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, ; jn for Oconcs and Madison Counties. EORGIA CLARKE,COU-STY.—Whereas Mn. 1>4 , Mary A* Lipscomb (friminisratrix of Fnwfl#^ : | are thereloro to notify trad cito t ffipw. enure nt my What»« prettier than a pair ot blue , n a a “fair English face” smiling umhr » jaunty hat? ( ;,^r filled an order Irom Charlotte, \ C.," the other day. It is in this ' 1 t 'j ia t Athens is gathering them ;rt~: fy trad cite all concerned - .sh(.w,wu*9»t my office on *.t before the nnrti^ aiemlay in February next,why <*&ia leaeO ibouJd * not be ••ranted Giron under my hand at offlfcs thl# 22d day of December 1879. , ,j a a ASA m;-JACKSON, Ordinary. deC.30.4t. . . at *l NOTICE. The Ann of Lampkia A Pittman wakdlMolred*-*? on the 8d of December by mutual consent, J. Eu .1 Pittman baring retired on account of hla health A.G. Lampkin assumes all liabilities and wifi _ —tinuo the buaincK. J. b. rrmiAM, * i Ilf A.O. Tin' swearing off time now draweth •VhefiTJ-crackl „ Ugh Is.it M ,„r lie ° Th<- new city council should pass a „ r ,finance prohibiting draymen • vm ill ivilig faster than a jvalk 1), ad street, M , /*! *11 HO Tl.e bridge in front of the Baptist L'iiurcli i- in a had fix, and greatly the attention of our street iiilhovillcs. \\'» f ce the gooil lodkipg.Mr. Hugh Tavi„r, of this city, and M. F. Con* „l Augusta, are now holding f,,r:h at dray’s. Policeman Iloso is not the Hogar- ,, nor is he the Carver, of the police ri,., or if lie is, he did not so prove do- Christinas turkey shooting. K. mto n thousand four hundred ,, i\.riv-tnur “wards of ll.e Nation” hhrated Chiutmas Eve on Broad reel in Athens. G'm.V, l-’n'-k, . 11 ' 1:. Kris Kringte With his Cl mat uuta train. Merry, Merry, 1C art* arc cheery, ~ A* they join tho happy train, I, ny Gantt while heading the del- ..(•on of young ladies frtin Lexing- ■i, who visited Athena a few days in', was so pay and frisky, that tire I v- iii town could not tell which one , t il.e girls he was, hardly. J , f { Mr. John Talmadge lias added io (.•p'l’iidid home in Cobblmm, hy p.iciia ing some twenty-five acres o( ;|i l,i|Kcomb property adjoining ids I or, and now proposeseHnh.i-hinga a ieel st, ek-lai in. Mr. Talmadge has ii -endy a.most improved slick of o-wsmini tasgs, and doubtless Ids con- laled slack' larm nill soon prove ■I our most interesting and :>t- ive Mihurban features. Will be sold bcfoi Athens, dario First Tuesday l. 6*4/ •saxtucTroa* irj i j. Normal School Committee, Tha (olloiying gentlemen have been tolle . selected to servo on '.he Special Com mittee to solicit aid from our citizens lor the raising of the Normal School fund, in accordance with the resolu tion passed at onr recent public meet ing { . Hon. Howell Cobb, Willougfi. by EiiiApkin, Esq, Hon .C. G, Tal» madge, J. H Rucker, Chairman. As the time is short in which to act, it is lioj °d that they will com mence their labors at once. •M Mother-in-law is a walking vini-i'iiii-iit lor Dr. Hull’s Baby nip,’’ a snbscrilicr icmarkcd yea* r,l i v ; “ she recom-m uds ii every* Ib-atli of mi Infant. Sallie Lee, aged eighteen months, ipfant daughter of Mr. Edwin Jolur «ou and Mrs, Julia Carlton Johnson, of Oglethorpe county, after a week’s suffering from mcmingetis, was freed from pain the 20th inst., and taken to llic arnys of the Saviour, where she is safe from all evil to come. She was the only great great gia idsehild our veil, ruble townsman, i\Ir. J.I1. Carlton, and was a bright and beauti ful creature,— i.C. nn,l fi.ir, rly doon, N QJust sent to *ln In jtoradiso w of Cajit. Jay 0. (iuily. CHRISTMAS DAY. ATHENS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1879. ■' f . a/iHHHJia * ' ' fi'~ *“ ‘ -* gU. What different emotions does this day stir in different hearts' To the Young ii is fraught yilly tlie fruition of long cherished liopes. Tb'them St n a day of joy, of gladness, and merry making, and they welcome it with “bark, end whoop, and nriltl hurrah.” It seems to them an age troin Christ-, mas to Christinas, and, coming so slow'y, and so seldom, their motto •‘Fowlers Fly Fans,” “Seth Thomas ( ink'.” Lodgers A Sons Cnlltry, M, l!i:im>' spoons, folks, casters, iee cream freezers. No hot- i, saloon, or lionie complete without them. Trade suppl ed by McBride & Co. Atlanta. Ga, priiW ! , 1 f 11 * * : j:wil-wly Mr. tV. A. Burns lost an over-coal In fue on last Thursday night The eai -e ol the tiro was too many crack ers in ilie over-coat pocket. No in. sinar.ee. Again it becomes our sad duly to announce the death of another of our esteemed and valued citizens. Capt. Jay O. Gaily, who lias been in feeble heal ill tor someiiine past, and who but a few weeks since visited his brothers in-law in Charleston, hop- ing ' the sea coast air in gilt prove some relief to that most dreaded ol all diseases, consumption, returned to his home in Athens on Fri day afternoon, and died abut 11 o’clock yesterday (Saturdayj morning. He was accompanied home by his brother- in-law,jno immediate member ot bis family bring with him. How sad so few hours were spared to him alter reaching home, and yet how gratifying it rnu.-t have been, tnat a kind 1’iovideuce pormitttod him even these few short hours in which to bid a final laiewell to his affectionate and now heat l-biokcn wife, and lo his Manufacturers: lour little loving mid now grief strick en children. What could be sadder man the death of one so young, so good aud so useful ami unocr such cir cumstances. But, lei u- remember, that He, who doctli all things well, olt limes liuielli from our comprehen sion, in the very mystery of sorrow and sadness, a special providence. And let those who mourn over the loss of one so much beloved, he com forted with the rejection that they mourn cut as those without a blessed lie deceased was ea rthy diced, a loving, kind aud aflectinuale husband and lather is no passing pan egyric, hut to speak a truth which his hie aud character iuily attest. The gloom which this sail occur rence has cast over our entire com munity lully proves the esteem and appieciatiuu m which the deceased was held bypuir whole people, likewise the heart-to t sympathy which is uow extended the widowed and epiutt | wife, the gncl-stncken aud talherless , children, the so: row mg and sympa- | lliizing friends ami relatives. May the There was considerable gale anil I Lord, who euictli lorlhe widow a lifting, and suchlike lhrisliuai lhu orphan, comlorl, protect and ! support this sorely bereaved lamily. ] i he tin ural stn ic.s ol the deceas ed took place at the l’reshyleriau was a taithlul and most acceptable member lor several years) on Sunday the 29th nisi,- at 11 o’clock Om- ol our young attorneys was employed ay a doctor to sue the county lor attending to small-pox cases. The lawyer told the doctor that he ought to have some of his pa- uhpuimid as .witnesses. Tin heats siihpiuifaod as witnesses. J lie horse.' To tat that -he deceased wi ihst. r toltBliliWUiJt'it was imprj^l- wguod, uselul and most highly ei We—they wereWt dead' teemed citizen, a true aud trustuortl Nad Iwaler, colored, was up before Justice Kinney on last week, charged with having committed rape upon a colored girl. It lieing a capital offense, lie was committed to j oil lo await his trial be.'ore the Su perior Court. On yesterday his case a as carried before Judge Erwin upon a w rit of habeas corpus, when iie was u-1 oiiniiilted to jail in default ■ t giving ho al lot his appeaianee at the Spring tu in of our Superior court. “At Christmas pluv, and make pood clistr, For Christina comes butonoc u year.” aud they carry it out with vigorous faithfulness. - To the oid it comes with increasing swiftness every year, and is a time tor memory aud for tears.” Life goes back with them to the long ago, and they res travel all the windings and wander inge, and mazes that their feet have trodden since the faithest back hour at which memory pauses, baffled and blindfolded, as she vainly tries penetrate and illumine the palpable, the impervious darkness that shrouds the lew first years of their inscrutable being. They are again in the eld house—their father's house—an hum- hie building, perhaps, but the horn ot life’s halcyon days to their eyes the lairest of earthly dwellings, li it is ringing, like a grove in. Spring, w ith the din of creatures happier, a thousand limes happier, than all the birds on earth, with hearts brimming over With lov4 for one another, and Yearning more than ever before to wards the authors of their blissfu being. For are not they a band of b. others anil sisters, with lather and mother in their midst, to love that the tie which hound them all together was, in itsgentlo pressure, felt not nor understood ? That Housei to them the vary heart of Paradise has been blotted out of being, perhaps, and the members of that chauued circle scattered far and abroad, like so many leaves that after one wild parting rustle are separated hy roai’* ing wiud.-eddies, and brought touoth er no more! In one corner of ihe old hurial-grtlGinl hard bv, in hopes of a joy fill resur rection, lie the Loved and Venerated- fpr whom, even now that su many Dan Bice, the famous circus man, has been 'converted , And will enter the field ns an evangelist’ > * ro II L The LaGrange Reporter of the 25th December prints a Christinas carol more than three solid columns long. OPES LETTERS Pram a Esther t» Us Son, » Sltadnit Irge, at Athens Georgia. No. 9. half interest m*tho nortifcm'half'o? letsjBfSJL *1 and 22) nnmbsis tycnty-ono siia twentyaw# ,roj “i MT^tm, v I know yo at brT^tratliievei I lwlt, for the gaze of memory, and to The first consignment of thi freight from Chattanooga t»v< gh know you will bo gifat ly surprised ou receiving troin me addressed to yo thelcolumns ot a public prim; 0K>Vc Cincinnati Southern railroad reached Cincinnati the l^lld instant. A dispatch of the 23J December from Columbia to tho Aug tde announced the diath' of Hampton, Jr., in Mississippi. add From the way some people 1 pro-1 noiince •'drama,’’ and the way some actors inferpret a play, one would think that the profession had Ihs n largely rrinforced from* the occupa tion of drayman. The Savannah A’t-tcs learns from an aulhoritaiivo source that General Grant, with his party, will arrive in Savannah early this week, en route to Havana, where he will take the steamer for Vera Cruz, which sails on the 2d of January next. Luther only spoiled his wall paper when he threw his’inkstand at royal visitor. A St. Louis lawyer who used the same argument towards tile opposing counsel ill 'court lui-sed his mar just the same, but spatten •ome jurymen and waif fin That’s where Luther hud the it. letter j place in the sacred halls of memory ? ot a public y prim b i r °ufi i t$rcH%|«W^d leel that you will not demur when swift thy flight 1 thy course how sol- the object is explained. The reason tor this method is li: hoi mn and sublime! ll( PROOR_„ b>tfiu 4 Hjjr Designed to meet the public wa’ t for a h.'.nnless hair dres-ing and restor- dive, is found in Parker’s Hair GS^’A {3 £3 SSI.K3©. Stock of Seed sll Fresh. ig your fellow studious,) as well as yourself, to still more act'd c aud earnest endeavor in the pursuit knowledge aud high moral attain ments. I trust that each aud all of your tellow students may feel assured/ that the fatherly admonitions herein | at contained, for you, are intended : ris'I* 1 ' 1 •"> bunion irUiriTfie scalp, amT] T t- r - “ friendly suggesU ons , equally for tiieei | ,ltvu " fails to restore gray or faded) the Ding Lino call on. enerdus feelings that j"? 1T er of con,- ^Hn/haTr s .mnTefofe^ 1 E. C- LONG & CO. so to trust cla-ekcdJfc.yilMwn^at prjrtnv 01 - ■ ’growl hot beautiful young hair, soft, XfiK'X'JEI LEAD and OILS, riS - G 1 iORUXA .Clarke county. WliercM, Asbury II. Hodgson adminis trator of Robert 11 Hodgson deceased,.petitions In tertp» oC thfrhryior undischui Jane P. Siiutuicj. Tno other ouo undivided to II. II. Carlton, Trustee. Levied on !&n& ll99Q>illi uAI LRDEX SEED above or anything in als<^ and the gener prompt the kindly manner tnuiijcatio'i, induce me also that the admonitions will he duly ecu sidered and appreciated hy you all, as fraternity engaged in a common cause: I would not that the greeue-t 1 of the wreath should lie twined about the temj of another. Oh, vile selfishness! tlmu blind il ■- and luxuriant; that Surprises every one. These properties added to its e^issiitd perfume andpurity of composition, render it the growing lavurite of the toilet table everywhere. tllfi/ uptlUy. laurel were entwined a > tlietoilet tableevenrwhere. of yours, if, by right, that 1. af j ^P'lWlW lm twined ahont the tenitdes 1 , Ti>-L. T.*TJrt.ml>y * Co. deciTJ.an*HH lllod Ol t> Oh, vile selfishness! tlmu on111 <b 1 - . »> lwSWlart a«»4*» tnketlitii .non of darkm-ss m.d despair , aw >, , J „ individual-who created a awav Irom tlie world, and let • he diricr^i-edn' chureh fast Snndav W world rejoice! let the earth •’cemnc Uh ^ ^ a. Epbs; a paradise with mviu.igb grief-deadening years have fled, they fed,‘Injure holy hour, as ' if it were Crimes. i-ehie! in the city. An attemjit was made to enter the Store of Snead A Co, list lues-. , , . - . ... ...chureh m this city (ot which h il.iy night nut the would lie tbiel 1 , • ' I li.ii’ing some one ajipronching m-ui. .•ul his e.-cape. One Walter Hubbard (col’.f) broke ] a.’ pi., aud under toe ausjiiec-s ot tlie liu.o the ztore ot M. B. MoGipty last j Lodge ot Kuights ol Houor, of which Tuesday night and supjilied himself i he was an active and useful member. sitli Christmas goods to the extent ol i anc pair of shoes, a lew pounds ol ■ t)li.VRI> ACi.UVST COXSl'JtrTIOX, ■ur'r and flour, some m«a', candy, That life destroying scourge, by i i.ars and othe. things nece sary* for ; piomptlv subduing with the aid of | Ins Cbri.-Unas festivities. Not show- ! [’acker’s Ginger Tonic every attack of '•= ll| at prudence aud precaution in 1 Cough, Cold, or Sore Throat. There handling and disposition of Lis is nothing like it. Acting powerfully •Hy go:ten gain* usu«l with real 1 upon the blood and skin, and the mu- ' was VibiTconic [ eous surfiu es of the throat and lungs, burg impiety so utterly to have ceased u> weep— so seldom to 1iave retnemher- ed! Such are the memories and \ isiui.a that fill the soul of tho gray-haired man and woman to-day, while all around them are sounds of merriment from those now “in life’s morning inarch,” but who will, in their turn find Christmas a “time for memory and for tears.” But with all, it should ever be a time of love and charity—peace and good will, for the sake of the dear Christ Child over whose humble hirlli- |>liicc the divine radiance shone, in far- off Judea, more than eighteen hundred years ago. The repub ican caucus in Nashville la-t week recommended Grant for the presidency. Vice-President Wheeler is going to visit Chattanooga, and will not return to Washington till after the holidays. The bullet that DeYoung shot into Knlloch’s chest in Sun Francisco last August was extracted from his left armpit a few days since. The earnings of the Louisville and Nashville railroad lor eleven months ending December 1st were 85,308,“ 4G4, against 84,849,25(1 in 1878, an increase of S159.207. age, vine, and fig tree, lawn, 1 n scape, and forest; w itli grand high- wavs, and smoothly paved walks; and watered throughout with crystal streams, and silver lakes; its green shores laved hy the bright seas O, it would lie so pleasant to live in _ beautiful land like that 1 Pleasant there to labor, for the vigor labor ini- iarts, for *the bright fruition if jestows; pleasant to gather in the cottage hall aud find social glee, mol sweet r- jxise under its sheltering roo Pleasart to sit under the vino and the fig tree: nothing to ‘molest or make atraid* Pleasant to gambol o'er rim lawn, and stroll through the land scape^ and a grate!ul pr.viVge lo the soul, U> retire, and worship God n the deep shades of the forest! Pleas ant faf fly along the highways, on t'n. wings of the wind : (et<ain you know.) And O, how delightful, how joyous it would lie, my son, for you and all your fellow students, in harmony. : Svn 'ongrl __ bottle of Dr. Bull’s Cough inch will cure him. A pleasant} and cheei; i iwifl! tb thediealth or tlie ba>_ the usual jiains and ills of the younj otwawoi — Friday & Saturday. ' J ^ 2d. & 3d fVHiypbiiALE AND ULT.iIL DRUGGISTS I'kT -■BY- HOUSE Jpi’l PJNCKNEY, n Msriet Sfest Atteas, Sa. ■■wl HIn Near Tin-: .nv Market of Day Hoard ut the \ trie; entirely pnitcti to do call on ' treet A tWn^ Gtorjria. House .• best furni*h the •ry Lowest 1 the hard time t Then Aunt Uopy T1 Market tore the first Monditv in January next why discharge should not be granted. Given under mv hand fct office this UtU da f * September J -11 ASA M. JACKSON, Ordinary. sept.16m.3m ypj property of Summey & Newton, to hStisiV a .. n. la. in tsvor of John A.’ Hnnnictftl <ri Swininc/ A Tiewton* Kotteo given tenant In peweniinn. : __ J._A. IlRoWAilMG, ““w • i, j i ■ • Sheriff Clur'ic C jur.Iy.. gy /. NOTICE. /VRORQU OCONES COUNTY.—Ordinary’*, Office—Foster Jackson (tol’d.) has applied for .. i exemption of pereonalty, *nd I wtll pv* upon the aaffie at 10 o'clock a. m., Deeem»«er*3ist, 1879, at > uiv otlice In WatkiusTille.. thia December 3d 187*> *•# GEORGIA, CLARKE COUNTY.—The pub lic are notified that l, as the ,wil« of Richard C. Waters, o* said cum.ty, tiWthe publicatlo* of this notice, for one month, will become a free trader. ThiaSttth day of Seat., 1879. ilLkbTtK C. WATERS. I hereby give ray consent that my wife. Hester C. Waters, shall become a free trader, ' r his 29th day of Sept.,* 1970. sept. 3J. 1679.5t. avm.. ioiw. RICHARD C. WATERS. pL.^RKE COUNTY SHERIFF’S "SALE.— \J On the First Tuesday in January next, BICES .0 RACES ^ RACES! Augusta fair W Traci. 1680,) will bo sold before the Court House dcor of Clarke County, in Atheus, Georgia, between the usual and legal hours of sale, to the highest bidder, the following real estate and improvements thereon, to wit: One lot in tho city of Athens, Clarke county, Georgia, being the late residence of Mrs. Mary SL Adams, bounded ou tho north by Dougherty street, on the cast by the residence of tho late Mrs. Mary Ann E. ‘Harden, on the south by Hancock street, and on tho west by l'ulaski street, and containing two acres more or less, (less half of adjoining streets,) and now occu pied by Leroy C. Matthews, and levied on as the property of Leroy C. Matthews, to satisfy two judgments from Clarke Superior Court one obtained May Term, lSTv*. in favor ol J White, and one November Tet ni, 1879, iu of National IJank ot Ai.ien. /icorgio, xiu against Loroy C. NI a t’.c\»*. suv»b h. ht, i uu ier firs judgment Mr./ i*2 ti. th. issued November tttbj and nude of both ti. las. tliis DueeHiber Sfi and a deed made lor tiie purpose of t tiiese levies by James W do to Leroy C ews, Decuabtff and filed a corded in tnc Clertt’s.ofiiic of Clarke feu}*erior Court, December^tli’.-TbTy. in pursuance ot sections 1909,1970 and 1971 ot the C de ol Georgia of 1873. Legal notice gi to Leroy C. Matthews, tenant in possessto December 8th, 1879. J. A. 11KOWNI ng » dee8 Shcrilf Clarke County* iSSiiot J &MJBS H. LYLE, Ordiuary. t TO A Week. (12 a day aC homo easily- I Li made. Oostlv outfit firco^ A-ldres W e & Co., Augusta, Maine. nov.l 8 wly. (^EORGIA CLARKE COUNTY.. k Whi^VAai PnJ/Eaii *P TUtf.i..! .iln.i.f-i.- a p. Whereas, Redden T. Pittard, administra- 1 or of John Kirkpatrick, deceased, petitions in ertna of tho law for a discharge from said ad-, m , ministration. These arc therefore to cite and admonish all 1 ooncerned to shew cause ut my office on or be fore the first Monday in November next, why «*id discharge should not be granted. ViI Given under my hand at office, this” 26th of ,4 ;* julj 8 3m. ASA M. JACKSON,* Ordinary. HezmovaTL ed from tho Store i hy House, Delta it street, opposing BETTS A SMITH. | Dr. "W. M. Luxiam, Ijitc of Maxoy’s Celclliorpa Oor.my. (Iffioo ov Matthews A Jacksons’ Store, Corner Clayton -u Lumpkin Streets. ilce.iS.2m « ' EOnOIA CLARKE CIU'KTY.-WhcreM J.Q.’ 1 *. I Allison api.lies lo mo for Lclterzof Admini^ •* “ I tie estate of Tun. p Johnson (eol'd) 1st*—• therefore to ruafy iext, Given under. December 1879. ►nor. beferofthe.-Ar.-t Monday in Feb- -■» whysald lettCviMlioufu not be urautcIC'iJ deriuy htuaat ollico this 10th day <$ O G. C. Th.oxn.as. ATTORNEY AT L^.W. tWATKINSVILLE, GA, O FFICE IN COUKT-1IOUSF,. ) Ordiajtrv busim JACXHON «& THOMAS ATTORNEYS AT LAW, In Kicpmoml, Tfy.; tiie 19th James 11. Ai imiW ehot ami killed K. E. Little; witli a pistol. Little was a lawyer, Arnold is a nietchant. They married sisters, ami ihe tYouble the (way, lingering by streams and silver lakes, as you war der forth to the open shores of the bright seas: here, to pause, ami vriw the wide expanse of water s, aud listen to the swelling anthem: “glory ‘.‘> Athena, Ga. Office in old Franklin House Ii nil ding Br<»d Street, also at the Court House. Ali parties desiring Criminal Warrants, can get them at any time by applying to the County Solicitor this office. doojUi-1374-tf seems Lo have come frinu the svtlfe-. incut ot their iiiolher-in-law's e-tate. We give it ii]>. We are conviueed that the intelligent compositor is an ally of the Crawfordville Democrat. The combination is loo modi for us, and we retire ill despair, wafting tho “eomiilements’’ ol the season to the editor „of that paper. AX APPEAL FOR NODERATIoy. up »lih. by our vigilant polire, when it sjieedily overcomes these dangerous Ins happiness and lullhnndffdnnss was disorflersf prevents the development of tiie dreaded Goinnmplion, and re- m ives all pain and soreness from the lungs. It is wondt rliilly cfiiea. ious in Dyspeptic nfHicthms, and gives the most comliiitii.g rebel from Headache, ^ istress in the Stomach, Nervousness, irffs, Wakdi.loess, Palpitation ~eait, Heart burn, etc. It re- the Bowels, corrects both un- proinpilr turned into t|ic lvneiipesa an 1 emptiness of a calnhoftSi* Alt rent 'luring the Christmas holidays. As i • u.e justice of thus inti'rrupling 'Valter’s holiday joys, Judge Cobb "ill determine at the next session ol the city emu. Sone fhind MS T| stole ms in f "are store, piece ol such a lfc ' v naturai looseness and constipation and a ™* stimulates the Liver to Imaltliy action. meanest one c f 16 ■ - k wa * the meanest pdy a 60 cent or $1.00 bottle and try r - ^ 11 t & ° caught and f-ageil m onlef tpjpjt-op^( th imunuy eh i xiats while u list dee.30.3in. »! XVortl tnilio AII1I« The most miserable human being • "Unltttf-' JJ1 ( ’ j the world, is that person suffering Mrs. M.,co.iJol n 9 o„, ui dgIoiborpe J«‘ th »^^ shaking chill, or a burning ^ u iu € an i Walter 'l^lm to restore him to ber.lth. The cure is at baud tor every sufferer, wrt, of .Wants, spent Christmas in! Xlie greatest of all medicines. Cuiian "■ns. A I ' Chill ToXtO the Great West Indies Fever and Ague Remedy, cures Chills and Fsver, Billiousnesn and Liver Miss M: Complaint every disease, arries .< fair daughters, is se nding t he Christ mas holidays with the ladies of the ast Lucy Cobb Institute. Pi of. Sanford, li now President ofj. lislied Agricultural “f the Cuthliort, was in the city "ii a visit to his son, our handso book-keeper friend at Reaves & Nicl "Ison’s.. The trouble is that the tess.ir fin.ls it dlSSoalC to m|df 1> lieve he lf<Wenough, *nl her of l>ls son. Hewoi ter tor a brother.." We regret that the Professor’s c*lltn»f k ' rpiilu unwell nt PenjSgld. Mr. Ca«hy from Morga: "fen spending Christmas in our city, Mr. Casby is one of the model fitrin- o{ Morgan county. time. It blots out .«fb malarial poison, and restores the sufferer to health, Strength and Happiness. Try Cuban Chill Tonic, the Great West Indies Fever end Ague Remedy, if you ■with Chills aud Fever, and be Take no other medicine. ban Chill Tonic will cure you health. Get a bottle isi E C. Long & may, ly. We notice that a large number of New York ladies connected with membcie of - tlie Business Men’s So cicty for the'Encouragement of Mod eration—a New York Society—have signed an appeal to tlie Society, asking to have two pledges circulated : first, to have no intoxicating beverages on New Year occasions, ami to display the New Year pledge on the table ; second, .to drink, nothing inlcxieaiing at lunch or dinner, :it TeHaiitanii, in company "wilTi jg,e.ilt'einen. Tiro np^ peal also urges ladies of other cities to join them iu the effort to restrain fashionable excess by discouraging tlie use of wine and liquors on New Year tables, and substituting haitn less beverages and hospitalities on a day which should be one of good res solves and moral advancement This np|>eal will meet a hearty resjxtiso among the best women of the cotins j, try, aud »eml men home New Year’s evening with brains and srifsresp, ol undamaged. We would remind these earnest women, however, that ihe str ngtli of such reforms lie in indi vidual conviction and actii n more than pledges and protests, that indi rect moral force is the best to be counted upon in such cases, und there is unfortunately no making men moral by act of Parliament, or society resolutions. When wunitd are strong to abide by their own sense of right and duty, without regard to the habits A magazine of nitro-glycerine and dynamite on Fox Island, Ontario, ex- i ploded on Friday night last, sbatier,- iiig windows in town, aud felt like the shock ol an earthquake for forty miles around in all directions. An explo sive force on top of the ground that can shake ihe solid earth for forty miles cannot he too carefully stored and watched. OPI’OSITB ■a<m.il intention to»U . OiST^EYS AT J.AXV. g. .■er TahiuiJnc, llaagson * Co- ^ the highest, oil earth t>d will to taen!” Witt a glorious field is ope the rising generation ! Pi ogr become the only watchword of civi:i-> xation. Progress is tokening ;v!onns, to bless and beautify the world. Looking- forward to the future, I s, e the clonds of selfishness disaplie iriug from the moral skies; and a new how of ifftmnlso is seeu on the horizon : the rainbow of love, whieli will eonli.'ite to lengthen till it circles all ar.unnl. as if to inclose within a p aceful and happy brotherhood. It i< >Teu hy the eye of faith: and beholding the beautiful sphere, 1 tee! a peculiar in terest and a great pride in the noble, aspiring youths ot the land, who arc soon to become the actors‘in the world’- broad field ol lull tie’’ Let the hopef'd view, my son, ever stir-your soul to the highest and no blest endeavor. I admonish, mot to censure or blame; hut to enliven perception ; to revive divine emotion-; to cheer bright hopes ; and to siiiiin- late and dinct the nobler aspirations of the soul. Indeed, I have reasons only for approbation: no cause lor reprimand or reproof; and the man ner of communication gives the high est assurance of my confidence and litli iu you, for the future. And I consider il but due to you to express my approbation in the body of Lamar Cobb. IIowell Cobb, . Judge if City tie otj II. COItlt, ATTORNEYS AT LA If, Athens, Qef Will pnctioc in tho Federal tho State courts, except * tlUrke Lonnty. O'd b'cuool. 4CE SflWCT ’MS .►"‘rfir iiiivr, a Tiltnir tlie SfWTJ who nis K nil 'll Blaze, Mr Edmund I*erciv»l. Sheet at Fleming* & Anderson’.* Book STRAY MULE. »>n the night of the 25th inst, a large dark sor- r< ! ho.-** ntalvs ffti taken up at my heuse, which the-owner <Ah' h*Vh hV eal ftig; proving property a-i-.I i-ayingall expense* incurred. THOMAS JEAN, Athen.% Ga. ►.iiamfr I.AD5 MARK The Grent^ADE MARK Euglisli Rerae- iu unlail- Uf.iy’s Specific Medicine. OE MAI Any toie reading tbo papers would conclude that the country had notlis ing to do just now except to entertain General Grant and give him grand ret epu.ins. Most of the time of edit- public letters, and it affords mu much j h --^-rs gratification to be enabled here to ex* j ‘ j-„: t p tend to you my congratulation ut censure or blame. Having done well, tny son, let ti encourage you to strive on. Wherein you have failed, by sedulous uppli tion achieve. Wherein you have quired and lost, by renewed and sidiions effort reg iio Make knowledge and wi.-dom th _a.inia* r WcV»- . T..-S-, PPcrmpH torrhea, ltnpo- ors is taken up io speculating as to, bis future plans and pros| duliciill to- predict wbtit ot us if Grant does not s|ieedily re* lieve the suspense by declaring what he wants and what he intends , . ■ do.’'' ..i.air to do. Rector’s -wife—“Huw. ihj yoh ilq' cause of your action, and success c*r- Mr. Wiggles? We have not setn sms failure the form. Be assidumi.-, and strive to gain every ease. Let no opposition, however toi midable, dis concert ordeter. The vi von at church lately. Have you been away ?” Mr. Wiggles—“Yes, imi’um! I’ve been a visitin’ my old urns at Maneliesier, mu’um.” lSec- ■. ite—“Really ! I hope you fbiiuS Id ladies quite well.’’ Mr. Sing les —“I didn’t say my haunts, mti’m .-aid my old ’aunts—revisitin’ the uois of my youth, you know. give writ druggit Ilnlf Tliolr people ll(T «kttv4 ine of Ague, Billious ml Kidney Com ' omplaiDi, as l-com- a naif bottle left 1 had which I used for my two little girls, who the doctors and neighbors said notbe cured. I would have lost both of them one night it I had not given them Hop Bitters. They did them po much good I continued of fashion 01 ing #r tliout solve m an county, ^ .did tliem so much xooa l conunuea h.Jrthoir yh .tmtin they were cured. 1 or 'fhat is wl»y I aiy you do not know Mr. Pole Gregory of Oconee coon; UadflUc value of Hop Bitters, aud do tv, Athens a few days' since, 1 ' ‘ * * * much, tiiey may expect men to avoid the temptations of appetitejaiid fash ionable influence oomhined. In • Iain words, if rvomeu are weak enough to need to wait till the next woman takes the wine off her tabli? before leaving it off their own, they cannot very well say much against men who have to combat the taste for wine, a well U- society prejudices,^ If pledge will turn the current of prejua dice the other way, let oqpjes be cirs culated freely as voting tickets St election time,.!; ,i ;• ‘ -. -.tl EDISON’S CRISIS. New -Year’s eve will be a crisis in the career of Thomas Edison. He has fixed tlmt definite lime tor the ex* hibition of a completed wqrl c"ven Prof. Tyndall has di an can perform.J^He has underta ken a tazkitVo:.. w^ha be exalted honor or otter ImmilUtioo. He will be proved sublime fool. and while on hi. way hbme, about Rochasler, N. Y. night, fffnppefl hit pocketAMt cobifl^J,—Aqjttrican liiiru tam.ii* ffV’oodly amount oTSffbrfVAgW not recommend them high enough.” Si-e o her ral Home, this juncture Mr, „ „ sUriedJtatflt.in search of his tnis-ing ipoeketanoolt, came up and Mr. Sax [delightedhim by turning over tlie lh treasure. We supposo Up^o^Pp re. We sumiosp Us-iJt^Pptjkipl ■, treated ut gat e a possum su greenbacks, gold and siJvtjrj^pnilg ;;; <[ WANTED, Mr. I^iwis Saxon, who'left'Athens.a' At this office a bright, sprightly, ter Mr. Gregory, spied)-SnShetbihc and Indnstrious boy between the briglu. lying in the road near PrinccsJ ages of twelve and sixteen yean, ton Factory, and upon picking it' up who derirss to learn the printers trade, found it was a pocket-book yritli a. None need apply who are not willing i brass rim around it. Whetrhe'rtSach. to enter into a contract for an ap» I ed Watkinsville he examined and prentioeihip of not less than three Ifoandjtbo U .belmjfsd gory,’Who* hiff ” *” rorti. I1UW TO GET SICK Expose yourself day and night,' eat too much without exercise; work too hard without rest^ doctor’all the time; take all.the vile nostrums ad- rtised; aud thon- you will * want ti tew How TtroxT Well which i answered iu three words-*Take Hop Bitters! See, other columu.—Etc, pra*. aent.lG.raT jM t*an iu ^ U«|»* For Hu lu ll W. F. Hood A C<t. bare just re* oss ceived a ear load of fine hogs. The above, firm will keep hogs for tale till uiptj l>t of JsnniiffVlSaO. 1*1111 f Uifcwti Dt Jan. lo. A crying baby is a bore to the whole neighborhood and the parents should be forced to keep ’Dr. Bull’s Syrup bandy. Price 25 oent$. J; Dr Gitisctn has moved from Uan, cock county to McDuffie county. Ibnn o tipi) fiirbids discomfiture. Fait. 1 stand by and boldir vindicate a i. eous cause to the bitter end. d.a sub There! sublime is or outside of ah insane anythin • er lunatic than ltej l, if lae h^ nounced lo the world his Menlo Park programme for/thh eyff qfttk^Nblf year, without ltuowing what* lie can jierfurm. If be fails, he can never res |iiin the entire jic. If he succeeds, will do him homage. ^It is foolish for the envious lo assert tl/sVhis ose qf filament or charred papjr in a ncuum fi>r an incandescent electric light lia but a variation of the Sawyer-Man invention Wbat he says he has done is something no one haa hereto tore considered possible,- succes?fo! a week froi night, his triumph will be complete. He haa indeed reached a crisis. Mb The different religions denominations of Athens report only twelve families in all the city, who are dependent upon the charitim of the chord -This is certainly a fine allowin' place so large as Athens, and with so largo a proportion M its citizens. be, . longing to'lhe differeut .chqrj^* ] ■ and all iiirca*cs thatfol iEfOUE TAKIKf*. low » •» a#e< l u *mER TAKIIB. eRu-v ci* Si ll* AIdisq; a.-* of Me'.oory, L’ui- v r^.tl L:.nr*ttfltli‘, Pain An the Uncle, Diiiincss 01 Vision, adTYSny otlier tl sit lead to insanity or Consumptiou, inaf are Grave, pinion I am-in « n send treo hy mall to every one. jld by all druggists at $t r pamphlet, til to every V’wifrei-tr aU _ rW bo i money by ' ' Tli^'diAY MEDICINE CO., - , ,»* S Jloetmajta’^s^.Drtwjt,JWiic; -,.1U m'Aflioiis miff.evfsriwhvyo hy sRdriisr- Ijveii if any *«f your '-a-es chance to be removed to a higher cam t. and the cause should be remanded, do not allow yourself to become chagrined or mortified, or iu the least discomfited. Cheerfully abide the procedendo ; with manly courage and resolute- de termination boldly meet the issue be- d the proper judicature. We must climes toll hard, and delve throiglj rock, deep down into the earth, I tlie moat precious gem. difficulties thicken and harden rqcrinf learning, you uny well 1 expect that some pear! of great led is UridffO beneath, and is Worthy ilmoet effort to secure it ( The hat it is uncommon, not open to and easily obtained, is what gives it«i t* a oostly gem. Regard the thickness nor hardness of 9 yosiruclion; labe^ aud and delve iff iWffidrif Strenuous zeal: seek rei^Uingiyfor the hidden treasure, lest perhapa success may lose the most valuable jewel involved in the srit. Iluviiif* perm nciitlv treated in Atbens, of fers his professiomd services to the citixens of ‘ ihcns end sarroun.Unc country. May be liiil during the day uttlie Drugstore of J2.C. Isiug & Co., on ltroud Siroofi and at night at my residence on Lumpkin SL, lioiiso fonneriy oecnpiod by Capt. WUliinus. Diseases of women£& specialty. Aug.S.tf. e. like atfacra tlie weak. ^Fo NWriizotion with the Bitter*,*ttid k and baffle aliki’ithe vims of enidexn ’ temp, nttnre w hich dis- s of the feeble. There is f urc x etretable stiir.ulant. .•iti-hiiiou’4 medicine, and ment uraorg it^uidiiyjin- nll Drutr^i.'ts anti respectab acpt.28.mly ,i„„i Insyraoce if Kuiuai coxtJiE’A-isr'i', ATK^ITa, GEORGIA. IS, President urretary. •YOUNG L. 7S4,5.»? 6S St evens Thom a* Eliza L. Nkivtok, Ferdinand Puianzf Dr. R. M. Smith, John W. Nicholson, ELES F. STUBBS, ‘ressor to Groover, Stubbs & Co.,) GeneM \ibhi mission Merchant, 'fin ■tliye to ravke ymtr life •tha bright ex- a true man- reflecting credit upon your Mater, the time honored the proud State y. ' ;e note of time; time so fleeting, t. yet how riiort the Cols i daysl They are bat shining h.mrs the morn that is brightening, o .the glowing day which lights nj .beats the world’s broad fieM ot beeirik>ir,i the PRIVATE MEDICAL ADVISER Hooka that are wafly Wfci —4 >il> Imlmlwi la all Mi* L ra pertaiainx to LateM —4 Rw-lsijiai aupplya — ——^ — oaffihiflala — AGENT FOB TIIK Guitmau Factory Yams, j ’l' »t bat STREET, a Sttyrmfeah, C-i eorgia. sririk'. Ties, Hope and other supplies f aished. />ls«>, l iteral consienmcnt-s for sale c or N« rthern p'-rts. A!* A. AY inn, Cii •ftb ifite firm of Grt< t irurtVu thy busim ash advu fur* made on Liverpool and Corresrondent Stubbs At Co., has aui;.21.tf. o/. \ mmim .^ a gf|3 KligSl'l Oo—O « m - || i' ss-^y & al*aS=| OR R1 swing Yoa cu:i have your 5iJ:stWrtlr'>!sfe»flined ‘driJ ^Set, - kiy*mo't;’«tift .» oi 01d,Umbtelln8 iRepsfifeffl 1’ MSB; AUD MULE titasey Sieve. Athens, Georgia. flit buck from the broad field, Iff mom, erst so I appearing -o lasting and zdctHff,-will seem only as a bright, fleeting dream of the pa-t The brightest day flits by, ’tis yes- rday. The weeks, the months fol low the fleeting days; soon all are o! thfe years long gone by. Another year, with i s ‘golden mo- ents,’ its bright day , and weeks, ad months, is now sw. eping rouud to its close; time is, weaving its dark, shroud, and soon the d ad year wil .rfiiniflirM-tAtfiffU tioV.is.7V.Vi • Wa'afiL •I .flxiriSl Itl n Atlieuf, <3*-, I timi aiiU tfi Mii-n i mn iiAnq nt Iritn *iiwcil ’. II <i-( itin j Mann least G< i ave It utor fced IfBo. Hatnewt. _ ettfcet*. arenllireth and «j>. Mr prit >’8 cn*iut»l be beat. My IfiH c.ifiuOL le^ptaU-d. My ?1.50 3ad- orMt aind a yvlwn else except it B. ' Kjiiirfn ’ tlontt at abort notice. Ii. II. ALLGN. miowiv;., Moriwetlier’s ATIIEBfSjl GAlRl Odt '..fWfrcro au^ki mifh. Shop. OPPOSITE •«WBE '“sssvtantst wfe IlfSpynr l Block, over Charles Stert a* NCKsr.y pekmihsiox: k. t New York; INDISTINCT COPY T ann & Reaves Stable, all kinds of plantation work _ ^ iffijaSi repairing Wngom Buggicsj .making and repaiiin plowlb.aSk. Horse shoeing a special tty. All ivorkitlone at short Ti"tice. sJpt.UMin. W/' ■ FlUW ETHER. dec.21L3(VDr. asa m. Jackson, onjiuMy. G vi ... j., > a l . LOItpiA CLAKKR COUNTY —Whereas Per- .* . «" lle,A. House appliesito me fur letlers of ad. ;4 tmnist ration on tho estate ot .saac H. Houte. late of teM-ratltrtr (teoeaseil. Thfe art- therefore t- cue um adrrfinish allconAerncd to aliOw* cause * •uy office, on or bef re the first Moa<|ay in Fsl ._u •“**- should notbj KTitnU why said lettc tat veil umiet December 1879. dec.23.o0dw. my hautl ut office tut* 1 It it da; ASA 31. JACHSON, Ordinary. GEORGIA OCONEE COUNTY.—Ordinary’» VT Office-Alexander Ilubitard lnu applied fo exemption of personalty, nod I trill pam iiimir the s in Watkinsville, it. January the Cih 18HJ. Doc.23.3t.w JAMES R. LYLE, Ordinary. ATHENS GA leavers A llurpe onaept. and the L Beavers. NOTICE ! A.. Dec. Mb 1879.- day iUimoIv 3». B. 0. C. HEERY, MILES JOHNSON’S DYE HOUSE cs all kinds of Ladie’s and gentlemen’* DYED AND CLEANED AT THE biishmentg, clot Steam Dyein\ ex: door to E] ftept.23.ly. I CHEfPEB! CHEAPEST! LEWIS, 'eif’Store and CurifectionEfy, .A - f ii road Street. Rdikl 3ns. Georgia, Next door to A. S. DORSEY, <■ .■>*,y ■ -jkS on hand at all timra the finest Tohpeco ra. The bent aud Yrt»be*t LenTonft, _ _ .Apple*, Pcannbt, Caudles Con- fectionozies gencndhr. Also keeps; on band a constant snpplo of all country produce, such an' Eggs, Chickens, Butler; Cabbage. Potato©* ote., etc. The Cheapest Fam ly Grocery Store and Coufeetioi ary iu tli-i eitr. Give me n call, nov.lS.w3.il. P. LEWIS. k tEOEGIA CLAK1CK COUNTV.-Whereas, William Craig Moore, Executor or Eleanor _ Jlp, late of said county deceased, petition* itf terms of the lawr fora discharge from said Executorship. Tlieac are therefore to cite and admonish all concerned to-show cause at my office on or bc-» fore tho first Monday in October next, why said discharge should not ba granted. - Given under;my band at office thin 10th June 879. ASA M. JACKSON, Ordinary, June ,17.m3m. ft EOKGIA CLARKE COUNTY*.—Wchcens. Edward It. Hodgson, administrator of La- itelte Maupine deceased petitim* in terms of the hiw for a discharge from st id admiuiatra- IVERY, FEED HKD SALE STABLE. ^•fclxoxxa, Coorgia. JGAN’N A: REAVES, PROPKIETORS. Will be found i*t their old stand, rear Frank lin House building, Thotraft strei i. Keep al ways on hand good Turnouts and cn.*eiul dri vers. Stock well cured for when en* rusted to our care. Stock ou band for sale s f - ill times. dccl3tf. 3 ROBERT CHILDERS, j Blaster and Well Digger. Cleaning and Repairing Wells A specialty. Will work by tlie job bv tlie foot or by the *‘hiy. Good reference can be fjiven. Orders **1 dressed through l*i»st Office r^r' ceivc prompt attentir “ * sept. 9.8m. KiIBEUT CinUDSfea-'ll(I Athens, Ga. JEWELER & OPTICIAN! V. W. SKIFF, Would inform the citizens of Athens that he has taken purl cf the Store with SN FAD A CO., and will keep ah assortment o:' 23? m CLOCKS, WATCHES, JEWELRY <fce. with a variety of tlie CELEBRATF.DIHAMOND 81‘Et-TACLK.S, EVE GLASSES Ac. which will be sold at reasonable prices und satisfaction guaranteed. Abo personal atten tion pvid to repairing of fine watches, and can recommend myself as being a fine workman and ’onchers from otners to verity this statement. V. W. SKIFF, Athens, Ga. These are therefore to vite and admonish al oncemed to show cause at mv office on or ( the first M< ndoy in 'December next, why id discharge should not be granted lied this 25th JACKSON, Ordinary. ol personalty, uud 1 clockp. tu.cn the 3l»!. ot 1 •cesuboc , t my office in WatiauKTillc, this lice ember : 79- i * I r.-JL- JAM iM^LYL EfOr«^»*rf. : h KORGfA. OCONEE COUNT Y.~Oxdiaarr’* ? Office—Evalinc Johnsbu (col’u) applus fur - zemptloo of personalty, and 1 will {aas upon tho Ime at. qiy office in VVatkibsviilt.i.Ga**-»4 10 ^trsauaftSiSS*#^..: Court House door in the City of a wtt: (»ne vacaut lot Tyiuz und being in ti to arty lying aud being in thecuty of Athens conminirg one h; lt acre, mere or f* less, bounded dn the North by Dr. John A. i Hpnnicutt, on Ilia East by Kitta Smith (coPAY tho South by Hancock Avenue, outlie West ' by. Biljups St. Levied on by virtue ot two .* btsto and C *" Conntv Tax fi. fas., V. W. I.ucas Tax iHector vs. Robert Asbury'. Levy made and tuuud over Wine byjoa. S K. Kinhov, L* C. 210th district, G. M. this I>ec 1st.. 1879. J. A. BROWNING, S. C. C. dcc.2*30d. NOTICE. References —We the undersigned citizens of Modisou Georgia take great pleasure in rccom- mend’rg to the citizens of Athens Mr. V. W. SKIFF, os a practical and skillful Watch Maker and a reliable gentlemen and worthy a liberal patronage. J. A. Billups, Augustus Reese, Dr. G. B. Knight, E. W, fii rrii/J. Cj C. Blackburn, Editor Ma tisoman, K. lley&er, Clerk Superior Conrt, P. R. Thomason, Mayer City of Madisou. All poisons indebted to f he firm of HOUSE, 3 BKTTfe & CO. will pieaso e*»:uo fu.' war-l at once and settle. H All acocr its not p.dd bv the 2fHh of Djccm barvfill b<p it out for colicctirn. d®c6-d&w HOUSE, BETTS & CO. ity ot M dec.28.i ,8" \ ‘ v. w. skiff.’ ————— 0 CONEF. SHEKIFF’S SA3.E.—Will boii'd on the first Tuesday in January next, I tween tit* legal hoars of sale," before tlie Coi jhannm JDb.* {is at following i»repcrty to-wit: kll that tract of Und situate, lyipgen^ btiug ih Ihf t , f Oconee and State of Georgia, known as Melton Tract, udjpining land" 117 “* ° 1 "led Haygc * * " lof.WalaM., good, Ned Havgood (a Freedman,J C. D. Jlur- nett and Mrs. ft. Collier's home pliaos, contain* ing about aighty acres, more cr less, it being all the land deeded by Surah Melton to KHta- beth Collier, except aboti 70 acre.* Vieetic^by her to her son C. D. Burnett. Levied on *o snt*;>f.; a fi. fiv issued from Oconee Superior Court, returnable Ho Jdhnnry Term 1878, in fiiVor of PttVr Hafril, vs.NV. E. McEntyre, C. D. Bumo’t and Elizabeth Collier. Levied on as the piop-ty of Mrs Elizabeth Collier. Propertv pointed • ut in fi. fla. t* oviipv.r a docJAOd. jand Bowela^-H ia i ?Ve<etaltet-»»■efetef {Cat a OVliKliV, Sfcariff. ■PfSAC >CTh ACTS FOR YOUNG BHJ. Actual Business, Students on ’Chingo, Tho Business World In Miniature, at MOORE’S BUSINESS UNIVERSITY. ATLANTA, GA. Tho But Practical Biuinu* Bcbootlo the country. Send for Circular*, Terms, Etc. ?W"i( , hMt3fcC7. Tle*rolv4 y\ IA50. Over 100 latest Ncntt A Az’u vaated. Uoasu, fl/Cv .Na*l*t U-.I ^ r for more thr.n 32 yeiu:a,J UDprccc«.lc:-f< tl rouulta.< ff-r* SEND FOR C]«?CUI-ARi $$• T* Wi SAiiFOHO, Mi Dm rt k\v YouKoinfi ASX iJU4* V-'J* vuti UVO-rtTATMOU j m ■ 4