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AV u\\Wu\.e CiuWuv\w^%,
Thc.vAmcrican milllcr puts the area of the
* United St ates available for wheat at 470,000,*
*OOO acres.
An old man went insane with remorse at
Laporte, Ind., because lie blunderingly killed
. a neighbor while shooting at a rabbit.
The cultivation of pampas grass, much
used for decorative purposes, lias bceome
quite a profitable industry in .Southern Cali
fornia.
The Rev. J. V. Hackman, of Armington,
111., got drunk on communion wine, whipped
his wife, and broke nearly all of the parson
age furniture.
A girl with diptheria was sent from one
relative to another, at Green Lake, Wis.,
each refusing to take her in, until she died
in the wagon.
An appeal is made iy Kngland on behalf
of the nephew of Dr. Jcnner, of vaccination
fame. He is the corpus on whom his uncle
used to try experiments.
According to tli Washington Repuljlican,
when a young man in Texas goes back on a
girl to whom he is engaged, they suspend
him to a tree and let him grow up with the
country.
The two physicians at Westerly, R. 1.,
having each declared the other to be an igno
ramus, have agreed upon a public competi
tive examination, in which three other doctors
shall be umpires.
“It would save a deal of trouble and end
less mistakes,” says the London World, “if
men had their names emblazoned on their
shirt fronts, and ladies theirs embroidered on
the bosoms of their dresses.”
The wife of William Bancroft, of Marys
ville, Ohio, obtained a divorce from him, on
the ground of drunkenness and cruelty, and
1 on the following day, won over by his promise
of reform, she rc-married him.
While Charles Miller was eating breakfast,
in Detroit, his wife embraced him affection
ately and cut his throat. She explained that
she was the of Kngland, that he was
the Kmpcror of Germany, and that the cause
of peace demanded his death.
One of the ficroestof fights over the liquor
question is now in progress in'Missouri. A
stringent prohibitory law seems likely to be
passed by the Legislature, the country mem
bers outnumbering the city members, who
strenuously oppose the measure.
“Well, I just want you to understand that
if the Lord keeps on taking them 1 will, too,”
was the reply with which a Galvestonian
lately met her pastor’s rebuke on entering
into holy matrimony with No. 5 so very soon
after No. 4 had been placed in his coffin.
An Aberdeen gentleman carefully ques
tioned the optician, “What number must I
wear after these cease to be strong enough ?’’
“This one,” said the optician, showing him
another pair. “And after that!” “This.”
“And after that ?” “After that! after that!
You’ll need a little dog and a string!”
An old man rapidly acquired $30,000
worth of property at McGregor, lowa. Feel
ing that he would soon die, he wrote letters
to his relatives in the East, soliciting aid to
carry him through a hard winter. The only
response was from a niece, who sent him soo
out of her earnings as a school teacher, and
to her he has left his entire estate.
Omaha crows are having a hard time this
winter. The long-continued snow has cover
ed all their food, and they are reduced to the
necessity of picking the bark from trees.
Crows are appreciated in Omaha, where they
act as scavengers, A your ago the Mayor
issued an order that they should not be shot.
Now In their extremity an appeal is made in
their behalf, and many families are feeding
them habitually.
Walter Paine, the Fall River mill treasur
er who embezzled several hundred thousand
dollars, and is safe from extradition in Can
ada, has olfered himself for membership in a
Montreal Baptist church. The pastor is in
clined to think that Paine, if truly repentent.
would voluntary return to Fall River for
punishment, and therefore his application lias
not yet been granted.
A Methodist revival at liellefontaine, Ohio,
is conducted in i\ vigorous manner. The
minister in one meeting got down on all
fours, and capered up and down the aisle to
illustrate a dog simile ; and on another occa
sion several of the sisters seized a young
sinner of their own sex, and forcibly carried
her to the chancel. She cried for help, and
was rescued by her mother.
Anew sort of portable fire escape has just
been patented, which consists of an arrange
ment in the form of a large telescope, which
can be- exteuded upward, forming a tower
reaching to the top stories, and from the
upper section of which a door can be opened
and a bridge stretched across to the burning
house. Over this persons can go and descend
within the great tube, which is protected by
a covering of sheet Iron.
The prophecy falsely imputed to Mother
Shipton, that the world will come to an end
this year, was firmly believed by Emma
Yandersmuckcr, of liucles, Ohio, and it made
her insane. JShc went to religious meetings,
and eloquently exhorted the people to prepare
for the great event. She moved her hearers
greatly, and in one night twenty of them be
came converts to Christianity. Pastor Hadden
says that, knowing the girl's lunacy, he was
in doubt what to do, but concluded to let her
go on, and a tremendous revival is the con
sequence.
There has been introduced into the Colo
rado House of Representatives a remarkable
bill. It is referred to in the reports of the
proceedings of the*!louse as “ House bill No.
TB, relating to a premium on the scalps of
Indians and skunks.” It is entitled** An act
for the destruction of Indians and skunks,”
and its principal ferture is the offering of a
bounty of $96 each for the scalps of either
Indians or skunks. The bill lias been re
ported favorably by the special committee.
“Boycotting” promises to become a weap
on of universal adaptation. It bus just been
introduced into France, at Sauraur. There
is a famous cavalry school there, a ver}” aris
tocratic establishment, which always contains
a number of the gilded }*outb. The Commis
saire de Police in Saumur. who seems to be a
disgrceablc type of an official, excited the
#n imosity of some of these young gentlemen,
iyhey applied to the Mayor for his dismissal,
being refused, they boycotted the town.
The school consists of six hundred and fifty
members, and for a fortnight not* one of
them entered a store or made a purchase.
Local trade became paralyzed, and the May
or had to give in.
Hon. H. H. Carlton.
Gainesville, Ga., Feb. 6th, 1881.
Editor Athens Weekly Chronicle: —As I
do not often trespass on your valuable space,
I hope you will allow me, through your col
limns, to perform a duty which I owe to my
self, to my children, and to my native State.
I find that my thrce-score-and-ten is drawing
me closely to that mysterious night; and be
fore the darkness lowers, I feel it a grateful
duty to pay a small tribute to one who has
been a true and tried friend of Georgia, and
of our Southern people.
Though yet a young man, he has filled the
I>ost of duty in our legislative halls with be
coming dignity, and a most marked ability.
I am rather old to flatter, and not ambitious
enough to fawn—nor do I wish to entwine a
fanciful wreath on a brow that has already
worn a more substantial diadem—the heart
felt confidence of the people of the Ninth
District. Though his worth is duly recog
nized in his own District, j et, I doubt if the
people of Georgia are cognizant of his ability
us a public servant. A glance at his public
career will develop a
RECORD WITHOUT A I'AKALLEL,
for a statesman so young. He was the first
Democrat elected to the Legislature of Geor
gia from Clarke after the war, and was re
elected as often as he would accept the
sulfrages of his native county.
He could have been Speaker of the House,
if lie would have allowed his friends to elect
him ; but that nobility of character which
adorns his every act, positively refused the
honor, and favored the election of Major Ba
con, whom he considered the best presiding
olficer in the General Assembly, lie filled
the Speaker’s Chair, pro tern., on several im
portant occasions ; and his knightly deport
ment and judicious decisions while occupying
it, have received the enconiums of the entire
State.
He was
CHAIRMAN OK THE FINANCE COMMITTEE
in 1877, the most important position that can
be occupied in the discharge of legislative
duties, and the annals of that laborious ses
sion proudly testifies in commendation of his
superior tact and ability as a financier, lie
it was that nurtured the
GEOLOGICAL AND AGRICULTURAL DEPART
MENTS OF THE STATE
with a zeal not equalled by any other legisla
tor in Georgia. In fact, he has been the
parent of them both. Do the people of Geor
gia appreciate the benefits derived from these
departments ? or do they honor him who has
done so much to sustain them in active and
useful operation ? He is the only man in
Georgia whose energy and perseverance ob
tained a direct ,
APPROPRIATION OF FIFTEEN THOUSAND DOL
LARS
for our time-honored, and useful University
in Athens. Nor is this all. Through his
untiring exertion, he procured another
APPROPRIATION OF FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS
for the Dahlonega Institute. Still more, lie
was most prominent in bringing about the re
adjustment of the Land Script Fund, by
which action an
ANNUITY OF EIGHT THOUSAND DOLLARS
was obtained towards the maintenance of a
colored State University in Atlanta, for the
higher education of the colored people of the
State. For this alone, the colored people of
Georgia should revere him as the best and
truest benefactor of their race.
To Lira, more than anyone else, is due the
success of the
NORTHEASTERN RAILROAD ;
and the advantages derived from it by our
people, are chiefly the effects of his labor in
its advancement. The
MARIETTA A NORTH GEORGIA RAILROAD
owe him a debt of gratitude for being instru
mental in having that road brought to a suc
cessful terminus.
One more meritorious act of his deserves a
tribute from the people, more truly sacred
than the rest. It is the noble stand he took
in bringing about the reform in the manage
ment of the
STATE LUNATIC ASYLUM,
and in assuaging the grievances which pre
vailed there up to a few years ago. Human
ity bluslics at these grievances, and to this
noble son of the Ninth is due their total
suppression.
In reviewing services so intrinsic, it seems
strange that they should not be more fully
recognized by a people who need honest and
careful legislation at a period when the strug
gles in our politics is for the supremacy of
man and party, and not for the preservation
of Constitutional rights ; they have become
blind, rancorous and * ill-timed individual
contests, rather than the exemplification of
the sovereignty of the people.
The great body of a people can never be
capable of that cool and discriminating course
of reasoning which individuals or political
loaders are capable of exercising; hence,
they too frequently, in political contests,
follow, whether right or wrong, the sentiments
of those who reason more plausibly than
themselves, or whose eloquence grasps at
their feelings and gives them a fictitious su
periority over ordinary understandings.
Hence it is that the thimble-riggers and wire
pullers receive tho booty, which, being the
gift of the people, rightfully belongs to the
most meritorious.
The subject matter of this communication,
who is known, loved and honored by our
people,
lIOX. n. 11. CARLTON, OF CLARKE,
should be pushed to the front to share in the
highest honors of a State which his talents
adorn. 1 met him in your city this week,
looking well as usual, but somewhat gloomy,
having followed to the grave, a short time
previous, a loved and distinguished brother;
yet. even his sorrow, like an April shower,
reflects a lambent ray of sunshine round his
friends. He is, at this moment, one of the
leading
STATESMEN OF GEORGIA.
As an orator,*he is replete with the most lu
minous reasoning, the most pathetic and
irresistible logic; in council, rapid, peremp
tory, yet courteous ; convivial, yet authorita
tive in his address; his character has no
medium, his manners no mediocrity. Amia
ble and consistent in every station and in
every capacity, combining spirit and mild
ness, fortitude and moderation, he was cast
in one of the finest moulds of firmness and
patriotism.
AS OTHERS SEE US.
It is only a lew months ago since an ex
confederate General and Ex-Governor of that
proud old State, South Carolina, told me, “if
there is merit in Georgia 3*oll will find it? in
Carlton, ot Clarke.” Said he, “if Georgia
does not honor him with her highest gifts” it
is because the standard of Georgia’s fame is
recceding from its old time moorings.” This
lis his reputation abroad. Those who know
1 him best honor him most, and Georgia will
yet, true to her old time traditions, confer the
coronet of her most exalted gift, on the brow
of the lion. 11. 11. Carlton, of Clarke.
Mountaineer.
“Thank Heaven, My Wife is Hanged.”
A middy in the royal navy went ashore at
Portsmouth with some messmates, and there
made merry until the funds were exhausted
and a long bill run up at the tavern at the
point. The signal was made for all hands
! on board, but, when the careless middies
would have obeyed it, the landlady intervened,
vowing that they should not leave until the
reckoning was paid, and called in a bailiff
and bis men to show that she was in earnes*.
The youngsters threatened arid entreated all
J to no purpose. The obdurate woman reminded
them that they would he irretrievably ruined
if the fleet sailed without them, and pro
nounced he ultimatum. Said she to her
horrified debtors : “ I will give you all a
S chance. lam so circumstanced here that I
cannot very well carry on my business as a
single woman, and I must contrive somehow
to get a husband, or, at all events, be able to
produce a marriage certificate. Now, the
only terms upon which I will set you free, arc
' that one of you marries me. I don’t care a
snap which it is, but one of you I will have
for a husband, or else to jail you all go, and
your ship sails without you.” Finding the
vixen immovable, the unhappy midshipmen
, cast lots, and Watty drew the fatal slip. The
• lady procured a license, and the knot was
tied, and she bade them, husband included,
good-by, intimating that she did not want to
! see him again, the marriage license being all
she wanted, and this was safe in her possession.
The ship sailed, the middies keeping their
doings at the point a secret, as thej’’ had
sworn to do before drawing lots. Twelve
months later, when the ship was at Jamaica,
a batch of English papers reached the mid
shipmen’s berth. Glancing over them Watty
! was attracted by an account of a robbery and
murder at Portsmouth and the execution of
j the culprits. Suddenly leaping to his feet,
he waved the welcome newspaper above his
head shouting : “ Thank heaven, my wife
hanged 1” — Chambers' Journal.
Descent of Man.
Two French savants have for the last
twelve months been keeping nine pigs in a
state of habitual drunkenness, with a view
to testing the effects of different kinds of
alcoholic liquors; the Prefect of the Seine
having kindly put some sties in the yard of
the municipal slaughter-houses at the dispos
al of the savants, in order that they might
conduct their interesting experiment at the
smallest cost to themselves. Pigs were cho
sen for the experiment because of the close
resemblance of their digestive apparatus to
that of man. The pig who takes absinthe is
first gay, then excitable, irritable, combative,
and finally drowsy ; the pig who has brandy
mixed with his food is cheerful all through
till lie falls to sleep; the rum swilling pig
becomes sad and somnolent almost at once ;
while the pig who takes gin conducts himself
in eccentric ways; grunting, squealing, tilt
ing his head against the sty door, and rising
on his hind legs as if to sniff the wind. Dr.
Decaisne, describing these experiments witli
intoxicated swine, remarks in the France
that they are none the worse for their year’s
tippling.
These experiments, taken in conjunction
with the pig’s well known personal peculiari
ties in feeding and bis obstinate refusal to
travel the correct path, go far to show that
man was evolved from the hog rather than
from the monkey, as some have surmised.
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T. FLEMING. J. 11. FLEMING. il. FLEMING.
T. FLEMING & SONS,
WHOLESALE AXI) RETAIL DEALERS IN
Hardware, Agricultural Implements,
Wagon and Buggy Material, Blacksmiths Tools,
RUBBER BELTIXG, TERWESSE WAGONS,
HARNESS, DOORS, SASH AND BLINDS,
Ca-rpenters Tools,
A FULL LiftlE OF HARDWARE.
We Worm tie Glad to Star Yon Oar Coeds and Give Yon Prises,
Very Respectfully,
T. FLEMING & SONS,
September loth. _ Athens, Georgia.
JUDSOX S MARBLE WORKS,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
MA N l FACT UR E R AND DEALE R IN
Italian and Rutland Marble, Monuments, Box Tombs, Head and
Foot btones, Iron Railing for Grave Inclosures, &c.
OFFICE AND WORKS ON CORNER OF LOVD ftND ALABAMA STREETS,
Opposite Georgia Railroad Depot.
Orders Solicited and Promptly Filled. Prices ReasouaMe. Terns Cash.
Addre3S D. N. JUDSON, Atlanta, Ga.
teethina.
(TEETHING POWDERS.)
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makes Teething easy. Ilemovcsand prevents
Worms. . .
thousands of Children nun/ he saved e*
erjj year bn usiny these Eo inters
For sale at DR. PENDERGRASS’ Drugstore.
Coffins! Coffins!
I WILL keep on hand, in Jefferson, a full sup
ply of
COF’FIjNTS
AND
BURIAL CASES,
of all sizes, and at prices to suit the times. Ever}’
cllort will b? made to serve parties promptly and
satisfactorily. Respectfully,
sept3 ' AY. A. WORSHAM.
{gfr-g Outfit furnished free, with full instruc-
tions for conducting the most profitable
business that anyone can engage in. The busi
ness is so easy to learn, and our instructions arc
so simple and plain, that any one can make great
profits from the very start. ‘ No one can fail who
is willing to work. Women arc as successful as
men. Hoys and girls can earn largs sums. Many
have made at the business over one hundred dol
lars in a single week. Nothing like it ever known
before. All who engage are surprised at the ease
and rapidity with which they are able to make
money. You can engage in tins business during
your spare time at great profit. \on do not have
to invest capital in it. We take all the risk.
Those who need ready money, should write to us
at once. All furnished free. Address TRUE &
Cos.. Augusta, Maine.
PTfIP A Y AGENTS
3 A I > WANTED.
WE WANT A LIMITED number of active, ener
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chance
TO MAKE MOKT^Y.
Such will please answer this advertisement by
letter, enclosing stamp for reply, stating what
business they have been engaged in. None but
those who mean business need apply.
Address FINLEY, HARVEY & CO.,
Atlanta, Ga.
££ Outfit sent free to those who wish to cn
gage in the most pleasant and profitable
business known. Everything new. Capital not
required. AYe will furnish you everything. $lO
a day and upwards is easily made without staying
away from home over night. No risk whatever.
Many new workers wanted at once. Many are
making fortunes at the business. Ladies make as
much as men, and young boys and girls make
great pay. No one who is willing to work fails
to make more money every day than can be made
in a week at any ordinary employment, Those
who engage at once will find a short road to for
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Maine.
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generally become wealthy, while those who do
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will pay more than ten times ordinary wages.
We furnish an expensive outfit and .all that you
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Full information and all that is needed sent free.
Address Stinson & Cos., Portland, Maine.
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ADDRESS
This is the Origi- The “Only” Lung Pad Cos.,
nal and Genuine
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for it, and take no
other. Detroit, Mich.
G. W. WALKER’S'
VAnnumE SHOES,
Main Street, Gainesville, Georgia,
MANUFACTURER OF
Phaetons, Buggies and Farm Wagons.
I RESPECTFULLY invite the people of Jackson county and the public generally to call and
amine my work before purchasing elsewhere. As lAM STILL IN THE CARRIAGE |i|\i
NESS, with GOOD STOCK. GOOD WORKMEN, and CLOSE ATTENTION TO BUSINKss [
am prepared to offer them anything in my line at 1
Hods. Bottom Figures!
So send on your orders and work. Orders by mail promptly attended to.
Repairing Done in all of Its Bran tikes .
Respectfully,
Feb. 6th, ISSO. G. IF. WALK Elf
Baldwin & bujwett,
wholesale: AND RETAIL dealers in
BOOTIES j&JJSTJD SHOES,
No. 3 Broad Street, Athens, Georgia.
WE IIA YE just received the largest and most complete stock of Hoots and Shoes ever brought
to Athens. The quality of our goods is of the highest order, and our prices within the reach
of all. We deal
EiiXIOIL-TXSI WHSOL ."V
in this line, ami promise the most courteous treatment and perfect satisfaction to all who
may call.
TO MERCHANTS: ■
Our \\ IIOLESALE DEPARTMENT is complete, and we guarantee prices as low as
any house in the South, and will save you freight.
GIVE XT S TV CALL.
BALD WIN B URNETT.
Athens, Ga., October Ist, 1880.
HURLEY & SMITH,
(SUCCESSORS TO HODGSON BROS, and D. C. HURLEY.)
Atliens, .... G-a.
WE MANUFACTURE AND DEAL IN
Fine Vehicles of Every Description !
Fine Hand-Made Harness, of Superior Leather.
Wagon and Harness Rejairing Promptly Done in the Best Manner anil at the Lowest Prices.
AYE HAVE ON HAND A FEAV OF TIIE CELEBRATED
IIODGSON BROS. BEST MAKE OPEN BUGGIES.
AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES.
WE WARRANT all of our work, and CHALLENGE any one else to produce as good for the SAME MONEY
\ y*v\ YA.^cvyAycyc.
HURLEY & SMITH,
Hodgson Bros, old stand, Oconee Street, Athens, Ga.
P. S. —l have associated with me in business Mr. FRED. C. SMITH, of Atlanta, Ga., a line
Carriage Trimmer, and with enlarged means, line shops and good workmen in every department,
am better prepared than ever to give my friends good work at reasonable prices. Sincerely thank
ing them for their liberal patronage in the past, and soliciting its continuance,
I am, very truly, J). C. HURLEY.
KIDNEY PAD
Marble Works
D AKTUFACTOR. 75T ,
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' GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA.
WE call the attention of the public to our new and the ONLY MARBLE WORKS in Northeast
Georgia. We arc prepared, with ample capital, large experience and skilled workmen, to
(ill orders on short notice for STONES beautifully and artistically finished,
Monuments, Marble Mantels, Etc.
We guarantee all work in our line, and will sell as cheap as the same can be procured in any
market, North or South, and respectfully solicit the patronage of the public. Office oil Main St.,
near the Depot.
MADDEN Sf MENGS, Proprietors.
December 17th, 18S0.
Dr. J. B. FEJfDEB(iRJISB,
HAVING BUILT ANI) FURNISHED A SPLENDID
BRICK DRUG STORE,
HAS OPENED UP A FULL LINE OF FRESH AND
Pure Drugs and Patent Medicines
of every description. He is now prepared to furnish the public with anything usually found in a
first-class drug store, such as
PAINTS, . OILS,
VARNISII, DYE STUFFS
PAINT BRUSHES, TOBACCO,
CIGARS, SNUFF,
STATIONERY, PENS, PENCILS,
ink, hair brushes,
COMBS, . TOILET SOAPS,
PERFUMER Y, DEN TRIFICES,
MA TCHES, BLA CKING,
BLACKING BRUSHES, &c„ sc.
Special Attention Given to the Compounding of Prescrip
tions at all Hours.
V ith thanks for the liberal patronage bestowed upon him in the past, he still offers his pro
fessional services to the public, and wilPendeavor US answer calls promptly and treat diseases with
skill, after the most approved methods. Charges as low us the lowest.