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BARNESVILLE, Ga.
practice in the countie
Y y comprising the Flint Judieia
Circuit, and in the Supreme Court of the
State. £ej“ Ollice over Drug Store of ,T.
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Filling and extracting a specialty. Would be
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from 20 to 25 years. Old roofs cun be patched and
coated, looking much belter, and lasting longer than
new shingles without the slate, for
One-Third the Cost of Itcshingliiig.
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(he cost of simply laying them. The paint is lire
proof against sparks of flying embers, as may be
easily tested by any one.
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beat, contracts by cold, and never cracks nor scales.
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■ my smootn surface, from two quarts to one gul-
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and gives anew substantial roof that will last for
years, dulred or warped shingles it brings to their
places, and keeps them there. It tills up all liolea
in Felt roofs, stops the leaks—and although a slow
dryer, rain does no l affect it a few hours after ap
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CHOCOLATE COLOR,
when first applied, changinging in about a month
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TIN ROOFS
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npial to five of any ordinaly paint. For
BRICK WALLS
hub bright nr i) is the only reliable Slate Paint ever
introduce l that will effectually prevent dampness
from penetrating and discoloring the plaster.
These paints are also largely used on out-houses
and fem es, or as a priming coat on tine buildings.
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and Orange.
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bun) rolls extra Kubber Hooting at 3 cents per
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Nails. Caps, and slate Paint for an entire new roof.
ut 4 p, cents per square foot.
-"o- 1 mils tl-p y Tain and Hooting Felt, at I’d cents
1t square foot.
''on roii- 3-ply Tarred Roofing Felt, at I'd cents
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VOL VIII.
1 i 10 S T A. IJ R ANT!
FROM AND AFTER THIS DATE
I. W. WHITEHURST
li ill take the greatest pleasure, in .serving the
Sq[iiai*est oi* Meals,
THE BEST THE MARKET CAE AFFORD,
To all who may honor him with their patronage.
Meals til till Hours
X>.y and Night.
BARNESVILLE, GA , Feb. 23d, 1877!
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1 1,1111 m n~rwiMT mmii iinimßHw—i
FURNITURE! FURNITURE!
CASTLEIHJRY & €.,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers,
-A. mcl Ma m. tdi ± e at, c* Ibhh.rer § oJI
COMMON, MEDIUM AND FINE
F X T R 3NT I X XT R K. .
$30,000 WORTH
Now in Our Two Stores —42 & 44 Whitehall Street, and
Corner Marietta and Peachtree Streets.
A N
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CHAMBER, PARLOR AND DINING-ROOM SKITS
hi Endless ]'uriety f
Manufactured in Atlanta, Ga !
OF TIIE BEST AMERICAN, ENGLISH AND FRENCH WALNUT.
Bed-room Setts complete, $25 00 ; Bed-room Setts complete, Walnut, $33 00 ; One-half Marble Setts
complete, Walnut, S4O 00 ; Full Marble Setts, ten pieces, SSO 00; Parlor Setts from SSO 1-0 to $l5O 00;
Bedsteads, 2 00—Mattresses, $3 00 to $5 00. We are running our
NTE AM FACTORY,
CORNER HARRIS AND BUTLER STREETS,
And propose manufacturing all the Furniture AT HOME. Encourage Home Industry, and give em
ployment to •• A oiu' KiTid,” No trouble to answer inquiries. Goods shipped lree of charge.
OAST LE BURY & ('().,
nov23-tf ATLANTA, GA.
Established 1356.
*£*?*••■,*A- c. V ,ai£sF*jC -*3 '
DART & REYNOLDS.
(A. A. WiKT.)
BUI LDE R S O F
Light Carriages
NEW HAVEN, CONN.
Manufacture work expressly for the SOUTHERN MARKET ,and
from long experience are thoroughly conversant with the requirements
of the country. The work itself used in every Southern State is its
own recommendation, and lenders a detailed description unnecessary.
We also manufacture the CELEBRATED
DEX r r E R
n
13 XJ gT ( i Y,
as exhibited at the Centennial, where it look the Gi- \NL) MEDAL
of HONOR. The best, easiest and most durable vein le in existence.
iFor liimUai’K. Ac., app.y as aSxmn
octo tf
CHAMBERLAIN BOYNTON & CO.,
(>( and OH Whitehall Street, Allas..;. €a.,
HAVE RF.CECIVED THEIIt SECOND STOCK TIILS-SEASON AND HA YE IN' THEIR DRY GOODS
DEPARTMENT ONE OF THE MOST COMPLETE STOCK - OF
Staple aiul Fancy Dry Goods,
BLACK AN D COLORED SILKS ANI > FI X E
DRESS G GODS AND LADI ES‘ OLG AKS
EVER OFFERED IN TIIE STATE. SAMPLES SENT TO ALL PARTS OF THE COUNTRY ON
' APPLICATION.
CARPETS NEVER SO CHEAP AS NOW !
N THElll CARPET DEPARTMENT THEY ARE NOW DISPLAYING AS F.L! MAX C A LINE OK
Carpets, Shades, Oil Cloths, Rugs, Wall Paper and
- DUSK-FURNISHING GOODS, AS CAN BE FOUND SOUTH OF PHILADELPHIA. LAMBRE
QUINS AND CORNICE MADE TO ORDER.
Call and examine, nr send orders to
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ovl6-3m ] 66 & 68 Whitehal St., Atlanta,Georgia..
RE YOU GOING TO PAINT?
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CHE MICAL PAIXT,
\nd save one thikp the cost OK painting, and get ft paint that Is much handsomer, and will last,
twice as lone- as any other paint. Is prepared ready for use in white or any color desired. Is
on many thousands of the finest buildings In the country, many of which have been painted six
ve us and now look as well as when first painted. Tills Chemical Paint has taken first i’kemi
!■ ms at twenty of the State Fares of the Union. Sample Card of Colors sent free. Address.
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Cleveland, Ohio. Jans-tf
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pamphlet of 100 pages, containing list of 3,000
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tiaing. mhclC-ly
THOMASTON. GA.. SATURDAY MORNING. MARCH 17, 1877.
Qt r 4 . F.>) i per day at home. Samples worth
Maine. mchlC-ly
Medical Dispensary.
Dr. Geo. AY. Marvin again ten**
ders his professional service to his
old friends and the public. Dispen
sary and consultation rooms, No. I
White hall street, in Centennial buiL
ding, Atlanta, Ga., where patients
can get reliable treatment for all
diseases of the Throat, Lungs and
Catarrh. The above diseases treated
by inhalation.
The Doctor treats all diseases of
long standing, such as Eruptions,
Gravel, Paralysis, Rheumatism, Go*
itry, Dropsy, Biliousness Diseases of
the Kidneys, Erysipelas, Nervous
Depression, Dyspepsia, Liver Com
plaint, all Diseas.es* peculiar to YY'o
men, all Private Diseases, Heart His
ease Swollen Joints, Coughs, Gout,
YVhite swelling, St, Y’itus Dance, etc.
Electricity‘applied in cases where
it is required. The Doctor is per
manently located, and persons who
hay c been under the treatment of otli
er physicians and have not been cur
ed, are invited to call, as he treats all
curable diseases, and cures gu&rnteed
or no pay. Call and see the Doctor
without delay. Ilis charges arc mo
derate, and consultation free. Ollice
hours from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
feb22-ly
THE FARMER'S WIFE.
The farmer came in from the field one
day ;
His languid step and his weary way,
His beaded brow, his sinewy hand,
All showed his work for the good of the
land ;
For he sows,
For he hoes,
And he mows,
All for the good of the land.
By the kitchen fire stood his patient wife,
Light of his home and joy of his life,
With face aglow and busy hand,
Preparing a meal for her household hand ;
For she must boil,
And she must broil,
And she must toil,
All for the good of the home.
The bright sun shines when the farmer
goes out ;
The birds sing sweet songs, land s frisk
about ;
The brook babbles softly in the glen,
While be works so bravely for the good of
men;
For be sows,
And he mows,
Aud be lioes,
For the good of the land.
How briskly the wife step almut within,
The dishes to wash, the m Ik to skim ;
The fire goes out, the flic Lu/.z about,
For the clear ones at home her heart is
kept stout ;
Theic are pics to make,
There is bread to hake,
And steps to take,
All for the sake of the home.
When the day is o’er and evening is come,
The creatures are fed, the milking done,
He takes his rest ’neath the old shade tree,
From the labor of the land his thoughts
are free ;
Though be sows,
And be hoes,
And he mows,
He rests from the work of the land.
But the faithful wife, from sun to sun,
Takes her burden up that’s never done ;
There is no rest, there is no play,
For the good of her house she must work
away ;
For to mend the frock,
And knit the sock,
And the cradle to rock,
All for the good of the home.
When autumn is here with its chilling
blast,
The farmer gathers his crop at last ;
His barns are full, his fields are bare ;
For the good of the land he ne’er hath
care,
While it blows,
And it snows,
Till winter goes,
He rests from the work of tlie land.
But the willing wife, till life's closing day,
Is the children’s guide, the liusban I s
stay ;
From day to day she lias done her best,
Until death alone can give Her rest;
For after the test,
Comes the rest,
Wltb the blest,
In the II avcnly father’s bon e.
■rniTTßTimnr-TiwiHMT"t •■jssjEa#
Col, W. L. McKiulev In his ad
dress of welcome to the Agricultu
ral Convention last week said among
other things the following :
“War and lire and whirl wind and
worse than all these combined the
unfortunate lien-law of 18GG, and
the revolutionary constitution for
the conquered, of 1808, have all pass
ed over us; but thank God'we still
survive, and now joyously hail you
Mr. President, and "you, gentlemen
of the Georgia State Agricultural
Society, as large contributors to our
deliverance. You have done a good
work already, but your task is hard
ly begun, and should never end.
The lien-law of 18GG and the consti
tution of 18G8, sowed discord among
the different classes of our people
and embittered our private life by
creating antagonism between our
farmers and merchants ; between our
creditors and debtors, producing op
pression on one side and fraud on
the other, and disaster for both.
These blind laws] separated between
chief friends, and made grievance
and enmity and cursing and wrath,
between merchant and laud-Holder
and farmer, where formerly all was
peace,and where naturally, all would
be kindness and good credit and con
fideuce. The well-established, fixed
citizen-merchant, is naturally the
righthand of the Georgia farmer;
and the farmer is the only great cus
tomer of the cotton-country mer
chant ; and there snould be no an
tagonism between them. Their pros
perity depends on mutual support of
each other. God and nature made
them friends, and wise men will not
j allow a bad constitution to make
them antagonists much longer. A
well regulated land-system, and a
fairly protected village commerce, is
j the great hope of Georgia Asa
J Georgia State Agricultural Society,
j the rules and tenure of our land
j system is your peculiar business-
Gornl farming cun never grow out
of had land laws, and had hud titles,
which, as at present in Georgia, make
estates mere temporary possessions,
and sell at sheriffs' salts the fee-sim
ple revision of the whole country for
a trifle, thereby ruining at once
both debtor and creditor, rnd devol
ving the lands of all Georgia into
new hands, to run over and over
again the same short, fatal round in
endless repetition. The present land
laws of Georgia, as altered by the
constitution of 18G8, and as con
strued by the Supreme Court of Geor
gia, are fatal to our future agricul
ture and are the greatest obstacle to
t his society.
And while it is your business to
guard the land laws and shape the
land system of the State, the mer
chants and bankers of Georgia ought,
by anew constitution, to be allowed
either the entire control, of a very
large influence in the control of the
internal commercial law system of
Georgia. The State revenue system,
the entire subject of taxes and fi
nance and banking and insurance,
and perhaps corporations too, ought
to lie committed to the practical
wisdom of enlightened merchants,
as a distinct permanent committee or
Branch of the Legislature, and the
great commercial matter of “credit
or and debtor’ought to be subject
to joint counsel of both merchant
and landholder. Miiledgeville and
the Farmers’ Club of Baldwin conn
tv, both look to you, the great land
holding council of Georgia, for wise
leadership and benign influence on
these matters of mutual interest.
And we gladly call public notice
to the fact,‘that while you, Mr. Presi
dent, a landholding farmer, are about
to retire as our presiding otlieers
that this State society of landholder,
has elected as your successor an em
inent and beloved citizen, who is dis
tinguished as a commercial man.
Tiiis is wise, and it is only by such
co-operation of classes that we can
ever quiet the ruinous, bitter con
flict. of private life between merchant
and farmer and landholder, and cred
itor,and debtor, which was created
by the empirical, evil constitution of
1868.
The Farmers, Club of Baldwin
county, are happy to report to you
that, following youradvice, the corn
cribs of our eouiiLv are all full, and
a bounteous cotton-crop rewarded
the last year’s labors of our people,
which has been promptly sold and
devoted to sustain our fanners’ cred
it. with the merchants, and our mer
chants’ credit with manufactures ami
wholesale traders of the cities ; and a
sense of beginning relief, is manilest
among our people. Peace and an
other good crop, or two, and an im
proved Constitution adjusting wisely
the relations of creditor and debtor,
and of land-holder and merchant, so
as to do justice to all, will make our
people as happy as human lot allows.
And akin S) that, in behalf of the
Farmers’Club of Baldwin county, I
beg Mr. President and gentlemen of
the Society, to invite your special
thought to an overlook, but one of
the greatest charms of Georgia, alike
for the farmer, the merchant, the
non-produeer, and the statesmen.
It is the capacity of Georgia to pro
duce forever two food crops a pear
on every acre. The empire of Japan,
situated partly in our latitude, and
raising cotton, silk, wheat amt rice,
on a settled territory but little larg
er than Georgia, supports thirty-three
millions of happy people. The se
cret lies in her perpetual sveeession
of food crops ; —growing all the tune,
crop after crop, the year round, on
almost all the land.
Ninety years ago, when Arthur
Young, the great farmer anti agri
cultural reformer of "England, trav
eled in France and got south of Par
is ho was amazed to lin<!, what he
had never before understood the great
secret whereby France, with inferior
tools and poor tillage, was able to
siij J ort thirty million of inhabitants
on a small territory. The secret
was the same as that of Japan ; two
food crops a year on every acre : a
winter crop of small grain, followed
in July by a crop of millet, or other
food-crop thus making for the French
farmer a second crop just as profi
tabie as the whole year s labor could
make for the farmer of colder Eng
land a second crop.
The statistics of suicides in this
citv for the past year show a total of
one hundred and fifty or nearly
enough to furnish the newspapers a
paragraph every other day the year
round. This is a gloomy record,
which the list of fifteen centenarians
who sensibly lived as long as they
could and appropriately died in our
hundredth year, may do something
to lighten. If the figures of the hit
ter list are to be relied on, we have
allowed some very old people to die
in this neighborhood without mak
ing them famous. —N. V. Tribune.
Two more Bishops.— The New
York Freeman’s Journal announces
that the Pope has appointed two new
bishops for the United States—Bev.
Dr. John Moor, of Charleston, S. C.
to be bishop of St. Augustine Fla.,
and the Dominican, Prior, Yingcs,
of Benicia, to be coadjutor of Bishop
O’Connell of Brass Valley, Califor
nia.
lion. Thomas Hardeman, in his
inaugural address to the State Agri
cultural Society, said :
I am not one of those who have
despaired of the State and predict an
uncertain future, for her increase in
all the elements of material great
ness, during a decade of years jus
tities the prophecy that, by a projie:
direction of our energies, a wise di
vision of onr labor and prudence hus
bandry of our economies, we will re
establish her upor a basis of perma
nent prosperity and greatness. And
to no industry do 1 more encoura
gingly look for this growth and pros
perity than to theonein whose inter
est you have^assembleck,to-day. It
is the Star in the East which is to
guide us to the Bethlehem of anew
Redeemer. Upon your success rests
my well grounded hope of future
prosperity. Intelligent agriculture,
supplying its own wants, relieving
its own necessities, cultivating its
soil, is the foundation stone upon
whim rests our social, commercial,
mechanical and nianiifjyituring inter
ests.
Personal.
Rutherford B. Hayes will be 55
years old the 4th of October, 181 7.
William A Wheeler is in lus 57th
year.
Samuel J. Tilden is in his 64th
year.
Thomas A. Hendricks will be 58
the 17th of September, 1877.
Ulysses S. Grant will !>e 55 the
27th of April, 1877.
Thomas W. Ferry, President pro
tom-pore of the American Senate,
will be 50 the Ist of June 1877.
Simon Cameron will be 78 the Bth
of March, 1877.
Hamilton Fish will be 00 the 3d of
August. 1877.
Oliver Perry Morton will be 54 the
•It'i of August, 1877.
George F. Edmunds was 41) the
14th of February, 1877.
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen will
he 00 the 41 h of August, 1877.
Allen G. 1 kurman will be 04 the
13th of .November, 1877.
Thomas F. Bayard will be 40 next
()ctober.
Moody has received a note asking
him to offer up prayers for “a young
married wife.”
The only appropriation bill which
failed in (ingress was the army bill.
The House insisted on its amend
ment, that the troops should not be
used to uphold the Packard govern
ment m Louisiana, and the Senate
refused to acede thereto. The dis
agreement was icported from the last
conference committee to the House
at 17 minutes before 12. Speaker
Randall interrupted the roll call vote
to deliver his valedictory, and then
adjourned the House without day.
There is a difference of opinion as to
whether this will necessitate an extra
session. Those who are supposed to
reflect President Hayes’ views say
that there will be no extra session
called, wliiie others say it is impos
sible for the government to proceed
without embarrassment unless one is
called. If an extra session is couvcn
ed it will not be before the middle of
May.
General Grant gave Fraudulent
Hayes a Stare Dinneron the sth inst.
The Washington Star says :
The state dining-room at the
White House never looked more in
viting than when arranged an .1 deco
rated on Saturday evening for the
state dinner. In front of the two
windows at either end of its southern
wall, palm trees in tubs were placed
as screens. A large azalea bush,
covered with pink blossoms, stood
in front of the central window. On
the white marble mantels, at cither
end of the room, were blooming
plants in pots, and trailing smilax
fringed the mantels. Festoons of
smi lax decorated the crystal chande
lier- hanging over the table, and the
same graceful vine extended from
the chandelier to the central orna
ment of the table. This ornament
was purchased by Mrs. Grant at the
Centennial for the White House.
It is of silver (of Gorham manufac-
| tore) and represents a single-masted
boat with a sale, and Hiawatha stan
ding in the stern grasping an oar.
The boat stands on a plate glass mir
for, representing a lake, on which
silver wates lilies float. This orna
ment stood in the center of the long
hor’zonta! mirror, which always is
placed through the center of the state
dining table. At either end of the
mirror were baskets of choice flow
ers, and at intervals, where the arch
ed wires rising from the frame of
the mirror met, a short distance
above its surface, boqnets were fas
tened. The wires were trimmed
with pink and yellow azalea blossoms
and smilax trailed along the frame
of the mirror. At each corner of
the table weio gilt vases with smi
lax. Choice bonnets were placed at
the plate of each guest.
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seventy-five thousand acres of land,
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fence, on which fifteen thousand
beeves per annum are fattened for
market. Her husband, who died
some years since, refused an offer of
*1 10,000 for one breed of bis stock,
which lias since been largely inereas
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Congress had *<J,OOO more than
they knew' what to do with, and they
bought with it Bartholdis beautilul
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NO 13.
Mr. Abram S. Hewithas resigned
the chairmanship of the National
1 hmocratie Committee.
The Washington Star says “the
city is full of burglars, pickpockets
and sneak thieves, and is likely to
he so for some time to come.” Yes
four more years at least.
The House receded from itsamend
ment to the legislative appropriation
bill, reducing the Preiaents salary
to 825,000 and the bill was jtassed-
So Haves gets 850,000 too.
Issue Friedlander, the Ban Franci
sco grain king, sold 16,C00 tons of
wheat from his farm last season, N r
which he received 8548,000 in gold.
The President lias determined up
on the prosecution of Don Piatt,
of the Capital, for libel, also for sed
itious writing, indictable under both
common and statutory law.
“The tread of sheep is golden
so says an old adage. It mav be ap
plied in the west to embrace all stock
They are constantly enriching the
soil upon which they feed. The
wise farmers pwill apply (lie remedy
before the soil is worn.
The Springfield Union, rep., calls
upon President Hayes to carry out
his civil service reform pledges faith
fully and snub the Office-seeking
swarm remorselessly. This expres
sion of opinion 7," ill heartily en
dorsed by the country.
Kemper county .Miss raises all
other centenarians out of their boots
with an Indian John Yon, otherwise
Istauiola, who has just died at the
age, of one hundred and thirty-three
He was not Washington's muse, but
body-servant of Washing on's father,
which is a refreshing r.ovelty.
Be cheerful, contented, and light
hearted. Always remember that
there arc others whose troubles are
greater than yours. In the family
circle show the sunny side of your
nature. Don’t go around complain
ing, miserable and unhappy. It is
too much like the uncomfortable
cust om of the ancient Egyptains, who
never gave a feast without a skele
ton in full view,.that they might not
forget their mortality.
By an old chance two lovers of
one woman met as convicts in the
Alabama state prison. One was'to
serve three years and the other live :
and the latter desired a compact l>y
which the former was not to take an
vantage of liis earlier freedom, but
to refrain from courting the woman
uncil both were at liberty. The
three-years* man refused to make any
such agreement, and was in conse
quence nearly murdered by the live
year’ man. The woman had alredy
married somebody else.
The Charleston News and Cour
ier says the following dispatch, was
sent to President Grant by the girls
of Summerville after they had been
made aware of his objections to a
military turn-out on Washington’s
birthday :
Summerville, S. C., February 22.
To His Excellency Ulyses S. Grant,
President of the Uir.tcd States
of America :
We wish to celebrate the birthday of
Washington by a candy-pulling.—
Can we do so without violating the
! spirit of your proclamation and the
; recent orders based thereon ?
Hewitt’s speech in the House ere
; ated a genuine feeling of excitement
After setting forth the great wrong,
as he alleged, done the democratic
party, lie ad vised acquiescence. Tin
area in front of the Speaker’s desk
| was tilled with excited members.—
Cate, of Wisconsin, ver/nmeh ex
! cited, asked Hewitt why the House
should allow a usurper to gain hi
seat. Hewitt replied because to rc
! sist will produce anarchy. Then
; Cate, with a tragic, sweep of his
right arm, said : ‘‘lt is cowardice
|to allow it. Yates, of N. J., lost
his Dead altogether. He didn't say
anything audible, tail assumed a
pugilistic attitude, gyrating his arms
! like an .agio’s wings on an upward
j flight. For a few minutes there was
quite a scene, and it required all the
i efforts of the Speaker to restore qui
et.
London Prt‘M on the Inaugural.
The Tini<* says the greater pari
i of it is of a character that might
have been welt received by men of
j all parties.
The Xews says of course general
principles do not help much to coo!
angry passions which have been seeth
ing for years, but there is a tine
i for the statement of principles as
well as of details, anti it is Out fair
that, as far as they go, the princi
ples President Hayes enunciates are
excellent.
Tiie Telegraph says : Mr. Hayes’
comments on the election ordeal,
which put such a severe strain on
the constitution, are such as become
a President who, from the moment
he takes the oath of office, should be
long to all parties. On the whole,
we do not imagine that even his can
did opponents will complain of the
tone and temper of an address which
deals with questions of the highest
moment, primarily to America and
indirectly to all tlie world. Mr.
Hayes speaks with the dignity and
frankness becoming the Chief Mag
istrate of a great people, and points
the way to ends which, if they can
be accomplished, will redound to his
honor and that of his country.