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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. /> A / A N \* y o\ ryjNGßpflkj /y Cures by absorption mV a i H LUNG DISEASES. ALL. THROAT DISEASES. BREATHING TROUBLES. It 1 YES H.WO the system curative agents and healing medicines. It DRAWS I'ROJI the diseased parts the poisons that cause death. Tliousnmls Testily to its Virtues. YOU CAN BE RELIEVED AND CURED. Don't despair until you have tried this Sensible, Easily Applied and RADICALLY EFFECTUAL Remedy. Sold by Druggists, or sent by mail on receipt of Price, $2.00, by Send for testimo- The “ Only” Luna Pad Cos., mals and our book, “ Three Millions a Williams Block, Year,” sent free. Detroit, Mich. At Wholesale in Atlanta, Ga., BYT LAMAR, RANKIN &; LAMAR, Wholesale Druggists. 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.) yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy Cures( holcra Infantum. Allays Irritation and 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 getic canvassers to engage in a pleasant and prof itable business. Good men will find this a rare 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 tune. Address 11. llallett & Cos., Portland, Maine. W-gW Yourselves by making money JT*. fak* Ba ill when a golden chance is offer ed, thereby always keeping poverty from your door. Those who always take advantage of the good chances for making money that are offered, generally become wealthy, while those who do not improve such chances remain in poverty. We want many men, women, boys and girls to work for us right in their own localities. The business will pay more than ten times ordinary wages. We furnish an expensive outfit and .all that you need, free. No one who engages fails to make money very rapidly. You can devote your whole time to the work, or only your spare moments. Full information and all that is needed sent free. Address Stinson & Cos., Portland, Maine. Improved Excelsior xxxxxxx CURE YOUR BACK ACHE And all diseases of the Kidneys, Bladder and Urinary Organs by wearing the Improved Excelsior Kidney Fad It is a MARVEL of HEALING and RELIEF. Simple, Sensible, Direct, Painless. Powerful, It CURES where all else fails. A KHVI> lATIOA and UEVOMTIOY in Medicine. Absorption or direct application, as opposed to unsatisfactory internal medicines. Send for our treatise on Kidney troubles, sent free. Sold by druggists, or scut by mail, on receipt of price, $2. ADDRESS This is the Origi- The “Only” Lung Pad Cos., nal and Genuine Kidney Pad. Ask "NV ILLIAMS BLOCK, 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 , X3sr i ' 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.