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SUFFERING WOMEN! Read what the Great Metho dist Divine and Eminent Physician Says of Da. J, BRAGFIELD’S Female Regulator. Atlanta, Ga*, Feb. 20, 1884. Dr. J. Bradfield: Dear Sir—Some fifteen years ago I examined the recipe of Female Regulator, and carefully studied authorities in regard to its components, and then (as well as now) pronounced it to be the most scientific and skillful combination of the really reliable remedial vegetable agents known tn scieffce, to act directly on the womb and uterine organs, and the organs and parts sympathysing directly with these; and, there fore, providing a specific remedy for all diseases of the womb, and of the adjacent organs and parts. Yours truly, JESSE BORING, M. D., D. D. CAUTION. Tlie'country is flooded with quack nos trums, containing IRON and other inju rious ingredients, which claim to cure everything —even Female Complaints. We say to you, if you value your life Beware of all such. BRADFIELD’S FEMALE REGULATOR is a surely vegetable compound, is only intend ed for the FEM ALE SEX. For their pecu culiar diseases it is an absolute SPECIFIC. Sold by all druggist. Send for our treatise on the Health and Happiness of Woman mail ed free, which gives all particulars. The Bradfield Regulator Co., Box 28, Atladta, Ga. AYER’S PILLS. A large proportion of the diseases whfeh cause human suffering result from derange ment of the stomach, bowels, and liver. Avkb’s Cathartic Pills act directly upon these organs, and are especially designed to cure the diseases caused by their derange ment, including Constipation, Indiges tion, Dyspepsia, Headache, Dysentery, and a host of other ailments, for all of which they are a safe, sure, prompt, and pleasant remedy. The extensive use of these Pills by eminent physicians in regular prac tice, shows unmistakably the estimation in which they are hold by the medical profes sion. These Pills are compounded of vegetable Substances only, and are absolutely free from calomel or any otiier iujurious ingredient. A Sufferer from Headache writes: •" Ayer's Pills are invaluable tome, and arc my constant companion. I have been a severe sufferer from Headache, and your Pills are the. only thing I could look to for relief. One dose will quickly move my bowels and free my head from pain. They are the most effective and the easiest physio I have ever found, it. is a pleasure to me to speak in their praise, aud I always do so when occasion offers. W. L. Pagb, of W. L. Page & Bro.” Franklin St., Richmond, Va., June 3,1882, “I have used Avan's Pills in number less instances as recommended by you, and have never known them to fail to accomplish the deni red result. We constantly keep them on baud at our home, and prize them as a pleasant, safe, and reliable family medicine. FOB DYSPEPSIA they are invaluable. J. T. Hayes.” Mexia, Texas, June 17,1882. The Rbv. Francis B. Harlowe, writing from Atlanta, Ga., says: “For some years past I have been subject to constipation, from which, in spite of the use of medi cines of various kinds, I suffered Increasing inconvenience, until some months ago I began taking Ayer’s Pills. They have entirely corrected the costive habit, and have vastly imta—nJ »>’ general health.” . —Ayrix's Cathartic Pills correct irregu- KTtfols, stimulate the appe tite and digestion, aud by their prompt and thorough action give tone and vigor to the whole physical economy. PREPARED BY Dr. J.C.Ayer&Co., Lowell,Mass. Sold by all Druggists. VfillNß All experience the wonderful WO AMD beuefleial effects of Minnie- Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, •nrn Children with Sore Eyes, Sore flutD. Ears, or any scrofulous or syph ilitic taint, maybe made healthy and strong by its use. Sold by all Druggists; 81, six bottles for Nortii-Eastern Railroad OF GEORGIA. Superintendent’s Office, ) Athens, Ga., July Ist, 188a. j On and after July Ist, 1885, trains on Ibis road will run as follows : _ 75tii MERIDIAN TIME’ NO. 53. Leave Athens 8.50, a. in. Arrive Lula. 10.50, a. m. “ Atlanta 1.40 p. ni. “ Tallulah Falls 1.45, p. m. NO. 50. Leave Tallulah Falls 8.00, a. m. Arrive Athens 1-35, p. m. “ Atlanta 1.45, p. tn. NO. 51. Leave Athens 5.30, p. m. Arrive Lula 8.00, p. tn. “ Atlanta 11.00 p. m. NO. 52. Leave Atlanta 6.00 p. m Arrive Lula 8.50, p. m “ Athens 10 35, p. m TALLULAH FALLS ACCOMODATION) On Wednesdays and Saturdays only. noTl ———— Leave Tallulah Falls 6.45, p. tn. Arrive Cornelia 7.55, p. m.. NO. 2. Leave Cornela 9.21, p. m Arrive Tallulah Falls ..10.30, p. m Trains Nos, 1 and 2 connects at Cornelia with R. A D. Trains 51 and 52. Train No. 53 connects al Lula with R. & D. train No. 50 lor Atlanta and all points iu South west. I®”Pullman Buffet Sleeping Car from Lula to Atlanta. Train No. 51 connects at Lula with R. & D. train No. 52. Close connection in Atlanta for all Southern aud Southwestern points. GT Pullman Palace Sleeping Car through from Lula to New Orleans without change. Train No. 50 connects at Lula with R. & D. train No. 53 for Charlotte, Danville, Richmond, And all points in North and East. Palace Buffet Car through from Lula to Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York without change. Train No. 52 connects at Lula with R. & D. train No. 51 for all Eastern cities. Palace Sleeping Car through from Lula without change. AH trains on N. E. R. R. daily, except Sun day- Through tickets on sale at Athens for all prominent points in the North, East, South and West. M. SLAUGHTER, H. R. Bernard, Gen. Pass. Agent. Superintendent. Wffiif TH!E. CLIFTON, THE ATHENS PHOTOGRAPHER, Can get the babies picture in ONE SECOND, crying or laugh ng. The paper on which this issue is printed was made by the PIONEER M’F’G CO. Os Paper, -Clarke Co., Ga. VOL. -VIII. BUZZ, BUZZ, BUZZ! THE BUSY BEES HEALING THE NA TIONS- From the Mlouiitnins to the Sea. Praises Come W ailttl 1< i 11. 11. il. MOTHER AND SISTER. B. B. B. Co.: My mother and sister had ulcerated soie throat and scrofula, and B. B. B. cured them. E.G. TINSLEY, June 20,1885. Columbiana, Ala. GOD SPEED IT. B. B. B. Co.: One bottle of B. B. B. cured me of blood poison and rheumatism. May God speed it to everyone. W. R. ELLIS. June 21, 1885. Brunswick, Ga. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS. B. B. B. Co.: One of my customers, J- B. Rogers, was afflicted 25 years with a terrible ulcer on his leg, but B. B. B. has nearly cured him. B. F. MEDLOCK, June 22,„ 1885. Noicross, Ga. BAY HORSE. B. B. B. cured me of an ulcer with which I had been Doubled fifty years. lam now as fat as a bay horse, and sleep better than anybody, and B. B. B. did it all. R. R. BAULTER, June 24,1885. Athens, Ga. RAILROAD TALK. Four bottles of B. B. B. cured me of a severe form of rheumatism, aud the same number of bottles cured mj’ wife of rheu matism. J. T. GOODMAN, Conductor C. It. R. MAGICAL, SIR. The use of B. B. B. has cured me of much suffering, as well as a case of piles of 40 years’ stauaing. Although 80 years old, 1 feel like a new man, B B. B. is maeical, sir. GEO. B. FRAZIER. WONDERFUL GODSEND. My three poor, afflicted children, who inherited a terrible blood poison, have im proved rapidly after the use of B. B. B. It 1b a Godsend healing bulm. MRS. 8. M. WILLIAMS, Sandy, Texas. EASTSHORE TALK. We have been handling B. B. B. about 12 months, aud can say it is ibe best selling medicine we handle, and the satisfaction seems to be complete. LLOYD & ADAMS, June 23,1885. Brunswick, Ga. I VERY DECISIVE. The demand for B B. B. is rapidly in creasing, and we now buy in g.-Oss lots.— We unhesitatingly say our euato'.u- rs are well-pleased. HILL BROS., J due 24, 1885. Anderson, 8. C. TEXAN TATTLE. * * * One of our customers left his bed for the first time in six months, after Using on y one buttle of 15. B B. He had c ofula of a terrible form, that had re sisted ail otlica treatment. B B. B. now takes the lead in this s ction. LIED J’KE BROS., June 16,1884. Dexter, Texas. “SH4KY.” THE ZIG-ZAG METHODS EM PLOYED BY MERCENARY MEN. It is a notable fact that the people of At lanta and elsewhere are beginning to be thoroughly convinced that worthless com pounds become “skaky” at all new inno vations, while an honest preparation never fears opposition. We do not propose to "wipe out” others, as the field for operation is large, and we accord to one and all the same privilegesjwe enjoy. We are not so far lost to business as to denounce any other remedy as a fraud, or imitation, or as containing a vegetable poison, the effects of which are horrible to contemplate. The alarm ueed not be sounded, for there is ample room for all declining auti-potash, pine-top, slop-water compounds. If one bottle of B. B. B. is more valua ble than half a dozen of auy other prepa ration, we won’t get mad about it It ten bottles of B. B. B. cures a case of blood poison which others could not cure at all, it only proves that B. B. B. is far the best medicine. 20,000 Bottles of B. B. B. have been sold to parties living inside the corporation of Atlanta since it was started two years ago. Why this wonderful sale of a new rem edy in so short a time with so little adver tising. It must be confessed that it is because B. B. B. has proven itself to possess merit in the cure of blood, skin and kidney dis eases. Hundreds of home certificates attest the fact of our claim that in Atlanta, and many other points, B. B. B. are “ on top,” and will stay there. Many persons desire to kuow bow the B B. B. acts on the sys tem. By entering the circulation, it modi fies the vitiated blood globules, increases the red corpuscles, antagonizes all poi.-on, vitalizes and rengeuerates the flagging forces, furnishes the pabulum for rich, new blood, eliminates all poison through the sectetions, and increases the appetite, while, by its wonderful action upon the pores of the skin, the kindneys, liver aud glandular system, all effete and impure matter is speedily conducted from the body, leaving the blood pure, fiesh and healthy. By its magical alterative powers, B. B B. unloads the blood of all impurities, un locks the liver, aious-s all secretions, re stores nature to its normal condition, mr clouds the troubled brain, clears and beau’ titles the complexion, cheers the despond ent, strengthens the feeble, calms the dis turbed nerves, aud induces quiet and peaceful slumbers. It lias been iu use over twenty-five years as a piivate pre scription in the South. It is no far-fetched, foreign-found, or dream-discovered subterranean wonder, but is a scientific and happy combination of recognized te etable blood poiseu agents ifficted after many years ot constant use and experiment in the treatment of scrofu lous, syphilitic and cutaneous blood poisons ever known in the State, resulting iu complete ami unparalleled cures of pro nounced incurable cases. Send to Blood Balm Co., Atlanta. Ga., for a copy of their Book of Wonders, free, filled with information about Blood and Skin Diseases, Kidney Complaints, I &C. ffl)rmrid£ ATHE YS. GEORGIA. SUNDAY, OCT. 35, 1885. EDITORIA I. EXPRESSIONS. A city that can get along without extra taxation is fortunate, but when necessary measures can be secured only in this way we believe the end will justify the means. The Greensboro Home Journal, owned and edilid by W. Addison Knowles, will be greatly enlarged and otherwise improvd very soon. The Home Journal is one of best exchanges. Our esteemed and versatile contempo rary around the corner, asks how do we st.md upon Mr. Russell’s free school bill? We ate not familiar with the terms of Mr. Russell’s bill, but will stale that we want to see our city have free schools for its children, and would suggest as a practical measure that they be not restricted alto gether to children. Some of the yards of citizens of this city aud some of our unfrequented streets are in a bad condition. If they are per mitted to stand in their present fix we may confidently expect an epidemic of diph theria this winter. The best expenditure of money Council can make will be to provide for the work of a competent sani tary officer. The present plan of pennitting convict labor to compete with free labor upon farms and plantations iu this State is per nicious in the extreme. Il is bad enough to work couvicts upon public works, but when they come into competition with the honest labor that produces the bread and meat that feeds our bodies prosperity ought not to shine upon a State which permits it. The street railroad project seems doomed to destruction. The necessary amount of money has not yet been raised, aud it looks as f the committee had ceased trying to secure the remainder. One by one the roses fall, and the blossoming time rarely comes again with the enterprises started iu Athens. The majority of the legislation enacted by the last legislature was mostly local in its nature and for the past ten days the Governor has been hard at work signing bills. The power to veto measures of this kind is about the ouly original exercise of power now vested in our chief magistrate, and so far he has not felt it incumbent upon himself to disapprove of any measuie the general assembly has passed so far. Editor Grady of the Atlanta Constitu tion lias hail his “hog killing” memories aroused and is now prepared to receive invitations to attend any of the annual slaughters. It would give us great plcas *ure to have Editor Grady with us about the 20th proximo, the time when old nun Greer was accustomed to say all h"|s should be killed, but our porkers are nit quite large enough for killing this year. The youug men who have the college yveekly in charge are all blight fellows and the public may confidently expect to see a bright, newsy paper. They have fallen into the mistake the old University Reporter annually made, that of putting their subscription list at the head of their editorial columns. This plan however will establish barmonius relations between editors and subscribers, and will obviate the necessity of having a mailing book. It is well to be economical at the start. There is not much need of discussing free schools in connection with Athens just now, inasmuch as the bill of Mr. Rus sell has passed both bouses of the General Assembly, but it seems to us that the number in attendance upon these schools so far as boys are concerned will be greatly reduced by the facility with which lhey gain entrance into the University. The college authorities should see to it that the bars are put across the path that makes entrance into the University easy. The gentlemen who have organized the social and literary club for their own amusement and entertainment this winter have made a movement in the right direc tion. It seems stranga that such an or ganization lias not been in existence here before. We have in our midst some of the most cultivated and literary gentlemen to be found anywhere and this concert of action on their part will result in much good and do a great deal to make the coming, winter months a season of rare literary and social enjoyment. Prof. Cbarbonnier is President and Prof. Charles Morris, Secretary of the organization. The church beils of this city seem to be constantly sounding their peals, calling the religious of all denominations to services of some kind. Our people are great church goers even on week days ; we say our people, when perhaps we give the male portion of our community credit for good deeds when they do not deserve it. But the women of this town are ideally Christian in their characters and lives, ami feel it not a duty but an inestimable privi lege to attend the services in the churches. The chances are not very bright for the success of the New York State Democratic ticket. The overwhelming Democratic defeat in Ohio has depressed the workers of the party to a considerable extent, and Gov. Hill the Democratic nominee has gotten into some complications that greatly injure bis chances. The party lenders in New York city are divided, and altogether the outlook is not very blight. New York must remain Democratic if the present nd ministration hopes to remain in power, aud the success of the ticket in that State next month will be a very flattering en’ dorsement of the administration of Presi dent Cleaveland. Doctor W. 11. Felton is a very smart, nice old gentleman, and notwithstanding his tree lance proclivities has many friends among the iron-ribbed Democracy of the State. But if Dr. Felton has any idea of running for Governor he had better re nounce it at once. If the question in the next gubernatorial race in the State be made the prohibition question, and he ciines out as the properly accredited rep resentative of the anti whiskey side, not withstanding the exceedingly great popu larity of the issue, in bis race for Governor Ibe will be burieel under a majority very i harrowing to the feelings of a sensitive 1 man who has mistaken his popularity. The Governor has signed the bill ma king it unlawful for any one to sell pools or futures in the State of Georgia. The last pro hibitiou seems to have stirred up the men who keep so called exchanges, better known as “bucket shops.” They propose to test the constitutionality of the act in Ibe courts, and to that end have, em ployed counsel to look after what they call their righls. It was not the intention of the author of the bill to include futures in the list of prohibited occupations; the enemies of the measure added on that clause in the hope of making it more un popular, when to their supprise the legis lature passed the whole thing. The people of Athens should realize and appreciate the municipal race now being waged in this City. The Citizens Ticket is compos 'd of men, good and true, and deserves not only a good but a hearty sup poit. Rouse up, men of Athens 1 and help elect representative men to fill your city offices I Where in Athens can you fiud a better man than Reaves ? He rose from the ranks; aud by his own indomitable energy and industry has made himseff a tower of commercial strength and hones ty. It ought to Lie a pleasure to endorse such a man for the offlea of Mayor of Athens. The Classic City Street Railroad Co., of Athens, Ga., previously reported, have awarded the contract for building thcii road to James G. Scott.— Manufacturers Record. The above notice may be news to some of our people. It looks as if the Classic City Street Railrosfl Company does not really care sos our citizens to subscribe, or to put it a little difierently, the managers have awarded the contract for building the road, and intend to do so whether the necessary amount of stock is placed or not. We are glad of this, for under this arrangement we may get a street railroad. Os Rabun county, Ga-, it is said that: “Thousands of bushels of fine apples are now rotting on the ground for want of a market, more than even the hogs can de al roy ; they have bins of rye and corn, and all manner of mountain produce for sale, but cannot afford to haul it over the mountains. Every week new veins of asbestos, mica and otjier minerals are dis. covered, but this hidden wealth cannot be utilized for the want of transportation. Rabun, while a mountainous county, boasts vast tracts of alluvial valleys, her hill-sides grow apples to great perfection, and even the ridges yield tobacco tip to their peaks. It only lacks the developing touch of a railroad to lay this vast trade into the’ commercial lap of Georgia.” Rabun county may have magnificent re sources U»«» wjgd transnort itioi: fscil itfes to develop them, but it will be a long time before capitalists will invest mone,’ in building railroads in that State, unless the Georgia railroad laws are modified. — | Baltimore Manufacturers Record. And it may be added to this so far as Rabun county is concerned that its mag nificent resources must be mainly devel oped by extending the Northeastern Rail road to Clayton. In the extension of the Northeastern rests the only hope of rail road connection for Rabun county in years. God grant that its citizens may have an early realizatiou of their only hope, for Rabuu needs development more than any county in the Slate 1 OUR LAST REQUEST OF THE BANNER WATCHMAN. We have only one thing more to say to our esteemed morning contemporary on the subject of the junketing trip to Co lumbus, and then in all Lumau probability the subject is with the Banner-Watchman. That paper has sought to justify the trip by naming four very prominent citizens and business men who were upon the committee. This committee of four that the Banner-Watchman has named is be yond all question four exceedingly respec table citizens—not only that they arc partners in four of the leading mercantile houses in the city. Now their names are all right, but suppose for a change the Banner-Watchman gives the public the names of the rest of the Committee who went to Columbus, —the others who do some of this representing of the city’s great interests and trade. It is unfair to make four respectable aud leading citizens shoulder the entire responsibility in the matter. The Chronicle along with quite a number of others would like to know the balance of the committee who at the ex pense of the tax payers of Athens secured the inestimable advantages which will accrue from the early and rapid completion of the Georgia Midland. The Banner- Watchman likes to give news to its read ers, will it not humor us iu this matter? OUR MONEYED MEN AND OUR NEW ENTERPRISES. We have in our midst a certain class of people who are disposed to censure our capitalists and moneyed men for a failure to invest in the uew enterprises which from time to time are started here. This class of citizens is a numerous one and is not confined exclusively to Athens, but is found in every city and town in the coun try. They seem to think that because a man has money it is his duty as a citizen to invest liberally in every new underta king and advance with his means every new enterprise that is originated. They seem to forget that the capitalist and the moneyed men are not the ones who will be benefitted by these new undertakings. They overlook that the capitalist is very frequently a retired business nma who lias sought the quiet of private life for the very reason that he has gotten together enough of the worlds goods to enable him to live in ease and comfort tne remainder of liis days. He frequently does not care to reach out in his later years into schemes and enterprises whose success is proble malical and a happy termination of which he cannot hope to live to see. The men who must develop the resources of a com munity, the meu to whom we must look for active and material help in underta kings of a public nature, are the live, real business men of the city. It is to their interest more than to the int'Test of any class that tin se enterprises are originated, and they are the ones who wili be materi ally and greatly benefitted thereby. Take the enterprises that h ive been started in Athens during the past five years, can any reasonable man expect the capitalists of this town to come forward and put their money into these schemes ? Take the long contemplated railroad to Jeff- rson I What was in this enterprise to commend it to the moneyed men of Athens? True the road would have materially strength ened the city’s Hade, but does any one suppose it would have paid anything like a fair interest on the money invested ? Who would have been benefitted by this road ? The mercantile interests of the city. But is it reasonable, or just, or to be expected that the moneyed men of this towu or any other town will btnld a rail road which will benefit one class and yield no safe return to those owning and opera ting il ? Now this has been the position of every new enterprise that has been or iginated here, aud the relation the capi talists have borne to these enterprises bus been the relation just discussed. Can any one therefore blame these gentlemen for keeping their money in their pockets. They would certainly be very foolish to expend their money in furthering schemes from which they could not expect to real ize any profitable return especially after they haVe already passed the meridian of life and are now descending the hill on the other side. The men who must build up this town are the business men ; they are the ones who have brought the city to its present point of commercial prosperity, and if Athens is to be carried further on they arc the ones who must needs do it. They have nobly and gallantly carried the buiden so far, its weight has grown heav ier with each succeeding year, aud ofteu uines they have feet weary and prone to lie down by the wayside, but if our city is to keep apace with the times and especi ally abreast of her sister citiesit needs be that the burden must be carried on and if necessary an additional weight added. Atlanta’s po-ilion to day in the rank of Southern cities is due entirely to the ener gy and liberality of the mercantile class. Her chamber of commerce has been the lying iu chamber and nursery of every enterprise started there; her business men wi re the sponsors. Il must be so here, the . sooner we realize it the better, and tl.e sooner we make up our minds to become . responsible for these enterprises the sooner they will be completed. When a man buys a good interest paving bond it may i be said that that money will never be ; turned loose to aid any enterprise. The wealth of many of our capitalists consists of these good interest paying bonds aud he who expects to see tin se bonds put up as ;• s curity for the success of any enterprise to eternal disappointment. The Jituatiou lure is as we have written, and 4>e proper realization of these facts will do ®iuJu to haimonizle the relation between I and ne<v eio .j priseai f ') AND THEY WILL, TO O. i The Legislature of Georgia, by its fail ure to pass the bill modifying the powers of the railroad commission, has warned i capitalists not to invest their money in any railroad enterprise in that State. It is strange, indeed, that so many members of the Georgia Legislature should be lost to ■ all sense of justice and right as to seek to confiscate the property of others. The $70,000,000 invested in railroads in that State are virtually under the sole control of an irresponsible commission, having no in terest whatever in this vast properly. Ti.e owners of these roads, that have been in strumental in developing the resources of Georgia, have no control over their own property. It is a monstrous work of in justice and dishonesty, and is a disgrace to any State that will enact such laws. It is to be hoped that an appeal will now be made to the people direct, and we believe that their decision will be on the side of right. If they, too, should decide that railroads have no rights in Georgia (though we feel sure they will not) then indeed will Georgia cease to attract the favorable at tention of capitalists, and will be folly to look for any further railroad building in that State.— Manufacturers Record. This is just what we have held all along. The people in their light and might will see to it that this evil is corrected. SOCIETY IN ATHENS BEFORE THE WAR. THE INFLUENCE OF THE COLLEGE, DR. CHURCH, AND THE FACULTY.—SOCIAL CUSTOMS, WEDDINGS, &C.—THE REASON WHY THE CHANGE H/tS COME ABOUT. Perhaps no city in the South before the war was as famous for its cultured society and refined and hospitable homes as the town of Athens. The seat of Franklin College, the University of Georgia, it bad the peculiar charm of being not only a college town with the advantages which this fact assures, but it was also the re siding place of many eminent and illus" trious Georgians famous throughout the South for their great mental endowments and extraordinary social powers. The golden era of Athens was during the time when ALONZO CHURCH WAS COLLEGE PRESIDENT, and the famous social structure revolved about the Chancellor’s bouse as its natural centre. That bouse was a f amous home all over Georgia. Its gifted head had pre sided over the education of many of the State's most illustrious sons, and every Commencement time the boys, grown into distinguished men, would return to reuew their allegiance to the old colb ge and pass in review once more bi fore its venerable and popular executive. Tnere was a very potential reason why Dr. Church’s hospit able board was so popular—as three as lovely and winsome women as ever sculp tor’s hand fa-hioned or poet dreamed of were among its inmates, and no wonder that their presence attracted the social gatherings that made his home so pleasant. To a student, it was considered au espe c ally good piece of fortune to be able to secure board at the Doctor’s hospitable ta ble, and as tin- accommodations ot his resi dence limited bins as to the number of youug men wuom he could entertain in this planner, these few places were eagerly sought for mid greatly esteemed when ob tained. The late Dr. Heniy Hull, in his in- teresting sketches of Athens at an earlier period in its history, writes most pleasantly of the society of the towu as it was then constituted. Though a very small place in 1820, the city in the fifties had grown to be something of a town, and it was more particularly of the town in the latter years of Dr. Chuich’s reign that we write. Not long since in Atlanta we were talking to a State repiesentative, whose vigorous mind and prolific ringlets of hair make him a prominent object in the House, and he was recalling the years passed here as a student. As be would go over each incident of the long ago, recalling the episodes and casual ties of college life, how so and so stabbed so and s.> in a fight on the campus, and how blank shot blank for an insult, he re marked that perhaps “WE DID NOT HAVE SUCH DAYS HERE NOW ?” Sadly confessing that they had long since become memories, he went on to de scribe the social pleasures of the day, and how the balls and parties beginning at dusk would end when the peep of day looked at the world over the edge of the horizon. The man remembered even the dresses that the girls wore, though the time was over thirty years ago, and could re call, with an exactness that showed how ph asant the life had been to him, even the conversation that had happened with a re markable correctness. Many famous peo ple lived here then, and the society of the town was inseparably connected with the society of the University. Ech was de pendent upon the other for mutual enjoy ment—not like it is now, whire there is really but one, and that thoroughly inde pendent of and almost entirely different from that of the other. To one accustomed now to the many conveniences and com forts of modern society, the old fashioned WAY OF LIVING DOES NOT STRIKE US PLEASANTLY, and yet those half-century oaks who in dulged in the one in their youth, and have seen enough of the other in their old age to judge of its perfections and imperfec tions, they would uot for all the gold and gems of Golconda exchange the old for the new. It is hard for the younger generation to understand how a lady thirty or forty years ago in paying a friend a social visit could remain all day, and it is not within the compass of the reasoning powers of the average young man these days to see how in the long ago a fellow could have galloped across the country twenty miles to see a young lady, stay a couple of days, return home, and repeat the visit within tea days, and have nothing but friendly C incern for iiis female acquaintance. All the social entertainments of old Athens be gan in the afternoon, and were generally over by nine o’clock. Teas, parties, and ballls, though frequently the latter were cinjried.on all night, were completed by earky bed time. This was in a time when, it must be remembered, college students tumbled out of bed at daylight, attended prayers by candle-light almost, and were generally nearly through their day’s labors by twelve o’clock. Just think of one of the present set of students staudiue a cold winter’s morning at five o’clock listening to the reading of the Bible in the college chapel, and you call up a p cture the miseiy of whose contemplation makes you shud der with dread. My pleasant acquaintance of representa tive honors was telling me of a WEDDING THAT OCCURRED FORTY YEARS AGO HERE, where the high contracting parties were prime favorites in,the best of society. The bride’s father was a man of large wealth— his slaves were 1 umerous, bis acres were broad, and his home, far and near, was celebrated for princely hospitality. The groom was a dashing young fellow, who afterwards fell at Manassas with the epiu -1 ttes of a Colonel on his shoulders. The wedding was to take place on a Thursday. By Tuesday at noon almost the entire company bad assembled; there was sixty extra head of horses in the stable, and fif teen or sixteen family carriages in the coach bouse. The bride’s parents ENTERTAINED THE WHOLE COMPANY FOR TWO DAYS before the wedding occurred. It was one round of feasting and merriment; the house was open all the while; so many young people had assembled that many of the young men slept in the carriages, giv ing up the house to the entire entertain ment of the ladies. The wedding took place, all went as merry as a marriage bell, and the exigencies of the occasion wt-re so great and pressing that the husband was compelled to pass the night, or that portion of it which remained, with his friends in oue of their improvised bed-chambers on wheels. We don’t have such weddings these days; there is a flutter of gilded paste-board, and all is as stately as cere mony and frigidity can make it. Alter the wedding, even when the young cou ple had departed, the festivities were kept up, and it was not until Saturday that the hospitable home fell back into its ordinary run of life. The men and women of old Athens were of a more pronounced literary character and taste than their successors, though the present society is cultured and refined to a high degree. But then the advantages were different, and the inducement to be that way more potential than it now is.— There was no commeicial or meicantile element at all in the community, there were not half a dozen stores, and the stock in trade of all together would uot make one-half the size of some of our present establishments. The people were purely a literary people, everything binged about the college, the professors were big men iu their own and other people’s estimation, and the College President was a man more respected than the Governor. The towu has grown beyond a mere college town, it has made the campus a kind of historic spot in its centre to which, on stated yearly occasions, it pays tribute. But that is all. Chancellor and professors have lost muclj of the old time prestige, aud while big men yet in their way and kind, do nc.t com maud from the city the same allegiance they did when the city was a village of a thousand or more peopie. Many of out great names have be?i) swept away by the ruthless band of, war, aud the still more insatiable destroyer Death. Families have been broken gp ; daughters have married, and are dqw shining lights in households in oll)<;r cities ; sons huw sought fortune NUMBER 43 and fame in other paits of this and other States; many are away in the great West, swallowed up in the tide of European im migration. The place has lost much of its social charm of other days, but yet after ill, it is a rare place. There is no be’t'T to be found in Georgia,orif need be.in the whole South; and if the old time gentlemen can not commend our modern lite as entirely woithy to be ranked along with old time existence, they cannot deny that we have, in many ways, as much real enjoyment as they did in the days over which they sigh and shake their heads with a motion that is peculiarly melancholy and sad. A NEW CLUB. Some of the gentlemen of the city of pronounced literary tastes and ability have recently organized a social and literary club, fashioned somewhat after the famous Wednesday Club of Baltimore. The ob ject of the organization is to afford social and literary amusement and lecreution to the members, their families, and friends, and to this end itis proposed to meet twice each month at some member’s residence, or any other place the club may select, and pass an eveniug in listening to original articles upon popular subjects, in scientific and literary discussions, in musical rendi tions, recitations, and every form of enter tainment in the nature of such a club to give. The names of those who are mem bers guarantees the success of the organi zation, and we predict that the Club will soon become one of the fixed institutions of the city, and one of the most popular.— Col. Cbarbonnier is the presiding aud Prof. Charles Morris the recording officers, while Prof. H. C. White, Mr. A. L. Hull, and Geo. D. Thomas, Esq., constitute the executive committee. SOME REFLECTIONS UPON THE TRIAL OF BECK. We do not know that Eugene Beck eve • crossed our path in life. We do not re member to ever have heard of him before his late unfortunate connection with the courts of the State. We are certain we do not kuow him, and we are equally sure that we are earnest in our hope that he has made his peace with mankind, and ar ranged his pardon with God. The recent trial of Beck, in the county of Rabun, for the most diabolical of mur ders, has demonstrated one fact—that it is very easy, or a matter of comparative little trouble for one guilty of the most heinous offences known to the law to escape capital punishment. The ingenuity of counsel, the tendency of the medical profession to theorize and speculate as to the sanity or insanity of a man's mind, aud the stupidity aud ignorance of the average jury to swal low and digest the most absurd of state ments, all make it a matter of comparative ffllle difficulty to acquit the most hardened cjiminal of any crime kbown to the law. Take Bick’s case, for example. Here was a man who, for years and years, had drank liquor to excess, and no one bad ever made the charge against him that he was an insane man. He had been a man of property; during the time of his dissipa tion, be disposed "of much of that property iu the usual and ordinary ways, and no one, by reason of liis insanity so-called, had ever called into question the legality of his acis. Not even his relatives, those in terested by the basest of motives had they been so disposed, the ones who could have been materially benefitted by disputing his sanity and thus calling into question the legality of bis dispositions, not one of these ever supposed Eugene Beck insane! During all the yeais of his life he had been permitted the utmost liberty of speech and action. No one ever desired to hold beside him others responsible for his lan guage, and no one ever hoped to circum scribe, by legal means, the liberty of his action. No oue then considered him in sane. But as soon as his iunate depravity or his continued and continuous career of dissipation induces him to commit a crime whereby bis life is endangered, here come a host of people ready to swear Eugene Beck an idiot, maniac, or demon, from birth. And when brought to trial for the mur der of a loving wife and affectionate sister in-law—a murde that has no parallel io criminal history in this Biate for consuin maie deviltry of conception and execution, a jury of his couutrymen, either through ignorance, or from what cause, declare him iusane enough to escape banging, and be confined for his natural life in the pern, tentiary of the Commonwealth. If the man was insane enough to excuse capital pun ishment for this double murder, surely he was insane enough to be sent to the asylum instead of to the penitentiary. What a travesty upon justice 1 And yet, year by year, this insanity ques tiou continues to be the leading defense of counsel in these extreme cases of crime and deviltry, and, as the records show, too' often is successful I Is not something wrong with our jury system or our courts when in this century of euligbtemeut and education such crimes can be committed iu the name of justice? HENRY GRADY, ON THE OLD FASHIONED HOG KILLING DAYS] Before the spring comes again I am going to an old fashioned country hog killing. I don’t know where, but somewhere. Where there there is a rambling old house. A yard with big trees in it. A long lane with cherry trees. A clear spring branch with a milk house set across it, A horse loi, a cow lot, a corn orib, and a barn. Near liy a row of negro cabins, guarded by flop eared hounds. Inside the houses yawning fire place, with a wood fire, and a feather Led that you climb into. There I shall find myself some night this winter. There after a frugal supper, eaten while the clucking chickens awkwardly flutter into the trees, I shall tuck myself in the feather bed. There I shail sleep while the stars sow the glistening frost, and await the strenuous winding of the horn that summons all hands to the fires that curl about the scalding kettles. That far will Igo in all despite. What shall follow, depends. Whether I shall find it in my bones to caper about the Hinging' kettles, and toast hands no chubby in the leaping flings, and etiaso tila-lders down the frosty wi ids—depends. Wliether I shall rush foi my share of pig tails roasted in the honest embers, and eat in open air the hastily cooked tidbits, glo rious foretaste of the later fatty bread and spare-ribs—depends. Whether I shall sluff myself to repletion on sau’Sge redolent of sage, or gouge with im|»ati>-nt finger the the marrow from the backbones, gorge on cracklings and on brains, and turn with appetite still uncloyed to the humble but not»to-be-sneezed-at ehittcrlings—depends. Whether, even, I shall look with more than casual concern at the patient house wife as she renders the lard into snow white flakes, or lisun with less than impa tience to the broken gasps and sighs of the over-<ctiokvd sausage mill, or look with less than awe on the dimly lighted smoke house with its smoky rafters, the rich lontn of its floor and its odorous pit wiiti its smother d fire of wbiteoak chips—all this depends on how much of the keenness and freshness of boyhood I may have carried into man’s estate. It may be that I will be bored. The morning air may give me a hroochial touch : the smoke may blind and the fu-ss confound ; I may turn away hungry from the ash begrimed delicacies, aud find no joy or profit in this semi-barbaric festival of the South. At any event lam going to try it. I shall take with me a youngster who still fiuds natural processes the best, and whose stomach still dreams it is im mortal. For his sake, if my own interest fails, I shall go the whole hog, aud eat myself into greasy indigestion. How colorless do the raaple-sugar and hop-picking festivals of the north stand out against Ibis rich and picturesque frolic of the old plantation. Does the fierce ex citement of the scalding, the stabbing, the bkeding and the rich food have its influ ence in quickening the tastes of our boys, as the slow dripping juices of the maple and the pastoral quiet of the sugar-bee may moderate the transports of the boys across the snow line? I have a friend whose hobby it is to eat a roadside meal once more. “I must do it," be says, “ouce more before I die. I must drive all the morning, aud stop at uoon near a woodside spring. I must then unhitch aud feed my horses, open a cheese box, take out the bock end of a boiled ham, cut slices with my pocket knife, take out a bottle of milk, spread a cloth on the grass, and eat ham, chicken, sardines, pickles and a peach turn-over, and then,” glancing doubtfully at bis ald> rmanic figure, “get on my knees aud drink my belly full of waler out ot the spring. I must eat one more roadside dinner before I die I Aud my friend,” earnestly this was said, “I’d give a thousand dollars if I thought that oue dinner would taste as it tasted thirty years ago!” ED UCA TION IN A USTRIA. The system carried out in Vienna for educating girls is certainly worthy of no tice. They are kept at their studies until they are fifteen years of age. They then go thiough a course of teaching in the pantry aud the kitchen under some mem ber of the family, or sometimes under trained cooks for a year- or two. Thus they learn to do everyting themselves sul to know the value ot things long before they commence housekeeping on their own account, and though they may never be required to cook a dinner, they.become independent of cooks and servants. Tne Austrian women are most affectionate wives and mothers. They are as accom plished and learued as an English gover ness, are as witty in society as a Parisian, aud are some of the most beautiful wo men iu Europe. “SETTING VP THE PILLS." “Give me a pill and a pony of brandy.” The speaker was a well-dressed man, who bad stepped up to the bar in one of the largest liquor saloons up towu. The bar tender banded out a large white pill, tbe size of a big marrowfat pea, and poured out the brandy. The customer took a gulp of brandy, a drink of water, and walked away. “What was that pill ?” a Tribune repor ter, who had watched the proceedings, asked of the bar-tender. “Quinine,” was tbe short reply. “Do you do a dtug-store business f” in quired tbe reporter. The bar-tender looked curiously at the questioner, and then said : “We sell lots of quinine. If we did not keep it our customers would go to the drug store for their liquor as well as their quinine. It would do no good to dick, so we set up the pills. Quinine to a cetain extent acts on the system like liquor. Men who drink much or go in for any excite ment until the ordinary stimulants fail to operate on their nervous system, often take to quinine, opium or its compounds chloral, übsinthe, and so on. No, we don't keep opium or chloral. We’ve begun on quinine. That’s enough for the present. AH SIN PL A I'B ANOTHER CUTE TRICE. A clergyman’s wife, says the New York Tribune, was telling of her experience with Chinese pupils in tbe mission schools. “ Christianity,” she said, “is so new to them that, when they embrs « it, they do so with great earnestness. There is no half-way work with them, and they are more strict in small matters than American Christians. We bad some of them at a church sociable a few nights ago, and we bad at supper some candles which are rolled up in paper with printed couplets inclosed—some of them extremely silly. The Chinese boys read them, and looked surprised at seeing such things served in a church parlor, but were too polite to say anything about them. Soon afterward they gave an entertainment, and tbe same sort of candles were provided; but when we unrolled the papers, we found they bad taken out the foolish verses and had sub stituted texts of Scripture printed on little slips of paper. Son e of us felt that we had received a well-deserved rebuke.” The Georgia Legislature has defeated a Civil Rights Bill, only three colored mem. bers supporting it Reports from Savannah indicate that the rice crop has suffered materially from the recent rains. Heavy storms occured Tuesday in tbe East, causing much damage to property along the sea coast. Archbishop Tacharau, of Quebec is mentioned as the probable successor of the lale Cardinal McCloskey. Surgeon Gene al Hamilton says that tbe danger of a cholera invasion of tbe United States has passed for the present