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RAILROAD SCHEDULE.
Northeastern Railroad.
Scnummun Omo, I
Athena G»., Jan. 18th, 1881. (
PAST MAIL TRAIN.
On mid after Wednesday, January 4*th 1881,
trains on the North Eastern Railroad will ran
as folloum:
“noTsT
3:S0 p m
5:50 p m
18:40 p
Leave Athena ....
Arrive at Lula....
Arrive at Atlanta..
NTlT
Leave Atlanta 4.00 a tn
Arrive at Lula 6:30 a m
Arhvr at Athens 13:30 a in
• No. L
.... 4.50 am
.... 6.50 ant
1.46 am
No. 4.
3:00 p tn
5:55 p m
8:45 p tn
Trains 1, 2
and 3 connect closely with all East and W
bound passenger trains on Air Line Railway.
Train No. 4 with Weal bound passenger train
on Saturday night only, when it will wait until
0.45 p. in., when by so doing a connection can
be made.
Passengers leaving Athens at 4:30 a. m. con
nect oloarly -t Lola with the Fast mail train for
Atlanta, time 5 hours and 15 minutes^ making
close connection at Atlanta for all potuU W c *
and Southwest.
LYMAN WELLS. Sup’i.
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Volume LXV.
ATHENS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY HORNING, FEBRUARY 15, 1SS1.
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Number 15.
The Texas Legislature has passed
a resolution of sympathy for Ireland.
There seems to be <4 lnll in tbe
business ot cabinet making for Mr.
Garfield.
Georgia Rail Road Company
StrotiJmcNDWT’a Omct, 1
Aloista, Ga m Nov. 5, 1880. j
Commencing Sunday, 8th innt, the following
Passenger Schedule will opperate on this road:
Leave ATI 1ENK 9.15 a m 6 00pm
Lcavo WintcrvilU.••••••. .9.45 a if 680pm
Leave L< \ ngtou 10.20 a u 7 1*5 p m
Lcuvc A ulioch 10.48 a M 7 30 p m
Leave M sieve 11.06 a if 7 60pm
Leave Wooavillo ll.sl a if b 15 p n
Arrive Uniou Point ’ 1.4"am 8 80 p n>
Arrive Atlanta 5.45 PM. 5 00.» m
Arrive ut Washington 2 10 P M
Arrive at Milledgeville.... 4.45 PM
Arrive Mnccn 6.45 pm
Arrive Augusta 3 47 p M 7 00 a m
Leave Augusta 9.85 AM 5 30 p if
L**ave Macou 7.00
Leave M il ledgevil !e....
Leave Washington
Leave AtluuU
L ave Uniou Point
Arrive Woodville
Arrive Maxev.s
Arrive Antioch
Arrive Lexington
Arrive Winterville
Arrive Athena
Trains run daily—so cennection to or from
Washington on Sundays or between Macon and
Cainak in either direction on Snnday nights.
E. K. Louhxy, Gun., Pass., Agt.
8. K. Johnson, Supt.
8.58 a M
.10.45 am
, 7.15av 8 45pm
. 1.12 PM 5 00a m
. 1.27 pm 5 15a m
. 1.45 pm 5 40 a m
.. 2.05 pm 6 00a tn
.. *.27 pm 6 20a m
., .8.02 p if 6 55 a m
3.30 pm 7 30am
Dr. Blackburn, the cclebiated
yellow fever physician, at present
Governor of Kentucky, confidently
predicts that the cholera will visit this
country next summer.
It is said that Beecher has just de
clined an offer of $300,000 to lecture
one year. We know of several gen
tlemen who would lecture twice as
long for half the money.
Tub New York Times says that
tbe $250,000 proposed to be raised by
that paper has bean subscribed and
paid in, and awaits the order of tbe
1 ieneral. The General is not going to
let the matter get cold.
IIenry Grady denies emphatically
that his article on “ Atheism’’ was a
plagiarism. There is no reason why
Grady should steal. If he will only
keep bis own brilliant brain at work,
he can write as well as aDy of them.
Carlyle would not read an Amer
ican book. There are many Araori*
can" who won’t read bis hot ks.
Carlyle is dead, but the Americans
who won’t read bis books will live
hundreds ot years. So, after all, the
Americans are ahead, as usual.
ATLANTA X CHARLOTTE
A.ir-Line Railway.
Passenger Department
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
Atlanta, Ga., January 15th, 1881.
On »r.u alter Jan. 16th 1881, Trains will rui
on this road aa lollowa:
DAY PAS*UCQKJ» TRAIN— EASTWARD.
Arrive at Lula 6.80 a m
Leave Lula 6.81 a m
WKdTWAKDW
Arrive at l.ula 9.88 p
Leave Lula 9.89 p
NIGHT PASOAXOKX TRAIN—EAST WARD.
Arrive at Lula ••••••••••••••••• 5.55 p
Leave 6 56 p
WESTWARD.
Arrive at Lula 9.57 A
Leave...... •• 9.58 a
LJCAL rUEiUUT TRAllf—EASTWARD.
Arrive at Lula 11.38 a
Leave,... 11.58 a
Arrive at Lula ..........12-07 a
L* uve 12.26 p
T!IKol*QW FREIGHT TRAIN— EASTWARD
Arrive at Lula 6.20 r u
6.35 p m
WESTWARD.
Arrive at Lula..... 8.41 a m
Leave. • •*•**•..*••*•-**••** 8.53 a m
connection at Atlanta lor all points
11 a»oir
G. J. KOLKACKE, General Manager
W. J. HOUSTON (ten. H*aa.feTkkotAg , r
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
GEORGIA SEWS.
The St Louis Dispatch thinks
about the most important geotk-man
connected with the universe now is
.Mahone, of Virginia. A man who
can swiug the United Slates Senate
by the tail has nearly as much oppor
tunity to attract attention as the boss
in tbe White House.
The license for selling liquor in La.
Grange is $15,000.
The Puhlio library at West Point
has been reopened since tbe burning.
Mr. Hugh Grady, of Savannah, was
killed by a falling brick kiln a few
days ago.
The residence of Major A P Nor
wood, of llogansville, was recently
destroyed by fire. Insured.
It rumored that Col. H H Jones,
formerly of tbe Macon Telegraph and
Messenger, will connect himself with
the Herald.
The Masons ot Augusta have decid
ed to build an opera boose at a cost ot
845,000. It will be capable of seat
ing one thousand persons.
Tbe Gate City Guards contemplate
making their second annual tour north
some time in April.
Within the last eight months Col
lector W R Taylor has seized in El
bert county thirty stills, caps and
worms, six of which he captured within
the last two weeks.
R R Wright, colored, editor of the
Journal of Progress, ofCuthbert, asks
the railroad men to tower their rates
ot tare for colored people or give them
a better car.
Mr. George Howard, of Dublin,
killed eleven partridges at one shot
Saturday. There being only twelve
in the flock, and the remaking one
was taken in at a second shot
Win. Lowery was shot and killed
at Rockmart on the 5th. Lowery was
a dangerous character, and had killed
a young man named Price at Itoek-
mart some three years ago.
Three negroes have been arrested
tor the murder of Mr. J. J. Hudson,
of Americus last week,and tbe money
recovered. A negro girl had posses
sion of it.
In Americus, on Saturday, a negro
named Greene was drunk and com
menced a free fight. Before he got
through he left another darkey,
named Matthews dead upon tbe field.
A mulatto barber, named Doc
Wilson, shot and killed James Tinley
in Macon, Monday night. Doc is a
clerk in a bar room, and Tinley, the
white man killed, had a difficulty,
with the above sad result
Rockmart, in Polk county, had an
other killing last Saturday. A mau
named Lowery was killed by some
one whose name has not been pub
lished. Lowery was represented to
be a very had man.
Rev. J. E. Evans, D. D, and wife,
of Rome, will celebrate tbeii golden
wedding in that city on the 28th of
March. Dr. Evans has been a minis-
,. ., ... . . ter of the gospel forty seven years
Durikg th.s cold weather how long preache f fo *~ HeV erel yeats in this
can the ink atond ?—Vennor. But ^ r of Sl Luke’s church
how long can the pen bolder?—Jane 3 *
Gray Swishelm. Tell us how long The Darien Timber Gazette learns
can the pencil sharpener, aud we’ll from parties coming down the river,
Gnim-aviiie, Sn-tc* City, Greenville *od ] answer that.—Scientific American, that cows have been dying to a great
They are right as long as the weather exteut. It is told that they stand in
remains stationary.—Hazen. Your the water aud starve to death, it being
puns are enveloped in obscurity, impossible for them to get out of the
That’s no wafer to get off jokes.—At- water and get something to cat.
lantic Monthly. Beal-*^!—The Na- Mias Mattie Perkins, of Montestu.
tion. Docs any one for a moment weot on a vis ; t £ Atlanta, and
suppose that such puns E^e a paver ^ yi th her check for the
weight ? They shouW be ruled out w * runk . A we dding parly.who
and eiool’s^p placed ou tbe puostei^ j thetrain M ^ Mme U|ne
will find that their check will get the
quired by ihe facte in th? case. 1 ba S« a S e when they get to New
There is one whole continent—
Africa—that might be sunk to-day in
tbe bottom of the sea and not one in
vention lost, not a poem, nor a litera
ture, nor a monum- nt, nor a treasure.
And it has been so for a thousand
years back, and another thousand,and
another thousand beyond that.—
[Beecher.
Tbe Augusta News says of tbe late
meeting of tbe Georgia Railroad di
rectors: ’’Nothing unusual marked
the session, except a discussion of the
propriety of resisting the recent order
of the Railroad commission. It was
decided not to make war ou the com
mission, at least just now, although
the charter of the Georgia road is
ample enough to give it a power in
passenger charges superior to the au
thority of the conimission
FOR TAXATION.
The Augusta Chronicle and Con
stitutionalist says: “The wank ot ■
just and reliable system of returning^
properly for taxation is k&eely felt ini
Georgia now. Ip Augusta notice is.
given this morning that the city re
turns will be revised by a Board of
Assessors, and some such mode should,
be established for the country digests.'
Tbe man who underrates bis proper
ty robs himself as well as the State,
for he tends to raise the rate per cent
of tax by every dollar’s worth
which be.fails to acoounti’’
On the same subject, the Rome
Courier says: “Wo hope members
ot the General Assembly, during re
cess, will give the subject oi tax-re
turns sufficient thought to enable
them to give the people a statute that
will cause all the taxable properly ot
the State to be returned at its value.
Such a law would result in a much
better showing as to Georgia’s wealth,
and would greatly relieve such m< n
as pay tax on their property at full
value.”
We are glad te see the papers agi
tating this matter. There is nothing
that could engage them that is of
more importance to the State. That
the taxable property ot Georgia is
greatly undervalued every year, we
have not the shadow of a doubt.
Many men who are considered up
right aud houorable in business evade
the law, prevaricate, and manage in
some way to put their property into
the tax digest at much less than its
value. Many men who have money
or bonds have learned the art of get
ting their property out of their hands
on the first ol'April, so-that they may
take the oath as to tbe amount in their
possession in a way to evade the law.
Of course the consciences ot such
men are very elastic, and their honor
is of a very questionable character;
but they stand well in business, and
go on ns if they have done no more
than duty to themselves requires.
Probably they might not be willing
to rob their fellowsmen outright; but
they “make all they can’’ out of tbe
government, and thus indirectly de
fraud every man who gives in his
properly honestly.
The law ought to be sharp enough
for these sharpers. We have no
plans to suggest, but we cannot help
joining the Rome Courier, in the hope
that the legislature to assemble in
Jnly will be equal to the task. In
that body are men of ability and of
experience in financial matters, and uo
subject to which they could give their
attention is fraught with more good to
the State than this one of providing
fur the equalization ot taxation.
OVER THE SOUTH.
It rained 130 days in Western Tex
as last year.
Tbe Missiasipl papers are discussing
' n ot the co-education of the
ee ip ^ ' ‘ ' _
A very, large amount of. money ie
alleged to be. due to East Florida,
claimants for looses of 1812, .
New and extensive coal mines are
to be opened this, yearobthe ,ine of
~ a South and -North and the Ala-
araa Great Southern.
Vo^m *
The Whipping-Post.
SYLVAN US MORRIS.
ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT LAW.|
ATHENS, GEORGIA.
wui attood promptly to anyjMisioeM entrasted I —Augusta News. Ream-ember tuat |
| such egregious puunipg is not re-|
BLSROW, ~
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CONCEALED WEAPONS.
ATHENS, GEORGIA.
Broad Street, nut .tain, with Telecnph offlee.
H. H. CARLTON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ATasffB, OA
O FFICE on
next door
atteud promptly
care.
York.
Tbe Washington Gazette states that
scarcely a week passes that there is
not reported a case of wife-beating
The Columbus Enquirer, of recent amon £[ he negr0 es ot Wilkes county,
date, says that a number ofpersons >nd 5 f 8VK>I , g \, weoods Mi. Bergb’s
who were convicted before tbe bupe- 1 - - - -- - - - -- -
nor court, in that city, of carrying
concealed weapons, were fined $101 .
eaoh. The Enquirer gives praise— Mr. Allen Owens, near Hmesville,
Broad atreet, nn stair*. Entrance 1 and justly, too,—to J udge W illis tor was run over by a passing train over
abova Loog’a Drag Storo. *’1." . h e manner in which he dealt with the Altamaha bridge last Tuesday and
tiy to all btumeaa entrained to h„ | ^ v j olalor9 of the , aw< killed. He was temporarily fo charge
It is probable that any judge in tbe of the bndge at the time. While at-
MISCELli ANEOUS ADV. I biate would be equally prompt, it not tempting to cross the bndge before
equally severe, in such cases; but the the train be stnmbled and fell and was
1- e . Li. i- *L. :..J i, n ». oral nrnvVtpel npaln.
Exrtart from • Letter w Her- Dr. Loviclt I chief trouble is, the judges have bo crushed to death.
Pierce, Spans, Ga., April 2S, 187V. tew cases to deal with. There are More than 1,000 tons of guano
Dun Son I bate found your Liver Tonic to plenty of men who carry concealed have already beeu received at Coving-
b« more effectual {tan anything 1 hava ever weapoDB but very few are reported to ton this season. The warehouses about
Uiebeltf 0f thc« Liver EeguUtcre^Yoir*. the courts. A negro, or a poor, the depot are all full to overflowing,
L. FIERCE, friendless white man, without social and still there is more coming. The
S. i,i.«a-i»ao« ; I esn never standing, will be hauled up, without prospectnow eeems that therein going
i to exproaa my gratitude to yon for I compunction, to be punished for car-1 to be an immense amount of it used
ttS! I vying concealed weapons; but the [ the present year.
t to
Emma Clark, a negro woman, has
Ds. E. 8. Ltmdom—Dram Sim
fin J words to c*
tbe incalculable uoovut a ww nwiu wre ■ yvincr
a*e of “Smith’* Liver Tonic." F» two ye-i* | '£*7* —.
I -ulTered with LIvor dl*tu« (nth* wont form, | “HlOe young man,” Who ^ belongs tO
aud never had ai
drat uf last Nov,
of Uo LiveT Tonic.
only two and » half bottle*, and am entirely I constantly, and be may De Men at It, I CO unty
eft. \ b*ve not felt» aymptom ot th. diaeaw | bnt tbe ma tter is over looked, just as nt $3,163 in money and $4,239 in cer-
as a dozen other kinds of crimes are. I tificates of deposit io the bank, Sam
The fault is with public opinion. j ones> jj m Clark and Eliza Cults all
Some violations of low are looked negroes, have been arrested and are
upon as venial offenses by the public, ; n : a ; k
and ao long as they are, they will
. never cease? There ia a very healthy An insurance company on a novel
EARS 5,011 T11K million I irr^p-o-.^. 0 ^’ Covington. Any bocUlor who u
Foo Ghoo’s Bakun of Shift Oil S
ainoe taking th* Srrt dbaeT I had previouaiy
tried «v*r*i pbyaician* mid many other him-
dies, and all tailed to affect me beneficially.
Kuapeetfnlly, E. ELLEN PATMAN.
Laxnian»,Ga., May 15,1878.
Mia* Ellen Patman la my daughter, and I
oltycoocurlniheabova. >
mayts-ly . ELDKRD. W.PAStMAN.
r.ailrelr Brotavea the Btarlag. aad It Ihe aalj
Xlnolate Car* thr Dtafhcca Kaoaa.
first one that marries gets all the mon-
An Indianapolis special to ’he Cour
ier Journal of the 8th says the Indi
ana legislature wheeled iuto line this
morning on the whipping-post issue,
Representative Cummins introducing
bill which declares that all assaults
and batteries by husbands upon their
wives shall be punished by whipping
with a cat-o'-mne-tails upon the bares
back, tbe number of lasues limited be
tween five and twenty. The court
may also, in addition, fine and impris
on. The county commissioners are
required by this bill to aet up a whip
ping .post at every county seat and in
all incorporated towns and villages,
and the lash must be'applied by tbe
officer serving the process. The bill
went to the committee ou rights and
privileges.
Joe Hawley’* Wife.
General Sherman does not stand on
ceremonious etiquette. The other
night at a reception given in his own
bouse, when Mrs. Gov. Hawley ar
rived, accompanied by her own
“Makepeace,” he announced her to
his daughter in this hearty way;
What Joe Hawley’s wife? Here,Lizzie
is Joe Hawley’s wifel’’ It seemed a
particular nice thing all that evening
to be Joe Hawley’s wife,” for her bus-
band’s universal popularity brought
this lady rnauy congratulations on
his recent election from the stateliest
dignit iries present.
,vis county lex.,
lambs during the late cold weather.
Sheep farmers in Sonth Mississippi
also report the loss of lambs.
It is said that in the section oi Lou
isiana which it is proposed to erect into
a new United States judicial district
there have not been forty cases of lit
igation in fifteen years.
W. Lake writing from Kingley Fla.
says that in three years’ residence be
has not seen a sandfly, and mosquitoes
do not trouble the people. A con
trary statement had been published.
A proposition is befSto the Missou
ri Legislature for an amendment to
tbe Constitution providing that all
voting shall hereafter be viva voce and
not by ballot, at general elections.
Ilallie Hutchinson* a little girl nine
years old, is telegraph operator at
Williams ranch in Texas, and handles
her instrument with prescisiou. She
spends a great deal of her leisure in
dressing dolls.
Out of 172,005 voters registerd in
Louisiana 85,451 are white, and of
these 1,693 make their marks instead
of writing their names. The colored
registration is 88,024, and of these
11,403 write their names.
Tho State Association of Teachers
oi Texas recomcnds the immediate es
tablishment of a State university, to
be under the control of a board of re
gents consisting of one member froth
each Congressional district.
The Governor of Texas says that a
Supreme Court composed of a Chief
Justice and nine Associate Justices
would not now more than be able
to dispose of the current business
which has accumulated for years back,
in that court.
Wirt county, W. Virginia, Mentor:
Not far from Wirt county is tbe
home ot two young ladies, sisters,
aged respectively eighteen and twen
ty years. They were each receiving
the addresses of lovers, who were
brothers, and both couples were en
gaged to he married. It was their
intention to celebrate a double wed
ding about the holidays, bnt now mat
ters have changed. A few days ago
the four Were fitting together iu the
parlor at the girls’ home, when tbe
elder lady expressed tbe desire to at 1
HOST HORRIBLE.
A Paralyzed Woman Sees Her Brother Burned
>1 -no - te Death. ’
Owingsyillb, Ky.. Feb. 7.—
George Pieratt, a bachelor aged about
seventy years, and bis siffter, Mrs.
Elizabeth Goodpaster, some years old
er than Mr. Pieratt, have lived to
gether in thjs county about five miles
from this city for several years, they
two living alone. ’' For some time Mrs.
Goodpaster has been paralyzed, and
to get oat of her bed for
r*wH&irMrbut>ectfof no
help whatever. On Thursday even
ing Mr. Pieratt had gotten in his wood
tor the night and morning, and aliout
9 o’clock before retiring, he started to
throw on a back log and build up
the fire; be lifted the log, and in throw
ing it on the fire fell with it, and
being unable to rise was burned to
death. His sister was lying on the
bed, but unable in her condition to
get to him or render him any assist
ance. At last, by an almost super
human effort (and how she did it
she says -the never knew, and 110 one
else knows) she got out of bed and
dragged her brother’s body out of the
fire. She managed to get back in
bed, and there she was compelled to
'ie, being exhausted and unable to
turn over, with her brother’s dead
and burned body lying in view ou
the health. Nothing was known of
the horrible affair until about 11
o’clock yesterday, when Mrs. Good-
paster’s son Santord, who lives about
one mile trom his mother, having got
done feeding his own stock, thought
he would step over to his mother’s and
help his uncle George to feed the
stock on his little place. As be step
ped in the door a meat horrible and
blood curdling scene was opened to
his view, as there in the bed lay his
mother with her eyes widely exten
ded, and she looking wildly out of
them, while on the hearth lay the
body of bis uRcle -stiff and Btark in
death, badly burned, aqd with tbe
eyes, nose, cheeks, ears and a portion
of the neck eaten by cats; the whole
presenting a most horrible and ghast
ly sight. Mrs. Goodpaster had never
closed her eyes during the whole eight,
and lying there facing tbe dead body
ot her brother and unable to move at
all or make any nuise whatever, she
was compelled to see the cats eating
the flesh from the face of her broihr.
Mrs. Goodpaster is now lyiug in a
very critical condition, and the chan
ces are that this terrible night of
torture has so shocked her that she
can never recover or if she does her
mind will he goue.
THE OLD WHIGS.
Senator Hill prides himself in be*
ing an oldriine Whig; and so does
Items For the Ladles to Read.
Chenille lace is one of the novelties.
Seal-skin turbans have dented
crowns and rolling brims.
The new red is very brilliant in tint,
brighter than cardinal.
Fashionable pointedstoed shoes are
making work for chiropodists.
Gold enters largely into all millin
ery and handsome dress materials.
The drapery on the newest costumes
is very bovffante about the hips.
New ornamepU for the Ijgjr ate, sil
ver fans arrows, draggers and pen
dants.
Very fine linen handkerchiefs have
the initial in hemstitch in one corner.
New fichus are very large, and are
worn with the immense corsage bow.
Many of tho debutantes of this
season have been introduced at after*
noon teas.
Dark red carnations are tbe favor-
tte flowers at present for corsage bou
quets.
Fichus are now made of Brussels
net in preference to the mull worn so
bng.
The newest fans have tho pearls
strifes covered their entire length with
marabout feathers.
Spanish gauze scarfs, edged with a
fringe of chenille, are worn about the
head and neck in the evening.
Ducks’ leathers died a brilliant red
and made into muffs and collars, are
among the latest novelties.
It is polite to think that ladies who
wear colored pearls do it because they
are tired of their diamonds.
®|e®etklg ■§ aimer.
It. irwATHaSsANr
PROPRIETOR.
tend a protracted meeting then being ever y -person who was one. But Mr.
held in a vil age near by. she asked ...
a } _ . jjjj kag a stra „j, e „j ea 0 f tke mem .
A wag says of a toper: His nose
has passed tho rubicund.—Chicago
Tribune.;
If vexed with a child when instruct
ing it, try to write with your left
hand. Remember a child is all left
hand.—[J. F. Boyes. 1
“Tiers/tiers, idle tiers,” at the ac
tor said when he saw the rows of emp
ty benches before him.—[Marathon
Independent.
He who has ridden in a country
stage coach knows how cream feels
when it is being churned in to butter.
—Boston Transcript.
Gum arabic dissolved in whisker
will keep the hair curled in damp
weather,—[Exchange. A little su
gar dissolved in it has the same effect
on the legs.—[John B. Gough.
There are hundreds of entertaining
writers who would be good historians
if they did not know so many things
that have never happened.—N. O.
Picayune.
“Tim, I want to borryyonr black
Sunday pants to attend a funeral,”
said one Galveston Irishman to
other. “And whose is it yo are
An Astonished Negress.
The far-finned slight-of-linnd man
Robert Houdin, could not l«wiii.-ticd
with his tricks before an audience,
but occarionly displnyal his skill for
his own amusement, very ranoh to tbe
BurpriAefof aU who may happen to be
present.’
While passing an itinerant vendor
of cheap provisions, be suddenly paus
ed and inquired:
“How do you sell eggs, aunty?”
“Dera eggs,” was the response, dey
am a picayune apiece. Fresh, too,
de last one ob dem; biled ’em myselt,
and knows dey’s lust rate, sar.”
“Have you pepper aud wit?’’
“Yes, sar, dere it is,” said the sa
ble woman, watching her customer
with intense interest.
Leisurlv drawing out a neat little
penknife, Mr. Hondin proceeded very
quietly to cut the egg exactly in
halves, when, suddenly a bright, new
twenty-five cent piece was discovered
lying imbedded in the yolk, appa
rently as when it first came from tho
miot. Very coolly the great magi
cian transferred the coin to his vest
pocket, and taking up another egg,
inquired: - '
“And how much do you ask -fat
this egg?”. 1 '
“De Lord bless ray soul! dat egg?
Do fact am boss, dat egg is worth a
dime, shuah.”
“All right,’’ was the response;
“there’s your dime; give me the egg.”
Separating it with an exact precision
that tho colored woman watched
most eagerly, a quarter eagle was
caretully picked out of the center of
the egg and placed in tbe vest pocket
ot the operator as before. The old
woman was thunderstruck, as well
she might have been, and the custom
er bad to ask the price of tho third
egg two or three times betoro lie could
obtain a reply.
“Dar’s no use talking Massa,’’ re
plied tbe bewildered old dame; “I
could not let you hab dut ar egg, no
how, tor less dan twenty-live cents, I
declare I can’ll”
“Very good,” said Houdin, whoso
imperturbable features were as sol
emn as an undertaker’s, “there is
your quarter; hero is the egg. A : 1
right now.”
As he opened tho egg a bracb of
five dollar gold pieces was discovered
snugly deposited in the very heart of
the yolk, and jingling them together
in his palm, the savant remarked:
“Very good eggs, indeed, I rather
like them, and while lam about it I
: believe I’ll take a dozen. What is
the price?’’ •
“I say price!’’ screamed tbe amazed
daugter of Ham. “You couldn’t buy
dem eggs, massa, for all the money
rou’s got. No, dat you couldn’t,
’se gwine to take dem eggs all to
home. I is, aud dat money in dem all
belongs to me. It dose dat. Couldn’t
sell no more ob dem eggs no
how, no sar.”
Amid tho roar ot the spectators
the benighted African started for her
domicile to “'smash dem eggs,’’ but
with what success, we aro unable to
relate
T H1S Oil i. .xtraoud: are. ,0^ -pro*. I. Athens
Chine** asbtnnan knows it. ■ It* virtue* M * I , . ,1,., rs-JL,;, 1 to join, and the last man in Xn«
naionUvs of Iroarlug. were discovered by a “***>« legi*l»tl°n tb»t UaOTgte s. ceM ; 0D w j|| h aTe to pay heavily ft)
Buddbiat Prleat about the year 1410. Ha cure* | The Banner cannot SCO tbe need Sim- | v, a 3
were »numerotu. I ply because there II none. A. far as "“S 10 hiestedneAS.
n i'n^“wTtte 1 «gSra^2i5tt.^(»oS*?te- we are concerned, we believe it would Robert Mitchell, alas Eaton, color*
cam* te enivtissl.thst fi rarer SCSI jeara no I be wed for the State if the Legislature ed, went to his home in Thomasville
PcaiuoM h*. amonf th«ChiD*« p*op^. (hoak j me et only 0006 in four year*, and raised a rumpus with his wife. He
™fc t ***** n * iA '' a '*'feel satisfied that a constitutional seized a heavy pallingoi piece of
Only Importcd by"HAYIfiCK & CO., I amen dmcnt requiring the Legislature scantling and strut* at his wife, strik-
8o!« a** 01 * for • D*y bn, n.y. 1 ^ on0e every four yean, and ing one of bia children, a little gi.l, a
K _ 1 —terrible blow under the eye, and then
struck at bis wife again, but lortun-
Oplumta San Francisco.
ba&l'o thal number* are afflicted with d J X”****
and to anch it mar b. «id: “ Write atonoato
remedy that will EuMs RPgftagJfagF I In San Francisco there are four
S^SSfdSSJ 5 hundred placeawhere opium ia sold,
--Editor of Now York Mercantile Ktvitw, | and each
St 1880.
dac.14.wtm.
ately struck a door that broke the
force of the blow. He was arrested
and lodged in jail under the charge of
assault with intent of murder, as to
the child; and a charge of aaaaultnnd
battery as to hia wile.
■r. FaiacO teVkttAmerica.
Mr. Parnell has gone to Frankfort,
one of them receives an in
come averaging $75 a day from the
outrageous ana injurious traffic. Tbe _
opium habit i* increasing all over tbe | where the Land League funds have
ux / v. airo^a. te th. meet zotmisr u*ri I country and it is an evil no lew ter- I now been invested. The League at
uttissmJ^VOrbiMdtel^te^^eiftn- Jrible than thatot drnnnkeness. It I Dublin have resolved to request him to
AliSfeH-.AXSr l should be powerfully restricted, m | proceed to America in tbe fetereat ot
fi.v-ss!dtf. W I should tbe liquor traffis. tbe cause.
m Acres of lend bounded i
0R T hy^trews,!
Charleston Courier; ‘Georgia
Historical Society have a drum which
was used at the battle ot Cowpens,
17th of Jan., 178L It is in good pres
ervation and serviceable, and traces
its existence back to Major Cunning-
barn’s Georgia Battalion, who crossed
the nper Savannah and joined Col.
Pickens in time to share the glories ot
that eventful day. It should beat
the assembly for the ceremonies of May
11th, in which the * Empire 8tate of
tbe South ' will participate.
Bloody Bacon.
Hardly had the blood of poor Jim
mis ’Tinley, who was shot and killed
by a negro bar keeper in Macon last
Monday evening become dry, before
the pnblio is startled by another mur
der in tbe same city, in which a white
wowan hasher throat cut by her negro
paramour, which horrid event occur
red Wednesday night io an alley ot
that city. Fortunately in the latter
case, tbe murderer has been arrested
and put in JiA, while the slayer of
Tinley is still at large, although be
lieved to be in the city. —Augutta
New$. ; ... I iTl*
• - t W* -rt-*' £
Ed. Cox at the final Hlers,
A correspondent of the Chmttanoon
ga Times writiog from Coal City,
Ga., ssyr. - j ’ 1 '
Almost every day, in passing head'
? aarters of tbe Coal Company.
notice a fine looking, good humored
man, whom the stripoa, the insignia
ot tbe pnmtMtWtlnfbnn at all.
It ia Cox, oi the Cox-Alslon tragedy.
All tbe courtesy that can • be, under
go «wmunws«tfl>i b feofrgeAlfr.Obx.
He aeenu to look closely after the in
terest of the company.
her lover to accompany her, but he ,
refused point blank, giving as his here of that grand old party who are
reason that he was not a Christian, left in our section. He thinks they [anxious to attend in my black Sunday
The young lady insisted, but still he wou ] j kavc been glad to go iuto the pants?” “Your own, be dad ef you
** to to f ssy* -■ rjrtrr
tian, and asked him to ■ accompany I fair chance to do so. Here is what «why Jennie, you foolish girl,
her. To the surprise of all he at once ho says in his last interview: come into tho house. What are you
consented, and they went to the I Reporter—“ Is there any element out in the show for without wraps!”
meeting. The two who remained at L t h e South, native, oi emigrated, “Oh, nothing much, ma. You see
home were vm-y indignaut, tl.e one at thJit have been ^,31^ int0 Augustus has just called, and here
the conduct of her. lover, the other at republican force that would are bis footprints in tbe snow. I’m
the tvay that his eweetheart had acted. CO mmanded tho respect ot the measuring to get tbe right size tor
The more they discussed it the more w | )0 ] e peo pl e ?» those slippers, and do you. kuow, I
angry they became. They discover- Mr. Hill— 1 “ Yes, sir ; the old whig don’t believe I’ve got half cloth
ed that they—the ones at home— element ot the south could never have enough in them.”—New Haven Reg-
wereboth “smnere/ while the.two into the democratic party but U*er.
that had gone were Chrisuans^ They f brtho act5ou of lhe fedm i g0 ' ve rn-
Dcthronlng the Kins.
talked on, d^vering little by Bid. Ss dfe-
ramihinues of taste and »“? [ peMation of federal patronage. This,
finally resolved each to break with j elemeuLfiat naturaHy republican and The Tallahassee (Fla.) correspon-
ihe old love ana form a new alliance. yole3 lhe j eniocrat i c ticket under com dent of the Savannah News during
No sooner resolved than the compact gtnQt pr 0 iest,simply because it cannot the session of the legislature writes :
was ratified by a kiss, when by affliate w ; t j, t | le 0 < raen w h 0 con- A strong bill on tl.e question of tern-
chance the others entered. 110 K® n * Urol the republican organization in perance has been introduced. It re-
tlemau at once told his brother what tke q' he government by its re- quires all persons applying for license,
they had resolved to do. io ms great I co08truo ,. on p 0 | icy j mmiK jiately after to file a recommendation, signed by
surprise no sorrow was shown, no an- I tkQ war , created the impression that twosthirds of the registered voters ot
ger was manifested, and his Wonder pr ; ma ry object w-s to humiliate 1 the precinct where the liquor is to be
was increased when he was informed ^ w hole southern people. That sold. A bond of two thousand dollars
that the couple, while on their wain prevails to a very great ex- is also to be given lor the securing of
home, had resolved to do the same teQt yet and j^g been the one thiDg damages to those who may be injured
thing. The hogging, therefore, nowl_ L .? L * ,,, i ., , * I.1..
goes on as usual. . Jn
five hundred dollars, by the payment
of damages. Tbe license is not to be
increased, but wholesale dealers are
not to be permitted to sell less than a
How Women Vote in Wjoining.
A correspondent writing from
Cheyenne Wyoming Territory, says :
“ In Wyoming elections, as is well
known, tho women are a power which
cannot be ignored. When occasion
seems to require it the better sort of
ladies go to the polls, as well as the
ignorant and vicious. From my own
observation I should say that tho wos
man voter, while less familiar with
character and party principles, is
more conscientious, independent and
instinctively right than the male voter.
The low requires a cleared space of
fifteen feel sqnare in front of the bal
lot box. The utmost quiet prevails,
and when a lady walks up to deposit
her ballot she meets nothing but def
erence and politeness from officials
and spectators. Usually they ride up
to the polling places in carriages pro
vided by the party managers. The
lady, with her vote already prepared,
alights from the carriage, the crowd,
if any, quietly falls back to open the
passage* way, while she walks to the
window or opening behind which sit
tlie clerk and election judges, gives
her name, drops her vote on the box
and returns. Her age is not inquired
into. Nobody challenges a woman’s
vote. The man with the hardihood
and fool coarage to do that thing is
not known to this race of people.”
Til speaking of the new serial,“Vas-
1,” soon to appear in the Weekly
News, tbe Thomasville' Southern says:
Col. Estill deserves great credit for
country.’
. . The lamented ex-Gov. H. V. John-1 gallon,
his untiring efforts to develop the na- 80n> conversing with the writer a Other bills of a similar character
tive talent of the South, and givo to I y ear or gg a g 0 j„ reference to the are being prepared, and it is very evis
Southern readers _ a literature that working of the local option law within dent that a determined assult ia being
has nothing of ridicule or ahuse of j lke bonds of his judicial circuit, re-| planned against the outposts ot King
the Southern people in it. May bis marked that tn counties where whis* Alcohol.
efforts meet with eveo greater sucoess ! kv had been banished, litigation had —
than in the past. been decreased at least one-third, and GWlng an Elephant Quinine.
he especially named Johnson county, _ . , „ , ,
Tho five railroads in the State which fo we were i n Wrigbttboro when Everyone has heard of the wonder
have formally protested against the the conversation look place. Other *“1 baby elephant which was recently
order of the* Railroad Commission I sections bear the same testimony, aud born in Philadelphia. The mother of
reducing fare to three cents per mile [ they would not return to the bar- this baby has recently been quite sick
are tbe East Tennessee, Selma,Rome room and ita attendent evils for any jin Bridgeport, Conn,, and the ele-
and Dalton, the Macon and Bruns- I considerations. 1 phant “doctor" prescribed quinine,
wick,the Central, and Western Allan- . The question will be passed before Prof- Aratenstall, the trainer went to
tic, and th© Cherokee Railroad. All the General Assembly at its meeting I New York last Saturday and had four
theseroada will obey the order cent«H i Q July next, noilo^-make a whole • I quinine pills built at a cost ot 35 a
howver, until Judge Wood's- decision gale statute, but to give the people j Pi[L—The professor was asked how
is rendered. the opportunity to decide the ques-1 many grains there were, be replied
— • tion for themsel ves.—leUgraph aud “hat he didn’t know an tho pills were
Pillip Phillips, the singiat, was ad* Messenger. computed by shovelstul.’’ They were
vertised to lecture in Macou on Mon* | | about eight inches long and two in
OUR CHINESE POPULATION
The apprehentions of those who are
waiting to see the country overrun and
conquered, if not destroyed by the
Chinese may be measurably relieved,
says tho New York Observer, by the
figures of the recent Census, which
show that out ot a population of 60,-
152,866 in the whole United States,
only 105,448 are Chinese. This is less
than half the exaggerated, estimates of
the ChinavphobistSj who, in their fears
of an invasion, must have seen double.
The danger, therefore, is not. immi
nent. A letter from Washington,
dated January 27 th, says:
“ I procured from General Walker
to*day the exact Chinese population
under the late enumeration. The to*
tal Chinese population in the United
States on the first of Jane, 1880, was
105,448. The Census officers gave
these figures to me with the reserve
that a final examination of the tables
might discloso some small errors.
The Chinese population of San Fran
cisco was stated at 21,745; that of the
whole stale, 76,025. In Oregon
there are 9,518; in Idaho, 8,378; in
Nevada, 5.420; in Washington Terri
tory, 8,420; in New York 8tate,919,
of which 747 arc in the city. There
are 180 in Pennsylvania.’’
day night, bnt aa only six or seven I M I diameter. After thrusting one down
persons attended, the sanctimonious j , i- - , . Ari the elephant’s throat with a stick, and
singer declined to lecture and started finding .he would not take it, he made
for Americus. This failure on the aull “^°P and open her
part of the good people to again be I I mouth ’ aa « after MVeral hard tl,rowi
humbugged Iqr this Irrepressible tramp sucoseded in getting her to swallow
will give him a text when he returns ^ that il ’ a g ood deal ,ik « P la > m g
to hfe frozen home for another tirade ^ base-ball, only the catcher mu (Ted
against Southern nciely.-Augusta ^ the ball before catching it. The
Kr«w. • “ of '““nnfactunng m the baby eIephant weml| feeI very ba d-
_ —— J estate. ,• ] ly about its mother’s sickness.
The size of the cotton factory at " ’ •—' ' ' ———.
Piedmont, S. C , has beeti more than In Tennessee there are aboot 1,250 [ It i. estimated ti at it will only
doubled,.wdjs now lfiAZDkrgeat fac- convicts, half-oftheTrumber being in , . . ,
tory in one building in the South. AI the penitentiary artd tbe remaipdrt i» t f ke ‘wentyyeara to eouaume
correspondent of the Charleston Newil brtshch prisons* •'Tbe branch prisons! fo® original pine forest of! Georgia,
aOl Courier says that fire years ago I at Battlii Creek 1 eoal niines ted at | and it is thought to be time for the
there was not a single, -bonne in that SefraBee ‘ate' wooden -tructores in-1 adoption of tome effective measure
place, and now there are 147, besides closed by wooden -palisades; ted it is of protection. The Macon Telegraph
the factory boilding, which is to sop- said that they have proved ' superior I and Messenger estimates the con-
port 1,500 people and house 12,00] in comfort, sechrity and healthfulness 1 sumption during 1880 of ,P“’- '
v, P«>P ,e
bales of cotton a year.
. security and
' to the' penitentiary itself.
250,000 acre.
This morning between seven and
eight o’clock a little eight year old
son of Mr. Quince Heath was run over
by a car on Twiggs street, near .the
old Carolina shea7 as the little boy
fell off after jumping on tbe step*.
The car wheels mangled hia lower
limba terribly from bis feet- tip to bis
thighs, and both legs had to be. am
putated. The little boy is suffering very
much and it seems impossible for him
to survive—Augusta iVetos.
, , Northern Roughs.-
Mr. Conger called Mr. Hntohins a
liar in a committee room of the house
tifo other day, and Mr. Hutchins cal
led Mr. Conger a scoundrel. These
little 'over roughs, are from. Michigan &h<l New
j. i: ' .vilaito’: !!
