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EDITORIAL EAGLETS.
Congress is not likely to adjourn
on the 31st.
The resignation of Senator Gordon
causes much regret throughout the
South.
—♦
Grant carried his own State, Illi
nois, by “counting out” some of the
delegates.
The Ohio republican convention is
the only one this year that has en
dorsed Hayes.
The suit of the bondholders against
the Tennessee railroad, has not yet
been decided.
The area in corn in the whole
State this year is two per cent, less
than last year.
The New York Evening Express
wants Bayard, of Delaware, and
Morrison, of Illinois.”
Peterson Thweatt, in a circular
letter, announces himself a candidate
for comptroller-general.
Mr. Hayes says he would not now
accept the nomination for president
if handed him on a silver dish.
j -♦
The citizens of Columbus are in
dignant over the appoinment of ex-
Governor Brown to the U. S. senate.
The nomination at Chicago seems
_ to have settled down to the ques
tion as to which crowd has the big
gest “bar’l.”
Henry S. Foote, ex-governor of
Mississippi, died at his home near
Nashville, Tenn., on the 19th. He
was in his 80th year.
Said Senator Gordon to the Chi
cago TimesT' i l think there is no
senator with his State more solidly
back of him than mine.”
Texas in ready cash of
$200,000, raised from the sale of
public lands, with which it is pro
posed to build a State University at
Austin.
Wade Hampton rather taunted
Ben Hill the other day in the senate
for not having followed his col
league’s lead during the late war.
The New York Herald airily in
vites General Grant to withdraw in
favor of Mr. Fish. This would be
equivalent to abdicating at the sight
of Mr. Bennett’s Quaker gun.
The wheat prospect in Ohio is said
to have never been finer than at
present. The acreage is largely in
excess of former years, and a more
abundant yield than ever was prom
ised.
A statement from the treasury de
partment at Washington shows that
the value of our exports of domestic
provisions and tallow, during the
ten months ending April 30th last,
was $95,697,875.
—♦
The Augusta OTironicZesays: “Gen.
Longstreet may find Turkey less
agreeable than Gainesville; but the
pay, for a brief period, is better. Did
the president, in making this nomi
nation, intend to show his disbelief
in the proverb that “a renegade is
worse than ten Turks
The Pittsburg Post states that
within the last ten days twenty fur
naces, that sell iron in Pittsburg,
have gone out of blast. It is also
estimated that there is enough fin
ished iron in stock to last till fall,
and there is not likely to be any life
in the pig-iron trade till that stock
is exhausted.
A fire originated in the town of
Milton, Pa., the other day, from
sparks from a saw mill, and destroyed
, almost the entire town, leaving noth
ing but the black and desolate ruins
of a once prosperous town. Nearly
seven hundred buildings were burned,
leaving the people of the town almost
entirely destitute.
<*. .
Intelligence from different sections
of Virginia reports a greater scarcity
of tobacco plants than has been
known for a number of years. Those
growing are being rapidly destroyed
by the tobacco fly. There would be
a stouter and healthier race of peo
ple if the fly, or something else,
would destroy not only the plants
but every tobacco seed in the world.
The Washington correspondent, of
the Louisville Cburier Journal in
/ speaking of the resignation of Sena
tor Gordon, says: “In the senate his
influence has always been conserva
tive and healthy. No one in that
body has been more respected, and
he has always acted in such away
as to inspire thinking men of the
north with the fact that the southern
people are sincerely desirous of
peace and are fitted in the cordial
line for the restored union. No man
has done more than he to promote
the interests of the whole country
by advocating the forgetting of the
strife in which he bore so conspicu
ous a part.’’
The Gainesville Eagle
VOL. XIV.
POPULAR SCIENCE NOTES.
According to the medical rule, im
munity from yellow fever is conferred
at an elevation of 4,000 feet above
ths level of the sea.
The inventor of the minimum
thermometer, Prof. M. Wulferdam,
died recently in Paris, France, at
the advanced age of eighty-five.
An artesian well is being bored in
Boston in order to determine wheth
er or not there is under the city an
adequate available supply of pure
water.
To extract perfumes from flow
ers, apply methyl-chloride, previ
ously liquified and purified by pas
sage through concentrated sulphuric
acid.
A most fatal disease is raging to
an alarming extent in Havana, among
dogs and horses, which the physi
cians name acclimation or yellow
fever.
For his recent discoveries in mo
lecular physics and radient matter,
Prof. Crookes, F. R. S-, has been
awarded a prize of S6OO, by the
French Academy of Sciences.
The Volta prize of 50,000 francs or
$9,500 has been awarded to Mr.
Graham Bell, by the committee ap
pointed by the French minister of
public instructions.
A newly invented Gatling gun
was recently exhibited in England,
which it is said is capable of firing
1,000 shots per minute and kill
ing a man or a horse at a mila
range.
In order to destroy the contagious
germs which remain in the bodies of
such animals as have succumbed to a
pestilential disease, a new method of
cremation has been invented, by
which the infected animals are quick
ly and totally destroyed.
A very interesting fact learned by
scientists from fossil zoology is that
the brain of about all animals, espe
cially domesticated ones, has in
creased greatly in size the last few
hundred years, yet these learned
men fail to give satisfactory theory
for such being the case.
Wonderful cures for hydrophobia
and the bites of snakes and other
poisonous reptiles, have been discov
ered in two curious plants, the
“guaco” and the “cedron,” which
grow in abundance in New Grenada,
and which are already being prope
gated in this country, but as yet to a
limited extent.
An appropriation of $2,250,000 «
has just been made by the legislature j
at Albany, to enable the trustees to <
finish up the great bridge between
New York City and Brooklyn. Work
is progressing rapidly, and will be
pushed forward to an early comple •
tion of the structure, which will be
the largest and finest of the kind in
America, if not in the world.
It is estimated that there are on
the earth 1,000,000,000 inhabitants,
of which number 91,824 die every
day. Os every 1,000 persons, one
rarely reaches the age of 100 years,
and not more than one in a 100 will
reach Lie age of 80. Tall men it is
said live longer than short ones and
the married are longer lived than the
single.
There has been a kind of shale
discovered in Pennsylvania which
decomposes easily and rapidly, and
which is being considerably used as
a fertilizer and bug killer. It is com
posed of sulphuric acid, iron, alum
and humic acid. It is said that
neither the chinch nor any other
bug will attack vegetation growing '
m a soil fertilized by this mate
rial.
Ruby lake, some eight years ago
being one of the largest bodies of
water in eastern Nevada, has entirely
dried up and mysteriously disap
peared, leaving a barren waste of
ground where it was so recently ad
mired as a beautiful sheet of water.
This lake was fed by numberless
springs along the foot of Ruby
mountain, situated between the Rock
ies and the Sierra Ncvades, was from
eighteen to twenty miles in length,
and varied in breadth from half a
mile to two or three miles, and was
very deep in a number of places.
Scientists are baflled as yet in deter
mining the cause of the mj sterions
and sudden drying up of this body
of water.
A singular case of mental and
physical disorder is reported from
Millersburg, Ky., a young lady under
the treatment of Dr. T. D. Eades,
being the subject. The young lady
is under treatment for a spinal dis
ease and is not. able to move about
the house without the aid of friends
and crutches, except when asleep.
While in that condition (asleep) she
manifests a sort of double conscious
ness, and can skip around the room
as nimble as if nothing ailed her.
She also writes and works out mathe
matical problems. She recently
wrote a letter containing four pages
to a friend, while in this sonnarribii
listic state, both eyes being firmly
closed and doing the writing with
her left hand. She also corrected
several mistakes in spelling.
Washington Correspondence.
[Special Qorretipondeace of the Eaolk.]
Washington, D. C., May 25, 1880
To adjourn or not to adjourn—
that is the question. Whether it is
better to pass the appropriation bills
and such other bills as are absolutely
and go home, or stay here
and grow and sweat under a hot
and weary life in a Washington sum
mnr maljwi congress pause. Bat the
house has passed the resolution and
the senate will doubtless follow suit.
There has been for several days the
greatest activity in both house and
senate.
The resignation of Senator Gordon
will cause regret among democrats
and conservatives generally. The
senator has admirably performed all
the duties of his high position, and,
though not always in accord with
the sentiments of a majority of demo
crats in the south, has always com
manded the respect of all.
Yesterday seems to have settled
the Blaine boom effectually. The
forty-two votes of Illinois will be
given to Grant, and this apparently
gives him the Chicago nomination on
the first ballot. There may be a
split in the Illinois delegation, to be
sure, but the significant vote of yes
terday in the first day’s proceedings
of the State convention, at which the
Grant men had over a hundred ma
jority, shows that the Illinois radical
tide is with the ex-president. He
will be nominated, and if our own
party has ordinary sense in making
its nomination, will be defeated.
The nomination of Horace May
nard, to be postmaster general, is a
concession to the demands of the
Southern radical growlers for a share
in the administration, which some
of them say they never have had
since Hayes came in. The senate
will confirm Maynard, and his ap
pointment will give general satisfac
tion. He is an able man and an
honest man, the only thing against
him is his politics. General Long
street will be appointed minister to
Turkey as soon as Maynard is con
firmed. This appointment is made
also to conciliate Southern radicals.
It is generally understood that the
recent charge of fraud in connection
with the Texas, Pacific railroad leg
islation, which charge is to be in
vestigated is aimed at one of the
prominent presidential candidates,
and is to be used as campaign ma
terial, if necessary. This practice of
trumping up false charges against
prominent men is one of the most
contemptible in our politics, and the
men who indulge in it are not worthy
of the name—democrat. Rex.
A DREAM.
View of Another World.
BY THE REV. JESSE RICHARDSON.
[We publish below a most remarka
ble dream of the Rev. Jesse Richard
son, who, in his day, was well and
most favorably known in all this part
of the state, as a minister of emi
nence, and deep piety.]
In the night of the 19th of Decem
ber, 1803,1 dreamed that I was trav
eling a public road, and was called
suddenly to leave this world—not to
die, but as it seemed to go upon a
journey. Standing to meditate, I
found my feet leaving the earth and
myself rising in the air, till I was
wrapped in a mass of darkness, so
thick, that on moving the hand I
could feel it; which brought to my
mind the Egyptian darkness. The
distance appeared about an hour’s
travel.
At length I found my head and
shoulders break up into the light of
another world, and observed that
there were neither sun, moon, nor
stars to be seen; but the whole region
was of a snow-white. I understood
it was Eterity. And just as I stood
firm on its surface, Mr. John Wes
ley came to me, whom I seemed per
fectly to know. I felt greatly de
lighted with his company ; his gar
ments of a silver white; his counte
nance serene and pleasing; and I un
terctood he had come to be my guide
in that world unknown to me. He
then turned about and walked off’; I
followed by his side only a little back,
till we came to the brink of a world,
that lay below where ve were, about
two or three hundred feet, which I
understood was Hen. Its motion
resembled the sea, lashing and foam
ing as in great fury; innumerable
streams of a fiery color darting down
horror and despair, distraction and
discontent, in reflections like flashes
of lightning, which continued to give
their tinge to that awful place, and
presented the most shocking ecene I
ever had witnessed, though I do not
remember that it was any terror to
me at that time. The souls of the
miserable appeared to be thicker in
it than I ever saw buzzing insects in
the summer air; filling it full, so
that the place was all in motion.
They were stark naked, of a small
size, of a dark and blasted appear
ance, their eyes bleared wide opened
their mouths gasping, and they dis
played every figure in which horror
and misery could be depicted. This
dreadful ecene conveyed the idea of
misery beyond expression.
From this dreadful place, he who
was my guide turned about and
walked off, which taught me that I
was done with it and must follow
hun, I did so; we walked some dis
tance on a foundation that appeared
like crystal glass, till we came to the
border of another world, which went
off level from where we stood, and
the border appeared in form and co
lor like the rainbow. That world
appeared of a glittering white, and
its brightness beyond description;
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 28, 1880.
not the sun itself in its meridan
splendor, could be compared to it;
and all the inhabitants were of hu
man shape and aerial substance, and
they moved as light as air. Above
i them was the appearrance of innu
merable streams of light reflecting
into it, with colors indescribable,
and the most perfect peace, joy, satis
faction, and unchangeable content
ment, seemed to pervade the whole.
I do not remember wanting to go
in, and understood I had only come
to see; nor did I feel any doubt of its
being my home at last. After this,
I saw a person of a grave, serious
countenance, come up to an inlet
like a gate, which opened with doa
ble leaves, of a white metallic appear
ance. The angles within smiled,
and with haste opened the gate, and
the person entered in, and was in
stantly in form and color like the
rest; and an additional glow of bright
ness resembling a blaxe spread over
the whole like lightning, as a token
of renewed joy for that soul’s safe
arrival; which I understood to be
some person who had died, and
come to glory.
Alter this I saw others whom I
understood had been beggars on
earth; they had no clothes on, save a
few scanty rags, their skin sunburnt,
and in every deplorable figure, which
poverty could represent; but when
they came up to the gate the same
smiles appeared among the angels.
They were admitted, and that mo
ment were clothed with the same
appearance and rapture with the
other inhabitants of that world; the
same flame blazed again through that
world of light, as a fresh token of joy
for their arrival in Heaven.
After this I saw others coming,
who appeared very aged, their hair
gray, their faces wrinkled, their
limks withered and feeble. They
came up to the gate, and with the
same smiles were admitted, and that
moment appeared in the bloom of
youth; the same flame kindled again
and spread through the whole as a
token of renewed joy for their safe
arrival there. After this I saw oth
ers, whom I understood from their
appealance, were of the rich. They
came up to the same gate, and with
the same joy they were admitted,
and enraptured with the same bright
ness and lustre as the rest, and the
same glowing flames spread its beau
ty in token of renewed joy on their
account. After this, I saw a compa
ny of infants, apparently fifty or sixty.
They appeared more bold and active
than any I had seen, and all came to
the gate in a body. The angels with
their usual smiles, hastily opened to
them, and they entered in and that
moment were advanced to full stat
ure with the rest, and an equal flame
spread through the whole as a token
of fresh joy for the arrival of these
in Heaven.
These were the last I saw, I under
standing I had now seen how it fared
with every grade. I observed that
all ages and sizes appeared, before
they entered through the gate, to be
in the same figure and form and in
their common dress, in which they
appear in this word. There was no
change until they entered into an
immortal state of bliss.
After this, he that was my guide
motioned with his right hand. I,
looking in the direction indicated,
saw innumerable rays, resembling
those seen in nature when the light
clouds seem drawn towards the sun,
except they pointed towards me,
instead of pointing from me; but
they were of very different colors;
some were bright, others white, and
others streaked with all kinds of col
ors, in a confused manner. On this
I felt a desire to know their meaning;
my guide motined with his right
hand, from which issued a flame of
light by which I saw through the
floor of that wold down to this. I
saw those clear colored streams con
veyed down upon the people of this
wold, and wherever they came the
phople were violently excited. Some
fell as ded, others screamed, some
were in one convulsed motion, and
some in another; and I understood
that these were the causes of those
strange exercises in this new and
great revival of religion, which per
fectly satisfied me on that point. I
then wanted to know what these
strange mixed colors meant, and by
a second motion the same light
shined, so as to make men and
women here, puin to view; and wher
ever those m.xed streams came, there
was the same kind of exercises as
before, but I understood they did not
cause them, but were marks of God’s
displeasure ; there being many who
had feigned themselves exercised in
the same manner as those under the
influence of.tbe divine Spirit, whom
God abhorred for their deceitfulness.
I then suffered pain in my mind,
seeing so many tokens of this kind
amongst my fellow creatures, There
were still some streams clearly white.
I desired to know what they meant,
and by a third motion, the same
light shone down on the inhabitants
of this world again, and made them
plain to my view ; and those white
streams pointed to particular persons,
some of whom were “exercised.’’ and
some not, and these I understood
were the most holy upon earth, nnd
as such were the highest in God’s
favor among mortals. I then con
-B’c'ersd it as a wonderful evidence of
Christian perfection. It then occur
red to my mind how repeatedly the
Baptists were opposing our*revivals ;
and I wished to know in what light
they stood in that case. On this my
guide looked somewhat hard at me,
which sunk my spirits—understand
ing that I had meddled farther than
at liberty. His countenance then
glowed with such light, I immediately
understood that God looked down on
us here with pity and compassion, as
it respected sects and parties, which
were nothing to him : but in all our
differences, those souls who were the
most holy and nearest alike to those
in glory, were highest in his favor on
earth, and others in proportion to
their progress in a divine life.
Then my guide came' up close to
me, and gave me a full look in the
face. I then more effectually dis
covered the difference between a
mortal and a immortal state; his f. c
looked hkc the bluZj of a candle, but
without substance. It then occurred
to my mind how old he (Mr. Wesley)
must have been when lie died, and
admired how Eternity had changed
him to the bloom of youth. He then
went round me, and came and looked
me full in the face again, and from
that slowly down to my feet, and by
a motion acknowledged me as a son
in the Gospel, which caused me to
feel very awful, and so weak as to
stand trembling ; and by a sudden
motion I was ordered back to this
world again, to attend a general
Camp Meeting then progressing
though I remembered none when I
awoke. *
Instantly I found’my feet sinking
through the floor of that world, until
I lost sight both of it, and this, being
in the same mass of darkness I had
passed in going. Ido not remem
ber anything else occurring, till I
found myself standing about ten
steps from the stand, amidst a vast
crowd of people. There wore three
preachers standing on the platform,
all preaching at the same time; one
stood with his face towards the South,
one to the West, and one to the
North; they all spoke remarkably
loud, and more powerfully than I
had ever heard in life. There ap
peared many of my earthly acquain
tances, some partaking of it, others
careless about it. The people were
falling in some directions, in others
praying and shouting the praises of
God, in the most astonishing manner
I ever heard.
From thence, I setoutjtogo round
the tents and see how the saints here
resembled those I had just seen in
glory, which then seemed to be the
most weighty matter on my mind;
the deop sense of which so over
whelmed me that I sunk under its
impressions. When I arose, I set
out to go round and see how large
the encampment was; but seeing no
end to it, I turned about facing the
camps, and saw they were all full,
and all the people singing, praying,
and shouting the praises of God in
every direction. While I attentively
viewed this enlivening scene I dis
covered the same kind of love in a
measure here as among those above,
the same joy in each other’s welfare,
the same kind of sweet contentment
and union; and finding the saints
here below, so far resemble those I
had seen in glory, my whole soul was
so filled, that it could no longer con
tain but I broke out in loud praises
to god with all the strength 1 had-
My wife hearing me, judged some
thing greatly distressed my mind
from the noise I made, and came and
awoke me. My strength was so re
duced, that it was sometime before I
could rise, or speak, or even had cus
tomary sensation, and was scarcely
like myself for two or three days.
The reader will take notice, that
I make no attempt to interpret the
above dream; but have given it to
the public as correctly as I possibly
could. Ido not expect any other
person will ever have as vivid views
in reading it, as I myself had in re
ceiving it; as it was not communi
cated to me by words, I am not able
to find words fully to unfold it to
others; but I have done what I could,
to give the most correct conception
of it to others as the nature of the
case will permit.
Colored J iistice.
Several days ago a white man was
arraigned before a colored justice,
down the country, on charges of kill
ing a man and stealing a mule.
“Wall,” said the justice, “de fucks
in dis case shall be weighed wid
carefulness, an’ es I hangs yer’ taint
no fault ob mine.”
“Judge, you have jurisdiction only
to examine me.”
“Dat sorter work ‘longs ter de reg
ularjustice, but yar see I’se been put
on as a special. A special hez de
right ter make a mouf at Spreme
Court es he chuses ter.’’
"Do the best for me you can,
Judge.’’
“Dat’s what I’se gwine ter do.
I’se got two kinds of law in discount,
de Arkansaw an’ de Texas law. I
generally gins a man de right to
chose fur hisself. Now what law
does yer want; de Texas or de Ar
kansaw ?”
“I believe I’ll take the Arkansas.”
“Wall, in dat case, I’ll dismiss yer
fur stealin’ de mule—”
“Thank you, Judge.”
“An, hang yer fur killin, de
man—”
“I believe, Judge, that I’ll take the
Texas.”
“Wall, in dat case I’ll dismiss yon
for killin, de man—”
“You have a good heart, Judge.”
“And hang yer for stealin’de mule-
I’ll jist take the ‘casion heah ter re
mark, dat the only difference‘tween
de two laws iz de way yer state the
case/’
What an Old Writer Said.
Andrew Boorde, who wrote about
1530, said : “No man can be a better
physician to you than your own self
can be, if you will consider what does
you good and refrain from what
harms you.
“Let everyone beware of sorrow,
care, thought and inward anger;
sleep well, and go to bed with a
merry heart; wherefore let every
man be merry, and if he cannot, let
him resort to merry company to
break off his ‘perplexatyues.’ Wash
your hands, comb your head, keep
chest and stomach warm and head
cool ; and, if you are seriously ill,
make your will, and have two or
three good nurses, sweet flowers in
the room and no babbling women
about.
“Man should please his wyfe and
beate her not, but let her have her
own wyl, for that she wyle have, who
soever say nay. On prison reform.
‘The chefe remedy is’ for man to lyve
and so do that he deserves not to be
brought into no prison. Fyrste, lyve
out of syn, and followe Christe s doc
trine, and then use honest myrth and
honest company, and use to eate good
meate and drynke moderately.’’
Our Mother.
A mother's influence follows us
through life. Other faces may fade
away and be forgotten; but hers will
live forever in our memory.
How many times when the tempter
lures us on, desiring our ruin, has
the memory of a mother’s words and
prayers and y earning tenderness
(urned our hearts to that which is
pure and right? From our days of
infancy she seeks to rear us so that
our life shall be true, practical and
beneficial to the world. And when
the blandishments and seductions of
' leasure would throw around us its
fascinations, and entice and urge us
to evil, she, ever watchful, is at once
by our side, seeking by gentle coun
sel to dispel the tempter and keeps
us in the straight and narrpw path.
How immensely powerful is a moth
er's influence in the family circle?
Her little children come to her daily,
telling her of the little trials and vexa
tions that they meet with. And al
though she may not remove the bur
dene from their hearts, yet by her
tenderness she allays the pain, and
makes their burdens easier to bear.
No one knows so well how to soothe
•their little griefs. Then, in after
years, it is she who instills into our
hearts elevated motives for pursuing
the right, and shunning everything
that is wrong. And when the world
deals harshly with us, how sure we
are that she will always love and be
friend us. No earthly hand like a
mother’s can guide us so safely; no
voice like a mother’s ever falls so
sweetly on the ear; and no other
heart beats with such tenderness;
“None, like a mother
Can charm away pain,
From the sorrowing soul
And the world-weary-brain.”
Country Social Life.
Country folks are in general so
fully occupied with affairs that they
have no time to discover how lone
some they really are. So far as this
is concerned we think it is a misfor
tune. We are too busy. We work
100 hard. We take few, or no, holi
days. We read and think too little,
and do not spend sufficient time in
social culture. There is no reason
why those who plow the soil or
“whose talk is of bullock” should not
experience the refinements which are
the results of formal social life. In
business, at bargains, in pursuit of
dollars, no man is seen at his best.
He is thorny, spiney, with his back
up as a porcupine might be at bis
business. Let one doff his working
clothes and enter a room full of
neighbors—men, women, young men,
and maidens—and he is a man of
another kind. He naturally falls in
to the ways of an intuitive kindness
which is really the truest politeness;
the doing to his companion what he
should do to him. He “let’s himself
out” to please, and after an evening
spent in social converse, he retires
with many rough corners and asperi
ties tened down. For a few days the
influence remains. It would be per
manent if it could be re-enforced
now and then, and the good results
would be most agreeable and useful.
There is no difficulty in bringing
these good influences to bear. Two
or three persons with energy and
some magnetism about them can put
them in motion with ease. Now is
the time to begin the effort.
The Gentleman Who Wins.
If you speak the right word at the
right time; if you are careful to
leave people with a good impression;
if you do not trespass upon the rights
of others as well as yourself, if you
do not put yourself unduly forward;
if you do not forget the courtesies
which belong to your position, you
are quite sure to accomplish much
in life which others fail to. This is
where the race is not to the swift
nor the battle to the strong. It is
where you make people feel that you
are unselfish and honorable and
truthful and sincere. This is what
society is looking for in men, an it is
astonishing how much men are able
to win self respect and success and
usefulness who possess these quali
ties of good breeding. It is almost
the turning-point of success in prac
tical life.
Weights and Measures.
Every family should be furnished
with scales and weights; and it is
also advisable to have wood meas
ures.
About sixty drops of any thin
liquid will fill a common sized tea
spoon.
Four tablespoonfuls, or half a gill,
will fill a common sized wine glass.
Four wine-glasses will fill a half
pint measure, a common tumbler, or
a large coffee-cup.
Ten eggs usually weigh one pound
before they are broken. Eight large
ones will weigh one pound
A tablespoonful of salt will weigh
about one ounce.
One pint of water or milk will
weigh one pound.
One pint of molasses will weigh
one and one-qrarter pounds.
Three teaspoonfuls of baking
powder should weigh one ounce.
One quart of flour weighs one
pound.
One quart of Indian-moal weighs
one and a uarter pounds.
A Novel Race Between Woman.
Tho coming Minnesota State Fair,
which will be held at Minneapolis in
September, is to witness a novel race
between two women. Some time ago
Miss Bella Cook, the famous rider of
California, issued a challenge to any
other female rider in the country to
ride a twenty mile race for from
SI,OOO to $3,000 a side. Emma
Jewett, of Litchfield, Minn., has
accepted the challenge for a wager of
$1,500 a side, and the race will un
doubtedly come off
A knowledge of art tends to self
knowledge, inasmuch as an analysis
of the laws of beauty and taste pro
motes an understanding of the
powers and purposes of the soul.
SMALL BITS
Os Various Klastu Carelessly Tkrown
Togethet.
The peach crop is a dead failure
throughout Florida.
Mme. Gerster's husband become
a father recently.
Winchester, Ky., has a pear tree
fifteen feet in circumference.
The Tennessee Republicans nors
nated Maynard for Vice President, 1
Os the 1,500,000 Baptist in the
South, not more than 600,000 are
white.
11l habits gather by unseen degrees.
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to
seas.
Money is the total wheel-work of
human action, the dial-plate of our
value.
Blountville, Tennessee, boasts of a
newly hatched gosling with four legs
and feet.
Moderatioc is the silken string
running through the pearl-chain of
all virtues.
The choir of an Advent chureh at
Littleton. Mississippi, dress in crim
son robes.
There is a wealth of affection and
kindness in every human heart, if
properly developed.
In all the guilty train of human
vices there is no crime of deeper dye
than that of ingratitude.
The faults that are committed
through excess of kindness, it
requires small kindness to excuse.
No evil propensity of the human
heart is so powerful that it may not
be subdued by discipline.
The most brilliant qualities become
useless when they are nut susteiLcu
by force of character.
John McCohough, the adtor, has
made $51,000 during the dramatic
season about ending.
Persons who jump at conclusions
are sure to leave a theatre before the
curtain is half-way down.
King Luis of Bavaria, they say, is
about to many the Princess Isabella,
his cousin. She is 17 and he 35.
The cattle exports from this coun
try in the past six years were of the
value of nearly $23,000,000.
If you would have your desifes
always effectual, place them on things
which are in your power to attain.
Wisdom is not Lund with those
who dwell at their ease, rather
Nature, where she adds brain, adds
difficulty.
If the balance of happiness be ad
justed fairly, it will be found that all
conditions of life fare equally well.
As the pearl ripens in the obscurity
of the shell, so ripens in the tomb ail
the fame that is truly precious.
On the island of the Neuce, N. C ,
is a cypress tree, in the hollow of
which a horse can be turned around.
Three men, charged with murder,
were taken from jail by a mob at
Osceola, Mo., on Thursday morning,
and hanged.
The consumption of cotton by the
southern mills will this year probably
be 20 per cent ip excess of what it
was last year.
A man at Dayton, Tennessee, set
a steel trap in his chicken coop, and
on the next morning found in it the
thumb of a negro.
America has now nearly 100 varie
ties of native graves under cultiva
tion, and more than 800 varieties of
pears.
Wm. P. Dangerfield, presiding
Justice of the Superior Court, San
Erancisco, dropped dead on the
bench, May 5.
Along the Galveston, Harrisburg,
and San Antonio railroads, tbe report
is that there was never a better pros
pect for crops.
The exodus to Europe will reach
its height this month, and fully ten
thousand people are booked to sail
from New York.
An alligator twelve feet long was
shot and killed near Jacksonville,
Fla., and in its stomach “a well pre
served brickbat” was found.
The prisoners confined in the jail
at Crockett, Texas, fired the building,
and one of them, John Walker,
perished in the flames.
The fruit prospects in east Ten
nessee are not so bad as was at first
believed. It is thought that a half
crop of peaches will be made.
Oglethorpe county should be
happy. She has not had a Sheriff
sale in three months, and there is not
a white Radical in the county.
Courtesy and kind language in
great ones draweth all hearts unto
them, as fair flowers do the eyes of
beholders in the springtime.
Inquisitive people are the funnels
of conversation ; they do not take in
anything for their own use, but
merely pass it to another.
The vanity of loving fine clothes
and new fashions, and valuing our
selves by them is one of the most
childish pieces of folly that can be.
A beautiful smile is to the female
countenance what the sunbeam is
the landscape. It embellishes an
inferior face, and redeems an ugly
one.
On a tree near Swan’s Springs,
Cal., J. Woods found hanging a
costly hunting case gold watch, a
lady’s enamelled watch, and two long
gold chains.
The viliiage of San Luis, near
Santiago de Cuba, has been destroyed
by fire. Three hundred houses were
burned and nearly 3,000 persons
rendered homeless.
It is easy to tell when others are
flattered, but not when we ourselves
are, and every man and woman will
lend firm belief to the soft nothing of
the very man they believe to be an
airant flatterer, when others are in
the case.
n*tes.
Legal advertisements charged seventy-five cents
per hundred words or fractio > thereof each inser
tion foe the first four insertions, and thirty-five
cents for each subsequent insertion.
Transient advertising will be charged $1 per inch
for tho first, and fifty cents for each subsequent
insertion. Advertisers desi: ing larger space for a
longer timelhafi’oße month will receive a libera:
deduction from regular rates.
All bills doe Upon the first appearance of the ad
vertisement, and will be presented at the pleasure
of the proprietor. Transient advertisements from
unkaowu parties must be paid for in advance.
NO. 22
BROWN BRO’S
BANKERS, BROKERS
ANO COLLECTION AGENTS
GAINESVILLE, GA.
References—Hanover National Bank, N.
Y.» Moore, Jenkins & Co. N. Y., G. W
WhUalis A Co., Chaeushton. 8. C..—any
ny the Atlanta Banks. marls-ts.
MILLINERY GOODS!
Mrs. 11. IN. Ware
Begs leave to inform her friends and the
public generally that she has opened her
Store in her dwelling house on Main street,
next door to the cohege, on the right hand
as you go from the square. She hopes to
receive a li be raFpatron age, and to merit the
same by a desire to please and tho low prices
at which she will sell goods. Look for tho
fancy hat as a sign, last house as you go
down Main street to the college.
nov7 ly
H. W. J. 11AIVI,
Attorney at Law,
GAINESVILLE, GA.
Office in Henderson <fc Candler Buildiny,
East Side Public Square
1". >l. NEWMAN,
Physician and Surgeon,
Flowerj’ Si'fxixola., Gm.
Office, first door above Barrett’s store.
Will attend calls at a distance from relia
ble parties. (febl3 6m
THE CLINARD HOUSE,
ATHENS, C-A...
To the Public—l take this method of
returning thanks to my numerous customers
for their liberal patronage during my long
proprietorship of tbe Newton House, in
Athens. On the 31st of December my pro.
prietorship of the Newton House will eease,
at which time I will open the Cliuard House,
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, pledging myself
to do all in my power for their comfort, etc.
A. D. CLIN A RD.
Athens, Ga., Dec. 9, 1879. —l9 ti
NATIONAL HOTEL,
ATLANTA. GA.
Rates, $2 per Day;
SPECIAL* KATES
IF’oi* Loiig'ei* Time
The NATIONAL, being renovated and
refurnished, offers superior inducements to
the traveling public. E. T. WHITE,
mar7 Agent, Proprietor.
E. T. BROWN,
Attorney sit Kaw,
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.
nov2B ly
Northeastern II ailr oa d.
Change of Schedu 10.
Superintendent’s Office, 1
Athens, Ga., Oct. 11,1879. j
On and after Monday, October 6, 1879, trains on
the Northeastern Railroad will run as follows. AH
trains daily except Sunday:
Leave Athens 3 50 p m
Arrive at Lnla 620 ••
Arrive at Atlanta, via Air-Line U. B 10 30 “
Leave Atlanta, via Air-Line 11. R 330 “
Leave Lula 746 “
Arrive at Athens io oo •*
The above trains also 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. „ „. 6 45 a m
Arrive at Lula 845 •«
Leave Lida. .... 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. I. I!.
CHANCE OF SCHEDULE.
On and after December 20th double daily 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 ru
•* Baltimore 930 •«
** Philadelphia ....130 and 145 pm
•• New York... 345 and 445 “
•• Wilmington, N. C. (next day) 950a in
“ Richmond 7 43 «•
EVENING TRAIN.
Leave Atlanta 3 30pm
Arrive Charlotte 3 20 a m
“ Air-Line Junction 330 “
“ Danville. 10 22 «
•• Lynchburg 153 p m
“ Richmond. 443 «•
“ Wa hington 955 ••
“ Baltimore 11 55 ••
•* Philadelphia..... 3 35am
<• New York 645 “
GOING EAST,
Night Mail and Passenger train.
Arrive Gainesville 5:50 p m
Leave “ * ...... 5:51 *•
Day Passenger train
Arrive " 6:13 am
Leave *• .... 6:15 ••
Local Freight and Accommodation train.
Arrive Gainesville 11:10 am
Leave •• 11:25 ••
going west.
Night Mail and Passenger train.
Arrive Gainesville 9:20 a m
Leave ** . 9:21 ••
Day Passsnger train.
Arrive •• B:lspm
Leave •• ........ 8:16"
Local Freight and Accommodation uaiu.
Arrive Gainesville ... 1:45 a in
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.
PATE NTS.
F. A. LebmaUh, Solicitor of American
and Foreign Patents, Wa-bington, D. C.
All business couuected with Patents, whether
before the Patent Office or the Courts,
promptly attended to. No charge mads
unless a patent is secured. Send for circu
lar. (uov22 ts
One of our most estimable citizens may
be thankful for the introduction of Dr.
Bull’s Cough Syrup, for its timely use has
saved his life.