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Northeastern Railroad.
SurXKINTlXDB.NTS OfriCK,
Athena Ga., Jan. 18th, 1881.
PANT MAIL TUAIN.
On and after W<*dneadny. January ’9th 1881,
train* on the North Eastern Hailroad will run
a* follow*;
~ So. i. soTC
Leave Athena 4.80 a tn I 8:80 p in
Arrive at Lulu 6.80 a m | 5:50 p tn
Arrrte at Atlanta 0.46 a m | 12:40 p m
* NO. ii. NO. 4.
Leave Atlanta........... 4.00 a m I 8:00 p m
Arri .o at Lula 6:80 a in | 5:55 p m
Arrive at Attiuus 12:80 a in | 8:45 p in
All train* daily except Sunday. Trains 1, 2
and 8 connect closely with all East and West
bound passenger trains on Air Line Kuilway.
Train No. 4 With West bound passenger train
ou Saturday night only, when it will wait until
V.45 p. m., when by so doing a connection can
be made.
Pauses fere leaving Athens at 4:80 a. m. con-
minute*, mnking |
close connection at Atlanta for all pointa West
and Sc itbwec.t.
LYMAN WELLS.Snp’t.
Georgia Radi Road Company
bcruuimcNDKXT** Orncs,
Augusta, Ga., Nov. 5, 1880.
Commencing Suuday. 8th iuat, the following
Passenger Schedule will opperute on this road:
Leave ATHENS 9.15 a in 6 00 p m
Leave Wiutcrville V.45 a m 6 30 pin
Leave Ix'xington U*.20 am 7 05 p m
Leave Antioch 1".48 a m 7 80 p in
Leave Maxeys 11.05 am 7 50 pro
Leave Woodvil'.e 11.21 am 8 15 p ii
Arrive Union Point 1.4" a m 8 80 r in
Arrive Atlanta 5.45 pm. 5 00a in
Arrive ut Washington 2 10 r m
Arrive at MilledgeviUe.... 4.45 pm
Arrive Macon 6.45 pm
Arrive Augusta 3 47 pm 70Oa
Leave Aupusta 9.35 am 5 30 p 19
L**uve Macon 7.00 a m
Le iVt Millcdgcvillc 8.58 am
Ixtave Washington 10.45 am
lxravi- Atlanta 7.15 am 8 45 p in
Jx.'uvu Union Point 1.12 P a 5 00 a in
Arrive Womlville 1.27pm 5 15 a m
Arrive Maxeys.... 1.45 pm 5 4o a m
Arrive Antioch 2.05 pm 6 00 a m
Arrive Lexington 2.27 pm 6 20 a tn
Arrive Winterville 3.02 pm 6 55 a in
Arrive Athens 3.30 pm 7 3o a ro
Trains run daily—so cenneotiou to or from
Washington on Sundays or between Macon and
Coinuk in either direction on Sunday nights.
K. K. Doitsav, Gen., Pass., Agt.
S. K. Johnson, Snpi.
Mm l
There have been various interpre
tations put upon President Garfield’s
address, some highly eulogistic and
others expressing the strongest disap
proval. We give below the editorial
ot the Telegraph and Messenger,
which to us is both fair and clear
upon the special point which it selects
tor its comment:
The inaugnral speech of Mr. Gar
field is a graceful performance, in the
B»B«B*^sP****
int ot the speech is a plea for nnob-
CHARLOTTE
.Air-Line Railway.
Passenger Department
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
Atlanta, Ga., January 15th, 1881.
On ki.vl after Jan. 16th 1881, Trains will run
on this road as lollows:
DAY PAMLXeSJt TRAIN—KASTWARD.
Arrive at Lula 6 30 a m
Leave Lulu — 6.81 a m
westward.
Arrive at Lula 9.38 p m
Leave Lula 9.39 p m
NIGHT I’ASSJCNOKR TRAIN—EASTWARD.
Arrive at Lula 5.55 p m
Leave 5.56 r m
WESTWARD.
Arrive at Lula 9.37 A m
Leave 9.58 a m
LJCAL PUK1GIIT yiAlP — EASTWARD.
Arrive at Lula 11.38 a m
Leave .....11.58 a M
Arrive at Lula .......12.07 a fe
L>*ave •••«•••••••••...12.26 P M
THROUGH FRXIUUT TRAIN—BABTWARD
Arrive at Lula 5.20 p m
L-Jive 5.85 p m
w Ora arp.
Arrive jit Lula .. 8.41aM
Leave 8.53 A M
< lose connection at Atlanta tor all point*
\\ est and Southwest. Connecting at Charlotte
•*.r uli points East. Through Tickets on sale
a. Gainesville, Seneca City, Greenville and
..onriaiiburir to all points East am’ West.
G. J. FOKKACKE, General Manager
W. J. HOUSTON Gun. I*asa. A Ticket Air’i
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
H. H. CARLTON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
atiikxh, ga.
O FFICE on Brond street, op suits. Entnuice
next door ut»ove Long's Drug Store. Will
atteinl promptly to all buaineM entruated to his
care. _ octl
SYLVAN US MORRIS.
ATIORHEY & COUNSELLOR UT LAW.
-a.TXr.EXTS, GEORGIA..
Will attoml promptly toaay business entrusted
to hiui. Office 11 inuiiutt Block. Broad street.
dee.l.tf.
POPE BAEEOW.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ATHENS, GEORGIA.
Broad Street, same stairs with Telegraph office.
MISCELLANEOUS A»V.
Exrtnrt from a Letter of Rev- Dr. Lovick
Pierce, Sparta, Ua., April 28,187V.
Dxah Sir: I have found your Liver Tonic to
Dc more effectual than anything I have ever
naed in relief of habitual constipation. It it
the beat of tlicae Liver Kegitlalcra. Yount.
L. FIERCE.
Dk. E. S. l.vanoN—l)a*a Sta: I can never
find words to expreas my gratitude to yon for
the incalculable benefit I nave derived Irom the
uae of “Smith's Liver Tonic.” For two year*
I coffered with Liver dlaeaac in the worst form,
and never had any permanent relief until the
tint of last November, when 1 procured a bottle
of tlie Liver Tonic. Sinco then, I have used
onlv two and a half bottles, and am entirely
wert. I have not felt a symptom ot the disease
since taking the first dose. 1 had previously
tried several physicians and many outer reme
dies, and all tailed to affect me beneficially.
Respectfully, E. ELLENPATMAN.
Leximoton.Ga., May IS, 1878.
Mias Ellen Patman is my daughter, and I
ully concur in the above.
maiSS-ly ELDER ». W. PATMAN.
point
strutted suffrage as theone vital re*
quircinent and peril of the country.
In dealing with t his subject, Mr. Gar
field quietly assumes that free suffrage
is assailed in this country only in the
South, and only in respect to the
negroes. In point of fact, the South-
ern Slates constitute the only part of
the Union where the freedom ot the
ballot is not seriously assailed. There
is hardly a town or neighborhood in
the whole Southern country, where
the negro is not as free to vote as the
white. We, in Georgia, know that
ihe charge of dragooning the negro,
so far as the whites are concerned, is
utterly false, and believe, it to Ik*
equally false in regard to the other
Southern States. The only restraint
on free sufferage in Georgia is prac -
ticed by the negroes themselves, who
are ready to fall upon any of their
own number voting the Democratic
ticket.
But while Garfield in this inaugural
speech distinctly charges the South
and the Democrats with the sole guilt
and responsibility of assaults on free
suffrage, he knows well enough that
there is not a State or town in the
North or West where freedom of the
ballot was maintained at the last elec
tion. In all ot them the poor man
was dragooned by threats of discharge
for the tree exercise of the ballot.
Front Maine to California terrorism
and bribery were active in bis behalf.
Senator Dorsey was sent from New
York with $750,000, made up among
the Republicans of New York, to
carry Indiana, and publicly boasted
that he bought the Slate and paid for
it. On the 11th of February last these
same Republicans gave Dorsey a dins
ncr, in New York city, in acknowl
edgement of his services, and Arthur,
the Vice«Presideut, was prominent
among the hosts. .
In his speech at this banquet, Ches
ter A. Arthur said:
Indiana was a Democratic State,
but it was said that it might be car
riad lor
a great deal of perseverauce and en
ergy—and a great deal of—” [Loud
cries ot “soap” and laughter.] **YVell,
I see the reporters here, therefore I
will say that everybody distributed
tracts and political pamphlets [laugh
ter] all through the State.
This shows with sufficient clearness
what Arthur knew and thought about
the Indiana election. The great State
of New York was carried by the pe
cuniary coercion of Democratic em
ployees. Garfield^owes his election to
bull-dozing, notwithstanding hia sol
emn arraignment of the Southern
States^ for this offense.
And if anything were wanting to
display the hollowness and injustice of
this assault, there stood at bis right
hand, white he was speaking, the man
Hayes, just leaving an office which he
had held four years in defiance of the
suffrages of the people. Surely the
greatest outrage upou a free suffrage
in America was that usurpation which
placed Ilayes in the Presidential chair,
for which he had been defeated; and
quite as surely the election of Garfield
resulted trom a more universal abuse
and perversion of popular suffrage
than ever before took place in the
country.
Mr. Garfield is right in insisting
upon the importance ot a free and
pure suffrage and the suppression of
whatever interferes with it. But
when he charges the abuses of the
sufferage exclusively on the Sontb,
which, at the same time, are almost
universal it* the North and West, he
is guilty of a want of candor and sin
morphesis of methods, and his defiant
incredulity of the extent of the im
provements which have been put up
on the old tenement he used to oc
cupy.
To tell him that children learn to
read and spell by sound entirely; that
they frequently read through the first
and second reader, without knowing
a single letter ol the alphabet; that
sometimes a whole recitation is made
up of a discussion of a rabbit hunt,
and the discussion was in the direct
line of the modern philosophy of men-
eyebrows in the arts and schemes of
elections carried against the pop
nlnr will in not a good apostle to free
suffrage We must find out the local
nnd extent of abuses, if we want to
remedy them; and the chiel seals ot
election bauds in America are the
large towns and cities—not the fait
tcred and rural communities of the
Southern States.
EARS FoR TI,E MILLION!
foo Chao’s Balsam of Shark’s Oil
Putltlvelj BeMorei the llearlkf. and la the aalj
AbMlate Caro for Drihtru known.
•THIS Oil ia extracted trom a peculiar apeciea
J. ot email \V hitx Sham, (aught in tlie Y alkrw
Sea, known a- Carcharodon Kondeletti. Every
Chinese tlahcnnan know-a it. Ita virtues as a
r. Morative of heating were discovered by a
Rudd hist Priest about the year 1410. Ita core,
were so numerous and many ao seemingly
ininicu'oua, that tlie remedy waa officially pro
claimed over the entire Empire. Itausa bo-
canto so universal that for over S00 yean no
lb-aim sa lias exian-d among the Chinese people.
Sent, changes prepaid, to any addreaa at $1 per
bottle.
Only Imported by HATLOCK A CO.,
Sole Agents for Amerce. 7 Dcy til., N.Y.
Ita virtwn are nnquesticrabie and ita curative
charade! absolute, as the writer can personally
testily, both from experianea and observation.
Am* ng the many readers of the Review in
one part and another of the country, it kt pro
bable that numbers are afflicted with deafness,
and to such it may be said: “ Write at once to
llaylock AJCo., 7 Dey Street, New York, en
closing $l,t and yon will reeeiva by return a
remedy that will enaUa yon to bear like any
body elat, and whose curative effects will be
permanent. Yon will never regret doing ao.”
—Editor of Now York Mercantile Review,
Bept.ss 1880. dec.14.wim.
tPiraLSftf-JSSlfSkiS
1 given, and reference to cared
Ipatiesta and phyelcians.
>1 Sand tor my book on The
Habit and Its Cara. Free. novN
fhPlUHU
William Cole, has drawn a color
line for himself at Floyd, Va. He is
a criminal, and a negro constable
holds a warrant for his arsest. Cole
has entrenched himself atop of a
mountain, with a supply .of food and
ammunition, and declares that, though
he will submit like a Iamb to any
white officer, he will die rather thau
surrender to a black one.
tal development; would well nigh
stagger the dear old fossil with atuaziw
raeut.
And yet these statements are true.
But this, like all reforms, has come
slowly, and through many prejudi
ces that have lined its way with
thorns.
As early as the beginning ot the
century Pestalozzi made a sally into
the region of improvement, but the
poverty and misfortunes of that de
voted man, greatly retarded his use
fulness.
Friedrich Froehel evolved out of the
ideas of his predecessor and patron,
the Kindergarten (children) system,
which is the real basis of all modern
improvements in education.
The philosophy of the system con
sists in so exercising all the powers of
the infant mind as to render it self
active, setting it to do whatever it
could be induced to do as a kind of
amusement, exercising its observing
faculties in connection with playthings
and games, feeding the infant mind
with the most templing, wholesome
and appi
thirst for knowledge' is acquired.
Of course these innovations, with
their accompanimcuts, the phonic and
word methods, have been lought step
by step. The old fogies have cried
out against them, and, pointing to the
path ol the father, have plead for a
faithful following of the road they
came, with its, wiudiug ways, its
stumbling stones, its obscurity, and
all ita weary length. They have pro
nounced science dangerous, improve
ment a fallacy, and progress a hum
bug , and have plead for old things,
old ways, and antique systems most
eloquently. But the lamp of progress
has coine steadily ou.
First the great citiis, then the
towns, then the village schools, and
lastly the old-field schools themselves
have caught the idea of scientific de
velopment of the youthful otind, until
now the country is lull of it
The old system stnffed—the new
system develops and educates the fac
ulties. In the new we have found a
light to shine where the old gtoped
in darkness, found a more royal
road to learning, graded with clearer,
firmer steps. Under the new meth
ods, men come out more quickly to
the struggle ot life, with more elastic
tread, with sharpened faculties, clearer
eerily fatal to his pretences as a re- o( jd h**, poise of mind,
former. A politician steeped to the ° r
The Loudon Economist says that
Great Brittain should take a friendly
interest in the silver conference, and,
while it cannot abandon the single
standard, the British Government
may do much to aid the circulation
of silver by making its fraction^) cur
rency of full weight and increasing the
sum lor which silver is now a legal-
tender iu Great Briltaiu. .
Mr. Gibbons, of Delaware, writes
to the New York Nation that iron
steamers can be built and sold as
cheaply in the United States as iu
England ; hut Mr. Gibbons does not
furnish any valid reason why Ameri
can ship-builders do not do what he
says they cau do. A number of Brit
ish-built steamers are owned by
Americans, but they fly the British
flair. These Americans would have
bought their ships here it they could
be bought as cheaply as in England.
The Daily London News publishes
the following from its coirespondent
at Newcastle, dated 7 o’clock Sun
day; “Gen. Sir Evelyn Wood went to
Mount 1’rospecl to-day and subse
quently had an interview with Joubert,
which resulted in an atiuistic to the
I4th insi. Rumors of peace are rife
the earn ns. bit
to all the Boer terms. These tti
formally stated as the complete index
pendence of Transvaal. In fact, all
they rose to obtain, and amnesty to
all leaders. By the armistice permis
sion is granted to send provisions for
eight days to beleagured garrisons.
What would seem indicative of
the richness of the ores of New Mex
ico is a silver bullet which was re
cently in the possession of Professor
W. H. Hayes, of Parrot City, Col.
It was brought to him by a Navajo
Indian scout bclongiug to Captain
Byer’s command and is said to be
similar to the bullets in common use
among the Navajo Indians. It is a
forty-four calibre bullet for a Win
chester or Colt seven- shoooter, and
contains 97 per cent of pure silver,
being 7 per cent, purer than the coin
of the United States. As the Indians
have no means ot reducing or refin
ing the ores, this must he about tlie
natural percentage.
and more method and mastery ot
thought. Under this system we shall
have a different type of traiued minds
for the next generation, a type better
suited to the genius of the quick-wit*
ted, commerci&i New South, a type
who uniting improvement to the en
lightened spirit of tlie age will stoop
down to the rut where neglect has so
long left her, and, with yet firmer
grasp, will lilt up education, invig
orated and vital to the measure of all
other sciences, her pulses throbbing
with new life and her heart-beats
keeping time to the stride of progress
in the world. John Temple.
The Panama Canai—The sec
ond meeting of the Panama Canal
shareholders was held in Paris last
Thursday. De Lesseps who is deter
mined on taking a roseete view of
everything, stated that he had jpst re
ceived a dispatch from Washington
announcing the explosion of all rival
canal schemes. The Panama Com
pany, he said, were on the best of
terms with the United Slates govern
ment. The letters be received from
the families of the expeditionary
party unanimously described the cli
mate as good and the country a par
adise. They had 16,000 lady shares
holders, and these were worth any
army. Enthusiastic applause greeted
} hia speech. There were nearly three
From JteXntt.
McNutt, Ga., March 9th, *81.
Hou. Emory Speer will please ac-
cept our thanks for garden seed and
public documents.
A few nights ago the daughters of
6. Wise were awakened by a noise
in the yard, and on informing their
father, he hurried out, and reached
there just in time to see some one
leave liis smokesbonse, but without
getting any meat.
Mr. B. Cheely has gone to Gaines
ville on legal business, and will return
in a few days.
That fifty-oents law suit has created
some sensation, and for the benefit of
those who do not know, I will state
it: It has twice been clearly proven
that the defendant held back fifty
cents and still holds it. In the first
trial, the upright judge, T. C. Hays,
decided in favor of the defendant, be
cause the defendant waa sober and
orderly, and in the second trial, the
jury made an offset of the evidence,
decided in favor of defendant, and
then went out of the conn house and I hundred and twenty-one thousand
confessed that they Lad done wrong. | shares represented. The report was
C. B. D, unanimously adopted
Losses in the United States by
Fire.—Here are the figures of the fire
losses recorded during the five years;
1880, 879,838,000; 1879, $84,89*2,700:
1878,70,266,400; 1877, $97,526,800;
1876, $73,775,8000; totals, $406,269,-
700. Record has been made, during
tlie five years, of 55,777 fires, costing
the country over $400,000,000 of its
wealth, never to be restored, and
costing insurance companies, as their
proportion of the burned capital,
$219,182,800. Ofthese 55,777 fires,
29,248 were of special hazard class,
upon which $259,122,800 was lost—
the insurance companies’ share being
$139,474,300; that is, more than half
the totals.
A drunken white man in Macon,
is robbed ot $50 by a negro. He
arrested.
Harmond has been commit
ted to jail for breaking liffd'CllS REPnr
ot A. B. Schilling & Co., of Perry.
A negro woman living abont lour
miles from Savannah fell dead from
her chair.
A party of ladies and gentlemen
from Atlanta left for a visit to Cuba
ou the 1st.
A negro man in Dooly county was
killed by a wagon passing over his
body.
Scarlet fever is raging in Dixonia,
Coffee county, and all who can are
leaving the place.
The Albany News and Advertiser
learns that a large rice crop will be
planted in that section this year.
Rev. Dr. A. L. Hamilton, presis
dent of Andrew Female College, at
Cuthliert, has been stricken with pa
ralysis and is in a critical condition.
Clayton Barfield, of Taylor county,
who was sentenced to the penitentia.
ry for the term of seven years, return
ed to his home on Sunday the 20th ulL
A coroner’s jury has decided that
Abraham Stewart, of Savannah, who
was assassinated in his hous *, came to
his death at the hands of his son who
shot him.
At Griffin, Dr. Kendall was com
pelled to pause in his sermon last Sun
day night and request some rude
young people to behave themselves.
Two shots were fired at Arnold’s
omniLus last Saturday, at Milledg.
ville, ou its return from the 9 p.rn.
train. One ot the shots struck Mr.J.
T. Arnold on the ear, which made it
tingle nnd left its impress.
The Elberton News was sold
public sale on the 2d and was bid off
by Mr. George C. Grogan. It is not
known yet what course will be pur
sued as to the future publication ot
the paper.
On the 3d Captain Phillips reaehed
Canton with about sixty convicts from
the camp recently stationed at or near
Albany. This swells the number no a*
work on the Marietta and North
XBtO*
The Rev. Robert A. Webb, pastor
of the Presbyt- rum church of Albany,
supi ised his congregation last Sunday
evening by tendering his resignation
An urgent and! imperitive call hack
homo front the Tennessee presbytery is
understood as the cause.
Augusta News: “Dr. Antes, ofBos
too, one of the leading sanitarians ot
the country, is iu the city, to report
to the council his plan for the com
bined sewerage and drainage of Au
gusta. He will remain long enough
to make a thorough investigation and
full report.
Atlanta Post-Appeal of Wednesday:
'To-day as the Macon train was com
ing in Shell Jackson, a negro boy,
attempted to get on as it was passing
the Macon depot, but unfortunately
he missed his aim and fell between the
cars, the wheels passing over h» rlglii
leg above the knee and cutting it off.
He was taken in a carriage to bis home
on Summer Hill.”
Augusta News: “Work on the
Knoxville road is progressing rapidly,
and the prospects are more than bright
Although no more of the bonds are,
being offered, there is a strong de
mand for them, and many inquiries
here and at a distance have been re
ceived. As many as ten thousand
dollars could easily be sold, in re
sponse to inquiries.”
The Walton County News reports
that Dr. Lucas, of Boston, a most
skillful miner and experienced geolo
gist, visited the Asbestos and Corron-
duin mines, one mile east of Monroe,
and expressed himself highly pleased
with the outlook. Men who have
eveey means of knowing say there is
an abundenceof the above minerals in
this mine, and that they are quite val-
uble.
Buena Vista Argus: Last Saturday
Mr. T. L. Rogers sent his wagons to
Geneva for freight. The first one
loaded was started on ahead of the
other two, with a colored boy driving.
When about two .miles this side he
over took a man in the road coming on
towards Marion. Without asking
permission the stranger mounted up
on the wagon, very much to the sur
prise of the driver, who did not like the
authority he assumed, but said noth
ing to him. After riding on a piece
**■ "' " lered the driver to stop
onf onfe of bfs ftrtilesrfcfilBh; ‘*nhrr~ 1 r‘tT.<f 1|| » fimriiMM nf Him
of course, the driver refused to do,
whereupon the man got out and
stopped the team himself. The driver
a mere boy, picked np a stick and
showed, a deposition to resist such an
imposition, when the rascal stabbed
the boy with a knife just under the
jaw-bone. The man seemed fright
ened at what he had done and ran off.
The driver took ont his mules and
then started to a house where he
could get the flow of blood stopped.
On learning what had occurred two
or three colored men' with wagons on
behind ran forward and found the
team gone, hut on following the
tracks in the woods they soon discov
ered it and the would-be owner halted
in the woods some two hundred yards
from the road. They took charge of
the man and guarded him until Mr.
Rogers arrived. A pistol could be
seen in his pocket, but made no re
sistance. When Mr. Rogers came up
the fellow set up a pitiful whine, des
daring that he aid not know what he
was doing. He gave liis name as
Keudrick, and said he lived on the
Hagler place in Marion county. His
appeals for mercy and affecting story
about being led astray by evil com-
panions, and his, resolve to do better,
aroused tlie sympathy of Mr, Rogers,
and lie finally permitted him to go.
Dawson Journal: “Mr. W. R. Webb,
of Terrel county, had the misfortune
to loose his dwelling house by fire on
the night of February 25th. Almost
all of Ilia household aud kitchen fur
niture and family wearing apparel
were burned. The origin ol the fire
is not definitely known, but it is
thought to be the work of an incendi
ary. A strong circumstance that
scams to indicate that the house was
set on fire is that the flames were first
discovered in a portion of the building
where no fire had been kept, and
when Mr. Webb went to his well to
draw some water with which to subdue
the flames, he found that the bottom
of the bucket had been knocked out.
-Mr. Webb's neighbors came to his
DELAY IN THE PUBLICATION OF THE RE
VISED SEW TESTAMENT.
There is a sudden pause in the
progress of the revision. It was on
th6 eve of appearing. The work is
completed—printed, hound—a n d
copies were sent out to the press in
Englamt and to the members of the
revision committee in this country.
The cause of the unexpected delay
is this: The British committee of re
vision was appointed by the convoca**
tion ot Canterbury, an ecclesiastical
body composed ot the bishops and
terbnry. We have before ns the* 111111 r*iT*'lfT i Ylrt l *' '“l)Wr r "flTlTliiiili i ,,,,
The Atlanta Post-Appeal states
that a few nights ago Miss Hattie
Smith, a young miss of thirteen or
fourteen years of age, and the daugh
ter of a Mr. Smith tvlio resides on
Cooper street, in thateity, went to the
well to draw a bucket of water When
the got to the well she found the well-
rope had got off the wheel some way,
and she stepped upon the well-curb
to replace the rope. As she did so
her foot slipped aud she was precipi
tated into the well forty feet below.
Fortunately there was a colored wo
man standing near by when the acci
dent happened who gave the ahrm,
and efforts were at once made to res
cue the poor girl at the bottom of the
well. She maintained a noble pres
ence of mind and clung to the well-rope
until assistance came from above.
Hattie descended the well feet first
and got badly shook ap in the descent,
having one of her ankles broken in*
two places. Her escape from death
was something marvelous. She re
mained in the well nearly fifteen
Augusta Chronicle and Constitu
tionalist: “In the past two days
Coroner Pieqtiet has held two inquests
on bodies of infants. Tuesday morn
ing a body was found on Taylor street,
as already mentioned, and yesterday
morning another body was found in
the culvert near Hawk’s Gaily. The
child had been drowned by weights
tied about the body. Verdiots of in
fanticide were rendered in each in
stance.”
Recently Mr. James I. Jones, near
Beaver creek, in the eastern portion of
Honslon county, suffered a considera
ble loss from fire. His barn, stables,
corn, fodder, cotton seed, and one ton
of guano were comsumed by the
flames. Besides this, five mules, one
horse, two calves and several hogs
were burned to death. The fire was
supposed to be the work of an incen
diary.
Reports from the country around
Thomasville continues satisfactory
regards the orange trees; many of
which were thought to be killed are
pulling out young shoots. If the trees
bear this year it will be proof positive
that Thomas county can make Urn
cultivation ot oranges a successful
industry. But the LeConte pear must
prove the greatest fruit crop of this
section. The extremely cold weather
this winter has bad no effect whatever
on them, and the trees are now in full
bloom. Thousands upon thousands
of cuttings have been pnt ont this
V. uaa acll At—. AM mmII aelalil
, , , - . , jsar, snd these cuttings will yield
minutes before she was rescued from | bountiful harvests of the lucioue fruit
her perilous position. ' within six years. There’s millions in it.
relief and aided him and liis family to
the extent of their abilities.”
The Talbotton Register atnl Stan
dard reports that work upon the Tal-
bolton railroad ia progressing rapidly
and will be completed at an early day.
President- Thornton and assistants are
unremitting in their labors to push
the road to a speedy termination.
The point reached by the tracklayers
up to last evening is about a half mile
from the main road crossing on Major
E. B. Smith’s plantation, which gives
about tbree miles of the ttack comple
ted. The work is being done in a
very substantial manner, the roadbed
being made firm as the workmen ad
vance. There is no doubt but that the
road will be completed to Talbotton
inside ot thirty days.
Augusta News: The advance iu
the price of wag'-p an— * J “*■ ttle
RM.mwur Union go into effect to
day, and a strike this afternoon is to
be’arrsnged betwen the contractors.
It is thought there will be no trouble
as the contractors are disposed to in
crease wages when just, and the de
mands of the masons and laborers do
not appear to be urged with any feel
ing hut that ot a proper adjustment
ot labor and compensation. The price
asked is $2.50 and $2 85 per day, and
the matter will probably be settled
this evening.
Dswson Journal:* 11 Mr. W. M. Mc
Afee, of Sinithville, had a fine horse
stolen trom his stable one night last
week, notwithstanding the door was
locked before the steed waa stolen.
A' negro man was suspected, and CapL
Bob McAfee came to Dawson last
Friday in search ol the missing horse
and its stable captor. He ascertained
from parties residing between here and
Smitnville that a negro had been seen
riding in the directiou of Dawson oo
a horse which answered the descrip
tion ot the stolen animal.
Perry Home Journal: “During a
quarrel on Thursday last, Jake Davis,
colored, about thirteen years of age,
struck Simon Cooper, colored, about
eight or nine years old, on the head
with a rock, from which blow he died
that evening. The jury returned a
verdict in accordance with the above
facts, charging Jake Davis with invol*
untary man slaughter. A warrant
waa issued for the arrest ot Davis, and
he is now in jail awaiting preleminary
trial for the offense.”
New York 8un: John Tbaukery ot
Good View, Ga., kept $30,000 secure
ly invested for twelve years and lived
on the interest. He made no effort
to add to the principal, and had a mor*
bid desire never to lessen it. Lately
he was compelled to draw out $1,000
and this threw him into great despons
dency. He could be happy with |30,
000 but not $29,000, and so he com
mitted suicide.
Marietta Journal: ’Mr. Geo. Cleave-
land, while out cutting some chest
nut posts, had a sharp axe, which
sunk deep into the instep of his foot,
severing the leaders,and probably crips
pling bira tor life.’
Oglethorpe Echo: Itia estimated
that it will take $560 worth ot litiga
tion to settle a $150 law suit in Lex
UgtOD.
The Minnesota senate has unani
mously adopted a vote of sympathy
for Ireland.
The census sho ws that there are 888,
268 iphre men than women In the
United States.
TAPPING 1UE WIRES.
The World's News Sifted for the Danner
Readers.
The Arkansas legislature has res
vived the state heard ot finance, and
has made sjx per cent, the Iqgnl rate
of interest.
J. W. McGill ia appointed to the
United States senate, *o fill the uncx-
piretj term pt Secretary Kirkwood.
Hayee went to his home attended
by very little'demonstration of any
kind.
Old Simon Cameron celebrated bis
82d birthday at Havana—far away
from the widow Oliver.^ He was^pre-
sented with a ring—emblematic of
bis past political career.
The George Fox starch maufactory
of Cincinnati, has failed.
The oommitte appointed by Mexi
co to examine the question of the
national debt, reports that $145,000,*'
000 should ho recognized. They favor
refunding in three per cent bonds.
Mr. Hayes will not be there to veto
the measure.
The Texas state senate, by a vote
of 23 to 7, has passed a bill to submit
to the people the constitutional
precise terras of the decree'of appoint*
ment. It was understood that the
committee of revision had final au
thority, and that their work, when
completed, would be at once given to
the world. But by some indiscretion
or mistake a few specimens of the
changes made by the revisers (which
wo published in the Observer Janua
ry 27th j appeared in the London
Recorder, and excited considerable
attention. They were speedily re
published in many religious and sec
ular pipers. The parties who sup
pose they hold a copyright in Eng
land of the revision, served legal
notice on the Recorder, in which the
few extracts first appeared, and on
those papers that copied the extracts,
threatening a law suit for the violation
of copyright. This unseemly act has
justly excited great indignation. It
is considered monstrotts that news
papers should be threatened with
punishmeut for publishing extracts
from the Bible, and especially for do
ing the very thing that is most de
sirable and important to be done for
the purpose of bringing the value of
the work distinctly before the public.
If the changes are discreetly made,
the sooner they are known the belter.
If they are not discreetly made, the
sooner they are suppressed the better.
It is very sad to know that the men
who have tlie legal control ot the re
vision are men who threaten with
legal penalties newspapers which have
innocently and at second-hand copied
a few texts of Bible, without note or
comment, into their pages. Our con
temporaries in Canada, who thought
they were doing a good thing by
copying these texts, will now find
themselves exposed to the dangers of
a lawsuit, from which we are happily
exempted by the wqr of 1776. We
never knew before how much we
gained by our independence of Eng
land. It seems that we could not
have cited a text from the revised
Bible without first sending over to
England and getting permission from
the Universities of Oxford and Cam
bridge. That would be very incon
venient, especially in a discussion that
required some dispatch.
It appears that the British Commis
sion ot Revision were not required by
their appointment to submit their
work before publication to the Con
vocation, but it is now intimated that
the revised New Testament will he
thus submitted and referred to a new
committee, to report upon it at the
meeting of the Convocation, which is
to be held in May—three months
hence—unto which the publication
has been postponed.
The “Convocation” is a lengal as
well as ecclesiastical body. It form
erly had the power of levying taxes,
which it does not nns-^;—,
j, . jr-. imtncnt ol the Church in a
State where Church aud State are uni
ted. It has two houses, an upper
and lower, the former composed of
all the bishops in the province, the
other of inferior clergy by the repre
sentatives from the dioceses in the
provinces. This body has legal au
thority to examine and censure
“books,” and from its decision an ap
peal may be taken to the crown.
Thus it comes to pass that, if the
convocation does not approve of the
revision, the case may go up to the
government, and the Queen and Mr.
Gladstone may yet be called on to
decide whether the alterations of the
old version are right and wise. Mr.
Gladstone is a sp)end : d Greek scholar,
and we would give as much tor his
opinion on a disputed aorist ta for that
ot any man in the kingdom. If the
convocation does not approve of the
revision and the Crowu does affirm
a> d adopt it, then the new revision
will he the Queen Victoria version,
as the old is that of King James.
So the end is not yet. The im
pression made by the “specimens”
already published is that of literal
fidelity in the rendering of the revisers.
We have carefully noted the remarks
of many newspapers for the purpose
of seeing how “the thing is taking.”
The value of the work»is appreciated,
but the reasons for some of the chan
ges are not understood. When these
reasons arc given, the public will be
better able to judge of their necessity.
Of one thing we are assured, that the
revision by the most advanced schol
arship of the age sustains every doe-
trine of the common version, and
leaves the entire basis and structure
of the religion of the Gospel fortified
by the examination of experts in Eng*
laud and America.—A. Y. Observer.
tion,.mantifhcture of and sale of in
toxicating liquors in this state, except
for medicinal and sacramental purpo
ses.
A train was wrecked near Winans
station, Maryland, and the fireman
killed.
Tl.e catholics iu various i«trts of
Ireland have determined to make no
demonstrations ou St. Patrick’s day,
as a general union between catholics
and protestants is taking place in be
half of the land league. Arrests con
tinue to be made.
There is a great increase of emi
gration from Germany to the United
States. Whole villages go together,
in some cases.
Col. G. J. Foreacre has been re
elected general mannger%f the Atlan
ta and Charlotte Air-line Railway.
The net earnings of the road last year
amounted to 8319,570.22. There is
no better road in this country.
Vicksburg had three large fires in
two days.
Fourteen disguised men entered a
house of ill-fame near Shelbyville, and
found there a man who has a good
wife, took him out and heat him se
verely.
Carpenter’s Successor.—A Wis
consin dispatch to the World says
the efforts of self-constructed dicta .
tors from Milwaukee aud elsewhere to
fasten Angus Cameron upon tlie peo*
pie of Wisconsin for the late Senator
Carpenter’s unexpired term have thus
far resulted In signal failure. The
anti-Cameron legislators, about forty
strong, will not support him, even
though his nomination be forced on
the majority, but will bolt and if nec
essary unite with the thirty Demo
crats in both houses in favor ot somo
oue not pushed by the machine ele
ment. It is possible that Lieutenant-
Governor James M. Bingham will be
the man as he is universally popular
and could have had the Democratic
support when Sawyer was elected had
he desired it. Against the positive
declarations of a bolt by several lead
ing Republicans the Cameron men
have not a word to say, because of
the fact that he was elected six years
ago by a combination of Republican
bolters and Democrats. It ia_nnt vo.
—.. itncu tno KepuoITcan Senato
rial caucus will be called. The Cam-
eronites of the committee, who are in
a minority, favor a caucus this week,
but the anti -machine members there
of believe it putting it off till next
week.
Eishth Wondrb of the World .
—The Rev. Dr. Allen Tibbits, aged
seventy-seven years, who now lives at
Cold water,[Mich., makes this remark
able statement: “I never swore an
oath,’never took a chew of tobacco,
never smoked pipe or cigar, never
drank a drop of whisky, never sang a
gong,‘never played cards, billiards,
checkers, croquet, or any game ex
cept the innocent games ot childhood;
never struck a blow, never met with
an accident, though I have traveled
100,000 miles, and never did a thing
of which I felt ashamed. I can re
peat more of the Bible than any man
living of whom I have any knowledge.
I have given away more real estate
in this city (Cold water) than all its
other inhabitants. I preached for
over fifteen years, aud traveled over
five hundred miles attending funerals,
and all the salary I ever received) was
a pound of tea worth seventy-five
cents.”
Thb loss ot life by the earthquake
on the Island of Ischia is appalling.
One hundred and two bodies have
been found at Cassamecciola up to the
present, and many others are under
the ruins of Bedga. In the village
and district of Lacco alone thirteen
houses were destroyed and five per
sons killed.
Rome dispatches also state that
three hundred houses have fallen at
Cassamecoiola. An earthquake open
ed fissures iu the streets fifty cenleiu-
etres wide. Many people fled from
town and camped in fields. The Gov
ei nraent is sending relief. A Naples
dispatch says forty corpses have been
recovered and 67 wounded sent to
hospitals.
President Eliot says that in the
near future Harvard will need $3,-
000,000.
The main building of the Pennsyl
vania State hospital for the insane at
Danville caught fire last night and was
-almost entirely destroyed. Nearly
five hundred patients were in the in
stitution, .all of whom were moved
without confusiou or loss of life. At
the time the fire was discovered the
inmates were in the hospital chapel,
Attending evening service, and this
circumstance assisted in keeping them
under control. Most of the patients
will have * to be, distributed among
other State institutions until arrange
ments can be made for their care here.
The hospital bnilding was a stone
structure, covering an area of nearly
two acres, and oost six thousand dol
lars. There is an insurance of abont
two hundred thousand dollars on the
building and furniture.
Gen. G. M. Dodge says that at
least 8,000 miles of new railroad track
will be Iriid in the United StatiM and
Mexico within the n»xt twelve
months. .. ■ •
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