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Newspaper Page Text-*4 ftTjic glcclilg ^imitcr. w-A.xsii2s^:-A.3sr, PPOPR1ETOR. UAIV1 H OF A1)VKBTI81NG Advertisement* will l* inserted at the rate of One Dollar i*r inch for the 6i*t insertion, ami Fifty Cent* tyr each additional insertion CONTRACT RATES: STAC a" ,1 »no.j2 mo. ,3 mo.,6 moTjl year One Inch-.. $ 2 .V) * -1 00 8 ft 00$ 7 50;fl0 00 Two lucbes....... 4 Oo 6 On' 1 7 00) 10 00, 15 00 5 M>; 7 00 8 50 ; 12 MM 20 00 €00 8 00 10 oo! 18 ~ Three Inch**— Four Inches .... Quarter Column Half Column-.... On© Column 7 80s 10 00! 13 Mj 30 001 £100 10 00 15 00, 20 00 *0 00 50 00 15 00 38 00 SO 0W fiOW 00 00 RAILROAD SCHEDULE. Northeastern Railroad. isCntWNTKNDKNIS OFFICE, \ Athena Ga., l>ec. 22d, 1880. { FAHT MAIL TRAIN, On an<l alter Thursday. December 23d, train* on the North Kaatern liailroud will run as fjU low*: NO. 8, m 1 8:30 [* m in | 6:00 p m m | 11:38 j> m Leave Athena Arrive at I.uln Arrive at Atlanta NO. 2. No. 4. I/cave Atlanta 4.13 a tn | 3:3t» p lr Arrive at Lula 6:55 n m | 6:18 p n: Arrive u» Alliens 11:30 n m I 8:45 n it Volume LXV. THE All trains daily except Sunday. Trains 1, 2 and 3 connect closely with all hast and West bound passenger trains ot Air Line Kailway. Train No. 4 with West hound passenger train on Saturday night only, when it will wait until 0.43 i*. in.,* when by so doing a connection car. be made. Passengers leaving Athens at 5 a. m. connect chicly at Lula With the Fast mail train tor At- lauta,*tirne 4 hours and 30 minutes, miking close conn etion at Atlanta for all ]*oints West and Southwest. LYMAN WELLS.Sup’t. Georgia Kail Koad Company PCPKniNTKNDKNT's ) •\COl'STA, Ga., Nov. 5, 188n. \ C’omineneiug Sun.lav, atl» inst,th< t\i l’.tss. uger Schedule will op|K*rate o.t th ATI LINS , \\ . rvilit Antioch.... Maxevs : WootKille... . .9.18 air. ...9.45 a m .. if .20 A 3J .. V-.48A m . 11.1*5 a M ..11.31 A M s road: on p n 30 p u. • •5 p m SO ,, ,11 Arrive at Washington ,2.J'» Arrive at Milledgvvilie.... 4.45 Arrive Mat on »».4. R • Niilledgeville. • Wusiiiugton.. • Atlanta • I nion i* in:.. A SPEElt THRUST. THE SOUTH, AND WIIAT. IT NEEDS. Hob. Emory Spoor's Views—boss'of Nonsense and a (iissl IS-nl More of Work will In* sure Prosperity—Srnator Itrown a I'sefuDMnn to the Soathorn States. (From ,thc Chicago Times.) Hon. Emory Speer, of Georgia, be- longs to the liberal-independent school of Southern Democracy. Ilis ideas on Southern politics are identical with those of Alexander H. Stephens, who has been so extensively quoted in Southern matters, and who is a irue representative at the progressive ele ment of the South. Mr. Speer so close ly resembles Mr. Stephens iu his ideas and methods ot thought that lie may he said to be a pupil and follower ot the distinguished Southerner. He h is made three races ‘or Congress from tlie o'.d Ilowell Colib district ol Geor gia. The first time lie was defeated by about 1,400 majority. The second ATHENS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 11, 1SS1. be com)>elled to buy at home, or else abandou the enterprise which he con templates ? We want this load takeo off. We want other relief of a siini- lar character, and I think this is the siieedicst way to get rid of any fear ot the solid South. If our interests are diversified, we will have diverse poli tics ; but if we are always kept by the policy ot the Government AM AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL PEOPLE, it will not he surprising it we have sameness of interests, causing same ness of political thought’ - ‘ In what spirit doahe people of the South regaid the election ot General Garfield, and what hope, if any, have they that the policy of the new ad ministration will tend to advance their ma 1 oral, political, and social interest ?’ ‘ I think there is a very general dis position in the South to bo entirely reconciled to Gen. Garfieil’s election. He is conceded to be fairly elected, and many of ns have testified io our .- - ■ . . opinion of his high intellectual and in- time he was elected by —5. majority. , <li v i«lti:tl character in such a wav that At.the **' ct,on he received 4,064 j ,) ie people have great confidence that majority. ^ At u\ ery election he^ ran | j,j s administia'.ion will he a very suc- ci sslul one I think Generali can do a great deal toward JJUEJ BRITISH STRUCTURE DF,CAYL\G. (Washington; Post.) r ; : The great structure of British pow er that has been the admiration ot the ■tyorld :tbr many generations, shows islakable signs ol a general broak- onr Bermuda grass, which grows therffi -./'Nations, like the beings which com- old plantations which they bought ai cheap rates, until they have very much increased their value. I talked re-1 cently wjjth several of these gentle-' rat*", who ate men ol'fini intelligence Th-y speak very hopefully of theii condition. They are making a greai teal of money in making hay from \Y . i vi I i. - . M.i\< ya : Antioch 1.27 r ; 1.45 1’ 3 ...2.05 pm 600 a ...3.27pm 620 a rvillc- 8.02 PM « 53 a s 8.30 pm 7 So n laily—ho ccnticctiou to or lr n Sunday*or between Macon a itU-r direction ou Sunday nights. K. DoitSKY, Ocn M 1*088., A|*t. S. K. Johnson, Supi. Trai Washington ATLANTA i CHARLJTTE Air-Line Railway. Passenger Department ATLANl'A -TU— E3-A.STJUJJK.JSr CITiuiia I CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. v)n alter Nov. 7th 1>80, Trains will rm on this road as follows, poiti# Hast: DAY I’ASSOJGIlR TRAIN—EASTWARD. Arrive at Lula 6 33 a m ^eave Lula — 6.36 a u WESTWARD. Arrive at Lula 9.22 p u Leave Lula... 9.23 p m MCsIIT PASHKNOF.lt TRAIN—EASTWARD. Arrive ai i.ula 8.18 r m _.eavu 6.19 p m WESTWARD. Arrive at Lula 9.10 a m Leave 9.11 a m Ljcal freight traiy—eastward. Arrive ot Lula 1 i.3G L av v 11.47 TV ASTW—RX.' A rive-at hula .11.57 a m RMlMmEWPm*$&&&*&&+&* jx.it* m TIIROrAH FRKIOIIT TRAIN—RA8TWARD Arrive wi Lula 8.59 p m L-.tv* 4.10 P m WESTWARD. Arrive r.t Lula 7.04 a m Leave ~ ...... 7.15 A M 4'loso connection at Atlaulu tor uil poime West hi*-i Southwest. Connecting *t Charlotte nil points Last. Tlrrotikh Tk*ki «• on sale a. un.neaville, Seneca Ciiy, Greenville and V.oart«n'>ur2 U* nil point* East an<‘ ^ est. G. J. FoKEACKK, Genera; ainiffvr \V. J. HOUSTON Gun. l*ass.J-’i’ • ot Av r ' 1 ngaiust the regular nomim e <*f the Democratic c<*nveniion in a district which !n-l fa'l gave Hancock in the neighborhood of 15,0o0 mnjorit.v. lie is a rative-bnrn Georgian, and claims to be a true Democrat. He belongs io a family which has always been id-ns titied with the South. His cousin was elected Treasurer of State ami his uncle Associati*-Justiceof the Supreme Court of Georgia at the last ehetion. As he himself says, his views are not those of a carpet-bagger or of a man who is oilier than a representative ol at least one class of genuine Southern thinkers. He says lie is one ol those who prote-s to believe that he serves his parly best who serves his country best. At the extra session he stood up almost alone on the Democratic side and opposed the practice of TACKING nlPERS ON APPROPRIATION BILLS. His resolution in caucus against riders was voti d down by an overwhelming majority. He proposed and advocated a rule prohibiting riders on appros priation bills on the floor of the house, and, with the exception of Alexander It. Stephens and perhaps one or two others, was not sustained by a single member on his side of the house. It was because of this that he was almost formally read out ot the party by Mr. McMahon, of Ohio. The game thing was made use of against him in the campaign, and yet ho received the. indorsement of his constitVtenls by a decided majority. Mr Speer is a young man, thirty-three years of age. 1‘KOFKSSIONAll CARDS. SYLVAMJS MORtllS, ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR IT LAW. ATHLSTTS, GEORGIA.. VViU bttfu.d promptly*to any t»uslnr<* entrusted to him. Ortice liunuicutt lilock. Br«a t street, dec.l.tf. Garfield inging politics into a normal condition down there by heeding the opinion of onr representative Stoutbern men. I do not mean to say that I expect that he will pay much attention to the ultra- Ronrbrns, but to such Southern thinkers who believe that, thcie is t future for the South, even under the amendments ;o the Constitution which were at first so obnoxious to our pco- p'e. I allude to auett MEN AS SENATOR IIROWN. I take him as a type of a very large class ot onr people. If all of the offices of the ndmini-tralion down there are to be conferred on partisans, there will he very little encourage ment to n liberal and independent spirit. That there is such a spirit there is evidenced bv my election and that of Senator Brown. Senator Brown voted lor Grant after the war. No man in the history of our S'nte, from the day Oglethorpe landed at Ynmncraw Bluff, was so bitterly de nounced as tvas Gov. Brown, yet he was elected to the United States Senate hy a two-thirds vote of the Georgia Legislature over General Lawton, a genuine type of the South era chivalry, a gallant confederate officer, and one ot the most di-tin- gnished men of our State. This is another instance, I think, of a very decided progress in liberalism and in- dependemhen on tile pan- of- the people of the South. Of course we thrm, have their infancy, their "tl“tb, their maturity, old age, decay Uijnnl dissolution. Great Britain’s ■SjtojitJ.has gone byvijhe has passed in great profusion, and which, unti the arrival ot these men, was thought, to be of no value whatever and Jj J positive blemish to the places when ; it grew. But these men, with charac* 1 zenith other power and glory,and tei i/'ic enterprise, are making tnoiie) is making rapid progress toward the from it. Iu the upper part of district there is a grert Aeitl-of ern c-ipitul embarked in r G(*LI> MINING. Theie is not a section of the country so inviting to emigrants as the upper portion of my State. The climate is delightful the year around ; fruits ot alt varieties grow there in the richest profusion ; cotton is being grown now to tbe very foot ot the Blue Ridge-' Mountains, where before the war there was very little ot it grown in the section where 1 live, sixty miles south of that jK'iut. Our water power is wonderfully valuable, and, if we had an infusion of Northern energy and capital iu our section, the country would soon assume the apptarance of the best portions of Ohio and Penn sylvania. We have a magnificent future before ns, and there is a strong disposition among tbe people to turn away from the old ideas and to re ward liberalism in polities.’ in carrying too heavy a weight. The protracted strain has produced its inevitable result. The structure will crumble away, for the foundation is fast becoming too weak to sustaiu it. TUiT OKLAHOMA EXI’EDITIOX. Our readers are advised that a nu merous body of armed men, lor the nice' part de sperate adventurers, have assembled on the borders of tbe In dian n serve with the avowed inten tion of trampling under foot the laws of the country and violating the sacred obligations entered into by the governme nt with the Indian tribes of the West. Ti ey propose to take forci ble possession of the Indian Territory tier mining and agricultural purposes. Upon what pretense, will it. be asked, has this shameful filibustering inva sion been organized? Those who have been wont to point to Kansas as the promised land for the deluded ne groes—a region unexampled in fertil ity, and, as it were,flowing with m.lk and honey, where farms can he locat ed for a mere song and wages make the laborer rich, will be astonished to learn that the reason assigned for this treebooting expedition is the alleged f :ct that in sixteen counties in Ivin sas the^eoplo tare tagging to. ffdivi. An exehange pertinently intimates, if this be the case, tlu n the glowing ochleneM of age. 'In.Vsn-- notipirg |Qr pare vmh the achieVemen land and the English A land, large enough to serve as itupes rial headquarters, has controlled vast empires in both hemispheres, and still nominally asserts her sway over a large portion of the globe. Still, ‘the morning drumbeat, following the sun, circles the globe with tbe martial a'rs of England.’ But these aire do not typify tbe same power as of old They suggest a tailing grasp, rather than the robust vigor ot other days. What Dr. Holmes so happily styles ‘ a general flavor of mild decay’ has long been apparent. Causes that have hitherto operated but slowly, are now producing startling effects. Troubles accumulate, while the power of resist ance does not increase. The future of England is gloomy, tor there is no hope ot permanently adjnstii g exist ing difficulties. Here and there an impending storm may be tied up f r a tunc by temporizing expedients, but l.lj£ye_can be no disposal of the dan- gel's that threaten ttie British State. For England has not the power to crush tin* insurrectionary spirit at home and broad. She has ship*’, it is true, and can man them. Herlinauces are in a healthful condition now, but war would soon breakdown her cred it, for she lacks many of the condi tions essential u> the maintenance of national credit in a serious and pro- traoted war. A nation that has only a com paras tively small standing army, and has such limited resources tor volunteers as Great 'Britain, cannot dominate unwilling or rebellious nations tor all time. British power is breaking, be cause it has been strained too much. Under the fatal lead ol Beacousfitld, England lias been involved in foreign complications from which sate extri cation is impossible. Instead ot strengthening hersell at home, E g- land has attempted the role of gen* ral arbiter ot nations, and has become ■j involved in such a network of comjdi- ” cations that an honorable isate there- _ cannot offer an alii;.nee with the re _ _ vd does not look more than his years. { publican party, because in many j accounts given to induce emigration He is a little above medium stature i things we differ from the republicans; thither Irotn the East and from Eu- and Well proportioned. He lias a but I think we can offer a liberal, in-] rope, to say nothing of the poor color- smooth face, fine forehead, large, | dependent, and progressive legislative pleasant eyes, and Roman nose. Ilis | conduct.’ manner is especially agreeable and | ‘ What is the condition of the col- cordial. He was found in his room ored element ot the South?’ at the National this morning by a I • It would he a very happy thing Times representative. Mr. Speer] to ns if the educational bill which has p-is-ed the Senate would pass the House. There is H. H. CARLTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ATHENS, GA. O FFICE on Broad street, up ataira. Entrance next door above Long's i>tir? Store. Will attend promptly to all buainea* entrusted to hia MISCELLANEOUS A.DV. 500 MILE TICKETS. GKOROIA RAILROAD COMPANY, ) Okfh'K 6rm'l Pas knokr Ah't > AtiKunla, March 2, 1880. J COMMENCING THIS DAVE, thi» Company will *elt FIVE HUN OREO MILK TICKETS good liver main line and branches, ai THIRTEEN 7VI00 DOLLARS each. These tickets will be is- •ordto individual*, firms, or fkmiliea, but not to firms and families combiued. £. K. DOR5EI tnhlM! Genera! Passen feragent. FOK I OFFER for Mile all the first cites nud latest improved Shoe Machinery that is fnund in a Southern Shoe Factory. Aly reason tor selling is that 1 have not the money to cany ou the hnsine-a. 1 would take a job to manufacture shoes for the purchaser, as I thoroughly understand the husiucsa iu all of it* parts. Will sell the above cheap for cash. . For Inrthcr information address. II. SL WILSON, P. O. Box 88, Athena, Ga. nov.S.tl. NOTICE. r lOSE who at* indebted to the undersigned. either by note or account, will please call and settle OP. The year i» nearly gon and cotton is a good remunciatira price, and no one can say that cotton is too low to *ell. I hop this notice will be sufficient, and Mint all wno arc behind with me will settle at ouoo. Those who do not oomc up sud ssttlc will soon find their notes and accounts in the hands of an officer for collection. dec7-w8ra 8. C. DOBBS. O N Wednesday 1st. day of December, I lost a pocket book contaiufng one ten dollar bill, and one due bill on John bikes tor ouehundred and fifty dollars, dated 4o day of Novcinber- lasl, and clbei small tuvprs. The prty find ing th* same ltd leaving lt »t Lid* office, will be fipemlly rewarded. Ml parties »re hereby W'srncd uol to tr-de for said dun bill,' as tbe same lias since been raid off hy said Sikes. . dee.10.d4t.wlm. DAVID E. SIMS. ( Extract from a Letter of Rev* Hr. Lovlck Pierce, Spann, Un., April 88,1879. DxaaBia: I hate found your Liver Tonic t< oe more rjfcetaal than anything- ! have evci used in relief of hshitoal oousUpation. It ii the best vt these Liver KcguUters. Yours. L. FIERCE. l)n. E. S. LvifnoN—Disk Sib: I c«n nevei ' find words to express my gratitude to you fot the incalculable benefit 1 nave derived from tb< use of “Smith's Liver 'ionic.” For two year, 1 suffered witli Liver disease in the worst form, and never bad any permanent rcliel nnt.il th* first of last November, when 1 procured a butth of tliu Liver Tonie. Since then, i have usei ouly two and n half bottles, end am entirely well. I have not felt a symptom ot (be direau ■inoe taking the first du**. I. had previously tried several physicians and many ouiei reir.e dies, and all tailed lu effect me beneficially. Mis* Ellen P«man la m ally concur iu the eh tuny g*-ty “ gave tlie interviewer a fr.mk atul ! hearty welcome. In the course of the interview talk which lotloivol .Mr. Speer was particular to draw a dis tinction between j THE OLD AND NEW CONDITION of things at the South. When speak- j ing of the present and future he used the term 'new South’ in contrast with the old regime. The conversation first turned upon the stilus of the South ern Democracy and its relation to the Democracy of the North. In speaking of the former he used the phrase ‘Southern Representatives,’ and of the latter he said ‘Northern Democrats.’ I think,’ he remarked, ‘that Southern Representatives make a great mistake here by theii ultra partisanship. If we had more patriotism and less of obedience to the dictates of party leaders on the floor of the house we would he a great deal better off. I do not deny that the Northern Democ racy are and have been friends of the South. But I take it that the South ern Representatives really know let ter what are tlie needs of the South than do the Northern Democracy. I find, too, that when qne. tions ol ma terial advantage to our people down there are broached we find in the ranks ot the Northern Democracy a number ot gentlemen who differ as widely with ns on our views as to the pioper legis lation as Republicans do.’ ‘What are these questions of mate rial advantage?’ For instance, the tariff question and the tax on cotton machinery. There is a great industry which we can build np in the So ith. Our cli mate is IWouderfully adapted lor the manufacture of car ton. The raw material grows right at this door of the. factory. There is not ai day in aha year that our streams are clogged hy ice. Freight and labor tm* cheap. Cotton spins much letter iiYour cli mate than it does in a colder climate We could add millions of dollars to our income every year if it were pn-si- bjfffor us to c HAiiuFAtncBB'THffwrroN "we grow into cloths or even thread. Yet it seems impossible tor us io gi t any re lict,-even in removing the dHty trom cotton ""machinery, which virtually amounts to a prohibition on the pur chase of mnifhincry abroad. My idea of the first duty of a Southern repre sentative is so to act as to get as mnch and speedy relief as possible tor the maierial interest of the people whom he represents. What I mean t!o say is this: I do not want the demands of the parly to prevent me trom get ting as much substantial relief as possible for onr people. The Union will need fifteen millions ot new spindles, with accom panying ronchivy, it is said, in the next twenty years Now, ought s*t* not be pei milted to buy where we can buy tbe cheapest ? ti one who con- eoiplates cotton manufacture can buy iu England for one dollar what will d people, most be the grossest delu sions, and Kansas as a State ‘ must have become rptien before it is ripe.’ If it required tlie whole army of the United States to capture or disperse this army of tide yes and outlaws, the President should uot hesitate to em ploy it for that purpose. Movements from may n*>t be expected. If we look a England’s vast empire in India, we liud general discontent, often breaking out into bloody insur rection. We find, too, that the Indian resources tire falling off at an alarming rate, aud that tlie outlook is gloomy enough. In Afghanistan, where millions have been squandered and thousands of lives thrown away, there is no better solution of the difficulty offered than A GREAT DEAL OK ILLITERACY in the South, and we need ai 1 from the Government to educate the peo ple. This education, in' my own State, would be divided with rigid rightfnluess between the colored and white people. The State Legislature of Georgia votes the same amount every year to the university for the colored youth as it does for tbe uni versity tor the white youth of the State. I have seen crowds ot little suffered sufficiently, not only., at tbo coloied children at the common | iari ds of irresponsible whites' butof like this are worse than the acts of the ; a withdrawal ofBritish forces, leaving Commune, for the latter only seeks to divide up and slnue the property of the rich with the representative c*f all classes, while this hostile array, stand ing ready to pounce upon the last re fuge and abiding place of tlie decima ted red men, are veritable land pir ates who would seize anil appropriate a whole Territory for their own ag grandizement. Tbe Indians in all conscience have IN. schools being educated hy the coloied teachers, educated at the State uni versity. There is great hopefulness in my mind about the condition of the negroes. They are gaining pro|>erty and tbe children especially, in towns and villages, are being educated. We believe that A GENERAL SYSTEM OF EDUCATION there would in a few years redound very greatly to the prosperity of us all.’ * Is it true that there i- a disposition to deprive the negro of the right of suffrage unless lie votes the demo cratic ticket?’ ‘ I can only sjieak of my own sec tion. There was no interfere nee with them in the exercise ot this right. But really this movement ot the New South as against the Bourbon element is a guarantee that the negro shall have a full vote and a fair one.’ ‘ Is there really a prejudice iu the South against the North as a sec tion V 1 don’t 1 hink there is any sjiecia! prejudice of this kind. Of course, where there have been divisions in the people which were written in blood, as wero ouis, it is ■ at long time before the scars heal over, l’ake, for in stance, the English £nd the Scotch of to-day. They are one people, but. the Scotch people perhaps have mote pleasant memories of Bannockburn, where Brace overthrew Edward; thau have the English people. It is hoi unnatural that we should pri serve the same memories Our people cheer ‘ Dixie ’ a little louder in some audi ences perhaps than they would th ‘Star Sitangled Banner,’ but still there is au entirely GOOD KEELING TOWARD THE GOVERN MENT and determination that we shall have for the future an indestructible Un ion. Wherever in my canvass I de clared tor an indissoluble Union of indestructible Slates the crowd would cheer heartily and with great enthu siasm.’ • What is the condition and charac ter of the emigration, and what ia there to iudiice emigration to the Sooth V ‘ 1 judge only of the emigration into my district. I know of sixty Northern men from Western New York there who are in a very thriving the accredited agents of the govern ment also, to entitle them to future protection. EMERSON AND IBS NEW LECTURE. One evening, when Ralph Waldo Emerson was engaged in preparing his new lecture, Mrs. Emerson, who had that moment flattened her finger while trying to drive a nail with the smcothing-irm, thrust her head into his study, and said : ‘See here, sir! I want you to drop that everlasting ; eu ot yours for a min ute or two at least, and go down to the grocery and get a mackerel for breakfast.’ ‘ My dear,’ replied Mr. Emerson, looking up trom his work, ‘ my dear can’t you go ? You see I’m billed in a dozen plac -s to deliver this lecture oo ‘Memory,’ aud it isn’t half finished y vt -’ , * And that’s what you.call jwbHbv fernal lecture, is it V ’ said Mrs. Em erson, sharply. ‘ A tiiue party" you are to deliver a lecture oil ‘Memory.’ 1 And why not, my love ? ’ said Mr. Emerson, meekly. 1 You never go out of the house that you don’t forget to put on your hat or Ixiots, aud yon never lake a letter of mine to mail that yon don’t carry in your pocket tor six months or a year, uuh ss I happen to find it sooner. During the past thirty days yon h ive carried out ot this house and forgot to bring back no less than 75 or 80 um brellas ; and you know yourself the last lime you went to church you took out yonr fal-e teeth, because, as yon said, they hurt your corns, and came away and left them on the seat. I say you are a nice man to talk to a cul tured nud'ence on * memory,’ and if you don’t trot right offto tbe grocery I’ll expose you befoVayou are twenty- tour hours older.’ i Mr. Emerson started on a jump for the grocery, and when he g«t tlrtre he couldn’t fot the life of him recol lect what he had tome lor.— A’eto HeUfot d Mercury. Tub legislature of Illiuo* will, at its approaching session, lie asked to pass a lawmaking it an offense to sell, give, hire or loan a pistol or other deadly weapon to any minor. The enforcement of such a law would, un* _ _ doubtedlv, greatly reduce the list* of jost jtyo fitJIys to* buy here, ought ho condition. They have improved the crime and acciili nM. the pathway to Eastern domination open to Russia. We knew it is sug gested that an agreement between the English and Russian authorities will protect British interests in that quarter, but this will prove a vain reliance. The invasion ot Afghanistan has proven a stupendous blunder, tor all that has been expended is now a confessed loss. In the Eastern question England is iwlt f-monr-tropetessty - tuvoiveff “Her faith is pledged for that whioli she cannot possibly fulfill. British finan cial interests tequire the preservation ot the Turkish Empire aud peace therein. British honor has been plighted to the Chvi-tian dependencies of Turkey and to the Greeks to see that the terms of the Berlin compact are carried out. But Great Britain has no meu to spare to fight the Turk, nor will the capitalists of Europe ad vance funds for the extermination of their creditor at Constantinople. . The Sputh African war, another legaey of Beacoastield, reopens at a time when there is'no chance for the use of such fori* as would promptly crush out rebellion. England has no troops that she can afford to send out of Great Britain until there.is peace at home. It anything had been want ing to thl* full ueasnre ot England’s woes, it would have been supplied by the late occurrences . at the Cape. Every day seems to increase the insol uble perplexities that environ the British Ministry. Every day comes a change, * a bitter change, severer for severe.’ • Every uay one of the infernal machines, prepared and planted by Beuconsfield, explodes under the teel oi his successor in office. On the cot tinent and in Asia aud Africa things are bad enough, but they are still worse at home. Ireland is a smoking, foaming, roaring volcano, from which the lava tide of red-hot revolution is ready to burst forth. No temporizing makeshift will secure peace. The difficulty is radical and demands heroic treatment. The peo ple ot Ireland are oppressed. Their grievances are actual, real. They demand relief, but the British Parlia ment will never consent to such meas ures for Irish relief as the Land Leauge calls for. There may be a sort ot semi-truce fixed up for a while, but the struggle will go on—it will go on until there is a re-distribution of lands on tbe hoels of revolution. And even in England there is a land trouble that is growing serious.' The soil is becoming exhausted. The farm ers cannot compete with our farmers in the ptodueii m of cereals aud pro visions. They cannot pay the reuials that are charged, and they are organs izing with a determinat oii to secure redress of their wrongs. There is no point of the compass to which a British statesmen may turn, tt . this hour," to ■see a ray of cheering hope. The ener gies ol the comfy Save been wasted RUINED BY RUM. 1 A Ilorrible Incident tn Ohio. A highly respected physician is au thority for the following story of al most unbelievable depravity. An old man in Cleaveland, Ohio, depends for support.upon the work of his daugh ter—biapuly child. He"was not wor- tjiy^of that support, for be was a. slave —the whiskey bottle. He made effort to earn an honest living fur himself, although able of limb and sound of mind, but was an almost constant dweller at bar rooms and loafing coiners. His daughter went out to sew, and her father compelled her every day to give him a quarter to buy liquor." With that money he always went out evenings to blow his coin, his health, and his brains i ito whiskey jugs, leaving his child, tired and tearful, in a frequently cold and dark house. By her toil she secured a sewing machine, aud did her sewing at home. She did everything in her power to draw her father out trom the folds of the monster that was a thousand arms dragging him down. The neighbors reasoned with him and scolded him, lmt to no avail. He reg ularly slept in a gutter, or crawled home from some saloon in the morn ing, to bear to his poor girl the sight of ‘the old man’s druuk again.’ One day when the streets ot Cleve land were colored with ice, the daugh ter slipped and fell near the public square. She was picked up badly in jured, and carried to one of the hos pitals. M r tall was too much for her frail system, weakened aud run down by unceasing toil, poor food, cheerless days and nights of sorrow. For sev eral days she tossed in fever, and, al though kindly eared for, she finally died. The father missed his daily pittance tor his rum, and pawned the sewing machine to buy more liquor. The poor, dead girl was buried quiet ly, no one going to the paupers’ graveyard except the undertakers and the father. The ladies who lived neighbors to the girl made a beautiful wreath to be put upon the coffin ; and gave it to the hitherto he placed there iu the grave. That wreath he sold tor liquor At night, when the rum cravings came on him strongest, the old man secured a horse and wagon, drove to tlie grave where his dead daughter was buried,, dug up the earth, tore the emaciated body from its resting place, and conveyed it away to the storage room of a medical col lege. He sold it there lor a miserable pittance—a few dollars—with which he again went to kneel dotvu before the frightful idol to whom he had offered up health, happiness, home, his only child, aud his own soul. Hu manity so sunk is happily seldom seen. With the price of his faithful daughter’s body that man, the physi cian says, is now.debauching himself. Number 10. FUSS IN TUB HOUSE OF REPRESENTA TTVES, The House, as a pugilistic ring, a cockpit, or a scene for pot-house brawls and grog-shop affrays, is not a success. Its quarrels no not take the tragic dignity of" a drunken affray, which is generally enlivened (or dead ened) by pistol shots and stabs. The affair in the House between Weaver, ot Iowa, and Sparks, of Illinois, which consumed the morning session yester day, is thus described i« the-telegrams of Wednesday: JVIr, .Weaver made a humorous speech, arraigning tlio democratic questions, and the discussion soon drifted into a noisy and irregular dis pute as to which party was responsible for the demonetization of silver, and which party should have credit for its remonetization. A personal contro versy soon sprang up between Mr. Sparks and Mr. Weaver as to the lat ter’s veracity. Mr. Weaver declared that no one could insult him intentionally by as cribing a falsehood to him without feeling the force of his (Weaver’s) right arm. [Laughter and uproar.] Mr. Spa: ks replied : ‘What I said was that you were slating what was not true, and that you were wanting in the qualities of a gentleman.’ Mr. Weaver, now thoroughly angry and excited : ‘ I denounce the gen tleman personally as a liar on the floor of the House.’ Mr. Sparks (equally excited)— ‘You are a scoundrel and a villain.’ Mr. Weaver thereupon, amid great uproar, left the place where he was standing and advanced menacingly to ward Mr. Sparks, who, in his turn, moved toward Mr. Weaver, but both wc* immediately surrounded by members who prevented them from getting to close quarters, aud made them put on their coats, which each was in the act of taking oft" as he ad vanced into the area. Of course tbe greatest confusion and disorder pre vailed oo the floor and galleries, but ni the midst of it the Speaker took the chair and called upon the eergeant-at arms to do his duly. Just then, how ever, there was uothing particular to be done by that official, as the comba tants had been removed by their re spective friends, and there was no danger ot their assaulting each other. After the disorder had subsided, Mr. Converse resumed the chair. The committee arose and tiie House ad journed. FRANKLIN'S MAXIMS. Plough deep while sluggards sleep and you shall have corn to sell and keep._ Pride is as loud as want and a great deal more saucy. Silks and satins, scarlets and velvets put out the kitchen fire. IjjllypnAft ia I lift-- mnlt>— of - C..J Luck. Pride breakfasted with Plenty dined with Poverty and supped with In famy. Extravagance and [mprovideuce end at the prison door. It is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some. What maintains one vice would bring up two children. lie that goes borrowing, returns sorrowing. Bather go to bed siq perlcss than rise in debt. Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears. A fife ot leisure and a life of lazis ness are two different things. Creditors have better memories than debtors. The rolling stone trathers no moss. It you would have your business done, go ; if not send. The Land League Business — John Boyle Q’Reilly, editor of the Boston Pilot, one of the most intelli gent Irishmen in the country, ex* pressed the opinion recently that the Land League would triumph. Hu says : ‘The main thing that keeps En gland Irotn conceding to Ireland just now what she asks is, that she would have to do the same for tlie English tenants. Ireland, in a political sense, is ahead of England. She has struck a terrible blow; not only at the land system of England, but all Eurcpe. In France, through the revolution and the destruction of the aristocrats by the guillotine and banishment, the land passed into the hands of the people. There are 9,000,000 of land holders in France and only 300,000 in England. The English land tiller and laborer is an unconscious serf. He is not, however, so completely a pauper as his brother in Ireland, be cause his landlord spends his money in the same country with him, and he gets part of it. There are millions of people of Irish blood in England, and I believe that the people of the two nations inay come closer together in the Irish, which is the popular caOse, and that this has become very mate rially more ]«opulirin England within the last 25 years.’ The agitation lias already com- ntenoed among Kugli-h iarmets. It Frugal and Simple.—The- Sun delivers it self ot the (blowing : ‘I am,’ said Thomas Jefferson, ‘for a gov ernment rigorously frugal and simple.’ The tnllowers of Jefferson will find their account in being honest and con sistently for the same thing. The phrase quoted embraces all the govern ment that in necessary to the well be ing of the country. Frugality is the parent of official honestly and account ability, while extravagance in expen ditures is a parent of corruption and centralization. A frugal and simple government collects only such taxes as are neces sary tor the performance of its own functions, such as the administration ol justice and the common defense. It raises no fuud for commercial or in dustrial enterprises; it takes nothing from the people to give away in the form of subsidies. A frugal and simple government cuts down its civil list to the number jths“llltplv r‘ 0’ 1 'OmAhn i>*iUIL. I*.***, mess. It maintains no army lor which it has no other employment than that of overawing the people or their representatives. It is never the victim ot ring jobbery and plunder, because its revenues are too slender or too well guarded by law to tempt the thief. The Democrats of the forty-fourth congress eutered upon a policy calcula ted to secure this sort of a govern ment. When they cut down the ex penditures they struck at all the most alarming tendencies, from centraliza tion ot power to petty official larceny. That policy won the approval of the people, and ought to be faithfully pursued. A TOUCHING INCIDENT. Au English actress, passing along a street one day, heard singing. She looked in at an open door upon a tit- tie prayer-meeting, and caught the word : Depth of mercy c»n there be Mercy still reserved for me 1 She entered, listened awhile and then went away, but the hymn went with her. She became a Christian, and determined to leave the stage; but the manager would not release her from fulfilling her engagement. The last night she played with unusual brilliancy and at tbe close was called before the certain. Her contract was discharged ; she had no master now but Christ. Standing there with 'clasped bands and streaming eyes, she sung: Depth of mercy can there bo Mercy still reaeved for me I Can my God hia wrath forbear Me, the chief of ainnera spare I The audience was melted by the pathetic confession and plea, and many sought the same mercy. A drunken man in Savannah was found almost frozen to death, ,'v . Mr. W A Carney, of Macon, killed,/ a white dove a few days ago. “ ■' : Hon* Joseph E Brown has given one hundred tons of coal for tbe relief of the poor in Atlanta. Tn Berrien county a negro at Tift’s mill fell near the saw while in motion and had one arm almost severed from the body. The guard-house at Dublin has been leavied upon aud advertised for sale under a ft fa issued from the county court. Several of the cotton thieves at EU berton have been convicted and it is believed that the band of thieves bps been broken np. Robert Davis, the boy who killed the negro boy. Jackson, with a toy pistol in Savannah recently, has never been apprehended. Some of the draymen of Atlanta charge one dollar per load fordrayiug tbe wood which is donated to the poor of that city. A -young man in Macon leveled his tn and threatened to kill the sexton ho forbade hls entering the cemetery of the Atlantic & Gulf railroad, which matured on the 1st inst., are now be ing paid in Savannah. ' A shouting party of seven men and one woman in Savannah, were arres ted and put in the guard-house for disturbing the neighborhood. The Albany News and Advertiser says it is rubbing up a Southern Geor. gia horse for the next gubernatorial race, and that it is going to win. The Atlanta Post says that a part of the edition of the Constitution of the 2<1 was excluded from the mails on account of an indecent item. The denizens of Tarhoro, Camden county, had a li.tle melee Christmas day. Result: Two dead and three wounded.—all turpentine hands. Tom Smith, an intoxicated negro, struck Mr. Charles Brooks, of Macon, in the face without provocation, when he drew his knife and cut Tom severe ly in several places. It is reported that Jesse Raymond, who tried to blackmail Senator B H Hill, Washington, through the medi um of her little Tommy, is at prest nl sojourning in Jacksonville. A lady in Atlanta was robbed of her pocket-book containing a small sum of money and aliout one hundred dollars worth of railroad scrip, while getting off the Western aud Atlantic Railroad train. Reports from Acworth, Cobb coun ty, say that on the ^Lst ult., snow at that place was six inches deep on a level, the thermometer was five de grees below zero, and business was entirely suspended. A fire occurred in the New York clothing store, at Savannah, on the 2d, which burned most of tlie stock of goods. The building was saved. The stock was valued at $25,000, with $22,500 insurance. Judge Pitt M Brown died at Griff, in, on the 3d. The cause was Bright’s disease of the kidneys, though the immediate cause was brought on by eating a frozen apple Satuiday after noon, producing congestion. Rev. John C. Simmons, one of the oldest and best known Methodist preachers in Georgia years ago, has just been appointed pastor of St. Paul’s Church in San Francisco, Cali fornia, in which state he has been liv ing for several years past. * Three little negro children were fonnd by a negro man in a shanty, near, Macon, about frozen. The mother had gone to the city and left them without fire or wood. One of them just beginning to crawl was al most stiff with cold. Tbe man made a fire and thawed the little fellows. There is no State law governing commercial travlers, but power is ves ted in each municipality to-impose a ■tax- and in thn f-D-—* ’*— exacted : Athens $10 per week, $25 per month, $100 per year; Augusta $3 per day or $75 per year. In Sa vannah they are required to pay same license as resident dealers in the same articles. No license is required in the cities of Altanta, Columbus, Macon or Rome. The Excelsior Banner states that Mi-s America Miller, the daughter of Mrs Sallie Miller, of Bnlloch county, fell in the fire last Friday and was burnt d so severely that Bhe died with in eight hours after the accident. She was between fourteen and eigh teen years of age, and for a number of years has been subject to fits. No one was in the room when the acci dent occured. Her mother, hearing a peculiar noise, came in and found her daughter on fire. It is supposed she fell in the fire in a fit Some of the darkies in Oglethorpe county show a disposition to relapse into the customs and beliefs of the past ages, or the superstitions of their brethren at the present day in Africa. There is a negro church at Goose Pond, in that country, where, at cer tain seasons, the members indulge in mysterious, pertaining strongly of the Louisiana blacks. They believe in witch-craft, and are afraid to offend certain old negroes whom they consid er acquainted witn the black art. The Cost of the War.—In his repot t to the secretary of the t reas.- ury, Second Auditor French makes a statement showing the expenditures on account ot the war of the rebellion chargeable to appropriations bn the books of the office. The amount dis bursed on account of said war np to June 30,1879, was $1,558,138,343,88 Fourth Auditor Beardsley of the treasury, in his annual report to the secretary, embodies a statement giv ing in detail the appropriation made tor the snp|iort ol the navy, and the amounts expended. Tlie aggregates will be strvngtl ened by any conces- | are: Amount appropriated, $12,393,- sions in Ii eland. Astonishing as it may appear, old Bi*d Butler has done a good act. As President of the soldiers’ homes at Milwaukee, Augusta, Me., Dayton, O., and Hampton, Va., he lost $120,s 000 in bonds belonging to the institu tions, which he had deposited through an agent ic. a certain bank. He then went on a yachting expedition, and before he returned the bank failed and the bonds disappeared. Butler could not legally have been held for them, but he said they were lost through his carelessness, so be made them—prin cipal and interest to the amount of $122,000—good fiom bis private for tune. If the Minerva just unearthed at Athens be indeed a masterpiece of Phidias, as is averred, it is a priceless New Year’s gift to the modern world trom the world of antiquity.' That the news about a stature of Phidias was flashed io a few minutes from: the Mayor of Athens to the Lord Mayor of London, shows how the world 'has been changing since tlie old sculptor ... flourished, twenty-three ‘ hundred 323: amount expended, $11,193,736 | years and more ago.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Athens banner. (Athens, Ga.) 1880-1881, January 11, 1881, Image 1