnate, has tendered his !
resignation, to take effect on the first
of June. Failing health is assigned
as the cause.
.p*. 0.
The Illinois promoters of the third
term say there is cheating round the j
board. Very likely. This will afford '
a fine opening for Don Cameron and :
his delegation at Chicago.
» * ~
The senate still has the Kellogg- i
Spofford case before it, and the anx
iety is still keen to hear Hon. B. H.
Hiil on this question. He will
probably close the debate.
The breach in the republican party
seems to be widening every day. ■
The anti-third termers are becoming
more emphatic and out-spoken in
their opposition to Grant.
The democratic State convention,
of Ohio, adopted resolutions instruct
ing its delegates to the Cincinnati
convention to present the name of
Senator Thurmond as a candidate
for president.
It is a little curious but neverthe
less true, that the so-called inde
pendents expend all their amunition
m abusing democrats and the demo
cratic party. Never a word is spo
ken or line written in condemnation
of radicalism.
The Baltimore American says the
result of the Maryland republican
convention is really a Grant victory,
and this too, although the sentiment
of the republicans of the State are
overwhelmingly for Blaine.
The real estate transfers in New
York City last week aggregated near
ly three million dollars, which the
Herald regards as an evidence of a
general and powerful awakening to
the prospective value of property in
that city.
Nothing that has transpired in
several years has agitated the
republican press more than the re
port of Senator Davis’ investigating
committee showing discrepancies of
tens of millions in the United States
treasury accounts, and a loose system
of management that seems to have
bid for dishonesty.
The Methodist bishops tell the
general conference that the 16,000
Methodist churches under the super
vision owe debts aggregating $7,000,-
000. They severely censure the
conduct of those trustees who mort
gage the church property in order
to defray the current churche ex
penses.
—♦
If M. K. Jessup can, through the
United States court, restrain the
railroad commission from enforcing
the law of Georgia in regard to rail
rads within her borders, and thus
nullify a statute of the State, then
it will be time to wipe out State
lines and turn over the whole busi
ness of governing to a centralized
despotism.
■ ■■♦ ♦—
South Georgia is excited over the
large number of fraudulent land ti
tles coming to light in that section.
It is well known that the Great Seal
of the State has been counterfeited
and that certain parties have been
carrying on a regular system of land
piracy through manufactured titles,
from the Grant down—hence the
governor’s proclamation offering a
reward for the apprehension of the
guilty parties.
The Gainesville Eagle
VOL. XIV.
POPUL.A)< SCIENCE NOTES.
Arkansas hogs have learned a thing
or two. They dig boles in side-bills,
and head for them whenever any
one yells out, “cyclone! ’
Schafhault estimates the salt in
the Ocean at 3,051,342 cubic geo
graphical miles, or about four times
more than the mass of the Alps.
The Russian and Prussian govern
ments have adopted a kind of biscuit
for horses -containing much nutritive
matter in a small volume. They are
formed of the meal of oats, peas and
linseed.
Due to the action of the prolonged
daylight of the summer months, in
the north, plants in high latitudes
are said to have more aromatic fruits,
foliage of a deeper green, and richer
essential oils than similar plants
growing in more southerly regions
Prof. James D. Dana, a noted ge
ologian, places the epoch of the
formation of the Green Mountains —
in the system of which he includes
the whole region between the Con
necticut and the Hudson—at the
close of the Lower Silurian period.
It is said that the saliva of an in
fant, before the child has cut its
teeth, is incapable of converting
l starch into sugar. This explains at
once why all attempts at substituting
farinaceous food in place of mother’s
milk, in the case of infants, invaria
bly fails.
A successful journey to the source
of the Niger, has been made b, two
men, M. M. Zmeifer and Monstier, of
Sierra Leone, placing its main source
on the frontier of Kirsi and Koranka,
on the northern side of the Kong
Mountains, some three hundred miles
from Sierra Leone.
A prize of £SO ($250) has been
offered by the council of the London
Entomological society, for the best
and most complete life history of
Scleroetoma Syngamus, supposed to
produce the so-called “gapes’ in
poultry, games, and other birds.
Essays on the subject to be sent in
on or before October 15, 1882.
A new kind of artificial fuel is now
being manufactured in Germany,
which is said to be better and much
cheaper than wood or coal. It is
made in the form of bricks or blocks,
out of peat, coal dust and other
combustible materia), which after
being moulded into shape and dried
is covered over with a coating of
pitch.
An eminent Gorman philosopher
declares that the simplest method of
bringing about phosphorescence is
to place marine fish in a three per
cent, solution of salt, when the phe
nomenon will be observed the second
evening. The luminosity, it seems,
begins in the eyes, and thence spreads
all over the fish, increasing from
day to day' in intensity, its dura
tion depending upon the tempera
ture.
An immense quantity of articles
are now being made of an imitation
amber, and sold for the natural ma
terial which are said to be beautiful
in appearance, and so near the gen
uine as to baffle even experts to
detect the difference. The princi
pal ingredients in the counterfeit is
colaphony—a resin obtained by the
decomposition of turpentine, though
other articles are also used to give it
the requisite qualities.
Au electric railway, with three
cars, capable of carrying twenty pas
sengers, has been constructed at
London, England. A steam engine
drives a dynamo-electric machine,
and the current produced is trans
mitted to another machine which
works the train, which travels at the
rate of seven miles an hour. A still
more powerful machine is being con
structed, and some electricians are
of the belief that these electric en
gines will eventually take the place
of toe steam locomotives, at least
for the running of light passenger
trains.
It has been thoroughly demonstra
ted that no human remains are
found except in the loese soil, illu
vium, hence geological science places
man among the most recent of crea
ted things. The most conclusive
evidence of this fact is that the sur
face of the earth is composed, to the
the depths of miles, of rocks, and that
\ these rocks are full of the remains
of animals and plants, thousands of
species of them, all differing some
what from any now in existence—
no human bones or remains being
among them.
The grand theory and belief that
fish are cold-blooded —that is, that
they take on the temperature of the
water which surrounds them, with
no power to rcs’st it, and that they
develop little or no animal heat
themselves, has, by thorough inves
tigation, been found to be untrue.
In a series of investigations, most of
the fish showed a perceptibly higher
temperature than that of the water,
varying from 3 to 20 degrees warmer.
The tests were made by opening the
fish as soon after they were taken
out as possible and inserting the
bulb of a thermometer into the cavi
ty of the heart, or the bronchial ar
tery.
Washington Correspondence, j
[Special Correspondence of the Eagle 1
Washington, D C. May 12, 1880.
I find dm- ■
appointment at e v-ro, by M
Hayes of the immediate deficiency
bill. The only feature of the bill to
which th© gtent 'un- xj de l tf.kes
exception is a “rider,’’ [ repaved by
Gen. Garfield. Nothing is said in
the message to indicate that MrJ
Hayes believes This riaer or any oth-'
er rider unconstitutional. He simply
vetoes the bWj because a rider
whicn ne does'nSt pfirMi Wfly approve
is put upon it. The Louse, with ad
mirable good LensQj has already
passed, in separate " fchro, a bill pro
viding the money given by the vetoed
bill which is most needed. T'i|e
senate will follow suit. The other
items, except' thosh for the ejection
of special deputy marshals, wY be
placed on the general deficiency bill
and passed speedily. If 'the heofiW
of marshals are provide d for at all it
will be by a bill relating exclusively
to them, and on* which will be found
the same restrictive features as
caused the veto. In a word, the
democrats will consent to any decent;
appropriations, but they yvill not per- ;
mit elections to be made the sport of :
radical politiciahs. That is all there
is of it. In trying to prevent that they
will have the suppoit of many re
publicans besides Mr. Garfield,
It is generally believed- among
democrats that one object of the veto
was to prolong the present ion ■
of congress, and for that reason file j
democrats in both houses will re-j
double their efforts tb finish up th.; j
work at an early day. Mr.iHiy f g ■
a man who thinks he has ideas, but;
on every important occasion for two .
years, in which the apparent interest
of parties were coneetnoS, he hss
done just what Ben Wade or Thad
Stevens would have done. He hha
been clay in the hands of the radi-;
cal potter in the way of an at! (
to prevent the further wholesale dis-:
franchisemorrt of foreigners a:id poo I
men in Massachusetts, Rhode Isiaml i
and other radical States, Mr.WalJace, -
chairman of the senate committee
which has recently investigated the:
election laws of these States, pro
poses to have passed-thq-bill given
below. As the subject is onfc which
concerns the political rights of ev-..:-.
citizen, I give the suggested meas
ure in full and hope it will at this
session take the form of law.
“Be it enacted by the senate and
house of representatives of the U 8.
in congress assembled, that in tak
ing the enumeration of the inhabi
tants of the several States as directed
by the constitution of the U.S, xo;
be taken at the next subsequent
enumeration thereof, it shall be the
duty of the superintendent of the
census to cause to be ascertained the
number of citizens of the U. 8., in
habitants of any State, being males
twenty-one yeais of age and upwards
whose right to vote at any election
named in the fourteenth amend fii-.nt
to the constitution of the U 8 , has
been denied or in any way abridged
by the constitution or laws of any
State.” Rex.
Bro. Gardner’s Lime-Kiln Club.
“Walkin’ out dis mawnin’ to be
hole de bewtiful in naturbegan
the President as ho arose, “my mind
recollected dat I had been axed to
splain de true secret o’ happiness.
In de fust place, when am a man
happy? Is it when he has lots o
money—ween he has fixed his em •
my—when he travels an sees de
world—when he has a good home ?
An’ how many grades of happiness
kin you count up? An’ what am
happiness, when you come to boil it
down ?”
During the silence that followed
his last query Samuel Shin made
an effort to cross his legs and knocked
the water-pail bottom side up, fill
ing the bvogans of Giveadam Jones
and Whitelaw Skinner full of ice cold
liquid.
“Happiness, as an ole black man
like me defines it,’’ continued Bi oth
er Gardner, “am not sto’ cloz o , nfd
wallet, a big house an’ ice creem
every night afore you go io bed,
When I looked about me arter a
wife I didn’t look fur anything gaudy.
I knew I mus' mar’y a black woman
or none at all. I knew she’d be a
away off on her Greek an Latin, an’
so when I got my ole woman I war’
not a bit dis’ninted. She am as j
good as I am, an’ what more can I'
ask? When I war’ free to start out!
I reasoned dat I mus’ job ’round ■ t
dis an' dat, kase I had no trade. I
nebber counted on havin’ more dan a ■
cord of wood an’ five bushels of ’ba-1
ters ahead, an’ I nebber have had- 11
knew I’d have to live in a small'
house, own a cheap deg, live an’
dress plainly an’ keep dis black skin
to de grave, an’ it has all happened
jist as I ’spected. lam happy kase
I haven’t ’spected too much. lam (
happy kase I doan’ figger on what' ’
I haven't got I am happy kase I i
reason dat de weather can t alius be i
fa’r, money can’t alius be ’plenty,'
good health can’t alius last, an yer ;
bes freinds can’t ailus be counted;
on. If elar’ am any secret of bappi- ■
ness I believe it am dim an' w. will I
now begin de reg’lar bizuess of de
eccashun. ’— Detroit Free Press.
It is impossible to make people
understand their ignorance, for it
requires knowledge to perceive il;
and therefore he that can perceive
hath it not.
(iAJXESI ILL •-a ■MA 14, 1880.
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THE DEAR, DE.vb i .U
Ah Incident of War.
The war I refer to was one of 4 hose 1
}we Lave lately had upon our own
imands, but ih.tL. which a r few yv«*'n.
I America. Itwus my fortune xvj
on th. meuicai |tMl' with a portion h
the Nd.them army during of 1
that ildEiJr /‘IUL/giO; a: lit 's'm. ' \
less to say that many personal inci
dc ..a came uoder .notice, \E.idi .
wifi sfover leave my memory. Not one
of them however, made so%ainfui an
impression upon me as that which I
um about to describe.
aooa.omite.G'.y cao
of the fiercest fights ut all the war, a
young soldier was bioimht in from
file dife lie-ilelu, wiieie.i/* jfcornd *mi>-
ehaJMif:, aefiadlw ah sverlodkt A !
and abandoned, while comrades of
his,,far less giiyVyysly wouqii d timet
hf-t bfi'lh* ?r sheltered and t«n U t
’’oiq .hue poc'i ienovz rued
■ilrtfmrnignl;/ emd duffi g the long
KLpxhiag nc-ursyf mux-pieg. uum
tr.-ups O’ dea:,, bath men !;.ml -v-r.;.,
uuiiii’iiig••tom tne toss of au aim, and
other wounds. An army eur'g. jm i
is a . ul-i-, a i.»_-ii -ir-m ■■ to d; du
or to j
th'irgight vs physical shfferfflg; < rd I
am nor .conscious, oi any
that makes me ah exception m
particular, was, however, m
this youth’s expression of couhte
nance which atruex me
iri siti bit, ;.l 1 With (He rArong
glance cf Lm large, brigai eye fixed
my atte^tup l mad njviikened my *ea
ger interest, lie ii s a oleadoryouth,
tali, yet gracefully made, with it head
which* as the novelif is pin affect wofa d
bring ecstacy to ILL.soul us; sculp .
tor, and every mature molded to* '
true type pt mkiyy iienmy. A raugie. .
glance me his suiuiiiftij'outline
ot ?ny patient before 1 had time io <
ce.iiain the natqre or ext..n .. of his in- .
juries.- A vefty Umf cxaiiunvion
ooi; foi® rnatipt the ilie Vp ou f r
hours had bde’ir ebbing so pa.nfully
away was well; nigh spent; and he
must have read the awful trulh in
my face, f;-r he whispertu to me, i,
laintly ja. d sadiy, as I reuse:
“Ir. ther j. then, no hope' ?” *
Ahis! there was no hope; bul l j
haul jhc-I'. speech-tt>. tell Lie n r >
was rising mmy tliroa
cXilUl LU p Li La La <,•< U•.L- . Ltl £)
fny eyeh ’frA ; blindi>?g im.-; .m- : fat
oily reply I c< aid giVv him was . .
snakt) .. .. aa
which had nerved mm thiouga i.he
fight
now, when the dizm"d truth Lad bi r o- 1
ken upon him, there passed over his
pallid face a look of -mingled diiiap
poiutmer.Ul J -re. .gnation which it
Was JiaiLiii. 03/, C-Uu .-XpieVi'.-iOi: II;
".’i-e-s' i iinw ovipg'
him such surgical aid as his dei-pei
ate condition called tor and his van- I
ing strength could bear I nWi E
■bal’diy dime so when an '-S ’.e ,
voice addpsseu qini:
“My own ..ear boy ! my i -ravp, no
roreic noy 1
The tone was of cheery encourage
ciftt, yet. leebly dieguhiijg tne wo
of a breaking heart; for it v.as his ,
mother’s voice that spoke, and tier '
lips liiut ki.tsed Ins fevered bn.... v
Gently shh turned back hi; d ■.drffli*'-
ed and blood-stair cd locks, disi-emb
ling with evident efiori. the mother’s :
anguish, lest she should add another <
sorrow to the-p: ngs of hisdyi g hour. <
“My mother ! ’he cried, with at- :
most frantic delight - “Jn it you
mother? How came you ini ? Is .
it you, or am I dreaming ?” air' ae .
sue spoke lie threw h;s oah renam
ing arm around he” neck and kissed
her with all the rapture of a child. I
“Thank God!” Le continued in sn., tch -
es,as his failing strength allowed ?_i ■
‘EfiMik God for tnis blessed jor—that 1
I see your face once more, my molli-: ?
or. All Iftßf n.-ght, us I r’j ..m.' iimj.
dreadful nights around 111
prayed that I might look one ■ >
more upon your face, my bvm. ..teat t
mother —once nfltpre hear your voice. ?
I Seemed to pray in vain, vM still I ’
prayed.”
“My £?<oor, poor boy,” she said; “a <
curse U[ on the hand that has brought
you to tins’!” and her tears at length i
broke from her control f
To the amazement of afi, there &p- '
peared io be something in this excla- t
mation of his mother that stir, uialcd t
the dying youth to a final effer lof
speech and motion. He half raised i
himself from nis bed, and with that i
unaccountable energy which some <
times marks the closing moments of
- lie said: 1
“No, no; doift say that! Don’t S"- i
trCcursud. Yon know not the work
you are sp aking. “Oh!” ho cried i
after a moment’s pause, “how smiE I i
tell her the horrible tale? How can I
I smite her down with such a blow, f
at such an hour ?” ai'd be fell back i
exhamte'l upon his pillow. The es- ;
fort had been too much for him, and i
for some moments we doubted if the
spirit had not fled. It was only a
passing weakness, however, and be?
fore long ne talb’ed again. Again he 1
spoke, but with a kind of dreamy 1
half consciousness—at one moment
gazing into his mother’s eyes, at an- 1
other st.emiagly fo.getful oi 1 is pres
enon.
“Truly it was a bloody fight,” he
said. “I had been in several hard
' fought fights before, but they w. r<
j all children’s pa -time compared with
' that of yesterday. No sooner had
•ve come in sight of the enemy than
the ringing voice of the general was
heard:
“At them, mv boys, and do you#
duty!”
I “What happamid after that I know I
! not. Know not, do I say ? Oh,;
' would it were true that I know not! I
I oegrimtdiv. ith dust, each man was
I confronted with his own individual'
! foe, and- if there be fightuig among i
; fiends, then . urely did our fighting
■ resemble theirs, I was myself woun
' ded when a fairhail.<.-d. man bore down
upon me from the opposing line—if
line it could then bo called—and I
received his headlong onset with a
terrific bayou t thrust, and as he fell
I thought of Cain, and of the deed
which has made the name of Cain a
malediction forever. I know not why,
bul I felt myself compelled to halt in
thr m.- I; tof the im. lee to knti l be-j
. ; ' f”tr. . -F. o man and look
atpiifti. T :jm over and look
c l' npcL hi face—ton leas’, dead face,
‘ilj I mother, it w was—it was
brother’s face, a l my own arm
Ji.ah tuain hun!''
Too scene at that mom mt it would
, cp: y to describe. In an in-
Sgta-.t wacpjxig molLtrls ft- is
pl i nd ’ Lei becom*. j
sitfnlessr.s m. ?hl My own emo
t-m., wldAil nhvt ..ilready acknowl I
o- pefi I took no p??.ns to
■ pig'-.,-hur • favored sfi'diers *4and
i; glrf t with b:»ted breath to
L>B inb re than tragic narrative, while
big tear drops welled from their ■. ; es
fh|ciiceked rnd undisguised.
“Y s,” be f co'-'*rnrft.H. solilcqniziug,
“my own arm had slam' him. Denr,
d.r:’ o br'dt’ ' F-td! 7 J id my
fieO'cy v' hk, and it was cold—that
ihcC ”n bur b yLood seemed but- tho
mirror wf my own; evernenr me—ar
jinn, ai sc_k>oJ, at meal, at play
wp;e laughed I was glad and
. ..<• when 1 ~as sorrowful. Ob,
v. ai<. . ... b- .mPa., died in thoiic
fi .*i>, blight d..b oi' innocence! I
'kU.jd Lit paiiiq tips; I .cqkcd into
k *s t', es; but in’Lhr m was no respen-
He was dem’. I Lad
m him! 'The very thought was a
'burlibig madm - in my brain, j
•hooded hot the carnage around me.
t bj-’nght not i_J "j- own '.round. I
r<|- j knew -not -.ken my arm was
gino. Oh, '.he arm that had done
: ur.l a deed deserved to perish!
Forgive my, Omy brother!
gUefiy would i giv„ mj life to bling
b|p.k thine again! 8 ay, friends; do
H\ ?bu: out the lio ..1 light. L i
i.i I?, j light. Ic. not see my moth'-
6ti. . Fred, sv.hrdtner, put up
yoid wci' b let us play with
fipwc:. ■‘nee mon upon this pleaisr.: t
r
; Ar.d £■ he pa ;eu i.way—to join his
bfother, ;ct us bcyE iu a !...% where
l-ioums lac flowers thi'T net . id::,
and where ti :> m: juries and mi on
des -L. l._, of our ; .. ent statu are
■ ; td by he light that nev relies.
ylivciem - .' or cbilulesi. moth
r\ grief, aS w il as the many-voiced
1*.?..; .’’ duty, prevm Iby making a ;
tb.aL moment the inquiries which
i-ferci.•■ged my mind, both as to the
history of 1-13 strangely sorrow smit
le: f refly erd rhe mt,by which
*tjm ;.oor mother had come to know
tier son’s condition and whreabouts
I'hai< i-f-cn. cine, tried to trace her,
bi’/: ' ? search h/• always been fruit
,gg. The; certainly bc-lcrged to the
■. k tier. ck-.&. < f society, and I think it
dkf-wise- certain that they wen
Southerner? ‘ Th... younger broth
er—which I took timt-i be—whose
:-nd mtiraiivd is -xio given, had
Irobalfiy resided for some time in
North, and becoming imbuer;
•3,1. ’!•' ?■'. nrtinient nd • .‘. ■
whicn charged the atmosphere
•toane-him, found aims event
-j- in the ’•ankc. Iu a werd,l I'.- ked
upon Uie whole episode as one oi
’Lose.-wful coincidence-'-.of fact which
me gene-rally thought io take place
only in the p-.ges of mn-m.ce but
which awi E experience nas taught
me to believe are by no .means unfre
qaent among the unrecorded realities
of life.
Motinosiism in lilie South.
M -rmo;:’ loic-rtL-l iobc tak
ing rsy id striTsiii the south. -A
• /h/.‘ ■
quirer, at Chattanooga, - ims mmn.
mlm.viewing Aide. ... igau, piibi
l kg oi the southern mission of the
Mormon church, who is held us one
o. its most important influential
nembers, and sums up the interview
aa follows: “Mr. Morgan says that
the M rmon religion is daily gaining
■firengvh aijfi favoi in the southern
States. He f-Ays i hat the people at
Isu’g.'. l are expressing more sympathy
s,nd frioiidsLip toward die caLircii.
As tl,.ey are becoming better ac
quainted with its work and detail of
its teachings this feeling becomes
the limit mamiesi. They ul now
averaging i>bcut thirty baptism ■ e.ich
nmr.th in ’ln ern States alone,
•Lid' f . number is cunfinnally in
creasing. Th-: demand for mne
ciders Ist eontinually coming in mom
the south, and it haa at last bec<’m-j
so persistent that twenty more elders
will be oi .ainod and dietribu’ed
through the south, to propagate the
doetrinis of th: Mormon creed.
Th- re are now about fot'y mirsiona
ries of that church in the south and
in addition a number oi locai preach
eiT. H" n ;, -ys that the opposition
v.'Llch was for as- .. manifested, and
which lust y6.>r Culminated in the
murder of an older, is no; rapidly
dying out, and they ar everywhere
meeting with more favor and encour
agement. They afe not pressing
their le’iigiiOn on the people, fie
says, but are simply fining the de
mand. He left this city to-day with
about eno hundred and thirty con
verts.
How to Avoid Bad Husbands.
Nover marry for wealth. A wo
man’s li io consist! ! .h not- in the things
i.he possesses.
N var marry a fop, who struts
about d Jy-likt in his gloves and
ruffles, with a siiver-headod cane,;
and rings upon his fingers. Beware !
There is a trap.
Never marry a niggardly, clcse
fisied, mr.an, 'sordid wretch, who
saves every penny, or spends it
grudging'y. Take care Jest he stint
you to death.
Nevery marry a stranger, whoee
charactsr is not known or tested.
Some girls jump into th., fire not
knowL:g.
Ncv< r a man who treats his
■me lhei- i.:tcr unkindly or indif
iiir.ntb. Such treatment is a sure
dication of a mean and wicked
Never on any account marry a
gambi-•, a profane person, or one
who in file least speaks lightly of God
or of religion Sue 1 a man will
never muk: a good busband
Finally, . ~v.marry a nmn who is
in the leo fc addicted to the use of
ardent spirits. Depend upon it, you
are better off alone than you would
be tied io a man whose breath is
polluted, and who is being destroyed
by alcohol.
The Homely Alan
In the first place, reader, it is not
you, but some other one; and he is
very, vry bom ly, which is not the
worst of it—he is intensely conscious
of his homeliness. There are those
.on ely ones wiio are so bright and
good-natured under their affliction
tn .t they die and we never know how
uncouth in feature and form they
were. But this man seems to live in
constant fear that seme one shall ou
an awful day say to his face iu simple
wonder: “How homely you are!’’
He seems to shrink constantly in
i-nticipation cf s ms such speech,
which apparently is just about to be
spoken—be thinks - And yet he is
not ugly; you can see from his face
and his every action that he would
not hurt a child, however willful.
But down on to what would be a
happy heart is constantly pressing,
with abeavydea i weight, the thought
that he is - ffensiveiy homely. H.s
most objcciiuiiab. features he con
tiaually tries to hide; his long legs,
thin io the vanishing point, he
d-.-übl<.s und. r him only to exhibit
'.he snarputsi of his knees. His
large-jointed hands he can find no
place for, ai d every new motion of
them but call ■ f ... b. attention to
their ungaii iiness. His face is a
•Lady. Long ago, iL be
came heartily disgusted, with itself,
but never yet became useu to that
disgust, and so Las now almost a
•? >ur look. You cannot catch his
eyes, but they seem to say: “Now,
don’t look at me; I know I am home
ly, but 1 am not to be abused on
that account and looked at as a curi
osity,” Nevertheless, he is a curiosi
ty; few in this age seems so 4ielf con
fident of a want, of attractiveness as
he. it's sad, now that T. G. comes
-. j think of it. Others are as unfit
ted as Le to be called handsome, but
they laugh it off in fifteen er twenty
ears—it takes about that long—and
then livi happj forever after. Ke
nember, reader, he is not yon!.
A Trsie Lady
Gail Hamilton Wildness is
a thing which gkis cannot afford.
Delicacy is a tL ing which cannot be
lost or found. No art can restore
the grape its bloom. Familiarity,
withe ut confiuei. c'.-, without regard, is
desti active to all iliux makes woman
exalting and ennobiing. 1 ia tut
first duty of a woman to be a lady.
Goo; r ( ling is good Bad
manner - iu i. woman is immorality.
A vkwardness may be ineradicable.
B shfulness is cons:T utinnal. Ijqo
rance of etiquette is the result of
ci cumstances. All can be condoned
and not banish men or woman from
the amenities ci their kind. But
self-possessed, unshrinking and ag
gressive coarseness of dtim anor may
b< reckon--d a a State’s. Prison
offense, a- o c-?-tainly merits that
mild form of restraint called impris
onment for fife, It is a shame for
. omen to be 1-cclu’ d on their man
ihts. It is o bitter shame that they
need! Do not be restrained. Do
not havj impulses that need res
•ula.. Do not wish to dance With
l-ho Px’ace unsought; feel differently
Be sr.ye . you confr ;. - honor Carry
y:.‘ A ; h'fi'y t'Kst men Wil’ look
up to jOii tor reward, not at you in
•\;buL. Th iL.tural sentiment of
man toward woman is reverence.
E lores a large means of grace
•.■hen he is obliged to account her a
being to b - traim d in propriety.
A man's ideal is not wounded when
a woman fails in worthy wisdom;
but in grace, in fact, in sentiment, in
dehcacy, iu kindness, she would b<
found wanting, he receives an inward
hurt.
Tilings of Interest.
Two persons die t vary second.
Slow divers flow four miles per hour.
Rapid rivers flow seven miles per
hour A moderate wind blows seven
miles p< r hour. A storm moves
thirty-six mins per hour. A hurri
emoves eighty miles per hour.
A rifle ball moves 1,000 miles per
hour, bound moves 743 mites per
hov-r. unves 192.000 miles
per hour. Electrc.ty moves 288,000
mil per hour. The lint steamboat
plied the Hudson u 1807 Th . first’
iron steamship was millt in 1830.
The first luciftr match was made in
1829 The first horse railroad was
1 uilt in 1826 Gold was discovered
in California in 1848 The first use
of a !oco’no;iv« in this country was
in 1829. Th; first printing press in
the U Lu ei Sieves was introduced in
1629. The first almanac was printe 1
by George Von in 1460
Until 1767 cotton spinning was per
formed by the hacd-fpinning wheel
The first steam engine on this con
bnent was brought from England in
1753. Measure 2G9 feet on each
Sid., and 3ou will Lave a square acie
with at inch. Au acre contains
4,840 square yards. A square mile
contains 640 acres. A mile is 5,280
feet ot 1,760 yards in length. A
fathom is Tx feel'. A league is three
miles. A Sabbath-day's journey is
1,155 yards (this is eighteen yards
less than two thirds of a mile.) A
dav’ journey is thirty-three and oue
i-’ght miles. A cubit is two feet.
A great cubit is eleven feet.
Ax. tier, e bTcuit is being mai ufac
tured in Russia to take the place of
oais. It is made of crushed oats and
the flour of gray peas, mixed with
empseed oil and salt, and is four
.ncuefi in diameter. A day’s ration
weighs about four pounds, and is
. qual to ten pounds of oats. The
hordes like the buiicuits when soaked
In water, and if fed exclusively on
them, hough they lose iu flesh, are
ttillfit for fatiguing work.
R-corder Smythe, of New York
citv, in a recent address to the grand
iury, expressed gratification at tlic
decrease of crime in that city within
the pa A six months, which he attrib
pt d .a the- improvement in business,
bj which employment had been given
to manj needy people. Want, in the
opinion of the Recorder, rather than
a natural disposition to do evil, is
responsible for most of the crimes
that darken the records of the crimi
nal courts.
SMALL. BITS
Sf Various Kinds Carelessly Thrown
Together.
It is stated the public debt was
reduced $12,000,000 in April.
Before the railroads were con
structed the prairies were a trackless
west.
A Nevada Indian is going through
life with the beautiful name of Drift
ing Goose.
The thing to do is to look ahead.
A blind man can see the mistakes
that are behind him.
The world owes us all a living, but
she is just as hard to collect from as
any other debtor.
A wooden shoe factory has been
started in Illinois. It will use up a
great many feet of lumber.
Georgia has 6,864,654 acres of
wild laid returned for taxation.
The average price is twenty-four
cents per acre.
A Paris woman has discovered
how to prevent wrinkles. The rem
edy shortens life, but what of that?
It has been figured out that it
takes jUst fifteen minutes to learn to
be an astrologer well enough to bam
boozle fools.
It is said that '‘All things come to
him whn will but wait;” but at a res
taurant that depends somewhat upon
the waiter.
The New york Herald of Sunday is
the largest paper in the world, being
in sextuple form of 24 pages, or 144
columns.
The number of exiles to be trans
ported to Siberia in June and July
this year, is said to be about twenty
thousand.
It was Pelham who said that it was
eminently respectable to be arrested
for debt, because it shows that you
once had credit.
Polite ncse may prevent the want
of wit and talent from being observed;
but wit and talent cannot prevent
the discovery cf the want of polite
ness.
“Help from an unexpected quarter,”
as a tramp remared when a twenty
five cent piece was handed him by
the lady of the house.
A St. Louis rich man drew up a
will which was so pathetically word
ed that it moved ail his relatives to
tears. It left all his property to an
orphan asylum.
It is said that a coon can be caught
by leaving whisky in its vicinity,
but the average hunter would rather
drink iue whisky and take his chances
on the coon.
A little boy, watching the burning
of the school-house until the novelty
of that thing had ceased, started
i own the street, saying: ‘ I’m glad
tho old thing’s burned down; I didn't
have my jogfry lesson, no how.’’
A white widower married a black
widow at Cape Girardeau, Mo. He
had four white children, she had five
black ones, and three yellow ones
have been born to them since. The
family presents a varied aspect.
Ths shipment of postal cards from
the Hollyoke, Massachusetts, agency
are larger than at this time last year,
and the total number- ordered since
January 1, exceeds the order of the
same period in 1879 by about
10,000,000.
“Maybe there isn’t any God for the
United States,' said a Canadian
Mayor to Colonel Robert Ingersoll,
“but there is one for Canada, and
you can’t have any hall in this town
in which to defame him.”
A benevolent Detroit dentist an
nounc d that on a certain day he
would puilteeih free for poor per
sons ana provide laughing gas. He
used 700 gallons of gas and extracted
271 teeth.
A drunken member of parliament
said to ths attorney general, one day,
“I am a seif-made man, I am.’’
“Then, sir, replied the philosophical
Attorney general, “the fact relieves
the Almighty cf a great responsibili
ty-”
Charles G. Leland (who has re
turned from fourteen years’ residence
abroadj says the difference between
an American and an English paper,
as regards news, is almost the differ
ence between a racer and a dray
horse.
A contemporary finds in Senator
Edmunds’ face reflections of the
“sombre landscape,” the savage
grandeur of the sea, the majestic
mountains, tipped with snow” of En
gland.
Having pretty well established her
self as a great cotton market, St Lou
is now proposes to become the Fall
River of the west. The city has now
two cotton mills, consuming 15,000
to 20,000 bales annually, and two
more mills of large capacity are to be
put in operation during the year.
The Emperor of Austria, it is said,
has expressed his intention to carry
out to the letter his promise to grant
complete religious liberty to the
Nonconformist sects in his domin
ions. It is added that an official an
nouncement to this effect may be an
ticipated at an early day.
Judge Jere Black is said to be the
mau who wrote for Hat cock the pa
pers published over the latter’s signa
ture while he was commanding in
Louisiana, and on the strength of
which his presidential boom was star
ted. Even if this be true, it shows
that Hancock had excellent sence
and knew where to go for vigorous
logic.
The endeavor to explain why the
Semitic nations wrote from right to
left has led to many curious specula
tions. Erlemnayer, for instance, ac
counts for their mode of writing by
assuming that they were left-handed.
But this is a hypothesis contrary to a
known fact. One of the most ancient
of the books of the Bible mentions
left-handedness as a physical pecul
iarity.
Ad.vortisin?, Hatos -
Legal advertisements charged seven«.y-five cents
per hundred Verde or fractio n thereof each inser
tion for the first four inserti .'us, and thirty-five
cents for each subsequent insertion.
Transient advertising will be charged $1 per inch
for the first, and fifty cents for each subsequent
insertion. Advertisers deriving larger space for a
longer time than one tn i.ih will receive a I.beta’
deduction from regular rates.
All bills due upon the first appearance of th* ad
vertisement, and will bo presented at the plenei re
of the proprietor. Transient advertisements fr.m
unknown parties must be paid for in advance.
NO. 19
BROWN BRO’S
BANKERS, BROKERS
ANO COLLECTION AGENTS
GAINESVILLE, GA.
References—Hanoveb National Bank, N.
Y., Moore, Jenkins & Co. N. Y., G 4 W
Williams & Co., Charleston. S. C.,— any
oi the Atlanta Banks. marls-tL
MILLINERY GOODS!
Mrs. H. N. Ware
Bags 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 last house as you go
down Main street to the college.
nov7ly
11. W. .1. HAM
Attorney at Law,
GAINESVILLE, GA.
Office in Henderson & Candler Building,
East Side Public Square-
F. Al. IN EW M A.IN,
Physician and Surgeon,
Flowery Branch, C3-i<.
Office, first door above Barrett’s store.
Will attend calls at a distance from relia
ble parties. (febl3 6m
THE CLINARD HOUSE,
A.THENS, G A.
To the Public—l take this method of
returning thanks to my numerous customers
for their liberal patro’nage during mj long
proprietorship of the Newton House, in
Athens. On the 31st of December wy pro
prietorship of the Newton House will cease,
at which time I will open the Clinard Hcuse,
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 generally, to
stop when visiting Athens, pledgius myself
to do all in mv power for their comfort, etc
A. D. CLINARD.
Athens, Ga., Dec. 9, 1879. —l2 H
NATIONAL HOTEL,
ATLANTA, GA.
Rates, §2 per Day;
SPBCIALi HATES
For loiig'ei* 'JFiiiiio
The NATIONAL, being renovated and
refurnished, offers superior inducements to
the traveling public. E. T. WHITE,
mi r7 Agent, Proprietor.
E. T. BROWN,
at I
ATHENS, GA.
OFFICE IN HUNNICUT BLCk’K,
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
Aor t lieaster n ai \ r o a 0.
Change of Sclieclu.J.c ;.
Superintendent’s Office, )
Athens, Ga., Oct. 11, 1879. J
On and after Monday, October 6, 1879, trains on
the Northeastern Railroad will run as follows. All
trains daily except Sunday:
Leave Athens 8 50 p in
arrive at Lula 630 “
Arrive at Atlanta, via Air-Line K. R 10 30 ••
Leave Atlanta, via Air-Line R. R 330 **
Leave Lula 746 **
Arrive at Athens 10 (Hl •*
The above trains alse connect closely at Lula with
northern bound trains on A. L. R. R. On Wednes
days and Saturdays the following additional trains
will be run:
Leave Athens C 45 a m
Arrive at Lula 845 “
Leave Lula. 920 “
Arrive at Athens 113) ••
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 L 11.
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
On and after December 20th double aai.y trains
will run on this road as follows:
MORNING TRAIN.
Leave Atlanta. 4 00 a tn
Arrive Charlotte 3 20 p nr
•* Air-Line Junction 330 “ L
•* Danville 951 “
Lynchburg 12 37 ni t
** Washington 7 50 a m
“ Baltimore 930 “
•• Philadelphia 1 30 an i 1 45 p m
“ 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 330 *•
« Danville 10 22 *•
“ Lynchburg 153 pm
** Richmond 443 **
“ Wa hington 955 “
“ Baltimore 1155 **
" Philadelphia 3 35am
“ New York 645 ••
GOING EAST,
Night Mail and Passenger train.
Arrive Gainesville 5:50 p m
Leave ** 6:51 “
Day Passenger train
Arrive “ ................. 6:l3am
Leave ** .... 6:ls**
Local Freight and Accommodation train.
Arrive Gainesville 11:10am
Leave ** ...................... 11:25 ••
GOING WEST.
Night Mail and Passenger train.
Arrive Gainesville 9:20 am
Leave ** .............. ....... ... 9:21 **
Day Pasasnger train.
Arrive •• B;lspm
Leave ** ....... 8:16 **
Local Freight and Accommodation ttai.i.
Arrive Gainesville t 1:45 a m
Leave •* 2:00 **
Close connection at Atlanta for all points West,
and at Charlotte for all points East.
G. J. FOREACRE, G. M.
W. J. HOUSTON, Gen. Pas. and Tkt Agt.
PATENTS.
F. A. Lehmann, Solicitor ot American
and Foreign Patents, Wa-hington, D. C.
All busiuess connected with Patents, whether
before the Patent Office or the Courts,
promptly attended to. No charge madj
unless a patent is secured. Send tor circu
lar. (nov22 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.