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EDITORIA L EAG LETS.
The Ute Indians are massacreing
the whites who are encroaching on
their reservation.
Jay Gould, it is stated, is furnish
ing a good deal of the inspiration for
the Blaine boom.
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Recent fires in the Pennsylvania
oil regions have destroyed large
amounts of property.
Judge Sanford E. Church died
suddenly at his home in Albion, N.
Y., on Friday of last week.
Atlanta is preparing to have a
real old-fashioned, spread eagle jus
tification on the 4th of July.
Some of the New York papers are
complaining of the large number of
pauper Bavarians now being landed
in that city.
Dr. Dawson declares that 6,000
years ago there was no human life in
Europe. This, if tenable, annihilates
the evolution theory.
The legislature of Kentucky, lately
adjourned, passed one thousand six
hundred and six acts, an average of
a little more than twelve ior each
day of the session.
It is predicted that the Chicago
convention will be the most stormy
gathering of the kind ever assembled
on this continent. The conflicting
elements of the republican party
will all oe up to white heat by that
time.
On Wednesday of last week an
attempt was made to kill the Spanish
Consul at New York, by means of an
infernal machine loaded with balls
and nitro-glycerine. It is supposed
to have been a Cuban plot to get rid
of the Consul.
—♦ MT'
Postoffices where the salary of the
postmaster is S2OO per annum, can
be designated as money-order offices
after the 30th of June, by making
application to the superintendent of
the M. O. system, postoffice depart
ment at Washington.
—
Some of the leading negroes in
Georgia are talking of demanding
that Senator Bruce be placed on the
republican ticket as the candidate
for vice-president. Wo hope they
will do so, and thus test the sincerity
of their northern friends.
Mr. D. J. Croly, who has gained
some fame as a political prophet—
among other things having named
before hand the nominee of both
parties in 1876 —now predicts that
Sherman will be the republican and
Judge Field the democratic candi
date.
The Northern M. E. church has at
last recognized the church South as
a legitimate branch of the Methodist
church, and fixed the time for the
determination of the ownership of
the church property, which has been
in dispute between the two bodies
for so long.
The Richmond Commonwealth con
tinues to skin Gen. Mahone and nail
his ears to the pillory. When any
man attacks Gen. Gordon unjustly,
he is very apt to come out of the
scrimmage with a frescoed counte
nance—and the General need not
say a word in his own defense either'
A drunkard fled into the woods,
near Nashville, Tenn., while wild
with delirium tremens, dug a grave,
and was found lying in it dead. His
wife was made frantic by the sight,
and she loudly called upon heaven to
let her die, too. It happened that,
on her way home, lightning struck
and killed her.
The Cincinnati Enquirer publishes
interviews with ex-Governor Hen
dricks, ex-Senator Turpie, Messrs.
J. H, Rice and J. W. Nichol, of In
diana, in which they express them
selves as favoring Chief-Justice Ste
phen J. Field for the democratic
nomination for president. They
regard him as probably the strongest
man east and west for the nomina
tion.
A few days ago the U. S. Supreme
court rendered a very important de
cision on the subject of lotteries,
which will probably put a quietus to
this species of gambling in this
country. It is to the effect that
chartered rights granted to carry on
this business may be revoked by the
legislature of a State whenever the
public good may require it. Any
one, therefore, who accepts a lottery
does so with the implied understand
ing that the people, in their sover
eign capacity and through their
properly constituted authorities, may
take it back at any time when the
public good shall require, and this
whether it be paid for or not. He
gets, in legal effict, nothing more
than a license to continue on the
terms named for the specified time,
unless sooner abrogated by the sov
ereign power of the State. It is a
permit, good as against existing
laws, but subject to future legislation
or constitutional control or with
drawal.
The Gainesville Eagle
VOL. XIV.
POPULAR SCIENCE NOTES.
The Audiphone and the Denti
phone, instruments for aiding the
hearing of the deaf, have been super
ceded by a more recent invention;
called the Osteophone which it is said
is superior in many respects to either
of the former. Dr. C. H. Thomas,
of Philadelphia, is the inventor.
The manufacture of Glucose is be
coming one of the most extensive in
dustries in this country. Corn sugar
is now used for all the various pur
poses for which any sugar is used,
except for first-class confectionery,
and is not only used largely ip this
country, but great shipments are
constantly being made to Europe,
where it is in great demand.
In the five cent nickel we have the
entire metric system of weights and
measures. The diameter is two cen
timeters, and its weight is five
grammes. Two of these coins will
weigh a decagramme, and five of
them placed in a Tow will give the
length of the decimeter. The key to
the measure of length is also the key
to measures of capacity, as the kiloli
ter is a cubic meter.
Scientists have adopted the theory
that the duration of animal lifer
should be five times the growth of
the animal or being. Thus, man
gels his growth in twenty years and
should live to be one hundred years
old. The camel is eight years in
growing and lives forty years. The'
horse reaches maturity in five years,
and seldom lives beyond twenty-five;
and so with other animals.
More wonderful than the telephone
in its magic workings, is that of the
“Diaphote,’’ a newly invented instru
ment by which persons are enabled
to see by electricity. Its inventor,
Dr, E. E. Licks, of Bethlehem, Penn--
sylvania, calls it by this name, from
two Greek words, dia, through and
phos light. Dr. Kicks exhibited his
instruments to a number of scientific
men at his home recently, to the
utter astonishment of all. The two
instruments used, one being in the
second story of the building, the
other in the parlor below, were con
nected by means of an ordinary tele
graph wire, and charged with elec
tricity. A newspaper being placed
before one of them was easily read
by the audience at the other end of
the line. Its inventor claims that
ordinary print may be read hundreds
of miles away as easily as at the dis
tance upon this occasion. We give
a detailed description of the “Dia
phote’’ in this issue of the Eagle.
One of the many processes for
making photographic and heliotypic
printing plates is as follows: Take
of pure white glue 1 kilogramme,
soke in clear water some 24 hours,
then melt in the usual way until all
the water has been cooked out, ad
ding 20 grammes of potassium bich
romate. Get a suitable glass, pro
vide it with a rim of putty to prevent
the solution from running off, coat
the glass with ox gall, then pour on
your solution and allow it to remain
two days in a dark place, when the
glue tablet may be detached and is
ready for use. Prepare a smooth
block of wood or metal the size of
the plate you want made and glue
the tablet to its place. Now place a
transparent negative drawn in bold
lines, and strong contrast of lights
and shades, over the smooth surface
for from one to three hours. After
this procedure moisten the face with
water, and finally remove by means
of a soft, moist cloth, all glue not
hardened under the influence of light,
when the cliche will show the draw
ing in perfect relief with a smooth
printing surface. If desired, electro
types may be easily taken from these
plates. We shall give other process
es for making these printing plates
in a future issue.
In fulfillment of a promise recently
made our readers to give them a
more detailed description of that
wonderful invention, the Diaphote,
an instrument by which you can see
by telegraph, we proceed as follows:
“The instrument consists of a re
ceiving mirror, the wires, a battery,
and a producing speculum. The
receiving mirror is an amalgam of
and iodine of silver; the
reproducing is a compound of liti
num and chromium. The wires are
numerous, as it is necessary to dis
tinctness that a wire should not be
required to affect but a very small
space. The instrument also has a
mirror six inches by four, composed
of seventy-two small plates, to each
of which a wire is attached, the
whole being wrapped by a fine in
sulated covering. These wires run
to a common galvanic battery, and
then connect with the reproducing
plate. When the circuit is closed,
the rays of light are conducted
through ai ordinary camera, and the
accompanying heat produces chemi
cal changes in the amalgum of the
mirror, which, modifying the electric
current, causes similar changes in
the reproducing speculum. The in- 1
vention is looked upon as one of the
most wonderful of the present day.
Washington Correspondence.
iSuetiAl of the Eagle.]
WABfiiNG¥ox, D. Gl, May 16, 1880.
All the radical state conventions,
district convaßtione, and county gath
erings o/ the past two weeks have
made assurance doubly sure of
trouble at Chicago. For every re
port of every meeting there comes to
Washington charges of trickery,
intimidation by office holders, and
all other kinds of unfairness. Chica
go will see sights on the 3d and 4th
of June, compared io which all pre
vious exhibitions at political conven
tions have been tame. And after
Chicago, what I think a bolt is in
ota6r if either of the two leading
candidates is selected, and general
apathy if any other is.
7 The democratic convention coming
onthe22dof June, is thought less
of at this time because of the earlier
meeting of the* other conventions.
Still, a great deal of interest is grow
ing up in connection with it. The
candidates most named here now
are Messrs. Tilden, and Seymour,
Hancock, Thurman and Hendricks,
Randall, Field, Payne, English, Jew -
ett, Parker and others are mentioned.
If it should be settled that any one
but Grant is to lead the radicals, I
think the general belief here is that
Hancock’s name would come very
prominently before the convention.
At any rate the field is a good one
to select from.
Itr is thought Wednesday or Thurs
day of next week will eee the last of
the general appropriation bills re
ported to the House. There is every
disposition also to hasten their con
sideration, and to adjourn before the
political conventions meet.
I am glad that a man has at last
been found who will attempt to se
cure a settlement of the extent of
power a department chief has over
the liberties of a private citizen.
Samuel Stanton, of Missouri, has
commenced suit against Secretary
Schurz, laying damages at $20,000
for false imprisonment under the
Secretary’s order. On the mere
whim .of the Secretary who acted
upon the statement of a subordinate,
Stanton was put into a guard house
and kept there for three months. I
trust he has the money and the pluck
to carry his case as far as the com ts
will permit. »,
It is hoped that the Governor
General of Canada will be here to
attend the great Hanlan-Courtney
boat race on the 19th. People from
all parts of the country will ba pres
ent. Washington expects the biggest
crowd since the “great review” of
1865. • '' 5 Rex.
Politics on Bob-Tail Creek..
“I’ll tell ye what this ’ere Crowbar
City needs an’ must her,” said Slath
ers Johnson, as he mounted a barrel
and looked around on the miners.
“We want a city government—a
Common. Council —a body to make
ordinanances an’ enforce ’em—a—a
The rest of his speech was drown
ed by the cheers of the crowd. It
was in ’56, and Crowbar City was a
collection of shanties aud huts on
Bob-Tail Creek, in Nevada. We
were doing well enough, and the
camp was very peaceful and quiet.
Slathers Johnson was the laziest mi
ner in the camp, but was looked up
to as a great politician. Back in the
States he had been constable, over
seer of highways, tax collector,
school inspector, and so on, but yet
his hankering was not satisfied.
It was finally decided that Crowbar
City be divided into eight wards, and
that each ward be entitled to one Al
derman, while a Mayor, Treasurer
and Clerk should be elected at larg.
There were about four huts or tents
to a ward, with a constituency of
from five to eight persons for each
Aiderman.
“How shall we purceed to elect ?”
blandly inquired Slathers as he re
mounted the barrel.
There was dead silence for a min
ute, and then Raccoon Bill of the
bloody Sixth Ward, threw his bld hat
on the ground, pulled his shooter
and kindly inquired:
“Ar’ thar’ any buzzards here from
mj ward who don’t think I’d make
a howlin’ old Aiderman ’? If thar’
ar’, let him edge up this way fur
about ten seconds!”
No one edged and Raccoon Bill
was declared the unanimous choice
of the electors of his ward. Several
others elected themselves in the
same off-hand manner, and there was
no trouble until Blue Clay Smith
said he thought he could represent
the Eighth Ward about as well as
any ether resident vulture, If not,
why Three resident vulturs at
once stepped forward to contest his
election, and there was a four-hand
ed fight which lasted tan minutes
and decided the election in favor of
Cross-Eyed Turner, of Ohio. Slath
ers was then elected Mayor by accla
mation, as were also the other gener
al officers, and the largest hut in
town was cleaned out f.r a meeting
of the Common Council.
The eight Aidermen sat on the
ground in a circle, and the Mayor
sat in the center on a bag of meal,
and opened the session by saying:
“Has any Alderman any motion
to make ?”
‘Tspose a moshun that this ’ere
honorable body purvide itself with a
bar’l of whisky at the expenses of the
city would be in order,” remarked
the Aiderman from the Third.”
“Get out or I’ll bust a dozen heads
out there,” said the mayor.
“There’s a moshua pendin !’ am
Iswered the Aiderman from the
Third.
“Which ’ere moshun is as fullers !”
GAINESVILLE, GA.. FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 21,1880.
remarked the Alderman from the
First, us he hit the chap from the
Sixth on the ear.
There was a little performance of
'eight hands ’round and the Mayor
in the middle,” and it was fifteen
minutes before order was restored,
j Then the Aiderman from the Fourth
i shoved his bitten finger into his
pocked and said.-
“My canstituents, who ar’ among
the heaviest taxpayers in the city,
believe that the price of washin’ is
too blamed high, an’ they demand
“When did you ever have any
washia’done?” interrupted the Ai
derman from the Seventh.
“Git the drop on him, Bill!” yel
led a man at the door.
Order The Mayor commands or
der 1” shouted Slathers.
Three shots were fired, four or five
Aidermen knocked down, and when
the cyclone passed every body had
his shooter on his knee.
“When interrupted, we war’ about
to take up the order of unfinished
business,” remarked the Mayor as he
nursed his bitten ear.
“I move that we adjourn!”
“Adjourn be blowed!”
“Question!”
“Ayes and noes!”
“Order!”
“Some onery coon out thar has
kicked my dog !” said the Mayor as
the yeips of a canine rose above all
othe sounds.
“Sot down, you old he-wolf!” yel
led some one, and at that the light
was upset and the circus began. We
locked the door on the crowi
got under cover of the rocks, brrtflwtl
house couldn't hold ’em. In five
minutes they were fighting all over
town, and every ward had a Wiily
and a knock-down.
weeks before all the bullet's %ere dug
out and the broken heads heal&Tdp-
Slathers lost an ear and two fipgjers,
and his farewell message was ’ (Tries.
He wrote:
“Aidermen: Fame iAa mockery,
office is degradin’, and I resign in fa
vor of any coyote you kin agree on.
Romans, farewell. I came, I saw,
and got chawed!”
But Crowbar
of politics.
Ages of CandidateViAud presi
dents. '*
The ages of the prominent candi
dates for the Presidency at the pres
ent time, and the ages of the several
Presidents at the time they came in
to that high office, are as follows.-
Blaine touched 50 on the last of Jan
uary, Grant was 57 last April. Sher
man war. 56 last May. Mr. Wash
burne was 63 in September. Conk
ling was 50 in October. Garfield is
in his 39th year, Bayard 51 in Octo
ber, Thurman reached his 68th
birthday in November. Hendricks
will be 60 in September. Tilden
will be 66 this February, and in the
same month Gen. Hancock will bo
55, Seymour will be 70 in May.
Washington was in his 57th year
when he was first elected, and had
just entered his 66th year when he
left officeJohn Adams was 62 when
he was elected, Jefferson 57, Madison
in his 58th year, Monroe in his 59th
and John Quincy Adams in his 58th.
Jackson was 61 when chosen the
first time and therefore 65 when re
elected, while he had reached his
70th year when he quitted office.
Van Buren was 54 and Harrison 68
when they were elected, while Tyler,
when he took office, had just passed
his 51st birthday. Polk was elected
on almost precisely his 49th birth
day. Taylor was not quite 58 when
elected and Fillmore was in his 51st
year when he succeeded him: Pierce
had not yet completed his 48th year
when he was elected, and he was the
junior of all who have taken the
Presidential chair except Gen,
Grant. Mr.Buchannan was elected
in his 66th year, Lincoln in his 52d
and 56th, while Johnson succeeded
in 57th. Mr. Hayes was 55 years
old when he came into the Presi
dential office.
The Baby.
The baby is a revolutionist. He
ruthlessly upsets established customs,
bi eaks in on confirmed habits, and
sways despotic command in therealm.
There can be no conservatism where
there is a baby. He is a radical of
radicals, and he seems to have a
hydrophobic horror of anything and
everything that savors of the old or
der of things. He is an indefinable
compound of arrogance and amiabil
ity: is amusing and exasperating;
tyrannical and condescending; affa
ble and dictatorial When he sucks
his fists and protrudes his cheeks,
or forgets his autocratic state in the
engrossing effort to dine off his toes
or the house cat’s tail, be becomes an
object of curious and affectionate in
terest. When he learns to creep
and takes it into his small head to
try the effect of overturning a kettle
of hot water on himself, or an expe
rimental plunge into the cistern, he
excites rather more than a mild so
licitude, that is equaled only by the
emotions he arouses when he man
ages to get hold of the paternal razor
with the evident intention to try its
edge on his tongue. Such manifes
tations of eccentricity as a heels-over
head tumble down stairs, pulling the
table cloth off for the delight of hear
ing the china crash, mutilating your
Sunday coat with the newly ground
family scissors, or making the souls
of horse-car drivers quake by his
squatter sovereignty predilections in
favor of the track, soon lose their
terrors on the principle that familiar
ity breeds contempt. If there is any
danger, near or remote, into which
he has not projected himself before
he reaches the age of two years, he is
of a verity the far-famed “most won
derful baby in the world.” But it is
the month-old baby to whom (or
which) the grown up world pays
profoundest homage. The acutest
observers of human nature must fail
of anything like intelligent classifica
tion of him. He is a law unto him
self, inexplicable, elusive, never of
the same mind on two occasions, and
a creature of most doubtful issue in
respect of his intentions about per-
milling a quiet night to pass. In
short he 1a The Baby, the must help
less object in the universe, and the
incarnation of an absolute monarchy.
With reference to everything else,
animate or inanimate, the terms Big
and Little are merely relative; but
the baby is a living defiance of that
and all other laws. He is at once the
smallest and the largest factor in the
human problem. His rule being of
short duration its dispotic character
is correspondingly pronounced. He
is presumed io have originated the
adage about making hay while the
sun shines, and the huge winrows he
piles up attest his appreciation of his
own wisdom.
Democratic Convention,
Os Clark County. Called by the Execu
tive Committee of County, to Meet on
the First Tuesday in June, 1880
In compliance with the request of
the Executive Committee of the
Democratic party of Georgia, made
st its meeting held in the city of
Atlanta od the 30th day of March
last.
The Executive committee of demo
cratic party of Clark county request
thejdemocracy of Clark county to meet
in convention at the court house in
Athens on the first Tuesday in June
next, for the purpose of selecting
delegates to represent us in a con
vention of the democracy of Georgia,
to be held in Atlanta on the 9th day
of June, 1880, to elect delegates to
represent the democratic party of
Georgia in the national democratic
convention which meets in the city
9f Cincinnati, the 22nd day of June
•ext, for the purpose of nominating
lemocratic candidates for president
Ind vice-president of the United
States. It is also the desire of the
,executive committee of Clark that
|he convention herein called to meet
M>n the first Tuesday in June, shall
appoint a suitable time for the hold
ing of a convention of the democracy
of Clark county to select delegates
to represent them in a convention of
the democratic party of Georgia
called by the executive committee oi
the State to meet in Atlanta, on the
4th day of August next, to nominate
a democratic candidate for governor
and such other State officers to be
elected this year. And also that the
convention will take into considera
tion the best mode and manner and
time, to nominate candidates to rep
resent the democracy of Clark coun
ty in the next general assembly. And
also to transact such other business
deemed best for the harmony of cur
party and the best interest of the
people. S. C. Dobbs,
Ch’m’n Ex. Com. Clarke county.
N. B.—The democracy of Clark
county will see by the above call
that there will be two State conven
tions held this year at Atlanta, one
to meet on the 9th of June and the
other on the 4th day of August,
1880. S C. Dobbs, Ch’m’n.
-Intellect in Birds.
Some years ago I was overlooking a
penguin “rookery,” as it is called, at
the Falklands, and watching the go
ings on of the numerous colony be
low me. It was breeding season,
and the birds were sitting on their
eggs on the bare earth, crowded to
gether. Among the birds stepped a
preity sheath-bill (Chionis alba) with
a quiet, jaunty stride, picking what
he could, and apparently perfectly
indifferent to the motions of the pen
guins, who drove at him with their
beaks as he passed, but never struck
him. I saw him pass and repairs one
bird always just out oi reached, till
the bird could stand it no longer,
but reached off her nest about an
inch to strike him; he was still oat of
reach and busy with something, ap
parently not noticing the pengain;
reached futher, he crossed her again,
still just out of reach, and this went
on till he had drawn her about two
feet from the neat; then in one stride
he was beside the eggs, had punched
a hole, and was sipping the contents
before the slow penguin could turn
and hop back to save it; he again led
her away by the same manoeuvre
and increased the hole and got a
greater part; a third time he led her
off and was eating the egg, when he
was driven right away by another
peneuin, who-was wandering at lib
erty, the mate, I suppose being on
turn on the egg. The proceeding on
the part of the sheath-bill was a per
fect trap for the poor foolish old pen
guin. The other instance I will give
occurred in the Pacific, where some
albatross were circling about and
frequently settling on the water in
flocks; some sharks were about, and
I watched. to see if any albatross
woule be pulled down; then I notic
ed a cordon of sentries round the
flock, who were relieved at times
from the flock, a single bird going
out and sitting near the sentry who
flew in. Whenever a shark’s fin ap
proached the sentry, he flew in, and
the whole flock took up new posi
tions. Here was distinct organiza
tion. The ship was going very slow
ly through the water, and I was able
to study the whole carefully.—[Na
ture.
Postal Telegraph Service.
A bill has been presented to Con
gress by Mr. Ellis, of Louisiana, to
establish a government telegraph serv
ice for the United States between
Boston, New York, Washington and
immediate post offices. It directs
the Postmaster General, for the pur
pose of testing the policy and prac
ticability of maintaining a general
system of a postal telegraph line,
and affording the people the benefit
of cheap telegraphic communication,
to establish by purchase or construc
tion a telegraph line between the
named places.
The bill further provides that the
rates for transmission of telegraphic
messages shall be as follows: For 25
words or less for 200 miles or less,
15 cents, with half a cent for each
additional word. For 500 miles or
less, 25 cents, with one cent for each
additional word. For 1,000 miles cr
less, 40 cents, with two cents for
each additional word. For 2,000
miles or lees, 75 cents, with three
cents for each additional word. For
3,000 or less, one dolar, with five
cents for each additional word For
less than 200 words, when messages
pass between two adjoining offices,
10 cents for each message, with one
half cent for each additional word.
The Postmaster General is also au
thorized without further legistaiion
to extend the postal telegraph lines
between New York, St. Louis, Chi
cago and New Orleans, and such
other cities and postal stations as he
may see fit to provide that the sys
tem herein established shall be found
to be advantageous and beneficial,
and an appropriation of $300,000 is
made for the purpose of enabling
him to carry out the provisions of
the act.
Newspaper Laws.
The New Haven Journal and Cou
rier publishing company has recov
ered a bill of $43. from William T.
Howd, tilt recently postmaster at
Stoney Creek for papers sent him
since 1871, and the cost of prosecu
tion. Howd testified that he had
repeatedly said that he did not want
the Journal and Courier, and he
thought the publishers ought to
make a discount to him for favors
shown them, while he was postmas
ter. The court held, however, that
the state and United Stateslaw would
authorize the collection of a bill for a
paper a ter it had been ordered stop
ped, until the bill was paid. Simi
lar cases have before been decided in
the same way, and it is the law of
the land. The following is a sum
mary of the law as the courts have
universally decided it:
1. Subscribers who do not give
express notice to the contrary are
considered wishing to continue their
subscription.
2. If subscribers order the discon
tinuance of their newspapers, the
publishers may continue to send
them until all arrearages are paid.
3. If subscribers teglect or re
fuse to take their newspapers from
the office to which they are directed,
they are held responsible till they
have settled their bill and ordered
them discontinued
4. If subscribers move to other
places without informing the pub
lishers, and the papers are sent to
the former direction, they are held
responsible.
5. The courts have decided that
refusing to take papers from the
office, or removing and leaving them
uncalled for, is primafacie evidence
of intentional froud.
6 Any person who receives a
newspaper and makes use of it,
whether he has ordered it or not, is
held in law io be a subscriber.
Interesting Facts.
The greatest cataract in the world
is the Falls of Niagara; the largest
cavern the Mammoth Cave of Ken
tacky; the largest river the Missis
sippi—4,000 miles in extent; the lar
gest valley, that of the Mississippi—
its area 5,000,000 square miles; the
greatest city park, that of Philadel
phia, containing 2,700 acres; the
greatest grain port, Chicago; the
biggest lake, Superior; the largest
railroad, the Pacific Rai.road—over
3,000 miles in extent. The most
huge mass of solid iron is Pilot
Knob of Missouri—height 250 feet,
circumference two miles; the best
specimen of Grecian architecture,
Girard College, Philadelphia; the
largest aqueduct, the Croton, of New
York—length, forty and one half
miles, cost sl2, 500,000; the longest
bridge, the elevated railroad in Third
avenue, New York; it extends from
the Battery to the Harlem river, the
whole length of the eastern side of
Manhattan Island—7 miles long, or
nearly 40,000 feet. The longest
bridge over water, however, will be
that now being constructed in Ras
sia over the River Volga, at a point
where the river is nearly four miles
wide. The most extensive deposits
of anthracite coal in the world are in
Pennsylvania.
How to Become Graceful.
The Young Woman’s Journal thinks
a relined, graceful manner can be ac
quired by any woman. It says: “The
best grace is perfect naturalness.
Still, you must study yourself and
form your manners by the rule of
that art which is but carrying out the
law of nature. But if it is your na
ture to be forever assuming some
unpicturesque, ungraceful attitude,
pray help nature with a little art.
‘‘lf you are stout, avoid the small
est chair in the room, and be sure
you sit on it not to lean back in it
with your waist, especially while the
present fashion lasts.
“If you are thin, do not carry
yourself with your chin protruding
and yuor spinal column curving like
the bowl of a spoon.
“Do not wear flimsy materials,
made up without a ruffle, or puff, or
flounce, fill up the hard outlines of
your bad figure, so cruelly defined
by the tightly pulled back draperies.
“Study the art of drese.” We once
knew a very plain woman who dressed
so tastefull that it was an absolute
pleasure to look at her.
“If you have been moping until
your are sick with the thought of
your own hopeless ugliness, be up
and doing. Forget your disappoint
ments, forget the past and sneers of
your own family over the mistakes
that yhu have mad-.”
The failure of the immediate defi
ciency bill, vetoed by Hayes, stops
the pay from April Ist until an ap
propriation is made of all internal
revenue storekeepers and guagers,
whose numbers go up into the thous
ands.
—
A Pennsylvania republican mem
ber of congress has just returned
from a visit home, says the Washing
ton correspondent of the Baltimore
Sun. While there he saw and con
versed with a good many of the
Chicago delegates and with a num
her of the leading republican politi
cians. He says that the belief is now
that the Blaine men on the Chicago
delegation are in a majority; that
they will insist upon adhering to the
un t rule and cast the fifty-seven
vo es of Pennsylvania for Blaine.
SMALL. BITS
Os Various Kind. Carelessly Thrown
Together.
According to Dr. Cbristlieb, 60,-
000 pagans passed over to Christi
anity in 1879.
The Governor of Kentucky, under
the constitution of the state, is inel
igible for re election.
Seven Bibles >r Testaments a.e
now turned out every minute by tne
Ameiicau Bible society.
Moody and Sankey are to pay fur
the education of twelve Creek Indian
girls at the Northfield Seminary.
A Boston artist painted art orange
peel on the sidewalk so naturally
that .fix fat men slipped djwn on it.
There are 136, 000 citizens of Mas
sachusetts who are denied the right
of suffrage by Republican legislation.
Adam set the fashion of bridal
tours when he took Eve on a jour
ney from Eden just after their wed
ding.
The Nicaraguan government has
granted liberal concessions to Ameri
cans for an international ship canal
company.
No woman was ever known to
marry a man whose first remark up
on being introduced to her was about
the weather.
The ten commandments would
not be a bad platform; but it is fear
ed the majority of candidates are un
willing to run on them.
New Jersey keeps a malitia, so that
when a mob feels that it must thrash
some one the troops can be called
out and stand the pelting.
There is a lively discussion going
on as to who founded Chicago.
Don’t let the guilty man shirk the
responsibility.
One of the features of the Grant
reception in Springfield was the pre
sentation of a livery bill nineteen
years old, which had not been recep
ted.
Charles De Youug, the San Fran
cisco Chronicle editor, was buried
with Hebrew ceremonies, a rabbi
preaching the sermon at the grave.
The Rav. Mr. Perrin of Springfield
proclaims from his pulpit that check
ers, chess, backgammon, and cro
quet are sinful under any circum
stances.
Washington experts have decided
that Whittaker is , th? author of the
note of warning found in his room.
Has the colored man no friends at
the north?
Olive Logan once demanded per
mission to enter a Masonic lodge as
a representative of the women of
America, but she- is no longer the
giddy thing that she was.
All the married men in the Pater
son. N. Y , Board of Education opos
ed the marriage of teachers, while
all the single men favored it. The
married men carried it by 8 to 7.
A lightning stroke went clear
through a Clark County, Kentucky,
school house, killed a grej hound
asleep under the floor, but left the
twenty-five children unharmed.
The Evangelical Ministers’ Asso
ciation of Boston announce that in
September next they will discuss the
question, “The Theatre—Should the
Aim be to Exterminate or to Purify
it ?”
A London physician cured a lady
of deafness by taking her into the
Cathedral tower near one of the bells
as the hammer fell upon it The
force of the sound fractured the ob
struction to the ear.
We have generally observed that
if a man does some mighty mean
thing when he has been drinking,
the liquor had a mighty mean man
to work on in the first place. Don’t
lay it all to drink. '
People who have the Texas fever
should note these two facts—that
corn is selling in eastern Texas at $2
per bushel, and th ft grasshoppers
hare appeared in Dallas county in
that State.
Longfellow’s “Hiawatha’’ and
“Evangeline” have been translated
into Bohemian, and a second edition
of the Bohemian translation of
Shakespeare’s “Othello” and “The
Merchant of Venice” has appeared.
Dr. Pack of Indianapolis has am
putated the legs of a young girl on
account of decay in the bonee, pro
duced by excessive rope jamping.
He advises parents and teachers to
prohibit this play under all circum
stances.
The Sultan takes every eighth egg
laid in Palestine, or its equivalent :n
money, and taxes every fruit tree in
the country. He has reached a
point where he it willing to sell this
attenuated goose for $25,000,000.
An observer in England has found
that the depth of the dew-fall in that
country seldom exceeds the hun
dredth part of an inch during any
night of the year, while the average
annual depth of the deposit is not
more than an inch and a half.
The Czar of Russia is afrn.d of
European civilization, and the Sultan
of Turkey is afraid of that of Russia.
Lately the Turkish government has
absolutely forbidden the importa
tion into Turkey of any journals
published in Russia in the Armenian
language.
Os all the nations living under the
sceptre of the Czar the Jews are the
best educated. The proportion of
Jews in Russia is one Jew to every
twenty Russians; while in the col
leges the proportion of students is
one Jewish scholar to every six Rus
sians.
Patrick Hoy, the great clown,died
in New York, last week, and when re
quested by his priest to renounce
his masonic principles, declined, say
ing that masonry was as good a reli
gion to die by as the Catholic faith in
which he had been educated. He
would have none other than a mason
ic burial.
-A-d ver t iraing a. ios .
Legal advertisemmis charged seventy-live cents
per hundred words or fnctio thereof each inser
tion for the first lour insert! ns, and thirty-five
cents for each snlmequent insertion.
Transient advertising will be charge:: $ 1 r inch
for the first, and fifty cent* lor >.aeli sub.seqwW t
insertion. Advertisers dosiiing forger spa. i for a
longer lime than one month will receive a ! bcra
deduction from regular rater:.
All bills due upon the first appearance of the ad
vertisement, and will be presented at the pleasure
of the proprietor. Transient advertisements ircm
unknown partier must be paid fcr in advance.
NO. 19
BROWN BRO’S
BANKERS, BROKERS
ABD COLLECTION AGENTS
GAINESVILLE, GA.
References— Hanover National Pane, N.
Y., Moore, Jenkins & Co. N. Y., G. W
Williams & Co., Charleston, S. C..—ant
of the Atlanta Banes. marlc-tf
MILLINERY GOODS !
Mrs. 11. IX. 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 desite to pleave and the law prices
at which she will sell goods. Look for the
fancy hat as a sign, last house as you go
down Main street to the college.
nov7ly
M. W. J. HAM,
Attorney at Law,
GAINESVILLE, GA.
Office in Henderson & Candler Buildhuj,
East Side Public Square
F. >l. NEWVT
Physician and Surgeon,
Flowei’y Bivinoli, G.».
Office, first door above Barrett’s store.
Will attend calls at a distance from relia
ble parties. (febl3 6m
THE CLINARD HOVNE,
ATHENS, O.A.
To the Public—l take this method of
returning thanks to my numerous customer*
for their liberal patronage during my long
proprietorship of the Newton Housn, in
Athens. On the 31st of December my pro
prietorship of the Newton House will oease,
at which time I will open the Clinard Bouse,
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 gunorelly, to
stop when visiting Athens, pledging myself
to do all in my power for their comfort, etc.
A. ». CLIN RD.
Athens, Ga., Dec. 9, 1879. —l2*l
NATIONAL HOTEL,
ATLANTA, GA.
Rates , $2 per Day;
SVKCI Ala HAT BS
For longer Time
The NATIONAL, being renovated and
refurnished, offers superior inducements to
the traveling public. E. T. WHITE,
mar7 A cent, Proprietor.
E. T. BROWN,
AtloiTieyal laiiw.
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 IV ai\r oa d.
Cliange of
SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE. )
Athens, Ga., Oct. 11,1879. J
On and alter Monday, October 6, 1879, trains on
the Northeastern Railroad will run as follows. All
trains daily except Sunday:
Leave Athens 3 50 p m
Arrive at Lula 620 ••
Arrive at Atlanta, via Air-Line K. K 10 30 “
Leave Atlanta, via Air-Line R. R 330 “
Leave Lula 746 '•
Arrive at Athens 10 00 “
The above trains also connect closely al Lula with
northern bound trains on A. L. It. R. On Wednes
days and Saturdays the following additional trains
will be run:
Leave Athens „ 6 45 a ui
Arrive at Lula 845 *
Leave Lula. 920 “
Arrive at Athens 1131 • •
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 t CUHfITTi A. L. 1 IL
CHANGE OF SCHEDI LE.
On and after Deceml>er 20th double uaiiy train?
will run on this road as follows:
MORNING TRAIN.
Leave Atlanta.. 4 00 a
Arrive Charlotte 3 20 p
•• Air-Line Junction 330 '•
•« Danville 951 “
“ Lynchburg 12 37 ni’t
“ Washington 7 50 a m
“ Baltimore 930 “
“ Philadelphia 130 and 145 pn
“ New York 345 and 445 “
•• Wilmington, N. C. (nrxt day) 950 a n
“ Richmond 7 43 •-
EVENING TRAIN.
Leave Atlanta 3 30 p m
Arrive Charlotte 3 20 a n
“ Air-Line Junction 330 “
•’ Danville .. 10 22 “
•• Lynchburg 153 p in
“ Richmond. 443 “
“ Wa-hington 955 "
“ Baltimore 11 55 “
•• Philadelphia .1 35 an>
« New York 645 ••
GOING EAST,
Night Mail and Passenger train.
Arrive Gainesville 5:50 p n:
Leave •* 5:51 ’*
Day Passenger train
Arrive “ 6:13 aw
Leave “ .... 6:15“
Local Freight and Accommodation train.
Arrive Gainesville...... 11:10 am
Leave " 11:25 “
GOING WES j
Night Mail and Passenger train.
Arrive Gainesville 9:20 a ru
Leave “ 9:21 "
Day Pasesnger train.
Arrive “ 8:15 pm
Leave " 8:16 ••
Local Freight and Accommodation uai.i.
Arrive Gainesville 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.
P ATE
F. A. Lehmann, Solicitor of American
and Foreign Patents, Wa-hington, D. C.
All business connected with Patents, whether
before the Patent Office or the Courts,
promptly attended to. No charge mad»
unless a patent is secured. Send for 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
val his life.