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EDITORIAL EAGLETS.
The New York Herald is sometimes
against and sometimes for Grant.
Judge Underwood, of Rome; Col.
J. S. Boynton, of Griffin; Major J.
• Ganahl, of Augusta, and Col. Willis
Hawkins, ol Americus, are proposed
as good men for Attorney- General.
Macon puts forward Hon. A. O.
> Bacon as her candidate to fill Gen.
Gordon’s seat in the United States
senate, and Columbus wants Judge
Martin J. Crawford for the same
place.
As the hot weather approaches,
the New York Sun takes occasion o
deliver a sensible temperance lecture
by discouraging the use .of fiery
liquors as well as the milder bever
'' ages.
An item of the Herald's Chicago
correspondence reads thus: “It is
something novel and rather refresh
ing to see coal black negroes in hotels
smoking, drinking, and swinging
canes. They are here en masse, and
drive about the streets in open car
riages ‘happy as the day is long.”’
A few of the Georgia editors are
* still taring their hair because of the
appointment of Ex-Gov. Brown to
the U. S. Senate. The disease seems
to be drifting into hypocondria.
Keep quiet gentleman, there is no
use of going into spasms about it,
for the people will ratify the act
‘whenever they get the chance.
To listen to a few of the amateur
journalists whose virtuous indigna
tion is so stirred on account of Gov.
Brown’s promotion, one would con
clude that the people were terribly
excited, when in truth everybody
except a few politicians and their
immediate friends are perfectly satis
fied, as they will demonstrate at the
proper time.
A Washington special to the World
of the Ist instant, says that Thomas
A. Edison was to day granted a
patent for a magnetic ore separator,
which allows magnetic and non
magnetic substances to fall together,
and then by magnetic attraction
alters or changes the trajectory of the
falling magnetic substances without
stopping its fall.
Who wouldn’t be a doctor and take
part in the various entertainment
" provided for t|ie Medical Association
this week?— New York World. Even
doctors require and deserve recrea
tion. They live laborious days and
nights, and we hope they will enjoy
their brief season of diversion as <
much as possible. New York is a i
good place to go for amusement. I
A few of our politicians who have ,
the burden of empire on their
shoulders, are very much disgruntled
because Gov. Colquitt did not advise
with them as to whom he should ap
point to the U. S. Senate. Suppose
the Governor had done so and had
followed the counsel of these wise
friends; how many Senators would
we now have ? Doubtless legions.
Richard B. Connolly, who was
v Controller under the Tweed Ring,
died in France the other day. He is
said to have stolen $8,000,000 and
absconded with the larger part of it.
He offered to compromise for S6OO,
000, but the offer was declined. He
is said to have had great remorse,
but did not make restitution. The
bulk of his stolen fortune was lost in
speculations.
A few days ago Senator Brown
succeeded in having the appropria
tion for the Savannah harbor in
creased from $65,000 to SIOO,OOO
and in getting $lO 000 for the Bruns
wick harbor. While the senator
was thus engaged some of the peo
> pie of those cities were employing
their leisure moments in abusing
Gov. Colquitt for appointing the ex-
Governor to a position where he
could serve his people.
It is reported in New York that
ex-Gov. Seymour will shortly come
out in a letter declaring in favor of
Mr. Bayard as the strongest demo
cratic candidate for his locality.
Mississippi, South Carolina and
North Carolina are said to be solid
for the Delaware senator, who will
secure the active co-operation of the I
delegates from his own State, and it'
is believed from Maryland and New
Jersey, as well as Massachusetts, and
a pari at least of the delegates from
\ Connecticut.
Here is one of many Chicaco char
acter sketches: “Down below, on the
first floor of the Pacific Hotel, the
secretary of the Washington Blaine
Club was at work on such of the
colored delegates as he could get in.
Many of them were sent for, and a
large proportion of these responded.
Os course the full effect of this work
can’t be known, but there is a feeling
of uneasiness among the Grant peo
ple, and they are freely charging
that a ‘bar’l’ has been opened for
* Blaine. They are dangerously near
the truth.’’
The Gainesville Eagle
VOL. XIV.
POPULAR SCIENCE NOTES.
It is stated that the soft bluestone
rock which underlies a wide part of
the prairie region of Texas is fully
six hundred feet thick in many
places.
In many parts of southern Eu
rope, a flour is made from chestnuts,
which is said not only to be cheaper,
but fully equally to wheat flour, in
the making of bread. A writer from
that country states that in some
places wheat flour and corn meal are
entirely superseded by this product,
which is very nourishing, and can be
saved two years or longer without
injury.
The largest grain elevator in the
world is being erected at Jersey
City, by the Pennsylvania railway
company. It is 145 feet wide, 200
feet long, and has a capacity for
storing 1,500,000 bushels of grain.
The building will have twenty-four
sets of elevating apparatuses for tak
ing grain from cars, and four “con
veyors” will run from the building to
the wharf for unloading canal boats
and loading ships.
In the excavations being made for
the widening of the bed of the Tiber,
many interesting archaelogical dis
coveries, in the way of Roman relics,
have recently been made. A perfect
statue of a Roman matron was found
a few weeks since, and close bv, an
other statue of Teberins, the latter
being broken in several places. Urns,
decorated with reliefs of fruits and
flowers, of fine workmanship, and
many other articles, unique and an
cient were also discovered.
According to Prof. Tyndall’s re
cent definition, the brain is the or
ganized register of infinitely numer
ous experiences received during the
evolution of life, or rather during
the evolution of that series of or
ganisms through which the human
organism has been reached; the
effect of the most uniform and fre
quent of these experiences has been
successfully bequeathed, principal
and interest, and have slowly mounted
to that high intelligence which lies
latent in the brain of the infant.
Prof. Prosdocismi, in an ancient
cemetery lately discovered, near the
town of Este, in Italy, has recently
dug up some of the finest prehistoric
remains ever discovered in that coun
try. Many years ago, the Romans
had rifled some of the tombs, but a
number of the places of interment
are yet undisturbed which contain
valuable stores of pottery and bronzes.
The modeling as well as the orna
mentation of the pottery recently
discovered is said to be very fine,
and great interest has been excited
by the figures or the bronzes.
The important work of connecting
the system of triangulation, covering
western Europe and northern Africa
has been successfully consumated, by
powerfv electric lights being placed
at a high elevation on mountains of
the British Islands, France, Spain
and Algeria. Thus these countries
have been united into one grand sys
tem of triangles, reaching from the
Sahara to the northermost of the
Shetland Islands, giving a meridian
arc of 27 degrees, the greatest hith
erto measured on the earth.
The result of experiments extend
ing through a period of two months,
on the influence of the electric light
on the growth of plants, has been
reported to the Royal society of
London. It is shown that plants do
not require any rest during the
twenty-tour hours, but that then
growth may be materially quickened
by giving them the benefit of the
electric light at night. A light equal
to 1,400 candles, at a distance of six
or seven feet from growing plants,
appeared to be equal in effect to
average daylight at this season of
the year.
A company has been established
in Newark, N. J., for the manufac
ture of a new product, intended to
substitute ivory, hard rubber and
kindred substances employed in the
manufacture of a variety of useful as
well as decorative articles. The new
article named “Bonsilate” is said to
be composed principally of finely
ground bone, which is agglutimated
by the addition of some cementing
compound. By the addition of va
rious coloring pigments, a variety of
, costly and decorative substances,
j such as cora., jet, malachite, colored
marbles and other stones can be
closely imitated with it.
It has been discovered that the
addition of a teaspoonful of borax to
each pint of starch used in starching
shirts, linen, dresses, etc., will ren
der muslin and all kinds of fabric,
even the most gauzy and inflamable
textures uninflamable, to such an
extent that they could not be made
to take fire and burn with a blaze.
Dr. Kedzie, of the State board of
health, of Michigan, in a recent ad
dress remarked that if cotton dresses
and underclothing of women and
children prepared by this simple
method, many distressing accidents
and frequent losses of life from the
accidental ignition of clothing might
be prevented.
Washington Correspondence.
[Special Correspondence of the Eagle.]
Washington, D. C., June 8,-1880
Senator Blaine made a remark in
the senate yesterday which was in
structive. Senator Morgan had ob
jected to the voting of nine or ten
millions for Rivers and Harbors
while the department estimates called
for only about half as much. Senator
Blaine defended the increased ap
propriation, and said the estimates
were based upon government recipts
when much less than now. It did
not occur to the senator, but will be
apt to occur to the average citizen,
when he pays taxes on almost every
article that enters into the expenses
of himself and family, that this man
ner of legislation—this voting away
maney, not because it was needed,
but because it can be wrung from
the people—is altogether vicious. If
the government taxes the people
more than is necessary it robs them.
That is the whole truth in a few
words. The only honest course is to
base taxation upon the absolute ne
cessities of the government. Esti
mates which Mr. Blaine so freely
admits will be made to fit any possi
ble condition of finances are hardly
a safe basis for legislation. After
the 4th of March next, when, in all
human probability, we will not only
have a democratic congress but a
democratic president, we will doubt
less have a change in this respect,
Washington was busy yesterday
in receiving dispatches from Chi
cago. The interest is hardly less
among democrats than among radi
cals. The opinion among democratic
congressmen seems to be that the
nomination of either Grant or Blaine
will make conservative success in
November certain—that is, if Cin
cinnati does not repeat the blunder
of Chicago by nominating a weak
candidate. The Post of this city
gives considerable space to the mer
its of Hon. W. R. Morrison, of Illi
nois. Ever since Mr. Morrison first
came to congress he has had the
entire confidence of all his democratic
associates, and the first word has yet
to be said against him by friend or
foe. He is a man whose chances, if
backed by his own State, are by no
means small.
At a conference yesterday between
Mr. Davis, ch urman of the senate
committee on appropriations, and
Mr. Wood, of the house ways and
neans committee, adjournment on
the 15th was shown to be practica
ble, and that day will probably be
fixed upon. Rex.
Wliy Don’t the Immigrants Go
South'?
Mr. Francis Fontaine, the Commis
sioner of Immigration for Georgia,
showed recently in The Sun what
great inducements that State offers
to new settlers. Yet, with immigra
tion going on at the rate of two
thousand a day, it is impossible for
him to get a score of domestic ser
vants for Georgia. The freshly
landed Germans, Scandinavians, En
glish, and Irish are crowding the
trains for the West, ten or fifteen
thousand proceeding thither weekly.
But it is hard to get a car load of
them for the South.
It is true that, as Mr- Fontaine
says, most immigrants buy tickets
before leaving Europe which carry
them to distant points in the West.
They come in companies organized
with a view of settlement in some
specific region in the far Western
States. Therefore it is useless to ap
proach them after their arrival with
inducements to make their homes
elsewhere.
Unquestionably it is a great advan
tage for them that they should em
bark for the New World with their
definite destination fixed in advance.
The organizations of recent years
for bringing over these companies of
foreigners, many of whom are neigh
bors, and placing them in prear
ranged settlements, are a decided
improvement on the old unsystema
tic way, when so many of the immi
grants crossed with only a general
idea of making for themselves hemes
somewhere in the republic. They
give to immigration the system it
needs, and benefit both thenewcomer
and ourselves. Though Castle Gar
den is now receiving a much larger
number of arrivals than ever before
in its history, its business proceeds
after an orderly fashion, and but a
few hours intervene between the
landing of the immigrants and the
continuance of their journey to the
West. They are thus protected
against the runners who once plun
dered them, and are no longer a
dazed crowd, without leadership or a
definite purpose..
But why do they not learn the ad
vantages of the South as a place for
settlement before they leave Europe ?
Why do they choose the West and
neglect the fertile South ? The
agents of Southern States can pre
sent inducements as well as the
agents who organize the companies
who go to lowa and Wisconsin, Min
nesota and Kansas; but why do they
find it so hard to get the intering
emigrants to listen to them ?
Undoubtedly Mr. Fontaine is
right in saying that Georgia and the
other Southern States are ready io
cordially receive immigrants. Os
course they want them, for the
amount of improved land throughout
the South which is seeking purchas
ers is enormous, and of unimproved
land there is a still greater supply.
The more good citizens are added to
the different States, the richer will
be those who are already there.
In Virginia, in Georgia, in North
Carolina, and in other Southern
States, there is also an abundance of
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING. JUNk 12, 1880.
mineral wealth which needs develop
ment. Moreover, an increasing pop
ulation will stimulate and require
the building of new railroads, and
the increase and improvement of or
dinary roads, which are now in a
bad state throughout the South. In
market gardening alone thousands of
Germans, who understand economi
cal agriculture, could speedily earn a
comfortable living in the many favor
able localities along the Atlantic
coast. This sort of farming has been
much developed since the war in
parts of Virginia, in South Carolina,
and Florida, but it can be profitably
extended much further. Along the
Gulf coast of Alabama there is an
admirable region for it. Florida is
now sending us a supply of early
vegetables, for which the demand is
large and steady, and its oranges
command a higher price than any
others. The profit from a Florida
orange grove when once it has been
brought into bearing is said to be
one of the best within the reach of
the agriculturist, and the cultivation
of oranges may be many times in
creased there and in Alabama with
out overstockin g the market.
We leave entirely out of considera
tion the grain and cotton crops of
the South, for what can be done w.th
them is well understood. If Texas
alone raised the crop of cotton it is
capable of producing, its yield would
equal the whole crop now produced
at the South.
And yet immigrants shun the
South. Mr. John Bright says it is
because the old temper of the people
continues to exist, and unquestiona
bly there is a feeling abroad that
this is the case. Immigrants are
afraid that they will not get hospit
able treatment at the South; that the
stigma slavery put upon labor will
stand in the way of their equality.
They hear from their friends in the
United States reports of the South
which make them avoid it. and they
have greater hopes of social as well
as material advancement in the
West. It is the old curse of slavery
that haunts the South, which is now
placed under the necessity of prov
ing its hospitality toward free labor,
and its disposition to give it the
place of honor it deserves.
Mr. Fontaine, we well know, speaks
only thetruth when be says that the
industrious immigrant is sure of prop
er consideration in Georgia; andthat
his chances of profitable employment
in that State and in other Southern
States are in many respects unequal
led at the West, is indisputable. A
farmer with a little capital has an
unexcelled opportunity there.
But the South has a prejudice
against it to conquer. When it has
once overcome that, the success of
the companies of settlers who will ar
rive will advertise its advantages to
many thousands more, and the line
of immigration will begin to pour
that way. Rapid immigration to the
South must take place before many
years, for nature has made it on some
accounts the most desirable part of
the country, and it is yet a thinly
peopled region.
SIEGE OF STAGE ISLAND BY
INDIANS IN 1690.
A Unring A<iventure-Nicholas Morey
the Hero.
Kennebunkport, situated on the
coast of Maine, about midway be
tween Portland and Portsmouth, is
one of the oldest towns in the state;
it was discovered by Gosnold in 1602,
and the first settlement was made in
1619, the year before the Pilgrims
landed at Plymouth. The town re
ceived successively the names Cape
Porpoise, then Arundel, and after
wards Kennebunkport. Its early
history is rich with romance, incident
and adventure, and affords abundant
material for the pen of the novelist
and story-teller. Among the many
acts of daring performed by the early
settlers, whose fame has as yet been
unsung, and an account of whose
deeds is as yet unwrittea the bravery
and self-sacrifice of Nicholas Morey,
shown at the siege of Stage Island,
challenges the admiration and
interest of every lover of true
heroism.
On the 7th of December 1689. war
was declared between England and
France, and to the great discomfiture
of the English colonists, who had
made sparse settlements along the
New England coast, North America
was made the theatre of the conflict.
The French with money and rum
easily incensed the Indians against
the settlers, and some of the blackest
deeds on record were perpetrated
upon the inoffensive whites. Governor
Andros visited the province of Maine
during the year and, with a view of
thwarting the designs of the enemy,
six-hundred men were stationed
along the coast at the different forts,
but after the return of the Governor
to Massachusetts, the forts soon
abandoned by the soldiers and left in
a defenseless condition. At this
time Cape Porpoise had quite a
thriving settlement. In common
with other towns a fortification had
been built on Stage Island, near the
mouth of the harbor, for the protec
tion of the settlers in time of danger.
Soon after the departure of the
garrison the inhabitants, fearing an
attack from the Indians, withdrew to
the fort as their only means of safety.
John Purmgton, one of the selectmen
and town clerk, was giyen the re
sponsible position of commander,
and the colonists had barely time to
repair to the Island before the fort
was besieged by the Indians. The
point of the Island on which the
fort was built was surrounded by
deep water, and the Indians, station
ing themselves on the narrow neck of
land which leads to the main part of
the island, between which and the
main land, the flats are entirely bare
at low water, —shut off every chance
of escape, as the inmates of the gar
gison had nothing but a small board
canoe, capable of carrying but one
man, one end of which was almost
entirely split off. The Indians kept
at a distance from the fort with the
intention of surprising them, or of
starving them out. The settlers had
nothing to defend themselves with
but muskets, and a very small quanti-
ty cf ammunition. Fearing lest the
Indians should surround the fort, and
for the purpose of concentrating t heir
fire, and saving as much ammunition
as possible, they withdrew to the
southern part of the island, which
was very natrow, in this way leaving
them exposed only on one side. Hsre
they remained until the situation be
came extremely critical; their provi
sions and ammunition were well nigh
exhausted, and, shut off from every
chance of escape, they bad nothing
to expect but captivity or death, as
nothing better could be looked for
from a cruel and blood-thirsty foe.
Nicholas Morey, who was lame in
consequence of having broken his
leg, remarked to his friends that “if
they remained there they could ex
pect nothing but captivity or death
and he would rather die in attempt
ing to rescue them than bo taken a
prisoner.’’ Accordingly he proposed
to sail to Portsmouth, some thirty
miles distant, and secure help. Al
though the attempt appeared to be
fool-hardy, and there was little pros
pect of his ever reaching Portsmouth
in safety, yet when night came on he
bade his friends good-bye and em
barked in the small canoe. One end
of the boat was broken, so he had to
sit in the other end to keep the
defective part out of water. Notwith
standing the weather was pleasant
there seemed to be little prospect of
his ever reaching Portsmouth, yet
encouraged by this hope the colonists
continued to defend themselves the
next day without provisions, until
the last charge of ammunition was
in their guns, and they bad to cut
their bullets to complete it. Night
approaching, deprived of ammunition
andjprovisions, being closely besieged
by a cruel and relentless enemy, their
condition was extremely trying.
Slight as was the prospect of relief,
they continued to look eagerly to
wards Portsmouth, when, late in the
afternoon, a small sail was seen bear
ing directly towards the Cape. Mr.
Morey had arrived safely in Ports
mouth and returned with this un
locked for help. When the sloop
came into the harber the crew dis
charged a small swivel at the Indians,
who immediately fled from the Island.
The inhabitants were taken on board
the sloop to Portsmouth, and did
not return to Cape Porpoise for ten
years.
The Kind of Literature to be
Placed Within the Reach of
Children.
Youth is the time in which charac
ter is moulded. Impressions received
in childhood last through all time
A little childs mind is like a sheet of
clean white paper, ever ready to re
ceive impressions, good or bad, as
circumstances or opportunity dictate
Those who have the care and
guidance of children cannot begin
too early to havo their minds stamped
with that which is pure and noble.
The stamping of these young minds,
it must be remembered, is indelible.
What a fearful thing to be an in
scriber of that which is evil on a
human soul without the power of
erasing it or checking its influence!
In this day of books, papers and
period’cals many of the youth of our
land form their ideas of that myste
rious life that is before them by read
ing whatever comes in their way.
What mistaken ideas of bfe are re
ceived from much of the literature of
the day? The young mind unableto
judge the true and good from the false
and evil, treasures it—takes it all in
—the wheat and the tares together.
Especially should the yellow-backed
literature and the highly colored ex
citing stories of many of our periodi
cals and newspapers be disapproved.
They poison the mind for good,
sound, instructive reading. After
reading “Buffalo Bill,” “The Scout,”
“The Noble Red Man,”etc, it is hard
to bring an active young mind down
from those dizzy heights of imagina
tion to the dull study of complex
fractions, laws of gravitation and
motion, laws of health, Latin, Greek,
grammar, etc. That such literature
does have a very bad and dangerous
influence on the young is very evident.
Many children every year, after read
ing those thrilling adventures and
glowing descriptions of the “golden
west” have become dissatisfied with
the tame and seemingly uneventful
school life and have left their homes
to seek their fortunes and follow their
hero. Most of these deluded fortune
hunters find their mistake and like
the prodigal return, but with the
taste for good reading impaired
Such literature should not be placed
within the reach of children. There
are plenty of good, useful books of
moral tone that are suitable, pleasing
and at the same time instructive.
History is now gotten up in such a
pleasant style that it is a source of
amusement as well as instructive to
read it. Abbott’s histories for the
young are very good. If novels must
be read, historical are preferable to
those whose chief merit seems to be
the excitement they may produce and
the false ideas of life they may create.
Every piece a child reads should con
tain a grain of truth, either moral,
philosophical, political or historical,
that it may spring up and bear some
fruit of usefulness. It»is quite im
portant, too, that the youth should
be conversant with the topics of the
day, which may be found in the
leading papers. Especially should
each one be posted on their own
home news, and nowhere can bo
found a sample of more good, moral,
interesting and instructive reading
than our own homo paper.
- • ♦w ♦
The Pottsville Chronicle says that
a Washington correspondent an
nounces the interesting fact that Mr
and Mrs. Hayes have been to Mount
Vernon and slept in General Wash
ingtou’s bed. That isn't the worst
thing they over did by a long shot.
Mr. and Mrs. Hayes have been sleep
ing in Samuel J. Tilden’s bed in the
White House for the last three years.
The marquis of Hartington is not
married, ami his father allows $500,-
000 a year to spend, and he will have
$2,000,000 a year by and by.
No Company or Good Com
pany.
This is a motto worthy of the at
tention of all, both young and old,
for human character is of such an
impressible nature as to be easily
affected by those with whom it comes
in contact. The fellowship of the
good is not only advisable, but desir
able for the young, whose aim should
always be to higher standards than
themselves. Direct personal inter
course with men and women of high
intelligence and refinement, and con
tact with those whose tendency and
inclination is good, never fails to
bring some happy effect and benefi
cial influence. Better far be alone
than in the society of low-minded
and impure, as even gazing upon de
based specimens of humanity, will in
time taint, as it familiarizes and
gradually assimilates the mind to
such a model.
The habits of those advanced in
life are rarely changed, then how ab
solutelv necessary is it to form good
ones when young, as then from sym
pathy, unknown to themselves they
gradually imitate and imbibe the
tone and style of their associates.
Such being the case too much case
cannot be taken in the selection of
companions, who will have a benefi
cial after influence on the charac
ter. The most pure and beautiful
admonitions and the best of rules,
with bad examples, avail nothing;
hence the great importance in the
choice of those who are to be with and
influence the young by contact and
examble. More genuine good abd
profit will be derived from even a
short contact with the intelligent and
educated, than from constant pour
ing over books. Contact imparts
either good or bad according to
whom it is with.— [Exchange-
Pronunciation.
A copy of Webster's Unabridged
Dictionary was offered at a teacher’s
institute in a neighboring State to
any teacher who would read the fol
lowing paragraph and pronounce
every word correctly, according to
Webster. No one succeeded in earn
ing the dictionary, although nine
teachers made the attempt:
“A sacriligious son of Relial, who
suffered from bloncbitis, having ex
hausted his finances, in order to
make good the deficit, resolved to al
ly himself to a comely, lenient and
docile young lady of the Malay and
Caucassian race. Ho accordingly
purchased a calliope and a coral
necklace of a chameleon hue, and
securing a suite of rooms at a prin
cipal hotel, he engaged the head wai
ter as a coadjutor. He then dis
patched a letter of the most excep
tional calligraphy extant, inviting
the young lady to a matinee. She
revolted at the idea, refused to con
sider herself sacriflcable to his de
sires, and sent a polite note of re
fusal; on receiving which, be pro
cured a carbine and a large bowie
knife, said that he would not now
forge fetters hymeneal with the
queen, went to an isolated spot, se
vered his jugular vein, and discharg
ed the contents of bis carbine into
his cranium. The debris was re
moved by the coroner,’’
Democratic Doctrine.
“The majority rule,” —[Webster.
“A government of the people by,
the people and for the people.’’—
[Jefferson.
“The prime factor in any nation’s
prosperity is the welfare of its com
mon people,”—[Andrew Jackson,
“Tell my sons to support the con
stitution of the United States and
obey the laws of their country.”—
[Douglas.
“Abide by the law be it what it
may, subject to the decisions of the
ballot box and the judiciary.”—[Ben
ton.
“There is no instance of the errors
of a government being rectified by
those who adopt them.”—[Patrick
Henry, 1796.
“A people that has lost its regard
for its own rights so far as to submit
to its rulers taking bribes, is en
slaved.”— [Richard Price, 1776,
“We must shut the door against
corruption in that place where it is
most dangerous—the servant of the
people.”—[Edmund Randolph,
“It is from within, among your
selves, from cupidity, from corrup
tion, from disappointed ambition
and inordinate thirst for power, that
factions will be formed and liberty
endangered.” —[President Jackson’s
Farewell Address.
“To-day in Europe the revolt is
against the strong men and strong
governments and soldierly despo
tisms. In our own country, to their
shame be it said, there are men
base enough to insist that we
shall have that polity which
the people of Europe are spurning
from them with hatred and dis
gust.—[Louisville Courier Jour
nal.
The Russian educated classes are
now very proud of having a cyclope
dia of their own. Recently there ap
peared the sixteenth and last volume
of “The Russian Cyclopedic Diction
ary,” which is the work of a single
person, Prof. Berezin, who has been
engaged upon it for seven years, un
assisted by any scientific societies,
or by the Government. The Russian
cyclopedia costs fifty roubles.
Rhode Island has the following
statute: “All marriages between a
white person and a negro shall be
absolutely null and void; and the
person joining them in marriage
shall be subject to a penalty of $200.”
Samuel D. Dorrell, a full-blooded
negro, was lately married at Provi
dence to Ellen Carrington, a white
girl. The Rev. George B. Smith, who
performed the ceremony, is to be
prosecuted, in order to test the law.
Blaine is to have a telegraph line
into his house at Washington to keep
him informed of the doings of the
Chicago convention.
SMALL BITS
Os Various Kinds Carelessly Thrown
Together.
An Italian engeneer has invented
a steam bicycle: the boiler and ma
chinery are directly under the seat
of the rider.
It is thought that Keene, the New-
York speculator, has already nearly
doubled the $5,000,000 he brought
with him from California.
A city missionary was asked the
cause of his poverty. “Principally
because I have preached too much
without notes,” he said.
The human soul is like a bird that
is born in a cage. Nothing can
deprive it of its natural longings, or
obliterate the mysterious remem
brance of its heritage.
Senator Lamar has received a dis
patch from reliable parties who as
sure him that the vote of the Missis
sippi delegation will be cast for Sen
ator Bayard.
The Nicaraguan Congress has con
firmed the concessions recently
granted to the American company by
the President of the republic, for the
interoceanic ship canal across the
isthmus.
“Men often jump at conclusions,’’
says the proverb. So do doge. One
recently jumped at the conclusion of
a cat, which was sticking through
the opening of a partly closed door,
and created a great disturbance.
A wealthy manufacturer of conncc
ticut having built an elegant mansion
and wishing to take a second wife
said to his architect: “Which agrees
best with brick ami brown stone, a
brunette or a blonde?”
“Ladies and gentlemen,” said an
Irish manager to his audience of
three,”as there is nobody here, I’ll
dismiss you all. The performance
of this night will not be performed,
but will be repeated tomorrow even
ing."
The municipal authorities of Berlin
have under consideration a plan for
and elevated railroad across that
capital, to be worked by electricity,
and a special commission of engin
eers and architects have been com-,
missioned to report upon it.
A New York democratic politician
was recently much displeased with
the numbers of colored people in
Washington He said, “I want to
git out o’ this here country. I do. It
ain’t no place for a white man. I’m
agoin’ to Aisee < r Africa or some
other place where there ain’t no
niggers.”
The Philadelphia Tunes thinks it
a sad commentary on the L.berian
colonization scheme that the ship
which is about to take a load of negro
emigrants over from New Yoik Lad
to put out to sea ahead of time, in
order to keep her passengers from
jumping overboard and swimming
ashore.
M. Gustave Giret, a Frenchman,
has discovered a method of preserv
ing vine leaves for food, which he
has tried for two years. After being
preserved for several months the
leaves are in as good condition as
when fresh cut, and sheep and oxen
are said to be very fond of them as
food.
The state tax in Mississippi the
present year is three dollars on every
SI,OOO of assessed property. In 1874,
under radical rule, the state tax was
fourteen dollars on every SI,OOO of
assessed property—nearly five times
greater than it now is; and besides,
the assessed value of lands was
greater then than now
The seventeen year locust has
begun his pilgrimage, and is already
making its appearance in considerable
numbers in some of the southern
counties of Ohio. Its first recorded
appearance there was in 1795 It
appeared again in 1812, and this time
the great W on its wings was said to
stand for war. The next visitation
occurred in 1829, the next 1846, and
the last in 1863.
A Quaker had this for his motto.
It will do to paste up wheie we can
see it: “I expect to pass through
this world but once. Any good thing,
therefore, that I can do, or any kind
ness that I can show to any fellow
human being, let me do it now. Let
me not defer nor neglect it, for I
shall not pass this way again. ”
•
The water is diverted from the
Merrimac river, for the use of mills
at Lowell, Massachusetts, and at 6
o’clock is turned back again. Two
little boys weie fishing from a rock
in the rapids when the water came
thundering down. They climbed to
the highest point, where they were
just above the current. Efforts were
made to rescue them, but in vain,
and they were compelled to remain
on their perch all night. The danger
was that they would get asleep and
fall oft’, and to keep them awake their
parents and others built bon-fires on
the shore, sang camp meeting songs,
and told stories to them until morn
ing. .
Hartmann of Berlin is the animal
king of the world, and he collects
more wild beasts and supplies more
| menageries, probably, than any man
living. His anion s arc mostly col
lected by young students of zjology,
who enlist in amateur brigades un
der his command, or ' y trained hun
ters. A showman can get the great
serpents of the Andes and Amazon
cheaper from Hartmann than he can
from their native country, and the
same may be said of almost every
other species of wild animal.
The statistics of suicide in France
show that nearly 6,006 persons com
mitted suicide last year throughout
France, which gives a percentage
about double that of England; and
of these Paris had far more than her
legitimate proportion. The Pari
sian suicides stand to those of Lon
don in respect of numbers, as seven
or eight to one, distributed accord
i ing to age. The suicidal time of life
is still between twenty-one and forty.
Four men destroy themselves to one
woman.
Act ycrtisliig IX zxtes.
Legal advertisene nts charged seventy-five cents
per hundred words or fractio > thereof each inser
tion for the first four insertions, and thirty-five
cents for each subsequent insertion.
Transient advertising will he charged $1 i>er inch
for the first, and fifty cents for each Kutnsequent
insertion. Advertisers desiring larger space for a
longer time than one mouth will receive a lib< ral
deduction 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 frem
unknown parties must be paid for in advance.
NO. 24
BROWN BRO’S
BANKERS, BROKERS
AND COLLECTION AGENTS
GAINESVILLE, SA.
References— Hanover National Bank, -N.
Y., Moore, Jznkins & Co. N. ¥., G. W
Williams Co., Charleston, S. C., —ant
ie the Atlanta Banks. irarls-tf
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 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 Jeske to please 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.
nov7 ly
11. W. .1. HAM,
Attorney at Law,
GAINESVILLE, GA.
Office in Henderson <fc Candler Building,
East Side Public Square
F. NT. > EAV NI A.IV,
Physician and Surgeon,
Flowery Branch., 0.-<-
Office, first door above Barrett’s store.
Will attend calls at a distance from relia
ble parties. (feb!3 6m
THE CLINARD 110 VS E,
A.THEXS, 0.A...
To the Public—l take this mctLod of
returning thanks to my numerous customers
fir their liberal patronage during my long
proprietorship of the Newton Bousti, in
Athens. On the 31st of December my pro
prietorship of the Newton House will cease,
at which time I will open the Clinard House,
pleasantly located on Clayton streel, 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, pledgio t mywelf
to do all in my power for their comfort, etc.
A. D. CLINARD.
Athens, Ga., Dec. 9, 1879. —l2 ts
NATIONAL HOTEL.
ATLANTA, GA.
Rates, $2 per Day;
SVIXIAA RATES
ITox* long’ev Time
The NATIONAL, being renovated and
refurnished, offers superior inducements to
the traveling public. E. T. WHITE,
hh*f7 Agent, Proprietor.
e. t. brown,
Attorney sit
ATHENS, GA.
OFFICE IN HUNNICUT BLOCK,
OVER CHAS. STERN A CO.
References by Permission :
Anderson, Starr & Co., New York; Citi
zens’ Bank of Georgia, Atlanta; Judge H.
K. McKay, Atlanta; F. Phinizy, Athens.
nov2B 1 y
Northeastern Uailr oa d.
CliitiLgo of Schedule.
Superintendent’s Office, |
Athens, Ga., May 2s, 1879. J
On and alter Monday, October 6, 1879, trains on
the Northeastern Railroad will run as follows. All
trains daily except Sunday:
I,eave Athens.... 4 05 p m
Arrive at Lula 620 “
Arrive at Atlanta, via Air-Line R. R 10 30 ••
Leave Atlanta, via Air-Line R. K 330 “
Leave Lula 746 “
Arrive at Athens 10 oo “
The above trains also connect closely at Lula with
northern bound trains on A. L. R. R. Ou Wednes
days and Saturdays the following additional trains
will be run:
Leave Athene (5 45 a in
Arrive at Lula 845 “
Leave Lula. 920 “
Arrive at Athens 11SJ “
This train connects closely at Lula for Atlanta,
making the trip to Atlanta only four hours and
forty-five minutes.
Passengers from Georgia Railroad have ample
time for transfer at Athens, thereby making ctuse
connection to all the Summer Resorts of North
Georgia. J. M. EDWARDS, Supt.
ATLANTA & CILUUOTTE A. L. IL IL
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
On and after December 20th double aaiiy trains
will run on this road as follows:
MORNING TRAIN.
Leave Atlanta 4 00 a in
Arrive Charlotte 3 20pm
•• Air-Line Junction 330 ••
“ Danville 951 “
Lynchburg 12 37 ni’t
“ Washington 7 50 ant
“ Baltimore 930 •*
“ Philadelphia 130 and 145 pm
“ New York 345 and 445 ••
“ Wilmington, N. C. (nrxt day) 9 50 a tn
“ Richmond 743 •
EVENING TRAIN.
Leave Atlanta 3 30 p m
Arrive Charlotte 3 20 a ai
“ Air-Line Junction 330 “
“ Danville 10 22 ••
•• Lynchburg 153 p m
'• Richmond 443 •*
“ Wallington.... 95» “
“ Baltimore 11 55 “
“ Philadelphia 3 35 am
“ New York 645 ■*
GOING EAST,
Night Mail and Passenger train.
Arrive Gainesville 5:50 pm
Leave “ ..................•..... 5:51 “
Day Passenger train
Arrive " -a m
Leave “ .... 6:15"
Local Freight and Accommodation train.
Arrive Gainesville 11:10am
Leave “ 11:25 “
GOING WEST.
Night Mai! and Passenger train.
Arrive Gainesville 9:20 am
Leave “ —• 9:21 “
Day Pass 31'ger train.
Arrive “ B;lspm
Leave “ ....... 8:16 ••
Local Freight and Accommodation uahi. •
Arrive Gainesville 1:45 a m
Leave •* .t... 2:00“
Close connection at Atlanta fcr all points West
and at Charlotte for all pot ms East.
G. J. FOBEACRE, G. M.
W. J. HOUSTON, Gen. Pas. and Tkt Agt.
PJVTENTS~
F. A. Lehinaun, Solicitor of American
and Foreign Patents, W.i-hington, D. C.
All business connected with Patents, whether
before the Patent Office or the Courts,
promptly attended to. No charge mad a
unless a patent is secured. Send for circu
lar. (nov22 ts
One of our most estimable citizens may
be thankful for the introduction of Dr.
Bull’s Cough Syrnp, for its timely me has
saved his life.