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(Vtdto the Savannah
Our space this morning ?*, in great"
ili-d-oe, d vot'd to tlio pnbliaa’inn of
the last riMianl l-iev-ncte ofl He tit far.
t.) Excellcii--j\ Rutherford 1{
Hayes, to the Forty-sixth Congress,
npon its thin! and final ees-ion. Alter
cr-ngrniidnitn:' the body upon the
general happiness and pmspi-ritv now
prevailing throughout the land, he
devotes himself to giving the unfortu
nate South a parting shot, knowing
that it "ill probably he the last time
he wilt ever have ->> excellent mm op
portunity to vent his malicious -p'.vrn
against our section. He gives up a
considerable portion of his message to
this Stlhj. et. and deo’nres that in many
lit 1 lie Ntes’av holding States oppo
sition toll' leiirtccnth and fifteenth
iiini-nd.r.eu's of the Constitution is n<
’.I'M i ,se* er, and that the South still
refuse- to wenr 1 the lull measures of
p.ditieal filler'y to all her chi*-'- s ims
purlin Iv In <th r words, Mr. : I ayes
means to say that the Southern States
ret use to recognize the civil rights of
the negroes, and continue to interfere
with their fandom i» exercisn g the
elective franchise. He is kind enough
to admit that this interference "as not
noticeable duting the recent elections
through an' acts of violence or breach
of the |>eaee—an admission he itouht-
lrss makes with the greatest reluc
tance, and only because he is literally
ioree I to do so—but that it was mans
ilesti d through fraudulent practices at
the ]>olls.
In making this asset tion Air. jlayes
betrays the reckless partisan, speaks o!
something of which he knows nothing,
and makes as-erliors which he cannot
possibly substantiate. The recent
election was characterized,particularly
in the South, by quiet and lair deals
ing throughout onr section. Frauds
in some instances may have been per
petrated but we venture to n-sert that
Radical fraudulent practices in certain
eitfig ot the States ol Indiana. New
York and Pennsylvania outnumbered,
hv fifty to one, all the frauds commit*
tid, on both sides, in the entile South.
Did Mr. Hayes sjieak truth, however,
the most gigantic fraud ever known
to American hi-tory, which was com
mitted in 1876 upon the people of the
whole Union, and especially upon the
South—and by means of which eon-
|cs-< d traud he hi came pos:
Mr. Tildcn's si at after having been
ih fi un d on both tl e electoral me the
pi pulnr vii’.e—should have effectually
prevented bin. from ever alluding to
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Volume LXY.
ATHENS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 14, 18S0.
Number 6.
DRIFTWOOD. |
Since Garfield was vice: et oil cir-
cu-es go through Ohio on the canals.
Fifty-seven is the average age of
the Presidents ot the United Slates.
According to the Boston transcript
the resignation that i~ tendered is
tough.
An English girl wiites that no man
will stare long a' a woman who does
not stare back
The rule for all alter dinner speeches
is the rule of the best newspaper offi
ces: ‘Cut is short.
Laboi'CHErk contends that to sue.
cecd hum hug must have some admix
ture of talent, and talent some admix
tme of humbug.
The‘season’ at Jacksonville, F!a.,
lasts Irom the middle of November to j negro, near Eastman last Saturday,
the middle ot may. There were 60,-
000 visitors last winter.
A cross eyed man, who said that
he was going to ‘vo’e as he shot,
had his ballot carefully put among
the ‘scattering” by the judicious in
spector.
In selecting his Cabinet Mr Gar-
held, it is said, will not take a man
who parts his hair in the middle.
Tid- bars out Dr Maty Walker and
thousands of others of our young
men.
How stlAl.T. 1 have my bonnet
GEORGIA SEWS.
\t ft corn shucking, near Jonesbo
ro, a negro was killed by another.
Burglars are troubling tlm domestic
felicity of the inhabitants of Savan
nah.
Nelson Morris, a colored man, while
walking the streets of Savannah fed
dead.
The Augusta News siys that so
far as Augusta is concerned the fast
mail train is a fraud.
There is a colored woman in Fort
Gaines who has twenty-five children,
and the oldest 2A years of age. 4
Mr. Kitchen of Pulaski, has made
this year, with six mules 109 baies of
cotton and 608 bushels of com.
Tom Norfleet, a negro, was bally
cut by Bryant Whitehead, another
A difficulty occurcd in Macou be
tween Mr. Cotnan Bucher and a man
named Jones. Mrs. Bucher was pres
ent, and received in her breast the
pi.-tol ball that was intended for her
husband. Mrs. Bucher is said to be
a.most, estimable lady, and is serious
ly wounded. Jones made tis escapes
The North Georgia Conference oi
the M. E Church South is now in ses
sion in R>mc, Bishop MoTveire pre
siding. There is a very full atternl-
BISM ARK AND THE JEWS.
- A carious political movement, just
now attracting a great deal ot atten
tion .aboard is that known as tlio Ger
man Anti-Semitic League. The
Jews possess a great deal of power
and influence in Germany, particular
fv in its capital, Berlin. They oon-ti-
tnle some 5 per cent, of the popula
tion of that city, aro its leading bank
ers, o wot he most successful papers
and lead in all matters ot finance, jours
«n and art. That they should
IIIKTS TO PARENTS.
ance, and the reports twin the vari-j ru
ons districts were satisfactory andeim '" ive cr “ e ( l e ! iv - v aud Police on
nut ot their success and wealth is
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in this
Manager Abbey offers to bring Sara
Bernhardt to Atlanta tor S-,000
The Library association are thinking
of it.
Mr. Jno. E Smith, of Thomson,
made 181 bales of cotton, 9(10 bush
els of corn and 1,000 bushels of oats
with fifteen plows.
Albany has finished the building of
one steamboat, lets two others in
course of construction and the fourth
one in prospect.
John F Lewis & Co., of Iluwkins-
ville, advertise for fitty cits. The
trimmed,’ asked Maria, ‘so that it will j rats are about to eat up their stock of
ree with my complexion?’ ‘II you : merchandise.
«ant it to much your laee, have it j Mr. j o0 Beverly, of Webster
county, was found in his gin race last
week, where i*. is supposed he was ao-
plnin, replied the liatelul Harriet
A North Carolinian who kissed a
, woman against her consent was s< n-
I of j ter.eed to n month’s imprisonment,and
all the women in the Stale want the
law that punished him repealed.
When Mr. Maginnis’ attention was
called to the molten lava flowing from
the crater ot Mount Vesuvius on his
first and only visit Vc the land of
hand organs he vei‘y naturally asked
how the ‘poor crater came to overload
its stomach so dridfullv.’
cidentally drowned.
The new ice factory in process of
erecting in Cnlnmtms is fast approach
ing completion, and will be in full
blast by the time, hot season sets in.
Mayor Wilkins, of Columbus, Ga.,
is protesting against the sale of toy
pistols to childt on. They are exceed
ingly dangerous.
The executive committee have re
voked the .order for primary election
| lor nominating county officers in
j .Bibb. It will he a In
fraudulent practices.
Mr. Haws' animus in making his
l: - - let eliei 1 r-:d untenable charges
a ainst 1!-- -v at In rn people, however,
i» mtv < vi -h-nt. He not only desires
to vi.tit Ids siphon against them, but
he has an tilt* rior object in view, for j A young man in a dentist’s chair
h s remarks on this siihj-et w<ro in- i j n Waterbary, Conn., fancied he was
t< nded n.oie lor the next than tor the | riding c. bicycle, and forthwith, kick-
present Congrr.-s. Fully aware that j i n g out with great vigor, put each foot
it is nlrcuuj the settieil plan of Ids through a pane of gl
parly to infamously increase their ! ,] mv before him. And
mepgre majority in the Lower House <] er the influence of the anesthetic, he
of the Forty-se' etilh Congress by j piobablj’ felt no pane.
sealing t>r tnat body, witbontn-.iadow A darky who was stopping to wash i . .
justice, defeated i-adteal j his hal|(ls in a creek qj (1 ,a notice the \ °!'« 5 «" " hlch > (1-ad vised love terrain
day.
Jonesboro had quite a fire last
week, in which three storehouses and
a great many of the goods were
destroyed. Two hotels were badly
scorched, and the occupants badly
scared. The loss was pretty heavy
for a small place, and there was not a
dollar’s worth of insurance on either
the houses or goods.
A curiosity has developed itself in
Marion county. It is a hog’s leg
whiab has the usual cloven hoofs, and
the two smaller hoo's above. In ad-
ditior to that a second leg, just below
tan knee joint, has grown out and ter
minates ill a mule hoot. The second
leg is about the size of a man’s thumb,
and bore a part ol the animal’s weight
at every step. I
A difficulty in Calhoun county, be
tween Mr. J W Pruett and Mr. Mett,
om- of liistenants, in which both were
seriously if not fatally wounded.
Pruett was shot in the fiice, and Mott
in the side, while a small child of Mr.
Mott’s was fatally shot in the fray and
a son of Mr Pruett’s seriously wound
ed. Mr. Pruett is one of the best
citizens of the county.
In the year 1875, 55,316 tonsoffer-
tilizars were inspected in the state.
In 187G were inspected 75,824, and
1877, 93,478; 85,049 tons were in
spected in 1878 ; and in 1879, 119,-
283 tors were inspected, and the re
From Hill's Manual of Social and Business Forms.
Always speak in a pleasant voice.
Teach your children how to work; how
to obtain a living by their own efforts.
Teach them the nobility and dignity
of labor, that they may respect and
honor the produced.
Explain the reason why. The child
is a little interrogation point To it all
is new. Explain the reason. Your
boy will some day repay this trouble
by teaching some other child.
Teach your children the evil of
HWMEwp secret vtee,AaBd»tbe ofltn*qaehcea-of .
century a party ug ; n; , tobacco and spirituous liquors;
l Constitution do
1 lives.
. 1 imiUil'IIV 1C lb U'J 1MUV.
without n -'endow
defeated Radical
cuiii'.idati s Irom ’.he South in place of I pccuFar actions of a gout just behind'; j in deception
legally chosen representatives 1)6 U> when lie scrambled out of the wa- Frank T. Howard,
adonis this method of paving the way ‘ -
to the accomplishment ot this Radical
design. Hence it is thnt he dwells at ' pe ars as,if de shojc kinder jilted
and frowd me.'
sui-h length upon alleged fraudulent
practices at tin polls in the South, and
calls upon Congress to take notice of
them. He dots not even hate the
tin t or intelligence to conceal his oh-,
jeet. for he exposes his hand fully
when he says, •• I tru-t the House of
Representatives and the Senate, which
have the right to judge of the election
returns and the qualifications of their
own members, will see to it that every
case ot the violation of the letter or
spirit of the fiflienth amendment is
thoroughly investigated, aud that no
In in-tit from such violation shall ac
crue to any power or party.” In using
these words Mr. Hayes evidently ei
ther forgets that he is addressing a
body which has long since passe d upon
and si tiled the qualifications of its
members, ami which will have noth
ing to do with the qualifications ol'the
members elect ol the Forty-seventh
Congress, or in his zeal to prepare the
public mind for the infamous pr
gramme of his party hereafter he is
led to Stult’fv himself by trespassing
upon the legitimate province of Mr.
Garfield, when he shall send in his
first message as president of the
United Slates to the National Legis
lature.
The next prominent feature of Mr.
Hayes' message worthy ot special
•lolieo is that he revives that old,
threadbare theme of his regarding
civil service reform. It is singular
that he will persist in hypocritically
professing a desire for such reform,
when it is a notorious tact that during
the four years ol his de facto admin-
istration he has converted the subject
into a laughing stock of the counfy.
How ludicrous it is to hear him
grandiloquently expressing a desire
that CY< ry officer of the government
shall be "as free as any other citizen
to express his political opinions and
to use his means for their advance
ment, and at the same time, “ fed
as sale as any private citizen in re-
lusitiJy.Tll demands upon his salary for
political purposes,” when the country,
front Maine t<> Texas, anil from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, knows that
during the recent campaign, and just
beiore the election, he made a tour to
the far West tor no other purpose than
to turn his back upon the capital at
that critical moment so thnt govern
ment officials might be financially
bled to the last dollar of the’r salary,
if m oils be, to secure a republican
victory. Mr. Hayes must indeed
ini 'gine that the people of the United
Mates can viry easily be imposed
tq on.
With the exception ot these two
features of Mr. Hayes’ message
which are pre-eminently characteris
tic of liiir—the rest of the paper is
quite interesting and instructive. It
treats of polygamy in Utah, our in
let nal affairs and foreign »elations,
and concludes with a review of the
various reports of the heads of de
partments, and with certain tecotu-
mendaiions regarding the District of
Columbia, and the health of the tut'
*tional capital. It is a very lengthy
document, but will, for the most part,
repay perusal.
and desertion.
li ........... I-..L ... ... of New Orleans,
tnd was asked how it happened, j' s ^ le fW deceiver,
he answered : ‘I Ultimo, ’xactly. hut A negro named Henry Simmons es
caped from the Grffitpail by burning
a hoTe Through the floor. One Tiim
port for the present year will show a
greater increase over 1879 than that
ace open to ! v( . ar q ot , s ovcr t j, c previous year. So
• ! you sec that quite an amount of gu-
A lady, who is the wife of a banker ano is sold in the state.
The gin house and cotton press of
the lion. Primus Jones, in- Baker
comity, were consumed by fire on the
23d. The fire broke out in the lint
In Atlanta another ease has devel- [ room while they were ginning and
was accidental. Between six and sev-
r, puteach tootj - v s , , . ",
, j n ^1,,, win . i of another city, was drunk m Atlaii"
vet while tin I t:| . n! 'd cared for by the police. The
not sav where ‘"she
should spring into life with a platform,
the chief plank of which was the non ad
mission of Hebrews to any public of
fice, or auy position of importance
public or p’ ivate—in other words an
anti-Jewish-Know Nothing party.
Yet «uch a party has appeared, and is
endeavoring to force its peculiar and
b : goted views and doctrines on the
German Parliament. The new organ
ization, which calls itself the Anti-i
Semitic League, is of recent origin,
having been established only a lew
years ago, chiefly throught of exer
tions of Pastor Stocker, court preach
er. Origiually directing its effects
against the Socialists, it blanched off
into a crusade against Jews and now
for some days its leaders have aired
their views at length iu the German
i Parliament.
The followers ot Stocker, however,
have little political strength or influ
ence themselves, and the Jews ot Ber-
liii and Germany have nothing to fear
from them. They are interested only
in the position that the government,
or rather Bismark, will take on this
question, and this is sufficiently uncer
tain and doubtful to cause them con
siderate anxiety. As far as can be
ascertained, Bismark’s mind is not ful
ly made up on this |>oitu, although he
is somewhat disposed to take sides
with Stocker against the Jews. A
hill recently offered by his 8' n in Par
liament was evidently directed against
them, while the conservative semi-of
ficial press and the authorities openly
encourage the auti-Seruetic move
ment, which is to stem the rising tide
of Jewish power and influence in the
German Empire.
But the best indictment of Bis-
mark’s real view on this question is
given in a late order of his secretary
to collect for him the opinions ol the
foreign press on his question and lay
A man in a prayer-meeting at Great
Springs, Ga.. declared that he was
ready to die, and awaited the sum
mons with impatience. He had bare
ly uttered the sentiment, when a bul
let crashed through the window and
grazed his ear. A neighbor, whom he
had sued for debt, had taken him a}
his word. Ho hastily hid himself un
der a bench.
The owners of two adjoined farms
in Missouri disagreed about tbe boun
dary line. Although the ground in
dispute was a strip only six inches
wide, they got into a violent conlro
versv over it. While they were ans
gnly discussing the question, one or
dered the other to stand off the nar
row snacc in question, and then delibs
erately chopped off one of his feet
with an ax.
A Michigan boy ate a bar of soap
on a wager and then drank a lot of
soda to take the taste out of his mouth,
and the way he* spouted suds and soap
bubbles for tbe next half hour baffled
the skill of fourteen doctors, who
madly performed about him, not hav
ing been informed of the cause of the
lad's suffering. They are all at log
gerheads m w about what to call the
case.
en bales ot cotton, mostly in the seed,
were destroyed. His dwelling and
sraoke hou-e also caught on tire from
the gin bouse, but both''were saved"
with slight damage.
what the world thinks of the anti-
Semitic movement. If he abides by
thpt judgement, it is likely tbit he will
decidi to abandon Pastor Stocker’s
. ^ Jutted scheme. This question has
Imon iliSC'W’Jiul iioli*o rirvr/iti ftmno
The Washington Post advises tbe
New York Times to abandon tj> e
lltlisarius business and band < ver tbe
luud on hand to tbe widow of Abra
ham Lintoln,’ whb tiecds the’ indtfey
more than Grant. *
REV. DR. TY.NG OX THE MIRACLES AT
LOl'RDES.
Rev. Dr. Stephen II. Tyng, Jr., a
well known Episcopal minister of New
York, on Sunday last preached upon
the miracles ot Notre Dame de Lour
des in the Pyrenees, taking the ground
that miracles had actually been
wrought there through the power of
prayer, lie visited Lourdes last sum
mer and found 50,COO visitors a week
passing through the little village in
the mountains. The bandages and
cnitehcs of the sick and crippled who
had been cured and thousands of let
ters of thanksgiving* convinced Dr.
Tvng that the lai'.h there shown was
honored by God.” The Herald quotes
Dr. Tyng as follows: “We never
shall know what the powers of truth
are until we find a man who knows
all the truths of God aud.is free fam
all the errors of man. It 13 this faith
at the shrine of N otre Daine de Lour
des, and probably at Knock, in Irer
land, that is honored by God. God
could read as well a- bear prayer, aud
here was evidence of individual faith
in that fact. He had spoken of the
cures there. It would never do to dis
miss such well authenticated facts. He
had been severely criticised in the
newspapers as an ecclesiastical bigot.
It there was a meuii hair in his head
he would like to pull it out. There
was no bigotry about him. The Roman
church, so far as its organization was
concerned, was abovfe all societies ol
believers. In his own puny impotence
it was not his to accuse the Roman
church. He could not find it his heart
to do so. * Show me a man of any
doxy,’ he said, ‘and it he is doing good
work I will hail him as a fellows vork-
er lor man’s progress. 1 can’t say that
those praying at the shrine of Lourdes
ore not praying to God, and it,is im
possible to say they are deluded, as
their prayers aro answered.’’—Ex.
The candidate for coroner of Bibb
county is Mr. B. St. Paul Guerrar—
die, JPlkebM, what a name!
dred and fifty dollars is offered for his
recovery.
A negro boy about thirteen years
of age pushed a little negro girl, five
yearsoi age, off the bridge at Pataula.
the fall instantly killed her. The boy
is in jail at Fort Gaines.
On the plantation of Mr. S. At
kinson, in Lee couutv, John Thorn
ton, colored, was shot aud instantly
killed by another negro named Moses
Davis.
The Pulaski cotton mills, which
have been running a year or two un
der McBurney & Hollingsworth, have
suspended, aud about twenty of the
operatives and employers have taken
out liens to secure their wages.
In a snap interview lion. Seab
Wright, oue of the devoted friends of
Dr. Felton, said on Monday that the
latter gentleman would not run for
congress again two years hence, bnt
that he would ‘be the next governor
of Georgia.
<»A new rice rail! has been built in
Savannah. The building was erected
by Rice Ji Bures, ot Augusta Ga.,
and is 160 feet long by 80 feet wide,
having 100 bins of trom 1,000 to
2,500 bushels, its total capacity being
230,000 bushels.
Mr. J A Scarboro, writting from
Scarboro, Scriven county, says that
he lias invented a gin for sea island
cotton which will not only gin that
class of cotton cheaper but much more
satisfactorilj than the machines now
in use.
Mr. Albert Surles and a negro man
by the name of Andrew Rush became
involved in a difficulty in Quitman
recently, which resulied in the negro’s
death, being shot twice in the right
«idc*. The verdict of the coroner’s
jury was justifiable homicide.
The grading is finished on the
Talhotton railroad for a narrow gauge.
The stockholders are now considering
whether it would not be better to
make a broad gauge of it. If so des
eided, the bed will have to lie widen
ed, aud this will cause auolher delay.
Thu Dai ien Timber Gazette says
that several million feet of timber
have been down with the past week
and there is a probability that large
drifts will be coming down now all
the lime. It thinks the demand will
be go«>d all the winter and lots of
timber will be sold. (
Jonesboro bad quite a fire last
week, in which three storehouses and
a great many ol the goods were de
stroyed. Two hotels were badly
scorched, and the occupants badly
scared. The loss was pretty heavy
for a small place, and there was not a
dollar’s worth of insurance on either
tire houses or goods. • -
The St. Simon’s coriesspoinlent of the
Brunswick Advertiser writes that pa
per as follows: ’There are one hun
dred and fifty cows in the State of
Vermont, yielding an annual income
of at least six millious of dollars.
How many cows arc there- on St. Si
mon's and what their annual income ?
With all her natural pasturage advan
tages it is rather mortitying.to admit
that scores ot cans of condensed milk
and thousauds ot pounds of butter are
annually brought from the north and
.west (o supply our home consumpt
ion.’
GARFIELD AXD HAYES.
teach them to be temperate, orderly-
punctual, truthful neat, faithful and
honest.
Encourage your children to be care
fill of personal appearance: to return
eve-y tool to its place? to always pay
debts promptly; to never shirk a duty;
to do an equal share, and to always
live up to au ag-eeraent.
Teach your children to confide in
you, by conference together. Tell
them jour plans, and sometimes ask
their advice; they will thus open their
hearts to you, and will ask your ad
vice. The girl who tells all her i.eart
to her mother has a shield and
protection about her which can come
only with a mother’s advice and
counsel.
Give your children your con
fidence iu the affairs of your finsi
ness. Thej- will thus take interest,
and become co-workers with you.
If j’ou enlist their respect, then their
sympathy and co-operation, they will
quite likely remain to take up j’our
work when you have done, and
will go ahead perfecting what yon have
commenced.
If j’ou area farmer, do not over-work
j’our children, and thus, by a hard
and dreary life, drive them off to the
cities. Arise at a reasonable hour in
the morning, take an hour’s rest after
meals, and quit at five or six o’elok in
the afternoon. Let young people, in
games or other amusements, have a
hapi'V time duting the remainder of
the day. There is no reason why a
farmer’s family should be deprived
of recreation and amusement any
more than others.
Teach your children the value of the
Sabbath as a day for the spiritual im
provement ot the mind ; that on the
Sabbath morn the ordinary work of
the week should not be resumed : that
A FLYING HAIL TRAIN.
The first tarin on the fast mail
schedule of fifty hours from New
York to New Orleans, arrived in
Washington Sunday morning forty-
six minutes late. The mails and bag
gage were transferred in lour minutes
to the Richmond train, which arrived
in Richmond in three hours and one
minute, with 30,000 letters and 20,000
pieces of matter for points south of
Virginia. Twenty-seven minuteB of
lost time was made up between
Washington and Richmond, and a
dispatelj, received from Weldon an
nounced the arrival*- of ‘the train on
time. The time from Washington to
Alexandria—nine and a half miles —
was ten minutes. The average time
from Washington to Richmond, in
cluding stops, was thirty-eight miles
per hour. Superintendent Myers, of
the Richmond, Fredericksburg and
Petersburg Railroad, gave as a toast
to Superintendents Jameson, Jack-
son, Bailey and Vickery, of the rail
road mail service, who accompanied
the train on its trip : “Fast mail and
slow politics.” A special to the Bal
timore American says: *’ All alon
the route the depots were crowded
with people, who wanted to see the
train which left New York that morn
ing, nml some of the exptessions of
wonder and surprise were most amus
ing. Between Fredericksburg and
Richmond a mile was run in one min
ute and three seconds, and the last
fifteen miles before reaching the city
were run in eighteen minutes. The
scenes in Richmond were interesting.
It was hard for the people to under
stand how a person could have left
Washington at 12 o’clock and be in
Richmond at three, tiie usual running
time being four and a half or five
hours under what has been considered
favorable auspices.”
them beiore him, so that he can see t | ie <j a y s | lou i,\ ^ passed in attendance
NEW ENGLAND TREASON.
It is understood that one of the
main reasons which induced General
Garfield’s present visit to Washing
ton, wa9 the expressed wish of Mr.
Hayes to confer and advise with him
on various points ot public policy. A
Washington special says : “ Since his
arrival General Garfield has seen the
president two or three times, and has
discussed with him the advisability of
certain views and recommendations
which the president has thought of in
cluding in his message. President
Hayes has indicated a desire to furth
er the purposes or policy which the
incoming president may have at heart,
and has also intimated that whenever
their views are in harmony he would
like tbe new administration to carry
out or continue any iiue of policy
which has been a feature of his ads
ministration. For this reason it is
assumed that the annual message of
the president to be sent to congress
on its assembling will, to some degree
at lca-t, Inreshadow the views of Gen
eral Garfield, it it is considered as set
tled that there is no probability ot an
extra session of congress in the spring,
when of course General Garfield would
have the opportunity to proclaim his
purposes and policy at the outset of
his administration. This is said to be
the first time a retiring president has
paid the courtesy to his successor of
consulting with him as to his views,
and president Hayes has set a verj’
good example in the matter. Mr.
Dorman B. EatoD, who was a mem
ber of the civil service commission,
came here several days ago, and his
presence has been taken to indicate
that the president would in his mess
age advise some further action by con>>
gress to promote the cause ot civil
service reform, which he has always
professed to have so much at heart.
This view is also taken in connection tberoora for spktoom
with the very sound and wholesome B | icct ncros , onc ell q <)t the
plreSdy, and always with the result—
a decision in favor of the Jews as uses
ful citizens. It was discussed in Eng
land years ago, when the question of
the admission of Jews to Parliament
was opened, and the English people
almost mianinmously, welcomed them
to their national legislature. The en-
people, with scarcely a dissenting
voice, declared that America wel
comed tbe Jews heartily and thor
oughly, and repudiated with contempt
the bigoted prejudices against them,
which remained as a horrible rjlic of
the barbarous feudal ages. It is un
necessary to saj* anything about the
sentiment of the people of Louisiana
on this point. They have more than
once sent Jewish citizens to represent
them ih the national senate, and were
proud of their representation in the
Confederate Cabinet Dy a citizen ot
the Jewish race and religion.
If Prince Bismark really leaves his
decision to the press ot the world, he
will immediately squelch Stocker’s
movement, for he is uot likely to find
anj - sympathy with it save in Rouma-
□ia aud similar countries, which the
light ol progress, civilization and lib
erty has not yet reached.—K. O.Dem.
upon religious service of some kind, or
exercise that which will ennoble and
spiritualize the natu-e. While rest
ami suitable recreation may be a part
p* fl'V flyv’a_nrrxm»nnrmv true., philos
ophy dictsrta^teL^.® 8 P i 5 i ‘ aa i, f f c “^
tics ot the nature should be'cuKivatSaf
by setting apart a portion of the time
for their improvement.
Teach your children those things
which they will need wDen they be
come men and women. As women
they should understand how to cook,
how to make a bed, how to preserve
cleanliness and order throughout the
bouse, how to ornament their rooms,
to renovate and preserve furniture and
clothing, how to sing, how to play
various games, that they may enliven
the household. They should be taught
how to swim, how to ride, how to
drive, how to do business, aud how to
preserve health. The mother should
early entrust money to the girl, with
which to buy articles lor the house
hold, that she may know its value.
Think what a man aud woman need to
know in order to be happy, prosperous
and successful, and teach them tHat.
The New Nork Commercial Bulle
tin m ikes the sapient suggestion that
tbe six New England -States should
be consolidated into Uvo. How it
proposes ’<) bring it about we do not
know. States haTe been divided, and
may be in the future, but no State lias
ever consented to give up its individ
uality as a State, and there is no way
under the Constitution to do it
against the will of the people.—Bos
ton Herald.
That’s State-rights doctrine 'says
the Richmond Dispa.ch. It is treason
in New England to preach that doc
trine. There was no way under the
Constitution to abolish slavery ; yet
it was abolished. There was no way
under the Constitution'for the South
^^ijst^gsw be depriv^cTot uTelr'rep
resentation^ft—Qp^gl'ess; yet they
were deprived of it. Virginia,was
disfranchised from 1865 to 1870.
There was no way under the Consti
tution to put a military Governor over
any State, or by force to disperse state
legislatures, or to turn out Governors
elected by the people; yet all these
outrages were practiced in tbe South
ern States.
Why, then, shonld not the South
and the West override the Federal
Constitution, or change it, and carry
out the Bulletin’s idea ? Your Mr.
Bontwell threatens that Congress will
provide the Southern States with a
“republican form of government.”
Why can’t we help you New Eng
landers to a like blessiug ?
Wrinkled gloves are ugiy, but Bern
hardt wears them. ■ .
Small bonnets and large round hats
are both stylish.
The fur dealers are rejoicing over
the visit of the ice-king. : •
Some of our most timid girls are
not frightened by a loud bang.
Satin de Lyon is going out of favor
for outer garments. It wrinkles too
easily.
Ecru stockings are more used than • -
those that are clear white, no matter
what the dress is.
Doll babies look wonderfully liko
real babies this season, and cry almost
as naturally.
Squares of jetted net will be worn. *
in handkerchief shape around the neck ' " !
in the street, instead-'of long scarfa pf ■ v
black lace. -- ^ ■
In Texas $>ur newspapers i
ited by women. It is tound much the
safest where the shot gun policy pre
vails to so alarming an extent.
Much imitation seal, or plush seal,
as it is called, w ill be worn ou cloaks,
and is so good nn imitation that it is
difficult to detect from the real fur.
Among the gorgeous new materials
for evening dresses are satins brocad
ed with gold or with silver threads,
and headed brocades with every fig
ure formed by pearl or opal beads.
Plaids, not in the Scotch, but in the
Madras stylo, prevail in winter goods.
Uncertain shades of green and blue,
with eveiy possible sha>Ie of yellow ;
deep reds; with flesh color, dull
shades of lilac, grays and browns;
such are the favorite mixtures, as dif
ferent as possible from the bright tints
of Scotch plaids.
‘ Fashions’ is a terra of many mean
ings. There are fashions in every ar
ticle ot attire. Ttiere aro fashions in
carpets and in wall paper, in candies
and in conversations, in architecture
and farcy work, and there are pretty
and useful things which ought to be
fashionable, but are not yet, because
people don’t know of them.
Light colored cloths are still popu
lar for jackets, and these are made
warm looking by having darker plush
or velvet colors. The shape of these
wraps differs so little from those worn
last year that, it will be a matter of
small expense to remodel last year’s
jackets, the only cliango needed being
the collar, culls and pockets of plush.
WHAT
JUDGE
SAYS.
HOPKINS
opinions as to the tenure of office ex
pressed by General Garfield on Friday
last to the representatives of the lode-
pendent Republicans of New York
who called upon him. if, after con
sultation with General Garfield, Pres
ident Hayes should determine to rec
ommend congress to take action in
this matter, the Democrats in con
gress could do no better than to sig
nalize the last works of their control
of the two houses by the passage of
sonic measure to purify and elevate
the civil Service ”
A correspondent of the Philadel
phia Times at Harrisburg admonishes
his journal “ not to be surprised if
General Grant should turn up as the
candidate of the Can.cron and Hoyt
anti-Grow combination for United
States Senator.’’ The correspondent
has also made the discovery that Grant
tan qualify himself “ in a day ’’ as an
eligible candidate, as the constitutions
ol requirement is that a Senator shall
simply be an “ inhabitant’’ of the
State. It is turther argued that Grant
and Cameron would l>e “in perfect
accord” and that he (Grant) “would
require no division of patronage,” as
Cameron’s friends are Grant’s friends.
Tbe ex-President, it is further con
tended, is tbe only candidate that can
beat Grow. The country will await
with breathless suspense the result of
this senatorial struggle. '
now TO KEEP A HUSBAND AT HOME.
‘Julia’ writes the Oil City Derrick a
long letter asking how she can keep
her husband home nights. She says
she has done everything she can think
of to please him, but he will insist on
leaving her alone each evening. The
Derrick suggests to Julia that perhaps
Bhe does not make her husband’s
horde pleasent to him, and then goes
on to advise her as follows:
Now, Julia, you go down town to
day and buy a keg of beer, placing it
in one corner of tbe dining room.
Strew saw-dust over the floor, and put
half a dozen coarse, wooden boxes
Hang
room,
invite half a dozen of your husband’s
male friends to spend the evening.
Then, Julia, you and vour servants
dress yourselves up in long stockings
and night-diesses, and when your
friends have assembled with their ci
gars, pull aside the sheet you have
previously hung np, and skip tr im
one side of the room to the other, on
the tips of your toes singing, ‘Tra-la=
la-lel’ and jumping as high as yon
can at every third step. This will
prove very interesting exercise tor
yourselfand servants and prevent your
husband from staying away. If your
husband’s male friends ave married,
invite their wives to assist you in the
evening’s entertainment If this
doeseu’t keep him at home evenings
you’d better trade him for a yellow
dog, and keep the dog chained.
GEORGIA’S GOLD.
The Washington Star learns from
what it esteems good authority that
“Gen. Garfield has been assnred,
personally and by letter, by several
Southern Senators that they intend to
heartily suppirt his administration,
in the hope that sectionalism, which
is so fatal to the South, may be for
ever removed from American politics.’’
Would it uot be well for those South
ern Senators to wait' until they find
out what sort of an administration it
is going to be ? It is somewhat risky
to pledge support to a tiling in ad
vance of its existence. ,
FACTS ABOUT COTTON.
Cotton, upon whcli the Soutli hangs
its hopes, is as fickle a commodity in
price as ever etigaged the attention of
the mercantile world. Never has this
been more fully illustrated than in
the pa9t ten or fifteen days. Previous
to this, as we look over the run of the
market, we cannot help but think that
every influence, both :u Europe and
America, was used to depress prices
and keep them at a point low enough
to enable the mills and speculators to
lay in large stocks—in fact, for about
one month prices run so evenly that
a few points either wav would cover
the advances or declines. All at once
a panic seizes it, and a complete state
ol demoralization has existed—prices
have advanced at panic rates, and in
some instances declined as rapidly ;
but on the whole, the bulls have de
cided advantage over the bears, in
flicting heavy losses on their.
During the intense excitement of
last week future contracts would ad
vance at one bound nearly one cent; in
another dispatch they would decline
20 to 50 points, only to rally and re
gain in a tew moineuts mure almost all
that had been lost.
Never in our experience has the
New York Cotton Exchange record
ed such sales. One day they claim
that over 500,000 bales were bought
and sold, .showing the wildest excite
ment, as the bulls and bears fought
over it. As it run yesterday we can’t
he'p but think that even now cotton
is seeing its lowest prices till another
crop is made.
Taking into consideration the un
favorable tall and disasters to certain
localities we' can’t believe that the
crop will pan out over 5,750,000
bales, even if it should teach these
figures.
We only regret that the recent ad
vauce did not come one month soon
er, so that our Southern planters
would have reaped the benefit.—Ex.
Kev. Dr. Harrison, Chaplain of the
House of Representatives* in a recent
lecture at Washington, said that he
believed in the gold region ot Georgia,
ithin five hundred feet ot tne sur
face water level, there was not less
than 8500,000,000 of the precious
metal accessible. The veinsa:e innu
merable. They run Irom four inches
in breadth to fourteen feet. While
varying in value, the quartz in that
region almost invariably contains
some gold, though sometimes not
more than forty cents to the ton.
He had assisted at the assay of some
that yielded as much ns $120 a ton,
and this taken promiscuously from a
four foot vein, and he had seen a
socket yielding $32,000 a ton. He
relieved that in the immediate vicinity
of Dahlonega, the ■ entre of the
North Georgia mining disu’iet, there
was a preset-1 supply of $100,000,000
of gold within a radious of twenty
miles. Here the production of gold
has been reduced to such a science
that it only costs thirty cents a ton to
excavate, bring to the crushing mills,
and amalgamate. The future of the
gold-bearing region of the Slate, he
believed, would develop into a pro
duction of trom $1,000,000 to $10,-
009,000 per annum.
The Hon John L Hopkins has had
targe experience and observation as
lawyer and judge. He was six years
on the bench of the Atlanta Circuit,
He writes:
Atlanta, Ga., April 21, ’80.
Rev. A. G. Haygood :
Aly Dear Sir .’—As Judge of the
Atlanta Circuit from the year 1870
to 1876, I had to deal with a vast
kinds of criminals and every j.
offence. I gave it close attention,
and it is not an .exaggeration to say
that in nearly all of it, strong drink
was an active agent. In some form
or other it was almost always present.
It is impossible to tell what percent
age ot crime is traceable to this
cause. It is a rare and exceptional
case if it has not whisky in it, some
where or somehow. It is entirely
safe to say that, without it, there
would be but little crime. My ob
servation in the courthouse for thirty
years has been to the same effect.
Undoubtedly it is the great mis
chief maker. In this life, reason and
passion contend for the mastery. In
the struggle, whisky does double duty
—it weakens reason and strengthens
passion. Aside from the crime, grief
and pain that flow from it, it costa
vpqre probably than all other agents
combined. It takes a very liberal
part of what the people make to pay
iu way. Without it taxation would
be comparatively nominal. To it, in
a large measure, we are indebted for
bad government, faithless officials,
heavy taxation, want and woe.
Truly yours,
John L. Hopkins.
reading for tiie lunatics.
A few days since we wrote to the
superintendent of the Lunatic Asy
lum, askiug him it he approved the
idea suggested by the Macon Tele'
graph, of sending occasional bundles
of papers to the inmates. He replied
as follows:
We endorse fully the suggestions
of the Macon Telegraph, and feel
grateful to any one, who will be so
kind as to send papers for our unfort
unate charge. In ninny instances they
serve to entertain and amuse our pa
tients, and thereby distract their
minds from morbid self contempla
tions, or unpleasant fancies, and their
value in some cases, cannot be over
estimated. Very truly and gratefully
yours,
T. O. Powell, Slip’t &c.
In accordance with the. wishes ex
pressed in the above letter, we pro
pose, on a certain day ev-ry week, to
send a package of exchange papers to
Dr. Powell. And we suggest that our
brethren of the pre«s do the same.
fVatASriltr Via Ann Aon rtViri'of tr% *oVinr
TWENTY DOLLARS RE
WARD.
It comes to us by the way ot the
Columbus Enquirer-Sun that a gen*
tieman in CoDyers, Ga., oilers the
above sum as a reward to any person
who will, on sight, read the following
withont mispronouncing a word :
One morning I found myself in a
queer locale amid avast area of burn
ing sands. To my relief I descried
an oasis, but alas! it turned out to be
a mirage. I could see, as I thought,
cascades, geysers, and gewgaws inde
scribable. When I complained to an
Edowite of snch a deceptive land,
the untoward fellow treated me with
contumely. I was only saved from
the puissant bio ws by the timoly ap
pearance of a chamois which leaped
up from the root of a pyramidal cy
press, at which ho fired his fuse.
This perverse creature was so mad
dened at my escape that he commit*
ted felo-de-se. He was the protege
of the king, and had been for some
time employed in deciphering cunei
form inscriptions, and may have been
a Chaldean. Though cleanly dressed,
he was not cleanly. Now seeking a
recess by a stream filled with animal
cules, I wrote an exquisite essay,
drawing on my fertile brain, which I
read each alternate day for a week,
and then wrapped it np and placed it
in an alcove tor safe keeping.
Conyers, Ga. II Q.
Mons. de Lesseps read a paper
some time ago before the French
Academy, stating that he believed he
had di-covered the actual place where
the Israelites crossed the Red Sea.
French priest, thinking hi; arguments
conclusive, is appealing for-funds for
dredging purposes, in order to bring „
to light any remains ot Pharabh’s | Certainly no one can objefct to taking
army which may be under the sand, that much trouble for so good a cause.
There seems to be great anxiety
and impatience on the part, ot the
people to see the revised edition of
the Bible, that they may see what
changes have been made. The trouble
with rao-t people will be that they
don’t know enough about the Bible
to recognize the change when they see
it. We heard a man say that he con
sidered this unauthorized meddling
with and changing of the sacred Book
little less than blasphemy. And at the
time of making the remark he was
hunting all through the book of Job to
find the quotation: ‘Make hay white
the sun' shines.’—Avgusta News,
