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gDVflN MARTIIY, Proprietor.
Devoted to Home Interrests and Culture.
'X' vv O DOLT.AS§ A Tcarin Advance^
VOLUME IX.
PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1879.
.NUMBER 29.
troW JUDGE WARNE 3 WAS JEFFERSON DAVIS AT HOME.
HANGED
■ ‘ ' _ i Alighting from the train at Beauvoir
Oneof the stories told on Judge War- : station, Miss., yon can see two or three
>e r is that daring the war a party of 1 sma ll brown structures, a grove o/ pines,
federal soldiers hung him m order to and the white vista of a vanishing rail-
B *ke him tell where his gold was con- j way track glittering with millions of
eealetl, but that he clung to his little
treasure Laid upon earth more tenacious-
j than to life itself, and that the rob
bers finally retired te ffled, but leaving
him nearly dead, from the effects of
their brutality. Many regard the story
as a romance, but it is not. It is partly
tine and partly false. It is true that he
nas bung; it is not true that he had any.
gold to give up. Judge Warner him
self described the occurrence a-few days
ago, and I do not violate any confidence
in giviug ibe substance of his uarative.
In the spring of 1805 (and after the sur
render of Gen. Johnston, though that
disaster was not officially known through
out Georgia,) Judge Warner was at liis
plantation in Meriwether County, await
ing the approach of one of Wilson’s
columns of Federal raiders wnich was
passing through the country. All the
whites on the place fled except Judge
Warner and his married daughter. The
latter had a child only a week old, and
as she could not bo moved the father
remained with her. During the morn
ing several detachments of calvary had
halted at the house and made themselves
free with anything they desired in the
way of “portable property.” but no vio
lence was done to the inmates. About
noon another party arrived and stopped
to feed their horses and to plunder.
After satisfying their appetites they be
gan to pillage, and the Judge’s silver
and other valuables were soon stowed
away in the capacious saddle-bags.
While they were robbing the smoke-
fcoose of hams and pickles and wines
and preserves, the Judge stood by in
silence watching the proceedings: Af
ter the building had been thoroughly
gntted, arevolver was suddenly present
ed nt his head and he wag ordered to ac
company the party. Midway between
the house and the “negro quarters” was
k body of. woodland. and into this grove
Judge Warner was conducted by his
captors. Beaching a place seclndetl
from observation, the leader of the
hand, wbc wore the uniform of a Feder
al Captain, took out his watch and said
he would give him just-three minutes
tO tell where liis gold was bidden.
Judge Warner protested that he had no
gold, but to no avail. They had been
informed along th«ir line of march that,
he had a secret hoard and the “d—d
old secessionist” must give it up. The
prisoner urged that he had been a strong
fUnion man. and the only money he
had was in Confederate currency and in
Central Railroad bills. They robbed
him of $5,000 of tbe former and §15,-
000 of the latter, which they found up
on his person, but continued to insist
that he had gold and must produce it.
At the expiration of the three minutes
the Captain made a signal, one of tbe
men took from a horse a long leathern
strap with a running noose at oue end,
while the others extemporized a gallows
by bending down the end of a stout
sapling. With an oath the officer made
them select a larger and stronger tree.^
Judge Warner remaining silent, for the
very sufficient reason that he had
nothing to tell. One end of the strap
•was adjusted .around his neck and the
other fastened securely to the tree.
The sapling was gradually released un
til the line became taut, when it was
turned loose and the Judges body dan
gled in the air. When he recovered
consciousness the brntes still snronnd-
ed him, and he was again ordered to
give np his gold. , under penalty of
death. He conld only reply as before
and again the sapling was released.
This occurred about 2 o’cluk, When
he revived the sun was nearly down.
He lay at the foot of the impromptu
gallows, the halter had been removed
from his neck, and the leaves,, which
covered the ground several inches deep,
were burning within a few feet of him.
He thinks the heat of the : flames re
stored Mm to consciousness an to life.
The wretches - had left him for-dead and
Bet fire to the woods to conceal the evi
dence of their crime. The Judge was
able to find his. way to the house,
Where he lay ill for many days. He fi
nally recovered and now shows no signs
of the violence to which he was subject
ed. He is confident that the Captain
and soldiers who figured as amateur
hangmen belonged to a regiment of
Wisconsin calvary, though he does not
remember any of their names. J udge
Warner is wont to say that he lias snf-
fered Ml the pangs of dissolution and
has been “as near dead as he ever ex
pects to be.”—A (Ionia Correspondent
Chronicle.
minute ref ructions- of the bright sun
shine for miles along its sandy way.
Taking the half-perceptible roadway
to yonr right, ten or fifteen minutes’
walk through the pines brings you to
the beach. Here you see a house built
in the airy fashion of this region of per
petual snnshine. This is the residence
of the Rev. Dr. Lacock, an aged Epis
copalian clergyman, once chaplain to
the Duke of Cambridge. * Beyond the
reverend gentleman’s estate yon see.
The Causes of Ex-Governor Bill Al
beit, of Ohio.
Ex-Governor Allen, of Ohio, who
died last Friday, was self-made, of more
ARTIFICIAL ICE.
COMMON MISTAKES IN HOUSE
BUILDING.
The Bostou Journal offhemistry b~- j
Ueves that one of the remarkable tri- j
A writer in the- American Architect
uniplis of science and art as developed i an ^ Building Aeics has recently direct-
isseen in the de-1 e< ^ attention, with considerable truthtul-
tlian ordinary ability, and as a public
in this progressive age is seen in the de
vices for producing artificial ice in large j nes ®> certain mistakes of plan in
man for many yeays occupied a con
spicuous position. He was -bom at
Edonton, Chowan county, North Caro
lina, in 1806, early lost bis parents, and
then drifted to Lynchburg, Va., where
he'reinaiued until 1822, working ’as a
saddler’s apprentice, when lie determ
ined to go to Chilicothe, Ohio, where
his half-sister, the mother of Hon. Al
len G. Thurman, resided. * Young Al
len was poorly educated, but self-reli-
fronting the beach, another estate, the . ant, and he made almost the entire trip
United States Treasury.—TheTreas-
aow holds §353,797,400 in the United
States bonds to secure bank cirenlation.
United States deposited Tor circulation
f°r the week were $1,458,700; United
States bonds held for cirenlation with
drawn during tbe week, §1,263,900; Na
tional bank circulation outstanding—
currency uotes. §32S,074,191; gold
notes, §1,467.500.
residence of Mr. Davis.
Entering the gate, you pass across a
lawn dotted with live cak and other
trees, festooned with the picturesque
Spanish moss. Before you is a low and
spacious mansion, painted white, with
broad verandas. At either side, a trifle
nearer the fence, is a small building, a
pavilion. While resting on tbe veran
da, waiting for your letter of introduc
tion to be handed to the master, your
eye takes in the hospitable provisions
for ease afforded by several comforta-
rocking-chairs, a table and a settee.
Life here is alfresco. The broad ball
which goes through the house isopen to
the breeze, but not to the ardent sun,
whose rays are intercepted by the ve
randa. Here on the front veranda, sits
of a morning, the ex-president of the
South. In full view is the Gulf of
Mexico, that dazzling, radiant expanse
of blue. Its summer waves glide softly,
to break in lulling sound upon the
white and sparkliug sand. The breeze
is laden with the strange perfume of the
sea. It is the land of the lotus-eaters,
where ’tis always afternoon. Sitting
on this veranda, into what reveries may
not tbe Confederate ex President fall,
as be gazes out upon this Mexican gulf,
which, had the dreams of the Southern
statesman been realized, would have
been the inland sea of a mighty empire,
stretching to the tropics,
I was scon summoned to the little pa
vilion to tj^e right of tbe mansion. This
building is divided into two parts, 'Ihe
rearward is occupied by an ancient and
favorite negro J-ervaut, whose idea of
housekeeping is to display his furni
ture and tools in his little veranda. He
has sgnotion of raising vegetable odds
and ends in boxes, and his vagaries ex
cite but a suile. No one dreams of in
terfering, even for the sake of order,
with the privileges of this ancient serv
itor. The front portion of this pavilion
is occupied by Mr. Davis as a library
and study. Here I found him, slightly
indisposed and lying upon a lounge.
His manner is genial aud very kindly,
with that charming courtesy character
istic oi the high-bred Southern gentle
man.
Seventy years of age, Mr. Davis has
yet a flesh and vigorous look. His
hair, mustache and whiskers are white
in part, but his eye is bright and cheer
ful. His face in repose is almost se
verely intellectual, but the smile which
lights up Lis mouth, and his quietly
cheerful laugh dispel the first impres
sion of coldness. Few of our public
men have the.qniet fascination of man
ner, the old-fashioned grace and charm
ing conversation'll powers of Jefferson
Davis. His memory is capacious and
retentive. One might, with a facile
phonographic pen, collect great stories
of reminiscence from his lips.— Cor.
Boston Herald.
SCISNTnC .VIEWS OF NATURE,
Who does not see that Galileo, Des
cartes, New tan, Lavoisier, Laplace, have
changed the foundation of human
thought in modifying totally the idea of
the universe and its laws, in substitut
ing for the infantile' imaginings of non-
seientifie ages the notion of an eternal
order, in which caprice and partic
ular will have no thought? Have they
diminished the universe think? For my
part I think the contrary. The skies
as we see them are far superior to that
solid vault spangled with shining dots
and npborne some leagues above us by
pillars win ih contented the simpler ages.
I do not much regret the little spirit that
had Wont to guide the planets in their or
bits; gravitation does the work much
better, and it at times I have a sad res
membranee of the nine angelic choirs
wheeling round the orbs of the seven
planets and fear the crystal sea that lay
at the feet of the Eternal, I console my
self with the thought that the infinite
iuto which we look is really infinite,
find a thousand times more sublime to
eyes of true coutems^atiah than all the
azure circles of Angelico ofFiesole.
M. "i biers rarely" allowed a fine night
to pass without gazing upon that bound
less sea. “It is my mass,” he said. In
how far do the chemists profound views
upon the atom surpass the vagU8 no
tions of matter on which the schoL'is'ic
philosophy was fed!—Henan.
on foot, in mid-winter, through fre
quent snows aud intensely cold weath
er, having as a companion a drover, and
this for only a portion of the distance.
On arriving at Chilicothe his sister
placed him in the academy there,
where he remained two years, and then
at eighteen years of age entered a law
yer’s office. He was admitted to prac
tice before hsfwas twenty-one years of
age, and before reaching the age of
twenty-four had achieved considerable
reputation as a lawyer, particularly in
criminal cases. In 1833 he received
the Democratic nomination for Con
gress in a'district wbien was Whig by
from 1,500 to 2,000 majority, but lie
made a brilliant canvass, and was elect
ed by a majority of one in a vote of
10,000. At the next election Mr. Alien
J was defeated by a small majority, but
ran 1,500 votes-ahead of his ticket. In
1837, when only tlrirry one years of nge,
he was elected to the United States
Senate, and took his seat March 4,
where he became a leader. Just before
tbe expiration of Jus term he went di
rectly before the people of Ohio as a
candidate for re-election, The result
was that the D.-moerals had. a hand
some majority in the Legislature, and
Mr. Allen was re-elected without oppo
sition, In the Democratic National
Convention of 1S49, which met in Bal
timore, so bitter was the contest be
tween the friends of Cass and Yan
Bnren, the leading candidates, that .to
prevent a division, a committee
composed of men from both fac
tions, waited on Senator Alien in Wash
ington, and urged him to accept the
nomination for the Presidency, but he
persistently refused to allow' his name
to be used, taking the ground that-
he had been an earnest advocate of
Cass’ nomination, to accept,, a nomina
tion himself would be ft betrayal of liis
friend. He aide wards made a canvass
of New York and Pennsylvania in fa
vor of Mr. Cass, Mr. Alh n then re
tired to private life, from which lie did
not emerge again until 1974, when be
ran ns the Democratic candidate for
Governor of Ohio, and was elected by
about 1,000 majority, liis assueia.es on
the Slate ticket all suffering defeat.—
Mr. Allen was again the Democratic
nominee for Governor in 1S76, but after
a memorable contest was defeated by
Gen. Rutherford B. Hayes, now Presi
dent of the United State 3. Since then
he has been in political retiracy, but
was understood, to he in vigorous
health for one of his years, Mr. How
ard Carroll, of the New York Times,
who recently published an extended in
terview with Mr. Allen, closed by
speaking of him as “the sometimes bit
ter, but always faithful partisan, the
honest politician, the statesman of the
olden time.”
quantities. It is claimed, ana uotwith-
The Streets of Paris-
"annoyance of coal ash and dust. The j tion, and the glory of the w:r!d. In
cleansing of the Parisau boulevard is j Spanish on the shell was written which
never done. In summer when the sweep-Ljansjated says: “Caught in 1700 by
So far as my experience extends, sol-
I diets are wholly unlike politicians. The it is a tin case, apparently" made for the ;
: former are enemies only while the bat-
There are 4.000 women postmasteis ’ tie. is pending. - Politicians appear to
The streets are not merely swept in
Paris, they are cleaned, The policeman
13 responsible for the cleanliness of his
beat. He may early in the morning be
seen superintending the operation of the
dirt carts and. not a shovelful of debris
is left. The removal of garbage is ef
fected without any encumbrace of the
side-walk by ash-boxes or barrels. Be
fore seven o’clock in the morning the
Pamsian house-keeper must have the
accumulated waste of the household
damped in the gutter in front of his
residence. This may seem slovenly to
an American, but the city
garbage cart is punctual to the miu-
ute. There are no complaints in the
Parisian papers of his neglect; no lei tors
froqj indignant c.'rizens, as in New Y( x'- %
the * burden of whose song is: “The
street I live in *Lasn«t been cleaned
since" last fall:” It may be in place
here to say that the Parisians burn lit-
out reason, that, so perfect has the ap
paratus become, ice can be formed on
the shores of any of our northean lakes
and rivers at less cost than that necessa
ry to the cutting as storing' of natural
ice in winter. One of these interesting
devices in operation on the shore oi
the St.. John’s River, Florida, last win
ter, afforded the writer ample facilities
of observing its work; fiom day to day,
aud testing its capabilities. It was of
the class in which ammonia is the agent
employed ts> grodpee refrigeration, and
well known as the arctic machine. It
was found capable of “turning out” ten
tons of ice daily, in the form of blocks
about two and a half feet long and ten
inches in thickness. The congelation
was perfect, and the product met with a
ready sale at the hotels and private res
idences, not only in Jacksonville but at
all the points on the St. John’s River.
The price of Northern ice in Florida
previous to the introduction of the ma
chine was from ten to fifteen dollars a
ton in moderate quantites; the artifi
cial ice is sold at five dollars,
and thus a powerful and successful
competitor to the ice companies sprang
up at the door of their? depositories.
The dealers resisted and ridiculed the
“machine” for a considerable time, but
in the end it triumphed, and prices
were reduced. The actual cost of man
ufacturing ice in Florida is not far from
seventy cents a ton, and this inclunes
the storing and delivery. It must be
known, however, that fuel in Florida
costs almost nothing. The ice edinpa-
ny have only to haul the waste lumber
from a steam sawmill, [fifty rods away,
to be used as fuel, and it is supplied
gratuitously.
The principal upon which the ma
chine acts is the same as that which ev
ery houskeeper' adopts in freezing
creams in summer. When solids are
changed to liquids, a large amount of
heat is absorbed, and surrounding ob
jects must supply it; if the liquid is vol
atilized, - or changed- to a gaseous body,
still larger supplies of heat are demand
ed. Thus, if caustic ammonia, which
in its natural condition is a gaseous or
aeriform body, is subjected to powerful
pressure it changes to a liquid, and in
doing so is forced to give up a large
amount of latent heat. If it is relieved
of pressure it again he conies aeriform,
and as it demands a large amount of
heat it seizes it from, all bodies in con
tact. If water is in contact it is rob
bed of its latent heat an becomes fro
zen, and thus ice is formed.
In tbe arctic machine: about fifty
pounds of liquid ammonia are stored in
a very strong iron cylinder, and this is
connected with a coil pipes immersed
in a tank of s.ronghrine;into this brine
galvanized iron cans holding pure wa
ter are placed, and these eans are the
size of the block of ice which are form
ed. The liquid ammonia allowed to
flow through these coils, and it gradu
ally becomes, gaseous, and in becom
ing so abstracts from the water so
much heat that it speedily freezes. A
powerful steam pump forces the gase
ous ammonia back into tbe iron cylin
der again, thus liberating' great heat,
which is disposed of by cold water
dropping upon coils of pipes through
which the ammonia passess on its way
to the condenser. The process is a con
tinuous one, and if the pumps and coils
do not leak there is no loss, and the
operation may go on so loBg as the
machinery lasts. The apparatus and
the scientific principles upon which it
acts aTe very interesting, and we are
convinced that at present there is no
hindrance to securing abundant sup
plies of ice, at cheap cost in any tropi
cal country where fuel is abundant and
of low cost.
house-building, which too often occur
Ax Ancient Turtle.—The Palatka
Herald says we received a turtle a few
days since which was marked on his
back the date 1700, and also the Span
ish coat of arms, indicating that this
old resident was in existence one hun
dred and seventy-nine years ago. What
changes this old fellow of the deep has
seen. The rise and fall of empires on
the continent on which he lived, emerg
ed from the thraldom of ’despotism,
with the rise of a .Republic which has
become the great conservator of free-
tle hard coal, and are thereby saved the dom, and the advancement of eiviliza-
in this country. These mistakes, he
says, have their origin outside of the
profession of architecture, and are due
to the ignorance of those who build.—
It is certainly reasonable to expect that
a person who is about to bnild should
know such simple matters as the num
ber and character of rooms he will have;
yet this is jnst what many people do
not know, and here is where the mistake
is made. People in their ignorance err
in wishing too many rooms. Many
people, with a desire to imitate the no
bleman’s mansion, decide to have a jum-
ble of hall, drawing-room, moraiug-
room, dining-room, library, study, bou
doir, billiard-room, breakfast room
music-room, reception-rocm, and so on,
and to these they add others of their
own invention, till there is a separate
room for the performance of almost ev
ery act of daily life. As all this costs,
and there is a limit to every man’s
pnrse, economy is attained by copyin
the stone wall of their model in wood
and plaster, woodwork in paint-, cheap
ening the foundations, and making thin
walls that keep out neither cold nor
wet.
A sensible man in building his house
proceeds on a differentplan. -He wants
just-such accommodation as he needs,
and no more. He knows that for the
average American family in good cir
cumstances three principal rooms are
sufficient; drawing-room, library, and
dining-room—these he has use for. He
also needs a hall by which to reach the
others, and a vestibule or porch, as a
shelter to the hall. Ho omits the
“family sitting-room,” knowing that
the three other rooms will serve fur
that purpose, and that any room too
good for daily use has no right to exist.
The habit of keeping shut up parlors
for occasional company is so absurd
that it is difficult to give the people
who practice it credit for common
sense.
Another common mistake is the
small scale of the kitchen and offices
as compared with the family rooms.—
A kitchen, if woik is to he well done in
it, and the dinner to be well cooked,
should not be less than the equivalent
of 15 feet square, aud should he still
larger in a house employing many ser
vants. The eommunicatiau between
the kitchen and offices aud the family
apartments, and the concealment of the
former from public view, are matters
which are much neglected. The usual
arrangement of placing a butler's pan
try between kitchen aud dining-room,
with doors to both rooms, often di
rectly in line, makes tbe best possible
conveyance for odors from the kitchen
to the diniDg-room, aud thence to the
rest of the house. In the case of a
basement kitchen the same result fol
lows from having tbe basement stairs
open instead of inclosed, as they should
be. The English manage better: they
put next- to the dining-room sometimes
the butler’s pantry, but oftener a small
serving-room, opening not to the'kiteb-
en, but to a passage leading thither;
and this passage is made the only means
of access from the family rooms to the
kitchen and offices, which, if not in the
basement," are in a wing under a sepa
rate roof from the main building, so
that by closing one door, or two utmost,
all communication is cut off, and the
odors from the kirchen do not annoy
the family.
A common thing in country houses,
though often omitted in the city, is a
servants’ staircase. People of small
means, who can afford but one servant,
insist upon the separate stair-case for
that one, while many a city family with
three or four servants get along perfect
ly well with only one. ‘This hobby
with country people amounts almost to
fanaticism. The second stair-case, a
great convenience in large . houses, is
out of place in a small hou3C, there be
ing no place to put it; to a small fami
ly this is unnecessary, and therefore
wasteful.
The place of a veranda may seem a
thing of smalt moment, yetr it may
prove either a great comfort or a great
nuisance, according to its position.—
Most people seem to suppose it should
be on the sunny side of a honse, where
it darkens the rooms, itself being ablaze
with light and as hot as a furnace. Bnt
the object of the veranda is not to keep
the light ont of the room, because 'this
can be better done by the window hood
or shutters, but to afford a cool, shel
tered, shady place out of doors for sum
mer use. Hence it should be on the
THE STATE HORTICULTURAL. NOTES FOR THE HOUSEKEERERC
SOCIETY-
To Remove Ink from Carpets.—DisU
i solve one onnee of oxalic acid in a pint
of water, mb it- on with fl:inuel*-‘lnb
| stand- half an hour; wash off with cold;
j water, and then rub oh. some harm-"
| horn.
To Remove Grease from Garments.—
Dissolve a tablespoonfnl o£ salt in fon^
in., and continuing during the 30th I tabl «*Poonfuls of alcohol, shake well'
a-airf. and a; ply with a sponge,
1 To Clean BiUek Cashmere.—Wash in.,'
, .. , ! ... .... , hot suds with a little borax in. the wa-"
numerously attended, and the exhrbi- , . . . . . , "
, ; ., i , .. , ter; rmse in blueing water—very blue,
tions of fruits and-vegetables practical-1 wd iron daap j t wiU look ^ ^
! new.
The following circular him buen is
sued by the Georgia Stale Horticultu
ral Society:
The fourth annual session and exhi-
tion will be held in tho Masonic Hall,
ia the city of Macon, commencing i
Tuesday, July 29th, 1879, at 10 o’clock j
and 31st.
The past annual meetings have been j
s . I shady side of the bouse—on that side
er ends the sprinkler begins his work, i Hernando de Gomez, ifl *Il0 bt.
It goes on from morning till night. an(1 nas to Matanzas bv | 'hat is shady in the afternoon. To pre
>ilitv. The smooth nUA vent the rooms behind it -being toe
Dust is an impossibilitv. The smooth j IndiaI1 g. tlie r e to the Great We- i Tent tLe Iaom3 behind it -being too
evenly graded snrfaee for miles falling ‘ ^ is now &e S , JohDS BiTer . j 1 much shaded, they should, if possible,
on either side with a gentle curve to-1 ^
ward Hie curb, is as clean as the car
riage drive leading to the portals of a I . ...
. -, , River at Palatka, with the inscription
palace. At internals yon may see an r - — — D
iron rod, with a number at the top, Eastern erabl, Paan . Bse if 0 f li^ht construction and
*• 1 ’• - —?.7^ Tf- ■m-vr l.e onnwiptwl ! • , a ir w i _ 1 _ i’ . . l t
i On Tuesday, the 17th of June, the tur
tle was turned adrift in the St. John’s
have-one or more windows on the side
not shaded by the veranda; or, if this
cannot be, the windows looking upon it
| should be made very large, and the ve-
dnven into the ground. Pendent from S 1S79 '” Xt ma - v Le opposed ; parted as ligh
to « it- that by this time the old fellow has the house
ly demonstrated the vast resources- of j
Georgia as a prodneing State. The im
petus given to fruit culture and horti
cultural taste, through the influence of
the labors of: this association, are visi
ble throughout the whole common
wealth. The forthcoming session, it is
confidently expected, will be one of the
most interesting and useful ever held
by the society.
All horticulturists, frnirgrowers, pro
gressive agriculturalists. aud especially
the ladies of Georgia, are cordially in
vited to-attend peisonnijy aud biing
such articles for exhibition as will m ike
tbe display of Georgia grown fruits,
flowers and vegetables creditable to the
skill and careful cultivation of the peo
ple. '
It is earnestly hoped that there will
be a full ^attendance of the members
from every seetiion of tho State, that
concentrated information and experi
ence of fruit growers may be obtained,
thus aiding the society to perfect ils
several catalogues of fruits and vegeta
bles adapted to each geographical di
vision of the State. i hese catalogues
are how the recognized reliable guides
of the fruit growers of Georgia, and
have had a most wonderful influence in
developing its fruit-growingiuferest.
Arrangomi nts have brtn- made w’th
the Lanier House, of" Macon, for tbe
entertainment of members of the socie
ty §1.50 per day. The Soiilhera Ex
press Company, with its usual liberali
ty and interest evinced in the snecessof
the society, will carry free of charge all
packages of traits, flowers and vegeta
bles intended for the exhibition. Pack
ages should be nddressed toH. J. Peter,
Treasurer, Macon, Ga., and the name
of the sender plainly marked On the
package. All All packages for the ex
hibition should be sent to re: ch the hall
on Monday evening, duly 28, or by
Tnesday morning, at latest - A full list
of varieties should also be eout witb
the articles contributed, that a full re
port may be made by the socii ty.
The- several railroads of the State have
also generou -ly offered to carry mem
bers aud delegates at reduced rates.-—
The Central, Atlanta and West Point,
Southwestern, and Macon and Bruns
wick - Railroads will return members
free over their several lmes on presen
tation to the conductors of certificates
signed by the presiding officer of the
convention, showing that the bolder
iwas a delegate, and had been in at
tendance on said convention, aud had
paid full iare going. The Georgia and
Western and Atlantic will issue round
trip tickets good for fen days at three
ceut3 per mile each way. M: mbers
passing ovc-r the Western and Atlantic
Railroad are requested to furnish their
names 10 J. Heuly Smith, Esq., Secre
tary, At'auta, that round trip tickets
may be issned to them. The Air Line
Railroad will pass members for one fare
if names are furnished the Secretary in
time for issuing tickets. Annual mem
bership, two dollars New members
wilk.be supplied with back numbers of
the proceedings of the society as far as
possible.
To Renovate Black Silk.—Two oun
ces of soap bark (to be bneS c£ drug
gist-.) soaked over night in a quart ot
rain-water; pour off the water from the;
bark in the morning, and sponge" the"
silk thoroughly on both sides; hang'
snfOothly on a line to dry,do not'ifom;
Did soiled silk wifi he made to look at-"
most new.
To Clean Eyfl Gloves.—Put the gkoves")
on the baud and rub with flauuel dipped*'
in, benzine.
Alum or vinegar will set the colors ot'
red, green or yellow..
A hot shovel' held over varafetied fur-‘
nitnre- will take out white spots-.'
Ribbons of any kind should be wash-’
ed in cold soap suds and not rins,-
cd.
If your flat-irons are rongh, rub therm’
with fine sail; and it will make theirs 4
smooth.
Prophetic Dreams.
Graphic Description cf an Indian
Sun Dance.—A letter received at the
Interior Department, Washington, from
Dr. T. Woodbridge, physician at Fort
Peck Agency, gives a minute descrip
tion of the sun d*uce as given by tbe
Souix, near Poplar river, Montana Ter
ritory. a fortnight ago. A beat five
thousand Indians were present,
and the performance was kept np for
twenty-right successive Lours, during
which the Indians feasted on forty dogs,
large quantities of buffalo meat aud in
fact “all the delicacies ox the season,”
while the participants iu the dance sub
jected lht-mselves to the most horrible
varieties 61 torture, such as having buf
falo heads- suspended from slits cat
out in their flesh, the weight of which
constantly increased the laceration.
Some of the braves fainted under the
torture and many had from fifty to two
bundled pieces cut out of the living !
flesh. Others again were held to stakes,
about- which they were forced to dance, j
by cords fastened to their backs. The
performance 1 isted all night, anffiwagj
varied by occasional prayers to tbe great I
A man in Hartford, Conn., says that '
he saw ali the incidents of the death o£-
Madame Holland at Niagara Falls, in a"
dream before it occurred. In support,
of his assertion, a correspondent of th©v
Hai tford Times, sends the following;-
‘ ’Several ,\ ears ago I was going on'
jonruey. The night before I expected; 1
to start I dreamed that when the- ear- -
riage came for me iii the morning' the- 1
driver was a young man whose father"
was a friend 1 of mine several years be-<--
fore. I don’t think I had seen' or-'
thought of him for years, and had note
the slightest idea wnat he was doing, L-
also areamed we were too late- for thor
traiD. "When I went down to breakfast.''
I told one or two persons of my dream,-
I can assure von I was astonished when- 1
the carriage came to find that the driver-'
was tlie-person I had dreamed he hcultU
be. We got to the sinticu in time to»
see the train moving off. I have dream--
ed other dreams that came to pass, but
none as remarkable as the one I have-’
given. How can I or any one else know.'
that dreams are coming to pass until i
they do come to pass? I had another: -
experience that I think was singular.— -
One night I heard two p irsons who oc- •
enpied 'he room next to mine, talking..-
I heard only three words of their:'con---
vernation; not enough to give me anyy
idea what they were talking about.—
The next day one of the parties told me-.
what their conversation was, and I
found I had dreamed it all out. Will
seme one please explain?”
The Zulu Assegai.—The shaft of f
this instrument of warfare is above five ,
feet long and about as thick as a man’s ;
little fiuger. It is made of wood known ■
to botanists as the curtissa. of joginea,
not unlike the mahogany, brittle and
elastic, the latter qualities giving the- J
sprar a vibratory motion, on which its.- ;
accuracy of flight depends,, The head;
of the weapon is generally blade-shopedt
with a raised edge along the center,
concave on one side and convex on the.
other, being like the feathers of an ar-._
row. The tongue of the head is made-,
red hot, and so burns its way into tbe^
wood, around which a bund of wet raw.-,
hide is bound; that contracting as ifc-
dries holds the head as firmly as au fJ
iron ring. The Zulus fling tliese weap-.
ons with great accuracy, and they carry
oval rawhide shields impervious to these,
darts to cover their entire bodies. Be-,
sides three or fonr missile assegais aZa-.
Iu warrior carries a shorter and stronger
.-tabbing assegai.
spirit, s 'id with their faces on the bnf-1 Souihern Histoi i
Ex-Confederate Officials.—Three.
ex-Confederate soldiers hare recently
been appointed to temporary duty in.
the service of the War Department—.
Mr. Roberts, a correspondent of the.
New Orleans Times, is to receive at the.
rate of eighteen hundred dollars a year,
as assistant to Adjutant-General Town-,
send, codifying the army regulations._
Mr. Roberts took an active part in
bringing about the settlement of tbe
electoral count and iu s- euring-tlic rec
ognition of Nieholl 5 as Governor of
Louisiana. Soon after Hayes’ inaugu
ration he v,-as a candidate for Third As-
sistanf’ Secretary of Style. General A.
M. Wright, a well known member of
The
reception of papers. This rod - and be-1 scented the satt water, and
’ - of the street- j the bar at high tide, and
fa!~> robes, forruecessat theebase.
took place ia a sort of thea-
10 United States and the number is : be tho most beligetent after it is over, cleaners parar
oa He increase. ", —Fi.jlti .<j linker. fix certain lim
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, and apparently j few generations
_ at a Spanish port
(Mr arena one hundred and fifty feet
r, and enclosed by poplar and
ranches.
Societies, is ap
pointed to preps'ro'arehives'of the Con
federate side for publication. General
Harvey, who was a member of General
Joo Johnston's stud, is to assist Gen«r*
hi wright.