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ATHENS WEEKLY B A N N E K. DECEMBER IG . 1 8 7 9. ®|e I|%n$ 'gittmer. Tuesday. December 16,1879. Col. I. W. Ayery, private score* tary to Governor Colquitt, is Wellington City. K. Al>oui $400,000 in gold coin* was brought to New York ftoni England let Tuesday, 9th iota. f We are inclined to suspect that P, April Stovall, the p. and p. p. of the C. «fc C., be been “bearing” the weather. The Washington Republican is o the opinion that the session of con gross will extend to six months, and possibly nine. COTTON. A compilation shows the statistics to date, as compared with 1878 and «77 he a* fellows t ■I ISIS. ;* 1878. ISJ7. September 01,441 ],<*?,979 T19.EM Stock !• U. 8. ports~. 7<M» 652,441 727,186 Stock la Liverpool .139,m 129,009 *12,"00 Afloat tor Liverpool... 149,000 810,009 244,000 ToUlTUil.le«upplyin ’ U.S., Europe aud at •mu2.12M08 1,933,200 1,932^74 Price* of Xkldlint Up- lands In New York.- 13^^ 9^ 11$ Do. in Liverpool, raicss or cotton, basis middling, fob putc** DELIVERY, IN NEW YORK. 1879. J1878, January delivery 18.49 9J0 February .— 13.70 9.22 March.... 13.89 9.34 April 14.05 9.46 May- 14.18 9.58 June......... 14.80 969 July 14.36 9.78 Avgust .. 14.40 9.S5 11.90 12.01 12.12 12.20 12.27 12.29 The recent advance in the price of cotton and sugar will add 835,000,000 to the revenues of the country tribu* tary to New Orleans. Miss Mildred Lee, daughter of General Robt, E. Lee, has returned from a prolonged travel abroad, and ia expected in Washington City soon. And now comes the Hartwell Sun, to tell us that the yesr 1880 will prove an important epoch in the’ history of our government. When will this tiling slop? From this statement the total visi ble supply of cotton in the world is 143,205 bales more than last year, and 175,431 bales more than in 1877. The stock in Liverpool and afloat is 49,000 bales more than last year, and 182,000 bales more than in 1877. The stock in U. S. ports is 78,160 hales more than last year, and 2G,5S3 bales less than in 1877. * The advance in prices is a notes worthy one, particularly as it has been made and maintained in the tiice A CARNIVAL OF CBHE. The last few weeks l>ave been filled AN AUTHENTIC INTERVIEW. Tribune publishes an Stephans which it ttys was submitted to add indorsed by him as being a substantially cor- reel report, in which he is stated to have spoken as follows: “The people of Georgia, I think, would prefer a republican candidate for president to a democrat on a re* publican plattorm. If republican measures and policies are right upon financial and taxation questions, they think the inventors of the machine arc belter competent to run it than with direful tra'edies in Georgia, List’ I The-Ghicaga Trit making it another “uark and bloody * nte rview with Mr. ground.” Atlanta has famished the majority of these butcheries, bot the affrays that have occurred there have, happily, not as yet terminated fatally, although the lives of iltxiti are. daily hanging in the balance. The seduction and su'eide of one poor wayward girl is also to he added to that city’s monthly chapter of crime, making, indeed, the most melancholy picture in it. In Cohtmbns, two citi» •zcn«, beginning a conversation seem ingly in mere badinage, suddenly bes came enraged, and one of them, hav ing a pistol in Lis pocket, draws if and shoots the life out of the other man, robbing the community of a useful citizen, and a wife and children of a husband and father, and his own life of all future peace, and pluuging his own family aad friends into distress^ At the little vl'lage of Dublin, in Laurens county, where one would not thiuk people would he so crowded to push them iuio’mortal conflict, two men, members of the best and most iiiflticiitialjaiuilies of the county, met any new hands, and al’e entitled to 1 lively. So we any that this announce ment of the editor didn’t agitate us unpleasantly, hut when his prophetic soul urged him further to proclaim, with the voice of doom, that “ the heavens are beginning to blacken, the elements are in motion and the bil lows surging,” we felt that a solemn duty to our readers was devolved on us, and we now discharge it by shouting, in tones of thunder,- “ Quick ! man the life-boats—helm bard aport—reef the main Bail—bat ten down tiie hatches—all hands stand by to cut down the foremast! Yarely, yarclv, my lads; and all inay SANTA CLA AT- do so. 1 think that, as long as the democratic leaders iguore the great issues and questions of internal policy looking to the relief of the people in every department of industry, the people will ignore them. Our people don’t care baif to much as to who governs as tv how they govern.’’ And then, says lhe_reporter, Mr. Stephens, in explanation of this state* meat, went cn to say that “the people of Georgia would as soou have Slier- The rain is Welcome. We have had an unusually dry and an abhor- ualiy warm fail, that, with the antici pated ravages of the dreaded Hessian fly, gave hut a sorry out-look for the oomiug crop of wheat In most of the region from the Blue Ridge to thsr ocean there has bceu no rain worth counting lor nearly two months. Many of the rivers are lower than Grand Display of Christmas- Goods - • ita * y ,10 io7 it-ts: ... i. u if: • i 4ft president as Tilden on the same j durin * ll,e B,,d 8 l’ rin S» aad A Buckwheat Cakes are now ripe to The morning is the best time of the JfiY day to pick them. We know a man, r lf n it a thousand miles from Athei>s i ,tem, rfflf’ van pick seventeen from the dish grains at a silling, varii Oi of l Col’ P I’rent ice Mulford, writing or Qecen Victoria’s court ladies, says that their f.ccs are aristocratically scraggy, sal low, thin, and bloodless, and that lie should have ‘ taken them for a prize show of elderly spinsters. Wo judge from the contents of eev- crval of our country exchanges that Charles A. Dana has been employed to edit them. At least their editorial columns contain long articles from his forcible pen, which we have previously read in the New York Mum The last rail of the Cincinnati! Southern road was laid, and the last spike driven the 9th fast. (last Tuea- day), and the Ohio and Tennessee rivers arc now united by a continu ous line of iron, 337 miles long, from Cincinnalti to Chattanooga. The formal opening will take place Christ mas. of a promising crop aud receipts at the |«orts far in excess of those of any j *" a bar-room, anJ a feud of many former year. At the same time it can I standing is terminated by oue’s be mainly 21 tribnted to legitimate in-1 spooling the other through the heart, Alienees. The year began with small anc > 03 * ( Giat were not enough, he stocks of cotton aud manufactured : suuds unollicrjballet into the hraiu of goods all over the world, and with no | llia from the over-ready pistol, probability of an excessive suppiy of! A’.i'. last comes Jonesboro, a small tbe raw material. European markets *°wn i vventy miles below Atlanta, being bare of cotton an early active " ilh il horrible illustration of what demand on sued, which has continued ; raeu can oe brought to by a senseless, on account of improving business, in- I !:lad desire for office, and the disgrace- creasing consumption and speculation, ''il methods now iu vogue ot seeking For several years, in consequence of to be clothed with a little brief au- general depression and lia.l trade, thority. Two men, heading opposing production has been steadily reduced ; Bekcls iu a municipal contest where indications now favor an increase for l * 10 struggle is to secure the a like term of years. negro vote, meet in a negro school In the United States the resump- bouse where one ot the candidates is financial and general issues.” As to Georgia’s democracy, iie said: “Georgia is essentially democratic. There are not over three hundred wells were giving out Already wheat was beginning to suffer from lack ot rain, aud there was danger that cold weal her would come belore the thirst A LARGE INVOICE'OF JEWELR’ Justeceived—fine quality, worth inspection, which iiust/he-sold at LESS tij New York prices. /- i ✓:/ white men iu the State wi o are re- j ol lhe earth cou!d l,e * ,nkud ’ and iD publicans, in my judgment - In case ! «ome parts of the region named some of a democrat being run in favor of of 'be tanners had begun ploughing republican principles as to the inter- ' and their wheat fields. \ r , , . ; 1 ho need ot rain has been greater nal policy ot the country, embracin ' i . , , , T * % . , -T. than raanv luive been aware of. It nuance and taxation, our people will . . , . , . , e 4 ‘ . bus come at last, ana is voleome, for stay at lo “ e * jit gives hope that all dark fb re bods Lcmg asked “how about the lie* ... . , . , ,, • _ t , .. i tngs will be swvpt away l»v the goldeu ; aroes?” he replied that they art with- *. . . . , . , ° . . .. r t , J lii»ht ot a glorious harvest, out leadership- that they have no or- j farmer, while he drives his plow. | gauization that lie knows ot, that in j \y hen keen November twirls the bough, ! the main they vote with the dt inu- Hears tLc rich autumn’s yellow grain crats because the democratic policy ui Hustle around tbe reaper train; redifciug the taxi s on tobacco and | Fccs t ) ,e blest and bouuteoiis soil, ... . .1 • i , • , | All glistening with the gold of God.” whisky meets their approbation, and 1 As the Sfock is so Large and Varied. Sufficient for the public to know that, extend an invitation to BRING THEIR CHILDREN. tion of specie payments has greatly teastiu j negroes; one says “bur- inflated the currency; and the enor- r -‘b for the new council,” the other, mous receipts of gold in New York in return for excess of exports over imports has added to its volume and created a period of speculation with out precedent. Greatly enhanced “hurrah for the old council,” to which the first replies, “damn the old council,’’ and these two candidates for the mayoralty of a respectable and thriving Georgia town c' jse in a The woman at Smyrna, N. Y., now SI years old, who dreamed in her youth ol eight men standing in front I of prices may be expected her with outstretched arms, and ins | values and buoyant markets have ( struggle that ceases only when one of been the rule in all species of mors them is shot through the brain with a chandise, and it was but natural that pistol hall, aud a mother aud five cotton, an article in universal demand, children made husbandless aud fathers ill strong position, not high in price l ess - We have no doubt that every and so easily handled, should purtici- recently elected candidate for a pate. mayoralty paid more dearly for the While a marked advance hasaln-ady , ofl'ee and its imaginary houors than occurred, the feeling generally as to they will be worlh^to him ; but not all the future of prices is confident, and llie offi '' cs > honors and emoluments of unless consumption be curtailed or lke ' vo! kl are worth the fearful price speculation decrease, neither of which P :ild *’J the surviving candidate lor seem probable now, a higher range municipal authority in Jonesboro. The one great ltsson of these homi cides is that renewed and mere deter- terpreted it to mean that she should C «°TB FarmersJPRonTABLT ISETHE m ; nu j anJ }, er: >UtenL efforts must be have eight husbands, has just buried her seventh, and is as confident of gening an eighth as Marius was of securing his seventh consulship. Do thuso gcutlcnen whose sworn duty it is to enforce tlm observance of the law of the land—do they come up to the foil measure of its performance expccied from them by tbe law and order people of *Jio land ? Let tbe conscience of each one of them an swer the question. We put it in view of the bloody lawlessness so alarmingly prevalent throughout our borders. resident Lincoln would have made a splendid editor, so adroit was he in disjiosing of borea After a manuscript had been read to him on a certain occasion, its author inquired: “What do you think of it? IJow will it take?” The President reflected a little aud then answered: “Well, for people who like that kind of thing, I lieuk that is just about the kind of t’liugthiy like.’’ CLEMENT ATTACHMENT? made by courts ;.nJ by law-abiding, Hon. Janies M. Smith, who lives in po.ioe-lc viug men to abolish the praic- Oglethorpe county, twelve or fifteen tice of carrying concealed weapons, miles from this city, is reported by . We do not presume to think we can the Oglethorpe J-Jc/ut as having said say anything new on this subject, that he examined the Clement attach ' though. We merely point to the rnent at Andersonville, S. C , about ■ latest appalling results of the practice, two years ago, with a view to start If tiicy are not enough to cause the one of the machines, but did net think courts and juries aud all men who enough of it to embark in the enter- claim to be good eit zeus to unite in prise. Mr. Smith says the report as ■ tue purpose ot abolishing it, we have published in the Atlanta Conttitution 1 n o thought that anything we can say is mainly true as to its mode of work, 1 only the picture is overdrawn. Iu will contribute to that end. The Jonesboro horror throws a tbe first place he does not think the jrhaatlv glare upon the prevailing machine would pay over 15 per cent j mode ' of electioneering by candidates, on tbe investment, after deducting 10 | Let U9 ho])e lhat the s . (eciaJ lusson it per cent, for repairs, and that one j.. lc ] lvS mav p rm g about a more repu- could not be successfully started on 1 laWe nioniH of geUillg offii:e than less than 810,000 or 812,000 at least, feasting and liquoring crowds of ne- He thinks it a safe investment for J grocs—or white men either. Offices those who have idle capital—but that are degraded and society injorod by is what few farmers control. Air. ;t. Smith says he has all the information Since writing the foregoing me on the subject somewhere at his home, .particulars of another murder, tlie and if he can find it will give the pub- foulest and most wanton of them all, lie his views. committed in Gordon county, have . . , . We should like to hoar from Mr. c ,mp 10 hand, and are published iu ill e has been done in Congress so .. .. m , , «- , .. , Smith fully on this subject. As we oul • laU ,,e "' r ■lunnis. \ enly, n youd organizing and mtroduc- , ... ... I understand it, the general idea is that Lit f :r In youd organizing ing Liiis tor future consideration. , , will be some time yet before the body the >’ ,an M °“ r «" gets wanned up for business, and the | “°, st P rofi,akl - v »“hze the attachment probabilities arc that no important because they owe their public cliools and'uuiverdty to the democrats. W c do not hold the same opinion with Mr. Stephens of the sentiment of the people ol Gcogia concerning This is the vision lhat the blessed rain will bring to pass. l»EATl! OF DR. UPSCOJHrsTrATHER. We regret to learn of tbe death of Rev. Mr. Lipscomb, of Virginia, the Sherman aud Tilden. Tree, Tilden is fa|Ucr ot - llev: Dr . A A Lit sco . not popular iu Georgia, uor aov where ollr c p Vi which occurred several dai else, that wc know of. In tiie presi; deiilial coavcnliou of 1872, as is well And so to bring “THEHi SISTERS, THEIR COUSINS, THEIR UXCli AND THEIR AUNTS,” and fear not to bring somebody else’s sisters, cousii] uncles and aunts, to examine and judge for themselves. Customers visiting fray’s can examine their entire Stock, whether tli or not. < i 1 a a l • l i ti • a Cl i xl. . red mil mbcf'fo 1 * not receiving the prompt attention which customers require. But they cj wish to purchas. In consequence of the crowd which daily besiege Oray’s Store, the re lators arc necessarily compelled to apologize to hotlitjieir patrons and the pul since. Mr. Lipscomb, a lew years since, spent some time in Athens, and knowu, the Georgia delegation stood made many w , rnl atl j altached •ixtetn fjr Bayard to ii\e for Tikkn, f r i ell j s among the Athenians, who.-e aud the sixteen represented the feel- deepest sympathies are now extended ing of the people of Georgia, as it , their muc! , be , oved an(] estee med fel- was then and as it is now, as between , ow citizon hi sgrit .f. those two men, but when it comes to 1 choosing between Sherman and Tilden,! The friends of Christianity can it is our opinion that no issues that make a good point against Col. now exist, nor any that can hereafter Robert Ingersoll. In staling recent- bo made, can make them indifferent that tio man who had once been as to which ol these two should he defeated for the Presidency was ever president, unless the past were buried nominated again, lie showed himself always rely on Gray’s ambition to meet their requirements, so far as the iimitj room which their Athens Store affords to exhibit the Extensive- Stock which hi always characterized them in Georgia. PRICES. , Oet.2l.tf. CHAMPION OF LOW GRAY’S. ATHENS,GA. in eternal obiiviou. With Mr. Stephens’s vie ws as to the policy of the dcmocncy we entirely agree .“To build up a healthy and successful democratic party through- ignorant of the elementary history of |—i our countrv. v ‘ 11 ~ Now if he exhibits such such lack of information about mod ern history which every school-boy knows by heart, what reliance can be ! CHUPEB! CHEAPEST ! LEWIS, Family Gray Store and Curfdclicniry. THE MONARCH OF ALL STOVI out the country it is necessary to placed in his statements concerning j show that the democratic party will events that occurred thousands of best subserve the substantial interests years ago? In other words, a man of the whole country. It must he j " ^° does not know that Andrew built upon the practical questions of ■Jnvkson was defeated for the l'resis the day and not upon the aciitiiiieiit- deucy in 1824, ana was elected on alisms and prejudices engendered hy s °cond trial in 1828, is not very good a great calamity of the past. Mr.. | authority about the alleged “Mistakes Stephens, we think, truly says that, “ f Mo3es -’’ Robert should either re al long as the democratic leaders ig- theYrom ti e lecture platform or pay nore the great issues and questions of I a bttlo moreattentiou to plain facts internal policy looking to the relief of! * le is much more remarkable for the the people in every department of in- | elegance ot his periods than the ac- road Street. Athens. Georgia, Next door to A. S. DORSEY, dustry, the people will ignore them. This is the key-note to democratic success. We wish that every South ern man could understand as well as Mr. Stephens does liovv dangerous il is to discuss, from a Southern poiuf of view, any of the questions raised by the war between the States. All discussions of that war and it- i-sucs, no matter how able, will result iu in jury to tbe weaker section. When southern statesmen universally ami curacy of bis information. One of our exchanges heads a blood-and-thundor editorial with the awful phrase: “ O.it, Caesar, Out, Nihil.” We arc sorry to sav it, bo loved, but your Latin is as bad as your punctuation. The correct phrase is “ Aut Caesar uut nullus,’’ “ Either Ciesar or nobody.” You should leave out your commas aud o’s. lJut doubtless you were so overcome with the spectre of the man mi lior-ehack that you forgot your classical learning. Keeps on hand :it nil times the finest 'L’.'l: cco and Cigars. The best and Freshest Lemons, Ol slices. Apples, I’esunts, Candies and l-Vn- teetiomuics geucr-.lv. Also teeps on liali-l it constant supple ot' nit country produce, sucll ns Eggs, Chickens, Butter, Cabboge, Rotnt.ocs etc., etc. l’be Cheapest Family Grocery Store end Confectionary in the city. Give me u esilt. iioT.t8.-3ui. P. LEWIS. A Clergyman’s Opinion.—Having had an opportunity to test the excel lent qualities of Dr Bull’s Cough Syrup, I hesitate not to say, it is the best remedy I have ever used in my family—Rev. Wm. Chapman, l’astor M. E Chunk. Georgetown. I) (’. About the Tire Mete legislation will occur before the holi days. The session will undoubtedly be a long and tedious one. We may confidently anticipate much skirmish ing fur |>osition, much President mak ing, much talk simply for Buncombe, but little useful business. A Detroit chemist has been exam iitiug tbe water of that city, and finds in it “various species of distoma, sucb as the Nilxschia curvuls, Cymatoplcu- ra solea, Cynmatopleura alHp ica, Smtironcis puuctata, Plearosigma spcncerii, and Rhixosoichia eriensia.’* And yet there arc a few Detroiters who drink it! They say that as long ns the chemist doesn’t fiud a ward politician or a Louisiana witness, or a tramp printer in .tbe water, they will not swear off using it as a beverage. It requites T. K., ofthe Athens lion Mr, two days to fix tip his orthos graphical at rnngenient to perpetuate a juke or a typographical error of The Democrat, and then it sends the blood to the tip ends of his hair, giving it tho conltur <lc rose. We hope his nerves are cat shatteied by the tremenduous exertion.- Crautfurd vWc Democrat. ‘ , Tremendous, brother Sallivan; not “tremendaous.” Types go wrong again, eh ? Naughty types, . A Paris correspondent tells ~a new story about Sant Bernhardt to the effect that abe onoe read la a certain Parisian paper tbe statement that her hair was false and that her teeth were far too good to be genome. iText day the dramatic crilio was amazed to bo- bold a lady dash into hie room aad 1st down her hair io -his present*.■■ “Pull it!” she exclaimed,aa she placed a luxuriant tress in one of hk handsa “Is this real hair or not?” “Certain ly, certainly," stammered tbe ttaan. . Catching hold of his other hand , she opened her mouth—but happily not to bite—and made him finger her teeth. “Are these false?” shrieked • the lady. “No; they are the beautiful real teeth I ever beheld in tny life,’’ declared the terrified victim, who would have willingly sworn, that black was whito ii it would hare given bis visitor tho least satisfaction, v * I am Sara Bernhardt,’’ proclaimed the lady, with ns much serenity as she could possibly put into her voioe, and the wretched critic made up bis-mind for tiie worst He has since, says the orrespondent, become one of her to-: devoted vassals. is for a number of them—anywhere front ten or fifteen to twenty-five or thirty—to club tognthcr and put up tbe machinery at some central jioiiii in the neighborhood, where it will be 1 equally convenient to all, where all can get the advantages of its use with comparatively little expense to ] each. The fact that few individual In examining the census of 1870, the New Oilcans I'icoyunc finds that nine years ago there were 1,200,534 milch cows in the State ot Texas, Lmiisiauii, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and Florida, seven Southern States, and then asks farmers have the amount of money j ^ ow ,l5;,n . v the-e cows have a com- that would be required to start and ■ f° rta blc shelter ami resting place, and rigorously refuse to rev ive the lancers lie holding high car- j „t that disastrous strife, and devote Can nothing be themselves solely to the d scus-ion ol the great questions which concern the w hole of our re-united c-j ntry, | We have received a communication the path ot the democracy toward j f ro "‘ ‘be publishers of Professor .Tice’s power will be vastly easier than it now ! Almanac and other works, which they the I; slay the bloody hat: out SIFIERLM. FRIENDS. run one efthe machines, does not, wc think, prove that it cannot be used profitably on the cn opera lion plan. GAS PROOF. According to a Sunday newspaper in Washington which never told a lie, the mcmliers of the Sociely ol the Army of the Cumberland were expos ed to a greater peril at their late ball in the rotunda of the Capitol than they ever were on any battlefield According to this veracious journal, all the gas jets were lighted, including a thousand that had not been lit for eleven veers. About 11 o’clock, while the ball was at high tide of its festivi ties, all the gas from the upper gas | jets suddenly went out. “It was sup posed,” says the Washington papers, “that the 1800 jets in use, which had so mvsteriously ceased burning, might be pouring out a great volume of gas, which might at any time, explode. At this critical juncture the Capitol elco- trician, Mr. Rogers, quickly mounted to tbe top of the interior and tuned off the stop-cook of every Almost miraculously, how- a valve in the supply pipe had acted automatically, not only thus shutting off the flow of gasv but hold ing it baek also. Ilad not Ibis been the case, and if Mr. Rogers had not at hand, there would have bern an explosion that night which would have brought down the entire dome of the Capitol io huge fragments upon the heads of the assembled hundreds, among whom were the Preeident and the Cabinet officers.” While we shudder at this thrilling account, we cannot bat feel surprised at the innocence of the narrator. Tbe Capitol was designedly made gas proof The work was well done. All of Washington’s gasometers combined oeuld not hold the gas that is concen trated in the Capitol in session time. Mr. Rogers knew this, or he would not have dared to go to the top of the dome, under the circumstances men tioned. p. p. of the C. & C. good food and water provided for them the coming winter. Probably not one in five. Over a million of these cows, which might supply their Slates with all the milk and butter they need, if well provided for and humanely treated, will suffer severely licfore the warm -Spring weather re turns and ilie grass ri-es to save them lrom starvation. It would not be wild guessing to say that from one to two hundred thousand of these cows, and trom two to four hundred thousand of their calves, will before Spring perish from cold, or hunger, or disease. A laid Winter would probably destroy four or five bui-drcd thousand calves aud ail immense number of cows. Is this not certainly cruelty to animals of the worst kind ? How could they be tor tured more severely than by exposure to cold mins, and bleak winds and starvation ? Will not these suffering animals rise up in judgment against their ownem? A handst me street-car conductor in Chicago tell io love with a pretty and rich school girl who rode to school every moru-njj in his ear, and she re ciprocated ids affection, but of course ber higlWoned family op|HJsed any such match. He visited ber dnndev* tmcly. She always waited for bis car, and when his run for the day waa ended would have a little love pro menade with him. Her father visited the president of the street railroad oompany, and asked him to have the conductor suspended for letting hit daughter ride free. It was done, but the conductor boldly told bis bose that lie didn’t pass anybody free, but paid the lady’s fare himself, a-d in tended to marry her. The boas there- on told hiiu that if he did so be could have bis car again. And be did, but his wife, with her money, didn't let him keep it long. A St. Louis con ductor didn’t have any such luck with a similar girl. The eld man boarded the car with the daughter one day, aud tried to lick him. The Conundrums about tbe weather are now iu order. Let ns hear from tho conductor had to fire him off, and of course his flirtation is ended. CANT Pl'tILINIl IT. Our readers have not t-nmd and will not find the President’s Message printed in the Banner. Doubtless very few would have read it had wc spread it before them, Lile is entire ly too short and time too precious to devote to na ling Presidents’ mes sages. They generally contain little or nothing that is not found in the newspapers many months in advance of publication. Mr. Hays has not said anvthiug of espeo a! moment, and we will devote our space to in forming our readersof the sayi y and doings of tin ir friends and mi. Ii' ors nearer home ralln-r tln.n to Mr. Hayes’s utterances. We lik’c Mr fiayes.very well, and desire him to rest assured, that he has our contin ued good will, and trust he will not be hurt with us about this matter, but the Banner must be. true to its mis sion in furnishing its readers tl e news of their own State—m keeping them posted as to what i3 go ing on all over the State; tolling them, in the briefest possible space, what the people are saying and doing; who’s been getting married and who died; who raised ihe finest pota toes and the fattest hogs, the best oaro and the most cotton to the acre, and iiia^iain to bo seen that when it has dope all this there is no room left far Ilk Hayes’s message nor other long-winded political documents. The treth ie—if Mr. Hayes will pardon aa-htfcat, as a rale, the Banner pre fers potatoes to politics, and, if we •re not much mistaken, the whole Sooth is rapidly coming to the same way of drinking. A DUTY DISCHARGED. We find the following words of alarming portent in a “ Quasi Saint ;- lory’’ editorial article in the last Hartwell Sun, and publish them in the Banner in order that our read ers may look out, be prepared far tho worst, and make haste to “stand from under.” “ Now, h declares our able cotem- porary, “ now ia the initial point of a lively period in politics.” If he had slopped right here, wo would have seen no cause for uueariness. We are rather partial to lively periods generally, aud, if we must have polit ical periods, we donlt know that we particularly object to their being state is sent to correct the idea that ho supposed the meteoric display he predicted would be general, and to call attention to the fact that hi-*j predic tion was fulfilled. They say : “To following communication bth to Pr f. Tice, unsolicited, by reliable and well known business men of St. Louis, gives testimony of a shower iu this state never excelled in brilliancy or grandeur:” St. Louis, November 22d, 1879 — Prof. John II. Tice, City: Dear Silt—Having noticed in various news papers statements implying the failure of your forecasts concerning the me teoric display ti November 13th, and as the comments are such as to cast a doubt in the public mind concerning the accuracy of your scientific infor mation, we deem it due to you, and to the cause ol truth to make the follow ing statement of facts: While on a hunting expedition in the counties of Franklin and \Va*h- ington, Mo., we saw on the morning of the 13th a meteoric shower of such wonderful brilliance as to illuminate the woods lor miles around. Il resem bled a shower of fire balls, and was accompanied by loud, explosive sounds. At the time there were clouds and rain. T hese facts can bo verified by the citizens" ot that locality, among whom it created much consternation aud (ear, some thinking it a precursor of the day of judgment. We make this statement in the iotcre?t of justicr, and you are at lilierty to use it in any way you may wiish. Yours very frttiy, D O TiiATcnEit, Wm E Winter, HR L Jones, • C L Bates. A communication from a United States army officer, stationed on the nortu fork of the Canadian river, ia Indian territory, says: “Between tbe hours Of one and three, on the morning of the 13th of November, the stars seemed to full in a storm and was witnessed with won derful admiration by officers arid men.” The Chicago 7ImerofNov. 21st, contains matter in evidence of the dis play, and we make au extract:— “Parties in Indiana, who made .a night of it watching for Tice’s Mete ors, declare that there was a good display between 3:30 and 5:30.od (he monjiiig of the 13th. Th/ principid of Washington High School avers that he saw great numbers ot them. Mr. Dawson, the self-educated astron omer ot Spicelani, also observed them.” Tho communication gives an extract trom Tice’s Almanac for 1880, iu which lie slates that he has “a verified system of Meteorology and a theory ot Meteorogno**oy,” but fails to tell us what “meteorognoacy” is, so we are left painfully in tho dark o.i that sub ject, aud are forced to call; ii the l'ro- fessoi 11 bring out another explana tion, “Metebrognoscy ” rather lays over us. J* * t Consumption Cured. An old physician, retired trom practice, having had placed in his hands by an East India inissior ary i the formula of a simple vegetable! remedy tor tbe speedy and permanent! cure for Consumption. Bronchitis, j Catarrh, Asthenia, and all Throat and » Lung Affections, also a positiv aad' radical cure for Neivoiis D bili v au ! all Nernons Complsunts, ala r having tested ils wondertul curative j.ow. is in thousands of eases, ins : !l il id*, duly loin ike it known infn.-s tin r av fellows. Aetua'ed by tins noo.Ci and a desire to relieve human .-..I'e - ing, I will send tree ol chaige :•> 1 who desire it, tnis recipe, with tu 1 j directions for preparing in German, I French, or English. Sent by mad by i addressing with stamp, naming this J paper, W. W. Siieuak, 149 Power.’j Block, It irhes'.ef N. Y. sen.9.5*. I Land for Kule. . . .1 About 125 acres within one mile ot | At lie S, On tile Daniels vine road which will be sold in a body or in lots to 1 __ suit purchasers. ^ ] V-db, Aaw-mtwt.s-ai-iiSA^sS-iifS-Ti J About 00 acres of the above land is | cleared and the Imllance in wood, i ua—a Week. »;s • d»y»t hom««wly. For further information apply at ibis »y i w mate. Co»Uv oatflt frc«. Addrssc J. C. WILKINS, Athens, Ga office. mar 1 l.tt. Aac&j tlxa TTa^folTcilo-fc Articles we notice a niuch-Ii!red pre paration tor tho hair, possr.-ed ot properties so reaiatkable that no one who cares to own a clean an l.taiihv scalp with beautiful hair should pass it untried. It- properties are clean sing, invigorating and healing, aud after a tew applications the hair ceases to fall. Dandruff and Humors disappear, aud the hair grows clean, soft and silky It keeps the head cool and comfortable an J gradually restores die hair it gray or taded to the natural and life-like color, laautiiul to a,ok upon. Il is Parker’s Hair Bal-am that has won sucb popular apprecia tions by its many excellent and licaitli ful properties. Sold in large n*o;!es, at only 50 cents, and $1,00, by U. T. Brumby, Athens. ocl.J.bm. #72 ....... Trno & Co., Augusta, Maine. aov.lt wly. srjEOKGIA CLARKE.OOUNTY. *“* Where*.*. Kedilen T. Piturd, odministra- Kirkuutriek, deecislL petitioue In law tor a di-chare- from said ad- A Wont to tlio Alt::* The most miserable human being in the world, is that person suffet ing w (h a shaking chill, or a burning teVer. Tliejovgof life are but a mis ery to his mind, and he lungs fi r a balm tc restore him to health. Tin* cure is at * hand for every sufferer. The greatest of all medicines. Cuban Gbiu* Tonic the Great West Indies Fever and Ague Remedy, cures Chilis and Fever, Billi •usuesa and Live! Coiupluiutevery time It blot- out disease, carries off malarial poison, and restores the sufferer to health. Strength and Happiness. Try Cuban Chili. Tonic, the,Great West Indies Fever and Ague Remedy, if you suffer with dulls aud Fever, null hi cured. Take no other nc.dic.iue. Cuban Cuii.l Tonic will cure you and give veil health." Get u buttle from your druggist E C. Long & Go , and try it. may, lv. “Don’t “They cured'ine <Jf Ague, Billisus “lliey cured me dt Ague nee*dud Kidney Complaint, ns icento- mended.' 1 had a half ‘ bottle left which I used for my two little gills, who the elnetors and neighbors sahl could not bo cured. 1 Would hate lost both of them <*ne uiglit it 1 had i:ot given them Hop Bitters., They did them so much good 'I eon tin tied their use unlill they were Hired. That i* why I say you do tint know Imlt me value of Hop Bitters, and ilb not recommend them high en ugh.” —B., Rochester, N. Y. S* e<i,her column.—American Rural Home. Ioka erm-t ut’tho law miiuwtnition. TIu’xj ar* tUercFore to cite and admonish all concerned to td.cvr canae at iny otMoe on or' be fore tiie first Monday in November next, why staid diVcharsrt* &houM not be L'runtail. Given under my lum-l ut office, this* 26th ol June. 1S79. “ M. JACKSON, Ordinary. V4 Vi. <» Vi Vi* V’" | eta a.;j & £Dn. SaSFDBD'g 0 < . * ... , on the first Tmadtty in Jauaajy next, be- twten the iegal hour* cf aaio, bpfoie the Court , Hpqta door in the town 01 WatkhiRVille, tho I following property to-wit: all that tract of land aituate, lying and being iu Oconee and Stale'of i4jwft^ to' Melton Tract, SrtJofaWMwy Wj"r fv W* I Z<*na voxreu.—It good, Ned Uaygooo lu !-rceuu.au,Jle. P. Brfr* 5'Vegetable.— It nett and Mrs. E. Collier’s h.rtue |*li*cc, i-ontom- <, ftLKsT T . . . log about eighty acre*, cvjra oraic> , it being. JUCDilitatea—Ifc 18 allthe hind deeded hy Hkrah Mnton to KHsa« SCathnrtic and beth Collier, except abou 70 dear 1 - her to her aon C. 1>. BurnatL Levied on to aatisfy a fi. fa. ia^ald i!v3-i {TJUALDTAX’S SALE.—On the fir>t Tncaduv it*. November next, will lie hi»M at the Court Bonne door in the City of At- Ittnla, Fulton County, Georgia, within the law- ful hour’* * f aale, n city lot in the city of Athena, Clarice Countv Georgia, fronting on Thomaa <creel to tlio Kast. containing twenty-eight C28) city, and tho inmrowiu nta : feet trout, and ranniiur hack ninety (90) f<*ef, on aouth by U. Kickciyou, tu and t-nown in the survey of the residence lot t»f Augnatua 8. Clayton, deceased, by S K. I.p.tnpkin. County Surveyor, a* lot number (6) six. Sold m the’ property of B aaUe Maunin, \ M inor, bv me, aa her Guardian, Wider ana by virtne of an order of the Court of Ordinary of said i oupty of Fni*on for tha benefit of aaid ininttr. Terms Cash, Thi# 2«1 Repr. 1879. 8. B. HOTT, Guardian. acnt.23 28iL Printers foe 9* EOKG! A CLARKE COB NTV.—Weberns, K<lwai ‘ lward U. Hodgson, adurinUtrator of La- Favette Mrapine tieceaaed petitions In terms of the law for a discharge from aald idministra- i»n. These are therefore to vlte and admonish all concerned t > show cause at my office on or he ore the first Monday in DeoentbeV next, why said discharge should uot be grantad. • Given under wv hand at office' W9 lfil» August 1879. AS A M. JACKSON. oug.*2C.ni3m. office * «• V€ ON. Ordinary. 3DB. BUTTS t • xDvma... tm —■ . .i x'.h V.. pixti Ci- rfsu’.ta of I praetlct mtui l*» warfaja* pH The PHYSIOLOGY OF MARRIAQk The PRIVATE MEDICAL ADVISER Booka tha ot ififly win *■< ra| r- t > Nasi. I ari-.l >ae;lun«fait. HRIIP 9 — bSrtMUiMly i. Unjcuas”, eaitly uixfan.tuod. The ti paiee. aad eorriala wluMi laSrsattJnP •in«le,wh« all UMfScanthaprovosewts tan Head wbatimr hontagn asjr t**Tbek»i ia imp. Cette* Mar works te In no way #f •* QEOKGtA CLABKE COUNTY.—Whereas, VT William Crain Moore, Executor or Eleaner Moore, late of said county deceased, petitions in terms of the law for a dischurgo from said Executorship. - These are therefore to cite and admonish all concerned to show cause at mv office on or be fore the first Monday in October next, why said discharge should uot tx* granted^ Given uuder.my JiaLd at office this 10th|Jnne 879. ASA M. JACKSON, Ordinary, j no 1 Oconee Superior Court, return, bio to January Term 1878, in favor of llurr ii. rris v;-. W. K. McEotvre, C. D. Burnett and Eiizuketb''Collier. Levied on as the property of J iiznbtth Collier. ^Cathartic mid >x‘M' AVwd onaath, property oi LLiawm MB War yv , .<or:,^VaV:.. lier. Property p .'iutej cat uj fi. fla.. 0 f .AUK K COUS1V SUUJtlFi-^ SALE.— | Z \ e', ! O LA. Will be sold before «i.v tVaw : . Athens, daring the legal hours of Vale, '•■ li-.e r First Tuesday in January, 1om», u one undivided j half interest in the itc»rt cm half «>t !tp’>^\os. 21 and 22) numb tu twenty-one, and t jach^-tffo of the shrvey of tiie city of Athens imi in said ' *■ • - nu thereon; bounded ist bv Fguucji street, oo north by M-rket street, iuui outlie west by Thomas sir-et— the whole oontaiuiiuf I one aud oue-half (l^) acres more or oceo|*ied by 1*. A. &uiamey and hU Wifi, Mist Jahe r.Suujtmy. ftto otlu'r one undivided h:.l? V»c!.)Ug?nff to ILtH. Carlton, ^rttsieo. Levied on as tho property ot bumumjr & Newu>n. t<> satiny a n. fa. in favor of John A. Hunuicutt v.Sutmuey & Newton. Notice given tenant in pom-cssioi a 4 * J. A. BROWN Sheriff Clark i County. ,3K SG, G eorgia oconeb 6<>UN-TY.ffofaWaVj«a Ottca—Foatar Jackaon (c-l’d.) Ii... sir exewptiju of personalty, ai-vl wrid pisatapon the asms at \9 o’clock S. a*., Uee iin.>cr 3ts«wl»i9, St my office ia Watkiutvillc, this l>r« end»er 3d,W*9u aac.9.3t. JAMES K. LYLK, ftedluary. 1 J AME8 R. LYLE, :mr- - T i ■■|.'!l COUh’TT.-iorf G EORGIA OOONEK COUSTT.-l-Ordinary’a Office—Evpdiuo Johnson (coiM) a|»rvib.« for exemption of personalty, and I will i^ttp.n the same at my office in WatkinMille, \ix\ aV> 19 o'clock a. m., UeemntMr the' Slat, 18792 <Uc.9.3v. JA.ME6 It. LIlJAS,.Ordinary - toiLAHKK SHERIFF SAX'S.—Will be-sold gm before tbe Court House door in the City 61 Athens, Clarke Corn tv, Ga cn t!»c first Tiles- day In January 18S0. the ft* ho wing Oo- wit: one racaut lot lying and b^ng-i; of Athena oontainii g one Hrlf im i t; one hrlf acrcy Tit?Trb or Iron, buund.i on tho North h*'Rtr. Jofajjdk'j / nafin!cntt,'»n th^K.'jrt by Ititt, Smith (ro!’d.t ittfeat^-on lh« E ( it by .. on tho Sooth by Hot.t-itk Aytumn, imtlio Wcot by BUhipo St. Leviod on* by virtao of two stolo and Coonty T.x tt. lio, >\ XV. lorau To*. tstst ntaatfiteva dcc.2.t0d. •' ■ - p “ • S£i£S3? _ _ __ l«*r Ptctfud*. ms'PI Lli.’iV.-.t licltitu:’ Pilolt cmfdyfailif -sr sssrj'! -uaiiiMmoi hoj