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-VOL. 4.-N0 13.] Ms. Tilden's tailor bill averages |3,000 a year. Gerster likes garlicky and onion seasoned dishes. Sitting 801 l is leading a quiet life with bis foils, at Randall, Da kota. Bill Astor with Ida trillions was defeated *“ Me* Vork. The country irt safe. *—'t' Corkhill and andMr 8/Mlte ooti'.irwe m quar rel over the vagabond Gitteau. Shades of Moses ! The plea is set up that the prosecution of Flip per is persecution. President Arthur appointed tbe 24th instant as a day of nation al thanksgiving. Turkey mer chants take notice. Water is always willing to com promise, but it gets Insubordinate the moment you begin to temporize —-Mltfldt. See our streets after a heavy reiki A newbfapeV uwrrespondent was mistaken by a prominent man for a preacher the other step. This should teach correspondents not to be flirting with every woman they ndeet. Staub robbers are in demand .in In fact, they are held in high esteem chat the Stale Mp.j.jrt, the other day, to board one fa for ninety nine years. ,o " ra i» w y er of * otne ■■actiee k now serving as l-c-in- fireman on the Chicago, Bur- and Quincy Railroad, and BWphys cian of twelve years' prae " cure io rtlimg a* freight ooaduotor or the same road. wcvLu* of » (Jf.loagA fun oral says that the burial caske. “was made te conform as far as possible with ths oomfort* the occupant was ■aont'to sarround himielf with ia the Lome he has left." The Board of Examiners for the appointment to West Point for the Second Georgia Distriet, Nev* con cluded ihelr laliors and will recom - mend to Mr. Turner’s favorable con sideration Mr. B. 11 Sheffield, of Early county—alternate, Mr. W. L. Taylor, of Tno mas county. Thb Columbus Times says: Gold hunters in upper Georgia are pre. paring to dredge the bed of the river for the gold that is supposed to be lying loose around beneath the waters. When they tu-n the current of the river to A l l anta by the canal, there is no tell'ng wbat oodles of wealth may bo exposed. A Pennsylvania cigar-maker has committed suicide. A c-.se of conscience, probably. Os course ho professed <o make anil sell the best five oent cigar In town, wnich is another insranoe of the universal truth that there’s nothing like leath er—a substance from which the best five cent cigar in town are invaria bly concocted. One cent per mile on the Con- OjElllue of roads will poor a living stream of humanity into Atlanta, and we will remark parenthetically that the road will mi ke money even at that rale. Railroads should en courage the habit of trovel over their lines. It doesn’t cost any mere to haul five hundred people than it does flfly. Edison, the great inventor, is very deaf. He says of himself: “I have never heard the voice of my mventipns (the telephone and pho nograph) ; I am like an artist who draws in the darkness; but I know the principle and the results have got to come out right.” This was the sad case of Beethoven, the great musician. Seven years ago General Gar field wrote in a young clerk’s auto graph album in Washington: “It is strange to think that a little l>ook like this will outlive all those whose names may be written in it. In this the book is a symbol of friend ship which can survive the chances and changes of life, and even life itself. I take pleasure in testifying to my friendship for you, and ex pressing the hope that you may be as happy in life as you deserve to be, and this Is saying a great deal.” SBBMIWwiWRMfc I 7 ~ ' fiutci Bmoci y, Da. Atianu. * < " THE FASHION IN FEET. It is not recorded that Eve was vain of her pretty feet, and yet she must hare been, or how did her daughters inherit such a tendency ? From time immemorial, women have lieen proverbia’ for their at tention to the fool as a thing to lie admired; and men, naturally, have indulged them in it, and helped to stimulate their vanity with ail sorts of neat compliments. A curious chapter might be compiled from the literature which thie<one topic has inspired. The novelists, the poets, the courtiers, of all ages have cele brated the feminine glory of feet— not always sensible, perhaps, nor in the best of taste, but still without offense to the fair owners. We shall not err much, we Chink, to say that the record of observations in this behalf—“footprints on the sands of time” so to s|>eak—would All a volume as bulky as Webster’s Unabridged. The wonder is that so much could be found to say about what, after all, is sojoommon place and mattev-of-Cvurse. Our purpose does not lead in the direction of quoting any of this plentiful stock of sentiment. We tefer to it merely byway of saying that foot-worship is not yet obso lete. In fact, it is asseited that lovely woman ia Just now more mindful than ever befo.e of her ter minations. The prevailing style of short dresses has something to do with it, we may guess; but it is al so true, the sboemake-s assure us, that a pretty loot is much doted upon per se, and in an tesihelic sense, as one cultivates flowers and collects <-ld china. A story is cur rent of a Cinderella who recently caught a husband by having her aiioes exposed aa a sample in a, shop jrindow, and now, the dealnr | Mj s, bis virgin cUßomer* all offer" to lend hlta shoes for s’gos. The handsomest fleet are said Vo be. found among the ladles of New ' Orleans, where smallness and deli- 1 cate plumpness are the rule; the ; nomellest ones, of course, are found ' in Chicago, where the average feet resemble raisin-boxes. It ia no uncommon thing, we are teld, for New York belles to have plaster caste made of their well turned feet for bed-room ornamen ts ; and we have heard of a Boston a.tist who inaugurated a fashion of photo graphing pretty feet in that cultur ed city, and had quite a run of cus tom until the task es adjusting the dainty objects so that they might be taken with “a proper perspective of handle,” as he called it, made such a confusion in his mind ;bat his wife thought be had better sell out and move to Kansas. The standard test of prettiness in feet, we need not sav, relates almost entirely to size. At least it is bard to persuade tne feminine judgment that a foot may be shapely without being diminutive. This rule did not always obtain, and it is far from certain that the canons of art, even in these meretricious days, justify such a limitation. The Greeks, we know, had a different view. Their sculptors taught that the length of the foot should not, far beauty’s sake, be less than one sixth of the length of the body ; and we mav be sure that their wo men never tried to squeeze a num ber-six foot into a number-four shoe. Homer disdains to tell us the size of the foot with which Helen tempt, ed Paris; but it is safe to infe that her sanda! was not too small for the Venus de Medici, whose foot measured nine and three-tenths inches. We suspect that Cleopatra had a foot of ample dimensions, (bough it must have been pretty, too. None of Sbakspeare’s ideal heroines were celebrated for little feet, and yet they knew how to be handsome in all sorts of raiment. The idea of praising a foot for its smallness, without regard to the size of the body, appears to be oj modern origin. We are privi ledged to doubt, indeed If it really antedates the recollection of the oldest inhabitant. Certainly it was not operative a hundred years ago, for our own Martha Washington was noted for her pretty feet, and she ware number Ilves and was not ashamed to say so. It is a waste of space, however, to cite precedents against the rul ing theory. A pretty foot means, first of all, a small one, Recording ATLANTA, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 13, 1881. to present taste. Therefore, our la dy readers will thank us only for such information as shows them how to conquer the greatest quanti ty of foot with the smallest percent age of leather. The fashionable Crispins have numerous devices l>oth for making feet actually small er and for making them merely seems so. A good deal depends, they say, upon the shape and qual ity of the shoe, us well as its color ing and shading. A shoe should fit the foot as a glove lite the hand, and, however light, should not be permitted to rub, for that makes corns and bunions, which are de clared to be “as much of a reproach to a true lady as the deceiving of her dearest frienda without cause.” The same color of shoe must not be worn in daytime and after night if the wearer wishes to'make her foot appear smaller than it is; and as a rule, an evening dress should taper off io shoes of saun or taffeta of a shade to match its own. High heels are often a great help in con cealing the largeness that refuses to be overcome. Ths days are ch'll aud the leaves are falling - Buu>*iier his death note has softly •uag; The b.rd no Io iger Ila mate la calling; Au ikiiii la passing; her glories palling; Ns lo tge-- foe leaves shine golden brown, Ret we, a.ul dreary, Thiougn moan ings eerie Os winds, sad sobbing, a.e drift ing down. The autumn » dying will soon be rung. Gxn. SbCRMAN ho* taken es pecial t.'ouole to snub Sec.etary Lincoln. He ignore* foe orders of the Secietarv, and snap* his fingers in tbe <aee of bi* boss. Sherman, the General of the army, should be punished for insubordination. TuWday New To-k went 10,000 Democratic majoiity, which ia a mighty poor ahuwing for the Km pi re BuU<e. MAasACHdsrrra went overwhelm ingly Republican, aa everybody ex pected. The Cabinet seem* to be disinte grating. Blaine and McVeagh are atloggerbeads. “Ban'l Il.“ A citizea ot De -oiceiivereil a Mich igan avenue g ocei v the o tier day and said he wauled a pdva'e word with foe prop'ie oi. When foev had ietired to tne <le»k he began : ’ “I want to make confeadoa and le pa.alien. Do you remember of my buving sugar here two or three days ago? ' ‘I do." “Well, 'n part ’g for It I wo.ked off a cou-ite'feit quarter on tec'eik. It was a mean t 'lek, and I came te tende you good monev” "Oh don’t ment'on it,” lep'ied .he grocer. “But I went to make ft r’ght.” “It’s ell light—all rtfht. WeLnew wh* passed tne qcai te.'Oil us, and that aflte l noon whe i your w'fe senl down a dol'er ihll anti wanted a can of sar dines I g ive her that bad quar e- with her chsiigf. Don’t let your conscience trouble you at all-it s a’l Press. l.lqnlS or Bry. S*«ir pe sons p efor to pnrcha«e medicine’ In tt«e ui v state so that they can see tor themselves that they a.e purelv vege.ab'.e. O hors have not the ti ne or desire to p eps e themedl ci.ie, a id w’sh It al-eady »o u«e. To accommodate each class foe pro p ietor* of Kidney-Wort now offer taat well-d.iow,' remedy la both liquii'and dry f ()l ms. Sold by drug gists everywhere. —Tru-h. Wbat an F.dllar Say*. There are so many patent humbugs and nostrums,.in the way es medicines, advertised all over the country, that the masses are skeptical and are loth o buy unless tbe article offered tor sale ( t* known to possess real merits; and lon the other hand, names of well ! known clti'.ens are often forged tocer . tideates for the purpose of effecting , sale and palming off a worthless prep aration. Taking these facts Into con i sideration, It gives me pleasure to add iny testimonial to a medicine which I know from personal experience to do all that I* claimed for it. Os course I J refer to“Neuralglne,” a speclhc foi neuralgia and headache, put up In this 1 city by Hutchison A Bro. W.T. CHRISTOrHKR, ts Ed. Sunday Phonograph. The following are the advertised prices for the Adeli.m Patti concerts, to be given In Steinway Hall, New York, next Wednesday evening: Floor—First balcony: First r >w, sec ond to fifth row, facing stage, $!•. First balcony: Side row* and rear re cess, 45. Second balcony; First row, M; second to fifth row, facing stage, $3; side row* and rear recess, Ad mission, FAnUlti VIRGINIA DIELS. Th, Time When a Wan wan C'aa sldersd a ('award l< be Would not Ficht.f Richmond (Va.) Cor. Pailaiielphia Timas. The recent bloodless encounters on “the field of honor” in Virginia recall other and more fatal meet ings in former days, when an insult could only be wiped out by the blood of the insuker, and when a man’s “rank,” if entitling him to notice at all, demanded in away that admitted of no refusal what is known to the believers in the “code” as “satisfaction.” Ade-, clination of a challenge then w>tw followed by wbat is known as a “posting,” and Bladensburg, be yond the border, has been made fa mous as the duelling ground of the politicians of an earlier day and generation. Pleasants and Ritchie aud John M. Daniel and Roger Pryoi, later on all editors and all politicians, were also a decade or so back all duellists. In those day,- the Richmond press was the moul der and fashioner of political sent! ment, and the wordy warfare of its Whig and Democratic editors cul minated not infrequently in a hen.* summons to “the field of honor.” The sur ies which are told of the ante helium duels put to the most vivid blush -be mild, and milksopp)" performance,of the nowadays Vir ginia p li-icians. The ‘code” stood in b gti repute then, and the man who would not fight was Mb garded as unfit for the society oi ladies and gentlemen. A FAMOUS DUEL. One of the most famous of Jhe ante-bellum duels was the fatal one he-wceu R'teuie, of the Rich mond Enquirer, and Pleasants, os' the Richmond Wnig. Ritchie win a Democrat ano -an a red-hu Democi acic paper. Hampden Plea-C" ants was an uncompromising Whig. A personal attack in the columns of the one paper, responded to by a no less personal answer in the oth er, resulted in a challenge and : a meeting. Ite sceue was afc Mei-e Isle, Vre liUte tele in the Jam s river, at R> i-rmond. He e, ia stert of to* wt| • tear aUoeM, -te-yUro edito.e met ano fougn. They had each gone to the tray armed with duelling p-s-ote anu swoids. The coadiUoos of toe fi .ht as agreed upon by -heir seconds were that after the first B>e with their pistols, if neither should ba uu t, they should have recourse «O their sword*. The swords remained in their scab herds, for at tne fl st shot Pieaaaute fei* dead in hia -rocka. A not less notable duel was one which occoiced many yea's before the Ritchie-Pleasant affair between Mason sad McUar-y. Mason was a member o' that his«o ic Virgiu.a family of that nr me to which be longed James Mason, the senator, anu Job a Y. Mason, the minister of the Coo'edt rte gove.-ument to F ance, who was captured by the Union government from an English ship du iog -ie .ebellion, ia com pany wun M«. SHdell. Mason and McCarty we.e b<otbe 'S- !, j-law. The feud betueea them was a political one. They fought on the dividing line of Loudon aud Pr ; nce W iliam coun/es. The weapons u«ed were old-fash'oned muskets, loaded with slugs. Mason’s ball knocked the hammer off a-' McCarty’s gun. Mc- Ca' ty’s ba*l went crushing through Mason’s bra*n. THE WISES AS DUELLISTS. The W-scs of Virginia ha- - e al ways been great duel-sts. Hen-’y A Wise, the dia’ingoished war gov ernor, fought a duel just before toe b eaking out of the rebellion with Philip St. George Cocke. Their difference grow out of a canvass for a seat in congress, to which they both Aspired. It is said that when they reached “rhe field of honor” Cocke undertook to jockey Wise’s courage by saying : “I call heaven to witness that I am guiltless of thi* man’s blood I” W.se ieplied : “You had better attend to your own blood, d—■ o you,” and put hie bullet into Cocke’s thigh. Governor Wise’s son, O. Jennings Wise, af terwerus killed in the rebellion, fongbt a duel about ISSO with Sher ra d Clemens, who at one time rep esented the Wheeling district in congress. When the difficulty be tween Clemens and Jennings Wire first arose. Clemens anaonneed his pu pose es not fighting. He was en gaged at the time to a young lady, whom be afterwards married. She heard of his intentions to refute a combat with Wise, and sent him word that uu’ess he fought he should never marry her. He did fight, and Wise’s shot lamed him for life. A PUBLIC SENTIMENT. Since the war the resort to the “code” has act been so popular or fashionable as it once was. Peo ple’s ideas on the have of late years undergone a great change, and to refuse an invitation to fight, as was done some months sgoby Mr. Button, a distinguished Lynchburg editoi, is apt te be more commended and applauded by the Virginia people than an akFeptance and a meeting. Politics are the breeders and begetters of duels. Now and then there has lieen au encounter on the field for the sake of a woman’s smile, but these have ■ been few and far between. Since the question of the payment of the - State debt of Virginia has arisen to agitate the minds of Virginia states men, challenges have floated around 1 like falling leaves in autumn. The L laws of the State impose a disquali ' fication to vote or hold office upon » all who are concerned, directly or 1 indirectly, with fighting a dhel, but k this does not seem to diminish the ' readiness of the average politician to rush headlong into the fray. In ' these recent encounters, most of 1 which have been as harmless as ri r diculous, some of ths most promi nent, men in the State have been ' concert ed. Since the birth of the Readjuster party in 1877 there have been some ten or twelve so called duels in Virginia, resulting from politic*, but they have nearly all lacked the flavor of “businvss" which characterized the meetings of the ante-bellum politicians. A DANGEROUS WOUND. Before the growth of readjust ment, when William E. Cameron, the present Rsadj uster candidate for governor, was editor of the > Petersburg Indek-Appeal, and thought a native Virginia Republi- , can the lowest of God’s creation, an , article in his paper brought him in ■ collision with one of the most dis tloguished Republicans in the State, Robert W. Hughes, who has i since been promoted to the post of , Judge of the United States District for the Eastern District. In ’the duel which ensued Cameron was dangerously wounded,and car- Jes his adversaries ballet in his ‘ body to this day. His political disabilities have since been romov . ed by the legislature, and nowhere r among his p esent Republican sup porte,a for the government has he . warmer backer than in Judge Rob et W. Hughes. Mahone has been •f late ye? s a pai dejpato*, In the prclimma ies at least, of a duel. General Bradley T. Johnson, now of Baltimore, but for a long time bead and front of the Virginia De mocracy, once made bi raageinente to meet Geoe-al Mahoae and sx chrnge shots. This was about the time*tea MRhone ww» nn3«r.4*»a to be endeavoring to boy the legis lauiie of Virginia to favor the «ciiernes of the rail.oad of which he was then p.«*ident and which he al -er wa. ds bankropted.. Bradley Jojnson was a Steie Senator from Rioamond. When the time for the figb-iug came Johnson wa* ready on the field, but in some stiange war Mahone bad been arrested. People he.e In Tligln’a, remember ing bls inte’ upted duel with B-ad lev Johnson, at Mahone’s re fusal to flgiit Jubal Ea.ly on the ground of Earlv’s not being suffi ciently gentle. If‘there is any of the blue blood in Mahone’s veins it . is an unknown quantity to those whose best acqna’nted with him sad tbelr antecedents. His as sumption of a superiority of social dignity over Early is regarded er erywbere in bis own State as a ' cloak for that discretion which is 1 the better part of valor. cvritea cARE«*iN«ia. i | A You-iff Ceaple art Married (he Traia. We have Information of a very ro ' mantle mar urge which secured on the up train on the Southwestern railroad, between Eufaula and Macun, Ihurs- - day afternoon last. The parties -o the ’ (fair were a Mr. Morgan and Miss ■ Blgtiiower. of Albany, and both were S of excellent families. The prospect i ive groom had apprized the conductor r of the situation of affairs but no one r else even suspected such a thing. A r telegiam had been sent to Fort Valley > for the purpose es obtaining a niinis ’ ter to do the official work, sud the 1 Rev. Mr. Ousley, with several other 1 gentlemen, met the couple at the train, and during Its few minutes stay the • twain were madeot-e. Telegramshad r also been sent to Macon by the young ’ lady’s parents to intercept them, but they ware too sharp for the old folks and had lhe knot t*ed before they got ’ there. They were inet at the train in Macon by a gentleman and lady, but ( after a short conversation the newly married couple received congralula , tlons and departed. * Cinrlnnatl enA Oeergla RallreaS. » Wednesday morning the stock-hold ’ era of the Cincinnati and Georgia rall -1 road met in tills city to perfect Its or -1 ganltatloc. The following officers i were elected: E. W. Cole, Tennessee. 1 Samuel Thomas, Coliinibns, Ohio. C. 8. Brice, Lima, Ohio. George I. Seney, New York. I Nelson Rob l neon. New York, r C. M. McGhee, Knoxville, Tennes- ■ see. Samuel Shethar, New York. I Work on the roads to Rome and 1 Macon are progressing satisfactorily. | Pa Ke* Agala. I ) Ten o’clock Friday, the police pull ! ed all the gambling houses in the city, i arresting alt engaged In such business. > (apt. Connally seems defcrmlned to i break them up. 3 * KHOHT MEBMONN. 5 8 BY REV. FLABUER GASTKK. } - ■ > No. «4-Halr. | N. O. Times. ; In a general wav it may be said that ’ hair ia analogous to the feathers of j birds and to (he wales of fishes and r reptiles—aud hairs sometimes carry . the analogy to great lengths. Hair Is . sl rpldenulc appendage consisting (ft l is alleged) of au assemblage es “epl l dermic cells at the bottom of a flask fl shaped follicle in the substance of the ■ skin, supplied w Ith blood by vessels ■ distributed to Its walls” (think of the i walls of a hair!). ‘lt is made up of n i root, from which the hair is develop i ed, and a stem or shaft continuous • withit. The root of the hair exhibits ; a bulbous enlargement, thereby eoti ’ forming to the general idea of roots. ’ Any root that cannet swell up to the ' proportions of a bulb is a thin and woody root—like an office-holder— dnrwing up a heap of stuff and fling ing It Into theair, and uot giving down , a continental thing. Th* most vora i clous roots appertain to trees that bear i no fruit. But let ua not linger too long by the roots of the hair. Let us rise Com tltat obscurity and soat ar (Wind and take views. For instance: Sabrina fair Listen where thou art sitting Under the gl»«y, eool, trausluoeat was*. In twisted braids o' lilies knitting . The loose train of thy ainber-dn»|nug hair, Fair tresses man’s Imperial race ensnare, And beauty drawsua with a single hair. This is a lie but it is very good poe try. The-e is very little good poetry that is not composed mainly of lies. The world will buy a lie when it will not accept truth as a gift. Conse quently th* poor, miserable, hungry ;>oets have always made it a point to instil as many lies into their verse as the heavenly muse could be induced to wink at. It will, of course, be ex pected by those howling frauds who never pay tbelr board bills and always ke«p up a racket about alleged hair in the hash that this sermon must be ' founded chiefly on their special griev ance*, and must dwell on the hair in hash as the supreme grievance of tnan ' kind. But Flabbcr Gaster I* a just nreacber/nd he will do nothing of the sort. The landlady »f tte pwrng.apii, in nearly every indance, furnishes hash which (however poor) la a good deal better th»n the pay furnished by the average complaining boerter. The meanest hod ever formulated by * red headed flend in the kitchen 1* too good for the sneaking boarder who devours the said hash and aubdste on it and re fute* to pay for anything aad writes sarcastic paragraphs about that very same hash which saved him from ab solute starvation. But there la much 1 hair outside of hash—let us turn and wander thither, and quote a few more ’ lies from those poetry fellows: 1 The following, no doubt, alludes to ! a contemporary: He could diellng iieb end dtride A hair ’twlxt eouth and eoutbwMt side. 1 And this alludes to one of the stat ues commonly seen at the corner ot i Canal and Royal: Hl» hair Juet gritiled as In green old age. And this probably refers to tax col lectors : That kill the bloom before lie time. And blanch, without the owner's crime. The moot resplendent hair. This alludes to a swell wig-maker: But I* the way of bargain, mark ye me. , I’ll enrl on the ninth part of a hair. And this Is a barbe--shop sketch : The meeting points, the sacred hair dioMven g From the fair head, forever end forever, s Hair ia very much admired a* a dec s oration of the scalp but when you - come down to solid uMfitlneeo tbe r chief function of hair seeins to be to e hold mortar together. The hair is to I th* mortar on the wall aa the motive Is f to the aweet-heart, invisible, but oh! - so strong! One gazes at the fair white e surface of hia sweet-heart and won r dera what it is that holds her to her , perverse purpose with a strength e transcending the stoutest cable. Very 1 likely it la nothing mere nor les* than { a lock ofthe other sweet-heart's hair, t Hew fetidly the youth feels for the a first undoubted hair on his chin and t how fiercely the old man hews tbe i Jfray atuuble off with his razor, and t rumples up hla lip ami grunts. K The warmer tbe alt the coarser the - hate Snow ami Ice are the parents of fur, while equatorial hair la first cousin to wire. What would tnan be • without hair? Probably he would be bald, but who can conceive the enor mity of universal halrlwsneaa! Hair la like love—it will stand a good deal of trimming, but cire must be taken " to have the roots In. The Declare Blemarae As to the beat methode and reme dies. f*r the cure of coneilpaJon and disordered liver and !.ld:ievs. But those that have used Kldnoy-Woi t, • agree that li Is by far the beat medi cine k-iown. Its action Is promot, thoroegh and lasting. Don't t'lke pills, and otner mercurials that pol- 1 son the system, but by oalng Kblney- Wor- restore the natural action of all the oigaits.—New Cevenaut. When the bewizzled individual fell - and hit his head on the walk, he want , ed to know what the pavement. j Billy Mahone elected bis man Cameron Governor of Virginia. AMONG THE PAPERS. A Woman With Broad Vl*w*. San Francisco Post. A few nights ago a conductor on a hither bound overland train was In formed by the porter of a sleeping ear that a man occupying a lower berth was creating great scandal by con stantly “reaching up and trying to kiss” the female lessee of the upper berth, same section. The conductor promptly fired the inan off the train. The bounced passenger yesterday wrote the superintendent a letter de manding damages and the conductor's dismissal, the request also being strongly indorsed by the supposed ag grieved lady passenger, who stated ttiat while It was true that the ejected parly was a little too affectionate, yet. on the other hand, everybody has his faults, and besides she “Just hate* bigotry.” A* True u* Gospel. Homer Rcpablicaa, No independent, outspoken paper eanexist any length of time without provoking criticism. You can run a Sti.iday-schoot pamphlet or publish a religious t.act aud not make an ’n a lifetime, h,it tlie moment a -ps Lie ruth, regaidless color, es previous -(■rvitude. just so soon a lot will spriog up and cry “mu;ale but, some-bow-oi-other, tney seldom tnm.zle as easily as they imagine, and the man who attempts the operation generally has hi t hands full. J***u! Rome Balletin. You never hear of a defaulting edi tor, never. Os cou ae there is very lit tle u> default barring paste a?d old newspaper, but honestly comes as iiatual to an editor as drinking—water. Game (• lhe Expualtium. The Atlanta correspondent of the Savannah News says: “in reply to a number of persons who hav* written to m« tn regard te tbe Exposition—ls it is w*rth seeing —and if they would be swindled if they time, I desire to say, and to say it frankly and upon honor, that It will ot: tn gra idest exfeibUiop ever seen in the South or West, and worth all it need cost any sensible person te come here aud see It. It has but one fault —lt is too big aud too grand to be made a financial success. For this reason, if no ether, tbe people of Geor gia, within whose horde.s it is held, should give it a liberal support. Vis itors can come her* now without fear of extortion and find good accommo dation* at reasonable pile**. Ten cents will carry a visitor out to the Exposition gates and fifty cents will take him Inside, where everything on exhibl ion will be free to him. Direc tor-General Ktuihall and his associates have laixned haid and got together a magnificent exhibition, and they rieh iv deserve the most liberal patronage South Georgia and Floiida can give tlie enterprise, which is in complete order.” Willie F.daun’a Spark* Company, Wednesday and Thursday evenings this company will give their mirth p.ovoking musical concert The Chi cago Tribune says: Willie Edo.’n's company are draw ing eiowds to Hooley’s Theater of people willing and anxious to laugh at the fun with which “Dreams” abounds. Thehousewas filled In every part last night, and the audience en joyed two hours of unrestrained mer riment. The changes in the cast have, , if anything, added to It* strength. It is one of the mon. amusing perform . snees now on the boards, and he who , cannot enjoy the rollicking humor of , the last act must indeed be troubled by , the dyspepsia In It* most aggravated , form. Many of the songs are new. , Mackay Is an excellent Photographer, i and Marion Elmore the same capital , burlesque actress as she always has been. James T.' Powers still makes . his astounding leaps head first down the stairs, and many additions in the way of Incidents and business hav* been added to the last act. “Dieam*” will be given at Hooley’s all the week. One of the girl* In a Leadville va riety theatre a few weeks since had a little trouble with her lover, aud hit him over the head with the bass drum stick. Out of revenge he had her ' hissed the next evening when she . ssng, snd she stepped to the front of the stage and said: “Look here, cul lies, I won't stand this. I will keep my eye peeled, andtheflist son of a gun that hisses me again will get a piece of this,” and she pulled a gun almost as large as her arm. She peeled the aforesaid eye and vocalized again, but there wa* nary a hiss. Ollvell*. The production of “Olivette,” Aud ran's popu’ar opera comlque, Friday day evening was one o‘s > are excel lence. Miss Elsner a* “Olivette’’is p. epossesslng In appearance, spi Iglit iy In action, and has a low, sweet voice, though not a powerful one. Henrv Peake* as “Captain de Merri mac,” and Mark Smith a* “VaHentlne, officer of the Kouslllon Guards,” amused th* audience with their (Ing- Ing and acting. Taken altogether it I* a first-class opera company, and we commend it to other titles. > ■•■„ * A.* * X [PRICE 5 CENTS Georgia News. Newt Seymour of Griffin is dead. M. C. Gordon, of Columbus, failed a flew days ago. Through sleepers are now run from Macon to Jacksonville. Albany Is calculating with confi dence on au artesian well by Christ um*. The Globe cotton mills, of Augusta, are now lighted with the electric light. Th* last iMuae of the Montezuma Weekly was well printed. So much for our little squib. Some es our country exchanges are now printing this thrilling item i “Bring In that wood!” Wheu you see a man with a shot gun on his shoulder loafing around the office of the Oglethorpe Echo, you will know he is looking for a Haire. Mr. John Thempsop, according to the Swainsboro Herald, has a sow that had nineteen pigs in eleven months, and all the pigs are living and doing w ho stab- 111 -h:. ■ ■■li.reil, -oiue 'aiid.TM .He, oi (he n..uiel. on HRst. man living ou Mr. Phil Walter's plantation, In Schley county, had his bouse, furniture, clothing, provisions, etc., destroyed by fire on Saturday last. On Monday last Mr. Arnold God win, living three or four miles from Ame. lcus, on the J. B. Worrill place, fell from a load of cotton and broke one of bis knees. Lands in Jackson county are on a boom, and what were worthless a few years ago, now bring good pricea. The railroad in Jackson is what brought this prosperity. The Savannah Times states that there is a suspicion that Capt. E. B. Andrew*, a tea captain, has been the victim es foul play. He ha* been missing for a week. The Examiner aay* that sweet pota toes are selling in Conyers at forty cents a bushak They are worth *l»'y cents in Cbvlngtoril' SavatHlll Ifljffpb the luxury at one dollar. A negro girt about six year* eld, step-daughter of Ed Partridge, of Schley oousty, who lived on H. H. Singletary’s plsce, was whipped to death last week by Partridge. “I guess I’ll set up a match factory there," casualty remarked a Bostoni an In Atlanta the other day. “Ahem!” coughed a Gate City editor, “I calcu late It’ll pay a handsome profit.” Say* the Albany Advertiser: “Doe* the Georgia press gang know that Nathans, foe circus man and partner of Coup, is the own dear uncle of Dick Grubb, of the Darien Gazette ? It would be a hard job to find a poorer local paper than the Butler Herald. Bro. Benn* can, and ought to do tietter. Give the people local news if you want the Herald to lie popular. This criticism is mads in kindness. The Walton County Vidette thus re late* how * cotton thief got himself cleverly trspped: “For some week* past Mr. Joe Jennings has been miss ing seed cotton from his gin house, and the door being secuiely looked, it* disappearance seemed mysterious. He finally concluded that Ingres* _waa es fected through the cotton box tK hi* press, which was arranged Just under the eondenser. With this view, ho set the follow block on triggers, and went hl* way. While he and family were at supper, he heard tbe dis tressed cries of a man in the direction of the gin house. Repairing to the scene of the uproar, he found hl* cot ton thief securely fastened in the box, the follow block ou the top of him, snd he begging for help. He wa* * promptly bagged, and now await* Judge Erwin’s tender mercies. The thief is * white mtn who formerly stood well In the community.” Athens Banner: There was a strange sight seen on our st.eets Wednesday a gentleman on horseback riding with erect military air, and attired in the uniform of lieutenant In tbe Confeder ate army. Men stopped to gaze at him and gathered in little knots to dis cus* the meaning of the strange spec tacle. The mind* of all ran back a de cade and a halt, and they began to talk of the days when our loved South land was torn and shattered by th* ravages of war. The rider’s mission wa* one ot peace, however. He waa an old Confederate—Mr. W. G. Carith ers, of Walton county. He had rode that Identical hoise In the the army of the West, and at the solicitation of hl* mother* and sisters, he had come to have hl* photogrsph taken, while sitting on his horse. Th* horse wa* known to be (twenty-one year* old, and wa* first rode In the army by Mr. ■ -—Griffith, of th* Athtna'.Guard*. Mr. Griffith having been killed at Gettysburg, hl* ho>*e was given to hl* nephew, Mr. Carithers, and together they'served their country till the close' cf the war allowed them to return horns. JTbe photograph wsa taken by Mr. DflM| ind the pair of old Con* f*d* wW IHly awajr.