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The Advance. -J /. IIIXON, W. O. SLLI IVAN, . EI2C1T a SULLIVAN, EDJ rollsPUBIS IL Elis. TERMS,—One Dollar per Year. “ S.xty Cents fer Six Months. Watkinsville,. Ga. : WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1"". Editorial and Otherwise. Mississippi has 1,441 convicts. The Nashville races begin April 21th. There is a reaction in the iron . There is an old saying that “leap year is fruit year.” Cheyenne, March 13.—An active volcano is reputed near Brown’s }>ark. The personal estate of the late A. K Borie, of Philadelphia, aggregates *1,140,661. Jug not, that you he not jugged, as the judge remarked to the Ubu lofls vagrant. Ex-Governor lledle, of New Jcr r-PV comes out strong for Mr. Tilden for i’resident. Gladstone tells Europe that the plough-ahare must take the place .if the sword. The Cm is supposed to he writ¬ ing a book entitled, “Every Man Ifis Own I'yrotecic.” The excursion to Cincinnati over , fh, new line of railroad, left the city of Atlanta on the lfith instant M s. Kay, of Logan iy ivy ,; ve birth to a hoy, on the Kith ofhust month, wemhinu forty-seven pounds. So the papers say. ln presenfalivo W. 1>. Kelley, of Khiladelphia, predicts that no fund in;: bill will be passed at tho present session of Congress. Adulteration is so prevalent in tin* liquor trade that several Demo¬ cratic Congressmen have expressed a desire to swap their iron-clad ouths for iron-clad stomachs. Groat loss has been caused by the protracted snow-ldockade along the line of the Northern Pacific Rail¬ road. No mail has been received at Bismarck since the Wth of Februrry, Wheat fields, near Dahlonogn, have been literally destroyed by a worm, in shape like lint common cut worm. Homo farmers are sow¬ ing their entire fields in spring Oats. A negrt man seventy years old committed suicide in Columbus the other day. Wo suppose it was a love affair, or may be the use of tobacco, that caused Ids untimely death. Boys, why will you use the poisonous weed f It is said *t Wilhelmj’s farewell concert in San Francisco, lie was presented with a box containing a gold cup, a gold shield, on which was a violin handsomely engraved and enamelled, and a certificate of stock valued at $2,000. A wreath of laurels embellished with German colors and a cage with a canary bird, were also presented to the great vio¬ linist. A Lake Without Water. About fifteen miles northwest from Reno, to the right of the Su aanville road, lies the bed of an old lake which is different from any¬ thing to be found elsewhere. The lake could never have been more than eight or ten feet deep, as the bottom is very flat. Instead of be¬ ing the ordinary sandy soil which washes in from the banks, this bed is more like India rubber than earth. It is of a grayish color, quite tenacious, and has a hard, smooth surface, over which a carriage runs as smoothly along as it would over a carpeted floor. The material is somewhat elastic, and would make a race course where Ft. Julian or harus would trot a miie in about two minutes. The farmers in th e neighborhood have given the place the name of Alkali Lake, although there has been no water there r x cept in the spring, for twelve rears The California line runsjust west mi the lake, and the Susanville road cuts across a corner where it is quite dry and free from mud. The wheels cut in after a time and create a very fine and pen* Dating dust ■*# * Now is the time to subscribe to Tut; Advance. Only a year. NOTICE. Our readers will no doubt notice a typographical error in our head¬ ing this w ek. This error was not noticed till too late to correct. We i assure you this shall not be the case ' ar ‘- v more> Colored J uries. Since the decision of the Supreme Court with respect to the exclusion | of colored men from the juries, Fed¬ eral Judge Lives, of Virginia, has remanded to the State authorities ' the whom he had , illegally r ' r f° taken V™oner» out of the Stale Courts after they had been convicted of murder, and has also issued writs I f° r the arrest of Judge Coles and j other State Judges who have been indicted in bis Court for excluding -colored men from juries. Under the decision of the Supreme Court, the Legislatures of Maryland and West ■ Virginia will have to change their jury laws, in order to preserve the jurisdiction of their own State Courts. In Maryland the law re¬ quires that juries shall be drawn from taxable white male inhabi tanls, and a similar law is in opera¬ tion in West Virginia. So far as the indictment and ar¬ rest of Judge Coles and tho other Virginia Judges arc concerned, it practically amounts to nothing save to extend the power of the Federal Government. While the Supreme Court has decided that such an in dictment will lie, it is absolutely im¬ possible to secure a conviction thereunder until it is proven that theSt;,U; Judges intended to exclude colored men from the jury-box on account of their race, color, or pre¬ vious condition of servitude. If it ,, rr ,, i, ... fAqyjriflj, colored men u> be >!., * upon juries, there would be no difficulty in giving force and effect t« decision of me Court; but there is no such w. The law, as it stand: u. <:cr the uaa , • .elusion merely says that negro*, hhall not bo cx eluded because they are negroes. In drawing juries there must be some discretion somewhere, and tliero is no law by which this dis¬ cretion can either bo interpreted or questioned. While, therefore, those who have this discretion may he subject to the annoyance of indict¬ ment and trial, they cannot be con¬ victed, even though they exclude all colored men. Conviction can only follow proof or nvowel to the effect that tho negHHS ware excluded be¬ cause of their race, color or previous condition of servitude. No citizen has the right to complain because ho was not drawn upun a jury, and no class of citizens cau justly complain be¬ cause (hey are ignored. Thejudgo must have discretion. Juries may be drawn upon which t! "re arc no merchants, or farmers, nr printers, or tailors, or tinners, or members of any other trade or profession ; but no citizen is wronged, and no citizen feels aggrieved became the particu¬ lar class to which he belongs is left out of tho jury-box. Colored men can bo excluded from juries with¬ out violation of tho law, under the decision of the Supremo Court, uu less the obvious causo of their ex¬ clusion is their race or color, and Judge Hives’s attempt to convict tho Virginia Judges amounts to nothing. This view of tho case is clearly and exhaustively set forth in the dissenting opinion of Judge Field .—Atlanta ConstilulUn March V,2th. The Sunday Phonograph, Of Atlanta, is the best weekly paper published in the State. It's col¬ umns contain something to please everybody. attacking It is ofiicanl a bold, fearless paper, high and low places. corruption It is in a the good family paper in every sense of word, and we advise our read¬ ers to subscribe for it, if they want a specimen good paper from the capital. A copy can bo seen at this office. Terms, §2 per year; $1 six months; 60 cents for three months. Address, Phonograph, Atlanta, Ga. A Dublin newspaper, speaking of the famine in Ireland, remarks : “A number of deaths are unavoida bly postponed.” The editor of that sheet, ought to edit a country paper in Georgia; so when death stared him in the face, he'd never lose au opportunity to get an item, The only dit; -cnee between a pig making a glut f itself, and a lr *an making a j . .. himself is, that thc at d:l >' l 'e 0 “ m1 ' ♦ • ♦ — "Your kindness will ever livens a greens-pot in my memory,” said the tra: > as he fished Up the last col Lsr .if out of the pot-liquor. • * * Next to her own love affair a girl is interested in somebody vise's love chair. Food for Thought. with It is dangerous for women to play eoui.-s. hut Blushing in youth ill. is nothing else the fear to do If you act with a view to praise only, you deserve none. None but the contemptible are ap¬ prehensive of scorn. Censure is the tax a man pays the public for being eminent. The wounded heart heals, but the scar remains forever. When reason ds-agUnst a man, a man will ins against reason. The higher up the mountain you cimb, the higher you can gee. Next to space hope is the most boundless thingdn all creation. The man lacks moral courage who treats when he should retreat. . Absence destroys trifling inti¬ macies but it invigorates strong ones safe Prosperity unless seems to be scarcely it is mixed with a little adversity. Success Las a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the deeds of men. To be really and truly indepen¬ dent's to support ourselves by our own exertions. Make a man think he is more cunning than yourself, and you can easily outwit him. Most of the evils of life are not the tilings which happen, hut the things we fear will happen. Absence destroys small passions and increases great ones, as wind blows out tapers and kindles fires. An able man shows his spirit by gently is neither words hot and resolute timid. actions; he nor Never reflect on a past action which was done with a good motive and the best judgment at the time. It is exisy to pick holes in other people’s profitable work, but it is far more to do bettbr \york yourself. lu the treatment of nervous cases ho is the Lest physician who is the most, We ingenious inspirer of hope. self begotten can sympathize even with the sorrows of our fellow beings without excusing or endors ing No their follies and faults. amount of praise to God will go so far in the purchase of salvation as the simple; application of a pair of shoe'' >'i the haro feet of a poor boy. li wo cannot succeed in organiz¬ ing charity, we can at least awaken an interest in the subjects that will arouse individual 1 T rf end help to P“" . I’l... : j O* Ojf 1. ti ■ on top ol tlio woraer. C>id bachelors are credited with having a iniss-shun in this world, but it is very rarely you find an old maid who has a inan--slnm. NEW Al»YKltTISKMENTS. NOW IS YOUR chance: — To 1.XC1JA.NUE — C0RN™MEAL- 1 will keen at the store of J. 0 . FODDBILL, COHN MISAL for SALE OR EXCHANGE , (R pounds of Meals for 56 pnunds of Corn. Persons coining TO TOWN, can bring their Corn and get their Meal Without Delay Highest CASH prices paid for g-iia.in\ HENRY JENNINGS. marl7,l>>0-tf II. C. lluriiaan 5 Dealer in Confectioneries,Cigars, Candies, Crackers, FANCY GOODS. 10 Watkinsville, Ga. mar Washington Gazette. rLBLlSHEI) AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL Every Sunday, a full resume of dig preced.ng week news c4 S.w. A* U'V*v>iaid geucrabl iuttUiucuce. the 0 »{r Kepie^euiaKiie Soutli^ru i‘r t xs theresuftvrthe National Democracy Edited by GEORGE C. WEDDERBURN or VIRGINIA. r-.vo Cellars, per Asrtsia. no l or further particulars. ad¬ dress, * v> n : t\ c* *'<•« API*, >» .itJtivr/i V 2t PROSPECTUS -OF THE ADVANCE. - -mmm .1 Weekly Paper Devoted to The Intcrsts of The People. Published Weekly at WATKINSVILLE, OCONEE COUNTY, GEORGIA. THE ADVANCE, THELARGEST.IHEBEST, 1 i c mmbmi Utu\ bYilfL/’ 11 Ji, 7 txiisses*" Hi t::r:x:\r EXTBA Iisrr) IT c EM M JSTTS OFFERED LIBERAL ADVERTISERS. i\ 8 .'U’-'T.’El f cmzsr - i We are prepared to do all kinds of of JOB WORK at short notice on the most REASONABLE TERMS. Cards, Letter Heads, Circulars, BILL HEADS, ENVELOPES, &C. Call on l m s lor rinythinQ in Cur Line. Address. IIIXOX 4 8CLLIVAN, Watkinsville, Ga, SPRING OPENING 188*! At the Store of Watlviiisville, Ga We will fill our shelves and counters in a few days with the choicest Stock of GQ & 1 ■5 : t 3 oo that has ever before been offered in Oconee county. Why do the Oeor.tr ladies look so sweet in the# new Spring dresses ? Because iliev buv thci CALICOS irom THOMAS BOOTH & 00, We are frequently asked why our Prints look so much nicer th.O others ? We answer because we buy none but the best and most reiiabF brands. We propose to sell our entire stock at :U_r*3H JJjHjHj rr^ g j 3K34 ha. pH Iws^H V. ’ r MS3J2; St To our old customers who have paid up promptly 1 s ' zv. Stewffi3ataiaBa| |aBgari^as?s«^ psaa pEH i k .. --- EESYS1 EafLua lu3E2E.i | as low as they can be bought anywhere. Our motto in future will be as it ever has been,‘ Honesty and fair dealing with everybody.” Call and seb us before von buy elsewhere. marlO THOS. BOOTH & CO., Watkinsville, Ga. JAMES R MURRAY. I. W. THRASHER. ^rrrnr «fe Thrasher, ie * / DEALERS IN DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, BOOTS. SHOES, HATS, &c. Groceries, ' Paints, Oils, ' Drugs. C * ' 1KDICU. &C S' ft ARDWA n 7 V § I 9 l? I ■ 4 X We have also on hand all goods kept in a retail store, at LOWEST CASH PRICES All wishing articles in our Ike will do well to call before Purchasing Elsewhere ! We also on hand constantly a full line of READY-MADE CLOTHING, at prices that defy competition em i rsd ' I! M $ $ y 2 ’d. : j£r** ! i r mm soda eMail Don’t fail to eall when you come to WATKINSVILLE Country produce taken IN EXCHASE FOR GOODS AT MARKET PRICES, marlO ORDER YOUR Saw Mills and Grist Mills, and Cane Mills - MMhinery, Engines and Boiler;, Cottei. Mm m . tearing (cheap), Judson Governors, . eular Saws and Gammers s Distou’s C. and Files. Beltimr m Gbb *...... Che* k tT ^ >* Castings and Gin Ribs from Etc., Iron and Bra - GEO. R. LOMBARD A CO., FOREST CITY FOUNDRY WORKS, Near Water Tower.) 170 Fenwick Street, AUGUSTA. y¥.< )RGIA. &3“ Repaired promptly done