Fast Mail Train Schedules at Athens Georgia Jan 1881
Athens GA January 14 1531 Atlantic and North Eastern Railroad announces new train times effective January 6 1881. Service includes No 1 No 3 leaving Athens early morning and evening with Lula and Avanta connections to East West routes. No 4 runs Saturday nights to connect with Western trains. Daily except Sunday with limited ant connections. Passengers from Athens at 4 30 am gain Western connections via Atlanta. Georgia Rail Road Company noted.
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Scranint Enpenis Offier
Athens Ga
North Eastern Railroad
Athens
Lula
Athen
Weat
Air Line Railway
Mude
Avanta
Atlanta
Western Southwest
Lyme
Oneta Amer
S Orvier
Avavsra
Passenge
Winterville
Lexington
Antioch
Maseys
Woodville
Malam
Union Point
Washi
Milledgevill
Macon
Augusta
Milledgeville
Washington
Arve Maxoys
Georgia Senator Recalls Slave Servant and Federal Office Ideas
In Washington, Senator Ben Hill recalls buying his former body servant Eugene Brydie, noting education and the slave system once constitutional. The interview discusses colored men as federal appointees, Georgia loyalty to federal law, and debates over the Morgan Bicknell resolution and election counting in Georgia. The piece blends personal memory with constitutional argument as Congress addresses electoral issues.
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Philadelphia Press
Wasnixotos
Ben Hill
Georgia
Senate Chamber
Eugene W Brydie
Vidalan
Richmond
Felton
Garfield
Corded Wathing
House
Mr. Speer
New Jersey
Robeson
Sephens
Democratic Party
Stephens
Hawley
Connecticut
Cook
Robert Toombs
Hammond
Coke
Institute
Acklen
Converne
Culberson
Hurd
Clemons
Young
Tennessee
Ni Becling
Chili
Autofagasta
Maynard
Cabine
Sitting Bull
United States
Fort Busford
Carrieville
Los
Rtugal
England
Transvaal
Senate
Secretary of the Interior
Edmunds
Bayard
Messrs
Morgan and Hill
Vgalls
Mr. Bayard
Bullock
Atlanta
Senator Hills Last Interview Sparks Athens Post Office Debate
The Banner reviews Senator Hill's remarks claiming a colored man should be postmaster at Athens, noting the current post office is well managed and that Eugene W. Brydie lacks the training for such a role. It urges Hill to drop the idea and cites local sentiment and sound civil service as reasons to refrain.
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Ero
Conger
J. R. Randall
JRR
Couger
Thim
Senate
Michigan
John Quincy Adais
Senator Hill
Hill
Athena
Athens
Mr. Hill
Eugene W. Brydie
Sharp for Short Fraud Case and Garfield Era Outlook
A county tale recalls a sharp man who tried to swindle with a bogus patent medicine payment. The piece shifts to a political critique, arguing Republicans bore blame for governance lapses while Garfield’s administration faces economic strain and the need for stronger trade, a robust navy, and prudent statesmanship to avert stagnation.
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Walker County
Sharper
Sharp
Panne
Democratic Party
House
Senate
Washington Post
Republican Party
Garfield
England
Congress
Fragmented 1881 Missourian Letters and Local Skits
A lengthy collage of 1881 correspondence and snippets from Wyandotte Kansas and Monroe Louisiana includes mayoral disputes involving F P Stubbs, a separation message by J S Stockton, a marriage tale from St. Louis, and satirical notes on public figures. It also references a Missouri couple’s wedding tale, legislative gambling on sergeant-at-arms, a Milwaukee love scare, and quips on alcohol, post offices at Magellan Straits, and railroads. The selections blend political rhetoric, personal feuds, and light anecdotes.
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F. P. Stubbs
Monroe
Ouachita
Kansas
Wyandotte
Wyanportrte
South
Stockton
Monroy
The Seminole Origin Tale and a Boston Divorce Anecdote
The article recounts a Seminole legend describing the white man's supposed origins and superiority through a tale of three men choosing bundles of bark and the eventual contents. It also reports a Boston Herald item: a Dover New Hampshire case where a wife sought divorce claiming her husband dressed as a woman, revealing he was previously married and had a child.
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Macon
Robert Tucker
Sen
John
Newark
N. J
Pat
Albany
New York
Boston Traveller
Cathedral Guide
St. Peter
Church of the Annunciation
St. Peter's
Oor
Milwakee
Boston Herald
Dover
N. H
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Lula Lote
Lila
All Pointe
Charlotte
Gainesville
Seneca City
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Ourtanburg
G. J. Furbacke
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Broad Street
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Will
Foo Choo
Yellow Sea
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America
N.Y
Haylock & Co
Dey Street
New York Mercantile Review
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Lovick
Pierce
Sparta
Tia
Dean Smn
L. Pierce
Aince
E. Ellen Patmar
Ington
Misa Ellen
Eldeer
D. W. Patman
W.C. Orr
Unversity OF Georgia Library
Irning
Atmens Post Office
Howell Cobb
Daion
Denis
North Carolina
Jones
Texas
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Florida
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Feopeylvants
Yeates
Leonard Balliet
Nevada
Hancock
George Eliot
LaCrosse
Wis
Lowell
Burlington
Montreal
Camads) Gazette
Theatre Royal
Charley Schilling
Victoria North
Fow
Alice Coleman
Tittle Todd
Sparks Brothers
Ramirez
Spain
Crown
Malvern Hill
Sergent Driscol
Driscoll
Sumter County
Savannah News
Raccoon Key
Warsaw
St. Catharin’s
Chicago Times
Republic
White House
Times
American Republican
W D Lampkin
Tazewell
Marion County
Skiff
Statesmanship
Techy
Bammer
J. T. Wathrman
Proprieiun
Bernard P. Taylor
Julia Darby
St. Louis
Bernard
Valentine
State Senate
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Panies Ae
Origin
Magellan Straits
Tierra del Fuego
Sacramento
Bee
Congres
Board of Railroad Commissioners
Peal-Office
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