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editorial eaglets.
It is said that Grant has loft off
drinking.
Prince Leopold was present at the
Chicago convention.
** Tilden wants an Ohio man in the
second place on his ticket.
No lees than five men were hanged
last Friday in the United States.
On the 28th of May there were 28
deaths from sunstrokes in Philadel
phia.
Nevada send Tilden delegates to
the Cincinnati Democratic Conven
tion.
A. E. Buck, of Atlanta, was leader
of the Georgia republican delegates
to Chicago*
The comments of the Post on Gov.
Colquitt, will, have about as. much
effect as a fly on the born of an ox.
The crops of northern Texas have
bqen considerable damaged by recent
heavy rain storms.
It is thought that Gen. Haygood
will be the democratic nominee for
governor of South Carolina.
The republican convention of Tex
as sent only thirteen Grant dele
gates to the Chicago convention.
The greenbackers of the sixth
„ district of Missouri have nominated
Ira S. Hazeltine for Congress.
The Boston Herald is pleased to
learn that Senator Hoar is squarely
opposed to the nomination of Grant.
The Atlanta Post says: “Governor
Colquitt’s recent speech in the opera
house has been sifted.’’ By whom?
S. Miller Hageman, of Brooklyn,
N. Y., has challenged Robert G. In
, gersoll to meet him in public de
bate.
The democrats of Kansas have re
solved to place entire confidence in
the action of the national democratic
convention.
Lawton Evans, son of Gen. C. A.
Evans, won the first honor and vale
dictorian’s place in tho senior class
at Emory college.
Red Cloud, Spotted Tail and a
number of other chiefs are visiting,
as inspectors, th3 school for young
Indians at Carlisle, Pa.
The Cincinnati Commercial is posi
tively informed that there are four
determined Sherman men in the
Alabama delegation to Chicago.
Payne, one of the Ohio democratic
candidates for the presidential nomi
nation, is worth $3,000,000, and hie
son, who is an oil man, is worth
$3,000,000 more.
The Charleston News it: Courier
says Joe Brown was not born with a
silver spoon in his mouth, but worked
his way upward by perseverance,
courage and ability.
New York pays more for tobacco
than for bread. Dealers say that
there are smokers in the city who
average 100 cigars a week, and men
whose cigar bills run up to thous
ands of dollars per annum.
There is a heroic sentiment in the
democratic party—and it is to this
that Mr. Tilden owes his following
more than to aught else—that the
defrauded nominee of the party in
1876 is entitled to the support of the
party again.
The Atlanta Post, of Sunday says:
Governor Colquitt, in his speech at
the Opera House, referred to his war
record, and called upon his old com
rades to say if, on the battlefield, he
had been a laggard, Noone pretends
to bring any charge against him pre
vious to the time he became Governor
of Georgia. ”
No, nor can anyone bring a truth
ful charge against him now. Not
withstanding the adverse opinion of
the Post, and a few of its followers,
Governor Colquitt’s record, is without
a blemish, and the masses of the
people of Georgia know it, and will
support him, if nominated for Gover
or any other office within their gift.
The New York H ro'd of June 29,
says: “Another day was given to the
trial of Cadet Whittaker, of the
Military Academy. Evidence was
presented to show that tho cidet’s
word was not to be relied upon, and
that in some points he had sworn
falsely. It was also shown that
clothes other than the uniform suit
were in his room contrary to regu
lations, and that if they were kept
there by Whittaker he had also made
false statements as to these. The
recorder then proceeded to sum up
the case in an argument which as
sumes that Whittaker’s guilt is
proved by the evidence. If Whit
taker is not expelled it will be a
gross case of favoritoism and an im
putation upon the uprightness of
every other person at the post.
The Gainesville Eagle
VOL. XIV.
POPULAR SCIENCE NOTES.
The Scotch novelist, John Payn,
has inherited a small fortune.
The New Orleans water works
company are having constrncted a
compound engine, having a daily
capacity for pumping 5,000,000 gal
lons of water, being more than any
other one now in use.
An application has been made to
the English parliament by the North
British railway company for the nec
essary powers to reconstruct the ill
starred Tay Bridge. The cost of
rebuilding the structure is estimated
at about $325,000.
Black, white, red and yellow col
ored inks have recently been put on
the market by a house in Leipsic,
which are expressly designed and
used for writing labels on glass, por
celain, ivory, marble, mother-of-pearl
and metal. The writing is applied
with a goose-quill, and when dry is
said to adhere so firmly that it can
not be removed by any liquid or
chemical process whatever.
The making of cog or tooth-wheels
of leather, prepared from untanned
buffalo hides, thoroughly cleansed
from hair, etc., in place of metal has
been patented, and a manufactory
already established in New York.
The advantages claimed for them are
that they have a much quieter and
more elastic run, are extremely du
rable, and require no lubrication
whatever.
Those who have experimented in
the matter state that, a door stand
ing loosely on its hinges, that would
readily yield to a gentle push, would
not be moved by a cannon ball pass
ing through it. Owing to its rapid
passage, the ball in passing through,
overcomes tho whole force of cohe
sion among tho atoms of wood, and
the inertia of the door is not affec
ted to an extent to produce mo
tion.
Leverrier, the chief astronomer of
France, confident in the real exist
ence of the plant Vulcan, has lately
calculated the orbit of that myste
rious planet from the various recorded
instances of dark spots seen for a
few hours only upon the face of the
sun, and he now announces that the
planet may be looked for at about
this time, to the east of the sun, and
about twenty sun-breadths from that
orb.
Marble, white, black and granite
has been discovered in large quanti
ties in the Ibaraki mountain range,
in Japan, and of a quality superior
to the finest in Europe. “Through
this important discovery,” writes a
professor at the Polytechnic insti
tute in Tokia, “if care be taken in
quarrying, and facilities of transport
be provided, Japan will become the
great marble market for the world.
All metals are capable of consum
ing, under favorable circumstances,
the crystaline form. Many of them,
particularly gold, silver, copper and
bismuth, occur crystalized in nature,
and are found either as cubes or
octahedrons, or in some of the de
rivative forms; antimony is, how
ever, an exception to this rule, and
affords rhomboidal crystals. In or
der to crystalize a metal artificially,
it is sometimes sufficient to melt a
few ounces in a crucible, and having
permitted it to cool on the surface,
to pierce the crust formed, and allow
the interior to flow out. By this
means, very beautiful crystals of bis
muth may be obtained.
A green coloring butter suitable
for wall papers and other similar
uses which is unlike other greens in
containing no poisonous substances,
has been produced by calcining an
intimate mixture of one part of bich
romate of potassa and three parts of
baked gypsum. A grass green is
obtained, which, on boiling with
water, or on mixing with dilute hy
drochloric acid, leaves a fine powder
of an intense green color. The
poisonous effects of arsenical greens
is well known to tho public, hence
the above new discovery will doubt
less meet with great favor if as good
as claimed, as it is not only quite
cheap but is free ftom objections
on account of its freedom from dan
ger.
Since the extensive manufacture of
oleomargarine, an artificial butter,
there has naturally arisen, many
questions as to its wholesomeness,
hence we deem a few words from us
regarding this new production, its
properties and mode of manufacture
in order. The opinion of most chem
ists of eminence who have given the
subject their attention, is that it is
as wholesome an article of diet as
natural butter. It is made of the
fresh fat of animals, which having
been rendered in such a manner as
to make it quite pure, odorless and
tasteless, is churned with milk, etc.,
by which process it is converted to
the consistency of and appearance of
ordinary butter. When ready for
market, the chemical composition of
the product is essentially the same
as that made from cream, and in
most instances could not be detected’
from the genuine. No one need be
afraid of oleomargarine.
GAINESVILLE. GA., FRIDAY MORNING. JUNE 4, 1880.
Washington Correspondence.
[Special Oorreupondence of the Eaglb.]
Washington, D. C., June 1, 1880
The democrats are doing ill work
I permiHing the session of
congress to lastrionger than May. Still,
if as is now said, an adjournment
will.he had by-the 10th of June, the
evils Will not be very great. Between
this date and the sth or 6th of June,
many more radicals than democrats
will be absent, because of the Chi
cago convention, and not all of them
can be paired. Business may pro
ceed, therefore. But after the 10th,
when preparations are being made
for the CSncianati convention, so
many democrats will* be away that
the republican minority will become
the majority. Except to pass such
bills as will protect elections, adopt
Senator Morgan’s joint rule for count
ing the electoral vote, ratify the Ute
agreement, and disposing of the ap
propriation bills, no one expects to
do anything. This might all have
been done by Monday, the 31st at
noon, but probably will not be.
There is, though, no excuse for
dawdling the work beyond the 10 th
of June.
It seems to be admitted on all
hands that Grant will be nominated
at'Chicago; The only question is as
to the magnitude of the resulting
bolt. On that subject the Grant
men say little, but the friends of
other candidates are eloquent. .1
we are to believe them the secession
from the party after Grant’s nomi
nation would be so great as to leave
the ticket only three or four States
certain in the entire north,
Such being the condition of things
in the radical party, the manifest
duty of the democrats is to put for
ward a man upon whom dissatisfied
republicans can concentrate, and
thus make assurance of victory dou
bly easy. In the possible event of
Blaine’s nomination at Chicago,
while the bolt would be none the
less certain and formidable, the
choice of the democracy, in order to
gain votes from the bolters, would
perhaps be different from what it
would be with Grant as an oppo
nent, For this reason it seems de
sirable that democratic delegates
should be left wholly unpledged.
General Gordon, one of the most
popular men who ever set in the
senate, a day or two since took leave
of his associates, and his successor
was sworn in. The General carries
with him to Georgia, the best wishes
of Washingtonians. Rex.
OUT OF OFFICE.
General Clement A.Evans Pays a Feel
ing Tribute to General Gordon Both In
War and in Peace—A Touching Letter
From General Gordon’s Father.
Senator Gordon’s resignation will
be noted as another historic event in
his dramatic and useful life.
The state at large was surprised,
and some were startled when the fact
was announced.
There were those who cared noth
ing for it, only as they might make
use of it to serve political ends, and
for such ready detractors of the
character of good men we have no
excuse. Some who suffer themselves
to be suspicious of every action of
public men began to conjecture other
reasons for this resignation than
those which were given in the plain
statement made by this well-tried
citizen and Christian. The people at
large, however, will feel that while
imperious necessity forced Gordon’s
retirement, he has not deceived them
nor betrayed their interests, but has
only (and we trust temporarily) sue
pended a twenty years’ public service
of sacrifice and usefulness unsur
passed by any man in the country,
and that terminated his sena
torial life in' the right manner, and at
the right time. He will speak for
himself, and the people whom he has
served will believe him. We do not
believe in the thing meant by the
slang phrase, “Mixing religion and
politics.” Religion, pure and unde
filed, is tp visit the fatherless and the
widows, and to keep unspotted from
the world. The prophets should
keep out of political entanglements.
But we put in a plea which all men
understand. What ischaracter worth,
and what avail is self-sacrificing
public service if for the lowest politi
cal ends the wildest, most baseless
and abusive accusations should be
heard above the plain and probable
statements of men like Gordon,
Colqnitt and Brown? These three
have become equally concerned in
the senatorial vacancy and the sensa
tion it has produced. They are
Christians—one a Presbyterian, the
next a Methodist and the laot a Bap
tist. All have the confidence of their
churches, and the last has just met a
pressing need of his denomination
by the spontaneous gift of $50,000.
Colquitt is a member of our general
conference, president of the Inter
national Sunday school association,
accepted as a lay preacher in all
Christian pulpits, and of Gordon’s
religion we would be glad from a
bosom acquaintance with him in war
and peace to give our testimony. In
prayer and exhortation he has warm
ed the hearts of many an audience in
camp and church. Now shall the
character of these men be torn to
pieces at the will of any who in pre
judice, or passion, or for selfish ends,
invent and circulate baseless sub
picions? If the public are prepared
to deal in that way with tho citizens,
no man is safe. Every good man is
concerned in this issue. Every fair
minded man will put the right esti
mate on the worth and word of good
men, and when the dust of the
present passion has settled it will
cover the skirts of those who stirred
it up.
We welcome Gordon out of the
political arena. We welcome him
again to the work of the church as a
private Christian man. We do not
wish to ride with him any more
through the fiery mist of minnie balls
nor among the hail of shell, glad as
we once were made by the exhilara
tions of red hot battle, but we crave
to hear his clarion tongue in exhorta
tion and to join him in the old time
prayer. We would take Colquitt
also, and make him such as we are.
We have known him in martial and
in civil life, looked up to him and
loved him from early manhood, and
in all vicissitudes have observed him
coming out of trial unscathed; with
a near intimacy have known his heart
and life—and would be glad to see
him escape from the turmoil of
public service if it were best for the
state. But good men and good laws
are the requisites of society and con
stitute the healthy life of the state.
To put the character of such men at
discount is to put a premium on
vicious conduct. The sneer of the
seorner at religious men in high
places is only evidence of an un
patriotic as well as of an irreligious
heart. To be moved by such attacks
on state officials is to agree that the
more wicked a citizen is the better he
is qualified for public trusts. We
cannot believe that the present pros
perous condition of our great state
and its national reputation would be
advanced by taking the backward
step from its present forward strides
in temperance, education and re
ligion.
We have had our say. — Georgia
Advocate.
John Plowman’s Talk on Good
Natiu’e and Firmness.
Do not oe all sugar, or the world
will suck you down; but do not be
all vinegar, or the world will spit
you out. There is a medium in all
things, only blockheads go extremes.
We need not be all rock or sand, all
iron or wax. We should neither
fawn upon everybody like silly lap
dogs, nor fly at all persons like surly
mastiffs. Black and white go to
gether to make up a world, and
hence on the point of temper we
have all sorts of people to deal with.
Some are as easy as an old shoe, but
they are hardly ever worth more
than the other one of the pair, and
others take fire as fast as tinder at
the smallest offense, and are as dan
gerous as gunpowder. To have a
fellow going about the farm as cross
with everybody as a bear with a sore
head, with a temper as sour as ver
juice and as sharp as a razor, look
ing as surly as a butcher’s dog, is a
great nuisance, and yet there may be
some good points about the man, so
that he may be a man for all that;
but poor soft Tommy, as green as
grass, and as ready to bend as a
willow, is nobody’s money and every
body’s scorn. A man must have a
backbone, or how is he to hold his
head up ? but that backbone must
bend, or he will knock his brow
against the beam.
There is a time to do as others
wish, and a time to refuse. We may
make ourselves asses and then every
body will ride; but if w T e should be
respected, we must be our own mas
ters, and not let others saddle us as
they think fit. If we try to please
everybody, we shall be like a toad
under a harrow, and never have
peace; and, if we play lackey to all
our neighbors, whether good or bad,
we shall be thanked by no one, for
we shall soon do as much harm as
good. He that makes himself a
aheep, will find that the wolves are
not all He who lies on the
ground must expect to be trodden
on. He who makes himself a mouse,
the cat will eat him. If you let your
neighbors put the calf on your
shoulder, they will soon clap on the
cow. We are to please our neighbor
for his good to edification, but this is
quite another matter.
There are old foxes about whose
mouths are always watering for
young geese, and if they can cozen
them to do just what they wish, they
soon make their market out of them.
What a jolly good fellow you will be
called, if you will make yourself a
hack for your friends, and what a
Benjamin’s mess will they soon bring
you into I Out of that mess you will
have to get all alone for your old
friends will be sure to say to you,
“Good-bye basket, I’ve carried all
my apples,’ or they will give you
their good wishes and nothing more,
and you will find out that fair words
won’t feed a cat or butter your
bread, nor fill your pocket. Those
who make so very much of you either
mean to cheat you, or else are in
need; w’hen they have sucked the
orange they will throw the peel away.
Be wise then, and look before you
leap, lest a friend’s advice should do
you more mischief than an enemy’s
slander. “The simple believeth
every word; but the prudent man
looketh well to his going.” Go with
your neighbor as far as good con
science will go with you, but part
company where the shoe of con
science begins to pinch your foot.
Begin with your friend as you mean
to go on, and let him know very ear
ly that you are not a man made of
putty, but one who has a judgment
of his own, and means to use it. Pull
up the moment you find you are out
of the road, and take the nearest
way back at once. The way to avoid
great faults is to beware of small
ones, therefore pull up in time if you
would not be dragged into the ditch
by your friends. Better offend your
acquaintance than loose your char
acter and hazard your soul. Don’t
be ashamed to walk down Turnagain
Lane. Never mind being called a
turncoat when you turn from a bad
course; better to turn in time than
to burn in eternity. Do not be per
suaded to ruin j ourself—it is buying
gold too dear to throw one’s self
away to please our company. Put
your foot down where you mean to
stand, and let no man move you
from the right. Laarn to say “no,”
and it will be of more use to you than
to be able to read Latin.
A friend to everybody is often a
friend to nobody, or else in Lis sim
plicity he robs his family to keen
strangers, and becomes a brother to
a beggar. There is wisdom in gen
erosity, as in everything else, and
some had need to go to school to
learn it. A kind-hearted soul may
be very cruel to his own children,
while he takes the bread out of their
mouths to give to those who call him
a generous fellow, but laugh at his
folly. Very often he that his money
lends, looses both his gold and his
friends, and he who is surety is never
sure. Take John Plowman’s advice,
and never be security for more than
yau are willing to loose. Remember
the word of God says, “He that is
surety for a stranger shall smart for
it; and he that hateth suretiship is
sure.
When we are injured, we are bound
as Christians to bear it without mal
ice; but we are not to pretend that
we do not feel it, for this will but
encourage our enemies to kick us
again. He who is cheated twice by
the same man, is half as bad as the
rogue; and it is very much so in
other injuries—unless we claim our
rights, we are ourselves to blame if
we do not get them. Paul was will
ing to bear stripes for his Master’s
sake, but he did not forget to tell the
magistrate that he was a Roman;
and when those gentlemen wished
to put him out of prison privately,
he said, “Nay, verily let them come
themselves and fetch us out/’ A
Christian is the gentlest of men, but
then he is a man. A good many peo
ple don’t need to be told this, for
they are up in a moment if they think
anybody is likely to ill treat them;
long before they know whether it is
a thief in the farm-yard or the old
mare got loose, they up w ith the
window, and fire off the old blunder
buss. Dangerous neighbors these;
a man might as well make a seat out
of a bull’s forehead, as expect to find
comfort in their neighborhood. Make
no friendship with an angry mar;
and with a furious man thou shall
not go. “He that is slow to wrath
is of great understanding; but he
that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.’’
“Seest thou a man that is hasty in
his words, there is more hope of a
fool than of him.”
In my day I have seen a few down
right obstinate men, whom neither
sense nor reason could alter. There
is a queer chap in our village who
keeps a bulldog, and he teils me that
when the creature once gives a bite
at anything, he never lets go again,
and if you want to get it out of his
mouth, you must cut his head off;
that’s the sort of man that has fretted
me many a time and almost made
me mad. You might sooner argue a
pitchfork into a thrashing machine,
or persuade a brickbat to turn into
marble, than get the fellow to hear
common sense. Scrubbing black
amoors white, and getting spots out
of leopards, is nothing at ail com
pared with trying to lead a downright
obstinate man. Right or wrong, you
might as easily make a hill walk so
London, as turn him when his mind
is made up. When a man is right,
this sticking to his text is a grand
thing; our minister says, “It is the
stuff that martyrs are made off;’’ but
when an ignorant, wrong headed fel
low gets this hard grit into him, he
makes martyrs of those who have put
up with him. Old Master Pighead
swore he would drive a nail into an
oak board with his fist, and so lamed
his hand for life; he could not sell
his corn at his own price, and so he
let the rats eat up the ricks. You
cannot ride by his fields without
noticing his obstinancy, for he vows
“he won’t have none of there ’ere new
fangled notions,” and so grows the
worst crops in the parish; and worst
of all, his daughter went among the
Methodist, and, in a towering rage,
he turned her out of doors; and
though I believe he is very sorry for
it he will not yield and inch, but
stands to it that he will never speak
to her so long as he lives, and mean
while the dear girl is dying through
his unkindness. Rash vows are much
better broken than kept. He who
never changes never mends; he who
never yields, never conquers.
With children we must mix gentle
ness with firmness; they must not
always have their own way, but they
must not always by twarted. Give
them a pig when it grunts, and to a
child when it cries, aud you will have
a fine pig and a spoiled child. A
man who is learning to play’ on a
trumpet, and a petted child, are two
very disagreable companions even as
next door neighbors; but unless we
look well to it, our children will be a
nuisance to others and a torment to
ourselves. “The rod and reproof gave
wisdom; but a child left to himself
bringeth his mother to shame.” L
we never have headaches through
rebuking our little children, we shall
have plenty of headaches when they
grow up. Strict truthfullness must
rule all our dealings with the young,
our yea must be yea, and our nay
nay, and that to the letter and the
moment. Never promise a child and
then fail to perform, whether you
promise him a bun or a beating. Be
obeyed at all costs—disobedient
children are unhappy children; for
their own sakes mind you.
If you yield up your authority once,
you will hardly ever get it again, for
he who says A, must say B, and so
on. We must not provoke our
children to anger lest they be dia
courged, but we must rule our house
hold in the fear of the Lord, and in
so doing may expect a blessing.
Religious.
I know not how to represent to you
this glorious work, better than by
the following figure. Suppose a vast
grave yard, surrounded by a lofty
wall, with only one entrance, which
is by a massive gate, aud that is fast
bolted. Within are thousands and
millions of human beings, of all ages
and classes, by one epidemic disease
bending to the grave. The grave
yawns to swallow them, and they
must all perish. There is no balm
to relieve, no physician there. Such
is the condition of man as a sinner.
And men have sinned; and it is writ-
ten, “The soul that sinneth it shall
die.’
But while the unhappy race lay in
that dismal prison, Mercy came and
■ stood at the gate, and wept over the
melancholy scene, exclaiming: ‘O.
that I might enter! I would bind up
their wounds; I would relieve their
sorrows; I would save their souls!”
xln embassy of angels, commis
sioned from the court of heaven to
some other world, paused at the
sight, and heaven forgave that pause.
Seeing Mercy standing there, then
cried: “Mercy! canst thou not enter?
Canst thou look upon that scene and
not pity? Canst thou pity and not
relieve?” Mercy replied: “I can
see!” and in her tears she added,
“I pity, but I cannot relieve!” “Why
canst thou not enter?” inquired the
heavenly host?” “Oh!” said Mercy,
“Justice has barred the gate against
me, and I must not, cannot unbar
it!” At this moment Justice himself
appeared, as if to watch the gate.
The angels asked, “Why wilt thou
not suffer mercy to enter?’’ He
sternly replied: “The law is broken
and it must be honored! Die they or
Justice must!” Then appeared a
form among the angelic band like
unto the Son of God. Addressing to
Justice, he said, “What are thy de
mands?’ Justice replied: “My
demands are rigid; I must have
ignominy for their honor, sickness
for their health, death for their life.
Without the shedding of blood there
is no remission!” “Justice,” said
the Son of God, “I except thy
terms! On me this wrong! Let
Mercy enter and stay the carnival of
death!’’ “What pledge dost thou
give for the performance of those
conditions?’’ “My word; my oath!”
“When wilt thou perform them ?’’
“Four thousand years hence, on the
hill of Calvary, without the walls of
Jerusalem!”
The bond was prepared, signed and
sealed in the presence of attendant
angels. Justice was satisfied, the
gate was opened and mercy entered,
preaching salvation in the name of
Jesus. The bond was committed to
partriarchs and prophets. A long
series of rites and ceremonies sacri
fices and obligations, was instituted
to perpetuate the memory of that
solemn deed. At the close of the
four thousandth year, when Daniel s
“seventj weeks” were accomplished,
Justice and Mercy appeared on the
hill of Calvary. “Where,” said Jus
tice, “is the Son of God?” “Behold
him,’’ answered Mercy, “at the foot of
the hill!’’ And there he came, bear
ing his own cross, and followed by
his weeping church. Mercy retired
and stood aloof from the scene. Jesus
ascended the hill, like a lamb for
sacrifice. Justice presented the
dreadful bond, saying, “This is the
day on which this article must be
cancelled,” The Redeemer took it.
What did he do with it? Tear it in
pieces, and scatter it to the winds ?
No; he nailed it to his cross, crying,
“it is finished!” The Victim ascend
ed the altar. Justice called on holy
fire to come down and consume the
sacrifice. Holy lira replied: I come !
I will consume the sacrifice, and then
I will burn up the world!” It fell
upon the Son of God, and rapidly
consumed his humanity; but when it
touched his Deity, it expired. Then
was there darkness over the whole
land, and an earthquake shook the
mountain: but the heavenly host
broke forth in rapturous song:
“Glory to God in the highest!” on
earth peace ! good will to man !”•
Christmans Evans.
They Didn’t Wink Any More.
Among the passengers who boarded
the east-bound train at Holly the
other day were a bride and groom of
the regular holly-hock order. Al
though the car was full of passen
gers the pair began to squeeze hands
and hug as soon as they were seated.
This of course attracted attention,
aud pretty soon every body was nod
ding and winking, aud several per
sons so far forgot themselves as to
laugh outright. By and by the
broad-shouldered and red-handed
groom became aware of the fact that
he was being ridiculed, and he un
linked himself to the height of six
feet, looked up and down the ailes
and said:
“There seems to be considerable
nodding and winking around here
because I’m hugging the girl who
was married to me at 7 o’clock this
morning. If the rules of this rail
road forbid a man from hugging bis
wife after he’s paid full fare then I’m
going to quit, but if the rules don’t
and if this winking and blinking isn’t
bitten short off when we pass the
next mile post, I’m going to begin on
the front seats and create a rizing
market for false teeth and crutches !”
If there were any more winks and
blinks in that car the groom didn’t
catch ’em at it. ’
This little story is told by the Pitts
field Sun: “For many years, none
but Democratic votes had been cast
in Cheshire, when, one excited elec
tion day, a single Federal vote was
found in the box. The chairman of
the select men stood aghast, and,
holding up the obnoxious bit of pa
per between his thumb and finger,
as though there was contagion in it,
exclaimed: ‘Who threw this—fed
eral vote!’ A brief pause and no
response. Nobody! I thought sc;
throw it out.’ Aud out it went.”
Jokers at Mills, Minn , got up a
bogus telegram, announcing that
Smith had won SIO,OOO in a lottery.
Smith did not discover the truth
until almost the entire male popula
tion had got drunk at his expense.
Mr. Tooie has bought from Mr. H.
J. Bpron the performing right of the
“Upper Crust” for $25,000, und $2,500
to be paid at the end of two years.
This is said to be the highest amount
ever paid in one sum for any English
play.
The first new Texas wheat of the
season sold at Dallas on the 25th at
$1,50 per bushel. The regular price
will open at 85 cents to 90 cents.
The recent general rains throughout
North Texas were beneficial so grow
ing crops.
SMALL BITS
Os Various Kinds Carelessly Thrown
Together.
The emi-Grant is the sort of Grant
this country wants most.
Country girls were always instruct
ed in the you knit rule.
Fall neck wear is always fashion
able at a hanging.
The manufacture of qleomargerine
has caused a rise in soap grease.
Amateur fishermen in the United
States pay $1,000,000 a year for fish
ing gear.
In Macon, Ga., there are fourteen
schools for white and fourteen for
colored children.
The daily receipt of dead letters in
the Washington department for the
past year has averaged 13,000.
The Arab who invented alcohol
died nine hundred years ago, but his
spirit still lives.
The prettiest hands in Rome are
said to be those of an American lady.
She probably has three of a kind.
.Canada’s timber supply is being
heavily drawn upon, the present sea
son’s yield being estimated at 1,061,
000,000 feet.
The population of Persia is about
equal lo that of Belgium. It has
30,000 soldiers, of whom abou 10,000
are fairly efficient.
Over 1,800,000 gallons of petroleum
or earth oil, are brought to the sur
face every day in the oil regions of
Pennsylvania alone.
Apricots are becoming a favorite
fruit among the growers of California,
wnere the climate seems to be well
adapted for their propagation.
If the Czar of Russia cannot punish
his enemies in any other way, he can
abdicate and go on a lecturing tour.
The Denver (Col.) News says there
are men in that city to-day unable to
pay their board bills who will by-and
bye be bonanza kings.
Helen E. Coolidge is a partner with
her father, an ex-Judge, at Niks
Mich. The firm name is Coolidge &
Daughter.
A drunken stranger staggered into
Fvans’s sick room, at Arrow
smith, 111., when she was alone, and
and the fright killed her.
la the physico mathematical de
partment of the Berlin Academy of
Sciences nearly a third of the mem
bers are Prussian Jews.
The Mining and Scientific Press
says that the first iron works in this
country were erected in 1679 at
Falling Creek, not far from James
town, Va,
Mr. Gladstone has for the first
time made “advanced age,” in con
nection with pressing engagements,
an excuse for not attending a meet
ing.
A Wisconsin girl broke off her en
gagement because her lover had no
romance. She wanted to be mar
ried on stilts, and he would’nt agree.
Young men who place themselves
in the hands of their lady friends may
expect to be treated much worse than
a candidate for political preferment.
It is said now that the honey bee
does not work more than four hours
a day. This plan leaves a number of
shining hours to improved by play.
A couple of reporters spent the
night in a cell with the man who was
doomed to be hanged in Connecticut
recently, and in the morning the
prisoner was perfectly willing to die.
A mania for clocks in the streets
has seized upon the municipality of
Paris, and a large number have
already been erected. The clocks
are illuminated ones.
Every day more and more con
vinces us that this country hasn’t half
enough brains to supply the college
graduates who come home with fancy
diplomas and high sounding titles.
A man in Marshall county, Tenn.,
over eighty years of age, has never
seen either a railroad or a steamboat.
He is a good farmer and attends
closely to his own business. He has
lived within five miles of a railroad
for several years.
When a man is startled at some
thing and says: “I hear a noise,” it
probably never occurs to him that
there is nothing else in this wide
world that anybody else can hear but
a noise.—
A Russian inventor and engineer
claims to have found a substitute for
the wheel and screw of steamers; the
motion is to be transmitted through
compressible blades.
No men in England to-day work
harder than most of the Bishops of
the Established Church. The in
crease in their number is as nothing
compared with the increase in their
flocks.
An Illinois youth, husking corn in
a field near the railroad, saw a new
locomotive, with a red smoke stack.
He became frightened, and ran to the
house crying: “That ’ere engine is
going to bust, sure; it’s red hot clean
to the top of the stovepipe
The wheat crop of Russia for 1879,
though reported short, was more
lonble that of the United States.
. exports large quantities to
England, where she is the great
competitor of the United States, be
sides feeding a population of ninety
millions.
A man stopping his paper wrote to
the editor: “I think men ottend to
spend their munny for paper, my dad
dident, and everybody sed he was the
intelligentest man in the country,
and he had the smartest family of
boys that ever dug tators.” Os
course he didn’t needs paper.
The college at Milledgeville has
378 names on the roll* About fifty
cadets are uniformed and drilled
daily. The city has given them two
ten pound field pieces, and Ludden
& Bates, of Savannah, have loaned
the institution a piano.
A.dvortising Ratos.
Legal advertisem< nta charged seventy-five cents
per hundred words or fraction thereof each inser
tion for the first four insertions, and thirty-five
cents for each subsequent insertion.
Transient advertising will be charged $1 i>er inch
for the first, and fifty e-nts for each subsequent
insertion. Advertisers desiring larger space for a
longer time than one month will receive a liberal
deductiori’from regular rates.
All bills due upon the first appearance of the ad
vertisement, and will be presented at the pleasure
of the proprietor. Transient advertisements from
unknown parties must be paid for in advance.
BROWN BRO’S
BANKERS, BROKERS
AND COLLECTION AGENTS
HAINESVILLE, GA.
REFERENCES— HaNOVEB NATIONAL BANK, N.
Y., Moore, Jenkins & Co. N. Y., G. W
Williams & Co., Charleston, S. C..—any
op the Atlanta Banks. marls-tt
MILLINERY GOODS!
Mrs. 11. N. 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 desi.e to plea-.e and the low prices
at which she will sell goods. Look for the
fancy hat as a sign, last house as you go
down Main street to the college.
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11. W. .1. HAM,
Attorney at Law,
GAINESVILLE, GA.
'Jflice in Henderson <fc Candler Building,
East Side Public Square
F\ M. NEWMAN,
Physician and Surgeon,
Flowery Brandi, Grit-
Office, first door above Barrett’s store.
Will attend calls at a distance from relia
ble parties. (febl3 Gm
THE CLINARD HOUSE.
-A-TZEZEINTS, O-A..
To the Public—l take this method of
returning thanks to my numerous customers
for their liberal patronage during my long
proprietorship of the Newton Hours, in
Athens. On the 31st of December my pro
prietorship of the Newton House will oeaee,
at which time I will open the Clinard Sense,
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. CLINARD.
Athens, Ga., Dec. 9, 1879. —l9 ti
NATIONALHOTEL,
ATLANTA. GA.
Rates, $2 per Day;
SPECIAL UATES
For longer Time
The NATIONAL, being renovated and
refurnished, offers superior inducements to
the traveling public. E. T. WHITE,
mar7 Aeent, Proprietor.
E. T. BROWN,
Attorney at
ATHENS, GA.
OFFICE IN HUNNICUT BLOCK,
OVER CHAS. STERN & CO.
References by Permission:
Anderson, Starr & Go., New York; Citi
zens’ Bank of Georgia, Atlanta; Judge H.
K. McKay, Atlanta; F. Phinizy, Athens.
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Northeastern Railroad.
Cliange of ScliccluJ e».
Supbrintendent’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 3 50 p m
Arrive at Lula 620 “
Arrive at Atlanta, via Air-Line K. R 10 30 ••
Leave Atlanta, via Air-Line R. R 330 “
Leave Lula 7 4»i ••
Arrive at Athens io 00
The above trains also connect closely at Lula with
northern bound trains on A. L. R. B. on Wednes
days and Saturdays the following additional trains
will be run f
Leave Athens 6 45 a m
Arrive at Lula 845 «<
Leave Lula. 920 “
Arrive at Athens 11 3J «•
This train connects closely at Lula for Atlanta,
making the trip to Atlanta only four hours and
forty-five minutes. J. M. EDWARDS, Bupt.
ATLANTA 4 CHARLOTTE A. L R. IL
t'UANUE OF SCHEDULE.
On and after December 20th double aaily trains
will run on this road as follows:
MORNING TRAIN.
Leave Atlanta :.. 4 00 a m
Arrive Charlotte 3 20pm
•* Air-Line Junction 330 '•
•• Danville 951 ••
“ Lynchburg 12 37 ni't
“ Washington 7 50 a m
“ Baltimore 9 30 ••
•• Philadelphia 1 30 and 1 45 p ui
“ New York 345 and 445 “
•* Wilmington, N. C. (nrxt day) 9 50 a m
“ Richmond 743 •*
EVENING TRAIN.
Leave Atlanta 3 3o p m
Arrive Charlotte 3 20 a in
" Air-Line Junction 389 “
•• Danville lO 22 “
•• Lynchburg 153pia
■* Richmond 4 43 **
“ Wa-hlngton 955 ••
“ Baltimore 11 55 **
•* Philadelphia 3 35am
•• New York 645 ••
GOING EAST,
Night Mail and Passenger train.
Arrive Gainesville 5:30 p m
Leave “ 5:51 “
Day Passenger train
Arrive " • 6 :13 a in
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 a m
Leave *■ ——• 9:21 “
Day Passenger train.
Arrive “ - B;lspm
Leave •• B:l6'*
Local Freight and Accommodation uain.
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.
PAT ENTS.
F. A. Lehmann, Solicitor of Americas
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 mads
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 haa
saved his life. _
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