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RAILROAD SCHEDULE.
Northeastern Railroad.
SrrEMSTmDKsis Office, )
A then. Gn., Jan. 16th, 1881. (
FAST MAIL TRAIN.
On and after Wednesday, January '9th 1861,
trains ou the North Eastern Railroad will run
a* follows: ■*“*“*-
' fto. l'. NO. *.
Leave Athous . 4.30 a ui I 8:40 p m
An.verf Lula.^T:.... 6.30 Am| 5:50p»
Arrive at Atlanta 9.66 a an I lit:40 p m
NO. 4.
Leave Atlanta 4.00 a in I 8:0o p m
Arrive at Lula......... . €:S0 a m I 5:55 p ro
Arrive at Alliens 12:30 a m { 8:45 p nj
All trains daily except Sunday. Trains 1,9
.and 3 connect closely with all feast and Weal
b#nnd {wssenirer trains on Air Line Railway.
.Train No. 4 with Wesi bound passenger train
on Saturday night only, when it will wait until
$ n. m., when by. so doing a connection can
bo made. a- *v J
Fassdngtrs leaving ^Athens at 4:80 a. m. con-
. ne^t closely at Lula wbdtthe Fast mail train for
ita, tkne >5 honri atod15 iqinutes, mal
sking
WeS
’doaa connection »%4frnta fip* all points Wi
Volume LXV.
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ATHENS, GEORGIA, TUES l MORNING, MARCH 1, 1881.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Georgia Rail Road Company
ocrr.RUfTENDKirr’s Orncs, 1
Augusta, Ga., Nov. 5, 1880. j
Cominennnjj Sunday. »tli inst, the following
Fasseiigcr Schedule will opperata on Una road:
Leave ATHENS 9.15 am 6 00 p m
Leave WinUrvilla 9.45 a m 6 80 pm
Leave Lexington \f.20 a m 7 «>5 p id
Leave Antioch 11**48 A » 7 80 p in
Leuve Mnxevs 11.05 am 7 50pm
Leave WootlvWe ,11.21 am 8 16 p n
Arrive Union Point *.1.4«* a m 8 80 j m
Arrive Atlanta 5.45 pm. 5 00am
Arrive at Washington 2 10pm
Arrive at Miiludgwille.... 4.45PM
Arrive Macon 8.45 pm
Arrive Augusta ..8 47 pm 7 00 a m
Leave Auj'u-tu 9.85 am 6 8opn
L**ave Macon 7.00 a M
laave Milledgeville 8.58 a m ........
Leave Washington lu.45 am
Leave Atlanta. 7.15aw 8 45pm
Leave Union Point 1.19 pm 5 00 a m
Arrive WoodviUe 1.27 pm 6 15 a m
Arrive Mnxevs 1.45 p m 5 40 a m
Arrive Antioch 2.05 pm 6 00 a m
Arrive Lexington 2.27 pm 6 20 a ro
Arrive Winterville 8.u2 pm 6 55 a m
Arrive Athens 8.30 pm 7 80am
Train* run daily—so oenneetion to or from
Washington ou Sundays or between if scon and
Csmsk in eith-r direction on Sunday nights.
K. K. 1>oksky, Gen., Pass., Agt.
S. K. Johnson, Supt.
ATLANTA 4 CHARLOTTE
Air-Line Railway.
Passenger Department
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
Atlanta, Ga., January 15th, 1831.
On »>.vi alter Jan. 16th 1881, Trains will ran
on this roud as follows :
DAY PASSKNOkR TRAIN—EASTWARD.
Arrive ut Luis 6.80 a M
Leave Lula 6.31 am
WESTWARD,
Arrive at Lula 9.88 p M
Leave Lulu 9.39 P M
NIGHT PASSENOKR TRAIN—EASTWARD.
Arrive at Lulu 5.55 p M
l*euvc 6.66 p M
WESTWARD.
Arrive at Lula 9.57 a m
Leave 9.53 a m
LJCAL FREIGHT TRAIN—EASTWARD,
Arrive at Lula 11.85 A M
Leave .•,••••••.••.•••••11.58 A M
weavwarm.
Arrive at Lula 12.07 a m
L» uve 12.26 p m
THROUGH FREIGHT TRAD EASTWARD
Arrive at l.ula 5.20 p m
5.35 p m
WESTWARD.
Arrive at Lula 8.41 a m
Leave 8.53 a m
vh.se connect ion at Atlanta tor all points
West hdu Southwest. Connecting at Charlotte
**n»U joints hast. Through Ticket* on sale
a* GaiueavilU, Seneca City, Greenville and
Joarlanburg to all points hustaui* West.
G. J. b'OKKACKK, General Manager
W. J. HOUSTON Geo. Pass.A Ticket Ag’t
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
H. H. CAKLTON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
atiiknh, ga.
O FFICE on Broad etreet, np stairs. Entrance
next door above 1-onn’e Drug Store. Will
utten.l promplly to all buniaata entrusted to hi*
SYLVAN US MORRIS.
ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT LAW.
Ji.TII.SS7S, SEOHSZA,
MV ill ationd promptly to any butinsss entrusted
to hiiu. Office Huunicutt Block. Broad Street.
MISCELLANEOUS ADV.
Exrtact hem n Letter of Rev Dr. Uriel
Fierce, Spann, la*., April 88,187V. 1
Dva. Sib: 1 have found your Liver Tonic to
be more effectual than anything I have ever
uactl in relief of habltoal constipation. It is
the liest of these Liver KeguUtei*. Yonrs,
L. FIERCE.
1 in. E. S. Ltkpon—Unsn Sin: I can never
find word* to expree* my ftmtilnde to you for
the incaleniable benetlt L nave derived from the
use of "Smith’* Liver Tonic.” For two year*
I suffered with Liver dieaaae in the wont form,
and never had any permanent relict until the
Aral of last November, when I procured * bottle
of the Uver Tonic. Sineo then, 1 have used
only two *nd * half bottle., and am entirely
wen. I have not felt a .ymptom of the dleeeie
since taking the find doae. 1 had previou.ly
triad eeverd physicians and many other reito-
diea. and all tailed to affect me beneflcially.
IAN.
Respectfully, £. ELLEN FATS
Lxxmorox,Ga., Slav is, 1878.
Slia* Ellen Falman f. my daughter, and I
ully concur in the above,
may S4-ly El.HER D. W. PATS! AN.
From onr own Curri spondent.
Was^ikoton, Feb. 16,188U, *
My apologia!, Mr. Editor, to the
cultured' ar.d 'thoughtful constituency
of the Banner, but really we have 4>ad
bo many incidents ‘by field and flood’,
as Othello hath it, of lai
a budget of excutganoo numerous to
mention.’ Our gay capital has bad
some unwonted experience. Thiol
of Pennsylvania Avenue under y'
feet of water, and row-boats; navi;
i jng
It is'even so. On Saturday last,
the raging Potomac, dammed np by
the ice, which accumulated against
the Long bridge, swept over all nat
ural barriers and innndatedthe grand
est street in the Union, and it is
said in the world. I myself saw the
watermen carrying a cargo of drum
mers, with their little carpet-bag va
lises, to the very door of the National
Hotel, whose venerable proprietor,
like Mrs. Partington, was prepared
with ‘mop and trundles* to sweep
buck the rising tide, in case it came
an inch higher, and invaded the sacred
precincts of that ancient and well
kept hostelry.
The watermen who navigated these
cratts, were rather rongh looking fel
lows, and it seemed pretty hard on
them to be compelled to ‘tote’ a fat
drummer from the boat to the dry
part of the pavement, but then occa
sionally there was a shipment of
dimitr and delightfnlness in the row
boat who had to be transported in
the same way, when I thought of tbc
old song : ‘Ob! who would not be a
jolly yonng waterman ?’
A great deal of damage was done
by the flood. It penetrated the base*
ments of hotels and cellars, and roust
ed the rats, who took to the streets
in great numbers, to the great de
light of the small boys and small dogs
that infest this . metropolis. It pat
out-fires and spoiled dinners; it in
vaded beer cellars and grocery stores.
On Sunday morning the tide had re
ceded, and all along the Avanue the
merchants were rolling out their wet
and moldy goods, which had been
spoiled by the inundation. It was
most novel and unusual sight, and
ought to convince the ‘conscript fa
thers’ who legislate for the nation
that while they are voting millions
of dollars to develop the various
streams all over the country, there is
pressing danger right at their own
doors. Had the tide risen six inches
higher, the damage to property would
have been probably over a half mil
lion. -
T1IE ELECTORAL COUNT.
Garfield and Arthur were counted
in under the joint resolution adopted
by the House and Senate, on Wednes
day last. The galleries and every
inch of standing room on the Boot
were thronged with carious sight-seers,
and a vast multitude could not obtain
admittance at all. The ladies broke
down all the rules of the House, and
made their way into the floor, where
they were welcomed by the Solons,
with all of that delightful deference
which the average Congressman ex
hibits to the gentle and charming sex.
It was impossible they said, to keep
them out, although stringent rules
had been made against it. At the
last moment, nnder the battery of
bright faces and witching smiles that
beamed on the House from the galle
ries, it spontaneously suspended the
rules, and place aux dames was sub
stituted for the ’regular order.’ In
this the Honse was right and gentle
manly.
THE VOTE OF GEORGIA
pt-TTfl HOY ti‘ 1
it will pass or noL'ia very problemati
cal; IRMpUHIMT idftfarttem '
—are strennOokly fighting an increase
of repre£ntatf0n to the Son lb, and *
Mr. l^jfrjgBellpn, hss.He4aj
quite pointed in his attack on Geor
gia. Mr. Horr is the gentleman
whom Sunset Cox eviscerated at the
last session. His ides is that the rep
resentation should be apportioned by
the /foie at the last election. This
wfold^give Georgia five representa
tives, according to Mr. Horr, and it
id also give South Carolina the
EARS F0R THE MILLION!
foo Choo’s Balsam of Shark’s Oil
NilUnll Ration, the Burial. a»S I* Ik* oalj
Absolut* IB. Hr Dnhmtana
t ins on ia CXtlseted trran a peculiar Blank
of email VV am Shark, caught in the Y allow
Sr., known ■> Carcharodon Koudclctti. Every
Chinese fisherman knows it. its virtues as a
restorative of hearing wen discovered by a
Buddhist Prieet about the year 1410. Its cons
were so numerous and many so seemingly
miraculous, that tbc remedy wae officially I re
claimed over the entire Empire. Its use be-
came so universel that for over 800 years no
Deatm-sa has existed among the Chinese people.
Sent, charges prepaid, t. any addraaa et $1 per
Only Imported by H^tYLOCK A CO.,
Sole Agente lor America. 7 Ley St., N.Y.
lte virtue# are M^nealwrablasod it* curative
Among the many readers of the Eevkw In
one part and another of the country, it is pro
bable that nombw* are effllctod with deafuees,
and to anch it may be Bid: “ Write at ono* to
lleylock A Oo,7 T Dey.Street-Hsw York, en-
cloeiuc (I, eadycuariU, reoeirei by return a
remedy that will enable yon to bear like any
body vise, and whoa* curative effect* will be
p-mianenl. Yon will newer regret doing so.”
—Etliior of New ’YuHrYferoantileTtcTicw,
Sept.‘.'5 11*60. dec.14.w2m.
HELPS-’
from yonr door. Thuso who
vantage of tbc good ehanoas for
. that are offend, gauntly heeom# wrellbyj
who do not imp^ovo snob chances
r &ft iaftnMhtd i^SFthSja
Bj-b^Addre-temBi^
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Number 17.
±
Rome is to have an ice factory.
natiBAlik Hltelne tyOOVenUOD
J-lflttBttjHlWlMBt Mod. nt.
\
^ What is the policy of the NerthV
The dead body ot a man was re
cently found in the woods near Sevan-
SEISlfliETMlftl % Augustus Watson, a colored
ment was made that they were in full cation.
sympathy with the" idea of extra slob Georgia chemical works at Angusta,
as soon as possible, and that 1 their ef- aro shipping 300 tons—30 car loads—
forte woaWtbe ^ gmno daily, and have orders con-
mouths have passed, and so far as ‘t 1 ” T *hf sd.
public has heard,, no
ion the 19th Mr. John
that the people of Georgia depiive
the negro of the right to vote. This
reduces him to the argument that
South Carolina is more liberal to the
negro than Georgia, because Georgia
is much larger in population, and yet
from a Republican stand-point, South
Carolina is the State of the tissue bal
lots, the Hamburg massacre, the rifle
clubs, and the serried ranks of the
red_ shirts ” * rise up before Mr.
ilorr’s distorted vision whenever lie
eat* too much supper, which, judging
from his appearance, is not infrequent*
ly the case. He is one of the few geua
tlemen who seem to be very bitter to
wards the people of the South, which
is very wrong iu Mr* Horr, for a ma
jority of the Southern people don’t
kuow ihat there is such a man here.
THE RIVER AND HARBOR BILL
is now under consideration, and there
is a great deal of feeling over it
among gentlemen who don’t get
enough for tbeir State. Georgia is
shamefully treated. Our great sys
tem of rivers gets nothing, and yet
$400,000 is given to the little State
of West Virginia. West Virginia
has a vigilant member on the Com
mittee on Commerce, which explains
this .disparity. Now, let me say a
in a general way: If the Southern
people will send men to Congress
who will stand together and insist cn
the passage of laws on economio sub
jects, which will develop onr country,
it will not be long before we will be
one of the richest, instead ol the poor
est sections of this country. The
South is in a position to dictate fair
legislation. She has enough repre
sentatives here to control the balance
of power on almost every question ot
division among Northern politicians.
She has enough strength to deteat
any legislation that she wants deleat-
ed. How much stronger is she than
the small band of Iiishmen who have
welhnigh defeated the administration
in Great Britain! But as long as
our members come here and blindly
accept measures which are dictated
for tho interest of the Pennsylvania
iron interest, and the New England
cotton interest, and the Delaware
ship-building interest, and every other
Northern interest, without any pros
test in the interest ol onr own section,
we will remain the poorest of the
poor.
This river and harbor bill votes ten
millions out of the pnblio treasury,
and 1 believe gives the great Stale of
was not counted at all, neither was it
rejected. Under the resolution adopt
ed, the tellers declared that if Geor
gia had been counted, that Garfield
would have received so many votes,
and it Georgia bad not been counted
he would receive so many votes. In
either event be was elected. This
was sensible. There was no occasion
for a heated discussion, and all the
talk about establishing a precedent
was nonsenae. Parties do away with
the precedents whenever they have a
mind to, and an amendment to the
Constitution is needed if there re
mains any doubt about bow tho votes
of the electors shall be counted.
tempted. Of course It is not expect
ed that the counsels and the 'designs
of the officers of the road should be
made public, but it is very certain
that it there had been any vigorous
action, the public would have heard
something of it.
It is very evideut tfiat if the North
eastern is ever completed to Knox
ville, absistance must be had outside
ot Athens- The city of Athens and
the citizens of Athens cannot, ot their
own means, raise enough money to
complete the connection with Knox
ville. Help must be bad, then, from
some other source; a combination
must be made with some road or
company that is able to do the work
and whose interest it is to do it. Have
any steps been made to form any
such combination! A committee to
confer with other roads on the sub
ject of western connections, was ap
pointed. Has that committee ever
done anything?
The Macon and Brunswick road,
reuder its new proprietors, is survey
ing a short line from Macon to At
lanta. This company is financially
powerful enough to do whatever is to
its interest. The short line survey
strikes the Georgia road at Coving
ton. It might just as well have struck
it at Social Circle. Why should not
the Northeastern have made over
tures to have the new line surveyed
fo Social Circle, with a view to con-
heciing it with the Northeastern at.
Athens aod then pushing on trom
Lula to Knoxville? It would cer
tainly seem that such a route is to be
desired by the Macon and Brunswick
company.
But it was not our purpose to make
suggestions. Perhaps there is uo ne
cessity for it, n u r much propriety in it.
Our purpose was mainly to ask for
information—-to echo the .questions
which the businees men ou the streets
are askiug. Our business men—and
indeed our whole community—are in
terested in this matter. The North
eastern has made Athens what it is
commercially. From a dull, slow
town into a bustling, thriving, vigor
ous yonng city, it has been transform
ed by the Northeastern. The popu
lation has about doubled, and the
taxable property about trebled in val.
ue, since the Northeastern was builL
It is natural, then, that our people
should be solicitous about the welfare
of this road. It-is not strange that
they should ask questions when they
MORALS OF DOMESTIC LIFE.
From the. Naw York Obaarrer. .
Quite a sharp controversy has been
kindled in the daily press by the state
ment that a distinguished female wri
ter was pot the Wife of.ihe man with
whom she lived as with a husband.
It is not denied 1 that his own lawful
wife was living, that shmirnew it, (kit
she despised the conventionalities ot
society, and glpried in the manner of
life she led which was wholly'one of
her own choice, to which she'waff -'not
driven by any stress of oirenmstanora
A writer ia a respectable iamilypa-
Georgia $100,000. Little rivers at ^ t j me p aet i D g | opportunities wan
the North, which can only be navi*’ , B g > and their road at a stand-still.
THE DEBATE
on the resolution nnder which the
vote was made, was notable in th«t
it brought to tbeir feet Georgians
who seemed to differ somewhat. The
record is with you, however, and J
will not comment further on this de»
bate, which was spicy, and not at all
discreditable to the State, as members
of ether States say. It left no bad
blood, and it is noteworthy that the
Georgia Representatives have differed
aa gentlemen should differ when they
can’t agree.
THE MEW APPORTIONMENT BILL
Proposed by the Census Committee
gives Georgia ten members. Whether
gated by rafls and flats, have large
appropriations to build dams and
locks to give them a slack water nav
igation, and yet the great streams of
Georgia and the South get next to
nothing.
It is all wrong. But Southern
members could, if they would, defeat
the bill, and dictate a bill giving com
plete justice to the South. The truth
is, that we have been in the habit ot
yielding a blind party obedience to
the Democratic leaders of the North.
Every one ot these men is a protec
tionist, and while his politics are sound
enough, his ideas of political econo
my are squarely against Southern in
terest. And yet the Southern men
are the superiors, I think, in elo
quence, and in all the qualities of
leadership in the great -deliberative
body which controls these questions.
FERNANDO WOOD,
the veteran statesman from New York,
diedfft Bat Springs, Ark , Sunday-
night week. He was an old man,
was erect and vigorous to iHfcf
Just before be left
kfed Inaugurated his fronts man
ure, the funding bill, with consum
mate ability, and in bis speech on this
question, be told the Horae that be
knew bis career was ended.
His was an eventful life. Re en
tered Congress forty years 0gp» and
as Mayor of New York, when.South
Carolina seceded, he addrem aoom-i.
muuication to the council of tint city,
snggesUng lhat the city of New Yeck
secede from the Union, and erect it
self into a free city. Hie desk is
draped in black, and is surmounted
eveiy morning with a beautiful ar
rangement of fioMM. On yesterday,
in delivering some remarks to the
House, Mr. Stephens beautifully al
luded to time insignia of death, and
reminded that body that
11 Th* b<*at of heraldjy, the poanp of powar.
fate. We think something ought
bedone;” I t_ I. i ( 71 !.
As one ot the merchants said. to
That road is onr pet; it lias'made ns
what we are; and we are anxiousabont
its
to
The sentiment of that merchant is
a general one. There ia a general im
pression that now is the time of op-
portunties, and that the opportuni
ties will not last always. There is
also a general impression—and it
doubtless has a good foundation—
that every opportunity for V profita
ble combination which is allowed to
pass, iucreases the dunces of this
road falling into the hands ot the
Georgia road management. The re
sult of that would not be difficult to
foretell. Athena well knows what
she was when she had no competition
In freights; and that would be tier
condition again it she were to allow
competition to die. All the power
of the railroad commission and of the
law behind it, will not prevent the
disastrous effect that would follow if
there were no competition in freight*
to this place.
And now we get bade to where
we began. What is doing, or going
to be done, to push the Northeastern
to completion? The Banner would
be glad of any information to*give-to
the public.
killed.
The trains of the Brunswick -road
will shortly be supplied with air brakes.
The cost per train of these brakes is
about $800,
A negro in Savannah named Charles
Brown was shot and otherwise badly
treated. Two men have been arrest
ed ns the perpetrators.
The Albany News says that auction
mules sell lively in that city, because
there isn’t corn enough in sontliwcst
Georgia to save them.
It is said that Mr. Julius Brown
purchased every camelia within ten
miles of Atlanta previously to Sara
Bernhardt’s appearance in that city.
A few nights since the residence of
Mr. John Fulton, in the southeastern
portion of Randolph county, was bum.
to the ground, with everything it
contained.
A reward of $450 has been offered
for the arrest of Doc Wilson, who
murdered James Tinley in Macon.
The mayor offers $100, the govenor
$100 and bis brother $250.
There are indications of a revival
of fruit raising in Hancock. This
business has come into decided prom*-
inence in some sections of the State.
It is largely remunerative.
At Mercer University the gradua
ting class of ’81 promises to be the
largest in several years. Twenty-six
seuiors will reeeive diplomas at the
ensuing commencement.
Jim Clark, Elisba Cutts and Emma
Clark charged with the assassination
of Mr. J. J. Hudson, of Americus
wero committed to jail by the pre
liminary investigation held recently.
Arrangements have been effected
by which the Roswell railroad, which
was graded several years ago, is to be
completed. The company expect to
have the road through by the 1st of
April.
One article in the covenant of part
nership of one of the best cotton firms
tn Augusta reads thus: “If any mem -
her of the firm takes a tingle drink ot
whiskey, the li m wi.l be immediate
ly dssolved.”
The fiist rebel flag ever borne by
an Augu-ta company is now hanging
in the Clinch Rifles’ hall, and its rag
ged folds and bnilet holes are cherished
as the brightest and dearest ornameut
of this proud old armory.
A white man near Dublin, with a
wife and two children, and wbo has
heretofore borne a good character,
attempted to outrage the person of a
colored married woman, and a severe
struggle ou her past prevented.
At Id seen on the 15ih, Wash Pope,
colored boy employed in the Central
railroad yard, while riding on the pi
lot of an engine tell across the rail as
he was attempting to jump off and
his body was terribly mangled.
Henry May, of Cedartown, charged
with counterfeiting United States coin
and passing the same, had his com
mittal trial on the 19th, and on fail
ure to give the bond required, -$2,000,
was committed to Fulton county jail.
On the night of the 14th Mrs. Mary
Jeffries arrived at 'the'car UM tn
Atlanta in a deplorable condition.
She is a widow, only 19 years ot age,
blind and the mother of an infant six
months old. She was kindly treated
in that city.
At Byron, oo the 15th inst., Mr.
Abner B. Parott, who has bad charge
of a school in that vicinity tor some
years, was found in an insensible con
dition about a mile trom town. He
died in about twenty minutes after
ward. It is supposed his death was
caused from drinking. 1
iy in the Auguste
PNfeoto nends Hon. Joehufl
Garfield’s cabinet. D these
could only know what an immense
flavor they are doing the premdept-
elect, they would keep off 1 at tbeir
work of‘recommending.’ Row (bank*
ful Garfield ought 'to be to (these' -dis
interested Georgians I
Aleck Stephens says he
The path of gk*7 lead* butto.lhejriT.* sri£of h!a fftying since 1860.
person the nsme that would be indis
putably proper if she bad been a
seamstress who accepted it; and be
says: i, , f .<
“This, it seems to me, is indecent.
By no usual acceptiou of terms ^could
she be called by this toul word; so to
call her however ostentatiously it
may be done, even in the supposed
interests of her sox, is to insult not
only the memory of a generous and
beautiful nature, but the sensibilities
of every man or woman or of any
moral discrimination.’’
Then toe hare not “any moral dis
crimination.” If the doctrine thus
defiantly, not to say insultingly, laid
down is true, we have do faculty of
discerning between right and wrong,
between decent and indecent. And
we regard it a9 a great offence against
the moral sentiment ot the women of
New York, for a writer in a respecta
ble journal to assume and assert that
they, the women, are without “any
moral discrimination” if they apply
the fit word to a woman who thus sets
at defiance the customs and decen
cies of civilization, and publicly lives
with a man as her husband while it is
known to herself and to the world
that she is not and cannot be his
wife, because his wife is living. Not
less offensive is the writer’s remark,
“to place her upon the vnlgar plane
of protest against marriage in gener-
al, or to hold her up as a warning to
society, is to lose sight of the essent : .al
quality of her action.”
And we beg to know what is there
in vice that raises it above “the vul
gar plane” when the parties are in-
high life, or are literary people ? May
they violate the decencies of society
with impunity, because they are rich
or literary? The “essential quality
of her action” is the piecise thing to
be looked at, and no right- minded
Christian can look at it without giv
ing it just condemnation.
A man who marries a woman while
his true.wife is living, is justly liable
to go to prison as a bigamist, and to
take a woman to hiniselt without
marriage may enable him to escape
the penitentiary, but it cannot help
him or her to the enjoyment of any
honest man’s or womau’s approbation.
So loose is public opinion on the
subject of marriage and divorce, that
it is an o-jeasion ot profound regret
when sentiments like these we are
criticising find utterance in any re
spectable quarter. The more intel
ligent and distinguished are the par
ties to domestic and social vice, the
more severely are they to be censured.
CURRENT NOTES.
California sent to the Eastern States
$1,000,000 worth of fresh fruit last
year. •" ; i: •»' -t T
Lady Florence Dixie, who has
lately.published.a work of travels ia
Patagonia, is going .to Cape as war
correspondent for the London Morn-
! ing'i^.' , i “ ■' : n ‘
Sir Thomas and Lady (nee Sharon)
Hesketh had a rapturous reception
in bis ancestral balls,- to which the
people drew them, having taken the
horses from the carriage.
Alfonso, mofiareb of Spain, nearly
6 Rives to sbeh a lost Mff life Teeentfyirhite Mtatlng' do
A heartless woman id Atlanta was
arrested and taken to the stationhouse,
where she was charged with bastardy
and abandoning her child. The rea
son sbe assigns for the act is that she
was tired of the child and had no de
sire to keep it longer. Sbe says that
she would have killed it but was afraid
to do so.
A duel in Atlanta was prevented oo
the 16th by the arrest ot one of the
combatants and his second. The
principtls were Charles Ozburn, of
Marietta, and Brenbara Anderson, of
Covington. The cause was Miss Claude
Weaver who was engaged to Ozburn
and married Anderson the latter crow
ing over the fact that jiff had gotten
away with Ozburn and bis girl. They
were released on $1,000 bond.
Two weeks since a little son of Mr.
Henry Ingraham, ol Coffee county,
died trom hydrophobia. Another
son of that gentleman has died from
tiie same disease. Tho strange fact
about this -second death is that
the boy was, aa tsr as is known,
never bitten by tbe cat which caused
the death of his brother, nor by his
brother while he was suffering with
his total attack, How he •contracted
tbe disease » a mystery.
Col. John O. Nichols, of the first
congressional district of Georgia, baa
been granted an indefinite leave of
absence by the house, of representa
tives in Washington. His family be
ing sick, he retiree before the session
doses. He retires to private life, and
win be sarceadod by Mr. Geqrge.C.
Slack, of 8criven county. Col. Cola
lins has finally concluded not to con-
“LET’S SETTLE IT HARRY”
Louisville., Ky., Febuary 20.—
William Hardy and Harry Clemons
quarreled recently over an alleged re
mark made by Hardy about Martina
Clemons, Harry’s Bister. They had
never come to blows over the affair,
however, until to-day, when they
met on the street. Hardy said: let’s
settle the matter now Harry. The
speaker immediately stepped back and
pulled out. a pistol from bis pocket
and held it towards Clemons. Be
fore be could use it Clemons clinched
with him and endeavored to get the
weapon from his hand. In tbe wres
tle that followed Clemons threw Hardy
to the ground and fell oil top of him,
still trying to get his hands on the
pistol. White they were in this 'po
sition Hardy reached up with the
weapon, which was already cocked,
aod bringing tbe muzzle against Clem
ons’ head, pulled the trigger. Clemons’
hold relaxed and be fell upon the breast
of his murderer. Tbe latter worked
himself out from under the weight
and putting tbe pistol in his pocket,
walked rapidly away. Clemons died
this afternoon. He waa never con-
cious after being shot.
:>e young
men’s central republican club of Brook
lyn on Thursday night, Henry Ward
Beecher discussed among other things
tbe press, saying: “Many and many
of the newspapers publish objection
able news, and it was that news which
was greatly sought. Good Christian
citizens were seen steathily buying
these newspapers to see wbat the
devil bod done, and it was just be
cause of that that theae papers sell.
The great reason why the papers
were not belter was because the peo
ple did not want them any better.’’
the Casa, de Canpo, near Madrid,
He broke through jthe ice, and was
rescued with difficulty from drown
ing.' ' _ L
Iu the last twenty years the Com
stock lode has yielded 6,500,000 tons
of ore, which average $46.80 per ton,
making the total valuo of the ore ex
tracted $323,671,705. Of this ore
gold formed 45 per cent, in value and
the silver 55 per cent.
. Miss Dobie a young lady of twenty-
six, wbo has contributed sketches of
New Zealand Rcencry to the London
Graphic, was lately murdered by a
Maori while on a solitary sketching ex
cursion. The murderer confessed his
crime.
A Roman correspondent writes that
every one is astonished at tile steady
mildness of tbe season. Sunshades
have been more in request than uma
brellas. Street cars are the novelty in
this city. Tbe Quirinal bill is now
ascended by them.
A G Bradley writes to the Pall Mall
Gazette that the old State of Virginia
may now be fairly said to be “boom
ing”—booming, too, in a quiet, re
spectable and substantial manner that
makes little noise or stir, but for that
very reason is all the firmer and more
likely to be permanent, .i .[,: o7 ,
Kimberly, the seat ot government in
Griqualand West, and headquarters
of the South African diamond diggers,
bad not a hut eleven years ago, and
now numbers 16,000 people. As the
wooden shanties have given place to
more substantial buildings, it bos been
found that Kimberly itself has been
built on a diamond field.
A writer in 1835 referring to the
Brown family of Providence, says:
“What is very unusual in tbe United
States, this family lias increased in
wealth through three generations—a
circumstance which I do not recollect
to have occurred before, as.it has been
almost universal practice for the chil
dren to squander what the father
accumulated.
Grace Greenwood describes George
Eliot as “exceeding plain, with her
aggressive jaw and her evasive blue
eyes, but as she grew interested and
earnest in conversation, a great light
flas'-ed over or out of her face, till it
seemed transfigured, while the sweet
ness ot her rare smile was something
indescribable.”
Prof Goodwin, one of the five pro
fessors that form tbe Advisory Board
of he Harvard College Annex, says:
The past year’s experience as a teacher
in tbe new college tor women has con
vinced me that our plan promises more
for the higher* education of women
than any one that has been suggested.
Already in its undeveloped condition
it offers young women better advanta
ges than any institution in America
offered to young men fifteen years
ago. .. .v .
The New Bible-Quick Work.
The new version of the New Testa
ment, which lias been so many years
in course of translation, and which is
unquestionably the most important
literary enterprise this century has
seen, is being waited for with curiosity
and anxiety by hundreds of thous
ands.- It is not.generally known that
a first edition of 500,000 copies has
already been manufactured in Eng
land, and 100,000 copies are said to
be already in New York City, not
one of them permitted to be sold.
They are. awaiting a telegram from
the authorities in England authoriz
ing their issue. The first copies can
ouly Jbe had at the extravagant price
of $10 per copy. The Literary Rev
olution proposes fully to meet the de
mands which' its army of friends are
making upon it by doing probably
the quickest work in book-makiDg
which hat ever yet been accomplished.
Arrangements have been fully made
to put the entire book into type inside
of 24 hours trom the time a printed
copy of the English edition can be
procured, and within three days at
least 10,000 copies will be bound ready
for delivery to waiting purchasers,
and at least 5,000 copies will be man-
cinations, the rabtf rtitnarkaBTe of
which was that she was in danger of
at. the hands ot General
nooctc. She learned from the news
papers that -General Hancock had
had something to do with the hanging
of a woman, and became possessed
wiih tbe }dta that, ifelecte<fc |ei*opj4 g
immediately* seek out ana "execute
her in order to get her property.
New York Cotton of a recent date
says: “From Southern Texas, where
the Ifcrmera hare begun ^to ttlfitlr
about the new cotton seasbif ¥e havwr
ten complaining of the injury to aeeii
caused ,by the rainy .faff and winter
seasons; hnd^ifjre^ai'c' hot mlstakeh
le throughout ^he qqqtfa befo^e.q good
stand is achieved for the next crop.
^Irt»y fhouaand of dollars wefe , lrat ;
from tins cause last season in Middle
and bcrn^lr Georgia, and in the -cqtci n
growing region of Florid*. -
.<!?,!! t-; ; !j ;:it IU: 'I
iMn
Laura, .Speer, tho handsome ana so- '
cdmplisbed sister of the most brilli
ant of bur younger Georgia politicians 1
adorns and beautifies with-tier fifes*
enCe the National hotel. It is a very
noble sight to see such a sister nndi :
suoh a brother so proud and worthy ,
of each other. One of the . most at
tractive .traittuin.. Emory. Speer’s
character is that as ho advances on
the road to distinction ho puts forth
a generous hand to aid others who
are not so sure of foot in climing the
Alpine height where Fame’s bright
temple gleams afar-”
Mrs. Lucy A. Elkins, wife of a
once famous Chicago artist, Henry A.
Elkins, has commenced suit against a
Chicago saloon keeper named William
Cudoey and the owners of the bui! S'
ing he occupied for $25,000 for de
bauching her husband and making
him a confirmed drunkard. Elkins,
she says, was earning $10,000 a year
at his profession, when Gudney en
ticed him ictq his place, and there hb
squandered not less than 320,000 of
his hard-earned income, aud has since
been incapacitated for work at his
profession and unable to support his
family. . -• •
Dr. Gatung, inventor of the fa-
mous gun, has just perfected another
instrument of. war that is reported to
be most complete in its dua lly props
erties. It is capable of firing 1,000
shots in a minu e, and by the use of
the instrument three men can do the
work of three hundred riflemen. It
is capable of killing a man on horse
one mile away. It is somewhat in
tbe lorra of the present Gatling 1 gun,
but more complete, and may be takeh
to pieces at will, and therefore can be :
moved about easily. : .
R- A. Proctor, the astronomer, ia
now in California, and it is said he
intends to deliver a course of lectures
iu the United States .before returning
to England. It is reported that on
the steamer which brought him from
Australia he met a witching wid'-f
with four children, and the course of
true love ran so smooth and so switt
that a match was arranged before the
vessel reached San Francisco. Proc
tor is a widower with two children. *
The Americas Republican says: A
gentleman from the op-conntry told
us that he was digging a hole to place
a post when be unearthed a snake
that was frozen hatd. He struck it
with the flat of the spade, audit
sounded like a rock. He said lie of
ten heard that they would thaw if
frinen, and be pnts this one in a
warm place near the fire. In about
■half an hour thereptile showed symp
toms ot life, and began to look around
and move about. He then killed the
snake to malrif sure that it would hot
bite thq dnis that had warmed it into
existence.' 1 lu -' -l '< 1-*J- -i
ufactured every day thereafter, until.. *., •
the demand is met. It will be print- I ,n B eJtte " t ,n f 0 ® 0 of the extern cities
The Macon Telegraph and Messen
ger has greatly improved of late—no)
only it* looks, but in every other way.
We have always liked the .Telegraph
ever since, as a little barefoot boy, we
used to go to the office and get the
weekly paper, long before it became
a daily. We take pleasure in extend
ing our oongratulaiions, and predict
for it a ‘ future whose achievements
shall be greater than titoseof the
past. ... — •
Henry Grady has been criticised
with much severity, especially of late;
but he has never said an unkind word
about liis critics—nor indeed about
anybody else. Ho has written of
many in letters of gold; but: wo have
never gsen a harsh thing from bis pen.
This, ofitself, is enough to shame in
to sienco those who are constantly
trying to detract from his reputation.
.> .—* ■ >i- - «■*»> - 1 .—I i:
Beverly Tucker, of Va., lias been
selected to fill-the vacancy in chair
manship ol the committee of Ways
and Means, cailflfed' by the death of
Fernando Wood .—Constitution.
But Beverly Tucker has been dead
along, long time. 'If a dead man
can hold - the chairmanship, why not
let Mr. Woodretain it? ia bsiiir . I
, Prof. Swing, of Chicago, has been
lecturing on novel reading, qnd in an
swer, to the question,'“Who should
read the novel ?” says: “No ohO ver^
much; every one somewhat;'-those
who most dislike them, ...
Col. John S. Mosby is mentioned
in Washington as the next rejiubtienn
candidate for govenor of Virginia.
It is said that a movement is already
on foot to secure for him the nomi
nation.
Small pox is prevailing to an alarm
ed in large, beautiful type, neatly and
strongly bound in cloth, in a volume
of about 500 pages, and sold at the
nominal price of 30 cents. A fine
edition in half Russia, guilt top will
be sold lor 60 cents, and one in full
Turkey morocco, gnilt edges, $1.25.
Of course the popular demand will be
enormous. Orders will be filled iu
the order in which they aro received,
with remittance. American Book
Exchange, New -York.
\A bill establishing the rate of li
quor licenses at 61,000 has passed the
Nebraska legislature. It is said the
test the seat of Mr. Blade; therefore, ,bi)ll f jfit becomes a law, will . close while ip the wine drinking countries
the gentjemab ftten tbc first district jwhior per oepjt, v * *'•- —’ r - — 1 •*-- ’ t- imir«7R
will be unmolested in bis well earned of the fir
Unrela. and give
The London Medical Journal in
sists that Bright’s disease is the result
of the immodcrateuseof iced drinks,
and seek* to provq. this, by figures,
showing that the dhease prevails
in any couatry in proportion with the
amount of ice consumed there.
-We ot the Uoited States use
90 per cent moreico than
any, European country, and
the disease is 75 per cent, wprse than
ib Europe. England conics next,
in cities I the .disease is very seldom seen, and faying at the^ point of death, This
les and I in remi-ciyilized nations, where ice is, would require mpre. jheuergj' than
not used, it is wholly unknown.
and much alarm prevails. People
where it has not yet made its appear
ance should guard against it by vac
cination.
The editors who went to see Bern
hardt agree not: bnly that she spoke
French, but that she spoke it like a
native. These editors, it will be re
membered, are themselves natives,
if*Hill -- m - ' ' '' i' #i t«Wr
Richard Grant White .thinks
that the study of mathematics and
grammar only teach a giyl to despise
her mother,
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"The administration of justice in New
York City costs 11,600,000 is- year,
and it is not a superior article of jus-
tic either. , , -
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3 Dr. Felton is « protbctMURt;
therefore wu are glad be* is .left .at
home,provided hj* successor, ia op-
to protection., , , , T
An exchange ’speaks of a manias
most men possess..
Jhww fuiaoiUw
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