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BREVITIES. is it that people who go to the circus are ashamed to own it. 13?* Wild geese are migrating south ward. Lookout for cold weather. Randolph will put up a house for Dr. Reinhardt to live in next year. Collector Sailors took in over eight hundred dollars on " sale day.” i3?"Jackson county pays over six teen thousand dollars in State and county taxes. nines and Sam Dostcr have rented George Stanley’s plantation for five years. the " outside” we publish the law passed by the last Legislature in regard to doctors. ftPGcorgc Stanley will move his family to town, and occupy part of Mrs. Carithers’ house. James R. Thurmond's race horse, “ Woolwindcr,” died on last Tuesday morning. will please note that we have several good places advertised for sale in December next. caterpillars were not quite no numerous in this county as in some others that we have heard of. Ijp’Mr. Wilbe Appleby lost a little child last week. Misfortunes never come singly is an old adage that has proved true in his case. on last Sunday, A. H. Pendergrass, Esqr., officiating, Mr. .S. I*. W. Arnold and Miss Ophelia Gofer, ali of this count}'. HTThc predominating question asked of those who visited the show on last Thursday was as to the number of elephants, and, strange to .say, no two gave the same number. lyThe grading of the railroad has followed the road leading from the liog Mountain road to Gainesville, and cut it up in several places. There will have to be some changes made. PFTt is amusing to hear the con flict of testimony in regard to cotton cleaners. Both sides deal in nothing but positive facts and instance actual experience, and still the question is undecided. I'P’Dock Ilanccck says that we must not forget that he is keeping up with the times in ginning matters. He keeps three teams busy hauling his customers, cotton to his gin, and charges them nothing for it. llTOur efficient Tax Collector wants it distinctly understood that the law requires hirn to close his books on the 24th of this month. After that time lie will be compelled to issue executions against all who have not paid. Don’t fail to remember that this is his last warning. can hear of an occasional wedding in the dim distance, but for the present can only report two to take place within the next week. Our readers may expect a revival in the matrimonial market, if the crops are really short, and it looks favorable for hard times next year. is empty, with the ex ception of two United States prisoners —Bill Oliver and John Tait—who are serving out sentences of thirty days each for selling whisky without license. Both of these parties plead guilty, and were allowed to select the jail in which to serve out the sentence. G. W. Stanley, will, on Wednesday, the 16th inst.. sell at his place, four miles from Jefferson, all of his stock of hogs, cattle, horses, corn, shucks, fodder, hay, wagons, farming tools, household and kitchen furniture, and other thing too numerous to mention. Terms cashr. CIT It falU to our lot to return thanks for two fine specimens of sweet potatoes tin's week. One. weighing ten pounds, was sent to us by Mrs. James Stockton, the others arc the production of our friend Mr. William son McClcsky. We are holding them in readiness for a fat ’possum, then we propose to feast. nrWc took great pleasure one day last week to examine a handsome carriage that Henry Winburn has just finished at his shop. It is the first one ever built in our town, and is a credit to the builder. It will compare roost favorably with any of the work put up in Northeast Georgia, and is four tiroes as durable as the Western work. Henry is a genuis, and only needs the capital to make his part of the town hum with machinery. As some of our citizens are losing their porkers, we append the following remedy, and j*ou can try it for what it is worth. We get it from an exchange: “We have cured the disease by giving each hog. when he will eat, a piece of hluestone size of a luickshot in his feed. If too far gone cat, a drench of the same amount will effect a cure. When your hog fuses to go to work instantcr. Hluestone put in slop occasionally and H'ven hogs is a good preventive. We do not know of a single case the blue vitriol has ever failed to cure.” HENDERSON WAREHOUSE CO., TALMADCE, HODCSON A CO., UVLN\\\HYE,, WOl&tiSO'tt & CO., FI Cotton Factors. AND ~ Provision Dealers, Liberal Advances on Cotton. KUWETiiS, OE.OU.OVK. ATHENS, GEORGIA. Corner College Avenue and Clayton Street. Personal Mention. Judge Howard is olf on a trip to Alabama. Kugene Borders is clerking for F. M. Bailey. Colonel W. I. Pike, we are glad to learn, is slowly improving. Dick Williams is in business at Fort Worth, Texas, and doing well. We are glad to be aide to report that Mrs. T. K. Randolph is some better. Mrs. S. P. Carithers and Miss Mar}’ Carithers arc visiting over in Walton county. On yesterday afternoon Miss Emma Roberts was considered to be some better. I-lugh Appleby has used up his box of blacking (all out on credit.) and has suspended business. Mr. Leslie Williamson, of Floyd county, onee a resident of this county, is visiting relatives here. ’Squire A. 11. Pendergrass says that pound cake is his regular Sunday diet since the marrying season set in. We are afraid that we will lose Uncle Frank Harrison. He seems to be powerfully inclined towards Can dler. Larry Gantt, of the Athens Watch man, and Capt. J. E. Pitch took in our town on sale day, and hobnobbed around with the boys generally. Frank Pendergrass and lady, Mrs. S. S. Hancock and Mrs. N. N. Pen dergrass left last Wednesday for At lanta. They will take in the Exposi tion and buy a stock of goods. John Whitehead now hops around on two sticks because he would start to the circus before day, and it was so dark that the vehicle he was in turned over and threw the aforesaid John out. Mr. W. T. Long, of Alabama, has been visiting his friends and relatives in this county for several days past. He says that be lias been in sixteen States, but that he has not seen any county that would equal Jackson county. Cicero Stark runs a onc-horsc farm, but makes it pay better than some people do with larger ones. lie made this year 14 bales of cotton, 35 bar rcls of corn, 100 bushels of oats and wheat enough to keep him in flour until the new crop comes in, and oth er things in proportion. Dr. Watson requests us to state, for the benefit of those who don’t like it, that he was not the doctor who said that babies were getting as thick as persimmons. We would like to know who said that he was the doctor. There are lots of them in this county, and we manage to interview one of them occasionally. While in Athens on circus day we met Mr. E. I). Whitehead, of Nichol son. Ga., and he told us of a narrow escape that he Itad just had several days before that. While hauling some cotton on his wagon his muic9 got scared, turned the wagon over, threw him out, and a bale of cotton fell on irm, which scratched and bruised his face and lamed his hip. Our Railroad. We made a visit up to Blackstock’s works, on this end of the Gainesville, Jefferson & Southern Railroad, on last Saturday. We were forcibly reminded of the fact that it was not half as hard to get to as the first trip we made to his works, sometime last spring. Then it took the best part of a day to go and come ; now it is but a short drive, and you come to the line where it crosses the Hog Mountain road just above the Shockley place. The con tractor is doing good and faithful work, and the road bed will require but little work to make it ready for the cross ties. We noticed that the grades appear somewhat higher, and they are more apparent at a glance than on the first of the line finished. We learn that this is due to the fact that the engineer now in charge, Capt. Collier, has increased the grade in several in stances, and in this way made the work lighter. As it was Saturday, but few of the hands were at work, and all quit at dinner for the week. The average railroad hand does not work more than five days in the week, and a good many not more than four. But they are kept busy while they are at it, and their working is done with great system ; no unecessary labor is done ; every movement counts, and either puts dirt into position where it is needed or gets it out of the way. We were told that there were about thirty hands on the works that week, and. for the force, Mr. Blackstock has been moving right along. This week the force ha3 been greatly increased, numbering fifty-five ou Wednesday morning, and sixteen were turned off. and have hired themselves to Mr. Henry D. Human, to pick out his cot ton. Mr. Biackstock says they con tinue to come in every day, some of them from as far down the country as Wilkes county. He expresses biin self as perfectly satisfied upon the labor question, and has no fears but what be can get as many bands as be wants from nowon. This week some of his squads reach almost to the river, and ho told us on Wednesday that he had no doubt but what lie would reach the river next week. When that point is reached the road will be graded from there toGaincsville, with the exception of two rock patches in Mr.BUckstock’s section and the gaps in the other two contractor’s sections on the Gaines ville end, all of which will be finished before the iron will be ready for it. We learn that the contract for iron calls for and only five miles can be delivered per month, so that before we can get the iron Mr. Biackstock will be in less than three milesof Jefferson. We suppose that it will not be long until track laying is.commenced at Gainesville, as some iron has already arrived, and we presume that the supply will be equal to the demand for it. We have not been able to get any definite information in regard to the progress over on the main line, but can say that Mr. Sage is pushing ahead and is now at Judge Park’s, about a mile from Ilosch’s Store. Mr. Jackson has quit work down at Laura City, in order to gather his crop, and we are not informed as to what he will do when he finishes that work. Upon the whole, we can say that onr rail road prospects are indeed promising, and wa are daily lessening the gap between our town and the outside world. A New Town. Last Tuesday was a big day in the lives of lots of our citizens in more than one respect. But it will be more particularly remembered in the future bj r the citizens of these parts as the biithday of anew city, for on that day the Mayor of Gainesville came down to Jefferson and bid off for Mr. M. M. Sanders, of his town, lot No. 5 of the Long land. Wc presume that it is to be annexed to our ambitious neighbor as a surburb, and that It was bid off by the Mayor so that lie could claim jurisdiction over it. For a long time this lot of land has been spoken of as the most likely place upon which to looate a depot between the junction and Jefferson. It is almost equally distant from each, being eight miles from the junction and about seven from Jefferson. It is well located for a town, and the neighboring country can support a large population. It is evident, and we can almost say that it is an open secret, that it was bought because it was known to the buyers that a depot would be located on it, which fact was not generally known, else it might have brought more money. We learn that the ground will be surveyed and laid off into lots in a few days, and further that there will be a steam saw mill located on the place within two weeks, and that it-will not be long until there will be houses there ready for the occupants. We do not know what this new town will be called, but as it is more than probable that it will be the largest new place on the road, with due deference, we suggest that it be called Candler. That it will be a place, and an important one, no one who knows the location and the surrounding country will deny. We shall be seriously disappointed if it does not reach several hundred in habitants before it isayearold. Here’s luck to the new city, and may it be as prosperous and reflect the energy and enterprise of its namesake. Why Not? It has been suggested by some of our citizens that when Mr. Blackstock gets to the river with his grading force, that, instead of commencing on this side and working on down to this place, it would be better, and sait those in terested, for him to at this end of the line and work to the river. It is high time that the depot at this place was located, so that the town authorities could lay off streets to it and have them put in order. Land owners could tell then the value of their property ; lots could be laid off facing on the new streets, and parties could buy and commence making arrangements to improve them. As it is now, you would hardly guess that a railroad was just outside of our corporate limits and coming nearer every day. There is but little indi cation upon our streets that we arc soon to he awakened from our Rip Van Winkle sleep and ushered into the busy outside world. We are not making the necessary arrangements to receive so important a visitor as the iron horse, and we verily believe that some of our people think that when he comes it will be in a hired team from some of the Gainesville livery stables. We should not be caught napping; every inducement should be offered to men and capital to come and abide with us. With the advent of the locomotive will come the command that the old things must pass away, and it behooves us to be making ready for the change. Now that we are about to couple on to the living world “ for sure.” we can well afford to anticipate our future and put on a few metropolitan airs. For instance, if our houses are made of logs wc should put on an imposing plank front and give it a coat of whitewash. We just mention this so that you can catch our idea. By all means let us avoid the impression that the terminus of the most important narrow guage railroad in the State, to-wit: the Gainesville, Jefferson, Jug Tavern & Great South ern, is in the woods. Our capitalists certainly do not look at their interests in the proper or paying light, or they would have made more progress in this matter. When the railroad gets here we ought to have houses to put the people in that it will bring, and provide for them some place to do business. It is important that we should commence to attend to these pressing matters at ouce. It will save time and money in the end. Let the depot be located at once. The town authorities should then locate and open out streets to it, and parties who desire to buy lots and improve them can determine what to do. Harmony Grove. BY OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT. —No frost yet. —Farmers are sowing wheat. —Col. W. P. Golson is in town. —Guano cotton is coming in lively. —The book agents are swamping around. —lion. A. T. Bennett was in town last Wednesda}’. —Miss Mattie Jackson, of Oconee county, i9 visiting Mrs. Key. —The warm weather this week has turned the flies loose on us again. —The second Monday will be Superior Court at Harmony Grove. —The fish pond builders aro be ginning to look out for their minnows. —A good large party will go to the Exposition about the 15th of this month. —An infant of Mr. and Mrs. Wash Boswell, of this place, died last Sunday morning. —The Atlanta papers ars begging the people to visit the great Cotton Exposition. —The Southern Watchman, with Larr}' Gantt as editor, is equal to the Weekly Constitution. —The circus boys from this place enjoyed it hugely, but came back in groups of one and two. —C. M. Wood has gone to work as temporary Administrator on the estate of Rob’t Bennett, col. —The guano agents and the farmers get a little crosswise occasionally about low grade cotton. —lt i9 a task for a bailiff to locate a bale of cotton after our merchants get their marking brush on it. —The Misses Deadwyler, two of Mayesville’s most popular young ladies, are visiting friends here. —Middling is worth 10£ cents in our village ; storms and stains are not. k in demand, and are selling low. —Mrs. John Cooper, the matronly boarding house manager of Athens, was in our village last Tuesday. —Married, on the 2d inst., by Z. W. Hood, Esqr., Mr. F. C. Ray, of Nichol son, and Miss Addie Nash, of Cedar Grove. —lt was a funny sight to see the boys hanging around the Northeastern depot in Athens last Friday, wanting to get home. —Lum Cooley, col’d, the murderer of Rob’t Bennett, was last seen in Madison county, between our place and Danielsville. —There was a map agent in town the other day, and sold so cheap that Mack Wood says he bought enough to paper his dwelling. —The down train on the North eastern had a general burst up at this place last Thursday, caused by some part of the switch irons giving way. —One of our bachelor boys, so long, almost never speaking to, or visiting young ladies, has straightened himself up out of )iis crookedness, and has to have some person to hold him nearly all the time, to koep him at his post of duty. Sale Day. The amount and quality of tho land sold on last Tuesday brought quite a large crowd of people together from other counties as well as this one. Sheriff McElhannon opened out the day’s proceedings by selling the Eads land. It was bought by Mr. J. R. Crane, of Athens, for §460. A mule was then sold under a mort gage fi. fa., and was knocked ofTtoG. W. Tanner, of Ilall count)', for §7l. The Long place was then put up and sold in lots, as follows : Lot No. 1 was knocked off to 11. W. Bell for §415. Lot No. 2 to J. P. Trout for for §1,115. Lot No. 3toJ. P. Trout for §730. Lot No. 4toG. W. Tanner, of Hall county, for §I,OOO. Lot No. 5 to M. M. Sanders, of Gainesville, for §1,605. Making the whole place, containing 510 acres, bring §4,865, or just a little less than §9.50 per acre, in the woods. The next lands sold belonged to the estate of F. M. Holliday, deo’d. The home place was knocked off, after some spirited bidding amongst the heirs, to Mr. John Holliday for §3,001. The Mary Holliday dower tract was bought by Mr. CrofT Wills for §1,500. Making the whole place, containing 520 acres, bring §4,501, or something over $8 per acre. The Williamson home place, con taining 400 acres, was bought by Mr. E. J. Sharpe for §4,500, and brought over $lO per acre. The mills were sold to Mr. I. T. Austin for §1,300, which was considered a bargain. The J. D. Johnson place, containing 190 acres, was knocked off to J. R. Shields for §2,511. Something over §l3 per acre. The house and lot in Jefferson, be longing to the Watson estate, was bought by Dr. W. A. Watson for §BOO. The lands belonging to the estate of W. D. Smith, dcc’d, sold as follows: Lot No. 1. containing 371 acres, was sold to S. M. Shankle for §2,075. Lot No. 2, containing 217 acres, to S. M. Shankle for §2,056. Making the ave rage per acre about §7. The John S. Hunter lands sold as follows : The home place, containing 220 acres, was bought by J. C. Hunter for §1,635. The Cherry tract, con taining 150 acres, to N. G. Trout for §650. The Lindsey tract, containing 35 acres, to John Venable for §309. Making the whole place, containing 405 acres, bring §2,594, or a little over §6 per acre, which was cheap as dirt. The Thurmond and Saul lands were not sold. The total number of acres sold was 2,697, and it brought $24,362, or an average of over $9 per aerc. The lowest average per acre was $5 and the highest sl3 per acre. Value of other property sol J, $1,417. Making grand total of all property sold on that day, $25,779, and it could not be bought to-day for $30,000. Some of the property brought its full value and some of it was bought cheap. We notice that most of the sales were made to our own citizens, and not to parties from other counties, as a great many thought would be the case. Also, that at least half of the property sold will be put into active use, and the parties buying were after homes. The balance was bought pretty much on speculation. The China Palace. Among the various kinds of busi ness in Athens and the numerous busi ness bouses, there is none which can probabably produce a more pleasing effect on the beholder than the splen did china, glass and crockery empori um of Messrs. Lynch & Flanigen. Those who go there are charmed with the large and attractive stock which is displayed in a manner to best show its merits. These gentlemen have just received the last of their fall in voices, some of it come from across the water, and they have open ed and arranged it for the close in spection of their, customers. The stock, is better described in their advertisement than we can do. In china they, have some excellent goods of French, English and Amer can manufacture, and of exquisite patterns. This stock the ladies ought to examine closely. In cut glass too, there are many very beautiful.goods, while the stock of fancy wares is such that it must please the most fastidi ous. Beside the finer goods there are quantities of substantial wares of the best manufacture and of the best style. There is some as pretty patterns in English crockery as one would care to see. In housefurnishing goods there is everything useful or ornamental that can be needed or desired. But we could not do justice to this stock by any description we might give. It will have to im BLOOMFIELD <fc SANFORD (Successors to retail business of Reaves, Nichols™ it C 0.,) NORTH-EAST CORNER BROAD AND THOMAS STREETS, Athens, ■ ■ G-a. GROCERS, AND DEALERS IN STAPLE DRY GOODS, iSooYs, H\\ocs, Lc u\\vcv wwA Yv\uVv\\o^ Stock varied and complete in ell departments. GROCERIES : Bacoa, Meal, Corn, Flour, Seed Oats and Wheat, Sugar, Syrup, Molasses, Plain* Crackers. Fancy Crackers (numerous varieties): Canned Fruits, Meats, Vegetables, Pickles; Buckets, Churns, Tubs; Nails, Bagging and Tics ; Tobacco and Segars, &c., Ac. DRY GOODS : Sheetings, Shirtings, teachings, Jeans, Factory Thread, Dress Goods, Half Ilose, Stockings, Corsets, Calicoes, Trunks, Boots, Shoes, and other articles in endless profusion. Prompt and Conrteons Attention Accorded Every One, Whether Purchaser or Not, SfcjT'Will sell COTTON for our customers WITHOUT ANY CIIARGE~T3a. September 16, 1881. BLOOMFIELD & SANFORD*. LIFp and DEATH of JAMES A. GARFIELD A correct History of nil Life and full Particulars of the Assassination of our martyred President. A mo** remarkable and critical a /%CMT6 Uf A MTCn Tho BEST SELLING BOOK record of a noble man.AUCII I O WAIH I tU of the AGE. Circulars Free, nil nor pant ni<trnnnf tn Ananle on ®rder fr JO eeple*r more. Sample Book by mail. SI.OO. ou put Loin, uistuum IO MyuillS CINCINNATI i*ub. oe>„ it 4 w. 4tk .. Cincinnati, o. amined to be appreciated. We beg our readers,Jthereforc, to call on Mcsirs Lynch & Flanigen and go through their large store. Either of them will take great pleasure in showing their goods and explaining the qualities. Those wishing to purchase should be sure to call there before buying. Special inducements are offered to country merchant. —Athens Banner. A Cutting Scrape. About three o’clock yesterday af ternoon the report flew over the streets that a serious fight had taken place between Mr. Julius McDonald and a negro named Cobb Houston, in which the latter was cut so badly that he would die. This was an ex aggeration, however. The negro had an ugly gash down the side of his face and just along the lower jaw bone, but no large artery was cut. There were various stories told about the affair and it has been al most impossible to get the correct version of it. There seems to have been too much whisky aboard, and the difficulty started, we learn, by the negro taking offence at some real or fancied injury done him by Mr. McDonald. One report says that in the quarrel the negro was cut by Mr. McDonald and afterward knocked him down, while another is told to the effect that Mc- Donald was knocked down twice be fore he cut the negro. Mr. McDon ald’s version of the -difficulty is as follows ; He was passing down the street, which waa greatly crowded, when he took outiii* knife to cut off the end of a cigar. As he closed the knife he had it down by his side, and being jostled by the crowd, the blade accidentally stuck in Cobb Houston’s leg. lie passed on and >the negro turned and followed him. When he came up he asked what in the h —l he meant by sticking him with a knife. McDonald tried to explain that he didn’t intend to do it, but the negro insisted that he did and cursed him. McDonald tried to avoid a difficulty, but the negro was angry, and finally struck him. Before he could do any thing he was struck again, and then it was that he made the lick with the knife. There were many negroes near by, and seeing no white men, he became afraid that others would attack him, so he leaped a fence and hid himself till the excitement should subside.— Athens Daily Banner, October 2 8th. Dots from Whitehead’s School-House Mr. Editor:—l desire space in your paper to note a few items which will perhaps be read with interest. Mr. R. A. Hosch has just received a fine lot of goods. Mr. C. S. Hill utilizes the waters of Indian creek. He not only causes it to drive an eighty-five saw gin, but is prepared to instantly turn a large stream in the bouse, in case of fire. Mr. I}, Ww Anderson has the, best cot ton that has been .brought to this gin ; in fact, it,is the. best we have ever heard ;of, and that others may pass their judgment concerning it, we state the fact that eleven- hundred r and seventy-five pounds of this cotton in the seed made a bale weighing four hundred and seventy-eight'pounds. The Georgia- State Convention, of Universalists, which met. at Center Hill, has- jast adjourned. Notwith standing-the weather was foul, the, meeting was a pleasant one, and three accessions wcre.-made to the church. Joe and Bob went .up to see the new Quarterly Conference. The fourth quarterly conference for the Jefferson circuit will bo held at Jefferson on tho second Saturday and* Sunday in November. All who have not paid their missionary money, Bish ops fund, and mopey for tho support of the superanuated preachers, and the widows and orphans of deceased min isters, are requested to, hand the same to the undersigned, between this and the time of tho meeting of the quar terly conforeucc. . Come, brethren and sisters, one and all, and do your duty in these matters. Respectfully, your Pastor, R. A. Seale. Notice to Stockholders. Last Call, Positively! All persons who have subscribed for stock in the Gainesville, Jefferson and Southern Railroad Company aro hereby notified that whatever amount of their stock which remains unpaid must be paid on or before the 10th day of November, or suit will be com menced against them for the same im mediately. The whole of the stock has been due since the Ist of Septem ber, and all have been called on an t the money demanded by the author ized agents of the Company. The necessities of the Company demand that every one must pay up at once. J. E. Randolph, 11. W. Bell, F. L. Pendergrass, , W. C. Howard, Directors in charge.^ October 28th, 1881. Many lose their beauty from tho hair falling or fa ling. Parker's Hair Balsam supplies necessary nourish ment, prevents falling and grayness and is an elegant dressing. O O brown U PHILADELPHIA I* 1 : lILOTHIN jHQUSE’'"MRICA !i Fire 2 Fire 2 fPIIIS is to notify you that I am now X the sole manufacturer and dealer in . LANE’S FIRE and WATER PROOF CEMENT PAINT, which is strictly a fire > proof, and will not burn ; also strictly a water proof, and will ornament and pre- . serve any roof or fence for many years longer. It's a fact that nearly all the buildings in Gainesville have been re cently covered with it, and it is no hum- . bug. I will sell the paint by the barrel, ready mixed, low down, or contract for all kinds of roof painting. I guarantee all , work ; also guarantee my paint to be • strictly Fire and Water Proof. References—Citizens of Gainesville. w. jay McDonald, oct 14 Gainesville, Ga. THE TRADE! A large and complete stock of BLANK BOOKS and STATIONERY, LEDGERS, JOURNALS, LETTER BOOKS, WRITING PAPER. ENVELOPES,, INK, MUCILAGE . INK STANDS, PENCILS . Etc. Churches an 1 Ministers supplied with Bopks at publishers price-. bji_— ———