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FANCIES FOB THE FAltt StX.
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Trim it on, do«u m the hull,
For she know* to* "~zty c*dj”
1* tlio latent style this Ml.
Matador is the newest shade el red.
■‘presses ore not short t > exaggera
tion. '
r 1 Tilde or fop cuffs are not fnsh-
ionablc. ' 'iTiffCj'Jl
Gloves for lull dress ore as long ns
ever.
Satin de Lyons takes the place.ot
the faille.
Stripes are very fashionable for the
children.
S no Beruhnrdi’s fancies are all the
fat eica, _ _ •
Grns grain silk aud faille buuTgom
out ot dale. •,
Driving cloaks are itjng, 4otj$e oh
stem ot cheviot.
Hu'-oior red is the most* vjvil|.-hade
of t hat color.
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iWtiark'sOlbtten. v, ; ■''SjT&jl';
, - . fikMMlHMPB^eibovr sleeves, are
Satin bonnets are ornamented to
eVw with heads.
Little people are again dr ased in
briuhl any eo!'•: s.
Tin* • 1‘iigrim’ is the lorm of tlie pol
onaise in Paris
Grt- n and brown are favorite com-
binati- i.,- <>t col r.
Plash is the favorite trimming for
jackets ami clonks.
11 igh ruffs of lace, both b!a**k and
white, will be worn.
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ATHENS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MOKNf
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|G, DECEMBER 21, 1SS0.
Number 7.
GEORGIA'S NEW SENATOR.
To th«r Editor of the New York Tunes.
Tour dispatches from Atlanta have
told you 'of the election of ex-Gov.
Brown to the United States Senate
by the Legislature of Georgia, He
was appointed by Gov. Colquitt last
May to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation y( John B. Gordon, and
the State ol Georgia was stirred to its
profounde.sl depths by this sudden
resignation; and tfra very nnaec«iota-
Me appointment <>f Blown to fiwr jie
jtt wjfLUei ny-ysNaad thacMyt.
Gordon ijifi opejpdSf
Brown hfatid'papKsrfh tRe ip<Vrige'o|
1877, and charged-with a trade in the
■ counting in’ of president Hayes, in
complicity with Charles Foster and
Stanley Matthews. Gordon’s friends
denied it, and then the corrrs|>ondenoe
stopped, with any amount of bad blood
on both sides, judging from the tone
ot the published letters. There had
been no settlement of the seeming dif
ficulty, until one morn og last May a
disnaieli w. s published all over the
Union that Gordon had resigned ani
Colquitt had Hill’d thi-placc with ex-
Gov. Brown.’ The party friends of
Colquitt and Gordon were all taken
Woven feather bands will be used j by surprise, and as the political record
or trimming dressy wraps. of Gov. Browti was particularly ob-
time. From tliat time ho has been
an ardent democrat. As all renegades
are , zealots, he sneered at an indepen
dent victory in 1874 as a “ radical
triumph.” His democracy was oozing
out. at every pore when Gov. Tilden
sent him to Florida to count out Hayes
and to count in Tilden.
His pure patriotism denounced
President Hnyes as—“ the grandest
fraud ever perpetrated on the Ameri
can people. Euterlu’ning these views
Ibtnnot recommend, mvtijends to
President Haves for any position
a atever, and- ^ de?
•cl»e l&do ^
iOTLAST'A.7 Jfnri-h 2&,1»77.
With au audacity - rivaling that of
Satan himself he appears now upon
the stage ns the Simon Pure State
Rights Democratic Senator from
Georgia, sent there by immaculate
democratic votes.
In a public speech in ihe city of
Atlanta, in 1868, he incited the
negroes to incendiarism, pointed to
the dwellings ot the whiles with a
torch. Iu .1880 he goes into the*
United States Senate by tiie aid of a
party which “ controlled ” the voles
of 90,000 colored men, to suppress
the republican party in the Union.
lie is now the leader anil suppor
ter of the party of Gen. Toombs,
who in a speech at Cedar Town, Aug.
*25, 1868, referred to him in these
words:
road and the profit of your convict la
bor; and <>ow^ when your boasted
democracy -jus died ot Tweedi-mi,
Kellyi-jiu, Barnumism, and Joe
Browiunn, you Head tiiis anomalous
creature, this trading, acrobatic poli
tician, to complete yonr ignorainons
degradation in the senate of tfoUni-
ted Slates 1 Character has gone out
of politics. To restore its moral salt
men must revolt at party dueiplir
and demand higher standards ot pel
tical duty. Political independence
the demand of the hear -
der.f
»c
It IS 1
I are in
SEORGIA NEWS.
'famine is threatened at
i(a perfect grin of a post
Jrown, of Clay county, is
i at Barm sville coutem-
; a new chnrch.
Uer^pn, late conductor
n, of Brainbridge,
vspaper at .Lees-
.sy wraps,
Fichus of white net will take the I noxious to the honest Democrats in
place ol those ol mull mid 1 ,ce. I the State, the feeling became exceed-
, , , / i i .i i inglv bitter. Gordon exchanged his
l'lgtin J and rough-surfaced cloths . .. ,. " n
■ t* . , , seat for an a'tornevship on Gov
are preferred lor winter cloaks. i - -
Feathers and flowers, in mixed gar-j j nto ljie ru b,. rna t or i a i canvass to re- i * More bitter far than a serpent's
,,,Hires, will be worn on evening L lect Colquitt will. nil hi« political and | J j® is to have a thank'ess child.
" , . D pecuniary strength. 1 he bond ot un- \ < n u j s f a i se to nature. What more
\\ hatever the divine Sata wears j ,on between these parties appears now | ca „ x to commcm ] lh is wretch to
will ha worn hy women that are not j to bo the convict lease ot Ueoigia, I Uf jetestaliou
fat. which is as notorious as it is disgrace «lie has fatigued public indigna-
Silver and golden woven mid span- lul to a sovereign State. lion; it is no longer equal to' Ms
oli d tulle will be worn lor ball dresses. Gordon is a prominent lessee in one crimes.’
company, some of tlie State-house offi- 'Ignoble villain 1 Buoyant solely
cers In another company, while J. E. j with corruption, he only rises as he
Brown heads another, to whom is
guaranteed ‘ 300 able-bodied long
term’slaves for 20 years, beginning
in April, 1879. Colquitt at one time
held shares in Gordon’s company liim-
s<-It; whether he does still is not defi
nitely known. The readers ot the
Times will remember that Alston lost
his life - was killed in the Capitol in
or heavily trimmed Atlanta in March, 1879—in a dilficul
ty which grew out of Gordon’s owns
powdr-bas
are controlled and
tions settled by individual pecuniary
interest. The whole thing has be
come intolerable to the best intellects
and the good sense of the people ; but
these evils not only grow and destroy
our national glory, but our sub
stance. Our inheritance must go to
this devouring, rapacious horde who
fatten and flourish on our ever-in
creasing taxes. Geoboia.
Atlanta, Tuesday, Nov. 16. ’80
A Usorgia Kuoch Anlen Case.
Oar neighbor, the Washington Ga
zette, publishes the following strange
story:
The history of a life through which
romance winds with all its mysteries,
longings and rejoicings as intense as
the
The
to the
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Very dark bottle green will take
the place ot navy blue in popular fa
vor.
The garments called polonaises are
not much like those worn several years
ago.
Furs have not attracted the altens
lion of the world ot fashion as yet this
si ason.
The most fashionable bonnets aie
either ol pln-h
with plush.
fabric which eloselv resembles Sioi—
lienne.
Even tlie plainest wool dr—ses are
trimmed with cisele or brocaded vel
vet.
Heavily embroidered and jet bead-
, , . , * lie lias betrayed I113 natural and j - , .
Biown’s railroad, and Brown went! f oslor nl( , t ' ner .i I ever thrilled the human breast, has
■ ’ ! just come to our knowledge Al
though the culmination occurred in
another part of the state, we give the
story, asrit hies-eo; been tnade-
there. ,
Tlie Rev. Dr. Jones, who serves
the Presbyterian church in this place,
and also the one in ltoswell, North
Georgia, lias just given us the history
of the lady who is the principal actor
■n this life drama. Tlie lady, we be
lieve, was a member of.his church in
the above named little place. During
a recent visit she requested the Doc
tor to negotiate some New York ex
change for her a- it could not be done
there, lie drew the money for her,
| and -aw her on the train lor Texas,
told him the money was sent to
her by her long lost husband," whom
she had believed dead for the last
thirteen years.
She was a New England lady, ami
in early life had married a Mr. Pres
cott (who, by the way, is a relation of
Benialitie is ti e name of a new silk 1 ersbip ot these convicts. Alston, who
V . . . . . .* .1 -.1 *1, A ldol.ilinn
rots!’
This degenerate renubliean in the
teeth of these denunciations meekly
turned bis coat and served out a pro
bation of 12 years—doing the bidding
of a democratic oligarchy—anting
by voice and purse the organization
which k»ep< Georgia and the south ,
solid, while the decent republicans in ■ s 1
the state look with contempt at.d in-
j dignation upon the ignoble poltroon
cotton receipts at Rome
were 55,881 bales, against
year.
colored, one hundred
ars of age died in Hr.b-
nty.
, it weekly will be published
in Bo me," the first number of which
will apppar January 5th.
Theliitti&ary at Thomasville has a
building-that cost $3,000, and has 2,-
000 volumes in tlie library.
A negro woman was found dead in
bed near Savannah with her child
clasped,in her arms.
Rev. J. A. Reynolds and six other
membaiii of the North Georgia Con.-
ference are practical printers.
Cotton was first planted in Georgia
and thf Carolina* in 1772-73, ami in
Louisiana lt42.
dulhx;k is said to
have‘hi« ejfe oh the Untied States
marshamhip of Georgia,
u Throe negroes while at work on' the
Bruustrick harlior were drowned the
first 01 the week.
A collision occured on the West
Point railroad near Hogausville
which^a cab was wrecked.
The Atlanta cotton factory works
300 hands, by means of relays runs
six days and six nights each week,
from 12 p. m. Sunday night to 12 p.
m. on Saturday night, turning out au
immense amount of fabrics and yarns.
Mr. B F Hewitt, of Sumter, lost by
fire his corn crib containing bis corn,
several hundred bushels, all his wa
gons, harness plows, etc., four Or five
stacks of fodder and a number of hogs
that he had killed that day and put In
the crib to cool off.
The many friends of Rev. T C
Boykin, the Sunday school evangelist,
will he pained to learn that the hand
' of iifiiijiion -.11!s been laid mron him
again lh the dentil of his son - ," Thomas
G Bioykin, Jr., who died recently in
Atlanta.
WORDS TO THE HIRES.
The following advice to the girls is
being extensively distributed among
families of the Eastern States: Don’t
go with a man if he is a stranger to
you, or one whose reputation you are
not acquainted with. Remember
that iu ordinary business the same
rule is applied as a protection against
the loss of money. No banker or
money-lender will trnst a stranger; no
business man will soil him goods on
time without guarantee against loss or
deception. Why then should a wos
man, youn^ or old, trust herself to a
m .„ a- Ao^i no t Vnttant'-.tlher he ia
man to get rtji of himXg/ft to oblige
him, or to save Bim, Yraan.wbo has
Mr. Henry W Grady arrived in
Atlanta on the 9th from New York,
where he has bean for several days.
He will now remove his family from
Atlanta to New York and take up his
residence there at least one year. lie
is to be connected with General
Gi ant’s Mexican railroad.
It is reported by a railroad man
that Sam llill was lately seen in a sa
loon iu Mobile, Ala. He was en
gaged in an altercation, in which he
floored his antagonist. The report
goes that when arrested for disturbing
the peace he made himself known to
some of his friends there and the
sporting men, and secured his release.
Mr. W B S Davis, of Polk county,
was assaulted on the 6th, about dusk
in his barn while feeding. His assail
ant was concealed in the loft and tired
on him with a pistol, but utisaed his
mark and Tsin attacked with a hand-
axe, inflicting a slight cut 00 the head.
The object was probably money, as he
had received some money on Saturday
at Taylorsville veiy publicly.
The edi'or of the Conyers Weekly
was shown, on hist Monday by Mr.
.Toe Echols, some of the finest gold ore
On the 8th the corner stone of the I lie ever saw. The mine from which
was the chairman of the legislative
commits e that brought in the report
showing tlie barbarity and atrocity of
those losses, was shot in tlie preseucc
of the principal keeper of the convicts
and the Stale Treasurer, also a lessee,
by Gordon’s man of business, Edw ard
u,nls tire.-4 -Her injuries though painful, are
vd *m*”Ml* whopbsuU.* HN
Xinter weawtar, ” ’ out his time in Gov. Brown’s camp as 1 ,t
, - s- r - r'— t— am,non ono 0 jf the 300 slaves. ' I ' l ~ 1
Annie Louisa Cary has $10,000
worth of real estate in Portland. She
bought it lor a song.
A ladies’ cooking club has been or
ganized in Albany. It is to have male
members, however, whose duties will
lie to chop wood, bring water etc., for
the fair dailies of the kitchen while
engaged in their labors.
A gallant Alabama editor in ‘notic
ing’ a grocery kept by a woman, says,
• Her tomatoes are as red as her own
cheeks, her indigo as blue as her own
eyes, and her pepper as hot as her
temper.’
Plaids nre being run into the ground
beyond a doubt. It is no .uncommon
thing now when a lady gets into a
street car robed in a plaid pilgrim to
hear the other plaid less women in the
ear whisper, ‘My, aint that an awful
horrid ugly dress ?’
A poor little New York bride had
nn awlul thing to hapten to her the
other day 'As she was wnlking up
the aisle to be lied forever, somestu-
pid usher stepped on the trail, ripped
the skirt of her dress more than halt
off. and as no one had the sense to
repair the damage, she was married
in thol plight.
Girls it there is one thing more than
any other that hold youug men of our
day back from matrimonial ventures
it is the disheartening spectacle so of
ten presented them of your own dear
papa and mamma walking into church
glorified respectively by n $12 ulslei
and $30 bonnet. That is what scares
the boys.
Girls of the period, indeed all sorts
1 f girls, fall in love ns easily as they
draw the breath of life, and they are
always imagining some moustached
young fellows to be the only man they
ever loved. For the benefit of tliese
kiisci ptible beauties we give the fid-
Icwing ncipe : 'When we imagine we
love It is the presence of the loved one
that deceives us. YVjitn wC truly love,
it is absence that proves it.’
Hosiery in the new shades tnny be
h id to match the suits, and so may
gloves. The *gnnt de suede’ is an
improved form of the ‘•nek’ glove. It
is the length of a six or eight button
glove, but is fastened only at the wrist
with two or three buttons. It is easier
to pat on and fits better than the or
dinary ‘sack.’ In tan color it mny be
worn with any shade.
The French have taken up the Eng-
li-li fashion of making the decoration,
ot one’s room correspond with one’s
dicss, but as they by no means affect
the comparatively inexpensive Queen
Anne fashions, but have adopted the
most extravagant styles of the most
extravagant monarchs, French hus
bands arc having pretty bills to pay,
and French upholsterers are growing
rich.
About one woman in twenty-five is
n tine ci 1 vcrsaiionalist. It is as rare
ami almost ns valuable ns a talent tor
I aiming or singing, and it is an art
that can be cultivated 10 almost an
unlimited degree bv practice and a
well directed course of reading. Of
II any young ladies it can be said that
they are charming if. lete-a-lclc con
versations but awfully common place,
il not dull, in attempting to entertain
tour or five Indies or gentlemen. And
it is rather a dubious compliment that
of Oh, she is n jolly nice girl to talk
to when you can get her off iu a corn
er by herself.'
who would barter hi3 birthright for
money, his state for spoils, anil h;s
country for position.
llegoe- to Washington as the organ . n „
and mom inpiece of a party that he i Prescott, the historian). They e,
denounce 1 in 1868 in these terms : 1 »“:*> «?*£«• ,n - w " st
‘lam _
ive Grant and Collar a cordial sup*
know,Sir, that yonr party-tbe 1 •^■teriSrS*^^"*^ j Wsuccessful.
‘ Mr. H M Tn\ior fe suing the rail*
M IU AOU-J iu im-TJC IC4 • 1 .. . . . , -
^republican.,, .1 cxpep^ioAll with then!
nt and Collar a cordial sup" *
J AruoniJg considerably further Jowar*
new colored public school in Atlanta
was laid with ceremonies.
The young men’s library associa
tion nt {Lome will have a fair begin
ning January 3d and continuing a
week.
The registration injunction bill iu
Savannah has been refused on the
gromid that the law is constitutional.
Mrs. Painter was seriously burned
iu Augusta by tier clothes catching
not |ital.
’ ijbssraif'JJP* St«v<?ns & Go. <Jf''At-
ft.wkeb Jnctory in
it was taken is not three hundred
yards from the court house in Con
yers, and the Weekly says already
$2,000 worth of stock has been taken,
and Mr. Echols is confident that a
company of $10,000 capital will be
organized at once.
In Augusta on the 10th inst. as the
train was leaving the city, the loeomo
live struck an aged man named Cron
in, knocking him off the track, mash
ing his left, hand completely off, and
otherwise injuring him. Mr. Cronin
is probably eighty years of ngr
not noticing the engine until it was
upon him.
fairly, whether these barbarities should | jtic will be a rope of sand as
longer disgrace the State, and the
convict ring be broken down, or
whether they should perpetuate tl.oi*
profits by continuing the lease, on
which their large income- depended.
Gordon, il appears, felt unequal to the
task, but Bi.ivn would undertake it,
and the seat was exchanged in the
Senate, that the steady income from
this brutal system ol slavery might be
continued Gordon acknowling that he
was to receive $15,000 per annum by
way of salary as the attorney of the
railroad.
The gubernatorial canvass was
managed by Gov. Brown, and resulted
in victory for himself and Colquitt.
The history of all elections in the
South will explain this one also. With
all the election machinery in their
hands, with an immense sum oi State
money lying idle in certain interested
banks, through which Gov Brown
transacts his financial business, placet!
there by authority of Gov. Colquitt,
the result could be easily foreseen.
Brown elecsed Colqiiittaud also Brown
delegates to the legislature at the same
time. The election of United Stab s
Senator was the beginning and the
end of it. The convict ring can now
enjoy the profits of 1,200 slaves, for
wliich they pay a nominal price, and
by which they absolutely control the
Empire State of the South, through
the Governor and United States Sen
ator. Joseph E. Brown has a very
unsavory recoid as a Democrat, but
his record as a Republican is odious.
He is a political acrobat. He leaps
from one party to another, calculating
always upon his own pecuniary profit
with certainty. As a Democratic
State rights Governor in Georgia, he
committed the first act of treason in
the State, by seizing the United Slates
arsenal, at Augusta, before Georgia
seceded.
He was a violent seccsgioni-t, and
armed a number of troops with ‘ Joe
Brown pikes,’ and sent them to the
seat of war to scare tlie great yankee
nation. Until Ji ff Davis began to
overshadow him, he was the war Gov
ernor of the South and the conledern-
cy. Then he begau.to cool off, aud
he set up au inside fracas that would
have crumbled tho whole affair if
Giant..bad not whipped itj out at
Appomattox. T
Brown wont iu poor and came out
rich—no man knows his wealth or its
origin. Georgia went iu rich and
came out luor, and nobody knows
the channel by which her wiallh was
(rained off; but speculateu is rife aud
suspicious are plentiful. As soon as
the war was over Gov. Brown became*
a violent republican to avert coufisca
lion. Tho first legislature that met
in Georgia in 1868 found him on hand
as a candidate for United States
Senator, but the republicans were not
willing to trust a recruit who was nt
that time pushing schemes through
the legislature to give him tl>e convict
lease and tie railroad lease of the
State. They did not elect him, but
Gov. Bullock made him Chief-Justice
oi the Supreme Bench, which office
he held until he saw the democrats
soon as Congress ceases to legislate on
the question and to give the leaders
of your party new caus s ol agitation
and complaint wliich enable them to
apply the party lash to hold the or
ganization together. It is a hetero
geneous mass of as antagonistic ele
ments as ever banded together in one
common cause. It is composed ot
original whigs, democrats, know-
nothings, secessionists, union men,
white men, mestizoes, and negroes.
Y'ottr large majority in this state was
obtained by unfairness, intimidation,
and fraud.’’—Public documents, For
tieth Congress, Third Session. -
Here was n democratic war Gov
ernor, secessionists, and known
traitor to the United States Govern
ment. Now, as republican Chief-
Justice in the State, denouncing the
democracy! The mestizoes 1
Granting his patriotism in this lat
ter office. What do yon think ot the
mealiness of the sci, as well as the
corruptness ot the motive, which will
charge the republican party with
fraud in giving Hayes his real in the
White House?
How Satan must have grinned with
pride and satisfaction over his suc
cessful training!
In the year 1874 Gov. Brown pub
lished an .open letter, in which these
words occur. * It was a hard enough
fate upon us for our conquerors to
abolish slavery and wrest from us
without a dollar ot compensation the
billions ol dollars invested in that
properly. [‘The lust of gold suc
ceeds the lust of conquest!’] then to
compel us to stand upon terms of
legal equality with our former slaves
and meet them as eqnals at the bal
lot-box. In my judgment there »ra
but two contingencies which can avoai
the evil, one i» the overwhelming de»
teat ot the republican party this fall.
If ibis should tail, the onlv remain
ing hope is the veto power of the
President.’
Compare this letter with u publish
ed speech made in the city ot At
lanta Aug. 19, 1868, to a large as
sembly of negroes: “ The object of
democracy is to destroy negro suf
frage in the South. When did you
ever hear ot four million freemen with
the ballot in their bauds surrendering
it without bloodshed V II you let
them alone, they will vote peaceably.
If you don’t tny white friends, you
will provoke a state of things in
which you will be the greatest suf-
ferers. Your booses, yonr villages,
and yonr towns are pledged to peaee !
There are thirty thousand while re
publicans in Geojgis. There are
ninety thousand of you, my colored
friends!’
Here is a man who ate his own
words—kissed the feet of his enemy,
and whined that he had to ireet the
negro as an equal at the ballot-box^
Poor old bull-dozed Georgia! It was
fitting that the elevation ot this hybrid
mongrel Senator should occur when
national democracy waa defunct!
In yonr prosperity and power you
took him up and gave him position!
lie led you into armed secession ; he
country They
Antonia, but have never since met
She was taken desperately ill. Some
designing parties planned to deceive
her, and made her believe her hus
band was dead. Tiiey conveyed simi
lar news to .Mr. Prescott concerning
his wile, aud were successful in their
designs to the last degree.
Mrs. Prescott, feeling satisfied lie-
yonil all doubt that her husband was
dead afterwards married a man whom
we wili call Mr. Jackson, and by some
means they drifted to Georgia and
settled in the little town ol Roswell.
Fortune that had smiled so brightly
on Jter in her 'early life was now
changed, and in casting about for re
sources upon which site might draw,
wrote to a lawyer in Texas inquiring
if something cuiild be had trum the
Prescott estate. The astonndic g news
came back that Mr. Piescott was livi
ing. If the heavens and the earth had
come together before Mrs. Jackson’s
eyes her surprise would not have been
greater.
Mr. Prescott wrote and urged tier
to come to him, expressing a willing
ness to take care of two ot the strau--
ger’s children, aud supposing that he
would want to keep the other two,
Mr. Jack-on was willing for her to
return to her rightful husband, her
first love. In this particular is it un
like Enoch Arden ?
Dr. Jones kindly saw the un'brtu-
nate and t fortunate lady off on her
journey to her long lost husband. The
meeting will be almost as if by those
who had returned from another world.
The chequered liie of Mrs. Prescott
out-rivals fiction. Mr. Prescott never
married again.
NEWSPAPER BEIT.
roads to reeovi r interest on a slice of
the passenger depot at Macon. The
claim is an old one. ,,
Miss Nancy Kuightou.a lady about
50 years of ago, near Coda clown, was
burned to death by f illing into the fire
on last week.
A negro was finally burned in Sa
vannah by tlie burning oil from a
kerosene lamp, which she accidentally
dropped.
A man in Greene county had his
coffin made twelve years'before he
died, and kept it under his bi d filled
with apples and whiskey
Two little negroes were left alone
iu a house in Augusta by their moth
er when one ot litem was burned to
death and the other severely.
A man was arrested in Macon on
the 8th who stole a watch in Abbeville
twj years ago. Tho thief and watch
ITaTe’Cenn sent to that place.
Shem Lassiter, at Hawkinsvilie, has
wager of $18 against a month’s board
that he can eat a partridge every
morning for forty consecutive days.
A colored woman near Savannah
left her child in a room where there
was a tire aud returned to find it lying
on the floor where it had been roasted
alive.
It it s-.’id that X IE., otherwise
knowu as tlie local of the Telegraph,
will lead one of Macon’s fairest and
most lovely daughter’s to the hymen
eal altar next month.
The dead body of a negro man was
found in a ditch near Atlanta It was
buried by the negroi s and as no in
quest was held it is thought the body
wili be exhumed for the purpose.
The north Georgia Fair association
has declared a dividend often per cent,
on the Capital stock, did' has between
The freight train on the Macon it
Western road was wrecked near the
36 mile pn-t. Four or five freight
cars wero wrecked, and the three men
on the engine slightly damaged. En
gineer Phreeny was bruised from head
to foot; fireman Jackson had his an
kle twisted, and Nott, the woodpass-
er, was hurt in the groin. Neither one
of the men forsook tlieii posts, but
remained until hurled out bodily.
On the 27tb of April, 1878, Wash
McDaniel, a white man, was tried in
the Wilkinson county superior court
upon the charge of murder and sen
tenced to the penitentiary. Not long
since an indictment was lound against
him charging him with another mur
der of a more outrageous character,
and on the 13th, in compliance with
the demands of the state officials, Mc
Daniel was surrendered to their charge
to betaken back home to stand a trial
on the second indictment. It is
thought that hanging will be his lot
when the case is disposed of.
Oglethorpe Echo: ‘ Last week Mr.
George B Lumpkir. detected two ne
groes under his gin house in the act
of stealing cotton. One of the pair
was captured, who exposed an organs
ized band of cotton thieves who have
carried on a big business in that sec
tion this winter. The leader of this
gang is an old negro living on Mr.
Mid Johnson’s Flatwoods place, who
has already had fourteen bales ginned
trora as many acres of bumble bee cot
ton, besides disposing of some seed
cotton to a man in the neighborhood.
The citizens are indignant and intend
to run the last one ot the crowd from
their midst The old negro referred
to is sending one of his daughters to
a b iarding school aud buying silk
dresses tor bis wile to wear every day.
We never heard of, so ninth cotton
formed bad habits, what is he 7 What
is there of him you can like? 'the
man who would go to destruction
witlu.m you would quite as likely go
with you, and, perhaps, drag you
along. Remember, your future haps
piness depends altogether on the kind
of a partner you get, as it is he that
makes your home on earth a heaven
or a home of sorrow. Therefore, be
sure, take none other than one that is
equally pure as yourself. Remember
that man, when he looks for a wife,
seeks sobriety, virtue and purity in a
woman. Why should not women
then demand the same of men ?
Drunkenness turns a man out of him
self and leaves a beast in its place.
Do not marry for a home and a living
when, by taking care of your health,
you can be strong enough to earn your
own living. Be kind and true to your
own sex. Do not let fathers, mothers
or aunts sell you ior money or position
into bondage, tears and life-long mis
eries, which you alone must endure.
Do uot meet any man clandestinely,
as it may be to your sorrow. Do not
place yourself habitually in the soeie-
ty of any suitor until you have deci
ded tlie question of matrimony. Hu
man wills are weak—giris, especially,
often become bewildered, and do not
know their error until it is too late.
Get away from all other influences
except‘good motheis.’ Settle your
head aud make up your mind alone.
A word from a good mother will not
harm you, as she is the last and crown
ing handiwork of God, the liuk con
necting heaven and earth, the eo-
downmeut of purity, holiness aud
heavenly grace, tiie most perfect com
bination of modesty, patience, devotion
affection, gratitude and loveliness and
fit for auy high or holy trust. Did
anil 1 1,01 she watch over you from infancy
to childhood, from childood to girl
hood ? And a mother is more of a
mother than a father is a lather j
Mother knows that a husband’s
work is from suu to sun, and a wife’s
work is never done. Forget not, a
promise may be made in a moment of
sympathy, or even hall delirious ec
stasy, which must be redeemed
through years of sorrow, toil and pain.
Forget not, he only that is free from
vice is fit to be your companion, aud
no other. Drop the company of him
at once who has uttered a word un
becoming to true manhood, for if a
man is true to himself, then it must
follow as the day the nlgut, be cannot
be false to woman. As you moke your
bed so you must sleep. Take none
Chat has ever slandered or betrayed
one of your own sex, or broken a
promise. He is not worthy of n wife,
nor will he ever be true to oue.
AXJIF.RRY MOURNER.
Ills Oriitiun'.Over the Uiirlal nr Dennn'riitle
Hopes." ’
The republicans of Clarinda, Page
county, Iowa, had a jollification meet-
ing on Friday night, the 5th instant.
After several republican orators had
given' vent to their feelings with
spread eagle speeches, the crowd called
loudly tor Lou B. Cake. Cake is a
•leinocrat aipLhe looked too depressed
to apeak'/but the crowd wouldn't be
put off, so he mounted a box and
made the following unique speech:
b ellow-citizens: A man usually at
tends his own funeral, but it is not
expected that he should talk ranch.
[Laughter;V I knew the funeral cer
emonies could not go on without mfe,
‘so I concluded that I liad better bring
in the body, [Laughter.] But it
takes a great deal of grace to sustain
a man who helps furnish the corpse
for an occasion like this. [Laughter.]
Nobody but a Democrat couia.dait.
[Applause.] It is certain that no one
save the Democrats have had a chance
to try it for the last twenty years.
[Shouts of, applause.] . Disappoint
ment is the modem democrat^ birth
right and mourning his normal COO-
dition. They took out a patent on
disaster, twenty years ago and it has
never been infringed. Tbe : patent
burnout in 1876and they have j ust got
it renewed. Looking oyer, ilje land
scape of the last tweUty jNsSngTB«(£
hold*acres and acres of busted hopes,
cords and cords of disgruntled am
bitions, barrels and barrels of unavail
ing tears, oceans and oceans MtreWb
with the wrecks .of phantom ships
once burdened with democratic delue>
ions. [Great applause.] Disappoint
ment is an anchor to the democratic
soul, both-sure and steadfast.
Leavfaha-e their time to flail, Ji *
A id flowers to wither i*t the north wind's
HOW TO WHIP THE NORTH.
1500 and $1,000 eitrplhrf tor coiilin- gtealitie as of late.
" Editors ,do nothing but go to snows
and eat peanuts, il would appear,from
the extravagant idea some have ofthe
craft An unknown voice iu the fol
lowing well-chosen words timely re.
marks: ‘An editor’s business i3 to
write editorials, grind out jioetry, sort
and rewrite communications, listen to
all kinds of complaints, otter advice
on all subjects, from prescribing ior a
baby with the colic up to specie re
sumption, keep a waste-basket, steal
mutter, fight other people's battles,
take beans, pumpkin and green wood,
« hen he can get them, on subscrip
tion. work eighteen hours out oftwen
ty-four, always be in a good humor
and witty, be alike impervious.to flat
tery and censure, and be criticised
and damned by every nincompoop
who don't like his paper. Finally, to
wear out iti service, and at last hear
the pleasing plaudit: * ’Tis euough ;
come up -higher.’
“gMSMC*—
A man known aa:B«a,Grud, a, sort
of root doctor and peddler of patent
incdicipes, was arrested in Albany
and committed for stealing $20 from
a negro.
Governor Oo'quiti, on the 8th,
commissioned the following gentle
man as aides-decamp on his stall’: J
H Esti'l, Savannah ; L C Jones, At
lanta ;T\VH Harris, Rome.
It was rumored that Jolly would be
taken .from jail and mobbed and a
large number of people assembled at
Decatur to witness- it Jolly bas
lieen removed to the Fulton jiil.
A Washington telegram states that
a movement is on foot to appoint John
T Collins postmaster at Savannah, in
the place of G n. McLaws, whose
term ol office will shortly expire,
Savannah was the scene of a num-
were about to gel control of the state gloated over your downfall; be
again, when, presto!—Joseph turned I joined hands with your corrupt degen-
bei of drunken rows but Sunday, but
the worst case was a-woman who was
Aroolered'woman at Fort Gaines
who was working for Mr. Retu9 Sin.
gleton, while sitting near the fire had
her clothes to catch. She ran to
jump on her bed and smother the
flames, when the beddiug commenced
burning. : She then opened her door
and screamed for Mrs. S. who was soon
aroused and went to her relief. They
were only two people (save two ne
gro children) on the place. Mrs.Siu-
glelou put out the fire on the woman,
then snatched her infant from the
burning lied, carried the bod clothes
out ot the door, and ran a mile for a
man to go after a physician. The
man was not there, so she got hold of
a boy, returned to her house, went in
her field, caught a horse, seat the boy
tor a doctor, and broke twenty-tour
eggs (which she, Mrs., S., was saving for
Christmas) and put the whites on the
cremated sufferers. Her efforts were
unavailing, however, for the untor-
tunato mother and child have both
died.
The Bainbridge Democrat indulges
in the following sensible remarks:
If tho south just would pay more
attention to manufacturers, not alone
of cotton, but of everything else, for
which we are. now dependent upon
other sections, we would soon cease
to hear the taunting cry of a ** solid
south.” On the other band, we might
be just as solid as we pleased, for the
whole yankee nation would be bowing
at our feet. The south can be inde
pendent of tlie north, and through the
medium of the pocket she can control
the “bloody shirt’’ howlers, and strike
her detainers of all classes speechless.
The war made the north rich and the
south poor; but when manufactories
start up in every hamlet, ai d the
sooth begins to depend solely upon
herself lor everything that her people
consume, she will then be rich and
powerful, and the great problem of
her political future will have been
solved. It you want to kill the yankee,
don’t think of such a foolish thing as
knocking him in the .head, bnt aim at
bis pocket and you ihav« him jdead
sure." Take from the north.th,c mill*
ions npoii millions that flow into her
lap from the poor south, so solid and
so rebellious, and we have her pros
trate and in chains. There will be no
blood about this thing, either.
Thoa hast all times lor thine own death.
• I might say with Shylock, “.Suffer
ance, suffer-ance is the badge of our
tribe.’’ I could give you 329 reasons
for this. [Laughter.] A lawyer of
fered a judge sixteen reasons why his
client was not present in court. First,
he was dead. The judge told him
that he migiit omit the other fifteen.
The first reason of the 329 is, ; we
lacked the voters. You will allow nic
to a nit the other 328. [Applausive
cons ant.] But I could give you more
than 329 reasons. Y T en, Morey let
ter. John Kelly did it with his little
racket. [Great applause.] Wade
Hamptonls mule broke liisjeg instead
ot his neck, and Ben Hill wasn’t born
a mule. English has foreclosed- his
mortgages and we couldn’t redeem.
Then— *_■
’Tig the South .that can supply . •
Solid cbm torts While we die. r
In some states the Greenback party
toll through a crack ih>'<their platfrin
anil crippled us. . [L»pgbtej:.J ul Bflf
dies. Bnt untorfuWitcly; like-, the
mule, whijle it HveSTtls forever throw
ing its riders.’. '.d J’SWrn
It bucked Greeley off and killed
him iu 1872. Tilden stuck op,til' be
passed under the wire. [Applause.]
But there was so much daylight be
tween bim and this iemocriitic quad
ruped the judges counted <bim off,- al
though he had his feet in the stirrups.
This year we got a splendid, send-off
and might have won, but the donkey
was stricken down in Indiana with
(g) Landers. [Applause.] We close
this chapter ot history with the hope
the story will not be continued in our
next. [Cheer--.] We accept defeat
the more chcerlully because of the
magnanimous manner with which you
take the victory. We take it every
four years. It is a standing prescrip
tion. - It might well be called the
quadrennial ipecac. [Groans.] It
works up before the Election and
works down when the returns come
We thank yon for the magnani
mous way in which you have turned
out to our funeral. [Applause] We
congratulate you on the magnificent
and imposing character of the obse
quies. [Here the speaker’s feeling
overcame him, and he retired amid
encouraging earthquakes and-applau
sive avalanches. <
gone crazy over marriages with young
ladies in England lately- is exciting
wonder and fun. ■ The latest is a
divine of 82, with grandchildren al-
lemly married. He is rich in loaves
and fishes, outside the spiritual vine
yard, and is what a managing mother-
in-law or a business-minded damsel
would consider a good catch. The
lady is only 17, and was baptized by
her future spouse when he bad a
_ quiverful of grandchildren running
Ills coat and his politics at the same orate sons to plunder yon of yonr rail - about.
Abbey said lie would play.Sara
Beruiiardtto Atlanta one night on a
guarantee of $3,000, The young
Men’s Library association are unwill
ing to make themselves responsible
lor tlie amonnt
Active preparations are being made
by the young people of Macon for a
grand celebration of New Year's Day.
Thfr calling will be almost general and
the cards wil be of the most elaborate
and’ unique description.
She went up stairs in her chintz
apron and mob cap, with a little dab
of flour on bar nose, and told Henry
she was learning to cook; and he told
her she must not get overheated or
tired out tor be didn’t care-whether
she could cook or not; he should
never want to eat when’he cculd talk
to her. and it was only sordid souls
that cared for cooking; - A year after,
he swore at her because the biscuits
were heavy. ,
l , (ft if*, '.h itini’JV /iYf. ;!
Not So.—The report is denied that
Queen Victoria has recently insured
her life for large sums in Paris.
Why any one Bixty years of age, es»
peciidly a Queen and Empress, who is
so rich that it is said she can easily
lay up $1,000,000 a year, should em
bark in life insurance is hard to com
prehend. England's Queen is pro
nounced to be the wealthiest woman
on the globe. It is asserted that put
ting aside all other sources ofincome.
Duchy of Lancaster and legacy from
Mr. Neild bring her in $300,000, a
year, and her income does not fall short
of $3,000,000 per annum. And if
the royal matron who is so wise ami
gentle, and deservedly fills a'lftrgo
space in the hearts of her liege sub
jects, wanted more spending money.
Parliament would be quick to advance
the desired sum. Why then should
she insure her life, when every child
a'so receives a munificent allowance
from the government? The report
is utterly discredited.
A member of the Gate City Guards
is married. Great spoons 1 Is it pos
sible that there wjll be another gen-
SENSIBLE THANKSGIVING.
Talmage’s Tabernacle was a beauti
ful scene of arborescence on thanks
giving day. The New York Herald
thus describes the decorations:
There was cotton bursting from its
pod from South Carolina, wheat from
sooth and west, corn from New Jer
sey and England, and there were
pumpkins, potatoes of many varieties
all the fruits of the orchard, and clus
ters ot grapas, reflecting all the hues
of the rainbow, suspended -from the
chandeliers. Sheaves of : wheat,,and
ears of corn were: bound, to the pillars
that support the great gallery, and
altogether the Tabernacle Waaart cnor-
1 raous garner. In the bentre of all the
cereals and fruits on the platform was
an enormous golden cornucopia, and
by its side was an. orange tree bearing
ripe fruit, that arrived yesterday
morning in a steamship from Florida.
rotation'his sermon i p ’•■
• My perorathm wilLba.fltjph as you
never heard before,’ the preacher said
in conclusion, j for never before was
such a peroration possible.’ Then’he
said that the product of com in the
United States this year ds 2,000,000,-
000 bushels, worth $600,006,000;
the wheat product, -500,000,000 bush
els; petroleum, 15,000,000 barrels;
16,000,000 swine; expbrts of- beef,
lard and bacon, $88,000,000 ; exports
of bread stuffs, $279,000,000; exports
of ootton, petroleum and tobacco,
$845,000,000. He describes the im
mense Dalrymple farm, which yielded
3*2,000,000 bushels of wheat this year,
and other extensive farms of from
10,000 to 15,000 each, and said that
we had only begun to till the soil- in
this country* and that our productions
are already limited by facilities for
transportation. Four hundred and
fifty-three emigrants have come to
enrich the countiy this year, and it
is emmigration of a kind 1 that . was
never, equalled—brains and ’ capital.
Westward ho! Let all the -financial
and political croakers go itothi ’their
rat-boles and all grateful men and wo
men go to dinner. f
oration of those ubiquitous warriors? w\\i,~N&rristosi‘\Ber(ildA
.... . . ... : • vveou■tfsiU.uPqs . 1*. ;---it
A Piladelpbla contkctor says whis
key can ’be' tnkde 'out of garbage.
And webelieve him. Whiskey-makes
garbage out of man, and why shoufln’t
man make whiskey out ot garbage.
It is a poor rule,teat wop’t work both