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/ cMccklg ^mratr. *X. T- WAT3RMAN, PBOPRIb'lUH. IIA.TK8 OF AWVERTWINO AdrcrtlMinenta will be inserted at the rata of One Do Ur ner inch for the first insertion, and Fifty Cents lor each additional insertion. CONTRACT RATES: stags. ,1 wo.]2 wo.)9 no. One Yaeh— M Two InehM—. Three inches— Four Inches S norter Column alf Columi One Column 4 00* 9 00 7 00 1 5 no. 7 00 6 W S 00 7 M , 10 00 1A AA U AA t 80 10 00 If *0 30 00 23 00 90 00 no 00! 90 00 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. THE 8 BANNER i i THE CHEAPEST PAPER IN GEORGIA—O^E.DOLLAR A YEAR—IN ADVANCE. Volume LXV. ATHENS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY HORNING, FEBRUARY 15, 1SS1. • <1‘ a 'I* t. £It i - .. . ; . *Jii* ** i « » 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’: !!