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EDITORIAL EAGLETS.
Hancock, English, Bell and vic
tory.
The brass band bill and opposi
tion to democratic measures consti
tute Mr. Speer’s “record ?”
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Bear in mind that Tuesday next,
November the 2nd, is the election
for president and congressmen.
The South is formidable and
powerful because of her solidarity
Break that and she is weak indeed.
The Wilmington Star says the
democrats, and not the republicans,
will carry the two doubtful districts
of North Carolina.
It is more fun, says the Boston
Post, to see a Garfield man turn red
in the face and get mad and prance
round and swear when you say
“329” to him, than it is to go to a
circus.
New Orleans is threatened with a
Celestial invasion. Ten thousand
Chinamen are said to be planning e
descent upon the city from Cuba. An
agent recently has received orders
from twenty planters for laborers ol
this class.
M
Capt. James B. Eads, the projec
tor of the ship railroad across the
Isthmus of Darien, says that there
’is every prospect of the success oi
the scheme, and that if the work was
once started he could complete it
within three years.
The latest returns from West Vir
ginia show that the whole Democratic
State ticket has been elected by about
seventeen thousand majority. The
returns show a Democratic gain oi
2,237 from thirty seven count.es,while
fifteen counties are not yet heard
from. Gov. Mathew’s majority in
1876 was 12,729.
Reports from the democratic
headquarters are of the most cheer
ful and inspiring nature. Letters
received from everywhere show nc
despondency whatever, but on the
contrary a determination to push
the fight with redoubled energy.
Matters in New York Statu weie
never in better condition for a
grand democratic triumph in No
vember.
Ono hundred and forG c» vi n mem
bers conesitute a im.j.iitv of the
house of representative. Iu the pres
ent house the republicans have 130.
The democrats control the organiza
tions. In addition to the gains already
made the republicans must win six
more members to secure the prize.
They are making desperate efforts to
secure the remainder. The democrats
everywhere should give the cold
shoulder to independents, and work
and elect nominees. It is no year for
experiments.
The New York World announces
that it “will publish the name oi
every employer as to whom it learm
upon sufficent evidence that he is
using his power as an employer un
duly to influence the votes of hi 8
workmen.” “When,” continues the
IKorZiZ, “things cpmes to that pass in
this country that a man who employs
a thousand men can practically cast
one thousand and one votes, the
plutocracy will be established of
which Mr. Conkling is so anxious an
advocate, and civil liberty will be ex
tinct.”
When it was known that efforts
were being made by the republicans
to bring out W. T. Crane, of Haber
sham, ai a candidate of their own,
he was dissuaded from making the
race by Mr. Speer. Jack Brown, and
other republican office-holders. Mr.
Speer sought and had an interview
with Crane, at Mt. Airy, where he
told the latter that he was doing him
(Speer) great injustice in running;
that he had received the indorse
ment of his party. Jack Brown, a
radical office-holder at Washington,
wrote Crane to withdraw in the in
terest of Speer, as he was their man,
and popular at Washington. Hence
Crane withdrew, leaving Speer an
open field.
_
Mr. Speer, in endeavoring to
bolster up his failing cause, attempts
to induce the neople to believe that
he was of immense service to them
at Washington, and says that Col.
Bell never made a speech in their
defense while a member of congress.
Bell never did make any such
speech, ai d for the simple reason
that the people of this district were
not attacked upon the floor of con
gress, or elsewhere, while he was
their representative, and he had too
much sense to provoke a destructive
raid upon them by making, or even
having printed in the Record, a speech
calculated to injure his people, for
mere bumcombe or campaign clap
trap, as Speer did. This district
had not been attacked in congress by
anybody until Speer introduced his
resolution and provoked it, and the
consequences speak for themselves.
The Gainesville Eagle
VOL. XIV.
POPULAR SCIENCE NOTES.
An ancient boat, dating back to
the time of Rurik, has been un
earthed near the rapids of the Dnie
per, as have also immense quantities
of implements belonging to the
bronze and stone age.
Out of twenty-six successful candi
dates, at a recent examination for
admission to the British India medi
ca service, nine were natives of In
dia, one a Mohammedan from Oudh,
and one a Brahmin from Bengal.
The American Humane Associa
tion has postponed the time for
receiving modi Is and plans in com
petition for the prize of five thous
and dollars offered by the associa
tion for the most approved cattle
car, until January 1, 1881. The
prize offered is $5,000.
The localities of Sharpsburg, Mt,
Sterling, Owensville and intermedi
ate places in Kentucky were recently
visited by a veritable shower of large,
brown, oval-shaped bugs, resembling
beetles, and measuring about one
and one-half inches in Isngtb. They
were thought to be water beetles,
but where they came from is a mys
tery.
The Balloon Society of Great Bri
tain has accepted a challenge from
the Balloon Society of France in a
balloon jcontest during the present,
autumn. It has been decided that the
contest shall take place b ffween one
member of each nationality, and the
ascent be made from the Crystal
Palace.
The Howgate expedition to the
Arctic regions came to a close re
cently by the disabling of the ship
Gulnare, in a storm, and the Com
pany has returned to Newfoundland.
Dr. Pavy, the Naturalist, who ac
companied the expedition, remained
in Greenland to pursue his research
es in natural history.
A correspondent telegraphing from
Naples states that since the 4th inst.
Vesuvius has become more active
than for years. Projectiles are in
greater numbers and carried to a
greater height. A new flow of lava
has also issued from the side of tue
cave, flowing fortunately from the
railway to the North-east.
A Company has been formed in
New York Citv for the manufacture
of the Brush Electric Light, and has
already received many large orders
for lighting public parks, some of
the principal streets, and numerous
churches, halls and dwellings. This
•system of lighting is said to be very
successful, and is gradually taking
the place of gas in many places.
Some workmen while building a
?oad to Zea, and when near the Bay
of Zea, quite recently discovered
some ancient walls. The Archaeo
logical Society at once set to work
soon found that a theatre domi
nating the Bay, once stood on this
spot. The discovery is supposed to
be that of which Xenophon speaks,
ind is quite distant from the theatre
of Munychia,
In a recent ascent of Mt. Etna,
Prof. Silvestrie found as a result of
recent volcanic activity, the summit
has been lowered to the extent ol
twelve metres, so that its present
height above the sea level is 3,300
metres, and that the interior edge of
the crater which was formerly 1,500
metres in circumference,is now 1,800.
A very large section of the mountain
on the east side has completely fallen
into the heart of the crater.
The committee sent out by the
Biblical Society of London,have thor
oughly examined the Papyrus man
uscript recently discovered in tho
cave of a hermit near Jerusalem,
and have come to the conclusion that
it is in reality the work of the great
Apostle, St. Peter. The owner has
refused an offer of SIOO,OOO, but the
Society has determined upon pur
chasing it eventually, if it can be
bought, no matter what the price
may be.
It has been learned that the com
■ mon milkweed which is found in al
most every part of the United
States, and which has heretofore
been considered only a cumberer of
the ground, may be put to many
valuable uses. From its floes, a fab
ric resembling Irish poplin has been
made; the seeds yield a fine oil; its
gum can l.e used in place of India
rubber, while the young ahoots may
be used in the spring instead of as
paragras, which they very much re
semble.
Decidedly the largest wheat fields
• tithe world are to be found in
Washington Territory and Califor
nia. The Flacklock Wheat Growing
Company of Washington Territory
has in cultivation 60,000 acres of
wheat land, and it is expected to
yield annually from 300,000 to 4Q0,-
000 bushels of grain. Dr. Hugh J.
Glenn, of California, owns a 65,000
acre field in Sacramento Valley,
which yields oyer half a million
bushels of excellent wheat each year.
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 29, 1880.
Returning to be Shot.
The execution of Chester Dixon,
convicted of murder at the last term
of the Circuit Court of the Choctaw
Nation, took place Friday at noon in
the presence of but a small number
o« people. Chester Dixon, the mur
derer, was a young full-blooded Choc
taw about 17 years of age. He was
subject to fits, during which he often
lost control of himself. He was,
aside from this malady, considered
rather a bright boy.
Dixon lived with his mother and
step-father about five miles from
Atoka. Their nearest neighbors were
an Indian known as Washington and
Martha, his wife. One afternoon
about a year ago Washington return
ed from Atoka, and found that a hor
rible murder had been committed.
The body of his wife lay on the floor
of his cabin in ghastly fragments. The
head was severed from the body, and
several terrible gashes had been in
flicted with an ax. The bloody in
strument of butchery lay beside the
bleeding victim. Tho alarm was
given and it was discovered that
Dixon was seen issuing from the
fatal house covered with blood. He
was arrested, but stoutly denied the
killing.
He was tried according to the
Choctaw law by a competent jury.
He was found guilty and sentenced
to be shot on September 10, at noon
He was allowed to go home from the
court room unrestrained except by
his parole of honor to be at the court
house at Atoka on the day appointed
for his execution. Choctaw laws pro
vide for no appeal else his case would
have been reconsidered, for after his
conviction he was attached with a fit (
which proved conclusively that he
was subject to temporary aberra
tions, during which, it is persumed,
be was irresponsible for his actions.
His attorney during the trial had not
made any such pie* and the sentence
)f death having been pronounced it
was unalterable.
On Thursday Dixon came to Atoka
with his step-father for the purpose
,of ordering his coffin. He had his
measure taken and gave the orders
for the disposition of his body with
out the least appearance of concern.
On Friday morning about 100 per
sons, most of them whites, gathered
ibout the court house to witness the
execution. Up to within half an
nour of the appointed time Dixon
bad not appea *ed, Our reporter ask
ed his companion whether there was
not some likelihood of the prisoner
breaking his parole.
‘•lf he is alive he will be here with
in ten minutes, just as sure as the
mn shines.”
Hardly had the words been spoken
when a murmer of “Here he comes,”
was heard on all sides, and there
rode up a young fellow, slight of
ouild, tall and straight, but rather
*wk ward in his movements. Alight
ing from his pony, the boy approach
id a little knot of blazing logs. With
out giving any attention to those
tround him he sat down by a stump,
xnd hanging down his head he seem
ed lost in meditation. Presently a
venerable old Indian approached the
ooy and spoke to him in the Choctaw
tongue, bidding him, as the interpre
ter said to meet his fate as become a
Ohoct’.w brave, to remember that
nothing but his life would atone for
the life he had taken,and not to make
the explanation grudgingly, but to
meet his death, feeling that his
people had done justice in condemn
ing him.
While the old man was talking,
Dixon held his head down, but at the
conclusion of the speech he looked
up, held out his and in the
hearty grasp he gave the old man’s
hand, seemed to imply that he would
nut filter, and he never did, through
out it all. Several men and women
then came up and shook hands with
him. He looked up at each one with
a glance of recognition, but never
spokelaword. At about 11:15 the
Sheriff, William Nelson, brought the
doomed boy an entire change of
clothing, which he put ou. While
Dixon was dressing for the grave,
‘Jager eyes watched his every motion,
to discover, if possible the least evi"
deuce of emotion, but he adjusted
every button without assign of tremor.
He then sat down ou a blanket while
his mother combed his hair.
The Sheriff then announced that
the time had come. Dixon arose and
walked to the spot pointed out by
the officer, and stood facing hits coffin
His step-father held his light hand,
bis cousin supporting him on the left.
The same old man who had spoken
to Dixon before now ma lea mark
with charcoal upon the boy’s breast,
just over the heart, and spoke a few
words of encouragement. The Sher
iff then bound a handkerchief over
Dixon’s eyes, commanded him to
kneel, and immediately thereafter
beckoned to a man who had until
then kept out of sight. This was
Abner Woods, a cousin of the con
demned. Dixon had chosen him to
do the shooting. Abner advanced,
and taking his position about five
paces from the boy, he levelled his
j Winchester rifle, took steady aim, and
fired.
The bail went to the mark. Almost
simultaneously with the report of th<
rifle Dixon fell forward, uttered i.
groan, and died without a struggle*
The mother of the dead took charge
of the remains, which were buried by
a few friends. The entire proceeding
passed off without the semblance
excitement. Everything was con
ducted properly and decorously. As
contrasted with the civilized mode of
punishment the Choctaw method is
more humane, more effective, and is
more likely to deter others from capi
tal offenses.
Population of the Earth.
The latest and most trustworthy
statistics of the population of the
earth have just been given to the
public by Herren, Behm and Wagner,
the distinguished German geogra
phers, whose work, published at ir
regular intervals, is everywhere ac
cepted as the highest authority on
this subject. From this we learn
that tho world is being peopled at
the encouraging rate of nearly a mil
lion a month. The total population
of the globe is now 1,455,923,000, or
16,778,000 greater than it was nine
teen months ago, when the authors
issued their last publication. The
announcement of this fact will doubt
less excite fresh alarm among the
disciples of Malthus wherever any
are to be found. Considerably more
than half of the people of the earth
are gathered in Asia. That country
is reported to have a of
834,707,000; Europe, 315,929,000;
Africa, 205,679,000; America, 95,495,-
500; Australia and Polynesia, 4,031.-
000, and the Polar regions—that is,
Greenland and Iceland—B2,ooo. Os
die principal countries of Europe
Germany is credited with 43,900,000
inhabitants; Austria and Hungary,
38,000,0001 France, 37,000,000;
Great Britain, 34,500,000, and the
entire Russian dominions about 88,-
000,000, of which nearly 66,000,00 are
in Russia proper. European, Turkey
has 8,866,000 people and Asiatic
Turkey 16,320,000. Os Asia’s popu
lation China, with all its dependen
cies, is reported to have 434,626,000;
Japan, 34,338.000 and British India
240,298,000, The United States con
tains more than half of the American
population. British North America
las 3,839.000, Mexico, 9,485,000, and
Brazil, the most populous of the
South American countries, 11,100,-
000. While the figures in this work
lave been taken from census and
ither official reports, whenever such
material was in existence as late as
the beginning of 1880, the authors
lave, of course, in many instances
oeen under the necessity of giving
estimates which, in the case of parts
Africa and Asia and some other re
gions, can be little more than guesses.
But the estimates have generally been
made with care and skill, and afford
he latest and best information to be
aad on the subject. The general ac
curacy of their computations is shown
by the fact that the authors give the
population of the United States at
48,500,000, exclusive of 300,000 In
iiaus. which is not much amiss for
*n estimate made without any aid
from the census of this year.—
Herald.
Mosaics.
The first autheunc account to be
found of any mosaic work in ancient
Rome is given us by Pliny, who says
shat Sylla caused some “stone-laid”
vork to be made; and from this and
otner sources of evidence we are
justified in assuming the time of its
introduction here to have been about
eighty years B. C. The date cor
responds with the destruction of
Corinth, when precious objects of all
kinds were carried to Rome, and
naturally created a wish in the minds
of the wealthy Romans to possess
mosaics as well as other luxurious
embellishments. A very learned
Italian writer has divided Roman
mosaics into four classes, namely:
tesselated and sectile, applied to
pavements generally; fictile and ver
miculated or pictorial, applied to
walls and vaults. Os these the tes
selated is probably the most ancient,
and consisted of small cubes of mar
ble, seldom averaging more than
three-quarters of an inch square,
worked by hand into s-uch geometri
cal figures as, when combined, would
best compose a larger figure equally
geometrical, but of course more in
tricate. It is probable that the first
colors used were black and white.
The best samples of this tesselated
work occur at Pompeii and at the
baths of Caracalla; but very fine
specimens Lave been found in this
country, The sectile or sliced work
was formed, some say, of the different
slices of marble of which figures and
ornaments were made; others hold
that these slices were never employed
to imitate figures or any actual sub
ject, but produced their effect solely
through the shape, color and vein of
the marbles which where contrasted.
It is believed that no piece of frag
ment of ancient sectile work imitat
ing a subject of any kind has yet been
found; and if it, had been sa employ-
ed we must have had examples a*
Pompeii, where the student may find
all varieties of mosaic pavement
known to either Greek or Roman.
The most noble specimen of sectile
work now extant is the splendid pave
ment of the Phantheon at Rome,
where the principal marbles are
arranged, each of great superficial
extent, of alternate rcund and square
slubs. The building of the Pantheon
was finished about thirty years before
the Christian era. This kind of work
require! the employment of costly
marbles, and no remains of it have
been discovered in any other country
than in Italy.
Money Won’t Do.
Money can secure so much, and
gives, in many directions, such free
dom to the will and so much of con
crete reality to the fancy that the
man who possesses it frets when he
perceives that his powers will in other
directions do so little. He feels like
a potentate whe is stopped by some
obstacle quite trilling,but immovable;
or a magician whose genius cannot
obey him, except to secure ends
which he is not just then seeking to
obtain. Money, for example, will
purchase alleviations from pain, skill
ed attendance, good advice, and soft
beds; but it will not purchase the
dismissal of pain itself. If you have
a cancer, millions are no help. A
millionaire may have a toothache, and
in that toothache he feels, on account
of his money which places all dentists
at his command, an additional pang.
“Here am I, who can buy all the help
there is, and of what use is that to
my pain ?” The sense that money
will add volition in so many ways
deepens the pain, when it is of the
kind in which money is powerless, as
it is in almost all serious questions
of health. The marquis of Stine i«
not the less aggrieved by his liability
to madness because ha is so very rich;
but the more aggrieved, as a man
who knows his awn strength to be
unusual, and finds it just sufficient.
The habitual complaint of the rich,
that money will not buy affection or
Happiness, or even immunity from
pain, has in it something of irritation
is well as of pathos, and springs of
ten from an inclination to contend,
as of one who is unjustly deprived of
something. The workers have need
to be solicitous about health, but it
is the rich who coddle themselves;
and the reason is not so much the
passion for comfort, as the additional
sense of the value of health, which
their inability to buy it with money
brings home to them more clearly
than to other men. A rich man who
wanted water, say in a ship-wreck,
and could not get it, would fuel in
nis riches, if he thought of them at
*ll, an addition to the pain of his de
spair; and there are wants nearly as
argent as water toward which money
gives just as little aid.
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Names of Countries.
The following countries, it is said,
were originally named by the Phoeni
cians, the greatest commercial people
in the world. The names, in the
Phoenician language signifying some
thing characteristic of the places
which they designate:
Europe signifies a country of white
complexion, so named because the in
habitants were a higher complexion
than those of Asia and Africa.
Asia signifies between, or in the
middle, from the fact that the geogra
phers placet? it between Europe and
Africa.
Africa signifies the of corn or
ears. It was celebrated for its abun
dance of corn and all sorts of grain.
Siberi signifies thirsty or dry—very
characteristic.
Spain, country of rabbits or conies,
ft was once so infested with these
animals that it sued Augusta for an
army to destroy them.
Italy, a country of pitch, from its
yielding great quantities of black<
pitch.
Calabria, also, for the same reason.
Gaul, modern France, signifies yel
low-haired, as yellow-haired charac
terized its inhabitants.
The English of Caledonia is a high
hill. This was a ragged mountainous
province in Scotland.
Hibernia, is utmost, or last habita
tion, for beyond this the Westward
Phoenicians never extended their voy
ages.
Britain, the country of tin, great
quantities being found on it and ad
jacent islands. The Greeks called it
Albion, which signifies in the Phoeni
cian tongue either white or high
mountains from the whiteness of its
shores or the high rocks on its west
ern coast
Corsico signifies a woody place.
Sardinia signifies the footsteps of
men, which it resembles.
Syracuse, bad favor, so called from
the unwholesome marsh on which it
stood.
Rhodes, serpents or dragons,which
. it produced in abundance.
( Sicily, the country of grapes.
Scylla, the whirpool of destruction,
i .Etna signifies a furnace, or dark
■ l or smoky.
Vanderbilt’s Cash.
Some one has made a very curious
calculation of what Mr. Vanderbilt
could do with his money. Mr. Van
derbilt’s income from his investment*
in four per cent, government bonds
is represented at $5,000 daily, which
is S4OB 25 per hour, $5 47 per minute,
or over five cents per second. Assum
ing that he is paid by the second, he
cannot possibly spend his money, as
he could not select his purchases and
lay down his money fast enough. Ht
could not throw it away; to pick it
up, cast, recover and cast again,
would take him two seconds, and it
he worked all through the twenty
four hours without rest, he could only
dispose of one-half of his income. By
living economically, saving up for
four years, he could, placing his five
cent pieces side by side, make a nickel
belt around the earth, or by convert
ing his savings into one cent pieces
and mounting them in a pile, he
could, in twenty years, erect a road
to the moon and have SSOO to invest
when he got there.
Should his amusement take a char
itable twist, he could, out of a years’
receipts, donate to every man, woman
aud child in the United States 25 cts.
and have money left over. Othei
vast possibilities occur to the glowing
fancy of the circulator. In one day
he could go to 8,000 different circuses,
eat 10,000 pints .of peanuts, drink
5,000 glasses of lemonade, and have
money left to get his boots blacked.
He can afford to have 500,000 shirts
washed in one day, and ou the day
of his death his income will buy ten
first-class funerals.— lthaca Journal.
Burdette and ike Windmill.
Speaking of myself reminds me of
the windmill. There used to be four.
There is only one left, and it don’t
kill itself with woak. If it ever runs
it must ruu in the night, like a police
man, because nobody ever sees it. I
have been on the island now nearly
two months, and I have never saen
the windmill turn a hand. Prof.
North assures me that he saw it grind
lome corn, and he showed me some
of the meal to prove it. But I think
bo must have bribed the keeper.
This mill was built in 1746, and I un
derstand the same old Portuguese
Has tended it all the time. He doesn’t
look to be 134 years old, but then
these Portuguese carry their age
wonderfully well, they tell me. In
my sketch I find I have made the
sails so long when they turn they will
lift the mill up from the ground and
walk away with it. Perhaps this is
reason the mill never runs. It may
oe my mistake. It is not an uncam
mon mistake for great artists to make.
Phidias, old Phid, of Phidville, Phid
county, made his sitting statute of
Jupiter—the old original Jupe, who
run a kind of community in Olympus
county, so large that if it had risen
to its feet it would have carried away
the roof of the temple in which it was
placed. But it never riz up, and this
windmill never goes, so Phidias and
[ —l should say, me and Phidias, are
ill right — Burlinglou Hawkeye.
A Good Shot.
We Yaceived from a correspondent
the following somewhat incoherent
account of a duel fought in his neigh
borhood. Some way or other we are
half in the dark about the result of
the duel in question, but we shall
leave the decision to our reader: A
duel was lately fought in Texas by
Alexander Shott and John S. Nott.
Nott was shot and Shott was not. In
this case it is better to be Shott than
Nott. There was a rumor that Nott
was not shot, Shott avows he shot
Nott, which proves either that the
’hot Shott shot at Nott was not shot,
or that Nott was shot notwithstand
ing. Circumstantial evidence is not
always good. It may be made to ap
pear on trial that the shot Shott shot
shot Nott or, as accidents with firo
ainas are frequent, it may be possible
that the shot Shott shot shot Shott
himself, when the whole affair would
resolve itself into its original ele
ments, and Shott would be shot, and
Nott would be not. We think, how
ever, that the shot Shott shot shot
not Shott, but Nott; anyway, it is
hard to tell who was shot.
A Beautiful Extract.
The glory of summer has gone by
—the beautiful greenness has be
come withered and dead. Were this
all, were there no associations of
moral desolation, faded hopes, hearts
withering in the bosom of the living,
connected with the decaying scenery
around us, we would not indulge in
a moment’s melancholy. The season
of flowers will come again; the
streams will flow graceful as before;
the trees will again toss their cum
brous heads of greenness to the sun
light and by mossy stone and wind
ing rivulet the coming blossoms will
start up at the bidding of their guar
dian. But the heart has no change
like that of nature; it has no returning
Spring time. Once blighted in its
hour of freshness, it bears forever the
mark of the spoiler. The dews of
affection may fall, and the gentle rain
of sympathy be lavished upon it, but
the stone root of blighted feeling will
never again waken into life, nor the
crushed flowers of hope blossom with
their wonted beauty.
SMALL BITS
O1 Various Kinds Carelessly Thrown
Together.
An eccentric but pious muu has
built a house on posts forty feet high,
at Plympton, Oregon, in order that
he may live nearer heaven.
One thousand more votes were cast
in Columbae, Ohio, than the censu*-
shows that there were male inhabi
tants over the age of 21 years.
Ice manufacturing machines have
been sent out to military posts in
Central Asia, to supply the Russian
troops with ice in hot weather.
In one German city, Breslau,
there are 3,000 people who do not
receive their correspondence until it
has been examined by the police.
Many New York dry goods firms
are using electric lights. One house
has twenty-two burners, and some ol
them are placed out doors as well at
within.
Bread made from whole wheat
soaked before being coarsely ground
is used in the French army. Ses
water used in the kneading is said to
add flavor.
Senator Wallace, of Pennsylvania,
says that the 70,000 soldiers who ser
ved under Hancock will vote for him
to a man and earn the state by 10,
000 majority.
The Oregon senate has passed the
constitutional amendment, in favor oi
woman suffrage, 21 to 9, and tbi
house by 32 to 27. Go west, young
woman, go west.
The devastation caused by rabbits
amounts in Australia to a serious
calamity. One large estate, which
formerly supported 30,000 sheep has
been abandoned on account of these
pests.
James Loomis, a negro of Salem,
Ohio, married a white and wealthy
Cleveland widow. On returning
with his bride be was received by a
jubilant precession of his colored
townsmen.
The giris who were to be confirmed
recently in St. John's Roman Catho
lic Church, Concord, were officially
informed beforehand by the B shop
that he would not lay his hands on
iny head that bore banged of frizzed
hair.
An elegant marble shaft, to be
erected as a mooument to the late
Albert Sidney Johnston, has arrived
from Italy, at Houston. Texas. The
monument was purchased with a
fund raised years ago by the ladies
jf Houston.
Nine states have voted since the
first of August, and the republicans
have made gains in one—lndiana.
Phis accounts for the noise they are
just not now making. They were
rfraid they would have nothing to
hurrah over.
Charles Talmadge, son of an ex
Mayor of Milwaukee, and recently
married to one of the most respected
young ladies in that city, has been
caught at burglary. He made a
practice of crawling through transom©
into business offices to steal.
Among the noteworthy objects in
the procession at the Baltimore cele
bration was the “Star Spangled Ban
ner,” the original flag that floated
above Fort McHenry upon the 13tb
and 14th of September, during its
uver memorable bombardment by
the British fleet.
Mr. and Mrs. Tinsley were divorc
ed years ago at Columbus. Ind. Both
made subsequent matrimonial ven
tures, he taking four wives in succes
sion, and she two busbands. At
length, both being free, they discus
sed their varied experience, admitted
that neither had been happy since
their parting, and finally were united-
Large quantities of cotton-aeed oil
have long been shipped from the
United States to Italy and other
European countries for mixing with
olive oil, and in some instances cot
ton-seed oil has been refined and
labeled, and sold as olire .oil, The
Italian government now proposes tn
prevent this by imposing a high daity
on cotton-seed oil.
The census makes it tolerably
clear that the Utah problem will
soon demand settlement. The Ter
ritory has increased in population
nearly seventy per cent, in the last
ten years. It now has a population
of 145,000, which is far greater than
the number required of other Terri
lories before admittance as States.
Yet the obstacle of ploygamy is still
in the way of Utah.
•
Many clergymen in this country
have lately received a circular from
a London dealer in second hand ser
mons. He offers sermons “litho
graphed in a bold, round hand;’’ so
that those who happen to see them
would suppose they were manuscript,
for twenty-five cents each, or twenty
dollars a hundred. He has a line of
cheaper sermons in print, at ten
cents apiece, warranted orthodox;
and others—a little more expensive
which have "a pleasantness, yet an
awful solemnity about them.
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NO. 47
H. W. -I. HAM,
Attorney at Law,
GAINESVILLE, GA.
Office in Henderson & Candler Building,
East Sid: Public Square-
aoBKBT NORBIS. LYMAN A. KSDWINS.
Norris & Redwine.
WHOLESALE
Fancy Goods and Notions
1 j North Pryor St., over Mcßride A Co
ATLANT i - GEORGIA
FRED. J. STILSON,
DEALER IN
WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY
Silverware, Ace.,
Wholesaler of Solid Cold & Plated Jewelry
All kinds of work done and satisfaction
guaranteed.
S 3 Whitehall St., - Atlanta, Gs.
octß-ly.
K. L. BOONE. JAMES E. WYLIE,
K. L. BOONE & CO.
Wholesale Grocers
—AND
Commission Merchants,
ST Cfc 511 Pearutree Street,
ATLANTA, GA.
aug C-ts.
DOCTOR WIIBHLUS.
Physician and Surgeou,
Late of Brooklyn, N- Y., and form
erly of Georgia, having permanently
located in Gainesville, offers his Pro
fessional services to the public.
Residence: Gainesville Hotel. Of
fice at the drugstore of Dr. E. E.
Dixon.
julyO-tf.
BROWN BRO’S
BANKERS, BROKERS
4ND GOLLECriOH AGENTS
GAINESVILLE, GA.
dEFERENCEB— HaNOVER NATIONAL BANK, N.
¥., Moobe, Jenkins & Co. N. Y., G. W
Vjlllamb & Co., Charleston, 8. 0.,— any
v the Atlanta Baekb. marlS-tf.
JP. STEVENS CO..
MANUFACTURERS of
FINE GOLI) AM) SILVER
WATCHES,
Factory: 34 Whitehall St.,
oct2. ATLANTA, GA.
MILLINERY GOODS!
Mrs. 11. IN. Ware
Begs leave to inform her friends and the
public generally that she has opened her
itore in her dwelling house on Main street,
text door to the college, on tha right hand
»s you go from the square. She hopes to
receive a liberal patronage, and to merit the
time by a desite to pleaee and the low prices
it which she will sell goods. Look for tho
fancy hat as a sign, last house as you go
down Main street to the college.
novTly
TREMONT HOUSE,
WASHINGTON, D. C.
This popular hotel has been entirely re
fitted, having accommodations for SOO
quests, and will continue to baths only
First-class house in the city at moderate
rates. Terms $2.50 per day.
F. P. HILL, Proprietor.
Free Omnibus at Depots.
nov22 ts
MY FLOWERS
—AND
| RIBBONS |
Comprise EVERYTHKG new
and desirable. I have also ready
for inspection, an EXTREMELY choice
selection of Pattern Hats and Bonnets.
My prices as usual, will be low. A call
from all is respects ully solicited.
Mrs. Mary Persona.
E. T. BROWN,
Attorney at
ATHENS, GA.
OFFICE IN HUN NICUT BLOCK,
OVER CHAS. STERN A CO.
Rwxnoks by PaufiMioN:
Anderson, Starr A Co., New York; Citi
zens’ Bank of Georgia, Atlanta; Judge H.
K. McKay, Atlanta; F. Phininy, Athens.
nov2B ly
E. Van Winkle,
MANUFACTURER OF
COTTON PRESSES
COTTON
GINS & FEEDERS,
Circular Saw-millt.
And all kinds of Mill work. 16 Foundry
street. Atlanta. Ga. ap4-ly
CHANGE OF FIRM.
Having this day purchased the entire in- "
serest of Mr. John T. Palmonr, in the Store
Houses, Merchandise, Notes, Aoeonnt, etc.,
in the Firm of R. Palmonr A Co , of this
place, said firm is this day dissolved. The
undersigned aril continne the General Mer
chandise business at the same place, under
firm name ot Palmour & Castleberry.
Hoping not only to receive a continuance
of the patronage so liberally bestowed upon
the old firm, but by close attention to busi
ness, to merit for the new firm additional
en< ouragement.
Verv respectfully.
B. PALMOUR H Z. T. CASTLEBERRY.
ocil-dOd.