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BKLLTON, G A., SEPTEMBER 18, IWR
Comptroller General Gohhmith,
How upon trial for impeachment, sent
his resignation to the Governor, last
Monday, but it was not accepted, and
we suppose the Senate will go on
with the trial.
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The Atlanta dailies have heen filled ,
tip for several days with majority and
minority reports. We don’t have the
time to read them, but suppose there
is something ‘Totten in Denmark.”
We can almost smell the stench way
up here in the mountains.
Gov. Robinson is the nominee, of
the regular oipupiwd democracy of
New York, wMle the Tammany ring,
as bolters from the party have entered
John Kelly in the field. This of course
will greatly strengthen the republi
can ticket.
The latest news from Maine shows
a failure, on the pnrt of the people, to
elect Ihtvis republican candidate for
Governor, by from three to five hun
dred votes. This gives the election
to the Legislature, which has a repub
lican majority on joint ballot of 37.
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Prof. Tice predicts that the hottest
spell of weather is yet to come. But
Prof. Gather, of Alabama, predicts
that frost may be looked for about
this time in high latitudes, and about
the 24t1> installt in the Southern States.
One of these prophets will miss it
badly.
It seems that tire Republican con
greMriopal campaign committee at.
Washington is not as well satisfied
witb the results in Maine and Califor
nia. and the prospect In Ohio as it
pretends tn be, and has made a de
mand fltar more money from the de
partment clerks.
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We have examined Col. Redwine’s
minority report, dissenting from the
majority on the Treasurer’s inves
tigation, and think this is one of the
times when the Colonel has “let his
foot slip.” How he could have ar
rived at the conclusion he did from
the testimony, as printed, is beyond
our capacity to understand.
The legitimate result of the repeal
of the duty on quinine is now being
felt in a substantial manner. At first
home manufacturers refused to supply
the market, except at a higher price,
but the imports increasing, the price
of the drug has fallen twenty-five
cents per ounce,and will undoubtedly
go yet lower.
The crop reports to the Depart
ment of Agriculture for August show
that for cotjon the general average is
85 against 91 the month previous. A
decline is shown in all the cotton
States except Arkansas and Tennes
see. The average condition of the
tobacco and corn < tops is somewhat
better than it was one year ago.
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Whatever may be the end of the
investigations now under way in At
lanta, one. of the results, we think,
will be a ‘shaking up’ of the ‘dry
bones’ in the political camp. To bor
row the idea of our old Dutch friend,
<’apt. Keener, of Rabun,‘dose Kurd’s
doosc need shoofling,’ and justice to
all parties, makes a new' ‘deal’ neces
sary.—Northeastern Progress.
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What would have been said of
Samuel J. Tilden, by the Democratic
party, if he bad been inaugurated
President of the United States, and
had appointed all bis cabinet, officers
from the city of New York? Kirk
wood is smaller somewhat than New
York, and still Gov. Colquitt found
all his secretaries in hiwown village.
Is a man a “sore-head” because he
refers to this matter? We put. this
question to the Colquitt organs, and
would like to have a reply.
The Constitution, in begging the
Legislature to keep off of Treasurer
Renfroe’s bones, with an impeach
ment. reviewed all the testimony
except that part relating to the effort
made to “swap” the deposit of the
States’ money In the coffers of the
Georgia Railroad nnd Banking Com
pany, for a position on the road for a
friend. Col.’Redwine also forget this
matter in his minority report. The
Constitution and Mr. Redwine will
have, to “pick their Hints and come
again.”
Much controversy has been lately
indulged in whether or not any train
has made a mile n minute. The mat
ter was put to a test a few days ago
on the Pennsylvania Railroad, and
the. unprecedented time of a mile in
fifty seconds was made. This is the
record of three miles: First mile,
fifty-four seconds; second mile, fifty
two seconds; third mile, fifty seconds
-y-making the three miles in two miu
utes and thirty-six seconds.
NORTHEAST GEORGIA FAIR AND
STOCK ASSOCIATION.
The people of Northeast Georgia
owe it to themselves to patronize
everything in their injdst calculated
to build up and develop their section. !
The Northeast Georgia Fair and Stock
Association is an up-country institu
tion; run by up-country men, and de
serves the undivided patronage of the
up-country folks.
The fair opens in Athens, October
7th. and is to continue four days.
The inside machinery is divided into
fourteen departments, each one pre
sided over by a competent superin
tendent, and aa a consequence, every
thing taken to the fair for exhibition .
w ill be placed in its appropriate j
apartment without the confusion that
is usually seen at such entertain-1
ments.
The racing will be fine, as several
large purses are offered for the fastest 1
nags. ,
Everything that can be done to
make the visitors to the Athens fair
comfortable, will be done, for the
people, of Athens are known far and
wide as princes in this line. Ample)
accommodations will be prepared for
everybody and his wife, and all the
stock that may be carried to Athens
fair week, and we hope to see every-1
body avail themselves of this oppor-;
tunity to visit Athens this fall.
| From ti e Athens Watchman.]
The work of improvement at the
Fair grounds goes rapidly on.
Tom Bowling, Snider, Blonde
Keene, and other fast horses, are
driven over the track every morning.
Billy Hollman is bound to win some
of the big purses.
The lady making the largest num
ber of entries, that is, exhibiting the
greatest number of articles, will be ,
presented with a handsome toilet set.
A scientific balloon man, from St. 1
Louis, has contracted with the Fair
Association to make two ascensions
during the fair, having only a trapeze
bar for support, and will perform
many wonderful feats in midair. Such '
as hanging by one hand, hanging by '
his toes, hanging by the back of his
neck, and turning on the horizontal
bar.
The little girl, under 13 years of
age, making the greatest number of
entries, will receive a handsome writ
ing desk.
Let all of our citizens, not only in
this vicinity, hut throughout North-'
east Georgia, help the fair. Each
family can send something, and every
little helps. ’|
Let every farmer bring in his fine
stock. Specimens of corn, cotton,
hay, fodder, fruits, vegetables, etc. I
Let the housewife bring in butter, I
pickles, preserves, breads, cakes, i
plain and ornamental sewing, flowers, •
etc. Premiums are offered for all
these articles.
Send and get a premium list, and
see what each can send for exhibition
at the fair.
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The Republican party is in a mi
nority in the State on the fullest vole
ever given. Their average majority
upon a full vote has been eighteen
thousand until last year. In iB6O it i
reached twenty-seven thousand. The
present year bitt for the vote that has ,
been directly purchased with money .
this party would have been defeated
by a majority of at least fifteen thou- i
sand. In the history of elections i
there has never been such open,
shameless, bribery of voters. The j
amount of money expended in pur
chasing votes was simply enormous.
Instances are known where one hun
dred dollars was paid to a single voter.
The price averaged from five dollars
upwind to an amount sufficient to se
cure the vote. Thc safety of elective
governments demands that this whole
sale bribery shall be arrested. This
should be made the leading issue in
future elections until an honest result
is received. A victory purchased by
such means should cover its partici
pants with shame.—Maine Standard.
Mrs. Gertrude Thomas, of Augusta,
recently published a letter expressing
kind and generous sentiments towards
Mr. Davis, which has elicited a letter
of thanks from him, in which he says :
"Fidelity is the characteristic of your
sex, and they have always most man
ifested it in their adherence to the.
fallen. 1 trust your son Jeff, will be I
a comfort and stay to you in declining
years, ami that the Father may give I
to you and yours the blessing which
is His to bestow, is the earnest prayer
of your friend.”
The receipt* of cotton at all the
United States ports, from September
Ist, 1878, to September Ist, 1879,
were 4,447,276; overland shipments, |
474.255; Southern consumption. 152,-
000, and the total crop for the year
amounts to 5,073,531 bales.
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Diphtheria has begun the rounds.
MR. TILDEN.
The people have been accustomed
to regard Mr. Tilden as a timid states
man, and we have shared in that opi
nion until his recent action at Syra
cuse, N. Y., in deliberately kicking
. out Tammany Hall and its 50,000
Democratic voters, because he be
lieved them influenced entirely by
corrupt motives. That was an act of
'as sublime moral heroism as that of
I Old Hickory Jackson, when he took
i Nick Biddle by the throat, swearing
by the eternal that there should be
no compromise, but that either the
Unit’d States Dank or Andrew Jack
son—one or the other—should come
to the ground dead. Mr. T. has thus
staked all his political fortunes on
the election of Robinson as Governor
of New York; but while we cannot
withhold our admiration for his bold
ness, we are not prepared to say much
for his discretion. Wellington said that
the greatest military man the world
ever produced.committed a fatal blun
der in forcing a Collison at Waterloo,
and we think the great New Yorker
has committed one that may nut,
even if the “coup de elat” should
prove successful, enure to his per
sonal benefit; and if it should end in
disaster, would consign him to a
political St. Helena.
There is no doubt that the great
} IlcinocratlC party of the country de
sired a compromise of the discordant
elements in New York, not only be
cause it is necessary to the grand
triumph of 1880, but because the
effect of disintegration there now
will unquestionably jeopardize Mr.
i Ewing’s success in Ohio. Should
i Ewing, therefore, be beaten, even if
Robinson shall succeed, it will no
i doubt alienate thousands of’ Western
i Democrats from Mr. Tilden, should
I he. receive the nomination for the
I Presidency.
But the Rubicon is passed—and we
confess to some fears for the result,
••ven although “we carry t'tesar.”
One of the “South Carolina mer
: < hants” of Bellton, who went to At
lanta, last week, writes a very inter
esting and humorous letter for The
North Georgian, but we have not the
time, nor the space to print it, but will
I give the concluding paragraph :
“I was then beset (?) by our very
worthy Senator, Col. A. D. Candler,
and the only compromise I could
i make with him, was to go to the
Markman House, and take dinner,
and here we were joined by Mr. John
j N. Garrison, of Gillsville. I n<>d ffot
I say, when you consider the trio, that
full justice was done to the dinner.
II found Gol. Candler hard at work.
; and am satisfied that our Senatorial
| district is safe in his bands, and can
I further say no district in the State
boast a more honored representative
i than ours.”
A man named Bailes, confined in
jail at Athens, Ala., whose execution
| was to have taken place last Friday
I for the murder of his wife, but whose
sentence was suspended on an appeal
to the Supreme Court, was forcibly
I taken from prison Friday, and car
ried by a mob of three thousand peo
-1 pie to a point half a mile from the
jail, with the view of lynching him.
!No one would tie. the knot, and the
Sheriff, taking advantage of the inde
cision, drew his pistol, rescued Bailes
and drove back to jail with him, the
: crowd dispersing. An attempt was
i made to lynch him when he was first
! arrested, but was prevented with dis
: Acuity.
The Southern negro will again be
gin his exodus in the fall.it is said.
The cause is given as being his ina
bility to longer endure the oppression
of the Southern store-keeper and the
Southern planter. Still, if the colored
gentleman and his family is coming
; North with the false idea that he is to
have nn'ovation, and that Ute men
with whom he will deal are angels
lingering on earth to shower blessings
' on him, then he will be greatly mista
ken. If he immigrates he will have
to fight for a living with a vigor of
which he has not dreamed. lie must
be prepared to work like a white man,
not like a negro.—Chicago News.
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It is a fact not found in any Repub
lican pajjer, nor mentioned by any
Republican campaign speaker, that
there are more Union soldier em-
I ployes on the rolls of the present
' Democratic Congress, than were ever
borne on the rolls of any Republican
Congress. It is a fact which Republi
can journals and speakers studiously
i ignore, that the Union soldiers have
received more consideration and much
better treatment from Congress since
the Democracy gained control of the
House and took charge of the appro
priations, than were ever accorded
them during the long period of Re
publican rule.—Maine Standard.
We want money and must have it.
GEORGIA.
From the Immigrant Settler’s Stand
point.
A copy of this interesting manual
has accidentally fallen into our hands,
and we arc pleased with the intention
of the pamphlet, to-wit: to attract
immigrants to Georgia. There are
quite a number of letters in the book
from leading Northern men, and from
them we cull the follow ing in regard ,
to Banks-county:
“I was born in Northern Ohio; went
from there to North Carolina in 1873.
and came to Georgia in 1874. I am a
t physician,and have been well patron
ized and well treated since my resi
dence here. I believe lam the only
Northern man residing in Banks
: county, who came since 1865. I find
the climate delightful and healthy;
no malarial diseases; excellent free
stone water. People live here to an I
, extreme old age. One, man has died
j since my residence here aged 114,
■ years; and one woman, his wife, at .
'■ 108; also a colored woman at the age I
of 106 years; two others, said to be
about 100. and several are now living
nearly 100.
“The soil is well adapted to corn,
wheat, oats and cotton. The heat in
the summer is not so oppressive as at
i the North, and the winters are de
lightful. The inhabitants in the main
are honest, industrious and of tem
perate habits. Education is at a low
1 ebb. but efforts are being made for
i more and better schools. A man’s
j life and property are as safe here as
|in any part of the United States. ;
. Doors are seldom locked, and larceny
>is seldom heard of. I have never felt
[ that I was slighted or ostracised for j
being a yankee, but I believe in many j
: instances I have been treated with
more courtesy because of my nativity
; for the purpose of correcting any
wrong impression I have received.
; Wild land is held at from 82 to «10 i
per acre, and improved lands at from
! 87 to S2O. Farming pays as large a
1 per cent on investment as in any part
1 of the United States. Good mechanics, '
| especially blacksmiths, are needed;
; but most of all, experienced and well
; qualified teachers, male and female. :
Thomas Haydhn.”
We are glad to be able to publish
this letter, from a gentleman so well
posted and so well disposed as regards
: truth, as Dr. Hayden. He tells the
| unvarnished facts about Banks, and if
'■ h<‘ had added, “we want farmers as
j well as mechanics and school teach- ;
ers,” he would have hit the nail
square on the head.
Dr. Hayden is settled, we suppose,
for life, in Banks; has married here,
and is thoroughly identified with our
people. We wish we had a whole
brigade of such men in Banks, with I
i their families. They would add large- :
, ly to our population, detract nothing
; from th<‘ morals of the country, and
would do much m building up our
, waste places.
In the name and behalf of the peo- ■
pie of Banks, we invite all the North- ;
ern people in want of quiet, peaceful
; homes to Banks county, believing
■ that they will be suited and well
pleased with the country when they
| get here.
i Butler, it is reported, is pushing his
j canvass for the office of Governor of,
Massachusetts quietly but effectively.
It is said that quite a large number of
■ both parties who voted against him
last year are willing to support him
this year, not because they like him, '
I but because they believe that if he is
| allowed to be Governor once he will
■be satisfied, and will not trouble the
i State any further as far as politics is
concerned. They believe that if he is
beaten this year he will come to the
! front again next year, and so on until
; he is either elected or dies.
j DO WE BELIEVE TN WITCH CRAFT?
"I take the position that we do not.
in its broad sense, saida gentleman of
j years and experience, and yet we find
> many of the present day earn ing a
I Buckeye in their pocket thwlhgh a (
kind of superstition, when they might
! be relieved by a few applications of
Tabler’s Buckeye Pile Ointment.”
i This ointment is'made from the Buck- !
i eye. and is recommended for nothing
else but piles. Try it. It will cure von.
j Price 50 cents a bottle. For sale by-
Dr. 11. 8. Bradley, Gainesville, Ga. j
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Did anybody in the world’s history
ever hear of so much down right steal- |
I ing as has been go ng on in this State ’
, during the past six or seven years ? !
iO, for the good old times when peo-!
pie had common ways and bushels of
I honesty. To read the testimony that
is being elicited day after day in the
investigations at the Capitol, is enough
to bring the blush of shame to the
| cheek of every houest man iu Geor
gia.—Phonograph.
The day has come when Georgia
j blushes for its honor’s sake, and hon
est men demand that investigation
cease not till the whole truth is found,
and Georgia’s fair name is purified
from the contact of corrupt officials.—
Augusta News.
i Duluth received her first bale of
cotton last Thursday.
Now is the accepted time to pay up.
NEWH ITEMS.
The yellow fever at Memphis con
tinues about the same.
The colored people are building a
Presbyterian Church in Marietta.
Every watermelon should now be
accompanied by a pill or a coroner.
Last Saturday a negro king in Afri
ca liberated half a million of slaves.
i .
“No innocent man should be pun
ished—no guilty man should escape.”
The Atlanta Constitution will pub
lish its trade issue on the Ist of Octo
ber.
The wholesale merchants of Atlan-
■ ta transacted a heavy business last
week.
There are now thirty-seven rail
i roads in operation in Georgia, with
. 2,419 miles of railroad.
The Conyers Weekly raises the
name of Gen. L. J. Gartrcll for next
j Governor of Georgia.
Several crops of tobacco in Fleni
i ing, Kentucky, have been sold at one
hundred dollars per acre.
Miss Lucy Ware, of Winchester.
Kentucky, has raised over seven hun
dred chickens this year and is still
: raising.
The people of Georgia are now
' suffering from an overdose of the
fosiliferous remains of a defunct Con
i federacy.
There are four political parties in
California. The Republican, the Dem
ocratic, the Workingmen and the Con
stitutionalists.
A physician at Bloomington, Ind.,
is on trial for giving a fatal dose of
i morphine, to a patient. The indict-
I inent charges manslaughter.
The News says that the trade of
i Toccoa will be better this fall than
I ever, and merchants are laving in a
. large stock of goods in anticipation
i thereof.
The “colored exodus” agitators
j have issued a call for a conventiou of
those who favor that movement, to
i meet in Philadelphia on the 15th of
; October.
Exchange reports of the cotton crop
; makes out a good average. It is
thought that with seasonable weather
and a late frost a good crop may yet
j be made.
Reports from the Northwest say
; that the farmers of that region are
I preparing to plant another heavy crop
of fall wheat, relying upon (he foreign
I demand to sustain prices.
Mrs. J. Atzerotli has on her place
near Tampa Bay, Fla., two coffee
trees which are this year bearing fruit
for the first time. Southern Florida
may yet become a coffee producing
region.
■ The .Pittsburg Southern Railroad,
36 miles in length, has discarded the
telegraph and adopted the telephone—
; it. being found that the latter trans
mits the sound perfectly for the whole
, distance.
The court house question is the ab
j sorbing issue of the day in Jackson
I county. Tomorrow the people are
to vote whether or not bonds shall
be issued for the erection of a new
building.
It is said that the more thoughtful
Republicans of . Massachusetts fear
! that Butler will succeed in running in
' this year. His chances are said to be
. much better than last year when he
polled 110,000 votes.
Dr. 11. 11. Carlton has been elected
Captain of the Athens Guards. He
is a thorough military man, a born
! commander and is imbued with as
much earnestness and public spirit as
i any man in Georgia.
An old gentleman of Wilkes county
says that he noticed a heavy fog on
i the 4th of August, and is satisfied,
j from his observations for the last quar
ter of a century, that there will be a
■ heavy frost two months later, which
j would bring it on the 4th of October.
Ex-Congressman Eugene Hale is a
member elect to the Maine Legisla
ture from Ellsworth. He wiil be a
candidate for the United States Sen
ate to succeed Mr. Hamlin. Hale
was last year beaten for Congress by
a Greenbacker.
Colonel Hoover, of Hampton, S. C., j
has a tract of ten acres of land on
which he raised last year eleven bales ’
of cotton. From the same tract this |
year he has already gathered five I
bales, and expects to get in all ten 1
bales and over.
D. M. BREAKER, M. D.,
Phynieian, Surgeon and Accoucheur,
BELLTON, GEORGIA.
[£/*■ Female a Specialty,.m
YMF
FOP PARTICULARS SEE
JOE FOWLER.
niTTin Mi!
A LI. PERSONS LIVING WEST OF
.'I the Chattahoochee River, who desire
to have their cotton ginned at tuy gin. will
have free passage over iny bridge, coming
and going. Gin for the seed, or the got ft
,of cotton. Splendid house to store vour
, cotton in. Sixty-saw Gin -finest make in
tile world. Everybody gets their own
| seed. House, Engine and Gin brand new.
■ i .Peiudon
/ kN the Btli day of March, IB7S,
" “ passed an :u;t which gives a pension
to all soldiers of the war of 1812, who
served 14 days, or were in any engage
. inent, and to the surviving widows of
such soldiers, no matter when married.
Proof of loyalty nut required.
Also restoring to the Pension Rolls the
I names of all persons now surviving who
wen* pensioners lor service in the war of
1812. or any of the Indan wars, whose
■ names were stricken from the Pension
Rolls at commencement of the late war.
Proof of loyalty nut required.
j I am. provided with the necessary blanks
and will give special attention to these
t claims. M. W. RIDEN,
Attorney at Law ami l.’laim Ageut,
aug2l-tf Gainesville, Ga.
BIT Mil 111
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BRING ON YOKE •
Wheat and Rye!
I will pay the highest market price for
iiikl
/ J i
t To those indebted to me either by note or
account, or exchange goods at the
I.OH EST CASH PRICE.
I t ail and see me when you come to
j town, and get prices before bnvintr else
where. .1. N. COGGINS
.lutylT-rf Hellion. Ga.
ACTUAL BUSINESS?
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STUDENTS ON CHANGE AT
sSfiWO FOR CATALOGIfRif.
L/*<’ireulars mailed free to any address.
’ President
O. H? SIMPKINS?"
.1 r r o r.v e i’ j r l .4 ir,
HARMONY GROVB,
i
. JACKSON COUNTY, GEORGIA.
I CIAITHFUL ATTENTION given to
. , . < ollections and all other Business.
i < lients money never spent, but promptly
! forwarded. aprl7-6in
ii J[)HN M?FI NDLAY.
, lit I-sIIAV,
GAINESVILLE, GA.
W , JA., srive 1 ,r,,,1, P t attention to the
, ’’ J of Claims. Office with
[ ~.L B * ” S ** n - aprl7-3m
L. J. GARTRELT;
AT TOR NEY AT LAW,
> ATLANTA, GA.
| JRAt’TK’ES m the United States <;j r .
» ciut and District Courts at Atlanta
land the Supreme and Superior Courts of
j tlle St:ltc - mayls-tf
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fl >i’> capital risked. You can
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nW ever offered for those willing to
work. You should try nothing
else until you see for yourself what you
can do at the business we offer. No room
[to explain here. You can devote all your
time or only jour spare time to the busi
ness. and make great pay for every hour
that you work. Women make as much as
met:. Send for special private terms and
particulars, which we mail free. $5 outfit
free. Don’t complain of hard times while
you have such a chance. Adiiress.
H. Hallett & Co., Portland, Maine.
(bl Aw A A to S6<w a year, or $5 to S2O
tPAtZ W a .6a.y in your own locality.
No risk. Women do as
as men. Many make more than the
: stated. No one can fail to make money fast.
I Any one can do the work. Y"ou can make
■ from 50 cts to s 2 an hour by devoting your
evenings and spare time to the business. It
IP.?* 1 11!* 1 ! nothing to try the business. Nothin®;- ~
; like it for money making ever ottered be
fore. Business pleasant and strictly honor
able. Reader if yon want to know all about
the best paying bnsiwess before the public,
send us your address and we will send you
particulars and terms free ; samples worth
, to also tree; you can then make up vour
mind for vonrself. Address
George Stixson & Co., Portland. Maine