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Betltaa, G«., November 4,1880.
To n»y person sending uh nix «üb
•criben and the money, the paper will
be neat gratin one year.
Garfield and Speer were elected,
and we ain’t happy. But Felton was
defeated in the 7th, and that is a little
consolation.
Tliere is too much vitality, too much
‘git up and git’ about this Republic to
allow it to go to smash merely because
we have to stand another fours years
of Republican administration At-
lanta Post-Appeal.
The election in South Carolina was
remarkably peaceable throughout the
entire State. The full accord between
the white and colored Democrats is
shown by the fact that the State in
which the colored population is
largely in the excess gives a majority
for Hancock of forty thousand.
When the negroes learn who is
responsible for the introduction of
African slaves into this country, they
Will begin to look with suspicion on
their New England friends. The
Radicals would not hesitate to re
establish slavery in this country, if
they thought they could thereby gain
even a temporary advantage.—Sparta
Ishmaelite.
We know of only one way to stop
people from carrying pistols, and that
is to fine everyone in Georgia,caught
carrying a concealed weapon, the sum
of one thousand dollars, or imprison
ment in the chnin-gang for ten years.
Frequently when men get in a pas
sion and are not armed, a small fisti
cuff settles the affair and that is the
end of it.—Sunday Phonograph.
In the near future an industry, says
a Northern paper, now in its incep
tion, will probably rise to a high
degree of importance in the moun
tain region of the South. We allude
to the production of mohair, which is
grown on the Angora goat, a native
of Asia Minor, and whose long and
wilky fleece has for ages furnished the
■ancients with some of their finest
fabrics, next to silk.
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R. 11. Biker, Esq., of the law firm
■of Price & Baker, of Dahlonega, will
be a candridatc before the Legislature
for Sidneitor General of the Blue
Ridge Circuit. It can be truly said
that Mr. Baker is altogether qualified
for the position, and if elected the
place will be filled by a sober man,
nnd the duties of the office will be
promptly, energetically ai*E faithful
ly performed by him.
Sunday last two strange young men ,
rode into town on two sorrel horses,
says the Gainesville Southron, and
offered to sell them to one of our
livery stable men for seventy-five
■dollars. Monday several men arrived
here from Carnesville after the boys,
for stealing the horses in Franklin
county. It is thought the thieves
went in the direction of Athens.—
Look out for them.
One thing about Garfield cannot be
■denied. Ho is one of the most scholar
ly of the Republican statesmen. He
is a mail of brains, culture and experi
ence. lie has too much judgment to
.endorse the designs and methods of
the ConkUng«Grant school of politi
cians,-and it now remains to be seen
whether lie will have the ftriuness to
refuse to bo led by that ambitious
pair.—Atlanta Post-Appeal.
Mr. George P. Woods, editor of the
Hawkinsville Dispatch, says he hopes
it will never be his misfortune to wit-'
•less another political campaign like
the one just ended. He says: “We
had as soon lie a sea captain in com
mand of a ship in a storm ns to be at
the head of a newspaper during a
tierce political campaign, in which
our friends are arrayed on opposite
tides, Not any more of It for us.”
Generals Hancock and McClellan
met Wednesday, the latter calling on
Gen. Hancock at Governor’s Island.
The meeting was hearty, and accord
ing to New York papers, the only
expressions referring to the political
defeat of the Presidential candidate
of the Democracy wore in the words
of greeting. General Hancock said:
•‘Well, Mac., I am glad to see you.”
To which the latter replied: “I am
sorry,” “lam sorry, too,” said Gen.
Hnncouk, “but only on account of the
people and the party.”
Prof. John T. Wilson, who has been
so long identified with the educational
Interests of Hall county, has been
pressed by his numerous friends to
make the race for Tax Receiver, at
the election in January, 1881. He
has consented and will make it ‘hot’
for his opponents. He is a ripe
scholar and is eminently qualified to
till that responsible position, lie is
growing in popular favor every day,
nnd the indications now are that he
will be triumphantly elected, and if
he is, the people of Hall can rest
assured that no errors will creep into
the tax digests during his term of
office. Give him a reusing vote.
THE ELECTION ON TUESDAY.
Hancock has been defeated, and
statesmanship, heroism, honesty and
purity repudiated.
Hancock carried the Southern States
and New Jersey, Nevada and Califor
nia—making 156 electoral votes. Had
the Democracy carried the State of
New York, Gen. Hancock’s triumph
would have been signal and complete,
and that he did not carry it is due sole
ly to the differences which existed in,
the Democratic factions of that State.
John Kelly, says the Savannah News,
with a shameless disregard for the
principles he has always blatantly
avowed, and with base treachery to
the party with which he has always
pretended to affiliate, to advance his
own selfish ends, deliberately, one
year ago, handed the State over to
Radicalism, although he knew that
during the Presidential contest then
approaching, the. election machinery
of the State would by his act be
placed in the hands of the enemies of
the Democratic party. This gave the
Radicals prestige ami power in the
State; but this is not the worst. The
greatly reduced vote cast for Hancock
in New York and Brooklyn, Tuesday,
is very suspicious, and indicates, as is
being freely charged and generally
believed, that despite Kelly’s numer
ous assertions of a desire for harmony
and unity in Democratic ranks, and his
determination to work for and witli
the party, he again proved a traitor,
and sold out his influence and follow
ing to the Radicals. We do not assert
that this is true, but his course in per
sisting in the nomination of Win. R.
Grace for Mayor, although he knew
that, by so doing, the religious issue
would be raised to the detriment of
the Democracy, is very significant,
and plainly shows that he was deter
mined to rule or ruin.”
Georgia gave Hancock about 40,000
majority, and elects eight Democrats
and only one Independent to Con
gress. Dr. Felton, Independent, who
believed that he carried the vote of
the Seventh district in his pockets,
has been defeated, which is a small
crumb of comfort.
The 47th congress will be close, but
the republicans will have control—
perhaps only two or three majority.
A correspondent, “Democrat of the
Old School,” in the Savannah News,
“takes a hopeful view of the political
situation, and derives consolation and
encouragement from defeat. His is
the true philosophy, and should be
adopted by all true Democrats. We
should remember that in politics, ns
in war, there arc worse disasters than
defeat. In the late contest with Radi
calism, the Democrats lost nothing of
the respect and confidence of the true
men of the country. No disgrace, no
dishonor, attaches to the party nor to
their standard bearer. Sectional pre
judice, falsehood, fraud and corrup
tion have again achieved a temporary
victory, but until we lose our confi
dence in republican institutions and
tlie fitness of the American people
for self-government, we will not de
spair of the ultimate triumph of
Democratic principles, the restora
tion of honest constitutional govern
ment, ami the return of the Demo
cratic party to power. Let us forget
the past and look hopefully and con
fidently to 1884.”
The session of the General Assem
bly, which convened Wednesday, says
the Constitution, gives no promise of
being an exciting one, but there will
be no hick of interest in its delibera
tions. The members will for some
days be beseigrd by the candidates
for sueh offices as the new constitu
tion has thrown into the Legislature :
but when these are disposed of the
proceedings will be marked by the
serenity which usually characterizes
legislative sessions. There Ls a cer
tain routine which custom seems to
have marked out, and with this the
General Assembly will gladly drift.
The most important matter before
the body will be the uncompleted
work of fitting the laws to the re
quirements of the new constitution.
Tlie next most important matter is
an intelligent effort to secure indus
trious foreign immigration. In this
direction, the General Assembly
would have only to supplement the
efforts which have already been made
by Mr. Francis Fontaine, but we
doubt not that the penny-wise and
pound-foolish policy which has been
the distinguishing feature of recent
Legislatures, will likewise character
ize the present one. If the General
Assembly will aid in carrying out
! Mr. Fontaine's plans, which are at
I once economical and judicious, there
will be no difficulty whatever in turn
ing the tide of healthy and desirable
immigration in this direction. There
is no necessity for any pledged or un
pledged statesman to invent a plan;
I all that need to be done is to supple
i meat Mr. Fontaine’s efforts with such
I modest aid as will add to the thrifty
; population of the State and hasten
the development of our material rc-
1 sources. There will also be a move
i ment made to revise the law estab-
I lishing the railroad commission, and
i there is also likely to be some diseus-
I siou in regard to the convict svstem.
RESPECT FOR THE LADIES.
If there is one thing more than any
other, which makes a Southern man
feel proud of iiis birth-place, it is that
he was born'in a section where the
male has profound regard for the
female sex. Up North, female worth,
and above all, virtue, is not prized so
highly as in the South. While Mrs.
Frank Leslie was traveling through
the South once and in correspondence
with the Weekly, said she had never
witnessed in the Nortli the universal
homage shown her sex as in the
South. Said she: “Why even the
common country lads, rough and un
couth, would gallantly lift their hats
to the maids as they passed in the
lane. Such a thing is unknown in our
part of tlie country.” Mrs. Leslie
was forcibly struck by the universal
politeness of our people of both races.
Every true Southern man has supreme
contempt for one of bis fellows who
will deliberately maltreat one of the
gentler sex for no cause. These
thoughts arc brought to our mind by
a recent occurrence in the Southern
part of the Slate, where a young man
who lays some claims to respectabil
ity, first robbed a pure, innocent girl
of her virtue, subsequently married
her. under protest, and then deserted
her. It is surely a matter of wonder
that these destroyers of innocence,
though dead to all the higher senti
ments of virtue and honor, are not
constrained by compassion and hu
manity. To bring sorrow, heartaches,
gloom, sadness, confusion, disgrace
and infamy into a happy family; to
wound the heart of a tender, doling
mother, and stain forever the life of a
poor, deluded, confiding, true-hearted
young woman with dishonor, are cir
cumstances one would think sufficient
to curb the most violent passion in a
heart the least susceptible of feeling.
We can’t help expressing our indigna
tion by saying that hell is too good a
place for such a villain. Atlanta
Sunday Phonograph.
In the New York Episcopal Con
vention, on Monday, the Rev. Dr.
Love, a colored clergyman, opposed
the policy of setting colored minis
ters over colored churches, and ap
pointing a colored Bishop to preside
over them. “What the blacks need,”
said the colored clergyman, “is a
closer contact with their white breth
ren; and every step made to set them
aside would have a tendency to turn
them from the church. I have never
visited a single district in the South
ern States,” he said further, “where
I have not seen that the work of
white pastors among the colored peo
ple was more effective than the work
of black clergymen.” Consequently,
when a resolution was offered provid
ing for the establishment of a theo
logical seminary for the education of
colored ministers, Rev. Dr. Goodwin,
of Pennsylvania, a white man, ob
jected strenuously to the recognition
by the church of the idea that whites
and blacks must be kept icparate in
schools for preparing men for the
ministry of Christ.
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A Constitution reporter interviewed
Supervisor Gatchell, in relation to the
recent census of Georgia, from which
we copy the following:
“I regard North Georgia as the
most favorable region in the South
for Northern immigration. The area
of the thirty counties of which I have
had supervision is 10,540 square miles,
exceeding that of the State of Ver
mont by about three hundred square
miles, with greater mineral wealth
and water power and superior aver
age fertility, with only 347,000 peo
ple. But the section, which, on ac
count of its remarkable salubrity, 1
have studied most, is a region which
includes the counties cut by the Air
Line road on the southwest and those
cut by the Marietta and North Geor
gia on the west, together with the
counties lying between, eighteen in
all. This region, of which the Chatta
hoochee ridge constitutes the south
east border, may be termed North
east Georgia in distinction from
Northwest Georgia, which lies be
tween it and Alabama.”
The vote for Governor has been
counted, which gives Colquitt 54,345
majority.
If cotton will only advance and
keep up at a good figure, matters are
not so very bad after all.
The “goober” market in Atlanta
shows a heavy advance in prices.
Legislators will have goobers.
Speer’s majority in Banks 91 ; Hall
116; Jackson 310. We have the vote
of only seven counties, so far. but it
is thought his majority will foot up
I 3,00 J.
The Legislature met and organized
ion Wednesday. Hon. A. O. Bacon,
| the Speaker of the old House, was re
i elected without opposition, and J. S.
| Boynton, of the 26th district, was
i elected President of the Senate. The
: usual swarm of candidates were on
hand. The Governor’s message was
i delivered to-day. It is a plain, prac
i tical and sensible message. Nothing
of interest has yet transpired.
THE DAWN OF A NEW ERA.
The centennial celebration of the
battle of King’s Mountain, on the 7th
of October, marks a new era in the
history of the American people. Its
key-note was sounded by Col. Thos.
Hardeman,'on the 21st of February
last, when the flag of the Union was
unfurled to the breeze, as, in his
grand and eloquent speech, he ut
tered: “While temple and court are
filled with holy incense, let a prayer
ascend to our fa hers’ God that the
s vord has forever been beaten into
the ploughshare and the spear into
the pruning hook; tliat States shall
not. lift up the sword against States,
neither shall they know war any
more, and that the reign of peace,
union nnd fraternity over these States
shall be as lasting as the stars in their
orbits—as eternal as the foundations
of the everlasting hills.”
The celebration was the culmina
tion of the hopes of the patriot and
lover of his race. Hearts have long
desired to witness sueh an event.—
Every one laboring for the onward
progress of Christianity and civiliza
tion hailed it with delight, as the
harbinger of days of peace, prosper
ity and plenty.
The first step towards inaugurating
the reign Os peace and fellowship was
taken when the International Sunday
school convention met in Atlanta in
1878. Ollier bodies followed suit, and
the people of the sections coming
together, as they learned more, of
each other, learned to love each
other, and the common rejoicing
over an event that paved the way to
the securing of their liberty, proves
that “peace has her victories no less
renowned than war,” and that once
more the people of this great country
are free from the slavery of interne
cine hate, and that henceforth, in all
this broad land, every one will feel
justly proud of bis country, and his
whole country. Binding the sections
together in one common band of
brotherhood of peace and good will,
let us embalm the memories of the
Centennial Association, ami all who
assisted them to make the celebra
tion a success, in our hearts, and gar
land their brows with immortal
wreaths of praise.—Headlight.
Under date of Atlanta, October
29th, the Railroad Commissioners
have issued an order in which they
state that in consequence of the ac
cumulation of cotton at that point
and elsewhere in the State, ami an
injurious blockade of freights antici
pated and now partially existing, the
railroad companies nro notified that
no avoidable blix-kade of freights will
be permitted, and that when sueh
blockades occur because of any ar
rangement existing between railroad
companies for distributing among
themselves for transportation, ac
cording to percentages, the cotton or
other freight offered for shipment,
such companies will be held account
able for damages arising from such
detention. The order further directs
railroads to remove cotton and other
freights when delivered for shipment,
to the extent of their facilities, with
out unnecessary delay, and without
I regard to any contract, express or
■ implied, exist among them
i selves in reference to the division and
i distribution of freights between the
respective companies.
>
Southern agricultural journals have
for many years been discussing the
merits of Lucerne, and all agree that
it ought to be extensively cult ivated
in. the Southern States. In the Gulf
Slates it remains green all winter; it
i» perennial; it does not exhaust the
soil, but adds to its fertility, drawing
its support chiefly from the subsoil
and the atmosphere, and it remains
green and thrifty in the severest
drouths. It produces bountiful crops,
and is valuable both for hay and
grass. It is a matter of surprise that
Southern farmers, in a climate which
is the home of Lucerne, should have
failed to give this valuable produc
tion so little attention.—Exchange.
NOTICE.
All persons owing us notes and ac
counts, due the first of November,
are requested to come forward ami
make prompt payment, if they ex
pect favors next year.
J. C. Qvilliax & Bros.
NOTICE.
All who arc indebted to me are
hereby requested to come forward
and settle at once. lam in need of
i money, and must have it.
J. B. Dillard, M. D.
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Attention, Wheat Sowers.
J. C. Quillian & Bros are unload
ing a car of tine Kentucky Seed
Wheat. Call early and get a supply.
It is going oft' like hot cakes.
Notice has been given that a bill
will be introduced into the present
Legislature to increase the liquor
license of Telfair county to five thou
sand dollars.
The Reporter says that the trade of
LaGrange has not been injured in the
least by tlie prohibition ordinance,
but. on the contrary, i- improving.
New Store,
AND FRESH GOODS,
r r v r r ii je pk i c i<: s-* :
J. H. HUGGINS,
HAVING COMPLETED HIS STORE AT LULA, GA.,
C. W. ASBURY, Superintendent,
Begs to inform the citizens of Banks, Hall, White, Habersham and
adjoining counties, that he is now offering them the best stock of
Assorted Merchandise,
North of the Air Line Railroad, consisting in part of Staple Dry Goods,
Shining. Sheeting, Drilling, Bleaching, Etc. Also Bools, Suocs, Hats and
Leather. .
Youths' and Mens’ Readymade Clothing a specialty—new styles and
new goods.
G ROC ERY DEP A RTMENT.
Bacon, Sugnr, Coffee, Flour. Salt, Molasses, Lard—in fact, everything
in the Grocery line. Crockery, Glassware, Lamps, Etc. Also, a good line
of Hardware and Cutlery.
We guarantee to sell as low as can be bought cither in Atlanta or
Athene. Call ami he conrinced.
TERMS—XTIIICTLY CASH*OH BARTER.
All kinds of Barter taken in exchange for goods.
Special inducements offered to merchants who buy by th-- package.
Mr. Eugeni- P. Garrison, of Gillsville, is with us, and will be pleased to
see all his friends, and especially the ladies.
CJ. W. ANBUKY’,
Superintendent J. 11. Huggins’ New Store, Lula. Ga.
GRAND ANNOUNCEMENT I
J. C. QUILLIAN & BROTHERS
ARE NOW DAILY RECEIVING THEIR LARGE AND WELL
SELECTED STOCK OF
fill nn urn bus,
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Which were purchased in the Eastern markets, by one of the firm, from the.
leading Wholesale Houses and Manufacturers of the country, and they are
offering them to the public at |
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They have enlarged their Store, making it one hundred and nine feet
deep, which enables them to store away and exhibit one of the Largest
Stocks of Goods ever brought to Northeast Georgia.
Having been in the Mercantile Business for nine years in this section,
and commencing at the bottom, they have, with energy and perseverance,
run their business up to Forty Thousand Dollars per year.
M it li their experience and the large amount of goods they buy, they are.
enabled to sell as low as any house north of Atlanta.
They keep on hand a large variety of
Ladies’ Dress Goods and Prints,
LADIES’ WATER ERODE GOODS,
CASSI.VERES, JEAXS, READYMADE C LOT 111 XG. Sil llt TI XL’S,
DRILLIXGS, KERSEYS. FLAXXELS, ETC.
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They have in store a large assortment of Children's Shoes, and Ladies’
Fine nnd Coarse Shoes—al) sold at the lowest prices.
GROCERIES AND HARDWARE,
SADDLES AND BRIDLES.
A large lot of CROCKERY, bought direct from the pottery.
Also, Glassware, Lamps, Etc. A large lot of
UedstoHds iukl Chn i I‘k.
They have one of the best Flouring Mills in the country, and manufac
ture their Flour from Kentucky wheat, shipped in bulk, and therefore they
cannot be undersold.
Always on hand a fine supply of Flour, Meal and Bran—for sale at the
store or at the mill.
They have for sale a car of Kentucky seed wheat. Call and buy, and
improve tlie grade of wheat.
Their Steam Cotton Gin is in first-class order, and entire satisfaction
guaranteed to all those favoring them with their patronage.
A on will find all of the above goods at our Branch House, at A' ayside,
which is in charge of ' GEO. M. QUILLIAN.
The highest cash price paid for Cotton, in seed or bale, at each house.
Thankful for the very liberal patronage heretofore extended to them in
the past, they feel sure that they can make it to the interest of all persons
to examine their goods and prices before buying elsewhere.
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ses!3o-3tu BELLTOX AXD WAYSIDE. GA.